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	Big tech guys.
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	Adam Curry.
	John C. Dvorak.
	It's Thursday, October 18th, 2018.
	This is your award-winning Give Our Nation Media Assassination, Episode 1078.
	This is No Agenda.
	Counting Hiroshima bombs and broadcasting live from the capital of the drone, Star State, here in downtown Austin Tejas, in the Cludio.
	In the morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where we're still trying to figure out how to pronounce sh-sh-shogi, I'm John C. Devorak.
	It's Craig Vaughn and Buzzkill.
	In the morning.
	No, I think we got it.
	Kashokki.
	You know, the funny thing is you listen to the PBS NewsHour and...
	Judy pronounces it the old-fashioned way, Khashogi.
	But everybody else pronounces it slightly different.
	There's the Khashoshi, and then there's the Shushoshi.
	Yes.
	Everything in between.
	It's ludicrous.
	Well, let's stick with the story for a moment, because there's a lot of things going on with Khashogi.
	It's the Shitshogi.
	Khashogi, exactly.
	I'm sure you've got some clips on this.
	I have one.
	It's kind of a definitive clip, I think.
	It kind of does, or as they update PBS complete, I think, to kind of get, brings us up to speed.
	Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi went missing on October 2nd, and the diplomatic crisis over his disappearance has deepened each day since.
	President Trump sent his Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, to the Middle East to get some answers.
	Our foreign affairs correspondent Nick Schifrin has the latest.
	For the last day and a half, America's top diplomat has held emergency meetings with the leaders of Turkey and Saudi Arabia.
	And as he left Riyadh this morning, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo expressed confidence in Saudi's ability to conduct an investigation into itself.
	They want to have the opportunity to complete this investigation in a thorough way.
	And I think that's a reasonable thing to do to give them that opportunity.
	And then we'll all get to judge.
	Judge an investigation into Jamal Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist and critic of the kingdom.
	What's this Khashoggi stuff?
	That's not...
	It's a new one!
	That's not correct.
	Khashoggi.
	Khashoggi.
	I'll have a whole wheat hoagie.
	I think that's a reasonable thing to do to give them that opportunity, and then we'll all get to judge.
	Judge an investigation into Jamal Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist and critic of the kingdom.
	He hasn't been seen since he entered Saudi's Istanbul consulate earlier this month.
	Turkish officials are maintaining their pressure on Saudi Arabia.
	For days, they've referenced audio of the killing in the consulate.
	And today, a pro-government newspaper reported new details on the Saudi hit squad that Turks say left the scene after they tortured, murdered, and dismembered Khashoggi.
	A Turkish official identified the Saudi government's head of forensic evidence as one of the men who, quote, cut Khashoggi's body up on a table in the study while he was still alive.
	Turkey has now released images of 15 suspects.
	The New York Times reports at least nine work directly for Saudi security services, and four have close ties to Saudi Arabia's de facto leader, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
	I'm not giving cover at all.
	But in the Oval Office, President Trump expressed confidence in Saudi Arabia.
	In an interview with the Associated Press last night, the president said King Salman and his son, the crown prince, both denied involvement.
	And in response to criticism he's letting Saudi off easy, he said, quote, Here we go again with, you know, you're guilty until proven innocent.
	I don't like that.
	We just went through that with Justice Kavanaugh, and he was innocent all the way.
	There were a number of differing reports everywhere.
	And this was, yeah, backgrounder.
	But there were some other...
	Well, that was the mildest.
	I mean, there were reports about them using headphones, playing loud music so they could chop off his fingers without hearing him scream.
	What I like is the blame Trump for everything.
	Like NBC. The haunting image.
	An international mystery with a growing demand for answers.
	And if he's not alive, then it is the Saudis who would know what happened.
	We cannot have an ally who murders in cold blood in their own...
	Consulate.
	Fallout today.
	Saudi Arabia's stock market tumbled.
	Tech and media companies pulling out of a Saudi investment conference.
	The kingdom's American embassy tweeted, appreciation to all, including the U.S. administration, for refraining from jumping to conclusions.
	We're going to find out what happened.
	We're looking very hard.
	Missing 12 days.
	Saudi critic Jamal Khashoggi, a permanent U.S. resident and Washington Post columnist.
	Turkey's government says it has evidence he was killed by Saudi operatives.
	Former CIA director and NBC News analyst John Brennan.
	It would be inconceivable that such an operation would be run by the Saudis without the knowledge of the day-to-day decision-maker of Saudi Arabia.
	That's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
	It's a great honor to have the Crown Prince with us.
	The President's close ties...
	I mean, I love Saudi Arabia!
	...add pressure to his pledge to...
	I mean...
	It doesn't get much better when you're talking about Saudi Arabia killing a guy to have to insert that little Trump bit.
	That's really good.
	Prince with us.
	NBC has become very chicken shit with their reporting.
	Close ties.
	I mean, I love Saudi Arabia.
	Add pressure to his pledge to deliver severe punishment if the Saudis are responsible.
	Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin still plans to go to that Saudi conference next week.
	Along with the President and the General Investigation, Mr.
	Mnuchin will make up his mind as the week progresses and as new information surfaces.
	The Saudi government has denied any involvement and issued a statement today saying it would respond to any political or economic actions taken against Saudi Arabia.
	Tonight, in a new joint statement, the governments of the United Kingdom, France and Germany, said there must be a credible investigation with those responsible held to account and they expect the Saudi government to provide a complete and detailed response.
	Yeah, so there's a number of things that are going on right now.
	The first thing from this morning is that one of the 15 guys in the hit squad, Mashal Saad al-Bostani, who is a 31-year-old lieutenant of the Saudi Royal Air Force, was killed in a car accident.
	Oops.
	So he got rid of one guy.
	I don't know what that means, if anything.
	Well, if there were 15, maybe he was the...
	I don't know.
	You can't tell.
	I mean, the whole thing...
	You know they're going to...
	For one thing, if they're just going to kill some of these guys, you know they're going to have to...
	Assuming there was something that actually happened...
	I mean, I don't believe anything about these tapes.
	This imaginary tape reminds me of Sandy Hook 911 calls.
	You know, it's like...
	We were waiting for weeks.
	Which we played on the show.
	Yeah, we finally got a copy of it and it was very mild.
	So we've heard about cutting off his fingers and telling him to listen.
	Why can't we just get this audio tape?
	I do not understand.
	I mean, what's happening is it's folding into the lexicon and people are just saying, well, there's audio of this and there's video of that.
	And we've seen absolutely nothing, but we're starting to believe what is being rammed down our throats.
	Meanwhile, the German Die Welt, which I would say is a respectable newspaper, would you?
	Yeah, yeah, I'd say so.
	They say that Khashoggi was not a journalist, but a high-level operative for the Saudi intelligence.
	Yeah, that's what PJ Media says, too.
	They wrote up a long piece on this.
	You sent me a copy.
	It's in the show notes.
	And I have here Joseph Baut.
	This is on, I think, NPR. And he's of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
	And here's what he had to say about Kashuk.
	How do we pronounce it now?
	What is the...
	Khashoggi.
	We're just going to say Khashoggi.
	It's easier for us.
	You knew Jamal Khashoggi.
	Tell us about him and your connection to him.
	Yes, I knew Jamal.
	First of all, because Jamal Khashoggi was so...
	By the way, he's kind of saying Khashoggi as well.
	And he has an accent that sounds like he knows what he's doing.
	Jamal Khashoggi was so, I mean, until two, three years ago, completely in the mainstream of the Saudi punditry.
	Jamal was a Saudi journalist.
	And this is what's fascinating today, to forget this.
	He was, at the moment, an advisor to the royal court.
	He was an official advisor to former Saudi ambassador to London, Turkel Faisal.
	He was also the head of the Saudi intelligence.
	Jamal Khashoggi was speaking on behalf of the kingdom's point of view.
	So it's very cynical today to present him as a kind of maverick opponent, seeking to topple the regime and etc.
	He was not.
	Okay, so just so you know.
	He was not all of that that the Washington Post wants him to be.
	But I was listening to the John Brennan interview.
	Did you see that?
	I missed it.
	Okay, I'm going to play it and we'll just...
	The whole thing is about four minutes.
	We'll just play it until we're done with it.
	But almost every single question Chuck asks...
	Chuck?
	Chuck.
	Is it Chuck?
	Chuck Todd?
	Yeah, Chuck Todd.
	Chuck.
	Chuck.
	Every question Chuck asks is the one we'd want to ask.
	And I think Brennan reveals quite a lot here, so let's play along.
	...is the former director of the CIA, John Brennan, and he's a one-time station chief in Saudi Arabia.
	Director Brennan, welcome back to Meet the Press.
	Good morning, Chuck.
	As I was sort of joking with my staff earlier, it seems as if...
	By the way...
	We have not seen Brennan for weeks.
	Weeks and weeks.
	He's really quiet.
	And then all of a sudden, he's back on the scene.
	It's just interesting to note.
	In the early parts of the Obama administration, if there was a problem between the Obama administration and Saudi Arabia, you were the one sent to try to mediate the situation.
	So let me ask you this.
	Are you a Muslim?
	What is the CIA doing right now when it comes to something?
	What would you be doing right now trying to figure out this mystery?
	Well, I'll be working with our long-standing partners, the Turkish intelligence officers, as well as Saudi intelligence officers and others, to see what information they might be able to share with us, but also looking at what types of other collection capabilities that we have, and going back into systems and databases and to see whether or not there are any indications of what might have happened when Jamal Khashoggi went to the Saudi consulate.
	He's cavalier about it, but it did not just pass me by that he says, we'll just go into the databases and see what we got.
	It's kind of frightening that those guys can do that.
	Let's just rewind the world clock in our database and let's see what we have.
	We must have tons of information.
	We have pretty tight intelligence sharing with the Saudis, do we not?
	Yes.
	How likely is it that we would have a hint that they had some issue with Khashoggi?
	That maybe they were going to arrest him or maybe they were going to detain him?
	How likely is it that we had some clue about something?
	Well, I think it was pretty open that the Saudi government had issues with Jamal Khashoggi because of his writings.
	And so I wouldn't be surprised if U.S. diplomats, intelligence officers, were mindful about the potential for something to happen to Khashoggi in arrest and detention.
	But unfortunately, it seems like more than that.
	What's our duty?
	What's the U.S. government's duty?
	If you have this information, you know the Saudi government might get aggressive with you.
	Mm-hmm.
	Be careful.
	He was a U.S. resident, but he was a Saudi citizen.
	Do we have a duty to warn him?
	If there's credible intelligence that somebody is under threat of violent attack, that would trigger a process to decide about the ability to warn that individual.
	I don't know what type of intelligence we had before his disappearance, but if it was an arrest or detention or a capture of Jamal Khashoggi, he is a Saudi citizen, even though he's an American resident.
	So I am unclear exactly whether or not that threshold for duty to warn was triggered, but it would have to have some type of threat of violence associated with it.
	You know, just as maybe an aside, this whole, well, he wasn't a citizen, but he was a resident, and therefore we must take action.
	I'm not so sure about that.
	Well, I think this duty to warn thing is kind of interesting because it's really only been revealed recently.
	I wonder if Castellano, as he walked out of the steakhouse sparks in New York City, was ever warned in advance.
	I'm just curious, the release of Pastor Brunson by the Turks.
	The president said there was no connection.
	Any connection here?
	Could there be some sort of, this is the Turks' way of trying to get a little more on the U.S. side?
	By the way, I want to mention Joseph Bahun of the Carnegie Endowment.
	He said that Khashoggi was the number one guy of Turk al-Faisal, Prince Turk al-Faisal, and he was staunchly anti-Trump.
	So you've got to stick that in the back of your mind.
	I want the United States to believe their version of events here is...
	Is there any connection you see?
	I think one can make the argument that the Turks are trying to improve relations with the United States, not just for this issue, but also just more broadly, particularly on the economic and the political front.
	The coincidence of the two in terms of Khashoggi's disappearance and Brunson's release is sort of interesting, but I don't know what it was that might have been broken between Ankara and Washington.
	There's a lot of people who seem to be pretty confident that this was likely an order from MBS. Okay, MBS. Now, I've heard this MBS thing for the past week.
	MBS, MBS. The press corps in Washington...
	Has long since decided that Mohammed bin Salman is just MBS because he's a cool guy or something's going on or he's around and everyone talks about him.
	And the last time I heard any Arabic name abbreviated to three letters, do you remember when that was?
	With that woman, Cortez, running for Congress?
	OBL. Yeah, but OBL never caught on.
	They did this MBS thing.
	They started this pretty soon after he ascended to the throne.
	Or to the de facto throne.
	Well, here's what I've learned.
	His nickname, MBS, in Washington was also known at...
	You're going to love this.
	MBS stood for Mohammed bin Salman, but also for his real nickname at Washington parties, Mr.
	Bonesaw.
	What?
	Yes, I'm thinking there's code or something in this.
	Because why else?
	What was that report that you had about the bone saw?
	It just started showing up.
	Wait, but why?
	You can't stop there.
	I'm not stopping.
	No, I'm saying you have to continue and tell us why he was named bone saw in the first place.
	I don't know.
	All I know is that in Washington, D.C., MBS is known as Mr.
	Bonesaw.
	So I don't know if that's how he...
	Did you refer to him specifically?
	Yes, before this event!
	Mr.
	Bonesaw.
	MBS. I don't buy this.
	I'm calling foul.
	Okay.
	I haven't been to the parties personally.
	It's only what I've been told.
	So that's all I can say.
	But the MBS thing...
	Unless you can give me a rationale for calling him that.
	Mr.
	Bonesaw, unless he carries one with him.
	I'm sure it's a metaphor for what he does or how he operates in business or something of that matter.
	I'm not sure.
	Well, let's listen to the rest of this.
	And the government in Saudi Arabia.
	Where are you on that?
	Well, I think there are two points.
	If Khashoggi had disappeared in Turkey when he was at a hotel or a private residence, I think there is plausible deniability on the part of the Saudi government.
	But he disappeared when there is video evidence of him being at the consulate, the Saudi consulate, a diplomatic mission under the full control of Saudi Arabia.
	You know, this video evidence, okay, so yeah, we had some iPhone video of him walking into the consulate.
	Let's stop there.
	Was his face shown in that video?
	There was a circle drawn around it, which meant it was him.
	We just saw some guy walking into the embassy.
	We have no idea who this guy was.
	It's not very clear on the video.
	And by the way, for an Apple iPhone video, it's pretty pathetic.
	That's what it's claimed to have been.
	Is that where it came from?
	That was an Apple iPhone video that was taken by his fiancée?
	That's the claim.
	Yes, that's the claim.
	So let's say some guy who works there, you take a movie of just some random guy or you take a bunch of movies.
	This guy has my frame.
	Let's use that.
	And claim that he got in there and then he never did.
	Let's say he never went in.
	And meanwhile, he went off someplace else because this whole thing was a setup by the fiancé and him to get him out of the picture.
	So he doesn't – because maybe they did hear something that could happen or maybe there would have been a setup.
	And this whole thing is a giant hoax.
	Well, there may be something else, which Brennan – it comes up in the next question, which is the last one.
	So their denials ring hollow, very much ring hollow, to go after a permanent resident of the United States who writes for the Washington Post.
	And doing it on foreign soil at a diplomatic mission, to me, it would be inconceivable that such an operation would be run by the Saudis without the knowledge of the day-to-day decision-maker of Saudi Arabia – That's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
	I think it is just beyond reality.
	And so I think it's up to the Saudis now to explain what actually happened.
	Okay.
	Again, the Saudis.
	You've got to prove you didn't do it.
	Now, here comes the thing that I thought was curious.
	Would it matter if their explanation is this was a rendition gone wrong?
	This was an accident.
	We didn't, quote, mean to kill him.
	Well, I think there has to be a full accounting of it.
	What was that?
	Listen again.
	He sucked in a gut or something.
	That's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
	I think it is just beyond reality.
	And so I think it's up to the Saudis now to explain what actually happened.
	Would it matter if their explanation is this was a rendition gone wrong?
	This was an accident.
	We didn't, quote, mean to kill him.
	Well, I think there has to be a full accounting of it.
	I think so.
	And I think there have been calls for some investigations.
	Now listen to this.
	King Salman, Mohammed Salman's father, has had a long-standing reputation of being fair, pious, but also meting out justice to members of the royal family.
	And there have been princes in the royal family in the past who have been held to account for some transgressions of the law, including executions.
	So I think it's going to be up to King Salman if he has the mental capacity right now and the political strength.
	You said if.
	You don't think the king has mental capacity right now?
	Well, he is aging, and there are indications that he has failed a bit.
	And whether or not now he is able to muster the strength and the capacity to find out what happened, including the role of his son.
	What do you think?
	Is it possible that the old man, like, wants to get rid of the kid because he thinks he's out of control?
	And he was looking for a political way to screw the kid?
	It's possible.
	I mean, he does have other heir or parents that could take that job.
	I mean, that is a possibility.
	It just sort of intrigued because these guys are just this giant family.
	You know what happens in these big things.
	It's like, you know, the Romanovs.
	I mean, anything goes.
	And so it's possible.
	I think they're definitely going to find somebody guilty of doing something and string them up.
	I think there's somebody who's going to take one for the team from this group.
	Here's the way, my prediction on how this is going to go.
	It's going to turn out to be some rogue operation.
	There's going to be some palace intrigue.
	There's going to be a conspirator or two or three who are going to be brought to justice.
	We're never going to get to hear from them.
	They're going to shoot them or hang them or chop their heads off.
	And then they'll be done with it and we're sorry it happened.
	No, that's not the methodology these days.
	These days, it just keeps on going.
	We'll see no videotape.
	We'll hear no audio.
	And it will just kind of blunder forward until some other news event happens.
	And then this Khashoggi will be standing right up there with the DACA kids.
	It'll be forgotten.
	There's something, there's some reason for this and whether it has to do with the midterm elections.
	Well, everything has to do with the midterm elections.
	Exactly.
	But, you know, blowing this story up, and, you know, immediately it was, Washington Post journalist!
	Washington Post!
	Washington Post journalist!
	You know, and then, you know, there's so much hate for Trump and his arms deal.
	All that came so fast.
	There's lots of stuff that's happened, but this all of a sudden became a major item very quickly.
	So I can't figure it out.
	Well, now that I think about the video of him walking in the consulate and not really seeing much, I question the whole story.
	And this phony baloney tape, I mean, either bring out, the tape has been talking about it.
	Yeah, the tape is key.
	Either let us hear the tape.
	There's no tape.
	Or some, they say, well, we got all our intelligence.
	Brennan himself just says, oh, we're tight with Turkish intelligence.
	Okay, so who in our intelligence agency has heard the tape?
	And if he just went back to the databases, and if it indeed was recorded on his Apple Watch, it went to the cloud.
	Well, it wasn't going anywhere.
	They don't have the methodology in Turkey.
	There's no cloud connection to an Apple Watch in Turkey, it turns out.
	If you've got an internet connection, you do.
	What are you talking about?
	There's no internet connection.
	There's no Wi-Fi in that embassy.
	You don't need Wi-Fi.
	If it was the new Apple Watch, it has a cell connection built in.
	It's still, in my understanding is...
	John, but hold on.
	There's a tape.
	There's a recording.
	That's the premise.
	There's a recording.
	And the first thing was said, it came off of his Apple Watch.
	So I'm sure the Apple Watch has not been retrieved because it slipped off his arm when they cut it at the wrist.
	So I'm sure they tossed it or did whatever, but the claim is that the recording went into the cloud.
	No one retrieved the Apple Watch.
	That is one of the claims.
	What other claim have you heard, then?
	Well, the claim is that the place was either bugged or she has a recording.
	Let's just drop how they have a recording.
	I think it's kind of key.
	No, I don't think so.
	And here's what I'm going to say and why it's not a key.
	The key is the recording.
	They have a recording.
	How they got the recording is not as important as the fact that it exists.
	Okay, I agree.
	So who cares if they got it from the watch or they got it from the guy's butt?
	The point is, supposedly they have a recording.
	Okay, that's all we need to know.
	Where's the recording?
	Why hasn't it been played to one of our guys?
	Or why haven't we heard it?
	Or why hasn't it been released?
	And how do you keep a thing like that under wraps for so long?
	Thank you.
	Has any journalist claimed to have heard the recording?
	Not that I've noticed.
	Alright, so this is bullcrap.
	There's no recording.
	The guy could be alive.
	We don't know.
	There's no body.
	There's no recording.
	This is just a story and it's playing out on television.
	And it's Trump's fault.
	Well, it's always Trump's fault.
	Well, I'm going to go with until they do something more than just report the bullcrap.
	We go with hoax until presented with at least a recording.
	Yeah, I agree.
	And I would say that that's one way to look, one way to go, because of the constant claims of a recording.
	And the accusations came because they have the recording.
	And where did that start?
	Who made that first claim?
	The Turks.
	Yeah, they're real trustworthy.
	So, yeah.
	And they'll give you the recording, but first you have to buy a rug.
	I have one more clip.
	I can't remember.
	The thing was some millennial reporting on it that I just thought was funny.
	It does seem to be saying that holding the Saudi government responsible just isn't worth the cost.
	What should the response be?
	And can somebody else step up to the plate?
	Well, he keeps pointing to the arms sales, which is disappointing because it's really...
	I don't want to say that they're apples and oranges.
	At the end of the day, when the White House is approaching the security responses to this Saudi government action, they have to weigh all the costs, right?
	And all the options.
	They have to decide if they want to cut Saudi Arabia out of diplomacy and their approach to the peace process.
	For example, the approach to contain Iran in the region.
	They have to decide whether or not to cut those arms sales because at the end of the day, it's not going to have an effect on the Saudi government's ability to get arms.
	They're just going to buy it from someone else.
	So they have to weigh those priorities.
	But the difference is at the end of the day, there are moments in time when the United States needs to stand up and say, these are our principles.
	You don't go into other countries and commit acts of human rights violations, repression, certainly not murder, against anybody, let alone someone who was a U.S. resident, let alone a journalist.
	Let alone.
	And I think if this is...
	By the way, just for your information, the Zephyr has just passed.
	Okay, it's late.
	Very late.
	If this is a setup, if this is something to do with...
	How about querying the arms deal so the Russians can do the deal?
	Yes.
	And people must understand, and we've tracked these arms deals and the budgets for it, in particular the category other, which is always billions of dollars.
	When you sell arms to a country, which everyone does, and we do it pretty damn well, It's not just, oh, here's your boxes, here's your crates, see ya.
	No.
	It's like, I've been in aerospace and defense when I was in aviation, and I went to these trade shows, and you get the deal.
	That's a deal for a long time, because there's a lot of maintenance, service, training.
	It's ongoing, and it's billions and billions of dollars.
	Parts.
	Yeah, maintenance.
	It's not just a one-shot deal.
	But if this is a setup, for whatever reason or however it played out, Brennan is complicit.
	He shows up on the scene all of a sudden.
	He's been quiet for weeks.
	Now he has an opportunity to help pressure Trump.
	With the arms sale and the Davo in the desert, which is that big meeting that's coming up, that I guess people are immediately, oh, we're not going to go, I don't know.
	You know, it's Trump, he hates the press, enemy of the people, a journalist got killed.
	There's a lot of stuff that is swirling around this.
	And I don't think that the public in general cares at all.
	No, but the people involved in this arms deal, those are the people that care.
	Yes, yes, definitely.
	I think the total value of the deal is over $400 billion, and Trump was bragging about how it may be one of the biggest ever done.
	And that alone makes it a target to get queered by any means possible.
	And maybe it's just possible that Turkey doesn't want that arms deal to go through.
	Maybe Turkey, instead of buying from the Russians, which they've been in long-standing negotiations for, like, hey, we'll buy that stuff from you.
	I don't know.
	How about the EU? Turkey's trying to kiss the EU's butt all the time.
	How come they can move some of these...
	Some of this arms sales over to the EU. They make plenty of good stuff.
	Yeah, so there you go.
	What's missing in all of the reporting is any accountability towards Turkey.
	Turkey's just like, oh, they blew the whistle.
	Good guys.
	Yeah, oh, Turkey.
	And by the way, Turkey seems to be good guys now.
	The press is just talking.
	There's nothing bad about Erdogan.
	He's not nuts now.
	He's not a dictator.
	He didn't build a billion-dollar palace or anything like that.
	Now he's, oh, no, it's all good.
	He just wants to hook up with us.
	Turkey seems to be the bad actor in this.
	Well, I'm not going to argue against that possibility.
	They're the ones making all the claims.
	They're the ones who made all the claims.
	Along with this dubious Video of some guy, you don't know who the hell it is, wandering into the embassy.
	And I'm sure there's more than a few that do that every day.
	Have they called Rita Katz yet to come up with something?
	I can't believe Rita Katz hasn't found it.
	Yes!
	Gotta call in the pros for this stuff, ladies and gentlemen.
	Call in Rita Katz.
	You can get something you need.
	Alright.
	By the way, who took that video?
	That was supposed to be his fiancée?
	No, no.
	Look at the angle.
	It's up and away from across the street.
	Yeah, I think the way it's been reported is she took the video.
	No, she recorded him walking on the street, which apparently was towards the embassy.
	Him walking into the embassy, that's just closed-circuit TV. That's just the security camera video.
	Yeah.
	So, this holds in the story everywhere, but the bottom line is, move away from Saudi Arabia, they're horrible, Magnitsky act to freeze assets and block them from coming in, and Turkey wants to be our buddy.
	Yeah, and maybe the arms deal, which hurts the country, has been queered.
	Could be.
	Well, we'll stay on it.
	I wish I had more.
	I don't think there's any more to do until this, you know, this is going to either peter out, or they're going to have to come up with this, or maybe they're producing one as we speak, you know, an audio tape.
	It's possible.
	Yeah.
	And that won't be played.
	You had a clip from Al Gore on the previous episode where he said the following.
	And it now traps as much extra heat energy every day as would be released by 500,000 Hiroshima-class atomic bombs exploding every day.
	500,000.
	A lot of people sent us information about this bullcrap statistic.
	But the great thing was, in no way...
	In the past three years, because we have a clip from 2015, three years ago, Al Gore said this about the Hiroshima bombs.
	As would be released by 400,000 Hiroshima-class atomic bombs exploding every day.
	Every single day.
	Okay, so it increased by, what, 20%?
	100,000 bombs.
	100,000 bombs in three short years.
	Must be a rounding error.
	I don't know.
	It's such bull crap.
	There's all kinds of stuff now.
	New term alert.
	This is one you'll like.
	The Trump administration says America's greenhouse gas pollution fell by 2.7% last year.
	I have not heard this one.
	Greenhouse gas pollution?
	I've heard that.
	Yeah?
	Yeah, I've heard that.
	Oh, okay.
	Well, recently or not so recently?
	No, not recently, but I mean, I've heard it.
	Okay.
	Well, I like it.
	It's okay.
	Greenhouse gas pollution.
	They're trying to get everyone's attention about this IPCC report, which, of course, has been pushed all the way to the background that's boring and no one cares, and maybe people don't even believe it.
	But we'll try anything we got.
	A new study says global warming will cause a beer shortage because Gary is sensitive to extreme drought and heat.
	I could not hope anymore that this study is wrong.
	A co-author of the study published Monday in the journal Nature Plant said the study is trying to show that climate change will impact your quality of life.
	It will impact your quality of life because you won't have beer.
	I looked into that story.
	I didn't have a clip.
	I'm glad you got one.
	What are they talking about?
	Is it because they're going to put limits on it?
	Because beer is fermented and the fermentation product It produces lots of CO2. So all fermented products, I figured they'd be going after them.
	Because I remember when I brought up the idea, well, why don't they ban carbonated drinks?
	Carbonation, yeah, right.
	But carbonated drinks, the CO2 comes from, they're pulled out of the atmosphere and put into the drinks.
	It's not fresh.
	It's not additive.
	It's reductive.
	But with beer, that's not true.
	Beer creates carbon dioxide.
	I thought that was going to be their angle, but no, the angle is that the high temperatures, the boiling temperatures that we're going to be getting is going to ruin the barley crop.
	Well, they messed it up.
	We need some regulation.
	So, and in fact, you can make beer from wheat.
	You can make beer from rice.
	Rice, yeah.
	Budweiser.
	Made from rice.
	Budweiser is the best example.
	It's made from rice.
	I know.
	It's pretty much made from rice.
	The BBC all over the climate change trying to push it whichever way they can.
	And they visited the Silicon Valley company, which I think you should go do an interview with the CEO, who are making the fake meat companies.
	Oh, the fake meat guys.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, it's another.
	I'm glad you got a clip of that.
	Yeah, I got a clip.
	Want to hear it first?
	Yeah, sure.
	Is this the future of food?
	Here in Silicon Valley.
	The future of food!
	Scientists have taken cells plucked from the feathers of a chicken and are using them to grow meat in this high-tech laboratory.
	Which means the chicken I'm about to eat is, weirdly, still alive.
	So there we have it, our Just Chicken Nuggets with a little bit of Chipotle Ranch dipping sauce there.
	I'm going to dip it in the sauce and take a bite.
	It's really tasty.
	It tastes like chicken.
	It tastes like chicken.
	It is chicken.
	Yeah.
	Although the taste is very similar, the physicality, the feel of it in your mouth is slightly different.
	Right.
	I wonder what it feels like in your mouth, like some slush or slime.
	We can work on getting that together.
	I think there's, like I said, finding things in the animal kingdom or 3D printing scaffolding.
	So there's a lot of different ways we can do it.
	3D printing?
	We're gonna 3D print our chicken?
	This is the transition away from raising and confining animals in the way we do.
	The reality is 99% of all the meat we eat comes from places that if we looked inside we wouldn't be that proud of.
	Meat production is just as responsible for carbon emissions and climate change as all the cars we have on the street today.
	But will anyone actually want to eat it?
	Ranchers have concerns too.
	Missouri has already banned the use of the word meat to label lab-grown products.
	Whatever it's called, with America's largest meat processor now investing in lab-grown meat, we may be about to see a new agricultural revolution.
	That's going to be their marketing, man.
	Save the earth.
	Have some chicken sludge.
	Anything to be sludge?
	Chicken sludge.
	The texture is a little off.
	It tastes like chicken if it was sludge.
	You should go over there.
	You need to go talk to those guys.
	Here's the problem.
	I agree.
	I should.
	I should.
	But then I'd be kind of forced to taste it.
	You don't want to do that.
	That is so foul.
	I do not want to introduce whatever weird proteins they're producing.
	So, no.
	It's not going to happen.
	Just to wrap up the Agenda 2030 climate change, a nice little piece that didn't get a lot of play, because why would it?
	We launched a new submarine, the USS Indiana.
	It's a name that has been used before, but there's something interesting about the power plant of the USS Indiana, and it's power.
	The first USS Indiana had a top speed of 15 knots.
	This one?
	25 knots.
	Woo!
	Underwater.
	By the way, that's fast underwater.
	We're a damn submarine just cruising along.
	Battleship number one, United States, steamship Indiana, had two sets of vertical, inverted, triple expansion, reciprocating steam engines.
	Sexy.
	That's a lot under the hood back in the day.
	But this USS Indiana has a S9G reactor, which will operate for 33 years.
	It's life without refueling.
	Woohoo!
	There it is.
	It's the magic number.
	33 years?
	Yeah, it sounds like bullcrap.
	Why not 35?
	Why not 32?
	But...
	That's still a long time, this nuclear.
	People should look into that, maybe.
	I think it's a good idea, yeah.
	And it seems pretty safe if you can put one in a submarine.
	That's what you'd think.
	I stand it around it.
	But, you know, the IPCC said no to nukes.
	We can't do that.
	Said it right there in the report.
	Too dangerous.
	Too dangerous.
	Yeah, well, we know it's a stand.
	Yeah, how's it too dangerous?
	There's in submarines.
	I love seeing you on Twitter.
	You're on Twitter, so you're ODing on Twitter, and people are...
	No, I'm getting off to it.
	I'm quitting.
	People are like, hey, I want to understand your stance on climate change.
	I told...
	I just stopped debating that guy.
	And you responded.
	You responded.
	Once.
	Once.
	Don't you know?
	You're speaking to the choir.
	I got one little climate change.
	I got this EPA. There's a department at the EPA that are shutting down.
	I want to point out a couple of things in this report.
	This is on Democracy Now!
	This show is getting more shameful as time goes by.
	In fact, I want to play another clip after this.
	But this is Amy Goodman.
	And this is the...
	By the way, I got an ISO out of this.
	But this EPA changes using propagandistic language.
	In environmental news, a top EPA official who was put on administrative leave last month is speaking out about the Trump administration's plan to disappear her office, the Office of Children's Health Protection.
	This is Dr. Ruth Etzel speaking to CBS News.
	By the way, that's kind of rude to say it that way, trying to disappear me, man.
	No, that's the point of this clip.
	This is a propagandistic term used during the various disappearing of...
	Stalinist tactics.
	This is like a propagandistic term.
	The word is shut down.
	Her office.
	They're shutting her office down because it's like it's some bogus office that was set up by a who knows who.
	And it's unnecessary.
	It's like...
	EPA, light for the children.
	What is it?
	What do they do with that office?
	Save the children.
	Oh, okay.
	Well, we should get rid of it.
	Screw the children.
	Yeah, well, that's what this woman says.
	It's pretty funny.
	The sense is that the government has absolutely no intention of taking any actions towards seriously changing lead in children's environments.
	And what does that mean for the kids?
	It basically means that our kids will continue to be poisoned.
	It basically means that kids are disposable.
	They don't matter.
	Hello?
	Where have you been, lady?
	Of course they don't matter.
	That's why we have dogs.
	So I have the ISO. Our kids will continue to be poisoned.
	Yeah, that's pretty good.
	I think it's okay.
	Yeah, and that's doable.
	We'll continue to be poisoned.
	Okay, you want to play another clip?
	This is an ongoing thing.
	Now, the other clip I have, which is a Democracy Now!
	clip, was using, let's see, Trump and the Fed now.
	It's, oh, great.
	It's a very funny...
	Amy gets details wrong about Trump?
	Yeah, there you go.
	Okay.
	A federal judge in California outed a defamation lawsuit brought against President Trump by adult film star Stephanie Clifford, known as Stormy Daniels, who says she had an extramarital affair with Trump in 2006.
	On Twitter, Trump mentioned Stormy Daniels by name for the first time ever Tuesday, though he misspelled her name, writing, quote, Great, now I can go after Horseface.
	Ha!
	And her third-rate lawyer in the great state of Texas.
	Trump has a long history of misogynistic tweets.
	He's previously called women dogs, pigs, crazed, crying, bleeding, fat, ugly, and low IQ. Oh my God!
	Hold on a second.
	I gotta play that again, then I have a little jingle to go with it.
	Before you do, I first have to mention that this is a lie.
	He has said these things about various individuals, but he didn't tweet These are not tweets.
	He hasn't tweeted all that stuff.
	He said the Rosie O'Donnell stuff, for example.
	It was before he became a tweet.
	Well, he actually has been using Twitter for a long time.
	But it's not like he tweets all this stuff.
	It's just he's full of crap.
	I can't believe the Horse Association of America isn't ticked off about this comparison to Stormy Daniels.
	He's previously called women, dogs, pigs, crazed, crying, bleeding, fat, ugly, and low IQ. I have my list and you might want to see if there's anything left out.
	This is the Trump rotation.
	There's two categories.
	There's the regular and then there's the criminal.
	But here we go.
	Ready?
	Yep.
	Liar, incompetent, unhinged, illegitimate president, white supremacist, racist, bully, immature, Russian agent, narcissist, mean, long ties, insane, tweets too much, small hands, small penis, Big red button.
	Criminal.
	Mean. Racist.
	Immature.
	Thin-skinned.
	Runs the mob.
	Has no money.
	Unstable.
	Fatter than 239 pounds.
	Bankrupt. 25th Amendment should be instituted.
	He hates women.
	Misogynist.
	Holds grudges forever.
	Plays golf a lot.
	Obstruction of justice, money laundering, and clown.
	John, no wonder we're making America white again.
	Clown.
	Ha ha ha ha ha.
	Which brings us to Orange Man Bad.
	Oh, yes.
	Now, is this really a thing?
	I'll tell you, it may or may not be a thing, but the two...
	Now, we're talking about NPC, the non-playable character.
	Explain, mansplain this.
	I'll mansplain it.
	So these guys on 4chan, they're always working on trying to store things up with memes.
	Yeah.
	And so they come up with this idea and they have this drawing of just a very plain face, it's like a stick figure face.
	And they go into this long description of these so-called non-playable characters, which are in all video games, which are characters that are just programmed to do certain things, jump up and down or run around or whatever they're programmed to do.
	And that's all they do and that's all they're good for.
	And so they're taking this moniker and pushing it over to the left, even though they also push it on some mega hat wearers, but generally speaking...
	It's against the left saying that these people can't think for themselves.
	They're drones.
	They're bots.
	And they're a program.
	They're all programs.
	And so they have one of...
	Of John Oliver with the face.
	I think they're funny.
	The one is actually Stephen Colbert with the face, with the little face they give him glasses.
	Looks like Stephen Colbert.
	And in the background of the picture is a program, some code.
	It looks like, you know, it could be anything.
	But I think it's C. No, the code is actually kind of like an if-then statement.
	Yes, an if-then, but it's...
	If orange man bad, then hashtag.
	Yeah, it looks like it depends on...
	I mean, anyway, the point is that this is out there as some sort of an insult.
	Now, it got legs only because...
	And I'm not even believing this, by the way.
	Twitter took down a thousand accounts...
	Of Orange Man Bad, which is the hashtag.
	Right, and the way it worked is because the NPC meme, the non-playable character meme, says that whoever you depict as an NPC is not human.
	It is therefore dehumanizing, and that, my friends, is against Twitter's terms of service.
	Right.
	Now, I don't know that any of that is true.
	The terms is true.
	No, I mean, the terms might be, but I don't know that anybody's who was taken down.
	I mean, there was a lot of fake accounts that were put up out of the blue, and they maybe took those down.
	I don't know.
	All I know is that this thing, does it have any legs?
	Maybe, maybe not.
	I think it's funny, mainly because of the Colbert character.
	Well, also, have you seen the whole video of our favorite movie, They Live?
	Yes, I saw it.
	Instead of the robot face, they put the NPC face onto it, which is just classic.
	It's very funny.
	Yeah, they swap out a bunch of things.
	I was looking, you know, is anyone really pissed off about this?
	I did find this kid's pretty convincing.
	He's got his pussy hat on, which immediately made me think, It's a hoax, but either way, this is what's out on Twitter.
	Okay, Dustin29 here, Boston Antifa.
	I'd like everyone to repeat after me.
	Oh, he is actually, I think, Boston Antifa.
	Wait, hold on, stop.
	You think?
	Because I thought this guy was a fake from the get-go.
	Well, I looked at his page and it is an Antifa page.
	So I think, I still think he's fake, but at first glance it looked like it was real.
	But it doesn't matter.
	Maybe if we hear the chant anywhere, we'll know it was real.
	Let's listen to that.
	Okay, Dustin29 here, Boston Antifa.
	I'd like everyone to repeat after me.
	NPC, me, go away.
	We are human here to stay.
	NPC, me, go away.
	We are human here to stay.
	NPC, me, go away.
	We are human here to stay.
	Shame, shame, shame, shame, shame, shame, shame.
	It's so out there that it could be real, because this is the stuff we hear, even though I agree, I think it's a hoax, but damn.
	Yeah, I saw that too, and I was thinking, you know, this guy's not serious, got the stupid hat on.
	I'm talking about the stupid hat.
	I mean, a new show came out.
	These segues are just too funny.
	Murphy Brown.
	Oh, has the show aired yet?
	Oh, yes.
	I think they're on the third episode.
	Oh, I forgot to watch.
	And I want you to hear.
	Unfortunately, I have it spelled M-U-R-O. That's in three years when we're looking for the clip, so I can't find it.
	It's like a time bomb.
	Yeah, you're going to have to re...
	Well, Brown is there.
	Now...
	This is some dialogue.
	This is her coming in from a protest.
	Now, this is a clip.
	How long is this?
	It's only in minute 25.
	This is some dead dialogue at the beginning of their first episode.
	It's a very anti-Trump show.
	It was put pieced together to compete, and it was done in advance when Roseanne was still being thought, you know, they thought they were going to go somewhere with that.
	This was the counter show on another network.
	And...
	You know, Roseanne dropped dead, and the show dropped dead.
	I saw the first episode of the Conners.
	What did you think?
	I didn't see it.
	Oh, I'll tell you, it was very uncomfortable at the beginning, and even the studio audience and the laugh track was low, but there were some very funny moments there.
	I'd watch it again.
	I'd watch a second episode just to see where they take it from here once they get past talking about dead Roseanne.
	Okay.
	Well, this show here is just a pure anti-Trump show.
	The only balance is she has a son who shows up in the show, and he is a Trump supporter who she ridicules, and his Trump support goes like this.
	Well, yeah, I know he's a stupid-looking, red-faced jerk, but, you know, he's...
	Sounds realistic.
	Yeah, sounds realistic, doesn't it?
	So this is the beginning of the opening where she comes in from a protest march and some of the other characters come in.
	They're all wearing the pussy hats except her.
	I have to watch this now.
	She's wearing some sort of a Trojan, you know, Sparta kind of a getup.
	And she comes into the bar and she makes it clear she's not a drinker anymore.
	And it's just – it is a very flat – And they do have canned laughter, which is always a detriment, but they have the canned laughter turned up way too low, so it's not like a Laurie show.
	All his shows, they have the canned laughter way too hot.
	Right.
	And this is like a little too low.
	Maybe a little hotter would be better, but listen to how flat this is, though.
	I gotta warn you, Murphy, if you double-park your chariot, you will be towed.
	Oh, the pink ants were fine for the first march, but it's time to step it up a notch.
	We're at war now.
	Yeah.
	Remember when people used to go to brunch on the weekends?
	Protest marches at the New Eggs Benedict.
	So what can I get you?
	How about an Irish coffee, but holy Irish?
	You got it.
	You know, my brother Phil would have loved these marches.
	It's great for business.
	Angry women drink a lot of Chardonnay.
	You know, I still can't get used to being at a protest march without reporting on it.
	That probably feels weird, Ryan.
	Totally.
	I've been off FYI for a few years and I still haven't gotten the hang of retirement.
	People say, why don't you travel?
	Well, I've been everywhere.
	Take up gardening.
	It would not be fair to the plants.
	Jeez, that was a really bad insert of the laugh track.
	Yeah.
	That was really bad.
	Yes!
	Our bodies!
	Ourselves!
	Oh, for God's sake, Frank.
	What?
	It keeps my head warm.
	Plus, it shows that I'm secure in my masculinity and have solidarity with the women who are out there marching to shine a light on the erosion of their rights.
	Uh-huh.
	How many phone numbers did you get?
	Just two.
	I called one of them, now I have a timeshare in Boca.
	Excuse me, ma'am.
	I'd like a cappuccino with non-fat milk and extra foam.
	Sure.
	You wait right here while I go to Rome to get it.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	And that's from the most recent episode, or is that from the first one?
	No, that's the first episode.
	Yeah, it's not that great.
	No, it's not good at all.
	It's very flat.
	It's kind of forced...
	There's a story, and here's my segue to television and advertising.
	And I think that this story was underreported, certainly towards the public.
	It was on business news a lot, but I don't think it was reported in the context in which we understand it.
	And this is a perhaps maybe coming proposed regulation from the Trump administration that About advertising the retail price of pharmaceutical products on television.
	And I have a clip from NPR. So what Secretary Azar of Health and Human Services under the Trump administration, he took to the stage yesterday and he announced that any drug that costs more than $35 a month would need to have advertising on its television app.
	I mean, aspirin costs more than $35.
	$25 a month.
	And the rule is rather specific.
	It says the advertising needs to be on a contrasting background and needs to be easy to read.
	So there are a lot of questions embedded in that.
	What price are they going to list in the TV commercials?
	Because based on how much people pay in insurance, the prices are different for different people, right?
	Right, exactly.
	So when you go to the pharmacy counter and I go to the pharmacy counter...
	Our co-pays may be different depending on our insurance, and we may have a deductible we have to fulfill.
	So the question is what price will be up there.
	The secretary did note that they want list price up there, which is also a good question.
	What does it mean?
	He clarified later and said it would be wholesale acquisition cost, which is an industry term where nobody...
	Really pays that often.
	Alex Azar made a point of saying that the list price does matter, and he did this big analogy with the auto industry on cars and so forth.
	And it does matter because it's a base for a lot of negotiation, and it can be a base for what people who are uninsured pay.
	Would it matter to consumers, though?
	It can be often confusing for consumers, right?
	So if I'm told that my drug is...
	The way I think, the way we think, the way no agenda thinking goes, wait a minute, we're talking about $6 billion a year in advertising revenue for television, for the news networks reporting on this story, who instead of, this is, you know, wow, we're going to stick it to those guys, they have to show these outrageous prices they're charging...
	Now, that could be confusing, you know?
	We wouldn't want advertisers to stop advertising because of this rule, now would we?
	It's $5,000 a month, just for example.
	But I'm only going to pay a couple thousand dollars a month, or my deductible covers it, or my health plan covers it, and I'm only paying $50 copay.
	It could scare you away from getting that drug.
	Right.
	Oh, it could be bad for business.
	Even though it's kind of confusing, it's still demanding a level of transparency that I imagine the pharmaceutical industry isn't so keen on.
	Yeah, and it is getting a lot of attention.
	It's something that is kind of a populist thing that people can grasp onto.
	And it is just a few weeks before the midterms, I want to point out, for the November election.
	So the timing is very exciting because people really care about prescription drug prices right now.
	Recent polling shows that price transparency and prescription drug prices polls well with American voters.
	So yesterday morning before the secretary took to the stage and made this big announcement, the pharma industry, through their trade group Pharma, made a big announcement as well.
	And they said, hey, we're going to do a voluntary measure where we ask our companies to help educate you about your price, and we will help direct you on our website to information about the benefits and costs of our drugs.
	And they're going to put together a web portal that you can go and look at your insurance options and so forth.
	What steering committee came up with that?
	We'll have a web portal.
	That'll fix it.
	They're going to promote the idea that, yeah, the drug is $10,000.
	You know what they can do, which I think would be genius if they could figure out quite how to do it.
	Yeah, it's $10,000 a pill, but you only pay a dollar.
	Because of your co-pay.
	Isn't that fabulous?
	Yeah, but the problem is that that is different for everybody.
	And as we know, insurance companies wind up paying $0.30 to the dollar for the actual claims.
	No, I use all these complexities.
	And the fact is that you paying $1 for a $10,000 drug, whether insurance companies pay $10,000 or $3,000, is beside the point.
	It's overpriced.
	Yes.
	And the fact that the insurance company is paying even $3,000 on this drug, it hurts the public at large because that's the reason our insurance prices are so high.
	It's a horrible situation.
	It's a big scam.
	Well, I think this is a very interesting development.
	There hasn't been a lot of news about it on television news.
	These balls that run these media companies, they can't afford to lose all this free money.
	Yeah.
	So we'll see how that plays out.
	But I think there's some concern in the industry, in the television, in the certainly cable news.
	I think they may be a little concerned.
	Well, I think the network news, too.
	I think the big networks are concerned.
	And by the way, I was talking to a friend who has a son who is, how old is he?
	He's 12, I think.
	And they're big baseball watchers.
	They watch baseball.
	And yeah, we're doing pretty well.
	We've got the Astros here.
	There's my sports segment.
	We know the Astros, who I guess are cheaters or whatever.
	Doesn't matter.
	We're doing well.
	Astros.
	Go Astros.
	No, no.
	It's the Dodgers that are the cheaters.
	No, there's a story about the Astros cheating now, too.
	Spygate.
	You don't follow Spygate?
	No.
	Anyway, continue.
	And she said...
	And I'm very uncomfortable because every ad during the baseball game is for erectile dysfunction.
	And she doesn't really know what to do with the situation.
	She's just not ready to discuss this with the...
	They should be.
	And those ads.
	You shouldn't be playing erectile dysfunction ads to 12-year-olds.
	Well, and it is regular primetime baseball.
	Yeah, that's no good.
	I blame the FCC for this.
	And do you think that's the only audience they can advertise to?
	I mean, is that really truly the audience?
	Is guys who can't get it up that are watching baseball?
	I think they're more likely to be watching football.
	Oh, those are the guys that can't get it up?
	I don't know who can't get it up, but there's probably some audience somewhere that can't get it up.
	I would say Hillary supporters.
	Oh, man.
	Easy now.
	Easy now.
	Well, while we're talking about television...
	Oh, I was going to do one more thing on the sexual stuff.
	Oh, well, I didn't want to veer too far.
	Okay, well, do that, and then we'll get back to television.
	This is from your neck of the woods, Fremont.
	How far away is that from you, Fremont?
	If I didn't have little arm troubles, I could probably hit it with a baseball.
	Parents Against Fremont's proposed new sex education program started lining up three hours before a special meeting of the school board and a crucial vote on whether to adopt the curriculum.
	I want to make it very, very clear.
	We are for sex education, but only at the appropriate curriculum at the right age.
	The curriculum puts a modern-day twist on the old three R's.
	In this case, it stands for rights, respect, and responsibility.
	But parents are against their 4th, 5th, and 6th graders being exposed to lessons on reproduction, sexual orientation, and gender identity.
	And some parents were shocked by this book, listed in a supplemental reading list called It's perfectly normal.
	The book, for ten-year-olds and up, shows full-color illustrations of people masturbating and having sex, some of it too graphic even to show here.
	It's been banned in other school districts around the country.
	I mean, I was in disbelief.
	Unlike many school districts that wait till middle school, Fremont has been teaching sex education as young as fourth grade for years.
	But now the district must comply with a new state law called the California Healthy Youth Act.
	Since we have been teaching it, we have to then start talking about the components of that law, which are about gender identity and sexual orientation, about sex trafficking, and many other topics that people may feel should be for an older group.
	One supporter of the curriculum says kids at that age already have sexual awareness and questions.
	At that age, I knew that I wasn't straight.
	Yeah, well, hold on, listen to this.
	Awareness and questions.
	At that age, I knew that I wasn't straight.
	At that age, one of my friends knew that he wasn't the girl people were telling him he was.
	This is so cool.
	This is, I love our language.
	He, he, what is it?
	He told, well, listen, I've got to hear this again, because it's a he-she thing.
	It's cool.
	Questions.
	At that age, I knew that I wasn't straight.
	At that age, one of my friends knew that he wasn't the girl people were telling him he was.
	I think that it's important that people know at that young age that that is something that's valid and not something that they have to be ashamed about or to be afraid of.
	So, it just sounds like a little bit of gender...
	What is it?
	Gender studies gone wrong?
	I don't know.
	This is the Bay Area.
	They've had these gone wrong things going on forever.
	Isn't this just up to parents, though?
	I mean, I wouldn't want...
	You'd think.
	I mean, that's what you'd think.
	But apparently, they want to...
	This is why homeschooling is better.
	The state knows better.
	It's the state.
	It's the state's indoctrination system.
	The schools around here...
	We're 44th in the country, according to all these guys running for superintendent.
	44th, California, rich state, big tech guys, all kinds of tech billionaires.
	We're loaded with tech billionaires!
	And we're like 44th in the nation for education?
	What's wrong with this picture?
	Working out well.
	You can put a time down for that.
	Yes.
	One more clip.
	Okay.
	Yeah, you.
	You had one, you said.
	Oh, yeah.
	I know.
	I want to get back to the TV because I was mentioning the new shows.
	Alec Baldwin's.
	Oh, yes.
	Apparently no one watched.
	Well, I did.
	That's what I mean.
	You're now single-handedly not only holding up Democracy Now!
	as a program, but also Alec Baldwin's show.
	Is it called Here's the Thing?
	Alec Baldwin's show debuted last Sunday at 10 o'clock, which is a prime time slot.
	Before you go on, I've listened to his podcast.
	It's called Here's the Thing.
	And it's not bad.
	As a podcast, he has a chat with somebody and it's marginally interesting.
	He's not bad as a chat show host.
	Marginally interesting is pretty close to the mark.
	Now, this is a show that would be absolutely fine replacing the old Tom Snyder show at 1.30 in the morning.
	Yes, not in prime time.
	Not at 10 o'clock, no.
	What channel is it on?
	It's ABC, I believe.
	Oh.
	And it is, uh, real, it's, it's Alec, I don't know why they don't change the name of the show to Alec Baldwin talks about himself.
	Hey, wait, if he's on ABC? Yeah.
	I mean, that's, he must have done some tap dancing because of his NBC affiliation.
	I know, I was kind of surprised that he showed up on ABC. Um, Yeah, you know, they're all against Trump, so, you know, we're all in together, so let's team up here.
	You know, let's take one for the team.
	So he talks about himself incessantly, and it becomes like, even when he got De Niro on, who's a very bad guest anyway, because he doesn't like to talk at all.
	So Baldwin's yakking about himself, and he's going on, and I get...
	So I have a clip that goes...
	It's a little long, it's 2.13, but you get a good feeling, and you'll never have to listen to the show again, for this show and Alec talking about himself.
	Hello, I'm Alec Baldwin.
	First up tonight, a conversation with a true icon of American cinema, Robert De Niro.
	The Oscar-winning star of some of the most famous films in Hollywood history continues to be an advocate for artistic expression and filmmaking as the co-founder of the Tribeca Film Festival.
	Next year, De Niro re-teams with director Martin Scorsese and fellow acting legend Al Pacino in the much anticipated new film The Irishman.
	That's the transition?
	And the funny part about the transition, which is when they cut to a cartoon of him running, you know, different faces.
	They didn't even let it breathe for a second.
	They just chopped right to it.
	No, that could have been my edit.
	Oh.
	Well, let me continue, then.
	But wait, no, I got to, since you stopped it, I got to mention this.
	So at the beginning of the thing, he's standing there in this kind of darkened area.
	And you can imagine people when they're, you know, they're on the camera sometimes and they're not used to a certain, they're uncomfortable.
	Mm-hmm.
	Imagine standing straight up and your hands, I have to stand up to see where they're positioned.
	Your hands are right on your thighs, just flat.
	Is that how he stands?
	Yeah, he's always standing like that.
	They cut away, and when they cut back, his hands had been...
	Repositioned.
	Yeah, repositioned.
	It was pretty funny.
	But anyway, you can play it out, and we'll hear this fine interviewing style.
	To a degree, I don't want to overstate this, but you and I may have something in common because I saw the documentary about your dad.
	Very moving.
	Your love for your dad is very moving.
	Keeping the studio frozen there in time and the way you maintain that is exactly the kind of thing I would do if I had some parallel in my life.
	My dad was a good guy.
	And although the numbers are different.
	You were older and he was older.
	My dad died when I was 25 and he was 55.
	He had cancer.
	And your dad wasn't that old.
	He was only 70, 71.
	He was not an old guy.
	Even though you had succeeded in this business and he saw you succeed and you had won two Oscars before he passed away.
	Which is unbelievable.
	What I sometimes think...
	I have Oscars.
	...all the things I wanted to do for my dad.
	I would have sent him...
	- Oh, there it is. - Did you enjoy directing?
	I made a movie with you once.
	Yes, yes.
	Yeah, I enjoyed it.
	I enjoyed it.
	I enjoyed it.
	I was going to do a sequel to The Good Shepherd, but I still might do it.
	I just have to get the money.
	It's an uphill battle.
	It's a killer.
	Complicated.
	Yeah.
	I always remember you came to my house to pitch me to do the movie.
	Yes.
	And I said to you, when you talk about using your persona, Nice.
	Nice touch at the end.
	So he talks about himself for two minutes and has the guest talk for ten seconds.
	Pretty much.
	Yeah, he acts about himself.
	In great detail that's not...
	We don't care.
	We didn't tune in the show to listen to him confess about his dad.
	Jeez.
	The worst.
	Alright.
	I had one television tip, although it's not a television tip.
	It is the Quincy Jones documentary on Netflix, which was made by his daughter.
	Is that new?
	Because I think I saw the Quincy Jones documentary some time ago.
	Yeah, it's new.
	And yeah, it's two hours long.
	I know a lot about Quincy Jones, but I interviewed him once.
	I don't know if I've told the story.
	It was live.
	It was called Hitline USA and it was live coast to coast.
	We had affiliates everywhere, you know, the big stations.
	And it was going to be like 45 minutes of us talking and then some call-ins.
	So a full hour.
	And until I met Steve Jobs, Quincy Jones, I would say, was the most interesting person I'd ever met in my life.
	Quincy still, I think, may be above Steve Jobs for me.
	But he came in, he's like, hey, Adam, how you doing?
	And he puts on a bottle of wine.
	I don't remember what it was.
	I wish I did.
	But it was good.
	And we pretty much had finished it within 30 minutes live on the air.
	And we're happy.
	I wish I could find a record.
	I looked for it.
	Because we were like, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
	And I watched this documentary and it turns out in that time period, Quincy Jones was a raging alcoholic.
	He was drinking six bottles of wine a night by himself.
	Wow.
	I had no idea.
	He was very functional.
	I'll tell you that.
	Well, you can get that way, I guess.
	It's a great documentary, and it's nice that it's around before he dies.
	I recommend it highly.
	Anyway, with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage and say in the morning to you, the man who put the sea in carbon pollution, John C. Dvorak!
	In the morning to you, Mr.
	Adam Curry.
	In the morning to all ships at sea, boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, the dames and knights out there.
	Hello, Troll Room.
	In the morning to you.
	I'm looking at all of you.
	Good to have you here at noagendastream.com.
	That's where you can listen live as we record the show.
	And there's always some fun musical stylings before we actually record.
	So you can always show up and check us out, noagendastream.com.
	And in the morning to Mark G., As there was a lot of artwork for episode 1077, the title of that was Bonesaw.
	If we had known, it might have been Mr.
	Bonesaw, but we didn't know until today.
	And this was the Join the CIA Discover the Truth public service announcement.
	And it was, besides it being funny, it was just a beautiful piece.
	Mark G., professional, makes some really nice pieces.
	With the skull and bones, skull and missiles crossed as bones and targets.
	And the whole thing was just...
	And he has a style, too.
	Very good style.
	This is where you say, yeah, it was great.
	He has a style.
	He's identifiable.
	So we want to thank Mark G. for having created that artwork for us.
	We do different album artwork with every single show.
	It's very good for the show because when it shows up in the lineup of new shows released, or usually we're right near Rachel Maddow for some reason in iTunes under news and noteworthy, And, you know, we got some funky-ass, great-looking piece of art there because it flows all the way through, on iTunes at least.
	And, you know, she's just got her head.
	And that's why we don't even want our heads on the art.
	So this is good.
	This is good stuff and it's appreciated.
	Noagendaartgenerator.com.
	Go check it out.
	Look at all the great things artists are making.
	And pitch in.
	I mean, chip in.
	Make some art for us.
	So we have a few people to thank for producing, executive producing, and associate executive producing show 1078.
	Starting with Dame Bang Bang there.
	She sent in a card and a check for $777.77.
	Nice.
	And the card says Galentine's Day, which means hoes before fries.
	Hoes before bros.
	That's what no.
	Dame Bang Bang is saying this?
	Hoes before bros.
	Fries before guys.
	Chicks before...
	Well, you get the picture.
	No agenda before ho agenda.
	Happy 11 years, she writes in the card.
	Oh, that's right.
	Congratulations, John.
	11 years.
	This is our anniversary.
	Our anniversary is next Thursday.
	Oh, I thought it was today.
	No, next Thursday.
	Let me take the hat off then.
	Next Thursday.
	She writes a note.
	Where's the little whistle thing?
	The horn.
	Yeah, yeah, I'll get the horn.
	Hopefully this makes it in time before one of the shows on Thursday.
	Please accept a sack of sevens, 777777, as I am sharing the wealth from a recent dividend.
	This will bring me well over the threshold of Baroness and crown me Baroness Bang Bang of the California Central Coast Ventura to Santa Cruz.
	Don't worry, I already checked with Baron DH Slammer and he is okay with sharing his barony as long as he still gets 12th of the bed to sleep on.
	Maybe a blanket on cold nights.
	Now, okay, I'm going to have to stop this before it gets out of control.
	This is not up to the various knights and honorees.
	It's up to the peerage committee.
	The peerage committee, yes.
	And I believe, last time I looked, you chair said committee.
	I do.
	And so I want to say, first of all, that this is not up to DH Slammer to make this decision.
	It's up to me.
	And I will say this.
	Since you are sharing the bed, although he only gets 112, it would be normal, not something you need permission for, to have a baron and a baroness.
	In the same area, it's like the Duke and Duchess of Windsor.
	Yes, it's kind of what you'd expect, yes.
	Yeah.
	The Duke and Duchess of Windsor.
	So this would just be automatic.
	It would be automatic and nothing you have to clear.
	Just to make that clear so people don't start asking others about this and that.
	The source for this is really at the peerage committee level.
	She gets what she wants at the end of the day.
	She gets what she wants, but I just have to clear up how she gets it.
	It's a procedural issue.
	Pure procedural issue.
	Yeah, it's a procedural issue that needs to be addressed.
	I did just address it.
	Thank you.
	Now, she does have a request.
	Yes.
	Please give me a give it up for Raven.
	I should have told you this earlier.
	That's okay.
	That's okay, Raven, yeah.
	And some health and wealth karma for the entire Gilo family.
	Okay.
	That's it?
	And love is just much love, Dame Bang.
	Oh, Dame Bang Bang.
	Baroness, I look forward to that ceremony later on today.
	Straight from Reseda, here she is, Raven.
	Yay!
	You've got karma.
	Nice.
	Good times, Club 33.
	Miss it.
	Sir, Jimmy James, $486.
	Right, so 3 plus 3 equals 6.
	FPC World.
	Ha, I know PC Magazine.
	A little joke there.
	Equals $486.
	ITM, and thank you both for your courage.
	The show must go on.
	I have a D-bag call out.
	Okay.
	Wolfie, you're a douchebag.
	Douchebag!
	I truly hope you aren't.
	If you like, prove yourself and I will match any donation you make in the next two weeks or four shows.
	Outside of that, business money karma for you two gents and for all the producers.
	Thanks for what you do.
	Thank you very much, Jimmy James.
	You've got karma.
	That's appreciated.
	We have four executive producers.
	They did Trent Perkins in Fenton, Missouri.
	I came in with 33333.
	ITM, fellas, first thing I... Can I get a de-douching?
	You've been de-douched.
	This donation puts me at the round table, accounting attached.
	I think he's on the list.
	If it's available, I'd like to be known as Serentity, meaning Serentity, Serentity.
	Serenity.
	Can I get some Trump steaks and hot takes at the feast, please?
	Yeah.
	I've just put in the order.
	Reverse those if you want.
	You guys put on, by far, my favorite podcast.
	Thank you for what you guys achieve and have accomplished.
	It's hard to remember that Times before I listened to the show.
	Trent Perkins.
	Side note, read this off the air if you've already...
	Okay.
	No, no, no.
	Read it anyway.
	It's good.
	Okay, yeah, it sounds good.
	I wanted to check to make sure I could read it.
	Somewhat recently, John mentioned the film Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, the film telling the life of Chuck Barris and his alleged role as a CIA spook Nay, assassin.
	Guess who directed it?
	George Clooney in his directorial debut.
	Coincidence?
	George Clooney!
	Is a spy.
	Actually, I knew that Clooney directed that for some reason.
	I didn't make that association, though.
	Thank you, Trent.
	Thank you very much, Trent.
	Yes, Trent.
	Good man.
	Onward to Vladislav Dubov.
	And I have to do an email search because it's a blank here.
	Dubov.
	I think he sent something in.
	He's from Russia.
	The state is XX. How does PayPal do that?
	Oh, he says it's from Moscow.
	I don't have a note from him.
	I've never heard of Vladislav.
	I don't think.
	Has he donated before?
	I don't know.
	I think so.
	I think he has.
	Well, anyway, Vladislav, if you have something to tell us, you have qualified for a note.
	We'll send one in.
	And then finally, we have one executive associate executive producer, Brian Dillon, $211.11.
	A note from the BD method.
	After John poo-pooed Adam's climate gate report on show 1076, leading to a classically pissed off and vulnerable version Adam, I'm pleased that this motivated you both to dig deep for a great show 1077.
	The analysis for Kanye and Al Gore were terrific.
	May you both continue to push each buttons, each other's buttons, I think, as you push buttons.
	Never mind.
	As you push each others to bring bigger and better analysis to the table and live up to the appropriately titled Crackpot Bud Skill monikers.
	Can I get I love you, Bernie Sanders?
	You know that one?
	Yeah.
	Followed by a great gig in the Yoko Ono abruptly cut off by a North Korean broadcaster.
	And if it's not too much extra, I remember some one-off David Bowie cover songs from several months ago.
	Maybe a spoof on the song Changes or Life on Mars to play at the end of the show.
	Okay, I'm still with Susan Sarandon, right?
	Yeah.
	Unless she goes into tears.
	I know, but for some reason, I have Susan Sarandon.
	Yeah, I give you Bernie Sanders, but I can't find it.
	Oh, man.
	Well, what does the Susan Sarandon clip sound like?
	Well, it's not the one I know for sure.
	Oh, you sure?
	Yeah.
	Let me see.
	We have Hillary supporters harassed Susan Sarandon.
	Bernie has balls.
	No, it was...
	Damn, that's...
	Give you...
	Hmm.
	This is concerning.
	This is a classic.
	But we'll have to put it in abeyance.
	Yeah, I don't know where it is.
	Well, this is very disappointing.
	Okay, what else can I play?
	Well, since I don't have that.
	The Great Gig and the Yoko Ono abruptly cut off by North Korean Broadcaster.
	Yoko...
	And then a David Bowie cover song at the end.
	Okay.
	I think it's Climate Changes would be good.
	That's one.
	Oh, yes, that's the one.
	Well, I have this, I guess.
	I only have the Pink Floyd.
	That's what she's looking for.
	It's too long.
	Wait, I have a short version.
	Here we go.
	You've got karma.
	It's not in there.
	She wanted the broadcaster.
	Is there a clip that's supposed to be like that?
	I don't know.
	It's just it was a very difficult combination for you to achieve if you can't find the...
	Okay.
	I've played them all.
	I'm sorry.
	It's a difficult combo.
	Okay, Brian.
	That was the best we could do.
	We'll look for the Susan Sarandon thing because it needs to be played.
	Yes.
	We want to thank all these folks for helping.
	Oh, that's it?
	Yes, we get the one.
	1078.
	And as Adam will point out shortly, these are real credits you can use.
	Yes, anywhere where credits are recognized.
	And this is a good showing.
	Thank you very much, executive producers.
	One, two, three, yeah, four executive producers.
	And Brian comes in as the sole associate executive producer.
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	Dvorak.org slash N-A. Gotta find that clip, because I give you Bernie Sanders!
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Order! Order!
	Shut up, slave!
	Shut up, slave!
	I have a special announcement to make.
	I have heard from my millennial contacts.
	May 19th, 2019 will be a very special date.
	This is a global movement.
	And right now it's kind of under the radar.
	People are not talking about it too much.
	But on May 19th, 2019, there will be multiple bonfires around the world of the rentable electric scooters that may have been dropped into your city.
	Yes, it's happening.
	Yeah.
	The big bonfire.
	Talking about a pollution hazard.
	Yeah.
	We have so many of those things here.
	Just getting nuts.
	Let me see.
	What do we have?
	Oh, yes.
	We need to talk about Pocahontas.
	And I will say, we were calling Elizabeth Warren Pocahontas before Trump was even mentioned running.
	Years.
	How many years have we been doing this?
	Since the beginning.
	I think during the Hillary, during the Obama campaign.
	When I said that she should be running for president instead of Hillary, I think in that era we started calling her Pocahontas.
	So that'd be 2012?
	2012, yeah.
	Yeah, and so then when Trump started doing it, we had to stop.
	Right, I remember when he started doing it, we decided that we should stop.
	Then we looked like we were copying him.
	Yes, which is sad.
	I have a little report then.
	This was, of course, I guess we all know what happened because the world stood still for a moment as everyone had to understand this news.
	This is the video going around social media.
	Senator Elizabeth Warren's campaign page talking about her connections to Native American heritage.
	She claims in the video, through DNA testing...
	It confirms her Native American heritage.
	That test, something the Cherokee Nation, a sovereign nation, says doesn't prove anything.
	To talk now about her ancestry, her DNA analysis, we think muddies the waters a bit.
	Secretary of State Chuck Hoskin Jr.
	says he finds Senator Warren's claims hurtful.
	That is a very special status.
	It's a legal status.
	It's a status that our ancestors fought long and hard for that is embedded in tribal law.
	It's embedded in federal law, specifically the treaties.
	We think that as sovereign nations, that means something.
	To claim membership to the Cherokee Nation, you must be able to prove that you can trace yourself back to the tribe's Dawes rules, the original enrollment documents.
	People have this family lore And they can't prove it.
	And so people go through a long and drawn out process sometimes.
	They'll submit paperwork to the Cherokee Nation because there is an application process.
	Cherokee citizens say this isn't a red versus blue issue.
	It's about protecting treaties and their sovereignty.
	I think the important takeaway is that Elizabeth Warren remembers that it's the Cherokee Nation who decides who their citizens are, not individuals.
	So, here's the question I have.
	She used this for Harvard Law School?
	Is that where she used it?
	Where she was recognized?
	She used it when she...
	I was going to clip this, and I'm sorry I didn't now that you bring it up.
	She used it for a number of things, and she kept using it.
	She used it when she ran against Scott Brown when she first ran for senator.
	She had this, and it's on YouTube.
	She had this song and dance about how she's a Cherokee and her mom and her dad had to elope because her mom was a Cherokee.
	Right, that's where it stems from.
	Was that the first time that...
	Well, that's the first time I think it was really made public, but there's evidence that she used to check the boxes.
	For various things.
	So here's the thing about Check the Boxes.
	So I believe she used it to get into Harvard Law School, at least what I've seen, and I don't know the authenticity of it, but it appears that Harvard even touted Elizabeth Warren as a great hire for faculty as the first woman of color faculty.
	So...
	I'd like to understand the admissions process.
	Hearing that clip about Cherokee Nation and how very specific it is to be a member of the tribe, so to speak, to be recognized as Cherokee, do you just send stuff to Harvard and they don't check it?
	Can you just send whatever you want?
	Yeah?
	Well, at that level, sure.
	They're not going to check and see if your heritage...
	I mean, if you check that you're a Latino, I mean...
	They're not going to check it?
	They're not going to check it?
	No, I don't think so.
	I don't think they'd check it.
	What would they check?
	How are you going to check it?
	Well, but listen, for this particular status...
	You know, they, which they touted this way.
	I don't know.
	It just doesn't make any sense that a school doesn't check references.
	I mean, isn't that, kids are running around all freaked out.
	Oh, I gotta get for school.
	I gotta write a, you know, paper, make a video, show a Rubik's Cube, but I can do that and, you know, all this stuff.
	But meanwhile, you can just send off some phony baloney info and they'll believe it.
	I think so.
	Hmm.
	Or they were so gung-ho to get, oh, first woman of color, the whitest cracker I've ever seen.
	Lindsey Graham, his balls, man, they're just hanging down by his knees these days.
	I've been told that my grandmother was part Cherokee Indian.
	It may all be just talk.
	Lindsey Graham.
	It's an awakening for Lindsey.
	He was held down by McCain.
	Yeah, apparently.
	He's funny.
	You like what he's doing?
	Yeah, I like what he's doing.
	Yes, I like what he's doing.
	Thank you.
	Don't you?
	I think it's, yeah, he's much more, he's like he's calmer and he's not so uptight.
	He seems like he's relaxed a lot.
	There must have been a lot of pressure on him by McCain or something.
	I don't know what the problem was with him.
	I like him more than I used to.
	Now he's become kind of a Trumpite.
	Yeah.
	I got some stuff here that's a little...
	Well, I have some targeted stuff.
	If you're just going to do throwaways, I got some real things to converse about.
	Throwaways?
	I got throwaways?
	Just throwaway.
	I got Biden on impeachment.
	This is kind of interesting.
	Okay.
	This follows my thesis.
	Which is?
	Which is that there's never going to do any impeachment thing.
	It's all just designed to get everyone to vote against Trump.
	This is your theory?
	This is your big theory?
	You know the theory?
	Of course.
	Well, I thought it was something else.
	He's worth more to them not impeached.
	Let's put it that way.
	You wait till the investigation is finished.
	You don't put an arbitrary end to it.
	You wait till it's finished.
	And let's see what it has to say.
	And if Democrats win the House, do you believe that they may move forward with articles of impeachment?
	I hope they don't.
	I don't think there's a basis for doing that right now.
	I think we should wait until the report comes out.
	Now, the report he's talking about, the Mueller report?
	Yeah.
	So, here's some things that I've learned or that I have questions about.
	The first one is, it's been now a couple weeks, the president asked for the FISA warrant for Carter Page to be unredacted, I guess declassified, along with text messages between Comey and...
	No, no, McCabe.
	McCabe.
	McCabe.
	And is the FBI just not doing this?
	I mean...
	And I think I know the reason why.
	What I hear is that if we ever get to see the FISA warrant, and this was part of the Patriot Act, it was really important that we would not use any spying on American people through any covert internet-enabled type means without it going through the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court, the FISA court, where a judge would preside over it and decide if issuing a warrant is warranted.
	From what I understand, the Carter Page FISA warrant did not go to a judge.
	It was signed off on by Loretta Lynch.
	Yeah, that's what I heard, too.
	And then a week later, they went to the judge and said, we need an extension, and he just rubber-stamped it.
	Rubber-stamped it, yeah.
	And I presume that's why they don't want that information out.
	But how does this work?
	If the president says, this needs to be declassified, can the FBI just do whatever they want?
	I don't know.
	All I know is that I'm not seeing any action here, but it's supposed to be.
	There's supposed to be all these things going on that's like a warning to the deep state.
	Yeah, yeah.
	So here's the other warning I heard, which I liked.
	And I think it's from the Operation Freedom Radio guy.
	Did you see this about Rosenstein?
	Rosenstein?
	Yeah.
	Yep.
	So he says...
	I was going to clip it, but the guy's ponderous.
	You know, I was going to clip it too, and I'm like, if it comes up, we'll just talk about it.
	So he says, you know, a big message to the deep state was that Rod Rosenstein flew with President Trump on Air Force One, and that means that, you know, he's flipped because he's, you know, he's on Trump's side.
	And the conclusion he made, which I thought was really good, I liked it a lot.
	Was all of a sudden we had, and I think it was a Washington Post story that came out saying, oh, Rod Rosenstein, he said in a room full of people, maybe I should wear a wire to trap Trump so we can impeach him.
	And Operation Freedom Radio guy's thesis is, what if he was wearing a wire but it wasn't to catch Trump, it was to get all these assholes on tape saying horrible things about what they're going to do to the president?
	Yeah.
	I like that a lot.
	I like it a lot.
	He did point out that right after Rosen...
	Stein.
	Stein.
	Rosenstein.
	After Rosenstein took the airplane ride, he pointed out that it's a secure environment so you can have private conversations.
	Yeah, it's a skiff.
	Yeah, it's a skiff.
	Yeah, maybe.
	But he says right after that happened, that's when Hillary came out with the, you know...
	To get in their face, all this...
	Yeah, you see, I think that's the weakest part of his argument because that interview was taped after Oxford's speech.
	I don't think she has that much control over it as to when it aired.
	Yeah, you might be right.
	I think that was taking it a little far, perhaps.
	But I do have a...
	I'd like to...
	The theory sounds interesting, but it's a little anonymous kind of whatever that...
	QAnon kind of thinking.
	So I was watching Ann Cole.
	I want you to just play this and ask you a question.
	So there's a show called Scanlan, which is a talk show that's actually played in Scandinavian countries, Sweden, but it's done in English and it's done in New York City.
	And then they play it.
	It's a talk show.
	So it's a talk show about Scandinavia?
	Yeah.
	No, it's an American news talk show, but it's for the Scandinavian audience.
	Ah, okay.
	Kind of like BBC America?
	No.
	Yeah, a little bit, but they don't play it for our audience.
	BBC America's played for Americans.
	Right, I got you.
	This show is played for Scandinavians.
	In Scandinavia?
	Yes.
	Okay.
	So you can only see it on YouTube, maybe.
	Got it, got it.
	But they had Coulter on.
	But you said it's a highly respected show?
	I've never heard of this.
	It seems to be, if you look at it, you go, this is a, you can tell by the production values that this is not a piece of shit show.
	But the guy is like some, you know, stiff, you know, with that accent that you like to do, and no sense of humor, and everybody's, you know, they don't understand Trump, and he's trying to figure out Trump, and it's like a real problem.
	So she comes on, and she's kind of a wise-ass anyway, and she comes on, and this little exchange went on, and I was taken aback by it.
	Can I just say one more thing about the immigrant point?
	I feel like I'm the only one who actually really wants diversity.
	If all we're going to have is this constant churning and constant immigration, we're all going to look alike.
	There will be no difference.
	There will be no culture.
	I want to go to Sweden and eat fish and have it be light all night.
	You will last five minutes in Sweden.
	Buy IKEA furniture and listen to ABBA. Yeah, you know.
	What does that mean?
	By the way, Blue Byer.
	What?
	You wouldn't last five minutes in Sweden.
	Because she's saying stupid stuff?
	I want to listen to ABBA. I mean, hello, 1970.
	Well, that's beside the point.
	The point I'm trying to make is not her idiotic desire to hear ABBA. Oh, it's because she supports Trump.
	What are they going to do to her?
	What do you mean by you wouldn't last?
	What if I said to you, hey, you wouldn't last five minutes in Berkeley?
	What does that mean?
	What does it mean?
	You're going to have the shit beat out of you?
	It means stay away.
	I'll be like, okay, I trust you.
	I'll take your word for it, bro.
	Well, she wasn't even hearing it.
	But the point is, was that a threat?
	Let me hear it again.
	Can I just say one more thing about the immigrant point?
	I wish I knew, oh, they were talking about immigration.
	Okay, see, this is out of context, a little tough.
	I feel like I'm the only one who actually really wants diversity.
	If all we're going to have is this constant churning and constant immigration, we're all going to be...
	Wait, what did he say there?
	That's the course of immigration.
	We all have to have that.
	I don't know what he said.
	That is not the cost of immigration.
	We're all going to look alike.
	There will be no difference.
	There will be no culture.
	I want to go to Sweden and eat fish and have it be light all night.
	You will last five minutes in Sweden.
	Buy IKEA furniture.
	I think it, you know what, this is just a pissed off Swede who doesn't like her and he just said something like, you know, his version of FU. It was very rude.
	Yeah, that's interesting she didn't catch it.
	I'd be like, what?
	What did you just say?
	Meanwhile, Sweden, you know, everything's in chaos.
	They've kicked out their prime minister.
	We knew this was not going to go well.
	So I'm looking to you, Swedish producers.
	We need a little more boots on the ground information because all we're getting is slanted stuff.
	I mean, what's happening here is not just happening here.
	You're hearing this debate with Ann Coulter about Sweden.
	What did I have?
	I had a...
	This is a worldwide thing.
	It's Soros on his last legs.
	Yeah, hold on a second.
	This is...
	Yes, this is Australia.
	This is fantastic.
	So this is in Parliament, and this is the leader of One Nation, Pauline Hanson, and she really touches the third rail, and so I've got some responses to what she said as well.
	She's so tired of white people being blamed for everything, and it's interesting this is happening in Australia.
	You know, the genesis of the white Australians is prisoners who are thrown there by Mother England.
	They're pommies, prisoners of Mother England.
	Yet all whites are now being blamed for everything that's bad.
	It's the same thing we're seeing going on here.
	And she tries to make a motion that it's okay to be white.
	She wants that codified...
	Can you imagine someone trying to do that?
	I mean, we're a little more advanced than you down under.
	You know, you're just kind of catching on to how this works.
	This is the third rail.
	I hope that the Senate does the reasonable thing today by supporting this motion.
	Anyone who pays attention to the news or spends any time on social media has to acknowledge that there has been a rise in anti-white racism and a rise in attacks on the very ideals of Western civilization.
	I would also hope the Senate does the right thing and acknowledges it is indeed okay to be white.
	Such a simple sentence should go without saying, but I suspect many members in this place would struggle to say it.
	People have a right to be proud of their cultural background, whether they are black, white or brindle.
	If we cannot agree on this, I think it's safe to say any white racism is well and truly rife in our society.
	Oh, wow.
	Said it each.
	Wow.
	Madam Deputy President, I seek Leeds to make a short statement.
	Please leave.
	I could leave his granted for one minute, Senator Hitch.
	Thank you, Madam Deputy President.
	With the federal election looming, I'm starting to think that Senator Hansen and a former colleague, Senator Anning, are now locked in a race to see who can be the biggest, the loudest, racist bigot in their conscience to see who can get to the bottom of the sewer first.
	That's what this obscene motion is all about.
	It could have been written on a piece of toilet paper, which reminds me of that old story about a toilet cleaner.
	People were nicknamed Harpik because they were clean around the bend.
	There's a more sinister thing behind this latest stunt by Senator Hanson.
	She's using this chamber as a conduit for headline-grabbing stunts.
	Senator Hanson tweeted a very clever line, dreamed up by, I imagine, her giggling cohorts in the back room, her line about it's okay to be white, and then went public with it before most of the senators in this chamber had even heard about it.
	She tweeted it and went on Sky that night and published it before it was even tabled here in the Senate.
	And I would say this sort of racism is not only wrong...
	Senator, the time has expired.
	Beg your pardon, Senator Di Natale.
	One minute.
	Thank you, Madam Deputy President.
	Well, it's not just okay to be white in Australia, it's actually a ticket to winning the lotto.
	It's a ticket to winning the lotto.
	Just look around this chamber, see how many faces you see that aren't white.
	Have a look in the privileged positions of Australian society, people who occupy the seats of the rich and powerful.
	How many of them are not white?
	Last time I checked, it's...
	The privileged white Anglo community that are the ones occupying the seats of influence.
	Look, the reality is this it's okay to be white slogan has got a long history in the white supremacist movement where both these clowns get most of their material from.
	You know what it's not okay to be in this country?
	It's not okay to be Aboriginal because you're more likely to die younger to be locked up.
	It's not okay to be an African person because you're more likely to experience racism.
	It's not okay to be a Muslim because you're more subject to...
	Senator DiMittale, please resume your seat.
	Oh, you're catching on quickly, though.
	It's working out there.
	Social justice warrior system.
	Maybe they should work on some of the laws and maybe do some legislating.
	Oh, that would be just silly, John.
	No, they've got to argue about stuff like this.
	Well, I got a couple offbeat.
	You're right.
	These are all throwaways.
	But we do have a long story.
	This is important.
	This is the candidate pot story.
	The deal's done.
	Canada today became the second and largest country to legalize marijuana.
	Uruguay was the first.
	Over 100 Canadian pot shops.
	And this is important.
	So the next time someone says, Amsterdam weed's legal.
	It's not.
	It never has been.
	And I'm glad that people are now clearing that up.
	We're slated to open today.
	Some opened their doors at the stroke of midnight as hundreds of customers lined the streets outside.
	Canadian officials insisted that legalizing pot will improve public health and safety.
	You cannot regulate a prohibited substance, so we are lifting the prohibition, that's what legalization is, to enable us to implement a comprehensive and far more effective system of strict regulatory control that will bring regulatory control and order to every aspect of the production, distribution, and consumption of cannabis.
	The Canadian government will also pardon people who have been convicted of possessing up to 30 grams of marijuana.
	I think these guys got screwed.
	You, Scandinavians, I think you got screwed on this deal.
	There's a lot of regulations that go along with this, including regulations on production.
	I don't think that those regulations aren't in California, are they?
	I think they are, but more interesting to me is what's going on in Washington.
	The state legislature has decided that edibles...
	Which is the only way to go as far as I'm concerned.
	Yes.
	Are going to be illegal.
	If you can't smoke it, you can't have it.
	What?
	Yes.
	This is the big deal in Washington State right now.
	Edibles is going to be banned.
	They're going to ban the edibles.
	Now, this is hopefully the old ladies up there who are dependent on this stuff.
	I have one pot stock that I invested in.
	And it's an edibles.
	Well, you're screwed.
	Short!
	Short!
	Now, the reason, I understand the reason, and I talked this over with Mimi because she's bitching about it, although she doesn't really use, she uses the creams.
	She's not in the Rihanna Club?
	No.
	Okay.
	So she, but she's irked about it because, you know, those edibles are, the problem is these idiots, especially the Washington State idiot, which is a common character up there, Hey, man.
	Help me have one of these chocolate bars.
	Oh, man, this thing is good.
	Hour later.
	Oh, man, nothing's happening.
	I'm gonna have another one.
	They eat a bag of these things, and then apparently the real problem has been these moron hikers, because everybody's a tree hugger, the moron hikers, they go up into the mountains with a bag of edibles, and then they start chewing on them.
	They eat the whole bag.
	They're up in the mountain.
	They can't get down because they can't stand up.
	And they have to be rescued?
	Yes, by Chopper.
	Ha!
	Actually, the edibles company I've invested in, like a whole thousand dollars, I think, is they have a technology, patented technology, that gets the TCH from edibles into your bloodstream within 15 minutes, which is why I liked it, because of this story that it always takes so long for people to get high and they wind up taking too much.
	My experience, well, I don't know that experience, but my experience, or what I tell people, is that two and a half hours.
	Right.
	Okay.
	I'm not a big edibles guy myself, but yeah.
	Do you have a story, this?
	I see edibles.
	Did I have edibles?
	No, that was my...
	Oh, that was it.
	Okay, I'm sorry.
	That was just a reminder to me to discuss the edible situation.
	So I put the reminder on the clip.
	Well, back to the regulations.
	You know the show, This Hour Has 22 Minutes.
	It's a spoof show.
	Yeah, that's been off the air for years.
	Yeah.
	Really?
	Which is a shame.
	It's been off the air?
	Yeah, I think so.
	Let me go look to make sure.
	But yeah, they took it off the air during the Harper administration.
	I believe the later part of it.
	And I know it's not on the air.
	I mean, it was one of the greatest shows they ever produced in Canada.
	It's very funny, very in-your-face comedy.
	And they just, it was dissolved.
	Hey, Scandinavians, Scandinavian trolls, because I have a clip, and either this is new, or they're from the future.
	Well, this is it.
	We will finally be legal in Canada.
	Well, I guess it's... I guess it's...
	Well, I guess it's... I guess it's...
	Where it's never permitted.
	Oh yeah, and if you're in New Brunswick, it has to be locked behind an enclosure that is at least 1.2 meters high.
	If you're in the Northwest Territories, you can smoke on trails, highways, streets, roads, and parks, as long as they're not in use.
	But since it's a Northwest Territory, chances are, they're not in use.
	It's okay to see you in line at the pot shop tomorrow, unless you're in Ontario, where no stores will be open until April 2019.
	Great job, Trudeau!
	I guess it's not all that great yet.
	Yeah, they had...
	I'm looking at the wiki page.
	Yeah, I guess it's been restarted with the name 22 Minutes.
	Yes, yeah, that's what I saw.
	It just kind of takes the joke away from it.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Like the MTV half-hour comedy hour.
	Yeah, it's pretty similar.
	Just as funny.
	I don't know if this is as good.
	Well, they still have Kathy Jones as good.
	That bit was okay.
	They had a bunch of really funny people.
	Uh...
	Critch, I guess, is the main guy.
	Okay.
	So the list came out of all the possible cities that may get Amazon's HQ2. Yeah.
	And Austin.
	It was an interesting list.
	Austin was on the city's list?
	Yeah, we're on the list.
	It was interesting because they had price, cost of living, and cost of a tech worker.
	So a tech worker in Austin makes $94,000.
	A regular schmuck.
	It makes $53,000.
	But the cost of living is on par with Los Angeles now, according to this list, which is frightening.
	In Austin, really?
	Yes, yes.
	I was always noticing this when you were talking about these little artsy-fartsy restaurants that you like to go to there in Austin.
	You would tell me.
	I'd look at the menus.
	I'd say, Jesus, this is pretty pricey for a Texas restaurant.
	Very.
	It's incredibly expensive to live here.
	Now, we don't have state income tax, so we get a little release.
	That makes a big difference, yeah.
	Yeah, but still, it's annoying for sure.
	Now, you can get, if you don't go, I don't know why you think that that's the only, I mean, I cook.
	I cook at home.
	We don't go out when I like at all the hoity-toity restaurants of Austin every day.
	Well, fartsy-fartsy is the word I use.
	Yeah.
	But Hoity Toity is similar.
	It's always surprising to me how many there actually are in Austin.
	There's quite a few.
	And some good ones.
	Dallas Fort Worth is on the list.
	And this has been our pick since you blew our cover.
	Since we were looking to go stealth and make some money by buying up land.
	And then I came up with my vape shop and dog walking.
	And got an immediate note from an anonymous Amazonian in Seattle.
	Adam...
	Do not start a dog walking service.
	I'm an Amazonian in Seattle, which means he works for Amazon, or she.
	People bring dogs to work.
	They're the bottom of the barrel.
	They use the dogs like a smoke break, if they remember to walk them.
	Even if you can get them, these are not going to be good customers because you're going to get requests that will be like, can you walk my dog in the next five minutes and be back at 18?
	Most don't really have time to walk the dogs at all, and you'll be tied to unpredictable schedules.
	Unless you launch an Uber for dog walks, you're going to regret it.
	I think it's funny that WAG is an Uber for dog walkers.
	Well, first of all, let's start with the premise that Adam was going to open a dog walking facility.
	Service, service.
	Service, in the first place.
	So let's just stop there.
	Bong shop, maybe.
	Vape shop, not bong, vape.
	Okay.
	Bong shop.
	But I think there is evidence in this next clip That Fort Worth could be the place.
	We've had a little change up there with Meacham Airport.
	So the original frame of this building was built in 1968.
	It was the new, modern facility built at that time to support the airport as a commercial facility.
	And fast forward to 2015, when we started the project, the building was nearly 50 years old.
	The systems were failing.
	And it just wasn't representative of the high-class nature of Meacham Airport.
	And with the support of the city manager, mayor, council members, and really American Arrow to partner with us on this wonderful building, it came out to around just over $20 million.
	It's such an Incredible investment into the city and into the airport that'll take us into the future.
	So last year, Meacham hit a record year with operations.
	We had 140,000 takeoffs and landings.
	So the point of this story is they've built a brand new terminal and they're open for business and are willing to consider any type of business with a brand new facility.
	And they have 52,000 square feet available at the airport alone.
	Well, it's not a small airport.
	That's a big operation.
	I mean, it was put together by H. Ross Perot as an alternative and for freight only airport.
	And I don't know how well he's done with it, but he kind of turned it over to an investment group that he's still part of.
	Right.
	And he runs this real estate operation, which seems to be buying up a lot of stuff in the area.
	Something's up.
	I'm thinking that Fort Worth is the way to go.
	He's from the area.
	It's perfect for slave wages.
	He's from Houston.
	Oh, he's from Houston?
	Yeah.
	I thought he was from Dallas.
	Oh, Houston.
	Well, he's from the area.
	He's from Texas.
	From the general area, yeah.
	Have you seen him?
	Have you seen how...
	I mean, forget the big eye and everything, but...
	That big eye is getting worse.
	His arms are massive.
	He must be pumping iron.
	Yeah, he's really pumping iron.
	I forgot to mention when we were talking about dogs a minute ago, how much do you think United States pet owners will spend on animal Halloween costumes this year?
	1.5 billion.
	I wish.
	No, half a billion.
	Okay.
	Jeez.
	It kind of ruins the whole thing when you come in that high.
	Sorry.
	Oh, man.
	Okay, here we go.
	Go back to the American politics a little bit with this clip on.
	I just want to play this so we can discuss it just a shade.
	This is the Georgia early voting ominous signs PBS clip.
	Back in this country, some voters in Georgia are waiting in line for nearly three hours to cast their ballots early in that state's midterm elections, including in the hotly contested governor's race.
	Long lines have plagued the polls around the Atlanta area in Fulton, Cobb and Gwinnett counties.
	Election officials said turnout on Monday, the first day of in-person early voting, was triple the turnout on the first day of early voting in the 2014 midterm election.
	Okay.
	Does this mean that the Republicans have decided to get off their ass and keep Trump, you know, in or keep the House and the Senate?
	With the early voting?
	Well, I mean, I'm just talking about the sheer number, the triple-sized number, which seems to me to be like a sign of something.
	It's got to be an observable means.
	Well, here's all I can say.
	You're talking about, will there be a blue wave?
	The blue wave!
	I mean, I don't know about polling.
	We know the polling is bullcrap, and it's usually intended...
	No, it's bullcrap.
	I have not forgotten the 2016 election polling.
	I mean, it went from 95% certain for Hillary to whoops.
	So let's look at television ratings.
	I mean, is it, are the, is the left-wing faction of the United States population, are they so busy with knitting pussy hats and protesting that they don't have time to watch CNN and MSNBC? And the Republican side, the right-wing side of the country is, there's just so many of them who are so damn lazy, they're watching with double the numbers?
	I mean, this is the kind of stuff that I look at.
	This is empirical evidence.
	I look at that too, but I have to...
	And I think about the Murphy Brown show and all the other bullets, you know, they're trying to push on the public.
	And I'm always considering the fact that traditionally, I think, that the Democrats...
	Yeah, in the 50s and 60s, when the Democrats were all the working class and they did sit around and watch a lot of television...
	Those people are all Republicans now.
	So the people who watch television, I think in general, tend to be the middle class, which I think is mostly Republican nowadays.
	I think the Democrats are all the bankers and Silicon Valley billionaires.
	They don't watch television.
	Right.
	They just own it.
	Yeah, they own the media, yes.
	Right, so that means that there's no way...
	I'm just looking at numbers that I understand, and if you've got twice as many people watching Fox News, you know, it's like, okay, it seems like there's a lot of people who are interested in that message.
	I mean, I listen to MSNBC all day, every day.
	I mean, you know this about me, because it's the most entertaining thing I've ever heard in my life.
	Well, I don't know how you can stand it, but okay.
	So that's how I pick up on things like MBS. You know, that's where you hear these things.
	That's why you got to watch it.
	It's painful, but I do that for the show.
	We love you for it.
	So I think, I could be wrong, but my feeling says that, yeah, I mean, look at the video evidence of Trump rallies.
	It's incredible the amount of people he's bringing in.
	And I see Beto, and he's not Trump-level, of course, but I just don't see the same numbers of people showing up.
	It just seems like less people.
	Well, they attribute that, apparently, to the fact that Trump is a dictator.
	Ah, yes, that's what it is.
	I forgot.
	And so I'm watching NBC, I'm online, and I'm looking, they have a new segment on the NBC News, on the online, called Think.
	I have it on here, Thunk, but Think.
	Another clip we'll never find again.
	And there's a bunch of editorials that they play, and they tend to just, again, this is what triggered me earlier in the show, when I said, well, NBC would have the Alex.
	I mean, they would give up Alec Baldwin to ABC because they're both on the same, you know, they both want to screw over Trump.
	And this is the kind of thing, this is on NBC News, and of course it says, well, you know, this is not us, but we're giving it a huge platform for some woman who happens to be a professor, Ruth Ben-Giat, a professor somewhere of history.
	And she just goes, she's a Trump hater, and she goes on off the deep end, and I'm listening to this going, why is NBC, supposedly an objective news organization, you know, trying to do something like this?
	Why are they putting it on their website and emphasizing it?
	Well, you know the answer to that.
	You're not really thinking that with an open-ended question.
	Well...
	They hate Trump!
	Yeah, they do.
	Authoritarian but profound disrespect for democracy.
	They view rule of law and democratic norms as bothersome obstacles to the consolidation of their own power.
	What are democratic norms?
	Uh, they've got a bunch of guys named Norm who are Democrats.
	Donald Trump has been following the authoritarian playbook since he was a presidential candidate.
	We can debate Trump's mental fitness, his competency, but he's been very unmessaged and consistent with some of the main themes that mark authoritarian rulers.
	One of them is glorification of the leader.
	Trump started during his campaign to forge emotional ties with his followers based on loyalty to his person rather than a party or principle.
	I say to the leaders of the Republican Party, folks, you got to get tougher or you're not going to have a lot of victories.
	And I'll be honest.
	I'm talking about for them.
	Because I think I'm gonna win anyway.
	I really think I can win.
	The mantra of authoritarian leaders is, see me and I exist.
	And Trump has to be always at the center of attention.
	Then he started to attack the sectors of society.
	Wait a minute, so what she's doing here is she's showing empirical evidence that Trump is a dictator?
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	...that deal in evidence and inquiry and investigations, such as the press, the judiciary, research.
	Fake news.
	The news is fake.
	These are things that authoritarians past and present have done, from Hitler, the denunciation of the lying press, to Erdogan and Putin in Turkey and Russia, who jail and kill journalists.
	In January 2016, Trump made a shocking announcement.
	They say, I have the most loyal people.
	Did you ever see that?
	Where I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose any voters, okay?
	It's like incredible.
	Now this was a message, not so much to the American public, but to the Republican Party.
	How far will you go in supporting me even when I'm telling you I'm going to be above the law?
	And the answer, of course, is that...
	The Republican Party has backed him no matter what he says or does.
	This is consistent with authoritarian regimes.
	Once elites sign on publicly and make their packs of support, they support that ruler until the bitter end.
	It's more frightening to think of him as a madman.
	Instead, if we think of him as conforming to a set of political tactics, we see that there's also a method to oppose him.
	Authoritarians, past and present, have been resisted.
	And that is something that is more difficult to do with a madman.
	Oh, man.
	I like how she wraps it up with, we can debate his sanity, but it's hard to do with a madman.
	It's unbelievable.
	She's a professor?
	Yeah.
	Which school?
	Oh, I had it.
	I can look it up.
	Yeah, we need to find out because you need to not send your children to that school.
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	Yes.
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	When people donate and they say it's because of a certain thing we did.
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	Oh, hold on a minute.
	I have some scam calls.
	It's been crazy.
	Thanks, Betsy.
	Thanks, Betsy Warren, for all that you did on...
	Wasn't she supposed to be responsible for...
	Yeah, she made a big stink and talked about Rachel.
	I got a call from Rachel a couple days ago.
	This is horrible.
	Yeah, it's not good.
	Oh, I discovered something.
	I helped Tina and the Ronald McDonald House crew.
	They go around to the...
	So Ronald McDonald House really gets no money from McDonald's.
	They're, I think, one penny per Happy Meal.
	But the local owner and operators, because these are all owned and operated by local people...
	They can do whatever they want in that regard.
	And so the local McDonald's here in Austin, the ones that I know who have seven or eight of these restaurants, really, really nice people.
	And so they're going to bring 100 balloons to thank the staff because they'd raised so much money for the Ronald McDonald House.
	And so one of the owners is there, and I'm talking to her.
	And she says, oh, you want something to drink?
	I said, yeah, I'll have a coffee.
	And she has these kiosks installed.
	And as she's, you know, placing the order, I say, yeah, getting rid of human resources, huh?
	I figured I'd just slip that one in.
	She says, actually, it increases the number of people we have.
	I said, what?
	She says, yeah, it's so efficient.
	It says that we have less people in the front and more people in the back because we're just doing more sales.
	I had not expected that answer.
	No, you got a comeuppance then.
	A comeuppance?
	Yeah.
	What do you mean?
	Yeah, you were being snide.
	You know, talking about the workers' control of the means of production and she told you off.
	She actually, this was an insult.
	You should have slapped her.
	I like her a lot.
	I would not.
	Now, she knows who I am.
	She knows what I do.
	That's why she's like, no, no, no.
	This is actually, you have no idea.
	This creates more jobs.
	I'm like, okay.
	So I'm there, and I got my Nokia, the E71 out, and there's millennials around, and I get one of those, oh my god!
	And I've noticed something consistent when people see this phone compared to a smartphone.
	And it's very consistent.
	Here's what they always say.
	Oh yeah, I remember.
	It's nostalgic.
	Immediate nostalgia.
	And the two things, well, three things that I've heard.
	One is, I love the T9 input, because I could go really fast, and I could text blindly.
	We've actually gone backwards, I think, in that regard, with the smartphones.
	I could text someone blindly in the car.
	Yeah, that's the kind of phone you could hold behind your back and text, say, help me, help me, they're kidnappers.
	Yes, but number one on the list?
	Durability.
	I drove over it with my car!
	I dropped it from the balcony!
	Everyone notices these things.
	And the thing they never talk about, which is what I remind them of, and I'd like to remind everybody now of the OTG lifestyle, it requires some explanation again from time to time.
	I'm at the point now where my phone...
	I used to check something real quick on the browser.
	Well, it's not real quick.
	That's the whole point.
	I can get on the browser and I can check something if I wanted to.
	I have one bookmark, which is Twitter.
	I can see that.
	I'm not even doing that anymore.
	I'm completely cured.
	I'm done.
	I don't care.
	I'm not interested.
	It's not distracting me.
	I feel that my life has improved, my head is clearer, and I recommend it for everybody.
	And you see now, there's one, Palm, well, I don't like what Palm is doing, but one manufacturer after the other is coming out with, this is your weekend phone, this is your downtime phone, this is your not always busy phone.
	We called this.
	People need this.
	They need to do this.
	But the best thing to do is just to leave it at home.
	Leave it at home or get a burner, a candy bar, so you have some kind of contact.
	And also this tracking.
	I'm so happy.
	I'm really, really happy.
	As far as Google and Amazon and, well, Facebook, I'm not anymore, Twitter, they only know that there's this guy in Texas and he never leaves.
	He's always at this address, never goes anywhere, doesn't associate with anybody or anything.
	We can't tell if he's walking, running, sleeping, in the car.
	We don't know anything about him.
	We don't know what he's reading.
	Let's kill him.
	Time to send the drone out.
	That guy's not a good player.
	Let's move into some other technology.
	Well, no.
	We're going to go because this is segue day.
	Well, I have technology stuff.
	That's why I was going to...
	No, no.
	You just said the word drone.
	Oh, okay.
	You have a drone clip now.
	I'm all in on that.
	Let's catch up.
	We don't know anything about any of this.
	You're going to hear something.
	You've never heard any of this.
	Okay.
	Somali drone strikes.
	In Somalia, an airstrike from a U.S. drone, unmanned, has killed 60 Somalis near a coastal town northeast of Mogadishu, the deadliest U.S. attack on Somalia in the last year.
	The Pentagon says all the dead were al-Shabaab fighters, though the claim could not be independently verified.
	The U.S. has conducted at least 27 airstrikes in Somalia so far this year.
	The Pentagon has some 500 troops in Somalia.
	Oh, yes.
	Of course we don't hear about that stuff.
	No!
	Why would you?
	I'm going to crap out of these guys with these drones.
	That's that drone base that we've talked about.
	That's an Eritrea, whatever the name of that, how you ever pronounce that country.
	Anyway, there you go.
	Also, yesterday, U.S. forces dropped a whole bunch of bombs on Kurdish forces in Syria.
	Oh, gee, that didn't make the news, did it?
	I don't think anyone knows this yet.
	We're not supposed to be bombing Kurdish.
	Okay.
	I know.
	Unless we're doing it at the behest of Turkey or something.
	I don't know.
	Why are we bombing the Kurds?
	I thought that they were kind of the okay guys.
	Yeah.
	So complicated.
	So complicated.
	All right.
	I need to talk a little bit about technology stuff.
	About this diversity.
	Well, I'm going to start with this clip, and then we can go as far as we want with other ones.
	This is another engineer who has come out.
	The first one was Google.
	And, you know, he wrote this diversity memo.
	And he said, hey, we're not doing it right.
	It's not good for the company.
	And he got kicked out.
	Fired.
	And he's done.
	Fired him.
	Get him out.
	It reminds me of the Show Me the Money movie, you know, where that guy, which I still think, by the way, is a movie.
	Everyone should watch a kid.
	Now, if I can think of the name of it, Tom Cruise.
	It's called Show Me the Money movie.
	Well, it's the Show Me the Money movie.
	And it had the classic example of what you don't do in a company, which is write a memo telling the bosses how screwed up they are.
	Jerry Maguire, that was the movie.
	Jerry Maguire.
	Yeah, you go and you hear, look at this, I got the whole way of doing it, we'll make 10 times more money, this is the way to go.
	Boom!
	Out of your ass.
	Out you go.
	Well, this engineer worked at Facebook.
	His name is Brian Emerge.
	And he left Facebook after trying to work with management.
	But he really opens up the book.
	Now, what we have said consistently on this show is the biggest mistake...
	Silicon Valley is making, at the moment, from a cultural standpoint, from a resource standpoint, I think is the main problem, and also from a legal standpoint, is making editorial decisions.
	And from the political standpoint, we have an actual law, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, that states that You are a free harbor.
	You're not responsible for what anyone puts up on your service.
	You can't be sued for it.
	But if you're editorializing and you're a news service, well, that's a different story.
	And this is where they have placed themselves squarely in the middle of this, although Section 230 isn't really mentioned much for some reason, by editing, editorializing, removing, shadow banning, all the stuff that's out there.
	And what this engineer will tell you is, The debate that's ongoing, the actual rebellion that is going on within, I think, all of Silicon Valley, but this is just Facebook alone.
	It's actually been pretty dramatic to watch this shift over the years.
	That's essentially why I'm leaving.
	I'm leaving because of this content policy direction, which trying to draw lines around what's acceptable and what's offensive or too offensive I think it's dangerous and it's impractical.
	It's impossible to define what something like hate speech is, and it's even harder to implement it and enforce it at Facebook scale.
	And to your point, this is core to what the mission of the company is.
	I think it's a huge strategic misstep for a company whose product's primary value is to promote free expression, is trying to draw these lines.
	People come to Facebook for all sorts of reasons, speaking as an employee on the inside.
	I've always thought about it as a tool for free expression, and I've supported the mission as a tool for free expression.
	So from that point of view, us trying to draw those impossible-to-draw lines around what's acceptable is a losing strategy.
	Executives at the company do actually take the assertions and claims that I've made very seriously.
	They didn't fire me.
	They engaged me.
	I actually spent the better part of the last month working with them to figure out how to improve this stuff.
	There's a really big distinction, though, between how those executives are handling this and what a vocal minority inside the company is doing.
	There is a vocal minority inside Facebook.
	That is belligerent beyond belief in a quest, I think, to implement social justice policies across our mission, basically.
	You can't even have conversations about that policy inside the company without having your character attacked.
	And I've experienced this personally.
	Without being called a sexist or a racist or a transphobe or an Islamophobe.
	You can't have conversations about that.
	Anything that's a tenet of the social justice ideology, effectively, without being attacked personally.
	The real concerning thing that's happening here is that even though this is a minority of employees in the company, unfortunately, I'm not sure that Facebook leadership knows how to push back against them.
	Like I said, they're unbelievably belligerent, demanding, and hostile, not just toward other employees, but toward Facebook leadership directly.
	My real concern is whether they can push back.
	I believe it.
	I so believe this.
	Oh, there's no doubt about it.
	There's nothing to believe.
	They're frozen over there.
	They don't know what to do with their own employees.
	That's because these people have learned from the playbook How did it be this way?
	And they're in there making trouble.
	This is what happened at Evergreen, the college, which is where they had enrollments down.
	The Evergreen and some of these larger institutions where you're going there, you're not working for them, but you're giving them money to teach you.
	This is where these schools are blowing it, because what you do is you fire it.
	Not fire, but you expel students that are causing trouble at the college, and then you have them explain to their parents Why they still have your money and the kid is now living at home without getting an education.
	They can deal with that.
	That's the way to do it.
	You send all these kids back home expelled from, of all schools, Evergreen, which is kind of a school that doesn't even have grades usually.
	It stops.
	It'll stop it.
	And I think in a company you could do the same thing if you took a firm hand.
	This kind of thing where you call somebody a racist, if you called somebody a racist, there's grounds for firing.
	It's just that simple.
	But not just that.
	They are in control of the algorithms.
	They're in control of the trending policies, the blocking policies.
	Oh, no.
	It's subversive.
	They've got to get these people out of these companies, and they're all over the Bay Area.
	But even if having the people in there are not, you just cannot define hate speech.
	You know, these definitions are way too...
	The only reason the hate speech thing even came up in the first place is because of these SJWs in the company.
	Everything is sexist.
	Everything is racist.
	Everything is homophobic.
	And you have to point it all out.
	Just a little drop I found.
	You know, hate speech is illegal, though.
	You know that, right?
	Well, I know it's illegal in England.
	It's illegal in New York.
	What is it then?
	How do you do that?
	Can you say I hate you?
	Well, we had a tussle in Manhattan.
	The Proud Boys against Antifa.
	Did you see any of this?
	No, of course not.
	This fighting.
	Yeah, it was pretty big news in New York.
	And I think, just what I saw, it looked like, you don't want to mess with some of these guys who are wearing MAGA hats, man.
	Yeah.
	People getting pummeled.
	And, you know, you come up as an Antifa LARPer and it never ends well.
	I never see it ending well for the people with the face masks.
	So anyway...
	It ended well in Berkeley.
	Yeah, with fire.
	Well...
	Cuomo did a conference call with, I guess, the local party in New York and discussed a little bit of this and I clipped some for you.
	In New York, we see the number of anti-Semitic attacks increase.
	Why?
	Because hate has increased.
	And demonizing differences has increased.
	And that's what this is.
	They're desperate.
	They're coming into the midterms.
	They're afraid they're going to lose.
	So they're going to the playbook.
	Interesting how we were just talking about the playbook, yet here's Cuomo blaming people for the playbook.
	Create chaos, spread fear, spread hate.
	Isn't that exactly what CNN does?
	That's what they did.
	It was not a coincidence to bring the Proud Boys into Manhattan at this point when the president was on the campaign stump Preaching the same gospel.
	What's he talking about?
	Here it comes.
	Payoff coming.
	Politics aside, I'm governor of the state of New York.
	That's a great statement, isn't it?
	Politics aside, I'm the political leader.
	That's pretty much what he said right there.
	That was good.
	So, politics aside, I'm governor of the state of New York.
	We will not tolerate hate speech.
	It is not protected.
	It is illegal.
	There you go.
	We will investigate it to the fullest.
	There you go.
	Hate speech is illegal.
	Fullest news to me.
	And he said it right after he says, I'm the governor of New York and hate speech is illegal.
	I think it makes it illegal.
	I think it sounds more like a dictator to me than Trump does.
	Thank you.
	So these social justice warriors, they get themselves in all kinds of It's a very short clip.
	Out!
	You can't come in.
	This is kind of the way the story ensues, and it's a very propagandistically presented story.
	In Israel, a detained American graduate student has asked the Israeli Supreme Court to reverse an expulsion order and let her stay in the country.
	Prosecutors argue that Lara Al Qasim supported a boycott against Israel and is still a threat.
	The Florida native appeared in a Jerusalem court today.
	Her lawyer said the 22-year-old activist days are behind her.
	If she was an activist in the past, that past was 18 months ago, everything in the record indicates that she's not that same person, that she's come to Israel in violation, actually, of the academic boycott and of the economic boycott because she's going to be living and breathing and living her day-to-day life in Israel.
	Al Qasem has been detained in Israel for two weeks after arriving on a valid student visa.
	I thought the valid student visa thing made it sound sketchy.
	There's a valid student visa.
	She's there.
	The thing that got me about this report is that 18 months ago, this woman says she was a different person.
	And we just got off a Brett Kavanaugh trial where they're talking about 30 years ago.
	Person's got to be the same from 30 years ago.
	But this woman has changed.
	She's obviously a troublemaker who needs to go to.
	She's a graduate student.
	She needed to get some credits, and it turns out that Israel's where she has to go.
	And I still think she...
	I think they should just throw her out.
	Because what?
	That's what you gotta do.
	You can't knuckle on.
	No, get out.
	You're already...
	Oh, 18 months ago is not long enough.
	Five years ago, maybe.
	You gotta throw the troublemakers out.
	That's what you gotta do.
	So who goes first here?
	Yes.
	Who do we kick out of America?
	We've got to kick some troublemakers out.
	Well, you can't really do that.
	You can kick them out of your company.
	You can kick them out of the schools.
	You can kick them out of this and that, but you can't kick them out of the country.
	Unless they shouldn't be here.
	Right.
	So what do you think about this Mayflower Sour's A senior official at the U.S. Treasury Department has been charged with leaking confidential documents about suspects charged in Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation.
	Natalie Mayflower Sowers Edwards worked in the department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.
	She allegedly leaked banking information about Paul Manafort, Rick Gates, and others to an unnamed reporter for the online news site BuzzFeed.
	Okay, a couple things.
	First of all, BuzzFeed.
	BuzzFeed has gotten some unbelievable scoops in the past two years.
	They were the first ones that had the pee-pee tape report.
	Right.
	If you're working at the Southern District of New York in the financial crimes unit and you're going to leak something, is BuzzFeed the first thing that comes to mind or is there something going on with BuzzFeed that we're not realizing?
	A couple of possibilities.
	One, BuzzFeed is a front for one of the intelligence agencies.
	Yeah, spook outfit.
	That's what I'm thinking, yeah.
	It could be a spook outfit and they will take anything.
	Or they're part of the whole scheme.
	This thing is a spook operation.
	I mean, which is a possibility because this woman and her four names, I don't know.
	Has anyone ever seen a picture of her?
	I mean, I did some deep searches.
	She got a Facebook account.
	I don't know.
	Maybe.
	I haven't found it.
	She's not on LinkedIn that I can tell.
	But the trouble is she's got Natalie Edwards is really her name, which is like there's a million of those.
	I'm not going to.
	Right.
	So the whole thing, that's sketchy.
	And I read the complaint.
	It's kind of interesting.
	Yeah, I read the complaint, too.
	I was actually – wasn't there someone else who also – There was a story a while back.
	It was someone else who was involved with the Southern District of New York.
	It was a wife of someone.
	It's coming back to me.
	I'm looking at Bingit.io.
	Let me see if it's in our show notes search anywhere.
	Don't you remember that?
	There was something...
	Vaguely.
	Maybe.
	I don't know if it had anything to do with the Mueller investigation.
	But this is like...
	This is just kind of played as a one-shot.
	Now it's been kind of suppressed as a story.
	I'm very suspicious about this particular story.
	Well, I'm more suspicious of BuzzFeed.
	That's what I'm looking at now.
	They're getting way too many scoops, and why are people going to them?
	Yeah, and you're right.
	And then they had this kind of dubious encryption.
	They were going back and forth with the reporter, whoever it is, and this woman.
	But then they caught her anyway, which I don't think is that difficult to do with some of these people.
	They're not professional moles.
	I don't know.
	I just found the whole thing to be fishy.
	I was hoping the troll room would know who that was.
	All right, well, we can go on to the next item.
	Yes, what do you have?
	Oh, I know what I had.
	Oh, I had a great piece.
	Let me see where it is.
	Well, before you get to that, let me run this one.
	Which is, you brought it up earlier, and I want to get it out of the way.
	You said, well, to get the clearances ended, can't Trump do that?
	Why can't he get the redacted FISA memo released and all the rest?
	This may be some...
	A little insight into that.
	This is the Hillary gives up her security clearance clip.
	Also breaking tonight, word from the department that Hillary Clinton is surrendering her top secret security clearance.
	It comes in the wake of her handling or mishandling of classified information in the now infamous email server scandal.
	Trace Gallagher is following this breaking story.
	Just heard about from the State Department the last couple of hours.
	He's live in our West Coast newsroom.
	Good evening, Trace.
	Good evening, Ed.
	This all goes back, of course, to the State Department's ongoing review of the mishandling of classified information related to Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server.
	And it also kind of gives you an idea of how slow some things move in government, because almost a year and a half ago, the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Republican Chuck Grassley, sent the letter to the State Department asking about the status of Hillary Clinton's security clearance.
	In that letter, Grassley stated that any government workers who possibly engaged in such serious offenses would at the very minimum have their security clearances suspended pending an investigation.
	Well, three weeks ago, the State Department finally responded to Senator Grassley's 2017 letter saying, quoting here, at her request, former Secretary Clinton's security clearance was administratively withdrawn on August 30, 2017.
	2018.
	The letter went on to say that on September 20th, the security clearances of five other Clinton researchers had also been revoked.
	Only Clinton aide Cheryl Mills was listed.
	The other four names were redacted.
	Of course, at the time of the probe, Hillary Clinton was running for president and no charges were filed.
	This summer, President Trump revoked the security clearance of former CIA director John Brennan.
	And at the time, the White House said it was reviewing the clearances of several other people.
	So about 17 months after Grassley sent the letter, he finally got a response from the State Department.
	OK.
	Okay.
	So this makes me assume that Brennan still has a security clearance.
	And you think that it makes it...
	It's just imaginary.
	It's an imaginary thing.
	People talk.
	I have a new list for us.
	I haven't actually started a.htm page, but this is a good list.
	This is journalists and people in the news business who are...
	Board members, so board of directors, for Soros-funded outfits.
	Whoa!
	Yeah, I thought you'd like this.
	I want this.
	I want a webpage up.
	Okay, you're going to have to do the.htm, but would you like to go through a few, just so we have them?
	Totally.
	Okay, Center for Public Integrity.
	This is, you know, this is not like a conspiracy theory that George Soros and his OSI are big funders of this, so this is not, this is pure, you know, this is...
	Fact, fact, fact, fact.
	This is pure fact.
	Okay, on the board of directors for Center for Public Integrity, Christiana Amanpour from CNN. I actually like her a lot.
	Well, I believe it's also on the Council for Foreign Relations.
	Oh, yes.
	Arianna Huffington, Jennifer Lee, New York Times reporter.
	We have...
	Matt Thompson, Editorial Product Manager at NPR and the Poynter Institute.
	Then we have the Advisory Council, Michelle Norris, host of NPR's All Things Considered.
	Charles Piller, Senior Investigative Reporter for the Sacramento Bee.
	Ben Sherwood, ABC News president, former Good Morning America executive producer.
	At the Center for Investigative Reporting, also at least partially funded by George Soros.
	Board directors Phil Bronstein, of course, Hearst newspapers.
	David Boardman, executive editor, senior vice president of the Seattle Times.
	George Osterkamp, producer for CBS News.
	Board of Advisors, we have Lowell Bergman, producer correspondent for PBS series Frontline.
	Sarah Cohn, Knight professor of Practice of Journalism, Public Policy, Duke University.
	Len Dowie, Vice President, Former Executive Editor for Washington Post.
	Elizabeth Farnsworth, Special Correspondent for PBS NewsHour.
	Now Seymour Hersh is listed on here.
	As a staff writer for the New Yorker, which he is no longer.
	We have Raul Ramirez, Executive Director KQED, News and Public Affairs Director.
	Susan Stamberg, special correspondent, NPR. Judy Woodruff, co-anchor of PBS NewsHour.
	Ed ProPublica, another heavily funded Soros outfit, board of directors.
	No, Journalism Advisory Board, Jill Abramson, Executive Director, Editor of the New York Times.
	David Boardman, Executive Editor of the Seattle Times.
	John S. Carroll, former Editor of the Los Angeles Times, Baltimore Sun.
	David Gergen, Senior Political Analyst, CNN.
	I can go on and on and on.
	This list is so extensive.
	They're all on boards.
	Yeah.
	I mean, how can you be an impartial journalist if you're even in a club?
	At any club.
	Certainly Council on Foreign Relations, but any of these clubs.
	It just doesn't seem like something you should be doing.
	Is there any guidelines that you come from this world?
	Are there any journals?
	There's only guidelines within specific publications.
	The New York Times, for example, have a guideline for its reporters that you can't take a free t-shirt.
	As a gratuity, just as a, hey, have a t-shirt.
	Right.
	They have guidelines and they have a book of them.
	And I think Wall Street Journal has a kind of a book of guidelines, which I actually have a copy of somewhere.
	But in terms of, no, there is no legal or ethical, there's not like a...
	Most of the journal, if there's a journalistic organization, it tends to just follow whatever the New York Times says to do.
	But if there are organizations that are actively promoting demonstrations and other types of action, and you're on the board or an advisory board, it seems like that's a conflict.
	It is a conflict.
	You should probably say it in your report.
	You know, the way the news organizations do.
	Yes, and by the way, I'm a member of...
	Simon& Schuster is a division of our CBS operation.
	Yeah, well, the BBC, they don't need George Soros to be going full New World Order.
	The struggle for Europe's identity is underway.
	Europe now has to wake up.
	The rise of populism and nationalism, partly in response to migration, threatens the existing European order.
	Come on!
	From the streets to the corridors of power.
	Populism, rather than policy, is the undisputed vote winner.
	A season of in-depth coverage on Europe's identity crisis on BBC World News.
	Those guys are the best.
	Yeah, they are the best.
	I agree.
	They do a very good job.
	I love watching BBC America, too.
	All those little things slip in.
	There's all a bunch of globalists, every one of them.
	We are not.
	No.
	We are not globalists.
	No.
	We're localists.
	Local, yeah.
	By local.
	Yeah, localists.
	So, consider your local podcast corner when you are considering helping out this type of work.
	You can do that at Dvorak.org slash NA. I very much look forward to Sunday's show because these days you really don't know what's going to take place.
	But we'll try and deconstruct it for you.
	We'll do our best.
	And until then, coming to you from downtown Austin, Texas, capital of the Drone Star State, we are in FEMA region number 6 on all governmental maps in the 5x9 Cludio in the common law condo.
	In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where I don't have all those descriptors, I'm just who I am.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	We return on Sunday right here on No Agenda.
	Remember us at Dvorak.org slash NA.
	Until then, adios, mofos.
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	I promised myself to aim myself at every woman, child and man.
	That was on my list I don't care if I missed I'm remote controlled I do what I'm told By someone at a computer Obama gave me a push More than Bush And I cost millions I'm supposed to target terrorists But not so much civilians I don't know what to say Whoops,
	some got in my way A drone again Naturally.
	A drone again.
	naturally woohoo Who, Pocahontas?
	Is it offensive?
	You tell me.
	Woo-hoo.
	Pocahontas?
	Elizabeth Warren?
	Woo-hoo.
	I've got more Indian blood in me than Pocahontas, and I have none.
	Pocahontas.
	Elizabeth Warren, she took a DNA test.
	Turns out that she's even less Indian than the average white American.
	She said she was a woman of color.
	I think the color's white.
	I'm going to take a DNA test, but she's less than one-tenth of one percent.
	I think I can beat her.
	At various times in her career, Ms.
	Warren has been identified as a Native American.
	She was listed in various law school faculty directories in the 1980s and 90s as a, quote, Native American, American Indian.
	She is as white as a ghost of a polar bear after a dental bleaching in a snowstorm.
	The president likes to call my mom a liar.
	And you.
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	DNA. She's less Native American than they allow for standard deviations of lead in your tap water.
	Congratulations, Elizabeth Warren.
	You've essentially proven that you are the whitest person in America.
	Why isn't Dove so?
	99.44.
	She's 99.9.
	There's going to be real responsibility for you.
	You are so irresponsible.
	DNA, DNA, DNA. Trump hasn't turned over his taxes.
	I will give you a million dollars.
	I will give you a million dollars.
	He cheated his way to getting richer.
	Who cares?
	Who cares?
	I'm going to get one of those little kids.
	I will give you a million dollars.
	But she's less than one tenth of one percent.
	I think I can beat her.
	I think I can beat her.
	The president likes to call my mom a liar.
	I like it.
	No liar.
	I'm taking it and the results are going to be revealed here.
	I'll only do it if I contest your person.
	This is my Trump moment.
	We did find five segments of Native American ancestry with very high Who cares?
	Calling on Donald Trump for help is like if your house is on fire, calling an arsonist.
	Fire and fury.
	I think I can beat her.
	I think I can beat her.
	God, this is a fabulous job.
	I didn't say that.
	Who cares?
	What do the facts say?
	No, I want a casino enemy.
	I have my list and you might want to see if there's anything I left out.
	This is the Trump rotation.
	There's two categories.
	There's the regular and then there's the criminal.
	But here we go.
	Ready?
	Yep.
	Liar.
	Incompetent.
	Unhinged.
	Illegitimate president.
	White supremacist.
	Racist.
	Bully.
	Immatured.
	Russian agent.
	Narcissist.
	Mean.
	Long ties.
	Insane.
	Tweets too much.
	Small hands.
	Small penis.
	Big red button.
	Criminal.
	Racist, immature, thin-skinned, runs the mob, has no money, unstable, fatter than 239 pounds, bankrupt, 25th Amendment should be instituted, he hates women, misogynist, holds grudges forever, plays golf a lot, obstruction of justice, money laundering, and clown.
	John, no wonder we're making America white again.

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