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	I smelled a rat the minute I read the article.
	A rat.
	Adam Curry, John C. Devorak.
	It's Thursday, February 1st, 2018.
	This is your award-winning GiveOntation Media Assassination episode 1004.
	This is No Agenda.
	Exposing the Illuminati, debunking fake alerts, and broadcasting live from downtown Austin, Tejas, caught with the drone star state in Shithole Nation.
	In the Clunia, everybody, in the morning, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where I've observed a number of coincidences, I'm John C. DeVore.
	It's Craig Vaughn and Buzzkill.
	In the morning!
	Now, I cleared my throat in the beginning, but that's okay, right?
	I didn't notice.
	All right, good.
	All right.
	I let go of the mute button before I was done ticking.
	Oh.
	We'll just call it the Tourette's Open.
	Beautiful.
	Fine.
	Yes.
	In the morning, John.
	In the morning to you.
	In the morning to all ships and sea boots on the ground.
	No, you don't do that just yet.
	What coincidences did you notice?
	That the speech was at the same time of DH Unplugged.
	Wow.
	Gee.
	Now there's something we gotta...
	That's a rabbit hole we gotta go down.
	And there's another one?
	Yes.
	The Grammys were in the same week of this speech.
	What is that?
	And has the memo been released?
	Did you watch the Grammys, just to get into the...
	I watched as much of it as I could stomach, and then I turned it off.
	Then again, I watched the end, too.
	I watched it on and off.
	Well, I watched for the Illuminati segments.
	Yes, that's what you were there for.
	Yes, that's exactly what I watched.
	Now, you have your typical SZA, you know, has the all-seeing eye tattooed on the inside of her hand.
	Before you begin, before you begin with that...
	What was this with James Corden and this ill-fitting suit that he comes out on?
	He looked like he had T-Rex arms, didn't he?
	Yeah.
	You know how T-Rex has those little teeny arms?
	Yeah, little arms, and his suit had one button, and it was all pitched.
	And it was way too tight, yeah.
	Yeah.
	Well, I don't have an answer.
	You know, that should not happen.
	Well, my gripe about these award shows, and I've mentioned this several times, particularly the Grammys, is it's still produced, directed, and written by Ken Ehrlich.
	And that has to stop.
	I mean, I'm not ageist, but look, I'm 53 and I'm already not hip and with the kids anymore, let alone when you're Ken Ehrlich, who's deep in his 70s.
	And, you know, it's just lame.
	They just keep doing the same stuff with the same guy, and that's why he brings in, completely irrelevant to this awards season, I think, U2. You know, Stink has to do some stuff.
	It's like...
	No, and that's all his, you know, over the years he builds up these relationships, and I don't know, I just, I think it's time to switch it up a little bit.
	And also, how can a guy like Ehrlich and CBS think, you know, yeah, let's do a whole bunch of anti-Trump jokes.
	Because that won't alienate 10 million people.
	Oh, I'm sorry, it did.
	Worst ratings ever.
	Yes, worst.
	Well, not ever probably, but it was down 10 million.
	No, it was like, well, it was the worst for the major demo.
	It was the worst.
	Right, right, right.
	Exactly, in the demo.
	But in general, the overall...
	And the total viewership was down a lot.
	Yeah.
	Like 19%.
	10 million.
	Yeah, 10 million.
	Exactly.
	Down 10 million.
	So, oh, this is interesting.
	I'm wondering why it's getting warm.
	You're going to love this, John.
	It's getting warm here in the Cludio.
	I'm like, you know, maybe I'll just adjust the nest that the apartment came with.
	Oh, no.
	The nest went offline three hours ago.
	So I guess it's not controlling my climate.
	Well, it just doesn't have manual override?
	Yeah, that means I have to go to the living room and override it manually.
	Well, you're going to have to stop tape then and go do that because you're going to cook in there.
	All right, everybody, we're going to stop it.
	I thought the thing...
	Hold on a second.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	As long as it takes running out, you have a question.
	Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.
	All right, everybody, and we are back from our five, and temperature climate control is back.
	Not online, but it...
	I hate the Nest.
	I'm going to rip that thing out.
	It's a stupid device.
	I thought that it was self-contained.
	No, it's connected to Wi-Fi.
	And then what?
	Well, it's self-contained, meaning you think that the algo is determining the perfect temperature for my lifestyle?
	Yeah, no.
	Inside, there was a little microprocessor.
	Every Thursday and every Sunday, I go into the Cludio.
	I have been turning down the temperature.
	You'd think it might track that, but no.
	You always have to adjust it.
	It's the stupidest piece of technology I've ever witnessed.
	It's dumb.
	I hate it.
	I'm going to rip it out.
	Okay.
	So hopefully now it'll cool down a little bit in the Cludio.
	All right.
	Now, where were we?
	Ah, yes.
	What we're talking about.
	I do have, by the way, if you want me to prelude you a little bit.
	With the Grammys?
	I do have the woman who came on to introduce the band that you think shouldn't be on the show.
	Yes.
	You too.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	Well, I have a clip of her.
	Yeah, I have that clip too.
	I'll play yours.
	Which one is it?
	A dreamer speech?
	Yeah, the dreamer speech.
	Tonight, in this room full of music's dreamers, we remember that this country was built by dreamers for dreamers.
	Hold on a second.
	I thought it was built by slaves.
	Well, it was built by Dreamers, according to her.
	And by the way, when she says, I don't have the clip, some black guy came on one of the, I should have clipped it, he says that when Trump said Dreamers, he was mocking Martin Luther King.
	We'll get to that in a little bit.
	We're still at the Grammys.
	I don't even want to play this whole clip.
	I clipped like 20 seconds of it.
	I don't know why you put the whole clip.
	Play yours then.
	No, I'm just going to play this clip.
	Tonight, in this room full of music streamers, we remember that this country was built by dreamers.
	Four dreamers chasing the American dream.
	Now, what's interesting is, in the past week, we've had so many different interpretations of words.
	And we'll get to the State of the Union later.
	Dreamers being Americans are dreamers, too.
	We have an American dream.
	But we have the dreamers who are the DACA... Children, children, the DACA children.
	Some in their 30s.
	But in this case, my question to you is, is she saying this country was built by illegal immigrants, or is she saying this country was built by dreamers?
	So now, it's very confusing.
	What are we supposed to think?
	And I thought, you're right, the other lefties should say slaves.
	Yeah.
	That's Michael Moore.
	I have Michael Moore screed, which you'll find highly amusing later.
	Okay.
	Well, good.
	Let's get back to the ground.
	I'm sorry.
	That's okay.
	The rest of her speech was about relating it to her.
	And again, I don't understand.
	Is she a DACA amnesty recipient?
	I don't know.
	She doesn't say that.
	Well, here she goes.
	Well, she says that she came in.
	Well, here's what she's going to say.
	Say it already.
	I'm here on...
	I was very distracted by her midriff with no belly button.
	I was very...
	I didn't like the waistline of her outfit.
	Did you notice that?
	No, I didn't notice that.
	No, you look at it and she's...
	It was a huge portion of midriff exposed but no belly button where you thought it would...
	She's...
	She's an alien.
	This changed tonight because just like the Dreamers, my parents brought me to this country...
	Okay, just like...
	Now, the Dreamers is that...
	The DACA dreamers or the dreamers who built the country?
	And is that the same?
	Wait, hold on a second.
	She brings in another element.
	She says, just like the dreamers my parents, just so her parents brought her in from Cuba illegally?
	When did that happen?
	Through no fault of her own.
	This is what I'm questioning.
	Is she a DACA recipient?
	I think she's full of shit.
	How about that for an idea?
	Okay, good.
	We're not going to play any more of her clip.
	So we got the James Corden T-Rex arms.
	Now SZA, SZA, SZA, SZA, SZA, she has the all-seeing eye tattooed on the inside of her hand, which was Pretty blatant, especially with the CBS all-seeing eye in the lower right-hand corner throughout the broadcast.
	Are you sure that wasn't a Hannah tattoo or something fake?
	No, I think that's...
	I don't know.
	You think she actually had a tattoo on the palm of her hand, you're saying?
	Yes, yes, yes, yes.
	Oh my god, that's gotta hurt.
	And then, you know, there were a couple other performances where the triangle showed up, but interestingly, the most Illuminati piece of video on the entire show, and I don't have a clip, was the Target commercial.
	This thing was outrageous!
	I mean, it had checkers, it had girls running around with horns, the whole thing was...
	Target is the Illuminati HQ! Could be.
	You should take a look at this commercial.
	I know Taco Bell's been trying to claim they're the Illuminati HQ. And then you had Fallen Angels.
	A couple of dresses that looked like angels.
	Lady Gaga.
	Lady Gaga was a Fallen Angel.
	There was tons of stuff in there.
	It wasn't one segment.
	It was all spread out.
	But the Target commercial, that blew my mind.
	It really did.
	It's like, wow.
	And then we have...
	I didn't get any clips of this, but everywhere.
	It's like...
	The Grammys, only one woman won.
	What?
	Where are all the numbers?
	What?
	This dude is so misogynistic.
	In the 80-year career, 80 years of Grammys, only three women have ever won.
	I know, it just kept on going and going.
	Really?
	Tell that to Taylor Swift.
	And last year, Adele won everything.
	Yeah, she did.
	She walked up.
	She needed a truck.
	I mean, you know, yeah.
	So there's, you know, to say, well, in the whole history, only, you know, 18% of women have been winners.
	Okay, but last year, Adele swept the awards.
	And then...
	And this is coming from music industry, you know, real, like, you know, Rolling Stone magazine and people who, you know, who analyze the music business.
	It's ridiculous that Bruno Mars won.
	Because, of course, you know, Jay-Z is the king.
	And Kendrick Lamar, you know, he has messages.
	And this is just a poppy song, just a bunch of happy songs.
	That can't win.
	It has to be dark.
	It has to be about death and Trump as an a-hole and America and racism.
	And even Bruno Mars said, oh man, too many ballads on this show.
	He was annoyed by it.
	And his album is a great album.
	Yeah, it was just about having fun and popping bottles in the club and maybe get the Cadillac, put some miles on it.
	No, no, this is not okay.
	It was all wrong.
	Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong.
	I have some industry questions for you being the expert.
	Okay.
	Let me assume I don't know anything.
	I'm a reporter.
	I'm asking questions.
	All right.
	It's not a stretch.
	When you take a look at the album of the year.
	Yes.
	Bruno Mars.
	He won for 24K Magic.
	He also won for Record of the Year.
	Record of the Year, yeah.
	Now, Best Rock Album, the winner, was A Deeper Understanding, The War on Drugs.
	There's also a Best R&B. Now, that wasn't televised.
	I don't think they televised those awards anymore, do they?
	I just have all the awards.
	Okay.
	Best R&B album was the Bruno Mars album, which was nominated for the Best Album.
	Yep.
	But the deeper understanding of the War on Drugs, the rock album, which won, won for best rock album, was not in the list.
	Why wasn't the rock albums, or in fact, why weren't all the albums that had won in specific categories in the album of the year awards?
	You're asking an expert and I really don't have an answer.
	But I will say that the winners are chosen by everybody in the music business who has at least six credits to their name in technical, writing, or other creative.
	I don't care.
	It's important because those are the people that chose it.
	Not the Grammys, not some mystical bunch of white guys.
	I find that's great, but why would album of the year, for example, not include the Best Country album as a candidate, at least, to lose?
	Hello?
	They're white people.
	Okay, well, Best New Age album was Dancing on Water by Peter Cater, beating out Brian Eno.
	It's not listed as even a candidate for the...
	Album of the year.
	But yet it won an album of the year.
	Alright, so what you're saying I think is a good point.
	You would expect the album of the year to be a list of all of the best, all of the winners or the top...
	Well, that's kind of difficult, I guess.
	Just the winners.
	No, you can't do that because everyone votes at the same time.
	I don't know.
	It must have different criteria.
	Honestly, I don't care.
	I do.
	I think it's a scam.
	That's why it's just a scam.
	This whole awards is a scam.
	And talking about you didn't hear this, you didn't hear that, I have 27 pages of awards.
	They obviously didn't put any of them out there.
	That's right.
	Did you see the classical ensemble?
	No.
	No, but we did see Don't Cry For Me Argentina, which was very odd to have the representation of a woman who, with her husband, was responsible for the deaths of a lot of people.
	Yeah, what's that doing?
	Well, she's a woman, so it's okay.
	Boy, we sound like old white a-holes now, don't we?
	Well, that's another thing.
	What is this anti-white thing that's going on?
	Oh, please.
	You've only now just noticed?
	Anyway, so here I think is one of the reasons why not only were this year's Grammys punished in the ratings, but it will be the same for all consequential years.
	Fire and Fury, spoken word auditions, take one.
	Trump won't read anything.
	He gets up halfway through meetings with world leaders because he is bored.
	Sorry, John.
	It's wonderful.
	It just feels a bit too smooth.
	I don't think it's going to work.
	Next!
	In case it wasn't apparent, this is a fake auditions for an audiobook, and the book is Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff, because they had an audiobook award.
	Yeah, hold on one second, though, just to promote your idea.
	This was right at the beginning.
	Yes, sir.
	I'm not an officer.
	You don't have to call me sir.
	Oh, I understand what you're saying.
	Yeah, so it's a tune-out factor.
	Huge tune-out factor.
	Yeah, it's at the beginning of the shows.
	Yes.
	It's a tune-out factor.
	Right, it's a tune-out factor.
	It's like a barrier to entry right away.
	You do a tune-up factor, which is exactly what it is.
	Tune-out, I mean.
	And people see it and say, oh, this is just going to be a bunch of Trump hate.
	I've got other things to do with my time.
	I see a bunch of rich musicians bitching and moaning about America.
	This is the first thing that comes to mind.
	The color was a product called Just For Men.
	The longer it was left on, the darker it got.
	Impatience resulted in Trump's orange blonde hair color.
	Cut!
	Trump did not enjoy his own inauguration.
	He started to get angry and hurt that stars were determined to embarrass him.
	I definitely wasn't there.
	Cut!
	Spoken word, Cardi B. Cut!
	If Trump was not having his 6.30 dinner with Steve Bannon, then more to his liking, he was in bed by that time with a cheeseburger.
	Oh, a little Kardashian.
	Why am I even reading this s***?
	I can't believe this.
	Yeah, you really think that he curls up in bed with a cheeseburger?
	I can't believe that he really...
	This is how he lives his life?
	He reprimanded the housekeeper staff for picking up his shirt from the floor.
	If my shirt is on the floor, it's because I want it on the floor.
	Another one.
	It's we the best.
	It's DJ Cabin.
	Matter of fact, this is the best spoken word album in the game.
	I'm finally going to win my Grammy.
	So this is going to work.
	Next!
	It's not going to work.
	Everything I do works.
	Stand by.
	Take one.
	He had a long-time fear of being poisoned.
	One reason why he liked to eat at McDonald's.
	Again with the burgers.
	Nobody knew he was coming, and the food was safely pre-made.
	That's it.
	We've got it.
	That's the one.
	You think so?
	Oh, yeah.
	The Grammy's in the bag?
	In the bag.
	In the bag?
	Yes, the Grammy's in the bag.
	Yeah, so, you know, I just don't understand how the CBS executives can sit down and say, this is a great idea.
	I understand they think it's hilarious.
	I think it's funny.
	And I understand the premise.
	Hillary is very bad at the payoff.
	You know, it's super shit acting.
	She could have done better.
	This is YouTube level stuff.
	Yeah.
	But it was funny.
	I get it.
	But you are going to alienate people, and how you can do that with an award show just makes no sense to me.
	Right at the top.
	Where you always have winners and losers, and people are on the edge about that.
	And then you get...
	I don't know.
	And at the top, and it's like, okay, I'm done.
	And then there was some...
	Was it Kendrick Lamar?
	It was very, very violent.
	Violent performance.
	I'm surprised you didn't set the place on fire.
	It can happen.
	It's happened.
	It can happen.
	Yeah, so here's the Guardian headline.
	Why the Grammys continue to fail women and hip-hop.
	I mean, it's like it was meant to be that women and hip-hop won.
	You know, it's like, how can we this year mark the rare occasion when no white men were up for the award populated instead by Bruno Mars' 24K Magic, Childish Gambino's Awaken, My Love, Jay-Z's 444, Kendrick Lamar's Damn and Lorde's Melodrama.
	Yet Mars won with his third album of cozy funk and R&B. They actually talk him down.
	I don't know.
	It's not even an industry anymore.
	It's a bunch of jerk-offs with a show.
	In our area, in Northern California, they can play it live at 5, which is when it runs.
	They play it live at 5, and then when it runs out of Steam, they just replay the whole show again.
	So KPIX... Played it at five and then again at eight.
	The whole show, all from scratch.
	They must have taken a beating.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, twice.
	Absolutely.
	Two beatings.
	Two beatings.
	Absolutely.
	I'll have a second beating, sir.
	Absolutely.
	Alright, so that was the Grammys.
	I fell asleep.
	I had to go back and watch part of the show.
	I literally fell asleep.
	That's bad when a show you're supposed to be following.
	MTV VJ fell asleep during the Grammy Awards.
	That's how riveting they were.
	Stop the presses.
	Ew.
	Alright.
	We had the State of the Union last night, which you apparently did not see in real time.
	What was it last night?
	The night before?
	Yeah.
	So yeah, I slept for two days.
	I don't even know where I was.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, the night before.
	Yeah.
	Tuesday night, yes.
	Yes, okay.
	I saw the...
	I had two recordings going of it simultaneously, so I could see what the differences were going to be in terms of the presentation by the media.
	And I had it recorded on...
	NBC and C-SPAN.
	Ah, I have ABC.
	I have the reaction right after the speech.
	One thing's pretty clear, John.
	He did not unify that chamber tonight.
	George, I've never seen anything like it.
	Right now, the Democrats have basically run for the exits.
	And George, you have to think about those dozens of dreamers in the audience tonight.
	What they are thinking as they hear the president talk about this, as they see the divisions there on the floor, concerned that they could face deportation from the beginning of March.
	And what the dreamers were thinking when they heard the president say that line that will likely be one of the most memorable lines of the speeches when he said, Americans are dreamers too.
	Also, again, sort of stoking, I think many would say, racial tensions by bringing up this issue of kneeling during the national anthem.
	Well, what I was thinking as I was listening to the speech is if the president met with me after the speech, I would say to him, well, that was how not to give a unifying speech.
	So let's go back and give the unifying speech.
	As everybody has mentioned, he mentioned Obamacare, the ending of Obamacare, divisive.
	Mentioned the tax cuts, divisive.
	Mentioned the whole rift on immigration, divisive in the national anthem, divisive.
	Calling this a healing speech is almost like calling going on a diet by drinking a Diet Coke and eating a pizza.
	That's as much of a healing speech as this was.
	He should have said burger.
	Cheeseburger is the word.
	That's what everyone's on when it comes to Trump.
	So that was a very divisive speech.
	Here's Van Jones on CNN. Let me just say, master salesperson used all of those stories really well.
	He was selling sweet-tasting candy with poison in it.
	Okay.
	There's an analogy I hadn't heard.
	And, of course, my favorite part of the entire State of the Union was the opening...
	Members of Congress, I have the high privilege and the distinct honor of presenting to you the President of the United States.
	What was he thinking when the word preventing came out of his mouth?
	What did he have in his mind?
	Like, boy, who's gonna prevent me from doing this?
	Is anyone gonna prevent this speech?
	Should I prevent it?
	That was a Freudian slip of epic proportions, and his face went, oh shit, you know that feeling, where you want to do great, the whole world is watching, you hammer the gavel, and you just flub, you just flub your only line, your only line, you flub it with prevent.
	Yeah, or you're flubbing with a Freudian slip.
	Yeah.
	Bad form.
	I'd like to prevent, I mean present.
	Now, just from a television perspective, I felt the damn thing was too long.
	Okay, well tell me what else you thought, because I thought, okay, you want to hear what I thought?
	Well, I'll just say, he probably had 50 minutes of copy, but the way it was structured, which you pointed out in the newsletter so well, and I want you to reiterate that, is it was designed, and most of these speeches always have a lot of clapping, but this was really designed, well you go ahead and tell us what you wrote in the newsletter.
	Well, the thesis, based on what I was watching, and by the way, it was too long and he sucks.
	It also wasn't really Trump because he was just reading the teleprompter.
	Yeah, we really enjoy, or I do, I don't know if you do, but I do.
	I think you do too.
	The free-flowing Trump who goes out in front of a huge crowd of 90, you know, a bunch of well-wishers.
	However...
	And just lets it rip.
	However, you only heard this for about 15 minutes, the poll numbers were unbelievably high.
	70-plus percent across the board.
	CNN, CBS, everyone's poll was...
	All of America, or at least 70%, thought it was a good speech, and they'd like to, you know...
	It's what people expect from the president.
	From that perspective, it was a good speech.
	I didn't care for it because I've seen him do his free-form stuff.
	And it also was too long because you had to drag it out.
	I think some of it being too long was to just torment everybody, honestly.
	Really?
	Especially to torment the Democrats.
	Well, there's a couple of things.
	Just from a show business...
	Let me go to the thesis that you wanted me to explain.
	Please do.
	Or explain.
	Yeah.
	Mansplain.
	Somebody noticed some time ago, and this has gotten worse over the years, and I've noticed it, which is that the president will say something that...
	That the party accomplished and then their part, you've got the whole floor, you've got the senators and the congressmen all sitting there, usually separated except for one year.
	One year they mix them up, which they're going to have to go back to if Trump keeps doing this.
	Because what happened was you punch up something and then one side stands and the other side folds their arms with very few exceptions.
	Somebody sometimes, they never stand but they will clap.
	But it's rare.
	Most of the time the whole Democrat side will sit Or Republicans.
	They do the same thing.
	They do the same thing when Obama was there.
	Yeah, same thing.
	But this speech...
	Was set up to make them look like a-holes.
	Yes, this speech was set up to make the Democrats look like a-holes.
	Because everything that he punched up was not policy stuff.
	It was stuff like, we've got to eradicate MS-13.
	And the Republicans would all stand and give a standing O, and the Democrats would sit as though they're supporters of MS-13.
	Yeah.
	And this would go on and on.
	In fact, the one that everybody pointed out, and I have a clip.
	This is Julie Hainer, and she is an anchor.
	She kind of blows it because she's so nervous about asking this question because in this area you don't do this sort of questioning.
	So she flubs the question.
	But this is our local anchor on KTVU Channel 2, the main anchor too, not a backup.
	Maybe that moves the debate forward a little bit.
	Much of the focus we've talked about was on unity tonight.
	When the president said the unemployment rate for the Black and Latino communities is at record lows, the entire Congressional Black Caucus stayed seating, didn't applause.
	Isn't that a success for our country?
	Why do you think they're struggling so much to give applause to something when you have historic lows?
	The State of the Union is one of these speeches that's watched by a lot of people.
	We're coming into the 2018 election.
	There can't be a whole lot of applauding of a president who can brag about a few things.
	And in fairness, that was the same when President Obama was in office.
	Republicans sat on their hands as well.
	That's true.
	They did, but the speech wasn't designed to embarrass them.
	I will say that, yes, Trump is factually correct when he says black unemployment at a historical low.
	And I was very interested because I really didn't know what policies had actually been put into place that would cause that.
	And although he's correct because it's 9%, It's a point lower than it was.
	It's a point lower than Obama.
	Exactly.
	One point lower than Obama.
	Obama had it down and he brought it down another point and everybody was on his case for that.
	Why is he taking credit for what Obama did?
	Didn't Obama just kill black people and that lowered the numbers?
	Just kidding.
	I'm a comedian.
	So you ended up with a speech that was specifically designed to embarrass the Democrats by making them look like a-holes.
	They wouldn't clap.
	The same thing with the opioid thing.
	They wouldn't stand.
	No, no, we like opioids.
	So it made them say, oh, look, they obviously like opioids.
	They like MS-13.
	They don't want the blacks to be working.
	They want them unemployed.
	It's just one thing after another.
	And the whole speech was rigged.
	And these stupid Democrats...
	Didn't have a clue about it, but if they did have a clue, they still wouldn't know what to do.
	What they could have done is stay seated and clap for some of these things, and that would have negated it.
	You don't have to stand for everything.
	There was a Democrat who stood.
	What's his name?
	Joe Manchin from West Virginia.
	Most Democrats sat when the president said that, but not this Democrat, West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin.
	Why?
	He's about 6'5".
	We took the wide shot.
	We saw you get it.
	6'3".
	But we saw you stood up a lot during the speech, but you were on the other side of the aisle.
	Were people mad at you for doing that?
	No.
	Yes.
	We have respect.
	There's some civility still yet, and there should be civility in this place.
	And, you know, in all fairness, Brian, I've seen it on both sides.
	Yeah.
	When Obama gave speeches, Republicans, that's disrespectful.
	But I never saw this.
	But I never saw the storming out afterwards.
	Oh, yeah.
	And so many empty seats.
	Not me.
	I said, Derek, shook his hand and thanked him.
	Because he talked about coal.
	We're going to do coal research.
	Yep.
	Research and development.
	Opiate addiction.
	I need that.
	Infrastructure.
	I've never seen a pothole that belonged to a Democrat or Republican.
	Ha, ha, ha.
	We both get blamed for that one.
	Your favorite.
	So we gotta fix this stuff.
	So, there you go.
	Yeah, one guy.
	Okay, let's look at this guy.
	This guy's Joe Manchin.
	Where is he from?
	West Virginia.
	What state is probably the most Republican, the most red state in the country?
	West Virginia.
	Yeah, so he knows what's going on.
	He doesn't want to get kicked out.
	Exactly.
	Well, he doesn't want to...
	Yes.
	He will not be invited to the cocktail party, but he doesn't want to get kicked out of his position.
	Of his position in West Virginia.
	He's got to look like a good guy, so...
	Now, just a few television technical points.
	The microphone was crap.
	It was going in and out of phase.
	It had something very, very weird happening with it.
	Did you notice this?
	No, I didn't.
	Yeah.
	I noticed the only thing I noticed was something that is on our list to talk about, and we should probably talk about it now.
	Yes, clapping loudly, either with a lapel mic or near the State of the Union mic, is very, very annoying.
	Trump would turn sideways.
	And by the way, when I watch him do these sorts of speeches, he just reminds me so much of Mussolini.
	Especially the sideways jutting chin look.
	Yeah, totally.
	Yeah, the sideways jutting chin.
	He could be his brother from another mother.
	So he turns sideways and then he moves himself into a position where when he's clapping, he's clapping right into the mics.
	Yeah, because the wind is actually going right in.
	So, it's very annoying, and I would say the same thing, what I wanted to talk about before, because I was, as one of our No Agenda tips for people to do public speaking.
	Yes.
	Don't clap if you're wearing a lapel mic.
	No.
	Because you will be, there's loud claps, you know, right into the mic, you know.
	Extremely annoying, especially if you have a loud clap.
	I actually know a guy who has a clap that sounds like a bullet of being fired from a.45.
	Really?
	Extremely painful.
	What does this guy do for a living?
	He's a day trader now.
	A douche!
	Boy, does he have a podcast?
	Because then he's hitting all the marks.
	But he has this loud clap that was just really...
	It's hard to believe.
	But clapping into the mic, and that's what Trump was doing.
	You'd think he'd know better.
	But everybody does it.
	A lot of people do it.
	Don't clap if you're anywhere near a mic.
	I also thought Melania really needs to be made aware.
	It's so odd.
	Because you'd think she would know this, but, you know, she really has poor...
	First of all, she has a horrible resting face.
	She really does.
	Oh, yeah.
	No, she looks like she's pissed off.
	Yeah, and I think that could be solved with an attempt to smile, but you could probably do a little bit with the eye makeup just to make that a bit better.
	And people think we're shallow a-holes, but this is important stuff.
	All of this makes a difference.
	We are shallow a-holes when it comes to this.
	It still makes a difference.
	But that's why with media, if you're going to be in media at all, you have to be that way.
	Yeah, you've got to be all in.
	And so she looks like shit most of the time when she has a very pretty smile.
	Yeah, she does.
	But she wasn't using her charms at all.
	I don't think...
	She's not one of those...
	She's not from the United States, so she's not like a Southern California girl who can just have a stupid smile on her face all the time.
	She's got a smile on her face all the time.
	It takes less muscles.
	She's got that grim Eastern European look, which is grim.
	Yeah, it's grim.
	So, yeah, and just her whole posture, everything.
	She should know that she's continuously being watched.
	Now, some other visuals were just off the chart.
	And I like the idea of peppering the guests throughout the speech.
	And the guy who escaped from North Korea and walked on crutches throughout all of China, apparently.
	I didn't know his story.
	And then holding those crutches up.
	Fantastic!
	That was high-level show business.
	Gold, Jerry!
	That was just really, really good.
	And I had a very strong sense of what Dimension B could be feeling while watching this.
	And here's what frightens me a little bit.
	When he was talking about the anthem, when he's talking about the patriotic stuff, I had the ability during this speech to feel the disgust and anger that people solidly mounted in Dimension B might feel.
	At the same time, I can feel how, I mean, being on either side is too much is not good.
	You've got to try and straddle a little bit.
	But people who are completely overzealously patriotic, there's problems with that too.
	But I'm afraid that certainly younger people who have been taught in school America is shit, we're horrible, that they actually don't like the flag and the anthem and any honoring of the country.
	And I think this, you know, at first I'm like, they're just being abused by politicians, but I think they really, really dislike our country.
	Well, they've been kind of trained to dislike it because, you know, everybody was a slaveholder.
	All the founding fathers were all slaveholders, holding jerks.
	And, you know, they're white, and they're horrible white, and they were heterosexual.
	Every checklist item, you know, white.
	And I was, you know, listening to Michael Moore, and I was listening to this woman that did...
	McKibben had an event, that 350.org guy.
	He switched a couple of...
	I have some clips hopefully we can get to today because there's some new memes cropping up in the environmental scene.
	And there's just excoriating white, heterosexual, all whites are rich somehow.
	I don't know how that works.
	I've never seen any evidence of it.
	And it's just this kind of this, and so I did some looking into the demographics.
	The country is 77% white, if you include the white Latins, in other words, the Spanish, mostly Spanish, Spanglish.
	So you have 77% white market.
	And you're going to condemn them and go after them and criticize them for being heterosexual, criticize them for having kids, criticizing them for liking the flag or whatever, and expect to win elections?
	Are you kidding me?
	What is wrong with you?
	Yeah, I don't think it's going to work either.
	I find it very odd.
	Now, we did miss a great opportunity.
	I did not know that we could have been at the State of the Union.
	We are qualified.
	Qualified.
	They're making arrangements to have a space for millennials on the night of the State of the Union Address.
	What are you hoping to accomplish with them?
	Well, as you know, I've been adopted by millennials and they, you know, refer to me as Auntie Maxine and I want to be an enabler.
	I want to open up the process for them.
	We have some very talented young people who are doing podcasts and who are broadcasters.
	They have not really been welcomed into, you know, the Congress.
	Podcasters and broadcasters, John.
	What an opportunity.
	Yeah, they need more podcasters at this thing.
	Yes, and who are broadcasters.
	And they have not really been welcomed into, you know, the Congress of the United States in ways that they have spaces that they can, you know, cover.
	So I've created a millennial role.
	And I've invited as many millennials who are doing this kind of work as I possibly can.
	And I've invited members to go in and do interviews with them.
	And right now, I think we have about 45 members who are going to come, and probably more will be signing up, so they can sit down and get in touch with this population that's going to make a difference in 2018.
	My millennials, stay woke!
	Yay!
	So I'm looking for those podcasts.
	I'm looking for those podcasts, please.
	Now, weren't there supposed to be five different responses, Democratic responses to the State of the Union, including Maxine Waters?
	I didn't see but one that they played on C-SPAN. I know there were at least two, and C-SPAN played one of them.
	Yeah, the Joe Kennedy, the third?
	The Joe Kennedy one where he's drooling, which has really got all the attention.
	And by the way, he didn't make any sense at all.
	Well, there's a couple things.
	Again, from a television perspective...
	That was a makeup snafu.
	He never, ever should have gone on like that.
	Whatever it was, he wasn't actually drooling.
	It was like he was drooling.
	Yeah, it looked like he had a whole bunch.
	The memes were pretty funny on Twitter.
	The memes were great.
	But also, it was some kind of bike.
	No, some car manufacturing something or other.
	And they had pretty much pieces of a car wreck behind him.
	Yeah, car wreck.
	Which is very symbolic...
	No, it was a shop class in the school that he was giving the speech.
	Okay, but the shop class.
	Right, and there were car tires and all kinds.
	There was junk.
	Yeah, auto shop.
	There was junk behind him.
	I thought car wreck was better because, you know, you're inviting the memes.
	Yes.
	You're inviting the Kennedy car crash memes.
	It was stupid.
	Does anyone have a brain?
	Well...
	Oy.
	Oy, oy.
	And I was in the car and I listened to his speech and, eh, you know, his speech was darker than Trump's.
	Yeah, it was dark.
	Yeah, I would agree.
	You know, I agree with you.
	I was not entertained the way I wanted to be because that's just how twisted we are when, you know, come on, Trump, entertain me.
	But it was a good speech.
	Well, if it got a 70% approval rating for the speech, then all these guys...
	I have two responses that weren't official.
	These are the ones where the Democrat caucus came up.
	I think the shortest one is a 44-second...
	This is Representative Crowley.
	I think he's from Jersey.
	And this is a Crowley summary of speech.
	The President failed yesterday once again to show leadership or a vision for our great nation.
	And when too many Americans are struggling economically, we deserve a real leader with both a vision for our future and the capacity to lead us there.
	From his racist, demonizing comments on immigrants to the complete lack of any mention, any mention of In relation to securing our democracy from the Russian government.
	This speech wasn't new, it wasn't good.
	And it won't change any fundamental dynamics of our nation moving forward.
	With that, let me recognize the vice chair of the Democratic caucus.
	Well, no.
	There was one new thing in there.
	It wasn't new.
	It wasn't new.
	It wasn't good.
	Well, there was something new.
	I learned that the president's proposal for DACA includes amnesty for not just the kids, but their parents, and a 12-year path to citizenship.
	Nice!
	No, that's bad.
	My ex-wife got sent back at the airport.
	Go back, slave.
	Go back to your country of origin.
	So I thought that was, you know, in fact, I think it's rather risky considering his base.
	Well, it is, and the base is complaining.
	I'm sure they are.
	And of course, then ending chain migration, which is absolutely, I think everyone agrees on this.
	It's just, now we have to think about what does that actually mean.
	Because the way he's talking is clearly, clearly that of a racist.
	I don't want to go too far, I don't want to get into migration until you had another clip.
	Yeah, I got Pelosi, who, by the way, is really obvious that she's the one...
	Chewing on her cud!
	Yes!
	What is wrong with the woman?
	Again, do you not think you're going to be on television, lady?
	No, that's Alzheimer's.
	Is that really Alzheimer's?
	Because people are saying it was her dentures?
	I don't know.
	You're saying that is a symptom of Alzheimer's?
	I believe that some people that chew...
	I just chew.
	She's got a problem.
	So let's listen to her.
	She's really having trouble.
	She's having a lot of trouble.
	She still expresses herself, but it's getting to the point where she's not going to be able to speak at all without forgetting everything.
	Why am I here?
	Who am I? That's coming.
	But I don't know what to do.
	I think the party doesn't know what to do about it because they can't say she has anything.
	It's a sudden onset because it's been going on for years.
	But because it's been going on for years, they can't say...
	Yeah, it's too late.
	It's too late to say...
	Yeah, because now they're going to say, well, why didn't you tell us years ago you let her run everything for years?
	So this is a real problem for the Democrats.
	But let's listen to Pelosi caucus response.
	Oh, hold on a second.
	That's a different one than I thought.
	Yeah, here we go.
	Let's see.
	Who can soar with the eagles in the morning after hooting with the owls last night for a late night, and I commend all of you for doing both as well.
	This was a very transformative speech for some of us last night, because our expectations for greatness...
	But the president are not high.
	He stooped to a new low in terms of how he dealt with issues.
	For example, the immigration issue and what it has meant to our country and how he characterized it.
	The opioid epidemic, which is in every district in the country, a challenge in many families, a tragedy.
	And the president treated it in such a disdainful way.
	Whoa!
	Whoa!
	I thought I was actually like, holy shit, he's going to take on pharmaceutical and the doctors.
	That was the implication I got.
	Yeah.
	Pharmaceutical industry and doctors.
	And, by the way, we're going to lower the cost of drugs.
	I thought he handled that well.
	Well, if you again remember seeing Pelosi in the chamber.
	Mm-hmm.
	She wasn't paying any attention, so all this is nonsense.
	What was the owl reference, by the way?
	Is that some Bohemian Grove?
	Apparently, all the Democrats partied the night before and then had to get up early to do this caucus thing in the morning, and so she thought it was great that they could hoot with the owls at night and fly with the eagles in the morning.
	I don't know where that comes from.
	That's Bohemian Grove.
	It's an Illuminati children-eating thing.
	Yeah, that's what it is.
	The owl, a well-known symbol of the Illuminati.
	All right, we continue.
	Actually, it is one of the items on the agenda that we're fighting for, increased funding for opioids, in the discussion that we're having.
	What?
	What did she say?
	She said increased funding for opioids.
	If you're an opioid addict, we're going to give it to you for free so you can die quicker.
	In a painful way.
	Actually, it is one of the items on the agenda that we're fighting for.
	Increased funding for opioids.
	I need to understand.
	What bill is this?
	In what, Bill, and in what universe are we fighting for funding for opioids?
	In the discussion that we're having on the caps, on the parity issue, on the budget.
	Last night, the president delivered a speech of unwarranted self-congratulatory...
	So far, she's pretty coherent, just the stuff in between.
	...comments.
	Beautiful to acknowledge the courage, the sacrifice of the people in the audience as if he had something to do with the successes that they had achieved.
	Of course, we all salute them.
	It's an interesting story.
	More importantly, it's about the fabric of America that his speech was not about.
	She's not coherent at all.
	Go on.
	Play on.
	Well, I guess what I'm saying is I've heard her much worse.
	...of America.
	Well, it got worse.
	...speech was not about.
	Again, devoid of vision.
	So sad.
	The president presents himself with this GOP tax scam as something to help the middle class.
	He kind of presented that.
	Well, at the same time, his tax scam will make...
	Calls for 86 million middle class families to pay more as he pads the pockets of the top 1%.
	The president presents himself as generous toward dreamers.
	But he's holding them hostage to the most extreme anti-immigrant agenda in generations.
	Yeah, it's just a bunch of talking points that she throws out there continuously.
	I have ears.
	You know, I have ears.
	And even though I have been severely disadvantaged by the immigration policy, I still am okay.
	I'm like, yeah, all right.
	These kids, fine.
	Kids, whatever.
	Somewhere in their 30s.
	And their parents, yeah, fine.
	All right, continue with your Pelosi.
	I want to hear it go really off the rails.
	Well, this is a different topic.
	I don't know if you want to switch over to the famous memo.
	No, no, not yet.
	Let me do a quick thing on immigration.
	Here is a compilage, Jean-Claude.
	A compilage of talking points, etc., regarding the immigration ideas that the president has.
	That plan is a campaign to make America white again.
	And is literally a love letter to white supremacists.
	Effort to keep America white again.
	When someone uses the phrase change migration, it is intentional.
	Literally trying to demonize families and make it a racist slur.
	It is not right.
	African Americans believe that they migrated to America in chains.
	And when you speak about chain migration, it hurts them personally.
	This proposal has reiterated that...
	Now this is what I was talking about in the beginning.
	That's Durbin again.
	Well, you missed the first thing because it's actually pretty funny.
	So the talking point...
	I'll replay it.
	The talking point is chain migration is racist because it conjures images of slaves in chains.
	Yeah, that's what Durbin said.
	So it's hurtful to the black community to just use the words chain migration.
	But it gets better.
	Did you hear Gillibrand also talking about it?
	What does she say?
	I have an ISO of this clip from The View.
	Listen to what she's actually saying.
	Do you agree with Nancy Pelosi when she says he wants to make America white again, and that's what this is about?
	I think a lot of President Trump's rhetoric is racist.
	And let's be very clear.
	When someone uses the phrase chained migration, when someone uses the phrase chained migration...
	Now, do you hear what she's saying?
	She's not saying chained migration.
	She's saying chained.
	Chained migration.
	So not only is it...
	It's an incorrect word...
	Phrase.
	Phrase.
	Well, it's a word.
	Chained.
	Right.
	It's an incorrect word.
	It's an incorrect word.
	It's chained.
	But now she's turning it into chained, which I think is just because she's dumb and that's what she's always heard.
	And she thinks that way.
	She thinks she has racist thoughts.
	She's the racist.
	And let's be very clear.
	When someone uses the phrase change migration, it is intentional in trying to demonize families.
	Yeah, well you're using it intentionally.
	This is Roseanne Rosanna Dana.
	...trying to demonize families and make it a racist slur.
	It is not right.
	And so we have to change the debate.
	These are people, these are families, and as elected leaders, I mean, the way I look at it, I'm going to fight for your child and these children as much as I'm going to fight for my own.
	And that is our job as elected leaders, to fight for these kids.
	Now, that's not your job as elected leaders to fight for these kids.
	And I forgot to clip it.
	Damn it.
	I forgot to clip it.
	But Trump did it.
	When will I get a president who does it right?
	He said, the most important job, what I swore to do was defend all the citizens.
	No!
	You defend and uphold the Constitution, you drip.
	Compromise on DREAM. How do we get to yes towards you?
	The best and most obvious thing, which unfortunately the majority has not allowed us to do, the Republicans have not allowed this to happen, is just an up or down vote on the DREAM Act.
	If we had an up or down vote today, we would pass it.
	Overwhelmingly Americans support the DREAM Act.
	They want these kids to stay.
	Yeah, so that's the whole point, is the up or down vote, which means clean bill, which is what the DACA kids were trained to say in all of their chants, is don't make them a bargaining chip by putting other things in the bill, which relate directly to the entire bill, but okay.
	I'll continue with my compilation.
	The darkness and cruelty of the administration.
	The great divider who injects hatred between groups in America.
	To continue to push extremist views on immigration.
	Really a shameful practice of holding 800,000 children hostage.
	To continue to hold each of those programs.
	Yeah, hostage.
	And says whether you should hold these kids hostage.
	When they took the Dreamers hostage, you knew you were going to have to pay a ransom.
	She should have been in the same way, as opposed to just doing her job.
	Well, we know what happened in Europe when people just did their job.
	Oh, you're all racist Nazis.
	Yeah, that's what happened in Europe when people did their job.
	They killed Jews.
	Thanks, Cory Booker.
	Or should I say RuPaul?
	And by the way, Cory Booker, I don't know if he's getting a thyroid condition.
	He's gone completely bald.
	And I don't think it's a shaved head as much as it is.
	That's his head.
	He looks like the guy in that Indiana Jones movie who used to grab the guy's heart and pull it out of him.
	Rip it out of his chest.
	With those big bug eyes.
	And it's like he's getting creepy looking.
	I always thought, when I first heard him about six, seven years ago, I thought he was a presidential candidate.
	But he's now off the rails.
	He screams.
	He's got those big bug eyes.
	He looks like a creep.
	He's just lost it completely.
	I still think he looks like RuPaul without the wig.
	Now that you mention RuPaul, it's there.
	I think that's his new name.
	RuPaul Booker.
	RuPaul Booker.
	I stole that from a friend of mine.
	Did you?
	Yeah.
	And then when I saw him last night, I was like, oh yeah, totally.
	Makes so much sense.
	He's trying to get...
	But Booker was always kind of a low-key, very erudite black...
	I think he's a senator.
	Yes.
	And he...
	He was the mayor of Newark first.
	He was a mayor.
	He had all these things going on.
	And he...
	Presented himself, you know, as a sane person.
	And he, I don't know if he didn't think he was getting enough attention, or he's taking a page out of Trump's book, but it seems very unnatural, because he just doesn't seem, he just seems unhinged.
	Yeah, he does seem somewhat unhinged.
	True.
	Yeah, so I don't know about him.
	On that one side of the aisle, or the one side of the dimensions, dimension B, yes, it's outrageous what their analysis is compared to what you cited as the 71% approval poll.
	So here's the problem.
	The real scandal to me is the disservice that the news media did to the American people across the board.
	Everyone came out with their polls within 5 to 10 minutes after the speech.
	The numbers were high.
	Some had negative numbers.
	They weren't high enough to make it look like crap.
	And they just stopped talking about it.
	They just took it off.
	The pundits and the Democrats came in to do all their interviews, and they just forgot about the fact that the American public across the board As polled by all organizations, you know, we place a lot of doubt on these polls.
	Yes.
	But if all of them are saying the same thing about a person and a speech that they hate, you got to think it wasn't that rigged.
	It may have even been higher than that.
	It probably was.
	So, you know, the disservice is what the American public got served up by the news media across the board.
	Except for Fox, of course.
	I didn't even watch that.
	Yeah, nobody pays attention to Fox.
	C-SPAN is pretty objective, so I'm not...
	Right, but I spent...
	I spent this whole week pretty much only watching TARD TV, so I was watching CNN, MSNBC, mainly, just to get a feel.
	And just like, you know, they truly believe, they really believe this, they hear words, they hear chain migration, their racist thought is slaves.
	You must have that thought in your mind.
	Yes, that would be the last...
	When someone says chain, it's like chain smoking.
	Is that a racist term?
	Yes, because it's well known that...
	You know what?
	Put it in the damn book, John.
	It's well known that tobacco companies unfairly target the black community because they're racists.
	And I... The word chain, I think you'll see this problem crop up when it comes to chain smoking.
	If they can manage it, if there's a reason for it.
	There's smokers that make it work.
	The black smokers are a pretty high percentage.
	Anyway.
	It's racist.
	It's racist.
	When I heard chain migration the first time, people forming a chain and bringing each other in.
	That's the first thing.
	I didn't think black slavery.
	No, me neither.
	Why would that come to mind?
	We're talking about immigration here.
	We're not talking about, you know, the conditions of the country in the 1840s.
	It's unbelievable.
	It's unhinged.
	It's unhinged.
	All right.
	Hey, I have my list if you want to get a little break from that before we get to donations.
	Yep.
	is the trump rotation which is can't be a rotation because there's too many of them ah yeah i have the final list or at least the list i have which is everything wrong with trump there's two categories there's a regular and then there's the criminal which i've only put in recently because this is starting to show up but here we go ready yep illegitimate president Lost the popular vote.
	Incompetent.
	Unhinged.
	Liar.
	Sex offender.
	Russian agent.
	Never says anything bad about Putin.
	White supremacist.
	Narcissist.
	Mentally unfit.
	Insane.
	Unstable.
	Clown.
	Foreign leaders hate him.
	He hates women.
	Misogynist.
	25th Amendment should be instituted.
	Should be impeached, hates immigrants, hates Mexicans in particular, racist, small hands, small penis, big red button, should not have nuclear codes, immature, childlike, you need an adult in the room, tweets too much, thin-skinned, bully, holds grudges forever, mean, bankrupt, has no money, long ties, Fatter than 239 pounds.
	Plays golf a lot.
	Hypocrite by action.
	Seldom called one.
	Criminal.
	He's obstruction of justice, money laundering, and runs the mob.
	John, no wonder we're making America white again.
	Good job.
	If that was a clip, you'd get clip of the day.
	Well, it's a lot of things.
	And so the rotation doesn't work because there's too many things.
	If they had just focused...
	This is the thing I've noticed about the Democrats.
	They're so scrambled.
	You forgot wants to sleep with his daughter.
	I should put that in there.
	That hasn't cropped up a lot, but yes, it goes in there.
	This is going to be a great techno mix.
	Now...
	Just hinting at someone.
	Sleeps with daughter.
	We're just going to say he doesn't want to.
	Why don't you say incest?
	Incest, there you go.
	Now, toys of divorcee too, we should put that in there.
	Slept with porn star?
	Paid off porn star?
	Well, that's new.
	Golden shower?
	What happened to golden shower?
	I didn't hear that.
	Well, it was never a golden shower.
	It was peeing on the bed.
	But it falls under the golden shower category.
	Maybe.
	It's a shower.
	It was golden.
	It was glorious.
	Tax sheet hasn't released its taxes.
	Tax sheet is a good one.
	The rotation is long.
	You're getting these from the chat room.
	No, the troll room.
	Collusion.
	Colluder.
	No, that's...
	I got that Russian agent.
	That's in there.
	We got that.
	Okay, all right.
	Tax cheat, that's one that needs to be on there.
	That's...
	Okay, so is this what my point was?
	I didn't hear literally Hitler.
	I didn't hear that.
	Hitler.
	Literally Hitler.
	Literally Hitler.
	Yeah.
	Bully.
	Anyway, my point is, if I can make it, is that the Democrats...
	Because I thought...
	Elizabeth Warren was particularly offensive.
	This is my Freudian slip.
	Offended?
	She was particularly effective.
	Oh, a good slip, yes.
	Particularly offensive.
	She was particularly effective when she harped on Donald Trump being a thin-skinned bully.
	And she would use those terms over and over and over again.
	And then all this other stuff came up and they started to try to create this rotation of complaints.
	But they dreamed up too many things.
	Too many.
	Too many.
	And so now it's just a mess and you don't have the focus.
	And by the way...
	You need focus.
	Elizabeth Warren, I think that she may be a little bit on the outs now with the party.
	And certainly I thought it was very rude that she decided to thwart...
	The let's all dress in black effort and came in a powder blue outfit.
	Which made her stand out.
	And this is a big deal with the State of the Unions.
	We've discussed this in the past.
	Yes, they'll wear red and yellow.
	Yes, they'll be wearing red or yellow to stand out.
	That's the whole reason you do it.
	And she did it.
	She wanted to stand out from that Democratic crowd.
	I don't know if she wanted to be presidential or maybe she disagrees with them.
	I doubt it.
	But I thought that was rude and I think it was a party faux pas.
	Ooh, party faux pas.
	You said, ooh, because you think it might be a good show title.
	Well, I just write it down.
	I just amaze myself.
	I'm writing it down, too.
	Party Fauxpas, yes.
	That was not...
	No, she didn't make any friends doing that.
	I don't think so.
	I agree.
	I don't think so.
	I think she's made a huge blunder.
	But now back to the talking points.
	Yes, they've done too many.
	They haven't focused in on...
	On the ones that really work.
	They need to focus in on about five or six.
	That's why I think Warren was good when she kept going thin-skinned bully.
	It's really nasty.
	But now it's all these other ones, and it's just like, you know, they can't make up their minds because they're not in agreement on anything.
	They're really not a party that is well-knit.
	It's all over the place.
	And everyone's pushing each other's agendas.
	And now we got this Joe Kennedy III. Are they really going to try another dynasty?
	Is that the thinking horde?
	I mean, or was this the audition which he clearly failed?
	I think it was the audition.
	And I think they would like to have another dynasty because it works well for the party.
	Well, buh-bye.
	Bye-bye.
	Bye, Felicia.
	Yeah, he...
	And he's not...
	You know, he's...
	He's kind of a motley-looking person that's not...
	He's not...
	Presidential-looking.
	He's not even close.
	No.
	But the whole drooling thing, you know, that was...
	That's how it works.
	It's like the Paul Songus...
	No, what was it?
	With the helmet?
	Was that Songus?
	No, no, no, you're thinking of Dukakis.
	Dukakis, I'm sorry.
	Yeah, you put the stupid helmet on, boom, you're done.
	And you get in a tank.
	You do the stupid, woo-hoo!
	You do that, boom, you're done.
	Who was that again?
	Oh, yeah, that's happening.
	Woo!
	Who was that an idiot?
	Who was that douchebag?
	That was the guy from Vermont.
	People in the chatroom know his name offhand.
	We all know his name.
	Dean.
	Howard Dean.
	Yeah, Howard Dean.
	Dean Scream.
	That's what it was.
	Dean Scream.
	I bet you we still have that somewhere.
	Yeah, it was probably...
	Look it up.
	Howard Dean also, of course, he was making headway.
	Joe Trippi was his campaign manager doing it.
	Yes, yes, yes.
	Just a killer job.
	There it is, the Dean Scream.
	And he got...
	Back in the day, that would end your career.
	And it did.
	Anything stupid like that.
	Trump is the thing that's got everybody irked because he's done a number of things that they think should be career ending.
	But the public didn't care so much because he wasn't doing something like what Dean did.
	And then Dean would also come out.
	Talking about long ties, he used to have the long tie like Trump.
	I don't know what it is that Trump gets away with.
	We've got to keep an eye on the cheeseburger meme.
	They keep bringing that back.
	The cheeseburger.
	Cheeseburger in bed.
	Cheeseburger.
	He likes cheeseburgers.
	He doesn't want to get poisoned.
	He eats cheeseburgers.
	He's a cheeseburger nut.
	I'm going to put that in the list.
	He's the Hamburglar.
	Cheeseburglar.
	Exactly.
	It's always a cheeseburger.
	It's never a hamburger.
	Well, with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage and say in the morning to you, John C. U.S.E. stands for Chained Dvorak.
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	Illuminaria, who brought us the artwork for episode 1003, Doomsday Sandwich, the title...
	Made us laugh the minute we saw it in the generator.
	This was the little baby with the big circle and no baby alive.
	Yes, indeed.
	It was just funny.
	It has the right elements in there.
	We appreciate that.
	She only started doing this art because she wanted to learn Photoshop.
	She's not a graphic artist by any means.
	Could have fooled me.
	I know.
	She looks very professional.
	She might be a natural.
	I like what she's doing.
	We appreciate that.
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	A quick couple of notes.
	I want to thank some domain forwards.
	Dude named Jose has brought us goat.support.
	Apparently the.support domain is now a new TLD. So goat.support goes directly to noagendashow.com.
	.support is a new TLD?.support, not goat.
	You're not always going to use these things.
	However, producer Blake sent me a note.
	He says, hey, I've had this domain.
	Do you think it'll be of any value?
	And it's clinton2020.com.
	Holy crap, yeah.
	And I said, yeah, that would be valuable if you forwarded it to noagendashow.com, which he did.
	Beautiful.
	So if you're looking for clinton2020.com.
	And I suggest you write up some phony baloney SEO blog posts and put it in there so that we can get lots.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Yeah, and we're getting ready for Hillary again and then have Hillary2020.com.
	Exactly.
	Exactly.
	Imagine the confusion and the scourge.
	Thank you very much, Blake.
	All right, we have a couple people to thank, I believe.
	Yes, we do.
	This is our value for value model, which sometimes needs explaining, reiteration.
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	Why other podcasters don't do it is beyond me, but we certainly appreciate our producers because that's what they are.
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	We're all listeners.
	They're producers of the best podcasts in the universe, and we have executives and associate executive producers who we'd like to thank up front because they really provided the financial support for each individual episode.
	Exactly.
	Let's start with our buddy Sir Onimus of Dogpatch and Loris Lobovia.
	Yeah, yeah.
	He's back.
	Yeah, he came back.
	He was complaining that...
	Well, he says everything in his note.
	He always writes a note.
	And he's in for 700.
	I don't know what the different numbers are that he submits.
	We know it's code.
	We just haven't figured it out.
	It's some sort of code.
	Sorry for being late with my support.
	A lot of travel lately.
	I want to thank everyone that contributes to the show, providing a great source of research.
	He also thanks everybody.
	Thanks to producers, I think.
	Yes, I think that's very nice that he does that.
	Nice, yeah.
	A great source of research analysis and for supporting a great database to search relevant issues.
	That would be your database.
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	Wow, that's a humbling statement he makes there.
	I think so.
	John, I own a small farm where we raise some goats.
	Hey!
	Nice!
	White ones, which are more valuable for Eid sacrifice.
	And like you, enjoy goat meat.
	I suggest the next time you visit the halal butcher for goat, try one of their chickens.
	My experience is unlike the industrial chicken farm chickens, it actually tastes like chicken.
	Well...
	I'll go you one better.
	Well, can I ask, can I just say something?
	I discussed this with Tina, the keeper, and she was not in, she's like, oh, goat meat I can taste, no way.
	No, no, no.
	I've been doing a lot of recipes lately.
	I would very much appreciate at a later date you and I discuss a recipe that I can fool her and trick her into eating the goat.
	Yeah, I can think of a couple.
	Cool.
	I've had goat that tastes nothing like you'd expect goat to taste like, so I know it's possible.
	It tastes like the best lamb you've ever had.
	Precisely.
	If you overcook it, it can be very tough and horrible.
	That's lame, yeah.
	I mean, but it's only because of the toughness.
	It doesn't taste like mutton.
	Okay.
	I want to talk about the chicken thing at the end of his note.
	A small technical correction for my last letter.
	I typed, if you travel to Saudi Arabia, Iran, or Lebanon, you cannot have an Israeli stamp.
	Lebanon is technically at war with Israel, Iran, and Saudi Arabia.
	What?
	Saudi Arabia.
	Or in Saudi Arabia, just Iran and Saudi Arabia.
	I'm okay.
	You read Essay of South Africa.
	Oops.
	Well, I knew better than that, rather than Saudi Arabia.
	South Africa has let me in with an Israeli stamp, and I doubt they restrict any country.
	They don't.
	I have a family member with a South African passport and it's very challenging to gain entry in most countries without a visa or some effort.
	Perhaps a South African listener can enlighten us on how the end of apartheid didn't end more of these issues.
	No jingles, no karma.
	Well, first of all, let me thank Seronymous of Dogpatch and Lower Slobovia.
	Thank you for your courage.
	Now, I have to comment on the chicken.
	He says, he suggested the next time I visit a halal butcher for goat, I get a chicken.
	Well, I'm sure the chicken there is good, but as a topper that I think you should know about that we have here in the Bay Area, a halal butcher in Oakland that has chickens, ducks, and geese mainly.
	And I think they maybe have turkeys sometime of the year.
	And you go in there and the animals are alive.
	They're alive!
	You point the one out that you want, they take the bird or whatever, the bird.
	And they make it not alive.
	And then they take into the back and they kill it in the proper style and take the feathers off and fix it.
	It takes about, I don't know, 10 minutes maybe.
	And then they gut it and they do everything you do to a chicken as though it was a Tyson chicken.
	And they cut it all up or you get it whole?
	You can get it cut up, I think, but you get it whole and wrapped up and boom, you're out of there with a chicken.
	Yeah, beautiful.
	That is very fresh.
	Very fresh, very fresh.
	And you should probably...
	Is this the halal dinner and a show that you go to?
	So you get the chicken or the duck or the goose.
	And the goose, by the way, is like 40 bucks, which is about half price of a goose.
	That you'd pay Frozen and who knows what they did with it.
	So you take it, but then you have to keep it in the...
	Butler, by the way, is the one who told me about this.
	Michael, yeah.
	And he's a nut about food, and he says he'll never eat another store-bought chicken after he's had these chickens.
	I am not a fan of chicken at all.
	I don't like eating chicken.
	You might like this chicken.
	Yeah, because that's my problem.
	I get the white meat, and I'm like, jeez, this is a shit.
	Yeah, it's tasteless.
	It's horrible.
	It's like a protein slab.
	Who knows?
	Yeah.
	But the point is, is that then you have to, just for people out there to know, you have to put in the refrigerator for like three or four days so it can...
	You have to pre-age it before you start cooking.
	You can't just cook it right away.
	Oh, that's a handy tip.
	I would have messed that up.
	It's called hanging it.
	So you put it in the refrigerator for three or four days and then it's ready to cook.
	So you have to buy them in advance.
	You can't just buy them and have a feast that day.
	So I just wanted to point that out.
	So I'm aware of the halal chickens.
	And the places usually go in there.
	This is what's interesting.
	There's no whites in the place.
	Here we go.
	Mostly Chinese.
	Yeah.
	Some Mexicans.
	And some other brown people.
	Mostly Chinese, though.
	It's the Chinese who really appreciate this stuff.
	And they're the ones who have the live fish all throughout Chinatown.
	And then you pick a fish, you take it out, and then they beat the crap out of it on the floor as it's flopping around.
	It's quite the sight.
	Yes.
	Also a dinner and a show.
	We can sell that.
	Hey!
	Come to San Francisco.
	Get the poop map.
	Visit the Halal Chicken Show.
	Well, a lot of people, you know, they don't...
	I don't know.
	There's a bunch of people around here because there's places crawling with them.
	Vegetarians and vegans.
	And they...
	They're against all these things.
	They put a lot of the Chinese fish mongers out of business.
	I'm sorry that I have to do this, but I have a 35-second vegan clip.
	I just happened to bring one to the party today.
	Jerry Carbstrong joins us, a vegan activist.
	Good afternoon.
	Hello, Jeremy.
	How are you?
	I don't know whether you're angry today or just generally about the whole thing.
	Well, I'm a bit upset to see your sandwich has a piece of a pig's body in there.
	A dead pig that didn't want to die.
	There's a ham sandwich on the table, yeah.
	Ham is a euphemism.
	That actually comes from the flesh of a dead pig.
	What would you rather call it?
	I'd like you to call it the dead body of an animal who didn't want to die.
	Is the cheese a problem as well?
	The cheese comes from a mother who had her children taken from her, okay, and had her hands shoved in her anus and was artificially inseminated with bull semen.
	Probably why vegans would say that a dairy farmer is akin to a rapist.
	Alright!
	Woohoo!
	There you go.
	That's the general thinking.
	Yeah, that's our area to a T. That's where you live.
	That's your neighbour.
	This is my neighbor next door.
	Onward.
	Do we have our little...
	Ladies and gentlemen, I present the Grand Duke of the Pacific Northwest, Sir Dwayne Melanson.
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	All Dukes, Grand Dukes, get the...
	Grand Dukes get this...
	Honor.
	Whatever you call it.
	It's honor bestowed upon them.
	Honor.
	The intro.
	Yes.
	Sir Dwayne Malinson, Grand Duke of the Pacific Northwest.
	$353 from Tigard, Oregon.
	ITM Jantz, here's my MSM donation.
	Leet 353.
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	Uh...
	Is it Jan Fur?
	Well, he's from Portland, so I'd say it's...
	Jan?
	Jan.
	Jan.
	Yeah, Jan.
	Fury?
	Fury?
	Fury.
	350.
	Thanks for correlating news sources and deducing how the money flow taints the news.
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	Goats scream, and guess what?
	What?
	The Howard Dean scream.
	No!
	You're kidding me!
	That's...
	Coincidence?
	That's spooky, man.
	Spooky.
	Coincidence?
	Read the book.
	He's Trump!
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	The president.
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	Hey, they actually sound pretty good together.
	Yeah, maybe the same thing.
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	Let me look, see if I can find an email from him.
	It's David Van Root, which in Dutch would be David Van Root, but he's from Otis, Louisiana, so I don't know.
	Maybe this is a pronunciation style guy?
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	It sounds like this a little bit.
	$333, and he sent a note in, Mr.
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	Right.
	Tastes like Arnold Palmer and can be used...
	Tastes like Arnold Palmer.
	I wonder what that means.
	And Arnold Palmer.
	The drink.
	It doesn't say this.
	It tastes like Arnold Palmer.
	Not and Arnold Palmer.
	Okay, okay.
	Next you're going to think chain migration is racist.
	And can be used as a starter.
	Like sourdough.
	Except with tea.
	Handmade and hand delivered.
	If it's hand delivered, it must be around here.
	Mr.
	Curry, I cannot hand deliver kombucha to you.
	However, Mr.
	DeVore can use the quart of starter to make you a quart of starter and...
	And him 10 gallons of tea.
	See, donation.
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	After John explained to me some of the ins and outs, mainly the outs of kombucha, I have decided I'm not interested.
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	Yes, a very good thought.
	We admire you for doing that.
	But don't send it to me because Tina doesn't drink it.
	My daughter drinks it, though, but she's not here.
	Yes, she would.
	Mm-hmm.
	Why do you say that?
	She's a liberal.
	Liberal?
	Liberal?
	Yeah, she's a liberal.
	Well, around you, yeah, because yellow dad might say something stupid.
	No, no.
	She's a liberal.
	She's exactly like me, except she's lesbian.
	Well, I guess I'm a lesbian, too.
	Sir Pat, yeah, you're a male lesbian.
	Sir Pat, 250 bucks.
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	Sir Pat.
	Oh, getting ready for the Super Bowl.
	Sir Pat, $250 to be an associate executive producer for a show at 10-4.
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	What sparked me to donate was Adam's face bag conversation he had with Julie and Rhonda, which he shared on the last show.
	Jennifer and Rhonda.
	This type of segment on the show needs to be a regular occurrence, which I have said, too.
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	It may not be possible that Adam would be doing it more.
	And he also doesn't want to break through the window.
	Although, you'd have to have a good arm to get a break through his window.
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	Well, I will read another, just a quickie and two comments from the face bag, since I brought it with me today, from, again, ex-MTV alumni Vinny, I will omit last names.
	Vinny, who I worked with for many years.
	Pleasantly.
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	One by Neely and one by...
	Oh, actually three.
	One by Phil and one by Petra.
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	Evangelicals, colon.
	Republicans in Congress almost killed in a train wreck a day after the State of the Union address.
	Don't you think it's a sign from God?
	That's the comment.
	Wow.
	That's the post.
	Here are the comments.
	Neely says, hmm, unfortunately he was one of the hard-working garbage men who died, dot, dot, dot.
	Unfortunately, the Republicans didn't die, is what she's trying to say.
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	This is the level my former co-workers have stooped to.
	They're in show business.
	The milieu is too strong to resist.
	We actually have created a protective bubble, and it is a bubble.
	It's a bubble and a buffer.
	It's a buffer.
	That's what we've done.
	We've created a buffer against the bubbles that come out of the entertainment industry, which has been corrupted.
	Yes.
	And that's the people who work in the entertainment industry.
	They are in the entertainment industry today, only they've moved on.
	They've moved on to be doing...
	I know not one in this bag post, but I'll have to read Alex's face bag post soon.
	He did the U2 segment on the Grammys.
	These are people who really are in the business.
	Yeah, they're in the business.
	And this is how they think.
	And remind me to talk to you about the train crash in the C-Block, because I have a producer note.
	Trainwreck C-Block.
	Okay.
	The chat room?
	Troll room.
	You heard that.
	Yeah.
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	Okay, let's get that straight.
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	Onward.
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	Got no jingles, no karma.
	When is the Super Bowl?
	Sunday.
	Oh, it's this Sunday?
	Yeah.
	No, who's playing?
	Who's playing?
	Yes.
	The New England Patriots and the Philadelphia Eagles.
	Oh, Philly all the way.
	Why?
	You'll find out?
	No, you have some information to tell us.
	Yeah.
	Benson Pernot.
	Pernot.
	P-E-R-N-O-T. P-E-R-N-O-T. 250.
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	We'll give him some karma.
	Yes.
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	And our last executive producer is Dame Susan, Newburgh, Oregon.
	And she sent in $202 with a handwritten card.
	It's a card, which I like.
	Dear John and Adam, thank you for the update on the Howling Chickens robotic team.
	I didn't hear my name mentioned on their donation list, so I hope they receive my money, Eric.
	Yeah, I think we mentioned all the names we were given, I think.
	I could have messed it up easily as possible.
	Okay, well, I'll give you two mentions.
	Dame Susan.
	The credit card charged me, so there's that, as you two like to say.
	On to this donation.
	It is in honor of Seth's...
	You've got to write this down.
	Okay.
	Seth's birthday on 202, February 2nd.
	So the $202, not sure his age, maybe 28.
	A few months ago, I call it me.
	It's like me.
	Oh, that wasn't her?
	No, that was her.
	Oh, okay.
	But I just reminded myself.
	It's something.
	Something.
	A few months ago, I called him out as a douchebag as he hit my son in the mouth, who then hit me in the mouth, but had never himself donated.
	It's a chain hitting.
	Chain mouth hitting.
	Chain hitting.
	It's racist.
	After the call out, he did donate and included a very funny tongue-in-cheek note of explanation.
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	For jingles, I would like just a few pew-pews, a couple of Adam, you pick them, yays, and some house-selling karma, please.
	Thanks for keeping me sane, Dame Susan.
	Thank you, Dame.
	Very nice note.
	I'm looking for the pews.
	Interesting.
	Can we use pew-pews since you've got the new system?
	Uh...
	Oh, I see what's called.
	Network support, really?
	Why would it be called that?
	Okay.
	Yes, pew-pews.
	And then what were the other ones?
	Some yay, little girl yay, or anybody's yelling yay.
	Mm-hmm.
	And then some house-selling karma.
	Okay, we can do...
	No, this is not the right one.
	I don't think...
	No?
	See, that's...
	Hmm.
	That's really odd.
	What happened to our pew pew?
	Maybe you're spelling it wrong.
	It's P-E-W? Yeah.
	Oh, here it is.
	Yeah.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	I got it.
	Oh, good.
	You saw karma.
	Yay!
	And those are our associate and executive producers for show 10-4, good buddies.
	10-4, good buddy.
	No one took advantage of the big one.
	But we may have a couple of 10-4s down on the list.
	And we'll be thanking people who came in over $50 and above in the e-block.
	Yeah, in the e-block.
	And again, I want to remind all of our executive and associate executive producers that these credits are real.
	They can be used anywhere credits are accepted and recognized.
	And we have heard from personal experience that putting them on your LinkedIn profile tends to get you gigs.
	Dvorak.gigs.com.
	That's for our show on Sunday, and of course, we'll be pre-constructing the Super Bowl, so propagate!
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	All right.
	What were you going to remind me?
	I was going to remind you, let me grab the sheet of paper where I wrote the reminder, something about the train.
	The train crash.
	All aboard, train's good, plane's bad.
	Well, in this case, not so good, but one of our producers, who wants to remain anonymous, says it was very odd that the day before this crash, at this very intersection, there was a police checkpoint.
	He had to cross it several times, and each time they asked for driver's license identification, there was a helicopter overhead, and then the next day the checkpoint was not there, but after the crash, immediately everybody was on the scene.
	He said he was listening to the scanner, and he wanted to say that he had no idea, had never seen a checkpoint at that very intersection ever before.
	Which is troublesome when you think about it.
	Very troublesome.
	One of our producers wrote in to me saying this is very reminiscent of Rubicon.
	Which episode and what?
	I think it was the first or second episode where the train crashes.
	Oh, yes, yes, yes, I remember now.
	It's very startling to the viewer.
	So you've got a whole bunch of Republicans on a train, and then at a checkpoint that was being, that just showed out of nowhere at the intersection where this took place.
	Yeah, the garbage truck.
	Yep.
	Which should have and could have.
	Code, that's code.
	Could have and should have derailed the train, probably killing a few of the Republicans.
	Yes.
	Those trucks are no joke.
	No, those things are...
	If you're going to put something up that's going to cause a problem, I'd say a garbage truck would be right at the top of the list in terms of being hard to move.
	Either that or one of those trucks that's got the big rollers that flatten out the pavement.
	I mean, that would be also good.
	That would be better.
	Well, let me take a look at said garbage truck.
	Hmm.
	Yeah.
	Well, it looks like one of those waste management...
	Oh, geez.
	That's a big truck.
	It's a normal big giant truck.
	That's a serious truck.
	And apparently it had a lot of stuff in it weighing it down because it was stuff spewed everywhere.
	So, no one has said it.
	I'll just say it.
	It could have been a possible attempt.
	Attempt at what?
	At hurting people.
	Yes, but you can say it all you want.
	I'll say it.
	Yeah.
	This is not a coincidence in that, you know, you listen to the facebag people, they're going on about it, hoping the guys will all get killed.
	They're a bunch of dirty, rotten Republicans, white supremacists.
	Literally, Hitlers.
	Hitlers.
	Literally, Hitlers.
	Yeah.
	So...
	I'm sure they will.
	No one's saying that because it's irresponsible.
	They'll say it.
	It would be great to get some follow-up on that.
	There'll be nothing.
	Nothing.
	It'll be covered up, hushed up.
	And without a doubt, the most emailed article, most tweeted, most retweeted, most bag-posted article was the Service Peacock.
	I'm glad that everybody realizes and recognizes that your best podcast in the universe has been on this scam for how long now?
	Years?
	I think it's almost since the beginning because you'd grouse about it constantly.
	No, not the beginning.
	No way.
	But several years.
	At least since show 200.
	And I've gone through all of the different legislation, explained what can and cannot.
	And when you see the misinformation in these comments...
	Now, people talk about an ESA. An ESA is just not an officially approved thing.
	There is one case...
	Where a dog can be trained under...
	Under the current legislation, that if you are prone to anxiety attacks or seizures, and the dog can actually snap you out of it, that is a service dog, and that is permitted.
	But that is, somehow we got in the lexicon this ESA, they even have an acronym for it, the Emotional Support Animal, and people truly believe that it equals a service animal, which can really only be a dog.
	There's some exceptions for ponies.
	I thought...
	The comments surrounding this peacock were unbelievable.
	Many people said, let the bird fly!
	Let the bird on the plane!
	Did you see this thing?
	It's like a 40 pound bird.
	More importantly, have you ever seen and or smelled peacock poop?
	Yes.
	No, I never smelled the poop.
	Lex has a couple of them.
	They're horrible.
	You could deafen the whole plane with that peacock screech.
	It was idiotic.
	And anyone saying that the peacock should have been allowed to fly is...
	Here's an idea.
	Lady, adopt a child.
	They're great for emotional support.
	And by the way, all animals, all pets, are emotional support animals.
	Now, you bring up an interesting point.
	Am I right or not?
	Fish.
	What is the etymology of pet?
	Well, I don't know about that, but let's skip that argument because it's...
	Okay.
	Shallow and bring up the point you actually made.
	Okay.
	Which is, why can't the kids come on board free right up to their teens?
	Yes.
	Emotional support.
	Yes.
	What if you have a mom, you're traveling, should the mom fly free?
	Yeah, I wish.
	Should, she's emotional support.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	You buy the kid a ticket, he needs, or she, needs emotional support, the mom flies free as an emotional support animal.
	Yes, mammal.
	Mammal.
	Emotional support mammal.
	And EMM, I'm an emotional, ESM, I'm an emotional support mammal.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	So, but yeah, the comments where people are really outraged.
	She needs it.
	It's important.
	She needs to fly with it.
	How else can you travel?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, I know.
	I know.
	Sanity is ending, luckily, on our watch.
	You think?
	I do think.
	I think it's ending.
	You think it's ending?
	Yeah.
	The airlines have finally given up.
	Oh, you mean that?
	They're just putting a stop to it.
	Yeah, I like what they've done.
	I'm all in on that.
	Good work, airlines, who I typically do not really like, except for Southwest.
	Southwest is the best.
	Best.
	Southwest is the best.
	South best.
	Okay.
	Alright, what else we got here?
	Well, we got a lot of stuff.
	Well, we got the memo.
	Let's do the memo.
	Yeah, can I ask you a question?
	Sure.
	When this thing, if this thing is ever released, and I have my thoughts about that, as I've said earlier, it better say on top of it, Memorandum.
	Because...
	You know, you have like some file on Trump.
	It's a dossier.
	C'est un dossier, monsieur.
	You get something that could potentially be bad for the Democrats and a Democratic administration under Obama.
	It's mostly bad about the Democrats.
	It's a memo.
	It better say memorandum above it or I'm going to be pissed.
	We're going to bitch if it doesn't.
	Yeah.
	Alright, so we have a couple of reports.
	I have a bunch of clips because I think they're kind of funny.
	Let's start with NBC. They have, they bring, they somehow, this is only part of their report, but they can't just leave the memo as the memo report and just play it straight.
	They gotta somehow clip it, hook it, attach it to Trump and his immigration policy.
	Well, of course!
	What else is there to do?
	So, here we go.
	You've got to tell me what clip it is.
	NBC brings, connects, memo.
	Another big story we're following this evening is the battle brewing between President Trump and his own FBI director, who was sat in the alarm over the potential release of that Republican memo on the Russia investigation.
	The president indicating he'll release it.
	The FBI now signaling grave concerns over its accuracy, urging the president not to do it.
	We get all the latest now from NBC's Peter Alexander.
	Tonight, President Trump again clashing with his FBI director, this time Christopher Wray, the man he handpicked to replace James Comey.
	The Flashpoint, a controversial Republican memo alleging anti-Trump bias within the FBI and Justice Department.
	The Bureau tonight waging an extraordinary public campaign to prevent the classified document's release.
	Warning of grave concerns about facts left out that fundamentally impact the memo's accuracy.
	President Trump tonight ignoring questions about the FBI's plea.
	Still, the President's mind appears made up.
	Let's release the memo.
	Chief of Staff John Kelly today backing up his boss.
	It'll be released here pretty quick I think and the whole world can see it.
	House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, a former Trump transition official, unleashing his own unprecedented attack on the FBI and DOJ, accusing the agencies of having stonewalled Congress's demands for information for nearly a year.
	All of it overshadowing what the White House build is a unifying State of the Union address.
	But President Trump's tough tone on a crucial immigration sticking point drew Democratic boos.
	Under the current broken system, a single immigrant can bring in virtually unlimited numbers of distant relatives.
	Under our plan.
	As an aside, did you see that the German broadcaster admitted they boosted the boos on Trump's speech at Davos?
	Good for them.
	But no one ever says, hey, NBC, CNN, everyone else did it.
	No, no, of course not.
	Just boost them.
	Just make it worse than it is.
	Well, anyway, so they, I don't know how they got, all of a sudden they're talking about immigration.
	So there was a really crappy report.
	But the absolute best discussion of the memo was when Pelosi came on Como's show.
	Yes.
	I have the Pelosi and Como, and then I have an ISO, the funniest part.
	Then I have it sweetened.
	Recognizing the sacrifice that our men and women and the intelligence community make for our country's security that would say, this is reckless.
	Christopher Wray, the director of the FBI, obviously, recently selected by President Trump.
	He got the memo.
	He could have come out and said, this is reckless, don't release it.
	Let me just say this with all due respect, you really don't know what you're talking about right now.
	Did Christopher Wray look at it or no?
	I can't say whether he did or not, but he did not.
	In order to redact, you have to have the people who know...
	I'm not saying redact.
	I'm saying if these concerns are so sharp and obvious...
	Well, they've already said not to release it.
	They already said not to.
	The Justice Department already said it would be reckless to release it.
	You said that earlier.
	The DOJ said it.
	We've been reporting it, absolutely.
	But now there's this word that is somewhat of a compromise.
	Well, wait a minute.
	I want to tell you something.
	Let me just say this.
	The Republicans...
	Hold on a second.
	What word?
	What word is he focusing on that's the compromise?
	I don't know.
	The Republican Party has, as I said, crossed over to cover up.
	They're deadly afraid of the Russia investigation.
	We don't want the investigation to be anything but based on the law and the facts and let the investigation proceed.
	That's the right thing to do for our country.
	We have to be respectful of law.
	We have to be respectful of intelligence.
	Absolutely.
	And what they're doing is reckless in regard to both.
	But the fact is also that it's a distraction from the fact that they've passed a tax bill that gives 83% of the benefits to the top 1%.
	They'd like to distract from that.
	86 million middle-class Americans will pay more in taxes.
	$1.5 trillion to now up to $2 trillion, including interest, will be added to the national debt.
	That they do give this...
	A gift to corporate America at the expense of our children's future.
	They don't want to talk about that.
	They don't want to talk about the fact that they have what they've done in terms of the president put forth a ridiculous memo on, well, I don't know if he put it forth or they leaked it, on infrastructure, which doesn't even go near what our country needs.
	They are doing bad things in terms of Immigration and the rest.
	What they do is they give you a nugget.
	They say, here's what we're doing on immigration.
	Isn't that wonderful?
	While it looks so pretty and while they do very unpretty things behind the scenes.
	Same thing with tax bill.
	Isn't this a nice little thing we're giving you while we give all these bad things behind?
	And same thing again with intelligence.
	We're going to show you a memo.
	This is ridiculous.
	That was pretty incoherent.
	She was pretty, yes.
	But I have, here's the part that is, I think, worth an ISO to, which is the first one.
	Rosenstein defended the special counsel in front of the American people.
	Have you seen good cause to fire special counsel?
	What are you playing?
	No.
	Hold on a second.
	It says report, oh, I'm so sorry.
	Wrong ISO. Yeah.
	My mistake.
	Pelosi ISO, do not know what you're talking about.
	I understand.
	I'm sorry.
	Let me just say this with all due respect.
	You really don't know what you're talking about right now.
	I just think that's a good one.
	Yes.
	I sweetened it a little bit so it's got a little more oomph to it.
	More Pelosi.
	He could have come out and said, this is reckless, don't release it.
	Let me just say this with all due respect.
	You really don't know what you're talking about right now.
	I think that works better.
	How long did you spend on it?
	Not long.
	It's pretty obvious where she's bubbling along like that.
	Oh, man, that's funny.
	I was looking for an Obama if-if-if.
	Couldn't find it that fast.
	Well, yeah, he tops that for sure.
	Oh, man.
	So those other ISOs are part of a deconstruction of one of the stories.
	I've decided that ABC is the absolute worst at doing whipsaw.
	Well, before we go there, let me stick with the memo.
	Oh, yes.
	So in that report at the beginning, in fact, maybe I should just play it just because we did all that funny stuff.
	Actually, not the other report, the NBC report.
	Here we go.
	Let me just play the beginning again.
	Another big story we're following this evening is the battle brewing between President Trump and his own FBI director who was sat in the alarm over the potential release of that Republican memo on the Russia investigation.
	The president indicating he...
	Now, I played this game with the keeper last night.
	I said, okay, what is your understanding, who said what, about the memo?
	What you just heard there is the president's own FBI director is coming out against him, and what is your understanding of who said what about the memo from the FBI? You're asking me?
	Yeah.
	I'm asking you to see, because believe me, I was mind-controlled too before I went and read it.
	You read the memo?
	Yeah, no.
	Okay, just answer the question and we can move along.
	Okay, give me the question again succinctly.
	Regarding an FBI statement, regarding the memo, who said what?
	Well, I don't believe there's any direct quotes from anybody.
	Personally, I don't know who said anything.
	All I know is that they're conveying the message that The new FBI director doesn't think it's a good idea of the memo being released because it's missing information that would be of value for making it a more rounder, fuller memo.
	Thank you.
	Now, you actually went a little bit further than most because the implication is, oh my God, Trump's own FBI director.
	Now, this is a parallel universe split dimension issue.
	One side, Dimension B, squarely hears, oh, can you believe this?
	Trump is so crazy about trying to get to Mueller that even his own FBI director doesn't want this memo released.
	So here's what was released.
	It's from the FBI National Press Office.
	It is not from Director Wray.
	It is from the FBI Press Office.
	The FBI takes seriously its obligations to the FISA court and its compliance with procedures overseen by career professionals in the Department of Justice and the FBI.
	We are committed to working with the appropriate oversight entities to ensure the continuing integrity of the FISA process.
	With regard to the House Intelligence Committee's memorandum, the FBI was provided a limited opportunity to review this memo the day before the committee voted to release it.
	As expressed during our initial review, we have grave concerns about material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memo's accuracy.
	Now, you can take this two ways.
	You can take it as, oh, the director is fighting the president, they're butting heads because look what he said, don't release the memo.
	But no.
	I think this is a trick.
	And they're falling for it because the way you can also read this is, this is not Ray, it's the FBI, so it can't be attributed to Ray.
	Hey, let's release the memo, but let's make sure we get all that stuff that everyone says is fake, that everyone says Nunes didn't read, that everybody says is not based on fact, that no one has seen the backup material.
	Let's put it all in the report and then release it.
	That's the way you can read this as well.
	Okay.
	And what's your conclusion on all this?
	Here's what I think.
	I think the president will temporarily block its release.
	I mean, this thing is so valuable to him and the Republicans.
	It would be crazy to release it now.
	He's going to block it.
	The way I understand it is, either he says, okay, release it, or he says, block it.
	I think he can block it indefinitely.
	No, he has to sign off on it.
	But if he doesn't block it within five days, that would be Monday, then it becomes public anyway.
	That's my understanding of the process.
	I believe that he will...
	Block it temporarily or indefinitely or whatever it is to just hold it over and keep everyone busy, of course.
	Hold it over everybody's head.
	It may not even be that great.
	I'm not so sure.
	Well, your initial thesis is not that great.
	Yeah, bullcrap.
	Yeah.
	So I'm still kind of thinking it's not that great unless the FBI gets the time, which they clearly are asking for, to put material omissions of facts that fundamentally impact the memo's accuracy.
	When you read something like that, Dimension A says, oh, maybe we need to tweak it a little bit, get all the backup, and then present it.
	Dimension B thinks, ha, it's inaccurate.
	Well, here's what I think.
	And I think we pretty much know what the memo is about because we've deconstructed what it's about from various congressional hearings where people ask a certain question.
	Let me summarize it because it's very important in the American life and American constitution, more importantly.
	The government cannot just spy on you.
	And that's why there's a very complicated process for today's technological infrastructure with this FISA court.
	It's not perfect by any means, but it's what we agreed to.
	And it's secret, which makes it already quite iffy.
	And that is one of the fears of constitutionalists is, well, when you have something secret, shit can go wrong.
	And apparently that's exactly what happened.
	It always goes wrong.
	And that's what apparently happened.
	And that would be a gross violation of at least the Fourth Amendment.
	Tons and tons of other violations.
	And it would really put the whole FISA, the whole wiretapping process, it would be the worst fears come true.
	Me too.
	Well, here's what I think.
	And you can tell from the way they were asking questions in various hearings, it didn't take a genius to figure this out.
	The FBI in cahoots with the Democratic Party, and this is what the memo is going to say, and then I'll tell you what I think they're going to try to do to contradict it, because you heard this.
	Everything I'm going to say is not any theory of mine.
	It's kind of pulled out of public domain things that have already been said.
	Yes.
	The memo says that the FBI improperly used the The DNC paid for dossier, gussied it up, took it before FISA, and got a warrant to spy on the Trump campaign.
	Specifically the one guy, but just pretty much the whole campaign.
	This was after they had previously failed to get a FISA warrant, which, the way they tell the story, they had tried to get a FISA warrant and they couldn't get it because it was a bogus attempt to spy on the Trump campaign.
	Then they took the dossier and presented it and said, hey, look what's going on.
	We've got to get our FISA warrant.
	So the dossier was the tipping point.
	The dossier was the tipping point.
	The counter to that, because I've heard this too, is yes, the dossier was used, but it was only a part of a new, more elaborate argument.
	And that's what the FBI's bitching about.
	They don't want to make it look just...
	Because the Republicans would love it to be, let's take this phony dossier, package it up, take it before the FISA court saying we need a warrant to spy on Trump's operation.
	And so they got their warrant, and that's what happened.
	That's what this memo is going to say, more or less.
	And why would the FBI be stopping that?
	The FBI doesn't want to stop it.
	Exactly.
	They want to add new information.
	Yes.
	Yeah, well, we agree.
	We agree.
	They want to make it downplay the dossier and upplay their great abilities to put together an argument.
	Yeah.
	The Democrats are, you know, besides the point with the Democrats, the Democrats don't want to see this thing at all because they know it's embarrassing.
	No.
	The Democrats are taking it yet one step further.
	John Heilman.
	Have we talked about Heilman?
	Yeah, and he's a friend of mine.
	Yeah?
	Okay, here's your friend.
	Senator, it's John Heilman here.
	I want to ask you a question that under almost any other circumstances would be ridiculous and absurd, but under these circumstances, I think it's actually warranted.
	Is it possible that the Republican chairman of the House Intel Committee has been compromised by the Russians?
	Is it possible that we actually have a Russian agent running the House Intel Committee on the Republican side?
	I hope that's not the case.
	I certainly have no information to suggest that it is.
	I think that there are...
	Doesn't his behavior speak of that, though?
	I mean, I'm not the first person who's raised this.
	He's behaving like someone who's been compromised.
	And there are people in the Intelligence Committee, in the Intelligence Community, and others with great expertise in this area who look at him and say, that guy's been compromised.
	Well, I don't have that expertise.
	What I also know is that there are plenty of Republicans who simply instinctually act in a way to protect their president, and his actions would certainly comport with that motivation.
	I don't necessarily know that there's another explanation.
	Your friend is unhinged.
	Yeah, he is.
	I never said he wasn't on Hinge.
	No, but if he's a bud...
	All my friends who are journalists are on that dimension B. What am I supposed to tell you?
	I feel bad for you.
	Why?
	I never see these guys.
	Except for the locals.
	Well, then you have no friends.
	I have you, my friend.
	Oh, I just threw up in my mouth.
	Yeah, good.
	It's about time.
	So, I don't think we're going to see a release.
	I think it will be used.
	It's a great tool.
	No, no.
	It has to be released.
	Hmm.
	Well, hmm.
	It has to be released.
	And then they got Trump, unfortunately, caught him after the speech talking to one of the senators.
	Yeah, 100%.
	He's saying 100%.
	I want to point out that, and I'm going to start repeating this, Dimension A people, you are also in danger of becoming completely unhinged.
	And extreme Dimension A people are unhinged.
	Oh, yeah.
	I wouldn't argue that.
	Yeah, but it's important to say that we talk about dimension A and B. We both have issues.
	And the dimension A people are all about...
	Trump, he's going to read the memo during the State of the Union.
	Okay, you are now officially unhinged.
	That's outrageous.
	You are unhinged.
	It was wishful thinking, and yeah, I would love it.
	You would love it.
	We all love it.
	But to think that that would actually happen?
	No.
	Of course not.
	It would be great.
	Yeah.
	It is wishful thinking.
	It's wishful thinking for everybody.
	But it's unhinged thoughts.
	You must stop.
	You must stop this, people.
	It's not healthy.
	That's funny, though.
	It's not healthy.
	It's just not healthy.
	Well, both political extremes, which is everybody now, has always been unhinged on both sides.
	I'm surprised they don't get more fistfights.
	Yeah.
	I mean, that's why the Senate has all these rules about even saying anything about another senator.
	Right.
	Because they used to have fistfights.
	In the good old days.
	Yeah, in the good old days.
	So let's talk about this Rob Rosenstein, the latest thing.
	Yeah.
	Rob Rosenstein.
	This is a non-story to me.
	It's not provable.
	There's nothing to it.
	And what is the story?
	The story is that Trump...
	Had a meeting with him recently and demanded his loyalty.
	Wasn't that, like, right in the beginning?
	No, no, that was another guy.
	He demanded the loyalty of Comey.
	Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes.
	Now, it's a new guy who's demanding the loyalty, but he's not really demanding his loyalty.
	You need to put that on the Trump rotation list.
	Demands loyalty.
	Oh, that's a good point.
	Let me get the list.
	Where's the list?
	I already lost it.
	Well, I'll find it and put it on.
	No, you won't.
	Yeah, it will, because it's on a computer, luckily.
	Except they've got to put those new items.
	Now, let's go...
	So, he didn't really demand loyalty.
	He asked if you're on my team.
	Yes.
	But Dimension B and the news media all picked it up and decided to make it that he demands loyalty.
	I didn't really...
	Honestly, I did not know that.
	I had not seen any original statements.
	Oh, yeah.
	It's all over the place.
	This is a big news item.
	Now...
	I want to play the...
	This is the ABC... Oh, NBC. I don't think it's NBC or ABC. Which one do I have here?
	ABC. This is the ABC report with David Muir.
	This is the ABC report.
	And within...
	Wait.
	Within the report...
	There are three whipsaws, which I'll point out.
	You should be able to catch them as they come and go.
	There's three in this really kind of a lame non-report.
	Robert Mueller reports to Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein, and now comes word tonight that President Trump allegedly asked Rosenstein, are you on my team?
	ABC's Chief Justice Correspondent Pierre Thomas from Washington.
	The President has been accused of demanding loyalty before.
	Has he done it again?
	This time with the man in charge of Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
	Mueller reports to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein because Jeff Sessions recused himself from the Russia investigation.
	And now a source telling ABC News, during a meeting just weeks ago, the President asked Rosenstein if he was on his team and allegedly also wanted to know about the direction of the Russia probe.
	Questions that seemed to surprise Rosenstein.
	Within days of that meeting, Rosenstein defended the special counsel in front of the American people.
	Have you seen good cause to fire special counsel, Mueller?
	No.
	Critics say President Trump's question to Rosenstein, are you on my team, is part of a pattern.
	Former FBI Director James Comey claims the President told him, I need loyalty.
	I expect loyalty.
	He asked specifically of loyalty in the context of asking me to stay.
	And just last week, the president allegedly asked former FBI acting director Andrew McCabe who he voted for.
	Did you ask him that?
	I don't think so.
	No, I don't think I did.
	You did not.
	I don't know what's the big deal with that.
	Pierre Thomas with us tonight.
	And obviously, Pierre, we know McCabe abruptly stepping aside as deputy FBI director just this week.
	David, McCabe's departure was another sign of the mounting tension between the White House and the Justice Department.
	Okay.
	That was a fairly content-less report that told us nothing.
	Yeah.
	ABC to the max.
	And it could be all lies.
	And the three whipsaws were in there.
	I don't know.
	Did you catch any of them?
	Of course I did.
	Of course I did.
	I have ISOed them all.
	Yes, I presume you have them.
	Yep.
	And so I want to play them one after another.
	And what we have is an assertion followed by a clip to prove the assertion that doesn't exist.
	The clip either doesn't prove the assertion, Or in one case, it denies the assertion, which I find to be the most fascinating way to do this.
	And the other one is just kind of random thoughts about the assertion.
	Let's try one.
	Rosenstein defended the special counsel in front of the American people.
	Have you seen good cause to fire special counsel Mueller?
	No.
	What does that mean?
	Not finding good cause is not the same as defending.
	No.
	He makes the assertion that Rosenstein defended.
	Oh, he's defending.
	Asking somebody if they found good cause to fire him, you say no, doesn't mean you're defending it.
	It's got nothing to do with it.
	It's off topic.
	Yes, I agree.
	Good catch.
	So that's number one.
	Let's go to number two.
	Former FBI Director James Comey claims the president told him, I need loyalty.
	I expect loyalty.
	He asked specifically of loyalty in the context of asking me to stay.
	Now this one is a real gem.
	Yeah, it's very good.
	Asking him for loyalty implies that he's going to be lockstep, agree with him and do everything he's told.
	So they play the clip where Comey says, yes, he asked for loyalty in context of my staying.
	In other words, are you going to stay here?
	I need your loyalty.
	Yes.
	So I'd like you to stay on.
	Yeah.
	And that's the only context.
	So he wasn't like demanding loyalty in any way.
	Let's listen again.
	Former FBI director James Comey claims the president told him, I need loyalty.
	I expect loyalty.
	He asked specifically of loyalty in the context of asking me to stay.
	Sheesh.
	Where is the I expect loyalty proof?
	Yeah, nowhere.
	The second half of Pierre's Open question was, I expect loyalty, kind of paraphrasing Trump.
	There's nothing like that in this.
	Play it one more time just to see how egregious this one is.
	Former FBI Director James Comey claims the President told him, I need loyalty.
	I expect loyalty.
	He asked specifically of loyalty in the context of asking me to stay.
	They sure just left that last bit out.
	In the context bit.
	Yeah, well the thing is...
	It would be too short.
	It would be too short.
	It would be too like, build the wall!
	Yes.
	It's a...
	I don't think that they're aware that they're doing this and they're not really trying to trick us.
	This is actually their reporting.
	I'm totally convinced that whatever they think they're doing in terms of reporting, I think they just think that this is, yeah, okay, we got the proof.
	I think they're insane.
	Okay, last one.
	The president allegedly asked former FBI acting director Andrew McCabe who he voted for.
	Did you ask him?
	I don't think so.
	No, I don't think I did.
	You did not.
	I don't know what's the big deal with that.
	Okay.
	This was just a complete...
	He makes an assertion and then it's denied.
	You can't use it.
	To prove your point, you don't bring a clip in that says no.
	This is the worst of the three in that regard.
	It just doesn't even come close to making the point.
	He couldn't come up with anything better than Trump denying it?
	That really, this very, very, very poor job by ABC. And people should be aware that ABC does this all the time.
	He's a grandstander.
	The FBI director has no credibility.
	He's the wrong man for that position.
	Comey.
	Comey.
	James Comey.
	Call me.
	Call me.
	Yeah.
	Call me.
	Call me.
	Anytime.
	Call me.
	You know, I was thinking about this, this loyalty thing.
	This is another one for the list that I might start maintaining about things millennials don't understand about America and hate.
	Ah, great list.
	Yes, the hate list.
	And loyalty is something very traditional in the American spirit and American work culture where you are loyal to your company.
	You are.
	You are loyal to your country.
	You are loyal to your family.
	But the context of company is the one I think that is gone, that went first.
	That's solely gone.
	And it was important.
	You would be loyal to the...
	I can recall not even that long ago in meetings.
	Well, I'm loyal to my company, someone would say, and therefore we're not going to do this or whatever the situation is.
	You have loyalty to things.
	And now it's seen as he's a mobster.
	Yeah, I'm telling you.
	Watch it happen.
	Loyalty, yeah.
	And they'll throw in little clips of the Godfather and Casino and stuff like that.
	You can just predict it.
	It's just going to happen.
	It's another thing that, sadly, the young people of America have been taught to hate.
	Or a taut is wrong or is part of the rotten...
	Well, that, I think, is part of the overriding structure to remove America from having its own...
	It's being its own country.
	It's a globalist thing.
	Why are we subscribing to this?
	You, America, America, America, this, America, that.
	You hear, you know, just white.
	You always want a white America.
	We don't want that.
	We want a global, we don't need this loyalty.
	Exactly.
	Exactly.
	Yeah, I think there's some of that.
	I have, if you're done with this, I have an entremant before we thank a couple people.
	I'm done with that, yes.
	This is a fantastic piece of video.
	You must see this video because the way she does it is just something to behold.
	So this is one of the rare cases where video would be a plus.
	This is from Vanity Fair.
	Vanity Fair, somehow...
	Actually, it's not that hard to imagine because they asked Nicole Kidman to do a demonstration of her eating a variety of bugs.
	And this woman is a reptile.
	When you see the...
	She uses chopsticks...
	She's sitting in a nice kind of decor with curtains, heavy curtain backdrop, and there's a little table next to her.
	She's sitting down, and it's edited, so they keep showing a plate of different bugs.
	Some of them are alive, some of them are not, and she has chopsticks, and she eats them, but she eats them, and her tongue comes out, John.
	I am telling you, Hand on my heart.
	Her tongue comes out like a lizard, a little bit off to the side, a little skewer, pointy, and she slurps the bugs up and she keeps looking off to people like, see, see, I ate it.
	And even the audio is good because you, and I have to give people a trigger warning, you will hear the bugs being crushed alive in her mouth.
	I'm Nicole Kidman, and I am going to eat a four-course meal of bugs.
	I am here to reveal my hidden talent eating micro-livestock cornworms.
	They're still alive.
	Extraordinary.
	Very moist, chewy.
	Can't quite describe the flavor, but I need a little water.
	Let's try the second glass, shall we?
	Just a little side note.
	Two billion people in the world eat bugs, and I'm one of them.
	Because here we go.
	We have some knee worms.
	I'm telling you, I'd win Survivor.
	That is a fruity taste.
	I'd recommend it.
	Here we have...
	Oh!
	Crickets!
	Oh, nothing.
	Oh!
	Oh!
	Awesome.
	Like nothing you've ever tasted.
	Like a hairy nut.
	Don't.
	Oh my gosh.
	A nut from the shell.
	And now for dessert.
	The fried grasshopper.
	These are amazing.
	These are exquisite.
	I recommend them for anyone.
	Thank you for spending so much time with me and watching me eat bugs.
	Till next time.
	There you go.
	She gets a round of applause.
	Oh yeah, from the whole crew.
	You get the clip of the day, of course, for that.
	Even though it's not a great clip.
	Well, I set it up properly.
	No, I'm saying it's not because there's not much talking.
	It's just her going, mmm, another delicious bug.
	She's a reptile.
	She's a reptile.
	I think she probably is.
	Bugs, bugs, bugs.
	Tastes like poop.
	A classic.
	She's a reptile, I tell you.
	Wow.
	Yeah, you gotta see the video.
	Only on the No Agenda show, ladies and gentlemen.
	I'm going to show my soul by donating to No Agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh, yeah, that'd be fab.
	Perfect transition.
	Yeah, on No Agenda in the morning.
	Okay, we do have some people to thank for show 10-4.
	10-4, good buddy.
	Arthur Thompson, $199.99.
	You know, when you get these guys doing that donation, I want to bump them up and make them an associate executive producer.
	And we're going to do that.
	So I'll read this note.
	I appreciate the show where both hosts, Frank and Herman, can speak their minds and won't be fired if they say something that someone does not like.
	I hope this donation keeps that show going.
	Yes, that's right.
	We can't be fired because we don't have a boss.
	Our boss is the public.
	When people like you, Arthur, stop contributing, then we've been fired.
	That will constitute being fired.
	So yes, you are indeed helping keep the show going.
	Yeah, so we'll be going and doing something else when that happens.
	So I will gladly throw in my coin here.
	There you go.
	It's bumped up.
	Yep.
	Onward to Kelly Miller at $156.
	Angela Castaneda, $104.
	That's Dame Angela, a producer extraordinaire of the Airstream of Consciousness tour.
	Yes, Dame Angela.
	Thank you, Dame Angela.
	10-4, good buddy!
	Brian Moss in Brancho somewhere.
	10-4, good buddy.
	10-4, good buddy.
	Rancho Santa Maria.
	Santa Margarita.
	Santa Margarita, of course.
	Laura Wilson in Sammamish, Washington, $104.
	Vince Cornell, Parts Unknown, $104.
	These are the $104, 10-4 donations we have.
	I'm going to read 10-4.
	Yeah, say 10-4.
	10-4 to Kenneth Godwin in Vacaville, California.
	Sir Thomas J. of the Bio City.
	10-4.
	Don Mills, Shasta Lake, California.
	10-4.
	Claiming my knighthood with this donation would like to be known as Sir Donald Earl of Mills, since my middle name is Earl.
	Also, shout out to Todd Moss, who hit me in the mouth several years ago.
	Thank you very much, and...
	10-4, good buddy.
	Sir Stephen Schneider, karma.
	He wants some karma, put it at the end.
	Viscount Jojo, the network chimp of DuPage County, $104.
	And for a good buddy.
	Ah, the Viscount.
	And last on the list of 10-4 technically...
	Is Michael Reardon, and he says we rock, and here's to another thousand shows, and he's in San Diego.
	And we'll do your F cancer jingle.
	At the end.
	And we have, as the alternatives, we have kind of a switcheroo on the 10-4 thing, where we go to $100.40.
	Okay.
	Which also kind of reflects 1004 as the show number.
	So they count as the same.
	So they're all 10 fours, but they're a little different.
	There's only two of them.
	One is Nathan Lee Miller Foster.
	And also congratulating us on the Thousand Shows.
	And Sir Chard of the Tiny Cars.
	Yes.
	He has recovery karma for the beautiful Miss Tanya going through some difficult times and needs all the no agenda help we can get.
	So she's going to get a health karma at the end.
	$100 from Anushka Wardy.
	And I don't know where she's from.
	I think it's Lon Baker, $100.
	Sir Stephen of Lincolnshire, $92.
	Peter Tangney in Plymouth, Massachusetts, $68.
	Tyler Arpa.
	In Des Moines, Iowa, 5676.
	Puts no jingle, no karma.
	Yeah, I guess so.
	Yeah, gotcha.
	John Gardner, which I believe is a sir.
	I believe so as well.
	He gives a shout-out on the 22nd.
	It's too late for a related one for myself.
	Shout-out on the 22nd.
	This is for Baron Richard Gardner, his son.
	He failed to give him a 60th birthday shout-out.
	We put it on today.
	So he's shouting out himself.
	It's self-shoutervation.
	Can we put him on the list for a birthday?
	He's on the list.
	Oh, okay.
	Well, I don't know.
	I do.
	Greg Dial.
	It's yellow, John.
	You don't have yellow?
	I told you this before.
	The yellow on the...
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	Yellow is a bad color for your monitor or whatever.
	Whatever that is.
	No, I mean, we have like gray, which is so dark I can barely read through it, and then there's yellow.
	It's crazy because the gray is really light gray for me.
	Yeah, well, what are you going to do?
	Greg Dial, 55 double nickels on the dime.
	It's also double nickels on the dime for Gardner.
	Jason Petrie, $50.20.
	Sir Alexander, sorry, $50.02.
	And then that brings us to the $50 donors, and I'll read them in order.
	Name and location.
	Of course, there's no particular order.
	Jordan in San Francisco, 50.
	Tyler Schimpf in Bothell, Washington, 50.
	Titus Chow in Houston, Texas.
	He's at F Cancer Karma, which is a sad note.
	Stephen Welch, parts unknown.
	Scott Knight in Las Vegas, Nevada.
	Dennis Brown in Rhinelander, Wisconsin.
	Dean Kostanko, which I believe is a sir in Jacksonville, Arkansas.
	And last but not least, our longtime Sir Alan Bean in Oakland, California.
	I want to thank all these folks for helping produce and contribute to the show 10-4 of the No Agenda series.
	10-4, good buddy.
	10-4, good buddy.
	Yeah, I do want to say about Sir Alexander.
	Was it Sir Alexander?
	No, um...
	Titus Chow, his sister-in-law, died of cancer.
	And now she's passed.
	His brother needs karma for raising three boys age 4, 11, and 9 on his own.
	14, 11, and 9.
	14, 11, and 9 on his own.
	So that's why he needed some karma.
	Also, regarding the colors, are you still using your VGA monitor?
	Your 256-color VGA monitor?
	Yeah, and I got that special connector, which I have to get an adapter for.
	And it works with a USB connector.
	No, I think it is interesting to me from a technical perspective because you're opening this in, I think, Libra?
	Office Libra.
	Yeah, is it Libra or OpenOffice?
	Which one are you using?
	No, no, it's Office Libra, I believe.
	So, for some reason, Office Libra interprets the color codes from Excel in a different way.
	Yeah, probably.
	Well, I just find that interesting.
	Why wouldn't they do it right?
	I don't know.
	Maybe they get sued.
	I have no idea.
	Oh, for stealing Microsoft's color palette?
	Maybe.
	I don't think so.
	It happened.
	Hey, well, thank you, everybody, for supporting your best podcast in the universe.
	Although you got a question, speaking of loyalty, what is the best podcast in the universe, John?
	The No Agenda Show.
	What is the best podcast out there?
	The No Agenda Show.
	I'm John C. Dvorak and I listen to Andrew Horowitz's The Disciplined Investor.
	I think it's the best podcast on the air.
	You traitor.
	You traitor, you.
	in that market.
	Oh, in that market.
	Okay.
	Dvorak.org.
	Yes, please remember us for our show coming up on Sunday where we pre-construct the Super Bowl.
	And you will amaze your friends when you tell them exactly who's going to win and by how many points, because we're really good at that.
	Well, maybe not all that, but we'll try for you and again, thank you for your courage.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	You've got karma.
	Yeah, let's see what we got here on the list.
	We have a bladed happy birthday to John Gardner from himself to himself.
	He turns 60 on December 22nd.
	Sir Stephen of Lincolnshire says happy birthday to his smoking hot wife, Tara.
	She turns 40 tomorrow.
	Sir Alexander celebrating his birthday.
	And Dame Susan says happy birthday to Seth.
	Celebrating on 202, he might be 28.
	Happy birthday from all you buddies here at The Best Podcast.
	Oh, shoot.
	In the universe.
	In the universe.
	Shoot me now.
	Make good we have here for Sir Wire of the Hidden Jewel, James Pyres.
	I want to offer belated congratulations for the exceptional No Agenda milestones of 10 years in Show 1000, the anniversary that proved beyond a reasonable doubt that No Agenda's value-for-value model works.
	Thanks!
	Today is my daughter Serafina's 10th birthday, thus she's been listening to No Agenda for her entire life.
	Her entire life.
	How about that?
	And he says, could you please wish her a happy birthday and play the following jingles?
	He wants all the ITM jingles in sequence.
	Boom!
	There you go.
	So that's how we do it.
	Your sword?
	Hold on.
	Here it is.
	I got it.
	Sorry.
	Don Mills!
	How you doing?
	You are the sole recipient of a nighting today, so we'd like you to step up the podium here next to the lectern near the No Agenda Roundtable of the Dames and Knights.
	And I proudly pronounce the KB, Sir Donald Earl of Mills, for your contribution of $1,000 more to the No Agenda Show.
	And for you, we have hookers and blowers, rent boys and chardonnay, brisket barrel, aged copper ale, pinball and power cords, goat chops and goat milk, Polish potato vodka, diet soda and video games, fish pie and fellatio.
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	And you can find your ring after you give your size to Eric the Schill at noageneration.com slash rings.
	Thank you very much, everybody.
	Thank you for keeping the show going.
	It really does help.
	Merci beaucoup.
	I was researching a story.
	Well, actually, there's two stories I was researching.
	Three stories I was researching.
	Holy moly.
	And the first one is about...
	What?
	He said holy moly.
	It's funny.
	Yeah, that comes from Frank Zappa.
	Did he say holy moly?
	No, he would say great googly moogly.
	So holy moly is an old classic.
	Alright, so this is a bill in Virginia that would require, it's a proposed bill, so nothing has passed yet, that would require anyone who has a device that connects to the internet, which allows you to up or download content, to limit access to, quote, obscene content.
	And I find this very interesting for a number of reasons.
	One, what is obscene?
	And of course, how are they going to enforce this is a whole other question.
	But in this, let me just bring this up here.
	Let me zoom in, zoom in, rotate, enhance.
	So this is really the first paragraph that it's all about.
	Prohibited sale of products with internet capabilities, semicolon, obscene content.
	It is unlawful for any person to distribute or sell any product that makes content accessible on the internet, unless the product possesses an operating digital content blocking capability.
	That renders obscene content, including obscene items, obscene performances, or obscene exhibitions, inaccessible.
	Such persons shall make reasonable and ongoing efforts to ensure the proper functioning of the digital content-blocking capability, and shall ensure that the following content is inaccessible.
	Child pornography, as defined in, and they gave a whole bunch of, they gave a law number, a Virginia law, Any image created or disseminated in violation of, and two more articles, and any website that facilitates the commission of an offense set forth in the next article.
	So I looked these articles up, and the first one I started with was the definition of obscene.
	I think that's very important.
	I think so, too.
	Let's hear it.
	They have a legal definition of obscene in the Code of Virginia, 18.2-372.
	The word obscene, where it appears, shall mean that which, considered as a whole, has as its dominant theme or purpose an appeal to the purient interest in sex, that is, a shameful or morbid interest in nudity, that is, a shameful or morbid interest in nudity, sexual content, sexual excitement, excretory functions, or products thereof, or sadomasochistic abuse, and which goes substantially beyond customary limits of candor in description or representation
	and which goes substantially beyond customary limits of candor in description or representation of such matters, and which, taken as you.
	What do you think?
	I don't know.
	Sounds like an old definition.
	Sounds very old to me.
	Yeah, like the 50s or the 40s or the 30s.
	30s probably.
	Yeah.
	So I looked up some of these codes and child pornography means sexually explicit visual material which utilizes or has a subject and identifiable minor.
	Identifiable minor is a person who was a minor at the time the visual depiction was created, etc., etc.
	For the purpose of this article, the term sexually explicit is Visual material means a picture, photograph, drawing, sculpture, motion picture, film, digital image, including such material stored in a computer's temporary internet cache, which is kind of scary if you're seeing your browser cache, when three or more images or streaming videos are present or similar visual representation which depicts sexual bestiality, a lewd exhibition of nudity as nudity is defined, or sexual excitement, etc.
	So, if they find three images...
	In your browser cache, then you're a child pornographer or you use child pornography.
	And they have more definitions, but really the...
	I wanted to get to this.
	As I was looking around, I find out all kinds of interesting things in the law, such as fornication is still illegal in Virginia if you're not married.
	Just like Saudi Arabia there in Virginia.
	Yeah, well, it's a Class 4 misdemeanor, so it's not that big a deal, but that's a $250 fine.
	Any person not being married who voluntarily shall have sexual intercourse with any other person shall be guilty of fornication punishable as a Class 4 misdemeanor.
	When was the last time that actually happened if it's not a dead letter law?
	Well, they have a lot of crimes.
	Well, everybody does.
	Misdemeanor stuff.
	And the final thing that you can get in trouble for in Virginia, it just shows you what kind of place this is.
	And I like this.
	Langley, baby!
	Keeping, residing in, or frequenting a bawdy place.
	That's a Class 3 misdemeanor, punishable by $500.
	If you can't go to a strip bar, then why do they let the places get built?
	Let me tell you what it means.
	A bawdy place, B-A-W-D-Y, bawdy, shall mean any place within or without any building or structure which is used or is to be used for lewdness, assignation, or prostitution.
	So just pure lewdness.
	Yeah, that would be a strip bar.
	Well, that's one way to define lewdness, sure.
	Seems lewd to me.
	Yeah.
	You don't see this when you're on the bus.
	And then finally, as I've gone through all of this, books are also included.
	And I'm thinking Fifty Shades of Grey is in big trouble in Virginia if this passes.
	You'd think?
	Because that would affect the book.
	The book is dirty, yeah.
	It's got all the rules broken there.
	It's obscene, for sure.
	It's obscene.
	It's also exciting, apparently, to the women who read the book.
	And women who hate the movie love the book.
	Women who love the book hate the movie.
	Well, yeah.
	Okay, you did a bunch of research.
	What is the likelihood of this thing getting past zero?
	Yeah, I agree.
	But it's interesting to keep our eye on it.
	Well, okay.
	Meh.
	All right, meh.
	All right.
	Then how about the 5G plan?
	Oh, the 5G plan could be interesting.
	So the 5G plan, I smelled a rat the minute I read the article.
	A rat?
	A rat.
	I'm like, oh, oh, the FC, oh, oh, someone proposed, oh, I'm going to do a 5G government-owned network, oh!
	And it was presented, you know, somehow The Verge, I think, had gotten a hold of a PowerPoint deck.
	It even referenced, you know, this is, and by the way, having a great 5G infrastructure totally is important to our country.
	Yeah.
	But to say this is a good strategy against the Chinese One Belt, One Road, as they said in the PowerPoint, that's when I knew this is a lobbyist.
	Yeah, they don't know what One Belt, One Road is.
	This is a lobbyist.
	And I look into it, and yeah, okay, now I understand.
	There's two...
	It's even in the PowerPoint, really.
	There's two financial anchor partners for this project.
	Can you guess?
	Yes.
	Goldman Sachs has to be one of them.
	Close.
	Wells Fargo.
	J.P. Morgan.
	Wells Fargo.
	Oh, Wells Fargo?
	Yeah, interesting.
	But that's the money part of it.
	And then what's the other company?
	Think company who wants to get into phones but doesn't have a network.
	Well, Microsoft would be up there.
	Jeez, it's so obvious.
	Okay, who?
	Google.
	Oh, Google.
	This is their lobbying group.
	I wouldn't have thought that because Google does have a network of all that fiber.
	Yeah, but 5G is something completely different.
	Yeah.
	So, you know, this was an easy one to deconstruct and I saw people freaking out over...
	I'm not doing a time code.
	I'm not doing one of those again.
	I didn't think it was...
	I'm in agreement with you.
	I didn't even ask for a time code.
	I wasn't going to because I think we've decided that that voice is now on the B list.
	And I just want to give another small little deconstruction because I thought it was very well done.
	This is great link bait.
	And I'm going to deconstruct it in reverse order by reading you the original document where the story came from first.
	This is from the University of Exeter.
	A new compound, AP39, designed and made at University of Exeter, could hold the key to future therapies by targeting delivery of very small amounts of the substance, and the substance is hydrogen sulfide, to the right or key places inside cells.
	Scientists in Exeter have already found that the compound protects mitochondria, The powerhouse of cells which drive energy production in blood vessel cells, preventing or reversing mitochondrial damage is a key strategy for treatments of a variety of conditions such as stroke, heart failure, diabetes, arthritis, dementia, and aging.
	And it's a long clinical report.
	And then they say, Mark Wood of Biosciences at the University of Exeter added, Although hydrogen sulfide is well known as a pungent, foul-smelling gas in rotten eggs and flatulence, it is naturally produced in the body and could in fact be a healthcare hero with significant implications for future therapies for a variety of diseases.
	Here's the headline that was written.
	Experts explain why smelling your partner's farts will make you live longer!
	Wow.
	And that's the story that everybody was retweeting.
	Unbelievable.
	Well, that's a good one.
	You could get a clip of the day if you had a clip.
	It should be noted, at least since we're discussing it, that hydrogen sulfide is extremely toxic.
	It's poison gas.
	So, is flatulent gas also extremely toxic?
	If the room was filled with it, the main component was hydrogen sulfide, which flatulent gas has an element of, but it's not completely that.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, it is.
	The problem with hydrogen sulfide is it's very similar to hydrogen sulfide also desensitizes the nose, so when you smell it and smell it and smell it, Say you're in a pile, you know, you're in a room full of it.
	I have a great idea.
	I have a cap and trade scheme.
	And we can save the earth with my cap and trade scheme.
	Not only will we save the earth, we'll make people healthier.
	Here's what you do.
	Known fact.
	Cow farts are killing us.
	It's making the earth heat up.
	We cap the farts.
	We give it to patients.
	Cap and trade.
	Most cow farts are methane.
	Anyway, so let me finish so people at least have a clue about this.
	It desensitizes the nose so you can't smell it after a while and then you'll die because you smell too much of it.
	It works the exact same way that carbon monoxide works, which normally has no smell.
	And what it does is it gloms onto the red blood cells and makes them so they can't take up oxygen and you actually die of oxygen starvation.
	Woohoo!
	Just as though you were choked to death.
	Ah.
	So H2S is nothing to trifle with.
	Okay.
	But anyway, I just thought it was interesting to see what the headline was.
	And people, when you sent me an article...
	And I will say the mainstream M5M media has done a pretty good job with this.
	It's culture now.
	When they steal an article from someone else and write about it, they usually do a hat tip at the end or, you know, somewhere there's a link to where they got the actual story from.
	And you usually have to follow three or four links until you get to the actual story.
	Do that for me when you're sending me links.
	It's worth it.
	You get more of the story with each step you go.
	It's very interesting.
	To follow something backwards to its original source and see all the embellishments that have been added to it.
	Well, I have a couple of clips to finish off the show.
	We could go at the 350 meeting.
	I can skip that.
	I did clip from one of the top TV shows, Law& Order SVU, the last of the Law& Orders that's still on the air.
	With Ice-T and other bad actors.
	Yeah.
	And this is the media portrayal.
	This is about an Ann Coulter character.
	Exactly an Ann Coulter character who was raped.
	A tranny?
	An Ann Coulter character who was raped.
	And there was a...
	That's pretty aggressive.
	A fanatic that was part of the Trump supporters.
	And he's all...
	This is the...
	Media portrayal of a Trump supporter.
	Looks like your boy Randy was doxxed online after he dropped his latest video.
	They posted his home address.
	Address, cell phone, social.
	Karma's a bitch.
	Why isn't the FBI here?
	Well, let's say you're one step at a time.
	Randy, why don't you tell me about this group you belong to?
	Patriots for the American Way, and I don't belong.
	I'm the founder, Grand Wizard.
	Grand Wizard?
	That's something from Harry Potter, right?
	Go ahead.
	Laugh.
	You thank me when we make America great again.
	Well, remind me, when was it so great?
	Beautiful.
	A couple of libtards on my case.
	Yeah, let's talk about where you were during the Martha Cobb speech.
	On the quad, by the statue?
	You know, pretty accurate portrayal.
	Couple of libtards.
	Libtards, babe.
	Couple of libtards over there.
	Now, that's pretty spot on.
	Yeah, well, okay.
	Dimension A, too much Dimension A. The false alarm about an incoming missile attack that terrified Hawaiians earlier this month may have been due to an employee who mistook a drill for the real deal.
	The false alarm was transmitted to mobile phones, caused widespread panic, and went uncorrected for 38 minutes.
	The Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday issued a preliminary report faulting, in part, Hawaii's Emergency Management Agency for miscommunication and lack of oversight.
	The drill, on the morning of January 13th, simulated a call from U.S. Pacific Command reporting an incoming ballistic missile.
	A recording included the phrase, It ended with the phrase, According to a statement written by the employee, he or she heard this is not a drill, but not the word exercise.
	The software asked the employee, are you sure you want to send this alert?
	The employee clicked yes.
	Other employees told the FCC they heard the exercise language.
	An FCC lawyer said the agency had not yet interviewed the employee in question and could not fully evaluate the employee's assertion that he or she believed it was an actual attack.
	This explanation differs from Hawaiian Governor David Ige's comments that an employee pushed the wrong button by mistake.
	Hawaii plans to issue a separate report Tuesday.
	So I got this report.
	I'll just bring it up here.
	It's a PDF. I want to mention a couple of things while you're doing that.
	Sure, sure.
	This was obviously a woman.
	Why do you say that?
	Otherwise, if it was a man, they would have said he.
	Ooh, interesting.
	Because we know that everybody hates men, especially the media.
	So if it was a man, it would have been identified as a male.
	Because it wasn't identified as a male.
	It's a woman.
	Yeah, sorry.
	One more thing.
	Second thing, I've watched a lot of this too.
	Whoever it was, man or woman, I'm assuming woman, froze.
	Let me read the preliminary report.
	There's some details in there that will help the deconstruction of it.
	At 8 or 7 a.m.
	January 13th, the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency issued a false ballistic missile alert.
	Okay, we got it.
	Here's the timeline.
	EMA's midnight shift supervisor at 8.05 begins a no-notice ballistic missile defense drill at a shift change by placing a call pretending to be U.S.-specific command to the day shift warning officers.
	The midnight shift supervisor plays a recording over the phone that properly includes the drill language, exercise, exercise, exercise, but also erroneously contains the text of an EAS message for a live ballistic missile alert including the language, this is not a drill.
	The recording does not follow the script contained in EMA's standard operating procedure for this drill.
	So I ask you right now, if this is a pre-recorded bit that he plays over the speakerphone, do they have incorrect ones that they've pre-recorded?
	Apparently so.
	Or, my conclusion comes in a bit, The day shift warning officers received this recorded message on a speakerphone.
	While other warning officers understand that this is a drill, apparently there were more people around, the warning officer at the alert origination terminal claimed to believe in a written statement provided to Hawaii's EMA that this was a real emergency, not a drill.
	The day shift warning officer responds as trained for a real event by transmitting a live ballistic missile alert to the state of Hawaii.
	In doing so, and this is nice to hear, the day shift warning officer selects the template for a live alert from a drop down, all things I told you, and clicks yes in response to a prompt that reads, are you sure you want to send this alert?
	So, that's more confirmation the software I found out is the correct software.
	So, I'm thinking this may have been a gag.
	You know, there's still the hack possibility.
	But whatever it was, it was an incorrect message, and now somehow we have to believe that this was a pre-recorded message they used for this handover shift, and that was the incorrect one.
	And other people heard exercise, exercise, but yet this happened.
	It stinks even worse than it did before.
	I'm fascinated by the fact that you're so into this story.
	I know.
	And because there is something going on.
	You know, the Clintons were also on the Big Island when that took place, just as an aside.
	Coincidence.
	Because something bad happened, and they covered it up poorly.
	The woman who did this false alert feels screwed by this, or whatever, is not talking to officials, issues her own statement, because I think something really bad happened here, and why did the emergency manager, Mr.
	Miyagi, why did he cover it up with a lie?
	And then quit.
	I mean, this is a problem.
	So yeah, I am fascinated.
	Because the reason I'm fascinated with it is, A, it has no effect, the system, if it's not foolproof.
	No system is.
	You know, Professor Ted is laughing.
	But it has to be more foolproof than this, for sure.
	Well, we're hoping you get to the bottom of it soon.
	Okay, that's my cue to end.
	Okay, good.
	I've got a bunch of miscellaneous clips.
	How are we doing for time?
	You can do two miscellaneous clips.
	Okay, I'm going to do one.
	I've got this one here, I think, this epitomizes the San Francisco Bay Area, all of California, and I think especially Hollywood, but it's just a worst-case example of, I don't know, political correctness or whatever.
	But James Franco, who's been accused of being groping or something, I don't know, standing around naked, I have no idea.
	But he used to go to Palo Alto High, and he was very close to the school, and he's kind of an artist.
	He paints a kind of a style of art that is, you know, it's actually artsy.
	He did a big mural there.
	But here's the story.
	They painted over it now a big, you know, everyone's, the men are all irked.
	And the women are all happy.
	Well, there's a controversy at Palo Alto High School involving artwork and one of its most famous alum, James Franco.
	The actor has visited Pali many times since he graduated in 1996.
	But this week, the school is erasing his contributions.
	NBC Bay Area's Ian Cull is on the peninsula.
	Art is a big part of Palo Alto High School, but tonight there's outrage over where it's been removed.
	You know, it's gone.
	The history is erased.
	A now noticeably blank wall once home to a mural painted by actor James Franco.
	The Golden Globe winner went to Pali from 93 to 96.
	He created this in 2014 and painted several other pieces that still hang in the Media Arts Center.
	But the student publication, The Pali Voice...
	Writes the principal ordered the mural be painted over this week as the actor is under fire, accused of sexual misconduct.
	Not many movie stars come back to their high school to do things like this.
	You know, we disrespected him like that?
	That's ridiculous.
	Esther Wojcicki was Franco's journalism teacher.
	I support the principal in what she did.
	She pretty much had to take down the mural because she was responding to the community, which I think is really important.
	But I think that he has not been given an opportunity to defend himself.
	Other students say the mural needed to go.
	I think it's the most progressive if we try to distance ourselves from anything like that.
	We were not able to reach the principal tonight, but the media arts teachers say it's up to them.
	If the rest of the actors works, stay on campus.
	In Palo Alto, Ian Cole, NBC Bay Area News.
	You need to move, man.
	You need to move away from there.
	You really do.
	I have a make good to do, and then we can get out of here and get ready for what's going on.
	Isn't there something tonight?
	Today's a show day.
	Something was going to happen.
	Well, maybe they'll release the memo.
	Before you even go to this last clip, you have to discuss the Super Bowl.
	Oh, yes.
	Okay.
	Well, it's going to be Philadelphia.
	Why?
	Because Trump.
	Philadelphia was the most patriotic.
	We've got the eagle.
	Everything is super patriotic.
	How can it be more patriotic than the New England Patriots?
	Fake news.
	What?
	New England Patriots, they're Redcoats.
	Alright, so here's what I think.
	I'm just saying.
	I'm in agreement.
	I think the Eagles will win.
	I don't think for the political reasons, even though that's really the basis of our thesis.
	I think it's because of the substitute quarterback.
	Because these quarterbacks are making too much money.
	They want a guy who came in off the bench, the substitute guy, who actually was a starter elsewhere.
	Foles is his name.
	They need him to win over the overpriced everybody else quarterbacks.
	So for that political reason, he has to win.
	And I believe if it's signaling that, if that's the signal that we're going to get, which is that quarterbacks are getting paid too much, then I believe the score will be a reflection of Super Bowl V. Well, this means nothing to me.
	I know, but it does to people out there who are nuts.
	Super Bowl V was the only time a substitute quarterback came in as a replacement.
	Earl Morrell took the place of Johnny Unitas.
	In 1973, and he was a backup, and he took the Baltimore Colts to a victory over the Cowboys 16-13.
	I believe if the score is something along the lines of 32-26, which would be doubling that old score and reflective of it, that's the message.
	It's all code.
	The Eagles will be down by the end of the first half.
	By 17 points.
	And then they will go and win the game.
	The Eagles will soar.
	While the owls hoot.
	The owls will hoot.
	Alright, final thing.
	I don't know if you actually saw my entire acceptance speech for the Marconi Award.
	And by the way, it turns out oeuvre is a proper English word too.
	Did you know that?
	Yeah, I knew that.
	Oh, I didn't know that.
	I thought it was just French and Dutch.
	So, you know, I took my time.
	I did about nine.
	I reclaimed my time.
	It was about nine minutes.
	And, you know, around six minutes, the host comes out standing behind me, you know, like, yeah, dude, you got to say no, no, no, no, no.
	So I got confused and I skipped an important part.
	Because right after I did that, I slipped in a little joke from my friends.
	I said, I want to thank my friends who are important to me.
	Jack Ponte, Medicated Pete.
	I want to thank Ray the Cripple and Chet the Leaning Mule.
	So that was just a joke for guys from Jersey.
	But because of that, because the guy was coming up behind me, I forgot the line which said, I'd like to thank the two most important women in my life, my daughter Christina and Tina.
	Yeah.
	You know, so when she saw it...
	You left them out.
	Yes, and she said, you thanked Medicated Pete, but you didn't thank me?
	I would say the same thing.
	This guy, what's her name?
	The Academy Award winner.
	Divorced.
	Well, it's not that bad, but Dog House is me.
	So, hopefully I made up for it.
	Okay.
	And we will return...
	With another episode of the best podcast in the universe, 10-5.
	Do we need to look what 10-5 is on our list here?
	What is it?
	10-5 is a relay.
	It's a relay.
	Relay.
	Maybe we skipped that one.
	Gotta think about it.
	But we will be back on Sunday with episode 1005.
	Deconstructing anything that happens today on a show day and pre-constructing the Super Bowl again for you.
	Things may change, doubtful, but you never know.
	The Super Bowl will be after our show.
	Yes, I know.
	We're pre-constructing it.
	Yeah, pre-constructing it.
	Coming to you from downtown Austin, Texas, capital of the drone star state here, FEMA Region 6 in the 5x9 Cludio in the common law condo.
	In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where it looks like we're going back into a little hot spell here in California, which is Great.
	It's great.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	We return on Sunday.
	Remember us until then at dvorak.org slash na.
	Until Sunday, as always, adios!
	Mofos!
	I mean, I asked Putin if he liked the Beatles.
	And he turned to me, and in perfect English, he said, I love the Beatles.
	He smiled.
	And then he said, actually, my favorite song is Yesterday.
	Think about it.
	Yesterday The Soviet Union was the game to play Then they tried to take it all away Oh,
	I believe in yesterday Suddenly They devalued our currency And dismantle the KGB. They really screwed our economy.
	Even though we were tossed, I made the most to get my way.
	In charge of something large, now I long for yesterday.
	Yesterday.
	Socialism was the only way.
	Now the oligarchs are here to stay.
	Oh, I believe.
	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.
	Paul McCartney!
	Gentleman from Texas, Mr.
	Green.
	I rise to explain why there is a government shutdown.
	A government shutdown because the self-proclaimed great deal maker breaks more deals than he makes.
	You break more than you make.
	You break than you make.
	Breaker.
	We got a great deal breaker in the White House.
	That's why we have a shutdown.
	In the White House.
	That's why we have a shutdown.
	You break more deals than you make.
	You break than you make.
	You break than you make.
	I rise to explain...
	You're great.
	Then you make.
	Then you make.
	You're not a great deal maker.
	You're a great deal breaker.
	I rise to explain.
	That's why we have a shutdown.
	I yield back the balance of my time.
	I yield back the balance of my time.
	I yield back the balance of my time.
	I yield back the balance of my time.
	I yield back the balance of my time.
	The best podcast in the universe!
	Adios, mofo.

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