This is your award-winning Kimo Nation Media Assassination, Episode 1012!
This is No Agenda...
Tracking all Black Widow movements and broadcasting live from downtown Austin, Tejas, Capital of Drone, Star State, in the Cludio, in the morning, everybody!
I'm Adam Curry.
And from northern Silicon Valley, where it's raining cats and dogs, I'm John C. Devorak.
It's Crack, Blood, and Buzzkill, in the morning!
Yeah, at least it's not like Europe.
It's so bad.
They've even given up on polar vortex and any other explanation.
They're just like, it's damn cold, people!
Apparently it's snowing in Rome.
Yeah.
Actually, the UK. Let's see if I have this somewhere.
They had, on their TV, they had snowball fights in Ireland.
Yeah.
That was never supposed to happen again except in snow globes.
I wish we had a clip of that.
It was never a clip.
It was an article.
It was an article.
Here we go.
The NHS, that's the UK healthcare system.
The boss has warned of perfect storm, minus 16 degrees centigrade, blizzards, norovirus, and flu is piling pressure on overstretched hospitals amidst the worst winter ever.
How about that, huh?
It's pretty bad.
It was just there in November and it was freezing then.
Yeah.
Well, we've always said...
Be on the lookout for the little ice age for global cooling.
How they laughed at us, John.
Well, we figured it was a plot to kill people because there's nothing to do with ice age that's going to kill people.
Yeah.
I'd rather have it a little warmer, honestly.
I think Texas is doing okay, but man, it gets chilly here.
We're still sometimes in the 30s.
Oh.
We haven't really hit the 30s here at all.
Well, for Texas, that's cool.
How was it in the future?
Well, let's see who's going to go next.
I think we nailed it, John.
And even better than I expected.
We hate to gloat.
I hate to gloat, but here's what we found out with the Black Widow, Hope Hicks, resigning.
Now it all falls into place.
Jivanka...
That's Jared and Ivanka.
You know, they have a name together, Javanka.
They wanted General Kelly out because he was in their way.
He's telling them what to do.
He's got power.
They don't like it.
They got power over daddy.
Trump knows that Jared's got to get out.
He is totally toxic.
And what's up with the way that guy...
He's an alien.
He's totally toxic.
I wish we had more clips of him talking.
He never talks.
No, he never talks.
Or rarely.
So, Trump doesn't have the heart to fire him because, you know, he's daddy's girl's husband.
So, he says, Kelly, what can you do?
Ah, I got it.
And just to say, a downgrade.
I mean, that's not just getting rid of someone.
That's insulting them and kicking them on the way out.
It's like...
Why don't you go sit in economy class, you slave?
You've been downgraded.
So, Javanka want Kelly out.
Trump doesn't have the heart to fire Jared.
And you can never fire Ivanka.
Of course, all this went down while she was conveniently in South Korea.
Makes so much sense.
Oh, by the way, just as a quick aside.
So, I'm watching the Olympics.
And she's like with the president and his wife in South Korea in the same booth.
And behind her is the North Korean woman, and there's a bunch of other people around there.
But I have to say, I said, they never mention, they're panning, and they say, there's the president of South Korea.
They never mention she's there.
But I have to say, and she looked great when she's wearing some big furry thing.
She is so identifiable.
Ivanka.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
I mean, in a crowd.
It's like, wow, there's Ivanka sitting right there.
I knew she was identifiable.
I didn't know how identifiable.
She, too, looks a lot like an alien.
She's got that sheen about her face.
Anyway, forget that.
Let's talk about what happened to the aliens.
So, Jared gets downgraded, which is just beautiful.
I mean, that's so insulting.
And, of course, the guy is toxic.
And now we know what was happening because Hope Hicks resigns.
In my mind, she was indeed Javanka's spy, and she purposely...
Dropped the news of Porter, her boyfriend, kind of, having this abuse history and got the blame pinned onto Kelly trying to get him out.
That was the whole strategy.
I believe you.
I think it's a valid theory.
Let's listen to the...
We have the rundown here.
And by the way, I am shattered.
Why?
Come on!
The Black Widow!
She was great for the show!
We'll have other things.
I don't know what she's going to do.
Well, before I play my Hope Hicks clips, I want to play this little ditty here on BBC News, which is on the top of the list.
And I want you to tell me if there's a little piece of discrepant information in here that I've never heard.
A reassuring presence for Donald Trump at the White House.
And as you say, it comes just out of the day after it was announced that Jared Kushner, his son-in-law, has lost his clearance.
Ivanka Trump has lost his security clearance.
You know, that inner circle is shrinking.
And that churn that we've seen at the White House is just unprecedented.
Nick Bryant, thanks for joining me.
See, I presumed it was true, but I hadn't heard it either, that Ivanka also got downgraded.
I started looking into it, and there's a couple of...
For one thing, the Democrats had been calling since July.
You and I were calling for them to get out.
Well, no, but the Democrats had been calling specifically for Ivanka to lose her security clearance.
I couldn't find any particular reason why.
But they were bitching and moaning.
And then there was a couple of vague articles suggesting she might have, but it never got much legs.
And if you have your communications director, Hope Hicks, covering for...
The Javanka.
The news would never get out, but maybe it's true and this guy was just reporting it.
It would make nothing but sense.
I'm sure there were several downgrades that we didn't hear about.
The one that everyone cares about.
I didn't clip it, but man, do they love giving out the address of his building that he owes $2 billion to the Chinese for.
Yeah, 666 Fifth Avenue.
Yeah, I know.
I love this.
You never hear anyone talk about real estate that way.
It's always his building in New York, his building in Atlanta.
No, now it's 666 Fifth Avenue.
666.
Mark of the Beast.
Mark of the Beast.
So let's play Hope Hicks ABC1. This would be a...
That major resignation at the White House.
Hope Hicks, the president's longest serving aide, with the president even before his campaign.
Just 24 hours ago on Capitol Hill answering those questions, a source telling ABC News she told House investigators she had occasionally told white lies for the president.
She is now stepping down.
Now this is another thing.
You've got to kind of start to listen to the sources that say stuff.
I mean, this is a closed hearing meeting behind closed doors, and she's barely even walked out, and they know that she said, yes, I sometimes tell a white lie.
But yet there's no official source for this.
How does this work?
Why was it even behind closed doors if they immediately had this information, if it's even true?
I never heard her confirm it.
No, this was launched, and I'm thinking...
There's a bunch of memes.
In fact, if we listen to that, that's why I divided this.
No, I want you to stop.
This is divided into four sections for reasons that are obvious as we do it.
But even within the sections, there is misinformation, misdirection, whipsaws, especially with ABC. NBC is just as bad, but ABC is maybe the worst.
And you listen to it and it's like, Why are you bothering to do a hit job?
It makes no sense.
And you start to realize it's really very subtle.
It's just like erosion.
No, it's part of the rotation.
Trump's a liar.
Yeah, there's that.
There's other stuff in here that's kind of interesting.
Occasionally told white lies for the president.
She is now stepping down.
Tonight, the White House says the timing of this resignation is coincidental.
And tonight, the growing list of departures right there on your screen, a little more than a year into this administration, starting with Michael Flynn, the firings, the resignations, one more key name added to that list tonight, Hope Hicks.
ABC senior White House correspondent Cecilia Vega leading us off.
Less than 24 hours after Hope Hicks emerged from nearly nine hours of testifying on Capitol Hill.
Any collusion?
Tonight, the president's closest aide and longtime confidant...
Wait, did someone just yell, any collusion?
Was that...
Let me hear that again.
That is the reason the clip stopped.
That's right.
Let me listen to that.
Nearly nine hours of testifying on Capitol Hill.
Any collusion?
Tonight, the president's closest...
I'm just going to start saying that to people in general.
Hi, I'm Adam.
Nice to meet you.
Any collusion?
Any collusion?
Aiden, long-time confidant, unexpectedly resigning from her role as communications director, sending shockwaves through the West Wing.
Shockwaves!
The official line from the White House, Hicks has been thinking about leaving the job for some time and wants to spend more time with her family.
Her family?
Now they...
Yes, her family.
Now, of course, there's two or three elements here that we're looking at.
Besides what you already caught, which was the obvious one, which is somebody yelling on the clip.
Any collusion.
It's like Tourette's clip, is that?
It's nuts.
It's to put in the listener's mind the collusion element, because it's really not in there otherwise.
There's no collusion information in any of the clips.
But we might as well get it in, get it in there.
So we've got the three things.
We've got the Trump's a liar.
We've got the collusion, which is just artificially inserted.
And then we have the White House in a turmoil, which is another checklist item.
Well, it was more than turmoil.
She didn't say chaos, which I had expected.
What did she say?
Oh, shockwaves.
Yeah, shockwaves.
Shockwaves to the West Wing.
Well, shockwaves is different than what they're describing because they show all these guys that were fired.
Look at all these people they've lost.
Yeah, but it's alliteration with a W, so it's shockwaves to the White House, the West Wing, sorry.
Shockwaves in the West Wing.
Yeah, well, that's because they probably have somebody on the staff that's like you that really loves alliteration to an extreme, and they should have used chaos.
Yeah, because that's the meme, but okay.
So, okay, we go on.
You got any collusion.
Just crack.
I actually had to laugh out loud when that happened.
You should have ISO'd it.
That's a good one.
Any collusion?
Actually, I should have.
You're right.
It's just, it's Tourette's.
It's great.
Okay, on to clip two.
But the news comes with Hicks under fire for that testimony, telling congressional investigators under oath that she occasionally told white lies on behalf of the President of the United States.
Hey!
At 29 years old, she became one of the most powerful players in the Trump White House.
Hope Hicks is a tremendously talented person.
She started off with us right from day one.
By the president's side through the campaign.
Hope Hicks.
Where's Hope?
Hope, come here, Hope.
Come here, Hope.
Get up here, Hope.
Hope Hicks, the legendary Hope Hicks.
She's very shy.
She actually is.
She's a very shy person, but she's a great person.
She's done an amazing job.
Before that, in Trump Tower as an assistant to the billionaire businessman.
A former model, she joined the family working on Ivanka Trump's fashion line.
Now, she helps run the White House.
Her handwriting right there on the president's note, reminding him to tell those grieving families from Parkland, I hear you.
Okay, a couple things here.
First of all, is the way they...
It wasn't a whipsaw, it's something else, and I don't know what it is, but it's taking it So the stream of consciousness rolls in a certain – you're listening and you hear the following.
If you just listen to the words or you just saw a transcript, it would go like this.
She admitted to saying that she told white lies for the president.
Thank you, Donald Trump!
Yep.
Build a wall!
They could put that in for no reason.
So in other words, thank you Donald Trump for making me tell white lies.
I don't know what the subconscious is going to deal with when it hears those two things in a row, but that's what you heard.
You heard, she told white lies, thank you Donald Trump.
Build a wall!
Build a wall.
And then there was that thing at the end, which is the...
I'll play it.
Hold on.
Yeah, back it up.
Back it up, you said.
Back it up.
But the news comes with now, she helps run the White House.
Her handwriting right there on the president's note, reminding him to tell those grieving families from Parkland, I hear you.
Which is insinuating that the president can't even write his own thank yous, and I hear yous.
Yeah, he can't write his own notes, and the stupid thing about say thank you to everybody makes him sound like a complete moron.
Mm-hmm.
And whether she wrote that...
I don't know.
Did she ever say she wrote those notes?
Is that her handwriting?
Do we know for a fact?
No, I don't know about that.
But I've looked at her mannerisms, how she interacts with other people, because I've never heard her speak except for that one thing where Trump brought her on stage.
That's what she says.
Thank you, Donald Trump!
That's about it.
I'll bet you she's really good at communications.
The profile kind of fits the way she interacts with people.
I think she'd be really good.
And I bet she was good.
She's probably a good writer.
She could be.
But...
Which introduces a couple more topics in the next special mini-clip.
Within minutes of news of her departure, the president releasing a statement saying, Chief of Staff John Kelly calling Hicks strategic, poised, and wise beyond her years.
To say that she will be missed is an understatement.
But her tenure in Washington, not without scandal.
Hicks was involved in crafting a misleading statement about that now infamous Trump Tower meeting between Don Jr.
and the Russians.
That one.
Yeah, that one.
Because she apparently crafted the memo that said we don't know nothing.
Wait, let's get...
I'll catch up on that one.
Wasn't the same media accusing Donald as the one who did that memo?
That he wrote the whole thing and Jared...
Don Jr.'s a moron or Eric's a moron.
He could write if he wanted to.
Yeah, I remember he wrote it and pasted it into an email so Jr.
could just go...
But now, all of a sudden, she crafted it.
She may be the key.
She may hold the key to everything.
Were they meeting with the Russians?
Or were they meeting with this Russian lawyer?
Or a lawyer from Russia?
That's just the Russians.
They're there with Russian salad dressing.
It's gotten pretty crazy.
Just as an aside, now all of a sudden...
MSNBC, I've been watching them every day, starting, you know, like 6.30 in the morning.
Yeah, yeah.
You better take something.
Yeah, yeah.
Oh, that's what you get the bong for.
I got the bong.
Exactly.
Now you know what protects me.
The holy herb protects me from the bee.
So now it's, well, you know, Donald Trump called for Russia to hack Hillary's emails.
And they played a little soundbite out of context, of course, because it was a joke.
Yeah, of course.
But it doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter.
And now they're saying, and then two days later they published those emails, the Russian WikiLeaks.
But those were the DNC emails.
They're even confused about which emails they're talking about.
It's just going round and round and round in circles.
Oh, yeah, they do that.
Well, there's a bunch of it.
I got some more clips later on the show that, again, they bring in old stuff and they try to shoehorn it into whatever their narrative is.
I hate to use the word, but I have to.
And I guess it works if you're really stupid.
I would say most people at this point are.
They've been stupefied.
Well, they've been stupefied.
So let's go to finish this guy up.
More recently, she was at the center of the firestorm over the departure of former Staff Secretary Rob Porter, ousted amid domestic violence allegations.
And, you know, remember that she's the one that, at least that was the reporting, that she wrote the press announcement about this.
I mean, either she did it and said, hey, Rob, Boyfriend, sorry, you've got to do this for me because we've got to get Kelly out for the country.
Or, just like, she was also with Lewandowski, I believe.
She was dating him on the campaign.
She's just a dangerous, dangerous person.
Now she needs to have more time with her family.
What does that mean?
What is going to be a big orgy?
I mean, I don't understand.
But if she actually used this guy...
And remember, everyone was blown away by this.
Like, holy crap.
Of course, it was a PR disaster.
Couldn't get away from it.
But the way it went, boom.
All of a sudden, she's dating him.
We find that out.
Boom, the guy has abusive background.
Boom, John Kelly is an asshole for hiring him.
We got to get Kelly out.
Get Kelly out.
It seemed so coordinated.
I think they want Kelly out, but who is they?
Javanka!
You know, they just, well, anyway, it doesn't matter.
I'm sorry for taking us on that detour.
No, no, I think it needs to be discussed.
And I'm kind of reminded by, there was somebody else that was working, I think it was Banyan.
He was having, he was butting heads with Kelly too, and he And there was somebody else that felt they could...
It wasn't Conway.
It was somebody else that was...
Everybody felt they could go in and out and in and out.
And Kelly says, no, you can't keep going in and out and in and out.
We've got things to do here.
Yes.
And if you remember the special interview I did with Steve Pachenik, Kelly is the deep state guy from military intelligence who are running this president.
And from the way I see it, I think they got every douchebag out at this point.
I don't think there's any more potential risks left.
Are there?
Is there anyone left from the Trump Tower scene?
No, but Conway might be.
Conway's still in there, but she's a political operative.
She's been around.
Yeah, that's true.
And she probably goes along with the program.
I'm sure she does.
No, but it's just the hangers.
It's just Javanka hanging out, those two.
And they were, oh, they've been downgraded, so now it's another reason they can't go in the office.
Oh, no, no, stop being classified.
We're doing classified stuff.
Yeah, get out of here.
Get out of here, you.
So they haven't been completely driven out, but I think it's happening.
Yeah, maybe we'll get down to business now, finally, without all the morons hanging around.
More recently, she was at the center of the firestorm over the departure of former Staff Secretary Rob Porter, ousted amid domestic violence allegations.
Porter and Hope were dating, and she helped craft the administration's defense of him when the news broke.
Tonight, the White House says none of that is linked to her departure.
The timing?
Just coincidence.
So let's get to Cecilia Vega live at White House tonight.
And Cecilia Hope Hicks releasing a statement of her own tonight.
David, she is.
She says there are no words to adequately express her gratitude to President Trump not that long ago right here in the West Wing.
She tearfully thanked West Wing staffers.
She is a very beloved member of this administration.
Her office was right outside President Trump's Oval Office.
We can't emphasize enough how much of a trusted advisor she was to him.
Her actual departure date could still be weeks off, David, but this has been a very key role and a tough one for this White House to fill.
Hope Hicks is now the fourth communications director to come.
Come and go.
I think it was Rachel Maddow who had a huge screen on full screen last night with tiny little print of all the people who had been kicked out and then had communications director, another communications director, yet another communications director.
They just love it.
That included Scaramucci.
Of course.
Of course.
Well...
He wasn't even really a communications director.
He was there for some other purpose we were never sure of.
Right.
Or to help get rid of somebody.
Somebody else had to go.
No, it was Spicer, wasn't it?
Yeah, Spicer.
He was there the longest.
Yeah, he had to get rid of him because he was a bonehead.
Right, right.
And so Scaramucci came in to get rid of him.
Oh, and Rance Priebus.
He had to get rid of Rance Priebus.
That was the time.
Right, right.
And so Scaramucci came in and kept accusing Rance Priebus of being the leaker.
Which apparently he was.
Well, sadly, I think that what, and I really mean sadly, I think that now that we have the military in control of the White House, because that's the way I see it.
Well, if you look around, there seems to be an extraordinary number of Military guys, including the chief of staff.
Yeah.
Can I move off the Black Widow to go where I need to go with this then?
Yeah, you might as well.
Let me just double check so I don't bring an old clip in later.
I don't think I have any more clips on her.
All right.
Yeah.
So with Kelly in charge, and we've seen the buildup in Afghanistan...
But we still have this issue in Syria, and mind you, this is about the Golan Heights oil, it's still about the pipelines, and we have to come up with some kind of ruse to make sure that we can stay there.
And we've already heard the rumblings, oh yeah, chemical weapons, chemical weapons, and now this.
Oh, yeah.
Secret.
Valves.
Valves.
It's very alarming because North Korea has the world's largest stockpile of chemical weapons and the technology to produce it, and Syria has repeatedly used chemical weapons.
Wait, wait, wait.
What did he say?
Let's listen again.
Let's go to the videotape team.
It's very alarming because North Korea has the world's largest stockpile of chemical weapons.
I thought we got rid of the chemical weapons.
No, we got rid of the chemical weapons in Syria.
Oh, now North Korea has the largest?
Have you ever heard this before?
No, it's from a secret report from sources.
So how could we know?
We don't know nothing.
Now, let's just stop a second.
They're making North Korea out to be the bad guy in every way they can, and so you'd think they'd be under massive scrutiny, and we'd know that they have not just some chemical weapons, but they have the world's biggest supply, more than we have?
Yeah?
Really?
Shut up.
Why are you asking questions?
Shut up.
It's from the secret report and we know it apparently.
I think he actually says we know.
Turn those chemicals into deadly bombs have been shipped by Kim's regime.
It's very alarming because North Korea has the world's largest stockpile of chemical weapons and the technology to produce it.
And Syria has repeatedly used chemical weapons and continues to do so against its own people.
So this is fantastic.
You can blame the bad guys that are uncheckable.
And then, well, you know, if he's doing it against his own people, he's doing it again.
Right, and let's remind everybody about the research that was done on that first chemical attack that they tried to, where the red line was drawn.
Yes, yes.
Because the Obama administration, which was debunked by every known expert in the world, that these bombs were not from Syria, they were from the rebels.
They sent the chemicals to northern England, they were checked out, and the minute the results came back, Obama forgot about the red line.
Because he didn't want to attack under false pretense.
But that's okay.
We'll just ignore.
No, no, let's ignore those old facts.
We need new facts.
New facts!
Well, luckily this came up in the State Department briefing.
Where'd you get this clip, by the way?
That's CNN. And I think CNN is all in on it.
You know, they've got Barbara Starr at the Pentagon, Wolf Blitzer with IDF. We've got Anderson Pooper with CIA. CNN is just one big hornet's nest of bullcrap.
So, you know, this is total propaganda.
Thank God they got nobody watching that network.
They're not doing that bad.
Heather Nauert, who's the only other cutie left in the administration, now that the Black Widow is gone, but...
So Heather, who has an interesting style, she's asked the question about this and about this report.
There's a report in the New York Times that North Korea has been shipping supplies to Syria that can be used in or for producing chemical weapons.
I want to know if you were familiar with that report, what your reaction is to it.
I've certainly seen that report.
That is something...
I've seen reports of that report, let me say that, because the actual report itself has not been released.
This is something that the United States has had concerns about for quite some time, that North Korea, especially as North Korea becomes more desperate, that they look for different creative and horrific ways to try to make money to fund their criminal regime.
And when I say criminal regime, I mean their illegal nuclear and ballistic missile programs.
If they are selling goods, material, whatever you want to call it, to Syria, it shows the depravity of that regime.
And that is exactly why we stand so firmly behind our policy of denuclearization on the part of this administration and on behalf of the world.
And I love how typically, like, well, that is a report that, you know, no one has seen.
That's just from sources.
You don't know nothing.
I haven't seen it.
But it's like, well, I haven't seen it, but I heard the reporting.
Sounds right to me.
Who wrote this story at the New York Times?
Well, this is interesting.
It's written by...
Oh, that's the LA Times.
I'm sorry.
The New York Times.
Okay.
Where is it?
That's interesting.
Hold on.
Jeez.
I can't get it with Bing.
You can't bing it?
No, I can't bing it.
Here we go.
Okay, so they're saying UN links Korea to serious chemical weapons program.
So this is all according to a United Nations expert.
Michael Schwartz, S-C-H-W-I-R-T-Z. And it looks like the UN is his beat.
Some beat.
What else do you want me to say, boss?
So this sounds like You know, I'm sad about this.
Also, soldiers in the UK are now getting anthrax vaccinations due to the North Korea threat.
What?
Yeah, they typically don't.
So they're experts.
So there's not only gas and nukes.
Anthrax.
But these guys, they're loading them up with anthrax.
Really?
Uh-huh.
And then, you know, what also happened at the Olympic Games is our main negotiator, who speaks with North Korea and tries to work with the North and the South, he quit.
And no one wants to talk to the North Koreans.
So I feel a setup coming and I don't like it at all.
I think we're going to do some more nasty business right in Syria to protect the interests, in this case again, of the big resource companies.
I wouldn't be able to argue.
It's sad.
It's sad.
That's coming.
Okay, Entremont time.
Oprah Winfrey.
Now, last I heard, she was not going to run for Presidente.
But I think she's changing her mind.
Oh yeah.
USA Today.
Big profile piece.
Not only just an article, but they did a whole video with Oprah.
And I'd like to share that with you.
Will Oprah Winfrey run for president?
Thanks to social media, Oprah's speech wasn't even over yet before Oprah 2020 started trending.
People saying that she should be running for president in the next election, that if we could have someone like Donald Trump win with no political experience, certainly Oprah should be running.
And it actually picked up a lot of steam.
1.7 million tweets about Oprah in 24 hours.
Wow.
This is already out there.
This is already out there.
It says Oprah 2020.
Oprah 2020.
Yes, like the speech hit me.
I had a little tear in my eye.
Since then, we've heard statements from Oprah saying that...
She doesn't have any intention of running for the presidency.
It's just not in my spirit.
It's not my DNA. While we certainly have no reason not to leave her, talking to her recently, it's a little bit more nuanced.
I pay attention.
When you have that many people saying something, I thought, well, gee, I've never in my life ever, ever imagined that I would be in politics.
And I've always said, no, no, no, no, no.
Am I supposed to at least look at that question?
Because I had enough people, billionaires, calling me up saying, I can get you a billion dollars.
I can run your campaign.
And I actually went into prayer about it.
Like, God, if you think I'm supposed to run, you got to tell me.
And it has to be so clear that not even I could miss it.
Now, I hope...
So she's actually talking to God.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
She's waiting for him to talk back, which Joy Behar would consider mentally ill.
Yeah.
I mean, how crazy is that?
These people are nuts.
Joy Behar.
Yeah.
Mike Pence, when he speaks to God and he speaks back, he's mentally ill.
Oprah says, God, you gotta make it loud enough for me to hear.
She's not mental.
Well, it's because she's not a Republican.
Hello.
Yeah, I know that.
I hope.
Every night I say a prayer.
Please let Oprah run.
Please.
Oh, yeah.
That would be the greatest thing ever.
Please.
Could you imagine an Oprah-Trump debate?
Oh, man.
Oh, this would be so beautiful.
The likelihood of this getting that far is nil.
Really?
I'm not so sure.
I'm not so sure about that.
It's just a publicity stunt.
It may be the following.
That's what they said about Trump.
I never said it.
They.
You never said it.
They.
They.
That sounded pretty serious.
I think the following could be in play.
Let's bring up Oprah's profile politically.
See what kind of money you can dream up.
She needs the money.
But dig up a bunch of money.
Get a bunch of support.
And then...
Figure out who should really run and then have Oprah throw her support behind that person to give them an extra boost.
Okay, well, if you could name one person who has a shot.
Well, that's the problem.
Oprah is the bookmark right now.
Right.
Well, she's not yet.
Well, how about this?
The placeholder.
No, I think she's the anointer.
Okay, placeholder and anointer.
Yeah.
When Oprah says, yes, you, my child, are the chosen one.
But I'm still going to pray.
It'll be so beautiful.
And I know she would fix the Austin Library of our homeless problem.
Oh, we need a report on that.
I went.
I went.
Were you done?
What?
With Oprah?
Switch topics right now?
You got any more on Oprah?
I have nothing.
Well, I don't know.
You had me jacked up about the whole idea.
Well, I just thought the whole report showed some serious interest in her, certainly from USA. The whole report showed the media being completely insane.
People don't realize that Donald Trump was fake running for president since the 90s.
Yes.
Not like a thing he just came up with.
Okay, go on.
Okay.
A little background before you discuss the library.
Yeah, and I looked at the clip you sent me.
It really wasn't good for the background or so.
I don't have a clip.
But when this $125 million library was planned in Austin, the main question that appeared is, well, will it just be like the old library, which was set kind of in a park setting, so it was much easier for, you know...
People experiencing homelessness to kind of walk up and hang out.
This place is huge, and I wanted to go see it.
People were very worried about what was going to happen with Austin Library, and we heard that...
I was worried about you.
No one's worried about me.
Dad...
So the place is big, and what's interesting is the common areas and the, I would say, conference areas, because it seems to be quite a business.
They have multiple conference rooms where you can do, I guess, anything from 50 people to probably, they got a 250 seater.
Each floor of these five floors is like huge open space with places to sit and hang out.
And then what seems like a third of the space is books on the other side.
So I went in.
I hadn't been into the library.
It's good that they have books.
Yeah, but it seems like there's more space for conferences and hanging out than books.
Oddly.
Meetups.
Every floor had at least three clearly identifiable people experiencing homelessness.
So I saw about 15, maybe 17, and this is 11.30 a.m.
when I went.
And I'll say that these look to me like people who actually are experiencing homelessness.
They don't seem to be crazy, strung out on drugs.
It's definitely not a good smell.
Yeah.
And, you know, some are, you know, they're just hanging out.
Are any of them reading?
No.
It seemed like an opportunity to read a lot.
No, I didn't see anybody reading.
I didn't see anyone assisting with helping them with resources to find a way out of the problems they're in.
There was none of that.
And people just ignore them.
Just walk by.
So...
Were any of them begging?
No.
No, no one was begging.
But it was very sad.
You know, I just got a sad emotion over me when I saw it.
Like, yeah, there you go.
Austin.
The outpost of liberals doing so well for our citizens.
No.
Nothing.
Nothing at all.
And these are really, you know, most of them are older.
Yeah, you get to it.
Yeah, they're all 50s?
I'd say 50s.
No, thanks.
I'd say 60s.
I wasn't naming it at you.
Hey, I'm just one donation away from being in the library.
One donation away from being in the library.
But I'm going to go again.
I'm going to keep an eye on it.
I just, you know, in all the pre-promotion about a year ago for this library, oh, we're going to have all kinds of resources.
We'll help everybody.
There's none of that going on.
Nothing at all.
None of it.
They're just being ignored.
No one wants to deal with them.
People walk by them, just like San Francisco.
Yeah, just step over them.
No one cares.
Yeah, well, San Francisco would be pooping in the library.
Yeah, well, who knows?
Who knows how far this will go?
But I did see, what was this?
I saw an article in the Times, I think.
Yes, New York City libraries, they're now handing out Narcan.
In fact, there's a law.
Cuomo signed a bill into law that added libraries to the list of institutions like schools that are authorized to possess and use Narcan.
Anyone can possess and use it.
I'm just telling you, that's what it says.
I don't see why you couldn't.
Maybe if it's federally funded.
Oh, okay.
Or something.
Something like that.
And I wonder if that'll happen.
If we'll have our first overdose in the Austin Library.
I have no idea how the...
I'm sure it's bad, but you don't hear much about opioid problems.
Well, it's not going to go in the other direction anytime soon, from what I can tell.
No, no.
There's no one there helping these people exit experiencing homelessness.
No, they don't know what to do.
Well, that was a boring report, no offense.
I wish I could make it all snazzy, like, oh, there were people dying!
But no!
The guy peed on my leg!
Alright, alright, I didn't want to have to...
The guy peed on my leg.
I didn't want to have to pull this out this early.
I'm going to do it.
I'm pulling it out.
I have here a clip that I believe will annoy you to no end.
Are you ready to hear my clip that will annoy you?
Yes, I'm waiting.
Okay, stand by and listen to Ella Fitzgerald annoying John C. DeVore.
I'm telling you in my humble fashion that you threw me through with a tender passion When you said you care, imagine my emotion.
I saw it there, permanent devotion.
You made all other men seem blind.
So, I think this is a fractal somehow.
Because we have...
Well, she sure loaded up there, didn't she?
And four of them.
Yeah, and the song is from, what, 61 or something?
Maybe earlier.
I mean, Elephant's Joe was at her peak pretty much in the 40s.
Yeah, but...
But how about the...
And by the way, when you hear very early stuff, which I think may go back into the 30s, but I'm pretty sure it does, she was one of the best singers in the history of the country period.
Sure she was.
But she's using words like devosh.
So this is just something old coming back again.
Yes, now that you brought that clip in, sure.
I had no idea.
What's the name of that song?
I'll look it up.
It says, wonderful, marvelous.
Oh, that's during that era when they did these long intros before they actually sang the song.
Oh, I didn't know that.
Yeah, there was a period of...
In fact, it came and went.
Crosby did it for a while.
In the 30s, mostly, they'd introduce the song with a bunch of blather And then they'd kick it in.
It's almost like James Brown yelling, hit it.
And the song, bring it up.
And so they'd introduce the song with a bunch of bull crap at the front end of it.
And then they'd bring the song in.
It wastes almost 30 seconds sometimes.
Oh man, what a horrible trend that was.
I can send you examples.
I ran into, I just, I will say this.
Since you brought it up, and I'm yakking about this, and the reason I'm yakking about it in the first place is because I did discover a cache of Paul Whiteman and Bing Crosby.
A cache?
Was this an online cache?
Yes.
Or was it buried in someone's backyard?
Everything from, I think, 1925 to 1935, which is the era where all this cool stuff took place.
This was a torrent?
It was available as a torrent, but it was all on archive.org.
In one archive, they've got every single Paul Whiteman song from that era, and every single Crosby song from that era.
And then that led me, because I was looking for something else, that led me to something I'm going to recommend, which is, I think it's OTRCat, and I believe it's.com.
OTRCat, old-time radio catalog.com.
He's got the most astonishing collection of obscurities that I have ever seen.
They have, like, every single this or every single that that he sells.
He sells these huge collections, and there's always an MP3 for him, and he'll send you a CD of, like, thousands of things for eight bucks.
I mean, this guy.
But wait!
If you order now, he'll send you two CDs with thousands of things for just eight bucks!
It's unbelievable what this guy's collected.
Yeah, that's good.
I've been in contact with him.
Now, do you actually sit and listen to these and go, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha?
Sometimes I do.
Do you chuckle?
There are some old radio plays I really enjoy, but there is the thing I got in contact with, which I hate to go into this obscure discussion.
Yeah, it's pretty damn obscure, and you thought the library report was boring.
Sure.
I will mention this, that apparently he has, anyone who's collected OTR knows that the series of radio shows called The Fat Man, done by this American actor, he grabbed up all the copies and all the transcripts and destroyed every bit of them.
And all you can get from Fat Man is stuff from Australia and remakes.
But he says there's some that were discovered recently.
Ooh, I'm just so excited!
Anyway, I do have your annoying word of the day.
I'm going to try and do that.
Trying to annoy you every show.
And your annoying word of the day is...
Sitch.
As in, what's the sitch, John?
Ooh.
I'm going to use that.
What's the sitch?
Where did you get the sitch?
Well, the sitch is from...
Oh, man.
Oops.
It was a...
It was a cartoon...
Was that Inspector Gadget?
No, no, no, no, no.
It was some cartoon girl.
Hopefully the troll room will know.
Okay, well, if you're going to do this bit, and I will do it too, by the way.
Then I have to know where it comes from?
Yeah, because you can make these words up yourself.
No, no, I got it.
Kim Possible.
Kim Possible.
What's the sitch, everybody?
Oh, jeez.
Kim Possible.
What's the sitch?
Okay.
She was kind of hot.
It's a cartoon character.
Okay.
Back to the bong.
Okay.
Alrighty then.
That was enlightening.
Yes.
When people learn something, you always learn something on this show.
I was once again delighted with the little show that we had the other day.
When Trump, I think this is his new thing.
I like it.
Just like with DACA, which strangely we don't hear anything about anymore.
I'm sure the deadline's coming up in a week or so.
We'll start hearing about it.
But, you know, he brings in everybody, all the senators and the ones, you know, the ones that he likes or whatever it is.
And then let's talk about this on live television.
That was so cool yesterday.
You thought so?
I got a clip.
I got a clip?
Let's play your clip.
No, you play your clip.
Which clip is it?
Trump on guns, divide and conquer ABC. As you know, the other firestorm tonight, Republicans reacting at this hour to what they saw from the president today at the White House.
He was sitting with Republicans and Democrats on guns and school safety, saying he supports what many of the Democrats support, universal background checks, among other things, pushed by the students and families in Parkland, Florida.
But tonight, many in his own party are now livid.
Good word.
Before the television cameras at the White House, the most pro-NRA president in history gathered together a group, including some of Congress' most forceful advocates of gun control.
I see some folks that don't say nice things about me, and that's okay.
Because if you turn that into this energy, I'll love you.
I don't care.
And sitting in that room, the president repeatedly took positions that put himself at odds with the NRA and Republican leaders in Congress.
He embraced Connecticut Democrat Chris Murphy's call for background checks on all gun purchases, an idea Republicans have voted down again and again.
Yeah, I thought that to me was not the best part.
The best part is this.
So I was just curious as to what you did in your bill.
We didn't address it as presently.
You know why?
Because you're afraid of the NRA, right?
It's a big issue right now.
A lot of people are talking about it.
But a lot of people are afraid of that issue, raising the age for that weapon to 21.
You're afraid of the NRA. I love the guy's face.
Oh, yeah.
All the things they talked about, that one topic, that raising the age, is the only thing that everyone's concerned about.
Not because it means anything, but because there is a...
An actual calculation of lost sales that you can make.
Yes, it's a huge issue.
It's huge for the money.
But if we now look at what happened with pretty much the same day, there was no waiting.
We don't wait anymore to politicize dead children.
Why bother?
Let's just move straight into the news cycle.
Here is Nadine Smith.
She is really one of the hijackers of the kids' original March idea, which was planned for April.
She now shows up as the leader of the No NRA Money campaign, but she's really from Equality Florida, and she runs a whole bunch of other different non-profits, some of which, yes, indeed, are funded by our Hungarian friend, And I think the politicization was purely for one goal, to defund, not the NRA, but to defund Republicans who take NRA money.
And this shaming and calling out and you have to stand with everybody and say, I pledge I won't take money from the NRA at the same time.
Defunding the NRA by, you know, getting...
They definitely have some issues with the insurance companies who run their big gun insurance.
If you kill somebody or shoot somebody insurance.
As well as, you know, all of their partners.
I think this was a pretty well-coordinated attack.
I don't think it's enough.
They've got to keep it going because they have to show continuously that Republicans are taking NRA money.
Well, here's this little exchange on A.M. Joy before she goes off the air.
Canceled.
Too bad.
Well, very simply, we are aiming to break the stranglehold that the NRA has.
Stranglehold!
Rational gun policy.
We know what to do to stop these mass shootings.
We know what to do because we've done it before in this country.
We've banned assault weapons.
There you go.
The things that Marianne Hammer said lead us inevitably to a road where our children go to school in armored trucks with rifle towers in every school.
That is not the path that Americans want.
And I think the students, the survivors of the Parkland shooting, are saying it in the most compelling way.
They've said that politicians have abandoned us, and we demand better.
And we have failed young people by letting the NRA dictate policy all across this country and block the things that we know work to save lives.
You hear that she went from we know what to do right into we need to block the NRA. It was nothing else but that.
There was some things where we need to block the NRA. That's going to stop people from killing big children.
So no NRA money is two things.
It is a pledge by candidates that they will not accept NRA money or support.
And it is a pledge by voters that we will vote against any candidate who takes even a penny from the NRA. I would vote against any candidate that took a pledge.
I'm not voting for somebody who's going to take pledges and have to abide by somebody else's what they want.
I want them representing me and my community.
That's when I'm doing my elected officials.
I don't want them having...
I didn't like the guy who was doing the no more taxes pledge to that guy who kind of disappeared from the scene.
Why is that guy taking a pledge to someone that's not in our community?
He's representing us.
He's not representing these people.
I'll take a pledge.
I'm pledging no.
I'm not going to take their money.
It's bullcrap.
I agree with you.
It's two things.
It is a pledge by candidates that they will not accept NRA money or support.
And it is a pledge by voters that we will vote against any candidate who takes even a penny from the NRA. And we believe that we've got to draw that line very, very clearly.
Is your campaign Florida-based, or are you trying to take this national?
No, this is national.
It's a grassroots effort that came together online.
It's grassroots.
Yeah, it's real grassroots, honey.
I'm from parents, in particular, who said, we've got to draw this line.
Oh, yes, it's also the Sandy Hook parents.
That's the Bloomberg money, Michael Bloomberg.
That's, what is it called?
I'll come up with it.
Line in the sand.
And so far, we're already hearing from candidates all across the country, not just in progressive areas, but in deep red Pennsylvania, a retired police sergeant and army vet who's running for the assembly was the first to sign on.
So we think this is the moment the tide changes.
Yeah, and they really are all over it.
Yeah, and this is all part of the 2018 elections.
Not only are they abusing these children, they're really sucking the life energy out of these children.
Have you ever looked at Soros?
How do you think he stays alive?
With blood of children.
I love infant blood.
Quickly, let's play the...
I was going to play an example of how horrible these children's lives are now with their parents abusing them, putting them on television.
Okay, play that, and I want to go to a teacher with a gun.
Oh, good.
NPR. Oh, yeah, let's put my kid on NPR. This is just the beginning of a little segment which they put together.
There's no such thing as a little segment on NPR, but okay.
Hold on a second.
Now there's two clips.
Yes, here we go.
Sorry.
Just the matter of the wrong clip.
Here we are.
The past few weeks, my house has been commended central for supplies for teachers whose rooms were shot up and may never be reopened.
More markers into Connor's car.
Connor's car is taking markers.
This is my life now.
Helping my mom organize supplies from around the country, then meeting up with friends before counseling.
Oh my god, did you guys bring food?
I brought some munchkins and coffee.
Then speaking at a rally, or visiting memorials in the park.
Then going on social media to check my posts about gun control.
Just listen.
If you just listen, it's much sadder than this.
I'm checking Twitter right now, and over 2,200 people have seen my tweet.
And 46 people have liked it.
28 people have retweeted it.
And now I'm wondering what my other tweets look like.
So I'm going to go to...
Ooh, this is my mom.
Hey, Mom.
Hi, honey.
My mom's been checking in with me a lot.
Her name is Lisa Glassman.
Okay, so how are you feeling right now, for real?
Tell me what's going on in your mind and stuff.
This sounds like the Kardashian mother, almost.
I'm like, oh, hey kid, we're on the radio.
Tell me, for real, how you doing?
How you really feeling?
What's in your mind and stuff?
This is child abuse.
A lot.
A lot is going on in my mind, obviously.
There's so much that I have to think about.
Going back to school.
Me, my Twitter life, my activist life.
Poor kids.
They got Twitter lives, activist lives, and they're being...
My Twitter life?
Yeah, this is...
My activist life?
Yes, sir.
Yeah.
My God.
Yeah.
You know, we don't have the category, but I'd give you a pathetic clip of the day.
Yeah, it is that bad.
All right.
Teacher with a gun story?
Well, I don't know.
There's another thing that was...
Let's just stick with the teacher and the gun thing for a second.
Okay, let's talk about this.
The teacher with the gun story, part one.
Was this the coincidental event?
Yeah, this just coincidentally happened right after Trump said we should arm teachers.
And to a new school scare we're following tonight, this time a teacher with a gun barricading himself inside his classroom.
What other categories could we think of?
Teacher with a dildo.
Teacher with a chainsaw.
What else could the teacher have?
And to a new school scare we're following tonight.
This time a teacher with a gun barricading himself inside his classroom and then firing a shot.
Students running in fear.
And here's ABC's Steve Osensami on that front.
This was the panic this morning during third period at Dalton High School north of Atlanta after police say this popular social studies teacher had a breakdown and locked himself in an empty classroom with a handgun.
He was telling people to go away.
The principal, who was outside the door, says that 53-year-old Randall Davidson wasn't making sense and fired a bullet through a window.
They immediately evacuated the school.
The school's armed security officer was off campus.
The only person with a gun was the teacher.
Well done!
That was a beautiful coincidence.
Just beautiful.
Yeah, this was done because Trump has said we should arm teachers.
We got it made.
This story coincidentally comes up showing that if a teacher has a gun, they'll go nuts.
And by the way, I kind of agree with that.
I think in today's school system, the teachers are so liberal and left that I don't know if anyone could even touch a gun without getting the shakes.
A gun.
Well, there's this thing that's going viral.
It's not Anderson Pooper himself.
It's almost like a lookalike of Pooper.
It's a CNN piece, and the reporter goes and learns how to shoot an AR-15.
It's really hilarious, and there's mean versions of it.
I want to talk about that, but let's...
Play clip part two of this clip because there's an element in here I have to ask you about.
Police say the teacher agreed to surrender.
Police tonight are announcing charges including aggravated assault and carrying a weapon on the school grounds.
The teacher has not yet entered a plea.
Okay.
Aggravated assault?
I don't think you can be firing a weapon through the window at school.
They got to call it something.
They call it discharging a firearm within the city limits, which almost all cities have that regulation.
That's against the law.
Maybe there's more to the story.
Maybe there's more to the story.
You don't know.
Well, if there's more to the story, hey, why am I listening to this network news report if they're not going to tell me what that more to the story is?
Well, you do that because that's your job.
That's what I do.
That's what we both do.
You're an apologist for ABC. Well, how about this then?
MSNBC think it's a very bad idea as well.
They all do.
Yes, but not for the reasons you might think, you see, because the teachers would be outfitted with a handgun, which is obviously very inferior compared to an AR-15.
Let's take a look at what teachers would be up against if they were armed with a handgun and confronted with a weapon like an AR-15.
An AR-15 style rifle, well that's a semi-automatic weapon, meaning it fires one round when the trigger is pulled, then automatically reloads the chamber, Making it ready to fire again.
Handguns can also be semi-automatic, but some, like revolvers, they're not.
Meaning it can take a lot longer to fire multiple rounds.
Another big difference, the speed of bullets.
The AR-15 can fire bullets between 2800 and 3000 feet per second.
A 9mm handgun between 700 and 1100 feet per second.
The AR-15 can hold much more ammunition.
So the bullets come out faster.
So if you shoot at the same time, you'll never kill them because you'll be dead first.
...than a handgun.
A typical AR-15 magazine holds 30 bullets, while a 9mm handgun holds 15.
Magazines that hold more are available for each firearm.
One doctor who has seen AR-15 and handgun injuries gives a stark comparison of the damage each firearm can do to a person's body.
She says, quote, routine handgun injuries leave an injury and exit wound and linear tracks throughout the victim's body that are roughly the size of a bullet.
When she saw the damage from a Parkland victim, she said the organ looked like an overripe melon smashed by a sledgehammer with extensive bleeding.
Thanks for that.
The ludicrous report, it says, you know, the idea is that you have something, something to protect yourself, and you can, you know, wing the guy or shoot him.
It doesn't make any difference the speed of the bullet as long as you hit him.
But let's listen to Larry O'Donnell's interpretation.
Unbelievable.
Let's listen to Larry's interpretation.
Tell me what's wrong here.
Stop the hammering!
Stop the hammering!
2,182 miles per hour.
That's how fast the bullets were moving when they came out of the barrel of that AR-15.
How fast were they going?
Just 2,000 miles per hour.
Yeah, feet per second, maybe.
2,000 miles per hour?
I don't have the math in front of me, but...
It's 2,700 feet per second.
Okay, well, that's different.
I mean, that's...
You have a sonic boom.
Yeah, well, you would at 2,000 miles an hour, too.
So he's full of crap!
2,182 miles per hour.
That's how fast the bullets were moving when they came out of the barrel of that...
Maybe it is.
Maybe it is.
Well, let's think about it.
I don't want to do the math.
But if it's 2,700 feet per second, then you divide by 60.
How many feet are in a mile?
I don't know.
Maybe it is correct.
Yeah.
It's beside the point.
It's like ridiculous.
Who cares?
I think...
Bullet's a bullet.
You get hit with an old blunderbush.
You get hit in the head, you're dead.
Stop the hammering!
AR-15 in Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School last week.
2,182 miles per hour.
3,200 feet per second.
That's what those kids were trying to outrun.
Now this is getting faster.
Outrun?
So you can outrun a 9mm, but you can't outrun a...
That's right!
Stop the hammering!
You can outrun the gun.
You can't outrun the bullet from the assault rifle.
3,200 feet per second.
That's three times faster than the speed of a bullet leaving the barrel of a 9mm handgun.
With a high-capacity magazine, the AR-15 can fire maybe 90 or 100 bullets in a minute.
100 in a minute?
You're pulling pretty fast.
A concealable handgun can fire maybe 15 bullets.
Ugh.
So they're really on this faster bullet theory.
I don't know what the point of this is.
I think it has to do with...
Well, we know one thing for sure.
The modern weaponry called the AR-15, which is so modern it was actually introduced in 1956, has got to go.
According to who?
According to the Democrats, you can tell this is targeting one.
No, they don't care.
They don't care.
No, you actually don't want to lose any.
They don't care at all.
They just want to win the elections.
They don't care.
You're knocking me back on my ass based on my own thesis.
Yes.
I'm going to wrap this up.
Well, you can't wrap it up because I have a couple of clips left.
Okay.
Well, yes.
All right.
Well, I have some stuff that folds into all of this, so I'll listen to your clips.
Go.
Okay, so I have, this is, again, Muir, and this is, they're talking to the kids after they went back, they're finally going back to school, and I want you, I got two clips, this is Muir, first they tease the ammo, some ammo information, and they do the payoff in clip two, but You'll play clip one and we'll go from there.
When it all happened.
Meantime, we're also learning about the stunning amount of ammunition that gunmen left behind at the school.
ABC's Victor Akendo at the scene tonight.
The walk to school, unlike any other before it.
Students returning, carrying flowers, greeting officers, some with signs of encouragement.
My school will never be the same.
It will never be the same.
It's changed forever.
Yeah, definitely.
The students first stopped their fourth period class, the same period they were in when the shooting began.
The idea to allow them to spend time with those students they were with when the shots broke out.
When I got into the classroom, it was kind of like everyone stared at each other and got a little silent and then we all kind of like reunited.
The freshman building where the attack occurred closed.
It will never be used again.
A reminder that the school is far from whole.
Today was a weird, strange, emotional day.
How so?
In my Spanish class especially because one of our students didn't show up today because he was one of the 17th.
So that was very upsetting.
Okay.
I listened to that clip again through the speakers.
Now I realize what she said.
Because when I first heard it, I had deconstructed it to say that it's very exciting.
Oh, I don't think she said that.
No, she said upsetting.
Oh, okay.
Does that ruin your gambit?
No, that was just the commentary.
Because the gambit is still the tremendous amount of ammunition that was left behind.
That Muir teased...
At the beginning of this clip, but he also teased it in one of those two commercials.
Interstitial.
Interstitial.
Yeah.
And so he's teasing that.
But meanwhile, you heard all this blather.
You didn't hear, what's the number?
How much tremendous amount?
What kind of a cache of ammunition did you leave behind go to part two?
So, that was very upsetting.
Tonight, a law enforcement source tells ABC News, Nicholas Cruz left behind nearly 180 unused rounds.
And one of the magazines recovered had a swastika on it.
Yeah.
What?
Okay.
180 rounds, which is okay.
Big deal.
Which I guess if you don't know what...
I mean, five, I guess, is too many bullets.
For most people.
So he had five or six magazines.
What's the swastika got to do with the story?
Do we see pictures of it?
No, of course not.
I haven't seen pictures of anything.
White separatist.
Yes.
White nationalist.
Obviously a Trump supporter.
Supposedly he had Kevlar vest on and all kinds of stuff.
I don't know.
We don't know.
We're not going to know.
No one cares.
Defund the NRA. Go Dems.
That's what this is about.
Screw the children.
By the way, the hog kid, the one who's making the rounds, the so-called...
Yeah, that guy.
You watch him.
He's going to be a media personality.
Not that good.
I don't think he's that good.
No, he's got to learn, but he's got a good voice.
He has smooth skin.
Yeah, no, I'm telling you, watch this guy.
Just wait a couple years.
Watch this guy.
Watch this guy.
I have my own clip about classes resuming at the high school.
Today's students began the day by returning to their fourth period class.
That's the class they were in and the students they were with during the shooting.
Salman said one of the worst things about going back to school is the people you'll no longer see in classrooms and the hallways.
The friends that we lost in the classes, I have like two of them in my classes, and it's going to be very off seeing the teachers in there and the students sitting in there, not them.
So it's going to be very difficult for that.
The building where 17 people were shot and killed two weeks ago will no longer be used.
It's going to be demolished and replaced.
With less space available, school administrators had to draw up a new master schedule to find rooms for all the classes and students.
There were some 150 grief counselors on hand today to help students, plus lots of therapy dogs, also ponies and a goat.
What is it with goats?
I have no idea.
Why are goats so therapeutic?
Aren't they like a symbol of Satan or the devil?
What is up with the therapeutic nature of goats?
I've owned goats.
Not a fan of the goat.
Did you ever get butted?
Yes!
You feed them.
You turn around.
Those little crackers.
They'll just run up and butt you right in the back of the knees and you buckle over.
And they jump around.
That's funny to them because you fall over backwards.
They have a sense of humor.
They have a plus.
Yeah, but don't butt the hand that feeds you.
Yeah.
Anyway, the pediatricians of America have a solution for all of this.
We know what to do.
It's very simple.
I think we've been talking about the war on crazy since...
Well, Sandy Hook for sure.
But before that, we've been talking about the idea.
Well, first of all, we know...
Well, Columbine has to be one of the early...
Yeah, we weren't doing the show.
We weren't doing the show.
No, we weren't, but we were doing the show in that thing in Colorado, Aurora.
Ah, that's where it comes from.
Yes, the war on crazy.
And he was with the weirdo, with the red hair and the bug eyes.
So if you saw the little show the president put on with his lawmakers...
There was conversation of, well, you know, you're crazy, you've got mental health, no gun for you.
On the list!
On the list, you!
And whatever this list will be, if it'll be the Nixus, the firearms database, or whatever list there will be, that's the beginning of the end of the republic.
Because the next step is...
You know, I see you're on the list.
Yeah, maybe you shouldn't live near the school.
Maybe you should actually just not even be in 200 yards of any children.
Before you know it, you've got a big problem on your hands, and the pediatricians of America are helping this mission come to fruition.
It's not uncommon for teenagers to withdraw from their parents, to cut them out of communication.
And sometimes parents don't want to pry.
Adolescent psychiatrist Rachel Zuckerbrot says this dynamic is one reason teen depression can go undetected.
So often people are suffering on the inside, but it might not be obvious on the outside.
And sometimes it gets misdiagnosed because sometimes teenagers who are depressed are actually Drago!
clinical psychiatry at Columbia.
Most teenagers with depression don't get access to mental health care.
In fact, about 50% of teenagers don't even get diagnosed.
To address this, the American Academy of Pediatrics...
Sounds like fresh market meat.
Get him!
New guidelines call for universal screening.
Hold on, let me just, they're calling, I'm just going to roll that back because this is important.
They're calling for new guidelines!
To address this, the American Academy of Pediatrics' new guidelines call for universal screening for teen depression.
What we're endorsing is that everyone who's 12 and up be given at least once a year for their school physicals or their sports physicals a depression screen that is a self-report questionnaire.
These questionnaires ask about whether they've been sad and irritable.
They ask about whether...
Things that used to be interesting to them are now boring.
They ask if they're having difficulty with sleep, either too much sleep or too little sleep.
Zuckerbrot says families also need to know where to go.
Parents go to their pediatrician for vaccinations, for a high fever, but don't realize that when there are emotional problems or behavioral problems that their pediatrician is going to be an excellent resource.
And often the best place to start.
That's right.
Get them on them drugs, people!
Get on some drugs.
Come on, let's do it.
But the fact that the school is doing this is...
Well, this is the whole thing.
Everything is just a conspiracy against the country.
I have one last clip.
Because this is a local clip.
This didn't get any attention anyplace else.
But I'm wondering, because if you see this kind of concerted effort, especially with this teacher with a gun...
I'm wondering if other local areas, this is in the Salinas Valley, KSPW Channel 8.
I'm wondering if this is happening just randomly around the country, but it's not getting national news, just to excite the locals.
Because this Florida story, let's face it, it's in Florida.
Let's face it, there's 33,000 schools.
The likelihood of it being your school is nil, but people get excitable.
But then you say, well, that's Florida.
Florida's kind of nuts anyway.
So this is a local story.
This is the Tulare County middle schoolers.
Good stuff.
Thank you, Gina.
And this is new tonight.
Tulare County deputies say they have arrested two girls who they say were plotting an attack on their middle school.
Deputies say a tip led them to investigate the two 13-year-old girls in the city of Pixley.
Investigators say the two had been making threats against their school.
They found a gun and ammunition in their home.
Deputies say the girls' parents are assisting in their investigation.
Simple story.
Yeah.
You can pop this baby anywhere in the country.
Do it whenever you want.
You can pop it in Canada.
Anywhere.
Yeah, by the way, I think you were incorrect about the Canadians not being allowed to report on shootings.
I got a lot of feedback on that.
Well, I got a lot of feedback.
They have a limitation on what they can report.
If it's a minor, you definitely can't mention their name.
Well, you can't do that here either.
Really?
No, you never hear.
They didn't mention the names of these girls as 13-year-olds.
Well, how about this?
Hmm.
Okay.
I don't think we play by those rules in our U.S. media at all.
If there's a chance to abuse a child for ratings, we're all over it.
Hey, give them some credit.
Name them.
Well, if the kid is out there yacking away, they can name him because it becomes a different situation.
But they can't name rape victims.
There's a bunch of stuff you can't do.
It's okay.
But people...
The question in my mind is, is anyone else hearing these little...
Anecdotes about, oh, here's two 13-year-olds.
Yeah, they're plotting against the school.
They found a gun.
Whose gun?
Was it the parents' gun?
It could have been anybody's gun.
Did one of the girls have a gun?
No, this is just a Me Too story, not hashtag, but just, oh, yeah, we got a gun story.
Hey, everybody, hey, all right, here's time for the meeting.
Yeah, we need a gun story for the six attorneys, everybody.
Go and find a gun story.
Exactly.
You know how it works.
I do want to...
Point something very troubling out amidst this conversation, combo, amidst this convo of SSRIs in combo, a convo of SSRIs in combo with all kinds of access to weapons, with video games, social media, violence in general, there's a whole bunch of things going on.
But your kid may not necessarily have to be depressed to be drugged up the way they want them to be.
And this was, interestingly enough, this played on Fox, on Tucker's show.
I never expected him to get another pharma ad in his life, so that's kind of interesting.
But listen to this great drug.
You know, it might be like your thesis.
You have a base thesis, which is that you want to scare people away so they actually gravitate toward it.
Cigarettes will kill you!
Oh, I'm going to buy some.
This could be a good one.
But this drug?
We have an obesity issue in the United States.
Certainly young people and children, there's a lot of obesity problems because we're not actually eating food.
We're eating plastic mac and cheese.
Delicious wood.
Delicious wood fiber chips.
And here's a drug that will fix it and listen to how it does it and what the side effects might be, kids.
Help control cravings and lose weight with Contrave.
It's FDA approved to help adults who are overweight or struggle with obesity lose weight and keep it off.
Contrave is believed to work on two areas of the brain.
Is believed, by the way.
Yeah, I love that.
It's always is believed.
It off.
Contrave is believed to work on two areas of the brain.
Your hunger center.
I'm so hungry.
And your reward system.
Ice cream.
French fries.
To help control cravings.
One ingredient in Contrave may increase suicidal thoughts or actions in some children, teens, and young adults in the first few months.
Don't really need to play it beyond that.
Why?
Because it's an SSRI. Is it?
Yes!
Of course it is.
It appears or is believed to talk to your pleasure center and your craving center in your brain.
Yes, that's an inhibitor.
Yes, sir.
And now they're selling it as a diet medication.
Stop with that joke.
Well, quit calling me sir.
Why does it bother you so much?
I don't know.
Is it because you actually didn't serve in the military and you're embarrassed?
No, that's not in the least.
I think it's disingenuous.
Stop the hammering!
Being in contact may increase suicidal thoughts or actions in some children, teens, and young adults in the first few months.
Serious side effects are mood changes like depression and mania, seizures, increased blood pressure or heart rate, liver damage, glaucoma, allergic reactions, and hypoglycemia.
Well, you don't have to go into all the other side effects...
But I really like the first few months.
The first says it's for adults.
But then you have to be careful because it might cause suicidal thoughts or other aggressive behavior in children in the first few months.
So they're going to recommend it to kids.
It's either for adults or it's not.
Then why would you say the first few months with kids?
Because that's in the commercial.
Because that's obviously the target audience.
Yes.
Get them on this drug.
Get them on the drug.
Hey, fatso, take this drug.
And with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage and say in the morning to you, John C. U.S. He stands for Chucklin' Dvorak.
In the morning to you, Mr.
Adam Curry.
In the morning to all ships at sea, boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, and all the dames and knights out there.
And in the morning to everybody in the troll room, handing me one-liners.
And other fun things.
And in the morning to...
Darren O'Neill.
We used Darren's artwork for episode 10-11.
The title of that was Vasectomies and Dogs.
Not cryptic at all.
And this was the image of the FBI empty tip jar.
And I'm not sure what it was, but we liked it.
Well, not only that, but it actually got some compliments on the Twitter.
It did, yes, on the Twitter.
Yeah, I saw that too.
It did.
It did.
We thought it did have two dimensions of humor.
The tip jar being empty.
So there was two messages there and the fact that there's a tip jar at all.
It was just a nice piece.
We looked at the other stuff.
We're doing more longer debating about these artworks unless somebody comes up with something that's just unbelievable.
Well, that's also sometimes the quality is a lot of quality.
It's harder to choose from.
John's going like, yeah, not really.
It's whatever you want, Curry.
Sometimes we have a lot of high quality art and sometimes a lot of really low fidelity.
Yeah.
And sometimes it's like, ah, I just missed the mark.
But regardless...
We are extremely grateful.
We need some reminders.
Let's put some reminders out there.
Do not use our pictures.
Do not use episode numbers.
Do not use episode numbers unless it's a one-shot, but I would rather, sometimes if it's a good piece, maybe submit two pieces.
One with an episode number, one without.
You can do that.
And it is a great contribution to the show.
It really does help.
It's magical.
We are one of the only shows that does that.
And make sure that the lettering on some of the details is a little bigger than you'd normally like because we want to make sure it's readable in the shrunken form.
Yes.
Yeah, in the 256, 256.
He added more than me.
He's always, I can't read it!
That's what he says.
Your impression of me is uncanny.
It truly is.
It's unbelievable.
I know.
I've done it on the phone with people.
And they're like, oh, you sound just like Curry.
Adam?
Adam.
You can take that to the bank.
So there's a couple...
Yes.
Noagendaartgenerator.com.
Thank you, Darren O'Neill, and thank you to all the artists who are always contributing.
It is highly appreciated.
Although, in waves, things go often.
Now, I haven't really received any new end-of-show mixes for a couple of shows, except for Chris Wilson, who seems to have nothing else to do in life but create parody songs.
Honey, what are you doing?
I'm doing another mix for the boys.
He actually gave us one.
This is a...
It's kind of a throwback to when we all had answering machines.
Now, of course, we have...
But I think if you use this as your voicemail, your answering machine.
Remember those?
You had celebrity greetings.
Oh, yeah.
Or you do whole tape mixes.
Yes.
So pretend we're still in 1982 and we have answering machines.
machines, this might be a good one.
The person that you're trying to reach is a douchebag.
Please check your privilege and try again.
The person that you're trying to reach is a douchebag.
It's good, right?
Please check your privilege and try again.
I think I should...
I'll put that on my voicemail.
It's out of place, out of time, but it's...
It's still good.
It's still good.
Stop the hammering!
Yes, I heard you.
So let's thank a few people, starting with Dame Schwartz.
Dame, actually, I think is...
Is it Dame Schwartz or Dame?
I think it's Judy.
103333.
She's in Bernie, Texas.
Wow.
This is fantastic.
And the message is even more curious.
The message, and I looked and looked and looked.
I could not find her listed in the emails of any short, using different versions of the name Schwartz without a T. And she says aptly, John, you are an angel from Dame Schwartz.
Wow.
Okay.
I wonder what spurred that compliment on.
I probably said something.
I will say in the newsletter you did mention that 1012 was an interesting angel number, but that has nothing to do with the 103333.
It's interesting that that is the angel connection.
I think so.
I don't know.
Maybe she's a psychic.
Well, Dame Schwartz, thank you very much.
I don't know what your standing is in the peerage ladder, but she's at least a dame.
We know she's a dame already.
Yes, that's what I'm saying.
Baronetist.
Well, let us know.
We want to upgrade your title appropriately.
And thank you for your courage.
Yes, thank you.
Jenna D'Amico in Bellingham, Washington, 3333.
Thank you, John and Anna, for the greatest podcast I've ever heard.
Which is true!
She's been listening for four years after being hit in the mouth by Sir Shyster, and this is my first donation in honor of my 33rd birthday.
3333, not 333.
Is she on the list?
Yes, she is.
So I humbly request the de-douching to be added to the birthday list.
We'll give her the de-douching.
Hold on a second.
Let me get my de-douche machine ready.
You've been de-douched.
And she needs a douchebag call out to Big Bear.
Douchebag!
My best friend is the head of communications at RT in Moscow.
And they at the press room now listen to you at least once per month.
I guess they never got the word out of frequency.
What's the frequency, Kenneth?
It's twice a week now, sir.
Oh, I'm sorry.
You've never been in the military.
It always gives us something to talk about.
I also find myself trying to reason with the Washingtonites.
She's in Bellingham.
Liberal area.
I'm sure.
And pointing out things I've heard on the show.
Yeah, well, look.
Stop right there.
You're in Washington!
I would like to request job karma with why are you laughing?
Resist we much.
Thank you and looking forward to many more years of your work.
No, thank you very much.
Don't laugh.
Why you are laughing?
Shut up.
But resist we much.
We must and we will much.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs!
You've got karma.
Thank you very much, Jenna, and happy birthday.
You're on the list.
And hello, RT! Yeah, exactly.
Hey, we're twice a week now, guys, and where's Guy-Anne?
Yeah, where's Guyanne Chichicon?
Chichicon?
Chichicon?
What happened to her?
I looked on her wiki page.
I couldn't figure out what happened.
Well, the fact that you looked on her wiki page.
I mean, all the good ones are gone.
Now, Hope is gone.
Everyone in our sphere is getting kicked out.
Yeah.
Carter Blumeyer.
Yeah.
Carter Blumeyer, also $333.
There's no email from anybody named Carter that comes close to this.
There's no Blumeyer.
I don't even know where he's from, but I'm guessing it's an NJNK, but thank you, Carter.
Thank you, Carter.
Thank you very much.
Joseph Hatch, $250, goes into the associate executive producer bin.
Now donating to you from Gitmo Nation, Deutschland.
Sorry for not keeping up on donations lately, but moving and dealing with Germans has been a...
Biatch.
Biatch.
That's it.
Gee, John.
Hello, Mr.
Hit.
A biatch.
When I'm looking at this, I'm thinking biatch.
What's a biatch?
What's that looks like?
Sometimes also spelled B-E-E-O-T-C-H. Biatch.
Well, this is supposed to be biatch, I'm sure.
John, excellent newsletter this week.
It's long overdue.
What?
Oh no, this is something else.
It's long overdue, but can I get a stranger in a strange land karma?
Uh-huh.
What is that?
I don't know.
Do we have anything called stranger in a strange land?
Not that I know of.
Please keep the bi-weekly dose of sanity coming.
Thank you for the best podcast in the universe.
Mic drop.
Mic drop.
Yeah, you know, I don't have a stranger and a strange lamb.
Please find the receipt for my quarterly donation to the show.
Magic numbers and all.
I have also been set up and forwarding bitcoin.bz.
It's btcoin, actually.
btcoin.bz to no agenda show.
Might not be generating much now that the bitcoin has died down.
Just trying to propagate the formula again.
Thanks for the show.
It helps to weed out the fake from the adverts.
Yes.
Please give a mention to all the cannabis that he's got in parents.
JCD equals marijuana.
Just in case you didn't know.
Users that they can still find free information and media on cannabis at httpshotcoffee.org or cannabisflower.net.
All right.
I'm going to give the Den Man a karma, even though he didn't ask for it.
Thank you, sir.
You've got karma.
And last but not least is Mark Malin in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
$200.
Sending in some value for value to keep the best podcast in the world going strong.
No jingles, just some jobs karma, please.
You got it.
Jobs.
Jobs.
And jobs.
Let's vote for jobs!
Woo!
You've got karma.
No, baby.
Karma it is for the jobs.
Let us know how it works out.
It's been known to work.
Yeah, it works great, apparently.
Now they said until we are told.
We've not been told otherwise, that's for sure.
All right.
Is that it?
Yeah, that's all we got.
There's no more.
Well, I want to profusely thank our executive producers and associate executive producers for their contributions.
In the next donation block, which I think is E or F, I have a thought about the value-for-value model, and just remind me, if you can.
Okay, I'll write it down.
That'll help.
That'll help.
Yeah, this convo coming in two months' time when we remember again.
We will be thanking people who came in over $50.
It is the way our system works.
We have no advertisements.
We have no corporate money.
We got no NRA money.
Although I've been accused of it on the tweeters.
And I said, oh, where's my check?
Yeah, where's your check?
Where's my check, man?
I don't care if you get NRA money, as long as they pay.
Where's my NRA check?
Now, so we can go out.
I'm waiting for my oil refinery money.
That's right.
We can go out on limbs wherever we want, because the only people who can fire us are you by just not supporting the show.
Yeah, I'm going to just saw it off.
What saw it off?
That's what they're telling us if they stop supporting the show.
They're telling us to sod off.
Oh, sod off, yes, exactly.
What does that mean?
Do you have any idea?
Well, it's a phrase from the Shays, but it's a British...
In England?
Yeah, it's a...
Well, it's a British...
Sod off.
I mean, it means pound sand or something.
Pound sand, something like that, yeah.
Like...
So again, thanking people later on.
Thank you for supporting us.
Remember, we do have a show coming up on Sunday.
We'll have our pre-Oscar predictions.
Oh, yeah.
And please remember to support the program, your podcast, at dvorak.org.
You might as well let everybody know that you will have the predictions this Sunday.
Our formula is this.
We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
Shut up, Slayer.
I did want to mention one more promotional item from a dude named Ben.
His name is Ben.
He calls himself a dude named Ben.
I was just listening to 1010.
Laugh my butt off when I heard Cash is Racist.
Just so you know, I work at the local casino here.
They will not take $50 bills because it has Grant on it.
Because he killed a lot of the natives.
I guess it's an Indian casino.
So he purchased cashisracist.com and that is now forwarding to the No Agenda Show website.
What?
What?
They won't take 50s because Grant is on it?
Yes, sir.
Oh, I'm sorry.
I'll stop doing that.
You keep doing that.
I'm just trying to break you of the habit.
Yes, sir.
I'm going to start doing it to you.
No, just say...
Never mind.
You can say it all you want.
I'm going to say it to you, sir.
I got a quick ISO, Cats.
How do you ask for that?
Please?
No.
Sir?
It's so nice to come home and always be loved by your cat, you know, and you look forward to coming home and saying hi to your cats.
Is this someone from the comic book podcast, or who is this person?
No, no, that's from the comic book podcast.
It was part of a longer story, and I said, this story is so stupid and boring.
And then I heard this guy, and I said, well, it's from the cat show.
There's a big cat show somewhere.
And so I took, I said, you know what I'm going to maybe start thinking about?
Instead of even talking about the story, just do the ISOs.
Yeah, that's all you need.
It's the best part.
Yeah, it's the best part.
I agree.
I agree.
It's like vasectomies in dogs.
Nobody knows what that means.
I don't even remember why we came up with it.
It doesn't matter.
I do.
Oh, yeah.
So...
Hey, you know, I have to stop you.
You have been saying so-wa a lot.
Thank you.
Okay.
I actually caught myself when I said it.
But I didn't say anything, thinking that he wasn't doing it that much.
But the fact that you said that indicates otherwise.
Let's just talk.
There he goes.
Yep.
Let's play this clip.
This is just a little California politics thing, wrapping things up.
I thought this was kind of interesting.
This is the Cal Dem.
We just had a convention, a Democratic convention, the statewide convention.
Oh, oh, oh.
So what do they do with this convention?
What does it mean?
They say, here's who we're going to run, and here's who's good, and here's who's bad.
And then they...
I guess promote and...
But that's for the local...
State.
Like Feinstein, for example.
Ah, okay.
Are you ready for the clip?
Now to Commitment 2018.
Some big headlines from the California Democratic Convention in San Diego today.
An upset for the state's longest serving U.S. Senator, Dianne Feinstein.
She failed to win the official endorsement of the state party.
Challenger Kevin DeLeon secured 54% of the votes.
That also was not enough to win an endorsement.
The party also did not endorse Tony Mendoza.
He just resigned from the Senate amid a sexual harassment investigation.
Two other embattled lawmakers were endorsed during votes in January.
The party supported Christina Garcia before several people came forward this month with claims of a hostile work environment and harassment.
The party also endorsed Senator Bob Hertzberg before the results of an investigation into inappropriate hugging.
Oh my goodness.
The place is falling apart.
You gotta get out of that place, man.
Inappropriate hugging scares me.
Oh, wait.
Do you think that's scary?
Listen to this.
And Inland Empire City is banning distracted walking.
Yeah, in Montclair, pedestrians cannot be on their cell phones or wear headphones or earbuds while crossing an intersection.
The city officials say there's been a big increase there in pedestrians dying in crashes.
The penalty?
If you get caught.
A $100 fine the first time, up to $200 the second time, if it's within a year of the first offense, and up to $500 if you're busted again.
Shut up, slave!
No distracted walking for you!
I would like to see him give one ticket out, let alone three or four.
Well, it just seems like...
They talk a big game with some of these bullcrap laws.
They just put them on the books so they can just harass individuals.
Yeah, and it's also virtue signaling in a way.
What's that black guy doing in the town here?
What's that black guy doing in town?
I don't know.
I've never seen him before.
Are you channeling a Democrat now?
I'm channeling a cop, a Democrat cop.
In California?
In California, yeah.
This is my Democrat cop guy.
Yeah, what are you going to do?
What are you going to do about him?
He's in town here walking around.
I don't know.
Is he homeless, you think?
No, I don't think so.
He's not carrying a bag or anything, but let's see if we can get him, roust him.
Is he wearing those buds?
I think so.
Let's go get him.
Stop, citizen.
Stop.
Pull over.
You are walking while distracted.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That is what that law is for.
I love it.
Now, we do have pedestrian deaths on the East Coast, but the New York Times writes about this, and they are pretty convinced that marijuana is to blame.
People are getting stoned and walking into traffic, according to the New York Times.
No, somehow I don't think so.
I have some standing in the area.
I don't think so.
Hey, man.
So big.
Uh-uh.
We've got to talk about the Soch Nets.
Oh, right.
You were talking about the Soch.
The Soch, baby.
The Soch Nets.
Yeah.
I'm just going to do this, too, until you just get so mad at me.
No.
Until you get aggs.
Aggros.
You get agged.
The agged.
I'm going to get agged.
Well, there's a lot going on with the Soches.
Well, first we have the algo.
The face bag algo has changed.
A lot of complaints.
But what do we find out today?
That Donald Trump, the president's face bag page engagement, has declined by 45% following the algo change.
So they're out to get Trump.
Well, you know, the accusation is they're out to get conservatives of any kind, or anything that just doesn't jive.
I believe that's probably true.
Yeah, and I think it's true for all of the social nets.
Yeah, a bunch of San Francisco liberals.
But the most egregious is what YouTube is doing, and this kind of happened over the past day or two.
The Southern Poverty Law Center is assisting YouTube in policing content on their platform.
The left-wing nonprofit has recently come under fire for labeling legitimate conservative organizations as hate groups.
It is currently one of more than 100 non-government organizations and government agencies in YouTube's Trusted Flaggers program that help police YouTube for extremist content, ranging from so-called hate speech to terrorist recruiting videos.
Who is this woman?
Is that Liz?
No, that's a crappy ass thing.
I just wanted a clip.
I didn't want to read it.
Just to break it up.
Just someone else reading the story.
You got it.
I think the social nets are in big trouble.
They really do.
I don't see any evidence of this.
No, I think they're going to be in dire straits.
I think it's wishful thinking.
No, there's legislation coming.
There's legislation coming.
Already, I think they have egg on their face as they have to have 10, just for YouTube alone, 10,000 people to monitor the content.
What happened to their AI and their machine learning and all that?
They got none of that.
You're making me laugh.
They have none of it.
Just none of it.
And I'm telling you, they're going to come out with some kind of social net ledge.
Oh, God.
I can do this forever.
I think I've got it now.
You've got to write that one down.
Social net ledge.
Social net ledge.
That's right, baby.
Maybe that's a show title, social net ledge.
I've been thinking about it.
The problem with that being a show title is ledge is impossible to spell in any way that would make sense.
Let's just spell it L-E-D-G-E and it would be a pun.
That would be good.
But, I mean, so you don't think so?
I think that this is going to...
No, I don't think so.
Yeah.
I think it's wishful thinking.
I think this has been going on because, you know...
I'm not wishful thinking.
Without face bag, we lose half of the cool stuff to talk about.
I don't want it to go away.
I think it's going to go away.
People will stop using it.
This happens.
We've seen this.
To think that any big geocities, MySpace, AOL, I can go on forever.
I can go on forever and say the following.
Nothing has gone away without being replaced by something slightly better or different enough.
I agree with that.
So something would have to replace Facebook.
There's nothing on the horizon and nobody like Google or all these other experts, they can't seem to put anything together that is not even a minor threat.
Well, I'm just looking at the overall media landscape, how the social nets are being discussed, what the convo is about the social nets.
And, you know, we've never had a big community before, a big website that was making people sick like this is.
No, seriously.
Well, there's that.
Nobody identifies that.
That's us, the show.
Well, but people are starting to catch on.
We're noticing more and more things how, you know, Professor Ted would be very proud when you hear this report.
A group of doctors say kids use so much tech that they cannot hold a pen or pencil because they lack the hand strength in dexterity.
British pediatricians are blaming the erosion of basic motor skills on the changing culture among parents who rely heavily on technology.
Pediatric occupational therapist Sally Payne told The Guardian, quote, It's easier to give a child an iPad than encouraging them to do muscle building plays such as building blocks.
One mother admitted to reporters that she had only given her son high-tech gadgets to play with, leaving him unprepared for grade school.
The mother, also telling the Guardian, said, quote, When he got to school, they contacted me with their concerns.
He was gripping his pencil like cavemen.
No, sticks.
A 2017 study found that the screen time of children under two years old was linked to delays in them learning basic expressive speech as a toddler.
No muscles to hold a pencil.
What are you doing?
What is this rubbery kid doing here?
He's got no muscles.
His bones are gone.
By the way, the Zephyr just went by and it's 11 o'clock.
Oh, they're late.
They're very late.
What was I going to say about this?
Oh, yeah, so there's all kinds of studies coming out now.
Do you know how much screens...
What kind of a mom is giving the kid this stupid...
Every mom.
Are you around kids, even?
How about the Theodorable?
I have Theodorable.
I see him twice a week.
Right.
And I don't see him with an iPad.
No.
Jesse's such a nutcase.
She's going to definitely be, you know, not going to let this happen.
She's going to make the kid give him a piano or something.
But look at who we're talking about.
You're talking about the Dvorak clan.
That's very different from, you know, the most people in the Milky Way.
Well, that's probably true.
But parents handing an iPad to children in the stroller, I see it all the time.
Yeah, well, there's actually a stroller that has an iPad holder.
Oh, a holder?
Oh, yeah.
Have you ever seen it?
No, it doesn't surprise me yet.
No.
It's a Japanese stroller.
It's got the iPad.
It doesn't surprise me.
It doesn't surprise me.
Do you know how many hours a day kids have so-called screen time?
Well, what do you mean by kids?
Ah, not black, because there's a second statistic for black kids.
Well, the black kids are luckier if it's lower.
So the typical screen time is eight hours.
Eight?
What do you mean by a kid?
Like a two-year-old?
No, no, just a teenager.
Oh, a teenager, okay.
Yes, teenager.
Eight hours a day of...
That's too much.
Too much screen time, believe me.
Black kids in America, this is where the study was done, ten hours.
Oh, that's not good.
And the correlation is that more screen time equals poorer performance, poorer health, poorer everything.
Yeah, well, that's why the black kids would have more screen time.
We're trying to do everything we can to prevent them from getting into the whatever mainstream.
Well, I do believe...
I do believe...
I do believe...
I believe...
Fuck you.
We're on each other's case today.
That's okay.
Everybody enjoys the banter.
But you're in a good mood.
You're in an exceptionally good mood today.
I'm not sure why.
Did you get lucky last night?
Is Mimi around?
No, she can't be.
I spoke to her yesterday.
She's not with you.
She's trying to help you out.
Yeah, she's trying to help me.
Now I forgot what I was saying.
You were talking about screen time.
I was talking about...
You know, trying to get the kids into the mainstream and they're all getting sick.
Yeah.
Well, they're getting sick and I think that the human body is self-healing and it will eventually start to reject things that are bad for it.
I just don't see the acceptance.
Oh, it's okay.
This is back to your thesis.
Yeah.
I think the acceptance is waning.
I see kids, well, they certainly are no longer on the face bag.
They've been dumbed down to Instagram.
So you're saying the body's self-healing, that's why people who get addicted to opioids die, because that's their methodology for self-correction.
Yeah, I think that happens all the time.
No!
People are starting to reject it.
And it is possible.
I think they're starting.
Kids.
I see more and more kids and parents getting wise to the health issues surrounding this.
And stories like this.
I'm just looking at the media landscape.
I think that we're going to see some real blowback.
But you're right.
Nothing will change until there's some kind of alternative.
People love the social media.
It's adorbs.
Doesn't sound as good when I say it.
If we can get you to do it right, it will.
It'll be the best thing ever.
Yeah, I don't know if I can manage it.
But people love it.
Everyone I know, I say, well, can't you back off of this?
This thing is unhealthy.
I'm not a member.
I don't use it.
I don't even, you know, I got nothing to do with it.
I don't have a fake membership in the background or anything like that.
How do you do it?
How do you keep up with your old friends from high school?
Yeah, but who asked that?
I don't care about keeping up with my old friends in high school.
A lot of people do that.
Yeah, to you?
Oh, yeah.
Do you remember Fat Betty?
She's really a doll now.
She's lost a lot of weight.
Now, I have to say, I hear a lot of...
I still hear this.
Oh, this girl who I grew up with?
She was hot back in the day?
Yeah.
I hear that a lot.
Actually, I think I hear women do that more often.
I don't know what men do.
I don't stalk anybody in a face bag.
Women have a funny cattyness.
So I'm listening to different podcasts.
Yes.
And there's a new one that came out from...
Taxing.
What's the name of that?
The Beacon, or what's it called?
The Free Beacon, which is a news source that we use.
Yeah, sure.
They got very good reporters there.
They seem to know what they're doing.
And they have good perspective on things.
So a couple of them, two of the women, who I'll leave their names out of this, and a couple of the guys, they decided to do a podcast.
They're on number three, and they're saying, this is the best podcast so far on anything.
And what they tend to do is they drift off into pop culture and do exactly what you're, like, talking about.
And here's just a segment of their...
Analysis of the Bachelor TV show.
Chris Harrison says it all the time, but I think this one was true.
It was real.
We had Becca K's ex-boyfriend of seven years return fly out to Peru and randomly show up and talk to Ari.
And I have to say, I would have walked away with Becca K's ex-boyfriend in a heartbeat.
In a heartbeat.
In a heartbeat.
He was such an outrageous comment.
No, no, no.
He's way better than Ari.
Are you kidding?
It's incomparable how much better he is than Ari.
He brought her flowers.
He brought her flowers.
He greased his hair extra drippy.
You can wash out hair grease.
Ross paid for the trip himself.
He bought her flowers himself.
Give me a break.
What a bunch of sloppy **** you guys are spewing right now.
Oh, man, that's 49 seconds of my life.
I will never get back.
I was waiting for that.
Never get that back.
I could have made it longer.
And by the way, I had to run that.
I don't want to tell any podcasters how to do their job.
We'll do a seminar someday.
But I had to run that thing through a compressor.
Oh, to make it have the levels even somewhere near normal?
Because you guys down here, they are up there.
It's all over the map.
And, I mean, the waveform was, like, frightening to look at.
They had the, it's just they started going into this gossipy discussion of TV shows.
They actually believe that reality TV is real.
Yeah, they believe it's real and it's not being directed.
And I told them to watch my favorite show in this regard, if people don't have a clue, which is Unreal, which is on, I think, Lifetime Networks.
And Unreal is a drama, but it's about the behind-the-scenes...
I've heard of this.
...of a reality show starring Constance Zimmer, who plays the most evil person, director, producer, imaginable.
She's great.
And this thing, you watch this, and you know what they're doing.
It's probably pretty close to what goes on.
It's just nasty.
Well, you know, because you kind of mentioned two women...
It was the two women that were bickering.
They're the ones that were going, how handsome the guy was.
Right, and that they would steal from the other girl, that they would do that in a heartbeat.
There was an article from the University of Arizona about hostility in the workplace.
Discrimination, hostility, what are the other words here?
Well, across three studies, they found consistent evidence that women reported higher levels of incivility from other women.
Than about their male counterparts.
And they call this the Queen Bee Syndrome.
Oh yeah.
In fact, that's exactly...
Yeah, I know this syndrome.
And that's the phrase I've heard before.
I had not heard this.
So what do you know about the Queen Bee Syndrome?
It's women.
It's like alpha versus beta males.
You know, when they get...
One of them tries to boss the other.
The Queen Bee tries to take over the place.
She's like an alpha male type.
You know, it causes all kinds of problems and rifts.
Women have a lot of...
They bicker a lot.
I was talking about that sort of thing.
I was looking at...
Camille Paglia had written an essay.
I like her.
I think I read this essay.
Was it another unpopular one for her base?
They're always unpopular.
But she's such a great writer.
And she is going on about...
I'll try to figure it out for next show.
We'll have the link and put it in the show notes.
But...
In there, I think it ran in USA Today, or this graph ran in USA Today.
It was Camille doing her normal anti-feminist, feminist rants.
And in there, they had this chart.
And one of our producers sent this article to me.
And they had this chart, and I actually went back at her about this chart being added by an editor.
Because it obviously, Camille wouldn't put it in there.
And in the chart, they make the claim, they make this claim, 21% of all women have been forced to have sex in the workplace.
Really?
That's bullcrap.
I doubt if 21% of all women have ever had sex in the workplace, ever, let alone be forced.
That's an outrageously high number.
That's saying that 21% of all women have been forced to have sex.
I don't believe that number either.
And where is this office?
What office is this?
Where can we visit?
I don't know any guys.
Of all the guys I've ever worked with, and I've worked in and out of offices, I don't know anybody who Who's had workplace sex.
Ah, I do know that in my first big company, Think New Ideas, that some of the dudes named Ben, and I was friendly with them then, of course, there was one who had had sex with someone else from the office on my desk.
Ha ha ha ha ha.
One of those jokes.
There's a Seinfeld episode where George Costanza has sex.
Workplace sex.
Not forced, but workplace sex with the cleaning lady in the office.
I think certainly around the media companies, there was a lot of sex going on.
Shoot, man, you go to the White House.
Hope Hicks?
But...
Well, that'd be one person.
Right.
It's not 21% of the stat.
Well, okay.
Being forced to have sex.
Let me give you...
This is bull crap, and this stuff gets propagated.
Allow me to give you another stat.
And this may be true.
I don't know.
This is from Marie Claire, who used to be my client, so I still read their newsletters and see what's going on.
Doctors have finally ruled menstrual cramps are as painful as heart attacks.
Oh, yeah.
Wow.
Yes.
I've heard this was all over the tweets.
Hmm.
Okay.
Everybody's retweeting.
All the women are retweeting.
Oh, look, look, look.
Told you so.
By the way, I should mention, apparently CBD is quite...
Oh, very, very good for menstrual cramps.
Yes, number one.
Extremely helpful.
Drink it as tea.
Oh yeah, definitely.
But I'd love to hear from our female producers.
Yeah, how many people...
And how bad does a heart attack hurt?
I don't know.
I haven't had one of those either.
Well, if some woman has had both a heart attack and menstrual cramps, which would be...
If you had a heart attack, I'm sure you had both.
I'd like to hear that.
And I'd like to hear how many people...
I don't want to hear from everyone saying, I've never had sex in the office.
I'm assuming that.
I want to know how many people have had sex in the office or know somebody who's had sex in the office.
And how many people know of somebody who's forced...
Sex in the office, because there should be Thousands of you, according to this, because if you go to 21%...
Well, recall the incredible statistic of people with obesity that 40% in the studies said they wanted to be invisible because of some kind of abuse.
So there's definitely abuse in the world, and a lot of it.
And maybe, John, you and I were just dudes.
What do we know?
We're not...
We know enough that...
That common sense, it kind of takes precedent over crazy statistics that are bullcrap.
This is the same thing where they're claiming all these, we did a bunch of clips on this, where all these supposed college sexual assaults many times amounted to nothing.
There was no sexual assault.
Well, I guess the definition is, what is forced sex?
I don't think it's hard to figure out what forced means.
Yeah, forced is easy, you're right.
I don't know.
Well, we'd like to know about that.
We'd like to know about...
We find none.
Zero.
I'd like to know about the severity of the menstrual cramps, and I've been advised that if I just keep talking to you, eventually I'll find out how bad a heart attack is.
I thought it was a mean joke, honestly.
That's a troll room for you.
It's just mean.
I don't know why you're relying on that material so much.
Because it's knee slapping stuff.
No.
Thigh slapping.
Thigh slapper.
New Zealand, another local boots-on-the-ground report we need, has a rabbit problem, and they're going to deal with it by releasing...
Filling the rabbits?
Yes, with hemorrhagic disease.
Isn't that where you just fizzle and bleed on the inside?
You bleed to death.
It's like Ebola.
Out your eyes, out your ears, out your fingernails.
And is that the same with rabbits?
No.
Yeah, well, and they've got big ears.
I'm reading this BBC article, and the question, of course, is how will they die?
And they say, well, you know...
A miserable death.
No, they don't say that.
They say, oh, you know, some just die quickly.
I don't think it's true.
There's this virus.
It's a Korean strain of hemorrhagic rabbit fever.
Rabbit fever.
RHDV1-K5. It affects the animal's internal organs.
This always never works out, by the way, but the rabbits are, I guess, ruinous in New Zealand.
Oh, there's a huge problem with the rabbits.
You know, in Australia, the kangaroos, they are not liked.
Yeah, but they're not going to kill kangaroos.
They're indigenous.
Excuse me?
They have entire programs to kill...
But not eradicate.
I mean, eradicate.
They have to eradicate the rabbits.
They're not going to eradicate kangaroos.
Remember, I went out with a roo shooter, and he had, you know, 40 tickets.
That means he could shoot 40 kangaroos that night.
The kangaroos are in that country.
Yeah, what did we do?
What's the kangaroo population in Australia?
Another no agenda in history.
40 million?
Oh, 40 is just nothing.
How many people?
10 million?
How many sheep?
Yeah, and how many of them look really scared?
Brother.
Yeah, I'm sorry.
Yeah, you should be.
I just thought the hemorrhagic fever was curious to me.
Yeah, it is very curious.
Can we play some clips?
Yeah.
I have a clip of, this is the big scandal.
Jeff Sessions, they're trying to get him to quit too by making a mountain out of a mole every time Trump tweets.
Now, if I can just back you up for a second.
What you have asserted previously, and I'm kind of on board with it, is Sessions, he's got the double pension ready to go, so he'll be double dipping, making all kinds of money.
He actually wants to be forced into retirement.
That's been your assertion.
Well, it's getting closer.
But it doesn't mean that ABC has to...
Pretty much lie their way through this story.
This is Jeff Sessions versus Trump.
The president tonight taking aim at his attorney general, Jeff Sessions.
This is not new, but what is new is that the AG is now firing back.
Here's ABC's chief justice correspondent, Pierre Thomas.
The president has made his frustration with his attorney general well known for months.
I am disappointed in the attorney general.
He should not have recused himself.
If he was going to recuse himself, he should have told me before he took the job and I would have picked somebody else.
A lot of people are disappointed in the Justice Department, including me.
Tonight, for the first time, Attorney General Jeff Sessions is firing back.
It comes after this tweet today from the president, slamming Sessions.
The president believes Sessions has not done enough to investigate allegations the FBI abused surveillance powers in the Russia investigation.
The president tweeting, why is AG Jeff Sessions asking the inspector general to investigate potentially massive FISA abuse?
Will take forever.
Has no prosecutorial power.
Isn't the IG an Obama guy?
Why not use Justice Department lawyers?
Disgraceful.
After months of responding diplomatically to the president's attacks...
Well, it's kind of hurtful, but the president of the United States is a strong leader.
Today, Sessions stood up to the president, writing in a statement, quote, We have initiated the appropriate process that will ensure complaints against this department will be fully and fairly acted upon if necessary.
As long as I am attorney general, I will continue to discharge my duties with integrity and honor.
And Pierre Thomas with us tonight, live from Washington.
And Pierre, some critics tonight, even some Republicans, say the president's trying to influence or pressure the Justice Department with his words and tweets like the one today.
That's right, David.
President Trump in that tweet told Sessions to use Justice Department attorneys, telling him how to do his job.
But tonight, sources say the message from Sessions was blunt.
Let me do the job as I see fit or fire me.
It never said that.
It never said fire me.
The words fire me were never used.
This is bull crap.
It was so clear.
The message was clear.
Yeah, I know.
They just lied right there.
I know.
Well, there's a lot of lying going on.
And by the way, Pierre Thomas is one of the worst at this.
You compare him, he basically has the same kind of gig on the show as Jeff Pegues does on CBS. I can't even run Jeff Pegues' material because I'm just stealing Jeff Pegues' material because he never makes these screw-ups.
Jeff Pegues is great.
Yeah.
Although he sounds like he's trying to take crap all the time.
Poop guy.
Poop guy.
Yeah, he's much better.
I agree.
Well, there's a lot of lying going on surrounding the rather long combo that went on in the house regarding cyber.
And we had General Keith.
No, not Keith.
Is it Keith Rogers?
Yeah.
From the NSA? Oh, no.
It's the other guy.
Same name as the other Rogers.
Yeah.
Peter.
Hank.
No, it's not Peter.
Hank.
John.
Jeff.
John.
Ron.
Jeff.
Oh, my goodness.
Mike.
Mike Rogers.
Mike Rogers.
Got it.
So, all I heard for the past 24-hour news cycle, which I watch diligently for all of you, it is our job, is Trump won't even let him defend us against the Russians!
In exactly that voice, by the way.
So the concept is that the Admiral himself, who was running the NSA, said, well, you know, the President won't let me do anything.
He hasn't given me the order.
And just everyone's outraged because this is an act of war.
It's Pearl Harbor.
You know, how can the, you know, Putin, he loves him.
It's his collusion.
Worse than Pearl Harbor.
Worse than Pearl Harbor.
And, you know, Trump, it was a quid pro quo, it was a collusion, in the WikiLeaks, emails, whatever.
But even in their own reporting, it's not the truth.
Admiral Rogers tells the Senate Armed Services Committee he's neither requested nor gotten additional authority.
That's it.
I mean, I'll play the rest of the clip, but he hasn't requested it either.
He hasn't asked for it!
I'll play that little clip again.
Yeah, I'm going to play it.
It's 38 seconds, the whole thing.
But just, it's crazy.
Admiral Rogers tells the Senate Armed Services Committee he's neither requested nor gotten additional authority to act against Russia's election interference.
Here's Connecticut Democrat Richard Blumenthal pressing him on what that means.
You mean leading the witness?
Would you agree with me that the Russians have been in no way deterred?
Oh, yes, sir.
I think that's true.
They're doing it with impunity.
They could care less what we think.
They're continuing to attack us.
Yes, sir.
So, thus far, the response of the United States of America to this ongoing attack has been completely inadequate.
It hasn't changed the calculus, is my sense.
Still, Roger says it's not his place to tell President Trump what he should or should not do about Russia.
And that was from NPR. And they had the facts.
And the guy said, I haven't requested any additional powers.
What does that mean?
Like, I can finally do the DDoS.
What additional powers does he need?
None.
No, Blumenthal's a douchebag.
Yes.
Well, we have a report on the Russian hacking.
They brought two experts into the PBS NewsHour.
And this went on forever, by the way.
So this is a very short beginning, but it's worth commenting on.
Welcome to both of you to the NewsHour.
David Becker, to you first.
In sum, what did the Russians do to election systems in this country in 2016?
Nothing.
What we know from testimony from the intelligence community and elsewhere is that they attempted to probe or scan several state systems, probably most notably voter registration database systems.
Jeez, there's a lot of attempted, probably, probe or scan or...
Almost all of those scans and probes were unsuccessful.
There was one instance in Illinois where they successfully accessed voter data, about 70,000 records or so, in June and July of 2016, but no records were altered or deleted.
And I don't know if it's in this report, but what I hear about this story is, you know, they were planning to delete people.
I mean, is that really their plan?
We're going to delete people from the database.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
By the way, one time I went in to vote, and my name wasn't there for some reason, and I just said, my name's not here, it's supposed to be here, and I showed them my driver's license, they gave me a temporary ballot, I voted.
Of course, and that works in every state that way.
Yeah.
I think.
Maybe five or six states where you have to prove citizenship of the United States.
I had a driver's license.
That doesn't prove citizenship.
But you're in California.
You just need to have...
You don't need to prove it in California.
You just need a piece of paper with your name on it.
Just a piece of paper with your name on it.
Yeah, I scribble my own name on there.
I'm good to go.
Good to go.
Yes.
We also know from the intelligence community and from multiple investigations all around.
Maybe they can go in and clean up the database a little bit while they're in there.
You know, just fix the records.
You know, if we've got some duplicates, guys, you could do that.
Holy crap, these guys don't have their rows.
Select Stardem from...
Let's fix this for them.
Perfect.
Hey, why is it not playing?
What happened?
...2016, but no records were altered or deleted.
We also know from the intelligence community and from multiple investigations all around the country that there were no successful efforts to...
I'm sorry to interrupt again, but I'm surprised they haven't said, they could bleach bit it!
I mean, something like that.
A little more creativity, people.
...to change votes or change vote totals or tallies throughout the United States.
Denise Merrill, what about what happened in your state of Connecticut?
We know there was an effort made by the Russians there.
Yes, we were one of 21 states apparently that were scanned, at least, by Russian IP addresses.
Again, our firewalls and our systems held.
They were trying to get into our voter registration database, which I think is similar to what happened in the other states.
I think the good news is they didn't get in.
And I think that's pretty much true in all the other states with that one exception that David mentioned.
And Denise Merrill, staying with you, what evidence or belief do you have right now that they are continuing to try to do that in this 2018 midterm election year?
Well, I do think the threat of Russian interference in our elections is real.
I've become convinced of that, not only by what has happened, but what could happen.
I think we're all on alert now that there could be other attempts.
I honestly think that the biggest goal that they have at this point is to sow distrust in the American public in their elections.
That may be the most dangerous thing of all.
Well, you're carrying Putin's water then, baby.
So distrust.
Now, I thought about this because I've heard this meme before you have, too.
I think this is what they've...
Because they can't really find the Russians actually doing anything.
Maybe they can, maybe they can't.
Maybe it's not even the Russians, just Russian IPs.
I mean, I could spoof one of those.
Can I just...
I've told the story before.
I'll be brief about it.
For the newbies here in the best podcast in the universe, if I go to look at my email server, which I run my own, if I look at it right now, I will see...
Ten scans a second from China, from Russia, from all over the place.
And they're just scanning.
They're just scanning ports.
They're trying passwords.
Pew, pew, pew, pew, pew, pew, pew.
This happens all the times.
It's nothing special.
Nothing.
It's the so distrust.
This is the idea.
It's the so, so.
As in sowing the seeds of love.
S-O-W, distrust.
The...
I bet you if I went out to the street, even anywhere, California, where they'd be more, you know, believing that this kind of thing might be going on, and ask about if people are starting to distrust the system because the Russians are behind all these hacks or they're trying to hack.
That's bullcrap.
Nobody's even thinking that.
But they keep promoting the idea that the Russians are trying to sow distrust.
Yeah, well, the only people doing that are the...
The people sowing distrust.
Yeah, that's them.
The ones who are bitching and moaning.
I don't think people care.
I don't think people care.
That's the point I was trying to make.
Yeah, I think the NRA thing is a better tact.
Well, they've got to keep...
It's multiple fronts.
Multiple fronts of attack.
Yeah, but there's going to be no Mueller report by the election.
He would be crazy to do that.
He would be insane.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We have another story, local.
You're just full of locals.
I know.
Today's local day for me.
This is a story.
You get this off of your DTV antenna?
I get it off of OTR. Yeah, OTR. That's what I mean.
No, OTA. OTA. OTA is an old-time radio.
OTA is over the air.
Yes, that one.
Yes.
This is a big story around here.
And everyone's all in a tizzy about it.
This is the tech buses.
The tech buses are being targeted by some gunman.
Oh, and these are the tech buses that were first targeted by feces and puke and piss bags.
Yes.
Explain the tech bus.
Explain the tech bus.
Okay.
Well, Google, but most of these tech buses nowadays are Apple buses.
Ah, okay.
Because apparently a lot of Apple employees live in San Francisco, and they don't like the idea of commuting to Cupertino every day because it's during any kind of reasonable hour of commute.
That's over an hour drive.
And it's a pain in the ass, and then they got to look for parking.
So it's a pain in the ass.
And Google's got a lot of people who live in San Francisco.
I don't know why these kids, they all live in San Francisco instead of Redwood City.
So they came up with this idea of these tech buses.
They're like city buses.
They have stops and they pick up the tech workers.
And the tech workers go down the peninsula to the offices of Google or Apple or whoever it is that's hauling them down.
Google and Apple are the big ones.
And do they all get on the bus wearing their Google Glass?
We are going to work.
We are going to work.
No.
Because that's so passe now.
It's not even funny.
Now, so people have been irked by this because things are clogging up San Francisco streets.
There's so many.
There's like, I don't know how many.
Is there a hundred?
I'm not sure.
Oh, that's quite a lot.
There's a lot of buses.
And there are all these fancy...
Do you see like three or four buses in a row sometimes?
I've never seen one of these buses.
Oh.
It's just in the news.
I don't go to San Francisco that often.
Because there's too much poop over there.
Anyway.
So...
On the street.
On the street.
When you're walking on the sidewalk.
You know, you'd think these people would curb their poop.
Don't you think?
I remember the signs, curb your dog.
I think that's a phrase from the Shays now.
It's so old.
I don't think anyone uses that.
Because if you poop off the curb into the street, if it rains, it'll wash the poop into the sewage system.
But if you're just pooping in the middle of the sidewalk, it's disgusting.
As if the other's not.
Anyway, back to the story.
Let's just play clip one.
They've damaged windows.
They've dented the exterior of the vehicles.
Over 20 strikes in the last 45 days is one too many.
Tech Bus is targeted by a freeway gunman.
Only on 7 now.
Exclusive.
New details about the unusual step that police are taking to try to catch their suspect, including even calling in the FBI. Good afternoon.
Thanks for joining us.
I'm Larry Beal.
And I'm Kristen Zee, in for Amidates.
The attacks happened on shuttle buses along Interstate 280, but the CHP revealed today that when the buses moved to Highway 101, the gunmen followed them there.
Oh, man!
They're taking shots at the bus.
I think some guy's fired from Apple.
Oh, that could be, yeah, pissed off, if it's just an Apple bus.
Yeah, the story seems to be centered around Apple buses.
Hmm.
Um...
Of course, reporting on this is pretty lame.
Because, is that the end of clip one?
Yes.
Yeah, clip two kind of shows you why I think it's lame.
Since mid-January, the CHP says at least 20 charter buses have been hit with bullets from either a BB gun or a rifle.
Oh, well, okay.
Jeez.
That was no good.
What kind of BB gun shoots a bullet?
Yeah, that was bad.
This is the, like, ooh, guns eek.
Well, here's a tip.
Don't watch local TV. It's stupid.
It's really stupid.
So I'm coming around to one of our older ideas for the show, and this came to me...
Actually, I've been doing a lot of research about networks and value.
You know, one of my main mantras is you can't monetize the network.
And what I mean by that...
It's not even a mantra.
It's like a pet peeve.
Yes.
And what I mean by that is that when you have a network of people doing things, which is what Twitter is, and I said there's really only one company that has figured out how to do it.
Really, Google is the one that does it right.
But even FaceBag, you know, yeah, they're the only game in town, and they're trying to keep people locked in, but the swirling is slowing down.
It slows down their home.
You really can't do it.
The minute you have a network of content that is made by other people, you can't monetize off of it.
It just doesn't work.
I've seen it.
We don't see it happening.
Facebook is an extreme outlier for a number of reasons, but...
If you look at our own network, so we have a network, and you've really got to take your mind out of the idea of Facebook is like some magical place on the internet.
It's just a website.
It's no different.
They've got more servers.
But it's no different from the bits and bytes that we send around the universe on this show.
So these networks are created.
They're not proprietary.
They run over the internet.
And our network is of all these different skill sets and interests and money.
There's all kinds of things that flow around in our network.
And I think it's incredible.
In fact, I'm working on this as a new phrase that the network is actually the value.
And strangely enough, what you put in, you get equally out what you need if you really contribute to it.
And the reason I've been looking at this is He's a buddy of mine who I've worked with him for, go back 28, 29 years.
He's starting a music company ICO, an initial coin offering, which we talked about doing for our show.
And the idea that I had was we figure out how to launch our own token, our own altcoin, if you will.
And then everyone participates and we all get rich and we all retire, hosts and audience at the same time.
So producers and executive producers, everyone just retires because we made money.
And now that I've really looked into how this works, and he's been bugging me, he says, do you want to help with the marketing?
I'm going to do it.
In fact, I'll probably be in Holland next week.
We'll still do the show.
But I'm going to learn how this works.
And I think I'm coming up with an idea that will actually work for our show with our own cryptocurrency.
That will actually show the value of our network.
And I know it sounds a little incomplete at this time.
Theremin.
Sorry?
Theremin.
You caught me off guard on the theremin, right?
There we go.
Now we're talking, everybody.
That's right!
The No Agenda coin!
I'm working on it!
It's a very, very interesting thing that's happening with these ICOs.
Very interesting.
Okay.
Well, I'm not going to discourage you.
I know you won't.
Because you're going to go off on your own anyway, doing some idea that you think is valuable, because it might be.
I can't say there's a dog.
No, no.
Uh...
I don't know.
I mean, there's a bunch of people that have been telling us to do this.
We can help.
You know, like I said, they can help.
Let me ask you a question, John.
Do you buy stocks?
Do you buy bonds?
Do you buy stocks and bonds?
Do you buy stocks and bonds?
Just answer the question.
Do you buy stocks and bonds?
Not as much as real estate.
Do you want to get rich?
I'm going to make you leave your wife rich.
You're going to be so rich you're going to leave her.
Too bad, Mimi.
Well, she's got community property, so she's going to get as rich as I do.
I'm going to show myself by donating to No Agenda.
Imagine all the people who could do that.
Oh, yeah, that'd be fab.
Yeah, on No Agenda in the morning.
I think we should call it the Mimi.
I think before we cash out and end up in Sing Sing...
We'll thank a few people that are helping us on this current pursuit.
Yes.
Starting with James O'Brien with 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
CJ Vandenberg, $101.20.
Thanks for the excellent work, he says.
I think it's a he.
Stefan, with an F. From Felbach.
He's from Felbach.
Hello, Deutschland!
Here's the Hoff!
Deutschland.
Gareth Kuchinkas in Salingham, Connecticut.
We have a couple of notes.
Kuchinkas.
I would say Kuchinkas.
Kuchinkas?
Kuchinkas?
I don't know.
Do you have a note?
Are you going to the squirrel mail?
No, I don't have a note.
It did come in as a check, though.
Lon Baker, $100.
Joseph Harrell, $100.
Yes, he says this over the top is going to be a knight.
He wants to be Sir Sean Knight of the DOTA offlane.
Then we got Dirtis Curtis in Golden, Colorado for the $100 and he did send a note in.
I normally don't read all the notes that come up in a handwritten, and usually we try.
But I want to read this.
In the morning, gents, just writing in to express my sincere gratitude for the work you do.
The past two months of shows have been excellent.
I'm afraid I've been slacking and not donating regularly.
So if you read this on the air, please de-douche me.
You've been de-douched.
A few months back, I heard an old friend donate, so I tracked his phone number down, and we recommended, or we reconnected on old friend over no agenda.
Your deconstruction is bringing people together over many miles.
However, I've not heard him donate since, so please call Trent out as a douchebag.
Douchebag!
Additionally, my father, John, has been listening for over a year with no donation.
Despite always saying, yes, I'm going to send them some money.
Please call him out as a douche.
Finally, I'm getting married next year and I'll need someone by my side that I can trust to keep me sane and call out my BS. So I'd like to humbly request the presence of No Agenda Black Knight, Sir Jason of Clear...
Creek Canyon as my best man.
Wow!
That's nice.
Thanks again.
Keep up the good work.
How beautiful.
I thought that was an unusual note.
I like that.
Yeah.
Hey, I'm going to send pictures.
Yeah, the mayor of the wedding.
Yeah.
Todd Humphreys, 8841 in Thorndon, Wellington, New Zealand, where the rabbits are.
And this is what he calls the reverse racism donation.
Okay.
I have no idea.
I have no idea.
Nicholas Oman, 75.
Dennis, Derek Johnson, 69, 69.
Sir Chris of the Low...
Hold on.
You missed Sir Brian Kaufman, I think.
Oh, Sir Brian Kaufman in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Right.
Sorry, Brian.
75, 75.
Thank you, sir.
75, 75.
Sir Chris of the Low Earth Orbit, Houston, Texas, 55, 10.
And now I think we missed Derek Johnson.
No, I did say Derek Johnson.
Okay, I'll shut up now.
That's when you were interrupting me.
Derek Johnson, 6969.
Sir Chris, Sir Pain in the Ass in Richmond, Virginia, 5432.
Steve Purcell in Stoughton, Wisconsin, I believe, or Stoughton.
Rich in somewhere in North Carolina.
I do have a note from him, and I wanted to read it for some specific reason.
It was actually a card.
This is the 5150, which is the general code.
For insanity.
That's right.
If you're a cop, you call it, oh, 5150, I mean, somebody's nuts.
We even use that code in the air pollution district.
When Barbara Boxer wanted to have a ride home with you.
Well, she never wanted to ride home with me.
Well, that's curious.
I'm sure you were a dapper-looking young man.
No, I was dapper-looking, but I was never in the situation where I, because I got the word, don't be around.
Well, let me tell you something.
Have you seen her recently?
No.
You dodged the bullet, my friend.
She has had so much work done that her eyes are crooked, her mouth is crooked, her nose is crooked.
That was pretty good.
Thank you for the best podcast in the universe.
It's been quite some time and I've donated.
This has nothing to do with the quality of the shows.
Quite frankly, they are entertaining, informative, and in all caps, outstanding.
The reason I have not donated is that I'm a cheap bastard.
Also, I keep forgetting to send in the money.
More vitamin B12? I have been a long-time listener and remember some of the early shows when you, John, said that candidate Obama was unelectable.
Did you really say that, or am I making this crap up?
Question mark, question mark, smiley face.
You might have.
I did.
You did?
Yeah.
I remember saying it, because I was looking over the candidates, and I felt that he was unelectable.
This was before we knew how it all worked.
Well, that and before, right.
Yes.
Yeah, before we, yeah.
Maybe that was it, but I had this, I had the bunch of guys I listed as unelectable, and he was one of them.
Right.
Anyway, that's Rich somewhere in North Carolina.
All right.
I'm starting to read that note because I don't mind calling myself out for errors.
Yes.
And that was an error.
And, you know, we're not here to be, what do you call it, where you're never wrong?
Because we're wrong.
You mean us?
What do you call it when you're never wrong?
Us?
Yes.
It doesn't make a lot of sense, but it does happen.
John B. Tennis in West Lynn, Oregon, 51.25.
Scott Nelson in Melbourne, Florida, $50.01.
The following people are $50 donors, name and location, if possible.
Samantha Gindy, Dean Kostenko.
Wait, wait, wait.
Samantha Gindy, this donation is on behalf of my sexy man friend.
Man friend?
Colin Ayers.
He hit me in the mouth four years ago, and the NA way of thinking has kept us together since.
Yes!
Can I get a birthday shout-out?
His birthday will be sometime between Wednesday and Thursday.
What does that mean?
You mean his birthday surprise sometime between Wednesday and Thursday?
Sometime in between, and we don't know when.
Okay.
All right.
He's on the list, Samantha.
There was also a make good that was...
Yeah, I got it.
I got it.
Dean Kostanko in Jacksonville, Arkansas.
Tyler Schimpf in Bothell, Washington.
Tyler's coming in a lot.
Yeah, he is.
He's on a roll.
Always on the list.
Nils Bonnaker in Hamburg, Deutschland.
Louis Pasteur in Miami, Florida.
Jose Ferreira in Newberry, UK. Robert Makowski in Rhinebeck, New York.
Jeffrey Zellin in Oakland, Michigan.
Peter Totes, Sir Peter Totes, everybody, but whoever put this together.
Sugarland, Texas.
Dennis Brown in Rhinelander, Wisconsin.
Good Wisconsin group there.
Sir Lucas of the Lost Bits in Tacoma, Washington.
And wrapping up, we got Martin Bills.
Oh, hold on.
He's in blue.
He's in blue.
Hi guys, long time donor.
Finally, time to get my knighthood.
Yeah.
I've been listening to the show since episode 2 or 3.
I started out as a $5 a month subscriber, moved up to $12, $12 a month a while back.
This $50 donation will get me to knighthood.
Congratulations.
I just couldn't wait any longer.
Ten years, a long time.
There's a new job.
Well, you know, he did it.
There's a new job prospect on the horizon.
If I get it, I'm switching to 33 a month subscription.
Some jobs karma would be appreciated.
Yes, of course.
I'd like to call Aaron Dietrich out as a douchebag.
Douchebag!
I introduced him to the show at least five years ago.
He has not donated to my knowledge.
Thank you for keeping me sane and informed without having to be forced into commercial breaks.
Creep up the great work.
Dealer's choice for jingles.
Well, we'll always play something, but I would like to give him the jobs karma right now because, you know, 10 years and finally night.
That's pretty cool.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs!
Yay!
You've got karma.
And wrapping up, we've got Nicholas Johnson in Floyd's Knobbs.
Indiana.
Indiana's got a lot of weird towns.
Yeah.
My favorite being Knobbone.
I like Floyd.
It should be Floyd's Knob.
That would be even better.
Well, it might be.
But it says Floyd's Knobbs here.
Okay.
We don't laugh about names here on the No Agenda show.
No, we never do anything like that.
It's too juvenile.
Yes.
Michael Robinson is our last guy.
He's from North Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
I want to thank all these folks for helping produce and keep the show afloat for especially show 10-12.
And hope this continues for the next show on Sunday.
Yes, that would be nice.
And Sunday we will be bringing you another episode of the best podcast in the universe.
And we hope you will remember us for that program.
Sunday, Sunday, Sunday.
Dvorak.org slash N-A.
It's your birthday, birthday.
I'm no one champion.
We have a couple of birthdays.
Some belated.
Kim says happy birthday to Sir Riptitious, Knight of the Marin Headlands.
And this goes back to the 20th.
Sir Brian Warden says...
Marin.
Sorry, the Marin Headlands.
Sir Brian Warden says happy birthday to his son Jack.
He turned 13 years old.
And for today, we have Jenna Damico, 33, on March 3rd.
And Samantha Gindi says happy birthday to her sexy man friend, Colin Ayers.
Happy birthday from all your buddies here at the best podcast in the universe.
Okay, we have two nightings.
Wait a minute, I see that Eric didn't put his full title in here.
Where was it?
What's his name?
It's...
Martin Bills?
Martin Bills, yeah.
What is his...
He wants to be...
I like to call Aaron Dietrich.
I'm looking.
I don't think he puts one in here.
Where the hell was it?
I remember he said something about it.
I'm not crazy.
This is very strange.
Oh, no, no, I see.
I see what happened.
No, it's a bad line break.
That actually belongs to...
Okay, I got it.
Sorry about that.
Bad line break.
It belongs to Joseph Harrell.
There we go.
Okay, now.
Ow!
Ow!
There we go.
That's what I needed.
Hello?
Your sword?
Yeah, I'm sorry.
Here it is.
Okay, good.
It's the gag that keeps on gagging.
All right!
To the podium, please!
Joseph Harrell, Martin Bills, gentlemen, you are about to join the very exclusive club known as the No Agenda Roundtable for the Knights and the Dames, and I'm very proud to stand here next to you and to pronounce the KB... Sir Sean, Knight of the Dota Offlane, and Sir Bills, both of you, Knights of the No Agenda Roundtable.
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Title changes.
Turn and face display.
Title changes.
Don't want to be a douchebag.
Sir Baker has upped his peerage status and from today forward, henceforth shall be known as the Viscount of Diablo Valley, Sir Baker.
Congratulations and thank you also.
For your courage in supporting the best podcast in the universe.
Your No Agenda show.
All right.
That worked.
Yes, I have...
Let's see.
I got a couple things I wanted to play here.
Yes.
Remember Major Garrett?
You know him, right?
Of course I remember.
Isn't he CBS? Yeah, Major Garrett.
He also does a podcast.
Yeah.
Oh, terrific.
Everybody does a podcast.
Everybody does a podcast these days.
Who doesn't have a podcast?
Yeah, Jim Lewis.
Well, they were talking about Trump and Putin and what can we do about Putin, and I learned some interesting news.
I have every expectation that they will continue to try and do that, but I'm confident that America will be able to have a free and fair election that we'll push back in a way that is sufficiently robust that the impact they have on our election won't be great.
That is the voice of CIA Director Mike Pompeo, January 29th, 2018, in a BBC interview.
Jim Lewis, Vice President, Senior Vice President at the Center for Strategic International Studies.
I love how he's trying to do his radio voice.
Do you hear that?
He doesn't talk like that on television.
He's really trying to do an announcer guy thing.
This is a problem with a lot of pros that move from...
I mean, it's not like he hasn't got a great job at the network.
But they go to podcasting.
I don't know what they think it is.
Hmm.
Well.
It's not a great sound for him.
January 29th, 2018, in a BBC interview.
Jim Lewis, Vice President, Senior Vice President at the Center for Strategic International Studies is our guest here at the takeout.
A couple things to talk about there.
Confident America will have a free and fair election.
Then he says, we'll push back in a way that is sufficiently robust.
What does that mean?
We don't know.
That's been one of the problems.
And the previous administration struggled with it as well.
My favorite is still discussing with them what are things we could do back to the Russians.
One of the ideas they had was, well, suppose we leak Vladimir Putin's Botox injection schedule.
And I said, is that the best we can do?
Wait a minute, we know what that is?
Yes.
Okay, what is it?
But that's why he looks so stern all the time, is he can't move his face.
You know, it's like you feel a little sympathy for the guy.
I mean, he's probably...
I guess a little, maybe a little sympathy.
Putin!
I think he was being truthful.
I think Putin does use Botox.
Why?
Oh, lots of men do it these days, John.
I get accused of it all the time.
Tina the Keeper still doesn't believe.
Bees do it.
Even little podcasters do it.
We gotta need a song.
Let's do it.
Let's do it.
Let's Botox our face.
You are in quite the mood today.
Yeah.
I'm telling you, something's going on.
Yeah.
Well, we know that in, certainly in California, there where you live, John, the Democrats are very clear, just all leaders there are very clear why they want immigrant workforce, because it's cheap.
Right?
Exactly.
We need these immigrants to pick tomatoes.
In my theory of the cycle of history and history repeating itself, it just gets better when you think about all these convos going on about illegal aliens voting.
And we might get to a place where we'll say, well, I'll tell you what.
Okay, we had some illegal aliens voting, but we'll count those like one-third vote.
See, then we'll really have subhumans, because they're only worth a third of a vote, picking stuff in the fields for the same Democrats who did this with slaves.
Yeah, you're right.
It's a cycle.
It's a cycle, man.
It's coming around.
Anyway, in Scandinavia, they have their own desire for cheap labor.
As witness here, the premier, Justin, talking us through it.
And quite frankly, the most common complaint I get from Canadians, from Canadian businesses, from people in general, is you're not bringing in enough immigrants.
And that's a rare thing in this world.
They want some of that cheap labor, too.
Businesses.
This is a rare thing.
Businesses asking him, gee, wonder why they want it, Justin?
Yeah, exactly.
Why else would they want it?
He can't be that dumb.
He's the dumbest guy ever.
He can't be that dumb.
He just can't be that dumb.
Yes, I think he's an idiot.
I mean, they'd like to point the finger at Trump as being stupid, but no, no, no.
Trump's actually run businesses.
He's got other things going on.
He may be dim-witted about certain things, but this guy is just dumb.
Sorry, Canadians.
That's why they're not donating anymore.
There wasn't one donor in that list today that was from Canada.
Well, do they hate us now?
Why aren't they donating?
I don't know.
I don't know.
I'd have to go back over this.
No, we need more immigrants listening.
I'm saying nothing from Canada.
We need more immigrants listening to this podcast.
I think we got one.
There may have been one from Alberta.
More immigrants, please.
Wellington, New Jersey.
I'm looking.
No, there's not a Canadian in the group.
Okay.
That's bad.
Oh, good news.
The German rail Deutsche Bahn DB has decided they will not be naming one of their trains after Anne Frank, after all.
They do see that it's maybe not a good idea.
Remember that?
I told you the story that they were thinking about it.
Yeah, I remember vaguely.
Yeah, well now they've said, yeah, you know, we got some feedback.
Yeah.
We understand it's a little controversial to name a German train after Anne Frank.
And please don't email me.
Yeah, I would say that it's just upsetting us mixed messages.
It really is.
And you don't have to email me about Anne Frank.
I know all about it.
Because you know what you're going to get.
Oh, you're going to get the whole Anne Frank's diary was written by her dad.
They didn't have ballpoint pens.
Yeah, ballpoint pens before they were ballpoint pens.
I will tell you, there's a lot of fight over the rights to Anne Frank's name.
There's two groups, and they fight through the courts all the time.
Who gets to call themselves the official Anne Frank this or that?
It's a mess.
Yeah.
All right, well, I've got that little clip of Wolf.
Oh!
The writer who did the Trump book is eating crap.
He's decided he's going off.
The tour is over.
You know what happened in Holland is he got excoriated and then again I believe in maybe, I don't think he was there, but an Australian morning show.
Yeah, I got the Australian clip right here.
So this came after what happened in the Netherlands where for some reason the journalists, ever since they caught the ambassador lying about He had said somewhere, well, in Holland they have no go zones and they light politicians on fire.
Which, of course, as far as I know, never happened in Holland.
And they called him on and he's like, well, you know, he looks like a douche.
And now the Dutch press, whenever they have someone, an international controversial figure, they ask in that, you know, in their typical rude way, and it's not that the Dutch are rude, it's just how they sound.
You know, hey, Mr.
Ambassador, you said the politicians on fire.
Very, you see the flame, man.
That's how they're asking questions these days.
And so they did this to Michael Wolff about, you know, the insinuation that he was having sex with...
What was it supposed to be with?
Oh, with...
Hope Hicks.
No, no, no.
The woman, the senator, the...
Feinstein.
No, it doesn't matter.
I'll come up with it.
He's getting all pissed off.
I can't hear, I can't hear, I'm off, and then he walks off the set.
You said during a TV interview last month that you are absolutely sure that Donald Trump is currently having an affair while President behind the back of the First Lady.
And I'll repeat, you said you were absolutely sure.
Last week, however, you backflipped and said, I quote, I do not know if the President is having an affair.
Do you owe the President and the First Lady an apology, Mr.
Wolf?
I can't hear you.
Just last month you said you were absolutely sure that the President was having an affair.
I'm not getting anything.
You're not hearing me, Mr.
Wolfe?
I'm not getting anything.
No.
We were hearing each other well just before.
I thought it was a very genius move on his part.
Well, I like the way he actually starts to answer the question.
You're not hearing me?
No, I can't.
You know, he does this.
It sounds like he was hearing him.
Oh, he's totally full of shit.
And then he walks.
Yeah.
I thought it was a good way to do it.
Hey.
Yeah, well, he canceled his whole tour now because they're going...
I wonder how sales are.
Is he still top of the list?
The guy's going to walk away with millions of dollars from this book.
Right, okay.
Yeah, he's done.
He's a done dude.
He's not doing any ads.
He's not adding to the sales figures.
I mean, most of these tours are bogus anyway.
Once you get your initial publicity in and out of the way, like Dick's Sporting Goods.
I've never seen so much.
It looks like native advertising and it's on every network.
Yeah, it's what everyone does.
You jump on the bandwagon for commercial reasons.
Yeah.
And they are exploiting children as well.
Yes, they are.
Well, I know you got to go.
I don't have to go.
I'm calling time.
One more.
No, I see.
I will get two more clips then.
Okay.
Actually, I'm going to just do one more clip and then we can kill it.
And I can move these clips forward.
But I do want to play this clip.
This is the Santa Cruz homeless encampment.
It's another local story.
And they moved them and then they gave us some numbers that are interesting.
In Santa Cruz, the San Lorenzo Park benchlands homeless encampment will shut down next week.
The city plans to open another temporary site on River Street.
It's a fenced, graveled city-owned lot where food and other social services will be provided.
It'll cost about $90,000 a month to operate through June.
The River Street location is set to open this coming Wednesday.
Oh, man.
So $90,000 a month or...
A million dollars a year, more or less.
Isn't that a lot?
Well, how many people are they going to...
Well, they don't say, but it shows like maybe 40, 50 people.
Why don't they just give them the money?
Yeah.
I don't know.
I'm torn about that.
It doesn't matter.
Under a certain amount, you just can't live anymore.
Certainly not in California.
You just can't live.
No.
I don't know what the poverty level is, but it's wrong.
100 grand.
That's poverty in California?
It's pretty high.
Damn.
No, it's not that.
I just made that up.
It can't be $100,000.
It's like $30,000 or $40,000.
It's high.
$30,000 is high.
Yeah.
You just can't live there anymore.
It depends also where in California.
If you're going to be up in Tulare County, if you're going to be up by Wairica, if you're going to be on the Oregon border, which is Wairica, it's not going to be the same as if you're in...
San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles.
Well, why don't they just build a library?
Seems to be great.
They like it.
The homeless people love their library.
I'll have another boring library report on Sunday.
Yes, we need another boring library report.
I will do my best.
Yes, sir.
Okay.
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