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Jan. 18, 2018 - No Agenda
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It's got porn!
This is No Agenda.
Holding on for dear life and celebrating 1,000 episodes and broadcasting live from downtown Austin, Tejas, capital of the Drone Star State in the Cludio.
In the morning, everybody.
I'm Adam Curry.
And from northern Silicon Valley, where I'm not ready to do this show, but I'll do it anyway.
I'm John C. DeVore.
Of course you're ready.
You were born ready.
Now, I was born ready, but I'm not ready anymore.
Why?
Because of the sheer number?
By the way, being born ready doesn't mean you're ready now.
That's true.
Well, congratulations, John.
Congratulations to you, Mr.
Adam Curry.
Mr.
Adam Curry and all ships to sea and boots on the ground.
Congratulations to everybody who helped do this show.
So we got to the point where we're at show 1000.
That's right.
And there's a lot...
And when I hear that horn.
When you hear the horn...
When you hear the horn, you know we're happy.
The revelers are having the time of their life.
You know we're happy when you hear the horn.
That's right.
It was great this morning, going through the backlog of email.
So many people sending stuff and sending messages of congratulations and thanks.
And every message I sent was, just so you know, thank you.
Because this wouldn't be here without producers.
In many different ways.
Oh, yeah.
And I don't know if people realize that.
Very much unlike a TV show or a radio show that's sponsored by advertisers.
Well, sponsored by advertisers and that has, you know, the whole system is lame because, you know, they've got to have a big staff, so they have to charge high advertising rates to make it all work, and we don't have any of that.
Now, of course, we don't get tons of money in like the commercial guys do, but we're living.
We're getting by.
I just brought to mind a song.
I don't want to toot my own horn, but I'm going to do it.
Oh, but you'll do it anyway.
They're saying that all hell is going to break loose, and you're going to need a Bitcoin.
That's right.
Love, Manning.
On this program, not more than a few days ago, I said, be careful.
Bitcoin is going to $11,555.
Not only did I nail that exactly, but it even went a tad lower and bounced back.
Wait, wait, wait.
You didn't nail it.
It has to go through the price you predicted.
It did.
But you didn't nail it exactly because it kept going.
No, it actually stopped at $11.550 for a good hour or two.
Okay.
So I call that a level.
So, you know, you could say that we're saving you money with this show.
Well, we are saving people money.
There's no doubt about that.
But we've...
Without the Bitcoin gag.
Yeah.
It's not a gag.
I'm sorry.
I used the word gag.
And you know what?
I'll tell you when I think it's going to go up, if it's ever going to go up.
Oh, okay.
That sounds good.
If it's ever going to go up.
You'll hear it right here on this show.
What's that jingle jangle noise?
It's your Bitcoin.
Woohoo!
The Jeff Smith sent me a little...
That's high end.
Right.
He sent me so many cool jingles to celebrate the 1,000th.
Yeah.
Let me play another one for you.
Hold on.
Oh, this has got to be one of my favorites.
It's sometimes fun, sometimes a drag, when you're on the face bag.
Wow.
Jeff, when he's not saving children in Africa, he's doing jingles for the No Agenda show.
That is, that is.
He's the standard of, he's the standard of excellence for all the other jingle makers out there.
I would say so, yes.
I would say so.
Short, slick, to the point.
Yes.
And jingly.
Very jingly.
Great.
Googly moogly.
Well, there's a lot to talk about today.
Besides the fact that we're celebrating 1,000 episodes, no small feat.
what is a lot to talk about to you Well, there's a few things.
Did you get my clips?
I did get your clips.
I have some stuff regarding the giant voice system, the iPaws in Hawaii.
Attention, everybody!
You're all gonna die!
The bombs are coming!
That one?
That one, yeah.
So, I was a little irritated by the lack of information.
You know, how this giant voice system...
Well, forget the giant...
I-pause is what we're talking about.
The Integrated Public Alert Warning System, which is a FEMA-based system.
And since it went wrong, and there was mention of templates, and, you know...
Templates.
I dove into this...
Did you find out somebody had access to the dashboard?
Well, I know a lot more about the system they have and what potentially may have gone wrong.
I have a lot of...
You mean as opposed to pushing the wrong button on shift change?
Yeah, which is total horseshit.
And I'll tell you, like some Twitter account, verified Twitter account called Civil Defense Hawaii.
I don't know if it's official or not, but hey, it's verified, so it must be real.
They were the ones that were tweeting out this picture of a webpage with a couple of links saying, oh, look how easy it was to click the wrong link.
And at this point, I'd been doing...
A day and a half of research on this stuff.
It's really quite interesting to learn how it all works.
And I said, no, that's not what they're using.
They use the Everbridge system, which is in collaboration with Federal Signal, which is their supplier.
You know, you got the wrong voice for this.
It should be like that guy on Trekkers, the movie, the kid who talks about the patch that's off a quarter of an inch.
I don't think I've seen that.
Yeah, good.
Okay, go on.
Should it be a more condescending voice?
What should I do?
No, it should be that nerdy, you know, the nitpicker.
The kid, the young nitpicker.
This is not nitpicking.
This was a very dangerous situation with people.
Hey, come on.
We don't know the extent of what happened.
By the way, they finally showed some films on CBS. Holy crap.
Crap!
People are freaking out, right?
They got people running for their lives.
It was ridiculous.
Here's what I couldn't find.
Did the actual giant voice system go off as well?
I don't know that.
See, I could not find a single video where I heard the alert system go off.
But it may have.
They claim it did.
I don't think you needed to go off with their iPhones and Android phones.
But they showed this...
Video from a chopper or something of all these people running.
Well, let me give you a little background on iPods, which is really a fairly new system.
It's...
Here we go.
Fairly new system, and it's called iPause because it integrates not just the wireless alert system, WEA, it activates the EAS, which would be your giant voice systems.
It's completely integrated.
What's interesting about it is that all the cell phone networks, the device manufacturers, they've all participated in this project, and FEMA runs the central system for iPause.
And the way it works is you get certified, you get trained, you have to take an approved system.
There are 150 approved vendors of an IPOS system.
Which sounds like a moneymaker.
Of which FEMA has only presented three to all municipalities, states, etc.
Because I watched all the webinars and the videos and like, well, there's lots of systems, but we've chosen these three vendors for you.
You'll probably want to select one of these guys.
And when you have that system, when you've been trained, when you've been certified, you have the approved equipment, then you can tap into the system, send your alert, and it goes out.
There's no pre-approval necessary, just as there's no approval necessary for sending out a retraction message.
We start with this new image.
It's the so-called button that was accidentally pressed.
It's not a button at all, but a line on a computer screen.
The workers were supposed to click this one in the yellow, Drill, Paycom, CDW, state only.
Instead, they pressed that one, Paycom, CDW, state only.
So he's showing the bullcrap interface, but here comes a little ditty from the reporter in the field.
Not a drill.
The real alert.
Two days later, the governor is still on damage control and seeking forgiveness.
Our Jo-Beth Deveras here with tonight's top story.
Thank you, Keahi.
The governor said authorities here in Hawaii were waiting for permission Saturday morning from the Federal Emergency Management Agency before issuing the correction.
38 minutes went by and it turns out they didn't need that permission after all.
It's one of the many mistakes now under investigation.
Yes, you had a question?
Yeah, if you're going to ring that buzzer, which means somebody made a huge blunder, I think you should stop and tell us what the blunder was, because I didn't catch it.
Alright, well I set it up that way.
The blunder is, there is no approval.
I've also read through all the protocols, how you're supposed to do this, how you are supposed to structure a message, which does not include the words in all caps, this is not a drill.
Nowhere is that suggested.
In fact, the only words that are recommended is, this is not a test.
And that this is not a drill is very odd in the context of the message that was sent out.
Because the way this is...
And so let me just go back for a second.
So I finally caught a piece of video with Miyagi, the guy from Hawaii Emergency Management Agency, I think we talked about it on the last show.
We didn't have the right template.
We didn't have a template to cancel it.
Because the system they're using is called Everbridge.
And the reason why Everbridge was chosen is because Federal Signal does everything for Hawaii.
They have the contract.
I've got all the contracts in the show notes.
They do all emergency warning systems, and they upgraded to add the IPAWS. They don't have the capability, and I have an article as well where Federal Signal partners with Everbridge to provide critical communication.
So they use the Everbridge system, which is a complete templating system.
But you can actually edit the templates on the fly.
So you select from a dropdown.
It populates all the fields.
The actual message was quite longer, quite a bit longer than what people got on their phone.
It actually did instruct people what to do and to go inside.
It didn't say shelter in place.
And that's actually what went out over the voice system, which is automatically...
But if you want to cancel the message, you actually can try and cancel the sending of it if it hasn't sent to everybody.
But to say, hey, all is clear, you don't need permission from Pacific Command, you don't need permission from FEMA, there's nothing in the protocols that says you can't just send out a message and say, oops, sorry.
So something went really wrong there.
How about this?
No, don't do that because you'll have more fun if you listen to the whole thing.
So here's a little bit about the templating system.
One thing that we have to work on more is the cancellation notice in this event.
Our focus now, of course, is not to have any more false alarms going out.
And by doing this, we're working on procedures that have already been implemented.
First of all, the governor has directed that we hold off any more tests until we get this squared away.
What has already been put in place is a two-person rule.
During a drill, there will always be two people there before the button is pushed.
Now, what I just wonder is why he mentioned this, because this was not a drill.
We know it was not a drill they put in the language.
Can I ask you a question before you keep going on, which with this, I think it's already too long, because it's not interesting, is you've never been to Hawaii, have you?
Several times.
Okay.
So, fuck you.
Here is what I found when the webinar was discussing the capabilities and the possibilities of something that would go wrong.
Okay.
So, Bruce, let me go ahead and ask you these questions and then we'll open it up to the rest of the folks.
Let's see.
Is there a two-step transmit or send process to make sure that people don't accidentally send alerts?
I think it's kind of like the idiot-proof button, the are you sure you want to send this?
Does this product include that?
Yes, we do.
Yeah, we do that before all the messages.
And they have quite an extensive idiot-proof system, so there's no way this could have been a matter of pressing the wrong button.
Now, I'm going to conclude here, if you let me take a little more of your precious time, that this could have been a hack.
The reason they couldn't, they might not have been able to regain control of the system to send out a cancellation message because it's a lie.
It's a lie that you can't set out a cancellation.
You need some kind of permission.
And so I went looking to who created the system, Everbridge.
Everbridge didn't create the system themselves.
They bought the system.
From a company called Gomez Inc.
And a lot of the employees from Gomez Inc.
now work in senior positions at Everbridge.
When you look at Gomez Inc., this company was bought and sold several times for up to $295 million.
They're in Crunchbase, actually, is where I found a lot of information.
But the cool thing about it is this software, the software used in Hawaii, was created by Wang Cheng, who is the Senior Vice President of Engineering at Everbridge, was the CTO at Gomez, and he created this and built this whole thing in China with a Chinese team.
So, I'm just saying, if there was any capability to put something in, it definitely would have happened there, but I do not for a second believe that this was just the mistake of the wrong button, and we couldn't send out a cancellation or retraction notice.
Well, now that's kind of interesting.
Let's, Chinese, you mentioned.
Let's play this clip.
Chinese CIA case officer arrested.
This was a story that ran, there's a thing going on with the Chinese right now, and this story just ran as an item, a short item, I think it was on ABC.com.
And it was just left there to lie.
It was just here, here.
And then they went on to something else.
And I found it fascinating.
Next, a former CIA case officer under arrest tonight and now charged with illegally possessing government secrets.
Jerry Chun-Ching Lee left the CIA in 2007.
In 2012, an FBI search found he had notebooks that contained classified information, including names and phone numbers of covert CIA assets.
It is unclear why they waited years to arrest him.
We have Times now reporting that the investigation comes against a backdrop of a major breach of CIA informants in China.
More than a dozen informants killed or imprisoned in recent years.
Oh yeah, I think we're at some kind of silent war with China.
But it may be going a little deeper than, you know, just, hey, you guys are manipulating the currency.
Well, there's this thing that was in the little item in that particular story that caught my attention, which was it's unknown because I think it's dumb, but He says, unknown why it took so long to arrest him, because they had all the goods on.
They're obviously trying to figure out who else he was in contact with.
Of course.
You want to follow him for a bit.
But this story with the Chinese connection, it makes it kind of like...
We can hack you, you can hack us.
I mean, I've never...
Let me just say...
I jokingly said it was the North Koreans when the story first came out, of course.
Yeah, but it's not even that far of a stretch.
I'm going to look at China more because of the background of the development, but what we never heard is August...
I think it was August.
Do you remember when Kim Jong-un first said, I'm going to send a missile to Guam?
Right?
Right.
Two days later...
The same IPOS system went off all over Guam, issuing a civil danger warning, and no one even knows how it was sent.
What?
Yeah, so the...
Where'd you get that?
By doing research.
No, I mean, where did you get that specifically, not how?
Oh, from The Guardian.
Guam radio station sparked terror, accidentally broadcasting nuclear missile warning just days after North Korea threatened to attack Ireland.
And we never heard that.
No.
Then I just looked into some basic stories, and we had the zombie attack imminent.
That was a hack of the system.
Remember that?
I do vaguely remember the zombie attack.
And this software has really only been in place for about...
Let's get rid of this stuff.
It's really...
And you saw the picture of the guys there at the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency with passwords stuck to their monitors.
I'm sure you saw that.
Yeah, I think that's a hoax.
It could be, but still, all you need to do is to get into one system, and then you can pretty much...
Broadcast whatever you want.
In fact, I think the whole idea of these giant voice systems is very precarious.
We all heard about Japan sending out an alert, but they're using the system now in Japan for all kinds of things.
I won't say that this wasn't a bad reason.
They had a fugu blowfish scare.
You know more than I do about that.
Will you take something?
Is it from the liver?
No, the fugu is a blowfish.
It's a big puffer fish.
The flesh of the fish is quite delicious.
But if there's even one drop, it's one of the organs.
Anything but...
Flesh, pretty much, will kill you.
It's a neurotoxin.
They found a contaminated batch of blowfish meat that had possibly touched the liver or something like that, and they set off the giant voice system for that.
Well, they're very concerned.
They don't like killing each other with this.
Right, but look at what happened when the system went off.
This is mass control of people.
This is a system that can't just be left to a bunch of yahoos and jamokes in Hawaii who are just selecting templates, pressing buttons, or whatever.
Well, the giant voice system, which we've talked about on this show five years ago, the old-fashioned ones, the old ones from the olden days that had the big speaker at the top of a tower.
Yeah.
This is not new.
No, but this integrated system now gives a lot of different agencies access to it.
And the whole idea was we're using open protocols, which is great, but they certainly have not shored up the security for it.
And I don't think a lot of just the processes in general are right.
Because pretty much everybody within an agency can access it and can use it for weather alerts.
They can use it for all kinds of things.
I think we need to be careful about this.
Well, I'm reminded of the Amber Alert signs they put all over the California freeways.
We have two or three right around here.
And they stopped.
I mean, there was one instance where they didn't even use it for an Amber Alert because they thought it would screw up the traffic.
But most of the time, it's just how long is it going to take you to get to the bridge?
How long is it going to take you to get to that airport?
That's the same as the Amber Alert system that's doing that.
Same system, yeah.
Where's Amber?
Poor Amber.
I think we need some...
Oh, and by the way, the Everbridge system touts in their marketing materials their incredible auditing and logging system, that everything that is done in the system is logged and tracked for post-mortem analysis.
I wouldn't mind seeing that.
I'd like to know what happened.
Uh-huh.
You're not going to see it.
No.
And the fact that there's so much untruth being told, I think that something else happened.
I can seriously consider some kind of hack.
There's no reason why they didn't just send out, you know, oh, we didn't have a template.
Bullshit.
There's no reason why they didn't send that out, other than that they couldn't.
Why don't they say they had a hack?
Why do these gazes always do this?
This is like the banks who refuse to admit that any money was ever stolen off of the Swift banking system or any of these other electronic things.
And you ask them about it and they say, well, it's because it would make people lose confidence in the bank.
Yeah.
So you're going to lie instead.
Yes.
Yeah.
Hello?
How long have you been doing this show with me?
You know better than to ask these questions.
Of course they lie.
Anyway, so I just thought it was the most interesting thing is in the middle of doing this research when Civil Defense Hawaii was challenging me on Twitter saying, you're wrong.
This is the interface.
I'm like, no, it's not.
No, it's not.
Well, you sure topped them.
You showed them, Adam, that Civil Defense Hawaii operation.
And I know the reason why.
Because they've got the little birdie and you don't.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
No, that's it.
It has nothing to do with the grudge.
I thought I'd do some research.
What did you bring to the show today?
I got a bunch of stuff.
I did a...
In fact, I have some classic, no agenda style, you know, bull crap from the mainstream media as opposed to a government agency, which is all bull crap.
I found this was interesting.
So recently, Tim Cook came on the scene talking about what Apple's up to.
They're going to build a big building someplace.
Yeah.
And they won't say where, so now everyone's speculating, doing real estate speculation.
This is what happened with...
I should back up a little bit.
Google was going to build their new facilities in Hunters Point, San Francisco.
Right.
And the word got out through Uber drivers.
And everybody started buying land and houses?
Yeah.
So the property started going up.
And I think they would have gone ahead anyway, except that then all of a sudden...
Google gets attacked by the locals for having too many buses and running the real estate prices up and ruining San Francisco.
And so Google says, screw San Francisco, we're going to go someplace else.
So they decide on a part of San Jose, which is if you had invested in that, you'd get rich overnight.
So they're moving everything to San Jose for some reason.
Richer than Bitcoin?
That doesn't sound possible.
So...
Which brings me to, just to kind of back off on this story, I do want to play this clip.
Apple and Google buses attacked.
This is what's going on around here.
Oh, I had every clip loaded up except that one.
Here it is.
CHP is looking for whoever shattered windows on five high-tech charter buses on Interstate 280 in the Redwood City area.
The pictures we're showing you here come to us from Mashable.
The CHP says four of five buses were carrying Apple employees.
The other was a Google employee bus.
The CHP says the attacks happened yesterday on both the north and southbound directions at different times of day.
Fortunately, no one was hurt.
These buses are unmarked, so we don't anticipate that they were targeting one company because they were Apple and Google.
However, it looks like they were targeting the charter buses.
The CHP says at this point they don't know whether it was a pellet gun, rocks, or something else that hit the buses.
Mashable says that Apple has routed its buses away from I-280 for the time being.
Isn't this a story like three years old?
No.
We've played stories like this, similar to this.
Well, not this particular one off of Highway 2.
You've been on Highway 280.
You remember it?
Yeah, sure.
Well, it's not a bad neighborhood.
It's like it goes through Hillsboro and Woodside.
Yeah.
Yes, Woodside.
Very rich area.
So I'm not getting the story.
Anyway, but I'm just playing that just to indicate what kind of attitude people around here have about these rich tech companies because they're not sharing the wealth.
Meanwhile, Tim Cook, who's going to move somewhere, they don't know where, they decided to run this story on ABC, all the networks around the story.
But ABC, I think, was the worst case scenario in terms of finding some negative aspect to the story so that even though they made it up, So they could blast Trump.
Let's listen to the Tim Cook David Muir teaser.
We turn next tonight to an ABC News exclusive, our one-on-one this evening with Apple CEO Tim Cook, who made a major announcement today when it comes to American jobs, 20,000 new jobs.
And Apple writing a check to the U.S. taxpayer for $38 billion from cash sitting overseas.
It's coming back.
And he promises investments in the U.S. that will hit $350 billion over five years.
Tonight, where are the jobs coming?
And we also ask, will there be a cheaper iPhone?
And what about those batteries that slowed down?
Here's Rebecca Jarvis.
I'm going to ask you, what is the government going to receive...
As part of this plan in taxes from Apple.
I heard $38 billion.
I did too.
In that report, I heard $38 billion, which would be about 15% of the $245 billion they have outstanding.
So they are going to bring a bunch of money back.
Their money, the money overseas that Apple has, is their money, right?
Yes.
Yeah, it's their money, yes.
And so when they bring it back, they're going to have to pay taxes on that money to the tune of $38 billion.
Yes.
That seems like a lot of money that you have to just cough up, don't you think?
Well, not compared to what they'd be paying overseas.
Well, I'm just saying, it's not like a profit maker.
There's not a profit center, let's put it that way.
It costs them $38 billion.
If anything, it's a patriotic move at expense of Apple.
Play the Tim Cook, Rebecca Windfall clip.
Tonight, the biggest company in the world announcing a $350 billion investment in the United States.
Apple saying it will create 20,000 new jobs and build a new corporate campus in an American city still unnamed.
Apple CEO Tim Cook exclusively taking us inside the tech giant's massive data center in Reno, Nevada.
We're walking on the cloud right now.
The new lower corporate tax rate allowing Apple to write a check for $38 billion to the U.S. government.
Without these policy changes, would you be able to announce today the creation of 20,000 new jobs?
No, there are clearly, let me be clear, there are large parts of this that are a result of the tax reform, and there's large parts of this that we would have done in any situation.
So it sounds like President Trump's tax bill has been a huge windfall for Apple.
Yeah, I understand, of course.
What is she talking about?
President Trump, all she's doing, this is a classic example to me of media manipulation of reality.
Yes.
There's no windfall here.
It's Apple's money.
They're paying $38 billion to the government, and they're going to...
Spend 300 plus billion buildings from no buildings, more new buildings.
How is this a windfall?
For the uninitiated, such as her, I'm sure that she thinks whatever happened in the tax plan, which I'm sure she did not read, it's going to be better for Apple.
That's the only reason they do this.
Because they're a big company.
Yeah.
This is a corporate giveaway.
Yes.
So it's a windfall by definition, even though there's no windfall, and she says it with a straight face.
I'm listening to that story while I'm listening to this other one, which is, let's see if I can find it.
What will Apple do with the tax cash?
What will Apple do with the tax?
Yes, the KTVU is a good catch.
Professor Wilcox says it's too early to tell what the impact of the tax reform bill will be on the average person.
He says some companies like Apple might boost salaries and hire more people, but other companies might just hold on to their cash or funnel it into higher dividends.
Now, this is a simpler presentation.
Now, by the way, if these guys were at all savvy about financial reporting, they could bring up all kinds of companies that have already said, oh, when this stuff comes in...
We're going to buy back shares.
Exactly.
And that is the number one thing that these guys...
And that's what I'd be throwing in their face.
Yeah.
Because that is actually a problem.
But no.
The way she does it, she says they're going to...
Companies are going to hire more people or they're going to Maybe keep the money, which would be the buybacks.
Or she says, and then she says, and she says it, you have to visually see this, derisively says, pay out more dividends.
Yes.
Which puts money back into the economy, which is exactly what you want.
Yeah, it's for the shareholders.
Yes, exactly.
But the way she says it is that this is horrible, that they're going to make, I think these companies have already been, Keeping too much money and not paying enough dividends.
The dividends are what they're supposed to do, if you're a shareholder, it seems to me.
Without a doubt...
It's a part of the Ponzi scheme that we discussed a couple of shows ago where growth is so desperately needed.
One way to show quote-unquote growth is to buy your own shares back.
That's a major complaint by a lot of people out there.
Yes, but that...
Because it phonies up the numbers.
Yeah, exactly.
Buy your own shares.
Yeah.
There's the second part of this ABC clip with Tim Cook, which I've only kept it for your benefit, because if you want to hear some horrible, horrible, horrible audio editing...
Yeah, of course.
Even though when you look at it, the video job is pretty good, but this...
When you close your eyes, you can hear the edits.
In this case, you don't have to close your eyes.
President Trump's tax bill has been a huge windfall for Apple.
Well, there are two parts of tax bill, right?
There's a corporate piece and an individual piece.
I do believe the corporate tax side will result in job creation and a faster growing economy.
Yeah, you got to do the pacing.
I pay attention to that.
You gotta do the pacing of the...
The pacing's the most important part.
Yeah.
So sometimes I even put a little extra space in just to make it sound natural.
If I do an edit, which I do a lot of, but mainly...
A beat.
Yeah, but mainly for just to...
For brevity's sake, just to shorten stuff up on the show.
Yeah.
Yeah, I was thinking when I cut stuff down for brevity, I just hack it up.
I mean, it's...
I just don't think people pay that much attention.
Yeah, it's professional for me.
I just like to do it.
Whoa, no.
Yeah, I just like to do it.
If I had more time on my hands, I would.
Yes, if I had more time, I would have written you a shorter letter, no doubt.
Okay, anyway, so that to me was a classic example.
We can't give Trump any credit because, well...
We'd actually like to get rid of him, and it looks like the Lear group was out in force again, and they created this...
Madam Secretary show.
Yeah, which I've watched every season so far.
I haven't watched this season's series yet.
Well, I don't like the show.
But coincidentally, I caught a couple of clips where they're talking about the 25th Amendment.
Oh, okay.
And this was in advance of Trump's medical examination, which I have a bunch of clips of that too.
This was great.
But I felt that this was a Lear job.
I don't know how else to put it.
You know, the Norman Lear's operation.
Well, maybe we should just do a quick revisit.
I would think so.
Explain what these guys do, and I'll get the clip.
They are...
It's like a...
It's like a...
Kind of a consulting group.
They'd like to go from show to show to show to show through Hollywood.
They're all Hollywood hacks.
and they like to get people to do stories about things that are in the news and important, important stories about warming and Trump's a maniac.
And in this case, the way I saw it, somebody came- - Let me play the backup here.
This is just a short one of the Lear Foundation bragging about how often and how much they've done this.
So in the course of our work, this is in the two years, 11 to 13, 335 storylines that we worked on have been aired.
We've worked with 35 networks in the past four years.
91 different television shows.
There you go.
Just a little idea of how much they're really embedded into the mass media system.
So I believe they got a hold of the...
Producers of Madam Secretary, which is a very Democrat show.
The whole show is about a Democratic woman who became president briefly.
She's the Secretary of State, Madam Secretary.
And there's another show on HBO with Julie Louis-Dreyfus, which is a comedic version of the same show.
And it wins all the awards.
Which is more realistic, too.
People using shithole language as an example.
So I believe they went into the producers and said, hey, you know what would be good?
It's something that, you know, the people, you see in the news, there's a lot of discussion about the 25th Amendment and how we can get rid of Trump.
We all want to get rid of Trump, right?
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Of course.
So we all want to get, but people are like confused about this.
They keep people, you know, you bring up 25th Amendment.
Nobody knows what this means.
Why don't we do a story where the president in this show...
So we can explain how it should work.
Yes.
And so the guy will get kicked out.
Of course, he'll get back in because it turns out he has a tumor.
But we're going to...
But this will at least get it out of the way.
This is how it would happen so the public, if it does happen, which we can only hope, cross fingers...
When it happens to Trump, they won't be so freaked because we've at least softened them with some body punches.
If we do this, history will look at us as traitors.
History will judge us no matter what we do, Tom.
Fine.
But there have to be other ways to constrain Dalton.
Not in the Constitution.
The Constitution only allows for the 25th Amendment or impeachment.
And that missile strike will happen in less than an hour, so impeachment isn't going to cut it tonight.
Look, I think if we've all said our piece, we should vote.
Okay.
I'll keep the tally.
Simple voice vote.
Yes to invoke Section 4 and remove the president effective immediately.
No to reject it.
Hey, question.
Now, she's Secretary of State in that?
Yes.
She can't, but only the vice president can call for that.
Was he there in the room?
No, this was the cabinet-level version.
It was the cabinet who did it.
Well, the cabinet, yes, but I believe, I believe, I believe that only the vice president can initiate the process.
I could be wrong.
Well, it's very easy to determine because you can go to the Book of Knowledge right now and look up the 25th Amendment and see what it says.
I'm going to do that while you talk about the next clip.
Let me just have the next clip.
So, what was interesting about the last clip was...
Besides the little explanation of what we're dealing with, Section 4 of the 25th Amendment, of getting the president kicked out, was the way they handled the wordage between, well, there's only two things we can do, impeach or invoke the 25th Amendment, and they said it as if they're the same thing.
Yes.
And they were of equal, you know, stature.
Yes.
In fact, impeachment requires a trial, which is what they said they had to rush the 25th Amendment.
It requires an actual crime to be committed, technically.
The 25th Amendment, you just think the guy's off his rocker.
Section 4, when the vice president and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments of such other body as Congress, blah, blah, blah, blah.
It has to be the vice president.
Fine.
To be honest about it, the vice president may have been in there.
Okay.
I don't watch the show.
So, we'll just assume that they're following the rules because they want to make this as realistic as possible so the public doesn't get freaked out when it actually happens.
Right.
Now, to make it so well, let's see.
What would happen when they actually have to tell the guy?
Is he going to pull out a gun and shoot everyone?
Is he going to become a dictator?
How's it going to go over?
So, let's actually tell the president that he's been booted out of office, at least temporarily, it turns out, because of the way they handle this.
You'll see, because this is the way it could go down.
I'm thinking of keeping Bob on at defense.
What do you think?
He's a good man.
Here's a...
I haven't noticed.
Takes orders.
Pretty much my new number one requirement, Post Gordon.
Speaking of...
Wait a minute, you rang the bell.
I couldn't hear it.
What did he say?
He said...
I'm glad you stopped it.
He said...
I could have clipped it better.
He says, yeah, what do you think about this guy?
Secretary of Defense, Secretary of Defense.
And he says, yeah, he likes to take orders.
That's my new...
And he says this is his new standard of excellence or something.
Again...
This to me is like, this is Trump incarnate.
Yeah, I got it.
I got it.
I got it.
Dictator.
Yeah, Stalin.
I'm thinking of keeping Bob on at defense.
What do you think?
He's a good man.
Is he?
I haven't noticed.
Takes orders.
Pretty much my new number one requirement to post-court.
Yeah, I got it.
Time for some fireworks.
What the hell? - Okay.
Where is everyone?
Lydia!
What is this?
It's an intervention, Conrad.
What?
Where's my national security team?
Where are my generals?
My admirals?
Get them the hell in here now!
There's not going to be an attack on the Russian satellites, sir.
Of course there is.
Now call Stratcom.
Call CNO. Sir, the cabinet...
For God's sake, I'll do it myself.
I have a feeling that the actor is actually trying to channel Trump.
Because from the previous seasons I've watched, I never really got...
Sure, there was lots of stuff where he was trying to communicate something to be done.
It's always a stressful situation in the show.
But this barking is new.
I have not heard this, so I think he's channeling.
Well, it's also this, it's all this possessiveness where he says, get my generals, get my, my, my, my, my.
Oh yeah, that's your Lear foundation right there.
This is the Lear guys, this is no doubt about it.
National security team, where are my generals, my admirals?
Get them the hell in here, now!
There's not going to be an attack on the Russian satellites.
Of course there is, now call Stratcom, call CNO. Sir, the cabinet.
For God's sake, I'll do it myself.
They won't take your order.
The cabinet voted tonight to invoke Section 4 of the 25th Amendment.
What?
There you go.
Section 4.
What are you talking about?
I'm sorry, sir, but you have been removed from office.
Theresa Hurst is now the acting president.
Why the hell would they do that?
Because of Gordon?
They want revenge?
Because they're afraid to stand up to Russia?
I'll fight this.
You're not well, Conrad.
You need help, sweetheart.
No, Lydia, not.
You're too smart.
You know me too well.
You know that this is all just politics and backstory.
I love you.
We all do.
It's a coup.
It's a goddamn coup.
Can't you see?
It's the damn appeasers, the peaceniks.
Holy crap, John.
This is great.
So, now, do they insinuate in the episode that he is mentally unstable?
Is it because his wife is saying it?
First of all...
How is he allowed to say goddamn on network television?
Well, you can say shithole.
I've only heard shithole.
I've not heard shithole.
You can't give me an example of anyone saying shithole on the network news.
It's only on cable.
Possibly, yeah.
Yes.
So that was like, what are...
They had to get that.
So this is a show that is not one of the approved words that you can just use.
And I'll say that we actually refrain from saying that on this show.
At least I certainly have.
I have.
I've never said it on this show except in this context.
And I want to know why that was allowed.
Because it had to be allowed on purpose by the censors of the network.
To finish, producers have emailed me and said, that really offends me.
And not just in the social justice sense of the word.
Ever since the first day we did the show.
And I've been cognizant of it.
I'm like, okay.
But I'll still make fun of it.
Just like Aloha Snackbar.
Yeah, but this is the point I'm trying to make here.
I got you.
This was purposely allowed.
Knowing that the FCC... Might make a fuss about it, which may be a plan, because if the FCC makes a fuss about it, which they should do...
Ratings!
Ratings!
Exactly.
You could bring it back, and then you could have it bleeped out, beep, and get people to watch it.
Now, the other thing that's interesting, and I think the Lear Foundation would have something to do with this, of course, they may have nothing to do with this, but we're assuming they did, is they make this guy, this president...
about hating Russia.
He's a Russian hater.
Hey, you know, boys, if we make it so he hates Russia, no one will suspect that we're doing a kind of a satire on Trump or a commentary on Trump because Trump doesn't hate Russia.
He loves Russia.
I mean, that's the kind of illogic that I'm assuming is going to play here.
Because why would you have Russia in the picture at all?
China would be more logical.
In fact, China is the main enemy throughout the series, as I recall.
I don't know that.
Yeah, in the previous seasons, yeah.
I don't doubt it.
Because typically before Trump came along, the left, who produced a lot of these shows, were big Russia lovers.
They never liked to really condemn Russia because of the old days, you know, when the Soviets were in business and they were in collusion.
The American Communist Party, specifically.
So this thing is really, really bad.
And it's a propaganda piece.
I want to hear it.
No.
Why the hell would they do that?
Because of Gordon?
They want revenge?
Because they're afraid to stand up to Russia?
I'll fight this.
Not well, Conrad.
You need help, sweetheart.
No, Lydia, not you too.
You're too smart.
You know me too well.
You know that this is all just politics and backstory.
I love you.
We all do.
It's a coup.
It's a goddamn coup.
Can't you see?
It's the damn appeasers, the peaceniks, afraid of standing up to Russia.
They want to drive me out to avoid a fight.
But we can't back down.
We gotta be tough.
We can't let them get away with it.
Or Russia will be storming our shores.
Can't you see that?
I'll fight this.
I'll fight it in Congress.
You think I don't know how this works?
Sir, a letter has been drafted to send to the Senate Pro Temp, the Speaker of the House.
Once they receive it, the American people will know that the Cabinet has lost faith in your ability to govern.
There'll be great pressure on Congress to make it official by a two-thirds vote, which I'm confident they will.
Because you've given the enemies in our party the ammo they need to finally get rid of me.
You handed it to them on a damn platter.
There's another option, Conrad.
Invoke Section 3, which is temporary, and we won't send the letter to Congress.
All you have to do is submit to a full examination and treatment, if appropriate.
And once it's determined that you're better, you can be reinstated.
Agree.
And we don't send the letter.
Otherwise, Congress votes on Section 4 tomorrow.
Okay.
Section 3.
Whenever the President transmits to the President pro tempore, tempore?
How do you?
Tempura.
Tempura.
Of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that he is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, and until he transmits to them a written declaration to the contrary, such powers and duties shall be discharged by the Vice President as acting President.
Okay.
Okay.
This is what happened when Reagan got shot.
That's right.
I'm seeing it right here, where he had to say, I'm all good.
And that's when Alexander Haig comes up and says, I'm in charge!
Hey, let me play!
You really have to go back for that one.
Reading from NPR. The Federal Communications Commission guidelines make it crystal clear the guidelines define profanity as, quote, language so grossly offensive to members of the public who actually hear it as to amount to a nuisance.
According to NPR, using Goddammit, for example, is not legally profane, according to the FCC. But taking the Lord's name in vain, although not all see it that way, is more problematic for all mainstream media.
Goddamn is more complicated, especially because of the juxtaposition here to the other bleeped words...
Usually we don't bleep goddamn.
There's no legal reason to do so, although we realize there are some in the audience who find this exceedingly offensive.
So what they typically do is send out a warning to stations, alerting them to the potentially offensive language so stations can bleep that locally for their local prevailing community standards.
So it's not illegal.
According to NPR, I haven't done any more research than that.
That's all the research you need.
And according to my understanding, the KPIX, which I believe ran that show, doesn't care.
They didn't believe because they're in California for me.
Anyway, so this thing runs...
Were you going to say for God's sake?
Because that would have been funny.
I could have said something.
I was not saying anything.
So I'm thinking...
The timing was done along with the medical examination.
It's too much of a coincidence otherwise.
I watched the whole thing, and I know you got some clips, so we probably overlap.
I have some other things, but...
But in general, this doctor, this rear admiral, he had been the doctor for Bush Jr.
and for Obama and now for Trump.
He came across as very credible and...
Likeable.
Likeable, yeah.
And the whole...
I mean, of course, I was just sitting there waiting for the questions because that was going to be...
And it turned out to be really fun.
Definitely.
But he sounded like a professional, and he got all his fruit salad on.
I'm thinking he probably wouldn't lie.
And what I looked for but couldn't find easily was the briefing that was done about President Obama, who was a smoker.
By the way, we know Obama certainly smoked weed.
He liked to drink.
Hillary Clinton always talking about Chardonnay collapsing.
Yeah, she's a heavy drinker, I think.
But the scrutiny was just delicious to watch.
It was truly, they could not believe what they were hearing.
This is not possible.
We need to discredit everything.
This cannot be right.
This doctor's got to be lying.
We can see it with our own eyes.
And people are just losing their crap over it.
Well, my favorite thing was, and the clip I have, I have a couple of clips, and It was interesting how rude, and it was like Mary Bruce, I can almost hear, you know how we both pick up the voices of the very congressmen because we've been watching C-SPAN too long?
I can pretty much pick up the voices of the correspondents.
And there were rude correspondents asking, you know, one of the guys, I think it was a guy, came up and asked about the 25th Amendment.
Coincidentally.
I didn't hear that.
Did you get a clip?
No, it was really boring because the guy kept hemming and hawing about – because he knew he wasn't going to get anywhere because his doctor – I'll just tell you what the guy asked.
He says, well, regarding the 25th Amendment, if something really happened that was wrong with the president, what would you have to do with it?
What would you – would you have anything to do with getting the thing – getting the 25th Amendment in play?
Yeah.
And the doctor says, no, not really.
I mean if somebody came up to me and says, could you examine him because he fell on his head or something?
Right.
And so it never really went anywhere.
Believe me, I was going to try to clip it, but it was long-winded.
It wasn't a good clip.
The other ones were the more...
The more aggressive ones were earlier when they just asked them about the cognitive test because the guy, the doctor did what they never did with Obama was a cognitive test to see if the guy was thinking clearly.
I saw a couple examples of the Montreal cognitive test.
And they look like pretty much the same questions for the Miss America pageant.
You know, what color is the White House?
What animal is this?
Who was born in Grant's tomb?
All the stuff they used to use on the Groucho Marx show.
But what's interesting is that I didn't see any M5M journalists go after the test.
I think they really want to.
They really wanted to say, well, look, he passed the what color is the White House test.
But for some reason, they're afraid to do it because I guess it is a true standard.
No, there'll be blowback if they do that.
Right.
But you could feel it.
They're like, look, here it is.
And they show a page with the rhinoceros and the elephant and the giraffe.
Apparently, it's a lot of cognitive tests.
And the one that he gave was the most stringent.
Yeah.
You know, my favorite thing about this, by the way, afterwards was a tweet I saw.
It was some Trump hater that said, fine, Trump's not insane.
He's just a moron.
Okay, that'll do it.
Yeah, that kind of summarized everything.
That'll do it.
But so here's the back story.
I don't know if you want to play the whole thing.
It's kind of long.
Because I think the doctor's a little boring, to be honest about it.
Does the president's doctor question and answer about the cognitive test?
I like that you brought the longer clip because no other show does it because it's sometimes boring, but it's important.
Thank you, Dr.
Jackson.
Yes.
Thank you.
Two questions for you.
Number one, there have been some questions as part of your exam.
I'm wondering if you talked to the president about this, about the president's mental fitness.
He has pushed back on that, calling him a staple genius.
Can you assess the president's mental fitness for office?
Absolutely.
Many of you may have picked up on the fact that we did do a cognitive assessment as part of the exam.
Initially, I had no intention of including a cognitive assessment in this exam because, to be honest with you, per all the guidelines that are out there, it's not indicated at this time.
A lot of the guidelines would suggest that you do cognitive screening questions and that if you have a positive or concerning answer in the screening questions, that then you engage with a cognitive screening tool.
So I had no intentions whatsoever doing that, like I said, because I didn't feel it was clinically indicated.
And part of the reason I didn't think it was clinically indicated is because I've spent almost every day in the President's presence since January 20, 2000, or last year, when he got into office.
And I've seen him every day.
I've seen him one, two, sometimes three times a day because of the location of my office.
We have conversations about many things.
Most don't revolve around medical issues at all, but I've got to know him pretty well.
Baseball.
And I had absolutely no concerns about his cognitive ability or his neurological function.
So I was not going to do a cognitive exam.
I had no intention of doing one.
The reason that we did the cognitive assessment is plain and simple because the president asked me to do it.
He came to me and he said, is there something we can do, a test or some type of screen that we can do to assess my cognitive ability?
And so I looked into it, and once again, my initial question was that I didn't think it was indicated and I didn't think we should do it.
After looking at some of the guidelines, there are a few guidelines out there that lean in the direction of potentially doing it.
You know, the Medicare guidelines and some of the NIH, National Institute of Aging, they've indicated that it might be a good thing to start doing for most patients in the future.
With that in mind, I went through and I looked at a variety of the cognitive assessments that were available.
Most of them were very simple, very short.
And I think that's the goal, actually, for primary care providers in doing this is to keep it simple, keep it short.
We picked one of the ones that was a little bit more involved.
It was longer.
It was the more difficult one of all of them.
It took significantly longer to complete, but the president did exceedingly well on it.
So that was not driven at all by any clinical concerns I have.
It was driven by the president's wishes, and he did well on it.
Ruh-roh.
Oh, that wasn't expected.
No, and I like the aggressiveness of the, who I think was Mary Bruce, the aggressiveness of the, if it wasn't hers, I can think of two others that would have asked that.
The aggressiveness of the question.
And that continued with these guys are trying to, I mean, it's just so lopsided.
It's like the Apple windfall comment when there's no windfall involved.
Well, they were freaking out.
I mean, did you watch the whole thing?
Yes, I watched the whole thing.
They were freaking out.
They couldn't believe.
We did learn a couple things, though.
We were wrong.
I was wrong.
Oh, I have that clip, too, but you probably have it.
No, I'll play your clip.
There was an incident recently where the president appeared to slur his words while giving an address.
Did you look into what the cause of that might have been at all?
I did, yeah.
We talked about that, and actually one of my ENT consultants was involved in that.
We evaluated him.
We checked everything out, and everything was normal.
So what I understand, he just said they checked it out then.
Well, there's a thing in the first clip that kind of got my attention, which is you wonder why these guys live so long.
The doctor has got an office in the White House.
He sees Trump daily, and he sees him three or four times a day.
Yeah, yeah.
And by the way, that would, if you saw somebody three or four times a day and just shot the crap with them, you're like, you know, you would do.
If you say, hey, what are you?
Oh, did you want to say Madam Secretary last Sunday?
No.
Anyway, you're going to...
Yeah, but it's interesting, as you say, it's interesting that he had him checked that day after that incident to see what was going on.
Apparently he's just hanging out with him all the time.
One of my ENT consultants was involved in that.
We evaluated him.
We checked everything out.
And everything was normal.
We even went so far as to do an ultrasound of his parotid glands and a few other things.
And there was absolutely no clinical findings that would suggest...
I think the reason for that was, quite honestly, me being up here right now, I think I need a drink of water.
But I think that I had given the president some medication, specifically some Sudafed, over the days previous, and I think that I had inadvertently kind of dried up his secretions a little bit more than I intended to, and I think that precipitated it.
Well, some people have suggested that could be related to dentures.
Does the president wear dentures?
He does not.
The president has no partial dentures of any kind.
It was even simpler than my explanation.
I thought it was dentures.
Yeah.
But it was just too much pseudofil.
Yeah, that can dry you up.
It was still pretty slurry.
I've never...
You know, I'm not...
Yeah, I'm not 100% convinced that explanation works.
But...
It's possible.
And he didn't do his two-hand grasp of the jug.
I think he's never going to drink water in public again after the recent experiences because he doesn't seem to drink like a normal person.
He grabs the thing by two hands and then brings it up to his face like he's an alcoholic.
Yeah, not a good look.
No, it's not a good look.
There's something else that I caught unless you have something else.
I do have one more.
This is a shorty.
This was because they can't, you know, these guys, this media, they just can't let go of anything.
And so they ask the doctor if, they find one of his old assertions, one of Trump's boasts.
One of his many boasts.
And they decided to find out, find out whether it's true or not.
And the guy just really does a great job of pushing it aside.
This is the healthiest ever.
The president's personal doctor memorably said during the campaign that he would be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency.
Do you agree with that assessment?
I'm not going to comment on that.
My job is to basically give you my assessment of President Trump today, and I'm not going to make any comparisons with presidents over the last 200 years or anything.
He should have.
Yeah.
Here is another question that we had or something we've discussed in the past that we got an answer to I was happy with.
Some of the president's friends have told reporters in the past they think he's a germaphobe, that he washes his hands obsessively and is concerned about that.
Did you see any indication of that type of behavior being around the president?
No, I mean, he washes his hands frequently.
He uses, you know, Purell.
Don't you wish you were Purell?
Oh, yeah.
That's like the Xerox of copiers, you know.
It's not hand sanitizer.
No, Purell.
Nice!
He uses, you know, Purell.
And as many hands as he shakes in a day, he'd be a fool not to.
So I think, you know, the more he can wash his hands and use Purell, I'm encouraging that.
So I'm never going to say that's anything that he shouldn't be doing.
So I would like for him to continue to be a bit of a germaphobe and make my job a little bit easier along the way.
Yeah.
And take that.
And then, this is one of our producers caught this.
So there was a question like, someone wanted to know if he had other drug issues.
And the way, I think the journalist, it came out the wrong way.
And she said, you know, is he addicted?
Has any other drug addictions?
And the doctor's laughing.
But then there was a follow-up that I never heard on the M5M transmissions.
Yeah.
Thank you.
You said he doesn't drink and he doesn't smoke, and other than the diet issue, did you address drug addiction?
Drug addiction?
I mean, any other drugs?
Yeah, no, no.
He has no drug addiction.
Excellent.
Thank you, Dr.
Johnson.
How about sexual addiction?
Now, you may not have been able to hear that, but then she follows it up after he basically puts her in her place saying, no, he has no drug addiction.
She says, how about sexual addiction?
Excellent.
Thank you, Dr.
Johnson.
How about sexual addiction?
And everybody laughs!
Good one!
Idiots.
Now, Sanjay Gupta was there asking questions.
I've never seen him in the White House press briefing before, but he was there and they did a little breakdown on CNN. Yes, I saw you.
Well, whatever CNN, I watched this.
I watched the question and answer with Gupta.
And it seemed pretty straightforward.
And it didn't seem like a gotcha anything.
But CNN kind of twisted it, I thought.
Kind of.
Sanjay, correct me if I'm wrong, but you did see some troubling signs when you look at the data.
So let me put up for everybody.
There's this thing called the calcium score.
If you have high cholesterol, your doctor sometimes encourages you to get a calcium score to see if the plaque is already building up in your arteries.
So in 2009...
The president's calcium score before he was president was 34.
Can you stop for a second?
I want to preface this clip with what the Navy doctor said.
And he talked about the calcium score and he talked about it with Gupta at the time.
And he prefaced the whole...
He said the president has incredibly good cardiovascular health and the calcium score is indicators...
Are fantastic.
I mean, there is calcium, but that's expected at a man his age, but the numbers are such that it's nothing to be concerned about at all.
So let's start with...
Right.
So we're going to pull that out of context.
I'm glad you saw Gupta's thing.
It was pretty calm and there was nothing shocking or any surprising.
Yeah, very vanilla.
But this is how it's being presented and turned around, as you say.
If the plaque is already building up in your arteries.
So in 2009, the president's calcium score before he was president was 34.
In 2013, before he was president, it was 98.
Today, it's 133.
And as you see from the little cheat sheet fine print below, a score of over 100 means a high risk of heart attack or heart disease within three to five years.
What do you make of these findings?
This coronary calcium score is a score that a lot of cardiologists use to try and be predictive and be proactive.
And if the number gets up over 100, that is concerning to a lot of doctors.
It's concerning because you can start to say, well, if you do nothing different, if things don't change, you can start to predict the likelihood of having some sort of heart event, cardiac event, a heart attack, or something like that, within a certain number of years.
And you see the trajectory of President Trump's numbers, no doubt, and I think Dr.
Jackson alluded to this, based on because of his diet and because of his lack of exercise, that would be part of the reason those numbers have likely gone up.
And they have continued to go up despite the fact that he's been on medications.
So the president has heart disease.
Those numbers qualify him for having heart disease, and it clearly needs a plan to try and prevent some sort of heart problem down the road.
A little different than the way the doctor explained it.
The doctor says specifically he had no heart disease.
Yeah, so Sanjay is lying then.
Well, he's got a job to do.
And the thing that everyone's focusing on is this height and weight.
So apparently on some other medical record, he's 6'2".
The rear admiral says he's 6'3".
239 pounds.
Everybody's laughing.
They won't quite call the doctor out as a liar.
They really want to.
Well, yeah, they do.
Twitter, they do.
One of my Twitter pals, Carly, down in Louisiana, has gone off the deep end on this because I think she's married to or living with some guy who's a football player who's a monster.
Well, good, because I'm going to give you a couple of monsters to compare with Trump.
But a lot of these monsters that people compare are like muscle-bound guys.
I mean, fat and muscle do not weigh the same per square inch.
Tim Tebow, 6'2", 236 pounds.
Cam Chancellor, I happen to know this guy because I've seen a game, 6'3", 232 pounds.
Jay Cutler, 6'3", 231 pounds.
And Sports Illustrated, Bo Scarborough, that guy's a monster, 6'2", 235 pounds.
Trump may be overweight, he may be a fat ass, but to say that 239 pounds is impossible just doesn't seem the same to me.
I don't get what people are saying.
Are they saying he's not that big or he's bigger?
They're saying that he has to be much heavier than 239 pounds.
Oh.
Well, you know, we have our economic hitman, who I haven't heard from for a while, hint, that I had lunch with recently, and he says he met Trump, and he says he's 300 pounds if he's an ounce.
Why would the doctor lie?
I mean, it's possible.
Well, Trump may have been heavier in the past.
I have the suspicion that he's actually lost a lot of weight since he became president.
I think he's still wearing the vest, which makes you look pretty bulky on top.
His ass is definitely a wide load.
No doubt.
That thing is caboose.
But it's possible.
I mean, how much do you think I weigh?
I'm 6'5".
How much do you think I weigh?
If an ounce.
You're pretty skinny.
At 6'5", I'd say you weighed 180.
Yeah, 187.
I should be 192, I think.
I'm a little underweight.
Yeah.
But still, does that mean that the doctor lied?
And if so, why?
He was very clear that he wanted him to lose weight, but why would he lie about it?
And then if he lied about it...
Well, he said he wanted him to lose 15 pounds, so he wants him down to...
If he weighed 300 pounds, he'd want him to lose a lot more than that.
It would be...
He is...
If he's 240...
I mean, he's not William Howard Taft, which is what everyone likes to believe, who is 300-plus pounds as president.
Now they're calling for a public weigh-in because they don't trust it.
Ha!
Yeah, you have to stand on the scale.
We want to see it.
Yeah, we don't believe it.
Stand on the scale.
Yeah, this is the type of anger.
This is Joy Reid talking to Stephanie Hamill.
I don't know who she is.
I think she's a consultant to the White House.
How did you feel when you heard those comments?
So, Joy, we didn't actually hear him say those words.
That's a different topic.
I'm sorry.
It was just the anger.
We'll play that later.
So, you know, I don't know.
That's quite a discrepancy.
I too thought, you know, because we've talked about him being very heavy, but okay.
Well, a lot of this is, you know, we get a lot of our preconceived notions.
Don't forget on television, which is where we see him mostly, you're always going to look heavier.
Everybody looks heavier, yeah.
I mean, some people that are skinny as a rail, and you can name a number of actresses you probably personally know, that look, if a 20 mile an hour breeze comes by, knock them over.
They look fine on television.
Do you remember Nancy Wilson from Heart?
Yeah, vaguely.
Yeah, I do.
There was a point at MTV in the late 80s, and so Anne and Nancy Wilson, and Nancy, she was just big.
She was just a huge woman.
And I think she was so upset about it that when we received...
I forget which video it was.
Troll Room may know.
Their new video came in.
We looked at it.
And remember, this is late 80s.
They had squeezed the video.
So there were actual black bars on each side of the screen.
And they tried to make it art.
Like a letterbox, only the letterbox was on the wrong side.
Yeah.
And to squeeze it to make her look thinner.
And it was so...
It was sad.
We sent it back.
Is this a mistake in the edit?
No.
No, that's what Anne and Nancy actually want.
Oh, okay.
Could have fooled us.
Well...
I'm sorry.
Anne was the big one.
Nancy is the not big one.
They're both the same size when they started out.
The point is, is that...
TV makes you look heavier, and we also have ingrained, burned into our psyche, a number of Photoshop jobs that were done on Trump, including the one with the big, giant gut, where he's swinging the golf club with this huge gut, and the one with the double chins, where he's looking down, and somebody's Put in a whole bunch of chins so it looks like he's got a big fat head.
I had the same bias.
I was convinced that I'm like, that doesn't sound like enough.
And that could be just totally from bias.
I think there's a lot of bias there.
And we've been conditioned.
I mean, the whole thing, don't forget, even we, and I'm telling this to the producers, that the two of us, even though we're pretty good at catching each other, I'm spewing some bull crap, which is why you have to have two guys to do the show, by the way.
Yes.
It's just like the emergency alert system.
You need two people.
You need two guys.
To man the system, yes.
He's going to finish that story no matter what.
So we are subject...
Both of us, to the same kind of subtle propagandistic stuff that goes into the main street, into the public at large, which includes the big gut Photoshop job.
When I saw that, I said, wow, this guy, this is a really unflattering photo.
Not thinking, oh yes, Photoshop.
The triple chins one got me so much that I had to go find the original picture, which I did find.
Yes.
Because I wanted to see how this guy was doing.
It was dynamite.
The gut was really good too, by the way.
A very well done Photoshop job.
Yes, you are a Photoshop fan.
I'm a fan of the product.
Fan of the Photoshop, yes.
But I can't.
I mean, some of these things some people do is just remarkably dynamite.
It's like the guys who do the jingles.
Well, I was just about to say, there's a jingle for it.
It's as we always say.
If it rings true, it is true.
If it rings true, it is true.
The ring is true, it is true.
And...
Michael Wolff.
With that, I'd like to thank you for your courage and say in the morning to you, John C, where the C stands for cardiac consultant, Dvorak.
In the morning to you, Mr.
Adam Curry.
In the morning to all ships at sea and boots on the ground, feet in the air and subs in the water and all the dames and knights out there.
Yes, in the morning to, uh...
Let me see.
Who are we going to thank?
Ah, yes.
We're going to thank Brett Simovich.
Double T. Brett Simovich.
First time he ever had the courage to upload a piece of art, he said.
And it was the slot machine, the 999 slot machine.
A great piece.
You know what's funny?
Very few people have ever hit the home run on the first try.
Right.
I mean, some people have.
So I'm in Vegas when I was at Infoworld.
And we're in Vegas for one of our trips to Comdex.
And one of the writers, Paul Freiberger, you know, we're walking around and there's, I said, do you ever play any of these, do you ever play slots or video poker?
He says, no, never.
I've never played slots or video poker ever.
And I said, you should play at least once so you can say you played.
You don't have any worldly experience if you haven't at least lost some money.
And so myself and another guy talked him into dropping a quarter into a slot machine and he hit the jackpot.
How much came out?
It was like 30 bucks or 50 bucks, something like that.
Nice.
And as far as I know, he never played again.
Perfect.
Perfect.
Well, we want to thank Brett and all of our artists throughout the years who have been helping us.
I don't know, but we didn't start the first episode with artwork.
I don't remember when we actually started it.
No, no, it was the guys.
It was Paul T. Yes, Paul T. Who reminded me in nasty emails.
He said, you don't remember my name!
Because he was the guy who moved off to Asia and we never heard from him since.
But I guess he still listens once in a while.
And the other guy, who was the other guy who started with an R? Paul Couture.
No, no.
Couture came later.
Couture's the one who put up the website.
He wasn't one of the early artists.
And if you remember, there was a different website.
Oh, man.
I know you've confused me.
I really don't.
Yeah, Couture came along later.
Rhinoceros, elephant, giraffe.
Paul T. and one other guy were the two guys who started doing the art.
And they're the ones who kept putting us in the picture.
And then there was another website, and then Paul Couture came along with a really good website, and then everybody slowly gravitated to that.
I don't know what happened to the art on the first website, but if you look at the Couture site, you'll see where his art begins and before that is where the other website was.
Ah, it's been a long road.
Thousand shows.
Thousand shows.
Noagendaartgenerator.com is where you can upload your art.
Thank you to all the artists who have helped us throughout the years.
We are convinced it makes a big difference having fresh album art.
It really rounds out the product and your expertise and your...
Yeah, is appreciated.
Thank you for your courage.
It's very nice.
Also, in the morning...
Anyway, so we got a lucky winner.
I got to say in the morning to the troll room...
You know, they've been around for a long time, too.
I know you have disdain for them, but I'm just saying in the morning, too.
Disdain.
Yes.
You hate them.
I don't hate them.
I'm not a hater.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Okay.
All right.
Well, let's thank a few people for being executive and associate executive producers.
We have a long list of these people, and it's going to take a little longer than usual, but we can alert the affiliates.
Alert the affiliates.
We're going long.
So we start off with, but I do like Sir Andy Chan, who came in, who's come in before with $5,000.
Wow!
And to make it even more interesting, his note is, Happy 1,000th, gents.
That's the note.
Yeah.
Wow.
Wow.
I think we should give him some gratuitous karma.
Oh, yeah.
I'm gonna give him...
I just had to get something here.
I had...
I'm gonna give him some fresh goat charm.
Servers goat karma.
I like that.
Karma.
You've got...
Harma.
Onward.
Onward.
Thank you very much, Sir Andy.
That is fantastic.
Does he get an upgrade with his...
He's going to have to ask for what he wants.
Yeah, he's up there in something.
Viscount, Earl, I'm not sure.
But he needs to tell us what he wants.
Yeah.
Yeah, okay.
Okay, we got Sir, is this Zahn?
Sir Zahn Jr.
of the One Cat Army.
The One Cat Army, yes.
In Colorado Springs, that's $1,000.
This notice for my donation of $1,000 for Show 1000.
I was bummed that I let the 999 donation slip by me.
However, I think this donation makes $1,000 for Show 1000.
The penny makes it a palindrome and 1001, which is what it came in at 1001.
He's asking you for the penny.
Wait for it is the binary representation of 33, which we pointed out in the newsletter.
Yes.
He's the only one that took advantage of it.
Everybody else, because it was a conflict between $1,000 and one cent, which equals 33 in binary, and 1,000, which equals 8, the Chinese lucky number.
So that people chose the Chinese lucky number over the screwy 33, generally.
Thanks for your continued hard work to shed light on the televised propaganda that is masquerading as reporting.
I no longer watch the news and figure if something happens, I'll hear about it first on Twitter and then I'll get a breakdown on the No Agenda show.
I hope you'll see Show 1000 as a mile marker and not a finish line.
There is no other show, podcast, you know, it could be a finish line, but we're going to make it a marker.
I like the 1,000 thing.
I mean, I did about 1,000 Silicon Spin shows, but I was fired.
Okay.
Sorry to hear that.
I don't know.
I could be still doing it now.
You never know.
Sorry to hear that.
Yeah, I was fired unceremoniously when I went on vacation.
Oh, that's the worst.
You come back, it's on your voicemail.
Yeah, don't come in Monday.
No, it wasn't on the voicemail.
I'll give you the story.
I hate to stretch this segment, but...
No, it wasn't on the voicemail.
Although when I got back and found I was fired, I asked him why somebody didn't tell me.
And the guy says to me, this guy who's still floating around in business, oh, I left a message on your voicemail.
Well, anyone who actually knew me knows that I don't have a voicemail.
So he was lying.
He was lying.
And so I said, what are you talking about?
I don't have a voicemail.
Well, I left it on your other line, he says.
And I said, I don't have another line.
And so then he hung up.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, he choked.
He couldn't figure out what to do after all the lies.
He's sad.
Anyway.
I've just altered the spreadsheet.
Hold on one second.
I would like to get some job in goat karma, he says.
Resist we much and Rubbleizer Numbers Station.
Cheers to you, the show, and all your supporters.
But resist we much.
We must and we will much.
About that, be committed.
India, Tango, Mike, stand by.
33, 33, 33.
Rubbleizer out.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs!
You know, I don't know why that's so funny to me, that 33.
The Rubbleizer?
Yeah.
Yeah.
It does sound a little like the number station.
Oh, it sounds very much like a number station.
We should play a little number station action one of these days so people know what we're talking about.
We probably have one.
That's okay.
We don't need to do it now.
But I just...
If anyone gets...
Yeah, number station.
Anyway, what it is is some ham station that somebody's just reading numbers.
And everyone thinks it's like the Russians or something.
Well, here's the parrot, which they think is the North Korean one.
There's also ones that speak English and have numbers.
And they're on shortwave.
Yeah.
And it's code.
Well, that's what everyone thinks.
Um...
I got laid out.
I'm sorry.
Lincoln Hammond in Austin, Texas.
$1,000.
Lincoln?
His comment.
You made it.
Great job.
Fuckos.
If I may be knighted Sir L. Hawkins.
Huzzah!
Yes.
I look forward to bestowing you with that title, Lincoln.
You know this guy?
No, I don't.
Oh.
You have a ring.
Your voice has a ring of familiarity.
He lives in Austin, so I presume...
Yeah, you should know him, man.
He's in Austin.
You're in Austin.
That's right.
I should know.
Benjamin Natus.
Natus, Natus, Natus, over here in San Francisco.
Long-term supporter.
Of the show.
A thousand?
A thousand dollars.
I got laid off in November as a dude named Ben.
He got laid off and he gave us a thousand dollars to support our efforts.
In an ad media company, fellow Knight Sir Boyle gave me job...
Gave me jobs karma.
Within two weeks, I had an offer and am moving back to San Francisco and she'll have to change my region from Dumbo as this brings me up to Barron.
All right.
And then what is he asking for here?
Yeah, I'm just making an adjustment.
A thousand shows, and we still haven't figured out the spreadsheet technology.
No, I got it.
It was an error I made.
Baron, can I get a climate gate into chemtrails?
Don't be a denier.
And Adam, did you catch this on December 24th in the Chronicle?
Why would he catch anything in the Chronicle?
Best...
And he talks about some article.
I have not seen it, so I have to check this later.
Request moving karma so my stuff doesn't get broken or held ransom in transit.
Well, congratulations.
And we love it when jobs karma works.
Yeah, we really do.
To the gate, to the gate, to the climate gates.
Don't be a denier.
The science is in. Silence.
Silence.
You've got.
Sorry.
A little over-excessive on the goat there.
Yeah, I see that.
Terry Clark, $1,000 with extremely long note.
In the morning from the Arkansas Delta, I write and donate to you today to offer congratulations on reaching 1,000.
I began listening to the show on episode 898.
I get a kick out of people who actually remember their first show.
After being hit in the mouth by a dear friend and chosen brother, Sir John the Brewer, out of Bay St.
Louis, Mississippi.
We have received beer from him, I believe, illegally.
John had been hitting me in the mouth for about two years, but it took the last election cycle for me to begin questioning the feedback of the M5M. This donation will bring me up to knighthood, but not an instant knight contribution due to the fact that I started a $5 subscription to the show after listening for about a month.
I decided to wait until episode 1000 goes on.
On that note, douchebag call-outs for everyone who is listening and not contributing to the best podcast in the universe.
Douchebag!
I like my talibus, Sir Terry, The Night of the Crowley Ridge.
Your commentary on the insanity of the MK Ultra programming media, especially over the last year, has brought me closer to enlightenment than I've ever achieved in my 35 years.
I feel I've grown to know you both very well.
During my worst of weeks, your show gives me something to look forward to, which I think is a plus.
In regards to jingles, you can play at the end if you overloaded an episode.
I would like to hear the full...
JCD gripe about airplane peanut consumption.
That's not a jingle.
We don't have that as a mix.
No, it's not a jingle.
And a sex mix jingle.
Oh, that one I do have, I think.
Let me see.
Is it this one?
Let me just check.
Hold on.
It's interesting how the male elephant is really dominant in this world.
Yeah, it's the elephant sex.
Okay, we can play that.
Yeah, we'll play that.
Anything else on here that we need to read?
Yeah, I think...
This is pure gold, the elephant sex.
I was tearing up from laughing so hard when I first heard it.
Some of your best work.
Can I get a dose of Trump Jobs Karma and F Cancer Karma for everybody who needs it?
Yes, of course, Terry Clark.
And thank you very much for your support of the best podcast in the universe.
Jobs, jobs, jobs.
You've got karma.
Yay! Yay! You I'm with Sir John Jolly.
John Jolly was an interesting situation.
He wanted to be credited.
He got knighted on the last show because a note came in before his money came in.
Uh-huh.
And he came at $384.96 in Yukon, Oklahoma.
And I believe, did I get a note from him?
I have to read his note from the last, that we didn't read, because we indicted him but never read his note.
And this became, this is one of those things where if something gets separated from something else, we really have no mechanism for putting the two together.
Remember, we run this show out of John's drawer.
Drawer.
There's a drawer.
Drawer.
And so if things get moved...
Oh, here...
Oh, boy.
I might have it printed out because I got into the process of having to print stuff out.
Okay.
Very good.
It's not that.
It's not that.
You need tabs, little tabs with little stickies.
Yeah, and then the other problem is that when somebody has a situation, instead of attaching the note that they want, they write note after note after note, and the original note is lost somewhere in the mess.
Yes.
So I'm going to go back, and for the second segment, I'll bring Jolly's note into play and read it.
Okay.
I'm not going to do it now.
All right.
Sir Dan, protector of the underwater something or other.
Criminal investigators.
Of $350 in Woodford, Virginia.
Sir Dan, protector of the underwater criminal investigators.
Please check email for note.
Okay, Sir Dan was, of course...
Here's another issue I should mention to people.
Yes, I can see the issue already.
Yes.
I will type in Dan.
And into the Squirrel Mail search engine.
Squirrel Mail search functionality.
And so Eric DeShill is here.
I see Knighthood maybe this January.
Daniel Eber.
Is that it?
No.
I don't know.
We can't know.
No, that would be $1,000.
He didn't give us $1,000.
We can't know.
Wait, maybe at the end.
Sir Dan.
No.
So I don't know.
Okay, wait a minute.
Let me type in Sir Dan.
In the email, Sir Dan.
No, no messages on the subject.
Search.
Ah!
Squirrel mail comes through again.
From Sir Daniel, it says.
Sir Daniel of the High Desert.
Is it the same guy?
I don't think so.
No, I don't think so.
This is a nice preparation.
Well, I'm just saying, I mean, this is not that you can prep.
We prep for the material of the show.
We don't prep for the reading notes.
Okay.
People should note that.
I just want to make sure that this is pretty boring.
Yeah, I'm sorry.
Okay, onward to Andrew.
We can't find your note.
Andrew Daniel, San Diego, California, 33410.
And he is in...
San Diego.
I made it just in time for show 1000.
Love the deconstruction and constantly goes on.
By the way, compliments on these long shows is probably to be put aside.
I do my best part to dedouche myself and donate to the greatest podcast in the universe.
My per diem is on its way.
I get paid on Friday, so I'm...
Happy to plunk down and get in on the best place to get your news correctly without the bias.
Hopefully, as soon as I start a regular monthly donation cycle, Jobs Karma probably destined me to land a job that allowed me to donate regularly, so I'm happy to finally have the financial stability to get in on the donation cycle.
If you're promising triple credit, I'm not promising triple credit.
We promise triple executive producerships for people who donated $1,000 in the past.
There were a couple of people who were like, oh, it's triple, so I'm a knight.
I'm like, no.
If you read the newsletter, it was very carefully outlined, and we discussed it on the show.
No, no.
You get triple producer credits if you donate $1,000 on previous shows for this show.
Uh, but he does have the right to ask for jingles.
The intro to I Got Ants, Babies and Cows.
Yes.
Don't Eat Me, Hillary.
Yes.
Toot to the Head and Goat Karma.
Okay, well, just gonna play a little bit of the ants, cause it's long.
Hit it!
I got ants.
It said the intro.
Yeah, just the intro.
It's cause it's the best part.
It's the intro.
I got ants.
I got ants.
My God, for 25 years, they've been growing babies and cows!
I don't know if we had ants.
Eat me, Hillary Clinton!
You've got karma.
Sir Tom McRod Adams, Baron of the something or other.
The Blue Ridge.
Although, yes.
It's glowing blue.
No, it's Baron of the Suncoast.
It's Baron of the Suncoast now.
He says it is no Baron of the Blue Ridge.
I have a feeling that something went wrong there.
Regrets from the tardiness of the final installment for Show 1000 spent yesterday afternoon surrounded by a horde 24 to be exact of excited human resources mostly in the 7 and 9 year old age group I served as a helping hand at a granddaughter's birthday party energizing I'm sure it was 7 and 9 year olds the worst at a party and if there's 24 of them Anyway,
major congrats on your continuing show, ever-improving effort to deconstruct media stories and the long-term narratives.
Atomic Insights and Atomic Show have benefited by applying your lessons to a single topic, the long arc narrative created and disseminated about nuclear energy.
The media publishes stories about the tech, but the disinformation in those stories is often pure negative marketing created by skilled propagandists serving competitive energy sources.
Huh?
Yeah.
Of course.
Of course it is.
Well, actually, it's worse than that because the new generation of journos, they're not paid.
They're not skillfully trained.
They are just taught this way, taught by their elders.
This is the fact.
This is the truth.
This is how it is.
Like Christina, who yesterday said, Daddy, we've never had a code red storm in Europe before.
And I look, and the UK is packed with snow.
You know, the stuff that children would never see again except in snow globes?
I wish you had that clip.
It wasn't a clip, it was an article.
I wish there was a clip of it.
Yeah, it's never going to snow again.
Follow at Atomic Rod, read Atomic Insights, and listen to The Atomic Show for continuing coverage.
Our archives date back to April 1995.
NJNK, and thank you very much for your courage and your enduring support, Sir Atomic Rod Adams.
Can you read the next one?
Caleb Crossman, 333.33, Salem, Oregon.
Congrats on 1K's show.
First time donor.
Ooh, he's a deduce.
You've been deduced.
I was hit in the mouth five months ago by my friend Mike.
No Agenda isn't the best podcast in the universe.
It's the only podcast in the universe.
A true aural refuge.
A-U-R-A-L. Aural.
Can I get a dedouching done and a jobs karma, of course?
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs!
You've got karma.
Brian Schaefer, $333, no note.
And thank you very much, Brian.
Robert Kitzel in Waikoloa.
Waikoloa.
Waikoloa.
333.
Aloha, John and Adam.
Huge congratulations.
A monumental achievement.
Look for the note from Big Island VIP. Okay?
We'll do that.
Sir Horatio of Wandsworth, UK, London.
333.
Congratulations on show 1000.
I've been a fan since show 1 and DSC before that.
Sir Horatio of Wandsworth, UK, now residing and enjoying the show in Saudi Arabia.
Nice.
What's this?
Yeah, Saudi.
Keep on podding.
We'll pod away, my friend.
We're podding.
Brian Brady, $314.97.
And he's going to be knighted.
Wait, I think you...
Did you miss somebody here?
Edward Sheets in Brewerton, New York.
$333.
No note from him.
ITM gentlemen, it's only fitting that I listened to my first episode after the Charlottesville riots while driving south to visit my sister.
After a couple of months later, here I am driving down to my sister's once more and it's episode 1000.
No better time to take advantage of the triple credit promo and hit my toll of 1000.
Not true.
So that's another person who misunderstood the triple credit, meaning triple executive producers for people who donated $1,000, not $314.97.
So the knighting is not accurate.
It seems to be on the list for some reason.
Okay.
I think Eric didn't get the message either, or he was misunderstanding this guy.
Yes.
So, Ryan, sorry, but that's not going to happen.
But thank you very much.
Yeah, you get executive producer credit three times, and it's highly appreciated, of course, but that was a misunderstanding.
No, he doesn't get executive producer credit three times.
That deal was for $1,000 because it was the equivalent of three executive producers, so we were going to give them three credits if they donated $1,000 on any show before Show 1000.
Okay.
Now I stand corrected.
It was unclear to me.
It was very unclear, and I'm going to stop doing these deals because we only had a few people that took advantage of it anyway, because it seems to be so easily misunderstood.
I didn't think it was that hard to understand.
Alright, onward.
And he doesn't have any jingles, which he had an opportunity for.
Yeah, he does.
He says, for my jingles, please play Trump's God Bless You Like You.
I don't know that we have that as a clip.
And God bless the United States.
Thank you very much.
Yeah, I think we got that.
Why wouldn't we?
And what else did he want?
Some road karma.
I'll do it again.
And God bless the United States.
Thank you very much.
You've got karma.
Now, I've taken Sudafed in my life.
That's never happened.
Yeah, I think if anybody wants to bitch about...
Them lying to us.
I'm not buying that.
I'm not buying that one.
No, I still think that's a little much.
Something was crazy there.
Okay, we got Christopher Spaulding from Franklin Park US 306.
He says, wishful thinking.
What exactly does that mean?
As I said, Leo, okay, so he's just bitching about Leo.
I'm not going to read that.
But thank you for your contribution to the show, Christopher.
Wait a minute, he might have something else.
Oh, here we go.
This is a real note.
Congratulations on the third 1,000th episode.
Your deconstruction has enlightened my perspective.
Very long note.
It appears I'm portraying myself as a spotlight douchebag, trying to excuse my way out of donating in the past, but if you or John say not to do it, I will respect your wishes.
What's he talking about?
I don't know, but he respects our wishes.
I'll have to look at this letter later.
That's a good start.
Very long something.
He wants to do something special.
Onward to associate executive producer, starting with Louis Pipkin in Tallahassee, Florida, 255-89.
Quite an accomplishment.
I've been listening since the Haiti shithole earthquake, and I haven't fallen overboard yet.
What?
Isn't that recent?
Oh, no.
The earthquake.
The actual earthquake.
Oh, that's a long time.
Yeah, I can't put it into words how much value your show has been to me over the years.
Thank you.
No.
Please give a Trump jobs karma with a service borough kicker to all the producers out there.
I'm sure that we can all use it.
No problem.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs.
You've got karma.
You've got karma.
Congratulations.
Give yourself some celebratory horns, my favorite, and an LGY. Keep up the great work.
Yeah.
Baron of Kansas City.
Oh, that was the big yay.
Wow.
The little yay.
Yay!
There we go.
Ryan in Port Townsend, Washington.
No jingles, no karma.
Thank you.
Bill Hudick in Ellicott City, Maryland.
$250.
You may read, please.
Congratulations to both, to you both on this momentous occasion.
I was hit in the mouth several years ago with my first episode being 625.
You both, along with the help of your producers, jingle makers, and staff, have consistently produced the high-quality, insightful comedy show.
Thank you.
That I look forward to twice weekly.
Thank you all!
Like most producers, I really appreciate the extra time you spend recalling and explaining the background of certain issues and events along with your own personal stories, like when John offered a ride on his motorcycle to a woman in the freezing weather.
I also get a kick out of all your, hey, Bills, as my name is Bill.
With this value-for-value exchange, it truly is a privilege to join you in the Knights and Dames of the Knowage in the Roundtable.
Yes, we will be bringing you there.
Jingle requests.
Can you read these for me?
Yes.
Start off with the falsetto Ben.
It's just a dude named Ben, just a dude named Ben, just a dude named Ben, which is the, I believe, I don't remember that as a falsetto.
Let's see.
Yep, I got it.
Dr.
Kiki's, but it was worth it.
Which I guess referred to the flu shot, I didn't realize that.
Karma Yeh.
And end of show, let's get social, which I actually requested of Curiously.
I requested that after the last show of Adam to put it in the next show, and that's exactly what we have here.
Okay, I'm going to write that down.
Let's get social.
Because, of course, I didn't write it down on the list.
No, it's beside the point.
But this is coming back.
Baby's just a dude, baby.
Just a dude, baby.
I've forgotten this one.
Baby's just a dude, baby.
It was worth it.
It was worth it.
Yay!
You've got karma.
Yay!
I don't know why I don't remember just the dude named Ben thing.
Sir Gordon Walton, and I'll take some more B12. 250.
Calcium.
Sir Gordon Walton in Austin, Texas, too.
You know him.
Because you live in Austin.
You must know him.
Yeah, we hang out all the time.
This might get me to full Baron.
Eric doesn't check.
Him and Lincoln.
We hang out with Lincoln and Sir Gordon.
Yeah, and all the rest of you guys.
All the rest of you, you cow, turd, kickers.
Happy 1000.
Happy to have been here from the beginning.
Oh, okay.
You have to tell us whether you're Baron.
Eric doesn't have that.
That tool has been out of service for years.
Well, he has a title change on the list, so I'm going to presume...
So I guess Eric did some work, and it turns out you're going to be barren.
Do you see two different blue colors between Bill and Sir Gordon on your spreadsheet?
Yeah, there is two different colors, but I never knew that that light blue meant barren.
No, the light blue is a night, and the dark blue...
No, hold on, the night color on my spreadsheet is purple.
Oh, it may be purple on mine, but now that you say it, it looks purple, because I'm totally colorblind.
Ah, we forgot that.
But it's definitely a different color, I can see that, but it looks more light blue to me.
But now you say purple, it's amazing, it turns purple.
Really?
Yeah.
Oh, then what color was the dress?
Was it blue and black or white and gold?
I don't remember what I thought, but I do know that we have some vases on the wall.
Vases, oh.
And I put, the top two I put white coronations, and the bottom two I put yellow coronations.
Coronations or carnations?
Carnation.
A coronation is fun, too, to put on the wall, but a carnation.
And sitting on the couch, they all looked white.
And then not until I'm really close, because, oh yeah, they're yellow.
Or then if I sit on the couch and I say, I know the bottom two are yellow, then I see them as yellow.
I think we have a problem, Houston.
I think you just have...
Well, you do...
We talked about...
We haven't talked about this on the show.
I can't see the numbers.
I can't see the numbers in the little dots, ever.
Yeah, you know, we did a piece of show art once that had a color blindness test, and you...
That's when you told me for the first time that, hey, I can't see it.
And I'm thinking, what are you talking about?
I can't.
I'm colorblind, and you talked about it.
Yeah.
And it's a specific kind of colorblind.
Yes.
It's the blue-red colorblind, the green-purple.
I don't know.
Top, top one stop, bottom one go.
Okay, onward to Anthony Rina, R-E-N-N-A. Did we get Torben Peterson?
I don't think so.
250.
Torben is from Norway.
No, we didn't.
Hi, Torben.
Best wishes to the No Agenda family and community.
I will keep this brief as there is bound to be many notes to be read, so all I ask for is some jobs karma for the love of my life.
That would make both of us very grateful.
I wonder if Torben's the same guy who made this software that I'm using now on Windows.
I gotta look into that.
Jobs.
Jobs.
And jobs.
Let's vote for jobs!
You've got karma.
It's a little known fact that Torben is the equivalent of Bill.
There's plenty of them in Norway.
Hey, Torben!
Torby, baby!
Anthony Rina, 23456.
No note.
So we go on NJNK. Thank you for that.
Scott Cooper, 20202, as we're wrapping this up.
And he's parts unknown.
He says, my first donation, the palindrome form, since I've started listening around, show 980, which is recent, and after being hit in the mouth of 3X by Barron HMFIC of the U.S. Armed Forces.
We haven't heard from him for a while.
Thanks for the new content you provide.
I really like the Dr.
Steve interview and the bit on the Reese Commission.
I look forward to more media deconstruction.
If I could, I'd like a de-douche.
You've been de-douched.
Oh, I'm sorry.
It was part of a sequence.
Got it.
We came, he saw, he died.
Shut up, you idiot.
Two to the head and some donkey car.
What is the shut up, idiot?
I'm not sure I know what that means.
Shut up, you idiot.
I don't know what that is either.
Oops.
Maybe it means don't laugh?
No, no.
Shut up?
Oh, maybe.
That's all I got.
That's the best thing.
Oh, that must be it.
I mean, that is the land of unconfirmed idiots.
We came, we saw, he died.
Don't laugh.
Why are you laughing?
Shut up.
Actually, that combination is fabulous.
It is pretty good.
You've got...
That's a great combination.
Good work, Scott.
Sir Tristan Banning, $200 even.
Happy $1,000.
Love the P interview.
Wowza, NJNK. Thank you very much, sir.
Jonas R. Estrom, $200.
He's in Sweden, I believe.
Here's to another 1,000.
ITM. And that's it, finally.
That's a lot of people that helped us do show 1,000 by financing the show and giving us a little boost in cheerleading.
It's like cheerleading.
Well, I like a lot of people reading through some of the notes, trying not to read too deep into them because I always think that we've done that donation note.
Yeah.
You know, people saying, I really wanted to step up and donate because I feel that that's the value I've received over these 1,000 episodes, whether they've never donated.
Masterclass.
Masterclass, yeah, that was our anonymous CPA. And it's very heartwarming.
And to see this, to see these donations and the support we're getting, John, it means people like what we do.
You almost hit it.
You almost hit that old bomb.
I like what we do.
People like what we do.
We do.
We do it the best.
People like what we do, and it is very heartwarming, and I'll tell you, there is no advertiser, you know, we got the big account.
There's no ratings, no ratings that compare.
Brocter& Gamble came in!
That's right!
Woo!
Baby, bring the bell!
Woo!
No, there's no ratings.
We're number one overnight!
No, there's none of that that makes me feel as good as the support that we get directly from the audience.
It is extremely fulfilling, so I appreciate it, and I want to thank everybody for their courage.
People clap, yes.
Say what?
It's like a stage play and people clap.
You got the audience right in front of you.
It's not as though you're associated from everybody because you're just working for an advertiser to get people to buy their product.
That's what I don't like.
With the difference with the stage, we're not doing the same play every single night.
We do a completely different show, every single show.
A lot of work goes into it, and it's nice to see it appreciated.
So thank you.
And everyone else should feel the same, because without the producers, we'd be nowhere.
And we decided a long time ago, you were not listeners, you were producers.
Absolutely.
You want to say anything else?
I don't know what to say.
You got me stunned.
You're stunned.
Hey, I'll tell you what.
Show 1001 coming up on Sunday.
Yeah, that's it.
1001.
All right.
Now, what you can do until then.
Our formula is this.
We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
Shut up, Slade.
Shut up, Slade.
I don't know how many episodes we've been doing it, but you still manage to talk over it.
That's great.
And why not?
Yeah, of course.
There's nothing wrong with it.
It's our format at this point.
It's just our format.
I want to mention to people out there, there'll be somebody that we left out or something.
Please send a message in.
We'll correct these things over time.
I'm sorry.
I want us to say, send something to me, johndivark.org, with the subject line, all caps, ERROR. Yeah.
That works.
Don't send it to me.
People are always sending it to me.
Because he'll just send it to me, and then I never read his email.
He's the only one whose email I look at in batch mode.
I will say, oh my god, I haven't read Adam's email for a while.
In batch mode?
And so then I'll read them all and start answering them all.
Of course, he does the same thing with me.
Oh!
Bullshit!
Oh, that's so not true.
Yes, because I see the answer, answer, answer.
Out of the blue, I got five messages.
And so we do that with each other, apparently.
And so it's futile, because I'm going to get it anyway.
So just mail it to me, and then if I lose it, I'll just lose it.
But what I can do is a subject search on error, which I do.
Yeah, that works.
And then I can go through them.
You know, there was a lot of concern on the No Agenda Faceback group yesterday.
People had not seen me respond.
I don't post all that much.
Sometimes I'll add a comment or something.
And they were very concerned about the DHL bomb package that I had received.
And since they hadn't heard from me, they were wondering if something had gone wrong.
Thinking that because there was a bomb that blew up your place and killed you that this wouldn't be reported somewhere?
Yeah.
So you'll recall this was a very heavy box.
And it was from Camdenavia, delivered with DHL, and it had in it what sounded to me like ball bearings, which would be perfect for a Unabomber-type explosive.
Yeah, yeah.
It turns out it's not, but it is a very nice gift.
This is from Clown Show.
I think I'm just supposed to say Clown Show.
And it is a...
Here it is.
Can you guess what this is?
It's a jar.
It's from Scandinavia.
It's very heavy.
What do you think is in there?
It's a jar full of gumdrops.
It's very heavy.
Gumballs.
Okay.
Oh, it's heavy.
A jar full of tungsten balls.
Close.
It is a jar full of 1,000 pennies.
Oh.
Canadian pennies?
Well, yeah, because of course, you know, a thousand pennies would be $10.
I think this is 40 cents because it came to Navy.
If they're real pennies made of copper, they're actually worth two cents a piece.
Yeah, I looked it up and I think they are the ones made of copper.
So this is a $17 jar right here.
Wow!
It's quite a curiosity to have.
Yes, because they're all Canadian pennies, and so you can't put them into one of the machines.
No, you can't do anything with them.
Well, actually, you could.
You could go to one of those machines that turn the pennies and dimes and nickels into cash.
By the way, a lot of banks have them.
You can just ask the banker.
It doesn't cost anything.
And you dump in this huge jar of pennies, because they're Canadian, and they'll all get rejected, and it'll sound like you hit a jackpot at a casino.
A thousand of them.
I'm going to keep it.
It's nice.
It's a nice conversation piece.
Paperweight.
Paperweight.
Yeah.
Paperweight.
It's a bodyweight.
You can put this on.
You can't get up.
The thing is heavy.
That was very nice.
I appreciate it.
That was pretty funny.
So we've been talking in the A block, as we're now in the B block, a lot about, you know, stuff that...
Let's get everyone used to being TV producers.
Yeah, might as well.
Hey, it's on your card, so, you know, you put it on your LinkedIn, your executive producer of the No Agenda show.
You need to know what's going on.
Yeah.
There's this video floating around of Jordan Peterson.
This is the professor who has a big mouth.
I think he had to resign.
I got a letter from him recently.
You got a letter from him?
Yeah, he's got some book coming out.
Yes, that's what he's promoting, yes.
You know, you should do an interview with him.
I would love to do it.
I've got a number of interviews I'd love to do.
Well, you got a note from him, or is it a PR thing?
It says it was from him.
It seemed like it was from him.
It could be bullcrap.
But I told him, yeah, send me the book, but make sure you autograph it.
So there's this video floating around.
Where he's being interviewed by, her name is Kathy Newman, I think she's from Channel 4, and he fries her brain, which you'll hear in this clip.
Then he basically takes what she said, turns it around, and her brain fries.
She's silent for seconds just trying to figure out how he trapped her into this.
But much more interesting, because most people just cut it off there.
I'm like, well, I want to know more about this clip.
And it's a half-hour interview, which is totally worth it to watch.
Do you remember the controversy about Peterson and using the proper pronoun?
How do you recall this story?
Yes, I vaguely remember it.
He said he or she to somebody that was a she kind of thing.
Right.
And they got all bent out of shape about it because he hadn't asked permission to call the person as he or she.
And if he asked, he would have known it was a she or a the or that or a whatever.
That's what I thought.
That's what I thought, too.
I thought similarly.
But I got a buzz.
Somebody buzzed me.
I buzzed you, because we're both wrong.
That is not what went down.
And this skilled journo also had it wrong.
So it starts off with that, then he brain fries her, and then we kind of finish it off.
It's a little long, but I hope you'll find it entertaining.
Let me move on to another debate that's been very controversial for you.
And this is, you got in trouble for refusing to call trans men and women by their preferred personal pronouns.
No, that's not actually true.
I got in trouble because I said I would not follow the compelled speech dictates of the federal and provincial government.
I actually never got in trouble for not calling anyone anything.
That didn't happen.
Isn't that interesting?
Isn't that interesting?
You know, I remember this.
I do remember that.
And somehow, because of my being brainwashed by the mainstream, everything.
Yes, me too.
And this is an example of us both getting...
Hoodwinked.
Hoodwinked.
Can you start this over from the beginning?
Yes, of course.
She has a phrase that I have to write down.
Let me move on to another debate that's been very controversial for you.
That?
Yes, it's a trick that you run into when you're trying to change subjects with an interviewer or with an interviewee.
You say, let me move on.
In other words, it could be heated or something.
It's like a bridge.
I've never used it.
I was thinking maybe it's something to try it on the kids maybe.
Yeah, I'll try it on the kids.
Let me move on to another debate that's been very controversial for you.
And this is, you got in trouble for refusing to call trans men and women by their preferred personal pronouns.
No, that's not actually true.
I got in trouble because I said I would not follow the compelled speech dictates of the federal and provincial government.
I actually never got in trouble for not calling anyone anything.
Right.
That didn't happen.
You wouldn't follow the change of law, which was designed to outlaw discrimination.
Not once it was law.
No, no.
Well, that's what they said it was designed to do.
Okay, you cited freedom of speech in that.
Why should your right to freedom of speech trump a trans person's right not to be offended?
Because in order to be able to think, you have to risk being offensive.
I mean, look at the conversation we're having right now.
You know, like, you're certainly willing to risk offending me in the pursuit of truth.
Why should you have the right to do that?
It's been rather uncomfortable.
Okay.
Well, I'm very glad I put you on the spot.
I'm very glad that I have exercised my freedom of speech.
You get my point.
It's like you're doing what you should do, which is digging a bit to see what the hell's going on.
And that is what you should do.
But you're exercising your freedom of speech to certainly risk offending me.
And that's fine.
I think more power to you as far as I'm concerned.
You haven't sat there and...
I'm just trying to work that out.
I mean...
Ha, gotcha.
You have got me.
You have got me.
I'm trying to work that through my head.
Yeah, it took a while.
It took a while.
It did, it did, yeah.
It took a while.
You have voluntarily come into this studio and agreed to be questioned.
A trans person in your class has come to your class and said they want to be called...
That's never happened.
And I would call them she.
So you would.
So you've kind of changed your chino.
No.
No, I said that right from the beginning.
What I said at the beginning was that I was not going to cede the linguistic territory to radical leftists.
This is so good.
Because first he nails her on the, hey, you're doing exactly the same thing you're accusing me of.
And now he's going to get in, and she still doesn't understand, by the way, you'll hear that.
She does not understand what he's saying about the idea that the federal government or the state government or the regional, whatever government he's talking about, that they would mandate certain types of speech.
Yes?
Right.
Let me summarize, too.
He'll call somebody a G if they ask him to because it's the polite thing to do.
Yes.
But he's not going to do it because the law requires it.
Exactly.
Wow, that was so misunderstood and misreported.
Regardless of whether or not it was put in law, that's what I said.
And then the people who came after me said, oh, you must be transphobic and you'd mistreat a student in your class.
It's like, I never mistreated a student in my class.
I'm not transphobic and that isn't what I said.
Well, except you've also called trans campaigners authoritarian, haven't you?
I mean, isn't that...
Well, only in the broader context of my claims that radical leftist ideologues are authoritarian, which they are.
You're saying someone who's trying to work out their gender identity, who may well have struggled with that, had quite a tough time over the years.
You're comparing them with, you know, Chairman Mao, who saw the deaths of millions of people.
Well, even if the activists, you know, they're trans people too.
They have a right to say these things.
Yeah, but they don't have a right to speak for their whole community.
To compare them to Chairman Mao.
Yeah.
You know, I could...
Pinochet, Augusto Pinochet.
I mean, you know, this is grossly insensitive.
I didn't compare them to Pinochet.
Well, he was an authoritarian.
He's a right-winger, though.
I was comparing them to the left-wing totalitarians.
Even this is not understood.
And I do believe they are left-wing totalitarians.
Under Mao, millions of people died.
I mean, there's no comparison between Mao and a trans activist, is there?
Why not?
What?
What?
What did you just say?
Because trans activists aren't killing millions of people.
The philosophy that's guiding their utterances is the same philosophy.
The consequences are...
Not yet.
You're saying that trans activists could lead to the deaths of millions of people.
No, I'm saying that the philosophy that drives their utterances is the same philosophy that already has driven us to the deaths of millions of people.
Okay, tell us how that philosophy is in any way comparable.
Sure, that's no problem.
The first thing is that the philosophy presumes that group identity is paramount.
That's the fundamental philosophy that drove the Soviet Union and Maoist China.
And it's the fundamental philosophy of the left-wing activists.
It's identity politics.
It doesn't matter who you are as an individual.
It matters who you are in terms of your group identity.
You're just saying these things, though, to provoke, aren't you?
I mean, you are a provocateur.
I never say anything.
You're like the alt-right that you hate to be compared to.
You want to stir things up.
I'm only a provocateur insofar as when I say what I believe to be true, it's provocative.
I don't provoke.
No, it's done.
I wish it was longer.
Well, you should watch the whole 30 minutes, but dude, read his book and get an interview with him.
Dude.
They'll be great.
Just to give you, I just want to play this clip out of the blue, this Jeff Flake clip.
Can you play this?
Yeah, of course I can.
Hold on.
A far different sentiment for the president coming on the Senate floor.
Outgoing Republican Senator Jeff Flake blasting Mr.
Trump for repeatedly attacking the media and using terms like fake news and enemy of the people.
It is a testament to the condition of our democracy that our own president uses words infamously spoken by Joseph Stalin.
Wait, wait, wait.
If you're going to do that, then I get to play my Paul Begala clip.
Who's that guy, that Jamoke, Paul Gamala?
Paul Bagala used to work with the Clintons.
He's a consultant kind of a guy.
He's a huge ideologue for the Democrats.
I think it's terribly important because it is part of a larger picture.
When you compare our president, my president, to Joseph Stalin, To Rodrigo Duterte, the dictator in the Philippines.
To Bashar Assad, the dictator in Syria.
That's extraordinary.
Do you think that's a fair comparison?
In the sense that they lie, yes, he is a liar.
They're known for other things too, Paul.
But this was a speech about attacking the press.
And this president attacks the press.
I would extend that because he doesn't only attack the press.
He calls federal judges so-called judges and attacks them because they are a check on his power.
He said the FBI is in tatters because they're investigating him.
He says the CIA is like the Gestapo.
And he attacks the press.
He attacks any check on his power because he would like to be like Duterte, Assad, Putin, Stalin.
That's his goal.
He's an autocrat.
Isn't that great?
Hey, you taught me.
Isn't that great?
Yes, he wants to be like Bashar al-Assad, who had Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt over for lunch, hanging out in Aleppo.
It was great.
Damascus, actually.
Now, I want to get back to the professor, but before we do that, I do want to mention something about Jeff Flake, who they were talking about.
Yes.
Jeff Flake was on...
The Christina Annanpour show talking about the Stalin comment.
He was on George Stephanopoulos' show talking about he's just what you say.
He's been all over the place.
The question was asked by one of the right-wing talk show guys I was driving around listening to, and it was What is Jeff Flake on anything for?
He's never done any legislation.
He's not even going to run again for senator.
This is, I think, his first term.
He's not remarkable for any reason.
He's going out in a blaze of glory!
And so why are they booking him?
There's, what, a hundred senators in the Senate.
That you could book for these shows, but they keep booking Flake over and over.
Does he have a PR agent?
What is getting him on these shows?
Because he has nothing to lose.
Because he can say what the other Jim Oaks can't say.
Well, there is that.
Yeah, because they're going for re-election and they're being careful.
And again, blaze of glory, martyr.
And you know, when you're a victim, because of course he had to resign because he couldn't stand Trump anymore.
Right.
That's what he said.
I mean, the fact was he wasn't going to get re-elected, and the Republican Party wasn't going to run him.
Well, there's that.
There is something else going on in Scandinavia.
Oh, wait, let's get back to the professor.
You never finished your summary.
No, you summarized, I summarized, and you said you wished there was more, and I said you should interview him.
Okay, well...
Yeah.
And so for me, the most I liked is that there was this perception that he had done this horrible thing and he's transphobic, which will live with him in perpetuity.
Right.
It's just like everything else that we've...
It's like the gas bombs from Assad that were obviously from the rebels has been proven over and over again, but keeps being used.
He gassed his own people.
The Revolutionary Guard throwing children out of incubators on the floor.
Viagra in Libya.
My favorite.
Yeah, not just Libya.
I think that's everywhere that they're doing that.
Send those soldiers in there loaded up with Viagra.
To me, it was still the best.
Yeah, but it's all I'm surprised it doesn't come up in the conversation more often.
Just wait.
It's in rotation.
By the way, which brings us to talking about the rotation, which we've discussed on this show.
You think they're going to have to take the insanity thing out of the rotation?
Heck no.
No, no, no, no, no.
I'll bet you they adjust it.
It'll come back.
I'll bet you they adjust it.
Well, to what degree?
They're going to adjust it.
They're going to have to adjust it because he's been proven to be sane.
No, they're not buying it.
They're not buying it.
No, because they feel that the rhinoceros elephant giraffe test is just a dumb test.
No, they're not buying it.
I think it'll stay in rotation.
They'll keep him as unhinged.
Unhinged is good.
Yeah.
But I don't see what he can do with him.
We'll see.
Now, did you get the full list of his fake news awards?
I don't have it in front of me, but I do have the website, which I can go to quickly.
No, I got it here, I'll tell you.
Okay, the Fake News Awards, okay, let's back up.
This came up as a teaser in our last show because supposedly on Tuesday he's going to release the Fake News Awards, which he did.
Didn't get much play, got a lot of print play, didn't get much on the TV. I didn't see it much.
Or I have a clip.
I don't have a clip.
No, I don't have a clip either.
I thought the awards had maybe two items, I think, of fake news.
The one about feeding the fish was a good one, where they re-edited the video.
Yeah, really, in context of...
Because he had a top 11, for whatever reason.
This must be some elitist Illuminati thing.
He had the top 11.
And I thought it was very well done.
I mean, it doesn't matter because no one aired it.
They don't want to talk about it.
So number 11, Russia collusion.
So he puts that at the bottom of the list.
Russian collusion is perhaps the greatest hopes perpetrated on the American people.
There is no collusion.
Ten, New York Times falsely claimed on the front page that the Trump administration had hidden a climate report.
Nine, CNN falsely reported that former FBI Director James Comey would dispute President Trump's claim that he was told he is not under investigation.
Eight, Newsweek falsely reported that the Polish First Lady, Agatha Kornhauser, did not shake President Trump's hand.
Yeah.
CNN 7.
CNN false report about Anthony Scaramucci's meeting with a Russian but retracted it due to a quote significant breakdown in process.
6.
CNN falsely edited a video to make it appear President Trump defiantly overfed fish during a visit with the Japanese Prime Minister.
What a story.
Look at Trump.
He's overfeeding the fish.
Defiantly.
Defiantly.
The Japanese Prime Minister...
It's always saying, fuck you, fish!
The Japanese Prime Minister actually led the way with the feeding.
Five Washington Post falsely reported the President's massive sold-out rally in Pensacola, Florida, was empty.
Dishonest reporters showed a picture of empty arena hours before the crowd started pouring in.
I remember that.
Four, Time falsely reported that President Trump removed the bust of Martin Luther King Jr.
from the Oval Office.
We had forgotten about that, but that was right in the beginning.
Three, CNN falsely reported that candidate Donald Trump and his son Donald Trump Jr.
had access to hacked documents from WikiLeaks.
Two, ABC News' Brian Ross chokes and sends markets in a downward spiral with false report about Michael Flynn testifying against President Trump.
And then number one, I thought this was the point, and I was not lost on the elite's In American society, number one, the New York Times' Paul Krugman claimed, and he is a Nobel Prize, is he not a Nobel Prize winning economist?
Krugman is the yes, I believe so.
I think he has a Nobel Prize, doesn't he?
Yeah, I think so too.
The New York Times' Paul Krugman claimed on the day of President Trump's historic landslide victory that the economy would never recover.
Yes.
And that is the whole point of the article.
The whole point of his fake news awards is to shove it up Krugman's butt.
And that's the thing that matters the most on that list.
Uh, you know, I think you're right.
I never looked at it that way, because I looked at the list in the right order.
Although, I think the countdown's the order that make more sense.
Hey, I used to count backwards from 20 for a living, so I have some experience.
There's something funny about that.
Yes, hey everybody, welcome to the Top 20 Video Countdown.
I'm Adam Curry here on the Big M. So, um...
You're right.
That's the way it should have been done.
Although everyone, of course, they just named it 1 through 10.
They didn't do it in a dramatic manner, which is the way it should have been done.
Yeah.
David Letterman style.
Well, Letterman was a little different.
Yeah, you're probably right.
That probably was the one, the number one.
It wasn't fake news, though.
Mm-mm.
I mean, I'd say there's only one item on there that I'd say is definitely fake news, which was the re-editing of the video with the Japanese guy feeding the fish.
To re-edit it, that's fake news.
You're making a phony story.
The Krugman thing was an opinion piece written as a column.
I mean...
It doesn't mean he's a fake news purveyor.
It just means he didn't know what the hell he was talking about.
I think to the public to say, oh, by the way, your top guy in the world, New York Times economist, wrong again.
I think that was the whole point of his awards.
The point is well taken.
Yeah, I think that's what it was.
He's not the only one who said that.
Oh, if Trump gets elected, we're going to have an economic collapse and the market's going to go down.
Didn't Soros hedge against it?
Yeah, Soros probably lost money on that election, I'm sure.
So they say.
I don't know if it's true.
Well, you don't know.
You don't know, no.
Let me see.
I mean, it was supposed to happen in Europe and in England, too, with Brexit.
What did happen was that the pound collapsed, but it doesn't affect you.
If you're living in England and the pound is worth whatever it is internationally, it doesn't matter to you when you're buying eggs.
Right.
Okay.
Okay.
I had one other story from Scandinavia.
You recall, this actually sparked some humorous banter on the show, where there's lots of talk and schools now outfitting their supply cabinets with emergency hijabs.
You remember?
No.
For some reason, I don't remember.
Yeah, girls' hijabs being ripped off their head, and so then the schools...
Oh, right.
I do remember.
And they're going to have an emergency hijab kit.
So what started this all was this girl in Scandinavia who made a big case about her hijab being pulled off her head.
The tale of what happened to this 11-year-old Muslim girl while on her way to school was so disturbing it made headlines both across the country and on news websites around the globe, touting her claim that a scissor-wielding stranger had pulled back the hood of her jacket and cut her hijab.
Today, though, police said the story was indeed troubling because it was bogus.
Bogus!
He should know...
Another clock, boy!
The word is bogative, not bogus.
Bogative.
Today, though, police said the story was indeed troubling because it was bogus.
We analyzed the evidence.
We came to the only conclusion that made sense, which is that this didn't happen.
On Friday, the grade 6 student and her family went before the cameras at a press availability arranged by school board staff.
At the time, police considered the incident a potential hate crime, though some in the community felt something didn't sound right about the girl's story.
For someone to take the hoodie off first and then try to cut the...
So this all...
You know, the story didn't really appeal me that it really could have happened.
The Prime Minister and others, though, believed the girl and were quick to respond.
I can't imagine how afraid she must have been.
It's not yet been revealed why she lied, with some critical decision to allow her to speak at her school, which seemed to lend credibility to her story.
I've been involved in a number of issues where the school board, acting with the best of intentions but being driven by political correctness and virtue signaling, have made some wrong calls.
This was definitely the wrong call.
Some Muslim groups are now concerned because hate messages aimed at the girl have popped up online, and they fear the false allegation could lead to further discrimination.
This will probably be used as an opportunity to downplay all of the times that Muslims come out and speak out against Islamophobia.
But we should try to really push back from allowing this to derail the very serious matters that are happening in this country.
As for the girl, because she's 11, police are no longer involved.
And it's up to the school and her parents to decide if she'll face any further consequences.
And we're still defending it.
It's crazy.
It's unbelievable.
No, it's not unbelievable.
It's unbelievable.
I'll tell you, the Prime Minister of Canada is an idiot.
The guy's a sucker.
He goes for anything.
He takes the bait.
The guy is just like, there's a worm on a hook, he's biting.
That's true.
Sorry, Canada.
I have two more.
How many donors were congratulating us from Canada on today's show?
Not a lot, actually.
And they're usually pretty good.
Yeah, I think they're mad at us.
No, they're not mad.
I think it's this new guy, this new prime minister.
Justin Trudeau.
Justin, a guy named Justin.
Looking at my Apple podcast stats, they're still number two on the list.
Oh, okay, well.
The UK is third.
I think it's like...
Yeah, but this is only amongst Apple X users.
Yes, correct.
So Apple X users, or 10X. So Apple X users...
Uh, are usually well-heeled and also very kind of concerned about, you know, their personal prestige.
So they have this X instead of an 8, which is what the smart money would have.
Or a real smart money would have a Samsung.
And I don't know if I've said this on the show, but I'm going to say it now.
The audio quality on the Samsung phone is outrageous.
It's fantastic.
Oh, really?
It's unbelievable.
Here's our list.
This is pretty interesting.
This is only elites, obviously.
Those with an iPhone X. Yes.
70% United States, 6% Scandinavia, 5% UK, 4% Netherlands, 3% Australia.
You've got to step up your game, people.
You've got to buy your iPhone.
Huh.
Interesting, isn't it?
Yeah.
It's too bad that they only do that for the new phone, because you really don't...
The numbers are useless.
Yeah, they are.
They are pretty useless, I'll agree.
Pretty useless.
I got three things that relate to Trump, and then I'll be done with that.
The first is Andrew Stein.
He's a Democrat.
Isn't he a huge Democrat, like a massive Democrat?
He's a fat guy, you mean?
He's kind of fat.
I don't know.
Andrew Stein.
I don't know Andrew Stein offhand.
I think he's, let me see, he may be, let me consult the book of knowledge.
Which I want to point out, I've been using that CRX.me that I told you about.
Oh yeah, you know, I've got to get into the habit of using that more.
I think you've stumbled onto something.
Now you can set it as a default in your browser.
You can just go to your browser and say change.
Yeah, I can do that.
Because it's already in there.
But here's the cool thing.
It is?
Yeah, it's in there.
Here's the cool thing.
I don't think so.
Yes, it is.
I'm going to look right now.
But just keep talking.
It's not in my browser.
What are you using?
Firefox.
Interesting.
Andrew Stein is an American Democratic politician who served on the New York City Council and was its last president and Manhattan Borough President.
Stein's father, Jerry Finkelstein, was the multimillionaire publisher of New York Law Journal, among other publications.
Andrew Stein shortened his name when he entered politics.
So anyway, back to the CRX. I turned off...
Google, Bing, and Yahoo.
So I turned on pretty much everything else.
It's like 70 search engines that this meta search engine will access.
Yeah, but don't the other search engines just use Google?
Well, here's...
I don't know, but here's the...
No.
No, absolutely not.
For instance, you can access the Wikipedia search engine.
They have an API. You can access the Reddit search engine.
They have an API. So no.
And there's many...
They're very specific search engines.
That's what I like so much about it.
Hold on, I'm going to tell you which ones they are.
So by turning off Bing and Google and Yahoo, my results have been phenomenal.
I mean, for some reason, I just feel calmer when even looking at the results page.
I can't quite explain what it is, but it gives you good results.
You have to go five pages of the same damn news story, and it's just the lies.
Let's just call them whatever the M5M messaging is.
It's just repeated over and over.
Here's what I have selected.
CCCTV, which is kind of cool.
You're getting news from China.
There's...
What are all these?
You could even specifically search Pirate Bay, Subtitle Seeker, Torrance.
I have those turned off.
I'd turn those on if I were you.
I know.
I know you like that kind of stuff.
No, I don't.
There's...
I don't know what NYAA is, or Kick-Ass, or INA, D-I-G-B-T. I just turned them all on.
And I'm just telling you, turning off Google, Bing, and Yahoo is phenomenal.
Even though it kind of messes with our jingle imaging.
But yeah, so you can do here general.
Archive.is, Wikipedia, currency, DDG definitions, Wikidata.
I also turned off DuckDuckGo.
Etym Online, which I think is etymology, Library Genesis, Quant, IX Quick, Swiss Cows.
I have no idea what they are.
They're probably all specialized search engines that just target a certain area.
Yes, and we can do the same.
I hope some will do it with our No Agenda show notes because there's an API just tie into it and it delivers these results back.
It's mind-boggling.
It's the way to circumvent the entire shebang.
May just be me, but I'm excited about it.
Maybe you.
It's maybe you.
So anyway, Andrew Stein, he's a politician.
He's a Democrat.
He's talking about Trump.
I know.
The racist.
1973, Laura, and it's ridiculous.
If it wasn't so serious, it would be laughable.
Oh!
This guy doesn't have an ounce of racism in him.
He judges people on the merits.
You know, the first night he took over Mar-a-Lago, I think it was 85, he said to me, you know, it's crazy that they don't emit blacks in any of the fancy clubs in Palm Beach, and I'm going to change that.
I think he sued the city of Palm Beach because of it.
Get him off!
There was a big storm in 1980.
I raised a lot of medical supplies.
I was borough president, then in Manhattan.
And we were going to send them to Haiti.
But we didn't have a plane.
I called Donald Trump.
One, two, three.
He gave us a plane to take all the supplies over.
The largest congregation in Queens, Reverend Flake's Church.
They needed some money for some of the poor parishioners.
I called a lot of our Get him off!
They couldn't care less.
And what happened was I called Donald Trump and right away he wrote a check.
You know, black employment is the lowest it's been since 1972.
And Hispanic employment is the lowest it's been in 17 years.
So this guy should get, the president should get a bigger black vote because he's done more for the African-Americans than any president in recent history.
I just looked it up, and indeed, I have a Wall Street Journal report about him suing Palm Beach over this.
The racist.
Huh.
Well, this information should be squashed.
Well, the reason why they didn't cut him off is because if the guy was a Republican, then yeah, for sure, it'd be like, get him off, get him off, go to break, go to break, go to break.
Because we see that all the time.
So he's a Democrat.
They're waiting for him to turn her...
Like, he's going to turn this into something good.
Wait for it.
Oh, damn it.
That would be my impression.
I got the Democrat on there, and I'm expecting him to turn this boat around.
Oh, he's leading up to something that's going to be a whopper.
And you just let him go, and then all of a sudden there's no whopper.
He just praises and everything.
Oh, brother.
Was this CNN? I believe so, yeah.
Oh, my God.
They blew it.
No, I'm sorry.
Maybe it was Fox, and that would make sense then.
You just ruined the whole thing.
Yeah, well, I'd make mistakes, but this is MSNBC for sure.
This is Joy Reid.
This is what I played a little bit of earlier.
This is a consultant to the White House saying that he's not a racist and he would never say shithole.
How did you feel when you heard those comments?
We didn't actually hear him say those words.
This is the biggest fake...
When I read them.
Yeah, this is the biggest fake news story of the week.
And it's interesting to sit back and watch that people are...
By the way, that's a big mistake.
If you're being grilled by hostile media, don't pull out the fake news meme.
Yes, I agree.
It's dumb.
It makes you look stupid.
You could always use the word misleading.
Yeah.
That's a soft word that liberals like to.
And so both sides of you say misleading would be beautiful in that context.
Yeah.
So I think that's a mistake, and we'll include that in our Curry DeVore Consulting Group training manual.
When I read it, yeah, this is the biggest fake news story of the week.
And it's interesting to sit back and watch that people are so angry over things that the president didn't say.
They're more angry than they are at the Clintons for getting rich off of poor Haitians.
You can ask all of the Haitian Americans that have been protesting against the Clintons and the Clinton Foundation for years.
You can also ask Klaus Eberwein, the former Haitian government official, That has all the dirt on the Clinton Foundation.
Oh wait, actually, you can't ask him because he mysteriously committed suicide the day before he was supposed to testify.
What are we talking about?
This is nuts.
Let me ask you a question, Stephanie.
Did you get talking points before you came here from the RNC or the White House?
It's interesting that yesterday, Mark Burns, who was the surrogate that we had on the Trump side yesterday, tried to roll out that same Clinton stuff.
Did you get talking points before you came here?
Joy, I didn't get talking points.
This is something I've covered for many years.
I don't know you, Stephanie.
We don't know each other.
But let me just explain to you, this is not Fox News.
We're not going to play the game of rolling out crazy conspiracy theories in the answers to my question.
It's not a crazy conspiracy theory.
If you have an answer to my question, I'm going to let you give it.
But what you're not going to do is throw out crazy conspiracy theories to try to take us off track.
So I'm going to let you pause for a minute.
I'm going to put you to the side for just a moment.
I'm going to go to my other guests because they're more familiar with the way that we do things here.
Oh, my God.
There's your totalitarian regime right there.
How dare she?
Yeah.
I find that incredibly offensive.
Well, they put her in.
They brought that woman on for that purpose so Joy could do her thing.
Yes, and it still remains offensive.
Where in the world is Victoria Kagan Noodleman?
Oh yeah!
Hey, she's resurfaced, John.
She is back.
She's got a new gig.
Victoria Noodleman Newman.
Kagan, do you know where she landed with her new gig?
I don't like it.
She has now been named the CEO of Center for a New American Security.
Yeah, this is a Soros operation, I believe.
Big Soros operation.
And people on the board, Richard Armitage.
Oh, Jed Johnson is on there.
Joe Lieberman.
James Murdoch.
This is a drinking club of epic proportion.
But if you look at their homepage, cnas.org, pretty quick you see what they're all about.
Russia, this, Russia, that.
Russia, future of U.S.-Russia relations.
Defense strategies.
It's a war club.
A bunch of war people.
This is a big group.
Yeah.
Yeah, they got a lot of money.
This is a hush money, so they don't talk about anything but what they're supposed to talk about.
The other ones are the talking points.
Although I'm sure that that woman did...
You know, this talking points thing, that was the worst interview.
I mean, the woman should never do an interview, but they find people like that to put them on MSNBC to make fools of themselves.
I've always thought, if you're going to, let's say you're a Democrat, and you want to put, and you got some candidate you're running, and you want to, you yourself decide to create a debate format.
And you have the person, and just some sort of debate with this guy, your candidate.
You find someone who's clinically insane to debate them.
And then you make a big deal about this debate that's going to happen.
How does this relate to Noodleman?
No, it relates to the clip.
Oh.
That woman who came on is like a bad person to bring on the show unless you're trying to make her look like an idiot.
Yeah, I kind of moved on.
Oh, I'm sorry.
I didn't.
I'm stuck.
I was stuck in the past.
Yes, I was still with Noodleman.
Okay, I'm back to Noodleman now.
Well, I just want to remind everybody, you know, with this fine CEO, just some of her words.
While I'm driving off laughing, this is what I'll say.
Hope everybody's happy there with her as the CEO of CNAS.
As they announced the 2018 Next Generation National Security Fellows.
Mm-hmm.
I'm going to follow this group.
Well, you should.
She's gained a few pounds, our Vicky has.
She was getting big at the end of Obama's administration.
This is not a new thing.
She's not happy.
I had a note which I didn't get to read on the last show.
You know, there's about the diversity or lack of diversity in Silicon Valley, and we had this guy who wrote the memo about, you know, how diversity was going awry within Google.
It was, you know, the googly way.
He got fired for it, and I think he's suing Google now.
Yeah, he's suing for false...
So we have people working everywhere, and we got a note from a Googler, and I wanted to share that.
In the morning, Adam and John, I'm a low-level dude named Ben at Google.
I've been with Google since August 2010.
I'm a corporate operations engineer, which is an engineer that handles IT operations within the internet at Google, from desktop support to operating systems to video conferencing, etc.
Basically, we support everything that Googlers use to be douchebag, I mean, to get the job done.
The company has changed dramatically in the past few years.
Everything in the lawsuit is legit and provides fairly good context.
Some of the posts in the appendix are from coworkers in the same building as me.
It's scary.
I'm a more conservative individual that breaks the traditional dogma in the company.
I don't believe the traditional media narratives, and I do my own research, including listening to you and John.
A few of my coworkers who are sane but know about my political leanings, but I don't talk much about it with my coworkers because I'm worried about being lynched.
The lack of diversity of thought is terrifying.
Since the squeaky wheel gets the grease, the squeakiest are the SJWs who have their feelings hurt by anyone questioning the world as they see it.
It's like being stuck in Dimension Bee Machine every single day and Sparky the dog isn't even there.
I've attempted to transfer departments several times in the five years I've been here, and I'm not saying where, it's in a different office, and have been rejected every time, even though my performance reviews are strong.
I don't know if it's because I'm on some type of blacklist, but it's certainly possible.
I don't dare speak my thoughts to anyone that I don't trust completely, or I could end up in the HR office and fired.
It's been very stressful being stuck in a Dimension B echo chamber hearing everyone bitch about Trump and everyone who dares question them.
I think the tech companies are going to take a huge hit in the next 12 months and their stocks plummeting will begin the second tech bubble and take down the market again.
I don't know about that, but a lot of people are going to be up Shakespeare without a paddle and I don't want to be a part of it.
The entire company is a dumpster fire.
I don't know how things get done.
Oh, by the way, the AI is total bullshit and it's a glorified state machine.
You are right.
Nice.
We are right.
Yeah.
I like that.
Well, his point is, I have a clip which kind of underscores his point when he says the tech scene is going to get screwed in specifically California.
Play this Raids Coming to California clip.
Yes.
There are rumblings tonight that federal immigration agents could be about to launch a major raid throughout Northern California looking for undocumented immigrants.
The San Francisco Chronicle is reporting that a source is telling reporters there the raid would send a message to sanctuary cities.
KTVU's Rob Roth spoke with an immigration attorney and a concerned business owner today, and he joins us now in the newsroom with more.
Rob.
Julie, that San Francisco Chronicle source says U.S. immigration officials are looking to arrest more than 1,500 undocumented people in the Bay Area in an upcoming sweep.
Late today, California Senators Dianne Feinstein and Kamala Harris wrote a letter to the acting director of ICE asking for a full accounting of how immigration raids are prioritized and carried out.
Advocates for immigrants say if a major raid does happen, they'll be ready to wage a legal battle.
You think they're really going to go into Google?
That one googly way?
I don't know about Google because they might.
All I know is that this is a vendetta.
And that's why Kamala Harris and Feinstein are concerned about it because they know it.
Anyone in their right, they don't talk about this on the news, but I can tell you, this is a vendetta.
California is in this crosshairs of the Trump administration for being a douchebag state.
And then to go on with the, oh, we're going to be a sanctuary state.
That was the end.
That was definitely a screw you from Jerry Brown to the federal government.
Everybody's a sanctuary city already, including Berkeley.
Did you know that California hired Eric Holder to do all that?
I didn't know this.
I didn't know this either.
Yeah, they hired Eric Holder to do all the legal work, particularly the sanctuary city stuff.
He's running that.
Well, this will be funny.
So the point is that the Californians in the crosshairs is going to get it up the butt, and this is going to hurt everything in California.
Already there's some interesting negative editorial showing up in certain papers like the LA Times about the homelessness problem in California.
It's number one in the country.
Did you see that video I sent you this morning?
No, you won't see it until you read all my batch emails.
When I do the batch, I'll see it.
The guy drove...
Let me see, I have it here.
He drove his bike with a video camera for, I think, several miles there towards Venice.
Oh, this is in L.A., yeah.
Yeah, and it's just rows and rows, just tents all the way.
Tents.
Yeah.
Disturbing.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's, um, let me just see where exactly that was.
I got it here.
And by the way, there's a question that hasn't been answered and we have not discussed on the show.
Yeah, Angel Stadium, Anaheim, along the Santa Ana River.
It's ten minutes, this video.
Ten minutes of ten.
Ten minutes!
Yeah, well, we haven't discussed this one thing on the show.
It's the word you keep repeating.
Where are all the tents coming from?
Apparently some non-governmental organization NGO is passing out tents.
And do-gooders are going, oh, you need a tent.
This was our idea, by the way.
I think you might be right.
But these tents are...
So they're pitching these tents because this is a form of a house.
And it's unbelievable around here the amount of tents there are.
Yeah, the whole state's becoming tent city.
And so there's an editorial in the LA Times, people should look it up, talks about that we have the worst homeless situation, and we have the big separation of the rich in Hillsboro, and meanwhile there's people throwing stuff at the bus that we talked about, these buses.
So there is a borderline war that's going to break out, and it's going to be targeting the rich, and I think, I've said this before, That I think the people who live in Woodside and Hillsboro in particular and Atherton in California should worry.
Well, when you see this video, you see these tents are all lined up along a fence near the river.
And right behind the fence, you see big, beautiful homes.
Can you imagine if somebody, and this is possible, you can assume that they're worried about this too.
Home values.
And you can assume that because of the police state that were in this, it may not happen.
But a leader, a tough guy, a Maoist type guy that knows how to rabble rouse and knows how to get the people all worked up into a frenzy to the point where they're carrying torches and pitchforks.
Comes along and rails everybody up because one thing, one thing will happen.
Somebody will pass a law.
Some cop will beat somebody up and kill him.
Something.
There'll be some trigger point.
And some leader will come along, natural born leader, come along and they're going to go and start killing people.
Putting sticks on a head, heads on a stick.
Can you imagine Woodside with everybody, you know, boom, a stick with a head on it.
Ooh.
Yeah.
This is a possibility.
You had a boom.
We got a boom count.
I'll tell you, yes, I can imagine that, and I'll tell you something else.
I believe this is going to happen in Austin.
And I'm not happy about what I'm seeing.
California has moved to Texas.
And Austin has become the new, you know, kind of tech mecca.
We have Apple here.
The building next to ours is Google.
And, you know, so we have more high-end vehicles.
You know, the number of times I hear a Ferrari or some other high-end car revving its engine and peeling it downtown.
It's like douchebags.
Stole a douchebaggery.
But...
We've also, because we're a sanctuary city, now we have 6,000 homeless in the downtown area alone.
And really, no programs, certainly no government programs.
Yeah, there's a...
They can't afford it.
A $5 million...
NGOs and some very good ones, Mobile Loaves and Fishes, who, you know, build, I think we talked about that, build a little tiny home place.
But, I mean, now I cannot walk outside my building here around the 2nd Street area without either ignoring the homeless people or telling them no or giving them something or whatever it is.
It's continuously there.
And they don't know what to do.
They have no idea about the policy.
They're really not addressing the issue.
They're just stepping over people just like San Francisco.
Yep.
And there's no compassion.
The people are douchebags.
I'm sorry.
No, the super rich in the Bay Area, the ones that have, especially the Silicon Valley types, I mean, maybe they contribute to the symphony or something like that, but they do nothing for the poor.
They don't care.
They don't like seeing them.
It's very kind of a mock upper class, a faux upper class, which is they all think they're in the upper class when they're not.
A lot of them are overnight millionaires, overnight billionaires, in fact.
And you end up with a kind of a haughty, fake haughtiness that's not deserved.
Well, it's not...
Of course, it's never deserved.
Let me stop there.
I mean, the upper class, the true upper class twits in England, I mean, most of them are poor anyway.
It's not a matter of money.
It's a matter of birthright.
Well, it's very disturbing what's going on here in Austin.
I'm really not happy.
I was like, what can we do about this?
You're in like a ritzy little area and kind of a brand new.
Your thing's brand new.
It's so new that it's not even in the micro.
Well, it is now.
It's in it now.
But it's...
Isn't it brand new?
Yes, it's brand new.
So when you're surrounded by homeless already?
Yes.
Yes, sir.
Sleeping in, you know, and it was 20 degrees.
The other night, Texas, 20 degrees.
And the biggest problem is they have a facility where I think 100 men can sleep there overnight, maybe 200, which is not sufficient.
No women can sleep there.
And it's a building where, if you look at all the marketing materials, they talk about their clients, where we help our clients.
See, the homeless are clients.
They're not homeless, they're clients.
They're clients.
Yes, and why are they clients?
Money.
Yes!
And they need more clients.
It does not behoove the system, certainly not in Austin, does not behoove them to reduce the number of clients.
No, they need clients.
Clients means money.
And it's just grown and grown and grown.
But this particular facility...
It's a profit center.
Profit center.
This particular facility...
It's right on the edge of the entertainment district, 6th Street, here in Austin, which is very important for our South by Southwest and Formula One.
The economy in general.
Right.
But, you know, people don't like it.
Because, A, they can't expand the entertainment district without displacing this.
And nobody wants to have this facility anywhere.
Not in my backyard.
Hypocritical a-holes here.
It's unbelievable.
Anyway.
You can play the pet peeve thing.
I think it was good enough.
I don't know where it is.
The new system.
Don't play it.
No, I can't play it.
Okay, a little housekeeping.
One, I wanted to thank Sir Adrian Archer for a new domain name forward, trygoat.com.
We have recommended Goat being handed.
Yes, we have.
I recommend it constantly.
And I'm going to put all these links in the show notes.
Brian, I shall refer to him as Brian, Has made a torrent, a seeded torrent, for all 1,000 episodes of this show.
Yes, it will be published after the show is out.
Then he'll add the 1,000th episode.
Who's keeping it live?
Brian must be.
Brian is, yes.
And the following, so he has a number of seeds, which he sent me where they are, but the action URLs where you can get the torrent is 1000.shutupslaves.com.
1000.420yolo.co and 1000.bringyourwallet.com.
I have no idea why I chose that.
Are these magnet links or are they torrent links?
I don't know.
I'm not real big on it.
I don't know a lot about the torrents.
It's a new thing.
The magnet is what you want because it's like an encapsulation.
Yes, no, I understand.
I understand.
He said, I've been maintaining the No Agenda GitHub for several years.
I'd never seen this.
We have a GitHub.
Noagendagithub.org.
Nice.
Yeah.
And he's been updating the Torrent Archive Repository Weekly for two years.
This is not my first rodeo, he says.
And it clearly is not.
And we appreciate that, Brian.
That is, I mean, there you go.
You go to an M5M organization and say, hey, let's package up all 1,000 episodes.
People will scatter.
If they can even find all episodes within the M5M organization.
Not possible.
I mean, the government can't even keep the moon landing tapes.
And then this last news story before we take our break, and there's a reason for it, this was...
Now, I like CNBC because they will report on news with a different angle.
And we had the face bag and the tweeters, and everybody was on the hill, the congressional hearing about fake news, fake news, what are we going to do, and we have to restrict stuff.
And you saw some of this already happening with YouTube as Google...
Has now cut off tens, hundreds, God knows, thousands, hundreds of thousands of smaller YouTubers from monetization unless you have, I think, a thousand subscribers and X amount of views.
Yeah, they have these rules.
Yeah.
And these are new rules or newly enforced.
And this CNBC report kind of sums up what this is all really about.
Well, we're hearing a lot actually right now in this hearing about how it's not just about artificial intelligence and technology.
All of these companies are increasingly using humans to make sure that there is no offensive or violent or, in the case of this hearing today, on terrorism.
I love this right off the bat because the lie of Google is staring us right in the face.
And face bag.
They can't actually do it.
They don't have AI. They don't have machine learning.
They have to get wetware in order to filter out stories that may be inappropriate, wrong, or so-called fake news.
You're looking behind the curtain right now.
They can't do it.
I'm extremist content being spread on their platforms.
So Google announced back in December that they're going to be hiring 10,000 people.
And just yesterday, they explained what those people are going to be doing for their preferred channels.
So those are the channels that have advertising on them.
They're going to have every video reviewed by a human.
So just imagine the volume of videos that are going to be examined.
So they said that all of those videos are going to be reviewed, and that's so no ads are put up on a channel or on a video that might have an offensive or extremist video on that.
So that's what Google announced.
And this is part of a big push to make sure that brands, advertisers feel comfortable with the content on their platform.
No advertiser wants their brand next to something, a video supporting ISIS.
So that's really sort of part of this whole conversation here.
And this is, of course, after a year where there were a lot of questions about brand safety, both on Google as well as Facebook.
Facebook, just in the hearing right now, noted that they have 7,500 human reviewers of their content.
They're also going to be doubling their efforts and ramping up the number of people who are involved and Well, the conclusion is a little off.
Because what it's really about is the advertisers do not want anything that is not brand safe.
Brand safe.
Brand safe.
You heard it there in the report.
And Google is so freaked out about it that they're hiring 10,000 people to do this by hand because the technology just doesn't exist to do it.
We used to have a formula.
If you wanted to calculate one employee, was there salary times two?
And they added more because of the space they occupy and other resources of the company.
Yeah, expensive.
Yeah, you could say an employee is what?
A typical employee maybe?
So maybe those jobs are, those probably are all illegals.
I don't think so.
Because the illegals, I don't think you can analyze these videos.
Do you think there's a $100,000 job?
No, they'll pay them $50,000 max.
Okay, $50,000 times $10,000.
How much is that?
That's a lot.
1, 2, 3.
10,000.
1, 2, 3, 4.
1, 2, 3, 4.
Which amounts to...
It's like a hundred million dollars.
That's not bad.
A year.
I don't think the cost is the issue.
It doesn't really matter to them, no.
How many hours of video per day are uploaded?
Millions, I guess.
No, no.
50,000.
Is that the number?
Yeah.
So 50,000 hours of video per day is uploaded, and they've got 10,000 people.
That means each of them has to watch and analyze five hours of video, and that counts for what that day's uploading is.
There's a backlog that they'll never get to.
300 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute I have here.
Okay, well, I got the 50,000 per day.
Good enough.
And so 10,000 people can barely, I mean, I guess you can watch five hours of video, and then, you know, you got three hours left to watch some more, because you're talking about an eight-hour workday, but then there's a lunch break.
So you're talking about a typical six-hour.
You're not getting anywhere.
You need to hire 25,000 people, and then they all have to have the same idea.
I mean, what are they going to...
It's ridiculous.
I'm kind of happy about it, though.
I'm happy they're doing this, and I'm happy they have to hire people.
It also removes all the riffraff stupid videos.
There's a lot of dumb videos.
It's not going to remove anything.
They're not going to be able to get to those stupid videos.
That's what I mean.
They'll be deprecated.
You won't see them.
Well, here's problem number two.
That's good for us.
I mean, I'm tired of shitty videos.
No, I think it's great for us.
But problem number two, I'm looking at the...
The YouTubers.
There's a lot of redundant uploads.
It's like somebody will get bounced and say, well, let's upload it three more times in three different ways from three different accounts.
Because I run into a bunch of videos on YouTube.
You must too.
Everybody does.
Why is this on?
This is horrible.
This should have been taken down years ago.
It's got porn.
They got porn on the YouTubes.
Damn them.
You must not have your safe search on.
The whole thing is a disaster.
It's a disaster.
What can I say?
You know what they're going to do one of these days?
I hate to say this.
Some bean counter is going to come out and say, we're losing our ass on this.
It's becoming the overhead because they're having to hire all these people and other things.
They're going to shut down YouTube.
I think they will.
I think they'll shut down the general upload.
You'll have to be approved or some kind of permission or some kind of partner in the program.
You have to subscribe.
You have to pay $50 a year to do uploads.
Oh, that'll work.
That'll work.
Yeah.
But I just want to point out to everybody who's crying in their milk over the, I got demonetized!
Idiots.
How many years have we been telling you?
What was that voice?
That's the voice collectively of all these people on Reddit.
Do a time mark.
Do a time mark.
I got demonetized.
You're acting now.
I'm laughing through it.
You have to go outside the stupid system.
You don't need to participate in that.
This show is proof.
I'm going to show myself by donating to No Agenda.
Imagine all the people who could do that.
Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
Yeah, on No Agenda.
In the morning.
We have a number of people to thank.
It's going to take a little longer than usual because they have these special offers.
The $100 offer and some others.
I do have a letter I want to make sure to read at the end, which is requiring some jingles and things, but there'll probably be a few in here that we'll read out loud.
Starting with Gary Reed.
Talking about Reed out loud.
$155.41.
He's congratulating us.
It's from Elder Grove, BC. And this is on par of $155 in Canadian money.
So this is fantastic.
He needs a de-douching.
Okay.
You've been de-douched.
And he says in his note that he loves that Dutch voice, which I also admire.
Which one?
This one?
Yeah.
Oh, that's my best voice.
Henry Hernandez in San Pedro, California, 150.
He has a couple of call-outs here.
We'll read those.
Yeah.
He's got a nighting.
Hopefully, see if he's on the night list while I read who gets de-douche or douchebagged.
Please send a douchebag shout-out to my sister, Glenda Hernandez.
Sorry, I got confused.
And good friend, Trucker Frank Quesada.
Right.
Onward.
I'm assuming he's on the list.
Yes.
Sean Zinsmeister.
Hold on.
Let me just read the rest of the note.
Otherwise, it'll come back to us.
Additionally, I'd like a job's karma.
Give it to the end.
Shout out given to friend and fellow knight Arthur, Sir Nacho of the Citadel.
Here's hoping he gets serious dude name Ben position.
Thank you again for all you do.
Please knight me, Sir Dude Named Henry, Knight of San Pedro.
Okay.
We have a lot of computer guys that listen to this show.
Yes.
They're all named Ben, strangely.
Sean Zinsmeister in Mountain View.
That's why when they do meetups...
I want to say a quick note to the Michigan group that my son and his wife and the baby will be in Michigan for the Sunday meetup.
Hmm.
Yeah.
She said her dad's having an operation, so they're going back there to hold his hand.
144.32 Mountain View.
Man, listen, it says show one.
Finally gets me to knighthood.
See, this is in blue.
This is not in purple.
No, because...
Yeah, why?
Tell me why.
Don't know.
Okay, Marty Gaskill, 123.
Well, he did ask, he said he want, because he's being knighted, he's just started a new gig, he wanted some Jobs Karma, yeah, but he also asked for a Huntsman, so I'll just do the Huntsman now and the Jobs Karma later.
We haven't played that in so long.
Misty Gaskill, 12345.
Adam Ward, 12321, and he's in the UK somewhere.
Pete Hajdu.
One, one, one, one, one.
Did I miss anybody?
Nope.
He's in Holland.
He started listening to No Agenda around the time Adam ruined my favorite radio station, Arrow Classic Rock.
Thanks, Obama.
That's the one that we burned to the ground.
Yes, that story needs to be retooled sometime.
Okay.
Not now.
Mm-mm.
Sebastian De Stigter.
Stigter.
Stigter.
He's also in Holland.
Shout out to my smoking hot wife, Lena, my son, Mika, and baby Elsa, who all share the enjoyment of listening to the show during Saturday morning breakfasts.
I got a note from a Micah, with the same spelling as a male.
He says, for men it's pronounced Micah, not Mika.
You keep pronouncing it Mika, he says.
I'm wrong.
Well, I did it wrong too.
Micah.
Micah.
Janice Kang.
Dame, I think.
Yes, it is Dame Janice in Milpitas.
The Toast Mistress of the Round Table.
Sir Chard of the Tiny Cars, $100.01.
Sir James Dobler, Baron of Class G Airspace.
Class G Airspace.
What is that?
That's where you can fly, or not, depending on what you're flying.
Oh, General Aviation is what the G stands for.
Yes?
You know, that's a good question.
I'll bet you that's what it means.
I actually don't.
I think it's just, you know, we name it A-C-E... I'm telling you.
Could be.
I should know this.
I don't actually know this.
I know, that's why I'm kind of bloating here.
I don't know.
Sir Alex Bortok, Knight of the Northern Launchpad, $100.01.
I don't remember if that was done as a thing or not.
Now the rest of $100 was a donation for the show.
There's a dime donation, 10 cents per thousand episodes.
Hold on, hold on.
Class G airspace is, I knew this part, is uncontrolled.
It isn't charted, but it's not named after general aviation.
They just have numbers.
It says that?
Yeah, they have A, B, C, D, E, and then E. A G. They don't have F, I don't think.
A, B, C, D, E, G? And you don't think it stands for general aviation?
No, because general aviation can fly in almost all airspace.
Ah.
Okay.
I'm going to name a location with the $100 donors.
Class A is only for Airbus.
Class B is only for Boeing.
Class C is only for Cessnas.
And Class E is for experimental and G for general.
Yeah, we fixed it.
Airbus and Boeing have their own areas?
No, of course not.
Of course not.
Oh, you're doing a little humor on the fly.
Yeah, unscripted.
It's unbelievable how good you are.
Jessica Stobie, parts unknown.
Alex, these are all $100 donors saying congratulations.
Alex Korsharik in Tarpon Springs, Florida.
Michael Bradbury in University Heights, Ohio.
Survive of the virtual realities of recent night.
Portlandia.
Brian Klimchak.
Klimchak, I think.
Bradley Katanik.
In Ontario, Canada.
Kaushik Chakraborty.
Hey!
It's our Indian guy!
Yeah, but he's from Bangalore, but he doesn't live there.
I believe he's living someplace else.
Well, maybe he is in Bangalore.
No, he says, Hi, I'm one of those two cheap donors from India.
This is the other guy.
Oh, the other guy.
Your show has been a life changer for me in many ways.
I'm indebted to you guys forever.
This is the best I could do now, given the current exchange rates.
No.
Kaushik from Bangalore.
Nice.
Well, thanks, Kaushik.
Thanks, Kaushik.
Awesomeness.
Lynn Fogwell, parts unknown.
Greg Golombiski, the second.
Daniel Klinger in Muskegon, Illinois, Michigan.
There's a meetup on Sunday, Daniel.
Peter Klinger.
Newman, Peter Newman, Dr.
Peter Newman.
Actually, the way it's written on here, it says Peter Newman Drive.
Like it's a street.
Get it?
Yeah.
Got it.
Kussnacht, Czechoslovakia.
Or Switzerland.
That's Switzerland.
Brian Wifels, Sir Tony, Jedi Knight of the Coders.
Yeah.
Alexander Diamond in Abbotsford, B.C. Robert Ryan in Charleston, West Virginia.
Alexander Mikuryev somewhere.
David Kobusen.
Robert Sharp in Holly Springs, North Carolina.
Mary Kresnell in Ipswich, Massachusetts.
Dan, just Dan.
Corey Noonan.
Michael Kern in Cypress, California.
Mark Stewart in Graham, Washington.
James Zuckel.
I think it's Sir.
Peter Forbes in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Richard Tammen.
Matthew Lomar.
Stefan Eret.
Eret.
We have in Deutschland, we have a plumbing company here named after him.
Dale Norman in Cherville, Indiana.
Michael Stulak in Hobart, Indiana.
Adriana Oporto, named after the Oporto.
Gregory Zayachuk in Mount Kisco, New York.
Joel Donaldson in Elko, Nevada.
Michael Auslander in Rochester, New York.
Pat Tilly, parts unknown.
Jason Howard in, there's a lot of people, in Hokessen, Deutschland.
Robert Roberts in Medford, Oregon.
Baron Sir Richard Gardner in Chicago.
Cynthia Hickson in Sugarland, Texas.
She might be a dame by now.
Glenn Stoffer.
Andrew Shetsky.
I would say Zetsky.
Yeah, it's probably something weirder than that.
Zetsky.
Andrew Jetsky.
Andrew Jetsky.
Andrew Jetsky in Alexandria, Minnesota.
Always be known as such.
Yes.
Sir Alexander, helper of the man from afar in Houston.
He says, you're my only source of news.
Good.
John Adams, 100 bucks.
Spencer Hawkins.
Laura Wilson in Sammamish, Washington.
Sammamish, she says.
Brian and Susie Morris in Liberty, Maine.
Zachary Gilbrecht.
James Buell in Spring Hill, Tennessee.
Julian Barlow in Farnsworth, Great Britain.
Farnworth, actually.
Bradley Shelnut, over here in Mountain View, where Google is.
Donald Borowski, Sir Donald Borowski, he is the...
Plus, the Starfleet Command.
He has a Starfleet Command note here.
This is from the Federated Planets?
Yeah, the United Federation of Planets official letterhead.
Pay attention.
Gentlemen.
Two things.
One, here are a thousand dimes in celebration of show 100.
Two, the check is in the mail is one of the oldest excuses in the book, but I really did mail a check for $3.33.33 last month.
Apparently it never showed up.
If it doesn't appear by the middle of February, I will remake the check and mail it in then.
Cheers and beers!
Sir Donald of the Fire Bottles.
All right, thank you.
Baron of Spokane County.
One of our barons checks in once in a while.
And that concludes our group of well-wishers that sent the 100 in.
Now we have the 99.99 folks.
999!
We have one.
Kirk Ann, 99.99.
Happy 100th.
Herping for 10 more years and a thousand more shows.
Deborah King in Salem, Oregon, 99.90.
Anonymous, 98.
Sir Oystenberg, Baron of Rotterdam.
Oystang.
Oystang.
Jose Jimenez.
Ten cents for every show I've listened to.
Thank you very much.
Ah, that's a different way of going.
83.90.
Uh, Les Smith.
A boob.
8-0-0-8.
Boob.
Curiously, the only one.
And Les becomes a knight.
Will become Sir Reptitious.
Knight of the Marin Headlands.
Surreptitious.
Nice.
Brian Kugler in Perrysburg, Ohio.
Shania again.
L-K-J-G-J in Oroville.
It could be Shania.
Shania.
It's actually this spell wrong on here.
It's S-H-A-I-N-I-A. I think I have a card from her.
Sir Rick in Arlington, Washington, 6996.
Audrey Sims, 6969.
Birthday shout-out to my smoking hot boyfriend, Charlie, who celebrates his 29th on Saturday.
Your show keeps us sane.
Thank you for everything you do to keep us informed as we combat the alternate dimensions that afflict our city of St.
Louis.
Yes.
St.
Louis, yes.
Thank you for your courage.
St.
Louis.
Andrew Walker in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Julie from Coldwater, 6006.
She sent a good note to read, which I will read at the end of the reads.
I'm not going to read it now.
But it's a note that definitely needs to be read.
Because it's complimentary in a very creative way.
You really just don't have it there, do you?
No, I have it there.
You hear that?
That proves I have it.
No, I do have it.
I have it right here.
I can read it now.
But it's a little long, so I wanted to read it separately.
Okay, read it separately.
Sir Scott McKenzie, $60.
This is your cut of the royalties from the sales of Red Cell, the latest No Agenda novel.
Also to celebrate show 1000.
One Day in Gitmo Nation will be free in the Kindle store on the 17th and 18th of January.
Go get your copy now.
Yes, go look up Scott McKenzie on Amazon and buy his books.
His books are great.
They're very entertaining.
It's well written.
There's a lot of no agenda.
That's a compliment.
Scott, take that one.
That's a compliment.
When Dvorak says it's well written, that's a compliment.
I'll leave it right there.
And we'll go on to Bashkar Dandona.
Love you guys.
Hocus Locus, 5555, by the way, it was also 5555 for Baskar.
He has a long note, which we can read.
Well, what's interesting about his note is he put together something called No Agenda the Movie.
It's on Vimeo, also on the YouTubes.
Are we going to link to it?
Yeah, of course there's a link to it.
And what he's done is he's created this movie, 40 Minutes of 1,000 Show Slides.
So that's our album art.
It's actually watchable.
Nice.
Yeah.
And it's, you know, it could start epileptic fits.
You know, I have to be careful.
Well, hopefully it won't, but I think you could run this in a bar, on the back bar.
You can just have it playing with a video projector and just run it over and over again.
Yeah.
Or in your bedroom.
Chicks dig it.
Yes.
Chick magnet.
What are you showing?
No agenda art.
What do you think?
Pretty cool, huh?
Turn it off.
I think that's what Aziz Ansari tried.
I'm like, hey, baby, come over here.
Watch my no agenda movie.
Dean Roker, 5510.
Sir Payne in the Ass, our buddy in Richmond, Virginia, 5432.
Sir Dirtbag Dave in Concord, California, 5150.
Sir Ben of Oakland, 5135.
Andrew Benz in Arnold, Missouri, 5001.
And now we go to the $50 donors, which was actually, what was that?
That was something that had to do with the show, with the 1000.
Nichols, I guess.
And so 50,000 nickels is 50 bucks.
And so all these old people, I think half of them are probably in on that.
Here we go again.
$50.
Rob Warren, Matthew Swadek, Susan Clay Camp in Dacula, Georgia.
John Camp in Antlers, Oklahoma.
He comes in a lot.
Sir Chris James in Sturgis, Michigan.
Sir Chris.
Travis V. York in Hollowell, Maine.
David...
David Lancho in Elmhurst, New York.
Alan LaFontaine in Gatineau, Quebec.
Tyson Blondahl, parts unknown.
Sir Eric V.M., Baronet of the Valley in Van Nuys, California.
Steeler Grommel, 50.
Sir Brad Doherty, Doherty.
Sir Brad Doherty.
Ventor City, New Jersey.
Aaron Held.
Kirk Russell in Ottawa, Ontario.
Anonymous G in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Joel DeRuin in Savannah, Georgia.
Leon Ruggson in Los Angeles.
Robert Booth in Galveston, Texas.
Tony Tanzi in Tigard, Oregon.
Meet up with our Duke up there.
Grand Duke.
Joseph Cromer.
Curdelene, Idaho.
Vincent Benedict P. Castro in Maracana City, Philippines.
Dadolet Zanguzin in Bellevue, Washington.
Chris Lewinsky in Sherwood Park, Alberta.
Bill Leclerc, capital L, small A, in Riverdale, Michigan.
Sheila Damore, I think it's Dame Sheila Damore Duran.
Israel Cazaris.
Scott Lavender in Montgomery, Texas.
Matthew Hardy in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.
Ian Odom in Weed, California.
That's where I need to live.
He needs an F cancer for his dad who passed away this November.
Of course.
He's a millennial.
He says, I'm a millennial.
Listening for almost two years now.
Still a douchebag.
Not anymore.
I'm going to deduce you.
You've been deduced.
Eric Mackey in Lawrenceville, Georgia.
Derek Archer in Richland, Washington.
Terry Cameron in Fort St.
John, British Columbia.
Christopher Howell in Frederick, Maryland.
Spooks.
John Bryan, 50.
Sir Andrew Gardner, 50.
Brian Longnecker, which I think is a great name.
I want to stop for a second.
Brian is one of our many, many end-of-show mixologists.
And he does a great job and really appreciate what he's doing.
In fact, this is his latest day.
That's why he said, Bing it, baby.
Yeah, sounds like feedback.
Simon Smith in Middleborough, UK.
Jack Connors in Helena, Montana.
Sir Bob of the dude's name, Ben.
73's NC4RG.
Hey, yeah, 73's.
Kid of five, Alpha, Charlie, Charlie.
Micah.
Micah Miller.
Mike Miller.
Micah.
Bethel, Pennsylvania.
I think he's the one who sent me the note on how to pronounce his name.
Chris Dugan in Wichita, Kansas.
Ronald Larman in...
Ronald Larman in Elmere.
Elmere.
Hey, I can do my Dutch voice because he's becoming a knight.
Yeah, he's got a long note here.
Hi, Adam and John.
This completes my donation towards the knighthood.
Congratulations!
Thousand episodes of the best podcast in the universe.
I started listening back when episode numbers only consisted of two digits.
And after being hit in the mouths by my brother sometime around May 2010, I started donating $5 a month to keep this podcast alive.
Within a year, I switched to the 11-11 subscription.
That's value for value, man.
This $50 donation will push me beyond the $1,000 mark straight into knighthood.
If not taken, I would like to be known as knight below sea level.
I'd like a shout-out to my brother Dennis, my friend Mike, both listeners to this amazing podcast.
Can I have an F-cancer karma for everyone who's battling or has battled this terrible disease?
Thank you for your courage.
Ronald Laarman, The Netherlands.
And we don't get Academy Awards for this.
And scene.
Yes, thank you.
Matthew Drury, Sacramento, California.
Taylor Martin, Reinholds, Pennsylvania.
And last but not least, our buddy Sir Jeffrey Wingenroth in the town of Saugus, California.
Wow, what a nice list.
And of course, we thank everybody who came in under $50.
Yeah.
Yes.
And we always are encouraging people to get on the subscriptions, and I can tell you it's a pretty good bet if you try and come in with some support for Sunday's show, you might get an executive producership out of it.
I would like to read the donation from Julie.
Sure.
I got a couple things to read, too.
Okay, good.
This is my only second donation of the show, but I really want it to continue, which means I need to donate when I can.
Hopefully, my husband and I will find jobs soon so we can afford to bump up our support.
When I last donated, it was just before our wedding, and she sent some photos of the wedding, 9-3-2016.
My husband thought I donated too much when I sent $93.16 to the show.
I thought about calling him out as a douchebag.
I knew that donating to the show couldn't change the weather patterns or eliminate the risk of precipitation, but since I was having an outdoor wedding without a contingency plan, I was willing to try anything.
That might help ensure a perfect day.
So she asked for karma.
The karma worked.
Three days before the wedding, strong thunderbirds were thunderbirds.
Thunderstorms were in the forecast.
Plus, it had been very hot and humid most of the summer.
The day was perfect.
There was a low humidity.
The temperature was around 80 with a cool evening breeze and nearly cloudless sky.
If I needed any more convincing that the donation karma was at play for my special day, it came in the form of a surprise from one of my husband's friends.
He brought a drone to film the wedding and take pictures.
I never expected that.
I have enclosed a couple of pictures.
Yes, we had a low-budget wedding, but it was worth it to be able to enjoy the day with the people that matter the most in our lives.
I wanted to share this story with you since my brothers are the ones that shared no agenda with me.
Duh!
I'm sending in my second donation, hoping for some jobs, Carmody.
We're going to put that at the end for everybody.
It says, my husband and I have been struggling to find good jobs and pay our bills.
My 39th birthday, ah, you have to put her on the birthday list.
Ah.
You might want to get a pen.
My 39th birthday falls on January 18th as well as Show 1000.
It's today's her birthday.
I believe this could be a sign of good things to come.
And who is this again?
This is Julie.
Julie, just Julie?
I guess she's in some town.
Well, she only signs Julie, and she had Julie, Julie, and I gave her Julie from, where did I sign?
Did I give her a town?
I don't know.
Just Julie.
Just Julie.
Okay.
And she's celebrating today.
Yeah.
Do we know her age?
39.
39.
All right.
Okay, I have a note that was titled, From a Night in Need.
Mm-hmm.
And we always break for our nights.
Crackpot buzzkill, your night of gentrified Brooklyn needs some help.
I'm looking for a therapist in New York City who won't dismiss me for saying something jokingly like, the government's putting chemicals in the water that are turning frogs gay.
Or think that I'm some alt-right Jewish Nazi just because I don't think Cheeto Jesus is the son of Satan.
I'm hoping that you can or help direct this message to someone in the NA community who can help since it does seem to be large, diverse crew, especially New York.
I know that politics shouldn't intrude on a therapy session, but I'm somewhat embarrassed even asking you to, but given the current political climate, I'd appreciate all the help I can get in finding the right person to spill my guts to.
If this note catches you at a bad time or you can't help, don't worry.
Just a shot in the dark.
Keep on changing lives and mazel tov on show 1000.
Yes.
We believe in therapy.
It's good and we want to help him.
Brooklyners.
Yes.
Brooklyn shrink.
We could have consulted the book of knowledge.
Brooklyn shrink who's not as stuck in dimension B. Now, was there some other issue between Dame Love and Light and Sherry Laurie?
Was there something on a note that I saw we had to deal with?
Or was that not for on the show?
It showed up on my list.
I didn't, I don't, it's not ringing a bell, but I do, it's kind of ringing a bell, but I'm not sure what it is.
Let's see, I got it.
Oh, I got it here.
I was named Dame Love and Light last year as part of the 10th anniversary shows.
In show 999, there was a request for a producer to be named Dame Heather of Love and Light.
Sounds like this is her first title, not becoming a baroness, so she can't claim to protect her to Love and Light.
Unfortunately for Heather, I beat her to Dame Love and Light.
Oh, this is a dispute for the peerage committee.
Well, the way I would do it...
You are the peerage committee, so yeah.
Now, there's one person named Heather.
And what's the other one's name?
What's her complainer's name?
There's Sherry Laurie.
The complainant.
The complainant.
The plaintiff is Sherry Laurie.
So it would be Dame Sherry Laurie of Love and Light and Dame Heather of Love and Light.
I don't see it this being that really drastic.
She believes that Love and Light is a protectorate.
No.
We are determining that a protectorate has to be physical.
It has to be a geographic location.
Yeah.
Okay.
Unless you want to just take it lightly.
Yes.
I mean, you can say it's a protector and you're protecting it, but I think the difference is to be that the names of the people have to be attached to love and light.
Okay.
Now, there is a procedure called email.
Where you can, what is it called when you dispute the findings?
You can appeal.
That's it.
An appeal process.
Do we have an appeal process?
Yes, we have an appeal process.
It consists of sending a nasty note to me.
With the word appeal, all in uppercase.
Yes, there it is.
Final update from the back office from The Shill, Eric The Shill.
This was his robotics team, all the kids.
They had cool little t-shirts.
They headed up to Seattle this weekend to battle 30 other teams and hopefully go to the state championships, and he wanted to pass on his thanks to To the fellow producers who stepped up and made it possible, Grand Duke of the Pacific Northwest, Dwayne Melanson, Sir Herb Lamb, Joel Lenoir, Tom Caudill, Christopher Martin, David McCroskey, Daniel Warren, Mark Hampton, Edward Posh, Eric Angler, and that was it.
So thank you all very much for helping out with that.
All right.
Let me see.
I got everything set here.
Well, I think we can wrap it up.
Again, another show coming up on Sunday.
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And we start off with a belated birthday.
Brian Roediger says happy birthday to his father, Gary.
He turned 62 on January 9th.
Short list otherwise.
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He's celebrating on January 23rd.
Audrey Simes, happy birthday to his smoking hot boyfriend, Charlie.
He turns 29 on the 20th.
And Just Julie turns 39 years old today.
Happy birthday from all your buddies here.
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Binary for eight.
What's that?
Binary for eight.
Binary for eight.
Ah, yes.
Eight.
Actually, I wanted to...
And now it's time for your sexual harassment update.
Something interesting happened, which you may have followed a little bit, but you really deserve to hear about it, and you deserve props.
I think you called it regarding Me Too.
Yeah, I think you called it.
At least Tina remembers that, and it kind of rang true to me.
Which is?
And you know...
When it rings true...
It is true.
That's right.
It rings true, it is true.
That you said that this whole hashtag MeToo thing would wind up with women calling each other out and it would be women fighting against women.
You are so right.
And it really came to a head with this babe.net account of the girl who was unnamed or anonymous and went on the date with Aziz Ansari and published it.
And there's been a big debate about it.
Was it harassment?
How was it harassment?
You've heard the debate.
Ashley Banfield from CNN. She thinks she's not on CNN anymore.
She's on HLN, the CNN sister.
She read an open letter, which I edited down to make it two minutes because it's about six minutes in length.
But just to give you the...
Yikes.
Yeah, but it was good.
The whole thing I thought was really interesting to watch.
I think we should at least listen to these two minutes of it.
The reporter who wielded those very powerful words...
Oops, I'm sorry.
That was the wrong one.
Here it is.
So I'd like to say something here, and maybe this is best done in the form of an open letter to Aziz Ansari's accuser.
Ready?
Dear Grace, not your real name.
I'm sorry that you had a bad date.
I have had a few myself.
They stink.
I am sure it must be really weighing on you.
It's hard being a victim.
Very painful.
Just ask anyone who's been on that end of crime and justice.
I cover them every day.
It's no picnic.
But let's take a moment to reflect on what you claim was the worst night of your life, end quote.
You had a bad date.
Your date got overly amorous.
After protesting his moves, you did not get up and leave right away.
You continued to engage in the sexual encounter.
By your own clear description, this was not a rape, nor was it a sexual assault.
By your description, your sexual encounter was unpleasant.
It did not send you to the police.
It did not affect your workplace or your ability to get a job.
So I have to ask you, what exactly was your beef?
But what you have done, in my opinion, is appalling.
You went to the press with the story of a bad date, and you have potentially destroyed this man's career over it, right after he received an award for which he was worthy.
And now here is where I am going to claim victim.
You have chiseled away at a movement that I, along with all of my sisters in the workplace, have been dreaming of for decades.
A movement that has finally changed an over-sexed professional environment that I, too, have struggled through at times over the last 30 years in broadcasting.
If you're lucky, there's a really good chance that you're not going to experience the toxic work environment that the rest of us have endured, and that is because of the remarkable progress being made against the Harvey Weinsteins and the Kevin Spaceys of the world.
The MeToo movement has righted a lot of wrongs, and it has made your career path much smoother.
And here's where I'm guessing it's going to be a long career path.
You're 23.
I cannot name you publicly and sentence you to a similar career hit as Ansari because you chose to remain anonymous.
Lucky you.
But as you grow in your photography career, I really do hope that you remember what you did to someone else's career, all because of that bad date that was not a sexual assault, that was not sexual harassment, by your description.
And I hope the next time you go on a bad date, you stand up, sooner, you smooth out your dress, and you bloody well leave.
Because the only sentence that a guy like that deserves is a bad case of blue balls, not a Hollywood black ball.
So this open letter by itself was interesting and it sparked a lot of debate, which was even more interesting to watch.
But the whole reason for me playing this is the, again, to prove your point.
Good edit, by the way.
Thank you.
You left a couple of...
I did.
...in there, which is annoying.
Sorry.
I'll be better.
I'll be better.
She received an open letter back.
I don't know if it's actually an open letter from the journalist.
And this is where it got fun.
The reporter who wielded those very powerful words sent some choice words my way as well.
I'm curious about that.
What did she say?
And I want to share this because I think this gives us an insight into the caliber of the person who held that nuclear weapon that was wielded on Ansari's career.
The caliber of this 22-year-old young woman.
And I'm only going to read a slight part of her comments to me.
And I assume she fashions herself a feminist in this movement.
"Ashley, someone who I'm certain no one under the age of 45 has ever heard of.
I hope the 500 retweets on the single news write-up made that burgundy lipstick, bad highlights, second wave feminist has been really relevant for a little while." That's from Katie Way, who was on CBS this morning, yesterday morning.
And I think the reason I want to share that is because if you truly believe in the Me Too movement, if you truly believe in women's rights, if you truly believe in feminism, the last thing you should do is attack someone in an ad hominem way.
For her age, I'm 50.
And for my highlights, I was brown-haired for a while when I was a war correspondent interviewing Yasser Arafat in Afghanistan and Iraq, Gaza and the West Bank.
Google those places.
Buttslam!
Can you believe that this is a cat fight?
Cat fight!
Can you believe it?
Ageism.
I can believe it.
There was a funny scene in one of the recent Black-ish Where one of the women, I think it's one of the office scenes.
I'm not sure.
I can't remember exactly.
Oh, I haven't seen this one.
Oh, Black-ish is just hilarious.
No, I've seen Black-ish.
I've seen Black-ish.
I haven't seen the one you're referencing.
I wouldn't remember.
Oh, okay.
Well, they were talking and one of the women says, well, the sisters we got to put in, stop this and everything.
Then it switched over to one of the white woman that's working or is in this scene.
And she says, well, there's a few things wrong.
She says, first of all, we're not sisters.
Ha, ha.
Educated white women hate each other.
And furthermore, she says, furthermore, I voted for Trump.
And then the place goes crazy.
That's great.
But it's, to me, although great for the show, it's so sad.
Yeah, and I'm sorry, but women apparently are not all the same.
Women have different opinions and views, and they can be just as mean as men.
Or worse.
I was looking for an Ashley Banfield clip where she was talking about Trump the orange Cheeto.
I bet you she slipped up somewhere.
She probably did if she was working for those outlets.
But, you know, there's two CNN people sitting right there, and they all make jokes about the president, about his appearance, his fat ass, his orange hair.
Yeah.
You go on and on about his fat butt.
But not so fun when it's about you, is it?
No, it's not.
I just think it's hilarious to listen to, but very sad.
It is hilarious to listen to, and it's not that sad.
Got a little update on the Vegas massacre, no clip, but we do now have a valet receipt that indicates Mary Lou Danley was at Mandalay Bay on the day of the shooting and valeted her car.
Oh!
Yes.
They tend to take your name.
They do.
They take your name.
Because they give you the little receipt, but they always figure you're going to get drunk and lose it.
So you can always get your car back by your last name.
So that's not unusual.
I have a flu update.
Well, wait.
I wasn't done.
There was one more thing about Vegas.
Oh, yes.
We've been wondering about Why there's no video from inside the hotel?
Yeah.
I thought we already had that explained to us.
What was the explanation you heard?
The explanation was they don't have video cameras that upstairs so much because they just, they don't give a shit.
Uh, no.
Apparently it was broken.
No.
Well, they changed the story then.
Yeah.
It was broken.
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
Gee, that sucks.
Before I go to my flu update, I do have an Ask Adam clip.
Oh, we haven't done an Ask Adam clip.
I find this, by the way, very distressing what you're going to hear.
And you won't know why until I tell you why.
But I'll ask you if you can figure it out.
Okay, first let's do a jingle.
What the hell?
Oh, that's just an Ask Adam clip.
I want a jingle is what I want.
I want a jingle.
I've heard better, but...
Yeah, that one could be put on the C-list.
Alright, here it is.
The Ask Adam KTVU teaser?
Yep.
Still ahead tonight, a change in drunk driving laws that scientists say could save 10,000 lives a year.
year.
How far those scientists think the blood alcohol level should drop below .08.
Okay, I'm ready.
What did you find annoying about that clip?
It's something about the 10,000 years.
Do you mind if I listen to it again?
10,000 people.
No, yeah, of course.
You always play it, of course.
Still ahead tonight, a change in drunk driving laws that scientists say could save 10,000 lives a year.
How far, though, scientists think the blood alcohol level should drop below.08.
What is the point of the generic use of scientists?
Scientists say, scientists say, scientists say, what scientists?
Yeah, the troll room got that immediately.
Yes, scientists.
They could have at least said drinking scientists, like climate scientists.
Well, drinking scientists is a guy who works at a bar.
I think we are drinking scientists, aren't we?
I think so.
I hope so.
I think we're pretty good at it.
Yeah, and that's your local report, your local news?
Just shame.
Just shambles there, man.
Shambles.
I did want to mention that now Jean-Claude Juncker the Drunker has actually come out and said that the task force, the EU fake news task force, was very concerned about Russia.
And we now know for a fact, of course, that Russia also meddled in the Brexit vote.
Oh, sure they did.
Again, Junker said this.
They are considering a European seal of approval for news.
Ooh, I like that.
Yeah, so it would be kind of like the Twitter icon.
Those guys were way ahead of...
Yeah, Twitter's ahead of its time.
I mean, Twitter basically has already verified all these journos, you know, the ones that do something local, have 2,000 followers.
They're all verified.
So I have a theory about this.
Okay.
This is a prelude and a specifically planned prelude for welcoming back England after they take another Brexit vote and then decide to stay in the EU.
And they can say, well, the reason it didn't pass the first time is because the Russians were meddling.
We've made that very clear.
Thus, we won't have to do anything really nasty to the Brits for coming back into.
We don't have to punish them for that first vote.
And everybody's happy.
interesting you say that he Here is, this is from Reuters, EU Chief Executive Jean-Claude Juncker, the drunker, renewed an offer to Britain on Wednesday to stay in the European Union and said he hoped that even if it goes through with Brexit, it would apply to rejoin the bloc.
I feel the exit of Britain is a catastrophe, yes.
I feel that the exit of Britain is a catastrophe, yes.
I can't do it.
A defeat we all have to take responsibility for.
But the reasons for the British exit lie deeper.
As Prime Minister Theresa May has said, the British never felt at ease in the EU and for 40 years they haven't been given the chance to feel more at ease.
That is why the blame is on many.
Hmm.
Yeah.
Interesting.
Well, I think this will be, because it's taken forever to come around.
I like the idea.
I like the idea that they would use that.
I am feeling really good about my early prediction.
Early.
Yes.
That this is all bullcrap and was going to get reversed.
Curiously, even though you are a doubting Thomas about this, you're the one...
Who triggered the original thought because you're the one who kept pointing out what they did in Portugal, what they did in the Netherlands, what they did in France when they voted against certain treaties.
And then they just kept redo, redo, redo until they pounded the public back into submission.
But I've always been a proponent of your theory that there would be a...
Well, you said it would never happen.
That's what you said.
What I said would never happen is that they would actually have a split.
And there's one other thing I wanted to mention to our producers in Gitmo Nation proper, because I can see it.
I see the fear.
I see the anger, the outrage.
This magical, mystical deadline that, you know, we're going to shut down the government and not going to pay anybody.
What's the no agenda thinking on that, John?
Is there no agenda thinking on this, that we're going to shut down the government like we do every time?
Well, my thinking, I don't think it's no agenda thinking necessarily, is that this is kind of just Democrats getting back at the Republicans for doing it to Obama.
Yeah, but did they actually shut the government down?
Yeah.
Don't you remember they closed the national parks?
Yeah, we did do that.
You're right.
We had the furloughs.
Yeah, the furloughs.
They bring everyone back, give them all their back pay.
It's like a free vacation.
But I don't think it's going to happen.
It will not happen because they know that they are being squarely blamed now.
Somehow they lost control of it.
I've been watching this closely.
They've lost control of it.
I think they've lost control.
The Democrats?
Yeah, I think they realize that if something gets shut down, and of course the Republicans are saying, oh, the men and women in the military, it's just true.
But, you know, it's always like, oh, they're defending us.
You always go to the babies in the incubator story.
Well, you tell me what the no-agenda thinking is.
They won't shut it down.
It's not going to happen?
You think the whole thing's bullcrap?
That's no-agenda thinking?
Yeah, they're not going to shut it down.
No, they would be so stupid.
Well, hey, hello.
Hey, I think I got a gem here.
A little gem from 2013.
Amidst all of this shithole talk, you know, shithole countries, there's a clip from 2013 of Lindsey Graham.
Now, he's embarrassed by it, right?
What was his take on the shithole stuff?
He had a personal conversation with Trump about it, I guess, and he's kind of siding with the With Durbin, who is the one who made this public.
Right.
And now Jeff Sessions is also a racist, right?
We all know that.
Total racist ever since he hired his first black guy in the office and did nothing but support black causes and did everything he could for the blacks in Alabama.
He's a racist.
Come on, we all know he's a racist.
Here's a clip from 2013 with Lindsey Graham and Jeff Sessions.
Here's what I would say.
We have a Canadian border.
I don't know how many fences we have along our Canadian border.
If we have any, I don't know about it.
I don't know how many security people we have along the Canadian border.
I doubt it's 21,000.
Are we okay up there and not okay to the south?
The tail of two borders.
Why is one a problem and the other's not?
Because Canada is a place where people like to stay.
They like Canada.
We like Canada.
We love to have them visit.
They want to go home because it's a nice place.
The people coming across the southern border live in hell holes.
They don't like that.
They want to come here.
Our problem is we can't have everybody in the world who lives in a hellhole coming to America.
We're just going to have to create order out of chaos.
Mr.
Chairman, I had the honor to chair for a few years, co-chair of the Mexican-American Interparliamentary.
We travel to Mexico.
I think my colleague doesn't mean to suggest that...
While there's poverty in Mexico and some really poor areas, it's not a hellhole.
It has some great things going on in Mexico.
We're proud of the people of Mexico.
And it does have some difficult areas, as I know you know.
But I just wanted to say that You're right.
They're good people.
A lot of progress has been made.
And we're proud of Mexico.
We hope it continues to make progress.
Yeah, I wasn't slandering Mexico.
I'm just talking about all the places people want to leave for whatever reason.
Lindsey Graham is a racist and Jeff Sessions isn't.
The world is upside down.
My millennials!
Stay woke!
I mean, what are we going to do?
The only thing that's changed is how the media portrays it.
That's the only thing that's changed.
So I do have the flu update, and then I'm pretty good for the day.
I can move the rest of it.
I don't have much else except that.
Yeah, let me listen to your flu update.
Next tonight here, new concerns about the deadly flu, the newest victims, and a reminder tonight about the rapid test that you can get if you or a loved one might have it.
Are you saying something?
Yeah, did you know about the rapid test?
No!
I didn't either.
But you were distracting me.
I kept hearing something.
What is he saying?
Next tonight here, new concerns about the deadly flu, the newest victims, and a reminder tonight about the rapid test that you can get if you or a loved one might have it.
Here's ABC's Gio Benitez.
Tonight, the flu moving fast, claiming the young and strong.
Ten-year-old Nico Malozzi from Connecticut gearing up for a travel hockey tournament hundreds of miles from home when his mother took him to a local ER. He tested positive for the flu and was released.
But before he made it back home, Nico grew sicker and was rushed to another hospital where he later died from pneumonia and sepsis.
Nico was a very lively, vibrant, spirited kid.
Niko's story painfully similar to that of Katie Oxley-Thomas, a 40-year-old marathon runner who died of similar complications.
She went to an urgent care center, was released, then went to an ER with worsening flu symptoms.
She died 15 hours later.
Sometimes things happen, and it could be because somebody has an additional condition that we weren't aware of.
If you start vomiting, if you're developing very high fevers, if you're not able to keep down any food or drink, if you become lightheaded while you're standing, Doctors using rapid tests at urgent care centers like this one, getting results in just five minutes.
And David, tonight hospitals are also dealing with IV bag shortages.
Many of them are made in hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico.
So we're told that it could take weeks or months for this shortage to be resolved.
David?
What was weird about that report?
There's always a shortage.
No, they didn't recommend the flu shot.
No, of course they don't.
That's the first report I've ever gotten for this flu update where they don't recommend taking a useless flu shot.
And I noticed you got a letter from some guy going on and on telling us everything we've already talked about a million times on this show.
Yeah.
No, that's because it's the number one way to get people to take the shot, is to tell them not to take it.
You know, like the cigarette packages.
They never said not to take it.
They just didn't say anything.
Yeah.
You wouldn't know it existed if you listened to that report.
It's, you know...
They're not trying to...
All I know is...
All I know is...
People are sick.
There's a lot of people really sick.
Yeah.
From this...
You haven't got around to this.
We got...
Everyone in the family got around to this.
It was luckily we had some protection.
Well, I'm glad you have protection.
Yeah, called Tamiflu.
We talked about it before.
Yes.
I have one last clip, and it's from one of our producers.
He's in the clip.
This is Mark Hall.
You know him from Killing Ed.
Yeah.
And he's doing a lot of interesting alternative media stuff.
And, you know, he follows Gulen.
That's his main thing.
I would say our take on Gulen is that he's there in the Poconos.
We know the CIA guys got him in and got him his papers and he's got his little compound up there.
And there's quite a feeling that, you know...
Yeah, he's making nothing but money from a scam of his.
Yeah, from the charter school scam.
Charter school scam that he's got.
Which is also indoctrination of children.
There's a lot of things about it.
The movie has to be seen by everyone.
Yes, it's a great movie.
It's called Killing Ed.
But the main guy of the Texas Harmony Schools, which is, I think, the largest network of Gulen schools, has disappeared.
And I have some thoughts after you listen to this clip.
So one of the most recent...
This, by the way, was on NewsBud with Cybele Edmonds.
You remember her?
That's her network, so that's where I got this from.
So one of the most recent interesting developments regarding the Gulen movement...
It has been the group's new focus on China.
As an example, Sonar Tarim, the CEO of the Gulen-affiliated Harmony Charter Schools in Texas, which is the largest charter chain in the state with 63 schools, now receiving over $300 million from taxpayers, he abruptly resigned his position from Harmony in November of last year.
This is only two weeks after Sonar Tarim received the 2017 Man of the Year Award.
From the Texas Charter School Association, in the presence of the governor and the education commissioner of the state, it's not known where Tarim is now.
Some believe he may be a mainland in China.
As you may have seen in my film, Killing Ed, Soner co-founded the Harmony Schools with his American wife, Cheryl, in 2000.
Cheryl converted to Islam and was very much involved in the Gulen movement activities in Houston.
She spoke at a Gulen nonprofit event as recently as 2015.
However, Sonar Tarim has evidently left Cheryl to marry a new wife, Nancy Lee, a Chinese-born socialite and businesswoman in Houston.
This marriage occurred in 2016.
One of Nancy Lee's activities last October was bringing a Chinese delegation to Houston from the province of Xinjiang, which is home to the Turkish Uyghur Muslim minority in China.
It should be noted that Xinjiang It borders Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan in Central Asia, countries where the Gulen movement has operated schools and other organizations.
Marriage is often seen by the Turkish male followers of Fethullah Gulen as a strategic decision to advance the group's goals.
So I'm wondering if Sonur Tarim's recent marriage to Nancy Lee, his unexpected resignation as CEO of a very important Gulen charter school chain, Receiving many hundreds of millions of dollars each year.
And his disappearance from the public sphere is a strategic decision to advance Fethullah Gulen's goals in mainland China.
I don't think we know exactly all of this yet, but I think time will tell.
Now, there's a conclusion that came out of this, which I thought was interesting, and we can just look for it, is that knowing the CIA's involvement with the Gulen movement, these sudden interesting moves of upper management, that we may be looking for some kind of crap to start taking place in China, like disturbances and other things.
The Chinese don't put up with this junk.
Well...
They're just condemning them like they did the Falun Gong, and then the next thing you know, yeah, you can cause some trouble, but you're going to be nothing.
Life is going to be miserable for you.
Right.
Well, I thought it was interesting.
I think the guy may have been killed for quitting or divorcing his wife.
Ooh, there's one.
That's the first thing that came to mind.
He's been killed.
And the other thing is, how did he divorce his wife?
Did he take her and put her outside the yurt and then tell her that he's now divorced?
Garbage day.
You only have to say it three times, I think.
Isn't that it?
Yeah, something like that.
And I forgot to congratulate Sir Ben Nytus and Sir Gordon Walton on their baronies.
Congratulations to both of you.
Alright, John.
That's it for 1,000.
I do want to thank...
1,000!
1,000!
I want to thank...
Unbelievable.
UK, PMX, GX2, Oh My Bosh, Danny Luce, Placebong, Dave Corbinu, Abel Kirby, Jungle Jones, Chris Wilson, Tom Starkweather, Conan Salata, and Future Trash.
These are most of the people who contribute mixes to our end of show, and we really appreciate all the work you do.
And everybody, the producers, it's your show 1,000 as well.
Meet us here for 1001.
It'll be on Sunday.
Remember us at Dvorak.org slash NA. Thank you, Troll Room.
In the morning, everybody.
I'm Adam Curry.
Hello.
Hello.
I said, in the morning, I'm Adam Curry.
Oh, I missed that.
I was, like, too busy making noise and doing funny things over here.
Well, now that you said that, I can say, well, from Northern Silicon Valley.
Where I'm looking forward to 1001, which is binary for Guess What?
I'm John C. Dvorak.
We'll be back on Sunday right here.
No agenda.
Until then, adios, mofos! Adios,
mofos! mofos!
Adios, mofos!
mofos!
You might die.
It's interesting how the male elephant is really dominant in this whole procreation.
She pees on him.
And then he says, oh God, I gotta fuck her now.
And then she puts up a phony chase.
He has to chase her around a little bit.
He gets pooped out.
And then she says, okay, okay, this old guy's gonna cut death.
And then she stops.
And then he screws her with his self, with his crazy penis.
It has a brain and it figures out where to go and it does it on its own because he can't move.
He's too heavy.
He's on his back legs, probably killing him.
And then now this is a female-dominated society.
You get that all wrong.
I don't know what you're talking about.
It's interesting how the male elephant is really dominant in this whole procreation.
And then now this is a male-female-dominated society.
You get that all wrong.
I don't know what you're talking about.
It's interesting how the male elephant is really dominant in this whole procreation.
And then now this is a male-female-dominated society.
You get that all wrong, I don't know what you were talking about.
Wow, John, that was one of the best friends you've ever gone on.
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Do we really care about our fans or is this just another deal?
Said another way that we lost our way?
Social's about the people, remember?
We are people.
Do we really need another like, fan, or share?
Do we need another post to show up everywhere?
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Woo!
Well, congratulations for getting this far.
Yes, you too.
My good sir.
Thanks.
Not bad at all.
I think we've had a good run.
We've had a good run, John.
We should just quit while we're ahead.
What would I be doing if I'd actually quit?
If a podcast makes a thousand shows with a staff of only two, no sponsors to say no and take away their dough. no sponsors to say no and take away their dough.
If a show could watch a thousand nights end in just as many days, they give it all away and hope that people they give it all away and hope that people pay.
But when we feel that funds are running dry, we come big deep and save the we come big deep and save the day.
If a man could be two dimensions at one time, I'd straddle with you.
Dimension B, dimension A, we spark the other way.
If the M5M should stop producing crap and telling a lie, I'd spend the end with you.
And when our show was through, One by one, A throne would retire In a thought A throne would retire In a thought cloud, Which you'd be a part of the world.
good to go.
I mean, we're kind of grooming him to take over the show, aren't we?
Can you imagine?
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