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	Bullcrap!
	Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
	It's Sunday, November 4th, 2018!
	This is your award-winning Gipo Nation Media Assassination, Episode 1083!
	This is No Agenda.
	He who controls the present controls the past.
	And broadcasting live from the capital of the drone, Star State, here in downtown Austin, Tay House, in the Cludio.
	In the morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where a slew of motorcyclists just went down the freeway having the time of their lives while we're working.
	I'm John C. DeVore.
	It's Craig Vaughn and Buzzkill.
	In the morning.
	Well, now, we do know you have owned a motorcycle license at one point in your life.
	Yes, well, I owned a couple of motorcycles, too, at one point.
	Do you still have an operating license?
	You know, it was foolish for me, but somehow...
	You let it lapse?
	All you have to do is check a box, and I let it lapse.
	I mean, I can go take the test and get it on there again, but...
	And I have driven a motorcycle without the thing ticked off, because I don't think anybody notices.
	Yeah, it's kind of...
	It's not an RFID thing.
	Hey, this guy, he doesn't know what he's doing.
	What kind of bikes did you own, just out of curiosity?
	I had a Kawasaki Mach 3, a little hot rod.
	Rice burner.
	We had a 750 triple.
	These were all two-stroke.
	A 750 two-stroke?
	Yeah.
	Do you have like a canister of oil that you just apply continuously?
	Yeah.
	It didn't smoke as much as you'd think.
	Wow.
	Wait, 750 cc's two-stroke engine?
	Yeah.
	Jeez.
	Yeah, that was a pretty powerful bike.
	A friend of mine, I used to drive that.
	He had a Honda 4, that four-cylinder little guy.
	I think it was 752.
	You had big bikes, man.
	Pretty big stuff.
	I only like bikes that were fast because I felt they were safer.
	They were.
	I think they are.
	I'd make this argument.
	A bike that's fast, unless you're out of control, I mean, they have some...
	A friend of mine bought a 1250 Kawasaki or something.
	It's a 1250 cc's, and it was so dangerous.
	It was too fast.
	But you want to be able to stop and go quickly, because the things are...
	Yes, this is true.
	This is true.
	And the only time I almost got into trouble was when I was driving...
	Somebody let me drive their Honda 50.
	So, you mean a 50cc, just like a motor?
	Yeah.
	Like a moped, basically.
	Moped.
	Well, the Honda 50 was a little more than a moped, but you might as well have been a moped.
	And the thing was, like, there goes the Zephyr.
	Woohoo!
	One, two, three, four, five, six, eight cars.
	The thing was unbelievably dangerous.
	It wouldn't stop.
	It wouldn't go.
	I would never get on one of those things.
	Oh, okay.
	Hey, by the way, have you voted?
	Early voting.
	Did you get in line?
	Did you vote?
	Early voting, everybody.
	Gotta vote.
	Early voting.
	Did you vote, John?
	Did you do an early vote?
	We don't do early votes here.
	We have a...
	You can get a...
	Oh, everybody's early voting.
	Early voting, everyone.
	In Austin, I voted.
	Pictures on Instagram.
	I voted.
	Early voting.
	Get out.
	I have to say, I early voted, and it was quite an experience here in Austin.
	Why?
	Well...
	So Tina had to go to Chicago for the weekend and for the week.
	So she wouldn't be here for election day.
	She said, I'm going to vote early.
	And before I took to the airport Friday, we went to the city hall.
	Now, I've voted at the city hall before, but wow, the line was about an hour.
	What?!
	Yeah.
	Yeah, it's been that way continuously.
	It's been very, very busy.
	And so we're standing in line, and I see on the screen, on the big telescreen, this, again, it's in City Hall, I see the mayor talking.
	And the sound is off, but they have closed captions.
	I'm like, but that's not really cool.
	I mean, the guy's on the ballot, there's other people on the ballot, and he's got his little promo reel running here.
	It's all electioneering.
	They can't do that.
	That's what I said.
	And then I, of course, saw the next video, because it was all of the candidates had a little video.
	So I'm like, oh, okay, I'm kind of a douche.
	That's still not right.
	Now, as you know, I agree.
	It's because of sequence, etc.
	I only saw four of the, I think we have seven candidates.
	As you know, I want Mayor Stephen Adler out.
	He's a liar.
	He's allowed all these just bedlam mayhem in the streets of downtown Austin, not doing anything for the homeless, and just more of these damn scooters coming in without any proper regulation.
	So I was already planning on voting against him, and there's this woman, Linda, something, well, she's You know, like a scientist, and you know, she's run City...
	I'll vote for her.
	She seems like the best.
	But then the third or the fourth video comes by, and on the spot, John, I changed my vote for the mayor of Austin, Texas, because of the video I saw in City Hall while I was standing there.
	And I agree, it should actually be illegal, but it worked.
	I cast my vote proudly for Alexander Stringer for mayor of Austin, Texas, and I would like to play a bit of his campaign video for you to understand why.
	The city of Austin is at a crisis, and we need strong leadership now more than ever before.
	Donald J. Trump wants to build a wall around the U.S. southern border, and I say that we can do better.
	And that is why, as mayor, I propose that we build a dome around the city of Austin in order to keep away California refugees.
	And we are going to make Uber pay for it.
	When we build the dome and kick out the Californians, Austin will once again be affordable to the locals and we will no longer have a traffic problem.
	And wait for it.
	Police shootings are at an all-time high, bordering on epidemic proportions.
	And that is why, as mayor of Austin, I promise to take guns away from all of the police officers and replace them with flamethrowers.
	We are going to end police shootings, and we are going to keep our city safe.
	I love this guy.
	He's talking my language.
	So you voted for the goofball candidate.
	Totally!
	Dome around Austin, claim throwers.
	I like the way he puts the little tweeting birds in.
	No, no, he's outside.
	It's so low.
	Yeah, and that's not sweet.
	No, John, if you saw the video, it's done on like an iPhone.
	He's standing outside in front of City Hall.
	It's real.
	I mean, listen to the wind noise in the next piece.
	Furthermore, as a former substitute teacher in the Austin Independent School District, there is nothing that I care more about than the safety of our children.
	And that is why we are giving flamethrowers to the teachers as well.
	In the past five years.
	I'm telling you, the guy's on to something.
	Put a dome around Austin and give everybody a flamethrower.
	That deserves my vote.
	Well, might as well.
	Vote Alexander Stringer for mayor of Austin, Texas.
	Yeah, might as well, for sure.
	That guy's so mega, man.
	Well, let's listen to the...
	Yeah.
	So let's listen to the ramp to the elections that I found on CBSN, where it has all its...
	With the CBS... You know, all these networks, you know, they try to...
	Ah, this is their overnight 24-7 operation?
	No, this is the network.
	This is the internet operation.
	Oh, yes.
	Okay, I know what it is.
	And this is one of their main anchors, and she's...
	You know, she can't quite...
	At the end of this whole thing, they try to stay objective, but it sneaks in.
	The Republicans are selling fear!
	Fear!
	As if the Democrats would come out and say, oh, the end of democracy.
	We're all going to die.
	That's not fear.
	That's hope.
	Anyway, so let's play a ramp to election CBS and round up one.
	Final sprint ahead of Tuesday's midterms, and both parties are bringing out their heavy hitters.
	President Trump crisscrossing the country this weekend, hoping to give an edge to Republican candidates.
	In Montana on Saturday, the president ramped up his anti-immigration rhetoric and fair tactics.
	And what did he say?
	Fair tactics?
	Fear tactics.
	Fear tactics.
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh, very good.
	Yeah.
	Very good.
	Oh, beautiful.
	Yeah.
	But meanwhile, of course, they...
	I mean, I should just stop for a second for people not in America...
	What happens here around our election time, everyone just goes apeshit.
	And there's nothing else that's happening in the world.
	I don't care what you say.
	It's all about this.
	And in this case, I would say 90% is all promoting a Democrat candidate and saying Donald Trump is horrible and fear.
	And then you have Fox and you've got...
	What else do we have on TV that is more right?
	Nothing, really.
	And they're doing the same.
	They're doing the same about the Democrats being crazy.
	The thing that's noticeable, I don't know if you have it there, but here, it's mostly propositions because we don't have any...
	I mean, there are people running against each other, but you have nothing for the guy running for Governor Cox.
	He's keeping the money, I guess.
	So they're just going to give it.
	They might crown Gavin Newsom as the governor.
	Which is probably okay because he's kind of a do-nothing guy.
	So he might be a good governor by not doing anything.
	But it's ad after ad after ad.
	I was watching a series where they had a...
	Yes on 10, no on 10, yes on 10.
	I mean, one ad after another about the same proposition.
	Yes, no, yes, no, yes, no.
	It's like, holy mackerel, these networks or these stations are just rolling in dough.
	Oh, yeah, it's fantastic.
	I mean, we're even seeing a lot of Beto advertisements.
	I mean, why advertise that in Austin?
	That doesn't seem necessary, but they're doing it.
	It makes no sense.
	They're doing it.
	They're just throwing their money away.
	So meanwhile, of course, we're going to stay on this ramp story.
	Just throw in the money.
	You understand that if Beto does not spend all $69 million the next time it comes around, you've got to spend the budget and say, oh, it wasn't enough.
	So they're just, what the fuck?
	Do some in Austin.
	Let's just get rid of the money.
	Yeah.
	I agree.
	This is almost like government work, where if you don't get your budget up to par, it's going to be cut back.
	Got to spend it.
	Got to spend it.
	Oh, we had to spend it.
	We need more.
	We spent it all.
	We need more.
	Yeah, that's the classic.
	Meanwhile, CBS, if they're going to balance their reporting with the fear-mongering, they did a good job here, because as we go on to ramp two, you get to hear ludicrous, it's almost like...
	Joe Biden, I guess, was struck.
	Oh, I have a clip.
	Well, let's play Gramp 2 and you'll hear some of it.
	Oh, okay.
	Well, I don't have that much of a clip.
	And fear tactics.
	Democrat Party wants to sign illegal aliens up for free health care, free welfare, free education.
	And what do they really want?
	The right to vote.
	Because they figure that's the way they stay in office forever.
	In Ohio, former Vice President Joe Biden participated in an Ohio Democratic Party get-out-the-vote rally with Senator Sherrod Brown and Ohio gubernatorial nominee Richard Cordray.
	With a hoarse voice, he expressed the importance of voting on Tuesday.
	The only thing strong enough to tear America apart is America.
	We've seen it start.
	We've got to stop it.
	I am not your father.
	right now.
	That's what Tuesday's all about.
	Yeah.
	So in conclusion, we Democrats have to make it clear who we are.
	We choose hope over fear.
	We choose unity over division.
	We choose our allies over our enemies.
	And we choose truth over lies.
	Sabrina Siddiqui is a CBSN political contributor and political reporter at The Guardian.
	Just before she goes on to that, here's the quick clip I had of Biden presented as a named illness.
	Joe Biden, even with laryngitis, lending his voice to Democrats as they attempt to take control of the House and Senate.
	You know, who else was walking around with a hoarse voice was Obama.
	He's also losing his voice.
	You see, they think, we can do this, we can do the Trump thing, they just yell and scream, and they can't!
	They're literally losing their voices over trying to imitate his animation or whatever they feel is necessary, and they just can't do it.
	There's truth over lies.
	Sabrina Siddiqui is a CBSN political contributor and political reporter at The Guardian.
	Okay, homestretch, Sabrina.
	What are really the closing arguments and the strategy that both sides are trying to make at this point?
	Well, I think it's been striking to see the way in which the president and Republicans have really leaned in on this migrant caravan, trying to frame this as an immigration crisis, when, of course, you have had migrants fleeing poverty and violence in Central America dating back to 2014.
	Frankly, President Obama dealt with a surge of unaccompanied minors during the 2014 midterms.
	And so that was a very political issue.
	But it speaks to the fact that Republicans are really not running on the tax cuts that they enacted last year because those are not very popular with the American public.
	So their closing argument is hoping that perhaps fear might drive their base to the polls.
	You know, the messaging that I saw continuously over the weekend was, you know, why isn't he running on the economy?
	That makes so much sense.
	He's doing good.
	He should run on the economy.
	No, no, it has to be fear.
	It has to be fear.
	And then downplaying this caravan with the exact same people, Maybe two weeks ago, like, oh, there's thousands coming!
	And now it's like, oh, Trump's afraid of moms and strollers, and it's idiotic!
	And people who watch too much of this, they go crazy.
	Yeah.
	It's a whipsaw, it's very difficult to stay sane.
	I mean, I smoke a lot of weed and I do this show, so it's like...
	I'm good.
	But it's very confusing for people.
	Not healthy.
	Not healthy.
	Well, it doesn't help when you have The Guardian and these same newspapers with really analysis that's mediocre.
	Yeah, The Guardian meddling in our elections.
	Yeah.
	Go away, UK spy rag.
	Oh, yes.
	Democrats, by contrast, they're obviously making this about being much bigger than just this particular moment.
	It's about President Trump and this being a referendum on his tenure in office and really the future of the country and what the country's identity looks like.
	When you look at President Trump's final schedule, the blitz that he's sort of, different stops that he's making, what do you read from his campaigns?
	You mean blitz like blitzkrieg?
	Jeez.
	If you noticed it, you have to go back and listen carefully because I didn't notice it the first one.
	I actually initially clipped it, but then I heard it.
	I said, ah!
	Blitz is like implying he's Hitler.
	So she says Blitz and then she's really good.
	I like this woman.
	She's a very good newsreader.
	She caught herself, but she didn't catch herself like an Amy Goodman or somebody would and just and flub.
	She caught herself smoothly and smoothly corrected it in such a way that I don't think you'd have to listen to this thing over and over to catch the whole, the moment where she uses blitz.
	Yeah.
	Different stops that he's making.
	What do you read from his campaign schedule?
	I guess I didn't go back far enough.
	The country's identity looks like.
	When you look at President Trump's final schedule, the blitz that he's sort of, different stops that he's making.
	Yeah, you're right.
	She caught it real quick, didn't she?
	It was smooth.
	Yeah, she's good.
	She's very good at this.
	She is good.
	She's very good.
	When you look at President Trump's final schedule, the blitz that he's sort of, different stops that he's making, what do you read from his campaign schedule?
	Well, he really isn't spending a lot of time in the very competitive House districts, and it almost speaks to the sense that Republicans believe the House has already been lost.
	Now, that may not well be the case come Tuesday, but he's spending a lot more time in these red states where perhaps they have a better chance of keeping the Senate, as well as some of these competitive gubernatorial elections.
	So you saw him just the other day in Florida, where issues such as immigration and attempts by the Republican candidate there to link immigrants to crime, that's also been a very prevalent issue.
	I like the way she slips in.
	Hey, they're trying to link immigrants into crime and ignoring any MS-13 implications or anything.
	You might actually be able to do that.
	You know, the Washington Post, Dana Milbank wrote a column.
	It was Friday or Saturday.
	And the Washington Post has a very strict paywall.
	And this one is completely outside the paywall.
	So they wanted everybody to read it.
	I've noticed this a lot because I won't pay for any of these jamokes.
	No, I just go from browser to browser.
	Yeah, there's all kinds of ways around it.
	Freedom of control does it seamlessly.
	And he posted a Trump rotation, because this is what we get here in America during elections, and everyone does their best column.
	Oh, this will flip it.
	Watch my column be the tipping point where we take back the house.
	So the title of this is, We Have No Excuses Now.
	Our Eyes Are Wide Open.
	And I just want to, I mean, he gives us 20 paragraphs here.
	Now all Americans have seen the results with their own eyes.
	Trump defended neo-Nazis who marched in Charlottesville.
	He oversaw...
	That's a lie!
	Oh yeah, oh no.
	You just go lie or you give me whatever, just a one-worder for each paragraph.
	Okay.
	Trump defended neo-Nazis who marched in Charlottesville.
	Lie.
	He oversaw a policy separating young children from their parents and warehoused the kids at the border, including some who have yet to be reunited.
	Kind of a lie.
	I like warehouse, though.
	I think warehouse is a good word.
	That's great.
	Amazon warehouse.
	Like Amazon, we get them with robots.
	Is this your kid?
	No, put it back.
	He took Vladimir Putin's word over that of the U.S. intelligence community accepting Russia's denial that it interfered in our election.
	It's true.
	He implemented a ham-handed attempt at a Muslim ban, a travel ban that caused chaos, chaos, and in its early incarnations was struck down as unconstitutional.
	It wasn't a Muslim ban.
	It's a lie.
	And by the way, I learned something about ham.
	Now, ham-handed...
	Well, it's ham-fisted and ham-handed.
	Do you know where hamming it up comes from?
	Well, that's a good question.
	I happen to know.
	I was just reading it yesterday.
	That's why it jumped out at me whether intentional or not.
	You got a ham actor.
	That's right.
	Ham actors were low-grade actors who performed in blackface and used ham fat to get the blackface off.
	They were known as hamming it up, doing the little old minstrel show.
	Ham actors.
	I don't know if it's intentional, but I kind of thought it was interesting that it came in here.
	Yeah, who knew, right?
	We should have known.
	He challenged the legitimacy of a so-called judge who temporarily blocked the ban.
	I don't think he challenged the legitimacy.
	I don't know if that's exactly what he did, so I put that halfway.
	He swung erratically from the verge of nuclear war with North Korea, threatening fire and fury, the likes of which the world has never seen before, to declare he had fallen in love with dictator Kim Jong-un and pronounced the nuclear threat ended, though no agreement had been reached.
	Wow, that is just a misinterpretation.
	That's actually shameful.
	It is, kind of.
	He fired the FBI. I want to point this out.
	The media, and here we are going as Trump, we have to do the Trump, what are we, Trump apologists?
	Of course.
	The media keeps talking about Trump lies, Trump lies, Trump lies, but they're the ones who lie constantly.
	Well, let me play a clip from Bill Maher's show, which was fantastic, and he threw out one of the biggest lies, really an abstraction.
	Trump said...
	There was a quote of him saying, hey, the military should treat all of these kids throwing rocks, these caravans, as if they have rifles.
	Right?
	And that made a big, oh my god, oh, are they going to shoot at them?
	But here's how Bill Maher translates that into his show.
	So, um...
	I guess my question is, when you get to the point when you're saying we should fire on people with rocks...
	He took that a little further than I think the original state.
	He didn't say they should fire on them.
	Rocks.
	He implied it, but he didn't say it.
	Implying something and saying something are two different things, but anytime Trump implies something...
	They take it to the next level.
	Listen to the whole thing.
	So, um...
	I guess my question is, when you get to the point when you're saying we should fire on people with rocks.
	Rocks!
	He wants to turn us into the Gaza Strip?
	Oh.
	Would they throw a rock?
	And we fire upon them, and then we have dead bodies?
	It's stretching the truth a little bit, but this was a great episode, and I'm going to...
	Here's one more quickie before I get to the headliner.
	One more quickie.
	Well, I still want to finish my little bit here.
	Oh, then do that, and then I'll go back.
	I'm sorry.
	Yeah, I want to finish with...
	I got one more little...
	Yes.
	More of the ramp up, because I got three clips I want to play from Amy and Democracy Now!, This is one of the reasons I watch the show, because there's stuff that she talks about that nobody talks about, so it gives me some insight.
	But my kicker here is the truth will win out.
	The true attitude of the elitist progressives in this country will be revealed at the end of these two clips.
	Let's start with Oprah campaigning in Georgia.
	Yo!
	In election news, Oprah Winfrey joined Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams on the campaign trail in Marietta, Georgia Thursday, days before the midterm elections in one of the country's most talked about races.
	I'm here today because of the men and because of the women who were lynched, who were humiliated, who were discriminated against, who were suppressed, who were repressed and oppressed for the right for the equality at the polls.
	And I want you to know that their blood has seeped into my DNA and I... We refuse to let their sacrifices be in vain.
	Oprah also told Crown she's not hitting the campaign trail to test the waters for her own political run.
	Bullcrap!
	No, I think she's too smart.
	I really don't think she's going to do anything like that.
	Well, she's definitely out there.
	I don't know.
	You know, people get weird ideas.
	It could happen.
	Mm-hmm.
	I wouldn't be shocked, let's put it that way.
	Oh no, it wouldn't be a shock, but she's too smart.
	She does this, that's 52 seconds, that whole bit.
	It was those pro, you know, Stacey Abrams probably is not going to win that, with or without Oprah's help.
	But then she decides to switch over and to talk about Stephen King.
	But Steve King is the guy in Iowa who they think they can beat.
	And so they dedicate, and she's been smearing him on every single show.
	What is the smear topic?
	What are they saying?
	The smear topic, he's a Nazi.
	Oh, okay.
	Well, hey, is he white?
	Of course.
	Okay, is he a guy?
	He's a white nationalist Nazi, and he went to Austria, and he met with some conservatives.
	Oh, with another Nazi.
	Yeah, because everyone in Austria is a Nazi.
	But so some kid comes in and ambushes him at some, and he does a poor job of it, I thought.
	And King spots him and makes a fuss, but Amy thought this was worth playing.
	So she goes an hour and 32, not an hour, I'm sorry, one minute and 32 seconds, might as well be an hour, one minute and 32 seconds for this bit, which is very long for her pieces.
	They're usually sharp little bang, bang, bang news items, but not when you're smearing a Republican.
	So let's play this.
	Back in the United States, Iowa Republican Congressmember Steve King lashed out at a college student at a campaign event in Des Moines, Iowa, Thursday for asking about how King's personal beliefs line up with those of the Pittsburgh shooter Robert Bowers.
	You and the shooter both share an ideology that is anti-immigration.
	Do not associate me with that shooter.
	I knew you were an ambusher when you walked in the room, but there's no basis for that.
	Just as an aside, I saw this clip too.
	Not of Amy, but of Steve King doing this.
	The title of the YouTube video was Skink slaps down Liptard!
	I'm like, no, not really.
	It wasn't that...
	Did you have the same title?
	I'm like, eh, not really.
	...associate me with that shooter.
	I knew you were an ambusher when you walked in the room, but there's no basis for that, and you get no questions, you get no answers.
	I was about to ask you what distinguishes you're on.
	I was about to ask you what distinguishes you're on.
	Cross the line.
	It's not tolerable to accuse me to be associated with a guy that shot 11 people in Pittsburgh.
	I am a person who is good with Israel from the beginning.
	The length of that nation is the length of my life.
	That was Iowa State University student Caleb Van Fossen.
	He also tried to ask Congressmember Steve King about his recent trip to Austria, where King met with an Austrian neo-Nazi group earlier this week, the head of the National Republican Congress.
	Why doesn't she mention the name of the Nazi group?
	Was she saying neo or it was Nazi?
	She said neo-Nazi.
	Why not mention it?
	Was it just the president's party over there?
	It was one of the parties over there.
	With an Austrian neo-Nazi group, earlier this week, the head of the National Republican Congressional Committee blasted King for his white supremacist ties.
	And corporate supporters of King, including Intel, Land O'Lakes, and Purina Pet Care, announced they would no longer fund King's campaigns.
	King is up for re-election, is polling just one point ahead of his Democratic challenger, J.D. Scholten, in a district that Trump won in 2016 by a 27% margin.
	Blue wave!
	This is one congressman out of, you know...
	Blue wave!
	But she's focusing on him because they think they can knock him off.
	The blue wave!
	And he is an important guy.
	But the funny thing was in this was that these two segments between Oprah...
	Who is in Georgia for Stacey Abrams and Steve King, who is in Iowa, had a very interesting segue, which I thought revealed, and you'll hear it because I have it here as the truth wants to get out.
	The segue itself reveals the kind of weird bigotry and elitism of the progressives.
	And now you're going to play it, I'm going to cue you to play it, but remember, we're talking about Georgia, and then we're going to switch it to Iowa.
	Oprah also told Crown she's not hitting the campaign trail to test the waters for her own political run.
	Back in the United States, Iowa...
	That ain't no United States over there.
	That's Georgia.
	Back in the United States.
	Back on planet Earth.
	In a dimension where I feel more comfortable.
	Good one.
	This was taken right from the podcast.
	Hold on.
	Just bend over for a second.
	You can get a borderline for that any day.
	Back in the USA. So what do you think Georgia is, Amy?
	What country is it in?
	The Republic of Georgia.
	This is the kind of insulting...
	This is in the brain because the entire set...
	Writers and cameramen and editors.
	They have all these people.
	Line editors.
	There's someone all the way at the back who says yay or nay or stop.
	There's this ultimate control in the control room.
	One person there noticed this.
	Oh, no.
	I'm sure they noticed it.
	It felt comfortable.
	It sounded right.
	It sounds right.
	It should be good.
	Yeah.
	Well, does that do it for your...
	Yeah, I'm done with that.
	That's the rundown.
	Good.
	You got a little borderline in there.
	Very good.
	I'm going to go back to the Bill Maher show.
	It was a doozy, and it answers a lot of questions for us.
	But the panel, I don't know, the panel is like the co-founder and CEO of Axios, which is the NBC outfit, which is why CBSN exists.
	You know, Axios is basically NBC. Then there was...
	Isn't Axios the thing that Loren Jobs financed?
	Yeah, she's in it too, but it's NBC and her, basically, or Comcast.
	Then there's the president of the ACLU, who is an incredible dick.
	Oh my goodness.
	I mean, you don't even get the...
	I had to wait to find out who the guy was, because I popped in the middle.
	I'm just like, this must be some kind of Democratic Party official.
	But no, it was the president of the ACLU. And then Chelsea Handler, who is just yelling all the time.
	I kind of liked her show, but her political ranting is tiring.
	She's afraid.
	I'm so afraid.
	I'm effing scared, okay?
	But then Bill Maher asks a very pertinent question, and they are all oblivious to what is staring them right in the face.
	One of the disturbing stories that got buried in the news this week is that Brazil has a new president who they're calling the tropical Trump.
	And I feel like I've read this story before about other countries in the world.
	It's like they're franchising Donald.
	And he loves it.
	He loves it.
	It's a compliment to him.
	They're popping up everywhere.
	They really are.
	Italy has one.
	Hungary.
	Hungary.
	Poland.
	Merkel is out in Germany.
	We don't know what's next there.
	Why is liberal democracy so in retreat right now?
	Hmm.
	I don't know, Bill.
	It's a big problem.
	Because it's not going away anytime soon, because you named it.
	If you look at the politics of Britain, look at the politics of Italy, look at what happened with Merkel.
	You don't have as big a number of sort of Trumpers there, but it's much bigger than it was before and helped drive her out of office.
	And the commonality of all of those is it's migration there, where it's immigration here.
	It's economic stagnation.
	And it really is this switch globally that you've seen in politics.
	For most of my lifetime, it was big government versus small government.
	Switch!
	In the simplest form.
	Now it's not.
	Now it's very much about sort of your identity.
	Do you like the way the world was when you grew up or do you want change?
	And once you get there, you now took this from, if it ever was an intellectual battle, to something that's very, very, very emotional and very, very dangerous.
	It's all dangerous, and they're doing identity politics somehow.
	Don't they see that people are sick and tired of whatever these progressive ideas are with globalism?
	That's what's happening.
	They don't see globalism as a problem.
	They see it as a solution.
	The tropical in Brazil...
	I think it's insulting.
	Not from the Amazon.
	No, no, no.
	Anyway, so this went on and on and on.
	But then came the...
	Bill Maher broke the format of the show for his superstar guest.
	You know, where typically they do interview in the beginning.
	It was the Weiss girl from the New York Times about the Squirrel Hill synagogue shooting.
	And...
	Then it was the panel.
	Is this a comedy show?
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh, it gets funny for us.
	But then, normally, the guest joins the panel at the table.
	Oh, no.
	No, no, that's not true.
	I'm going to disagree with you so we don't get letters.
	I have watched the show as many times almost as you have, and most of the time the guest doesn't join the panel.
	No, the first guest doesn't join the panel.
	Yeah, that's what I meant.
	That's not what I'm talking about.
	The guy that shows up later?
	Yes.
	The second guest who comes rolling in is, hey, how you doing?
	Yes.
	And it shuts down next to Mar, that guy?
	Yes.
	This time it wasn't the guy, it was Barbra Streisand.
	And she did not join the panel.
	She got her own segment in a different area of the set.
	Oh, yes?
	With two chairs and a table.
	She's a diva.
	We've got to step in, John.
	You're going to need to be in the alternate universe to witness the full fury of what's really happening.
	Stand by.
	We're going there.
	We're going to Dimension B, everybody.
	If you get dizzy, just look at the ground.
	It'll all go away.
	Stand by!
	America!
	We choose God.
	Fuck you!
	Woo!
	You okay?
	Are you okay?
	Yeah, I'm just making sure the dog's okay.
	Okay.
	Here we go.
	So, Barbara, she's never been on his show and he's very excited.
	She's probably never seen his show.
	She has an album out called Walls and it's all about Trump.
	What?
	Songs about Trump?
	Well, not specifically calling him out.
	Donald, Donald, Donald, Donald Trump.
	But you know, you say that she's probably never watched the show.
	I also think Bill Maher has never heard the song that she promoted, has never listened to the album, and he says something here, but just as a tip, if you're ever going to interview a musical superstar, what not to say?
	And you sound awesome on the song.
	Awesome.
	You sound as good as you ever have.
	Oh, thank you.
	So I'm glad you're still singing.
	Any day, there's a new Barbra Streisand album.
	There's a great day in my house.
	I love this one.
	I have all the old ones.
	I'm going to get the next one and all the new ones that are going to come out.
	But this one, you know, it's a great, that's such a catchy tune, too.
	You know, you do not say to Barbra Streisand, you do not say, it's such a catchy tune.
	I can't explain it to you, but singers hate it when you do shit like that.
	Okay.
	You know, I'm glad you have your old crew I see in the credits back there.
	Carol Baker, Sager, and the Bergmans.
	Yes, absolutely.
	This wonderful team.
	Yes.
	And so then she's completely confused.
	She doesn't even remember why she's there, but luckily she gets straight into it.
	What was I going to say?
	About the album?
	No, no, it's just...
	You see, this isn't Nancy Pelosi.
	It sounds like her.
	I think you'll really enjoy some of these clips.
	You know, real life, real life, real sadness as well as...
	She's talking about her song.
	Anger.
	Wasn't she going to leave the country when George Bush was elected?
	Oh, she said that if the Democrats don't win the midterms, they don't win the House, she's still considering moving to Canada.
	So she's doubling down.
	Well, you know, I should mention, this is an aside, you know, she has a place, her and Brolin.
	They've got a place up in the Pacific Northwest.
	We think it's in Squim.
	Because Mimi has run into both of them at one of the stores that everyone goes there.
	Sunny Farms is the organic store that everyone eats.
	It's close enough.
	We'll just call that Canada.
	It's close enough.
	And it's pretty close to Canada already.
	But she says that the two of them are just really...
	They overdress for the area.
	She ran into Brolin once and she...
	I'll give this to her story.
	She likes to tell it.
	And she says, she recognized him, but she's noticing his haircut, which was one of those, had to be a $500, the way she saw it, had to be a $500 haircut.
	This was not like any, even a good stylist.
	It was outrageous.
	And she says to him, that haircut is fantastic.
	And he says to her, do you know who I am?
	I do that all the time at restaurants in Austin.
	And then Mimi says...
	Mimi says as her retort, do you know who I am?
	Oh, yeah, a classic.
	And walks off.
	A classic.
	Well, she showed him, dammit.
	I'm proud of her.
	Sadness as well as anger, I must say, motivated me.
	It's amazing that you can take something, I mean, the name of the album, the walls, but the idea, the first song, what's on my mind?
	You say right in the beginning, it's so on my mind, Trump is so on my mind, you channeled it into this album.
	I couldn't sleep nights.
	And so I was thinking, oh my god, now the photographs in my head, the pictures, you know, the children being ripped out of the arms of their parents.
	I remember, you know, about the last lines in that song is, what ever happened to just being kind?
	Oh, yeah.
	And there's a lot of this, and it's a long interview.
	I just pulled a few clips.
	A lot of her saying, why can't we just breach across the aisle?
	I'm like, but why don't you go to the White House and talk to him?
	You know, you're Barbara Streisand.
	You could go talk to the guy, but there's none of that.
	But I discovered something very important about her and also, by coincidence, about Bill Maher.
	So they're both extremely triggered by Trump.
	And what is the number one thing in the rotation we're hearing about, certainly in the last few weeks?
	What is the number one Trump rotation item we hear?
	I don't know.
	He lies.
	He lies.
	He's a liar.
	He's lying.
	Lies, lies.
	Washington Post this week.
	Trump has made 6,420 false or misleading claims over 649 days.
	Lies, lies, lies.
	Well, what's happening is both of these people...
	And she's going to explain the story, have psychological trauma in their life.
	And I understand what I have.
	You know, there was a couple of big lies in my family, which one of these days I'll talk about on the show.
	And so I understand when you grow up in a house that is either based on a lie or has lies, things that are going on.
	And so, yeah, I can understand if someone is lying that you'd be triggered by that.
	Strangely, I'm not triggered, and I think they answer that as well.
	But I think we share something, which is we both hate liars.
	You know, you can do almost anything to me or say anything to me.
	That's right, I agree.
	Just don't lie to me.
	I know.
	See, I was lied to as a child.
	That's why I'm so passionate about lies and people who lie.
	By family?
	I was sent away to a summer camp.
	My mother came to visit me.
	I said, you're not leaving without me.
	I always had a strong will, you know?
	And I got a carton, I remember, and packed my things up, and she had to take me home.
	And in the car was this stranger, this new man.
	And I thought, who is this?
	He turned out to be my stepfather.
	I was never told about that.
	And that my mother was going to have another baby.
	Nothing was ever told to me.
	You know, when I said to my mother...
	Yeah, she had severe psychological trauma about her mother lying.
	Camp?
	No, if you listen to what she said...
	No, I heard what she said.
	She went to camp.
	She had to get home because she couldn't stand it.
	And then she met her stepfather...
	In the car ride home, as though she's, I guess she's supposed to be informed about everything.
	How old was she?
	That's the key.
	But she was, I don't know, I think she said it in the beginning.
	But the point is, and all of a sudden her dad was gone and this was her new dad.
	So she was not prepped for it and it was traumatizing.
	I can understand that was traumatizing.
	Nobody likes that.
	So she has psychological trauma which is being triggered by what she considers to be thousands of lies and it's taking her back to her childhood.
	It's obvious.
	Well, that was later, but I said, why didn't you ever talk to me about my father?
	My father was a teacher, a scholar, and a religious man, by the way.
	And she said, well, I thought you'd miss him.
	But you see what I mean by lying?
	By the way, as an actress or a singer, what you depend upon is truth.
	Truth communicates.
	Lies...
	It reads, yeah.
	Well, in this case, I mean, his lies seem to work.
	Ah, yes, because maybe there's some truth in there that's communicating, Barbara.
	Maybe that's why it seems to be working.
	...a bit.
	But truth eventually wins out, don't you think?
	Well, people...
	Yes.
	Woo!
	It reads.
	I think what you've played here is the proof that these people are immature.
	That's why we're in the alternate universe.
	But do you want to...
	They're going crazy.
	No, no.
	It's very important.
	This is a short 30 seconds.
	They're going nuts because they're overstimulated.
	They're watching this shit all day long, and that's why they can't sleep at night.
	But one reason I think they are always, you know, against you is because you have been effective.
	I remember in 1986...
	So they're against me?
	Yes, they're very much against you.
	They don't like you.
	Well, I remember years ago when I was supporting something like gun control.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	This is something else.
	This is where Bill Maher says he was on the bomber's list.
	Nixon's enemy's list.
	That's right.
	Which I was very proud to be, and I still am proud to be.
	I... That's the good news.
	I was kind of gratified when I found out this week I was on the bomber's list, you know?
	I mean, you don't want to be left out.
	That's a little more scary.
	It is a lot more scary.
	Bill Maher, what was he feeling, left out?
	He's the only one that has corroborated this story, that he was also on the bomber's list.
	Did he get a bomb?
	Was there a bomb in the mail?
	Where was this list?
	Who else is on the list?
	If you do a search, if you Bing it, you'll see it's only him.
	Oh, he announced he was on the list.
	Like he felt left out or I don't know, but it's very sketchy.
	Now here's their fear clip.
	They're both, because they're overstimulated with the stupid stuff.
	So, how do you balance, I think we all fight this, how do we balance, like, not being obsessed with Donald Trump, thinking about him all day, because I've never known a president who was more in our heads, which is sort of what the album is about.
	Exactly.
	Isn't this the joke that everyone says?
	Trump is living rent-free in their heads?
	He's actually just admitting it.
	This is bizarre.
	But what I do is, first of all, I eat a lot.
	You eat...
	I eat that.
	And I need sweets, like coffee, ice cream, right?
	That counterbalances the bitterness that he's throwing at us, right?
	And also, I have to play games, literally, before I go to sleep.
	I mean, to get him out of my head, to get the news that I watch all day out of my head, thinking about tomorrow, I have to be in the present.
	To be in the present, you have to play gin, you know?
	You have to play rummikyu.
	You have to play scramble.
	Right.
	That's my way.
	What do you do?
	I just turn...
	I find I'm watching in-season basketball.
	So, they're watching stuff all day and they're getting nuts and then they can't handle it.
	They can't sleep, so they have to play card games and do something else.
	This is not healthy.
	I think you've played clips of two people who are probably clinically insane.
	Well, I wouldn't say insane.
	Really, I don't think we can make that.
	I think she's really got something wrong with her.
	But this, of course, doesn't explain her deep, deep hatred of George Bush to the point where she was going to leave the country to threaten to or guaranteed it.
	I don't know.
	But she was never portrayed as a liar.
	So I think maybe even this is somewhat contrived.
	She's just a hater.
	She did introduce a new term, or maybe it's a term that I hadn't heard before, and I think it was put into her mind, and she flubbed it as it's coming out, but I think it's a logical evolution of climate change terminology.
	Just what's going on with the environment?
	I mean, that's like the forgotten issue because of all this other nonsense.
	You mentioned about the younger people, and I read an article the other day that talked about 18 to 29-year-olds, one-third of them are not going to vote.
	And I think, but what do you mean?
	Just think about climate change.
	What's going to happen to your future?
	Your children's future?
	This is a terrible problem.
	The Republicans and this administration have wiped off all of the information about climate truth.
	The truth of climate change.
	So did you catch it?
	No.
	Climate truth.
	That was her phrase.
	Climate truth.
	I thought she said the truth about climate change.
	No, she tries to clarify it.
	White off all of the information about climate truth.
	The truth of climate.
	That was slipped in pretty quickly.
	I wouldn't have caught that.
	No, but she flubbed it.
	She flubbed it.
	But she said climate truth, the truth about climate change.
	And she couldn't get it out.
	But that seems like she had heard about this.
	It may be something bubbling under.
	It may be coming out.
	I think climate truth is fantastic.
	I think it's probably a new round of attacks.
	I mean, we went from global warming to climate change to climate truth.
	I mean, does it get any better?
	I like it.
	I like it a lot.
	I want to keep it on the radar.
	Anyway, last clip is where Barbara Walters, of course, Barbara Walters, no difference, Barbara Streisand, same woman, Barbara Streisand has a solution for all of these problems.
	Well, never stop speaking out, please.
	Listen to this.
	This is a very funny thing he says.
	Those people who say shut up and sing, do both.
	Shut up and sing, do both.
	What?
	He says shut up and he catches his arm.
	So shut up and sing and do both be shut up.
	And sing somehow.
	And he tries to recover from it.
	Those people who say shut up and sing, do both.
	Sing and keep speaking out.
	But I have one question.
	It was safe.
	There's no safe.
	Here we go.
	Here's our question.
	Do we allow the media to keep showing him on TV? Why are we covering these rallies?
	He said 71 rallies.
	Because there's money in it.
	Because the media used to be a lost leader.
	They didn't care if covering the news made money.
	And now it has to report to the stockroom like everybody else.
	Yeah.
	That's so sad to me.
	Don't cover them.
	Right.
	Exactly.
	Thank you, Barbara Streisand.
	Thank you, Barbara Streisand.
	There you go.
	The media never made money, and now they have to report to the stockroom?
	Yes.
	What are they, get some empty bottles?
	What's in the stockroom?
	Well, what he's trying to say, I will translate, he's trying to say that ratings equals money, so Trump equals ratings.
	More Trump!
	That's just the way it's going to be.
	Hello!
	Yeah, well, we've noticed this from the get-go.
	Let's get out of here.
	Are you ready?
	I can't stand it anymore.
	It's unhealthy.
	Don't stay there too long.
	Struggling is the best.
	Be careful.
	Here we go.
	Back, back, back, back, back, back, back.
	We choose God.
	Fuck you.
	Ugh.
	Have you heard this clip, this one?
	I can't remember.
	I forgot to write the guy's name down, but he's like an ex-executive for some broadcasting operations, written a bunch of books.
	And they caught him on this thing, and they're just playing this straight up, some interview.
	This is the straight white guy, male, shouldn't vote guy.
	Have you heard this?
	No, no.
	Right-wing talk shows are nuts over this clip.
	I mean, it's got to help me.
	Right, right.
	And one other one, you talked about prohibiting straight males.
	Straight white males.
	Straight white males, yes.
	I wrote about this in 2012.
	I think it's the only hope for democracy in America, and I will be leading a great movement to prohibit straight white males, who I believe supported Donald Trump by about 85%, from exercising the franchise, and I think that will save our democracy.
	Right.
	Who is this Jamoke?
	Somebody in the chat room will know.
	You've got to tell me.
	You can't just throw this out there.
	I mean, who is this guy?
	You can find him easy.
	It's just too funny, though.
	Oh, okay.
	So that will save democracy.
	So all the white men that are straight, in other words, the gays are okay.
	You can be gay.
	Just say you're gay.
	Okay.
	If they don't vote, then democracy is saved somehow.
	How does this make any sense?
	Well, I mean, even though...
	Hello?
	Hello what?
	Hello?
	Do you hear me?
	What happened?
	Nothing.
	Oh, no, my headphone amp went out.
	I'm sorry.
	That was weird.
	Okay, I'm back.
	Even though you told me to delete the tweet because it was hurting the show, and I did...
	I still denounce him with double N. Lawrence Lessig, who gave us, I mean, Lawrence Lessig, who I've worked with, you know, he created the Creative Commons copyright.
	Let me give you a little background on what you just said so people get a kick out of it.
	So Adam just, I was on Twitter when he was on Twitter.
	You're always on Twitter.
	And he says, I denounce him, and he spelled it D-N-N, or like announce, like he was an announcer.
	So he put two N's in there.
	I know that's where it came from.
	And so I quickly sent him a direct mail saying, quickly erase that tweet and redo it.
	You're hurting the show.
	No, that's not what you said.
	No, no, no.
	It was a little more passive-aggressive.
	I'm going to the tweeter right now and I shall read you what you said.
	You said...
	Here it is.
	Erase your last tweet and spell denounce correctly.
	It's hurting the show.
	That's not more passive-aggressive.
	That's more aggressive.
	It's hurting the show.
	I knew you liked the hurting the show part.
	That's my favorite.
	Everything is hurting the show the way I see it.
	I used to get really riled when you did stuff like that.
	And I'm like, oh, yeah, I'm deleting it.
	And I just say, sure, absolutely.
	You're so right.
	It's all right.
	All right, old man.
	It's all good.
	So Lawrence Lessig, the professor at MIT? He floats around.
	He was at Harvard for, I think he's still at Harvard.
	I knew him when he was at Stanford.
	I've had lunch with him.
	I've chatted with him.
	He's an interesting guy.
	He's a socialist.
	Well, he created the Creative Commons, not Creative, the Yes, Creative Commons copyright.
	He's got some hard-on against...
	I'm using that term apparently too often because I remember it from his last show.
	He's got a hard-on for copyrights in some way, but it's mostly from a communist perspective.
	That's not entirely true.
	I like Creative Commons and I took some people to court and won and said jurisprudence.
	So we've had some good back and forth over the years.
	Yeah, good.
	But now he's just come out and just insulting me.
	And you.
	Because he says that we are to blame for everything that's happened right now.
	It's the same thing.
	It's a straight white male.
	Yeah, so my generation pretty much sucks.
	Because of people like me, over 50 whites, especially men, pretty much every awful thing that's happened in the past 20 years happened.
	We elected George Bush, which got us the Iraq War.
	We didn't elect Al Gore, which meant you didn't get climate change legislation.
	Despite us, Obama was elected.
	But in 2010, we kicked the Democrats out of the control of Congress.
	That meant Obama got nothing else substantial through Congress in his six remaining years in office.
	A stalemated government that stalled the recovery and did squat diddly about any important national issue.
	And of course, we elected Donald Trump.
	Which meant two more Supreme Court justices picked by presidents that didn't even win the popular vote, bringing that total to four on this court.
	We really suck.
	But here's the inconvenient truth about this story.
	If the 18 to 34-year-olds had voted at the same proportion as the 65-plusers, none of these awful things would have happened.
	George Bush would have lost, which means no Iraq war, Al Gore as president, and climate change legislation likely passed.
	The kids elected Obama, but if they had voted at the same proportion as the 65-plusers, the Dems would have had more than a 130-member majority in the House of Representatives.
	That would have meant a much more effective Obamacare and maybe even student debt relief.
	And of course, if the 18 to 34-year-olds had voted in the same proportion as the 65-plusers, there would have been no Donald Trump, which means no Nazi rallies at Charlottesville and elsewhere, no children ripped from their parents' arms at the border, no pipe bombs sent to any Democrat with a spine, no right-wing Supreme Court, and possibly even gun-controlled legislation.
	No doubt we suck.
	But if you would only vote then every sucky thing that we would do could be stopped.
	There you go!
	The self-hating white man over 50, ladies and gentlemen.
	It's all our fault.
	Let's get it right.
	Self-loathing.
	Self-loathing.
	Now, he really assumes a lot.
	We would have had climate change legislation.
	18 to 34.
	They're all 18 to 34 white males, a bunch of lockstep.
	You know, everything they do is exactly the same.
	They're all going to vote Democrat.
	That's bull.
	In fact, there's a lot of talking about, you know, But I'd say extreme right-wingers, when you start digging down into the next Zoomers, as they like to call them, at least in our household.
	Ooh, the Zoomers.
	I like that.
	Good one.
	The Zoomers are the next group.
	Generation Z, the Zoomers.
	Generation Z, the Zoomers.
	Those guys, a lot of those are pretty borderline, you know...
	Fascists.
	And I'm not using the word – I don't like the – and I'm sick of it, by the way.
	I've got a note from one of my friends in Brazil about this.
	She called the new guy a Nazi pig.
	And I think you can use the word fascist.
	Even though I think that's not the right word either, but Nazi means you're a member of the Nationalist Social Democrats or whatever that party name, specific name was in German.
	National Socialist.
	National Socialist.
	You're not a National Socialist.
	You're not.
	Fascist means you was part of the fascist movement, which again was a group specific.
	They got to come up with a new name because you can't keep calling people members of some defunct party in Germany as you're...
	Why?
	It's an anchoring moment, of course.
	That's the whole point.
	That's the whole point.
	It's newspeak.
	Come on, you see what's happening.
	It's annoying.
	Yes, it's not stopping.
	It's just not.
	The dictionary will get thinner every year.
	I just watched 1984 last night again.
	Which version?
	The 1985 film, I think it was.
	The one with...
	With John Hurt.
	Oh yeah, that's the creepy one.
	Yeah, very creepy.
	But I realize that everyone always says, George Orwell wrote, he who controls the past controls the future.
	The second line to that, which I'd forgotten, is he who controls the present controls the past.
	And that's what's happening.
	Your words are changing.
	Nationalists now just means white nationalists.
	You don't have to say white nationalists anymore.
	It's just what it means.
	It's been pumped into our heads.
	It's very, very harmful what is taking place with media.
	You need to turn it off.
	You need to not be watching it, mainly.
	Michael Moore was also out.
	He was on Seth...
	What's the name, Seth?
	He's out?
	He was out and about.
	He was on...
	What's Seth, the talk show host from SNL? Seth...
	What's his name again?
	Seth Meyers.
	Seth Meyers.
	But they are fanatical about this because they know their time is up.
	And he's sort of the angry white guy, which actually, I'm really Trump's demographic.
	Yeah.
	You're a Michigan angry white guy.
	I'm an angry white guy over 50 with a high school education.
	Yeah.
	So that's me.
	Yeah.
	So if I could just speak to my fellow angry white American guys who are semi-uneducated like me.
	Yeah, that's me.
	I got high school, but I'm not angry for some reason.
	Why am I not angry?
	Dudes!
	Dudes!
	Give it up!
	We've been running the show for 10,000 years!
	It's like we've had a long run as men running everything, and the Yankees could never win as many pennants as we've won in these 10,000 years as men.
	So why don't we just take a break?
	Let the majority gender run the show.
	What are you scared of?
	Let the globalists run things too.
	Why are we doing it?
	He's saying let the women run the show.
	Yeah, I know what he's saying.
	He's saying let the women run everything and they're not going to do it.
	It's just, what is this?
	This guy is an insane maniac.
	And I don't, and if you really, if you looked over the election of Donald Trump, who was the people that were mad?
	The mad white guy, the angry white guy got him elected, but you don't see a bunch of, the number of angry white guys versus the number of angry women.
	Seems to be minor.
	Yeah, I'm not trying to do any logic here.
	I'm just trying to point it out.
	I don't know.
	I wonder if we can ever, well, glue some of this together.
	Maybe it's only just on TV, and maybe it's not all that bad.
	I don't know.
	It's not.
	It's not that bad.
	It's the TV people.
	It's the TV people.
	We do media deconstruction, so you have to deal with it more than anyone.
	And with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage and say, in the morning to you, John C. That's for Caucasian angry man, Dvorak.
	Angry!
	In the morning to you, Mr.
	Adam Curry.
	Also, in the morning to all ships to see boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water.
	And the dames and knights out there.
	And in the morning to our troll room.
	Hello, trolls.
	NoagendaStream.com is where you can listen to the show live on Thursday and Sunday mornings.
	And you can also chat along, and that is the troll room.
	We always like hearing what everybody has to say.
	And they help out, and they fact-check false and everything.
	And also a big in the morning to Darren O'Neill.
	Yeah, we're bopping back and forth between the pros now.
	We chose his art for, and it was another tough choice for the artwork, album art, as we do every episode.
	This was for 1082.
	Title of that was Other Eyes.
	And we chose this because there were a number of great candidates, but we figured...
	This is one we need to discuss a little bit, because there was some good art that we had to pass over.
	Let me just say what we chose.
	It was just a beautifully drawn piece.
	Welcome to Bed-O-Land and a bunch of money on a golden coin paved road.
	And it was just a great piece and we knew that we probably wouldn't be able to use this after the election.
	And if you leave something like that on the table, and we still had today, there might be something else.
	It was just too good.
	We wouldn't be able to reuse it in a newsletter, so it was...
	It was top-notch like a lot of them, but we went with the timing.
	Do I sum it up properly there?
	I think so.
	There were pieces that we liked a lot, and we had a piece from a number of shows ago, which we tried to sneak back in.
	I keep trying to sneak it back in by bringing the Khashoggi topic back up.
	You got in the newsletter.
	I put in the newsletter.
	It was the beautiful piece by Pei.
	Of the Khashoggi.
	It's a Subway logo for the show logo and it was a guy selling Khashogis.
	And the artwork was a horrible hoagie with bones and pieces of cloth and stuff in it.
	And...
	You know, this is the problem.
	We do get a lot of good art.
	We do reuse it.
	I used the art that was the main piece for the newsletter, the top logo.
	The top art piece was from, God knows, like years ago that I just saw.
	I said, you know, that would work.
	So it all gets used.
	It does.
	Usually it does.
	And a lot of it goes to evergreens.
	Yeah, we do pick it up later.
	There's some junk in there.
	Very happy with that.
	Alright, let's thank a few people for today's show.
	1083.
	DJ Fuji in Jersey City.
	$400.
	He's our top guy.
	Gentlemen, I'm not sure if the Jobs Karma, if it was the Jobs Karma or the way you both said, DJ Fuji!
	I don't remember saying that.
	DJ Fuji!
	I also don't remember, which is somewhat concerning.
	Yeah.
	It's bothersome.
	It reminds me of a number of episodes I've had where people have called me out for not remembering something.
	But either way, the Jobs Karma worked the very next day.
	So in gratitude, I am doubling my previous donation.
	Request another Jobs Karma, this time for everyone.
	I love the Jobs Karma da-da-da song, Super Remix.
	Yeah, you know, if I could find it, and I looked for it, I actually saw it pop up earlier this morning, and it's mistitled or mislabeled or something.
	I know what he's talking about.
	But I cannot find it.
	Well, give everybody some jobs, Carmen, and we'll work on it.
	We'll put it at an end-of-show mix.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	You've got karma.
	Aaron Christensen in Frankfurt.
	36363 from Deutschland.
	Thank you.
	In the morning, gents, I'm continuing my march towards Euro knighthood with my second donation of 333.33 euro dollars.
	This is because today, November the 2nd, is the 2018th year of our Lord, and I am 33 years and 333 days old.
	By some strange stroke of luck, this also happens to be a pleasing palindrome in U.S. dollars today.
	The donation will bring me to a total of 666.66 euros, and I don't know how much that is in your fake money.
	I wanted to mention that I was specifically on the show by the Unifilter podcast, which John was previously griping about.
	It was definitely a less entertaining no agenda clone in many ways, but they did especially excellent deconstructions of cyber news, with the hosts being former and current dudes named Ben, respectively.
	Their cyber segment is deeply missed.
	Yeah, they stopped, which is too bad.
	They could have kept it going.
	Anyway, John will be delighted to learn that Unifilter is now defunct.
	I'm not that happy about it.
	Because according to Chris, Unifilter was a full-time job unto itself.
	You know what they were?
	It's Unfilter, not Unifilter.
	Unfilter.
	Unfilter.
	Sorry.
	Unifilter.
	Unfilter was a full-time job.
	This is what I noticed that they were...
	When I talk to people about podcasting, I always mention that we try to do everything...
	Kind of concisely, so it's done, it's done, you don't do a lot of post?
	You mean we're too lazy to do anything?
	We record in real time and we're just that professional?
	The resistance!
	Okay, I found it.
	Got it for end of show.
	Okay, he does at least four other shows and it wasn't bringing in enough money.
	We now know he's also in negotiations to be acquired by Linux Academy, which may or may not have been related to his decision to end the show.
	I wouldn't fault him for that.
	Their show was good.
	Unfilter was a good show.
	I listened to it a number of times.
	I've always found they...
	It was hard to produce.
	It was just hard to produce.
	They were doing video when it was not necessary.
	I mean, there was a lot of complaints you could have about, you know, if they were part of our network, which we don't have, we would have told them to do things differently.
	Anyway, no jingles, no karma.
	All right.
	Thank you very much.
	Appreciate it.
	Hello, Deutschland!
	Anonymous in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
	Oh, by the way, that 333 in Euros is 36363, which still comes out kind of jazzy.
	Anonymous in Pittsburgh, 33333 in our funny money.
	I love the show.
	Jobs Karma really works.
	This year I requested Jobs Karma and landed a good job.
	Now I have an opportunity for my ostensible dream job.
	So I'd like to humbly ask for another round of Jobs Karma.
	I also have a collective...
	I also like a collective karma for the city of Pittsburgh.
	It's a surreal feeling to see a location you walk past every day for five years in the national news for such a horrific incident.
	As for jingles, I'd like a numbers station, two to the head, drone again at the end of the show.
	Is it possible for me to hear it and not sing along multiple times?
	Oh, it's impossible, sorry.
	It's impossible for me not to hear it and sing.
	Anyway, that's Steve.
	India, hang out, mic.
	Standby.
	33, 33, 33.
	Torvalizer out.
	You've got karma. . .
	Did you say you found that clip you might want to play for?
	Yeah, for end of show.
	I got the end of show version.
	Okay, this is for Doctor's Fuji?
	Yeah.
	Fuji!
	DJ Fuji!
	It's not Doctor, it's DJ. You know, ever since I got my new eyeball, I have been...
	Yeah, this has not been a bionic experience.
	Yeah.
	Has it now?
	It's not been great for you.
	No, it's great, but I mean, because you're actually kind of blind in one eye for a long time, so your brain starts redesigning how it's going to see things.
	And so when all of a sudden you put the other eyeball into full use, where it's back to brand new, you know, it says, I don't know.
	Wait a minute.
	So your other eyeball is going, ah, fuck it, I give up?
	No, no, no.
	The other eyeball is the other eyeball, but the new eyeball...
	Is like, I think it's just the information overload because the brain was not used to getting so much data.
	And so it's starting to read into things.
	So instead of saying DJ, it's saying doctor.
	Well, you know, I have made a number of these little, it's almost a little slightly dyslexic.
	Yeah, I'd be getting a refund.
	What the hell, man?
	I'd rather be blind.
	I don't know.
	Where was the benefit in all this?
	The benefit?
	Yeah.
	You mean like being able to drive at night?
	Oh, I'm sorry, because you're out on the town so much.
	Being able to drive at night or not being, you know, from any simple light source, if there's a source of light blinding you?
	Oh, no, that's horrible.
	I didn't realize it was like that.
	I just thought you couldn't see.
	You can't see shit.
	Sorry, I couldn't hear you.
	We're a fine pair.
	I got hearing aids, you got fake eyeballs.
	You got to hear no evil, see no evil.
	What's the other one?
	We have no third person.
	Yeah, speak no evil.
	And I find myself doing strange things with the hearing aids.
	Tina and I were in the elevator yesterday, or the day of Friday, and then someone walked in.
	And then, you know, the confusing elevator where there's no buttons, and, you know, so someone had programmed the outside for it.
	She gets in, and she's looking around.
	She's like, what the hell?
	And I say, no, no, that's normal.
	And then she looked at me.
	She went, hi, I'm deaf.
	And she points to her hearing aids.
	And that's, I'm not making a joke.
	That's how she sounded.
	And I immediately go, yeah, me too.
	Look, I got hearing aids.
	I'm like, I'm a dick.
	She was really, like, deaf and mute.
	She couldn't speak or hear.
	And here I am, like, oh, you're a colleague.
	I'm like, oh, jeez, I'm a dick.
	High five.
	Hey, look at me!
	I'm deaf, too!
	I'm an idiot.
	Horrible man.
	Sir Milkman comes in at $256.
	Hey, fellas, happy 11th.
	Can I get a plug for a 3D printer repair business?
	I guess it's far enough along now that 3D printers are falling apart.
	They're falling apart, yeah, I guess.
	Okay, it goes to la3dprinterrepair.com.
	L-A-3, L-A-3-D, printer repair, all one word, dot com.
	Very nice.
	I guess.
	All right.
	The first and only local resource dedicated to 3-D printer repair.
	All right, in Los Angeles.
	Yeah, well, is that where he is?
	I guess, L-A. Oh, must be.
	It could be Louisiana.
	Could be.
	We should know.
	He's Sir Milkman.
	We should know, but we don't.
	You'd think.
	Morty.
	Sir Timothy of the No Fix title in Plymouth, Michigan, 2222.
	I've been saving up for a donation.
	Mimi's birthday is a great reason to hit the send button.
	The past month of shows have combined the polish and professionalism of modern no agenda with the even-handed savaging of everybody on all sides that made the show great in the first place.
	I have been concerned this year when sometimes I heard an episode and thought, damn, these guys are sounding like Republicans.
	Ha ha!
	Now, that is an insult.
	That is a real insult.
	I hate it when people say that.
	I've never belonged to any political party.
	Which, of course, is not true because you guys often vote for independent candidates and third parties.
	But I fear you may lose potential donors with things like the Dimension A and B idea, which can sometimes sound like Republicans are in Dimension A and crazy disappointed Democrats in Dimension B, or dementia, as he says.
	As if no agenda is taking sides on Dimension A. I know plenty of crazy Republicans who scare me as much as Democrats, perhaps people who can think critically and, okay, well, let me stop before I read any more of this.
	What we do is media deconstruction.
	And there just is so much, why don't you go to Fox?
	And look at what they're saying.
	And it's like, we don't have to.
	We know what they're...
	I mean, they're not trying to trick anybody.
	They're not trying to trick anybody with...
	And when they do, we call them out.
	We find it.
	But we find a little back...
	You know, the whipsaw ways of presenting news.
	And Trump said he was...
	He admitted he was a liar.
	And then they cut to a clip of Trump saying no such thing.
	Yeah, but you see...
	Okay, but hold on, hold on, hold on.
	Then the next argument that comes back is...
	When Obama was president, sure, you were deconstructing the media by showing all the bull crap they were telling about him being the best in the world.
	But, they say, you had hundreds of thousands of clips about Obama and you do almost no Trump clips.
	And you're missing the point of what we do.
	Because if you want crazy-ass Trump clips, turn on the television.
	That's exactly...
	Of course, it's the reverse.
	This is truly about media.
	When the media was all in on Obama, we would show the opposite, which usually would have to say, this is what he really said.
	Remember when he shouted down the protester?
	Heckler, he made a short bow, took care of that protester.
	And we played the raw audio, where it was about 15 minutes of him going, and they lied.
	So, you know, I don't understand.
	I do understand.
	The media is very biased, and I believe this, and they admit it themselves.
	If you go, in fact, you can go to, if you ever get to give a speech to a media group and ask them how many Democrats and Republicans are there, you'll find that it's about 80, and I think even higher, a percent of Democrats.
	And they slant the news.
	And all we do is just say, hey, you guys aren't presenting this correctly, or I And then you have the little subtleties like Amy Goodman suggesting that Georgia is not in the United States.
	And that's all we do.
	We don't do – if it was the other way around, we would still be doing the same thing.
	It just so happens that they're all promoting an agenda and we are just pointing out what's really going on and keeping people from going nuts because their agenda, which is definitely an agenda, Is making people crazy.
	Yes.
	Well, I don't know even if that is their agenda.
	That's the result.
	Well, no, that's the result of their agenda.
	That's the result.
	Yeah, you're right.
	My agenda is just to make you laugh.
	Just laugh.
	If you haven't laughed during this show, then I feel personally I've failed.
	If you haven't laughed about something, just some lunatic thing, which could be me.
	Yeah.
	You should be laughing.
	You should be laughing.
	Sir Timothy, the no-fixed title, but he also says, happy birthday to Mimi, and I can't wait for the Thursday show.
	Michigan Local 1 is having a post-election sanity lunch at China's Star Palace in Westland on Sunday, 11-11 at 1 p.m.
	11-11, by the way, which was next Sunday, is Armistice Day, the day that World War I ended.
	Ah, this is right.
	It is also, it marks Carnival in the Netherlands.
	It's called the 11-11, it's the crazy day.
	I don't know why.
	Maybe because it has something to do with World War I. Could be.
	To Grey of Grimerica comes our last associate executive producer at $202.02.
	I think it was show 1313, yeah.
	Big thanks to John for chatting with us on the Grimerica Show podcast.
	It happens to be episode 313, now released.
	Keep up the stellar work, guys.
	You have inspired us and changed many lives for the better.
	Everyone support the No Agenda Show.
	The value-for-value model is so very important in this time of manufactured outrage, virtue signaling, and censorship.
	Jingle equals karma.
	Best, Sir Gray of Gray America.
	Thank you, Sir Gray, and thank you, Gray America, and everyone who supports that show as well.
	I have not heard this podcast, but it will be on the No Agenda stream right after today's show, and I'm looking forward to it, because you've certainly promoted it.
	So, I'm excited.
	I'm excited to hear about your history, all about you.
	No, you're going to find out all kinds of things that you've never heard before.
	Yes.
	Okay.
	You've never heard anything.
	It's all new.
	It's all new, everybody.
	Okay, thank you to our executive producers and associate executive producers.
	These are the real credits, the ones that you...
	Well, a producer credit is real as well, but we like to bring these forward just like Hollywood.
	That's a part of our value-for-value model.
	We thank the people who bring in $200 and above for associate executive producers and executive producers exactly what executive producers do, and you can use that credit wherever they are recognized.
	If someone gives you a hassle, we'll be happy to vouch for you because it's real!
	And we'll be thanking more people, $50 and above, in our second segment, and another show post-election analysis will be coming up on Thursday for you.
	Please remember us at...
	Dvorak.org slash NA. Oh, yeah!
	I don't know where she came from all of us.
	Hey, get out there!
	Propagate the formula!
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Water.
	Water.
	Shut up.
	There we go.
	Shut up, Steve.
	Hey, do you feel any of those earthquakes?
	No, they're nowhere near here.
	I do want to read a letter, though, that was one of our make goods from the last show.
	Oh, okay.
	Or 1082, I guess.
	This is from Angeline Alsmeer.
	Alsmeer, the Netherlands.
	Alsmeer.
	Alsmeer.
	As for my last email, I've been waiting to write you when I had some extra money to donate.
	She's been on the $4 list.
	She was on, she gave us something and didn't get picked up on or something, or the note didn't.
	My husband and I, introduced to the podcast, keeps threatening to write in and call me out as a douchebag.
	My donation last week and today should beat him to the punch.
	Please de-douche me so we can do that.
	You've been de-douched.
	She wonders if she'll be the first black dame.
	She may be up for damehood.
	It's not really clear in here.
	But we do not do black dames.
	Sorry.
	Anyway, she needs some law school karma.
	What do you mean we don't do black dames?
	I don't understand.
	We've never done a black dame.
	Well, it's not that we wouldn't.
	I think it's been determined by the peerage committee that black dames are rude or something.
	I don't know.
	We have black knights, but you can't say black dame?
	I think so.
	What are you talking about?
	I have to go back to the data through the minutes.
	Well, we haven't had them, but we would do one if we forgot someone, wouldn't we?
	I'm not sure that's true.
	I think this happened in the past.
	I think this has come up like a couple of years ago.
	Well, this is very strange to me.
	Well, what am I going to say?
	I don't understand.
	Well, you should write a protest in the form of a memo to the peerage committee and it will take it up.
	Okay.
	I will.
	This is an outrage.
	And maybe she can get her black damehood.
	Okay.
	I don't know if she'd be the first then.
	I'd have to look back into it.
	It's going to take a lot of research and resources, but it'll be resolved.
	She wants some law school karma, trains good, planes bad, and a MILF comment, trying to keep my status as a hot wife going.
	I attached pics to my last email.
	If you missed it, you missed it.
	Well, we missed it, and...
	Okay, MILF, what else does she want?
	It trains good, and MILF trains good, planes bad, and just some law school karma and jobs.
	Okay, we can do that.
	Here we go.
	What is that one?
	Well, it's a different one.
	That's one mother I'd like to.
	All aboard, trains good, planes bad.
	Woo-hoo!
	You've got karma.
	Speaking of trains, I got a note from, I think it's Professor John, Dr.
	John, and that would be about the trains.
	What is it?
	Under Shut Up Slave.
	Do you remember the audio that we had that we thought was possibly a hoax of your social score will go down if you're caught without a ticket?
	Yes.
	I thought it was a hoax.
	Well, I think we both thought it was a hoax.
	And why the hell can't I find this now?
	He wrote us a nice little note, and he says, oh yeah, absolutely, I've been on trains all over China.
	On the bullet trains, they have it.
	And he says it's completely legit.
	So the announcement over the PA system in a Chinese bullet train is threatening you with banishment to the outer hinterlands or whatever it is?
	It's terrible.
	He says the irony of it is that if you can actually purchase your ticket right then and there on the train or upgrade if you would be in the wrong seat.
	So it's not, you know, you just, oh, yeah, I got caught.
	Okay, I just want to pay for it now.
	He says, apparently, that's a normal thing to do.
	Yeah, that happens in Europe, too.
	But he said, no, it's real.
	Which is even a little crazy.
	I'm like, ah, that was probably fake.
	But it's kind of real.
	I don't know how I feel about that.
	I don't like it.
	No.
	I have one more.
	I make good letter.
	Just from last show.
	This is the Aussie, Andy Cantrell.
	This is the missing note, if you remember.
	Oh, yes, yes, yes.
	Are there jingles included?
	Should I get something ready?
	Let's go left.
	Do you think of all you do?
	Yeah, he wants the L-Sharpton jitty.
	Okay.
	Old jitty with it.
	All right.
	For some reason, that cracks him up.
	Okay.
	Now, he got kind of, I don't want to use the word jipped.
	But he made a contribution of $333.33.
	And I remember when it came in, it came in at $200 and something because it was Aussie dollars, which we normally credit with a bigger amount for the executive producer.
	Anyway, just bitching about that.
	He says, I think I can say that I get more value than most from the podcast.
	As on non-show days, I just listen to old episodes through my Bluetooth headset whilst going about my business.
	So I listen to you guys at least 20 hours a week.
	Mm-hmm.
	This has left me a friendless social, left me as a friendless social pariah who finds and complains about media bias everywhere, but I wouldn't have it any other way.
	I was an old school lefty.
	This is very interesting to me.
	Because I don't know how many people we can – this is hard, believe me, to do.
	And I'm thinking, wow, okay, I guess we need to accomplish something.
	I was an old-school lefty before discovering no agenda and have yet to succeed in getting any of my friends to listen to the show.
	They won't listen.
	That's the problem.
	That's the problem with the left.
	They don't want to listen because their friend is going to contaminate them.
	They're all too busy ragging on Trump and is in Australia, by the way.
	Ragging on Trump and panicking about global warming.
	I believe the Trump hate is some sort of superiority complex at its root.
	Thank you, gentlemen, for all you do to keep us free from losing our minds.
	Yes.
	Don't lose your mind.
	He's getting lunch at...
	Chipotle!
	Hold on, it's in here.
	It's in here.
	In the race.
	Kim Kardashian is Siganoi Weaver.
	R-E-S-P-I-C-T. They're all Jiddy.
	R-E-S-P-I-C-T. It's the best place to play it.
	There's no real conflict.
	There you go.
	So we got little Jiddy in there.
	That's one of the best songs.
	Whoever put that together was fantastic.
	I agree.
	Anyway, that was the last of my current notes.
	So I woke up trying to catch up.
	I woke up this morning.
	I'm just going to do this here.
	You were on my mind?
	Always.
	That's Easy Beats.
	Friday on my mind.
	Woke up this morning, and I had a lot of links to the same video.
	There's a lot of people who made, see, I told you the Jews are trying to kill us!
	Oh yeah, I get a lot of that.
	And, you know, the typical email is like, see, you guys don't want to admit it, they're trying to replace us!
	I mean, I get some choice emails.
	And it's because of the following, which RT just released.
	It is a documentary in four parts, produced by Al Jazeera in 2017.
	It's titled The Israel Lobby, and it's a four-parter, so I've only seen the first part because I only got it this morning early.
	I didn't have time to watch two hours of this.
	I will for Thursday's show, but here's RT promo-ing it.
	For our top international story this hour, we are following news that the censored Al Jazeera investigation into the Israel lobby in the United States has finally seen the light of day.
	Early on Friday, two episodes from the four-part series were leaked by the Electronic Intifada and France-based Orient 21.
	By the way, I did clip this for brevity, so I cut out this whole undercover camera, because that never works in the podcast.
	If you can't see the subtitles, you don't know.
	It's hard to understand, so I cut that out.
	RT does this to excess.
	It's the same.
	People say, how come you're not doing anything with Project Veritas?
	Because the audio is atrocious.
	It is not usable.
	And this is the problem.
	It's the problem with all that stuff.
	You know, it's choppy and cut up.
	There's no context.
	Everything for context with these things is the same for this documentary.
	Half of it is subtitles because it's a Hebrew or Arabic.
	So sometimes it just doesn't work.
	In a clip released by EI earlier in the week, Julia Reifkind, an American working at the Israeli consulate, admits to an undercover journalist that she monitors student supporters of Palestine and runs sock puppet social media accounts on behalf of the embassy.
	The student group Reifkind refers to in that clip is Students for Justice in Palestine.
	That's just one of the many explosive scenes from the series, which you would think any journalistic organization would be proud to produce.
	But not Al Jazeera, apparently.
	See, despite investing years into researching, filming, and editing the project, and even completing it in 2017, the network opted to censor the production.
	A reminder that Al Jazeera is owned by the Grand Poobah of Qatar, hated by Saudi Arabia.
	Why?
	Ironically, because its government funder, Qatar, was influenced by the very groups it was investigating, the Israel lobby.
	In June, EI confirmed Jazira delayed the film's release, quote, over national security fears, including that broadcast of the film could add pressure for the U.S. to pull its massive Al-Adid airbase out of the Gulf state, or make a Saudi military invasion more likely.
	EI adds, quote, one of the Israel lobby groups whose activities are revealed in the film has been mounting a campaign to convince the U.S. to withdraw its military forces from Qatar, which leaders in the Emirate would see as a major blow to their security.
	The pro-Israel lobby group Zionist Organization of America boasted that its director Morton Kline's, quote, numerous exhaustive and round-the-clock meetings in Doha, Qatar, with the Emir and other top Qatari officials, So, you know, from what I saw, it's, yeah, so there's someone from the embassy, and she's talking to students, and she's, you know, she's meddling around.
	Every country has spies that does this to every other country.
	And I just don't understand, what is everyone talking about?
	It's like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	We've got this over-representation of Jews in Congress.
	Why don't you vote them out if you don't like it?
	I'm so sick of this Jew-Arab thing.
	And we know that ultimately it's all about hummus.
	So, I'll watch this documentary and I will check in.
	You don't like hummus?
	No, that's what all this is ultimately about.
	Israel thinks that they make better hummus than any Arabs.
	Come on, we know this is what the real thing is about.
	That's not true.
	I was in Israel and they took me to an Arab area to get the best hummus.
	I just said that's what the argument is about.
	So, I don't know.
	I'll watch this thing.
	I'll watch this thing.
	You brought this hummus thing up.
	Now you got me.
	There is a little part of, there's downtown LA. We say it's some bed and breakfast or some reason, bed and breakfast or Airbnb.
	And down there, it was in an alley.
	And in that alley, there was, I got to get the name of this place.
	It's a restaurant.
	I'm going to have to go on to the Google Maps to do it.
	There's a little, I think it's a Palestinian restaurant in this alley.
	And it's just they make hummus the way they make it in the Middle East.
	It's handmade in the morning, ground up by some old woman with a pesto mortar and stuff.
	It's probably the best hummus I've ever had in the United States.
	And I will get the name of this place and we'll get some people getting some hummus.
	If I go to LA, I'm going to go by there and just get some hummus to go.
	We can solve everything.
	Thank you.
	We can solve the whole Middle East problem if we just get some agreement on the hummus.
	I'm convinced of it.
	There's a show I haven't seen.
	One of our producers, Psycho Mike, gave a Sir Psycho.
	He sent me these clips.
	He sent me a clip and there's an ISO from it too.
	This was from a show called...
	I'm going to watch this show.
	Check it out.
	It's one of these...
	It's called American...
	Housewife.
	It's on ABC. I've never seen it before, but it has Wendy Malick, the comedian, actress, and anything she's in I think is great.
	And it doesn't have a laugh track, which violates some of the things.
	So it has a different style.
	It has a different feeling.
	These shows without laugh tracks are actually harder to do.
	In many ways, because you can't, you know, it's just they're silent.
	They're so silent.
	Nobody's ever done it better, I think, than Tina Fey.
	She does shows without laugh tracks, and they actually work well.
	This one's a little like, oh, it makes you a little creeped out.
	But this clip, the American Housewife clip, was sent specifically to me because it's, well, you'll see why.
	Don't you see it?
	That little bump?
	Oh, I see it.
	There is no bump.
	You do not have a bump.
	It's nothing you should obsess over.
	You have a great nose.
	Now, if you're going to change something, I would go with your lips.
	Mom, it's not her fault that she got my thin lips.
	Well, if I had started juicing at her age, my whole life would have been different.
	I could have been an MTV VJ.
	What's that?
	Oh, God, I've lived too long.
	Now, there you go.
	I'm a dinosaur.
	Thanks.
	I feel real good now.
	Here's the MTV VJ clip as a candidate for end of show.
	As an ISO. Beautiful.
	I could have been an MTV VJ. What's that?
	You're in.
	Congratulations.
	You've done it.
	I wanted to pick up a topic.
	There was another thing that we didn't really get to and didn't talk about, and we don't have to talk too much about it, but I do have some other information I want to bring in about.
	This Frontline two-part series called The Facebook Dilemma.
	Yeah, and the funny thing about this, I have to say, because I'm a big fan of...
	Frontline?
	Frontline.
	Especially that voiceover.
	That guy's the best.
	Oh, that guy's the best.
	Yes, yes.
	Everybody says that.
	I mean, he's so believable.
	But...
	For some reason, I've not been interested in actually getting this and watching it.
	I'm not sure why.
	I can give it to you.
	Well, there's a couple of choices, and I have one clip that I want to play.
	I have more, but I'm only going to play one for today.
	The documentary, I think, is very interesting.
	Part one is very interesting because it really shows you when and how Facebook decided to adjust its business model to the detriment of human life, in my view.
	But the whole thing, both part one and part two, winds up at the same place.
	Trump!
	I mean, it's really disappointing.
	It's like, oh, okay, these guys.
	And I have some thoughts about what maybe happened there.
	But I just want to play this one clip from this Facebook dilemma.
	I think this is from part one.
	This is just before the IPO, which was, what, 2012, 2013?
	Was it later than that?
	It was around there.
	When they really had to make some decisions, Sheryl Sandberg came in, and this obviously pertains to the algos and how they whip people up into a frenzy, and that was their saving grace for the IPO. And then I'll come back to this.
	Yeah, by the way, Sheryl Sandberg was one of these Council on Foreign Relations women.
	I think she came out of that office recently.
	Government office that has a whole, like, the substitute teams.
	Well, she also built the advertising business to a certain degree at Google.
	Did she not?
	Didn't she do something at Google?
	I don't think she ever worked at Google.
	I thought she did something at Google, too.
	I think you're thinking Marissa.
	No, I know Marissa.
	Well, maybe I'm wrong.
	It doesn't matter.
	Oh, no.
	Sandberg is a heavy hitter from the deep state.
	Yes.
	In fact, Facebook was preparing to take its rapidly growing business to the next level by going public.
	The giant hopes to raise $5 billion.
	The pressure heading into the IPO, of course, was to prove that Facebook was a great business.
	Otherwise, we'd have no shareholders.
	Facebook, is it worth $100 billion?
	Should it be valued at...
	Zuckerberg's challenge was to show investors and advertisers the profit that could be made from Facebook's most valuable asset, the personal data it had on its users.
	Mark, great as he was at vision and product...
	He had very little experience in building a big advertising business.
	That would be the job of Zuckerberg's deputy, Sheryl Sandberg, who'd done the same for Google.
	At Facebook, we have a broad mission.
	We want to make the world more open and connected.
	The business model we see today was created by Sheryl Sandberg and the team she built at Facebook, many of whom had been with her at Google.
	Publicly, Sandberg and Zuckerberg had been downplaying the extent of the personal data Facebook was collecting and emphasizing users' privacy.
	We are focused on privacy.
	We care the most about privacy.
	Our business model is by far the most privacy friendly.
	Woo!
	Privacy friendly!
	That's our mission.
	We have to do that because if people feel like they don't have control over how they're sharing things, then we're failing them.
	It really is the point that the only things Facebook knows about you are things you've done and told us.
	Internally, Sandberg would soon lead Facebook in a very different direction.
	There was a meeting, I think it was in March of 2012, in which, you know, it was everyone who built stuff inside ads, myself among them.
	And, you know, she basically recited the reality, which is revenue was flattening.
	It wasn't slow, it wasn't declining, but it wasn't growing nearly as fast as investors would have guessed.
	So she basically said, like, we have to do something.
	You people have to do something.
	And so there was a big effort to basically pull out all the stops and start experimenting way more aggressively.
	The reality is that, yeah, Facebook has a lot of personal data.
	Your chat with your girlfriend or boyfriend, your drunk party photos from college, etc.
	The reality is that none of that is actually valuable to any marketer.
	They want commercially interesting data.
	You know, what products did you take off the shelf at Best Buy?
	What did you buy in your last grocery run?
	Did it include diapers?
	Do you have kids?
	Are you ahead of a household?
	It's things like that.
	Things that exist in the outside world that just do not exist inside Facebook at all.
	Sandberg's team started developing new ways to collect personal data from users wherever they went on the internet and when they weren't on the internet at all.
	And so there's this extraordinary thing that happens that doesn't get much attention at the time.
	About four or five months before the IPO, the company announces its first relationship with data broker companies, companies that most Americans aren't at all aware of, that go out and buy up data about each and every one of us.
	What we buy, where we shop, where we live, what our traffic patterns are, what our families are doing, what our likes are, what magazines we read, data that the consumer doesn't even know that's being collected about them because it's being collected from the rest of their lives by companies they don't know.
	And it's now being shared with Facebook so that Facebook can target ads.
	Back to the user.
	So when we heard about the data brokers, I think I was confused as well.
	I thought that they were selling the data to the data brokers, but it's exactly the opposite.
	Now if you're wondering why Facebook ads, and it's not just Facebook ads, I'm sure everyone has it.
	Anyone can buy this data.
	It's from a data broker, for Christ's sakes.
	That that's why you're getting, you know, the odd types of things that you think, and it may be listening to you, the app, I don't know, but it knows a heck of a lot about what you're doing in the real life world.
	And they implemented that just before the IPO, and it worked because it just went, everything went crazy.
	Okay.
	I want to back up here and mention Sandberg.
	She's the Vice President of Global Online Sales and Operations at Google, so she was still COO. I don't think, by the way, she had that much to do with what's going on.
	I think she just guided it.
	Could be.
	And she was involved in launching Google's philanthropic arm, Google Org.
	Before Google, she served as the Chief of Staff for the United States Treasury, Secretary of Treasury, Lawrence Summers.
	But she came out of that group.
	There's this one organization within the government of these substitutes.
	You need a chief of staff.
	They bring one in from this crowd.
	She's a super – one of these – they're considered very high level.
	They don't even get the same kind of government pay.
	They get more money, and they're used as hitmen kind of.
	It's like a hitman operation within the government that they use.
	That's how Trump gets all these – he has all these people – Still doing work after firing people because they bring them in from this one organization.
	Well, so I was just doing a little bit of research on Facebook, and they actually have their research arm has their own website, and it's typical researchers.
	They put everything up there.
	And I was really looking to see...
	I guess I came up with a...
	With the thesis, you know, the idea that Facebook and, you know, fake news and bots and the Russians with their rubles, that that had somehow changed the election and, you know, tilted it all in Hillary's favor based on what we think was what?
	Was it $100,000?
	Was that kind of the number?
	Tilted it all in Trump's favor.
	So, I'm thinking, you know, maybe, just maybe, and this also goes back to...
	Hillary joking about Zuckerberg, you know, that he says they all look alike, which I think was a reference to, you know, Cory Booker and Eric Holder.
	Oh, no, they all look alike, don't they?
	I think that might have been a reference to the artificial intelligence that can't seem to get darker skin tones right.
	I don't know what it is, but...
	No, no, somebody sent a note specifically saying what it was.
	We'll get to that later.
	But there was a reference to something that happened between Zuckerberg and...
	And Kara.
	Oh, okay.
	When she interviewed him.
	Oh, I didn't know that.
	Okay, well good.
	But let's just say, just for a moment, that...
	If Hillary loses, they have to somehow blame this on Russia because they are actually, they colluded with Russia and with the UK, with the intelligence services to get, you know, the steel report.
	And we're going to blame it on, you know, somehow on Facebook pages.
	And I'm thinking that, you know, this is how my thinking went.
	It's like maybe they just had some algos battling.
	It took them a long time, and they came up with, you know, $100,000 worth of, you know, fake pages with a little, you know, with controversy.
	Maybe it was just bots.
	Who the hell knows?
	Maybe it was Facebook's own bots, I guess is what I'm saying, because they're not...
	They're no strangers to manipulating things when it comes to voting.
	And this is what I stumbled upon.
	A study that was published in 2012.
	And this is from Facebook Research.
	A 61 million person experiment in social influence and political mobilization.
	This is from 2012.
	But the actual study took place in 2010.
	Here it is.
	Here we report the results from a randomized controlled trial of political mobilization messages delivered to 61 million Facebook users during the 2010 U.S. congressional election.
	So that's the midterms of 2010.
	I was just going to say before I go on, what didn't like around five or six years ago on our show...
	Wasn't there this moment where Facebook was busted for doing one of these?
	Well, that was different.
	See, that's what I thought I was going to find.
	That was the survey where they put happy stuff in your feed and saw if you were posting happy stuff, if they put negative stuff.
	So they've been doing different kinds of experiments.
	This is almost like the army gassing the public.
	John, this was a real-world test.
	They took 61 million Facebook users as in self-identified by party affiliation and they conducted a number of experiments showing your friends saying I voted,
	showing your friends' friends saying I voted, And the results show that online political mobilization can have a direct effect on political self-expression, information-seeking, and real-world voter behavior.
	They claim in the results of this survey...
	That our results suggest the Facebook social message increased turnout directly by 60,000 votes and indirectly through social contagion, virality, by another 280,000 votes for a total of 340,000 additional votes.
	That represents 0.14% of the voting age population of about 236 million in 2010.
	So they actually measured in total...
	And they have a number here.
	The results suggest that Friends generated an additional 886,000 expressed votes.
	They changed voting behavior.
	Now, maybe it was just to get people to vote for the party they were going to vote for anyway.
	But as far back as 2010, they were doing this stuff.
	And I'm sure the sales guys, Sheryl Sandberg, were saying, look at what we can do.
	We can get your people out to vote with an incredible increase.
	And this is not discussed anywhere.
	Now, fast forward to their next test, which was shut down in 2017, right after the election in February.
	And these were the headlines.
	Facebook chatbots create their own language.
	Facebook takes them offline.
	And they were doing basically negotiations between bots.
	But if you look at the research data, which they've also published, here's what it was about.
	Algorithmic information sorting, these technologies have the potential to expose individuals to more diverse viewpoints.
	They also have the potential to limit exposure to attitude-challenging information, which is associated with the adoption of more extreme attitudes over time.
	And they did this with another 10 million people.
	They have been trying to figure out how to change people's minds or get them to vote, or anyway, to motivate them to do something specifically in voting, and they did it during the elections.
	This needs to be discussed.
	We're discussing it.
	I know, but in maybe a wider audience.
	I'm shocked by this.
	Not shocked, but I'm shocked.
	No one has ever talked about this.
	Well, you'd think it would have been brought up in the congressional hearings.
	They got people working there that know that.
	No, they don't do crap.
	Beyond the direct effects of online mobilization, we show the importance of social influence for affecting behavior change.
	Our validation study shows that close friends exerted about four times more influence on the total number of validated voters mobilized than the message itself.
	More broadly, the results suggest that online messages might influence a variety of offline behaviors.
	This has implications for understanding of the role of online social media in society.
	Yeah, no shitsh.
	Sherlock.
	So, what if these guys were really doing stuff and...
	Maybe they were just blamed for cover.
	And it kind of got out of control because it turns out that there's actually a lot of stuff that's going on with Facebook.
	Maybe it was, hey, we'll find some bullcrap Russia stuff.
	Why didn't they show?
	I mean, that's what I would have said.
	Okay, here's what's going on in a congressional hearing.
	Here's what we found.
	Here's the research we've done.
	You know, this can actually, there's something to this maybe.
	No, none of that.
	Maybe because people want to exploit it, so they don't want to talk about it.
	Well, yeah.
	I'm just surprised.
	All this research they've been doing in changing people's votes during elections.
	Well, they didn't change the vote.
	In the secondary to 2016, in the 2016 election, they had bots fighting each other.
	They called it negotiating.
	And they shut that down right after the election.
	And that was to influence political challenges and challenges in behavior.
	Well, this would be a very powerful advertising tool for somebody running for office.
	No kidding.
	No kidding.
	Although it didn't get Hillary elected.
	Nope.
	And it seems like the, let me see, Twitter has announced they got very, they only got $2.1 million in advertising from all campaigns in this cycle.
	That seems low.
	Yeah, it looks like they went back to TV. Three Democrats are buying almost all the campaign ads on Twitter.
	Only $2.1 million has been spent on political ads since it began tracking in June.
	That's from Bloomberg.
	See, I don't even know how those ads are presented on Twitter, because apparently I have one of those accounts that doesn't get ads.
	Yeah.
	Anyway.
	Somebody told me about this.
	You know, certain accounts don't get ads.
	No, it could be.
	You get a checkmark.
	Maybe you don't get ads if you have a checkmark.
	I have a checkmark.
	Anyway, did you see all the, well, about a quarter of the Google workforce laid down?
	I have a clip.
	Oh, groovy, groovy, groovy.
	And the reason I'm going to before I play the clip, you can find it.
	Google walkout is that another reason I'd listen to democracy now is because the mainstream media would not do this story.
	On Thursday, Google workers around the world walked out to protest the company's handling of sexual harassment and abuse.
	Democracy Now!
	spoke with New York City Google employee and protester Demma Rodriguez.
	They have decided that enough is enough is enough because everybody who works at Google has busted their backs, their a**, their lives, have sacrificed, have worked, have gotten the grades, have shown up.
	In order to be the best at what they do.
	And it is unacceptable.
	It is absolutely disgusting that anyone thinks that you can be less than exceptional and worse than not, you can be negligent about sexual assault, sexual harassment, abuse of power, inequities across every pillar that we have to no consequence.
	We will bring the consequences The protests came one week after the New York Times published a damning report detailing sexual misconduct at Google.
	A number of high-level male executives accused of sexual harassment and sexual assault have received millions in exit packages from Google.
	Yeah, this is fun to watch.
	I'm really enjoying this.
	But they're not playing it.
	Even locally, they don't play this story.
	Yeah, the Googlers in Austin, they did not actually stand on the street.
	They went down and were in the lobby, so it was not a spectacle.
	Just think for a second.
	I don't know who was walking out, but man, I'd be worried.
	I think Google really, with all technology companies, it really hangs together from trust with your employees because it doesn't take much to put something in somewhere that could be really disastrous.
	Right.
	Now, I just find the whole thing weird that there's stories being suppressed.
	And it makes no sense to me for the following reason.
	Because I'm a newspaper or a media outlet.
	Google's my competition.
	Yeah, you want to slap them down.
	You'd think.
	Because they're taking money.
	Google, Facebook, Twitter.
	I'm a newspaper.
	Those guys, and let's put Craigslist in there, those guys are eating my lunch.
	What can I do about it?
	By ignoring all the stories that are bad about them?
	How's that helping?
	Yeah, I don't know.
	The Times got smart and they did a hit piece.
	A hit piece on what?
	On Google?
	Yeah.
	That's what she's talking about at the end of that clip.
	Well, that's how it started.
	That's when the start is when the Times announced that, I think it was the guy who sold Android to Google, Andy Rubin?
	Rubin?
	Rubin?
	I don't know.
	Yeah, so he sexually assaulted some women.
	HR confirmed it.
	They let him go with a $90 million exit package, which I think was probably part of the purchase or something.
	But anyway, it doesn't matter because that's being construed as Google condones it.
	And of course, there's been 40 or 50 different examples of that where Google has not made a big Me Too moment about anything.
	Of course.
	Man, wait until that hits Apple.
	Oh, yeah.
	Wait until that hits Apple.
	So, you know, I don't know.
	I see this as a very challenging problem for the black box known as Google.
	I mean, there's no way to get any information from the employees.
	You can't do any.
	They don't care.
	They don't consider anyone a customer except the advertiser.
	And now there's a crack.
	There's a little opening there.
	I think it's going to be complicated for them.
	Well, on the sexual harassment beat, I don't know if we ever played this clip, but this is from over a year ago, and then it got brought back as some sort of a slam against NBC. But I clipped a piece of this woman who came on, I think it was the New York Times, and complained about Tom Brokaw.
	Remember her?
	About Tom Brokaw in the hotel room?
	Well, yeah, Tom Brokaw this, Tom Brokaw that.
	But I just thought, I don't know why this showed up again, but I want to play it because I find it, for some reason I get a kick out of this story.
	For a decade I worked at NBC News as an anchor and correspondent.
	I was groped and assaulted by Tom Brokaw, then the anchor of NBC Nightly News.
	This is my story.
	I was a brand new, newly hired correspondent for NBC News for Weekend Today.
	And I was sent to Denver in August of 93 to cover the Pope's trip there.
	And while I was standing in the Denver Bureau, with my back to the door, from behind me, Out of nowhere, Tom Brokaw walked up, put his hands on my waist, and tickled me all up and down my waist.
	I remember.
	It was physically unpleasant and humiliating.
	I jumped a foot, I looked at the editor of Nightly News in the eye, he looked back at me, and his jaw dropped.
	And I was Completely humiliated in front of a room full of my colleagues.
	I jumped, got out of the way, got out of his grasp.
	No one did a thing.
	And there was really nothing I could say or do because I was so low on the totem pole that I had just had to get out of there as quickly as possible and try to go on and do my job covering the Pope.
	Hmm.
	Yeah, so why do you bring it up again?
	I remember it.
	Well, because I... This was what she considered an assault.
	Yes.
	And the more I hear it, it's nothing I would do in an office, but if I saw somebody do that, and I can imagine it, and I think maybe I've seen it, I'm not sure, because there are ticklish people out there, and they do it to men and women.
	Some joker, you know, there's just guys that do stuff like this.
	I don't think, I think, okay, go ahead.
	Well, no, tell me what you think.
	I think it's rude, and I think it's...
	Well, I think it's definitely rude.
	And it's, you know, physical contact.
	I just don't think of it as an assault.
	Yeah, well, it's...
	Again, I'm not sure why you're bringing this up.
	We kind of went through this.
	Well, it's because you brought up the sexual harassment thing.
	I thought I just had this clip.
	Oh, no.
	It's just something...
	This clip has me completely baffled.
	And it's, again, the thing they're going after NBC. They've already gotten everyone they could, I think, out on one thing or another.
	Oh, no, no.
	Andy Lack.
	There's tons of people still left.
	Oh, Andy Lack.
	There's lots of people left.
	He's being targeted.
	I mean, you can see his pictures in Variety all the time.
	They're accusing him of one thing or another.
	Well, the ultimate win will be, of course, the...
	Smashing success of House of Cards with our female president.
	I really predict this will be...
	And I'm going to watch it.
	I think it'll be really good.
	I like...
	What's her name?
	Robin Wright.
	She likes her so much.
	But this is back to Michael Moore.
	Just let the women run the world.
	Well, they're going to definitely, if they're going to do this, they have to bring in the top writer.
	So they're thinking it will be, well, probably will be good.
	Now, you mentioned something in the newsletter about Kashukji.
	Yes.
	Do you have anything to bring to the show regarding Christianity?
	What did I say in the newsletter about Christianity?
	You said that, as you know, Adam predicted that MBS would be out, and you say, well, he's still got some tricks up his sleeve, and so I figured we'd talk about that.
	What do you got?
	Well, I do have the official Shoshoshi story on Democracy Now!
	Hold on a second.
	You should know better than that.
	Oh, FF. Jamal Khashoggi.
	The Washington Post is reporting Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman tried to slander slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, falsely claiming the journalist was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood during a call with National Security Advisor John Bolton.
	What?
	Falsely?
	Isn't that well known?
	Well, listen to this carefully.
	Go back it up a little bit and listen to it carefully and you'll see how they weasel out of it.
	I don't understand this story Okay.
	So if I understand what she says, is that he said that during a call with Bolton and...
	I don't understand.
	Let's continue.
	Is that the whole clip?
	No, no, no.
	I'm just trying to understand it.
	Oh, you'll understand more.
	I'll do it one more time and I'll shut up.
	The Washington Post is reporting Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman tried to slander slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, falsely claiming the journalist was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood during a call with National Security Advisor John Bolton and White House Senior Advisor Jared Kushner in the days after Khashoggi's disappearance.
	The Muslim Brotherhood is classified by Saudi Arabia as a terrorist organization.
	Khashoggi was not a formal member of the Wow!
	So, you know, it's like the KKK, I guess, where you don't really have a membership card?
	I don't think there's a membership card for the Muslim Brotherhood.
	No, of course not!
	What is it like?
	He was an unofficial...
	What is this?
	He wasn't a former...
	Formal.
	What is she talking about?
	That's why...
	I see why the clip is interesting.
	I didn't expect you not to be confused because it was confusing.
	It was stupid.
	That's insane.
	But this is the kind of crazy reporting that you get from these people.
	Well, in the meantime, while this is all playing out on...
	He was a huge supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood.
	Yes.
	He's written about it.
	But he wasn't a formal member.
	Yeah, okay.
	Oh, yeah.
	How's that slandering him?
	Well, they tried to slander him.
	I mean, there's lots of people who are members of the Muslims.
	You've got to remember, democracy now, most of these super progressives, they really hate Israel, and they're pro-Palestinian.
	And all this messaging comes out of that basis.
	Yes.
	But it's...
	Yeah.
	Well, and so now we have the grand scale.
	We have the Muslim Brotherhood.
	We have Iran.
	We have Turkey still in the midst.
	We have Saudi Arabia.
	I'm not quite sure.
	Is everyone just pissed about them being a-holes for a long time and now this is finally the way we try and hit back at them?
	I'm not sure what is happening.
	But I do know that with the Iran sanctions kicking in tomorrow, Russia has an alternative to the SWIFT payment system, which I think they're getting everybody on, India, Iran, and maybe China.
	And Swift, is that completely US-owned, the payment system?
	I don't know who owns it.
	I'll look it up.
	But it's basically just an intranet where you're shuttling encrypted messages saying, okay, I sent you this money and you sent me that money.
	It's just data.
	It's just a data network.
	It's not like anything special.
	But to create a network like that does take a little time.
	It's owned by the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications.
	Right, so our idea is that we cut them off so that no one can trade with them, and Russia says, oh, it's okay, because our system is good to go.
	Let me see what it's called.
	It's the SPFS, the System for Transfer of Financial Messages.
	That is, okay, Moscow is engaged with China, Turkey, Iran...
	All on this payment network.
	Basically, thanks to technology, this sanction is going to be meaningless.
	They're just going to do trades for oil in whatever else they can transfer.
	We'll screw with that.
	There's no doubt about it.
	It's not going to work out.
	Where do you think SWIFT is headquartered?
	Oh, good question.
	Switzerland?
	Close.
	If it's not Switzerland...
	What country do I always point the finger at as trying to run the world?
	Belgium.
	Yeah.
	Makes nothing but sense.
	I'm gonna show myself old by donating to No Agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, on No Agenda.
	Yeah.
	We have a few people to thank for show 1083, starting with Steve Regnier, I think.
	He needs a de-douching.
	Okay.
	You've been de-douched.
	Came in with 150 bucks and he wants to call Cyrus out as a douchebag.
	Douchebag!
	And he also compliments me for the Grimerica interview, and he says, Adam, you're next.
	Yeah, maybe.
	Crunch, $128.
	What is this note here?
	It says, To Adam C. Curry and John C. Dvorak for helping me and Christina Curry, Tina the Keeper, Mimi, Jay, The adorable, the shill, and the whole Curry, Dvorak, Noah, and the family for helping you.
	Thank you for letting me know that I'm not insane or that I'm in good company if I am.
	Ha!
	Yeah, there you go.
	Be in good company with the insane No Agenda family.
	That's right.
	We're just insane!
	Insane!
	Eric, 100.
	Parts Unknown.
	Baron Ladequin in Houston, Texas, 100.
	John Robinet, I think is Sir.
	Parts Unknown, I think.
	Joseph Yonah in Ludlow, Vermont.
	Yeah, he's waiting for his autograph.
	Yes, we're working on that as we speak.
	I will get that out.
	Mimi gave me crap about it the other day, too.
	Giles Pavot in Paris, France.
	I would say Gilles.
	Gilles.
	Gilles.
	Gilles Pavot.
	A Frenchman?
	Yeah, 8102.
	Yeah, I know.
	I was, like, stunned.
	Donation long overdue, he says.
	And he's French.
	Sounds French.
	To make him a knight.
	He wants to be Sir Engeti.
	Nice!
	Sir Engeti.
	Get it?
	Sir Engeti, yes.
	If I read the peerage map properly, I would be part of the protectorate of Sir Stephen von Palsmacher's.
	Yes, Grand Duke.
	Yeah, he owns France.
	And I think Belgium.
	Didn't we just give you Belgium too?
	Thank you, Gilles.
	I look forward to the ceremony.
	The swift banking system.
	Or as we say, le cérémonie.
	Angela in Alsmere.
	This is the one that we read.
	Yeah, I sent the note.
	Right.
	I read the note already.
	Edward Posh in Omaha, Nebraska, 6006 small boob.
	Ronald Cotter in Chandler, Arizona, $59.99.
	And then to round things off in a very short list, I might add, 23, including the people at the top.
	Very short list.
	How many people get our newsletter?
	18,000?
	18,263.
	Sir Brett Farrell in Oklahoma City, 50.
	Bradley Ledin, 50.
	Parts Unknown.
	These are all $50 donors.
	Scott E. Knight in Las Wages, Nevada.
	Villarreal.
	Villarreal in Mercedes, Texas.
	Matthew Januszewski.
	Sir Matthew Januszewski in Chicago, Illinois.
	And Paul Van de Cordelar in Aumudin.
	Aumudin.
	Aumudin.
	That's it.
	That's all we got.
	I walk on the streets of Holland.
	People go, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Thanks.
	Thanks a lot.
	We also got a cup.
	We won't mention them because that is under the 50 level for anonymous reasons, but we did get a number of 39.
	We have a lot of people who wish me a happy birthday.
	They'll all be mentioned to her, but they won't be mentioned on the show because of the cutoff.
	It wasn't that many.
	It was 10.
	But I thought that was a pretty interesting way to do it, is to say, yeah, say happy birthday to Mimi.
	Not sure how old she is.
	Somewhere between $39 and $100.
	So just to be on the safe side, do $39.
	I was expecting some joker to come in with, I know she's 99, but no, none of that.
	No, no jokers.
	That would have been funny.
	Very short number of jokers today.
	But we do thank the people that supported the show.
	23 of, well, I think there's at least 18,000 people who listen.
	I don't know.
	It could be more.
	We really don't know because we don't have ads.
	We don't need to show how many people are engaged, how much engagement we have to advertisers.
	No.
	Because they can't...
	Imagine having advertisers.
	We'd be off the air before we even really started the first hour.
	So, no, we don't do that.
	We have support from our producers, and we want to thank everybody who came in over 50.
	And under 50, of course, a lot of that is for, as I said, anonymity, but also a lot of our sustaining programs.
	You can find more about that at dvorak.org.
	Thank you very much, and we've got some karmas for people as requested.
	dvorak.org.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	You've got karma.
	And here is your list for today.
	It is the 4th of November, 2018.
	Jennifer R. says happy birthday to her awesome husband, Brian.
	Baron Mark Tanner says happy birthday to his daughter, Allison.
	She celebrates on November 21st.
	Baron Mark Tanner himself celebrated yesterday on the 3rd.
	Dame Lorne and Sir Max say happy birthday to Mark.
	Edward Pasch...
	Celebrates on the 6th, and happy birthday to Mimi Dvorak, 39 years old today.
	She still reads the newspaper without her glasses, and we say happy birthday from all your friends here at the Best Podcast in the Universe!
	And then we have our one knighting, a France knighting.
	This is very nice.
	If we can...
	I have a special one here, a special French sword.
	Ooh.
	I get it.
	Jeez, the ding is stuck.
	There we go.
	Sounds a lot like the other one.
	Gilles, Pablo, step on up to the podium.
	Mon ami, thank you very much for your support of the No Agenda show.
	In the amount of $1,000 or more, that gets you a seat at the No Agenda roundtable with our knights and our dames.
	And I'm very pleased and proud to pronunciate the...
	Sir M. Getty!
	Yes, for you we have...
	Cookies and vodka, single malt scotch, onion rings and ice cream, English muffins with butter and honey, diet soda and video games, fish pie and fellatio.
	We got harlots and howl doll.
	We got organic macaroni and plasticizers, beer and blunts.
	We got breast milk and pappum, ginger ale and gerbils, bong hits and bourbon, gashas and sake, Reuben S, women and rosé, and for you, mutton and mead, mouton and mead.
	And you can find that, well, it'll be on its way to you, to go to noagendanation.com slash rings, and Eric, the show will gladly take your girth measurements and send off the correct size ring to you.
	And please, we'd love to add a tweet of our French night.
	Do we have any other French nights, or is this the only one?
	Well, there's one in Paris pretty much every 24 hours.
	Update on the MAGA Bomber?
	Oh, by the way, I also want to do a call out to Deborah Oliver, who's run out of money, and make sure that she gets part of that jobs karma at the end.
	Absolutely.
	Update on the MAGA Bomber.
	Okay.
	Eh, it wasn't really big news, but this was the report.
	Outside, his attorney spoke to reporters.
	One of them described Sayaka as, quote, the most respectful client I've ever had, which is why we took the case.
	And another attorney made reference to the weakness of the government's DNA evidence, noting the criminal complaint described possible DNA, a standard that does not hold up in a court of law.
	Yeah, that's that nasty DNA again.
	What?
	Yeah, that's possible DNA match.
	There was no positive match.
	I don't have any good on him just yet.
	Bull crap in the public?
	Well, has he admitted to anything that you know of?
	No.
	Oh.
	Of course we don't have anything.
	Did they find bomb-making material or anything?
	I have no information.
	All I know is that they're saying...
	Bogus.
	I don't know.
	Is this whole thing maybe a hoax?
	Nah, it's not a hoax, bomb.
	Just before the midterms?
	Gee, that would be a...
	What do they call it?
	October surprise?
	Nah, I can't have any of that.
	None of that.
	Bill Maher almost got one?
	I love his self-outing.
	It's like, oh, I was on the list.
	Didn't want to be left off.
	It reminds me, you know, we had this murderer.
	Bill Maher should probably just shut up.
	We had this murderer out here that was finally caught after like 30 or 40 years.
	He was famous.
	He was a cop.
	He murdered like dozens and dozens of people in a very brutal way.
	Then he had a child, got married, had a child, and he stopped doing his murderous stuff.
	But they caught him from some – this is the first case where they caught somebody based on DNA related to somebody else.
	They had some of his DNA, and then they found a relative using – because they used a database of DNA.
	Oh, yeah.
	I remember this.
	And this guy, he was caught in Sacramento, I believe.
	He's just a surly ex-police guy murderer.
	Yeah, your typical surly ex-police guy murderer dude.
	He made mention of one...
	He murdered some – there was some guy in one of the regions where he's doing his murdering.
	And some joker came out and said something publicly about this guy.
	He's an idiot.
	We're going to catch him.
	He said – just said some things.
	And the murderer heard about it, so he decided to go murder this guy and his wife.
	But first, he, of course, murdered the wife in front of this guy, saying, you got a big mouth, and he murdered the guy.
	Nice move!
	It seems to me, yeah, it just seems to me that when you got psychos out there, you don't want to incentivize them.
	And that's what Mar's kind of doing when he does that.
	Yeah, well, we should probably take our own advice seriously.
	Well, we don't really complain.
	No, I don't think that we're not lying about being on somebody's hit list.
	No, that's true.
	That we know of.
	So, Thanksgiving is coming up.
	It is a holy celebration on the No Agenda show.
	Where we will usually do a special program, and then we will, of course, listen to John's real explanation of Thanksgiving.
	It's almost like the night before Christmas reading.
	We all learn what a bullcrap holiday it has become.
	I try to add something to it.
	Every year.
	Now, because I have a little teaser, can we talk about our special guest or your special guest for that show, or do you want to keep it under wraps?
	Well, I want to get another guest.
	Well, it depends if we're going to run interviews on that show.
	Are we going to do the show?
	I thought it was going to be special interviews.
	Yeah, that's what I thought.
	But when's my Thanksgiving thesis?
	Oh, in the opening.
	We always do the opening show.
	We do the opening, we talk about it, and then we play the...
	We have a special guest in Tom Starkweather who helped you out.
	Yes, Tom Starkweather produced a...
	I did an interview with the Mooch.
	The Mooch!
	And I brought up something in the interview that nobody else has brought up.
	I read his book.
	That must have been surprising to him.
	Yeah, he says only me and his mom is the only ones.
	The book just came out.
	No one reads the books when they're interviewing.
	No one.
	And they don't.
	They don't read the books.
	But there's good stuff in his book.
	But one of the things he just kind of glosses over, he passes through, he just shoots right by it, is the fact that he owns a restaurant.
	Huh.
	And so he owns this restaurant.
	So I'm the one who asked him about it.
	And in the interview, you'll find out where the restaurant is in New York, what kind of a place it is, and all the rest of it, the details of the restaurant.
	And so then I sent a note to his secretary.
	I said, you know...
	I think I'm the only one that's interviewed this guy ever that's ever had him plug his restaurant.
	Can I have a free table and a meal?
	Was your next question.
	I said, I wouldn't mind a comp.
	You did, didn't you?
	Of course.
	Shameless, a comp.
	Why?
	What's wrong with asking for a comp?
	And so...
	She sent me a note back kind of jokingly saying, yeah, we'll look into it.
	In other words, I'm not going to get my comp.
	Well, so here's what's interesting about this.
	First of all, we have the best producers in the world.
	And what I like about this format that we're starting to, I did it with Pachanik and you've done it with Mooch and I'm looking at some people to interview.
	What's great about our value for value network is we make a call out and say anyone in Manhattan who can dude named Ben, dudette named Bernadette who can help us out, set it up so we have a Skype and a good mic and some good audio until we can really record a good interview.
	Instead, you can't rely on any guest to have Skype using the webcam mic, etc.
	So Tom goes there, who I've never met.
	Tom does a lot of our end-of-show mixes.
	And so he sets it all up.
	And so the mooch is coming in.
	And this is my little teaser clip.
	The mooch is coming in.
	And you have to know, John is one of the few people on his Skype, he changes the icon of Skype a lot.
	You know, your avatar.
	One day it's Hillary, then it's the cat with the stupid green melon on his head, and then it's Rachel Maddow.
	And I guess for Halloween, it was Jason from Friday the 13th.
	All you know is Al Gore.
	That's Al Gore in that picture.
	All right.
	I can adjust this.
	That's all good.
	John, how are you?
	Can you hear me?
	Yeah, can you hear me?
	I can hear you.
	I'm looking at this logo here.
	That's like a Halloween logo, right?
	What's going on there?
	Oh, that's one of our cover arts for the No Agenda show.
	We do different cover arts.
	I was kind of fond of that one, showing Al Gore as a raving lunatic.
	No, I like it.
	I just wonder why it's like Friday the 13th in theaters now.
	Yeah, well, that's where he belongs.
	I want to lower the volume just a tiny bit.
	All right, well, great.
	Thanks for having me on.
	You tell me when you're ready, and I'm ready.
	I think he was a little worried about what kind of outfit he was talking to.
	Yeah!
	That was his concern.
	Well, I had to be careful I didn't get off the deep end because I had different ways I could go with the interview, so I kind of kept me from asking about three or four questions I didn't want to ask.
	Excellent.
	Yeah, no, I just said that.
	Yeah, no, you said it.
	He probably, yeah, maybe I shouldn't have used that.
	I could have used the crying Rachel.
	I like that.
	You know, the poor Tom, he probably put on a suit, trying to look all professional and shit.
	Oh, yeah, no, he's all dolled up, yeah.
	Yeah, he's ready to go, you know, he's like, hello, I'm from the No Agenda show.
	I was like, you know, looking like a Fed almost.
	I bet he was perfect.
	And then, like, bring up, you know, the guy comes in, sits down, well, what the hell is this outfit?
	With Al Gore with a bloody machete?
	Hmm.
	I thought that was pretty funny.
	Yes, thank you, everybody.
	I did see...
	Probably an error in judgment.
	It's okay.
	Yeah, he seemed okay.
	So it was a good interview?
	I thought so.
	When I went over, they wanted to give us 45 minutes.
	We went an hour five.
	Woo!
	You rebel.
	He kind of like ended it all.
	I'm going to have to cut that ending off because it makes it sound like he's sick of me.
	But...
	Unlike the truth.
	Something like that.
	Unlike the truth.
	I imagine he was looking at his watch a lot.
	He's like, I'm sick of you.
	I'm just sick of you.
	I had it.
	Thank you, everybody.
	You do not have to email me that the South Park episode was all about the damn e-scooters.
	I watched it.
	It's pretty funny.
	This is a pretty good episode.
	Yeah, it reminded me of me.
	So we did talk a little bit about Southern Strategy on and off, and I also had a clip from Buchanan, but I got a teacher that wrote in.
	Can I just set it up so people understand what we're talking about?
	Oh yeah, why don't you give us a background on this?
	I have noticed that there is amongst black Americans a meme that Thank you, by the way, for the hundreds of people who have sent in their experiences with this.
	The diversity of our audience, our producers, is quite astounding in age, race, background, education, etc.
	It's almost like an urban myth.
	That appears, although we don't have a large enough sample of African Americans in our production audience who responded, it appears that there's this myth that somewhere around the 60s that the racists switched.
	And the racists all became Republicans instead of Democrats.
	And it's a lot more nuanced, a lot more complicated than that.
	But that is...
	It appears to be something that a lot of people, I would say probably 80% of everyone who wrote in about it, say, yes, this is my belief.
	No one can show me where they were taught it in school, which I don't think it's in any books.
	I would be abhorrent if it was.
	But it does seem to be one of these things like Richard Gere and the gerbil.
	It's just a truth that perpetrates forever.
	Thanks for that image.
	So, Ryan Thompson, a teacher, Writes in, and I'll read this note because it has a few things.
	We're going to probably be doing this thematically for a while because there's a lot that keeps coming in about this.
	I don't want to beat it to death, but we're going to beat it to death in some way.
	Checking answer, Ryan, in regards to your discussion of the Southern Strategy.
	I was interested in that most of your feedback from producers was anecdotal experiences without referencing actual textbook material.
	I guess I should not be too surprised since as I teach myself, I know how little kids actually, how little kids Kids actually read the material I give them.
	I've attached a picture from the textbook I use when I used to teach modern U.S. history to juniors.
	I will summarize what it says.
	He has a picture of a book.
	I will summarize what it says and I would like to tell my students and what I would tell my students.
	The Southern strategy was Nixon's attempt in 1972 to appeal to the disillusioned Democrat voters in the South who felt Johnson's great society was too far-reaching and that the Supreme Court was leaning too liberal.
	Nixon and his advisors thought that they could appeal with more conservative message to these voters because of the success of the independent presidential candidate, George Wallace, who was able to split the Democrat vote in the South during the 1968 election.
	To Nixon, this demonstrated a break in the Democrat Party over issues such as desegregation and integration.
	While there's really no definitive conclusion as to whether the strategy worked or not, and Buchanan...
	Believes it didn't.
	It does not represent a complete flipping of the parties as far as ideological beliefs.
	If students are leaving school thinking that I believe it is because of lazy teachers who are offering oversimplified headlines to historical events instead of providing real content and analysis.
	So that doesn't help.
	It doesn't help, and I'm glad you brought it up, because I have a clip that came out yesterday on BBC, and this is specifically about Blexit, and it was Candace Owens who I heard first say, hey, we've been taught that the parties switched, and not just the voters, but the politicians, which is another...
	You know, vague, vague point.
	But what BBC did is, in this clip, they review the Blexit website and what they are getting wrong about America's history.
	So here is the British, uh...
	Imperially funded BBC telling our black Americans what they get wrong about their own history.
	It should be fun to listen to.
	What is the new political movement that's got America talking?
	Blexit.
	It's called Blexit, or Black Exit.
	The goal is to get African Americans, who traditionally support the Democratic Party, to ditch them in favor of the Republicans.
	I'm convinced that liberals hate black conservatives.
	It's been started by a group of conservative African Americans and they have a Blexit website and on that website are a number of what they call truths, reasons they believe that black Americans shouldn't vote Democrat.
	So, how true are these truths?
	Well, let's start with this one, which is about the KKK, the racist white supremacist group.
	The Blexit website claims that the Democrats created the KKK. So, is this claim true?
	Well, let's ask our political reporter Anthony Zerker.
	So, I love it.
	You can tell by the setup that she's pretty much saying, you people, you Blexit, you don't know your own history.
	That's what this British woman is saying.
	So, the claim is the Democrat Party started the KKK. John, true, false?
	What do you think?
	It wasn't the party.
	It was a bunch of people, as far as I recall from my history, a lot of politicians that...
	A lot of blacks got into office via the Republican Party, and they were – they had to be – it was – there's an old term for this.
	Yeah, they did, as far as I can tell.
	The Republicans didn't start it.
	Okay, so the KKK was started by people who were Democrats in the years after the Civil War, the late 1860s.
	But it wasn't founded by the Democratic Party, and there were Republicans who became members.
	Who was the Republican KKK member?
	I don't know.
	None that I know of.
	Back in those days, its membership was predominantly Democratic, as it was in the early 20th century rebirth.
	Well, now there's been a complete shift.
	Hold on a second.
	Let's start taking this apart as it goes along.
	It wasn't the Democratic Party.
	Was that the supposition that it was the Democratic Party, the party per se?
	No, it was not the party.
	It was just Democrats.
	This is like Al Gore didn't invent the internet by parsing it a little bit.
	No, he never said that specifically.
	Exactly.
	Exactly.
	That's my point.
	...its membership was predominantly Democratic, as it was in the early 20th century rebirth.
	Well, now there's been a complete shift.
	The Democrats have disavowed the KKK, as have most Republicans.
	But there have been some members of the KKK, such as David Duke, who have run for public office as Republicans.
	So I... I'm like, well, most Republicans have denounced, but not all.
	There must be some sneaky Republicans in office.
	And then he goes straight to David Duke, who is not in office.
	Why don't they go to Byrd, that guy?
	Oh, no, no, no.
	That won't be mentioned.
	And that's the thing here.
	The Blexeters, let's call them that, are right.
	It was the Democratic Party which supported and promoted slavery.
	And it was indeed a Republican president, this man who ended it.
	Which takes us to the next set of claims on their site that Democratic politicians condoned some of the most painless acts of...
	Wait, hold on a second.
	Oh, yeah.
	So you're telling me that this was a negation of the claim?
	They proved they were wrong.
	Blexit people are idiots.
	Yep.
	What?
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh, this is the BBC. Liars.
	Liars.
	Okay, more.
	Globalists.
	Globalists, yes.
	This man who ended it.
	Which takes us to the next set of claims on their site, that Democratic politicians condoned some of the most heinous acts of violence against African Americans during the civil rights movement, and that President Harry Truman wrote a letter in which he said, Negroes ought to be in Africa.
	Okay, so I'm not quite sure exactly what she's saying here.
	Harry Truman was a Democrat, did they mention that?
	I think, well, that's a good question.
	They make it sound as though it's like some Republican guy.
	And it was indeed a Republican president, this man.
	So they're showing Lincoln.
	Who ended it?
	Which takes us to the next set of claims on their site, that Democratic politicians condoned some of the most heinous acts of violence against African Americans during the civil rights movement, and that President Harry Truman wrote a letter in which he said, Negroes ought to be in Africa.
	Okay.
	So, yeah, I think there were a lot of Democratic politicians who condoned Jim Crow laws and did all kinds of nutty stuff.
	Yeah?
	So I guess that's not true, or we're going to hear from the BBC. Okay, so during the Civil Rights Movement, the 1950s and 1960s, Democratic Southern politicians did support and condone racial segregation.
	And as for that letter, those words were written by Harry Truman back in 1911, 34 years before he would go on to become the U.S. President.
	And while in office, he desegregated the military and pushed his party to oppose racism and discrimination.
	Okay, so that kind of sums it up, I guess.
	And that's the thing here.
	The change in views from President Truman reflected the change in views of the Democratic Party.
	Oh, okay.
	So what they're saying is, because 35 years before he was president, he said, ah, Negroes belong on the farm.
	But he changed his mind.
	He changed his mind, and that's the thing.
	By the 1960s, it was the Democrats who were pushing to end segregation and white-only public spaces.
	President Lyndon Baines Johnson pushed the Democratic Party to support black rights.
	That won the Democrats' support of African Americans across the South, but white Democrats weren't happy, and they switched parties to the Republicans.
	The Republicans moved to the right, and the Democrats became the party of choice for an overwhelming number of African Americans in successive elections.
	Of course, there are African Americans who vote Republican, but President Trump thinks he can get more to do so.
	Democrat policies have led to unsafe communities, failing schools, over-incarceration.
	He's got a job on his hands.
	In 2016, Donald Trump won only 8% of African American votes.
	So it's going to take a lot more than flex it to turn that figure around.
	There you go.
	BBC tells you you're wrong about your history.
	Huh.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, there's a lot of switching talk in there.
	I'll get the Buchanan clip for the next show, because it's got some good stuff in there.
	He's got a little history, too.
	All right, that'll be our segment.
	We need a segment producer that can give us a jingle.
	What are we going to call the segment?
	The big switch?
	The switcheroo.
	The old switcheroo.
	Switcheroo.
	All right.
	Let me see if I have...
	What else do we have?
	Anything interesting going on?
	No, let's do this.
	Let's get this.
	I wanted to play this before.
	This is Professor Eric Klein, the guy who is the very famous...
	You can find lots of...
	And he's good, by the way.
	He's a good lecturer.
	And he's on YouTube all over the place lecturing about archaeology and history back in the year 1000.
	And he has this little...
	A little spiel he did on some interview on junk science, but it was about the junk science that you find in the humanities such as archaeology, anthropology.
	But if you think about the overview of what he's really saying, I'm hearing global warming junk science throughout this whole little discussion.
	You talk about junk science, but it's a truism that science is playing an increasing role in archaeology these days.
	Would you like to talk to that aspect of junk science as opposed to true science?
	Well, absolutely.
	In archaeology today we make use of science every day.
	We've got all kinds of things from magnetometers to precise surveying and all of that.
	Junk science, on the other hand, really doesn't involve science at all.
	It's ignore contrary evidence.
	They speak to a high moral purpose.
	Basically, they're not practicing science at all.
	And yet, it looks like it.
	It's really pseudoscience.
	And that's where the problem comes in.
	Because the people that are saying they found Noah's Ark or they found the Ark of the Covenant, they cloak what they're doing in legitimate-sounding terms.
	And it's actually got nothing to do with anything.
	And yet, how does the general public know what to believe and who to believe?
	So that's why I wrote this book, The From Eden to Exile, is to put out the data.
	You know, look, this is what we know.
	This is what we don't know.
	This is why we haven't solved this mystery yet.
	This is where we might go.
	And of the various things that have been suggested, here's a ranking.
	No, he has a book out with all this in it?
	Well, it's about archaeology, of course.
	Well, yeah.
	Yeah, it does.
	A lot of these claims of millions of years, isn't that based on archaeological findings?
	There's some of that, yeah.
	Yeah.
	No, it's just...
	You listen to the real scientists and you listen to these guys who shout down the opposition.
	They shouldn't even be on the show, Judy.
	500,000 Hiroshima bombs.
	A day.
	Yes.
	A day.
	A day, baby.
	Here's another one I want to play.
	This is Trump versus the caravan, and I have a note here that I want to mention about the democracy now and the caravan.
	Just play this, and I have a commentary.
	President Trump is escalating his attacks against Central American migrant caravans making their way to the U.S.-Mexico border, including warning soldiers could shoot migrants for throwing rocks.
	No.
	We're not going to put up with that.
	Well, okay.
	I won't interrupt, but no.
	There's the clip.
	There's the clip.
	Yes.
	Could shoot migrants for throwing rocks.
	We're not going to put up with that.
	They want to throw rocks at our military.
	Our military fights back.
	We're going to consider it.
	I told them, consider it a rifle.
	When they throw rocks like they did at the Mexico military and police, I say, consider it a rifle.
	President Trump has announced he may send as many as 15,000 troops to the border and indefinitely imprison asylum-seeking families in tent cities.
	This comes as a new Associated Press investigation has revealed over 56,000 migrants have died or gone missing worldwide over the last four years, as migration has surged by nearly 50 percent since the turn of the century.
	My comment on this is this goes on, and they bring Noam Chomsky in, and then they go on and on about these poor people from Honduras that are having to try to get into the United States.
	They go with the humanitarian angle.
	We're so cruel because we should be welcoming these poor people and yes, there's a lot of people and there's maybe too many males.
	They don't deny its existence like CNN does.
	CNN has Don Lemon come out.
	There is no migrants coming our way.
	There are – there's nothing going on.
	And MSNBC is the same way.
	They say it's a hoax.
	So the true progressives see it as something going on.
	It may or may not have anything to do with the elections.
	Obviously, the right-wing media thinks it's a big threat and the super left-wing media sees it as a humanitarian thing.
	And then those CNN and these other guys in the middle, they – They think it doesn't exist.
	So we're not getting really, you know, the consistency between one angle and another is very poor.
	Well, it's all descriptors, you know.
	I think the main thing that's being used is Trump's term in an invasion, and that's really what they've latched on to.
	It's not an invasion.
	It's not an invasion.
	Well, they're not here close enough to be an invasion.
	Right.
	And they're heading to Texas anyway, so the way I see it, who cares?
	Well, you know what's kind of messed up is we have a whole bunch of militia groups who are heading down to the border here in Texas.
	The Texas Minutemen.
	Yeah, the Minutemen.
	Yeah, the board Minutemen.
	Well, we have a number of them who produce our show, too.
	Yeah, I know, but they're bored.
	Yeah.
	They're not condemning them.
	They're just looking for something to do.
	Yeah, so they're going down there.
	They're just going to hang back.
	They're going to be a secondary wall.
	You'll expect some reports then.
	I hope so.
	Meanwhile, I think it was Scott Adams who said, you know, prove to me that George Soros is really involved in the migrants and everything.
	You know, just ignore the fact that he has put up $500 million for investments to address challenges facing migrants and refugees.
	But on Thursday, he announced with MasterCard they have a deal.
	And I guess they have a name for it.
	Humanity Ventures, I think, is what they're new.
	It's a venture between Open Society Institute and MasterCard.
	It intends to focus initially on healthcare and education with the goal of fostering local economic development and entrepreneurship.
	I think it's basically to get them on the credit train, though.
	Just give them some damn credit cards.
	Well, there's a bunch of pictures.
	Apparently, there's a lot of these guys marching up north.
	They got credit cards.
	Credit cards, yeah.
	It's kind of like open-ended credit cards, like the gift cards.
	Nice.
	So when you report that story, and that story is from Reuters, you report that story, then it's like, ah, Jew hater.
	What?
	Yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	This is the whole...
	What kind of a Jew is George Soros?
	I'm just telling you how it works.
	You listen everywhere.
	It's like, oh, this is the Jewish conspiracy.
	I'm so sick of it.
	So sick of it.
	All right.
	What do you got?
	I got one.
	I got one left.
	I just got one story.
	The only thing I got left is that it is indeed down to two cities, Amazon, headquarter two cities.
	It appears that Austin is in the final running with Virginia.
	Northern Virginia.
	I think Virginia, there's a reason for Virginia.
	Yeah, Spooksville.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	I still think that we have a shot here.
	We'll see.
	They're nuts if they do.
	They're asking for trouble.
	Here's the problem with Austin.
	I think the Fort Worth idea is better.
	They can stay as Austin and move action to North.
	Yeah.
	Virginia's got, you know, the obvious spook thing.
	And there's too many liberals.
	I mean, it's not as though...
	I mean, Bezos, yeah, he's not like a conservative by any means, but he knows what happens in these liberal communities.
	Like in Seattle, we get a bunch of nutballs running the city, and they want to do a head tax on all these $75,000.
	Wait, isn't that happening in San Francisco now, too?
	Then I see Benioff talking about that, about Prop C, I think.
	Well, that's a little different, but before I play my last clip, play the local story.
	This is the Prop C. Benioff story.
	CEO Mark Benioff was in Chinatown today campaigning for one controversial plan to curb the city's homeless crisis with tech money.
	Tech money!
	Tech money, money, money, tech money, money!
	Kano joins us now with both sides of the Prop C. showdown.
	Andrea.
	Yeah, Juliet, this would be the largest tax increase in San Francisco history, and it would force the biggest companies in the city to pay up.
	Both sides agree, let's fix this problem, but the issue is whether or not more money is the solution.
	A crowd of roughly a couple hundred people gathered for a Yes on Sea rally in the heart of Chinatown.
	The guest of honor, Salesforce CEO, Mark Benioff.
	Let's give it up for our hero, Ying Hong, Mark Benioff!
	Benioff is one of the lead backers of Proposition C, pouring in $2 million to support the measure.
	We know that we have to get these people off our streets.
	We know current funding is not enough.
	We need more funding.
	We can do more.
	It would tax corporations with a revenue of more than 50 million dollars a half percent in gross receipts if it passes.
	Prop C would raise roughly 300 million dollars annually.
	That money would go to create housing for at least 5,000 people, provide 1,000 new emergency shelter beds, and fund mental health programs.
	Opponents, though, caution San Francisco has tripled its spending on the homeless issue in the last decade, but the problem has gotten worse.
	Without additional accountability, without additional reforms, that we might be throwing good money out with the bad.
	Prominent politicians such as San Francisco's newly elected Mayor London Breed and State Senator Scott Weiner oppose Prop C. But tech executives have taken center stage on this issue.
	That's because social media has become their battleground.
	Benioff and Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey have exchanged lively tweets on what would be the best solution.
	Well, I'm very grateful for Jack Dorsey for starting this because he really gave us a national conversation on Proposition C. Opponents also warn the impact Prop C may have on jobs and housing and transportation costs.
	Many would like to see how Mayor London Breed is going to tackle this problem and then give her a program, some time to work before implementing new taxes.
	Oh, yes.
	The tech money will save the world.
	So this is, so they want this $50 million and what are they going to just round?
	$300 million.
	And they're going to round everybody up and throw them into a bus and ship them off somewhere?
	How's this going to work?
	That's the way to go.
	Ship them to Austin.
	Hey man, we got a dome and flamethrowers.
	Back off.
	They don't have the dome yet.
	Back off.
	So the last clip I have is the new UN ambassador.
	They're going to try to push our friend Heather, who, by the way, I was looking at her bio.
	She used to be on Fox.
	Yeah, she used to be on Fox, but she did a lot of stuff on Fox.
	It wasn't like she was really steady there, but she went to Arizona State.
	And I look at her picture.
	Yep.
	There's a certain look of all the women who went to Arizona State.
	They always look like her.
	Really?
	Yeah.
	Is that good?
	Is it a good thing?
	Well, if you like that look, she's pretty.
	Well, I'm very underwhelmed with her.
	We used to have lots of stuff from the briefings.
	Oh, yeah, I know this gone downhill.
	She's boring.
	She's got the big, giant, thick book.
	It's too thick.
	She doesn't seem, she's kind of flirtatious, but not in the right way.
	It's Arizona State.
	I'll tell you more, but I'll just leave it at that.
	All right.
	President Trump is reportedly planning on nominating State Department spokesperson Heather Nowert to be the new U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations after Nikki Haley's exit at the end of the year.
	Nowert is a former Fox News host, including for the program Fox& Friends, a favorite of Trump's.
	She joined the State Department as its spokesperson last year.
	She'll be perfect for the role.
	Just shut up and look pretty and read your lines.
	Favorite of Trump's.
	I always got to put a dig in there.
	Oh, she is a favorite of Trump's.
	And she's boring, which is perfect for this job.
	It's perfect for the job.
	Yeah, I think she'd be okay.
	It probably won't let her get it.
	They've got to stop Trump at some point about something.
	See what happens after the elections.
	Yes, and we will be reporting diligently on what happens after the elections.
	We'll have a full day, Wednesday, to figure out what's happened and see if we can deconstruct.
	And, of course, we'll bring all of that to you on Thursday.
	It'll be very interesting to see what happens.
	Either way, we'll have the best reports.
	Yes, and either way, it'll be good for the show.
	There's always humor in this stuff.
	And I look forward to it.
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