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	A small civics lesson, people.
	Adam Curry, John C. DeVore.
	It's Sunday, February 18th, 2018.
	This is your award-winning Gimbo Nation Media Assassination, episode 1009-er.
	This is No Agenda.
	Partying with fellow podcasters and broadcasting live from downtown Austin, Tejas, capital of the Drone Star State in the Cludeo.
	In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where we've got a cold snap.
	A cold snap, I tell you.
	I'm John C. DeVore.
	It's Crackpot and Buzzkill in the morning.
	Yeah, cold snap happening everywhere.
	Europe is cold.
	Yeah, we've got a cold snap.
	Cold snap.
	That is a climatological term, I believe.
	Cold snap.
	Is that what they're calling it?
	Yeah, they call it cold snap.
	What happened to the polar vortex?
	Well, this vortex can't get down here.
	Oh?
	Then where does the snap come from?
	Snap...
	I don't know.
	That's almost a phrase from the chaise.
	I think it is a phrase from the chaise, really.
	Just a snap, maybe like finger snap, quick little thing.
	Cold snap.
	Well, we'll look into it.
	Good.
	I have a, actually for later, because it's a little longer clip, I don't want to start with it.
	I have a pretty good global warming clip I think you'll get a kick out of.
	You'll get a kick out of it.
	I get a kick out of it.
	There's another thing.
	There's a phrase from the chaise.
	I get a kick out of you.
	What does that even mean?
	Well, you're in charge.
	That's your wheelhouse, so I expect you to look this up and have details for Thursday's show.
	I will.
	So, the Horowitz's are in town.
	Yes, I heard that.
	I heard that because he keeps sending photos.
	Let me tell you one thing.
	The Horowitz's, they know how to party.
	They are party animals.
	Yeah, that's because they work in that business where partying is part of the business.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	You know, I chose a really good restaurant with some Texas fare, you know, like rattlesnake sausage.
	And Andrew, apparently, this is Andrew Horowitz from the Dvorak Horowitz Unplugged show, cross-promoting the podcasts.
	He had apparently sent, I said, well, we're going to eat here.
	And he had sent the menu to all his foodie buddies, like, look at this, this is what I'm going to be.
	He's really into food, man.
	And drink.
	I think by the time I was done, I'd had three smoked Manhattans.
	He said four.
	Four smoked Manhattans.
	What are you, tallying this stuff?
	He's tallying it.
	He said on the show he's going to do everything he can to get you so plastered you won't be able to do the show today.
	Well, ha ha ha ha.
	You gotta get up a lot earlier to do that to me.
	But I didn't sleep very much, that's for sure.
	In fact, I think I'm still drunk, actually, now that I think about it.
	Ah, yes, Sir Chris.
	Always there.
	It's another tequila podcast Staring blankly at my screen In a bad dream Far too many smoky Manhattan There you go.
	Has left me with my idle brain There you go.
	And Horowitz to blame.
	There you go.
	Another tequila podcast.
	Sir Chris.
	How do we do it?
	Sir Chris, I'm telling you, he sent that to me and he said, Oh, by the way, mate, put some Irish whiskey in your coffee.
	That'll help it.
	That's Australian for hangover cure.
	Yeah.
	No, it was fun.
	It was good.
	You should hang out with him more often.
	You never hang out with him.
	He's only met you once.
	I don't hang out with you either.
	I only hang out with the...
	I really like to go hang out with the homeless.
	Oh, man.
	People experiencing homeless and your journos.
	Or are those the same?
	Well, around here...
	It's probably the same if you play this clip.
	Okay.
	Thank you for the setup.
	Yes.
	This is the house prices in San Francisco.
	Oh, jeez.
	I can only imagine.
	How much do you think you need to make in San Francisco to afford the median-priced home?
	You would say how much?
	Well, I'd say you'd need two incomes, and I'll say they're both about $120,000.
	How much do you think you would have to make to be able to buy a house around here?
	Probably about $140,000 to $150,000.
	Maybe even more than that?
	Maybe a little bit more.
	The reality is hair-raising.
	The California Association of Realtors reports you need to be raking in $303,000 per year by the median-priced home in the city.
	There's really no such thing as kind of the average San Francisco house, but you're definitely looking, you know, on the low end, $1.3 million.
	As he gives us a tour of this Sunnyside fixer-upper, Matt Fuller explains the San Francisco Association of Realtors found the median price was more like $1.8 million, a significant jump from the California report, meaning even an income of $300,000 might not cut it.
	Artists are leaving, teachers are leaving.
	That's hard.
	You want to have a diverse community, but you can't have that if housing is unavoidable here.
	Yeah, and they think that they're solving their problems by moving to Austin, Texas.
	They are.
	Ha, ha, ha.
	No, they're not.
	Yes, they are, everybody.
	Don't listen to him.
	It's one of the most expensive cities in America now.
	We're right up there.
	We're getting up there with all the California places.
	But yeah, everyone from California is moving to Austin for some reason.
	The tech mecca.
	We are the new tech mecca.
	Well, we have one solution that's going around, which I get kind of a kick out of.
	And I have a clip.
	Ah, okay.
	Since you brought it up.
	Yes.
	Housing density proposal.
	A California lawmaker thinks he's found the answer to the state's affordable housing crisis.
	Assemblyman Todd Gloria of San Diego says we've been doing it all wrong.
	So he introduced legislation today that would reward developers for building affordable units that are smaller in size than average new construction.
	Ah, tiny house.
	And also that are close to public transit.
	If passed, his bill would create a rewards program based on the amount of usable floor space.
	The idea is to design projects that maximize density.
	Density.
	Hello, China!
	Density?
	Hello, China!
	We want to be just like Hong Kong.
	So we pack more people in a smaller space.
	Nice.
	Yeah.
	Density.
	Density is what we need.
	Didn't I hear that Stockton, California has started a UBI project, the Universal Basic Income?
	I have not heard this, but Stockton, California is one of the...
	One of the state's bankrupt cities, so I don't know how they can do this.
	Let me see if I can find this.
	Well, they're going to get their population to grow if they do that.
	Yeah?
	Does that mean there's a benefit to growing their population?
	Not to them.
	No.
	But to everyone else it might be.
	Let me see.
	Stockton, California.
	Oh, he wants?
	Oh, is it wants?
	No, no, gets ready.
	Gets ready to experiment.
	No, they're going to do it.
	Hold on.
	This is it.
	Everybody stop your movement to Austin.
	Move to Stockton.
	You get 500 bucks a month, no strings attached.
	To live in Stockton?
	Yes.
	You'd have to pay me a lot more to live in Stockton.
	I was digging around for a good gag.
	If you don't live in Stockton, there's a lot of possibilities there.
	Can you imagine in the future, just in the future, cities will be competing for citizens?
	Like, hey, we'll pay you $5.50.
	Do I hear $6?
	Come on over here!
	Wow.
	Yeah.
	Well, it's certainly...
	You've got to send me a link to that.
	I had no idea.
	And I don't know.
	How can they afford it?
	Well, deficit spending, I guess you can afford anything.
	Bond.
	Write another bond.
	No problem.
	It'll be interesting.
	Okay, now, did you see the skating?
	My Olympic fever is waning.
	I just want to make sure you saw the skating.
	You saw everyone doing a good job.
	There was still some drama.
	I saw some of the skating.
	I saw the...
	I saw the winner of the men's figure and I saw our guy who kicked ass with the biggest technical score in history.
	Wasn't that outrageous?
	Outrageous!
	Yeah, he did six quadruples.
	Yes, six quads.
	I was hoping one of those guys would do a quintuple thing.
	He can't.
	No one can do it yet.
	Not yet.
	They will.
	Oh, well, there's a trick to everything.
	Tanya Harding was the first one to do a triple for women.
	And now everybody does them all the time.
	Exactly.
	Exactly.
	Well...
	And, you know...
	And that's our Olympic update.
	Yes.
	Woo!
	So much fun.
	But I was noticing, because a lot of people said, no, they do give out the medals.
	I really remember there was a lot more of the medal ceremonies on television.
	I think because it's live, they don't do that.
	So we just, you know, you get the podium.
	But that was only when we were winning a lot.
	No, not necessarily.
	I'm watching the coverage and they get the little white tiger and then later they get the medals handed out to them.
	But I've also noticed, and I guess we have how many more days left of the Olympics?
	Not many.
	Is it over now?
	Too many.
	Yeah.
	At least a Wednesday and it may be further on.
	I don't know.
	You'll also notice that when people win, they all are wearing different jackets.
	When they get their white tiger prize, they're wearing the North Face.
	This thing is so sponsored.
	It's just top to bottom sponsored.
	There's an operation around here somewhere.
	Well, the thing that gets me is that, you know, our hockey team, which is now amateurs because the NHL didn't want to take part this year, was beaten for the zip by the Russians.
	And every time I hear this and the Russian skaters, there is no Russian team.
	No, it's the Ours.
	It's the Ours.
	Yeah, what is it called?
	Olympic athletes from Russia.
	Yeah, Olympic athletes from Russia.
	It's like, okay, well, what is the point of this?
	To shame Russia, but not to hurt the athletes, because we care about the athletes.
	Well, it was the athletes who were doping.
	Yes.
	Well, no, but it was being done under sanction of the...
	Oh, yes, that's right.
	The Ruskies.
	Which reminds me, we did go to Russia House last night as well.
	Did you go to Russia House?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, Horowitz is like, I want to taste some infused vodka.
	Okay, Russia house it is.
	And everyone had one glass of vodka.
	Is that his voice?
	Yeah, that's his voice.
	No, it's Jamie Dimon voice.
	I can't do it.
	I can't do the Jamie Dimon voice.
	And we all had one glass of vodka.
	Like, okay, that was great.
	I got a show to do.
	I'm glad that you're dedicated.
	It's good.
	I am.
	I almost just...
	Flat out refuse to do anything on Saturday night.
	Unless I read something I planned way in advance, I have to do it on Saturday.
	This was planned way in advance.
	We knew about it, and I did some pre-prep.
	I think we called you.
	Or it says to me, he's going to be drunk, he'll have nothing.
	You better get a lot of clips.
	Is that how he talks?
	Yeah.
	I think we drunk called you, if I recall.
	And here's what I remember you saying to me.
	He's just trying to get you fucked up, don't you?
	I think that's what you said.
	Yeah, exactly.
	It's exactly what I said.
	And I meant it.
	I know.
	All right.
	Well, anyway, so we're good.
	There's no issue.
	We're all fine.
	And I would like to, before we get into...
	I would maybe give you some little advice, kind of a folklore advice.
	Okay.
	I'm not a doctor.
	Yes.
	But the Germans, I think, are the first ones that discovered this.
	This was pointed out to me by Buzzkill Jr.
	If you drink too much alcohol and you want to back it off, in other words, make it so your system just says, well, wait a minute.
	I know the answer.
	It's cocaine.
	No.
	Oh, okay.
	NAC. N-A-C. It's an over-the-counter herbal thing, chemical.
	Really?
	An herbal chemical?
	It's not an herbal chemical.
	It's something.
	I don't know what...
	I don't have the...
	I didn't open up the page where I could describe this properly, but it's N-A-C, but it's always called NAC, N-A-C. And usually you get a big jar of it.
	You take one of these pills at the end of your, or even during your little drinking too much episode, and it will sober you up, kind of.
	Oh.
	It definitely keeps you from getting a hangover.
	It does have a peculiar...
	Side effect?
	Weird, yeah.
	It happens all the time.
	Everybody in the family has used this stuff.
	Yeah, because there's a bunch of drinkers over there.
	No, it's just, you know, it's actually...
	It has other uses.
	Oh, okay.
	Is that at three in the morning, you wake up wide awake.
	You've never been so wide awake.
	Ugh.
	Hmm.
	Okay.
	Well, that doesn't sound good.
	So if you have to get up at three in the morning to catch a plane, this is the stuff.
	Take some knack.
	Yes.
	But the waking up thing is really strange because when you wake up, it's like...
	You're woke.
	Oh.
	Woke, eh?
	Excellent.
	Well, I woke up at three, but that was not from knack.
	I just woke up.
	I'm like, geez, now I'm awake.
	I fell back asleep around four and then got up at five.
	No, we're having the time of our lives here.
	Yes, we are.
	Before we get started, I have some advice for the M5M who we deconstruct here on a bi-weekly basis.
	Hackers, crackers, or trolls, please pick one.
	Hackers are not crackers, crackers are not hackers, and neither are trolls.
	Pick one.
	You're not going to pick one that would even listen to you.
	I know, but I want to say, pick one.
	And some producers pointed out to me, hackers and crackers are different.
	Penetration is crackers.
	Hackers, people who hack around.
	Mainly at code.
	And trolls, well, we all know what they are.
	That argument was turned into a book.
	Oh, really?
	By Stephen Levy in the 70s or 80s, probably the 80s.
	And he made a big stink about this.
	I think the book is called Hackers by Stephen Levy.
	And he made the big point, oh, crackers, I keep mistaking it.
	You know, this has been going on so long that nowadays hackers means crackers.
	Just a general term.
	I think they don't want to use crackers because of the possible racial.
	It sounds like you're a white guy down in the deep south.
	And some crackers came in.
	What?
	What?
	What did the crackers do?
	They hacked.
	They were hacker crackers.
	So we got this big indictment, which, and for those of you who are not familiar with the United States justice system, there's a saying that goes, with a grand jury you can indict a ham sandwich.
	And I found it very interesting that the grand jury, who has zero power outside of the United States, indicted foreign nationals, Russians, living in Russia.
	I mean, what is that about?
	This is what they're trying to do to Assange.
	He's not an American.
	No, you can't do that.
	I do have the Mueller indictment rap on CBS. Ah, good.
	I'm sure it's filled with lovely bits.
	Adriana, thank you.
	Special counsel Robert Mueller has charged more than a dozen Russian nationals with trying to undermine confidence in U.S. democracy.
	These are the first criminal charges against Russians accused of secretly trying to disrupt the 2016 presidential election.
	Justice reporter Paula Reid has the latest.
	The Russian conspirators want to promote discord in the United States.
	On Friday, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein revealed new details about how the Russians meddled in the 2016 election.
	The defendants posed as politically and socially active Americans advocating for and against particular candidates.
	Prosecutors allege 12 Russian nationals worked for a company called Internet Research Agency in this nondescript building in St.
	Petersburg, Russia.
	The company employed English speakers who posed as Americans to stir up controversy on social media leading up to the election.
	The Russian operatives were allegedly instructed to use any opportunity to criticize Hillary and the rest, except Sanders and Trump.
	We support them.
	The operation was funded by Yevgeny Pergozin, a close associate of President Vladimir Putin.
	Russia's former ambassador to the U.S. Sergey Kislyak dismissed the charges.
	Whatever allegations are being mounted against us are simply fantasies that are being used for political reasons inside the United States.
	The indictment also alleges that some members of the Trump campaign unwittingly shared some of the Russian propaganda on social media.
	But Rosenstein emphasized that there are no allegations that any Americans had knowledge of the operation.
	The nature of the scheme was that the defendants took extraordinary steps to make it appear that they were ordinary American political activists.
	Special counsel investigators say they've also uncovered new evidence against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and could charge him with fraud in addition to the dozen charges he's already facing.
	Now, Manafort's trial is not scheduled to begin until the fall, which suggests the special counsel's work will continue through this year and likely into next year as well.
	Rena?
	Paula Reid in Washington.
	Thanks, Paula.
	Now, I have to say a couple of things.
	One, Paula Reid doesn't use whipsaws, doesn't cheat.
	On her story is very straightforward.
	When she brought in a clip, it made sense with what she said.
	And so I used the CBS report.
	I thought it was the only one I could find that was straight.
	I do have a compilage.
	Okay.
	These are things that I get from the internet.
	I didn't make this one, so there's all kinds of bombastic music in it.
	But you'll get the general idea of what the M5M was saying about what is happening with us and the Ruskies.
	Donald Trump's presidency, it has some critics raising the question, is our democracy in danger?
	Is our democracy in danger?
	Yeah, it is in danger.
	You don't have to go halfway around the world to see democracy in danger.
	Does Donald Trump's presidency put our democracy in danger?
	And there is a risk of him using that power to destroy our democracy.
	But if you stand in the breach of possibly the destruction of our democracy...
	I think this is really dangerous.
	I think this is the most dangerous day for our democracy since Trump fired Jim Comey in May.
	And even from the standpoint of doing what he can to destroy democracy.
	Is President Trump trying to undermine democracy?
	This is where democracy dies, and that's where we are.
	The Republican Party as an institution has become a danger to the rule of law and the integrity of our democracy.
	Unraveling or crumbling of our democracy.
	With the foundations of democracy kind of being at peril here, And talk about the ways that President Trump has undermined American democracy in his first year in office.
	Are we not on the brink of our democracy possibly crumbling?
	Right now, democracy looks like it's under attack in the United States.
	American democracy, as it existed since 1783, you know, when they ratified the Constitution, is under attack.
	No, I think, and I'm not being hyperbolic here, I think our democracy is under attack.
	I'm not being hyperbolic.
	Which is possibly crumbling before our eyes.
	That could sound very dramatic.
	But...
	What else is happening?
	We are!
	Our democracy is in danger.
	It's crumbling.
	Question!
	What democracy?
	We're a republic.
	Thank you.
	Small civics lesson, people.
	Hello?
	No one said that the republic was crumbling.
	Yes.
	He's not attacking the republic.
	There's a republic.
	Yes.
	This is, I think, part of the scheme.
	It's just like they keep harping on this.
	We point this out on the show constantly.
	These thematic things that the left, generally speaking, harp on.
	And what they're harping on tends to be corrosive and subversive.
	They're the ones that are attacking the democracy.
	Well, how about this?
	By saying our democracy is being attacked, it plants in people's minds the idea that we live in a democracy, which we don't.
	We live in a republic.
	Yeah, it does plant it, yes.
	And they all say it.
	No one in that clip ever even mentions the word republic.
	And there is a distinct difference.
	Yeah, it's a huge difference.
	When is it appropriate to talk about democracy and the United States?
	Is there an appropriate time?
	Are there certain elections?
	Is there something where...
	Yeah, there's a number of elections that are pure democracy.
	PTA? Yes.
	Okay, PTA. School president.
	School superintendent.
	Class president.
	Class president.
	No republic involved.
	Scout troop leader.
	Well, the scout troop leader is assigned.
	That's an appointee.
	That's an appointment.
	Yes, you're right.
	It's different.
	But it's interesting that the Democrats don't know what democracy is.
	Well, the word democrat and democracy is from the same root.
	And if you say republic, it makes it sound like you're saying republican.
	So that's why he has a political reason not to use that.
	Got it.
	Yeah, I think so.
	But it also tells you that all these people are Democrats.
	So this document comes out, an indictment, and the indictment is pretty much...
	Well, you didn't register as a foreign agent, which is a lobbying thing, isn't it?
	Isn't that a lobbying rule?
	Yes, it was started by lobbyists.
	And there's thousands of them, thousands registered, Russians too.
	By the way, I wonder if Nigel Farage ever registered.
	Well, there's lots of people.
	Because they were claiming that they were taking part in the election by, you know, campaigning, and they weren't registered as foreign agents.
	If you're going to campaign, you have to be registered as a foreign agent if you're going to do it.
	Nigel Farage was campaigning.
	Did he ever register as a foreign agent?
	Well, how about this?
	Well, let's look at it from a different perspective.
	RT, Russia Today, was forced to register as a foreign agent.
	I think I can make a pretty strong case that RT's influence, especially their online presence, their videos, has more impact on the psyche of people than the Russian troll farm.
	You mean in those cheap transparent ads?
	Yeah.
	Which apparently...
	Now, is this true?
	The vice president of sales at Facebook has been going back and forth with Trump saying most of these ads were purchased after the election?
	Have you seen this?
	No, I have not seen this.
	That started yesterday, and Trump retweeted it, which is...
	I just don't understand.
	If the guy's real, if he really is the vice president of Facebag, what's he doing?
	What is he thinking?
	Maybe they're in crisis mode over there.
	There's something screwy going on with that.
	They've got to be in crisis mode.
	What's the crisis?
	The crisis is that they're clearly being blamed.
	They're going to get all kinds of restrictions suggested.
	And who knows?
	Who knows where it will be?
	Government crackdown, net neutrality at work.
	Something like that, yes.
	So, then otherwise, it was kind of a boring document.
	I did like that Rosenstein said, well, just to make sure we all know, there's absolutely no collusion in this indictment.
	And it was like the upside-down world, man.
	Where the talking heads on the tubes...
	We're saying, well, you know, what he said was, there's no indictment in this document, so there's probably not a document coming.
	They're just grasping at any kind of straw, like, well, you know, well, he's still obstructing something.
	It's just, at this point, it's crazy.
	Let's listen to a more slanted version of the rundown by going to ABC, Russian Rundown ABC. Okay.
	Okay.
	Move on now to the Russia investigation.
	After 13 Russian nationals and 3 Russian companies were accused of a massive information war on the 2016 election.
	President Trump tweeting, the indictment vindicates his campaign.
	But that conclusion, premature.
	For now.
	Special Counselor Robert Mueller is still hard at work.
	ABC's Kenneth Moten is in West Palm Beach.
	He's hard at work.
	And somehow, Mueller has become part of the FBI in the vocabulary.
	Yeah, you noticed this too.
	Yeah, I mean, he was, of course, director of the FBI. Yeah, but he's not anymore.
	Oh, hold on a second.
	What's going on here?
	Okay.
	Um...
	Yeah, and so he's part of the Department of Justice.
	Yes, FBI falls under that.
	But now it's like, oh, Mueller and his team at the FBI. This is nuts.
	He's not with the FBI. I've noticed this, too.
	I don't want to use the word conflated, because apparently I don't know what it means.
	But they've pushed Mueller somehow as being the representative of the FBI. Special Counselor Robert Mueller is still hard at work.
	ABC's Kenneth Moten is in West Palm Beach, near Mar-a-Lago.
	Tonight, President Trump is claiming vindication in the bombshell indictment of 13 Russians accused of meddling in the 2016 election.
	Tweeting, Russia started their anti-U.S. campaign in 2014, long before I announced that I would run for president.
	The results of the election were not impacted.
	He's really nailing Trump's voice, too.
	The Trump campaign did nothing wrong.
	No collusion.
	A White House spokesman going a step further.
	There are two groups that have created chaos more than the Russians, and that's the Democrats and the...
	And notice the use of the word chaos.
	Chaos, for the younger producers out there, it's a real callback to the Cold War.
	Chaos was not K-A-O-S and chaos was there.
	Wasn't that some secret group they had?
	That was a TV show.
	Get smart.
	It works!
	See, it works!
	Groups have created chaos more than the Russians, and that's the Democrats and the mainstream media.
	Still, investigators are charging the Russians spread fake news on fake social media accounts, started online political groups, and allegedly lured unsuspecting Americans to campaign-style rallies like this one in Florida three months before the election.
	The defendants allegedly conducted what they called information warfare Against the United States.
	And now a superpower war of words.
	And as you can see with the FBI indictment, the evidence is now really incontrovertible.
	President Trump's national security advisor at a security conference in Germany.
	The Russians in the same room, fighting back.
	Their foreign minister saying, until we see the facts, everything else is just blabber.
	Blabber.
	Everything else is just blabber.
	And just so you know...
	That was his translation of the Russian.
	And just so everybody knows, we have our own version of the Russian troll farm, factory, I'm sorry.
	It's called techno-experts.
	That's what Hillary Clinton called them.
	We were actually educating scores of young people, techno-experts, as she said.
	And these techno-experts were doing the exact same thing.
	Yeah, they did in Iran, they did a true Arab Spring...
	They have the internet in a box.
	Maybe I have a clip here.
	We're doing a lot of work to try to come up with technologies that can circumvent the jamming and the interruptions and the tracking of the regime are engaged in right now.
	We are providing technology, some of which...
	You know, is more effective than others.
	We are certainly training people both outside and inside to be able to use technology to circumvent.
	This is one of my highest priorities.
	You know, I've spoken out repeatedly about the right of people to have access to the Internet.
	It is freedom of speech and expression and assembly, values that we think every human being is entitled to.
	But we've also seen the regime in Iran impose what amounts to an electronic curtain.
	It's the 21st century equivalent of the barbed wire and the fences and the dogs that the old Soviet Union used because they come at it from the same mentality.
	They want totalitarian control over what you learn and what you say and even what you think and how you worship and all the things that go to the heart of human dignity and human freedom.
	So yes, we are doing everything we can.
	Now I will quickly add that we're experimenting.
	Sometimes we think something will work.
	It turns out not to work.
	Sometimes we get maybe a year ahead of the regime's efforts and then they catch up and we have to go back to the drawing boards.
	But I want to assure your viewers that we are committed to doing everything we can to provide as much Government.
	Freedom inside and outside of Iran to people trying to speak out for their rights as possible.
	Sounds eerily familiar.
	And I'll follow this up by a fabulous interview.
	I think someone should play that clip with that part where she says, you know, we think the Internet should be open because free speech is free speech for everybody.
	Yeah.
	No.
	How did these guys get indicted?
	Shut up, slave.
	It's not for everybody.
	Laura Ingraham on Fox News had former CI Director James Jim Woolsey on.
	And he was really chatty.
	He was Mr.
	Chatty Cathy.
	And he starts off kind of following right up what Haley was talking about, the barbed wire and the dogs.
	And I don't know what these people are thinking, but I guess the realization has now come that they've modernized.
	They want to be a force, and they want to disrupt things.
	They call their big overall program disinformation.
	And they've been doing this since the 1920s, 1930s.
	What's new is that they do it with cyber.
	But they didn't have much luck disrupting American elections back in the 1930s or 1940s.
	But they've been doing that to other countries all along.
	Ian Mihaly Pachepa, the head of Romanian intelligence who defected in 79, says that there are more Russians involved in disinformation than there are in their armed forces.
	Okay, so that's a nice little setup.
	That seems like an unlikely number.
	Yeah, I agree.
	But he's the former director of CIA, so he would know.
	Then he said something which is kind of completely off base, but he talked about an economic issue regarding oil and the price of oil as we are now, the United States is set to become the world's largest exporter.
	I keep hearing people say we're set to be.
	I mean, is that really happening?
	You would know better than I do.
	Are we really there?
	Well, it depends on whether you include gas or not.
	It's mostly gas we're talking about.
	Well, it's just what counts when it comes to the Russians.
	But you mean gas like liquid...
	Liquid natural gas.
	Okay.
	Well, listen to what Wolsey said as he's talking about Russia and what we...
	I think it's a plan so we can look out for how we're going to screw them...
	Out of their revenue.
	I mean, come on, compare to China.
	I mean, China's like eating our lunch on so many fronts.
	And it gives us some leverage.
	If we can work to get the price of oil down in the 30s, well, 40s even, we will create a very, very unhappy Putin.
	But we don't want to push Russia to China, though.
	That's the last thing we want is a Russo-Sino alliance, correct?
	We just want to weaken them because we can deal with them a lot better if they're weak.
	I was negotiating the Conventional Forces Treaty in Europe in 1989 when the Berlin Wall went down.
	Is that really the job of the director of CIA to negotiate between countries?
	No.
	I don't think he was doing it as a CIA guy.
	You know who's the big shot in the CFR, right?
	Woolsey?
	Yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	It makes nothing but sense.
	Well, listen to the plan now.
	Let me stop again.
	Okay.
	40 bucks for oil.
	He said 40 to 30 even.
	Well, 40 is bad enough.
	Not bad enough for you and me, but bad enough for...
	Everybody who produces natural gas using fracking.
	Because it costs 50.
	50 is about where you can start making money.
	I believe that's the number.
	But it's not 40.
	You cannot make money at 40 or 30 for sure.
	So it would screw us more than it would screw Putin.
	He's already gone through a couple of these dipsy-doos with the prices of oil, and he can...
	Probably produce oil at 20 if he had to.
	He's just not going to make as much money.
	Well, listen to the strategy.
	When the Berlin Wall went down.
	And you've never seen such nice Russians.
	Let me tell you, all you've got to do is destroy their strategy.
	They're sweethearts.
	But isn't Trump doing that with pushing all this domestic energy production?
	We are soon going to become the largest exporter of energy in the world.
	Isn't that a weapon against Russian expansionism?
	It's good, but it's really mainly about a balance of payments.
	What matters more is the price.
	If you can get the price, not...
	What do you think he means, balance of payments?
	You know, am I importing more than exporting?
	Is the price such that I'm losing my ass sending this stuff out?
	You know, that kind of thing.
	It's good, but it's really mainly about a balance of payments.
	What matters more is the price.
	If you can get the price not up there in the 70s and 80s, but down in the 30s and 40s, and you can do it just by letting people go.
	We have a glut of energy being produced with fracking and everything else.
	Yeah, that helps, but you can also, to get the price down, you can give people an incentive to have two fuels to choose from at the pump, the filling station.
	And once you do that, you've got arbitrage that takes the price of oil down into the 30s or 40s.
	So what is he saying here?
	What he's talking about is about liquid natural gas, powered cars, or electric cars.
	Or electric, of course, is not at the pump.
	Okay, so what I thought he was saying was you'll have one pump that says Merck and gas, and the other one will say Ruski gas.
	That's what I thought he was saying.
	No, he's talking about the potential for these alternative-fueled cars, which would be the only ones that really are out there that make any sense.
	Or the hydrogen car, and there's so few pumps around it's not even funny.
	But they do have them.
	And then you have, you could have also offered diesel, but diesel is made from the same stocks as gasoline.
	And natural gas, which is made from different stocks obviously.
	But again, there are natural gas pumps around, but the infrastructure can't be changed overnight.
	As a side note, the former New York banker had lunch with him the other day.
	And he says, I'm so sick of this stupid Tesla.
	I'm glad the lease is up.
	I said, what's wrong, man?
	Because he has a place in Houston he has to go to once or twice a week.
	I hate having to stop and wait for an hour at the supercharging station right outside of Houston.
	I said, wait a minute, last time we spoke you were saying, oh, it's so great, I have a cup of coffee, I read the paper, and now I guess it's wearing him down, and he's tired of it, and he wants to go back to his Porsche Cayenne.
	They all fall.
	Yes.
	Now, the next clip.
	Of course, we assert that we, through the Broadcast Board of Governors initially, and that was only for external purposes, Voice of America, and now Voice of America Online and Voice of Europe...
	We do the same thing.
	We commit propagandistic actions all the time in elections.
	We overthrow governments.
	I'm not speaking out of turn here.
	Everybody knows it.
	So Ingraham asks the former CI director if we ever do that.
	Have we ever tried to meddle in other countries' elections?
	Oh, probably.
	But it was for the good of the system in order to avoid...
	You hear that?
	It's for the good of the system.
	So it's okay if we do it because we're superior.
	It's for the good of the system.
	For the system in order to avoid the communists from taking over.
	For example, in Europe, in 47, 48, 49, the Greeks and the Italians...
	We don't do that now, though.
	We don't mess around in other people's elections, Jim.
	Well...
	Wow.
	Did you hear him go, we don't do that now, and he goes...
	We don't mess around in other people's elections, Jim.
	Wow, it's like a candy commercial.
	It's an ISO. It's an ISO. Only for a very good cause.
	Can you do that to a Vine video?
	Only for a good cause.
	Only for a very good cause in the interest of democracy.
	Thanks for being here.
	Thank you, hypocrites.
	And they just laugh it off between the two of them.
	Ha ha.
	Only if it's against commies.
	Screw the commies.
	If it's only for the system.
	He literally says the system.
	What system?
	What system, Broseph?
	It's disgusting.
	And it's disgusting that Ingram didn't call him out on it.
	It's just funny.
	It's just funny.
	It's not funny.
	It's not funny at all.
	It's lame.
	It's lame.
	But the system he's talking about is global governance.
	Yes, he's totally on the global tip.
	Yeah.
	And that's the key word, by the way, it's global, or key words, key phrase, global governance.
	Not one world order, one world government, new world order, not, you know, global governance.
	It makes it sound so much nicer than, you know, some worldwide dictatorship that we have to bow down to, which is where they're trying to take us.
	Let's see.
	Oh, I had another crazy comparison.
	This is Congressman Jared Nadler of New York.
	Imagine if FDR had denied that the Japanese attacked us at Pearl Harbor and didn't react.
	That's the equivalent.
	It's the same thing, John.
	It's the same thing.
	What?
	Who said that?
	This is Congressman Jared Nadler of New York.
	What, is he an insane maniac to even suggest such a thing?
	Oh, they bombed our bases and killed all the...
	Oh, dad, don't worry about it.
	It's the same thing.
	Imagine if FDR had denied that the Japanese attacked us at Pearl Harbor and didn't react.
	That's the equivalent.
	See, that's the new thing.
	This is the new talking point is, okay, we still are waiting for the full report from Mueller, from the FBI. In the meantime, Trump is not, he's not doing anything about them hacking our election.
	Yeah, just like, exactly like FDR, ignoring Pearl Harbor.
	Precisely.
	Yeah, it's really kind of nuts.
	Did I have another one?
	Yes, this is Danny Heck.
	Another Democrat congressman.
	This is on CNN. Serious consideration.
	The required reading I recommend to Americans over the weekend is to actually go to the Department of Justice website themselves and read this 37-page indictment.
	It is a page-turner.
	It reads like a spy novel.
	No, it's not.
	No, of course it doesn't read like a spy novel.
	What, is he kidding us?
	No.
	Yeah, I guess.
	I don't know what he's doing.
	Did you just say that?
	I did...
	You know, a lot of it is that you just tell people something like that, and you know they're never going to go do it.
	No, they're like, oh, it's like a spy novel.
	Now I can use that in my conversations with my friends on the face bag.
	And they will then buy into it.
	When the thing is a boring document, I thought it was very lame.
	I thought the indictment was weak.
	I thought the whole thing stunk.
	And then again, it's not even American.
	Who are they indicting?
	When do we have the...
	It's not one world governance yet with us running everything.
	Well, how are we indicting these people that aren't even Americans?
	I mean, this Assange thing still gets to me.
	Nobody ever brings it.
	Oh, the guy's a traitor.
	Yeah, a traitor to who?
	A traitor to who?
	Yeah.
	A traitor, yes.
	A traitor to who?
	He's an Australian.
	Actually, I think they're now calling Trump treasonous and a traitor because he's not doing anything to stop the Russian hacking of our election.
	Well, that's Rob Reiner.
	Yeah, well, it's Rob Reiner and other fine individuals.
	Exactly.
	Yeah.
	He's a traitor.
	He's a treasonous traitor.
	Treasonous traitor, I tell you.
	Treasonous traitor.
	But back to the other point, which I can't make enough, which is these aren't Americans.
	Right.
	They're not.
	They can't be a traitor.
	They can't be a traitor.
	They...
	The whole thing is weak.
	I found it was weak.
	So here's the question.
	Why do it at all?
	Why do this if you're doing something that makes no sense?
	I have to bring my theory back into play.
	Okay, go.
	To keep this stuff in the news, keep rumbling, so the elections of 2018 will push a bunch of Democrats into office.
	And then when they're in office and they can maybe take over the House and the Senate, And at that point, they could impeach Trump.
	But no, no, no.
	They won't do that because they've got another two years to keep things boiling as best they can with just fake, well, I don't want to say fake news, but just a bunch of these issues.
	He's unhinged.
	And the big list of Trump problems.
	Take it for another two years so when the 2020 elections come along, they can get him voted out if they can.
	That is, I think, is going to be tougher than getting a bunch of Democrats in in 2018.
	Well, so I wanted to stick with Russia for a second, then I want to come back to that.
	So the president who is, our treasonous president who is helping Putin...
	Was, at the same time, technically in command of our armed forces who killed about 200 Russians in Syria, which seems like...
	Well, actually, it's a very interesting problem they have.
	Let's see, this is Anne Bernard from the New York Times.
	Russia has clearly put more skin in the game than the United States has.
	And at the same time, the United States has now extended its commitment, perhaps indefinitely, in northeastern Syria, where most of Syria's oil is.
	So the problem is that even though there isn't...
	And by the way, she's incorrect in that.
	This happened in northeastern Syria, not northwestern.
	And the oil...
	I thought she said northeastern.
	I thought she said northwestern.
	Maybe I heard it wrong.
	Play it again.
	That will be worth it.
	Perhaps indefinitely in northeastern Syria where most of Syria's oil is.
	So the problem is that even though there is a deconfliction process which is supposed to prevent their sort of competing air forces from clashing with each other by accident or having any small incident that could escalate, you know, mistakes happen.
	And there's even a mysterious incident where More information is still unfolding about it from last week when U.S. forces hit a pro-government force, which was initially described to us by a Syrian government source as a pro-government Syrian Shiite This
	is the Russian version of Blackwater.
	And so the idea that there are, you know, large numbers of Russian troops going around Syria working for who knows who in the same arena where American troops are is obviously very risky.
	And, you know, that's not to mention that Turkey, as I mentioned before, and the United States have even, at least Turkey, has even threatened to attack and We're good to go.
	So, this to me is interesting, since Russia now apparently is using a Blackwater-type consultancy.
	I wonder if Eric Prince owns that, too.
	No, it's the Wagner Group.
	W-A-G-N-E-R. Okay.
	And, no, as far as I know, Prince has no financial involvement in that.
	But they are, you know, so they are indeed like a Russian Blackwater.
	So what's happening now in the world is we've got our mercenaries, our consultants, they've got their mercenaries.
	So really, it's like a proxy war with… Proxies.
	With proxies, yeah, with hired proxies.
	It's very interesting.
	This type of warfare, I think, is new for everybody.
	Well, mercenaries aren't a new phenomenon.
	They go back to the, you know...
	Sure, sure, sure.
	1700s, maybe sooner or earlier.
	But now we just have mercenaries fighting mercenaries, and it's really no skin off anyone's nose, except no one can really admit...
	Well, we freely admit it.
	The Russians, I don't think they can say, yeah, yeah, those are our guys, because they're not supposed to have guys, and they don't want anyone to know they have guys, and so it's a big mess.
	And then this is all going on, as she pointed out, in northeastern Syria where the real gold is there, the Golan Heights, and we're waiting for something to pop there.
	Because that's where the real gold is, the oil.
	And we haven't seen anything happen.
	Well, that's not where the Golan Heights are.
	No, that's what I'm saying.
	The Golan Heights are the other direction.
	Yes, that's what I'm saying.
	So this is northeastern, but the real prize is northwestern.
	Southwestern, actually.
	So we're waiting for that to happen.
	Yes, something will happen.
	This whole thing is geopolitics at its worst.
	Yeah.
	There was something else I was going to say.
	What was it?
	They're not covering this very well on the general news feeds, the networks.
	Well, no.
	Because it's a private war about the resources of the region.
	And that's why.
	What is there to cover?
	All they need to do now is discover lithium.
	We haven't even, you know, we haven't even accused anyone recently of...
	You know, being a dictator or any of that.
	You know, it's kind of waned away.
	Assad is not really in the story anymore.
	I find the whole thing to be hilarious.
	The Trump bot spoke again.
	When I say Trump bot, I mean Omarosa.
	Omarosa.
	Oh, well, I'm glad you're following this because I'm not.
	But I think you might be onto something.
	Is her as a...
	As a kind of a liaison, agent provocateur on the TV shows, especially of that sort of TV show.
	That show is a show I could never, I can't watch that show.
	I find it to be so artificial.
	It's horrible, absolutely.
	Yeah, horrible.
	And by the way, Tina and I just did this the other day.
	If you want to have a good backgrounder in reality television, re-watch The Truman Show with Jim Carrey.
	And we re-watched it the other night.
	It's a great movie.
	It's a great movie, but it actually, in the beginning, it sets the format of the reality show, in particular Big Brother.
	And I was there when this movie was used to create Big Brother.
	I was in the room, so I know it came from that, but I'd forgotten...
	The diary statements where the individual people in the reality show are talking to the audience at home or on camera.
	The diary room where you talk about your day and everything.
	That's all in the Truman Show.
	That format was completely set up there.
	And I'd forgotten about it.
	It's just something to go back and take a look at.
	So now we have the Big Brother house and we have the Trump bot.
	You can call her agent provocateur.
	I call her Trump bot because she is a robot programmed by Trump.
	And the big news, let's see, there were two things here.
	The big news is one of the contestants said, well, did you ever sleep with him?
	Did you ever screw him?
	Did you ever sleep with Trump?
	And her response is, hell no!
	Oh my god, Brandy, that's horrible!
	There's somebody in the White House that's sleeping around with everybody, but she's not me!
	I never had to do that!
	You have a clip of this?
	No.
	It's shitty.
	They have to put up subtitles.
	It's a big brother house.
	So I don't have a clip of it.
	But I think I did a pretty good job of interpreting it.
	So she's saying there's somebody in the White House who's sleeping around with everybody.
	That's got to be Hope Hicks.
	It's got to be.
	It wouldn't be Kellyanne.
	No.
	Although she's the money shot.
	Yeah.
	But Hope Hicks looks like, I'm not going to say the type, but she has a, and we already know that she's sleeping around with that one guy.
	Yes, well, no, she also slept with the other guy.
	And the other guy, right, you've already pointed this out, she's the demon.
	That's a show of money shot!
	Woo, Jesus!
	Woo, Lord!
	Look at that, that's a money shot!
	Ken Ann Conway is a money shot!
	There you go.
	So, but it's, it's, I find it hard to just say, oh, yeah, well, it's got to be her.
	I mean, that's a pretty serious accusation.
	That's not really nice to say about anybody.
	No, I agree.
	It's not nice, but.
	But she said it.
	But she said it and put it in everybody's head.
	So, you know.
	Well, I mean, it's got to be somebody.
	And then you have to do your, you know, your, I mean, maybe it's one of the clerks that doesn't really, nobody even knows who she is.
	And she's sleeping with everybody.
	It's possible.
	Yeah, I actually question it.
	This is done for political reasons, this commentary, as you pointed out.
	So it shows she's calling out somebody for some reason to get rid of her.
	Yes.
	And Hope Hicks has been, you know, even though she's, you have her position as Ivanka's spy, because she is from the Ivanka camp.
	Mm-hmm.
	As a personal liaison, or whatever you want to call it.
	Not forever.
	That's just simply not true.
	Well, a long time.
	I think it's been a couple years, but not super long.
	I thought it was longer than that.
	I still think she's Melania or Ivanka's spy.
	Yeah, I like this structure you've created.
	And that would make sense because Ivanka wants somebody out.
	Let's look at it from that perspective.
	Ivanka wants somebody out.
	Who's the troublemaker?
	She might...
	Who knows?
	But this is definitely messaging.
	And for somebody who left the White House and was so mad and whatever little play she put on there, she's really only saying things that are positive for Trump.
	She's not saying anything negative.
	Yeah, so she's still working for Trump.
	Yes, Trump bot.
	That's exactly what it is.
	Trump bot.
	Well, I hope you stay on this beat.
	Yeah, we have a couple of producers who are kind of OCD now watching this stuff and feeding it to me.
	Good.
	Yes.
	Okay.
	All right.
	So we can either cut to a little donation segment or we can go on to the Florida thing, which I have some clips of, and it segues into the FBI thing because, as I mentioned in the newsletter...
	I want to get this out.
	The right-wing talk show, guys, all of them, with I don't think of any exceptions except possibly Medved, who hates Trump.
	They all claim that this indictment on the Russians is only part of a smokescreen to keep the FBI's incompetence out of the news because they were...
	I'm victimized by their own see something, say something, see something, say something.
	People saw something, they said something, and then nothing came of it.
	I would like to talk about that.
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	He'll be our last executive producer for this show, 2009.
	ITM guys, let's pfunk from the troll room.
	Oh, it's pfunk.
	P-funk.
	This is pfunk from the troll room.
	Or pfunk.
	Pfunk.
	It says pfunk.
	I was going to pay my child support this month, but I will get more value out of giving it to you.
	Can I get a shot himself?
	Goat scream and a year you can read it and I can't.
	Okay, so I don't know what he shot himself is.
	He shot himself?
	I'm looking.
	I have no idea what that is.
	Oh my god, he shot him?
	No, I don't know anything about this.
	His head was removed.
	No.
	And the goat scream, of course, and he spells it S-C-R-E-E-M, so I still know what he means.
	Sounds right.
	And you're not in trouble, just leave?
	Is he listening to a different show?
	You're not in trouble.
	Just leave.
	I have no idea.
	It's like a quiz.
	Well, I don't like the quiz because I want to help people and give them what they request, but I have no idea.
	I don't know what he...
	Okay, I don't know he shot himself.
	I keep thinking of Feinstein.
	Yeah, and your head is gone.
	It's different.
	Yeah, I know it is different.
	And then you're...
	I don't know what that is.
	I have no idea.
	Well, here's your goat scream.
	That's what I do have for you.
	With some karma, of course.
	You've got karma.
	And the irony is P-Funk is not in the chat room today.
	Yes, otherwise he could have explained himself.
	That's the irony of it.
	Yeah, it's always something like that.
	So we have one associate executive producer, Sir Stephen McConnell, donating Wednesday's date, which is 2-21-18, and asking for some F-cancer karma.
	Keep up the best podcast in the universe, regardless of what Alexa's machine learning calculates.
	Yeah, she still thinks it's serious.
	Oh, by the way, it was the Echo device that was crapping up my USB. Oh!
	That's because it's constantly active.
	No, no, no.
	No, when you actually activate it, that's when it would start to talk and it drew too much power on that particular USB bus and it would blow out everything.
	It would reset for a second.
	How much power does that thing need?
	Plug it in.
	It's plugged into a different port now.
	It's okay.
	I have no idea how much it needs.
	You can't plug it into the wall for some auxiliary power?
	Yes, you can.
	Yes.
	That's what I would do.
	Yes, I know.
	I know.
	But you don't have one, so you can't do it.
	And thank you very much, Sir Stephen McConnell, for your support of the Best Podcasting Universe as associate executive producer.
	Before that, obviously, our executive producers who, just like Hollywood, get these titles, these credits.
	You can use them anywhere.
	Credits of this ilk are recognized, certainly within show business.
	We hear it works well on your CV. And on your LinkedIn if you want to.
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	We'll be thanking more people who support us with what they think the show is worth to them and their value in the second donation segment, and that'll be $50 and above.
	And again, thank you all very much for your courage.
	Another show coming up on Thursday.
	We need as much help as we can get.
	So while Olympic fever dies down, you still have a chance to go propagate the formula.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Water.
	Water.
	Shut up, Slade.
	Shut up, Slade.
	All right.
	Now we go into your sequence.
	Well, FBI was being, yes, the, where is our see something, say something, by the way?
	We haven't played that in a while.
	I can sing it.
	If you see something, say something!
	Yeah, well, you nailed it.
	Perfect.
	Well, we had the shooting, and now we have a number of raps here.
	I've got the CBS. Hold on, I've got the jingle finally.
	If you see something, say something!
	Which, if they had used that jingle, it would have gone much better.
	Of course, you've heard about this, and this is a definite talking point.
	But, without a doubt, FBI spoke to the San Bernardino shooters.
	FBI spoke to the Orlando nightclub shooter.
	Spoke to this kid.
	And I'm not sure why they then...
	They never spoke to this kid that I know of.
	Where'd you get that?
	I thought they did investigate him.
	I could be wrong.
	No, no.
	They didn't even do that.
	They completely dropped the ball.
	And the FBI office, the local office in Miami, was never informed about this guy.
	So they dropped the ball internally?
	They dropped the ball completely.
	Okay.
	In fact, even when they had it, everyone was ridiculing him for the fact that they couldn't figure out who this Nicholas Cruz was, I think on his Facebook account or something, even though it was his name.
	He said, I don't know, we can't figure out who this guy is.
	Yes, no, that's true.
	He placed a comment, no, it wasn't on Facebook.
	He placed a comment on someone's YouTube video under his own name.
	Actually, I think I have that clip.
	I'd like to play that because that really bothered me.
	It sounded like a bunch of bull crap.
	There we go.
	A lot of the kids predicted that, you know, they threw jokes around saying that he would be the one to shoot at the school.
	And tonight, many asking, were warning signs missed?
	Back in September, Ben Benite alerted the FBI after Cruz left this chilling comment on his YouTube page, I'm going to be a professional school shooter.
	I just felt that it was important to get it to the proper authorities so they could do an investigation.
	The FBI says agents tried to track him down, but it was a dead end, even though Cruz used his real name.
	The FBI conducted database reviews, checks, but was unable to further identify the person who actually made the comment.
	Cruz had an obsession with guns.
	Okay, so a couple things that bother me about this.
	One...
	I do not understand why they were not able to find him.
	First of all, he's saying, I want to become a professional school shooter.
	What exactly does that mean?
	Does that mean someone's hiring him to do it?
	Is he going to get paid to do it?
	Or is that just the ramblings of a nutcase?
	Just a ramble.
	Just a ramble of a nutcase.
	Okay, good.
	Let me finish.
	Yeah, go on.
	Sorry, sorry.
	So he's registered under his own name.
	All the time, all the time, they go to Google and say what IP address was used, and it's pretty easy to track someone down, especially if they're under their own name.
	Part two, we did a database search.
	It's not clear what database, but if someone's talking about being a school shooter, the first database I'd look at would be the background check database.
	And they could easily see that he purchased at least one weapon that we know of, or we've been told of.
	So what exactly did they look at?
	Or did he not buy the guy?
	I mean, everything we've heard is he bought it from the store?
	How about this?
	How about this to kind of summarize maybe what we're witnessing here?
	We're witnessing another example of security theater.
	They can't do any of this stuff.
	They don't have a database to look up.
	They can't even find the guy's name.
	It's his own name.
	They can't figure out who it is.
	Because what the FBI's been doing, I mean, besides busting those whistleblowers, you know, Thomas Drake and Benny and these other guys and making their lives miserable, you know, what we've seen most of the big scores they've had by finding some dummy, some guy with a low IQ and setting him up to supposedly blow something up and push the button and arresting him.
	I mean, they do individual good work here and there.
	They're field agents.
	They've got stuff to do.
	But this whole idea of see something, say something, we've got this police state, no problem.
	We'll have this guy in jail overnight.
	That's bull crap.
	The whole thing is theater.
	Well, then we'll take a short 14-second detour.
	What is this all about?
	The TSA is testing out a facial recognition security system at LAX, the goal to match up passengers' boarding passes and ID with their faces.
	The systems will be tested during the morning and afternoon rush periods for the next three weeks.
	And by the way, I find that completely unconstitutional.
	If they make that mandatory.
	You have freedom of movement in this country.
	You don't have to show your papers to move.
	The airline could say as a private company, if they wish, we don't want you on unless you do X, Y, or Z. But the TSA is a government organization.
	They don't have the right to refuse you.
	You can legally get on a plane with a library card.
	Yes, this is true.
	There's a number of people who've done it, sure.
	Who refuse to show ID. And do they still get on?
	Yeah.
	Well, they're so well known.
	One of them is a local guy.
	I can't remember his name.
	Somebody in the chat room might remember it.
	He does it all the time and he's like, okay, this guy.
	Well, there's another clip.
	This may explain what you just said.
	So if it's all theater and they can't do it, Yeah, I know you hate him.
	He's a dick.
	Something irks me.
	Something about him just irks me.
	me.
	Here's his idea.
	What about let me give you one final comment and be very specific.
	A judge has to look at somebody and look at a case and say, let me adjudicate whether that person in their mental state, someone who has a mental problem, should be allowed to have a weapon.
	I think that standard is too high.
	I believe that we should violate people's privacy.
	Let me be blunt.
	If you seek treatment for a significant mental disorder, I believe that people in health professions should have the authority to say, this person has this disorder, and that should be matched with national gun registries.
	I know people hate that, but that's what I think.
	A kid is too valuable.
	I think we ought to violate privacy.
	I just love that statement.
	Just to violate privacy.
	What could possibly go wrong with that?
	Yeah, right.
	Well, you'd like that to happen, let's do this.
	It's always a slippery slope.
	So this comes down to, and there's a little bit of rumbling about it, but apparently Obama had signed a directive, which I guess it is legal.
	I have to look into exactly how it works.
	That said, and I think 30 some odd states implemented it, That you, if you are deemed mentally unstable, then you can't have access to a gun.
	And Trump said, no, I'm striking that, I'm not renewing it, or he signed it out, or removed it, I'm not quite sure what happened exactly.
	And so now people are like, oh, you know, this all could have been thwarted if only we had that in there, which of course is bullshit.
	Nonsense, because they couldn't even figure out who the guy was with his YouTube account.
	Correct.
	Correct.
	And so now we have this is going to be a lesson in civics for the children out there, because I don't know what they're teaching in school other than this.
	New at 11, students here in Washington state are arming themselves with a simple message for lawmakers to act now and end school massacres once and for all.
	Students launched a new online campaign in the wake of the Florida school shooting called Will My School Be Next?
	You can see they've posted pictures asking, for instance, if Olympia High School would be next or their brother or if Parkland and Pierce County will be the next community to be torn apart by a mass shooting.
	The campaign is calling on lawmakers to enact stricter gun laws.
	Word of a national campaign to end gun violence is also spreading across social media tonight.
	The Enough National School Walkout Campaign is calling on students and staff to walk out of their classrooms on March 14th.
	All to ratchet up pressure on Congress to pass legislation in order to prevent another school massacre.
	So last night the Horowitz's were actually kind of excited by this idea.
	And they live right in that area, so this is affecting them in different ways that it would affect you or I. And they say, well, maybe people are finally seeing that they have the power to change something.
	Can I just read this one little thing from the Bill of Rights, the Second Amendment thing?
	I want to remind the children who, if you want to remove guns from American society...
	Sure.
	And if enough people want it, sure.
	But you don't just say, more gun legislation.
	No, here is the problem.
	The problem is the Constitution.
	I'm just going to read it because it's important that we understand because every one of the amendments is structured in this manner.
	A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
	This does not give you the right to bear arms.
	You have that right according to the Constitution and Congress cannot infringe that right.
	There's one way and one way only as far as I know to do this and that is an amendment.
	And I think we'll find, if we really go down the path of not hearing anybody speak about it, because I believe that, you know, they're not serious.
	They don't really want to get rid of guns.
	They want to draw this out, your theory, draw this out into the election and say, yeah, Trump's a child killer.
	Or whoever they don't want in office is a child killer.
	There's one way to do it.
	You need a constitutional amendment.
	And what are the rules there?
	Three quarters or two thirds?
	What is the exact number?
	The states have to have a convention to pass the amendment proposal.
	And 75% of the states have to say yes.
	Yeah.
	And then you can do it.
	That's all it takes.
	You don't have to go through this rigmarole and leaving school and doing all this stuff.
	Oh, no.
	This is a...
	Well, again, back to the theory.
	This has caused trouble.
	But this is being orchestrated by someone.
	Mm-hmm.
	And I'm listening to the screaming girl on CBS and who's screeching with balls.
	I think that was NBC, wasn't it?
	Because it was NBC who gave an open mic to people and just recorded them.
	Oh, I've got it.
	I got the CBS clip with her.
	Can we hear it?
	Well, let's play.
	This is the rap.
	This is the Florida rap CBS. There's a number of commentaries that'll have to go into it.
	The fact that we personally are speaking out this time, I just really hope it makes a difference.
	On Friday, the FBI admitted to receiving a tip last month from someone close to Cruz who claimed Cruz had spoken about committing a school shooting.
	The potential of the FBI to miss something is always there.
	We do our best.
	We have no sort of protocols to prevent these things.
	We will be looking into where and how if something with the protocol broke down.
	Cruz was no stranger to law enforcement.
	Broward County Sheriff's records revealed 20 calls for service during the past few years over disturbances involving Cruz and his younger brother.
	The report obtained by CBS News shows that on September 28, 2016, police were on the scene with the Department of Children and Families to check on the health and well-being of Nicholas Cruz.
	The report said Nicholas suffers from mental illness.
	He has been cutting his arms, his mother said, to get attention.
	It goes on to say he has mentioned in the past that he would like to purchase a firearm.
	Classmates say they were well aware that Cruz was a danger.
	You didn't know this kid!
	Okay, we did!
	This isn't just a mental health issue.
	He wouldn't have harmed that many students with a knife!
	How about we stop blaming the victims for something that was the shooter's fault?
	Several students I spoke to said the rally is just the beginning.
	Rena, next week they plan to take their message to the state capitol in Tallahassee.
	This woman who is screaming and you have different versions of her.
	She's shaved her head and she screams and this seems to be the model of protest nowadays instead of You scream.
	You scream at the top of your lungs and you go crazy.
	You're so right.
	I have a clip about that.
	You're so right.
	You're so right.
	Yes.
	Now, the thing, you saw this at Evergreen.
	You see it with Black Lives Matter.
	You see it all the time.
	It's screaming.
	It's unhingedness.
	It's totally unhinged.
	But she says this comment in that little statement, besides, he wouldn't have killed that many people if he had a knife.
	Okay, but somebody's going to get killed anyway, apparently.
	It's okay.
	Yeah, less is always better.
	But she says, we've got to stop blaming the victims.
	Who's blaming the victims?
	I don't know.
	I didn't get that either.
	I don't understand.
	I think she was confused with me too.
	She was yelling at the wrong camera.
	That's all I can think of.
	She's a professional yeller and she yelled about the wrong topic.
	What else could it be?
	What really irked me was after she was done screaming and they cut back to the news anchor and played the sides.
	Play this Florida rap ISO. Oh, yeah.
	Got it.
	Powerful messages.
	Jerika, thank you.
	Powerful messages.
	Powerful messages.
	Somebody's screaming at the top of their lungs, yelling and screaming and making...
	I mean, just very cringeworthy.
	These girls...
	And in this case, who do this, and they go ballistic, and you're right, it's unhinged.
	So, as we kind of surmised, we have multiple fronts.
	We have the war on crazy, the mental health issue, which is still really not being discussed in realms of drugs the kid was put on, and there's ample evidence of multiple of these kids.
	Actually, I have a very nice clip.
	This is...
	What's the guy's name?
	Matt Bevin.
	He's the governor of Kentucky.
	And someone caught him in some press conference, and he spoke for a couple minutes, and I chopped it down to just two.
	But he's kind of like a no-agenda guy, actually, when I listen to him.
	Again, here's what I'll say.
	I mean, 100 years ago, and even 50 years ago, we had more guns per capita in America than we do now.
	It's not a gun problem.
	Guns in these instances have been involved, clearly.
	Guns have often been involved when people have lost their lives.
	But the reality is it's not a gun problem.
	It's not having too many guns.
	There used to be more guns per person in America than there are now, but children did not go to school and kill other children.
	When I was a kid, especially after Christmas, People brought their guns to school.
	My friends would get a new shotgun, get a.22 or something, you'd come to school and show it to your friends.
	It was supposed to stay outside in your truck, which may or may not have been locked.
	But kids would bring them on the buses.
	Sometimes they would be in kids' lockers.
	Nobody even thought about shooting other people with them.
	So it's not a gun problem.
	What I would say to those for whom that is the solution, get a new idea, because that is not the solution.
	It is a cultural problem.
	We have a culture that is desensitized to death, that is desensitized to the value of life.
	And we celebrate death through our musical lyrics.
	We celebrate death through video games that literally reward you with extra points for going back and finishing people off.
	I mean, it is horrific and it is graphic, increasingly realistic.
	The television shows that now are even on primetime.
	Movies, again, these are things that have long existed, but the degree of specificity, the graphic nature of them, the encouraging of people to participate in the form of video games, and then the belief that none of this is connected to what we're seeing?
	Give me a break.
	We've removed any responsibility from the homes and from communities, from schools and from churches, from things that once were the background and the foundation of the mores of a nation.
	We've told these people to keep a lid on it, keep that in your own mind.
	So we've removed any sense of right or wrong.
	We've infused that with a whole lot of do whatever, including taking human life, and then we're shocked when people do it.
	But I'll tell you another thing, too, as long as we're talking about this.
	We talked today about a company that's looking at the pharmacodynamic effect of certain drugs and the pharmacogenomic effect of certain drugs.
	Every human being has a different physiology.
	And you look at the number of children that have been involved in these shootings who are on some kind of psychiatric drug.
	Watch a football game.
	Watch a basketball game.
	I don't care what they're advertising.
	It could be for constipation.
	It could be for PTSD. It could be for anything in between.
	You listen to the little disclaimer at the end.
	How many of them...
	Have very specific warnings about suicidal thoughts, the thoughts of self-harm, the thoughts of depression.
	These are the catalysts for some of what we're seeing in these schools.
	Let's not kid ourselves.
	Now, this statement of his, certainly the last part, did not show up anywhere on the M5M that I could find.
	This was someone who was recording it with his iPhone, because that, of course, would not get on the air, that last part.
	And he said something in it, pharmacogenics?
	The pharmacogenics of these drugs?
	Some interesting term he used there.
	So, you know, we know that there have been studies done and there is, to date, of course, a very powerful industry, the video game industry.
	To date, there is no evidence that heavy metal music or video games will do this to you.
	But, in combination...
	With psychotropic drugs, that may be a different story.
	I don't know of any studies that have been on that in combination with other things.
	And he's right.
	But the bigger question, now that we have statements, now I don't know where this comes from, I didn't hear it myself, but apparently Nicholas Cruz, the alleged shooter, said that he believed the CIA was sending voices into his head.
	Yeah, I saw that pass through, and I never got it picked up on any of the big reports.
	No, I'd love to get a real report.
	But I do remember that coming through, and it could be bullcrap.
	Well, it reminded me...
	Well, first of all, Voices in Your Head is real.
	It really happened.
	It may still be happening.
	It's called the MKUltra program just for...
	For fun, I put the entire congressional document about MKUltra in the show notes.
	It's over 80 pages.
	You can read it at your leisure.
	You can see exactly that it's true, that the CIA did this.
	And Bill Clinton, during his presidency, apologized to Americans for the government doing that.
	But in 1991, William Cooper wrote a book called The Secret Government.
	Do you remember this book?
	No, I do not.
	He was a former CIA guy.
	What was he?
	Naval Intelligence Officer.
	And he wrote this book, and he made a couple of interesting predictions.
	One of them was Osama bin Laden.
	He said, there's going to be some big event, and they're going to blame...
	Whatever is going to happen, they're going to blame Osama bin Laden.
	Don't you believe it.
	Another social illusion, social engineering project.
	And he wrote this in 1991.
	And he also wrote...
	What's the name of the book again?
	The Secret Government.
	This is page 225, chapter 12.
	The government encouraged the manufacture and importation of military firearms for criminal use.
	This is intended to foster a feeling of insecurity, think fast and furious, Which would lead the American people to voluntarily disarm themselves by passing laws against firearms.
	Using drugs and hypnosis on mental patients in a process called Orion, the CIA inculcated the desire in these people to open fire on schoolyards and thus inflame the anti-gun lobby.
	This plan is well underway and so far is working perfectly.
	The middle class is begging the government to do away with the Second Amendment.
	1991 Now I have to go get this book.
	It sounds like a good read.
	It is.
	I think you'll enjoy it.
	There's tons of good stuff in there.
	And I'd forgotten about that.
	I remember the Osama bin Laden prediction by name.
	Um...
	And then we have ongoing...
	It's probably just pure stupidity because it's Al Sharpton.
	I caught him this morning.
	Because the guy is stupid as far as I'm concerned.
	But notice anything substantive missing?
	Substantive?
	You gotta...
	How much does this guy make?
	Millions.
	Substantive.
	But notice anything substantive missing?
	Like any mention of the word guns?
	Well, while this president might be hopelessly co-opted by the gun lobby, let me tell you what I think about the so-called gun debate.
	Yes, there is a mental health issue.
	Yes, anyone, whether it is in Las Vegas or Newtown or what happened this week in Florida, that kills many, many people or any people.
	Has a mental health problem.
	That is not the problem alone.
	He's channeling Bill Cosby, I might add.
	It is part of the problem.
	The other part is that they have access to legally get automatic military-style weapons.
	We're sorry, Al.
	You're off the show.
	There's no automatic weapons that you can legally acquire.
	Nope.
	None.
	And this is mind control.
	There's another interesting part to the mind control.
	Another one that should go on the list of stuff that they just keep promoting these ideas until you start to believe them.
	Yes.
	What does AR-15 stand for?
	What does the A and the R stand for?
	I don't know.
	American Rifle?
	I have no idea.
	Most people think it stands for Automatic Rifle.
	Oh.
	But it's ArmaFlight Rifle.
	It's a brand.
	ArmaFlight Rifle.
	Oh, AR. And it's not...
	It's a platform.
	You can get them in all kinds of different styles, etc.
	Yeah.
	It's a.22.
	Well, it's a high-powered.22, but it's...
	Yeah, but it's a.20.
	It's a glamorized, super high-powered.22.
	Yes.
	And it is, to me...
	Just as dangerous, I'll point out, as a hot shit sports car versus a Prius.
	Because I see these guys in their sports cars driving like maniacs on I-35.
	By the way, if you do that in Austin, you definitely get pulled over.
	They're everywhere, the silent cops.
	That's what it is.
	It's a glorified rifle.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Anyway.
	But they make them look fancy.
	I mean, we can go back to the old wooden stock, funky looking gun that could have the same bullet and that'd be okay, I guess.
	Yeah.
	You know what?
	I'll tell you, John.
	How would they define...
	An AR-15.
	They say assault style.
	Right.
	So we can just make a really crappy looking thing that does exactly the same.
	A paintball gun.
	Yeah.
	And make it out of, you know, just make it look really ugly and bulky and it would be the same weapon.
	Just it wouldn't have the military style.
	Yeah, it wouldn't have the same style.
	But there's so little knowledge out there.
	And, you know, they're all in the gun lobby's pocket.
	Well, I looked it up.
	I looked up on OpenSecrets.org how much the NRA spends on lobbying.
	Now, this is the only information available, so if they're, as is suggested, paying off people under the table, that would be a different issue.
	How much do you think...
	And illegal.
	Sorry?
	And illegal.
	And illegal, yes.
	The NRA, how much did they spend on lobbying according to OpenSecrets.org, which I think is reasonably accurate?
	How much did they spend total lobbying expenditures in 2017?
	I have no idea.
	$5,122,000.
	That's nothing.
	How much did the pharmaceutical industry spend on lobbying?
	Oh, billion.
	$3.8 billion.
	$3.8 what?
	$3.8 billion.
	$3.8 billion?
	In lobbying expenditures, yes, according to Open Secrets.
	That's how much they spent on lobbying.
	The people that are bitching and moaning are saying that the NRA supported the candidacies, so you have to get those numbers.
	I guarantee you the pharma numbers will be a lot higher.
	Oh yeah, and so with insurance companies.
	Yeah, they're number one and number two on the list.
	If you look at the real businesses...
	That are really controlling our government with money.
	It's those guys.
	It's insurance and it's pharma.
	Those are the big guys.
	I'm sure NRA is way down the list.
	Way down the list.
	So it's just not true.
	The other thing about the shootings is not true either.
	Somebody did some charts and graphs showing these shootings.
	Yeah, we have a lot of incidents that happen where some kid gets shot at school and they put that on the list, but The mass shootings, the actual mass shootings, take place about once a year.
	In fact, there was one in 2012.
	There wasn't one in 2013 or 2014.
	There was one in 2015, 2016.
	There were two in 2017, including that one in Texas, which I don't remember.
	And then there was one this year.
	If you look at the statistics...
	It's a very low number.
	Yes.
	Clearly more children are dying due to opioids.
	And that doesn't mean that the gun issue isn't a problem.
	But there's a simple way to solve that.
	Just go down the simple path.
	But they are bullshitting you.
	They don't really want to get away with it.
	And I don't think that if you tried to get an amendment going, I think most of the United States would not be for it.
	No.
	I don't think there's a chance.
	That's why they don't even try.
	That's why they don't talk about it, because they know.
	It doesn't take a genius to figure this out.
	And then the final thing I just need to say about it is look at countries where there are zero guns.
	Look at the United Kingdom.
	The cops didn't even have guns for the longest time.
	That's changed.
	It's funny how that changes over time, isn't it?
	Yeah, how does that work?
	They went from billy clubs to full automatics on the street in combat gear.
	Yeah, it's horrible.
	So the difference, and I've had several conversations with people over the past few days.
	It's going to mess with your head when I say it, but I truly believe this right to bear arms, as is stated in the documents, to protect ourselves from enemies, foreign and domestic, from outside and within, i.e. our very own government.
	You know, you can't even say something disparaging now about a politician in the U.K., or you get locked up if you do it on FaceBag.
	It's illegal to do it.
	So where do you want to live?
	It's the only reason we are still the United States, is because of the guns.
	Otherwise, we'd be the ground zero of globalism.
	Well, they're trying to make us ground zero for globalism as it is.
	Now, I have two more clips.
	First of all, I was thinking of, this is part of that CBS clippage on the shooting, and the first thing I was thinking about is John Lasseter over here at Pixar, the genius that makes it work, was kicked out of the company, at least temporarily, for inappropriate hugging.
	Ha ha ha ha!
	And so, you know, this is like a section.
	Now, was he hugging a little too long or squeezing too much?
	I don't know.
	I've never been hugged by the guy, but I've run into people that like to hug too long.
	Yeah, it's annoying.
	It's kind of annoying.
	It's like sometimes you roll your eyes.
	Okay, okay, you can stop now.
	But then again, you know, I like to hug too.
	But so I thought of that guy when I listened to this little bit that was at the end of the CBS report from the coach, one of the coaches at the school.
	Hold on, I'm looking.
	Florida Raptor Hugger is the name of the clip.
	Ah, yes, of course.
	The principal of Stoneman Douglas, Ty Thompson, spoke out for the very first time since the tragedy, delivering an emotional message on social media.
	And Eagles...
	I promise you, I will hug each and every one of you as many times as you need, and I will hold you as long as you need me to for all 3,300 of you and your families, and we will get through this together.
	I'm thinking of Lassiter.
	What?
	Now, I've been listening to more local reports because we have so much local news now.
	Offsides, illegal hugging, five yards.
	We have so much...
	KTVU, which is the Fox affiliate out here, which is pretty independent of Fox, but sometimes I wonder because they do have a lot of Fox reports.
	They do like three hours of news daily or more, maybe more.
	So they've got to stretch their reports out.
	So sometimes in the process of stretching a report, I believe I can catch some sort of a trend That the other guys are doing, but they're doing it in a shorter way.
	It's harder to catch.
	I believe that the current thing with the slamming of the FBI is on purpose in an attempt to get the head of the FBI, Ray, to quit.
	Ah.
	Now...
	This doesn't come up.
	I mean, this is why the FBI, they screwed up.
	See something, say something.
	I mean, I was susceptible to, in the newsletter I mentioned this, the FBI screwed up.
	But there seems to be, now that I have this clip, I'm thinking, oh, maybe there's too many reports about the FBI screwing up.
	Or maybe there may have been something...
	There may have been something that everybody did right, but we're not going to hear about that.
	I believe this is all, and this particular piece, this is the hit piece, plain and simple, and I think something's going on.
	The FBI is under fire tonight for failing to act on a phone call last month with a tip providing a specific warning about the 19-year-old suspect in this week's Florida school shooting.
	As KTVU's Henry Lee reports, it comes after years of law enforcement saying, if you see something, say something.
	On January 5th, more than five weeks before the mass shooting at a Florida school, a person close to the suspect, Nicholas Cruz, tried to warn the FBI about him.
	The caller said Cruz owned a gun, had a desire to kill people, was behaving erratically, and was posting disturbing material on social media.
	The caller also said Cruz had the potential to carry out a school shooting.
	But the FBI is now confirming that that tip never made its way to the Miami field office for investigation.
	Now, 17 people are dead after Cruz allegedly opened fire at his former school.
	For it not to be disseminated to the field office, inexcusable.
	Former San Francisco FBI agent Rick Smith says the tip should have been acted on, especially because it identified Cruz by name.
	It's a little embarrassing, and the key point now is that who's going to call in to offer a tip if there's going to be no action based on that tip, if the tip is specific.
	Florida Governor Rick Scott called on FBI Director Christopher Wray to resign.
	In a statement, the governor said, see something, say something is an incredibly important tool, and people must have confidence in the follow-through from law enforcement.
	The FBI Director must resign.
	Authorities say even if the FBI didn't do its job, people should always come forward with tips.
	We hope that the public would give us any and all information that might seem to appear to be a credible threat or a threat, and we will go ahead and assess that as to its credibility, and we have to investigate.
	The bottom line is law enforcement says they still need tips from the public to keep the community safe.
	If you don't hear back from anyone, keep calling, keep texting, and keep them informed.
	In San Francisco, Henry Lee, KTVU. Hmm.
	Now that was the closest thing to a hit piece on the FBI I've ever seen anyone do.
	It was done through a Fox affiliate.
	And I believe that this is really what's going on here more than anything.
	And that would be why?
	They want to get rid of Ray because Trump Ah, of course.
	Does not like the way he's performing.
	He's already stood up to Trump a couple of times.
	Yes.
	He doesn't seem to be doing anything about the culture at the FBI. He's just, you know, there's a lot of...
	So you're saying this is a hit piece in California on behalf of Trump?
	Yeah.
	Wow, that's pretty spectacular.
	Well, it's on behalf of somebody.
	I wouldn't say, I don't know if it's on behalf of Trump, but it's on behalf of somebody.
	Yeah.
	Because that was a hit piece.
	Yes.
	The messaging has been really interesting this time around.
	I thoroughly enjoyed the front page of the, which newspaper was it?
	Boston newspaper, I believe.
	The Globe.
	The Globe that had all of the tweets from government representatives about thoughts and prayers.
	And this became a meme.
	The face bag was just filled on it.
	You know, thoughts and prayers.
	Yeah, thoughts and prayers.
	Religious crazy fucks with the thoughts and prayers.
	No, you can't do that.
	And then what do they do?
	They hold a vigil and they all pray together.
	I don't understand.
	Thoughts and prayers are shit, but then they all hold vigils and pray there in Florida.
	Make up your mind, people.
	Yeah.
	The messaging is very clear.
	Here's Rick Scott.
	The two things I want to focus on when I have this conversation next week, state leaders, is I want to focus on school safety.
	And that's going to focus on dollars.
	It's going to focus, as the superintendent said, on mental health dollars.
	It's going to focus on what are the things we can do with regard to school safety.
	But on top of that, we've got to think about this.
	If somebody's mentally ill, they should not have access to a gun.
	Okay, now this is going to be really problematic, and this is why that was taken out of legislation by Trump.
	You know, mentally ill, obviously, if you go and kill people, you're mentally ill.
	Even Sharpton has that one right.
	But, you know, define for me mentally ill.
	Is it because you see a therapist or maybe a relationship therapist for couples?
	Or, you know, there could be all kinds of levels, and how are we going to determine that?
	And then...
	And that's the issue.
	Then you have that list.
	It's going to be, you probably shouldn't live within a mile of a school.
	You probably really shouldn't be near kids.
	You should probably be on an equivalent of the sex offender list.
	Yeah, you'd be on a list.
	So, there's a community solution, which you can do, but it's not very nice.
	You can tell gun stores, oh, just don't sell to these people on this list.
	And if you do, then we're going to shame you.
	You'll have deaths on your hands.
	How are they going to do this?
	And it's also...
	They're not going to do it.
	They're just going to keep the pot boiling and boiling and boiling to get more Democrats elected.
	And here's what they really want us to do.
	A trained gun owner driven to take action against gun violence.
	Notice, interesting, this odd report.
	A trained...
	What did she say?
	A trained gun owner driven...
	A trained...
	Okay, sorry.
	Trained gun owner.
	Trained gun owner.
	What, does he do backflips?
	What is he trained?
	How do you be a trained gun owner?
	You should be trained in gun safety.
	Yeah, he's a trained gun owner.
	That's what they're referring to.
	There's something else odd in this report.
	A trained gun owner driven to take action against gun violence in the wake of the tragic Stoneman Douglas High School shooting the Tamarack resident surrendering his semi-automatic rifle to BSO. And this is just my opinion, and probably not held by the majority of gun owners, is I don't think that that rifle, that type of rifle, a military-style rifle, has a place in public.
	That rifle was designed for military combat.
	I'm not participating in military combat.
	He doesn't know what he's talking about, but he's trained.
	Maybe he's trained by some agency.
	That rifle was designed for military combat.
	I'm not participating in military combat.
	You really don't want to take that rifle into military combat.
	You want the automatic version for sure.
	I have no need for that.
	And so Dickman took his AR-57 to the local BSO Tamarac office Friday morning, surrendered, signed off, and placed into evidence.
	No longer will this assault...
	Why was it placed into evidence?
	I know, that was so weird.
	Why did he say placed it?
	So he's trained and it was placed into evidence?
	What does that mean?
	I don't know.
	And so Dickman took his AR-57 to the local BSO Tamarac office Friday morning, surrendered, signed off, and placed into evidence.
	No longer will this assault rifle be in the hands of a civilian.
	I have no need for this and nor does anybody else.
	So that's why I didn't try and sell it.
	I could have sold it very easily, but I decided not to because I don't need it and nobody else does either.
	The semi-automatic similar to the rifle used to kill 17 students and faculty members at the high school Wednesday.
	A tragedy Dickman says needs to be met with action and not just conversation.
	I don't see any change happening at the government level and if I can do something to start that Maybe one little thing can do something.
	Now Dickman is hoping that his choice will inspire other gun owners to surrender their firearms like his.
	Now the process is pretty simple if you would want to do so.
	You can either bring it to your local district sheriff's office or a deputy could come to your home and retrieve it there.
	Now, being of the conspiratorial nature, you know, let's just say this guy is an agent and as a cover he uses the name Dickman.
	I mean, come on.
	It's getting pretty obvious, people.
	The guy's name is Dickman?
	Dickman.
	Dickman.
	You should be changing your last name, not handing in your A.R. Well, this is an AR-57, which I'm not familiar with when I'm looking at it.
	I think it's a bigger caliber.
	What?
	It's a bigger caliber, isn't it?
	Yeah, 28 millimeter.
	Yeah.
	And it's kind of a screwy gun.
	I don't know that the Army uses them.
	It doesn't say that it does.
	I don't think so.
	I think...
	I don't know.
	We have so many people who will know about that.
	Well, I'm sure we'll get emails about it, exactly what happened with the 57 versus the 15.
	And then I have one more.
	It's a good-looking gun, I'll tell you that.
	One more.
	Yeah, this is, you know, a confused student, clearly.
	It didn't sound like a full gunshot.
	It sounded more muffled.
	So then my teacher automatically assumed, okay, this is a code red drill.
	As the other student said, he said that the teachers had been trained to go through these drills, so we were expecting a drill, actually.
	Mm-hmm.
	I find that very annoying.
	Well, that's like the woman who came up and said, well, I was talking to the cruise kid when I heard gunshots in the background.
	Yeah.
	Oh, there's all kinds of interviews with kids saying, oh, there are three shooters, one from one side, one from the other side.
	Yeah.
	I think we can say that's common.
	Yes, it is common in these events.
	Well, I have one last one talking about unhinged and insane and perhaps mentally ill.
	I know which clip it is.
	Well, let's listen to Jimmy Kimmel, who decides to, of course, go after Trump, blame Trump for the shooting in some funny way.
	He says, I'm sure you know and feel this is another very sad day in America, another senseless shooting, this time at a high school in Parkland, Florida, where a gunman, a former student, opened fire yesterday.
	Right, right.
	17 lives have been lost, more than a dozen people are hospitalized.
	And our president, as he should, weighed in on the tragic events this morning from the White House.
	We are all joined together as one American family.
	And your suffering is our burden also.
	No child, no teacher should ever be in danger in an American school.
	Agreed.
	No parent should ever have...
	Is he doing our bits now?
	He's interrupting clips?
	Yeah.
	Damn Kimmel.
	No child, no teacher should ever be in danger in an American school.
	Agreed.
	No parent should ever have to fear for their sons and daughters when they kiss them goodbye in the morning.
	Agreed.
	So I agree with both of those statements.
	And here's what you do to fix that.
	Tell your buddies in Congress, tell Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell and Marco Rubio, all the family men who care so much about their communities, that what we need are laws, real laws that do everything possible to keep assault rifles out of the hands of people who are going to shoot our kids.
	Go on TV and tell them to do that.
	I think I'll tell you something.
	That is a perfect example of the common sense you told us you were going to bring to the White House.
	It's time to bring it.
	We need it.
	Tell these congressmen and lobbyists who infest that swamp you said you were going to drain, force these allegedly Christian men and women who stuff their pockets with money from the NRA year after year after year to do something.
	Now, not later.
	Now, and don't you dare let anyone say it's too soon to be talking about it because he said it after Vegas.
	He said it after Sandy Hook.
	You say that after every one of these.
	Eight now fatal school shootings we had in this country this year.
	Children are being murdered.
	A couple of things.
	I don't remember Trump saying anything after Sandy Hook.
	No.
	He did not.
	I don't think so.
	Obama did.
	It was in 2012.
	Yeah, Obama did, but I don't think he did.
	So that's what Kimmel said.
	He didn't say anything after Sandy Hook, so he mentioned Sandy Hook.
	There's another thing that kind of...
	I just thought of during this, you know, because everyone keeps talking about it.
	It's not rifles.
	It's assault rifles.
	Oh yeah.
	And military style assault rifle.
	Military style.
	I remember back in the 70s when they were still bitching and moaning about it.
	It wasn't, there weren't It was, the argument was completely skewed the other way.
	It was, the big argument was against handguns.
	Yes, you know, I remember that.
	Yeah, handguns.
	Handguns were going to kill everybody, that's right.
	Handguns were going to kill everybody, but a rifle's okay.
	You know, people can own rifles because they can go hunting with rifles, there's things you can do with rifles and they're not as dangerous, but handguns, handguns were the big problem.
	We had to stop these people from getting handguns.
	Now, how did that get reversed out?
	Handguns are okay now, and rifles are no good.
	And it's just a rifle.
	But where are the civics lessons in our society?
	I mean, you can stand there and say all you want, Jimmy Kimmel, but it shall not be infringed.
	What part don't you get?
	I mean, the laws that are on the books already are arguably illegal and unconstitutional.
	So, you know, why don't you just say, hey, if you're serious, and again, I'm okay.
	It's fine.
	If we all decide no guns, I may not live here anymore, but I'm okay.
	That would be the decision of the people, and we get what we deserve.
	But then go through the process.
	Otherwise, you're just as shitty as the rest of them, because you're not really sincere, or you just don't know what you're talking about.
	Equally as frightening.
	Equally.
	Well, what bothers me again, and I've said it two or three times during this show, it's these memes of BS that keep being pushed by these guys, and they're just pushing and pushing, so people actually believe certain things, like the automatic weapon.
	It's kind of problematic, and there's a misnomer involved with the handgun.
	And there's something else.
	I'm pissed.
	And this is...
	I can't believe I'm saying it, but...
	You're doing this, Jimmy Kimmel, when it's about white kids.
	The black kids in Chicago, there's 17 killed in a weekend.
	Where's that shit?
	Okay?
	You're racist.
	Racist!
	Racist!
	It is racist because I can say Oakland, the number of murders and black-on-black violence in Oakland on a yearly basis is outrageous in hundreds, hundreds of people.
	And this is a white-privileged conversation from a bunch of white racists who don't care about brown or black people.
	Because you don't talk about this when it's brown or black people.
	I've never seen anybody bitch and moan about the Chicago situation.
	Nope.
	On Kimmel's show.
	Nope.
	The monologue.
	Nope.
	So, screw ya.
	So, I have, just as part of this, I wanted to play this because I could have played this earlier, but I want to get it out of the way.
	This is the two of the richest and best basketball players.
	I guess they recorded this some time ago.
	They played this before the All-Star game, which is today.
	Mm-hmm.
	And this is funny...
	Stop, stop, stop.
	Tell me about the...
	What is the All-Star game?
	How does this work?
	I don't know.
	I'm dumb.
	The basketballers have an All-Star game.
	The NBA has an All-Star game once a year.
	The season's almost over, so it's kind of ludicrous.
	There's only 25 games left, but they...
	We have an all-star game today.
	And this is just a thing to sell ads on?
	It's nothing else?
	Doesn't mean anything in the grand scheme of life?
	Well, it means a lot to the players because it's kind of a privilege to play in it.
	But it's just a bunch of guys dunking.
	There's really not much to it.
	Dunking.
	Because they don't have a lot of...
	No one wants to play defense because no one wants to get hurt.
	And so it's just offensive.
	They score like 130, 40, 50 points in every one of these things.
	And just shoot, shoot, shoot.
	And it's not that good.
	But it's interesting to hear two guys, LeBron James and Kevin Durant.
	Kevin Durant LeBron James, who's a multimillionaire, his net worth is $300 million to $500 million, talking like this.
	NBA stars LeBron James of the Cleveland Cavaliers and Kevin Durant of the Warriors both called out President Trump in a video posted online today.
	The number one job in America, the point of person, is someone who doesn't understand the people and really don't give a **** about the people.
	I feel like our team as a country is not ran by a great coach.
	This video was filmed in January for Uninterrupted, but was released this afternoon ahead of the NBA All-Star Weekend.
	Well, first of all, LeBron James says the president who he's talking about was appointed.
	Isn't that great?
	Civics, people.
	Civics.
	And then Durant, you know, uses a...
	I don't know why he'd allow this grammar to be used.
	He ran.
	It's embarrassing.
	Why do they do that, then?
	I think they get talked into it.
	I don't know why either one of them would do it, because especially LeBron saying he doesn't understand the people like LeBron James, who goes around with an entourage of bodyguards and drives high-end cars and lives in secure mansions.
	Is he out there shopping at Costco?
	I don't think so.
	Might be.
	I don't know.
	Some people do, but I just don't see him doing it.
	But anyway, I just found it to be...
	Laura Ingram is what brought it up.
	Ingram.
	Yeah, Laura Ingram.
	She told these guys to get back to dribbling.
	Oh, yes.
	I did hear that.
	Like, oh, what did you say?
	Yeah, it was lame.
	God, I'm wasting my space.
	Alright, we did get some new information on the other shooting, the actual largest mass casualty massacre shooting in our history, which we have heard very little from.
	And everything we heard changed, timelines changed.
	Yeah, it's unbelievable.
	Everything's changing.
	And now, finally...
	We have the autopsy report of Steven Paddock, the so-called Las Vegas shooter, case number 17-10064.
	And date of death, time of death, was October 2nd, 2017, at 12 a.m.
	No, 12 p.m., I'm sorry, 1,200 hours, 12 p.m.
	Which is odd because he shot himself in the head the day before in his hotel room.
	That is odd.
	And so it's another bit of confusing...
	I'm sure they'll come out maybe today and say, well, oh yeah, mistake.
	But it's there.
	Why?
	Why?
	There's so many questions about this.
	Again...
	They have all these cameras supposedly everywhere in these casinos, and they have all these security people.
	And again, I think half of it's theater.
	It's bullcrap.
	I mean, I've seen people arrested in a casino, but how much of this, how much of a million cameras, eyes in the sky, they like to call them.
	The main thing they're used for is to look for cheaters at the blackjack table.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	I don't...
	It's...
	Well, no one's outraged by it.
	No one cares.
	I guess we're the only one of the few.
	Let's put it that way.
	Just one of the few who really care.
	At least we're keeping it up.
	Yes, we are.
	Let me see.
	Do you have something before we go into our D-block here?
	Well, I've got a kind of a funny...
	Oh, shoot.
	Yeah, go ahead.
	We'll each do one.
	I have a couple of funny clips.
	Well, just give me one.
	Well, let's start with this one.
	Let's go with the coffee danger.
	Coffee's going to kill, you know, we get reports, chocolate and coffee are always, oh, chocolate's great for you.
	Oh, chocolate's bad for you.
	Oh, coffee's great for you.
	Oh, coffee's bad for you.
	This one.
	This could add a bitter taste to your morning cup of joe.
	An agency says there's a possible risk of cancer from coffee and wants businesses in California to warn consumers.
	And that's led to a highly charged lawsuit.
	Here's John Blackstone.
	Coffee sellers are steamed.
	The lawsuit has been grinding on for years.
	Hold on a second.
	Stop it.
	Now, I'm getting a little tired of...
	The puns?
	The puns?
	The puns.
	The never-ending puns that are in a lot of news stories.
	If the news story is...
	They think...
	They're being flippant about whether this is a fact or not.
	But start it over.
	Start listening for the pun.
	She starts with one.
	He starts with two.
	And they go on.
	We'll ding each pun.
	This could add a bitter taste to your morning cup of joe.
	An agency says there's a possible risk of cancer from coffee and wants businesses in California to warn consumers.
	And that's led to a highly charged lawsuit.
	Here's John Blackstone.
	Coffee sellers are steamed.
	A lawsuit that's been grinding on for years alleges no matter how you make it, your daily jolt of java comes with a potential carcinogen, acrylamide.
	That's the major reason coffee turns brown.
	Bill Ristenpart, a chemical engineer, teaches the science of coffee at UC Davis.
	As an expert witness, he testified that acrylamide forms naturally as foods cooked at high temperatures turn brown.
	It's a major reason you get this yummy brown stuff on the outside of your steak when you char it.
	But in high doses, acrylamide has been found to cause cancer in mice.
	That puts it on a list of cancer-causing chemicals that businesses in California are required to alert consumers about.
	So now, under California's Proposition 65, coffee shops are being forced to post signs like this.
	Trouble is, in California right now, cancer seems to be brewing everywhere.
	At least it appears...
	If you pay any attention to these Prop 65 warning signs, park your car in an indoor garage and you're likely to find one.
	Chasing law professor Marsha Cohen.
	They create, in some people, concern that there's something lurking in places and they don't know what it is.
	But the potential coffee warning may be stretching the intention of the law.
	I believe in transparency, but at the same time, when you put a bold declaration, X may cause cancer, when there isn't data to that effect in humans, to me it causes panic rather than informed knowledge.
	In a statement, the National Coffee Association told CBS News this lawsuit simply confuses consumers and has the potential to make a mockery of Prop 65 cancer warnings at a time when the public needs clear and accurate information about health.
	While 13 defendants, including Gloria Jeans and 7-Eleven...
	Have settled and agreed to put up the signs.
	Starbucks is still waging a legal battle, arguing that coffee has benefits.
	John Blackstone, CBS News, San Francisco.
	Okay.
	Well, first question, what do you think of the science that is being discussed here?
	Well, it seems dubious.
	I don't know what the dose is.
	What are they, acrylamide?
	I mean, what are they, how much are they giving to the mice or rats or whatever?
	And they got cancer.
	I mean, they could give them too much, a lot of stuff, and it would cause a problem.
	Sounds to me like someone isn't advertising enough.
	That's what it sounds like to me, too.
	Like, you guys better step up your game a little bit.
	We're going to be covering this.
	And now that I think about it, I don't think I've seen a lot of coffee ads of late.
	Or maybe it's just Starbucks.
	Maybe Starbucks is slacking on their spend.
	Well, they kind of defended Starbucks in that report.
	They're the ones who are sticking up for the public.
	Or not.
	Well, I mean...
	They're violating the law.
	Persuasion is powerful stuff.
	There's different ways to do it.
	Oh!
	Speaking of which...
	Tina and I have been reading Scott Adams' book, Win Bigley, which is very interesting.
	You can apply a lot of what he's writing in there about how Trump won the presidency and how he, Scott Adams, was able to predict this because of his hypnotic persuasion techniques, whether they are learned, whether they are inherent, but he has it.
	And he was on a podcast, of course.
	That's where we live.
	And I have to say, Scott Adams, he's taken a lot of crap if you read in his book about all the things that happened to him because he just started talking about this.
	And in particular, David Brock, you know, the guy from Media Matters, the Clinton-sponsored activists who, you know, who try to get sponsors to drop shows.
	They did that with Sean Hannity.
	A horrible pressure group.
	Yeah, so, you know, now Scott doesn't need, I don't think, I can't look in his wallet, but I don't think he needs money.
	I think he's okay.
	But his speaking engagements went to zero.
	Everything went down.
	Yeah, you're going to say he didn't do a lot of speaking engagements.
	Whatever it is.
	He used to, and then he got fed up with the guff.
	I mean, I don't blame him.
	And then he started doing his own thing on the Periscope.
	I think his money is still made from the syndicated cartoon.
	Yes, but also people threatened, you know, I'm going to unsubscribe from your newspaper.
	You don't drop Scott Adams and Dilbert.
	That kind of stuff.
	That kind of stuff.
	But he was on this podcast, The Rubin Report.
	You know The Rubin Report.
	That's where you got your Eric Weinstein clip from.
	Yes, The Rubin Report.
	You know the Rubin guy?
	Yeah.
	He sells merch.
	Merch?
	What kind of merch?
	He has a merch store.
	And he asked, you know, they were talking about persuasion.
	He asked Scott, so who do you think has it?
	Who do you think has that kind of persuasive technique who could possibly go up against Trump?
	Do you think anyone's doing the persuasion game correctly on the other side?
	So whoever might be your...
	An intellectual opponent that buys into all of the things, say, of the modern Democratic Party.
	Is there anyone that's kind of doing it right?
	Do you have any guesses?
	If you've heard the clip, don't guess.
	But if you haven't heard it, who do you think he's going to say?
	Well, I think the person that has the potential to do it right, although I don't think she's going to pull it off over time, is Pocahontas.
	Elizabeth Warren.
	Yes.
	Well, she does have the thin-skinned persuasion.
	We both agree that's good.
	Yeah, she's kind of backed off of it because I don't think she knows what she's doing.
	Even if you disagree with all of the conclusions or what they're trying to build in the future.
	Let me say something that I know makes at least half of your listeners just flip out.
	George Clooney has game.
	Now, I don't think he can run because of the whole Hollywood-Weinstein connection, but in a recent interview I saw, I saw so much technique that...
	I didn't know he had that much technique.
	And he basically was setting himself up that if people begged, he would run.
	Now, I don't know if you would agree, because once they did some polling, they might find out he has some issues.
	But he has the charisma, and he has the persuasion game that if he could bring a little bit of substance, he would actually be quite formidable.
	I don't think he can beat Trump, but he could probably really take a run at someone else, you know, a regular Republican.
	George Clooney!
	Is a spy.
	Which is much more likely.
	He's not going to give up that gig.
	Well, George H.W. Bush did.
	Okay, fair point.
	Fair point.
	And he was like a high-end spy, not just some guy.
	But that's interesting.
	Yeah, well, I can see it's a good one.
	Scott's the guy who's got this persuasion thing going on.
	Yeah, he should run for president.
	I'm going to show myself all by donating to no agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh, yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, on no agenda.
	In the morning.
	We do have a few people to thank for...
	Show 1009, 009, Matthew Stegman at the top of the list.
	He sent an interesting note in that I want to read.
	I'm not going to read it now.
	I'm going to just get through these.
	Now, what is this 10101 for?
	It doesn't say.
	It's just one of his numbers.
	Ah, this is the zero tolerance note.
	Yes, that was interesting.
	Yeah, I like that note.
	You have a copy because I don't think it's in my pile.
	Well, isn't it in squirrel mail?
	I went to Squirrel Mail to pull these things out, and I may have just overlooked his, but if you can dig it up in the meantime, we can read it, because it's worth reading.
	Yeah, I'm looking now.
	Because it's a very good...
	I can look it up, too.
	I have it still.
	I just didn't print it.
	Because I print my stuff out.
	Matthew Anderson...
	How's that working out for you?
	It works great.
	I get the pile of paper.
	I can scratch on it.
	I can scratch notes on it.
	I can, you know, highlight things I want to read.
	Can't do that on my screen.
	Matthew Anderson, $100 from West Roxbury, Massachusetts.
	Anonymous, $100.
	He sent a note in.
	It's a short note.
	What does it say?
	He says...
	I don't know, maybe, is he requesting job security karma on my behalf?
	Please credit me as anonymous.
	If job security works, expect a bigger check.
	We're going to put a special job security karma at the end.
	Let's see if it works.
	It means more for everybody.
	Brian Mann, 9690.
	He needs a dedouching.
	Give him that.
	You've been dedouched.
	His wife is solidly in Dimension A. He says this is good.
	And then I guess he's got issues with the family.
	Sir Herb Lamb in Sugar Hill, Georgia, 8008.
	A boob.
	Scott Napier in Hagerstown, Maryland, 7575.
	To all the douchebags out there, sack up and contribute already.
	Yeah.
	Yes.
	Sir Rick in Arlington, Washington, 6996.
	Brian Richardson in Aurora, Illinois, 6969.
	Along with Baron Mark Tanner in Whittier, California.
	We have to do another LA meetup.
	Everybody went to see him.
	Oh, nice.
	Oh, you're the famous Mark Tanner in Whittier.
	It's always Whittier.
	James Stoddard, 6633, a long-time douchebag.
	He writes...
	And then he's got a call out in here.
	He says, a friend of his passed away at the age of 33, the donation of 66-33, which comprised of three 33s, a number he never failed to point out.
	When he ran across it.
	The best and only way I could think of honoring him was a donation to the best podcast in the universe.
	We worked together.
	He was the most brilliant dude named Ben ever.
	Oh, that's nice.
	Oh.
	Yes, go ahead.
	Finish up.
	Give him a lift to work.
	Thursdays were referred to as not Thursdays, but as no agenda day.
	We'd listen during the commute.
	Hearing him groan when a Maxine Waters or Pelosi clip was played always bright in the day.
	Aw.
	This past Tuesday, I suffered a massive seizure and placed his life on support passing away on Friday.
	I had warned him that if I donated before he did, that I would be obligated to call him out as a douchebag.
	Obviously, I had intended to do this under different circumstances, but I am following through.
	Douchebagging the dead!
	Yeah, I'm going to have to play it.
	Here we go.
	Please call him out as a douchebag, which we just did because I cannot have him exit this world as such.
	Please de-douche him.
	Yes, of course.
	You've been de-douched.
	That was sweet.
	Onward.
	One little sidetrack.
	I realize a lot of people have no idea what we're talking about when we're talking about Dude Named Ben.
	And in particular, Tina didn't know.
	She understands what it is, but what's the genesis of Dude Named Ben?
	I thought I'd just take 15 seconds to play the clip where it comes from.
	The reason why...
	We believe in sysadmins and IT administrators because they really are keeping the world afloat.
	Technology sucks, all software has bugs, and these guys and girls make it work.
	And they also help you find your password.
	But they are treated with disdain.
	Just disdain and disrespect pretty much everywhere.
	And even in the workplace, they are like second-class citizens.
	You know, called nerds and geeks and dweebs and get one of those shitheads up here.
	So when, I believe it was Schaffetz, Schaffetz, he was grilling Lois Lerner about her emails, you may recall, the IRS scandal, which turned out to be true.
	And she was like, I don't know, just somebody in IT, I don't know.
	And this is what ensued.
	And this is how we came up with Dude Named Ben.
	I didn't actually interact I forgot that was on there.
	A dude named Ben.
	So that's where it comes from.
	Just spoken with disdain, and we believe that our dudes and dudettes named Ben and Bernadette wear this moniker with pride.
	And that's what they do.
	We got a dude named Ben.
	We got a dude named Mohammed.
	We got a dude named Ben Mohammed.
	We got all kinds of different kinds of dudes named Ben on the show.
	Yep.
	Listen to the show, because we're probably one of the few shows where we're not dudes named Ben by any means, but we know enough that we're not making fools of ourselves when we chat about technology.
	Thank you.
	Whereas most other commentators are.
	Very full of it, yes.
	Dean Roker, double nickels on the dime.
	Sir Ben of Oakland, 5135.
	Michael Supko in Belmont, New Jersey, 50-50.
	Andrew Benz in Arnold, Missouri, $50.05.
	Now, the following people are $50 donors, name and location.
	Micah Miller or Micah.
	Ah, you know, I got a note.
	Micah.
	Micah.
	It's Micah Miller in Bethel, Pennsylvania.
	Yeah, Micah.
	John Camp in Antlers, Oklahoma.
	Daniel Zanguzin, Zanguzin, Zanguzin, Zanguzin in Bellevue, Washington.
	Sean Rigaldo in Burlington, Vermont.
	Joel Daroon, Savannah, Georgia.
	Andrew Denton in San Diego, California.
	Scott Lavender in Montgomery, Texas.
	And last but not least, Israel Cazares in Parts Unknown.
	I want to thank all these folks for helping us out on 1009.
	Yes.
	1009-er, our value-for-value model.
	It's always hard with a three-day weekend.
	It's...
	Februaries, for some reason, are always...
	Why is that?
	You track all this.
	It's only 28 days is part of the problem.
	So what does that have to do with people just not contributing?
	I don't know.
	Something about the February month is always...
	I don't know.
	I have no idea about it.
	It's a slow month for everybody.
	That's why they made it so short.
	And we also have almost no end-of-show mixes...
	I'm playing older ones, which is fine.
	Yeah, we get enough.
	We do, but still, it's noticeable.
	Yeah.
	Let me read a couple of notes.
	I couldn't find Stegman's note.
	Oh, okay.
	I'll pick it up.
	If it's not, we'll read it out loud on the next show.
	Okay.
	But this is from Roman, who says, just remember the 8888 donation, no agenda.
	The ham amount is 88 shorthand.
	Yes.
	Similar to, but different meaning from the 73.
	It's hugs and kisses.
	88's is hugs and kisses.
	Yes.
	And as a ham who's been licensed for over a quarter of a century, I find you're a cultural appropriation of amateur radio donations to be as offensive as Elizabeth Warren claiming to be a native Injun.
	Really?
	Stop being such a, John, stop being such a dick to Adam.
	Okay, well, true.
	He's the sweetest human being in any form of media.
	When you get pissy at him on the podcast, I get seriously tempted to send Barbara Boxer to your address and phone number with a, hey baby, my wife is out of town, want to party?
	She'd be there in five minutes.
	Other than that, the show has been awesome as Adam makes up for your deficiencies.
	And I look forward to another 10 years of the best podcast in the universe, 73 and 88 Roman.
	Yeah, 73 and 88.
	But we're not appropriating culture for your edification, my good colleague.
	Dvorak had his amateur radio license before I did, convinced me to do it, and then I, of course, went nuts and got my general.
	Never did the extra.
	Well, you'll probably do that eventually.
	And I remember I've actually had a CUSO with you.
	Once.
	Yeah.
	Remember that?
	That one time?
	Oh, yeah.
	Unfortunately, I put the radio in the car.
	I'll hook it up again, and we'll do it again.
	I was thinking of hooking my stuff up again, too.
	Certainly the D-Star.
	That's fun, D-Star.
	Yeah, D-Star's nice.
	Nice product.
	D-Star's a nice product.
	I think they want us to say that.
	D-Star's a nice product.
	Another note.
	I'm going to get these notes out of the way.
	It's not a nice product, man.
	It's proprietary codex, so it's not nice.
	That's how hams talk, okay?
	Okay, for you and whoever says that, it's not nice, but it works great.
	It does.
	It works great.
	It works well.
	John and Adam, I'm a long-time douchebag making this donation to honor a long-time friend and fellow douchebag who passed away.
	Oh, this is the one we just did.
	Yeah, I just read that one.
	He got that one.
	Eric got that and put it in the note.
	Okay, so I got only one more.
	This is from M. Adamson.
	Gentlemen, as my wife and I were enjoying our breakfast at one of our favorite hotel restaurants on 33rd, I read this.
	Okay, I'm good.
	I'm good.
	These have all been done except for the one that we have to look up, which we'll read on the next show.
	Yes.
	Okay.
	I'm sure you'll remember that.
	I'll put it on the list.
	Hey, Jobs Karma for those who need it, a double.
	Jobs.
	Jobs.
	And Jobs.
	Let's vote for Jobs!
	Jobs!
	You've got...
	Karma.
	And, strangely, no birthdays.
	Zero birthdays.
	That doesn't happen very often.
	It's a short month.
	And no nightings.
	We do have one title change.
	Title changes.
	Don't want to be a douchebag.
	And that is the producer who came in this morning with the top number.
	We're very proud.
	He technically is a baronet but has not asked for any such change in status.
	But it's Sir James Irvine who now changes his title to Sir James Irvine, Knight of the RV. And we cannot thank him enough for his support of the best codpiece in the universe.
	Which is, I think, what you said earlier.
	I almost said it.
	I think that would be an outstanding product for us to put on the market.
	Yeah.
	From the people who brought you the best podcast in the universe, now comes the best codpiece in the universe.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, you're catching up.
	Merch.
	Merch.
	Merch, baby.
	We got merch.
	Are you familiar with Dan Pena?
	No.
	Dan Pena is...
	Let me see.
	I pulled his wiki page here.
	He's a very rich guy.
	Let me see.
	Oh, I don't have it here for some reason.
	Well, Dan Pena...
	Now let me look at the Book of Knowledge.
	He's a philanthropist.
	I think he may be friends with Trump.
	Maybe he's a big Trump supporter.
	That could be.
	But he did a kind of town hall meeting here.
	He's founder of Quantum Leap Advantage Methodology, whatever the hell that is.
	Yeah, sounds like a cult.
	American philanthropist, businessman, and business coach.
	Yeah, sounds like a cult.
	Today he resides in Guthrie Castle in Scotland.
	Cult headquarters.
	Cult headquarters.
	But he was doing a speech or a Q&A in, I think this may have been an educational setting, and the woman gets up and says, you supported Trump, and what are all you rich guys going to do about global warming?
	I have two kids.
	We're going to die.
	What are you doing about it?
	You know the kind of heckle you get from the audience.
	Yes, and that's a classic.
	It's long, but I found his response to be beautiful.
	When our ocean level rises...
	Thank you for asking that question.
	I have the answer.
	Don't let me finish.
	Oh, by the way, there's a lot of expletives in this clip.
	A lot of them, and they're harsh if you want to protect your children.
	I have the answer.
	Let me finish.
	Thank you for the question.
	For the first time on earth, we're changing the gas.
	Now you're full of shit.
	Sit down.
	I'm going to answer you.
	Shut up and sit down.
	No way.
	Sit down.
	No.
	No, I've got to finish my question.
	I'm going to answer global warming.
	All right, finish the question, then answer.
	Right now, our gas is changing on Earth, and it's changing to CO2. What do you people with the money, what are you doing about it?
	No, I know.
	Don't get hung up on the unhingeness of the audience member.
	He brings us to a beautiful conclusion.
	Finish my question.
	The gas.
	The gas is changing.
	What gas?
	The gas.
	It's a great way of putting it, though.
	I'm going to answer global warming.
	Right now, our gas is changing on earth and it's changing to CO2. What do you people with the money, what are you doing about this?
	I'm going to tell you right now!
	No, I've got children.
	I've got 21, 23-year-old children.
	And what's their future with you people with money?
	You talk about money all of the time.
	Okay, okay.
	Sit down, please.
	Sit down, please.
	In the front row.
	Excuse me.
	In the front row.
	Please sit down.
	Okay, you've asked your question.
	Thank you very much.
	Okay.
	In 2011, my wife and I were in Antarctica, renewing our vows.
	For most of you that don't know, Antarctica's on a mountaintop.
	And there is a $500 million facility, scientific facility there.
	By the way, that's where the elites are all going to go when the shit really comes down.
	They've all got first class passes to the facility on the mountaintop.
	Scientists came to give us presentations about global warming.
	And they had cores of ice that they had drilled.
	They had drilled 4,000 or 5,000 cores, and they only brought 15 or 20.
	So they're going through the second or third core, and they said, 275,000 years ago, this was the temperature.
	And then 55,000 years ago, the world was 2 degrees warmer Celsius than it is today.
	This is 2011.
	And I said, well, you mean the whole world?
	He said, yes.
	And the polls are only benchmarks.
	And I said, well, what about the things the young woman alluded to?
	And he said, it's all cyclical.
	And although the gas may have exacerbated it, In the cosmos of time, it's not a fart in the wind.
	In the cosmos of time, of the 13.8 billion years that we've been on this miserable planet, it's not a fart in the wind.
	Now, my direct answer to your question, if that were really true, would you believe?
	And let's just for a moment say that it is true.
	That means that the best scenario vis-a-vis global warming is about 10 feet raising water.
	That's the best scenario over the next 40-50 years.
	That's the best scenario.
	If the water on the planet is going to rise up 10 feet, that means the southern part of the United States is gone.
	England is gone.
	Most of Europe is gone.
	And I can go, most of Central America is gone.
	Okay.
	If that's the case, let's just take Florida, for example, which is one of the fastest growing condominium, beachfront condominiums on the planet.
	In the prospectus, when you invest, there should be, in the footnotes, If global warming is for real, they won't put it that way, global warming happens and water rises 10 feet, this investment you made is fuck-all.
	Not one single investment prospectus written since 2000, this century, has alluded to global warming.
	Not one motherfucker!
	If it were really true, the banks wouldn't invest.
	The banks wouldn't finance.
	Not one motherfucking condominium.
	So the people that have the money, and I'm jealous of the Vice President, Gore, which Sally and I rode on a plane from South America with a few years ago.
	I am jealous he came up with a scam before I did.
	Because the financial institutions, the banks of this world, know it's not going to happen.
	Otherwise, you couldn't get a goddamn loan in London.
	You know those 30, 40-year mortgages?
	The world will be over by then.
	Is Barclays Bank going to give you a motherfucking loan?
	With the greatest respect, ma'am, it's the greatest fraud that's been perpetrated on mankind this century.
	There you go.
	An argument I had not yet heard.
	I haven't heard that argument either.
	I think the guy's profanity is unnecessary.
	Unnecessary.
	I agree.
	But I didn't want to bleep it.
	That's lame.
	I didn't want to bleep it.
	I think it's part of the whole thing.
	No, you can't.
	There's no reason to bleep it.
	That's what the guy said.
	But I just love that he said he's jealous of Al Gore that he came up with the scam before he did.
	That's beautiful.
	Well, I think that's a good clip.
	Except for the, you know, the...
	I know you especially don't like the MF thing.
	No, I don't like that.
	I know you don't.
	I know you don't.
	I didn't put it in there to taunt you.
	I thought it was really...
	No, I know.
	You're very good about it.
	Yeah.
	I thought that was...
	I'm trying to think of anything.
	I had the global warming thing.
	I don't see it.
	Well, I do have a...
	Maybe it's getting people to...
	I don't know if it's global warming connected.
	You can close the gate.
	Oh, you never opened it.
	I never opened it, no.
	Screw the gate.
	Okay, let's jump to this clip.
	Oh, we've got a bunch of interesting, weird clips.
	but i want to play this one which also uses a bunch of puns but i thought this would be a funny boat ride to be on this is the brawl the brawl aboard this brawl aboard story from all aboard to brawl aboard a cruise ship in the south pacific this video taken by a passenger on the carnival legend capturing just one of many flights reported between members of just one large family traveling
	Terrorizing passengers over three days, the captain refusing to take them any further, docking the boat in New South Wales off Australia's east coast, calling police to remove all 23 members of that family.
	I thought I said 22, then he says 23.
	But who are they?
	What's the name of these people?
	Yeah, we don't know.
	And what I heard...
	Was it an ethnic group?
	Was it a bunch of Greeks?
	I saw video.
	Was it Armenians?
	I saw video.
	They looked white.
	Yeah, they're white.
	But I saw the security...
	Were they Italians?
	A bunch of mobsters?
	Two families?
	Two different mob families?
	I mean...
	How about some information?
	This sounds like a funny story.
	No, you know what they have?
	Someone tweeted a video and they got half the story and then they run with it.
	That's it.
	Done.
	They don't need any more because you got the video.
	And the video was kind of shocking.
	Violence in general is shocking to watch, but real violence.
	The security guards were slipping their handcuffs over their knuckles using it as brass knuckles to beat on these people.
	Something must have gone really bad.
	I don't know, but they seem a little hot-tempered.
	Not as bad, apparently, for the guy who accused Seattle's mayor.
	Murray?
	Is that his name?
	I don't know who Seattle's mayor is.
	Of having underage sex with him.
	Oh?
	Yeah.
	Here we go.
	The first man to file a lawsuit against former Seattle Mayor Ed Murray for alleged sex abuse as a teenager died today.
	Delvon Heckard's body was found in an Auburn motel, and tonight his attorney and other accusers talk about the man they say was brave enough to take on a powerful politician.
	Funny how that happens.
	Gee, he just dropped dead.
	That's a coincidence.
	It sucks, man.
	I hate it when...
	Seattle's very corrupt.
	I hate it when that happens.
	I have a similar story.
	This guy is not dead or anything, but this is a middle school coach.
	I thought this was interesting because there was a little tidbit in here, see if you can spot it, that just like, what?
	I didn't know that was illegal.
	A middle school coach has turned himself in on charges of child molestation and child pornography.
	ABC 7 News reporter Katie Marzullo has the details.
	Alfred Papadakis was a long-time PE teacher and track and field coach at Willow Glen Middle School in San Jose until this September.
	That's when, as the principal said in a statement, courageous students reported suspicious behavior by the former employee and school and district administration acted immediately.
	San Jose police say he was taking pictures of female students.
	Investigators examined several of the coach's electronic devices and say they found numerous inappropriate images in his possession.
	Parents knew something was up when Papadakis left the school, but they're just now learning of his arrest.
	It is disappointing and it's certainly concerning here in our community, in our neighborhood, in our school.
	The coach is charged with seven counts of molesting and annoying a child and one count of possession of child pornography.
	In San Jose, Katie Marzullo, ABC 7 News.
	Wow.
	So he's taking pictures of the girls.
	Yeah.
	And probably drooling while doing it.
	But I didn't know it was against the law to annoy...
	It doesn't sound right to me.
	Did you hear the end?
	It says for molesting and annoying.
	Yeah, I heard that, but I... Yeah, I don't know.
	If you're annoying someone.
	Yeah.
	If that's the case, I'm annoying you on this show constantly.
	Yeah, but I like, I'm a glutton for punishment.
	But you see before the show starts.
	Yes, this is true.
	Sometimes afterwards where you're trying to concentrate on stuff.
	Well, there was a, yes.
	Or when something's broken.
	Oh, well, that's another story.
	and I have not seen any of the backup materials, so I'm just going to read it verbatim.
	It doesn't contain the magic number, which is always troubling.
	An outright frightening dossier released by a former senior United Nations official reveals that the United Nations employees have carried out over 60,000 rapes in the last decade alone.
	What's more, the dossier estimates the organization currently employs at least 3,300 pedophiles.
	In just ten years, under the guise of rendering aid, the United Nations has literally been raping and pillaging countries across the world.
	Global governance!
	The problem has gotten so out of hand that it prompted the former UN insider Andrew McLeod to blow the whistle and hand over the evidence to Britain's Department for Internal Development Secretary, Preeti Patel.
	According to the exclusive report by The Sun, the dossier reveals that on top of the 3,300 pedophiles working for the organization, thousands more predatory sex abusers specifically target aid charity jobs to get close to vulnerable women and children.
	And I gotta tell you, sadly, there's enough circumstantial evidence to believe this report.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, the UN Blue Hats are known rapists in Africa.
	At least they're viewed that way, for sure.
	Yeah, well, they probably are.
	Global governance is what you're going to get from your one-world government.
	You think that's connected?
	That's what you expect to give all this power to these guys.
	Do you feel it's connected that way?
	Global governance or pedophilia?
	Well, I think, yeah, maybe.
	Could be.
	It could be, I'm asking you.
	I don't know, I've never thought of it in that specific term, but yeah, could be.
	Hmm.
	Let's play...
	I have a reminder clip people should know about.
	This was taken from...
	If anybody wants to see the three-part series World War I on PBS, it's fascinating.
	Because there's a bunch of stuff that...
	Is this one of those series like they did with Vietnam?
	Is it one of those long series?
	No, I think the Vietnam thing was a Ken Burns thing, wasn't it?
	It was Ken Burns, yes.
	This was a Frontline or Nova or something like that.
	No, no, Master, I don't know what it was.
	But it was better.
	This was quite good.
	But there's two clips I have here that I've been trying to get rid of.
	And one of them is just a reminder about the Sedition Act and how easily this can happen.
	This is with the Democratic president pushing us into World War II. A German-American coal miner named Robert Prager was accused by some of his co-workers of being a spy.
	A mob formed and stripped Prager of most of his clothes, dragged him through the streets and hanged him from a tree.
	The Washington Post celebrated the murder.
	Big parts of the American public lost their minds about the nature of the society they lived in and the threat they faced from their neighbors who happened to have German names.
	Rather than reining in the violence, the federal government took steps that fueled the climate of hysteria sweeping the country.
	At Wilson's urging on May 16, 1918, Congress passed a new law called the Sedition Act.
	That made it illegal to say almost anything against the United States or its armed forces.
	The Espionage Act was considered not even strong enough, so it's amended in 1918 with the Sedition Act that basically creates enormous penalties for not only speaking out against the war effort or obstructing it, but really for criticizing America in almost any way.
	The maximum sentence was 20 years just for going to a bar and grumbling about food restrictions to somebody who was sitting next to you at the bar or questioning what we were really fighting for.
	Anything at all that might interfere with the war effort, with morale of troops.
	This Sedition Act is probably the greatest suppression of free speech that the country has ever seen.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	Is this law still inactive?
	No, no, it was repealed.
	Okay.
	But it was pretty easy to do.
	Yeah, looks like it.
	Now, the other clip I have, which is a little long, this is a long clip and I'm reluctant to play it now.
	Does it relate to this?
	Because you got me now.
	Well, it relates to, yeah, the laws that were going on, but what it relates to is a piece of information.
	I had no idea that Woodrow Wilson was incapacitated to the point he had a stroke and in office and nobody said anything about it.
	The Washington Post was, nobody covered it.
	They pretended it didn't happen.
	This is the way the media used to operate.
	And it's not that they're telling the truth today.
	Well, no.
	The term is, we used to have one set of facts.
	That's the term.
	Well, you can stop this if you want to, but I think you're going to have to gut through this because it's so interesting.
	Let me give a little background.
	Woodrow Wilson is the one who is pushing and pushing and pushing.
	What year are we?
	What year are we?
	1919, 1918.
	Okay, long time ago.
	After the war, right after the war, which would be 1919.
	This is the era where they were pushing the League of Nations.
	We're going to have a treaty.
	We're going to sign this treaty with the Germans.
	This is the pre-UN time.
	The pre-UN, and they actually formed the League of Nations.
	It happened right here in San Francisco.
	There's a building where it took place.
	We ended up not signing it.
	And all I was ever taught was that Wilson really wanted this.
	And it was the evil Republicans.
	And it would have been better if we had a League of Nations because maybe Hitler wouldn't have shown up.
	This is the argument.
	And heaven forbid that because those evil Republicans voted against it and we didn't have it now because it would have been earlier global governance.
	Then I hear this story, which completely contradicts the whole story.
	On September 25th, Wilson dragged himself through an appearance in Pueblo, Colorado.
	Even as he was blinded by a migraine, his left arm and leg numb, his face twitching uncontrollably.
	As the evening wears on, Wilson's headaches are so severe, he simply cannot deal with it.
	And his doctor and Mrs.
	Wilson say this tour has got to end because your life is about to end.
	And Wilson just refuses to budge.
	He won't do it.
	No, I just need a little sleep.
	Of course, he can't sleep.
	The pain is so severe.
	And a few hours later, even he now realizes he cannot go on.
	And the doctor gives the order.
	That's it.
	just get the president back to Washington, D.C.
	Wilson is truly a broken man.
	Three days after his return to the White House, Wilson suffered a stroke so severe that his wife Edith thought he should resign the presidency.
	Music But Wilson's inner circle believed his abdication would kill any remaining hope of ratifying the treaty.
	Mrs.
	Wilson and a handful of advisors decided to keep the president's condition a secret.
	For the last year and a half of the Wilson presidency, a handful of people in the White House, I believe, engaged in the greatest conspiracy in American history.
	Nice.
	Some have argued that for all intents and purposes, Edith Bolling Gault Wilson became the first female president of the United States.
	Certainly, there is no question that the executive branch of government was functioning through Mrs.
	Wilson.
	With Wilson hidden away, treaty negotiations took an unexpected turn.
	At the last minute, Republicans proposed a list of amendments that would have given Wilson almost everything he wanted, including the League of Nations.
	The author of the amendments was Henry Cabot Lodge.
	Lodge was not against the League of Nations as a whole.
	He just was worried about the shape.
	He wanted to talk about it.
	Wilson wouldn't do it.
	He wasn't prepared to admit that Lodge had any reasonable reservations about the treaty.
	Lodge himself knew, if I offer anything, Woodrow Wilson has such contempt for me, he will not accept it.
	And indeed Lodge was correct.
	There were more than enough votes to ratify the treaty with Lodge's amendments.
	But Wilson ordered Democratic senators to kill his own treaty.
	On March 19, 1920, they did just that.
	In essence, Woodrow Wilson stabbed himself, stabbed the treaty in the back, or more to the point, in the heart, because that was really the end for Woodrow Wilson.
	There comes a time, I suppose, when bitterness overtakes shrewdness.
	And at the end of his life, he was a very bitter man.
	I don't know anyone who can tell me why it was that Wilson didn't compromise one way or the other.
	And as a result, he loses it all.
	He loses everything.
	Yeah, I did not know this version of the story.
	No.
	No, it's not what they teach.
	Even in a real history course, I've never heard this.
	So who got to him?
	What happened there?
	No, he hated this Henry Cabot Lodge so much.
	then when Lodge came up and says okay we can do this deal that you want but I'm just going to change a couple things no if you have anything to do with it I'm voting no and told all the Democrats to vote no and that thing crapped out and of course the Republicans got blamed for some reason well they're dicks They're dicks.
	They're dicks.
	So the whole thing, I mean, I was told, it was just like an eye-opener listening to this.
	As a scholar of history, I'm sure you were shocked.
	I was shocked and dismayed.
	Yes.
	Not just shocked, but also dismayed.
	That is interesting.
	Wasn't that a Warburg deal?
	Wasn't the...
	Who was behind all that?
	Well, that was behind the war.
	That's different.
	Well, for sure.
	For sure they were behind that.
	All right, Paul, kick it off.
	Let's do it.
	Oh, yeah.
	You ask, we deliver.
	See, John?
	We have the best producers in the universe.
	Well, you had the hound for that one.
	Well, it's okay.
	And it's a new guy.
	New guy.
	Christian Verdugo made that.
	Very good.
	Liked it a lot.
	Very good.
	Two little things for day trading for you day traders.
	Our new column.
	Day trader, yeah.
	Anatoly Aksakoff.
	This is the guy who predicted the 2008 crash, one of the guys.
	He's a Russian.
	He's the chair of Russia's Committee on Financial Markets.
	He believes Bitcoin's going to $300.
	Oh, could be.
	Quote, Bitcoin is nothing but a project of American intelligence agencies which is designed to provide quick funding for U.S., British, and Canadian intelligence activities in different countries.
	The technology is privatized, just like the Internet, GPS, and Tor.
	In fact, it is $2.0.
	Its rate is controlled by the owners of exchanges.
	So, that was an interesting thought.
	I like it.
	I like the idea of the intelligence agencies manipulating it to make money because I noticed on the technical charts that what happened with Bitcoin this past week, I believe it can go up to 28,000.
	Okay.
	Now, please don't trade on anything I say.
	No, you can't.
	Please do not.
	And I'm not trading any of this.
	But I looked at the technicals, and it looks like it can go to $28,000.
	And that would make sense if they needed some money for some covert ops.
	So the question is, can we see the correlation of all kinds of crap happening in the world with covert operations After it reaches a certain high and supposedly they have cashed in.
	The problem is, of course, is the really good covert operations are so covert.
	We won't know about them.
	Yeah.
	But we can at least mark down dates of the spikes.
	We can correlate.
	We can look at history.
	Well, maybe.
	Maybe.
	I liked it.
	Yeah, I think it's interesting.
	Alright, I have a bunch of more clips.
	Do you have anything you want to play?
	Yeah, just one, and you really can only play one more because I'm calling time on you.
	I have to leave.
	I'm busy.
	I'm busy and I have to leave.
	I know you have to leave.
	This is a court case I'm following.
	I put the documents in the show notes.
	1009.noagendanotes.com or you can go to nashownotes.com.
	It'll take you to the archive.
	This is a lawsuit.
	CIA lawyers are arguing that intelligence officials can selectively release classified information to trusted journalists, while at the same time withholding the same information from other citizens who request it through open records laws.
	A journalist named Adam Johnson used the Freedom of Information Act to obtain emails between the CIA and select reporters from The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and The New York Times.
	In the emails, information was redacted, leading Johnson to question why he was not allowed to see the same information that had been given to unclear reporters.
	Johnson decided to challenge the redaction in court.
	The judge in the case seemed to find Johnson's argument compelling, saying that the Freedom of Information Act laws do not authorize limited disclosure.
	The CIA motion states, quote, the court supposition that a limited disclosure of information to three journalists necessarily equates to a disclosure to the public at large is legally and factually mistaken.
	So this is very interesting, the Johnson case.
	And does this surprise either one of us?
	No, but I'm glad that there's somebody out there calling him on it.
	That's good.
	Yeah.
	Well, the three reporters, and you know, the thing that they probably don't mention in all this, it seems to me that this would be my thesis, which is those three reporters all already work for the agency.
	Yeah, they work for the agency.
	Of course they do.
	Yes.
	Yeah.
	But they can't out them.
	They've got guys planted everywhere.
	It's a federal offense to out them, so they can't, the CIA can't out them.
	That's why they were obscured.
	Yes.
	I think this guy knows that.
	If they weren't working for the agency, they could have been named.
	Yes, correct.
	And I believe that this guy knows that and he's trying to force the issue.
	I like it.
	I'm happy someone's doing something.
	Yeah, the CIA is going to have to say, well, there actually are employees working for the New York Times and the Washington Post.
	Yes, that would be the correct answer.
	That's what they would have to do, but they don't want to do that.
	Yeah, no, that would be bad.
	Oh, I have a tech thing for you.
	Not tech newsworthy, but it just caught my eye and I thought I'd talk to you about it.
	We have a warning from the CIA, the NSA, and the FBI about a phone made by a Chinese company.
	Intelligence officials told Congress today the danger lies in the potential for China to spy on Americans and maliciously modify or steal information.
	This is the phone they're talking about under the brand name Huawei, or ZTE. Congressman Tom Cotton of Arkansas raised additional concerns about allowing a company beholden to foreign governments into our telecommunications infrastructure.
	Interesting they single out this one phone.
	Yeah.
	Well, they're out to get Huawei.
	Because...
	Well, Huawei is a kind of a slippery operation that competes with Cisco, mainly.
	Oh, there you go.
	And their routers have caught up to Cisco because router technology has not done anything outrageously advanced recently.
	And Huawei is kind of a slippery operation because they're...
	And I've gotten this story from a lot of sources.
	In Brazil, I was in Brazil when we were talking about it.
	Oh.
	Huawei's sales technique It's classic Chinese, best price.
	But what they do is they somehow find out where everyone's going to sell, you know, I guess it's, I don't know how they do it, but they find out, you just go, you work for Cisco, you just go visit Sun Microsystems to load them up with something.
	The Huawei guys come in the next day, give you, oh, we get the best price.
	So they just drop the price by half for the same gear, and it's pretty much the same gear, and it's killing everybody.
	And so now their phone is a big threat, because the phones, again, The ones I've seen, they're really nice phones, and it looks like they could come in and kind of screw up the market.
	So Samsung and Apple in particular don't want to see Huawei phones coming in.
	So someone says, hey, you know, these guys could be spying for the Chinese.
	I think it's bullcrap.
	They're just afraid of Huawei.
	A number of producers in the troll room appear to have the ZTE phone.
	You guys should check it and see what's going on.
	Yeah.
	Hook over some dudes named Ben.
	You're talking right to Beijing, man.
	That's right, baby.
	Alright, you get one clip.
	Let's try...
	I got a silly clip.
	I've got the weird Black Panther movie came out.
	Let's play this clip.
	Black Panther movie just came out.
	So they gave a racist report, local news, I think racist, because all they found were giggling black girls to comment on the film.
	They didn't have any white guys and a lot of white guys went to see it.
	They didn't have any black men.
	Really?
	It's just these gigglers, these giggling white girls.
	I think it was racism.
	Wait, they had giggling white girls?
	No, giggling black girls.
	Oh, okay.
	Crowded theaters and a lot of excitement for the newest superhero movie, but this film has something that other movies don't.
	The lead character is black, and many of the other cast members are also black.
	As KTVU's Paul Chambers tells us now, for African Americans and other communities of color, a film like this is long overdue.
	You're telling me that the king of a third world country runs around in a bulletproof cat suit?
	The hype is real and they have the receipts to prove it.
	24 hours after it premiered, the Black Panther movie has already broken February records, bringing in more than $25 million on opening night.
	Black Panther is one of my favorite characters.
	I've been looking into the comics.
	It's a day of, like, joy.
	It's a day of celebration.
	It's just a day of, like, just pure excitement.
	Besides setting records at the box office, it's also breaking barriers.
	It's the first time Marvel and Hollywood in general has had a predominantly African-American cast in a big-budget movie, led by Oakland's own Ryan Coogler as the director.
	It really captures the spirit of...
	African people, and that just felt really, really good.
	For years, it's been said that in Hollywood, blockbuster movies could only do well with the majority Caucasian cast.
	So to see the success of this movie means a lot to communities of color.
	It means that we're getting to see something completely different from what we're used to seeing, and something that's just extremely positive.
	When you have a film that almost the entire cast is somebody that looks like you, you just feel proud, you feel excited.
	The movie isn't only about a superhero, but it also deals with issues of being of African descent.
	The hope is Hollywood will finally take notice.
	Seeing movies with a focus on people of color can work and bring in major money.
	It's not every day that you see, like, this many African Americans in a movie, you know?
	And it's, like, such a different experience for us.
	It's about time, right?
	What is it, 2018?
	And we're still kind of praising movies that are like this where it's not normalized yet.
	And there's already talk of a sequel which they're hoping that Ryan Coogler, Oakland's own, will direct.
	In Oakland, I'm Paul Chambers, KTVU, Fox 2 News.
	Yeah, the face bag was quite lit up over this movie.
	There were memes going around such as, when is it okay for me, as a white person, is it okay for me to go see Black Panther?
	I don't want to take away people of color's joy.
	Is next weekend too soon?
	Wow.
	And then from the other side, dear white people, just a friendly reminder as the anticipation builds for hashtag Black Panther.
	One, this is for the culture.
	Two, this doesn't concern you.
	Three, stay TF out of our way on February 16th.
	Four, keep all your opinions about the film to yourself unless you're asked, but don't worry, you won't be asked.
	I mean, geez, we have a culture issue.
	Wow.
	I'd say that's pretty mean-spirited.
	So they don't want the money?
	They don't want the audience?
	I don't know.
	It sounds like it.
	No, it's just...
	Anger.
	Frustrated people.
	And I'll tell you why and then we'll wrap it up.
	Our model, the value for value model, is important for a number of reasons.
	Not just because we can't get fired and we can actually have conversations that are painful to listen to from time to time.
	But advertising is mind pollution.
	If that's the model people choose, mind pollution, all it's doing is telling you how inadequate and stupid you are.
	And then you become a dick like these people on both sides.
	Completely mind-controlled.
	No dictum.
	With no agenda.
	No dictum.
	Exactly.
	Or whatever that word means.
	Well, it means a couple of things.
	It's kind of a...
	Dickman's got no dictum.
	Play on words.
	Yes.
	Yes, very good.
	All right.
	Yep, and with that, John's got to go.
	We all know he's got to run.
	I got to go.
	I got a meeting.
	You got a meeting to go to.
	Busy man.
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