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	Oh yeah, my mama lives in the same house we live in.
	Adam Curry, John C. Devorak.
	It's Sunday, November 19th, 2017.
	This is your award-winning Gitmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 983.
	This is No Agenda.
	Turning a dollar edge worldwide into greenbacks and broadcasting live from downtown Austin Tejas, capital of the drone, Star State, in the Cudio, in the morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where there's nothing really going on, I think I'm going to take a vacation.
	I'm John C. DeBora.
	It's Craig Martin Buzzkill, in the morning!
	There's no such thing as a vacation in our business.
	And I missed a Zephyr.
	I tweeted you a nice picture of a classic movie.
	Did you see that?
	No.
	The movie is...
	It was a nice cover of the movie.
	Of the film poster.
	The man who watched the trains go by.
	Yeah, no, I saw that.
	Okay, then why did you say no?
	Because I don't know what you were talking about.
	That was a while ago.
	It wasn't like you just tweeted it this morning.
	Okay, we're in a fine mood, aren't we?
	Yeah.
	What are you, being accused of groping?
	Uh, curiously, if you want to start there.
	Uh, only under one condition.
	Okay.
	We play the jingle.
	And now it's time for your sexual harassment update.
	I got lots of women who liked it a lot, John.
	They like the jingle.
	I like the jingle.
	It's good.
	I think men like the jingle, too.
	They're sexist.
	We finally have a female voice on the show.
	It's so nice.
	We have the You Got Karma voices played probably more than anything else.
	True, true, true.
	But you know what I mean.
	In a jingle form.
	Yes, we need more women jinglers.
	Hello!
	Are you a jingler?
	Sign up!
	So there's a little story that is not going to get a lot of...
	Because, you know, they're really going out of their way to protect Franken.
	You know...
	Yes, and it's so obvious that this was going to happen.
	We were pretty much ready for it.
	I have quite a slew of examples, you can imagine.
	It is almost like we need to take a trip to the alternative universe.
	I don't want to do it because it makes me nauseous.
	But it truly is two sides of the same coin, what's going on now.
	It's really, really fascinating to watch.
	Well, the funny thing about Franken is that, like all these other guys, I would say, I would put him in the category of Bill Cosby, where at first there's nothing, and then there's one, and then there's a couple.
	But they've been doing their best to repress him.
	But we do have a local story because it involved a local person, one of the talk show people.
	I don't have the clip list in front of me, but it's a clip that should have Franken's name on it and Melanie Morgan.
	Okay.
	Nope.
	Oh, no.
	It's another Franken victim.
	Is that it, maybe?
	Another Franken victim.
	And this is a local girl.
	While she sleeps.
	And a second woman accused Franken of harassment today.
	Former Bay Area radio host Melanie Morgan spoke out today, saying Franken wouldn't stop calling her after they debated on the Bill Maher show.
	It was three days worth of phone calls that took place.
	And finally, the last time that he called, I said, if you call me one more time, I am calling the police and I am going to make a harassment complaint against you.
	Morgan says the incident happened in the year 2000.
	She says he got her phone number from a producer on the show.
	Morgan says the incident, quote, frightened her half to death.
	You know, I saw her on a Laura Ingraham show.
	I'm not a big fan of Laura Ingraham necessarily, but she was on...
	Oh, the new accuser.
	And I watched...
	I mean, you know, she was a dick to him on the show.
	He was a dick to her.
	And then he wanted to be right.
	That's what it was about.
	So it wasn't necessarily...
	Unless that's a tactic.
	You know, it seems a little odd.
	Well, during that period, she was pretty good looking.
	If I'm not mistaken.
	Yeah, yeah.
	It's 15 years, 16 to 20 years ago.
	Yeah.
	It wasn't sexual harassment.
	Why would he be calling her to say, you know, it's a TV show.
	Does he take it?
	He's a comic, and it's a TV show.
	He's not going to be calling her over and over and over again to correct some error.
	Yeah, I think that...
	He might be one of those people who's just so pissed when he doesn't get his way that he just goes out of his way to have someone say, okay.
	Look, it doesn't matter.
	He's creepy, but...
	The thing that really put me in the alternate universe is the focus on the picture, much less on the forceful kiss, which is what I find really offensive.
	I can see the funny in what he did.
	It's inappropriate.
	But here's how it's explained in Dimension A. She says that he wrote a part into their skit that required him to kiss her, and that he tried to rehearse the kiss backstage that made her uncomfortable.
	Notice no mention of the tongue down her throat jab.
	...to rehearse the kiss backstage that made her uncomfortable.
	And then she also published a picture that was given to her of her asleep with Senator Franken mock-groping her.
	Mock-groping?
	Mock groping.
	Oh, okay.
	I see.
	It's mock groping.
	And this was a written scene.
	This sounds like dimension B to me.
	I'm sorry, I meant B. A, B, whatever.
	We straddle.
	Here's another example.
	In a nutshell, she says she was on this USO tour that Al Franken wrote.
	He was a comedian then, not a senator.
	Okay.
	Oh, that's fine.
	Mock groping is okay.
	Hey.
	I'd just go up to some random woman and grab her breasts and say, hey, hey, just mock groping.
	Just mock groping.
	Is that okay?
	Mock groping.
	It's really, I mean, that is what's disturbing because you know that if it was, because it's all politicized, if it was a Republican, he would have been a douchebag and he's got to get out.
	And I think they know that themselves, too.
	It's got to be.
	It's just got to be.
	I don't think they know that.
	I mean, there's really weird stuff happening.
	Now, Bill Clinton's being brought up again.
	I have the Clinton clips.
	Okay.
	I got one, but you seem to have a little puckage.
	I believe, by the way, before we explain any of these Bill Clinton clips, this is...
	An attack on Hillary because they're still trying to get her out of the picture.
	She won't go away.
	She's like a bad penny.
	Yes.
	She's like the guest in your house that won't leave.
	And so they've decided now, what are we going to do?
	I think they actually do have a meeting that almost comes down to, what are we going to do now?
	I think if we go after Bill...
	Bill will have some influence on her because apparently she's not listening to us.
	Which one do you want to start with?
	Well, why don't you play yours right off?
	Oh, okay.
	I have...
	Alright, hold on a second.
	We'll start then with a CNN panel of women.
	Oh, good.
	I got a CBS and a Fox, so we can see that this is a concerted effort by the entire media.
	Yeah, so what I need to do is I need to start, though, with former, note former, because you'll hear that she's not so former because she's everywhere, director of progressive media for the Clinton campaign, And I just wanted you to hear her first on Franken, then we'll come back to her on the panel with other CNN women.
	In this new groundswell...
	Oops, this one I meant.
	Should we be talking about Bill Clinton right now?
	No, I don't...
	In this new...
	I don't think we should be talking about Bill Clinton.
	I think that there were plenty of feminists at the time those allegations were happening, that we're having this conversation we're having right now.
	But at the time, we weren't really listening to feminists.
	We thought they were sort of outliers and the conversation about the cultural shift...
	I knew you'd like this.
	Outliers, John.
	Outliers.
	What?
	Yeah, at the time.
	Don't you remember?
	We thought they were sort of outliers, and the conversation about the cultural shift in terms of the power dynamic and the abuses of power, those were conversations that weren't a part of the mainstream.
	I do think it's important to process— It almost sounds like you're giving Bill Clinton a pass.
	I'm not giving him a pass.
	I'm saying the reason why we're having this conversation about Bill Clinton and presidents is because the current president has been accused by over a dozen women of inappropriate sexual behavior, and he is in office.
	Right now.
	And so I think that he's the catalyst for this entire conversation.
	And I think, you know, we need to understand this in sort of a more comprehensive way.
	It's a spectrum of behavior.
	On the one end of the spectrum, the more severe end, is the Harvey Weinsteins of the world, Bill Cosby's of the world, Roy Moore, right?
	And at the other end of the spectrum, you have...
	That's 40 years ago.
	If we're going to go into this sort of thing, well, that was then and this is now, why is Roy Moore even brought into the conversation?
	That was 40 years ago.
	Right?
	More, right?
	And at the other end of the spectrum, you have street harassment, and you have Al Franken, and you have more benign behaviors that are traumatizing to women, but are not necessarily criminal.
	And so I think that we have to understand that all women have these experiences.
	All women have been victims of harassment, but at different ends of the spectrum.
	Okay, so it's a spectrum now.
	That's what you have to understand.
	It's a spectrum.
	I like that.
	Let me ask you a question.
	If you forcibly...
	Say you're going to kiss someone, rehearse sketch or not, and then you do it and then you stick your tongue in the throat.
	Is that not almost assault and battery?
	I think so.
	How about if you grab someone by the pussy?
	You know, if he was a better looking guy.
	He never said that he grabbed anyone by the pussy.
	He says you can grab them by the pussy.
	Yes, correct.
	But that has changed.
	That's not how it's remembered anymore.
	Now we're going to go to the CNN panel.
	I think Brooke Baldwin was leading it.
	Again, the former progressive media director.
	I don't think she's former anymore.
	She's the anti-boobs woman.
	Brooke is, yeah.
	Brooke's the anti-boob woman.
	Yeah, she hates boobs.
	In this new groundswell of everything we're experiencing, there is a new lens on Bill Clinton.
	Fair point.
	Go ahead.
	Yes, absolutely, because this goes beyond just Monica.
	This goes to the $850,000 that Clinton paid to Paula Jones for I forget who this is, but this is the woman who's making a big mistake on CNN right now.
	For sexual harassment.
	She only asked for $700,000, but she got $850,000 from Bill Clinton.
	That was payola.
	He didn't admit guilt, but why would you pay $850,000?
	Hold on a second.
	Payola refers specifically to the music industry.
	Yeah.
	Pay off is the word she's looking for.
	She's an idiot, like most people on television.
	Payola, he didn't admit guilt, but why would you pay $850,000 unless you were doing something wrong?
	And this was not just her.
	It was case after case after case.
	And Hillary Clinton...
	Hey, why is she just mumbling away there?
	This use of the word payola is just unbelievable to me.
	Well, you know that Brooke immediately after she's done with a little soliloquy said, that's not payola.
	Oh, wait.
	No, she didn't.
	I'm sorry.
	Case after case after case.
	And Hillary Clinton, she's victim-shamed.
	You want to talk about listening to women?
	She called Monica Lewinsky, who was an intern at the time.
	I have a problem blaming the women for the men.
	I believe you should.
	Now the former director comes in.
	You should listen to the women.
	Yes, you should.
	But bringing up Hillary Clinton in a conversation about Bill Clinton's behavior is not appropriate.
	It is appropriate.
	I think we should focus on the men's choices and the men's behavior.
	And all men need to reflect upon their behavior, not just famous ones and not just politicians.
	It's a cultural problem, not something that we should just put all on Hillary Clinton's shoulders.
	I'm not putting it all on her shoulders.
	She lost to Trump.
	Hillary Clinton went after Lewinsky, called her bimbo arrest.
	Wait a second.
	Hang on, hang on, hang on.
	This is terrible television.
	I liked it.
	I mean, it's terrible.
	You can't understand a word anyone's saying.
	They're all talking over each other.
	They're going to get into it, though.
	The sex scandal was an affair with somebody that was of age, Monica Lewinsky.
	Lewinsky has never been an accuser.
	She has never since the time, not back then, not since then, ever said that he did this to me.
	It was unwanted.
	I didn't want to get touched.
	I mean, she's not an accuser, so now we're going to step in and on her behalf, accuse him of sin.
	She's a marital affair that is not illegal.
	It might be immoral.
	Oh, hold on.
	That's not true.
	In Texas, it's illegal for sure.
	It's illegal to what?
	Copulation outside of the marriage.
	It's a divorceable offense.
	They're in Washington, D.C. Everything goes there.
	A marital affair that is not illegal.
	It might be immoral.
	It might be unethical.
	But it's not illegal to have an affair.
	Yes, it's wrong for the president to do that.
	But remember, the illegality with Clinton was because of the perjury over which he was impeached.
	Not because he had an affair.
	And Ken Starr was appointed a year and a half before he even met Monica.
	Monica was an intern in the power spectrum.
	Yeah, they don't want to talk about the power structure that she was an intern.
	Then we have, I mean, they were out in full force because you're right.
	I completely concur that this was the attack on Hillary through Bill and Hillary through everybody out there.
	Former Hillary Clinton aide Jennifer Palmer on MSNBC. I want to bring you in, Jen, on this specific question of, for Donald Trump, for Sean Hannity, for a few other select spots on Fox being a partisan issue, where they go wall to wall, if it's Harvey Weinstein or if it's Al Franken, and where they, you know, Sean Hannity saw fit to leave it up to Alabama to decide whether...
	It's amazing the blindness or color, tone deafness of these people who are accusing, rightly, Fox News of highlighting Democratic predators, whereas CNN is doing the exact opposite.
	Does no one see this?
	Roy Moore's assault on nine women who were He's ages 14 to 28, every last one of them in incredibly vulnerable positions.
	He was in his early 30s.
	That doesn't justify the same kind of scrutiny, and for Donald Trump at least, the same kind of Twitter attention, and as Eli said, cutesy-pootsy nicknames as a Democrat.
	Yeah, it's like a weaponization, political weaponization of sexual harassment.
	Oh, really?
	And it's just the height of cynicism.
	And it's not, you know, honestly, that's what I would expect from Donald Trump.
	It's the height of it.
	So let's talk more about Trump being a douchebag.
	Yeah!
	But it's not just them, it's Mitch McConnell, who was very quick to call for ethics investigation of Senator Franklin, which is an appropriate thing to do, but he was not sincere in doing that.
	What's an appropriate thing to do?
	What are you bitching about?
	But he was not sincere in doing that.
	He was doing that to try to put Democrats in the box.
	But he also, Mitch McConnell's interesting because he also was the first big national Republican figure to say these words, I believe the women about Roy Moore's accusers.
	I believe the women about Roy Moore's accusers.
	You know what this now sounds like?
	It kind of hit me.
	It sounds like, just think, it's a different topic, but it sounds like every technology, every tech podcast, I believe, I think, I know, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh.
	You know what I mean?
	Take it and put a time note down.
	But I'm serious.
	Yeah, it's people just talking through their ass.
	Yeah, and no place to do that, no better place to do that than the Bill Maher show, which is my final clip.
	By the way, I want to congratulate you for tricking me into playing this one clip for the last ten minutes.
	And it's actually a series of clips leading to the one clip.
	Very coy.
	Continue.
	Didn't mean to trick you.
	I'm sorry.
	Continue.
	On the show, some author, she wrote a book about, I guess, how horrible men are.
	Bernstein's on the show.
	And Chelsea Handler, who I used to like a lot.
	I used to watch her show.
	I never liked her because she was...
	I know people that network and I know too much, I guess.
	I'm good.
	Never mind.
	But I never liked her.
	And I don't think she's funny.
	Well, she became very unfunny more than a year ago.
	Kind of when she went from E! to her Netflix show.
	And, you know, she's off the air.
	Otherwise, I'm sure with her sexual proclivity, she would have been outed by someone somewhere.
	She's a wild one.
	But listen to this exchange, and again, it's about Bill Clinton, among others, with Bill Maher and guests.
	What about Bill Clinton?
	Chelsea, you tweeted, imagine being molested by an older man, then that man denies ever doing it, and then goes on and gets elected to the United States Senate, and Juanita Broderick...
	Tweeted back, yeah, Chelsea Handler, I can imagine, and goes into how she says she was raped by Bill Clinton.
	But see, unlike the right, you then said, oh, you have a point.
	I said, I'm so sorry.
	I apologize.
	First of all, every victim deserves to be heard.
	Anyone who's alleging any sort of assault or abuse needs to be listened to.
	So do we have to relook at Bill Clinton?
	Well, do we have to go back to look at Bill Clinton?
	I mean, isn't the jury out on that?
	We got what Bill Clinton was, okay?
	He had a lot of sex with a lot of people, and yeah.
	Well, that's what we know.
	Now we're talking about forced sex, which is a crime.
	Right.
	I mean, right.
	You're right.
	Do we have to go back and look at that?
	Yes.
	I'm not going to just believe a woman.
	I'm a woman, and it is my job right now.
	We're in the area where we have to believe every woman, because we've done such a poor job at believing each other.
	Oh, okay.
	One of the reasons...
	Go women!
	One of the reasons that I think it is crucial that we go back as part of this conversation and look at Bill Clinton is because the timing of what happened with Bill Clinton was really crucial to the development of this conversation about sexual harassment.
	It was right after the Anita Hill hearings in which the term sexual harassment and what it meant to women as a class, the way that this behavior disadvantaged them economically and professionally.
	Which reminds me, because I only witnessed that, you know, just as I was very young at the time.
	Well, not very young, but much younger.
	This is the long dong silver Clarence Thomas.
	He was making pubic hair on the Coke can.
	He didn't actually touch her or anything, but he was very rude.
	And wasn't it John Kerry?
	Was it Kerry who ran that entire Senate investigation?
	I don't remember.
	Yeah.
	But, you know, Thomas clearly conservative.
	And then, lo and behold, right after that, we, you know, like, ah, okay, we're going to get those Democrats.
	Let's go, let's out Clinton as a douchebag.
	So this has been going on forever.
	almost came into the lexicon and feminists made this point even though Clarence Thomas was appointed to the Supreme Court despite being accused of sexual harassment by Anita Hill and then immediately after Bill Clinton is elected president and there is because he is better for feminist policy than the 12 years of and this is the politics you're talking about and because there is a 12 years what What is she saying?
	I have no idea what you're talking about the 12 years.
	Because it was Bush for four, and then who was before Bush Sr.?
	Reagan.
	Okay.
	But people loved him, didn't they?
	Didn't Democrats even love him?
	Who, Reagan?
	Yeah.
	They reluctantly said nothing.
	They reluctantly didn't go after him because they were apparently overmatched.
	No Democrat loved Reagan, no matter what they say.
	Well, now apparently it was horrible.
	Now that he's dead, they do.
	And this is the politics you're talking about.
	And because there is a right-wing attack on him, and those things are simultaneously true, there is a left feminist defense of Bill Clinton's power abuse with regard to Monica Lewinsky.
	And that derails the clarification of the conversation around sexual harassment.
	So chronologically, before we even get to whether we believe Juanita Broderick, there is a derailment of that conversation in the 90s when the left is moved to defend Bill Clinton right after we've just talked about what sexual harassment means.
	So it's important to go back and talk about him.
	On the other hand, we can't just make this about Bill Clinton and not the guy who's currently in the White House, not the guy who wants to be in the Senate, not the people who are in the Senate Frankly, the stakes are higher with Trump in the White House.
	Yes!
	Great discussion.
	I appreciate it.
	Yeah, great.
	Bill Clinton was a rapist.
	Yeah.
	Well, again, it's the categorization.
	It's the spectrum, you know, it's the spectrum.
	Because Clarence Thomas, was that sexual harassment or inappropriate workplace behavior?
	Well, that is sexual harassment.
	I think it's two and the same thing.
	But he was, yeah, it was inappropriate workplace behavior and sexual, in the form of sexual harassment that Clarence Thomas exhibited.
	And she didn't like it.
	No.
	And she bitched and moaned, I guess.
	I don't know how much she complained.
	Did she talk to HR? I don't know.
	Let me see.
	Sexual harassment is bullying or coercion of a sexual nature or the unwelcome or inappropriate promise of rewards in exchange for sexual favors.
	That, to me, is really the...
	Well, that's a lot different than saying there's pubic hair on a Coke can.
	Yes, but bullying, I don't think bullying...
	I think it's kind of bullying in an awkward way with somebody that some prissy woman like her, Anita Hill, is just, you know, you just imagine her all the time holding the top of her blouse by her neck tightly...
	Well, here's the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
	That's a governmental body.
	Here's their definition.
	It is unlawful to harass a person, an applicant, or employee because of that person's sex.
	That's interesting.
	Because of that person's sex.
	Harassment can include sexual harassment, quotes, or unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical harassment of a sexual nature.
	The legal definition of sexual harassment varies by jurisdiction.
	Oh, that's interesting.
	In California, it's like blinking twice.
	Yeah, just looking at the dress.
	Not even mentioning it.
	Yeah, okay.
	Well, it's all close enough.
	I think we should start calling out some of the women for sexual harassment of a different nature.
	Because I was watching the other day.
	I was watching Farrow Fallon, Jimmy Fallon.
	And he had Jessica Chastain on.
	Mm-hmm.
	Jimmy Farrell.
	I kind of like it.
	I like it.
	So she comes on and she's wearing a tight-fitting black dress with a slit so you can see all the way up to her top of her thigh as she walked in.
	She's showing a lot of leg.
	I thought that's a sexual harassment.
	As far as I'm concerned, that might as well be sexual harassment.
	She's harassing people.
	How?
	How?
	Showing off a big leg, like a beautiful leg.
	This is not good.
	You can't do that.
	That's harassment?
	I think in California it should be.
	The way everything else is going, yes, I'd say it's harassment.
	Well, he's in New York, so that makes it easier.
	Well, it should be in New York, too.
	I'm thinking more of Janet Napolitano.
	Well, no, that's different.
	That's already bullying.
	That's bullying based upon someone's sex.
	Yeah, I agree with that.
	But that's, I think, I'm just saying, I'm trying to expand it.
	Well, I think it can go anywhere.
	To Jessica's chest ain't sure to come in wearing pants.
	Period.
	Okay.
	All right.
	I'll let you have that one.
	All right.
	After this...
	After that clip-a-thon.
	It's a beauty.
	Okay, so let's play my two lone clips.
	I'm sorry.
	Which are the two examples, which I... Turn them Bill Clinton on the chopping block because he's only on the chopping block.
	This is only coming out.
	They make it look like it's about Trump, but it's not.
	It's about Hillary and getting her off the stage.
	They can't seem to get rid of this woman.
	They do not want her running for president for a third time and failing again.
	Right.
	But they're going to be stuck with that if they can't get her off the stage and they can't seem to do it.
	So they're going to work on Bill.
	So let's start with the CBS version.
	Sitting with candidate Trump, Juanita Broderick spoke to the press ahead of the second presidential debate.
	But Bill Clinton raped me and Hillary Clinton threatened me.
	I don't think there's any comparison.
	The national debate over sexual misconduct has led to a reassessment of Mr.
	Clinton's behavior.
	An investigation of sexual harassment claims eventually led to his impeachment when he lied under oath about his affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
	I misled people.
	Including even my wife.
	I deeply regret that.
	One prominent Senate Democrat, Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, was asked if in today's context Mr.
	Clinton should have stepped down.
	Yes, I think that is the appropriate response, but I think things have changed today and I think under those circumstances there should be a very different reaction.
	Back to this White House, Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said today the President has addressed the Moore allegations.
	He has not.
	The official White House position is they are, quote, extremely troubling, but it's up to the voters of Alabama to decide if Moore, the Republican nominee, is fit for office.
	Anthony?
	Major Garrett at the White House.
	Today, the Moore campaign brought out a group of female supporters, including the candidate's wife.
	And now this Gillibrand, is she a Republican or Democrat?
	No, she's a Democrat.
	Ah, so she somehow was co-opted into the plan to relaunch the hashtag MeToo against Bill.
	Yeah.
	Oh, very interesting.
	Somewhere along the line.
	I wonder who is...
	We've highlighted her on the show before, but I can't give any...
	Yeah, I'm just wondering, you know, who's the big money behind this?
	Who's really pushing...
	Soros!
	Yeah, what am I thinking?
	Stupid.
	Of course.
	He hates Putin and he hates Clinton.
	Well, he hates her now because she failed him.
	Yeah, if she would have won, he'd be a big-time supporter, but no.
	And he knows that you can't...
	She looks like she wants to run again.
	She's got the machine.
	She could run again.
	She's got the women vote or whatever there is left of it.
	I don't know.
	The face bag is kind of iffy about it.
	Yes, and why do you think that is?
	It's because they've been going after her.
	Face bag is a good barometer.
	Yep.
	Yep.
	None of this has been going on.
	None of these slams against Hillary and slams against now Bill.
	No, they're all asking for Elizabeth Warren.
	Even though she agreed that it was a big scam, the primaries, they still want Elizabeth Warren to run.
	They think that she's the Mac Daddy.
	Which is fine by me.
	That'd be funny.
	I'm just thinking entertainment value.
	She goes after Trump.
	She actually gets his goat.
	The republic runs itself, president or no president.
	I don't think it matters.
	All right, so let's play.
	Now here's the Fox version, which would be more extreme.
	Again, using Bill as the whipping boy to go after Hillary.
	This comes as many on the left and members in the media are finally starting to admit that sexual misconduct allegations against President Bill Clinton were dismissed and downplayed.
	And that Clinton's accusers were widely attacked and discredited.
	Look at a couple of these headlines.
	Vox, Bill Clinton should have resigned.
	What he did to Monica Lewinsky was wrong, and he should have paid the price.
	From the New York Times, what about Bill?
	Sexual misconduct debate revives questions about Clinton.
	And from the Atlantic, Bill Clinton, a reckoning.
	Feminists saved the 42nd President of the United States in the 1990s.
	They were on the wrong side of history.
	Is it finally time to make things right?
	This is a major change from what we've seen as recently as a 2016 campaign.
	Look at how the media attacked Clinton's accusers back then.
	A trio of women who say Bill Clinton made unwanted sexual advances in the 80s and 90s.
	Mr.
	Clinton denies it.
	Two of the cases were plagued by factual discrepancies.
	When it was Bill Clinton's problem, almost in the moment, Republicans tried to make it an issue, and it didn't work.
	So why is it going to work 20 years later with his wife?
	I just don't see it.
	And the issue of Bill Clinton's past is that fair game, and it would be if he were running for president, but he isn't.
	Hillary Clinton is running for president.
	I would like to apologize to those tramps that have slept with my husband.
	Maybe she could have said that.
	Bomb them, bomb them, and bomb them again.
	I love Judge Nuneen.
	So she brought a lot of these old clips and also brought out the show that the big guns, the New York Times, Atlantic, and all these big characters, or Vox, are all going after Bill, all at the same time.
	It's all happening all at once.
	It's orchestrated.
	But also, you know, we're seeing things, Vox itself being accused of being one big predatory mosh pit.
	Well, if it's a Web's operation, I'm sure it is.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, we have...
	Now continue, of course, Jeffrey Tambor we know.
	What I thought was really fascinating.
	Jeffrey Tambor, perfect Amazon streaming services.
	There's your target.
	Ryan Seacrest.
	Oh, I didn't know this.
	Yes, by former stylist.
	Oh, I do know this.
	Yeah, he denies these reckless allegations.
	We have...
	The TED Talks was my favorite.
	Apparently, the douchebag elitist TED Talk, TED Conference, not the TEDx, no, no.
	The real one.
	The real one that you pay $10,000 for is just filled with douchebags so bad that women don't even want to go anymore.
	I mean, we're talking about jump-pouncing on women, cornering them, pushing them up against the wall, and senior tech people, you know, rubbing their, mashing their hard-ons against women.
	It's disgusting.
	It's totally disgusting.
	And you know that that's exactly the people who are doing this stuff, because they've lost all control of reality.
	I've seen this.
	I've seen it.
	You've seen it.
	I've seen tons of it.
	Douchebags.
	Unbelievable.
	The funny one, though, is Gene Simmons.
	That one kind of surprises me.
	Isn't Gene Simmons married to Shannon Tweed, the former playboy of the year?
	Yeah, but you see, he's not...
	Being accused of anything other than being incredibly douchey.
	And I have my own story about that.
	Because, you know, he basically is just...
	He's rude.
	I guess he was in the Fox Business News studios or whatever.
	That was news to me.
	And he offended members of the team.
	And so he ups it by saying, hey, chicks, sue me.
	But here's the thing.
	Hey, chicks.
	I'll tell you, this is Gene Simmons.
	Anyone who has met Gene Simmons for five minutes knows that this guy is like this.
	And it's funny.
	He used to come into the weekly music meetings at MTV. When he was producing, what was he producing?
	I was producing somebody.
	It wasn't a Kiss record.
	And at the time, I was the only VJ in the music meeting.
	This is where the payola occurred.
	Although I didn't see any.
	And he comes in with knee pads on.
	Jumps up on the table.
	Says, who do I have to blow to get this thing on the air?
	And I was like, that was Gene.
	Alright, man.
	And you know what?
	You know they put it in rotation.
	That's how it works, baby.
	You know it.
	So it's very effective, his harassment on the spectrum.
	His shtick.
	Yeah.
	And then a little update on Kevin Spacey from Gitmo Nation GMT. A theater in London says 20 separate men have come forward to them with allegations of misconduct against actor Kevin Spacey, its former artistic director.
	Is this Carl Sagan?
	Who is this announcer?
	That's Euronews.
	Yeah.
	There's a lot of work for us on Euronews if we need anything.
	This is bad.
	The Old Vic says it couldn't verify any of the claims and wouldn't share specific details, but a law firm hired to conduct the investigation says 14 of the men were encouraged to go to the police.
	Much has changed at the Old Vic in recent years, and we will continue to work to model and safeguard the open culture that we want the Old Vic to be known for.
	Actor Roberto Cavazos claimed two weeks ago that Spacey had behaved inappropriately toward him when they both worked there, although it's not known whether Cavazos is one of the men listed in the findings.
	The House of Cards actor hasn't commented publicly about Cavazos' claim or any misconduct connected to the old Vic.
	A statement from the theater says they believe Spacey's star status led to a, quote, cult of personality around him when he worked there between 1995 and 2013.
	Gee!
	Captain Obvious, you think?
	Which may have led to junior staff or younger actors feeling they couldn't speak out.
	The theater also reported that they'd asked Spacey to participate in their investigation, but received no response from him.
	Reuters hasn't been able to verify any of the claims against Spacey, and his lawyer didn't immediately respond to requests for comment.
	The last statement from his representatives two weeks ago said he was seeking treatment.
	Now, I'd love that last little bit.
	Listen to it.
	This guy is a member of the gays, and that's a very specific group of homosexual-oriented men.
	Listen to the disdain when he says, treatment.
	From his representatives two weeks ago, said he was seeking treatment.
	Treatment, right.
	They hate him.
	They hate him.
	They do.
	The gays hate Spacey because he was not, as they said, he was not a good gay.
	Not a good gay in Hollywood.
	Nope.
	Well, I don't know what's going to happen.
	Now there's been some news about his abusive dad who's a Nazi, apparently.
	Wait, wait.
	Spacey's dad?
	Yeah, beat the kids.
	A supporter of Hitler.
	No way.
	Yeah.
	This will be coming out.
	They're trying to...
	Here's what's going...
	I think this is what's going on with Spacey.
	He is a huge loss to the artistic community as an actor.
	And producer, even.
	He saved the old Vic.
	Really?
	He went there in 95.
	It was, you know, just another piece of crap.
	It was a falling apart theater that was replaced by the new Vic.
	And the old Vic was still there, but it was, you know, just what's falling on hard times.
	He wasn't making any serious money.
	He wasn't choosing the right plays.
	He had all these issues.
	He became the director.
	The thing became very prosperous.
	He was almost there 20 years.
	And it's the way he spent most of his time, working there.
	And, you know, I guess...
	Banging a bunch of J's in England.
	Dudes.
	Dudes.
	But it was, you know, it was a positive, it was a benefit.
	I mean, nobody was complaining at the time.
	Oh yeah, he came on to me and, you know, anyone can say no, I'm sure.
	Oh, I felt obligated because he was a cult of personality.
	Anyway, so he did good work.
	Now he's not there anymore.
	He hasn't been there since 2013 anyway.
	And then he started off the streaming thing, which is one of our theories is that that's the reason they're going after him to begin with.
	He made it happen with the House of Cards, a huge target on his back after that.
	And he's a fun actor.
	Everyone's enjoyed his work.
	I've liked all of the stuff he's ever done.
	He plays a nutball very well.
	Yeah.
	Although you never got into House of Cards.
	You were never into that.
	The first year I watched it religiously.
	Oh, okay.
	One year.
	Yeah, all right.
	Yeah, and then I watched a couple episodes and said, wait a minute.
	See, the problem I had with that show, you could almost say the same thing about The Wire.
	It was designed for one season.
	Mm-hmm.
	Right.
	And then it became such a big hit.
	The Wire was the worst case example because The Wire, if you watched, I think, six seasons, five seasons...
	The Wire was, the first season was absolute dynamite, and it actually ended.
	It ended.
	If you watch the first season, it's over at the end of that series.
	And then it was such a hit.
	It wasn't a monster hit, but it was a big hit, and the critics loved it.
	They shoehorned a second season, which was crap, but it was still good enough.
	Money in the bank, baby.
	Yeah, and then it was good to do a third season, which got it back on track, and it finished pretty well.
	But the second season's a joke.
	I felt that was what was going to happen with the House of Cards, and I wasn't going to watch it.
	Right, right.
	Then I lost interest.
	Someone had tweeted us, and I've been scrolling through the tweeters because I thought I'd saved the article or at least the tweet, that there was another on-demand show that was being taken down in the hashtag MeToo.
	Did you see that?
	Because you were copied on it.
	In fact, you got props for it.
	I don't remember.
	I'm scrolling here.
	I can't remember what that was.
	There were two or three other ones that somebody did point out.
	So this and this and this are all, you know, targets.
	Right, right.
	But, yeah.
	Well, it's not boring, that's for sure.
	Tambor, by the way, is the best example to go after from Amazon.
	They got the Netflix guy.
	Did you hear what he did?
	Well, you tell me.
	He mashed his erection up against one of his colleagues, colleague actors, a trans woman with a penis.
	And I guess he's getting turned on by the whole role.
	Maybe it's method acting.
	I don't know.
	Could be.
	It's possible.
	It's possible.
	Yeah, it is possible.
	That would be my defense.
	That would be my defense.
	And she was hot.
	That's going to make you wonder who's going to play Harvey Weinstein in the movie.
	Who would look good?
	Billy Joel comes to mind.
	He's ugly enough.
	Yeah?
	Yeah.
	I don't know.
	I don't know.
	Anyway.
	This whole thing is...
	It's actually...
	I don't know if it's in a callous way or a sick way or a misogynist way.
	I'm not sure what it is, but there's some element of humor that is irresistible.
	In this whole thing?
	Yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	I know Tambor's getting it.
	He's getting it from all sides, too.
	No kidding.
	That's what she said.
	I didn't know he was a masher.
	He's a masher!
	We got mashers and flashers.
	Mashers and flashers.
	Well, that time is upon us once again.
	John, I presume we're done with our sexual harassment updates?
	Well, no, I have one more.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	Oh, yes, good.
	This is the example of...
	CBS has been doing this a lot.
	This is the sex scandal.
	This is just a clip mostly of the segue.
	But there is no segue.
	CBS takes the sex scandal stories, they run them together, and then...
	We've done this on the show before.
	They drop in something that's got nothing to do with the sex scandals as though it's part of the story.
	Is this what you call the whipsaw?
	No, the whipsaw is where you exemplify something with the wrong clip.
	This is the story blending, I call it.
	This is...
	This is a good example.
	Clinton aimed to highlight distinctions between Democratic and Republican responses to misconduct claims.
	Look at the contrast between Al Franken accepting responsibility, apologizing, and Roy Moore and Donald Trump who have done neither.
	President Trump responded today tweeting Clinton just can't stop and that she should get on with her life.
	Meanwhile, the Senate Judiciary Committee is requesting documents from President Trump's advisor and son-in-law Jared Kushner related to a, quote, Russian backdoor overture and dinner invite during the campaign.
	Wow.
	Yeah.
	Well, the only thing I can think of is in the Steele dossier, there is talk of Jared being a cuck.
	But a real one, not just submissive to his wife.
	What's that got to do with these sex stories?
	Because it's a sex story!
	Yes, but they don't say that!
	Well, no, it's subliminal.
	What else could it be?
	It makes no sense otherwise.
	Maybe it's, I don't know.
	No, none of this makes sense.
	They have been doing this over and over again.
	I had an other example a couple of shows ago, and I keep seeing it where they're talking about one thing and they do it.
	It's a guilt by association thing.
	Let's talk about all these freaky perverts, and now let's mention Jared Kushner.
	Maybe or maybe there is that element.
	I think so.
	I think so.
	But it does not belong in this story.
	No, but let me just get the clip again.
	There was something at the end that was also sexual.
	This whole report is very, very sketchy.
	Trump's advisor and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, related to a, quote, Russian backdoor overture and dinner invite during...
	A backdoor overture?
	I don't know, John.
	A Russian backdoor overture, no less.
	Write that down.
	Russian bears.
	Yeah.
	Hey, comrade.
	I'm liking your butt.
	Very good.
	Backdoor overture.
	Nice.
	All I know is that as far as I'm concerned, this is not a proper way to do anything.
	Drawing those two stories together is just not right.
	No, it has nothing.
	And that was CBS? The Tiffany Network?
	Yes.
	CBS does that most of the time.
	Walter Cronkite rolls over in his grave.
	No, he doesn't.
	No?
	No, he was part of this whole thing.
	That was the era when they gave it over to the CIA, if you remember reading it.
	Yeah, you're right.
	Well, who was it before then?
	Bill Paley.
	Yeah, Bill Paley is the guy who did it.
	He thought it was cool to be a part of the agency.
	Yeah.
	All right.
	I want to do a little One Belt, One Road update.
	This is part of my beat.
	I'm just looking at the map, and if you haven't seen this before, silkroad.noagendanotes.com.
	Silkroad.noagendanotes.com.
	You can look at the maps.
	You can see the economic belt, the maritime belt, the train belt, and the following three countries have a lot of crap going on in them, and they're very important for the Chinese strategy.
	Since this is your beat?
	Yes.
	What's the name of the initiative?
	One belt, one road.
	You just named four belts.
	I did?
	Yeah.
	Rail belt.
	The maritime belt.
	Economic belt.
	On your hands belt.
	There's a bunch of different belts.
	That's a very good point.
	There's no one belt and where's the road?
	There's no road and no one belt.
	You know, I'm going to give you a point.
	That is excellent.
	Huh.
	Crazy Chinese.
	Alright, so the idea is we want to stop this.
	Somebody wants to stop this.
	I look at Tillerson.
	I think he's the guy who would know about this.
	But it could be a very different group.
	I don't know.
	But it is coincidental.
	So we need to continue with all kinds of crazy stuff going on in Catalonia in Spain.
	Spain's top prosecutor who spearheaded the case against Catalonia's separatist leaders has died suddenly.
	Attorney General José Manuel Mafa, who was 66, was on a working visit to Argentina when he took ill.
	Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has led tributes, taking to Twitter to express his condolences and recognition and gratitude for a life of work at the service of the state.
	José Manuel Mata called for charges to be brought against Catalan independence leaders, including ousted President Carlos Puigdemont, who's fighting extradition from Belgium, where he sought refuge.
	Four former members of his government with him in Brussels also face charges, while eight others are already behind bars in pretrial custody in Spain, accused of rebellion and sedition.
	Okay, so this is heating up again a little bit, even though it dropped off the radar, so we need to keep...
	Catalonia and Spain in tension because the Chinese don't want to pass even though one of their many belts or non-roads goes near Catalonia.
	The Chinese don't want any hassle.
	That's not in their charter.
	Next, we go to Myanmar, which is a major point on the non-road version, the maritime belt.
	And, well, we have one of our favorite Soros non-governmental organizations, to whom he gave $100 million a couple years ago, Human Rights Watch, complaining about it now.
	So they're being activated, so we continue to have some tension there.
	Human Rights Watch has accused Myanmar security forces of committing widespread rape over the past three months.
	It's a favorite.
	Rape, always a fan favorite.
	It's really good if you want to make a country look stupid.
	The group spoke to 52 women and girls who fled Bangladesh.
	29 said they'd been raped.
	Since August 25, Burmese military have carried out a campaign of ethnic cleansing against Rohingya in Northern Rakhine State.
	The result has been a humanitarian crisis of staggering speed and severity.
	Human Rights Watch has called on the UN to impose an arms embargo and targeted sanctions against military leaders responsible for human rights violations.
	By the way, I wanted to mention, you hear the music in this video?
	That's because Euronews, and there's even a logo in it, literally took this piece from Human Rights Watch.
	Human Rights Watch produced this.
	This is the Human Rights Watch produced piece about what they're doing.
	It even has their logo in the lower right-hand corner.
	As news.
	That takes a lot of gall, by the way.
	It really does.
	Chutzpah, we say.
	Sanctions against military leaders responsible for human rights.
	All they did is they just provided the translation voiceover.
	Otherwise, it's also stylized.
	You can see how beautiful it's shot.
	You know, they got the depth of field in there.
	You got the money.
	Yep.
	Sanctions against military leaders responsible for human rights violations.
	One of my neighbours was a girl named Nenwas.
	She was very beautiful.
	Three of the men from the military saw her hiding and they brought her outside and one of them laid her down.
	They pulled up her clothes and two of them raped her.
	After they finished raping her, the first soldier shot and killed her.
	I watched it happen myself.
	Myanmar's army have denied all allegations.
	You know what was interesting about this interview with this woman?
	After she was done with that whole story about, you know, raping her, then killing her, and then stomping on her head, she did a big snake tongue.
	Her tongue went all the way out and went back in.
	Which, as we know from CIA psychological profilers, is typically a tell that someone just lied.
	Well, she probably just lied.
	Yes.
	The third one hit my tripwire.
	And it makes nothing but sense.
	I didn't realize that this country was also a major part of the three belts, no road.
	It's over for Mugabe.
	Just one headline on a day many in Zimbabwe are now predicting could be the president's last in power.
	The pressure on the 93-year-old, the world's oldest head of state, is said to be intense, with senior officials from the ruling XANA-PF meeting to decide his fate.
	Ahead of those emergency talks, the leader of Zimbabwe's war veterans, Chris Mutzavangwa, reportedly threatened to unleash the mob shutdowns.
	Should Mugabe refuse to go?
	Zanapief's once loyal youth league has also turned against the president.
	While on the streets of the capital, Harare, the desire for change is palpable.
	On Saturday, thousands took part in protests calling for the president's removal.
	Should Mugabe refuse to go gracefully, he faces the prospect of impeachment when parliament resumes on Tuesday.
	I didn't need to go too far into this.
	I saw the professional signs of the protesters.
	Yeah, impeachment?
	Why don't you shoot him?
	I don't get that.
	Well, Soros doesn't do that.
	He likes to just get rid of him the old-fashioned way.
	Well, this is being played on all the networks.
	The network playing it up the most is guess which one.
	Would it be the CIA broadcasting system?
	Yeah, CBS playing it, and they're playing it long features with a lot of repetitive stuff.
	I watched the one they did on Wednesday, which I played on the last show, was almost identical to the one they played on Saturday on the weekend report, but they added more stuff to it, and they brought the reporter on screen.
	But half of it was exactly the same.
	I didn't clip it because it was redundant, but CBS is playing this.
	Well, they have a guy now.
	And the way it went down, it's kind of cool to see how the African political parties work.
	They sit in a little conference room.
	And they said, hey, we've got to get out of it.
	This guy is a new guy.
	You're in.
	You know, there's a handler behind him talking.
	And then they start singing, clapping their hands.
	Like, yeah, it's all going to be great.
	They have no idea what's coming down.
	Well, so then...
	If we think about CIA being involved, then maybe they're involved with thwarting the three-belt-no-road.
	They have to be.
	Would make sense.
	They're pro-America the way they see it.
	And this is this one belt, one road idea, which is, again, three, four belts, no road, is a threat.
	It's a threat to Western Europe.
	It's a threat to us.
	It's a threat to everyone.
	We can't even get out of our deals with China.
	I mean, you had Trump go over there, and next thing you know, he can't get anything accomplished.
	But, well, what are we going to do?
	Ah, well, he did accomplish something.
	Check it out.
	This is Chinese TV. A Chinese presidential envoy is in Pyongyang, and many are speculating North Korea's nuclear and missile programs will be on the agenda.
	U.S. President Donald Trump is expressing hope that China will use its influence on North Korea.
	The visit comes just days after the president's Asia tour, where he made North Korea one of its top priorities.
	The head of the Chinese Communist Party's International Department, Song Tao, Trump took to Twitter on Thursday, describing the envoy's visit as a big move.
	The U.S. president has repeatedly asked for China's cooperation to intensify pressure on North Korea.
	The outcome of the trip may influence a key decision Trump is about to make, whether to name North Korea a state sponsor of terrorism.
	Weren't they already a state sponsor of terrorism?
	Well, they were one of the axis of evil.
	I remember that, yes.
	George H.W. Bush.
	I don't know if they're...
	Because what terrorism are they sponsoring?
	Outstanding point.
	So that's his only leverage?
	Because, you know, I'm pretty sure he did some kind of deal.
	I'm pretty sure the Chinese don't give a crap.
	Well, the Chinese, you know, he's going to, we all know, you know, I know, your uncle knows, everybody knows that until we recognize them as a legitimate country, you know, send somebody over there, maybe set up an embassy.
	That would be a good idea.
	This is going to continue.
	You know, that would be a good idea.
	That would be a good idea.
	I'm just looking for what he promised, because you know he said, look, talk to your boy over there, calm him down a little bit, we'll work on that.
	Yeah, but the Chinese, again, as we had in a report that we played a couple shows ago, they don't really want to see the reunification of the two Koreas, because it would be in the best interest of the United States, not in the best interest of China.
	Sure, that's why an embassy would be a really good kind of way.
	I think an embassy would be fantastic.
	You should write that down in the book.
	Okay.
	That's not a bad one for the book, really.
	And that would open.
	Here's the way I would sell it.
	Look, we know this, and it's been kind of proven by just observing what they're up to.
	They want to make North Korea, which apparently is a beautiful place, and is unencumbered by billboards and advertising, whatever you want to call it.
	Into a tourist attraction.
	Yes.
	Well, that's phase two.
	That's got to be phase two.
	Yeah, but if you're going to get the big money tourists, Americans and Germans, into the place...
	You've got to have an embassy.
	You've got to have an embassy.
	Add that to the entry.
	A ledger entry in the Red Book.
	I don't have any clips yet, but they're coming.
	Um...
	I think it will be El Nino and or Polar Vortex.
	We always seem to have a Polar Vortex.
	Oh, we have our, yeah.
	Yes, when it's the hottest year on record, we have a Polar Vortex.
	Yeah, there'll be something because it's getting slammed.
	Yeah, I mean, we're looking like it's going to be a really harsh winter, it appears.
	Yeah.
	Because everything that's rocking the Pacific Northwest with just mostly rain, It's going over the Rockies and then developing into giant snowstorms that's whacking the East Coast.
	Yeah.
	Well, luckily we have the polar.
	I had not heard of the polar vortex until, well, really, Inconvenient Truth.
	I think that's the first year they had the polar vortex.
	It just seems a little disingenuous.
	Yeah, I'm thinking that too.
	Yeah.
	And I have a programming note.
	It's probably going to work in the opposite direction, but I have a gripe.
	I'm really tired of this.
	I got an email.
	Adam, thank you for reaching out to Senator Watson about co-hosting the No Agenda show.
	With regrets, he will not be able to do so.
	Could you stop doing that, people?
	What?
	People keep doing stuff like sending notes to senators saying, you know, as Adam Curry, like, I'm requesting this.
	Like, I'm requesting Senator Watson co-host the No Agenda show.
	You trying to get rid of me?
	You're not hearing me.
	You've done this to me.
	You've subscribed me to, like, Hillary's newsletter.
	I did.
	That was a favor.
	Thanks.
	But, you know, it's like people do this all the time, and they subscribe me to intelligence news briefs.
	I only know this because I started working with another mail client that lets you unsubscribe from stuff easily.
	You know, it's one click.
	You want to unsubscribe.
	And I must have 50 newsletters that people have subscribed me to.
	I know that they've done it.
	You know, it's stuff that I'm not on those lists.
	Well, now I'm on lists, of course.
	But it's like a reverse doc.
	It's like not ghosting.
	There's got to be a term for it, but it's not friendly.
	For somebody inviting some senator to be the co-host of the No Agenda show, we don't even do that.
	And do it out of my name.
	Hi, I'm Adam Curry.
	Yes.
	Hi, I'd really love the senator to do the show with me.
	Yeah, right.
	And with that, I'd like to thank you and say in the morning to you, John C., where the C stands for, can't replace him, Dvorak!
	Well...
	In the morning to you, Mr.
	Adam Curry.
	In the morning, all ships to sea, boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, and all the dames and knights out there.
	And in the morning to the troll room, noagendastream.com.
	We also have houseoftrolls.com, but this is where you go straight into the troll room, noagendastream.com.
	And in the morning to CZM137, he is the one who was awarded with the prestigious placement of his artwork in our MP3 file, Embedded Deep.com.
	That was for episode 9 or 8.2, Support Squirrel.
	And before you continue...
	We have to put him on the knighting list.
	Oh, yes.
	My goodness.
	You know, I was thinking about that earlier, and then I just forgot it again.
	And now that you mentioned his name, it re-triggered me to remind you to put him on the knighting list.
	Yes.
	Cesium-137.
	He should have been knighted like...
	Yeah.
	He has to be a black knight now.
	Black knight, yes.
	Black knight.
	And just their cesium-137, I guess.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Sometimes this happens where someone just falls into the void.
	Yeah, this happens.
	And they stay in it for almost a month, usually.
	It's dark in there.
	It's not good.
	It's a very, very horrible place.
	Anyway, thank you for your artwork.
	It was a cool piece.
	It was Lady Justice with some hands mock-groping her boobs.
	Yeah, mock-groping.
	Remember, it's mock-groping, so we're clear.
	We're safe.
	We're safe.
	And noagendaartgenerator.com is where you can upload your artwork.
	We look at it after every single show.
	But also use it for other things like the pre-show tweet and the newsletter.
	And I'd like to promote, again, noagendashop.com.
	Those guys make cool stuff out of a lot of this artwork and contribute money to the artists.
	Who are you?
	So it's a good thing.
	My No Agenda t-shirt, the one with the cool logo, the big chest-filling logo, I've worn that out already.
	I love it so much.
	They just got good t-shirts.
	You know?
	Is this where they get the raw material?
	Is it a good Egyptian cotton?
	I don't know.
	They'll email me.
	Let's find out.
	Somehow, they've...
	There are good t-shirt makers out there that make good blanks.
	The fit is good.
	The feel is good.
	The quality is good.
	It's got that nice soft feel.
	Yes, yes.
	And after you wash it, it's not all crackly, like scratching up your body.
	Yeah.
	You've worn too much mohair.
	Yes.
	A no-agenda mohair sweater.
	Perfect.
	Mohair underwear, people.
	Well, this will be a short segment.
	Yes, we have two.
	This is, by the way, the first.
	A first for us.
	We don't have any executive producers.
	The holiday season is killing us.
	We have no executive producers, and we have two associate executive producers, which means the one who donates the most automatically gets jumped up by rule to executive producer.
	But we have a problem.
	We have two guys who both donated the minimum for associate executive producers, $200.
	So they both...
	Get bumped up to executive producer for $200.
	It's the only time this has ever happened.
	You're right.
	That is unique.
	Huh.
	I didn't realize that.
	So you're talking about two guys who got lucky.
	Beautiful.
	Jason Butler being one of them.
	$200.
	After many fun years, he says, I had to let SeanHannity.com go.
	Oh, no.
	Yeah, I guess.
	I just tried to register it.
	Someone already has it.
	Yeah, well, Jason used it.
	He's the one who owned it forever.
	Why didn't you tell us?
	I would have gladly taken it over.
	He didn't.
	That's why he gave you the $200.
	He now feels guilty.
	And he's also relocated in Takapuna, New Zealand.
	He's on the run.
	He's on the lam.
	Oh, my God.
	I let SeanHenny.com go.
	I gotta go hide.
	Of course, when you say he's from New Zealand and on the lamb, that has a double meaning.
	I know.
	I'm just brilliant that way, I guess.
	Anyway, thanks, Jason.
	And Sean Hannity is, you know, we got other stuff.
	We got other fish to fry.
	Ben Norman.
	$200.
	I've been listening for about a year, and this is my first donation.
	I was hit in the mouth by none other than Sir Violence and Sir John Davis of Brentwood, Tennessee.
	I wanted to take this opportunity to address him directly to not only thank him for guiding me to Dimension A and into your and John's good graces, but for allowing a non-donor of the best podcasts in the universe to date his daughter for the past year and a half.
	I would like to kindly request a de-douching.
	You've been de-douched.
	He continues saying, having cleared my name over the air.
	I kindly request your permission to marry your daughter.
	I love Tori.
	I very much hope to make her a part of my family as well as become a part of yours.
	There you go.
	Ah, Ben, that's beautiful.
	Now, he does have some jingle requests.
	Yeah, I saw this.
	I'm not sure.
	Let me see.
	What is this?
	Our next question comes...
	No, I don't.
	He wants the techno experts.
	I don't remember what that's called.
	I don't know what it's called.
	He wants the techno experts relationship karma and a little girl yay.
	Okay, let me see if this is techno experts.
	I'm going to have to play this at the end of the show.
	That's right, she's got him.
	Just like the Russians.
	I'm a techno expert.
	Of course, they're called trolls.
	When they're ours, we call them techno experts.
	Yeah!
	Yay!
	You've got karma.
	So they'll both be bumped up.
	Since we have a short segment, I can get to the errors.
	Oh, very good.
	Well, I don't want to thank Ben and Jason both.
	Thank you very much.
	Yeah, and I hope they have the...
	I wish the happy couple a good...
	Yes, let us know if she says...
	If he says yes, then you ask her.
	I mean, how's it...
	You ask him first, and then you ask her.
	Sounds like they're from Tennessee, so it's...
	Wow, okay.
	I don't know what they do.
	Nice.
	First, they go to a Tennessee Volunteers game, and if they lose, they get to marry, or if they win, they get married.
	Something like that.
	I'm not sure.
	First, I'm going to call out Francis Wehberg for using the error message to send a note.
	Incorrect usage of error.
	But the note was good enough that I have to read it.
	And I'll read it later.
	This has not anything to do with the errors.
	Okay, here's the error.
	Knighthood correction.
	You need your pen, I think, for this one.
	Josh Landon.
	He made a bogo.
	We never read his note, even though he sent us $500.
	So here it is.
	New note.
	He said, I hope in time to get through the pneumatic internet tubes.
	You knighted me to Sir Joshua Landon, but I would like to record the record to be corrected so that I would be known.
	So you have to do an upgrade.
	Yeah.
	Sir Joshua Landon becomes Sir Foxbat, the Crypto Knight.
	Okay, so I'll do him in the segment then.
	Yeah, yeah, in the segment.
	I have to because, you know, the sword has to land on the shoulder.
	I would also like to call out my friend John Monaco and my co-worker Craig Kessler as douchebags.
	Douchebag!
	Douchebag!
	We're not contributing value for value to the show.
	The show not only provides excellent entertainment, but I also find it's good for mental health.
	Please keep doing what you do twice a week.
	Thank you for your courage.
	You're welcome.
	out of the way.
	You're welcome and thank you, sir.
	I don't know why this didn't print out properly.
	Now, this is a note from...
	Oh, that was Joshua Landon.
	Okay, we got that.
	And the next one is Tawny.
	Came in with this note.
	Dear Innie and Audi, my note was skipped during the Bogo Madness, but I was wondering if you could still wish my beautiful daughter, Taryn, a happy belated fourth birthday.
	Yes, happy birthday, Taryn.
	From November 2nd from her mommy and daddy.
	Yeah.
	You want to put it on the list or you just want to leave it at that?
	I think this was better than the list.
	I think it was better than the list.
	Hi, Taryn.
	How are you doing?
	Happy birthday.
	No jingles, but since this was my first donation, a de-douching is requested.
	You've been de-douched.
	Sorry, I got some douche on you.
	What do you want?
	Baby making karma for me and my incredible husband, Tyler.
	Hoping for resource number five.
	Woohoo!
	The beaches are open!
	You've got karma for I just randomly start shouting stuff lately.
	I don't know what it is.
	The ISOs?
	The ISO game that we play?
	Somehow I'm just reciting ISOs in my regular life.
	Like that one.
	And finally, Matt Farrell enjoyed your dramatic reading of my message, but I did have a name request in the original note on my PayPal donation.
	So this is another upgrade from Sir Matt Farrell.
	He wants to be known as Sir Tar Heel.
	No need to read this.
	Sir Matt Farrell becomes Sir Tar Heel.
	Two words, not one.
	I might as well get this out of the way.
	Now we can throw this stapled together package away.
	He says, this is Francis.
	Francis says, I just left a train traveling across Italy.
	I sat next to a couple from Puerto Rico.
	The man is a customs worker.
	We discussed the situation there, and he and his wife said the following.
	So he gives us a rundown, a little note, or she.
	Almost all of the issues they are having, the locals and the local governments have created.
	This is because of political and financial corruption is already in existence.
	Most of the pictures we see on the M5M are from pre-existing areas already impoverished.
	And last but not least, the U.S. government and the military have in fact been helping in dropping off supplies almost from the beginning, but their efforts are jeopardized by the local governments.
	It's like a third world country.
	And Trump being an idiot.
	There you go.
	Yeah.
	We know this.
	It's fact.
	It was on the TV. Fact.
	Mm-hmm.
	Exactly.
	Fact check false.
	Any more errors?
	That's it.
	We're good to go.
	Well, we would appreciate a little more support.
	And I know that everyone really helped us and thanked us for the past 10 years.
	We do want to do a couple more.
	Years, that is.
	So, please remember us for this coming Thursday's show, where we have a special, a brand new show.
	It is the, what do we call that again?
	200X. The 200X. Show X, I think, is actually what we're calling it.
	Yeah, Show X. Where we deconstruct the deconstruction.
	And it's brand new.
	It's no onion.
	There are some onion cloves in there.
	Or garlic cloves.
	Garlic cloves.
	Yeah.
	What we did, or I decided, what we're going to do is do a version of show 200, which has been 200.5, 200.6, it started with 200.5.
	And then somebody griped about, you know, it's confusing.
	And I was thinking, yeah.
	It's confusing.
	And then Adam, not me, but Adam said, why don't we just do a new show?
	A whole one.
	Because I'm always looking for extra work.
	And I was thinking about it.
	Here's where my thinking goes.
	I know how long it takes to produce these 200-point shows.
	It actually takes longer with all the editing.
	Than creating a new one.
	Than doing a new one from scratch.
	But I'll say, you did the heavy lifting on this one.
	You went back and listened to early shows and pulled clips from them.
	Yeah, so it still took me forever, but at least there's an interesting show coming up, and it's one of those shows where it might be a good introductory show for people who can't get into the show or they don't get it or whatever, because there's a lot of explanation.
	We answer questions.
	A lot of questions came in and we answered them.
	It's a good show.
	It'll be running on Thanksgiving, but it's available forever online.
	Yes, remember us for that program this coming Thursday at dvorak.org slash N-A. And lots of you here in America are going to be hanging out with relatives.
	You know that you've got to propagate the formula.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Squirrel!
	Shut up, slave!
	Shut up, slave!
	Oh, yes.
	On the Slave Tip.
	It's that time once again, children, gather around your podcast listening device.
	It's that time once again when, in the Netherlands, where I grew up, The man on the horse with the beard from Spain travels up with his helpers, known as the Black Peets.
	This has been an ongoing controversy in the Netherlands, although it has been cultured for hundreds of years.
	The controversy rages now because it is Dutch doing blackface.
	And there is a movement...
	John, with an English name, no less.
	Don't we do this story every year with a new twist?
	Every year.
	Well, here's the new twist.
	It's coming down to blows because we have two sides.
	We have the, literally, this is their name, Kick Out Svartapit.
	That's their name.
	Kick Out Svartapit.
	And then we have the Anti-Pete Demonstrators.
	This is the two names of the two groups.
	They're both against Pete.
	No, no, no.
	The kick-outs for Pete are the guys who want Pete out.
	They want Rainbow Pete and White Pete and Green Pete.
	Oh, Rainbow Pete.
	That's a winner.
	I'm not kidding.
	Rainbow Pete.
	So he's no longer black.
	No, he has Rainbow Face, which is very realistic.
	And then we have the anti-Pete demonstrators, which includes truck drivers.
	No, the anti-Pete just hate Pete?
	No, no, they hate the anti-Pete demonstrators.
	So you've got the Pete demonstrators, and these are the guys who are against them.
	So it would be the anti-kickout Swart to Pete guys.
	Oh, so they're the Antifa.
	Well, no, they're more like the Nazis and the alt-right, and the kickout Pete, they're Antifa.
	Because they're left and there's social justice.
	Yeah, I guess.
	Never mind.
	Just keep explaining.
	It's a mess.
	Well, what the anti-Pete demonstrators did, the guys who like Pete in his traditional form, they're truck drivers.
	They cut off these guys driving to the protest and blocked the highway for six hours.
	Only in Europe do we see that.
	Yeah.
	I think we will see it come to blows before it's all over.
	People are very emotional about this.
	They put my money on the truck drivers.
	Yeah, that's where I put my money.
	Very emotional people are right now.
	And this was quite a shocker just while we're on Social Justice Warriors.
	What would happen if you had the same situation but the Black Peets were all black?
	In other words, they were blacks.
	Not people in blackface.
	Right, right, right.
	But actual black folk.
	Well, part of the problem is there are no folk that black in Holland.
	You'd have to get them from another country.
	Well, bring them in from Ghana.
	Black people in Holland are more brownish.
	Because there's Suriname, Indonesian, that's the blood.
	And also Turkish, Moroccan, that's the blood that runs through the veins now.
	Or has for a long time.
	I don't know.
	They probably have a problem with, oh, it's slavery!
	Something like that.
	Submissive!
	Submissive to the white man on the horse!
	It doesn't matter.
	None of it's possible anymore.
	And this story that came, I think it was in the New York Post, Denise Young-Smith, who was, I think, only there for a couple of months, six months or so, was named Vice President of Diversity and Inclusion, yes, in May, at Apple.
	And she is African-American and a woman.
	So, bing, bing.
	And she's in charge of inclusion and diversity at Apple.
	And she made a big boo-boo at the One Young World Summit in Bogota, Colombia.
	Where she was recently, and she said, There can be 12 white, blue-eyed, blonde men in a room, and they're going to be diverse, too, because they're going to bring a different life experience and life perspective to the conversation.
	Diversity is the human experience.
	I get a little bit frustrated when diversity or the term diversity is tagged to the people of color or the women or the LGBT. Well, guess what?
	She got fired.
	She's right.
	For too much inclusion is why she got fired.
	This is crazy.
	She got fired.
	What it was, that was not a politically correct thing to say.
	No.
	But in a way, she...
	Did the Apple executives...
	This is Apple that fired her, right?
	Yes, yes, yes.
	So the Apple executive is saying, you didn't understand your job.
	Your job was to hate Whitey.
	You get it?
	You understand that?
	It's not that hard.
	I'm white, the guy could say, or the woman.
	I'm white, but you are supposed to hate Whitey.
	That is what your job is.
	That's why you were hired.
	Didn't you see it?
	Don't you get it?
	Didn't you see it on the LinkedIn ad that we placed?
	You know, qualifications.
	Must hate Whitey.
	Yeah.
	She didn't read...
	I mean, that's...
	It's really...
	It's so...
	And Apple!
	Apple!
	Oh, Apples.
	Yeah.
	Apple.
	You know, because we've discussed Apple before.
	They hired a very specific kind of person.
	Yeah.
	And I would say typically white.
	Yeah, tend to be white.
	Yeah.
	So...
	Yeah, yeah.
	I don't...
	I mean, I'm outraged by it.
	Well, maybe she got fired for jacking up her expense account when she went to Bogota.
	I doubt that.
	I'm glad.
	I'm moving away from Apple.
	I'm moving to Windows.
	Yeah, you say that.
	Hey, well, I'm very close.
	Here's something someone pointed out to me.
	Whereas Apple removed the circle from everything, they're now a big X, Microsoft has gone from square to circle, in case you hadn't noticed that.
	Their logo is now a circle with four colors.
	And the magic is working.
	Yeah, it is.
	Look at the Microsoft stock skyrocketing.
	I don't see that the company is any different.
	No, they have better products.
	I like the products.
	You like the products.
	You use their products.
	They use Windows and Office.
	Yeah, Windows and Office.
	Those are their products.
	Yeah.
	They're okay.
	I like them.
	Yeah, I do like those products.
	Yeah.
	I'm starting to like them, too.
	I like them a lot.
	But you're liking it to the point where you were almost going to get a Surface.
	Yeah.
	Which is a nice unit.
	Very nice unit, but I felt that the screen was just not big enough.
	Nice that it's tight.
	I really wanted the touchscreen experience, but...
	Yeah, it has its moments.
	It has its moments.
	It has its moments.
	But I have the Chromebook, which I like with the touchscreen.
	That's kind of cool.
	Yeah, you and your Chromebook.
	Well, all I use on it is, you know, remote desktop, and it just looks like I'm on a Windows laptop, only it costs $200 instead of $1,000.
	Yeah, well, it's cheaper.
	Well, let's start another couple of, let's go in another direction.
	I want to do one more deconstruction of like a news story that's kind of, this is ABC. It's a hit piece on Trump.
	Using guilt by association with this character, Barrick is his last name, I think, who is a douchebag.
	But he's a friend of Trump's.
	He's a billionaire friend of Trump's.
	He's not a friend of Trump's, by the way.
	He's a billionaire friend of Trump's.
	Yeah.
	So he's a double douchebag because besides being a friend of Trump making him douchebag A, he's also a billionaire making him douchebag B. So this is the bad.
	I got the ISO separate, so keep an eye on that.
	Bad hit piece on Trump.
	Next in ABC News investigation tonight with our stations across the country into a giant real estate rental company, Starwood Waypoint, co-founded by a billionaire friend of President Trump.
	Tens of thousands of families live in those properties paying rent.
	But the company is now dogged by complaints of shoddy maintenance and an aggressive eviction policy.
	ABC's chief investigative correspondent Brian Ross tonight.
	In Dallas, Texas, disaster in the living room.
	After Carlos and Ebony January say the landlord did a shoddy job of repairing an upstairs leak.
	Which is like it'd be alive.
	In Broward County, Florida, the parents of Brielle Nicholson say in a lawsuit their daughter's asthma was caused by the very same landlord who failed to remove toxic mold from their rental home.
	Every morning and every night she has to take a breathing treatment.
	The landlord was, in effect, one of President Trump's best billionaire friends, Tom Barrick, who, until he sold his interest, helped run what has now grown into a giant corporation operating under the name Starwood Waypoint that controls tens of thousands of single-family rental homes across the country.
	You have the ultimate out-of-state Far-removed absentee landlord.
	In some neighborhoods, as our station in Atlanta documented, a huge presence.
	The company claims it has a 99.8% satisfaction rate from its tenants.
	We're bringing professionalism, dedicated resources, and a lot of energy and desire to service our residents at a high level.
	But the Better Business Bureau gives the company a grade of D+. And reporters at ABC TV stations across the country heard lots of complaints.
	We just feel like we've been victimized and taken advantage of.
	Tenants also told us the company is quick to threaten eviction.
	Even if a tenant is only a few days late with the rent, when it happens, they can end up in court and have to pay additional fees and the company's lawyers to stave off eviction.
	Is that true?
	They have to pay those fees?
	Yes, it's true.
	That's fair.
	That's part of the process that we have.
	It's part of your business.
	It's part of the business.
	Brian Ross with us tonight, and we heard the executive from Waypoint say there that the eviction notices and the fees are just part of their business, Brian?
	That's right, David.
	All landlords deal with eviction issues, but a study done for the Federal Reserve Bank in Atlanta found Tom Barrack's company had filed eviction notices against a full one-third of his tenants in the area.
	The company would not say how often they threaten eviction nationwide, David.
	All right, Brian Ross on our stations across the country.
	Thanks.
	We forgot to put that in our Trump hate roulette.
	Slumlord.
	That's the one we forgot.
	Yeah, that's true.
	It should be on the list.
	I don't have the list.
	I don't know where it is.
	Oh, yeah.
	All kinds of stuff.
	Oh, yeah.
	It's good stuff.
	But it goes through rotation.
	This may be the rotation.
	Yeah, slumlord.
	He's killed by association.
	And his dad was a slumlord, remember?
	I want you to play hit piece on Trump.
	I so...
	No, wait.
	Hold on.
	Oh man, I keep forgetting which of these two is...
	Yeah, A. The Federal Reserve Bank in Atlanta found Tom Barrick's company had filed eviction notices against a full one-third of his tenants in the area.
	So you could also say he's let a third of his tenants stay without paying.
	Yeah, you could have...
	Tom Barrick's company is very clear in there.
	Very, very clear.
	But when you listen to the piece completely and you listen earlier, I want you to listen carefully to just ISO. Tom Barrick, who until he sold his interest, helped run what has now grown into a giant corporation.
	The Federal Reserve Bank in Atlanta found Tom Barrick's company had filed eviction notices against a full one.
	Okay, so that's recent.
	And it's no longer his company, but they're saying it's his company.
	Yeah.
	You don't think that's like a little sleazy?
	There's gambling going on?
	So they do a sleazy hit piece and try to make it so it's always associating Tom Burke with Trump and even though he doesn't own the company he sold the company they could now if they had they really wanted to do a hit piece they could have done an even better job of it because that's borderline libelous what's libelous about it?
	Well they're saying that he's a slumlord But it's not even his company.
	They're being around the bush with it.
	Believe me, there's no libel in there.
	Okay.
	I said borderline.
	I said borderline.
	Yeah, it's a borderline.
	Here's the deal, though.
	They could have made this a better story just with the real facts instead of trying to trick us.
	Yeah, set it up a little more.
	Which is, he sold this company six months ago.
	Six months ago, so it was not that long ago, so he's still kind of associated with it.
	And he sold it for a huge profit of $400 million.
	Yeah, they could have used that.
	Yeah, they screwed people.
	They could have made it a good hit piece, but instead they just went with this cheap, you know, lazy route.
	And what I fail to understand is why they know the Curry-Dvorak Consulting Group has a hit piece division.
	They know this.
	Oh, we could do hit pieces better than any of these guys.
	Why don't they come to us and we could do that?
	We could do the editing, everything.
	We're too expensive.
	Well, there's that.
	True.
	Anyway, so I was very annoyed by this piece.
	There was another hit piece, also ABC, that I got.
	ABC's been on the rampage against Trump recently, by the way.
	I wonder what's going on with them.
	I haven't figured it out.
	Well, maybe this.
	They're worried about the whole Disney operation being sexual predators against children.
	Historically speaking, I wonder if it all stopped.
	I watched the documentary Demi Lovato.
	You know her?
	Singer?
	Yeah.
	She was also a Disney kid.
	Man, she was strung out on coke.
	She was completely off her rocker.
	I think all the Disney kids were kind of screwy.
	Look at Britney.
	Come on.
	Britney's never snapped out of it.
	Here is Flake.
	Before he stepped down, I guess this is kind of...
	Jeff Flake, the senator.
	The senator, yes.
	He was caught on a hot mic!
	From tax reforms to brass tacks on the future of the Republican Party, just seconds after Senator Jeff Flake had finished a town hall on tax reform, he's still on an open mic, chatting it up with Republican ally, Mesa Mayor John Giles.
	Come the party of Roy Moore and Donald Trump.
	We are being the host.
	And I'm not going to smoke at you, but you're the guy that could, just for fun, think how much fun it would be just to be the foil, you know, and to point out what an idiot this guy is.
	Just then, another man points to the senator's lapel mic.
	The realization washes over Jeff Flake's face.
	Back to the conversation, though.
	The mayor prodding the senator here to run for president, apparently referring to Donald Trump as an idiot.
	Giles had just minutes earlier asked Flake about the possibilities for 2020.
	You can see the mayor highlighted here at the front of the audience.
	Senator Flake, can we start the presidential campaign today?
	If there's any way we can encourage you to think again about the prospect of doing that.
	That worked out for you, Flake.
	So if he was going to run for president and then he resigned?
	I wonder what was going on.
	There's something else happening there.
	There is something that went on.
	Well, he knew he wasn't going to win because the polls had indicated that.
	And the Republicans wanted him out so they could put a stronger candidate in.
	Well, poll schmoles.
	We know polls are no good.
	Yeah, but they got feet on the ground.
	Sometimes you can tell this guy's going to...
	It wasn't well liked.
	I never...
	He's like, a corker's worse.
	They're just two, you know, contrarians that...
	Right.
	Bucking the trend.
	They're never Trumpers.
	Never a Trumper.
	Always a never-Trumper.
	Yes, that's true.
	That was funny.
	At least they got the idiot in there, so it went from moron to idiot.
	It's kind of a downgrade.
	Yeah, it's part of this cycle.
	I got some more hate.
	Oh, I have our girl, Maxine.
	We always have to bring the theme in.
	Oh, well, yes, we need to, let's see, what is, we haven't done the police version, I think.
	Let me see if we have that one.
	Yeah, I like this one a lot.
	Maxine, step away from the crack pipe.
	There's the theme.
	Those days are over.
	They called you out on Fox tonight.
	Maxine.
	All right, Maxine Waters appearing on Bloomberg.
	She'll go anywhere.
	Anywhere.
	How many people really watch Bloomberg television?
	Do you think it's a lot that really watch it?
	No.
	There's very few people that watch CNBC. It's a very small number, but it's elite, so they have very high average.
	I think Bloomberg, the sound is never even on.
	It's just a screen.
	It's always low-res.
	Yeah, low-res, stock indicators, and then there's Maxine Waters.
	And she's responding to a few questions about her glamour, impeach Trump, impeach 45 chant.
	But the number of times she says, I, I, I, I, I in this clip is really noticeable.
	So why spend your energy on calling for an impeachment, for example?
	Why?
	Well, let me just say this.
	I have learned over the years that I've been in this business that there are few people who are willing to speak truth to power and to talk about what really is bothering our society and our democracy.
	It is not thought well of to step outside of that box.
	When I talk about impeachment, I describe what I think about this president.
	I think he's deplorable.
	And I think he defined himself in the campaign, the way that he mocked and mimicked a disabled journalist, the way he talked about grabbing women by their private parts, the way he called names of his peers, et cetera, et cetera.
	I think that's unacceptable.
	And for people to allow this kind of behavior to be normalized is beyond what I believe our democracy should be all about.
	And so I encourage people, and I inspire people, and I show people that you don't have to be intimidated, you don't have to be afraid, and you don't have to be traditional.
	You need to step outside of the box and tell it like it is.
	That's what I do.
	Everywhere I go, I say Impeach 45.
	And I get people knowing and understanding that perhaps he should be impeached and focused on what he's done and the way that he's defined himself, his relationship with Putin, who he won't even criticize.
	And the fact that there's a belief that there has been collusion and obstruction of justice, it's all there.
	I'm going to talk about it everywhere I go.
	I, I, I, I, I, I. It's all about her.
	And she's...
	Well, which brings us to Tom Steyer.
	I was going to point out one thing about Maxine here.
	Maybe she goes on Bloomberg because of the low-res.
	Because I do recall she smiled and she looked really kind of good on the Bloomberg.
	On low-res.
	She looks pretty good.
	Tom Steyer.
	This is the guy who dropped $10 million for the following commercial.
	In California, where it plays mostly here, which is like, who cares?
	I guess this is a good audience.
	But I can't quite figure out what this guy's up to.
	He is an alternative energy freak.
	And he has a couple of companies that involves itself with politics.
	I think this is an attempt to make a name for himself so he can run for some office.
	Probably in California.
	I'm sorry.
	Probably in California.
	Brought us to the brink of nuclear war, accused of obstructing justice at the FBI and of violating the Constitution by taking money from foreign governments and threatening to shut down news organizations that report the truth.
	If that isn't a case for impeaching and removing a dangerous president, then what has our government become?
	I'm Tom Steyer, and like you, I'm a citizen who knows it's up to us to do something.
	It's why I'm funding this effort to raise our voices together and demand that elected officials take a stand on impeachment.
	A Republican Congress once impeached a president for far less.
	Yet today, people in Congress and his own administration know that this president is a clear and present danger who's mentally unstable and armed with nuclear weapons.
	And they do nothing.
	Join us.
	And tell your member of Congress that they have a moral responsibility to stop doing what's political and start doing what's right.
	Our country depends on it.
	Ah, yes.
	Yes.
	I think we played that before, or a different one, that he funded.
	And the guy's a drip.
	That's what my mom used to call people that.
	Drip.
	What a drip.
	She's a drip.
	Phrase from the Shays.
	Where does it come from?
	What is the genesis of a drip?
	Well, it's like a pill, I think.
	But let's take a look.
	I think we should stop the show and look this up.
	All right, everybody.
	It's time for a phrase from the Shays.
	I will get the jingle ready so that we can do that officially.
	And while you're looking that up, Regarding the impeachment, we have word now that there may be some sexual harassment claims coming towards or going towards Al Green.
	Yes, yes, of course.
	That would be fun.
	We should all get back to a better time when the words had a different meaning, reason and rhyme.
	Though we're not quite sure what they're trying to say.
	Look it up.
	Phrase from the Shays.
	Phrase from the Shays.
	That guy's a drip.
	Here's John C. Dvorak with your etymology.
	I'm looking at the etymology now.
	Mid-15th century...
	That's the 1400s for you who can't do the simple math.
	Drip.
	Slang from the 1400s.
	Slang meaning stupid, feeble, or dull person.
	Well, it says mid-15th century, but then it says first recorded in 1932.
	Perhaps from earlier American English slang since...
	Out of nonsense.
	Nonsense.
	I don't know.
	This is very confusing.
	It says from the 1300s, perhaps Middle English drippe, D-R-I-P-P-E, from the Proto-Germanic druppe, also as a Dutch druppen, German treifen, from pipe on...
	Wait a minute.
	What was the Dutch?
	Spell that word?
	D-R-U-I-P-E-N. Old English had original drooping to let drop.
	Maybe it's just someone who's going crazy and stupid because of a drip.
	Like, you know, gonorrhea.
	Oh, God.
	That's the only word I can derive from...
	Yeah, gonorrhea, I don't believe, existed in Europe in the 1300s.
	Oh, okay.
	Well, then that blows that.
	So far, we're batting zero on the phrase from the shades.
	There's actually no...
	We can't get this one.
	We need to work on this.
	We are from shades.
	We are from shades.
	You should have a stump that's like the buzzer.
	Oh, yes.
	Oh, sorry.
	Yeah, we don't have it.
	We don't have it.
	Very disappointing.
	But the dull person from the 1932 is...
	Yeah, we'll take that.
	Right from a movie.
	We'll take that.
	And I'm very curious to see if we get anything on Al Green.
	Now you just wait for it.
	Anybody you don't like, oh, man, I wonder if they're going to have some dirt on him.
	We can hope.
	Which is great.
	I have a couple of unusual clips.
	Okay.
	First of all, let's play...
	This is a DW report on the public broadcasting network in France being shut down by ISIS. This is a DW report on TV5, attack November.
	Okay, hold on.
	No.
	France's Defisink Monde network is back on air after being hit by a massive cyber attack which affected all of its 11 channels, its websites and social media operations.
	TV programming to some 200 countries was severely disrupted.
	Now, the French Prime Minister Manuel Valls called it an attack on the freedom of expression.
	A group claiming to have ties to Islamic State took credit for forcing the international broadcaster to go dark and comprising their social networks.
	Well, the cyber caliphate has claimed responsibility for similar attacks on other international media outlets.
	TV5Monde was out of action all morning.
	All 11 of its channels were forced to broadcast pre-recorded programs.
	Its website showed the message currently under maintenance.
	The network's bosses say they're shocked by the infiltration.
	We have very strong firewalls that have been checked very recently, and we are said to be very safe.
	So obviously, it's a very knowledgeable and powerful cyber attack.
	Pardonnez-moi, Jean-Claude, have you checked the firewall very recently?
	I got my firewall checked right here.
	Did you check it recently?
	Je m'en fous, I don't understand, we checked the firewall.
	Now, also in Europe, I want this clip, which is the Facebook getting sued in the EU. Can we come back to the broadcast in a minute, though?
	What broadcast?
	Channel 5.
	You're moving along very quickly.
	There's a reason for me doing that.
	Well, Facebook is set to come under scrutiny.
	An Austrian law graduate is spearheading a class-action case against Facebook for allegedly breaching privacy.
	It's officially filed a suit in the Vienna courtroom.
	In a closely watched case, 25,000 Facebook users are suing the social media giant for rights violations ranging from the illegal tracking of their data under the EU law to its involvement in the NSA's surveillance program that targeted millions of innocent citizens.
	27-year-old student Max Schrams has a bone to pick with Facebook over alleged privacy violations.
	His class-action lawsuit is seeking 500 euros in damages for each of the 25,000 Facebook users whose data may have been shared with government agencies or commercial interests.
	In Europe, we're not enforcing our fundamental rights right now.
	There are almost no penalties.
	There is hardly any lawsuits ever.
	And that is the basic idea, to say, you know, guys, this is a fundamental right in Europe, so a constitutional-like right.
	You have to stick to it.
	You can't just, you know, ignore it.
	Facebook is trying to get the litigation tossed out on procedural grounds.
	The company insists the court in Vienna does not even have jurisdiction, and it questions whether Schrams has the right to bring the suit on behalf of thousands of others.
	The judge will rule within a few months on whether the lawsuit is admissible.
	Experts say it may become a test case for European data protection laws.
	Hmm.
	Okay, now I have a third clip in this series.
	Yeah.
	I like that guy's voice, by the way.
	I like his voice, too.
	Yeah.
	Now, this is a little more local.
	This is a local story.
	It's got nothing to do with Europe, but I found it to be...
	It has a connection to the other two stories.
	Okay.
	And this is your local news here.
	This is tech news from Austin.
	Oh, okay.
	Let's turn to a story that shows how apps and the tech economy are delivering a jolt to the traditional world of retail, with the growth of same-day delivery.
	It's on the rise in a number of metro areas.
	And just today, Amazon announced a plan to expand these services into Austin, Texas.
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	We're here near Second Street, which is a shopping street.
	Retail.
	Yeah, that's great.
	There must be eight stores that are empty.
	Just empty.
	It's not working.
	No one's buying anything.
	There's one guy, actually a Belgian guy, nice guy.
	He started an electric bike shop.
	On 2nd Street, which is interesting.
	You know, for Austin, we got our, you know, bar Lance Armstrong, one belt, one road, bike path.
	And, but you go in, it's like, oh, this looks cool.
	You know, it's a bike, but it's the kind I like.
	You know, it has a carrier on the front and the back, and it's more utility.
	And it has a motor on it.
	And I was like, this is great.
	What do they cost?
	$8,000.
	Yes, I've seen they sell them around here.
	$8,000.
	For a bike with a battery.
	Battery bike.
	But they did have a Dutch girl, a Dutch lady in there, not too recently.
	Not too long ago, I mean.
	And she was making strobe waffles from scratch as a promotion.
	Oh, nice.
	Yeah, so we went in, had a strobe waffle, looked at the bike, and went, yeah, not for me, man.
	I don't need it.
	Well, anyway, so I just played these three clips, and I wanted you to figure out why they all...
	What is the connecting aspect to those clips?
	These clips are all interconnected.
	Alright, okay.
	So we have the hacking of TV5, which sounds to me like they got a ransomware and they're not going to admit it, but that's just me.
	Then there's Facebook being sued.
	For not adhering to data, the data regulations in the EU. And then the final one is putting retail out of business in Austin.
	Yeah.
	What is the one thing about those three clips that is the same?
	Well, the one that is an outlier for me is the TV5. What am I missing there?
	Because I can see hate against Silicon Valley.
	I see that.
	I'm going to have to punt.
	Yeah, I got to punt.
	And by the way, when I give you the answer, I want you to think about Judge Moore, douchebag, trying to remember what happened 40 years ago.
	All three of these clips were from November 2011, six years ago.
	And they were all played on this show.
	Wow.
	That's...
	Nothing has changed.
	I'm in a time warp.
	It's actually 2010.
	Jeez.
	Okay, you got me on that one.
	Yeah, well, I got me when I was thinking, well, I like to get 20 clips to show, and so I was 17, and I said, let me go back.
	Let me grab three old ones.
	Yeah, let me see what I got.
	So I went to 2011, and I found these three clips, and I don't remember any one of them.
	Oh, my goodness.
	I don't remember them.
	Well, the Facebook thing, that's been going on for a long time.
	They never got to a class.
	I never heard the resolution, never heard the resolution of ISIS taking over TV5. No.
	And the Austin story sounded like it was happening now.
	And that was six years ago.
	Well, they were right about it.
	You know, Tina, she did a thing for the Ronald McDonald House.
	You know, Austin is, I mean, we've got a really outrageous technology scene, but it's not the same as Silicon Valley.
	Here we have some manufacturing.
	So Samsung, LG. Of course, we have Silicon Labs where we design chips.
	And I believe that all these services favor Amazon and Instacart, and I love them all.
	I mean, I'm running a household with ease on the apps.
	And, you know, you have to know what to do to make sure the person who brought your stuff to your door gets the tip and it doesn't go into the pool.
	And Uber, I mean, all this stuff, it's all geared towards the people who work there.
	So Tina went there.
	Something is rambling.
	What is going on?
	Some sound.
	She went where?
	She went to Samsung at lunchtime.
	They have a little booth.
	I guess it was one of those fair days.
	Here's some non-profits in Austin if you want to learn about them.
	It's kind of thankless work.
	But to get in, she said it was like Fort Knox.
	She had to go through magnetometer.
	They had to go through her bag.
	And they said, well, okay, we need your cell phones.
	It's like, no, I'm a communications professional.
	I need my cell phone.
	And they put, no USB drives, no jump drives, no nothing like it.
	No, none of that.
	And they put little stickers on her phone's camera, front and back.
	And the stickers, I think, well, that's easy.
	But she didn't, she left them on.
	I took pictures of them.
	I'll put them in the show notes.
	She left them on for me to see.
	And when you take them off, immediately the sticker says void.
	So you break something within the seal or something happens and then it's obvious that you would remove that.
	So they had all of this going on.
	It was just crazy.
	Yeah.
	They're very, very paranoid.
	Why?
	Industrial espionage, I presume.
	I'm not sure it is, but they're not doing it in the middle of the factory.
	They must have a little room where they put these little events together without having to worry about it.
	No, she was in the cafeteria.
	So what?
	Exactly.
	Oh, we've got a special cafeteria.
	We're making special pizza.
	Come on.
	What kind of industrial espionage are you going to do in the cafeteria?
	And they've got everything there.
	The same as Google.
	They've got massage services, dry cleaning, everything except babysitting services because no one has babies there.
	There's no babies.
	No babies.
	At least not enough to warrant anything like that.
	But yeah, it is happening.
	So there must be some really professional industrial spooks that can go into a place like that.
	Look left, look right, see nobody's...
	Then they go into a door, and then they go running down the stairwell, and then they get off and, you know, get somewhere, and they go in, take a bunch of pictures real quick, and then come back, and then just adjusting their tie, grabbing a champagne.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Grabbing a champagne.
	And what was kind of interesting about the TV5 hack is...
	I had this clip maybe two weeks ago.
	Malmo 24, or 24 Malmo FM, was hijacked recently.
	And right in the middle of playing Ed Sheeran, for 30 minutes, the ISIS anthem starts looping.
	I got a little bit of...
	It's just a recording of someone, you know, in their car.
	You're a human man.
	I can't really hear it that well.
	But it was playing on the...
	And it's pretty easy to hijack these things these days.
	Because everyone's pumping all their signals to their transmitter through the internet.
	But still, pretty sophisticated.
	That's pretty cool.
	I think it's a good hack.
	Yeah, I'd say.
	There's more of this.
	It's all the centralization stuff.
	People are so worried about...
	Google and Microsoft and even Intel with their i5 and i7 chips.
	They got all kinds of tracking stuff in there.
	Their own little operating system doing stuff.
	I'm much more worried about people not considering really their data.
	You think that Google can't go down or say they can't get something catastrophic?
	People have a lot of belief that that's going to be okay.
	Same for Apple, for iCloud or Microsoft Cloud or any of that.
	The only people I kind of think will keep their shit together is Amazon because that is their business.
	So if you're using, you know, AWS or S3, you know, they go down, they lose, what, 10 million a second?
	Yeah.
	Something like that.
	Some crazy number.
	They have to keep that thing going.
	Crazy number.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, no, data is out there.
	That's why I recommend people just get, you know, terabyte drives are 25 bucks.
	I mean, it doesn't take much to back up your own stuff and put it somewhere.
	Yeah.
	But anyway, the point I was making with those three clips is that we can't remember these, and we do this show, that's pretty much what we do, and I was very disturbed by that.
	Well, that comes on the heel of our special show X, where we played the opening of show 100, and neither of us remember it at all.
	I was going back and looking at old shows and I said, let me see this show.
	Because I was looking for the part where you were going to quit, but it wasn't in there.
	I think it was often, it wasn't in the show.
	So I played the show and I'm listening to it thinking, and you can hear it on Thursday, anyone out there.
	I'm hearing it going, holy crap, I don't remember this at all.
	Yeah.
	But of course it was like, you know, 900 shows ago, which is a long time.
	Yeah.
	But I don't remember us doing anything that elaborate.
	It was very elaborate, the opening.
	Someone clearly did that for us.
	Yes.
	Well, we named who it was.
	You thanked them.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	I don't remember who it was even now after we talked about it just a few days ago.
	Hmm.
	I don't know.
	Very strange, very strange.
	It could be, you know, what we may be observing here has got nothing to do with any of this.
	It may be the Mandela effect.
	Oh, yeah.
	Right on the flat earth.
	That's where it's all going down.
	That's what it is, flat earth.
	There was an article in Foreign Policy, which I'm pretty sure that's a right-wing thing.
	No, Foreign Policy, isn't it the Council on Foreign Relations?
	No, no, no, Foreign Policy, FP, no, that's got to be right-wing.
	I'm not sure it is, but okay.
	Well, here's the headline.
	Don't expect Benjamin Netanyahu to put Israeli soldiers in harm's way in Lebanon on Mohammed bin Salman's say-so.
	Now, the reason why I'm giving you this article, because it was sent to me by Pchenik, and he sent me a note and he said, it looks like our guy, I don't know who that is, has stopped the insanity and there won't be a war in Lebanon.
	That would be Trump.
	That's what I think he meant.
	So...
	And there's a whole bunch of backup in this article as to why it's not going to happen.
	Well, I'm happy about that.
	I'm a little tired of war.
	I believe foreign policy is one of those...
	Operations that sends out messages.
	I think it's a messaging operation, so that's a message to someone.
	Yeah, well, the way Pachenik took it was, oh, good, there's no war.
	It's not going to happen.
	That was enough for him.
	Yeah, I think I'm talking to him Monday or Tuesday for the special interview.
	Yeah, it's going to be good.
	I have one more here.
	This is a...
	Let's see which one it was.
	Oh, let's catch up.
	We must run the flu shot story.
	We have to do that every year.
	Don't we have a...
	Close enough.
	First death from this season's winter flu strain.
	The victim was younger than age 65, which officials say is unusual.
	Our South Bay reporter, Jesse Gary, is in downtown San Jose tonight with more about this first case and also ways that you can prevent being infected.
	Jesse?
	Frank, health experts say between 5 and 20 percent of the U.S. population will become infected with the flu this winter, as always, to suggest getting a flu shot to prevent catching the flu and prevent the spread of it.
	But weeks in the flu season, and we're finding only a small number of people have taken the biggest proactive step of getting that flu shot.
	Soggy weather and street decorations signal the changing seasons.
	So does the appearance of this year's flu bug and the push by health professionals to get people inoculated, as this man did.
	I think it's an important thing to do.
	It's a scientific advancement that flu shots help.
	Thursday, Santa Clara County Health Department officials announced the first death due to the flu.
	The victim was a woman under the age of 65.
	The individual.
	Uh-huh.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Two to three weeks.
	Dr.
	Runjan Misra says sneezing, sore throat, fatigue are common symptoms.
	In addition to getting a flu shot, she advises everyone to wash their hands regularly or use hand sanitizer.
	And if sick, keep away from others to lessen the spread during a time of year when people are indoors or traveling.
	Even if you get the vaccine, you're not 100% protected from getting the flu.
	And even if you do get the vaccine, you may get a different strand of the flu later on.
	It's unfortunate, but at least you're going to be protected from all the major strains.
	You can get the flu shots at county health offices, at pharmacies, and at urgent care centers.
	You can also check with your employer.
	They may provide flu shots for free to employees.
	Recommended for anyone six months of age and older.
	Not recommended for pregnant women and anyone who's over 65.
	Six months?
	You stepped on the end.
	Not recommended for anyone who's six months pregnant or over 65.
	Do you remember the beginning of this thing and the other time I have to go through it?
	Yeah, no, I was getting to that.
	I'll play it again for people.
	No, you don't have to.
	I mean, I don't think you do.
	They say, oh, it's a shocker that this woman died from the flu and she's not 65.
	Wait a minute, if everybody's going to die from the flu is over 65, why aren't they recommending the shot for them?
	It's interesting because there is a shot for over 65, which I've seen marketed specifically, and it even promotes, I've got to find this, it even promotes that it's filled with adjuvants.
	Yeah, over 65 flu shot.
	And for people who are wondering, we're not really a fan of this idea.
	Here, flu shots for seniors, high dose.
	Yeah, what you should know and do the, here we go, CDC. Well, screw that report.
	What you should know and do this flu season if you're 65 years or older.
	So you're on the cusp here, John.
	It has been recognized for many years that people 65 years and older are at greater risk of serious complications from the flu compared with young, healthy adults because human immune defenses become weaker with age.
	Flu seasons can vary in severity during most seasons.
	People 65 years and older bear the greatest burden of severe flu disease.
	In recent years, for example, it's estimated that between 71% and 85% of seasonal flu-related deaths have occurred in people 65 years and older.
	Between 54% and 70% of seasonal flu-related hospitalizations have occurred among that age group.
	So influenza is often quite serious for people 65 and older.
	And it says right here, get your flu shot!
	Actions to take this flu season, get your flu shot!
	But...
	Vaccination is especially important for people 65 years and older because they're at high risk from complications from the flu.
	So who's talking here?
	The only reason I played that clip is for that reason.
	What are we doing here?
	What is this?
	No, no, no, no.
	Don't take it if you're 65 or older.
	But it said the CDC, who we trust in our government, says it's important that you even need a higher dose.
	The adjuvanted flu vaccine Fluad is made with MF59 adjuvant, mmm tasty hamburger helper, which is designed to create a stronger immune response to vaccination.
	Canadian observational study of 282 persons aged 65 years and older conducted during the 2011-12 flu season Fluad was 63% more effective.
	What organization did this report?
	Sounds like bullcrap.
	It is.
	So what they're doing, and somehow the news organization is a local news, I think it's KTVU. I think they just want to kill the old people.
	Well, they either want to kill the old people or they want to direct them back to the doctor to get the really expensive flu shot, the one that you're describing.
	Yes, yes.
	Because you're going to say, I'm 65 years old, and they emphasize twice in that report about it's a shocker that the person who died was under 65.
	Very strange.
	As if People over 65 are dropping dead left and right.
	So they put that in the report very clearly, like you were going to play at the beginning.
	It's right at the beginning.
	You know, hold on a second.
	Let me listen to this again, because there's a couple of data points we've got here.
	You're hearing deconstruction in real time.
	So the study that CDC referenced is from Scandinavia.
	And Scandinavia, only in the past few years, approved Fluad, the new influenza vaccine for seniors.
	So the question is, is this really...
	A native ad.
	Let's listen again.
	First death from this season's winter flu strain.
	The victim was younger than age 65, which officials say is unusual.
	Our South Bay reporter just...
	Unusual?
	No, they actually say the exact opposite.
	They say people over 65 happens much more frequently.
	Did I misunderstand that?
	Yeah, what he said was she was younger than 65, which is unusual, which is the right message.
	Yes.
	Because everyone over 65 is going to die.
	Okay, let's listen again.
	I'm thinking this is a native ad somehow.
	We must have missed something.
	First death from this season's winter flu strain.
	The victim was younger than age 65, which officials say is unusual.
	Our South Bay reporter Jesse Gary is in downtown San Jose tonight with more about this first case and also ways that you can prevent being infected.
	Jesse?
	All right, so we got all that.
	Health experts say between 5 and 20 percent of the U.S. population will become infected with the flu this winter.
	As always, they suggest getting a flu shot to prevent catching the flu and prevent the spread of it.
	But weeks in the flu season, and we're finding only a small number of people have taken the biggest proactive step of getting that flu shot.
	I think it's...
	Help.
	Thursday, Santa Clara County Health Department officials announced the first death due to the flu.
	The victim was a woman under the age of 65.
	The individual.
	Yeah, let's move forward through that.
	Fatigue.
	Back, yes, okay.
	Sore throat, fatigue are common symptoms.
	In addition to getting a flu shot, she advises everyone to wash their hands regularly or use hand sanitizer.
	And if sick, keep away from others to lessen the spread during the time of year when people are indoors or traveling.
	Even if you get the vaccine, you're not 100% protected from getting the flu.
	And even if you do get the vaccine, you may get a different strand of the flu later on.
	That's basically the disclaimer.
	It's unfortunate, but at least you're going to be protected from all the major strains.
	You can get the flu shots at county health offices, at pharmacies, and at urgent care centers.
	You can also check with your employer.
	They may provide flu shots for free to employees.
	Recommended for anyone six months of age and older, not recommended for pregnant women and anyone who's over 65.
	Well, this is insane.
	The report makes no sense.
	It does appear that there is a push for just reading through, just binging it, This fluid seems to be getting a push.
	Yeah.
	Well, maybe this is a preliminary setup for another story.
	Because the question that comes to mind is, oh, I'm over 65.
	What am I going to do?
	And it's unusual that I don't die from the flu.
	So they could do a follow-up story saying, people were concerned about this.
	There's a product.
	We have our doctor.
	Some guy comes out.
	And he says, oh, you can use this.
	It's perfect for people that do this and that.
	And you can take this other stuff.
	And it's a little more expensive.
	But...
	And, yeah, this is a scam.
	Yeah, and I think you're right.
	What'll happen is we get a few more of these, oh, this is not for 65, but the 60, you know, you die, you're going to die, you're going to die, and then we hit them with, you know, it's problem, reaction, solution.
	Flu ad prices, yes, and flu ad coupons, nice.
	And, of course, my recommendation, although I'm not a doctor and I can't give recommendations like this, Tamiflu works.
	I'm going to show myself old 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 moaning.
	Yeah, in the moaning.
	In the moaning.
	Because we're moaning about the donations.
	Yes.
	But we have a few people to thank, and I want to thank them.
	Starting with Mac Cavernus.
	Not Cavernus, Cavernus.
	$166.80.
	And he says he's got some math here thinking I might put him on the watch list.
	I couldn't quite figure out what he meant.
	Jared Zafeman, $160.
	Austin Wilson, Sir Austin of the Snowy Cascades, Washington.
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	Donald J. Ripple, $110.10.
	He sent that in as a check.
	Sir Harry Pilgrim, $80.08.
	Hold on.
	Stop with Harry for a second, if you don't mind.
	Sir Harry Pilgrim.
	I haven't heard from him in a while.
	John Adam, I know you don't usually read notes below $200, but this is a special anniversary celebrating the two-year anniversary of my wife's successful cancer treatment.
	She is now cancer-free and loving life.
	For the donation segment, here's what I'd like.
	Please, well, he wants a celebration horn music, and he wants this message read.
	Why I had horn music?
	No, I think he just means the horns.
	What horns?
	Our patented horns, man.
	You know, like this.
	You mean this, which isn't a horn, or this.
	No, these horns.
	In the morning, Sir Harry Pilgrim here donating 80-08 for a single boob in celebration of the two-year anniversary of my wife Jennifer's successful breast cancer treatment.
	She now introduces them as her 20-year-old boob and her 40-year-old boob.
	I'd like an F cancer and a goat scream karma.
	Okay, I'll give him a goat scream karma then.
	Sorry, I didn't have that one.
	Ready.
	Okay.
	What?
	Damn goat.
	Where's the goat?
	Okay, here we go.
	You've got karma.
	Alright, thanks for the horns.
	Good work.
	I like my horn with your horn.
	Yes, our horns are copacetic.
	If I don't squeeze it hard, which was this...
	Don't squeeze my horn.
	If I just...
	That's more like a...
	Oh, nice.
	Okay, onward.
	Yes.
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	Zanguzin, I'm guessing.
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	And last but not least, Matthew Funk.
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	And that's it.
	Well, we do appreciate these nice gifts which keep us going.
	But we do need more support.
	Actually, Actually, there's a lot of reason for it.
	Neiman Labs, who I... Yeah, I like them, but I don't really.
	Whenever they do something that I know about, like podcasting, they talk a lot about advertising and how it works and the resurgence and blah, blah, blah.
	They never talk about our model, which is okay, because maybe that's just not what they do.
	I mean, I thought they would cover media in all forms.
	You think so?
	You think they'd cover the paid media, paid-for media, the advertising that the public supported, the listener supported?
	You'd think they would cover it all, but no, they don't.
	What is their charter?
	It's Harvard, right?
	It's a journalist deconstruction operation of some sort.
	sort they try to show people what's going on in the world of journalism and they specifically leave us and other people who do what we do out because there's no commercial interest.
	So you have to wonder if there's some connection between advertisers and the operation itself.
	Well, that makes this article even more interesting.
	Bad news, headline, bad news from Mashable, BuzzFeed and Vice shows times are rough for ad-supported digital media.
	Sub-headline.
	What is that in journal jargon?
	There's a name for it, yeah.
	Journal jargon.
	We know about graphs.
	I know that.
	What is it called?
	I never write it.
	Sub-headline.
	No, it's not called.
	It's something else.
	The rapid growth of Google and Facebook continues to take its toll on digital media companies.
	And they go on to list more layoffs at OAuth.
	That's Verizon's outfit, which has HuffPo, AOL, Yahoo!, They laid off 560 staffers, about 4% of the company's overall headcount.
	Mashable sold to Ziff Davis, which is kind of like the Hail Mary of publishing.
	What you're referring to is called the DEC, D-E-K. Oh, explain.
	That's what it's called.
	The DEC? Yeah.
	All these things are, like, you know, you have a head.
	All these things are misspelled on purpose, so you can spot them in case they get into the...
	Oh, thank you.
	I didn't know what you were talking about.
	The subhead line is called the DEC. The subhead is called the DEC. D-E-K? The head is called H-E-D is the head, and you have a DEC, D-E-K. Is that an acronym?
	And then the next thing is the first line of the paragraph is the lead, L-E-D. Ah, L-E-D. What is the DEC? I don't know.
	Where does it come from?
	I don't know.
	It's called a DEC. Okay.
	So the next one on that list of Trouble in Paradise, Mashable, as I said, sold to Ziff Davis, which, I mean, it's like when you're completely out of ideas, can't you just go to Ziff Davis and they'll buy you?
	Isn't that the way it works?
	Well, they definitely found this as a bargain, because the thing was valued at around $200 million, and Ziff Davis picked it up for $50 million.
	And I don't think much of that is owned by financiers.
	I don't think the guys that work there are going to get anything.
	No, no, no.
	Gosh, that's never happened before.
	Gee, yes.
	The Wall Street Journal reported both BuzzFeed and Vice will miss their revenue projections.
	BuzzFeed will miss its goals by 15% to 20%, while Vice's earnings will come in around lower than its target of $800 million.
	Is that their...
	Oh, earnings.
	Earnings or revenues?
	Yeah, it just says earnings.
	Well, earnings means that's after profit.
	So they're making $800 million in profit, Vice?
	No, earnings in this case, I think they're referring to revenue.
	I think they're referring to revenue, too.
	I don't think they're doing $800 million.
	That's Google territory.
	Well, Google's in the billions.
	So anyway, so it's not working out very well.
	And what Neiman Labs is saying is, oh, that's Google and Facebook, and they're eating everybody's lunch.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	They are, kind of.
	Yeah.
	So what else is new?
	Well, what's important is that our model is a value-for-value model, and we can continue to do this, have done so, for 10 years if you continue to support us.
	And, of course, I want to thank everybody who came in under $50, typically on our subscriptions.
	It's really important because there's no other way.
	There's no other avenue for us.
	Not that we could do the show we do if we had advertisers.
	No, if we had advertisers, we could not do this show.
	And we'd actually have no advertisers.
	And we'd have no advertisers.
	We couldn't do this show.
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	Enough of that.
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	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
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	You thought karma.
	It's your birthday, birthday.
	I know that you're...
	Ah, just a short list today.
	Jared Zeifman celebrates on the 21st.
	We say happy birthday in advance.
	And Matthew Funk says happy birthday to his dad, Bob Funk.
	A great DJ name.
	I've never heard one.
	Happy birthday from the best podcast in the universe.
	Happy birthday, yeah!
	Boom!
	Got my sword.
	Stop with the noisemakers.
	Get your sword.
	Hold on.
	Okay, got it.
	Thank you.
	Matt Farrell, Josh Landon, Justin Lee, Cesium137, and Jared Zeifman.
	Please step on up to the podium here.
	You are about to take your well-deserved seat at the roundtable of the Noah Jenner Knights and Dames.
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	Of course, we also have mutton and mead.
	Head over to NoahGeneration.com slash rings and give all the details and we'll get some stuff out to you.
	And we're going to do something special.
	I think we're going to...
	We wanted to do a limited edition pin for the 1,000th.
	That was never...
	Maybe.
	We don't know.
	I'm sorry.
	I thought that was on deck.
	I don't know.
	Maybe.
	It's possible.
	I thought it would be fun.
	Yeah, well, I mean, it's easier said than done.
	That's the problem.
	Well, yeah.
	Okay.
	Sorry.
	That's okay.
	Then why don't you get mad?
	I'll put it back on the burner.
	It was on the list.
	That's why I brought it up.
	Oh, the list.
	Hey, something's going on.
	Something's going on in the world of diamonds.
	Diamonds have always been weird.
	It seems like...
	It's my biggest mistake ever made in my life.
	I'm all ears.
	I was in college.
	I was actually in the stock market at the time and I was looking at De Beers as an investment because it was paying 25%.
	Wow.
	Because I was at Berkeley, I was convinced that there were going to be Run out of business, shot and hung.
	Blood.
	You got blood on your hands.
	And if I had invested in De Beers, I wouldn't be doing this show.
	Right.
	I mean, it just would have compounded like crazy.
	I would have, to this day, still be compounded.
	Yes.
	Wrong again, Dvorak.
	That was a big blunder.
	Oh, really?
	And you harbor that as a blunder.
	I do, I do.
	I look back on it.
	You think you would have held on somewhere along the line?
	I think it's one of the reasons that I'm so cynical about a lot of stuff, because academia had convinced me at the time that it was a stupid idea.
	Oh, this is very interesting.
	We're getting to the genesis of some of your feelings.
	Yep.
	Huh.
	Well, you'll feel good about this, then.
	It's the largest known fancy-intense pink diamond.
	It weighs 37.3 carats, and it was valued at up to $30 million.
	But the Raj Pink Diamond failed to sale at Auction House Sotheby's semi-annual jewel sale on Wednesday in Geneva.
	At 14 million francs.
	Thank you, ladies and gentlemen.
	It is not sold.
	And the bad luck did not end there for Sotheby's.
	Unfortunately, not sold.
	A blue diamond ring by Messiah failed to sell.
	And a pair of yellow diamonds that once belonged to the German princely von Dommerschmark family had the same fate too.
	But it wasn't all bad news.
	A Harry Winston-like pink diamond ring sold for 12.6 million Swiss francs.
	Still only 303 of the nearly 350 items sold according to Sotheby's figures, proving that at auction, not all that glitters turns to gold, dollars, or Swiss francs.
	Now, I think this is an economic indicator.
	It's not, I guess, looking at the recent Da Vinci that was sold.
	Maybe diamonds are no longer seen as, oh yes, let me use the phrase, a good store of value.
	Well, I think that this has a lot to do with, I'm noticing this too, but I think it has a lot to do with the uncertainty in the market created by the now cheap artificial diamonds.
	Yes, yes, yes.
	I think you'd mention that, that they're making them.
	And they're really good, aren't they?
	Yes, they're excellent.
	Sometimes better than the real thing.
	Hmm.
	And I don't know this for a fact, but it seems to me that if you can make one, I don't know, a half-carat diamond, I don't know how big they make them.
	I'm guessing if you can make a small one, you can make a big one, and I think you can make a real big one.
	I think there's something different going on here.
	It's possible, and I could be wrong.
	What are diamonds really used for?
	Money laundering.
	Would you agree?
	I think they're used, yeah, a lot of it.
	I mean, come on, the whole diamond trade, they're fantastic.
	They're small.
	You could put them in a tube up your butt.
	No one knows you got them.
	That's why there's heists at airports.
	Like, hey, there's a guy, I'm sure he's got some diamonds.
	We'll whack him over the head and grab some diamonds.
	And maybe, just maybe, it's become so incredibly easy, and I will say this, to use Bitcoin that they're just moving it over.
	Yeah.
	What do you think?
	That's a good idea.
	I like that.
	And I have a report.
	That's a good theory.
	I have a report.
	Do you know who Bill Gurley is?
	Yeah, I do know who.
	I think I may even know him.
	Yeah, he's with Benchmark Capital, a venture capitalist.
	Famously, you know, invested in Snapchat.
	Now, of course, they made their money, but go look at Snapchat's chart.
	What are they?
	Their IPO is at 25, and now they're at 11?
	Yeah.
	Heading to 50 cents.
	I'm buying when it's $5.
	I know that'll be good.
	It'll have a pop somewhere.
	It'll be good.
	But listen to what he says about Bitcoin.
	Is this a speculative bubble in Bitcoin?
	Do you have any money in Bitcoin?
	Are you more focused on blockchain?
	Tell us.
	We do have money in Bitcoin and I don't think it's irrational.
	I look at the global, not that I'm a macroeconomist, but I look at the global macro world and you look at how so many governments are over inflating and interest rates are on the floor and there is nowhere to put money.
	And so if you live in one of those countries where you don't trust the currency of your own government, You know, how do you want to get paid?
	We work with a company called HackerOne that pays white hat hackers to find vulnerabilities in large websites.
	And many of the people that live in those types of countries want to be paid in Bitcoin, and we pay them in Bitcoin.
	And that's why you have money in Bitcoin?
	I think of it as an incredible store of value for the rest of the world.
	And look, it deflates, it doesn't inflate.
	In terms of percentage of portfolio, what are you doing?
	Oh, it's small.
	It's like another bet.
	You know, another company.
	But that's not our business.
	Sarah Eisen?
	What do you think it's worth, Bill?
	Hey, hey, stop, stop.
	Did he say it's like another bet?
	Yes, that's exactly what he said.
	Just like another company or the bet we'd make on some piece of crap like Snap.
	You know, Snapchat.
	Yeah.
	Oh, it's small.
	It's like another bet, you know, another company.
	Another bet, another company.
	Hey, that's the guy I want to have invest in me.
	I got this great idea.
	Could you make a bet in me just as another company, you douchebag?
	I want to douche him for that.
	Douchebag!
	Best of the world.
	And look, it deflates.
	It doesn't inflate.
	In terms of percentage of portfolio, what are you doing?
	Oh, it's small.
	It's like another bet, you know, another company.
	But that's not our business.
	Sarah Eisen?
	What do you think it's worth, Bill?
	Do you think you can put a price or any kind of valuation on Bitcoin?
	No.
	Do you think it keeps going higher?
	I do.
	And not a fraud?
	I don't think it's a fraud.
	Okay.
	Thanks for clearing that up.
	Well, he used the SOV. Store of value.
	All my Bitcoin buddies are like, yo, Curry, here, listen to this guy.
	He knows what he's talking about.
	But I'm thinking with the decline in diamonds, which is no more or less real than...
	Than Bitcoin.
	Shinier.
	It's much shinier.
	And you can get laid with it.
	I mean, if you just give a girl a Bitcoin on a USB drive, she's not going to be happy about this wedding, this marriage proposal you're doing.
	That'll make a big diamond.
	This is a great idea.
	I'm going to do that to Tina.
	I want to marry you.
	I got a Bitcoin on a USB drive.
	She's probably like, one Bitcoin...
	Give me two Bitcoin.
	Two Bitcoin.
	That's two months' work.
	Two Bitcoin's worth of work.
	There you go.
	All right.
	Can I go to England for a moment?
	You're about to take off.
	You're about to go over to London.
	Yes, I am, actually.
	Is the meetup squared away?
	Is that all set up?
	Well, for people listening, they want to know where the meetup is.
	I don't have the location.
	I'm going to send out a mailing today with the location.
	It's going to be on Friday night.
	Turns out it'd be better than Saturday.
	It'll be Friday night around 6 o'clock in London.
	And I got a lot of people on the mailing list.
	I'm going to send out a special mailing to people in Portugal, England, Scotland, Ireland, and Holland.
	I'm going to send a Dutch.
	You may see one or two Dutchies show up.
	Yeah, they might.
	Now, they still can.
	Last minute.
	Last chance.
	Last chance to dance with Dvorak over in the UK. That's right.
	But!
	But, but, but, you know, before we get all happy about the removal of freedom of movement...
	Of the European citizens, eh, they might be going back to do kind of a reverse on the Brexit thing.
	It's clear that we need to take further steps to provide clarity and certainty, both in the negotiations and at home, regarding the implementation of any agreement into United Kingdom law.
	I can now confirm that once we've reached an agreement, we'll bring forward a specific piece of primary legislation to implement that agreement, as we know as a withdrawal agreement and implementation bill.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	We expect this bill to cover the contents of the withdrawal agreement that includes issues such as an agreement on citizens' rights, any financial settlement, and the details on implementation period agreed between both sides.
	Sounds like they're putting it squarely back into Parliament's hands.
	Hard to say.
	You know my opinion of the whole thing.
	Ain't gonna happen.
	Ain't gonna happen.
	Yeah.
	Well, we said this early on.
	It's gonna be a do-over.
	You slaves did it wrong.
	You don't know what you're talking about.
	It's based on past performance.
	What happened in Ireland?
	They did the same.
	Or France.
	And the Netherlands, yes.
	The trifecta.
	That's right.
	France and the Netherlands did a do-over for the Lisbon Treaty.
	And then Ireland got all huffy, and then they had another do-over.
	Yeah.
	It's really incredible.
	Why wouldn't we just see that forever?
	By the way, in the show notes, I put the Soros' friends list in the European Union.
	I found it.
	Oh, you did?
	Good.
	They have it broken down by industries, who you want to talk to if it's about this, broken down by country, contact information, everything.
	It's great.
	It's a mailing list where they have the email addresses?
	Well, that's a good question.
	I think they do.
	That'd be fantastic.
	I can scrape that and use it for the mailing list.
	Let's see.
	Hold on.
	Let me just check.
	Let me scroll down.
	It's a large document.
	I don't know how many pages it has.
	It's just incredibly big.
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh, my goodness.
	You're kidding.
	No, it's got every person.
	How many people are in this list?
	260?
	Yeah.
	So, an example.
	Demismacher.
	Mark Demismacher from Belgium.
	He is with the ECR. Now, his background, journalist, regional MP, 2004-2013, Secretary General of his party, 2005-2007, Counselor, 2013-to-Present, Member of European Parliament since 2013, interested in media and education, regional anatomy, social rights, including an EU-wide minimum salary and LGBTI rights.
	Notice the addition of the I. A strong advocate in favor of...
	Intersex?
	Yes, that is the official EU designation, if you recall that whole package I had.
	Yeah, it's another thing I forgot about.
	Strong advocate in favor of breaking up Belgium.
	Uh-huh.
	The Walloons and the Phlems.
	Oh, yeah.
	But may be relied upon for fundamental rights and media-related issues.
	Details, mark.demesmacher at ep.europa.eu.
	Phone number.
	Dynamite.
	He has the mail, the post routing number.
	W-I-B-4-M-5-7.
	Woo, that's great.
	If you need to route some mail to his office.
	And this is really, it's a fantastic document.
	Sounds like dynamite.
	Yeah, so yeah, you can scrape this, for sure.
	That would be very good to scrape.
	Now there's something else going on, and I hope you can figure out what it is when your travel's over there.
	This is the latest from Gitmo Nation GMT. Britain is preparing a multi-million pound transfer to Iran as it seeks the release of a jailed aid worker.
	The Telegraph newspaper cites unidentified British sources saying the country will send over 400 million pounds, or 527 million dollars, to seek goodwill.
	The government has reportedly sought legal advice over whether it can transfer the funds, which it owes as a result of a disputed arms deal in the 1970s.
	A spokesman for Prime Minister Theresa May says there's no link between the debt and the fate of Iranian-British dual citizen Nazanin Zakari Radcliffe.
	The project manager with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, a charity organisation that is independent of Reuters News, is serving five years in an Iranian jail after she was convicted of plotting to overthrow the country's government.
	Charges she denies.
	Foreign Minister Boris Johnson met with Zakari Ratcliffe's husband this week, telling him, quote, Britain would leave no stone unturned in its bid to free her.
	Johnson is under scrutiny for the way he's handled the case, with pressure for him to resign over comments he made earlier this month that Zakari Ratcliffe had been teaching journalism before her arrest.
	Her employer and family say she was on holiday.
	Critics said Johnson's words might prompt Iran to extend her sentence, and he's since apologised in Parliament twice for the remarks.
	And I acknowledge that the words I used were open to being misinterpreted and I apologize.
	Johnson now says he will appeal to Iran on humanitarian grounds.
	Isn't this exactly the same gambit we pulled with our cash payment to Iran because of an old disputed military deal, weapons deal?
	Yeah.
	I think ours was maybe 10 years later.
	And this is about the chieftain tank.
	Well, ours was...
	The money we gave them was the frozen funds.
	Right.
	You're right.
	So we had a bunch of frozen...
	It was always their money, but we froze it because of this dispute.
	And so we kept the money, and they kept demanding it, and so we finally gave it to them.
	But we didn't really confiscate it.
	Why is this happening now?
	I don't know.
	I find it rather peculiar.
	Okay, well, we're going to make you whole now.
	Why?
	Yeah, I get it.
	And they say it's not at all about the...
	When she worked for an NGO... Yeah, well, we know what that means.
	And she was thrown in jail for, you know, trying to start a revolution.
	Probably.
	I mean, is that what an asset is worth these days?
	$400 million?
	Seems high.
	Seems high to me, too.
	Unless she's really something.
	Maybe she's the head of MI6. I don't think she's that.
	I don't think so either.
	So it doesn't make a lot of sense unless there's something else involved.
	There's probably another...
	Deal or two behind me.
	You know, it's probably more than just her, but they're not talking about it.
	No one really ever goes into depth on these stories.
	No, because you can't find out anything.
	It's all speculation, which is what we do.
	We're the speculative two.
	Well, I think we're able to back up our theories, usually.
	We have most of it covered.
	Yeah, I agree.
	Hey, now, dude, go ahead.
	I just want to play one clip.
	This will be my last clip.
	Okay, I got a couple ones you want to hear.
	Okay, play those first and I'll get to my last clip.
	All right.
	I have a commentary.
	We'll start with The Land of the Dollarets.
	And boy, this one is about Dollarets.
	This is really an incredible clip.
	And it shows you, in a way, how sophisticated our northern neighbors are in Scandinavia.
	And in another way, it's just a head shaker.
	That this is even being discussed.
	Now, they're legalizing weed in Canada.
	Has it happened yet?
	Hasn't happened officially.
	No, no, it's happened.
	It's long since happened.
	So it's completely legal now?
	It's all good to go?
	As far as I know, yeah.
	Well, there's problems.
	The federal government's plan to legalize and...
	No, see, I don't think it's legalized yet.
	I think you're wrong.
	I'm not saying I'm not wrong, but as far as I know it is...
	Let me see.
	How old is this clip?
	New!
	New!
	It's a brand new clip.
	I think it's a brand new clip.
	Let me see.
	Well, here it is.
	Is marijuana legal in Canada?
	That's from September.
	That's too long ago.
	I don't think...
	It's not federally recognized.
	Ah, okay.
	Thank you, Troll Room.
	July.
	July, John.
	So it's not done yet.
	Now the report.
	The federal government's plan to...
	Wait, was it July of next year?
	Next year, yes.
	July 2018?
	Yes.
	The federal government's plan to legalize and regulate the sale of marijuana has divided the national opinion.
	Some fear that legalization will lure young people into a life of drug abuse.
	But my next guest opposes legalization of marijuana for an altogether different reason.
	That's because he's a pot dealer.
	J.J. Morris joins us on the line to tell us a little bit more about why he wants to keep pot illegal.
	So, first off, JJ, how long have you been a pot dealer?
	Well, I've been a pot dealer now for over 12 years.
	For me, it's been very successful.
	Isn't this guy great?
	Hey, man.
	I've been a pot dealer.
	I don't use, but it's...
	He has the Canadian accent little thing in there.
	I can't do it.
	Hey, man.
	To me, it's been a very successful business to be a part of.
	I'm kind of living the Ottawa dream.
	Oh, baby!
	I didn't realize it, John.
	The Ottawa Dream.
	The Ottawa Dream.
	He's an entrepreneur.
	He's skating on the river, or what?
	What is the Ottawa Dream?
	The Ottawa Dream is selling weed.
	...
	business to be a part of.
	Kind of living the Ottawa Dream.
	You know, I've got the two-bed, two-bath apartment in the Glebe, and...
	You know, I'm living proof that, you know, being a dealer in this climate, a marijuana dealer in this climate, you can make a great go of it.
	Hey kids, become a dealer!
	But my fear is, of course, all that's about to change.
	Yeah, so why is this story, you cheap brick?
	What?
	Open a store?
	Why doesn't he open a store?
	Well, he's actually asking for something else, and I have a feeling he might actually get it, knowing Scandinavia.
	My fear is, of course, all that's about to change.
	Yeah, so why exactly do you oppose the legalization of marijuana?
	Well, this is the thing, is that, you know, myself and 40K other Canadian dealers, some were not the Senate anyways, you know, we're kind of the guys that started this whole thing out.
	You know, we're the guys that stoked the fire, got people interested in smoking pot here in Canada.
	And although we stoked the fires, it's kind of like someone else is going to now cook their corn on it.
	You know, because if the government legalizes this, that just means the government's going to kind of move in, and that's sort of like Walmart opening up beside a mom-and-pop shop.
	You know, we can't compete.
	And it just feels like, on some level, we need to be compensated, we need to be grandfathered in on this, we need to be shown a sign of respect for what we've done to get the industry to where it is now.
	Okay, so you're feeling like you're the ones who have created the industry of recreation.
	We're the pioneers.
	You've got to be a comedian.
	No, this is CBC. This is a serious report.
	I love it.
	Hey, we should get compensated.
	You can play Clip of the Day after you finish this.
	I'm done.
	No, I'm done.
	I'm done.
	I'll take it.
	I'll take the Clip of the Day.
	I loved it.
	I want compensation, bro.
	Clip of the Day.
	All right.
	Yeah, he's doing an illegal activity, jerk.
	I was a pioneer, man.
	What's up with that?
	And what was he in?
	In the Glebe?
	What was that?
	He said Glebe, yeah.
	It must be some little ritzy neighborhood or something.
	I don't know.
	Now let's go down under.
	Gay marriage, captivating everyone's thoughts, but not on every morning show.
	And a final, final observation on the same-sex marriage debate from Bob Catter.
	I mean...
	You know, people are entitled to their sexual proclivities.
	I mean, let there be a thousand blossoms bloom, as far as I'm concerned.
	But I ain't spending any time on it, because in the meantime, every three months, a person is torn to pieces by a crocodile in North Queensland.
	Yes.
	So we should put the whole country on hold until we sort out that particular problem.
	That's a very compelling point.
	That's right, man.
	It's the crocodiles.
	No one's thinking about the crocodiles eating people.
	You guys are nuts.
	The way he puts it, too, is every six months.
	I like that.
	All right, then my final one.
	This is from the conversation with the Senators about the tax bill that's raging here in the United States.
	And we hear all this on the face bag, and I will start collecting some more to read.
	The meme is, oh, it's always the same.
	It's always the same.
	Giving a tax break to the billionaire.
	Not millionaires, to the billionaires, and everybody else gets screwed.
	Am I categorizing that correctly?
	Isn't that kind of what I hear all the time?
	Yes, that is the standard response to anything the Republicans offer.
	Yes.
	Now, I will say that having looked at it, which I do, at least at the proposals, I, too, wonder that, you know, if your calculation includes higher wages, you know, to coin a phrase, there is no evidence companies want to pay higher wages to anybody.
	Would you agree?
	I would agree with that, too.
	I mean, they're sitting on profits.
	And here's another little aspect of this they're not talking about.
	You know, they...
	Not going to let you deduct your income tax from state income.
	This doesn't apply to you, but it applies to me.
	Yes.
	My California state income tax.
	And you remember, I told you this and you said, nah, that don't ever happen.
	Do you remember that?
	Well, it hasn't happened yet, has it?
	Okay.
	Well, they passed it in the House.
	Yeah.
	It's halfway there.
	And?
	Right.
	Okay.
	Yeah, and this is new.
	Here's what they're talking about.
	And California, oh, Nancy Pelosi and Feinstein and everybody's all bent out of shape about how all, you know, this is just screwing over California because we pay high taxes and then we won't be able to deduct it.
	Nobody ever mentions that Don't you think this might be payback for being the one state that voted overwhelmingly for Hillary and hates Trump the most as Hollywood and all the other haters and this is targeting California?
	Yes.
	It's very obvious.
	Yeah, but no one has said that.
	Not just California, but New York, and there's tons of Democrats there.
	Yeah, which is another big liberal state.
	Yeah.
	And what others?
	Is Washington?
	No, it must be Texas.
	No, although Washington should be targeted, but no, there's no personal income tax in Washington, Nevada, Florida, Texas.
	There's not that many that have none.
	God, I love it in Texas.
	So Orrin Hatch is the chairman of the panel, and he gets really mad at Senator Brown.
	And I just thought it was worth listening to.
	We listen to the prime minister's question times, and people are hooting and hollering and yelling and screaming.
	This is finally a little bit of action in our own Senate.
	And I just think it would be nice just tonight, before we go home, to just acknowledge, well, this tax cut really is not for the middle class.
	It's for the rich.
	And that whole thing about higher wages, well, it's a good selling point.
	But we know companies don't just give away higher wages.
	They just don't give away higher wages just because they have more money.
	Corporations are sitting on a lot of money now.
	They're sitting on a lot of profits now.
	I don't see wages going up.
	So just spare us the bank shots.
	Spare us the sarcasm and the satire.
	I'm going to spare it, but I'm going to just say to you that I come from the poor people.
	And I've been here working my whole stinking career for people who don't have a chance.
	And I really resent anybody saying that I'm just doing this for the rich.
	Give me a break.
	I think you guys overplay that all the time, and it gets old.
	And frankly, you ought to quit it.
	Mr.
	Chairman, the public believes it.
	I'm not through.
	I get kind of sick and tired of it.
	True, it's a nice political play, but it's not true.
	Well, Mr.
	Chairman, with all due respect, I get sick and tired of the richest people in the country.
	Regular order, Mr.
	Chairman.
	Regular order.
	We do a text.
	Regular order.
	And over and over again.
	How many times do we do this before we learn this?
	Listen.
	I want you to spout off here.
	And what you said was not right.
	That's all I'm saying.
	I come from the lower middle class originally.
	We didn't have anything.
	So don't spew that stuff on me.
	I get a little tired of that crap.
	And let me just say something.
	If we've worked together, we could pull this country out of every mess that's in.
	And we could do a lot of the things that you're talking about, too.
	And I think I've got a reputation of having worked together with Democrats.
	Let's start with Chip.
	Not starting with Chip.
	I've done it for years.
	Start with Chip today.
	I've got more bills passed than everybody on this committee put together.
	And they've been passed for the benefit of people in this country.
	Now, all I can say is I like you personally very much, but I'm telling you, this bullcrap that you guys throw out here really gets old after a while.
	To do it right at the end of this was just not right.
	No.
	And I just, it takes a lot to get me worked up like this.
	He was channeling you a little bit there.
	Bull crap!
	Going on and on.
	Great.
	I liked it.
	I thought that was, I mean, I'm filing some action.
	Yeah, that was good.
	We need more of that.
	We may get more eventually.
	I hope.
	So, my last clip is the, this is a Russian bridge clip.
	This is only, this is played on CBS to let us know.
	He's building a bridge from the southern part of Russia to Crimea.
	Ah, yes.
	There's no real easy way to get there.
	We don't want to go through pesky Ukraine.
	So he's got a huge bridge he's building and he wants to get it done as fast as possible.
	But there's a little element at the end where they bring in some locals.
	And I want to make a comment about after this clip is over.
	Russian President Vladimir Putin thumbed his nose at the world when he took Crimea from Ukraine.
	And it looks like he plans to hold on to it forever.
	Based on the bridge he's now building, Elizabeth Palmer went to the construction site in Russia.
	24 hours a day, in three shifts, workers are racing to build a colossal bridge 12 miles long and strong enough to resist ferocious winds, earthquakes, and ice.
	There is no doubt that this bridge is an engineering feat, a really impressive technical achievement, but it's also a bold political statement.
	The bridge will connect southern Russia to the Crimean Peninsula, which, until 2014, belonged to Ukraine.
	Then in March of that year, Russian troops seized Crimea.
	After a hasty referendum, President Putin announced it was now part of Russia.
	At home, he was hailed as a hero.
	While outside Russia, he was condemned.
	But even when America and its allies slapped on sanctions, he didn't back off.
	This $3 billion megaproject shows he's doubling down on the land grab.
	The bridge due to open next year will be Crimea's umbilical cord to Mother Russia.
	Trains, cars and trucks crossing this giant span will carry everything from food to tourists.
	Already it's a source of pride and a local attraction.
	At a lookout on the shore, Vladimir Kurilkov and his friends have come to marvel and posed for pictures.
	Absolutely.
	The bridge underlines that Crimea is ours, he tells me, and we are never giving it back.
	Hmm.
	Okay.
	Now, that's an interesting story, but the thing that got my attention were the four Russians they had at the end.
	And they were talking, they were all proud, they were looking at this thing.
	They're four of the fattest guys I've ever seen in my life.
	They are like, and I think this is done on purpose.
	Prototype Russians, is that the idea?
	I think this is what the new model is going to be, because this is what the media always does.
	Like if they go to do a story in Texas, one of the New York networks, they always find some one-toothed guy talks kind of like this.
	Oh yeah, my mama lives in the same house we live in.
	And so you get these morons, and especially when the Northern Networks play, anybody from the South, Alabama, Mississippi, is always some one-toothed dummy, you know, in a one-room shack.
	And so you go to these places, if you've never been to the South, you go, well, where's all these one-room shacks and these toothless people?
	So I think they decided to stereotype the Russians as big, fat guys.
	They all look like Burkhalter in the old Hogan's Heroes show.
	Big, fat guy with a super-fat face, slobbering.
	And that is going to be what they're going to use from now on.
	When I saw this, I said, this is bull crap.
	There's no way that this represents anything but these guys themselves.
	Russians aren't big fat guys.
	Okay.
	It's just a people.
	I think you need it.
	John C. DeVore at Spad Peeve of Day.
	But you've accidentally stumbled on something pretty big.
	Without even knowing it.
	This is going to be an important part and extension of the collaboration with the Three Belt No Road.
	Three Belt No Road.
	This is a very big deal.
	And the Chinese are co-financing.
	Yes, sir.
	Yes, sir.
	Co-financing.
	Boom count one for you, sir.
	Good work.
	It's an unbelievable world.
	All we do is deconstruct it.
	And we'll do that again for you.
	Only we'll be deconstructing the show on Thursday...
	And that will be on the stream at the regular time and on the podcast as usual at the regular time as well.
	And I want to thank everybody who supported us.
	Thank you Troll Room.
	Thank you Infrastructure Dude's Name Ben.
	And thank you John.
	Have a great trip.
	Thank you.
	And coming to you from downtown Austin, Texas, we are the capital of the drone star state in the common law condo in the 5x9 Cludio, FEMA Region 6 on the governmental maps.
	In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, we'll see you in London on Friday night, Friday at 6 o'clock in a pub that will be put in an email.
	If anyone's interested, put London, L-O-D-O-N, in the subject line to an email if you're not on the mailing list.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	We return...
	For Thursday with Show X, right here on No Agenda.
	Until then, have a great Thanksgiving if you're celebrated.
	And adios, mofos.
	Right?
	You're bloody well right.
	You got a bloody right to say.
	Right?
	Right?
	You bloody well right.
	You know you got a right to say.
	Google right. - It could be wrong, right?
	Right, right?
	Safety check, right?
	Right?
	Right?
	You got a bloody right to say Right?
	Yeah, well, I like this guy.
	The reason they use these algorithms, right, is because there's just so much on the Internet, right?
	I can't take it anymore.
	Okay, let's go!
	What's going on?
	Why am I losing this?
	Why don't I have sound?
	All right, it's back.
	Someone's pressing buttons and turning my sound bell.
	Someone in that control room is out of control.
	Control room, what are you doing?
	There's insanity in the control room.
	The Labor Day sale.
	Save on everything store line.
	The woman talking in my ear was talking about the Labor Day special.
	Who's got a hammer?
	Where's the hammer?
	Stop the hammering.
	Stop the hammering!
	How do you say this guy's last name?
	Dvorak.
	Hello.
	I'm out, bro.
	We did blow that one up.
	Bomb them.
	We need to kill and bomb them.
	Bomb them.
	We need to kill and bomb them.
	Bomb them.
	We need to bomb them.
	We need to kill them and bomb them again.

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