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	They all hate the baby.
	I hate the baby.
	Adam Curry, John C. Devorak.
	And Sunday, January 28th, 2018, this is your award-winning Game O'Nation Media Assassination Episode 1003.
	This is No Agenda.
	Back at home base, back to earth, and broadcasting live from downtown Austin Tejas, capital of the drone, Star State, and Shithole Nation, in the Cludio, in the morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where it's better late than never, I'm John C. Devorak.
	It's Crackpot and Buzzkill, in the morning.
	Ah, it's better ever than never.
	Or something like that.
	What's the Shithole Nation you referred to?
	Oh, that's, we live in Shithole Nation.
	We do?
	Yeah, why not?
	Have you seen Los Angeles?
	Have you seen, uh, yeah, I guess Los Angeles would qualify.
	You've probably seen Los Angeles, yeah, it's a shithole nation.
	Might as well call it the way it is.
	I'm back, John, I'm back!
	The award-winning Adam Curry is back!
	You were gone, but not forgotten.
	Yeah.
	Wow, man, did you see that ceremony they put on for me?
	No.
	Oh, jeez.
	You're talking about the bombing in Kabul?
	Yeah, yeah, exactly.
	Yeah, that's the one.
	Thanks.
	No, my Marconi Award.
	No, I didn't see it.
	I didn't know that it was broadcast.
	Oh, jeez.
	Yeah, it was live.
	It was 20 minutes all about me.
	Really?
	Yes.
	Is that available on YouTube?
	Yes, it is on the YouTube.
	Is it embarrassing?
	Is it about you embarrassing?
	Or is it just vanilla?
	No, well, it's in Dutch.
	It's in Dutch.
	But no, it was actually extremely cool.
	Okay.
	They brought out Fritz Spitz, who is...
	He's like the Dutch version of Edward E. Morrow, you know?
	Fritz Spitz?
	Yes, Fritz Spitz.
	Okay.
	I know.
	Fritz Spritz, Edward E. Morrow doesn't quite make sense in the same sentence, but...
	And he just did a beautiful, I guess, induction or whatever it is, or presentation of the award.
	Did you get a thing they put around your neck?
	No, I did not.
	They should have one, like a mayor, one of those big heavy chains.
	But it was interesting because when we got there, like, okay...
	By the way, for anyone out there that doesn't know what the hell we're talking about, Adam went to Amsterdam to get the Marconi Award for Lifetime Achievement in Broadcasting.
	Yes, thank you.
	And they did something very interesting, which at first I was worried about.
	They said, okay, we're doing you first.
	I said, it's a live show.
	I said, wait a minute, you're doing the Lifetime Achievement first?
	That's first up in the show?
	I said, yeah.
	And I'm like, well, that makes no sense.
	I mean, Morgan Freeman comes on at the end.
	He doesn't come on at the beginning of the show.
	They have a different sensibility.
	But let me tell you, this is the way to go.
	Yeah, because you can go home.
	Not only can you go home when we actually start partying, but not only can you go home, but there's much less hassle as to how long you speak.
	And I spoke for nine minutes.
	Because, you know, it's not like they're running up against the top of the hour or the news break or some commercials they've got to go to.
	So I just took my time.
	And it was a lot of fun.
	Did you mention the No Agenda show?
	Multiple times, including you, my dear friend.
	I got mentioned.
	I'm glad I went because, man, they would have had a 20-minute hole to fill if I wasn't there.
	That would have been very difficult.
	I don't know why you wouldn't have gone unless you were sick.
	Well, the travel was a nightmare.
	Because I was only there for two nights, basically.
	And then Thursday night after the show, it's midnight, I'm in bed.
	I'm like, okay, let me just double check my boarding time.
	Have you ever had this where you check your ticket and you think you're going to get up in five hours to check in for boarding and you think, okay, this is Friday the 26th and you say, whoa, wait a minute.
	My booking is for Friday, February 2nd.
	Have you ever had that where you slipped on the calendar when booking the ticket?
	No, never.
	I do have that five hours thing that happens once in a while where I check I checked the night before.
	I said, oh, I got to get up in five hours.
	I set the alarm five hours and it goes off.
	And then I think to myself, I'm too groggy.
	I'm not going.
	And then I just skip the flight.
	I've done that.
	I know you've done that.
	Well, I really wanted to go home.
	And remember, Willow and Alessandro, her husband, were coming in Saturday.
	That was the whole reason for returning.
	So you booked the wrong day?
	Or did somebody else book it for you?
	No, I booked it.
	That's the worst part.
	It was my fault.
	Then they're like, oh, well, let me call the KLM hotline, which I was on hold for an hour before I even got to talk to somebody.
	And then they're like, oh, well, yeah.
	Yeah, we have spot on the plane tomorrow, but that'll cost you two and a half thousand euros to change that.
	It's like, what?
	Two and a half thousand euros.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	You sure you can't do anything about this?
	No.
	No.
	And it was something about no Sunday.
	It was whatever it was.
	I said, well, it's just cheaper than for me to book a new round trip ticket with some return date in September or whatever.
	Still $1,500.
	And that came out of my own pocket.
	Yeah, but that's the ticket.
	Yeah, but listen to this.
	So I walk in this morning.
	I do my trick.
	I've got my expired KLM gold card from 2008, which I just hold nonchalantly in my hand as I breeze through the gate, the two security people to make sure I could actually be in that check-in line.
	And the ground attendant says, oh, well, this is for tomorrow.
	I say, what?
	So the woman who had rebooked me had not only booked me incorrectly, not for Friday, but for Saturday, but she had only booked me to Atlanta and not even the Austin trip.
	So now I'm like, ah...
	Now, we get this fixed.
	We get this changed.
	I go back.
	Then the woman, the new woman at the counter where I came in with my gold card says, oh, I'm sorry.
	You can't check in here.
	You are, you are, what is their lowest level of points?
	Like ivory.
	Mud people.
	You are mud.
	You are muds.
	You can't check in here.
	I said, well, they let me in and it's been a whole problem.
	No, that's not the way it's supposed to go.
	Yeah, but would you please check?
	She finally checks me in.
	You know, when you go through all this, you don't get to choose your seat anymore.
	And I normally had the Economy Comfort.
	And so now I got that seat in Economy right behind Economy Comfort, which basically has...
	Oh yeah, you can't sit there.
	There's no place to do for your legs.
	Well, not only that, but there's a curtain that, I guess, is a faux separation between you and the people with three extra inches legroom, and you just stare at that thing for eight hours.
	Oh, you're right at the curtain.
	Yeah, it says you're an a-hole.
	You know, it's like, hey, you're a dick.
	You're really the worst.
	Oh, and then my bag didn't arrive.
	It's just, you know, it's just, screw KLM, man.
	Those guys suck.
	This is really horrible.
	Should have flown Norway.
	That's where I was flying nowadays.
	Norwegian.
	Yeah, you know, I hear Norwegian is doing like $150 round trip from Austin to London or some crazy promotion like that.
	Yeah, we got some unbelievable flights.
	Yeah.
	So, anyway.
	Back.
	Back safe.
	And, uh...
	Well, I started penning a letter of a complaint.
	Oh?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, to the KLM people and tell them you want your money back.
	Well, the real problem with KLM is, you know, their partner is Delta.
	You remember when Tina and I went over and then, you know, they said, oh, sorry, the door's closed even though the plane was right there and then there's no, even though there were 10 people coming in on Delta, KLM wouldn't wait for them.
	That's ridiculous, because I've seen him reopen the door.
	Oh, yeah.
	But now, KLM was delayed because they were waiting for other flights to come in with people transferring.
	So they waited there for their own KLM. So we arrive about half an hour late, and I have 45 minutes to go through customs, get my bag, I still had to get a boarding pass, because they couldn't print off the boarding pass to Austin.
	I mean, I was like O.J. Simpson, man.
	I was jumping over people's bags.
	I'm like, whew!
	Stabbing?
	Stabbing the air.
	Did I stab anybody?
	No!
	No.
	But I just barely made it onto the flight.
	And these guys, they won't wait.
	They won't wait for their partner airlines.
	It's very annoying.
	Anyway.
	I'd say they should be waiting for the partner airlines, is where they partnered with them.
	Well, talking about Delta, since you mentioned, you must have played a clip.
	Okie doke.
	The service animal update.
	Ah, wait a minute.
	Are you walking to my beat again, Dvorak?
	Back now with the growing concern facing America's airlines and passengers.
	Service and emotional support animals on crowded flights, sometimes causing problems.
	Now, a major airline changing its rules as three other airlines are reviewing tighter restrictions on which pets can come aboard.
	Your flying experience may soon start to change.
	More and more airlines now looking to tighten the leash when it comes to bringing animals into the main cabin.
	Delta Airlines leading the way, trying to stop some owners from abusing the system by pretending their ordinary pets are emotional support animals.
	The carrier reports an 84% increase in unsanitary or dangerous pet incidents since 2016, including cases of biting.
	One passenger even mauled by a 70-pound dog aboard a flight.
	American Airlines, United, and JetBlue all saying they will also review their policies.
	Three years ago, we exposed this problem on 2020.
	First showing companies that provide leashes, vests, IDs, and certificates for emotional support animals without first verifying any mental health issue.
	Then, how some airlines don't even ask to see the documents.
	I boarded flights with my Boston Terrier, Archie, using no pet carrier.
	Oh, my goodness.
	I don't think I've ever seen a bunny.
	Later, getting on another flight with a bunny named Leo.
	One company even provided us with documentation for an albino African pygmy hedgehog named Snickers.
	The new regulations are aimed at preventing this from happening in the future.
	Well, it's kind of what we knew.
	you Well, this is funny because this is the weekend report with Yamas on ABC. And all he is actually doing is bragging about a report they did three years ago.
	Woo!
	But it was like three years have gone by and nothing happened until just recently.
	So apparently something that either the mauling...
	No, no, no.
	Your No Agenda show, I feel, is responsible for that.
	We have diligently been on this topic.
	Well, they were fairly diligent there at ABC and they didn't get anywhere.
	I think there had to be an incident that...
	It was like either an executive from Delta had to sit next to some jerk with a dog or a cat or a parrot or a turkey.
	I'm sure something happened.
	On this report, it was very interesting because as they did the report, they showed all these different service animals that they took pictures of.
	Yeah.
	A small horse, a turkey, a fat pig, whole kinds of weird stuff.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	I should have put into it a while ago.
	Perhaps bigger news.
	Was the Dutch intelligence services now taking credit or being given credit for warning the United States intelligence agencies that the Russians were a-hackin'?
	They're hacking and hacking and hacking.
	And this is, I mean, it is unbelievable how the Dutch intelligence agency, AIVD, has allowed themselves to be put in this position.
	Which is also the name of one of the top adult filmmakers in the United States.
	I think it's, isn't it AVD? I don't know.
	I'm reliably informed.
	I think AIVD is a little different.
	But, you know, this is a typical CIA trick where you have a reputable newspaper in a different country write up a story as fact, and then the New York Times can say, well, the Dutch Volkskrant says here's what's happening.
	Now, luckily, for the No Agenda show, I happened to be a native speaker.
	And this was really based on one anonymous source who stated this.
	And throughout the reporting, even on CNN, I kept seeing the NOS, which is the big Dutch public broadcaster, being credited as CNN affiliate, which I thought was odd.
	I'd say.
	I don't think they're really...
	Well, maybe they are an affiliate.
	But they had on one of the guys who wrote this article, Elko Bosch van Rosenthal, And you may remember that whenever we have a double last name in Holland, they're elite.
	So his last name is Bos van Rosendal.
	So he's an elitist, comes from an elite family.
	And he was on CNN talking about this.
	And let's just remember the backdrop of how the DNC specifically got hacked.
	It was Podesta who clicked on a phishing email and entered his password, which, what was it again, John?
	Password.
	Yes, I think it was password.
	And that's how it happened.
	But now, the story goes that the Dutch hackers, the elite hackers at their intelligence agency, that they had infiltrated a university right next to the Red Square, which kind of sounds like you're spying, had infiltrated that university.
	They had infiltrated security cameras so they could vroom, vroom.
	Turn them and move them all around and focus in and see what everybody was doing, all without the Russians knowing, even though I think it was a year before it came out that there was a lot of hacking going on in the universities, and I'm pretty sure Cozy Bear would have been on the lookout for that.
	But never mind.
	We've got the Dutch guy telling us what happens.
	So the Dutch intelligence services, you have the AIVD and the military services, which is the MIVD. It was a team of hackers run by the AIVD, which accessed the computers of Cozy Bear.
	They were sitting in an office building on a university complex right next to the Red Square in Moscow.
	They hacked not just the computer network, but also, like you just mentioned, the security camera in the corridor, which allowed them to see exactly who entered the space.
	And in the summer of 2014, they saw how Cozy Bear was hacking the State Department.
	After getting entrance to the State Department from there, they sent a phishing email to the White House, somebody at the White House, which was opened.
	No.
	To the White House, even to some of President Obama's confidential emails.
	And in all these occasions, they warned the Americans that this was taking place.
	Now, I think he's got his story mixed up.
	Because the phishing email story, that was Podesta.
	Nothing to do with anyone inside the White House.
	But what's being done with this story now is they're saying that this report from the Dutch Intelligence Agency to the U.S. Intelligence Agency's Was the real catalyst for the investigation of Russian collusion.
	You see, this is why they need the story.
	Part two of this.
	And tell us specifically then about the DNC hack and what they knew and what they warned the Americans and when this was done.
	Yeah, the DNC was hacked first in the summer of 2015 by this group, Cozy Bear.
	Right at the time, the Dutch Intel Services warned the American Intel Services.
	The FBI called the DNC. This has all been published by the Washington Post and the New York Times.
	The fact that they alerted the DNC. I believe that in the beginning the person entering the phone at the DNC did not even believe that he or she was dealing with an FBI agent on the other side of the line.
	There was also a lot of mistrust in the Clinton campaign towards the FBI because of an ongoing investigation.
	So somehow these hackers and also the other group of hackers, Fancy Bear, could go on for months.
	This was all known.
	What was not known is that it was the Dutch who alerted the Americans in the summer of 2015.
	You see, this seems to be really important.
	The Dutch alert, we did it, the Dutch alert, but we've got to cover our tracks and make sure that we know that this wasn't a direct alert from the AIVD. Can I stop you for a second?
	Yeah.
	Wasn't it already shown that the data rate of the hack that took all the data off the DNC servers had to be local?
	Oh yeah, the rate of transfer.
	It had to be a USB key, it couldn't possibly have been what they're describing?
	Yeah, the whole story is full of holes.
	Okay.
	Just checking.
	Oh yeah.
	And again, they've got to cover their tracks to make sure that this just kind of stays as...
	You know, not coming directly from the Dutch intelligence services.
	And the fact that it was the Dutch, how concerned were the Dutch intelligence agencies about that, you know, a Western ally was leaked as being the source of this information?
	Did they feel this compromised their operation and do they continue to cooperate with the Americans based on their experience of what happened here?
	Well, this entrance into COSIC there ended somehow.
	Somehow, somehow.
	And there is a belief among Dutch intelligence officials that some of their American counterparts were a little too open to, for instance, the Washington Post, which wrote a report on this, without mentioning the Dutch, of course, but they did write that in 2014 at the State Department, hack an ally had been very helpful.
	Just an ally.
	They didn't give away much, but just the fact that you talk about the intelligence...
	Oh, stop, stop again.
	You guys do much.
	Okay, wait a minute.
	If I'm hearing him correctly, we've never mentioned the Dutch.
	No.
	But he's kind of irked that we never mention the Dutch, but at the same time, because we mentioned an ally, we may have given away too much.
	Yes.
	Make up your mind.
	Do you want to be mentioned, or do you not want to be mentioned?
	It's pretty sketchy.
	Just an ally.
	They didn't give away much, but just the fact that you talk about the intelligence provided to you by an ally was very concerning to the Dutch intel services.
	They were very pissed, actually, at the American services, and...
	Yeah, for not mentioning them.
	Yeah, exactly.
	They wanted the credit.
	The entrance into the Cozy Bear group.
	We're not sure about that.
	It may have ended before.
	Yes.
	Okay.
	Well, this is total horse crap.
	Nothing corroborates with any of the evidence we've been given previously.
	Nothing.
	But, again, the story is the Volkskrant, you know, big elite newspaper, they wrote it up, must be true, and it was what was used as the catalyst for the investigation.
	CIA plant.
	Yeah, good work.
	And notice it's only the AIVD, even though the MIVD are the real hackers.
	Those are the military intelligence.
	Those guys, they do the real work.
	But no.
	So, I've gotten a lot of independent confirmation from my own anonymous sources about the level of bullcrap that this is.
	Well, it kind of fits in with the other bullcrap when you were gone, the Mueller thing.
	Yeah, about him being fired?
	Yeah.
	Or not being fired, or whatever?
	Yeah, well, he wasn't fired, but apparently it sounds as if he was fired, or they were going to fire him at any minute, and they go on and on about this, and I do have a couple of thoughts specifically on this, but let's start with the...
	I got too many clips, actually, but let's start with this one.
	This is the fire Mueller.
	This is...
	MSNBC Joe Scarborough's timeline.
	Last August, they said the president had not even discussed firing Bob Mueller.
	But this morning, NBC News confirms that new reporting from New York...
	Can you restart it and listen to this guy?
	This guy is the worst.
	This is the way he...
	He's supposed to be reporting his straight stuff here.
	And he goes like this.
	And then he...
	He laughs.
	He laughs.
	A little laugh right in the comment as though it's all bull crap.
	Last August said the president had not even discussed firing Bob Mueller.
	This morning NBC News confirms that new reporting from the New York Times.
	It says two months earlier he didn't just discuss firing Bob Mueller.
	He actually ordered his lawyer to fire Bob Mueller, the independent counsel.
	Now add that to this chain of events.
	Trump also asked Jim Comey for his loyalty.
	He also asked Jim Comey to drop the Flynn probe after he knew Flynn had committed a crime.
	When Flynn wouldn't do it, he fired Jim Comey, the FBI director.
	He then pressured his attorney general not to...
	You notice a little foul up there?
	Hold on, let me check it.
	It is definitely a dimension B version of a timeline.
	Of everything.
	But he said when Flynn wouldn't do it.
	Let me listen.
	When Flynn wouldn't do it.
	Wouldn't do what?
	Fire him?
	Yeah.
	Flynn?
	Yeah.
	Why would Flynn do the firing?
	He's got nothing.
	He just said Flynn for some reason.
	Let me just, I'm backing up to the next bit here.
	He also asked Jim Comey to drop the Flynn probe after he knew Flynn had committed a crime.
	When Flynn wouldn't do it.
	Okay, it should have been Comey.
	When Comey didn't do it.
	Yeah.
	He says Flynn.
	Yeah, he says Flynn for some reason.
	And he's reading.
	And by the way, he's reading from a prompter.
	Oh, yeah.
	Well, it's MSNBC. Come on.
	How does he get...
	Unless somebody slipped a bullcrap in there, I think he...
	I don't know why he comes up with Flynn when he sees the word Comey.
	And by the way, what was the crime that Flynn committed?
	He lied to the FBI. Well, at the time that...
	In this timeline...
	Trump didn't know at the time.
	Of course he didn't.
	No, this is a Dimension B timeline.
	When Flynn wouldn't do it, he fired Jim Comey, the FBI director.
	He then pressured his attorney general not to recuse himself from the Russian investigation.
	He then pressured his attorney general, Jeff Sessions, to fire the acting chief of the FBI, Andrew McCabe.
	I think...
	I think this was from the same day or maybe a day before this little clip that I have of Mika.
	I do want to mention, yes, play that, but I want to mention this one thing.
	Why would Trump order his lawyer to go fire Mueller?
	Because people are just making crap up.
	They are making it up, and I have a thought on this whole thing that is a little enlightening.
	I want to play these clips first, but play the Mika clip.
	Has completely blown through every single barrier, every single constitutional protection.
	Now, some are attacking this American hero because it just fits their political message a bit.
	They're talking about Andrew McCabe being the American hero.
	It's despicable, Mika.
	It is.
	It's despicable.
	And the bigger picture will end this block with a question with so much at stake.
	So much at stake.
	It's one thing to look at this president as a bumbling idiot who tweets and says stupid things and is inappropriate, misogynistic, racist, and embarrassing.
	That's one way of looking at it.
	Yeah, that's one way.
	My question is, when is it okay to say that what we are witnessing before our eyes are the rudimentary beginnings of the destruction of a democracy?
	When should we be worried that this is happening?
	I say now.
	You should be worried.
	You should be worried, John.
	We're all gonna die!
	My God, these people, this insanity.
	Yes!
	Melting down.
	Let's listen to this.
	This is the fire...
	I got MN Uller.
	ABC sequence one.
	This is the intro to the packages.
	And I'd like the ABC ones the best because they seem to have more whiplash aspects to them.
	Good evening.
	It's great to have you with us here on a Friday night.
	And we begin with President Trump reportedly ordering the special counsel Robert Mueller to be fired.
	Stop right there.
	Now...
	Right off the bat, you're listening to this.
	This is the opening.
	Everybody else had the flu or something else as their opening.
	But ABC had this.
	And it starts off with, Trump ordered the firing of Mueller as fact.
	And it took, it was a number of almost two phrases before he mentioned it.
	It's a misleading headline.
	Lead or whatever you call it.
	It's very misleading because he goes on and talks and talks and talks.
	Then he says, and this took place last June.
	Wait a minute.
	Why are you making it sound like breaking news that he just tried to fire Mueller when it was last June?
	Good evening.
	It's great to have you with us here on a Friday night.
	And we begin with President Trump reportedly ordering the special counsel Robert Mueller be fired.
	The White House counsel refusing to do this last June.
	President Trump returning tonight from Davos and serious questions await here at home about why he moved to fire Robert Mueller.
	The president tonight denying the claim, but the New York Times breaking this story and outlets from the Washington Post to Fox News to our team confirming the president did want Mueller out.
	Who gives a crap?
	Well, who is confirming this?
	And why is it always the Washington Post and the New York Times?
	And before I go on with the other clips, I want to mention a couple things.
	First of all, This is all part of a giant cache of information that was leaked prior to the remodeling of the White House in August.
	Before they got all the bugs out.
	Before they got all the bugs out.
	I think this is the last stuff that they still had lined up to reveal, and it's weak.
	But that's all they've got because after August, anyone can look this up and Google look at remodel the White House.
	They remodeled the White House in August, right after all this bull crap and all the leaks that took place, get the bugs out.
	And it had to be the CIA doing the bugging because the information was filtered through the Washington Post and the New York Times, who I believe did a deal with the CIA at the point when the Snowden stuff came out because all the Snowden stuff was filtered.
	By the New York Times and the Washington Post and the Guardian.
	Wow.
	Just one side note.
	The journalist from Holland that you heard, he was the same guy that did all the Dutch reporting on Snowden as well.
	And has also been quoted in the Times and the Washington Post as a source in that whole story.
	So this stinks to high heaven.
	It does.
	That would be pretty bad if they actually did that.
	Well, it's just a lot of coincidences if they didn't.
	But it's the same people, and it's in the New York Times.
	I have the interview with this guy.
	He was on, the guy, the reporter.
	I didn't do any background on him.
	I should have.
	But this is the Firemuller-Michael Schmidt discussion.
	If you want to listen to a minute of that.
	Is that the journalist, Michael Schmidt?
	Yeah, I think so.
	The timing of Michael Schmidt, the timing right around the same time that you had the President of the United States ordering Don McGahn to fire the special counsel.
	Don McGahn, of course, according to your reports.
	Why do you have the lawyer fire him?
	Does anybody ask this question?
	No.
	No.
	Follow-ups or not ask?
	Why does Trump fire him or somebody else?
	Here's my lawyer.
	He's now the administrative assistant?
	I obviously don't have any clips of it, but what I've heard just passing through the channels is Trump actually is weak and he's afraid to fire people himself.
	That is kind of the explanation.
	You're fired.
	That's bullcrap.
	He's your fired guy.
	The only one he can't fire is Ivanka or Jared.
	We know that, and that's understandable to a degree.
	Even that is not really understandable, but to keep using other people, because that's just what I hear.
	The argument is he's too weak and he doesn't like firing people, so he has other people do it.
	Alright, well that's a good one.
	But let's skip this one then and go back to Fire, Mueller, ABC. This is Jonathan Karl who takes over the reporting and he's in Davos.
	And there's a couple, there's a whipsaw I think in here, maybe two.
	I don't have a number one, though.
	I have a Carl and Davos two.
	Yes, two.
	I'm sorry, two.
	Appearing before a gathering in Davos, Switzerland, of some of the world's richest and most powerful, the president took credit for an American comeback.
	America is open for business, and we are competitive once again.
	Whipsaw!
	But his message was overshadowed by news back home.
	Did you hear it?
	Yeah, of course.
	I'll go right to the spot in the clip.
	Oh, I've got to rewind.
	Appearing before a gathering in Davos, Switzerland, of some of the world's richest and most powerful, the president took credit for an American comeback.
	America is open for business, and we are competitive once again.
	But his message was overshadowed by...
	How is that taking credit?
	Well, I watched the whole speech.
	He did take credit, but that was not the taking credit.
	Well, if you want to point it out, put it in the clip.
	What are you putting this in the clip for?
	Well, now I feel under fire.
	I didn't do that.
	The ABC did that.
	It wasn't my fault.
	Don't blame me.
	You can go to number three if you want.
	A report, first in the New York Times, that last summer he had sought to fire special counsel Robert Mueller.
	What's the president?
	How did you speak to fire Mueller?
	What do you want to fire Robert Mueller?
	Fake news, folks.
	Fake news.
	A presidential denial, but a story confirmed by ABC News that the president sought to have Mueller dismissed in June.
	But confirmed in...
	Aren't you supposed to say confirmed...
	And then say by, at least you'll say by three sources or...
	No, they didn't say anything.
	I don't know what the rules are for these broadcasters, but they just said confirmed.
	Confirmed by ABC News that the president sought to have Mueller dismissed in June, just one month after he was appointed to the job.
	So why didn't it happen?
	According to the Times, White House Counsel Don McGahn refused to ask the Justice Department to carry out the President's wishes, even threatening to quit himself.
	The President's desire to push Mueller aside wasn't exactly a secret.
	At the time, Chris Ruddy, a longtime friend of the president's, went public warning him not to do it.
	I think he's considering perhaps terminating the special counsel.
	I think he's weighing that option.
	I personally think it would be a very significant mistake.
	A couple months later, Trump denied even thinking about firing Mueller.
	I haven't given it any thought.
	And some of the president's top aides denied it too.
	He's not discussed firing Bob Mueller.
	The New York Times reports Trump...
	That was a whipsaw!
	Yeah, pretty much.
	Was that Kellyanne Conway?
	Yeah.
	About firing Mueller.
	I haven't given it any thought.
	And some of the president's top aides denied it, too.
	He's not discussed firing Bob Mueller.
	The New York Times reports Trump even had come up with a rationale for firing Mueller, a list of three alleged conflicts of interest, including the fact that Mueller had come to the White House the day before he was named special counsel to talk to the president about returning to his old job of FBI director.
	Over the summer, the president fumed about that.
	Really?
	Mueller really wanted to be FBI director again?
	I wonder what the deal is with that.
	This is constitutionally not possible.
	It's illegal.
	Yes.
	In this case...
	It's not a constitutional issue.
	The way I understand it, breaking this law is actually a constitutional breach.
	But it doesn't matter.
	It doesn't matter.
	It's 10 years and it's 10 years for a reason.
	So they play some weird clip where he did some interview somewhere.
	You're going to hear it next.
	And the thing they left out, which I didn't get a clip of, but I hear in another report, apparently Mueller, before he was chosen for any of this stuff, Mueller's a member of one of Trump's golf clubs.
	Oh.
	And he wanted special privileges.
	Like what?
	I don't remember, but Trump just refused him for some reason.
	Okay.
	Oh, maybe that was the reason for the investigation.
	Well, that's what the other reports seem to indicate.
	I got the rest of this clip here.
	Mueller wanted the job.
	What the hell is this all about?
	Talk about conflicts.
	He was interviewing for the job.
	Tonight at the White House, the president's lawyers remain mum, leaving it to the president alone to deny the story.
	But the New York Times reports there's one person who's known about it for months, Robert Mueller himself.
	Okay, the main question is, who cares?
	It didn't happen, we're talking about June, besides it being great...
	Link bait fodder for the face bags.
	That is exactly right.
	And that's why I mentioned the way they're playing this.
	They're playing as though it happened yesterday, especially ABC, the way they open.
	But this is a seven-month-old story.
	That never happened.
	It's not as though it happened.
	I mean, yeah, maybe he discussed it with his lawyer and they have a tape of it because they're bugging the White House.
	And that's all they've got.
	But he didn't fire him, so it's not even news.
	It's the last of what we're going to hear from the pre-bug-removed White House.
	I'm sure they're trying to bug it again.
	Hey, what else we got in that archive we got?
	I think we're running out of material here.
	I got the firing bit we talked about.
	It's a little old, but I don't worry about it.
	And the way they're playing it...
	If you listen to these guys, I think I have the one little small clip.
	What do I have here?
	It's probably Fire Nuker.
	Yes.
	I want you to listen to...
	This is from NBC. This is not ABC. This is NBC. They were running the same story the same way.
	And they...
	This is just a very short snippet.
	This is a guy they bring on.
	This is one of their correspondents or experts.
	And he states this as fact.
	Various news outlets confirm Mueller is looking into possible obstruction of justice by the president himself.
	In a case like this, you need to look at lots and lots of individual acts.
	Firing Jim Comey.
	Ordering the firing of Bob Mueller.
	You take all the acts together and it begins to become more clear that it is obstruction.
	He didn't order the firing of Bob Mueller.
	No.
	He apparently discussed it with this attorney, and the attorney says, I can almost imagine the conversation going like this.
	Bob Mueller's bugging me, and the attorney says, yeah, he's an asshole.
	What do you think if I fired him?
	He said, I would, don't do it.
	I'd have to quit if you did that.
	Yeah, that sounds like a bug.
	That sounds exactly like a transcript of a bug.
	Yeah, it's a bug.
	Well, John, NBC is up to no good.
	They're very unscrupulous, and I caught them on something that I wanted to share.
	I think it'll work.
	Everywhere, upon return, and of course I followed a lot of Davos stuff while I was watching Euronews, big headline, Trump boo to Davos!
	Trump boo!
	So let's listen to the report.
	The other thing is I've always seemed to get, for whatever reason, a disproportionate amount of press or media.
	And throughout my whole life, somebody will explain someday why, but I've always gotten a lot.
	And as a businessman, I was always treated really well by the press.
	You know, the numbers speak and things happen.
	But I've always really had a very good press.
	And it wasn't until I became a politician that I realized how nasty, how mean, how vicious, and how fake the press can be.
	As the cameras start going off in the back...
	Okay, so that clip was replicated everywhere.
	You'd find the same one on YouTube, all with that boo, and then it ended right there.
	And I, of course, wanted to see the whole speech, and I also was a little suspicious, and I feel that manipulating audio is journalistically just as bad as lying about sources.
	Totally.
	So here's the original.
	The press can be, as the cameras start going off in the background.
	I'm sorry, that's NBC. That's their version.
	I'll listen to that again.
	Here we go.
	as the cameras start going off in the background.
	Okay, here's the original.
	And how fake the press can be as the cameras start going off in the background.
	But overall, I mean, the bottom line...
	Now, do you hear the remarkable difference in how they...
	Oh yeah, they boosted it.
	They boosted the boo and cut off the applause?
	And by the way, the way it's presented, and I've seen this because Trump does this on his speeches, he will point out to the audience, there's a bunch of people in the back that are going, now look at them, they've got two other cameras, they're starting to leave.
	And they would be booed.
	They're booing the press.
	They're booing the press, exactly.
	But listen again to the sweetening job.
	The press can be.
	As the cameras start going off in the back...
	And how full the press can be as the cameras start going off in the back.
	Do you hear how soft it is compared to their sweet conversion?
	Yeah, it's very soft.
	I think you've made the point.
	It's obviously the 10 decibels higher.
	The whole thing is annoying, but it's the way they...
	Dimension B people, I think the following is what you're catching.
	Trump says the cameras are going off in the back and then boo.
	They booed Trump!
	That's a dimension.
	I heard it.
	I heard it.
	They were booing Trump for saying that.
	When, in fact, if you're familiar with what's actually going on, they're booing the media.
	It was very, very manipulative.
	Yeah.
	Well, it falls...
	Right, but that's NBC News.
	I mean, it's not just some...
	NBC News is the worst right now.
	I think ABC does more whipsaws than NBC. I think they're sloppier.
	But NBC, in terms of being negative Trump, I think are by far the worst.
	I don't have any more NBC stuff on here.
	I have a couple of just some short two clips from Trump's speech.
	Okay.
	This is something he repeated in his business roundtable, which I also watched, but it wasn't very interesting, other than just a whole bunch of guys from like Siemens and Monsanto and everyone loving the tax breaks they're getting in the States.
	I think I've been a cheerleader for a country, and everybody representing a company or a country has to be a cheerleader, or no matter what you do, it's just not going to work.
	And the reason I'm a cheerleader is because it's easy, because I love our country, and I think we're just doing really well.
	And we look forward to seeing you in America, special place, and where you are is a special place also.
	Thank you all very much.
	I appreciate it.
	Okay, I'm not quite sure what he meant by special place, but the cheerleader comment struck me.
	Because, you know, Obama would do little interviews and speeches at the World Economic Forum.
	And he would, you know, talk about, you know, America's, you know, we're doing this, we're doing that.
	But he would always have some denigrating, you know, self-denigrating humor in there.
	And I agree with Trump.
	You know, just be a positive cheerleader all the time.
	Don't throw in the little negativity things.
	Remember, Obama would always get a laugh.
	Yeah, this was the right-wing media, especially the talk show guys on the radio.
	They would condemn Obama for constantly belittling the United States.
	And I never saw that he was constantly doing it, and I think you might be right, it was just to get a laugh, and he would also like to point out the foibles, and it seemed...
	A bit more honest about it instead of just pumping his fist in the air.
	But we all know pumping your fist in the air works.
	It's the American way.
	Yes.
	It's what we do.
	Here's Trump thanking everybody for investing their money, and he had a little interesting twist to it.
	I said, that is something.
	Well, we have tremendous amounts of money, including my newfound friends from last night, great companies.
	They're all investing.
	When one of the gentlemen said he's putting in $2 billion because of the tax cuts, I said to myself, wow, he's actually the cheap one in the group because they're putting in massive numbers of billions of dollars.
	So I just want to thank you all and all of those that are...
	We're pouring billions of dollars into our country or ten dollars into our country.
	We thank you very much.
	I like that.
	Hey man, we will take your money.
	We don't care if it's two billion or ten dollars.
	Bring it on.
	Soros was there.
	He spoke.
	Did you see any of Soros's?
	No, I saw none of Soros's material.
	I read a little bit about it.
	Well, I have two clips here.
	This is what he feels about the Trump administration.
	Clearly, I consider the Trump administration a danger to the world.
	Yes.
	But I regard it as a purely temporary phenomenon that will disappear in 2020 or even sooner.
	You can't hear it, but there's a little...
	I mean, they should have.
	I got this straight from the C-SPAN tape.
	Yeah, but this is the leader of Dimension A. They love him.
	Dimension B, you mean.
	B, sorry.
	They love him.
	He pays them to cause a ruckus.
	Maybe he doesn't, since I haven't heard much from Antifa or Black Lives Matter lately.
	Maybe after he gave that $100 billion away, their funds dried up.
	Or even sooner.
	I give President Trump credit for motivating his core supporters brilliantly.
	But for every core supporter, he has created a greater number of core opponents who are equally strongly motivated.
	That's why I expect a democratic landslide here.
	In 2018.
	Okie dokie.
	We'll be looking forward to that.
	Who's cheerleading here?
	And again, I think a lot of Dimension B and certainly a lot of Dimension B-faced media likes to listen to what Soros has to say.
	Or I like listening to it because you know what's coming.
	And the war on the social networks is definitely fully engaged.
	Facebook and Google effectively control over half of all internet advertising revenue.
	To maintain their dominance, they must expand their networks and increase...
	Their share of the users' attention.
	Currently they do this by providing users with a convenient platform.
	The more time users spend on the platform, the more valuable they become to the companies.
	The content providers also contribute to the profitability of social media companies because they can't avoid using the platform.
	And they have to accept whatever terms they are offered.
	The exceptional profitability of these companies is largely a function of their avoiding responsibility and avoid paying for...
	The content of their platforms.
	They claim that they are merely distributing information, but the fact that they are near monopoly distributors make them into public utilities So,
	what he's really describing here...
	is net neutrality, or at least the idea of net neutrality regulations, because he's using the exact terms as infrastructure, telecommunications, a pass-through, so it should be title, what is it, title two or whatever the...
	Title three?
	Title two or three, whatever net neutrality called for.
	So now it becomes a little more apparent that really net neutrality is about shutting down And regulating providers such as Facebook and Twitter.
	He's used the word regulate.
	Yes, and he means it, and that's exactly what it was for.
	And I'm looking for this note.
	One of our producers sent me, I think, five or six states with more coming, including, I'm pretty sure it was California, are now going to implement state net neutrality rules.
	Which is an interesting constitutional question because I think it would fall under interstate commerce where the federal government, you know, one of the few places the federal government does have standing.
	But when you read this legislation, I really hope it happens in a couple states because it is exactly the same language which includes...
	The language that ISPs would not be allowed to block any lawful content or lawful network traffic.
	So I really hope one or two of these states implements this so we can see what really happens when you implement that type of legislation on the internet.
	Because all you need to do is say, blockchain?
	Unlawful.
	Get it off the network.
	Block it.
	Content?
	That is, we're already seeing content being removed everywhere.
	Well, it's lewd or lascivious.
	That's unlawful.
	Block it.
	Oh, you're being hate speech.
	So we have trouble on just our website not getting through certain things.
	And there's also this thing with the HTTPS, which is another issue.
	Yeah, well, I've given up on that.
	HTTPS everywhere, baby.
	So, you know...
	I hope California does it.
	I hope any state does it.
	I really would like to see what happens.
	You know what's going to happen.
	Well, while we're on the topic, I read on places like CNET and The Verge, like, oh, Burger King nails it.
	Totally nails it.
	Explains net neutrality with Whopper sales.
	Did you see this?
	No, I missed this completely.
	And by the way, big props to Burger King.
	Those guys, I love their advertising department or the agency they're using, because they are always out there.
	You know, they were the first ones to do the Amazon Echo trick, and now they've taken...
	But the thing that blows my mind, and I'll play the...
	It's like a two-minute ad, but I'll play the meat of the commercial, is how they equate net neutrality to the following scenario with Burger King restaurants.
	Hey, how you doing?
	Do you know what's number 98, what's going on with it?
	Number 98, uh, you got the Whopper?
	Yeah.
	So you got the Slow Access Whopper Pass?
	Wait.
	What?
	It's on the menu right there with the fast, medium, and slow.
	Slow MBPS, Fast MBPS, or Hyper Fast MBPS. MBPS, of course, standing for making burgers per second.
	So if we know a lot for now, we have to pay $26.
	Oh, and these, of course, are quote-unquote actual customers.
	Well, that's how you get it fast.
	That's the highest priority.
	This is like a lane system?
	Yeah, fast lane, slow lane.
	So maybe like 15, 20 minutes.
	What are you talking about?
	Burger King Corporation believes that they can sell more and make more money selling chicken sandwiches and chicken fries, so now they're slowing down the access to the Whopper.
	Were you given an option of a chicken sandwich?
	I don't want a chicken sandwich, but I want a Whopper.
	Do you have any Whoppers ready?
	That aren't?
	Yeah.
	The sandwich is ready.
	I'm just not allowed to actually give it to you.
	What?
	You can't give me the sandwich?
	It's ready, but you can't give it to me?
	The Whopper neutrality was repealed.
	They voted on it.
	It doesn't make any sense.
	Fortunately, I have no other choice.
	Oh, my God.
	This is the worst thing I've ever heard of.
	No.
	No, your acting is the worst thing I've ever heard of.
	There was a lot of bad acting in that.
	It was really horrible.
	But they've really taken it to an extreme by now making a huge leap to say that net neutrality when not followed means you have to wait 20 minutes to get your content.
	That's pretty much what they're saying.
	You won't get it at all.
	You have to wait in line because they want you to click on something that will start faster.
	I mean, really?
	Is that all you've got?
	And just the moronity of people going all in.
	Oh, this is fantastic.
	I mean, I thought John Oliver's net neutrality, people were fawning over that like retards.
	This takes the cake.
	Well, the thing again, which I like to point out, I've done it in my columns, where's the evidence of this?
	Zero.
	I mean, this is all dreamed up.
	This is imagined.
	Yes, this is all could be done, but who's doing it?
	Nope.
	If they were doing it, yeah, I could see where you'd have an issue.
	But nobody's doing this.
	I mean, the closest anybody comes is the Netflix deal with Comcast to put Netflix on a higher priority than Comcast's own movies.
	And Comcast...
	That's hardly got anything to do with anything, except, you know, Netflix has been pulling this...
	I give Comcast props for that one, you know, because they had no reason, based on net etiquette, let's put it that way, to take that massive amount of traffic from Netflix.
	There was no reason to.
	There was no peering equivalent of the same amount of content going back out through the network, which is how peering works, which is how the internet was built.
	Yeah, you share.
	And it was really Reed Hastings, I would say.
	Yeah, Netflix is just a one-way street.
	Yeah.
	I think Reed Hastings was the one who really did a lot of the lobbying and Netflix paid for a lot of that.
	And now they've withdrawn because they don't have a dog in the hunt because they've got their boxes inside every ISP that matters.
	And they've got a perfect deal.
	I've asked these guys, I've asked ISPs about this specifically.
	How is it net neutrality when Netflix has a box in your facility and voodoo doesn't?
	Yeah, well, it's actually the opposite.
	Yeah, it's just totally the opposite.
	Because you're going to get better access to your Netflix.
	Netflix has priority, apparently.
	Well, again, John, all that this is, and that's the beauty of the marketing behind it, is you just tell people that you're going to be sitting there with the spinning wheel of death and you're not going to be able to see your content.
	And, you know, in the context of, oh, I can't watch House of Cards, people, oh, screw you, man!
	It's so easy to get Americans riled up over stuff like this.
	Not just Americans.
	I think every country has gone completely, has taken a stupid pill over this idea.
	But we're just two jabronis for the podcast.
	I think we're the two jabronis who pay no attention to us.
	And there's maybe two other guys.
	We're not the only two.
	There's a few others that have poo-pooed the whole thing.
	Yeah.
	And absolutely no.
	It's like, well, that's just, you know.
	In my case, it's always that.
	Dvorak's always just the contrarian.
	And I'm just marginalized completely with any thoughts I have on it.
	Oh.
	Well, you're a victim.
	You can probably get some social justice warrior props for that.
	You are a victim.
	I still point to a column I wrote in 2014 about the topic, which is four years old now.
	It's still right on the money.
	Yeah, and no one cares.
	No one cares.
	No, they cite it once in a while, and then they get plugged out.
	And, you know, stuff does happen from time to time where the Netflix won't load.
	I mean, it just happens.
	And then, you know, people are now, oh, there you go.
	Thanks, Trump.
	Yeah, the Netflix appliance needs rebooting.
	They're not rebooting it fast enough.
	Thanks, Trump.
	Well, I do have the last part of the Mueller, fire Mueller thing, the Jonathan Karl on Davos, part three, which I think has a whipsaw in it.
	Didn't we just play that?
	No, not part three.
	Unless you played it and I didn't know.
	I think we played it.
	A report first in the New York Times that last summer he had sought to fire special counsel Robert Mueller.
	Never mind.
	You probably have played it.
	We probably just played it.
	That's good.
	But we're done with that.
	This bull crap is what we've determined.
	The doomsday clock has been set forward once again.
	This clock sucks, by the way.
	Oh, do tell.
	Yeah, it sucks because it's always wrong.
	They have to keep resetting it.
	You'll recall last year, it was unprecedented.
	They set it ahead.
	It was at three minutes to midnight.
	They set it ahead to two and a half minutes to midnight.
	They've made another 30-second leap.
	So we've got just a minute left?
	Two minutes.
	Two minutes, okay.
	Now remember, this is from the bulletin...
	By the way, that two minutes should be over by the end of the show.
	This is from the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists.
	And they are the ones that apparently can determine political and geopolitical risk.
	That's why they're moving this forward.
	Here's the statement from the president and CEO of the scientists who are in charge of this.
	The year just passed proved perilous and chaotic.
	A year in which many of the risks foreshadowed in our last clock statement came into full relief.
	In 2017, we saw reckless language in the nuclear realm heat up already dangerous situations and relearn that minimizing evidence-based assessments regarding climate and other global challenges does not lead to better public policies.
	Although the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists focuses on nuclear risk, climate change, and emerging technologies, the nuclear landscape takes center stage in this year's clock statement.
	Clock statement.
	Major nuclear actors are on the cusp of a new arms race, one that will be very expensive and will increase the likelihood of accidents and misperceptions.
	Across the globe, nuclear weapons are poised to become more rather than less usable because of the nation's investments in their nuclear arsenals.
	This is a concern that the Bulletin has been highlighting for some time, but momentum towards this new reality is increasing.
	So thank you.
	We're now all very afraid.
	Very afraid of this.
	Yeah, well, I didn't even know about it.
	It's just another political group.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, they're getting their two cents in, and they're ready for Hillary 2020.
	Oh, please.
	Might as well just put that at the end.
	You saw her little video, her little video that she did?
	I did not.
	She's at dinner.
	It's on an iPhone.
	And, yeah, I guess I can just see a whole bunch of pussy hatters standing around going, did you say something to everybody?
	And she does a little statement, and then, and I left that in there, then she gets coached by the videographer of said iPhone to say the following.
	Hey everyone, I just wanted to say thanks.
	Thanks for your feminism, for your activism, and all I can hope is you keep up the really important good work.
	And let me just say, this is directed to the activist bitches supporting bitches.
	So let's go.
	So now they call themselves bitches, and that's hilarious.
	Wow.
	They were bitching about being called bitches before.
	Yeah.
	Well, it's okay if you call yourself a bitch, I guess.
	I don't know.
	I guess, yeah.
	I guess.
	All right, well, that's the pathetic clip of the day.
	We don't have a jingle for pathetic clip of the day.
	It's very pathetic.
	But it's just like, wow.
	But they're definitely trying to get rid of her still.
	Let me see.
	What was the story?
	Here it is.
	Hillary Clinton chose to shield a top advisor accused of harassment in 2008.
	This is a New York Times story.
	And as we've discussed, the entire catalyst for outing Harvey Weinstein was to...
	Discredit Hillary.
	Let's call them the Obama Democrats who do not want her running.
	And they really threw all this mess through Harvey under the proverbial bus where he belongs.
	And it's not quite working because Hillary's still out there calling for bitches to be bitches and support the bitches.
	So then they go, oh, okay, well, just so you know...
	Hold on a second.
	You don't think it's kind of weird that a 70-year-old woman...
	Is talking in these terms...
	I don't know.
	You old lady!
	I'm an old bitch!
	That's the way it goes!
	That's just ageist.
	No, that doesn't bother me.
	Hey!
	Okay, it's ageist, you're right.
	That doesn't bother me.
	But the New York Times, you know, they are working it.
	Hillary Clinton chose to shield top advisor accused of harassment, so it's not getting legs either.
	It just, you know...
	No, Hillary's going for it.
	Hillary 2020, I think you're...
	She's going for it, yeah.
	This is going to be hilarious.
	Yeah.
	But it's what's going to happen, and then the party's going to have nothing but trouble.
	It is...
	So I'm watching?
	Yes.
	Well, I was going to do an update, since we were on the topic.
	Do it.
	And now it's time for your sexual harassment update.
	We have a couple of things happening here.
	Three, not one, not two, but three allegations in Scandinavia.
	We have two leaders of provincial parties have stepped down from leadership roles after sexual misconduct allegations.
	In addition, one of Trudeau's ministers is gone.
	So we'll start first with, this is Patrick Brown, who resigns.
	Yes?
	Can I stop you?
	Mm-hmm.
	I propose, because I have two whole series of sexual harassment clips myself.
	Oh, we should do it after the break.
	That's what I was thinking.
	With that, I'd like to thank you for your courage and say in the morning to you, John C, where the C is the block where we'll discuss the clips.
	Dvorak.
	Block C. And in the morning to you, Mr.
	Adam Curry.
	And also the T's.
	Good work.
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	Patrick Baus.
	So we have a few people to thank for show 1003.
	1003, baby.
	And I believe there are some people left off, and so we will pick you up on the Saturday, next Thursday show.
	Saturday show.
	We should move it to Wednesday and Saturday.
	It was very confusing to me, too.
	I still don't know what day it is.
	Yeah, it was really kind of changed the pacing of everything.
	Yeah.
	I would say that it would be funny, though, to move to, like, two different days.
	Move it over to Wednesday and Saturday.
	Yeah, that's what I need.
	Let's just ruin my Saturday instead of Sunday.
	That's better.
	Ah, yeah.
	Well, no, actually, you'd have your Saturday night.
	Well, that's true.
	It may actually improve your Saturday.
	Nah.
	And the Sunday you got free.
	It's a day off.
	There were reasons we did this.
	I don't remember why, but I think we A-B tested it.
	We didn't do any A-B testing, I can assure you.
	A-B testing.
	Black box, white box, you know, that kind of stuff.
	And we said, yeah, Sundays and Thursdays, that's the best.
	Let's start with Ann Johnston, who came in with $333, and she is a, it said no note at all that I could find anywhere, including email, unless she has some oddball email address.
	Well, why don't we give her some karma then, just in case.
	Yes, definitely.
	You've got karma.
	You know, I just remembered.
	I remembered.
	When we started doing the two shows a week, the reason we chose Thursday and Sunday was for the news cycle, which has now changed dramatically in the past ten years.
	Because now the news cycle is so tight, you can pretty much do a show.
	I mean, we just couldn't get enough material.
	I think that was the main reason.
	I think it's because we actually were planning to do three shows, including a Tuesday show, and that would have been the best way to do it.
	Oh.
	Okay, that's possible.
	We never got to the Tuesday show.
	No.
	And we did a show, I remember a couple of times we did three shows, more than once, but not a lot, maybe twice or three times.
	Really?
	Well, we did a show that was going to be pre-recorded, but we did it for like a, you know, to use later.
	Hmm.
	And it always made us so tired it was horrible.
	We decided it was just no good.
	It was no way we could do three shows.
	I mean, if we could keep it to an hour a show, we could probably do three, but then we'd miss out on all the material and the discussions.
	And the bickering, which somebody wrote a nasty note about, which I'll read.
	It wasn't a nasty note.
	It was.
	It was nasty.
	No, it wasn't.
	I thought your reply was questionable.
	Baronet Patrick of the Pugner Order comes in with $333, making him and Anne, the two executive producers for this show.
	Excuse me.
	Check out pihole.net, P-I-hole.net.
	It's a DNS server that blocks ad networks from your home network.
	Oh, cool.
	It can be run on a Raspberry Pi or a VM if you have a dedicated server.
	Well, not that many people have a dedicated server in their houses.
	It's just for that.
	I wanted to try to block ads.
	You do.
	But I was stunned at the performance increases that came from it.
	Web pages on this load almost immediately when ads are blocked at the network layer.
	This is a good idea.
	I'm going to check that out.
	I want you to.
	I find it highly ironic that Google advertisements slow down the web far more than ISPs.
	It's obscenely easy to set up, and a listener should take a look.
	So it's pi-hole.net.
	Yeah, the only issue I have with that is if it's blocking all these URLs...
	Then you're going to have a lot of videos that won't play and that makes making clips very difficult.
	So then you'd have to have, you know, like with the ad blocker, I can just do, you know, okay, turn it off for this page and then you can load it and the video will play and I can record the video.
	But if you're doing that at the DNS level, then you've got to have some other switch, which it may or may not have.
	I'll look into it.
	I like the idea.
	I see it differently.
	I have ad blockers running and then once in a while I get, there's something where I need to get To the page somehow.
	And I just...
	What I do is I have all my...
	I use Firefox the most.
	So that's where the ad blockers run.
	When I have to actually get to a page, there's two ways of doing it.
	One, I can go to Chrome, which has no ad blockers, and I can go get it there, which would be negated by this system.
	And the other way is to go to a private browser.
	Right.
	Which tends to befuddle these guys.
	Yeah, that's not fail-safe.
	That's not fail-safe, though.
	Nothing is.
	But I like the idea of just a little box you buy for $19.95.
	You could probably run it.
	Let's make it and market it under the No Agenda brand.
	Now you're talking.
	Another great idea we will never execute.
	Richard Warfield Jr.
	in Charlotte, North Carolina, 26671.
	Based on my records, this donation brings me to knighthood plus a penny for the next person who needs it.
	Thank you.
	I'd like to be called Sir Loud Pipes.
	Sir Loud Pipes.
	As a call out to my own podcast and would like some brisket and barrel aged copper.
	Barrel aged copper at the round table.
	I think that's a typo.
	Must be cognac maybe?
	No, it's copper now.
	No, yes, you would like some barrel-aged copper.
	No jingles, just some General Carmen.
	And on with the show.
	You've got Carmen.
	It's on the list.
	Brisket and barrel-aged copper.
	It'll be a favorite staple.
	Dame Karen, the Baronet of Cimarron Hills, comes in with $250.
	I'm very close to my barony now.
	I'm thinking about territory.
	It's been my tradition during the last 15 years to throw a party on the blue moon.
	So this donation will be in honor of the next blue moon on January 31st.
	131 will also be the night of the lunar eclipse, which can cause a red haze on the moon, sometimes called a blue moon.
	So it will be a blood blue moon.
	Woo!
	Even rarer.
	2018 is the year of two blue moons.
	This only happens a few times each century.
	The next one being on March 31st.
	Also the date of the party.
	I will make my title change donation that day in March.
	So I'd like to put in a reserve now.
	The title of Baroness of the Blue Moon.
	I say that's good.
	Thinking of the future.
	NJNK. NJNK. Thank you, Dame Karen.
	Future Baroness of the Blue Moon.
	Looking forward to that.
	Thank you for your courage today.
	Very interesting.
	Well, she told you that you learned something.
	I did.
	Sir John the Brewer, our buddy in Bay St.
	Louis, Mississippi.
	I need some in-laws going to fuck home, Karma.
	Like you two need donations.
	How about some value for value, people?
	I was throwing a goat for that.
	You've got...
	Karma.
	Yeah.
	And last on this list, anyone who has a problem, send an exception note to me...
	Subject line error.
	All caps.
	Stephen or Stephen Sorrell in Amarillo, Texas 201.
	So Stephen Curry scored 49 points yesterday.
	Just in honor of him.
	Requesting baby delivery, Karma, for a new human resource to be born any day now.
	This is Sprout 4.
	We requested Karma back with Sprout 1.
	Whoa!
	Karma works!
	Wait a minute.
	Love the show!
	So they have had three sprouts since our karma?
	Yeah.
	Well, put that thing away!
	You've got karma.
	That's dangerous.
	Those are our executive and associate executive producers for show 1003.
	I want to thank each one of them for helping produce this particular show and make sure you put it on your LinkedIn.
	Yes, and know that people in the Netherlands were, certainly the radio industry, was very enamored with our model and said, ah, that can only work in America.
	That doesn't work here in Deutschland.
	They didn't say that.
	Holland.
	Did you tell them that we have a lot of Dutch?
	Yes!
	Of course, we've explained this before.
	Just years ago, I asked about this.
	And the explanation at the time was, well, the Dutch will donate to this show because it's not Dutch.
	Yes, exactly.
	Well, anyway, people were enamored with it.
	And I talked extensively about, in my speech, I talked about how we don't call our people who listen to the show listeners.
	We call them producers because most of them are producing one way or the other.
	A small percentage of them actually produce by helping the hosts of the show financially.
	Like, nah, how is that possible?
	Don't you have commercials?
	You've got to have commercials.
	It's not possible.
	I'm just baffling to them.
	And maybe baffling to a lot of people.
	Sometimes it baffles me.
	Well, I don't know why anybody should be baffled.
	They go to church.
	How do you think churches get there?
	They're underwritten by, you know...
	Anybody.
	Soros isn't giving money to churches.
	Yeah, but it goes further, John.
	This is not just about money.
	It's about the entire participation.
	We have opened up, from day one, pretty much, opened up production.
	Pure production.
	Now, it was...
	I guess we kind of called it crowdsourcing, but the more we got into it, the more we gave our producers responsibilities.
	We say, hey, you've got to do better on this.
	Find out what this is about.
	Produce this.
	Change that.
	We've been managing thousands of producers, and that's why we have a great show.
	We definitely have thousands of producers.
	We're not going to get rich off of it, but that's okay.
	No, that point has to be made clear.
	Advertising is a better model for making a lot more money than you should be making because you can bullshit these advertisers.
	Yeah, and you're not actually concerned with making the program.
	You're concerned with selling the people that you give the product to.
	Yes.
	So you're selling out.
	Setting them up.
	I was thinking about this again, which I do commonly when I think about the big networks and their In fact, I do have a clip coming up on Tamiflu, which unfortunately I misspelled.
	You'll see it.
	That these...
	of 60 plus people you know that listen to all the network news are old and they're always but you hear complaints well we'd like to get a younger demo and when you hear that you should say no you wouldn't because you don't want a younger demo this is nonsense you're lying you want the demo you have so you can sell these drug ads to all these infirm people that are watching the nightly news your true audience yes that's And I don't believe for a minute that they're sincere when they say they want a younger demo.
	No.
	And when people say, well, the TV audience is dying because it's a lot of old people.
	The TV audience is exactly what they want to sell those ads, whatever it is.
	They are dying.
	Yeah, they are dying.
	But there's new ones coming in.
	The point is, the TV guys and anybody else, if they want a younger demo, they know how to get it.
	Yeah.
	I mean, you watch Good Morning America, which changed this demo out of the blue because, you know, the ABC show then became the number one show because they had to switch their demo around because they couldn't get anyone.
	They couldn't get their numbers up with the old demo.
	And so they brought it down.
	They brought the age down and they did it on purpose.
	They can almost do it.
	It's almost like they can just do it.
	And you make another excellent point.
	That our demo is anything but a demo.
	It's across the spectrum.
	We go from, what, 16?
	15?
	16?
	9.
	9.
	Up into the 80s.
	Yes.
	And it's across all races, religion, genders, sexual orientation, everything.
	Religion, all of it.
	Which is another reason why, you know, we fall outside of the mold.
	That's my favorite part of it, by the way, is that we don't have a demo that we have to cater to.
	Our demo is Truth Seekers.
	You can't vote the truth!
	You can't vote the truth.
	I still love that.
	It's a bumper sticker.
	Alright, a next show coming up on Thursday.
	There will be a Grammys report after we find out who has to die this year.
	I'm looking forward to it, but while you're hanging out with your buddies, why don't you propagate the formula?
	Our formula is this.
	we go out we hit people in the mouth and i'm assuming that with the grammys you will be um looking for the satanic material i Always.
	The Illuminati segment.
	We're looking for checkerboards.
	We're looking for creepy horns.
	We're looking for pyramids.
	We're looking for all CIs.
	You know, I can't watch the Grammys.
	I find it very tedious.
	I just can't.
	I just can't do it.
	I love watching them.
	You're in the business.
	I'm an award show whore.
	Yes, I am.
	Alright, now back to our...
	Well, I guess I can open up the segment again.
	Hold on a second.
	And now it's time for your sexual harassment update.
	That's right, everybody.
	Our sexual harassment update.
	First, I'd like to say that Rosanna Arquette just came out this morning.
	Article in...
	What was page six?
	But it was apparently an interview.
	Female agents told me to keep quiet about Harvey.
	This follows in your assertion that the women are just as complicit in this.
	Maybe more.
	I'd say more complicit because they should be looking out for their fellow sisters.
	Our cat, who alleged Weinstein attempted to sexually assault her in the 90s, recalls to Sheila Weller on Next Tribe, quote, I told people in the industry about my experience with Harvey in the hotel that day.
	I didn't hide it.
	When I told them, I would hear, I'd keep my mouth shut about that if I were you, even from female agents.
	I heard that warning and thought, okay, no one's going to believe me.
	My words will get back to him.
	I'm effed.
	Yeah.
	So, nice.
	She should name the agents by name, I feel.
	I say these agents and casting agents and agents should be named.
	Yes.
	I totally agree.
	Let's bring it out.
	I mean, they were going to do that.
	That's what's going to happen at Michigan State when we have this, for example.
	I have a couple of questions.
	I want to say something about the Michigan State.
	Now, obviously this guy's evil, and he got sentenced to, what, 500 years, and everyone wants to kill him, rip him apart, but there is something to be said for the mental disorder that he has, and to understand that, and I hope that maybe someone will be assigned to get in there to...
	Investigate what's going on.
	How does this happen?
	We have a living guy He's going to get shivved within a year.
	Yeah, but it seems like that's...
	Instead of just throwing him in the brig, we also need to understand what happened.
	And I don't hear anything about that.
	It's just like he's evil.
	I think you're right.
	I think you're right.
	I mean, abuse, particularly sexual abuse, usually comes from people who have been abused.
	And it's a very vicious circle.
	It just perpetuates from one to the next, certainly in...
	Father to son.
	Mother to son.
	I mean, father to daughter.
	It works in all cases, but father to son, I think, would be a big one.
	And we're never going to stop anything if we don't do any of the work and figure out what happened.
	How did this guy become this way?
	How did he become a part of the system, which is what they're discussing now at Michigan State.
	So let's listen to the...
	This is just a snippet.
	And not the ISO, I want to play the ISO next after I have a little talk about this, but the snippet.
	Some of the survivors of Nash's abuse sitting down with 2020's Elizabeth Vargas.
	There were at least 17 officials at MSU in some capacity, whether coaches, trainers, or at least three psychologists who received reports of what Larry was doing.
	Not a single one of them reported.
	Not one.
	The entire U.S. Gymnastics Board ordered by the Olympic Committee to resign says it will do so.
	So they got the Olympic Committee making the gymnastics group quit.
	By the way, this team is not going to be a winner anymore.
	They're closing down the facilities where they were run by some Romanian.
	No, this is a bad year.
	Bad year.
	Yeah, it's going to be a bad period.
	It's going to be a long drought.
	But I thought it was interesting that there were 17 people that this woman identified.
	Yeah.
	We're all at Michigan State, which is where this all began.
	And nobody did anything, including some psychologists.
	But for anybody out there who's ever going to do a clip for anybody, I love the way this woman, who was one of the gymnasts, the way she put...
	And emphasize your phrase.
	So if you get picked up and you've got a camera on you, re-listen.
	This is the ISO. Listen to the way you say something, but you say it twice in a way that will always get clipped.
	Not a single one of them reported.
	Not one.
	Not a single one reported.
	Not one.
	So she's actually said the same thing twice.
	We already know.
	Not a single one.
	Not one is redundant.
	Right.
	But it's such a great...
	Strong clip to reiterate that you have a phrase, a long phrase that you have to say, and then you reiterate it with two words somehow, and you will always get on the air.
	Particularly if you end it like that, I agree with you, by the way.
	So this is media training from the Curry-Dvorak Consulting Group.
	As someone who is a frequent clipper, I think I clip about 120 clips a week, probably, about like that.
	If I got a clip like that where it's doubled and then she ends on a hard finish...
	Not a single one of them reported.
	Not one.
	Boom.
	You're right.
	That's well done.
	Absolute dynamite.
	And they did a good job of getting that out of her.
	She seemed a little annoyed, too.
	All right.
	Scandinavia.
	Well, okay, right.
	Scandinavia.
	Now we have the...
	Yeah.
	This story was interesting to me.
	Go on.
	Sorry.
	I don't have any clips.
	I have a couple of clips.
	So we have, as I said, or before the break, two leaders of provincial parties stepped down from leadership after sexual misconduct allegations.
	And one of Trudeau's ministers...
	But we'll start with the resignation and denial from the first guy.
	Who is...
	What is this guy's name?
	Brown.
	A couple hours ago, I learned about troubling allegations about my conduct and character.
	And I'm here tonight to address them.
	First, I want to say these allegations are false.
	Categorically untrue.
	Every one of them.
	I will defend myself as hard as I can with all means at my disposal.
	It's never okay, it's never okay for anyone to feel they've been a victim of sexual harassment or feel threatened in any way.
	Let me make this clear.
	A safe and respectful society is what we expect and deserve.
	And no one appreciates that more than I do.
	I've got two younger sisters who are my best friends.
	I've grown up in a family that has taught me good values.
	My values and beliefs are those that we need to move forward to eradicate sexual violence and harassment across the province, across the country, everywhere.
	I know the court of public opinion moves fast.
	I've instructed my attorneys to ensure that these allegations are addressed where they should be in the court of law.
	In short, I reject these accusations in the strongest possible terms.
	It's not my values.
	It's not how I raised.
	It's not who I am.
	And he walks off.
	Are you saying these women are liars?
	I like the last thing.
	Yeah, that's why I left that in.
	Are you saying these women are liars?
	So Trudeau was asked about this.
	Now let's go back to something a little bit.
	Now what was...
	I didn't follow this, I didn't clip it.
	This guy was accused of what?
	Sexual misconduct allegations.
	Specifically?
	I do not have the specifics.
	I don't know if there are specifics.
	But he resigned over it with that statement, saying, I'm going to fight this in the court of law where it belongs.
	So, we'll see.
	But then you have...
	But then you do something illegal?
	Otherwise you go into a court of law.
	Because, well, I... That's where he wants it.
	That's what he said.
	He's instructed his lawyers to somehow get this into a court of law, but if no one's filed charges, I don't think that will happen.
	Okay.
	Trudeau was asked about inappropriate behavior allegations from Kent Herr, who is, I think it's in this report what his job is.
	Well, sir, some women are speaking up about your support and disabilities minister, Kent Harris.
	Support and disabilities minister.
	Saying that he made unwanted comments about their bodies.
	Oh, yeah.
	This I do know.
	He had said to someone, you're yummy.
	Which is, I don't know what you're thinking if you say that to a woman.
	You're not going to get in anyone's pants by saying that.
	I'll tell you right off the bat.
	Hey, baby, you're yummy.
	So that's what he said.
	...unwanted comments about their bodies and that during his time in the Alberta legislature, some female political staff would not get in an elevator with him because he made them feel uncomfortable.
	So if we believe these women, what do you do about Minister Hare?
	Obviously, as I've said many times throughout this week, it's really important to believe and support any woman who comes forward with allegations of sexual harassment or sexual assault.
	And that's exactly what my government and myself, we do.
	I don't need to remind anyone of the positions I've taken from the very beginning of my leadership on issues surrounding this.
	I am unequivocal in my support for women who step forward with allegations of this nature.
	And that continues.
	I haven't yet had the opportunity to speak directly with Kent.
	I will in the coming hours.
	And we will have more to say before the plane lifts off.
	I need our Scandinavian producers to get me some info on this.
	All of this, to me, smells a bit like political hackery.
	Maybe some opposition, trying to get people out.
	Three at a time?
	Yeah, that's what I would...
	I'd need more specifics than...
	The guy says yummy, and the next thing you know, hell breaks loose, and you can't get in an elevator with the guy?
	Yeah.
	Is he drooling?
	Maybe is he drooling and ogling you?
	I mean, ogling.
	No one's talked about this.
	Ogling.
	That's a bad thing.
	Guys will ogle.
	Yeah.
	John, it's worse than that.
	Now, Amazon has already announced if you...
	And I do this all the time.
	I'll be like, you know, hey, Alexa, you bitch, why don't you put that on the shopping list?
	But now, if she hears that, she's going to refuse.
	She won't answer if you use lewd or sexist language.
	And where's the fun in that?
	Well, besides that, it's a stupid box.
	It's not even a person or anything.
	It's insulted.
	It's insulted.
	It does humanize the box, though, the talking tube.
	It's smart.
	It's interesting marketing.
	I have three clips that I think will tie into yours about Wynn.
	Steve Wynn, who was also accused of sexual misconduct.
	And what it sounds like, from what I could read, is he was in the middle of the divorce with his wife, which was a huge divorce.
	And she's come back now and says, now, I found out that there was some sexual harassment going on that my ex-husband did, and that's a detriment to the company, so now I want to renegotiate my settlement terms.
	Before that, we had never heard of this.
	We had never, you know, during the whole, because this took place in 2005, and what apparently he'd have someone come up, give him a massage, and he's like, hey baby, can you massage a little bit higher?
	And most of the women said, uh, no, or oh, Mr.
	Wynn, which is probably appropriate.
	I've never met him, but he seems like a douchey old kook.
	But one of them succumbed and had sex with him.
	And so this is all coming out now.
	And he's had to resign as the financial officer.
	Yes, from 2005.
	Yeah, he's had to resign now as the financial officer of the RNC, which we'll get to.
	But first, let's listen to a couple of quick clips.
	This is MSNBC tying this into Trump, which is, of course, what you want to do.
	Housekeeping staff was powerless to say no with him.
	So with Wynn, the fact that he's abusing the trust between a massage therapist and one of her clients and these manicurists is not an accident here.
	That relationship between management and union, between CEO and union, is very vexed there and very open to the kind of extortion and threats that you see him issuing all the way down to paying hush money.
	As our president has alleged to have done with Stormy Daniels.
	So this is a widespread problem, abuse of power.
	Yeah, it's exactly the same.
	Stormy Daniels.
	He had sex with a porn star and he paid her off to shut up.
	That's not quite the same as someone who works for you who you're pressuring into touching you inappropriately.
	So, good work MSNBC. They're the worst.
	It's hard to believe how bad they are.
	But, as we know, the truth always wants to come out.
	So what's really on their mind...
	That really does come out.
	The last question I want to ask you, Virginia, is about Steve Wynn, the political donor.
	He occupies a very senior position within the Republican Party.
	There has been deafening silence here from the RNC on what's been reported by the Wall Street Journal.
	And there have been calls here for the RNC, other candidates to return money.
	How is all this going to be processed, do you think?
	We see the role that he plays here just donating and guiding money to various candidates.
	Because most of us would rather talk about sex than about massages.
	I mean, sorry, would rather talk about politics than about massages gone wrong.
	Freudian slip.
	That's exactly what they want to talk about.
	There's your Freudian slip.
	That's all MSNBC wants to tell you.
	He said, let's put some sex into it.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	That was quite telling.
	Yeah, I'd say.
	And then this final one, which there's no factual evidence for this at all, but I just loved how this was accentuated about how creepy Mr.
	Wynn is.
	And then in some cases, he pushed them beyond where they wanted to go.
	Virginia, let me turn to you just to have you react.
	There's so many startling anecdotes in here.
	There's a climate of fear.
	He owns German shepherds that will react to commands uttered in German.
	I note it in this piece.
	I have another version of that same clip.
	Come here, dog!
	Attack!
	Rosebud!
	This is just for imagery.
	You put in the story, we don't, I never heard this.
	No, I didn't read about it or anything.
	I thought it was great though.
	No, I know that Steve Wynn, if you watch him with the president or anybody else with his new girlfriend, you'll see that he's always being held.
	He's blind.
	Yes.
	And, but he's, you know, he can still see kind of.
	You're telling me that he has service dogs?
	And I believe that the German Shepherds may be part of his service dog cadre.
	But it makes it sound like he's got a couple of attack dogs.
	He has service dogs and emotional support masseuses.
	I think that's his...
	Now, there was a...
	I can't remember what movie it was, but there was this movie or it was a TV show or something where they had these German Shepherds that only spoke German.
	And I can't remember which show it was, but it was one of these ominous dark shows.
	It's a dark show.
	And I think that was just an imagery thing you want to promote.
	Of course it was.
	It gives a whole Boys from Brazil vibe.
	Right?
	Yeah.
	Listen to German.
	What is he saying to the dogs?
	So, let's start with Wynn.
	This is the ABC version of the story, and this has got some whipsaws that are beauties.
	Tonight, shocking allegations against billionaire casino mogul Steve Wynn.
	As we have moved through the years in the development of our business.
	The Wall Street Journal reporting that dozens of sources described a pattern of sexual misconduct by Wynn, including pressuring employees to perform sex acts.
	Wynn also serves as finance chairman of the Republican National Committee.
	President Trump has called him a good friend.
	Steve Winwood, you stand up.
	He's raising so much money for our great Republican Party.
	The Journal article describes a 2005...
	What's that?
	He says he calls him a good friend.
	They played this clip, but they didn't say he's a good friend.
	He's raising...
	Let's just back it up to where they say that part.
	Here we go.
	...as finance chairman of the Republican National Committee.
	President Trump has called him a good friend.
	Steve Winwood, you stand up.
	He's raising so much money for our great Republican Party.
	The journal article describes a 2005 incident where a manicurist says he forced her to have sex in his office suite.
	The journal reporting Wynn paid her a $7.5 million settlement.
	A massage therapist alleging Wynn would expose himself in a massage room in his office suite.
	Jorgen Nielsen says he worked for 15 years at Wynn's casino and claims there was repeated misconduct.
	She was actually chasing one of the manicurists around and she locked herself in bed.
	The journal's account saying a feeling of intimidation was heightened at times by one or more of his German shepherds trained to respond to commands in German.
	David, in a written statement tonight, Wynn saying, the idea that I ever assaulted any woman is preposterous.
	So that's ABC. But to get to the bottom of the story, you actually have to go to the other networks.
	And this is the, it seems to me to be more about Even though this was never resolved with Weinstein, the same problem, I just find it weird that they expect with this, you know, this is just a kind of a scandal, why they expect Your play Wynn and returning the money won.
	Tonight, Las Vegas casino mogul Steve Wynn resigning as finance chairman of the Republican National Committee after facing accusations that he pressured women into sex acts.
	Wynn is also one of the party's biggest donors.
	So will the GOP candidates and lawmakers return the millions in contributions he gave them?
	ABC's Kenneth Moten from Washington tonight.
	Ah, I see.
	This was the, well, you made everyone give the Harvey money back.
	The Harvey money never got returned?
	I don't think so, no.
	Hillary said she would do something, but no.
	Well, the point is, is that why...
	Is that the end of the clip, by the way?
	Yeah, it is.
	Okay.
	Why would you give the money back?
	You probably spent it already.
	It was for the last campaign.
	Yeah.
	I don't get this.
	The guy is like...
	Whatever the guy did...
	Much of it was bundling.
	He was more of a bundler, it seemed to me, than he was a guy just donating money like Shelley Adelson, who does donate a lot of money.
	You get the money.
	The guy turns out to be corrupt of any form.
	Why would you give the money back?
	It doesn't make sense to me why they're emphasizing this.
	I mean, why would you give the...
	Why would you give the money back?
	I don't get it, personally.
	Well, it's a very odd...
	Is it tainted?
	I'll tell you.
	Is it stolen money?
	Was it from a diamond heist?
	It's a very odd social phenomenon which goes like this.
	So I would be a perfect example.
	I'm definitely not starving.
	I'm doing okay.
	But if I win the lottery...
	And I win a million dollars?
	There will be calls for me to give some of that to charity.
	And it's an odd social phenomenon.
	Or when I won a lawsuit.
	Actually, this happens with lawsuits all the time.
	Or, here you go, Marky Mark.
	Mark Wahlberg.
	So he got pressured.
	He got pressured about the money that he made fair and square.
	And his co-star, or actually the woman who was a real star in the movie.
	Right.
	We talked about this in the show.
	Yeah.
	She only got her per diem.
	That's what she settled for.
	And so what does he have to do?
	He's pressured.
	He gives it to the March On movement.
	It's an odd social phenomenon.
	Yeah, but that's because you...
	Whenever an injustice...
	Okay, but you got the wrong person here.
	It's like you're taking...
	Marky Mark has the money.
	Yeah.
	He got the money.
	He's supposed to give it back.
	But it wasn't like a chair.
	It wasn't given...
	Okay.
	All right.
	Well, let's play Clip 2.
	We'll talk about this a little more.
	Clip 2.
	I want a little more information.
	Increasing calls for the Republican Party to return wins donations.
	RNC chairwoman Ronna McDaniel vocal months ago when the Harvey Weinstein sexual misconduct allegations surfaced.
	Tweeting if the DNC truly stands up for women.
	Check this.
	Check this.
	And Kenneth Moten joins us live outside RNC headquarters in Washington.
	Kenneth, Steve Wynn today addressed his resignation, calling the allegations against him a distraction.
	That's right, Tom.
	Wynn also touted the work he's done for the Republican Party and thanked President Trump.
	Tonight, Wynn is speaking out, but the RNC here and many of the GOP lawmakers he raised money for, quiet about those donations.
	Tom?
	So, I understand the connection they're making.
	Do they really expect...
	I mean, it seems to me they're just hounding the Republicans.
	Well, of course.
	Because this is a distraction away from the Harvey Weinstein thing.
	There's just no evidence that the Democrats, any of them, especially Hillary, gave any money back then.
	No.
	And who are they going to give it to?
	This is...
	If you read Scott Adams' book, he says there's things that really are not persuasive by saying, well, analogies are not very persuasive, and also, well, if you turned it around, if it was the Democrats instead of the Republicans, which we always say is you should never go on TV with that argument, that's kind of what they're doing.
	It's like, well...
	Well, I found it to be distressing.
	In fact, I thought the Wynn scandal was kind of interesting, and I do think that Elaine, the connection with Elaine, his wife, his ex-wife, was very perked.
	Yeah, but this all cropped up.
	She brought it out.
	That's what I understand.
	She brought this out to the forefront and said, well, you know, and they've been put now in the latest statement from the board of directors saying, well, if Mr.
	Wynn's services are no longer available to the casinos and resorts, then who knows what will happen with our revenue.
	And all of that seems to be her motivation for renegotiating her settlement.
	So, it could be very true.
	I don't know.
	But, you know, that's how it came into view, as far as I understand.
	I think that's probably true.
	Anyway, okay.
	Well, I just found the whole thing.
	Not that the scandal's not a scandal.
	They have them all the time, and they're here and they're there, but this give back the money thing, when it has nothing to do with the scandal, it wasn't like a direct connection.
	And he's a bundler, not necessarily all his money.
	The same can be said for Weinstein.
	I understand where they're coming from.
	Oh, they're not going to give any of that.
	And this concludes your sexual harassment update.
	It does, indeed.
	I'd like to stay in Vegas for one moment as we continue to...
	Just be amazed.
	Stand in wonderment about the worst gun massacre in the history of the United States, of which we know absolutely nothing.
	We know nothing.
	We know everything.
	We have all kinds of crazy allegations.
	We heard now that, you know, well, if you didn't hear this, then you'll hear this.
	Here we go.
	This is what's the explanation.
	This is how you get rid of evidence.
	Also, Right now at 6, the brother of the gunman who opened fire in the Las Vegas concert shooting.
	Arrested here in Southern California today, Bruce Paddock is in jail for child pornography.
	NBC4's John Cady's Klimac Live in North Hollywood with information he's uncovered about the Las Vegas gunman's brother today.
	We reached Hector Cruz by phone this afternoon.
	He was unaware of the arrest this morning, but says he filed a restraining order against Paddock when he refused to leave his auto shop in 2014.
	He was squatting there, he says.
	It's the same business where investigators from LAPD and the FBI started their investigation into alleged child pornography charges.
	Today, they arrested Bruce Paddock and charged him with 20 counts.
	It's taken a few years to get to this point, though.
	LAPD says they had a hard time finding Paddock until a tip led them right to him.
	That tip coming in after Paddock's brother Stephen shot up the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas earlier this month, killing 58 and injuring hundreds.
	It is unclear so far whether the brothers were in contact before the shooting, but LAPD said its investigation was completely separate to what the FBI was working on in Vegas.
	Paddock, by the way, is expected to be arraigned tomorrow morning.
	He remains in jail tonight on a $60,000 bond.
	So, what is troubling about this report is the lack of information that you typically have in a report like this.
	And this is, I think, his brother is mentally challenged.
	He certainly was experiencing homelessness and camping out in other places.
	Didn't they find him at some home somewhere for the disheveled?
	But what's missing from the report is police found troves of pictures on his laptop, on his computer, none of that in here.
	None of it.
	I can't find any public statement about exactly what they found.
	But the tie-in to his brother, because this is what it's going to be.
	He was a crazed child, maybe trafficking children, whatever it's going to be.
	It's going to be so horrific.
	But they're tying it into the shooter.
	They're tying it into his brother, Stephen, who, remember, he had child pornography, even though he don't have his hard disk.
	So they're building the story.
	They're building the story.
	And there's one other thing in this report that disturbs me.
	Paddock's brother Stephen shot up the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas earlier this month, killing 58 and injuring hundreds.
	Another thing about this massacre that troubles me is we had 58 people killed.
	We had over 500 wounded.
	Not a single one of those bumped the count up to 59.
	That's almost unheard of.
	The odds of all those people who were wounded...
	Yeah, especially that huge number of wounded.
	No other person died.
	That's a good point.
	Good catch.
	You can go on with this stuff for days.
	None of it makes any sense.
	No, this is a bottomless hole.
	I've given up on it.
	Yeah.
	I have not given up on it, but it's just that we don't have enough information.
	Hey, thanks, man.
	Appreciate it.
	You're welcome.
	Very cool.
	All right.
	Well, I got a couple.
	Let's go to the...
	Now, this was an ABC report, and I think that somebody knuckled under.
	You notice that we had the war on Tamiflu.
	Yes, we've been seeing this.
	We tracked it.
	So now I'm listening to a...
	I only have the end of this report.
	I wasn't going to play the whole thing.
	It was too long.
	It was about the latest people dying.
	They get the flu one minute, they're dead the next.
	And this was ABC. This is the latest.
	This is the latest from Friday.
	Wait, wait.
	And the whole report is about using Tamiflu in a very positive way.
	And then when they wrap the report...
	With Tamiflu, Tamiflu, Tamiflu, Tamiflu, by the way, never mentioning the alternative, Rolenza.
	Mm-hmm.
	Tamiflu, Tamiflu, Tamiflu.
	Then they go to the end and they bring on one of their doctor experts and she comes on to go on and on about Tamiflu.
	And then they promote Tamiflu continuously through the end of this thing.
	And about that point you heard from Lindsay there, caretakers, caring for loved ones with the flu.
	Should they be taking Tamiflu as well?
	Let's dig into this with Dr.
	Ashton.
	Jen's here tonight.
	And Jen, I know that your daughter has the flu at home.
	We wish her a speedy recovery along with everyone at home dealing with this.
	But this notion about...
	Tamiflu.
	You were mentioning that you were on it.
	Obviously, you're a doctor.
	It's easier to get.
	But it's really important for people to consider this at home.
	Exactly.
	And I also treat pregnant women.
	But in general, the vulnerable high-risk groups that should consider Tamiflu as a prophylactic measure to reduce their risk of getting sick if they've had direct contact, high-risk groups include people over the age of 65, anyone with chronic medical condition like asthma, pregnant women, or anyone with a weakened immune system.
	Those are the vulnerable groups.
	And in the meantime, Jen, we've heard for years that you have to be on Tamiflu within 48 hours of symptoms, but you've learned something else now.
	That's really the old thinking.
	There was that firm line in the sand about the 48-hour mark.
	Now there's new data that suggests that even after the first 48 hours of symptoms, antiviral medications like Tamiflu can be helpful.
	So that should not be a reason to withhold treatment.
	All right, Dr.
	Ashton with us as well, Jen.
	Thank you.
	Well, sounds like somebody made an emergency media buy.
	It sounds like an immediate buy to me.
	Yeah.
	And specifically Tamiflu.
	Yes.
	I mean, I could have played the whole thing.
	It was three minutes.
	It was too long.
	Good catch.
	And they were going on and on and on and on and on.
	I mean, before the last week when we did the show, it was like, oh, you take Tamiflu, you're going to have hallucinations.
	You're going to jump off of a building.
	It's a horrible product.
	It doesn't work.
	And including reports that it doesn't work at all.
	Can we go from that to this?
	Oh yeah, take it anytime.
	50 hours.
	Three weeks later you can take it.
	Take it for prophylactics.
	You don't even have the flu.
	Just take this stuff.
	I have a BBC on Tamiflu side effects clip from 2009 from the archives.
	This is BBC News.
	The headlines at 3 o'clock.
	Doctors urge a rethink on giving Tamiflu to children, as new research says it can do more harm than good.
	You'd need to treat 13 children to prevent one getting influenza, so a fairly small effect on preventing transmission.
	Yeah, they must have gotten so tired of this every single time that flu season rolls around, that all these negative reports were coming out.
	About all the horrible side effects.
	And of course there's side effects, but it's not like people spent a lot of time in the news.
	Side effects from the flu shot.
	Yes, thank you.
	By the way, I didn't mention this.
	This whole report, which I only played the end of, the three minutes, not once mentioned getting a flu shot.
	Interesting.
	It was all Tamiflu.
	And remember that there is a correlation between children having bad side effects and having had Tamiflu and the nasal flu vaccine, the MIST. Right.
	Yes, I think we're the only ones that have ever made that connection.
	Now, what hour did this air in?
	This was the main ABC nightly news.
	It's the 6 o'clock news.
	The big one.
	It's not a slouch of a report.
	No.
	Well, then that was a good buy.
	I'm sure.
	Man, it was a long contract.
	Somebody put a lot of money down.
	It's sometimes fun, sometimes a drag.
	When you're on the face bag.
	A face bag report from Adam's personal face bag feed.
	And I don't typically do this, but I had to jump in and go down the rabbit hole today.
	This actually happened upon my return from the Netherlands.
	From the MTV alumni group.
	I'm going to do first names here because it's just easier because there's a number of different people in this thread.
	So we have Jennifer, who I know, but she really came in just the tail end when I was there.
	And she posted in the group, now she calls it an article, but it's not.
	It's a blog post.
	And the blog post's title is, White Evangelicals, This is Why People Are Through With You.
	And this always catches my eye.
	I was like, oh, that sounds racist.
	Let me read about it.
	And so in the article, and again, it's not an article, it's like a rant.
	I'll just do the opening here.
	Dear white evangelicals, I need to tell you something.
	People have had it with you.
	They're done.
	They want nothing to do with you any longer, and here's why.
	They see your hypocrisy, your inconsistency, your incredibly selective mercy, and your thinly veiled supremacy.
	For eight years they've watched you relentlessly demonize a black president, a man faithfully married for 26 years, a doting father and husband without a hint of moral scandal or the slightest whiff of infidelity.
	They watched you deny his personal faith convictions, argue his birthplace, and assail his character, all without cause or evidence.
	They saw you brandish scriptures to malign him and use the laziest of racial stereotypes in criticizing him.
	And it goes on and on and on.
	You know the kind of article.
	But it wasn't the article I was really responding to.
	It was Jennifer's comment.
	Her comment to this article, and she posted it, was, Agreed.
	Evangelicals are far too large of a bigoted cult with far too much power.
	Let's minimize them.
	What is that supposed to mean?
	Well, thank you.
	When I read that, I was like, wow.
	Go out and shoot them?
	Is she advocating killing them?
	So I post, hmm, eerily similar to what the Nazis said of the Jews.
	Oh, God.
	I don't get involved, said Adam.
	You want to hear how this...
	I don't want to stir up the pot.
	I'm just going to be a neutral observer.
	You want to hear how this went down?
	Oh, I know how it went down, but I'm sure I'd love to hear it.
	Remember, these are people I know.
	And Jennifer comes back.
	Jews during the time of the Nazi uprising were not into persecuting everyone who didn't agree with their point of view, nor did they have the power to do so.
	I don't want evangelicals dead.
	I just don't want them to have a chokehold on the US government as they currently do, influencing laws that detrimentally affect me and millions of others.
	So she clearly didn't understand that I was talking about her comment.
	And by the way, it's not that the Jews were or were not persecuting everybody.
	They were persecuted for having too much power in the banking structure, being blamed for World War I. Exactly what you're doing.
	So I say, it's your persecution that's the problem.
	Are you really that tone deaf?
	Ba-ba-da-ba-ba.
	I was in a mood.
	Uh-oh.
	Use the tone-deaf word.
	And it came back.
	Or word as phrase.
	It came back.
	Instead of accusations and insults, Adam, can you read the article and tell me what specifically you disagree with?
	Just three points.
	I love...
	That's a very typical face bag thing to do.
	Give me three points of what you...
	Let's have a conversation.
	And I say, this is about your comment, not the article.
	And then I say, first they came for the evangelicals, dot, dot, dot.
	She comes back.
	Adam, you seem to not understand this, which is really quite shocking, but the evangelicals have already come for the gays like me.
	If you are unaware of this, I urge you to read bills that have already been passed with those who identify as being evangelical or evangelical friendly.
	Now, I was not going to get into this.
	I'm not going to get into it.
	Well, you're already in knee deep.
	But I wasn't going to get into the bills because, you know, what has actually hurt you?
	And what is, I guess I'm an evangelical friendly because, well, I post the second.
	I follow up.
	I say, you're a bigot.
	Do you not understand the meaning of the word?
	If you disagree, vote someone else in office to represent you.
	Who are you going to attack next?
	The Muslims?
	I hear they really hate the gays.
	You talk like a bigot.
	And that's where I got out.
	I would have run for my life after putting that in there.
	Like gays.
	But isn't that exactly what she's saying?
	Aren't Muslims hurting gay people?
	People don't know about what bigotry even means.
	Adam, you know absolutely nothing about me.
	Clearly your world is very small and you are clearly a very angry person who hides behind the internet to hurl insults.
	If I sound like a bigot, then you are a moron.
	I have tried to have a rational conversation with you even though you have posted nothing but insults and falsehoods on my page.
	When did you get so clueless and rude?
	And then in comes Rhonda.
	Probably since they delivered him head first with forceps.
	Block, Jennifer, block!
	I know you can block him!
	And then she follows up.
	Oh yeah, Adam Schmuckface.
	What the Nazis said of the Jews was, mm, vermin.
	I need some soap made from human fat and new tattooed skin lampshades.
	Oh, I'd like to beat that baby against a lamppost in front of its mother.
	Ooh, I want to kick that old lady's teeth in, you ass.
	I think that's the definition of unhinged.
	Unhinged, yes.
	You've got him unhinged.
	But you did it.
	Wait.
	Jennifer comes back.
	Seems like Adam Curry is trying a new, rude persona to try on one of those podcasts he produces that no one listens to.
	Desperation really is the worst cologne.
	Ha!
	Wow.
	I like that line.
	Ha!
	Desperation is the world's worst cologne.
	Paul chimes in.
	I'm sorry, is there something wrong with not wanting to be persecuted?
	Not sorry.
	Jennifer comes back.
	Paul, don't you understand that when you point out the obvious bigotry of a group, you yourself are the bigot?
	Yeah, that's how brain-dead the defenders of the evangelicals have become.
	Wild, right?
	Rhonda comes back.
	Not brain-dead.
	Living in bizarro world is more like it.
	I've been through with every extremist religious group for as far back as I can remember, but these folks really deserve their very own spot in hell.
	They wish on everyone unlike themselves, and they cray-cray.
	This is MTV people, man.
	They cray-cray?
	They cray-cray, yes.
	And then Paul comes back.
	Paul's trying to pick up chicks.
	I'm a white heterosexual man, so it certainly is not my persecution I'm concerned with.
	But call me crazy, I'm concerned about other people being persecuted, and I have empathy for them.
	And that's exactly what Jennifer wants to hear, who says, you're not crazy, Paul.
	You're just a rational, compassionate human being.
	We need a lot more of you in the world these days.
	And so then I'm done with it, and I post, hey, this is all great show material.
	Thanks.
	And that was it.
	Yeah, brick through the windows next.
	I thought my comment initially was reasonable.
	No.
	None of it was reasonable.
	I don't like people...
	When you group people in with...
	Not all evangelicals are writing laws to destroy you.
	No!
	It's just not true.
	Every single one of them.
	They're doing that as we speak.
	That's why you can't say the gays.
	Because it's not one group.
	And the LGBT community is also horse crap.
	Because it's not.
	It's not the same...
	All the people with the same ideas.
	In fact, quite different.
	Poking a hornet's nest with a stick.
	Well, someone had to do it.
	Well, at least you got them riled up.
	You got the blood pressure going.
	Yeah, but they didn't block me.
	No, they still didn't block you.
	That's funny.
	Nope, nope, nope, nope.
	They like their numbers.
	Well, speaking of such, you know, everyone's real coy and easy to call someone a Nazi here in America.
	A woman who was boarding an airplane, or she wanted to get on a plane at Frankfurt International Airport.
	She's 49, she's a professor, and I think their version of the TSA was telling her, you know, you have too many liquids for your carry-on, and you know just how that went, back and forth and back and forth, and then she said, well, you German Nazis, and they arrested her.
	Because you can't do that in Germany.
	And I think that's a good lesson.
	Now, who is this person, you think?
	Just some woman, American.
	American?
	Yeah.
	The article actually says she was Jewish-American, the article says.
	I don't think that's important.
	I don't think it's important either.
	But you asked.
	But it's funny.
	So she was getting hassled, and she said, look, she called the police Nazis, and said, okay, we're locking you up.
	Because it's not appropriate to call someone a Nazi.
	That's why.
	And the Germans are right.
	Especially in Germany.
	They have laws against you.
	You can't even display a swastika.
	Right.
	But that's...
	My point is, get a clue.
	It's not cool to call someone a Nazi at any point.
	And it really takes away from the power of what that really means.
	A real Nazi.
	Well, good.
	I'm glad that happened.
	It was apparently Tennis Sangren.
	Do I have that right?
	Tennis?
	Tennis?
	What's the guy's name?
	Who's the...
	Sandgren.
	Tennis player.
	Yeah, the tennis player's name is Tennis.
	Yeah, Tennis Sandgren.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, so have you been following what's happening with him?
	No.
	So, he...
	I guess this is like a two-parter.
	He advanced to the next round.
	I know nothing about...
	What tournament is he playing?
	I think the Australian Open is what's going on.
	Yeah, I did know that.
	The Australian Open.
	And on his Twitter feed, he apparently follows Mike Cernovich or a couple other people.
	Yeah, Mike.
	He may retweet.
	Big Mike.
	And so the press is just all over him.
	Attention to your social media output, which includes some political figures who might be considered outside the mainstream.
	For instance, on Jan 15, Nicolas Fuentes...
	I believe I attended the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville.
	Now, do you not think that you should be concerned about linking your social media?
	Is that linking?
	You've written on your bio that RTs are not endorsements, but there is quite a regular pattern.
	Somebody like Mike Chernovich, also on your feed, I believe you debated Pizzagate.
	Debated?
	Yeah.
	That's interesting.
	I just wondered if you were concerned about having yourself connected to some of these controversial things.
	I mean, no, I'm not concerned about it.
	The question that's made up is ridiculous.
	Look, who you follow on Twitter, I feel like, doesn't matter even a little bit.
	You know, what information you see doesn't dictate what you think or believe.
	And I think it's crazy to think that.
	I think it's crazy to assume that, to say, well, he's...
	Following X person so he believes all the things that this person believes.
	I think that's ridiculous.
	That's not how information works.
	If you watch a news channel, you wouldn't then say that that person who's watching the news channel thinks everything that that news channel...
	I really appreciate what tennis is doing here, but have you ever heard anyone talk about Fox News, including President Obama?
	That anyone who watches Fox News is a blithering idiot?
	That's exactly how it works.
	But I like what he's trying to do.
	What's out?
	You wouldn't think that.
	I'm not concerned about it.
	You would.
	And I don't think that any kind of engagement in that way dictates that you then are right in there with that particular person.
	So that goes on for a little bit.
	Hold on a second.
	Why doesn't the guy say, hey...
	I'm a tennis player.
	That's exactly what he did the next time he moved ahead.
	And he started off the press conference with a statement.
	And the statement was, I'm here to talk about tennis.
	Who I follow on Twitter and what I do on social media is completely irrelevant to the topic at hand, which is the game of tennis.
	I'm not going to play that whole bit for you, but I will play you just the ending of his statement at the beginning of the press conference and the first question from the press.
	You dehumanize with pen and paper and turn neighbor against neighbor.
	In so doing, you may actually find you're hastening the hell you wish to avoid, the hell we all wish to avoid.
	It is my firm belief that the highest value must be placed on the virtue of each individual, regardless of gender, race, religion, or sexual orientation.
	It's my job to continue on this journey with the goal of becoming the best me I can and to embody the love Christ has for me, for our answer to Him and Him alone.
	I'd say questions about the match.
	And that's a problem right there because, uh-oh, he sounds like an evangelical!
	You guys don't mind.
	Thank you.
	First of all, congratulations.
	Thank you.
	I know, I'm incredible.
	It's a long way from Tebron.
	And out there on the match today, you had a racket and Chung had a racket.
	And that was fair.
	Do you think it's...
	Is it okay to come in to speak to us on how we dehumanize?
	I'll take answers about the tennis.
	This is a question.
	Out there on the court today, you both have brackets.
	Why is it okay that...
	You can make your comments and we can't respond.
	Let's stop being about tennis.
	I was fine talking about tennis.
	I'm fine talking about a lot of things, but I feel like this has gone very far away from...
	So the first thing the guy says, do you really think it's okay to tell us what we can ask you?
	I mean, the media really has gone a little off their rocker on this one.
	They really think that their shit doesn't stink.
	I like what he said.
	He said, you're actually creating the hell that you claim to protect us from.
	You're putting brother against brother.
	Yeah, well, this is not news.
	Neighbor against neighbor.
	No.
	Not news.
	So, his tennis career will just not, it won't work.
	I mean, he can't get any endorsements.
	I mean, he's going to be a white supremacist.
	You get your endorsements if you get championships.
	He's going to be a white supremacist.
	Well, even if he wins championships and they...
	White supremacists.
	Everybody's a white supremacist now.
	Yeah.
	Yes, everyone's a white supremacist.
	I'm sure the MTV group will call me out as such any day now.
	Yeah.
	Well, you're blonde.
	It's a good start.
	Yeah.
	Tall blonde Nordic.
	You're the white supremacist.
	We're one of those Nordic aliens.
	I want to do, just before we take our break here, and that is possible, by the way.
	Certainly the tall blondes, I do resemble that.
	I'll be the first to agree.
	We had some interesting news come in about the Hawaii IPAWS nuclear missile alert.
	There's also news tonight about the false alarm of an incoming missile causing 38 minutes of panic, you'll remember, in Hawaii.
	Well, the FCC tonight now saying the emergency management employee who accidentally issued that alert is not cooperating with investigators.
	Residents, you'll remember, were warned a ballistic missile was inbound and told to seek immediate shelter.
	It just keeps getting better.
	Not cooperating.
	I'm not sure what that means.
	Probably means that they won't answer questions from ABC. No, no.
	That's no.
	That's not what they said.
	No.
	No, it would not answer the FCC. There's also news tonight about the false alarm of an incoming missile causing 38 minutes of panic, you'll remember, in Hawaii.
	Well, the FCC tonight now saying the emergency management employee who accidentally issued that alert is not cooperating.
	Yeah, the FCC. Oh, okay.
	He's not cooperating.
	So what?
	Well, it just makes it a little more fishy since we don't actually know what happened.
	The whole thing is fishy.
	You proved that on a show or two ago.
	And Oregon has had similar issues.
	In Portland Tuesday morning, another false alarm.
	This one from Oregon's Department of Transportation.
	Through the agency's TripCheck website, it sent out an alert and tweets saying on I-5, one mile south of I-84, an aircraft crash has occurred.
	ODOT spokesman Don Hamilton says the alert...
	It was false.
	We were conducting a test, and instead of being private and internal, it went public.
	And for about four minutes, there was an alert out there that there had been a plane crash, when of course there had not been any plane crash.
	So the tweet I saw was still up about two and a half hours later.
	How'd that happen?
	We worked to get some of the automatic tweets down, but it took a long time to chase down some of the tweets that are generated automatically.
	Uh-huh.
	You know, isn't this at a certain point the equivalent of yelling fire in a crowded theater?
	I mean, isn't it going to be punishable?
	I mean, you can't just make these kinds of mistakes.
	And this is clearly, I mean, this would not even be a test or a drill message.
	This is them horsing around.
	Hey, I know.
	What happens if a plane crashes into the bridge?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	You know, I don't know.
	The whole thing is bothersome, and technology is not our friend in this case.
	And I think we're going to see some actual deaths take place because of a fake alert.
	I think somebody died of a heart attack in the Hawaiian thing.
	I'm sure.
	It's stressful.
	It's stressful to people.
	That's what makes me wonder whether some of these tests aren't really tests of the public.
	Of the public.
	Well, I think that's a distinct possibility.
	I know that you're a little annoyed by it, but I like keeping Omni stories because eventually you stay in it long enough and then it turns out, ah, here's the proof I've been looking for that was bull crap such as...
	The Guardian article from Wednesday, October 12, 2005, this was the big news at the time from the United Nations, that the United Nations declared there would be 50 million environmental refugees by the end of the decade due to climate change.
	There are well-founded fears that the number of people fleeing untenable environmental conditions may grow exponentially as the world experiences the effect of climate change, Dr.
	Bogarty said.
	This new category of refugee needs to find a place in international agreements.
	We need to better anticipate support requirements similar to those of people fleeing other unviable situations.
	And everyone shines in, you know, the Red Cross, and everybody agrees, and all countries are like, yeah, well, we'll take a couple, and...
	And, of course, now you fast-forward 12 years.
	We'll take three.
	Yeah.
	And it turns out that in every single one of the countries mentioned, not only are there no refugees, but the population of these countries has grown significantly.
	It's equivalent to the snow in the snow dome.
	Yeah.
	But the new method...
	And this kind of caught my eye when we were looking at the South African, no, no, was it the water shortage zero day in, where is it?
	South Africa.
	Yeah.
	Right.
	Cape Town.
	Cape Town.
	Thank you.
	And, you know, in that whole piece, which I didn't play anything of, you'd be able to say, well, if you want one cup of coffee, that takes the equivalent of 1,800, you know, liters of water.
	No, because of the coffee bean.
	One coffee bean takes...
	Takes a million gallons of water for one coffee bean, you wastrel.
	And I'm calling this a new method of trying to convince, well, coerce people into doing, into certain behaviors.
	Yeah, well, same thing with meat.
	Well, now they're going after the sandwich.
	Yes, the sandwich.
	You have evidence of this.
	Yes, scientists at the University of Manchester have found a surprising global warming culprit.
	Sandwiches.
	In the first study of its kind, the researchers carried out an in-depth audit of various sandwiches throughout their life cycles and found the triangular meals could be responsible for the equivalent annual carbon emissions of 8.6 million cars in Britain alone.
	One sandwich?
	No, the sandwich is eaten.
	So, they give a little background on the history of the sandwich.
	Would you like to hear that one paragraph?
	I didn't know the history of the sandwich.
	Did you know the history of the sandwich?
	Well, I thought it had to do with Lord Sandwich or something like that.
	Yes, yes.
	In 1762, or so the story goes, the fourth Earl of Sandwich rocked the culinary world when he couldn't be bothered to leave the gambling table to eat and ordered his servants to just stick some meat between two slices of bread for him.
	Since then, the modern sandwich has become one of the most popular of food formats.
	Curiously, you'd have to wonder what bread was used for before this.
	Yeah.
	Wonder bread, of course.
	From the Earl of Wonder.
	So now they break it down.
	And what researchers have found that not all sandwiches are created equal.
	And that some varieties have a larger carbon footprint than others.
	The highest footprint was found in pre-made, pre-packaged, all-day breakfast sandwiches.
	This is very British.
	This is the one you buy at the gas station.
	They contain eggs, bacon, sausage, and are kept packaging.
	You can get these at McDonald's.
	You can get them at Jack in the Box.
	Well, not a sandwich.
	You can get them at McDonald's.
	You can get them at Burger King.
	I'm just saying that this is something big in the UK. But all of this is estimated to add up to 1,441 grams, which is 3.18 pounds, of carbon dioxide equivalent.
	Per sandwich?
	Yes, or roughly the same as driving a car for 12 miles.
	So if I have one sandwich, it's the same as driving the car for 12 miles?
	You have polluted for 12 miles.
	Wow.
	So I'm like, okay, this is great.
	You're supposed to not eat anything?
	Is that the idea?
	No.
	You starve?
	No, here's the idea.
	All humans must die.
	The Manchester...
	Yeah, you can't eat your sandwich.
	No.
	Kill all humans.
	The Manchester researchers aren't anti-sandwich, but they do say that changing recipes and packaging while reducing waste could result in a 50% drop in sandwich-related carbon emissions.
	Seems like an attack on Pret-de-Manger.
	Yes.
	Along with the BSA, they claim that something as simple as reforming the sell-by-date system could save over 2,000 tons of sandwiches in Britain being wasted each year.
	So the strategy here...
	Sell stale sandwiches.
	Yes!
	We need to change the labeling of food to increase the use-by date, as these are usually quite conservative, says team member Professor Adisa.
	No, they're not!
	Commercial sandwiches undergo rigorous shelf-life testing and are normally safe for consumption beyond the use-by date stated on the label.
	So they want to have people buy stale sandwiches that have possibly gone bad.
	Yes.
	So they want to put humans...
	Kill all humans.
	Yeah, it's exactly right.
	We want to put humans at risk to save the humans.
	Or to save humanity.
	Wow.
	Well, that would be a clip of the day if he had something clipped.
	Unfortunately, I got nothing.
	I'm going to show my salute by donating to No Agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, on No Agenda.
	And here we go.
	There are people left off, as far as I'm concerned.
	Okay.
	And so you're going to have to give us a call.
	No, don't give us a call.
	Error.
	John at Dvorak.org.
	D-V-R-O-A-K. And Andrew Denton is at the top of the list, 166.67.
	San Diego, California.
	Congratulations on Show 1000, the best podcast.
	Keep it up.
	And he's going toward night.
	Mm-hmm.
	Ryan...
	Had him in Elk Grove, California, 150.
	He graduates from Berkeley in May.
	The show has helped me.
	This is interesting to me.
	The show has helped me not fall victim to the delusion of my fellow millennials.
	Very good.
	This is his first donation.
	He needs a dedouching.
	Yeah, he can be the dedouching.
	You've been dedouched.
	Absolutely.
	Dedouch away.
	Timothy Ryan, or Timothy Ryan, $108.
	Apparently, it's a number of how many beads there are in an Indian prayer mala.
	Oh.
	Nine planets times 12 equals 108.
	You know, I've been looking into some numerology.
	And, well, for almost every number up until like 10,000, there's a, what do they call it?
	It's like an angel number.
	So I've looked up the angel number for the next show, 1004.
	10-4.
	10-4, good buddy.
	10-4.
	Screw the angel number.
	We're doing 10-4.
	10-4.
	10-4.
	Yeah.
	It's an acknowledgement of the show's existence.
	10-4.
	10-4.
	Message received.
	Got it.
	But what's the angel number?
	Tell us anyway.
	Oh.
	I just put it away.
	Okay.
	The angel number...
	We do need the little theremin.
	Theremin.
	Number 1004 is made up of energies of number one.
	This is all the bullcrap, but I want to get down to the piece about here.
	Angel number 1004 encourages you to create a strong base and foundation for yourself so that you have the energy and clarity to make choices and take action that serves your highest good and that resonates with you.
	Stay positive, optimistic, and practical to ensure that you manifest what you want rather than what you don't.
	Building strong foundations from well-laid plans ensures future stability, progress, and success.
	Angel number 1004 brings a message to courageously step forward in the direction of your true life purpose and trust that the things you require will manifest when you need them in your life.
	Taxi.
	Exactly.
	Okay.
	That was great.
	You asked!
	I had no idea.
	It was my fault.
	Dan Pinkerton, $100.30.
	Oh, sorry.
	Sir Craig Porter, Council Bluffs, Iowa, $130.
	$100.30.
	And also Dan Pinkerton in Chula Vista.
	$100.30.
	And also Sam Leung there in Toronto.
	$100.30.
	So three people participated.
	Yes, the great gimmick that we had.
	And you think my angel number is bad for 1004?
	How can it be worse than this?
	Well, I was just...
	Wesley K. Walker, Pacifica 100.
	Kurt...
	Kubai.
	Kubal.
	Kubal.
	9999.
	999999.
	Anonymous, 98.
	Karma to host and donors.
	Thank you.
	Sir Chris Gray of the Isle of Wight in Covington, Louisiana.
	Which is not the Isle of Wight.
	Okay.
	We'll get that for him.
	Sir Knight of the Living Dead.
	In Thorndon, Wellington, New Zealand, 8841.
	He says, this figure shall henceforth be known as the reverse racism donation.
	Hmm.
	Does he explain?
	I don't see that.
	I don't understand how 8841, we're probably missing something as usual.
	Yeah, we'll probably.
	He says, well, he'll explain.
	He says, there's a problem with donating to the show.
	He says, I had to sit through no less than 10 captures on the PayPal site just to make this donation.
	That's interesting.
	I had a similar problem recently, but it's cleared up.
	Oh.
	Okay.
	So I think they implemented this.
	There was obviously an attack from some IP addresses.
	Ah, so they put a whole bunch of CAPTCHAs and stuff in?
	Not only that, but they're the worst.
	I've never seen this before, but it's as though you do the CAPTCHA, and then they don't believe you.
	And they put the pictures up.
	You click, I'm not a robot, and then it puts a bunch of pictures up.
	It says, find all the cars in this thing.
	Yeah, but you know what's happening is they're correlating your retweets, and they're saying, this guy's a bot.
	He doesn't even have a Facebook account, and he's retweeting Facebook.
	No, this is coming in from a VPN. There's no way.
	Anyway, so I'm clicking on the cars, and you click on the car, and the car goes away, and another car comes.
	Oh, I hate this one, where you have to click on each square in the picture that has a street sign in it.
	Yeah, but this is worse than just click, click, click.
	Apply.
	This is click.
	Oh, there's another picture in the old square.
	Yeah, I've had that.
	And another one and another one.
	So you finally clear it of cars.
	It's like the birthday candles that you can't blow out.
	Yes, exactly.
	Then you click the button because you got them finally all clear.
	And another one crops up with find the signs.
	I couldn't believe it.
	The internet is shit.
	It's really bad.
	Steven Shevlin, 8008, boob.
	This is for all the service donkeys who listen to the show.
	Kenneth Learman Jr., boob.
	Sir Dominator is who it actually is.
	Sir Dominate.
	Sir Dominate.
	John Cruz in East Wenatchee, Washington, 8008.
	Three boobs.
	Josephus van Veldhoven.
	Josephus van Veldhoven.
	Josephus.
	Josephus, not Josephus.
	Yeah, Josephus.
	75.
	He's in Holland somewhere.
	Thank you very much.
	Anonymous in Frisco, Texas.
	6969.
	Mike.
	Hey, whoa!
	Whoa, whoa, whoa!
	Hello.
	Colors.
	Colors.
	Colors on Anonymous.
	Anonymous Colors.
	Anonymous.
	Final donation for my damehood, which I received early during the 10th year shows.
	This is Dame...
	Firecracker.
	I look forward to getting my ring.
	Douchebag call out to Jerry.
	Douchebag!
	Okay.
	All right.
	Dame Firecracker.
	You will be damed momentarily.
	Yeah.
	Dame Firecracker.
	That's a good one.
	Yeah.
	69 bucks to San Antonio, Texas.
	Mike Baird.
	Sir Johnny.
	Sir Johnny of the Swap Knight.
	Washington, D.C. He's in the swamp.
	66.60.
	John...
	What is it?
	Fuoco.
	Fuoco.
	Small boobs.
	6006.
	Don't get enough of those small boobs.
	But we like small boobs.
	Everybody does.
	John Farmer.
	Big ones too.
	Pine Plains.
	53...
	33.
	Gabriel the Brazilian.
	Let me just see.
	What is this on John Farmer?
	Oh, birthday shout-out to Danny Cunningham.
	And he needs a...
	Danny, a Viking-sized de-douching, and may this donation credit be the beginning of your journey to knighthood.
	I'm not quite sure who's being de-douched.
	Somebody's getting de-douched.
	Sounds like a plan of success.
	I beat you.
	Sounds like a plan of success.
	No, sounds like a plan to me.
	Stephan Borey, Paralawi, South...
	South Australia.
	Keep it up.
	And did we get Gabriel the Brazilian with 55.10 for Manchester, double nickels on the dime?
	I said Gabriel the Brazilian when I said Manchester.
	I'm not sure.
	Oh, Manchester, New Hampshire.
	Aaron Lambert in Tumwater, Washington.
	Used to be the home of, I believe it was, Olympia Beer Tumwater.
	We would use the water from Tumwater, Washington, the best water in the world, and then somehow it was the number one beer if you were a bowler in the 70s.
	It was.
	And you, I believe...
	I'll have another Ole!
	John?
	Yes?
	Do I not recall that you actually bowled professionally?
	No, I never...
	I bowled with professionals, but I never bowled professionally, but I was on the University of California bowling team when they had one.
	When's the last time you...
	An actual NCAA sport.
	Yeah, when's the last time you bowled a few frames?
	A couple of years ago, there was a...
	Bowling alley that had all artificial surfaces and I wanted to bowl on it.
	So I went over there with an old ball.
	I still have shoes.
	I was going to say, do you have your own ball?
	Oh yeah, of course.
	Do you have more than one ball?
	Yeah, I've got a bunch of balls.
	Nice.
	I'm known for my balls.
	Well, maybe we should have a bowling meetup.
	That's cool.
	You can rent out a whole bowling alley.
	You can rent a few lanes.
	I'd love to see you bowl.
	Well, you see, now that I have to practice and get back into shape.
	Because now we know you really were the inspiration for the dude.
	The dude.
	Stephen King, meanwhile, is the inspiration for 53.35.
	Shout out to Parker Lawson for hitting me in the mouth.
	Eric Hochul in Berlin, Deutschland, 52.
	Brian Richardson in Aurora, Illinois, $50.69.
	He's one of those people who went back and listened to all the shows.
	Most of them at least twice.
	Whoa.
	And then he says, his hashtag suck it, John.
	Do you know how many days all of our shows are?
	If you listen to the back-to-back, how many days it would take?
	How many?
	155.
	A half a year?
	Mm-hmm.
	And then to listen twice would be a whole year of listening.
	Yep.
	Anthony Anselmo, $50.50.
	That's what we call in the business.
	We call that engagement.
	Engagement.
	Suck it, John.
	Suck it, suck it.
	As far as I'm concerned, my engagement.
	Suck it.
	And now the following people are $50 donors, name and location, starting with Michael Robinson in North Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
	Gary Howell, parts unknown.
	Chris Whidden, we know where he's from, but we don't hear.
	Larry Hay in Mooresville, North Carolina.
	Chris Lindner, 50.
	Nils Bonnaker in Hamburg, Deutschland.
	We get the Germans today.
	Louis Pasteur in Miami, Florida.
	Jose Ferreira in Newbury, Berkshire, UK. Jeffrey Zellen in Oakland, Michigan.
	Peter Tote, Sir Peter Tote, to you in Sugarland, Texas.
	And last but not least, Robert Makowski in Rhinebeck, New York.
	I want to thank all these folks for producing the show 1002 and contributing to the cause.
	Well, it's, yeah, to the show, to the work, to the art.
	To the truth.
	To the truth.
	Thank you for contributing to the truth.
	But in all seriousness, yes, it does matter and we appreciate that.
	Decent showing today.
	Thank you.
	I know donation fatigue is tough, but this is what it takes.
	If you're really producing, you know, after the show, there's another show.
	It just keeps on going.
	And lots of thanks to everybody who came in.
	Under $50, that's where we have our subscriptions and all kinds of other things.
	We still need to change the thank you page, John.
	Yeah?
	Because it still has a link to the Chinese porn site, and it's pretty bad.
	I'm going to fix it.
	No, I am.
	I'm going to fix it.
	I found that tool I wanted to test out.
	I figured I'd test it out on that page.
	Oh, okay.
	Good.
	So, thank you all very much.
	And remember, we have another show coming up on Thursday.
	Yes?
	What?
	How many people click that link?
	About one a year.
	Oh, I'm just saying.
	I know it's one of those things...
	I will fix it.
	It won't go to the Chinese porn site anymore.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	You've got...
	Karma. Karma. Karma. Karma. Karma. Karma. Karma. Karma. Karma. Karma.
	Ah, that's another one of those fabulous lists we've got for the birthday today.
	John Farmer says happy birthday to Danny Cunningham.
	He turns 33 years old today, and we say happy birthday from all your buddies here at the best podcast in the universe!
	So long, so long, so long.
	Okay, got my sword, got the big sword, since I'm not on the road anymore.
	I got mine.
	And, yep, there it is.
	I'd like to ask Richard Warfield to join us here at the podium, Anonymous, and Andrew Spieler, because the three of you!
	We'll become inductees to the Roundtable of the No Agenda Knights and Dames.
	This is where all the goodies are.
	And it is, of course, for your contributions to the best podcast, a university amount of $1,000 or more.
	I hereby pronounce the KD. Sir Loud Pipes, Dame Firecracker, and Sir Racha.
	Yes, for you, we have Hookers and Moe, Rent Boys, and Chardonnay.
	We've got...
	Brisket and barrel-aged copper, pinball and power cords, goat chops and goat milk, Polish potato vodka, diet soda and video games, fish pie and fellatio, WWE and dabs.
	We've got cannabis and cabernet.
	We've got breast milk and pavum, ginger ale and gerbils, bong hits and bourbon, and mutton and mead!
	So the three of you can head right on over to noengineernation.com slash rings.
	Eric DeShield will take care of you there, get you the right size, etc.
	And thank you again for your production.
	And you're producing of the No Agenda Show.
	Indeed.
	And I will have a report.
	I have a wine report.
	I'm doing a wine report because I went to the big wine tasting.
	For today or for the next show?
	I could do it today.
	I don't have much else in the way it clips.
	But I do want to announce that I will be cooking sorghum tonight.
	Wow, that's great, John.
	How are you going to prepare the sorghum?
	I'm more interested in that than the wine today, actually.
	I think I'm going to just do a simple cooked sorghum, which would be one half cup of sorghum to two cups of water, so it looks like a four-to-one thing.
	And then just put salt and pepper and a lot of butter.
	What do you think?
	Yeah, that always helps.
	What do you think it'll taste like?
	What do you think the consistency will be similar to?
	Like quinoa?
	Quinoa, whatever that stuff's called.
	It looks like it.
	It looks like a big version of quinoa, and so maybe it's going to be something like that.
	I'm sure the flavor is mediocre and it's not as good as rice.
	But at least you have a report.
	But I'm sure I can season it to make it taste good.
	You're doing it for the show.
	Yeah, butter and salt.
	Yeah, I think you'll be able to.
	Butter and salt.
	That'll do the trick.
	I think it'll work.
	Well, on the food tip, The war on cash, now moving to restaurants.
	If you're hungry for lunch at this restaurant, you better bring a credit or debit card.
	When Michael Kaplan opened Two Forks in New York one year ago, he accepted cash the first few weeks.
	We were noticing that with every cash transaction, the payment process was slowing down significantly.
	After doing some research and seeing that generally everyone was paying with credit cards anyway, we thought that that was a good next step.
	He made his restaurant cashless, no cash allowed.
	I don't really carry cash, so I think it's great because it makes everything go a lot faster.
	I think it's great that it's cashless.
	But what if someone only has dollars, real money?
	Maybe one person's like, you know, they go for their cash instinct and they're like, oh, you cashless?
	And then we explain, they're like, yeah, you know what?
	I don't even like cash anymore.
	Kaplan admits each week a handful of people come in with only cash.
	He doesn't turn them away.
	They have exact change.
	We'll give it to them if we can get close enough, but we always try to work with the customer.
	According to a 2016 consumer payment study, 40% of Americans prefer paying with a credit card, 35% with a debit card, and just 11% favor cash.
	Also going cashless is Dos Toros, a chain of 14 Mexican restaurants.
	I rarely ever have cash, so generally I'm going to use my debit card or credit card for the points.
	But some customers still prefer to use dollars.
	A couple weeks ago, when I came in, tried to pay cash, and they were like, we're cashless.
	At first I was a little annoyed because I come in here with the exact amount, and I like paying that.
	It's convenient for someone like me who wants to move very quickly, but I suppose it maybe alienates a certain group of people.
	And the cashless trend is growing.
	Just this week, the first Amazon Go store opened in Seattle, a convenience store with no cashiers, no lines.
	You pick up your items and the card stored on your phone is automatically charged as you walk out the door.
	Puffed in, puffed out.
	Maybe the whole process took maybe three and a half minutes.
	Monday!
	You better have a stash because there's a war on cats.
	Oh, yeah.
	And most distressing about that report is the amount of people.
	Of course, it's a man on the street, so they put in what they want.
	But that's the same point.
	Like, I never have cash.
	I never have cash.
	Who needs cash?
	Hey, I'm on the go.
	I don't need cash.
	I need to be fast.
	Distressing.
	Well, the premise of the story at the very beginning is what irked me.
	Which was, well, we were using cash, but it was taking so long to do the transactions.
	It was taking so long that we decided to go with the no cash.
	How does that work?
	How does it take so long to use cash?
	Because you have to add to it and you're too stupid to add money?
	When I was a kid, And this is something very unique to at least the Dutch educational system.
	We were taught how to give change.
	And we were actually taught in a way where you would count backwards.
	So you would start with, you know, it was $1.95.
	That's the way you do it.
	It was $1.95.
	Here's five cents.
	That's two.
	And you gave me $10.
	We were taught that too, if you were old enough.
	I do not believe this is taught anymore.
	Of course not.
	And just look at Common Core.
	It's like if you have to calculate how much change someone's gave, you have to think about, well, if the train is going 300 miles an hour and Bob is at point A and I have to give back 695.
	It's like there's no way.
	It's impossible.
	Kids can't do this math anymore.
	That's because they're not taught math.
	Exactly.
	They're not taught...
	Two and two is four.
	They don't want to learn...
	No, no, no, no.
	Two and two is...
	No, no, no, no.
	You've got to do it this way.
	And so it's two and two and then you've got to be...
	Let's guess.
	It could be six, but is it really?
	So that's the reason for the slowdown, but this is not a good development.
	Even that, that's bullshit too, because the slowdown on all modern cash registers...
	You punch it in and then you put the amount of cash received and the cash register tells you what to return.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Well, and then elsewhere in the whole story, they said, well, you pay 3% transaction fees.
	And he said, yeah, well, what we would have to pay to handle cash, which includes having, you know, enough small coins, apparently there's a cost involved in that.
	No, there isn't.
	I'm just telling you what he said.
	Lies!
	Having armored cars take the cash to the deposit, you know, all this stuff.
	It's like, wow, I mean, and this is CNBC promoting this.
	And at what point can you say, excuse me, this, I mean, look, if we can have a whole country go apeshit over a baker who doesn't want to bake a gay wedding cake, Can we then not say, hold on a second, I have legal tender in my hand.
	It says it very clearly, and it's by law.
	By law.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	And you're discriminating against me because of my beliefs in credit.
	My belief is different.
	I do not believe in credit.
	I believe in, or debit.
	I don't believe in debit either.
	I believe in having cash.
	Could I not have a case?
	Yeah.
	I think so.
	It's total discrimination.
	And it's cultural discrimination too.
	It's cultural discrimination because a lot of Muslims can't use credit.
	And homeless people.
	Homeless people can't save up their pennies and come in and buy something at Two Forks because they are anti-homeless.
	Keep the homeless out.
	Anti-homeless.
	Sorry we can't take your pennies.
	Get out of here, bum.
	I'm going to track Austin.
	This will be a trend here.
	I'm sure, because we have the homeless here.
	It's heartbreaking.
	It's heartbreaking.
	I know a way to get rid of him.
	Just go cashless.
	I caught an interesting interview with photographer Platon, is his name?
	I guess he goes by photographer Platon, like I would be podcaster Curry.
	Well, he apparently photographs world leaders.
	And I like this because he told us about his experience with Putin.
	And more now from Davos, where the very last session in the main Congress Center this afternoon will include a man who was born in London but made his name in New York through his portraits of the powerful.
	The photographer Platon's work includes shots of American presidents including Donald Trump and many covers of Time magazine, including Vladimir Putin and Aung San Suu Kyi.
	The only way I can describe it is like the bat line to their soul.
	That's the only way I can describe what it's like to connect in a human way.
	You must talk to them.
	It's small talk?
	Would you call it that?
	It's not small talk to me because it's things I actually really want to know.
	I mean, I asked Putin if he liked the Beatles.
	And the first thing is that he asked his translators to leave the room immediately and he turned to me and in perfect English he said, I love the Beatles.
	And I said, I didn't know you spoke English.
	And he said, I speak perfect English.
	So I said, well, who's your favorite Beatle then?
	And he said, Paul.
	I named my son Jude after Hey Jude.
	So I'm a huge Beatles fan.
	So this is not small talk to me.
	This is something I actually want to know because no one else told me.
	It serves a purpose.
	You are trying to put your subject at ease.
	I'm trying to connect.
	I don't really care about icebreaking.
	I'm trying to find their humanity.
	And when he said, Paul McCartney, I then said, well, what's your favourite song?
	Is it back in the USSR? And he gave me the scariest look.
	But then, because perhaps I had been human with him, and he realised that this authority...
	It doesn't work on me.
	He smiled.
	And then he said, actually, my favorite song is Yesterday.
	Think about it.
	And I thought about it, and then I thought, my God, I'm being sent a subliminal message about the old days of power in the USSR by arguably the most powerful man in the world through a Paul McCartney song.
	I just liked it.
	Perfect English.
	We knew that.
	Yeah.
	Our shows promoted that idea.
	Don't worry, be happy.
	I thought about that, but it's just not Beatles enough.
	Interesting.
	It was interesting.
	I don't know that yesterday necessarily is his interpretation of why he likes the song.
	People like that song.
	It's not because they're yearning for the old days of the USSR. But okay, if that's what you want to do, go there.
	In 60 Minutes...
	We had one of Putin's best friends on, Margarita Simonian.
	She is the Russian who runs RT. This was a good 60 Minutes.
	Oh, I missed it.
	Yeah.
	Well, I pulled the clip just in case you did.
	And she started when she was like 25.
	I think we might have even reported on that at the time.
	I know she's come up in conversation because I remember that she was very young.
	And this obviously implies that she's sucking Putin off and that's why she got the job.
	And that's kind of the whole tone of the 60 Minutes piece.
	She dismisses the U.S. intelligence report that assesses with high confidence that Putin ordered an influence campaign aimed at the U.S. election and that RT, Russia's state-run propaganda machine, contributed to the influence campaign.
	In this intelligence report, I don't even know how many references to you.
	27.
	27 references to you.
	A photograph of you and a cartoon of you stepping over the White House.
	There's nothing illegal that we did.
	There's nothing murky.
	There's no...
	To most of our questions, her answer was, well, what about you?
	Let's talk about Russian interference in our election, which our intelligence agencies tell us happened.
	And you believe them.
	Just like you believe that they were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
	Didn't you believe that?
	Continue to believe that Russian interference in American elections happened.
	In five years you will know that it didn't.
	It's also Facebook and Twitter say the same thing now.
	What do they say?
	They say that the Russians used their websites to perpetrate pro-Trump, anti-Hillary Clinton, I can't deny that there could be Russian media that had their opinion on Twitter, on Facebook, whatever, broadcast.
	Is that bad?
	Is that illegal?
	Isn't that what the American media do as well?
	British media supported Hillary.
	No problem with that.
	No interference.
	Nothing.
	French media supported Hillary.
	No problem with that.
	Some Russian media supported Trump.
	Oh my God!
	Did RT support Trump?
	No.
	RT did not support Trump.
	Our fault is that RT did not support Hillary either.
	I know that.
	I wanted to win somebody who would be nicer to Russia.
	Did you get that?
	No.
	Is it even possible?
	We don't know.
	I like her.
	I do too.
	It's good.
	She's not going to be putting up with the crap from Leslie.
	Don't worry.
	Be happy.
	Don't worry.
	Be happy.
	Here is appropriate.
	I have two clips left.
	Alrighty.
	So do I. Birth rates in California.
	Oh boy.
	Fewer babies are being born in California.
	In fact, the number hasn't been this low since the Great Depression.
	New research from the State Department of Finance says births are declining at a historic pace.
	The key factor, the millennials.
	They appear to be choosing to establish their careers before starting families.
	We know eventually that fertility will pick up, but that could be 50 years from now.
	The worry is that a gap in births could lead to issues with the state's workforce over the next 20 to 30 years.
	Here's a story.
	Wait, they got dogs.
	We gotta count.
	We have 250 units in our building.
	How many dogs do you think we have?
	200.
	No, not like that.
	100.
	I think 100 is a lot.
	Yeah, it is for dogs.
	There's a lot of dogs.
	The millennials, they're dogs.
	Dogs instead of kids.
	So Jesse and J.C. Buzzkill Jr.
	went to Michigan because her dad was having an operation and they hooked up with the local number one meetup that they were having on the Sunday that they were coming back.
	And Jesse related the difference between California itself, just in general.
	Maybe the millennials have a lot to do because they don't hang out with anybody, but millennials generally, but When she went to the restaurant, everybody in the restaurant, you know, was, oh, the baby, the baby, look at the baby, little baby.
	They're all fawning over the baby.
	The adorable.
	The adorable.
	They're all holding the baby.
	They said they went to a Chinese restaurant for dinner one night and the owner came out all fawning over the baby.
	She said, I'll hold the baby while you guys eat.
	This is new.
	And it goes on and on like this.
	You come back to California, everybody...
	Ooh, a baby!
	A baby!
	Keep your baby quiet.
	Your baby's bothering me.
	Huh.
	Yeah.
	That's just like...
	Baby haters.
	They hate babies in California.
	No, they hate children.
	Babies and children.
	They hate children.
	So you end up with this...
	You can see in the Midwest, everybody's fawning all over the baby.
	Out here, they all hate the baby.
	I hate the baby!
	Because they just do.
	You can clip that one.
	It's just California.
	They've turned anti-people.
	They hate people.
	They hate babies.
	They hate reproduction.
	They want everyone to have an abortion.
	Have an abortion!
	don't have a baby.
	Dynamite.
	I'm just not...
	I was waiting for a clip.
	This was much better.
	Maybe.
	I've got two others if you want them.
	I'll do one quick one here.
	This is Larry Summers who was President Obama's Secretary of State or one of these?
	No, Treasury.
	Treasury.
	Council on Foreign Relations.
	Of course!
	And he says, and I think he has merit actually with his claim here, that when it comes to the tax, the whole sequence of how the tax law, the tax change was rolled out, which we identified pretty much immediately, with these bonuses, you know, he's like, nah.
	I think we kind of said that's a great marketing trick and Trump probably had to deal with Somebody about some of these bonuses up front because it just happened way too quick.
	You know, all of a sudden, boom, here we are with bonuses.
	Without a board meeting or anything.
	Right.
	Yes, exactly.
	So here's what Summers has to say about it.
	I think it's a gimmick.
	I think in many cases the firms have to raise wages because labor markets are tight.
	And so why not curry some favor with the White House by linking it to the tax cut?
	I think that it's a very common device.
	If you want to give somebody some money but you don't want to promise it to them on a continuing basis, you frame it as a bonus.
	Now that makes no sense what he's saying there.
	No.
	Well, you've got to remember, Council on Foreign Relations is the globalist operation that tries to take away our sovereignty.
	We don't want the United States.
	We want globalism.
	And this Trump guy is just screwing it up.
	So, I think there's a lot of appearance management here.
	And look, the corporate tax cut's going to be forever.
	If the firms really believe this had to do with the corporate tax cuts, why aren't they committing the bonuses forever?
	And we're waiting to see if there'll be more aggressive investment down the road.
	Last question, Mr.
	Secretary.
	I mean, no doubt in your mind that the Obama White House would have loved to have had announcements like these from Apple and Starbucks and Disney and Honeywell and FedEx and Verizon and AT&T the way we've had the last few years.
	That's quite a list.
	I didn't even know how many companies had given a bonus.
	That's quite a list.
	It snowballed.
	That's quite a list.
	I don't think even Trump expected it.
	The Obama administration.
	Did you hear that?
	He heard all those names, too.
	He's like...
	We certainly always wanted to see more people hired, but I think the Obama administration, frankly, had a more grown-up approach, which was to look at how many jobs were created each month in total in the economy, rather than to focus on high-profile announcements by particular people.
	This is good.
	That's right.
	This month, we have 50,000 jobs saved or created.
	Which was a total bogus number, and he's like, oh, we focused on that.
	Yeah, no kidding.
	Each month, in total in the economy, rather than to focus on high-profile announcements by particular companies.
	And if you look, job growth in 2016 was considerably faster than job growth in 2017.
	So I think you have a lot of stuff here that is PR. Yes, he's right about the PR, but he's wrong about how he's trying to explain it all away.
	Sour grapes.
	Yeah.
	Call that sour grapes in the highest order.
	Mm-hmm.
	And then you heard about the Nikki Haley rumor?
	No, what about Nikki Haley?
	Oh, that she's blowing Trump?
	Yeah, exactly.
	So that was what Michael Wolfe was apparently insinuating in his book, that they had had sex on Air Force One.
	Seems unlikely.
	And here's Nikki Haley's response.
	It is absolutely not true.
	It is highly offensive.
	And it's disgusting.
	If I were Trump...
	And Trump should have said, wait, wait, wait, you can stop with the disgusting part.
	Yeah, wait a minute.
	It's not that bad.
	It is absolutely not true.
	It is highly offensive.
	And it's disgusting.
	I have literally been on Air Force One once.
	And there were several people in the room when I was there.
	I've never talked once to the president about my future.
	And I am never alone with him.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	Yeah, they're getting down and dirty now.
	We're getting close to 2018 elections.
	Notice how dimension B, it always, always comes down to sex.
	The worst thing you can do is not killing hundreds of thousands of people.
	No.
	It's having, you know, sex.
	Or weird sex, like piss sex.
	They seem obsessed with it.
	Just obsessed.
	And when you keep asking for sex stories, that's what you get.
	Yeah, well, they're getting a lot of them.
	Alright, take us home, John.
	Well, I got a couple.
	But I think I'm going to go with just a galling story that I have been following, which is the car break-ins update.
	Too many break-ins, not enough arrests, an alarming lack of accountability in San Francisco's car break-in epidemic.
	It's now prompting action from city lawmakers.
	Out of more than 81,000 reports of car break-ins during the past seven years, 81,000 13 resulted in arrests.
	13 out of 81,000.
	The police chief says there's an average of 85 break-ins a day in the city.
	He says based on that number, it is not practical to have officers show up and investigate every case.
	Doesn't investigate any of them.
	Break-in hotspots most happen around very familiar big landmarks.
	To address the problem, San Francisco's DA is endorsing a plan to make it easier for prosecutors to prove the crime in court.
	How would that work?
	They can't, because the law changed anyway.
	And all these guys know that nobody's going to go after them, so they bust these windows with those little hammers.
	Yeah.
	With that little tip.
	Ball peen.
	Yeah, the bing.
	It's like a ball peen, but it's got a diamond on the end.
	Bust the thing.
	So what you have to do, my advice, is either drive a 25-year-old Lexus.
	Which is what you do.
	Which is what I do.
	And keep nothing in it.
	And lock the trunk with the button.
	Here's an idea.
	Here's my advice.
	Move!
	How about getting...
	Well, San Francisco's not a good town.
	It's a bad town.
	It's filled with homeless.
	It stinks.
	There's a poop map.
	I mean, I don't understand why anybody comes to San Francisco, ever.
	It's a terrible place.
	Are you trying to increase your real estate holdings value?
	Well, the suburbs are better, but they have sensors on the streets, so when you park in a parking spot and you put your money in the meter or your credit card, because it costs that much, it's like 50 cents a minute, you put your card in there and then Pull it out and you've got like an hour, let's say, or a half an hour.
	And you leave 15 minutes early.
	The sensor sees that you've left the parking spot and resets the meter.
	So some poor schlub can't take advantage of the fact that you overpaid.
	Goes right to red.
	That's very good.
	The whole city's like this.
	It's a terrible place.
	Cameras everywhere.
	I think we should leave.
	Cameras everywhere, but they can't do anything about these break-ins.
	Yeah.
	That's right.
	We're living in it.
	We're living the dream, John.
	The poop map.
	Living the dream.
	Living the poop map.
	All right, everybody.
	I will be looking for the Illuminati death segment tonight at the Grammys.
	I will bring a full report, as usual.
	It won't be hard to spot.
	Hashtag Illuminati.
	And we will be back on Thursday with another show.
	You're the best podcast in the universe.
	Looking forward to it very much.
	And thank you for producing the show.
	And remember us at Dvorak.org slash NA.
	Until then, coming to you from downtown Austin, Tejas, capital of the Drone Star State, FEMA Region 6, and all the governmental maps in the 5x9 Cludio in the common law condo.
	In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley.
	Well, by the way, it's clear, sunny, it's really nice out.
	I'm sorry about everybody else's weather.
	We return on Thursday with another edition of the No Agenda Show.
	Until then, adios, mofos.
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	You can't even reason with these people.
	And what they want to shut us up.
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