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	Adam Curry, John C. Devorak.
	And it's Sunday, April 1st, 2018.
	This is your award-winning Gimbo Nation Media Assassination, Episode 1021.
	This is no agenda.
	Celebrating bloody eggs and a folly of fools and broadcasting live from the capital of the drone star state here in downtown Austin, Tejas, in the Cudio, in the morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, I'm here to wish you all a happy Easter.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	It's Crackpot and Buzzkill!
	In the morning!
	Yes, and thank you for that fine explanation of parts of Easter.
	Yes, I gave that in the newsletter, of course.
	Yes, yes.
	I didn't realize that the egg thing came from the rebirth of life, yes, but the painting of the egg was to signify blood on the egg?
	The blood of Christ.
	The blood of Christ, yes.
	Not just any blood, the blood of Christ.
	But you couldn't expand on the hunt or the roll.
	I don't know the origin of the Easter roll, and the egg hunt is just some methodology to harass children, I think.
	Oh, isn't it like you're looking for the body of Christ who's behind the stones?
	That's a funny interpretation.
	I mean, could be.
	Isn't that where he was stored, behind the stones?
	It was, yes, kind of in a cave.
	Right.
	With a bunch of big rocks in front of it.
	That's what I remember.
	Yeah, right.
	Big rocks.
	Big rocks.
	All right.
	Well, happy Easter, John.
	They must have suspected something or they wouldn't have put the rocks down.
	Hey, that guy's no good.
	He's going to try and get out.
	Put some rocks in.
	Yes.
	Well, Happy Easter.
	You know, my mom, I was talking with my sisters about this, and I don't know if anyone still does this.
	On Easter, and we certainly were not church-going people, except for this stupid Unitarian stuff.
	Unitarian?
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Who's a Unitarian?
	My parents.
	Really?
	Yeah, but for a while.
	I thought Unitarians would be quite interesting.
	For one thing, they don't believe in the Trinity.
	That's why they're called Unitarians.
	You mean the Father, the Son, the Holy Ghost?
	The Father, the Son, the Holy Ghost Trinity?
	Yes, that Trinity.
	All right.
	And...
	And they're always the radical, most activist of the Christian-style churches.
	Yeah, well, I'll tell you the story one more time of what turned me off so much about the Unitarian Church.
	When we moved to the Netherlands...
	Those are 10 Unitarian donors, but go on.
	I'm just telling you what turned me off.
	When we moved to the Netherlands, my parents then sought out fellow expats...
	And they formed their own little Unitarian church, and we met Sundays at people's homes.
	So we'd be dragged along, and we've got to go find the de Monk Kaisers.
	Okay, fine.
	All right.
	And their kids are kind of weird.
	Yeah, but you'll have a good time.
	No.
	Okay.
	And then one time, we had to get up at the crack of dawn.
	No, actually, at 3 a.m.
	to go drive a few hours to go up on a hill because there's no mountains in the Netherlands.
	And we all sat there and watched the sun rise.
	And on a little portable cassette player, they played Cat Stevens' Morning Has Broken.
	He's a Muslim.
	He was still Cat Stevens then.
	Maybe a Muslim.
	I don't know.
	Maybe it was a secret Muslim indoctrination.
	I don't know.
	But anyway, I forgot what I was going to say.
	Oh, yes.
	What my mom would do for Easter, there we go, is she would make sugar eggs.
	Have you ever seen these?
	And she had molds, and they'd be probably as big as a Nerf football, and it would be hollow inside, and she'd decorate it.
	Wow, that's big.
	She'd decorate it with cake frosting, and there'd be an opening in the egg, and there'd be a little thing inside there, sometimes a little scene of stuff.
	A little Jesus?
	That's pretty elaborate.
	Yeah!
	Jesus must have been bored stiff.
	Yeah, I guess.
	They were not for eating.
	They were for staying away from!
	Of course, for decorations.
	If it falls, it'll break and it'll be bad!
	One drop of water, collapse the thing.
	Is that a practice that is still done?
	I never heard of it.
	I'm sure one of our producers will say, oh yes, I recall this.
	Oh, we have a lot of Dutch.
	It's not Dutch, John.
	My mom's American.
	I don't know.
	What are you talking about?
	It sounded Dutch.
	Aren't the Dutch all Lutherans?
	Protestant.
	Lutheran.
	I don't know.
	Protestants is a general term.
	I don't know.
	I don't know if they're all Lutheran.
	I really don't.
	I have no idea.
	Okay.
	All right.
	That's a religious moment for the Millicent Show.
	There you go.
	We do this every year on Easter.
	That's right.
	Easter is solved once again.
	Well done, John.
	Thanks for everything.
	Excellent work.
	The rest of the newsletter was funny.
	Yeah, there's some good stuff in there.
	Yeah, people should subscribe to that.
	Any No Agenda page, whether it's noagendashow.com or nashownotes.com or any of the individual archive pages, there's always a link to sign up to the newsletter.
	It is very entertaining, and it reminds you to listen to the show.
	Yes, it also reminds you of how crazy things are.
	I do, on the newsletter, I tend to...
	I accumulate the weekly weird pics and memes found on the internet, and I put them in the newsletter.
	Including the guy who says, deport Californians from Austin.
	I had nothing to do with it.
	I had nothing to do with that, but yes.
	Yeah, sure.
	It was sent in by a No Agenda guy, I think in Austin, and I think it was staged.
	Possibly.
	That was good, though.
	I like that one.
	Well, since we're talking about that, this is actually a holdover from Thursday's show.
	We have talked about it, but the actual clip was eluding me until I got the California Exodus.
	And we can see that the Exodus is real and large by the number of one-way rentals for U-Haul.
	Oh, yes.
	That would be one way of telling.
	Actually, one-way rentals from U-Haul...
	Not just to Austin, but to anywhere is way up in California.
	Yeah, there's a number of places in this clip.
	If you think living in the Bay Area is expensive, try leaving it.
	Everywhere you look, there are signs people are fleeing the region's sky-high housing prices.
	For instance, U-Haul.
	U-Haul trucks are leaving in droves, taking one-way trips out and not coming back.
	A quick glance at pricing shows where the outflow is going.
	We check reservations for next weekend, beginning and ending in San Jose, for U-Haul's biggest truck, a 26-footer, and found a huge difference in price.
	A truck from Sacramento to San Jose is $110, but go the other way from San Jose to Sacramento, and the price jumps to $370.
	That's 340% of the cost going the other way.
	How about Austin to San Jose?
	1,053 going the other way is 4,320 or 400% of the cost.
	Phoenix, $132 versus 1,301, 980%.
	And finally, a truck from Las Vegas to San Jose costs only $132, but go the other way and it's nearly $2,000.
	That's a 1,500% difference.
	Customers we talked to in San Jose were not surprised.
	People leaving in droves.
	Yeah.
	Do you blame them?
	I've had some family leave.
	Not really.
	It's getting expensive out here.
	By the way, North American Van Line says for the first time, California is among the top five states that people are leaving, with 60% of the moves involving the state going out versus 40% of people moving in.
	Build a wall.
	Build a wall.
	So, well, it looks like Vegas is where everyone's going.
	Yeah, Nevada.
	That's right.
	That's cheap.
	Well, there's a couple of reasons.
	It's cheap.
	No tax.
	No income tax.
	There's no income tax.
	Sales tax is low.
	Lots of hookers.
	Lots of hookers and places crawling.
	Yeah.
	And opportunity.
	Well, the opportunity is dubious.
	I mean, I don't know what you can do in Reno.
	Become a hooker.
	Hello.
	Hello.
	Yeah, you can become a hooker.
	That's about it.
	My wife's from Reno.
	I didn't know that.
	It's interesting.
	We know Nevada pretty well.
	I know Las Vegas a lot better than she does because I used to have to go there constantly.
	It's kind of grim, I think, overall.
	I mean, I would move to the There's a little place on the border like Zephyr Cove, which is pretty much filled with rich Silicon Valley expats who are making millions of dollars a year, and they're not going to pay the taxes, the state income taxes.
	And they keep an eye on you, and in fact, the state...
	It does keep an eye on you.
	They spy on anybody who's...
	It's almost like a cult if you're a Californian.
	I was working with some guy who was a fixer.
	A fixer?
	I've kept his name, too.
	Wait a minute.
	A fixer of what?
	A dead body in the back of the trunk or something like that?
	I don't know how far he goes, but he's one of those guys.
	And he was working with a guy who had...
	He had a windfall of, I don't know, $20 or $30 million.
	And he was living in Las Vegas.
	And they were trying to...
	I think he just showed up in California for a few weeks.
	And the state was trying to nick him.
	And it was really quite an ordeal.
	And I know other people.
	You'll get a call from these guys.
	Hey, do you know so-and-so?
	I'm an investigator with this franchise tax board on the...
	And it goes on about some...
	I started asking a question to you.
	How often have you seen him?
	Have you seen him...
	You've seen this guy...
	What do you think?
	Every month?
	Really?
	When's he in town?
	It was the Gestapo tactics.
	What's that about?
	Oh, yeah.
	I've had that from both...
	I've also had that from the federal government.
	The federal government called me once about a guy who was a Brit.
	And they're trying to stick him with income tax.
	And they were grilling me about how often you know when he's in this country?
	Do you have any idea when it's the last time you saw him?
	They go on and on.
	I don't know how many people are on these lists, but they call you up and start grilling you about, you know, whatever you know.
	You don't have to answer those questions, though, do you?
	You say, buzz off, yo?
	I don't know.
	It's hard to say.
	So you're a narc.
	You're a narc.
	You're like, sure, I know all about him.
	You're a narc.
	It's like you don't...
	I don't know if you have a choice, but whatever you do...
	I don't know much.
	As you know, I rarely leave the house.
	So I don't know if this guy's in the state all the time.
	I don't know.
	I've been here collecting stuff.
	I don't know.
	Is it a Monday?
	By the way, San Diego has finally taken some of our advice, although it didn't get us in on the deal.
	Damn it.
	They have put up these huge tents for the homeless.
	324 people in each tent.
	What?
	Sounds like an army barracks from World War I. It's quoted as an industrial-sized tent.
	This has been put up by some of the wealthy citizens of San Diego who say, well, while you're figuring out the problem, we're going to do something about it.
	And so they've set up, this is the first of a couple of tents.
	I think they put up a million and a half dollars.
	Here's the thing, though.
	Besides there being 324 people in each tent, which looks really nice on the outside, the inside is organized.
	You know, it has bunk beds.
	But you have 324 people and also 70, 7-0 dogs.
	That doesn't seem like a great situation.
	70 dogs, well, not unless they're in the same dog pack, but it seems unlikely.
	I'm sure it's unlikely.
	I don't know, 70 dogs.
	Well, it must be huge.
	Yeah, it has doors, you know, proper doors that swing open.
	It's kind of like one of those, it looks like a flattened version of one of those indoor tennis court tent structures.
	Very similar to that, yeah.
	So, I guess that's one way to solve the problem.
	Just put them all in a nice, something that looks nice on the outside.
	Yeah, fixed.
	My work is done here.
	No more problems with the homelessness.
	Where are they pooping?
	I don't know.
	I don't know if they have poop facilities.
	Let me see.
	They have to.
	They must have some.
	Yeah, they must have some.
	How many 300 people and 70 dogs?
	You need...
	Big lawn for the dogs, and you probably need quite a few porta-potties.
	They'd have to be aligned.
	Yes, they would.
	Instead of porta-potties, you should have some singular facility, one of those, like a trough.
	Like they used to have in the drive-in theaters.
	In the old bars.
	Tons of bars still have a trough.
	In Texas they do, for sure.
	Do they?
	I haven't seen a trough in years.
	I don't like the trough.
	Nobody likes the trough.
	It's not really a fun thing.
	A bunch of dudes peeing in a trough.
	Weird.
	It's not fun.
	All drive-in theaters in California had a trough.
	Drive-in theater?
	Hmm.
	How about for the ladies, though?
	Did they have to hover the trough?
	I don't know.
	I never went to the ladies' bathroom.
	I have no idea.
	Hover the trough, ladies!
	And it was always made out of tin or some sort of steel.
	No, the bent material.
	Bent.
	And soldered.
	Hmm.
	Yeah, well, yeah.
	We're seeing it now in Austin.
	We've got tents everywhere now.
	Tent cities starting to crop up.
	It's happening here.
	Thank you, California, for bringing that to us.
	Somebody who makes $2 a ton and invests in some tent companies.
	Hello!
	We came up with this idea months ago.
	This has been getting worse since the day of Hands Across America.
	That's triggered it.
	That was the actual signal to go.
	All right, everybody, let's get homeless!
	Yeah.
	It's crazy.
	Mark Hall, our producer here.
	Nobody should redo that song, Let's Get Social, to Let's Get Homeless.
	Let's Get Homeless.
	In California.
	Perfect.
	I hear Chris Wilson awakening in Australia as we speak.
	And now I'm going to have to play Let's Get Social at the end of the show.
	Darn it.
	Well, speaking of Let's Get Social...
	Here, let me start off with something that gets you going.
	Alright.
	Do you have the old drunk or not drunk jingle?
	Yeah, I can find that, I'm sure.
	Do you want me to play this before the...
	Yes, I want you to play that, yeah.
	Okay, here we go.
	Drunk or not drunk.
	Now play my clip.
	Colbert.
	Colbert.
	Drunk or not drunk.
	Ah yes, okay.
	Ladies and gentlemen, I'm your host Stephen Colbert.
	Today, in case you haven't seen it, the president was in Ohio.
	He was in Ohio talking about infrastructure.
	Check your calendars.
	It is always infrastructure week.
	Talking about construction brought back some happy Trump memories.
	He does sound a little loose, looser than usual.
	Well, he says infrastructure.
	Infrastructure.
	Yeah, he said infrastructure.
	But the thing, I think the real trigger to me, first of all, he comes running out in a very awkward way, almost kills himself.
	Yeah.
	And then is just slap happy.
	And then it's the way he said, first he says infrastructure, and then he says it again.
	Mispronouncing it, infrastructure, and then it's...
	And so he said the second time, so he's trying to correct himself.
	When he comes back again later, I didn't clip this, but he's trying to say infrastructure under his breath.
	But it's the way he says Ohio.
	Oh, okay.
	He also does it twice.
	He says Ohio, and then he says...
	And Ohio is very subtle, and you really have to listen hard to hear him go...
	Ohio.
	It's just this very strange, like, I can barely see it.
	Let's listen to that bit again.
	He was in Ohio, talking about infrastructure.
	Check your calendars.
	It is always infrastructure week.
	Talking about construction brought back some happy Trump memories.
	And construction.
	Yeah, he switched construction a little.
	By the way, he's wrong.
	He pulls himself together, by the way.
	Yeah, but he's wrong because it's Ford Truck Month.
	There's no time for infrastructure week during Ford Truck Month, so he's just wrong on the face of it.
	That's the writer's fault.
	It's always a truck month, and it happens to be Ford's turn.
	I know, because I'm in Texas.
	That's what we do here.
	We track that stuff.
	But, we were talking about, let's getting social, and I realized kind of over the weekend, you know, I have, even though I went all in on all of the talking tubes, the listening devices, getting everything going, I don't care, let's see how we do,
	I'm getting a little irked about a number of things, and there's a Just like Tesla, where there's conflagration between autonomous driving and battery cars, when it comes to the social nets, we have issues with pure tracking and privacy and what is being done with your information.
	And I think it was when Facebag announced that they were no longer going to sell their data to Equifax...
	I think that's where I went, oh, hmm, okay, now it makes, we're in an episode of Black Mirror, basically, where your information is passed through, that they have all your purchase history, now they can connect everything, and they give you a FICO score based upon that.
	Or it could influence your FICO score, and we know that a high FICO score with no trusted traveler number, such as Tina the Keeper, gets both of us pre-checked.
	Is it FICO or FICA? I thought it was FICO. Isn't it FICO score?
	I could be wrong.
	I thought it was FICO score.
	No, it's FICA. No, FICA is like that crazy tax you pay.
	Could be.
	I'm consulting the book of knowledge.
	I'm thinking of RICO. No, it's FICO. It should be RICO, because those guys should be in jail.
	Originally, Fair Isaac and Company was the data analytics company based in San Jose.
	Is that right?
	That's what I'm reading in the Book of Knowledge, yeah.
	Well, that's interesting.
	Yeah, let's see.
	The Fair Isaac Corporation, data analytics company in San Francisco, San Jose, California, focused on credit scoring services was founded by Bill Fair and Earl Isaac in 1956.
	Its FICO score, a measure of consumer credit risk, has become a fixture of consumer lending in the United States.
	When did it become a fixture?
	Or as Colbert would say, fixture.
	When would it become a fixture?
	You know, that's kind of a book that someone, like the guy who wrote The Creature from Jekyll Island, he should write a book about when that became a credit scoring system.
	It's almost like I remember the days of the transition from the record store to the CD store.
	And Tower Records in Berkeley was one of the big part of the giant chain that dissolved.
	It was a big record store, huge record store.
	And CDs had come out and they were doing quite well and everybody was very slowly switching to them for a number of good reasons.
	And I went into Tower Records.
	One day, and the whole story had changed completely from all records to all CDs, completely switched to 100%.
	It was like, what happened?
	Right.
	And that was one of the biggest problems with the switchover, was that all retail outlets had to change their bins.
	That was one of the biggest issues.
	They thought they had problems.
	This is horrible, this new format, this digital stuff.
	We have to have new bins.
	Right.
	Remember that?
	They were like, you know, dude, you got other problems besides the bins.
	I don't remember them bitching about it, but I do remember them changing.
	The bins are the least of your problems, my friend.
	That's not...
	Okay, here's the...
	According to FICO.com, they have a nice little pictorial of their history.
	1956, engineer Bill Fair and mathematician Earl Isaac found FICO with an initial investment of $400 each on the principle that data used intelligently can improve business decisions.
	And then they have 1958, FICO builds its first credit scoring system for American investments.
	And they show the original conference room, which was a couch.
	1961, FICO moves headquarters from San Francisco's financial district to San Rafael.
	In 1972, ASAP, the first automated application processing system, debuted at Wells Fargo.
	So I think that's where it started.
	And then...
	What year was that?
	That was 72.
	Then on December 29, 1976, the 500th document was entered through a CRT terminal.
	This milestone was reached by the combined efforts of the Data Reduction and Data Acquisition Department.
	The Fair Isaac employees decided to sign the milestone achievement.
	I have no idea what that's about.
	Then 81...
	Okay, the 81...
	They introduced the first FICO credit bureau risk score, then 82, this is interesting, they opened their first European office in Monaco.
	And then they went public in 87.
	Well, it was in the 80s at some point where this became the big deal.
	You couldn't, because I remember, I'm old enough to remember getting loans and buying things and doing all these things without dealing with FICO. I'm sorry, and I have to correct something.
	It's not Equifax that received the data from FaceBag, but Experian.
	Okay.
	Which is the actual Experian FICO company.
	Yeah, that's what you need.
	That's what you need to be on a social network and they're just feeding data into a credit operation so you can be judged.
	Yeah.
	You can be judged by the number of drunken pictures of yourself that you post showing how cool you are.
	So that's part of it.
	That's part of it.
	And I think for me, when I opened up my history and I looked in all of that and I scolded myself for some of the unsafe behavior I'd partaken or taken part in, such as clicking on things that were sponsored.
	This is dumb.
	But it reminded me...
	We talked about involuntary social network disorder, about the problems that these networks are creating.
	I think I actually at some point said, crap, maybe there's no alternative to the face bag because people don't actually want it.
	It's a me-too thing.
	It's a social pressure.
	You don't exist if you don't have a bag account.
	If you're a kid, you don't exist if you don't have an Insta.
	But in 20...
	I want to say this was 2016?
	No, 2014.
	And we discussed this on the show.
	There was a little bit of like a minor brouhaha about Facebook allowing a psychological study on about half a million users to see if how their feed was manipulated would actually influence their emotional expression.
	Yes.
	We did discuss this.
	This was fascinating.
	It's good that you brought it back.
	Yeah, and I read through it again, and it's in the PNAS, so it's accepted as something that is good.
	I don't know if it's ever been reproduced.
	I don't know.
	Good is the right word.
	Valid.
	Thank you.
	That's the word I'm looking for.
	Valid.
	And what it was about was contagion.
	Emotional contagion.
	And so, I don't have to read this thing to you.
	It's only a couple of pages.
	But the emotional contagion And I just want to explain that because I did some work over the weekend.
	There was a story I recall also a few years back where they thought that the whole airplane had been poisoned and one lady starts puking and other passengers start puking, although no one was really poisoned.
	But the contagion is so real that people take that on.
	It used to be called mass hysteria.
	Yeah, it's a form of extreme empathy, I think.
	And so that is something that's – there are several – not that example, but there are other examples of contagion referenced in the study.
	And, you know, they did a very simple experiment and they used, you know, one of those – something that professor here at UT who did the performatives, you know, as a word counter and you can – Say, okay, this paragraph is 70% negative or 70% positive.
	And so they ran a lot of this stuff.
	They only did it for a week.
	And they ran the stuff through their generator.
	And then the way they experimented is they gave people in this study group 70% positive versus 30% negative.
	And, of course, they also switched it around, and they saw an exact correlation in the opposite direction.
	So if they had – or in the same direction, I'm sorry.
	So if they had more positive emotional posts – and this is not interaction.
	This is not commenting.
	This is just in your news feed, then people would start to post more positive things themselves.
	And conversely, if they saw negative stuff, then they would also start to post negative emotional entries.
	With a couple of notable exceptions, although I don't think they didn't have enough of a sample of this, but if they had just an extreme amount of positive...
	The person who receives that in their news feed would start to feel less positive about themselves and would start to post more negativity.
	So it's kind of what you'd expect.
	The big eye-opener for me is that when it's kind of balanced, if it's, you know, like 50% positive, 50% negative, people stop posting.
	And so I'm pretty sure that if there's any manipulation, and there is, of course, of the face bag feed, it's to make sure that it's never too neutral.
	It has to have positive or negative, otherwise people stop interacting.
	And I thought that was an interesting...
	That's interesting, indeed.
	And then another thing, and I don't think I have the marked up copy, but they talk about the half a million people who were chosen for this study.
	There are a number of ways that they have a number of criteria they had to adhere to, and they were not told about it.
	And they cite specifically in the study that upon signing up to Facebook, you give express consent to this type of activity.
	Therefore, it was not illegal, no one's rights were, you know, there was no issue with what they did.
	And this is 2014.
	Of course.
	I think when you get a subscription to Office 365, they have the same thing they can do to you.
	Whatever you do because of these EULAs.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	And this is what people are now somehow just discovering.
	Oh, wait a minute.
	We can do all this stuff?
	So, you know, I've been thinking about some changes I want to make.
	And...
	The first one is, the thing that freaked me out is that the face bag knew where I was.
	I have location services turned off.
	It knew where I was.
	It knew I was in a whole different spot.
	I don't care, but I don't want to contribute to that.
	And so I'm really going to trim down when I leave the house.
	I really don't want to have any tracking devices.
	Hold on, stop, stop.
	You said, I'm hearing this is deja vu.
	Either that or I dreamt it.
	It's deja vu.
	You had a similar theory and you weren't going to bring your phone with you.
	It's too bad if you can't get a hold of me.
	You told me this like two years ago.
	No longer.
	Oh no, much longer than that.
	About two years ago when I figured out you can't date without a smartphone is when I went back.
	You remember?
	It was important.
	You can't get an Uber.
	You can't reserve a restaurant.
	You can't get on Tinder.
	Hello?
	Don't you remember this?
	Oh yeah, you can't get on Tinder.
	And at the same time, I had lost my phone at the Yellow Rose, my Nokia, my coveted Nokia.
	Oh, the coveted Nokia.
	So that's when I went back and then I decided to go all in for the show, of course.
	And now I'm starting to turn that back.
	I already don't interact on social networks.
	I'm protected against that because of just learning and doing the show.
	We know what to do and what not to do.
	But here's what I've done.
	Obviously, I need to be able to get some kind of at least an email or a text message or something if someone needs to get a hold of me and other things can be scripted.
	I just need some kind of device that I can receive something.
	In the past, I've tried...
	Actually, you've used APRS. I have an idea.
	Okay.
	Pager.
	Get yourself an old pager.
	I think those systems are still in place.
	Hello?
	I just ordered a pager.
	And what I ordered was the T900 from Motorola.
	Or a beeper.
	You used to call them a beeper.
	Now, listen.
	I ordered the two-way pager from Motorola, which I had back in the day, which has...
	You had one?
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	Were you a doctor?
	Were you a dentist?
	Were you on call?
	What was the deal?
	I was running a technology department for 700 people.
	So, yeah, I had a pager, and this is really before...
	We had the flip phones, the flip phones.
	Flip phones, StarTech.
	So, what I don't want is a phone.
	I'm not going to take anything that is a phone.
	I don't want to connect to the mobile network.
	Now, this is a different network that they use, and I'm sure you can...
	At some point, triangulate, but you can also just keep this thing off and then turn it on.
	You get your messages and turn it off again.
	It's going to be a hell of a lot harder to track.
	And really, it's the phone with all the apps.
	That's the problem.
	And the phone being tracked by the cell tower.
	So I ordered one of those, and then I found my old iPod Touch, which still runs iOS 9.3.5.
	I completely wiped it.
	I set it up.
	No connections to iCloud.
	No stupid apps.
	All it has is it can connect to Wi-Fi.
	Are you running from the law?
	Is there something you're not telling me?
	You know, there's a couple of things that have happened in my life recently.
	And if some officials had been able to know where I was at that specific moment, it might not have been exactly that way.
	Okay.
	Does that make sense?
	You are running from the law.
	It's good.
	Good to know.
	I'm not really running from it.
	I'm just trying to avoid any issues.
	I mean, everybody has something to hide somewhere for some reason.
	Just quit Facebook and you'd be fine.
	No, but I'm not taking any of that on the road.
	I can't quit Facebook because of the show.
	And it's bad, by the way.
	So there's one computer where the face bag is used and where tweeters are used.
	And I think that if I need to get on and get email, I can boot up the iPod Touch.
	I can connect to a Wi-Fi, McDonald's or whatever, and I can get stuff.
	But yeah, the pager.
	The 2A Motorola T900 pager is where I'm going to be.
	And you can SMS text from it.
	People think I'm a crackpot.
	You're going to have a page.
	Wait a minute.
	Hold on.
	Is it going to be hanging?
	Is it going to have one of those little belt loops?
	Holster.
	Oh, yeah.
	Is it going to have a holster?
	Look at it.
	This is the flip-up one with a little keyboard.
	Remember that one?
	I don't want to even see it.
	It's got a keyboard?
	That's kind of cool.
	Yeah, it has an alphanumeric keyboard.
	And I think it displays four or five lines of text.
	Okay, let's stop.
	Let's get practical.
	I think we've heard enough of this.
	But let's get practical.
	Let me ask you a couple of questions.
	Mm-hmm.
	How do I get a hold of you now?
	You can send me an email to adamatkurry.com and all email from John C. Dvorak will ping my pager.
	Ah.
	Now, if I wanted to normally, like when the newsletter goes to you for approval...
	Yeah.
	I send you a text message.
	You will also be able to text the pager.
	It has a number you can call and leave a voice message and you can send an SMS text to it.
	Okay, good.
	That's all I need to know.
	I don't care about the rest.
	Who gives a shit about everything else?
	That's all I care about.
	Because that's really it.
	I just want to be able to be in touch with people I love, including you, John.
	Okay, stop.
	Let me get another question.
	Okay.
	So you're out with your pager and your little holster and your little slide roll and whatever else you carry around your belt.
	And you need to get an Uber.
	Yes.
	What do you do?
	What do you do?
	I can go to a Starbucks and connect to my phone.
	My iPod Touch, I mean.
	And in that case, I could actually download the Uber app if I wanted to.
	But really, if I'm out and about, I don't need an Uber.
	So if you're...
	So you can use...
	I'm going to use less Uber.
	So you think that iPod Touch actually works.
	So I remember this.
	But hold on.
	I remember this era.
	The iPod Touch came on.
	It was like kind of the alternative to the iPhone.
	No, it was before the iPhone.
	It was the original vision that Jobs had.
	Even when the iPhone came out, it was seen as a cheap alternative because you didn't have to.
	If you remember when the iPhone came out, you had to get an AT&T account that cost, I think, $40,000 a year.
	And it was like it had documents that were like the size of the Manhattan phone directory.
	You had to sign off to have the iPhone.
	That's all the trouble.
	And so people were using the iPad touch or iPod touch as an alternative methodology because you could do a lot of the same things.
	Yes, correct.
	Correct.
	So you're going to actually go back.
	You're reverting.
	Yes, I'm retro.
	Huh.
	Yeah, I am reverting.
	I have to.
	And Uber, I don't want Uber either.
	I mean, Uber will send you a receipt and it shows your exact trip.
	It sends you a little map.
	Their business is selling data.
	They sell their data.
	That's in the EULA. We know they do, because Austin kicked them out, because they said, we're not going to give it to you for free, and then they cut some backroom deal, and now they're giving traffic patterns, blah, blah, blah, anonymized, blah, blah, blah.
	You get solicited by the agency or anything, and they're trying to...
	I wish.
	You're doing some work for them, for McDo?
	Yeah.
	Anyway.
	They don't pay well, so forget that.
	And then as one additional, in case of massive emergency, I have the Wi-Fi hotspot with a burner data card, a burner SIM card.
	But, you know, you are connecting to the cell network when you do that.
	We now know if it's one day the show's just got me trying to hang on for dear life, it'll be about a 30-minute show, Max.
	Well, no, you can make it an hour.
	No, you can do an hour.
	Do an hour if you play the recorder.
	Yes.
	I'll start off with a medley of my hits.
	Wait for the encore.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, so I'm really not happy with...
	I mean, Professor Ted would be laughing his ass off, of course.
	But it's...
	When you really look at the depth, and now, of course, Google is also saying, oh, look, you can see all the stuff that we have on you.
	I think people do exactly what your daughter Jay did.
	Like, hey, yeah, let me look at the photos.
	Let me see.
	Oh, I'm looking for a photo I deleted.
	Maybe it's still there.
	No actual concern about anything.
	About anything.
	But meanwhile...
	They're raised that way.
	Meanwhile, you know, if you want...
	More frequently, I was reading, if you...
	Today, if you want to buy a house and you want to get a mortgage, and there's your FICO connection again, well, if you have any student loans, no, no, no, no.
	Your equity-to-debt ratio is just going to be, you know, off the scale.
	So you already have...
	You already are paying a mortgage.
	Yeah.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	A mortgage on...
	I don't know.
	On nothing.
	You got scammed, kid.
	Your liberal arts degree.
	Well, I'm distressed by this.
	I'm distressed.
	It's taking the show into a dark area.
	It's Easter.
	It's Easter.
	It's the resurrection.
	You should be resurrecting yourself.
	No, man.
	You're burying yourself.
	You're putting yourself in the cave.
	Move those stones in front of the entrance.
	I want to...
	No, please.
	So, this is the start.
	Can I suggest something?
	Yeah, go ahead.
	E-book, a giblet.
	How I Got Off the Grid by Adam Curry.
	Nice.
	How to Get Off the Grid by Adam Curry.
	No, no, no.
	OTG by Adam Curry.
	Okay.
	OTG. OTG. OTG by Adam Curry.
	The pager community is great.
	There's still three networks.
	Hey, guess what?
	I'm going to get a C-band satellite dish.
	Ooh, nice, yes.
	Wouldn't that be cool?
	Yeah, so you can watch nothing.
	Everything's encrypted.
	No one's using them, damn.
	You know, I looked for, while I was going through this, what I really wanted, I really wanted to use Iridium, the satellite system, because, you know, it's very hard for them to pinpoint you.
	And I... Well, I almost went with the, they have like an Explorer thing, which is for backpackers, and you can send and receive SMS messages or email, and of course you can also send your location.
	The problem with that device is you don't retain your number, so your number refreshes.
	The only way someone can send something to you is if you've initiated contact first, and then they have to click on a URL which shows your position, On a map, and then you can reply, like, no, I don't want that.
	And then you look at the Iridium phone, which is just a big, bulky piece of...
	Huge.
	Looks like an old Nokia.
	It probably fries your brain when you hit send.
	And then they have the Iridium Go, which is a hotspot for the satellite, which has nothing but shit.
	It's like Iridium No is pretty much the review.
	Like, this is not going to work.
	It's shit.
	But still, you could do text messages, etc.
	But you still need a Wi-Fi device to talk to it.
	What happened to old CW? Go there!
	Well, I told you that there was a while back where I was forwarding things through APRS. Yeah.
	And it would show up on my handy, my handheld 2-meter radio, 2-meter 70-centimeter radio.
	That's what you would like to walk around with a 2-meter radio on your belt.
	Yeah.
	Now, besides that looking extremely lame...
	Yeah, but you've got to have the pager.
	It's not only lame, but old-fashioned.
	No, the pager...
	Is there a doctor in the house?
	You have no idea.
	Kids are going to latch on to this.
	They're all going to want pagers again.
	Well, I'm not saying it's not within the realm of possibility, what you just said.
	Because of the hipsters.
	And if you look at these pager networks that are still in operation, their websites are still from 1988.
	Cool.
	Do they still use the blink?
	No, but each page does end in.htm, all caps.
	Nice.
	I think what I really want, they weren't offering it, but I want the, you had a better Motorola, which gave you like 10 lines of LCD display and had a little calendar.
	Yeah, that's the one that was trying to compete with the BlackBerry.
	Yeah, yeah, that's the one I really want, but they don't seem to be, I think you can pick it up and then you can have, I just want to get this one first.
	I mean, it's only 30 bucks.
	It's refurbished.
	You know, so it has apparently no cosmetic issues on the outside.
	The inside's all refurbished because they don't make them anymore.
	It's probably just surplus.
	They call it refurbished.
	So if anything, we should get into the pager business.
	Ha ha ha!
	I'm sure you have another no-agenda money-making idea.
	Yeah, baby!
	We're on our way!
	What do you guys do?
	Hey, we're the big shots in the pagers.
	Us guys, pagers.
	Son, let me tell you.
	Pagers, that's the future.
	That's right.
	Get into it.
	So, yeah.
	OTG. Well, I will document what I'm doing, and then we can see if we can turn that into a giblet.
	How I went off the grid.
	Yeah.
	Well, interesting.
	So I'm going to...
	And now...
	Well, actually, here's the business.
	You kind of made a joke about it.
	Of course.
	But in reality, we do need a hipster utility belt that has a built-in holster for your pager, a built-in special holster for your vape.
	You need that.
	And maybe even a little smooth pouch for your iPod Touch.
	These are probably hard to get.
	Can you still buy those?
	Do they still sell them?
	iPod Touch?
	Yeah.
	No!
	You sure?
	No, I'm not sure.
	But I'd be stunned, to be honest about it.
	Well, might as well go to Apple and see what they're doing.
	Hold on.
	It would be under iPod.
	Oh, they don't even have an iPod section anymore.
	They maybe dropped the whole line.
	Did they?
	As soon as possible.
	Let's see.
	iPod touch.
	Stupid.
	Buy.
	Ooh.
	Oh, you can get that with the fast AA chip.
	Do you get an iPod Touch?
	Baby.
	Nice.
	Do they still sell them?
	View the iPod Touch site.
	Okay, here we go.
	I think they still sell them.
	Wow.
	We're breaking news.
	With the A8 chip.
	Well, of course, now it may have a lot of the spy crap in there.
	Oh, yeah.
	They probably have GPS tracking and all the rest of it.
	Well, this has the motion coprocessor.
	It's got a lot of stuff in there.
	So I'm kind of happy with this.
	I think this...
	And you can't even update the iOS.
	It's just like, oh, you're good.
	9.3.5.
	Stay there.
	I could jailbreak it maybe if I wanted to.
	I feel pretty secure just using it purely as a Wi-Fi device for the browser and for email.
	Screw WhatsApp and all this other crap.
	My advice to you?
	Don't buy any copies ever of Catcher in the Rye.
	I shouldn't have them laying around or I shouldn't read it.
	There'll be ten guys out there that got that joke.
	Okay, they can email me.
	You're going to have to.
	Hey, I had a nice lunch with Baron Roger Coburn, who is from Michigan.
	He stopped by.
	He was in Austin visiting his sister.
	We had lunch on Friday.
	He's quite a dapper dude.
	He's dapper?
	Dapper, yeah.
	He's brave, really.
	He drives a Tesla in Michigan.
	He's pretty brave.
	Oh, especially in that weather.
	Yeah.
	And he actually said that, you know, you're right, as I was driving, I realized I'm a lot less careful than I used to be with the autopilot and stuff like that.
	So I may have saved his life.
	Good.
	Yeah.
	And he gave me two cool things.
	He gave me a fast...
	That I can do that apparently works to remove all allergies and someone he knows in Austin did it and is now allergy free.
	It's a fast where you drink lemon water with honey and cayenne pepper and I don't know for five days.
	Is Tina still around?
	But more importantly, Nassim Taleb, this is the black swan guy who predicted the crash.
	I think he's also predicted Bitcoin's demise.
	Where are we at today?
	I don't know about that.
	Yeah, Bitcoin must be doing great, actually.
	Are we at 6,200 yet?
	I have no idea.
	I don't follow it.
	Yeah, I do.
	That's the bounce back level.
	Let me see where we're at.
	Oh, who cares?
	Just go on with the story.
	So this guy has written a book called Skin in the Game.
	And he says what is really a big, and it's a term.
	A baron?
	No, no, he hasn't written.
	He's written a different book about finances.
	No, this Nassim Taleb, the Black Swan guy.
	Okay.
	He wrote this book called Skin in the Game, which I've started reading.
	And he continues to use this term minority rule.
	And I've heard it, and of course we've discussed, you know, Kind of the idea, but that's really what's going on in our society today, is minority rules.
	For instance, in certain cities, most butchers' meat will be kosher, or lots of products will be kosher.
	The majority of some...
	Or halal.
	Or halal, exactly.
	This is minority rule, where, okay, well, we might as well do this.
	It's the lowest common denominator, so we should probably all do it.
	And this appears to be something that needs looking into.
	Which is really how...
	Yeah, it's like the whole LGBTQ thing.
	Who are pissed off about the...
	Are you sure you don't mean L-G-G-B-D-T-T-T-I-Q-Q-A-A-P-P? No, L-G-B-B-T-Q-Q-I-A-A-P-K, to be correct.
	I don't know if that's any more correct than what I... Yeah.
	But GLAAD is bent out of shape.
	No, I'm sorry.
	Outraged!
	Because, forget citizen, no citizen, now that they all look at the census, like, oh, there's a census?
	Oh, okay, it must be racist.
	Oh, man!
	There's no question about LGBTQ! So, GLAAD are outraged because, hey, if we don't know who's LGBTQIAPK, then resources could be taken away from them!
	What resources?
	Rights and resources is what they're always talking about.
	Our rights and resources.
	This is a real story.
	Yeah.
	And that's the American Community Survey, the one that we discussed on the previous show, which was handily renamed, even though it still had the citizen, no citizen question in there.
	And so, yeah, the LGBTQ are arguing that this has to be included.
	You know, are you LGBTQ? Of course.
	Now you get other groups saying, well, I'm A or I'm AA or I'm IAP, I'm K. It's a mess.
	It's a mess.
	But yeah, it's a fear.
	You think it's a mess?
	This is what our show is for.
	Yeah.
	To straighten out the mess for everybody.
	Yeah, well, I can't straighten this one out.
	We're never going to get to the show today, though.
	What do you think?
	This is the show.
	What are you talking about?
	This is the show.
	Well, we both have this one clip.
	We're going to take a little break from our chat.
	Ah, I know exactly what you're talking about.
	Yeah, we both had this.
	This was over-tweeted.
	Everybody got a clue.
	What happened was Sinclair Broadcasting.
	It was based in Austin.
	Oh, really?
	I thought they were based in New England.
	No, headquartered in Austin.
	They bought the remnants of Mevio.
	Sinclair Broadcasting?
	Yes.
	You sure it's the same one?
	I'm pretty sure, yeah.
	It's the one that owns the hundreds of TV stations.
	Yeah, of TV stations, yeah.
	Okay, well, now you got me wondering because I don't think they had anything to do with Mevio.
	Well, they bought the remnants, they bought the studio, and then Ron Bloom put together that Hollywood Today show, which was broadcast on their stations.
	It was on Fox in the local Bay Area.
	They don't own just Fox.
	They own other stations.
	They don't own Fox either.
	No, they own stations.
	And some of those stations are Fox stations.
	So let me just stop.
	Sinclair Broadcasting is a conservative operation.
	I would say they're slightly dickish.
	They're the ones who tried to prevent HDTV from getting where it got.
	Which is nowhere.
	We all have HDTV now.
	16x9 HDTV, digital TV. I'm sorry.
	There's nowhere.
	I'm sorry.
	Continue.
	Yes.
	HDTV, digital television, and the 16x9 format, it took over the place.
	To the point where they made the rest of it illegal or they just made you take, you couldn't broadcast analog anymore.
	And Sinclair was a big roadblock to this.
	They hated it.
	And the reason they hated it was because they had all these TV stations and they knew it was going to cost a mint to retrofit them all to send digital signals out.
	And it was like a pain in the ass.
	Yes, they didn't want to pay the cost.
	We're making good money now, we don't need this digital crap.
	And so they made a fuss, and it was really kind of ridiculous at the end of the day.
	So they bought even more stations in the meantime, because the other guys, they finally said, hey, wait a minute, if these guys are going to spend the Their stations are going to put all that money in to go digital.
	Why don't we wait until they do that?
	Then we'll buy them.
	Right.
	And so they kind of changed their ideas.
	And so now they own, like a lot of stations, they own probably a third of the stations in the country.
	Something, something, too many, they go to too many stations.
	So they, I guess they every so often put out this memo that the news operation is supposed to read as if it's theirs.
	Right.
	And the memo in this case, it was an editorial they all read.
	And it was, oh, we're fighting fake news in our community of blank space.
	And then the whole thing was just rote.
	And I guess some smart cookie out there went to all the Sinclair stations or had two of them in his area and he noticed this exact same thing.
	So he got copies of all these people saying the exact, the hundreds.
	Of stations saying the exact same thing with the exact same cadence and just replacing the name of their towns.
	And it was hilarious.
	Everybody on Twitter and everyone else are going nuts over this thing.
	And we do have a copy and we'll play it if you haven't heard it, which you'll end up hearing it probably a lot.
	Listen to this for a second.
	I'm looking at their corporate website.
	I think they may have moved out of Austin, actually.
	I think you're right.
	But Bloom was here and I went up and I met them.
	So, you know, I met someone who's important to Sinclair here in Austin.
	In 2010s, according to our history, recognizing the benefits of scale and reach, Sinclair led the next wave of industry consolidation.
	As its platform grew and viewing patterns evolved, Sinclair launched its digital platform, emerging network and other original content.
	It was during this time that David Smith's vision for the mobility and portability of the television signal took hold as the industry coalesced around the need for ATSC 3.0.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, it's another one of those things nobody uses.
	Right.
	So let's play this again.
	You'll be highly amused.
	And it's not as if we have never noticed this, as if we haven't played clip after clip of talking heads saying the same thing.
	Constantly.
	But now it's about a Trump-run network, Trump friends, and now, of course, oh, well, now, now, look at this.
	Who knew?
	He's mind-controlling you.
	People, if you've been listening to this, and I'm a little disappointed, honestly.
	But the number of, yeah, the over-tweets and the over-emails, like, I don't think one single person said, like, we didn't know this.
	No, what I got was, I'm sure you saw it.
	I'm sure someone sent it to you, which is okay.
	And I never think that I haven't seen it before.
	Yeah, sometimes there is some obscurity that people think gets around more than it does.
	The only reason...
	And this was almost put together professionally because it's a video.
	It is very professional.
	And it has all the little boxes and it has everybody talking at the same time.
	It's quite slick for one of these things.
	It doesn't work as well in audio, I've noticed, because you don't see all the boxes.
	No, no, because there's a moment in there where they're all talking and it just sounds like cacophony.
	Yeah.
	Well, let's play it.
	But it's not bad.
	Let's play it.
	And I'm Ryan Wolf.
	Our greatest responsibility is to serve our Treasure Valley communities.
	The El Paso Las Cruces communities.
	Eastern Iowa communities.
	Mid-Michigan communities.
	We are extremely proud of the quality, balanced journalism that CBS 4 News produces.
	But we are concerned about the whole kind of very responsible one-sided news stories plaguing our country.
	The sharing of biased and false news has become all too common on social media.
	More alarming, some media outlets publish these same fake stories without checking facts first.
	The sharing of biased and false news has become all too common on social media.
	More alarming, some media outlets publish these same stories without checking facts first.
	Unfortunately, some members are getting used to their platforms to push their own personal bias and agenda to control exactly what people think.
	And this is extremely dangerous to our democracy.
	This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.
	This is actually my favorite part.
	What I like about this is you can really hear the different news anchors acting in what they think is an important news anchory type of way.
	And you can, once you know, now you really are cognizant of it being a script and how they are all trying to put their own little personality.
	This is dangerous and that's why, you know, I mean, just listen.
	This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.
	This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.
	Everyone has a different region.
	This is extremely dangerous.
	Yeah, they're slightly, they're toned differently.
	I like it.
	Different key.
	I like it.
	Well, the thing that bothers me about this, and yeah, you're right, you can kind of see the, but what I see is actually a narrow range.
	I'm not seeing like the white range.
	Listen to this last sequence.
	this is extremely dangerous to our democracy i mean it's almost like an audition tape you know you know it's It's just like people are auditioning.
	Five different reads, please.
	Just change it up a little.
	This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.
	This is great.
	Now, the thing that, of course, is overlooked is the amount of packages that are pre-produced.
	And this was compiled, I believe, by ThinkProgress.
	So that is a DNC-powered group.
	Yes, that would be right.
	Yeah, it was professionally done.
	This was done.
	It was overproduced, actually.
	If they backed off a little bit, it wouldn't look so ridiculously slick.
	And I will say this, though, and before you go on with that, what you're going to say is I'm...
	More annoyed by the fact that they were apparently given zero latitude because not everybody has to say this is extremely dangerous to our democracy.
	You could have said...
	This is dangerous to our democracy.
	This is really dangerous to our democracy.
	This is kind of dangerous to our democracy.
	This might be dangerous to our democracy.
	You can't editorialize like that.
	But this is the editorial people that are doing this.
	They should be able to editorialize, but apparently it's all centrally located, where you're going to have to say extremely.
	Yes.
	Yeah, well, that's douchey.
	We used to get this at MTV all the time.
	We were forbidden to say the VMAs.
	And if you slip that into a segment, you get a call from HQ, because I'll be monitoring up there at 1776 Broadway.
	Hey, burn that!
	He said VMAs!
	It's Video Music Awards!
	That's our brand!
	Keep it that way!
	And now if you look at MTV, it's all VMA this, VMA that, VMA this, VMA that.
	They were always like that.
	Yes, mainstream is completely controlled.
	This is why we don't participate in that system.
	This is why we only are supported by our producers, who we don't consider to be a product, or even listeners, they're producers of this product, creating the value within our own network.
	And with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage.
	And say in the morning to you, John C., where the C stands for, cell phones are out, pages are in, Dvorak!
	In the morning to you, Mr.
	Paranoid.
	Also in the morning to all ships at sea, all boots on the ground, all feet in the air, and all subs in the water.
	Games and nights out there.
	Yes, indeed.
	In the morning to the troll room.
	Hello, hello, trolls.
	Everyone seems to be doing groovy there.
	Nice to see them all.
	And I also would like to say in the morning to CZM137 bought us the artwork for episode...
	10-20, under count of color.
	10-21.
	No, this is 10-21.
	It was 10-20.
	Oh, 10-20.
	We did the artwork for it.
	Oh, right.
	And this was the stop sign with the 33 in it.
	And actually, commentary bloggers send me an email.
	Apparently, there's some Twitter account.
	And if you send an image to it, like a street sign would be an example, even if you put some stickers on it, it will tell you the readability of it according to their machine language algorithm.
	Ooh!
	Yeah, it's kind of cool.
	So you can test and see which...
	Well, you've got to send something.
	How come I never got that note?
	Yeah, I'm very surprised because you are his Slavic brother.
	Why are you only emailing me, not you?
	What is wrong?
	It makes no sense.
	What is wrong?
	Let me see.
	Let me see if I can find his email real quick.
	Well, while you're looking for that, I'm going to start to thank people.
	Yes.
	Beginning with, we do have some producers and executive producers for today's show, 1021.
	And 1021 of the 10 codes means, give me a phone call.
	And that's usually employed by cops who are having affairs.
	1021.
	Sir, midnight.
	Here it is, by the way.
	You need to tweet it to at vision underscore API. Okay.
	At vision underscore API. Thanks, CSB. Good tip.
	Underscore API. Alrighty.
	Sir, Midnight of the Rivers in Crestview, Florida came in with $580.08.
	Whoa.
	Nice.
	PayPal seems to be imposed a much smaller character limit for these notes than my last donation.
	So please see my email.
	Oh, jeez.
	I mean, Sir Midnight of the Rivers, I don't have an email.
	Yes, because here's the problem, Sir Midnight of the Rivers, because the way the spreadsheet works, you do not have a, because Eric sees, just use my title, so that's what he does, and so now to tell us to go look you up, we don't have your name.
	No.
	So, sorry.
	But why don't we, we can give him the karma, I mean, Give him a karma.
	There's nothing against that.
	I'll find it.
	I'll find his name.
	You've got karma.
	I was sure Squirrel Mail could search in the body of the message.
	Oh, really?
	Search in the body of the message of 10 million messages on Squirrel Mail.
	Yeah, that'll work.
	All right, onward.
	I'll find it for the next segment.
	I'm sure of it.
	Sir Joseph Barron of Southern California, $500.
	He says JCD has a note.
	He's right.
	I do have a note and I'm holding it.
	This is actually A.G. Steenbergen, retired lieutenant colonel of the Marines.
	Yo!
	Out of Carlsbad.
	We're a little behind with listening to your show.
	Uh-oh.
	Since I had surgery in January, but I wanted to get this check out to you before the end of March because my household omnibus lists this donation as budgeted for the first quarter of the fiscal year.
	Nice!
	He's got us in the budget.
	I love it.
	Thank you.
	We're in the budget.
	Thank you.
	We're in the budget.
	Yes, and the budget was passed by both sides of the house.
	We're in the budget.
	We're in the budget.
	Thank you.
	Without a doubt, helping to produce your show is by far and away the best investment we make.
	Your deconstructions are insightful and educational.
	Please keep doing what you're doing for another 10 years.
	No jingles, but I could use a bit of health karma.
	Thanks.
	You bet.
	Thank you very much.
	Semper Fi.
	You've got karma.
	Some nice Marine Corps letterhead, I think.
	Oh, beautiful.
	Beautiful.
	Notepaper.
	It's worth keeping.
	Anonymous, $333.
	Please keep me anonymous.
	Okay.
	I'm a first-time donor, so please de-douche.
	Consider it done.
	You've been de-douched.
	Your two shows are the perfect amount of politics M5M that I can handle in one week.
	Please call out my friend William as a douchebag.
	He swears he's on a long-term payment plan, but I am growing suspicious as I anxiously await for his knighting ceremony.
	Also, not only is he admittedly using native advertising to promote his new business, but he just received his doctor's note to take his dog with him to work every day for emotional support.
	Oh, no!
	Wow.
	Do you need a note from your doctor when you're in the tent and you have your dog there for emotional support in San Diego?
	Or is it just okay?
	I think they probably have a doctor sitting in the corner writing scripture pot.
	For the next few months, my text tone has been fact check false, which I always enjoy explaining to new friends.
	NJGK, no jingles, goat karma.
	Fact check false.
	You've got karma.
	Daniel Warren in Boise.
	Idaho, 333.
	Hopefully you get to my donation message this time.
	My last one somehow got lost, despite John replying to my email.
	Oh, well, I didn't have anything that interesting to say anyway.
	If you wouldn't mind, I'd appreciate it if you would play the news clip I sent you on Twitter.
	Oh.
	Okay, well...
	I don't know what that is.
	Me neither.
	But I will go look it up and we'll maybe play it in the next show.
	Okay.
	He says, hopefully it will encourage other listeners and producers to donate.
	It's certainly a kick in the pants.
	I need it.
	We'll definitely look it up.
	Can I get a dealer's choice of Sharpton?
	Fuck the EU and millennials stay woke.
	Tonight is the measure of whether the country begins in the state of Wisconsin, a national drive to push back, or whether we have more to go to build a movement of resistance.
	But resist we much.
	We must and we will much about that be committed.
	Joining me now...
	My millennials!
	Stay woke!
	You've got karma.
	I haven't heard the long form of resisting much for, I don't know, years.
	Yes.
	Charles Couch, $234.
	He'll be an associate executive producer for show 2010-20.
	2010, 2010-21.
	I'll get it?
	Eventually.
	Yep.
	Dear John and Adam, happy early birthday to John.
	Thank you for continuing to create an excellent product.
	Truly, this is the best mix of entertainment and...
	Oops.
	I shouldn't have carried out.
	Best entertainment and truth.
	Truth.
	Truth.
	I have found.
	Thank you for continuing to call out the BS. The controlling class lays on to a slave.
	Please give me a healthy dose of jobs, Carmen, as I have a job interview coming up on Thursday.
	Also, can you give me two end-of-show jingles?
	One of them is Donald Loves Nazis.
	Donald Loves Nazis.
	Yeah.
	And the swollen amygdala jingle by the Aussie Knight.
	Uh, hmm.
	I don't remember.
	That's not it.
	Hmm.
	I vaguely remember it.
	I don't know the title.
	I'll have to look on that.
	Why don't we do the Donald loves Nazis?
	Donald loves Nazis.
	CNN say that he's KKK and he shall sing hail with it.
	Wow.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	Yay!
	You've got karma.
	Onward to, this is pretty funny, Mr.
	Pre-Self Radicalized, $200.
	He says, he takes a dim view, apparently, of my reading skills or organizational skills as a whole.
	By starting with, unless you've already read my name on the air, please refer to me as Mr.
	Pre-Self Radicalized.
	Guardians of Reality, No Agenda Family, SOS, please assist.
	As I imagine you will or have already discussed, a caravan of Thousands of Central American economic immigrants are brazenly and illegally entering Mexico on the course to the U.S. where they will seek asylum as refugees or just sneak in.
	Rather than their own countries, they plan to drain ours of our wealth.
	Rather than fix their own countries.
	What did I say?
	You said rather than their own countries.
	Rather than fix their own countries, they plan to drain ours of our wealth.
	The Soros-orchestrated mass migration of third-worlders that is now running Europe is about to repeat itself here.
	We would just throw our hands in the air, or will we just throw our hands in the air and accept enslavement to illegal aliens?
	I say no!
	Americans for Americans.
	Please visit and share our website, StopTheCaravan.com.
	Spread the word.
	We cannot give up on our country.
	Build a wall!
	Build a wall.
	Build a wall.
	All right.
	I reread what you write.
	I just want to say.
	We'll look at StopTheCaravan.com.
	We'll take a look.
	But if they're economic migrants, they cannot seek asylum.
	They are not refugees.
	There's very clear language about that.
	So, if you can classify them as economic migrants, then Border Patrol should be able to do the same.
	Build a wall.
	Build a wall!
	And last but not least, our last associate executive.
	Hey, my buddy!
	My buddy!
	Roderick Velo.
	Roderick Velo.
	$200.
	Say it again.
	Roderick Velo.
	You gotta do a jingle for him.
	I have to do a jingle for him.
	Yeah, you're listening to the best podcaster in the Netherlands, in the lowlands, Roderick Velo.
	When I'm listening to podcasts, I listen to Roderick Velo, the best podcaster in the lowlands.
	Nailed it!
	He's also an M5M guy.
	That's the cool thing about it.
	Andy is an M5M guy.
	Well, that's good.
	So are we, really.
	In the morning to you, Adam and John.
	Thank you both for this gathering twice a week.
	The show is highly informative, entertaining, and very inspiring.
	Just another $200 because there is nothing in this universe like the best podcast in the universe.
	Please continue.
	Kind regards, Rotorik in Amsterdam, Holland.
	It's very cool.
	Yeah, he has a podcast and they talk about us.
	I think we get listeners because of him, let's put it that way.
	Oh, that's a plus.
	But also, he goes back to the pirate station, pirate radio days.
	Oh, the old days.
	Yes, that's how long we've known each other.
	It's nice.
	Nice.
	Thank you.
	Thank you, Will.
	Anyway, that's our group of executive producers and associate executive producers for show 1021.
	Yes.
	Each and every one of them.
	That's right.
	And just like Roderick, you can put this fresh credit anywhere that you desire.
	I... I don't know if Roderick should put it on his CV if he's looking for another M5M gig, but put it on your LinkedIn.
	People do seem to respond very well to the idea.
	So these are executive producers and associate executive producers.
	Thank you very much for supporting the work.
	It is, after all, your podcast.
	We'll be thanking more people who came in and $50 and above.
	Short list today.
	But hey, it's Easter.
	We don't even know if anyone's listening.
	But we're happy to be here, and we will do it again on Thursday.
	Remember us at dvorak.org slash n-a.
	So while you're hanging out with the family, getting ready for a little bit of Easter brunch, why don't you try propagating?
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	What?
	Shut up, slave.
	Shut up, slave. - Yeah.
	So, I guess we can kind of tie it in here, even though it kind of fits around.
	It does fit around a donation segment.
	What has been going on with David Hogg and Laura Ingraham?
	I have a clip.
	Good.
	I got a couple clips, too.
	What do you have?
	Well, you can play mine, and then you can play yours, and those are probably better.
	This is just the apology clip.
	Ah, okay.
	Fox News host Laura Ingram announced last night that she's taking a planned vacation from her program next week.
	Now, her break comes after about a dozen advertisers cut ties with her show after she mocks Stoneman Douglas student activist David Hogg on Twitter.
	Ingram later apologized.
	Yeah, that's not entirely the story.
	That's not exactly how it went.
	That's a crappy news.
	Although I have seen a lot of people saying, oh, she's on vacation.
	Hashtag done.
	Hashtag gone.
	Hashtag fired.
	Hashtag done.
	You know, this is the example.
	It doesn't go very long on this show before we can pull up one of these examples of some poor schleb.
	In this case, Ingraham.
	In this case, yeah.
	In this case, Laura.
	Ingram.
	Getting her tit in a ringer for saying something that, you know, it turns out there's a big pressure group behind Hogg character.
	I mean, your little thing on Hogg was devastating, I thought, but nah, Hogg's still up there.
	No, no, it's...
	So they pull ads.
	This is...
	The problem here, this is extreme child abuse.
	I feel very bad for this kid.
	He's a kid.
	Let's just remember, he's a damn kid.
	He's 10 years younger than my kid.
	He's a kid.
	He's being abused.
	In this case, he was abused by Media Matters.
	So yeah, Laura Ingraham, she tweeted something semi-mean.
	Like, oh, well, you can't get into UCLA because of your grade point average.
	Whatever.
	Who gives a crap?
	And by the way, the whole world uses a different system.
	We have 1 to 10.
	What is this 4.2?
	If you've got a 4.2 in Europe, you're a loser.
	No.
	I think it's worse than that.
	Because what you're dealing with is 0 to 4 is the scale.
	There's no 10.
	No, but in Europe, it's to 10.
	Yeah, well, that's fine, but that's Europe.
	But we don't do that.
	We have A, B, C, D, E, or F. A, B, C, D, where's the E? A, B, C, D, F. A, B, C, D, F, yes.
	Yeah, there's no way.
	They can't even do that right.
	Wait a minute.
	Stop.
	If it goes to 4, how can you get a 4.1?
	Exactly.
	I thought it went to 5.
	No!
	This is nuts.
	It goes to four.
	And you get the 4.1, the 4.2 by taking these things called AP, Advanced Placement.
	And it's just, for some reason, it changes the, oh, you got an A. You took four classes and one Advanced Placement.
	That's five classes.
	You got an A in all the classes and in the Advanced Placement.
	You got five A's.
	But you really only took four classes.
	So you have to do the division differently.
	So you end up with over four as an average.
	This is nuts.
	It is.
	And also, what is the perfect score then?
	Who knows?
	It depends on how many advanced placement courses you take.
	And I'm sure it all flows right into your FICO score somewhere.
	There's no doubt about it.
	This is all part of the giant scam that the public has to be...
	I don't know why they're not up in arms about this 4.2 idea.
	So, she said, blah, blah, blah.
	You only got this.
	It's stupid.
	Which I think could have been more slam on the university itself.
	But okay.
	And then everyone's all pissed off.
	Oh, you're bullying the kid.
	You're bullying the kid.
	The people who are abusing the kid are calling her out as a bully.
	She apologizes.
	Ah, no.
	But that's half-hearted.
	It's no good.
	I don't accept that apology.
	Boycott her.
	Boycott her.
	The media matters whispering.
	This is the cartoon we need, comic strip blogger.
	Although it would probably never make the artwork.
	But this kid has media matters whispering in his ear.
	This is what they do.
	This is their system.
	And what's going to happen is already taking place.
	The kid is now the new Hitler.
	Every meme on the face bag and the tweeters is him, Kyle Hitler.
	There's some really good ones, actually.
	Pretty funny.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, the Hitler-Yuga.
	I agree.
	He really takes to that small little mustache, that kid.
	He does take to it very well, but it is abuse of this kid.
	So here's CNN, him explaining, we should be kids-splaining what went down.
	David Hogg joins us now.
	So David, first, what surprised you more?
	Ingram's apology or the powerful response now from advertisers?
	From advertisers.
	Oh, powerful response.
	You know, when you...
	Look, you can mess with guns in America, okay?
	And they say, oh man, you mess with guns, this is really the worst thing you can do.
	You can even mess with God in America.
	But when you mess with advertisers, you've got to be very careful.
	Because if you think there's any broadcast corporation that is happy about this, you are wrong.
	They all know what can happen.
	It can happen to CNN. It can happen to any organization.
	This is the most dangerous thing the kid has done.
	You do not fuck with the advertisers in the United States of America.
	I think what was more surprising to me wasn't the apology because that was kind of expected, especially after so many of her advertisers dropped out.
	Like, that was one of the things that disturbed me most.
	There were multiple tweets in between her first tweet calling me out and then the other tweet where she basically tried apologizing.
	There were multiple instances that she could have done an apology but didn't.
	Oh, it wasn't fast enough!
	I'm glad to see Corporate America standing with me and the other students of Parkland.
	Okay.
	Whoa, whoa.
	Did I just hear a young kid say, I'm glad to have Corporate America stand with me?
	Is this now what it's come to?
	Nice catch.
	We have to be against the man at all costs all the time, children.
	There are multiple tweets in between her first tweet calling me out and then the other tweet where she basically tried apologizing.
	There are multiple instances that she could have done an apology but didn't.
	I'm glad to see Corporate America standing with me and the other students of Parkland and everybody else because when we work together, we can accomplish anything.
	Oh, yes.
	Oh, yeah.
	When we work together with corporate America, David Hogg, future leader, future senator...
	You'll find out.
	We really solve problems when we work with corporate America.
	It's a great idea.
	Keep that attitude.
	Remember that.
	No matter who somebody is, no matter how big or powerful they may seem, a bully is a bully, and it's important that you stand up to them.
	There have been multiple instances throughout Ingram's professional career where she's tried calling out people, for example, at Dartmouth University because of their sexual orientation, and she told LeBron James to shut up and dribble.
	I don't see any apology.
	Oh, she hasn't apologized to LeBron James!
	She hasn't apologized to corporate America, because that's what LeBron James really represents.
	No kidding.
	He represents corporate America, and he needs an apology.
	And by the way, Laura Ingraham is a bully.
	I don't like the way she talks to people.
	I don't like the way she interviews people.
	She's definitely a bully.
	Oh, yeah.
	She's always been a bully.
	She was a bully on radio.
	Yeah, like, duh.
	Yeah, so what?
	But she issued the apology.
	Ah, no, no, no.
	Didn't do it quick enough.
	And she hasn't apologized to corporate America.
	There's a time, this time thing hit Trump some time ago, too.
	But it's like, you can't only just apologize.
	You have to apologize.
	Immediately.
	Immediately.
	But you have to apologize fast.
	Right away.
	Otherwise, it's just not good.
	He has to be fast and sincere.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	And you should go away for a while.
	I'm at the university because of their sexual orientation, and she told LeBron James to shut up and dribble.
	I don't see any apology for those people.
	I mean, why?
	It's just, it's really sad.
	It's disturbing to know that somebody could cause, could bully so many people and just get away with it, especially to the level that she did.
	But I think now with...
	To the level that she did.
	Dribble the ball!
	Oh yeah, and by the way, let's get things straight here.
	LeBron James being bullied?
	Please.
	The guy is 6'8", he weighs almost 300 pounds, and he's built like a brick shithouse.
	Nobody bullies this guy.
	But it wasn't about him, it was about bullying corporate America.
	I guess.
	That's what it was about.
	It's It's disturbing to know that somebody could cause, could bully so many people and just get away with it, especially to the level that she did.
	But I think now, with advertisers standing with us, we can accomplish anything.
	Ah, we stand with him!
	This is your new logo, Corporate America Pepsi-Cola.
	We stand with Hogg.
	The word bully stands out because some people are calling you a bully.
	In fact, conservative commentator Eric Erickson, I want to read you what he has said.
	He said, having someone apologize to you and then refusing to accept it unless conditions are met is what bullies do.
	Let's say a definition of bully.
	I never heard that one.
	I think it's a stretch, but it's pretty funny.
	Let me see.
	I think you could make that argument.
	A person who uses strength or power to harm or intimidate those who...
	Direct translation.
	I don't know.
	I don't know.
	He does have the power of corporate America behind him.
	So that's that's pretty powerful.
	You know, when you're out there telling people, hey, shut up or we'll take your advertisers away.
	What do you say to that?
	I don't agree with it.
	Just like Laura, she can have her opinion.
	He can have his.
	It's up to them.
	But I don't agree with it personally.
	Laura Ingram has invited you back on her show for a, quote, productive discussion.
	Would you consider doing that?
	I would only consider doing that.
	And after she apologizes to all the people that she's hurt throughout her professional career because of her immaturity and unprofessional.
	professionalism.
	It's not right, and I think she needs to apologize to those people that she's hurt.
	no.
	About this kind of back and forth becoming a distraction to your main mission and what you're trying to accomplish with gun reform.
	Absolutely, because I think when people call us out like this, what they're really trying to do is distract from the bigger movement here.
	And that we're not trying to take anyone's guns.
	We're simply trying to save lives.
	That's all we're trying to do.
	And when Laura uses divisive language like many, many people on her show have where she calls us the left and right and doesn't acknowledge the fact that we're just all Americans.
	So his problem is not that she's a bully.
	It's like she employs the left-right paradigm.
	Not like CNN or MSNBC do that.
	But yeah, I mean, they're not divisive.
	Our diversity is our strength.
	She needs to acknowledge the fact that everybody's opinion matters, even from my perspective, hers does too.
	But...
	What matters most is that we come together as Americans, and what I think shows like hers do is divide us even more, and I think division is the last thing this country needs.
	We need to come together as Americans, not as Democrats or Republicans.
	This seems to be the way he wraps up all of his little speeches, is we have to come together right now over me, and then be Americans and save children.
	He sounds a lot like a politician, and I think that's what he's being groomed for.
	He's definitely taking his gap year.
	So I understand you're taking a gap year, so I'm not going to go to college right now.
	What are you planning to do?
	Are you trying to harness something more in this movement and have politicians reached out to you?
	Yes, some have.
	What I plan on doing during this gap here, which I still may not be taking, I haven't really made a final decision on, is I'm going to be working on a candidate basis because there are Republicans who are supported by the NRA and not supported by the NRA. There's Democrats that are supported by the NRA and there's Democrats that are not supported by the NRA. I'm going to be working on a candidate basis to ensure that the best people that are willing to serve their constituents and not special interests are getting into office.
	Which candidates have reached out to you?
	Shut up!
	And that's...
	A few have reached out to me, but I think at the end of the day...
	I actually hear someone whisper.
	I think I hear something.
	Hold on.
	I don't think he's got an IFB in it.
	Yeah, he does.
	Yeah, he does.
	I don't think the control room is going to be given it.
	Let me just hear it.
	Let me just listen.
	Not an IFB, but I thought I heard someone whisper something to him.
	Hold on.
	Well, you might have to have a sidekick there.
	Yeah, it's possible.
	I could be wrong.
	Let's just listen.
	...against Steve King in Iowa that has reached out to me, and a few have reached out to me, but I think at the end of the day what's important is that we all just really come together and work on this, not as Democrats or Republicans, but as Americans, to solve this issue and realize that our strength is in our diversity of people and our diversity of ideas, because this is not an issue that has one solution.
	There are multiple solutions that we must work to implement to fix this.
	I'm not quite sure.
	What is his message now?
	He's falling apart.
	No, he is not afraid of nothing.
	This kid, he's more...
	Heroic than anybody you know, according to MSNBC. No, that's right.
	John Heilman talked a minute ago about fear.
	And we think about politics today.
	We think particularly about the Republican majority and America's greatest scared rabbit, Paul Ryan.
	And we look at all these Republican members that are...
	Scared to death.
	Scared to death of Fox News, of Laura Ingraham, of Rush Limbaugh.
	And what you see in this young man is a quality of character, fearlessness.
	And maybe that's what happens after you've been downrange of an AR-15 that kills your classmates and comes close to killing you.
	You lose all fear.
	Because this kid's not scared.
	He's not scared of the NRA. He's not intimidated and scared by Laura Ingraham.
	Laura Ingraham huffs and puffs, and you have half the Republican parties hiding under the table.
	Half of them are hiding under their bed.
	They're so scared, so timid, so skittish.
	Not these kids, though.
	And I think that it's going to be definitional to the political debate that we see play out between November of 2018, when I think Trumpism will be roundly repudiated, and the next presidential election in 2020.
	But it's such a contrast, these kids, to the elected officials in the Republican Party.
	Now, I'm okay with this child abuse if you really need to do it and tell you how brave everybody is, but could you just do a story about something else once in a while?
	The Pentagon now identifying the American soldier killed in Syria this week, 36-year-old Master Sergeant Jonathan Dunbar of Austin, Texas, died in a roadside bomb blast.
	The explosion, happening in a part of Syria thought to be cleared of ISIS. I'm pretty sure you didn't hear that report anywhere.
	No, I heard it.
	It was played here.
	Yeah?
	Oh, okay.
	I'm surprised.
	Yeah, it wasn't played on MSNBC, I'm sure.
	No, definitely not.
	And the talking point from the right and the Republicans about this whole repeal the Second Amendment, I guess is what I should have prepped that by, is, well, the...
	Removing the Second Amendment, and this is true, does not remove your repealing the Second Amendment, which I presume would be taking, you know, have some amendment, the way it works would have to be some amendment that says, okay, Second Amendment is now no longer valid, doesn't actually take away any rights, which is true.
	The Second Amendment forbids...
	Yeah, this is true.
	...forbids Congress from making any laws against those rights that you have.
	And the interesting thing is that...
	At the Bill of Rights, I don't think it's printed anymore as such.
	There's a preamble that is very clear that the amendments can never take away a right.
	They can only increase the rights.
	Well, I don't recall that, and I don't remember it being brought up when the Volstead Act was passed.
	Oh, tell me about the Volstead Act.
	That's the Prohibition Act.
	That took away rights.
	I actually looked that up.
	That was the 21st Amendment was repealing the 18th.
	I don't remember.
	Yes, well, I looked it up because I knew this would come up.
	And the 18th Amendment, do you know what that actually was?
	What?
	Okay, so I'll read it to you.
	No, I don't.
	I have not looked at these amendments.
	No, this is important.
	I didn't know either.
	After one year from the ratification of this article, the manufacturer's sale or transportation of intoxicating liquors within the importation thereof into or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territories subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited.
	Now, this has to do with interstate commerce.
	And that's why you had the moonshine runners and people were transporting alcohol from one spot to the other or from one state to the other.
	And arguably...
	The federal government has power over commerce between states.
	How come all the wineries had to close in California?
	They could easily maintain a number of them and sell wine within the state and do quite well.
	Because it said the manufacture, sale, or transportation.
	And I wager, I don't know for sure, but the 21st was probably argued specifically on the manufacture thing.
	How can you forbid people to make something?
	I don't think so.
	Well, we have constitutional lawyers in our midst who will set us straight.
	Somebody can come up with something.
	We'll get a little lecture in the mail.
	But the preamble to the Bill of Rights, I'm looking forward here.
	You know, whenever someone talks about the preamble, I'm like, eh, then it's like, before you know it, you're reading the Federalist Papers.
	Oh, geez.
	I thought it was simple.
	You just have these amendments, this Bill of Rights, you read through it, there you go.
	But it doesn't seem to be that simple.
	Well, where is this?
	Why don't you find it?
	Read it.
	Okay.
	It's preamble to the Bill of Rights.
	Hold on.
	I thought it was in this article, but for some reason...
	I hope you're also trying to find this and not just sitting there and just letting me do all this.
	Preamble.
	Okay, here we go.
	Uh...
	The conventions of a number of the states having at the time of their adopting the Constitution expressed a desire in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added.
	That means you can make an amendment.
	And as extending the ground of public confidence in the government will best ensure the benefits ends of its institution.
	Uh...
	Where the hell...
	Yeah...
	I think that's the part that we're supposed to understand.
	That's what everyone's bitching about.
	Let me read it again.
	The conventions of a number of the states, having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, express the desire in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers that further declaratory and restrictive clauses...
	There you go.
	Restrictive clauses should be added.
	And as an extending the ground of public confidence in the government will best ensure the benefits ends of its institution.
	So anything...
	Anything they want to add has to be restrictive in nature.
	Yeah, restrictive of government powers.
	Yes.
	In other words, if you're going to add something, that means what you're doing is you're saying the feds can't do this.
	Yeah, so I don't think you can say, new amendment, you can't own guns.
	That, I think, cannot be in the Constitution.
	So what do you make of it?
	They can't have, you can't put it, you can, you can, I guess you can say, okay, we take out the Second Amendment and then we can create laws, but we still, according to the Constitution, have the right, because it's in the Constitution, only...
	No, it's all natural rights.
	Natural rights, yes, yes.
	But it states that.
	It states in the Constitution we have these rights, here's the shit the government can't do.
	So you don't actually take away the right to own a gun.
	To bear arms, I should say.
	No, but what you're doing is you're giving the feds an opportunity to make laws that would...
	Yeah.
	It's complicated.
	It's complicated.
	Well, it's not going to happen anyway because there's no way...
	Here, I'll bring it up again.
	Whatever happened to the Equal Rights Amendment?
	Can't we all be on board with that?
	Well, it didn't pass, did it?
	I think if you went on the street and did a man on the street, do it right there in Congress.
	I bet they all think it did.
	I don't think they know it did.
	No, everybody thinks it did.
	But it didn't.
	So unless you get that done, which you're not going to get done, apparently, because they've tried it, I think, a couple of times.
	It won't pass.
	You can thank Phyllis Schlafly for that.
	She went around and had this very strong argument as to why it's not a good idea to make men and women exactly the same because they're not.
	It would never pass.
	It's not going to pass.
	And this is not going to pass either because it's a tradition.
	Traditions are...
	Write a law and eliminate the tradition.
	I mean, I think they'd love to eliminate the tradition.
	They would like to get rid of all of American culture because it would fit much better in the global system with global governance and all the rest.
	And, you know, we didn't have all these stupid ideas.
	This is interesting.
	What did you call it?
	The equal rights what?
	Equal Rights Amendment.
	The ERA. Yes.
	Okay, I thought you said the Equal Rights Act.
	No.
	Okay, because there was the Equal Rights Amendment Act, which was put in place to create the Equal Rights Amendment, which was proposed.
	Let me just see.
	Nevada ratified it.
	I'm just looking at the Wikipedia.
	Hmm.
	How many states have it ratified?
	I don't think that many.
	That's the problem.
	To get a state to ratify anything nowadays because it's split down party lines, it's going to be harder and harder to change anything because of that.
	Except in states like California.
	They've got 36 states.
	How many do they need?
	Well, you need two-thirds.
	Right.
	Right.
	Well, that would be 35, 36 states is a lot.
	You need 38.
	You need 38 states.
	They had two laggards.
	Let's see.
	Who rescinded?
	Nebraska, Tennessee, Idaho, Kentucky, South Dakota.
	They rescinded.
	Texas was all in.
	California was all in.
	California's always in.
	So, Nebraska, Tennessee, Idaho.
	Racist fucks in Idaho, man.
	Uh...
	Yeah, so it wasn't ratified.
	We just lost all our Idaho donors.
	Yeah, well, I think Idaho knows their problems.
	Like, people, you can walk with a gun on the street, but you can't smoke on the street.
	I mean, it's a very odd place.
	It's true.
	It's true.
	Okay.
	Well, while we're on guns for just a moment, you remember the Quebec City shooter...
	So what makes you think Idaho is racist?
	They didn't ratify the Second Amendment.
	I mean, the Equal Rights Amendment.
	What's that got to do with race?
	It just sounds good.
	Everything's racist.
	What does anything anyone says about racism today mean in general?
	Can't you just throw it out whenever you want?
	I'm just trying to make sure Idaho people aren't perfect.
	Can't you?
	Oh, please.
	Oh, jeez.
	Yes.
	Sorry, Idaho people.
	Yeah.
	Here's what you can do.
	Why don't you bully our sponsor?
	Bully our sponsors.
	Tell them to pull out.
	You didn't apologize soon enough.
	Yeah.
	It took too long.
	I made three sentences in between my violation and my apology.
	So we had the Quebec City shooter, Bissonette, who now changed his not-guilty plea to a guilty plea.
	He killed six Muslim men, injured a whole bunch of people.
	Yeah, this is like, what, two years ago?
	No, no, no, no, no.
	This is this year.
	I've already lost it.
	Okay, go on.
	I think it was this past year.
	I got something here in the show notes.
	When was this?
	No.
	Matters not.
	He has now changed his plea from not guilty to guilty.
	And in the reporting, we're now receiving that his doctor, not long before he did this, had just put him on a new prescription of apoparoxetine, which, you guessed it, is an SSRI.
	And I have an article here about it, including some of its side effects.
	You can only, you know, besides the typical anal leakage and vomiting and restless leg syndrome, that's really one of the side effects.
	Particularly in the first few weeks or when doses are adjusted, a small number of patients taking this drug may feel worse instead of better.
	For example, they may experience unusual feelings of agitation, hostility, or anxiety, or have impulsive or disturbing thoughts such as thoughts of self-harm or harm to others.
	Should this happen to you, consult your doctor immediately.
	Do not discontinue your medication on your own.
	I mean, come on!
	And he's even saying, you know, I did it, you know, and I'm guilty of it, but I didn't feel myself.
	He probably didn't.
	This was the drug that made him do it.
	And it's an SSRI. It's a classic case.
	I mean, there's a lot of people, let's face it, a lot of people have certain kinds of dislike of other people, whether it's because of religion, maybe Muslims, or maybe it's their next-door neighbor, or maybe it's just something.
	You know, you still don't like the guy.
	And you take one of these pills and you go kill the guy.
	You think there's maybe a connection here?
	This pill and the killing?
	I'd say yes.
	Yeah, but that can't be discussed on a show that stands with corporate America.
	I'm sorry, a show that corporate America stands with.
	Yeah, corporate America in most cases...
	It's big pharma.
	Yes.
	I mean, I'm watching just, I mean, besides the news shows, which are drug, drug, drug, SOS pads, drug, drug, drug, drug.
	I'm watching the evening TV offerings, and it's drugs, drugs, drugs, drugs still.
	I mean, it's like the whole day.
	What shows were you watching?
	I'm telling you, anything.
	Anything.
	I'll bet you, I'm going to watch the Roseanne Barr show, the next one, which should be, I don't know who's going to advertise on it, but...
	I'll bet you there's drug ads on that show.
	I'll bet you there's tons of advertisers as well.
	I don't think...
	You really think...
	Okay, here's a perfect example.
	Wait a minute.
	What do you mean there's tons?
	I'm talking about advertisers.
	You said whoever's going to advertise as if no one wants to advertise on the show.
	No, I didn't mean...
	That was an inference that was wrong.
	Oh, I misunderstood.
	You misunderstood.
	Yeah.
	What I meant to say...
	I said what I said, but my point is I'll bet you there's at least one or two drug ads on that show.
	And every other show.
	Every show has got drug ads.
	It's unbelievable.
	I was reading an article in...
	Let's see what it was.
	It was New York Times.
	And ABC is saying that the success of Roseanne, the reboot, sprang from ABC's heartland strategy.
	And they are claiming...
	Really?
	Yeah, they're claiming this.
	They had Tim Allen on that network.
	What happened to the strategy then, when they fired him?
	Well, they began asking themselves which audiences they were not serving well after Trump got elected.
	After they fired Tim Allen?
	Yes.
	Did they ask it then?
	And I wonder, I don't think that's even in the entire article now, is it?
	And why is that?
	No, it's not in the article.
	Even New York Times lame asses.
	Jeez.
	So they began to ask themselves which audiences they were not serving well and what they could do to better live up to the company name, the American Broadcasting Company.
	We stand with you.
	By the meeting's end, they had in place the beginnings of a revised strategy that led the network to reboot a past hit centered on a struggling Midwestern family, a show that had a chance to appeal to the voters who had helped Mr.
	Trump in the White House.
	This is an admission of collusion.
	This is pure collusion that ABC is doing with a collusion with Trumpism.
	Any collusion?
	They should go after their advertisers.
	Media Matters will find a way to do that before long.
	Channing Dung-Jay.
	Hey.
	Channing Dung-Jay?
	Who's this?
	It's a woman.
	She's in charge of ABC Entertainment.
	Yeah?
	A woman.
	A woman!
	A woman!
	For Trumpism.
	This will not stand.
	I can't believe it's true.
	And she's black!
	Oh no!
	What's going on?
	That seems like a setup then.
	Okay, Channing Dungy, or Dungy, the president of ABC Entertainment, said the success of Roseanne was a direct result of the post-election day initiative to pursue an audience that the network had overlooked.
	We had spent a lot of time looking for diverse voices.
	Post-election day?
	Tim Allen was fired post-election.
	Yeah, but he's a white man.
	Roseanne, as far as we know, is a white woman.
	Quote, we had spent a lot of time looking for diverse voices in terms of people of color and people from different religions and even people with a different perspective on gender, Miss Dungy said.
	But we had not been thinking nearly enough about economic diversity and some of the other cultural divisions within our own country.
	That's been something we've really been looking at with open eyes since that time.
	Yeah.
	Geniuses!
	This is bullshit.
	It sounds like bullshit to me.
	Meanwhile, we have this other little thing about Roseanne.
	Roseanne's getting a lot of publicity, so the show's going to do well for a while.
	They got picked up for the second season already, which is a big deal.
	Let's play the Roseanne.
	This is on Fox and Friends, a little discussion about the New York Times editorial.
	The Roseanne revival, calling Roseanne, congratulating her on the ratings, 18 million people watching.
	And interesting because it was middle America watching, Tulsa, Kansas City, big ratings.
	And so the New York Times, of course, has to dump on it.
	Because now it's being renewed for its second season because a lot of people loved the show years ago and now it's being revived again.
	They loved...
	The first season, because Roseanne, she's outspoken, we all know her, and she's doubled down on her political views.
	This is someone, I think she's been a Democrat in the past, but she's a supporter of President Trump.
	So the newspaper the President calls the failing New York Times had this op-ed about Roseanne.
	They said this, the fictional family and the show's very real creator are further normalizing Trump and his warped Sorry, that was my editorializing.
	I saw the first two episodes of the Roseanne reboot, but that's all I'm going to watch.
	It's a small line to draw, but it is a start.
	Can't normalize President Trump by watching a TV show.
	It did do well.
	And that there are people, not in California, not in New York City, but all throughout this country that wanted a breath of fresh air.
	They wanted something different.
	And this show is entertaining and it's funny.
	And I think that it's an example of what this country is all about.
	It took this long for someone to recognize that people who voted for President Trump also watched television?
	I mean, you know what I mean?
	These award shows, their ratings keep going into the tank.
	Maybe if they showed just a squocia balance and they weren't just liberal propaganda, they might have more viewers.
	And that's what this show did.
	I pointed out that the ratings, 18 million, was right around where the Oscars dropped to.
	Did you say a squoosh of balance?
	I'm not familiar with this term.
	A squoosh?
	Squoosh?
	He said squoosh?
	I think it's a squoosh.
	Yeah, squoosh.
	Is that a real word?
	No.
	It's no real word.
	It is on Fox.
	It's a squoosh.
	I didn't read the Slam editorial.
	I did read a lot of Facebook posts of people saying, I won't watch it.
	You know, virtue signaling to the cult.
	I won't watch it!
	I can't have any of her crazy views creeping in on my consciousness!
	I won't watch it!
	It's an entertainment show.
	And it's actually, it's kind of doing what Hogg wants, to all be Americans.
	Kinda.
	Yeah, well.
	Alright, well that's the end of that topic.
	Okay.
	Uh, what else are we going to do?
	I've got some off-topics.
	Hold on, hold on, hold on.
	I've got some timely stuff.
	Timely stuff.
	For Easter.
	For Easter in Rome.
	Italy's foreign ministry has summoned the French ambassador to explain why armed French...
	Sorry, that's the wrong one.
	You confused me.
	This is the one I wanted.
	Here it is.
	Rome is a city in lockdown.
	Hundreds of thousands of people, pilgrims and tourists alike have redescended to Rome and the area around the Vatican.
	Some participate in religious events during Holy Week.
	Others are just enjoying the festivities and the start of the tourist season.
	This, of course, is a worry.
	For authorities, because Rome has been a target for terrorist organizations for a while, but the threat of an attack has become all the more real after a series of recent anti-terror raids that led to the arrest of several people in the past few days.
	Of course, this means that the authorities had to put in place some seriously stepped-up security measures.
	10,000 agents will be patrolling the streets around the city, Rome, and around here, the area of the Vatican.
	100 and more extra agents will be deployed to train stations and airports.
	A green zone has been created around the city center in Rome, where heavy vehicles will...
	A green zone?
	That is an actual theater of war term.
	The Green Zone.
	Yes.
	They're treating it as a theater of war.
	It's been created around the city center in Rome where heavy vehicles will be banned from.
	There will be also metal detectors.
	There will be x-ray machines that will screen pilgrims and tourists wanting to access sensitive sites like, for instance, the Colosseum.
	All extraordinary measures that the authorities will hope will guarantee a peaceful Easter weekend.
	There's nothing like Easter weekend in the green zone.
	It's so nice.
	And there's a rift between the Italians and the French when it comes to security of the border and immigration.
	Italy's foreign ministry has summoned the French ambassador to explain why armed French border police entered a clinic that cares for migrants trying to cross the Alps.
	Five officers burst into the facility at Bardoneccia and forced a Nigerian migrant to give them a sample of urine for a drug test.
	Many politicians see the incident as a violation of Italian territory.
	I'm disappointed because they cannot act this way, like bulls in a china shop, especially in a china shop that is not theirs.
	They can do their activities, they can do them in France, in other places, and not in a facility dedicated to an extremely delicate work.
	I already said that must go on in peace.
	The French government says the officials had asked for permission to enter the centre and were allowed in.
	Migrants who have crossed the Mediterranean and arrived in Italy sometimes try to reach France by crossing the Italian Alps despite the snow, bad weather and terrain.
	So they're encroaching on each other's turf now.
	That's what it sounds like.
	Yeah.
	We have a lot of encroaching going on.
	They closed the Russian embassy in Seattle.
	They've already closed a really cool one in San Francisco.
	And now I guess the Russians are fighting back.
	And I've got a couple more.
	This is an interesting clip.
	Russia brouhaha.
	More embassies closing.
	The diplomatic crisis between Russia and the West is worsening by the day.
	Today, the flag over the U.S. Consulate in St.
	Petersburg was lowered and the building closed.
	It was done on orders from the Kremlin in retaliation for the expulsion of Russian diplomats from the U.S. and from other countries.
	Tensions escalated quickly after the nerve agent poisoning in England of a former Russian spy and his daughter.
	Charlie Daggett brings us the latest from Moscow.
	It's no coincidence that President Vladimir Putin's military chose this week to display the launch of its latest weapon, a well-timed show of force.
	A nuclear weapon dubbed Satan II by NATO, a ballistic missile designed to strike targets anywhere in the world undetected.
	Russia's biggest diplomatic target is already being dismantled.
	The U.S. consulate in St.
	Petersburg, America's largest facility besides the embassy in Moscow.
	The Russians have been swinging the axe on other countries, too.
	Senior envoys summoned and ordered to send diplomats home, adding to the expulsion of 60 American diplomats earlier this week.
	And Moscow upped the ante with Britain, now ordering more than 50 diplomats out.
	British Ambassador Laurie Bristow.
	It's important to bear in mind why this crisis has arisen in the first place.
	It is the use of a chemical weapon on the streets of the United Kingdom that has threatened the lives of a number of people in my country.
	Including Yulia Skripal, the daughter of double agent Sergei Skripal, whose assassination attempt using a suspected Russian nerve agent triggered the worst diplomatic crisis since the Cold War.
	As her condition has rapidly improved the British government says they'll now consider a request for the Russians to see her.
	Whether she wants to see them is another matter.
	Now, before you play another clip, we've got to talk about this, because there's a lot of things going on in this regard.
	First of all, the fact that the daughter is getting better is curious, to say the least.
	Yes, I agree.
	Russia Today, the state-sponsored propaganda media outlet, personally run by Vladimir Putin, just like Trump, he sits there in his...
	In his little bathrobe in the morning tells him what to say.
	They came up with a...
	Actually, they sent to them the list from the Russian ambassador.
	Here is 14 things Russia would like to know regarding this incident.
	Number one, why has Russia been denied the right of consular access to the two Russian citizens who came to harm on British territory?
	In that clip, it appears that may have been turned around or rescinded.
	We don't know.
	Two, what specific antidotes and in what form were the victims injected with?
	How did such antidotes come into the possession of British doctors at the scene of the incident?
	Well, that's a good question.
	That's a great...
	Whoa!
	Hold on, hold on, hold on!
	Whoa!
	Okay, say it.
	That is an obvious question.
	Oh, you horrible man.
	I was ready to give you echo and everything.
	Forget about it.
	Oh, okay.
	I'll do it again.
	Okay.
	You give me echo.
	I'd known about the echo because that, my friend, is a great question.
	Okay.
	Perfect.
	Nailed it.
	Not at all acted.
	I liked it.
	Onward.
	Onward.
	Number three.
	I have a question.
	Antidote.
	Is an antidote like a vaccine where you have to have some of the original stuff in order to...
	No, no, no.
	Antidote is like a chemical that...
	It's like a chelate or something.
	It counteracts whatever's going on.
	It's a counteraction agent.
	This is where it gets interesting to me.
	On what grounds was France involved in technical cooperation in the investigation of the incident in which Russian citizens were injured?
	Did the UK notify the Organization for Prohibition of Chemical Weapons of France's involvement in the investigation of the Salisbury incident?
	What does France have to do with the incident involving two Russian citizens in the UK?
	What rules of UK procedural legislation allow for the involvement of a foreign state in an internal investigation?
	What evidence was handed over to France to be studied and for the investigation to be conducted?
	Were the French experts present during the sampling of biomaterial from Sergei and Yulia Skripal?
	Was the study of biomaterials from Sergei and Yulia Skripal conducted by the French experts, and if so, in which specific laboratories?
	Does the UK have the materials involved in the investigation carried out by France?
	Have the result of the French investigation been presented to the OPCW Technical Secretariat?
	Well, we know they can't tell us because our guy there got a gag order.
	Based on what attributes was the alleged Russian origin of the substance used in Salisbury established?
	Does the UK have control samples of the chemical warfare agent, which British representatives refer to as Novichok?
	And finally, have the samples of a chemical warfare agent of the same type as Novichok, in accordance to British terminology, or its analogs ever been developed in the UK? Seems like a reasonable list of questions.
	Yeah, especially if someone's going to blame you for attempted murder.
	And what is France doing?
	That's...
	How come none of this has been reported?
	Why do we have to go to Putin's mouthpiece at the RT shows to get this information, which is now that you hear that, it makes nothing but sense.
	It seems very legit.
	Now, let me understand, because we've seen something happening, and I haven't really heard it questioned.
	But it's my understanding that because of the Novichok attack...
	Which France somehow is involved in, in the UK, on two spies who are in an exchange program.
	That's why countries around the world are kicking their Russian diplomats out?
	Is that the reason?
	It seems to be a reason.
	Yeah, it is.
	Because Theresa May comes in front of Parliament and goes yakking away about we're pretty sure, I think it's the Russians, it's unbelievable that someone would use a chemical attack on our, you know, in London.
	Because in the reporting, what you rarely hear...
	Because of this, Seattle kicked out more Russians.
	No, it's always in there.
	It's in the report, but it's not really saying that.
	There's something else going on.
	I don't know what it is.
	Here's retired General Jack Keene.
	Here's his take on what's really going on, he says.
	I don't know how it relates to the diplomats, but this is what he thinks.
	This is the American.
	Propaganda machine.
	The idea has got to be dawning on Mr.
	Putin by now, that he's surely dealing with a different president in the United States than Mr.
	Trump, given, as mentioned in the introduction, all the things we have done to push back on Russia.
	I'm absolutely convinced of this, Lou.
	The thing that Putin has paid the most attention to, the single thing, is the buildup of the United States military and the FY18 and FY19 budget.
	Putin is looking at that as deja vu.
	He remembers the Reagan military buildup that actually forced the economic collapse of the Soviet Union.
	And he sees the real money being applied, real capabilities.
	For example, The commander of our forces in Europe, in testimony last week, is calling for increased U.S. troops to be put on the Russian border as a deterrence force.
	And in the budget that we just approved and he signed, there's three times the amount of money in that given the past investment.
	So it's six and a half billion dollars.
	That means more troops, more capabilities.
	That is something that truly gets Putin's attention.
	What do you think?
	Well, I think that's probably right.
	Because that's the underlying theme here.
	Yeah, nobody talks about that, do they?
	I've got supersonic weapons, and then we got, oh yeah, have you seen this F-35 land like a Harrier jet, bitch?
	Yeah, well, the F-35 is a dog, and I think the Russians know that.
	That's why I called it a bitch.
	What got me was, in that first clip of the two that I have, You know, Russia's announced some new weaponry that's stealth ICBMs for all practical purposes.
	Yeah.
	Supposed.
	And it says it's called the Satan 2.
	What was the one?
	Well, yeah, but besides that, it's like Satan 2.
	But is that the Russian name?
	No.
	It says it was called the Satan 2 by NATO. NATO has named it.
	The Satan.
	Hey, let's come up.
	Listen, we're all marketers here.
	Let's come up with something that'll really put the fear of bejesus into the people.
	I know.
	We'll call it Satan.
	We already did that, Bob.
	Let's call it Satan 2.
	Exactly.
	That's exactly what happened.
	We already did that.
	We can call it Satan 2.
	Great meeting, everybody.
	We're calling it whatever we feel like calling it.
	It's got nothing to do with what they call it.
	Why are we giving everything our name, the names that we've dreamed up for marketing purposes?
	It's such a good point.
	I'm glad you brought that up.
	What do they call it?
	Do we know what Russia calls it?
	No, some Russian name, I'm sure, of some sort, named after some guy.
	I don't know.
	We should find out.
	They're not telling us.
	They're telling us it's called the Satan 2.
	You know Russia's not calling it the Satan 2.
	Nobody would do that.
	I knew Mr.
	Satan 2.
	I mean, come on.
	Oh, my God.
	You nailed it, Mr.
	Dvorak.
	Oh, my cheeks hurt from that.
	So let's listen to the second half of that clip.
	It's only short.
	And yet a further escalation.
	The Russians are now demanding to know why British authorities searched a Russian passenger plane that landed in London, calling it a blatant provocation and threatening to search British passenger planes landing here.
	Errol?
	I don't know what they're looking for.
	Their social media accounts.
	I don't know what they're looking for.
	You know, I'm of the opinion that the daughters don't want to try to kill the old man.
	Ooh, I like this theory.
	I like it.
	Huh.
	I mean, she's a Russian citizen.
	She's not like an expat.
	Hmm.
	Maybe the guy's a jerk.
	I mean, I have no idea.
	Well, the problem is the Novichok.
	The problem is the proximity to the chemical laboratory porting down.
	The problem is the actual exercise that they did in that area just a couple days before.
	You know, a chemical weapons exercise.
	I mean, there's a lot of problems happening.
	With this.
	And then the immediate entire UN, all nations kicking their Russians out.
	I mean, we still, you know, there's also a problem with FIFA. I mean, the World Cup is in Russia this year.
	Yeah, this has something to do with it.
	Although it's...
	There's a lot of money in FIFA. There's a lot of money in FIFA. And there's a lot of money in broadcast rights, the stadium.
	The Russians put on a show second to only China.
	When it comes to putting on, you know, showing off their place at the stadiums and putting on a good show, they do a good job.
	Sochi was fantastic.
	China just tops everybody because they're just, I don't know where they get all the money, but they do.
	What is the alternate city?
	For the FIFA things underway, I mean, it's not, you can't.
	They could stop it.
	They won't.
	Isn't there at all?
	Contracts have been signed.
	Hmm.
	Hmm.
	They're just going to try to keep the...
	I don't know what they're...
	The whole thing just makes very little sense.
	Hmm.
	Yeah.
	I don't know.
	I don't know what to make of that.
	But the FIFA thing and the World Cup in...
	Is it going to be in Moscow?
	Yeah, I think it's Moscow.
	Yeah.
	You can't ignore it.
	There's got to be something.
	Somehow it's being used or abused.
	Something is happening with that.
	Especially since we didn't even qualify, so we don't care.
	The American team didn't qualify for the World Cup for the first time in a while.
	Oh, really?
	Is our Tourette's goalkeeper still on the team?
	I don't know who's what, but all I know is we didn't qualify and they fired the coach in this big stink.
	Sorry about that.
	Screw Russia.
	I think NPR might be trying to bring down the whole podcast industry.
	Good luck, NPR. They are building an open source platform.
	Who?
	NPR. This is what they're doing with Your Money.
	Isn't NPR a broadcaster that broadcasts over the normal radio waves and are subject to FCC? Yes.
	They also have a big podcast presence.
	Huge.
	The largest.
	They know it's eating into this, like it's cannibalizing their real product.
	Well, here's what they want to do.
	And I don't think, I think Lee Masters, you know, Yaro Moln, who's the CEO over there.
	You know why I didn't hear from him for a long time after we did that speech together in New York at the radio thing?
	Yeah.
	He had open heart surgery.
	Oh, a poor guy.
	Yeah, but he's okay.
	How old is he?
	He's a young guy.
	He's in his 60s.
	Young guy.
	Young guy.
	NPR wants to create a platform with APIs, etc., and I guess some protocols and formats.
	It's quite an undertaking that any podcast app can implement into their code in order to track actual listening of podcasts.
	Well, that would be some unique code.
	So they can get some real metrics.
	Yes, that would be worthwhile.
	If you have advertising.
	Well, hold on a second.
	Isn't this somewhat ironic?
	Go ahead.
	Well, you're NPR, you're publicly supported, you got, you know, institutions that kind of throw money at you, and it's like you don't have advertisers, and you don't want advertisers, and you pretend that you don't need advertisers, and you do all this sort of thing, but meanwhile you bring a product out that's just really to service advertisers?
	It makes zero sense to me.
	NPR sells their mentions, their sponsorships, their underwriting, whatever you want to call it, through the same organizations that sell Pepsi ads.
	And in fact, someone over there at NPR had a great quote, if you can measure it, you can sell it!
	Isn't the word sell, quote-unquote sell, kind of an anathema to what this public medium is supposed to be all about?
	Yeah, but they're doing...
	Well, I can predict what's going to happen because they already say, yeah, we hope Apple will get on board.
	Well, listen, you dipshits.
	Lee, I'm talking to you, Lee.
	Because, you know, I can talk to you like this.
	We both don't have advertisers, although you seem to sell something over there.
	This is your future.
	Give it up.
	Stop building.
	Go to Apple.
	Tell Tom Collins over there and Eddie Q. Then maybe talk to, you know, the nut job from Beats.
	What's his name?
	Jimmy Iovine, you say, we want your technology to be open so everybody can put it into their apps.
	And it will happen.
	And once that happens, advertisers are going to go, what?
	Because I don't think the numbers are quite as big as everyone touts them to be.
	We know that.
	We know it for sure.
	Even though we don't really know for sure because we have no clue how many people listen.
	We use other metrics to make an estimation.
	Yes, we reverse engineer our donation segments.
	But in NPR, they'll be able to make money.
	They'll make digital dimes to dollars.
	It's the same thing.
	You can't monetize the network.
	Which is my credo?
	Yes, this is your credo.
	That's going to be on your gravestone.
	I'm going to make sure it gets put on there.
	Adam Curry, date to date.
	You cannot monetize the network.
	Right there.
	Boom.
	I'm going to show my soul by donating to No Agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, on No Agenda.
	In the morning.
	And in fact, as opposed to monetizing the network or monetizing the show, Sir Herb Lamb is helping us.
	He's the Viscount of Georgia.
	$120.12.
	He also says a happy birthday to me.
	And he considers this a small boob donation somehow.
	Boop.
	One, two.
	Boop.
	Small boob.
	Very small.
	Sir Haymoose in Mooresville, North Carolina.
	He came in with $100.
	Wesley Walker in Pacifica, California.
	Actually, Wesley K. Walker, $100.
	James Zuckel, $100.
	Lon Baker, $100.
	You need some moving camera.
	We'll put some at the end for James.
	I'm sorry.
	Troll Room just posted.
	You got it all wrong.
	Adam Curry, 1964, 2075.
	He could not monetize the network, RIP. I think that's funnier.
	Yes, that would be funnier.
	Troll room wins in terms of the joke showdown.
	Although we've moved on.
	I couldn't help myself.
	John Tirada.
	Yeah, you know.
	John Tirada, 69, 69.
	Keep on keeping on, he says.
	Eric Ross in Corona, California, $66.
	And by the way, mentions a smoking hot girlfriend, Joanna Ortiz.
	This is a donation on her behalf as a birthday gift.
	Whoa!
	She's not in the notes.
	I'm glad you read that.
	Well, she is in the notes.
	Yeah, she's not on the birthday list, I mean.
	Oh, oh, oh.
	Ah!
	I didn't even think that myself until you just mentioned it.
	Yes, put her in the birthday list.
	Colin Ayers in Troy, Michigan.
	And I do have a note.
	I will read this because it came in as a handwritten note from Peerless Steel.
	It's a drunk donation, $60.76.
	It doesn't sound that drunk.
	I'm a $5 a month subscriber, but I think it's time to give you gents a raise.
	The analysis with entertainment value you provide is worth more than I can currently afford.
	Hopefully, some no-agenda karma can change that.
	Please accept this nautical mile donation.
	I like that.
	6,076 feet is a nautical mile or one minute of arc length along the Earth's meridian.
	Nice.
	Ta-da!
	What's the number again?
	6076.
	6076.
	Nice.
	We've got to put that on the...
	We've got to make some of these...
	These guys come up with the damnedest things.
	Now, just as a P.S., and probably the reason to read the note to make you feel better, P.S., the audio quality of your show is second to none.
	Thank you.
	Except for Thursday's show, where we had to pull it from the backup microcassette.
	You know, the funny thing about Thursday's show, I had somebody send me a tweet saying, what mic were you using on this Thursday show?
	You sounded great!
	No, he never said that.
	He just wanted to know if I changed it.
	Yeah.
	He never said it sounded great.
	So what happened is because of a number of things, I messed up.
	I changed the routing and did we have to reboot or something?
	I get interrupted in my flow.
	I didn't set up the digital recorder right.
	I saw it recording.
	But then when I listened to the show, it was pretty much MSNBC, which had been recording off of the TV receiver.
	So that was useless.
	And then taking it off the microcassette, it had some different quality to it.
	We couldn't both put our fingers on it, but we knew it was different.
	And it had like a very light hiss in the background.
	It was really stupid.
	I don't know why.
	Anyway, so I got a new solution.
	It lost a lot of the oof that you put into the show with your dialed bit twiddling.
	Yes, bit twiddling.
	Yes, and so that's the reason the show sounded different on Thursday.
	Okay, well anyway, thank you.
	you.
	I appreciate that.
	Michael Mizzio me Mizzio like Mizzio Mizzio like Mizzio like Mizzio like I think that sounds right.
	53 33 uh He says, Happy Easter, the Holy Trinity is often represented in numerology as 3-3-3.
	33 may be God's way of reaching out to you.
	Okay.
	So when you see that in your receipt, which I put one in the newsletter, think about donating.
	Eric Hochul in Deutschland in Well, this is interesting.
	Now, I think he used to be in Munich or some place.
	No, you know what?
	We always said Munich, and maybe he, maybe, that is interesting.
	Maybe he changed it to just something else just so it wouldn't mess up the spreadsheet.
	Mule Rose.
	I don't know where.
	Mule Rose.
	But his hokul came through fine.
	Oh, he took the umlaut off, or that little whatever he had.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	That's what it is.
	Robert Cohen, and that, by the way, is $52.
	We thank him.
	Robert, he might say sir.
	He's a long-sense sir.
	Sir Eric Hochul?
	Yeah, I think you're right.
	He must be right.
	Yeah, he's been giving us donations for months.
	Years.
	Years.
	Every month for years.
	Robert Cohen, 5092.
	The following people then are $50 donators.
	Name and location.
	Dennis Brown in Rhinelander, Wisconsin.
	Jay Wozniak in Chandler, Arizona.
	Tyler Schimpf in Bothell, Washington.
	Whoops, we're done.
	That's it?
	Wow.
	Very short.
	It's actually very short donors.
	Now, we did offer the 4118, which you don't read the names of.
	And we did get...
	Actually, even that didn't...
	I mean, this is Easter.
	We have a special Easter donation of 4118.
	We got 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.
	So that was pretty piss poor.
	Yeah.
	Well...
	Yeah, I think it was.
	Yeah, work on your skills.
	Yes, I have to work on my skills.
	Yeah, well, we all work on our skills.
	We all try to improve all that.
	It wasn't a put-down.
	Yeah, it was.
	No, it wasn't a put-down.
	Yeah.
	No, work on your skills.
	Like, we can always do better.
	You know, like, I can always do better.
	You can always...
	Okay, you're not buying it, are you?
	No.
	No, okay.
	Okay.
	But I'll take the blame.
	Sir Vince, Knight of the Southern Silicon Valley, sent in a note.
	He says, Dear Adam and John, I'm writing to ask if it's possible to get some karma from my father who passed away on Tuesday.
	I tried to get him to listen to the show, but he was a little too entrenched in the mainstream media.
	I would introduce some topics to him, and he was receptive, though.
	He was a brilliant and generous man, and we miss him very much.
	He wasn't a religious man, but some universal karma would be much appreciated.
	Thanks in advance, of course.
	You've got karma.
	All right.
	Sorry to hear that, Sir Vince.
	Let me see.
	Well, we don't have...
	We have no nightings, no title changes.
	That kind of goes hand-in-hand with the donation list for today.
	Easter.
	Easter.
	Yes, you're right.
	I will hand out the jobs, Karma.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	You've got...
	Karma. Karma.
	Karma.
	Well, it is indeed Easter and the birthday list is pretty short as well.
	Dude named Rob Cohen turns 37 tomorrow, April 2nd, and Eric Ross says happy birthday to his smoking hot girlfriend, Joanna Ortiz.
	She celebrates April 4th.
	Happy birthday from Uncle John and Uncle Adam.
	That's it.
	Nothing else to do.
	All right.
	Well, I do have a comment from the last show that I want to carry over.
	When we douchebagged Chris Fisher.
	Okay.
	Who runs the Jupiter network of Linux podcasts.
	And they do a podcast that people listen to.
	It's called Unfiltered.
	And it's a clone of our show.
	And so they were called out for this.
	So I decided to do some research.
	And...
	So I found...
	So I probably have to...
	We should probably de-douche Chris and his buddy, Chase.
	Just give them a quick deduce so I can get done with this.
	You've been deduced.
	Apparently, when they started this thing, they started in 2012, after we'd done hundreds of shows.
	They did credit us at the beginning for actually origin.
	I ended up clipping the origin story from one of their early episodes, if not episode...
	It's not the introductory episode, but I think it's episode one.
	And let's play this, and then I can discuss this operation a little bit.
	I've got to tell this story.
	I discovered Chris and Jupiter Broadcasting in the most unusual way.
	Part of my job, I commute a lot depending on where I'm going that day.
	I may be driving two to three hours.
	And so I'll be driving and I listen to a great show that Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak does and it's called No Agenda.
	That would really be a great companion show to this show.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	Noagendashow.com.
	Check them out.
	They do an awesome job twice a week.
	So, I was listening to the show, and they have a segment where people are able to donate and throw money in and help them out.
	And when you donate money to the show, if you donate at least $50 or more, you can actually write a few notes, and they'll read it on the air.
	So, you know, I'm listening to that during that segment, and they always have fun with it.
	And they said, I think it was Dvorak's like, So we got Chris Fisher here, Marysville, Washington, Jupiter Broadcasting.
	And first off, the first thing that caught me was Marysville, Washington.
	I was like, what?
	That's where I live!
	And then secondly, I was like, wait, wait, he's in my backyard?
	No way!
	I mean, literally, he was in my backyard.
	No, I'm just kidding.
	Eating your steak.
	Eating my steak, which is really good, by the way.
	If you follow me on Google +, you saw the picture.
	Anyway, let me head back to this.
	So, you know, I contacted Chris and I said, you know, hey, if there's anything I could do to get involved in what you do, let me know.
	And, you know, so, you know, we met up, we had some Italian, we had a romantic dinner, candlelight, it was great.
	We did, yeah.
	Except for the candlelight.
	Yeah, no candlelight.
	Yeah.
	But, you know, I got involved and, you know, obviously, you know, through our passion of No Agenda and, you know, we have similar interests as far as what we listen to.
	Not only that we're big in the tech, but we're also big into just, you know, getting the news out there from a different perspective.
	Yeah.
	I'm not an expert, okay?
	You know, I'm no expert, but I can definitely inject my opinion, and I think it's important for us to share.
	You start to get an instinct for it, too.
	You start to follow these stories.
	You start to see it.
	You start to see it.
	That's the remarkable thing.
	I think the media is...
	I think the 24-7 media attainment, all that, is one of the worst things to happen to civilization.
	Wrong again, Dvorak.
	So, um...
	These two guys, I think, first of all, I think they're both overboard.
	And I think it's been, because one of the two of them would have, and Chris follows me on Twitter, and one of the two of them would have said something about being called out.
	But I don't think they listen to the show anymore.
	This is like your own personal...
	I don't really care that much.
	No, but I'm interested because we're going to have spin-offs for people using our theories about how to cover this stuff.
	Yeah, we have that.
	It's called the Nick the Rat Show.
	We have a spin-off.
	Well, besides Nick, I'm hoping to get...
	Anyway, these guys, I don't think they're doing as well as they should.
	Personally?
	Do they do ads?
	They do have the right idea, and if you look at their material, it's different enough from our...
	It's not...
	They just don't listen to No Agenda and then do a No Agenda.
	No, no, no.
	It's the little things.
	It's the bell ringing.
	It's the Red Bull.
	Well, they also have a Club 33 and a Red Bull.
	Yeah, yeah.
	That's like...
	I mean...
	Okay, do they take ads?
	Donations?
	No.
	Nothing?
	I think...
	No.
	Here's the problem.
	They're not hearing this anyway.
	They use Patreon.
	It doesn't work for them.
	Oh, jeez.
	Well, we can help them out then.
	Probably.
	John at Dvorak.org.
	We'll see.
	It's a war of one, John.
	It's no war.
	I think they do a good job, and I think they're overproducing.
	Here's another thing.
	I hate to get into this, but they...
	At least they claim early in their early shows that they do the show live, kind of live to tape, but not completely, on Thursdays, like us only at night.
	They post the show on Monday.
	Now I want to mention that people think about doing podcasts.
	So they're doing a lot of post-production.
	That is my guess.
	And I have the same issue with Bryony, who she's got a little quicker turnaround.
	Congressional Dish.
	Congressional Dish, an excellent show.
	Adam turns this show around.
	Let's go over the production the way this works.
	We do the show live to tape.
	Adam, who is really a production savant, a fantastic guy doing this stuff, but he doesn't like it.
	Even when he was at Medio, he tried to get them to do this.
	He never would.
	Nobody's doing this.
	But he likes the idea of doing it.
	It's kind of Krusty the Clown theory.
	Do it.
	You're done.
	Get out.
	That's me.
	I'm the Krusty the Clown of audio.
	You are.
	And so we do the show.
	It's all, unless there's a fix that's needed, Very rarely.
	Adam ends the show, closes the file, pulls out a clip from the middle, drops it at the beginning.
	That's the only post-production that's done.
	It's a gimmick.
	And then we pick the art, which takes us...
	You know, I was thinking, one of these days, I'd like to go through the entire...
	I don't have a checklist.
	I do not have...
	It's so much that is done.
	And this should include bitching about people.
	We have a checklist of stuff that we repeat it.
	Every time.
	Almost exactly the same.
	Sometimes I'm laughing and then I skip a step.
	We need a checklist.
	And I want to record it if we ever put it on the show.
	I don't know.
	But if we record it, you'd be astounded at how much work goes into post-production in a very short amount of time.
	But it's a short amount of time, which is the key.
	Yeah.
	And so we pick the art.
	We argue about the title.
	If we have one, sometimes one of us comes over there.
	We'd get that done.
	That's about a five to ten minute process max.
	Yeah.
	Adam does the RSS stuff, which is another little pain in the ass, but he cranks through it really quickly, sends the show to be rendered.
	It's done and posted about 20 minutes after the show is done.
	And it's out.
	It's not days later.
	Even when Horowitz, who learned his...
	What skills he has, because I used to do that DHM plug show, but Horowitz picked it up.
	Horowitz has actually streamlined it even more because he's got to go to bed.
	And so what he's done, he pre-selects the title, pre-selects the art, and pre-produces the website.
	Really?
	Yeah.
	And so then he runs the track, the opening and closing tracks, in real time.
	We jump into the show, run the closing track.
	He hangs up on me.
	The show is then rendered and out within 10 minutes.
	Hey, does he pre-produce the title, you said?
	Because, you know, that's one of our checklist items is, okay, title.
	And then it's like, I say something, you go, meh.
	And now you'll say something, you go, meh.
	Like, meh, no, yeah, kind of close, yeah, maybe, keep it on the list.
	I mean, we had a hard time on the last show.
	I think, was it the last show?
	We've had harder.
	Yeah.
	Yes, that's what she said.
	And so she would always.
	So...
	Yes, Horowitz writes a script.
	That's another thing he does.
	He does all this stuff in advance of the show.
	And so he has a title that he uses, whether you like it or not.
	Which is fine, but this show is out faster than anything.
	I mean, it's faster than...
	It's only an hour or two.
	It takes less time to render.
	So it's out almost...
	Because he wants to go to bed.
	And so he cranks...
	It's all a necessity.
	It's funny.
	But people out there doing these podcasts, many of them just really spend too much time fine-tuning them and getting them just right.
	It's just beyond me, why you can't adopt a live-to-tape Get all your ducks in a row.
	It's always...
	The podcast is the same week after week, show after show.
	Just get it done and then post it.
	And Adam is...
	He knows I know how good he is at this.
	But consider this show as complicated compared to DHM Plugged.
	There's none of the extra stuff in DHM Plugged, so it's easier to post.
	But anyway, so I just...
	Just throw that out there for anyone who's thinking about doing this sort of thing in the future.
	Well, along those lines to...
	That means you, Lee Masters.
	That's right.
	Hey, do you hear that, Lee?
	Go at him!
	Yeah, I'll tell you how to do it.
	I mean, why ask me for any advice on any of this?
	You don't think I would have invented the wheel or something?
	Something cool is, I just signed up for it, Amazon Transcribe.
	It's now coming to AWS, which means you will be able to, listen to this, you drop an MP3 file into an S3 bucket, you issue like a one line of code command, and out spits a time stamped speech recognition text file.
	Sounds good.
	Well, what's interesting about it, because I think their speech recognition is probably very good, considering the head start they have really on everybody with their Echo device.
	But now we've found that, maybe it was the New York Times who found this, Amazon has a patent for picking up pieces of conversation and then sending that into an advertising feed or personalized ad for that person.
	And they use vacation conversation as an example in their patent filing.
	So this will be very interesting to see how good they are.
	I mean, I've signed up for it.
	I don't know if I've been accepted into the program yet.
	We should have all of our dudes named Ben get in on that program.
	Yes, please, dude.
	Because it will also make...
	Jump on board.
	It will make show notes dynamite.
	Can you imagine that?
	The show notes would be great because then you can do a global search.
	Yes, you can search on topics.
	Exactly.
	It would be so cool.
	I really look forward to that.
	All right.
	After all of this talk, we've got to have something different.
	Hold on.
	I've got to take us out.
	Yes.
	Chris Matthews, you'd think, oh, grown, but no.
	What a great guest he had on.
	According to Credible News Reports, Stormy has a dress.
	I'll just let that hang out there.
	She's got a dress.
	Monica Lewinsky, dress.
	I can't top that.
	Yesterday, on Sunday, Mark Zuckerberg takes out a dress with sperm.
	I love it.
	I doubt it.
	I love this.
	I mean, this is perfect.
	I mean, just throwing something like that into the beast is good enough for me.
	Well, this is a part of the whole thing.
	The Democrats have been irked about the Clinton impeachment ever since it happened.
	And so they're modeling trying to get Trump rousted.
	I mean, Clinton was impeached because he lied under oath.
	He committed perjury, which is a crime.
	Yes.
	And it's also not nice.
	And so we ended up with this.
	Now we're just trying to do parallels here because it just kind of jogs the memories.
	Oh, yeah.
	Well, if Clinton was impeached because of that, then Trump should be impeached kind of logic.
	They're trying to create this kind of dead-end logic.
	But okay.
	Yeah.
	Hmm.
	Yeah, bring on Maxine Waters and let her talk about the dress.
	Ryan Seacrest's accuser says, I'm not going to be silenced.
	She's filed a police report.
	This is the woman who's desperately trying to prove that Ryan Seacrest is not gay.
	And we're having a hard time buying it, honestly.
	We're having a hard time buying this.
	That's the problem with the Ryan Seacrest story.
	You know people over there at E!, right?
	What do your people say?
	What do your people say?
	He's gay.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Ren and Stimpy creator accused of preying on underage girls who wanted animation careers.
	Yeah, that's a good one.
	They get your animation right here.
	Animate this.
	Mount Holyoke Women's College orders professors not to call students women.
	Yeah, I saw this story too.
	What do you make of that?
	Why?
	The story never really explains why.
	You have to use she or the or they or whatever.
	It makes no sense.
	It's because some students may identify as non-genders or different genders.
	So what I would do is, if someone said, hey, all you women, stand up.
	All you women, raise your hand.
	I just wouldn't raise my hand.
	And they said, why didn't you raise your hand?
	Well, I'm not a woman.
	Why do we have to have a law now all of a sudden?
	It's misgendering.
	That's what it is.
	Yeah, misgendering.
	Misgendering.
	It's a crime in Canada.
	Yes, so that's the issue then, I guess.
	Where is this college?
	Oh, it's a famous school.
	I think it's back east.
	Oh, okay.
	Well, here's a little offbeat story while you're at it.
	I was just going to finish with one more hashtag me too thing.
	Oh, you can finish with a million.
	Yeah, well, no.
	Oakland Restaurant devises system to combat customers' harassment of workers.
	And I think it's called...
	This is a local store and I've never heard this.
	Yeah, let's see which restaurant this is.
	This is the mac and cheese restaurant in Oakland.
	How come you don't know about this?
	What's up with you?
	I know about the mac and cheese restaurant.
	I would probably reject any stories about it.
	Oh, okay.
	So you probably had a subconscious rejection of it.
	They have the Max system.
	Max, which of course, ha ha, mac and cheese, Max.
	Yeah, I get it.
	Hugely funny.
	Management alert color system.
	And the way it works is, and I think there is probably, there's probably an issue here that could be addressed, but...
	The lawsuit.
	Well, the problem is people are harassing, I presume, only female servers, and so now they have a color system where you can say, okay, I've got a yellow here, and the manager should then keep an eye on what's going on at the table.
	Orange, if you say, I've got an orange here.
	Maybe one orange requires the manager to automatically take over the table, and red means the customer has to leave.
	And there's several examples in this San Francisco Chronicle article.
	It's pretty, you know, like touching and groping and, you know, nasty shit like that.
	Slapping on the ass.
	But also, you know, there's also guys who are like, hey, you know, I mean, every movie we've seen this, it's so hard.
	Hey, you know, what time do you get off work?
	You know, guys try to pick up waitresses.
	Must be stopped.
	This is like as American as apple pie.
	That's what you do.
	Must be stopped.
	We cannot have men trying to pick up women ever.
	Shouldn't even be talking to them.
	I would like to know from some of our female producers out there, and male producers.
	Hello, male producers.
	You know, it's the same thing like the Harvey Weinstein thing.
	If you're a good-looking guy...
	You know, you get the right car.
	Yeah, that's okay for you to do it.
	But any other creep?
	No.
	Absolutely not.
	Well, speaking of such, you remember Whistleblower Wiley?
	The dude with the pink hair and the nose piercing?
	Oh, that character.
	Yes, of course.
	Yeah, the bridge.
	Now, what was one of the things that I took some exception to was that he was saying, these guys, this Cambridge Analytica, please, M5M, get it right.
	Analytics, analytical, no, Analytica.
	How hard is it to remember just one name?
	Geez.
	I don't know, Bill.
	Tom Collins.
	Right?
	No, he was saying, I'm the only gay guy in all of London who has an entrance card to the strip joint.
	Oh yeah, he's a big shot gay because he goes into strip clubs.
	Yeah, because that's the way these evil guys do business.
	No gay would ever do that.
	Well, we got a fantastic note from Producer Scott.
	Greetings, Adam and John!
	As a gay guy and a no-agenda producer, I used to go to a strip club up Route 10 from County College of Morris.
	I can't say I know.
	At Morris, New Jersey for lunch with a friend a few times a week.
	They had excellent cheeseburgers.
	I'd always have my folding cane on the bar in front of me, which led to a lot of lovely conversations with the ladies, plus some lovely supple boob handling.
	Yes, even blind gay guys love boobs.
	Thank you.
	Thank you for some sanity.
	Yeah, because neither you or I have any standing, but then, you know, to add the gookie-eye problem to it just makes it that much better.
	Yeah, well, yeah, it's very, very good.
	And the funny thing is...
	You've been to that club.
	Well, yeah, I've been to the club, but he, uh, I can't long, we're talking 27 years ago or something.
	Still there.
	Yeah.
	Must be good.
	But he said, even blind gay guys love books.
	I know he meant boobs, but he misspelled the last, everything was so perfect, because I'm sure he's dictating or something, and his dictation went, oh, can't be boobs, books.
	Oh, that's funny.
	Well, you re-edited it.
	Yeah, of course.
	I know I meant books!
	I went for the cheap laugh first, as always.
	Of course, that's what you do.
	Abreeves, which we've been tracking, these are abbreviations, may or may not have found their genesis in text messaging and WhatsAppping and Emoji Land.
	I think early days of texting.
	Early days, for sure.
	But it's now just become speech.
	And one of our producers...
	Oh, shoot.
	Who sent this to me?
	I feel bad now because I wanted to give him a shout-out.
	Maybe this is it here.
	No.
	Sent me a picture of Head& Shoulders, the Head& Shoulders bottle.
	This is the Dandruff Shampoo Plus Conditioner.
	It is an advanced two-in-one green apple with a lasting fresh scent.
	So it's the real deal.
	It has a little...
	I don't know what the technical term for this is.
	Like an insert, like it's a sticker on it, but it's not really a sticker.
	It's on the bottle itself, and it's red, and it looks like something important.
	Kind of like what you did on your books, instant bestseller.
	Right?
	You know what I'm talking about?
	Yeah, classic.
	So it says, number one, hashtag one, number one, Dermrico.
	As in dermatologist recommended.
	Yes, I figured that out.
	Dermrico.
	They're putting that now in their, and this is advertising, it's on the bottle, this is their branding, I would say.
	Dermrico.
	Huh.
	I mean, you could use these certain stupid words to mislead people.
	For sure.
	Like, maybe there's not one dermatologist in the world that would recommend this, but you put Dermrico to, no, no, what that means is, and you've got something else.
	Yeah.
	We just said Dermrico.
	We didn't say dermatologist recommended.
	Yeah.
	Sus.
	I see how veggie got started.
	You know what that is?
	That's sus.
	It does.
	Yes, I got a note from Karen.
	Another millennial brief to add to your list.
	Sus, as in suspect or suspicious.
	Gardasil for boys?
	Hella sus.
	Huh.
	Uh-huh.
	We're learning.
	How does that change from sus as in to sus out?
	Oh, I don't know.
	Sus out?
	What's sus out?
	I don't know.
	It's a term you hear used, I think.
	What about sus studio?
	I mean, it's sus.
	Sus.
	You can look it up on the Urban Dictionary and figure it out.
	Sus.
	It is very sus.
	Hmm.
	Well, I have a class clip.
	Okay.
	Uh...
	And I think it's an important one.
	This is the New Orleans cheerleaders, or at least this one, is standing up for her rights.
	And they saw the photo and said that it was distasteful.
	The team accused her of breaking rules that prohibit cheerleaders from appearing nude, semi-nude, or in lingerie.
	Now, in a civil rights complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Davis argues the Saints have two sets of rules, one for its female cheerleaders and another for its male players.
	I want us to be treated like professional athletes who have worked hard and who do our job well.
	Bailey also says the team fired her because of rumors she attended a party with players, which she denies.
	According to the complaint, the Saints require cheerleaders to block players on social media and are not allowed to eat in the same restaurant.
	And this is gender discrimination within their own organization.
	The team says the New Orleans Saints do not tolerate discrimination of any kind, and it specifically denies that Ms.
	Davis was treated any differently on account of her sex.
	It's not fair.
	I worked just as hard growing up to be a dancer as the football players did.
	Davis says she's not trying to get her job back.
	She just wants equal treatment, both on and off the field.
	Gabe Gutierrez, NBC News.
	I found this to be annoying.
	The girls can't have to block everybody.
	They can't be seen in the same restaurant.
	Meanwhile, these guys can go to a strip club and see lower paid or higher paid, probably higher paid dancers spinning around a pole.
	I just thought this was irked.
	Okay.
	I think I had one thing here.
	Oh, actually, two things.
	Yeah, this is...
	As this court case came to an end with the wife of Omar Mateen who shot up the Pulse nightclub, we think, we don't know anymore, kind of, could be.
	It's all been very confusing.
	We learn more every single day.
	And I remember very specifically that there was an event that took place in Orlando almost...
	Simultaneously, I can't remember exactly what we were coming up with, but I knew that somehow it was related to this Pulse Club thing, because the cops responded really quickly.
	I can't remember what it is.
	Maybe you can.
	But first, here's what we learned about the shooter.
	A shocking statement during closing arguments in the trial of the Pulse nightclub shooter's widow.
	Prosecutors say the shooter, Omar Mateen, originally wanted to attack Disney.
	He was planning to hide his gun in a stroller and make his way toward the shopping and entertainment complex outside of Disney World.
	But police scared him off.
	Hey, Carol.
	Yeah, this was, of course, something that shocks and worries a lot of people.
	We all are very familiar with Disney, Disney World, and the whole Disney lifestyle.
	That's why so many people come down to Florida.
	That's why they go to California.
	And so, Omar Mateen, he is the man that carried out the deadly Pulse nightclub shooting.
	It was...
	Revealed through testimony in the trial that his primary target was meant to be Disney Springs.
	Now, just to make absolutely crystal clear here, Disney Springs is that shopping, dining, kind of entertainment complex.
	It's not inside the theme park, it's outside, but it's still part of the Disney experience and many people know it.
	That was his intended target.
	That's where he went the night of the attack in June of 2016.
	As you say, with that fake baby and a baby stroller, he was really trying to play it up.
	But then there was the heavy police presence that he noted there, and that was enough to scare him off, and is too often the case in terrorist attacks.
	It pushes someone from a hardened target to a softer target.
	In this case, he quickly shifted gears and went to the Pulse nightclub.
	Now, here's just a small example of the report of the incident that happened around the Pulse Club night shooting right outside of Disney.
	Breaking news overnight, starting with that shock we woke up to.
	And it certainly is a shocking, horrible story.
	A massive search underway right now for a two-year-old boy grabbed by an alligator, his father desperately trying to rescue him.
	And, of course, that happened in one of the most popular resorts in America.
	It was at Disney World's Grand Flurry, and you see it right there.
	So, there's all kinds of problems.
	I can't for the life of me remember what was the issue with that alligator, which was a very weird story.
	There was some weirdness about it.
	And then, I mean, but now we have to question, is Disney gay?
	I mean, wasn't Omar Mateen in the nightclub because he just wanted to kill gay people?
	We've got to take all that back.
	We need the march back.
	We need everything back.
	Well, these stories always evolve this way.
	They did that.
	This Las Vegas thing is completely out of control.
	We don't have a clue.
	We have no idea.
	No idea.
	And, yeah, he was gay, or he hated gays.
	But he was gay, but he was married, so maybe he wasn't gay.
	But he hated gays somehow.
	Yeah.
	And he was going to kill all these gays.
	And Disney...
	Just the shopping center is the least of the gay parts of Disney, I'm sure.
	And these are negative stories for Disney, and I think both of the ones you played, I know the Stephanopoulos one for sure came from ABC, which is owned by Disney.
	Boom.
	So what is that about?
	Something's screwy here.
	I don't know.
	It's just screwy.
	I don't know.
	Maybe they're just trying to confuse us.
	Well, that's working.
	And I have a net neutrality clip, kind of, from Europe.
	Oh, everyone's so happy!
	This is very interesting what's happening to the entertainment business with the...
	I will say the American entertainment business with the EU. This is not to be discounted as a problem.
	Going on holiday but don't want to miss out on watching your favourite show?
	Well, from April 1st, you can stream without borders within the EU. It's all thanks to the portability regulation, meaning content providers like Netflix or Amazon Prime have to allow access to shows from their local subscription in a foreign EU country on a temporary basis.
	Many consumers would not only like to benefit from their subscriptions when they travel, but they would also like to have access to foreign digital content which is offered to consumers in other countries.
	Yes, we like that content very much.
	It is very good, especially if it is of pornographic nature.
	If you're from a certain country of origin, you want to see what is going on at home, you want to have access to your TV, so to speak, in your previous country, and this is not possible today.
	This is the dream of the digital single market, making all content accessible throughout the EU. I think we have learned from the experience of the music industry that the best way to counter copyright infringement is to have an attractive legal offer that is worldwide where people can, for a fair price, access any content they want.
	And the film industry has still not understood this.
	They still insist on bringing films to the movies at different times in different countries or not to allow streaming at all in certain countries.
	And this makes people upset because even if they are willing to pay, there simply is no legal offer for them.
	Getting Hollywood on board may prove a lot more difficult.
	While the USA does not have a monopoly on must-watch television, it is dominant in cinema and jealously guards that position.
	One series that I very much like is Broadchurch, and there is a third season that unfortunately is not available on Netflix Belgium nor Netflix Germany, so I'm afraid that the portability regulation won't solve the problem for me.
	Mm-hmm.
	Oh, yes.
	No nations, no borders, streaming without borders.
	Yeah, Hollywood, of course, hates this idea because of the marketing.
	Actors and actresses cannot afford to roll out these movies simultaneously in all these countries.
	Or TV shows, even.
	Or TV shows, because it's just too much.
	It can't be done.
	You've got to send the people over there, and then they all get on the talk shows and talk about how great this movie is, and then the movie comes out the next day.
	Are the movies coming out tomorrow?
	Oh yeah, movies coming out tomorrow.
	And then they go to the next country, and the movie's coming out tomorrow again.
	And they lose sales if they just did a massive rollout, a worldwide rollout, because the movie would get bootlegged within 10 minutes, and they would cut their revenues way down.
	And rest assured that Netflix sends actors on promotional tours just like the big Hollywood movies, their own stuff, Amazon.
	Of course they do.
	Yeah, I mean, imagine, like, Grand Tour.
	Those guys go around the world, promote it, promote in whatever country they're going to be.
	They go promote it there, too, or neighboring countries.
	Yeah, that's just one of the many aspects, and besides there being an absolute financial benefit.
	But this could also be just a massive Hail Mary.
	I don't know.
	Maybe there's so much pirating going on that, like, shit, we've got to do something.
	That's also a possibility.
	I have not heard a lot of...
	Where's that douchebag, the ex-politician who runs MPAA? Chris...
	I don't know who runs MPAA. Yeah, the loudmouth douchebag.
	Loudmouth douchebag politician is redundant.
	Chris Dodd, maybe?
	Is it Chris Dodd?
	I think so.
	Well, let's just look it up.
	I gotta consult the book of knowledge.
	Yeah, well, then...
	Consult the book of knowledge!
	MPA, our story...
	Chris Dodd.
	Chris Dodd.
	Nailed it.
	He did.
	So, he usually comes out and starts, I mean, he even gets into State of the Unions and stuff.
	I mean, the MPAA is powerful.
	And why are they quiet?
	Why are they quiet about this?
	Much more powerful than the RIAA. I don't know.
	Why are they quiet?
	Maybe they're not quiet.
	Maybe nobody's picking up on their stuff anymore.
	Oh, that's going to irk some people.
	Well, somebody's going to get it, yeah.
	Somebody's getting cornholed tonight.
	Meanwhile, what is Netflix's answer to this?
	They go and hire Susan Rice, or they appoint Susan Rice to their board of directors, who is kind of a no-nations, no-borders, stream-without-borders person.
	Oh, yeah, she's a globalist.
	She certainly has the international connections.
	To make this, you know, to grease the wheels, as it were.
	Everyone's like, Netflix!
	I don't think she's the answer.
	They're going to have to fire her after a while.
	I don't think she's effective.
	And then finally, we're already...
	Hey, where is she?
	Where is she?
	Hey, stand up.
	I am standing.
	Nice!
	Vertical handicap joke.
	Very nice.
	It could land on Austin.
	It's just weather forecasting, right?
	It's really hard.
	And we're forecasting the density of the upper atmosphere of the Earth.
	And when the sun burps and sends radiation and plasma towards the Earth, that changes the density of the atmosphere, changes the headwind.
	And so the Chang'e-1 spacecraft is going around the Earth at 17,000 miles an hour.
	It feels a very thin headwind from the outer atmosphere, and as that gets denser and less dense, the rate that Tiangong spirals in speeds up or slows down.
	And so we just overestimated how much the slowing would be, gave it a few extra hours of life.
	So we'll see if things could still change in the next few hours, but we're pretty confident now that it'll come down sometime late on the first, early on the second.
	The orbit of the Yeah, but you can predict that.
	Go ahead.
	Tidal rise over here on the bay in 100 years.
	What is it going to be in 100 years?
	You can predict that, but you can't tell anything about this satellite flying around, which you can track.
	There it is.
	You can see it.
	North to 43 degrees south.
	Listen to the range.
	What he's saying is because of the burp of the sun, if the sun burps, that could slow it down or speed it up, and so that could be a 17,000 mile difference.
	That's why they can't pinpoint that it's going to land on Austin.
	Yeah.
	Well, it's not going to land on Austin, although it'd be great if it did.
	Oh, think about the show material.
	Oh, yeah.
	I love how we're in such agreement about this stuff.
	Oh, yeah.
	That would rock.
	Before you play this off, I do want to play one thing.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	You already gave me your last clip.
	I said that, but I was wrong.
	I lied.
	You know, I'm still upset about the Mandela effect of the Hello Citizen clip.
	Because I believe it came from Starship Troopers, although you proved that it didn't because you had the whole clip.
	I do have a Starship Troopers thing that's kind of like maybe have triggered this or may have been part of this, although the Mandela effect has changed it.
	But here's that my clip service guarantees citizenship clip from Starship Troopers.
	Young people from all over the globe are joining up to fight for the future.
	I'm doing my part.
	I'm doing my part.
	I'm doing my part, too.
	They're doing their part.
	Are you?
	Join the mobile infantry and save the world.
	Service guarantees citizenship.
	Hey, citizen.
	So I'm still upset about this.
	Are you okay now?
	No.
	All right.
	Well, then you should probably find another podcast to pick on to get it out of your system.
	It's so entertaining to hear you do that.
	Yeah, I guess.
	Yeah, okay.
	I get the picture.
	You don't like it?
	No, it's okay.
	It's like I don't like to hate on anybody.
	I'm flattered.
	I'm not hating on them.
	I said they did a good product.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	You did today, yes.
	And the other one wasn't me hating.
	It was somebody that wrote in.
	It was one of our producers.
	I was reading their notes.
	But they always kill the news anchor, John.
	That's how it goes.
	Just ask Brian Williams.
	Brian Beach is a liar.
	Yes.
	And we remain your mall cops of broadcasting.
	We are the No Agenda Show.
	Remember us for our next program on Thursday at Dvorak.org slash NA. I am coming to you from downtown Austin, Texas, capital of the Drone Star State, in the 5x9 Cludio in the common law condo.
	In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, I'm Paul Blart.
	Podcast cop.
	John C. Dvorak.
	We'll talk to you again on Thursday right here on No Agenda.
	Until then, adios, mofos!
	I need a cab.
	Yes.
	Cab!
	That's it.
	The classroom has been equipped with a five-gallon bucket full of river...
	Into that bloodstream...
	That freaks Facebook out, right?
	...trying to push fake news into that bloodstream...
	Five-gallon bucket full of river... ...of... ...full of river...
	If an armed intruder attempts to gain entrance to any of our classrooms, five-gallon bucket full of Riverstone.
	...have this information, so when they look at a voter file and someone comes to them...
	...five-gallon bucket full of Riverstone.
	Well, they know and here are people that they can help us persuade into that bloodstream.
	They will face a classroom full of students armed with rocks and they will be stoned.
	I'm a Democrat.
	So, you know, maybe I could argue that's a great thing.
	They will be stoned.
	Yeah, I can argue that's a great thing.
	Scott Zuckerberg's super genuine.
	I feel so...
	Five-gallon...
	That's right, like...
	I can argue that's a great thing.
	Hey now y'all, can we just get real?
	Do we really care about our fans or is this just another deal?
	Said another way that we lost our way?
	Social's about the people, remember?
	We are people.
	Do we really need another like, fan, or share?
	Do we need another post to show up everywhere?
	I hope as we scatter that we never forget that our posts live forever even when we go to bed.
	So connect with me.
	Let's have some fun.
	Let's show the world how this gets done.
	Let's get social.
	Social.
	We social media, let's get social, we're social media.
	We can spread the word, grow our reach, and find our fans in their nose feed.
	Let's get social, let's get social, let's get social, let's get social media.
	Yeah.
	Oh, my God.
	Give it up, Mary McCoy!
	It's the world of Clinton, a world of Bush.
	It's the world of Soros and that Rockefeller douche.
	CNN takes a bump when they lay up the trump.
	It's the douchebag Disneyland The best podcast in the universe Adios!
	Mopo.

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