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	What's your demo?
	You don't have enough people in that group.
	Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
	It's Sunday, March 4th, 2018.
	This is your award-winning Gimbo Nation Media Assassination, Episode 1013.
	This is No Agenda.
	The Russians are here and they're everywhere.
	And broadcasting live from downtown Austin, Tejas, capital of the drone, Star State, in the Cludio, in the morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where I'm here asking the proverbial question...
	What does pasture-raised really mean?
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	It's Crackpot and Buzzkill.
	In the morning.
	Pasture-raised.
	Is this for your chicken?
	No, I just bought some eggs.
	Ah.
	It says pasture-raised.
	So you mean the eggs were actually raised?
	I don't know what they mean.
	It doesn't mean anything.
	It's bullcrap.
	It's marketing, baby.
	It's marketing.
	Yeah, it's marketing.
	It is.
	Hmm.
	It's like free-range.
	Yeah.
	Well, free range is understood.
	You get a little bit of grass to poop on.
	That's about it.
	Mm-hmm.
	All right.
	Ants.
	Here we are.
	Sunday.
	You got ants in the studio.
	No.
	Yeah.
	I'm taking them.
	Have you ever not been under attack by ants in the studio?
	Most of the time.
	This is like the first time in a couple of years.
	Yeah.
	No, no, you've had ants in the studio just in the past six months.
	Well, maybe.
	Yeah, it's...
	What they're after, though.
	I mean, there's nothing up here.
	They're just roaming around stupidly.
	It's too bad, baby, because...
	I got ants.
	It's nothing like that.
	All right, end the show song again.
	Every time you have damn ants, got to play that.
	It's not like there's just a bunch of a stream of them.
	They're just random ants roaming around.
	Okay, so it's still in the early stages of the encirclement and attack of the siege.
	Well, you're living on that.
	Hey, did you see that?
	It was in the newsletter.
	There you go.
	About the colony of penguins that no one knew about?
	I found that distressing.
	Now, is it really because it seems like they had seen guano, which is a scientific word for poop, they'd seen guano from their space satellites, which other ones would you have, and they'd been seeing this for a long time, only now was the first time they went to investigate?
	How come they can't see a million penguins from the satellite?
	Well, I don't know.
	I'm asking.
	You wrote the newsletter.
	It was your discovery.
	So, for people who don't have the newsletter...
	No, it wasn't my discovery.
	It was my discovery of the discovery.
	Yes.
	Well, for people who do not subscribe to the newsletter, go to any of our No Agenda websites, like noagendashow.com, and subscribe.
	Tell us what was the discovery.
	They discovered this penguin that supposedly was going extinct.
	Um...
	A specific penguin, I can't remember the name, Ariel or some crazy name, never heard of it.
	They found a colony exists on one of these islands and the colony consists of 1.5 million of these things.
	And they were stunned.
	What?!
	Because they thought global warming was killing these things, and that turns out they got tons of them.
	Yeah, luckily it's back.
	Not global warming, but climate change.
	Luckily.
	Where did I have this?
	When we went to England for Thanksgiving, we met up with some friends, and those friends live out in Cornwall, and they both got stuck.
	One of them was a nurse, and she got stuck at the hospital.
	She couldn't come home.
	And then the daughter was stuck at a friend's house and she couldn't come home.
	We're talking about the horrible weather in Europe.
	Let's not say horrible, let's say cold weather, really cold.
	The Dutch are using the Amsterdam canals for transportation.
	That's how cold it is.
	And they actually have a name for it.
	I think it's called the Siberian Beast.
	Yes, the Cybeast.
	And because it is so much warmer at the pole, now I understand.
	Oh, okay.
	That makes sense.
	Yeah, that's how it works.
	It's 20 degrees warmer.
	I think they're talking about Fahrenheit.
	I don't know.
	Then typical...
	Yeah, and that's why all of a sudden we have the...
	And of course, it also brings in Russia, which I thought was cute.
	Yeah, you gotta bring Russia as best.
	It's Russia.
	It's their fault that we've...
	It's the Siberian beast.
	Yeah.
	Well, I don't know.
	I thought you were telling me when we began this show...
	Years ago, that it was predicted that they would never see snow again except in a snow globe.
	That's right.
	In the British Isles.
	And they said that 12 years ago, and they said it wouldn't happen by, I think it was even some crazy date, like 2010 or 2012.
	Yeah.
	So, well, that didn't turn out so well.
	Seems so.
	Seems like they were full of crap.
	Yeah.
	All right.
	Well, that's our show, everybody.
	Thanks for coming.
	That's about it.
	I think the main things, what do we have?
	I've got a lot of Russia, again, from a whole bunch of different angles.
	More Mueller, Mueller, Mueller, Mueller.
	Oh, Oscars tonight.
	There you go.
	Oh, yes.
	Let's get that out of the way before we go to our clips.
	Right.
	So, now, the past number of award shows where we've been expecting to be a lot of political rhetoric, it wasn't all that bad, actually.
	Golden Globes slipped a bit.
	They had some going, but, you know, all the other shows...
	Well, when they tried to shoehorn it in, it became a problem.
	I think Kimmel's going to definitely shoehorn a few of these, you know.
	Yeah, opening monologue, maybe.
	I have a new thing for the Trump list, which I'll talk about later, which I think they're going to try to slip in.
	Well, what do you think Movie of the Year will be?
	Maybe we should just go to the...
	What's the list?
	Do you have the list in front of you?
	It's your segment.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	It's your segment.
	Oscar...
	Here we go.
	I have it prepared.
	Oscar Movie of the Year.
	We have a couple predictions I'm sure will happen.
	Well, I have a clip with a prediction.
	Here we go.
	Award...
	Here.
	Nominees 2018.
	Let's see.
	Best Picture.
	We have...
	Call Me By Your Name.
	Too gay.
	A little too gay, maybe.
	We have Darkest Hour.
	A little bit.
	Yeah, maybe.
	It's a maybe.
	It's a maybe, but it would be hard to give Gary Oldman that kind of cred because of all the reshoots.
	I think it's too toxic with Kevin Spacey dropping out.
	It wasn't Gary Oldman you got the wrong...
	Darkest Hour?
	Well, which is the one...
	No, you're thinking about who...
	No, Spacey dropped out of a different movie.
	I'm sorry.
	Who dropped out of Darkest Hour?
	Out of Churchill?
	Nobody?
	No, but I think he's going to win for Churchill, but that movie won't win.
	Dunkirk?
	Nah, no one.
	Dunkirk?
	No, no.
	So we're the Getty kidnapping movie.
	Yeah.
	Oh, wait.
	Then we have Get Out.
	Get Out is a first movie by one of the guys, one of the comedians, comic director who did this as kind of a semi-comedy.
	They're just not going to give a new director the Academy Award for Best Picture, even though that's a really good movie.
	Lady Bird?
	Lady Bird has a lot of possibilities.
	It did win the Golden Globes.
	Did you like Lady Bird?
	I can't watch a movie like this.
	It's a chick flick.
	You got it.
	I watched it with Tina.
	The highlight was okay, but she really liked it.
	Did it make you cry?
	No.
	I cried about something else I'll tell you about later.
	Phantom Thread.
	What was that one?
	I don't know.
	I haven't seen this.
	No, I don't know yet.
	I didn't hear it.
	Phantom Thread.
	Phantom Thread.
	Thread.
	Needle and Thread.
	Phantom Thread.
	Oh yeah, I've heard it.
	I don't know even what it's about.
	In other words, this can't win.
	No.
	The Post?
	Yeah, exactly.
	That didn't win anything.
	It stinks.
	Shape of Water?
	Shape of Water is plagiarized.
	Oh, from...
	Some guy, I think it was even a play or a novel, but he sued him, the writer, and it sounds a lot like the same exact movie.
	Woman who's a cleaning lady, maybe handicapped, I'm not sure about the original, falls in love with an alien.
	I know the concept of the story, but...
	Yeah, well, it was plagiarized from this other guy's story.
	Yeah, like there's an original thought in Hollywood's bones anywhere.
	But beside the point, I think that poisoned the movie.
	Okay.
	Did the lawsuit.
	Alright, gotcha.
	And then finally, this would be the one that I like the most of the ones I've seen, which is pretty much only this one and Lady Bird.
	Three billboards outside Edding, Missouri.
	It has a shot.
	It has a shot.
	But, if you believe the NPR kids...
	Because the kids do talk over there on the NPRs at It's Been a Minute.
	They have a very clear prediction and they have a reason for it.
	Before we leave our film chat, we've got to just talk the awards themselves, the Oscars this weekend.
	Do we have any idea about who is going to win big?
	Why do you have to talk like this on NPR? I was asking the same question.
	It is just so crazy.
	Shape of Water.
	The Amphibian Man love story.
	No, you don't.
	No, not so much.
	I mean, I love Get Out.
	I love Get Out.
	And I would love to see them go off and upset.
	And they had this big push last minute to try to win.
	They're everywhere.
	Audrey, I have to disagree.
	I think Get Out's going to win.
	Really?
	I do.
	Oh, please, tell me why.
	I think Get Out's going to win.
	I think that you're seeing this.
	You're right.
	There's definitely something in the atmosphere these past couple days where you're seeing a major push for it.
	I think when a lot of people sit down to vote and they think to themselves, like, what movie did I enjoy watching the most?
	What did I have the most fun?
	Also, what would I just love to see named Best Picture?
	Also, what movie would make me look the most woke?
	Yes.
	There you go.
	There it is.
	You want to look woke?
	You vote for Get Out.
	I think they're right.
	Brother.
	I think they're right.
	They're not right.
	Hollywood is a bunch of old fogies.
	They're not going to go with what these kids think.
	No, Hollywood is not just a bunch of old fogies.
	The voters are old fogies.
	Hmm.
	I'm not talking about Hollywood.
	I'm talking about the voters.
	So it's got to be some more traditional movie.
	I like their thinking.
	I don't know why you would ever like...
	Why did you like their thinking?
	Because they talked me right down into it.
	My millennials!
	Stay woke!
	I think the stay woke vibe is there.
	Look, we're not in Hollywood.
	We don't know what's going on.
	We don't care.
	We shouldn't even be doing this segment.
	And we're done.
	I have a crossover segment.
	Okay.
	Technical term.
	Good one.
	A crossover segment, everybody.
	Jennifer Lawrence.
	Was on the PBS News Hour so they could plug her movie to an extreme...
	Red Sparrow.
	Yeah, whatever.
	To an extreme...
	Scarlet Sparrow.
	Really?
	Please.
	Fact check false.
	And all she does is complain, and I'm listening to this, and they do mention the fact that she had a run-in with Harvey Weinstein and never really said too much about it.
	And ever since then, she's getting two movies a year.
	Oh, interesting.
	So I'm just adding two and two personally, but you can say, think whatever you want.
	But she likes to complain.
	I have it on good...
	Yeah, you just played clip one.
	Okay.
	She won an Oscar for Best Actress for Silver Linings Playbook and was the highest paid actress in the world in 2015 and 2016.
	But a leaked memo revealed that on the film American Hustle, Lawrence and co-star Amy Adams earned much less than their male counterparts, Bradley Cooper and Christian Bale.
	She published an essay that helped jumpstart a conversation about pay equity.
	My point of view on that essay was really just my own mentality on the whole thing.
	You know, why did I not feel like I deserved to be paid equally?
	I was more interested in that.
	And even though I have kind of a weird job that's probably not relatable to most, I felt like my mentality on that, if I'm feeling this way in Hollywood, I can't imagine how many women across the world must be feeling that.
	Why don't we?
	You know, I had won an Oscar by the time I was doing American Hustle.
	I had led movies to be number one at the box office.
	I was just curious, why did I not feel like I deserved equal pay?
	You asked yourself and then you asked...
	She said something weird, actually.
	You just listened to that again, this last bit here.
	The time I was doing American Hustle, I had led movies to be number one at the box office.
	I was just curious, why did I not feel like I deserved equal pay?
	Why did I not feel that I deserved equal pay?
	Yeah, I heard that too.
	You asked yourself...
	Wait, let's go, stop, stop.
	Why did I not feel like...
	So what she's saying is that she didn't feel that she needed equal pay.
	Yeah, that's what she's saying.
	I'm pretty sure she meant...
	You know, I think that's what she meant to say.
	That's typically when it comes out like that.
	She's so confused.
	She's saying that...
	She's saying the problem is I didn't feel I needed equal pay until now.
	Now I feel that way, but I didn't.
	I think that's a good point.
	Do you know what she made on this?
	I don't know, 10 million?
	Some ridiculous amount of money.
	She got so chipped!
	At the box office, I was just curious, why did I not feel like I deserved equal pay?
	You asked yourself, and then you asked the world.
	And then I asked women.
	The simple answer is MKUltra, baby.
	That's why.
	Well, she has elements of that, for sure.
	But here's what I... When I heard her bitching and moaning in this clip, and then the second part, too, which we'll play after I make this commentary, because I'm going to ask Adam, I'm going to ask you.
	When any actor in Hollywood, high-end especially, does a movie...
	Do they go in with the producer of the movie and ask around and see what everyone's making so she can get as much or wants to get this?
	Who does that work?
	The agency.
	The agency does all the work.
	Yes, the agents.
	And William Morris or creative artists or...
	Anyone of three or four.
	And so why is she...
	Who is she blaming here?
	She never once mentions as the agent.
	She just thought that she should get the money.
	She's blaming old white men.
	Hello?
	It's her agent who made the deal.
	She's the one who accepted the deal.
	That's the way Hollywood works.
	And it's not like you're getting a job and you get a, oh, let's look down the fee schedule.
	Woman, oh, minus 20% what everybody else gets.
	They could have gotten her to get more money than the other guys if the guy was doing his job.
	Maybe it was a light roll.
	I have no idea.
	I never saw the movie.
	I think I can help you with this.
	The way Hollywood works is you have your slate, you have your films, and sometimes these films sit on the shelf for many, many years, depending on the environment in which they want to release it.
	So I'm looking now at this movie.
	When was it actually produced?
	Well, she already said, but beside the point, because she already said she had already won her Academy Award and taken a number of movies to the top spot by the time she did this movie.
	She answered your question right in there.
	So the thing that still doesn't get brought up, and why doesn't Jeffrey at PBS say anything?
	Like, well, isn't the agents the ones who make these deals and you just accept it or don't accept it?
	It's up to you.
	The agent does the deal.
	The agent does the deal.
	You don't.
	So what is she bitching about?
	She needs new agents.
	I think she's ready for new representation.
	And once again, here's where we come in, John.
	The Curry-Dvorak agency.
	That's what we need to do.
	We don't have to do anything except do deals and collect 10% or 15% in some cases.
	Alright, let's go with part two.
	Okay.
	You know, we have to reshape the way that we're treated.
	Things that were normalized before are no longer going to be normalized.
	Did it surprise you?
	No, it didn't surprise me.
	I think there's a huge gap between the amount of men and women that are working in higher-level jobs and decision-making jobs.
	And it's something that just has to change.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Okay, hold on, hold on, hold on.
	Production started January 5th, 2017.
	And it was originally scheduled to be released November 10th, 2017, but they delayed it.
	So this was done before the controversy kicked in at all, any of this.
	So now it makes sense.
	Why, what was I thinking?
	Look at this opportunity.
	I could have bitched and moaned about it right here and now.
	Well, that's what she's doing.
	Yes, she is.
	Now, the second clip, she says things are good.
	You've got to play the beginning of that again.
	Tell me, what is she saying?
	She says things used to be normalized, and now they have to normalize a new way or something.
	What is she talking about?
	You know, we have to reshape the way that we're treated, things that were normalized before.
	Okay.
	I'm going to try and deconstruct it for you.
	We have to reshape, which is code for renegotiate, things that were normal before.
	Women get gypped.
	We've got to change that.
	Are no longer going to be normalized.
	So it's no longer going to be...
	Now it's time for the new normal, I guess.
	Did it surprise you?
	No, it didn't surprise me.
	I think there's a huge gap.
	Who's this talking?
	The director of the Red Sparrow movie.
	Between the amount of men and women that are working in higher-level jobs and decision-making jobs.
	Oh, see?
	Old white men.
	I told you that was the problem because it's the old white men decision-makers who are up in the upper echelons who are making the choices and screwing women out of money.
	And it's something that just has to change.
	It's got to change!
	It's true.
	It's got to change.
	All of this has to change.
	We need women running everything.
	I'm all for it.
	And then she should get another agent.
	Why doesn't Jeffrey mention this simple fact of life in Hollywood?
	It's the agents who do these deals.
	It wasn't in his script.
	He's not a real journo.
	I don't know.
	I mean, why are you so surprised?
	I'm not surprised at all.
	And that in itself makes me annoyed.
	Why am I not surprised?
	Yes, I'm not surprised.
	If you can't answer an obvious question that's sitting right there like a little ball on a tee, you can just swing at it.
	You can swing a number of times, the ball's not moving.
	And he whiffs the ball once again.
	All right.
	I'm done with the Oscars for now.
	Okay, good.
	I'm glad to.
	That's okay.
	I made a rather bold prediction, I believe, on the last show where I said the Soshnets are in trouble.
	And yes, I'm doing more and more of this new speak.
	I really like it.
	Here's my take on it.
	You're going to annoy yourself so much doing this.
	Oh, I will see.
	Because here's what's going to happen.
	It's going to go into your regular speech as you're wandering around Austin.
	It's already happened.
	This is not a prediction.
	It's gorge, I tell you.
	It's gorge.
	Oh, I got many.
	I wrote them down.
	It's gorge.
	It's just gorge.
	Alright, we've talked about this bill, which is known as the Cloud Act, only we didn't know it was called the Cloud Act when we talked about it the first time.
	It was called the Backpage Act.
	You remember this?
	Yeah, I think.
	So the Backpage Act, well, let's go back a little bit.
	Oh, it's for Backpage.
	The Backpage, the whore.
	Yeah, the whore.
	Registry.
	Yes, the whore index.
	The whore index.
	This is about Section 203 of the Communications Decency Act, probably the most important piece of legislation that helped spurn and propagate the Internet and commerce on the Internet.
	And I'm thinking it was Bill Clinton who put it in place.
	Or it was under Clinton's regime that this came into view and the idea was we treat services on the internet kind of like a library where the person or the entity that is in control of the service is not liable for the speech that is exchanged on the service.
	And you can see why this is extremely important because you can't have the situation that we're going to right now, that's what they tried to stop, where Google has to bring in 10,000 people just to evaluate YouTube videos, stuff has to be taken down, there's all kinds of issues.
	Now they're doing a lot of this voluntarily.
	But, the fear is you get on the slippery slope of legislating one little piece of it, i.e.
	the whore index, and then before you know it, you can start tacking all kinds of stuff onto that.
	So, the back page was fighting very hard with Google and Google About seven years ago, a group of high school students asked Rob Portman, a Republican senator from Ohio, to talk to them about human trafficking.
	He'd heard about the problem before.
	When he traveled across his state to learn about the opioid epidemic, he'd met women and girls who were survivors of trafficking, drugged by the people who had sold them for sex.
	The more I learned about what was going on in my state and around the country, the more discouraging it got.
	Every year, human trafficking groups report thousands of cases, adults and children in the U.S. being forced into prostitution.
	To Portman, that number is growing for two main reasons.
	One, opioids.
	But two, and primarily, the Internet.
	I would run into women and girls back home who would say, you know, it's moved from the street corner to the smartphone, and it's ruthlessly efficient.
	The most egregious offender is a website called Backpage, which is known for its adult services ads, but also as the number one place to search for victims of child sex trafficking.
	In the past, several victims tried to sue Backpage for facilitating the crimes, but in case after case, Backpage successfully claimed immunity, and it relied on a law called Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.
	The law protects online platforms from liability over posts made by users.
	Perhaps the most important law in the development of the internet we have today.
	Evan Engstrom runs the advocacy group Enjin, which represents internet startups and companies like Reddit and Pinterest.
	He and others in tech argue without Section 230, websites like YouTube, Facebook, Yelp would have long been sued out of existence.
	It says websites should only be liable for their users' speech in very limited circumstances if they've created the speech, if they've developed the speech.
	But now Congress is planning to add new circumstances when people could sue websites.
	For knowingly promoting or facilitating sex trafficking.
	Engstrom argues this could prove counterproductive.
	He says websites, especially small ones, might decide to not even know at all what happens on their platforms to avoid liability.
	Portman argues the tech industry is overreacting about the law.
	To the point that they weren't willing to look at the obvious problem, which is that it's been abused to sell people online.
	He hopes the Senate will follow the House and vote on the sex trafficking bill in the next few weeks.
	I made two mistakes in my intro.
	One, it was Section 230, not 203.
	It is not the CLOUD Act.
	That's a different act, which I'm going to talk about next.
	But you hear it.
	This is where it starts.
	Yeah, of course.
	And this is the part.
	This is the start of the demise.
	This has been the debate since day one.
	Yeah, but now we have legislation.
	It's passed the House.
	It's a start.
	It may not pass the Senate, because those guys need...
	They're older guys.
	They need these girls.
	Well, I have an amendment for one website that should stay...
	For Mitzi.
	One amendment.
	Mitzi Galore, she needs freedom of speech.
	Yeah, she needs freedom of speech on her website with her girls who are writing on her website.
	Yeah, we'll see.
	I don't know.
	I mean, so now I shall go to the Cloud Act.
	Which is another fine piece of legislation.
	This court case has been going for a number of years, I think three or four years.
	And it is the United States government who wants to subpoena records that Microsoft is storing...
	Yes, I have been trying to write a column about this for a month.
	Oh, good.
	But I couldn't come up with anything that was interesting enough to write.
	I'm now all ears.
	Yeah, I don't know if I can...
	Well, maybe we'll come up with something that's interesting enough to write.
	So the problem is they want to subpoena email.
	I think it's email records, maybe from their Outlook.com service, of an individual who is either in Europe, but certainly that person's data lives in Europe.
	I think he's in the United States, but the data's in Europe.
	I think that's one of the key elements.
	Is that the key issue?
	Yeah.
	And, okay, that makes a lot of sense, actually.
	And Microsoft said, no, we're not giving that to you because we have to adhere to EU regulations, which are very strict about the privacy.
	And this came before the Supreme Court earlier this week.
	And Microsoft, we...
	This is Brad Smith of Microsoft.
	Didn't he run the Xbox division once?
	No, no, Brad Smith's always been the lawyer there.
	Oh, I've met him.
	Yeah, you probably have.
	He's very sociable.
	Yeah, I thought he was the Xbox guy.
	Okay, he's the lawyer.
	I don't think so.
	I could be wrong.
	I mean, it's possible.
	Lawyer.
	Lawyer.
	At Microsoft, we filed this case over four years ago in 2013.
	And the day we filed it, we said that we were prepared to take this case all the way to the Supreme Court if that's what it took to protect the privacy of our customers around the world.
	Here we are today, on the steps of the Supreme Court, having made our argument to the nine justices.
	I certainly come out of the courthouse, if anything, more encouraged than when we walked in this morning.
	Because, in fact, I think that what this case makes clear, and what this morning has further made clear, is that we need 21st century laws to protect 21st century technology.
	And I'm not quite sure what side Brad is on when he says that.
	I think they don't want to have to deal with it, period.
	But I've looked at the Cloud Act.
	Actually, that's a good point.
	Because now that you mention it, He could be actually saying, hey, we have to defend this thing, but can we have more modern law so we don't have to go through this hassle?
	Because for the chief lawyer of Microsoft to go to the Supreme Court and go through all the steps to get to the Supreme Court, this is like he's wasting his time.
	Yeah, he's got deals to do.
	He's got deals to put together, not this bull crap.
	He's got oysters to crack.
	The CLOUD Act, of course, an acronym there in Congress.
	Clarifying lawful overseas use of data.
	They're so creative.
	I think the crux is really Article 2713, which actually this is an amendment to Chapter 121 of Title 18 of the United States Code, required preservation and disclosure of communications and records.
	A provider of electronic communications service or remote computing service shall comply with the obligations of this chapter to preserve, backup, or disclose the contents of a wire or electronic communication and any record Or other information pertaining to a customer or subscriber within such provider's possession, custody, or control, regardless of whether such communication record or other information is located within or outside of the United States.
	I think that's the crux of the bill.
	So if you have data overseas that includes data about human beings, you need to retain all of that in the U.S. and be able to make that available to the court system.
	And this can only come down to a battle between the EU and the US. Well, I think it should be handled differently.
	Okay.
	I think that that data is not overseas.
	It's virtualized.
	It's actually here.
	So when I go on my computer to get my email, and so it's on a server in Ireland, but I'm...
	It's on my computer for the moment because that computer in Ireland is really just a virtual device in the biggest sense of virtual, not in the sense of a separate machine, even though it is a separate machine.
	Right.
	So I think all this stuff, by definition, is in the United States.
	And what will the EU say about that?
	They have very strict laws that if you are serving customers in the EU, you have to store that data in the EU, and you may not share that under just any willy-nilly circumstance.
	Yeah, if they're EU citizens and they're using the EU system.
	I'm not so sure you have to be an EU citizen, just if you're in the EU and you're using Hotmail.
	Well, if that's the case, why do they knuckle under the circumstance which I think is a lot more important to most people in the world, which is the banking system?
	If you're an American using a European bank, why don't you tell us about your experiences with the EU banking?
	Yeah, that's problematic.
	But I don't see the analogy.
	Because they're forced to give the information to the United States.
	How is that any different than some virtualized crap that's on an iris server?
	I don't see it.
	Well, okay.
	I think the banking system worldwide, globally, is a little more integrated.
	Than social networks and email?
	I think what you just said is nonsense.
	I can't think of anything more integrated than email.
	In government?
	No.
	No, not in government.
	I'm talking about just in a worldwide basis.
	The banking system and government are closely intertwined globally.
	Social networks are not closely intertwined with the government, except for the U.S. government.
	All I'm doing is arguing against the basis of the thesis, which is what you said the EU would be like, which is, oh God, we've got to protect everybody.
	But they have no protections for the banking people, members of the banking community and their users.
	No protections.
	It's obvious you don't have a column.
	Don't!
	I already said that.
	That's what they should be saying.
	Eh, screw those guys.
	But the third and most damning piece of evidence that I picked up this week, telling me that the social nets are on the way down, is the 60 Minutes profile of Brad Parscale.
	Brad Parscale allegedly ran the Trump digital campaign, and they did a profile of this guy.
	Did you see this by any chance?
	No, but now that you mention it, I wish I had.
	I have cut down the relevant bits for you, and you will hear, you will know immediately that this cannot, well, on the one hand, yes, we need more of the social network to get re-elected, but we need to control it, that's for sure.
	It's dangerous!
	I understood early that Facebook was how Donald Trump was going to win.
	Twitter is how he talked to the people.
	Facebook was going to be how he won.
	And Facebook is how he won.
	I think so.
	I mean, I think Donald Trump won.
	That's not something you can say.
	Do you want to just listen to the guy and then we can talk about it afterwards?
	Well, I'd have to be taking notes.
	I'd rather interrupt.
	Let's do him again and we'll interrupt.
	There we go.
	I understood early that Facebook was how Donald Trump was going to win.
	Twitter is how he talked to the people.
	Facebook was going to be how he won.
	And Facebook is how he won.
	I think so.
	Who says?
	He does.
	No, he says, and she says that's how he won.
	He said that's how he's going to win, and she says that's how he won.
	What evidence do we have that it's Facebook that got him elected?
	I've never heard this before.
	Maybe the next two minutes and 26 seconds will contain the answers to your questions about the universe.
	I mean, I think Donald Trump won, but I think Facebook was the method.
	It was the highway in which his car drove on.
	And Brad Parscale was in the driver's seat.
	In the beginning of the campaign, he worked alone at home in San Antonio.
	But by the end, he had 100 people reporting to him.
	One of his main jobs was to send out carefully tailored, low-cost digital ads to millions of people.
	And these were ads on Facebook?
	Facebook, we did them on Twitter, Google Search, other platforms.
	Facebook was the 500-pound gorilla, 80% of the budget kind of thing.
	Facebook's advertising technology helped President Obama in 2012.
	But today, Facebook offers something far more precise and sophisticated.
	While the president recently tweeted that Facebook was always anti-Trump, Parscale relied heavily on the company, particularly on its cutting-edge targeting tools.
	One of the best things Facebook did for you, I heard, was penetrate the rural vote.
	Yeah, so Facebook now lets you get to places.
	And places possibly that you would never go with TV ads.
	Now I can find 15 people in the Florida panhandle that I would never buy a TV commercial for.
	And we took opportunities that I think the other side didn't.
	Like what?
	Their staff embedded inside our offices.
	What?
	Facebook employees would show up.
	What?
	Like she hadn't heard this before.
	We've even played clips of that.
	That they had embeds.
	What?
	What?
	It's like Scooby-Doo.
	What?
	What?
	And we took opportunities that I think the other side didn't.
	Like what?
	Their staff embedded inside our offices.
	What?
	Yeah.
	Facebook employees would show up for work every day in our offices.
	Whoa, wait a minute.
	Facebook employees showed up at the Trump headquarters.
	Google employees and Twitter employees.
	They were embedded in your campaign?
	I mean, they were there multiple days a week, three, four days a week, two days a week.
	What were they doing inside?
	Helping teach us how to use their platform.
	Helping you get elected?
	I asked each one of them by email.
	I want to know every single secret button click technology you have.
	I want to know everything you would tell Hillary's campaign plus some.
	And I want your people here to teach me how to use it.
	Inside?
	Yeah.
	I want them sitting right next to us.
	How do you know they weren't Trojan horses?
	Because I'd ask them to be Republicans and we'd talk to them.
	Oh, you only wanted Republicans?
	I wanted people who supported Donald Trump.
	I love that there were Republicans who work within Facebook!
	From their companies.
	And that's what you got?
	Yeah.
	They already have divisions set up that way.
	What do you mean?
	They already have groups of people in their political divisions that are Republican, Democrat.
	You're kidding.
	Yeah.
	They're businesses.
	They're publicly traded companies with stock price.
	Did Hillary's campaign have someone embedded?
	I heard that they didn't accept any of their offers.
	So you're saying Facebook and the others offered an embed and they said no?
	That's what I've heard.
	People in the Clinton campaign confirmed that the offer was made and turned down.
	Legislation coming down, baby.
	There's no way they're going to allow this to go unregulated.
	No way.
	Especially Hillary.
	Now she has proof.
	Proof.
	That was the Russians.
	What's this got to do with the Russians?
	Hello, these guys, with the help of Facebook, all the Russians had to do was just turn on the bots.
	I can clearly see the communication strategy from the Democrats.
	Well, this is ironic.
	Especially that they turn it down.
	I'm going to give you Clip of the Day for that because I should have watched this.
	I would have gotten the same clip.
	You win.
	Clip of the Day.
	Ah, I love the smell of victory.
	Fascinating turn of events.
	This has to result in at least discussion, a convo on the hills.
	Because, you know, if this is true, and 60 Minutes, these mofos, they watch this.
	This, holy...
	Oh, man.
	Hillary didn't use the face bag embed.
	Wait a minute.
	How do we know who these embeds are?
	They could be...
	Well, we have to...
	Legislation.
	Well, let's take this back up a couple of steps and...
	Realize this is the third time Hillary's been running for this office, and every time, except this time, when everyone blames the Russians, they always blame the incompetence of the Hillary campaign and the dummies that run it.
	So, hey, just another piece of evidence that it was the same old, same old, if I can use a phrase from the Shays, that it happened again.
	They were too dumb to say, well, let's check this out.
	Yeah.
	And you're getting free people to come over there and train you for nothing?
	It's fantastic.
	And you say no?
	No!
	No, we don't want that.
	And the fact that there's Republicans who work at Faceback is a problem.
	Well, I'm sure that they're ostracized.
	Yes.
	But that has to be very good.
	Now I have high hopes for the company and I don't have high hopes for the legislation.
	But the legislation should be pushed by the mainstream media.
	Facebook and Google both are killing these guys.
	Yeah, well, I think that's coming.
	Look, it's my beat now.
	I'll stay on it.
	You know, you can't legislate good ideas.
	The newspapers and magazines, it's getting pathetic.
	You go on any of these, oh, you've got an ad blocker on, oh, please take his whitelist, just take the ad blocker off.
	I mean, come on.
	Give me a break.
	If that's your problem, can I make any money because somebody uses an ad blocker?
	You've got other problems, bigger problems.
	Let me frame it for you.
	So we just passed a law in the House.
	It's not done yet.
	We just passed a law in the House to stop the whore index.
	You passed a bill.
	A bill.
	You passed a bill?
	That's right.
	A sorry-ass bill can't become an act yet.
	Or a law.
	So we just passed that in the House.
	Why wouldn't we see...
	I mean, what's more important?
	Are democracy under attack by the Russians?
	Or some whores?
	Well, first of all, the Republicans at the moment still own both houses and they're not going to vote.
	I don't even think they're going to vote the whores out of business.
	But I think this bill would definitely go nowhere because it's like, well, that's how come we want all these things?
	How come we're not using it more locally?
	I think the Democrats are going to say to themselves, they've looked around and say, Hey, hey, hey, wait, I just had an idea.
	Maybe they can do a combo and it'd only be Russian whores.
	That would get traction.
	They're all spies.
	Known KGB. There's probably no evidence of that at all.
	They've got to get off this Russian kick.
	Anyway, the Democrats can use this.
	They now saw the light.
	There's too many smart guys out there.
	Democrat guys that work in campaign strategists.
	Who aren't going to want to see a law like this because they want to say, well, we're smarter than the Republicans.
	We have better education.
	We're just smarter.
	They're all dumb.
	So we could do a better job.
	If we just did the job, Hillary didn't do the job.
	She screwed up.
	And then, you know, she wasn't going to do well anyway.
	But, you know, for the next go around, we can do it.
	Obama used it, they said.
	It's what they said in the report.
	Obama used these guys.
	Yes.
	And he won.
	Look, we'll see.
	I think you're on, I think, yes, you're beat, but you're not going to get, I don't think it's going anywhere.
	Did you have the clip of Adam Schiff talking about Russia loves our Second Amendment?
	Was that your clip?
	Did we have a clip?
	I don't remember the clip.
	Yeah, I think you had it.
	He was somewhere saying, oh, the Russians, they love our Second Amendment because they just want to cause all kinds of problems with that.
	They love it.
	They love stirring up shit around the NRA and that Second Amendment specifically.
	Yeah, that'd be shit.
	I don't remember.
	I thought we had a clip.
	There's a YouTube clip floating around.
	I don't see it here.
	However...
	To some degree, depends on what dimension you're living in, he was right.
	And this was a great piece on, this may be NPR again, let me see.
	Yes.
	Regarding the Russian ties to the NRA. I mean, it's not enough to have dead kids to defund the NRA and defund the Republicans for this election year, the midterm.
	Ah, we're going to add some Russian to it.
	So, Alexander Torshin, he's a former Russian senator.
	He serves as a deputy governor to the Bank of Russia.
	He's known to be a Putin ally, and when he was in the Russian...
	They should say Putinist instead of Putin ally, in my opinion.
	In Duma, he spent time on Russia's National Antiterrorism Committee.
	That's a powerful state body that includes the director of the FSB, which is Russia's internal security service, and the ministers of defense and foreign affairs.
	So I previously reported that he was a, and is, a paid lifetime member of the NRA. And over six years, he developed ties with leaders of the NRA and used them to get deeper into American politics.
	And we can see this because he documented all these efforts in real time.
	It was actually hiding in plain sight.
	Among 150,000 Russian language tweets that NPR has translated.
	That's why people hadn't noticed it until now.
	They hadn't gone to the trouble of translating it.
	Oh, this is such a great journal!
	...in the United States, anyway.
	So what was he doing at NRA conventions in his own words?
	So he went to every NRA convention between 2012 and 2016.
	We hadn't known that he was going every single year.
	And he met with four presidents of the NRA during this time.
	He appears to have developed a pretty close relationship with David Keene, who was a former NRA president and the former president of the American Conservative Union.
	He even says that he met Donald Trump through the NRA at their convention in 2015.
	So the context of this is that Alexander Torsen was defending Donald Trump.
	over the course of the later presidential campaign.
	And Torshin said, look, I know Donald Trump through the NRA.
	This is what he writes in Russian.
	I know Donald Trump through the NRA.
	He's a decent man.
	But there is the added interest of investigative bodies, and McClatchy reported last month that the FBI is investigating whether or not Alexander Torshin illegally directed any sort of money towards the NRA in order to help Donald Trump in the 2016 and McClatchy reported last month that the FBI is investigating whether I don't know what you had on your rotation coming up next, but this could get legs.
	Nothing better than tying Russia into the NRA. Yeah, I don't know if it's anything separate than the Russian collusion.
	It's like the joke about using the Russian salad dressing.
	Collusion.
	Yes.
	Now I have something completely different.
	But I can put this on the list if I can figure out how to itemize it.
	National Russian...
	Russian Rifle Association.
	The RRA. The Russian Rifle Association.
	I think it's a beautiful tie-in between the school shooting and the Russians.
	I think it's a stretch.
	Today's theme is Adam's got all kinds of cool stretches.
	No, today's theme is John has his eyes closed.
	He's wearing blinders.
	Just a dick.
	No, if you're a dick, I'd say just a dick.
	But no, you're wearing blinders.
	Yeah.
	I don't know.
	Look, I think like a mainstream guy when I have to, and I can see this.
	I can see this getting legs.
	We'll see if it gets legs, if we'd hear anything more about it.
	I like there's a theory, there's a possibility, but there's...
	Throwing mud on the wall.
	I guess if there's a stick, it'll bounce off.
	Okay.
	So let's move over to something that's going on and it's big in the news.
	Trade wars!
	Trade wars.
	Now, I have too many clips on trade wars, but a lot of them are...
	I have a few as well, but I'll let you drive.
	Yeah, you drive.
	Let's start.
	A couple of things.
	They have a...
	You can see that there's when CBS does its report and everybody else.
	CBS, I have to say, has really brought themselves into a line of actually presenting news that's not so slanted.
	Even when they put slant in it, they have counter slant.
	Okay.
	And they do it pretty...
	Oh, they actually put a counter opinion in the piece?
	That makes sense, yes.
	No.
	Yes.
	No, that's unheard of.
	I know.
	It's weird.
	So I'm not getting many clips from them because if I get clips from CBS, With the clip.
	Because, you know, our clips are fair use because we use them for other things.
	We don't use them just to report stories.
	We use them to comment on the clip.
	Yeah.
	So let's start off with, I think the number one clip would be the NBC. Of course, they hate this idea.
	They're ganging up on Trump.
	Does trade war trump NBC? And this is the logic.
	What the Commerce Secretary calls a tremendous overreaction, arguing any price hike passed to consumers is chump change.
	Well, I just bought this can today at a 7-Eleven down here, and the price was $1.99.
	So who in the world is going to be too bothered by six-tenths of a cent?
	Thank you.
	But the risk isn't just that higher costs could get passed to you.
	It's that other countries could retaliate, making it more expensive for American workers to sell their products overseas, like wheat from farms like this one.
	We depend a lot on exports, and the fact that something threatens those exports really makes it tough for us.
	The president, aiming to protect U.S. metalworkers, tweeting, at times, trade wars are good and easy to win.
	Trade battles can be easy and impossible to win.
	Trade wars are damaging to everybody.
	So, why now?
	NBC News has learned the president became unglued this week, in the words of one source, by a series of events, including Hope Hitt's testimony to lawmakers on Russia.
	That's according to two officials familiar with the matter.
	Seething and spoiling for a fight, the president picked one on trade, throwing the markets and his West Wing into turmoil with a single sentence.
	It'll be 25% for steel.
	It'll be 10% for aluminum.
	Okay.
	Stop.
	It's not a single sentence.
	Let's start right there.
	I'm sorry?
	It will be blah, blah, blah.
	It will be.
	It's a run-on sentence if it's one sentence.
	Yeah.
	It's two sentences.
	She doesn't even know grammar.
	That is two sentences.
	What she's supposed to have said.
	Seriously.
	Yeah, okay.
	It's minor in the grand scheme of things, but yeah.
	Incorrect.
	I don't think it's minor at all.
	Bad journo.
	I think she was supposed to say, or should have said, wind it back and I'll tell you what she should have said that would work.
	Okay, about here somewhere.
	...into turmoil with a single sentence.
	It'll be 25% for steel, it'll be 10% for aluminum.
	That's not a comma?
	Two cents.
	If she had said in a single statement.
	Okay.
	The word is statement.
	Statement.
	I got you.
	When I heard that, I went, oh my god.
	No offense, but I'm telling you, this is a professional issue.
	I got you.
	And you did catch the word of the day.
	Yes, unglued.
	New word, yes, unglued.
	Now, I want to switch over instead of continuing with just the straight stuff.
	About the can, can I do something real quick here?
	No, because I want to get my unglued thing out of the way.
	So let's start, and then you can jump, because I just want to get...
	That's either Shields and Brooks or Shields and Brooks 2.
	Let's start with Shields and Brooks.
	Okay.
	...everyday.
	What matters in all of this?
	What matters is chaos in the White House is bad for the United States and bad for the world.
	There is no rational order.
	I mean, for example, what you've described, the morale at the White House from every report is just incredibly low.
	And to work in any White House, Judy, is an act of both self- What did he say?
	This is Civil War what?
	Civil war in a leper colony.
	As in a colony of people who have lepers?
	Lepers.
	Really?
	Isn't that politically completely off the chart?
	I thought it was outrageous that he'd said that.
	A colony of lepers.
	I mean, jeez.
	Enough about San Antonio, people.
	This is a civil war in a leper colony.
	There is no sense of direction.
	The steel quote is being a perfect example.
	There was no preparation.
	Tariffs, rather.
	There was no preparation politically.
	There was no preparation for making a case.
	There was no preparation for the press.
	There was no preparation within the White House.
	There's nothing organization.
	It's all act on impulse and chaos and sort of the whim of the president himself.
	There's almost a temptation, David, to look at all of this as some kind of sideshow, but there are real consequences, aren't there?
	Yeah, I'm actually trying to think of historical parallels when we've had this much chaos in the American presidency.
	You know, Richard Nixon had some bad days at the end there, but he had a very high-quality staff around him.
	Woodrow Wilson had a stroke.
	I'm going through the list.
	I can't think of anything quite like this, where we have the combination of semi-competent or missing staff...
	And an emotionally and intellectually unstable president.
	Rens Prebris, the former chief of staff, said in an interview not long ago that when you look from the outside, it's actually 50 times worse from the inside.
	And we're getting a glimpse of that.
	And one thing that leapt out at me, and I think this is the key thing, the most important thing, that it has real-world consequences.
	We're not just fighting over whether he has a military parade or not.
	The steel tariff thing is real consequences.
	And the word that let out of me, one of his staffers said, one of his allies said, he made the decision because he became unglued.
	Okay.
	First, I think we should also take a little bit of props for the recognition of the word chaos.
	It's everywhere.
	Yes.
	Everywhere, including the New York Times.
	This, again, is the problem they're having.
	They can't focus.
	And by the way, this is Brooks.
	This is the guy who's supposed to be the Republican.
	He brings unglued into the picture.
	And this guy's such a phony.
	But it was an unnamed source in the White House who said he did it in a moment of being unglued?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Now, I was thinking about this before we go to your switch over.
	Why unglued?
	Because they wanted to use...
	Here's the way I'm looking at it.
	For one thing, I think this is made up.
	Because they don't have the sources anymore.
	He mentions Rance Priebus.
	Priebus was the leaker.
	So they don't really have a leaker.
	Now they're trying to figure out what might be going on.
	So they're making up according to sources.
	People are familiar with the matter, which is what NBC uses.
	And somebody came up with unglued.
	Here's the way the thought process would go.
	We can't use unhinged anymore.
	There's been people who have been mocking the use of it.
	There's these long, you know, you get a clip, you get unhinged, unhinged, unhinged, unhinged.
	Yeah, that's too much.
	So you need something new.
	And unglued is better, they would argue, if I was going to be a strategist coming up with this word, because it makes, it sounds like cheap, like Trump, when he's unhinged, that means it's like, you know, solid construction.
	Ah, yeah, glue is like Elmer's.
	Glue is like a cheap, cheap construction.
	Paste.
	Paste.
	Glued together.
	Something from China that falls apart.
	Now he's unglued.
	The problem is, it's not a phrase anybody ever uses.
	They use unhinged, use nuts.
	Off the wall.
	Yeah, a million things, but unglued.
	So it stands out like a sore thumb as a creation that somebody put together.
	Because nobody's saying he's unglued.
	If I'm a staffer and actually doing this, which I don't believe anyone's doing, I think this is bullcrap.
	I think you should be fired for using that word.
	The guy's gone nuts.
	The guy's gone nuts.
	He freaked out.
	Yeah.
	I'm not going to say he's unglued.
	Nobody would say that.
	This is bullcrap.
	Was that in the New York Times, you think?
	The unglued thing?
	I don't know.
	But it's been...
	Everybody's been bandied about it.
	Well, he said that.
	He said that in the clip.
	He said that...
	I think it was in the New York Times that someone on the inside said, quote...
	There we go.
	Coming Unglued.
	This is...
	Oh, 1992.
	Sorry, that's a book.
	We should look into that.
	Everything comes back around.
	But I got very...
	What is the point of having...
	The New York Times likes to use this word.
	David Dinkins' coalition appeared to have become frayed rather than unglued.
	Hmm.
	That's 93.
	Huh?
	So you might be onto something.
	Listen to this.
	It's just a New York Times creation that they like to use and now everybody's using it.
	March 4th, 2013, I was an emotional wreck, angry, disconnected, and unglued the first time I took Adderall.
	Oh!
	Oh!
	Hmm.
	They might try to tie that in.
	They're trying to tie something in.
	I just have to ask the question of NewsHour.
	Why do you have two guys pretty much spewing the same exact party Democrat line when one of them is supposed to represent the Republican side?
	There are people that can...
	We argue from the other perspective, but they don't bother with that.
	It's just like when they do their global warming stuff.
	It's just global warming is happening.
	Go for it.
	Go for it.
	Screw you if you want us to give you any balance at all.
	Remind me to tell you about the CIA guy working for the LA Times, because that does kind of fit into this.
	But first I'll go to a very short clip.
	This is from CNBC, and the clip was triggered in my mind because of your clip where the guy said, I just drank a can of that.
	It was one cent.
	This is the meme.
	This is the Republican talking points about the trade war.
	Those who are for it, which is not a lot.
	If you put a 10% tariff on aluminum, how much do you think that increases the price of a six-pack of beer?
	You have any idea?
	You're going to tell me a penny.
	One cent.
	I'm going to tell you a penny.
	How much do you think it increases the price of an automobile if all the costs are passed through?
	$45.
	How much do you think it increases the cost of a 777 Dreamliner that costs $300 million?
	You know how much that is?
	Take a guess.
	There you go.
	That's the talking points.
	Yeah, that sounds like it.
	But I thought the Dreamliner was all glued together.
	Is aluminum in there?
	Maybe the cutlery.
	I don't know.
	That's a good point.
	He did mention the Airbus specifically and not a Boeing.
	A very good point.
	A nice catch, actually.
	It's a plastic airplane.
	Yeah.
	Maybe for the fuselage or some aluminum.
	Yeah, but still, it would be much higher for a 747.
	Oh, yeah.
	Boeing's going to stop making the 747.
	Do you know why?
	The price of aluminum is through the roof.
	That's what you can argue with.
	They already made that decision.
	They can't afford it.
	A plane is too expensive or it doesn't get the gas mileage.
	I don't know what they're doing.
	That's the greatest plane ever made, in my opinion.
	It's just so comfortable to fly on.
	I used to fly...
	Oh, go on with the tariff.
	Okay.
	When I was a kid, we used to fly the 47 across the country.
	I have aluminum coasters from the Concorde, which I flew on.
	Whose story is going to be better?
	I think mine.
	Ah!
	Okay.
	Okay, let's finish with Shields and Brooks 2.
	Okay.
	Liza Minnelli was on my flight and she was drunk.
	And so we have a president who makes a decision because he becomes unglued.
	A decision totally in avoidance of the entire process.
	And then to combine the chaos of it, he issues a tweet this morning, which to me was a topper even by Trump standards, that a trade war is good and easily won.
	A concept that no economist of any stripe and no historian of any stripe could possibly think is anything other than crazy.
	Crazy, unglued, chaos.
	Throw all these words in there.
	You want me to quickly read the list?
	Yes.
	Which I do have in front of me.
	And I'd also like to know, what I don't understand...
	Well, I have some clips that may shed some light on it.
	But Obama raised the tariffs, I believe, over 200%.
	Bush raised tariffs.
	I mean, every president has raised tariffs on steel, for sure.
	I'm not so certain about aluminum.
	At one point during their administration.
	And usually it said, oh, bad idea, bad idea, bad idea.
	But now it's unglued and the guy's nuts and crazy.
	I mean, is it just because it's Trump and it really doesn't make any difference, historically speaking?
	What do you think?
	Well, I'm also asking you as an economist what you think about the whole idea.
	Well, I don't like the idea.
	Personally, I think these things set off stock market collapses.
	The first example of that...
	Cash out now!
	The first example of that was Thomas Jefferson.
	And he's right in the middle of that 80-year cycle.
	What happened with that?
	He decided to put all kinds of tariffs on a bunch of stuff, and the economy collapsed shortly thereafter.
	And this has happened over and over again.
	All right, let's go with it.
	You want me to read the list?
	Yeah, sure.
	No, John, don't.
	It's too long.
	No, John, it's too long.
	Give me a half.
	Illegitimate president, lost the popular vote, incompetent, unhinged, updated to unglued, liar, Hitler, demands loyalty, cheeseburgers is all he eats, sex offender, Russian agent, never says anything bad about Putin,
	white supremacist, narcissist, mentally unfit, insane, unstable, clown, Foreign leaders hate him, hates women, misogynist, admitted molester, 25th Amendment should be instituted, should be impeached, hates immigrants, hates Mexicans in particular, says all Mexicans are rapists, racist, small hand, small penis, big red button, should not have nuclear codes.
	Immature, childlike, you need an adult in the room, tweets too much, thin-skinned, bully, holds grudges forever, mean, bankrupt, does not have any money, long ties, fatter than 239 pounds, plays too much golf after criticizing Obama,
	Hypocrite by action, seldom called one, incestuous, would date daughter, divorcee, golden showers, pervert, tax cheat, obstruction of justice, money laundering, runs the mob.
	The best thing is the one thing they literally refuse to call him is president.
	Yeah, that's actually a good one.
	We'll call him everything except for, not my president, I can't even call him, I can't even use the name Trump and president in the same bravo.
	I'm putting not my president on the list.
	Okay.
	Good.
	I'm glad you're keeping track of that.
	That's a good list.
	It is.
	I'm going to post it online eventually.
	I should post it online with the next newsletter.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	But it's all in there.
	I mean, you can hear their stuff, except then they come up with Unhinged.
	It really strikes me.
	I see it.
	Well, CNBC did something very interesting.
	I think they wanted to explain it to dumb people who watch CNBC. For more on that, listen to Dvorak Horowitz Unplugged.
	And they brought in a clip.
	To explain how bad this was, this is from a favorite movie, one of your favorites, Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
	I know you're already interested now, right?
	Well, I'd like to hear what the clip is, and I'll let you know.
	In that movie...
	Bueller?
	Yes, Ben Stein.
	Ben Stein is the teacher, and he asks the class a very specific question.
	In 1930, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, in an effort to alleviate the effects of the...
	Anyone?
	Anyone?
	The Great Depression passed the...
	Anyone?
	Anyone?
	A tariff bill, the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act, which...
	Anyone raised or lowered?
	Raised tariffs in an effort to collect more revenue for the federal government.
	Did it work?
	Anyone?
	Anyone know the effects?
	It did not work, and the United States sank deeper into the Great Depression.
	I think that is American history right there.
	That's how we teach people.
	Just play an old Ferris Bueller clip.
	Oh, okay.
	Well, that's good.
	We shouldn't do it.
	That's a good one.
	The only thing that was better is Ben Stein came on, and he had a different take.
	My reaction is that trade wars are always a bad thing, but we have a special category for steel and aluminum, which is that they are vital defense commodities.
	And we are in a stage where the Cold War is heating up incredibly rapidly.
	The days when there was no Cold War are over.
	Russia is bragging, threatening.
	There's real danger, real conflict.
	We need to have a strong metals industry in case there is war.
	It sure looks to me like there's going to be some kind of war.
	So we need to have a dynamic metals industry.
	I don't believe that anti-free trade is a good idea, but I think in certain categories, we do need to have some protection for our own industries.
	And as certain members of President Trump's circle were saying, the additional cost of the materials because of this tariff is trivial.
	I mean, people don't understand.
	Steel and aluminum do not cost very much.
	If you raise the price of it by 25%, it doesn't change the price of an automobile by very much or a refrigerator very much at all.
	So Stein says war.
	Hot war.
	Hot war.
	Yeah.
	I don't know where he's getting that from.
	You know, Stein is a notorious super conservative.
	Afghanistan, maybe?
	Oh, hmm.
	Britain?
	Yeah.
	I don't know.
	Now that you brought that clip into play, I'm going to have to think about it.
	It just could be blathering, maybe.
	Ben Stein pretty much is just a blatherer.
	I agree.
	Now, there was one explanation that made sense, but it was like poo-pooed, because this was done by Mark Shields on the PBS NewsHour when he explained a possible, actual, not chaotic, but a strategy that Trump is employing.
	But the way he presented it was like, well, there's no way because he's an idiot and he's unglued, but this could be possible.
	And when you listen to this, this is the only thing that actually makes any sense.
	This is trade war explained.
	Oh, explained.
	Sorry.
	I thought it was a PBS clip.
	Here we go.
	Keeping of a promise he's made for 30 years on steel tariffs was that the 18th District of Pennsylvania is up in two weeks.
	The special election...
	For a Republican seat that the Democrats have not even contested in 2014 and 2016.
	That Donald Trump carried southwestern Pennsylvania blue-collar by 20 points.
	And the Democrat, Conor Lamb, former Marine, former prosecutor, U.S. prosecutor, is even with the Republican nominee.
	And a defeat here would send such panic.
	This is...
	Trump territory and that this was seen as standing up for American jobs.
	That's the most plausible explanation politically.
	It's not a defense, but it's an explanation.
	Panic into the ranks of Republicans worried about the fall midterm elections.
	Yes, yes.
	But David, I mean, if that's what he was trying to do, I think a lot of Republicans didn't get the message because right and left, they are today asking him to reconsider, saying this is not a good thing.
	We don't need a trade war.
	Oh, I like it.
	If he can keep it going until November.
	Well, no, that'd be great if he could keep it going until November, but he needs to do something about this special election in two weeks.
	Oh, this is in two weeks.
	Oh, that makes perfect sense.
	So here's what we do.
	We wait for everything to bottom out because we're going to hear more.
	This is top of the news.
	This is the number one or number two story.
	Just wait for everything to start going down.
	Yeah, wait for the shootings to die down.
	Yeah, shootings have to die down, but we need to keep this tariff noise in play, then after the election, the special election, is the moment to buy, and Trump will say, hey, well, we'll do it later.
	Yeah, that's right.
	And everything will pop up.
	Yeah, maybe.
	We'll see.
	Stock market tomorrow will be interesting.
	Don't take our advice, that's for sure.
	I think that's a very...
	Now, he did run on this.
	Yes, it's not like a big shocker.
	No, it shouldn't be a surprise to anybody.
	Because he talked and talked and talked about doing this since he first came down the escalator.
	Yeah.
	It was Mexicans are rapists, we've got to do something about the trade.
	And that's exactly what he said.
	Mexicans are rapists, we've got to do something about trade.
	Vote for me.
	I love Trudeau, our Scandinavian brother up there.
	I'm really starting to understand this guy.
	He's not much more than an actor.
	He's a pretty good one.
	He plays the role well.
	He plays kind of a hippy-dippy character.
	He's lovable like Hugh Grant.
	That's what it is.
	He's just lovable.
	A teddy bear.
	Maybe in his background he had sex with a tranny.
	That's kind of Trudeau.
	You think all those thoughts run through your mind when you look at them.
	And so he's trying to respond because this will be a problem if we have these tariffs also against Scandinavia.
	We have quite an active steel trade.
	I think we get a lot from Scandinavia.
	It'll be a problem.
	And he's trying to explain this to the press.
	And he knows very well how it works in the studio environment.
	He flubs his lines and You know, his statement, which is, he clearly has it in his mind.
	It's rehearsed.
	He rehearsed it with somebody.
	I don't think that's uncommon.
	It's very normal for your typical politician.
	And he floods, and he just restarts three times in the middle of it.
	We import more steel than the Americans import.
	We have a significant trade surplus.
	The Americans have introduced a significant trade surplus with us on steel, which means we buy steel from them, they buy steel from us.
	Damn, man.
	You're right.
	He's a flubber.
	He's a flubber.
	Well, you know, the other thing that everyone's all worked up about, even though it's meant...
	I mean, they're all worked up about Canada, China, all these...
	But he's supposed to present his...
	Next week, he's supposed to present a list of countries, specific countries that he's going to...
	Right.
	Is it the same seven?
	This is very interesting.
	Just like the so-called Muslim ban, which was for a number of countries previously on Obama's list, I believe the sanctions that Obama put in place were for seven or eight countries, and he probably will replicate that.
	Well, that's what he definitely should do because if anyone bitches, he says, hey, hey, I just took Obama's list and ran it by you again.
	It was okay then, but it's not okay now.
	What's wrong with you people?
	It didn't work so well with the Muslim ban.
	They tried that.
	But that would be the defense.
	Yeah.
	Nothing's going to work well because it's Trump.
	Yeah.
	I mean, isn't it the World Trade Organization that is supposed to be in control of all this?
	Isn't this just purely an anti-globalist move?
	I mean, no one does this stuff without talking to WTO and the partners first.
	That would be the only reason I think is good.
	Go ahead.
	Ultimately, I'd rather see him break a whole bunch of stuff.
	I don't care at this point.
	I really don't.
	Well, you make an actual good point, and this is another surprise.
	Because this is my theme today, surprise.
	I'm surprised.
	I'm surprised that no one has mentioned this, which you just mentioned casually.
	The WTO, which everybody signs on to, is really the ruling god that tells you what you can and cannot do in this regard.
	You can't have subsidized product coming back and forth.
	And when you have a problem, which we apparently have, you're supposed to file your complaint with the WTO, and they're supposed to adjudicate it.
	Right.
	And the Chinas are members now, aren't they?
	Yeah.
	They wanted to be members.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	So why is that not in the conversation?
	What is wrong with these people?
	What's wrong is they're beholden to advertisers and other kinds of money and agendas.
	And we don't have those.
	And that's why I want to thank you for your courage and say in the morning to you, John C. UASC stands for Cost of Steel, Dvorak.
	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 all the knights out there.
	In the morning to everybody in the troll room, noagendastream.com.
	Always fine to see some familiar names in there.
	The new word of the day in the troll room is soy boy, for some reason.
	I've seen this a lot.
	Soy boy.
	Soy boy.
	I've seen this a lot.
	Instead of snowflake, you would call a male liberal a soy boy.
	Yeah.
	They call male conservatives Nazis.
	Yeah, they're soy boys.
	It's kind of cute, the soy boy.
	It's very insulting.
	It's got to be.
	It's very insulting.
	There's another soy boy on his bicycle.
	Soy boy.
	I also want to thank Arrow Shamrock.
	Arrow Shamrock brought us the artwork for episode 10-12, titled that episode, Value Convo.
	And this was a derivative of a recent commissary blogger artwork.
	We had the familiar Obama filter from Hope, and this was once again Hope Hicks, only now the title was not Hope, it was Hopeless.
	And after some discussion, we decided that was a good representation for our show.
	Yeah, it actually took a discussion.
	A little bit.
	Yeah, well, it usually does, but...
	Sometimes some stuff pops out at you more than other stuff.
	It worked.
	We like it.
	We really appreciate the work that Arrow Shamrock did and all of our artists who upload diligently before the show ends often to noagendaartgenerator.com.
	And we do check these artworks out to see if the images are stolen and not reused inappropriately.
	In other words, they have to be...
	If you turn something into a parody somehow, there's all different ways of doing it, but some people just take an image that they saw that's funny, they put it through the generator and put the logo on it, and they're done.
	No, no, no, you can't do that.
	And also try to keep our pictures off.
	We've decided that's bad.
	Because we had the first two or three years of these artworks come true.
	It was funny until we got sick of ourselves.
	Yeah, it was just the same two pictures of us constantly, and one day we put our foot down.
	Yeah, we just said, no mas, it's got to stop.
	So we have a funny balance today with one executive producer and one, two, three, four, five associates.
	And the one executive producer who comes in as anonymous with a note supposedly coming in.
	I got his note.
	Yeah, I got his note.
	Oh, you do?
	I did, yeah.
	Can you read it?
	Let me start off.
	Yeah, go ahead.
	It came in with 1013.33, which is nice.
	It's an instant night.
	Sorry.
	And he, anonymous, anonymous, anonymous, which we managed to do.
	Hopefully I'll email a note before Sunday.
	If not, here are the basics instant night.
	Uh, something.
	First three quarters.
	I've got it here.
	Okay.
	I've got his note.
	NJNK, by the way.
	Okay, it says, uh, the donation, the amount is made up of, uh, so, 101.1.2, uh, dot, yeah, 101.1.12 on show 101.1 because I like sequential numbers like that.
	But I always seem to be a day late, a dollar short.
	This is my first donation, but no need to dedouche.
	I'll explain later.
	Also NJNK. I'd like to be known as Sir Benonymous of the 1.5 time playback as I listen to all podcasts at 1.5 time speed.
	I've tried to slow down to one time, but to me it makes you guys sound drunk.
	Guess what?
	We are drunk!
	This also makes me unable to listen to the live stream, but that's not your issue, it's mine.
	I find this interesting because I think that already we're seeing people's brains change.
	You know, you can wear glasses that portray the world upside down and after, what is it, maybe half a day, you're used to it?
	Yeah, you get used to it.
	I don't know how long it takes.
	So I think that you've gotten used to this speed just like, I predict, in the future, maybe even now already.
	People look at other people and they don't see how ugly they are.
	They just see the Instagram filters already in place.
	Well, that's good for ugly people.
	Well, yes, but the resolution that we're accepting is so low, because let's face it, you know, Instagram filters and everything, you wind up with a pretty low resolution.
	It's all smoothed out so that your face looks smooth.
	The same with MP3s.
	Kids don't know what good sound is anymore.
	I'm sorry to call you kids, but screw it, you're kids.
	You don't know what good sound is.
	You hear MP3s and you think it's great.
	It's not.
	Well, I think it's less the MP3. And more the delivery mechanism.
	Earbuds, cans, all these little things.
	You don't have any real bass.
	Doesn't help.
	There's no frequency that's represented properly.
	It's...
	Today is also my birthday, so if you could add me to the list, you're on it.
	I would greatly appreciate it.
	I've been listening for a few years.
	I'm not exactly sure how long.
	I originally found you when I started to wonder why John had not been on any netcasts for in quite a while.
	I enjoyed Cranky Geeks and loves John's smart, old man cranky, no BS attitude.
	Adam, I do remember you from your MTV days, but only because of older siblings watching.
	Jeez, that's harsh to hear.
	I can't...
	That's even more insulting than old man cranky.
	I kind of watched half-heartedly as I straddled the Gen X and Gen Y millennial fence and have never really cared about pop culture.
	Adam, I love your drive to dig into the details of things.
	Listen to No Agenda has given me a whole new perspective on the news, U.S., and world happenings.
	I used to be one of those people that felt like it was my life's mission to repost and retweet all things that frustrate me and in turn would tick off my Dimension B friends and family.
	No Agenda has given me a mental balance that I didn't realize I needed.
	I laugh inside when I hear people talk about news.
	I now patiently sit there and allow them to vent their frustrations about a story as it seems to be therapy for them.
	Then I calmly explain to them the rest of the story.
	Usually I just get silence and blank stares as they tend to be dimension B people that want to live in constant state of frustration with the world.
	Interesting of note is that because I am patient with them and calmly explain things, they seem to at least be respectful of me when I fill them in on the details that the M5M doesn't.
	My wife comes from a very popular, polite and conservative upbringing.
	I continue to try to corrupt this, but it's a slow process.
	I've tried over and over to hit her in the mouth, but she has a major aversion to the word douche.
	Interesting.
	I can't play segments of the show here and there for her.
	I can play segments of the show for her here and there.
	But I haven't been able to get her fully on board yet.
	Usually I just fill her on the details I learn from the best podcast in the universe.
	As I begin my 40th year heading towards 40, I look forward to more great media deconstruction and the balance you guys bring me.
	Keep up the great work.
	Sincerely, Sir Benonymous of the 1.5 time playback.
	Nice note.
	So he is 40-ish.
	So his wife is between 35 and 45, I'm guessing.
	Unless he married a...
	Younger woman or an older woman.
	And she doesn't like the word douche.
	No.
	So I wonder where that age bracket is that finds...
	We had some member, if you remember in the early days, we had some people that didn't like hookers and blow thinking it referred to blowjobs.
	Yeah, when they found out it was cocaine, they were on board.
	Who gives a shit about that?
	He was like, oh, it's cocaine.
	Oh, I get it now.
	Which I found peculiar.
	We do have offensive moments.
	Oh, many offensive moments.
	Besides just cursing, you know, which used to be endemic earlier on in the show.
	It's pretty backed off.
	You know what is interesting is that you see people will tweet us on the tweeters and try to be offensively funny.
	But you see, it doesn't work unless it's in the context of the show where you know what you're getting when you jump in.
	And you know we probably don't walk around saying these things on the street because we'd be dead.
	We'd get punched out.
	We'd get beaten up.
	Hey, douchebag!
	Douchebag!
	So we actually don't go out on the street too much.
	That's part one.
	And also, it's within the context of the show.
	So it's very difficult...
	I don't know.
	I don't know what to tell you.
	I don't know what to tell you.
	I'm sorry that that offends her, but we're not going to stop it for sure.
	No, we can't.
	It wasn't our idea either.
	It wasn't our idea.
	Tell her that.
	We don't even like it.
	There's at least hundreds of people who listen to this show who decided that was what was going to happen.
	Yeah, and they all use it as a whatever they use it for.
	All right, onward.
	Thank you.
	Robert Romeo.
	Robert Romeo.
	Romeo Oscar talent.
	Bear Delaware.
	Bear Delaware.
	$200.07.
	He'll be a first associate executive producer.
	Sorry I've been a douchebag for too long.
	Hey, there you go.
	Oops.
	Sorry I've been a douchebag for so long.
	But I'm a wonderful slave.
	Keep up the great work like a wee and some house renovation karma so my wife and I do not kill each other.
	Throughout the Reno.
	Oh, Reno.
	The Reno.
	Ah, another word.
	What do we call this category of words?
	I don't know, but you're maintaining the list.
	I'll keep track of the Trump stuff.
	I'm putting the Reno in here.
	Hold on.
	Reno.
	Reno is on the list.
	And I'm going to add, for the sensitive listeners among us, I will add a one-time alternative douchebag, alternative de-douching.
	A one, a two...
	A one, two...
	Maybe this is a douchebag.
	Ah, no, it's for douchebags.
	I can't play that.
	He needs a de-douche.
	I'm fine, I'm going to get a de-douche.
	You've been de-douched.
	Wee!
	You've got karma.
	We have a douchebag call-out, I'll do it.
	Sir Alan Bow is in Langley, British Columbia.
	No relation.
	Um...
	It says, the reason that Canadian donations seem low is that Trudeau may be a joke to us and the world, but we as Canadians are in shock due to our plunging economy.
	It's plummeting.
	Increasing costs and deficit budgets while Trump has lit a fire under the U.S. economy.
	The future looks uncertain but likely bad.
	It's like watching a slow speed train wreck but at least no agenda keeps me smiling.
	See, this makes no sense to me.
	This is exactly where you'd want to support the show.
	You want to support the show because we help Your fellow Scandinavians understand what's going on.
	Yeah, it makes no sense.
	Sir Alan, this is a make-no-sense note.
	But we appreciate it.
	Thank you very much, Sir Alan, for your courage.
	Dominic DeVito in Middletown, New York, 200.
	I've been listening for a year and a half and only recently started to donate.
	So please accept this donation.
	Keep doing what you're doing.
	And can I please get a de-douching?
	Yes.
	I'll give it to him right now.
	You've been de-douched.
	Also, can I please get any L Sharpton clip?
	Thanks for making my commute bearable.
	And does he want a karma?
	He didn't say that, but I give him one because he asked for a clip.
	I'm just grabbing a random Reverend Al.
	The neighborhood watch captain says he shot the teen in self-defense, but the young man was not armed.
	He was going back home after buying an iced tea and skillet's candy.
	No name-calling, no incendiary language, just the facts.
	A young man dead.
	The assailant says self-defense.
	What is found on the young man, skillets and iced tea.
	Skittles.
	That's an old classic.
	It is a classic clip here on the No Agenda show.
	He meant to say Skittles, but it came out as Skittles.
	To him, it's Skittles.
	And seeing as I have quite a love-hate relationship with promoting Skittles on MTV for eight years, it's harsh.
	They were one of the main sponsors.
	But first, this word from Skittles.
	Really?
	Oh, yeah.
	Skittles was huge.
	They were one of the core advertisers.
	It's a doper's candy.
	Hell, yeah.
	Hello, MTV. What do you think these kids were doing in the basement at Mom's house?
	Sir Lucas of the Lost Bits, another $200.
	I just received my bonus, so it must be time to donate.
	A shot of Jobs Karma would be greatly appreciated.
	Well, that's easy.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for Jobs!
	Yeah!
	We've got karma.
	And last, Sudan Silva down there in Iwa Beach, Hawaii.
	200 bucks.
	He has a note.
	You know, a guy goes up to another guy and says, how do you pronounce Hawaii?
	Is it Hawaii or Hawaii?
	And the guy says Hawaii.
	And he says, oh, that's great.
	He says, you're welcome.
	We have ways of making you say Hawaii.
	Okay.
	Dear John and Adam, I'm an old grouch.
	81.
	He's 81.
	This is our demo.
	Oh, yes, 81.
	It goes from 10 or 7.
	Which I love.
	I love we have listeners from 16 to 81.
	Younger than that.
	We got them...
	Yeah, younger than that, but...
	I would want to say 8.
	This is, by the way, because we don't do advertising.
	Advertisers demand that you focus on a demo.
	That's right, and your content has to speak to the demo.
	And demo is short for demographic, in case you don't know.
	But we can put the word in there, demo.
	Yes, demo.
	Demo would be one of those words.
	Demo was one of those words.
	And so you have to have these certain demos for their certain products.
	So older demos, a lot of drugs, products, younger demos, you know, Nikes.
	But they went, now, what's your demo?
	You don't have enough people in that group.
	So you never get a broad audience.
	You can't because it's not allowed.
	I mean, you might get someone at 81 that would be listening, but it's frowned upon.
	I love how you actually do the voice of your typical advertiser.
	Hey, what's your demo?
	The demo.
	What's your demo?
	You got the wrong demo.
	I stopped or rather neglected to contribute to No Agenda Show for some time now.
	I do remember when he first was contributing and he did stop.
	I've always liked the banter of the two of you.
	It's always interesting.
	I've not missed the show since day one.
	The news clips range from brilliant to downright annoying.
	Some of these yahoos just are into their shit and can't seem to think straight.
	Or they are ridiculous propagandists.
	And I haven't contributed because of them.
	But that's like punishing the messenger.
	So here's my contribution.
	No jingles, no karma.
	Just your good vibes is enough.
	Well, thank you.
	And thank you for realizing that it does help when you help, even though it goes against sometimes your feeling.
	It really works.
	You put something into our value network, which is what I call it, and you get something out of it.
	Everybody does.
	If not, then you need to seriously consider going away.
	I mean, that's fair.
	It's fair to say.
	Yeah, what are you going to do?
	This is the way it goes.
	So we have one and five, and I want to thank all these folks who are helping produce the greatest podcast in the universe and best podcast in the universe.
	Keep my branding correct.
	Stay on message.
	Thanks a lot.
	Thank you.
	Does the show have a LinkedIn page?
	No, we don't really.
	Well, there are two, apparently, because someone sent me a note and said, hey, thanks.
	All executive producers and associate executive producers on this show, these are real titles.
	It's not some willy-nilly thing.
	We'll vouch for you.
	We'll back you if anyone has any questions.
	But people put it on their LinkedIn accounts, and they seem to get more interest because it said, yeah, executive...
	Associate Executive Producer or Executive Producer of the No Agenda Show episode number.
	But someone sent me a note and said, I'd like to link to something.
	And they sent me two links.
	Neither of them looked like anything official.
	Should we have one?
	Should we have an official LinkedIn page?
	That could help people when they...
	Technically, we should, yes.
	Because I think it would help if people said, oh, no, just click on it, and then we'll have some really expensive...
	It doesn't have to be a lot of content.
	You just do some Photoshop, which you always do.
	Make it look really expensive, like it's a big deal.
	So it doesn't look like a podcast, I guess, is what I'm saying.
	Okay, well, we can work on that.
	We can have something done by the end of the year.
	Wow, man.
	That's fast.
	You think we can do it by then?
	Yeah.
	Thank you, everybody.
	We appreciate it.
	As I said, the credits are real.
	We'll be thanking more people in our e-block who came in at $50 or above.
	It is what keeps the program running.
	And it keeps it as free and open as you hear today.
	And we appreciate it and appreciate you thinking of us for our show coming up on Thursday.
	And remember tonight, your predictions are in.
	Go out there and propagate the formula.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Shut up, slave.
	Shut up, slave.
	You know, one of Tina's daughters is here, staying for the weekend, coming home from schools.
	She's the youngest, but she's 21.
	And I'm always very interested, and one of her friends was over, and I love just listening to what they're talking about.
	Because you learn stuff.
	It's like what you do with the kids.
	Right.
	And we call them kids because we can't.
	They're kids.
	And with all this war on men stuff, I was extremely surprised by a Netflix record.
	A Netflix Reco.
	Put that on the list.
	It's on the list.
	I just put it there.
	Reco.
	A Netflix Reco.
	Double C-O. Which turned out to be...
	I think...
	You will probably watch it and laugh your ass off and think I'm nuts.
	But...
	With the war on men taking place everywhere, it was so nice in this one program to see vulnerability, masculine energy, complete breaking down of stereotypes, and it came from such an unexpected source Because I'd seen this show when it was on commercial television, which I hated it.
	It was over the top.
	All that was in there was just flamboyance and bullcrap and made no sense.
	It was insulting, I thought, really.
	But that was because you can't really talk like a human being in commercial broadcast.
	Everything's interrupted by commercials.
	Every segment has to end on a...
	I've got to stay tuned throughout the commercial block.
	And so they've revamped the show.
	It used to be called Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.
	Now it's just called Queer Eye.
	Have you by any chance seen any of these episodes on Netflix?
	No.
	I always thought Queer Eye for the Straight Guy was an interesting show, the original.
	It was a little flamboyant.
	It was lame.
	It was no good.
	It was kind of lame, I would say, but it was an interesting idea.
	So what they've done...
	And then, you know, each show now, the commercials are all gone.
	I guess every season they'll be headquartered in a particular state or town, and so they start the season off there in Georgia, in Atlanta, Georgia.
	And the guys are going to transform.
	You know, one's a...
	A cop who also has Trump, Pence, you know, plastered all over his garage.
	He's got...
	He is like the Teledega guy.
	You know, he has all these crazy outfits when Teledega is on.
	You've got a redneck...
	You're convinced he's going to hate the black gay guys.
	Convinced he's going to hate all the gay guys.
	You got a real Christian fundamentalist who, of course, completely loves the gay guys at the end.
	And the format, John, is mind-boggling.
	It has everything in there.
	So I'll just give you the format until you understand.
	So first, you get the profile of the person who's nominated.
	It's going to be this horrible guy, someone who you think, oh, how can he handle five fags coming in to straighten him out?
	Bah, this will be great.
	Then you get the uncomfortable meeting, and then they split off.
	They're like the X-Men of gay.
	One guy does home improvement, fixes the loser's home.
	The other guy makes him over, you know, haircut, the trim, the beard.
	The other guy teaches him how to cook.
	We have the fashion guy and then the big black guy who's the culture emotional therapist.
	And then, you know, they really help him come to an emotional breakthrough.
	Everybody's crying.
	Me too, I have to say.
	And then after the emotional segment, then they go back to their gay loft, and they flip on the TV, and they watch how their work pays off.
	Kind of like watching an animal in a cage.
	And of course, it always turns out great.
	Now this is entirely scripted.
	We know how reality television works, and it's well cast.
	The people they cast are just so outstanding.
	And that part of their emotion is real.
	And it's really nice to see guys in a different light as the ultimate red pill series disguised as a bunch of gay guys.
	And these millennials, they don't really even see what's happening.
	But they're accepting it.
	It was beautiful to see it.
	Like, oh, wow, he's so sweet.
	And now their perception is changing.
	The black guy and the white cop, they talk in the car about how the black guy feels and the cop feels.
	I have to say, I never expected to say I think it's one of the best things on television right now.
	Interesting.
	Yeah.
	Well, I'll try to check it out.
	You might like it.
	I still haven't gotten to Stranger Things.
	Yeah, very different.
	Very different.
	But unless these...
	Cast members are incredible actors, you know, the target.
	That would surprise me, because these guys, they should be on the show tonight at the Oscars if they're faking this or acting it.
	That part is just, it's really nice.
	As a man who doesn't really give a shit that we're being targeted as the problem of everything, the patriarchy, to see this in the mainstream was refreshing.
	I have...
	Something else being targeted, I've decided.
	And I was going to actually send a note to you suggesting you dig up the old clip, which I don't know if you can find it, but it's the old clip about how they changed the state laws in California to lower the importance of Yeah.
	Car break-ins.
	What would you have titled that?
	Probably something.
	It would have something to do with car break-ins or car break-ins.
	I don't know.
	I have no idea.
	Yes, yes.
	I have it.
	I have the car break-ins and the car break-ins update.
	Try the first one.
	Okay.
	Car break-ins are on the rise across the Bay Area, in fact.
	2017 was a record-breaking year for our three largest cities.
	That's not it?
	That's the one I just sent you today.
	Oh!
	It just showed up in search.
	Maybe it's this one.
	Too many break-ins, not enough arrest, an alarming lack of accountability in San Francisco's car break-in epidemic.
	It's now prompting action from city lawmakers.
	Out of more than 81,000 reports of car break-ins during the past seven years, 81,000.
	13 resulted in arrests.
	13 out of 81,000.
	The police chief says there's an average of 85 break-ins a day in the city.
	He says based on that number, it is not practical to have officers show up and investigate every case.
	This map here highlights the break-in hotspots.
	Most happen around very familiar big landmarks.
	That wasn't it?
	I know what you're talking about, but they...
	Yeah, they changed the law so the break-ins are not given the kind...
	I believe, I do believe...
	I noticed this when I was a chemist at Union Oil.
	Every time you did a test, you had to go into a giant drawer and pull out a punch card that had the test on it, and you put it in a pile.
	Those were the tests you did that day.
	They had a card punch thing.
	This is the olden days with card punches.
	I would look at these things and if you decoded what was actually on this card, it gave a value.
	It gave a value for the test.
	And the value would vary from – in other words, you get so much credit.
	So the higher value you got for doing X number of tests, you'd get a number at the end.
	This shows that you were doing a lot of work.
	And I had kind of reverse engineered the whole thing to figure out what tests I needed to do to get the highest values and just skip the other ones.
	until I was like maybe at the end of the shift or something.
	And so I'd always rack up these huge numbers.
	I'd look like the most productive guy in the world.
	Just like you do on the show.
	Exactly.
	And so there was a way of doing this.
	Because there was all these tests available to do.
	And you tend to do the easy ones.
	But there'd be some that were harder, but they weren't harder to the point where you get all this extra credit.
	Those are the tests I did.
	And I think that in police work and a lot of other jobs, they have to have some way of deciding what your value is.
	If you're just giving a bunch of parking tickets out, you want to get a couple of busts.
	Oh, I've got to have this bust.
	It's my collar.
	I've got to get credit for it.
	You mean value like what's right and wrong in life?
	No.
	No, value in terms of what the value is of you arresting a burglar.
	Ah, I gotcha.
	And that's why these cops, in the cop shows, they kind of indicate this by bitching if they don't get the collar, as they like to say.
	Well, what happened in San Francisco, California, is they changed the law to make car breakers useless so far as your total points are concerned.
	So they don't do anything about it.
	That's the clip I'm looking for, because we had that clip.
	I didn't realize it was going to become thematic, because I got this clip today, which we should play, which is car break-ins.
	Again, no mention of the California law change.
	Car break-ins are on the rise across the Bay Area, in fact.
	2017 was a record-breaking year for our three largest cities.
	KPX 5's Don Lynn is on the top spots for smash and grabs.
	Chances are this has happened to you or someone you know.
	We're seeing record numbers of car burglaries in San Francisco, San Jose and Oakland.
	San Francisco leads the pack with 31,120 break-ins last year.
	In that same period, San Jose reported 6,476 car burglaries.
	San Jose police say that's the highest they have ever seen.
	A 17% increase compared to 2016.
	It's also a record in Oakland.
	10,007 reported cases.
	That's up 32% compared to the previous year.
	Unlike San Francisco, where burglars target rental cars and tourist destinations, in Oakland, the majority of the break-ins are in commercial districts where people shop and dine.
	Oakland police say more than 60% of their cases happen west of Lake Merritt.
	We're talking about from West Oakland to downtown all the way up to Montclair.
	Fewer homicides, more burglaries.
	It's the opposite in East Oakland.
	Fewer burglaries, more homicides.
	So why the upticks?
	Well, the things left in cars have gotten more expensive over the years, like laptops and smartphones.
	Also, chances of getting caught are very slim.
	In San Francisco, it's less than 2%.
	My car's been broken into four times already, and I just feel frustrated because there's nothing that's being done.
	Now I'm in a debate.
	Should I sell my car?
	Should I not have a car at all?
	Even if I have two little kids, I need my car for my two little kids.
	If you're wondering, what are the police doing?
	Well, in San Francisco, the DA is asking the city for $1 million to form a burglary task force.
	But in most Bay Area cities, it's a low-priority crime.
	And the statistical truth is very few car break-ins get solved.
	Yeah.
	I was looking for the original clip while that was playing.
	I really can't find it.
	I'll have to find it myself.
	Low priority credit.
	It's low priority.
	It's zero priority.
	Yes, they've deprioritized it and you don't get as much credit.
	So this is going on and I think it's done on purpose.
	I believe because they're so protective of Uber and Lyft that I think this is a war on cars.
	San Francisco's always hated cars.
	They hate people to drive cars.
	They don't have...
	The parking costs a dollar a minute.
	It's unbelievable.
	They do not want you driving a car in San Francisco.
	I don't know why, but they don't want you driving them.
	It's all part of this.
	Everyone should be on a bicycle.
	Shoot, man.
	I remember when we had Podshow slash Mevio, and parking in front of the building was, was it 25 cents for five minutes?
	Yeah, something like that.
	Some crazy number like that?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	And it would change.
	San Francisco has put these special meters in that fluctuate.
	They're all linked to a giant network.
	Yeah, that's right.
	They change.
	We have surge parking pricing.
	Exactly.
	And it's a dollar like for five minutes is like a dollar.
	Because they don't want you going to the baseball game.
	They want you going to the lot.
	The whole thing is a giant scam.
	How long are you going to be able to stand it?
	Now that I see a couple of the reports that came in, where one guy, in fact, if that report goes on a little longer, they say probably those numbers of 31,000, according to the police, is probably very low because most people don't even report it anymore because is probably very low because most people don't even report it anymore because nobody Well, there's more problems in San Francisco.
	So the cops aren't going after car break-ins.
	But when they have something real going on, they seem reasonably inadequate.
	We got him.
	We got him.
	He's in there.
	San Francisco police say the man inside the RV is the murder suspect, accused of shooting two men in the Golden Gate Park panhandle earlier in the day, including a 28-year-old man who died from his wounds.
	He's in there laying down.
	Police say after the suspect, Joel Armstrong, carjacked the vehicle to get away, they tracked him to Alameda and DeHaro streets.
	He refuses to come out after repeated orders.
	Mr.
	Armstrong, come out with your hands up!
	Three people and a dog emerge, but the suspect stays inside.
	Get your hands up!
	Moments later, police hear two shots fired from inside the RV. The officers fired back.
	According to the police report, seven officers fired 65 shots.
	BOOM The suspect fired two shots.
	A total of 67 shots.
	Nobody was hit.
	Just like the movies.
	What are they doing?
	67 shots, nobody got hit.
	San Francisco, everybody.
	Beautiful.
	By the way, this just proves, you can't write this stuff.
	It writes itself.
	Real life is better than anything you can make up.
	So there's this story, which is just, even when I told Mimi about it, when I clipped this, She says, you got anything good for the show tomorrow?
	Again, uncanny your impersonation.
	She's so sexy.
	And it seems to be the only voice they have.
	And by the way, talking about voices, why are these cops...
	What ever happened to the bullhorn?
	Oh!
	They're always shouting at the top of their lungs.
	Get out!
	We have you surrounded!
	Don't worry, we'll shoot, we'll miss!
	But come on out!
	Yeah, good times.
	But that was more a hostage situation, and this was an RV situation.
	Well, they used to have a bullhorn in the car.
	Yeah, I agree.
	They said this shouting.
	It's really annoying.
	It makes the cop sound like a douche.
	Oh, you said the word.
	Anyway, onward.
	So this story comes out, and then just the sheer number, the sheer number of murders that this guy committed.
	I mean, this is the same as the school.
	This is the SWAT raid on a street in Reno that rolled up a suspect wanted for murder in the East Bay.
	27-year-old Cardell Waters was in the home of Omar Zuniga when he was taken into custody.
	When detectives in Washoe County ran his name through the system, they found an outstanding warrant out of Contra Costa County For 17 counts of murder in the first degree, along with carjacking, robbery, and burglary.
	Waters is allegedly a member of an East Bay crime ring responsible for a multitude of crimes, including the robbery and attempted murder of an horrendous couple in their driveway while wearing Halloween masks.
	And so he's still on the loose?
	No, they got him.
	No.
	Let me guess.
	But if we're giving him 10 million bail, this guy killed 17 different people.
	Let me ask you a question.
	This is going to be a hard one, but I've got to ask it.
	Was this guy white or a different color?
	He was black.
	Ah, there you go.
	It's not a white guy.
	Only white guys who kill people get lifted into national spotlight.
	It's discrimination.
	It is discrimination.
	It's also deplorable that a guy could kill 70...
	I mean, I've seen...
	You see stories about, oh, the mob, you know, this guy was a hitman for the mob, and he talks about, like, six guys he killed.
	Unbelievable.
	Or eight.
	This guy's killed 17 people.
	Well, why isn't it at the top of the news?
	I don't know.
	It's beyond me.
	No, it's not beyond me because the guy was not white.
	That is a major number of people.
	I'm telling you, this is how the news media works.
	If it's not white, they don't care.
	There was another school shooting.
	Black Kid.
	Actually, about 15 minutes ago, our investigator briefed me on where we are in our criminal investigation.
	And there is one witness who stated that Mr.
	Davis was seen coming from the parking lot into the residence hall with a gun in his hand.
	And we have some videos, photos of that as well to support that.
	So just prior to the actual incident, Mr.
	Davis came into our residence hall with a weapon.
	And went to the fourth floor where we believe he shot and killed his father and his mother.
	Mr.
	Davis then left on foot.
	He went out of the building and onto the railroad track and was running north on the railroad track.
	And we have again a number of video photos that show a progression of moving north along that railroad track.
	And the last place we could actually put him from the video is around Cherry Street on the railroad track.
	This was Central Michigan University.
	I don't see, is there really any real difference between the Menendez brothers who shot their parents?
	You know, they were rich white people.
	The news media doesn't care.
	They don't care.
	Well, they tried to play this story up that you're talking about where his dad was a cop.
	It didn't work.
	Good looking couple.
	Yeah.
	They tried to play it up because it's another school shooting when it had nothing to do with the school.
	That was more a domestic issue.
	Yeah, but it happened in the school.
	But it happened in the school.
	No, the kid had just come back from a psychiatric evaluation.
	Thank you.
	From a psychiatric evaluation.
	Which is even more egregious.
	I mean, this story, this has all kinds of great subplots in it.
	You could milk this for a lot.
	The parents are good looking.
	The kid's a very young kid.
	Good looking.
	No.
	Nothing.
	I mean, yeah, a little bit of play, but nothing like it could have been if they were white.
	Just watch it.
	The news media.
	And it may have to do something with our culture and Gitmo proper in general.
	Maybe we don't care.
	Well, that element's always in play.
	It's sad.
	Because you know the 17 guys this guy murdered...
	I'm guessing 17 blacks.
	Oh, yeah.
	Of course.
	That's why...
	Who cares?
	Although, when they went into Orinda, of all places, which is a lily-white community, it was whites that they attacked, but they didn't kill anybody.
	They just shot them.
	This guy was...
	This is a top-of-the-fold story, it seems to me.
	17?
	Yeah.
	But, no.
	Nothing.
	Nothing.
	Just that little...
	Even that story was just been mentioned.
	Even if he killed them and ate them, they wouldn't run a story.
	Yeah.
	They don't care.
	They just don't care.
	In that regard, Chris Rock is right.
	He's half right.
	He wants to see crying white moms on TV, which he got, but you forgot to tell him that really that won't make any difference because you still won't see these stories in the same light as huge outrage.
	Why would someone who really cares about the NRA... Why wouldn't they say, Jesus, you know, this guy should never have had a gun.
	What's going on?
	How'd the kid get it?
	We have the mental aspect.
	Everything is in this story for this kid.
	Everything.
	Everything you need.
	No.
	Not a second.
	I do have a fun little two-parter from NPR about the Second Amendment.
	I guess they're all out of stories about the NRA, and someone decided to do a whole minute on what it would take to repeal the Second Amendment, which is what any politician who is serious about getting rid of guns will have to address.
	It's the only way.
	And the...
	I don't know if the word is lackadaisical, but that's not it.
	You almost can hear the reporter like, well, we all know that'll never work.
	I mean, the whole point of the Bill of Rights and the idea that you can amend and change the Constitution is what...
	It's been done.
	It's been done.
	They put prohibition in place.
	And removed it.
	Right.
	Both those things took a lot of effort.
	Yeah, but everybody was in agreement.
	That's the whole point.
	So if you say, well, it can never get done, that's only because no one's in agreement.
	Nobody really wants to do it either.
	I think there's something of a hoax.
	The Young Turks, and they have their own audience, they did an online poll on Twitter, and they got, I don't know...
	Oh, I saw that.
	Yeah, like 80% said no.
	Some outrageous number of people had joined the poll, and who else looks at the Young Turks...
	Twitter feed except Dimension B people.
	Russian bots ruin their poll, man.
	It could be, but the point was they said we should immediately take action against assault rifles.
	And it was yes, 15%, no, 85%.
	It was embarrassing.
	Well, here's the NPR story about what it would take to repeal the Second Amendment.
	What would it actually take?
	There is a process for it.
	It's right there at the end of the Constitution.
	Oh, it's like a big reveal for these people.
	Wait, where's my ISO? Let's see if I can fit this in now.
	Okay.
	What would it actually take?
	There is a process for it.
	It's right there at the end of the Constitution.
	So the founding fathers were at least willing to be edited.
	They just really made it hard.
	First, you need to get super majorities in Congress, two-thirds in both the House and the Senate.
	And that's an enormous hurdle, especially in the Senate.
	But even if you get it through Congress, you still need to get your amendment ratified by three-fourths of the states.
	That's at least 38 states.
	That has happened only once in the last 40-plus years.
	And it's a big lift even before you start to talk about the popularity of guns and the power of the NRA.
	So not very likely, then, is what I hear you saying.
	Not very likely, given our current politics or the current makeup of Congress or of the many state legislatures.
	How about the current makeup of people who just don't want it as much?
	But that is not to say it's impossible in time.
	It just means you need a lot of things to change and things that have not changed yet, even after all these mass shootings that we've had.
	Yeah, which can only really be the will of the people.
	And what they're insinuating is that it can't happen because the NRA owns all the politicians.
	Well, then you need to go out and you need to say, we've got to vote all these NRA people out, which is kind of what they're doing.
	It won't change anything, though.
	It's the joke of it.
	That's the fun part.
	Here's part two, which is, I think, some argument about the actual right to bear arms, which shall not be infringed, but this is about the language, which was clarified by the Supreme Court in the Heller case 10, 11 years ago.
	So, recent polling, though, right now, there's a lot of people in this country who want...
	No, no, no, no, no.
	Did you not read the Young Turks polling data?
	I'm sorry, I think you're wrong.
	So, recent polling, though, right now, there's a lot of people in this country who want tighter gun laws.
	I mean, doesn't that put some kind of pressure on Congress to do something?
	Yes.
	Yes, it does.
	And they may well do something.
	The Supreme Court has said that the individual right, while it is individual, it may be regulated.
	And this time, we may get stronger background checks or a higher purchase age or some of the other things that you were talking about a moment ago.
	But all those things could be done without repealing the Second Amendment.
	And then it would be up to the courts to decide if the stricter limits violated the Second Amendment and And if the courts did decide that, perhaps that then would put more pressure on the amendment itself.
	Now, I don't even understand how...
	You know, if we all agree that yes, okay, the Supreme Court ruled you're allowed to defend yourself...
	I think that's the wording of it.
	You're allowed to defend yourself and you may use a firearm for that.
	And that right shall not be infringed.
	How can you still put in legislation to infringe on that exact right?
	I don't understand how that is okay.
	This is all blather.
	It's your word of the month.
	But explain what you mean.
	Yes, I think it is.
	I think that is my word of the month.
	And the month is just getting started.
	It is bullcrap.
	They just talk and talk and get more Democrats.
	She was sincere and I'll tell you why I think that.
	Because my liberal friends out here, they get into a little tizzy because I get linked into their direct SMS stuff, direct messages on the phone stuff.
	Yeah.
	And they're going back and forth and back and forth about something.
	They get themselves into a...
	They all worked up because the only people they hang out with, except for me, and they're not like hanging out with me, is just all lockstep.
	It's just like knee-jerk.
	It's unbelievable.
	The latest was that McMaster's going to quit and then that's going to be followed.
	This is what they're thinking.
	McMaster's going to quit the White House because he can't take it anymore.
	There's chaos.
	He's going to quit.
	And then Trump's going to resign.
	They've been saying Trump's going to resign since he was elected.
	Are they still on the resignation tip?
	That is unbelievable.
	I can't believe it.
	Yeah, I could read it.
	I'll open one of these up and start reading from it.
	You should be reading from it.
	And all you're hearing is...
	And I was thinking to myself, where's this McMaster thing come from?
	And then I noticed the New York Times wrote some bogus article about McMaster's fed up.
	And insiders that have some knowledge of the situation, they're saying he's going to quit and Kelly's going to quit.
	They're all going to quit.
	And meanwhile, Kelly, of course, came out and said, I'm not going to quit.
	And there's no reason to quit and you can eat pounds salt.
	They're not quitting because you brought it up the last time anyone brought it up.
	And I brought it up with this group.
	I said, hey, it's the military intelligence running things.
	Why are any of these guys going to quit?
	Makes no sense.
	No.
	And didn't I see a, was it a New York Times article that, or maybe it was just a story that the people I'm looking for in my list now, that said, you know, Kelly really wanted Javanka out exactly as we predicted.
	Yeah.
	Now that's in the mainstream.
	Where was that story?
	I think it probably does.
	Well, yeah, it's what we deconstructed and now they're writing about it.
	Damn it, I can't find it.
	Well, if they're writing about that, it means that things are going to come to a stand.
	They won't get kicked out.
	Well, it was even better.
	The insinuation was that Trump wanted Javanka out.
	Were they listening to our show?
	I think so.
	Shit, where was that?
	Maybe someone in the troll room can find that article for me real quick.
	Yeah.
	And boom.
	Boom, number one.
	Boom, count one.
	Finally.
	Yes.
	All right, well, I got a story.
	This is a little offbeat.
	We'll switch to subject.
	This is a good story.
	Especially good out here.
	This is Apple glass walls.
	Yeah.
	We're used to hearing about the fancy perks at Bay Area tech offices, but not the hidden hazards.
	Apple employees have been left injured and bleeding after walking straight into glass walls at the spaceship campus in Cupertino.
	KPX 5's Kitty Nelson has the 911 calls.
	Sheriff Emergency 336, what's the address of the emergency?
	This isn't the way the new Apple Park wanted to get on the map.
	It's going to be one Apple Park, Cupertino.
	The new $5 billion spaceship campus opened right after the first of the year with a corporate-wide kickoff event led by Apple CEO Tim Cook.
	Apple Park has been built to reflect Apple's values for both technology and the environment.
	But the environment inside wasn't exactly employee-friendly.
	Almost immediately after the campus opened in January, people started getting hurt by accidentally walking into the building's glass walls.
	The San Francisco Chronicle got the recordings of the 911 calls for help.
	So we had an individual who ran into a glass wall pane.
	I walked into a glass door on the first door of Apple Park.
	They are bleeding, slightly disoriented.
	A city of Cupertino building inspector, Albert Salvador, told us right after the 911 calls...
	Apple immediately tried to fix the problems.
	They put markings like these on the glass walls, and he says that fix appears to be working because in the last two months, they haven't gotten any more reports of injuries from people walking into walls.
	In Santa Clara, Katie Nielsen, KPIX 5.
	Well, those markers Apple is using on the glass are nothing high-tech like you might expect.
	They're actually regular stickers.
	What do they think of them, actually?
	Yeah, this has been going on for a while.
	The thing that got me was the board co-anchor.
	Yeah.
	If you can play that little, just the last few seconds again, listen to what he says.
	Hold on a second.
	Let me rack it up here.
	Well, those markers Apple is using on the glass are nothing high-tech like you might expect.
	They're actually regular stickers.
	What do they think of next?
	What will they think of next?
	He didn't even listen to the damn story.
	No, what will they think of next is the inappropriate reaction.
	What will they think of next?
	Yeah, I think that people are on their phones.
	Well...
	I have that story.
	Pedestrian deaths, which is also a war on cars.
	Didn't I have this story?
	I didn't have a clip, but I think I had this story the other day.
	According to a new study, people are being hit and killed by cars and trucks at a rate not seen in 25 years.
	Dr.
	Duncan reports smartphones and legal marijuana may be partially to blame.
	Simply walking has gotten more dangerous because of this routine sight.
	Pedestrians crossing a busy street, head down, glued to their cell phones, oblivious to the dangers, just steps away.
	You caught me red-handed.
	I'm guilty as charged.
	Regularly.
	It's just a natural habit, unfortunately.
	I try not to do it when I'm crossing the street.
	According to a new report, 2017 is projected to have nearly 6,000 deaths from people on foot who lost their lives in traffic.
	You know what we call that?
	Um...
	6,000 deaths from walking with your phone?
	Culling the dummies?
	A good start.
	...matalities marking the second year in a row at numbers not seen in 25 years.
	Pedestrians now account for approximately 16% of all traffic deaths compared to 11% just a few years ago.
	Jonathan Atkins is with the Governor's Highway Safety Association.
	We don't see any sign that the numbers are going to start going back in a safer direction.
	We're seeing less people killed in vehicles because vehicles are safer.
	More of us are buckling up.
	But as pedestrians, we don't have any new safety features.
	Has that person driven on the road recently?
	Are you kidding me?
	I've never seen drivers be so unsafe.
	They're all texting in the car.
	Please.
	More of us are buckling up, but as pedestrians, we don't have any new safety features.
	The rising trend in pedestrian fatalities, according to the report, coincides with legalization of recreational marijuana and growth in smartphone use.
	It's too dangerous.
	Don't do it.
	If you're walking, the last thing you want to see is a red light and then a car hitting you.
	New York and four other states each had more than 100 pedestrian deaths in the first six months of 2017.
	But here in New York City, pedestrian deaths have actually declined.
	That's because of an initiative that focuses on reducing the speed limit as well as stricter enforcement of moving violations.
	Jerika Duncan, CBS News, New York.
	Well, I can already hear the Silicon Valley lobbying groups making sure that our lawmakers understand this is not about the smartphones, but about the devil weed.
	The UK is really ratcheting it up.
	We had that whole scrum at bullcrap.
	Yeah.
	I think you're right on one hand, but I think there's also a number of messages going on at the same time.
	One...
	Dope makes you stupid, and you walk into the street, you get hit.
	Yep.
	Even though there's no evidence.
	No, zero.
	The other one is, oh, you know, smart cars, all those self-driving cars, they see pedestrians.
	Much safer, yes.
	So that's another, to me, it's another strike against cars.
	Yeah, yeah.
	I'm seeing it more as the war on weed is ratcheting in the UK. I think the war on weed, yes, but we've been following that for a while.
	Right, but there's new ones.
	There's new ones in the UK about the super skunk.
	Super skunk.
	Yeah, I couldn't get a good enough clip, which apparently has been smuggled in on the flower trucks from Holland.
	Holland's making super skunk.
	Super skunk, yeah.
	And so what they would do is, you know, we have the big auction, the flower market.
	I used to work at the flower market auction, I'll smear.
	And you get there at three in the morning, they do the auction, they get the flowers, you got to load them onto the trucks.
	And these guys were putting up to a million pounds a month of super skunk.
	In these flower transports.
	And that's how they're coming into the UK. Oh, pretty cool.
	But the super skunk is making people crazy.
	It can give you all kinds of neurological permanent damage.
	You know, it's all the things that are completely untrue.
	And I have standing.
	Have you ever had super skunk?
	Oh, yeah!
	When people say, oh, it's not the same weed I had when I was a kid.
	I've been smoking since I was 13 years old.
	Yes, it's gotten better, but it's not like, bleh, I'm crazy and I'm, well, maybe I came unglued a long time ago.
	You just get stoned faster.
	It's not even that.
	That's the way I see it.
	Maybe.
	I don't know.
	It goes pretty fast anyway if you smoke.
	Not when I was a kid.
	I see the super scum because it's a benefit.
	That's a product improvement.
	What is their problem?
	They don't want it because people start smoking dope and they...
	I don't know.
	Do they vote differently?
	I think they still vote the way they...
	I don't think it changed the way their voting habits.
	Maybe they don't go to vote.
	People don't vote at all.
	I vote Cheetos.
	You got a peanut butter.
	I vote grilled cheese.
	Man, I could use a jam sandwich.
	I vote English muffin with butter and honey.
	Sorry.
	I'm bringing my personal stuff into the show again.
	Alright, before we take our break, you are the...
	Sports is your beat, and I'm a little dismayed that you had not identified this.
	Maybe it's not being televised.
	Okay.
	The story is that the NBA, some NBA teams have been playing an alternative national anthem at their games.
	I have not known this.
	In fact...
	Which makes no sense as a sentence, but that's what I said.
	Miami Heat players stand together in this picture.
	Here I see.
	During the singing of the National Anthem.
	But several teams also played the so-called Negro National Anthem at games during Black History Month.
	And since we are looking for a replacement, and I thought it might be, you know, we already have America the Beautiful.
	I don't think this song is appropriate as a National Anthem.
	The song would be Lift Every Voice.
	Are you familiar with Lift Every Voice?
	No, but I'm going to be familiar when you're done with this segment.
	Well, yeah, I have a little bit of it.
	Ray Charles.
	This is from the Dick Cavett Show.
	I've never heard this song that I can remember.
	I've heard this song.
	Yeah?
	Let's get to the chorus.
	We could all be in the stands singing along.
	Yeah, I think there's a problem with this song as National Anthem.
	Yes!
	You're not Ray Charles is the problem.
	And white people always clap on the one and the three, so it's just not going to work.
	It won't be synchronized.
	We have no rhythm.
	This is the worst song for that.
	I mean, the James Brown song has got more legs.
	No doubt.
	Living in America is the way to go.
	I completely agree with that.
	Completely agree.
	But we will keep bringing you the alternatives until one is chosen.
	I'm now of the opinion that one will never be chosen.
	I'm going to show my support by donating to No Agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yes, we do have a few people to thank, starting with Jonathan Rose.
	Netanya?
	Israel.
	That's got to be Israel, right?
	Let me bring up my sheet.
	It could be Illinois.
	Netanya?
	That would seem to me as Israel.
	Yeah, it sounds like Israel.
	Well, good.
	It is now.
	Okay, so it's been a while since I donated.
	JCD, how about removing my block?
	Okay, what is your Twitter name?
	Yeah, that would be helpful.
	I see nothing.
	This is Sir Jono, by the way.
	He is a knight.
	Yeah, Sir Jono, that's right.
	He's a knight.
	You know, if you would put the name, you know, because once the show's over, Adam will tell you this, I forget everything.
	Oh, yeah.
	Maybe Adam does too.
	We start working on the next show.
	Not really.
	Well, I do.
	I go from show to show, and each one's individual.
	So if this isn't mentioned in here, it will be forgotten by the end, and I won't do anything.
	And I wonder what he did for you to block him.
	Probably something dumb.
	If I'm in a bad mood, and I'm tweeting, looking at the Twitters, and I'm just trying to collect material, and then somebody says something like, you idiot!
	Or something like that.
	I don't bother even...
	Sometimes if I react, then I might do.
	I don't know.
	John Robinet, $100.
	The part's unknown.
	Michael Dorsey, $100.
	Michelle Dorsey.
	Michelle.
	Hi, Michelle Dorsey.
	Barron Mladequin in Houston, Texas.
	$100.
	We got a lot of hundreds today.
	Well, not that many.
	Jeremy McFadden, $100.
	And James Zuckel, who I believe is a knight.
	I could be wrong.
	That could be.
	Could be Sir James.
	Baron Mark Tanner, we know for a fact, is the night 66.66.
	Donates twice a month.
	Sir Chris James in Sturgis, Michigan, 61.11.
	Whoa, whoa, whoa.
	Did you get Baron Mark Tanner?
	Yeah, and he even said that he donates twice a month.
	I'm sorry.
	Yes, keep going.
	Tara Rees in Urbana, Illinois, 60.
	And she has a douchebag call-out.
	Wink, she says.
	Thank you both for restoring my sanity.
	I've been a devoted listener since the inauguration.
	What?
	I said you're welcome.
	My brother Travis and my mother Barb are still douchebags.
	A two, a one, two, three, three.
	Douchebag.
	Freeloader.
	Listening for free.
	Relying on the rest of us to keep you from Dimanche B. Douchebag.
	You can only imagine there's a song coming up at the end of the show.
	So...
	I would hope so.
	Whenever Sir Chris gets plastered, he heads right for the studio.
	He sent me a note.
	I'm drunk.
	I gotta do a song.
	I love him.
	I love him.
	Dementia B. Hello.
	Dementia B. Dementia.
	Dementia.
	Another one.
	Another one for the list.
	Yeah.
	Dame Jamie.
	Actually, I would use the mensch.
	It's one of those little phrases that people would say.
	What does that mean?
	People would ask newcomers.
	Yes.
	I also have mensch.
	You mean like the mensch?
	You're talking about some guy's macho.
	Is that what you're talking about?
	Da mensch.
	Oh, like da mensch.
	Yeah, da mensch.
	You're a mensch.
	I have one coming up for you.
	Da mensch.
	I have Kath.
	I have Kath coming up for you.
	Kath.
	Alright, Dame Jamie, 5678, and she has a note, take a look at it.
	She's got a birthday coming up, and she at the end, because of the birthday, you might want to put this at the end of the show perhaps, a kick out of Oreos are more addictive than cocaine, Jingle, because I used to hide them I would assume the Oreos around the house to suppress my postpartum depression.
	Really?
	I can't eat them anymore because they cause crystals in my kidneys and I can't handle any more stones.
	You're not drinking enough water.
	Ouch.
	Oreos are just as addictive as cocaine.
	That's according to a study from Connecticut College.
	Connecticut College.
	They know about it.
	Yeah, Bastion.
	Sir Tom Darry in De Forest, Wisconsin.
	5-5?
	1-0.
	Double nickels on the dime.
	Eric Hochul in Berlin.
	How come I didn't...
	Oh, that's interesting.
	What?
	In this spreadsheet, his name actually came spelled...
	Mine too, but there's no umlaut.
	No umlaut.
	Okay, that's what it is.
	In Berlin, Deutschland.
	A regular there.
	Sir, it'd be great to have a meet-up in Berlin.
	Well, I'd like to just get a date for a meet-up.
	Yes, okay.
	I'm going to continue on the read.
	Sir Austin of the Snowy Cascades.
	Yep.
	Keep up the good works.
	And he's in Sammamish.
	5130.
	Tim Kimbrell, Parts Unknown.
	5033.
	And here we go.
	$50 donors, name and location, starting with Griffin Vacheron.
	Vacheron.
	Vacheron, Vacheron.
	Tomato, tomato.
	Hawaii, Hawaii.
	Scott E. Knight in Lost Wages, Nevada.
	Robert Clayson.
	Sir Robert, to you, in London.
	Matthew Januszewski, I believe, is also a Knight.
	$50 Chicago.
	Steeler Grimolle.
	I believe.
	In Point Pleasant, New Jersey, 50.
	Joseph Jona, parts unknown.
	Paul van Cordelaar in the Netherlands.
	Paul van Cordelaar in Iymouden.
	Iymouden.
	Very good.
	Larry Hay in Moorsville, North Carolina.
	Ty Glender.
	That's a nice name.
	And last but not least, as we come to the end, Sir Alan Bowes.
	I mean, Sir Alan Bean.
	We do have an Alan Bowes, too.
	Sir Alan Bean here, our guy in Oakland, who sends a check, $50 a month.
	He started this off right at the beginning of our show.
	He says, until you guys suck, I'm going to send you a $50 check every month.
	And he's been doing that.
	Well, then we haven't sucked that bad yet.
	We haven't sucked that bad.
	He did give us an extra little bonus during that 10th anniversary.
	And we appreciate it.
	Last but not least on this list is Jason Deluzio in Chadsford, Pennsylvania, 50.
	I want to thank all these folks for helping us produce show 1013.
	Yes.
	And if it wasn't you guys, we wouldn't get anything done.
	Correct.
	So thank you.
	Yeah, we wouldn't be able to.
	We'd have to get real jobs.
	We also want to thank all the subscribers and the people that give us their amounts.
	Yeah, I was going to mention that because you did go on kind of a drive there for people to sign up in the newsletter for people to sign up for some of the subscriptions, the sustaining donations as we call them.
	Sustaining donation.
	Yeah, if you consider that.
	Like five bucks, you know.
	Yeah, that'd be very helpful.
	I'm getting all these donation notes because I donated to everybody's campaign during the cycle.
	And now I'm getting all these kids from the Florida shooting.
	And they're now sending me emails with, hey, would you want to help us defund the NRA? Chip in!
	So it's chip in.
	And let me guess, the big button to donate is in red.
	Yes.
	It's a big red button.
	This is a form.
	This is like some form letter.
	I've been getting the same things, but I'm getting from obscure members of the Trump family I've never heard of.
	Oh, yeah, yeah.
	Lars Trump.
	Sarah Trump.
	Lars Trump.
	I missed his email, damn it.
	Lars.
	Let me see if I can find...
	I thought I saved one.
	Here.
	This came in.
	I'm a Parkland student survivor.
	I lost 17 members of my community, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
	And then it's, if you look down at the bottom, in the disclaimer, paid for by the Democratic National Committee.
	It's shameless.
	It's just shameless.
	Shameless.
	This is shameless.
	These people have, they're horrible people.
	It really are.
	That's horrible, horrible, horrible.
	And I've said it three times, so I'm going to say it.
	Child abuse.
	It's child abuse, and we don't like it.
	Well, thank you, everybody.
	You know how the show works by now, value for value.
	You are the value, so we all put in what we can get out of it, and we really appreciate all of our producers who came in today, and as John rightly said, also people who came in under $50 for our subscriptions or reasons of anonymity.
	Remember us for our next show.
	We'll remind you with an email and newsletter at...
	By multiple requests.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	You've got...
	Chippin!
	Yes, we have two birthdays here.
	Of course, we have Anonymous, who is celebrating his birthday today.
	He will become a knight in just a few moments.
	And also, Dame Jamie turns 38 on March 10th.
	We say happy birthday from all your buddies here at the Best Podcast in the Universe!
	Okay, we have one knighting to do.
	If you could grab your sword.
	Yeah, yeah, hold on a second.
	Oh, was that it?
	I got it.
	Yeah.
	Oh, there we go.
	Hold on a second.
	All right, Anonymous, step on up.
	You are the sole entrant of the No Agenda Roundtable of our Knights and Dames for today, but I'm very pleased to bring you in, and I am very proud to pronounce to Kate the Sir Ben-onymous of the 1.5-time playback.
	Thank you very much for your contribution in the amount of $1,000 or more for you, sir.
	We have your ring, your seat at the table, and hookers and blow, rent boys and chardonnay, harlots and haldol, organic macaroni and plasticizers.
	We got pepperoni rolls and pale ales, breast milk and pablum, ginger ale and gerbils, sparkling cider and escorts, ass cream and bear fillings, bong hits and bourbon, vodka and vanilla, geishas and sake, rumeness, rumen and rosé, and mutton and mead!
	Head over to noagendanation.com slash rings and that is where the show will pick up your deets.
	Deets.
	There's another one.
	Deets.
	What's deets?
	Details.
	Your deets.
	Oh, your deets.
	Your deets.
	Yes.
	Yeah, you can eventually get it down so you can never use a normal word.
	Well...
	I got a note.
	No, no, no.
	You can't read anything until I do my calf.
	We did deets.
	Now I got to do calf.
	What's calf?
	Calf.
	T-H. Calf?
	Calf.
	Yes.
	Calf.
	You better get used to it, because we're going to be doing this business pretty soon.
	No, you are.
	No.
	What's cath?
	I'm a professional cowboy, and I use catheters.
	Been cowboying for 25 years.
	I've broken 14 bones, had two concussions, and a punctured lung.
	I know pain, and I don't want any more of it.
	Especially when I cath.
	Now, I use these new nearly...
	Hi, I'm Adam Curry.
	I'm a professional podcaster, and I cath.
	Oh, God, it's disgusting.
	Ha!
	Come on.
	Kath, it's another one.
	Yeah, put it on the list.
	It's on the list.
	So we have a note from Michael Butler.
	Ah, the Rock and Roll Geek Show.
	One of the first podcasts and one of the longest running and just an outstanding product.
	He's the real original.
	Why isn't he on our stream with his show?
	What is wrong with us?
	I don't know if he even produces it anymore.
	Yes, he does.
	He says to me, I went back and forth because we're talking about this place where you, Salah is the name of this place where they butcher live animals right in front of you so you can eat them that night if you hang them.
	And so he turned me on to that place.
	And I go back and I said, so have you been listening to the show?
	He says, nah, I stopped listening a couple years ago.
	Bullshit.
	I know it's bullshit, but he has to say that.
	That's him.
	Yeah, it's true.
	He says, I've been an NRA member for years, says Butler.
	There's never been one car rental or hotel discount offered on any mailings I've ever received.
	Also, I've been shopping at Dick's and Big Five for years.
	I've never seen an AR-15 for sale.
	This is good free publicity, though.
	Yeah.
	I'm thinking of putting out a press release saying that I'm ending my rock and roll geek show partnership with the NRA. It might get me new subscribers of one or two.
	So, he saw through that scam.
	Only if you've worked your second.
	Yes.
	That's pretty funny.
	You know, I think Walmart, in 2015, they discontinued sales of AR-15.
	And they made a big stink about it then.
	Yeah.
	So they just did it twice.
	I don't think Dick sold ARs at all, either.
	I don't think so.
	Just whores.
	They're just whores.
	Yeah, these people are whores.
	Yeah, they're whores.
	Trying to make a name, virtue signal, off the backs of dead people.
	Children.
	Whores.
	It's pathetic.
	Yeah.
	It is.
	All right, what do you got?
	I have a couple of things here.
	Russia.
	Russia.
	Oh, wait.
	First, we got to talk about Ken Delanian.
	Delanian.
	Ken Delanian.
	This is a guy who was, I think he was a staffer at the LA Times, and they've now, they outed him as a CIA collaborator, and they've distanced themselves from him.
	They know he's not...
	Staff is CIA. Yeah, but somehow this guy screwed up.
	At least one occasion he rewrote a lead, L-E-D-E, as per the CIA dictates.
	He also reported his fact in the pages of the Los Angeles Times.
	A CIA claimed that there was no collateral murder in a 2012 drone strike on Al-Qaeda leader Abu Yaha Alibi.
	An Amnesty International report disputes that sanitized version of events, citing eyewitnesses that claim upwards of 15 people, including Afghan tribesmen, unaffiliated with Al-Qaeda, etc., etc.
	Yeah, it's war crimes.
	Yes.
	And they have distanced themselves from this reporter, but...
	How did he get outed?
	Excuse me?
	How did he get outed?
	Outed by Huffington Post.
	Oh, that's interesting.
	Who outed him?
	Jonathan Volania.
	I don't know who that is.
	This he's looking into.
	Well, that's the kind of stuff that you're really good at.
	Looking into journos.
	The guy is goofy looking, this Ken Delanian.
	And he's now referred to by...
	The LA Times as the...
	Journo should be on the list.
	Journo, you're right.
	As a Tribune, Washington Bureau staffer.
	So I don't know what's going on with that.
	Let me put Journo on the list.
	That is a good list.
	But he's still working at MSNBC. Oh, yeah.
	Yes, and he comes in.
	Really an odd report...
	What if I get caught?
	What if I get caught doing this?
	Don't worry about it.
	We've got 10 other places where you can work.
	Put you to MSNBC. You'll be fine.
	Brian Williams loves people who lie.
	So you need to keep in the back of your mind the guy is a CIA shill when you hear this report.
	We're told that Special Counsel Robert Mueller is moving toward an indictment or multiple indictments that would serve the same purpose as that document filed last month.
	Essentially, as you recall, that document left out the hacks of the DNC, the leaking operation, which played a significant role in the election, was a big part of the Russian meddling.
	So these new charges...
	This is what we've been hearing.
	And I think I identified it a week ago.
	The conflagration, I'm going to use it, or really confusion of the DNC hack, which A, turns out to not be really a hack at all, but it was, from what we understand from any forensics that are around, it was offloaded onto a USB drive.
	Yeah, at high speeds.
	That can't be done on the net.
	The hack, if anything, was a password hack.
	A phishing expedition?
	Yeah.
	And the FBI never saw the server.
	It was all cloud fires.
	The Pew Pew guys.
	The Pew Pew Pew map.
	So the FBI's never even seen it, yet this spook is able to tell us exactly how important it was.
	The Russians did it.
	Would tell the story of how that happened and name the Russians who were involved, allegedly.
	And they would rely, we are told, heavily on secret intelligence provided to Mueller by the CIA, the National Security Agency, DHS. Potential charges include conspiracy, violations of election law, violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, which is the anti-hacking statute.
	Now, you pointed out some of the big unanswered questions here.
	One of them is, will this indictment or potential indictment name Vladimir Putin?
	Because we already reported the U.S. has intelligence suggesting that Putin ordered and supervised this operation.
	But that's really sensitive intelligence.
	It's unclear whether the government would be willing to put that in a court document.
	Another question is, will they charge Russian government intelligence officials who supervise these freelance hackers who allegedly carried out this operation?
	Another huge question.
	Did he say super hackers?
	Let me just listen to that.
	Government intelligence officials who supervise these freelance hackers.
	Oh, no, supervise.
	He supervised the freelance hackers.
	Back it up more.
	I think maybe he said something else.
	No, I don't think so.
	I think I just heard it incorrectly.
	In a court document.
	Another question is, will they charge Russian government intelligence officials who supervise these freelance hackers who allegedly carried out this operation?
	Another huge question is the role of WikiLeaks.
	Obviously, the bulk of these leaked emails came through WikiLeaks, and the CIA director, Mike Pompeo, has accused WikiLeaks of being essentially a hostile, non-state intelligence service, an arm of the Russian government in this instance.
	But WikiLeaks will come back and claim they had acted as journalists.
	That could pose a problem for a potential prosecution.
	So, unknown whether they will be named in these potential charges.
	But it's clear that the Mueller investigation is picking up steam, and this would be another big shoe to drop in terms of laying out how this case happened.
	Boo!
	I think he lets on a lot of interesting bits about what we might hear as the narrative.
	I think the agency is freaking out.
	They're not getting anywhere with this crap.
	They're not.
	And what you just heard him say, and I don't know if this has been discussed yet or if it's coming into the lexicon, but WikiLeaks will claim they are journos and therefore they can't be...
	Why would that ask the simple question of what law can they be prosecuted?
	Assange is an Australian guy.
	I understand.
	I understand.
	But it's more about the messaging.
	Yeah, I think you're right.
	We're going to go after Putin.
	We're going to go after WikiLeaks.
	We're going to say that Trump ordered the hacking, which he did with a joke, and he totally asked for it.
	But he was asking for Hillary's emails, not the DNC emails.
	Yes, and this is always ignored.
	We can't really say what's really going on.
	But we can send Megyn Kelly to Russia to interview Putin.
	Yes, I have it too.
	We'll play your version.
	But what about Russian citizens who have been indicted in the special counsel investigation?
	NBC's Megyn Kelly asked him about that today.
	We cannot respond to that if they do not violate Russian laws.
	Would this violate Russian law?
	I have to see first what they've done.
	Give us materials.
	Give us information.
	Hacking into the Democratic National Committee, creating interference in our election by creating thoughts that spread false information on Twitter, on Facebook, spreading misinformation when it comes to Black Lives Matter, when it comes to our presidential election.
	That's what I'm talking about.
	With all due respect for you personally, with all due respect for Congress, you must have people with legal degrees.
	100% you do.
	And people who are well-educated, who must understand that we, Russia, cannot prosecute anyone if they have not violated Russian law.
	If you don't have a legal degree, I can explain to you.
	Ha!
	Then you have to understand, what it takes is an official request to the general prosecutor of the Russian Federation.
	Give us a document.
	Give us an official request.
	You said that the last time, and now I'm back with an indictment.
	This has to go through official channels, not through the press or yelling and hollering in the United States Congress.
	We'll have much more of Megan's reporting from Russia in the coming days.
	Good bit.
	So they send her...
	NBC finds it, what can we do with this woman?
	She's not getting the ratings we want.
	She's horrible on this morning show.
	And so they decided, put her back in the job she used to do.
	Pretty girl that people will take an interview with.
	With a law degree.
	With a law degree, yeah.
	Her law degree.
	I don't know if she's ever done anything with her.
	But, and I'm sure that they sent a note, hey, Putin, would you like us to have this hottie over there?
	Well, no, would you like us to send the hottie over again?
	This is our second interview.
	Right.
	They're flirting with each other, and she's being mean, and he's being coy, and he laughs, and he smiles at her dumb questions and does everything short of rolling his eyes.
	And she's just mad dog, mad dog Megan.
	Yeah, and I liked his response.
	Like, hey, why don't you just give us the indictment and we'll take it through the Russian court system?
	That would be an idea, unless the indictment has Putin's name.
	Well, I have a history lesson from Professor Stephen Cohen, who you always refer to as Stefan, or Stefan, but it's really Stephen Curry with a PH. And he is the professor at...
	He's an emeritus.
	I think it was at Columbia or someplace.
	Right.
	Or Princeton, Columbia or something.
	But he's not working anymore.
	Well, because he says all the wrong things.
	No wonder he doesn't have a job.
	But he gave us a little history lesson on exactly what happened during the Clinton years between the U.S. and Russia.
	It's a good reminder.
	How many Americans today remember what we did in Russia in 1996?
	My guess is most people under 40 or under 35 do not.
	Boris Yeltsin, who was the first post-Soviet president, when the Soviet Union ended and Gorbachev departed, Yeltsin was elected president, and he was embraced very firmly and fulsomely by the Clinton administration.
	Russia was in despair.
	He was in very bad shape politically and physically.
	He'd had bypass surgery.
	He was known to drink heavily.
	It had been observed on his visits to the United States.
	The polls showed him at about 4 or 5 percent with no chance to win.
	And Washington was in a panic.
	Because the main challenger was the new Communist Party of the Russian Federation, which by then had become a kind of social democratic party.
	It wasn't going to carry out a revolution, but there were many candidates.
	So what happened was, is the Clinton administration shopped around for people like Paul Manafort.
	People you can hire to come to your country and help you win elections.
	There are dozens, if not scores, of these so-called electoral experts, lobbyists for hire in Washington.
	They settled on a firm, and they went and they set up, and I was in Moscow in 1996 when the campaign began, so it was quite visible to me.
	They set up shop in what was called the Presidential Hotel.
	Yeltsin hadn't paid pensions in Russia in about three years.
	Old people were dying.
	They weren't getting their pensions.
	State employees were not being paid their wages.
	This would have been the end of any electoral candidate.
	Clinton arranged for, I think it was, I may have the number wrong, an emergency $4 billion loan to Yeltsin through the International Monetary Fund.
	So the Clinton administration went all out.
	And I know personally, From what I was told, at least, that there were at least two third-party candidates that would have taken votes from Yeltsin.
	And they were told by the Americans, if you don't get out of the race, you have no future at all, certainly not with us.
	And one dropped out, one stayed in.
	And so you have to get 51% of the vote in the first round to make it to the second.
	Yeltsin, neither Yeltsin nor the communist leader, Zuganov, got it.
	So there was a second round, and Yeltsin won.
	Alright, so the first thing to be said is we were very proud of that, the United States.
	So proud that Time magazine, shortly after the election, in 1996, put it on the cover of its magazine with the title something like, Yanks to the Rescue, How Washington Saved Yeltsin.
	There you go.
	That's not meddling.
	No.
	That's a good clip.
	It's nice to get a history lesson from time to time.
	Yeah.
	Well, nobody wants to do that in schools.
	No.
	And by the way, so he's emeritus at both Princeton and NYU. Yeah, so he kind of knows what he's talking about.
	Yeah.
	He's 79.
	A couple of interesting updates.
	On the heels of my interest in public libraries, And Homelessness, The Public is a movie coming out very soon, written and directed by Emilio Estevez, and it's about homeless guys in a public library.
	And then a mystery, a murder, and then a mystery ensues?
	Of course there's a mystery and a murder in it.
	But it's really a feel-good story about how one guy says, hey, these people are just dying here in the cold, and he runs the library at night or something like that.
	And so there's a standoff with the cops, and he's protecting the homeless guys.
	I think it will be interesting.
	I look forward to the movie.
	Yeah, it sounds like something I'd check out too.
	I want a flu update.
	It's got a little thing at the end that just kind of made me go, what?
	Do I need to open the swine flu thing?
	No, no, no.
	It's just short.
	It's too short.
	Back in this country, it appears the worst of the flu season has passed.
	The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported today that the number of cases peaked in early February and is now declining.
	It is still unclear why this season's flu vaccine did not work better than it did.
	We're all gonna die!
	What?
	What?
	It's a new kid.
	Did you hear that?
	It's a new kid.
	I did.
	It's a new kid.
	It sounds good.
	We're all gonna die!
	That's the young Sheldon.
	Oh, interesting.
	Yeah.
	And with the what is good.
	You should combine that so it's just one clip.
	You don't have to do that.
	You don't have to jump through hoops.
	You like the combo.
	Oh, good.
	The combo worked.
	We're all going to die!
	What?
	Yeah, it's perfect.
	But you should clip it.
	Put it together.
	I think so.
	Okay.
	Now, she says at the end, it's uncertain.
	Wait, wait a minute.
	It would either be because they didn't have the right flus in the vaccine.
	They usually put four in there.
	Or something that they don't know?
	Now, of course, that missing CDC guy, the rumor is, and I think this could be implanted by the Russians, was that...
	And retweeted by bots.
	I believe it's possible.
	I've been following the story, but I could never really find the origin of he also worked on the flu vaccine.
	I could never find that.
	No, no, he never worked on the flu vaccine.
	What he said was he's treated flu victims who all died and they all coincidentally had the flu shot.
	He never said he worked on the vaccine.
	Okay, but do you have an origin for that story?
	No.
	No, me neither.
	Okay.
	That's why I didn't bring it to the party.
	That's why I said it could be Russians.
	Yeah, and they're Russian bots.
	But the guy has disappeared, and there seems to be a lot of dead people, and I don't know, did they all have the flu shot?
	Maybe the flu shot's got something in it that killed them?
	And then we have this at the end of Judy's report, where they say they don't know why the flu shot didn't work at all, which apparently it didn't.
	And there's also the stuff, do you remember we did all these flu shots?
	But hold on, hold on, let's just not gloss over that.
	The CDC and the government have made such an incredible stink about the flu shot.
	I mean, really...
	Well, that's what I'm saying.
	They're saying, if you remember...
	But I'm saying for her to just pass it off in 20 seconds...
	Yeah, I know she just drops it.
	When the message was, well, even if you had the flu, you should get the shot.
	Why are they telling you that?
	Because you need to get the neurotoxin.
	No, the transmitters.
	What do you call them?
	You dropped a joke, whatever it was.
	Yeah, but the nanobots.
	The nanobots.
	The nanobots.
	Yes.
	Cowbell.
	More cowbell.
	So I just found this whole situation to be odd.
	Well, so the flu vaccine was really rammed down our throats, rammed down the throats of many health workers who really wanted no part of it.
	They're smart.
	I don't want the government telling me what to inject into my body.
	I got a note from one of our producers in the state of Connecticut about a bill that is going through the SESH. Bill number 2016, an act concerning the prophylactic treatment of minors for sexually transmitted disease.
	And when you hear prophylactic, you think, ah, you know, condoms.
	But no, no.
	It says here, as used in this subsection, prophylactic means a medicine or course of action used to prevent disease.
	And this bill, if it passes, would, as here's the statement, any municipal health department, state institution or facility, licensed physician or public or private hospital or clinic may examine or provide treatment, including prophylactic treatment.
	For venereal sexually transmitted disease for a minor, if the physician or facility is qualified to provide such examination or treatment, the consent of the parents or guardian of the minor shall not be a prerequisite to the examination or the treatment, which would, of course, be Gardasil.
	The HPV shot.
	These guys have so much money that they're now getting a bill put through to specifically...
	What other prophylactic medical treatment is there?
	I never heard of one.
	HPV. Until you mentioned Gardazil.
	HPV, that's the only one.
	People in Connecticut, stop this insanity.
	Can't have the government telling you that they can just inspect your child and inject them with something if they feel like it?
	No, that's bad.
	Yeah.
	It's not just bad.
	To me, it's an outrage.
	Sounds like money's changing hands.
	And then two stories I got back to back.
	We've been hearing about men's sperm count dropping significantly.
	You have some ideas about that, I believe.
	I forgot what they were.
	But this is from...
	It came from Yahoo News.
	It was probably Newswire.
	Men's sperm counts are dropping.
	Scientists don't know why.
	Well, you had a theory about...
	We had a clip.
	we did if you play that clip I'll remind myself of the how about Siri would sperm be in the sperm I would hope no it's not in there that's not the one fertility and no no no we lose once again oh god we're losing our clips I have no idea.
	No idea.
	Well, anyway...
	Hackers.
	Russian hackers.
	No.
	I'll get back on that.
	You said it was some kind of pesticide?
	It was either pesticides or the oils or something along those lines.
	It was a pesticide.
	But it was the name of a pesticide.
	I can't believe you can't remember.
	I'm sorry.
	Okay.
	Well, the National Academy of Sciences, even though scientists apparently don't know why, nor do you, have done a study, and this was mind-boggling, it's going to change my behavior, ibuprofen alters human testicular physiology to produce a state of compensated hypogonadism.
	Huh.
	Something you definitely don't want is hypogonadism.
	No.
	Ibuprofen!
	Who knew?
	People take that stuff by the gallons.
	Yes!
	Yes!
	I always question when there's something that...
	You know, there's two things out there.
	There's the ibuprofen, and then there's the other stuff, which is Aleve, which is some hydroxide thing.
	And these two guys are competing with each other, and I always wonder if one of them is not dropping some of these.
	Let's do a study.
	Some of these stories, yeah.
	And then you always do it.
	You have something to do with your sexual...
	And you put that in there, that'll stop it.
	And then we have the other one.
	Why do you take too much of the other stuff?
	You have a heart attack.
	You take too much of this stuff, you...
	What exactly is...
	Okay, back to aspirin.
	Yeah.
	What exactly is hypogonadism?
	Hypo means that your balls shrink.
	Oh, they shrink?
	Yeah.
	Hyper means they get bigger.
	Right, right.
	Ooh.
	Hey, what happened to your balls?
	I don't know, man, but I've lost this headache.
	The headache's gone.
	I don't know.
	I think if I had a really splitting headache, I'd be like, shrink my balls!
	Just shrink them!
	We live in good times, everybody.
	Better living through chemistry.
	It happens right here.
	Lovely.
	Listen, that's another tip, by the way.
	Stop taking ibuprofen.
	You get from the show.
	Yeah, stop taking ibuprofen.
	Go back to aspirin.
	Yeah.
	I got one last serious topic clip.
	I like to follow the wars, the war on weed, the war on men, the war on crazy, the war on guns, the war on ammo.
	The war on water is raging.
	It's much further along than we realize, and it is in an important region.
	Ethiopia is undertaking a huge infrastructure project, a mega dam on the Nile River.
	It's a $4 billion development that Ethiopia sees as key to its future, but critics fear the dam could trigger a water war in Africa.
	Alistair, tell us first, why does Ethiopia want to build this dam?
	They want to build it because they want hydroelectricity.
	This is a dam that's going to create a huge amount of electricity.
	As the water flows through the dam, it will generate more electricity than any dam does currently in Africa.
	Ethiopia has huge ambition to try and become a middle-income country.
	It has ambition to put huge numbers of people to work, and it's doing that by trying to generate electricity.
	And that is why the dam is so important to them.
	There are some who do not believe that this will be a good project, that this dam makes sense for them, and Egypt is really what we're talking about.
	It is.
	It's complicated.
	You have these traditional old allies, Egypt and Sudan, who had a deal that they did many years ago, a treaty over how they dealt with the water.
	Sudan is now backing what Ethiopia is doing, because they will get cheap power.
	They won't have the kind of dramatic floods they have once the dam is in place.
	Egypt, though, is very concerned.
	They are running short of water.
	They see what Ethiopia is doing as a threat.
	The pharaohs used to say about Egypt that it was the gift of the Nile.
	They used to worship the river as a god.
	And they now see a country upstream with a big tap that, if they want to, they can turn off that river's flow.
	And that is what they're concerned about.
	So is there any chance the opponents will be able to stop the completion of the dam?
	No.
	The dam is essentially built.
	More is being done, but it is already crossing the Nile.
	It's about diplomacy.
	It's about trying to bring these countries, these three countries in the Blue Nile together.
	To have a diplomatic solution to what could be a very serious problem.
	People talk about the first war about water and people are very concerned that this could happen on the Nile if these countries don't get together.
	Egypt has had control politically of the Nile for millennia and suddenly Ethiopia has now come along.
	In the middle of the Arab Spring they started building this dam.
	Now, they can, if they want to, control the flow.
	They say that's not what it's about.
	It's about trying to generate power to help them develop as a country.
	Egypt is very suspicious, and that's the problem.
	I think we're going to see some massive shit go down.
	Yeah, sounds like it.
	And, of course, you know, who's building all this stuff?
	The Chiners?
	Of course!
	Well, it's an Italian construction firm, so it's kind of obfuscated.
	But yeah, the Chinese.
	I think I told you about the two Uber drivers from Ethiopia.
	We have quite a number of them here in Austin for some reason.
	It's a community.
	Yeah, you told a story about where a guy's head's whipped around when you said the Chinese.
	Yes, the Chinese.
	And so I spoke to this other guy, then he says, you know, they're really integrating, because now we know that they're there, we know they're building roads, hospitals, etc., pipelines, trains, roads, dams, everything.
	But are they keeping it themselves?
	Are they integrating?
	No, no.
	They're all marrying Ethiopian girls.
	So they can get...
	That's different than the old story from a decade ago.
	Yeah.
	Well, this is the story now.
	They're marrying Ethiopian women, having kids, so they are assured of residency, and they integrate fine.
	He says, you know, they own everything, they run everything, they've taken over the country, but they integrate pretty well.
	Yeah.
	That's good.
	Yeah.
	Well, this has some good Chinese restaurants.
	That, I can assure you.
	Um...
	Just as a minor aside, iHeartRadio might declare bankruptcy today or tomorrow.
	Oh.
	I've been tracking it, as you know.
	They skipped their most recent payment, $100 million payment.
	Oops.
	And I think SiriusXM is now offering to buy them $1.16 billion in cash, which is, I mean, that's really pennies to the dollar.
	But it'll be interesting to see.
	There's tens of thousands of people who are very nervous this weekend who work in radio at the iHeart stations.
	Well, they're not going to shut the stations down.
	Eventually they'll have to.
	If they can't pay for it, yeah, of course they will.
	I mean, they're going to have to have some kind of sale, but, I mean, Sirius XM, if they bought it, then they're going to, I don't know, what are they going to do?
	It's a losing business, especially after the Bain Capital, thank you, Mitt, everyone raped the company.
	That's what, yeah, a lot of these guys do.
	Yeah.
	Bring it in, buy it up, rape it.
	Go podcasting!
	And then kick it.
	Kick it back to the curb.
	That's right.
	Where people should be pooping, by the way.
	Yeah.
	Only in San Francisco.
	I know you gotta go, John.
	Yeah, I do.
	I only have one clip, two clips.
	I can put these clips up to the Thursday show.
	Give us a fun one to leave with.
	I don't have a fun one.
	I do have Richard Engel floating around the world and is...
	You know, looking for Russian ships.
	Yeah, let me see.
	Going back to the trade store, I got Wilbur Ross.
	Wilbur is talking about how it's all good.
	It's all good.
	He's our commerce secretary who's always kind of cracks me up.
	Let's play his clip.
	On CNBC today, his commerce secretary, Wilbur Ross, defended the decision.
	If we aren't the least protectionist major country in the world, please tell me who is.
	So what's really been going on is the other countries have been picking away at us, dumping materials in here, subsidizing their industries, and we haven't been fighting back.
	But there was opposition building here at home, including among some Republicans.
	In a statement, Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse called the policy kooky 18th century protectionism that will jack up prices on American families and kill American jobs.
	That's what every trade war ultimately does.
	Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, who's been a dependable ally of the president, joined a GOP backlash.
	He said it would lead to the exact opposite outcome of the administration's stated objective, which is to protect American jobs.
	President Trump is expected to formally sign his tariff decision next week.
	He has not yet announced which countries will be named and which would be exempted.
	Worries about trade wars and interest rates sent Wall Street on more sharp swings.
	The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell nearly 400 points before rebounding.
	It finished with a loss of 71 points to close at 24,538.
	Meh.
	Meh.
	I agree.
	Kind of meh.
	Ben Sasse is a notorious anti-Trumper, so he doesn't even count.
	So there you go.
	So it's all bullcrap.
	We'll just see what happens.
	By next Thursday we'll know.
	Yes, and we'll also know who walked away with the best movie Oscar.
	Go Woke!
	Get Out for Go Woke.
	Go Woke for Get Out.
	It's not going to happen.
	No, we'll see.
	All right, everybody.
	The second half of your bi-weekly media deconstruction is over.
	We do have some fun little ditties for the end of show.
	And we'll be back on Thursday.
	Looking forward to that.
	It is a show day.
	You never know what can happen.
	Maybe we'll find out if someone pays $10 million for Hope Hicks' diary.
	But for sure I'll be here in FEMA Region 6, downtown Austin, Tejas, capital of the Drone Star State, in the 5x9 Cludio in the Common Law Condo.
	Until next Thursday in the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where it's turned out to be a nice day, After some rain the other day, that's what happened.
	Somebody complained about me just talking about the weather.
	So I'll stop.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	We return on Thursday right here.
	No agenda.
	Until then, adios, mofos.
	Adios.
	Adios. Adios. Adios.
	That you are a douche Send a little cash.
	When I saw your nickname, and your service guilt, I swore then and there, To send the guys a note.
	You said other podcasts are blind.
	That alone fills me with...
	Um, could you keep your goat quiet, please, mate?
	Douchebag, freeloader, listening for free.
	Relying on the rest of us to keep you from Dimanche B.
	Wiseness and registration.
	please, sir.
	Uh, what seems to be the matter?
	You do know it's Mardi Gras week, don't you?
	Uh, yeah.
	And you saw the pride parade in front of you, didn't you?
	Well, I followed the signs and I turned left.
	Yes, but you failed to virtue signal.
	You failed to virtue.
	You failed to virtue.
	You failed to virtue. You failed to virtue. You failed to virtue. You failed to virtue.
	He's playing a character.
	He's a performance artist.
	You know, I am an actor.
	Hutter, hutter, hutter, the house is rather hutter, the house is rather every excited.
	We're straddling, bro.
	Yeah, we're straddling.
	Stay woke!
	The light of those poor children.
	Stay woke!
	Do you know this guy?
	It's a psychopathic ideology that is very absolutist.
	That either you are against us or against us.
	And the long-term view is that in billions of years, the sun is going to actually grow and encompass the earth, right?
	How long?
	Yeah.
	It's been like a live colonoscopy on television.
	Stay woke!
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