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997: Competitive Victimhood

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	Shut up!
	Can't you read English?
	Adam Curry, John C. Devorak.
	And Sunday, January 7th, 2018, this is your award-winning Gitmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 9 or 9 or 7.
	This is no agenda.
	Assessing amygdalas from coast to coast and broadcasting live from downtown Austin, Tejas, Capo the Drone, Star State, in the Cludio.
	In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where I'm 10 times live.
	I'm Jesse DeVore.
	It's Crackpot and Buzzkill in the morning.
	Yes, in the morning to you.
	In the afternoon, I should say.
	Is it afternoon?
	Oh, it is for you, yeah.
	I'm still morning here.
	We've been...
	Barely.
	We've had some technical difficulties this morning.
	Yeah, the stream wasn't working.
	Yeah, well...
	And now your rig is...
	It's not what it was last time we chatted.
	Well, you know how it goes.
	It's like, look, the stream's not working.
	It's clearly my fault.
	It always is.
	And then I start twiddling and twackling and doodling and diddling, and then all of a sudden nothing works, but the stream works.
	So we'll see how far we get today.
	Well, as long as the information we communicate is understood.
	Yes, completely understood.
	Okay, let me see.
	There we go.
	And just as I was all jacked up and ready to tell you about this fantastic Windows experience I had had yesterday that I'm so excited about.
	I don't want to talk about computers at all now.
	Maybe have that Spectre bug.
	Yeah, right.
	Oh, yeah.
	It's slowing down.
	That's been very interesting to watch, this Intel versus the world of microprocessors.
	Everybody's saying, well, you got the problem, too.
	No, we don't have the problem.
	You got the problem.
	But that's the problem.
	The cloud is slowing down.
	It's just, does anyone know?
	Everybody's got the problem.
	I'm looking at this.
	I'm trying to get a handle on it.
	Just back it up.
	Explain what we're talking about here.
	Not everyone knows.
	There's apparently some deep-seated bug in...
	It looks like all the processor chips that have been made for the last 10 to 20 years, at least the last 10 years.
	And I guess they knew about this a while ago.
	They've been trying to work on it.
	And the more I, from my perspective, what I've read, and I haven't talked to anybody yet about it, but I will, It's an obscure situation that probably doesn't affect anybody, but they're worried sick because if anybody can get into the chip, this is like a backdoor.
	Well, I got what I think is the best explanation from producer Trey.
	Real short.
	Okay.
	Modern processors get some of their go-fast juice By trying to guess what you're going to ask it to do next.
	It predicts that you're going to want the CPU to do X, Y, or Z and it already gets started on it.
	That's actually pretty damn good so by the time you ask it to do the work it's either already done or close to done.
	The flaw is that researchers figured out how anyone can ask the processor what it is guessed you will want to do.
	That means an attacker can read things in the computer's memory they're not supposed to have access to.
	This is especially bad in places like Amazon's EC2 or Microsoft's Azure, where they run virtual servers for many different customers on the same physical hardware.
	The only fix for this, according to Producer Trey, is to disable the prediction ability.
	This, however, does mean you don't get the speed boost, which is why the fix slows computers down from, he says, 12 to 30%.
	And he does IT security for Cisco.
	Specifically, he gets paid to understand these vulnerabilities and explain them to less technical folks.
	Well, I would question the 30% number, but...
	He says 12 to 30.
	He says 12 to 30.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, that's pretty much what it is.
	And this is all the chips.
	So it's also an AMD? Yeah.
	Oh, man.
	I bought some AMD. I bought AMD. I'm like, it's going to go to the moon!
	AMD's pretty high right now.
	And the ARM apparently has the issue.
	Oh, really?
	Yeah, that would make sense.
	That's what Apple uses.
	Don't they use ARM, Apple?
	Yeah, they use mostly ARM except Mac.
	Right.
	So, what does this functionally mean?
	Nothing, really?
	As far as I can tell, it means nothing.
	Except if you were a high-level guy, a superstar hacker that was working for an evil agency or something, it's possible.
	And I think the big fear is not with the individual.
	In fact, some people say unless you are sitting there at the computer, you can't do anything.
	But with servers...
	And these big serve cloud systems.
	Yeah, like Amazon.
	And of course, if you'd listen to me and use cheap little hard disk you buy from Costco, you wouldn't be on a big giant cloud.
	I can just see Twitter running on the little drives from Costco.
	It'd be great.
	Who needs Amazon?
	We don't need any of that.
	How many?
	How much?
	Yeah.
	That's what I think.
	All right.
	Now I'm ready to talk about it.
	I had an experience yesterday that to me was an oh, wow.
	And have you ever seen the Microsoft Mixed Reality Home?
	No, I haven't.
	Which has nothing to do with your home.
	It's a...
	They have...
	Okay, well, go on.
	Just tell me what you're going to tell me.
	Okay, so you put on these glasses, the VR glasses.
	They're Mixed Reality glasses, so you don't have to have a space that has sensors everywhere.
	It has two cameras on the front, and you slip it on.
	And you're in...
	I think they call it...
	It's like the Cliff House.
	Yeah.
	What you can do is you can...
	It's like Second Life in a way, kind of corny looking.
	Oh, gee, there's the mountains in the...
	Who gives a crap what the surrounding is?
	But you can pull up applications, all your applications on your computer.
	And so instead of alt-tabbing around, which I do a lot...
	You have this huge space, so you can have your browser window there, your email over there, and just by turning your head, you see the different windows, and you can still use your keyboard and your mouse to interact, or you can use the wonky controllers, which is not very useful at all for doing work.
	But I can see if they had the input part right, you know, that this might be something I would do the show in.
	Because then you just have all the stuff around you, and instead of, you know, where's that jingle?
	I can have 15 different jingle windows open and just go to one and select it.
	It was mind-blowing, I have to tell you.
	I'm not a VR guy at all.
	I swam with the whales, you know, I shot the bow and arrow.
	Okay.
	But this, this is a different version of interacting with your computer.
	And I was very impressed by it.
	One step closer to insanity.
	Mark the dates, people.
	Mark it.
	Mark the dates.
	And again, I'm going to say that once you put this headset on, your perception of what's reality changes within 30 seconds.
	You're done.
	You're like, okay, this is the world I'm in.
	It responds.
	It works.
	I'm really impressed.
	I have some ideas of stuff I want to do in this type of space.
	Okay, go for it.
	Come out with a product.
	I'm going to.
	I have an actual product in mind.
	Yeah, I'm sure you do.
	You're all jacked up, I can tell.
	I don't know about jacked up.
	But I've got to get me a pair of these headsets.
	Who had the pair that you got to play with?
	At the Windows Store.
	I went to the Microsoft Store.
	You went to the Microsoft Store.
	Report necessary.
	Yeah, so I went to the Microsoft Store.
	We went shopping yesterday with the keeper and her daughter, Elise.
	We went to the domain, which is Stepford Wives, you want to shoot yourself.
	What's the domain?
	It's called the domain.
	It's a big shopping living area.
	It's one of those Stepford Wives where you live in this community and you shop in this community.
	Oh, okay.
	It's like, yeah.
	So they got an Apple store and they have, you know, they got all the big ones, all the anchor stores.
	It's quite large, you know, huge Whole Foods.
	And they have the Windows Store and that's all I want.
	I only wanted to go to the Windows Store.
	It's not called the Microsoft Store?
	I don't, you know, they just have the four colored blocks on the, I think they call it.
	It's got no signage at all?
	Hmm, that's a good question.
	Let me see what they officially call it.
	So is it Windows Store domain?
	I'm not so sure.
	It felt to me like they were...
	No, it's the Microsoft Store.
	Yeah, Microsoft Store.
	That's the official name.
	But it doesn't have any branding on it other than their red, green, blue, yellow logo.
	Which is enough, because that drew me in.
	I'm like, oh yes, Windows, Windows.
	And the only reason I went there was just to ask the guy about, hey, where's the Surface phone, man?
	Is that coming?
	And he's like, oh, nobody knows.
	I have no idea.
	And then he said, but I want to show you this.
	Because there was no one in the store.
	You know, whereas the Apple store was cramped.
	Oh, no, the Apple stores are packed.
	They got a new Apple store.
	They actually emptied out their existing Apple store, built a new one.
	A new bigger one.
	A new bigger one in the same general location.
	And the Windows, the Microsoft store was, I'll just call it the Windows store.
	I don't think it's better.
	The Windows store was, you know, there's maybe 10 people in there.
	And so, you know, going in and they didn't really have anything to do.
	Again, I asked, you know, do you have the Surface phone?
	No, I want to show you this.
	And he says, you know, this is, people don't understand.
	I think it came out in October or November.
	And this is so typical Microsoft.
	No one heard of this.
	Of course not.
	Nobody heard of this.
	And it's really...
	They acquired a company called...
	Well, they did.
	They actually previewed it on some ads and stuff way before the October rollout.
	Yes, yes, yes.
	And then it kind of fell flat because it wasn't really...
	It wasn't ramped correctly.
	Oh, they have no idea how to do this.
	And the more I look at VR... Here's where the opportunity is for me, and for me certainly.
	The content they have is all games.
	The opportunity is very obvious what else you can do in this space.
	But just to start with, I would love to see, because it has a minority report effect.
	That's exactly what the effect is, and it's very subtle, but when you can, instead of alt-tabbing and opening things up and positioning on something, I have a big screen, too.
	I have a monstrous screen, and still I run out of space.
	And now you just paint it wherever you want, and you can use Cortana to, say, bring it closer.
	You don't even have to use your hands.
	I don't know.
	I'll report back as we move along, but I was really impressed, and I'm surprised that this is not...
	It doesn't have an Apple logo on it.
	That's probably why.
	If I had an Apple logo, people would be losing their crap over it.
	I feel so dumb for having stuck with Apple for so long.
	Because I really missed out on a lot of interesting things that were happening because it just wasn't on any other platform.
	I never learned about it.
	Never heard about it.
	Never got an important update notification.
	Hmm.
	Yeah.
	A lot of people are comfortable on the Apple platform and they stay there.
	Yeah.
	And it's gotten so bad that I'm using Edge.
	Why?
	It's fast.
	It's fast.
	It's not that much faster than Firefox.
	My experience is it is much faster.
	Now, they may be slowing something.
	I was using Chrome previously, which is fast.
	But the Edge browser, yeah, it's faster.
	It does suck up a lot of resources.
	Well, I use all three.
	Yeah, for different reasons?
	Yeah, for example.
	Just a little tip for everybody.
	Again, I want to mention this.
	I mentioned it before in the last show.
	Even though we didn't get any donations, you always have a tip on the show that's worth money.
	Yes.
	Oh, yes.
	What was the tip again?
	The tip was...
	What is your new tip?
	Well, the new tip is that if you're using Firefox and you're reading the New York Times, at some point, the New York Times says, you've read your 10 articles!
	Get out!
	That's when you switch browsers.
	Then you switch to Chrome and you get another 10.
	You put another 10 up.
	I don't know why, but they're doing the count somehow within the cookies of that browser only, and they're not really doing it right.
	They're doing it wrong.
	I mean, if you're going to kick somebody off, For reading their 10 articles, they should be kicked off of everything.
	Yeah, they don't have a way.
	Well, the New York Times, I can bypass so easily.
	Same goes for Forbes.
	Wall Street Journal has a good firewall.
	It's hard to crack that one.
	I'm not quite sure how to get through that.
	Well, give us the tip.
	How do you get through the New York Times firewall?
	Oh, well, no, I do that with the Freedom Controller, which gets an offline version.
	That's not a tip that is handy for anybody to use.
	No.
	Okay, so I've closed the Microsoft Edge browser, and it's still sucking up resources.
	It hasn't actually gone away, so I'm going to end the task.
	Will that blow up everything?
	No, it'll just blow up all the stuff that you're doing on Edge.
	Okay, good.
	So it didn't blow up.
	Yeah, the Edge, okay, here's the thing with the Edge browser.
	It's the resource usage off the hook.
	Yeah, and it's one of those.
	I don't like these that linger.
	There's other programs that do that.
	They say, okay, oh yeah, yeah, we're closed.
	Yeah, we're done.
	We're closed.
	Skype does this.
	Yeah, Skype.
	Well, Chrome does it too.
	They keep a little thing in your tray sitting there doing stuff.
	I'm sure sending information to the Googles.
	We've got an eye on you.
	We know what you're doing, Curry.
	Anyway, all right, so I'm back to Chrome now because I didn't want 80% of my system being used by the Edge browser.
	I just noticed that.
	Alright, so much for our tech news, everybody.
	Woohoo!
	Let's get on with the big show.
	As good as it gets.
	Yeah, it is as good as it gets.
	What you got for us, Jean-Claude?
	I got a couple things, but...
	Well, I'm going to tell you what we're going to talk about today in advance.
	We've got the CDC warning us that we're going to be bombed any minute.
	Duck and cover, duck and cover, duck and cover.
	Let's listen to this clip.
	That headline from the CDC, the agency said it will meet January 16th to come up with ways to help Americans prepare for the possibility of a nuclear war, including a presentation they're calling Preparing for the Unthinkable.
	The CDC calling a nuclear detonation, quote, unlikely amid rising nuclear tensions with North Korea.
	I had the similar report, but from the BBC. The CDC wants everyone to get ready for the possibility...
	Wait, that wasn't this...
	Was that, uh...
	No, this sounds more like CNN. The CDC wants everyone to get ready for the possibility of a nuclear war, but they don't want people to freak out.
	They also said that this meeting is not...
	Sure, don't freak out, people.
	Just saying.
	...tied to the recent tensions between the U.S. and North Korea.
	Centers for Disease Control officials will meet January 16th in Atlanta to discuss federal and local response team training for nuclear detonation.
	Topics include preparing for the unthinkable and roadmap to radiation preparedness.
	This meeting was set up last April.
	Okay, so it was set up...
	Buy iodine!
	That's right!
	The no-agenda iodine pills.
	It's time.
	It's time.
	Play this ice out of the blue.
	Buttocks.
	Okay.
	Next from Alabama this evening.
	Wrong.
	It says buttocks ISO. Then I screwed it up.
	So don't play it.
	Okay.
	That was very anticlimactic.
	Yes, it was.
	I will have to work on it for the next show.
	Okay.
	Okay, so it's not worth playing at all because...
	Exactly, because it's actually another story that buttocks will be included in the other clip, but as an ISO out of the blue, it won't make any sense now because of that intro that I left on there for some stupid reason.
	Oh, I forgot to wrap up my mixed reality rap with one thing.
	Imagine, okay, so the way this will be sold, I'm pretty sure, is you'll have a smaller head thing, because they're already quite small, but it'll be pretty small.
	You'll be able to plug it into your Surface phone, so you'll have this huge environment that travels with you.
	Okay.
	So that you're on the plane, you've got a 30-foot movie screen in front of you, or you can be doing all kinds of different work, but it'll be...
	I think...
	Because that's what you...
	You had the original idea that with these whatever their apps work on everything...
	I think that that's what we'll see.
	You'll have your regular...
	Everything will be in your Surface phone, pretty much.
	That'll be your computer.
	That would be good.
	There's one thing missing from this whole thing, which is a little bit of study.
	I mean, that's like, what is this going to do to your optic nerve?
	Oh, no, it's going to completely fuck everybody up.
	There's no doubt about it.
	Yeah, it's like you and your ears.
	What?
	I got you, too.
	I was telling Tina this yesterday, and immediately her face clouded over.
	I said, baby, I am not going to be living in the virtual reality world.
	I'm trying to jack some coin out of it.
	Just trust me on this.
	This can't be good.
	This is not going to be good.
	No, the virtual reality is going to be very bad for human society in general.
	But if you've never read Neil Stevenson's Snow Crash, you need to read it because the metaverse is exactly what is now possible.
	And the thing that I think makes it work is that all of these headsets, you plug it into any computer that's running Windows 10 and it just, quote-unquote, just works.
	Plug and play, baby!
	No drivers needed.
	Plug and play.
	Well, speaking of which, the big CES is taking place.
	Does it start this weekend?
	I don't know.
	I think so.
	Maybe.
	Or it started already, and this week is the end of it.
	I'm not sure.
	I didn't keep track of the dates.
	I wasn't going to go, so I didn't care.
	It's the same show every year.
	I don't see why people bother to go at all.
	I have a report.
	The tech industry's premier annual gathering, CES, kicks off this week with no women leading the keynote sessions and no code of conduct that might prevent incidents of sexual harassment.
	CIS has attracted criticism for not making itself more welcoming to women.
	Even as the issue of sexual harassment and assault has grabbed headlines in the last couple of months, the stakes are high for the technology industry, rocked in the past year by a sexual harassment scandal at Uber and misconduct by some prominent Silicon Valley investors.
	The CAS organizers say they made a push to make the event more diverse after executives at Twitter and other tech companies criticized them for speaker lineup dominated by white men.
	The event also comes under particular criticism for the so-called booth babes, high-heeled female models who are used to show off the latest gadgets and for not following other trade shows by coming up with a code of conduct to prevent female attendees from being the subject of unwanted sexual high-heeled female models who are used to show off the latest gadgets and for not following other
	Organizers at other tech gatherings have increased security, trained staff, as well as mandated badges be worn at all times so that attendees can quickly identify a harasser.
	Some 200,000 people are expected to attend this year's event.
	You know, of all the...
	Stab, you can give yourself the borderline clip of the day.
	Oh, well, thank you.
	It's a dom clip.
	Yeah, it's dom.
	Of the idiots.
	Okay.
	I've been to these shows so many times.
	The amount of sexual...
	Nobody has time for sexual harassment.
	Oh, there she goes.
	You know, it just never happens.
	I've never seen it.
	I've never seen it.
	The booth babes I've seen, I used to take pictures of them because it's always...
	You get a good shot.
	It's good practice.
	But...
	But they've diminished the number of booth bags over the years to the point where there's hardly any of it compared to the 1980s.
	But John, we also have no women speaking.
	We do no women keynotes.
	It's all white men.
	I mean, how does the tech industry not recognize they needed to at least do a little bit, even if it's just to pretend?
	Well, they could have put a woman on the speaker's dais, I suppose.
	Easily.
	Let's see who the speaker's...
	Usually, for years and years and years, it was just always Bill Gates.
	Right.
	Because he'd draw a big crowd and everybody'd go...
	Well, now it's going to be the AMD guy.
	He's going to come out there and I'm sure he's going to say, we're great.
	Is the AMD guy going to be the speaker?
	I think so.
	Oh, that's right.
	I'm going to bing it.
	I'm going to bing it.
	Bing it, baby.
	Those guys, they could make so much money off of us if they just listened to our marketing.
	Yeah.
	Being a baby.
	Okay.
	Let's see what we got here.
	Yeah.
	Being a...
	I'm going to go to Microsoft Edge.
	Here's someone who will not be there.
	The leading man behind the push to end net neutrality is canceling an appearance at a major consumer electronics show because of death threats.
	Former Verizon executive and current FCC chair Ajit Pai was supposed to speak next week in Las Vegas.
	It is not the first time.
	He has gotten threats.
	While speaking on net neutrality rules last month, the FCC chair, the chambers were evacuated to investigate a security threat.
	Repealing those regulations spurred angry protests across the country, including right here in Seattle.
	Yeah, the outrage over the net neutrality decision has been quite fun to watch on the face bag.
	Okay, what's this thing here I'm looking at?
	It says NVIDIA CES 2018 Keynote Live.
	Who's going to be the speaker?
	Is it the CEO? The CEO is an Asian.
	How's that a white guy?
	I didn't make the report.
	I just got the borderline clip of the day for it.
	They don't have his name on here.
	What kind of a press release is this?
	It'll be the CEO. He's an Asian guy.
	I know him.
	Okay.
	Well, but there's no women.
	There's no women.
	Okay, we got the multi-culti thing going, but we got the...
	Where's the women?
	Uh...
	I mean, who's going to be there?
	You've got women.
	Do you have Ginny from IBM? Is she speaking?
	Is she speaking?
	No.
	She's not speaking.
	She shouldn't.
	They'd run her out of town.
	She's ruined the company.
	Well, here's what I would do.
	How about Melissa?
	Have Melissa go out there and do a deconstruction of young.
	She's fired.
	Perfect.
	I'd want to hear that.
	Here's what I predict.
	And you know we're from the future.
	There's going to be allegations.
	If I was a woman, I'd go there.
	And I'd just have someone brush up against me and I'd call bloody murder.
	Yeah, like that woman who was, remember Lewandowski when he grabbed?
	Yes, yeah, the reporter girl.
	The reporter girl.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, something like that.
	That's easy enough to jerry-rig.
	You could do that.
	If anything, they're opening themselves up to some big exposure.
	I think that's...
	With these types of reports, a bunch of men.
	A bunch of men.
	A bunch of men.
	Yeah.
	Oh, okay.
	So, I guess just go on the floor.
	Me too!
	Me too!
	Just start screaming.
	See what happens.
	You know what?
	Somebody should have put together a Me Too cap.
	Oh, damn.
	What another good idea.
	Yeah, we're loaded with them.
	That's what we do.
	We're loaded with cap ideas.
	Me Too red.
	Red with the orange or yellow embroidery.
	Or black.
	No.
	Or maybe a pussy cap that says it.
	There you go.
	Me too.
	Now you're talking.
	Exactly.
	All right.
	So the CES. Well, good.
	That's why I'm not going.
	You never go to those things.
	It's like, oh, God, I want to go to CES. It's a bunch of white guys and no women.
	And booth babes.
	And those horrible booth babes.
	Even though you can use them for good practice.
	And you know, those booth babies are mostly hired by the Japanese companies.
	Oh, no doubt.
	And Chinese.
	No doubt.
	They're no fools.
	All right, onward.
	Yes.
	I got a couple, I got a story that never got any action.
	I got two stories here that just did not get any traction, and they seem to me to be, one of them in particular seems to have legs, but it doesn't.
	Well, this one here probably doesn't have legs.
	This is the dead woman in trunk story.
	Ooh, okay.
	The Santa Cruz man is facing serious charges tonight after he was caught with a dead body in his car halfway across the country.
	Investigators say 30-year-old Tostin Walsh Lohman got into a high-speed chase in South Dakota yesterday.
	It was on Interstate 90.
	A trooper tried to pull him over for speeding.
	Police say the lowman was traveling as fast as 118 miles an hour before he hit a spike strip near Rapid City.
	When officers searched his car, that's when they found a dead woman in it.
	So far, no word on who she is, where she's from, or how she died.
	And that's the end of the story.
	There's been no follow-up.
	Nobody cares.
	And why was this guy in South Dakota in the first place?
	He's from Santa Cruz.
	Why don't they give us any...
	Why even report it if they don't give us any background anymore?
	They're just doing headlines.
	That was what, CBS? No, that was our local news.
	News is just doing headlines.
	Here's a headline!
	And here's another one.
	I think this is ABC. I'm not sure.
	I didn't put it on here.
	But I believe it's ABC. And it's...
	No, I think this might be CBS. Well, it doesn't make any difference because the story has all the opportunity for a six-week cycle story.
	It has all kinds of possibilities, and it just falls flat.
	You've never heard anything about it.
	This is the terrorism, white supremacy.
	Terrorism charges have been filed against a man in Missouri suspected of trying to derail an Amtrak train in October.
	Court papers say that 26-year-old Taylor Wilson has ties to white supremacist groups.
	Prosecutors say he pulled the train's emergency brake in Oxford, Nebraska.
	No one was hurt, but Wilson was found with a loaded gun in an engineer's cab.
	Yeah, again, nothing.
	Well, what they don't report on, either...
	By the way, hitting the brakes is not the same as trying to derail a train.
	No, it's not necessarily an act of terrorism, but it's not a good thing you should be doing.
	No, you shouldn't be doing it.
	You recall the FBI thwarted a terrorist attack on San Francisco's Pier 39?
	Yeah, that was about a week or two ago.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, what is the follow-up to that?
	Well, there's no follow-up other than that, according to the affidavit, we love reading these from the special investigator, that the perpetrator, Everett Aaron Jameson, three names, of course, a Modesto tow truck driver, He was given the task, you know, hey man, let's go have a violent attack over there at Pier 39.
	And he told the undercover agent who was goading him to do this that Christmas Day would be the perfect day to commit the attack.
	But then he said, you know, I don't feel so good about it.
	I don't really want to do it.
	I'd like to back out.
	And they just goaded him into doing it.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Hello.
	Jameson told the undercover agent Monday he had reconsidered, felt he could not carry out the attack after all.
	But no, no, no, no.
	You just got to do it, man.
	You just got to do it.
	You can do it.
	You can do it.
	And that is not followed up.
	I mean, it is despicable.
	They do this all the time.
	This is what the old six-week cycle is based on.
	This is exactly what the six-week cycle was.
	But instead, we get one headline, which is, FBI is great, saved us all, and then no follow-up.
	And if these guys get a decent lawyer, they usually get off.
	Yeah, doubtful.
	It's entrapment of the worst kind.
	Yes.
	They dream up the scheme.
	Yeah.
	They give the guy the car.
	Trick you into, like, doing it.
	Yeah, a few aluhuak bars.
	And what kind of a Muslim are you, anyway?
	You don't want to blow up the place.
	You're not a good Muslim.
	Exactly.
	All right, let's get into this book.
	Okay, I have a bunch of clips about this book, and I have it from two different...
	I have it from both CBS, and then I have the real raunchy, really, really bad stuff, and I just use the word really a lot there, from ABC, where they're just out to make Trump like a bonehead.
	Now, I have not read the book.
	Is it available on Kindle yet?
	Probably not.
	It's probably only available hardcover.
	It's floating around.
	There's a PDF of it floating around.
	Now, what is interesting...
	Is that it is very obvious that the dimension B believes this is completely true.
	Everything in this book is true.
	Yeah, they believe the Gorilla TV story was true.
	Yeah, that was really interesting.
	I'm actually looking for...
	Let me see if I can find this.
	There was a Dave Weiner post I wanted to share with you.
	Why don't you talk about the Gorilla channel and I'll find that email.
	Yeah, some hoaxter got on Twitter and he posted this.
	I could read this thing if I can find it.
	I didn't think of...
	Printing it out.
	But it's in the newsletter.
	It's in the newsletter in its entirety.
	Anyway, go to the newsletter and look at it.
	So it claims that Trump was irked because he didn't find the Gorilla Channel on his television set in the White House.
	This, of course, makes no sense from the get-go since there's never been such a channel.
	He's never seen such a channel.
	So why would he want to see it?
	But okay, we'll just go along and believe he's nuts.
	And so he wanted to see the gorillas, and then when he saw it, so they set up a transmitter, an actual TV transmitter on the south lawn.
	Apparently nobody noticed this.
	I guess a big TV transmitter would have been picked up by everybody in the neighborhood.
	Nobody said anything.
	This is a ridiculous story.
	The visual I get is that he has a television with rabbit ears on top of the TV in the White House.
	Because that's the only way you would receive it.
	So the whole thing was a massive hoax.
	Here, let me read it to you.
	I have the post here.
	On his first night in the White House, President Trump complained that the TV in his bedroom was broken because it didn't have the, quote, Gorilla Channel.
	Trump seemed to be under the impression that a TV channel existed that screens nothing but guerrilla-based content 24 hours a day.
	To appease Trump, White House staff compiled a number of guerrilla documentaries into a makeshift guerrilla channel broadcast into Trump's bedroom from a hastily constructed transmission tower on the south lawn.
	However, Trump was unhappy with the channel they had created, moaning that it was boring because the guerrillas aren't fighting.
	Quote, Staff edited out all the parts of the documentaries where gorillas weren't hitting each other, and at last the president was satisfied.
	Quote, on some days he'll watch the gorilla channel for 17 hours straight.
	On some days he'll watch the gorilla, uh-oh, no.
	He kneels in front of the TV with his face about four inches from the screen and says encouraging things to the gorillas, like, the way you hit that other gorilla was good.
	I think he believes the gorillas can hear him.
	This is, I mean, so here's Dave Weiner.
	I ordered a copy, of course.
	I've read the New Yorker excerpt and the Hollywood Reporter piece and have so many things to say.
	Let's start with two.
	We knew the Trump White House was in a chaotic, planeless place, a random Ouija board manipulated by rich donors to drain the treasury quickly and to service their pet projects.
	But with Wolf's writing, we have stories to go with this.
	Until now, we could only imagine.
	We had a spy in there the whole time.
	We didn't even know it.
	What a gift!
	And with a clear picture of how much a fool Trump is, we know there's nothing more to him than what he appears to be.
	A well-compensated, money-laundering, self-promoting agent for Russian oligarchs.
	That's all that Trump is.
	Yeah, and Wolf claims he has audio tapes of his interviews.
	With Trump?
	With everybody.
	Well, he probably does.
	Well, he should bring it.
	I don't believe any of this.
	I totally agree with you.
	A hastily constructed TV transmission tower on the South Lawn.
	Why?
	Why on the lawn?
	How would the FCC put up with that?
	Yeah, why don't you just connect a VCR directly to the TV? Or you do a lot of different things.
	But it was all bogus from the beginning, because why would Trump think there was a guerrilla channel, and why would he give a crap?
	If there was, he doesn't...
	I don't get the impression he does much more than watch CNN and bitch.
	Well, I think that that is the level that Dimension B truly believes Trump is at.
	I said this in the newsletter.
	It's not that they believe it.
	They want to believe it.
	They want to believe the worst.
	If anything good comes out, they shake their heads.
	That's no good.
	That's no good.
	So they want to believe it.
	That's the way they want to believe the bull crap about, oh, the rich are getting a tax break.
	It's a tax break for the rich.
	And now we have our guy.
	Yep.
	The anonymous CPA says, here's the numbers.
	No way.
	Yeah, the numbers are not true.
	Unless, I suppose, if there's somebody that's actually that rich and has no property and owns nothing, I suppose he could probably benefit.
	But, I mean, if...
	Okay.
	It's just, it's surprising that that level, I mean, so that is truly what a large portion of people, a large group of people believes is that the president literally is demented and only wants to sit with his nose four inches from the television screen to yell at the gorillas.
	I mean, come on.
	It's gone, that's how far back bad it's gone.
	I play the clips from CBS. Right on.
	Well, I'm trying to decide.
	Should I play the clips from ABC where they just go after him?
	No.
	Come on.
	You've got to ramp it up.
	You've got to end with a headline.
	I like to sometimes do the reverse where you play the bad and then you play the good.
	But let's play the good and then we'll play the bad.
	So this is Wolf Book CBS 1.
	Okay.
	More now from White House correspondent Margaret Brennan.
	Thank you.
	Thank you very much.
	On his way to a working weekend at Camp David, President Trump ignored questions about his former chief strategist, Steve Bannon.
	Now, I played this as just a part of it.
	I don't play it.
	ABC is a little more full.
	I'm just playing snippets from the CBS stuff.
	And the reason I played this snippet is because there was something in here.
	This is the reporters yelling.
	It sounded like the wrong reporter clip.
	It did, didn't it?
	Yeah, because they're asking a different question from a while ago, which I think I have that, actually.
	Yeah, so CBS is playing this.
	I took and I ISOed the person yelling out a question, and either if this is a true question, which is the ISO, if this is actually somebody asking this question, then the reporting group are idiots.
	Yeah.
	I shouldn't see family.
	See, I recall the should Steve Bannon be fired from a different...
	I have the clip where they're yelling on the lawn, and this, I think.
	But this morning you were tweeting about your mental state.
	Why did you feel the need to tweet about that this morning?
	Well, only because I went to the best college.
	See, that's...
	I don't think he did anything on the lawn, did he?
	No, that was one of those Reagan moments where he's walking to the chopper and he's waving and not taking questions, and that's when should Steve Bannon be fired.
	Now, is CBS playing B-roll?
	Well, it's an old clip because he's already been fired.
	Yes, but that doesn't mean a reporter knows that.
	In other words, it could be some dumb reporter.
	If they asked it a month ago, but this is a report from now.
	Supposedly, it begs the question.
	I think it's possible that one of the reporters thinks Steve Bannon is still working there because they talk about him so much.
	No, I think they just pulled in a clip of just yelling.
	They just, hey, let's go search under yelling at Trump.
	If that's the case, that's very poor form for CBS. If that's true, what you just said is true, that is really bad.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, it's really bad.
	So they're just throwing this crap together.
	I mean, they could get it.
	I'm sure there's...
	I don't know how this happened, but let's play the final part of CBS. This is CBS 2.
	Bannon praised the president on his radio show Wednesday night.
	The president of the United States is a great man.
	You know I support him day in and day out.
	Prompting this response.
	I don't know.
	He told me a great man last night.
	So, you know, he obviously changed his tune pretty quick.
	The damage may already be done.
	In the book, Bannon alleges that the president's son-in-law and White House advisor Jared Kushner is involved in financial crimes and that Donald Trump Jr. was treasonous for having met at Trump Tower with Russians offering damaging information about Hillary Clinton.
	I got a lot of flack.
	For what I said on the last show, is that the headline reads everywhere, Steve Bannon says Donald Trump Jr.
	committed treason, I think I've seen headlines even.
	Yeah, something like that.
	But what he said was, even if you don't think it's treason...
	You know, illegal or bad.
	You know, you should have called the FBI. I happen to think it is.
	It's a little different than him saying he committed treason.
	And people get...
	We're like, shut up!
	Can't you read English?
	Yeah, I can actually.
	And that's why it's...
	I should write that time code down, shouldn't I? How about...
	And the theory that this is really...
	CBS... I didn't play a long clip, so I played a long clip.
	We've only played the whole clip, so I just interrupted it.
	Okay, we'll finish that clip so I can give my thesis.
	...having met at Trump Tower with Russians offering damaging information about Hillary Clinton.
	White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders downplayed the President's relationship with Bannon.
	I'm not aware that they were ever particularly close.
	Katie Walsh, former Trump White House Deputy Chief of Staff, was also quoted by the author as saying that six weeks into the term, Kushner still could not name the administration's top three priorities.
	Working with the president, she said, was like trying to figure out what a child wants.
	Walsh later denied that remark.
	I absolutely spoke to the president.
	Sanders said the author, Michael Wolff, only had limited access to Mr.
	Trump, a claim Wolff disputed this morning.
	I mean, I've spent about three hours with the president over the course of the campaign in the White House.
	In a tweet today, the president called that book phony, said it was full of lies, and implied that Wolf has made a career out of inventing stories.
	Jeff?
	Well, he's going to make millions on this book.
	Good work.
	Yeah.
	So the idea, CBS is sticking with this, and I'm starting to listen to the CBS thing as though the CIA is now on board with something.
	And because CBS is lockstep on this idea that you actually presented, and I agree with, Actually, Mimi was listening to these clips with me, and she agrees totally with this concept.
	The whole thing is to get rid of Kushner and Ivanka.
	Get them out of there.
	Yes.
	And she says that Ivanka's got Trump wrapped around her finger because he doesn't want to disappoint his girl.
	You know, he likes so much, and so she wants to be in there with Kushner, her husband.
	And he's a douche.
	Yeah, and Trump can't get rid of him, and this is going to maybe be the way, and CBS was backing them up on this.
	And also, let's get rid of Don Jr., too.
	He's really just kind of getting in the way.
	He's also ugly.
	I mean, he's really not pretty.
	He needs to go.
	Well, whatever the case, and I said whatever the case, They can't get rid of these people, and this is one of the ways of doing it.
	Well, ABC is having none of it.
	They're not on board, huh?
	ABC's not on board with that.
	All they're on board with is the Dimension B butt-slamming of Trump, and when you listen to their report compared to CBS, let's start with clip one.
	Boom!
	Bannon turning on the president and his family.
	President Trump is tweeting about Bannon now, nicknaming him Sloppy Steve.
	The president is also going after the author of the bombshell book.
	Tonight, the author is saying he spoke to multiple members of the president's inner circle.
	He says they told him the president is like a child.
	He does not read.
	He does not listen.
	Here's ABC senior White House correspondent Cecilia Vega tonight.
	President Trump today headed off to Camp David for the weekend.
	As for questions, he wasn't having it.
	We're making America great again.
	Thank you.
	Thank you very much.
	The new book, Fire and Fury, taking his White House and it seems all of Washington by storm.
	At bookstores, long lines.
	Within hours, empty shelves.
	The president now lashing out at author Michael Wolff and former chief strategist Steve Bannon, a key voice in the book quoted disparaging the president and his family.
	The president tweeting the book is full of lies, misrepresentations, and sources that don't exist.
	Look at this guy's past and watch what happens to him and sloppy Steve.
	Wolff stands by every word and tells NBC News the president's inner circle thinks he is unfit for office.
	They all say he is like a child.
	And what they mean by that is he has a need for immediate gratification.
	It's all about him.
	They say he's a moron, an idiot.
	This man does not read, does not listen.
	Wolf paints a portrait of a mentally unstable man saying the president often repeats the same stories every three minutes and recently at Mar-a-Lago failed to recognize lifelong friends.
	I will quote Steve Bannon.
	He's lost it.
	Well, before you say anything, before you say anything, from Politico this morning, Bannon expresses regret after slamming Trump family in new book.
	In fact, he says, Donald Trump Jr.
	is both a patriot and a good man.
	He's been relentless in his advocacy for his father and the agenda that has helped turn our country around.
	I regret that my delay in responding to the inaccurate reporting regarding Don Jr.
	has diverted attention from the president's historical accomplishments in the first year of his presidency.
	Ruh-roh.
	That kind of messes things up.
	Well, not necessarily, because one of the shows besides this one is going to read that quote.
	Nobody.
	But the thing is, he doesn't say, Kushner's a good guy.
	So that still kind of fits within my theory.
	You've got to get back on that track, because that's what CBS is doing.
	They know what's going on.
	But ABC and NBC both...
	Or just doing this one.
	And they have Wolf come out.
	He's a moron.
	He's an idiot.
	He's lost it.
	And then they go on and they talk about how he didn't recognize people.
	That means he's like losing his mind.
	Hey, who are you?
	At Mar-a-Lago.
	Yeah, he didn't recognize the reporter, his friend from Media Matters who set him up with the reporter.
	Oh, who are you?
	Yeah, okay.
	Yeah, you can sit down, reporter.
	Whatever it is.
	Now, here's the thing.
	They go on with the moron, the idiot.
	They report all this stuff.
	And then as you play clip two, they say this.
	These incidents not confirmed by ABC News.
	Now, that's your ISO. So here you go.
	It is an ISO. I know I should have put it on there.
	Now, here you go.
	It goes like this.
	None of this is confirmed, but we're going to report it on network news anyway.
	Yeah.
	None of the other people did.
	No, but we're going to do it.
	That tells me that ABC is whatever the current loop is that you have to be in.
	They're not in it or they've been left out of it.
	I have no idea what they're trying to pull here, but they're putting Disney, the main corporation Disney, at risk.
	You can't say we have no confirmation of any of this shit.
	It's interesting you bring that up because, let me just play this.
	I'm going to go back to that clip, the screaming clip, where he was asked about this.
	Listen carefully.
	This morning you were tweeting about your mental state.
	Why did you feel the need to tweet about that this morning?
	Well, only because I went to the best colleges for college.
	I went to a – I had a situation where I was a very excellent student, came out, made billions and billions of dollars, became one of the top business people, went to television, and for 10 years was a tremendous success, as you probably have heard.
	Ran for president one time and won.
	And then I hear this guy that does not know me, doesn't know me at all.
	By the way, did not interview me for three...
	He said he interviewed me for three hours in the White House.
	It didn't exist, okay?
	It's in his imagination.
	So many of the people that I talk about in terms of fake news actually came to the defense of this great administration, and even myself, because they know the author and they know he's a fraud.
	I consider it a work of fiction.
	And I think it's a disgrace that somebody's able to have something, do something like that.
	The libel laws are very weak in this country.
	If they were strong, it would be very helpful.
	You wouldn't have things like that happen.
	Okay, so I think that's where it may be going.
	We may be going towards, and he talked about this a lot in the campaign, about the libel laws.
	Maybe.
	But I still like to know.
	I don't know where Disney fits into this because they obviously fit into this.
	And ABC is just on this rampage.
	I do have the rest of this kind of a short...
	Ending here.
	This is Wolf on ABC. This is the clip three, which is the final.
	It's not the final.
	The report went on forever.
	This is the final clip that I have.
	But the White House now forced to answer questions about the president's mental stability.
	It's disgraceful and laughable.
	If he was unfit, he probably wouldn't be sitting there.
	This is an incredibly...
	A strong and good leader.
	Their strategy?
	To disparage Wolf as someone who had limited sources and limited access.
	The president tweeting today, I never spoke to him for book.
	But Wolf says whether or not the president realized it was for the book, they did spend about three hours together during the campaign and in the White House.
	So let's get to Cecilia Vega with us live tonight from the White House.
	And Cecilia, President Trump was hoping to start the new year boosted by victory on the tax cuts, but this book is now dominating the White House agenda for sure.
	Oh, it certainly is, and there is definitely a sense of outrage and frustration about that here, David.
	But this is a West Wing used to dealing with crisis.
	David, as one senior White House official told us, quote, people expect us to be running around with our hair on fire, but it's hard to do that when it's already been burned off.
	Cecilia Vega.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	And I will say, if you're listening to this program right now, and instead of thinking, boy, the media are really full of crap, you're thinking, boy, these guys are the Trump Protection Podcast, you need to leave.
	Trump Protection Podcast.
	Yeah, you need to leave.
	You need to leave, because you're really misunderstanding what's going on here.
	Yeah.
	Because the next time, it'll be about something that you're involved in, and you're going to notice the bull crap, and it may be too late, because you can't change this once this stuff is out.
	So this will be, you're right, I mean, this will be history forever.
	Trump is a moron, he's an idiot.
	He watches the guerrilla town.
	I mean, they've been pounding on this topic as part of the rotation.
	He's an idiot, he's unfit for office, he's unhinged.
	And plus the other things, he's a liar, and there's a million other things.
	I mean, he is a ridiculous boaster, which does not help his cause, but...
	But he's not, I mean, why are they trying to, I think this is damaging the country.
	You cannot disable the President of the United States, who has a lot of things he's got to do, just day to day, just to keep the country from getting attacked by, or by subterfuge.
	I mean, this is not a healthy situation.
	This is very dangerous.
	And nobody seems to care about that.
	They want to get this maniac out of there.
	When the whole thing is political, I'll say it again, the reason you want to do this with Trump is to keep things so unstable until 2018 because the Democrats are completely out of the government.
	They've been pretty much marginalized.
	It's all run by Republicans and they have to get back in by any means.
	This is their methodology.
	I think it's Low end.
	It doesn't talk about issues.
	The question is, will it work?
	Well, they don't know.
	They think it will.
	That's why they're doing it.
	And they're going to keep doing it for the next...
	I don't see this working.
	I think you're right.
	If it's doing anything, it's ripping the country apart, which, of course, the president is participating in willingly.
	Well, yeah.
	He's not politically savvy.
	If he was politically savvy, we wouldn't have any...
	I mean, if he was as savvy about politics as he...
	Seems to be about real estate.
	Right.
	We probably wouldn't have any of this.
	Your heads would be flying.
	Well, let's take a little trip.
	Let's take a little trip.
	You sitting down?
	Well, I got to...
	Hold on a second.
	Let me get a drink of water because I... Oh, no, no, no.
	Don't drink the water because you might puke.
	All right.
	Are you ready?
	Let's take a trip.
	We're going in, John.
	We're going deep.
	We're going into the alternate universe.
	Here we go!
	America!
	America!
	Look out here we go!
	Dimension B! Dimension B! Dimension B! We choose God!
	Fuck you!
	Huh?
	Hey, Sparky's here.
	All right, here we are, John.
	Dimension B. Okay.
	And Dimension B, we have a continuous loop of Stephen Colbert.
	Stephen Colbert and his audience.
	And Stephen Colbert, I believe, is still the number one chat show in the evening.
	Still the number one.
	He's the number one late night talk show host.
	Number one.
	Yes.
	Number one.
	And here's what he had to say about this book.
	But today...
	Okay.
	But today, we learned why Trump may be acting like this.
	According to a new book called Fire and Fury, Donald Trump didn't want to be president.
	He didn't want him to win.
	There's a name for that.
	the majority of American voters.
	Trump was planning on failing and walking away with the fame and the money.
	Or as the article describes it, this was a real-life version of Mel Brooks' The Producers.
	Now, in some ways, it still is.
	I mean, just look at all the happy Nazis.
	Oh, there we go.
	What?
	Am I being too hard on Nazis?
	I didn't realize we have so many Nazi fans here tonight.
	It's a brilliant plan, but then tragedy struck, he won.
	Donald Trump Jr.
	told her friend that on election night, his father looked as if he had seen a ghost.
	Melania was in tears and not of joy.
	Really, Melania cried on election night.
	That is the first thing we have in common.
	Other...
	Other than, of course...
	Our smoky eyes.
	The campaign...
	Thank you.
	No, thank you.
	The campaign was in such disarray that his closest advisors had no faith in him.
	Like Trump strategist and Vincent D'Onofrio for Men in Black.
	Steve Bannon...
	When he came on board in August, Bannon thought the campaign was done for.
	He described it as the broke dick campaign.
	The campaign struggled with a candidate who had no previous government or military experience.
	Our previous president was a professor of constitutional law.
	But in Trump's campaign early on, a campaign staffer was sent to explain the Constitution to the candidate.
	You can't have a president who doesn't know what the Constitution is.
	is that's like a pilot saying, attention passengers, we were heading toward Houston, so just sit back and enjoy the flight.
	Oh, one quick thing, if anyone back there knows how to get to Houston and land a plane, please just push your call button.
	And I'm not sure which button that one is, though.
	And it just went on and on from there.
	Yeah.
	That's what he does.
	He's very popular.
	It was interesting to hear that the Hitler joke first didn't go over too well.
	You know, people are like, ooh, ooh.
	Well, I think a lot of the people there obviously had not, because it was a reference, it was actually a callback to the producers.
	Yes.
	Which was about Hitler and Nazis.
	Yes.
	Well, he said there's a lot of happy Nazis.
	Yeah, which is what happened in the...
	There was no happy Nazi.
	They acted happy in the play, the producers, Springtime for Hitler.
	And he was trying to connect those two visually, that gag.
	And he couldn't do it.
	He just didn't have a...
	I mean, it was your...
	You can't do...
	Well, I'll tell you the problem.
	His audience probably has never seen it.
	I'm guessing that's true.
	They probably didn't go to the Broadway play.
	Yeah.
	I mean, it was redone as a movie a second time after the Broadway play, but it was not a success because it wasn't as funny as the original with Zero Mostel.
	Luckily, tonight, I will have the DVR running.
	I'm sure I'll have plenty of fun clips for Thursday, as Seth Meyers is hosting the Golden Globes tonight.
	Well, Seth Meyers has talked about this hosting gig because it's causing a problem with...
	I think we stick in Dimension B for this clip.
	Okay, please.
	The first major awards show of the year in Hollywood, the Golden Globes, is about to kick off as the red carpet is laid down at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
	Although Hollywood is no stranger to dealing with issues during awards, this year's season has been overshadowed by numerous allegations of sexual harassment and abuse, something the Globes host, Seth Meyers, isn't afraid to tackle.
	We talk about difficult things on our show a lot, so...
	Difficult things.
	We have some practice.
	We have a good group of writers that when...
	I love how it's all we, we, we, we, we.
	What happened about you?
	You're not standing there.
	It's just, if there's critique...
	He's not writing this material.
	No, but he also doesn't want to take responsibility for it.
	We're talking about difficult things.
	Everybody voices their opinions, and that's...
	You know, why don't you stop a second?
	I want to call you on that one.
	If you're a guy doing a lot of people's material and you're still working on it and it's a team effort and you start saying me, me, me, me, me, they're going to write crap for you.
	First of all, I wouldn't say that at all.
	I wouldn't be talking about it.
	I mean, does he ever go out and say, hey, these jokes are written by my team?
	No.
	He never does that.
	Never.
	You don't do that.
	We know it.
	He does a lot of referential material.
	It's fine.
	It's fine.
	It's not a big deal.
	He blames him, too.
	All right.
	We talk about difficult things in our show.
	Yeah, when they suck, he blames the writers, exactly.
	That's the hallmark of a great late-night talk show.
	All right, you made your point.
	Go on.
	It's great to tackle.
	We talk about difficult things in our show a lot, so we have some practice.
	We have a good group of writers that when we're talking about difficult things, everybody voices their opinions, and that's been very helpful to have.
	He's got a mouse in his pocket.
	Say what?
	Maybe he's got a mouse in his pocket.
	That's what he's referring to when he says we.
	That conversation backstage before you go on stage and have in front of an audience.
	So, you know, fingers crossed that we hit the right tone, but that's certainly our goal.
	A number of acts.
	Fingers crossed that we hit the right tone.
	What is the tone?
	A-hole?
	The actresses have already announced that they will be in the key of A-hole wearing black on Sunday to show solidarity amidst the Me Too and Time's Up movement.
	This is a problem.
	Now, this is a real problem.
	A lot of these women in this video report, you saw some of the dresses already.
	So it's black dresses out of...
	Actually, it says something interesting here.
	Hold on.
	Times Up movement?
	Have you heard of the Times Up movement?
	Time's up for Trump.
	Is that what it is?
	I don't know.
	It's gotta be.
	No, let me see.
	Let's do...
	I'm gonna bing it.
	I'm gonna bing it.
	Here we go.
	Bing it, baby.
	We are binging it.
	Bing it.io.
	Okay, I see powerful Hollywood women unveil anti-harassment action plan.
	I think this is what Time's Up is about.
	I thought it was Me Too.
	That was about Me Too.
	Well, Me Too is not working.
	Oh, you think...
	Okay, Time's Up is about...
	Oh, he's fucked then because he's got it.
	He has to...
	Here's what he's going to do.
	They're going to shift this into an anti-Trump thing because of that book.
	Oh.
	You have to remember that interview.
	I know that.
	I've seen that interview.
	That interview took place before the book Brouhaha took off.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	Gotcha.
	There's going to be a lot of book stuff.
	But the big problem I see is for the designers.
	I mean, if you look at the red carpet coverage, which I always watch, I love watching Ryan Seacrest.
	I have a big TV, so I can actually see him.
	And then he'll say, who are you wearing?
	Who are you wearing?
	And Juliana Ronchik.
	Who are you wearing?
	Oh, it's so gorgeous.
	Gorgeous.
	Gorgeous.
	Who are you wearing?
	And it'll all be crappy black.
	And that's not what the haute couture designers want to show because that's not the color.
	For the next season.
	So I see a problem here.
	And woe is me if you're not wearing black.
	How about that, huh?
	Yeah, I know.
	I think it's going to be a problem if you know where.
	But what about wearing black highlights or lowlights, as it were?
	Show solidarity amidst the Me Too and Time's Up movements.
	However, there may be more prominence of the issues during the awards themselves.
	It's going to look like a funeral.
	I'm looking forward to seeing what people do as much as you are.
	You know, we really only have control of our top, you know, our five, ten minutes off the top of the show.
	That's where we're putting our focus.
	And then looking forward to watching a night where I'm sure people will tell us what they're feeling.
	And that's always been a great thing about the Globes is people have used it as a platform, and I don't think this year will be any different.
	No, that's not a great thing about the Globes.
	That's what's annoying about all award shows.
	When you look at things like the Me Too movement and Time's Up, and you look at the solidarity that I think we're going to see on Sunday, there's a reason to be hopeful that next year is going to be different than this year.
	And moving forward, that ten years from now, this will hopefully all feel like ancient history.
	But it will require a solidarity, and I think that we're just starting to see the beginning of that now.
	The Golden Flames will be aired live on NBC on Sunday, January the 7th.
	Yay!
	Okay.
	Well, it'll be interesting to watch.
	The women are going to have to wear black.
	This is bullying.
	Yeah, it is bullying.
	It's bullying.
	I mean, I'm one of the women.
	I'm an actress.
	I'm going to come rolling out there, and I got this special dress that was maybe designed over the last six months by my favorite guy or woman.
	Yeah, got to paint it black.
	And I want to wear this, and now I have to wear black because I've just been cowed into wearing black.
	I call him or her up and say, hey, what are you going to do?
	I got to wear black.
	I got to wear black.
	We'll throw something together.
	I can't wait.
	It's gonna be so much fun.
	Where did this alternate universe story come from?
	All right, John, let's go back.
	Let's get back quick because I'm nauseous.
	Come on!
	Come on, Sparky!
	Hop on!
	Sparky, come here!
	Come here, Sparky!
	Come on!
	Oh, here we go!
	Hold on!
	We choose love!
	Fuck you!
	Do we have Sparky?
	Oh, good.
	He made it.
	He made it.
	Good.
	All right.
	Well, I was hoping while we were over there you'd be reading something from Facebook.
	I can't take it anymore.
	I'm in not a good mood today.
	I'm not in the state.
	Not in the right state of mind.
	It seems to be a perfect state for reading stuff from Facebook.
	But with that, I would like to thank you for your courage and say in the morning to you, John C., where the C stands for C-A-B-S. Dvorak.
	Well, you know, coming from the alternate universe and then going straight into the donation segment has got me very discombobulated.
	Well, you can at least do your opening riff, and then I'll give you some time.
	Okay.
	So I said in the morning, thank you for your courage, and then you say...
	In the morning to you, Mr.
	Adam Curry.
	In the morning, all ships and sea boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, all the day, but it's nice out there.
	And in the morning to the troll room.
	Wait a minute, let me kick Abu out of there.
	Okay.
	Yeah, he just said the show sucks today, so he's out.
	Goodbye.
	Oh, good.
	Okay.
	And in the morning to Mark...
	Why would this show suck today?
	We had good clips.
	I don't know.
	And in the morning to Mark G. He is the artist who gave us the artwork for episode 9 or 9 or 6, Rats on a Plane.
	This was a nice piece.
	We debated several.
	This was the two...
	This was Trump versus Bannon, the two boxing gloves, like a...
	Let's get ready to mumble was the subtext.
	Yes, it was funny.
	It was funny.
	It was a good piece, and we love that, and we love our artists for always bringing us great artwork to put in the album art.
	One of the few, if not the only show, that has such top-quality artwork every single episode.
	Noagendaartgenerator.com is where you can upload it, so please do that.
	That is just one of the many ways people can...
	Help the show.
	It is a value-for-value model.
	We have no advertisers.
	We don't take any money from anybody except from the producers.
	And that is what executive and associate producers do for sure in Hollywood, which is why we have a couple of real official production credits to hand out today on the show.
	Well, we do have a couple, actually.
	We have two executives and two associates.
	That's about it today, and it's not big numbers by any means.
	But let's take a look at what we got.
	Starting with Sir Tom McRod Adams.
	He's right at the top of the list with $33.33 from Trinity, Florida.
	He's down in Florida now.
	That's right, with the kids.
	As my fellow U.S. producers endure stubbornly frigid temps.
	Remember, this is a problem we have, but he's freezing out.
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	Note.
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	Nice.
	Fantastic.
	Fantastic.
	Thank you very much, Sir Atomic Rod Adams, Baron of the Suncoast.
	I read somewhere that with this recent cold snap, with this bomb Genesis, with this bomb cyclone, which obviously is all because of climate change, we burned more natural gas than ever.
	A record.
	It would make sense.
	Yeah, yeah.
	But do people realize that that is actually propagating the whole problem, that now we get more CO2 and then the temperature is going to get warmer and we'll get more...
	No, no, the temperature is going to get colder.
	No, we get warmer.
	No, it gets warmer so it gets colder.
	Don't you understand science?
	No, you don't understand science.
	You're right, I don't.
	I have no idea.
	The science is in!
	Science!
	Our next donor is Francine Hardaway, who came in with the note, save for show $1,333.
	Thank you, Dame Francine.
	I love you guys.
	You are, however, both quite eccentric.
	Yeah, and luckily you are the bastion of normality, Dame Francine.
	No wonder you hang out with us.
	Sir Nick of the Southside, 20345, 20345, 345.
	I've been meaning to donate for a while, but haven't.
	He is, by the way, associate executive producer for this show.
	Francine, she's going to be on this show.
	We can try to remember, but we don't do that well.
	We're not very good at it.
	I've been meaning to donate for a while, but I haven't.
	The show is better than ever, and I'm getting much value.
	Keep up the good work.
	I'd like a de-douching.
	Okay, we can do a de-douching right off the bat.
	Hold on.
	Where's my douche?
	Here we go.
	You've been de-douched.
	No problem.
	We de-douche on the spot for you.
	And he needs an L and a karma for you and all the producers.
	From Sir Nick of the Southside.
	Okay, we got that for you, sir.
	We must and we will much about that be committed.
	You've got karma.
	Michael Peters, again, from Vernon, Connecticut with 200 bucks.
	He says, hey, sorry for my faux pas on the last Thursday show.
	I totally forgot that $100 doesn't get messages read anymore.
	Thanks for reading mine anyways.
	You could have told me to F off and send more money, but you didn't.
	So in return, here's more money.
	Oh, it worked!
	It worked.
	Reverse psychology.
	I've been listening to the show since episode one, and you're the only podcast I never miss.
	You saved me from having to torture my soul watching the horrendous lamestream media.
	Please give some karma to everyone for me.
	You betcha.
	You've got karma.
	And that is that for the show 997.
	Yes, that's it.
	But I have to attribute some of this to upcoming holiday, to the doldrums, and to the storms.
	What holiday?
	Martin Luther King Day is coming up.
	Oh, that's why people didn't donate?
	No, I think they didn't donate because of the weather.
	Really?
	I don't think people...
	I think if you're...
	I think if you're back there, back east, I don't think these guys are screwed.
	I bet you the ratings on all the shows are down.
	Although I bet you that everyone can get to a football game.
	Well, then what are people doing?
	Just sitting inside shivering?
	Yes.
	I have a couple of shivering stories, too.
	Well, hopefully it'll be better.
	It's T-3.
	We're almost at the big 1K. The show 1,000.
	Yeah, there's also a possibility that some people are going to save up and donate on that day.
	That's possible.
	Show number 1,000.
	But we very much appreciate what our executive producers and associate producers have done for us today.
	And there are a couple people to thank who came in at $50 and above.
	We'll get to those later on in the program.
	It's our value for value.
	So, you know, maybe Abu was right?
	Maybe.
	Maybe.
	But I thought that this show was underway.
	We had some good stuff.
	I thought we were doing okay.
	I mean, do we call Trump an idiot?
	At least once, yeah.
	Remember us for our show coming up on Thursday.
	And while you're clustered around the Golden Globes, remember to propagate our formula.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Water!
	Water!
	Shut up, flame!
	Shut up, flame!
	Squirrel!
	Jeez, there you go.
	I'm looking at my clip list and I see the buttocks clip is like a meg, which is bullcrap.
	It should be about, I don't know.
	60K, the ISO, so I must have messed up.
	I think so.
	I'll fix it.
	I'll fix it.
	Well, where that came in is, I'll play the full clip, which has got the buttocks clip within it.
	This is a story about one of the women that accused Judge Roy Moore.
	Oh, wait.
	Shouldn't we be doing our update if we're going to do this?
	What update?
	What update?
	And now it's time for your sexual harassment update.
	Yeah, it's a sexual harassment update.
	Sorry, that's my fault.
	It's okay.
	This woman who came out and bitched about him grabbing her buttocks, which the clip is in here, her house is burnt to the ground.
	No, Hillary's house.
	No, this woman's.
	Hillary's house just caught fire.
	It's different.
	No, they were burning records is what they were doing.
	Probably.
	Oh, that got lost in the fire.
	I'm sorry.
	So this house, and then it turns out, you see, there's all these indications.
	They kept hammering the Roy Moore thing.
	And this, again, is ABC. So somebody actually finds out it was some local nudnik that probably set the fire.
	While they're at it, while they're reporting it, they might as well put in a couple of slam pieces so we can make the association that Trump and Roy Moore, they're all the same person and they're just a sexual predator creep.
	So let's play Judge Roy Moore.
	Unrelated.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	I thought I was going to play the...
	The buttocks clip.
	I was unprepared.
	Here we go.
	Next from Alabama this evening, a fire at the home of a woman who accused Senate candidate Roy Moore of sexual assault.
	And late today, authorities revealing they are speaking to a person of interest.
	ABC's Steve Osin-Sami tonight.
	Fire investigators in Alabama tonight believe that this was no accident, that someone purposefully burned down the home that belongs to Tina Johnson, one of the women accusing Republican Senate nominee Roy Moore of sexual assault.
	But they tell us tonight they don't believe this was any sort of payback for that accusation and not connected to Roy Moore or any of his followers.
	Johnson claimed Moore crossed the line when she was 28 and meeting with Moore in his law office, saying that he couldn't keep his hands to himself.
	He just grabbed me from behind on my buttocks and he just squeezed it really hard and I remember thinking I was so ashamed.
	I felt humiliated in that moment.
	It took everything out of me.
	The house burned down Tuesday and neighbors report seeing a drunk man walking around the home before the fire.
	In a statement tonight, investigators say they're speaking to a person of interest, but say the ongoing investigation does not lead us to believe that the fire is in any way related to Roy Moore or allegations made against him.
	No one was home and no one was hurt in the fire.
	Neighbors say they do know the man who was seen around the house and say he has long been a problem.
	David.
	Non-story.
	My buttocks.
	Run for the sole purpose of running that buttocks clip.
	Right.
	This is ABC again.
	This is an anti-Trump news item.
	They're sexual predators at ABC. All of Disney.
	I'm convinced.
	And I think we need to be looking at Disney very closely.
	Well, Disney does have all sorts of issues if you wanted to start looking into it.
	The pedophilia stuff always comes from that direction.
	Yeah.
	So maybe somehow...
	You know, you've got to be careful.
	When people are screaming, when they're pointing at somebody else, and we've seen this many times in this hashtag Me Too...
	What was the other one?
	What's the...
	Time's Up movement.
	Time's Up.
	Time's Up movement.
	That the people who are yelling the loudest are the ones who often are doing the bad.
	Yeah, well, there's an old Dutch saying for that.
	Exactly.
	Second Columbia professor resigns after accusations of sexual misconduct, as predicted on this program, that it would hit academia, but it's not really opening up yet.
	No, it's going to be tougher in academia because it's like police.
	They get a blue badge of eye, whatever they call it, where the police don't bust each other because they're all...
	You know, just don't.
	Huffington Post.
	Huffpaw.
	Contributor and self-proclaimed male feminist and leftist Christian Chikulas.
	Turns out he has a history of domestic abuse and physical violence carried out against his ex-wife, Amber Sweeney.
	There you go.
	That would be an example of what we're talking about.
	He punched me so hard I had a black eye.
	He has thrown me through a wall, kicked me and beat me.
	He shoved me through the wall in the front of our little one.
	She was a baby at the time.
	And that guy looks like a dick.
	And what we have yet here, Vice was one of the leading voices that falsely claimed that Gamergate was about harassment, misogyny, and sending death and rape threats to female game developers.
	I'm reading from a gamer website, obviously.
	So the two guys from Vice were fired or suspended, Andrew Creighton and Mike Germano for, you guessed it, sexual misconduct.
	Dropping like flies.
	Yes.
	Thank you.
	But it is quite quiet.
	Yeah, it's just starting off.
	It'll come back, though, because it's part of the Trump cycle, so it'll be back in some way.
	It'll be tonight.
	I think the theme, the best one, I think, was Franken.
	I'm still surprised he didn't try to stay.
	Did he actually leave yet?
	Yes, he did, because they just swore in the other person.
	Oh, okay.
	He's done and gone.
	I didn't realize.
	He went out with a whimper, not a bang.
	I still think that the theme...
	And I think this is going to crop up at the Golden Globes.
	This will be a little short-term prediction.
	Yep.
	The theme that why are they throwing me out for something I did years ago and it was innocuous when we have a sexual predator in the White House.
	Admitted sexual deviant in the White House.
	Admitted sexual deviant, yeah.
	Grabbed by the pussy guy.
	Yeah.
	And so that'll show up on the thing tonight.
	There'll be...
	And somebody may actually come to the defense.
	If I was in the dimension over there, I would do it.
	I would come to the defense.
	If I was in Hollywood, I was getting an award.
	That's what I would do.
	If I was in the dimension, I'd say, I want to do a call out to Al Franken, who was right.
	And then, you know, do something.
	And you would have the same career as the Dixie Chicks.
	It's a good idea.
	It works.
	Yeah.
	Well, luckily there is some help.
	Oh, you know, I should...
	Yeah, I'll close it out for a second.
	Let me just close it out.
	And this concludes your sexual harassment update.
	I just want to close that one out.
	But we do continue as there is some possible...
	There's treatment on the horizon for Dimension B. And we need to just step back for a second.
	No!
	Yes, we need to remember that we have ample evidence...
	That dimension B, human beings, have enlarged amygdala.
	And an enlarged amygdala, you know, when you are in a life-threatening, in any situation where you are afraid, your brain sends signals, the amygdala sends signals to the important parts of your brain.
	I'm not a brain scientist, as you can tell.
	That says this is life-threatening.
	And that's why you hear these types of, you know, we're all going to die.
	And he's going to kill us.
	And Hitler.
	All this stuff.
	So there was a study, and I have the study here from Science Direct.
	And I will read the abstract.
	Recent evidence indicates that philocybin, psilocybin, Psilocybin.
	Psilocybin.
	Psilocybin.
	Don't tell everyone what it is yet.
	Don't tell everyone what it is.
	Be quiet.
	Psilocybin with psychological support may be effective for treating depression.
	Some studies have found that patients with depression show heightened amygdala responses to fearful faces.
	Fearful faces.
	Remember that.
	Like an orange face.
	And there is reliable evidence that treatment with SSRIs attenuates amygdala responses.
	We hypothesize that amygdala response to emotional faces would be altered post-treatment with psilocybin.
	In this open-label study, 20 individuals diagnosed with moderate to severe treatment-resistant depression, which is what dimension B has, underwent two separate dosing sessions with psilocybin.
	Psychological support was provided during and after these sessions and 19 completed fMRI scans after the first week.
	Neutral, fearful, unhappy faces were presented in the scan and analysis focused on the amygdala.
	Group results revealed rapid and enduring improvements in depression symptoms post psilocybin.
	Psilocybin.
	Increased responses to fearful and happy faces were observed in the right amygdala post-treatment, and right amygdala increases to fearful versus neutral faces were predictive of clinical improvements at one week.
	And this would be able to be administered with a spray.
	Woo!
	And now you may tell everybody what psilocybin is.
	Well, first of all, I don't have the same...
	A position that you have, I think the audience knows what we're talking about.
	These are magic mushrooms.
	I didn't know it because I've never done them.
	Well, maybe you should.
	You won't be so fearful of ugly faces.
	Damn, man.
	That was uncalled for.
	It was just a gag.
	I have some still someone sent, but we've been too afraid to try them.
	Because, you know, someone sent them.
	Yeah, well, yeah, you don't know what's there.
	I mean, you could have bought them in Holland at one point.
	I think they stopped selling them finally.
	No, they have them in the smart shops, I think, still.
	Do you think?
	I think so.
	That's where I'd go.
	Just go there and buy some and try them in Holland.
	But I like the idea of it being a spray.
	Yeah, that sounds pretty cool.
	But here's the no agenda version.
	You get rose water.
	Oh, you should just have a little rose water spray on your face.
	It's so good for your complexion.
	It's just healthy.
	Yeah, just sniff it all in.
	And you spray them with the psilocybin.
	I don't think that's legal.
	I don't think people like to be drugged, personally.
	Unknowingly drugged.
	The pharmaceutical balance sheet would say otherwise.
	Unknowingly is the word.
	Oh, unknowingly.
	I added a word.
	Yeah, so there's no evidence people want to be drugged.
	There's no evidence, exactly.
	You got it.
	Wrong evidence that people want to be unwittingly drugged.
	But it does bring us hope that we can change the world.
	Because I think it's a real affliction.
	I think that's proven itself.
	I love that it's actually scary faces is what really freaks them out.
	So now it starts to come together.
	Oh, they see the Cheeto head.
	Oh, it's orange.
	It's scary.
	Huh.
	That's weird.
	No, it's not weird.
	It's something that needs...
	I wonder what this spray...
	It needs to be tried.
	That's what I... Now, there is...
	You should try the spray.
	There is some more science news on the horizon.
	This is another product for us.
	The sense of smell can trigger memories and emotions.
	Now, researchers say the smell of a loved one can actually ease your stress level.
	The sense of a romantic partner makes people feel more calm.
	Conversely, the smell of a stranger can trigger feelings of anxiety and raise the level of stress hormones in the body.
	Study authors writing in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology say that if you're stressed or traveling, grab your partner's shirt and pull it in close.
	So I'm thinking...
	If we create, you know, it could be either t-shirts, because we have a t-shirt, you know, no agenda shop, kind of an operation, and we infuse it with our body odor, then, you know, people will feel safe when they're wearing our shirt.
	They'll be reminded...
	Well, there's a couple of you got a problem with this idea.
	One is I'm not doing it.
	But two, the other problem...
	That's kind of a non-starter.
	The other problem is they don't know what we smell like and they wouldn't reassure anybody.
	I want to remind myself that I saw an old...
	I think it was on Leno or maybe it was even before Leno.
	It might have been near the end of Carson.
	One of the actresses was yacking about how...
	I don't know how they got to this part of the conversation, but they talked about memories and smells.
	And this woman, who's a very attractive actor, she says, all I know is that when I smell Old Spice, I go nuts.
	In a good or a bad way?
	In a sexy way.
	Sexy way.
	Really?
	Yeah.
	Huh.
	Because it's an old, established smell, and it comes from her father.
	That's a daddy complex or something like that.
	Yeah, maybe.
	Grandpa complex.
	But Old Spice.
	Old Spice.
	Yeah.
	Old Spice is a gift.
	Okay, well you're not doing it, but I think that once you have listened to the show in your No Agenda odorous t-shirt.
	Stinch shirt.
	In our stink shirt.
	We have a new product.
	Stink shirt.
	So you're wearing the stink shirt.
	You're feeling good.
	Your amygdala shrinks.
	You feel dynamite.
	And maybe we put a little bit of magic mushrooms in there just for good measure.
	Then when you're on the road and you're feeling tough and things are not going to, you put the stink shirt back on and you're good to go.
	Yeah, you could probably get some funding for that.
	Probably not.
	All right, onward.
	So are we in a segment of some sort still?
	No, we are completely open and free to go.
	So let's go and discuss a little bit about the flu.
	Oh, good.
	Everybody got the flu.
	So I have a couple of different clips.
	But they keep running these damn stories.
	And we ran one like a couple months ago.
	But then it turned out that the flu shot is no good.
	And here's a clip from December.
	The December of last year.
	And this is flu and bad shot.
	Flu season is getting worse and fast.
	The number of states sickened with high flu levels more than doubled in the last week.
	Now at 21, the South and West seeing the most patients with flu-related symptoms.
	Is this flu and bad shot or flu update?
	No, this is flu and bad shot.
	Really?
	Does it have a date attached to it?
	Let me look at properties.
	I don't know if I can do that.
	Well, I can go into your clip.
	Actually, you can hover the arrow over the file and it should pop up automatically after about two seconds.
	Oh, is that a Windows tip?
	Yes, a Windows tip.
	Okay.
	And it says...
	Item type, MP3 file, size, and length.
	It doesn't give me any...
	Okay, what's the size?
	You really determine things by size, huh?
	Okay, the size is...
	856 KB. Okay, well I'm sorry then.
	That's exactly the clip you're playing.
	Here's the flu update.
	Let me take a look in your throat...
	You're right, you're right, you're right.
	Play what you were playing.
	You were correct.
	You picked the right clip and I was, I don't know why I got so panicky.
	Flu season is getting worse and fast.
	The number of states sickened with high flu levels more than doubled in the last week.
	Now at 21, the South and West seeing the most patients with flu-related symptoms.
	This one really hit me hard.
	California school teacher Laura Londano skipped her flu shot this year.
	I have my two weeks off and this is how I'm spending my holidays is just in bed and now here in urgent care.
	This season's vaccine isn't cutting it.
	Reportedly only 10% effective against this year's dominant strain of flu.
	Yet doctors still recommend getting a flu shot.
	Everybody who I've seen who've had flu, most of them have not had the flu shot.
	And the people who've had had flu shot, their symptoms are much less.
	And experts say since not everyone who has the flu goes to the doctor, the numbers are likely higher than reported.
	And Adrian Banker joins us now live on the set.
	And Adrian, you were telling me the flu season is supposed to get worse before it gets better?
	Exactly, Tom.
	So the experts at the CDC are saying that the flu should peak sometime between now and the end of January.
	So they're saying it's a critical time to be extra vigilant about handwashing.
	And of course, you still have time to get that flu shot.
	That handwashing, though, so important.
	All right, Adrian, thank you.
	That handwashing is so important.
	Yeah, there's a couple of screwy things in this report.
	One is the flu shot's no good.
	Right.
	But it still somehow lightens the load if you get the flu.
	We had the flu, everybody had the flu that went to on this trip.
	And what kind of symptoms were there?
	I don't know.
	We all took Tamiflu.
	Mm-hmm.
	Just the normal flu.
	It was the flu flu.
	Maybe it hit her a little harder.
	She took a couple of weeks to get over it.
	But everybody else took Tamiflu, pretty in and out, no problem.
	That's what you want to do if you catch it soon enough.
	Vitamin D3 is Tamiflu and you're good to go.
	And it wasn't a problem.
	And...
	I don't know what these people are doing.
	If they're getting Tamiflu, I think everyone should have at least some backed up, something in the cupboard that you can use it.
	Or the one I like even better is Rolenza.
	Yes, you always mention Rolenza.
	Yeah, Rolenza I think is slightly better.
	It's harder to use though because you have to breathe in and you've got to put some powder.
	But let's go back to the initial concept.
	The initial concept is the flu vaccine should stop you from getting the flu.
	Yeah.
	And it just seems like it rarely does.
	I'm just getting worse.
	Apparently this year, now the flu update report goes from the 21 states, and this other clip just was from like yesterday, and it just makes it sound like we're in the worst situation ever.
	I'm going to take a look in your throat here, okay?
	The new numbers from the CDC are no surprise to Dr.
	Kate Katzung, another patient with flu-like symptoms ending up in her ER. Aww.
	So far this flu season, a staggering 41,719 cases have been reported, nearly three times more than this time last season.
	Christian got it on the 21st, then Jacob got it the 23rd, then I got it the 26th.
	Outside Portland, Oregon, the Frazier family fell like dominoes.
	Four children crippled by the flu.
	Mom Jamie is still sick today.
	Christmas consisted of the ones who were sick wearing surgical masks to open their presents, and then pretty much going back and laying in all of our beds again.
	It turns out the Fraser family was hit with two strains of the flu, even though the kids had their flu shots.
	Last year, at this time, the outbreak was widespread in 12 states.
	This year, 46.
	I got an email from the local health authorities in Austin, Texas.
	Then it was sent to everybody who attended an outdoor charity event.
	It was before Christmas.
	And it said, oh, well, one of the people attending had pertussis, which is whooping cough.
	Yeah, whooping cough.
	And what was interesting is the health officials said in this email, they said, even people who have received the vaccination for pertussis can get it and pass it on.
	I'm like, well, that's not a vaccine then.
	It's not working very well.
	None of this stuff seems to work.
	Measles, you get the shot.
	Measles, mump, rubella, you get measles.
	Maybe I'm just the only one, but I thought that we've eradicated polio because we all had our polio shot.
	And it seemed to stick.
	There's no polio.
	Yes.
	Well, I don't know why this particular flu season shot is useless.
	What do you mean?
	If I go back and listen to 10 years of shows, I bet you 8 of the 10 have a similar report.
	Didn't work.
	Well, a lot of them didn't.
	It seems more and more likely they don't work anymore.
	I think there's some...
	I mean, the way they do this to begin with is to try to predict...
	They find some flus that are being honed In China, because China mixes their ducks with their pigs.
	There's all these reasons that the flu propagates in China.
	Now, a couple of things.
	One, China doesn't do things the way they used to do them 20 years ago.
	And so I don't know that they can find the flu in China as much as they used to.
	And then they look in Australia, because it's winter in Australia when it's summer here, so they can find a couple of flus down there, maybe, and then they can make a vaccine at the last minute and sell it to us.
	But this whole mechanism of finding and guessing the flu and putting four different vaccines together is because there's supposed to be four flus in there.
	and then missing it by this much.
	- Yeah. - Where in that last report, the report before that with the kids, they said they had two strains of the flu and they were sick as dogs and they had a flu shot, which is not a good thing.
	And then the report before that where it says, "Well, you should get the flu shot anyway because the symptoms will be less." It doesn't sound like it from that report.
	- No. - The kids were in bed all the time.
	Get your Tamiflu instead.
	It's an antiviral.
	It works well.
	Yeah, this is an actual noagenda tip.
	You do want to have that in your standard.
	You want your Tylenol.
	You want your boner pills.
	You want your iodine.
	And you want some Tamiflu or Relenza.
	Yeah.
	I used to always travel with a...
	My suit kids always have a pack of Tamiflu.
	Because you do...
	The key to Tamiflu is you've got to catch the flu early.
	Because however far along you are in the flu situation, if you're getting sicker, you freeze it because it stops reproduction and allows the body to develop antibodies.
	But you freeze it at that point and you end up with the flu for five...
	Whatever point in the flu cycle you are at, you're stuck there for five days.
	If you catch it really early...
	Like, right away, and you notice that it's the flu and not a cold, that's as far as it's going to go.
	Right.
	So you don't want to...
	Well, bottom line is it just doesn't work, and a lot of this is bullcrap.
	Yeah.
	It's all bullcrap, but these people are dropping dead from this flu.
	Yeah, but we're not going to...
	People are not really dropping dead from this flu.
	People are dropping dead from not eating real food.
	That's the main problem.
	Eat some real food.
	I got a note from producer Dustin, who heard the story about the partner of that producer that I was talking about, and he analyzes packaged foods to see how they can get less ingredients in and make it more addictive.
	Yes.
	He said in 2001 he moved to Madison, Wisconsin.
	He worked with programmers that used to work for Kraft's IT department.
	They said Kraft's goal at the time was to lower the amount of real cheese.
	And the reason is it's a commodity and the price goes up and down.
	So they want more plastic or whatever it is they put in there.
	So they can kind of stabilize the cost.
	Whatever it is, you're not eating food.
	You're eating plastic.
	Yeah, you're eating emulsifiers.
	Delicious plastic.
	It's delicious.
	And you slaves should get used to mac and cheese.
	Mac and cheese.
	Yeah.
	Here's another.
	We did these news reports earlier.
	I'm going to do one more.
	Because I've been carrying this clip forever.
	But this is one of these clips...
	That when they're done, there's network stuff.
	And then when they're done, you have more questions that just need to be answered.
	And the one that's very glaring in this dinosaur eggs in China.
	In Southeast China this week, a construction crew made an egg-citing discovery.
	They were clearing ground for a school when they found more than 20 perfectly preserved dinosaur eggs.
	Scientists estimate the eggs, roughly the size of small footballs, are 130 million years old.
	They were found in a part of China that was home to about 20 dinosaur species.
	Quite a find.
	That's interesting.
	I thought so, but you know what question comes to mind?
	Were the eggs still good?
	Were they good?
	Could you fry one?
	No, the big question that comes to mind to me is, what are they worth?
	Oh, I didn't really think about that, but yeah, that makes sense.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Is it worth a million dollars an egg?
	Are they worth 25 bucks?
	I have no idea.
	No.
	And they didn't tell us anything.
	They just said, hey, we found some eggs.
	Woo!
	And then at the end of the report, the beaches are open.
	Woo-hoo!
	Well, in that case, then, let me give you a real report about something.
	In my continuous obsession of the dumbing down of the American educational system, which we've been following for a couple of episodes.
	Well, we've been talking about it throughout the life cycle of the show, really.
	Someone sent me a YouTube video, a podcast.
	It's the Rubin Report.
	Have you ever seen this?
	Yes, I have.
	I can't remember it, but I have seen it.
	I like this guy.
	I like the Rubin guy.
	He has a pretty good show.
	And he had on an interesting guest, Eric Weinstein.
	Eric Weinstein is the executive director, I think, of Peter Thiel's, I have it here, managing director of Thiel Capital.
	So he's a money guy.
	And it's worth looking at it, link in the show notes, nashownotes.com will take you there.
	This guy is a mathematician.
	And so he analyzes things in a very interesting way.
	Just a fun guy to listen to.
	And he had a number of points that he made that I wanted to share.
	And the first is about the state of our educational system, in particular STEM. Now, what have we been told consistently for the past, no, crap, let's say 10 years at least, maybe longer?
	What have we been told?
	Yeah, about our educational system.
	We need more STEM. What we always hear is we're the worst in the world.
	We're bottom of the list.
	We suck.
	We're lousy at math.
	We're lousy at science.
	Yes, we're lousy at STEM. This Weinstein guy says, that is bullcrap, and well, have a listen.
	So do you weep for the state of math in America right now, or just the public state of it?
	Oh, I have a totally different impression.
	I think we are unbelievable.
	That's nice to hear.
	At science and engineering.
	Yeah.
	And that what we are actually in is a multi-year, multi-decade conspiracy, effectively, to deny just how good Our educational system can be.
	Just how good some of our people are.
	And this has to do with the economics of staffing the STEM workforce, science and engineering.
	And so in order to get the money, get the labor, we've had to continually pretend as if Americans are terrible at mathematics.
	When I think we're actually really good.
	We have a very heterogeneous K-12 system.
	And some schools are terrible, but there are lots of terrific ones.
	And, you know, we have high schools, multiple.
	Bronx Science, Stuyvesant, Far Rockaway, which is now closed, which have produced multiple Nobel Prize winners.
	And yet we pretend that we are somehow lagging.
	We are incapable and incompetent.
	And it really has to do...
	With labor market issues where scientific employers are always looking to get lower cost labor and they prefer usually to import talent and effectively poverty from relatively less well-off countries to staff our science and engineering workforce.
	So I actually think we're doing terrifically well.
	I think math is in very good shape.
	I think physics is theoretical physics has been having a much harder time of it for the last 40-odd years.
	So I'm pretty happy with mathematics.
	Professor Dvorak, your thoughts?
	I'm not going to argue against that.
	I mean, it's possible.
	It makes nothing but sense.
	They're really more oriented to making everybody kind of docile workers and office workers with a Democrat mentality.
	I like what he said that, you know, really they just want cheap labor, so they'd rather say, oh, it's all crap, let's import some Chinas.
	Yeah, there's that.
	Makes sense.
	And they do want cheap labor.
	This guy over in UC Davis over here has been talking about this.
	When I was doing the Silicon Spin show in 1998, we'd have him on and he'd be bitching and moaning but still doing it.
	Nobody pays any time.
	Oh, no, no, no, no.
	It's fine.
	We want more H-1B Indians.
	Right.
	From the Indian Institute of Technology, IIT. Well, this comes from another point that he made, which hopefully you'll have something to say about it, because when I thought about it...
	What?
	I said probably not.
	Probably not.
	It's a stretch.
	Yeah, thanks.
	I do have some educational stuff, too, so you can go on.
	This is about growth and how we got to where we are today with our commercial industry, just industry, business, as well as education.
	There's a big critique which is that sometime around 1970 The engines of authentic growth within the American economy and the world economy sort of mysteriously started to sputter.
	And so if you think about post-war, post-World War II, anything that is built on a growth expectation is going to have the characteristic, for example, a law firm where a partner is going to have several associates under him or her trying to become partners.
	So while you're growing, that's possible.
	But when you hit steady state, every one of these institutions with an embedded growth hypothesis becomes a Ponzi scheme.
	And so the problem is we absorb this throughout our country, and the universities function just like that law firm, where one professor is hoping to train 20 future professors over a lifetime.
	And we had about 8% of the country educated post-secondarily after high school, before World War II, and then we got up to about 50%.
	And so that expansion...
	Fueled a golden age because you could do all sorts of things with promising people a future while having them contribute their youth into a system.
	And then when that stopped, between 1970 and 1980, there was sort of a panic.
	And then we had to restart as-if growth, fake growth.
	And you did that by offshoring, you did that by mergers, you did that by playing around with numbers.
	And so the universities got caught up in that.
	And that's really the problem, is that we've learned how to play the science and engineering shortage card.
	How about that?
	It's a Ponzi scheme.
	I like it.
	I never thought of it that way, but it makes so much sense.
	And we know that growth is an issue in general.
	I mean, I ran a publicly listed company on NASDAQ. If you're not growing by 20% every year, then you're going to get dumped by the shareholders.
	You're a shit company.
	And so how do you do that?
	Well, ultimately, you start jacking the numbers.
	And really, there's only...
	Sorry?
	Buying your competition is a good way.
	Yep, buying your competition.
	So there's nobody left and then you're screwed.
	And how about getting cheap...
	Labor.
	Yeah, it helps.
	Cheaper labor.
	Firing people, firing people.
	Well, he wraps it up with this.
	There's no such thing as a long-term labor shortage in a market economy because the wage level...
	There's no job an American won't do.
	I will literally clean your bathroom with my toothbrush if the price is right.
	If the price is right.
	Right.
	So it's the same way I have a Steinway shortage in my apartment.
	Not because there's no Steinways to be had, but because I don't feel like shelling out for the grand piano that I've always dreamed of.
	It's not cheap for a Steinway.
	No.
	What are we looking at?
	25 grand or something?
	Must be.
	At least, right?
	Yeah.
	So, yes, and now that gets back to the minimum wage, which is, as you've pointed out many times, the minimum wage should be closer to $30, not the $15 that everyone's buying into.
	Yeah.
	So, our problem is...
	That's because we're really oriented toward cheap labor, and it turns out $15 is probably cheap.
	Yeah.
	That's exactly right.
	That's what you want to do.
	Americans won't do that job.
	He's right.
	I'm not going to go clean toilets for minimum wage, but I might for $100 an hour.
	I'd do it for $25.
	You're a cheap date.
	I know.
	I'm a very cheap date.
	So, yeah, I'm all in on all this stuff, of course.
	But the education that I want to talk about is more insidious.
	Because I don't know how it works into what he had to say, but I think it works in somehow.
	And first I want to play these clips and I'm going to tell you what's going on or what I think is going on.
	I think we're going to see more of it.
	I'm not absolutely sure why the numbers work out the way they do and why this trend is being pushed.
	But let's play Baltimore School, CBS. Public schools were closed again today in Baltimore, but it wasn't a snow day.
	The schools have been dealing with flooding and heating issues, blamed now on decades of neglect and mismanagement.
	Errol Barnett is there.
	I'm here in school with my two coats because it's freezing.
	Outraged by the state of Frederick Douglass High School, teacher Karagu Buta posted these videos of buckled floors and burst pipes.
	And we got steam.
	It was almost as cold in there as it is out here right now.
	It flooded the first day, and I moved to another class, and then that class flooded.
	At this elementary school, former NFL linebacker and current teacher Aaron Maben asked his students how they were holding up.
	You guys are cold?
	Yeah!
	I had cross bites.
	You had frostbite yesterday?
	Some Baltimore students endured 44 degree temperatures indoors before schools were closed yesterday and today.
	60 of the city's 180 campuses reported weather-related problems.
	Wow, this should burn books.
	So, this is going on not just in Baltimore, it's going on everywhere.
	According to Mimi, who's involved in the city government up in Port Angeles, They're purposely not maintaining the big high school and some of these other schools up there.
	Why not?
	They want to tear them down and build new schools.
	Oh, okay.
	It's a pressure tactic.
	It's a scam because I guess there's money to be made by rebuilding these schools from scratch, tearing them down.
	There's a lot of construction costs involved.
	Maintenance is...
	You could maintain a school if you...
	Actually did it.
	Probably keep the thing going forever, but there's no way of making any extra cash that you can put in your pocket.
	This is a scam, and this obviously has been going on in the Baltimore schools longer.
	And if you play clip two, there's even some weird things that the state is somehow involved in this.
	It is the cumulative effect of, frankly, decades of underinvestment in urban school buildings.
	Okay.
	Dr.
	Sonia Santelises is the CEO of Baltimore City Schools.
	Some of this is about also taking into account that young people need to be fed, that we have a lot of young people who are, frankly, safer in school than they are out.
	Since 2009, the school system has returned roughly $66 million in state funding for repairs.
	According to the Baltimore Sun, that's because contracts didn't comply with regulations.
	But the schools tell us that's misleading, and say specific requests for school heating systems, including one for Douglas High, were deferred by the state.
	Amid all this, Butar says teachers have learned to be resilient.
	They do everything they can to make it better, and they try not to fuss.
	This is one of those situations where people should have been fussing for a very long time.
	This week's problems have created a new practice for Baltimore schools.
	Each campus will now have a daily temperature check so decisions to close can be made on a case-by-case basis rather than at the district level.
	Jeff?
	All right, Errol Barnett, thank you.
	Okay, is this money that they get from the federal government that is then supposed to go to this, or how does this fit?
	I don't know.
	I just listened to this report.
	It was apparently state money.
	It may have come from the feds originally.
	You don't know.
	But then they rejected it and sent it back, and they wouldn't do this, they wouldn't do that, and then the contracts weren't compliant with some sort of regulation, and there's a million excuses not to do the job of upgrading and keeping these schools running, keeping the heaters going, the furnaces.
	I mean, that's just one case.
	But when they showed that they were taking cameras around, showing the floors were unraveling and there's rot on the ceilings.
	They never paint the place.
	I mean, this is all done on purpose.
	You can maintain some of these buildings forever.
	The parents would be happy to come in on Saturday and do some maintenance.
	Oh, there would be some liability issues.
	Oh, yeah.
	You can't do that anymore, I guess, can you?
	So the whole thing is some sort of massive scam.
	It's like Cal Berkeley.
	They're asking more people to, oh, you're an alumni.
	You should give us some money.
	Why are you building all these buildings?
	They've expanded the campus where there's all these useless buildings.
	Instead of the normal 30,000 students, they got 40.
	It's getting the size of Ohio State.
	And it's like, why?
	Well, I'm glad you brought that up because I have a clip about Cal Berkeley.
	This is from Heather McDonald, who is a journalist.
	I was not familiar with her work.
	She was speaking on a panel.
	The audio goes in and out a little bit, but it'll be very legible.
	And she deconstructs for us exactly why we're seeing what we've been seeing, particularly at Berkeley.
	With these shutting people down, shut up, don't talk, you have to be this way, you have to think this way, I'm afraid for my life, etc.
	And it comes down to money as well.
	The students are the most privileged individuals in human history, at any college.
	They have unfettered access to the thing that Faust sold his soul for, knowledge.
	The Renaissance humanists would have killed for access to this college campus or any other.
	Every book in human history is available to you.
	You have scientific laboratories open without constraint.
	You have magnificent library collections.
	You have the ability, if you want, to learn languages, to learn history.
	This is the most privileged position that anyone has ever been in.
	And To test how valuable it is, there are millions of Chinese students at this very moment who are studying nearly 24 hours a day in order to enter this environment.
	Now, what I'm sketching out, what I see as the university's reality, is obviously not the dominant narrative today.
	The dominant narrative on college campuses is that to be a female or to be an underrepresented minority is to be the target of incessant and virtually lethal oppression.
	During the wave of protests that took college campuses in 2015 in the fall, a group of minority students Occupied the provost's office at Brown University and asked to be exempt from traditional academic requirements of showing up in class or doing their exams.
	Why?
	Because they said they were fighting to survive.
	They were fighting for their life at Brown.
	Now, I posit that that's a delusion.
	Nevertheless, it's a delusion that is generated by an unholy alliance between students and the growing student services diversity bureaucracy.
	At Berkeley campus, UC Berkeley, University of California, Berkeley, the Division of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, which is funded at $20 million a year, the vice chancellor makes...
	$250,000 a year, which is a pittance compared to UCLA's Vice Chancellor of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, who makes $365,000 a year.
	I'm thinking I need a new business card.
	That's a great title to have.
	What is it?
	Diversion?
	Diversity, equality.
	I mean, you've never even heard of it.
	These people are making 300 grand.
	Which is much more than most faculty make.
	They have hung, this Berkeley division has hung banners throughout the campus emphasizing the university's paramount mission, which is to assign places in the Highly competitive totem pole of victimhood.
	A health services person says, I will be a brave and sympathetic ally.
	We all know this language of ally-hood.
	To need an ally means that it divides the world up into the oppressed, the oppressors, and their allies.
	And if you're not in the oppressed or the ally category, you're one of the oppressors.
	One of the banners shows two underrepresented minority students who say, allow others than yourself to exist.
	Again, I would say that's a delusion.
	And the adults on campus, to the extent that they cultivate this mentality, are not doing those students any favors.
	Because they are not seeing that We're good to go.
	The view that universities are places of lethal threat is what leads ineluctably to the sense of entitlement to silence non-conforming speech, whether through administrative fiat or through violence.
	After the Milo riots in Berkeley on February 1st, A bunch of students wrote op-eds in the Berkeley student newspaper justifying the anti-Fa tactics that rioted both on Berkeley campus and in the city of Berkeley, and they echoed the very language of these banners.
	Remember, allow others than yourselves to exist.
	One student said, I was fighting for the right to exist.
	Somebody else said, again, I was fighting for my life.
	As long as that sense is dominant, you are going to continue to get the demands to silence non-conforming speech because it is allegedly a threat to a student's identity.
	I'm thinking magic mushroom spray.
	Wow.
	Isn't that amazing?
	That's a great clip.
	That was a good one.
	Where'd you get that?
	I think...
	I don't know if someone sent it to me or I found it.
	I was looking for something else.
	It was on YouTube, so I came across it somewhere.
	Huh.
	But...
	Well, shut her up!
	Haven't heard from her for a while.
	I don't know where she is.
	It's a very dangerous speech she's using there.
	Yeah, well, she's talking old school.
	Old school doesn't work anymore.
	Old school is not necessarily a good thing to do in public anymore, I guess.
	I have a couple of things.
	I don't have a lot of the thematic thing I'd like.
	I do have a couple of things that I want to get off my chest in terms of clips.
	Let's play the Jeff set.
	This is one of the POT reports I've been trying to avoid because they're all over.
	I'm in California.
	POT's legal now and everybody's doing reports on it.
	And this one here, this is an NBC report that has two or maybe three whipsaws in it you may or may not identify.
	But they're talking about one thing and then they bring in a clip that's got nothing to do with it.
	And then they continue their report as though they had verified their assertions, which is the classic, you know, what we call whipsaw on this show.
	And it also referred to as a non sequitur because it doesn't make any real sense if you listen to it.
	But this is about Jeff Sessions and pot and his nuttiness.
	And this guy as attorney general and as a Republican who should be a Tenth Amendment guy, it's got his head up his ass.
	Just days after recreational marijuana sales began in California, the attorney general's decision could dampen the spark that ignited the pot industry's massive growth.
	Sorry.
	Today, Jeff Sessions rescinding an Obama administration policy, which largely shielded legalized marijuana from federal intervention, allowing prosecutors to enforce federal law that prohibits pot sales.
	It's been busy nonstop.
	As soon as the doors open, we have people waiting.
	But in Los Angeles, they're already rolling in green.
	The budding industry expected to harvest $1 billion in taxes within a few years.
	Wow, this report is so devoid of content, they just filled it up with bad puns.
	We're harvesting this.
	It's, oh my god.
	Do they bring in, they had rolling it up?
	What else are they going to do?
	Boiding it.
	But in Los Angeles, they're already rolling in green.
	The budding industry expected to harvest $1 billion in taxes within a few years.
	I expect lines out the door and I expect the sun to come up and people to enjoy their cannabis.
	With California set to become the largest market for marijuana, recreational pot is legal under state law in eight states and the District of Columbia.
	Some experts say the impact of today's move, while uncertain, may be limited.
	The idea has always been to prioritize the most dangerous, the most violent, and the most difficult criminal organizations.
	Nothing about rescinding the policy will change that.
	Sessions, whose long-fought marijuana legalization, called it a return to the rule of law.
	Good people don't smoke marijuana.
	But today's decision doesn't clear the air where pot is sold.
	Good people smoke marijuana.
	Well, this guy, you know.
	I'm still convinced he's just trying to get fired.
	Well, there was, you know, I was watching Smirconish on CNN. He's like a weekly show.
	Don't know it.
	When you hear him, you'll probably recognize him.
	He said something good.
	Let's see what you're saying.
	It's saying at my Smirconish Twitter and Facebook pages.
	What do we got?
	Smirconish, I'm smoking my first bowl of today watching you this morning, and I've got a message for Sessions.
	I'm getting high today, tomorrow, and every day till I die.
	My body, my choice.
	Hey, 420 time, I'm for you.
	I don't like the trampling on states' rights.
	I did want to raise that journal point, however, which I think the burden really is on Congress to get off of the federal books That which he now is empowering U.S. attorneys to empower, to use, to enforce.
	That's the word.
	Thank you.
	Very good point.
	Where is that outrage?
	I mean, Sessions is a dope.
	I'm wrong.
	You're not wrong, but Congress has been talking about this, and we had some clips before.
	For a couple of years, they're going to make a move.
	And do this, and I think Trump is inhibiting it.
	Well, here's why he may have an issue.
	A drug test if you want to collect your unemployment check.
	This week, the Trump administration published this notice announcing it plans to rewrite rules on drug testing for unemployment insurance, likely giving states more leeway to require more testing.
	Last winter, Congress overturned an Obama-era regulation that limited drug testing for unemployment benefits to job categories where drug testing was required for the job, like airline pilots or law enforcement officers.
	Republicans in Congress want the testing to go further.
	The people that I'm privileged to represent would be very upset if they thought somebody was receiving unemployment compensation while they were on drugs.
	To qualify for unemployment benefits people already have to prove they lost their job through no fault of their own.
	George Wentworth from the National Law Employment Project calls added drug testing government overreach.
	To have the public perceive you as being more likely to be a drug user just because you're unemployed, I think that really promotes an unfortunate scenario. - Jeez, yeah.
	help the average unemployed worker when they're looking for a new job.
	Under any new Labor Department rule, it would be up to states to decide if they wanted to screen for drugs and to decide how they pay for the expensive new requirements.
	That's bullcrap.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, so there's a problem.
	It's like the system is somehow preventing this idiotic law, which shouldn't have been on the books in the first place.
	And again, it's a Tenth Amendment thing.
	And I ask the question of people, how did Prohibition come about?
	It wasn't some guy writing a federal law.
	They had to do a constitutional amendment.
	This is the same thing.
	And when people say, well, you know, the feds, Trump, state, that's bullcrap.
	The law right now is unconstitutional, and the fact that Jeff Sessions is supporting it, and he's supposed to be an Alabama states' rights guy, give me a break.
	Let me understand something.
	Did they have to do a constitutional amendment because there was a constitutional legislature about alcohol?
	No.
	They had to do a constitutional amendment because you can't, at the federal level, Just write a law saying alcohol is now illegal the way they did with marijuana.
	But the 21st Amendment was saying alcohol is legal.
	Yeah.
	The 21st Amendment...
	We repealed the other amendment.
	That was my question.
	There is no constitutional amendment about marijuana.
	Right.
	So you don't need a constitutional amendment to overturn it.
	No, no, no, you're missing this.
	Okay, explain.
	You don't need a constitutional amendment to overturn it.
	You need a constitutional amendment to make it illegal the way they did with alcohol.
	Ah, I see what you're saying.
	That was a constitutional amendment.
	I see what you're saying.
	Okay, gotcha.
	Gotcha.
	Nobody wants to talk about that, and that's very Tenth Amendment, very states' rights.
	And that's Jeff Session in Alabama.
	That's the state's right state.
	So what is this guy coming off with?
	Oh, marijuana people are bad people.
	He is violating all the principles of the Republican Party, especially conservatives, which he's supposed to be.
	He just wants to get kicked out.
	That's the only theory we have.
	That's the only theory I've got, because otherwise it makes zero sense.
	Why would you want to get kicked out and seen by the future of America, which are all weed smokers, as a douchebag?
	He doesn't see it that way.
	First of all, he'll get another pension.
	He'll be able to double dip.
	Yeah, we got that.
	And secondly, he actually doesn't think marijuana smoking is a good thing.
	He probably doesn't like alcohol either.
	That's why he joined up with Trump.
	He's a teetotaler.
	Which is always to me a bad sign.
	And I have a report on alcohol.
	We've long known that drinking too much alcohol isn't healthy.
	Now scientists in Cambridge have added a stark new warning.
	They found damaged DNA in the stem cells of mice after giving them diluted alcohol.
	And say this points to an increased cancer risk for drinkers.
	A missing part of the whole puzzle is how precisely alcohol causes damage to us.
	And what our research shows is that alcohol, as it's being processed by the body and converted into energy, transiently accumulates as a toxin which attacks DNA in a fundamental manner and damages the genetic information that constitutes the code of life.
	Researchers examined the effects of acetaldehyde, a harmful chemical produced when the body processes alcohol.
	It also showed how we defend ourselves, producing an enzyme that can break down the chemical and how DNA repair functions normally fix any damage.
	In mice, when we take away the enzyme that clears the toxin, as well as this DNA repair pathway, then very small amounts of alcohol cause violent damage to the cells that produce blood.
	And we show these in two ways.
	First of all, we show that the chromosomes from these blood cells are fundamentally altered.
	And this is important because altered chromosomes, or altered DNA, is the basis of why cells...
	The study was funded by Cancer Research UK. It details how alcohol can increase the risk of developing breast, bowel or five other types of cancer and suggests binge drinking may increase that risk even further.
	Oh, thank you, Captain Obvious.
	Binge drinking, it's not good for you.
	Sure.
	Yeah, I don't know.
	It's like we've turned back the clock with the Sessions guy.
	That's very disappointing.
	The Sessions guy.
	He just gets on my nerves.
	I liked the guy before he became this thumper.
	Before we go into thanking some people, two short stories.
	Now, the first one is Sinclair Broadcast Group.
	They were fined, I don't know if you read this, they were fined $13 million by the FCC for failing to identify sponsored programming.
	And...
	Well, what's interesting about...
	So here's what they did.
	They had 60 and 90 second spots that promoted the Huntsman Cancer Institute.
	I think that's John Huntsman's Institute.
	I think so.
	In Utah.
	And aired them on the local newscast as freestanding bits.
	But the company did not identify the spots as sponsored content paid for by the Huntsman Cancer Foundation.
	Yeah, which is not that hard to do.
	You just put it at the end.
	Right.
	But they were busted.
	Now, I think the reason why they were busted is they're trying to buy a Tribune, and someone's trying to stop them.
	Yeah, it sounds like this is a scam.
	Because I'm pretty sure this happens all the time, that you are being hoodwinked into thinking something is an actual news story.
	But that does bring me to another story, That broke about Forbes magazine.
	The last news article you read might have been the result of paid advertising.
	That's what a journalist from outline.com detailed in a bombshell report called bribes for blogs.
	He provides emails and social media exchanges that illustrate the content that you might have read in Forbes magazine or Huffington Post.
	That were probably written for the sole purpose of selling you a product and they dress it up like it's a news article.
	Joining me now to talk about this is Tyrell Ventura, host of Watching the Hawks.
	The report asserts that the publication of Forbes is aware of actual payoffs.
	In isolated incidents between brands and journalists, what are the grounds for that accusation, Tyrell?
	That's a strong accusation.
	It is a strong accusation.
	And where the outline journalist who's investigating this found this was in the case of Chris Chong, who was an author, a blogger for Forbes, who was putting out stories.
	He had about, I want to say, about a dozen stories up on Forbes.
	And when these kind of allegations arose, Forbes immediately took them down.
	Because most sites, your Forbes, your HuffPost, they have You know, rules that say that they don't allow their contributors to do this, because a lot of times these sites will approach the contributor, not Forbes.
	They'll go after someone writing on Forbes and say, hey, do you want to make an extra, you know, $150 or even more?
	I saw some numbers, $1,100, and said, hey, do you want to do this?
	Insert this into your article.
	Away you go.
	And what Outline kind of laid out in their reporting is that you really got the idea that Most dot-coms and most publications kind of just look the other way.
	Even though it's against the rules, their rules that they have for journalist conduct there, they don't really enforce them.
	They only kind of enforce them after the fact, after it's made public, somebody figures it out, or another good journalist investigates the journalist, always getting paid on the side.
	But what you're seeing is that a lot of people are using this for supplemental income.
	And in the online news world, as you know, as well as I do, there's not a lot of money.
	That money window is getting smaller and smaller, especially for independent journalists.
	So the temptation to corrupt your reporting is there, and that's what these PR companies and these big corporations jump on and take advantage of.
	So what I thought was interesting about this is this is not the publication itself.
	That is taking the money.
	It's the journalists who are on the take.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, that's why you got busted.
	They're not going to get away with this.
	Hey, this is, I'm Forbes.
	I want the money.
	I'll tell you when you can do a native ad story and I'll give it to you to do.
	That's okay.
	But how many journalists do you think are doing this?
	Especially HuffPo, BuzzFeed.
	Well, HuffPo, probably a lot of them because they don't get paid by HuffPo.
	They don't pay.
	Right.
	And so, yeah, you have to do shit like that, of course.
	Because I don't know about Forbes.
	Forbes pays money, real money.
	I don't know why you would do that.
	Well, I mean, what's real money?
	If you're writing two articles a week, that's not going to keep you fed, is it?
	With Forbes, you could make a lot of money at Forbes.
	All right.
	Well, you don't make anything.
	I like bribes for blogs.
	And maybe it's changed at Forbes.
	I mean, they were throwing money around quite a bit when I was working for them.
	That was in the late 90s.
	Well, here's the good news.
	The good news is that with our value-for-value model, you never have to worry about it.
	When you're reading HuffPo, HuffPo, or God knows, maybe even WAPO, who knows?
	You're thinking continuously, are they making money?
	The journalist has no money?
	Are they taking money for this story?
	WAPO and New York Times both pay their writers pretty well.
	And if you would take money for doing something else, you'd get fired immediately.
	Yeah, if they found out, sure.
	Well, they'll find out.
	That's the joke of it.
	Because it's always done through PR agencies and they talk too much.
	You really can't get away with it, as far as I can tell, unless you're really good.
	Oh, because they talk too much.
	Yeah, that's a good point.
	Word gets around is what you're saying.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Well, word should get around that we do it differently.
	Okay, we do have a few people to thank for show nine or seven.
	Yes, a few people is the operative word.
	Yeah, very few today, actually.
	Jeremy Lederman is the top of this list at $101.01.
	Last year, my douchebag friend, he writes, Michael Harker, reminded me to start listening.
	In 2013, Lady Francine Hardaway, who thinks we're nuts, by the way, told me about the podcast.
	Eccentric, eccentric, John.
	But it didn't register in my head.
	I'm bad with celebrity names.
	I don't have any.
	Well, it's Curry.
	When she said Adam Curry, I wondered why the guy who played Pennywise, the clown, would have a podcast.
	Well, joke's on you.
	He does.
	Anyway, $101.01.
	Tori Andrees in Iowa City, Iowa, $100.99.
	He enjoyed episode 996.
	So there you go.
	There's a guy.
	He's the one.
	He's the one guy.
	David Schneider, $100.
	Eric Ross, $100.
	Sir Timothy Brashears, Cookville, Tennessee, $100.
	That's 1,000 dimes in honor of our upcoming 1,000 show.
	Yeah, we'll have that 1,000.
	If you have the dime thing, it will be available starting probably next show or the show after.
	Or probably on 1,000.
	Or 999.
	We'll have 999.
	999 dimes.
	There you go.
	Anonymous in LA, $100.
	There you go.
	It's a 999.
	Anonymous in LA. Anonymous in LA is the guy who did the cartoon.
	The cartoon.
	Yeah, you didn't see the newsletter, obviously.
	Yeah, I did.
	Oh, he did that cartoon?
	Okay, there's a lot of cartoons.
	Yes, I did see the newsletter.
	And I guess it became a thing on Facebook, according to Mimi.
	Okay.
	Somebody offering $5,000 if they get a shot of my podcasting rig.
	A shot?
	Like a photo?
	Like a feed or something seeing me do it.
	It's never going to happen.
	Or even a photo maybe.
	No, no, no, no, no.
	I've never seen your podcasting rig.
	Yeah.
	So that's why I started a contest.
	Contest is out there.
	Anybody who wants to think that they can draw the rig and the way I'm sitting...
	Seated.
	Sitted.
	The way I'm seated, and I'm not sitting on the floor like that guy has, and I don't have a monitor between my legs.
	No.
	Okay.
	That's where the recorder goes.
	Talentistore in Northville, Michigan.
	9999, as we just heard.
	Charles McPherson in Victoria, BC. One of my favorite little areas.
	999.
	He says, I haven't heard any contributions from other Victoria, BC listeners recently, and would like to call them out.
	As douchebags.
	Douchebags.
	I know there are at least 15 out there.
	We should do a meet-up in Victoria.
	We all know John loves Victoria.
	Time to reciprocate and love and support the show.
	I agree.
	Sir Steve, the baron...
	Of the Gold Branch Trail.
	He came in with 99.70 for some reason.
	Antonio Sanchez Godinez.
	He's in Madrid.
	We love Madrid.
	I like Madrid too.
	Jeffrey Young in Upton, Massachusetts.
	69.69.
	John Tirada in Parts Unknown.
	69.69.
	Coincidence?
	Brandon Gruber in Vista, California.
	660.
	Stephen...
	What is it?
	Shevlin?
	What do you think?
	Shevlin?
	Shevlin.
	I'd say Shevlin.
	Yeah, $60.06.
	It's a small boobs.
	People forget about that.
	Yes.
	Sir Peep...
	Peep Slayer.
	Peep Slayer.
	55-55.
	Michael Astflak.
	Falk.
	Astfalk.
	He's got something here about something.
	NJNK. Yeah, there's a birthday there.
	Peeps later has a birthday.
	His kids has a birthday.
	Michael Gates, 5280.
	And last but not least, let's go through the $50 donors, a little more than the two we had last time.
	Edward Mazurik in Memphis, Tennessee.
	David Schlesinger in Rosemont, Illinois.
	Jonathan Meyer in Xenia, Ohio.
	Tim Abel in Bergfield, Berkshire, UK. Gene Ablin in Sonora, California.
	Brian Pesky, I think.
	Pesky, Paisky.
	Pesky, Pesky.
	In Saline, Michigan.
	Tawny.
	Tawny.
	Collie in Estacada, Oregon.
	Never been there.
	Todd Moore in Arlington, Virginia.
	And last but not least...
	Our buddy, Sir Brett Farrell in Oklahoma City, we think Oklahoma.
	And that concludes our list of well-wishers and producers for show 997.
	Yes.
	I would say a little short for what we typically mean for the show.
	Yeah, very short, actually.
	Very short.
	Hoping that that is due to the triple producership.
	T-3, the big show, 1000, coming up.
	So that will be next Sunday?
	No, next Thursday.
	No.
	998 is Thursday.
	Today's Sunday.
	Next Thursday.
	This coming Thursday will be 998.
	999 will be Sunday.
	And then the thousand show will be Thursday after next Thursday.
	I'm excited.
	I'm excited.
	Just to reach that is something I can put on something for the resume.
	It's monumental!
	Hey, did you receive a Best Podcast in the Universe award in the mail by any chance?
	I received a trophy.
	Who was it sent from?
	Well, from someone named...
	I have it here.
	Cochran.
	I thought maybe it was Todd Cochran.
	Maybe his wife or something sent it.
	No, I didn't get anything.
	Let me see.
	I got some cookies.
	Let me see.
	Cherie Cochran from Quincy, Michigan.
	Oh, well, the Michiganians are our friends.
	Yeah, it was really nice.
	It's an actual trophy.
	It says, best podcast in the universe.
	No agenda show.
	I'll probably get one eventually.
	It's coming.
	Yeah, made of lucite.
	Oh, nice.
	It was beautiful.
	Yeah, and I also have a make good.
	This is for Rachel Butner.
	She says, I made a donation to your show as a Christmas gift for one of your most loyal fans, Zach Stanko, and asked to receive a shout-out on the show.
	Unfortunately, during the episode when that time came, about 2 hours, 11 minutes, 7 seconds in, just about, My name was said instead, and completely mangled, and his name was not even mentioned.
	Zach found this pretty funny, but I was bummed that he didn't get his little moment in his favorite podcast.
	Could you please give Zach Stanko a goat karma on the next episode?
	Of course!
	You've got...
	There you go.
	Whoa!
	The goat farted or something.
	That was odd.
	Well, thank you all very much for your support of the program.
	We do need more, a lot more, to continue past our millennium.
	No, it's not a millennium.
	What is it?
	A thousand?
	I don't know.
	It's a millennium.
	But I don't think that's the way...
	I don't think millennium refers to just a number.
	I think it has to be part of some other thing like...
	A year.
	I'm not sure.
	I'd look it up.
	Well, hey, I have an idea.
	Let's bing it.
	Bing it, baby.
	Tell you what, you go bing it and I will give everybody what they deserve, which is some jobs and have cancer karma.
	And a reminder that we have another show coming up on Thursday.
	We need your support.
	Dvorak.org slash NA. Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	You've got karma.
	It's a birthday, birthday.
	I'm so much younger.
	We've got no knights, no dames, we have no title changes, but we do have three birthdays on the list.
	Tawny Colley says happy birthday to her son Trevor.
	He turns two years old on January 8th.
	Happy birthday, Trevor.
	Brandon Gruber says happy birthday to his smoking hot Illuminati wife.
	She's turning 30.
	And Sir Peep Slayer says happy birthday to his daughter Harper.
	She always sends me nice little notes.
	She'll be seven on January 7th.
	Happy birthday from Uncle John and Adam here at the best podcast in the universe.
	Stop.
	Stop.
	There we go.
	Stop.
	It listens to voice commands now.
	When I say stop, it stops.
	Mm-hmm.
	All righty, then.
	Let's see.
	No nightings?
	No, nothing.
	Nothing.
	Completely zero.
	Upgrade?
	Maybe somebody upgraded.
	No upgrades.
	Nothing at all.
	Nope.
	No upgrades.
	No nothing.
	Let me see.
	The No Belts Three Roads, this is the Chinese initiative to take over the world, where they have many routes, train routes.
	Yeah, just to run their goods everywhere as cheap as they can and flood the market with Chinese stuff that's somehow subsidized by the government, but maybe not.
	We don't even know how that economy works.
	Well, all of the EU, all of Europe is in on it big time, but also Pakistan.
	If you could be a middleman, you could get rich.
	Yes, that is the economic belt.
	So we have the train belt, the sea belt, and we have the economic belt.
	So that's three belts.
	There's no roads involved, even though they call it the One Belt, One Road Initiative.
	And Pakistan is all in.
	We've discussed this previously.
	Pakistan is all in.
	We'll take your money.
	China's, we'd love to have some stuff moving through us.
	We'll take it.
	Well, I'm pretty sure now that it's Rex Tillerson who is fighting this tooth and nail.
	Maybe for his own good.
	Maybe for the big oil.
	God knows.
	But this is the latest.
	They have announced just moments ago that they are suspending assistance to Pakistan.
	Michelle Kaczynski is with me now from the State Department.
	What exactly did they announce?
	Well, we've known that the U.S. now is suspending more than $200 million worth of foreign military assistance to Pakistan.
	I mean, that was something of a surprise, even though what the State Department is saying now is that this should It should come as no surprise to Pakistan.
	But it's a big deal.
	We've heard the tough talk from President Trump, as well as from the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., Nikki Haley, on Pakistan.
	The U.S. is not doing enough to counter terrorism.
	So to take away this chunk of money, now they're announcing today, just now in fact, that they're They're withholding even more.
	They're suspending above and beyond that $255 million in security assistance.
	Here's what the State Department just told us.
	Today, we can confirm that we are suspending national security.
	Excuse me.
	We are suspending security assistance.
	Security assistance only to Pakistan at this time.
	Until the Pakistani government takes decisive action against groups, including the Afghan Taliban and the Haqqani Network, we consider them to be destabilizing the region and also targeting U.S. personnel, the United States will suspend that kind of security assistance to Pakistan.
	So Heather's explanation was so thin.
	I've got to think it's about the Chiners.
	They just don't want the Chinese in bed with anybody.
	So you're going to do that?
	Fine.
	No money from us.
	And why are we giving money to Pakistan anyway?
	Well, we have a long relationship with Pakistan beginning when the Indians were in bed with Russia during the Cold War.
	And so the Indians would buy all the Russian jets, and so we had to sell somebody some jets, so we sold them to them, Pakistan.
	And then they spent kind of a, you know, together with Pakistan for a long time, and now they decided, well, you know, these Chinese look a little more stable than these idiots.
	Look at the color of their money.
	Yeah, and look at the color of their leader.
	It's not orange.
	As long as their leader is not orange and their money is green, it's good to go.
	Another member of the consortium would be Cyprus.
	Cyprus would have an important role, possibly.
	At least that's what the Chinese put in all of their plans.
	It could be Cyprus, but maybe it would be Greece.
	And really the last time we heard anything from Cyprus...
	Was when they shut down the banking, if you recall.
	Yeah.
	This was, what was it, four or five years ago?
	Maybe longer.
	Six years ago?
	Yeah, they shut down the banking and then charged you a fee to get your money, which the fee was like a percentage of it, like 25%.
	Right.
	Yeah, and Russians were freaking out and they couldn't get any.
	Yeah, because Russians used Cyprus for their...
	Like for some of their banking.
	Well, before the Chiners get into Cyprus, uh-oh, here we go.
	Looks like we have a deal between Israel and Cyprus.
	And this is unexpected, a surprise.
	I thought, you know, with the Leviathan gas field.
	I don't think it was a surprise to you.
	Well, you don't know what I'm going to say.
	They're already going to run that pipe through the Cyprus.
	You don't know what I'm going to say, do you?
	Okay, so something is a surprise.
	Yes.
	The surprise is, so I thought there would be a pipeline, a gas pipeline, which is coming.
	It's been announced.
	It's, you know, Nobel Energy.
	It's Bill Clinton is the advisor.
	It makes nothing but sense.
	They were supposed to run a gas pipeline up to, it would be Greece or could be Crete, but no.
	And there's Bibi Netanyahu standing right there with the douche from Cyprus.
	They are laying down a one and a half thousand kilometer undersea cable.
	With a capacity of 2,000 megawatts to transmit electricity directly.
	This is new.
	Where's the electricity going to be generated?
	Well, apparently from Israel.
	I don't think they have that, do they?
	Do they have that kind of surplus?
	Do they have that kind of...
	Have they already set up these plans?
	I don't know, but I doubt it.
	I thought it was an interesting story.
	And maybe this next story...
	Now remember, this is Israel that wants to lay basically an extension cord A big one, an extension cord, will cost three and a half billion dollars.
	And then this pops up in the news.
	Police in Cyprus say they're holding an Israeli citizen who's accused of organ trafficking.
	Moshe Haral was allegedly involved in luring donors to Kosovo a decade ago to sell their kidneys for transplants needed by rich Israelis.
	Many of the donors remained unpaid.
	A Cypriot police spokesman said he was arrested at Lanarka Airport in late December.
	Wait a minute.
	Maybe just coincidence.
	So they take your kidney and they don't pay you?
	Yeah, bastards.
	All you get is a note with lipstick on the mirror while you're in your bathtub filled with ice.
	It's just completely coincidence, sure.
	But when we have this big news story coming out, then we, oh, we caught this guy.
	And it's a perfect story.
	Everyone's heard the story.
	I got drugged.
	I woke up.
	I was in a bathtub full of ice.
	Maybe just a cover story for something else.
	Something.
	Could be.
	I just thought that, you know, you don't often hear stuff like that anymore, and then it to be involved in Israeli, in Cyprus, I just thought that was an interesting coincidence.
	I found something, I was just scrounging the newspaper, and I found this, and I went, wait a minute, this guy gets killed, it's like that character, remember that guy that was in Sudan or someplace named Double-Faced Boxcar?
	He's got some stupid name, it was something, Baghdaddy, Baghdaddy.
	Marlboro Man?
	It's some guy that had two names and he was always getting killed.
	This is a story that just ran, like, yesterday.
	Wanted Dead or Alive, the frustrating, failing hunt for ISIS leader Baghdadi.
	I thought they killed him.
	Several times.
	Several times, and one time they killed that poor girl who was like, stupidly went over there to become a, you know, to talk peace with ISIS, and they grabbed her, married her off to some creep, and then she got killed in a bombing that we initiated, and that was supposedly killed Baghdadi.
	And what is the, why can't we get something that is a little more definitive with these stories?
	We hear it.
	We get the Baghdadi's dead thing was on all the network news.
	Yes.
	But now, no, apparently he's not dead.
	In fact, let me search the archives.
	Let me see if we have one of those clips.
	Baghdadi.
	Let's see.
	I probably wouldn't have put his whole name because I don't remember ever writing Baghdadi.
	B-A-G-H-D-A-D-I. Let's see.
	I have a couple of them.
	Here's the first one.
	Ten armed trucks were destroyed in the attack.
	But in a statement, an official from US Central Command said, we cannot confirm if IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was among those present.
	Oh, so they didn't know.
	I don't have any other ones.
	Okay, I think we have some.
	We do, we do, but it's probably titled strange.
	Titled wrong.
	Yeah.
	A little Bitcoin update for everybody.
	U.S. regulators on Thursday warned investors in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies to exercise caution, or they could lose their shirts.
	The Securities and Exchange Commission in a statement said that bad actors lurk among those peddling initial coin offerings and other cryptocurrency investments, who are not following federal and state securities laws.
	The SEC adding, if you lose your money, it may not be able to help get it back.
	Bitcoin jitters on Thursday also stretched across the globe to Israel, where authorities proposed banning companies that invest in or mine Bitcoin from the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.
	The move came after a sharp rise in shares of company blockchain mining, which said it would shift from mining for gold and iron to mining cryptocurrencies.
	That makes sense.
	The Israel Securities Authority, or ISA, expressed concern that soaring share prices of Bitcoin companies are irrational and that Bitcoin prices were behaving like a bubble.
	The warnings are just the latest from regulators around the world, which have prompted huge swings in the value of the cryptocurrency.
	Bitcoin surged in mid-December to a record high near $20,000, then dropped to less than $12,000 at the end of the month.
	It has since recovered some to $15,000.
	Yeah, and since the report came out, it's gone up to $16,300 or something.
	But I don't see it really rising much more.
	I see it going to the downside, and that's purely because of the futures market.
	All the futures are all geared towards loss.
	You know, this guy's got 36 contracts, and I don't know, it's like a shitload of Bitcoin.
	It's all negative.
	All for down.
	All for the downside.
	It's corrupt.
	It's a rigged system.
	If you want to make money off of it, find these little shit stocks from China, mainly.
	What was the other one that was a funny one?
	It was the Long Island Ice Tea Company.
	They changed their name to the Long Island Blockchain Company.
	Literally changed their ticker, LBCC. That thing has had 700% gains in a day.
	Now, it also goes back down, so you've got to know what you're doing.
	But that's where you can make legitimate money, and then when you sell that bullcrap stock, if you're lucky...
	With your Robinhood account, then you get your money right away.
	You don't have to wait 10 days.
	And even Coinbase has now said they are going to introduce their own futures trading.
	So I just feel sorry for people who are believing in the myth.
	Once Wall Street came in, you should have taken that as the clue to get out.
	But it doesn't mean that there's not lots of opportunity, but it's just still not money.
	Okay.
	We need a jingle.
	I've asked for a Bitcoin jingle forever.
	People don't want to make it.
	Let's play my global warming clip.
	Okay.
	What's the title?
	All this freezing cold is flooding.
	Flooding Boston.
	Winthrop, after the storm surge inundated streets, Holly and Tommy Schlichting rushing to get the water out of their basement.
	As you can see, there's still lots of water pumping out and hopefully get it all into the drains before tonight's high tide.
	Why is that?
	Because once the high tide comes in, there's no place for the water to go.
	Officials tonight say it was the highest tide ever recorded in Boston.
	If anyone wants to question global warming, just see where the flood zones are.
	Those zones didn't flood 30 years ago.
	Dozens of rescues along the Massachusetts coast.
	In Marshfield, a National Guard high-water vehicle bringing people to safety.
	It was like cars outside almost completely underwater.
	Hmm.
	Yeah, we're all going to die.
	All right.
	It's about the same as the 1978 flood, but there's no evidence that they're trying to make evidence that the high tide was as bad as it was in 1921.
	So this is a bullcrap report.
	This guy jumps right on the global warming thing.
	And in fact, as you know, when we did the flooding reports from about four or five years ago in Europe, a lot of the flooding that took place there was because they changed the flora and fauna.
	They took the trees out and things that sucked up water.
	Europe was getting flooded in places where it's never flooded before because of the change in the layout in the flood zones.
	But this is nonsense.
	And we don't even know what happened before 1821 when they had a big flood in 1821.
	They had a big flood in 1978.
	Now they have another one.
	And this guy says, well, you can tell from me it hasn't happened before anything like this since ever.
	And it's bullcrap.
	The guy's full of it.
	And I get so annoyed by these guys and their global warming myopia.
	They have a memory that goes back like their memory.
	And actually their memory's not even that good.
	Well, it's not the end of the complaint.
	That calls for a report.
	The cause of what's happening in Greenland right now, the maps of the world, will have to be redrawn.
	Hit it!
	This is what would happen to San Francisco Bay.
	That's right, it's time for a mudflat report.
	John C. Dvorak on the scene.
	Well, we had a supertide the other day, and the supertide actually covered up the mudflats.
	And I'm looking right now.
	The mudflats are there, the same as they were in the late 1800s.
	And I can see them.
	And the mud is prominent.
	And it's raining, you know, over the last few days.
	But the mudflats are still there.
	And as you can see, it's just that I don't see it.
	I haven't seen a change.
	Because of what is happening in Greenland right now, the maps of the world will have to be redrawn.
	Yeah, go draw them yourself.
	This is what would happen to San Francisco Bay.
	Yeah, sure.
	I'm on the San Francisco Bay.
	You're actually right there, right where he's talking about.
	Yeah, I see nothing.
	Explain that.
	Explain it.
	Explain it.
	Hey, remember the really underreported story about the NSA tools being stolen and they're still not even sure if it was from the inside of the agency or hackers who got in from the outside?
	It was a New York Times report and no one discussed this but us in the New York Times.
	Now, a former U.S. National Security Agency contractor has agreed to plead guilty, I'm not quite sure why they word it that way, but okay, all right then, I'll plead guilty, to stealing classified information.
	But not just classified information, he had spent up to 20 years stealing highly sensitive government material from U.S. intelligence community related to national defense, Collecting a trove of secrets he hoarded at his home in Glen Burnie, Maryland.
	He's just a hoarder?
	50 terabytes of data they got.
	That's quite a hoard.
	Holy moly!
	50 terabytes.
	And guess where?
	He was a contractor.
	What company did he work for?
	Booz Allen.
	Booz Allen, you nailed it.
	That's right.
	Why don't they just use them as a backup provider?
	I'm sorry?
	Why don't they just use the guy as a backup provider?
	As a cloud.
	An archivist.
	In fact, I'm going to call you the cloud from now on.
	I'm the cloud.
	He's the cloud.
	John C. Where the C stands for cloud, Dvorak.
	There goes that one.
	That's right.
	What's your Iran update?
	This is an Iran update.
	It's a PBS NewsHour.
	It's not the whole thing.
	It was a very long report, but I thought this was the key.
	Popular unrest in Iran continues to spill into the streets.
	The nationwide protests have lasted for the better part of a week, exposing deep economic rifts, especially among the younger generation who struggle to find work and build a future.
	Hari Sreenivasan explains what's fueling this resentment toward the regime and the government's response.
	Overnight, video posted by protesters showed crowds in Tehran shouting, death to Khamenei, the country's supreme leader.
	But by morning, a different cry.
	Worshippers chanted death to America at Friday prayers, and a hardline cleric accused social media networks based in the U.S. of fueling the unrest.
	It was cyberspace that was kindling the fire of the battle.
	It was cyberspace that every moment said where protesters were gathering and what slogans they were chanting.
	So far, these protests lack the scope of the 2009 Green Movement that saw hundreds of thousands accusing then-President Ahmadinejad of rigging his re-election.
	This time, for the last week, demonstrations have swept Iran's provinces to some 80 cities and towns, mostly outside Tehran.
	It's in some of those areas where the country's economic stagnation is most sorely felt.
	President Hassan Rouhani had promised the 2015 nuclear deal would jumpstart the economy by lifting punishing sanctions.
	Instead, growth continues to lag.
	Food prices have gone up, and youth employment may run as high as 40%.
	It is their duty to hear us out.
	It is not acceptable for them to sit in their offices and not be aware of the prices of chicken, meat or rice or not know how tough it has become for people to make a living.
	These shouts should be heard by officials.
	Unemployment is taking over.
	What wrongs have the young done to not be able to work?
	Hmm.
	You know, we got, I don't know if you saw these emails we got from, I don't know if this is our dude named Muhammad.
	They sent it from a different email address, so I'm just going to use his first name, Saeed.
	And he's in Tehran.
	Our dude named Mohammed is, I believe, in Qatar or Bahrain.
	So this is Saeed, and he is in Tehran, and I'm going to read his two notes to us about the Iran protests.
	A few things to consider.
	The first day of protest was in Mashhad, a very religious part of Iran, which for intents and purposes is run by Rouhani's competition.
	It was intended to be an anti-Rouhani demonstration, but the next day, demonstrations broke out in many places at once.
	It was supposed to be a smart political move, but it got out of hand.
	Interesting.
	One of the most interesting things is the secular nature of it all.
	Unlike other protests in the past, even the Green Movement, you didn't see any religious chants.
	It was all nationalistic and secular.
	People always steered away from revolution here because the cost is so high, but it seems people are changing their views.
	I'm in Tehran.
	There are not many people gathering up, but it's increasing day by day, so we have to wait to see if it has legs.
	And here's the follow-up clarification.
	As far as he knows, it was never about eggs.
	He doesn't remember not a single protester protesting egg prices.
	The only reason, he says, I personally didn't want a revolution in Iran was it wasn't clear what would come next, and now not me nor anyone else cares about it.
	There was a major uproar a few weeks ago when Rouhani for the first time made the budget clear, and there was a lot of upset over how people's money had been spent all these years.
	Hmm.
	So he's not seeing the general story about the eggs and the prices.
	Yeah, that story.
	That thing didn't have a bullcrap story about the eggs.
	But in what country do people get all...
	I mean, we sort of got outraged about how the government's spending our money here.
	Well, we don't seem to care on killing brown people.
	Another $100 billion for military?
	Yeah.
	Hey, how about auditing things?
	Maybe we can save $100 billion.
	How about that?
	They say it's true.
	They say it's happening.
	So, yeah, right.
	So, this looks like a State Department thing.
	I think it's a dud.
	I don't think this is going to get very far.
	I hope it does, but I don't think it will.
	The protest?
	We haven't heard much.
	It kind of snowed under the book.
	I think it gets crapping out already.
	Once we got the wolf book, then it was like, oh, there's no more news.
	The world is quiet.
	Yeah, everything is wolf book.
	Everyone just sits around waiting for more details.
	We're pathetic.
	Yeah, more details so we can see what an idiot we have.
	Cheese face.
	If anything, we are quite pathetic.
	I have to say.
	I have to say we're pretty pathetic.
	Well, so they had Gretchen Carlson, since we have the Golden Globes coming up today, we're both going to watch it.
	Of course, yes.
	Gretchen was on PBS. She was falling all over herself because she got to be interviewed by Judy.
	And Gretchen is now the chairman of the Miss America competition.
	Which is a volunteer, but very important.
	Wait, wasn't there some fracas and she got angry or wanted to resign or a lawsuit?
	I remember something about this.
	This was like a day ago, so I don't think so.
	Okay, all right.
	Well, maybe I'm wrong.
	But she was a Miss America, and they played some old clips of her.
	She's very pretty, and she was a violinist, a kick-ass violinist, not a slouch.
	I remember this, yeah.
	putting together a team of these Miss Americas.
	So I'm listening to this and there's a kind of, there's a, there's a, it's not a very good interview to be honest about it, except for the part they start talking about, should they even have a Miss America contest?
	Judy asks and Gretchen's big pro Miss America type, but then they question about the bathing suit competition. - What do you say to people, Gretchen Carlson, who ask, do we need a Miss America pageant anymore Because after all, it objectifies many parts of who a woman is.
	That particular area that always gets criticism is the swimsuit category, and I'm going to be taking a very serious look at that.
	Listen, Miss America gave me amazing life skills.
	I challenge anybody to get up on a stage in front of millions of people and answer questions and perform your violin talent as I did.
	I entered this program because I was a serious classical violinist.
	That was going to be my career.
	And talent was worth 50% of my points in Miss America.
	It's a scholarship program.
	I was a student at Stanford University in Oxford, and when I went back for my senior year after being Miss America, my parents were so grateful that I used my $50,000 And if you emphasize that instead of, say, the swimsuit part, are people still going to watch?
	Well, you know, we'll see.
	I'm planning to reach out to experts in all those fields to figure out what's best to get people interested.
	But I'm not worried about that at all right now.
	What I'm worried about is wrapping my arms around this organization, getting up to speed as quickly as I can, getting just exactly the right people in place to help me on this mission.
	And I think what's amazing is that right now on the board, it's four former Miss Americas.
	Yeah, that's going to ruin the show.
	No.
	I listened to that interview, and what it said to me is, bathing suit stays.
	Yeah, but it's...
	Sure.
	Sure.
	And I was right.
	It was the CEO of Miss America who resigned in December.
	Oh, no, that guy's a douchebag.
	Yeah, he had to go, but she was a part of getting him out.
	Oh, yeah.
	Because they had all these emails going back and forth talking about the Miss America winners, like dogs and pigs and shitheads.
	Yes, exactly.
	She's a terror.
	She helped get rid of that guy.
	She put herself in the job with other Miss Americans.
	I'm telling you, what that interview told me, because she never said anything, never answered the question, Judy never followed up, that tells me that they might not only keep the bathing suit thing, but go to string bikinis.
	I... You know what?
	I can only hope, but I still don't understand why this is acceptable.
	Why are they not boycotting the advertisers?
	She explained it.
	She explained it as she got through college.
	They gave her money.
	She explained it.
	Yeah, but you don't need to prance around in a bathing suit.
	That's almost the definition of prostitution.
	Meh.
	Meh.
	Okay.
	Sorry.
	I'll just leave it at that.
	I'm thinking...
	Well, we'll see.
	We'll see.
	I hope that string bikinis are in.
	Go Gretchen!
	All right, everybody.
	A challenge, but we made it once again.
	And we will do it all over again with new, fresh content for you.
	And we'll do that on Thursday...
	Of course, we'll have a report on the funeral known as the Golden Globes.
	Everyone in black.
	I'm going to wear black just watching the show.
	Me too.
	Coming to you from downtown Austin, Tejas.
	We are the capital of the Drone Star State right here in FEMA Region 6.
	I'm in the common law condo in the 5x9 Cludio.
	And very happy to remind you we'll be back on...
	Thursday, remember us at Dvorak.org slash NA. In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where it's kind of getting cold, we're going to have some rain.
	I don't know why anybody cares about the weather report, but I sure do.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	We return on Thursday right here.
	Same channel, same new Agenda show.
	Until then, as always, adios, mofos.
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	Always a pleasure.

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