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	And neo-Nazis are planning an attack!
	Adam Couric, John C. Dvorak.
	It's Sunday, October 1st, 2017.
	This is your award-winning Gitmo Nation media assassination episode, Niner 6, Niner!
	This is No Agenda.
	From Brexit to Spexit, we cover it all.
	And coming to you from the darkest corners of the internet here in downtown Austin, Tejas, capital of the drone, Star State, Ian the Cluedio.
	Ian, good morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, I've made a discovery.
	I'm John C. DeVore.
	You sound like a mad scientist.
	I've made a discovery.
	I've got no time for this podcast.
	I've made a discovery.
	What you got?
	What's your discovery?
	I'm excited now.
	The Zephyr?
	The Zephyr?
	It's now, every day it comes by at quarter to eleven.
	I want you to know that's an official Zephyr sound effect.
	What?
	That's an official Zephyr sound effect.
	Yeah, it sounds like it.
	And so, from the fifties.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	It's officially late every day, according to the schedule.
	I have to call the...
	You have to call the authorities about this.
	This is an outrage.
	Well, I mean, it consistently shows up at the exact same time, quarter to 11, passing by, leaving the Berkeley area.
	Well, I think this is an outrage.
	It is.
	It's not on the schedule.
	It's supposed to leave at 9.
	What are trained...
	Ow!
	Hold on a second.
	You okay?
	Yeah.
	You okay?
	You okay?
	Hold on!
	Well, this is a lot of dead air.
	I'll fill it with music.
	Let me get one of my instruments here, the better ones.
	The off-key recorder.
	I'm glad I fixed it before you got to the off-key recorder.
	That must have sounded weird on your end.
	Sorry about that.
	What was it?
	Sounds like your gear fell over.
	The microphone, you know, because I often will grab the mic like this and just position it while I'm talking, it literally came off in my hands off the stand.
	At least when I put it back on, I'm not talking into the back end of it.
	That's the good news.
	Yeah, well that is good news.
	Okay, so the Zephyr, yes.
	Your mic is a tube.
	You go right down the tube.
	You can't talk into the back.
	I spit straight down my tube, baby.
	Yeah.
	Okay, so we were at the Zephyr and you're going to contact authorities because this will not stand.
	Oh, you got yourself another picture.
	Oh yeah, I'm good to go now.
	It's all I wanted was a Zephyr sound and an Ooga.
	Yeah, the Ooga's a must.
	This is not exactly the one I wanted, but it's pretty good.
	I can get you the ones I have.
	The ones I have are pretty good.
	The one that really is...
	Ooga!
	Yeah, it sounds like an Ooga.
	Makes it sound Ooga.
	Ooga.
	Hey, I've been getting, once again, tons of alerts on my solar weather app.
	Okay.
	And whenever I get an alert, there's either an earthquake or something else happens.
	More than 130,000 people on the Indonesian island of Bali are in nine makeshift evacuation centers as they brace themselves for the eruption of Mount Agung.
	The volcano is spewing out white smoke and causing tremors.
	Officials are struggling to stop some people from returning to their homes in the exclusion zone.
	Local resident Mulya says he's determined to stay.
	If we move to a shelter, I'm afraid it would be difficult for my family to adapt, and that's why we don't want to go.
	It's better to stay at home.
	At least so far, I still feel safe.
	Should there be an eruption, the government would let us know.
	But tens of thousands of people from safe zones have also left their homes, putting pressure on the evacuation facilities.
	They're being asked to return home.
	More than a thousand people died in 1963, when Mount Agong last erupted.
	I told you that was going to happen.
	The government will let you know if there's an eruption.
	I'm going to be stationed right here under the volcano, and the government will let me know if there's an eruption.
	Yes.
	I think you'll know if there's an eruption.
	Stay tuned to your television sets, ladies and gentlemen.
	We will let you know when there's an eruption.
	Hey, but this solar flare app, it's great.
	Every time a solar flare.
	Well, we've known about this Bali thing going on, and apparently we have some issues with our local volcanoes here in California, Mount Shasta being one of them, which is something nobody wants to see go up.
	No, because that could set off all of Yellowstone or something, couldn't it?
	No, no, Yellowstone.
	Everything blows up and California falls off the face of the map.
	Well, Yellowstone goes, and the whole world's doomed.
	All right.
	Because that thing's just half the globe.
	Mm-hmm.
	It's so big, it took forever to figure out where the caldera actually is.
	It's half the state of Wyoming.
	Anyway, we've talked about this already, but what you're telling us now is that your little app has been beeping and beeping.
	It has been continuously kind of correct.
	Historically speaking, that something happened.
	So it doesn't mean it's causation, but it is certainly a coincidence.
	Yes, exactly.
	So I got more warnings this morning.
	And I've been trying, you know, my buddy is still in Bali.
	So what is this?
	The app?
	Yeah.
	Tell people so they can get it and put it on their phones.
	Well, we did talk about it last time.
	I'll gladly tell you what it is.
	Well, I paid zero attention.
	Is it only on the Apple?
	No, it's Apple and Android.
	It's called Disaster Prediction App.
	And it gives you earthquake alert maps, specifically for certain types of solar activity that are believed to influence seismic activity.
	Then there's space weather.
	And let me just see what my most recent alerts were.
	So the alerts I got...
	Space weather risk is elevated, two of those this morning.
	Cornell Hulls, Global Watch High yesterday.
	A minor geomagnetic storm in progress, but it could affect technological stuff, maybe.
	Just whenever I get an alert, I'm always paying attention to the news, and then sure enough, something will pop up.
	It's very interesting.
	Well, it'll be interesting to see what happens when that volcano goes up.
	That'll be, you know what, this is my prediction.
	Okay.
	Red Book prediction.
	All right.
	This volcano is going to go up, and it's going to put a bunch of crap in the air, and it's going to lower temperatures for a while.
	And all the global warmest are going to use that as the excuse why the temperature hasn't been increasing.
	It's volcanic ash.
	Yes, of course.
	Yeah, we should have known.
	Should have known.
	Well, there's a lot to cover today.
	Obviously, as we speak, there's all kinds of stuff going on in Spain.
	I have just a little overnight clip from Spexit.
	It's crunch time in Catalonia, and on the day of an independence referendum deemed illegal by Spanish authorities, people arrived early to take their places ready to vote.
	Organisers had urged a turnout from 5am in efforts to secure polling stations, but as Catalans gathered in numbers, security forces too were making their moves, having been ordered to stop this vote taking place.
	A convoy of police vehicles left Barcelona port bound for the city on Sunday morning as fears of confrontation rose.
	Farmers have used tractors to guard polling stations at a number of towns.
	Including at this sports center where pro-independence Catalan leader Carlos Puigdemont was due to cast his ballot.
	Families have been sleeping at schools designated for voting.
	But in a sign of how the referendum has polarized Spain, thousands of pro-unity demonstrators gathered in major cities on Saturday, including here in the capital Madrid, to express their fierce opposition to Catalonia's attempt to break away.
	Yeah, so they were rolling...
	Yeah, it's a shitty report, I know.
	They were rolling big tractors in front of the designated polling places, and none of that made any difference.
	Reports I saw this morning, not really clip-worthy because it's more just video and pandemonium.
	Head-covered police officers, or at least people in police uniforms with their heads in masks, came in, grabbed the ballot boxes, and just tore them out of there.
	Yeah.
	Wow.
	They don't want this vote.
	No, that's pretty obvious.
	Same thing going on in Kurdistan.
	Right, right.
	Well, that's also about, you know, the Kurds wanting money from Iraq, from the central government.
	We discussed that on the last show.
	But that is now just, oh, screw it, then we're just going to go ahead.
	You're not going to pay us for what we did against ISIS? Okay, good.
	Then we're going to do our referendum and cause general havoc.
	Which seems to be a pretty good strategy.
	If anything happens during the show, I'm sure someone in the chat room will alert us to it at noagendastream.com.
	Okay, well that was fascinating.
	I did want to mention one extra thing about this.
	On the previous show, we had a report about how the Spanish government had disabled internet access to the, as they claimed, legal websites that showed people where they can vote.
	And I found out what happened.
	Oh, okay.
	You mean you found out how they did it?
	How they did it, yeah.
	These websites were all under the.cat domain name, top-level domain name,.cat for Catalonia.
	And the.cat...
	But there is no...
	But CAT was assigned to Catalonia?
	Yes.
	Or is it something else?
	No, no.
	It's assigned to Catalonia, and the internet registrar for.cat is in Catalonia.
	Oh.
	Wednesday morning, police entered the headquarters in Barcelona, seized all its computers, and they...
	You said it was in Catalonia.
	It's in Barcelona.
	Oh, Barcelona.
	Their office.
	I was thinking of Madrid.
	Never mind.
	Go on.
	Are they just looking to just slam me, boy?
	We want to hear the story.
	Almost.
	I tried.
	Yeah, good fail.
	Yeah, it's a fail.
	So they just went in and just turned off their authoritative name server.
	And they just called up ICANN. We so smartly sent the ICANN, which is the Internet Names and Address Space, the main body.
	Today we're just going to cut this off.
	Okay, the end of story.
	Once your authoritative name server is gone, that's it.
	Everything just expires after a while.
	That's actually pretty funny.
	Who has.dog?
	That would be kind of cool.
	So you can have cat and dog.
	Yeah!
	I wonder if that's a domain.
	I don't know if.dog's ever been assigned yet.
	I've looked into becoming a top-level domain registrar so many times.
	It's unaffordable.
	Yeah, it's a quarter of a million bucks minimum.
	And you have to have all kinds of investment and backing and plans.
	Yeah,.dog would be dynamite.
	Maybe it exists.
	I don't know.
	Let's check it out.
	Dot dog top domain?
	It could be.
	Dot dog top level domain.
	We'll see.
	Yes.
	It exists.
	How about that?
	It's owned by that giant veterinarian operation that's been taken over all the small vets across the country in a money grab.
	It apparently is actually intended for people who are dog friendly.
	Oh, really?
	Yes.
	Now, you can put anything on it, I guess, but it looks like that's what the...
	Yeah, but you've got to find who the registrar is.
	Yeah, well, you can register it almost anywhere.
	But I don't know who it is.
	I'll have to look at it.
	It's a new top level.
	New top dog TLD registrar and see what you get.
	Okay.
	All right.
	Slave.
	All right.
	New top level domain name dot dog registrar.
	Jeez.
	You could have typed that in yourself.
	I know, but I'm not by the keyboard.
	In fact, I can't find the keyboard.
	I can, Wiki.
	Let's see if they say it.
	Donuts.
	Cocoa Mill LLC manages...
	Donuts?
	Donuts, yes.
	Donuts is a startup company that was created to apply and run new top-level domains as made possible.
	I can.
	And so Donuts are the ones.
	Donuts.
	Donuts.
	You've got to get a donut to get a dog.
	It's a beautiful thing.
	It's a beautiful thing.
	What a wonderful system.
	It makes nothing but sense.
	Yes.
	Big meeting.
	Big meeting in Warsaw.
	The big NATO cyber war meeting.
	This was really quite the...
	This one caught me off guard.
	Yeah, I was able to follow quite a bit of it on Euronews, which means you get the crappy-ass Euronews reads.
	But a couple of interesting reports.
	Here's just a backgrounder, because whenever you have an organization like NATO getting together, for just looking at what it is, it's a conference.
	It's like a Comdex for people who like to kill people.
	I'm sorry, they're purely defensive.
	So what do you get?
	Thousands of guys who are showing up to sell their wares.
	They've got vendors everywhere.
	Yes, cyber is the word.
	Alongside NATO officials, more than a thousand industry representatives have been attending this week's Cyber Security Symposium in Mons, Belgium.
	Some of the West's potential cyber adversaries, such as Russia and China...
	are keeping their electronic arsenals firmly in state hands.
	Looking at the commercial marketplace in evidence here though, is NATO privatizing its cyber defense?
	I don't think we're moving to more of a privatization.
	I think the recognition is that big organizations and countries cannot do this alone.
	They need industry.
	And we certainly need industry.
	We need their innovation.
	We need their expertise.
	We need their solutions.
	Because their solutions are really countering the threats that the whole world is facing.
	And NATO's no different from any other organization.
	Bidders to win contracts for the business of NATO's cyber defense will be invited to tender next year, with the first round of investments to be completed in 2018.
	So the cyber conference, I guess, was in Brussels.
	It actually makes the story even more...
	No, I thought she said something else.
	The NATO meeting is in Warsaw, but I think the...
	No, she said some podunk town in Belgium.
	Right at the beginning.
	Play it again.
	Where the hell was it?
	Podunk.
	Podunk town, let's see.
	Alongside NATO officials, more than a thousand industry representatives have been attending this week's Cyber Security Symposium in Mons, Belgium.
	It's like what?
	Travel in?
	It's not that far.
	It's not that far from Brussels.
	But here's what happens.
	You've got a whole bunch of yahoos in and around Brussels, and they're all looking to buy stuff.
	And we have to make sure that everyone's aware, particularly people who are making decisions about how bad it is.
	And so then you get all these cyber stories that pop up, all in the same day.
	This was for the dudes named Ben and Dudette's named Bernadette.
	You'll appreciate the bull crap of this story, even though I'm sure it happened.
	But we just call it DDoS.
	Let's see how they describe it at the European Commission.
	Hackers have targeted the European Commission's computer network, trying to overload and crash it.
	Officials say connection speeds were affected on Thursday, but there was no data breach.
	The Commission was indeed...
	It's a DDoS.
	There was no data breach.
	Ah, the news is so horrible.
	They really don't know shit.
	There was no data breach.
	The commission was indeed targeted by an attempt to saturate our internet connection.
	See, that's the only thing that's correct.
	That's the only thing that's correct in the whole report.
	The commission took effective countermeasures and there was no interruption of service.
	Hello?
	Cloudflare?
	Can you help?
	Yes.
	Generally speaking, the attribution of these attacks is difficult because different attackers share and use the same tools and methods.
	The hackers launched their attack on the same day that Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko was in Brussels for a summit.
	The Commission's declined to comment on whether there was any connection.
	Oh, please.
	Of course there's a connection.
	The connection is, I mean, I'm sure they get DDoSed every day.
	Yes, every day.
	But oh, oh no, you know, this was all kinds of people using the same tools.
	It was millions of hackers.
	Yeah, that's how a DDoS attacker works.
	And obviously people are not really aware of it.
	But now.
	But they're having this conference anyway.
	Of course.
	Now the final report in the triage.
	The EU gets tough on cyber security, but Bitcoin aficionados pay attention to what they're going to be doing with their newfound cyber power, because they've got it now.
	Clenching its fists in the face of mounting cyber attacks, the European Commission says it wants to bring in new measures to beef up protection against those trying to steal data, commit fraud, or even destabilize governments.
	Last year, there were 4,000 ransomware attacks a day, according to the Commission, and the economic impact is deepening.
	Now it can reach our economies, she says.
	It can reach our personal lives.
	It can reach our democracies.
	It's important there are concrete steps forward, so there's a common approach.
	Better coordination to reinforce confidence for citizens and industries in member states.
	A new law is being proposed to combat cryptocurrency fraud.
	And the European Commission wants to see the bloc's cybersecurity agency, Enisa, based in Greece, increase its staff, double its budget, and launch operations to help see off attacks.
	And that's something being welcomed by Athens.
	The problems which will probably be created regarding the safety of the networks, he says, they'll certainly threaten the physical situation of people in the future, and not only machines.
	Therefore, Enisa has a very significant role to play.
	It'll be the most important organization in the future, because it'll be in charge of creating the system of European defense.
	I love it!
	Cryptocurrency fraud!
	That is code for...
	That's not money.
	We're not going to let that happen.
	That's not going to happen.
	Absolutely not.
	Thanks, Obama.
	Done.
	Done.
	Goodbye, exchanges.
	Goodbye.
	Well, we'll see.
	It was an interesting Friday release.
	Confirming 21 states were targeted by the Russians.
	Yes, but here's the interesting thing.
	It turns out that in none of those 21 targeted states did the quote-unquote Russians actually hack anything that had to do with registration or election systems.
	Wisconsin, let's see, what are they targeting Wisconsin?
	It was like, oh yeah, the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development.
	None of it, but none of it had nothing with elections.
	So there were Russian IPSs, that's the way we say it these days, that were detected in these.
	And it doesn't even, Homeland Security didn't even really confirm if there was any successful attack.
	But there was, let me see, Homeland Security said an agency that doesn't deal with elections was targeted to scans.
	Oh, it was scans.
	It was just scanning.
	That's going on 24-7.
	You know what's missing from the scene?
	Yeah, someone who understands three bobs about technology.
	That would help.
	No, you remember that, I can't remember the name of this product, but it was extremely popular.
	Everybody had it.
	You can get it for free.
	It was a little thing that kept an eyeball on who was scanning you and who was pinging you.
	Remember this thing?
	It showed up in the corner of your screen.
	We're talking 90 still, I think, when this came out.
	I think so, yeah.
	I knew the people who did it, and they sold it to someone and it disappeared.
	But it was...
	Somebody in this chat room will remember this.
	I hope so.
	What was that?
	And anyway, you would look at this thing...
	Nmap?
	Nmap?
	Zone alarm?
	Zone alarm?
	Zone alarm.
	Zone alarm.
	Way to go, chat room.
	Nice.
	Zone alarm.
	Yeah, that was funny.
	You could look at the log.
	It was...
	Literally thousands and thousands of these pings and probes and pops and poops and all the other things they used to do.
	And if that was still around, people would realize that this is like routinely going on, you know, constantly.
	Yeah, and I run a mail server.
	You should see what happens there.
	The logging attempts and, you know, it's unbelievable.
	Sometimes they just have the log, you know, tail minus F, look at the log, and I'm like, wow, this is crazy stuff people are trying.
	But why?
	Why?
	To see if something's open.
	It's a probe.
	It's open.
	Let's go in.
	That's pretty much the idea.
	If it's there, why not?
	You know, the mountain's there.
	Might as well climb it.
	But what happened with this is that part of the story has now completely fallen apart.
	It hasn't really been discussed.
	The only person who really wrote about it who's arguably somewhat on the left is Gren Greenwald.
	Don't rap.
	Let's see what he said.
	Yet another major Russia story falls apart.
	Is skepticism permissible yet?
	Always funny to have Glenn understand kind of what's going on.
	So a number of reports about that.
	We have to move away from the cyber intrusion back to the influencing.
	You can still claim that's like hacking of the election.
	And CNN came out with an exclusive over the weekend.
	Just...
	By coincidence, not the exclusive news about, hey, guess what?
	It was just some port scans.
	We're clear there was no hacking.
	No.
	Instead, they now have the fake black activist accounts that were used on Twitter to hack the election.
	And they have been now linked to the Russian government.
	The Twitter and Facebook account, both disguised to look like they were run by the same black activists, were actually the work of Russians.
	The accounts were part of the material being handed over to Congress for its investigation into Russia's meddling in the presidential election.
	The accounts, both called Blacktivists, posted videos of police brutality against African Americans and wrote about injustice to African Americans.
	Take a look at the Facebook page.
	It says, watch another savage video of police brutality.
	We live under a system of racism, and police are directly letting us know how they feel and where we stand.
	These posts, they were all designed by the Russians to try to amplify racial tension in the U.S.? Is that right?
	That's right.
	The posts coming from this social media campaign was designed, our sources tell us, by an account.
	Our sources tell us, yes, our sources...
	...media campaign...
	CIA......was designed, our sources tell us, by an account linked back to the Internet Research Agency, which has ties to the Kremlin.
	Ties!
	This campaign used both Facebook and Twitter to basically advance a message that would...
	and posts and ads...
	that would exploit the racial tensions that exist in this country effectively as part of the larger Russian goal of undermining American democracy, sowing political discord, contributing to an atmosphere of partisanship and incivility.
	And they were doing this, Anderson, at a time during a campaign when race was sort of at the forefront, or at least one of the major issues going on in America at that time, still is today.
	And if you couple this with the reporting that we had last night, that one of the ads, a Black Lives Matter ad, was targeted at the cities of Ferguson, Missouri and Baltimore, you begin to understand just how sophisticated the Russians were in terms of understanding the pressure points for American politics and American culture. you begin to understand just how sophisticated the Russians were Now, this kind of goes back to your point from maybe the last episode about, you know, what these, what ads are intended to do on Twitter and Facebook.
	And they're intended to, you know, convince people or coerce people into believing things about products or situations.
	And somehow we're now led to believe that Black Lives Matter ads and other Russian linked ads on Twitter and Facebag that specifically said cops are racist, that that was all in favor of Donald Trump.
	How, in what world, well, we know what universe that works, but please tell me I'm not misunderstanding.
	It's crazy.
	I mean, are they trying to cover up for the Democrats who probably did this?
	Well, here's the...
	I can tell you...
	I can go into Dimension B and explain it, I think.
	I do have two more clips, two shorties.
	Okay, I'll go into Dimension B and explain it afterwards, but I think I can explain what your concern is and why...
	Well, actually, if you do it now, that might be better, actually, please.
	I just...
	I don't get it.
	Here's...
	The idea is to sow dissent on both sides so things are so screwed up that the public sees it as, oh my god, this is because of the political, the way that politics are today.
	We've got to vote someone new in, so let's vote Trump.
	Maybe this will all end with a new guy who's not part of the system.
	But there was no call to action to vote for Trump.
	No, no, that would be illegal, actually.
	So by your logic...
	My Dimension B logic.
	Sorry, I'm sorry.
	By your logic, while you're in Dimension B, you did that very slickly, by the way.
	Slid right in.
	Any Black Lives Matter poster or facebag post is pretty much equal to what the Russians were doing.
	Yes.
	And therefore, they should be arrested.
	Yeah, they should.
	And I'm pretty sure Trump didn't collude with Black Lives Matter.
	No.
	Because that wouldn't fit in the narrative of him being a Nazi and white nationalist.
	So, you know, this story is, this is truly an example of the alternate universe.
	Truly.
	It just makes no sense.
	To you.
	Yes, indeed, to me.
	And, as it turns out, boo-hoo, Mr.
	Soros and Black Lives Matter, the fake blacktivist accounts were more popular!
	Did this group have a big following online?
	In fact, they did.
	If you look at the Facebook account now suspended for blacktivists, what you find is they had over 360,000 likes.
	That is more than the 300,000 likes that the verified Black Lives Matter Facebook page has today.
	So, yes, it's not just a question of the Russians being able or intending to influence American politics.
	That level of following suggests that they might have actually succeeded in doing so.
	That could be bulgur.
	Well, of course, you would expect Pooper's next question to be, well, that could have been bots, right?
	Wouldn't they just run those numbers up with bots?
	Yeah, bots.
	No, now it's true.
	Now they have a following.
	It's dangerous.
	They've got a lot of people.
	But this thing was so scripted.
	This interview was...
	We know a lot of stuff is scripted, but just listen to Pooper's next question, which is about the events, you know, the face bag events or whatever that was.
	And he literally reads the question.
	The guy is ready.
	He's ready for the question and with the answer.
	Were these accounts also promoting events?
	And it's a horrible read, too.
	A little.
	He's trying to act.
	Hey, so tell me.
	Was it like when I used to do fake satellite interviews with Janet Jackson?
	I've told the story before, but in 84 or something.
	They'd send over a videotape with Janet Jackson with just her answers and a list of questions, and we'd just pretend that it was a satellite interview.
	We even had static, oh, we've lost the bird!
	This was, I think, finally killed off by Space Ghost, who got a hold of this operation on one of those.
	They were recording everybody.
	Well, they got these tapes.
	A lot of these things flow around.
	I mean, in the early days, or in the most days of radio, they used to have these big transcriptions.
	You'd do these fake interviews.
	You know this.
	You'd play the transcription, and you have your questions, and it seems to be working.
	Well, those transcriptions, they don't throw them out.
	No.
	So then you can do all these phony questions.
	Yeah, you can do fun stuff.
	Which is the basis for the daily shows like Samantha Bee segments.
	Just get answers and ask phony questions.
	Space Ghost did the best job of ridiculing them.
	Anyway, so Pooper does his little bit part here.
	Were these accounts also promoting events?
	Yes, they were.
	And that's another area where you can sort of measure the influence that these accounts have.
	There are at least seven events we've found that were promoted or broadcast by the Blacktivist account.
	These events range from a 50th anniversary demonstration for the Black Panther Party to the anniversary of the death of Freddie Gray.
	And real events, Anderson, events that were actually attended by people, events that were covered by some media organizations.
	So, What we're learning tonight begins to sort of help us understand and certainly, I think, help congressional investigators understand just how Russia was able to use Facebook and Twitter to influence American politics.
	Well, I think the influencing is now being done by people like you, sir, and Mr.
	Pooper.
	If this is indeed going to be called a crime, Then, you know, goodbye all activists.
	If Black Lives Matter does this, then that would be a crime.
	If they are funded by, maybe not if they're funded by America, but if they have any outside funding, that would be legal, I guess?
	I mean, I don't know how we can explain this one away.
	This is too difficult.
	Well, I don't know how they figure they can.
	I think, from your perspective...
	I don't see how they can explain it as being necessarily something that was pro-Trump.
	That's what I'm saying.
	I think they have.
	And I still have this underlying feeling that this is a cover-up for some other group that did this.
	Yeah, that makes sense because...
	Right.
	Because if they really start digging, you know, because now they're digging.
	Facebag is digging.
	Everybody's digging.
	I'm sure Zuckerberg is concerned about his position in the universe and maybe the political universe.
	So...
	If there were some Democrat shenanigans, and by the way, who gives a shit?
	This is okay.
	This is what you do.
	Have you seen political television ads?
	It's pretty tame, this stuff, compared to what they do with NRA ads and how the Democratic Party and other related super PACs were also throwing around racist, misogynistic commercials about Trump.
	That's normal course of action.
	And apparently it doesn't work very well.
	Because Trump still won.
	Yeah, well, considering the amount of money they spent on anti-Trump material...
	In fact, the public seems to have reacted negatively to the anti...
	Yes.
	Well, they've always said this.
	Here's the funny thing about this.
	If you recall every election we've witnessed, even the ones before the show...
	They always talk about how negative, going negative never works.
	It doesn't work.
	It doesn't work.
	What you want is a positive message.
	You just can't say bad things about the other person.
	And this is why so-and-so lost.
	And this is why McCain lost.
	And this is why Romney lost.
	Because they had no message.
	The Republicans had no message.
	They had nothing positive to say.
	So, this time around, the whole message was dumb positive.
	Make America great again.
	Make America great again.
	That's it.
	And the other side was just, Trump sucks, Trump sucks, Trump sucks.
	So the old rules seemed to work, which is, don't use all the negative stuff.
	And Clinton was just preoccupied with Trump was this, he was that, he was a misogynist, he hates black people, he's a horrible person.
	And the other one was, make America great again.
	Boom, Trump wins.
	Everyone's stunned by this.
	Well, FaceBag is now another interesting twist to the story.
	The communications regulator, Alexander Zarov of Russia, has said, you know, FaceBag has not been in compliance with our data laws where they have to, since September 2015, they have to store all of their citizens' personal data on Russian soil.
	They still do not comply, so we're about ready to cut off FaceBag.
	Well, they have their own Facebook.
	I can't remember the name of it.
	I actually got an account on it.
	Lionel from RT is the best.
	Of course, he's on RT. So he's defending the Russian position.
	He had a rather interesting retort to the blacktivist Russian Twitter effectiveness.
	Three questions I have.
	Being a lawyer, let's think prosecutor.
	Number one, who are the Russians?
	Russian government?
	Russian people?
	People who speak Russian?
	What?
	We don't know.
	A Russian entity.
	Number two, let's look at some of these ads.
	Anti-fracking ads?
	Excuse me.
	Anti-fracking ads?
	Black Lives Matter?
	How is that going to help Donald Trump?
	Oh, I know.
	Because it causes chaos.
	It causes a free zone of discussion.
	You nailed it, John.
	You nailed Dimension B, according to Lionel.
	And number three, if you want to look at direct, direct governmental involvement in an election, let's look no further than President Obama in Brexit.
	Let's look at our statements regarding Scottish independence and our statements regarding, let's say, Israeli elections.
	So if you want to look at this vague issue about Russian involvement and whether these issues or ads cause chaos, It leads me to this one very single simple answer to all of these accusations.
	So what?
	Nothing's proven.
	Nothing's even remotely suggesting us how this implementation takes place.
	Details don't matter.
	Just mention Russia.
	Mention RT. And we're off and running.
	Because the American public and the American social media and sock puppet media bought and sold deep state media.
	If you just say Russia, that's it.
	They just read the headline and they're off to talk about kneeling gate in the NFL or something ludicrous.
	That's where we are.
	So what?
	He needs to have one of those on set.
	Yeah.
	That's exactly it.
	I totally concur.
	So what?
	Who cares?
	Well, again, if we want to really back up two steps and go up and take one step up to meta, we say all this is is to keep this in the news cycle until 2018 so the Democrats can get some people in there.
	Yes, this is the divide and conquer strategy, which I have a number of clips for.
	I don't know if we want to do it right now because it's like three long-ish clips.
	You want to take some intermediate steps?
	Yeah, please.
	I have the Bannon blasting the Hollywood people.
	Oh, good, good, good.
	Flip.
	Chess Myers.
	I'm sorry?
	Yeah, I'm just saying.
	It was part of an interview that was a very remote, I don't know, some show somewhere.
	But I just thought he had a couple of funny things to say.
	Chess Myers.
	Thank you very much for calling.
	Listen, Andrew always said, culture is upriver from politics.
	Right now, as you know, news is kind of everything, even Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert, to drive viewership.
	The way Kimmel and Colbert are competing in late night right now is make it very political, very anti-Trump.
	Right.
	So what we're doing is exposing that.
	That's one of the reasons big Hollywood is on fire, because all we do is expose the hypocrisy of these morons in the entertainment industry.
	By the way, you've got to understand something.
	These actors and actresses, they're all dumb as ticks, and they're all lazy.
	Right?
	They're like pieces of furniture.
	Well, yeah, I see what Jennifer Lawrence did the other day.
	They said they're all dumb as ticks.
	And now she has to take a break from acting.
	By the way, by the way, that's why the movie attendance is down.
	People are tired of it.
	It's why they're not watching National Football League.
	They're cutting the court and ESPN. They've politicized everything.
	And you guys are voting with your feet, which I think is fantastic.
	Yeah.
	Oh, you were going to explain, we talked about after the show, what in sports taking a knee means.
	I did not realize it has a different, it has a meaning in sports.
	Yeah, it has a couple of meanings.
	But the overriding meaning is to give up.
	And it's used as a business metaphor.
	And generally speaking, in football, you take a knee at two possible points in a football game.
	One, when time is running out and it's going toward halftime and you're not doing well and you're worried sick that you're going to screw up even more and you have this only, you know, you could probably run two plays if you wanted to, maybe even three, but instead you take a knee.
	And you see that in a lot of, just before halftimes with teams that are losing, now they get the ball at the end, they take a knee.
	Because they've got to regroup, is what they always say.
	Oh, they've got to get into a locker room and regroup, so they take a knee.
	The other time you take a knee in football is at the end of a game.
	Where you have won the game and there's only X amount of time left and the number of downs that you have left, if you have to rotate through the play clock, it's like you've got a minute left in the game.
	Well, you don't have to take any plays.
	You can just...
	Take a knee, first down.
	Take a knee, first down.
	Right.
	No gain.
	Now it's second down.
	You take another knee and the clock starts running out.
	And then the clock gets down to zero and you hike the ball and you hike it.
	You get the ball and you take another knee.
	The time runs out.
	The game's over.
	So those are the two moments of taking a knee.
	And as a business metaphor, taking a knee means to give up.
	Yes, yes.
	Take a knee.
	Or subjugate yourself to someone.
	There's also subjugation.
	A lot of people emailed me about that.
	Well, in fact, taking knee is subjugation in the first instance, but not in the...
	The other instance where you take the knee, it's also called the victory formation.
	Oh.
	And everyone gathers around because there have been instances in games, rare, but they do happen and they happen...
	They're mostly documented.
	I mean, you also get down on one knee to propose to someone...
	Yes, you do.
	You know what happened?
	Tina's sister was here a couple weeks ago.
	We're out to dinner.
	And, of course, the sisters, oh, let's take a selfie!
	Okay.
	So I get up, I walk around, and I kneel next to Tina's chair.
	And people in the restaurant audibly go, oh, he's going to propose.
	It was very funny.
	Anyway, do you have your referee whistle handy?
	I don't.
	Ah, it's too bad.
	I'm going to dig it up because I can see where it could be useful during this era.
	By the way, I should mention just a little aside here.
	There's now a scandal of Bruin in the NFL, even though nobody wants to talk about it.
	And if any sports reporters, according to at least some sources, if any sports reporters even dare to write about it, We're going to be banished.
	Really?
	From NFL coverage.
	Holy crap.
	And that is what happened to the Oakland Raiders in the game against Washington, where apparently the quarterback didn't take a knee with the rest of the black team.
	Yeah.
	Especially the front line.
	Here's why.
	Yeah.
	What?
	No, go.
	Keep going.
	They decided not to block anybody, so the guy got sacked four times, and he was just having nothing but trouble back there.
	And the game, they lost badly.
	For all practical purposes, at least according to these sources.
	And if you look at the Oakland Raiders compared to the Washington Redskins, there's no reason for this game to go the way it did unless the team just decided to give up or just to let this guy suffer, the poor quarterback, David Carr.
	And see what happens in today's games, but...
	This is something nobody wants to talk about because it's going to open a can of worms.
	Well, here's what we need.
	When the anthem is playing and someone takes a knee, it should be made.
	Time out!
	We just wait until he gets back up.
	We wait two minutes and then we just resume.
	Oh, he's taking a knee!
	What are you playing?
	The Russian national anthem?
	That's the Star Spangled Banner.
	Sounds like the Russian...
	I have to mention one thing, which is that the thing that really got all the right-wing talkers and everybody...
	Because they had one of these phony baloney NFL does this.
	Oh, yes.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	I know what happened.
	They sent two teams that have to be made miserable.
	They fly them to London.
	Yeah.
	And so they have to play a game.
	And so they play a game.
	They're a bunch with a bunch of expats in the audience.
	The regular London public doesn't care.
	And so they played God Save the Queen and all these...
	Actually, I have to stop you.
	There are a lot of enthusiasts in Europe for what they call American football.
	And they have leagues and all kinds of stuff like that, so it's not just for the expats.
	It's a demonstration game and there's money involved.
	Continue, continue.
	Now, so they all stood up for God Save the Queen, but they all took a knee for the national anthem.
	This got everybody bent out of shape.
	Well, interesting.
	Well, first of all, We had dinner with the former New York banker and his wife Friday evening.
	They came over to the common law condo.
	Then we had, you know, I'm always interested in Cohn and Mnuchin.
	He says, neither one are going to be the Fed chair.
	No, they both screwed up.
	Well, here's what happened, he said.
	We were talking about the actual quote that the president made, which was, you know, I wish one of these owners would fire one of these sons of bitches.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, that's what he said.
	And actually, I could tell that the banker was really animated.
	It's like, what a dick!
	I'm like, really?
	Really?
	I actually asked him, do you know exactly what he said?
	And he came pretty darn close.
	I don't think he saw it himself.
	I think he's a reader, and so he probably did read the quote and got it right.
	But he said, to the New York banking set, where he comes from, this was clearly a dog whistle.
	He did it in Alabama.
	Everybody knows he did it, according to the New York financial circles.
	That he's totally...
	This was a total racist thing.
	That everybody recognized the dog whistle, particularly because it was in Alabama.
	And that has put too much pressure on Cohn and Mnuchin from their people.
	They're saying, if you...
	if you continue to work for that man then your kids will be kicked out of our private school or something like that they're both going to quit that's why Trump apparently is now interviewing for the next Fed chair it won't be Cohen or Mnuchin and I didn't argue with him because we're having a nice Friday night meal but I'm like holy crap I think he really believes this too and
	And, I guess, from your perspective or your dimension, I think you can see it that way.
	Oh, absolutely.
	I don't think there's any doubt about it.
	I think that dimension has no trouble seeing it that way.
	And, in fact, all the blacks, I think, that have been, or they're all in that dimension, more or less, not all of them, they all see...
	Trump's saying, blacks, all blacks are son of a bitches.
	Yes, yes.
	SOBs.
	But even though he could repeat the quote verbatim to me, he still also, I believe, truly thinks that that wasn't a purposeful dog whistle because it was in Alabama and what he said.
	Then it was like no doubt in his mind.
	Yeah.
	I can see that very...
	I can easily see that being the interpretation that you'd have.
	And it could...
	Valid or invalid.
	It could be valid.
	It might actually be true.
	Who knows at this point?
	I saw him doing it and it was just him hamming it up the way he does in front of large audiences.
	That's what I got out of it too.
	He says all this crazy stuff and then you're fired.
	You're fired twice.
	It's his catchphrase.
	But okay.
	What do we know?
	Other people's reality is their truth.
	That's okay by me.
	Well, it depends on what you think.
	I mean, if you really don't like Trump, then it's going to be easy to believe this.
	Whatever he does is going to be bad.
	If you love Trump, then everything is going to be good, and everyone's going to be, oh, I don't get why they're so upset.
	And if you don't care, I mean, if you're kind of neutral, like I think we are...
	You have to take the side of kind of moderation.
	You can't think that everything he does is a bunch of racist nonsense.
	And it doesn't seem like the type.
	He just doesn't like the idea.
	And it was really aimed at Kaepernick, who is a mixed race as far as I can tell.
	I got one more clip here.
	This kind of goes back to people not being allowed to cover the controversy.
	Not so apparently for Fox Sports host Shannon Sharp.
	Are you familiar with him?
	Oh, yeah.
	I can't talk like him, but he's got a crazy way of swallowing everything he says.
	Flag, see, a lot of people with symbols and patriotism.
	But what does that symbol actually mean?
	Okay, you keep telling me that the flag, it means so much and it's opportunity and freedoms and liberties.
	Okay, can you honestly say that everybody in America has freedoms and liberties and opportunities?
	No.
	Well, if you can't answer that, then we have a problem and we would like to have it addressed.
	Correct.
	And stop trying to sweep it under the rug.
	But see, as long as you paint that narrative, oh, it's the anthem.
	I can't know.
	Anybody that does something to the anthem, when we know what the anthem was originally written for and who it was written by, okay, the flag.
	Okay, we understand what the flag, what does it represent?
	When did this narrative come to be that the military and the police own the flag and only them I can go buy a flag, and I can hang it up in my backyard.
	We need to stop this, Skip.
	The flag is a piece of cloth, and nobody fights for a piece of cloth.
	Yeah, they do.
	Don't say that.
	That's the symbol of this country.
	That's what it represents.
	So they'll fight for a pair of jeans?
	You should own that.
	They'll fight for a pair of jeans.
	If that's what we had chosen in 1776, that that represented our nation, you better believe they would.
	Skip.
	The symbol.
	Well, it's the symbol of our country.
	What are you talking about?
	Okay, symbol of our country.
	So the symbol of your country is racist.
	So let me get this straight.
	You nailed it, by the way.
	You nailed it.
	You nailed it, sir.
	Not only does the national anthem have to go, the flag has to go, because it's all racist.
	Well, they're going to do the compromise.
	The flag will stay.
	But I've been watching this go on on sports channels.
	And it's very—and you talk about—I don't know who dreamed this idea up.
	Kaepernick, I don't think it was his doing.
	He was bitching about something, and he didn't have—he wasn't very erudite about explaining it.
	Well, he's the first guy who started this trend.
	And—but you see it—it's becoming a huge racial divide on—and based on definitions— On all the sports channels, all the black guys are trying to explain their side.
	All the white guys don't like the explanation.
	And it's just the funniest thing you've ever seen.
	It's ruining sports talk.
	It's ruining everything.
	All these shows that have put blacks in these positions of having to discuss stuff because they're polarized.
	They just decided they're going to take this perspective.
	They're not going to listen to anything.
	And the white guys are the same way.
	It's supposed to be about sports.
	Yes, exactly.
	This is like watching one of those so-called tech shows.
	Oh, God.
	Yeah, you're right.
	It's just as annoying.
	You are so right.
	And they're going to talk about phones all day.
	Well, not phones, but politics.
	Yeah, worse, worse, worse.
	But this is politics have crept in, and that's what I think Bannon said in this clip that we played earlier, where he says people are walking away from this because they don't listen to, they don't watch ESPN to listen to arguments about politics.
	They just don't.
	They don't like it.
	They don't want to listen.
	They don't care.
	Well, I think there's reasons for this.
	It clearly seems intentional that everybody talks about this.
	And again, we came close, but missed the mark where you were certain, and I agree, Huckleberry Finn, that book will have to go.
	I said Tom Swift, the entire early books from the 1900s, the series will have to go.
	But no, we missed it.
	We missed it.
	I can't believe we missed it.
	That it would be Dr.
	Seuss.
	Yeah, Dr.
	Seuss.
	I do have a report.
	I have a report, too.
	I'd love to hear it.
	My report is actually from the local TV station, so they have to back off a little bit because we're talking about the Massachusetts super liberal area.
	And if anybody saw the newsletter, of course, they saw this dingbat librarian who sent back the books that were sent by Melania Trump to her library when I have one thought before you play the clip.
	And there's another picture of her dressed up in a Dr.
	Seuss costume.
	That's my favorite one.
	Stolling the virtues of Dr.
	Seuss.
	So she's a phony.
	Yeah.
	She's a huge phony and she's looking for political gain.
	And she just wants to make a scene.
	I thought it was actually show-worthy is what I thought.
	This is great.
	It was definitely show-worthy.
	Yeah.
	But anyway, play your...
	No, no, I'd like to play mine after yours.
	Play yours first.
	Okay, play mine first.
	Decision by a school librarian in Cambridge is getting some national attention tonight after First Lady Melania Trump sent books to the school earlier this month as part of National Read-A-Book Day.
	The librarian sent them back.
	NBC Boston's Alicia Palumbo has reaction from Cambridge.
	They say you can't judge a book by its cover, but the librarian here at Cambridgeport Elementary School in Cambridge is judging a shipment of ten Dr.
	Seuss books sent to the school by First Lady Melania Trump for National Read-A-Book Day.
	In a lengthy letter titled, Dear Mrs.
	Trump, posted to the Horn Book Blog, librarian Liz Phipps-Soyero thanked the First Lady for this note she sent to the students, but said she was returning the books because, quote, my school doesn't have a need for these books.
	Adding, why not go out of your way to gift books to underfunded and underprivileged communities?
	She also suggested that more thought could have gone into the selection of the books, saying, Dr.
	Seuss is a bit of a cliche.
	Cambridge does not need extra books.
	Perhaps the nature of the books that are selected could be a bit more thoughtful as well.
	But while some parents supported the librarian's decision, others were surprised any school would turn away a cornerstone of learning.
	I think all books are readable.
	She should have said thank you to that, but not to send them back.
	Cambridge Public Schools said it supports its employees' right to voice personal opinions, but noted, we have counseled the employee on all relevant policies, including donations policies and the policy against public resources being used for political purposes.
	Given that we are in Cambridge Port, I think that's to be expected, that they're going to make a political statement.
	Yes, the book should have been more thoughtful, such as, I Have Two Mommies.
	Books like that make much more sense.
	Well, that's actually what she was suggesting, books like that, I Have Two Mommies.
	But the thing that I think is overlooked, and no one's asked, and I think it's the most important thing, From my perspective, or from a deconstruction perspective, is who advised Melania to send anything to that particular library, which is in a known super-liberal area.
	I mean, super-liberal area.
	Does she have a staff?
	Did she just point a finger at some library?
	And in fact, at one point the librarian did make was, why are you giving us free books?
	We don't need books.
	Why don't you give them to some poor library in a bad part of town?
	Which I agree with.
	Who is advising Melania?
	This is somebody she has working on her staff that should be fired immediately.
	Agreed.
	Agreed.
	Yeah.
	But, and actually that is the defense.
	You gave the perfect defense.
	You could appear on Fox or CNN or MSNBC as a Democratic strategist.
	This is, you know, when they can't get anybody involved in the story, my God, that's all I saw this weekend.
	Here's a Republican strategist, Democrat strategist, Libertarian strategist.
	Everyone's a strategist.
	You know what just reminds me of?
	Yeah.
	Ancient astronaut theorist, which is going to go on my next business card.
	If you watch any of these shows according to ancient astronaut theorists, then they never bring them out.
	Who are these ancient astronaut theorists?
	That would be you, sir.
	It is now.
	So here is ancient astronaut theorist LaDawn Jones, moonlighting as a democratic strategist, to explain the note, and she makes your point exactly about this being an odd choice of school, and she uses that to pretty much defend the calls that this was racist.
	And I believe I read in the note that it said that Dr.
	Seuss was racist.
	It didn't say, was it...
	What did they say in the clip?
	They had some term that was kind of funny.
	Like, unfortunate choice.
	Whatever it was.
	We're going to whether or not Dr.
	Seuss had a history of racism in his past.
	And it is true.
	Now, what we call every cat in the hat, every Dr.
	Seuss book, a picture of bigotry and racism, I think that may go a little bit too far.
	But the reality is, you know, that the librarian that called Dr.
	Seuss' works It's partly bigotry and racism.
	Spent the majority of her letter to the First Lady of the United States on something far more substantive.
	But of course, conservatives who want to accuse people who bring up racial issues as racist We'll only focus on that part of her letter.
	Here's the reality for many African Americans and people of color in the United States.
	There are parts of American history, there are famous people in American history who we have to take them for their great parts and dismiss them for the parts of them that were brought up in some of the racist and bigotry, biggest ways that America had in its history.
	And so Dr.
	Seuss, I actually had to, once I heard the story, pull out our Dr.
	Seuss books that are on my children's bookshelf and take a closer look at them so I can see exactly what it was that was the complaint.
	So you look at many of the drawings and you have to put it in the context of the times that many of these books were written.
	And you can see that there are some very stereotypical drawings of Asian Americans.
	Dr.
	Seuss was known for some very stereotypical black face drawings prior to the books that most of us are familiar with.
	He was actually a cartoonist for political ads.
	A simple Google search in the first few images that will pop up of Dr.
	Seuss, you will see where he drew very stereotypical black-faced pictures of individuals, of people portraying stereotypical views of Asian Americans and African Americans.
	And let me tell you what's absurd.
	This librarian who brought up this whole Dr.
	Seuss issue I can't believe she sent Dr.
	Seuss books to a library.
	She should be in jail.
	That's Tucker.
	Is that Tucker?
	Yeah.
	He's like surfing on our waves from time to time.
	So, here's the great irony that I just get the biggest kick out of.
	Dr.
	Seuss, Theodore Geis, I think is his name.
	I was in contact with him once when I was doing an etymology of the word nerd, which apparently he invented.
	He invented a character called the nerd.
	If I ran the zoo, that would be...
	It was 1950.
	That's the first appearance of this word.
	The dictionaries actually were changed after I published this because they never could come up with...
	Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
	So, you are responsible for the current dictionary definition of nerd.
	Yeah.
	Holy crap!
	Before I came along and did this research, they had, it was always like they said, well, it probably comes from the words ne'er-do-well squeezed together.
	Nerd, get it?
	Nerd ne'er-do-well.
	And there's no evidence of that.
	So you can trace the first use of the word nerd and the little character that he did, which looks like a nerd, you know, a computer nerd, this little guy, in If I Ran the Zoo.
	Okay.
	So he, the irony to this whole story to me is that Geist was an incredible liberal, progressive, borderline communist.
	Lived in California.
	But I'm still completely flabbergasted that you, my friend, are responsible for the definition of the word nerd in the dictionary.
	Yes.
	Yeah, it's mostly the etymology.
	I'm responsible for the etymology.
	The origins of the word are because of this.
	I believe this should be on your wiki page.
	Yeah, it should be, but I just lost it.
	If it doesn't have anything to do with me hating the Macintosh, it won't get on the wiki page.
	That's probably true.
	Well, we're going to circle around to this.
	I have a couple of clips from the author of The Creature from Jekyll Island, which I think is a recommended No Agenda book.
	It's about the...
	Have you ever read that?
	Who wrote that one?
	G. Edward Griffin.
	Oh yeah, that's the one.
	I think that's the original.
	That's the original, yeah.
	It's about the creation of the...
	Yeah, that's the one you want.
	Yeah, okay.
	And that is...
	Noagendabooks.com I think is...
	This is the website.
	You can get all of our recommendations.
	I got a couple of clips from him, which I think are interesting.
	But first, I'd like to thank you for your courage and for the dictionary definition of the word nerd.
	And see you in the morning to you, John C. Wallace.
	C stands for Capable of Slipping in a Dimension B. Double Rag.
	In the morning to you, Mr.
	Adam Curry.
	Also in the morning, the little ships at sea, boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, and all the dames and knights out there.
	Ah, the new tube is working fine.
	And in the morning, everybody, in the chatroom, noagendastream.com.
	Good to see you all here, as per usual.
	In the morning to PonoGeek.
	We reached back into the Evergreens to bring this one up.
	We may have used it somewhere, certainly in a newsletter.
	This is the Venn Diagram.
	I used it in the newsletter.
	Yeah, Venn Diagram of Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt with the face bag F in the middle.
	It's always a classic.
	We just didn't really have anything else that just fit.
	Some stuff was okay, but we're also looking for aesthetics.
	Just okay.
	Yeah.
	The title of that episode was...
	Yeah, actually, and I will say the one picture of the girl from what's the Handmaid's Tale.
	With the Playboy Bunnies?
	Yeah.
	By Comic Strip Blogger.
	I thought it was a very smart piece, but it was...
	It was not centered.
	It was too bland.
	It wasn't quite...
	What do you call it?
	The layout was kind of weird.
	Yeah, it was just like...
	Listen to us, professional critics.
	We're critics of art now.
	You guys stink!
	Thanks, people.
	Yes, sir.
	Oh, sorry.
	Were you walking away?
	Oh, he's probably going to play a clip.
	Eric Cowley comes in, the top guy, our top executive producer, $390.93, and he says, calling out Dvorak as a douchebag.
	Douchebag!
	We're not yet going on Grimerica.
	They are very kind with their...
	Douchebag in the sense that we use it, but I will do the show.
	Yeah, that's what you say now.
	What did I say now?
	Yeah.
	Charles F. Drumgoole, or Gooley, G-O-O-L-E, 330-333, and he's got some email from cdrum at cdrum.com, and I do have an email from him.
	Yes.
	Hello, I just donated 333 on PayPal from the account of PayPal, blah, blah, blah.
	Since the comment box is short, not really, for you, I thought I'd send an email.
	Note, last time I donated was back in April 2010 of $200 from the email, the same address.
	For accounting purposes, I will eventually want to become a knight.
	Now, on to the note to be read.
	Oh, I guess that wasn't meant to be read.
	Hi, American expat in Singapore here.
	I'd like to request...
	No, I said, oh, hello.
	Hi, ex-pat in Singapore.
	I'd like to request a de-douching since the last time.
	Yeah.
	You've been de-douched.
	I'm off today.
	Smooth as silly.
	Let me tell you, everything's gone wrong.
	The coffee cup wasn't under the coffee thing.
	There's coffee everywhere.
	I love that.
	It's the worst.
	And then I'm like, I want to make yogurt with granola and I have my thumb on the top to kind of the chunks of granola are too big and I'm shaking it.
	Top comes off.
	There's granola everywhere.
	So this is par for the course.
	It's me.
	So are you still using that Keurig?
	Yes, in the morning, certainly.
	Why?
	Apparently they're like cockroach attractants.
	And you also can't clean out the tubes.
	I don't know.
	I think it might be a health risk.
	That's interesting you say that.
	I've had some stomach issues.
	I don't know what it's related to.
	Could be that.
	I suppose if you ran a bunch of boiling water through it just blank for a while, over and over and over again, it might clean it out.
	Now you made me not want my coffee.
	Yum.
	All right.
	So it's all me.
	I'd like to request a de-douching since the last time and only time I donated way back in 2010 for episode 200 to join the Deuce Club.
	I've listened mostly consistently since then, although there were breaks from time to time.
	I've come to rely on no agenda for my news link back in the States to keep tabs on what's really going on.
	Sadly, it's not pretty.
	And that's from our news.
	You should be listening to the M5M. You'd be dead.
	My wife still wonders why I subject myself to the pain and suffering of listening to what's happening stateside.
	Her words.
	Anyways, I would like to request some jobs karma as my current job is going away at the end of this year due to restructuring.
	I'm working on a startup idea and trying to secure funding which will allow me to move beyond the BS advertising industry for good.
	And into more interesting stuff and hopefully allow me to not have to be a slave to the big corporations.
	Fingers crossed.
	Thanks for all your hard work and I hope that many more episodes to come.
	Yours, Chris Drumgool from Singapore.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	You've got karma.
	Caesar, Caesar Baptista.
	Or Cesar.
	Probably Cesar.
	Cesar.
	Cesar or Baptista.
	33. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Boom, boom, boom.
	Hold on.
	So he says he's been freeloading, but only for about a month, so he's a new listener.
	Recently...
	Where's he from?
	I don't have a town.
	Doesn't say.
	Recently found myself digging into the archives for the NA SPIN post-election.
	SPIN? Uh...
	Before I need a...
	It's not spin, it's de-spin.
	De-spin.
	Before I need a de-douching, here's a down payment on a knighthood.
	You've been de-douched.
	I want to give him some karma since he's new.
	You've got karma.
	Can never hurt.
	Okay.
	The problem I have here is because, and this is my fault, because I actually sent this note in to Eric to plug in.
	Yeah.
	And it's like clogged up the whole screen.
	Adam and John, this has been a long time coming as I've been listening almost since the beginning.
	Well, let's stop.
	It's Jonathan Meyer.
	Yes.
	$333.
	I'm sorry.
	I'm not following the donation reading protocol.
	Yes, you're not.
	As soon as you get to the word help me retain my sanity, I can take it.
	This has been a long time coming as I've been listening almost since the beginning.
	I don't remember exactly which show I started on, but it was before 10.
	Wow.
	And this show, it's 10, and we're coming up on 10 years.
	Hello, my friend.
	Yeah, 1010.
	This show has literally helped me retain my sanity through all the doom and gloom that is fed to everyone via the M5M. He says he's been a freeloading douchebag.
	Might as well give him one.
	Oh my goodness.
	Douchebag!
	For about six years until my wife called me out.
	Huh.
	At that point I realized I had no excuse, so I've been on the $50 a month plan since then, which, give him a de-douching, I shouldn't have been so hasty.
	You've been de-douched.
	You were a bit hasty.
	I realized a few months back that I'd passed the knighthood threshold but decided to hold off the knighthood until the stars aligned on show 969.
	My birthday, 33, is 969 palindrome, as well as the number 69.
	We're too much to pass up.
	We do not have him on the birthday list that I know of.
	Oh, I think he is.
	It seems to be highlighted in yellow.
	I read Inside Track from my dad's PC magazine stack since I was probably 10.
	So John's cynical take on technology was what interested me in the show initially.
	I didn't grow up with TV or MTV in this case.
	Well, good for you.
	So I hadn't been exposed to Adam before, but I couldn't think of a better pair!
	And that would include me.
	The different but complimentary life experiences that you both draw on makes the show a true joy to be part of.
	Kudos for pioneering this model.
	It's true.
	We pioneered it.
	To express your viewpoints without being beholden.
	Beholden to those horrible advertisers.
	NJNK. I just wish to be knighted as Sir GIS Jedi Knight of the Gem City.
	I'd like to request a McAllen to take the place of mutton.
	You can't take the place of mutton with another booze.
	So it'd be McAllen and mead?
	We need McAllen and something.
	We need to add something.
	McAllen and...
	I don't know.
	I got it since he's in Singapore.
	Let's make it McAllen and dim sum.
	Dim sum it is on the list for the round table.
	Good one.
	As not being much of a meat eater, I'd prefer...
	Well, dim sum's not much meat.
	I much prefer a good scotch.
	Oh, and thanks also to JC for this great recommendation that ended up starting me on a minor scotch obsession.
	Good.
	McCallan.
	Well, you're not only on a minor scotch obsession, but your bank account's going to fade.
	Yeah.
	You know, McCallan used to get...
	I'm going to just throw this out there.
	You used to be able to get McCallan 25...
	For $125.
	And anybody who buys McAllen will really appreciate hearing that.
	What does it cost now?
	Probably double that.
	No, no, it's around $500.
	For $25, it's really expensive.
	It's outrageous.
	It's not like, you know, it hasn't been sitting there, didn't do anything.
	It's been sitting there.
	As a McAllen, as someone who really does like a McAllen, If you really like McAllen, the one you want is the McAllen 18.
	Oh, okay.
	That's the one you want.
	And what does that go for?
	The 12 is good.
	The 18 is probably $150, $180, something like that.
	Maybe.
	I don't know.
	I don't buy it.
	But connoisseurs will tell you that McAllen 18 is better than the 25.
	And I got into an argument at a scotch bar with a guy.
	You don't say.
	So I'm saying, you know, I'm a cognac drinker.
	And the guy says to me, this guy says, what McAllen do you like?
	I said, I like the McAllen 25.
	And he says, why?
	I said, well, because it's really smooth and it reminds me of a good cognac.
	And the guy says, well, then it ain't scotch, is it?
	And did you bop him right in the nose?
	And then he said, you said McAllen18U1.
	So I just, since he beat me on that one, I had to give in to that logic.
	Anyway, it's not too much to ask.
	My software company is in need of cloud engineers in the Dayton area, and I'd love to talk with you about the interesting work we do.
	You can find me on Twitter or at GitHub at GISJedi.
	All right.
	And JNK, and he'll be a knight later on.
	So looking forward to that.
	Yep.
	Absolutely.
	We dropped a associate executive producer with Chad Watson in Euless, Texas.
	Now, I don't see a note here, so I'm going to quickly go on through the...
	The squirrel mails.
	Squirrel mail.
	If I can find my cursor.
	What else is new?
	There he is.
	I got it.
	Okay.
	Chad Watson.
	Search Watson.
	Squirrel mail is great for this.
	From the man who brought you the word nerd comes squirrel mail.
	Alright, let's see what Chad has to say here.
	I'm sure he's got a note.
	Chad, Colette, Colette, Brian?
	No Chad.
	No Chad.
	No jingles, no karma, no Chad.
	Okay, no chat.
	It's a hanging chat.
	Christopher Dolan in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
	Nuts.
	I believe it's Sir Christopher Dolan.
	Sir Christopher, you're right.
	Please give me a shout at Karma.
	Thank you for the best podcast in the universe.
	Absolutely.
	No problem.
	You've got Karma.
	And that's our group of three associates and two executive producers.
	Or whatever you want to call them, advertising.
	Yes.
	For show 969, I want to thank these folks for producing this show.
	Well, it's very important that we call them executive producers and associate executive producers because that is the title you receive hereby.
	And that means that these are official.
	Just like any other media property, you can use that title anywhere you want.
	We thank you very much for your courage.
	It's appreciated.
	And I also want to thank whoever sent me.
	I don't know who it is.
	I searched my squirrel mail.
	Couldn't find it.
	Someone sent me a challenge coin which commemorates the Atlas V launch of the National Reconnaissance Office I got one too.
	Number 42.
	That's a beautiful coin.
	I know.
	It's nice.
	So who sent that?
	Do we know?
	I don't know.
	It just came.
	I looked on the box and I couldn't figure it out.
	And look at this.
	Like 30...
	S-W-N-R-O. I know what that is.
	National Reconnaissance Office.
	Then S-L-C-3-E-U-L-A-S-M-C. The ultimate answer.
	That's on the coin.
	They are the ultimate answer.
	The fourth space launch.
	S-Q. What's S-Q? What do you think?
	I don't know.
	Supra Summus.
	What is it with the...
	Is that like a hitchhiking hand in the galaxy?
	Or someone outstretching their hand?
	I have no idea.
	I don't have the coin in front of you.
	You should take a look.
	Tina and I really looked at it.
	It has a lot of symbolism.
	It's got a lot of stuff going on.
	NATO symbols.
	Well, the 42, and also because it's got 42, maybe that hand is actually from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
	Right.
	Well, we know it's a joke.
	It is.
	They do a lot of humor in these coins.
	Yeah, it's obviously...
	It's cool, though.
	I like it, so I appreciate whoever sent it to me.
	Send me an email, let me know.
	And a reminder that we will have another program coming up on Thursday.
	A lot to cover.
	Whatever happens today and tonight, inspects it.
	We'll cover that if possible.
	You always need to remember that the model only works if you help us, you support us with your information, your jingles, your clips, your artwork, and the finances to keep the show running because you're the producers.
	And you can do that at Dvorak.org.
	So while you are following the coverage of Spexit after the show, why not propagate the formula?
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Order! Order!
	Shut up!
	Shut up!
	All righty.
	Since you're talking about the rocket, do a little rocket intermezzo.
	Musk!
	Oh, no.
	Oh, jeez.
	Oh, Elon!
	How would you like to get anywhere on Earth in under an hour?
	SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has a plan to do it, releasing video that imagines a rocket taking travelers from New York to Shanghai in just 39 minutes.
	Musk claims that eventually a seat would cross about the same as an economy plane ticket.
	But the rocket, which is also intended for missions to Mars, is still in the design phase.
	Elon!
	This guy can say anything he wants.
	Anything he wants.
	Adam, you can take a rocket ride right from the backyard there to Perth for $150 in an hour.
	Half hour.
	Come on!
	Just about rockets and space and just tie in North Korea.
	James Woolsey let me see According to James Woolsey, the North Koreans have a couple of satellites, which I think is well known.
	They have satellites, correct?
	They've got some satellites floating around.
	I don't know if they have two, but I know they've got one.
	Well, one is known as, one or the one, is known as the EMP satellite, according to Woolsey.
	I'm still looking for verification and or a clip.
	That would be great.
	Former director of CIA, he says that one satellite, they call the EMP satellite, has a nuclear device intended to be triggered, if necessary, to explode in space above the United States, which it crosses twice a day, which could possibly or more than likely create an electromagnetic pulse and cripple us.
	It's a great thought.
	It's a great thought.
	Yeah.
	Well, he's got the right costume for it.
	He's got the Dr.
	Evil outfit.
	He does.
	So I need to find confirmation.
	This really came from rules.
	This is bullcrap.
	It probably is.
	But when you think about it, why wouldn't you?
	If you could do it, it would make nothing but sense.
	Yeah, well, then the Russians have them crisscrossed.
	It wouldn't do crap.
	Well, let's go on with it.
	We're going to talk about North Korea.
	I want to come back to it.
	Yes.
	Now, we both know Morrell, Mike Morrell.
	Wait, wait, wait.
	Stop, stop, stop.
	What I teased in the A Block was the wrap-up of the racial tension and the divide.
	Remember?
	Oh, I completely know.
	If I'd remember it, I'd let you un-tease it, but I thought we were just going to do another one of those teases that we just never forget.
	No, I told you I have three clips of G. Edward Griffin, remember?
	Yeah, you shouldn't be doing that teasing thing.
	Oh, well, I'm sorry I just teased it, because before we go into it, I have a little clip from the most recent Bill Maher show on HBO. Wait, now you're going to extend the tease?
	Yes, it's a setup.
	It's more a setup than a tease.
	Okay, well that's fine.
	It's getting pretty technical, John.
	I don't know if none of the audience cares that much.
	They don't.
	All right.
	He had April Ryan on.
	You know her from CNN, CNN's.
	John Heilman, who I think you know, right?
	Yeah, I do.
	He is pretty much the voice of reason here.
	And Tom Morello, who is now tagged as an activist.
	And I always love it when Mark goes against the narrative of the left.
	Because he's good at it and he's very sincere.
	And that's why I think he's still watchable.
	Actually, for the No Agenda producer or host, he's extremely watchable because it's just funny to see people say crazy stuff.
	And this was about the morality of punching a Nazi.
	Remember the guy, there was a photo that went viral, some guy.
	He didn't have swastikas, but he had some kind of neo-Nazi.
	It was literally neo-Nazi-esque type uniform that he was wearing.
	Okay.
	And so the question is, when someone does that, what should you do?
	And apparently it's considered okay by some people on the panel to punch a person like that.
	Just punch him.
	Yeah, and there's reasoning behind it.
	But we have to go by principles and not feelings.
	That's what the other side does.
	You can't just punch Nazis.
	The First Amendment says the government can't pass laws that abridge free speech.
	I mean, I grew up in the home with an anti-fascist.
	This is Heilman, by the way.
	He's a pretty voice of reason here.
	It was my uncle, who was a World War II veteran who fought against fascism.
	And if he was riding that bus and saw a Nazi symbol of someone who wanted to throw all Jews into ovens and ethnically cleanse all colored people from the planet, my 90-year-old uncle, if he was alive, would have punched that son of a bitch in the face, and I would have had his back.
	The violence.
	See?
	Voice of reason.
	He's throwing juice into ovens violence?
	But this guy was not throwing juice into ovens.
	This is a nut on a bus in Seattle.
	It's gotten so good.
	What did the Nazis do?
	Daddy, what did the Nazis do?
	Oh, honey, they threw Jews into ovens.
	Got any more questions?
	Is throwing Jews into ovens violence?
	But this guy was not throwing Jews into ovens.
	This is not on a bus and sea.
	It was intimidating using an insignia that breeds hate and it's talking about death.
	But I don't think he was, it wasn't a swastika armband.
	He didn't actually use the swastika, as far as I recall from the photo.
	But it looked very...
	It was neo-Nazi, for sure.
	But, you know, this misinformation is tough to bear.
	So we get to punch him in the face?
	No, I don't believe in violence.
	I don't believe in violence.
	But there needs to be something, something.
	This man should have...
	But wait a second.
	So we can or can't punch Nazis?
	No, he should have been talking to them.
	To me, that doesn't seem like a complicated issue.
	So it's just how you...
	It's just what they're doing.
	Exactly.
	We don't believe in the Supreme Court.
	The Supreme Court said they could march in Soki.
	Right.
	And we just saw that they were allowed to march.
	I mean, this is what the First Amendment says.
	Even if something is odious, this is America.
	You are allowed to express it.
	If you throw the principal out the window and just say, it's how I feel, then you're just as bad as them.
	But you know, Bill, they're all...
	First of all, I'm not as bad.
	Just because I want Nazis to be punched is not making me as bad as people who want to throw all Jewish balls in the oven.
	We all want them to be punched.
	We live in a nation of laws.
	They can be confronted by better speech and more speech.
	That's the kind of principle here.
	The notion is, I think, that obviously, if someone is about to do violence...
	Notice nobody claps for that when he says, hey, more speech and better speech is the answer.
	Everyone's quiet.
	Because...
	Come on, man, he's a Nazi.
	You should punch him in the face.
	More speech.
	That's the kind of principle here.
	Which is called inciting violence.
	Notion is, I think, that obviously if someone is about to do violence, if someone shows up with a torch or with a club and is threatening someone, punching that torch.
	About to do violence.
	If someone shows up with a torch or with a club and is threatening someone, punching that person is fine.
	But you should be allowed, again, according to Bill's principles, the First Amendment, the Constitution, all the things we believe, you should be allowed to speak.
	Without being punched in the face.
	Unless it's Omaha Beach.
	Or sit on a bus.
	So we should be able to say that we hate Nazis.
	We hate Nazism.
	We hate fascism.
	We're against it.
	It's also saying we don't like violence.
	There's this dog whistle that's been going around the nation.
	And people are listening to the call.
	And the problem is, some of these old laws need to be revisited because they just don't fit some of what's going on.
	And the bottom line...
	These old, crazy laws.
	Like, what's that first one again?
	Oh yeah, that free speech thing, we gotta revisit that.
	Congress shall make no law against free speech.
	So limitations on punching needs to be revisited.
	No, we need to add it, that there's an exception to the rule.
	No, you must punch a nut.
	Congress shall make no rule against punching a Nazi if he's throwing a Jew in the oven!
	It's been going around the nation, and people are listening to the call.
	And the problem is, some of these old laws need to be revisited because they just don't fit some of what's going on.
	And the bottom line, he has freedom of speech, but yes, he was intimidating, inciting, and that is not right.
	And also, this is what bothers me.
	Here's the irony of this.
	She's talking about, you know, he was inciting by sitting on a bus like a nerd, in case you want to know how to just look it up, with an armband.
	And that is inciting violence.
	Incite is the specific word, I told you to track this, that the Supreme Court said if speech incites violence, then it is not protected by the First Amendment.
	But what they are doing is in fact inciting violence by saying it's okay to punch a Nazi.
	Irony is just lost on these people.
	And that is not right.
	And also, this is what bothers me about liberals.
	There are no Nazis throwing Jews in the ovens now in America.
	This thing about doing something that looks like it takes courage and it doesn't take courage.
	Bill, first of all, I'm not a liberal.
	But the difference between Charlottesville and Boston was very, very clear.
	The odds were even in Charlottesville, and that's when someone got killed with teaching torches in the streets.
	In Boston, the Nazis were outnumbered 20 to 1, and they hid in the little cabana, Coppola place, scared to death, and asked for the police to take them out of there because people stood up and said, we're not going to, under any circumstances, allow this ideology to be one that has reign in the United States of America.
	But they did it in a peaceful and nonviolent way in Boston.
	Very effectively.
	That's what they did.
	They felt comfortable marching without hoods there because they are now without hoods in the Oval Office.
	I'm going to say something.
	Harry Belafonte.
	Yeah, baby!
	We got the hoods in the Oval Office.
	Nice one, Morell.
	Hold on a second.
	Douchebag!
	Meyer said something important there, I believe.
	We have become, certainly the United States, and I think it's a worldwide phenomenon, we have become a nation of activism which is not done through any actual actions other than Virtue signaling, changing your icon on Twitter or the face bag, taking a knee.
	That's it.
	That's all it takes anymore.
	That's all you need.
	Someone else will take care of the actual problem.
	Somehow we've been conditioned into, if I say something on the face bag, then I am doing something.
	And that's all.
	This to me is not new.
	I mean, we've become, yes, but when did we become?
	I think we became almost the day the internet was in play once the actual browsers came into existence around 93.
	So after Gopher?
	Yeah, yeah.
	Luckily, squirrel male's still there.
	Gophers is always named after rodents.
	Well, that's because of O'Reilly.
	O'Reilly's books always had animals for the explanation.
	Gopher came before O'Reilly, I can assure you.
	Anyway, the point is that I noticed this even before we started doing the show, where there would be some Some law that we had to not pass.
	And so everybody made a big fuss on the internet about it.
	It sucks.
	We can't do this.
	And then it passed.
	And everybody stopped bitching about it because it was like they did their part.
	For some reason, everybody thinks they did their part when they make their complaint on Facebook.
	Which I still believe we should make a daily, or I'm sorry, every show feature, reading some of the crap you run into.
	Because these are people that they've got it out of their system.
	They wrote their poison pen letter, open letter to the public.
	So glad you asked.
	And they think they've accomplished something.
	That's what that librarian did.
	Instead of just sending the books back or not doing anything and putting the picture in a frame, collecting it, she made a big fuss and she made a big...
	Virtue signaling is exactly what it is.
	I did my part.
	You didn't do anything.
	And nobody does anything.
	That's all they do is they sit on their duffs and then they write these nasty notes and they think that's accomplished something.
	That's why Trump won and that's why Trump will win again.
	Would you like a little face bag read?
	I would love it.
	This is...
	By the way, stop.
	Was that part of the tease?
	The tease is over.
	I'm ready to go.
	But if you want, I can...
	It was very smooth.
	Thank you.
	I can do a little face bag read if you want, though.
	That's what I always want.
	Okay, this is from Amy Siskind.
	She is president and co-founder of The New Agenda.
	How about that?
	Former Wall Street exec.
	And she's an advocate for women's and LGBT rights.
	I'm very happy for her.
	She has been tracking her weeks, or actually the weeks of authoritarianism.
	This week, DHS informed 21 states they were targeted by Russia.
	Strangely, a year later and on a late afternoon on a Friday.
	Trump, who benefited from a slight approval rating reprieve courtesy of positive media coverage, continues to deny.
	Where was this?
	General, amazing media is all in for Trump.
	What are you talking about?
	Get off my feed.
	Get off my wall.
	Trump, who benefited from a slight approval rating reprieve courtesy of positive media coverage, continues to deny Russian involvement and to act erratically and unbefitting of the office on both foreign policy and domestic issues.
	Trump also continues to ignore what is shaping up to be a humanitarian crisis in Puerto Rico.
	And then she has a list, which is quite lengthy.
	But it's really what happened during the week that proves that we are in an authoritarian state.
	I would say it's an authoritarian death spiral.
	Yeah, that's even better.
	Number one, in a series of bizarre Sunday morning tweets, Trump referred to Kim Jong-un as Rocket Man, retweeted a criticism of a New York Times story, and retweeted two of his own tweets.
	Don't you know you're not supposed to do that?
	I actually got, you know, sometimes I retweet the no agenda quotes if I like it.
	Yeah.
	People take offense to that.
	You're retweeting yourself, man?
	Yeah.
	Since when did this become...
	You're not retweeting yourself.
	You're retweeting with something somebody drew from the show.
	Well, it's worse because it's my quote, I guess, or something.
	Then I'm retweeting myself.
	I'm sorry.
	No, you're not.
	I think they're wrong.
	I know these rules.
	Two.
	Trump also retweeted a gif of him hitting Hillary with a golf ball in the head, sparking criticism for the violent imagery against the female political opponent.
	Of course, elected Republicans remain silent.
	You really do like this segment, don't you?
	I do.
	I love it.
	Three.
	The original account of the golf gif was from AtFuckedUpMind, whose Twitter feed is full of racist, anti-Semitic, and anti-LGBTQ tweets.
	You know why he got that?
	He probably follows him.
	Uh, four.
	Trump began his first UN remarks by mentioning Trump World Tower.
	Oh yeah, I actually saw great potential right across the street, to be honest with you.
	It's kind of a news rundown.
	But then, I'll just, I'll skip down a little bit.
	Here we go, 11.
	Pew Research reported America's image has suffered since Trump took office.
	In a survey spanning 37 nations, only 22% of confidence Trump is doing the right thing in international affairs, which Obama had 64%.
	Take that!
	Didn't say take that.
	Sure does.
	Really?
	Yeah.
	Let's see what else we have.
	There were some weird ones, even weirder.
	Oh, boy.
	There's some immigration stuff.
	You want to hear that?
	I'm telling you, here's what you got to do.
	You have to take this segment more seriously.
	I think you're right.
	I really have to shape it into a fewer segment.
	And that means you've got to find these things like this and then you have to do some editing so you can go through that list and just read it.
	I mean, not edit so you don't shape it.
	I understand what you're saying.
	You're right.
	I do have to do that.
	Yeah, take chunks out.
	But don't edit, obviously, the wordage because this is the best part.
	But I think that there's a goldmine here.
	I think you could do just a podcast.
	A standalone.
	The week in face bag posts.
	Because it seems more interesting than the YouTube video compilations.
	Just these people ranting.
	But again, I think it brings us back to our original point, which is they think they're accomplishing something.
	They get it out of their system and they've done their part.
	In fact, they've done nothing but bitch.
	Yes.
	Okay, so I will do that.
	I will take the segment seriously.
	You kind of caught me off guard.
	I didn't realize you wanted that.
	Now I understand how important it is to the show.
	It's only important to the show as comic relief.
	Sometimes we're not that funny.
	Now we're going to kind of wrap all of this up.
	With three clips that I found on a podcast, which was the nice part about it.
	So it's not mic'd very well, but it's not horrible to listen to.
	Not as bad, much better than we've heard in the past.
	G. Edward Griffin, author of The Creature from Jekyll Island, which is about the, I guess, secret meeting that took place, Jekyll Island, right off, is that Georgia, Jekyll Island?
	I don't remember.
	I think so.
	Where the Federal Reserve was created, the control of money.
	The Central Bank of the United States.
	By the Rothschilds.
	Yes, by the Rothschilds.
	Now, what do you know about Griffin besides this book?
	I mean, he's a serious guy.
	I don't know anything about him.
	I could look him up on the Wikipedia as we speak, and maybe I can find something.
	Yeah, why don't you do that while I start off these clips?
	What's his first name?
	It's G. Edward Griffin.
	So I don't know what the G stands for, but G. Edward Griffin.
	But his book has been on the No Agenda Recommended book list for a long time.
	And I've read it, certainly.
	Is it I-N? Or O-A-B-I-N? I-N. There he is.
	Okay, go on.
	Well, tell me.
	What does it say?
	Well, he's still alive, I guess.
	Yes.
	He's an older gentleman.
	He's probably in his late...
	He was born at 31.
	He's an American far-right conspiracy theorist.
	There you go.
	That's how it starts.
	Yeah, okay.
	Well, stop, because if you listen to this in that headspace, yeah, of course.
	He is discussing the divide and conquer strategy that has been ongoing for a long time, not just against the United States, but certainly is coming to a head.
	He actually has a name for the stage that we're in right now.
	But first, we'll start with him trying to explain the divide and conquer strategy.
	Well, I think that the only way to understand this It's so-called confusion because I don't think it really is confusion.
	I think the confusion is part of the design.
	Put those two things together.
	I think what we're seeing is the unfolding of, I would call it a master plan.
	It's nothing new.
	In the old days we used to study it in history books and it was called divide and conquer.
	but today it's called information dominance and different names but it boils down to the same thing there is a group of people in the world who have an agenda and it's not in our best interest it's a group that really doesn't have a name Different people call it different things.
	They call it the powers that be, you know, because we can't really put a handle on it.
	The deep stage.
	The deep stage, yeah, or the oligarchy.
	And all of those works are valid in a sense.
	But the fact of the matter is, in my view, that there is a group of people that are pretty much running the shill behind the scenes.
	And they're not the ones that we read too much about in the newspapers.
	And they're not the ones we vote for when we go into the polls.
	They're these, you know, the hidden forces, the ones which control the money system.
	If you can control money in the world, you've got a big, long lever, as you can imagine.
	As Lord Rothschild said a couple of centuries ago, he says, I care not who passes the laws as long as I have the ability to make the money.
	Because you can buy the politicians and you can pay for the armies that will put the kings on the throne and so forth.
	So those with really deep pockets, if you want to simplify it, are...
	I'm certainly in that category.
	They're not the only ones, by the way, but they're in the category because they can literally buy up nations.
	And meanwhile, the people are going to the polls and voting for the candidates that have been selected by these more hidden forces, and they think they're participating in their own political destiny because they vote for candidate A or candidate B, and the candidates are always arguing against each other, so they say, oh, we've got a choice here, right?
	Well, not really, because they agree on...
	Fundamental issues that are important.
	So it's very no agenda thinking.
	I don't think it's that crackpotty conspiracy.
	What I found interesting is that what we typically have called divide and conquer has now called things like information dominance.
	And it hit me.
	This is why guys like Congressman Adam Schiff, who's on the Intelligence Committee, are so adamant about this and so freaked out about the Russian ads on Twitter, because that is all, I think, really the intelligence agencies do anymore.
	They're probably much more engrossed in propagandistic practices, information dominance, making sure that stuff spreads through social networks.
	I mean, the FBI director had, Mueller, the guy investing in the president, had an office in FaceBag when he was director of the FBI. So I think that's why they're all freaked out about this, or why they're using it, To blame Russia, perhaps.
	Maybe it was them doing all this stuff.
	It backfired.
	Who knows?
	But it seems to me that I like that information dominance.
	I hadn't thought about it that way.
	That is actually the new version of divide and conquer.
	I like it.
	I like it.
	I mean, this guy, he is nuts.
	But that doesn't mean he's not right about certain things.
	And I like it.
	And we have to remember the tech experts that Hillary had in place.
	And remember Internet in a Suitcase?
	That guy was great.
	Yes.
	Wait a minute.
	Do we still have that?
	Let me see.
	I bet you we have a clip still.
	Yes, internet in a suitcase.
	Let me see.
	This may be an end-of-show thing.
	I get a lot of invitations to speak these days, but most of them are a lot less cool than this one.
	Usually the cool invitations go to my colleague Ian Shuler, who's our resident techie in the Bureau of Human Rights, Democracy, and Labor.
	Ian's going to be speaking later this afternoon on a panel with Sasha Minrath about the Internet in a Suitcase program that we're doing funding, and it's being done here at New America.
	Good times, the Internet in a Suitcase.
	Yeah, that's great.
	Sounds like a bad ISP ad.
	We tried to fit it into a box.
	Instead, we're giving you Internet in a Suitcase.
	Enjoy your Internet!
	That was all during the Hillary period.
	So let's continue clip two with Griffin from the creature of Jekyll Island.
	And he's going to link more of the strategy now to current events.
	This is the long view, the big view.
	And so the strategy that these people have been using, and I've studied this for a long time, and they're very clear about it.
	If you get to their documents and their books, you'll find they're very frank about the way to take over a system is to divide it and to get everybody at each other's throat.
	The concept of us against them.
	If you can get We're masters of this in the day of communist revolutions and so forth.
	They have written textbooks on this.
	And I studied those as a young guy.
	I was really curious about how these things work.
	And they say, go into a country, and if we're interested in taking over that country from the inside, The way you do it is you look for something where there is a potential division.
	Now, in some countries, it might be religion.
	There might be a great clash of religion.
	In others, it might be racial.
	In others, it might be economic status.
	Whatever it is, let's find what it is.
	And we will try and go into both sides.
	And until finally we can, if we generate violence ourselves, we'll actually hire people who are experts at this, but also we'll use inflammatory propaganda so that we'll bring out of the woodwork people who are innocent.
	And we see this going on right now in America today.
	The left versus the right, there's no Are you bored?
	No.
	Oh, I thought you were clicking something.
	No, no, I was smashing a tin can.
	Oh, okay.
	With my fists.
	I know, you've got to stay sharp.
	I think they're left and right and so forth because they've been told.
	Or some white nationalists who are fed up with being told that they're hateful people and they don't like all of the privileges given to these violent black groups and so forth, funded by Georgetown.
	How come these people can get away with violence and hatred and they call us the haters and so they get mad?
	They really get ticked off.
	And so this is the trick.
	They're trying to get people from both sides, the genuine people, fooled and angered and blinded by passion and hatred.
	And now we really have a race war, you see.
	But it wouldn't never have happened if it hadn't been orchestrated and financed and strategized.
	From the very beginning.
	So, when you ask me the question, what's my take on it, I see this merely as the continuation of this strategy that has been known by political scientists for a long time.
	This is nothing new.
	It's nothing mysterious.
	You can go to any well-stocked library and get books on this strategy.
	While you still can, I wouldn't be so sure of that in the future.
	Books will always be available because nobody reads them.
	Well, there's that.
	The more I listen to him, and just thinking of other stuff that we've played this morning, the more I'm thinking that this may all be a desperate cover-up.
	Because, yeah, the ads that the Russians put there, the Russian IPSs, I have a feeling that those were originated in the United States by people who actually have this strategy in mind.
	And it's probably historically from socialist groups or anti-fascists.
	Actually, and I wish I had the document for this because I was going to bring it up on a show and I forgot about it.
	There's actually an American strategy which really goes beyond, I mean it's kind of what he's talking about, that goes beyond what those old socialist groups did.
	The idea that we have from an intelligence perspective is to set up parallel operations.
	Exact parallel operations.
	You go into a country and there's some party, the MLFPQ. Right, you get the pro camp and the contra camp.
	And that's a group.
	Well, you know, you do parallel.
	So you set up a group claiming to be the same as them.
	Oh.
	So you have your group and you say, no, those guys are the phonies.
	Well, so that would be Black Lives Matter versus Blacktivists.
	Exactly.
	Wow, it is the strategy.
	You've got to find out what strategy this is.
	This is an American strategy that is developed.
	I think it was developed out of Monterey or one of these military think tanks.
	And there's books about it.
	And the guy who's responsible for it, some colonel or something.
	But I had all these details.
	And I don't know what I did, how I lost it.
	But I remember reading all the stuff.
	I go, this is the way to do it.
	Somebody sets up shop.
	And this is all counterintelligence stuff.
	Somebody sets up shop doing, selling something and claiming to be the king of it.
	It's almost a marketing strategy.
	Yeah.
	You set up the exact same program that is just the same thing.
	You claim it to be the same.
	It does the same stuff and everything like it.
	Now you're in competition.
	And at some point, you should be able to, you know, since you got the funding, you could put the other guys out of business.
	That's in the marketing sense.
	In the political sense, it's exactly what we saw with the blacktivist thing.
	You set up shop.
	They, you know, supposedly got it as popular as the other ones.
	If they didn't, they could claim they were.
	No, we're more popular than they are.
	But check it out.
	Then you co-opt.
	Then you can co-opt.
	Following this theory, and I'm totally on board.
	Following that, so we have the exact textbook being implemented.
	The Twitter account was at Blacktivists.
	So they're following the exact same strategy.
	Then we have the scripted Anderson Pooper interview where they don't even question the popularity because, look, they're more successful than the other group.
	John, you've nailed it.
	It's that strategy, but it's an American strategy.
	Yes, it's an American strategy.
	This is not something you find in those old books.
	So it's even worse than it appears, as the strategy is purposely being unfolded and exposed by saying, oh, look what's been happening.
	Well, in this case, it's to blame the Russians.
	Well, no, they're blaming the Russians because they don't want anyone to know.
	Yeah, that's what I mean.
	That's what you have to do.
	You can't give away the fact that this is all you.
	I know.
	So what I'm saying is they're highlighting it to make it worse.
	Right, exactly.
	And here's the final clip.
	This is the consolidation phase.
	That's the final phase of the strategy.
	Let's see if we're close to it.
	There's the final phase in this thing.
	It's called consolidation.
	That's what they call it.
	And the consolidation phase comes when finally the population is so frightened and so fed up by this violence, which they think is genuine.
	They think the whole country has gone crazy, when in fact it's.0000001%, you know, but orchestrating and always doing their theater performance in front of cameras.
	That's fantastic.
	to the rest of the country is that this is everywhere and so with five ten thousand people you can make it look like it's a national revolution and so The poor bloke at home, you know, drinking his beer and watching his television or whatever he drinks.
	Maybe it's tea.
	And he said, hey, Myrtle, look at this.
	This country's coming apart.
	I mean, they're going to be in our streets pretty soon.
	So now everybody's set up.
	If there is a real clash and some real blood in the streets, these same groups who have their people in government as well will say, well, we're going to declare martial law.
	We're going to put an end to this violence.
	And unfortunately, We say, oh, thank goodness we have martial law.
	Because this, they see as restoring peace.
	Well, once the martial law is in place, that's the consolidation.
	Right.
	That's when there is no even a question of free speech.
	There you go.
	Ben, I think we're close to that phase.
	I think we're way beyond that phase.
	When the, what's that act, National Something Act that came in right after 9-11?
	Oh, the Patriot Act.
	The Patriot Act, yeah.
	The Patriot Act is what they're talking about.
	And we're way beyond that, so I don't think there's anything new coming up.
	Patriot Act.
	The only thing that's new is the internet.
	The thing that should be mentioned here is that, again, the CIA is the one who, if you remember the clip that we had about a month ago about the CIA invasion of Guatemala in 1957 or so, which uses the exact same strategy that he's describing, where you just make it seem like all hell's breaking loose using the media.
	Right, and it was wag the dog strategy.
	Yeah, it's totally wagged the dog.
	And it's like, you know, they just took over the place.
	You know, the guy nobody ever heard of.
	And, you know, I'm just going to go complete crackpot on you.
	So, they started this with the Muslim-Islam thing, the crazy ISIS thing.
	Those videos, which have disappeared because the budget has gone.
	The videos, the high-end, super beautiful, multiple effects, multi-camera effects.
	Special effects, fire and brimstone.
	These were great videos that they were making.
	They were just beautiful.
	It cost a lot of money to make that.
	We're pretty sure it was a Turkish director who did at least one of them.
	And that really wasn't catching hold.
	It's gooey.
	We don't want to see that.
	Blood chopping off heads, even though you're curious.
	They always snipped that bit out.
	Now the budget shifted.
	Now it's all doing this, and it's much more effective.
	And, you know, following that just explains everything.
	Somehow, something went wrong in the entire system, and Trump, jeez, I mean, we all know it's Hillary's fault.
	That's what the elites are saying.
	God, she can't do anything right.
	Now we gotta take care of it.
	Okay.
	Call in the blocktivists!
	Well, they're definitely freaked out.
	It's spreading, though.
	This whole thing is spreading, the Antifa and the Nazis.
	It's too bad.
	For one, it's too bad this isn't video.
	This is Sweden.
	They now have what they call neo-Nazis clashing with anti-fascists or Antifa.
	But most of these people just look like people.
	There's no uniforms.
	There's no nothing.
	Then they show a bunch of guys standing with flags, which are, I would say, more like white nationalist flags, not neo-Nazi.
	But let's just call them Nazis.
	No!
	The neo-Nazi rally in Sweden has ended in dozens of arrests after anti-fascists clashed with members of the Nordic Resistance Movement, or NMR. Hundreds of members of the NMR had planned to march through the city of Gothenburg, but trouble broke out between the police and the far-right group when members tried to deviate from the agreed route.
	The leader of the NMR, Simon Lindberg, was among those arrested.
	Some antifascists were also detained.
	The NMR describes itself as a national socialist group and is not banned.
	It aims to stop mass migration and fight what it calls the global Zionist elite.
	Police were deployed from across Sweden to help manage the rally.
	So Dave, oh, we got...
	Here we go.
	We've got neo-Nazis, although it's just a group that is anti-immigration.
	Yeah, it sounds like a...
	And I think they have some valid points.
	So let's go...
	Just one last thing for you.
	Then I'm done.
	This was merely a transition into this one, which proves, now that we have the DCS... That's what I'm calling it.
	Divide and conquer strategy.
	The DCS. Now they're going to spread this to a program that I... I think I was searching for it.
	That's why I got the ad for the trailer for the new series of Berlin Station.
	Europe is in chaos.
	Germany will rise.
	Deutschland.
	The party is seeking to up the ante on the spike in far-right hate crimes.
	We are going deep cover with neo-Nazis.
	We think he's planning an attack.
	To swing the election in favor.
	Deutschland.
	Lange doesn't know what we're doing.
	You're telling me this is all on the books.
	If he thinks for one second that he's being played, we're all dead.
	Who says there are no friends in espionage?
	Berlin Station returns October 15th only on Epix.
	Now Berlin Station is a great show Thank you.
	Yeah, that's why I was looking for it.
	You told me to watch it.
	Yeah.
	Have you watched the first season?
	I haven't watched anything.
	I was searching for it.
	That's why I got the ad.
	What you want to watch is the first season.
	And it's very dark.
	It's very grim.
	It's got a Rubicon-like element to it.
	There's a lot of corruption.
	And neo-Nazis are planning an attack on the elections.
	It's probably something being said by the CIA. It's very anti-CIA, I think.
	In fact, I think it's extremely anti-CIA. I'm surprised it's on the air.
	So, let's hear from Hillary because she's kind of part of the scheme and part of the elites.
	She's the one who blew it.
	Yes, and she's part of the DCS. And so she's got to stay out there.
	It's almost as if, well, you didn't get the job, but you've got to keep working.
	Because you did a crappy job.
	You've got to make amends.
	So you've got to write this book that nobody wants you to write.
	So you write a book, and now you've got to be out on the...
	She's never stumped so much in her life.
	And she is out with everybody spreading bull crap as much as she can.
	And here she is with Charlie Rose.
	In 2016, Hillary Clinton received more votes than any other U.S. presidential candidate in history, except for President Obama.
	Yet despite winning the popular vote, she lost the election.
	What happened?
	Is the title of the candidates...
	Just on the math, I'm sorry.
	Just on the math.
	Isn't it so that as the population grows, that she actually messed it up?
	She should have had more than Obama?
	Yeah, she should have.
	Of course she had more than George Washington.
	There weren't that many people.
	She kind of sucked.
	She's not better than George Washington.
	In 2016, Hillary Clinton received more votes than any other U.S. presidential candidate in history, except for President Obama.
	Yet despite winning the popular vote, she lost the election.
	What happened is the title of the candidate's new memoir.
	I accept a lot of the criticism I got because, yeah, I do think policies matter.
	I'm worried sick about this move by the Republicans to do this phony health care bill.
	I'm worried because at the end of this week, The Children's Health Insurance Program, which ensures eight or nine million kids, may not get reauthorized.
	It matters, Charlie.
	I see the lives of people who are affected by these policies.
	So yes, I care a lot about it.
	But more than that, I think the job is supposed to really humble you.
	That is what I've seen.
	I remember sitting in the Oval Office You know, two days after 9-11 with George W. Bush, the bravado, the, you know, the funny, he was humbled.
	I looked into his eyes.
	I knew the shock and pain he must feel and, you know, was there to ask for help for New York, which he promised and delivered on.
	I've been with, you know, Barack Obama in the Situation Room.
	Hey, hey, hey, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.
	Her big thing has always been, I was there, I went through it with New York on 9-11.
	No, she didn't.
	She was in the Oval.
	Sounds like from this story.
	Her story's changed.
	I would like to check the validity of this story somehow.
	She makes it sound like they had 9-11.
	She's in there conferencing with Bush because she's so important as the junior senator from New York.
	It's just bullcrap.
	You know, was there to ask for help for New York, which he promised and delivered on.
	I've been with, you know, Barack Obama in the Situation Room, making really difficult decisions, including whether you go after Osama Bin Laden.
	No.
	Obama was upstairs.
	Wasn't he having a sandwich?
	Well, that's during the decision-making process.
	She was in the Situation Room with her smelling her finger in that photograph, as you recall, during the actual event.
	That was a great photo.
	And it also became one of the great memes.
	People in the background were photoshopped in.
	Whether you go after Osama Bin Laden.
	And you first have to say, there are limits to what we know.
	And we have to operate within an environment in which we know we will never know everything.
	And that humbles you.
	Now we seem to have a president who doesn't care and doesn't know what he doesn't know.
	Who operates totally viscerally based on his gut.
	And his highest and most favored response is that yell of the crowd that consists of people who support him, who buy into him, who love him, who can see no wrong in anything that he does.
	And I think it's a dangerous time.
	I've said I think that his presidency poses a clear and present danger to our country.
	A clear and present danger.
	Yes, I do.
	Meaning what?
	Meaning several things.
	Meaning another version of the definition of the First Amendment, that if you have speech that incites violence or is a clear and present danger, it's not protected.
	This is unbelievable what they're doing.
	Yes, I do.
	Meaning what?
	Meaning several things.
	To continue to divide this country along race and religion and ethnicity, gender, gender, It's really doing damage.
	You can see it already in some of the blowback and backlash that we're seeing, whether it's Silicon Valley fighting over women in tech or seeing the kinds of...
	That's a great example.
	It's tech.
	It's funny that she would bring that up as her primary example.
	That's her number one example.
	How about, I don't know, coercing...
	Because Silicon Valley supports these Democrats.
	Yeah.
	That's even dumber, isn't it?
	That's so dumb.
	This is like one of those stupid things where you go after your support.
	base it's like you shouldn't even mention this in tech or you know seeing the kinds of bullying that's going on in schoolyards and what parents are having to tell their kids after they hear something that the president said you know we are e pluribus unum i believe that i cherish that for many one yes and all of a sudden it's divide and conquer on every front
	Go after those black athletes who are exercising their constitutional rights because, you know, you think maybe your base will like it.
	Get that son of a bitch off the field right now.
	Out.
	He's fired.
	I just find that so troubling.
	Notice how they don't put that.
	It's out of context.
	Of course.
	By saying, instead of the full quote, which is, I wish one of the owners would say...
	No, they just put that in.
	Unbelievable!
	...fessional rights.
	Because, you know, you think maybe your base will like it.
	Get that son of a bitch off the field right now.
	Out.
	He's fired.
	I just find that so troubling.
	And so, there's a danger to our social fabric.
	I knew that.
	Going in to the campaign, certainly thinking about being president...
	I knew I'd have to do a lot of work with people who didn't support me, who believed a lot of lies about me, who were on the other side of the partisan divide, but I thought that's what you should expect a president to do.
	Build the wall!
	Wow, they're really exposing the strategy now.
	They're really just out there with it.
	She's so dumb.
	Yes, they're telling you what the strategy is.
	And the irony, of course, is that it's the Democrats who are the big identity politics people who are doing all the dividing as opposed to Trump.
	And, of course, you take him out of context.
	He's a big divider, there's no doubt about it.
	And, of course, he doesn't care, according to some people.
	Space where the risk is now elevated.
	Just got a new alert letting you know.
	Okay, well, if the place starts shaking, I'll let you know.
	Okay.
	So I found the whole thing to be, you know, classic.
	Hillary's jumping from one thing to another, but they're making her work.
	Yeah!
	You're not getting any more money from us.
	You better make money off that book.
	Yeah.
	I don't think she ever will.
	I think she got this huge advance.
	I don't know what it was.
	What is millions?
	Oh, I don't think it was probably lower than normal.
	It was probably a three million maybe.
	No, no, I don't think so.
	No, the publishers, you got to remember, they're all left-wingers.
	And they support, you know, they throw money at people like Hillary and Obama.
	Yeah.
	Just as part of the, it's what you're supposed to do, it's the right thing to do.
	Yes.
	Alright, I want to take a little break, unless you wanted to transition in with something else.
	Well, I did have a couple of, I do have one little ABC's Whipsaw example, but it's not the classic.
	Explain the Whipsaw.
	The Whipsaw is where they say, well, the way things are going, the world's coming to an end tomorrow.
	And then they go to a clip of somebody saying, hey, weather's great here in...
	Yeah, just complete non-sequitur.
	It's like a non-sequitur in action, but the way they do it, they do it very professionally.
	In fact, I have some good examples of that.
	so you don't notice it and it makes it sound as though they've just proven the point when they haven't proven anything.
	Tom Price, Steve Bannon.
	They've kind of proved it with a clip that's something else.
	But let's even catch this interesting little one.
	Tom Price, Steve Bannon, Michael Flynn, Sean Spicer, Reince Priebus, among many others, out of this administration.
	Tonight, some Republicans on the Hill have demanded an investigation into the spending here.
	David, Republicans and Democrats on the Hill are demanding a full accounting of administration travel.
	And just now, the president's budget director sent out new guidelines to White House officials on the appropriate use of government and private aircraft.
	Okay.
	So what they've done here is they've, and I'm not going to use the word conflated, whatever that other word was.
	He asked a question about, they're doing an investigation of spending.
	Boom, spending.
	Yeah.
	And she says, yes, they're doing an investigation of travel.
	That's what I heard, too.
	That was great.
	It's like, wait.
	Now she had said, yes, they're doing an investigation of the spending in and around travel.
	Right.
	That would be okay, kind of.
	But the generality that they're going to do an investigation around spending, and she says yes, they're going to do an investigation around travel.
	This will not last very long.
	They need to stop they.
	I'm saying they.
	And they would be people like Pelosi and Schumer.
	And they need to stop it because if you really start digging and you start looking at the private aircraft rental by congresspeople...
	Yeah, it's out of control.
	Gee, I wouldn't mind someone looking again at that bogus Stock Act that Obama signed into law, where you still have total legality for insider trading based upon the laws that you're writing for any congressional staffer even, not just the congressmen and women, but for staffers.
	They can be a place, stock buys and sells based upon the information they have.
	It's legal for them.
	They need to keep people, this needs to be kept at bay.
	Well, it looks as if part of this is going to be used because they keep mentioning Mnuchin.
	Yeah, he's going to be used to get him out.
	And that'll be his way to get out.
	I think so.
	So I think Mnuchin's going to get out that way.
	I don't know how Cohen's going to get out.
	He hasn't been in the crosshairs.
	He's got to find a ruse to save face.
	We'll see.
	Well, before we thank some more people, I want to thank AtEriner for graciously taking over, migrating the entire NoAgendaSocial.com server and everything to his own infrastructure.
	It was starting to cost upwards of $150 a month for me.
	I didn't know this went on.
	You mean the payment or the migration?
	No, I know about the payment, but I didn't know about the moving to an infrastructure.
	Yeah, and he did it in the middle of the night.
	I think he's in France, actually.
	He did it in the middle of the night.
	He's like a real dude named Ben.
	He posts, okay, this is going down at 12 UTC. I was like, yeah, baby.
	We have like 80 gigabytes of data already for that thing.
	I really appreciate it.
	And we have more people we're appreciative of.
	I'm going to show my support by donating to No Agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh, yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, on No Agenda in the morning.
	I want to also mention Void Zero is no slouch as a dude named Ben.
	Thank you.
	Absolutely.
	Andrew Blowers is no slouch.
	Came in with $196.90.
	He says, thanks for making podcasting great again.
	Barron Latican in Houston, Texas, $150.
	Anonymous, $129.99.
	He just says, keep me anonymous.
	Okay.
	All right.
	By the way, if you want to be anonymous and you want to give that much money, I still recommend you either send a check-in with a big post-it note on top of it.
	That's the best way.
	Then you can put in any amount.
	Otherwise, $49.95 usually works.
	And then three of them.
	Anthony, what do you think?
	Sciorota.
	Sciorota.
	Skorota!
	Hey, Skorota!
	100 bucks.
	Scott Porter, 100 bucks.
	Taylor Kuzela, 96.91 in Alpharetta, Georgia.
	Here's 96.90 plus a penny.
	Big penny.
	The memes from two newsletters ago sucked.
	As an old millennial, I can tell you the style and wording was all wrong.
	Well, do them for us.
	We need some meme-age.
	From two newsletters ago.
	We need some mammography.
	As an old millennial, I can tell you the style and wording was all wrong.
	Well, send me some information about what you're talking about.
	Now we have, because I have no idea what he's referring to.
	You don't like it when you get scolded.
	I don't know that he's right or wrong.
	I mean, the other thing is I got a note from someone saying, hey, I didn't even get the last four newsletters, and I found out that my spam filter blocked them.
	Duh.
	A lot of people get, like, a newsletter, occasional newsletter, and then they say two newsletters.
	I could go back two newsletters ago, and I don't know if he's talking about that newsletter or not, because he's not specific.
	All right, be specific, people.
	Sir Kevin McLaughlin, here's our $96.90 donors.
	We didn't get anybody to take us up on the $969 for the 969 calendar.
	That may be because I know some people who have been saving up for the big 10th anniversary show October 26th.
	Well, Kevin McLaughlin, I'm going to just name and location of 9690 donors.
	Kevin McLaughlin, I've said his name a million times now in Locust, North Carolina.
	Austin Wilson in Sammamish, Washington.
	Sir Gordon Walton in Austin, Texas.
	Annie Lennon in Washington, D.C. That's pretty cool.
	By the way, Sir Gordon Walton is donating for his son John's knighthood.
	Okay.
	Good.
	Travis Bonelli.
	Sir Ben of the Apex in Orland Park, Illinois.
	Sir Stephan in Bern, Texas.
	Bernie.
	That's right.
	I never get that right.
	It's Bernie.
	Sir Stephan in Bernie, Texas.
	Baronet of Bluff City, Sir Zachary, 9660.
	Hunter Velicki, boobs, 808.
	He needs a deduce.
	You've been deduced.
	I put the boob Easter egg on that crazy woman librarian and she's dressed up as a...
	As a character in a Seuss comic.
	And nobody picked up.
	Well, Hunter says, I also want this boob to count towards Lauren Littlefield, not me.
	She donated a boob a while ago, and now it's a pair.
	Very nice.
	Okay.
	Angela Brown in Bellbrook, Ohio.
	75.
	Roland Boulder.
	69 and 60.
	By the way, we didn't get that many takers on the 9660, if you haven't noticed.
	Roland Boulder, 969.
	Surgat Nate in Sebastopol, California.
	Surgat Nate in Sebastopol, 69.
	We got John Bolsheviks.
	Bolsheviks.
	No, I got his name right.
	You have to stall for one second as I grab my sheet.
	Well, sadly, I haven't tuned up, but...
	Now, you're never going to guess this guy's pronunciation.
	I did a little research on the different pronunciation guides.
	Okay.
	The most acceptable one is actually with that name, Buzzwhiz.
	Okay, no, I didn't know that.
	Buzzwhiz.
	And there's a kind of a Russian pronunciation which shows up, which is Buzzvich.
	Buzzvich.
	Buzzvich.
	Vladimir says hello to John Buzzvich.
	Now, the other guy, this is...
	He's from North Liberty, Iowa.
	This is...
	G.A. Corchini is what I would say.
	Corchini?
	Corchini?
	Corchini.
	Of course.
	Corchini.
	He sent a note in saying, hey...
	Oh, by the way, Go Cubs for BuzzWiz.
	He sent a note in which he says, I'm only donating because you can't pronounce my name, you moron.
	And he says, I get a kick out of it.
	So I went and did a lot of work.
	Wait a minute, wait.
	No value in the show?
	He just thinks it's funny that we can't pronounce his name?
	No, he likes the show, but he thinks it's funny that I can't pronounce his name.
	Um...
	So I can pronounce it now, I think.
	But I like buzz whiz.
	It is a form of healing for people, I've noticed.
	When they have names that are unpronounceable, you go through life with this thing hanging off of you.
	Like, yeah, this is how you pronounce it.
	No, it's not that.
	It's a pain in the ass.
	Pain in the ass.
	And by exposing it widely through the No Agenda show, I think people heal.
	You know, it's like...
	They heal.
	Yes, it's healing.
	You got it.
	It's healing.
	I'm telling you it's healing.
	But I got to know whether it's Buzz with the other guy, BuzzWiz or BuzzVich.
	But Korshiny is pretty much the way this one here from our buddy in North Liberty, Iowa, pronounces the name, I'm sure.
	Onward.
	Christopher Tropp in Sturgis, Michigan, 59-69.
	Baron Sir Mark Tanner in Whittier, California, 56-78.
	Michael Astfalk in Berlin, Deutschland.
	It says in the morning, 55.33.
	Sir Lucas of the Lost Bits, 55.10.
	Dame Jamie, 55.
	What is this note?
	What?
	Wow, have you read this note?
	The Dame Jamie note?
	Oh, yeah.
	What the F of the F? How the F am I supposed to make a drunk donation when the PayPal keeps logging me out as I tell you who I am and who I am donating?
	It just goes on.
	It just goes on.
	It's Dame Jamie, not Jamie Graham.
	Okay.
	Got it.
	Well, thank you for your courage, Dame Jamie, for writing that during your drunkenness.
	Yeah, well, it's always funny.
	53-33 from her.
	Pretty saucy.
	Scott Floyd in Clayton, California, out here in East Contra Costa County.
	The following are $50 donors, name and location.
	Dennis Brown, Rhinelander, Wisconsin.
	Dean Kostanko in Jacksonville, Arkansas.
	Kaylee Kirkpatrick.
	I think we have a birthday call out.
	I think it's in the right color.
	Sir Christopher, Baron of Brown County in De Pere, Wisconsin.
	Tyler Schimpf.
	Schimpf. Schimpf. Schimpf. Schimpf. Schimpf.
	Okay.
	In Bothell, Washington.
	And finally, our knight, I believe he's a knight, but Joshua Defabal, one of the Oaklanders who listens to the show.
	I want to thank them all for helping produce show 969.
	Yes, thank you very much.
	And nice to see everyone participate in the palindrome of the people that did.
	That's always cool.
	And a reminder again that our big 10th anniversary is coming up.
	That'll be the 26th of October.
	Now, people have been asking me if we're going to do anything special, and I'm thinking no.
	Just do a show, right?
	You know what people actually ask for?
	Like, yeah, I should do a best of highlights.
	Like, no.
	That's for, like, when we want to take a break.
	Yeah, we want to go on vacation.
	Yeah, we don't want to do that.
	No, that's lame.
	That's M5M style.
	No, we're just going to do a show.
	Yeah, we do not do M5M style anything.
	Exactly.
	Thank you.
	Thank you, thank you, everybody, for participating in our value system here at the No Agenda Show.
	We also want to thank everyone who came in under $50.
	Truly the way to be anonymous if you want to donate, because we just never read anything under $50, as well as where we'll find a lot of people on our subscriptions.
	$33.33, I see.
	We have 1111s.
	The $5...
	Oh, is there also some 8s still in there?
	Oh, there's some 969s, which may not want to be mentioned.
	The 969s don't want to be mentioned, but it's like you'd think there'd be a lot more than nine of them.
	Yeah.
	Well, it's what it is.
	Maybe we just aren't that good anymore, John.
	You tell me.
	Now, we do have a note from one guy who does probably want to be mentioned because he wants to be knighted.
	And I don't think, is Wiccan getting knighted today?
	No.
	Okay, we'll have to figure out what the deal is with him.
	And a reminder that you can support us for the next show, which is coming up on Thursday.
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	We congratulate him.
	Angela Brown says happy birthday to her brother Wesley of Ventura, California, turning 30-something on October 5th.
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	He celebrated on September 30th.
	That would be today.
	Happy birthday from your buddies here at the Best Podcast in the Universe.
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	Ooh, ouch.
	And, of course, we have our modified list.
	Do you have your own blade?
	Duck was on it.
	Okay.
	I hate it when the duck sits on my blade.
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	The No Agenda Show.
	Ten years, and we never had a fight.
	Because we're not in the same room.
	It helps.
	And we don't really talk to each other.
	You never got my question for a wine recommendation, I guess.
	I did.
	You didn't see all the notes I sent you back?
	Geez, no.
	Did you send it through email?
	No, I sent it through the SMS. Did not receive.
	There's a whole slew of things I said.
	Well, I will tell you this, that I was late with the notes, the returning notes.
	That's okay.
	That's all right.
	But you are...
	Lamb is...
	By the way, I'll just tell you this so everyone should know.
	Lamb, in general...
	Classic Bordeaux.
	Classic for Bordeaux, yeah.
	But Burgundy is also good with it.
	Just pretty much any red wine works with Lamb.
	And I will say this.
	People should note, if they never had Beaujolais, they don't know about Beaujolais, they never tried Beaujolais, they don't get good Beaujolais.
	2015 is probably the greatest year in Beaujolais that we've seen since, according to many experts, since 1947.
	And I have to say, we had a Beaujolais for dinner the other night that was just a knockout.
	See, that's really what I was...
	I would have been happier.
	I found a nice Bordeaux.
	I would have been happier if I had been able to serve Beaujolais with that story.
	Yes.
	Because I did have a story about the cheese.
	You know, this goat's cheese is separated by a layer of action.
	It's very millennial of you.
	Everything has to have a story.
	Yes.
	Well, I got a story for you.
	All right.
	This definitely falls under the category...
	And now, back to real news.
	New details now on a sexual misconduct investigation involving Southern California school children.
	A music teacher is under investigation and local and federal officials say he may have contaminated flutes handed out to children with bodily fluids.
	At least 13 Southern California school districts are involved in this.
	Some are being told to turn over the instruments from the Flutes Around the World music program.
	We've confirmed notifications went out to We are not naming the music teacher in question right now until federal charges are officially announced, but an education source close to the investigation did confirm to us that that teacher was arrested.
	Was he handing out skin flutes?
	Well, this was a tame version of the report, but the only one I could find with a clip.
	It was semen.
	I guess these are PVC pipes that got a picture of them.
	Maybe he was testing them?
	What?
	Testing them on his member?
	You know what I'm saying?
	Sounds like a script from the family guy.
	Skin flute, yeah, I know.
	Welcome back to Friday Briefings.
	Sorry, I didn't mean to do that.
	That's pretty gruesome.
	I have actually...
	Yeah, it's pretty gruesome.
	I think it's gruesome.
	Oh, and this one time, at band camp, I stuck a flute in my pussy.
	But it was a male teacher, and the full report states...
	Well, to do that to kids' flutes is a bit odd, yes.
	This guy's a pervert.
	You think?
	Yeah, I think.
	Well, the real news story is this one.
	The woman let the 12-year-olds home alone and didn't think anything of it.
	I find this fascinating.
	Hmm, I didn't hear this story.
	All of her sitter options fell, and she left the kids in the care of the two 12-year-olds.
	30-year-old Erin Mackey left two 12-year-olds and a 6- and 7-year-old alone in these apartments while she took a vacation to Germany.
	Luckily, we were able to get there the next day, so the chance of something happening dropped significantly.
	Police received a tip from one of the child's father.
	That's when they checked in on the children and called the Department of Human Services, who then placed the children with other family members.
	They were concerned.
	They didn't know.
	They were confused.
	And we're only talking about 12-year-olds being the adults here.
	Mackie was planning on leaving her kids alone for 10 days.
	We called her, she answered the phone, had a conversation with our officer, did not see it being a problem.
	Officers told Mackie her children were turned over to DHS and convinced her to come home early, which she did six days later.
	Johnston police say they have never experienced anything like this before.
	We have situations where parents go next door or parents may go out for the night.
	And while that's not advisable either, depending on the age of the children, obviously leaving the country is a totally different situation.
	Hmm.
	What's up with that?
	I don't know.
	I think she's just nuts.
	Or maybe she was a latchkey kid.
	I have no idea.
	She had no husband.
	She left her husband or he left her husband.
	And she just left the kids at home and took off to Germany.
	I mean, you can certainly leave the kids alone for the afternoon with the 12-year-olds, but, you know, going to Germany is a little...
	A little much.
	The Algo.
	Got a note here from one of our producers regarding Amazon and their suggestions.
	Just another fun one that has not hit the mainstream yet.
	So maybe we should put this scandal out there so the mainstream can finally find it.
	This is, by the way, from the future Sir Dimethyltryptamine.
	He seems to be an expert in the fabrication of dimethyltryptamine, which would be DMT. Yeah, it's good to have someone like that in the family.
	Yeah, it's not bad.
	Because you don't want the synthesized stuff.
	You really want the real stuff.
	Adam and John, in regards to episode 968's continued discussion of algos and Amazon's suggestion to buy explosive materials together, I'd like to chime in and say that for years now it has been the case that yours and my favorite psychedelic, namely dimethyltryptamine, can be easily extracted from, amongst many methods, is it acacia plant?
	Acacia?
	Acacia.
	The acacia root bark.
	That's the real stuff, by the way.
	It's been, to my knowledge, an open secret and joke amongst the quote-unquote underground internet forums devoted to DMT exploration that Amazon sells this root bark and has since at least 2014, the algos have been suggesting the other components necessary to extract and produce a Schedule 1 controlled substance on the Acacia listing.
	Here being the turkey baster and the VM&P naphtha solvent.
	They are not immediately obviously related, which I think is what has always kept it off their radars, but when you know what's going on, it's really funny.
	And he sent me two screenshots.
	Hey, if you're ever in Pennsylvania, you and John and I should explore hyperspace.
	You know what?
	I would do it.
	I would do anything to do DMT with you.
	We've probably got the good stuff.
	I have a...
	Oh, just as an aside, I'm watching this special on the Godfather saga on Epix, or one of those channels.
	And I noticed this, and I've always noticed this, and it's always bugged me.
	Uh...
	The Godfather 2 won just about everything.
	It won Best Director, it won Best Movie, it won a bunch of things.
	And I don't see how it could have won anything because of Diane Keaton and her crappy acting.
	She can't act.
	So how do you have it best direction when you can't get this woman to act?
	And I have this one lone clip just to prove it to you.
	You just have to just listen to this dialogue and tell me that this woman can act at all.
	It wasn't a miscarriage.
	It was an abortion.
	Just like our marriage is an abortion.
	Something that's unholy and evil.
	I think you have to see the visuals with it.
	I saw the visuals.
	It's worse when you watch her.
	That's pretty bad.
	It's really bad.
	I was looking for that clip you had of...
	The guys using private...
	building the phone booth.
	Scott Pruitt.
	Pruitt.
	Yeah.
	That was your clip, wasn't it?
	Yeah.
	Do you remember what the clip might have been called?
	I could look at the clip list, but I don't have it handy.
	Maybe the phone booth?
	Ah yes, here we go.
	I just want to replay this because I promise I'd do some research on it.
	To another major headline involving your money tonight.
	Your tax dollars being spent by cabinet members flying on jets.
	One of those cabinet members installing a $25,000 phone booth in his office.
	President Trump was asked about it today, asked about Health Secretary Tom Price and his expensive charter flights, which are now under investigation.
	ABC senior White House correspondent Cecilia Vega reporting, it's your money.
	President Trump today making it clear he is angry with his health secretary's penchant for private planes on the public dime.
	I will tell you personally, I'm not happy about it.
	I am not happy about it.
	I'm going to look at it.
	I am not happy about it and I'll let him know it.
	Secretary Tom Price under fire for his luxury jet travel, costing taxpayers more than $400,000.
	An investigation now underway, and Price says those high-priced trips are on hold.
	But we've heard the criticism.
	We've heard the concerns.
	And we take that very seriously and have taken it to heart.
	But today, the president made it clear Price's future is in question.
	Would you fire him, sir?
	Three cabinet secretaries now under investigation for expensive travel.
	Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin accused of taking costly government jets over commercial flights, including that trip to Kentucky with his wife where they viewed the eclipse.
	And new revelations about the EPA administrator, Scott Pruitt's frequent trips home to Oklahoma, paid for by taxpayers, already under the microscope.
	And now he's under fire for installing a $25,000 secure private phone booth in his office, something previous administrators didn't have.
	A spokeswoman says Pruitt, a vocal critic of the agency before he took the top job, needs the secure phone booth so his calls are not subject to hacking from the outside.
	So the meme has been the $25,000 phone booth, which sounds a lot like the $4,000 toilet seat, and is intended that way in, I think, a disgusting manner, because...
	I told you this was a skiff.
	The New York Times did some reporting.
	My goodness.
	They called the company that made this phone booth called Acoustical Solutions.
	It was $24,570, just to be exact.
	And that was per the...
	Contract a, quote, privacy booth for the administrator.
	And this company makes them.
	They have standard ones, and they sell bespoke all kinds, mainly for musicians, you know, a singing booth or a sound.
	It's a dome of silence.
	A cone of silence.
	A cone.
	Damn.
	And so, typically, such soundproof booths are used to conduct hearing tests, but when EPA sought a customized version, blah, blah, blah.
	Here's the guy from Audio Acoustical Solutions.
	They had a lot of modifications, Steve Snyder, an acoustic sales consultant with the company, worked with the agency on this project early this summer.
	Their main goal was they wanted essentially a secure phone booth that couldn't be breached from a data point of view for someone standing outside eavesdropping.
	What you're referring to, this is the sales guy, is a secured communication area in the administrator's office so secured calls can be received and made.
	It's called a sensitive compartmented information facility, a SCIF.
	That's exactly what they built, a SCIF for $25,000.
	Average price for a SCIF is about $100,000.
	Is that right?
	Yes!
	They can be $3,000 per square foot in some cases.
	Now that's, you know, it depends on how many people you have in there, and I don't know the actual dimensions of what the EPA secretary, what Pruitt got.
	But it's actually cheap.
	Well, there's the irony of the story.
	But no.
	But you see, if we call it a phone booth, like the $4,000 toilet seat, then those dicks.
	Yeah.
	Works every time.
	That's what they do.
	I got a couple little minor things.
	I think that professionalism at ABC needs to be questioned.
	See if you can spot the flaw in this ABC Norfolk ship.
	We know the U.S. Navy hospital ship.
	The Comfort is on the way.
	How long will it take to get there?
	That's right, David.
	The USNS Comfort took off from Norfolk Naval Base today.
	It is expected to arrive here in Puerto Rico sometime next week.
	It's Norfolk, not Norfolk.
	Hey, folks.
	Norfolk.
	Norfolk.
	Now, I found a clip.
	This is a clip that you're going to have to identify.
	See if you can spot the blooper.
	This is a freelancer that was working for, I think, our local KTVU. And I want you to see if you can find the blooper.
	This is an actual broadcast.
	Okay, I'm listening intently.
	The bill still being tweaked in efforts to woo wavering GOP senators.
	It's very difficult for me to envision a scenario where I would end up voting for this bill.
	Under current budget negotiation rules, Republicans only have until the end of this month to pass...
	3, 2, 1.
	Budget negotiation rules Republicans only have until the end of this month to pass this bill by a party-line simple majority of 51 votes.
	3, 2, 1.
	Whoever left that in is a douche.
	What an idiot.
	Alright, wait.
	I can top that.
	I got a bigger idiot on the line.
	This is...
	It also comes from another podcast.
	This is that douchebag professor with a really long neck who got fired for tweeting another day at John Jay College where I'm teaching future dead cops.
	You remember that guy?
	No, I don't.
	Oh, come on!
	Yeah, you do.
	Okay, well, I remember him.
	Okay, well, he has a very long neck.
	He's hilarious.
	Look him up on the bings.
	Mike Isaacson.
	I-S-A-A-C-S-O-N. Mike Isaacson.
	John Jay Professor.
	So, here he is defending and explaining his tweet that got him, I think it was not just suspended, I think it was fired.
	Then he did the rounds here and there, but he really, really is one of these, hey, it's okay to punch Nazis in the face and the future dead cops.
	I guess he hates cops.
	What do you think his solution is, this professor from John Jay, ex-professor from John Jay College, without tenure, obviously, what do you think his solution is to not educating future dead cops?
	Hold on a second.
	They call him Professor Pez.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	He looks like a Pez dispenser.
	Exactly.
	Oh, yeah.
	No, this guy's an alien.
	Well, I've seen him.
	Yeah, he's got a long neck and a lot of hair.
	Professor Pez.
	That's very funny.
	All right, listen to him explain his tweet.
	Well, this is a coordinated attack on me by the far right.
	There's a group called Far Left Watch that has been coordinating these sorts of attacks against both professors and students for years.
	And I am planning to fight against this alongside many professors and students who have fought this same sort of harassment and death threat.
	Well, let me ask you then, what did you mean by the tweet?
	I would like to see the institution of policing be a thing of the past, and I would like to see the only cops be those that are dead, that we should replace policing as an institution with rapid response networks and mass self-defense training so that everybody in our country is able to resolve conflicts peacefully and is able to call on their communities to help resolve conflicts when they can't be ended.
	Professor, let me just ask you, so you want a post-police world?
	Is that what you're advocating?
	That is absolutely what I'm advocating.
	Professor, just let me go back to the dead cop thing, because that wasn't just some comment, throwaway, philosophical discussion of a post-police world.
	This sounds like it was an intentional thing and directed at police.
	Are you calling for the murder of police officers?
	Absolutely not.
	What I'm calling for is to explore alternative methods to resolve conflict that don't involve guns and arrests.
	I think it's absolutely ridiculous that we live in the 21st century where we all have smartphones and we're able to communicate with each other at an instant, and somehow we're expected to only be able to call 911 to get help from our community.
	I believe that we can rely on each other There are plenty of neighborhoods that are often deprived of police protection because they're low income or people of color.
	And as a result, they have to resort to their own forms of rapid response because they can't rely on the police for protection.
	I'm really sorry about that.
	Are you saying that when they call 911, nobody responds?
	Yes.
	I love the...
	Well, you know, these poor people of color in neighborhoods, they want to resolve a conflict.
	They have rapid response teams.
	Yeah, it's called gang warfare is what that is.
	Rapid response.
	That's a great gang.
	Hey, man, I'm with the bloods.
	And with the rapid response.
	Mm-hmm.
	The guy's insane.
	That's how he's explaining this?
	No, I really want a post-police world.
	How did this guy become a professor anywhere?
	That's the big question.
	That is the frightening part of it.
	And speaking of professors...
	He's serious.
	He's dead serious.
	He's completely serious.
	One of our producers, anonymously...
	I'm emailing you from an anonymous account.
	I'm sure you'll understand why.
	I work for a major textbook publisher and spend most of my time on texts for various engineering and technical disciplines at the college level.
	You guys are spot on with your analysis of the collegiate textbook industry, and it's been a boom time with the gratuitous student loans that have increased college attendance rates.
	But here's the real scam, and I have to caveat that I can only really speak for engineering slash technical texts.
	Almost every technical text has homework problems at the end of each chapter that are assigned by the instructor throughout the semester.
	While very, and I mean very little of the actual content is changed, you might see 10 pages of real substantial change in a 300-page text.
	Every homework problem is changed to prevent students from using older editions.
	Frequently, they don't even bother to change the wording or structure of a problem, just the numbers.
	For example, if Sally had three apples and I ate one, how many does she have left?
	Maybe change to, if Sally had four apples and I ate three, how many does she have left?
	The goal, and it's openly discussed in our offices, is to do enough to make it impossible for the student to use any previous version to drive up sales.
	That, my friends, is what we call a whistleblower.
	Well, that sounds like racketeering, too.
	It sounds completely illegal.
	I wish that somebody would do something about this.
	This is...
	It's not as though the kids...
	Of course, he mentions in this note...
	The loans.
	This is...
	Largely due to the fact that they, you know, they, yeah, student loans.
	Student loans.
	So the kids have got a blank check.
	And they're just gouging the kids, and the kids are so stupid.
	And no offense to all the millennials out there who didn't like the newsletter a couple ago, who probably have student loan debt.
	But they're naive, and they're never really lectured about this sort of thing.
	And then they go, and they end up with all these student loans, and they can't figure out what happens in the next 20 years of their life.
	And it's institutionalized.
	Where's Elizabeth Warren on this?
	It's totally institutionalized.
	The publishers are in on it.
	The universities are in on it.
	The government's in on it because they're the ones that are supporting the loans now, the whole system.
	It's corrupt.
	It stinks to high heaven.
	Meanwhile...
	And here's what bothers me the most.
	You could do one of those, you know, one of those...
	I forgot what they call them.
	Just forgive all the loans.
	That just screws over the taxpayers.
	Because it's our money.
	If it was done by some banks or something like that, yeah, that's too bad for the banks for doing this scam.
	But it's us, the taxpayers, that are apparently doing the scam.
	So we get screwed.
	Whatever the case is, people are going to get screwed over this.
	Meanwhile, we have adjunct teachers.
	And adjunct teacher is not full-time.
	It's just someone who's What do they do?
	They work with a professor?
	I'm not very familiar with academia.
	It depends on the school.
	It's like producers.
	Well, The Guardian had a great article, which I put in the show notes, about the increasing number of adjunct academics who are sleeping in their cars because they get paid so little money, turning to sex work.
	It's really...
	This is messed up.
	That sounds like a good story.
	It's a very good article.
	I mean, it's sad, but it's a very good article.
	They're making $22,000 a year.
	In Denver.
	Where are you going to live?
	In your car.
	That's what it is.
	It's sad.
	Buy an Airstream.
	That's the way I see it.
	I happen to have one.
	This is like a holdover from Thursday's show.
	Something odd popping up in New York.
	But at night it lights up really nice.
	Jose Lugo says these tall metal towers quickly popped up after Brooklyn Battery Tunnel toll booths came down.
	We don't really know what's the purpose of this.
	It's a 100 million dollar MTA project full of secrecy with 18 of these for the tunnels and bridges.
	So what are they exactly?
	Are you saying you can't comment to me?
	That's the MTA's man in charge of bridges and tunnels, Cedric Fulton, dodging our questions.
	Not even later, can we talk to you about it or can I make an appointment?
	Some MTA board members, including New York City Transportation Commissioner Polly Trottenberg, say they know too little about the towers, even with about half the money spent and some of the towers up.
	A lot of the board members felt like they didn't have all the details they would have wanted, myself included.
	Residents who say they suspect there is much more going on with these towers than meets the eye wonder will they ever know what's going on inside them.
	I'm going to guess it's probably not just a decoration.
	It's a bit mind-boggling that the MTA is approving $100 million for what appears to us to be big decorative pylons.
	John Caney is leader of the watchdog group Reinvent Albany.
	What we're asking for is transparency from the MTA. We demanded answers from MTA Chairman Joe Loda.
	Some of our own board members say they don't know the specifics.
	The base of these new pieces that are going up include whatever fiber optics are necessary for those Homeland Security items.
	In other words, anti-terror technology could one day include facial recognition.
	We don't know.
	He won't say.
	I'm not at liberty to discuss that.
	So watch as more of these expensive towers rise with mystery tucked away inside them.
	Ooh, yeah, baby.
	Fiber optics, towering structures.
	Sounds like just a big boondoggle.
	It's a ham radio repeater, I think, that they're putting in there.
	That'd be cool.
	Oh, did you hear?
	Did you hear?
	No.
	Ah, the American Red Cross asked the ARRL, the American Radio Relay League, otherwise known as the Association for the Hams, of which you and I are both members, card carrying and licensed Kilo 5 Alpha Charlie Charlie.
	Yeah, ditto.
	Delta India Tango Tango Oscar.
	They asked the ARL, we need 50 hams to help us with the Puerto Rico relief effort.
	Aha!
	Yeah, you know.
	Now here we have Ham Radio, guys.
	Ham Radio is the public service network of last resort.
	When the apocalypse comes, we're the guys who are going to save the world, right?
	Right.
	Right.
	Truth, hashtag fact.
	Well, good.
	Mm-hmm.
	Well, that's one way of taking care of some of this.
	This is a mess down there.
	And then, of course, the news media on the mainland, and it's not a state, we have to remember that, is making a big fuss and blaming Trump for everything.
	In fact, they have a report that's kind of interesting.
	What's up with this mayor?
	The mayor's a douchebag leftist.
	Here's my question.
	They have no power.
	And there's no electricity.
	The power grid is down.
	Yeah.
	Or maybe she had a generator for the t-shirt press.
	She has a t-shirt.
	We're dying here.
	Save us.
	Yeah.
	That's what she's spending her time on.
	Yeah.
	Maybe they itched it out with a Sharpie.
	No.
	I don't know.
	To me, it looked like a freshly pressed t-shirt.
	Well, anyway, everybody's all in with her bitching and moaning.
	And here's a little interesting little...
	ABC report called PR problems, mayor versus Trump.
	White House also dealing with the growing humanitarian crisis in Puerto Rico.
	The acting Homeland Security chief under fire for calling the response a, quote, good news story.
	While the mayor of San Juan went on live TV today and took on the Trump administration, saying it is a life or death situation on the ground.
	Even the three-star general now on the ground there says more help is needed tonight.
	Here's ABC's chief White House correspondent, Jonathan Karl.
	More help is needed.
	Now, here's the thing, the way they did the story.
	They make it seem as though the general has something to do with this mayor by using the word even.
	And this is ABC again.
	And I was wondering when I heard this clip and how they kind of pieced this story together and made it sound as though the general, even the general, thinks more help is needed.
	Of course, he thinks everybody knows that more help is needed.
	But the way they put the story together by using the word even, they attach it to this a-hole mayor.
	And I was, when I listened to this particular report, I realized that ABC, there was a, I don't know, it was Pew or one of these guys did this, which part of the news do you believe and who do you not believe?
	And the mainstream media is all under, we don't really believe these people, all three of the networks.
	ABC was at the bottom of the list.
	The public really does not believe this.
	So they're presenting their stories in such a way that I think is becoming transparent that they're very biased.
	Yes.
	And they need an editor over there, somebody who knows what they're doing.
	Either that or they mean to do this, but it's not doing their reputation any good.
	Not in our book.
	No.
	I don't think anybody gives a crap.
	Well, we do.
	Yeah, of course we do.
	It's our job.
	I think the public does give a crap.
	They just don't know.
	Some of this stuff needs to be pointed out.
	I'm down with that.
	For approximately, well, maybe the entire length of our 10 years of existence almost, we've talked about, no, it must be less than that.
	The Armageddon is coming.
	The Armageddon is nigh, and we have all these signals coming.
	Then one of them is we'll be so poor that obviously we'll all be eating mac and cheese.
	We've been on this for a long, long, long time.
	And the elites know it, too.
	Witness this report about Prince George's first day of school.
	Even a future king has school day nerves.
	Mom Kate, pregnant with baby number three, was home with severe morning sickness.
	So four-year-old George held on tight to dad, Prince William.
	A backpack with the prince's official school name, George Cambridge.
	His grandfather, Prince Charles, started the tradition, school outside of the palace.
	Thirty years ago, it was William's turn, hand in hand with Diana.
	Now George and a new tradition, a private co-ed school.
	Ballet for girls and boys.
	Philosophy for five-year-olds.
	The fees are around $20,000 a year and they do, you know, rack of lamb and not your average mac and cheese.
	Mac and cheese by Ayn Rand.
	That's right.
	You slaves can eat mac and cheese, but no, the prince has lamb.
	Very good catch.
	Elites.
	Wow.
	That's not a bad deal for a school like that.
	In New York, it would be 50 grand.
	Well, not unless you quit the administration.
	Your kid will be kicked out.
	You won't allow your kid in.
	Well, that's going to happen eventually.
	I've got one last question.
	I've got a good fentanyl story going through New York City.
	Apparently, this is what we've been saying.
	People should know that most of the fentanyl comes in through mail order.
	U.S. Customs and Border Patrol officials seized a record amount of fentanyl and other synthetic opioids in the fiscal year that ends tonight.
	Most of the illegal packages were found...
	Gee, I'm glad we made our quota just in time.
	...record amount of fentanyl and other synthetic opioids in the fiscal year that ends tonight.
	Most of the illegal...
	Hold on a second.
	What the hell does that have to do with anything?
	Why does she say the fiscal year that just ended?
	Why?
	What does that have to do with the story?
	I think you nailed it.
	It's ending to a wink, wink, nudge, nudge.
	We've got to get our numbers up.
	Ah, okay.
	And where does this come from, this report?
	CBS. Mm-hmm.
	U.S. Customs and Border Patrol officials seized a record amount of fentanyl and other synthetic opioids in the fiscal year that ends tonight.
	Most of the illegal packages were found in the mailroom at New York's JFK Airport.
	Here's Tony DeCoppo.
	This is the busiest international mailroom in America, processing more than a million inbound packages every day.
	And at a time when your mailman may be an unwitting drug dealer, it's also the front lines in the opioid crisis.
	Spike here is one of the newest tools in the hunt for illegal opioids.
	Riding this conveyor belt as an officer fills it with suspicious packages, in this case all from China.
	They just put a package on that they put fentanyl in intentionally to training it.
	So how important are the dogs for the overall mission?
	Incredibly important, because the work that a canine can do in an hour is what it would take an officer eight hours to complete.
	We don't really know who's sending it.
	Port director Frank Russo runs field operations at John F. Kennedy Airport, where seizures of fentanyl nearly tripled to more than 80 packages in the past fiscal year.
	Are we talking tens of millions of dollars, hundreds of millions of dollars at the street level?
	What we're seizing here is hundreds of millions of dollars.
	Anything flagged by the dogs or pulled by agents is searched by hand on this table, as we witnessed after the x-ray machine revealed an unknown object.
	Fentanyl is so toxic that officers wear gloves and masks to avoid accidental contact.
	This time, it wasn't fentanyl, but GBL, commonly used as a date rape drug.
	Just a little bit of this mixed in a drink can disable an individual.
	This is our detention room?
	Just one room away, however.
	Fentanyl, fentanyl, fentanyl again.
	Correct.
	Look at the bottom here.
	China, Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
	Is that typical?
	That is absolutely typical.
	Most of our seizures, and actually all of our seizures have come from China and Hong Kong this year.
	And you've also got where it's going to.
	Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Connecticut.
	Are there particular areas of the country where a lot of this is headed?
	That's the interesting part, Tony, is that it's everywhere.
	It's going absolutely everywhere.
	I'm surprised.
	They went on with the story to say that they don't grab all the packages.
	They track a number to the guy who gets it, and then they bust him.
	It's not good stuff, people.
	Definitely not.
	And they're muscling in on our poppy business, so we've got to stop this.
	This is no good.
	And maybe we'll know more about it on Thursday.
	We'll certainly know more about Spexit and everything else happening around the globe as we continue to do our best to guard your reality.
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	And from northern Silicon Valley, from what I can tell, the Zephyr never went by today, but I probably just missed it.
	Weird.
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	You believe the First Amendment and BWOBS? What the hell is going on?
	What the hell is going on?
	I feel like I'm a bit of a Paula Revere.
	A photograph has been called the President's right hand.
	Colorado Springs, a family says they want a woman to stop defecating in their neighborhood.
	What the hell is going on?
	What the hell is going on?
	Gold star gay is a gay that's never been with a woman, but then a platinum gay is one that was also born C-section, so I've never touched a vagina.
	Any women who voted against Hillary Clinton voted against their own voice?
	Welcome to Twilight This Week in Enterprise Tech, best dang podcast in the universe, and yes, yes I did hear from the almighty creator, it really is.
	What the hell?
	Let's go, man!
	There's some crazy people in the world.
	If you vote to leave, you vote to leave the single market.
	What bit don't you understand about that?
	Let's just listen to what they said.
	The British public would be voting if we leave, would be to leave the union and leave the single market.
	We'd be out of the single market.
	That's the reality.
	Britain would be quitting.
	Quitting the single market.
	Just picture the single, we're out of the single market, out of the European Union.
	If we leave the European Union, if we take ourselves out of the single market.
	What bit don't you understand about life?
	What bit don't you understand about life?
	Let's just listen to what they've said.
	The British public would be voting if we leave, would be to leave the EU and leave the single market.
	We'd be out of the single market.
	That's the reality.
	Britain would be quitting the single market.
	Do not believe them when they tell you tonight that the single market is good for Britain.
	That we need to be part of this club to access the single market.
	Every country in the world accesses the single market.
	Bye.
	Bye.
	If you vote to leave, if you vote to leave the single market, what don't you understand about that?
	I wrote a call to Taylor.
	I gotta check this piece of crap out.
	This effort's just going by now.
	That's a lie.
	Get out of here, you phony.
	This is crazy, crazy, crazy.
	It's cray-cray.
	Me no likey.
	Quick, quick.
	This effort just went by him.
	Humorless, depressing, and unhealthy.
	I don't like to complain.
	Yeah!
	Thank you.
	We're done.
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