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	Whoa!
	Shut up, man.
	What are you doing?
	It's Sunday, February 25th, 2018.
	This is your award-winning Gitmo Nation Media assassination episode 10-11.
	This is no agenda.
	Riding the sharp edge of Occam's Razor and broadcasting live from downtown Austin, Tejas, couple of the drone Star State in the Cludio in the morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where I'm waiting for the Zephyr and eating my vitamin B12 to get the show going.
	I'm John C. DeBarack.
	It's Crackpot and Buzzkill in the morning.
	Yes, sirree.
	You're eating your vitamin B12. You just swallow them, I think.
	I don't know if you want to eat them.
	Or are they chewables?
	You want me to read the instructions?
	Or do you have Flintstone B12 chewables?
	I have Gero formulas.
	Gero?
	Is the root word Gero for geriatric?
	Gero, J-A-R-R-O-W, some company.
	Methyl, vitamin B12. The superior form it says.
	Yum.
	And then it says usage.
	Dissolve in mouth.
	Okay.
	Dissolve.
	Alright.
	Don't eat dissolve.
	When you chew up and then you blum, blum, blum, they get dissolved.
	It's just a faster way of doing it.
	I'm not taking them as a lozenge.
	But you don't swallow them, supposedly.
	No.
	I don't know.
	So you just do yum, yum, yum?
	Blum, blum, blum.
	You just do yum, yum, yum.
	Well, you do yum, yum, yum.
	Yeah, you do yum, yum, yum.
	Kim Jong-yum.
	No, it's yum, yum, yum.
	All right!
	What you been doing?
	You know what?
	I went to the zoo.
	I want to hear about that.
	I realized that every single network that calls itself a news network, except for One America News Network, is not giving any news now.
	Now they've just stopped news altogether.
	There's no news on these shows.
	There's literally no news.
	It is only...
	Republican memo, Democrat memo.
	Putin, Trump, Russia, collusion, blah.
	Shoot, AR-15.
	There's just no news.
	There's not even a headline at the top of the news.
	Like, breaking news!
	You know, the memo.
	Whatever.
	There's just zero news.
	There's so much going on in the world, and...
	The Americans of Gitmo Nation are not hearing about any of it.
	No.
	Of course not.
	But it's gotten so bad.
	And I don't think too many people give a crap about the dueling memos, as they like to call them.
	I think that's a total nothing.
	A total nothing.
	A total nothing.
	Did you read the memo?
	No, I did not read the memo.
	I decided not to read the memo.
	I don't care about the memo.
	But you did read the memo, and you're going to give us a briefing.
	I'm just going to say, really, the only dispute here, as far as I can tell, is, well, we did disclose that it was funded by someone else who might not like Donald Trump.
	Which is not exactly the same as saying funded by the DNC and Hillary for president.
	That's about it.
	You're talking about the dossier.
	Yeah, the dossier was funded.
	Yeah, exactly.
	I don't know.
	It's annoying.
	I do have, well, since you brought it up, I do have kind of the overview that was done on the weekend.
	It was the latest, greatest on CBS on the memo.
	Yeah.
	And as I look at my clip list...
	I have it.
	We begin with the release today of a memo from Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee.
	It's a rebuttal document to a Republican memo released earlier this month that alleged anti-Trump bias at the FBI and Justice Department.
	Paula Reid is at the White House.
	Rina, as you just noted, Republicans earlier this month released a memo suggesting that the FBI abused its surveillance power to monitor former Trump campaign advisor Carter Page.
	They alleged that the FBI requested a warrant based on information from someone who had an anti-Trump bias.
	But today's memo, which is authored by Democrats, alleges that the FBI actually had an independent basis Separate from the information in the infamous dossier, to believe Page was knowingly helping Russian intelligence.
	And Republicans have charged that the warrant to monitor Page taints the origins of the special counsel's investigation into any connection between the Trump campaign and Russia.
	In a statement, Democrat and Ranking Committee member Adam Schiff said, While Republican Committee Chairman Devin Nunes released his own statement doubling down on claims, the FBI used political dirt paid for by the Democratic Party to spy on an American citizen from the Republican Party.
	Today's release caps a month of dueling memos and partisan bickering on that committee.
	But while they debate the origins of the Russia investigation, Special Counsel Robert Mueller moves ahead full steam.
	Over just the past week, he has netted two new guilty pleas and filed dozens of new charges.
	Yeah, that kind of sums it up.
	I should mention a couple of things before we continue.
	That does sum it up.
	The CBS can do that.
	I only listen to CBS on the weekends when Reena, who's a CFR member, is hosting.
	She's kind of a medium to dark-skinned Indian-looking or South Asia-looking woman.
	Multiculti woman.
	Very multiculti.
	CFR perfect.
	And then this Paula Reid comes on.
	I don't see her that much, but when I do see her, I kind of always get startled.
	She's a light...
	She's a white-skinned blonde woman with very light blue, maybe light gray eyes.
	I'm convinced she's one of those aliens from the Norwegian-style alien.
	And so she gives her a report.
	The tall blondes?
	One of the tall blondes?
	I guess, I don't know.
	She's one of the tall blondes.
	That race of aliens.
	I don't remember what they call them.
	The tall blondes.
	They call them the tall blondes.
	Well, she's one of them.
	Unless she's short.
	If she's short, then I'm completely wrong about this.
	But I did get – I do remember a couple of days ago when they did one of these indictments.
	I just want to play the indictment clip.
	This is from one of the other networks, I believe, maybe ABC. This is another indictment.
	But what's the indictment for lying?
	In the day's other news, Special Counsel Robert Mueller has obtained another guilty plea in his probe of Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
	Attorney Alex Vanderswan appeared in federal court in Washington.
	He admitted to lying about contacts with former Trump campaign official Rick Gates.
	Gates was indicted last year on money laundering and other charges.
	Meanwhile, President Trump charged again that President Obama was not nearly tough enough on Russia.
	I wish we could hear from this Alex van der Schwan, which is a Dutch guy, and it would be Alex van der Schwan, which means of the swan.
	I wish we would hear him speak, because then I could roll up my accent.
	Yeah, we're missing out.
	Now, the thing is, I was thinking about this earlier, which is this guy, they're all, the real, the only thing anyone's done that's bad is lying to the FBI. Right.
	I thought this was an independent counsel thing.
	What's the FBI got to do with it?
	Because we keep intertwining Mueller, because he was an FBI guy, with the FBI, but this is supposed to be independent counsel.
	Is the FBI running the investigation?
	So it's an FBI investigation.
	It is an FBI investigation, and I did quite an amount of research since our last show.
	And that was kind of egged on by a long article in The Atlantic.
	About Paul Manafort.
	Now, The Atlantic, this must be a left publication.
	Is it?
	Yes.
	Okay.
	That kind of makes sense.
	It always has been.
	It's more left now.
	It's been bought and sold a few times.
	I think even the new ownership, I think, even involves Lorraine Jobs.
	Oh, yeah, that's right.
	I do recall that.
	So Paul Manafort, also in that mix somewhere is Roger Stone, but Paul Manafort really pioneered a lot of what today we now know as lobbying in Washington, D.C. I had no idea how far, you know, you see Paul Manafort a picture here and there.
	The guy is well in his 70s.
	And he has been at the forefront of lobbying mainly for other countries in the U.S. for decades.
	I mean, he goes back to Reagan, he goes back to Nixon, and very, very powerful inside the political scene, not just for Republicans, but also for Democrats.
	And I think what's going on here is there is most definitely an investigation about him.
	And I think it is an FBI investigation.
	That would make sense.
	He failed to register as a foreign agent.
	There's tons of money laundering issues.
	This story from The Atlantic is really detailed.
	Of course, they stop at the most important point, which I'll get to.
	But it's very detailed about how he essentially started to live the lifestyle of his clients who were either Russian oligarchs or rich Saudis.
	He introduced Prince Bandar into the whole Bush equation.
	I mean, the guy is really, really out there.
	And when you start to understand what happened to him when he was running or lobbying for The Ukrainian president who got kicked out, you kind of see where, you know, Russia and Ukraine, he ran into a lot of problems, especially with this Oleg, what's his last name, Deripaska.
	Who he took $100 million from and said, oh, I'll invest it in something else and then the investment didn't go well.
	So he's got like a Russian oligarch running after him trying to get his money back.
	And he signed up with the Trump campaign, according to this article, for free.
	Because he thought to himself, well, if I just do this for free, then Trump won't think it's all about the money.
	I'm not sure how the Atlantic knows that.
	And he actually wrote a note to Oleg Deripaska saying, ah, I think we can use my new situation to make us whole.
	And so if anyone was colluding with the Russians, Paul Manafort most definitely was.
	You use the term most definitely three times now.
	Oh, I should stop doing that then, perhaps.
	Just drop the most.
	Okay.
	Even definitely, I don't think I need.
	No.
	Okay.
	And this is where the Atlantic story stops, and it's where the Podesta group comes in.
	So Manafort was working with the Podesta group, On one specific deal, lobbying the State Department and the Obama White House for the, I hate to say it, but for the Uranium One deal.
	Wow.
	Yeah, which connects the Russian collusion and Manafort to Podesta to Hillary Clinton directly.
	And you'll recall the note that she sent, you know, basically, if I don't win, we're all going to hang from the same noose.
	This is what Hillary Clinton sent.
	So I did find, I thought of really detailed, good backgrounder.
	On this whole case, which to me all of a sudden explains FBI involvement, explains to me why Trump is not unhappy at all with Mueller and why he hasn't fired him.
	We've discussed this.
	They thought that Mueller was probably working more for Trump than we know.
	This is from One America News, and I think it's a Russian package, but it doesn't matter.
	As far as I can tell, the information checks out.
	New evidence suggests Paul Manafort and the Podesta Group helped Russian officials establish business ties with Hillary Clinton and the Obama administration several years ago.
	This eventually led to the A controversial Uranium One deal in the form of pay-to-play politics.
	Russia would take old warheads from the Soviet times, boil them down, turn them into peaceful uranium, and they would sell it to the United States.
	But that program was coming to an end during the Obama years, and the Russians wanted a new form of commercial sales.
	Since June 2009, Russia's state-owned enterprise Rosatom became increasingly interested in the Canadian mining company Uranium-1, which produces uranium in Australia, South Africa and North America.
	Uranium-1 at the time was expanding its mining in the former Soviet Republic of Kazakhstan.
	Russia, despite already having a sizable stake in the company, wanted full control of it.
	The problem is that Hillary Clinton's family foundation, the Clinton Foundation, was receiving tens of millions of dollars from shareholders in Uranium One who wanted the Russian government to acquire them because it would be a financial landfall.
	A former senior employee for the Podesta Group said back in 2013 Manafort, a prominent lobbyist for the Kremlin at the time, was in regular contact with John and Tony Podesta.
	The Podesta brothers have been prominent allies and donors of Hillary Clinton who served as Secretary of State under the Obama administration.
	Manafort and the Podesta group helped Russian officials establish close ties with Clinton as they were convinced she would be the next President of the United States.
	While that's going on, a funny set of things happen.
	Bill Clinton gets a speech for $500,000 from the Russians.
	John Podesta's brother gets a contract from the Russians.
	John Podesta gets put on a company that gets an investment from the Russians.
	Bill Clinton's foundation gets millions of dollars suddenly from people interested in these uranium deals.
	Subsequently, the Obama administration granted approvals to the acquisition of Uranium One by ARMZ Uranium Holding Company, a subsidiary of Rosatom.
	Hillary Clinton has repeatedly denied her role in the Uranium One deal, suggesting a lot more people in the Obama administration were also involved.
	There's no basis for any of that.
	The timing doesn't work.
	It happened in terms of the support for the foundation before I was Secretary of State.
	There were nine government agencies who had to sign off on that deal.
	I was not personally involved because that wasn't something the Secretary of State did.
	The former employee for the Podesta Group says they believe the ongoing attempts to tie President Trump to Russia are baseless, as Manafort's efforts had been focused on securing the multi-billion dollar Uranium One deal all along.
	Meanwhile, Russia hardly had any commercial interest in U.S. real estate or any political interest in Donald Trump whatsoever, as few would expect an outsider to the Washington establishment to go on and become the President of the United States.
	Pretty comprehensive background.
	I like that.
	That was a very good...
	Where'd you get that?
	I told you.
	One American News.
	He did make some...
	There was a funny follow-up there.
	I just want to kind of do it as an aside.
	He says, financial landfall.
	Oh, it would be windfall.
	It would be windfall, which is a phrase from the Shays that refers to fruit.
	A windfall?
	Oh, really?
	Yeah, you get a big windstorm.
	You get a bunch of ripe fruit, and you got to bring these pickers out, but you get a big...
	This is mainly avocados, but you get a big wind comes through and knocks all the fruit to the ground and you just pick them up.
	That's a good thing.
	With other fruit, they get bruised, but avocados are perfect when they get knocked down.
	So it is a windfall only for avocados.
	Well, I don't know.
	Maybe there's other fruits someone else would know.
	But I know for a fact avocados are a benefit.
	Although avocados are never as good when they...
	They never ripen quite properly when they're knocked to the ground like that.
	Is an avocado a fruit?
	Yeah.
	Nice.
	It used to be called an avocado pear.
	So this, I think, is what is really going on, and either the news media doesn't know it, or, I mean, the Atlantic article just wondrously stops, dead stop in the story right about at the moment that Manafort is engaged with the Podesta group.
	And, you know, so now when you look at it...
	Who wrote that article, do you know?
	Yeah, I can find it right here.
	Manafort was, you know, jumped into the...
	Because he had depression, he was in a clinic, you know, therapy because he'd been cheating on his wife.
	$100 million missing in the Russian mob after him.
	Yeah, a bit of a problem.
	This was written by Franklin Foer, F-O-E-R. Franklin Farr, national correspondent for The Atlantic.
	He is the former editor of The New Republic and author of World Without Mind.
	I see other articles from him.
	Oh, this is a new one.
	Manafort's Fate is Sealed.
	And it really is.
	I mean, the guy is super interesting just to read his background, all the different campaigns that he was involved in.
	And you'll recall that it was Manafort who worked with the GOP, the Republicans, at the convention to change some of the language in the party program to ease sanctions against the Russians.
	Trump got blamed for it, if you recall.
	Do you remember any of them?
	Vaguely, yeah.
	Makes sense.
	Well, when you read the article, all these things start to come back.
	There's been so much that we've covered that you just don't even remember anymore.
	So, for some reason, I'm thinking, yeah, we're going to see some fireworks, but it just may not be what everybody expects.
	Now, by the same token, I went back and looked a little bit more at the Russian troll factories.
	Troll farm or troll factory?
	What are they calling it these days?
	I think we like to use the word farm, but I think it's called something else.
	It's got some other name.
	I think it's the Troll Factory.
	It's the Internet Research Agency.
	And there's a reporter, Adrian Chen, who now works for New Yorker.
	But in 2015, he wrote an article about the Internet Research Agency for New York Times Magazine.
	And what he pretty much identified is just a group which is run by, you know, some guy who's got some money there in Russia.
	They call him Putin's chef.
	And he was irked about what Hillary had done with her techno experts in the 2011 Russian election, where they had all kinds of Shenanigans.
	Shenanigans going on, just trying to disrupt.
	Exactly what we're accusing the Russians of, by the way.
	Exactly.
	We did that.
	Yeah, that's when Putin took the huge dislike to Hillary.
	Yeah, and I think it's pretty much been...
	It's accepted that this happened, although it's never discussed.
	And this guy was just pissed.
	I'm going to use my system to mess with him.
	But as it turns out, what this Internet Research Agency really is, if you look at their background and the way the guy wrote the original article in 2014-2015...
	It's nothing more than an operation that jumps into a topic, creates discord on both sides, arguing against themselves, to create more clicks, and then to advertise.
	They were taking $25 a post, $150 a post.
	They're pretty much like a Russian version of BuzzFeed with just shitty articles and clickbait.
	And we saw from the poor quality that this is not a serious attempt at disinformation.
	No, it's not professional.
	But their whole business model is generating audience.
	Except instead of being just bots and just generating clicks and then selling that to people like BuzzFeed or whoever needs some traffic for the end of their quarter...
	They do both sides.
	They create the discord in a topic that's hot.
	So it would be cops killing black people.
	It would be Trump versus Clinton, whatever it is.
	And they get on both sides just to have the space.
	And then they start posting articles and paid advertising.
	And then they propagate that with their bots, etc.
	It's a very well-known business model.
	So this guy shows up on Chris Hayes a couple of days ago.
	He's a Russian.
	No, Adrian Chen, the guy who wrote that original article.
	Yeah.
	And, well, I cut it down to two minutes.
	Here's some of what he talked about.
	But there's a huge amount of volume, right?
	I mean, that's part of the thing here.
	It's like, it's a fair amount of labor power and a lot of volume, right?
	Yeah, I mean, it's kind of amazing how many, you know, it was 90 people in the American department, and so they were tasked with doing posts all day, every day.
	So they could turn out thousands of comments doing that.
	And it would be interesting to see, like, where did they target them exactly, and how much could they actually, you know, overwhelm legitimate comments on, say, a news site or something.
	Is it your sense this is ongoing?
	Yeah.
	I do believe that it's ongoing, yeah.
	I do believe!
	I've had some off-the-record conversations with some people who have been claiming to still work there, and I think that it's still going on, yeah.
	Do you think it's going to...
	I mean, it seems like in some ways it's a remarkably effective model insofar as if you just want to, like, mess with people.
	Right.
	There's like this kind of there's this kind of salt in the wound thing happening here.
	Right.
	Like, you don't see Chris can't believe that this has not been a massive Kremlin undertaking.
	He can't believe that it's downplayed, so he has to say things like, well, it's a massive volume, massive this, massive, just crazy massive.
	In terms of what the goals are, you don't have to pull off some enormous thing.
	You just got to be kind of in people's consciousness enough constantly in this sort of irritant way.
	With 90 people you're running an operation that doesn't cost that much money, it does seem like a sort of good bang for your buck.
	Well, the effectiveness question, which everybody's talking about now, it's of my personal belief that it isn't all of that effective.
	It's essentially a social media marketing campaign with 90 people, a couple million dollars, a few million dollars behind it, run by people who have a bare grasp of the English language and not a full understanding of who they're targeting, what they're targeting.
	I think if you think about that in terms of just a normal marketing campaign, That's not going to be a very good bang for your buck.
	I think that the paranoia aspect, the idea that there is this all-powerful or immense propaganda machine that's going on and that anybody who's tweeting something that you don't like or is causing trouble on the internet can be chalked up to Russia, that is a very powerful thing that's going on.
	Really increasing now, I think, in the wake of these indictments in kind of a worrying way.
	There's not a lot of people saying, well, let's hold back.
	Maybe it's not all that big of a deal.
	Yeah, Chris got rid of him right after that.
	He did not back up the story.
	It's like Mevio, really.
	Mevio is not even a big...
	I always put them in the middle of a huge pack.
	Yes.
	Yes, exactly.
	And then there's the thing that I think needs to be reported on.
	I don't know if it's even possible.
	I'm because I don't know that it's existing, but I am seriously doubtful that it's not existing, which is that Internet Research Center type operation in the United States run by various maybe partnered PR companies.
	although I don't think they should partner with anybody if they're going to do this, it's kind of a, just a sneaky operation.
	I think it would have to be done.
	It would have to be done by contractors.
	But they weren't taking money to do anything other than promote products and services in the groups where they created eyeballs.
	Yes, I know.
	I understand that.
	But I can see a targeted political-only operation or a marketing thing that is kind of a...
	An adjunct to the normal marketing process.
	Yes, yes.
	We could actually start that company today.
	We'd be very successful.
	I've been thinking about it.
	We've got the trolls.
	We know how to do it.
	And, and, hold on, thanks to one of our anonymous producers who calls himself Troll named Ben, we now have, pointing to NoAgendaShow.com, TrollFactory.us, TrollBotFactory.com, and TrollRoom.us.
	Troll room would be good.
	And what you would do is you'd set up shop.
	And anybody who wants to try this, they can do it.
	I think we could do it and probably do a better job because of our contacts.
	We should consider this.
	This is not a bad retirement plan.
	And the way it would work is it's a legitimate operation.
	It's not like some scammers.
	We're not scammers.
	And you job out.
	You have the same 90 people.
	You have to have a lot of people doing this, and some of them will.
	They all have to sign very strict nondescript.
	We have thousands who will sign up.
	Thousands.
	Yeah, but you can't manage that many.
	You don't need that many.
	And we have to pay them.
	Hold on, hold on.
	Since when are we starting a business where we have to manage people?
	This is not a good idea.
	This is not what we do.
	Somewhere along the line, management is needed.
	Oh, all right.
	Call Moody.
	You set up...
	You set up shop, and then you offer the services of social...
	I know this is going on, because you see too many things that just scream that it's going on, which is the way native advertising works.
	So you got somebody at some agency, Edelman, one of the big boys that does a lot of native advertising, and...
	You do a value added.
	You're value added.
	They don't only do the native advertising, but you set up shop promoting, hey, did you read the article about so-and-so doing this and that?
	Exactly.
	Exactly.
	Yeah.
	And I know what's going on, too, because all the time I get emails.
	Hey, I saw your website.
	Great.
	Great post at blog.curry.com.
	Fantastic.
	Hey, I've written this little post, you know, that really handles this topic.
	Maybe you could put a link to it or you could put it in and just post it.
	Oh, yeah.
	Get a lot of, oh, I got this article about this.
	And they're sophisticated because...
	No, they're not.
	Yes.
	Oh, I've gotten some sophisticated ones where they say, yeah, I listen to your podcast in the morning.
	Oh, yeah.
	Now they're getting more sophisticated.
	Well, that's a little more sophisticated.
	But the pitch, the real pitch that they have is not convincing.
	No, not to a sane human being.
	By the way, I think Troll Womb is maybe even better.
	W-O-M-B. That's where our trolls live.
	Well, we'll think about it.
	So how about this?
	Another no-agenda project.
	That will fail miserably.
	No, it won't.
	We'll never get them off the ground.
	We'll wind up writing a book about how to fail at everything.
	A fizzle and a failure.
	How to not try anything and still eat.
	Try this on for size.
	Oh, by the way, I'm lining up an interview with Charles Ortel, the financial analyst who exposed GE for their fraudulent behavior years back and has been all over the Clinton Foundation.
	He also says that there are multiple governments now targeting the Clinton's biggest charitable funds, so they're in all kinds of trouble.
	And let's just try this on for size.
	Hillary's running.
	She thinks, and everyone around her thinks, she's going to win.
	She wins, a woman, and oh my God.
	And then the best thing of all happens, Trump.
	Oh, this is fantastic.
	It couldn't be much better.
	But they've been running all kinds of pay-for-play scams for a long time, and this is a big one.
	We're talking $100 million that went to the Clinton Foundation from the board members of the company that wanted to buy Uranium One.
	We're talking $500,000 from the same outfit for speeches from Bill.
	There's all kinds of money flowing.
	Manafort's in there.
	Podesta's in there.
	John Podesta ran Hillary Clinton's election campaign.
	His brother, Tony, was then running the Podesta Group, which the minute all this fell apart, they folded it and I think shredded everything and burned down the office building.
	they closed the whole thing, shuttered it completely.
	And they were still in the conviction Hillary will win and everything's going to be hunky-dory and then they didn't win.
	What is the best tactic in this case is to immediately make the Russians look like the bad guys even though you've been sucking their schlong, taking their money to give them whatever they wanted.
	Same with Saudis and others, but blame the Russians, because that's the biggest thing.
	The connections are there, Manafort's there, they know they're screwed.
	Blame the Russians, and then immediately bring in as much crap as you can.
	Like this, like the troll factory.
	It's total horse crap.
	This has been a known outfit for a long time.
	If something would have been done about them, or should have been done about them, it was so dire crap.
	A number of insiders from the troll factory that have written up stories a year or two ago, bitching and moaning about the working conditions and how many posts they had to do a day and it wasn't worth it and they weren't getting paid that much, complaining bitterly about what a kind of a dickish operation it is.
	So it's not like this is all big news to anyone.
	Right.
	But, you know, with today's media, and there's even one...
	There's one point in this Manafort story...
	I'm going to grab this for a second that caught my eye.
	Hold on, I'm going to open the story up.
	Let me see if I can find it here.
	I'm looking for this one particular...
	Well, there's a piece...
	It's a very long article.
	There's a piece in here where Manafort said, Hey, you know, I think that the U.S. media is ready to be duped and to make them believe anything.
	And he's saying this to the Russians.
	But it's a couple years ago.
	It's not in the most recent election.
	Let me see.
	I can't find it offhand.
	I do remember that when we had...
	When Manafort first got in, we were wondering who the hell this guy was and what he had anything to do with it.
	You have to wonder who put him in the position to be the campaign manager for those few months.
	Yeah, the article explains that...
	I really needed to get to Trump, Manafort told an old friend, the real estate magnate Tom Barrack, in the early months of 2016.
	Barrack, a confidant of Trump for some 40 years, had known Manafort even longer.
	When Manafort asked Barrack's help grabbing Trump's attention, he readily supplied it.
	Manafort's spell in the Arizona clinic had ended.
	It hadn't been a comfortable stay.
	Let me see.
	Then it's about his affair.
	With the arrival of Donald Trump, Manafort smelled an opportunity to regain his losses and to return to relevance.
	It was in some ways perfect.
	The campaign was a shambolic masterpiece of improvisation that required an infusion of technical knowledge and establishment credibility.
	Barrick forwarded to Trump's team a memo Manafort had written about why he was the ideal match for the ascendant candidate.
	Old colleagues described Manafort as a master pitchman with a preternatural, what is that word?
	He told Trump that he had avoided the political establishment in Washington since 2005 and described himself as a lifelong enemy of Karl Rove who represented the entrenched party chieftains conspiring to dynamite Trump's nomination.
	In other words, to get back on the inside, Manafort presented himself as the ultimate outsider, a strained case that would strike Trump and perhaps only Trump as compelling.
	And so...
	The sales guy.
	He always reminded me of a real high-end sales guy.
	Yeah, he had brown shoes.
	Totally.
	So that's how we got in.
	And that was the strategy.
	This is not a...
	It's not because, oh, I lost.
	The Russians did it.
	That's the distraction from the crime.
	It truly is the cover-up.
	It's not...
	It's really not an issue.
	And I have a strong belief that Mueller's on to this and Trump knows it.
	And God knows.
	I don't know.
	I mean, everyone thinks that Mueller's going to be such a stand-up guy.
	I'm not so sure.
	He may just be doing all of this to obfuscate what he's really doing.
	We'll find out soon enough next year.
	Yes.
	Or 2020.
	Definitely nothing's going to happen before the election.
	Yeah, you mean the 2018 election?
	Yeah.
	No, it would surprise me.
	But something will happen very soon, perhaps this week.
	We've seen it happen several times.
	Trump will come out, answer a question about someone, whether it's Bannon or Roger Stone.
	It's the Trump kiss of death.
	You know what I mean?
	It's like, well, you know, he's a good guy.
	Right, he's a good guy.
	We'll see.
	We'll see what happens.
	You never know.
	He's always a good guy.
	Yeah, he's always a good guy.
	We'll see what happens.
	Now, you and I both believe that Ivanka and Jared in the White House is a very bad idea.
	Certainly Jared.
	And you have to know, I think the reason why he never got his permanent security clearance is because he's blackmailable.
	He has debts to Chinese banks, you know, almost two billion dollars.
	He has huge financial issues, is what I understand.
	And it wouldn't be surprising his dad was kind of the same guy.
	His dad went to jail.
	Yes.
	So Trump gave Jared, well, he can't fire Jared because it's the apple of his eye.
	It's Ivanka's man.
	You know, he can't do that.
	Yeah, he's a huge fan of his daughter.
	Yeah, I mean, he's a fan of Ivanka, not so much Jared.
	And he can't, he just can't fire Jared.
	So he gave Jared the Trump kiss of death.
	Your Chief of Staff, General Kelly, has recommended ending the practice of granting interim security clearances to members of the Trump administration.
	If that proceeds, would you be willing to grant a waiver to Jared Kushner, one of your senior advisors?
	Well, Jared's done an outstanding job.
	I think he's been treated very unfairly.
	He's a high-quality person.
	He works for nothing, just so nobody ever reports that, but he gets zero.
	He doesn't get a salary, nor does Ivanka, who's now in South Korea.
	Long trip.
	Jared is...
	Truly outstanding.
	He was very successful when he was in the private sector.
	He's working on peace in the Middle East and some other small and very easy deals.
	But Jared Kushner is right in the middle of that, and he's an extraordinary dealmaker.
	And if he does that, that will be an incredible accomplishment and a very important thing for our country.
	So General Kelly, who's doing a terrific job, by the way, So that'll be up to General Kelly.
	General Kelly respects Jared a lot.
	And General Kelly will make that call.
	I won't make that call.
	I won't let the general who's right here make that call.
	But Jared's doing some very important things for our country.
	So I will let General Kelly make that decision.
	And he's going to do what's right for the country.
	And I have no doubt he'll make the right decision.
	Yeah.
	Thank you very much.
	There's the Trump kiss of death.
	He could do it himself.
	He could say whatever he wanted.
	He could give him a clearance on the spot.
	Yeah, he's not going to.
	Jared is out.
	He's out.
	He got the Trump kiss of death.
	He could do it if he was such a big fan.
	Terrific guy.
	He's a terrific guy.
	I'm going to let Kelly, Mad Dog, by the way, is his nickname.
	No, no, no.
	That's Mattis.
	Mattis.
	You're right, Mattis.
	Kelly is no slouch.
	He's a marine tough guy, too.
	He'll cut him in seconds.
	They just got to spin the story, I guess.
	The thing is, it's still, Daddy, can't you do anything?
	Oh, yeah.
	I'm sure.
	Well, listen, this happens when she's in South Korea.
	Come on.
	Come on.
	It's a perfect setup.
	Oh, that could be.
	She's out for a few weeks and then get rid of the kid.
	I could do nothing.
	Yeah, just got to get rid of him.
	Sorry, baby.
	She's not going to be fooled by that.
	My hands are tied.
	He's a general.
	He's a general.
	Yeah, he does make a big deal out of generals.
	Well, he has respect for generals because that was his schooling was with generals.
	Yeah.
	You know, at the academy.
	So Jared is out.
	Set the clock.
	Yeah, I think you're probably right.
	I mean, there's no reason for that.
	I mean, we both of us agree that those two have to both be gone.
	And maybe what the thinking is here is because he does this and she knows what's going on.
	She comes back and quits.
	Yeah.
	Well, well, I think that would be collateral damage at this point.
	Yeah, but she needs to go too.
	He doesn't need his daughter in the White House.
	No.
	That's why she's in Korea.
	And that's, you know, with her spy Hope Hicks nosing around.
	Yeah.
	That's what's happening right now.
	Oh, I'm sure her and Hope are on the phone as we speak.
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	I can't believe...
	Yeah, well, that's good.
	Good little report.
	Alright, so we have that taken care of.
	We do.
	All the problems of the world are solved.
	Now, I do have a couple of...
	Since we're talking about the FBI, let's stand it, because I've got a couple more FBI stories.
	Okay.
	The FBI, stupidly, you wouldn't know this, and most people wouldn't know if they were just watching television.
	They said there might be an item or two.
	But the sports world knows this very well.
	And everyone was baffled by it.
	Which is the overreach of the FBI. The FBI has gotten involved in investigating cheaters in college basketball.
	Oh, really?
	So you mean cheaters like throwing the game?
	No, not throwing the game, which would be really cheating.
	No, about people who they go...
	Here's the trend right now in college basketball.
	There's all these talented...
	If you watch the Olympics, they would talk about these two Russian skaters.
	Yes, I watched them.
	By the way, I think the older, the 18-year-old should have won.
	We can argue.
	But the kid, the little kid, the 15-year-old.
	The announcers were Terrell Lipinski, who was a gold medalist and some other guy.
	He was also a gold medalist.
	They knew what they were talking about.
	He said that she was better.
	No, no.
	It was the other way around.
	No, he said the 18-year-old was better.
	Yes, the 18-year-old was better.
	Yes, I agreed with him.
	And then Tara said, no, the 15-year-old is going to win.
	I agree with the 15-year-old all the way.
	That came out wrong.
	I thought she was a soulless.
	Anyway.
	Well, of course, she's a Russian bot.
	Hello, did you see your skate?
	Perfection.
	Did you see when she was just practicing and she never put it to her routine where she did triple, triple, triple, triple, triple, five in a row?
	With arms above her head.
	Yeah.
	Five in a row, effortlessly.
	That's the threat to America, is their damn figure skaters.
	I'm getting back to the point, which now I'm going to lose to the connection to the FBI. But the point was, no, I've got it back.
	The point was, Tara, I think, said that both these girls are done.
	She says the women right now in Russia that are 13 and 12 years old could kick both their asses if they were allowed to compete in the Olympics.
	I remember her saying that, yes.
	And they're doing quadruples.
	Damn, Russians.
	So I'm looking at this 15-year-old who's on the top of the world right now, and those two girls competing.
	Enjoy it while it lasts, girls.
	By the time you're 17, you're done.
	Done.
	Done.
	Toast.
	Well, that trend is more international than you'd like to believe.
	Because what's going on in college basketball is that there's all these incredibly talented high school players that...
	And you can't go...
	They're discouraged in all kinds of different ways.
	It's been done.
	LeBron James did it.
	And a couple of other guys have gone straight from high school into the pros.
	But generally speaking, and I think a lot of it has to do to get the reputation out there, most of the guys go into college and play one year and then go into the pros.
	And the process is called one and done.
	Okay.
	And...
	Because it's such a major trend, the guys who are agents, the agents have been cozying up to these kids.
	Ah, okay.
	You want some candy?
	And they're giving not candy.
	They'll drop $100,000 on a kid.
	Right, just to get them in for the one and done.
	Or just give the parents a new home.
	It's kind of like our podcast network.
	So this has been going on, and then all of a sudden, there's a big scandal, and there's a special group that's been formed, led by Condoleezza Rice, and they're going on and on about this, and the FBI has come in and finding everybody.
	These are federal crimes now.
	Oh, really?
	What exactly is the federal crime?
	Racketeering?
	Well, there is no.
	No, it's interfering.
	It's like a commerce crime.
	It's like, because the colleges get...
	If the college gets a minimum of $10,000 from the federal government, anything that affects their bottom line can now be considered a federal crime.
	Ooh.
	Okay.
	Now, the only good explanation for this, I found on, pardon the interruption, I have a two-parter.
	There's an interview going on with Jay Billas, who is also, he's a commentator on college sports, and he's also a, especially basketball, but he's also a lawyer.
	And he actually, with this two-parter, Kind of explains what's going on and how crazy it is, this FBI and NCAA dust-up.
	And one of the questions that comes up is, if players are found to have taken money, current and recent players taking actual money, is there any legal jeopardy for them?
	Theoretically there could be, although I doubt that the federal government would go in that direction.
	It's a very interesting legal theory that the feds have on this.
	And it's not that federal law has been violated, it's that NCAA rules have been violated.
	So for this not to be a crime, we wouldn't need a change in federal law.
	We'd only need a change in NCAA rules.
	And the federal government is basically saying that by virtue of NCAA rules being broken, the schools are being victimized here because they are at risk of having to disgorge profits and vacate games and they can't properly marshal their assets and make decisions on their assets being the players and the scholarships.
	Because of these NCAA rules being broken.
	It's really a novel theory.
	I, for one, don't happen to think these are federal crimes, but good luck telling a U.S. attorney what is or is not a federal crime.
	You'll permit me to come back on this.
	I thought NCAA rules were just simply NCAA rules, that they would never hold up in any sort of a courtroom necessarily, so who cares if they're being broken on a federal level?
	That's what I think everybody thought, Tony, and there are a lot of smarter legal minds than me that feel these aren't federal crimes.
	But because these institutions are federally funded over $10,000, that means that the feds feel that they can squeeze this in and make it into a federal crime.
	But again, if the NCAA changes amateurism rules tomorrow, these would no longer be federal crimes.
	That's interesting.
	Well, what's interesting, again, at the overriding, what is the FBI doing here?
	Yeah.
	And I think they've been suckered.
	I don't know how they got brought in.
	There was some discussion of that between these guys.
	Sounds like mission creep to me for FBI. Totally mission creep.
	Good old term that we forgot about over the years.
	But I think it's just plain overreach, but mission creep could be it, too.
	So let's play the second half of this, because in this part, They discuss the fact that they're making a big fuss over basketball only.
	And we'd be making a mistake if we said this was just basketball.
	This is football, too.
	I mean, Reggie Bush didn't play basketball and agents were giving him money.
	And we've seen this before.
	I mentioned in 2010, North Carolina football players were paid.
	We've had this forever.
	And so when Mark Emmert came out today and all of a sudden was acting like college sports has an existential problem if we don't address this, this has been going on since the NCAA was founded.
	And so the idea that this is some new thing that has come up and we didn't know about any of this is painfully naive to the point of being willfully blind.
	So when this commission was formed by Mark Emmert that's being chaired by Condoleezza Rice, why it stopped at basketball is beyond me.
	This entire enterprise should be in front of a commission.
	They should be making decisions not as to how we're going to address this, what new rules we need.
	they should be looking at the enterprise saying hey do we need changes do we need to allow the players to monetize their name and likeness do we need to to allow players to have agents we allow players to have agents in baseball and hockey why would we disallow it in football and basketball to the point where these things could be theorized into into a violation of federal law i'm realizing much to my chagrin that our institutions in the united states and we'll talk about some of them after our b block
	most of these big elitist institutions abuse children abuse them for money abuse abuse them for all kinds of stuff.
	But there's a lot of abuse.
	Just look at what happened over the weekend.
	Institutionalized.
	Yes, on the so-called news networks.
	Just abusing these kids from Florida, from Broward County.
	Abusing them to no end.
	Over and over and over again.
	Well, this is very common.
	In fact, there was a report on 60 Minutes, I believe, or one of them, where the people that play college football are being exploited.
	They're not getting any money.
	Many of them have hopes of going into the NFL, but when you do the math, it's low.
	Maybe two or three kids from each school might get in.
	But they had this...
	This report showing that especially a lot of black kids in these southern schools in the SEC, and I think North Carolina was one of them, where they...
	They're supposedly given a scholarship and a free education, but they never get the education part of it.
	They get beat up in these games because it's a violent sport.
	They get their knees blown out.
	All kinds of bad things happen.
	They end up with a bogus degree, and they were on there saying, I learned nothing.
	I don't have a college education at all.
	It was just all football all the time.
	It was a scam.
	And this is a terrible situation.
	They should professionalize it.
	If you're going to play, you get paid.
	It's odd how sometimes our topics intertwine without any previous discussion of what we're bringing to each individual program, which we never do.
	Now I know where to put this clip, very short.
	Some kids who go through the system and wind up in a pro league actually did learn something at school, and then still the FBI is a part of them.
	From the NFL to the FBI, that's the path one former football player is hoping to take.
	According to the Chicago Tribune, former NFL cornerback Charles Tillman is training to be an FBI agent.
	Tillman retired from the NFL in 2016 after a 13-year career with the Bears and Panthers where he totaled 38 interceptions.
	The 36-year-old earned a criminal justice degree while attending the University of Louisiana Lafayette and meets the FBI's requirement of candidates being between the age of 23 and 37.
	Tillman spent last year working for Fox Sports, but it looks like his post-football career is heading in a new direction.
	Spot the spook.
	Spot the spook.
	Everybody wants to spot the spook.
	So what are the chances he'll be highly unrecognizable, of course, until we go undercover and might bust open some of these practices?
	That would be the perfect kind of guy to do it, don't you think?
	He would be the perfect kind of guy if he wanted to be.
	But since the last topic on the FBI is there's a Mm-hmm.
	You know, they report about this, especially about the Florida situation.
	And now, not only what we already know about the Florida situation, they're piling on with a story.
	I heard no place.
	It was packaged by somebody and sent around the nation, but it was only showing up on local stations.
	It was not on the networks that I know of.
	I could miss it.
	But this is the alarming tip.
	Another anti-FBI... Peace that's floating around.
	Alarming new information out of South Florida, a tipster told the FBI she knew confessed shooter Nicholas Cruz was going to explode.
	She said he had four Instagram accounts where he said he wanted to kill people.
	The tipster called Cruz a violent child who killed animals and said she thought he could go into a school and shoot the place up.
	She told the FBI, quote, I just want to get it off my chest in case something does happen, and I do believe something's going to happen.
	The FBI is looking into why this alarming tip was not forwarded to agents to investigate.
	Yes, I've heard this, and I have a lot more about that for our C-Block.
	Well, I do want to...
	I do.
	You do.
	You do, do you?
	I do.
	I do.
	I want to mention the letter that you sent.
	It was actually in the Sun Sentinel.
	It was an article.
	It's the only place I've ever seen it.
	Never heard this stuff before from the kind of full parents of the kid, of the shooter.
	Yes.
	And is that what you want to save or do you want to talk about it?
	No, you can talk about that now.
	Sure.
	Well, there was a...
	Kid was kind of, I guess his mom died, and then his dad didn't, or maybe was his stepdad, whatever the case was.
	He's an adoptive mom who he'd been with for most of his life.
	Yeah, and so he ended up living with these two people because the son of the two people brought him in to the family, and he apparently was a model...
	Kid, I wouldn't say.
	But a model, you know, if you're going to bring an adopted kid in, he was fine.
	He did his chores.
	He did what he was supposed to do.
	Loved the pets.
	Yes.
	He was like, he loved the dogs and cats.
	I'm not sure what total pets they had.
	But they were enough so that they noticed that he was great with them.
	Great with them.
	Which is nothing a kid who's a torturer is with Pets, they're always mean to them.
	I've seen kids like this.
	They're never nice to pets.
	But meanwhile, we keep hearing about he kills animals.
	And I thought that was a discrepancy that was never explained to me.
	Big one.
	And it's major, major discrepancy.
	And it's always incorporated into this FBI didn't do their job.
	which is another narrative and I don't know who's putting it out there why they're putting it out there to the point where we have the clip where the FBI apologized for one of the tips that came in but it seemed this very I don't like it I don't like what's going on with the FBI. Well, then you're not going to like what I have to say about, you're going to hate even more, I should say, what I have for the C Block, which involves FBI and law enforcement in general, certainly in this Florida case.
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	And also, Tom using that voice stretcher.
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	I mean, a good, deep, real voice is better, even if it's not as ridiculously deep as you can make, as some people have.
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	What's QAnon?
	QAnon is this guy called QAnonymous, QAnon, on 4chan, who has been posting for months now.
	You know, like, I'm an insider, I'm an Intel insider, and I'm Chase the White Rabbit, and he's giving clues every day.
	But he's not saying...
	Oh, I remember.
	I've seen this guy before.
	He's not saying this is what's going to happen.
	No, it's like, Think about the moon when the spoon does not go to the ground.
	Follow the rabbit!
	I mean, that's exactly what it is.
	And everyone's like, oh yeah, QAnon.
	No, if the guy is real, and he may be, he's low level.
	I doubt it.
	He's low level if he's real.
	Low level.
	It's not worth your time or ours.
	Sorry.
	He won't pass the lie detector.
	Which if you're in Intel, you're going to have to take that test.
	Mandatory.
	Mandatory.
	And the cycle is different for everybody, but it's at least once a year, I think.
	But everything I've read, of course I've jumped into it.
	Of course I've looked at it.
	But if there's someone serious about blowing the whistle and telling you what's going on with the deep state, why doesn't he just say it?
	Why is everything a riddle?
	It's like a bad episode of Grace and Frankie.
	It's just so stupid.
	Alright.
	Seems to be significant news in the post.
	If it's not too much, like a de-douching.
	Mm-hmm.
	You've been de-douched.
	And what else does he want?
	He wants a love ants, a love ants, and a goat scream karma.
	Okay.
	We'll do just a little bit of ants for you since, you know, we're in the donation segment.
	I got ants.
	I got ants.
	You've got...
	Karma.
	Sir Marcellus, 202. 2.
	Dear Sirs, I'm not a man-person overboard.
	Just a douchebag for not donating for a very long time.
	Personal thanks to the Canadians for electing Justin Bollywood Trudeau.
	Regards, Sir Marcellus.
	Man, did you see him in his garb, in his cultural appropriation garb?
	Yeah, of course.
	We got a great mix.
	But he wasn't just one outfit.
	He had different outfits.
	Oh yeah, he changed.
	Like a supermodel.
	He was changing his outfits.
	Garth did a great Trudeau and a show mix for us.
	It would be kind of funny.
	Joe Biden.
	Oh, no, no.
	Joe Bissessi.
	Joe Bissessi.
	It's just in this spreadsheet.
	I found out that one of the problems when I couldn't read because I only did two lines, that's only when I blew it up a little bit.
	In other words, if I looked at it and zoomed.
	Have you ever considered doing a master class on Excel?
	Anyway.
	201-23 in Copley, Ohio.
	As usual, great job recently, but instead of kissing your butts and telling you how great you are, I'm calling you both out.
	Adam, you're dead wrong about the Olympics, broseph.
	Oh, really?
	Really, man?
	All the events are fun to watch in prime time.
	Plus, if those bitchy dudes weren't so catty as they point out every skater's mistakes, it would be more watchable.
	No, I disagree.
	I disagree with that.
	I really like them pointing out the mistakes.
	I'm pretty good now at calling green, yellow, or red dot.
	I'm like, oh, that's yellow.
	Definitely yellow for that element.
	That component.
	I know way too much about it.
	You know, my mom was a figure skater.
	That's why I'm into it.
	Oh, was she?
	Yes.
	Yes.
	So, you know what one of the hardest moves is that no one ever claps for?
	Is the spread eagle, where, you know, it's like you have your toes outward and you lean backwards and you go in that semicircle.
	Okay.
	That is, and I remember this because I went to my mom as a kid.
	We went to Holiday on Ice, and we're in the stands, and it's kind of quiet, and then someone does the spread eagle move.
	My mom's like, whoa!
	I'm like, shut up, Mom.
	What are you doing?
	You're embarrassing me.
	But that's apparently a really tough move.
	Another tip.
	I don't think it's called the spread eagle.
	Yes, it is.
	Okay, are you going to contradict my dead mother?
	No, I'm just asking because I've never heard anyone say spread eagle on this analysis so nobody does it.
	They never talk about it.
	No, they all do it.
	It's a required element.
	Well, maybe it's because it has a slightly lewd sound.
	Okay.
	Anyway, that's your pro skating tip.
	Well, tell me what's the difference between a triple cow sill, a triple toe loop, and a triple jump?
	I don't know everything.
	Oh, okay.
	I was only taught to spread eagle and to clap for it.
	And I've done it a lot.
	Somebody can clip that, please.
	Clap for the spread eagle.
	As usual, you put a more time...
	Oh, yeah.
	I got it.
	I got it.
	Don't worry.
	As usual, great job recently.
	Where was I going?
	Okay, John, nothing for you, unless you're screwing up my live read.
	He just seems especially cranky sometimes.
	Seriously, the service you guys perform is truly unique in today's world, which is cloaked in lies.
	I actually had a thought about this.
	Because there's people who will send me emails, and they're so happy when they get up Monday morning, and they see that there's a new...
	Because, you know, people do other stuff on weekends.
	They see there's a new no-agenda show, and they can't wait to drive to work.
	We are...
	Changing people's perception of driving to work.
	Yes!
	Oh, I really am going to enjoy my Monday morning commute because I've got the guys with me.
	My brosifs.
	My brosifs.
	This donation, he continues, is not for me, it's for you.
	I've decided it's not right for me to become a knight before my buddy and fellow producer has hit me in the mouth.
	So this donation goes right to Chris M's Knighthood.
	It's worth pointing out this will be your first sequential show number.
	Last.
	10-11.
	Last.
	And chilled 1-2-3-4.
	I can't wait for the next 223 episodes and beyond.
	Jeez.
	Link, I don't want to be greedy with the karma since the provided baby karma in the previous episodes worked like a charm.
	My wife and I welcomed our new healthy human resource on December 13th, and she's perfect and more beautiful than we could ever have imagined.
	I hope she grows up to be just like Maxine Waters.
	He's actually said 1JNK, not Link, but 1JNK. He just wants one...
	No.
	Why would he say one JNK if he doesn't want one jingle?
	Because he doesn't have a jingle listed.
	Okay, but that's NJNK. But he does a double call out as douchebags for Brian.
	Douchebag!
	And Wool Ass.
	Douchebag!
	I don't know what the hell an asshole is.
	Okie dokie!
	Well, I'm going to give him some new human resource karma anyway.
	Why not?
	It's a good karma.
	Yeah, make me have a triple triplets.
	May you have many.
	May you have triplets.
	Oh, yeah.
	Lonnie Pace, $200.33.
	When I last donated, my genderqueer name caused you to mistake me for a woman.
	Oh, no!
	On the contrary, I knew a lot of Lonnie's in school.
	In the contrary, I'm a male man, male, M-A-L-E, man, engaged to marry a female woman.
	I'd like to give a shout-out to my smoking hot, soon-to-be wife, Missy.
	Love you, babe.
	Love you, love you.
	Love, love, love, love, love, love, love.
	We greatly appreciate some baby-making karma.
	Coincidence?
	Dude, dude, dude.
	Take it easy.
	Take it easy.
	He's just getting married.
	How old do you think Lonnie is?
	Slow down.
	Slow down.
	Lonnie's got a young name.
	I mean, the kids are great.
	He might be in his 30s.
	After they ruin your entire relationship.
	We'd greatly appreciate some baby-making karma.
	If he wants it, he gets it.
	Additionally, we're open to any baby.
	He wants babies.
	He wants baby-making tips.
	We're open to any baby-making tips.
	You are both willing to share.
	Wink, wink.
	Here's my tip.
	Here's my tip.
	Don't insert.
	Adam hates dogs and babies.
	My previous Trump-Pelosi jobs karma worked like a charm, and I'm sure she'll be knocked up before the show is over.
	Lastly, I'd like to call out, was it Jeffrey?
	Jeff Rowe, I think.
	Jeff Rowe as a douchebag.
	Listen and donate, he says.
	Alright, well, I'm just saying, wait until you're like 35.
	He could be 40 for all you know.
	Well, he could be, but it doesn't sound like it.
	I'm just, you know, because, you know, you basically have a thing stuck to you for 25 years that's sucking all the resources out of you.
	So just know what you're going into.
	Put him to work.
	And then it's, uh, you stand on your head, I think, is my tip.
	You've got karma.
	Okay, Anthony Del Prado, 200.
	John and Adams, John spelled with an H. The show is going great.
	I am an overseas expat needing some karma for an upcoming human resource.
	Three babies in a row.
	Bada-bing!
	Can you imagine?
	I mean, what kind of coincidence is that?
	We are a very fertile show.
	Well, we're also part of the random number theory.
	It's very possible that because we put your brain at ease from all of the pollution that is coming to you from the M5M content and commercials both, It's a stress reducer, and maybe that's why our producers are popping out kids left and right.
	The other people that don't listen to the show that are all screwed up by Dimension B politics, they're all having vasectomies.
	And you've got to get dogs.
	You've got vasectomies and dogs.
	You're living in a building full of dogs.
	And vasectomies.
	Vasectomies and dogs.
	Anyway, it goes on.
	I also like a plug for my podcast, IT Babble.
	Alright.
	We should check that out.
	IT Babble.
	IT Babble.
	The best ed tech podcast from Indiana to Asia.
	It should be up.
	I should be up.
	Oh, it should be up to $360 in donation.
	Okay, well, you keep track of that yourself.
	Fabulous.
	Well, thank you very much, sir.
	I think he needs some babies.
	Yes, yes, yes.
	He needs some human resource karma right here for you, sir.
	You've got karma.
	Take it while the getting's good.
	Alrighty.
	Oh, is that it?
	Yeah, that's it.
	That's our group of all executive producers.
	Very unusual.
	Here's what's so disappointing.
	Typically, a newsletter with a stupid picture of me, thank you very much, Score's big.
	Yeah, well, I bet you the opens are high.
	But you did something very mean.
	I put the picture of Rachel in there?
	Yeah, you compared me to Rachel Maddow.
	That was a very, very low blow.
	And, you know, not like you told...
	Anyway.
	Let me tell you how that happens.
	Okay, here I'm doing the newsletter.
	I have my collection of...
	Photos and funny cartoons and all these things that I collect during the week.
	And I keep them in a file that I open for the newsletter and then I start popping them in there.
	And I had to...
	First I get the drunk picture, which is, you know, rolling your eyes back.
	I felt it was a fake, personally.
	But it was okay.
	It was how I felt at the moment of the picture snap.
	You didn't do it on purpose?
	For the purpose of the...
	Okay, well that's good to know.
	Well, he caught you then.
	I don't know why you were rolling your eyes back.
	He caught you, so it was a good shot.
	I'll give Horowitz credit.
	Top shot.
	When I was looking for that photo in the pile of stuff, I saw the Rachel Maddow picture.
	I don't know why I collected that one, but it's got that baby.
	Do you have a manila folder somewhere that says Rachel Maddow pics?
	No.
	Okay.
	And I should.
	I don't have to worry about you then.
	So I saw that picture.
	And I just decided to run it and then use the oops wrong picture.
	And then use your picture.
	It's my attempt at lame humor.
	Right.
	And what happens?
	Donations don't even include an executive producer.
	So thanks.
	Good job.
	Good work.
	Good work.
	Maybe.
	Picture of Rachel Maddow means no donations.
	It's a bad...
	Could be.
	Yes, it's a bad omen.
	Could be.
	Well, thanks.
	Many, many thanks.
	Many, many, many thanks to our associate executive producers and our now by default executive producer, James Vincent Carlson, who produced episode 1011 of the No Agenda Show, best podcast in the universe.
	And there are more to thank, but these are the execs and the associate execs, just like Hollywood, who put them up front.
	Real credits.
	You can use them anywhere.
	Credits are recognized.
	We'll vouch for you.
	And we'll be thanking more people later on who came in with $50 or above.
	And remember, another show coming up on Thursday.
	Please remember us at Dvorak.org slash NA. And you can always amaze your friends when you propagate our simple formula.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hear people in the mouth.
	Shut up, slave.
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	All right.
	It's...
	So I tripped upon an explanation of what happened in Florida with the Broward County Sheriff's Department and the school shooter there, of course, Cruz.
	Um...
	And it fits so well that, you know, Occam's razor comes out and tries to slice me across the face because just everything else falls apart as an explanation as to what happened with all of these very strange discrepancies, just incredible strange things.
	Here is, I'm just going to play a couple clips and I'm going to get into what I think is going on here.
	This is the sheriff, Sheriff Israel, and this is an older report.
	You'll recall we had that guy who arrived at Fort Lauderdale Airport and then pulled the gun and ammo out of his checked luggage and then started shooting people at the baggage claim?
	When was this?
	This was 2016, not that long ago.
	Okay, yeah, I do remember that.
	I don't remember it being recent.
	Well, to me, it's about a year ago.
	Maybe a little bit longer than a year ago.
	Yeah, I do remember that.
	So here is Sheriff Israel's response after that shooting.
	Broward Sheriff Scott Israel sees the parallels between what happened at the airport and what happened on Sunday night in Las Vegas.
	Israel says in a situation like that, it's almost impossible to stop.
	If you have a lone wolf assassin that's committed to commit great carnage and kill people, there's really not anything you can do about it.
	What it teaches Israel is this.
	In this day and age, whenever you go out to a public place, you must be aware of your surroundings.
	After the airport shooting in Broward, reports were issued on how the law enforcement and county's response could be improved.
	A range of topics emerged.
	Better communications, improved radio capabilities for first responders, and how to handle a massive response of law enforcement officers from all over the area that wanted to help.
	We appreciate their desire to get to these events and these venues, but at the end of the day, self-dispatching probably makes it worse than better.
	Now Sheriff Israel told me that he feels that training is obviously the most important thing that his deputies can do.
	He also said that law enforcement relies on the public for tips, people who might be acting suspiciously or posting threatening messages online.
	Law enforcement wants to hear from you, he said.
	He also believes that massacres like what happened in Las Vegas should prompt frank and open discussions among lawmakers in Washington and So there you have all the elements.
	Training for mass shooter events.
	Got to be ready for them.
	Better communication systems.
	Tips, tips, tips.
	Just a tip, baby.
	Tips, tips, tips.
	Send us your tips.
	And all of that failed not more than a year later.
	So this is annoying everybody, including...
	Jake Tapper from CNN, who I think is doing a very good job at grilling the sheriff, who I already thought he was quite a cock at that CNN town hall where he was just, you know, berating the NRA lady that you like, Dana Lash.
	Is that how you pronounce it?
	Lash?
	Lush, Lush, Lush, Lush, Lush?
	Yeah, I think so.
	And, you know, we had all these, separately we had the FBI who didn't respond, but we had, I think, 39 different calls about this kid being crazy, and Jake really got in his face about it.
	On November 30th, fewer than three months ago, your office received a call from a tipster explicitly saying that Cruz could be a, quote, school shooter in the making.
	According to notes released on that call, no report was even initiated.
	At this point, sir, do you understand how the public, seeing red flag after red flag after red flag, warning after warning after warning, they hear that your office didn't even initiate a report?
	When they got a call saying that this guy could be a school shooter in the making, how could there not even be a report on this one?
	Well, if that's accurate, Jake, there needed to be a report, and that's what we're looking into, that a report needed to be completed, it needed to be forwarded to our either Homeland Security or Violent Crimes Unit, and they would have followed up on it?
	That's from your notes.
	That's from notes released by your office.
	I'm not making this up.
	This is from...
	No, and that's what the officer who handled that is on restrictive duty, and that's an active internal investigation, and we are looking into it.
	I can't tell you, I can't predict how an investigation is going, but I've exercised my due diligence.
	I've led this county proudly, as I always have.
	We have restricted that deputy as we look into it.
	You know...
	You know, deputies make mistakes.
	Police officers make mistakes.
	We all make mistakes.
	But it's not the responsibility of the general or the president if you have a deserter.
	You look into this.
	We're looking into this aggressively.
	And we'll take care of it.
	And justice will be served.
	Are you really not taking any responsibility for the multiple red flags that were brought to the attention of the Broward Sheriff's Office about this shooter before the incident, whether it was people near him, close to him, calling the police on him?
	Jake, I could only take responsibility for what I'm about.
	I exercise as my due diligence.
	I've given amazing leadership to this agency.
	Amazing leadership?
	I've worked...
	Yes, Jake.
	There's a lot of things we've done throughout this.
	You don't measure a person's leadership by a deputy not going into it.
	These deputies received the training they needed.
	Maybe you measure somebody's leadership by whether or not they protect the community.
	In this case, you've listed 23 incidents before the shooting involving the shooter.
	And still, nothing was done to keep guns out of his hands, to make sure that the school was protected, to make sure you were keeping an eye on him.
	Your deputy at the school failed.
	I don't understand how you can sit there and claim amazing leadership.
	So, to me, this guy sounds like a pathological liar.
	No one else would say that but a pathological liar.
	Would you agree?
	Trump would say it.
	Pathological liar, exactly.
	So what is going on with the Broward County Sheriff's Office?
	And in the background of that, know that I think it was Dade County, the chief of police there sent out a memo to everybody saying, hey, you know, I know that we're the ones that actually did the responding and that, you know, all the sheriff's guys were cowering behind the car, but they're taking credit, so don't worry about it.
	You know, whatever's due, our due will come around just to be cool about it.
	I'm not quite sure what's going on.
	Can I do an aside?
	Absolutely.
	So I was down in Broward County with a friend of mine who's an inventor with a lot of patents.
	A patent?
	A patent troll?
	Actually, I have a funny thing now to think about.
	I have two guys down there like that.
	But this was the guy who did Panda Systems.
	And he has...
	We're driving around with some...
	He's just showing me around.
	And I was...
	I'm talking about the cops there and he says, oh, the cops here are the worst.
	He says that there's been so much drug business around here that they are so gun shy.
	They're afraid to do anything.
	They're even afraid to pull you over because there's a lot of people driving like maniacs.
	Nobody seemed to care because they're always afraid it's going to be some drug dealer and the guy's going to pull a gun and kill him.
	All the cops...
	Are just afraid of their own shadow because of the drug dealing and everything.
	They were just kind of trained to be super cautious and all they really ever do is parking tickets.
	Well, yes, I think it goes a little bit further and it's worse.
	Now, I remember the minute the shooting happened, and I don't have a clip of it, but I remember the first thing that was reported.
	Unbelievable.
	This county, Broward County, was just voted safest in the entire state.
	Do you remember those reports?
	Yes.
	Not really.
	Okay.
	Well, it came out.
	I should have looked for a clue.
	But I know everyone talks about Parkland being the safest town in the state.
	Yes.
	If nothing else.
	Exactly.
	So on the Twitter, we have a new person, at TheLastRefuge2, who posted a Twitter thread, you know, where you get like 24 posts and it's all a thread.
	And I want to read this to you, because when I read this, it made nothing but sense, fits everything perfectly, and is more egregious than a false flag.
	So I'm going to read this.
	I spent about 18 months in 2012 and 2013 and 2014 investigating Broward and Miami-Dade school policies on how those policies transfer to law enforcement practices.
	My interest was initially accidental.
	I discovered an untold story of massive scale and consequence as a result of initial research into Trayvon Martin and his high school life.
	What I stumbled upon was a Broward County law enforcement system in a state of conflict.
	The Broward County school board and district superintendent entered into a political agreement with Broward County law enforcement officials to stop arresting students for crimes.
	The motive was simple.
	The school system administrators wanted to improve their statistics and gain state and federal grant money for improvements therein.
	So officials, the very highest officials of law enforcement, sheriff and police chiefs entered into a plan.
	And with this he posts a February 15, 2012 media advisory from the Miami-Dade County Public Schools.
	Miami-Dade Schools was recently commended by the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice for dramatically decreasing school-related delinquency in Miami-Dade County Public Schools.
	The Miami-Dade school public district, whatever, has the distinction of decreasing school-related juvenile delinquency by an impressive 60%, 6-0, in the last six months of 2012.
	And it goes on.
	We continue with the thread.
	As soon as Miami-Dade began to receive the benefits, which are both financial and political, from the scheme, Broward County joined in.
	The approach in Broward was identical as the approach in Miami-Dade.
	And then there's more documentation.
	This is all in the show notes.
	You can take a look at it.
	He continues.
	It's important to remember this was not an arbitrary change.
	This was a well-planned fundamental shift in the entire dynamic of how teenagers will be treated when they engaged in criminal conduct.
	The primary problem was the policy conflicted with laws, and over time the policy began to create outcomes where illegal behavior by students was essentially unchecked by law enforcement.
	Initially, the police were excusing misdemeanor behaviors.
	However, it didn't take long until felonies, even violent crimes such as armed robbery, assaults, and worse, were being excused.
	The need to continue lowering the arrest year over year meant that increasingly more severe unlawful behavior had to be ignored.
	Over time, even the most severe of unlawful conduct was being filtered by responding police.
	We found out about it when six cops blew the whistle on severe criminal conduct they were being instructed to hide.
	The sheriff and police chiefs were telling street cops and school cops to ignore ever-worsening criminal conduct.
	So they were in a bind.
	They were encountering evidence of criminal conduct and yet they had to hide the conduct.
	There are examples of burglary and robbery where the police had to hide the recovered evidence in order to let the kids get away without entering reports.
	The police would take the stolen merchandise and intentionally falsify records to record stolen merchandise as if they had just found it by the side of the road.
	They put drugs, stolen merchandise in bags, sent it to storage rooms, and the police department never assigned the recovery to criminal conduct.
	stolen merchandise was just sitting in storage rooms gathering dust.
	They couldn't get the stuff back to the victims because that would mean the police would have to explain how they took custody of it, so they just hid it.
	To prove this was happening, one of the officers told me where to look and who the victim was.
	At first, I didn't believe him.
	However, after getting information from detectives, cross-referencing police reports, and looking at the found merchandise, I realized they were telling the truth.
	A massive internal investigation took place, and the results were buried.
	Participating in the cover-up were people in the media who were connected to the entire political apparatus.
	The sheriff and police chief could always deny the violent acts were being ignored.
	That's why the good guys in the police department gave evidence of stolen merchandise, because the physical evidence couldn't be ignored and proved the scheme.
	From 2012 to 2018, it only got worse.
	In Broward and Miami-Dade, it's almost impossible for a student to get arrested.
	The staff within the upper levels of law enforcement officers keep track of arrests, and when a certain number is reached, all else is excused.
	And it didn't take long for criminal gangs in Broward and Miami-Dade to realize the benefit of using students for their criminal activities.
	After all, kids would be let go, so organized crime became easier to get away with if they enlisted high school kids.
	As criminals became more adept at the timing within the offices of officials, they timed their biggest crimes to happen after the monthly maximum arrest quota was made.
	The most serious of armed robberies were timed for later in the month or quarter.
	The really serious crimes were timed in latter phases of data collection periods.
	This way, the student criminals were almost guaranteed to get away with it.
	Are you still interested?
	Yeah.
	Good.
	I think this explains a lot, and it also explains why somehow Parkland was the safest community ever because that's for bullcrap.
	Well, I'll continue the thread.
	It's almost over.
	Now you can see that the entire process gets worse over time.
	Present corruption, the need to hide the policy, expands in direct relationship to the corruption before it.
	This is where the school police come into play.
	Understanding the risk behind the scheme, it became increasingly important to put the best corrupt cops in schools.
	The best as in the smartest.
	Those school resource officers, as they're called, became the ones who were best at hiding unlawful conduct.
	Again, over time, the most corrupt police officers within the system became the police inside the schools.
	These officers were those who are best skilled at identifying the political objectives and instructions.
	Those school cops also have special privileges.
	It's a great gig.
	They get free on-campus housing close to the schools they're assigned to.
	They're crooked as hell and the criminal kids know just how to play them.
	It's a game and it's an open secret.
	A lot came out during the earlier internal affairs investigation.
	Unfortunately, the behavior never changed because the politics never changed, and it's still going on.
	And he has some links to some FOIA documents that are worth reading.
	For years, this has been happening and no one cared.
	Crimes happened, students excused, victims ignored.
	The Broward County School and law enforcement system is designed to flow exactly this way.
	It's just politics.
	Only then a Parkland school shooting happened.
	For Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel, this had to be an oh shit moment, but not for the reasons the media initially thought.
	If people start digging, they'll soon discover the shooter was one of those previously excused students.
	So I think what we're seeing here is maybe what's going on at the FBI as well is to get the numbers up to make sure we look super safe.
	Just ignore this and ignore more and ignore more and ignore more.
	And I think that at a certain point, these cops or these sheriff's deputies that were so used to ignoring behavior that when something went down, serious, they froze.
	They just froze.
	These guys were no longer law enforcement officers.
	They were just corrupt pieces of crap.
	And this whole thing fits completely with all the open questions, as far as I can tell.
	Who's this guy again?
	Israel.
	No.
	Oh, this guy's the last refuge two.
	At the last refuge two.
	He's probably a cop.
	Yeah, oh yeah, I'm sure he is.
	They've got tons of documents that corroborate everything he's posting.
	Yeah, he's a cop.
	And this, I'm telling you, this will lead back to...
	I didn't take this job so I could just put, you know, tight everything.
	I think this will lead back to Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
	And who knows where that could lead.
	Well, yeah, she's up to her neck.
	But we know, as an example, we know from an insider that FBI has had, sometimes they reinstate it, but they have a six-week cycle.
	We've got to have something happen every six weeks.
	So they lay back on lots of stuff to make something happen.
	Usually there's some patsy who they set up with a button that says, press here to explode something, and then, you know, it's just two wires in the back that are empty, and a nine-volt battery and a light bulb.
	And they go, oh, we caught him, we got him.
	But who knows?
	Who knows how far this type of behavior reaches?
	And this is what I was talking about with complete abusive children.
	These guys, these guys need to be hung.
	So the place was, so the town, the safest town in Florida, was probably rife with crime.
	Yes!
	Yes, and the kids knew it, everybody knew it.
	Well, let's see what happens.
	I think this...
	Do we have any No Agenda listeners in the Parkland area?
	I don't have No Agenda listeners per se, but I do have some...
	How do you know this?
	You don't have the mailing list in front of you?
	No, I didn't.
	I'm asking right now if there's anybody.
	Yes, I understand.
	But I was going to read some other notes from producers.
	Oh, no, I'm soliciting right now.
	Yes, I got you.
	We'll get people to tell us what's going on.
	Producer Nathan...
	A teacher at Parkland would be great.
	Producer Nathan wrote in, so, he says, I've taught in the hood for several years, bro.
	I've worked in Nashville's worst middle school and high school.
	I can testify to the fact that a lot of shady shit goes down in those places.
	It's not from teachers, but always from the admin or district office.
	They want their suspension numbers down and the grad rates high.
	So they find ways to do restorative justice, that's in quotes, and let aggressive kids go back to class.
	I had several mentally unstable kids in my class because the district won't let us separate them out because it's, quote, unfair or makes them, quote, feel different.
	They also lower the bar for graduation.
	I was told several times to just give kids passing grades so our numbers would be higher.
	The whole system is out of control because of the parents and liberal watchdog groups.
	In Nashville, the NAACP said they would sue the district if their suspensions of black students went up.
	So what did they do?
	Stop suspending black students, even if they hit a kid or stole something.
	It's not the actual schools, but the political leaders of the districts.
	They tie our hands and keep us from being able to do anything for the kids who need it.
	Personally, I'll stay in education because it needs good people.
	Thank you.
	Let me ask you both to stop blaming teachers for these issues, and when you discuss the brainwashing, I will agree that there are some bad apples, but the curriculum is the problem.
	I don't think we've ever blamed teachers.
	Ever.
	Have we?
	I don't think so either, but it's possible that we are critical of teachers in some situations that involve Common Core.
	Whatever happened to Common Core, by the way, is always...
	Well, it has a new name.
	It's being relaunched.
	We had a story about it a couple weeks ago.
	It won't take much to derail it again.
	Right.
	But Nathan is a great teacher.
	He has got no agenda thinking going on, so we're happy he's staying in education.
	But I think this is, you know, it's the same, it's, look, hear me now, believe me later.
	This is a unique American problem.
	I think it is also, it might be a globalist problem or a global problem.
	It might be a globalist problem.
	But just like a company, company always has to show, you know, hey, you got to have 20% increase in your profits or your performance year over year.
	You get all these Silicon Valley companies who are buying up cheap-ass bogative traffic to increase their numbers, to look good at the end of the quarter.
	Maybe the growth is just out of the world right now.
	We just stand in place.
	But no growth, you get penalized.
	You have to show growth everywhere.
	I've always found that to be fascinating.
	The growth stuff?
	Yeah, that you have to.
	Why can't you build a big, great company and stabilize?
	No, I guess not.
	You know, stabilize.
	You're a good company.
	You're making nothing but money.
	You're making tons of money.
	You get to the point where you can run this operation perfectly.
	It's stable.
	It's not going to grow.
	It's not going to shrink.
	It's not going to go out of business.
	It's going to provide a service that's important to the community.
	And you are going to just run it.
	You can't do that.
	That is not allowed.
	That gets penalized.
	You're right.
	It's not allowed.
	Just penalized.
	Not allowed.
	Not allowed.
	Then, as we were discussing the uncanny...
	Actually, before I get to that, I have two clips here.
	The first one is...
	This was kind of interesting.
	You probably heard CNN yelling at Fox News saying, Lies!
	Lies!
	That child is a liar!
	Tucker Carlson had Colton Hobb, H-A-A-B, from Parkland on, and he said, well, you know, I was supposed to write a speech for the town hall for CNN, and they sent it back and said, how about some questions?
	And then I was like, well, how about you just use this question?
	And so the kids said, I think, no, Tucker led the witness by saying, well, so they basically scripted your question, and then that became a whole thing where CNN is yelling, oh, we've never scripted anything for anybody, except, of course, the question that Donald Brazil gave to Hillary Clinton, but we'll just let that slide.
	But Tucker did something really weird here, and I'm calling him out on it.
	At the request of a CNN producer, you sent in a number of questions, statements you wanted to make, questions that you wanted to ask of the politicians on the stage, and they rewrote one of your questions?
	Is that right?
	Yes, sir.
	So what had happened was four days ago I had gotten contacted by a lady named Carrie Stevenson from CNN. She had asked me originally to just write a speech.
	It was going to be at the town hall at the BB&T Center.
	So I agreed.
	I felt like it would be the right thing to do.
	Be able to go speak my part as well as open eyes to a few things that I thought that could make this situation a little better.
	From there, three days ago, so the next day after that, I got an email back from her, and she asked for more of questions rather than a speech, which I was totally fine with, so I wrote less of a speech and more of questions that I wanted to ask at the town hall.
	The day after that, it was more of just questions.
	She asked for just questions that I would like to ask.
	So I gave her my questions, and then yesterday, at about 5.15, I made contact with her.
	And she had asked if I had just asked her one question.
	So what they had actually done was wrote out a question for me because in my interview with CNN, I talked about arming the teachers if they were willing to arm themselves in the school to carry on campus.
	And she had taken that of what I had briefed on and actually wrote that question out for me.
	So I have that question here if you'd like me to ask it for you.
	Well, but I just want to make sure I have this straight.
	So you sent them a long, in effect, essay.
	So he never let the kid read the damn question.
	Ever.
	Throughout the whole interview.
	He never came back to it.
	That's bullcrap.
	Well, that's poor form.
	Nah, he's just abusing this kid to make CNN look bad.
	And it's despicable.
	It's shit.
	It was unnecessary.
	And now the kid's being called a liar by CNN. For what?
	For some stupid ratings?
	It made me sick.
	Just abusing children.
	The child abuse is today's theme.
	So, we hear that countries who have banned guns, what do they not have?
	They don't have school shootings.
	They don't have school shootings.
	Which countries don't have school shootings because they've banned guns?
	Okay, I'll bite.
	India.
	Oh, come on.
	You know the countries.
	Russia.
	Australia.
	Australia is always on the list.
	What's the other one on the list?
	Australia is always on the list.
	And what's the other one on the list?
	UK and Canada. UK and Canada.
	Thank you.
	Canada.
	Oh, oops.
	I'm sorry I ruined your life.
	It's a phrase the shooter repeated as he apologized to the seven people he injured and their families.
	For nearly 12 minutes, the teen read from a prepared statement.
	He addressed the four people slain in the January 2016 rampage as if they were present.
	To Adam Wood, I didn't really know you, but I heard you are a good person, a kind person.
	I would have taken your tests.
	I'm sorry I shot you.
	You were not a target.
	To teacher's aide Marie Janvier, I'm sorry I shot you.
	You went to school to help teachers, to help others.
	I didn't know you, but I heard you were a very bright person.
	You were not a target.
	And finally, to the Fontaine brothers, a lot of the time when I'm sitting in my cell, I pretend that both Dane and Drayden are sitting there with me.
	I talk to them, wishing they were still there.
	In August, the Crown and Defense will make their arguments in Meadow Lake.
	A date and location have not been set to determine whether the teen will be sentenced as a youth or an adult.
	Oh, you know, gee, we didn't hear about that.
	Well, there's a good reason.
	Okay.
	In Canada, it's illegal.
	To report on news stories and crime stories that are in the court system in any way, shape, or form.
	It's against the law.
	So if Americans don't report on it, which often we don't because we don't know what's going on.
	Hold on.
	I'm not familiar with this rule.
	Oh, yeah.
	So there's a school shooting, and then everyone says, oh, there's a school shooting.
	Can't report on it because, you know, we don't know.
	We don't know then.
	Pretty much.
	That's the law?
	This is what you get when you have a country without guns!
	You get stupid laws like that!
	Jeez, I didn't know that.
	But still, I think the reason why I don't hear about it is because there's nothing more you can do.
	They've just given up.
	We got their guns already.
	We lose a few kids now and then.
	Whatever.
	No problem.
	No need to yell for anything.
	We don't need any extra special.
	I don't hear any screaming now that it's in the court system and apparently can be reported on.
	I don't hear any screaming for improvement.
	How did this kid get this illegal gun?
	Old news.
	Never reported on it.
	I've never heard it.
	What are you saying?
	Yeah, okay.
	Very disappointing.
	Canadians have a very strange system about how they report on crime by the presses.
	They're handcuffed.
	I was not aware of this.
	They're always bitching about it.
	So, when this comes, and I'm going to start wrapping this up, our final part of the topic is about the combination of all of the issues of, you know, kids with, you know, Single moms or single parent, no parent.
	Video games in combination with psychotropic drugs.
	I got a lot of different emails from people about the video games being used as simulators.
	A note from one of our producers.
	Anonymous producer, gents, great show.
	The Army and Air Force actively prefer to recruit gamers.
	Most of the new unarmed aerial vehicle platforms have controllers based on the Xbox.
	Two of my Unreal Engine developers, it says Ureal, I think it's Unreal, or Ureal, I don't know, maybe, have worked on government combat sims.
	In my time setting up weapons trade shows at the National Harbor, I have seen this firsthand.
	P.S. John, I love The Last Starfighter.
	And then we have a great article written by one of our producers.
	Let me see, where is it?
	A dude named Josh.
	Video games and predictive programming in the 21st century.
	But what he gave me, in addition to that, which I've put in the show notes, it's under SSRIs.
	No, it's not under SSRIs.
	It's under simulators.
	Yeah, simulators.
	He gave me, I think, six or eight...
	There's FOIA requests, Freedom of Information Act requests, about military involvement with video games.
	And it's redacted, but man, it's unbelievable!
	America's Army, Medal of Honor, Medal of Honor Airborne, Medal of Honor...
	Sony Video Games, PlayStation, Launchpad.
	I don't know anything about these games.
	I do remember that we talked a lot about Ubisoft being a very interesting company.
	There's a lot of Ubisoft in here.
	Ghost Recon, Red Storm, Halo 2, Area 51.
	I'm missing the premise here.
	That all of these companies...
	These are FOIA requests.
	All of them had money.
	There's a name of a company and a FOIA request.
	I don't know why.
	Okay.
	All of these had money and or direct contact with the United States military for the making of their game.
	Either they were paid in part...
	You didn't hear me say it.
	Either they were paid in part or they had very close contact with them.
	Would it be any different than a movie company getting military help?
	Exactly the same thing.
	But if you look at these FOIA requests, they're very interested in the simulator effects and the realism, realistic nature of the video games.
	It's just a side note that simulators are indeed, that games are considered good simulators by our military-industrial complex.
	Yeah.
	Call of Duty.
	No, I'm just saying, you know, because...
	Is Call of Duty in there?
	Yes.
	Oh, yeah.
	Wow.
	Well, Call of Duty, which is the really great game, should be in there.
	It's in there.
	It's in there.
	A big Guardian article, actually, about it as well.
	Because whenever you say this in connection with anything violent, people lose their shit in our audience.
	But they're simulators.
	You may just be a good, a well-trained shooter.
	Doesn't mean you're going to go out and shoot anybody, but you add the drugs into it.
	That's when it becomes problematic.
	And big news came out this week about SSRIs, antidepressants.
	It was, I mean...
	I can't believe it wasn't touted as large as it was in the UK because they really did big articles on this.
	This is an important study because it's the final answer to a long-lasting controversy about whether antidepressants work for major depression.
	We found that all most commonly prescribed antidepressants work for major depression and for people with moderate to severe major depression.
	And also we found that some of them are more effective than others or better tolerated than others.
	So that was the leader of the study.
	His name is Cipriani.
	And the headline everywhere, BBC, big, antidepressants work for treating depression, study finds.
	You've got to hear some of this stuff.
	So this is from an article written about the study, but it takes language directly from the study.
	It's a little easier to read.
	Antidepressants work some more effectively than others in treating adults with major depressive disorder, according to authors of a groundbreaking study, which doctors hope will finally put to rest doubts about the controversial medicine.
	Our study brings together the best available evidence to inform and guide doctors and patients in their treatment decisions, said that guy, Dr.
	Andrea Cipriani, University of Oxford and Oxford Health Biomedical Research.
	Through examining trials involving nearly 120,000 people including patients taking 21 commonly prescribed antidepressants, the research found all the drugs were more effective than a placebo.
	The findings are not applicable to people with treatment-resistant depression, however.
	This is great.
	Let me just read that again.
	Through examining trials involving nearly 120,000 people, including patients taking 21 commonly prescribed antidepressants, the research found all the drugs were more effective than a placebo.
	The findings are not applicable to people with treatment-resistant depression.
	The hell is that?
	People that don't.
	Yeah.
	Cotton did the drugs.
	It sounds like that doesn't work for everybody.
	Certainly not.
	The findings are relevant for adults experiencing a first or second episode of depression, the typical population seen in general practice.
	However, this does not necessarily mean that antidepressants should always be the first line of treatment.
	No, of course not.
	So then, you know, they go into this meta-analysis, which included 522 double-blind placebo-real antidepressant tests, and they find that some antidepressants are more effective than others.
	It turns out the majority of the most effective antidepressants are now off-patent and available in generic form, which is condemning by itself.
	They keep coming up with new...
	Antidepressants, but it's really the old ones, the original ones, that work the best, but they're off patent, so they don't want to sell those to you, so they're doing other things to it, but they seem to work less effective than the ones that originally were put on the marketplace, but they can't make enough money.
	Well, they can make enough money.
	They've been buying the generic drug makers all along, and now you can buy, for example, Tamiflu is an expensive antiviral.
	It costs about $150 a month.
	And the generic cost about $150 as a prescription.
	It's not true.
	They've been buying these generic.
	It's a scam.
	They should be arrested.
	Thank you.
	That's good enough for me.
	Well, you drifted way off from the topic you were on.
	I want to talk more about school shooting situations.
	I'm sorry.
	I think everyone in school who shoots schools are on antidepressants.
	So I'll just finish with the last paragraph.
	Importantly, the paper analyzes unpublished data held by pharmaceutical companies and shows that the funding of studies by these companies does not influence the result, thus confirming that the clinical usefulness of these drugs is not affected by pharma-sponsored spin.
	Okay.
	Yeah, and if you believe that, you're an idiot, is what they should have put at the very end.
	Back to school shooting.
	We have a situation in Berkeley High, apparently we have a same size as Parkland.
	How many officers were at Parkland?
	Do you remember?
	It was the one guy, right?
	The guy wouldn't come in and there's a couple other people just hanging around?
	He had one school resource officer for 3,000 kids and three deputies who showed up and also stood behind the car.
	I thought the numbers were interesting.
	Because here's a Berkeley High story, and you can play it.
	I want you to stop it when I'm going to tell you to stop it.
	I could have clipped this doubly, but I didn't.
	Berkeley High School is about to lose two of its campus security officers because of budget cuts.
	District leaders say they don't think the move will jeopardize students' safety, but students tell KTVU's Rob Roth they think it will.
	While many schools nationwide are discussing ways to increase security in the wake of the mass shooting in Florida, Berkeley High School's security force is about to decrease.
	The reason?
	Budget cuts.
	Students say that's a bad move.
	In general, it's not the smartest idea.
	Because what?
	I mean, it's just kind of logical.
	If there's danger, it would make sense to have more people who can respond.
	As soon as the shooting...
	Okay, can you stop for a second?
	Um...
	I was listening to this earlier.
	It turns out Berkeley has about the same, it's the same size.
	It's one of these ridiculous, I think it's ridiculous that these schools are this big.
	3,000 students, give or take?
	Yeah, 3,100.
	How many guys, they fired two, or they got rid of two of the guys for budget cuts.
	How many of you, just as an offhanded guess, what kind of police state would we have in Berkeley?
	How many officers are there?
	Well...
	If it's a budget cut, I would say it would have to be 5 or 10%, because that's what you do with budget cuts.
	So I would say...
	25 total.
	Oh, way too high.
	But higher than I would have guessed.
	Keep playing.
	More people who can respond.
	As soon as the shooting took place, we're firing safety officers.
	If anything, we should be hiring more.
	Do you feel like you're less safe because of that?
	Yes, I do.
	The Berkeley Unified School District Board of Education this week voted to reduce the ranks of the unarmed campus security force at Berkeley High.
	From the current 15 officers to 13 beginning next school year.
	Berkeley has a student population of about 3,100.
	Okay, now I'm thinking this.
	Berkeley.
	Berkeley, home of Question Authority, home of Fuck the Police bumper stickers.
	More police, please.
	Berkeley, home of where you call a policeman a pig.
	But the kids, they want more cops.
	When I was a kid, there wasn't...
	I mean, I never went to a school bigger than about 1,200 kids.
	But we didn't want a bunch of cops roaming around the school.
	No.
	No.
	Huh.
	So Berkeley, home of, again, home of the use of the word pig and...
	Lewd bumper stickers.
	Why do these kids want to be in a police state?
	Which is what that amounts to, it seems to me.
	15 cops.
	You said 25, unflappingly.
	Well, I just did a calculation.
	I just like, which was a smart way to go.
	I found it odd that both schools have similar student body count.
	Yeah, one has the one cop.
	One guy.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, and this school's got 15, although that one cop was corrupt, and your corruption thing makes a difference.
	But I'm just baffled by these kids.
	I mean, they're all dimension B. They all hate Trump.
	They all hate the police.
	They all hate all this stuff, but they want more cops.
	Yeah, they've got to make up their mind.
	I thought the cops were racist.
	I'd like them to make up their mind, too.
	Yeah, we're in an odd situation.
	Where, you know, people are screaming, screaming, screaming, you know, hate the cops, Black Lives Matter, hate the cops, go away cops, no cops, and then please more cops.
	And then the cops, you know, some cops are screwing around just to get better numbers.
	It's all abuse of the children.
	That's what it is.
	I have the last shooter report, which was the overview from CBS on the weekend, which kind of, I think, takes us out of this topic, because I mentioned something about the school shooter in the newsletter, and I got feedback with the single word, UGG. Sorry.
	Reflecting their feelings about this topic.
	Well, there are new questions about the law enforcement response to the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
	17 people were killed in the Valentine's Day attack.
	A 19-year-old former student is accused of opening fire with an AR-15 rifle he had purchased illegally.
	Omar Villafranca is in Parkland, Florida.
	CBS News has learned that Broward County authorities are looking into the possibility that three additional sheriff deputies did not go into the school to confront the shooter.
	I'm Scott Peterson.
	Deputy Scott Peterson resigned this week from the Broward County Sheriff's Department after investigators say the armed school resource officer stayed outside the school in a defensive position while the gunman was still shooting inside the building.
	My wife and son go to that school.
	My wife's a teacher there.
	She's assisted that flight director.
	For officers who did go into the school, like Coral Springs Police Sergeant Jeff Heinrich, the emotions are still raw.
	Heinrich was on the baseball field when he heard gunshots.
	His wife and son were on campus.
	By the grace of God, when they walked down the hallway, they found each other.
	And they were in a little shelter in place.
	Officer Chris Crawford was on patrol when the shots rang out.
	The Marine veteran says he grabbed his rifle and went into the school, bracing for a shootout.
	If I got there while he's still shooting, one of the three things is going to happen.
	He's either going to be killed by me, I'm going to get killed by him, or I'm going to be helping a wounded child.
	Officer Tim Burton is a 12-year veteran of law enforcement.
	Burton says last week's shooting will haunt him.
	This one's pretty tough.
	You can kill it.
	You can't get rid of this one.
	I noticed the Marines saying the fourth option, which was the kid will stop shooting, put his guns down, and throw his hands in the air, was never mentioned.
	Seemed like a possibility.
	Yeah, could have been.
	Well, the programming is out, the mind control programming.
	That'll get us out of this segment for sure.
	Van Jones on CNN making some fun comparisons.
	I think that the NRA, despite your kind words about them, has played a net destructive role for people who are trying to solve this problem.
	There is a sense of fear and terror among people who are in elective office, that if they even entertain certain notions, that the NRA is going to drop a ton of bricks on them.
	And so we haven't had the kind of innovation, experimentation, trying of things.
	I don't know if any of the things that are being proposed would make any difference at all yet, but we should know more than we know right because we should have been able to try things and we haven't been able to.
	So now what's happening is you have a whole generation of young people who essentially see the NRA as their enemy.
	To them, the NRA is like the KKK.
	It's just some hostile force that is against them that's risking their lives.
	And you have young people who now, they're not fighting for their future.
	When I was a kid, my big problems were bullies and homework.
	Those are my big problems.
	I'm still traumatized by both.
	But these kids, they're not fighting for their future.
	They're fighting for their right to survive, to have a future.
	They're fighting for their right to stay alive.
	And they do not see the NRA as a friend in that fight.
	Yeah, the whole NRA thing is, yeah.
	I have an NRA clip.
	The head of NRA was at CPAC. And I think what he had to say, no one wants to pay attention to, just like he says.
	I think it's very poignant.
	It actually goes so far over the line in terms of what is acceptable by Second Amendment enthusiasts that I'm actually shocked that people don't bring this up.
	And oh, how socialists love to make lists.
	Especially lists that can be used to deny citizens their basic freedoms.
	And now some people are calling for a new list of anyone, anyone who has sought mental health care to deny them their Second Amendment rights.
	Look, and this is really important, and you never hear this on the national media.
	So I want to say it to all of you now, and I need your help in telling all of America this, because it's the truth.
	The National Rifle Association originated the National Instant Check System.
	It was our bill.
	No one on the prohibited persons list should ever have access to a firearm.
	No killer, no felon, no drug dealer.
	And anyone adjudicated as mentally incompetent or a dangerous society should be added to the check system and prevented from getting their hands on a gun.
	but Thank you.
	Thank you.
	But watch what I released three years ago in the media machine all over the country.
	They so callously and completely ignored it.
	Watch this.
	Here's what the media won't tell you.
	The NRA has fought for 20 years to put the records of those adjudicated mentally incompetent into the national instant check system.
	And until the politicians demand that they are submitted, killers who are legally prohibited from owning firearms will walk into gun stores and pass every background check they take.
	So if they really wanted to make a difference, the media would lead every newscast with a reminder that the names of millions of violent felons, criminal gangbangers, and adjudicated mentally incompetent and dangerous people are missing from the background check system.
	I'm very confused now.
	It goes on and on and on with even more examples of the stuff the NRA has done.
	Yes, you should be confused.
	That's the idea.
	And the whole thing makes you wonder...
	Who's really against the guns?
	Are these people sincere or they actually want this violence to continue so they can point the finger at the Republicans?
	What evidence is there that lawmakers have thwarted the NRA's efforts to get mentally incompetent people on their list?
	What evidence?
	That movie that he made three years ago goes on for about ten minutes.
	Oh, because I need to watch that?
	Okay.
	That would be useful, but the point is that a lot of the stuff that people say they want to do, they blame the NRA because, oh, the NRA's giving everybody so much money that's why they're not doing it.
	Maybe the NRA's two-faced, and they are saying one thing and doing another, but I don't really think so.
	I've got to look into this.
	That's very interesting.
	Especially since he said, well, you know how socialists and commies like to make lists, but they seem to be making the list.
	I know, that's somewhat ironic.
	I have another NRA clip which would be good to lead.
	I have the same clip.
	I'm happy to play yours because for me it was an Ask John business economic question.
	Where did you get the clip?
	Mine is 17 seconds.
	Yours is 28.
	Alright, play mine.
	But just so you know, it's the exact same title.
	My clip says NRA discounts.
	Your clip says NRA discounts.
	Yeah.
	We'll play yours.
	Hertz is the latest company to end a partnership with the NRA. The company announced in a Twitter message that they're ending their rental car discount program with them.
	MetLife Insurance, Wyndham Hotels, Avis, and Budget are also pulling their affiliation with the group over its response to the Parkland, Florida shooting.
	All right.
	Is yours different?
	It's the same, but it's different.
	More companies are cutting ties with the NRA amidst the public outcry after that Florida school shooting.
	We told you about several of them yesterday.
	Well, today, Hart's Rental Car and Best Western Hotels announced they're ending their discount programs for NRA members.
	Moving company Allied Van Lines ended a similar program.
	Insurance company MetLife has also decided to cut ties with the National Rifle Association.
	And finally, Silicon Valley-based antivirus company Symantec stopped its discount program.
	This really interested me from a business economic perspective.
	A, do you think that these types of boycotts, which are...
	It smells of Media Matters.
	It smells like David Brock.
	It reeks of all of those guys all over this.
	Does it, A, make a difference to the NRA and its members?
	B, could it potentially backfire or economically hurt the companies who are publicly denouncing the NRA? And these programs are well known.
	It's like the AARP or even the ARL. This is where I disagree with you.
	Okay.
	I never heard of any of these discount deals.
	Are you an NRA member?
	No.
	Well, then they're not marketing it very well.
	That's what I'm thinking.
	That's the first thing that came to mind when I heard this clip.
	I said, what?
	I can get a discount at Hertz?
	If I'm an NRA member, I can get a discount here, I can discount there.
	I never knew there were these discounts.
	I know there's discounts for AARP and some Costco.
	Yeah, well, even the amateur radio relay league.
	Yeah, we have car rental and health insurance.
	Of course, health insurance.
	We're old geezers on the oxygen tank.
	We have health insurance.
	Well, I don't have it through them, but you can get all kinds of stuff.
	I didn't know NRA, but it makes sense they have it.
	Well, now that they mention it, but I had no clue.
	I had no idea that there was all these deals that you could get if you're a member.
	Now, do you think that this could backfire or that people will now go and boycott those companies because they're boycotting the NRA? Could there be any...
	I think they got him painted into a corner.
	They don't have...
	I mean, it's been doable.
	I mean, the last time that anti-boycott went the right way was when Sean Hannity...
	Right, right, right.
	Some guys pulled out and they made a big stink and now this guy's got a bunch of flack and they had to start advertising again.
	The NRA is, under its current leadership...
	And again, I think you just pointed it out.
	I did notice, but I didn't think about it as a bad thing.
	But the guy talks about communists and socialists want to make lists, and we want to make lists.
	I don't think this guy that runs the NRA is really that good.
	I think he's a bonehead.
	I mean, in fact, everything, that whole speech, there's nothing worse than a speech.
	That this guy gave, the speech that he gave at a CPAC, there's nothing worse than a speech where you tell everybody all the stuff that nobody knows, all the goodwill you're doing.
	It tells me that you haven't been doing a good job of getting the word out that you've been doing this, because it was all news to me.
	My God, the NRA is almost like a podcast.
	No one's ever heard it.
	Yeah, and it reminds me of other things I've seen.
	It reminds me of Microsoft in the day when they were doing that during the days of Vista, where they did one of the stupidest ad campaigns ever.
	It was, they came out and they showed, they said, here's the new operating system of the future.
	And they were showing people some of the crazy stuff you can do with this new operating system of the future.
	And everybody was jacked up.
	And then they like took the curtain away and said, it's actually Vista.
	It's not the operating system of the future.
	So what the ad says is that we're so stupid that we can't even promote this operating system of the future when it's right in front of you because this kind of apologetic...
	They don't realize it's an apology.
	I think it's called an apologia.
	They don't even realize when they're doing it that they're pointing out how crappy they are at managing their own business.
	And I think that that's what this guy at the NRA just did with this speech.
	It's like, holy shit.
	And so then all this bad stuff happens.
	They get all the discounts removed from these wimpy companies that'll roll over.
	You know, you just blow on them.
	I don't think there'll be any feedback because I don't think the NRA's got the clout that they had.
	Yeah, I don't think they have the money either.
	We've looked at the money.
	We've looked at what they put into politicians' pockets.
	And again, it's all just abuse.
	It's abuse by mainly Democrats, but Republicans are doing it too.
	Abusing children to go yell, hey, hey, ho, ho, NRA's got to go.
	Which is completely meaningless.
	And they just want to make every...
	They're always pointing to the people who are receiving money, who receive campaign money.
	And, oh gee, they're all Republicans, so don't vote for them in 2018.
	That's what this is all about.
	And sadly, we are the lone voice in the wind telling the children what's going on.
	So if you have children, you need to weaponize them against this egregious behavior.
	Now that you bring that up, I do have one more clip that involves guns.
	The theaters around here, Cinemark Chain, has decided to ban bags.
	You can't come in with your purse.
	Some of them will let you bring in a purse, but most of them won't even do that.
	Can I bring my clutch?
	I don't know.
	Probably not.
	It's a great accessory.
	But there's a very interesting little twist in this story that, at least for me, was a very bad sign.
	This is...
	Yeah, I'm sorry.
	You're right.
	Too tall, about 13 inches.
	If you've got a handbag like this, you won't be able to bring it in.
	If you've got one even like this, well...
	That's too wide.
	You'd have to leave that home as well.
	The decision comes as a national discussion takes place surrounding gun safety just a week after 17 died in a high school shooting in Parkland, Florida, and six years after 12 were killed during a Cinemark Theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado.
	I think it's a good idea just for the safety of citizens with everything that's been happening recently.
	I think a smaller bag is definitely a better idea.
	If an organization is making an effort to keep people safe and that this is the step that they would like to take, then I support that.
	Cinemark Theater says the large bag ban also doesn't apply to diaper bags and any kind of medical bag.
	I would want to search all the diaper bags.
	Could be something lethal in there.
	What concerned me about this clip was the narrator, the guy who was doing the report.
	His terminology for what's going on, he says this is about gun safety.
	Gun safety is about gun safety.
	This is not about gun safety.
	Gun safety would be handing out a gun to everybody in the theater and showing them how to use it.
	And showing them how to use it.
	Yes, it's a good point.
	That is a word that's going to...
	Yes, the meaning of the word is changing.
	You're taking the word gun safety and you're exploiting it is one way of putting it, but it's more than that.
	You're twisting it.
	So gun safety is now a bad thing.
	I think we should track this.
	This may get legs.
	And that reminds me, what is the NRA? What is the NRA? What was the purpose of the NRA? Gun safety.
	Yes.
	I happen to know that.
	Gun safety.
	Isn't that their slogan?
	Be safe.
	Yeah, gun safety.
	What is their slogan?
	Let's go take a look.
	Well, I know gun safety is one of their main reasons to be.
	Yeah, that's what they're talking about.
	When the guy says that this is about gun safety, it's not about gun safety.
	Let's see if they have a slogan.
	Hmm.
	They don't have a slogan.
	We need to come up with a slogan for that.
	No, they need a new guy and a new slogan.
	Yeah, that guy is no good.
	And they need a slogan.
	How about just a slogan?
	I'm looking at their website right now.
	Nothing.
	Nothing at all.
	That's really, that's dumb.
	Let's see.
	The slogan, gun safety is our business, would be a good slogan.
	Yeah, I would like that.
	I would like that.
	Well, you know what they also do?
	Ah, okay.
	They have the carry guard thing.
	That's a big deal for...
	That is what they're always promoting.
	That's what that Dana Lash woman does.
	And that's if you carry the gun, you want to get the special carry guard insurance from the NRA so that if you kill someone in self-defense, you have the best lawyers to...
	Yeah, that is their...
	We don't need...
	Yeah, that may be why they're going after the operations.
	There you go.
	The gold standard in carry training.
	So you get training.
	You get the special insurance.
	This is what everyone should want, really.
	It should be mandatory.
	Get the insurance.
	This is what they're all bitching about.
	Just like a car.
	Okay.
	You get some insurance, which I'm sure is not cheap, but through a big membership.
	You're right.
	Maybe that's what they're going after.
	Try and get whoever is behind.
	Let's see.
	Lockton.
	Let's see.
	Lockton Affinity Administers Comprehensive Personal Firearms Liability Insurance.
	So they're going after, probably trying to get Lockton, unless they may be specific.
	It's not available in New York.
	Lockton.
	Yeah, there you go.
	Privately owned independent insurance brokerage firm.
	Uh-huh.
	We've got to put the independent guys out of business, maybe?
	Yeah.
	I don't know.
	There's something to it.
	There's something going on.
	But play the beginning of that same clip again.
	You'll hear the gun safety thing.
	At the very beginning, it catches you off guard and puts it in your brain.
	It's a bit too tall, about 13 inches.
	If you've got a handbag like this, you won't be able to bring it in.
	If you've got one even like this, well...
	That's too wide.
	You'd have to leave that home as well.
	The decision comes as a national discussion takes place surrounding gun safety.
	Oh, yes.
	A national discussion around gun safety.
	Good catch.
	Good catch.
	I think we'll see more of that.
	I think you're right.
	I think they're going to start to discombobulate the concept of gun safety with the shooting.
	Yep.
	Well, I tell you, if my kid were here now and the kid were younger in school, whatever, I mean, all I can see is law enforcement, not all law enforcement, but what we've seen here is law enforcement not caring about the kids, not protecting the kids, and actually saying, we don't want you to be able to protect your kids so you can't have any guns.
	There's something wrong with that.
	I think this may be the time to actually be ready to protect yourself because it doesn't seem like you're being protected any other way.
	And isn't that the point?
	Yeah, that is the point.
	Maybe you should get that insurance from the NRA. That's a good idea.
	I'm going to show my support by donating to No Agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, on No Agenda.
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	Palacek, I think.
	Palacek?
	I think Paul sent us a note.
	We got one note.
	I want to mention one of these notes here.
	It was Michael Moss sent in a note.
	I don't think he's on the list because he sent me this note.
	He says, Adam says you've blocked another email address of mine.
	I suppose it's been a mistake.
	That email address has been hijacked or I've been drunk at some point and written you something a little off.
	At any rate, please review the original email below and let me know if there's an issue.
	And he goes on about He donated some amount, but he's got a knighthood coming, and I'm not going to read this thing, but I will say he does have some requests.
	We need an explanation of neuro-linguistic programming performatives, which we do once in a while.
	Signaling is a social phenomenon, virtue signaling for newer listeners.
	Nobody knows what we're talking about, he claims.
	Anyway, he is...
	I think you can just do a Bing search on virtue signaling and performatives.
	I think you can get information pretty quickly.
	It should lead you to Professor Jim Pennebaker at University of Texas.
	You can also go to bingit.io and search for those exact terms.
	You'll see everything we've discussed about them with links to the clips in the No Agenda player.
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	I believe I didn't block his email address.
	I think it was...
	The squirrel mail is down for a day.
	Oh, because the error message said, blocked personal block list.
	I'm like, okay...
	That's possible.
	Yeah.
	Now, can you put him on the night list as Sir...
	Oh, he becomes a knight today?
	Oh, good.
	We didn't have any.
	This is nice.
	Michael Moss.
	Okay, hold on.
	He's blocked.
	He's blocked.
	I'm not going to...
	Michael Moss.
	Yes, and he becomes...
	Michael Moss.
	Sir Michael Moss.
	Okay.
	He's on the list.
	A list you want to be on, people.
	It's a good list to be on.
	Good list to be on.
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	And he's got a note for us, no jingles, no nothing.
	Well, you don't get jingles at $100.
	Matthew Kazmer, I'm guessing, 101.10.
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	Daniel Garzin in Oakland, California, $100.
	What does he say?
	He's down the street.
	He's in Emeryville, actually.
	Been a listener since 2009.
	Haven't donated, but now he has.
	Oh, well, I'm dedouching then.
	Hold on a second.
	You've been dedouching, sir.
	And make sure, Daniel, you should be on the mailing list so you can get word when we do the Bay Area meetup, which is going to be coincidentally at the same time.
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	Oh no, it's going to be simultaneous.
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	Just a small gripe, I'm not a PayPal user, but your donation link goes to paypal.com for processing.
	It rejected my visa payment three times.
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	Cheers.
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	Well, maybe in Malaysia it's a problem.
	I... But I'm going to say this.
	Any international money processing system sucks when it comes to getting us money from some foreign land.
	You go through so many different checks, it's all for terrorism financing.
	Yeah, because everybody's a terrorist.
	Even sending money to my daughter, which I don't have to do, luckily, anymore.
	But, you know, it's like, oh, no.
	It's painful.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Can't do that.
	So we have to check and double check and got to do a runner background check.
	Look, it's the same name.
	Gerald Preston, 8008, boob.
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	Pete, there's like no cities listed here.
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	James Davis.
	Uh, 50-05.
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	Dame Frances Kang, if I'm not mistaken.
	I could be wrong.
	I think you're right.
	Yeah.
	Uh, 50-01.
	And the following people are $50 donors, name and location.
	The list is not that long.
	Jennifer Johnson.
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	Uh, Aaron...
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	Alexa Delgado in Aptos, California.
	Oh, I was saying earlier about our local guy, make sure to get on the mailing list so when we have our meetup, you'll get an email.
	Yes.
	So the same goes for our Aptos Alexa, although that's a long drive.
	Although, when we did one in Sacramento, we had people coming up from Southern California.
	I'm expecting people to come from outside of Texas for when we do the meet-up here.
	They'll come from Oklahoma.
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	I think lots of people...
	You need Mexicans there.
	Yeah, Mexicans.
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	No, there's no...
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	Do we have any listeners in Mexico?
	Yes, we have about five.
	Huh.
	I'll make sure they're on the mailing list.
	Yes, for the Austin, Texas meetup.
	Come on, friends!
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	It's a joke.
	Oh, yes.
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	Dvorak.org slash NA. Got an interesting clip here, a little entremont.
	You know that Mark Schubensy we were talking about, you know, they might be out to get him.
	Yeah, no, actually I had another thought about that.
	Like, one, they might be out to get him and they're going to use the hashtag MeToo.
	But I was also thinking maybe, I think we discussed this after the show, maybe he knows that there's a hashtag MeToo moment coming for his organization.
	Yeah, he's going to get out.
	Possibly for him.
	So, he's like, well, why not just take the $600,000 hit and get thrown out, you know, take the billion dollars when I have to sell the league and at least I won't be shamed as being an a-hole.
	There's a new twist.
	Not that part.
	Not a real twist.
	But where this whole thing came from, where he made his criticism that got him the $600,000 fine, I think is kind of interesting.
	And there's live-in, though.
	Mickey Harrison one time fined half a million dollars for getting into some wine and saying something about Donald Sterling on Twitter.
	And then this guy.
	You've got a situation where Mark Cuban is just on Dr.
	J's podcast.
	He's like, I'll help an old-timer.
	I'll do his podcast.
	I'll do a favor.
	Next thing you know, Bang!
	It cost me $600,000.
	Did you even know Dr.
	J had a podcast?
	Who doesn't have a podcast at this point?
	Thanks.
	So that gave me the ISO? Who doesn't have a podcast at this point, I'm sure?
	Yes.
	Who doesn't have a podcast at this point?
	Yes, it's a fine thing I invented there.
	It's just a commodity piece of shit.
	Everybody's got one.
	It's like a belly button or another piece of your anatomy.
	Everybody has one.
	That's right.
	It's true.
	It's true.
	And I was also surprised Dr.
	J is an old basketball player.
	Sure.
	Julius Irving.
	76ers.
	Yeah, you got it.
	Woohoo!
	Well, I think we're still technically kind of in our hashtag MeToo moment.
	And now it's time for your sexual harassment update.
	Yeah, and well, there's a couple of new cases that came out.
	Uh, one that's very surprising to me, but we start with, well actually this is from the UK, children rights activist Peter Newell, jailed for child abuse.
	That's not really a hashtag MeToo, but just, I'll throw the pedo bears in there.
	Then we have Lawrence Krauss, famous atheist and liberal crusader, and in certain whisper networks, a well-known problem.
	With women coming forward alleging sexual harassment, will his skeptic fan base believe the evidence?
	Never heard of him.
	I've never heard of the guy either.
	But this next guy caught my eye because it was an article from the Austin American Statesman.
	Women describe 14 years of Austin Opera Maestro's lewd talk and touches.
	Right here in Austin.
	Oh no.
	Yes.
	In the weeks since Austin Opera's conductor was fired amidst allegations of harassment, seven women have come forward to describe a culture of permissiveness that they say allowed Richard Buckley to touch women inappropriately and engage in lewd talk because he was a star.
	He was?
	Yeah.
	Well, here's what they say.
	The women told the American statesman that Buckley, who served as the opera's conductor and artistic director for 14 years, regularly touched women's buttocks, commented on their bodies in a sexual manner, made crass jokes, and gave employees unwanted massages.
	Opera executives...
	What massage thing keep coming into the picture?
	It's like code.
	Oh, well, it's a star thing, I'll tell you.
	Opera executives and board members knew about Buckley's behavior, but failed to intervene because of the celebrated maestro's talent, the women said.
	Now, this is very interesting.
	I mean, first of all, a great opportunity, which they didn't do, the statesman, to bring in the Trump grabbing by the pussy when you're a star.
	I mean, come on.
	What a fail that is.
	And this massage thing, it's like a show business thing.
	It's what groupies do when they want to sleep with you.
	And you're backstage, and they come up, and everyone's hanging out, whatever.
	Like, hey, can I give you a back rub, a neck massage?
	That's the code.
	That's the signal.
	Now, why he was doing it, I know he got his signals mixed up, clearly.
	And why isn't the board resigning if they knew about this?
	Oh, they should go.
	They should all go.
	In fact, they should fold the whole Austin operation.
	The whole operation should be shut down.
	Shut it down.
	Who in Austin goes to the opera?
	They play crappy country and western on that street.
	What street is that?
	J Street?
	D Street?
	I can't remember.
	6th Street.
	6th Street.
	K Street.
	Country Western constantly on that street.
	One little band after another.
	Yeah, opera.
	Opera's no good.
	Although I have to say I have a happy algo story.
	Actually, let me close this segment.
	And this concludes your sexual harassment update.
	Didn't even ask me if I had a clip.
	And you closed it.
	Oh, I'm so sorry.
	Typically, you don't have a clip for it.
	Do you have a clip?
	No.
	You're horrible.
	You're a horrible man.
	I had a great algo moment the other day.
	First time, first time in all my years that an algo did something for me that I thought was simple yet impressively cool.
	But the Spotify app on my phone went bloop bloop, which it rarely does, gave me a notification.
	And it said, you listen to Tony Bennett quite often.
	He'll be playing at the Moody Theater in Austin on April 29th or something like that.
	Click here to buy tickets.
	And I clicked, and I was one of the first ones, and I got great floor tickets right in the front by the stage.
	That doesn't happen often.
	Well, that was a service.
	That is the first time I was impressed by the Algo.
	Here's the interesting thing.
	Tina got a message from Spotify.
	Only her message was, go see this pokey-doke country band, because you live in Houston.
	Now, I don't know how the Algo screwed up with her.
	Well, that's bad.
	Yeah.
	You're nowhere near Houston.
	But I was very impressed by that.
	I mean, it's so simple to do it, but they did it.
	And it worked.
	Well, that's your one shot.
	That was your thrill.
	That's it.
	It's all downhill from here.
	I would guess.
	I have a Robo Rosa update.
	Omarosa?
	The Trump bot?
	Right.
	Oh yes, we need to keep it on top of this.
	Yes, this is from Dorian.
	She watches religiously.
	She said, second to the last episode aired last night, you can tell John it's a shortened season because they say celebrities can't afford to be as isolated for as long as regular people.
	Ah!
	It makes sense.
	Yes.
	Omarosa dropped one of the most obvious and possibly last points since next episode on Sunday is sure to be very jam-packed.
	I don't know if they'll have time to slip one in.
	So they're all having a conversation, and someone conveniently says, What was it like the first time you walked into the Oval Office?
	And Roborosa hits back with her bombshell, Which time?
	The Clinton or the Trump White House?
	And of course, Marissa says, I only knew about the Trump White House.
	And here's where Roborosa gives her little excoriation of the press.
	And to paraphrase, she says, of course you did.
	The media likes to paint a narrative that Trump is surrounded by incompetent people.
	But I worked in the Clinton White House.
	In fact, I have my undergraduate, master's, and Ph.D. in communications.
	But when they talk about me, it's always just, oh, Omarosa from The Apprentice.
	Another pro-Trump message.
	From Roborosa.
	Wow, we need a jingle for this segment.
	Unfortunately, the show ends in one week, so we can't do this any good.
	So, I didn't know that she was also in the Clinton one.
	Of course you didn't, because of the media.
	Yeah.
	And I certainly didn't know that she had undergrad, master's, and PhD in communications.
	I don't know if that means much, but I don't have it.
	But it's called Bafama FUD. Oh, I have a Connecticut School of Broadcasting diploma.
	I really do.
	Yeah, good.
	An honorary degree.
	Oh.
	Yes, I showed up for...
	I'm a Kentucky colonel, so there you go.
	Okay.
	All righty then.
	Oh, let's see.
	I have a little to ask Adam.
	Oh, well, you know what I did because I felt so bad about the last time I found the correct jingle.
	Ask Adam, ask Adam.
	Will he know or will he won't?
	I don't know, but here we go.
	Ask Adam, ask Adam, yeah.
	Here we go.
	What do you think in this clip?
	I would find irksome.
	The question is, what do I think John C. Dvorak would find irksome in this clip?
	What has taken...
	I'm sorry?
	Oh, that was in the clip.
	I thought it was yours.
	It was in the clip.
	Oh, jeez.
	What has taken place with her the last year?
	She was skating on the junior level.
	That's her first full season on the senior level.
	Terry, she wasn't even in the Olympic team conversation at the beginning of this season.
	You should change that convo.
	This is a great new bit you're on.
	I love it.
	Convo.
	Yes.
	The indiscriminate Abbreviating of regular words into shit, I think is the name of the segment.
	That would be a good segment name, yeah.
	How about this convo, baby?
	You spotted it.
	Yeah, you're so adorbs when you play those clips.
	I love it.
	Adorbs.
	Adorbs is one of my favorites.
	That would be good, yeah, adorbs.
	I love adorbs.
	Convo.
	Is this just newspeak?
	Is this what's happening?
	Well, you know what?
	What about...
	I can't even ask the question.
	I should have put this in my Me Too segment.
	This is Jill Abramson talking about Clarence Thomas.
	I guess he lied.
	She feels he lied.
	He lied.
	This is our Supreme Court Justice.
	Long dong silver.
	The pubic hair on the Coke can, if you're old enough to remember.
	Is that a pubic hair?
	Is that a pubic hair I see on that Coke can?
	But Jill Abramson is, of course, the O-G-H. O-G-B-H, actually.
	The original gangster Berkeley Hummer.
	And even though the quality of this is somewhat dubious, her humming is exquisite.
	You write that this may be, in your view, an impeachable offense.
	What would make these events impeachable offenses?
	Well, perjury is an impeachable offense.
	And so I think that the evidence that I collected and present in this piece shows overwhelmingly that Clarence Thomas lied during the hearings in 1991.
	She is such a good hummer.
	What is she up to?
	She thinks she's going to get Clarence Thomas impeached?
	Apparently, she's on some mission.
	I guess this is new.
	Here's the meeting with Hillary.
	All right, Jill, you take up the flank of the Supreme Court.
	You've got to change that.
	We've got to change the config.
	Change the config.
	We gotta change the config.
	We gotta change the config.
	That is misogynistic, you know.
	No.
	I don't think so.
	We have no evidence she's actually a woman.
	You know we have this new library in Austin?
	Did you say library?
	Library.
	I said library.
	Okay.
	I wouldn't say library.
	Not in February.
	Mac, producer Mac, caught this on the face bag and he sent it to me.
	He said, this is a person I follow who lives in Austin.
	Now, this library is a five-minute walk from the common-law condo, so I'm going to verify this myself this week.
	Have you been in this library?
	No, Tina has been in the library.
	Most of these libraries in these towns like this are dynamite.
	Well, here's the bag post.
	Lori and I finally visited the new downtown library today.
	The parking structure was full, so we drove around amidst all the construction nearby until we finally found a spot on the street.
	The $125 million building is spectacular, as it should be for the money.
	But about half the library's users on this cold, wet day were bums and vagrants, what we politely call homeless.
	They were sleeping, watching videos on the computers, charging their cell phones.
	Many had large numbers of bags.
	One was wearing a plastic bag.
	Another was dressed in filthy long underwear.
	They stank with fierce body odor.
	They stank with fierce body odor.
	None of them was reading a book.
	None of them was reading a book.
	It was like being in an urban bus station, except the structure was brand new and cost taxpayers $125 million.
	We did not feel secure.
	I would not leave belongings unattended or allow a child to be unaccompanied with this clientele.
	What the city of Austin has created is an expensive, well-equipped homeless shelter.
	Most of the non-homeless users weren't reading books or magazines, but using their laptops.
	You don't need $125 million library to provide free Wi-Fi.
	That's what Starbucks is for.
	We were very disappointed and eager to leave.
	What a waste of money.
	I've been telling you the homeless situation is out of control and now we're becoming just like San Francisco where we just let them go there then.
	Fine.
	So I'm going to the zoo yesterday with my daughter and there's a special Chinese New Year event.
	So we go there and two things she spots.
	On the way back she spotted a giant raven with somebody's Cheese sandwich or something.
	But she, I didn't get to see it, but she says it was not only, it was in a baggie.
	And this bird was carrying this thing off.
	But on the way in to the zoo, we're going through some part of town over by the AT&T baseball park.
	And she says, ah, you always know you're in San Francisco when you see somebody pooping on the sidewalk.
	Yeah.
	I guess she saw something.
	I was driving, so I couldn't look around.
	But she works in the city walking dogs, and so she sees people pooping.
	Because San Francisco is just a giant poop.
	Poop.
	It's a giant poop on the sidewalk's place.
	It's just poop everywhere.
	But yeah, I can see this going on in Austin.
	If I was homeless, I'd go into the library.
	I can't wait to check this out.
	Okay, here's the deal.
	Here's your assignment.
	I have an assignment.
	I'm ready, boss.
	Bring a camera or your iPhone or something.
	Of course.
	And take enough pictures that I can use a few in the newsletter.
	You got it.
	Maybe I'll do some selfies with some of the homeless.
	Oh!
	Oh, man.
	You got excited there for a second.
	That would be dynamite.
	You got it.
	No problem.
	But I want to see the sprawl.
	Yeah, okay.
	And we'll do that.
	I'll have Tina come along.
	She'll be my camera person.
	I mean, my cinematographer.
	I'm sorry.
	Yeah, you need a cinematographer.
	I do need that.
	A couple stories from around the globe.
	The Netherlands, you recall that they had a...
	A referendum, which is legal, was legal in the Netherlands, to have a referendum about the...
	Really, the Dutch said, the majority of the Dutch in the referendum said, we really don't want Ukraine to be part of Europe just yet.
	We don't want the Ascension Agreement to be all hunky-dory for them.
	We still don't know what happened with 200 of our fellow citizens who were shot down over Ukraine.
	We haven't got an explanation for that.
	So, the way the Dutch Parliament just solved that is they held a vote, and 76 to 69, the entire referendum clause in the law books is scrapped.
	No more referendum for you, slave.
	You voted the wrong way.
	What?
	Yeah, so you can't do a referendum in the Netherlands anymore.
	Done.
	Over and out.
	How can the public put up with that kind of crap?
	Yeah, they're all vaccinated.
	I don't know.
	They're docile.
	Chemtrails.
	That's the worst story of the day.
	The best story?
	I have a bad story, too.
	I'll tell you a happy story.
	For us, at least, it's happy.
	Save the happy story.
	Okay, go ahead with your story.
	I have a bad story.
	This is a famous, apparently, now, because we spend so much money overseas...
	Billions and billions of dollars putting roads in Afghanistan.
	We, of course, can't maintain our own highways anywhere, even though we have a big highway fund.
	No, go ahead.
	I was just wondering, is this a story about Afghanistan?
	No.
	I'm just mentioning that Afghanistan gets a lot of the road money.
	They blow up a hole and they fill it up and fix it.
	In the United States, I mean, the highway fund for California is so bad.
	I don't know what, they stole the money.
	The money's being stolen by the corrupt individuals.
	In fact, they're starting to show off with the corruption thing.
	I think there's a good way to end it.
	So there is a notorious pothole in Warren, Michigan that is so famous.
	That they even do a whole feature a bit about this pothole, which I guess if you hit it, which is very likely to happen if it's raining because you don't know there's a pothole there, it just flattens your tire immediately.
	Warren, one stretch of mouth has become an obstacle course as drivers try to dodge the dangerous craters.
	Tim Pamplin has that part of our coverage.
	Currently, there are 10 disabled vehicles, flat tires along Mound.
	Oh, make that 11 vehicles with flat tires.
	12, here comes another one.
	So, yes, there's a problem in Warren.
	It's bad.
	It's real bad.
	It goes all the way across the lane.
	Drivers along this stretch of Mound are at their wits' end as another driver falls victim.
	I went home and I had to know I had some road flares.
	Meet Mr.
	Harold Genuine, concerned citizen.
	I figured I'd come out here and give him probably 10-15 minutes of somebody not hitting them holes.
	Yes, Harold's flares lasted for about 15 minutes and provided a respite.
	It's ridiculous.
	Cops come by before when all them other cars were there, but they gotta patch it.
	I don't know where they're at.
	Once Harold's flares were snuffed out, the pothole was back in business.
	What's with the British accent, though?
	Well, I have no idea.
	In fact, I'm wondering how you get hired for local newscasting in Warren, Michigan.
	That sounds credible.
	You get a British accent, you sound credible.
	That's it.
	You sound like you can't pronounce the right words.
	I can't imagine half this stuff.
	But at least no one had to go to hospital.
	Yeah, but that's another thing.
	It probably introduces that kind of weirdness.
	But yeah, this big hole, I guess, in the road, nobody gives a shit.
	Because they can't afford it.
	Well, you said Afghanistan, and that's where my story comes from.
	Because yes, our money's going to fix roads in Afghanistan, and for a very specific reason...
	And of all people leading the charge, finally, finally we have something to watch again on C-SPAN that actually holds my interest.
	Marco Rubio is worried about the Chinese.
	At a Senate intelligence hearing last week on worldwide threats, intelligence agencies outlined their concerns over Russia's meddling in U.S. elections.
	But they also talked about China and how China's projecting soft power through colleges and universities in the United States.
	Republican Senator Marco Rubio from Florida pointed to Confucius Institutes.
	I wrote a letter to five higher education institutions in Florida about the Confucius Institutes, which are funded by Chinese government dollars at U.S. schools.
	And it is my view that they're complicit in these efforts to covertly influence public opinion and to teach half-truths designed to present Chinese history, government, or official policy in the most favorable light.
	So if the FBI is monitoring these Confucius Institutes, are they saying that they're concerned with some potential criminal activity going on?
	Yeah, Christopher Wray didn't go quite as far as saying that, but the FBI director essentially said that they've been watching the institutes, as he used the word, watching them warily, and in certain instances have developed appropriate investigative steps.
	So that was as far as we got in terms of detail, but certainly it did suggest that Houston's Institutes have been at least a subject of investigative attention by the FBI, if nothing else.
	Good.
	Why were you groaning?
	I just remembered something.
	Okay.
	They're groaning about the clip.
	Well, so we're taking on China and Afghanistan is right now front and central.
	A couple of articles came out.
	Homework for people who are interested in learning a little bit more.
	You'll find it in the show notes.
	Go to nashownotes.com.
	You'll find the episode there in the archive and then go into the show notes and look for the pipelines.
	Professor William Engdahl, who I've read all his books and follow all of his, he's a big pipeline war type of guy.
	So he has a great article that he wrote about how the Chinese have been desperately wanted, as we talked about, I knew it was happening, desperately want to adopt Afghanistan into their three-belt-no-road strategy as they want to go through Afghanistan.
	And we are stopping that by our huge troop buildup and by this wonderful article that came out two days ago.
	This is the New York Times headline.
	Afghanistan breaks ground on 1,127 mile peace pipeline.
	This is the big one that we've been trying to get done since Unical proposed it in 1968 or something.
	It's going on forever.
	I'll just read a little bit.
	This is the TAPI, T-A-P-I, known as the Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India pipeline.
	This has been the big monster.
	This is why we're in Waziristan, which is right on the Pakistani border, which we talked about before even drones started showing up over there.
	This is why we're deployed all the way in Kandahar.
	It's to protect this pipeline.
	And what's happening now is the Taliban, the Taliban banana, they're so happy.
	They're saying, you know what?
	I think we can find some common ground here, America.
	Why don't we protect the pipeline over here?
	So finally, this is what Rex Tillerson wanted.
	Everybody's wanted to do this for 30 years, as far as I can remember.
	And it also will have fiber-optic cables and a railroad, and it's going to connect Turkmenistan, which is where the gas is.
	It's going to thwart the other peace pipeline, which is the Iran-Iraq...
	Was it Iran-Iraq?
	The...
	No, the Iran-Pakistan-India, sorry.
	Iran-Pakistan-India, IPI, that's what it's called, which would come from the South Pars gas field in Iran.
	But now you know why we're there.
	This troop buildup is to stop China and not let Iran slash the Russians do anything, and we're going to protect it all the way, all the way down Afghanistan, into Pakistan, into India.
	Good work, everybody.
	Maybe you won't have to kill anybody now.
	You got what you want.
	Well, that's not going to happen.
	It's too much fun.
	Yeah, sounds right.
	Between the poppies, so they can...
	Somebody said...
	Somebody said a letter in saying, we get all our heroin from Mexico.
	Because now they bust a bunch of guys.
	So what's the point of being in Afghanistan protecting the poppy fields?
	And I said, it's for the Europeans and the Russians.
	Yes.
	That's where that poppy stuff goes.
	They get the Afghan stuff.
	They get the Primo stuff, apparently.
	Yeah, we get the crappy stuff from Mexico.
	Two social justice clips.
	Mexican brown.
	Two social justice warrior clips to end up with from my side.
	I know you've got to go, but do you want to play any clips?
	Well, I've got a couple.
	I've got a little homeless clip.
	How come you didn't stick that to the library?
	I wasn't paying that close of attention.
	Oh, okay.
	Thanks.
	Let's play the homeless clip.
	I'm looking for it.
	No, wait.
	Don't play that homeless clip.
	Play Amnesty International report.
	So they have a big thing, a big embargo.
	And then I played this clip and I said, oh, the Amnesty International does this bitch about us.
	First, our Secretary General, Salil Shetty, will give an overview of the report and the key themes that Amnesty is highlighting this year.
	Next, my colleague Erika Guevara-Rosas, who's the America's Director for Amnesty, will speak to some of the human rights themes in our hemisphere, including the United States.
	And then our third speaker, Tarana Hassan, director of our crisis work, will be able to speak to Amnesty's work on the Rohingya in Bangladesh and Myanmar, as well as the situation in Syria and any other crises that have been arising over the last several weeks and the last year.
	Thank you all for joining us this morning.
	So, one year ago, Millions of people, not just in the United States but across the world were watching anxiously to see what a Trump presidency would yield after an election campaign of hateful and xenophobic and sexist rhetoric.
	They were also looking with trepidation across Europe where electoral races in France, Netherlands, Austria and Germany were showcasing similar rhetoric and the cynical use of fear and hatred.
	Combined with already harsh crackdowns and identity-based violence in many countries, it was a bleak outlook.
	A year later, we take stock and what we find that in 2017, to a very alarming extent, sadly, the hateful rhetoric crossed into hateful reality.
	In the USA, we saw the reinstatement of the global gag rule depriving millions of women and girls worldwide of vital health care.
	The travel bans aimed at mainly...
	Hold on, hold on.
	What global gag rule?
	What is he talking about, this jamoke?
	This is the worst.
	This guy goes...
	He's talking about we stopped funding some operation that we sent stuff to Africa.
	I mean, it's not as though the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation don't send anything.
	But it was part of the...
	Clanned Parenthood kind of money.
	Oh, okay.
	No, he goes on and on, but he starts with Trump.
	This is Amnesty International, this British operation.
	I looked into him.
	You can play the rest of the clip in a minute.
	I looked into him.
	I knew Obama.
	He always bitched about him being a bunch of fakes.
	And so, you know, I said, these guys are getting on my nerves, you know, blaming it.
	Now they're blaming torture, worldwide torture on Trump.
	And in fact, they even mentioned that time when he says, well, I think there were good people on both sides.
	They're an activist group.
	They're an activist group.
	Yeah.
	So I was looking back in 1995 to 1998.
	Somebody did a...
	A breakdown of all their press releases and their criticisms of various countries.
	And the number one country in the whole list of African countries everywhere in the world, what was the number one country where they're bitching about how bad we are?
	America.
	Oh, I gave it away.
	America.
	49 criticisms of the United States, 12 of Cuba.
	Wait, wait, wait.
	Are we number one?
	Yeah, we're number one.
	Woo!
	Foam finger number one, baby!
	Woo!
	Woo!
	Once again, America does it!
	It's like, it's unbelievable this list.
	So this operation, you're right, it's just a bunch of phonies.
	It's a bullcrap operation.
	Anyway, play the rest and you'll see what I'm talking about.
	USA, we saw the reinstatement of the global gag rule depriving millions of women and girls worldwide of vital health care.
	The travel bans aimed at mainly Muslim countries.
	The dramatic cutback on refugee resettlement numbers, leaving thousands more in limbo.
	And a new climate of permissiveness for xenophobia and hatred arising from President Trump's failure to condemn it when he saw it.
	Peddling hatred and fear against whole groups of people based on who they are...
	Ultimately leads only in one direction.
	When leaders foster it or turn a blind eye, the endgame is horrific and literally fatal.
	Ah, this is a jabroni.
	Man, go to Saudi Arabia.
	Saudi Arabia's got no complaints.
	No, of course not.
	It's fabulous.
	Oh, thanks.
	Very depressing.
	Yeah, well, okay, I thought you had a happy clip at the end.
	Well, and you have to go, so I'll play the last...
	I gotta go, right, I gotta go.
	I gotta play the last two clips, social justice warrior clips, what could have possibly gone wrong with this?
	We think we're bad.
	Scandinavia, who also have school shootings, as we heard earlier, they've taken this political...
	Well, they're there to the extreme.
	Canada has got huge problems in this regard, yes.
	See?
	Changes in management are happening too, but like most...
	This is about...
	I don't know how to pronounce it.
	Dalhousie University?
	Dalhousie?
	Dalhousie?
	I used to know how to pronounce it.
	Dalhousie is how I pronounce it.
	Changes in management are happening too, but like most, Dalhousie University's executive leadership still lacks visible minorities.
	So Dal is taking steps to close the gap, restricting who's eligible for a senior management position in student affairs.
	It's because of a low representation of racially visible and Indigenous people among our senior leadership at Dalhousie.
	But in the circumstances of this search, we're going to restrict applicants to only racially visible and Indigenous applicants at this time.
	Excluding others from applying has generated some backlash, including this Toronto newspaper headline asking if it's an example of reverse discrimination.
	But this Dalhousie student, whose activism has brought her face-to-face with senior Dal management, says greater overall inclusion is critical.
	Even sitting at that table, I felt very uncomfortable as a racialized student trying to connect with other people.
	I love this new term, racialized student.
	That's very broad.
	I don't even know what it means.
	This is the first time Dal has imposed these restrictions to fill a senior administration job.
	But they have been applied before, notably in hiring 11 faculty members since 2012.
	We're bringing something new to the table.
	Ajay Parasram is one of Dal's so-called diversity hires.
	It's not just that I have brown skin, it's that I bring brown issues into my teaching, into my service, into my everyday work.
	That's what Jay saw on the street.
	Brown issues.
	It's that.
	I bring brown issues into my teaching, into my service, into my everyday work.
	But some advocates for disadvantaged groups don't like the job posting.
	This Nova Scotia activist points out Dal is cherry-picking who's eligible and excluding the disabled.
	Why not include them in that policy as well, which is...
	Best practice around the world when you have an affirmative action program.
	Dow says there's a reason for that exclusion.
	People with disabilities are not underrepresented at the university.
	The job posting is being launched this week.
	It could take months to select a winning candidate.
	Way to go, Canada!
	Racialized students.
	I've never heard of that.
	What does it mean?
	Well, it was a Muslim girl who was saying that.
	So when you're racialized, I think it means that you are unrepresented or underrepresented and therefore you're racialized.
	That's what I think it means.
	Well, let's look it up while we're still here.
	Okay.
	I'll let the Uber stay out there.
	I'm going to...
	He'll keep the meter running.
	Don't worry.
	We are going to find out the term racialized.
	The password is racialized.
	What did you find out, John?
	Racialization?
	There's a whole wiki entry.
	Uh-oh.
	In sociology, racialization or ethnicization is the process of ascribing ethnic or racial identities to a relationship, social practice, or group that did not identify itself as such.
	Wow, so these are people who don't even want to be recognized as part of a group, but they get lumped in as a part of a group?
	So the Muslim woman is probably white, probably something.
	Brownish.
	Well, she probably considers herself just a person.
	She was wearing a hijab.
	Well, it's just decoration.
	It's icing on the cake, I tell you.
	It's like a Christmas star on top of the tree.
	It's just decoration.
	Well, we'll be on the lookout for the term.
	Wait, let me read this.
	The process of racialization...
	Can affect newly arriving immigrants as well as their second generation children in the United States.
	The concept of racialized incorporation bridges the idea of assimilation with critical race studies in general and in the concept of racialization in particular.
	While immigrants may possess specific ethnic and cultural identities associated with their countries of origin, once they arrive in the U.S., they are incorporated into a society that is largely organized along the lines of race, the racial higher identity.
	It just goes on and on.
	It's like a long explanation that I still don't fully get.
	Okay, we'll boil this down to some simple meaning.
	Let's see if it catches on, this term.
	And I just yearn for the days when school was simple...
	And the lunch ladies would do a theme.
	You know, you have your sloppy joe day, sloppy joe day.
	I always used to love the lunch ladies.
	New York University is apologizing for an offensive menu that was created for Black History Month.
	The dining hall was serving ribs, collard greens, cornbread, sweet potatoes, mac and cheese, and two beverages, Kool-Aid and watermelon-flavored water.
	An investigation determined two employees of the school's food vendor acted Independently in creating the menu, they were fired.
	What?
	They were fired.
	Sounds like a great menu.
	I know.
	And I think, you know, it would have been good.
	But no, racially insensitive.
	You're racializing.
	I don't think there's a person, black or white, in that school that wouldn't have loved ribs and cornbread.
	It's fantastic.
	And watermelon water is tasty, too.
	You gotta get with the program, Dvorak.
	Oh, man.
	Thanks to Albert Felici, Garth, and Tom Starkweather for our end-of-show mixes.
	And thank you, producers, for bringing it once again.
	Dvorak.org slash NA is where you can support us for the next media deconstruction.
	Coming to you on Thursday, right here on the same No Agenda channel you're used to.
	And I am coming to you from downtown Austin, Texas, capital of the Drone Star State.
	FEMA Region 6 on all the governmental maps in the 5x9 Cludio in the Common Law Condo in the morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where we were sent, I gave the guy the credit for sending me this little NBC chime, which doesn't sound anything.
	I mean, it has the right notes, but it's kind of weak.
	But it's great.
	I have it now.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	We return on Sunday right here on No Agenda.
	Until then, adios, mofos.
	Adios, mofos.
	Not mankind.
	There we go.
	Exactly.
	Neil MacDonald reports.
	Justin's position is clear.
	They're people kind, not mankind.
	Neil McDonald reports.
	Justin Trudeau lonely and unpopular.
	Trudeau the Younger likely won't be as successful as was Trudeau the Elder.
	We've seen a fair bit of misbehavior, but that was the most egregious example.
	Most egregious example.
	Neil McDonald reports.
	Justin Trudeau lonely and unpopular.
	Neil McDonald reports.
	Justin Trudeau.
	Watch out now.
	Justin Trudeau.
	Douchbag.
	Justin Trudeau.
	Watch out now.
	Douchbag.
	I got a formula.
	I want to propagate it.
	I don't want to do this.
	We have people in life.
	Shut up.
	It was for the good of the system.
	Have we ever tried to meddle in other countries?
	Oh, probably.
	But it was for the good of the system in order to avoid the bombings that we govern.
	We don't do that now, though.
	We don't mess around with other people.
	Oh, no, no, no, no.
	We don't do that now, though.
	We don't mess around with other people.
	Only for a very good cause.
	Okay, and listen.
	Hey.
	Propagate our formula.
	We stop talking.
	We spank.
	If it rings true, it is true.
	Here's the thing about the book.
	I know that there's demonic forces.
	I have no, I have no, I have no agenda.
	Hold yourself to accountability.
	Oh my God, you've been there.
	I don't know you haven't.
	I have no agenda.
	We cannot believe a single word.
	We cannot believe a single word.
	It's good material.
	He's playing a character.
	He's a performance artist.
	You know, I am an actor.
	The house is rather ever excited.
	We're straddling, bro.
	Yeah, we're straddling, bro.
	Stay woke!
	Polite of those poor children.
	Stay woke!
	Do you know this guy?
	It's a psychopathic ideology that is very absolutist, but either you're against us.
	And the long-term view is that in billions of years, the sun is going to actually grow and encompass the earth, right?
	How long?
	Yeah.
	It's been like a live colonoscopy on television.

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