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	Mocked.
	We've mocked.
	We've mocked.
	We've mocked it.
	Mock!
	Adam Curry, John C. Devorak.
	And Sunday, January 21st, 2018, this is your award-winning Gitmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 1001.
	one this is no agenda release the memo release the hounds the purge is on 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 sipping on some Sainsbury's Red Label.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	Really?
	From Sainsbury's?
	Yeah, Sainsbury's Red Label is considered the worst and the best of British tea.
	Where do you get that?
	At Costco?
	No, I got it at Sainsbury's.
	They have Sainsbury's in California?
	No, that was when I was in London.
	You brought it back with you.
	Nice.
	I imported it.
	Yes, illegally, I might add.
	Oh, I don't think so.
	Depends on how much you brought back.
	I brought back like an 80-bag little box.
	It's like a pound 80, the cheapest tea in England, as far as I can tell.
	It's a good tea, though.
	It's good.
	It tastes good.
	Yeah.
	It is actually, for the price, it's the best tea you can buy.
	Yeah.
	But what happened to PG Tips, your favorite?
	That's what I buy.
	I buy the PG Tips, and I'll recommend this to people.
	I buy the PG Tips via Amazon, and you get two 240-bag boxes.
	Yeah.
	In other words, you get 480 bags.
	Ah, that's a lot of bags.
	A lot of bags.
	For like 18 bucks.
	So, were you out yesterday with your pussy hat?
	No, I didn't even leave the house, actually.
	I stayed holed up.
	And I, you know, I don't have a pussy hat.
	Oh, come on.
	We all know you're an archivist.
	You must have one somewhere.
	You think?
	Just the key.
	We do have the one guy did send us an e-meter.
	Yeah, which got sent back, I believe, yours.
	I got an e-meter.
	I got mine yesterday, finally.
	Oh, good.
	Good, good, good.
	I'm working on hooking it up, and when people come over for dinner, you're going to get grilled.
	Hey, hold on to this, kids.
	Let me ask you a few questions.
	Let's see if you're gay.
	I mean lying.
	I mean clear.
	Which one is it?
	It works on all three.
	Let me do a little backgrounder on the women's march.
	There was not just one.
	There were actually three marches yesterday.
	I don't think people realize how many marches there were.
	All different orgs.
	There was a, I don't know, I probably have the clip, but I don't think it's necessary to play it at the moment, but I was watching C-SPAN, and C-SPAN was taking calls, and they were, because Congress was open because of the shutdown, and this woman calls in some Democrat, I don't know if I even have it on this list.
	Yeah, Democratic Classic is what it's called?
	Yeah, why don't you play that because, oh no, that's just a different one.
	I don't know if I, that's a different one.
	Well, you look for that and I'll play my background.
	Oh no, that's okay.
	I just want to, let me just background it.
	C-SPAN wasn't, they were supposed to play the Women's March and some Democrat women called it and complained bitterly.
	That they were doing political stuff when they should have been doing this stupid march.
	What, C-SPAN supposed to cover that now?
	That's not C-SPAN. No, C-SPAN announced it.
	They were going to cover it over the weekend because they don't have anything else to cover.
	But when Congress is open, there's...
	Oops.
	I understand this woman's all bent out of shape.
	I'm sorry.
	Go on.
	Yes.
	Okay.
	Here's the backgrounder from PBS NewsHour.
	Thousands gathered this morning on Manhattan's Upper West Side for the second Women's March on New York City.
	Catherine Simeonko is one of the march organizers.
	Women demand equality, and we're not going to stop using our voices until we get it.
	Last year's marches were one of the largest single-day demonstrations in U.S. history.
	Today, marchers are drawing attention to a variety of concerns.
	Climate change being denied.
	Corruption and dishonesty.
	Transgender people, LGBT people should be a protected class.
	For Shema Sharaf of Brooklyn, the top issue is sexual violence, exposed recently by the Me Too and Time's Up movements.
	I think this is a very important time where we take back our bodies and our rights and show men why it's not acceptable to touch us without permission and without consent.
	But Sharaf, an immigrant from Algeria, also has concerns about too little diversity at the march.
	What's lacking in the feminist movement currently is a lot of minority women.
	March organizers say they've taken steps to make this year's events more inclusive, including increasing diversity among the March leadership.
	Another big focus today, voter registration.
	This year, activists say their focus is on the midterm elections.
	The theme here today is March into Action.
	And organizers say their goal is to register one million women to vote before November.
	New York's March is one of around 250 events in the U.S. and around the world this weekend.
	In Rome, hundreds gathered to show support for the movement.
	And here in the U.S., protesters converged from coast to coast in Los Angeles, Dallas, Denver, and Washington, D.C. This is our moment to stand tall, to fight back, and to be heard!
	Even though President Trump was often the target at today's protests, he did tweet, get out there now to celebrate the historic milestones and unprecedented economic success and wealth creation that has taken place over the last 12 months, lowest female unemployment in 18 years.
	Tomorrow in Las Vegas, the organizers of last year's Women's March.
	Washington will hold a rally called Power to the Polls, the first of several events to mobilize women to vote and even run in elections this fall.
	It was really a little bit confusing because there were indeed three marches.
	There was a split with the original Women's March Inc.
	A fork.
	Yeah, they forked it.
	Women's March Inc.
	They went to the polls messaging, and they had professional signs.
	And even though we have not seen a lot of Antifa lately, in fact, nothing, there were one or two resistfascism.org signs, which I think were just holdovers.
	People had them.
	There didn't seem to be a lot of money with professional money other than the Democratic Party, who obviously has co-opted the Women's March Inc.
	Then you had the March on Women, and they were much more with the homemade signs, and that seemed very grassroots.
	What's the March on Women?
	Did they have a bunch of women laying down?
	No.
	I guess you could interpret it that way, but no, that's not what it was.
	We did have a number of very interesting speakers at this year's event.
	Natalie Portman.
	I don't remember the professional.
	Of course, I remember the movie.
	I don't really remember her role in it.
	Do you?
	The professional?
	Yeah, wasn't it the professional?
	Wasn't that the international?
	Manali's performance, I think, best known for Star Wars.
	Yeah, but this is when she was 12.
	Well, here, she'll explain.
	Let me tell you about my own experience.
	I turned 12 on the set of my first film, The Professional, in which I played a young girl who befriends a hitman and hopes to avenge the murder of her family.
	The character is simultaneously discovering and developing her womanhood, her voice, and her desire.
	At that moment in my life, I too was discovering my own womanhood, my own desire, and my own voice.
	I was so excited at 13 when the film was released and my work and my art would have a human response.
	I excitedly opened my first fan mail to read a rape fantasy that a man had written me.
	First mistake of child actors.
	Who was protecting this girl?
	You can't, especially when that was back in the day with probably pre-email, just barely.
	It was pretty long ago, but I remember the movie.
	It was kind of a romance between this hit man.
	It wasn't a true romance.
	It was more like a father-daughter thing where he's protecting this waif.
	And it was very well done.
	Well, no.
	No, this was very, very toxic.
	A countdown was started on my local radio show to my 18th birthday, euphemistically the date that I would be legal to sleep with.
	This is a great morning radio show promotion, isn't it?
	Hey everybody, we're counting down the years!
	Woohoo!
	Movie reviewers talked about my budding breasts in reviews.
	I understood very quickly, even as a 13-year-old, that if I were to express myself sexually, I would feel unsafe.
	And that men would feel entitled to discuss and objectify my body to my great discomfort.
	So I quickly adjusted my behavior.
	I rejected any role that even had a kissing scene and talked about that choice deliberately in interviews.
	I emphasized how bookish I was and how serious I was and I cultivated an elegant way of dressing.
	I built a reputation for basically being prudish, conservative, nerdy, serious in an attempt to feel that my body was safe and that my voice would be listened to.
	At 13 years old, the message from our culture was clear to me.
	I felt the need to cover my body and to inhibit my expression and my work in order to send my own message to the world that I'm someone worthy of safety and respect.
	The response to my expression from small comments about my body to more threatening, deliberate statements served to control my behavior through an environment of sexual terrorism.
	Ah, there it is.
	Sexual terrorism.
	The term we've all been waiting for.
	Wow.
	Sexual terrorism.
	Again, you start to show off, unlike the last time, with an outrageously good, almost clip-of-the-day-able thing.
	I'm borderline, giving yourself a borderline at least.
	I mean, that's unbelievable.
	I'll take a borderline.
	Amen.
	But wait!
	But wait!
	But wait, there's more!
	Yes, Rob Reiner was also on deck.
	We were all here a year ago for many different reasons.
	But one of the unifying reasons was we were scared.
	We were scared of who was going to enter the White House.
	A year has gone by, and he has corroborated every one of our fears.
	And we cannot whitewash this anymore.
	We have a racist in the White House.
	Yes, the crowd goes wild!
	We have a sexist in the White House.
	We have a pathological liar in the White House.
	We're number one.
	And he is tearing away at the fabric of our democracy.
	And when we all came together, last time, we had the power.
	And it's the women.
	The women have given us the power.
	And the women continue to give us the power.
	No.
	The women continue to fight.
	This is what I'm noticing.
	We start with this absolute rift between the women's march movement.
	One, two, three different groups.
	And they're disparaging each other, often publicly.
	And, well, here's another example.
	But hold on a second.
	What does he mean women have given us meaning the men?
	Is he saying the men or him or his group of people or the Reiner family?
	I think what he means is women have given us the power through their organization.
	What power?
	Power, man.
	I have no idea what he's talking about.
	What kind of power?
	The power.
	I guess the power.
	The power.
	But when you...
	I mean, it's really disturbing because the women are going after each other.
	The power!
	Here's...
	And just listen to this.
	So there was another...
	There was a march...
	March for life.
	And the March for Life is where the president spoke.
	Roe versus Wade has resulted in some of the most permissive abortion laws anywhere in the world.
	For example, in the United States, it's one of only seven countries to allow elective late-term abortions, along with China, North Korea, and others.
	Right now, in a number of states, the laws allow a baby to be born.
	From his or her mother's womb in the ninth month, it is wrong.
	It has to change.
	And a lot of people may think that's incredible when they hear that, but it is true.
	And other countries who share that capability with the United States are the Netherlands, As the President said, China, North Korea, and, interestingly, Scandinavia.
	Most other countries do not allow late-term abortions.
	But here's how NPR characterized the march.
	It's Morning Edition from NPR News.
	I'm Steve Inskeep.
	And I'm Rachel Martin.
	America's biggest anti-abortion rally, the so-called March for Life.
	I love it.
	So-called.
	See, when the President says so-called judge, then it's all wrong.
	But when NPR says so-called March for Life, how am I supposed to interpret that?
	The regular way?
	Good catch.
	I'm just asking.
	I mean, I think she probably meant it's just the way it is, but did she?
	I think it's politicizing it.
	I think so too.
	You don't say, well, I'm here right now talking to the so-called Adam Curry.
	Yeah.
	The so-called podfather is what it would be.
	Yeah, the so-called podfather.
	Yes.
	With his so-called podcast.
	Yeah.
	It's mean.
	It's mean-spirited.
	There's all kinds of stuff going on.
	It's very slanted.
	It's slanted.
	It assumes that whatever...
	It makes the assumption when used like this as opposed to alleged.
	You might as well use alleged.
	Alleged, yes.
	That's a good one.
	The alleged.
	But the so-called is a way of expressing displeasure with whatever it is and to kind of say that it's phony.
	Saying it's phony.
	You're the so-called pot father.
	Yeah.
	That is, that's me saying that you're not the podfather.
	Everybody knows that.
	You're just the so-called podfather.
	We all know Ricky Gervais.
	It's very disdainful.
	It's the worst thing you can do.
	And it doesn't surprise me that NPR would pull a stunt like that.
	The event is called what it's called.
	It's not a so-called anything.
	Exactly.
	More women fighting with each other.
	Page Six reporting on the Today Show host.
	Of course, now we have Savannah with Hoda.
	Hoda has taken over for Matt.
	Hoda's got two shows now.
	You know that, right?
	I know.
	She's on fire.
	So these two, Savannah and Hoda, are trading mean girl jabs between them and Megyn Kelly.
	So they're doing little bits back and forth.
	Well, they do, but it's funny because Hoda kind of is the donut around Megyn Kelly.
	Yes, she's a before and after her, yes.
	She's got the show before her, which is the real show, the Today Show.
	Then Megyn comes on with her bogus show, which is called the Today Show.
	It's got nothing to do with it.
	And then they have the Today After Show, which is the Hoda show with Kathie Lee Griffith or whoever's...
	Whoever's standing in for her.
	So yeah, she's in front and back.
	So she can do that and get away with it.
	Because she has the last word.
	Well, everyone knows now there's mean girl stuff going on at the Today Show.
	Mean girl stuff.
	Mean girl.
	But my favorite Me Too article came from The Guardian.
	Surprise, surprise.
	Sexual harassment and assault rife at...
	United Nations.
	That place.
	Oh yeah, that had to be a hotbed.
	You remember the Dutch, he wasn't the prime minister at the time.
	I think he was the former defense minister for the Netherlands.
	He got kicked out of the United Nations for grabbing someone's ass and being a douche.
	But yeah, yeah.
	And it's not just that the United Nations at the big building in New York.
	It's everywhere United Nations are deployed.
	It's a great article.
	Wow.
	We'll see if anything comes of that.
	Well, they've been known for being rapists in Africa.
	Yeah.
	The blue hats.
	The blue helmets, yes.
	But what was interesting about the March on...
	Let me just see.
	So their whole agenda was to get an agenda.
	So march on...
	They really...
	Their message was, vote on our cool polling system for what you want us to...
	You know, what you want our mission to be, if that makes any sense.
	Is this...
	I didn't know about this, so I'm kind of learning as I go along looking at stuff.
	Do you think this is COINTELPRO? Well, this is just the Democrats.
	It's just the Democrats who are just...
	Well, I know, but is it possible that they're just splitting off against each other for very...
	Well, obviously, that's what's going on.
	It's political.
	But what is the point of it?
	What are they...
	2018 midterm elections, that's the entire point.
	Yeah, but is it all the different groups are targeting 2018 and the women's issues really falling by the wayside?
	Yes, yes.
	The women's issues are being used to say you need to vote Democrats into office.
	Yeah.
	Well, that would make sense.
	I think it's probably a good move.
	Yeah.
	And it all kind of came together with the government shutdown.
	And here's what was really disappointing to me.
	Actually, angering.
	So, you know, we all watch, you know, it's getting close to midnight.
	Oh, we're going to shut down the government.
	And I'd say about 1230 a.m.
	and maybe a little bit earlier than that.
	Of course, we're on central time.
	I received email after email after email from every single, and from March on.
	I'm not a member of March on, but no, I'm on the Democrat mailing list because I donated.
	And they're all begging for money.
	It was seen as a huge opportunity.
	The government shutdown was abused.
	Immediately.
	Do you think maybe it was part and parcel of the shutdown?
	This was the strategy?
	Because the thing was pretty fake, the way it was done.
	Everything was strategized.
	The White House had the hashtag Schumer Shutdown and SchumerShutdown.com, because you know our No Agenda producers were out there looking for it and saw it was already registered.
	Of course.
	Then it was the Trump shutdown is what the Democrats said.
	Schumer said.
	Schumer said, exactly.
	Well, here's what the White House, if you called the White House, oops, if you called the White House, nice little gag there.
	Thank you for calling the White House.
	Unfortunately, we cannot answer your call today because congressional Democrats are holding government funding, including funding for our troops and other national security priorities, hostage Due to this obstruction, the government is shut down.
	In the meantime, you can leave a comment for the president at www.whitehouse.gov.
	We look forward to taking your calls as soon as the government reopens.
	The government reopens like a store.
	Well, in a way it is.
	And then, you know, getting down to the final hours, and of course this all happens, you know, on a show day moving into the weekend, then we get the infamous memo!
	The allegations contained in this important intelligence document go to the very...
	important intelligence document foundations of our democracy and they require an immediate release to the public in my opinion unfortunately i cannot talk about the specific facts contained within this memo i can only share my observation that if the american people knew what was happening if they saw the contents of this memo
	A lot would become clear about the information that I've been talking about on television for the last several months, and so I am calling on our leadership to immediately hold a vote on the floor of the House to make public the key contents of this intelligence memo regarding the FBI, the Department of Justice, and President Trump.
	Would you recommend, in calling for this vote, that it supersede the vote on the continuing resolution tonight, be part of it?
	How would that work?
	We could do them simultaneously at any time.
	The leadership could put on the floor a measure that would allow us to release to the public the critical allegations.
	I cannot stress how important they are in this memo.
	And they could put that on the floor at any time.
	They could do it simultaneous with the continuing resolution or immediately before or after.
	This was total bullcrap.
	And I don't even think that, yeah, Nunes wrote the memo.
	Who cares?
	Who cares?
	That's totally partisan.
	No one's going to believe that.
	It's not an intelligence document.
	It's from a guy who runs the committee.
	And he just wrote up what, you know, what everyone's been writing up.
	Which is the same.
	It's pretty, yes, it's the same old, same old.
	Fox is all over this, though.
	Yeah, well, I think...
	They've gone nuts.
	Yeah, well, you're going to see that there's nothing in this memo.
	It's going to be hot air.
	It may all be true, but there's nothing to back it up.
	It's just a memo.
	And they rolled this out to try and create some alternative pressure back towards the Democrats.
	Because, oh, if you guys do this, we're going to out your glorious leader Obama as a douchebag.
	But they didn't do it because there's nothing in there.
	I would probably agree with that.
	Let's listen to a couple other of these things.
	This is another one from Fox.
	This is a FISA scandal.
	Just a FISA scandal.
	Of last year, that you literally first said, wait a minute, we've discovered that a FISA warrant was obtained to spy on, you know, then-candidate Trump and maybe another warrant, you and John Solomon breaking the story.
	That's right.
	Explain to my friends that are so impatient why it's taking so long because it's been literally a layer of onion a day.
	Because we've had to have the evidence and each piece of this puzzle is another piece of evidence that we can deliver to the American people and to Congress.
	When Congress took over and when the Department of Justice took over, they're unraveling, they're moving forward with the investigations that we weren't privy to because we couldn't access the classified information.
	It is so important to understand that had we not looked into this...
	Had Hillary Clinton won, we would have never known that this was happening.
	And this is exactly what they expected to happen.
	This is why they got so lazy.
	This is why we see those text messages between Peter Strzok and Lisa Page.
	And now, Sean, this is really interesting.
	You know, before I got here, I was contacted by law enforcement officials, both former FBI and current, and They were saying to me, get the text messages from Andy McCabe.
	Get his text messages.
	Find out what was going on there.
	Because there's a lot more.
	Where Lisa struck, where Peter struck and Lisa Page left off, there's a lot more to be seen there.
	And, you know, once again, this is one piece of the puzzle at a time.
	And this is what we've got to do to uncover the truth.
	And I think that the American people...
	Some of the listeners probably wonder, what the hell are we even talking about?
	This goes back to probably some of the hearings that we've played clips of some time back, which imply or almost come out and try to say or get somebody to admit to the fact that that dossier that was written about Trump was used to get a FISA warrant.
	Yeah.
	From the courts to spy on Trump.
	That's what he was bitching about when he says Obama was spying on him and Trump Tower.
	Right.
	And this is kind of scandalous because the dossier, according to the timeline they keep promoting, is that, first of all, they tried to get a FISA order because nobody, when Trump was running, to spy on him domestically, which is pretty sketchy.
	And they couldn't do it.
	And the FISA court said, no, no, no, this is bull crap.
	And so then they jimmied up this dossier and said, look, look, look at the Russians.
	He's in bed with the Russians.
	And he's in bed with these whores.
	And, okay, you can have your warrant.
	So they went on spying.
	And then the FBI and all these other people are supposedly colluding to make sure Hillary won.
	And this is a long road.
	First of all, Hillary didn't win, and she probably couldn't win if she tried again, but It's just...
	They're trying to make a lot out of this.
	I think you're probably right.
	There's nothing there.
	Because there's been action by now.
	I have another...
	And I do want to point out that not just Democrats were sending out begging letters.
	So were Republicans.
	All kinds of super packs who got my name because I donated to all campaigns to get on the mailing list.
	It's always a drawback.
	No, well not really because I got to at least...
	Do they still have the same red buttons?
	Yes, chip in, chip in.
	It's all the same template and they say chip in.
	Is three bucks still operative?
	I saw a three and a five.
	Yeah, five's always a good number.
	But there's something else.
	So here's the story as I understand it.
	We have a budget.
	Both Republicans and Democrats in both houses agreed upon the budget.
	Okay, that's fine.
	And then Democrats said, ah, but we want to slip in.
	It's almost like a pork.
	Just put in a little amendment.
	By the way, I think you can argue that DACA definitely has to do with the budget because it would impact the budget.
	But okay.
	So they said, ah, we're going to shut down the government if you don't add this in here.
	And Trump, and that was the big transparent meeting, and they all sat down and said, okay, look, we're going to have a bill of love.
	And then McConnell and Schumer, whoever else, they came to the White House, and this is where the shithole comment came from.
	And I understand now, I think I understand what happened.
	Trump looked at it and said, or his advisors and everybody, whatever it is.
	So wait a minute.
	So you're not going to shut down the chain migration.
	You don't have that.
	So it's not just 800,000.
	It could be 3 million.
	It could be 5 million.
	It could be 8 million people who would have the right to come in.
	And that's when the shithole come.
	And I think that not only did he say it, I think the Trump White House leaked that information on purpose.
	To let everybody know, to signal, hey, I don't want what the Democrats want because they want this people from shithole countries coming in with no merit-based immigration system in place.
	And they're going to shut down the government over it.
	And that's why they set it all up.
	I think the White House leaked that shithole stuff just so that everyone could understand that the shutdown should be blamed on Democrats.
	Exactly.
	It's possible, even though Durbin's the one who really made a scene about it.
	Sure!
	Before we go too far, I think we may be getting this completely wrong.
	Oh.
	Because during the speaking, just after the shutdown, your buddy...
	I can't wait to hear who my buddy is this week.
	Al Green from Texas.
	Yeah, he did another impeachment thing.
	No, no, I'm surprised he didn't, but he explained the shutdown, I think, more concisely than anybody.
	Speaker, and I yield one minute to the gentleman from Texas, Mr.
	Green.
	The gentleman from Texas is recognized for one minute.
	Thank you, Mr.
	Speaker.
	Mr.
	Speaker, I rise to explain why there is a government shutdown.
	There is a government shutdown because the self-proclaimed great deal maker He makes more deals than he makes.
	Just ask the Americans who are going to pay for the wall he said Mexico would pay for.
	Just ask the senators who took him the deal that he asked for.
	Mr.
	Speaker, when you break more deals than you make, you're not a great deal maker.
	You're a great deal breaker.
	We got a great deal breaker in the White House.
	That's why we have a shutdown.
	I yield back the balance of my time.
	Gentleman from Texas.
	Okay.
	Now, I think he was actually thinking he was creative when he said deal maker, deal breaker.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	This guy is the rube of the house.
	I think he did introduce articles of impeachment again this past week.
	Oh, he does them constantly.
	Yeah.
	He apparently has nothing else to do.
	Well, you know, we're pretty laid back here in Texas.
	do whatever you want.
	We're good.
	You have to represent us.
	Fine.
	We're so easy.
	I also have the response from the White House, which was exaggerated the way it was presented here.
	And I don't, I didn't see this on Network News.
	I think it was on Fox or one of the other places.
	This is kind of funny.
	I'm just looking to see which clip it is.
	Response from the White House.
	Ah.
	Okay.
	We're moving forward, Ed.
	Yes, Shannon.
	And what's new this hour is that the White House has finally officially weighed in.
	And we were talking a few moments ago.
	Are they going to be more constructive and say, OK, let's work this out?
	Or are they going to go hard against Chuck Schumer and slam the Democrats?
	Well, I can tell you they've picked the latter.
	This statement in the name of Sarah Sanders, the White House press secretary, is tough and it's got a Trumpian flair, calling Democrats, quote unquote, Here's the statement, quote, Senate Democrats own the Schumer shutdown.
	This from Sarah Sanders.
	Tonight, they put politics above our national security, military families, vulnerable children, and our country's ability to serve all Americans.
	We will not negotiate the status of unlawful immigrants while Democrats hold our lawful citizens hostage over their reckless demands.
	This is the behavior of obstructionist losers, not legislators.
	When Democrats start paying our armed forces and first responders, we will reopen negotiations on immigration reform.
	During this politically manufactured Schumer shutdown, the president and his administration will fight for and protect the American people.
	That statement literally just came in in the last moment or two from Sarah Sanders, the White House press secretary, taking a very tough move.
	Partisan tone saying that Democrats are losers, not legislators.
	Sounds like something that's coming straight out of a presidential tweet, as you can tell.
	And also, to be fair here, it's out of the playbook, frankly, of Democrats back in 2013 who were charging that it was the Republicans who were obstructionists for shutting the government down then.
	That they were holding the nation hostage.
	Some of those same lines now are being turned back around against the Democrats when they used it during the Obama days.
	And you can tell also that politically from that statement this White House thinks, and we'll see whether they're right or not in the next few days, that they can weather the political storm from a government shutdown by saying, we're not negotiating until Schumer backs down.
	It's true.
	It's true.
	And also, in this day of internet, I mean, everybody's seen the clips of Schumer and Pelosi and Hillary Clinton and Obama all saying, we can't have illegal immigrants.
	This is no good.
	In fact, I almost clipped those, but it's just like, it's, yes, the same guy.
	It's just flipped the script.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	And we're supposed to buy it.
	Well, the thing is, this is like, I want to play this, just...
	Because this is worth discussing.
	This is the C-SPAN call-in number two, the dumb fuck.
	And there's a few things in here that I think kind of stand out.
	So what do you know?
	What have you been told by your supervisor, your agency?
	What are you supposed to do?
	Well, we're still supposed to report to Monday to go to work.
	And, you know, we're not going to get paid.
	I've been a government employee for over 20 years, and this is my fourth CR. I just hope that both parties get together today and try to work something out to keep this government going.
	There's a lot of important things that are coming, but we need to keep this government going because it's not good.
	So Frank, you'll show up for work on Monday.
	You won't get paid now, assuming at some point in the next few days or next week or so the government reopens.
	Do you get back pay for those days that you missed?
	What happens there?
	Yes, we do get back pay for it when we get back paid and then we get taxed on it.
	So it's not good all the way around, the morale.
	We just need to, both parties need to sit together and try to work something out.
	And wait a minute, did he say we get taxed on it?
	He says we get back pay and we get taxed on it.
	Well, of course.
	No, he said we get back pay, but we get taxed on it.
	Why should it not be taxed?
	As if the regular pay isn't taxed?
	I don't understand why he said that.
	I know why he said it.
	Why?
	Because he's an idiot.
	Okay.
	Now, I have...
	And he says this, and he says, you know, yeah, we get our...
	In other words, you get paid.
	Everybody...
	In fact, this happens with everyone.
	We've gone through these.
	We went through another one on this show.
	Although that's not entirely true.
	Contractors do not necessarily...
	Contractors get fucked.
	They get screwed.
	And there's 12 million contractors in the D.C., Virginia area.
	Yeah.
	Well, they generally get screwed, but there's...
	They get arrangements, and they get bonused, and there's all kinds of other ways to get some money back.
	All right, all right, all right, good.
	So let's just assume, but the government itself, nobody loses anything.
	And they get their back pay, but then to say that it gets taxed, but it gets taxed, as if you weren't going to get taxed anyway, is beyond my, what?
	So therefore it's not good.
	But here's another one that comes up at the end of this report.
	This is the shutdown.
	This is the rundown we probably should have played initially to some people that don't know anything about this.
	We're all sort of at a standstill in limbo.
	A shutdown could furlough roughly 800,000 federal workers.
	We probably should explain furlough.
	Yeah, that means what the guy described.
	You get...
	You get kicked out of your job and you either have to come...
	Well, actually, this is another problem.
	A lot of people get furloughed and then get paid.
	It's like paid vacation if they're working for the government.
	Depends on the contract that they're working with.
	Depends on their union.
	But generally speaking, they get paid like that guy who's bitching about.
	But furlough means that you have to stay home.
	Among them, Talana Morton-Smith, an IT specialist with the National Endowment for the Humanities.
	We have mortgages, we have children in school, you know, we have bills.
	She'd be left without a paycheck until a new spending bill is passed.
	So would congressional staffers.
	But their bosses, members of Congress, the President and Vice President would still be paid.
	Budget Director Mick Mulvaney.
	The military will still go to work.
	They will not get paid.
	During the 2013 shutdown, Congress passed a bill allowing paychecks for military personnel and supporting civilians.
	And all federal workers ultimately received back pay.
	The border will still be patrolled.
	They will not get paid.
	Fire folks will still be fighting the fires out west.
	They will not get paid.
	And in the midst of a severe flu season, the Centers for Disease Control won't have the personnel to support its annual flu program.
	Unlike in 2013, the Trump administration will keep open national parks and monuments.
	But it's not a total win for tourists.
	The Smithsonian says museums and the National Zoo would stay open through the weekend, but close on Monday.
	And get your panda cam viewing in now, because that shuts down with a shutdown.
	A shutdown is always...
	Heartbreaking and the uncertainty that comes along with it.
	Social Security checks would still be mailed out, and because the Postal Service has its own funding, mail will still be delivered and post offices would remain open.
	It all comes at a cost.
	The two-week 2013 shutdown cost the economy roughly $20 billion.
	Jeff?
	I was just reading in the troll room, just as an aside, I think we have some contractors in there.
	That apparently somehow the work might be classified as overtime.
	You get a big check.
	And I think what happens is you get taxed on the higher number for a higher rate for that particular pay period.
	Doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
	You might get higher withholding.
	Higher withholding, yeah.
	You can always, so what?
	Yeah.
	I'm just saying.
	Resolved at the end of the year.
	Just saying.
	Now, a couple of things here.
	One was the...
	One irony is that the post office is running.
	Well, it's critical.
	Everybody's bitching about it.
	They're broke.
	TSA is running.
	The military is running.
	But the thing about this report that...
	This happened in 2013.
	I remember the same kind of thing.
	They said in 2013...
	In this case, they said in 2013, referred back to an earlier one.
	This happens all the time.
	But this...
	They say...
	At the end of the day, and I use it very specifically, the government loses $20 billion.
	That's what she says.
	Yeah.
	Now, if you're shutting everything down and not paying people, how are you not saving $20 billion?
	Why is it costing you $20 billion to shut down?
	I don't know.
	Why?
	I've never had this explained to me.
	Probably because they then compensate people, like you said, to make the whole somehow.
	Over the regular amount to the $2 billion to $20 billion plus?
	Possibly.
	I think I have a clip from the last shutdown.
	Let me see what this is.
	The game of tug-of-war as our nation's leaders fought over the national budget has ended once again.
	In a stalemate, the sun will soon come up on the second day of the first partial government shutdown since 1996.
	I'm in our Digital Operations Center monitoring the feeds with the latest out of Washington, D.C. as the tab to fund a government shutdown keeps running up.
	Now, the irony is the dispute over government spending will actually end up costing the U.S. government more money.
	It costs $12.5 million each hour the government is shut down.
	That is $300 million each day and $16 billion in just a week.
	And that was from the last shutdown in 2013.
	Good call, by the way.
	This is how great this show is.
	It's pretty amazing.
	I may have another one.
	But wait a minute.
	Why?
	Where is this money going?
	Why does it cost $300 million a day not to run the government?
	I suppose if you turned this into an anarchy, we'd be losing billions and billions every day.
	Because we can't spend it.
	I really don't know.
	Would somebody explain this to me?
	I really don't know.
	How about they're just pulling it out of their butt?
	Would that be a valid explanation?
	Somebody's telling him this, and I'd like to know who, and I'd like to see the numbers.
	Why is it costing...
	I don't know what you expect to find in the book of knowledge.
	Who knows?
	Who knows?
	Well, now that you too have found the joy of the SEER X meta-search engine, sometimes you get good results.
	You get different.
	You definitely get a...
	I like the SEER X search.
	I think as far as people are talking about it, search.
	Search.
	Yeah, search.
	Except for images.
	It's really lame.
	Well, I have factcheck.org was the first hit, and this is from 2013.
	Democrats exaggerate shutdown costs.
	Factcheck.org.
	Factcheck.org.
	We've been unable to find any estimate of a $30 billion cost to taxpayers, which they could just be using the number from 2013, John.
	And that figure is 20 times higher than the one...
	No, the number they said on the CBS report that you played was from 2013.
	I... Yeah, you said that's what it was.
	We don't have a number for this shutdown.
	Oh, okay.
	It was 20 times higher than the 1.5 billion estimate President Clinton gave in 96 for the combined cost of two government shutdowns totaling 26 days that took place in the fiscal 1996.
	How much was that?
	1.6.
	Even accounting for inflation, that estimate for the cost of the 96 shutdowns would be only about 2.2 billion in today's dollars.
	So this is bullcrap.
	Well, I'm trying to figure out here.
	Durbin, Durbin's still in the game, may have meant to refer to the cost of the U.S. economy as a whole, but estimates for the total economic cost only range from $12 billion to $24 billion.
	The $12 billion estimate comes from the macroeconomic advisors, but Democrats are fond of quoting the higher of those numbers issued by standards and poor's.
	Standard and Poor's.
	So those are the guys saying it.
	So it's just a bunch of Wall Street guys.
	It's bull crap.
	And CBS shouldn't be spewing it.
	Why not?
	They hate Trump.
	They want to blame him.
	Who cares?
	Well, it's not even a matter of hating Trump.
	It's a matter of just nonsense.
	And the other number, which goes back to 2013, is really an anti-Obama number.
	Right.
	Well, whatever they do, whatever it costs, I'm a little worried about my upcoming travel because coming back...
	The one agency that is on very tight staff rotation is the guys at the passport stations.
	So that is going to be going to see reports of hundreds of thousands of people waiting to go through passport control.
	And you'll be one of them.
	And I'll be one of them.
	Yes.
	Well, that sounds like some good show material, so I'm looking forward to it.
	Thanks.
	Now, I had...
	I was watching C-SPAN, I guess, throughout most of this.
	And I do have to have a couple of...
	These are all short clips.
	Um...
	And this has to do with Pelosi.
	Here is the introduction.
	Pelosi somehow got on the dais to speak for one minute.
	We're not playing this, but I have the complete archive of her one-minute talk, similar to Al Green's.
	It was 13 minutes, almost to the minute.
	And here's how she got on.
	This is Pelosi gets one minute somehow.
	Mr.
	Speaker, I'm pleased to hear one minute.
	The gentleman from Connecticut, Mr.
	Himes.
	She's slurring, man.
	Did you hear that?
	Yeah, it's not Pelosi.
	That's this woman from whatever.
	Oh, okay.
	Mr.
	Speaker, I'm pleased to hear one minute.
	The gentleman from Connecticut, Mr.
	Himes.
	They're all drunk, by the way.
	The gentleman from Connecticut is recognized for one minute.
	if he's here.
	Oh, wait, so Pelosi's going to grab the opportunity and jump in?
	You are...
	Hey, I'll do it!
	Mr.
	Speaker, Mr.
	Heim seems not to be on the floor, but I am more than pleased to yield to the minority leader and our great friend and woman we are very happy about, Ms.
	Pelosi, the gentlelady from California.
	California is recognized for one minute.
	That's right.
	Now, Pelosi comes on and she's hammered too.
	And either that or she's losing it completely.
	And some of the clips, I only have these short clips, little snippets, but they're all like non sequiturs.
	And she feels like she should just talk.
	So she talks for 13 minutes, blah, blah, blah.
	And of course, everybody else does get cut off after the minute, but not her because she has a special privilege and the house speaker and just a courtesy they offer to each other at this level.
	But I play the OMG clip for starters.
	I can't wait.
	So in that spirit of saying you want more in defense and we're respectful of that, we need more in domestic.
	Hopefully you'll be respectful of that.
	I think that we can come to terms on that.
	And then there's the question of pay-fors.
	How is that?
	Or is it pay-fors?
	So that's one thing.
	And that's just you sit down, you negotiate, you get it done.
	Now, the ISO is the one I'm recommending for the end of the show, which has got that little bit in the middle.
	And you tell me what she said.
	Am I playing the ISO? Yeah, play the ISO. Okay.
	Hey, Forrest, how was that?
	Or is it?
	Hey, Forrest.
	Be committed.
	Hey, Forrest, how was that?
	Or is it?
	Hey, Forrest.
	It's the same cadence.
	That's great.
	She's saying, Hey, Forrest, how was that?
	Or is it pay for it?
	Oh, nice.
	This is her whole 13 minutes is filled with this.
	Here's Pelosi clip one.
	Let's understand our responsibilities to the American people.
	Let us withhold, as I have done, some of the...
	I've heard my enthusiasm about certain other things I have heard said and done here.
	I haven't even brought the president's picture of the things I have heard said and done here.
	I haven't even brought the president's picture out saying on his one-year anniversary what this country needs a good shutdown.
	He said it earlier, but now he got one for his anniversary.
	Well, I didn't completely curb my enthusiasm in that regard.
	But I do say...
	Ah, jeez.
	Yeah, we didn't bring the picture of him saying we need a good shutdown.
	He's evil!
	I am, as an American citizen, I am disgusted by all of this.
	All of this.
	By the way, she damn near gets a standing ovation after this.
	Uh...
	Pelosi, I got three more short clips.
	They're all 25 seconds or so.
	All right.
	Pelosi on education.
	These investments in research and development, in education, in infrastructure, really bring money to the revenue, revenue to the treasury.
	Revenue to the money.
	So they help decrease the debt.
	In fact, I think most economists will tell you that nothing brings more money to the treasury than the investments in education, early childhood, K-12.
	Higher education, postgrad, lifetime learning for our workers.
	Yeah, I don't think that's true anymore.
	That's definitely not true.
	Unless you're counting interest on student loans...
	That's revenue.
	Now that you mention it, that's a good one.
	Okay, here's Pelosi uses big word.
	So let's just say, let's see if we can get that done because that will be more dispositive of shortening the time between where we are now and if we get a solution.
	Dispositive.
	Yeah, I thought that was cute.
	I didn't even bother looking it up.
	I have to look it up.
	Well, you're looking it up.
	Play the last clip and this is just a that's then ramble.
	Bringing legislation to the floor, legislation, bringing rules to the floor that relate to a vast array of legislation that we deal with here.
	And today we're talking about martial law so that we will be prepared to take up something...
	What?
	That will open up government.
	Whoa, whoa, whoa.
	Did she say martial law?
	That's what she said, yeah.
	Let me back that up for a second.
	That we deal with here.
	And today we're talking about martial law so that we will be...
	Are we really?
	I don't know if that's what she said.
	She's slurring.
	She's plastered.
	She said, and today we're talking about martial law.
	That's what it sounds like.
	...relate to a vast array of legislation that we deal with here.
	And today we're talking about martial law so that we will be...
	I can't hear any other word than martial law.
	I can't hear anything else either.
	Maybe it was Marsha.
	Marsha, Marsha, Marsha!
	Open up government and meet the needs of the American people.
	It's interesting to see the enthusiasms on both sides on these subjects because we have a long history on some of these issues.
	We have a long history and commitment to CHIP and that when we brought it to the floor when I was speaker, when we first...
	Had a Democratic president who would sign the bill, 144 Republicans voted against that bill.
	But that's then.
	This is now.
	Dispositive.
	In law, a dispositive motion is a motion seeking a trial court order entirely disposing of all or part of the claims in favor of the moving party without need for further trial court proceedings.
	To dispose of a claim means to decide the claim in favor of one or another party.
	I don't know what she's talking about.
	Now I want to listen to her use that big word again because it's interesting.
	So let's just say, let's see if we can get that done because that will be more dispositive of shortening the time between where we are now and if we get a solution.
	Dispositive in shortening the time.
	What is it?
	This is bullcrap.
	That's not the right word.
	Yeah, I don't think so either.
	Dispositive in shortening the time.
	Dispositive.
	Directed toward or affecting disposition.
	Jesus.
	Why don't you just say what you mean, Nancy?
	I don't know.
	She got the free floor.
	It was on television.
	She had a minute.
	She took 13 just to talk.
	Yakety yak.
	Just on slurring of speech...
	Just because I got a note from a producer I want to share.
	The only thing about the doctor that I didn't like, the rear admiral, it was his explanation of Trump slurring.
	Is this you or the letter?
	No, this is me.
	That's what I didn't like.
	The weight and all that, whatever.
	But he said, yeah, I maybe gave him too much Sudafed.
	And one of our producers sent in a note and he said, I have standing in this area.
	I can tell you exactly what I think happened because this has happened to me.
	He says that if you combine Propecia With any type of stimulant, you can get that behavior.
	And you know what Propecia is?
	Yeah, it's just stuff from keeping him going bald.
	For hair loss.
	Yeah, it's a hair loss thing.
	Don't touch it if you're pregnant.
	It sounds like the president is taking Propecia for hair loss, which I think my eyes can tell me that's probable.
	But then the doctor, so he wasn't lying when he said, well, you know, I gave him too much Sudafed, but you give someone who's taking Propecia a stimulant, they can go into depression, but also slurred speech.
	So I think we have our answer.
	I think we do.
	That would make nothing but sense.
	And the doctor didn't lie.
	He wasn't completely truthful because it's embarrassing, obviously, to say, well, since the president's already taking Propecia for that...
	He said he was doing something with his hair.
	I think he said he was taking Propecia.
	No.
	Yeah.
	No.
	Did he say that?
	He did mention something about a hair loss remedy that he was taking with the drugs that he takes.
	He takes...
	One of the statins.
	Crestor.
	Right, yes.
	And I think he mentioned Propecia or some other hair remedy product.
	Here it is.
	Trump's longtime doctor says President takes hair growth drug.
	New York Times.
	That is from February.
	Yes, so fact.
	He's taking Propecia.
	You give him...
	Oh, there you go.
	There you go.
	Hello?
	Hello, M5M? Nailed it.
	Yes.
	I wish I could thank our producer, but I can only thank him as an anonymous producer.
	I think the hair loss thing is very embarrassing to everybody.
	Yeah.
	How about that?
	Well, it explains it because our initial thought that the denture is falling off.
	Yeah, that sounded kind of like something that would be spot on, but now, now we've got it.
	Yeah.
	Well, you have to be careful then.
	Yeah.
	Yes.
	A cup of coffee maybe will do it.
	Yes.
	Stimulant.
	Yes.
	It could be anything.
	United States.
	United States.
	I've got to play that again.
	You've got to ISO that one thing.
	God bless America.
	Yeah, I have it.
	I have it.
	And God bless the United States.
	Thank you very much.
	That's right up there with the stuff that we have from Sharpton.
	And God bless the United States.
	Thank you very much.
	Poor guy.
	This is the worst show for this sort of thing.
	Not really.
	We've given up on all of this, what the standards of excellence are for broadcasting.
	We've set our own standards.
	New bar.
	New low bar.
	New low bar.
	Why not?
	Who cares?
	I do want to just mention this little thing.
	You probably heard about this.
	I thought it was interesting, mainly because it was a Dutch film crew who worked for Endemol, who I know very well.
	It is 6.09, and several members of a freelance TV crew have been arrested at Newark Airport after they tried to sneak a fake...
	This is a live look right now at the airport this morning.
	A TSA spokesperson said the crew tried to bring the fake explosive in a carry-on bag, but it was immediately detected by TSA officers.
	At least seven people are now facing charges and possible fines up to $13,000.
	It is not clear what television network the crew claimed to work for.
	So I heard that they maybe were doing something that would be produced for CNBC. But this is...
	It's so typical Dutch.
	And Dutch people will understand what I'm saying.
	Hey, we're going to...
	We showed us Americans how crazy they are.
	We take this bomb and we take it right to the TSA, man.
	And they actually had a PVC pipe with wire sticking out of it as their dummy.
	I mean, gee, you got caught with that one.
	Hmm.
	I wonder why.
	Wow.
	Yeah.
	And while we're on the topic of aviation, I have been bitching about it for a long time.
	Uh-oh, I think you have the same story I do.
	Well, of course we do.
	Tonight, Delta is cracking down, issuing new rules for passengers with emotional support animals.
	People bringing pigs on flights, even ducks and kangaroos.
	The airline reporting an 84% spike in animal incidents, including urination, defecation and biting.
	Often it's about the money, because one way to travel with a pet on some airlines can be up to $600.
	But if that animal is designated as an emotional support animal, it gets to come with you for free.
	That's not true.
	Experts say in recent years, more and more people are cheating the system, getting certified online for an emotional support pet without any proof.
	I tried it in the past.
	What type of animal do you have?
	Dog.
	Getting my ESA certification in just minutes.
	And boom, there it is.
	Based on your responses, you are a good candidate for an emotional support animal.
	Great.
	Then they email me this official letter from a real mental health professional.
	Come on.
	And before you know it, I'm flying with Rory.
	My producer, Lindsay, did it too.
	With a pig.
	Pig on a plane.
	But now, Delta's new rules making it harder to pass your pet off as an ESA. You must provide the pet's ESA certification, proof of health, and a signed document saying your pet has been trained.
	You need to send the documents to Delta 48 hours ahead of your flight.
	How will this help?
	Hopefully by reducing fraud, but without putting a greater burden on people who really need emotional support animals.
	Weeds out the bad ones, keeps the good ones able to do it.
	That's what we're hoping.
	And late today, word that American Airlines may follow Delta's lead.
	Jeff Rawson, NBC News, New York.
	It's interesting, my report is from CBS, and it's the same report, but they had a couple of other angles on it, which...
	And it's kind of interesting to compare these two.
	Yeah, no, I'd love to hear it.
	But this one includes...
	Hold on, stop, stop, stop.
	This one includes a blind guy who comes in, and you can't get...
	Audio, just without seeing the guy, you don't know that he's the blind guy that's making some commentary.
	He had a point to make that was interesting, and there was...
	If I say interesting again, please honk the horn.
	Okay.
	And there was also a curious...
	Where they discussed all the new laws being put in by the states, which I think adds to this.
	Well, I just want to reiterate, there is no such thing from the ADA, the American Association of Cripples, there's no such thing as an emotional support animal.
	There is no legislation, it's not in our Disability Act, only service dog rights.
	And I've been talking about it for years.
	You've been bitching and moaning about it, and I think I'm in total agreement with you.
	Yeah, it's just people trying to take advantage of the situation.
	They get early boarding and all that.
	Okay, here's your report.
	Delta Airlines has new rules for bringing service and support animals on planes.
	They take effect March 1st.
	John Daler has details.
	It's not unusual these days to see a service or support animal of various kinds, from dogs to pigs to ducks, even horses, on commercial airplanes.
	Floridian Bertie Dombrowski flew to Atlanta with her dog, Paquito.
	It's just nice to have something there to cuddle with and just, you know, calm you and keep you, you know, chill.
	Delta, which carries 700 animals a day.
	Hey man, I just gotta keep my chill, you know.
	That's why I need my dog.
	Yeah.
	Jeez.
	Planes.
	Floridian Bertie Dombrowski flew to Atlanta with her dog, Paquito.
	It's just nice to have something there to cuddle with and just calm you and keep you chill.
	Delta, which carries 700 animals a day, 250,000 annually, says a growing trend of bad behavior by the animals, like biting or urinating, has increased 84% over the past year.
	The airline is now introducing new regulations, requiring a signed document stating the animal is trained to behave, a letter saying the animal is in good health and vaccinated, and if it's an emotional support animal, a signed letter from a healthcare professional, all 48 hours before the flight.
	Good job, Gus.
	Tom Panik, CEO of Guiding Eyes for the Blind, was on a Delta flight recently made miserable by a misbehaving support dog.
	For two and a half hours, the passengers had to tolerate this dog while it was barking, lunging, and disrupting the flight.
	And no one wanted to confront this individual and say that that dog is not appropriate as an emotional support dog.
	It might seem like a harmless way to travel with your pets, but panic says there are serious repercussions.
	It profoundly affects us because the next time we go into a restaurant, they may tell me, no, you don't have access here.
	And I wouldn't be able to take three steps without Gus.
	The air carrier access law requires airlines to grant access to service animals used by people with disabilities.
	But increasingly, that law is being abused by non-disabled pet owners.
	So 19 states have laws against calling untrained dogs service dogs.
	Good.
	Good.
	Sick and tired of it.
	Hate those people.
	I just need to chill.
	Take my dog.
	Take my coat.
	Good.
	It came from the air carrier access law, which I did look up, and it was pretty much written for people with dogs.
	Only service dog.
	That is the law.
	No, it was written for blind people with the guide dog.
	That's what it was written for.
	Yes.
	There's no mention of service dogs in there.
	It's called a service dog?
	That's just the name of it?
	But there's no such law for emotional support animal.
	It's just there's no law.
	It's not true.
	I think the airlines are being really nice about it.
	I thought that they've put up with enough.
	But apparently a bunch of these dogs, like the guy said, they're lunging, they're barking, they're pooping.
	And the message has gone out in corporations that you cannot ask if you need it.
	The only thing you can ask is, is your dog trained for a specific disability?
	Yes.
	And that's pretty much it.
	You can't ask anything else.
	But the dog has to be under the owner's control at all times.
	Can't be unleashed.
	Can't be walking around.
	No.
	It's just...
	It's hundreds of thousands of douchebags who are finally getting their due.
	A very long time ago, I was in Paris.
	Just a dog walking around brought this anecdote to mind.
	I forgot all about it.
	It's kind of a very weird restaurant in Paris.
	It's kind of dark.
	Food was good.
	I don't know why it was even there, but it was.
	It was a dark room.
	It was a dark room.
	It was essentially one row, a wide aisle, and tables on either side for a long length, kind of like a train car.
	I'm sitting there, and the All of a sudden, two dogs, German Shepherds, like white German Shepherds, come into the restaurant, one on either side of the aisle, sniffing everybody as they go all the way up the aisle, and then they come running back and jump into a limo where some weird guy comes in afterwards, wearing like an ermine or something.
	And he comes in, and he just walks all the way through, and then disappears in the back, and the limo takes off.
	I just thought that was an example of, I don't know what was going on at all, but I figured the place was a little bit skewed.
	Well, I'm glad that they're taking a stand, and I'll have to look up the 19 states.
	I hope Texas is one of them.
	This is an outrage.
	Yeah, you should look at it.
	There's going to be 20, because apparently Arizona's passing that law, too, which is a hub, so that's a good thing.
	And with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage and say in the morning to you, John C., and C. stands for Canine Crusader Dvorak.
	In the morning to you, Mr.
	Adam Curry.
	In the morning to all ships at sea and boots on the ground and feet in the air and subs in the water and all the dames and knights out there.
	Yes, in the morning to everybody in the troll room.
	Noagendastream.com.
	Hello, trolls.
	Good to see you there.
	In the morning to Redbeard.
	Red Beard brought us the artwork for episode 1000.
	The title of that was The Hijab Hoax.
	And we had a lot of different art to choose from.
	We thought the bold 1000, no agenda, best podcast in the universe kind of did it.
	It was just the piece of art that jumps out.
	You can't miss it.
	These guys did a thousand episodes.
	And we loved it for that.
	And we thank you, Red Beard.
	And we thank all of our artists for...
	It actually took a bit of a discussion.
	A tad.
	A tad.
	A bit.
	Thank all of our artists for diligently creating fabulous album art that is a big part of our success.
	Noagendaartgenerator.com.
	Thank you for your courage.
	So let's thank a few people and we're back to normal.
	Show 1001.
	Nobody picked up on the idea of donating $1,001.
	No.
	A few hundred dollars and one cent.
	Sir Werner Flipson at $333 is our top guy.
	Long overdue donation from the Wi-Fi night from Amsterdam Airport.
	I'm going to have to tell you, I've seen this donation before.
	I hate to say it.
	I don't remember the milf shout out for his hot wife.
	Oh, no.
	It's okay.
	We'll do it for him anyway.
	Well, here's the problem that I have with you.
	You've been seeing a lot.
	The donation totals seem to be correct.
	Okay.
	Now, it's possible that this is a carryover because it's a long story, but Eric is at the robotics meetup.
	Where there's state competition, Washington State, with the kids in Seattle.
	So I had to download the spreadsheet.
	Ah, it could be operator error.
	It wouldn't be operator error.
	It would be a crossover because sometimes these late donations and the ones from Europe sometimes come in at 1 in the morning or 2 in the morning.
	That could have been from last week.
	It's possible.
	But I'm going to look at the last spreadsheet afterwards.
	Yes, but it matters not.
	We like Sir Werner so much for his...
	Oh, he's a great guy.
	For what he's done.
	I like to meet him sometimes.
	Yeah, I like to meet him.
	I don't think I've ever met him either.
	Anyway, here it is.
	Phil, Phil, Phil, Phil.
	I don't know what that is.
	That's one mother I'd like to offer.
	You've got a karma.
	Oh, that's new.
	I hadn't heard that one in a while.
	New.
	I haven't heard that one ever.
	It happens.
	James Cannellini, New York, New York, $300.
	He sent an email in, and this creates this part of the controversy.
	I just sent a $300 donation for the $1,000 show.
	I think you and Adam offered a three-for-one credit for knighthood for this.
	No, never happened.
	What I offered, and it was made very clear in the newsletter, was that if you donated $1,000 toward an instant knighthood for the period of time before show $1,000, you would get three executive producer credits instead of one.
	That's where the three for one comes in.
	Yeah.
	That was it.
	Yeah.
	Well, people misunderstood.
	It was confusing, not anyone's fault per se, but it happens.
	I will say it wasn't confusing, but people just aren't listening.
	The battling chefs from New York area, which I'll bring back up later, seem to have this misconception, too.
	There's a bunch of chefs that we have as listeners, and I will be reading a note from them at some point this show or next.
	Okay.
	Because they're calling out another chef, and it's actually quite funny.
	Well, does James Cantellini need any karma or any jingles or anything of that guilt?
	Well, I'll read the rest of his note.
	Okay.
	He's either a full night or half a night.
	Okay, you're half a night, as it were.
	Either way, the money's well-earned.
	Reality is a precious commodity, and I would like to work on a name later, which you can still do.
	Congratulations and thanks.
	No karma, no jingles.
	Okay, good.
	And JNK, thank you very much for your courage, sir.
	Anonymous, 250 bucks.
	Please keep me anonymous.
	I was hit in the mouth while carpooling.
	Yeah, that's one of the best ways.
	That's how it goes, carpooling.
	In a carpool with a no agenda guy and you're going to end up listening to no agenda, like it or not.
	Yep.
	I had the pleasure of meeting Adam on the Hot Pockets tour.
	Keep up the great work.
	Here's to another thousand shows.
	Can I get a resist we much to to the head?
	LGY and a wealth karma.
	A wealth karma.
	It's karma.
	Yeah, let me do that.
	But resist we much.
	We must and we will much about that be committed.
	Hold on, before I do that, I just want to see if I can combine that with that Pelosi clip.
	Since I was planning on doing that anyway.
	What was the Pelosi, was the ISO? I think it was the ISO you're thinking of.
	Hey Forrest, how was that?
	Or is it?
	Be committed.
	You've got karma.
	Bye-bye.
	It was worth a try.
	It's doable.
	Baron Craig Kuttner in Norwalk, Connecticut, 23457.
	Baron Craig here.
	Congrats on four digits of shows for this show.
	For this show number, one phrase from the Shays, 1001 is a silly millimeter longer, just like my extra penny added to JC's favorite donation, douchebag callout, second warning to Dan Spencer.
	Douchebag!
	And he has, looks like he's had some jingle requests, but they got cut off.
	I don't see them either.
	No, this got cut off.
	Hmm.
	Um...
	Silly Millimeter Longo referred to a cigarette sales thing.
	I think it was on television.
	I do have somebody requesting a phrase from the Shays discussion.
	And I'll get to that later.
	Dame Dane 23456 I'd like to comment on a story Adam brought in episode 994 about a class of 9th grade students in Jutland.
	Yeah, this was good.
	I like this note.
	They made an experiment growing watercress next to a router.
	I work in an IT department in a middle-sized company, and when the story broke in 2013, we talked about it at work.
	We know about electronic interference, but we still thought it's strange, so I was appointed the task of copying the experiment in my flat.
	So two plates with similar setup, paper towels, seeds, and water.
	I placed one in my kitchen in the window.
	No routers or any other electronics in my kitchen.
	And the other was placed in the window between a time machine router and an iPhone 3S playing internet radio during the whole of the experiment.
	Ah!
	There's the mistake.
	There's the mistake.
	Music can be very influential.
	So if it was all sweet tunes...
	I think that ruins the experiment.
	I question that, but I agree with you that, and there's other aspects, if you have an iPhone, it's going to be giving off.
	Put your iPhone by your computer and listen to the noises that the computer makes because of all the RF coming out of the phone, which I think is sometimes more extreme than Wi-Fi.
	Anyway, so as you can see with the photos attached, there's no difference between the two plates.
	Both grew at the same speed and up to a nice green.
	We're perplexed as to how those teens screwed up their watercress.
	My colleague, a dude named Ben, deducted that they probably had placed their watercress in the server room.
	Nothing would grow in our server room either, saying that it's 10 degrees Celsius and always dark.
	I don't remember them putting it in the server room, but okay.
	Well, no, that was a supposition.
	Of the dude named Ben.
	Oh, okay.
	All right.
	Even then, I didn't listen to the best podcast in the universe in 2013.
	We had no agenda thinking hat on a bullcrap story.
	And by the way, why has it taken three years to reach you in America?
	This is an interesting question.
	Oh, no, no, no.
	I'm sorry.
	That's not true.
	It reaches us, but we recycle that crap.
	We recycle that.
	That's like the whole Tamiflu thing, which I have another story about today.
	We just recycle it.
	We recycle it as needed and depending on what the political nature of it is.
	I don't know what that is here, although a lot of people are really worried about 5G and what the FCC just wants to give free reign and go ahead, put your 5G... Kill us all!
	Well, 5G is up to 100 gigahertz.
	This could not necessarily be a good thing for you to have all this spewing around you.
	Anyway, Dame Dame, thank you very much.
	She also wants some health karma as she struggles a bit with diabetes.
	And some jobs karma.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	You've got karma.
	I'd like to see that experiment actually done.
	Yeah.
	Right.
	Not by a bunch of kids.
	Okay.
	Alex Walensky, $200.
	Congrats on show 1000.
	Can I get a vacation, Karma?
	Thanks for all you do, Alex.
	Of course.
	You've got Karma.
	And last but not least on what a relatively short list is Timnonymous.
	200 bucks, and that's what he is.
	He's Tim Nonymous.
	Tim Nonymous.
	And JNK. And that wraps it up, and we want to thank these executive producer and associate executive producers for coming in after that Big Show 1000.
	Appreciate that.
	It's usually quite a rollercoaster ride, these types of deals, so thank you very much.
	Real credits.
	Just look at any television show.
	You see executive producers always right up front.
	We like to do the same thing here at The Best Podcast in the Universe.
	Put it on your LinkedIn.
	Apparently it works very well with getting jobs and jobs and jobs.
	And we'll be thanking more people, $50 and above, later on in the program.
	Another show coming up on Thursday.
	Sorry.
	Stop that.
	Uh-uh.
	No way.
	Wednesday.
	Yes, we should make this announcement now.
	Yes.
	The next show, 1002, will be on Wednesday as I'm traveling Tuesday to the Lowlands.
	And I arrive Wednesday morning, I'll be prepping, and then around 6pm we'll do this, just like Thursday, only...
	Normal show times for everyone.
	Normal show times, everything, same bat channel.
	Except you.
	Except for me.
	Then Thursday I go and pick up my award, and Friday I return back home for the weekend.
	So the next show on Wednesday, remember us at dvorak.org slash N-A. And of course, we've got another award show happening tonight.
	Make sure you propagate the formula.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Water!
	Water!
	Shut up!
	Shut up!
	Can you play the phrase from the Shays?
	Jingle ditty?
	Yeah, and I got one that's interesting.
	Okay, of course I can do that.
	We should all get back to a better time When the words had a different meaning, reason and rhyme Though I'm not quite sure what they're trying to say Look it up, phrase from the chaise Woohoo!
	Phrase from the chaise, ladies and gentlemen, John C. Dvorak, your linguist on duty.
	It comes from, the question comes from John Splash.
	John M. Splash Davis, who writes, Flying AWACS out of Riyadh in the 80s, we retrained Royal Saudi Air Force officers who would occasionally host dinners for us.
	We'd be served a spirited goat on a bed of rice and roast vegetables laid out on a tarp.
	We call these occasions a goat grab because you use no utensils.
	You simply sat around the food on the floor and grabbed a handful of goat and rice, rolled it into a ball, and popped it in your mouth.
	It was pretty tasty, washed down with super sweet tea, chai, chai, chai, chai, chai.
	Then he says, by the way, phrase from the chase, what is the origin of get your goat, meaning to get the best of someone?
	Oh, that's a good question.
	Well, I did some research because I said, well, it's got to be easy to find.
	I just did.
	I said, he could have done the same thing.
	Go to etymology and look up the phrase.
	Well, I was very dissatisfied.
	And I think in the modern era where no agenda thinking makes everything sound like bullcrap, it just sounded like bullcrap to me.
	Okay.
	And it did.
	Here's the two.
	There's no real way of explaining this, they say.
	And if you look it up, it comes from one of two possibilities, supposedly.
	And these are both bullcrap.
	One was goats supposedly were used in farms as companions to dairy cows to keep the dairy cow calm because the goat's a nice companion, as everyone who owns a goat knows.
	And the dairy cow would thus give more milk, and then if you stole the goat or you got the guy's goat, the production would go down and then you'd get him.
	That was a nasty trick.
	Oh, okay.
	That was very nasty.
	Explanation number one.
	Explanation number two is, again, goats were used as companions for skittish racehorses.
	To calm them down.
	So before the race, the horse would be calmed down and they could run without going nuts and jumping over the fence doing whatever crazy things a skittish horse does.
	So if you got someone's goat, then their horse would lose the race?
	Yes.
	Oh.
	Yeah, that's a possibility.
	I like that one.
	Yeah, but they sounded kind of like, I don't know, get your goat.
	I don't think so.
	And so doing more research, I ran into the fact that the goat was one of the first mascots in football games.
	Ah!
	Led by the U.S. Navy, because in 1910, a goat was given to the Navy football team, and it was their mascot.
	I think you nailed it.
	- Yeah. - Yeah, and so this goat, and there's a number of teams that apparently picked up on the idea of having a goat mascot, and this was between 1907 and 1910, and the get your goat phrase is tracked just to about those years.
	If they look up to when did this first show up in the nomenclature, 1910 is about when.
	So I think Get Your Goat had to do with stealing a mascot.
	I like it.
	It was a goat.
	I like it.
	There you go.
	I think you nailed it, John.
	That's right, everybody.
	We're the M5M users and we tell you what it means.
	Phrase from the Shays.
	Alright, we talked about Tamiflu briefly.
	There was another psychotic episode with a young child with Tamiflu.
	And play.
	This was Lindsay Ellis of Indianapolis before she had the flu last year.
	Before she began hallucinating bugs on her body and the devil's voice in her ear.
	And the devil's voice in her ear, John.
	This is not just a little bit of crazy.
	This is nuts.
	Wow.
	Before she began hallucinating bugs on her body and the devil's voice in her ear.
	It literally reminded me of a scary movie at that time.
	I'm like, is my daughter possessed?
	What is really going on?
	Her father says doctors believe it was a reaction to Tamiflu.
	About day three of her on the medicine, she's acting just loopy.
	The 11-year-old was hospitalized for nearly two months, had a feeding tube, and was incoherent and unable to move her hands or feet for several weeks.
	A year later, she still suffers tremors.
	Ellis, like the other families we have heard from, wants more transparency when it comes to Tamiflu, better labeling on the packaging and warnings from doctors who prescribe it.
	It's something Japan took a step further.
	They banned Tamiflu for youth ages 10 to 19 in 2007 after several dozen instances of neuropsychiatric events.
	And a spokesperson from manufacturer Genentech sent us a statement.
	It says in part, neuropsychiatric events have been reported during administration of Tamiflu in patients with influenza, especially in children and adolescents.
	These events are also experienced in patients with influenza without Tamiflu administration.
	And the FDA has listed 559 cases of hallucinations from Tamiflu since 2009.
	So I dove into this story.
	Then I found that every single piece of information about Tamiflu includes a very critical warning.
	Do not give anyone Tamiflu who has already had the spray mist flu vaccination.
	Oh, really?
	Yes, and just like the president with Propecia and with...
	Yeah, this combination of ingredients.
	Yeah, and we have so much crap out there, so many chemicals that people don't realize that things can happen.
	And, you know, so if the child has basically had a hyped up version of the flu virus inserted nasally, apparently there's some kind of nasty reaction.
	And if you listen to that report carefully, that sometimes happens even without Tamiflu.
	So you've got to think about what is going on with the vaccine.
	But...
	It appears the combo of Tamiflu and I'll just say all of the flu vaccine, but it's very specific.
	So I don't know what the agent or the chemical is in the spray mist vaccine, but I think that's the culprit.
	That's what you've got to watch out for.
	Sounds like a recipe for a really good time.
	I saw some bugs in the devil.
	Bugs.
	DMT. The devil's talking to me.
	Woo!
	DMT can't top that, man.
	You got bugs and the devil.
	That's...
	Well, I think a lot of this is also the war on Tamiflu.
	Absolutely.
	It comes back every couple of years.
	But as I was researching this, I came across a report about the cocaine vaccine, which we've laughed about in the past.
	We've laughed, mocked.
	We've mocked.
	We've mocked it.
	Mock!
	How can you have a vaccine against a drug addiction?
	And I think the report is illuminating.
	Dr.
	Crystal, welcome to our program.
	Thank you.
	Hello.
	What is the idea behind the vaccine that you're testing?
	Well, cocaine is a small molecule and our immune systems don't see it.
	So to be able to develop a vaccine, we have to trick the immune system.
	And the way we did that was by taking a cold virus called an adenovirus, one of the causes of the common cold.
	And we know that that evokes a great deal of immunity against the virus itself.
	So we attach cocaine to the cold virus and we ripped it apart so that it wouldn't cause harm and we're tricking the immune system to thinking that the cocaine was part of the cold virus and so it would develop immunity against it so that if someone took cocaine it would not reach the brain and they would not get a high.
	This guy is just wrecking my party.
	So it's making the immune system see the cocaine?
	Is that basically what you're doing?
	That basically is the idea.
	Now how does that prevent the person from getting high?
	Well, if we have what are called antibodies against the cocaine floating around in the blood, think about those as little Pac-Man that are directed against cocaine.
	You sniff some cocaine and the cocaine goes into your bloodstream and the little antibodies, these Pac-Man, gobble it up and prevent it from reaching the brain so you don't get the high.
	Now, when you first tried this on animals, how well did it work?
	It works terrifically.
	If you're a mouse and we give you cocaine, it won't touch you.
	By the way, I'd like to see that.
	I'd like to see what a mouse looks like on cocaine.
	I did studies in a variety of experimental animals before we got to humans, so it works very, very well.
	But, of course, humans are not just big mice, and until we complete the human study, we're not going to know whether it works or not.
	How far along are you in the human studies?
	We're about one-third the way through.
	The study is blinded, so I and my colleagues don't know the results.
	We vaccinate the volunteers who are cocaine users.
	We vaccinate them on a monthly basis, and the study goes on for six months, and we evaluate them for the use of cocaine.
	And, of course, then we'll determine whether or not the vaccine is effective or not.
	How do you see the vaccine you're developing actually being used one day?
	Well, it actually is a platform strategy.
	So although we chose cocaine because there is no effective thing.
	I knew you'd love that.
	It's a platform strategy so we can get some VC funding.
	And of course, then we'll determine whether or not the vaccine is effective or not.
	How do you see the vaccine you're developing actually being used one day?
	Well, it actually is a platform strategy.
	So although we chose cocaine because there is no effective therapy for cocaine addiction, it actually could be used for any addictive molecule, including we're developing one for nicotine, for cigarette smokers, and it could be used for heroin and other drugs like that.
	So most of the cocaine addicts actually want to get off cocaine, but it's highly addictive.
	And so the hope is that this will help them get off the addiction and stop using it.
	Oreos are just as addictive as cocaine.
	So I think that's an interesting background.
	When he said platform strategy, in other words, this technique is going to be used for everything under the sun.
	Yeah.
	And it was interesting to me, I think we talked about this.
	Remember KJ, Chris Jacob?
	Oh, yeah.
	His dad was a very famous neurosurgeon.
	He passed away, I think, last year.
	And he claimed that...
	So cocaine overdose, people dying of cocaine, is not from the cocaine itself per se, but aphylactic shock.
	It's more because you build up, it's like a, what do you call it?
	It's almost like an allergy.
	You build up an allergy for the substance and then you just go into this uber, is it apophylactic?
	How do you pronounce it?
	Apoplectic, as far as I'm concerned.
	No.
	It's the...
	Yeah, I know what you're saying.
	I just don't know how to...
	Off the top of my head, after you butchered it, now I can't bring myself how to say it.
	Sorry.
	Yeah, it's fine.
	So you could probably fix it with the...
	What do you call it?
	That stuff.
	Now, what's the...
	Vaccine.
	No, no, no, no, no.
	The anti-inflammatory stuff.
	Not the Sudafed, but the other one.
	Ice.
	No.
	Come on.
	When you have a bad cold, not Sudafed, the other one.
	Yeah, the one you want for...
	Yeah, right.
	Not Sudafed, but...
	Benadryl, Benadryl, Benadryl, Benadryl.
	Oh, Benadryl.
	Finally, Benadryl.
	That's not anti...
	Inflammatory as much as the other stuff is aspirin.
	But Benadryl, you know, people, you know, taking over a whole bunch of Benadryls, they have a bee sting, they don't have an EpiPen, that appears to work.
	But the guy who didn't take it, the guy who didn't have any of this was Tom Petty, sadly.
	Come on, why are you not playing Tom Petty?
	Dr.
	Crystal, welcome to our program.
	Ah, shit, that's not him.
	Dr.
	Fauci?
	Yeah, no, Dr.
	Petty.
	The cause of Tom Petty's death is reopening a painful wound.
	By the way, stop, stop, stop.
	I don't know where you got this report, but I've noticed every single report that I've seen really, I think is really distasteful to be playing in the background, I'm free.
	Everyone used it.
	Everyone used it.
	I thought it was incredibly, it was really poor taste.
	The way I took it is I'm free from the torment and the pain.
	That's what they're trying, that's what they're all trying to say, but you can't take this guy's songs and use them against him.
	Yes, you can.
	Which is what this amounts to.
	Yes, you can.
	Well, I'm free!
	I'm free!
	The cause of Tom Petty's death is reopening a painful wound.
	The LA County Coroner's Office says Petty died from an accidental drug overdose as a result of taking a variety of medications.
	Petty's family says the legendary rocker suffered greatly because of a fractured hip.
	Dr.
	Joseph Harazzi specializes in addictive medicine and forensic psychiatry.
	Apparently he suffered from such severe pain that he combined OxyContin with fentanyl.
	And what we must keep in mind is that fentanyl is 50 to 100 times more powerful than morphine.
	The coroner's report also says Petty had emphysema and clogged arteries.
	He was also being treated for anxiety and mixed all of his medications together.
	The benzodiazepines, Xanax, and Restor, which he was also taking for anxiety, that can be a lethal mix.
	Petty's widow and daughter released a statement in the wake of the results.
	He toured for 53 dates with a fractured hip, and as he did, it worsened to a more serious injury.
	On the day he died, he was informed his hip had graduated to a full-on break, and it's our feeling that the pain was simply unbearable and was the cause for his overuse of medication.
	His family, his wife Dana and his daughter Adria brought out the fact that unfortunately this is part of the bigger issue, the opioid crisis.
	The opioid crisis also claimed Prince and tens of thousands of other lives across the country.
	In 2016 we had 64,000 overdose deaths and 20,000 of those were caused by opiates.
	So unfortunately this is not going to change anyone's attitude because it's just Tom Petty.
	Nice guy.
	Just had a bad knee.
	Well, no.
	He was a wreck.
	He was taking anxiety medication.
	That's the problem.
	That's where the mix and match came from.
	Yeah, sure, the oxy and the fentanyl didn't help, but you add all the PAMs in there, and, you know, it's...
	Too much, too much.
	We need, like, an Oprah or someone to go before anyone really understands what's going on.
	We had Hoffman, Seymour.
	Oh yes, Seymour, he was an addict.
	Yes.
	You're right.
	Oprah's not going to go, but what you said I think has some validity in that if Oprah became the spokesperson for this, you'd get somewhere.
	As much of an eye-roller as that is to be.
	In that case, Gail would have to OD and then Oprah would be the spokesperson.
	That would work.
	But you even alluded to this in the newsletter.
	The issue is the fact that all of these Wunder drugs can be advertised on television in the United States of Gitmo Nation, and the doctors freely administer it.
	Yeah.
	It's a huge problem.
	And no one's going to stop it.
	No, and again, the reason what I mentioned in the newsletter is the news media, the media itself, the big media, especially television, they're complicit.
	Yes.
	Because all their bills are paid by the...
	All you do is watch the evening news or just about pretty much almost anything on network television and it's just drug ad, drug ad, drug ad.
	Yes.
	Which I think, by the way, because these companies are so powerful and they're And their sway over the networks, I think is one of the reasons that most network TV is unwatchable.
	Or it's stuff like, you know, The Voice.
	I mean, you had a lot of these kind of talent shows because they're very vanilla.
	They don't make waves.
	There's no exposition going on where somebody can have an opinion.
	It's brand safe.
	It's brand safe.
	And so you have The Four, I think, is another one of these shows.
	You got The Four, America's Got Talent.
	All these shows are, I think the drug companies, they're perfect for the drug companies because they're dancing with the stars.
	They're vapid.
	And they're cheap to make.
	Most of this stuff is easy to make.
	Once you've got the factory.
	Once you've got the factory.
	Yeah, once it's built, once you get that stage and the crazy lighting and all the rest of it put up, that's a one-shot cost, and the rest of it is just bringing people through.
	Gravy.
	Gravy.
	Just marketing.
	After that, it's all marketing.
	And it turns out, in the United States, and I guess around the world, there's a lot of people, thousands, who can sing well.
	Yes.
	And they do.
	And they sing well.
	A lot of them are, like, really good.
	All right.
	Now to some real news.
	Uh-oh.
	Yeah, we have...
	Oh, like, real, real news.
	There's a big problem.
	Our...
	Our taroops...
	Our taroops...
	Uh...
	Our training...
	Other country troops, in particular the YPG and the Kurdish forces, and now Turkey is attacking the Syrian Kurds.
	Yes, and this is, by the way, not reported on any network.
	Got to be really careful, because you could kill Americans doing that, Turkey.
	Here's a report, with a little interesting kicker at the end.
	Turkey has begun a military operation on Syria's Kurdish-held region of Afrin, launching airstrikes and cross-border shelling, with a ground invasion expected on Sunday.
	More than 70 planes conducted sorties, with all aircraft now reported back at base in Turkey.
	These are RF-16s, by the way.
	So, you know, we sold it to them.
	In which Ankara has deemed anti-terrorism has been named Operation Olive Branch.
	It's aimed at ousting Kurdish militia from Afrin, which has been held by them for five years.
	Turkish cross-border shelling of the area began Friday.
	Artis Paul Asli has been following developments.
	At least eight F-16s have been firing from the skies, while on the ground you have the Turkish-backed Syrian opposition rebels who have moved into this enclave.
	Now, it is an enclave that is controlled by the Kurdish militia, the YPG. From the ground, we're also hearing that the Free Syrian Army has been arriving in buses as well as in trucks that have been fitted out with machine guns.
	We are receiving reports in terms of the civilian situation there, and there we are hearing that people have been ordered to retreat into their homes and into shelters, but there are reports coming through of people who have been wounded and injured and who are being taken to the local hospital.
	Now, all of this follows threats over the last few days by the Turkish President Erdogan that he was going to launch a ground offensive into Afrin.
	It was really just a question of when.
	And he said that this was really the only answer to root out what he has called terrorist elements there.
	take a listen the Afrin operation has de facto been started on the ground this will be followed by Manbij the promises about Manbij have not been kept so nobody has a right to say anything I want the sign that says Manbij now Manbij is an area that It is mostly Arab.
	It is west of the Euphrates.
	And it is the next step in terms of the Turkish military's way of dealing with the Kurdish militia.
	It is not far from the area that the army has entered now.
	So that is where all eyes are turning for the immediate future.
	I just couldn't get over it.
	Man Bitch?
	Man Bitch, I liked it.
	Yeah, it's spelled M-A-N-B-I-J, so the sign itself is not that interesting.
	Okay, but it sounds cool.
	It does.
	Let me just see something here.
	Let me just check something.
	I'm not going to say what I'm...
	Ah, damn it.
	I thought it would be available.
	Man Bitch dot com is not available.
	Damn, too bad.
	Great domain name.
	Adam at Man Bitch dot com.
	If you actually even thought for a second that that wasn't available or that it'd be available.
	You know, you never know.
	I know once in a while you go, what?
	How did that get available?
	You never know.
	You never know.
	But generally you can tell.
	Yeah, this is not good.
	This is like an accident waiting to happen.
	Yeah.
	But, you know, the Turks hate these Kurds so much.
	Because they know they're going to lose a chunk of their whole thing if they give it.
	Yeah, they can't let it go.
	It's turf.
	That's what it's about, turf.
	Yeah.
	Well, I find it disturbing.
	And I'm telling you, people are going to get hurt, and it's going to be an American serviceman training the Kurds, and there's going to be shit.
	On purpose.
	Possibly.
	We do have to cover, at least mention, the crazy story about these creeps who imprisoned their kids.
	This is now an international story.
	Oh, really?
	I saw the story earlier in the week.
	Yeah, I found a good report.
	This is a CBS covering.
	This is not the most recent report because there's new stuff coming out, but I think this will at least get people up to speed so they at least have a...
	Bail has been set at $9 million each for the parents accused of imprisoning their 13 children inside the family home in Southern California.
	They're being held on suspicion of torture and child endangerment.
	More now from David Begnaud.
	The arrest of David and Louise Turpin was captured on a neighbor's security camera.
	Each escorted by sheriff's deputies, both appear handcuffed.
	45 minutes later, the children are seen getting into a van.
	Riverside County Sheriff's Captain Greg Fellows says conditions inside the home were horrific.
	It was extremely dirty, and as we reported previously, many of the children were malnourished.
	Did the deputies actually find children chained to a bed?
	There were three individuals that were chained to some type of furniture inside the residence.
	It all went down around 7 a.m.
	Sunday morning.
	Police say a 17-year-old girl escaped from a window and called 911 from a deactivated cell phone.
	When police responded she was so malnourished they thought she was 10 years old.
	13 kids were found, ranging in age from 2 to 29.
	I wish I could come to you today with information that would explain why this happened.
	Here's what we know.
	The family's been living in Paris, California since 2014.
	They filed for bankruptcy twice.
	The kids were homeschooled.
	The home is listed as a private school.
	Now, records indicate David Turpin was the principal, and the California Department of Education doesn't inspect or regulate private schools.
	Officials say there were no signs of sexual abuse.
	Videos taken at the couple's Las Vegas wedding renewals show the family together, celebrating.
	Years of alleged abuse and nobody heard anything.
	Sad to say no.
	Wendy Martinez, like most neighbors, says she never saw anything troubling.
	She does remember seeing four of the kids laying sod in the front yard around 9 o'clock one night.
	I mean, yeah, it was odd, but I mean, you know, nothing to, like, call the cops about.
	You know, the police department and child protective services have both said they had no dealings with the family until this.
	And the sheriff's department says when they made entry into the home and they started interviewing the mother and father, the mother was apparently perplexed that they were asking questions about the conditions her kids were living in.
	Jeff?
	Hard to believe.
	David Begnaud, thank you.
	You know, that was a pretty contentless piece.
	I mean, there's really no information in there.
	First of all, homeschooler, homeschooler, bad, bad, bad, homeschoolers, all bad, don't homeschool, oh, homeschoolers, oh, oh.
	Well, there's a couple of things about homeschooling in California.
	It's not really legal and they don't like it.
	It happened in California, this?
	Yeah.
	Huh.
	And the guys have moved, I think, this last place.
	They used to be in Texas, I think.
	But really, what is the difference?
	Which makes worse sense.
	But I ask you, what is the difference between chaining your child temporarily to some furniture and putting a harness on your kid at the airport?
	I'm looking at you, Dvorak.
	Yeah, well, the big difference is that one is a safety measure.
	You know what you should do?
	If you're going to harness your kid, you should put a little saddle on him that says, Emotional Support Child.
	Yeah, I should.
	So you can board first.
	It would be nice to board first, but you don't keep the harness on the kid and you don't tie him up at the house.
	Anyway, I know that you've always been perturbed by this.
	I think it's funny.
	So...
	Homeschooling is disallowed in California because of the government funding of the schools.
	If your child's not in school, they get less money, and that's the real reason.
	But this guy wasn't just a homeschooler.
	He was a private school.
	That was the big deal.
	I don't think it was as much about homeschooling, even though they threw that in for no good reason.
	Because if he's a private school and they're schooling him in that private school, this is not homeschooling.
	So the homeschooling, which you appropriately noticed, It was just a slam for no good reason, because if you're a school, a legitimate school, and you're licensed by the state, you're not homeschooling, you're a school.
	And you have inspections.
	You'd think.
	Yeah, you'd think.
	But according to them, no.
	Once you're a private school, you can do anything you want, from the sounds of it, which, that bothered me more than anything else in the report.
	Well, do we know anything about, do we have any final information on what this was?
	I saw them all at Disneyland and having fun and hanging out.
	And then we, you know, I don't know.
	No, it's just a story.
	Well, here's the story.
	Here's the story.
	Maybe the point of it is just to, you know, eschew homeschooling, even though, again, I make my point again, I won't.
	Which is, this was a private school, so they weren't homeschooling.
	I got you.
	I was already, you know, laughed out of town when I said, hey man, NASA deleted all the moon landing tapes, so you tell me.
	But maybe people will start to think a little differently if the news reaches him about the NSA deleting all the stellar wind data, all of it.
	Poor Benny.
	Benny put his life on the line.
	As a whistleblower, to talk about this, this was between 2001 and 2007.
	Yeah, William Binney, the whistleblower.
	Yeah, that was the building on Second Street in San Francisco, where they just sucked in everything from the internet.
	Yeah.
	You can walk by the building.
	This was during the George W. Bush era.
	And NSA was mandated to keep that, and they deleted it.
	And they actually said...
	That they wanted to free up some drive space.
	So, in other words, they didn't delete it.
	They put it someplace in a black hole somewhere where it will remain.
	That's what I think.
	I'm on right there.
	I'm an archivist.
	I understand this.
	Yeah.
	So you put it in somewhere and you say, no, it's gone.
	You make the public announcement.
	You deleted it, even though you never delete anything.
	Because that's the way the organization operates.
	They keep everything.
	That's what the point of it is.
	Of course.
	That's what they do.
	You remove that data.
	That's two guys out of a job who are supposed to look after it.
	And so, yeah.
	Yeah, I know.
	Yeah, poor Benny.
	He's an honest man, the last honest man, him and Drake as the other guy.
	But where is the media?
	Where's the M5M on this?
	Nowhere.
	Nowhere.
	No.
	Do you have a clip?
	No, I wish I had a clip.
	No, there's no clip.
	Because there's nothing.
	There's no reporting on it.
	It Politico.
	Okay.
	Here's another story.
	It's used as leverage for global warming, but it's kind of an interesting thing we should know about.
	Cape Town going dry?
	Cape Town, Africa?
	South Africa?
	Yes.
	Cape Town, South Africa could become the world's first major city to run out of water.
	What they're calling day zero may be less than three months away.
	Deborah Pata is there.
	Surrounded by two oceans, Cape Town looks nothing like a city that could soon run out of water.
	For three years, successive droughts have devastated its water supplies.
	Normally, I would be completely underwater standing here.
	But if you look back, you can see the dam levels are critically low, sitting at less than 20 percent.
	And this is one of Cape Town's main sources of water, a source that could run dry within a matter of weeks.
	Local government has imposed severe water restrictions.
	Security guards make sure there is no violence as lineups grow longer.
	Hmm.
	Okay.
	I hadn't heard about this, but I'm already not trusting this story.
	There's got to be something else going on.
	It could be.
	I know they're using it as leverage for global warming argument, but the funny thing to me was they were all these people lined up in Cape Town, which is a very advanced city.
	It's not like...
	It's not like Nowheresville, Congo.
	Sure, sure.
	It's, you know, it's like Boston.
	Yeah, modern city, sure.
	And they have all these people lined up with buckets to get water, and they take the water to their house.
	It's like, don't they have a water system?
	I don't know.
	I find the whole report to be kind of weird, and maybe content-less.
	Well, I'm looking through a couple different things.
	I have a feeling there's something else going on.
	There's probably water being taken for industry.
	Here's my search term.
	Cape Town Water Chinese.
	That's what I'm thinking.
	There's got to be something going on.
	We're about to do Cape Town water pipeline.
	Yeah, that would work too.
	I'm going to look into this.
	Because water, that's what the real wars are going to be about in the future.
	It'll be about water.
	It's already happening in the Bhutan area.
	That's where they have the dam and there's the Indians and the Chinese and everyone's fighting.
	It's bad, bad, bad, bad.
	And we still have fluoride in our water in Austin.
	You can't get rid of it?
	No.
	Oh, these idiots here, they all believe that it's good for your teeth.
	Well, that was a fact that, I mean, that's what everyone thought from the 50s, 60s, and 70s, because it was bull crap.
	Yeah, but it's really just industrial waste that has to be leaked somewhere.
	It's industrial waste.
	It's a great way to get rid of it, because you can put it in a water supply and it dilutes it to a point where it's...
	It's not ever safe, but at least you get rid of it.
	There's no other way of getting rid of some of this stuff.
	And I've been looking a lot into what the Austin City Council is doing and the local government.
	I saw our governor on TV. You'd think that of all places, Austin.
	Yeah, you'd think.
	You'd think of all places, Austin wouldn't have homeless sleeping everywhere downtown.
	But no, we do.
	Because they're interested in getting Amazon.
	We're in the top 20 cities for Amazon.
	Woo-hoo!
	Bring them on in.
	I guarantee Austin will not get Amazon.
	Then Apple is also looking at Austin to expand their new headquarters.
	They're just sucking Silicon Valley off every single day.
	I can also bet...
	I'll bet on that, not getting...
	But that's beside the point.
	The point is, that's what they're focused on, not on some of the actual issues.
	And they put up all these buildings downtown, and maybe they forgot that, you know, at around 5 o'clock, people leave work and they have to be able to drive out of these buildings and then onto the street and connect to, you know, roadways.
	It's a complete jam every day.
	Downtown is jam-packed.
	And we're Sanctuary City on top of that.
	Sanctuary City is getting very nervous and making some pretty bold statements right up the road from you there in Oakland.
	What's your mayor's name?
	Schaff?
	Libby.
	Libby Schaff?
	Libby Schaff.
	Probably the best-looking mayor in the country.
	Yeah, she's cute.
	She's cute.
	She'll look very good in a prison outfit.
	It's no surprise that the bully-in-chief is continuing to...
	This is her.
	The bully-in-chief.
	This is the mayor speaking.
	No, no, this is everyone.
	We're in the Bay Area.
	Everyone.
	This is not just her.
	Do they say it?
	Well, no, but I'm saying that is her on the...
	Yeah, yeah, bully-in-chief.
	There you go.
	The bully-in-chief.
	So original.
	It's no surprise that the bully-in-chief is continuing to try and intimidate our most vulnerable residents.
	But we're very clear about what our values are here in Oakland.
	We are here to protect all of our residents, regardless of where they came from.
	We are here to make sure that people feel safe, that mothers feel like they can pick up the phone and call their local police department, dial 911 safely.
	And by the way.
	I completely understand this.
	I have helped people get legal here in Austin, and I do understand the fear, although it's a little less than she makes it sound like, because you can exist quite easily.
	No one is against illegals in a sanctuary city.
	It's certainly not in Austin.
	We're here to protect families, not rip them apart.
	What are you going to do if ICE shows up to pick up somebody that has a warrant out for them or has had their documentation pulled and they go out into the community?
	Your police aren't going to be there to help keep things safe.
	Let me be clear that cities that have sanctuary status are engaging in their legal right to be a sanctuary city.
	We are exploring whether there are legal actions we can take against the federal government or retaliating against cities and jurisdictions that are exercising their fully legal right.
	Now, I looked this up.
	When she says fully legal right, here is what she's talking about.
	It is true that the federal government cannot mandate anyone in a local municipality to tell them things about what's going on.
	That's the whole legal issue of Sanctuary City.
	So you don't have to tell the federal government, hey, we picked up this guy, we picked up this gal, illegal status.
	That's what it is.
	That's all that it is.
	And for her to say, well, we have the legal right not to assist federal agents performing a raid, I think is the opposite of protecting your citizens, if you're really honest about it.
	So now instead of, oh, we protect our citizens, they're so important to us, whether they're legal or not, when the federal agents come in, which I think is overstepping their bounds, if they come in, you're not going to stand there and say, sorry, we're in charge here, you can't do that?
	No, you're just going to let them go?
	I don't understand.
	It sounds like the opposite of protection to me.
	To be a sanctuary city.
	So Oakland's going to be completely hands-off if there's any kind of sweeps or raids?
	That is absolutely our policy.
	We will not have presence, we will not do anything to suggest that we condone ICE raids in Oakland.
	Are you worried that your police department will be left in the dark?
	No.
	Why not?
	Because it does not mean that ICE cannot notify the police department if they are planning some sort of raid.
	We will not participate.
	We will not be in presence.
	There are other law enforcement agencies that may choose to provide that type of protection.
	They have the resources to do it.
	There is no need for our department to damage its reputation by being anywhere near an ICE raid.
	We're ready to go to jail over there.
	Go ahead.
	Go ahead.
	Oakland police don't have a good reputation?
	Are they kidding?
	I thought you'd like that.
	We will not be in presence.
	There are other law enforcement agencies that may choose to provide that type of protection.
	They have the resources to do it.
	There is no need for our department to damage its reputation by being anywhere near an ice rake.
	So you're ready to go to jail over this?
	Yes.
	I'm ready to go to jail over this.
	There's a thrower in jail.
	You're not going to jail, but again, that doesn't sound like you're protecting your citizens.
	Well, here's what I think in terms of why the Oakland police might want to be there.
	Who knows what these ICE guys are going to do?
	They wreck the guy's house, violate all kinds of constitutional rights, bust down the guy's Door, shoot the dog immediately.
	Yes.
	And then the guy says it's the wrong address.
	Oh, well.
	And then go over and shoot up some other place and then just rampage a neighborhood.
	Yes, but he's a legal resident.
	He's a citizen.
	They don't get the same treatment.
	Anyway, the thing is that police should be at least overseeing these things to make sure they don't get out of control.
	We've talked a lot about migrants, immigration.
	I like to say migrants.
	Particularly Chinese, I think we're doing this a lot in California.
	Coming to the country, California, having their baby, going through the last trimester, and then having the baby born as an American citizen.
	Now, this is...
	Is that an anchor baby?
	That's an anchor baby, right?
	That would be an anchor baby, by definition, yes.
	So this report really pulled a whole bunch of things together.
	I liked it a lot.
	Anchor babies, immigration, Russians, it's all in there!
	Florida is known for many things.
	Sunshine, beaches, and now as a place where hundreds of Russians come every year to have their babies.
	That's right, Russian women who give birth to American babies.
	It's controversial for sure, but totally legal.
	Any baby born in the U.S. is automatically an American citizen.
	It's in the Constitution.
	Music It's become a status symbol in Russia to have a Miami-born baby who comes complete with a precious U.S. passport.
	Mothers proudly post pictures of their newly minted American citizens.
	Over the past four months, we've met dozens of Russian women who've done it.
	Oh, it's really common.
	I love Russian women, how they talk, by the way.
	I think I need to start working on one of my accents.
	It's so good.
	Over the past four months, we've met dozens of Russian women who've done it.
	Oh, it's really common.
	When I was taking the plane to come here, it was not only me.
	There was another four or five women flying here.
	Why do they come?
	Besides the good weather and the good doctors?
	American passport is a big plus for the baby.
	Why not?
	It sure is.
	All these babies will have the right to live and work here, receive benefits, and when they turn 21, they can sponsor their parents for an American green card.
	We're the only place just about that's stupid enough to do it.
	As a candidate, Donald Trump called for an end to birthright citizenship.
	You want to get rid of birthright citizenship?
	You have to get rid of, yes.
	But wait for it.
	You have to know what they're doing.
	They're having a baby, and all of a sudden nobody knows.
	You believe it.
	You have no choice.
	But ironically, condo buildings bearing the Trump name are among the most popular for Russians, who sign short-term leases with the condo owners.
	I live in a dump palace.
	It's a very popular place.
	It's a very popular place to live at Trump Towers.
	They couldn't resist.
	Of course not.
	Trump's at the bottom of everything.
	He is.
	That was ABC, because that was Cynthia McFadden.
	That was great, though.
	I love that report.
	Well, this has been a complaint.
	They have to change the Constitution, because there was a constitutional amendment put in to protect the slaves after the Civil War.
	They had to run this...
	Run this law or this constitutional amendment to make all the blacks American citizens.
	Right.
	And that has to be, there's no reason for that anymore because there's no more, you know, that's a while back.
	It's interesting you bring that up.
	I received a book from Sir Cross Stitch from 1945, maybe you're familiar with it, The American Nation.
	Have you ever heard of this book?
	Who is the author?
	I'm going to tell you.
	John D. Hicks.
	No, I don't know the book.
	Morrison Professor of American History, University of California, Berkeley.
	Yeah, never heard of it.
	And it's from 1945.
	And I've been reading it, and he says, I hope this brings some context to you.
	And, you know, page 7 already, I understood where the 40 acres and a mule came from, which I'd never really gotten.
	You know, the reparations.
	Do you know the exact background of this, according to the book?
	Well, why don't you read it?
	I don't know it.
	I mean, I probably should know, and I probably maybe have known it in the past, but I don't know it.
	So this was actually, I think, President Johnson.
	He came after Lincoln, and he created the Freedmen's Bureau, the organization which was to last for a year after the close of the war was set up.
	In the War Department, under a commissioner, this is a civil war, appointed by the President and an assistant commissioner for each of the insurrectionary states, it was authorized to distribute such issues of provisions, clothing, fuel, as might be necessary to relieve the, quote, destitute and suffering refugees and freedmen and their wives and children.
	This Bureau also had the right to take over any land within the designated states that had been abandoned by its owners or confiscated by the United States and to distribute it in tracts of 40 acres or less on a three-year rental basis to loyal refugees and freedmen.
	So it wasn't, here's your 40 acres in the mule.
	No.
	We can rent you for three years a tract of 40 acres.
	It's a little different than the reparations that I hear about today.
	What happened was these bureaus, these guys were just running rampant, and they were just telling anybody anything, and they were stealing stuff left and right.
	The plan to distribute abandoned land to the freedmen led to an unfortunate misunderstanding.
	Here we go.
	It was inferred at first that all land abandoned, because its owners had left it for Confederate service, would be available for distribution.
	But President Johnson's policy permitted the pardoned owners of such property to recover it.
	The result was that the Bureau had comparatively little land of value to give away.
	The Negro, however, got the impression, often deliberately spread by unscrupulous agents, that each freedman would soon be given 40 acres of land and a mule.
	Some included for good measure and a white guy to do all the work.
	What a gate scam.
	With such a rosy prospect for the future and an abundance of free rations for the present, many of the Negroes found it difficult to see why they should do more than await the Day of Jubilee.
	For some day, that day was actually dated January 1st, 1866, when they believed the redistribution of land would take place.
	So that's how it happened.
	That's how we got to this 40 acres and a mule story.
	Well, there you have it.
	Gee, Americans scamming people.
	This is like our way of life.
	This is our culture, baby.
	I'm reminded of this thing with Trump recently where he talks about Norway, bringing the Norwegians over here instead of these guys from the shithole countries.
	And that's what, we've already pulled this stunt in the, I think it was in the late 1800s, or I guess it was probably the early 1900s.
	And these days, come to America, we'll give you 40 square feet and a goat.
	He stamped them into coming to the Midwest, mostly Minnesota and Wisconsin.
	And Minnesota, by the way, still, I believe at some of the airports, still has these Norway joke books that they sell in the airports, which consists of these Norwegian jokes that have to do with these dumb Norwegians.
	And they were all suckered into farming, and they really could never make enough to get back if they wanted to go back to Norway.
	And so the whole Midwest is filled with them, with Norwegians and Swedes and these other high intellects.
	Duped Europeans.
	Duped Europeans.
	And you can find these ads in the Library of Congress, these ads that duped them.
	They say, oh, look at this great, beautiful land.
	It's like this lush, you know, it's like everything is this lush area, and they're setting them up in the middle of Nowheresville, Nebraska.
	And, let's see, there was some other...
	By the way, that President Johnson was a Democrat.
	Just need to point that out.
	Great.
	Good ideas.
	Interesting book.
	I can't wait to get through it and read it on the plane.
	Well, that's one of those books that are...
	I don't know what category book that is, but there's a lot of books that were written right after World War II that are no longer in circulation because, as we've talked about on the show before, is that the whole system has been rigged to get Americans to think more globally and think less about our own history.
	Yes.
	Well, it's very clear how that came in that early.
	It's a good read.
	I appreciate it.
	I appreciate our night sending that to me.
	Before we go to break, I did want to mention that as of the 1st of January 2018, the new European Union Regulation 2015-2283 on Novel Foods is in effect!
	And the novel foods definition now describes various situations of food originating from plants, animals, microorganisms, cell cultures, minerals, specific categories such as insects, vitamins, minerals, food supplements.
	Yes, they have approved an entire bevy.
	Bevy of bugs.
	A bevy of bugs.
	And now they have this novel food catalog and you can search it.
	And I tried getting some names.
	But I mean, it's all the Latin descriptions.
	So it's really useless to me.
	But it's very easy now in the EU to take a bug and to label it and serve it up and sell it to people.
	They've really lowered any restrictions.
	And they just said, oh, all this stuff is safe.
	You can eat it.
	But, you know, I don't know what persia gratissima is.
	It's very hard for me to figure this out.
	But they've pretty much given...
	They want the Europeans to eat bugs.
	Sure they do.
	That's what all the globalists want.
	Why?
	Why?
	Because they're reptiles, they're reptilian, and they want to be able to eat the bugs without drawing attention to themselves.
	Without ridicule.
	I'm going to show myself all 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.
	Well, we do have a few people to thank for show.
	1001, or as Adam would put, 1001.
	Yeah, 1001.
	And after we get to, after we've done 1009, then we get to 10 codes, John.
	Yeah, we're going to do 10 codes and special deals, and we've got 007 coming up, too.
	We've got 007, but we have, let's see, we had a funny one that we found the other day.
	Oh, yes, a 1016 is Pick Up the Prisoner.
	That'll be a special show.
	Yes, pick up the slaves would be our version of it.
	Yeah, there's some good stuff in these 10 codes.
	Yeah.
	What's 1033?
	1033 is an emergency.
	Yes, Officer Down, you get over here.
	No, it's not Officer Down, but it's an emergency.
	Well, it is in the Bay Area.
	It's an emergency.
	Help me quick.
	Oh, yes, you're right.
	Help Officer.
	And that is the phrase word brevity code, which stems from 1979.
	So we'll have a number of cool promotions for the 10 codes.
	Love it.
	So let's start with Glenn Spangler, $103.67.
	What?
	33 times pi for the show, $1,000.
	Beautiful.
	Thank you.
	Nice numerology.
	Eric Harvey in San Diego, California.
	101.
	Now, these are the 101.01s.
	These are the people that are actually celebrating.
	Well, actually, 100.01 are celebrating our show 100.01.
	If that makes any sense.
	I sound like Nancy Pelosi.
	Dominic DeVito, 1001.
	I'm going to read these off name and location.
	Richard Force in Zug, Switzerland.
	And he's a dedouching, by the way.
	Just for living in Zug?
	That's where the oil is, baby.
	That's where all the money is.
	Scott Wallace, parts unknown.
	Brent Chicory in West Palm Beach, Florida.
	Donald Davis in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania.
	Dan During in Eolia, Missouri.
	And his neighbors, Alan D. Peterson in St.
	Louis, Missouri.
	David Oliver, 1001, parts unknown.
	Sir Benjamin Ritkers in Boone, Iowa.
	He wants to call out Brian Tucker as a douchebag.
	Douchebag!
	I missed that.
	Hey, I did just want to go back to Brent's note, Brent Chickie.
	Yeah, Brent.
	Hi, I'm Brent from West Palm Beach, Florida.
	I've always wanted to donate, but I knew my wife would give me crap for what she perceives as a frivolous endeavor.
	But now she's booted me to the curb so she can't tell me what to do anymore.
	I want to give him a little karma.
	He wants divorced karma.
	You got it.
	Well, this is typical.
	The family that listens to No Agenda Together stays together.
	Stays together, yes.
	Yeah, you got some woman there who's just like lording it over you.
	She's got her own opinions, which women should have their own opinions, but it shouldn't contradict everything that you believe in.
	Are you sure?
	Are you sure women should have their own opinions?
	I think they should, yeah.
	Okay, all right, we can agree on that.
	As long as there are No Agenda opinions.
	Yes, you got to have the right opinions.
	Well, you can vary.
	We disagree on this show all the time.
	I think that's about the maximum variance you should deal with.
	Yeah.
	Like, you know, water-powered automobiles.
	Don't even start with me.
	Because, yes, they can listen to you on your phone.
	Patrick Coble.
	Sir Patrick Coble to you.
	I think he's a baron.
	Congratulations.
	And to the 1000s officially today.
	Thank you, sir.
	BuyRAR.com What is it?
	Is that the Transcoder?
	I think it's the, isn't that compression software?
	Yeah, that's what I said.
	Yeah, you said Transcoder.
	Well, it is a Transcoder.
	Yes, I believe so.
	That's almost a promotional sponsorship.
	BuyRAR.com.
	You think that's promotional, huh?
	Yeah, I guess so.
	1001.
	Frank Rovers in Kuala Lumpur.
	Hey!
	Malaysia.
	Malaysia, nice.
	You know, I was in Kuala Lumpur once, a number of years back.
	But they had these...
	I don't know why.
	This is one of these examples where you have buyer's remorse.
	I didn't buy one of these.
	But they have these giant towers, these huge buildings.
	They're their version of the Twin Towers.
	And they had t-shirts available that you can buy.
	They may still be available.
	That said, we still have our Twin Towers.
	Damn!
	That would have been a great collector's item.
	Duh!
	I dropped the ball.
	Yes, disappointing.
	Yeah.
	Frank Rovers.
	Sean Hamilton, $100.
	And Tiru Miyagi in Osaka.
	Ah, hello.
	Konnichiwa.
	$100.
	This is long respect and congratulations.
	Large respect.
	Oh, large.
	Okay, well, large respect to work.
	Anonymous in Olyphant, Pennsylvania.
	Which, you know, that is elephant in Dutch.
	Is it?
	Olyphant, yeah.
	It's all Dutch.
	Pennsylvania Dutch.
	Oh, Pennsylvania is a lot of Dutch.
	Mm-hmm.
	Andrei Matatik, I'm thinking.
	Andrei Matatik, who I know his country is from.
	I can probably pronounce it better.
	Simon, $100.
	Simon James, $100.
	Alexander...
	Diamond?
	Diamond.
	D-I-M-O-N. $100 from Abbotsford, B.C. Candonavia.
	Anonymous, $100.
	I got all these hunters in today.
	That was good.
	Sir Chauncey of the Netherlands in New York City.
	Of the netherworld.
	Oh.
	99.99.
	Some blank thing here.
	How does that work?
	I have no idea.
	You put it in the spreadsheet, it blanked out invisible ink.
	Yeah.
	Whoever donated 93.45.
	Thanks.
	You're shooting blanks.
	Whoever you are.
	Thank you.
	Neil Bottomley in Barnsley, UK. Boob.
	Boob, 8-0-0-8.
	He needs a dedouching.
	Been listening to your show since Adam's interview with Max Kaiser on RT. Onward to Chio 2000, this is.
	You've been dedouched.
	I don't know about that.
	Keith Brown in Park City, Utah.
	Nice skiing resort area.
	Sir Herb Lamb.
	Parts Unknown.
	I forget where he's from.
	We should know.
	He's been listening for about 500 shows.
	He says they've continually gotten better.
	Thank you.
	I guess with the exception of this show.
	Please give a jobs cover for my partner Glenn to move back to New York City, says Pete.
	Pete Federici.
	We will.
	Pete Federici.
	Federici.
	5555.
	Chris James in Sturgis, Michigan.
	Uh, Roberto Mendez, 50.
	Now, the following people are $50 donors, name and location, starting with Roberto.
	Uh, Contenzio, just a one-name guy or girl in San Diego.
	Andrew Gusick, Sir Andrew, I believe, in Greensboro, North Carolina.
	There's a lot of weird stuff going on in North Carolina.
	I want to mention something, too.
	Um, So I'm watching this show, it's called The Farmer and the Chef, or The Chef and the Farmer, one of the two.
	And it's about a restaurant, some New York, or some woman that came from eastern North Carolina, set up with her husband, who's a farmer, and they used to work in New York City, and she came down because her parents said, well, we'll give you the money, you can start a restaurant down here in the middle of nowhere, North Carolina.
	And she has this, I didn't realize this until she started talking to other people from eastern North Carolina, And she says things like feud and, you know, this kind of stretches these words in a very weird way without any feud is the one that gets me the most when people say that.
	That's not the only thing weird going on in North Carolina.
	Well, in North Carolina, Eastern North Carolina, apparently that's their accent.
	I would like some confirmation of some North Carolina accents because it's totally unlike anything in South Carolina, which is I've always believed it's the most pleasant southern accent in the country.
	And in fact, Ingram, the big distribution company, years ago I got to visit their facility.
	It was in South Carolina.
	And they had like hundreds of people on the phone talking to bookstores and all these different things to distribute books.
	This is before the internet ruined everything.
	And everybody had this beautiful South Carolina accent that it could...
	Just the voice of these women would make you buy extra stuff.
	Oh.
	Wouldn't you like to have a little more of this one?
	Because it's really selling well.
	Well, I have the vapors, but I got a clip for you after the donation segment about North Carolina.
	Okay.
	Well, anyway, onward.
	I'll just get to my North Carolina feud.
	Millennium Night, Inc.
	Laverne, California, 50.
	Eric Elaine in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
	Daniel Laboy in Bath, Michigan.
	And finally, last but not least, Richard Futter.
	I think it's Sir Richard in London, UK. And I want to thank all these folks for supporting us and giving us the money we need for show 1001.
	We missed a note on 1K. Aloha, Adam and John.
	This is the note that went with my donation for show $1,333 from Robert Kitzel.
	JCD mentioned C-note from Big Island VIP, but he never read it!
	I'm sure with the amount of well-wishers it was overlooked.
	Yes.
	Apologies.
	Just the thought of how many listeners you have.
	The No Agenda chat room I run at PalTalk...
	Has over 4,600 followers.
	But as people do not chat using real names, we can't be sure.
	The room runs 24-7.
	We have over 40 admins from around the world, and the room constantly has between 50 and 70 chatters out of the followers.
	Thinking of what that must make the numbers of the No Agenda show, I think donations are probably less than 1% of listeners.
	Be interested for Adam to share some of the new Apple analytics.
	Keep up the good work.
	Hope to see you sometime on the Big Island.
	We'll be happy to take you out to the active lava.
	Nice.
	So, a couple things there.
	Well, I have a couple errors, too.
	Well, just based upon what we know, I think it's probably 2% of the listeners donate.
	Isn't that kind of the number we have, we've figured out?
	That's a number that we extrapolated.
	It could be 1%.
	That means we have twice as many listeners as we think we do.
	But his experience, I read that note too, his experience is that nobody in this whole pal talk group of 4,000 or 5,000 people Which is a pretty large group.
	Has it ever shown up in the donation segment?
	Yeah, they don't donate ever.
	Maybe a couple have a five-buck subscription.
	You don't know.
	That's possible.
	But it's something of a mystery.
	On the podcast analytics, I wanted to say, we incorrectly stated, and in the beginning it was that way, but that changed, that it's only people with the iPhone X whose behavior is tracked with the podcast app.
	It's actually anyone using iOS 11.
	And I can just tell you that the way we read them and after we...
	Because we only really looked at them once or twice because, I don't know, I just wanted to see if the donation segments drop off.
	They don't.
	Just, you know, this very small dip and people come right back up.
	Yeah, we're looking at it from the point of we do a three-hour show.
	Are people listening to three hours or not?
	They are.
	They're listening to three hours.
	Usually the last ten minutes really drops off.
	That's the mixes.
	So that's normal.
	But I can say, just based on our extrapolation, whatever number you have in your podcast analytics, multiply by 10.
	That's probably close to something that is your listening public.
	Yeah, maybe.
	Maybe.
	I mean, no one really knows.
	No, this is a serious problem and nobody wants to take it on.
	I mean, Nielsen would be the people that would do it.
	But they can't, even they're, yeah, right.
	Because they know, you can't do it.
	You can't do it.
	No, it's like the same thing with the videos.
	You know, you get a little pre-roll.
	Three seconds, three seconds pre-roll, no audio is a view.
	Thanks.
	Yeah.
	Not a view.
	You didn't view anything.
	Hey, what is the award show that's on tonight?
	Isn't it the Grammys?
	No.
	Isn't it the Grammys?
	Or is that next Sunday?
	Because the Grammys are coming up.
	Well, someone has to die.
	For the Grammys.
	Let's see.
	Petty and 10 other people have dropped dead.
	Oh, the Adult Video Awards.
	Oh, that was 2017.
	They really do.
	They really suck.
	They're not entertaining.
	It's the SAG Awards.
	I would say it's just a bunch of skanks.
	No offense to the people that work in that business.
	They come up and they just make fools of themselves and they slap each other in the ass and they go on and on with some gags that aren't funny.
	The SAG Awards.
	Oh, the SAG Awards, yes.
	Those are usually good because they're on TNT so they can do a little more about what they say on stage.
	Oh, yeah.
	They'll be bitching about Trump.
	Oh, yeah.
	Well, I can't wait.
	Who's hosting?
	Oh, shoot.
	I already just got rid of the page.
	Oh, this is the first time they have a host.
	I believe it's somebody like Jessica Chastain or maybe Kirsten, what's her name?
	Kristen Bell?
	Bell.
	I think she may be doing it.
	SAG Awards.
	I love this CRX thing, man.
	They give me such good results.
	Here we go.
	Screen Actor Guild Awards.
	It's the 24th.
	Let's see who's hosting.
	You're right.
	Kristen Bell.
	Yeah, and I believe...
	Is she funny?
	I bet she's great.
	Well, she is funny.
	I agree.
	She is funny.
	She's very charming.
	Everybody likes her.
	And she...
	This is supposedly the first time they actually had a host.
	They've never had a host before.
	It's been free range with an announcer.
	Right.
	Good.
	So she may be able to get a start and end up hosting the Oscars.
	Gee.
	These entire weeks go by.
	I hope I never have to do that.
	So here goes your pen ready?
	Yes.
	There's an error message.
	First of all, again, congratulations.
	With my 111 donation on Wednesday, I sent a note which requested a title change.
	Unfortunately, only the first sentence was read.
	Thus, you missed that part.
	Please correct this before someone else grabs the title.
	And I don't think anyone has this title.
	This is...
	Okay, you want me to write this down?
	No.
	The title...
	Sir?
	Hold on.
	There's a bunch of different names here.
	They're all from Holland.
	This guy's Sidonian.
	Sidonian.
	Yeah.
	But his name is Pista.
	That's his first name?
	Yeah.
	Pista.
	And his second name is H-A-J-D-U. H-A-G... Yeah.
	Formerly Sir Istvan...
	Okay.
	And he wants to change his name to Sir Real.
	Yes.
	I think we have a Sir Real of some form, but not just Sir Real.
	Okay.
	We'll just give him that.
	It'll be fine.
	Okay.
	All right.
	I've written it down.
	Very good.
	I have another error message.
	Oh.
	I understand how busy you are, but after listening to the donation segment, this is from Christopher Spaulding.
	Apparently we didn't read his note from the show at all.
	Congratulations on a thousand episodes.
	Your deconstructions enlighten my perspective on the M5M, which has been driving me crazy.
	So much so that I limit the amount of time I spend in front of the television with both thumbs plugged in my ears, preventing further brain matter from seeping out.
	I hope...
	Okay, then he goes on to some rant about Leo.
	I'm not going to read.
	I love listening to the podcast while commuting on the Chicago CTA, the L train, blue line, to and from work in downtown Chicago.
	Too bad I can't have met up with you and the missus during your visit in Chicago.
	Talking about you.
	Maybe next time.
	If only those slaves that I'm mashed up against, like sardines in a can, could hear your podcast, this world would be a better place.
	Which brings me to my last comment.
	I've always been one of those who do something that apologizes later.
	I wanted to ask because you never have brought up the topic.
	I don't believe in something for nothing.
	So here were times where I was taking some of the best of segments from your podcast and make my own ISOs.
	And play them to friends and family who have never heard the show.
	We encourage that.
	Yes, of course.
	It's an open source.
	You don't need to beg for forgiveness.
	That is encouraged.
	We want people to hear the show.
	So he did want...
	We did all that.
	We just didn't read his entire note.
	We did all the jingles for him.
	Because I remember the chemtrails, the goat scream.
	And I read this note.
	And I even sent him a note back.
	If you read that this morning, I said, dude...
	I don't read anything in the morning.
	I'm busy doing clips.
	So he's taken care of.
	He's all good.
	I've taken care of him.
	Okay.
	Right, you did.
	I just opened your note because it has error in the message.
	It says, here's the moment.
	Okay, right.
	And I did the thing you requested, which is to leave out some of it.
	Last one.
	This is from Dan, the protector of the underwater criminal investigators.
	Now, that's familiar.
	Sorry for messing up the show on Thursday.
	It attaches to my initial message that got lost.
	You and Adam are great at what you do.
	Keep on doing it.
	And then he goes on with his original note, which is attached.
	Guys, Dad taught me how to work, fix stuff, and how to be a man.
	My mom taught me sensitivity, how to cook and clean.
	At the age of 63, you guys, Crackpot and Buzzkill, shrunk my amygdala and taught me how to dissect the M5M bullcrap.
	All equal and necessary skills to maintain survival and sanity in this unbelievably corrupt and crooked world.
	Happy 1,000.
	Looking forward to the next 1,000 shows.
	I'm planning to be here for show 2,000.
	Okay.
	You guys can do it.
	Yes, you can.
	No jingles, but I can really use a ton of health karma and some job karma.
	Pass that along to everybody.
	We'll run that anyway at the end of this list.
	Okay, that would be my list of errors.
	Great.
	Just one last mention about our 1K show, Torrent.
	I got an update from the producer who put that together.
	The Torrent has been very successful.
	This is good news.
	Torrent success.
	Considering you mention only once, two hours into an episode, the response has been very good.
	Let's keep up the momentum and get more seeders of this 10-year historical archive.
	I've seeded 1.46 terabyte in 48 hours.
	The torrent is very, very fast, he says.
	That's not counting all the other seeders contributing from all over the world.
	We have Romania, Canada, South Africa, Australia, the Netherlands, Sweden, Austria, UK, Spain, Russia, the United States.
	The torrent has...
	Three extra inactive DNS entries for additional web seeds.
	If someone wants to contribute a fast S3 web seed outside the U.S., they can request an invite at the call-to-action URL. Once again, 1000.shutupslave.com, 1000.shutupslaves.com, 1000.420yolo.co, and 1000.bringyourwallet.com.
	And the intent is to add every episode to the torrent as it's released.
	So this will be the definitive...
	Indestructible archive.
	Yes, that would be pretty indestructible.
	And I love that.
	Now we live forever.
	Yeah, I would think so.
	Look what I found in my boys' list of archives.
	Some old show.
	Thank you everybody who supported this program.
	Dvorak.org slash NA. Thank you to everyone who came in under $50.
	You're on the subscription plan most likely.
	That is appreciated.
	Everybody should take a look at that.
	At Dvorak.org slash NA. Here's Jobs Karma.
	Jobs.
	And Jobs.
	Let's vote for Jobs!
	You've got karma.
	You've got karma.
	Belated birthday.
	Congratulations going out to Sable Cantus.
	He turned 43 on January 15th.
	And DJ Powerboy, John Darius Soltis, turns 44 on the 23rd.
	Happy birthday to everybody here at the best podcast in the universe!
	It's your birthday, yeah!
	Title changes.
	Turning facelessly.
	Title changes.
	Don't want to be a douchebag.
	And there we go, Sir Pista Hagdew, formerly Sir Istvan, becomes surreal as of today.
	And that is our title change, and that's all we have for our donation segment.
	Thank you very much for supporting us.
	And again, remember, we have another show coming up on Thursday.
	Wednesday, sorry.
	Wednesday, Wednesday.
	Wednesday, Wednesday.
	And for that, you can go to dvorak.org.
	Thank you so much.
	Taxi!
	Oh yeah, I promised you a clip about North Carolina.
	And...
	Hold on, where's my mouse?
	Hey, what's going on?
	Ooh, I'm frozen.
	What's happening?
	In simplest terms, this was a false alarm.
	Now, the sirens that warn people there's an issue at the nuclear plant went off for several minutes.
	The malfunction appears to have impacted the Cary and Apex areas the most.
	The sirens cover a 10-mile radius around Sharon Harris, which is in the southwestern part of Wake County.
	So the emergency area also includes portions of Chatham Lee and Harnett counties.
	According to Wake County emergency officials, the sirens malfunctioned at 1258.
	However, we got our first email at 1257 saying they'd been going off for a few minutes.
	Thirty minutes later, Wake County did confirm there was a malfunction with those sirens.
	At 141, that's 45 minutes after we were first alerted, Duke Energy finally released a statement saying they were investigating the accidental activation.
	Now, this put a scare in so many people, but it's an important time to remember if there is an actual problem with a plant, the emergency activation system kicks in.
	That means TV radio stations would automatically air emergency messages.
	Obviously, that didn't happen today.
	As for today's malfunction, we will fill you in on what went wrong once Duke Energy's investigation is complete and they release that information.
	Yeah, I'll bet you they'd never come back to that.
	These fake alarms are going off everywhere.
	Yeah, we had a producer send me a note with a really funny explanation I thought was really fantastic, and somehow I moved the note around.
	I haven't found it.
	I'll have it for the next show.
	Ah, it's lost in the squirrel mail hole.
	Yeah.
	About 600,000 people received a note from Twitter.
	I was not one of them.
	I was curious if you have.
	No, what did it say?
	Ah, the, uh, okay.
	I mean, I might have.
	I don't, you know, I don't scour my Twitter.
	To summarize, no, no, it would be an email that you received to the email that you use for Twitter to sign up.
	Oh.
	Oh, who did it come from?
	What was the name?
	Because I can look it up now in my scroll.
	From Twitter.
	Twitter.com?
	Yes.
	It would be mixed.
	If you have notifications, it would be mixed in with your regular notifications from Twitter.
	Oh, I'd have that turned off.
	Nobody in their right mind should have that.
	I have it coming through just on a Twitter at Curry.com.
	So it just filters away.
	And I looked in the archive.
	There was nothing there.
	But they identified several thousand fake news Russian Twitter accounts.
	Which were connected to the internet research agency.
	And they said, hey, just so you know, you were following one of these accounts.
	Just while you know we've deleted it and you were following one of these accounts, you're on the list.
	Oh, well I never, I don't follow, certain accounts I just refuse to follow.
	Yeah, we don't follow that.
	But lots of people got these.
	Yeah, you're on a hit list now, you're on a black list.
	Yeah.
	You're probably getting shadow banned.
	Let me see if I can find, so they have a, they posted a blog, they blogged about it.
	Informing people of malicious activity.
	As previously announced, we identified and suspended a number of accounts that were potentially connected to a propaganda effort by a Russian government-linked organization known as the Internet Research Agency.
	Real investigation.
	I've always liked those.
	I know what the account you're talking about.
	I liked it.
	It's very entertaining.
	Well, they have custom examples.
	Consistent with our commitment to transparency, we are emailing notifications to 677,775 people in the United States who followed one of these accounts or retweeted or liked a tweet from these accounts during the election period.
	You're on a list!
	Let's see what they had.
	It was like funny meme photos.
	Retweet if you think that President Trump should put George Soros on the FBI Most Wanted list.
	Yeah, I would retweet that if I'd seen it.
	Cops have killed 68 people in 22 days since Kaepernick started protesting.
	68 in 22 days.
	Dot, dot, dot.
	Have no words.
	That's pretty good for a Russian troll.
	Yeah, I find some of this supposed Russian troll stuff to be ridiculous.
	Retweet if you also think FBI Director Comey should be impeached for blocking the investigation and embedding a criminal.
	What else they have?
	Great t-shirt!
	A guy with a...
	Obama called me clinger.
	Hillary calls me deplorable.
	Terrorists call me infidel.
	Trump calls me American.
	So yeah, I'm sure that really influenced the election.
	Oh yeah, that last one in particular.
	Yeah, you gotta ban that guy.
	So let's listen to what Twitter is going to do as they enhance information quality.
	With our current capabilities, we detect and block approximately 523 suspicious logins daily for being generated through automation.
	We know they have that because I've had this happen several times trying to tweet out the link to the show as we go live.
	And it says, hey, you look like a bot.
	Stop.
	Right.
	I remember that.
	It happened to me too.
	Alongside these improvements, we're continuing to expand enforcement of our developer and automation rules.
	Oh, boy.
	Since June 2017, we've removed more than 220,000 applications in violation of our rules.
	Okay, here we go.
	In 2018, we will build upon our existing improvements.
	Our plans include investing further in machine learning capabilities that help us detect and mitigate the effect on users of fake coordinated and automated account activity.
	Sure.
	Limiting the ability of users to perform coordinated actions across multiple accounts in TweetDeck and via the Twitter API. Believe me, this is big.
	That's done a lot.
	All of a sudden, a thousand accounts tweet out the same thing.
	And continuing the expansion of our new developer onboarding process.
	Hey!
	All aboard!
	Come on, boys!
	You're on the list.
	To better manage the use cases for developers building on Twitter's API. This will help us improve how we enforce our policies on restricted uses of our developer products, blah, blah, blah, blah.
	And then they're going to...
	Media literacy and partnerships.
	We recognize that Twitter is an important part of a larger ecosystem.
	Of how news and information spreads online.
	We have a responsibility to support external programs that empower our users.
	So they've chosen their partners Common Sense Media, the National Association for Media Literacy, Family Online Safety, and Connect Safely.
	So I'm going to look into those and see who's behind them.
	Soros!
	Maybe.
	I think the Common Sense Media.
	No, the National Association for Media Literacy, I think.
	Maybe.
	I'll be looking into that.
	So, you're safe.
	You're safe, people.
	I'm glad somebody's looking into it.
	You're safe from Russians.
	Now, what's really egregious, though, is, you know, the Volkskrant is a Dutch newspaper, which is, I would say, is really the New York Times, heralded as, you know, the elite paper of the lowlands.
	And one of the, actually a couple, but this is one woman in particular, of their big-name reporters, What is her name now?
	I can't find it so quickly.
	Anyway, she says, you know, when I experience something and I write about it, She says, oftentimes, here, when I see something on the street where someone who is black, Turkish, or Moroccan is doing something rotten, I often change him in my reporting to a white Dutch person because otherwise I am called a racist.
	Let me just let that sink in for a second.
	Let's start over.
	Start over.
	She writes for the New York Times?
	No, it's the Dutch version.
	The Dutch elite newspaper.
	Paper of record.
	It's a big deal that these newspapers write.
	They're always right.
	Okay, well read that again.
	She says, oftentimes when I'm reporting on something I see on the streets where someone who is black, Turkish, or Moroccan is doing something rotten, I often change him in my reporting to be a white Dutch person because otherwise I am called a racist.
	Yeah.
	Well, I don't know what it is, but it doesn't surprise me in the least.
	I mean, you see that in the reporting all over the place, that they just leave out certain things.
	They don't go out of their way to lie.
	It was not a white Dutch person, so that's just a lie.
	Yes.
	But most of the time it's just omission.
	You never say it was the Democrat congressman who got in trouble.
	You say it's just congressman.
	I wrote once about an annoying Moroccan woman on a scooter with a fat boy on the back with an iPad.
	I had to brake for a pigeon and So she also had to break, and then I landed in big shit.
	I wrote that down in a description of what she looked like, a woman with a headscarf and a fat boy.
	I got so much angry mail about that.
	Okay, this is one of the problems with the media.
	Sylvia Wittemann is her name.
	Is this just a vocal minority bitching?
	And it really is not anything to be too concerned about.
	You should just go ahead and do your reporting.
	Do your job, yes.
	Do your job, you know, and actually report what you see instead of report with somebody, you know, just reporting generalities.
	Or is this like the Dutch public?
	Is it representative of the Dutch public?
	We're not.
	I'm asking you.
	Yes, I believe Combo.
	I think the Dutch public is very politically correct outwardly and extremely borderline racist privately.
	So it kind of goes both ways with them.
	It's a catch-22.
	In a way, yes.
	Yeah.
	I think that goes on here.
	I don't think the overt lying doesn't go on.
	It's just that the descriptors are just left out.
	Yeah, just got to change it.
	Or just not change.
	You don't even change it.
	You just leave it out.
	Right.
	There's just be a woman and a boy on a bicycle or whatever.
	Yeah, I could have said that.
	You know, it'd be a woman with a headscarf and a fat kid.
	You don't have to put that in.
	She was pissed about the fat kid, I think.
	Yeah.
	Where was this?
	I want to make a tech prediction.
	I was reading this story, and there's quite a movement.
	You know, I think you can do it on Android, but on the iPhone, you can do replacement text.
	So you can, for instance, you can type in OMW, and that will auto-expand to on my way.
	If you're just texting something quickly to somebody.
	Is this on Android?
	They must have this on Android.
	You can do shortcuts.
	I think there's an app for that.
	It must be something like that.
	It's built into the iPhone.
	And now there are calls for people to set your autocorrect to change certain things, such as if you type in guys, then the iPhone would automatically change that to folks.
	And my prediction is this is going to become standard.
	I think Apple's going to eventually release autocorrect, which you'll be able to change.
	I think they'll have autocorrect built right in to correct your language, your use of language to make it more correct.
	I think folks is probably, yeah, it's headed for the universality of usage.
	It began, we use it.
	Well, it began with Obama.
	Obama, yeah.
	And guys, even though guys is a term that women use amongst themselves, hey guys, Let's go with other women.
	Hi guys, they'll do that.
	It's still a reference to men, which is bad.
	All references to men are bad.
	We haven't got to the her story yet instead of history, but I can see folks taking over, sure.
	But I can see Apple releasing these autocorrects in the OS, baked in, ready to go.
	Oh, baked in, for sure.
	Baked in.
	You'll be able to change it, but it will be baked in.
	Hey, since I know nothing about sports, and a number of people said, hey, this is great, now you can do a prediction, and John will be amazed.
	I guess the NFL sent out an email blast, and in the email blast it said, well, since the...
	Who is it?
	So far, so good.
	Yeah, I know.
	Well, help me out here.
	I don't know what you're talking about.
	An ad that appeared this week on the NFL's various social media platforms drew the ire of Eagles fans ahead of Sunday's NFC Championship game against the Minnesota Vikings because it appears to predict the teams that will be playing in the Super Bowl.
	Loading a contest to win Super Bowl tickets shows New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady opposite Vikings quarterback Case Keenum flanking the Super Bowl logo.
	Okay.
	And in addition, here's the copy.
	Your team is headed to the Super Bowl, and you could too.
	When you donate to United Way, you could score two club-level seats to watch the Patriots versus the Vikings battle it out for the coveted Super Bowl title.
	It said that?
	It actually said that?
	Yes.
	So what do you think?
	Well, I think if it's not a hoax, which I would be suspicious about.
	I never saw the ad, so it could be a hoax.
	Somebody just dreamed it made the ad up.
	No, it's on the official NFL Twitter page.
	Well, it's taken down now, but yeah.
	I'm skeptical.
	Could be a hoax.
	I'm just going to guess hoax.
	That's dumb.
	But now it's kind of damned if you do, damned if you don't.
	If it's the Patriots and the Vikings in the Super Bowl, then everyone's going to say, ah, it's fixed.
	And if it's not, then they're going to say, ah, we got gypped because it was fixed and then we lost.
	They made us lose.
	Yes, that's actually right.
	The whole thing is bad.
	Because no matter what happens now, But I still think it's a hoax.
	They're not that stupid.
	Well, I could be wrong.
	Really.
	They need to do something about it.
	I think the damage will be much bigger than people realize.
	You take away the belief system?
	Yeah, maybe.
	Well, back to report.
	I got one last cup I want to play.
	And I'm not that amazed whoever said that you'd be amazed, but It's funny that you brought it up, though.
	I'm impressed.
	Not amazed, but impressed.
	Talking about reporting and the way people report things.
	I've been moving this clip from show to show to show to show, and I just haven't been able to get to it.
	And this, I'm going to play it.
	And this is a clip that bothers me, and I want you to tell me why I'm bothered.
	Trump's former chief strategist, Steve Bannon, has resigned as head of the far-right-wing news outlet Breitbart News, which has been described as an online haven for white nationalists and frequently publishes white nationalist propaganda.
	Well, it's his publication, first of all.
	No.
	Well, let me listen to it again.
	This is a fun game.
	Let me listen.
	Trump's former chief strategist, Steve Bannon, has resigned as head of the far-right-wing news outlet Breitbart News, which has been described as an online haven for white nationalists and frequently publishes white nationalist propaganda.
	Well, there's a lot that bothers me there, but I'm curious what bothers you.
	Ben described.
	Yes.
	Oh, damn it.
	I should have picked up on that.
	Damn it.
	Words matter.
	Good one.
	It's like, why can't she just go online and look at it?
	Why does she have to go to a third party so she can report that it's been described as?
	Why don't you look at it and tell me what you think?
	You're a reporter, aren't you?
	Yes.
	This is like me saying, well, I'm here in my little podcasting hovel, and I've got a rug that's been described as red.
	It's either...
	I'm sitting here.
	I can look at it.
	It's red.
	Hey, is it a podcasting Hubble that you described?
	Hubble.
	What is a...
	There's a phrase from the show.
	What is a Hubble?
	It's a little...
	Like an enclave.
	A little Hubble.
	I will.
	Hey, just one last thing, because we have more stuff coming out of Vegas, the Vegas massacre.
	Oh, yeah.
	Now, tell me what bothers me about this story.
	Police discovered child pornography on Las Vegas shooters' computer.
	What bothers you about that?
	It sounds like...
	Well, it had no hard drive.
	Oh, I forget that detail.
	No hard drive.
	There's no way they can discover anything if it's got no hard drive.
	Now, it's unclear if this was a different computer, but the only computer we heard about...
	Oh, it always brings two or three.
	The only computer we heard about was the one with the removed hard drive.
	Yeah.
	So, I don't know.
	I think you got another cuckoo clock there.
	Final clip.
	This is for all the net neutrality nuts out there.
	It was a Thomas Woods podcast.
	Net neutrality nuts.
	Adam at curry.com.
	This is former FCC economist Tom Hazlitt talking about net neutrality and how net neutrality, the lack of net neutrality, is actually what enabled the internet to be built into what it is today, which arguably is a cesspool.
	And I was trying to think of what would be a metric that we could all agree on where we could say, look, one or two years from now we're going to revisit this question.
	Is there a metric we could use to measure how the market has proceeded?
	And this is the precursor to the net neutrality rules, was a thing called open access that was regulation of the telephone company's data offerings, which were initially DSL, digital subscriber line service.
	And in the late 90s, early 2000s, cable modem service came in.
	In fact, cable modem service led the broadband market.
	Even though there was no evidence people wanted it.
	In the United States, and therefore the world, really introduced the mass-market broadband internet because, in part, it was unregulated.
	It did not have common carrier obligations as part of the telephone company business model.
	They could just offer unregulated pricing, unregulated service, and in fact, DSL, the offering of the phone company, was regulated.
	And they had to have certain common carrier rules, and they had to make their facilities available for competitors to use.
	Cable competes very successfully, in fact becomes 2 to 1 dominant over DSL in terms of number of subscribers in the early 2000s.
	DSL is then deregulated between 2003 and 2005, and when DSL gets deregulated, its subscriber growth jumps relative to cable.
	Now, this is very strong evidence, in fact, that the common carrier rules were not helping consumers.
	We're not promoting efficiency.
	We've already done that test with respect to these open access rules.
	And have we heard any issues yet with the people getting turned off, websites not working, slowing down?
	There's a couple of things that are kind of precursors to that.
	But no, not really.
	Good.
	Well, you're just a naysayer.
	Heck yeah, I'm a naysayer.
	You're a naysayer.
	I don't want the government regulating the internet.
	Yeah, call me a naysayer if you must.
	Okay, then I get one last clip.
	Sure thing.
	Now, this is the C-SPAN call-in, and I just want to preface this We're not Republicans.
	I'm an independent.
	But I want to play this clip.
	This is a Democrat.
	I call it the Democrat classic.
	This person who calls into C-SPAN, having been a Democrat most of my life, and then becoming a Republican, and then becoming an Independent, I know all these little milieus.
	And I can assure you that in the classic sense, this person is a genuine, old-fashioned Democrat, Well, I think they shouldn't have to shut down for the service because we need them.
	For the borders and everything like that.
	But for the other people, for the foreigners and for the kids, the kids that are born in the United States, even though they're foreigners, they should be out of the country.
	I don't believe in that.
	I don't like them.
	I do not like people taking over our country.
	They don't pay taxes when they're in our country.
	Reaction to the federal government shutdown next is Spencer, Massachusetts.
	No one, no one believes you.
	No one believes you.
	No one believes you.
	No one believes me what?
	That's a Democrat.
	That's a Republican, can't you hear?
	Racist people from other countries.
	That was the Democrat line.
	I know.
	That is a classic old Democrat, believe me.
	I know, but I'm telling you, no one will believe you.
	Well, that's because today's world, they've been propagandized not to face reality.
	Yes.
	But this guy, of course, I like the fact that he cut her off.
	He cut her off.
	See, I don't like these people.
	They don't pay taxes.
	They're idiots.
	I don't like those brown people.
	That's right.
	Read your history, people.
	Read your history.
	That is your old-fashioned classic Democrat.
	Fabulous.
	Great party.
	And that will do it for today's episode of The Best Podcast in the Universe, episode 1001, with the next one coming to you by Country Lee.
	Bicontinently.
	I shall be in the lowlands at the lovely airport hotel for a few days.
	Wednesday is when we do the show.
	Same time, same stream.
	And I cannot wait for the SAG Awards.
	Same time, different day.
	Same time, different day.
	I will bring a report of the SAG Awards, no doubt.
	And whatever else happens is a show day after all.
	And coming to you from downtown Austin, Texas, capital of the Drone Star State, here, FEMA Region 6, in the 5x9 Cludio of the Common Law Condo.
	In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where, you know, it's going to rain again tonight, and that's really fantastic for us because we need the water.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	We return on Wednesday.
	Right here on No Agenda.
	Remember us at dvorak.org slash na.
	Until then, as always, adios, mofos!
	We eat bugs.
	You eat bugs.
	Mmm!
	Nothing like freshly caught bugs.
	You wanna try?
	Ooh, thanks.
	I love bugs.
	Mmm!
	No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no!
	Find the Aryan race, the best ones.
	We are social entrepreneurs.
	We'll bring them to the forefront and we will ruin the world.
	Probably a Bordeaux.
	We'll be right back.
	We'll be right back.
	No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no!
	We are sorry.
	Thank you.
	We were wrong.
	Probably a Bordeaux.
	Shut up,
	slave! slave! Shut up, slave! Shut up, slave!
	Shut up, slave!
	Don't eat me, Hillary Clinton!
	It's almost too delicious to believe, my friend.
	Don't eat me, Hillary Clinton!
	Shut up already!
	Science!
	Shut up already!
	Science!
	It's almost too delicious to believe, my friend.
	There's no real conflict. - - There's no real conflict.
	There's no real conflict.
	Yes, we can.
	Yes, we can.
	I am standing with Senator Obama to say, yes, we can.
	Yes, we can.
	Yes, we can!
	Hey, citizen.
	It's almost too delicious to believe, my friend.
	Yes, we can!
	There's no real conflict.
	Hey, citizen.
	Yes, we can.
	There's no real conflict. - Hey!
	Hey, citizen.
	Shut up already!
	Science!
	That is amazing!
	Why don't I have sound?
	Alright, it's back.
	What's going on?
	Why am I losing this?
	There's insanity in the control room tonight.
	Someone's pressing buttons.
	Someone in that control room is out of control.
	Where's the hammer?
	Stop the hammering.
	Stop the hammering.
	Someone's pressing buttons here.
	Stop the hammering!
	Stop the hammering out there!
	Where's the hammer?
	Stop the hammering!
	Stop the hammering!
	Someone's pressing buttons here.
	Stop the hammering!
	Stop the hammering out there.
	Where's the hammer?
	Someone's pressing buttons, turning my sound on.
	Why don't I have sound?
	All right, it's back.
	Where's the hammer?
	Stop the hammering. .
	Stop the hammering!
	Someone's pressing buttons.
	Stop the hammering!
	Stop the hammering out there!
	Where's the hammer?
	Stop the hammering!
	Someone's pressing buttons.
	Stop the hammering!
	Stop the hammering out there!
	Where's the hammer?
	Why don't I have sound?
	Alright, it's back.
	What's going on?
	Why am I losing this?
	There's insanity in the control room.
	Someone's pressing buttons.
	Someone in that control room is out of control.
	Stop the hammering out there!
	And God bless the United States.

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