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	The news in America is suffering a total sellout.
	Adam Curry, John C. Devorak.
	It's Thursday, April 19th, 2018.
	This is your award-winning Get My Nation Media Assassination, Episode 1026.
	This is No Agenda.
	Placing the mask over my mouth and nose and broadcasting live from the capital of the drone, Star State, Austin Tejas, in the Cludio, in the morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where we've proven that ladies can fly.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	It's Crack Vaughn and Buzzkill.
	In the morning.
	What?
	It's like a double bad one, isn't it?
	Yeah, great.
	They were both good.
	Now, I just have to say, in this world of smartphones and Facebag and Twitters and Instas and Facebook Live and all of that stuff, it's apparent that today's traveler does not pay attention to the safety briefing that is given ahead of time before the aircraft departs.
	That was really...
	That was one of the oddest things.
	It's funny.
	I'm sure they could have done that.
	Any airline could just do a test of that and they'd find the same results.
	It was rather disheartening.
	Well, it's not that it's disheartening.
	It's that this repetitious...
	Droning about the safety, this and that.
	I'm sure that half the people could never put on that life vest, let alone blow into the tube.
	And use the little light.
	I think the light comes on automatically when you contact water.
	But yeah, if you hadn't seen all these selfies and some videos of people...
	I actually haven't seen a video.
	I've heard there's a video.
	But people inside this very unfortunate Southwest flight, few of them had the mask over their nose and mouth the way it belongs.
	It was just the oddest thing.
	Don't we know this?
	Pull it down so the flow of oxygen starts, place it over your nose and mouth, and do that before you help your kids, which is always the right way, the right sequence.
	Save yourself first before you save those rugrats.
	They tell you to do that.
	Well, a couple of things.
	One, who died?
	Because of the mask incident.
	Well, I still don't know who actually died.
	Was it the woman who got half sucked out or someone else inside the plane?
	I'm very confused about this.
	No, no.
	It's the woman who got sucked out.
	They brought her back in.
	They hauled her back in.
	And they couldn't quite...
	They couldn't resuscitate her.
	Because I guess when she got out there, just...
	Maybe...
	I don't know.
	I got the clips.
	Oh, you have clips?
	I didn't even realize.
	It was like a real bad day.
	737 report.
	ABC, here we go.
	Investigators tonight scouring that mangled engine, looking for every piece that landed on the ground 60 miles from the Philadelphia airport, hoping to learn if there is a problem with the 737 fleet.
	This was the second engine failure like this in two years.
	A source telling ABC News, they are similar engines, seems to be similar failures, metal fatigue, a fan blade breaking at about the same spot.
	New details tonight about those horrifying moments at 30,000 feet.
	The first radio call.
	Southwest 1380 has an engine, fire descending.
	Southwest 1380, are you here descending right now?
	Yes sir, we're single engine descending.
	The bang of the engine ripping apart, that window blown out, depressurization.
	A passenger sucked partway out of the jetliner.
	Other passengers jumping into action including Tim McGinty and a firefighter.
	The guy helped and we got her pulled in and they tried to resuscitate her.
	McGinty stood in front of the window to protect others.
	Jennifer Reardon lost her life.
	We learned tonight it was blunt force trauma.
	A mother of two, a marketing executive remembered tonight by her loved ones as the bedrock of our family.
	Yeah, that sucks.
	Yeah, well, yes, in a manner of speaking.
	But also, what I really don't understand from an aviation...
	Whoa, what just happened?
	Did I go dead?
	You got really loud all of a sudden, and I hear myself now.
	What did you do?
	I didn't do anything.
	I'm just sitting here.
	Oh, yeah, yeah.
	It doesn't sound like you did anything.
	Jiggle the cable.
	I can turn down my little thing.
	No, don't touch it.
	Just jiggle the cable or something.
	I don't know.
	Jiggle the handle.
	What's that?
	I don't know yet.
	What do you mean?
	No, no.
	No, this is wrong.
	How could you be wrong?
	Because you sound completely over-modulated all of a sudden.
	Here, I'll jiggle it for you.
	Maybe that'll help.
	No, no, no, no.
	Can you do me a favor?
	On your UADD box, whatever it is, can you take a look at that for a second?
	Fixed.
	Does it say Southwest Airlines on it by any chance?
	That would make some sense.
	Oh, I should have done a better job of softballing that one.
	Yeah, you did.
	You kind of ruined it.
	Let's go to the second ABC report.
	This is the 737 report 2.
	Is your airplane physically on fire?
	No, it's not on fire, but part of it's missing.
	They said there was a hole and someone went out.
	This Boeing 737 was delivered 18 years ago, but that engine was rebuilt in 2012, and Southwest says was not in need of an overhaul.
	But that apparent uncontained failure in which extremely sharp shrapnel spews forward rather than back through the engine is very similar to this 2016 Southwest incident.
	Two similar incidents.
	Are you concerned about the 737 fleet tonight?
	We are very concerned about this particular event.
	Engine failures like this should not occur, obviously.
	If we feel that this is a deeper issue, we have the capability to issue urgent safety recommendations.
	Yeah, you better believe there's some talking going on right now, because almost their entire fleet should be grounded, in my opinion.
	I don't have it in this report, but I'm listing one of the other reports they have.
	Apparently, where they had their engines rebuilt, it was one of those, Alien, like maybe in Mexico.
	No, no.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Oh, no.
	One of these places, they named the company, it's like DHB or something like that, and they never went into any details about this, but this is one of those service centers.
	I know United uses them a lot.
	Now, wait a minute.
	Was this a 737 or an Airbus?
	737.
	They only have 737s, right?
	Yeah, Southwest only flies.
	Yeah.
	And they beat them up.
	Well, but if you have some structural damage like that, there should be a service bulletin, and I think...
	They're working on it.
	They're going to get one out.
	If they get one out, I mean, they could ground...
	They fly 737s.
	That's pretty much all they have.
	They could have a real problem on their hands.
	Well, if they have another incident...
	No, it's not how it works.
	You get an incident like this, immediately the machine goes into motion.
	Well, it could be grounded.
	I don't know.
	That would be rather a big problem for them, don't you think?
	Since that's all they fly?
	Yes!
	It could kind of ground the airline.
	They do use a variety of engines.
	Oh, okay.
	Because I've noticed this as I fly on Southwest mostly.
	And there's two or three different engines on these planes.
	I thought, by the way, I just want to mention this, I thought this entire reporting on all the networks and stations was incredibly sexist.
	Really?
	Yeah.
	And here's why I think that.
	It's because the woman who is the pilot that is now a hero, it went like this.
	Oh, and she was so calm when she reported this.
	Oh, she was so calm as if...
	She'd be a normal hysterical female.
	We're all going to die.
	I don't know what I'm going to do.
	Yeah, you make a good point about that, because I didn't even realize it was a female pilot until I read about it, and I'd heard some reports, and I... But, yeah, I guess it is.
	I listened to the...
	I find it to be extremely sexist, but let's play the bonus clip, which is beyond the sexism part, even though it's kind of built into this.
	This is the make-good.
	For the sexism?
	ABC is the most commercial of all the...
	Of all the networks in terms of they always place native ads.
	This is, I don't think this is a native ad, but I think this is, okay, Southwest, we love you, we like your advertising, anything we can do for it.
	We have to report this, but we're going to have to, we'll make it better.
	So let's bring in Raditz.
	...cabin to speak with the passengers, to hug some of them.
	I know you have mutual friends who know the pilot that really just speaks volumes about her.
	It does.
	And they were in touch with her just after this happened.
	They said she was fine.
	I said, what did she say about the landing?
	And they said nothing.
	Her only concern was for the passengers and especially for the woman who was killed and that woman's family.
	That does say it all, David.
	It sure does, Martha.
	Thank you.
	I mean, come on.
	Do we need that kicker?
	I don't think so.
	Not really.
	I listened to the ATC recording.
	Most of it is online.
	And she handled everything perfectly.
	A textbook, I'd say.
	So I didn't even give it a second thought.
	So what is the point of coming in at 190 knots?
	What is the point?
	Yeah, why do you come in so hot?
	There's planes landed at 150 miles an hour.
	Well, I'd have to see a technical report.
	It's possible the flaps were disabled, there was an issue with the flaps.
	Likely, you want to, it sounds kind of strange, but you want to keep as much speed as possible so that the fire doesn't reignite.
	Ah.
	But I don't know the exact situation, but those are the two reasons I could think of.
	And flaps would seem like a number one problem if, let's say, the engine damaged some of the flap mechanism.
	You don't want just one side with flaps.
	That would make for a very interesting challenge to land.
	Ah, yeah, okay.
	But we'll know more from the report.
	But she...
	Did a fine job.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, she did.
	She used to be an F-18 pilot.
	18?
	Is that a trainer?
	No, the F-18, isn't that the Tomcat?
	What is the 18?
	No, 18 is a hot shot jet.
	Oh, all right.
	Hornet.
	I think it's a Hornet.
	We don't care.
	We don't care.
	I really don't care.
	Hey, how was your trip back from Biloxi?
	Uneventful?
	Did you have a good trip?
	No, it was very eventful for me because it was like the second time in my life That I got to sit next to the prettiest girl on the plane.
	Only the second time in your life?
	Yeah.
	Well, the prettiest of the pretty.
	There's always about three women on the plane that are attractive.
	But guess what?
	This was the 100,000th time that she sat next to an old horndog on the plane.
	Well, all I did was sell her on no agenda.
	She seemed amenable.
	All right.
	Tell us about her.
	What was her name?
	Well, I'm not going to mention anything about her in detail because it seems to me she's a very private person.
	And I warmed up to her really quickly because, well, besides the fact that she was a babe, it was no Facebook.
	Refuses to join Facebook.
	Wait, hold on.
	Can I ask you a question?
	Did you say, hey baby, what's your Facebook?
	What's your Insta?
	I mean, how'd you find out?
	Or did you just start talking about, hey, how about that Facebook?
	It was something about, somehow it got into the conversation.
	And she's also no Facebook, no Twitter.
	Are you sure she wasn't a spook?
	Are you sure she wasn't an assassin?
	I'll tell you this, but she works for an oil company.
	And let me ask you.
	Oh, she works for an oil company.
	All right.
	Did you at any point say to the most beautiful babe on the plane, hey, I'm a podcaster?
	It did.
	Wait a minute.
	I'll tell you the story.
	Now you brought it up.
	She says, what do you do?
	And I said, I'm a writer.
	And then I paused and said, and more recently, this is going to kill you.
	And I think there's something going on.
	And more recently, I've become a podcaster.
	More recently?
	And that's when she became conversational.
	It's a conversation starter right there.
	Who knew?
	Dang.
	I should wear those buttons that says, hello, I'm a podcaster.
	Listen to my podcast.
	But I have to ask you, when you say more recently, I mean, is 10 years recent for you?
	Were you embarrassed?
	Well, that's true.
	Are you embarrassed by our little show?
	No, I'm not embarrassed.
	I was selling it hard.
	Yeah, I bet.
	All the jokes are there.
	You're wide open.
	I got a kick out of it.
	It was a longer flight coming back and it was nice that she would chat once in a while about one thing or another.
	But she seemed like a no-agenda type.
	Ah, okay.
	Well, maybe she's listening now.
	Yeah, you know what?
	I really doubt it.
	Good job, John.
	Way to go.
	Let me write it down.
	Oh, you're doing that all wrong.
	You've got to go, hey, you got an iPhone?
	And I think most beautiful women have iPhones.
	Yeah, she had an iPhone.
	Yeah, and you say, oh, here, I'll set it up for you.
	And that's when you go...
	You know, bring up the podcasting app.
	You do search, no agenda.
	In the meantime...
	Steal our phone number.
	Exactly.
	Hello.
	Call your number.
	Okay, got it.
	Send a text message.
	These are new sound effects for you.
	Ah, yeah.
	Yes, I've been hanging around Moroccans.
	Long story.
	Anyway, so she was enjoyable to chat with.
	Oh, nice.
	The rest of it was I did some touring around the area, drove around New Orleans for a while, and I can't think of anything.
	The thing that is worth reporting on is the meetup.
	Yes, I'd love to hear about the meetup.
	We had about 15 people.
	Which, considering it was a last-minute meet-up in the middle of nowhere, this is where I also got called out by pretty much everyone at the meet-up for mispronouncing Biloxi.
	Oh, is it Biloxi?
	No, no.
	It's Biloxi.
	Oh, Biloxi.
	Biloxi is the way Californians pronounce it, and they get called out for it.
	Oh, bad.
	I got an email about it.
	Oh, bad boy.
	Because when I was doing the show there, I said Biloxi, and it's not.
	It's Biloxi.
	And you're an idiot if you call it Biloxi.
	So, I got that message.
	I'm sure they said it in a friendly manner, though.
	No, not really.
	Hey, it's Biloxi.
	So, they were a diverse group, and they came in from all around, including one guy who came in from Arkansas, drove 600 miles, or I think 300 miles.
	That's quite a trip.
	300 miles back.
	Ridiculous amount of driving.
	And it was just an interesting crowd.
	Everybody was, you know, noticing a kind of a continuity of these people.
	Sometimes they're more diverse than other times in terms of ethnic.
	But they all have the same...
	We've done a good job, let's put it that way, of getting people to think right.
	Oh, nice.
	Yeah.
	It really surprises me.
	So what was the demo?
	Had a guy from India.
	He was a real ethnic.
	We didn't have any blacks.
	We had a guy from India.
	But no, he wasn't from India.
	You know what?
	I'm sorry.
	I need to rephrase the question.
	What kind of colors did we have at the meetup?
	Which is apparently your answer.
	Yeah.
	Then we had just a bunch of mostly white, all white guys and about five, four women that never actually sat at the table with the guys.
	Oh, that's too bad.
	They talk to me afterwards.
	They come up and say, hi, and my husband loves your show.
	It's always my husband loves your show.
	It is often, not always, often, often.
	So were they dragged along?
	Was that the idea or were they listeners?
	I always ask them, do you listen?
	And they always usually say yes.
	Oh, okay.
	Because my husband won't turn it down is the second part of the answer.
	I'm sorry?
	It's because my husband won't turn it down when he's listening is the second part of the answer.
	Yes, I hear it because he's listening to it.
	I get the sense that there's a good portion of those folks.
	Yeah, but we got a lot of women listening.
	I know we do.
	No, I know we do too.
	Yeah, because they appreciate it when I see what the Queen has on and report on that.
	Which you poo-pooed, I might add.
	And I continue to do so.
	Okay, that's still this important stuff.
	Okay, so...
	We drank a bunch of beer in this crazy bar in the middle of nowhere.
	Yeah, actually, I think I saw a post somewhere.
	Yeah, that you got pretty funny after five brown ales is what I heard.
	Yeah, I didn't even drink a whole beer, I don't think.
	Okay.
	I'm just pretty funny anyway.
	Ah, there you go.
	There's a lot of right bald tales told by all.
	And do you pour it into the plant?
	And like, oh, this is great.
	There's no plant.
	And anything interesting?
	Anyone give us any news?
	Boots on the ground?
	Interesting occupations?
	You know, deets?
	Insider info?
	There's two or three people there that had interesting occupations.
	And, you know, unless they want me to, I just...
	It was good, apparently.
	Good occupations, yes.
	Say no more.
	We don't want to put anyone at risk, ever.
	Right.
	Right.
	All right.
	Well, that sounds good.
	Yeah, it was enjoyable.
	Okay.
	And the meeting itself that I went to, which I talked about already in the last show, it's not...
	It was pretty uneventful.
	You could have been stuck at TSA for hours.
	You wouldn't have cared after you sat next to the babe or the plane.
	Here's the weird thing about it.
	I'm going to go back to the babe.
	They have this seating.
	I'm on United.
	They have this crazy seating.
	And I had to go back, Coach.
	Gladly in this situation.
	But it was like they have these different group one, it's like an old Southwest thing and they got signage and you stand there and you get in line to get on the plane.
	And then your luggage has to go away in the back because you can't, there's no, the way they fill it.
	You'd think that with this crazy, they got some computer that puts you in a different group to go on the plane.
	So the plane loads well.
	You'd think The window seat, which I had, would be in the early group, because the window guy goes in there, so you don't have to get people out of their seats and make them stand in the aisle as you go to your window seat.
	I got there, and there was two people there.
	The aisle seat and the middle seat was filled.
	Yeah.
	And I'm in the window.
	What is United doing?
	So they have to get out for you to get in.
	And here's another thing.
	This actually got the conversation started with this woman.
	Was she in the middle seat?
	Yeah.
	Oh, man.
	Yeah.
	So I'm looking at the United menu for these horrible snacks, which are inedible.
	It's unbelievably bad.
	And they have wine and beer.
	The wine and beer is like $8.
	Whoa!
	So I nudged her and said, do you fly a lot on United?
	And she says, yeah, I do.
	I said, when did the beer and wine become...
	I started grousing.
	And she found that very attractive.
	Ha ha ha!
	Pay attention, dudes.
	I said, when did the wine and beers begin to cost $8?
	And then she goes off and she says, ah, it's outrageous.
	We're losing the country.
	And she goes on and on this tirade.
	And did you buy her her drink?
	She refused to have anything from the menu.
	She brought a bunch of stuff.
	Oh, she's one of those unpackers?
	Did she unpack a whole lunch, or was it...
	Pretty much...
	Well, it's mostly snacks.
	Did she share any snacks with you?
	Yes, she did.
	She shared a...
	Scooby snacks?
	No, it's these...
	It's all healthy.
	It was some...
	You know, these dried green beans that substitute for potato chips.
	You ever seen those things?
	Ha ha!
	It's like, what?
	You're not going to say to this babe, like, man, that sucks.
	What are you eating?
	Give me some peanuts.
	I'm not doing that.
	I said, wow, this is a good idea.
	It was probably kale.
	You didn't know it.
	No, it was a bean.
	Unless kale comes in bean form.
	She doesn't seem like a kale eater.
	Okay.
	I'm just guessing.
	I could be wrong.
	But anyway, it was good.
	Here's the thing.
	At the end of a trip like this, did you nod off at any point with your head on her shoulder?
	Did she nod off on yours?
	Are you nuts?
	I was afraid of nodding off and starting to snore.
	You were actually pinching yourself just to stay awake.
	Don't embarrass yourself.
	Don't drool on this woman, Dvorak.
	So then you arrive, and then there's that moment where you're going to say, hey, well, have a good trip home, or welcome home, or hey, nice flying with you.
	Or just like, boom, done.
	She was traveling.
	Out of town.
	So she wasn't going to be home.
	She had to take a connection.
	But did you guys say goodbye?
	I had to go get my...
	Because this stupid loading procedure had my...
	I had to put my bag 11 aisles back.
	I don't know how much you would enjoy fighting the crowd.
	No, no, no.
	You know what that is?
	I've witnessed this.
	I've paid close attention to it.
	There is a high percentage of people who are incredible a-holes, and as they're walking back toward their seat, they'll just throw their bag wherever they can.
	Any empty space, which of course is not their designated overhead space.
	But they do that because they don't want to have to either carry it or they get up to the front, they can just grab it, people are already gone.
	It's the most selfish thing I see on a regular basis.
	And I think that's why your bag got pushed all the way to the back.
	I'm sure that element exists, yes.
	Yeah, people do that sort of thing.
	But still, I should have been one of the early boarders.
	Yeah.
	Because of where I was seated.
	United really has deteriorated.
	Not so much in the airplanes.
	I was in a 319.
	It was fine.
	But their Wi-Fi doesn't work, even though they claim it does, but it's always breaking, so that's no good.
	If you want to watch movies, you watch them on the Wi-Fi through this United app.
	And this United app is, if you look at, just go look in the reviews on the Google Play Store.
	I'm sure it's mint.
	One star, one star, one star, one star.
	It's a piece of crap.
	I could never get it to work.
	Well, see, I flew on Delta, and Delta has their own studio, Delta Studios.
	And they do all kinds of things, yes.
	Just like Amazon.
	I am digging the Deltas these days.
	Especially because they drag people off of their a-holes.
	I mean, that to me is just a benefit.
	Wi-Fi is great.
	Wi-Fi over the Atlantic.
	Doesn't get much better than that on a long trip.
	You got Wi-Fi?
	It worked.
	That's fantastic.
	And as a T-Mobile customer, free!
	If you're T-Mobile, it's free?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Really?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	No, it was really good.
	That's a good deal.
	Yeah, I mean, the food was probably just as atrocious as yours.
	However, being an economy comfort passenger, as an economy comfort passenger, I don't have to pay for my alcohol, and I've discovered that on Delta, if you ask for Prosecco, they give you a 250-milliliter bottle.
	A little bitty bottle?
	250 milliliters is...
	Oh, yeah, it's a half bottle.
	Well, actually, no.
	No, it's a quarter bottle.
	It's a quarter bottle.
	No, that's a third bottle because 750 is a big bottle, so it's a third of a bottle.
	It's a good two full plastic cups.
	Well, of course.
	You're not going to...
	Not like, oh, and here's your crystal glass, Mr.
	Curry.
	No.
	Well, I got the contrast first glass, which I went out on.
	And the bigger seat, you know, the specially good economy.
	In other words, you got an extra inch of leg room still cramped.
	Yeah.
	When I went out, I was sitting next to a guy, curiously, based on the news of the engine failure, who was an engineer who did those metals.
	And what did he say?
	It was on the way out before the incident.
	He would have probably given me some good stuff.
	Did you get his number?
	No, I didn't get his number.
	Senseless conversation.
	Okay.
	So I flew through Detroit, which I should never have done Atlanta in the past.
	How stupid.
	Oh no, Detroit's terrific.
	It's on the way.
	It's on the way.
	That's number one.
	Atlanta's not on the way.
	It's on the way.
	You don't have this ridiculous 40-minute transfer time.
	Everything's in Terminal A, which, yeah, you can take the train, but you can walk it.
	It's not that bad.
	And it's not that busy.
	It's nice.
	I really enjoyed Detroit.
	Although my pager didn't work there, sadly.
	Your pager's never going to work anywhere.
	It works fine.
	It worked at 8,000 feet taken off from Austin.
	What are you, paging people from 8,000 feet?
	I'm paging myself to see if it worked.
	Yeah, I put like 5,000 feet, click, send.
	6,000 feet, click, send.
	Well, you're testing it.
	Yes, of course I was testing it.
	For the giblet you're going to write.
	Oh, man.
	I've already had an offer.
	You mean you've had an offer?
	I've had an offer.
	An agent has contacted me for a book.
	Where is this agent located?
	How come the same agent, he's obviously listening to the show, hasn't contacted me about the vinegar book?
	She heard about it from her husband.
	I hate to say it, but yes.
	You did it!
	Perfect ring.
	Good, isn't it?
	I'm not kidding either.
	That was dynamite.
	It's really true.
	Well, it has to be true to be good.
	I like the way you saved it up.
	It's like a giant shaggy dog story.
	It was very hard.
	I just had to squeeze myself.
	Anyway, so...
	So he's an agent and he...
	No, she's an agent.
	Yeah.
	And she said...
	And she's located where?
	I don't remember right now.
	They're offhand.
	I don't know.
	Anyway.
	But...
	So on the way back, I have two hours transfer time, which is really neat.
	Wow, man.
	The whole idea of...
	What is it?
	The global entry.
	It's just ripping you off.
	You say this every time you go over there.
	Pittsburgh.
	Yeah, it pisses me off because I had to go through all that rigmarole and pay good money to get this credential, and all you do is turn left and stand in front of a different terminal.
	Everybody else gets the same treatment.
	They have a kiosk, and boop, take your piece of paper, and you're good to go.
	There's no global entry exit.
	Everyone goes to the same door.
	It's a scam.
	It is.
	It is a total scam.
	Maybe it will develop into something.
	And because I'm supposed to have pre-check, here's the thing that is broken about the system.
	And it's Atlanta, it's JFK, it's everywhere.
	When you arrive from an international flight in transit, so you get your bag and then you have to go through security again, and your ticket will never say pre-check because that is done only at U.S. airports when the boarding pass is printed out.
	European airports can't do that, yet they issue your boarding pass at your point of departure.
	And it's just irksome.
	You mean they issue a boarding pass for your American leg?
	Yes, yes, yes, yes.
	Yes, they do.
	But the European airports can't issue the pre-check.
	So you never have a pre-check.
	Okay, no problem.
	I'll say I'm like a stupid slave.
	We go through everything.
	And there's a couple of new things.
	One is you can't put your shoes in a bin.
	They have to be on the belt directly.
	I looked at the guy and said, yeah.
	This was not the case, domestic, domestic.
	Well, I said to him, well, that's new.
	We said, yeah.
	Yes, it is new.
	I'm sorry.
	I said, oh, it's okay.
	It's just, that's confusing to the average traveler.
	Shut up.
	No, this was at Sheeple?
	No, this was Detroit.
	No, Sheeple had a different rule.
	The rule was, if your shoes do not cover your ankles, you can keep them on.
	Man, these guys just keep making it up as they go.
	Totally made up.
	They're just doing this to torment the public.
	Totally made up.
	Because, you know, the shoe bomber where this all originated had the liquid or the bomb in the sole of his shoe.
	It wasn't in his ankle.
	But, okay.
	So, of course, I had to take my boots off.
	But, anyway, back to Detroit.
	And anything, any electronics larger than a cell phone.
	Okay.
	That means you're loaded for bear.
	I have two bags.
	Do they go straight on the belt?
	No.
	Well, here's how I did it.
	First, I put my shoes on the belt, directly on the conveyor belt, as requested.
	I take the two laptops out.
	I got the Chromebook and I got the big honker, which I do the show on.
	And then I have the shoulder bag, which contains most of the studio.
	And I always take the microphone out and put it separately because they always want to see it because they're always thinking, guys got a dildo.
	Let's embarrass him.
	I know they're doing it and I always say it to them, too.
	And I think it's funny when I call them out.
	But, you know, there's tons of electronics in there bigger than a cell phone.
	So I put it through, and then, of course, you know, the bag gets flagged.
	And I said, yeah, it looks like it's turning up opaque electronics in here.
	I said, yeah, the whole bag is electronics.
	Well, yeah, but it looks like it's bigger than a cell phone.
	You should have taken it out.
	I said, well, but why don't we just look through the bag?
	And then they spend at least a minute and a half trying to figure out how to open it.
	He says, it's on the top.
	Flips it over on its side.
	No, it's on the top.
	Flips it on, you know, upside down.
	No, it's on the top.
	It's like a rectangular shoulder bag.
	And guess what they looked at the longest and hardest and had a conversation about?
	The microphone.
	Nope.
	The mixer.
	Nope.
	The cable.
	Nope.
	The slide whistle.
	You brought your slide whistle.
	They couldn't figure it out.
	They could not figure it out.
	And they're like feeling the edge there if it's sharp.
	You know, yeah, that's right.
	I'm a terrorist.
	I'm going to stab people with my slide whistle.
	They actually had a conversation.
	Like, you know, the mouthpiece, I think you have the same I have, which is just one piece of metal.
	I have the exact same with the US Slide Whistle Company, whatever it's called.
	Yes, the US Slide Whistle Company.
	It'd be like feeling the edge.
	Like, is that too sharp?
	You know, I guess you could ram it into someone's eye.
	Geez, people.
	And they look shanked by the slide, I tell you.
	So that was kind of odd.
	That was very odd.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Anyway.
	Not to mention it.
	Well, I wasn't going to travel with a slide whistle anyway, but I definitely won't do it in the future.
	Well, maybe check it in your bag.
	I don't know why you're traveling with a slide whistle.
	A slide whistle is not a key to the show.
	Well...
	The key to the show is this.
	And luckily they had one at the other place.
	And the bell they had was much better than my bell.
	Yeah, yeah, sure.
	Okay.
	Nice.
	All right.
	Meanwhile, back at the ranch, things were happening around the globe.
	Let me see what I've got here.
	We can talk Syria.
	We could talk Comey.
	Comey's kind of entertaining.
	Comey's a kick.
	I got, I mean, even over in Gitmo Lowlands, I was listening to stuff.
	It was just, maybe I should start with this first.
	He did an interview with Terry Gross, Fresh Air.
	Fresh Air on NPR. Hello, hi.
	Hi, I'm Terry Gross.
	This is Terry Gross on Fresh Air.
	Fresh Air.
	Today with James Comey.
	Well, I have some issues.
	She's the one, by the way, who's called out for constantly using so at the beginning of almost every sentence.
	I didn't notice it.
	I was really listening for content, and I have some issues with her interview style, her editorial choices, and then I have a question.
	Really, only two clips.
	We'll start.
	Donald Trump's presidency.
	Oh, yeah.
	I'm sorry.
	The first she starts off with, I'd like you to read this passage from your book.
	Oh, and she pulls an anti-Trump passage.
	Donald Trump's presidency threatens much of what is good in this nation.
	We all bear responsibility for the deeply flawed choices put before voters during the 2016 election, and our country is paying a high price.
	This president is unethical and untethered to truth and institutional values.
	His leadership is transactional, ego-driven, and about personal loyalty.
	We are fortunate some ethical leaders have chosen to serve and to stay at senior levels of government, but they cannot prevent all of the damage from the forest fire that is the Trump presidency.
	Their task is to try to contain it.
	Okay, so that's what he had to read.
	Nice.
	So that's what she has him, right off the bat, she has him read.
	Right off the bat.
	What a douchebag she is.
	Yeah, so please read this.
	And then she goes into, you know, really the crux of his message, which is what he's so afraid of, but it was just, well, I'll jump in and tell you what I take issue with.
	It sounds to me like you are trying to sound the alarm.
	Do you see that as your role?
	To sound the alarm.
	I think so.
	And I think to remind people that there's something in this country that we actually all have in common, as ferocious as our disputes can be about guns or about taxes or about immigration, we share a set of values that really that's all America is, is a collection of ideas.
	Hold on a second.
	I disagree.
	Right there.
	America's not just a collection of ideas.
	Well, to a globalist, yeah.
	Yeah, to a globalist it is.
	We have borders.
	Can you play that again, because I think you're onto something.
	This guy is disgusting.
	Oh, yeah.
	Ferocious as our disputes can be about guns or about taxes or about immigration.
	We share a set of values that, really, that's all America is, is a collection of ideas.
	No, no, no.
	We have a border.
	We have culture.
	We have history.
	We have...
	We all speak English.
	We have a common language.
	We have common money.
	Kind of.
	It's digital, but, you know.
	Yeah, you know, it's like, yeah, to a globalist, it may seem like, oh, we're just a set of ideas, but we...
	Right, we just blend in with the globalists.
	And then notice the three things he mentions.
	Shoot, I'll play it again.
	Well, he's from the big bank.
	Let's not lose sight of the fact that this guy's from HSBC. Well, let's not lose sight of the fact this is the guy who put Martha Stewart in jail.
	Right.
	We have to keep her, because I was talking with Tina about that last night.
	I'm like, I'm really disappointed.
	This guy's a total dick.
	I thought he was going to be kind of cool.
	It's not like this is a new revelation to me at this point.
	We're talking about this, and we have to remember, this is the weenie boy who put Martha Stewart in jail.
	Ooh, big six-foot-seven Jim Comey.
	Listen to what he's really talking about here, though.
	Ferocious as our disputes can be about guns or about taxes or about immigration.
	Guns, taxes, and immigration.
	Well, that's the shitty ideas we got here in America.
	We share a set of values that really that's all America is, is a collection of ideas.
	And he conflates values with ideas.
	And that people ought to look above their fights about policy and realize this presidency threatens something very fundamental that is above partisanship and hope by talking about it...
	That we're all from the earth.
	No, no, no.
	Just listen to this for a second.
	That is above partisanship and hope by talking about it to energize people to focus on that and rise above the normal policy fights.
	So my...
	Next question, I think, would be, what is that exactly that is destroying us and that is bigger than all of us and that is so horrible and we have to really be afraid of?
	Am I stupid for asking this question?
	Should I understand what he's talking about?
	What does he mean?
	If I was Miss Gross, Miss Gross.
	Terry, if I was her, I would ask that question immediately.
	What do you think it is, though?
	I don't know.
	That he doesn't work with the same...
	He doesn't follow the same rules that have somehow become normalized as Eisenhower, but before him it was anything goes?
	I have no idea.
	Let's listen to his description again.
	And that people ought to look above their fights about policy and realize this presidency threatens something very fundamental.
	Threatens something very fundamental.
	What?
	The globalist movement, it seems to me, the thing that world government is what it threatens.
	Right, but is he not saying that because he doesn't want us to catch on to what he really means, or is he trying to imply something else?
	I really am at a loss for words.
	I think he's trying to imply that Trump's immoral.
	Okay.
	That is above partisanship and hope, by talking about it, to energize people to focus on that and rise above the normal policy fights.
	Okay, I'm energized.
	I want to rise above the normal fights about policy.
	Terry Gross, ask him, what is he talking about?
	If Robert Mueller is fired, or if Rod Rosenstein is fired...
	There you go.
	That's her follow-up.
	She starts with a new question.
	Her follow-up to that crazy comment is that...
	How's Moeller doing?
	That's exactly what she does.
	And this is the second question of the interview.
	Alright, now...
	I'm sorry you had to endure this.
	And it was an hour.
	It was rather long.
	Now, here he's saying stuff that we just have to listen.
	I mean, what I like about the guy is he's very well-spoken.
	And you can really understand what he's saying.
	There's no little...
	It's just a clean speech.
	But the content of what he's saying is questionable.
	So you decided to make this announcement yourself, and you felt it would be inappropriate for...
	I'm sorry.
	So this is now...
	Now what he's going to be talking about, or I think what Terry Gross asked is, all right, so why did you come out and say, well, there's...
	We're investigating Hillary, then we're not investigating, and then we are, but she was okay.
	She was really not careful.
	And, of course, this is what people like Harry Gross would say is what lost the election for Hillary.
	And this is really like the third or fourth question.
	It was just booming through everything.
	So you decided to make this announcement yourself.
	She said so twice in a row.
	Yes.
	As predicted.
	Let's listen again.
	So you decided to make this announcement yourself and you felt it would be inappropriate for Loretta Lynch to do it for a couple of reasons.
	One, you thought that she might look compromised after the now famous tarmac meeting that she had with President Clinton.
	And also there was some classified material relating to her that you thought might eventually come out and cast doubt.
	And so I want to read a paragraph from your book.
	You write, a development still unknown to the American public to this day.
	At that time we were alerted to some materials that...
	Wow, did you hear her read?
	Yeah, I was thinking the same thing when she said the word day.
	To this day.
	She's dramatizing it.
	To this day.
	Might eventually come out and cast doubt.
	And so I want to read a paragraph from your book.
	You write, a development still unknown to the American public to this day.
	To this day.
	To this day.
	It actually works when you play it the second time.
	To this day!
	Oh yes, I'm here with James Comey.
	I can call him Jim.
	Yes, it's horrible.
	To this day.
	So I want to read a paragraph from your book.
	You write,"...a development still unknown to the American public to this day.
	At that time we were alerted to some materials that had come into the possession of the U.S. government.
	They came from a classified source.
	The source and content of that material remains classified as I write this." Had it become public, the unverified material would undoubtedly have been used by political opponents to cast serious doubt on the Attorney General's independence and connection with the Clinton investigation.
	Now, maybe I missed something, but I didn't know about this.
	I didn't know about this either, and it's kind of scandalous that we don't know about it.
	Well, from what I, and I'm going to let Comey jump in here, from what I understand, it's never going to see the light of day.
	So, this was kind of surprising to me because you're casting doubt on Loretta Lynch through a classified document that you can't reveal.
	So, is that being fair to her to cast doubt on her without saying what the alleged infraction was?
	Kettle?
	Pot calling.
	Yeah, I get that question.
	I get that.
	I hope so, given the way I've written it.
	I tried very hard in at least two places in the book to explain that I don't believe Loretta Lynch acted improperly in overseeing this investigation.
	I saw no indication that she was shaping it, steering it, or in cahoots with the Clinton campaign.
	And I try to explain that.
	But even though I never saw that, there was material, and I get the frustration, but I'm limited by what the FBI will let me say, given the classification.
	There was material that would allow that to be doubted and a corrosive concern about whether the investigation actually was independent to creep in.
	There is speculation in the press that the classified document that you're talking about is an email that had said that Loretta Lynch had promised to go easy on Hillary Clinton in the email investigation.
	And there's also speculation that that email in question was a fake.
	It was released during the time of...
	That's probably your Lib Joe, buddies.
	Ah, that's a fake email.
	It's just a fake email.
	And there's also speculation that that email in question was a fake.
	It was released during the time of the hack of the DNC and John Podesto, who was the head of the Hillary campaign.
	Can you say anything to clarify this?
	Not much, Terry.
	I guess I can say this.
	The underlying material was genuine.
	Whoa!
	You got butt slammed!
	Whether its content was true or not is a different question.
	And we never found any indication, as I said, that Loretta acted improperly.
	And so it's much more about perception than about any actual concern that Loretta was acting improperly.
	Make note of him using her first name now.
	Loretta.
	That is sexist.
	Yeah.
	So we're not going to know.
	And if you think Terry Gross followed up by saying, well, when can we, you know, can we get this under FOIA? Is there a sunset clause?
	You know, how long will this be locked up?
	You know, who has access to it?
	Who can see it?
	No, nothing.
	Never came back to the topic.
	I think that's, you know, and that's public media.
	Yeah, public media.
	They don't care.
	Okay, I have a couple more Podestas.
	I mean Podesta, Comeys.
	Let me see what I had.
	Yes, yes, yes, yes.
	Well, he was on Colbert.
	I don't know if you saw that.
	I just have a little clip.
	I saw a clip of it.
	It was like good old boys getting together, you know, pals.
	If it felt like you were working for a mob boss, were you surprised that you got whacked?
	Because that's what they do.
	I actually was quite surprised because I thought, I'm leading the Russia investigation.
	Even though our relationship was becoming strained, there's no way I'm going to get fired or whacked.
	Why?
	Why wouldn't you get fired?
	Because that would be a crazy thing to do.
	Why would you fire the FBI director who's leading the Russia investigation?
	Because you're leading the Russia investigation.
	I guarantee you this was written.
	Most people believe it was, yes, it was scripted.
	And why wouldn't you?
	If I go on one of these shows and they're going to let me use their writers for material, I'm in.
	It's a crazy thing to do.
	Why would you fire the FBI director who's leading the Russia investigation?
	Yeah.
	Because you're leading the Russia investigation.
	I don't know if you've dealt with mob bosses before, but they don't like to be investigated.
	Are there things, you know, I know you can't keep secrets and all that kind of stuff, but are there things that you...
	Doesn't he say you can't keep secrets?
	No, he says you...
	I think it just said you keep secrets and that kind of stuff.
	Investigated.
	Are there things, you know, I know you can't keep secrets and all that kind of stuff.
	He says you can't keep secrets.
	I'm not the best at hearing.
	I think can't.
	He didn't say can't.
	No way.
	Are there things that you know about the Russian investigation that were happening before you were fired that we haven't learned yet as a public?
	Yes.
	Can you tell me what those are?
	Uh, no.
	No?
	Yeah.
	And they're not in the book.
	I had to have my book reviewed by the FBI. Oh, really?
	To make sure it didn't include classified information or any sensitive investigative information.
	Okay.
	So it's not in the book and I can't talk about it.
	Okay.
	Um...
	Drink some more wine.
	He could have a career in broadcasting, though, for sure.
	He's got a good voice.
	Very recognizable.
	It's recognizable and it's not offensive.
	And it's at standard tempo and pace, so you can always count on him.
	I think you're right.
	Yeah, you can count on him.
	You know what he could be?
	He could become a podcaster.
	There you go.
	Pick up hot babes.
	Get the blondes.
	Pick up hot babes on the plane.
	Now, he also appeared on The View.
	The book tour is vast and wide.
	I saw someone.
	I got a pack of gum at the airport, and I saw someone buy the book.
	I'm like, huh?
	Oh, jeez.
	Yeah.
	Picked up a copy.
	Hard copy.
	So it was on The View, and a long interview, and there was, you know, like, the McCain girl was pissed off at him, but, you know, he's having kind of a semi-rough go of it in general, and this is Sonny, Sonny, She was a former U.S. attorney or assistant U.S. attorney, I think.
	And she's very confused about the fact that he talked about the Hillary Clinton email investigation at all, because you're not supposed to do that, so he's going to explain that.
	And then she's going to say, well, if you did that, well, why didn't you say anything about the Trump investigation?
	Because that was important for, you know, this is the standard line from the people who are sad that Hillary lost.
	And I understand their point.
	But what he says in his explanation, there's some big issues here.
	I worked at the Justice Department as an AUSA in D.C. And the policy was, and I believe it still is, is that you cannot comment on an ongoing investigation.
	And that is because it compromises the integrity of the investigation.
	And while I've always been such a fan of yours, quite frankly...
	I was surprised.
	Especially when you locked up Martha Stewart.
	We were all cheering.
	You were so awesome.
	I was surprised that you commented on the reopening of Clinton's investigation.
	Because really, that is against everything that I learned and that I believed in when I was at the Justice Department.
	Sounds like you broke her heart, doesn't it?
	Like, you were my hero.
	Well, if she had been logical, she'd say, is the only reason that you broke this rule is to queer the investigation?
	Now, she's just sad about the whole thing.
	Well, here we go.
	I didn't understand it.
	The Hillary Clinton investigation opened in the middle of 2015.
	We didn't comment on it for three months, even though it had begun with a public referral.
	The whole world knew we were doing it.
	We applied that same policy.
	We decided, Loretta Lynch decided that it wasn't appropriate until the beginning of October.
	Notice, he says we, and then changed it to Loretta.
	October.
	So that's the rule.
	We announced the closure of it.
	The problem we faced, the nightmare we faced in late October was, we've told the American people...
	Something that is no longer true.
	That justifies an exception to the normal rule, because if we don't tell them, we don't choose between speak and conceal, if we just put the pillow over our head and go back to sleep, we will have defrauded the American people.
	That's how I thought about it.
	So you're absolutely right.
	Extraordinary exception.
	I believe it's a 500-year flood.
	I pray no future leader of the Department of Justice has to deal with it, but that's what we faced.
	But, Director, then why not tell the American people that there was an investigation going on with Russia about the very bedrock of our democracy, that the Russians were colluding, perhaps, to attack our democracy?
	If you're going to comment on one investigation...
	What did she say?
	What were they trying to do to our democracy?
	I missed that.
	Trying to do something nasty.
	I pray no future leader of the Department of Justice has to deal with it, but that's what we faced.
	But, Director, then why not tell the American people that there was an investigation going on with Russia about the very bedrock of our democracy, that the Russians were colluding, perhaps, to a time of our democracy?
	If you're going to comment on one investigation, why would you not comment on another if you're going to break that rule?
	Why not break it when it's probably more important?
	Yeah, another great question.
	That's not a great question!
	I actually think our handling of the two illustrates...
	I can't help myself.
	He says it a lot, by the way.
	Yeah, he...
	Yeah, I can see that.
	I like the fact that you've clipped me to keep me from doing that bit.
	You started...
	It's very good.
	You've managed to...
	Yeah, pretty soon I'll just have a whole jingle pad with you on it.
	I won't even need to do this show.
	You don't need to show up.
	Probably more important.
	Yeah, another great question.
	That's not a great question!
	I actually think our handling of the two illustrates our adherence to the rule.
	There are two things that were going on in the summer of 2016.
	One was, in late July, we opened counterintelligence investigations on a very small group of Americans, not Donald Trump, trying to understand, is there some connection between these people and the other thing that's going on in the summer of 2016, which is a huge Russian effort to mess with our election?
	Mess, to mess, to mess with our election.
	Nice legal explanation.
	But here's what I understand.
	They opened an investigation to a limited number of people, not Donald Trump, to see if they were involved with something.
	But if this was under the FISA warrant, which I think is what he's talking about, so they were wiretapping certain individuals...
	You can only do that, and I read from the Book of Knowledge, with an approval of a FISA application which requires the court find probable cause that the target of the surveillance be a foreign power or an agent of a foreign power.
	But he didn't have that.
	They have no probable cause.
	They were making the...
	Assertion.
	That's the word.
	They were making the assertion that Carter Page was indeed an agent.
	But he had already worked for them years before.
	We know that story's bullcrap because he had already worn a wire for years and had testified against someone colluding with the FBI. Well, maybe they made the assertion he's a double agent or perhaps they were talking about metaphor.
	Hmm.
	Hmm.
	Well, but...
	Manafort had to file his papers that he was a foreign agent.
	Right, right.
	But what you hear him saying is, we were basically fishing around to see if anything was going on.
	You know?
	Any collusion?
	Yeah, that's exactly what they were doing.
	Yeah, but that's not what a FISA warrant should be used for.
	Right.
	No, in fact, this is more of that slippage that you get when you get some powers, and the powers are very clearly delineated, and then you push the boundaries a little bit.
	Ooh, that worked.
	Let's try this.
	And you push them again.
	And the next thing you know, you're getting FISA warrants for guys just doing illegal welding.
	Yeah.
	Two things that were going on in the summer of 2016.
	One was, in late July, we opened counterintelligence investigations on a very small group of Americans, not Donald Trump, trying to understand, is there some connection between these people and the other thing that's going on in the summer of 2016, which is a huge Russian effort to mess with our elections?
	Mess.
	Talking about those two things, we actually focused on what should we...
	I'm sorry.
	They didn't know about the huge Russian initiative to mess with our elections.
	They thought there was actual collusion, which is guys, you know, doing things.
	It was about the sanctions.
	Oh, I'll take the sanctions off.
	Vlad, don't worry about it.
	Root for me.
	They didn't know about facebag analytica and all that stuff at the time.
	He's full of shit.
	His timeline is off.
	Yeah, well, I think full of shit is a good operative word.
	...16, which is a huge Russian effort to mess with our election.
	Right.
	Talking about those two things...
	We actually focused on what should we say about the entire Russian effort?
	There actually was no serious discussion about disclosing a counterintelligence investigation that had just started.
	Because we didn't know whether we had anything.
	We didn't want to tip off these Americans that we were looking at them.
	And what would we say?
	We've just started looking and there may be something there.
	It doesn't involve Donald Trump.
	And so we couldn't see.
	In fact, it was so obvious.
	That's your American government right there.
	We just started looking.
	Maybe something there.
	Don't know.
	Give me a FISA warrant.
	That's bullshit.
	He said we didn't want to tip off the Americans?
	Yeah.
	I thought that was, again, you said earlier, looking from the background on the FISA court.
	Yeah.
	It's not about spying on Americans.
	Apparently it is now.
	Yeah.
	He's just saying it openly.
	Where are the journos?
	We were looking at them, and what would we say?
	We've just started looking, and there may be something there, and it doesn't involve Donald Trump, and so we couldn't see.
	In fact, it was so obvious there wasn't an exception.
	We didn't debate it.
	What we debated, and what President Obama struggled with, is should we tell the American people about the other thing?
	Which means Obama knew about it.
	Obama obviously knew about it.
	He's the one who's pals with Loretta Lynch.
	They're buddies.
	But they're going to drag him into it.
	That's going to be the next target.
	They're going to drag Obama into it.
	They haven't touched his holiness yet, but they will.
	I think so.
	They will.
	Almost done.
	And so we couldn't see.
	In fact, it was so obvious there wasn't an exception.
	We didn't debate it.
	What we debated and what President Obama struggled with is, should we tell the American people about the other thing, the big Russian effort?
	Yes.
	And I thought we should and offered in August to be the person who did it.
	Yeah.
	And I wrote a draft op-ed for a major newspaper saying the Russians are coming for our election.
	America needs to know about it.
	And they didn't take me up on the offer.
	They deliberated.
	I know why President Obama struggled.
	Because if you do it, have you accomplished the Russians' goal?
	Now, is he saying that the newspaper didn't go for it or that Obama nixed it, his op-ed, saying the Russians are coming?
	Paul, James Comey Revere.
	The Russians are coming.
	The Russians are coming.
	Well, the way he states it...
	First of all, let's put it...
	Let's back up a little bit and discuss the editorial policies of the New York Times.
	He didn't say the Times, but we presume it's the Times.
	Well, even the Washington Post, New York Times, it would be the Times.
	That's where he'd go for it.
	I mean, that's your target for putting out something.
	Right.
	Woppo.
	There's no way in hell that the New York Times is not taking an op-ed...
	It would be an op-ed...
	Of Comey's.
	This is not going to happen because the director of the FBI, unless it's poorly written.
	If it's a piece of crap, they're not going to take it.
	This doesn't make any sense.
	And they kick it back.
	That can happen.
	But under normal circumstances, they're not going to reject it.
	At first brush, as I've listened to this a couple of times, I also thought, wow, why would a big paper turn down an op-ed by Comey about the Russians coming?
	But then he flows into it.
	He says they nixed it.
	I think it was Obama who nixed it.
	You might be right.
	Offered in August to be the person who did it.
	Hold on a second.
	Stop.
	Does the woman that's interviewing him now say to him, hey, who are you talking about when you say they?
	That's the first thing you should do, right?
	She only cares about herself, right?
	Right.
	Right.
	And what President Obama struggled with is, should we tell the American people about the other thing, the big Russian effort?
	Yes.
	And I thought we should and offered in August to be the person who did it.
	And I wrote a draft op-ed for a major newspaper saying, the Russians are coming for our election.
	America needs to know about it.
	And they didn't take me up on the offer.
	They deliberated.
	I know why President Obama struggled.
	Because if you do it, have you accomplished the Russians' goal?
	So it's even worse.
	Here's how it goes.
	He wrote an op-ed, the New York Times or WAPO saw it, and Obama said, no, you're not going to publish that.
	That would be, uh...
	Collusion.
	Any collusion?
	I mean, that's just sick.
	It's bad.
	And he chose to have Hillary's announcement made, but not, you know, should we tell the people about the other thing?
	...up on the offer.
	They deliberated.
	I know why President Obama struggled.
	Because if you do it, have you accomplished the Russians' goal?
	They want to undermine confidence in our election.
	So if the President of the United States says, the Russians are messing with us, did they just undermine confidence in our election?
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Well, great choice.
	Thanks, Obama.
	They didn't know anything.
	Unbelievable.
	Good series of clips.
	I got a final shorty.
	Of course, we wish we could hear Hillary on the topic.
	We got the next best thing.
	Podesta with Brolf.
	I think he's throwing shade on everybody.
	He's throwing shade on everybody.
	John Podesta, now an MC, hip-hop mogul.
	Stop throwing shade, Comey.
	I think he's throwing shade on everybody, but accepting very little responsibility.
	I guess he learns that from the kids.
	He had this message for Hillary Clinton.
	Listen to this.
	I even hope Hillary Clinton at least reads those parts of the book, because I think she will walk away saying, you know what, I still think that guy's an idiot, but, you know, he's kind of an honest idiot, and he's trying to do the right thing here.
	Have you spoken to Hillary Clinton, gotten her reaction to this book?
	Not since the book, not since his interviews.
	So how do you think, but you know her well, you worked with her for a long time, how do you think she's going to respond when she says...
	I still think this guy's an idiot, but no, he's kind of an honest idiot.
	Do you think she'll agree with him?
	Look, I never, I never, I have done interviews since the election.
	I've never attacked Mr.
	Comey for trying to do something that was for a partisan reason.
	To some extent, his arrogance that led him to make a very bad error of judgment.
	So, if she doesn't agree with him, I guess I can agree with him.
	That he's an honest idiot, but I thought he was an idiot in the context of this election, and that it was influential in the outcome, and now we have someone who, as he said, is morally unfit to be President of the United States.
	Are you going to read this book?
	I don't think so.
	You think Hillary Clinton will read this book?
	I doubt it.
	I read the transcript, the five-hour transcript.
	That was enough for me.
	A bunch of douchebags.
	It's really just giddy.
	Getting all giddy with it.
	Well, this is the old book tour.
	Oh, yeah.
	It's a good book tour.
	It's a pain in the butt.
	I think his book tour, because he's got top drawer, top men working on it.
	It's a good book tour because he gets a lot of TV stuff.
	He's got banners, man.
	He's got banners.
	Huge banners.
	They're pushing this book.
	Who's publishing it?
	Who's the publisher?
	I don't know.
	It's got to be one of the big boys.
	We should ban them.
	We should boycott them.
	Yeah, there you go.
	We have yet to have a book boycott.
	We've had everything else, but I think the book boycott would be funny.
	It would be funny.
	Book boycott.
	Well, that was a great collection of clips.
	I give you kudos for that work.
	Well, thank you very much.
	And I thank you, John, for your courage.
	And say in the morning to you, John C. Can I have your number?
	Dvorak!
	In the morning to you, Mr.
	Adam Curry.
	Also in the morning to all ships and sea boots on the ground.
	Fiend, the air subs and the water and all the dams and knights out there.
	Yes, in the morning to everybody in the troll room.
	NoagendaStream.com.
	Good to see you all there, all dressed up to the nines.
	And we want to say in the morning to Darren O'Neill.
	He is the artiste who brought us the artwork for episode 1025, Blotto in Biloxi.
	And it was very simple.
	It had the episode number on it, which we typically don't like.
	But it was the road sign.
	We don't recommend it.
	Don't recommend it.
	There was something really nice about it.
	And I got comments.
	People said, this is nice.
	This is good art.
	And so the 1025 is the road, is like the route number on this sign.
	It was good.
	Very good.
	It was good.
	It was very professional.
	Yeah, pro and just something.
	I'm not quite sure what it was, but it worked.
	Looks like he even drew extra lines on the road there.
	I don't know.
	It's just something.
	Yeah, it's always something.
	It's always something.
	It's always something.
	Well, thank you very much, Darren O'Neill.
	I want to thank all of our artists who contribute.
	By uploading their art, usually before we're even done with the show, at noagendaartgenerator.com.
	Thank you.
	We really appreciate it.
	And we'd like to thank our executive and associate executive producers.
	We thank those early on in the show, just like Hollywood, because these are real credits they get, and you get that associate exec is 200 and above, and exec is 300 and above.
	We have a couple of big whoppers to start us off, with Dame Judy Schwartz in Burn, Texas.
	Bernie.
	Bernie, very good.
	Bernie, Texas.
	$1,000.
	Whoa!
	She's a good girl.
	Gentlemen, this brings me to the Baroness level.
	I wanted to thank you for all your hard work.
	Y'all have kept me ahead of the Cablebots.
	Cablebots new.
	And talk radio nitwits.
	In my office.
	Oh, these are her colleagues.
	Yeah, her colleagues.
	They all probably listen to Rush.
	I wish to be titled Baroness of Kendall County.
	Love ya, boys!
	Dynamite.
	Thank you very much, Dame Judy.
	I will hand out your official title of Baroness in our second segment.
	Seronimus of Dogpatch and Loris Oblovia, our buddy from who knows where.
	So I'm at the meetup, and at least two of the guys said, and I'm not kidding on this, I'm not being flattering to Seronimus, I love it when he donates.
	Really?
	Just those notes are terrific.
	He loves the notes.
	They said the notes are from Mr.
	Okay.
	I think they're a little long, but I read them always because he came in with $900.
	Dear John and Pager podcaster guy.
	That's me.
	Thank you to and all the producers for continuing to provide an insightful and balanced view of the news and a remarkable searchable database.
	M5M continues to move the memes toward the restricted freedoms to protect us from the boogeyman.
	A recent show included an over-speak translation of a Russian, and you asked what the person really said.
	Listeners, when you hear clips that are being translated and you know the language, please send in an English translation or verify what is said and report it to the show.
	And I will say that we received many emails from people saying what they heard, but it wasn't the piece we were talking about.
	Because they heard, you know, Dostraddanya, or something.
	There was a whole other piece that we wanted to understand.
	It was a misunderstanding.
	We did get one explanation of it.
	It was, again, what they were telling us is bullcrap.
	He said, he continues, I stopped listening to CNN in December 2001 as we prepared to invade Afghanistan.
	He's got that in quotes.
	A CNN reporter was interviewing an Afghan over his support of the Taliban.
	As the Afghani spoke, Now, either this guy can speak Pashtun or maybe he's speaking in Arabic or one of the other Afghani languages, but he can understand it.
	This guy's important.
	As the Afghani spoke, the translation was, he would follow the Taliban.
	He actually said, and I remember it pretty well, quote, all I have is in these two bags.
	I will follow whoever feeds me.
	Oh, wow!
	Geez.
	What clip was that?
	Do you remember the clip?
	No.
	This was on CNN in 2001.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	I misunderstood.
	Oh, okay.
	Well, yeah.
	He says it's easy to make this mistake when few Americans speak the local language.
	I observe such interpretive translations continue to be used at times, including Russian, Arabic, and Chinese statements, using literal translation rather than the cultural meaning of an expression to purposely bias the statement.
	Yeah, I'm always worried about that.
	Same with the signers.
	Yeah.
	I'm always wondering about the signers.
	Anyway, it continues.
	I'm on my way to Lower Slobovia, truly OTG for a bit.
	Petless international flights have made me feel safer in aircraft this month.
	No need to wish for butt-sniffing TSA hounds when flying outside the U.S. and Eurostan.
	Happy Tax Week to those with U.S. income.
	NJNK. Seronymous of Dogpatch and Lois Lobovia, thank you so much.
	Always entertaining to hear from you.
	And safe travels, safe travels.
	Onward.
	Sir Java James in Colorado Springs came in with $430.
	From Sir Java James, thanks for continuing to deliver an outstanding product.
	This donation is in honor of my father, Jim, who passed away Sunday from pancreatic cancer.
	Oh, man.
	It's 31 days after...
	Geez.
	Geez.
	Requesting an F cancer and goat karma, since Jim owned a farm that at one time had goats alongside a number of other animals.
	Well, very fitting, but major bummer, Sir Jabba James.
	Wow, 31 days!
	That's jarring.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Holy crap.
	Oh, you're dead.
	Well, we're sorry.
	You've got karma.
	Sir Cal and the Lavender Boss Blossom Team.
	I guess he figures that everything's paying off.
	He did come in with the right kind of donation.
	420.33.
	Ah, for tomorrow.
	420 things.
	Tomorrow's 420.
	Yep.
	At Northville, Michigan.
	A special thank you for all our supporters, folks like the Williams clan from North Carolina, and to you two, the great thinkers of our time, for the work and amazing insight you provide with utmost respect, Sir Cal and the Lavender Blossom team.
	Ah, yes.
	What's his name?
	Lavenderblossoms.org.
	Yeah.
	Outstanding products all around.
	Cannot recommend it enough.
	Jingle Request.
	F Cancer.
	Another one.
	Oh boy.
	Get Well Goat Karma.
	Another one.
	And Korean News Lady.
	Okay.
	You've got...
	Karma.
	Karma.
	Sir Anonymous came with $369.99 to get upgraded to Barron.
	Nice.
	Now, he sent in a long note, and I don't know how much of it I want to read, but it's pretty good.
	Okay, let's have it.
	This is the tenth time I've contributed to the show.
	I'm unwilling to allow my true identity to be revealed, so keep my name anonymous.
	He says, the overzealous guardians of all that is secret dislike it when the names of their subjects are uttered aloud, much less so when their names are associated with any type of malcontents, or much more so, I guess, is what it means.
	Which would be us.
	We're the malcontents.
	Or pot-stirring radicals such as yourselves.
	Uh-oh.
	You know the type that question authority, the ruling class, or the deep state.
	As they most likely are listening to the show, I would prefer that my true name not be uttered aloud, digitally transcribed, and then run through a dictionary containing keywords of named individuals, collection indicators, and other such triggers.
	Hey, just on that for one second, two of our producers now have been working for, ever since we started talking about it, so I'll say two weeks ago, diligently on trying to get the new Amazon Transcribe API to work with our show.
	Yeah.
	It's really not working very well.
	It's really poor.
	You think maybe it's on purpose?
	Yeah.
	It could be a degraded version, but they pretty much both have come.
	And they didn't know about each other working on it.
	This is the first time they probably hear about it.
	But I thought it was interesting to see.
	And they're pretty much in the same spot, similar approaches.
	But, I mean, it's just one big...
	If you heard the show, then okay, I can kind of understand what I'm reading.
	But if you haven't heard the show, no way.
	No way.
	And you have to come up with custom dictionaries because there's certain words that we use that it just gets very confused by.
	Like douchebag?
	No, that it actually caught.
	Maybe for the next show I'll give you a rundown of the translate function.
	But I'm not very impressed if that's their creme de la creme, so to speak.
	Amazon's full of crap with a lot of these ideas.
	Probably.
	I believe in America.
	I believe in the Constitution.
	I believe in democracy for the people.
	In short, I am another fan who works for a three-letter agency where suspicion, favoritism, and retribution rule the day.
	Wow.
	That could be any of them.
	Yeah.
	I know that the two of you aren't subversive or politically revolutionary, but I doubt that the operatives in the security politique Would fathom the truth or exercise their intellect in order to make an objective decision.
	This is his rationale for not revealing his name.
	Yeah, it's understood.
	You could just say, hey, I work at a three-letter agency.
	Protect me, bro.
	And he goes on.
	If I thought you weren't actual patriots, which we've been described as such, I'd have ditched your show long ago.
	Why?
	Why?
	Because we weren't patriots.
	This guy's a gung-ho character.
	He's probably Marines.
	Ah, yeah.
	You think he works at DMV? Three-letter agency?
	Could be.
	Makes sense.
	From now on, we just assume, because that's the right word, that everyone who says they work at a three-letter agency is working at DMV. DMV. I would like to thank you once again for providing us slavelings with a modicum of truth, a dose of no agenda point of view, Your unfiltered deconstruction of socio-political memes, political shenanigans, and corporate doublespeak is top-notch.
	Wow.
	Thank you.
	That's a compliment.
	That's very nice.
	Thank you.
	That's the kind of stuff that gets me up in the morning.
	Yeah.
	You provide a unique service in today's slurry of shills, blowhards, and stooges.
	The news in America is suffering a total sellout.
	The mainstream outlets of lies and propaganda are clearly based on oh so many ways.
	If not for your twice weekly dose of sanity and reality, I would find myself caught up Wow!
	My coworkers are astonished at my level-headed and seemingly bias-free revelations of truth and elucidation.
	All thanks to your show.
	Wow.
	That's really nice.
	Yeah, I thought so.
	That's very nice.
	And he'll love the segment I have coming up in the C Block.
	Good.
	So I am donating again.
	As I've stated before, you must continue your work.
	It is vital to our nation's interests and the American people are better for it.
	As the peerage grows and knowledge spreads, I hit people in the mouth.
	They're illuminated by the light that is the No Agenda Show.
	He's like Abe Lincoln.
	I'm reading the Gettysburg Address.
	Yes, that's kind of what it is.
	It's the No Agenda Berg Address.
	It's beautiful.
	From this day forward, let this donation amount to the coveted triple intel threat.
	All producers who claim to be members of the U.S. intel community should certainly give props to the power of three and the power of EO-12333.
	What?
	Which provides for the effective conduct of United States intelligence activities while simultaneously protecting the constitutional rights of U.S. personnel by donating in the amount of $369.99.
	Okay, what was EO-3?
	What was that again?
	I want to bing that.
	Yes, you can look it up.
	EO-12333.
	Hmm.
	It's Executive Order, EO. Oh, okay.
	Let's check it out.
	Oh, okay.
	I thought I recognized it.
	One...
	What is it again?
	Let me finish.
	EO-120333.
	120333, yeah.
	Okay, yeah, go ahead and finish up.
	So, let me finish.
	But anyway, so he's going to become the...
	Let's see if I can get it right, because he's got a couple of notes here.
	He's going to be the Baron of the ADF-C and all its environs.
	Executive Order 12333, signed December 4th, 1981 by U.S. President Ronald Reagan, was an executive order intended to extend powers and responsibilities of U.S. intelligence agencies and direct the leaders of U.S. federal agencies to cooperate fully with CIA requests for information.
	The Executive Order was titled, United States Intelligence Activities.
	It was amended by Executive Order 13355, Strengthened Management of the Intelligence Community, by George W. Bush.
	And it was amended a couple more times.
	They really just gave each other more power and power and power and power.
	Just all these presidents, eh, you're my guys here at the DNI. I think I'll put in 13470 and give you some more power.
	Oh yeah?
	Well, I want the CIA to some power.
	Let me throw this one in there.
	So who do you think that was directed at the CIA? Yeah.
	Well, first it was to have the CIA have more power, and then George W. issued 13470, amending 12333 to strengthen the role of the DNI. So maybe he wanted the military to have a little more.
	You know, it's the military versus the spooks.
	It's what it always is.
	Well, no, the DNI is the oversight.
	No, no, that's the oversight guy.
	I'm sorry.
	You're right.
	Yeah, that's Clapper.
	That's Clapper.
	It was.
	Great.
	We got that.
	Put an executive order and we got Clapper.
	Good work.
	Yeah, there you go.
	Thank you, George.
	Good work, George.
	All right.
	Anyway, so that's now the secret intelligence number is 369.99.
	We don't know why, but we'll take his word for it.
	But 369.99, anyone who gives us that as a donation, is giving us a wink, wink, nudge, nudge.
	Yep.
	Okay.
	Cool.
	Onward.
	And put a time code there for a reason I'll explain after the show.
	Okay.
	Thomas Morgan, $333.
	Magic number.
	I meant to give this donation before Easter and karma happens.
	I'm sorry, you skipped over Sir JB Knight of the DMV and Baronet of the Poconos.
	Oh, so I did.
	I see that now.
	Okay, Sir JB Knight of the DMV and Baronet of the Poconos.
	He's an actual DMV employee.
	Yeah, three-letter agency.
	Three-letter agency.
	333.33 in Clarksville, Maryland.
	I won several fantasy sports competitions this past year, so after paying taxes this year, I had a little extra left over and felt compelled to share my winnings.
	I have been a listener since...
	Remind me, I have a story to tell about the casinos in Biloxi.
	Okay.
	You already told us a story.
	You don't like them.
	Oh, about the pennies?
	Yeah.
	Oh, yeah, you're right.
	It's always a short-term memory.
	Sorry.
	It's okay.
	I have been a list...
	No, it's short, yeah.
	What did I say?
	I've been a listener since about show 150 or so, and I've hit several in the mouth over the years.
	Some have contributed, some have not contributed as much as the rest of the pikers in the audience.
	That's a good phrase from the Shays, a word from the Shays, piker.
	What does that mean?
	Where did that come from?
	Pikers?
	Pikers.
	I don't know.
	What does it mean?
	We're going to look it up.
	Is it like in England they say pikeys?
	I don't think so.
	Kind of like gypsies, you know, no good, wrong side of the tracks?
	That's where pikers comes from.
	Those that have not given, please give a douchebag shout out loud and proud.
	Douchebags.
	In fact, get them in the mouth with a second one for good measure.
	No jingles, no karma, blowjob?
	Is that what that says, BJ? I don't know.
	Oh, it says, no jingles, no karma, but jobs.
	Thanks, and I will leave you with some old sayings from my dad.
	It builds character.
	Your face is going to freeze like that.
	You can't bullshit a bullshitter.
	I remember that one.
	You can't fit 10 pounds of shit into a 5-pound bag.
	Call me.
	Call me.
	Stop cooling the outdoors.
	It's better than a hot poke in the eye.
	Thank you for your question.
	So he just wants jobs.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	No karma, but jobs.
	You got it.
	Thank you very much, sir, JB. Executive producer.
	Teresa Morgan, 333.
	I meant to give this donation before Easter.
	And karma happens.
	My brother Jeff and his wife Beth, I'm sorry, we're still waiting on the spring as you, the donations of 333 was for my kitchen remodel.
	My dog passed the pet therapy test and I converted to Catholicism.
	I went to my first confession and the father asked me if I had bad thoughts about people.
	What are these guys grilling?
	You're supposed to confession, not supposed to be grilled by you.
	It's not an interrogation.
	Things must have changed.
	They put a light on you.
	Asked me if I had bad thoughts about people.
	Lied, cheated, etc.
	And with a straight face I said, yep, I'm 50.
	Then he only got one Hail Mary.
	Regarding the pet therapy, our organization has a miniature horse or a pony.
	I want to see the pony stay, sit, stay, and come.
	Finally, I forgot to donate before my girls' trip last year, and one of my girlfriends had her purse with a cell phone stolen.
	Donate!
	This is our 14th girls' trip.
	Shelly, Lee, and Colleen, you're the best girlfriends I have.
	I love you.
	Best Girlfriend's I Still Loves the UK Ambassador Peter Ford saying, engage your brain.
	It's a crazy note, by the way.
	And think about Kuwato from Total Recall.
	Open your mind!
	Please provide us with any Sharpton.
	It says Sharpen.
	It jingles, but Sharpton's what she means.
	Since I'm sure the girls will get blotto.
	Pew, pew, wee!
	And safe travels, Karma.
	I pray no one does.
	And her head is gone since we were going to Mexico.
	Safe travels to Florida, Jeff and Beth.
	And thanks, Baronet Jim, for being the best hubby ever.
	Okay.
	But resist, we must.
	We must and we will much about that be committed.
	As her head is gone You've got karma Music.
	Now, I believe I have the right note here because it's anonymous.
	He wants to be anonymous.
	I put his name on the spreadsheet, but just his first name.
	In New Orleans, Louisiana, $250.
	This came from the meetup.
	And he says, keep me anonymous.
	He's got this handwritten note.
	And if you don't mind mentioning NOBA, the New Orleans Barbecue Authority, located at 4801 Bienville Street, New Orleans, 70119.
	It's New Orleans.
	New Orleans, New Orleans.
	Whatever.
	Just send your cash, any collusion, and a karma.
	Just send your cash.
	It has not been played for months.
	A long time, yeah.
	I know a lot of people want to send blankets or water.
	Just send your cash.
	Bullshit!
	That was a slip of the finger.
	I didn't mean that.
	Here we go.
	No, here we go.
	You've got karma.
	Still jet-lagged, I guess.
	Anyway, he wrote it in New Orleans.
	I know.
	It's Nolens.
	Whoops.
	Sir Eric Hertha comes in again from Blue Ridge, Georgia at $250.
	I never found any note from him, but if he has one, we'll read it.
	Sibode Peth, he's the guy, the Indian.
	He says he's the only Indian producer in the South.
	In America.
	How about all of America?
	In America.
	He's $234.56.
	Very good.
	He's a very funny guy, and he's a good raconteur.
	What does he do?
	He raconteurs?
	I don't know what he does, too.
	He does something important.
	I can't remember what.
	Sorry.
	That's okay.
	I have a note for him.
	He's in Metairie, which is just south of Nolens.
	Thank you for a great show and something.
	The concept and value for value.
	He's a script writer?
	It looks like PV proving.
	Oh, ah!
	Thank you for a great show and proving the concept of value for value.
	Well, he's proving it.
	Thank you, Sabo.
	Thank you for proving it.
	That's appreciated, man.
	He didn't talk with that Indian twang, which is kind of disappointing to me.
	Yeah, personally, I can understand.
	Grepcat.
	It just sounds like a guy.
	Grepcat, Phoenix, Arizona, is our last associate executive producer.
	Grepcat.
	Grepcat.
	It says it's stolen from Sunday's show.
	Gentlemen, I'm slowly working my name my way up the knighthood, but until then, I'm doing my best to propagate the formula.
	I have noagendashow.com on my Facebook profile.
	Twitter and even on my online dating profile.
	Nice.
	Unfortunately, the only other people on that site with the same interests are a couple of dudes.
	Seems like all the chicks like NPR. Oh, man.
	Hey, hey, let's go find someone on Tinder.
	Oh, it's just a bunch of dudes.
	Yeah.
	Requesting the rain stick for Phoenix.
	Relationship karma for me and an F cancer.
	Let's do the rain sticks.
	Rain sticks for Phoenix.
	Three.
	You got your stick?
	How many rotations?
	Just two.
	No, just do one.
	Just do one?
	Okay, because I haven't paid attention to the sitch.
	Yeah, okay, go.
	Three, two, one.
	Okay, hope that works.
	That's not much.
	No, but...
	That's just like a little...
	Just a sprinkling.
	Just a sprinkling of rain karma.
	And it needs relationship karma and an F cancer.
	You've got karma.
	You know, I was thinking about grep cat.
	We should have one, a meme like that.
	You know, we have the angry cat.
	Wasn't that like a meme?
	Grumpy cat.
	We should have grep cat.
	I'm not quite sure what he's doing, but it will become apparent.
	He's grepping.
	He's grepping a lot.
	He's grepping with multi-dimensional regression.
	Grep.
	Well, thank you very much.
	Nice list from our executive producers and associate executive producers today.
	Really appreciate that.
	It's good to be back.
	We always come back home and throw the studios back together and get up and running.
	Then we have to do some adjustment later.
	You don't sound as pretty as you could.
	I'm sorry.
	Our last show, your mic was different.
	I had a better room.
	It sounded really good.
	It sounded dynamite.
	It really did.
	It sounded good.
	Yeah, people have commented on the sound.
	Yeah, so I wish I could have that all the time.
	Me not being in a closet would help.
	It might help.
	Well, I don't know about that.
	The ambience is actually...
	I prefer ambience in that room I was in.
	It was ambient.
	It was ambient.
	Yeah, it was a little too much ambience for me.
	Well, yeah, that's you.
	I could just put a screen...
	I could make it so it's dead, but...
	Yeah, but I like the dead air.
	Yeah, it's a little too PBS-y for me.
	Yeah, but we have a very distinct sound.
	We're going to have new sound again sometime around the end of May.
	Oh, what's happening?
	Gigabit fiber from Sonic for $40 a month.
	Oh, wow, great.
	Yeah.
	We'll be able to touch each other.
	Woo!
	I got my gigabit.
	You got your gigabit?
	Put it together.
	We make gigabits.
	We make gigabits, baby.
	You betcha.
	Well, again, thank you to our executive producers, associate executive producers.
	Credits can be used anywhere they're recognized.
	I really implore you to do that.
	It seems that people get jobs that way, and I hope everyone feels better.
	Too many F-cancers.
	I don't like that.
	Yeah, that was way too many.
	Another show coming up on Sunday.
	Please remember us at...
	And we know you're already out there doing it, but the reminder can't hurt.
	This is what you do with our formula.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Shut up, slave.
	Shut up, slave.
	Yeah, so which producer was it that was talking about the M5M media, his rant there?
	Who was that?
	I think that was the Anonymous guy.
	Sir Anonymous.
	Yeah, Sir Anonymous.
	So one of our MSNBC alums is Ed Schultz.
	Remember he got kicked off?
	Yeah, and he went to RT. Yes.
	So he shows up in an interview, and he was a Bernie bro, as it turns out.
	And MSNBC, there's a series of clips, short ones, one of our producers put together, it's very kind.
	MSNBC was actively, actively working to stop any coverage of Bernie.
	According to Ed Schultz.
	Many times I was told what to lead with on MSNBC. Many times I was told what I was not going to do.
	And I've got a story that had I not been involved in it, I would have never believed it.
	And Phil Griffin, who I consider a friend to this day, was a watchdog.
	Far more than anything I am exposed to here at RT America.
	Okay, let's delve into it with his Bernie story.
	When Bernie Sanders was announcing that he was going to be a candidate for the nomination of the Democratic Party in Burlington, Vermont, I was the only cable host between Fox, MSNBC, and CNN that was there live to cover it.
	Now, there were live cameras there.
	But we had coordinated with the Sanders campaign that at 5 o'clock he was going to make his announcement, and we were going to cover this on the Ed Show.
	I go to Bernie Sanders' house that afternoon, an interview in the backyard, about a 15-minute interview.
	The grandkids are running around.
	It's a big day for the Sanders family.
	He's going to announce that he's running for president.
	We're going to carry it live later on in the day, and we're going to run this one-on-one tape with Bernie.
	3,000 people are there on Lake Champaign.
	It's five minutes to air, and I get a phone call from Phil Griffin, you're not covering this.
	I said, Phil, Bernie Sanders is announcing he's running for president.
	He's going to be a president.
	I don't care.
	You're not covering this.
	It's kind of damning.
	Wow.
	Yeah, he's got a couple more here.
	Let's talk about the Clintons.
	Now, let me give you the opinion.
	I think the Clintons were connected to Andy Lack.
	Wasn't Andy Lack the news director?
	I guess.
	Yeah.
	Andalak went somewhere.
	No, wait.
	Didn't he come from the...
	Yes.
	He came in from the Broadcast Board of Governors.
	And he went back to go and save NBC News, if I recall correctly.
	I connected to Andy Lack, connected at the hip.
	I think that they didn't want anybody in their prime time or anywhere in their lineup supporting Bernie Sanders.
	I think that they were in the tank for Hillary Clinton, and I think it was managed, and 45 days later I was out at MSNBC. Ah, poor Ed.
	That's funny, because he was the most anti-Republican.
	He plays roles.
	He was the one who shouted and screamed and put down the Republicans at every turn.
	They should have kept him.
	Because now he's kind of pro-Trump.
	Well, by being pro-Bernie or feeling that he got screwed out of Bernie, I'm sure he does.
	And he says the fix was in.
	When you see how the campaign unfolded...
	Donna Brazile feeding Hillary Clinton questions at the campaign.
	The DNC undercutting Bernie Sanders.
	The superdelegates that were organized by Hillary Clinton.
	I mean, in my state of Minnesota, where I'm a resident and pay taxes, Al Franken and Amy Klobuchar were superdelegates, and despite the fact that Bernie Sanders won Minnesota, they supported Clinton.
	The fix was in.
	I didn't realize that.
	Did we talk about that at the time?
	Well, no.
	We talked about superdelegates and how they were all already...
	Yeah, but I didn't know that...
	I didn't know Klobuchar and Frank were in the bag.
	But Clinton was what everybody wanted, and they just said, oh, as superdelegates, Bernie Sanders is who the constituents wanted, and they said, well, we're superdelegates.
	We're just going to say Hillary.
	Hillary won.
	Wow.
	That's pretty damning.
	You know, the thing, I've said this before on the show, which is that we have to remember that they were covering Trump as a joke.
	Yeah.
	So they were over-covering him.
	Yes.
	Figuring that everyone was laughing up their sleeves, and no one was taking it seriously.
	And they were loving the ratings.
	Mm-hmm.
	What are you drinking?
	But I think they would have.
	I think the thing that's overlooked is that Trump's, these huge rallies he had, which you went to one, were always...
	Yeah, they were always covered, and it was like, you know, this guy's a buffoon, and okay, let's cover this because it's going to get good ratings, and they got lots of ratings.
	I mean, they were putting everything on, even MSNBC. But Bernie, Bernie had the same kind of super rallies, massive rallies.
	Yeah.
	With a different bunch of people that went to, mostly students and millennials.
	And he had a crazy message that would be interesting, I think, as a news thing.
	Bernie Sanders, the whole phenomenon was interesting.
	Yeah, totally.
	The grandpa complex and everything.
	It was great.
	Yeah, but no, no.
	Think about the chicks you could have had if he became president.
	That's what I'm thinking.
	I know.
	But from the start, the Clintons didn't want any competition.
	They didn't want Bernie Sanders around.
	They didn't want the Keystone XL pipeline.
	They didn't want to push her on that issue.
	They didn't want to push her on free education for all.
	And they certainly didn't want to push her on...
	On the TPP and also universal health care.
	Those were four main issues that Bernie Sanders, had he not been to the campaign, Hillary Clinton would have never had to address.
	And so I think the fix was in early on to deep six Bernie.
	To this day, it kind of pisses me off.
	Because, you know, they talk about collusion.
	There's nothing more than collusion than this.
	Any collusion?
	Yeah, exactly.
	We know where the collusion is, Ed.
	And of course, just like we here at No Agenda, he knows what it's really all about.
	Let me tell you something.
	You say the wrong thing.
	You don't get advertisers.
	You don't get advertisers.
	You're not on the air very long.
	The mainstream media in this country is about one thing.
	That's making money.
	No.
	No, you almost have it right, Ed.
	I've said it before.
	You can say whatever you want about guns or about religion, but you don't mess with the advertisers in America.
	They are God.
	They are God.
	Which is why we don't have advertisers.
	We have the advantage over everybody else who's always trying to sell something.
	Because we're not obliged to...
	Spew their party line.
	And when we talk about a service or a product, positive or negative, you can bet it's real.
	Which you also don't hear.
	I mean, you don't see a laptop anymore on television that doesn't have a sticker placed over the Apple logo.
	You look at reality shows, they have to blur out art, they have to blur out t-shirts, everything's blurred out, because they're not getting paid.
	Yeah, exactly.
	They're not going to let free publicity run rampant.
	And arachnism, I tell you.
	It's old-fashioned.
	Just old-fashioned.
	You said anachronism or arachnism?
	Yeah, that's what I said.
	I noticed, you know, since I've gotten pretty much off of the face bag and of Twitter, I check them both once a day from a browser, from the Brave browser, I've been on the Noagina Social.
	By the way, the Brave Browser guy who started Mozilla, he started, he used to be, he was the guy that was brought into Network Solutions or, you know, the Netscape folks.
	Yeah.
	To write complete JavaScript.
	He's the guy who does JavaScript, which has ruined the world, by the way.
	I'll say that now.
	Some people hate him for that.
	You're right.
	Actually, I should play the jingle here.
	Yeah, OTG, which many people confuse with me wanting to hide from the NSA.
	Well, that's not really possible with my vocation.
	But I do want to stop being tracked and having my...
	Like a dog!
	Like a dog.
	Having my intent abused.
	Because that's what it is.
	My intent is being abused.
	And I like the vision that the brave guys have.
	So I've gone back to NoAgendaSocial.com a lot more.
	The federated stuff works pretty well, and there's some news bots that I've subscribed to.
	So you can actually kind of get the same stuff you get on Twitter.
	Most of the people who post something with an at Adam Curry on Twitter usually cross-post it on NoAgendaSocial.com, and those are pretty much the people who post something good anyway.
	So I've been using that a lot more.
	And I like the live feature where you can just see the federated feed just scroll by and it's a nice mishmash of stuff.
	And so I get more Mastodon news and stuff that's going on.
	And I know we talked about SESTA. You have SESTA and FOSTA. And these are the two bills, I think SESTA passed two weeks ago, that in essence shut down Backpage.com.
	And there's kind of this, in order to protect mainly children, but people of all ages from sex trafficking through websites...
	They have simultaneously removed all the places where legitimate sex workers can post their ads.
	And the argument which I agree with coming from Amsterdam where I have seen how legal prostitution is much healthier for everybody...
	In general, and probably percentage-wise, I think that they are now in a much less safe position or situation.
	And what has happened, and this could be meaningful, I'm not sure, there's a lot of problems with it, but a lot of these sex workers have all moved to switter.at which is a Mastodon instance and they're working out hashtags they should use because then from any Mastodon instance I guess you can search the hashtags and find the sex worker you're looking for.
	So it's very interesting at this moment where they have no place to go And there's a lot of bitching and complaining, but mainly they lost their income pretty much overnight because the Johns don't know where to go.
	So you just did a bunch of people at public service, I guess.
	Well, yeah, that too, but I thought it was interesting that it's on Mastodon.
	Yeah, well, it's funny.
	Well, it's not just funny.
	It's probably secure from this sort of thing getting busted out.
	Well, that's kind of the idea, yeah.
	Now, I don't know how it works with a...
	I think this thing is hosted in some foreign country.
	Where is it hosted?
	Austria, I believe.
	I don't know how the local rules and regulations are, but we certainly don't.
	I'm sure there's log files, but we're not tracking or doing anything.
	We don't know who you are.
	We don't care.
	And your account is there until you deactivate it or whatever you want to do.
	So I don't know if we have any liability should something like that I would probably not encourage it on our server, but even the fact that we receive it, I mean, technically, through the Federation, you're enabling this, so it'll be interesting, because it's an interesting legislative issue.
	At the same time, you've got to think, could this drive adoption of this distributed, non-walled garden platform?
	Hmm.
	That's a good point.
	Oh, someone in the chatroom just said listings.switter.at.
	Okay, there you go.
	That's your public service.
	Yeah, I don't know.
	Thank you, chatroom.
	Yeah, but I feel that they made a big mistake by...
	Well, they may have made a mistake, but it may turn out for the best.
	Well, I hope so.
	I hope there's more adoption of this platform.
	And there's a lot...
	Yesterday in the Wall Street Journal, there was a whole article about...
	Laugh at me with my pager...
	There's a whole article about, you know, a number of phones that are coming out that no longer are smartphones.
	Some that don't even, you know, I think there's a Samsung or it's coming out, doesn't even connect to the internet through Wi-Fi.
	It doesn't even have a data connection.
	So you can do all kinds of smartphone stuff.
	Like, calculator, but, you know, an alarm clock, and then there's a light phone, and the light phone, too.
	And millennials know about this stuff.
	They're talking about it actively.
	And I was walking around with my pager in Holland, just as a joke, because, of course, it didn't work.
	And these Moroccan hip-hoppers were like, holy shit, man, yeah, I want that, too.
	And I told them the name of our new product, the handjob, and they really wanted one then.
	Wow, you're doing a pretty good job of doing loop-arounds.
	Yeah, I know.
	Yeah, you're on a roll.
	Yeah, it's the Moroccan hash.
	It's groovy.
	We did get a nice note.
	That hash is lame.
	What hash?
	That hash you get in Amsterdam.
	From the Moroccan guys?
	No, it's top notch.
	We did get a note from one of our producers and he said, you know, the big problem with all these browsers is that it's still the leg, even though You have big companies contributing a lot to open source.
	Google certainly could not exist without open source, and they do contribute a lot back.
	But what happens is, when someone comes up like a company, like AMP, I'll say, or any of these other technologies, so Google says, oh, we want to do this with HTML, we'll call it AMP, and it's faster, and it's still open, But they really make it work on one browser first.
	And so then all the developers, they're kind of stuck in this one browser world.
	They never get a chance to get to something else.
	And we do have a lot of these, you know, like JavaScript by itself.
	We have a lot of these technologies and things floating on top of the web that work better in one browser than the other.
	And it's really a shame.
	And that's why we, you know, it's hard for.
	I'm sure this, the Brave browser guys, I'm sure it's tough for them.
	You know, there's all kinds of things that it doesn't do perfectly well, which are almost a deterrent, but still you gotta hang, you know, stick with it and help them, I guess.
	Yeah, there's a couple of things where it crashes it and it gets some issues.
	I've been using it more and more.
	I mean, I kind of like it for...
	It is nice and, you know, you don't have to worry about your history being all corrupted or anything.
	I mean, it's like, who needs it?
	And I was reading the updated FaceBag terms of service and they're talking about how you're tracked even if you're not a FaceBag member.
	And it's unbelievable.
	They just put right in there in the language, you know, we track you through cookies and other means.
	They don't even tell you what they're doing.
	Other means, like canvas profiling, which we talked about a couple shows ago.
	Yeah, I went to see my column this week in PC Magazine.
	Well, I saw the old guy column, which I, you know, of course, I inspired that.
	Oh, yes, that actually, the show, yeah, you and the show inspired that column.
	Yes.
	But the next one coming up about...
	And I'll just give you a hint.
	It's titled Google.
	Well, they may change the title because editors do that.
	But it's entitled Google, You're Next.
	Yeah, that's going to be ugly.
	It's going to be ugly.
	But really, I've been using CRX mostly for my searches.
	I'm using the Brave browser.
	Oh, and I got...
	I got a Faraday bag, and it works.
	Oh, brother.
	Yeah.
	I have a Faraday wallet.
	Yeah, but the Faraday bag for the phone, that's really nice.
	That works well.
	And my zombie knife came in.
	I haven't unpacked it yet, but that thing's got to be huge.
	It's like three feet.
	You're not going to be able to carry that around.
	No.
	That was just an offhanded mention.
	It's not part of the OTG... Two old kits.
	With this giant blade.
	You've got to have a blade.
	But having lots of time to think about it, I still think, even with its limitations, the two-way pager, it really works very well for me.
	I've got a couple of email rules.
	It tells me to forward an email for people.
	I definitely want to know if they sent me an email.
	You're one of them.
	I've still got to put a rule in that says if there's an attachment, don't bounce back the email.
	It confuses people.
	The text messaging.
	Tina, she's so cool, man.
	She's like, oh yeah.
	She texts me on my pager.
	I don't have to tell her.
	She knows exactly what to do.
	She got it.
	That's transitioned beautifully.
	She's ripped everything off her phone that she can.
	Yeah, it's disturbing.
	It's just disturbing.
	I'd say yes.
	But there's also something called Mycroft.
	I'm looking at all these open source things, and that's an open source voice assistant, so you can control it, what it does or doesn't do with your data, and you can still connect it to your lights and other things without going through third parties.
	Named after Sherlock Holmes' brother.
	Was his name Mycroft?
	Yeah.
	What else would you call it then?
	There you go.
	So that kind of stuff.
	You know, that's good.
	I don't know.
	I feel there's something.
	All I do is I identify trends.
	I'm the trend identifier.
	I'm telling you, something's happening.
	Something's happening.
	Some good's happening, coming down.
	Trend, yeah.
	Pagers.
	Trend.
	Trend's happening.
	Then we also have this little ditty.
	Law enforcement officials are loving a device called the GrayKey.
	Why?
	Because it can unlock an iPhone in about 11 hours.
	GrayKey is a digital forensic tool.
	The device costs $15,000 to $30,000, but it can reveal the entire contents of an iPhone.
	Because of this, security researchers say it's best to use more complex passcodes.
	GreatKey can unlock a 4-digit code in about 6 minutes, a 6-digit code in 22 hours, but if you bump it up to a 10-digit code, it'll take about 12 years on average to crack.
	And yes, the device bypasses the iPhone security setting that wipes data after 10 failed attempts.
	That's kind of annoying.
	Ooh, that's pretty sharp.
	And the company includes an ex-Apple employee who is probably looking at...
	Probably right from the...
	Yeah, he knows how to do stuff.
	Yeah, but he's looking at a lawsuit, I'll bet.
	Oh, Apple assume, yeah, for sure.
	Yeah.
	That's short-lived.
	Yeah, and it's all a joke anyway, because I've seen all the people with iPhone Xs, Xs.
	Yeah, you just hold the phone up to their face.
	Click, unlock, thanks.
	They're all using the face recognition.
	It's the stupidest thing.
	Yeah, I feel the same way.
	And it's not even immediate.
	It takes a second for it to recognize you.
	It's the machine training the people, John.
	We're just wetware.
	Wetware!
	Yep, designed to interface with Silicon Valley's gadgets.
	And while you're on the topic of Silicon Valley?
	Yes.
	I don't know if you want to close the segment out.
	It's okay.
	I don't have a jingle handy.
	They want to split the state into three.
	It looks like they're going to get the right number of signatures.
	Uh-huh.
	And Tim Draper, I think I knew this, Tim Draper, who I know.
	Yeah, he's a venture capitalist.
	He's a venture capitalist.
	He's a nice guy, actually.
	I've met him.
	He seems like a nice guy.
	He's a very nice guy and a total goofball.
	But he's also a gentleman.
	He's a gentleman and a goofball.
	When he gives a speech, he does a rap song at the end, which is questionable.
	Let's get social!
	Social media!
	A gentleman and a rapper.
	Okay.
	So here's Tim.
	And there's a couple things that are going on.
	First of all, let's start with Tim Draper, one, talking about this situation.
	So what does it mean if that state breaks apart due to political divisions?
	A petition right now to split California into three states just got enough signatures to go on the ballot this fall.
	It actually could happen.
	Tim Draper is one of the most famous venture capitalists in the world, a person who helped start a lot of famous tech companies.
	He wrote the Cal-3 petition, and he joins us tonight.
	Tim, thanks for coming on.
	Great.
	Thanks for being here.
	Thanks for having me on your show.
	A lot of people make that mistake.
	They're so focused.
	Thanks for being here.
	I mean, thanks for letting me have...
	I'm on your show.
	Hello.
	I'm breathing.
	Don't worry.
	I'm breathing.
	Great.
	Thanks for being here.
	I thought that was a bad opening.
	Next interview I do if I'm on someone's podcast, because that's about all I get, I'm going to start that way.
	Hey, great.
	Thanks for being on the show.
	You should.
	Yeah, thanks.
	All right.
	So then he goes on, and this is the part where he makes a statement that really is going to need a lot of discussion.
	I'm actually going to get a hold of him because I can get a hold of him and get him on the phone or probably have a beer with him or something.
	And ask him about this because I am wondering what the hell he's talking about.
	So I'm not really sure what to think of this.
	It seems like it's possible.
	It sounds like it's going to be voted on.
	It could pass in California.
	Maybe the Congress will approve it.
	I can understand why California wants to break into three states because it's too big, it's unmanageable, and it's not working.
	Why would that be good for the rest of the country?
	That's a good question.
	Well, we know that at least 600,000 Californians want to make sure that we've got Cal-3 passes.
	And so I think that the rest of the country will just want to do what's right for California.
	It takes up the same land mass as 15 states on the East Coast.
	The population is the equivalent of an average of six or seven states.
	So I think it's appropriate to have California represented by at least three states.
	Right.
	So I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of Americans don't want to do what's best for California.
	Just me, for myself, maybe.
	But we've got a map on the screen here.
	So the top would be no-cal, the bottom, so-cal, and then cal would be Los Angeles, looks like Orange County, maybe some of it.
	So how would this break up politically?
	So each state would have two senators and then the representative number of members of Congress.
	But what do you think the political division would be, Republican, Democrat?
	Well, you know, I think what we're really looking at here is we're trying to create states for the next millennial.
	The blockchain's changing everything.
	Government is going to be completely different.
	Oh, man!
	Just stop.
	Hey, man.
	This is for the next millennial, he said, literally.
	So the blockchain's changing everything, man.
	It's go time, bro.
	Blockchain.
	Blockchain engineering.
	It's go!
	What the hell is he talking about?
	He says the blockchain will change everything politically.
	Yeah, I know what he's talking about.
	What?
	Voting.
	Voting online through the blockchain.
	Oh, the blockchain voting.
	Yeah, baby.
	That would assume online voting.
	That's it.
	Well, that's never going to happen.
	And this is what they've always wanted.
	This is why they have millions of computers around the world.
	I finally figured it out.
	Mining Bitcoin.
	Building a beautiful rainbow table.
	So when voting goes online with the blockchain, they'll be able to change it.
	Can you imagine?
	How about this?
	We're Cal.
	We're SoCal.
	We didn't like the vote.
	We're forking the chain.
	Everyone will get two votes now.
	Think about that.
	You can fork the voting blockchain.
	Ooh.
	We're going to do an airdrop!
	Wow.
	People have gone crazy.
	This guy's nuts.
	Anyway, again, I'm going to ask him specifically what he's talking about.
	Maybe I shouldn't now because it's probably just about electronic voting, which has got to be the worst thing you could do.
	Especially with, hey, it's the rock the blockchain vote, everybody.
	You should be going, okay, door to door.
	You go to some woman.
	She's 70 years old.
	She hasn't got a computer.
	But she's a voter.
	And you knock on her door.
	And you go in there.
	Yeah, she's going, what?
	I say, today's the day you're supposed to vote, ma'am.
	Do you know how to do that?
	No!
	We can come in here and do it for you.
	We'll come right in and we have a team of people that will vote for you.
	Would you like that?
	Nah, stay out of the house!
	No, it's not a big deal.
	We're not going to damage anything.
	Actually, we have a computer right here on the porch we can use.
	With the blockchain.
	Yeah, you just do something with the blockchain on it.
	I don't know.
	But it seems to be open, ripe for corruption.
	The reason they always have these ballots where you have to go in and check the box is to prevent people from buying votes.
	We'll give you...
	Okay, they go back to the old age.
	What?
	And it's like...
	We'll give you $10 for your vote.
	Isn't it interesting how there's always this big pushback against ID, voter ID? No, that's discrimination!
	But let's use the blockchain on the internet.
	Yeah, that doesn't discriminate against anybody.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Bandits.
	This is going to hell in a handbasket faster than we want to admit.
	But let's play clip three and we can wrap that.
	The blockchain's changing everything.
	The government is going to be completely different.
	This isn't a partisan thing one way or another.
	It's something that the world really needs.
	And to get a fresh start...
	I believe that California has the opportunity to now get better representation and get a fresh start.
	So three new states can be created.
	And those new states can take on whatever...
	Now, did Tucker at this point go, what do you mean blockchain is changing everything?
	Did he query him on this at all?
	Absolutely not.
	It's the kind of governance that they think is appropriate for the next millennium.
	The Lex Millennium.
	He keeps saying millennial.
	Yeah, he does.
	It's millennium.
	Instead of millennium, he says millennial.
	Call him up and tell the bitch about that.
	You know, I am worried about this because I was reading in the Blockchain Gazette that Christine Fifi Lagarde has come out and she said, you know, he's got a little blog post.
	She said, you know, got to be careful about the dark side of cryptocurrencies, but she sees potential benefits, such as crypto assets, such as Bitcoin.
	She's starting to like it.
	She's warming up to the blockchain.
	This is very interesting.
	There's something globalist about this, and I can't put my finger on it.
	Oh, yeah.
	Very globalist.
	And Draper's a globalist, a democratic globalist in Silicon Valley.
	These guys are, by the way, these guys are, they all live in Woodside or Atherton or Hillsboro or Los Altos Hills.
	And they all live in very nice places.
	They have more money than they know how to spend.
	Mm-hmm.
	And they hang out with each other and they go to the little enclaves like you go to Roberts of Woodside, which is a little grocery store.
	It's got everything you'd ever want.
	Fantastic wine selection, by the way.
	And you can stay in these little communities or downtown Woodside, which is very pleasant.
	But you never go out and step in the poop in the San Francisco streets.
	I guess he's never seen that.
	No, he probably doesn't.
	The minute he steps out of his Maybach, there's a red carpet that's rolled out.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, no problem whatsoever.
	Um...
	The fallacy of the blockchain is that you can follow everything.
	I think this is where your globalist query comes into play.
	You want to get your blockchain, you want to get your cryptos, you've got to go through an exchange.
	You've got to get it first.
	So unless someone gives it to you and you pay them cash, there's going to be a record of that.
	More importantly, once you have it and you can move it around, it can be tracked.
	The whole point is it being tracked.
	It's transparent.
	So they can see what you're doing and then where you eventually spend it.
	So all they have to do is connect you to your crypto coin address.
	Yeah, and then they can tell exactly what you're doing, which may be the reason Christine Lagarde thinks is so cool.
	Because this is like part of the globalist agenda of tracking everybody like a dog.
	Enter the news that we read today, that Amazon, or Amazon, as they say in the UK, filed a patent to de-anonymize Bitcoin transactions and sell the data to law enforcement.
	What?
	Yes.
	And there's a patent to do that.
	So in other words, there's a process available to do that, that Amazon is getting patented.
	Yeah.
	And seeing as Amazon now claims 100 million Prime members, I am, and this is going to be hard for me, because I love my Amazons.
	I love the convenience.
	But now that they're talking this crap, they know a lot more about me than Google.
	I mean, the stuff I buy.
	I mean, look, if you're looking for a nut job in downtown Austin, look for the zombie knife guy.
	You know what I'm saying?
	Yeah, your zombie knife is registered.
	You bought it through Google.
	So your zombie knife is registered and a red flag has already gone up.
	Yeah, Amazon.
	Well, they can nail me for PG tips.
	How about rolling papers?
	I don't buy them.
	I don't smoke dope.
	I don't smoke weed.
	No, but I do!
	That's what I'm saying.
	You're totally hoes.
	I'm not talking about you.
	It's about me.
	Ten years, you still haven't figured this out.
	It's about me.
	I mean, that's...
	I'm throwing my stuff in there as a contrast.
	Yes, I understand.
	It's a contrast so people can kind of get what's going on.
	But I also, you know, I live an exciting, dynamic life.
	But it's...
	Jeez.
	I mean, just think about all the stuff.
	They know exactly what OS I have.
	They know...
	Because, you know, I ordered my computers through there.
	There's so much they know.
	And what are they...
	I didn't look at the terms and conditions.
	Do they sell my purchase history?
	I guess it's possible.
	That they use it...
	Why not?
	That they use it poorly.
	The irony, of course, is you're not going to get...
	No one's going to buy it because Amazon's putting them out of business.
	Kind of an interesting irony.
	Wait a minute.
	Amazon's putting who out of business?
	Well, Amazon's putting all these little stores out of business, so the people that would buy your purchasing data are going to be put out of business by Amazon, so they're not going to spend any money giving it to Amazon, just making the situation worse.
	Right, but there's still people who want to communicate with me based upon...
	By the way, I looked at my Facebook profile, and they have me pegged as a moderate.
	How about that?
	I'm right in the middle, straddling.
	Dynamite.
	That's a plus.
	Yeah.
	And by the way, where did you get that data?
	Do they have political affiliation on the download?
	Yeah, there's a way that you can see all of the interests of That advertisers are told about you.
	This is the intent data.
	And I'm sure it's an abstraction that we get to see.
	And one of our producers, she sent me this whole...
	You've got to go through five or six screens before you get to it.
	And then you can...
	There it is.
	Political affiliation.
	And then it says, you know, based upon the stories I read, the likes that I've...
	I never liked any product or certainly not a political party.
	But whatever they have, they have data and I'm a moderate.
	Oh, that's sweet.
	Yes, I feel so happy about that.
	And also, let's not forget this aspect.
	They nailed it.
	Yeah, of course.
	Yeah, they did nail it.
	They did nail it.
	Yeah, you are a moderate.
	So, to these two follow-up stories, I just told you this part, but I'll play it anyway, Shorty.
	Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has just released his latest annual shareholder letter.
	We are going through it right now, but one thing I do want to flag right away is that he does say that 13 years post-launch of Prime, we have exceeded 100 million paid Prime members globally.
	Globally, this would be the first time that Amazon has actually come out with an actual number for the number of prime members.
	And this is on the high end.
	There's been estimates anywhere between about 65 and 100 million.
	So we now have Jeff Bezos saying that there are 100 million paid prime members globally.
	Yeah.
	And of course, you know, the CIA has a contract for 600 million with Amazon.
	For their cloud services.
	You know, it's all conveniently located on other people's computers, but all in the same data centers.
	I'm sure it's segregated and all that, but, you know, Amazon has it all.
	And along with this, yes?
	I wrote this column.
	I don't know if you ever read this one, but what would happen if Amazon just turned belly up one fine day?
	because it's still a sketchy operation as far as I'm concerned, big as they are, and just said, we're done, we're through, we're broke, and just shut everything down without warning.
	What would happen?
	This country would have a huge depression.
	This show would have a depression.
	Yeah, but we're not broadcasting through.
	We're using those other guys in Europe for the downloads.
	Well, all of the show notes and the Freedom Controller stuff is all on Amazon.
	It's all on S3. Yeah, you have it completely backed up, though, don't you?
	Yes, I do.
	Every night, yeah.
	Come on, man.
	Dave Jones, he's good.
	Everything's backed up.
	The feed is hosted in S3 bucket.
	We control the domain name, so we can move it anywhere else.
	But it would have to be moved, and that would just be...
	It's a pain in the ass, but at least we would be in business.
	Oh yeah, but it would be out of business for a while.
	Until I, you know, moved it all over and reinstalled it.
	It's a pain in the ass.
	For that part.
	But not the show.
	No, not the show.
	But, not the MP3 distribution, for sure.
	That's Void Zero's baby.
	And we just renewed our certs.
	Because of the encrypt everywhere.
	But, you know, Amazon, put Amazon on the list for your article.
	You probably already submitted it.
	They are dangerous.
	They are dangerous.
	What if someone gets a hold of my data?
	The Amazon article's already been written.
	It was the one about what happens if it goes down.
	No, yeah, right.
	But this is a part of the data.
	No, yeah.
	I know.
	You've got me flustered.
	Yeah, no.
	I should have said that.
	Yeah, you said no, yeah.
	Yeah, I'm trying something new.
	No, yeah.
	That's very dangerous and no one talks about it.
	The stuff they have, if I had an employer, there's some things I wouldn't want my employer to know about me.
	And Amazon has that as a Prime member.
	They have all kinds of extra stuff.
	Yeah, they could blackmail you.
	Well, there's that.
	Another income stream.
	Go Jeff.
	Now the Facebag Analytica story continues.
	This is an RT clip, so you know where it comes from.
	But after listening to it a couple times, I all of a sudden had a whole other theory about Cambridge Analytica and the messing with the elections and data passed on to Russians or whatever.
	But really this whole idea of building the best psychographics to influence your thinking.
	Cambridge Analytica's parent company is called the SCL Group.
	The whistleblower who unearthed the Facebook data breach calls the two entities, SCL and Cambridge Analytica, one in the same.
	SCL used to be on the payroll of the British Defence Ministry.
	Thanks to a Freedom of Information request from 2016, we know that in 2011 the MOD paid SCL for the provision of external training, and in 2015 it paid SCL for psychosocial research.
	To top it all off, SCL got the green light to hold British government secrets on its premises.
	Britain's Information Commissioner is already investigating Cambridge Analytica over the Facebook data breach.
	But in light of the defence contracts with its parent company SCL, the chair of Britain's Home Affairs Select Committee is now demanding a wider government investigation into the company's activities.
	There are now growing concerns about whether there should be a wider investigation into their activities.
	There are concerns about the implications for democracy, about information being used in an illegitimate way, and no one has the chance to counteract it.
	And that raises real problems.
	Outside of the UK, SCL's and Cambridge Analytica's client list reads like a who's who of contentious elections and political hotspots.
	Cambridge Analytica was hired by Kenya's ruling party ahead of its elections last year.
	The company is accused of stoking ethnic tensions and manipulating voters' online prejudices to help Kenya's leaders stay in power.
	The company is also accused of orchestrating political sting operations on their clients' political rivals and circulating the evidence online.
	Among SCL's clients was Ukraine.
	It was hired by the Kiev government to help recapture the self-proclaimed Republic of Donetsk.
	SCL was contracted to deliver a data-driven strategy for the Ukrainian government in pursuit of their goal to win back control of Donetsk.
	Our findings were applied to design localized communications campaigns to erode and weaken the Donetsk People's Republic.
	This particular campaign didn't bear much fruit for the Ukrainian government, though.
	The website reveals yet another tie to the British government.
	The Ukraine report, it says, was delivered to Kiev and shared with the UK's Ministry of Defence.
	It's likely that the next chapter in the Cambridge Analytica scandal won't be its links to Facebook, but to governments around the world, including the UK's.
	So here's what I was thinking after hearing that report.
	Maybe it was the intelligence agencies all along doing this meddling around and psychographic vote change convincing just to frame it on the Russians.
	Sounds like it.
	Sounds like the connections are right there.
	I mean...
	Any collusion?
	Yeah.
	I would say that looking at it from that perspective may bear fruit.
	Well...
	It's an angle not being covered other than by the Russians, of course.
	I mean, it would behoove the mainstream to do something about it.
	Just take a look.
	It's so boring.
	It's just boring.
	So we have, while you were traveling, I'm sure you didn't know that, you know, they revealed that Pompeo had been to North Korea.
	Yeah, and there's a clip describing what's going on with the North Korean meeting.
	It talks about Trump.
	Trump is the one who actually blew the information out.
	I thought it was already out, and then he started talking about it.
	I'm not sure.
	It's hard to say.
	They won't tell us.
	But let's play this clip.
	Hmm, where is he?
	Trump meeting with Kim.
	Ah, yes.
	Tonight, what we have learned, that before the president sits down with the North Korean dictator, the CIA director already has.
	Tonight, what we've learned about that meeting kept secret until now.
	And here's ABC's Chief White House Correspondent, Jonathan Karl, on what President Trump just said about this moments ago.
	He just completed one of the most high-stakes diplomatic missions in a generation.
	But today, CIA Director Mike Pompeo was on Capitol Hill fighting to be confirmed Secretary of State.
	Enjoying my time here.
	Trying to earn every vote I can.
	Down in Mar-a-Lago, where he spent the day meeting and golfing with Japan's Prime Minister, the President offered a review of Pompeo's secret trip to North Korea.
	He just left North Korea, had a great meeting with Kim Jong-un, and got along with him really well, really great.
	And he's that kind of a guy.
	He's very smart, but he gets along with people.
	Pompeo made the trip in total secrecy over Easter weekend, sitting down with Kim Jong-un to lay the groundwork for a summit with President Trump.
	Days after his trip, he had his confirmation hearing for Secretary of State.
	Pompeo hinted at, but did not reveal, his secret mission.
	American people, you should know there's work being done in preparation for that.
	The president hopes he can convince the North Korean dictator to give up his nuclear program.
	If I think that it's a meeting that is not going to be fruitful, we're not going to go.
	If the meeting when I'm there is not fruitful, I will respectfully leave the meeting.
	I heard that.
	What's the point?
	I don't know.
	What is this cadence?
	There's a number of things in this clip that I found interesting.
	First of all was the response to it where you had big newspapers going, oh, Trump trusts the spooks more than he trusts his own diplomats.
	The guy is going to become Secretary of State, so that's bullshit.
	He already made him spook head.
	Yeah, he's already – well, they were trying to imply that he's just – Trump is in with the deep state.
	Yeah, something like that.
	But he also says, Trump says this funny comment because he's babbling away.
	He says, Pompeo's very smart, but gets along with people.
	What is he saying there?
	If you're very smart, you generally are a dick.
	I mean, what is he saying when he says that?
	I don't know.
	You've lived with it for 10 years, you tell me.
	Yeah, there's something in there that's funny.
	I don't know what it was.
	Anyway, so that keeps us up with that.
	So this meeting is going to go through.
	Oh, it's definitely going to happen.
	And he's going to make a big show out of it.
	And it'll be legendary.
	He'll get slammed.
	We've got the Troika now.
	I mean, it could go either way.
	So we have Putin, we've got Trump, and Z. What's his name?
	Chimpanzee?
	What's his name?
	Who?
	Oh, Xi.
	Xi.
	Xi.
	They also could easily just...
	It's pronounced more like Xi than Xi.
	They could also be the Troika of the New World Order.
	You know, maybe they're all colluding.
	Well, that would be an interesting New World Order for sure, because it's definitely not old globalists.
	It's new, that's for sure.
	There's jerk-offs that are running things.
	It would be quite a hoot, I think.
	I'm going to show myself old 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 we do have some people to thank for show 1026.
	Yeah, it drops off real quick, though.
	What?
	We had good execs and associate execs, but it drops real quick.
	Yeah, it's weird.
	Sir Anonymous comes in 174.92.
	This is the same guy who donated earlier.
	It's the same.
	I don't know why.
	He sent two checks in.
	One from last week.
	I think it was the 174.
	Okay.
	One of the reasons that I should mention we have a good list at the top is because I never picked the checks up.
	From the last show.
	Okay, gotcha.
	So really it was a poor showing, but we had checks from the meetup.
	And checks from the meetup.
	One week of checks and checks from the meetup.
	Thank you.
	I'm sorry, Sir Anonymous, 17492, then Sir Terry, The Night of Gowley's Ridge, 102.
	Sebastian Louis de Haas in Marsbergen.
	Marsbergen.
	Marsbergen.
	He found us through Roderick's podcast.
	Yeah, he's your buddy.
	Yeah.
	Cool.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, that's cool.
	Is Roderick Velo?
	Yeah, yeah.
	Roderick Felo.
	Felo.
	Oh, look at this.
	He has a calculation.
	The topic to dive into.
	Price is square root law and Facebook decline.
	The law is 50% of contributions done by the square root of the total contributors.
	If solar price law is valid for Facebook, only 36,000 contributors are adding 50%, which is the square root of 1,340,000,000 users, less than 0.003%.
	So if that group is leaving, the whole thing collides beyond the speed of light, especially when a second wave of contributors leaves.
	Well, that's interesting.
	Somehow I... We need a calculation on this.
	Well, somehow I don't think there's only 36,000.
	Well, so 50% of people actually contributing is 36,000 according to him.
	Seems low.
	In our group?
	No, no, no.
	Facebag.
	He's talking about Facebag.
	Yeah, but I'm just saying, can you use that calculation on our group?
	Yeah, you start with the 1,340,000,000 and work backwards from there.
	We haven't got that many listeners, I don't think.
	Basically, it's five guys keeping us afloat.
	Yeah, well, and a few others, including Sir Rick in Arlington, Washington.
	6996 sends that in every month.
	Nick Ismendi, Sir Nick Dragon of the Four Domains in Waterford, Mississippi.
	Yo!
	Ismendi.
	He's an F cancer.
	We've got to give him an F cancer at the end.
	Okay.
	For his mom, May, she's the best mom in the universe.
	We love her, and she'd love to hear this, of course.
	Yeah, definitely.
	Definitely.
	Eric McCammon, 5510.
	Yeah, you're right.
	This drops off really fast.
	The double nickels on the dime.
	Dean Roker, double nickels on the dime.
	Um...
	Joseph Costello in Pittston, Pennsylvania.
	Not Pittsburgh, but Pittston.
	Spending time on the left coast, it says.
	Sir Ben of Oakland down the street from me, 5135.
	The rest of these people are $50 donors.
	Name and location.
	Starting with Joel Deruin.
	Dowlett, who's in Savannah, Georgia.
	Dowlett Zanguzin in Bellevue, Washington.
	Scott Lavender in Montgomery.
	Sir Scott Lavender, I believe, in Montgomery, Texas.
	Thomas Dillon in Laverne, California.
	Micah Miller in Bethel, Pennsylvania.
	Sir Andrew Guzik in Greensboro, North Carolina.
	Daniel Smith Oh man, jeez.
	Cancer finally took my mom last week.
	F cancer.
	Jeez, this is bad, man.
	No wonder donations are down.
	People are dying.
	Yeah, that and the text, man.
	Jeez, I'm so sorry.
	That's horrible.
	That one includes you.
	Les Otman, if parts unknown, and he has a call out.
	He's been a douchebag for three years himself.
	He needs a de-douching.
	You've been de-douched.
	And he wants to call out Nathan, his former co-worker, for not donating.
	He says he loves our work.
	You help calm the mind.
	Especially after listening to InfoWars of late.
	UKPMX, one of our better guys, sent in a mix of the Alex Jones Going Nuts, the one that's been circulating around.
	I'm going to play it at the end of the show, and if you and I decide it's just too much to put in the actual podcast, we might cut it out.
	Oh, yeah.
	It might be better for the show itself if it's funny.
	It's funny, but it's really, I mean, it's FFFFFFFFF.
	Oh, I think we should not run it.
	You know me.
	Well, I'll play it for the...
	That's why I say it was up to me.
	Okay, we'll play it for the stream and play it at some point.
	We can yank it out of there.
	Yeah.
	So you're going to...
	Streamers, you're going to get lucky here.
	Yes.
	John Camp in Antlers, Oklahoma, 50.
	Eric McKee in Lawrenceville, Georgia, 50.
	And last but not least...
	Misty Ewing Gaskill, who is at the meetup, Pensacola, 50.
	Very nice.
	I want to thank all these folks for contributing 1026, for show 1026, and I want to thank everyone who gave lesser amounts of money that we don't mention because of the rules.
	And we're all rule followers, yes.
	We're rule followers.
	Exactly.
	We thank everybody and remind you another show coming up on Sunday, Dvorak.org slash NA. There's also a meet-up Sunday, April 22nd.
	Michigan Local 1 will be meeting up at the Old Chicago in Okimos.
	Okimos?
	Okimos?
	What is it?
	Okimos?
	Where?
	It's Old Chicago.
	Oh, there's a meetup in Lansing, too, I think.
	Ah, well, it's 1 p.m.
	Eastern Time.
	Email noagendadetroit at umich.edu.
	That's right, we're alum.
	Alums now of University of Michigan.
	Nice.
	We have a gold blue.
	You know, think about this.
	We have a weird situation down on the list.
	There's a guy who has promised 13...
	He never asked for knighthood, but he says it puts me at my promise 1380 if Trump got elected.
	So, I'm just going to tell you, Michael, that let us know if you want to be a knight, because this is very unclear.
	Think about this.
	So, if you have an email address, noagendadetroit at umich.edu, you're working in the IT department.
	Can you imagine?
	Yeah, can you make an email address for me?
	You're right.
	Dude named Ben.
	You've got to love that.
	Fantastic.
	Okay, we got a couple.
	I'll do some F-cancer and some jobs and some all-round goody two-shoes goat karma.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs.
	Yeah!
	Get on out there.
	You've got...
	Karma. Karma.
	Karma.
	And we have two changes today.
	Sir Anonymous becomes a baron, and we'll just leave it at that, unless he wants some protector, like anonymity.
	And Dame Judy Swartz came in with a big whopper this morning.
	We really appreciate that.
	And she becomes Baroness of Kendall County, and we think, uh...
	What am I doing?
	Guess what I'm wondering.
	That is really odd.
	Yeah, you're playing the birthday jingle while you're upgrading people.
	Yeah, what I can't figure out is why I just...
	It's in a different spot, that's why.
	And I'm just reading it like a total moron.
	Now the question, to edit or just let everyone enjoy my F up?
	I think everyone should get a kick out of that.
	Someone in the control room is out of control.
	Mark Robertson, Baronet Haggis of the Devil's Toilet, says happy birthday to his brother.
	And Ewan celebrates tomorrow, 420.
	Happy birthday from your buddies here at the best podcast in the universe.
	Here we go.
	Gather round douchebag, producer and slave Is we all thank your brothers and sisters who gave And some of them nights, some of them days But the titles are a-changing I don't know if it's the jet lag or, you know, it's just my version of you not remembering yesterday.
	Because, wow, that was really bad.
	Title changes.
	Dame Judy Swartz, thank you for the whopper you came in with today.
	She becomes Baroness of Kendall County and Sir Anonymous becomes Baron.
	That was odd.
	It's also because we don't have any Knights and Dames, that's why.
	I'm a mess.
	Just face it.
	Hey, did you get your note from your energy provider?
	No.
	What is he going to say?
	It will say a message from California Public Utilities Commission.
	This month, your utility bill will include a credit identified as the California Climate Credit.
	Your household and millions of others throughout the state will receive this credit on your utility bills.
	The California Climate Credit is part of California's efforts to fight climate change.
	This credit is from a state program that requires power plants and other large industries that emit greenhouse gases to buy carbon pollution permits.
	The credit on your bill is your share of the payments from the state's program.
	The Climate Credit is just one of many programs resulting from landmark legislation called the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006.
	Together these programs are cutting pollution, creating jobs, and investing in cleaner energy and transportation.
	Your Climate Credit is designed to help you join in these efforts.
	For more information about the Climate Credit, visit upyourbutt.org.
	My goodness.
	I want to know what you're paying.
	I have no idea.
	To create jobs.
	Thank you, John, for creating jobs.
	You're welcome.
	It's the least I could do.
	You need to get out of there.
	I'm just going to keep saying it.
	I will say this.
	About that.
	About that.
	I will say this.
	We need to bus the homeless to Austin.
	Yeah.
	7,000 already.
	Yeah, you can crank it up, no problem.
	It's despicable.
	I do have a clip that's kind of relating to this, because you know me, I'm totally convinced that if a leader of the homeless comes around, we've got a revolution situation.
	Oh yeah, pitchforks and torches and everything.
	Oh, it's going to be bad.
	It's going to be horrible.
	But here, play this clip.
	This is Park Rangers with guns.
	Uh-oh.
	It starts right now.
	Good evening and thanks for being with us.
	I'm Raj Mathai.
	And I'm Jessica Aguirre.
	Park rangers armed with guns.
	It is an idea San Jose is considering.
	Park rangers say they need the guns to protect themselves against what they say are increasingly volatile and violent homeless people living in parks.
	NBC Bearer's Robert Honda, who broke the story on Twitter, joins us for a park where those rangers are on patrol and obviously homeless advocates are saying they're overreacting.
	Well, that's right.
	We are at Emma Prusch Farm in San Jose, one of nine regional parks that rangers cover, along with 200 neighborhood parks and numerous creeks.
	Some officials say that's a lot of territory for 19 full-time rangers to patrol without a gun.
	Pam Helmke has been a San Jose park ranger for 32 years and says she's prepared for most confrontations.
	Currently, rangers have personal safety equipment, which includes pepper spray.
	Tactical baton.
	But now the city is considering increasing Rangers' law enforcement role and arming them with guns, especially when trying to prevent environmental damage around homeless encampments.
	Jeez Louise.
	Yeah.
	That's bad, man.
	I'll be shooting up the gunfights.
	You know, you speak about...
	I watched a couple of movies on the flight.
	I watched Justice League or whatever.
	It's like the movie.
	And I never watched any of this stuff, ever.
	Justice League is a low-rent Marvel, I think.
	I liked it.
	I liked it.
	It was a good airplane movie.
	I did, yeah.
	A lot of these movies are okay on an airplane.
	But what I loved was Churchill.
	Oh my God!
	I haven't seen that, but...
	Oh my goodness!
	But Oldman did win the Academy Award for Best Actor.
	I mean, it wasn't Gary Oldman, it was Churchill.
	Yeah, I know, it looks like it's me too.
	And I learned a couple of things.
	You watch this movie, everything about Churchill at that time, not his entire presence in UK politics, but at that time, is very analogous to Trump.
	How he was hated, yet chosen, people were afraid, he was a nutjob, you know, he was very outspoken, all of this stuff.
	Very, very analogous to Trump, except for the, you know, World War II part, or World War dot dot dot part.
	And I also learned, somehow, maybe I did know about it, but when I saw it, I was like, holy crap.
	He ordered anyone with a boat over 30 feet to become part of this armada that sailed from, I think, Dover mainly to, it wasn't, Calais?
	Was it Calais, I think?
	To pick up 300,000 troops who were cut off by Hitler's army.
	And almost all of them were ferried back on people's own personal boats.
	Yes, that was a major event.
	I can't...
	I'm like, do I know this?
	It wasn't really discussed much in your history classes.
	It's pretty much explored more recently, it seems to me, as someone who studies all this stuff.
	I knew it, but it was never played up much.
	It was like...
	And I didn't know a lot of the details which were exploded in this movie and one other movie.
	Maybe it was Dunkirk.
	I think it was Dunkirk.
	Yeah, Dunkirk.
	It was Dunkirk.
	And so there was the movie Dunkirk and then the Churchill movie.
	Both of them discussed this issue.
	Well, now I have to watch the Dunkirk movie, which I... I'm not really into war movies, but I'll watch it now.
	It was a good...
	I'm sure it was reasonably historically correct.
	I haven't heard much debate about it.
	But just a fantastic movie.
	I think I would get up, smoke a stogie, have a scotch.
	Damn!
	Nice!
	In the morning.
	In the morning.
	In bed.
	In bed.
	Yeah, it's our kind of guy.
	Yeah.
	I'm like, yeah, Trump.
	Hamburgers.
	It's the same kind of deal.
	Hamburgers.
	It's the same kind of deal.
	Trump's surrounded by burger wrappers in his bed.
	Yeah.
	That's what the Lib Joes tell us.
	Oh, yes.
	Well, of course he is.
	He has contamination issues.
	He's not going to have that in his bed.
	Only pee-pee in his bed.
	That's right.
	We always forget that he's kind of...
	Beyond being just a neat freak...
	He's a germaphobe.
	He's a germaphobe.
	Yeah.
	And he struggles when he has to shake all these hands.
	I'm sure they don't show this, but I wish somebody could get a picture of him taking out one of those little bottles and spraying himself afterwards.
	Yeah.
	What's it called?
	The little bottle?
	Spray the goo.
	Spray goo.
	Spray goo.
	New from the Curry Dvorak Keep Your Hand Clean Club.
	Spray goo.
	It'll hit me in a moment.
	I have a couple of Syria clips.
	Purell.
	Okay, if you want to play those.
	I'm going to finish with a clip blitz.
	Oh, very nice.
	Okay.
	Let's see what we have.
	Well, Lavrov...
	Lavrov was on the BBC. He was talking to a couple of different outlets.
	I've always liked Lavrov, especially because his English is really good and you understand what he's talking about.
	And here's just some interesting background on communications between the Americans and the Ruskies.
	The world was deeply alarmed last week by the prospect of a direct military confrontation between the United States and Russia.
	How close?
	Do you believe we came to that?
	Well, I don't think that was very close.
	I believe it was a situation created by very reckless behavior of our Western colleagues who accused the Syrian government and thus as allies of the Syrian government in applying chemical weapons against civilians without waiting for OPCW to inspect the place.
	Actually, at the moment when OPCW A de-conflicting channel?
	They have a channel.
	Well, no, you know about that.
	You just forgot the name of it.
	That's the channel that was set up when we started doing airstrikes.
	No, I didn't forget, but there's two.
	There's two.
	There's a military deconfliction channel, and then there's a Kremlin White House deconfliction channel, as he'll explain.
	So to be clear about that, without using jargon...
	Jargon.
	Deconfliction channel is such a jargon.
	...and allied forces gave you indications of how the strikes were to be carried out, and you gave them some indication that you would not retaliate?
	I prefer not to get into the nitty-gritty of these military channels.
	There is a channel existing between the Russian and the United States military, both between the capitals and on the ground in Syria.
	And I believe the military discussed and continue to discuss this and other things very professionally.
	They understand each other and they understand maybe better than anyone else the danger of this kind of adventure.
	Any collusion?
	That's where I'd be looking for collusion.
	What if these guys are just putting on a big show?
	What?
	You think?
	You mean you're not already assuming that?
	No, I mean the Russians and the Americans and the Russians together.
	What?
	I mean, you're not already assuming that?
	Not to that depth, no.
	No.
	Because what you should be thinking is that the two of them are doing all this as a big show so they can take pot shots at invading aliens.
	What am I saying?
	I'm jet-lagged.
	I'm a little off my game.
	But Mr.
	Lavrov, this crisis is not over, is it?
	It depends on those who invented the crisis.
	Invented?
	Well, that's quite clear.
	Nice.
	From those words used by your own diplomats, your ambassador to the United States said there would be consequences for the strikes that we saw.
	Vladimir Putin called it an illegal act of aggression.
	So the world wants to know, what is Russia's...
	That's a statement of fact.
	And there would be consequences.
	We lose, basically, the last remnants of trust to our Western friends, who prefer to operate on the basis of very weird logic.
	Proof isn't the punishment.
	They punish first, like they did in Salisbury.
	Then they wait for Scotland Yard to finalize the investigation.
	They punish first in Douma in Syria, and then they wait for the inspectors of OPCW to visit the place and to inspect.
	Punishment, I mean, proof by the punishment is what is being applied by the Troika of Western countries.
	We learned it by watching you, okay?
	Seems like he's spot on about all that.
	There was another muckety-muck who came out saying, on the BBC once again, a little bit longer, but I thought it was very eloquent the way he spoke, saying, hey, hold on a second, this makes no sense.
	And then the BBC host just, you know, lays down a little bit of smack.
	It's like, I mean, smack, just makes a slight observation, and it's just kind of glossed over.
	Yes, President Assad is...
	This is...
	Former commander of the Royal Navy, Lord West.
	In the process of winning this civil war, and he was about to take over and occupy Duma, all that area.
	He'd had a long, long, hard slog, slowly capturing that whole area of the city.
	And there, just before he goes in and takes it all over, apparently he decides to have a chemical attack.
	It just doesn't ring true.
	It seems extraordinary, because...
	Clearly he would know that there's likely to be a response from the Allies.
	What benefit is there for his military?
	Is it fair to say, though, that you're looking at this from the point of view of strategy and tactics rather than any evidence?
	Absolutely, although we do know that the reports that came from there were from the White Helmets, who, let's face it, are not neutrals.
	You know, they're very much on the side of the disparate groups who are fighting Assad.
	And also the World Health Organization, doctors who were there.
	And again, those doctors are embedded in amongst the groups, doing fantastic work, I know.
	But they're not neutral.
	And I'm just a little bit concerned because as we now move to the next phase in this war, if I were advising some of the Islamist groups, many of whom are worse than Daesh, I would say, look, we've got to wait until there's another attack by Assad's forces, particularly if they have a helicopter overhead or something like that and they're dropping barrel bombs, and we must set off some chlorine because we'll get the next attack from the Allies.
	Exactly.
	And there's no doubt that if we believe he's done a chemical attack, we should do that.
	And those attacks will get bigger.
	And it is the only way they have got, actually, of stopping the inevitable victory of Assad.
	Are you saying that there may be something faulty with the intelligence, the proof that President Macron has said he has, with the, to quote the Defence Secretary here, Gavin Williamson, the significant body of intelligence which suggests the Assad regime...
	Is responsible for what happened in Duma?
	Are you suggesting there may be faulty intelligence behind all of this?
	Yeah, and I wasn't...
	I was in Europe, but I didn't hear much about what this infallible, huge body of evidence was.
	Did you hear anything about it, that Macron has, apparently?
	They talk a big game about this, and everybody does it, this...
	Huge body of evidence.
	I don't know why, by the way.
	There's no reason not to reveal this body of evidence.
	It's classified!
	But why is it classified?
	It probably reveals that the White Helmets or these other guys are stooges for the British government, which is one way of looking at it.
	It probably reveals something like that.
	Yeah.
	But it seems like they're putting too much trust in this, and it might also indicate that we're suckers for some sort of bullshit narrative that somebody else is presenting to us.
	Oh yeah, okay, whatever.
	I don't know, but everyone takes it for granted.
	We've had some bad experiences on intelligence.
	When I was Chief of Defence Intelligence, I had huge pressure put on me, politically, to try and say that our bombing campaign in Bosnia was achieving all sorts of things, which it wasn't.
	I was put under huge pressure.
	So I know the things that can happen with intelligence, and I would just like to be absolutely sure.
	Given that we're in an information war with Russia...
	That's pretty bold for the BBC. Yeah, there was another guy in the BBC. They cut him off when he started going in this direction.
	Yeah, but she just said information war.
	Well, yeah, that means that you're also in warfare, that you're also playing dirty, I would guess.
	Try and say that our bombing campaign in Bosnia was achieving all sorts of things, which it wasn't.
	I was put under huge pressure, so I know the things that can happen with intelligence, and I would just like to be absolutely sure...
	Given that we're in an information war with Russia on so many fronts, do you think perhaps it's inadvisable to be stating this so publicly?
	Given your position and your profile, isn't there a danger that you're muddying the waters?
	You're going to be made to look like an idiot!
	Well, I think the answer is, if there's a real concern, let's face it, if he hasn't done it, then that is extremely bad news.
	If Assad hasn't carried out the attack, and I think it's just worth making that clear.
	I think our government's policy towards Assad has not been clever since 2013.
	To say we're not going to have anything to do with him, he's not the president, we're not going to have anything to do with him, is flying in the face of real politique, of facts on the ground.
	I didn't clip it, but later on in the interview, he's talking about, look, the guy's a horrible dictator.
	We all know that.
	I'm like, wait a minute.
	This is the guy whose wife was on the cover of Vogue magazine, Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt driving around Damascus.
	He's driving, ha, ha, ha, ha, nice little op-ed.
	You know, everything's all hunky-dory and everyone loves him.
	When was he?
	Obama was his buddy, too.
	Yeah!
	So, you know, don't give me this line of...
	You know, horrible dictator.
	We know he's horrible, but...
	Nah, I don't know.
	And then the final two in this sequence is...
	Well, you know, Sean Spicer was the original a year ago.
	He was the spokeshole, the Spock's.
	When we bombed Syria the first time, we lobbed those bombs onto the airfield.
	Now the White House has someone else, Victoria Coates, who is a...
	I think she's billed as just an advisor to the president.
	And here is our strategy on Syria.
	Well, basically, our endgame is a Syria that does not threaten its neighbors.
	We have very close allies in the region and partner nations, and we very much do not want to see Syria become a hotbed of terrorism.
	Of course, everyone would want to see an end to the Syrian Civil War.
	We would like to see a diplomatic process implemented that would allow the people of Syria more of a voice in picking their government.
	But our very clear national security interest here is in containing violence and terrorism and not letting our assets in the region be threatened.
	What you just articulated sounds like multiple goals.
	I mean, it's not just to deter further use of chemical weapons.
	You're talking about containing terrorism, containing ISIS, and possibly even regime change?
	No, I think very much.
	We have our de-ISIS policy, which the president came into office, that the eradication of ISIS was a top national security goal for him.
	You asked about a broader Syria strategy.
	I think both the de-ISIS and the action in retaliation for the use of chemical weapons both fall under that category, that when you have chemical weapons moving around a country, you risk having those weapons fall into bad actors' hands.
	Obviously, when they're used with impunity, others are encouraged to get this kind of arsenal and use it.
	And that's something the president decided was intolerable to the national security interests of the United States.
	Blah, blah, blah, blah, lady.
	There's something she said in there that was easily passed over.
	Which part?
	Because it could have been asked by the reporter.
	I would have stopped her.
	She says to protect our assets in the region.
	Yeah, assets, yes.
	What assets do we have in Syria?
	The pipeline.
	Of course, that's all that we have.
	Yeah, there's no other assets in the region.
	That's the asset, yes.
	I like the de-ices, because it immediately conjures up an image of a de-icing machine.
	Yeah.
	I was going to de-ices that bit there.
	Now, let's flash back to The Truth Always Wants To Come Out, April of 2017.
	Sean Spicer often mocked, and for good reason, when you hear the truth really coming out as to what our strategy is in Syria, I doubt it's really changed.
	Because I don't think...
	I think that you can...
	One of them is saying we don't see peace with him in charge.
	The other one is saying we need to have him gone.
	I think that's the point of both.
	The goal for both of them, the goal for the United States, is twofold.
	As I've stated, it's one, to make sure that we destabilize Syria, destabilize the conflict there, reduce the threat of ISIS. Ha ha ha!
	I think I made a boo-boo.
	I mean, destabilize what's going on there.
	Good work, Sean.
	I love the internet.
	I love the internet.
	And then, finally, and then we'll get to your clip blitz.
	There is a joint resolution before the House, currently.
	And this is how they always do it.
	And I haven't seen this reported on.
	I don't know the status of it right now.
	A joint resolution...
	To authorize the use of military force against the Taliban, Al-Qaeda, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, and designated associated forces, and to provide an updated, transparent, sustainable statutory basis for counterterrorism operations.
	What this means is we already had an authorization for the use of military force since 2001, which of course was only intended for Al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden who attacked us, which had already been expanded to include all these other jamokes everywhere.
	Yeah, and everybody's bitching and moaning that they're using that thing kind of out of school.
	And now they're just expanding it.
	Yeah, well they had to do that because they got tired of hearing people bitch.
	They're just doing it.
	And everyone's...
	Oh, it's a joint resolution.
	We're all good to go.
	This is...
	Somebody pointed out...
	Congress does not want to take responsibility for any of this stuff.
	And they really wanted it to be passed on to the president so they can use it as electioneering leverage.
	Let me see what they've added here.
	Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
	Al-Shabaab.
	Al-Qaeda in Syria.
	Al-Shabaab.
	The Haqqani Network.
	Black Entertainment Network.
	Al-Qaeda.
	Funny.
	Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.
	And associated dudes.
	Why don't they just say anybody who's brown?
	That would just wrap it all up.
	Make it easy for us.
	It's very, very troubling.
	Very troubling.
	Red, 33!
	We're on our way.
	Yes.
	Playboy Bunny.
	Former Playboy model Karen McDougal can now tell the full story of her alleged affair with Donald Trump a decade ago.
	McDougal had sued American Media, which owns the National Enquirer, claiming it tricked her into signing away the rights to the story, which it never ran.
	Today, the company agreed to let McDougal out of her contract.
	It's another No Agenda.
	No!
	Pacific Garbage Dump Cleanup joins us now in Alameda with an inside look.
	Scott?
	Well, the cleanup process is going to start here with these massive sections of tubing that will float in the water, but all the plastic will actually be trapped right here in these nets, then eventually the plastic will be brought back to shore.
	The Alameda company calling itself the Ocean Cleanup is building what it hopes will be a trap.
	A trap for 1.8 billion pieces of plastic.
	For 60 years man has been putting plastic into the ocean.
	The result?
	The giant pacific garbage patch between the US and Hawaii.
	An environmental hazard the Ocean Cleanup wants to tame by surrounding the trash and picking it up.
	We are fishing for plastic.
	Their plan is to use dozens of connected floating tubes with netting attached that will spread out in a U-shape near the garbage patch.
	They go around, and they accumulate the plastic in them, and then every probably around two months, a vessel would come, like the garbage truck of the ocean, with the netting playing the part of the garbage bag.
	Is this for real?
	Yeah, that's great.
	Red 33!
	Red 33!
	Clip blitz!
	Clip blitz!
	Okay fires.
	James and Lisa Newell feel lucky their home is still standing.
	Everything was on fire all around here.
	Everything was on fire.
	Everything was a glow amber and our place is still standing.
	The Ray Fire, the biggest so far, burning more than 283,000 acres.
	One of the big problems are these cedar trees.
	You see how quickly that has burned here right behind me?
	Firefighters say they burn extremely violently.
	Wind gusts of 30 miles an hour helping spread those burning embers.
	David, firefighters are calling this fire epic as they deal with historically bad conditions, these high winds and extreme drought.
	People I spoke with said they're just holding on until this weekend when the rains come.
	Red 33!
	Flip blitz!
	More YouTube threats.
	Well, New at Six, a new threat against YouTube.
	But this one, thankfully, was foiled.
	San Bruno police say a post appeared on Instagram that warned of another shooting at YouTube.
	Police and federal agents tracked it down to Pennsylvania.
	They arrested a juvenile.
	This comes two weeks after Nassim Ogdam, seen here, opened fire at the YouTube headquarters in San Bruno.
	She shot three employees and then killed herself.
	Ogdam was upset that YouTube was censoring her content.
	Red, 33!
	Can I do one?
	Can I do one?
	Please.
	Yeah, do one.
	Singing road drives villagers nuts.
	Drive down this highway in the Netherlands and it'll sing you a song.
	The local government wanted to liven up journeys through the Friesland province, where the city of Leeuwarden was crowned 2018's European capital of culture.
	But the novelty has worn thin for locals, who say the musical road has created a never-ending cacophony.
	It's keeping them awake at night.
	The strips responsible for the sound are usually used at the side of major roads, to warn drivers they're straying off course.
	A local newspaper said officials had hoped it would promote road safety, as drivers need to go over them at the correct speed for it to sing out the Frisian regional anthem.
	But that might have backfired.
	Last Saturday night, taxis were driving from Leeuwarden to Steens, and on the way back they tried to go across the lines as quickly as possible, and we had the anthem playing all night at high speed.
	After striking the wrong chord with locals, the Friesland Authority has agreed to remove the $99,000 strips, less than a week after they were installed.
	It's a novel idea.
	I give them that.
	Crazy.
	They should have done like a Kanye song or something.
	You don't want that anthem playing over and over again.
	Do a hit.
	That could be a whole new way for publishing.
	Music publishing.
	Roadstrips.
	Hey man, I'm number one.
	Books on tape.
	I'm number one on I-35.
	With a bullet.
	Alright, last.
	Red 33!
	Red 33!
	Clip blitz!
	Clip blitz!
	What is it?
	Last clip, 420 holiday.
	Though it's an unsanctioned event, the city is working with merchants and sponsors again this year.
	This is still not a city-sponsored or city-approved event.
	This is about safety and the quality of life in the neighborhood.
	Fencing is up and there will be more private security.
	Marijuana is legal, but it is illegal to smoke marijuana in public.
	But at 4.20 on Friday afternoon, the unofficial tradition comes to a head with smoke in the air.
	I really do think every year there's just going to be more people who are ready to celebrate this holiday.
	Wow, I am really high.
	She calls it a holiday.
	It's a holiday.
	She was blitzed.
	There it is.
	A holiday.
	She was blotto, man.
	She was blotto.
	Blotto.
	Alright, everybody.
	Thank you very much.
	Thank you to the Troll Room.
	You might want to hang out for Nick the Rat coming to you from the sewer up next on the stream.
	He's been waiting patiently.
	And we return on Sunday with another episode of the best podcast in the universe.
	We deconstruct the media before your very eyes.
	Just watch our hands.
	No funny business going on whatsoever.
	And I'm coming to you from downtown Austin, Texas.
	Capital of the Drone Star State.
	FEMA Region 6 and all the governmental maps.
	In the 5x9 Cludio and the Common Law Condo in the morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where I'm going to a wine tasting, I'm John C. Dvorak.
	We return on Sunday right here, no agenda.
	Until then, as always, adios, mofos!
	I need a cab.
	Cab.
	Oh, there's one.
	See you next time.
	All that's left is slavery.
	Blue John, stop spreading fake news.
	A vasectomy does not involve cutting your nuts off, because, you know, then I'm going to have to listen to Brian Brushwood complain to me for another five years.
	He doesn't know you know what it is.
	Please tell all the newcomers your theory.
	I discovered a book in the 1920s that I still have a copy of.
	And it's a talk about certain medical procedures.
	And vasectomies are not new.
	And they were used in the 20s as a youth fix.
	It would make you...
	The vasectomy was...
	Men were told, get a vasectomy and you'll look younger.
	It's like another one that came along some years later was the lobotomy.
	Yeah.
	There was actually a faddish thing, and there was apparently some guy in Central Park that would give you.
	You can get lobotomies without having to really go into the doctor's office.
	They would slip a needle behind your eyeball, and the thing was, I guess it was curved a certain way.
	They could actually nick and cut off the little piece of the brain that hooks the front to the back.
	Oh.
	And just.
	This was done to, I don't know, middle-aged guys.
	I'm not sure what the ages were.
	But I started noticing this with men who had had vasectomies.
	And I will say this, not all of them, but most of them start to look a little bit like an old lesbian.
	And...
	There's a uniform lesbian look.
	There is, I think.
	And at least I think that there's a uniform lesbian look.
	I just think it's the Chris Hayes look.
	That's pretty much it.
	Gather a light.
	Dissect in me.
	Blabar me.
	Give away all your masculinity.
	Come on in the brain.
	All that's left is slayer free.
	The best podcast in the universe.
	Adios, mofo.

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