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	Webinars.
	Adam Couric, John C. DeVore.
	It's Thursday, September 21st, 2017.
	This is your award-winning Gitmo Nation media assassination episode 9 or 6-6.
	This is no agenda.
	Under attack and at war with Russia's dudes named Boris.
	And coming to you from the darkest corners of the internet in downtown Austin Tejas, capital of the drone, Star State, in the Clunio.
	In the morning, everybody!
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where they're working on the wires outside my house, I'm John C. DeVores.
	It's Crackpot and Buzzkill.
	In the morning!
	Yeah, so if you disappear all of a sudden, we know what's going on.
	Yeah, the wires.
	It looks like they're stringing something new.
	Hey, Jean-Claude, how you doing?
	Okay, what's up?
	Eh, not too much.
	We've got this little show we're doing.
	So we have the Miss America pageant.
	We can start with that.
	Well, you could tease that.
	Maybe we shouldn't start with it.
	Or we can start with Hillary.
	She was on Colbert.
	I get that.
	Yes.
	You know, I'm so happy because I got one clip that you don't have.
	And that's all I got from that interview.
	So let's do that.
	And I'll play my clip at the end.
	How does that sound?
	Why don't you play your clip at the beginning?
	It makes more sense when it's at the end.
	Not really.
	At least not to me.
	But let's go with Hillary.
	So Hillary's on Colbert, and they're just like two, you know, two pigs rolling in mud.
	They just love each other.
	By the way, I thought it was a boring interview.
	It was just boring to me.
	Did you get anything from it?
	I'm not going to disagree with that.
	I do have an ISO of Hillary's fake laugh.
	Yeah, that's the one.
	Yeah, it's so fake.
	It's ridiculous.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	But it's very similar to the ones that they compiled to put on the Hillary pen.
	Yes, which you've lost, or you have it?
	I have it, I got it right here.
	Alright, let's get to the clip.
	So, Let's start with Hillary.
	I got Hillary and Colbert.
	Let's get to the basic clip.
	This is the one where the reason for the book, the reason for Colbert's show, the reason for bashing Trump and everything in between is this is Hillary and Colbert.
	Get out the vote.
	Keep everything in the sunlight.
	Pay a lot of attention so when 2018 comes along we can get some Democrats in.
	Question the legitimacy of the election of the president of the United States.
	My question is...
	My question is...
	I mean, I have these fantasies, but my question is...
	Seriously, my question is...
	Well, what then?
	There is no constitutional mechanism to question the election.
	Our elections are messy.
	That's right.
	This is just what happened.
	So, as I say in the book...
	Nobody's talking about contesting the election, including me.
	But I do think...
	No, because there is no mechanism.
	This is someone who...
	I love the...
	Oh!
	Oh, come on!
	Oh!
	What?
	You can't contest it?
	Oh!
	This is a great audience.
	It is so representative of the alternative universe.
	But I do think, no, because there is no mechanism.
	This is someone who believes in the Constitution, unlike the guy who got the job.
	Yeah, there is no mechanism.
	I think legitimacy is rooted in what comes out of these investigations, because if there is evidence of coordination, communication, whatever it might be, then I think millions of Americans are going to say, well, those raise questions about legitimacy.
	Now, what do you do with those questions besides ask them?
	What you do is mobilize politically to express your will and your rejection of that kind of Russian involvement and coordination at the ballot box.
	I mean, that is where we settle our political differences.
	And that's where it should be.
	I agree.
	Go out and vote for Democrats.
	That's the message.
	Yes, I agree.
	Not too much to it other than that.
	But apparently the audiences don't seem to understand the simplicity of it.
	And they bitch and moan.
	So she went off on the North Korea thing.
	She went off on Putin.
	And...
	Let's see if I had two Putins on here.
	There's two Putins.
	Oh!
	I have Putin too long.
	Too long.
	Yeah, let's see.
	Is there another one on here?
	No, I don't think I have another.
	All right, let's go with Putin too long.
	What Putin's strategy is, he really doesn't like democracy.
	He thinks it's an inconvenient, messy process.
	And he doesn't like us.
	And he wants...
	When I heard this, it was, to me, this is exactly what people like my Uncle Don believe.
	They truly believe that this is what this guy thinks.
	And they usually say he was, you know, a KGB guy who hated seeing his empire go down and he vowed that he would destroy the evil capitalist Americans.
	It's the same story.
	And he doesn't like us.
	And he wants to.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	I was saying it's a CIA scenario.
	CIA scenario, yes.
	He doesn't like us.
	And he wants to destabilize our country.
	So doubt about our democracy.
	I mean, these latest revelations where you had Russians pretending to be...
	She says, let's destabilize our country.
	Sow doubt?
	To sow, sow, sow, as in sowing seeds.
	To sow doubt.
	Yeah, to sowing seeds.
	I can't say that word, sow, sow.
	Isn't it sow?
	It's like in between sow and sow.
	No, no, sow.
	To sow.
	To sow doubt.
	Yes.
	Which is easily done if you put it on face bag ads.
	Add Russians pretending to be Americans.
	We had fake Americans with fake news and fake stories.
	I need that t-shirt.
	Fake American.
	That's a great t-shirt.
	No agenda show.
	Fake American.
	And fake demonstrations.
	That wasn't just because he's bored and has nothing to do.
	He wants to...
	Wait a minute.
	What fake demonstrations is she talking about?
	Okay, here's the...
	We didn't talk about this on the show, and it never really...
	It kind of comes and goes, but during the supposed Facebook $100,000 ad campaign...
	Oh, yes, they did Facebook events.
	They did a bunch of events that never happened because they never were meant to happen.
	I think, by the way, this is not a bad idea.
	They said, we're having a huge, huge meeting.
	Everybody's turning out for this.
	Stop Hillary, you know.
	Yeah.
	You know, and they had a time and day.
	Stop Hillary meetup is what you mean.
	Yeah, or whatever they called it.
	And it was fake because no one was intended.
	But just to make it seem as though stuff was happening.
	But boy, man, we nailed it.
	The Facebook ads are becoming a real problem for them.
	This is really...
	It keeps coming back to...
	The one example that they have of hacking the election, and that is the Facebook ads.
	You had a number of them in the newsletter.
	I wouldn't even look at those.
	They're too busy.
	That would not catch my eye on a page.
	I don't think they're good.
	They're not good at all.
	They didn't convince me of anything.
	I mean, I'm not sure.
	Maybe I could see somebody...
	Oh, yeah?
	Did you vote for Hillary?
	Boom.
	I wasn't affected by Facebook yet because I don't have to use Facebook.
	I think it was to just reassure.
	It didn't change anybody's mind.
	There's no doubt about that in my mind.
	And they were probably targeting people that were Borderline Trump voters or Trump voters to begin with.
	Whoever it was.
	But you know, the thing in the lexicon now, I'm not even clipping it anymore.
	You hear people say on television, when Russia hacked the election.
	And it's just accepted.
	That term is now accepted.
	They hacked the election.
	Whatever it means.
	It's dumb.
	I think you're right.
	He had fake Americans with fake news and fake stories and fake demonstrations.
	That wasn't just because he's bored and has nothing to do.
	He wants to undermine how we see each other, how we respect each other, how we support our institutions and our society.
	And the obvious question from Colbert would be, well, how did they do that?
	Except I didn't hear him ask it.
	I think that they believe they had a good outing in 2016 and I think they will be back in 2018 and 2020 unless we stop them.
	Stop them!
	Stop the KKK! That Putin doesn't like democracy and he doesn't like America.
	Part of the speculation is that he specifically doesn't like you.
	Do you think this was personal on a certain level?
	I think it was mostly about the role I played as Secretary of State, which he did morph into a grudge against me because I would say things like You know, the Russian people deserve free and fair elections.
	They deserve to have a democracy.
	Questioning the legitimacy of his election in 2011.
	The parliamentary election.
	Didn't we mess with that particular election?
	Isn't that the one that we had all the NGOs kicked out for?
	Yeah, we had the NGOs in there.
	We had protests in the streets.
	We organized and all the rest of it.
	Yeah.
	He mentions the elections, but he never mentions what her involvement was.
	He likes his gig.
	That's right.
	And so our intelligence community and others have said that he did have a personal grudge against me.
	You know, I don't take it personally.
	I think it's part of his worldview, which is all tied up with his anger, his disappointment in the collapse of the Soviet Union, and his feeling that we're his number one rival.
	He wants to really undermine the European-American alliance.
	And so I see it I was doing my job, I was honored to do my job, to stand up and speak out on behalf of American values and our democracy, and partly because I'm a woman.
	And then she went into that whole thing about the polar bears and these man-spreading.
	I've heard all these stories before.
	There was nothing new.
	That's what the book is.
	I never heard it.
	I do have the man-spreading thing, which is interesting because it's a deconstruction point.
	Where is it?
	I don't know.
	Oh, I see it.
	Yes.
	I got it here.
	Sorry.
	Listen to this carefully, and then I'm going to show you.
	It was one of these little tricks, the same kind of trick that CBS pulls, the same kind of trick that ABC pulls.
	This is a beauty.
	Because I'm a woman, which does seem to get him a bit agitated.
	And he actually has said that.
	Did he ever say anything to you personally that demonstrated his misogyny?
	Well, he demonstrated, as I write in the book, you know, there's an expression, we certainly know it in New York, called manspreading.
	Yes.
	And every time I met with him, it would be, okay, the whole deal.
	And so I'd go to meetings with him.
	One in particular, we were in his dacha outside of Moscow, and the press comes in, and he just berates America about one of the many things that annoys him about us.
	And then the press leaves, and I've got four or five things we're trying to deal with him and Russia on.
	And I always came to my meetings with him trying to find something that I could actually engage him about.
	So we went through, you know, the economy and human rights and all these other things that are critically important.
	And he was, you know, as President Obama once said, like the bored guy in the back of the room.
	He couldn't care less.
	Then I said, you know...
	I am really pleased to hear that you care about wildlife conservation and that you are trying to save species in Russia like Siberian tigers and polar bears.
	Then he came along and then we had an interesting conversation.
	I wrestle polar bears.
	No, he said to me, so he said, come with me.
	He takes me down the stairs, down this corridor, into the door.
	All of his security guys are jumping up because we weren't expected.
	Into this inner sanctum with this huge desk.
	And the biggest map of Russia, I think, exists.
	And he started telling me he's going here to tag polar bears.
	And then he says to me, would your husband like to come?
	And I said, well, you know, I'll ask him, but if he's busy, I'll go.
	I'll go.
	I heard that story before from her.
	Well, here's what I want to talk about with that particular anecdote.
	She starts off with manspreading, and she's going to give us some examples.
	She says, we went to the DACA, and we looked at the map, and there was this thing with polar bears, and they invited my husband.
	She has a bunch of examples of her with him.
	Where's the man spreading?
	Well, she says that he was man spreading when she was sitting there with him.
	She says, yes, at the beginning.
	Then she said, let me give you an example.
	And then she's going to tell this long story, which has nothing to do with anything.
	No, but I think that it was visual in that case where she said he was...
	I watched it.
	You know what the problem is?
	Here's her basic problem.
	If you want to engage a guy like that, what does he talk about?
	Like, what was her...
	Oh, I'll talk to him about wildlife.
	No!
	No!
	You want to engage the guy.
	You gotta have boobs.
	I mean, that's what you want to talk about.
	Well, she says in one of her things, in fact, I think it was in that clip, he doesn't want to talk about women.
	He hates women.
	No, she's a woman, and that was a problem, because she's a woman in power.
	That's what it is.
	Well, she throws this little ditty in here.
	Listen to this.
	Carefully listen to this.
	This is a very short clip.
	Yeah, I got it.
	I got it.
	I heard this, too.
	As clearly as I can, I feel like I'm a bit of a Paula Revere.
	I'm trying to sound the alarm about this.
	Yeah, I thought that was cute, and I was wondering if there was something behind it.
	No, she was being...
	This was her...
	Yeah, I liked it.
	Somebody wrote this for her.
	Don't say Paul Revere.
	I'd like to be another Paul Revere.
	Say Paula Revere.
	Hey, I hate to mention this to her.
	There is nobody named Paula Revere that sounded the alarm.
	So you want to be like her?
	You know what?
	Okay.
	You have one more clip?
	Can I play my clip?
	Well, I've got two clips, actually.
	But I could play...
	There's her on North Korea.
	All right.
	It's kind of interesting.
	And then they had the Clinton.
	Clinton won.
	Russia won.
	But I don't think that's as important.
	Let's play her thoughts on North Korea.
	Did you happen to see the president's speech at the U.N. today?
	I saw parts of it, yes.
	What did you make of it?
	I thought it was very dark.
	before she even goes into it.
	When I heard her say this, I thought, wow, you're just pulling out the script from the last time he did a speech where, and that was a whole meme was this dark.
	It's so dark.
	I remember it well.
	And she clearly didn't watch the speech because it wasn't.
	Does that make any sense to you?
	No.
	Did you happen to see the President's speech at the UN today?
	I saw parts of it, yes.
	What did you make of it?
	Parts of it.
	Clips.
	Yeah, that's a good point.
	I saw parts of it.
	How hard is it?
	It was dark even though I saw parts of it.
	Good catch, John.
	Parts of it, yes.
	What did you make of it?
	I thought it was very dark, dangerous.
	I'll bet you she actually did not watch.
	She just gets physically ill from watching him.
	But I really think that that's going on.
	I wouldn't be a bit surprised if that's true.
	Otherwise...
	If she actually got physically ill from watching, it would not surprise me.
	And she's lying.
	She's clearly lying.
	When you say, oh yeah, parts of it.
	I do that all the time to you.
	Yeah, I saw that, parts of it.
	Whatever.
	Not the kind of message that the leader of the greatest nation in the world should be delivering.
	Not if you're the No Borders, No Nations group, no.
	You are both...
	We didn't see it either!
	You are both required to stand up for the values of what we believe in, democracy and opportunity, as a way to demonstrate clearly the United States remains the beacon that we want it to be.
	While, of course, when you face dangerous situations like what is happening in North Korea, To make it clear, your first approach should always be diplomatic.
	What I'd hoped the President would have said was something along the lines of, you know, we view this as dangerous to our allies, to the region, and even to our country.
	We call on all nations to work with us to try to end the threat posed by...
	Didn't he do that with not one but two United Nations unanimous resolutions?
	Wasn't that exactly what he did?
	I'm not sure, but maybe.
	By Kim Jong-un.
	And not call him Rocket Man, the old Elton John song.
	Oh, thanks.
	You're a disc jockey, Hillary.
	You show us Elton John now.
	You show us.
	Man, the old Elton John song.
	But to say it clearly, we will not tolerate any attacks on our friends or ourselves.
	But you should lead with diplomacy.
	You should lead with the commitment to trying to avoid conflict however you can.
	Yeah, so what really struck me about this whole thing, unless you have something to say about this.
	Well, yeah, I think we should mention that.
	What did she do when she was Secretary of State, diplomacy-wise, when it came to North Korea?
	That's what Colbert's follow-up should have been.
	Yeah, if it wasn't a blowjob instead of an interview.
	She talks a big game about this and that, but what did she do when she actually was in office to do something with North Korea?
	They kicked my Uncle Don out is what they did.
	We don't want to talk to that guy, stupid idiot.
	What does he know about North Korea?
	He was in and out in 20 minutes.
	The thing that bothered me the most, and it started before she even came on, I could not believe this audience.
	I mean, you're already hearing them just going crazy over stuff.
	But I felt like we've turned a corner in the alternate universe that may be irreversible when you hear this.
	Oh, and this is huge.
	This is huge.
	This is from his monologue.
	We also just learned that the government wiretapped former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort both before and after the election.
	This means...
	Yeah!
	Wiretapping!
	What is happening?
	People are cheering on wiretapping of citizens.
	Yeah, more or less illegal wiretapping.
	Forget even legal or illegal.
	They are cheering it on.
	Even Colbert is embarrassed about this.
	Listen.
	Sure.
	Sure, absolutely.
	You applaud until they wiretap you.
	I don't understand.
	What are you talking about?
	Don't they only wiretap evil people?
	Stupid, stupid, stupid slaves.
	Very sad to hear that.
	Yeah, well, I missed that part, so you got me on that one.
	That is pathetic.
	The opening monologue, we're cheering on wiretapping.
	That just shows people don't understand.
	They don't know what the Constitution is.
	They don't understand anything anymore.
	That's because they're specifically not taught anything in school regarding the Constitution or what this country is about.
	I agree with you there, sadly.
	Of course, Colbert also hosted the Emmy Awards, the lowest rated ever.
	Well, Lois rated for the same audiences last time.
	Pretty much the same.
	I have to say, I watched the whole thing.
	I didn't mind the whole show.
	It really didn't bother me that much.
	I laughed.
	You know, some of the jokes were funny.
	I was too just blown away by Jane Fonda's new facelift to even consider thinking about what Lily Tomlin was saying.
	Holy crap!
	She looks 25!
	Yeah, but she doesn't look like Jane Fonda at 25.
	She's 86!
	That's unbelievable!
	She's 86.
	86!
	And what does it is the bangs.
	I know a little bit about plastic surgery.
	See my first wife.
	And she has to have those bangs.
	Otherwise it would look like she's really surprised.
	Like, huh?
	So they have to cover that up a little bit.
	Unbelievable work.
	That was Hollywood to me.
	Wow!
	Fantastic.
	And Colbert went kind of with the, I'm going to slam all the celebrities, and that always works.
	It always works when you make fun, self-deprecating about Hollywood, about yourself.
	And I thought that was reasonable.
	The reason for the low ratings, I think, is not everyone...
	Oh!
	Because no one wants to watch elites rattle their pearls.
	I don't think that's the problem.
	I think the problem is...
	That's a good line, though.
	Yeah.
	The problem is...
	Look who's winning.
	It's Hulu.
	It's Netflix.
	It's Amazon.
	Then they throw in...
	It used to be the three networks.
	Everybody watched the three networks.
	Half of the shows I've never seen.
	So who gives a crap?
	I don't care.
	I don't care about these shows.
	I've never seen them.
	There's too many shows, and it's just the same old people, honestly, who are mainly in them.
	And it just doesn't appeal to...
	Do you think millennials are watching this show?
	Of course not.
	They don't care.
	So it's just an outdated concept.
	But I hope they keep doing it a lot, because I like it.
	I think it's funny.
	I think I have some notes I took.
	I watched the whole thing, too.
	I couldn't get really any clips from it.
	I thought one clip there, one guy, the black guy, I think part of the reasons I won is because of Trump.
	Alec Baldwin had, I think, the line of the night where he said, Mr.
	President, here's your Emmy Award.
	I thought that was funny.
	That was good, too.
	That was very similar in this other line.
	There's nothing wrong with all that.
	I thought Colbert got his slams out early.
	Let me see what else we got here.
	The sketches were lame.
	You know what I like the most?
	Here's what bugs me.
	And this started, I don't know, I think we bitch about this every year, and it just gets me.
	In the olden days, they'd have a couple of hunks down at the bottom of the stairs to help these women up the stairs.
	Yes, you're right.
	And now I saw some of the other actors helping people up on stage.
	Yeah, so one of the actors I remember specifically going down to help some rather big woman with her long dress, and she has to hold it up so she can't really balance herself because she's holding up the dress, and that's kind of awkward, trying to get up the stairs.
	Yeah.
	What is wrong with having a couple of people down there helping people up the stairs?
	There's no handrail.
	Yes, you are now hearing a producer speak, ladies and gentlemen.
	So we're doing the review, and I have another gripe.
	John, you as a co-executive producer of this show...
	I believe we need to speak to the wardrobe department.
	What has happened with fashion where we show a large amount of chest on women, but make sure their breasts look extremely flat, almost masculine?
	Did you notice this?
	No.
	But if I would conclude, I might have.
	Here's another thing that bugged me.
	What was the idea of having this fake red card with fake photographers at the end?
	Yeah, see, I like that.
	And I'll tell you why I like it.
	Yes, it's fake, but typically you win the award.
	Well, you're all confused.
	You're sweaty because you did your speech and everything.
	You go off, you stand up on a riser where it's really hot backstage with a crappy-ass drop behind you with all the logos.
	It just looks like crap.
	The lighting is crap.
	And those are the photos that always get published.
	Now you have...
	Those were real photographers taking real pictures.
	It wasn't all just fake.
	And now you get a nice picture.
	I'm sorry.
	I like that.
	What is the deal with the black dude DJ doing the voiceovers?
	That was their idea.
	That's how they were going to bring...
	In street talking.
	Half the time, he didn't know what he was talking about.
	They wanted to bring the millennials in.
	That was their idea.
	Hey, let's get that cool guy.
	He'll bring the millennials in.
	I think they were...
	It's one of those...
	It's one of those meetings.
	Jerk suits...
	I got a great idea, everybody.
	You know what I like the most about the Emmys?
	I haven't been really in television for a long time, but I recognize names.
	Sometimes you even see a stagehand.
	And my favorite is the dead segment.
	I'm like, hey, I know that guy.
	He's dead.
	Yeah, I know that guy.
	Well, my favorite thing about the dead segment, you see someone, you go, and everybody does this.
	Huh.
	That's the sound.
	I thought he was dead years ago.
	Huh.
	Oh, man.
	Well, while we're on Celebrities...
	Well, let me finish my checklist.
	Oh, I'm sorry you have more.
	I did not realize.
	Yes.
	What is with the queer black girl and this Ansara Indian guy who both won awards, and she takes over the mic and doesn't let him say anything?
	Ah.
	The big, tall...
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Well, hold on, hold on, hold on.
	It was weird, but that is Anissa Zaria, who won for his show, which I've watched.
	I didn't watch all of the episodes because I got a little tired of it, but it's a good show.
	She co-wrote, and she's a big part of that show as well.
	And I think...
	Because her story in Hollywood, you have to understand where she comes from, and now to win an award as a black woman, as a writer, it was a total Hollywood thing.
	And I think he had said before, go ahead, you just do the award.
	I don't think he was standing there waiting to speak.
	Well, he looks like an idiot.
	Yeah, he did.
	That's up to him.
	That's on him.
	It's on him.
	At the end of the analysis, I agree 100% with you.
	These guys have screwed up once they turned it over to non-traditional broadcasting outlets.
	You know, if something's on...
	I don't know, only on Crackle or something like that, and it's really good, so it gets in a world.
	Who cares?
	You don't see these shows.
	I mean, the audience for some of these shows is lower than Fox News.
	It's ridiculous.
	Oh, yeah, the quality is good, and you're supposed to be giving it out for quality, but...
	I think what it says to me, because I'm looking at what my favorite shows for this season are, the ones that are ending, like People of Earth, for example.
	Great show.
	It's ending.
	At least the last episode is next week.
	What I think you're seeing when you see these awards, and I think this hurts.
	This reminds me of all things I've seen in publishing.
	I see this happen all the time.
	You are just reminding the public that the networks suck.
	Here's the good shows.
	The good shows are on HBO. The good shows are on Hulu.
	The good shows are on Amazon.
	Where are the networks?
	They're the ones with the big budgets.
	They're the ones with the big audience.
	They're the ones who have everything going.
	Yeah, but that's not true.
	They should have these shows.
	Yeah, but see, that's not true.
	I think that the Netflix Amazon money is crazy right now.
	It's crazy.
	And they pay you up front.
	The residuals, I don't think they did some kind of deal for residuals.
	But these people aren't getting paid like stupid artists, musicians, on a per-stream basis.
	No, no, no.
	They got a huge budget.
	Someone does it.
	Brings in all their buddies.
	Everybody gets paid.
	Hallelujah, everybody.
	Let's do it again.
	Let's go across the street.
	Talk to the other guys.
	And it's going to come crumbling down.
	Eventually, look at Netflix.
	I think they're doing another offering to get some more money.
	They have licensing fees.
	Yeah, they got some stuff coming.
	So, anyway.
	I still think it's an indictment of the networks and the poor job they're doing.
	It's not as though they don't have plenty of money.
	I mean, it's not as though they're starving to death, but they're doing a very poor job of maintaining their position.
	And then again, you know, so everything is now, I mean, they might as well just say, start the show off saying, let's all cut the cable and don't even watch this show.
	And they don't.
	Yeah.
	Alright, on to celebrities and politics, always a fun combo.
	I have a clip explaining who's behind it and what's going on.
	I presume you've seen the Morgan Freeman We're at War with Russia clip?
	Yeah.
	Why don't we play it?
	Not everyone has seen this.
	This is becoming a problem where, you know, virality is going so fast, you know, I pick the hits, but I don't have the show soon enough.
	And before you know it, everyone's seen it.
	But I think people still would enjoy this two minutes of Morgan Freeman stylistically shot by Rob Reiner.
	And...
	We have been attacked.
	We are.
	War.
	War.
	Imagine this movie script.
	A former KGB spy, angry at the collapse of his motherland.
	Sound familiar, Hillary?
	Plots a course for revenge.
	Taking advantage of the chaos, he works his way up through the ranks of a post-Soviet Russia and becomes president.
	He establishes an authoritarian regime, then he sets his sights on his sworn enemy, the United States.
	And like the true KGB spy he is, he secretly uses cyber warfare to attack democracies around the world.
	Using social media to spread propaganda and false information, he convinces people in democratic societies to distrust their media Their political processes, even their neighbors.
	And he wins.
	Vladimir Putin is that spy, and this is no movie script.
	We need our president to speak directly to us and tell us the truth.
	We need him to sit behind the desk in the Oval Office And say, my fellow Americans, during this past election, we came under attack by the Russian government.
	I've called on Congress and our intelligence community to use every resource available to conduct a thorough investigation to determine exactly how this happened.
	The free world is counting on us for leadership.
	But 241 years, our democracy has been a shining example to the world of what we can all aspire to.
	And we owe it to the brave people who have fought and died to protect this great nation and save democracy.
	And we owe it to our future generations to continue the fight.
	Join the committee to investigate Russia.
	Join the fight.
	Yeah, he's described as phony baloney committee.
	Reiner.
	When you do something like, this is Morgan Freeman, you've got major fuck you money is what you got.
	Because this guy does not care.
	But yes, indeed, this is the Committee to Investigate Russia.
	I'm thinking we may have talked about this a couple weeks ago.
	I'll have to look into it.
	It's just been floating around the Twitter-verse.
	Well, the Committee to Investigate Russia, which is investigaterussia.org, key players on the advisory board, James Clapper, Rob Reiner, Max Boot, I don't know who that is, Charles Sykes, is he a radio guy, Charles Sykes?
	Charles Sykes is an old radio guy who was run out of town.
	Right.
	He was a conservative radio talk show host, I believe, in Wisconsin.
	And he was a never-Trumper.
	And he just hounded and hounded Trump when Wisconsin went for Trump.
	And they gave him such crap.
	He claims he retired, but I think he was forced to quit.
	But he's one of those local conservative radio guys that had some reputation outside of his market.
	But generally speaking, he wasn't a networked guy.
	So, Rob Reiner appeared with one of his cohorts, not on this list, David something or other, on Bloomberg.
	And they talked about this, and I thought it was very enlightening to hear exactly what's going on.
	And Bloomberg asked the question I was indeed interested in, since you cannot find this information on InvestigateRussia.org.
	But what we're trying to do here is, yes, we're going to cover all of the various investigations, House and Senate, and also keep updates on the Mueller investigation.
	But what we're trying to do at the Committee to Investigate Russia is to give people an overview.
	It's going to be kind of a conclusion.
	It'll be not just looking at the day-to-day news and the investigations, but also a history of what the Russians have been doing, and former Soviet Union and Russians have been doing in trying to disrupt our democracy over the years, through the Cold War and up to the present.
	Also, the effects of cyber warfare and the far-reaching impacts of cyber warfare.
	So, it'll be a comprehensive website that hopefully will give people a complete picture of what has happened to us.
	Tell us, David, how you guys came together on this, and who's funding this exactly?
	Well, we have a number of funders.
	We start out with a very small amount of money, and hopefully, as time goes by, we're going to need a lot more to keep going.
	So if you have a few dollars, I'll take whatever you have.
	Individual donors?
	I'm joking, obviously.
	Do you have any institutional funding or any funding from any families?
	No, no, no, no.
	It's just individuals that have funded it.
	And what occurred to me is that, you know, we've always seen America come together whenever we've been attacked, whether it's been Pearl Harbor or 9-11.
	Here we are attacked by a foreign power and we don't come together.
	We are so divided as a country that I started to reach, you know, essentially across the aisle to my Republican friends and people who I respect and found out that they are just as mortified as I am, that we as a country have not come together over being attacked by, like I say, a foreign enemy power.
	So David and James Clapper and Max Boot and a number of other people have said, Yes, this is something we need to do.
	Insanity.
	I now have to go back and play the Clinton Russia clip.
	Okay.
	I want to play that because it'll make sense.
	It's probably right in line with this.
	To the unusual behavior of the former director of the FBI and the Russians.
	And the Russians.
	And you have been sounding the alarm about this because I believe so strongly that they think they succeeded in messing with our democracy.
	And I just can't abide that.
	So Do you think they succeeded in messing with our democracy?
	Yes, I do.
	I do.
	To what degree?
	Influencing the vote or influencing opinion?
	Influencing voters and therefore influencing opinion, I think, is becoming clearer and clearer.
	Okay.
	Russia, Russia, Russia.
	Yeah.
	My goodness.
	They've got to choose.
	Is it going to be Comey's fault?
	Is it going to be Russia hacking the election?
	Well, they're flexible.
	All they have to do, again, I keep beating this drum, but all they have to do is really keep this thing bubbling until 2018.
	And then their job is done.
	And then, of course, you keep it bubbling again for another two years.
	And then you try to get Trump voted out.
	Yeah.
	But this is nuts.
	And this is doing nothing for...
	It's ironic that Rob Reiner, pretty much of a lefty all his life, Hollywood lefty, back in the day when it was largely funded by the Russians, especially during the Soviet era.
	And all these front organizations were all over the place.
	It was like tons of them.
	I mean, tons of them.
	John, it's brain damage.
	It's brain damage.
	I cannot see it any other way.
	Not like you've got to hit with a hammer, but yeah.
	The amygdala.
	Yes, yes.
	This is what we've discussed.
	When the amygdala is enlarged, then even words can become equal to your brain as a threat to your life.
	It's animalistic.
	It's prehistoric.
	It's baked into our DNA. It's a part of our DNA. It's reptilian.
	It is the reptilian reaction, and this is what you get.
	It's very, very disturbing.
	Did you see Maxine Waters during her eulogy for Dick Gregory?
	Uh-oh.
	Now, Dick Gregory, do you think he would have liked Trump, hated Trump?
	Did he ever talk about Trump?
	I can't remember.
	Yeah, he did.
	He's the one who came up with the two Trumps there.
	Oh, you're right!
	That's Dick Gregory.
	You're right.
	But he didn't think much of Trump, but he didn't think much of any of them.
	No, that's right.
	So she's on stage.
	She's doing her eulogy.
	And by the way, I think Dick Gregory would not like Maxine Waters.
	I think he would have had a real problem with this.
	She totally hijacked everyone's amygdala.
	I wish I could sit with Dick because I've got work to do.
	I wish I could sit not on with Dick I wish I could sit with Dick because I've got work to do I'm cleaning out the White House applause applause applause applause applause applause applause applause Thank you.
	We're not gonna take what is happening in this country.
	Haven't you taken enough?
	And then comes along this person.
	This person who does not respect you.
	This dishonorable human being who cheats everybody.
	This dishonorable human being who will lie at the drop of a hat.
	This dishonorable human being who have the alt-right and the KKK and everybody else inside his cabinet.
	This dishonorable human being who can criticize everybody but Putin and Russia.
	Did he collude with Russia?
	I bet you Dick Gregory would tell me, yeah, he did it.
	Not only are we going to clean out the White House, we're going to take back the house that slaves built.
	And I know, even my colleagues get very upset.
	Some get afraid when I say impeachment.
	When I get through with Donald Trump, he's gonna wish he had been impeached.
	I feel it very deeply.
	I am so offended by him.
	And I love my people so much that I am not gonna put up with it.
	I'm gonna say Impeach 45 every day.
	Impeach 45 every day.
	And page 45 every day.
	Maxine, step away from the crackpot.
	Those days are over.
	They called you out on Fox tonight.
	Yeah, baby.
	I think that woman is a true benefit to society.
	She is.
	She's a benefit to our show.
	Hold on, let's rock it out with Maxine for a second.
	Thank you, Maxine Waters, for the content!
	God.
	Yeah.
	That is also...
	I just can't say anything.
	It's just brain damage.
	Who talks like that?
	I've never heard anything like this.
	Not that the president is something I've heard before, either.
	It kind of evens out.
	Everyone's crazy.
	Yeah, it's great.
	Everybody's insane.
	It's fabulous.
	Oh, my goodness.
	It truly is.
	Truly nuts.
	Let's see what else did we have.
	So, you know, I've been looking around for any evidence that there was indeed some wiretapping going on of Manafort.
	Was it CNN that launched this quote-unquote report?
	Did they break that news?
	I don't know who broke the news, but it's gotten the right-wing talk show guys completely bent out of shape.
	I think with good reason, but nobody else is kind of picking up on it, which is that Trump had said that his towers were tapped.
	You remember that?
	Yes, yes, yes, yes.
	Trump always had some sort of inside information about different things, and he'd throw it out to, like, you know, without any—he didn't care in a tweet.
	Mm.
	And it always turns out to be kind of true in some way, shape or form.
	And there was apparently Manafort was tapped from the get go when he first said hello to Trump.
	And they did it.
	They tried to do it through a criminal complaint, which we knew about this because somebody brought it up on one of the shows and we had clips of the guy saying it.
	But it was always just it was speculation.
	The regular courts would not give him a go, but the FISA court said it was okay to tap him, to tap Manafort and anybody talking to him.
	Right, but how do we know this?
	I just want to know, how do we know this?
	That's all.
	The judicial watch is the one who broke it.
	Okay, are they quoting sources?
	No, no, they do everything from Freedom of Information Acts requests.
	They find documents.
	Well, as far as I know, it was CNN who broke this, which was very odd to me.
	I mean, it could have been CNN who brought it up, but I didn't follow it that closely.
	Because I've always assumed that this was going on.
	Well, it'd be stupid to think it isn't.
	Right now, to us.
	And especially when everyone applauds it.
	I mean, that's giving everybody the wrong message.
	No, that's not good.
	That's the message.
	That's what people believe.
	It's sadder than giving the wrong message.
	This is your typical American and tourist in New York douche.
	Like, ugh, these are the dumb people.
	And there's lots of them.
	Hate to say it.
	Well, wait until you get to the Miss America material.
	Oh, jeez.
	Ugh.
	Okay.
	And one of the worst offenders, I'm just teasing.
	Yes.
	Miss Texas.
	Yes.
	She's rubbing it in.
	So this past week we had a hearing on the Hill in the United States of Gitmo Nation about SESTA. SESTA. Which is to stop sex trafficking.
	An act to stop sex trafficking.
	Yeah, this has been, it was very unusual the way people responded to it.
	Well, and I did a deep dive into it.
	And it revolves around Section 203 of the Communications Decency Act, which was set in place, I believe, for all the right reasons.
	And we can have a little debate about this, if it should be there or not, if it should change.
	And in essence, there's really only one paragraph that matters that says, if you host a service on the Internet, then you cannot be held liable for what other people or other services post on your service.
	On the one hand, it enabled tons of stuff that we see.
	It really enabled Google, Facebook, all of the YouTube.
	Of course, that's the Google property.
	But it enabled all of these user-generated sites.
	Because it's very hard to police, even with algo.
	It's going to be a break.
	AI, please.
	Machine learning.
	Yeah, maybe one day.
	You can still find any kind of porn you want on YouTube, including horrible stuff.
	You want to go to Tumblr for horrible stuff?
	I'm sorry, what am I thinking?
	Yeah, Yahoo.
	So all of these companies were built because that was made possible.
	And they figured out early on how to screw the artists, the writers, the composers, and they got that with statutory Streaming fees, which has put writers and composers in the poorhouse, effectively.
	Radio still doesn't pay anything to artists.
	I mean, there's a whole bunch of things that...
	And the difference between artists and the writers and the composers of the song.
	But they didn't want to be hampered by this.
	And so what is happening, and this goes to the Backpage story, and for sure, after Craigslist shut down its personals, Backpage got all of the business for hookers.
	And they're also, as it is in the business, there's a lot of illegal stuff going on and children are being trafficked, who may look like young hookers.
	I'm sure it's not that easy.
	Apparently, Backpage was complicit in some of this and knew this was going on and did nothing to stop it.
	Oh, by the way, you also get protection as a service provider without having to explain or without breaking any constitutional rights.
	You can take stuff down, filter it, do whatever you want.
	It's free for all, really.
	So what the CESTA Act wants is the addition of really only one line.
	And that is, you can still do whatever you want, except...
	When it comes to child trafficking, sex trafficking, not just child sex trafficking.
	And EFF and another group, which are both funded heavily by Google, are fighting this, which makes for an interesting PR story, because it makes, in fact, I saw Tucker even say, why would they protect sex trafficking?
	And I think it's a worthy debate not being had, obviously.
	But I have two clips which are perfect.
	It is Senator Nelson, who chaired the committee, explaining the issue succinctly in under two minutes.
	And I think he has one of...
	Yes, what the issue is here is very well explained.
	Let's just get right to the nub of the question.
	The opponents...
	of the bill argue that it's not necessary to modify Section 230, which would allow state and local law enforcement and victims to pursue those who assist and facilitate online sex trafficking.
	The opponents argue that the existing statute already provides justice with adequate authority In order to go after those wrongdoers, rebut that argument so we can pass this bill.
	That's the way business should be done all the time in Congress in my opinion.
	Senator, I would ask each and every one of you to come to Sacramento with me, where we are right now in prosecution of Backpage.
	We filed 36 counts against, back page, 11 of them for pimping, the sex trafficking part, and 25 more based on money laundering and conspiracy.
	You heard Senator Portman mention the ruling of the Sacramento judge recently in that case about a month ago, where he said, and I will quote it as well, speaking about Section 230 and its broad coverage shield against prosecution, of those involved in sex trafficking.
	The judge said the broad reach of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act even applies to those alleged to support the exploitation of others by human trafficking.
	Based on that, the judge dropped every single count relating to sex trafficking and we are now left To prosecute based on the conspiracy charges and money laundering, which we will vigorously do.
	But Backpage has been spoken about over and over again, does more than just engage in conspiracy and money laundering from our perspective.
	If we don't have the tools, the only winners are those who go to the internet.
	Now, the way this sounded to me is like this guy was trying to present a case where he didn't have any actual evidence they knew what was going on.
	So, therefore, he can only go after money laundering and conspiracy.
	But I'm not sure he had a strong case to begin with.
	Here's one more opinion on this.
	Of course, the opponents to the bill are going to say this is going to end the Internet.
	They're going to say it's going to end the Internet's economy.
	Give us the argument against that.
	Ms.
	Soros?
	Thank you, Senator.
	At NCVIC, we have over three decades of working closely with the technology companies within the purpose of our mission.
	They have provided tools and partnered with us in a very collaborative manner to Participate in ridding the internet of child sexual exploitation material.
	There are good actors on the internet and there are actors that will always make extra efforts and collaborate with others to make sure that there is not criminal activity or other harmful contact on the internet.
	They do that for business purposes.
	They do that for altruistic purposes as well.
	There is simply nothing in this bill that will curtail that activity.
	The narrow scope of this bill is drawn to ferret out and shine a spotlight on those bad actors, those who are not screening, are not engaging with others.
	All right, let me come back to you, General.
	So the argument's going to come, well, it's not going to allow websites to allow users to post restaurant reviews, family pictures, or comments because of the fears of liability.
	Rebut that.
	I don't know what menus you're reading, but this is not what we're going after.
	The one joke of the whole two hours.
	Senator, I think everyone should realize here, at least from the perspective of an attorney general or a district attorney, we have to prove criminal intent.
	We can't win a prosecution unless we can show that the individuals we're prosecuting, like Backpage, had the intent, the knowledge to do what they're doing.
	The legislation that you have before you is very narrowly...
	It's almost over.
	It's 15 seconds if you just want to end.
	Yeah, but just specifically what he said.
	When do we get...
	And we had to come up with the Comey-Clinton investigation.
	This intent notion.
	You have two trains of thought.
	Yes, I'm glad you caught that, because I also wrote that down as a note.
	Like, intent.
	It's always intent.
	Because the laws are written for a purpose, and when you talk about it, it doesn't matter if you don't know the law, you broke the law.
	But I didn't intend to.
	Doesn't matter.
	Too bad.
	I didn't intend to run the red light.
	I just didn't see it.
	I didn't intend to run the red light.
	I just didn't see it.
	I missed it.
	When you ran it, so here's your ticket.
	So I think in this case, what this lawyer is trying to say, a bunch of lawyers in that room, that he needs to prove intent that they specifically allowed this type of sex trafficking content to be on their site and didn't do anything about it.
	That is...
	I'm fine with that, except...
	The mixed message that the general public gets about intent is really getting on my nerves.
	I am in total agreement about that.
	Total agreement.
	It's like, if you didn't know you broke the law, you didn't really break it.
	No, you didn't have any.
	You didn't intend to.
	And that die has been cast, to coin a phrase from the Shays.
	It has been cast with Hillary and Comey.
	Unless we can show that the individuals we're prosecuting, like Backpage, had the intent, the knowledge to do what they're doing.
	The legislation that you have before you is very narrowly tailored.
	It goes only after sex trafficking.
	The broad exemption from any type of lawsuit for those who provide online services remains.
	Okay, so here's my opinion on this, and I've read into it and I've watched this whole thing.
	The reason why Google et al.
	do not want this to happen is once you get that in, once it's sex trafficking, then it's drug sales, then it's this, and then it's that, and then it's never-ending.
	They know it, and I believe that to be true.
	There's one more thing.
	If that were to happen...
	So for that reason alone, I believe, personally, this act should not pass.
	I feel really bad that it's happening, but you've got to step up your game, you've got to go after sex traffickers, but you can't start...
	We cannot allow the government to start regulating the internet in that manner.
	But I do hope it passes because it will screw all the centralized services.
	I really hope it passes because it will bring them down and we just need to go back to a decentralized internet, the way it was developed.
	We have all kinds of hash space where we can store stuff.
	You can't take it down.
	If there's no commercial motive, it's going to be fantastic.
	So I hope it passes to bring these a-holes down.
	Even Colbert engages in wishful thinking.
	You don't think it's going to pass?
	I don't know whether it's going to pass or not, but if it passes or not, it's not going to bring anybody down.
	It will start a domino effect of regulations.
	No, there's no such thing as a domino effect.
	It will start regulations of these services.
	There's a law in place already.
	How come that hasn't started the domino effect?
	What law?
	There's no law in place.
	You said yourself that all this is is one new line in an existing law.
	Right.
	But then you can add the second new line, and then the third new line, and the fourth, Bitcoin.
	Yeah, but that wouldn't have happened if the initial lines weren't there in the first place.
	No, no, no, no, no.
	I'm sorry.
	You're misunderstanding what Section 203 says.
	It says you are completely clear of any type of claim of any matter whatsoever.
	Right.
	No matter what people post on your site.
	Now, you may have to take it down, but you cannot be held liable.
	That's the law.
	And I think it's a good law for the internet.
	Which I think is reasonable.
	But now they want to add...
	I know, they want to...
	Okay, you're thinking they're just going to add this and then that.
	Well, we added this and then...
	That's what they're thinking.
	That's what they're thinking.
	I'm sure that's what would happen, but...
	Yes.
	But it would...
	That would either...
	That's going to happen anyway some other way.
	Okay, but let's kickstart that shit, yo.
	I don't think so.
	I was all for this until you've talked me out of it.
	Talked you out of what?
	Out of passing it?
	Out of your position.
	Well, how did I talk you out of it?
	Because now I know more, and now I realize what a scam it is.
	If you want to bust up people that are pedophiles, which I think is what they're trying to do here, just go after them.
	I mean, it's not impossible to break up these pedophile rings all the time.
	That's my position as well.
	That is my position.
	I'm just telling you my dream.
	Yes, my final position.
	No, that's my dream.
	My position is it should never pass.
	My dream is it passes and everyone gets taken down with it.
	That's my dream.
	That's your wishful thinking.
	That's what you said.
	Even Colbert has wishful thinking.
	I got you the first time.
	Yeah, okay.
	So that's what's going on with that.
	Back to the analysis.
	But it's a scam.
	It is a scam to bring in legislation.
	And honestly...
	It's like net neutrality is a scam to bring the government into regulation.
	Yes.
	But nobody picks up on that one, including the EFF. Yeah.
	Thank you.
	Well, EFF understand.
	You know what?
	I don't think they actually do understand.
	It's worse.
	Ben, I'm not sure when there's a vote on this thing.
	Well, I'd be surprised if it didn't pass.
	Me too, because they had mothers...
	As soon as you drop pedophilia onto anything, just make it a tagline, and boom, it's got to pass, because otherwise you're a pervert.
	They had mothers in there whose kids were killed and throats slit and just horrible, horrible stories.
	How could you vote anything but, yeah, pass it?
	It was really well done.
	It works.
	Very well done.
	Hey, by the way, the Spanish police...
	I have raided the Catalan government to halt the, or to hopefully halt the referendum.
	No, they're busting up the entire government and throwing judges and everybody in the slammer.
	They're going nuts.
	It's a revolution.
	You can't do that.
	It's illegal.
	Of course it is.
	They took over three cruise ships just to house the cops they're going to bring in.
	Oh, jeez.
	Yeah.
	Three.
	Three.
	So, Ben, what do they have?
	They've got an 800-person ship, 1,000-passenger ship, 2,000-passenger ship.
	They are not messing around, I'll tell you.
	Holy moly.
	I wonder if we'll see any of that.
	My guess is unlikely.
	They will have to run one story.
	I mean, they did it with the Rohingyas, where this group is being rushed out of Myanmar.
	Yeah.
	And one good story, boom, they got it covered, and they go on to the next stuff, the anti-Trump stuff.
	And with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage and say in the morning to you, John C., where the C stands for Catalano is a revolution, Dvorak.
	Yeah, in the morning to you, Mr.
	Adam Curry.
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	Did he actually put that in the envelope?
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	Did you see Qatar is running commercials now?
	Stop the blockade on Qatar.
	Oh, I haven't seen that.
	Yeah, on CNN. Oh, they got money to run them.
	On CNN. Yeah, something's going...
	I don't think we're even close to getting to the bottom of that story.
	No, we've got to keep a good look at it.
	Suronymous...
	Writes in a typewritten note with no signature and also NJNK for your benefit.
	Yes, NJNK. Russian hackers, Biden, bad pollsters in the media and Comey all did their best to make me lose the donation.
	Fortunately, being a man, I was able to blend into the background of the overlooked and make it through these obstacles.
	Facial recognition, I believe, is all about database collection.
	Want an e-gate pass in many countries?
	Facial recognition is required, and they track you by phone and face.
	I do wonder about technical issues such as lighting requirements for successful recognition.
	Three separate security systems that have had difficulty capturing me and dogpatchians are not that odd-looking.
	I also agree that algos discriminate and more than burka and niqab issues will arise in this data capture.
	But hell, people freely gave their flawed information to banks to get credit, who in turn monetized it through securitization and then freely gave their shopping choices to Google and Amazon, who monetized it and freely gave their opinions of Facebook, who monetized it, then freely gave conversations in who monetized it, then freely gave conversations in their home and phone to Apple, Amazon and Google, who monetized it.
	So why not freely give your 3D facial image to Apple and others to monetize based on the makeup needs, glasses need or whatever people dream up?
	Yeah.
	He's from the future, our seronymous is.
	I guess.
	Net, net, net, net.
	People give away their personal information and others make money.
	Based algo or not, biased algo or not, facial recognition will be monetized.
	And he's right.
	I think he's absolutely right.
	And it probably would be, oh, you're not using the right makeup.
	Use Macs.
	Intelligence agency control, in my opinion, is about controlling the message delivered to the decision maker.
	I just realized, you know where this is going to take place first?
	Dating sites.
	Oh, yeah.
	They'll have some algo that will algorithmically match you with your facial data.
	Well, you know, there is, they had this, well, Chris, a lot of this is bull crap.
	Well, we know we can detect, we can already detect if someone's gay through facial recognition.
	So why not detect if there's a match?
	I bet you we can.
	Or we can market it.
	I bet you we can market it that way.
	Right.
	I bet you we can't, but we will.
	In other words, we can't, but we'll say we can.
	Yes, exactly.
	It's a machine learning.
	Yes, this works just fabulous.
	Algo is a machine.
	A lot of guys with doctors who say, oh yeah, we worked on this.
	Remind me to tell you about the algo and backscatter.
	Algo and backscatter.
	Okay, let me finish this note.
	All right.
	Now he's finally giving us some of his opinions.
	Intelligence agency control, in my experience, is about controlling the message delivered to the decision-maker, not necessarily making the decision-maker incapacitated and unable to make a decision.
	Controlling the fog of war is the mission.
	Message control by M5M is part of the premise of your podcast, and so you monetize it, just not at the same valuation yet.
	Hmm.
	There's a point to be made there, which was that we're doing everything everybody else's.
	We're from Silicon Valley in the future.
	Okay.
	Well, thank you, Sir Onimus, for bringing this to our attention.
	John E., and for the foreign currency, worth $10.
	John E. Fiddler, $333.01 out of Lake Forest Park, Washington.
	Ah, another note.
	This one's handwritten, so it's going to be a little tougher.
	Dear Crack...
	Let me see if there's anyone some jingles.
	Yeah, here's some jingles.
	Please play the full Reverend Manning Kellyanne Conway's A Money Shot at the end of the show.
	Oh, I don't know if I have the full money shot.
	It's a money shot.
	I almost crashed my car laughing so hard last time you played it.
	It needs to be dug out of the vault.
	Oh, here's the jingle request for this note.
	Obama A-team and two to the head.
	Boom.
	That's it.
	Okay, ever since I started listening on episode 666, I have tried to contribute $1 per show, my small part to help to support TCP at CITU. However, lately the show's quality has been so good that $3.33 per show seemed a much more appropriate value for value.
	So here is my contribution for the last 100 shows.
	Glad you came in with $333.01.
	Nice.
	Plus a penny for Adam's penny jar.
	Thank you.
	I've got it.
	Thank you very much.
	Give it to someone else that gets passed around.
	As one who tries to straddle both universes, I live in an area that is firmly universe B, which is most areas, which is most metropolitan areas.
	Most of the, yes.
	Just on the coast and metropolitan.
	Which clouds my thinking.
	I often disagree with you.
	As a medical profession, I shudder when you talk about vaccines.
	I am in agreement about how they can't predict the weather in three days, so there's no way computer models will be able to predict what will happen in the next 330 or 300 years.
	That said, humans are degrading the planet around us, and the depletion of the animal and fish populations are real.
	On other topics, it's real.
	It's real.
	On other topics, you are spot on.
	SSRIs and pipelines for sure.
	And I've always enjoyed Gulen and Euronews updates.
	Yes.
	More than anything, your show has taught me to think outside the box and always challenge the source of the information, including you.
	I have a Gulen update.
	Not a Gulen update.
	I have a Turkey update.
	The Trump administration canceled a weapons sale to them.
	That's weird.
	Not a big one.
	It was not a big deal.
	But it was, I think it was guns for his, you know, like, it was guns.
	It was just, it wasn't any missiles or anything, but cancel.
	Calling it off.
	We're not going to sell that to you.
	For us, certainly for Trump, to say we're not going to sell you some weapons?
	It's wrong.
	That's un-American.
	I have to talk about, next time we talk about the Gulan and the rest of it, I have to tell you about this Turkish mechanic I ran into.
	Okay.
	Who gave me a long lecture.
	I think I might have some turkey news later, so yeah.
	Maybe.
	Find the unclipped primary sources to see things in context.
	Look for the different views about subjects and always, always follow the money.
	Keep up the great work.
	John Fiddler, Seattle, Washington.
	And he's got his two requests.
	Yes, and I have them lined up.
	There's a need for a rescue mission.
	When the world is threatened, the world needs help.
	It calls on America.
	And that's the story.
	You've got karma.
	And last but not least, we have our associate executive producer, Sir J.B. Knight of the DMV out of Clarksville, Maryland, who came in with $278.87.
	Hi, Guardians of Reality.
	Thank you for your courage.
	This donation will get me to one...
	Oh, you know, there you go.
	That's how it works.
	Take a penny, give a penny.
	Yeah, perfect.
	And, uh, well, hold on.
	Before I forget, John, Lashana Tova.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Anyway, thank you for your courage.
	I would like to request the Pocono Mountains of the Northeast Pennsylvania as my protectorate.
	Nice.
	If I'm allowed, that is a newly mentioned baron.
	Don't you get there as a baron?
	You get it as a baronet as well.
	I thought it was only barons who get a protectorate.
	It really is, but we'll give it.
	We're giving it.
	Okay.
	He'll come up with it.
	He'll get there.
	Yeah.
	I would like karma for all the other monthly donators who pay by check, as I hate PayPal, but I have a balance, so I'm clearing my books for the next fiscal year.
	Please play Resist We Much.
	My millennials stay woke and two to the head because both of those chuckle heads make me want to shoot myself in the head twice with my left hand in a covered hot tub inside a small plane while it's plummeting to earth.
	That's pretty much the way to go.
	I would like to ask for a douchebag call-out for anyone who has listened to more than five episodes and has not donated.
	Douchebag!
	You know who you are.
	And get with the program, losers.
	In no agenda we trust for JB, Night of the DMV. Yeah, the DMV and Baron of the Poconos.
	Fantastic, here we go.
	We must and we will much.
	About that.
	Be committed.
	My millennials!
	Stay woke!
	You've got karma.
	Perfect.
	That's it.
	Yeah, that's it.
	We got our two and one.
	That closes the show.
	Yes.
	I have a PR mention.
	This is now the third or the fourth No Agenda novel.
	That has been released.
	Yeah, this is Scott McKenzie.
	This guy really cranks him out, I have to say.
	He's written, and I enjoy, I have not read this one yet, but I've read the previous two for sure, and I have to say they're short, they're easy to read, there's a lot of No Agenda memes.
	This one's not as short as the others.
	Oh, really?
	Okay.
	It's pretty big.
	Here's a note from hoping you'll be kind enough to give PR mention on the show for the release of Red Cell, the latest no-agenda novel, which I've just released in paperback and Kindle form.
	The book is based on a clip you played in episode 532, I think, way back in 2013.
	It took two years to come up with the right plot and then two more years to write and edit this sucker.
	It's full of no-agenda memes and subjects you've discussed on the show, including terrorist attacks on malls, roller coasters, the Super Bowl, and killer selfie sticks.
	John, with a bit of luck, you should have arrived in the P.O. box.
	Did you get it?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, you did.
	Nice package.
	Yeah, I haven't received it yet.
	I did get the...
	I got the Kindle version.
	Noagendanovels.com.
	Support Scott and his work.
	And just read.
	It's fun.
	It's a good read.
	You'll enjoy it.
	It's a page-turner.
	Yeah, he's a good writer, so you should get a kick out of it.
	It's a page-turner.
	Page-turner, John.
	I believe today is not...
	Is it not Poland's birthday today?
	Poland?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	I don't know.
	Maybe.
	I do know one thing.
	For the next show, we're going to ask people to give us all their money because the world's coming to an end.
	Wait, wait, wait.
	Before you do that, because that was my next thing on the list.
	I'm sorry.
	The Christianization of Poland took place in 966 AD. That's what I had to remember.
	Episode 966?
	Oh, that would have been a good one.
	That would have been a good one, yeah.
	And hey, and Poland.
	A bit obscure.
	Poland.
	I am not letting up on our president coming through on his promise for the visa waiver program.
	It's bullshit.
	It's annoying.
	It is annoying.
	Yes, the rapture.
	I've been following this as well.
	It's not the rapture.
	It's the Iburo, that planet X. And not just the rapture.
	We're just all going to die.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, the rapture is supposed to take some people to heaven, and you say, hey, where did Bill go?
	But no, that's not going to be...
	It's just this planet X is going to finally slam into Earth and wipe us out on Saturday, I might add.
	And I'm surprised that not people are more worked up about this.
	I mean, we remember the 2012 episode when people were all going to die, and that didn't come to fruition.
	We're all going to die!
	Nope, didn't.
	You'd think it would happen...
	It's not on the news.
	They're not playing this on...
	Maybe they will on Friday.
	I'll look forward to it.
	ABC, CBS, NBC. Is it Friday?
	It's the 23rd.
	No, no.
	The day it happens is Saturday.
	Oh, okay.
	We're all going to die!
	But I think it's Friday that they should cover it.
	Oh, yeah.
	Because it's going to be their last newscast.
	Yeah, that would make sense.
	Yes, that would make sense.
	I want to thank our executive producers and one associate executive producer, and certainly Sir Anonymous of Dogpatch for bringing up the levels for today's show.
	We do have another one coming up on Sunday.
	We do this without any advertisements, corporate interests, no buddies who are rich, who are helping us out.
	No, it's you.
	You're the producers, and you produce in many ways, and one that a lot of people like doing is supporting us financially, which is That's exactly why we give you credits at the beginning of the show as executive and associate executive producers, because that's how Hollywood does it, and that seems to work okay for them.
	And please remember us for Sunday at Dvorak.org slash NA. Okay, no award show, but you can still always be out there propagating our formula.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Fact check, Sal.
	Shut up, slave.
	Shut up, slave.
	Already people in a chat room saying, we don't talk about Nibiru.
	No.
	That story's been around forever.
	Every year it happens, but this is the one.
	So we probably won't be doing it.
	Every morning when I get up and I drink my coffee on the balcony, in the Texas morning sky, I can see Venus with the naked eye.
	It's really cool.
	It's very bright.
	Really?
	Can you see the rings?
	That would be Saturn.
	This is Venus.
	That was Uranus.
	We're all gonna die!
	I walked right into it, too.
	I have...
	Walking right into it.
	To make it up, I will give you a clip designed for you because I know you're gonna love this clip.
	Is it Amazon?
	Yeah, it's about to snafu.
	Oh, well, it's not a snafu.
	Oh, yes, snafu.
	Here we go.
	Amazon is apologizing for a glitch that left a lot of customers confused.
	You may have received the email yesterday notifying you that somebody bought an item off a baby registry that you don't have.
	The email read, a gift is on the way, addressed to an Amazon customer.
	A lot of people thought the email was kind of a scam or something, but Amazon says it was actually just a technical glitch.
	The company sent follow-up emails apologizing for the glitch.
	The glitch, the glitch, the glitch!
	Thanks, that's great reporting everybody.
	Three uses.
	Four, I think it was four.
	No, it was only three.
	Oh my goodness.
	Yeah, the glitch at the beginning and then two glitches at the end.
	I'm going to play my version of the algo glitch.
	The bomb?
	Because I have a little longer report than yours.
	Glitch the bomb?
	Yes, the Amazon bomb-making materials.
	Another algo story.
	Oh, yeah, that was a different story.
	You know, I don't even know if I grabbed a clip of that.
	Yeah, you did.
	I see it.
	The products of terror, a simple bucket believed to contain simple household ingredients combined to make a potentially simple yet lethal bomb.
	Products like these not only available in the shops but online through Amazon.
	And as this program has discovered, Amazon will not only sell them to you but recommend the combination of elements required.
	So here we have a chemical widely used in food preparation but also one of the main ingredients of gunpowder and just below in the frequently bought together section two other vital components.
	With these and another ingredient which you can find if you scroll down on the same page put them together and you have all the makings of a crude bomb.
	If you wanted to make thermite part of a firebomb which burns at 2,500 degrees, Amazon technology will cleverly guide you further, suggesting powders.
	Not only that, but further down, it will also flag ball bearings, often used for shrapnel to cause maximum damage.
	Yeah.
	Now, I have a couple of questions about this, and this obviously leads into a short algo conversation, algorithms.
	But we need to give the listeners a little background on this story.
	I mean, why did you play that clip?
	Because it refers to the bombings in London, and then somebody came up with this bright idea that Amazon, you could buy all these things at Amazon.
	No one's ever done that that we know of.
	Well, this is my first question.
	The way I understand this functionality of Amazon, it's Amazon, it's not Amazon, it's Amazon, as Amazon to work is these are products frequently bought with the product you are buying now.
	Therefore, it would be very easy for them to cross-reference and find out who bought those products together.
	Except that was not in the report.
	No one's asking this question.
	But for me, it's bringing the conversation and the concept of these algorithms that are working with us, against us, or whatever, to light.
	I like that a lot.
	I think this was Channel 4 who did this.
	I think they broke it.
	I broke it.
	They just came up with it.
	All the networks picked up the story.
	They all ran a long package about it in this show.
	They had a guy on the street.
	There's a guy typing in, oh, look, dude, look, look.
	Ball bearings was the big one.
	Even with thermite.
	Thermite doesn't blow up.
	It's a thing that fizzles.
	It brings down buildings.
	Very cool.
	What was the food stuff?
	They're talking about what?
	Saltpeter?
	Saltpeter maybe?
	Nobody uses that.
	Maybe you can buy it on Amazon.
	I know.
	But they said it was part of the food that you might have in your kitchen.
	Yeah.
	How old is the boy now?
	Let's give him some saltpeter so he can't get it up.
	What is the point of this?
	The point is that First of all, the television networks do not like their lunches being eaten by the likes of Google, Facebook, etc.
	So anything they can do that's a negative story against them is a bonus, particularly if they can knock down their advertising or get more legislation in.
	They hate them.
	This is a real war that's going on.
	But the algorithms themselves is what I want to talk about briefly.
	Because I've really started to learn a lot about how this works.
	And the story that I found most appropriate is the guy who invented the backbone of today's current artificial intelligence, Jeffrey Hinton.
	I may be wrong, by the way.
	I'm just telling you what I've found from my research.
	I'm sure a million people email me that I'm stupid.
	Don't.
	And it was actually backpropagation.
	That was the term I was trying to remember.
	So backpropagation is the entire system of which computers use.
	It's a model to throw switches until you get the most right answer.
	And if you do it, you can kind of, if you see it drawn on a board, you can kind of understand it.
	But this guy now comes out and says, we have to start over.
	This is not going to, you will not be able to create true machine learning.
	And his concept is we need, there's some kind, no one's discovered it yet that we know, but we need a master algorithm that is the basic building block that replaces backpropagation.
	Skynet.
	Yeah.
	So, from what I'm understanding from the guy who kind of developed the whole idea is that none of these will actually be any good or can they get to the promise of what is being sold to us.
	And we're just going to see more of these dumb decisions, dumb algos making dumb decisions for your dumb life.
	And maybe someone will try and get some legislation done or whatever, but you're being controlled by this, by what you see, by what you hear, by what you read, everything.
	What your credit score is, if you're a good human being, it's all biased algos.
	Yes.
	I hope that anybody that's been listening to the show for a while doesn't already know this, that this is nonsense.
	Yeah.
	Right?
	Yeah.
	Right?
	I just like seeing people wake up to it.
	Like, what?
	This is weird.
	How can Amazon be doing that?
	How can this happen?
	What?
	I don't understand.
	How did I get that email?
	This is just the beginning.
	Oh, Professor Ted.
	He was so right.
	Well, let's see what we got here.
	Let's do the Miss America thing and get it out of the way.
	Right after I read OneNote, because I know you're not going to read it, from producer Jay Codicini.
	I don't know if you saw this note.
	John?
	Yes, I did.
	I've heard you tell your Saudi Arabian chicken restaurant story multiple times on the show.
	I think the name of the chain is Al Tajaj.
	Is that the one?
	Yeah, I think that's what the name is.
	I was visiting my wife's family in Amman, Jordan over the summer and was surprised when I found out there was a chain in Amman.
	I told my wife about hearing you on the show talk about how good the chicken was and told her we needed to try it.
	She gave me a weird look and told me Altazage is like the Middle Eastern version of Kentucky Fried Chicken and refused to take me.
	It would be like telling a foreigner that KFC has the best chicken in the U.S. She proceeded to make fun of me in front of her family and friends for the rest of the trip about how the stupid conspiracy theory podcast I listen to gives bad recommendations on fast food chicken restaurants.
	You might need a new wife.
	That's pretty rude.
	That's rude.
	That's rude.
	You're going to make fun of you in front of her family.
	First of all, fast food chicken.
	And I would say Kentucky Fried Chicken.
	And I knew you were going to defend it, too.
	Yeah, of course.
	In its initial iteration with the high-pressure cooker chicken cookers, these things are like pressure cookers that...
	Cook deep fat.
	They deep fat fry under pressure.
	It was an invention by the Kentucky Fried Chicken chain.
	They make an outstanding chicken.
	I mean, I've seen other people that can make chicken that's pretty good.
	But Kentucky Fried Chicken is not a bad product in its initial form if it's done right.
	There's no reason to believe that this place that packs them in, the chicken place, and I think that is the right one.
	There's actually two chains that are floating around there.
	And yeah, you could probably mock it, but I doubt you could make chicken as good.
	I just like that it's also brined.
	It's a brined chicken.
	It's salty.
	I mean, it's like going to, it's like ridiculing Morton's.
	Morton's is a chain.
	It's a chain, yeah.
	It's a huge chain of steakhouses.
	But they do a pretty decent job of buying expensive meat and cooking it right.
	And I don't eat there, but I know that the guy who leads...
	You know what he should do?
	The only problem I have is that she is now disparaging the show.
	In front of her family.
	So I think he should make no agenda chicken for her.
	Oh, the no agenda chicken's good.
	But it's not the same as the others.
	No, but then say, I got this from that same stupid conspiracy theory podcast.
	We don't have too many conspiracy theories on this podcast so she doesn't listen to the show.
	Anyways, the King of Jordan eats at Morton's in San Francisco, specifically.
	Alright, I'm sorry for the distraction.
	Yeah, well, it's okay.
	Miss America, I'm ready for this.
	I've been waiting for it.
	It was a good letter.
	Let's do a couple basics.
	This is your swan song.
	I want everyone to understand who is new to the program.
	Yeah, I'm never going to do this again.
	This is how we started our original television deconstruction.
	We really got deep into how it works behind the scenes, what's going on, and how...
	It can be idiotic at times, sexist.
	So everything you hear is just us being television producers.
	And analyzing, as Hollywood does, behind closed doors.
	This is, you know, when you read the emails, how the top guys in Hollywood are joking about Jews and blacks.
	Right, the Sony emails.
	Sony emails, yes.
	And they have to apologize.
	That's how they talk.
	Sexist.
	So that's what we're going to do here.
	It's not us.
	This does not represent Adam and John as men.
	Right.
	That said, let's get to the boobs!
	Well, yeah.
	The boobs are my...
	Mimi said, every time she said, fake!
	Fake!
	Fake boobs!
	We need to put that fake news, fake boobs.
	Now, the two women that I thought, at least, they had this introductory, you know, where they have all the girls say hi, and then they...
	All of them except 15, and then they make them wear bathing suits.
	I like the use of the word cull.
	Yeah, and then they make them wear bathing suits.
	And 15, and Miss America in particular, they never pick the genuine beauties.
	Why would that?
	I mean, there are some women...
	That you look at him and go, oh my God, she's got the sky's the limit for this woman.
	And the two genuine beauties, I think, that were completely overlooked and cold right off the bat.
	And one, actually both of them somewhat, were a surprise, especially Miss California.
	Mm-hmm.
	Miss California was a beautiful blonde that'll be working in broadcasting or something.
	We'll see her eventually.
	No.
	And it's rare to do that because it's California who watches this show.
	And we are always looking for a Miss America who can go on to have a broadcast career.
	That's what it's all about.
	Especially the parades.
	Hello!
	Hello!
	And the other one...
	It's the commentary as the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade goes by.
	And so the other one that they left out was Miss Ohio.
	It was another beauty that was...
	Maybe they had no talent.
	They knew they weren't going to get very far because that could be...
	Because the talent this year was all dancers.
	Oh!
	And one woman who was a ventriloquist And Mimi, who's, yes, with two puppets.
	And I bet she was really good.
	You know, I'm looking at Miss Ohio.
	Yeah, she's cute.
	Yeah, you don't know.
	You're trying to find these girls on the 2018.
	Is that 2018?
	Are you sure?
	No.
	2016, you're right.
	Yeah.
	Don't even try.
	Okay.
	I've already tried.
	When I did the clip for the newsletter, I said, oh, 2017, it's a guy standing there, same people, looks the same, the girls look the same.
	But should it be 2017?
	Yeah, it should be 2018.
	I picked the wrong picture.
	Damn.
	All right.
	So Mimi's watching this, and she's produced comedy, and she's got the same mentality about ventriloquists.
	Which is?
	It's a joke.
	It's like a running gag amongst comics.
	She says this woman's the best ventriloquist she's ever seen.
	And she probably doesn't like ventriloquists at all.
	No.
	And I have to say, this is the best ventriloquist I've ever seen insofar as not moving her mouth, not showing signs that she's even talking.
	She was really good, and she could yodel as a ventriloquist.
	She had no material.
	I mean, it wasn't a funny act.
	Whenever I look at Match.com, I always look for profiles that are ventriloquists and can yodel, because those are the hotties.
	Well, this was Miss Louisiana.
	But she didn't win, of course, because...
	Too cute.
	The woman who won was Miss North Dakota.
	And North Dakota, I don't know how she won.
	She has what I would call it, and people would...
	This, again, is talking as a producer.
	She has a Mormon face.
	A Mormon face is kind of flat and kind of square.
	And a dead ringer for...
	Almost a dead ringer for...
	What's her name?
	I don't know.
	The brother and sister act.
	Ah, the Osmonds.
	Yeah, she's a Marie Osmonds that just nailed it.
	And my daughter said she looked a lot like Miley Cyrus.
	Okay.
	The winner.
	It's a family affair there, the Dvorak.
	You're all looking at women.
	I get good information.
	Now, the other one that was kind of odd, that was very familiar looking, and then you said, what, what?
	It was Miss Alabama who was eliminated.
	She got into the final 15, but she got bumped.
	Miss Alabama, she was an Ivanka Trump clone.
	She looked just like her and liked to talk like this.
	I don't want to talk too long.
	And that was who?
	Miss who?
	Alabama.
	Okay.
	All right, so let's go to a couple of little anomalies, which are the question and answer thing where the people talk.
	At the very beginning, when they announce everybody, they get to say a little spiel.
	Yeah.
	And so we have the, my favorite one is, where is it?
	This is Miss A, New Mexico.
	She comes out from New Mexico, and she goes into an immediate rant.
	The next to move on in the competition is Miss New Mexico, Taylor Ray.
	I want to tell the next generation of girls to be loud and take up space and don't be afraid to have an opinion.
	Don't suck in your stomach because you feel like you're bigger and don't slouch because you feel like you're tall.
	Have an opinion and speak out because you have every right to be here.
	It's like a rich person saying, you know, looks aren't everything.
	Yeah, Sheryl Sandberg.
	Yeah, lean in.
	Lean in.
	Look, you know, chew up space.
	Don't suck in your stomach, which she does not have to do, I'm sure.
	They all did.
	In fact, I'll tell you, I thought they were, generally speaking, the women in the bathing suit companies were generally a little chunky.
	Very few of them, I think maybe two of them had a small waist.
	Unusually chunky.
	So we had the bathing suit competition.
	The funny thing is North Dakota probably was the second worst looking in a bathing suit.
	What was wrong specifically with her in the bathing suit?
	No waist, no figure, big thighs, walked funny.
	Had a wooden leg, limp.
	I don't want to be offensive, but you were doing our bit.
	We're doing the bit.
	This is our excuse.
	So they have this...
	Yes, go all out then, alright?
	Just go.
	You started with the chunky.
	Did she have camel toe?
	Let's get it on the table.
	No, no.
	They all wore funny, kind of the bikinis had really big butt cover, so they all looked like they, whether they did or not, they all looked like they had huge asses.
	All of them.
	Yeah, the big butt cover bikini.
	Yeah, that makes no sense.
	That makes no sense.
	Hey, stop the meeting!
	You're right, that makes no sense.
	Someone take a note for next year.
	It makes no sense.
	These are called butt tarps, is what they're called.
	So the big...
	The big deal about this show is we're going to have two, not one, but two rounds of questions.
	Oh, nice.
	The one question, the first round of questions is going to be lighthearted.
	Like, what do you do?
	What's your favorite candy?
	What do you like to do when you have a day off?
	What it used to be.
	I want to say black children by collecting tinfoil.
	Charged questions they have now.
	Oh, that's good.
	I'm glad they brought that back.
	That's important.
	Well, but you still had the dummies that were going to answer stupidly.
	Okay.
	And Miss Texas was the worst of them.
	It's the only of the dumb questions, the easy questions.
	The only one that really stood out was Miss Texas.
	This is Miss America dumb cue time.
	Oh, okay.
	Hold on.
	All right, Tara, ask our final question.
	Okay, Miss Texas.
	Miss America competes in swimsuit, gowns, talent, intelligence.
	What would be the categories for Mr.
	America?
	I think...
	Sexist!
	Stop right there!
	Come on, that's sexist!
	Mr.
	America.
	I think we should also have a swimsuit portion for the Mr.
	America competition.
	I mean, only the best spots win, so that's just my personal opinion.
	Chris, do you want to compete?
	Good.
	Thanks.
	Feetos?
	Yes, absolutely.
	Feetos.
	Keeping the tux on.
	Yeah, native advertising?
	Speedos.
	Speedos?
	Well, it was the co-hostess that said Speedos.
	That's why...
	Interesting.
	So that would have been...
	It could have been...
	Well, let me just say...
	Miss Texas agreed.
	Let me say this about that.
	That's a fine answer as far as I'm concerned.
	In old school days, like, yeah!
	Woo!
	Let's see some balls!
	No problem with that.
	I'm okay with that answer.
	It's a dumb question.
	So we go into the final thing with the last five women.
	And, of course, they put seven up there and they only ask five a question.
	And the other two, what do we get to do?
	And they kick them off.
	I think it was very cruel, by the way.
	Why do they do that?
	Because they're cruel.
	They don't just say, here's the five and you two can get lost.
	They make them wait up there.
	Oh!
	The worst time they do it is during the...
	They do the same thing, I think, with the back.
	With the commercial break, we'll be right back.
	With ten people.
	They have twelve of them up there and ten of them are going to do their performances in the talent competition.
	And they leave two of them.
	And they all get dressed up.
	They're all dressed up to dance or sing or play the guitar.
	Yeah, that's mean.
	And then they leave two of them there to the language.
	Sorry, you two stink.
	Out.
	It's just cruel.
	I think it's a very cruel competition.
	Who were the judges or the panel or whatever it is?
	Just a bunch of people you've never heard of.
	I mean, Tara Lipinski is the only one I heard of.
	Just vaguely, she's the famous ice skater.
	Alright, onward.
	So now we have the last five.
	That are going to be asked questions, and you'd think they would ask something deeper.
	The only way to do this fairly, by the way, is to ask everyone the same question and put them in a sound booth.
	Yeah, with the headphones on, mess up their hair.
	Yeah, they should do that.
	But they don't.
	So instead, they ask these, just all questions, all anti-Trump, Trump hate questions.
	And let's start with the first one that comes out.
	This gives you a clue of how it's going to go.
	This is Ms.
	AMO for Missouri.
	Okay.
	Ms.
	Missouri, Jennifer Davis.
	Your question will come from Ms.
	Jordan Sparks.
	There are multiple investigations into whether Trump's campaign colluded with Russia on the election.
	Well, did they?
	You're the jury.
	Guilty or innocent, and please explain your verdict.
	Right now, I'd have to say innocent, because not enough information has been revealed.
	We are still investigating this, and I... John, all right, hold on a second.
	Let's go to commercial issues we can, everybody.
	She is clearly not...
	Right now I'd have to say innocent, because not enough information has been revealed.
	We are still investigating this, and I think we should investigate it to its fullest extent.
	And if we do find the evidence that they have had collusion with Russia, then the justice system should do their due diligence, and they should be punished accordingly.
	Thank you very much, Jennifer.
	Congratulations.
	What a fantastic answer.
	Right on.
	I mean, it's not a winning answer.
	No, no, she's out.
	In fact, I'll give you another example of this.
	Earlier in the competition, right after swimsuit, I think, during swimsuit, they had these little boxes in the corner with somebody's idea, and they had little ditties about the person and said they were this, they were that.
	Little info.
	Yeah, maybe it was during the gowns.
	Info giblets.
	Yeah, those little things pop up.
	Yeah.
	So this one, Miss South Carolina, very pretty girl.
	She could have easily been in the top five or the top ten at least.
	As soon as this pops up, she's out.
	What it said was, can identify all kinds of aliens.
	They should have had a little music there.
	So, tell us about your knowledge of aliens.
	That's too bad.
	Since I saw that, I said, whoop, she's done.
	She's gone.
	Out of there.
	Okay.
	You don't want anybody who can identify aliens.
	Well, there's the orange ones, and then there's the reptilians, and, you know, the grays, you know, they have mixed feelings, and there's the big white.
	I got mixed feelings on them.
	The tall blondes, you know, they're a little different.
	Tall blondes, yeah.
	They're all gorgeous.
	Onward.
	We have other stuff to do as well.
	She was done.
	So just to go back, because we just did Miss Texas on the other thing.
	Here's Miss Texas again.
	And again, I don't know how this girl can even be from Texas with his answers.
	Miss Texas!
	Miss Texas!
	Last month, a demonstration of neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and the KKK in Charlottesville, Virginia, turned violent and a counter-protester was killed.
	The president said there was shared blame with, quote, very fine people on both sides.
	Were there?
	Tell me yes or no and explain.
	I think that the white supremacist issue, it was very obvious that it was a terrorist attack.
	And I think that President Donald Trump should have made a statement earlier addressing the fact and making sure all Americans feel safe in this country.
	That is the number one issue right now.
	Dude, she had a talking to.
	That's what happened there.
	You know, after that first answer, like, hey, listen, you bimbo.
	You go out there and you say something good for us, okay?
	This is what you're going to say.
	And you'll find in all these, except one, the one that I liked, the one answer I liked, of course she got bumped too, and all of these, they're just a talk, and this is what people, I think this is one of the reasons we want to do this, this analysis, is what you're hearing is them parroting mainstream media.
	Mainstream media, M5M, every day.
	Yeah, and so they're parroting it with this.
	I mean, where else do you come up with, Trump should have said something sooner?
	That is an M5M meme.
	Yes.
	What you're hearing is essentially beautiful slaves.
	Mind-controlled, programmed and all.
	Ready for service.
	Yeah.
	Absolutely.
	Absolutely.
	And it's actually kind of sad.
	Kind of.
	Except for the one, except for Miss New Jersey.
	I'll give her kudos for actually thinking for herself because she actually brought up one of my memes.
	Miss New Jersey.
	A recent poll found slightly over half of Americans favored leaving Confederate statues in place, while others want them removed.
	Keep them or get rid of them?
	What's your vote and why?
	I don't think that the answer is to get rid of these statues.
	I think the answer is to relocate them into museums because we are truly defined by our country's history.
	And I don't think it's something that we need to forget.
	We need to always remember it and honor our history of America because it truly makes us who we are as Americans.
	But they should be moved to museums.
	Thank you.
	Well, she's from New Jersey.
	Of course she's smart.
	She says moving to museums, but her pronunciation of museums is museums.
	The voice was a non-starter for winning.
	We cannot have her representing the franchise.
	No.
	No way.
	But she was pretty, and she could have won, and she had the right answer to that question.
	She's either a no-agenda listener or somebody else is promoting this idea.
	I doubt if she's a no-agenda listener.
	Well, why don't you just say half of our listeners are deplorable.
	That'll help.
	They are.
	That's the idea.
	I'm going to give you a...
	In the morning!
	It's the deplorables.
	So we have a lot of good looking listeners.
	There's no doubt about it.
	I've been to meetups.
	But usually they're not kind of dingy blondes.
	Usually.
	I don't know.
	Maybe they are.
	Where's the big ass blonde?
	Remember her?
	Big ass.
	I don't know what happened to the big ass blonde.
	Yeah.
	She was like an intelligence or something.
	Yeah, she probably was told to shut up.
	Stop giving money to these guys.
	I think that's why something's fishy about Sir Anonymous.
	Right.
	One day he'll just be gone.
	No, I don't think he's got it so nobody knows who the hell he is.
	Well, good.
	I don't know who Big Ass Blonde is either.
	Alright, let's go on with...
	Okay, let's go on with DC, and then we'll wrap it with North Dakota.
	Now, I want to mention this has been just highly edited, because they make them walk out, they have a long set of applause, and she has to pick a ball out of the bowl.
	It's got a judge's name on it, which I think is stupid.
	And so these are all tight.
	So let's go.
	Miss District of Columbia.
	Given the evidence that concussions from playing football can cause brain damage, would you support legislation that outlaws full contact football in elementary and high school?
	Yes or no and why?
	I do believe that I would.
	As someone who wants to go into the medical profession, I know how important it is to keep our kids safe so that they can have a quality education and when they're getting to high school and they're playing these sports, they're able to do so at the best of their ability and they're not limited because they chose to play football at a young age.
	Thank you very much.
	She was a black woman.
	She didn't sound like it, but she was.
	Dumb question.
	I don't like the question.
	Very dumb question.
	Dumb question.
	So she's out.
	She's out.
	Oh, she's out.
	Yeah.
	So we have to now come to North Dakota, who again has kind of a flat face.
	She's...
	She did a...
	I have to say her talent, which I don't know what the talent counts for, but her talent...
	She looked good in a gown.
	She didn't look good in a bikini.
	Her talent was jazz dancing.
	And I will say...
	Jazz dancing.
	Almost everybody's talent was jazz dancing.
	Jazz dancing.
	So she did a dance.
	She did one of the things...
	I have to give her credit.
	She did one of those moves where you jump on a chair, then you put your foot on the back of the chair and the chair falls.
	Yes, that's...
	What's his name?
	I think Fred Astaire did that.
	Yeah, Fred Astaire, but I think it's a Bob Fosse original.
	It could be a Bob Fosse.
	And then you kind of flip around or you do something.
	Very good.
	She was a professional quality dancer, I would say.
	Giles dancer.
	But not the only one.
	There was two or three that were really good dancers.
	And none as good as the ventriloquist, per se.
	I need to get a clip of this.
	This is good.
	Yeah, you can find it.
	And she's just got a big smile.
	She's a fantastic ventriloquist.
	I did mention the fact that female ventriloquists have a shot at this because they don't have an Adam's apple that you can see wiggling.
	Good point.
	Good point.
	Anyway, so here we go.
	This is the girl...
	I don't know why she won.
	She's kind of goofy.
	She's very perky.
	She's kind of like a cheerleader.
	And maybe they figured she'd be good on the road.
	I have no idea.
	But I didn't think this answer was that great, especially compared to the museum girl.
	But here we go.
	Here's our winner.
	Miss North Dakota.
	195 countries signed the Paris Agreement in which each country sets non-binding goals to reduce man-made climate change.
	The U.S. is withdrawing from the agreement, citing negligible environmental effects and negative economic impact.
	Good decision?
	Bad decision?
	Which is it and why?
	I do believe it's a bad decision.
	Once we reject that, we take ourselves out of the negotiation table.
	And that's something that we really need to keep in mind.
	There is evidence that climate change is existing.
	So whether you believe it or not, we need to be at that table.
	And I think it's just a bad decision on behalf of the United States.
	Thank you.
	Okay.
	I'm glad she's such a good economist.
	Yeah, she's a fast talker.
	She was nervous.
	And I don't know.
	I don't know.
	She'll be another one of them.
	So who won this thing?
	She did.
	No!
	Yeah, I just told you that.
	Miss North Dakota wins the whole thing.
	Well, now I want to take a look at her.
	Miss America.
	Look, Miss North Dakota, I think her last name is Mun.
	Something like that.
	It's got a funny last name.
	Okay.
	So she's a script reader.
	Oh, gosh.
	No.
	You got the right girl?
	Right on the homepage of MissAmerica.org.
	Oh, okay.
	That would be her.
	They're crowning her.
	No, she looks...
	Yeah, I don't like the definition of her arms.
	They look a little short, actually.
	Yeah, she does.
	She's actually pretty...
	Most of the...
	Well, not all of them.
	Kara Munt is her name, right?
	Yeah, Kara Munt.
	Yeah.
	Okay, well, they have her here all gussied up.
	Let me see.
	Hometown, Bismarck, North Dakota.
	Platform issue.
	Make a wish.
	Passion with fashion.
	Ugh.
	Talent, self-choreographed jazz dance.
	Oh, she has a major in business, entrepreneurship, and organizations.
	What is that?
	Scholastic ambition to attend law school and obtain a JD. A secret wish or dream to become the first elected female governor of North Dakota.
	Okay.
	Oh, she'll represent.
	That'll be good.
	But she's not the cutest.
	No, not by many means.
	But she's all-around Miss America.
	Yeah, kind of.
	I don't think so.
	I think they've had better examples in the past.
	I think they're losing their touch.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, I would agree with that.
	And the show's too long, and...
	They're very bigoted in who they pick.
	They don't really want to bring anyone that's actually beautiful.
	So if you're actually beautiful, and you know who you are, most women who are actually beautiful know who they are, but they also kind of, oh, I'm not that pretty.
	Yeah, okay, whatever.
	They tend to be shunned at these competitions.
	Yes.
	Because, I don't know, she's too pretty.
	I have a dime a dozen, dime a dozen.
	Well, yeah.
	Anyway.
	John, thank you very much.
	I agree.
	It's probably time we pack this one up in the archives and never do it again.
	Because it's always the same.
	But I think we still should always discuss briefly who our new representative is.
	We have to deal with these questions, these rigged questions.
	This was all anti-Trump questions.
	The Russians, what do you think?
	If you're the judge and jury, you should be in jail.
	Climate change.
	I mean, every single question except for the football helmet question was...
	They determined up front, we've got to do one of those and we'll give it to someone we know is not going to win.
	That was the black woman.
	All right.
	Okay.
	Good job, John.
	And maybe just a little intermezzo here?
	And now, back to real movies.
	In Colorado Springs, a family says they want a woman to stop defecating in their neighborhood.
	The family says for the past seven weeks, this woman has gone to the bathroom in her yard.
	They say they've caught her in the act and told her to stop, but she hasn't.
	Police are investigating.
	That's right.
	The Phantom Pooper is on the run.
	It's a great story.
	I'm glad you got that clip because I had that clip to get.
	It's a great clip.
	It's an absolutely fantastic clip, but it brings us right to the real clip that's important, and I think it has something to do with it, is that California has turned into a third world country.
	Ah, yes.
	This is the Pooper.
	You need a poop report.
	So here's the hepatitis outbreak update.
	California is battling an outbreak of hepatitis A, which attacks the liver and is highly contagious.
	San Diego's had more than 400 cases and 16 deaths.
	Mireya Villarreal is there.
	Lines are long and constant at pop-up clinics around San Diego where hundreds of people waited to get free hepatitis A vaccines.
	City workers have been out in full force bleaching down sidewalks and benches.
	This outbreak could last for at least another six months.
	There's a desperate race against time to stop the hepatitis A virus from spreading, especially among the area's homeless and drug users.
	Dr.
	Nick Ifantidis is San Diego's chief medical officer.
	It's not as easy as just saying, hey, get vaccinated.
	The nature of some of these members of this population are such that they are inaccessible.
	And frankly, some of them have their reluctances in dealing with government.
	Hepatitis A spreads when someone comes in direct contact with an infected person's human waste.
	22,000 vaccines have been administered, and the city is now setting up washing stations.
	Kevin Faulkner is San Diego's mayor.
	We're going to have more additional shelters to help get people off the street, get them the help that they need.
	Stephen Zalesi, president of San Diego's Food and Reverage Association, which represents 1,200 businesses, believes the city should have been doing more long before this outbreak.
	Where were they two or three or four years ago?
	It's great that they're coming up with some solutions now, but they're really closing the barn door after the horse has already left.
	Just yesterday, Los Angeles declared its own hepatitis outbreak.
	New cases here in L.A., in Northern California, and in Arizona have all been traced back to the San Diego outbreak.
	Anthony?
	Wow, man.
	I'm glad you guys at least aren't contributing to horrible climate change.
	Focus on the wrong things there in California.
	Well, that's why there's a poop map in San Francisco.
	Yeah.
	They should be in...
	You know, the city fathers or whatever...
	Mothers, I don't know what they call them.
	The people that run San Francisco should be ashamed of themselves for having a poop map online like that.
	Yeah, that is necessary at all.
	It's shameful that you...
	Anyone wants to come up to San Francisco as a tourist?
	Don't do it.
	You're going to get hepatitis.
	Now, is that just because feces is on doorknobs and stuff like that?
	It's all over the place.
	People like, you know, whether you even actually step in it, it's all over the place.
	Stepping in it doesn't mean that you necessarily touch it.
	No, but you will touch it.
	Somehow it gets, you know, once stuff spreads all over the place, they're spraying it.
	They're washing down the streets and sometimes just a thin film of it.
	You get at the bottom of your shoes.
	You pick up your shoes.
	You touch the bottom of your shoes.
	You got your fingers now.
	Next thing you know, you got hepatitis.
	And now, is there a vaccine against this?
	Yes.
	Luckily, this will be mandatory vaccinations for all.
	They haven't called that in San Diego yet.
	They will.
	They're giving them away, which is so there's no profit to this.
	Doesn't matter.
	The idea is to get people to do it.
	But it's not about the vaccines.
	It's about the fact that we're living in a third world country where you can have an outbreak of hepatitis A open.
	That anyone can get because just walking down the street.
	Yeah.
	Why do you stay there?
	Well, you don't.
	I'm across the bay.
	You don't go out.
	I don't really leave the house.
	You don't really leave the house.
	You're kind of like me.
	I leave the house.
	I watch C-SPAN. Three times a week, once a day, to go to the grocery store for what I'm going to cook that actual evening.
	And that's it.
	I'm just home.
	We should Skype.
	It's just a thought.
	You know, I have this...
	You know the Pelosi clip where she got shouted down by the Dreamers?
	Oh, I love that clip.
	Let me play that.
	Just a little piece of it where she's yelling stop.
	Let me say this.
	Because you've had your say.
	By the way, this is really cool because it's stereo separated.
	I don't know if you hear that on the Skype connection, if you get it through stereo.
	But you can hear her very clearly in one channel.
	It's kind of cool.
	And it's beautiful to our ears to hear your protection, yourself, Jake.
	No, that's not it!
	No, that Just stop it now.
	Yes or no.
	Yes or no to what?
	To what?
	What are they asking yes or no to?
	Well, that's the question I hope to answer.
	But what was good about that is because of the stereo separation, and I was hoping, first thing Tina said when she heard that was, oh, what a great ISO! And yep, producer Matt from Gitmo Nation East came up with this.
	Just stop it now.
	Stop it.
	Just stop it now.
	Because you've had you say, just stop it now.
	Full version at the end of the show.
	We got a lot of good ones today.
	So Chris Wilson also doing great stuff.
	Anyway, so what I found odd is that every channel, every news channel was showing this, but what actually happened?
	So I found the full recording of the full thing.
	Which is like a half an hour.
	It was interesting because I believe a lot of news outfits did not want to air the true message that the Dreamers were handing over to Nancy Pelosi.
	And I think there was also a shill.
	In their midst, who kind of took over and started his own...
	There's a bunch of school-looking kids, and they were all dressed smartly.
	But all of a sudden, some kid comes in.
	He's taller than the rest.
	He's tall.
	He's wearing a suit and tie, but his coat is off, which is kind of odd.
	He looked like a suit, literally.
	He looked out of place, and he interrupts and just jumps in.
	And while they're chanting his chants...
	Nancy Pelosi is also just talking to him back and forth.
	It was incredibly odd, and I'm not quite sure what's behind that, but let's hear what happened.
	I have a couple of clips here.
	This is when she was just starting.
	Oh, sorry.
	Didn't mean to play that one.
	Here we go.
	This is her opening.
	And all these people standing with him, they are our VIPs.
	They're our purpose.
	Our very important people.
	So she has a whole bunch of kids, and she's calling them VIPs, very important persons.
	Important people.
	My friend!
	We are in a great youth!
	We are in a great youth!
	I'm not a great youth!
	I'm not a great youth!
	Now, can you understand any of what they're saying?
	Because I could give you a little...
	I just heard we're immigrant youth, we're not afraid.
	Yes.
	And I thought there was a not my president chant there for a second.
	Oh, I didn't hear that.
	But it started with Mike...
	At the beginning.
	It started with Mike check, Mike check.
	Which I like, because that goes back to Occupy Wall Street.
	Yes.
	And the Mike check comes back the whole time.
	But we'll try and...
	I know what they say.
	We'll see if you can hear what they're saying.
	We are the immigrant, liberation movement, and directly impacted youth.
	We demand, we demand, to be heard, to be heard.
	God has speech, God has speech.
	We, we, we, document a youth, and document a youth.
	Demand, demand.
	A clean bill!
	A clean bill!
	That protects immigrant youth!
	Without hurting our families!
	Without hurting our families!
	So, now we're slowly moving away from you wanting us to protect, we want you to protect us, but also our families.
	We!
	We!
	I like the we demand part.
	Oh, it gets better.
	It gets better when you hear what they're gonna say Now this is this is political speech I do not believe they wrote this themselves.
	We demand a clean bill.
	Yeah, that makes no sense.
	As a protester, you would never say something like that.
	Never say that.
	So this is written for them.
	We demand a clean bill.
	Yeah, this is scripted.
	Thank you.
	Clean bill!
	Clean bill!
	Now, wait for the guy...
	No, he's coming up.
	I don't know if he's speaking to you.
	Democrat!
	Democrats have created an out-of-control deportation regime.
	No wonder CNN didn't air this.
	Control!
	Deportation machine!
	Deportation machine!
	Hand it over!
	Hand it over!
	To Trump!
	To Trump!
	We denied accountability!
	We denied accountability!
	Democrats are not the resistance of Trump!
	Democrats are not the resistance of Trump.
	Democrats are not the resistance of Trump.
	We are.
	We are documented you.
	The man.
	You hear our voices.
	Nothing about us.
	Without us.
	Without us.
	So they don't want, they feel that the Democrats have deported 3 million people under Obama in the past eight years.
	But listen now, as this woman who started off gets interrupted by the professional guy who can understand a lot better, of course.
	And...
	It was great.
	He just busts right in from behind the podium.
	Mike Jack!
	Back with woman Pelosi!
	Back with woman Pelosi!
	You called this press conference!
	You called this press conference!
	In our name!
	In our name!
	To defend the so-called dream act!
	To defend the so-called dream act!
	But if you've already traded in!
	Our parents in our name First you said You supported a clean rematch There's your answer to why they're calling her a liar And again, clean, clean.
	This is it.
	He's reading off paper, too.
	You supported a clean dream act.
	And last week you announced that you had agreed That you had agreed.
	With President Trump.
	With President Trump.
	And I quote you.
	And I quote you.
	To work out a package.
	To work out a package.
	Of our FBI. So now they're angry that they're being used as a bargaining chip for border security that Trump wants as a part of the bill so it's not clean.
	So what they're arguing about is that the Democrats are liars.
	They've created a deportation machine.
	And that they have not passed a clean bill, and that was what was promised, and now they want their...
	Actually, the sign said, not until all 11 million, so they want all immigrants, because they are obviously all related to them.
	That's kind of what they're saying.
	And then there should be no money for any other kind of border protection.
	Go to work!
	We're misquoted.
	We cannot say, however, that we are surprised.
	We remember all too well how for eight years the Democrats laid siege to our community, raiding and deporting This guy's a pro, John.
	This guy is a pro.
	He knows what he's doing.
	Well, I think the interesting aspect of this, if you start to think about it, is this mic check thing where you parody, not parody, you mimic whatever somebody else is saying as if it's true, and you are now propaganda.
	You're brainwashing yourself.
	Yes!
	Yes!
	It's exactly, remember to do this.
	This is worse than Nazi Germany.
	I mean, when Hitler gave his speeches, not everybody repeated what he said, but this is somebody giving a speech, that guy or the girl before him, and you, as a member of the audience, because of this mic check phenomenon, you are saying the exact same words, and they're going right into your brain in a certain way, and if you walk away from a thing, especially it takes forever to get through it, You end up, you can now parrot this to somebody else.
	This is really kind of borderline disgusting.
	This is a great takedown, by the way.
	It's almost all.
	Where was your resistance then?
	Where was your resistance then?
	We are the resistance!
	We are the resistance!
	To Trump!
	To Trump!
	Now, this is interesting, because you're right.
	You chant this, we are the resistance for Trump.
	We are the resistance for Trump.
	They become the resistance.
	Yeah.
	It goes Olbermann's job.
	So, I'm just saying, who is behind this?
	I'm just trying to figure, well, finish up the clip, and I just want to think, who could put this, this is scripted and well done, I might add.
	Not the Democrats!
	Not the Democrats!
	We extend our arms!
	We extend our arms!
	In struggle!
	In struggle!
	To our parents!
	To our parents!
	And our loved ones!
	And our loved ones!
	With you!
	With you!
	We are prepared to struggle side by side in this fight.
	You have sacrificed every day.
	How can we forget?
	We are not alone in this fight.
	Okay, you've asked some questions.
	You've asked some questions.
	Now, this is what was so odd, is that now she's trying to get that guy to be quiet, but she was really having a little back and forth with him while they were watching other people do stuff.
	It was very odd.
	And this is an interesting group.
	And I don't think that this is just Dreamers or DACA beneficiaries.
	I really don't like the fact that everyone's calling them Dreamers because the act didn't pass yet.
	I'm just, you know, this seems like a group that is trying to bring down everything here.
	It's a subversive operation.
	Yes.
	It has to point to Soros at some point.
	Well, I hate to say it, but that's all I can think of.
	I hate to say it too, but he's the only guy that really has anything, he's the only guy doing anything, or there's operations, there's many operations.
	Yeah.
	I'm just surprised the government puts up with him.
	Well, I find it very disturbing.
	And even more so that no news service that I could find actually aired any of this.
	You could hear what they were saying or what their beef was.
	Now, the thing at the end where they said, answer yes or no, to what?
	If she'll pass a clean bill.
	Yeah, and maybe the question was that, and also, we want it to be all 11 million, yes or no, all 11 million, yes or no.
	I don't have that clip.
	It's not easy to hear all of this, obviously, but...
	No, it's very difficult.
	Yeah.
	It's very impactful, and you can see that this is not a healthy situation.
	No, and you're right.
	It's a subversive operation, and it needs to be looked at.
	Yeah.
	No, we've got to look at the Russians.
	Get Rob Reiner on the case.
	Exactly.
	Investigate Russia.
	Alright, one little clip about the American Red Cross before we go to donations.
	Lisa DeVinney's desperate straights tougher this week after seeking financial help from the American Red Cross and getting nowhere.
	Money the group promised to Harvey victims through its immediate assistance program, $400 per family.
	We're not expecting to see our insurance funds for several months.
	And meanwhile, we still have to live.
	Divini is one of many denied immediate help after Red Cross online systems crashed from heavy volume.
	Calls left unanswered weeks after the storm.
	The mayor now responding.
	If you promise people something, you gotta make it happen.
	Because otherwise, don't promise at all.
	It's not the first time the Red Cross has faced controversy.
	A Senate committee report in 2016 finding a quarter of donations for the Haiti earthquake went to administrative costs, a number the Red Cross disputed.
	Now, criticism of its Harvey response.
	Can you understand why people might be frustrated if they had been promised that money and not been able to receive it?
	We do apologize for not communicating as quickly and as transparently as we needed to.
	Tonight, the Red Cross telling us their system couldn't handle the demand, that they've given out $45 million so far, and the immediate assistance program will be working by Thursday.
	The Red Cross is supposed to be there to help you, and we want that help.
	Storm victims hoping this time the funds will start flowing out as quickly as they flood it in.
	I hate those guys.
	They're really douchebags.
	And in general, I have to say, this whole Harvey, Irma, and possibly, is it Jose?
	Jose's already flaked out.
	What hit Puerto Rico?
	Oh, that's the new one.
	That is Maria, I think?
	Yeah, but where's...
	I don't know if he did it yet, but Trump needs to go there.
	I mean, that's America.
	I'm just saying as a PR move, we'll be smart.
	Maria, yeah.
	Red Cross, man.
	They're a-holes.
	And there seems to be a movement against them.
	But also, what I've seen, particularly here in Texas, every non-profit...
	Not every.
	A lot of non-profits are using this to fundraise.
	It's just immediate fundraising opportunity.
	We don't talk about that enough, about how this works in American life.
	Oh, ACLU. Oh, we got some injustice.
	Quick, let's go fundraise.
	Everyone's on the street again.
	All the kids who put on the different t-shirt every day.
	Every tragedy is used for fundraising.
	It's very strange.
	We had a...
	I had a note from a guy who was down in Mexico during the quake.
	Yeah, he had a big note.
	And you know what was odd?
	Is the day before...
	I have this app on my iPhone.
	It's called...
	Hold on a second.
	Disaster Prediction?
	And it's from a pretty well-known guy who tracks solar flares and what else does he have?
	All kinds of magnetic storms, solar storms.
	And the day before, there was some kind of something on a scale, six on a scale of something, and it said possible earthquakes, and boom, the next day.
	I just thought that was interesting.
	Yeah, I know about this guy.
	I don't have his app.
	The app is great.
	What is it?
	It's called the Disaster Prediction App.
	It sounded like something that had my name written on it.
	Yeah, it's a disaster prediction app.
	Yeah, it's bad.
	He says it's really bad.
	Well, this guy does have other alternative places to donate, including Topo's Rescue Brigade.
	We should put these in the show notes.
	Yeah, I will.
	But he says the Mexican Red Cross is fine.
	Um, yeah, like the Dutch Red Cross I know had Big Scandal, and I think maybe the UK Red Cross.
	I just, you know, it's a very heavy organization.
	They got a lot going on.
	And again, I've been there checking out, like, you want to donate for hiring victims?
	Who's it going to?
	Red Cross?
	No.
	The thing is, ABC got in, and Disney got in bed with the Red Cross, and they were plugging the hell out of them during the Houston event.
	Right at the end of every network news, it was unbelievably dense Red Cross promotions.
	Crazy.
	I don't know what the hell is going on there, but it seems kind of sketchy.
	I'm going to show my salute by donating to No Agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh, yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, on No Agenda in the morning.
	Hey, we have a big list of people to thank for sitting as big as I'd like.
	Thank you for episode...
	966.
	Hello, Poland.
	966.
	And, of course, if I get to my screen...
	So with Windows, you start clicking the wrong things and it starts separating into little screens.
	Oh, really?
	Is that Windows 10?
	I haven't discovered that feature yet.
	Well, you will when you're fumbling around.
	So let's start with Paul...
	Pal Cech, I guess.
	Yeah, Pal Cech.
	I'd say that's right.
	In Australia, $180, which would be the big donation for the...
	Actually, he should probably...
	If we're giving him credit for dollars, I'm sure that was not $180.
	Probably an executive producer.
	And he's got...
	Is there a note here from him?
	I'm seeing nothing.
	No, I don't see anything.
	P-A-L-S... Let's take a look in the email.
	P-A-L-C-S search.
	I love how you're doing that in squirrel mail.
	It just tickles me.
	I don't know why.
	P-A-L-S-C, is that what it is?
	No, P-A-L-C-S. Squirrel mail is not forgiving when it comes to searches.
	Yes, I hear you.
	I don't see anything from him.
	Well, we don't, so we just need to move on, I think.
	I'm just disappointed.
	Dame Karen, the Baronet of Cimarron Hills, follows up with a...
	Okay.
	Come on, people!
	He'll send a long note.
	$97 from Colorado Springs, Colorado.
	She wants some jobs.
	Karma would put that at the end.
	George McDermott.
	McDermith.
	According to this, boobs.
	Littleton, Colorado.
	He needs jobs karma, too.
	Good.
	Put that at the end.
	Thomas Burke, 8008, along with McDermott.
	8008.
	Drew from Florida, 8008.
	Drew from Florida.
	Todd Pesick in Cottage Grove, Minnesota.
	Another boobs donation.
	8008.
	Seems to be becoming quite popular.
	He needs a de-douching.
	Let's do that.
	Okay, here we go.
	You've been de-douched.
	Benjamin Doran in Millersport, Ohio, $73.33.
	Jerry Walmer, $73.
	He did send a note, by the way, because he's a ham.
	Benjamin did, Doran.
	He's an NABD for you, 73s.
	Oh, 73s.
	Q5 Alpha Charlie Charlie.
	His wife runs FluffyPenguinCompany.com.
	Apparently they have trouble with PayPal and he's irked.
	So they sent a check in.
	Okay.
	We don't need to go into that.
	Jerry Walmer, $73.
	Yet to be named Knight.
	John Cruz, $71 in East Wenatchee, Washington State.
	Tony Moreno down in Hepatitis, California.
	I'm sorry, San Diego, 6969.
	Yeah, which he sent me a note and he said that was all, he says it's the homeless population as well.
	We discussed that.
	It's mostly the homeless population.
	Yeah, that's what the problem is.
	Yeah, but not everyone heard that episode.
	No.
	So, just adding that.
	Yeah, they don't want to say it.
	Even in that last report, which was pretty lengthy.
	Yeah.
	They said, well, we have a number of people, we can't get them to take the vaccination because they're hard to get a hold of.
	You know, as though they're like recluses in their tract home.
	It's not true.
	Right.
	Sir Jim Zuckel.
	I know, this is not good.
	No.
	Well, they don't want people to go nuts and burn down the homeless.
	Get out of there, man.
	Sir Jim Zuckel, 69-69.
	Dean Roker, 55-10, double nickels on the dime, along with Scott.
	Just playing Scott in Hagerstown, Maryland, 55-10.
	And the following people are $50 donors.
	We don't have a lot of people today.
	I wish they would...
	I've chimed in a little more.
	Daniel Laboy, I guess they're waiting for the end of the world.
	If that's the case, you can send us your money.
	Daniel Laboy, Bath, Michigan.
	Andrew Haverson in Gravenhurst, Ontario.
	Scott Lavender in Montgomery, Texas.
	Jay Codicini.
	Codicini.
	NJNK. Newark, Delaware.
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	Jason Clegg in San Diego, California.
	Andrew Gusek in Greensboro, North Carolina.
	Donald Richards, parts unknown.
	Eric Elaine in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
	We have an enclave there.
	And last but not least is...
	Catherine Sutton in Fairfield, Connecticut.
	I want to thank all these folks for contributing to the show 966.
	Yes, and everyone below 50, a number of you on our subscription plans.
	You can find that at dvorak.org slash NA. I've got a note from Tony Rodriguez.
	Who's one of our sub- $50 donors.
	I've been kicking in a modest amount, $5 a month, to your amazing podcast for the past four years.
	But the value received is so great, I've begun to feel a little douchey.
	I'm therefore moving up to the next donation level, $4 a week, and challenging all other pocket change producers to do the same.
	The entertaining and insightful peek behind the curtains you and John provide is phenomenal, and I'm glad to do my small part to help you guys keep it up.
	Go podcasting!
	Thank you very much.
	And, yeah, thank you, everybody.
	We have another show coming up on Sunday, and we definitely need some help from you.
	It's scheduled.
	Oh, it's scheduled.
	Now you put us in it.
	Well, so it doesn't really matter.
	Just blow your whole wad on us.
	That's what I've been saying.
	You've got money in the bank.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	You've got karma.
	Here's our list for today.
	Daniel Tomas says happy birthday to Sir Hoopin' Soccer Matthew Herderick.
	Jerry Walmart says happy birthday to Sue Me Knight.
	Brian Weber turns 40.
	Tony Moreno turns 40 tomorrow.
	Jeff McReynolds 50 on September 28th.
	And we say happy birthday to Buzzkill Jr.
	He'll be celebrating on the 22nd of September.
	Happy birthday from everybody here at the best podcast in the universe.
	It's your birthday!
	And I think we can do a title change.
	That's right.
	Thanks to another top-up donation of $1,000 or more, we say congratulations to Sir JB Knight of the DMV. He becomes Sir JB Knight of the DMV and Baronet.
	Of the Poconos, and we thank him profusely for his contribution to the No Agenda show.
	And we have, let me see...
	Oh, I have a...
	Oops, sorry about that.
	I have one Make Good birthday.
	Craig Dennison turned 35 on September 7th.
	And we have one Nighting John.
	If you can...
	I got it right here.
	Craig Dennison!
	I mean, Brent Weaver!
	Craig, you sit back down.
	Brand, come on over, my friend.
	Thank you very much for achieving your knighthood status here at the No Agenda Show, which means you have a spot here at the roundtable of all the nights and days.
	And I'm very proud to pronunciate the Sir Brand Weaver Knight of the No Agenda Roundtable.
	For you, of course, we have hookers and blow, rent boys and chardonnay, ketamine and kombucha, tofu and turmeric, pipelines and poppies.
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	I get a lot in on the...
	The round table when it's just one night.
	Yes, you get to talk forever.
	Go to noagenthenation.com slash rings and give Eric the Shill all your deets and we'll get that out to you as soon as possible.
	Thank you again and thank all of you who have contributed to the show.
	It's really appreciated.
	Oh, a service animal update?
	Ah, yes.
	It's my beat, my beat, my beat.
	Let's see, we have, it's just going nuts.
	And, you know, now that, certainly in America, couples, young couples have substituted having children for pets.
	They really want them treated as their children and be able to take them anywhere they go.
	If you have a legitimate service animal, which actually can be a pony, it can be a pony or a dog.
	Nope, no goats.
	Pony or a dog.
	You can get a pony on an airplane.
	Well, hold on a sec.
	I've read up on this now, I understand.
	It's a real problem for people who really have a service dog which performs a service.
	A comfort animal or an emotional animal, that does not fall under the guidelines, so you can be rejected.
	And there was a woman, she tried to bring her pet snake into Disney World and made a little fuss there.
	Did not understand.
	She needed it for emotional support.
	And we see now that municipalities and other groups where people live are saying, hey, hold on a second.
	This is getting out of hand.
	And here's the answer to your question about a support pony.
	Come on, Mr.
	Mister.
	This is in Minneapolis.
	She's talking to her service pony.
	Come on, Mr.
	Mister.
	Let's go.
	Come on.
	Some might find it strange to share 800 square feet with a 300-pound Shetland pony.
	That's my baby around there.
	Unusual or not, Pam Davidson wouldn't want it any other way.
	We're all different people in this world.
	We're all different people.
	And Tony is different.
	And I'm different.
	Diagnosed with depression and anxiety.
	Is that the horse poop?
	No, it's just a horse clopping around.
	Oh, it sounds like horse poop.
	No, no horse poop.
	It's different.
	And I'm different.
	Diagnosed with depression and anxiety, Pam calls Tony the Wonder Pony for what he's done to turn her life around.
	This animal has kept me from dying.
	This animal has helped me become active.
	This animal has got me out of my bedroom where I locked myself away for a year and a half after my sister died.
	Pam says her pony is housebroken since he came from another family who raised him indoors.
	She's had Tony since May as an emotional support animal.
	I have letters from my doctors.
	Despite mental health professionals weighing in, it took just a few days.
	All farm animals, including all types of horses, are prohibited from the city limits.
	To hear from the cities of Clarissa and Eagle Bend, where she lives and spends her time.
	Hey!
	Clarissa's city administrator didn't want to be on camera, but told WCCO the emotional support title differs from a full-fledged service animal.
	You are so good.
	They're not entitled to the same protections under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
	Also citing safety as a concern.
	A truck driver was forced to break when he found Tony wandering near the highway this summer.
	Pam has offered to build a fence and not take her pet into businesses where he's not wanted anymore.
	They won't listen to me.
	She doesn't want to move, but vows to do whatever it takes to protect the pony that Pam says has done the same for her.
	I'd rather be homeless.
	I'm not going to let him go.
	We're all going to die!
	Civilization is ending.
	Well, a couple of things come to mind.
	One, the city of Eagle Bend has this restriction.
	I mean, that's not a city.
	It's like some town somewhere.
	I mean, they can bend a little bit.
	They get the name Bend in the name.
	Okay.
	So I don't think there's...
	I think that she should be able to have this horse.
	If he gets out once in a while, eh, probably going to get good.
	Well, they don't want her walking around in town with it.
	Why?
	They have a law in the books that says you can't have horses in town.
	Yeah, well, I think they're too rigid.
	I don't see a big deal.
	Somebody walking around...
	There used to be a guy in Berkeley who used to walk around naked.
	The naked guy they used to call him.
	No, that's okay.
	No, there's a law against it, but they decided to let it go.
	They can let it slide.
	There's things known as variances.
	You can give a little bit.
	Especially when, you know, maybe you just don't want the woman in your town.
	I think that's what it is.
	Well...
	What it's coming down to is people not understanding the law about what is and is not permissible and what is and is not a service animal.
	What did she get out with this horse?
	I mean, if she had a dog, I mean, I think they're a little brighter than a horse.
	I know other people say, oh, horses are very smart.
	I think they're idiots.
	Horses?
	I'm not a fan.
	I'm not a fan.
	Yeah.
	You feed them and you turn around and they bite you.
	They'll kick you.
	Yeah.
	Douches.
	Total douches.
	Do you see the story?
	And by the way, AdamMcCurry.com.
	I don't want to hear from any horse people.
	No, please.
	There was outrage.
	It went viral really quickly that a woman had seen fake raw cotton, a plant, at Hobby Lobby, you know, as a decorating thing, and called him out.
	Called him out!
	What?
	For not having sensitivity.
	To what?
	Oh my gosh.
	Why don't you see the immediate connection?
	Let me guess.
	Raw cotton would be connected to the slaves used to pick cotton back in the day.
	Bingo.
	And this is a story from last week, which I didn't play the clip for.
	This is Lipscomb University College, whatever.
	I don't know where it is.
	I forget now because it was a week ago I did a clip.
	He had a similar faux pas when he invited some students over to his house for a dinner.
	Tonight some students and community members are upset with Lipscomb University for what seems like a lack of sensitivity at a special president's dinner.
	The event was called specifically for African-American students, but the menu and the table decorations were shocking to some.
	The centerpieces featured stalks of cotton, and the menu included cornbread and collard greens.
	Tonight, News 4 can confirm the cotton floral arrangement was used only on that night.
	Well, tonight, President Lowry says in part, quote, the content of the centerpieces was offensive, and I could have handled the situation with more sensitivity.
	I sincerely apologize for the discomfort, anger, or disappointment we caused, and solicit your forgiveness.
	Now, the student who confronted the university president says the apology isn't good enough, that the president had the chance to make it right, but didn't.
	Now, there was another special dinner the night before, this one for Hispanic students.
	Dinner that evening consisted of a fajita bar.
	Okay, write it down.
	Short the Hanes Clothing Company.
	Because cotton t-shirts will be racist.
	Oh, they could be.
	It's coming.
	I only use Egyptian cotton myself.
	Well, there's still slaves that picked it.
	Your borderline here.
	Give me a borderline clip of the day because this is the most ridiculous thing.
	And I was unaware of the cotton being a racist overtone.
	Yeah, you nailed it.
	Oh, yeah.
	No, I figured it out as soon as you said there was something going on with cotton.
	Yeah.
	But...
	The other thing is, they mentioned a meal which is collard greens, which every black restaurant serves in the Bay Area.
	And cornbread, which any southern restaurant would serve for sure.
	So cornbread and collard greens isn't offensive necessarily, unless you're going to call them out for...
	Pandering.
	Pandering to the blacks.
	No, it would be appropriation.
	You shouldn't be cooking collard greens if you're white.
	Is that so?
	Poor whites always cook collard greens.
	I'm going to make them tonight.
	I'm going to be nice and racist.
	I'd rather go with mustard greens.
	Collard greens are always a little bit closer to kale.
	Tell me how to prepare it.
	Can you do that?
	Collard greens or mustard greens?
	Mustard greens sounds better.
	Yeah, chop the mustard greens up, and then put them in some boiling water, clean them, put them in some boiling water, and take them so they get bright green, because they cook up pretty quickly.
	Bright green, yeah.
	As soon as they get the bright green, then wash them down with some cold water so the bright green colors sticks.
	And then you saute them for just a minute or so, not too long, because then the green will go away, in butter and garlic.
	Oh, yeah.
	Butter and garlic.
	Okay.
	Thank you.
	Nice.
	Put a little vinegar in there if you want.
	Red wine or balsamic?
	No, not balsamic.
	Just white?
	White vinegar or anything that's just light.
	A little bit, just like a tablespoon.
	Just a tablespoon.
	Got it.
	Fantastic.
	Thank you.
	And they have a nice bite to them.
	Mustard greens have a nice flavor.
	I think they're much better than collard greens.
	Yeah.
	Alright.
	What else you got there, Chief?
	Well, we got a bunch of stuff.
	I want to get to what's important.
	I got a little short clip on North Korea.
	I thought there was a good little something that could have, if you can cue up Hillary barking like a dog.
	Okay.
	I think I have that somewhere.
	Yes, I got that.
	Okay, North Korea clip.
	North Korea versus barking dog.
	North Korea reacting this evening to President Trump's fiery address at the UN. The president saying the U.S. may have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea, calling its leader Kim Jong-un a rocket man on a suicide mission.
	Tonight, North Korea's foreign minister calling those remarks, quote, the sound of a dog barking and that North Korea is not scared.
	To the strange, Hillary Clinton focused on Republicans, too.
	Oh, damn it.
	I'm sorry.
	We'll just pretend that never happened.
	On a suicide mission.
	Tonight, North Korea's foreign minister calling those remarks, quote, the sound of a dog barking and that North Korea is not scared.
	Ow, ow, ow, ow!
	We will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea.
	Rocket Man is on a suicide mission for himself and for his regime.
	Yes, another full clip at the end of today's show.
	Now here's a clip I want to get out of the way because it's being underreported.
	In fact, this report that I'm going to play is the only time I've heard about this.
	But they're really keeping the lid on this thing.
	You know, we have the Catalan situation, which they're not keeping the lid on.
	It's going to be, I think it'll be part of the news.
	It's not being covered as well as it should.
	We're going to have to do it.
	But this Kurds thing is not being reported at all.
	What clip am I looking for, John?
	It starts with Kurds, with a K. Oh, I'm sorry.
	I got it here.
	Sorry.
	The parliament of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region has voted to hold a referendum on independence due to take place on September the 25th.
	The plan is opposed by Iraq's central government and also neighboring Iran and Turkey.
	They fear independence would fuel separatist movements from within their own Kurdish populations.
	Hmm.
	Yeah.
	Vote coming on the 25th.
	Yeah, well, this is why I think the guns were not given.
	Oh, that could be.
	Possibly.
	Possibly.
	It is possible because we're pro-Kurdish all the way.
	Now, what are the Kurds...
	Let me just look at the map for a second.
	Kurdistan?
	Yeah, Kurdistan.
	Kurdistan map.
	Let's see what shows up.
	Okay, let me just take a look here for a second.
	So they border on...
	What the hell, people?
	What do they border on, John?
	Iran, Turkey, and they're in Iraq.
	Yes, Iraq, Tbilisi, right.
	Okay.
	Hmm.
	I don't know, man.
	I don't know what the game is here.
	Well, they gotta get their own country one of these days.
	Yeah, but this has been the ongoing struggle.
	Yeah, for 100 years.
	Yeah.
	We should revisit that story one of these days and go through it again.
	Well, they got a lot of oil, so this is not gonna make anybody happy.
	No.
	Alright.
	Okay, let's play.
	I got some short clips.
	I got The flying coach seats is another story that needs to be discussed because it's annoying.
	Now you have to pay, like, if you're going to buy a ticket on some of these carriers, they have the cramped, cramped seats.
	You can pay a little extra for an extra inch.
	Then you can pay a little extra for an extra two inches and coach.
	Oh, man.
	They're like hookers paying by inch.
	Yeah, they're paying by the inch.
	And so here's what's going on.
	There's a bunch of lawsuits about the fight to be flying, flying coach seats.
	For many, flying coach has become downright uncomfortable with more passengers squeezed into smaller seats.
	Turns out that may also be putting lives at risk in an emergency.
	Here's transportation correspondent Chris Van Cleave.
	When this American Airline 767 had an engine fire during takeoff in Chicago in 2016, it took more than two minutes to get everyone off.
	But according to FAA requirements, airline manufacturers have to show they can evacuate a completely full airliner in 90 seconds or less, even with half the exits blocked.
	This Delta flight veered off a snowy runway at New York's LaGuardia Airport in 2015.
	The impact damaged the onboard communication system, and the evacuation took more than 17 minutes.
	And now there's a new concern.
	As airlines shrink seats to fit more people on board, passenger safety advocates worry evacuations will take even longer.
	The space between rows has shrunk from as much as 35 inches to 31.
	In some cases, it's down to just 28 inches, even as passengers themselves are getting bigger.
	Do you believe the shrinking of seats is making the flying public less safe?
	Yes.
	Oh, definitely.
	Yeah, I do too.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Well, that's all unavoidable.
	That's all part of the big crisis.
	I think they're trying to do a soft landing on us.
	As everything starts to go down slowly.
	What?
	Just the economy.
	Everything.
	They need to make their numbers.
	They get to put three extra people in the plane.
	I mean, the whole thing is a joke.
	Yes.
	But yeah, they don't care.
	I picked up an interesting little thing from NPR. I don't know if there's a lot we can discuss about it, but I thought it was an interesting trend.
	We've talked a lot on this show about alternative paths to the middle class as America's economy changes.
	Webcam work is my idea.
	That means bypassing a traditional four-year college degree.
	And as technology plays a bigger and bigger role in the economy, some people are enrolling in coding boot camps.
	For-profit boot camps have sprung up all across the country.
	They're trying to capitalize on the demand for skilled programmers, but some students see them as a chance to train up for a stable career without that four-year college degree.
	Man, they're being taken to the cleaners, aren't they?
	Well, my son went through one of these.
	And he's very successful.
	Yes, and he also took a partnership with the operation and started working there for a while.
	Holy crap, I stand corrected.
	And what they do, they're very expensive.
	The price went way up.
	The price was always expensive.
	It's a complete, to me, it's a rip-off.
	But it's pretty intense.
	It's like 16-hour work days.
	They try to get you into the groove to work at Silicon Valley, which means you're working every day of the week.
	For 16 hours.
	But also, can I ask you a question?
	I think that, I'll just call him dude's name, Ben.
	You've got to have a certain gene to be able to do this.
	Musicians have it as well, I find.
	It's a big crossover.
	It might be the same gene.
	Yeah.
	Did he already have that?
	He had a, he might have.
	Because he was very into a bunch of, you know, kind of crazy programs.
	But he wasn't a coder.
	He is now.
	But, you know, the code that they do, all these camps do the same thing.
	They teach people JavaScript.
	And that's kind of the overlooked aspect of this.
	They don't teach them anything else.
	At least in these intense camps.
	He was part of the hack reactor, which is one of the top ones on the West Coast.
	But, you know, these guys, they charge $10,000.
	I think it's up to $15,000.
	For like two weeks or three weeks or a month.
	I don't remember how long the course study is.
	It's not like university.
	That's quite a lot of money.
	And they give you a student loan or whatever?
	I don't think so.
	Oh, wow.
	I don't think they're part of that scam.
	But about half of the coursework is how to get a job.
	Well, I really like this.
	And they place almost everybody.
	I really like this idea for a different reason.
	It gave me an idea.
	Our ticket out.
	Wait, stop.
	Yes, the Dvorak Curry, Curry Dvorak, whatever you want to call it, advertising, school of broadcasting.
	Podcast bootcamp, baby.
	Yeah.
	You got to use the bootcamp.
	Podcast bootcamp.
	Yeah.
	Imagine, 15 grand a pop, and we teach you how to do it, how to write the newsletter.
	We show you how to take checks.
	Yeah.
	You're not embarrassed about it?
	Yes, unless you're uncomfortable.
	Yes, you're uncomfortable with it.
	We really show you everything.
	Yeah.
	And then we could have the special...
	I think we need 10 students.
	I think you don't have a big class, 10 to 20 students.
	Yes.
	And then, you know, when you leave...
	Producing podcasts while doing the...
	Yes, yes.
	And we give you a freedom controller.
	We give you my settings for your sound and a t-shirt.
	T-shirt for sure.
	Maybe a mug.
	Hey, man.
	It's our ticket out, baby.
	There's a bunch of people.
	You have to look at it from this perspective.
	There are people that have the money to go to these things.
	Oh, yeah.
	Well, look at what they spend on stupid conferences.
	It irritates us.
	Again, the thing about most of these schools is you get placed.
	Because you have to...
	Well, we can't place you.
	And by the way, the thing about these schools, all of them...
	Getting into the school is a pain in the ass.
	Oh, okay.
	So the reason you get placed is because you're already predisposed.
	In other words, you have to pass this very difficult test that shows you have aptitude to actually even do this.
	We should do the same thing.
	We should also have a test.
	How's your voice?
	Okay, here, read this into the microphone.
	Now twirl around.
	What color is the White House?
	We got a very, very in-depth test here.
	Who's buried in Grant's tomb?
	The C&D podcast boot camp, everybody.
	I'm telling you.
	I've been looking to make a change in my life, John.
	You'd be a good teacher.
	And you know what we could do?
	Webinars.
	Webinars.
	Webinars!
	Nothing goes above a webinar.
	Alright, here's the story of the week.
	Because people always say, well, we have a drug problem in this country, but nobody...
	It's almost as though they've just...
	Cocaine has been taken off the table.
	What do you mean?
	Well, not if you listen to this story.
	This is a story about, just off our coast here, three tons!
	Wow!
	Holy moly!
	The major drug bust off California, the Coast Guard, chasing down that gray object in the Pacific, the submarine-like vessel, trying to avoid detection.
	Authorities arresting several suspects, more than three tons of cocaine found on board, worth millions.
	Damn.
	That's because all the politicians are doing it.
	That's why we don't want to stop that.
	I was watching some, I'm not going to say who it was, but one of the actresses was on one of the talk shows, late night shows last night.
	Yeah, you're a good identifier.
	Here's her nose a certain way.
	It goes after her nose.
	But then she's off.
	She's not doing it for a while.
	Mimi's watching with me.
	And I alerted her.
	And she says, I don't think so.
	And then she does a very strange move.
	I think a lot of these people are very aware of the nose.
	So they try not to do it.
	So she does a thing, she's an actress, she goes to her mouth like she's trying to prevent herself from laughing.
	And in the process of taking her hand off of her mouth, She takes her thumb and forefinger and gives her nose to once over.
	Oh, man.
	And comes off of it.
	I said, wow, there it is!
	Boom!
	I finally agree with this.
	And it is an actress who I think a lot of these actresses are that way.
	Why won't you say who it is?
	I don't think because I think it's borderline libelous.
	Oh, okay.
	All right.
	I'm with you.
	These actresses, a lot of them are shy.
	Is she British?
	They're good actresses.
	What?
	Is she British?
	No.
	Okay.
	Well, speaking of drugs, there was another bust.
	Four people are charged tonight in one of the biggest drug busts in New York City history.
	You see the pictures.
	It follows raids in Queens and in the Bronx.
	Last month, the DEA and NYPD found 213 pounds of drugs, including fentanyl, heroin and cocaine, at an apartment in Kew Gardens.
	Another 55 pounds of fentanyl and heroin were found in a car in the Bronx just two weeks ago.
	There's your opioid crisis right there.
	It's the fentanyl.
	You already said that, but this is why they're actually...
	See, they're calling it a crisis not because people are overdosing.
	They're overdosing on the other guy's dope.
	That's the crisis.
	We've got to get them off the fentanyl and back onto ours.
	We're also mailing it in from China.
	Right.
	We need to stop that.
	It's undercutting our business.
	Brewing up everything.
	And let's be fair.
	Our business doesn't kill people as easily, so we have a better drug.
	That is why it's called the crisis, the opioid crisis.
	Not because you're dying.
	You're taking the wrong drug.
	Yeah, stick with heroin.
	Yeah.
	From the CIA. Yeah.
	Well, yeah.
	Yes.
	I think, isn't Coke from the CIA as well, or is that now just mainstream?
	I don't think.
	I think, you know, crack cocaine was invented by the CIA to corrupt, I guess, Southern California blacks.
	Yeah, good job.
	But I don't know that, and I think they've been involved with its distribution and sales, but I think they let the Sinaloa and these guys just run it.
	Just run it, because it's too much work.
	I don't even think they run.
	They don't run distribution of heroin.
	They just maintain the poppy fields.
	Well, we should start seeing some anti-fentanyl propaganda pretty soon.
	I hope so.
	Well, it's a problem.
	We need people on our stuff.
	Not the Chinese stuff.
	It's cutting into sales.
	Yeah.
	I have one clip that's just kind of been in my craw.
	I've been irked about it.
	Tim Scott is a black senator.
	I think he's the only one that Republicans have in Congress.
	South Carolina, maybe.
	And he's the one who's very critical.
	He's not very, but he's critical of Trump.
	And he jumped on him for the white supremacy thing where he said both sides are equally.
	What's his name again?
	Tim Scott.
	Oh, is this the douchebag?
	They're all douchebags, but he's a douchebag, yes.
	He was almost the president of the DNC? No, he's a Republican.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	Right.
	He's also a douchebag.
	Yeah, but he's a douchebag.
	No, you're thinking, I know.
	I'm thinking of the other guy.
	I think you're that Muslim guy.
	I'm confused.
	So, but here's what bothers me.
	This is just a little statement.
	He's bitching and moaning about being harassed as a black man.
	And of course, this is after a bunch of...
	This happened right after the Seattle football player got...
	Throwing to the ground or went to the ground and they handcuffed him.
	He's bitching and moaning about something because he was running away from a crime scene.
	And it turned out he did nothing except run away from a crime scene because he was a normal black guy.
	He didn't want to be involved.
	And so there's a big stink about it.
	And the black Seattle player said that he says at least, you know, at least three times in your life as a black man, you're going to really get close to getting killed by a cop.
	And he said three times.
	Let's play Scott and I have something to say about this.
	Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina, the only African-American Republican in the Senate, met today with President Trump.
	They talked about the president's response to the racial violence in Charlottesville, Virginia last month.
	Then the senator talked to chief congressional correspondent Nancy Cordes.
	I went in there not expecting to change the president's mind.
	South Carolina's Tim Scott says he was surprised by the reception he got today.
	After all, he came down hard on the president just last month.
	The president's moral authority is compromised.
	After Mr.
	Trump appeared to defend Nazi and Ku Klux Klan marchers in Charlottesville.
	You had some very bad people in that group, but you also had people that were very fine people.
	My thought was, ouch.
	Blood and sword!
	And then you think about the scene of torches and the Klan.
	Did you get the sense that he felt bad about what he had said?
	He's obviously reflected on what he has said, on his intentions and the perception of those comments.
	He was certainly very clear that the perception that he received on his comments was not exactly what he intended with those comments.
	Scott has always been open about the pain of discrimination.
	In the course of one year, I've been stopped seven times by law enforcement officers.
	He said he tried to impart that feeling to Mr.
	Trump today.
	He asked him questions about some other incidences that found African-American men in compromising positions of no fault of their own.
	Did you feel like you changed the president's mindset?
	The president was very receptive to listening.
	That is a key to understanding.
	Okay.
	Well, a couple of things.
	You know, I'm sure he's sincere in some ways, but he's always, he is a politician, which he is professionally.
	Now he's a U.S. senator.
	I don't believe he's ever been stopped.
	Have you ever seen the license plate of a U.S. senator?
	Yeah.
	Yes.
	It says U.S. Senator with either a number one or a number two.
	And I checked in South Carolina because you can look at all these different plates.
	That's the plate in South Carolina.
	It's very clear that it says United States Senator one or two.
	And that plate is that cops do not screw with that.
	There's no way.
	And in previous jobs where he was in other forms of office, if you're an assemblyman in California, a state assembly, you have a big red A on your license plate.
	And if you're a senator, it has a big S. That means you're a state senator.
	And if you're a congressman, it says U.S. Congress.
	Cops don't pull these people over.
	What cop pulls over a U.S. senator to harass him?
	Yeah.
	I think it's bullcrap.
	I agree.
	But at the same time...
	In the past, I don't know, several months, you and I really don't know what it's like to be a black man in America.
	No, of course not.
	These guys do get pulled over and they do bitch about it.
	But I'm not listening to this guy complain about his...
	No, I'm in agreement.
	This is privilege, what he's got.
	I'm not talking about any kind of privilege other than having a license plate that says U.S. Senator.
	Yeah, that's super privileged.
	And you can park in a red zone.
	Really?
	The red zone?
	My God, I should become a senator!
	You should.
	Alright.
	I just irked me to hear that.
	I understand.
	I can tell.
	Well, let's leave on a lighter note.
	A snippet from the eight minutes that's doing the rounds of Lawrence O'Donnell freaking out on his set.
	You may not have seen this.
	It's pretty new.
	No, I did not.
	And I want to deconstruct this from a television production standpoint, just so you understand it, because I'm actually going to defend him, because people, you know, I don't like his show.
	I don't watch it.
	I don't like the guy.
	He's a douchebag.
	Sometimes he says things that I think are okay.
	But I didn't want to defend him on this.
	So he tapes his show.
	It's not live.
	And what you're seeing, if you see the whole thing, is he's taping with the SOTs, which is sound on tape, which means they go full screen to video.
	And he's actually doing wraparounds to his toss to Rachel and from an interview that he did recorded earlier or probably later.
	And they'll edit that in.
	And in between, there's all kinds of stuff going on with his earpiece and...
	Well, listen.
	See how that one goes.
	Thank you, Rachel.
	Well, today, President Trump visited Texas, but he forgot to bring any empathy with him.
	But he did bring a hat.
	A hat that is for sale.
	58 seconds.
	What's going on?
	Why am I losing this?
	Why don't I have sound?
	All right, it's back.
	Someone's pressing buttons and turning my sound off.
	So this is his IFB, his earpiece.
	Who's asking for a Labor Day rundown in my ear?
	Someone in that control room is out of control.
	There's insanity in the control room tonight.
	Stop the hammering.
	Stop the hammering out there.
	Who's got a hammer?
	Where is it?
	Where's the hammer?
	Go up on the other floor.
	Somebody go up there and stop the hammering.
	Stop the hammering!
	I'll go down to the goddamn floor myself and stop it.
	Keep the goddamn commercial break going.
	Call fucking Phil Griffin.
	I don't care who the fuck you have to call.
	Stop the hammering!
	The woman talking in my ear was talking about the Labor Day special.
	Repeatedly.
	Every time we went to a SOT. Fuck, it's out of control.
	Shit.
	I don't know why I bother to say how to cut the slots when you don't do it.
	I just don't know why.
	So now I have to chase those stupid goddamn entrails that you allowed him to stick out there.
	So that's just a little bit.
	It's eight minutes.
	It just goes on and on.
	Wow, this is great.
	This is better than O'Reilly.
	Well, I want to defend him a little bit.
	Because when you do a show, MTV was very similar.
	Every day we're doing shows, and it's really, you become a team.
	The cameraman, you're a tight-knit team, including those in the control room.
	And the host really, although the director is supposed to keep it together, in these types of recording situations, the host really makes it all work and makes up, really, for the mistakes that are, the technical glitches.
	Oh, God, shoot myself.
	You said it!
	I'm going to kill myself.
	For technical, I was going to say F-ups.
	For some reason, I changed my mind stupidly.
	Sorry.
	That's really bad.
	I apologize.
	I feel bad.
	It's the word of the day.
	Yes.
	And you get mad.
	And everybody gets mad sometimes.
	It's not like he's the dictator of all dictators.
	It's what happens.
	You're on a team, and you yell at each other sometimes.
	It's very normal in this type of television production.
	So I just want to say, he's not a total dick for doing this.
	Especially if there's...
	You're in a studio, you're trying to record, you got hammering going on.
	I did exactly the same thing.
	And people at MTV would say, oh yeah, sure.
	Everyone freaked out from time to time.
	You're also performing.
	It's difficult if you got someone talking in your ear, you got the wrong channel in your IFB. I've never had that happen.
	Now, I've never freaked out.
	I had this situation I've talked about on the show before, which I could have blown up overall, though it was during the live show, where...
	We'd go to break, and it was coincidental with Leo, who was doing a show in another studio, going to break.
	And as soon as we went to break, I started hearing his director in my ear as I'm trying to talk to somebody.
	And then, so I said, what's going on?
	And they said, what, nothing.
	I said, yeah, I'm not hearing our booth, but I'm hearing somebody else.
	And they said, well, I don't know.
	And then it went away because they did something, go back to the show or something, I guess.
	And it went away.
	It looks like it's cleared up.
	Okay.
	Another break.
	Boom.
	There it is again.
	These guys yakking at me.
	And this went on for most of the show and it would always come a little bit into the show.
	So I was like hearing somebody while I'm trying to read from a prompter.
	Uh-huh.
	I don't know.
	I didn't blow up over it.
	I just thought it was weird.
	Well, but it's...
	But you...
	I don't think you were actually...
	Well, was that every day you were working with a team doing that?
	Same team.
	No, that wasn't happening except at one time.
	Anyway.
	So I just want...
	Give him a little bit.
	Yeah, that guy's a dick.
	I think he's a dick.
	And then we should go listen to the eight minutes.
	And then go listen to O'Reilly.
	He's another one.
	But the O'Reilly clip is from like 30 years ago.
	Yeah.
	This is last week.
	Yes.
	It's a big difference.
	Yeah.
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