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	This sounds like a cheap plot to an old Columbo film.
	Adam Curry, John C. Devorak.
	It's Sunday, December 17th, 2017.
	This is your award-winning Gitmo Nation Media Assassination, Episode 9 or 9 or 1.
	This is no agenda.
	Reading the Dodd-Docs to Dimension B and broadcasting live from downtown Austin, Tejas, capital of the drone, Star State, in the Cluedio, in the morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where the sun is shining, There's no fires, at least around here, and everybody's happy.
	I'm Johnson.
	It's Crackpot and Buzzkill in the morning!
	Ah, still working on the levels, but we understood most of what you said.
	Well, it's okay.
	I couldn't hear you at all.
	You couldn't hear me at all?
	Oh, I could barely hear you.
	Oh, really?
	In the background, then I heard Adam Curry, so that was my cue.
	Oh, I see.
	I have to move this up a bit, probably.
	I see what was going on.
	Okay.
	Well, in the morning to you, John.
	In the morning to you, Mr.
	Adam Curry.
	In the morning to all ships at sea, boots on the ground.
	I'm sorry, the wrong part of the show.
	A little too early for that, yeah.
	Hey, one of the better newsletters.
	Not just for how it was written, but, oh my God, what an uncovering of information.
	What a...
	What a coming out we've had over this dot document.
	Yeah, apparently this information which was released in 1954 seems to be a little bit overlooked.
	Now, do you have a way you want to get into this and explain what's going on?
	Because when I read this, honestly, you sent me...
	John rarely sends me an email for anything.
	And he says, read this, put it in the show notes.
	I'm like, okay.
	And I'm reading it and I'm like, is this about Soros?
	Is it about Gates?
	And then suddenly it dawned on me like, oh my god, of course!
	How could we have not seen this obvious ruse that's been going on for, what, 70, 75 years?
	However, I will say that, you know, for you to put in the newsletter...
	Adam was going on and on about this.
	It was a little passive-aggressive.
	I had to dramatize it a bit.
	Just a little passive-aggressive.
	Just a tad.
	It was done for the point of dramatization.
	Yeah, sure it was.
	Okay.
	So what happened on the last show is I said, you know, I played a bit of Sarah Silverman of her new show.
	I said, you know, if this is really, truly how people, young people, people today think that they feel queasy in their stomach when they see the American flag being raised, I said, then we're doomed.
	And you went off on me, and then luckily you did something about it, and you went and found out why this has happened.
	And you said it was education, which was arguably kind of just an empty statement, but then you back it up.
	Well, I was thinking about it.
	And it was like, anyone can say stuff like that.
	What is the genesis is what I was looking for.
	And I coincidentally ran into this.
	And since then, I've even got more interesting stuff, which involves Rhodes Scholars, which you'll hear about eventually.
	Because when these guys did their...
	I have a bunch of clips, actually.
	Okay.
	From a guy who...
	The guy, the Dodd guy, who was on his deathbed in the 80s.
	This was all done in 1954.
	If anybody read the newsletter, and they didn't, they missed out.
	This guy who did this report for the U.S. Congress was called the Reese Committee of the Reese Report Report.
	Different names for it.
	It was never completed.
	That was what you have, which we have linked in the show notes, is not the full thing.
	This guy has a lot more stories to tell, which were left out because the Congress finally, in fact, let's see, I got a bunch of clips.
	Dodd, let's see, Dodd, end of research.
	Here's how the research ended.
	You might as well play this clip first.
	Dodd, end of research.
	Wait, stop.
	Hold on a second.
	Just one second.
	I'm going to get a time code.
	I just want to make sure your voice is being recorded.
	Just say something for a moment?
	Yeah, I was going to say I've got 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
	I'm going to do the edit here.
	I'll start the clip out of it.
	I just didn't want to be caught not recording.
	Okay, which clip is it?
	Dodd, end of research.
	Okay, picking it up here.
	Republican National Committee and the White House were resorted to to stop me from continuing this investigation in the direction that Carol Reese had personally asked me to do, which was to utilize this investigation, Mr.
	Griffin, to uncover the fact that this country had been the victim of a conspiracy.
	That was Mr.
	Reese's conviction.
	I eventually agreed to carry it out.
	I explained to Mr.
	Reese that his own counsel wouldn't go in that direction.
	He gave me permission to disregard our own counsel.
	And I had then to set up an aspect of the investigation outside of our office.
	More or less secret.
	And...
	The Republican National Committee got wind of what I was doing, and they did everything they could to stop me.
	They appealed to counsel to stop me, and finally they resorted to the White House.
	You know, what I like so much about deathbed confessions is they're always seen as conspiracy theories.
	It's always like, FBI agent confesses on his deathbed.
	Well, this guy wasn't on his deathbed, but he died three months later.
	Oh, yeah.
	What, did he die of natural causes?
	Well, I don't know.
	He seemed pretty old.
	He probably was.
	But I like, you know, maybe he was murdered.
	If I can just set it up a little bit, because of course I read the document.
	The assertion of the document was there had been a coordinated plan from outside the country, possibly, but certainly inside the educational system, to change the actual thinking of the country.
	And the research started with, what is the function of a foundation?
	And that's kind of broad, you know, is it non-profit?
	But what is the function of a foundation in the United States?
	What is it supposed to do?
	And it's supposed to support, you know, for the better good.
	There was exact definitions of what this was.
	And then they go in and see, okay, what are some of these foundations who are supporting our educational institutions?
	Are they attaching some kind of stuff to the money that they're sending?
	I'm paraphrasing, but I think that's kind of...
	Let's go back in history though and take a look at what it was like in 52, 53, 54 when this thing was being done for the House.
	This report.
	It was a communist thing going on.
	Everyone was fearful of the communists.
	Because the Russians had built up a big army and they were tough.
	They eventually cloned the H-bomb and made trouble.
	Caused the Cold War.
	So there was a The thing going on about, let's find the communists, because they must have permeated the government, they must have permeated the society, they're permeating stuff.
	And you ended up with a look at these foundations, which were getting kind of suspicious.
	And they all were.
	It was the Carnegie Endowment.
	There was also a Carnegie Educational Foundation.
	The Rockefellers and the Ford Foundation, which are still all sketchy.
	In fact, just to bring that up to speed before I continue to explain this, play the Dodd Foundations today.
	And this was in 1982 is when he was talking.
	Okay.
	How do you see that the purpose and direction of the major foundations has changed over the years to the present?
	What is it today?
	A hundred percent behind meeting the cost of education such as it is presented through the schools and colleges of the United States on the subject of Our history has proven our original ideas to be no longer practical.
	The future belongs to a collectivistic concept and there's just no disagreement on this.
	What was collectivism?
	Well, collectivism is working together for a greater good.
	Socialism is what it is.
	Working together for a greater good doesn't necessarily have to be socialism.
	No, but that's what their argument is.
	It's working together for a greater good.
	And if you want to know the collectivist out there who is the number one guy is Bernie Sanders.
	Yeah.
	And Bernie Sanders is loved by the young because they have really ramped up this education thing.
	And so Bernie Sanders is speaking to them because they've been educated with the kind of hearing that wants to hear what Bernie Sanders has to say.
	And so Bernie Sanders is the guy.
	And this has been going on for some time, and it has a lot to do.
	But anyway, back to the 50s.
	So there's an anti-communist thing going on.
	And what's interesting to me about this is that the big anti-communists in Congress are all Republicans.
	But it was the Republicans who shut down this report.
	So that was, to me, is the real eye-opener here.
	But let's listen to...
	Dot was given the opportunity.
	He had to look into these...
	They didn't know what they were going to come up with, but he had to look into these foundations, and he had...
	The guys from the Carnegie Foundation just told him, just send somebody over and look at the books, and you can do whatever you want with the information.
	And so he was kind of stunned by that, and that will be in part one of the Discovery research clip, but I want to back it with...
	I had to cut a lot out, because this came from an hour interview, and I wanted to cut it down to, like, less than five or ten minutes.
	And he sent this woman over there, who apparently was sent by Congress, to watchdog him, birddog him, to make sure he wasn't breaking any rules.
	Shadow him, shadow him.
	And she thought the whole thing was bullcrap, and she didn't want to...
	Even do it.
	And she thought it was just making good foundations were only for good.
	And she was a real skeptic.
	And so he sent her to the Carnegie Foundation to go look at the men from the early days where it was pre- Pre-incorporated in 1908 until, I don't know how much it got done, but she only had two weeks to look at this stuff.
	But let's listen to part one of the discovery research.
	What could possibly be wrong with foundations?
	They do so much good.
	She came back at the end of two weeks with the following in the way of on dictaphone bells.
	We are now at the year 1908, which was the year that the Carnegie began operations.
	And in that year, the trustees, meeting for the first time, raise a specific question, which they discuss.
	And the question is, is there any means known more effective than war, assuming you wish to alter the life of an entire people?
	And they conclude that no more effective means than war to that end is known to humanity.
	So then in 1909 they raise the second question and discuss it.
	Namely, how do we involve the United States in a war?
	Well, I doubt at that time if there was any subject more removed from the thinking of most of the people of this country than its involvement in a war.
	There were intermittent shows in the Balkans, but I doubt very much if many people even knew where the Balkans was.
	Then finally, they answer that question as follows.
	We must control the State Department.
	And then that very naturally raises the question of how do we do that?
	And they answer it by saying we must take over and control the diplomatic machinery of this country.
	And finally they resolve to aim at that as an objective.
	Then time passes and we are eventually in a war.
	We should have been World War I. Yeah, I love reading the troll room as we're playing these because people really have no idea where this is going.
	They don't see it yet.
	Ah, it's a troll room.
	Yeah, well, we're way ahead of the game because we read the documents.
	So, well, you know, if anyone was on the newsletter list, which they should be, they would have read the documents.
	True that.
	I mean, people, because we promote the show on the newsletter, a lot of people are subscribing and they unsubscribe and they miss the stuff, which is all the links.
	It's got links and pictures and everything.
	It's all essays occasionally.
	Not all the time, but enough so.
	So anyway, so this woman comes back with these dictaphone recordings and she...
	Is apparently shook by this whole thing because she was a true believer.
	And let's go to part two where there's a couple more interesting tidbits.
	Which would have been World War I. And at that time, they record on their minutes a shocking report in which they dispatched to President Wilson a telegram cautioning him to see that the war does not end too quickly.
	And finally, of course, we are...
	The war is over.
	At that time, their interest shifts over to preventing what they call a reversion of life in the United States to what it was prior to 1914.
	When World War I broke out.
	And they arrive at that point, they come to the conclusion that to prevent a reversion we must control education in the United States.
	And they realize that that's a pretty big task.
	So to them it is too big for them alone so they approach the Rockefeller Foundation with the suggestion that that portion of education which could be considered domestic Be handled by the Rockefeller Foundation and that portion which is international should be handled by the endowment.
	And they then decide that the key to the success of these two operations lay in the An alteration of the teaching of American history.
	So they approached four of the then most prominent teachers of American history in the country, people like Charles and Mary Bird, and their suggestion to them is, will they alter The manner in which they present this subject and they get turned down flat.
	So they then decide that it is necessary for them to do, as they say, build our own stable of historians.
	And then they We approach the Guggenheim Foundation, which specializes in fellowships, and say, when we find young men in the process of studying for doctorates in the field of American history, and we feel that they are the right caliber, will you grant them fellowships on our say-so?
	And the answer is yes.
	So under that condition, eventually they assemble 20.
	And they take this 20 potential teachers of American history to London.
	And there they're briefed into what is expected of them when, as and if, they secure appointments in keeping with the doctorates they will have earned.
	So they send them to London.
	And I believe they sent him, even though he doesn't bring this up, but I believe he sent him to the Rhodes operation over there, which Cecil Rhodes set up in the early 1900s, which resulted in the Rhodes scholarships, which if you look at the who's who came out of that thing.
	You have a lot of historians and a lot of politicians, people in the State Department specifically, and it was a very interesting connection there.
	But that was the beginning, I think, of what was a change in the way we teach.
	And the funny thing about this, when I first ran into it, I have a collection of history books.
	I have a very large collection, especially Civil War stuff.
	Which was written pre-1914.
	And I've always found it to be completely different than what you read today in terms of its attitude, the way to put it.
	And he mentions a couple of things in there about how people were specifically...
	Told to stop writing this way.
	And a lot of them just disappeared off the face of the earth.
	You can't find half of these books.
	The books or the people?
	Well, the people are dead.
	But the books, you can find them in rare bookstores and places like that.
	But they're not even on archive.org.
	They're not in the libraries anymore.
	I don't think half of them you can find at Cal Berkeley.
	It's just a very interesting situation that happened.
	And I think it was done overtly.
	I didn't think about that before as it being overt when I started noticing this because I have all these old books.
	But now that I hear this, I'm thinking, yeah, it was probably done on purpose.
	Let's go to the woman who did all the work at the Carnegie was this I guess it's Catherine Casey.
	I want you to play this little clip of Dodd.
	It says Latherin on here.
	Casey clip.
	Yeah, I might tell you this experience as far as its impact on Catherine Casey was concerned.
	Well, she never was able to return to her law practice.
	If it hadn't been for Carol Reese's ability to tuck her away on a I don't know what would have happened to Catherine, but ultimately she lost her mind as a result of it.
	Terrible shock.
	And she did a lot of the research for this?
	Yeah, she was a Dimension B person, and now I've taken Dimension B back into the 50s.
	She was a lockstep Dimension Beat person, and this apparently was so shocking to her that any of this stuff could happen that she couldn't handle it.
	She lost her mind.
	She lost her mind.
	Hello?
	That's exactly what we're watching today with people losing their mind over it.
	Let me just, the way I read the document and the conclusion of the report, And I'm a little familiar with this.
	Of course, Tina the Keeper is a non-profit.
	And many grants that you receive, they're called restricted donation.
	And so a construction company may say, for instance, well, I want you guys to build a new Ronald McDonald house.
	Here's a million dollars.
	You can't use it for anything else except for the actual construction or the plumbing of the construction.
	I guess you could go to that degree.
	And these foundations, Carnegie, Ford, what was the other one?
	Rockefeller.
	And Guggenheim, for that matter.
	Yes, Guggenheim's actually quite important as well.
	They would give money to the big Ivy League schools, and they would say, okay, here's this money, but the coursework I want you to use it for has to be surrounded around globalism.
	Or social justice?
	Or equality?
	And as you look at the curriculum now of all universities, all major universities, people are graduating with a Bachelor of Arts and You know, political science.
	Social justice.
	And they're kind of useless, actually.
	I don't think that they necessarily get you a job in the workplace.
	They get you a job in a foundation.
	They get you a job in one of these non-profits.
	They get you a job in one of the Soros operations.
	Yes, in the system.
	You get a job.
	Absolutely.
	Absolutely.
	In the system.
	But it explains, and this is now 75 years, people have actually been taught that the American way is wrong.
	That we need to be global, one world, no nations, no borders, everybody lovey-dovey, kumbaya, hand-in-hand.
	And that's, of course, happened to the educators today, and now they are just teaching another version to the kids.
	And it's really shocking to hear how this went down.
	Yeah, well, especially when it started, according to Dodd here, in 1910, when the Carnegie Endowment for the Arts, or endowment for something, you also have an educational foundation, which started in 1904.
	When those foundations came to be, and it's just like a rat's nest.
	Anyway, so I've been looking at it, and that's when I came up with another guy who gives a speech that berates the Rhodes, Cecil Rhodes and his operation in England, which is where they sent those 20 that he talked about.
	Right.
	And then that becomes the Rhodes Scholars.
	And when you start looking at the list of Rhodes Scholars, luckily Wikipedia has a lot of this stuff.
	And the Rhodes Scholar...
	Web page itself is pretty open about it.
	You can look everybody up.
	You can see what they're up to.
	They're very kind of proud.
	This one other speaker, I'll discuss him in another show, claims that Cecil Rhodes created kind of a model of the Illuminati as a group of conspirators to promote globalism.
	Can I just read from the Dodd report for a second here?
	Sure.
	In ensuing studies disclose such a relationship, now this is between the educational institutions and their procedures and these foundations.
	That's what he's referring to here.
	It had existed continuously since the beginning of this 50-year period.
	In addition...
	These studies seem to give evidence of a response to our involvement in international affairs.
	Likewise, they seem to reveal that grants have been made by foundations, chiefly by Carnegie and Rockefeller, which were used to further this purpose by directing education in the United States towards an international viewpoint and discrediting the traditions which it formerly had been dedicated,
	training individuals and servicing agencies to render advice to the executive branch of the federal government, decreasing the dependency of education upon the resources of local community and freeing it from many of the natural safeguards inherent in this American tradition Changing both school and college curricula to the point where they sometimes denied the principles underlying the American way of life, and financing experiments designed to determine the most effective means of which education could be pressed into service of a political nature.
	And this reports from 1953?
	54, yeah.
	I mean, that's some serious allegations.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, especially since they've all been swept under the rug.
	Yeah, you can't find the evidence of it taking place anymore.
	I mean, even finding that document, which was on Bryn Mawr's website, and it's all marked up with a few pages missing.
	I mean, the thing's a mess.
	People were scribbled all over it.
	It's like pulling teeth.
	And, you know, do you remember, didn't we have some Russian guy somewhere?
	I want to look this up.
	There was some former KGB guy, and this is maybe in the 80s, he said, oh, we've been working on breaking down America for decades.
	We're doing it through the educational system.
	Do you remember that?
	Yes, this guy's on YouTube.
	Yeah.
	He's some old KGB agent, and he's given the Russians the credit for this one.
	I don't believe they have anything to do with it, personally.
	No.
	And I've always felt that guy was kind of full of crap.
	But it's a genius.
	He was like a reverse engineering.
	Let's see what's going on.
	Let's take credit for it by reverse engineering it and then saying it's what we did.
	Yeah.
	I think this is more like it.
	Well, not only that, what's genius about this is you're perpetuating it, so you get people into the system, and then they learn how to be part of the system.
	They go off, and as you say, they go work for Soros, and these are the new guys.
	It's just the perpetuation of it.
	Yeah.
	And then when I hear all this, I'm like, no wonder.
	No wonder I'm able to do this show.
	I dropped out of college.
	I didn't go to an American school.
	I didn't get any of the indoctrination.
	Well, I did.
	Yeah, but you're special.
	I'm special.
	I got the indoctrination.
	I got it from one of the sources, one of the hot spots.
	They mentioned this in the report to some of these schools.
	And Cal Berkeley is one of them.
	And of course, still being used by the CIA as far as we're concerned.
	But the thing about the irony about it is that if the school's really good...
	They really end up teaching you how to think independently.
	Even though they're giving you the brainwashing is there.
	But at some point you can break away from it, which is a flaw that needs to be corrected, I'd say, if I was those guys.
	In fact, they had the problem at Cal when they had in the 60s when they had everybody bitching and moaning about the Vietnam War, which was a war, again, was started with some scheme in mind because one of the promoters of the Vietnam War, Dean Rusk, was the Secretary of State, Secretary of State Rhodes Scholar.
	Mm-hmm.
	Who, with John McNamara, kept this Vietnam War going for longer than it should have, and John McNamara then writes a tell-all book saying that, well, we didn't know how to stop the war, and he had some bullshit excuse, and everybody was reading it, thinking that there was a message in the McNamara book I'm going to bring back to my buddies, my liberal buddies.
	When McNamara's book came out, one of them, who is a communist, for all practical purposes, even though he's not.
	Robert McNamara?
	Yeah, Robert McNamara, the guy who was the Secretary of Defense during the Vietnam era.
	He said that all the protests and everything that was going on had zero protests.
	It was a waste of time and money for everyone involved in the protests.
	You know, because there's student protests everywhere because it was a draft.
	They worked around the draft by now having an all-volunteer, supposedly.
	Let's create a group of very poor people in this country and then let them volunteer to join the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, Marines because they really don't have anything else they're going to be able to do.
	So we've turned our...
	Let's draft the general public into the army for these wars, undeclared or not.
	They've changed from that to, no, no, no, no.
	This is not working out.
	Too many people are protesting, bitching, and moaning.
	It's disrupting things.
	Let's use this other trick.
	And the other trick works fine.
	And so that's where we're at right now.
	But one of my friends was going, oh, because he was a big protester during the era.
	And he says, oh, it was just a waste of everyone's time.
	I'm wondering whether that's bull crap.
	Maybe he puts that in the book to make you think that way.
	But they did have a problem at Berkeley because they had all these kids who were bitching and moaning about stuff.
	They were getting their education.
	They were the smartest kids in the state.
	So they decided, no, screw the state of California students.
	Let's bring in as many kids from China, not just Chinese kids in California, but kids from China into the system.
	It's about Berkeley, California.
	Berkeley, University of Berkeley is about half Chinese in terms of the student population.
	Because they're not going to make a fuss.
	They're being brought in from China, Hong Kong, and other places.
	They make a fuss.
	They get sent back.
	They could go to jail.
	So they were a nice passive group.
	You never see a Chinese protest at the University of California, even though it's mostly Chinese.
	And they did that.
	And also for a short time, there's a stopgap.
	They went to a quarter system before they went back to semesters.
	Because that would make kids have to take more finals.
	And it slows down the bitching.
	But the whole thing is rigged.
	But to such a degree, once you read this document and you believe it and you understand the background, certainly with the wiki page, then you see, oh my god, it actually worked!
	And I don't know if there's ever any stopping this now.
	No.
	This is the part which is somewhat annoying because you were right.
	We're doomed.
	Ah, there we go!
	Somebody said to me in an email, this is a fact, this is the way the world is, one world, one...
	One world, no borders, no prisons, no governments.
	One world government.
	He says, just get over it.
	The guy writes in his email.
	I could read it.
	Just get over it.
	Join!
	And I got a note from Sir Atomic Rod Adams, our knight there.
	He's no longer the knight of the Blue Ridge.
	He's in Florida.
	He moved down with the kids.
	Referring to the latest newsletter, the same foundations that have funded globalism And yeah, that's a big part of the mission right there.
	In fact, that is the main don't steal our stuff.
	Any alternative to fossil fuel is no good.
	Or the alternative, let me put it that way.
	No, the good alternative in terms of no pollution, no carbon, no nothing.
	Yes, the only alternative.
	Is presented as a scary thing.
	And so you end up with, well, let's use wind to power and some of these.
	I think you pretty much cracked the practicality of that business.
	And solar and things that don't work when it's dark out.
	Yeah, no, this is good stuff.
	And I think that this report needs to be rethought.
	And we have to take another look at these foundations.
	And, of course, Clinton is running one of the big ones now.
	And he's a global initiative.
	I mean, what could be more blatant than that?
	Well, that's now defunct.
	They've closed that one down.
	Yeah, well, they had to because it was pretty sketchy.
	Because they had no more power.
	There were no more deals to be done.
	That's why I had to close it down.
	It was done.
	So they closed that down but it was a global promotion and of course another Rhodes Scholar out of England.
	And it's a rat's nest.
	It's unbelievable, some of this stuff.
	We'll talk more about this as we develop some other information.
	Well, just to give you an example of what that has resulted in, I happen to have someone who I'm sure went through the system.
	This is Nomiki Konst.
	She is not only an investigative reporter for the Young Turks...
	But turns out she is also a member of the DNC Unity Reform Commission.
	So she's a member of the Democratic National Party, Departee.
	And she's very, very mad about this last election.
	And she went off at this meeting, which was really uncomfortable to watch.
	You just see all the people who are really running the show, or think they're running the show, and just leaning back in the chairs and listening to her.
	But she made some good points, but you can also kind of hear the Dimension B seeping everywhere.
	This smells.
	This doesn't just smell to the public right now, that the budget of the party was never put before.
	Forget about the Budgetary Committee for a second.
	Put before the people who have a fiduciary responsibility, whether it's Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, whether it's Donna Brazile, when she was chair, when she was vice chair, or vice chair Ray Buckley, or Dr.
	Jim Zogby over here.
	That's over half the executive committee right there.
	Had no idea where the money was going.
	We spent a billion dollars, lost the easiest presidential race you could possibly imagine, with joint fundraising agreements.
	I love that.
	It was the easiest presidential race you can imagine.
	How could we lose against that dope?
	Spent a billion dollars.
	Lost the easiest presidential race you could possibly imagine.
	With joint fundraising agreements.
	State parties weren't being funded.
	During the DNC chair's race, there were some state party chairs who said, I'm an acting executive director and I have $3,000 cash on hand.
	How are you supposed to rebuild the party if you have no idea where that money was spent?
	And you know what?
	I did go through FEC filings.
	And it doesn't look good.
	It smells.
	We're talking about close to 700 to 800 million dollars between the joint fundraising agreement and the DNC being spent on five consultants.
	This is not a public outrage issue.
	The DNC chairs are upset.
	The officers are upset.
	And as a Democratic Party member of this commission, we have a duty and people are watching us right now.
	The number one issue I get asked Out in the public, by DNC members, is what are you going to do about the budget?
	It is absolutely ridiculous that we are going to keep a status quo system when it basically says we're going to continue to lose 1,200 seats.
	Let me describe what losing 1,200 seats looks like, or the remaining seats we have.
	If you're in...
	Trump, yes, but let's break that down a little bit.
	If you're in Arizona, and you...
	Have an eptopic pregnancy.
	You can't go to a Planned Parenthood clinic because it's gone.
	Because that state legislature is lost.
	So you have to drive over to New Mexico.
	And if you bleed to death on the way, you know whose fault that is?
	In my mind, that's a Democratic Party that wasn't funded, recruiting candidates, investing in local parties.
	And that is our fault.
	Because we have put that money to the top five consultants.
	And part of that has to go to the conflicts of interest.
	A smattering of applause.
	This is outrageous.
	It's unethical.
	It's bad governance.
	And frankly, it's fucking, excuse me, corruption.
	We have a freak in the White House and state legislatures control.
	I didn't hear that the first time.
	We have a freak in the White House.
	I didn't realize that.
	This is outrageous.
	It's unethical.
	It's bad governance.
	And frankly, it's fucking, excuse me, corruption.
	We have a freak in the White House and state legislatures controlled by Republicans and poor state party chairs like Jane Klebb having to go out there and fundraise on her own because the Democratic Party isn't able to allocate money.
	All that money went to presidential races, but it was burned, lit on fire.
	Burned!
	And who suffers as a result of some consultants getting third, fourth, and fifth homes?
	The American people.
	People being rounded up by ice.
	Oh, I love that.
	It's the American people being rounded up by ice, John.
	Yeah, that was a bit sketchy.
	As a result of some consultants getting third, fourth, and fifth homes, the American people, people being rounded up by ice.
	Let's keep this in perspective right now.
	We have a duty here, and it is not just a duty to our committee men and the status quo.
	It's a duty to the American people, to the Democratic Party members, to the DNC chairs, to the DNC members, the executive committee members, and the people who have a fiduciary responsibility.
	Amen!
	There you go.
	That's a product of it.
	Yeah, that's a product of it, and that's going to get nowhere, of course.
	No.
	These consultants know what they're doing.
	You know, I'm reminded of the Democrat Party.
	My wife, who ran for city council, had to visit all these, visit the Republicans, the Democrats, because it's a non-partisan office.
	And so all these clubs in the area.
	And she said the creepiest ones and the most disorganized are the Democrats.
	They're all just nuts.
	And when you give a talk, there's a group of them.
	There's apparently the Democrat Party has been kind of not quite yet taken over, but it's about to be taken over by these social justice warriors who are all millennials.
	And they're all like You've seen these women.
	They're fat.
	They wear green lipstick.
	They have kind of a quasi-goth look.
	And she says there's groups of them.
	There's little bunches of them.
	And they stand in the back of the room with their arms folded, staring at you like you're the worst...
	They're women, by the way, but you're not the right woman, so you're a scum to them.
	Hold on.
	Why are you then not the right woman?
	What is the criteria?
	Because you're not one of them in their group.
	You're not a social justice warrior.
	You're just a woman, and you think you're going to go someplace just because you're a woman?
	No.
	No, that's not going to happen.
	Oh, okay.
	I see what you're saying.
	Unlike where we needed a woman to be president, it has to be the right woman to be president.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Makes nothing but sense.
	Hmm.
	So we're going to see more of this.
	I think they're going to still try to run a woman who's the right woman.
	This is completely...
	And I think I would say...
	We can take it right back to 1954 and saying that by fooling around with the basis of our country, the way it was founded, the reasons it was founded, the Jeffersonian principles, these guys have all been kind of...
	Turned into evil people by the same system because they have to be marginalized.
	George Washington, they held slaves.
	He's no good anymore.
	Let's take down statues.
	Let's rewrite the whole basis for our country and how we're supposed to think.
	It's really the final phase of the campaign, if you think about it.
	By erasing history.
	It turns out to be...
	Yes.
	But it turns out to have a...
	So you're erasing the foundations which make people think calmly instead of turning into these weirdos that the Dimension B people have gone off the deep end.
	They're crazy.
	The freak in the White House and the rest of it, the orange man, it's not working at this point.
	It's starting to collapse on itself and I think that maybe is a good thing.
	Well, then I'm just going to build this bridge.
	We know that the social media and over-socialization and political correctness which started 50 years ago is not something new.
	that that's turned into people who are completely neurotic, young people, and who need all kinds of external stimuli to live, really.
	And we've heard that, what's the guy at Facebook who went on Recode?
	And, you know, Facebook is denying, he's like, ah, he never really worked for us or something.
	Oh, no, I have the clip.
	Oh, good.
	This was played recently on CBS and was played on most of the networks.
	This is a package that CBS specifically put together, but every network had their own kind of variation of it.
	But this is the Facebook warning clip.
	It's not a warning about Facebook and what some believe it's doing to kids.
	The warning comes from two of the company's earliest executives.
	Carter Evans is following this.
	We kind of knew something bad could happen.
	Chamath Palihapitiya, a former Facebook executive once in charge of user growth, now says he has tremendous guilt about the social network he helped build.
	We have created tools that are ripping apart the social fabric of how society works.
	And it's influencing the next generation.
	Studies show 92% of teens go online daily, and one in five young people regularly wake up in the night to send or check messages on social media.
	People need to hard break from some of these tools and the things that you rely on.
	The short-term dopamine-driven feedback loops that we have created are destroying how society works.
	No civil discourse, no cooperation, misinformation, mistruth.
	Bad actors can now manipulate large swaths of people.
	Do anything you want.
	He's not the only social media executive blowing the whistle.
	Former Facebook president Sean Parker recently said the initial goal was to get people hooked.
	You're exploiting a vulnerability in human psychology.
	The inventors, creators, understood this.
	Consciously.
	And we did it anyway.
	We have to hold the tech industry accountable.
	Jim Steyer is founder of Common Sense Media.
	They in many cases have ignored the consequences, some of the downsides of some of the innovations they've brought to our society.
	You don't realize it, but you are being programmed.
	It was unintentional.
	But now you've got to decide how much you're willing to give up.
	In a statement, Facebook pointed out that Polyhapitiya left the company more than six years ago, and a lot has changed since then.
	But Facebook also said, quote, we have realized how our responsibilities have grown, and we're working hard to improve.
	Jeff?
	A lot to think about tonight, Carter.
	Thank you very much.
	So we had...
	The kid's over last night.
	One of Tina's daughters graduated from UT, and so she and her boyfriend and one of her friends was over.
	And, you know, I love the young kids.
	So we're talking.
	And her friend, she's studying psychology.
	And I said, oh, yeah, do you know the brain professor who she didn't know?
	I said, how about Pennebaker?
	Oh, yeah, Pennebaker.
	He's great.
	He's performative.
	And so I'm like, oh, wow, okay.
	She knows what she's talking about.
	And so, you know, what are people doing?
	Just talking.
	Well, pretty much everybody who is studying psychology here at UT, they're all being recruited by Facebook.
	And they're going.
	And they're really excited and they're all working on the psychological aspects of the platform.
	Which is remarkable because you'd think that they wanted STEM people.
	And you want coders and stuff?
	No.
	No, they actually, they want psychologists.
	So hold on a second.
	What you're saying, in effect, is that what Facebook said about these complaints is bullcrap.
	They're going to make it worse.
	Yes, they are making it worse.
	And they have video that I found.
	This is really good.
	So they interviewed a number of these psychologists, also other people, but it's a nice little video about what Facebag is doing in the area of well-being.
	And before I even play the clip, well-being is...
	This sounds like a cheap plot to an old Columbo film.
	Let me write that one down.
	Let me write that one down.
	can work productively and fruitfully, and is able to make a contribution to her or his community.
	The positive dimension of mental health is stressed in the World Health Organization's definition of health as contained in its constitution.
	Quote, health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
	So well-being seems to be kind of a globalist term when you think about it in these concepts by these people.
	In fact, they're saying it.
	So they are very concerned with well-being at Facebag, and here's part of that video.
	People are often surprised to learn that we have a large group of researchers here at Facebook with backgrounds in fields like social psychology and communication and anthropology.
	Our jobs are to understand how Facebook affects people's lives and look for ways to make it better.
	I'm Maura Burke.
	I'm a research scientist here at Facebook, and my background is in well-being.
	So how our social relationships affect...
	I'm telling you, that's one of those graduates right there.
	Yeah, but you got a degree in well-being.
	I got a degree in well-being, everybody.
	...to make it better.
	I'm Maura Burke.
	I'm a research scientist here at Facebook, and my background is in well-being.
	I'm pretty sure they thought about the music, too, with the little ploom, ploom, ploom, ploom.
	Oh, yeah.
	Yeah, the music.
	...how our social relationships affect...
	It's close to that bell that we have that...
	That one everyone hates.
	Ow!
	Yeah, that one.
	...people's feelings of social support and happiness and loneliness.
	We run hundreds of interviews every year around the world in people's homes with the help of translators.
	And we look for large-scale, quantitative patterns in the ways that people use Facebook.
	Basically to understand what works well and what we can improve.
	A lot of people around the world wonder and worry about the effect of social technology on well-being.
	And that really matters to us at Facebook, too.
	And so we do a lot to understand the existing scientific research and to conduct more.
	And what we find is that it's a lot like how you spend your time offline.
	It really depends on what you're doing online.
	Passively scrolling through stories about other people is a lot like watching TV. It can be entertaining and enjoyable, but it doesn't have strong social benefits.
	Instead, it's important to interact one-on-one with people that you care about.
	So, writing a comment on a friend's post or sending each other messages, these are the kinds of actions that can boost well-being.
	It's a lot like being at a party.
	Can you believe the brazenness of this?
	By commenting or liking one of your friend's posts, that can boost your well-being?
	Are they for real?
	Where are they getting this idea?
	Because when you read those, you know, every so often you read from Facebag.
	Yeah.
	I don't see how that's improving anybody's well-being, these sorts of things.
	These are mean, vitriolic posts.
	It's a hate post.
	Instead, it's important to interact one-on-one with people that you care about.
	So writing a comment on a friend's post or sending each other messages, these are the kinds of actions that can boost well-being.
	It's a lot like being at a party.
	You can't just sit in the corner.
	You need to interact with people that you care about in order to have a meaningful experience.
	We use this research to better design Facebook to encourage people to interact one-on-one with friends and not just mindlessly scroll through stories.
	We regularly publish in the top scientific journals and we collaborate with faculty and grad students.
	We want as many of the best minds thinking about these issues of how technology affects our lives.
	One of the professors that we work with regularly is Bob Kraut from Carnegie Mellon University.
	Note, note, note the origin of this gentleman.
	He's been studying how the internet affects people's lives for more than 25 years.
	Well, it's hard to figure out what the impact of technology is on people's lives.
	In some of the earliest research that we did, most people were interacting with strangers online.
	And when they interacted with strangers, The consequence seemed to be that they were experiencing more stress, loneliness, more depression.
	What's happened in the intervening years is that more and more of the people that you know and care about are now online.
	And when you do communicate with those people that you care about and have substantive conversations with them, then that seems to be associated with improvements in well-being.
	So there are a couple of problems with understanding the relationship between how people use social media and their well-being.
	The first issue is distinguishing mere association from causation.
	So I think the big problem is that most of the research on this topic is flawed.
	Almost all of it asks people how they're feeling right now and How much they've used technology in the recent past.
	And with that kind of data, you can't distinguish whether use of technology is causing people to feel bad or whether people who feel bad are using technology more, perhaps to self-medicate.
	Ooh, some concepts there!
	Self-medication through social media, I like it!
	I think the second problem is an over-reliance on broad self-report measures of what people are doing online.
	In order to understand how use of technology is influencing people's lives, you need to have detailed information about exactly what they're doing online.
	And people just don't have the memory capability to tell you that kind of detail.
	That's why we track them.
	The best research handles this problem through experimentation in which some people are assigned to use the internet for a period of time and other people are prevented from it.
	And then you're trying to compare people's well-being after these experiences or research that uses longitudinal data collection where you're...
	Whoa, whoa, whoa.
	What is longitudinal data collection?
	I don't know.
	Look it up.
	It's probably something simple.
	It's just probably, you know, it probably means like consistent over time, something like that.
	I don't know.
	I have no idea.
	Or as well being after these experiences or research that uses longitudinal data collection where you're measuring how they feel over periods of time.
	You're so right.
	Definition of longitudinal data.
	The process of collecting sample observations from a larger population over a given time period.
	You're right.
	Tracking.
	He's just talking about tracking.
	Just say tracking.
	Like a dog.
	People's well-being after these experiences or research that uses longitudinal data collection where you're measuring how they feel over periods of time and seeing how the use of technology leads to or is associated with changes in their feelings of loneliness or depression.
	Facebook's mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together.
	Sure it is.
	To do that, we have to understand how Facebook affects people's lives and friendships.
	We're not just here to capture time.
	So far, I've only lost friends thanks to Facebag.
	Thanks, Facebag!
	And bring the world closer together.
	To do that, we have to understand how Facebook affects people's lives and friendships.
	We're not just here to capture time from people mindlessly scrolling through stories and feeling lonely.
	That's not in anyone's best interest, because if you feel lonely, you won't come back.
	Instead, we use research to better inform the design of Facebook, to support the kinds of one-on-one interactions that people find meaningful in the long term.
	And we're here for your well-being.
	Good night, slave.
	I'll give you a clip of the day for that.
	I'll take it.
	I do have some follow-ups on this, because now things are starting to become clear to me.
	Obviously, none of this has worked.
	We have people who are severely depressed.
	It's getting worse, I'm sure.
	Which plays neatly into this.
	In fact, I'm sorry, but these reports that were on all the networks that we played a minute ago, that can't be going over well.
	Teens are on it too much.
	It's a nightmare.
	You know, this sort of thing.
	Yeah, you're right.
	They're seeing the reality and they're trying to fix it.
	They're doing their best and that's why they're in hiring mode.
	But in the meantime, we have to do something about all these kids.
	So we have, and I'll use the word kid with double D, I kid you not, colleges are now offering...
	Therapy classes.
	They've got therapy llamas for the kids to play with therapy goats.
	I'm not kidding.
	A petting zoo at the university.
	Yes.
	Yes, this is exactly what they have.
	It's disturbing.
	But this...
	Well, actually, we can play this just before this donation segment, because in talking to the kids, and I hope they're not listening, they hate it when I say kids, we were talking about podcasts.
	One of my favorite topics, you know, I can get along in that conversation, and, you know, what they listen to, and none of them listen to the same shows, really, and it's very hard for them to get their friends to listen to something else.
	That apparently is oddly difficult.
	But they all said, wow, this Talkspace is really good.
	Like Talkspace.
	I thought it was like a podcast thing where you can use to make podcasts.
	No, no, no, no.
	This is up there with Squarespace and with...
	Who else is a big advertiser on the podcasts?
	The Mattress Company?
	Right, Casper Mattress.
	It was another one.
	I don't know.
	Apparently, I listened to a couple, and yes, it shows up.
	Talkspace.
	Some days you're feeling down and you just have to talk to someone.
	At Talkspace, we believe that therapy should be anonymous, stigma-free, simple, affordable, and comfortable, and that finding happiness is not a privilege of the few.
	Talkspace is online therapy.
	Work with one of the licensed therapists on our platform for as little as $32 a week.
	And with our unlimited messaging therapy, you can write to your therapist whenever it's convenient for you.
	And because it's almost like your therapist is always with you, you can hear back from your therapist a couple of times a day, without having to wait a week or more for your next appointment.
	So if something comes up, you can share it with your therapist right then and there, whenever that is, and wherever you are.
	From here, here, here, here.
	Here, here, and, well, you get it.
	So, the next time you need to talk to someone, text us.
	Talkspace.
	Therapy for how we live today.
	This is like Miss Lulu's psychic hotline.
	Yeah.
	But these are licensed therapists, apparently.
	They say.
	They're platform.
	And, you know, the kids can talk to their therapist whenever they want to.
	And it's cheap.
	It's reasonably affordable.
	It's pretty much $120 a month, but you can text your therapist.
	Kind of high.
	What more do you want?
	It's not as high as an actual therapist, which is $150 an hour.
	Yeah.
	For people who probably don't need any therapy or they just need a dog.
	Or a goat.
	Or a llama.
	Anything.
	Oh, God.
	Again, I'm going right back to the 1954 report and what began a long time ago, which is pulling the rug out of the foundations of American society by changing the way we think.
	It's not working.
	It's backfiring and people are getting ill.
	Yeah, and it's going to get worse.
	And with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage and say in the morning to you, John C. U.S.E. stands for Concepts of Well-Being, Dvorak.
	In the morning to you, Mr.
	Adam Curry.
	Also in the morning to all the ships at the sea, the subs in the water, the dames and the knights out there, and everybody in between.
	In the morning to the troll room, noagendastream.com.
	Good to have you guys here, as always.
	You've been better, but we'll just have to live with it.
	In the morning to, specifically, comic strip blogger, Who brought us the artwork for episode 9 or 9 or 0?
	Title of that episode was Skinfolk.
	And this was a nice piece of art.
	He had a woman with a silhouette of a hand touching her butt.
	And it was in a big circle with a no-go zone with a big red stripe through it.
	Yeah, it was simple and it worked.
	It did work.
	It was very nice.
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	And now, in our value-for-value model, we want to thank some of our executive producers and associate executive producers who have helped produce this show.
	Yeah, it starts off with a guy who pretty much produced the show by himself, Sir Fing Niels Bonnaker in Deutschland.
	Hello, Deutschland!
	Came in with $3,330.91.
	Whoa!
	What?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, we need more of that, by the way.
	Hey, Avon and Stringer, he writes.
	When I started listening to you guys about five years ago, I was still scared and angry while reading or watching the news.
	Thanks to you, I'm now enjoying the hell out of the current state of the world and even laugh about it while most of the people around me recite the latest headlines in shock and horror.
	You've taught me how to be more perceptive of my surroundings.
	Thank you also for the many book recommendations like Adam's Professor Ted or John's Mr.
	Eluel.
	They have changed my life.
	Some trumped-up jobs karma would be nice since I'll start a new career in January, which is also kind of your doing in part, but thank God it's not in podcasting.
	So here, way...
	So here's your cut of my severance pay.
	Oh, thank you.
	This donation will make me a baron accounting below since you love them puns so much.
	I'd like to be dubbed Sir Fing, the baron wasteland.
	Sir Fing.
	I get it.
	The baron wasteland.
	It's a stretch, he says.
	All the best from Deutschland.
	P.S. In my honest opinion, the Aufwachen podcast are not anywhere near a German no agenda, mainly because of their black and white thinking, something that happens a lot with climate warriors leaning to the left.
	Weltraumaffen.
	The Weltraumaffen recommendation you did for a listener was spot on, though.
	Oh, okay.
	I don't remember that.
	I don't remember that either.
	I'm sure we did it.
	Well, this is fantastic.
	And yeah, he pretty much did produce the whole show.
	My goodness.
	Thank you very much, Sir.
	Well, he's not Sir Fing yet, right?
	He's going to be knighted.
	And baronighted.
	He's going to be baronighted today.
	Yeah, baronighted.
	Beautiful, man.
	Thank you so much.
	Jobs.
	Jobs.
	And jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	Yeah!
	You've got karma.
	Yes, thanks a lot.
	That was great.
	DeVoe, 594, which is also a big number and helps produce the show.
	Just finished Thursday's show, he writes.
	I drive up to the cabin.
	Wow!
	Tip of the hat to our No Agenda artists for the outstanding end of show tunes.
	And just as, oh my god, amazing, was how JCD and Adam kept dropping outstanding shows on us listeners.
	And where are the donations?
	Especially from northern Minnesota.
	You know who you are!
	I don't know.
	He knows.
	He knows for sure.
	With show 1000 looming, I'm seriously concerned that we might lose you two and decide to come up above the $50 mark, not only to finally receive my knighthood, please dub me Sir D. Vo of Duluth.
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	Knight of the shapeshifters.
	Okay.
	Sure thing, man.
	Sure thing.
	Whatever.
	But to encourage your listeners to become donors and supporting...
	And supporters.
	Consider how different your life would be if next week suddenly there was no longer another episode of the best podcast in the universe.
	Dramatic pause.
	Don't be a Scrooge this holiday season.
	Donate.
	My donation of 594 combines my favorite numbers.
	18 times 33.
	18 in Jewish gematria is...
	It's Kai for a live, long life, good luck to one and all, but especially my Jewish tribe for Hanukkah, and the 33 is the magic number, especially for those of us that are Scottish Rite Masons.
	These guys got it all going on.
	Lastly, a note on, except he's not a Rhodes Scholar.
	Lastly, a note on hegemony.
	Perhaps the war between the sexes is not only a clever way to undermine the male ethos, those That would most likely rise up against the corruption of the powerful few, but also a short-term solution to population control, at least until Elon Musk deploys his army of autonomous sex robots.
	I wonder if he will extend the battery life in certain emergencies.
	The guy's full of material here.
	It's good.
	I like it.
	It's not bad.
	But I digress.
	Our current news cycle reminds me of how Joe Jackson's song A real man closes out.
	And if there's a war between the sexes, then there'll be no people left.
	And so it goes, go around again, but now and then we wonder who the real men are.
	P.S. Karma is for all my dudes named Ben and Bernadette that are taking my exams this week.
	He's also a professor, I guess, or a teacher.
	All the best.
	Via Divio in Duluth.
	Thank you very much, sir.
	And so, does he become a...
	What does he become today?
	Looks like he's on the list for...
	Yeah, he will become...
	Yeah, he's going to become a knight.
	Yeah, got it.
	Okay, here's some karma.
	You've got karma now.
	Not to be outdone, we do have a jingle that we're supposed to play in these instances where we have a Grand Duke.
	Oh.
	Do we have his?
	Yeah, we must have his.
	Yeah.
	Sorry.
	You know, I'm now having the same spreadsheet scrolling problem that you've had.
	Ah, you're on a Windows machine.
	Thanks, Obama.
	It's oozing Soros.
	No, that's not it.
	Melanson, right?
	Yeah.
	Hmm.
	Well, you read the jingle.
	Sir Dwayne Melanson Grand Duke in Tigard, Oregon.
	56789, which is up there with the better donors and a number I like.
	Ladies and gentlemen, I present the Grand Duke of the Pacific Northwest, Sir Dwayne Melanson.
	There you go.
	I like that one.
	That's a good one.
	Yeah.
	ITM, gents.
	Seems like the folks treat your anniversary like they treat wedding anniversaries.
	Give a gift and forget about it for a year.
	That's about right.
	That's funny.
	Here's a nice winner value contribution in return for the excellent programs of late.
	A jobs, karma, and any Sharpton.
	Okay, some jobs.
	Jobs.
	And jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	There's no real conflict!
	You've got karma.
	I should go up there and visit, because we have a couple of people up in...
	Yes, we should.
	Yes, we should.
	Definitely.
	Well, I was thinking just going up there and doing some wine tasting.
	There's a lot of cool wineries up in that area.
	A lot of them.
	Pinot Noir joints.
	Sir Sean Earl of Federal Reserve.
	It's funny.
	You go up there to these little Pinot places, especially the better ones, and they have all these...
	There's very much like, almost Burgundian in the way they approach the wine.
	They have like a couple Pinots that they sell that you can probably get in California if you search around enough.
	But when you go to these tastings, they have like one barrel of this and a small half barrel of this.
	They don't make enough except for the tasting.
	No, it's small batch.
	Small batch.
	Small batch.
	Yep, there you go.
	Oregonian small batches.
	Yep.
	Sir Sean, Earl of Federal District Reserve 7, 34567.
	Sir Sean, in memory of my father, my original media deconstructor.
	Keep up the good work, NJNK. NJNK. Thank you very much, Sir Sean.
	Yeah, thank you.
	And on to Paul Patrick Wicking, who came in with 33333.
	I sent out this year with a goal of providing what I think is a value model.
	I can take one to knighthood fast.
	Since show 900, I've donated a dollar amount equal to the show number.
	So for show 900, that'd be $9, then 901, then 902, etc.
	My goal was to do this for 100 shows and then gloat about it.
	I failed.
	Oh, no.
	Yeah.
	Well, I don't know what kind of a project that was to fail at, but he did.
	Back in October, I got a new job and I spent some amazing days in Venice with my girlfriend.
	Ah, there goes the money.
	Hold on one second.
	I'm talking about my scrolling issue.
	There must be a way to...
	Are you on Microsoft, what, Excel?
	No, I use one of these crappy things.
	Oh, because Excel is doing this continuously.
	Ah, good.
	Well, then I'm glad.
	Now I know that my crappy thing is not as crappy as I thought.
	No, it's still pretty crappy.
	In Venice with my girlfriend, when I got back to work, everything was in chaos as one of my friends and colleagues abruptly passed away during the absence.
	It never rains, but it pours.
	So I ended up forgetting about my donations pledged to myself.
	This donation seeks to rectify that and includes each show from $9.78 to $1,227.47.
	Even though it says 3333333.
	I decided to round it up to get the executive donation.
	Merry Xmas and shit.
	This donation brings me to a total of 1477.46.
	I've earlier requested my knighthood in a couple of emails to Adam at Curry.com.
	John, apparently.
	And that included a counting spreadsheet.
	If I'm to be knighted, Adam probably said no.
	What?
	John?
	What?
	Asked if I'd be knighted, and Adam promptly said no.
	Oh, on show 969.
	Okay, we discussed this, I see.
	Well, it wasn't out of meanness.
	I don't know if it qualifies me as a black knight.
	Well, if he can prove it.
	Yeah, I think so.
	Let's make him a black knight.
	Yeah, it seems like it, yeah.
	Yeah, the title I humbly accept says go on.
	He wants to be Sir Wow's...
	Wow's such...
	Wow, such namaste.
	Wow, such namaste.
	Namaste.
	Wow, such namaste.
	Night of contemporary art.
	Yeah, got it.
	Okay.
	Step up your game, man.
	Finally, I'd like to call out Mr.
	Andreas Winklemeyer, the HR person from hell, as the biggest tool I've met so far in my professional life.
	I hope I have a good fortune of never working with this guy again.
	Well...
	Take out your personnel grudges someplace else.
	As always, thanks for an absolutely outstanding product, and please accept my apology for this long note.
	Not a problem, and you will be knighted later today as a black knight.
	Going to give you a de-douching.
	You've been de-douched.
	You've got karma.
	Dynamite.
	Michael Harrington.
	We have a lot of good donors today, so this will be a nice long segment.
	Michael Harrington, and we did, I have a note from somebody who says they love this segment.
	Michael Harrington, $333 from Grand Canyon, Arizona.
	This is the guy who has a place, $333 he's donated.
	Will you share my meal, my email address during the show, and mention that my place at the Grand Canyon is available free of charge to no-agenda producers?
	Mm-hmm.
	Keep up the great work.
	I'm going to read his email address.
	Yeah, it's an interesting one.
	So you can record it or play it back.
	I'm not going to read it over and over.
	Michael, M-I-C-H-A-E-L dot J dot Harrington, H-A-R-R-I-N-G-T-O-N, one, number one, at gmail.com.
	Okay, now you can put him on the spam list.
	Anyway, we welcome.
	That's a very nice offer, by the way.
	That's a great offer, yeah.
	But since you said, make sure, yeah.
	Yeah, just get a hold of me if you want to stay at the Grand Canyon.
	And then report back so we'll know if it's a place we want to stay.
	Yes, and thank you so much for your courage and for your support of the best podcast in the universe.
	We have a jingle for our next donor somewhere, the song from the church.
	Yes, we do.
	I'm behind today, but let me see.
	Well, my favorite one is this one.
	Noose Bomb!
	Noose Bomb!
	Archduke Noose Bomb.
	Virginia Beach, Virginia, 247.
	Archduke Nussbaum sends love and kisses from Iowa.
	The 247 is winnings from a great streak of runs on 33 on the roulette wheel.
	Nice.
	Thank you.
	Excellent.
	Karen Samuel, Colorado Springs, $230.
	ITM and happy holidays.
	This is my birthday donation as I complete year 49 on Tuesday the 19th.
	Do we have her on the birthday list?
	I do not think so.
	I think so.
	This is Dame Karen.
	Yeah.
	Joy to the Gitmo Nation.
	Happy to you.
	Dame Karen, Baronet of Cimarron Hills.
	I should have put that up there.
	Let me see.
	Oh, she's not on there.
	Interesting.
	Okay.
	Yes.
	I have her here.
	Got it.
	Looks like it's in yellow.
	Yeah, I got her.
	I got her.
	Sir Zog of Elwood in Elwood, Illinois, 28749.
	I've been remiss in my donations for a while, but I'm back on board.
	I received a private bat signal from my friend Brian Williams, Sir Brian Green, Knight of the Hams.
	No, KC9YJM73s.
	And I want to direct every bit of karma I can towards his job search and hope he gets back into the Chicago area.
	If I could get a double karma for Brian, that would be appreciated.
	If I could get my barrenhood acknowledged as Sir Zog of Elwood, Baron of Des Plaines River Valley.
	I would greatly appreciate it.
	Sir Zog of Elwood, KC9, Y-J-Y-I. I can't tell.
	Y-I-Y, over and out for now.
	Yes.
	73s, kilo 5, alpha, Charlie, Charlie.
	I'll hit you with the service code, Karma, instead of two Karmas.
	You've got...
	Karma.
	Onward.
	Onward to $200 with Caitlin Williams in Silver Springs, North Carolina.
	ITM gents, shows lately have been dynamite as usual, but I hate seeing donations drop off.
	So here I am.
	I just ordered from Lavender Blossoms and I'm so excited for my CBD tincture.
	Just don't tell my boss.
	Can I get some...
	Okay.
	Can I get some job and moving karma as I'll be doing both next month?
	Also, the F Cancer Karma works.
	My mom was declared disease-free this week.
	Woo!
	Nice!
	Done!
	Dame Nurse Catelyn of the Flat Earth.
	That's Dame Catelyn to you.
	Yes.
	Wait, Karma, Karma, Karma.
	Oh, yes, sorry.
	You've got Karma.
	Actually, some jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	You've got karma.
	There we go.
	Corrected on the fly.
	Mr.
	Foxbat of the Crypto Knights, 200.
	It was my birthday this week, so I thought I'd celebrate by donating to my favorite podcast.
	Thanks so much for the twice-weekly dosage of sanity that the show provides.
	In addition to the birthday shot, could you play the mac and cheese song on any Pastor Manning clip?
	Thank you.
	And Merry Christmas to you both, Sir Foxbat, the Crypto Knight.
	Do we have a special request for Manning?
	Which one should we do?
	Just anything.
	I don't know.
	Just play the...
	I'd like to hear the Mac Daddy thing, which I haven't heard forever.
	Okay.
	It's a short version.
	Yeah, let me see.
	I have the Mac Daddy.
	Yeah, it's very short.
	Anna Karma?
	Anything else there?
	No, it's a mac and cheese song.
	Oh, mac and cheese, right.
	Okay.
	He's a mac daddy!
	Living the mac and cheese life.
	Mac and cheese by Ayn Rand.
	You've got karma.
	Sir Patrick Knight of the SoCal Hills.
	200 bucks.
	This is a Merry Christmas donation to you both.
	I wanted to make sure we shake the rain sticks for Santa Barbara, other Southern California.
	You know, they still didn't work for that area.
	Nobody's got their...
	They're not playing this podcast down there.
	So do you think we should not do it?
	I'm a little wary now.
	The last time we did it, it snowed everywhere, including Texas.
	Well, I think it was funny that it snowed in Texas.
	So I think we should...
	How about a double shake?
	Just two.
	Double shake?
	Okay.
	One flip.
	One flip?
	Okay.
	In three, two, one.
	All righty.
	Alrighty.
	On your authority, your responsibility.
	Well, you can send the emails to me.
	As the fires need to be put out in that area, please do this immediately so we can get the rain needed to save the real estate.
	John Adam, I'll be contacting you both in the next few years as I will be visiting the Bay Area and Austin to meet up you both in person.
	I will come with cash blessings and expected to be showered with the truths of this world.
	You get the showering on the show.
	Have a Merry Christmas.
	Actually, we're kind of dull otherwise.
	Have a Merry Christmas and keep up the media deconstruction.
	We all rely on you both to stay informed and sane in this wild time of life.
	Sir Patrick of the SoCal Hills.
	Thank you very much, Sir Patrick.
	Last but not least is Oleg Nakini.
	$200.
	He's in Tennessee, I think.
	From, or it says PDX. PDX is Portland, I believe.
	Please de-douche me and my son Oscar.
	This is our second time.
	Hold on.
	You've been de-douched.
	There you go.
	This is our second time donating and listening since episode one, True Story.
	But the first time we donated was during the Bogoff event.
	It was pretty hectic at the time.
	We don't want to bother you twos with all that sentimental stuff.
	Please play these jingles.
	I got ants?
	Okay.
	Huh.
	Thanks, Obama.
	Why are you roughing?
	Don't ruff.
	Shut up.
	I know what he wants.
	I can't play the whole...
	It's not really a jingle.
	It's more like a song, but it's always nice just to hear the intro.
	I got ants.
	I got ants.
	Yeah!
	Thanks, Obama.
	Uh.
	I don't know if we had ants.
	Don't shut up!
	Why are you all up here?
	Shut up!
	Shut up!
	Karma.
	Yay!
	That was nicely done.
	That's not bad.
	He's telling me to shut up, and I don't, and he says shut up again.
	I shut up.
	Yeah, perfect.
	I couldn't have done it better myself.
	Yeah, and you did.
	Hey, everybody.
	That concludes our well-wishers and executive, associate executive producers for show 991.
	Yes.
	Nine to go.
	And thank you very, yes, T-9 of the best podcasts in the universe to episode 1000.
	Thank you for coming in and helping us out.
	It's our value for value model.
	It really works very simply.
	I've explained it to many people over the years.
	You listen to the show.
	Was it valuable to you?
	How much was that worth to you?
	And then you tell us, you give it to us, or you contribute value in other ways with information, clips, artwork.
	It's all a part of one big no agenda family and community.
	With another show coming up on Thursday, remember us at dvorak.org slash n-a.
	But for today, you know your job as a producer.
	You've got to be out there propagating our formula.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Real.
	World.
	Order.
	Shut up, Blake.
	Yay!
	Shut up, Blake.
	There you go.
	Did we play the Dodd?
	I'm sorry, because I've lost track of which clip was which, but did we play the Dodd Un-American?
	No, we did not.
	No, we didn't.
	Should we play that right away?
	Okay, this was, yeah, let me just back it up and say this was a part of that report again that we were talking about, but Dodd, this was kind of a preamble to what they were trying to do with the...
	With this report.
	What were some of the details, the specifics, that you told the committee at that time?
	Well, Mr.
	Griffin, in that report, I specifically, number one, defined what was, to us, what was meant by the phrase un-America.
	And we defined that in our way as being...
	A determination to effect changes in the country by unconstitutional means.
	We have plenty of constitutional procedures, assuming that we wish to effect a change in the form of government or that sort of thing, and therefore any effort in that direction which did not avail itself of the procedures which were authorized by the Constitution What could be justifiably called un-American.
	That was the start of educating them up to that particular point.
	The next thing was to educate them as to the effect on the country as a whole of the activities of large endowed foundations over the then past 40 years.
	What was that effect?
	That effect was to orient our educational system away from support of the principles embodied in the Declaration of Independence and implemented in the Constitution.
	I'm glad you played that as kind of a key clip for the whole series.
	And what does it remind me of when I hear that clip?
	Gun control.
	Yeah.
	Hey, you want gun control?
	Yeah, yeah.
	Pass an amendment.
	It's interesting you bring that up because there was a big study done in Australia.
	I had this actually for Thursday's show.
	I didn't get to it.
	Let me bring this up here.
	They did a...
	Now, this was...
	Was it 20 years ago, I think, that the...
	It was in the 90s, actually.
	Yeah, on April 28th, I think, was the 20th anniversary of the Port Arthur massacre.
	And after that, Australians said, everyone hand in your guns.
	They bought them back, I guess.
	They bought the guns back from the Australians.
	And as it turns out, there's been pretty much no difference in gun-related homicide in Australia in the 20 years since the guns were taken away or given up.
	Where was this report?
	Well, it's not going to be something that gets a lot of attention.
	This was actually from the Australian version of kind of a Snopes.
	It's called Fact Check.
	Well, this report comes from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
	This page that I'm reading right now.
	I guess they Fact Check.
	Experts consulted by FactCheck said the impact of Mr. Howard's reforms and any declines is highly debatable.
	And there's a lot of backup information, a lot of data sources.
	But it really just didn't make much of a difference, not much of a dent at all, in firearm deaths in Australia.
	Now, you're wondering why you haven't heard about this?
	Seriously?
	No, I'm just...
	Yeah, I'm really wondering why we've never heard of this.
	How is that possible?
	I don't understand it.
	And now it's time for your sexual harassment update.
	That's right, everybody!
	The hashtag MeToo movement drives forward.
	I have two clips when you're ready.
	Let me see what I had here.
	Well, just to set us into the mood, I thought I'd play...
	Although it was your beat initially...
	I'm going to play a little promo from a movie from the 1960s.
	1960s, this is just around the time I was born.
	It's really not that long ago.
	Or is that really a long time ago?
	I think it's a long time ago, by today's standards.
	This is a fabulous movie.
	Tina and I may even watch it tonight.
	It is Connie Francis.
	In Where the Boys Are.
	Yes!
	A classic, classic.
	Listen to the dialogue of this movie from 1960.
	From my youth.
	...the nation, Connie Francis, who falls for a nearsighted purveyor of something called dialectic jazz.
	Give me a refrain on my phone.
	They come from everywhere.
	With everyone's approach.
	You have just saved the life of D.B. Thompson, junior class, Michigan State.
	This guy believes in the direct approach.
	Now take sex.
	Well...
	Even the Ivy Leaguers get into the act, with a big yacht no less.
	Would you like to stay aboard tonight?
	That's probably about the coolest approach I've ever had.
	Each girl has her own approach to love.
	That's my ambition, to be a walking, talking baby factory.
	Legal, of course, and with union labor.
	Honestly, doctor, if a girl doesn't make out with a man once in a while, she might as well leave campus.
	I should like to know what making out means, and so would the class.
	Well, I... Dr.
	Roger, I think they know already.
	It was a proddy delight with a memorable title song that hits just the right note.
	Where the boys are, someone waits for...
	Get those lungs.
	It hasn't anything to do with the lungs.
	You gotta give in one time.
	You gotta turn on the sunshine.
	Push those blues away.
	Where the boys are, that's for me.
	I wish I had a better copy of that.
	Yeah, it was terrible.
	But it was a good clip.
	I'd almost give you a clip of the day except for the fact you walked into my beat and stole that clip.
	You're slacking.
	You're falling down on the job, man.
	You walked right into the house, saw the clip.
	I was ready to use it.
	You did not have that clip.
	You stole it.
	Okay, sure.
	I got some real sexual harassment news besides putting some rosin on my bow.
	Oh, hey now!
	You heard that in there, didn't you?
	Yeah, of course.
	Phrase from the Shays.
	Yeah, very nice to bring it back.
	Look at those lungs!
	Look at those lungs!
	Good times, everybody.
	Good times.
	Yeah, those days are over.
	Now it's hate.
	Hate.
	Freaking the white house.
	Yeah, we used to just compliment women on their lungs and now it's just hate.
	So the Department of Interior apparently was like the Department of Homeland Security when Napolitano was running it.
	It was just a mess, a hotbed of sexual harassment, and they put the kibosh on it finally.
	This is a sexual harassment report based on that theme of yours.
	Department of Interior, let's catch up.
	The U.S. Department of Interior says it is taking action after a new survey found that one in three of its employees said they had been harassed or discriminated against at work.
	Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke fired four senior officials over inappropriate behavior, including sexual misconduct.
	In a video message, Zinke said it's time to acknowledge that his department has a problem.
	The survey shows that harassment, intimidation, and discrimination have been a common practice at Interior.
	Damn!
	A culture that tolerates such behavior tarnishes our noble mission of stewardship and breaches public trust.
	I'm speaking today to make it clear that the culture of harassment and intimidation which this administration inherited has come to an end.
	Huh.
	Yeah, it goes on and on.
	The whole thing, the report goes longer.
	And yeah, apparently Interior was just rife.
	Well, and then I'm sure it's not the only department that has that problem.
	I'm sure they all do.
	But especially the Forest Service, the guys who were the park rangers.
	Oh.
	I guess that was a real...
	Well, you're in the woods, you never know.
	Anything can happen in the woods.
	Yeah, bears.
	Bears.
	So, and then I got my second harassment report, which is just piling on poor Dustin Hoffman.
	Movie actor Dustin Hoffman is facing more allegations of sexual misconduct.
	Variety first reported a playwright claimed that Hoffman exposed...
	Is it just me, or is Judy, like, out of breath?
	Do you hear that?
	Do you notice that?
	Well, I didn't notice it, but now I will.
	Movie actor Dustin Hoffman is facing more allegations of sexual misconduct.
	Variety first reported a playwright claimed that Hoffman exposed himself to...
	She can't even say...
	A playwright claimed...
	She has to breathe between a playwright claimed and then Dustin Hoffman.
	She can't even make it through that.
	I think she's...
	I'm concerned.
	I'm concerned.
	You think it's compression, maybe?
	That's what I thought at first, but...
	Well, I'm going to start paying attention to it now.
	You know what, John?
	Just take a look at her lungs.
	Yeah, there you go.
	Hoffman exchanged himself to her in a hotel room in 1980 when she was 16.
	Two other women alleged that he sexually assaulted them during the filming of the movie Ishtar.
	His lawyer responded, calling the claims, quote, defamatory falsehoods.
	In all, six women have accused the actor of impropriety.
	Yeah, and the question is, do you think he's going to get a pass?
	No.
	He's too old.
	Oh, so, well, what do you mean?
	Too old?
	He won't get a pass, but they won't condemn him?
	Well, he's not, no.
	Well, he's 80.
	And I believe he's not going to work anymore.
	That's what I believe.
	And I think Spacey, for example, probably won't work for 10 years.
	Oh, no, it's worse.
	It's worse.
	The New York Times had an article yesterday about Spacey.
	It's called The Race to Erase Kevin Spacey.
	Yeah, he was slated for another movie, a Ridley Scott movie.
	I don't remember what it was, but they reshot 22 scenes with Christopher Plummer to replace Kevin Spacey.
	That movie's out.
	That's the movie about the kidnapping of John Paul Gettys.
	Oh, it's out.
	I didn't realize.
	I didn't realize.
	Yeah, they really cranked it out fast.
	My God, that must have cost a lot of money.
	Yes, especially with Plummer knowing that they have him by the nuts.
	But I've seen the scenes from the movie, which they have in trailers, and I know who the character is supposed to be.
	I don't see how you could have a better actor for this than Christopher Plummer.
	I mean, I think Space is a great actor.
	Yeah, they should have gotten Plummer in the first place.
	Yeah, because Plummer plays a perfect jerk.
	You know what?
	Maybe, how about this?
	Maybe they're looking at this movie.
	I'm Ridley Scott for a moment.
	I'm going...
	That's not right.
	We should have, damn it, we should have had Plummer.
	I know.
	Let's tell everybody we're going to get Spacey out because, and then that'll be a good ruse to get Plummer in.
	I can't put it past someone to think that way.
	I don't think so.
	I honestly don't believe that happened, but it's a good bit.
	And Plummer looks like a winner.
	He got nominated for an Academy Award, I believe.
	They just threw him into the movie at the last minute just to reshoot the, what, 25 scenes?
	Yeah.
	Well, who knows?
	But he's, yeah, I think Spacey's done for, I don't know how he's going to recover because, you know, the gay community hates him for not being gay enough.
	Not being a good gay, I think was the term.
	Yeah, a good gay.
	It wasn't a good gay.
	And so I think he's got serious issues with his career.
	So there's an online petition to remove a very disturbing piece of artwork by Baltus from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
	And the piece is Teresa Dreaming.
	Which, you should really look at it for context.
	I'm going to go look at it now.
	It's T-H-E-R-E-S-E with a lot of accents.
	Dreaming.
	It's from 1938 by Baltus.
	B-A-L-T-H-U-S. And it shows a young girl relaxing, hands on top of her head, and she has one foot up, so her skirt is hiked up, her dress, and you see her underwear.
	You see her crotch.
	It's a very suggestive piece.
	But now they had thousands of signatures.
	This is wrong.
	This can't be hanging in public.
	I'm looking at it now.
	Have they ever seen the naked artwork that's in the museum?
	I mean, there's naked people in the museum.
	Shocker!
	But no, this is because I guess she looks like a 20-year-old to me.
	Her age doesn't make any difference in this piece.
	It's not a dirty piece.
	Well, they're insinuating pedophilia and creepy.
	They're calling her pubescent, supposedly.
	Yeah, that would be it, then.
	There was a picture of this, I mean, this began a long time ago, this sort of craziness, when, you know, they were requiring some museums.
	A lot of this has to do with the Muslim community.
	Yeah.
	They were requiring covering up the naked bodies of certain statues.
	Yeah, oh, that's, in Amsterdam, that's everywhere.
	The Homo Monument, that's what it's called, the Homo Monument.
	Nah, everything's covered.
	There's any statues that have been either taken down or, you know, they've Change names of streets.
	It's insane.
	Insane.
	I believe it was in 19...
	I think it was the 73 Mouton Rothschild label.
	I'd have to look up the date, but I'm pretty sure it was 1973.
	This is how far back it goes.
	There was a pen and ink drawing by some famous artist.
	Let's see, 1973, Mouton.
	While you're looking that up, here's the actual quote from the petition.
	The Met is perhaps unintentionally supporting voyeurism and the objectification of children.
	That's what the claim is.
	And the woman who claimed this is someone who works in HR, a financial firm.
	Yeah.
	Okay, it wasn't the 73.
	Let me see.
	What is censored Mouton label?
	Let me get it that way.
	Anyway, there was this label.
	It was a pen and ink drawing of a kid naked, kind of, because it was just a drawing, you know, just a study of a figure study in pen and ink.
	It wasn't anything even remotely erotic.
	It was the 93 Mouton.
	Hmm.
	And that was also done by Balthus.
	What?
	Oh, okay.
	There you go.
	We have a love connection.
	That's interesting, if true.
	So they were out to get this guy as far back as 93.
	We probably need to look into his background.
	Yeah, there's something up there.
	He was probably a Confederate or Republican.
	No way, he's French.
	He's French.
	He's a Republican.
	Get rid of him.
	Things not too good in Scandinavia either.
	Now to another developing story tonight.
	A top Canadian gymnastics official is on bail after being charged with multiple sexual offenses.
	Police in Sarnia, Ontario say Dave Brubaker faces 10 counts for sexual assault, sexual exploitation and sexual interference.
	Brubaker was Canada's head gymnastics coach at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
	More recently, he was the women's national team director for Gymnastics Canada.
	The organization has placed him on leave and issued this statement.
	Our first priority within Gymnastics Canada is always the safety of our athletes.
	We're working hard to ensure that we have the policies and procedures as well as the education and resources in place to ensure the safety of all of our participants.
	Now, this falls under the, by coincidence, falls under the sexual harassment update, but this is something completely different.
	So, too, a judge in Chicago has ordered former Speaker of the House, Dennis Hastert, to never be left alone with anyone under 18 unless another adult is present who is aware of his conviction in a hush money case that revealed he had sexually abused several high school students.
	What?
	Bunch of creeps!
	Well, what are you going to do?
	Well, keep talking about it.
	What else?
	I mean, there's not much I can do per se, but geez, man, this is sick.
	How about the...
	Yeah, those are definitely bad.
	The Kansas...
	The woman who dropped out of the race, I think it was a congressional race in Kansas...
	No, I don't know anything about this.
	Andrea Ramsey?
	Yeah.
	So Andrea Ramsey is getting ready to run in the race.
	Actually, just listen to her as she's talking to some local news reporter about why she has to run.
	And she's so brave for running.
	She's talking about anybody who runs, but she's really talking about herself.
	Well, first of all, as I alluded to earlier, I think it takes some courage to step up.
	And enter a race.
	And so I completely respect everyone who's thrown their hat in the ring.
	I respect them highly.
	I respect them, including myself.
	From those gentlemen you named.
	Yes, you are.
	I bring completely different things to the party.
	She talks like this.
	You should see her.
	She was at a Resist event.
	I didn't put that in the clip.
	She was in the Resist event and people came over and were crying on her shoulder and it was so emotional.
	She had to run.
	...this woman, as are some of my other opponents.
	In addition, I'm a successful lawyer.
	In addition, I'm a community advocate, a healthcare advocate, an education advocate with extremely deep roots in the community.
	In addition to that, my most important job title, at least to me, is I'm a mom.
	I raise my kids in the community.
	I have connections in the community.
	And so I bring a completely different perspective.
	Completely different perspective.
	Big deal.
	Yes, but she has dropped out of the race.
	It has come to light that in 2015 at the firm she worked at, she had sexually harassed a man on a business trip, and when he denied her advances, she penalized him in the workplace.
	And he was paid.
	He was paid from the company.
	And obviously she's refuting this and said, if I'd known that I would be attached to it, it was the company.
	She has a whole bunch of excuses.
	But she's a meanie.
	A meanie.
	What else are you going to call her?
	A sexual predator is what she is.
	There you go, that's what she is.
	A sexual predator.
	There's women who are sexual predators.
	I mean, it's not, like, impossible.
	No.
	No, just, you know, this is an update, so, you know, we're just making sure we have a record of it all.
	Yes.
	And Doug Jones, very classy, taking the high road, gotta hand it to Doug Jones.
	We know that he won because the African Americans of Alabama remember the work that he did as Attorney General to bring justice six decades after the atrocities of the bombing of the church in Alabama.
	Yes.
	And he was goaded on by Jake Tapper.
	To say, hey, you know, shouldn't the president resign?
	Shouldn't the president get out of here?
	He's an a-hole.
	Props to Doug Jones.
	Where's Doug?
	Here he is.
	In the wake of Al Franken's resignation, some of your Democratic colleagues have been calling for President Trump to resign because of the allegations against him, including Senator Cory Booker, Democrat of New Jersey, who recently campaigned for you in Alabama.
	Take a listen to Senator Booker.
	Clearly, we have a standard in which Al Franken is resigning, that has had multiple more women come with a very clear fact pattern, and he should do the right thing and resign.
	Do you agree with Senator Booker that President Trump should resign because of these allegations?
	You know, Jake, where I am on that right now is that those allegations were made before the election.
	And so people had an opportunity to judge before that election.
	I think we need to move on and not get distracted by those issues.
	Let's get on with the real issues that are facing people of this country right now.
	And I don't think that the president ought to resign at this point.
	We'll see how things go.
	But certainly those allegations are not new.
	And he was elected with those allegations at front and center.
	I guess the question is why should Al Franken resign if there are even more horrific allegations about President Trump and no one is calling for him to step down?
	Well, again, I go back to the fact that those allegations were made and he was elected president of the United States.
	And I think the American people spoke on that at this time.
	There's other things out there.
	But I think at this point, we need to move on and try to work with some real issues that are facing the country and not worry about getting at odds with the president any more than we have to.
	Classy.
	I'm impressed.
	What is Tapper talking about?
	There's nobody advocating that Trump resign?
	I think he means on the...
	It's not true, but I think he means purely from the Republican Party or someone of merit from the Republican Party.
	Cory Booker?
	Cory Booker?
	Rhodes Scholar.
	Oh, yes.
	Another one of those guys.
	Well, the kicker to this, and it's been...
	Is the Daily Wire, do we respect that at all?
	I don't have it on my list of...
	Let me look at my respect list.
	It's not on there, but maybe we do.
	Check the list of respect!
	We don't have enough of a track record.
	An investigative reporter with the Daily Caller News Foundation.
	Oh, the Daily Callers.
	We respect them a bit.
	It's the Daily Wire.
	Yes, it's in the Daily Wire, but it starts off with an investigative reporter with the Daily Caller News Foundation.
	So I didn't realize that they're the ones that broke the story.
	Announced on Friday that Congress' human resource scandal is about to break wide open and predicts that over a dozen members of the House of Representatives will resign before the end of the year.
	Over harassment and secret settlements.
	Well, that's interesting.
	Well, these secret settlements are the problem because they had the Congress pay the money.
	Yeah.
	Taxpayer money for these settlements.
	If these guys had taken it out of their own pocket, this probably wouldn't be an issue.
	Right.
	Because they wouldn't have a record of it.
	So this is somebody who's going through the books is what's happening here.
	Could be.
	And you had mentioned, when we were talking about Tavis Smiley, that he's probably getting railroaded, but the main thing with him is that he and Cornel West were always on the show railing against Obama.
	Yes.
	And so if we look at the two factions in the Democratic Party, you've got the Obama Democrats, you've got the Clinton Democrats, Well, it dawned on me that, yeah, of course they had to slap Al Franken down, because he was rumored, at least heavily, to be a potential running mate in this past election, but certainly if there was going to be a 2020 with Hillary Clinton, he might be her running mate.
	Or he might be a candidate.
	A candidate, yes.
	An unallowed candidate.
	Yeah, but he's in the Hillary camp.
	I think so, yeah.
	Well, yes, so he had to go.
	Right, because they can't have that Hillary.
	The Hillary camp is making a mess, mainly because they think Hillary wants to run again.
	I think she does.
	And they've got to do everything they can to tamp down.
	Thwart it.
	Stop it.
	They have to thwart that, and that includes thwarting all the associates.
	And by the way, that Tapper thing was so disingenuous about, oh, Al Franken did it, so everybody has to do it.
	That's bull crap.
	Yes, he did it while he was in office.
	Besides the point, Al Franken could do what he wants.
	Al Franken doesn't have to listen to anybody.
	Al Franken didn't have to do that.
	He did a deal because they knew that it would put more pressure on the situation against Trump to get Judge Moore not elected, and it worked.
	Franken probably gets credit for that.
	But he fell on the sword.
	Yep.
	And I think he's an idiot.
	Well, he hasn't quite fallen on it yet.
	He's not gone.
	No, he's still there.
	He can still back out.
	In fact, there was a lot of thought that if Judge Moore got in, won the election, Franken would back out and stay in the Senate.
	That was what the word was.
	Oh.
	Because he said, well, it didn't do any good for them.
	If they don't have to quit, I don't have to quit.
	And so that's what was going to happen.
	But as soon as the other guy got in, now Franken has to quit.
	So he can say, well, I'm going to go when the president goes.
	He could pull that.
	I think it's too late for that.
	Well.
	I think he's good.
	If he doesn't go...
	I mean, he had his opportunity to do different things, but he obviously went along with what Chuck Schumer told him to do, and he quit.
	And so I think he's going to be forever known as the groping congressman.
	He's going to have a bad reputation in the history books, or a reputation for being an idiot, one of the two.
	And that's the end of him.
	They already picked a girl that's going to take his place.
	A teen or something.
	Ah, we live in interesting times.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, he says.
	And this concludes your sexual harassment update.
	That's right, everybody.
	On the cutting edge of the sexual harassment scandals, this is your no agenda show.
	I like the jingle.
	Yeah, it's nice.
	Yeah, it's short and sweet.
	Hey, just because you tracked this, just the other day in London, on the street, a man burst into flames.
	Spontaneous human combustion?
	Yes, sir.
	It's back on deck.
	Seventy-year-old unmarried former construction worker was engulfed in flames on a street in North London.
	Paramedics were called to attend a man on fire.
	Car, so train, we have a man on fire.
	Man on fire.
	Nolan suffered severe burns, was airlifted to a hospital.
	He died in the specialist burn unit, sadly, due to severe burn.
	Burns.
	Hello.
	No accelerants found on the body.
	No leads as to the reason he caught fire.
	Yeah.
	And according to his brother, Jimmy, he just went to go for a walk and burst into flames.
	Yeah, that's the way it works.
	Yeah.
	Usually it works in a big, comfortable, stuffy, overstuffed chair.
	Usually an overstuffed chair is the classic mechanism that somehow creates some magnetic thing or something, and you always burst into flames.
	For one thing, and you don't catch anything else on fire usually, but it's blue flames shoot from your stomach area, your stomach region, blue flames shoot out of you, and then you just burn to a crisp.
	Yeah.
	Usually into a pile of ashes.
	Very few people survive, and that guy did.
	I don't know.
	I guess maybe they tried rolling him or doing something to try to put out the flames.
	That might allow him to live instead of burn to a complete powder.
	A crisp.
	Yes, a crisp.
	Yeah, this has been documented for...
	I know this is the most cracked potty I get, but this has been documented for something like 500 years.
	The spontaneous human combustion?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	I first read about it when I was in college.
	At the university in a magazine called True Magazine, which was a kind of a very interesting magazine from Fawcett.
	And I don't know where it did kind of just died on the vine, but it had these fascinating articles about everything from the Hell's Angels at the L. Adobe in Oakland.
	And they all like to wear originals.
	It was a code word for a pair of jeans, bell-bottom jeans that everyone in the club peed on.
	And they got kind of hard and crusty, and that's what you'd wear.
	And you'd wear your originals.
	And there was a lot of other details in it that were kind of disgusting.
	But in that magazine, which someone must have a huge collection of these things that got to be valuable, there was a long exposition on spontaneous human combustion that I found fascinating.
	Well, we're just tracking it for you.
	Thanks.
	Go ahead.
	Well, I'm going to throw one at you.
	This is the thing that we've been waiting for.
	It also applies a little bit to that Facebook commentary.
	Cell phone dangers, finally.
	Oh.
	Okay.
	Yes.
	A recent study found 95% of Americans use cell phones.
	Now, California has put out groundbreaking guidelines to limit exposure to cell phone radiation.
	John Blackstone has more on this.
	California officials say the warning about keeping a cell phone pressed up against your ear was issued largely because radio frequency emissions could be damaging, particularly to children.
	Now children on average are starting at the age of 10 and using cell phones for a lot of activities.
	California's Department of Public Health recommends using the speakerphone or headphones.
	Sleeping at least an arm's length away from it and avoiding keeping it in your pocket.
	I'm not for the idea of using the headphones to be safe.
	You pretty much have just connected an antenna to your head.
	The move comes after a three-year-long legal battle by Joel Moskowitz, who forced the state to release a long secret study of cell phone risk.
	Certainly there are those who say this is going to cause panic.
	People are not going to give up these devices.
	That's not what we're seeking.
	What we're seeking is that people take the appropriate cautions and reduce their risk substantially.
	California's warning says that while the science is still evolving, some studies suggest a link between high cell phone use and brain cancer, lower sperm count, and headaches.
	This is just like the history of tobacco.
	Now, unlike cigarettes, cell phones are actually useful for something.
	Professor Stan Glantz uncovered long secret tobacco company research that revealed the dangers of smoking.
	He's watching the science on cell phones.
	The case is by no means closed yet, but there's certainly enough evidence to be concerned, to the point that I don't usually carry a cell phone.
	California is not alone in this warning.
	The Food and Drug Administration says on its website the risk is probably very small, but suggests using speaker mode or a headset.
	And Apple includes a warning of sorts on all iPhones, but it's not easy to find.
	You have to go to settings, general, about, down to the bottom here to legal, then to RF exposure, where finally Apple suggests using headphones or the speakerphone to reduce exposure to radio frequency emissions.
	Jeff?
	Huh.
	Well, there's a lot of talk now about 5G being extremely dangerous.
	This is the 24 gigahertz range.
	Yeah.
	It'll take a while before that's rolled out, but you're microwaving people at that point.
	Yeah.
	You can actually heat your brain.
	Yes, which is not healthy.
	But kind of the part that I have a problem with the report is that kids are rarely using the phones to call anybody with.
	Yeah, they're mostly texting.
	Yeah, texting, bagging, whatever they're doing.
	What's bagging?
	Face bagging, bagging.
	Oh, bagging.
	I never heard that one.
	In France, however, I got a report, they have now said, you know what, as of next year, all public schools, no cell phones in the school.
	You can have it, but you cannot use it in the class or during recess.
	Go outside, play.
	You're not allowed to use your cell phone.
	I think that's a plus.
	Pretty good, huh?
	Yeah.
	I wonder if there's going to be revolt.
	There would be in this country.
	People would be up in arms.
	And the schools would knuckle under.
	Yeah, they would.
	I think you're right.
	I got a little tidbit here for you.
	This is a Papa Murphy's commercial.
	What's Papa Murphy?
	It's a pizza chain, like Domino's.
	And in it, they make a bunch of assertions, but there's this comment about, I think it's bad cheese or...
	You can't get bad.
	Just play it and then I'll remember what it was when we played.
	It's a very short, it's like a 15 second commercial.
	Papa Murphy's Law of Unbaked.
	Who wants an unbaked pizza?
	You do.
	Because unbaked means unfrozen vegetables and unfaked cheese served unbelievably fresh from your oven.
	Home bake a large five meat stuffed pizza.
	Just $12.
	Papa Murphy's.
	Unsafe cheese.
	Did she say unsafe cheese?
	Yes!
	Let me listen again.
	Wait, hold on a second.
	I'm going to say, I've listened to this over and over and over again.
	All I hear is unsafe cheese.
	So you get uncooked vegetables, you get fresh vegetables instead of frozen or whatever.
	And you get unsafe cheese.
	I couldn't get past the word baked.
	I'm like, pizza?
	Baked?
	Yeah, this is a good commercial.
	Papa Murphy's Law of unbaked.
	Who wants an unbaked pizza?
	You do.
	Because unbaked means unfrozen vegetables and unfaked cheese served unbelievably fresh from your oven.
	Home bake a large five meat stuffed pizza.
	Just $12.
	Papa Murphy's.
	I don't know if she says unsafe.
	I'm not sure.
	What do you think she's saying then?
	Unfake?
	There's no word such as unfake.
	Oh, surprise, surprise.
	Ed Trollroom hears it as unfake as well.
	Listen to the beginning.
	Papa Murphy's Law of Unbaked.
	Who wants an unbaked pizza?
	You do.
	Because unbaked means unfrozen vegetables and unfake cheese.
	Okay.
	All right, they're right.
	It's unfake cheese, which is not a word.
	And what's it got to do with whether it's baked or not?
	If it's baked, pre-cooked, it's going to be the same unfake cheese.
	It makes a difference.
	I mean, it makes a difference with the vegetables because they're saying that if they're not frozen, they're not messed with, they're not, you know, screwed up.
	But cheese is cheese if it's unfake.
	Yeah.
	Well, it's an outrage.
	I thought they said unsafe.
	It is an outrage.
	This is an outrage, this product.
	I got a note from a comic strip blogger about Baltus.
	This could be a lead.
	Baltus was half Polish.
	Yes, he was.
	Klosowski.
	Well, it could be a Jew hate pole thing.
	If you look him up on the Wikipedia, he did a lot of dirty pictures.
	He's basically a...
	Pornographer.
	Pornographer of the art world.
	Excellent, excellent.
	Now, I only have one Bitcoin clip today.
	What is Bitcoin?
	It's gone over $19,000, I think.
	It's $50,000.
	Let me see what it really is.
	As of this moment, it is $19,220.
	It's fantastic.
	This thing is going parabolic.
	And that's not good.
	But in this report from CNBC, where people are worried about Bitcoin, and that's all they talk about all day on CNBC is Bitcoin.
	There is something in here that you predicted many, many moons ago, my friend.
	Bitcoin is a bubble.
	Maybe Bitcoin is a kind of a bubble.
	A dangerous speculative bubble.
	That might actually be true.
	This is Bitcoin's multiple price rise over the past three years.
	And this is eight other famous asset bubbles three years before they peaked and burst.
	Bitcoin is creeping right up to perhaps the most famous bubble of all, Tulip Mania.
	And to be fair, it does have all the big signs of a bubble.
	The rapid pace of movements, a whole lot of speculation without sufficient understanding of the risks, and people who wouldn't otherwise invest are looking to get their skin in the Bitcoin game.
	The CPOE, CME, and NASDAQ are even planning to launch Bitcoin futures.
	The same move the Dutch pulled just before the tulip crash in the 1630s.
	For every asset bubble, it's the same story.
	Otherwise level-headed people drive prices for a certain asset to unexplainable highs, whether that's the price of Beanie Babies, stocks, houses, or perhaps cryptocurrency.
	Since its inception, the price of Bitcoin has gone up almost 50-fold.
	If it were to maintain that same rate of growth, its market cap would eclipse the US economy in a few years from now.
	That's why some experts are saying that Bitcoin's rapid and accelerating price appreciation is unsustainable.
	What it comes down to is the rate of return.
	For stocks, that's the dividend.
	In real estate, we're looking at rent.
	With bonds, that's coupons.
	But for Bitcoin, there's actually zero intrinsic value.
	It generates no income aside from an expectation of more price appreciation.
	So it's valuable because people think it's valuable.
	And even if you don't buy into the whole bubble narrative, this veteran trader says the technicals don't lie.
	Bitcoin has gone parabolic, so that usually does not end well.
	It's pretty hard to ignore the math.
	The velocity of the move does indicate Bitcoin's price has gone parabolic, and, well, parabolic moves just don't last.
	That was in their report, the big explosion.
	That's where you got the word parabolic a few points ago.
	Yes.
	The intro to the clip is where I got it from.
	Now...
	First of all, they had Beanie Babies in there as a recognized asset bubble.
	I love that.
	As well they should.
	I just want to remind everybody, you early on said Bitcoin is the new Beanie Babies.
	Yeah, I did.
	I've said that since day one.
	Now, there's something that's going on that wasn't in that report or reflected in it, but I've noticed it a couple of times.
	There are people coming out of the woodwork, again, we're talking about rewriting history, Yeah, and well, what I didn't agree with in this report is to say that the Dutch opened up futures on tulips.
	That's not the story the way I have read it.
	I think this story is being rewritten as we speak for some reason.
	I don't know what the reason is.
	I mean, the way I understood it is the tulip craze was based on the fact...
	Well, I guess it was commodities, but it was really the first exchange where people were exchanging things on paper.
	There were contracts and not the goods itself.
	Yeah.
	Well, that's kind of like futures, I guess.
	Yeah, I guess it's kind of like futures.
	But I have other questions.
	So, you know, people are saying different things.
	I'm reading all that.
	We still don't know who actually invented this.
	You know, Satoshi Yakamaka Muko, whatever.
	In fact, Max Keiser, here's what he always says.
	And this is something that a number of our producers are saying to me.
	This is fantastic.
	We're sucking all the money out of the system, and it's all going into a system for the people.
	By the way, sound familiar?
	Globalist much?
	And I don't understand how that works, because if you say, they're not sucking the money out of the system.
	In fact, it's worse.
	You're saying, I have money in the system, and now I'm going to give that away for this over here, which is not in the system.
	But the money stays in the system.
	It's not like they took money, like dollars, out of the American economy and put it into Bitcoin.
	They just gave that money to someone else in the American economy and got Bitcoin for it.
	So I don't understand the idea of...
	I think your observation is correct.
	There's nothing to understand because it's nonsense.
	Where's Max come from by saying this stuff?
	I don't know what...
	Max is like a...
	I wonder if he's even invested in Bitcoin or kicking himself.
	He has his own cryptocurrency.
	He probably had the opportunity and bailed from Bitcoin when he noticed it went to five bucks.
	The thing is, he knows so well that people will place value on bullcrap because he started the Hollywood Exchange, which was a stock market based on celebrities.
	And you could invest in the celebrity and you'd get money.
	You'd put money in and you'd buy shares and it was very much like Bitcoin, just completely nothing.
	It was actually very similar to Bitcoin except that he was attached to it and could be busted by the government.
	I think the same thing could happen to Bitcoin if somebody knew who did it.
	That's all I think.
	I don't know.
	Well, how about this?
	I mean, first of all, the more I think about it, the more I'm thinking this is a globalist idea.
	Of everyone having the same money not controlled by, you know, banks.
	Or really just the globalists.
	Like, hey, we'll take all your money.
	Here's some Bitcoin.
	Here's some flashy, trinky stuff.
	Here's some mirrors.
	And some beads.
	And then goodbye.
	We pull the rug and you're all dead.
	If that was the point, if the point was to reinforce the banking system by screwing over everybody, one of the problems that came up on the DHM Plug show was people are taking out mortgages to buy Bitcoin.
	I've heard about this.
	This is not a good way to go.
	I mean, if you're going to be in real estate at all, mortgages, houses, property, anything like that, advertising, anything like that, you're in it for a purpose of making money on the upside of the real estate market.
	You're in one of the most conservative, but one of the, I think, one of the greatest investments you can be in in an economy that has systems in place to protect this investment, which our system does that very well.
	And you're in that, and why would you, it's like giving up on a great investment that's always going to pay off somehow, some way, in some form, because there's no extra, there's nothing, you can't make more real estate than there is.
	I mean, you can fill in the bay, maybe, and put a couple of houses on the landfill.
	But generally speaking, what's there is what's there, and it's fixed.
	It's fixed in this amount of real estate.
	Why would you get out of that to buy Bitcoin?
	Well, mania.
	I mean, yeah, sure.
	Maybe you could, if you're nimble, and by the way, this is the hardest thing as an investor to ever be, which is nimble.
	You get in low, you sell high.
	You get in Bitcoin at 12,000, you sell it at 20.
	Yeah, people do this.
	There are people that can pull that off.
	90% of the people, 99% of the people cannot pull that off.
	So don't try.
	Get in real estate, just sit on it.
	You've got a place to live.
	A different kind of cryptocurrency is the pot coin, as promoted by Dennis Rodman.
	A little unsure exactly what the pot coin does, but I guess it's another token or cryptocurrency.
	Yeah, I guess if you want to buy, I don't know.
	But Dennis Robman was sponsored by pot coin to go to North Korea again.
	Where's he going?
	Did he go?
	He just got back.
	I want to get a hold of him.
	I want to go.
	Well, he showed up on the Colbert show.
	In his potcoin.com t-shirt.
	And here's the intro.
	What is potcoin?
	It's a cryptocurrency.
	All right.
	Rule number one of endorsement strategy.
	Be able to pronounce what it is that you're endorsing.
	Cryptocurrency.
	That might be a good teaser for you there, Dennis.
	What is pot coin?
	It's a cryptocurrency.
	It's out of Montreal.
	A cryptocurrency like Bitcoin?
	Or something like that.
	And you use it to buy pot?
	Well, it's up to you.
	It's up to you.
	It's not called up to you coin.
	It's up to you coin, right?
	It's called pot coin.
	But it's legalized marijuana.
	What'd you say?
	Legalized marijuana, medical wise.
	Oh, okay, yeah.
	Because it's legal in 26 states now.
	You can just use regular coin for pot, mostly.
	Now, you've got...
	Can you see people see on the shirt here?
	That's a good intro to what we want to talk about.
	You've got a picture of you in the middle with Donald Trump.
	A good shot of this, please.
	You in the middle with Donald Trump on one side and Kim Jong-un on the other.
	It says, unite.
	Unite.
	You must be high.
	Why is...
	So that's the intro.
	And I just want to remind people that my Uncle Don, who was ambassador to South Korea for many years, has been to North Korea five times in the last decade.
	He's still very involved.
	Gets thrown out of the White House all the time trying to tell people they just want to be a country.
	They don't want armistice.
	They just want to be recognized as a country.
	That's all they want.
	And Uncle Don famously said, Dennis Rodman knows more about North Korea than anyone in Washington, D.C. I believe it.
	Yeah, so let's listen to him.
	What do you actually talk about with, and I don't mean this insultingly, a madman murderous dictator?
	Actually, we talk about basketball.
	Okay, okay.
	Did he ever play?
	In Switzerland, he did.
	In Switzerland?
	Yeah.
	That's a great country for b-ball.
	It's all good?
	Yeah.
	He went to school over there, but I'm just saying, you know, people like that, you know, I don't really judge people, you know, by the color.
	I don't judge where they come from and stuff like that.
	I just judge people where, you know, we're all human beings.
	You know, throughout the day, we're all human beings.
	And it's funny, though, that I don't see how people can sit there and say...
	This person is a madman.
	He probably is.
	But I didn't see that.
	He probably is.
	Reports are he murdered his uncle and fed him to dogs.
	Oh, he did?
	Yeah.
	Well, if you see the video in the basketball game, you actually see his uncle standing right behind the bench.
	Okay.
	So his uncle's fine?
	His uncle's fine.
	Okay.
	Maybe he has more than one uncle.
	Well, pretty much.
	Maybe that's the spare uncle right there.
	Either way.
	I think he kind of glossed over that pretty easily.
	Colbert's an asshole, let's face it.
	Yeah, but he's basically saying, no, it's just fake news.
	Have you spoken to Kim Jong-un about his nuclear program at all?
	Have you said, please don't start a nuclear war?
	But he has spoken to me when I was there a couple of years ago.
	He said, I don't want war.
	This is two words.
	I don't want war because, like I said, I would take you over there and let you listen to him the way he talks.
	Okay.
	He sounds like he's more of a kid than anything.
	Okay.
	I think his grandfather's father, that regime, has passed out to him.
	I think he really wants to change his culture, but I think he's forced to be in this position because Every time I go over there, he's changed so much for the people, and people don't see that.
	And he's a kid, but he's a kid with nuclear weapons.
	Well, hey.
	It's a tough combination.
	I know that, right?
	So we didn't learn a hell of a lot, but...
	You're not going to learn anything with Colbert just giving him crap about everything.
	Yeah.
	He's a tool.
	Yeah.
	Colbert.
	Yeah.
	He could have learned a lot.
	It's embarrassing.
	He could have actually maybe drawn something.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Could have drawn something out.
	He has an opportunity.
	But no, he's just got a cheeky joke.
	Does anybody know Dennis Robin?
	I'd love to interview.
	I'll do an interview for the show.
	Somebody's got to know him.
	He played for the Detroit Pistons for a long time.
	That's where his main basketball team was.
	Then he played for the Bulls for a while.
	Very famous.
	Maybe someone from the music business who's listening through Carmen Electra or something.
	We'll be able to find something.
	I'd love to talk to him.
	You know what I want?
	I want to facilitate a meeting between him and Don.
	Now you're talking.
	That's a photo op right there.
	Yeah, Don would never get into the White House.
	Yeah.
	Good idea, though.
	All right, what else we got?
	Well, I want to say it's finally happening before we get into our break here.
	The Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment and the Made in New York Media Center today announced the Made in New York Podcast Training Certificate Program is now accepting applications.
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	It's headed there.
	Yes, we are headed in that direction.
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	What is this?
	Oh, looks like the Bitcoin is crashing, someone just said.
	Oh, it'll go back up.
	It's not the final crash.
	It's going to be at 30 or 40 when it really crashes, I think.
	30 or 40?
	Yeah, that's what I'm guessing.
	Let me just see.
	Let me just see what's happening.
	Be funny.
	Let me see what the...
	No.
	Oh, no.
	It's still 19,246.
	It's hardly crashing.
	He says it's 1,600.
	The equivalent U.S. dollar value on the euro exchange is 16,000.
	Whatever.
	Well, whatever.
	It's funny.
	So I've got a little question for you.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	What is the Oxford Dictionary's Word of the Year?
	Oh, Word of the Year!
	Word of the Year time on No Agenda.
	Can you give me some hints in what realm I might want to seek this word?
	Yeah, it's a word that is used a lot.
	And it's kind of a corny word.
	I would have thought it was already a word.
	Maybe it was, but it's now word of the year.
	It has to do with the way things are socially today, societally.
	Oh, the word is fucked up.
	No, that would be word of the year in 1960.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	I give up.
	Okay, here it is.
	Play it.
	Oxford Dictionaries revealed the word of the year today.
	It is youthquake.
	A significant change arising from the actions or influence of young people.
	Maybe our favorite runner-up, milkshake duck.
	A person or thing that inspires delight on social media until it's revealed to have a repugnant past.
	Okay, let's start with this Milkshake Duck.
	I'm speechless.
	I'm speechless.
	This is bullshit.
	I think it is too.
	I think Milkshake Duck was something one of the jokers that CBS News wrote for Gloria Reed knowing that he doesn't have a clue.
	And he read it as though it was a fact.
	I've never heard this ever.
	Have you ever heard of Milkshake Duck?
	Let's see if the troll room has ever heard of it.
	No.
	That's odd.
	But even Youthquake.
	I mean, who uses Youthquake?
	I have not heard this.
	I have.
	Really?
	Hmm.
	Milkshake Duck.
	Know your meme.
	It's under memes.
	I can find it in memes.
	Milkshake Duck Explained.
	Part of a series of internet slang.
	I never heard it.
	This is not anything that would be in contention.
	Hmm.
	About.
	Milkshake Duck is an internet slang term referring to representation of...
	Hold on a second.
	Three-point type.
	Representation of viral internet star who is briefly adored by the public prior to discovery of their distasteful...
	Or just exactly from the...
	He read right from this.
	He read from that website.
	It comes on June 12, 2016.
	Twitter user...
	Pixelated boat passed a tweet about the internet's love for milkshake duck, followed by the revelation we regret to inform him that the duck is racist.
	Within one year...
	Now wait, this is Webster's word of the year?
	No, Oxford Dictionary.
	Because Webster, apparently, their word is feminism.
	Oh, that would probably be accurate for Webster, yeah.
	I'd say that.
	Well, youth quake.
	This milkshake duck thing is bullcrap.
	Yeah, the troll room has never heard of it.
	Yeah, if they haven't heard of it, nobody.
	Then it's bullcrap.
	Some very minor meme from the middle of nowhere.
	Well, great.
	Thanks for that.
	Now I'm up to date.
	I'm informed.
	I can speak at the water cooler once again.
	Now, on to a travesty.
	For our neighbors to the north, our Scandinavian.
	And how are we doing for time, by the way?
	We're okay.
	Okay.
	220?
	Yeah, well, good.
	Okay, great.
	Yeah, we're 220.
	The price of Canadian oil has collapsed recently.
	And the reasons are interesting.
	Canada's oil, the price on it has collapsed in the last little while.
	The spread of it between Western Canada Select and WTI, West Texas Intermediate, has really ballooned.
	And if I've got this right, there's a quote here from an analyst on this, saying it's a perfect storm of too much supply and not enough capacity.
	Too much supply?
	Absolutely too much supply.
	Walk me through this, because I've read a lot about this, and this still confuses me a little.
	Too much supply relative to capacity.
	That's really what I think the analysts have mentioned.
	We have a lot of oil in the oil sands region, let's be very clear.
	And the problem is there aren't a lot of ways to get that crude out of the area where it's produced.
	You had a shutdown of a pipeline because of a leak, taking a lot of capacity away for transporting crude oil.
	And you would think that would raise prices.
	But what it's done is it's driven people to use shale oil, gas, or whatever it is that's coming out of the United States.
	They found an alternative.
	So it's not really our capacity to get it to market.
	It's somebody else's ability to get it to market cheaper and faster.
	No, actually, I think it's also that, I mean, bear in mind, the railways have also cut back capacity because they have had some shutdowns as well, rail lines shut down.
	So there isn't a lot of ways to get it out of...
	Out of the prairies and out of Alberta.
	You need to cut the price in order to encourage people to incur the costs required to ship it out of there.
	You've got to pay up right now to ship it on a railroad, and that's really the only way to get the incremental capacity out.
	So they're cutting, they don't just pay more, they cut back the price they're paying for it to make it economic to produce.
	There is no shortage of oil in the world.
	Let's be very clear.
	There is no shortage of oil in the world, and they're able, at a certain price, to get it to market faster and more efficiently, more economically than we are.
	And I guess the question becomes, when you actually crunch the numbers, will a pipeline solve that, or will the shale oil, gas, and oil that's getting to those refineries before us faster and cheaper than us, will a pipeline from Keystone change that?
	Shale oil will cap the price at which we will be able to sell our oil.
	Our oil will always and always has traditionally sold at a discount to WTI, a significant discount in some cases.
	Today we talked about $25 plus a barrel on a $65 barrel of oil.
	That's a big discount.
	And it continues.
	It will continue.
	If we have better ways of getting out of more pipelines, if there is a keystone out there enabling us to move it, that oil will travel cheaper.
	Pipeline is a relatively efficient way to travel to send the oil out of the prairies.
	So what's going on here?
	Is this an oil war?
	Are we thwarting Scandinavia's transportation?
	Listening to those guys, there's no way of figuring out what's going on.
	Well, they're Canadian.
	With comments like, yeah, we have to lower the price to make it more economical to sell.
	Oh no, to make it more economical to produce.
	No, that's just the opposite.
	You have to raise the price to make it economical to produce.
	If it costs you $50 to pull it out of the ground, you can't lower the price to $25 and then pull it out of the ground and lose $25 a barrel.
	That's not going to work.
	But why can't they get it tomorrow?
	I mean, that's us.
	They're trying to get it to us.
	They can't get it to us faster.
	But even, it's $25 cheaper.
	I could get my own tank or truck and drive it and make money.
	Well, you'd have a...
	A truck full of useless product.
	Oh, well, what do you mean?
	They ship it off to us and then it's not useless when they ship it to us?
	It's useless until it goes to an oil refinery and gets turned into products.
	Right.
	The oil refinery won't take my cheap crude from Canada?
	I think the underlying message here is that the oil refiner is at capacity.
	Okay, got it.
	Well, what happened to peak oil then?
	Talk about a phrase from the Shays.
	Peak oil.
	Remember?
	Yeah, I remember it was during the era of peak bullshit.
	Yeah, that would be it.
	We do have a shortage, however, of something very important.
	Medics perform CPR on a father of two.
	Police show up after a toddler is found unattended in the backseat of a car with two adults unresponsive in the front seat.
	This is what Tennessee's opioid crisis looks like.
	People are overdosing at an alarming rate, and Narcan is the one thing that can bring them back.
	Two doses in here, okay?
	Dwayne Holman is the executive director of the Nashville Prevention Partnership.
	He received a grant to get Narcan for the Nashville agencies that need it.
	But it turns out, actually getting it is now a problem.
	Because our whole nation is experiencing this epidemic at the same time, and so getting our hands on it has been difficult.
	It took three months to get 808 doses.
	These are just some of the places where it's been distributed so far.
	But Holman says it's needed elsewhere.
	We have reached out to shelters.
	We've reached out to veterans organizations.
	Narcan is now prescribable, meaning you can get it at local drug stores.
	Coopertown police saw an unusual case recently where they arrested a drug addict who carried her own Narcan.
	It's not uncommon to see people who are drug addicts or who are close proximity to drug addicts, maybe their family, maybe their peers, who will have Narcan on hand because they know the rest.
	Holman is hoping to distribute five to eight hundred more doses of Narcan in Nashville over the next few weeks.
	He has to get them first, and for that, he'll have to wait.
	But everything in my being tells me that we have to still continue to help, and we have to figure out how to make this better.
	I have my one opioid crisis clip, which turns out to be a commercial for this upcoming 60 Minutes, but maybe we should play that, too, before we discuss this.
	60 Minutes and the Washington Post have a follow-up on their investigation of the opioid crisis, which is killing nearly 100 people a day.
	A retired DEA agent turned whistleblower says the government was too lenient when it reached a $150 million settlement with a major drug distributor accused of ignoring suspicious opioid shipments.
	He'll tell his story Sunday on 60 Minutes.
	Yeah.
	Thanks for nothing!
	Here's something interesting.
	Now, we know that we have real problems with the heroin in the United States because it's been cut with fentanyl, and people are dying left and right fentanyl, highly toxic.
	And now both Nevada and Nebraska have come up with a novel idea.
	And they say, you know, we should use fentanyl to kill prisoners when we need to execute them, since they've run out of that other chemical that no one seems to be able to find anymore.
	Yes, the chemical companies decided that they're going to not make it.
	They don't want to make it anymore, right.
	So now they're considering fentanyl.
	Well, they should use that carbofentanil, the stuff that's super toxic.
	I mean...
	I hope that gives people a clue that it's not good to use.
	It's not good to use.
	That actually may not be a bad idea just for the reverse promotion benefits.
	Right.
	It could be.
	The situation's out of control.
	Massively out of control.
	And we blame the education system.
	Since we teased it, I do want to do a little bit on TextGate.
	This is the texts that have been leaked slash discovered between, what's his name, Scrotum?
	Keep forgetting his name.
	Scrotum.
	Scrotum is his name.
	Peter Scrotum and Lisa Peters.
	Yeah, some like 10,000 messages.
	And I want to remind everybody, where did they get these?
	Who grabbed these messages?
	I think the FBI leaked them themselves.
	Yeah, but where did they even get them from?
	Well, let's listen to a little backgrounder from this is I think this is Fox.
	Another big story.
	This is huge.
	Loathsome human idiot and talk of Watergate.
	We now know exactly what was in those anti-Trump texts sent by the FBI agent who was kicked off Robert Mueller's Russia probe.
	And it's not pretty.
	In fact, some of it, we can't even share some of it for you on morning TV. It's that bad.
	Griff Jenkins is live from our D.C. Bureau with the stunning new text messages that have been obtained by Fox News.
	Griff, I couldn't stop going through these this morning.
	It's crazy.
	Stunning indeed.
	Good morning, Heather.
	These obtained by Fox News between two FBI agents assigned to the Russia probe, Peter Strzok and Lisa Page.
	It led Special Counsel Robert Mueller to remove Stroke from the investigation, and the language is at times profane and not for morning television, as you say.
	And this is all, Heather, going to fuel the narrative that the investigation is tainted.
	Now let's just start with March 4th last year.
	Page.
	God, Trump is a loathsome human.
	Stroke.
	Yet he may win.
	Good for Hillary.
	It is.
	Would be a worse president than Cruz?
	Page.
	Trump?
	Yes, I think so.
	I'm not sure.
	Struck.
	Oh my God.
	He's an idiot.
	In this.
	Stroke.
	God, Hillary should win $100 million to zero.
	Page, I know.
	Now remember, all of this has taken place while Stroke is an integral part of the FBI's investigation into Hillary Clinton's emails.
	He was the one credited with changing the wording in then-FBI Director James Comey's assessment from grossly negligent to extremely careful.
	A month later, Page appears to acknowledge that they're doing something they shouldn't.
	Look at this, Page.
	So, look, you say we text on that phone when we talk about Hillary because it can't be traced.
	Now, later, by October, after candidate Trump has gotten the nomination, Strzok's deeply felt bias reaches new heights.
	Here, on the 20th of October, I am riled up, Strzok says.
	Trump is an expletive idiot, is unable to provide a coherent answer.
	That same day, in all caps, that's shouting across texting, can't pull away what the expletive happened to our country.
	So your question is the right one, though, John.
	It's like, where did the text message, who leaked the text messages?
	Because that could have only been the FBI. Who had it in the first place?
	Did the FBI go to the NSA and get the messages?
	I think...
	And the NSA is very uncooperative about most of these deals.
	Because they don't want every...
	Tom, Dick, and Harry working for every law enforcement agency asking them for this information.
	They just don't like doing that.
	It's not what they're doing.
	But they have it.
	They have the information.
	So they somehow got to the FBI and then now got to Fox News.
	How did that happen?
	I'm very suspicious about these.
	I mean, I'm not suspicious that they're not true.
	I'm suspicious that they're available.
	Nobody's saying anything about that.
	Does that mean every time I text you and say, hey, read the newsletter, that somebody's going to leak my text, my private text to you?
	Maybe.
	Just out of the blue?
	Maybe.
	Who the hell knows?
	Well, that's the point.
	Maybe we should know.
	This is not right.
	So...
	There's a couple of actors, and the one that no one's talking about is Andrew McCabe.
	And he's a real bigwig in the FBI. Is he an assistant director?
	Yeah, I think so.
	Yeah, we hear of him, and apparently he's now somewhere in the HR department.
	That sounds very sketchy.
	Some people are positing.
	I've used it twice in two episodes.
	You have.
	This is the second time.
	That's it.
	I'm done.
	No more positations.
	I hope so.
	That Peter Stroke may just be an alias for Andrew McCabe.
	And when you think about how they always like to make up phony names.
	Yeah.
	You know, Peter Stroke.
	Peter Strokes.
	Stroke is Peter.
	You know, maybe there's something there.
	Oh, yeah.
	That's cute.
	That could be one of those little cute things they do from time to time.
	But I'd like to see both of these guys.
	Even their backgrounds, their wiki pages are very similar.
	Well...
	Did he have to go before Congress yet?
	No, no, no.
	We've never seen him.
	We've only seen the one picture of the guy.
	Who knows if it's even him?
	That's a very interesting theory.
	I don't know what to say to that.
	And, again, why would the FBI clearly leak these texts?
	Are they in trouble?
	Do they have to say, well, something is null?
	I mean, what is going on?
	I mean, it just seems like no one's asking any of these important questions.
	No, nobody's asking anything.
	They're just...
	It's just almost like, here's what happened.
	Read a couple of these things, you're off.
	Well, Jim Jordan, who's...
	Where's he from?
	Congressman from...
	I don't know where he's from.
	I forgot.
	He had Jordan.
	He's good, by the way.
	He is.
	He had Rosenstein in the witness bench and asked him some leading questions, but, you know, it's always a script in Congress.
	That Peter Strzok, we learned, had all these text messages.
	We got to read some of them early this morning.
	Now, as my colleagues have pointed out, some of them show he didn't like Trump.
	He and Ms.
	Page are exchanging text messages back and forth, show they don't like the president.
	But that's nothing new.
	Everyone on Mueller's team, no one on Mueller's team likes Trump.
	We already knew that.
	But I want to focus on one in particular.
	And this is a text message from Mr.
	Strzok to Ms.
	Page recalling a conversation and a meeting that took place in Andrew McCabe's office, Deputy Director of the FBI, recalling a meeting earlier.
	And Mr.
	Strzok says this, I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy's office.
	Then there's a break.
	Dash, it says that there's no way he gets elected.
	No way Trump gets elected.
	He says, I want to believe that.
	You said that in the meeting in Andrew McCabe's office.
	I want to believe that.
	But then he goes, but I'm afraid we can't take that risk.
	This goes to intent.
	He says, we can't take the risk.
	You know, the people of this great country might elect Donald Trump president.
	We can't take this risk.
	This is Peter Strzok, head of counterintelligence at the FBI. This is Peter Strzok, who I think had a hand in that dossier that was all dressed up and taken to the FISA court.
	He's saying we can't take the risk.
	We have to do something about it.
	And don't forget the timeline here either, Mr.
	Rosenstein.
	Peter Strzok, January 10th, he's the guy who changes the exoneration letter from gross negligence, criminal standard, to extreme carelessness.
	July 2nd, he's the guy who sets in on the Clinton interview.
	July 5th, 2016, that's when Comey has the press conference and says, we're not going to prosecute.
	Clinton's okay, we're not going to prosecute.
	And then August 2016, we have this text message.
	The same month that the Russian investigation is opened at the FBI. August 2016.
	And my guess is that's the same month That the application was taken to the FISA court to get the warrants to spy on Americans.
	Using this dossier that the Clinton campaign paid for, Democrats paid for, fake news, all dressed up, taken to the court.
	So I got really just a couple basic questions.
	Because it seems to me if the answer to any of these, of those two questions, if the answer is yes, If you guys paid Christopher Steele at the same time the Democrats in the Clinton campaign were painting, or if you took the dossier, dressed it all up, took it to the FISA court, and used that as the basis to get warrants, and now we have intent in this text message saying...
	There's another text message.
	My colleague referenced it earlier.
	Where Mr.
	Strzok says, I can protect our country at many levels.
	Says it with all the humility he could muster.
	I can protect our country at many levels.
	This guy thought he was Super Agent James Bond at the FBI. This is obvious.
	I'm afraid we can't take that risk.
	There's no way we can let the American people make Donald Trump the next president.
	I've got to protect our country.
	This is unbelievable.
	And I'm here to tell you, Mr.
	Rosenstein, I think the public trust in this whole thing is gone.
	Yeah, I'll say that's not true yet.
	No one cares.
	No.
	No one cares.
	Now, there was a story which I wanted to correct people on the thinking.
	You know, this sounded like the same clip you played in the last show.
	But I believe it was a slightly different clip.
	I don't think we played it.
	I teased it.
	I don't think we played it.
	No, no.
	No, you played it.
	Okay.
	Because I was bitching about the fact that I had the clip and I didn't...
	Possible.
	Possible.
	I never put it on my list.
	Then I apologize.
	Well, there's new stuff in there, right?
	Maybe it was the same exact...
	Here's the story that caught my eye.
	As a part of this dossier, which was created by Fusion GPS, the wife of a Department of Justice deputy...
	She handled some of this, whether it was opposition research at the time, whatever it was, as she worked at GPS. And here's the news report.
	I don't know if you saw this.
	She was applying tradecraft.
	She applied for a ham radio license after contracting MI6 agent Christopher Steele.
	So just so you know, the implication here...
	People have been watching too much of the Americans, I think.
	The implication here is that they're transmitting information from the U.S., from Washington, D.C., to Christopher Steele, either in London or in Russia, via shortwave transmission.
	Yeah, yeah, sure.
	So, first of all, You don't apply for a ham radio license.
	You go and take the test.
	There's no application.
	You apply.
	Good point.
	You take the test.
	And you get your test.
	She got an amateur status.
	You can't use short...
	Well, that's not true.
	You can use 10 meters.
	Very unreliable for what we're talking about here.
	Maybe she got a tech status.
	I'm sorry, tech status, yes.
	Technician.
	Technician.
	Yeah.
	So you can pretty much only use the 2 meter, 70 meter, and it's all on repeaters, and you can't really...
	It's mostly for DHF. Right.
	Yeah, you don't get to use the shortwave, really.
	Well, you could have done Morse code.
	They should have put that in the article.
	They were using Morse code.
	Nobody used it.
	When you got the internet, why would you do this?
	That's nuts.
	You can just send it.
	Steganography works fine.
	Nobody's going to catch you doing that.
	I thought it was funny.
	Lawyer Lawrence O'Donnell on the text.
	After Mr.
	Trump made an apparent sexual illusion related to the size of his hands, Ms.
	Page wrote, this man cannot be president.
	In another exchange, Mr.
	Starzak wrote of a potential Trump presidency, I'm scared for our organization.
	That turned out to be a well-placed fear.
	He also referred to Mr.
	Trump as a douche.
	Oh, this is your new beat.
	Finding people in the media that say the word douche.
	While on the subject of douche, I want to mention something.
	This is an aside.
	Because I don't know who sent this to me.
	And I didn't even know it was a product.
	But somebody sent me a toilet paper roll with every conceivable column ever written by David Brooks.
	Oh, wow.
	Wow.
	Yeah, and they're all different.
	I don't know how far down the roll before they start repeating, but the entire toilet paper roll is David Brooks' New York Times columns.
	And have you used it yet, and so yes, which column have you desecrated?
	I haven't used it yet because I'm just so fascinated by this existence.
	Picture it didn't happen as far as I'm concerned.
	Well, it's the damnedest thing I've ever seen.
	I'm sorry, there used to be an Obama toilet roll.
	Yeah, I remember that one.
	But that doesn't hold a candle to the work that must have gone into this thing.
	This is very good.
	And I'm sure it's a huge copyright violation.
	Yes, absolutely.
	Here's Trey Gowdy on the text.
	This is the person we needed to avoid a conflict of interest.
	And then he said this.
	They fully deserve to go and demonstrate the absolute bigoted nonsense of Trump.
	But he wasn't content to just disparage Donald Trump.
	He had to disparage Donald Trump's family.
	This is what he said, Mr.
	Deputy Attorney General.
	He said, the douchebags are about to come out.
	He's talking about our First Lady and children.
	This conflict of interest-free special agent of the FBI. So, not just Trump as a douche.
	Yeah, you played that clip last show, too.
	No, that was the tease.
	That was the tease clip.
	It's the only one I played that I can remember.
	Okay, well...
	That's the one I played.
	Well, this one for sure you did not hear.
	This is former FBI assistant director.
	What's his name?
	What's his name?
	I don't know.
	I don't know, but he's a former FBI assistant director.
	What can an FBI official and FBI agent do to stop a president from getting elected?
	Well, I think he can do what this guy tried to do.
	He can fabricate things.
	He can make up stuff.
	He can lie.
	He can be a total moron.
	He can recruit others.
	You know, he belongs in Leavenworth, this guy, in my personal view.
	I don't have all the facts, but from what I know, he belongs behind bars.
	This guy is...
	These things cannot happen in a democracy.
	I agree.
	And the fact that Mueller is a part of it, who got the special two-year, unconstitutional two-year extension as FBI director to cover up whatever crimes were taking place during the Bush administration, that he, of all people, and that that 10-year term limit was put in there because and that that 10-year term limit was put in there because of people like, what's his face, the Yeah, Hoover.
	Hoover.
	Because he had a little fiefdom.
	They said, Congress passed the law, which is not represented that way anymore.
	In the media, they passed the law so that no one could build that kind of fiefdom.
	And the Obama administration circumvented that so that Mueller could stay on for an extra two years, and this guy is now in there doing God knows what.
	I'm a little tired of it.
	Honestly.
	Yes, and I think the public is getting a clue.
	No.
	Please.
	When I say the public, I mean the No Agenda listeners.
	Oh, okay.
	Well, one final bit for me.
	This will also remain a little item on my beat, the net neutrality, the morons ruling the roost of the media.
	Let's listen to someone who clearly knows everything about net neutrality.
	Jimmy Kimmel.
	Meanwhile, the Federal Communications Commission, the FCC, did something absolutely despicable today.
	They voted to put an end to net neutrality.
	Now, this is the rule that says everyone gets equal access to the Internet, a big company or somebody selling crocheted owls from their house in the Midwest.
	Now, as long as they tell us they're doing it now, Internet service providers will be allowed to slow down or block web traffic to any website Or streaming service they like, which benefits the big telecom companies and does the opposite for all of us.
	They did this even though 83% of Americans support net neutrality, and 2 million of the people who supposedly wrote to the FCC to oppose net neutrality were bogus.
	Many of them turned out to be dead people.
	Someone stole the identities of dead people to help push this through.
	So now...
	We have to hope Congress agrees to vote on and reverse it.
	But I just want to say thank you, President Trump.
	Thanks to you and this jackhole you appointed to run the FCC, big corporations are about to take full control of the Internet.
	So Merry Christmas, everybody.
	And by the way, tomorrow is the last day maybe ever to enroll for health care under the Affordable Care Act.
	If you do not have health insurance, you are, you know, you're required by law to get it.
	You will get fined if you don't get it.
	Go to healthcare.gov to sign up.
	For a lot of people, it's free.
	So do it now, because once net neutrality is gone, we might not even have WebMD anymore.
	So this is something that you need.
	And sadly, that will become the truth.
	Oh, yeah.
	That is the sad part of it, is people really believe that.
	You know, since we're on the netball stuff, let's go.
	I got my last little clip, nine-second clip.
	Which is a promotional KQED clip.
	They're just playing the kind of shows that they're going to have coming.
	It's the educational channel.
	And there's a little tidbit in here for you.
	Here in the jungle with us.
	And move us.
	Dance can embody the meaning of climate change.
	On KQED Newsroom.
	Wait a minute.
	Can I still see this program?
	I want to have an interpretive dance about climate change.
	That's a good clip, John.
	I'm going to play that again just for myself.
	Here in the jungle with us.
	And move us.
	Dance can embody the meaning of climate change.
	On KQED Newsroom.
	Sunday morning.
	It's a beautiful thing.
	How can dance embody?
	That's what gets me.
	The meaning.
	It's not about climate change.
	It's about the meaning.
	Beautiful.
	It's just beyond me.
	End of show clips from GX2 from Joshua and Jessica Pettigrew, Leo Lapuke, and Sir Chris Wilson with his son Felix.
	I think you will enjoy them.
	It's quite a nice little lineup.
	And this concludes our broadcast day at the best podcast in the universe.
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