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April 21, 2019 - No Agenda

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	No, he's lazy.
	He's lazy.
	He doesn't do it right.
	Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
	And Sunday, April 21st, 2019, this is your award-winning Kimo Nation Media Assassination, Episode 1131.
	This is No Agenda.
	Contemplating a name for the new studio and broadcasting live from the frontier of Austin, Texas, capital of the drone, Star State.
	In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley...
	Where I made a very interesting observation about some train earlier today.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	It's Crackpot and Buzzkill in the morning.
	Well, I'm waiting for your interesting train observation.
	Well, okay.
	I think this is important.
	So there's a train that goes from Seattle to, I guess, L.A. I'm not sure where it ends up.
	But it's called the Coastal.
	And it's a big train.
	It's like the Zephyr.
	Same kind of configuration.
	Except...
	When I started watching this train, because it goes by on the way down south, about anywhere between 7 a.m.
	and 9 a.m., within a two-hour window.
	And when I first started seeing this train, which is a couple of years ago, it had two observation cars, those semi-dome cars that are just, there's no, you just sit in there and you can see everything.
	It's a very nice car.
	They have one on the Zephyr up in Sacramento.
	About a year ago, the same exact train stopped having the two dome cars and they just had the one.
	And it's always been one and I realize what it is.
	Nobody goes to the dome car to look and see the nice scenery that you could get from sight.
	They're on their phones!
	Oh my god!
	Woo!
	Listen to that horn!
	Yeah, I think you're right.
	Of course.
	Of course they are.
	So why are they going to waste a dome car?
	Nobody cares.
	No.
	In fact, when I was going up to Sacramento, I sat most of the time in that car.
	Because it's kind of interesting to see what's out there.
	Especially as the train goes in on some route that's not near the highways.
	And you find all kinds of homeless encampments.
	It's very entertaining.
	But no, the car was never full.
	Super entertaining.
	Well, it's entertaining to me.
	Well, Happy Easter, Jean-Claude.
	Happy Easter to you.
	Happy Easter to everybody else.
	This is your Easter program.
	Sorry about the Sri Lankan Easter celebrators there.
	Did anyone claim this yet?
	Do we know who's claimed these atrocities?
	No, I haven't heard anyone claim anything, and the media refused.
	They've captured seven people, and the media refused to say who it is.
	I checked all the Canadian outlets.
	They refused to say who it is.
	The Sri Lankan news won't say who it is, and the New York Times had an article they won't say who it is, although they hinted it was Muslims.
	Oh, gosh.
	We're going through this now.
	Yeah.
	What a crappy thing to do.
	I don't know.
	It was churches and hotels?
	Yeah, there was three churches and then a slew of hotels.
	All high-end hotels were tourists in this day.
	Rich tourists.
	Damn.
	Well, yeah, sorry about that.
	Don't have much more for anyone on that.
	Coming to you from the new studio today, Jean.
	Yeah, you sound good.
	Yeah, it sounds pretty good.
	It's still boomy.
	There's nothing on the walls.
	Just before we started, you gave me a very handy pro tip, which is to open the door.
	It does help.
	It makes a difference.
	It does.
	I was telling Adam how I... I think it was a CES, I don't know, 10 years ago when the digital amplifiers were first coming out and Texas Instruments was making most of the chips for them.
	And they also bought this very high-end digital amp company.
	And so they took us into this room inside one of the suites in the hotel where they were going to give us a demo of the digital amplifier technology using cheap speakers.
	And then modeling expensive speakers on the cheap speakers using DSP. Yeah, and doing feedback and listening to that and then tuning.
	And so the guy, this engineer, was tuning the room.
	And he'd open, to get this, he'd listen, and then he'd open the bathroom door.
	And I asked him about what he was doing.
	That's where he says it lessens the bass effect, moves some of the bass out of the room, and it makes the room bigger.
	And then he started moving the cushions from the – went into the bedroom of the suite and pulled off the – Yeah.
	Some sort of a standing wave or something.
	I have put studios together in so many hotel rooms where I've done just that with pillows against the wall.
	I could probably do that here.
	I'm not facing the wall.
	My back is to the wall.
	It's literally bouncing off the wall.
	I can hear it.
	I know you can't, but I can hear it.
	I'll have that fixed.
	Egg cartons!
	Egg cartons.
	It's not the prettiest look, egg cartons.
	I might go for some foam.
	No, it's not cool.
	Get those big giant square blue ones.
	It's anything but cool.
	No, that's not cool.
	Yeah, they look cool.
	You don't think so?
	So here's the thing.
	I really want to, and I can't believe I said so, here's the thing.
	I have to stop that.
	A lot of people are doing this in the media.
	So here's the thought.
	Pay attention to it.
	A lot of people are doing it.
	I'm thinking of just going sparse with the egg cartons or some professional alternative, or I could just hang all kinds of memorabilia shit on the wall, which would also work.
	Yeah, I got the commemorative platinum records, I've got pictures, I've got tons of stuff.
	I just feel like I want to keep it...
	No, that's a bit much.
	I want to keep it completely sparse, and I'm a little tired of the MTV guy on the wall.
	I think you, in a room full of egg cartons on this, you know, stapled up all over the place, would be very cool looking.
	Even though you don't think so, I think it would be.
	Especially if there's those blue 24 egg squares.
	Those are the ones you want.
	Well, that would help with a name for the studio.
	We call it the chicken coop.
	The chicken coop.
	The curry coop.
	Let me write this down.
	Curry coop.
	Curry, I don't know, curry coop.
	Maybe just the chicken coop.
	Because that's what it would be.
	Hmm, interesting.
	Well, I'm taking ideas.
	I'm open to ideas.
	Thick cork usually works, too.
	Okay, so we moved Friday, which was...
	I am hurting.
	I don't know when the last time is that you moved house.
	Yeah, exactly.
	I refuse to take part in such a situation.
	My core, my midriff, my back, the soles of my feet, everything hurts.
	It's an undertaking every single time you do it.
	And I think this is the last time.
	Tina keeps saying, I'm dying in this house!
	Easy, easy.
	Let's get married first.
	Feet first!
	Feet first, I'm coming out of this place.
	We're really happy though, but oh man.
	And meanwhile, while the moving's going on, I'm also trying to read as much as I can of the Mueller report.
	Volumes 1 and Volume 2.
	Now all 13 hits.
	And I'm sure you didn't take a look at it.
	I did, I took a look at it.
	Ah, what did you think?
	I have one of those PDFs that the guy...
	Yeah, the searchable PDF? He changed the PDF so it's searchable.
	Yeah, searchable PDF. Yeah, I like that.
	I'm searching for this and that.
	I like that.
	Well, before we come into any conclusions, I do have a few...
	Let me see, I got a few...
	Let's see, this was kind of the...
	You know, Volume 1, which is the no collusion part, there's not much...
	Discussion about that.
	It's all about the conduct and the, what do you call it, the possible obstruction of justice.
	But this is what I'm hearing everyone say in the mainstream media based upon what they read in Volume 2.
	Here's Chip Todd.
	One item worth noting before we go to break.
	The Mueller Report validates most, not all, but most of the reporting done by major news organizations throughout this investigation.
	Many, many of the stories we were told that were fake news show up as reported in the Mueller Report and confirmed by first-hand accounts.
	It's something worth considering the next time you hear someone use the phrase fake news so loosely.
	Okay, Chip Todd, we'll do that.
	That's MSNBC. Here's CNN. And the other thing this report did is that it really corroborated a lot of the good journalism that was done in this entire...
	You know, he went after all of us every single day.
	The New York Times, Washington Post, CNN. And when you go back and you look at this report and you look, you're like, all these stories that were fake news.
	Well, Mueller shows that this was actually going on.
	So they're all congratulating themselves over a job well done.
	And it is true, when you read Volume 2, it reads a lot like many of the reports that were in the M5M about lying, underhanded behavior, Trying to get Mueller fired, trying to have someone else do the dirty work.
	Actually, Trey Gowdy had an interesting comment on that.
	All right, so the fact that he was looking to supposedly fire Bob Mueller and later on get Jeff Sessions to essentially do the same thing, neither happened.
	In the end, obviously, Mueller stayed, completed his report.
	Some have likened to that to be obstructing justice or the process of justice.
	Obviously, it was a jump ball for Mueller and his team.
	What do you think of that?
	I hope we have not gotten to the point where thinking about doing something as a crime in this country.
	I hope that's not where we are.
	Or discussing what your options are with your advisors.
	Well, the only thing that prevented that from happening, you know, Congressman, is that the aides didn't do it, right?
	They didn't do it.
	Right, and he didn't fire the aide and go get an aide that would.
	Interesting.
	Calling it a thought crime?
	Yeah, well, that's the trend.
	And from a legal standpoint, that may be correct.
	I've read a lot of reports and documents in the 11 years we've been doing this program, and Volume 1 was pretty lawyerly.
	There was lots of lawyer terms, even explanation of what collusion was in legal terms, but Volume 2...
	It didn't really have any legalese in it.
	It was interviews with people, reports of what they said.
	And if I had read that on WikiLeaks, and you just replaced Donald Trump with Hillary Clinton, I would have been, yeah, what a horrible person.
	But the difference between anything we've ever read about, for example, Hillary Clinton and this volume two, is it's just what people said.
	There's no emails.
	There's no paper trail.
	I think Trump's saving grace is that he doesn't use email.
	So it's one thing to have his lawyer or the White House attorney, Don McGahn, say...
	It's all hearsay.
	Yeah, he wanted me to go fire Mueller.
	Or the first words out of his mouth were, oh my God, there goes my presidency, I'm fucked.
	Did he say it like that?
	Or did he say, oh, there goes my presidency, I'm fucked.
	Or did he yell it?
	I mean, that's hard to understand.
	You can't say, yeah.
	You can't really do that.
	It's all hearsay.
	We've watched enough Law& Order, all the public, over the years, to know that it's inadmissible.
	Yeah.
	So, you know, there's just not evidence in there.
	It's what people said.
	And that's a big difference.
	There's a couple other things the president does.
	You know, he says our country instead of this country.
	And he's a nationalist versus all the rest who are globalists.
	But not using email is probably the smartest thing he's ever done.
	Or ever not done, let's put it that way.
	George H.W. is the same way.
	The old CIA guy, he's not putting anything in an email because everyone can get to it.
	Right, and that's exactly how Uncle Don got in trouble.
	He had a memo.
	He had a memo about a meeting that he didn't tell his boss about because that was when he was a national security advisor to Bush when he was vice president.
	And, you know, that was the Iran-Contra memo.
	And the minute you write something down, the minute it goes into the archives, and then it's a problem.
	Well, it depends.
	It's also not a problem if you do, when you write something down, it's always a CYA memo.
	Well, yes.
	And that is the one thing that came out of Volume 2, is the meeting in the Oval Office with Obama and Susan Rice then being advised to send an email to herself two weeks after that meeting, which was close to the handover of the presidency.
	And it's...
	Specifically in that said that Obama had apparently said, let's do it by the book.
	And that was a CYA. That was sending yourself an email on advice of the...
	I remember people used to say, this was a long, long time ago, hey, if you've got a great idea and you want to trademark it, just send yourself a registered piece of mail with the idea in it.
	Have you ever heard this?
	Oh, yeah.
	Does that actually work?
	Does that hold up?
	Well, it's not for trademarking.
	Oh, no, for patents.
	I'm sorry.
	Patents, right.
	That works?
	That's valid?
	There is some element of it that is valid, yes.
	So, back to the report.
	A couple of things that were interesting.
	I thought the note about Seth Rich, or the piece about Seth Rich, how Julian Assange basically smeared him.
	While he was working with the Russians...
	The Russians, by the way, there's no actual proof of a lot of things.
	There was indictments.
	And of these indictments, I don't think anyone has appeared in front of a judge or a court or a jury.
	An indictment is just an indictment, so nothing was proven.
	And Donna Brazile...
	Remembers very well what happened to the DNC server.
	And she works for Fox News now.
	DNC. And we were informed of what was happening.
	But it was too late.
	Because the Russians had already spent almost a year inside of our systems.
	And by the time we got to it, we were wiped out.
	But a year before that, what happened then?
	I wasn't a chair, so I cannot speak to that.
	And didn't it also that you guys never actually handed over the server?
	We handed over a replica.
	A replica.
	But it was starting to replicate.
	You can't replicate it because we had to figure out.
	We had to figure out.
	And you see, that's another thing.
	This report goes into deep analysis of what happened.
	No, it's not really a deep analysis.
	It's a lot of interviews with people.
	Here's NPR on the voting system information.
	Another topic the Mueller investigation looked at was targeting of America's voting system.
	What did you see there?
	So we really learned something new here, and it's that these agents, the report says that these agents were actually more successful than we thought at breaking into local governments.
	We knew that they had sent phishing emails to dozens of local election officials in Florida in an effort to try and break into their systems, but we had no indication that they were ever successful.
	The report says that the FBI thinks they were successful in at least one Florida county government.
	We know nothing yet about which county that was, and no county in the last three years has announced that they were breached.
	I even talked to the head of the Supervisor of Elections Association in Florida, and he says he hasn't heard anything about a breach.
	So there's still a lot of details to come, but we did hear something new here.
	Yeah, fake news is what I'm hearing.
	And it's just a technicality, but I really, you know, you and I both, I think, despise the blatant lies that become facts, such as fine people on both sides.
	What else do we have?
	All Mexicans are rapists and murderers.
	And so I think they should at least say alleged hackers.
	It's now just become a fact where it's not proven at all, certainly not for the DNC server.
	The Internet Research Agency, their Facebook stuff, yeah, I think that's pretty much proven.
	Everyone came out with enough evidence, but here we go.
	Voting systems hacked.
	No one knows anything about it in Florida.
	And then there's the Assange and Seth Rich issue.
	Over the next two months, the report says that Russian agents compromised as many as 59 different computers.
	They also broke into the network of Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman, John Podesta.
	Even saying they broke into...
	No, it was a phishing hack.
	They just used his password because he willfully gave it to them.
	That's not exactly breaking in.
	The report also gets into how these attackers communicate with WikiLeaks and how Julian Assange falsely tried to pin these attacks on a DNC staffer and not on Russia.
	And that caused Bill Binney to come out of the woodwork once again.
	If you do not know who Bill Binney is, you have to look him up.
	He's one of the original whistleblowers.
	In fact, when we were first doing this show, when I was in San Francisco frequently, we would talk about the AT&T building on 2nd Street all the time.
	Yeah, we go buy it.
	Yeah, the big windowless building that had basically a tap.
	And everything at the time, that was probably possible with just a tap, everything that was on the internet was being sucked out and piped off to some storage system.
	And Bill Binney, he says, no, no, no, no.
	No, there was definitely contact with Seth Rich.
	Ty Clevenger, he foiled information from NSA asking for any data that involved both Seth Rich and also Julian Assange.
	And they responded by saying, we've got 15 files, 32 pages, but they're all classified in accordance with the Executive Order 13526, governing classification, and therefore you can't have it.
	Thank you.
	I mean, that's the only business that NSA's in, copying communication between people and devices.
	35 pages that they won't give up under FOIA. That's a lot of pages.
	How come that doesn't show up in these stories?
	Oh, it's even worse.
	I saw you were being barraged on Twitter by people saying, See, it wasn't Seth Ratch!
	It was the Russians!
	Yeah, well, the report said, very specifically...
	And it did it in such a way that it kind of stood out, if you looked it up, the Seth Rich part, that this is bull crap, that there's Seth Rich, nothing to do with nothing.
	And so there's a bunch of trolls that have been badgering us about Seth Rich, you two.
	I just block immediately.
	You responded, I was surprised.
	I don't think that works, the reporting of that.
	They just get a new name and start over again.
	Yeah, I know, but I do it anyway.
	It was under your advice.
	Anyway, so this guy comes out and I said, well, you know, if we're going to accept the report at full value, it's full, you know, there's no Russian collusion.
	He goes, okay.
	I'm sorry.
	I mentioned Seth Rich.
	I'll never do it again.
	That's what I said.
	No, no.
	You have to apologize to his family.
	I don't know his family.
	They don't know me.
	That's what the troll always says.
	Are you going to apologize now?
	Yeah, that's what the troll always says.
	And I don't understand who this troll is or what his thing is.
	Oh, I do.
	Of course.
	He's from Reddit.
	Just a Reddit nut.
	Yeah, there's only one of them, and he's three different people, three different screen names.
	Oh, okay.
	Well, he should find a job or something.
	It's really getting old.
	Yeah.
	So, sadly, pretty much across the board, all news is only talking about this.
	Oh yes, it's ruining the news cycle.
	There's nothing else to talk about.
	These guys have just got a hair up their ass and they can't get it out of their system.
	I think those clips you played earlier.
	And there's even a good one with Janine Pirro that Trump retweeted this morning.
	It's an eight minute screed.
	And she goes on and in the screed, she's bitching about this, what you're just complaining about.
	And she plays a bunch of other clips, which are just as bad or worse.
	All saying, well, the Mueller report proves he's guilty.
	I mean, these guys never give up.
	It's unbelievable.
	That's all anyone's doing.
	I mean, Sri Lanka got about a mention.
	Okay, here we go.
	And maybe that's why we don't know anything.
	They're too busy circle-jerking themselves.
	Oh, look how great we did.
	Let's talk about this.
	Let's talk about how horrible it is.
	We've got to impeach.
	It makes our job tough.
	I do beseech, you must impeach.
	But...
	It does make our job tough because we don't get lost.
	But I did find some things going on.
	Can I just stay with this one more clip?
	I'll stay with two more clips.
	No, I only have one.
	Chuck Todd, who we affectionately call Chip Todd, he has a podcast.
	I'm sorry.
	Yes, he does.
	It's the Toddcast.
	I'm sorry.
	The Chip Toddcast.
	In fact, I want to call this the No Agenda Toddcast.
	I think that's much better.
	It's a Toddcast, man.
	It's a Toddcast, baby.
	Sounds like you're a kid, an adenoidal kid.
	I'm a Toddcast.
	And what happens when someone does a podcast, especially a Toddcast, They're much more relaxed.
	They say things they may not say in their mainstream position.
	Yeah, they just kind of chat away.
	And Todd was hanging out with a WAPO reporter.
	Let me see.
	Which WAPO reporter was this?
	Phil Rucker.
	And they're talking about money being raised for the 2020 election.
	And even though there's some impressive numbers and this is really all that the mainstream is interested in because you want to highlight the candidate with millions of dollars because they're going to spend it on you, on your network.
	That's what that money is for.
	Yeah, they do it on yard signs and there's other things, but a lot of the money goes towards At the traditional television advertising.
	So, of course, Todd checks all this, and he was just amazed at how little Donald Trump has actually raised compared to Obama around this time.
	Trump's money was shockingly mediocre.
	It was less than what Obama raised at this point in time of his re-elect, less than W. Less than Bush.
	The contribution limits are higher, and he's been working at it longer.
	And even the cash on hand total was surprisingly just on par.
	Is just them burning, spending a lot of expensive days at Trump properties, which then cost the campaign a lot of money?
	I mean, it is amazing how much either money they're wasting.
	They raised some $80 million in the first two years, and it's all basically gone.
	Yeah.
	They spend through that money really quickly.
	It looked like a big total compared to the Democratic totals because the Democratic numbers were so low.
	But $35 million, I think $35 million, is really not that much.
	And Trump's going to have to get to work.
	He's not actually done a lot of fundraising himself.
	He hates those events.
	I think that's what we're hearing.
	They don't like him.
	He doesn't like to travel to these events.
	When he does them, they tend to be at Mar-a-Lago down in Florida.
	But he's not working the circuit the way Obama did.
	He would make multiple trips out west, hit Seattle, Chicago, all the big cities.
	What are you talking about?
	He's talking about how great Obama was instead of running the country who would do all these campaign events.
	That's what he's talking about.
	And Trump is too lazy.
	He doesn't like to do it.
	The big donors don't want to give him money.
	Trips out west, you know, hit Seattle, Chicago, all the big cities.
	And Trump, you just, you see a laziness there in the fundraising side.
	Sure.
	Laziness?
	He does his shit.
	Huge rallies.
	No, he's lazy.
	He's lazy.
	He doesn't do it right.
	He doesn't know how to do it.
	It's wrong.
	He's lazy.
	Trump, you see a laziness there in the fundraising side.
	Sure.
	And I'm sure that's going to pick up because his campaign folks know they need more money.
	I'm weirdly surprised he's lazy about fundraising because it's other people's money.
	He loves other people's money.
	That's number one.
	And number two, it's people pretending they love him.
	Like, I just, I think, would think that the dream place for Donald Trump is at a fundraiser where people are sucking up to him and handing him cash.
	I don't mean to be that facetious, but I mean, this is what Donald Trump lives for.
	Other people's, people handing him money and people telling him he's great.
	Well, he should do a podcast.
	That's a podcaster for you.
	By the way, I don't want to say too much, but I hear like a 3K ground loop tone in this Toddcast.
	You may not hear it through the sky, but I'm hearing like a ground loop in the background.
	It's all right.
	It's all right.
	I have four clips before we go on.
	Oh, hell yeah.
	All right.
	Bang me.
	Couple of things.
	First of all, I'm very upset about a couple of the clips.
	Most of these clips have got some issue that I find disturbing.
	Let's start with PBS. This is Hari Sri Navasa, who I thought was the most neutral of the people over there because they've all turned very biased.
	But I picked up a little usage issue here with this particular report.
	This is a report on Trump kvetching Hari PBS. President Trump continued to attack special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and obstruction of justice.
	Before heading out to play golf near his Mar-a-Lago estate, where he is spending the weekend, Mr.
	Trump tweeted out a by-the-numbers video that said the investigation cost $30 million and took 675 days.
	And he again claimed there was no collusion and no obstruction.
	Yes.
	So the little thing there was, again, he claimed there was no collusion.
	Oh, you're so right.
	Now he uses the word claim.
	I keep missing those.
	You're so good at that.
	He uses the word claim rather than said.
	Yes.
	Because claim makes it sound as though the guy is bullshitting.
	And so this was the most skewed I've ever heard this guy when he said this because he didn't claim anything.
	Mueller said there was no collusion.
	The report said there was no collusion.
	And then he makes it worse by saying he continues to claim collusion.
	As though it's like he's swimming upstream, you know?
	It's just, I'm drowning here.
	I'm continuing to try to not drown.
	Very, very skewed.
	I just knocked this guy down about five notches in my book in so far as biased reporting is concerned.
	That was extremely biased.
	It was a 23-second clip, and right there, boom.
	There was a common theme over the weekend about Trump going to Mar-a-Lago, which I don't even think he tweeted it, but someone with a blue checkmark, so you know they're important, tweeted the Southern White House, which I think has been in the lexicon.
	Yeah.
	And I started doing something with Twitter, because it's kind of boring, but I'll just look at what's trending, and that actually changes quite frequently.
	All of a sudden, I see Southern White House trending.
	I look at it, and there's people losing their minds.
	How dare you call it this?
	There is only one White House.
	You don't even deserve to be in that one.
	This is an outrage.
	It's the people's house.
	There is no Sarteng as the Southern White House.
	And you go and look at previous presidents.
	Nixon had the Florida White House.
	In fact, a lot of them in Florida.
	I think Truman called his house in the Keys the little White House.
	Yeah, they all did.
	Bush had his ranch.
	Yes!
	It was a Texas White House.
	Yeah, and I really had to conclude that what's going on, and luckily...
	Kenny Bunkport is another one.
	Kenny Bunkport, yes.
	What's really happening is it's just a group of maybe it's 20,000-30,000 people who are just on Twitter all the time yelling and yelling and yelling because it's not making it into the M5M. They were too preoccupied with patting themselves on the back.
	We're doing such a good job.
	And so you can see these waves.
	I wish I had a way to analyze it.
	I'm sure, you know, with some programming, you could turn it into a graphical wave of the outrage and then, is anyone reporting on it on television?
	Nope.
	Drops off the cliff.
	Gone.
	The outrage is over.
	We'll move on to something else.
	And these people are sick.
	Well, here's another one that I caught, which is Clapper.
	Yeah.
	Clapper goes on CNN and he said, and he, the way it was presented was as though Clapper thought it was terrible that, the way it was presented in the headline, you'd think that Clapper finally came to grips with reality.
	Oh, please.
	And then when you listen to Clapper, there he goes again off the deep end.
	He's actually worse now because him and Brennan are both like worried sick that something bad's going to happen to them.
	Your take on how the AG has handled this process, culminating today?
	Well, to be honest, Chris, I'm a bit disappointed.
	I think the Attorney General clearly is trying to paint as favorable a light on the Mueller report as possible, and when you read it, it's pretty devastating.
	I'll tell you, though, the big thing for me, the big deal for me in this, was laying out in very rich detail The magnitude and pervasiveness of the Russian interference in our election in 2016.
	And personally gratifying because of the intelligence community assessment that we rendered on January 6th of 2017, briefed then President-elect Trump about the Russian interference.
	But this report, we only scratched the surface.
	And I hope Americans will take the time to read that.
	You know, collusion, obstruction aside, the big deal to me is the magnitude of the Russian interference, and no one can say they didn't interfere and, in fact, I think taint the election.
	Taint the election.
	Tainted the election.
	Taint the election.
	Now, I thought he was taking credit for this because he was the head of DNI, but It was like...
	Didn't they all, including him, and I'm sure we could find clips of this, all agree that the Russians did not taint the election?
	That's what I recall.
	Yeah, they all came out and said, well, yeah, the Russians tried, they tried to do this and that, but we don't think they infected anything.
	They had no influence, you know, except for a few stupid ads, $100,000 worth of ads on Facebook, maybe.
	But they went on, they all, and he was one of these people.
	Now all of a sudden he's convinced they tainted the election?
	A few seconds before he said that in this particular report that we just played, he said we're so proud of being so accurate, us intelligence community folk.
	He made a mistake.
	He was in the press corps, you see.
	He's now part of the press, so that's why he's participating in the back-patting.
	Hey, good job.
	Yes.
	I've got two more short ones.
	They're not short.
	There's one other thing that I need to conclude.
	Reading Volume 2.
	The president, I don't know if it's all presidents, doesn't really have a lot of power.
	There's not really a lot of stuff that he could get done.
	It's a lot of yelling and this and that and firing of people.
	I do agree.
	They can set the tone, though, and they can do other things.
	And that's what I think they're most afraid of is that he's setting the tone.
	A weird postmodern tone that is going to affect politics forever.
	They're not going to be able to get him out of here.
	It's going to be worse every minute he's in.
	And I think that's the issue.
	Paraphrasing Abraham Lincoln, who said, I cannot claim to be responsible for events.
	Rather, I was carried by the events themselves.
	And I wonder how much power the president really has.
	It seems kind of on...
	We can veto bills.
	That's a big deal.
	That's a big one.
	That's the one, really.
	That's it.
	So, yes, okay.
	That's his power.
	He got that.
	Now, let's go to the...
	This is Trump...
	CBS went on about his tweeting about Mueller.
	So they made a report out of it.
	This is Trump new tweets about Mueller and CBS. Before hitting the golf course at his Florida resort, President Trump took another swing at what he called the crazy Mueller report.
	He said some of the statements made about him are total BS and only given to make the other person look good or me to look bad.
	Special Counsel Robert Mueller found insufficient evidence of a conspiracy with Russians in the 2016 presidential election.
	Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, I gotta stop that.
	She's conflating two different things.
	Hello?
	She said absolutely.
	No, this is a lie.
	She's doing it wrong.
	She's doing it right.
	Insufficient evidence of a conspiracy with Russians.
	Let me just explain why.
	He had found insufficient evidence of obstruction of justice.
	He said there was conclusively no collusion or whatever conspiracy you want to call it.
	And she's now just kind of, whoops, just kind of weaving the two.
	Well, that way, if you can put those two together, then you can bring the collusion issue back into play.
	Special counsel Robert Mueller found insufficient evidence of a conspiracy with Russians in the 2016 presidential election, but he did not make a ruling on obstruction.
	Mueller wrote, while this report does not conclude that the president committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.
	Mueller investigated 10 episodes for obstruction and said the evidence does point to a range of other possible personal motives animating the president's conduct.
	It ultimately comes down to why those acts were committed.
	Was this a case of corrupt intent?
	Or was this just the type of visceral reactions that we've seen from President Trump in various areas?
	Mueller considered President Trump's firing a former FBI director, James Comey, telling White House counsel Don McGahn to fire Mueller.
	McGahn refused.
	And trying to get former Attorney General Jeff Sessions to reverse his decision to recuse himself from leading the investigation.
	Ultimately, this report is a 400-page tale of self-inflicted wounds.
	I mean, it's like watching NASCAR for the crashes.
	Time and time again, the president commits acts that make it seem like he was guilty.
	Okay.
	It took me nowhere.
	But this one here, I got something out of.
	This is the new impeachment talk.
	Okay.
	There was more sharp reaction today to the Mueller report.
	Senator Mitt Romney said he was sickened by some of the president's actions detailed in the report and for the first time a major Democratic presidential candidate is calling for impeachment.
	Here's Nancy Cordes.
	The Mueller report is igniting impeachment talk on the campaign trail.
	Today, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren became the first major presidential candidate to say that the severity of the president's misconduct, as outlined in the report, means the House should initiate impeachment proceedings.
	House freshman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez signed on to the movement, too.
	But Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi pushed back, saying one step at a time.
	Like many Democrats, she views impeachment as time-consuming and politically risky.
	Maryland Democrat Jamie Raskin.
	Impeachment shouldn't be a fetish for anybody.
	That would be ridiculous.
	But it shouldn't be a taboo either.
	It's part of the Constitution.
	It is the instrument of self-defense for the people and the Congress.
	But first, he says, Congress needs the full report.
	The report is very damning.
	House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler made good on his subpoena threat today, ordering Attorney General William Barr to release the complete and unredacted version of the report so Congress can pursue its own investigations.
	I see considerable evidence of obstruction of justice which is what Mueller said.
	Late this afternoon, Nadler and five other top Democrats rejected an offer to view some of the redacted material next week.
	They balked at Attorney General Barr's conditions including one that would prohibit discussion of the full report even with other committee members.
	It's an outrage!
	He's the president's lawyer.
	He's not the country's lawyer.
	He's the president's lawyer.
	My take on this whole report that you just listened to is that Beto O'Rourke is out.
	He's been kicked out of the picture.
	CBS is the CIA broadcasting system.
	And they brought up Liz.
	They brought up Liz because Beto O'Rourke has been calling for impeachment for months.
	What exactly went wrong with Beto?
	I know Mayor Pete took his thunder.
	I know that.
	But then how did he just drop off?
	What's he doing?
	He's got money.
	What's he doing wrong?
	I think what happened is when they uncovered all that punk rock era stuff and the picture of him with all this weird stuff painted on his chest.
	Oh, that made him unelectable?
	Is that what they're thinking?
	I think it made him unacceptable to the party.
	Huh.
	And they just kicked him to the curb.
	And this report...
	Because they brought the Elizabeth Warren thing up and made it very clear that she's the first...
	Good point.
	Good point.
	...to do this, which is not true, because Beto O'Rourke, who is a serious candidate, has been doing it for months, literally months, and...
	To make this proclamation on this show, on CBS Evening News, tells me one thing.
	Beto is kicked to the curb.
	He's done.
	And this finalizes it from my perspective.
	And I believe I've heard Mayor Pete, which is his name, by the way, because no one really wants to say Buttigieg.
	Just call him Mayor Pete, Mayor Pete, Mayor Pete.
	Yeah, Mayor Pete.
	Mayor Pete.
	I think Mayor Pete was calling for impeachment.
	Impeachment?
	Mayor impeachment?
	He might have, yes.
	It's possible.
	And just so everyone can stop sending us emails, yeah, we're pretty convinced he's a spook.
	It's not like a big secret.
	No, his background is way too spooky.
	Road scholar.
	Oh, and then he'd sign this all over the place.
	It's all in there.
	It's all in there.
	It's got like a checklist.
	A spook checklist, which is so easy to identify nowadays.
	We should actually put that together.
	And it's one of their better tries, I would say.
	I think the spooks have done pretty good with him.
	Yeah, and of course, yeah.
	It's the new CIA. When he gets old, you watch, you'll have white hair.
	CIA stands for Catholics in Action.
	That's the joke in Washington, D.C. I'm pretty sure Mayor Pete is a devout Christian, and so he would fit within that part of the milieu.
	But this is the new CIA. All right, we'll take the gay guy.
	Well, let's go over my CIA material here today.
	Gina Haskell finally came out and did his talk at apparently one of the CIA university branches.
	I had no idea this was one of them, but they have a national security confab every year, and she came to speak with another ex-spook who is the COO of the University of Auburn.
	And so she's in there, and there was one guy interrupting, but most of it was just mostly her discussing one thing or another.
	I did get this clip, though, which I think you'd get a kick out of, which is the first clip, which is CIA spies on Americans.
	But we do, CIA does play a role in tracking...
	Lone Wolf style attacks or attacks that may be inspired by foreign terrorist ideology such as ISIS. Lone Wolf.
	The Lone Wolf.
	She says lone wolf.
	How did that happen at an education level that she must have enjoyed?
	She's from university.
	Did she say anyways at any point?
	I didn't notice.
	Maybe.
	By the way, I've looked that up.
	Anyways is okay now.
	She's very dull.
	And when you see her and you see her talk and the whole thing, you can see why she was a great undercover spy.
	And she's Brennan's protege.
	Supposedly, yes.
	That's what we understand.
	But she is so demure and kind of like every woman, you know, Midwesterner, just a normal kind of a middle-aged woman.
	And if she was a spy, a super spy, you would never figure this out just by...
	And her background doesn't indicate it either.
	She doesn't have the right education or anything.
	She's very well...
	Hidden.
	I can see that.
	And she did mention that.
	By the way, that clip says that they spy on Americans.
	So I think people should note that.
	Because they're not supposed to, but they're doing it.
	I was so obsessed with the wolf part.
	Maybe we should listen to that again.
	Okay.
	Hold on.
	I want to hear that again now.
	But we do...
	uh cia does play a role in tracking um lone wolf style attacks or attacks that may be inspired by foreign terrorist ideology such as isis well she's kind of skirting around I don't have the beginning of it, but this is about Americans.
	Okay.
	Well, that's wrong.
	She's talking about American lone wolves.
	You can't do that.
	The CIA is foreboding from doing this.
	Well, that's what they're doing and that's what she says.
	But what you do is you just have GCHQ over there and the UK do the spying and then hand it off to you.
	Yeah, that's probably the mechanism they use.
	This is what they did with Trump.
	It's the way to go.
	But here's the thing that's interesting, whether she's a protege of Brennan or not, I had no idea this was going on.
	This is the second clip.
	that women have taken over the CIA.
	You know, for the folks that don't know, you are the first female director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
	And I know the strides that we have made in the intelligence community in terms of promoting the best and the brightest.
	But what would you say to young women out there about leadership in your agency and what it is women ought to be aspiring to?
	Well, I think at this point in history, it is a great time to be a woman at the agency or indeed in the wider intelligence community.
	At the moment at CIA, setting aside My own position.
	The head of operations is a woman.
	The head of analysis is a woman.
	The head of science and technology is a woman.
	You might sense a conspiracy here.
	Our general counsel is a woman.
	The head of diversity and inclusion is a woman.
	Yeah.
	I think, yes, in important roles, but there have been a lot of women traditionally in CIA, just not in leadership roles.
	Was that the only point they were making, or women in general in CIA? I think that there's a lot of women, but the diversity officer being a woman is, I think, I don't know how long that's been going on, but I think that's how potentially Mayor Pete has gotten into the situation.
	Yes!
	So there's something going on at that agency.
	But, you know, they're working against the interests of the American public if they're going after Trump, which they seem to be doing.
	Of course, that was never brought up in this discussion.
	And the thing is, the guy who was disguised, I can't remember this guy's name, but he's COO of Auburn and he was an ex-head of DIA. And he was in Trump's transition team, this guy.
	Bradley or Montgomery, I can't think of his name.
	I have to get my notes out.
	But...
	Yeah.
	A lot of people in Trump's transition team weren't really working – Not really working for him.
	… to benefit Trump because this guy should have said something about the the obviosity that the CIA and the intel community is going after Trump or at least the leadership is.
	I don't know about the down below people.
	Mike Pompeo, who was Trump's CIA director before he became Secretary of State, was here in Texas this past week, and he did a little Q&A type thing at Texas A&M, and I thought this was worth sharing.
	In terms of how you think about problem sets, when I was a cadet, what's the cadet motto at West Point?
	You will not lie, cheat, or steal, or tolerate those who do.
	I was the CIA director.
	We lied, we cheated, we stole.
	It was like, we had entire training courses.
	It reminds you of the glory of the American experiment.
	We lied, we stole, we cheat, we even had courses on how to do it.
	Wow, that's a great clip.
	Thanks.
	Only in Texas.
	Only in Texas.
	Yeah, well, Pompeo seems like kind of a boob.
	An oaf, maybe I should use the word.
	I don't know, man.
	I think he's got a lot going on.
	Well, his background indicates he's not an oaf, but he presents himself as one.
	All right.
	Okay.
	Well, just as an entremant, because this kind of slipped through the cracks, it doesn't get the type of attention that you would expect.
	But, of course, we know who the true enemy is of the United States.
	That is Russia.
	Even though I recall Hillary Clinton trying to do a reset and, you know, making sure that we shared in our uranium and, you know, there was all kinds of friendliness, but somehow they're the arch-enemy.
	However, this just took place.
	On Wednesday, April 17th, an airport employee in New York pled guilty to acting as a foreign agent on behalf of the Chinese regime.
	She smuggled luggage onto flights for Chinese military officials.
	The woman named Lin Ying may face up to 10 years imprisonment.
	She will also forfeit $170,000 for her actions.
	Lin began working with the Chinese state-run airline Air China in 2002.
	She became a manager in 2009.
	She mostly served Chinese VIPs and government employees.
	Both the FBI and DHS were involved in the case.
	FBI Assistant Director in Charge William F. Sweeney said, We believe this case isn't unique and hope it serves as an example that the Chinese and other foreign governments can't.
	Can't break our laws with impunity.
	Lin would accept luggage from officers of the Chinese Communist Party, or CCP, but would mark it as unaccompanied or even check it in under another passenger's name.
	She also encouraged other employees to help military officers, saying their primary loyalty was to the Chinese regime.
	Attorney Richard P. Donohue for the Eastern District of New York said, This case demonstrates how seriously we address counterintelligence threats posed by individuals in the United States who work for foreign governments, such as China.
	Lean may have her citizenship revoked if evidence is found that she lied in the process of obtaining it.
	Lean will be sentenced on September 10th.
	Now, this was a rather poor read from the news person.
	It's from someone called NTD, but it is the only clip I could find of what happened.
	This is kind of a big deal, I think.
	I think this is a huge deal, and it's...
	Well, this is an example of what you said at the beginning of the show, is that because of this Trump mania over the Mueller report, we're not getting these news stories, which is a very important story.
	Yeah, and I get it from NTD, a guy who's in his bathroom recording his report.
	It's worse than a podcast.
	Yeah, worse than a podcast.
	And actually the report went on for another two minutes with all these different cases of spying of Chinese nationals who are here legally and just spying.
	Yeah.
	And that's kind of how you do it.
	I mean, that's how spies work.
	You come in legally, you assimilate.
	But yeah, it's Boeing secrets, it's NASA secrets.
	There's a lot of this going on in Silicon Valley.
	Yeah.
	I think you've mentioned it from time to time.
	Absolutely.
	Well, that's an interesting report.
	There's no follow-up.
	Nobody else is covering it.
	It's terrible.
	Nothing.
	Oh, I missed one clip.
	I have a Glenn Greenwald...
	Oh, he's still irked.
	Well, this was a great...
	It's not so much about the content as it is.
	Well, it's also...
	The content is good.
	But he's asked to be on NPR, and this is right after Julian Assange got arrested.
	Or, as you and I have intimated to each other, was it really Julian Assange?
	I've seen websites that show Julian Assange body doubles.
	Pretty uncanny.
	We should talk...
	Before we play that clip, let's discuss this.
	Well, it's the beard, you know, it's the beard that threw me off.
	Well, yeah, you used the beard to cover up facial features and also the chin line.
	You might not be able to duplicate that, so you grow a beard.
	When's the last time we saw him with a beard?
	I don't think ever.
	I don't think I've seen him with a beard.
	So he comes out, and then he's carrying, the thing that triggered me was he's carrying a Gore Vidal book.
	Yes.
	And the book, and it's very clear as they're hauling him out, and he's also not standing, so you can't get his height, if you haven't noticed that trick.
	Yep.
	So he could have been a short guy, tall guy.
	Who knows?
	Because they're carrying him out.
	And so you can't do an analysis of his height.
	And you know, John, no one has done analysis of that.
	It's automatically assumed that he would not go when they dragged him out.
	Who knows what's going on?
	And that's the oddest thing.
	I've never seen someone get dragged out hogtied like that.
	He wasn't even hogtied.
	They were holding onto his legs.
	I don't think they were tied.
	No.
	No, they're just hauling him out so you couldn't get a height.
	So explain the book.
	If you see some of the pictures, there's a couple of the cops that have a funny laughing look on their faces, though they know the scam is a scam of some sort.
	And so they're hauling him out.
	He's carrying this Gore Vidal book, The History of National Security, The History of National Security something.
	But it's a funny book that he would read.
	Well, now I need to know what this is.
	I mean, clearly this was a sign.
	It seemed like a signal.
	The book was a signal of some sort.
	Because why would he have the book anyway?
	You're hauling some guy out of there.
	He's got a book in his hand?
	Yeah.
	It's like, hey, hey, you've got me tied.
	You're dragging me out.
	Let me just take my book, please.
	I want to take my book.
	Yeah.
	So the book is a giveaway.
	Not that we're overly suspicious, but that's what we do on the show because we're looking for the scams that are going on.
	And the poor reporting, which nobody – everybody does.
	It's us.
	And so, yeah, I think it's – we could have been an extraction.
	I mean the extract – that could have been a diversion for an extraction.
	I mean, maybe some guy with dark hair and a mustache walked out a couple of days later or walked out the next day.
	Well, I was going to say there's a lot of reports of him being able to slip out, you know, dressed as a maintenance worker or I think I'm pretty sure he was able to go in and out of the embassy.
	I would hope so.
	And maybe he had a body double come in.
	It makes a lot of sense.
	If that was me, I know that you as my friend would get some Tourette's head-shaking guy and throw a wig on him and help me out.
	Yeah, I think I'd just go over to your old place in Texas and grab one of your wigs and we'd use that.
	Okay, unnecessary roughness on the play.
	Anyway, so Greg Greenwald, don't rap, he has every right to be pissed at this introduction.
	And just the whole thing is shameful by NPR for a fellow journalist.
	And I think Greenwald did a pretty good job on this.
	But this is true media hysteria.
	I want to bring in another voice here.
	It is Julian Assange's colleague, Glenn Greenwald.
	He's on the line.
	He's a longtime backer and proponent of WikiLeaks and Julian Assange.
	Glenn, thanks for taking the time this morning.
	Sure.
	I'm not sure why you introduced me as a colleague of Julian Assange since I'm not actually that.
	I've reported on him as a journalist, but I'm happy to be with you.
	When I heard that, I'm like...
	Wow, what a dick.
	Greenwell's not going to put up with that crap.
	Well, stand by.
	He does not.
	I would love if you could actually...
	Actually, I think the NPR journo is just confused.
	He's conflating Snowden with stuff that might have done WikiLeaks dumps.
	He actually is just poorly prepared.
	But I'm happy to be with you.
	Well, I would love if you could actually, just so people understand, characterize your relationship with him and with WikiLeaks.
	Sure.
	I'm a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist who has reported on...
	I wish I could say that.
	I am a podcast hall of famer who has been reporting on...
	And WikiLeaks over the years, just like NPR has.
	And beyond that, I don't have any relationship with WikiLeaks or Julian Assange, and I'm not sure why you're trying to imply otherwise.
	Have you been in contact with him today or leading up to this?
	No.
	And what do you think of the charges against him?
	Well, I agree with the Obama Justice Department, the Washington Post editorial of 2011, the Guardian editorial from yesterday, and the consensus of press freedom groups around the world, which is that prosecuting Julian Assange in connection with publishing secret.
	Documents that showed U.S. war crimes is one of the gravest threats to press freedom possibly imaginable.
	And the indictment that the DOJ issued says, among other things, that Assange, for example, encouraged Manning to get more documents than she had originally provided, which is something journalists, I don't know if you work with sources or not in your reporting, but I do.
	This is something journalists do every day.
	They say, thanks for getting me this.
	Is there any way you can get more of that?
	So to criminalize that, encouraging sources to get more classified documents, is to criminalize journalism.
	And I would hope no journalist would stand behind the Trump administration as it tries to do that.
	Obviously, if Julian Assange actually.
	You know, I got to tell you, I have I have listened to so much radio in my life.
	Do you hear the edits in this thing?
	I hear edits all the time.
	Did you hear this blatant one?
	I didn't.
	I wasn't looking for edits, but this has been edited to tighten it up.
	Yeah, yeah.
	...to get more classified documents is to criminalize journalism, and I would hope no journalist would stand behind the Trump administration as it tries to do that.
	Obviously, if Julian Assange actually hacked into a government database, that's just standard criminal hacking.
	But the indictment doesn't say that.
	The indictment says that Julian worked with Chelsea Manning and encouraged her in order to get these documents, which, again, that's something journalists do all the time.
	We'll have to see what the evidence says.
	Obviously, hacking is a crime, and just because you're a journalist doesn't mean you get to do that.
	But encouraging a source or working with a source to get documents is pure investigative journalism.
	And that was the end of it.
	The guy let him go right away.
	Poor Glenn.
	That guy's a douche?
	Who was that guy?
	I think he's from Here and Now on NPR. He's a very recognizable voice.
	Yeah, I think he's from Here and Now.
	I don't know what his name is.
	But poorly prepared.
	Can't they get Greenwald on a Skype line?
	I mean, they have good Skype connections in Brazil.
	Yeah.
	He's on like the world's worst pots line.
	Yeah.
	This I didn't think about.
	I was still wondering how we can get our hands on it.
	You should have been thinking about it because it was an interview on a phone.
	We need a Pulitzer.
	Bullets, sir.
	We're not getting one.
	We might get a Peabody if they get rid of a couple of the judges.
	A Peabody?
	Oh, what is the Peabody for?
	Oh, Peabody's for excellence.
	Excellence mostly in broadcasting.
	Oh, we should be able to get that.
	Oh, yeah.
	And has any other podcaster won a Peabody yet?
	Not yet.
	It would be perfect to be first.
	It's like I got the first Marconi for podcasting.
	They had to change the rules, so they need to change the rules.
	Well...
	Well, yeah.
	We can start promoting it now.
	People out there should help us.
	Alright.
	That was classic.
	It was actually pretty funny.
	Let's see what else.
	We got the Yellow Vest updates.
	I got a PBS report.
	That's one of the few things that showed up that was outside of the Trump derangement crap.
	In France today, Yellow Vest demonstrators set fires through rocks and complained about huge sums being donated to restore the Notre Dame Cathedral after Monday's devastating blaze.
	One protester's sign read everything for Notre Dame.
	What about for us, the poor?
	In Paris, large portions of the metro were closed and across the country about 60,000 police were deployed on the 23rd weekend of protests against President Emmanuel Macron's economic policies.
	Macron was about to unveil new policies in response to the protests on Monday, but canceled when the Notre Dame fire erupted.
	So a couple things about that.
	One, I've seen reports in Europe saying that the yellow vests are, you know, they're just not stopping.
	This was a false flag, they're saying.
	So now we're going to burn the rest of France.
	Well, the thing is that backfired, according to Pachenik's thesis, and I think he was right on this one, is that Macron's popularity didn't change one bit with the Notre Dame incident.
	Right.
	And the backfiring is this.
	It's like, hey, look at all the money that these rich people are going to throw at the Notre Dame roof.
	Exactly.
	And we get nothing.
	No, we got to pay extra tax.
	And we got to pay extra carbon tax.
	That was the back...
	These same rich people.
	Yes, I think that was the backfire.
	Yeah, it probably just pissed them off more.
	That was the backfire.
	I totally agree.
	And it seems...
	Did you get the note from Sir Mark Hall?
	About the redesign?
	The reconstruction?
	Yeah, I did.
	About the Belgian artist?
	Architect?
	Yes, Belgian.
	Wim Delvoy says he's going to take part in the international competition, and it seems like he's already a shoe-in, and he wants to do the glass and the steel, I think, that you were talking about in the newsletter.
	Yeah.
	I put it in the newsletter, I think.
	This came up in a dinner conversation, actually with JC, who we're talking about the symbolism of changing the, instead of using the old plans for it, because this thing has been changed a few times along the way, and most of these old Gothic and Renaissance churches were Built and kind of rebuilt and then they cave in and they do something different.
	They keep changing them.
	And then this thing, I think the last time Notre Dame burnt was in the 1600s and Victor Hugo wrote about it.
	And I think they probably changed some things then.
	And they can't get, they can't do the old roof anymore because those were, I didn't know this, but apparently those were oak, giant oak beams, which I know you can get giant redwoods still.
	They do not ignite quickly.
	No, they don't.
	But I know you can get – and Redwood doesn't catch on fire that easy either.
	But it's the size of the beams.
	You can't get those beams anymore.
	So they're going to have to use something else.
	So that's already a modification.
	And so if you're going to modify it, why don't you open up the – put a glass roof or put steel beams?
	I mean there's other ways you can go and still have the same appearance and still be cool.
	But, you know, it'd be faster.
	I think by now you've probably seen, as I predicted, it would come out this way.
	And because the reports were already there.
	Now the rector, rector, Patrick Chauvet says, well, looks like it was a computer glitch that actually caused the fire.
	His exact words.
	But we will not know.
	We may find out what happened in two or three months, which seems much more likely than this immediate, it was an accident, it was a cigarette butt, it was, you know, whatever it was.
	Cigarette butt.
	I heard cigarette butt.
	I think Chris Cuomo said that.
	Could it have been a cigarette butt?
	Cigarette butt.
	You know, those French things like to smoke.
	This is AP. AP is reporting it.
	How does a glitch cause a thing to catch on fire?
	Did the cap go off in one of those computers?
	I had a cap go off once.
	The capacitor blew up in one of the computers I once had.
	Yeah, still, you've got to have a pretty big fire to get the oak started.
	Yeah, well, it was a big cap.
	So, no, I doubt it was a big cap.
	I think maybe it's in the translation.
	I still think that what they're going to point to eventually is that there was a relatively new system, monitored 24-7, two people in the building at all times, sensors everywhere, brand new wiring, but that it said that there was a fire in a different spot, and that's what confused the firefighters or something the wrong way.
	Yeah, but that just doesn't help us get to what started the fire.
	Well, no.
	But isn't it great to have a theory for us all to obsess over and then not even think about what started it?
	Isn't that kind of how it works?
	And with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage to say in the morning to you, the man who put the sea in the chicken coop, John C. Dvorak!
	In the morning to you, it's about time.
	All the ships at sea, the boots on the ground, the feet in the air, the subs in the water, all the names and knights out there.
	Hello.
	In the morning and happy Easter to the troll room.
	Hello, trolls.
	They've been very, very gracious to grace us with their presence at noagendastream.com.
	Anyone can do it.
	Come on in.
	You can listen to this live stream on Sundays and Thursdays, and you can troll.
	You can be helpful if you want, but trolling is permitted.
	Troll.
	Just troll.
	Also, in the morning, too, there he is again, Darren O'Neill, brought us the artwork for episode 1130.
	Title of that was Troll Union.
	No coincidence.
	And Darren has just been cranking him out, and this was the glitch pull-down fire alarm.
	Um, uh, It was a beautiful piece with the French flag in the background.
	Yeah, the French flag was a nice touch.
	Positioned nicely.
	And I'm just continuously amazed how the press accepts glitch as an answer.
	What happened with the system?
	Oh, glitch.
	Okay, I'll report that.
	Because, you know, God forbid we look into what the glitch was.
	I don't know what to tell you.
	No, nothing.
	I mean, your complaint is, you know, A, it's falling on deaf ears.
	B, it's a rightful complaint that no one seems to care about at all.
	And it's true.
	These reporters are terrible.
	They're no good.
	It's true.
	I think any...
	It's true.
	I think any reporter who uses the word glitch in a newsroom should be fired right away.
	So thank you, Darren O'Neill.
	NoagendaArtGenerator.com, that's where you can view all of the art.
	Man, we have over...
	What do you think now?
	I think we have like 15,000, maybe even more.
	Let me see.
	How many do we have submitted so far?
	Yeah, we have 13,000, over 13,000 pieces of art throughout the years.
	So happy with the artistry.
	So happy that everyone participates.
	And you can do it, too.
	That's the good part.
	You can upload anything, and it might get used for album art, which really helps the program.
	People notice that.
	They tend to click on stuff that's new, fresh, and exciting.
	It could also be in the newsletter.
	It could be on t-shirts at noagendashop.com.
	Please check out noagendaartgenerator.com.
	And it's an ongoing competition.
	It is.
	A friendly one.
	Well, yeah, it's kind of friendly.
	So we had a triple witching for our donation segment.
	We had 420 celebrated widely.
	That was a donation, which you had an interesting amount for.
	And then there was also Easter, of course.
	And what was the third?
	Tomorrow is Earth Day.
	Oh, Earth Day.
	Can't wait to share some stuff with you.
	Earth Day.
	Earth Day.
	It's the day that we celebrate the Earth.
	Yes.
	Earth.
	Okay, well, let's start with thanking a few people, and that's a celebration enough for us.
	Knight Leonard, $499.99, leads the way.
	He's from Holland, and he says, keep up the excellent work.
	No jingles, no karma.
	Well, thank you very much.
	No karma.
	Thank you, sir.
	Knight Leonard.
	I don't even know where in the Netherlands.
	I wonder where he lives.
	You could probably dig it up.
	The Ronin, $420.69.
	That's $420.69.
	Get it?
	Ha-ha!
	ITM, John and Adam.
	No jingles this time, but I'd like to request a karma shot for all those who came to the Portland meetup.
	Yes, there was a Portland meetup, and Melanson was there.
	I have a quick note from him, actually.
	Yes.
	Oh, you don't want to do that now since we're on Portland?
	Yeah.
	No, Melanson's donation came in.
	Ah, okay.
	Thanks for telling me.
	I was a little worried.
	Only three people had signed up on Meetup.com, but we ended up...
	You should go to NoAgendaMeetings.com.
	Meetup.com does not work.
	No, it's NoAgendaMeetups.com.
	NoAgendaMeetups.com.
	The reason that Meetup.com doesn't work is they have all these...
	For example, if it's like a week before the event, you can't sign in and there's all these things.
	It's terrible.
	I don't like meetup.com.
	I never have liked it.
	Well, you know, the real boss of us, Mimi, she hates it.
	Yeah, well, she does hate it.
	Well, I hate it too, even.
	I hate it more than she does.
	But anyway, he said we ended up having about 20 people show up, which is not bad for just a standalone meeting.
	With the permission of the Peerage Committee, we'd like to claim Oregon Local 33 for our group, as Oregon was the 33rd state admitted to the United States.
	Very nice.
	I like that.
	That's a magic number.
	I didn't know this.
	It's a stolen magic number.
	I'm very happy I'm going to put These together monthly going forward.
	I also have another peerage committee request.
	As I know, I am most likely at the Viscount level, but I don't want to go through the accounting, aha, as it has been in progress since 2012.
	I'd like to request an appendage to my Sir Tyler, Sir Craig Porter the Ronin.
	Oh, okay, we put that in there already.
	As I become a knight in Florida, move to Iowa, then move to Oregon, and I ride a motorcycle, so the thought of being a roving knight, technically a knight-errant, but it doesn't flow off the tongue as well, and it's...
	The roving is appealing to him.
	Thank you for your ruling on this.
	You can have that.
	It's off the cuff.
	I can do it.
	Finally, I passed the amateur radio general class exam, looking forward to some HF and JT65 slash FT8 DXing.
	Yes, FT8 or FS8 call, which is what we're all using these days.
	Well, I look forward to it, Sir Craig.
	I just got to get my wires up here.
	They got some great trees.
	Oh, the trees are perfect.
	I can have an 80-meter antenna, but I don't know.
	I'm going to probably need some help.
	I need some guys who have done...
	There's guys in Austin.
	Yeah, they've got guys with the bow and arrow, or the slingshot, and they shoot it over the tree, and I just...
	Yeah, the tree catches on fire and throws the house down.
	That's great.
	No, no.
	These are professional ham radio operators.
	That's 73s to Sir Craig.
	73s, and he needs a, he wanted a karma, right?
	Didn't he ask for that?
	Yes, a karma shot.
	You've got karma.
	We have a Melanson jingle, don't we?
	I think we do.
	Ladies and gentlemen, I present the Grand Duke of the Pacific Northwest, Sir Dwayne Melanson.
	There he is!
	He comes in, the Archduke of the Pacific Northwest.
	He's a Grand Duke because of some...
	It was a long story back when.
	It says Archduke on the spreadsheet.
	I know it says Archduke on there.
	I don't know why it says that.
	$333.33 from Tigard, Oregon, wine growing area.
	My Jingle Sir Jeff balanced news diet and a jobs karma, please.
	This is a thing.
	Okay, ITM gents, it's been a while.
	I'm not overboard, just over-obligated.
	Trump's tax changes haven't been good for me.
	I can no longer deduct much of my state income tax.
	So I had to write a big check to Uncle Sam, but I still feel like I need to send you some value.
	Thank you.
	Keep up the great analysis.
	Now, you have a note from him.
	I do?
	Yeah, you were just going to read it a second ago.
	Oh, yeah.
	I'm sorry.
	Yes.
	Hold on a second.
	It was regarding the meetup.
	That was the...
	It's the new studios causing these glitches.
	Do not use that word.
	Adam and John, I just left the Portland meetup.
	It was small, but we made up for it in technique.
	There were about 13 producers there, and the conversation was great.
	Thanks to Sir Craig Porter for putting this together, and we are thinking of doing it more often, perhaps even quarterly.
	Ah, Craig Porter's thinking of doing it monthly.
	As you noticed previously, there's a high concentration of techies at these events, and ours was no exception.
	Sir Tim is what the techies brought, okay?
	We've got dudes named Ben.
	Sir Tim brought a stick with a picture of John on one side and a picture of Adam on the other side.
	Technology at work, ladies and gentlemen.
	You two are definitely there in spirit.
	This is my first meetup.
	I certainly will not be my last.
	Karma to all producers and knights everywhere.
	Thank you, Sir Dwayne Melaton, Grand Duke of the Pacific Northwest.
	Yes, I can't believe this was his first one.
	He's been around for so long.
	There's a lot of guys that are always going to be their first one.
	One of our oldest, I think he's a baron, he is a baron of Oakland, And Bean has never been to one of these things.
	We've had a couple over here.
	Yeah.
	Well, and once the nuptials are behind us, I can't wait to do a couple more.
	I'm looking forward to it.
	And maybe we'll travel around a little bit to get to them.
	Because if you guys are doing them, then we definitely have to show up.
	Once in a while.
	Maybe randomly so that we don't even announce it.
	If you wake up with the blues, trying to fill your day with news, there's one thing you must remember, no agenda in the morning.
	For a healthy, balanced news diet, try NoAgendaShow.com.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	You've got karma.
	Dropping down to Associate Executive Producer, we start with E. Brett Heenan Jr.
	from Geneva, Switzerland.
	Love your work.
	Your show is the only news you're ever going to need.
	That was that.
	Well, thank you very much.
	Nick Eismendi, Sir Nick Dragon of the Four Domains in Waterford, Michigan, 214-82.
	It's a birthday call of some sort.
	Count my donation as a vote for Easter in your poll.
	Okay.
	All right.
	So that's the 82 cents.
	Yes, we did a poll, which the second half, when we get to the second donation segment, we'll discuss and see who won.
	Easter versus 420 versus Earth Day, based on the donations.
	It's a straw poll.
	It doesn't...
	It's reflective.
	We've got one vote for Easter here, so we've got to make sure to note that.
	Adam, if you could, please wish the smoking hot Mary Cordero a happy birthday today.
	She's on the list.
	We'll make it happen.
	Lastly, can I get a John's going to get hums the Sunday Times.
	John's going to hum the Sunday Times.
	That's right.
	I don't know if you can even find that.
	And he's Trump.
	He's Trump the president.
	Karma.
	Thanks, guys.
	Love the show.
	I highly recommend attending a Michigan local one.
	Meet-up soon, as we've been meeting long before it was cool.
	I was at the first of these meetings.
	And because we are number one, and the designation came from me.
	Can you just imagine someone's, you know, like, hey, you know, you've got to listen to this podcast.
	And then they hear, can I get a John's Gonna Hum the Sunday Times?
	Yeah.
	John's gonna hum the Sunday Times.
	He's Trump!
	He's Trump!
	The President!
	You've got karma.
	I can find anything.
	Baron Dirty Dick.
	Baron Dirty Dick bangs of D.C. in Arlington, Virginia.
	$200.
	Yeah, the Baron.
	You guys have been putting out straight fire.
	I have the same.
	This is a PayPal weird character.
	I don't know what this is supposed to be.
	Well, we've been putting out.
	Stop putting out, you whore.
	We've been putting it out, man.
	Stop putting out, John.
	I found out this interesting fact.
	Old millennials are now referred to as zillennials.
	I don't think so.
	I need some...
	I checked this tonight.
	I have older millennials, and they never heard that, because we do have the Generation Z, which is younger than millennials, and so I don't think the Z would be incorporated into a millennial moniker.
	It doesn't make sense.
	It's possible.
	You guys recently wished my two-year-old Archer Campbell Bangs a happy birthday and gave big brother Barrett Bangs, three years old, a call-out as well for being a loyal listener on episode 1119.
	Welp.
	We created two little monsters.
	Every day we listen to episode 119.
	Kids.
	I want to hear it again.
	I want to watch Little Mermaid again.
	So that's...
	My daughter used to watch...
	You don't have to tell me.
	It was JC. JC used to watch...
	What's that...
	Charlotte's Web cartoon.
	Over and over.
	Over and over.
	I would come into Christina's room at night, and Little Mermaid would be playing, and she'd be asleep.
	I'd turn off the VCR, and she'd go, Hey!
	Hey!
	Turn that back on!
	I was watching!
	It's just...
	Kids.
	Can't kill them.
	Give them everywhere.
	Give Archer Bangs and Barrett Bangs a big congratulation by becoming big brothers to Colton Reed Bangs.
	Woo-hoo!
	Adam, spice it up however you see it.
	Maybe the sad party horn from your 10-year anniversary archer actually laughed so hard he snarfed his yogurt at your goat scream for his birthday.
	Okay, so who's the new human resource?
	Colton.
	All right.
	And that's the real reason I'm writing.
	Thank you for your karma.
	Over the past 24 months, my mother beat cancer.
	My wife and I constructed our dream house in the People's Republic of D.C., which also became my official protectorate of the barony earlier this year.
	We also welcomed our third masculine human resource on Good Friday.
	And I got a new job, turn one down two.
	Wow.
	After this week in a patch that will keep me home 80% of the time as opposed to on the road 80% of my current job.
	Maybe it's random number theory, but that's a lot of karma to come true.
	Cancer, new home, new human resources, jobs.
	Or maybe it's because I have my sanity, thanks to you two.
	Either way, it works.
	Sorry for the long note, NJNK. I was wondering, did he request karma for each of those individual cases?
	He might have.
	I don't know.
	Karma's a crazy thing.
	He's come and gone.
	He's an old Eagle Scout.
	Yes.
	He's smart.
	Huh.
	Anyway, so that concludes our list of executives.
	P.S. John, I'm cracking a 1998 Chateau Montrose Easter Sunday to celebrate Colton's birth.
	Is that a good wine?
	The 98 Montrose.
	Let me think.
	I have had most of these vintages.
	I would say that's going to be a spectacular product.
	Lovely.
	Fantastic.
	I mean, Montrose was interesting because their greatest years was 89.
	I'm going to go into it.
	It's good.
	I can write off my Montrose.
	The 89 and 90, which for some unknown reason back in the day, they shaped We put in Montrose and Margaux on the wine list and they were cheap.
	By cheap, I mean less than $100 and that's outrageous, especially for those two vintages.
	And what it indicated to me, every time I see these wineries, they have a certain quality of wine.
	All of a sudden, it jumps through the roof as the best wine ever.
	Then the winery is sold like within two years.
	Well, that's how you want to do it.
	That's what they do.
	And they all do it, which shows you how good wine can be at some of these places that normally don't care.
	I mean, Montrose has always been a quality product, but they didn't care this much before.
	The 98 is under the newer ownership, and they were just getting started.
	I think they bought them in 95, I think.
	I'm not sure, but I'm pretty sure it was around that era.
	And then the 98, which I vaguely remember, but the 98s are interesting, Bordeaux, because they were super hyped.
	And then they never really panned out as much as they were super hyped.
	And the 99s in many cases were better.
	But I'd say it's going to be a great bottle of wine.
	What other podcast brings you wine information to that detail?
	There is only one and you need to support it.
	Now you can take that out there and say, you know what, I've got a good wine.
	Hey, propagate the formula.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Water.
	Water.
	Long water.
	Shut up.
	So we have Earth Day on Monday, and apparently, I looked at it this morning, a new video went viral.
	And within 48 hours, racked up 20 million views.
	Gosh, it reminds me of something.
	Remember that, what was that guy?
	Kill that guy in Africa.
	Yes, yes.
	Kony.
	Kony 2012.
	Kony 2012.
	Thank you, which also just skyrocketed.
	Yeah, because these are fake.
	I was at a seminar once.
	It was a journalism seminar, and some kid was there, and he talked about how the game, how he says he could do this.
	There's ways of creating a bot network and a rotating IP account that you can game with.
	YouTube and rack the numbers up to the millions.
	I think there's a lot of these.
	There must be a service that you can get.
	I would think so.
	I don't know what it is.
	But there's a way to get millions and millions of hits and there's a way to scam them out of money.
	That's why they've changed a lot of their models if they suspect this is going on.
	And that Coney 2012 thing, those numbers were jumping.
	What was the reason for it?
	There was no reason for it.
	It was bad.
	Bull crap.
	And you remember the guy behind the organization?
	It was all really, I have to look into it, it was sketchy, but there were big celebrities involved.
	And then the kid went nuts and was running around naked, jumping on cars.
	Naked, right.
	He had some issues.
	He had a meltdown.
	Bath salt.
	Here's Clooney from 2012.
	I want, I'd like indicted war criminals to enjoy the same level of celebrity as me.
	That seems fair.
	That's our objective, is to just shine a light on it.
	If our goal is to get Coney's name known, the known should join us.
	We are targeting 20 of the most diverse and influential culture makers to speak out about Coney and make him famous.
	Well, this is a set model now, and taking over the reins from Clooney, who is under command and control of Amal, and just needs to shut up and do whatever she tells him to.
	What'd he do recently?
	Came out of the woodwork for something.
	We just talked about it.
	We had a call to call Clooney jingle.
	I know, I can't even remember what it was for.
	It was in Sudan again?
	No, no, no, no, no, no.
	It was, oh, Media Freedom?
	Oh, no, no, no.
	This chat room should know.
	It was the luxury hotels owned by the Sultan of Brunei.
	Oh, right.
	The Brunei guy.
	Yeah, right.
	Which was all...
	Yeah, boycott the Dorsets.
	Right, right, right, right.
	So now Leonardo DiCaprio.
	DiCaprio has taken over the reins, and for Earth Day, he has put together quite the organization.
	Now, there are a couple of websites you need to look at, but this really is coming from his...
	Oh, there's a name for it.
	It's a special kind of foundation.
	Oh, Tina would be kicking me in the ass if I did.
	It's a donor.
	It's like, it's...
	Oh, help me now.
	I have no idea what you're talking about.
	You're allowed to do a new kind of structure, a new kind of foundation, a donor-advised foundation.
	That's what it is, a donor-advised foundation.
	Never heard of it.
	Yeah, it's a big deal.
	It's a tax thing.
	This is what Mark Zuckerberg did.
	Donor-advised foundation.
	It's really a profit-making enterprise, but you don't control anymore how the money is spent or where the profits go, but you can dictate where certain donations go to.
	It's a tax thing, and I'll have to look it up.
	Alright, well...
	It's a new thing with all the celebs and the rich people.
	So it's the Leonardo DiCaprio.
	So now there's some borderline scam.
	I feel...
	Well...
	There's pluses and minuses.
	If the labs are doing it, it's a borderline scam.
	Probably.
	So we love the earth.org, and then there's the Action Networker involved in this, and my favorite, the carbontax.org people, and they somehow even Rock the Vote has gotten into this group, and they got Lil Dicky, Who you would think is just some kind of rapper?
	Lil Dicky is a highly educated rapper who worked at Silverstein Goodby for many years.
	He's an advertising guy.
	But then he had this side career of being a hip-hopper rapper, and he's had some success.
	But this has to be his most successful move to date.
	He put together a song made for Earth Day and climate change.
	And it's called Earth.
	And it is a highly produced, extremely expensive, I think, just looking at what they did, animated a la Disney movie.
	Like, really, you know, animals, and all the animals are celebrities.
	Ariana Grande, Justin Bieber, Snoop Dogg, Kevin Hart, Adam Levine, you know, just goes on and on.
	The usual suspects.
	Yeah, so it's almost like a Disney movie where you have the usual suspects, where you have celebrities who are the voices, and they're singing.
	Now...
	A couple things about this.
	It starts off with a real life, although it's a set, but very, very beautifully shot and done.
	And you can just listen to the audio and you'll understand this as the setup for this seven-minute video.
	Millions in California are dealing with the dangers of extreme heat and rapidly spreading wildfires.
	103 degrees in downtown Los Angeles, 112 in Burbank, as climate change continues to yield record temperatures.
	Get out of the road!
	All right, so we hear the news report.
	Los Angeles is kind of on fire.
	The bus overheated.
	And the movie I was looking for is Lion King.
	It's like the Lion King, only it's got...
	Everything's animated.
	And I pulled...
	Do you recall that we were talking about people being, particularly Democrat, lefties being so frustrated and angry about everything in the world that they've resorted to cussing and swearing a lot?
	Yes, we discussed this phenomenon.
	And we've identified this.
	We've identified it returning when they're really, really off the hook.
	This is the problem with this video.
	There is so much lewdness, so many F-bombs, so many...
	Oh, yeah!
	Oh, yeah.
	I mean, I'm just going to play three short clips, but the whole thing is filled with cussing and curse words.
	Well, let's see.
	What do I have here?
	We're going to play the...
	Okay, here's some of the animals.
	Animal intros.
	I, I'm a baboon.
	I'm like a man just less advanced and my innings is huge.
	Now, can you hear what he's saying, huh?
	Hi, I'm a baboon.
	There's a problem with this whole song is it's all auto-tuned to shit.
	Yes, auto-tuned so you can't understand a word.
	Well, you will understand.
	Once you get into it, I'll just give you the first one.
	Hi, I'm a baboon.
	I'm something.
	Yeah, I heard it.
	And my anus is huge, is what he said.
	Hey, I'm a baboon.
	I'm like a man, just less advanced, and my innocence is huge.
	Hey, I'm a zebra.
	No one knows what I do, but I look pretty cool.
	Am I white or black?
	I'm a lion cub, and I'm always getting licked.
	How's it going?
	I'm a cow.
	You take milk from a dish.
	I'm a fat fucking pig.
	I'm a common fungus.
	I'm a disgruntled skunk, shoot you out my butt hard.
	I'm a marijuana plant.
	I can get you fucked up.
	And I'm Kanye West.
	We love the earth.
	It is our planet.
	So you kind of see what's going on here.
	There's a lot of cussing.
	I don't know what that huge anus has got to do with anything.
	Oh, but when you see the video, the shot, the animated, actually zooms into the baboon's butt, and then we're in his anus, and then we go to the next scene.
	Now, the thing is weird.
	You have to see it.
	Sounds unhinged.
	Now listen to this.
	Like, let's all just chill.
	Respect what we built.
	Like, look at the internet.
	It's cracking as hell.
	Fellas, don't you lie to come on UFC?
	And now her women orgasms are better than a dick's.
	So what we got is laying for.
	It's, you know, women's orgasms are better than dicks.
	It's like a Disney animated thing.
	I thought it was for kids.
	and now we'll wind it up where we take it to the conclusion so i i'd somehow i meant to clip that close I don't want all this bullshit here.
	Hold on.
	Shit.
	Here we go.
	Ooh, ooh, lindo chico y sarraguello.
	Amamos la tierra.
	Woman, I teach you.
	Come on, everybody.
	I know we're not on the same, but we're living on the same Earth.
	Everyone who's listening has been to Earth, Ariana.
	We're not making music for aliens here.
	You know what, Bieber?
	We might die.
	I'm not gonna lie to you.
	I mean, there's so many people out there who don't think global warming's a real thing.
	You know, we gotta save this planet.
	We're being stupid.
	Guys, everybody look into whatever the fuck Leonardo DiCaprio is always pushing, because I feel like that guy knows more about the Earth and how we're fucking it up than anybody.
	Like, if the aliens did come, we should definitely send Leo as our guy, our rep.
	In fact, the profits that come along with the streams and the sale of this song are going right into the Earth.
	Let's raise some money for charity.
	Any words, Leo?
	This might be my favorite song ever.
	It's awesome.
	Wow.
	Thanks, Leo.
	My favorite song ever?
	Yeah.
	And he produced the whole thing.
	Wow.
	Yeah.
	This is why, you know, this brings me back to why, you know, you shouldn't let the inmates run the asylum.
	I mean, this is where suits come in handy.
	It's like, you can't do this.
	It's terrible.
	That's the worst thing imaginable.
	And how is that helping the situation?
	Well, besides getting people to sign up and to be aware, I'm confused as to why...
	All of this effort and all these celebrities went into this project and they just put in all kinds of, I think, inappropriate content for young children.
	Isn't that who they're speaking to?
	Isn't that who the main audience?
	They should be trying to brainwash.
	That's the goal.
	But to do it that way just seems like it's offensive.
	This is an obscene production.
	I don't get it.
	It doesn't make sense why you want to do it that way.
	And there's some triggering moments.
	The zebra's there and then the lion cub comes in.
	But what happens is the lion cub falls onto the zebra and two lions and they eat the zebra.
	What?
	They're ripping it apart.
	Yeah.
	And then the cub says, I like to get licked.
	They're trying to traumatize the children?
	Something like that.
	It's very bizarre.
	Now, it's getting a lot of attention.
	It's getting a lot of attention, so that always works.
	Has anyone called them out for this abomination?
	Well, it's Easter.
	There's no one working.
	Who's going to call anybody out on Easter?
	Everything's pre-recorded, a bunch of numbnuts on television.
	Of course not.
	But they're going to get the attention they wanted.
	And I think they may play it like this.
	Well, we needed to get your attention.
	No.
	And we had to resort to severe tactics.
	What else could you come up with?
	What other excuse?
	I think what you said would be the Curry Dvorak Consulting Company's saving approach.
	How do we save this mess?
	The Curry Dvorak Crisis Communications Company.
	Crisis Consulting Company.
	I think that would be where that comes from.
	But I think, no, if you can produce something like that, you have to have your head up your ass.
	And so you're going to be sensitive about criticism.
	What?
	We didn't mean to do that.
	No, you missed the point.
	You're horrible.
	They're going to be defensive.
	Really?
	Really?
	No, they're going to say, you don't get it.
	How about that?
	You just don't get it.
	That can happen.
	You don't get it.
	You know why?
	Old white male.
	You don't get it.
	You're not hip.
	Like Lil Dicky.
	Even the guy's name, Lil Dicky.
	Alright, now I have some serious climate change news, as there was an important news story coming out of James Cook University in Australia, which has been problematic in the entire climate change hoax, let's just call it what it is, scam.
	You know, we've had multiple Australian news reports where they're very happy that some of these guys got kicked out because they were just insane.
	But, turns out, James Cook University is all in and deep.
	And there was a lawsuit about a scientist...
	Who was fired because he did not agree with the all-in message of the Great Barrier Reef.
	What does this scientist study?
	The Great Barrier Reef.
	And I have to say, I've heard for several years now, it's dying, the reef is dying, it's over.
	And I kind of took it at face value.
	I was like, I guess it's happening.
	I don't know if it's climate change, but it's dying.
	Was that your impression?
	Yeah.
	Well, I was told this.
	I've never really looked into it.
	But the message was exactly what you say.
	It's dead.
	It's dying.
	We're all going to die because of it.
	The ocean's warming up and obviously nothing.
	You heat up Canada, by the way, and the next thing you know, everybody's dead.
	Instead of them growing more stuff, getting into agriculture.
	I mean, if Canada heated up, It would seem to me to turn Canada into our Midwest, and they would prosper, but apparently not.
	You need carbon tax up there.
	And by the way, I just wanted an aside.
	Apparently, I was off on my carbon tax analysis.
	Oh?
	And instead of a dollar per gallon, it should be closer to 25 cents or less.
	Yeah, I got a note.
	According to one of our Burton producers.
	Yes.
	Okay.
	This is the news report, barrier reef scientist Peter Ridd, who won a court victory against his dismissal from James Cook University in Australia.
	Fantastic news today for freedom of speech.
	As I've said here several times, Professor Peter Ridd is a great barrier reef expert who was sacked shamefully by James Cook University for questioning claims by colleagues that the reef was being destroyed by global warming.
	He was sacked for saying things like this.
	We can no longer trust the scientific organisations like the Australian Institute of Marine Science, even things like the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies.
	A lot of this stuff is coming out, which the science is coming out not properly checked, tested or replicated.
	And this is a great shame because we really need to be able to trust our scientific institutions.
	Well, the Federal Court today ruled that Ryds sacking was unlawful.
	Joining me is Gideon Rosner, Policy Director of the Institute of Public Affairs, which has supported Rudd's fight for free speech.
	Gideon, thank you so much for joining me.
	What did the judge find exactly?
	Well, the judge found essentially that every action the university took against Peter, whether it be the censures, whether it be the gag orders, and whether it be, in fact, his final sacking, were all invalid.
	They were all measures that shouldn't have happened because they overrode and contravened Peter's right to free speech and free intellectual expression that's contained in his EBA. So all of what Peter suffered from...
	Talking out against the climate change orthodoxy, everything that he was hit by for speaking against the so-called settled science that the reef was in danger was all found to be invalid because he was protected for free expression.
	So I found an interview with this Peter Ridd, and I have a few very short clips all around 40 seconds.
	This guy, he was a professor for 30 years.
	He's been with the university for 30 years.
	Before you play this, I want to mention that I've run into a lot of experts on climate and other meteorological...
	And we run into these guys doing the show.
	They all say the same thing.
	They can't say anything because they get fired.
	They get kicked out.
	This is more like it's beyond just a hoax.
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	And this is a good example.
	This guy who is the expert...
	Can't even use his own expertise because he's going against the orthodoxy.
	Well, let's start with that question first off.
	A couple of years.
	Is the Great Barrier Reef dying?
	No, look, the reef is in fantastic shape.
	I often say that of all the ecosystems in the world, possibly with the exception of Antarctica, the Great Barrier Reef is one of the best preserved there is.
	So, Peter, what would you say to the naysayers and the usual suspects who would paint you as somebody who doesn't care about the environment?
	Well, you know, I come from an environmentalist family.
	Right from a very early age, you know, I've been in environmental organizations.
	I used to be president of the local branch of the Wildlife Preservation Society.
	I'm an environmentalist.
	Yeah, you know, that's not good enough because you weren't towing the line.
	And he says it clearly.
	He says, well, everything's great.
	Barrier Reef is better than ever.
	But what happened to him is incredible.
	A couple of years of some fairly horrible times of essentially being chased, having your emails read.
	Extremely officious meetings.
	The administrations wouldn't talk to me.
	It was all done through lawyers.
	Stuff to my wife wasn't allowed.
	It was like being hunted, actually.
	And you'd get these brown paper envelopes and your heart would race and I'd literally be sweating profusely until you'd read through yet another batch of allegations made against you.
	It was just a horrible time.
	Absolutely horrible time.
	Reading his emails, all these crazy meetings.
	Come here!
	Tell us exactly what you did!
	And meanwhile, is there any good science being performed at this James Cook University?
	The basic problem is that we can no longer trust the scientific organizations like the Australian Institute of Marine Science, even things like the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies.
	A lot of this stuff is coming out, which the science is coming out, not properly checked, tested or replicated.
	And this is a great shame because we really need to be able to trust our scientific institutions.
	And the fact is I do not think we can anymore.
	I think that most of the scientists who are pushing out this stuff, they genuinely believe that there are problems with the reef.
	I just don't think they're very objective about the science they do.
	I think they're emotionally attached to their subject.
	Yeah, I think we agree with you.
	And then finally, what does this really result in within the universities?
	Well, we already alluded to it, as we have many times in the past.
	If you can get a person where you can monitor all their communications, you can isolate them, you can then crush them psychologically.
	It's the old trick of any totalitarian regime.
	That's what they do.
	And this is unfortunately what's happened...
	To universities now, they've become very authoritarian organisations that are run by the administrators rather than by academics.
	But this is a place of higher learning.
	This is a place of open, supposedly, of open intellectual inquiry.
	And that's the problem.
	If this was a company, well, they sort of own you, right?
	But this is a university, and if these sorts of...
	A public institution.
	A public institution, public money, is being used here, and to use that to do these sorts of things is a disgrace...
	To what a university should actually be.
	Would it be fair to say that in the 21st century at our universities the old ethic of the search for the truth at the very least has been diluted?
	I think that's definitely true, yeah.
	I mean, it's in the funding as well that you've just got to go along with whatever's the flavour of the month.
	And what in particular attracts the most funding?
	I can hazard a guess, but...
	Yeah, well, you've got to say climate change at least half a dozen times in any application to have any chance at all.
	Currently, Professor Ridd is learning to code.
	Well, I've got a global warming story that CBS decided to push out.
	Okay.
	And there's a real little gotcha in here, too, that you might pick up on.
	Pollen count and global warming BS-CBS. Pollen counts across the country are exploding.
	30% of the country tonight is in the medium-high range.
	The areas in red here on your screen are where it's worst.
	Errol Barnett, reports from North Carolina.
	When an annual rite of spring collided with an incoming thunderstorm in North Carolina recently, the pictures looked like Armageddon, or Palmageddon, as photographer Jeremy Gilchrist described his drone footage showing tree pollen hovering in the atmosphere.
	It left a thick, yellow pollen film, everything outside coated by the male flower seed.
	So doctor, these are the culprits, right now anyway.
	Yeah, these are the bad actors you see.
	So sort of the tallest ones there, the big towering pine trees.
	A recent study analyzed pollen data from 17 locations across the globe and found that climate change may be making things worse.
	Allergist Dr.
	David Fitzhugh.
	As we see climate change evolving, allergy seasons tend to start earlier, they tend to last longer, and the absolute pollen counts are much higher.
	Last week, the pollen count in North Carolina was the highest of the year at more than 3,200 grains per cubic meter of air, or very high.
	And this video from Tennessee shows just how much pollen is visible throughout the South.
	That's bad news for the more than 50 million Americans with seasonal allergies.
	So this is because of climate change that we're all having these issues?
	Well, I got the biggest kick out of the little thing you said near the end.
	And he said it in a hysterical way, hysteric way.
	He goes, and this is the highest it's been in the year.
	Hold on.
	And this video from Tennessee shows just how much pollen is visible throughout the South.
	That's bad news for the more- No, it was before that, I guess.
	No, it's after.
	More than 50 million Americans with seasonal allergies.
	Yeah.
	Oh, maybe not.
	Well, the point is, is that at any point during a year, there's a moment when something's the highest of the year.
	Well, of course.
	So saying something, oh, it's the highest it's ever been this year.
	It's always going to, at some point during the year, there's always going to be a moment where it's the highest.
	You don't make that a big, giant point.
	It's just the way it is.
	It's also a day when it's the lowest.
	But that doesn't mean anything if the highest is a small amount or a big amount.
	Just to me, to use that phrase, it's the highest it's ever been this year.
	That's great.
	Well, I'm an expert on the topic, and I must say, we're right in the trees in the back of the house.
	I have had almost zero issues.
	And I'm thinking...
	Liar!
	No, I'm thinking again that the biggest problem is construction.
	And downtown Austin is continuously under construction and the pollen picks up, you know, God knows what it's picking up.
	Construction stuff.
	And of course, whatever the drug companies throw into the air just around the timing of the advertising buy.
	But otherwise, it's pretty good here.
	I'm feeling good.
	I'll knock on wood, but I'm feeling pretty good.
	You have the HEPAs all over the place?
	No, no, no, no.
	What do you mean, no?
	No, I just have the, you know, we have regular HVAC system, but we have the door open, screen door open.
	There's no problem.
	I have not had a problem.
	Huh.
	Yeah, and it's pollen season.
	Well, according to this report...
	I should be dying.
	It's longer lasting.
	You know, the funny thing is they talk about this longer lasting.
	I used to have allergies.
	I haven't had any problem in the last 20 years.
	Hmm.
	Well, of course, I don't even have a mailbox, so, you know, I have all kinds of issues.
	There was an interesting report came from the NOAA, the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration.
	They have 114, speaking of rural, rural temperature monitoring stations in the U.S. since 2002.
	And what we've seen, 2018 was 0.3 degrees Fahrenheit colder than Then the first two years measured in 2002, February and March 2019 combined are the coldest two-month period ever recorded in temperature anomaly.
	We don't hear that.
	I'll send you the link.
	It's very interesting.
	I don't believe it.
	That's right.
	Well, I've got a video I want you to see then.
	It's animated.
	Since we're doing the current study, we didn't do anything at 420.
	I should talk a little bit about it.
	First of all, Let's talk about, which was yesterday, let's talk about legalize it polls that CBS pointed out, which I think was kind of revealing.
	On the eve of 420, the day some in this country celebrate marijuana, a new CBS News poll shows 65% of Americans think pot should be legal.
	That is up six points from last year.
	Compare that to 1979, when we first asked this question in a CBS News poll, only 27% favored legal marijuana.
	Okay.
	Yeah, why would that be?
	I almost...
	I ain't washing.
	I should have clipped it.
	There was a report I saw this morning that the marijuana industry is racist.
	It's racist against black people.
	Yes, and black people, they deserve to be running the industry.
	Why?
	The crux was because of the high cost of licensing.
	And, you know, now I'm pissed.
	I should have clipped it.
	The reporter said, you know, white people, no, black people don't necessarily have friends and family they can go to and ask for tens of thousands of dollars.
	One of the most racist things I've ever heard.
	I was disgusted by the whole report, which is why I didn't clip it.
	But now you bring this up, it's like, geez.
	So San Francisco has this 420 celebration, which they've had for decades.
	Yeah.
	And, of course, 420 is a reference to one of the schools in Marin County that always smoked pot, or its kids snuck out of high school, I think, to smoke pot on April 20th, and it's kind of been lost in the shuffle, the origins of this 420 deal.
	Don't forget, it's also Hitler's birthday.
	Oh, I forgot.
	I did forget.
	Now, so San Francisco has a big part of Golden Gate Park, a big park, and it's fenced in.
	And people go there to openly smoke pot, and they've been doing this for some years, and even before it was legalized, they were doing it, even though the crowds are nothing like they are today.
	There was a picture in the newsletter of last year's group, and it's like a You know, to the horizon, a bunch of guys, mostly, with a few women, you know, smoking some doobies.
	Hey, man, do you have any more?
	And I just think this is like the dumbest event I can imagine.
	It's like a smoking, I guess, like they used to have in colleges before a football game, and everyone smoked cigars.
	But I just...
	What is the point of this?
	Can't you just...
	If you have a few pals and go smoke some dope, why do you have to be in Golden Gate Park with probably 10,000 people smoking pot unless you're just looking for a contact high and you don't want to smoke it at all?
	I don't know.
	It's California, John.
	What do you want me to say?
	They're weird.
	They're just weird.
	There's nothing you can say about it.
	The park's got no poop, man.
	Yeah, except it's got tons of poop, man.
	No, there's no poop.
	The poop has gotten worse.
	I was reading it in your local gazette.
	Yeah, yeah.
	They're setting new records for human poop.
	Here it is.
	People are pooping more now than ever from SF Gate on the streets of San Francisco.
	It's because it's been determined to be free speech.
	Pooping?
	Yeah.
	No.
	Yeah.
	No!
	Yeah, look it up.
	Some judge says it's free speech.
	They got rounded some guys up for pooping on the streets.
	Wait a minute.
	It's free speech.
	You're kidding me.
	Free speech is what they think of the city government.
	I have to see some legal documentation of this conclusion.
	Pooping is free speech?
	This is fantastic.
	Pooping on the street is free speech.
	I mean, this needs to go to the Supreme Court.
	We already had the whole is money free speech argument.
	Now we have to determine if poop is free speech.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, free speech.
	Wow.
	You took me by surprise there, my friend.
	Pooping is free speech.
	It's too long for a title, but it's in the region of what we're looking for.
	Yeah, that's true.
	Okay, back to some real news for just a second.
	Let's check in with our good friend, Wesley Clark, General Wesley Clark, to remind ourselves of all the countries on the West Clark 7.
	This was information he received not long after...
	9-11 and which countries were going to be targeted.
	And we've been tracking these for, well, for quite a while now.
	So I came back to see him a few weeks later, and by that time we were bombing in Afghanistan.
	I said, are we still going to war with Iraq?
	And he said, oh, it's worse than that.
	He said, he reached over on his desk, he picked up a piece of paper, and he said, I just got this down from upstairs, meaning the Secretary of Defense Office today, and he said, this is a memo that describes how we're going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and finishing off Iran.
	Okay.
	This report I've been holding onto for at least a week and a half, just because I wanted to make sure we played it, because you won't hear about it on what pathetically is called news.
	Sudanese dictator Omar al-Bashir has been overthrown and arrested after almost three decades in power.
	Months of demonstrations intensified when the army took the side of the protesters.
	A share is also wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Darfur.
	Well, speaking on state TV this afternoon, the defence minister, Awad ibn Ulf, said the army had decided to oversee a two-year transition period ahead of elections.
	I declare the fall of the regime and the placing of its leader in a safe place following his arrest.
	I also declare the creation of a transitional military council which will govern the country for two years.
	The 2015 constitution has been suspended.
	We will put in place a state of emergency for three months and a curfew for one month.
	So this is not an unimportant country.
	But I have an overarching question.
	Where's Clooney?
	Didn't he have the satellite, his eye in the sky, and now there's a coup that has not only gone unreported in the news, but Clooney isn't all over it with his Sentinel project?
	Well, I don't know what the Sentinel project would have.
	That was really trying to keep an eye on the villages in South Sudan, I think.
	If I'm not mistaken.
	And yeah, no, this came up.
	We actually had a clip.
	The Sudan update talking about this overthrow of this guy.
	Did we play that?
	This guy's a bad actor.
	I mean, he should have been overthrown years ago, but they couldn't vote him out because the so-called democracies in Africa aren't really democracies.
	They're just ways for one guy to get in power and then stay there.
	Did we play this, the Sudan update?
	I guess we did.
	Yeah, we did.
	Let me play it again.
	It's only 38 seconds.
	In Sudan, the ruling military council announced today that it will not extradite deposed leader Omar al-Bashir, but will try him at home instead.
	Gee, well, he was on the ball.
	I don't even remember.
	Are you sure we played that?
	I have a feeling we didn't play it.
	We may not have played it, but that's what I'm thinking.
	That's what I'm thinking.
	Well, good.
	And we basically had the clip about Sudan with the sitting on for two weeks.
	Well, we're like the news media in that regard.
	Thanks, Mueller.
	Yeah, thanks, Mueller.
	We need a thanks.
	Get Fletcher to yell one out.
	I got something else.
	What did I get?
	Fletcher yelling, thanks, Mueller.
	That'd be good.
	We can use that.
	I got a thing.
	Who sent this to me?
	We need a Mueller shout-out.
	Are you fed up yet?
	Well, you'll be happy to know we heard from the Kremlin today about the Mueller report.
	Any collusion?
	I'm here to tell you, you're not crazy.
	There's nothing new here.
	We're fine.
	Obstruction.
	Allegations of collusion.
	I'm sorry, of collusion.
	Any collusion?
	No collusion.
	No obstruction.
	Any collusion?
	Obstruction.
	Put another way, the special counsel found no collusion.
	Obstruction.
	And so there's a lot of daylight between there's nothing to see here, there's nothing wrong, and there's enough of...
	No, I thought there was more Mueller in that.
	It's Tom Starkweather.
	Yeah, that's right.
	I think your intuition is spot on.
	We need Fletcher to say, Mueller!
	Mueller?
	It's got to be Mueller.
	It's got to be Mueller.
	Yeah, it would be better.
	Not Mueller.
	I'm thinking maybe we already have this.
	I don't think so.
	Maybe.
	But play the CBS. Here's the CBS weekend.
	And this is the latest.
	This was from yesterday.
	And this is their latest thoughts on the impeachment thing.
	And it.
	Essentially is our basic thesis of calling for impeachment but really never executing and doing this instead.
	Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren is the first major presidential candidate to mention impeaching Mr.
	Trump.
	But other 2020 hopefuls say there's a better option.
	If we really want to send Trumpism into the history books, the best thing we can do is defeat it decisively at the ballot box in 2020.
	On Monday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is planning to hold a conference call with Democrats to go over the findings in the Mueller report, what she calls a grave matter.
	David Pelosi says they will also talk about, quote, the next steps that must be taken.
	Well, Pelosi's concern, as you had in that, when she did her 2006, by the way, it was not...
	Yeah, it was 13 years, not 23.
	13 years ago.
	I was wrong, yeah.
	She did her interview and she talked about this because they were trying to impeach Bush, which I didn't really realize until I listened to that whole interview, in much the same way they're doing here, the Democrats over here.
	And she says it's just going to harm the party because you...
	You just like, you can't do this.
	You can't just impeach some guy because you don't like him, which is what's going on.
	If you don't like somebody, I mean, this is like, I'm going to get back to my wine stories.
	If you're at a restaurant and you refuse and you send a bottle back, you can't send it back and expect to get a new bottle for free just because you don't like it.
	You can only send a bottle back if it's damaged.
	Right.
	Or corked.
	That means it's corked or it's bubbling or...
	It stinks to high heaven.
	It smells like dog poop.
	Things like that.
	You can send the bottle back and they take the bottle and get you another bottle.
	But you can't say, well, you know, I don't like this wine.
	Well, you can't.
	That's no good.
	And that's what they're doing.
	And the public, I think, doesn't like it.
	I think the Democrats are hurting their chances in 2020 to an extreme with this mania.
	Yeah.
	Well, they're bringing out the big guns for this.
	And I think it's very similar to climate change.
	I think we'll see something very similar with vaccinations as well.
	We're going to have the anti-vaxxers.
	This is picking up a lot of steam.
	Now you can't crowdfund GoFundMe if you...
	I guess if you even say that you are...
	I'm skeptical, defunding, deplatforming going on everywhere.
	But the mind control, and I believe this may be a big mistake, the mind control, which was set into motion in the 70s on the American public, but I would say the world at large, because I watched this show when I was growing up in the Netherlands, it had subtitles.
	In fact, Meathead was known as Meatball, translated to Dutch, Chahakbal, instead of Meathead, would be Chahakhoft.
	All in the family.
	They're going to reboot it.
	And every time someone says this, I always like to comment, it's been rebooted, it's called Family Guy.
	It's the same show.
	And so, just to explain a no-agenda theory for those who haven't heard it, the character Lewis Carroll played, Archie Bunker, was at the time, and John, you can attest to it more than I can, because I think you at one point said it was very much like your dad, But that was what a Democrat was like.
	A Democrat, the working class in the United States during that Archie Bunker era, working man, bitching and moaning about one thing or another.
	They were always Democrats.
	There was no way a guy like that would have been a Republican.
	That's just a blatant lie.
	Republicans were all the kind of – they were always considered and thought of as the – Kind of the white-collar guy, skinny, maybe a pocket protector, business guy, guy who owned the local stores.
	He wasn't a working guy.
	The working guys were all Democrats.
	They were all union guys.
	And Archie Bunker was one of them.
	He would be a Democrat by any standards whatsoever.
	But because...
	I'm sorry, Carol O'Connor, not Lewis Carroll.
	Carol O'Connor.
	Yeah, Carol O'Connor.
	Lewis Carroll is the writer.
	Yes.
	Anyway...
	Because the Lear folks...
	Lear Foundation.
	They were Democrats and union members themselves, but They couldn't bring themselves to ridiculing his fellow Democrats, so they made him a Republican just arbitrarily.
	It's bullcrap.
	Here's the report.
	Some of you may remember the hit sitcoms, All in the Family, The Jeffersons.
	Well, ABC has announced that they are airing a live classic episode from each of those shows with an all-star cast.
	Woody Harrelson and Marissa Tomei will play Archie and Edith Bunker, and Jamie Foxx is set to move on up and play George Jefferson.
	Norman Lear, who created these series, along with Jimmy Kimmel, is going to be presiding over this.
	I conducted the last interview with Carol O'Connor and he talked about why Archie Bunker worked and this is why I think this new iteration will not.
	Watch.
	You cannot laugh at the character you're playing.
	You cannot be aware that he's funny.
	As an actor, you have to play him intensely, and you have to play him fiercely and angrily, and that's what makes him funny.
	And now I realize this may just be a one-off, I guess.
	Maybe it's a...
	Live?
	They're going to do a live version?
	Yeah, it's going to be a one-off.
	I think it's NBC who's done a bunch of these live shows because they're trying to revive live television.
	I think it's ABC who's been doing that.
	No, I know, but I'm saying NBC has done a bunch of Broadway plays.
	I believe it's NBC who's done these Broadway plays live and it's got traction.
	Yeah, people like that.
	I'm pretty sure it was ABC. That did the live Broadway stuff?
	Yeah, and they did Jesus Christ Superstar.
	Yeah, it was ABC, and it could be.
	Well, Disney, you know, is a little more show business than any of the other two networks, so they would be that way.
	It'll be interesting to see how that works.
	Oh, I think the guy's right.
	It's going to be an insulting to the public bust.
	You know, last night, without knowing how long the movie...
	I would stop.
	Let's take some notes.
	I'll bet you they're going to talk about global warming.
	Oh, boy.
	I mean, it's not really hard to figure out what they're going to do.
	They're going to have global warming, maybe vaccinations.
	Just the things you named a minute ago.
	Yeah, probably.
	What else?
	Trump is an idiot.
	Oh yeah.
	Bunker's going to have to be a huge Trump fan.
	Yeah.
	We can write it ourselves.
	In fact, let's do our own little performance two days before.
	Well, I was going to follow up.
	Last night, we're done with everything.
	I've been moving, prepping, all this stuff.
	It's like 9 o'clock.
	Let's just watch a movie.
	And Black Klansman is premiering on HBO. Not knowing this is an 18-hour movie.
	And we're watching it, so we didn't get through the whole thing, but twice before we stopped and had to go to bed, it was so obviously written with Trump hate.
	First it was, that racist thinks that all rapists and murderers, and it was completely the Trump rhythm of what Mexicans are, and then later...
	He's talking to...
	I forget who's talking to each other.
	They're talking about, oh man, this racist...
	Really, this racist stuff?
	Yeah.
	I predict one day, one day in the future, it could happen, there would be a racist in the White House.
	And it was so obvious.
	I mean, it's a historical piece, and they tie all of that history into Trump.
	It was...
	Spike Lee, man.
	I don't know.
	I found it disturbing.
	Yeah, well, I haven't seen the movie.
	But you'll have to now.
	As you mentioned, it makes nothing but sense what you said.
	Yeah, you'll definitely have to watch it.
	I'm going to finish it tonight or tomorrow night.
	It's beautifully done.
	And it points, you know, long, long in the tooth.
	But it's just like, oh man, just get over yourself already.
	No, that's never going to happen.
	Anyway, looking forward to the live reboot of All in the Family.
	I'm going to show my support by donating to No Agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, on No Agenda.
	In the morning.
	And we do have a few people to thank for show 1131.
	Starting with Sophia...
	Pandelea, I'm guessing.
	$150.
	She's in San Jose.
	She said she just completed an exhausting job hunting process, which culminated in a fantastic offer at a great company.
	Wanted to share the job, and thank you guys for helping me keep my sanity.
	Thank you.
	Thank you very much.
	More job cover for her at the end.
	Night of the Vector Realm, 111.
	111.
	Any funny jingle at the end would be good for him.
	Philip Wienstra, 101.80.
	And now we go into the competition.
	Yes, explain the parameters.
	We had three things you could vote for.
	Earth Day, which was a vote of $84.
	Yeah.
	Easter, which is a vote of $82.
	These are the number four times the date, which one of our producers suggested for 420 Day, which is $80.
	So the So 420 should win because it's not only the cheapest of the votes, but with our audience, we suspect it is the most popular.
	Now, we already got one vote for Easter, so we're going to put one plus one on there.
	Okay.
	So we start off with Sir Brian, the miserable IT guy, who votes for Earth Day.
	Oh, woohoo!
	I got a video for you.
	And that's it.
	That's our one vote for Earth Day.
	He says it was the biggest and Earth Day is the underdog.
	That's true.
	It is true.
	It is the underdog.
	We expected it to be the underdog.
	In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if it got no votes.
	Well, that's it.
	It was one.
	No, we had two.
	So one plus one, two.
	Two votes for Earth Day.
	The underdog.
	No, no, no.
	The other vote is for Easter.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	One for Earth Day.
	Yeah.
	See?
	Fuck the earth.
	Yeah, one.
	One.
	Okay, here we go on to Easter.
	Okay.
	So we start with Daniel Lind in Humboldt, Texas.
	$82.
	Larry Hay.
	John Grumling.
	Todd Beeson.
	Happy Easter, he says.
	Sir Benjamin Ritgers in Boone, Iowa.
	Sir Bernie Adama in Hinton, Iowa.
	Sir Chris James, Parts Unknown.
	And last is Sir Malinowski.
	I count eight.
	Okay, that's eight plus one?
	No, eight total.
	Okay, eight.
	Okay, that's eight.
	One to eight.
	So far.
	Okay, here we go.
	Now we're going to the 80.
	Now, I'm not sure how to deal with these.
	Somebody, a couple guys came with boob donations.
	In fact...
	No, a boob does not count.
	Let's see what they say here.
	No, no, no, no, no.
	No, if they say it, I'm going to give them the credit for it.
	No, because Tyler Fox says, Viscount Tyler Fox chiming in to say, boobs should win over weed, religion, and virtue signaling day.
	I mean, Earth Day.
	Okay, boobs, there'll be a separate category, and we're going to count their votes as boobs.
	I think boobs beats the Earth.
	Well, boobs beats the Earth.
	We've got Paul Tytel in Toronto.
	8-008.
	Lee in Omaha, Nebraska, 8-008.
	Tyler Fox in Austin, up the street from you.
	Kevin McLaughlin in Locust, North Carolina.
	Jeffrey Steckroth, also boob, 8-008.
	Sir Herb Lamb comes in and says, Happy Easter, or he just says best.
	Happy Easter comes from Dirk Bagdad.
	Okay.
	So that's six.
	So that's six boobs.
	Six boobs.
	Six boobs.
	That's a lot of boobs.
	Okay, now we got Easter.
	Oh, no, this is 420 day, even though Sir Dirtbag Dave comes in at 80.
	This is Happy Easter, but he just gave me 80.
	Okay, that's one.
	David Nixon, Anthony Fields, Sir William Durkin, who also has a knighting coming up where the C stands for cadence catcher.
	Here's my guess.
	I'm glad somebody paid attention to that.
	Uh...
	This donation takes me to Baronet.
	Okay, we got him marked down.
	And he says, before my title change, I must confess, Podfather, I have sinned.
	I was accidentally double knighted.
	When I've asked for karma since this error, it's only received bad karma.
	Oh boy.
	I wanted meatballs and Manhattans at my knighting, but there must have been an error in the back office because Adam never included them.
	Could this be the source of my bad luck?
	What can we do to correct this problem?
	Knight him a third time.
	Done.
	Well, I didn't.
	Sure.
	Yeah, drop the meatballs in there.
	All right.
	It's meatballs and...
	What was it?
	Manhattan.
	All right.
	So I count five weed.
	One, two, three, four, five.
	Yeah.
	Five.
	The last one is Travis Blevins in Portland, Oregon.
	Donated 80 bucks for the 420 donation in celebration of the Portland meetup.
	Now...
	Okay.
	So five...
	The boobs beat it.
	The boobs beat 420.
	Yes, the boobs beat 420, but the Earth is completely unimportant.
	Easter wins.
	Easter wins.
	Congratulations, Easter.
	Me too.
	It says a lot about our audience.
	I appreciate that.
	They're sane.
	Also, our audience, our producers, I see on the people who hate us boards, they call us chuds.
	Chuds?
	Yeah, it's Christian Homeschooled Uneducated Dummies.
	You never heard this?
	The Chud?
	No, I like it though.
	You gotta do it all uppercase.
	Chud.
	And I saw this and I went, Chud?
	What the hell is Chud?
	Christian Homeschooled Uneducated Dummy.
	Okay.
	In fact, I think that's our title right there.
	Chud.
	I wrote it down for just thinking the same thing.
	It's too good.
	Maybe Chud or Chuds?
	Was this a movie?
	I'm looking at the Troll Room.
	Troll Room says it was a bad Roger Corman movie.
	Oh, there's no such thing as a bad Roger Corman movie.
	I don't even know what we're talking about.
	Either that or you're being redundant.
	There you go.
	Sir Ryan, let's continue with Sir Ryan.
	Congratulations, Easter.
	Yeah, congratulations, Easter.
	Sir Brian Coffin, which is today.
	Sir Brian Coffin, $75.75 in Scottsdale.
	Rick, $59.
	This is Rick.
	Sir Joe Buon of Weekapog, Pronounced like Obi-Wan, Star Wars, Jobwan of Wikipog, okay, 59.
	Walter Ulrich, 59.
	Anonymous, 59.
	Ryan Brady in Pittsburgh, 59.
	Oh, these are all the leftover $59 donations.
	Oh, my goodness, yes.
	One, two, three, four, five, six.
	It almost won.
	Wow.
	Paul Webb is 59.
	Then Sir Jeffrey Yerke over here by me, 5670.
	I gotta get a hold of him.
	Get back on track with our project.
	Chris Kincaid in 5510.
	Can I ask you what project?
	Yeah, Red Fox project.
	Oh my god.
	We've been digitizing Red Fox.
	As long as I've known you.
	The project goes on forever.
	One of these days, people, we're going to have our compact disc done.
	We're going to have the Red Fox collection completed.
	On a compact disc.
	Andrew Benz.
	I think it's a sir in Imperial, Missouri.
	Sounds right.
	And then Robert Case in Millspring.
	Anonymous Maxine Waters Gravel.
	Is it back again?
	Probably going to get a knighthood eventually.
	Maxine's Gravel needs a Twitter account.
	Yeah, Daniel Laboy in Bath, Michigan.
	Robert Dracosin.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	I'm sorry.
	Anonymous Maxine Waters Gravel had a note.
	Forgot to request a dedouching last donation.
	And I'd like to call out John's squeaky chair as a douchebag.
	What a freeloader.
	Douchebag!
	And I'll give you a quick dedouching.
	You've been dedouched.
	Too funny.
	Get a Twitter account.
	Daniel Laboy in Bath.
	Robert Dricosin, or Dricosin, one of the two.
	50.
	These are $50 donors, name and location.
	Matt Bullock.
	I don't know, what do you think?
	Bullock?
	Bullock?
	Bulky.
	He says, Adam, happy birthday wishes and new apartment.
	Not paying much attention.
	I remember watching you both around something or other.
	20 years ago on TV. You have a birthday coming up?
	No, it's really late.
	Did you just have one, like two months ago?
	No, September 3rd.
	Oh.
	Maybe it was your late birthday wish.
	Oh, maybe.
	Wishful thinking, 50.
	Wishful thinking.
	Sir Andrew Gussick, and last but not least, George Wuchet in Universal City, Texas, 50.
	I want to thank all these folks for producing show 1131.com.
	And it keeps things going.
	Thanks.
	Yes, and it's your program, so you are producing, and this is how it works.
	And thank you.
	We appreciate it.
	Certainly for this Easter.
	Where nobody's listening.
	We have a couple of meetups that I'd like to reiterate.
	April 27th, we have the Zurich-Switzerland meetup.
	May 2nd, Seattle, Washington.
	May 4th, Baltimore, Maryland.
	May 18th, Cincinnati, Ohio.
	The 25th of May is Eastern North Carolina.
	And the 25th also is Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
	And we talked about the Portland meetup.
	This is from Alyssa.
	From the Atlanta meetup, which was the same day as the Portland meetup, in the morning, John and Adam, we had the Atlanta meetup today.
	It was super successful.
	We had about 27 people show up, some from North Carolina, even one from Tennessee.
	Wait, was that Coble?
	Probably.
	It was a blast.
	We decided to call ourselves Atlanta Local 404, which I think is approved.
	John, what do you think?
	I like it.
	404 error message sounds good.
	Yes, I like it.
	Even the Archduke Sir Herb Lamb himself was there, attached a picture of most of us, including your heads on sticks and a red book we wrote our emails on.
	And some good-looking women at the Atlanta group.
	And time codes.
	Yes.
	Actually, all around a pretty group.
	Thank you for your courage, for a great show, bringing people together.
	It was a great event, Alyssa.
	Also, Adam, I remember on one show a while back, you said you'd be interested in coming to an Atlanta meetup.
	Let me know if there's a date.
	If you want to come out, no pressure, of course.
	Yeah, definitely.
	We want to do a lot more meetups.
	And the fact that we're getting this structure in place, I think is very encouraging, not just for the program, but for you as humans.
	You know, you go to Holland about once every year, maybe once every two years, but you go.
	Most of the flights...
	Go out of Atlanta, if I'm not mistaken.
	Go through it.
	Well, I've stopped doing that because I've gotten screwed too many times.
	But yeah, you can definitely fly from Atlanta to Amsterdam.
	So the idea would be go to Atlanta a day early, do a meet-up, and then fly to the Netherlands the next day.
	I think that's a valid point.
	Or on the way back.
	Yeah, I think it'd be...
	Nah, the way back you're tired by the time you land in Atlanta.
	Okay.
	Just a point of order, that's all.
	Yes, we look forward to that.
	And thank you again, everybody.
	We need some jobs karma and goat karma for those who requested it.
	And please remember to support the program.
	We'll have another episode on Thursday.
	Dvorak.org slash NA Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	You've got karma.
	And today is the 21st of April, 2019.
	Here's a look at our birthdays on the list.
	We have Lee in Omaha.
	He turns 42 on the 23rd, getting it in nice and early.
	Jane Owsley says happy birthday to her smoking hot hubby, Brett Owsley.
	He turns 49 today.
	Congratulations.
	Sir Benjamin Ritgers, 43 tomorrow.
	And Sir Nick says happy birthday to his smoking hot Mary Cordero.
	We couldn't agree more.
	Happy birthday to everybody here at the best podcast in the universe.
	Now, we have a kind of combo title change, but we're going to take this opportunity to try and rectify the karma for Sir William Durkin.
	So, John, why don't you...
	Yeah, I got it.
	Yeah, this is the third time of night.
	All right, let's...
	For the third time, William Durkin, please step forward.
	You have a seat at the roundtable.
	We're now going to make an official spot as Baronet.
	And we are very proud to pronounce the KV for the third time.
	Sir William Durkin, now Baronet of the No Agenda Roundtable.
	For you, we have...
	Well, look, we have meatballs of Manhattans!
	We got, um, chilled Polish potato vodka, waifus and waffles, Dr.
	Pepper and a quick handy, Captain Morgans and women with questionable reputations, breast milk and pavlum, organic macaroni and plasticizers, blear and blunts, bong hits and bourbons, sparkling cider and escorts, ginger and gerbils, and, of course, mutton and mead!
	I don't have to tell you to go to noagendanation.com slash rings because you already are a knight.
	Let us know if the karma corrects, if you receive a karma correction.
	Hopefully.
	Alright.
	I got a couple clips here.
	Yeah, I got a couple things.
	How about this one?
	Egypt election now makes you wonder.
	Yeah.
	Egyptians went to the polls today to vote on a constitutional amendment that would allow President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to hold power until 2030.
	Another amendment on the ballot would broaden the military's power, a move that critics see as a step toward authoritarian rule.
	El-Sisi's government has arrested thousands in recent years and has rolled back freedoms won in the 2011 pro-democracy Arab Spring uprising.
	Voting is scheduled to continue through Monday.
	So much for that.
	Alright, let me try this on you.
	Porgy and Bess, the Gershwin masterpiece, is a love story set in a fictional, poor black neighborhood in the American South.
	In this song, Porgy declares his love for Bess, who's being shunned by the rest of the community.
	When the opera premiered in 1935, it was groundbreaking because it was written for and performed by an all-black cast.
	And in fact, the Gershwin Estate requires that all performances of Porgy and Bess star all-black singers.
	Now enter the Hungarian State Opera, which is reviving Porgy and Bess for a limited run this week.
	The opera's general director is a guy named Sylvester Okavac.
	An ally of Hungary's far-right anti-immigrant Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
	What could possibly go wrong?
	Well, for one, Okavac hired a white cast, and then to get around the casting stipulation, he asked the performers to sign an affidavit saying they self-identify as African American.
	And more than half the cast signed.
	Way to go, Austria!
	You know, if you're going to play this self-identifying bullcrap...
	You might as well do it right.
	You might as well go all the way.
	I think that the woman who, of course, is the postmodern example is that Dolan woman who was...
	Yes.
	...being black.
	She wore makeup.
	She wore blackface, essentially.
	Yes.
	She was self-identified as black.
	She was the president of an NAACP chapter, wasn't she?
	Yes.
	I'm cool with that.
	I just think that's very funny.
	Well, here's one for you.
	I've just picked up a couple of random clips.
	By the way, that's a winner.
	Gretna Fire and Rescue rushes to help a 59-year-old man with a racing heart at work.
	He does not have a history of heart problems.
	The squad has a 20-minute drive ahead to the emergency room.
	At one point, the patient's heart rate is 200 beats per minute.
	During the seven-mile ride from 140th and I-80 to Lakeside Hospital, something happened that isn't covered in the treatment plan.
	Potholes.
	The driver apparently hit a monster-sized one because medics told the hospital, as relayed by Omaha Scanner on Twitter, the jolt of the pothole converted the patient's racing heart to normal rhythms.
	It's rare, but it's a well-described phenomenon.
	One way to treat that is with an electrical shock.
	Classically, you'll see on television, the paddles clear and the big jolt.
	Turns out you can do that with a pothole.
	Just so you know, John, in case you have AFib or something like that, just take a short drive down to 80.
	Yeah, you might have to go a quarter mile and you're already good.
	You'll probably be fixed.
	Oh, yeah.
	It won't take even that long.
	The road down here, jacuzzi, has got potholes all over the place.
	In a similar medical topic...
	I've always been quite fascinated by Adderall and Vyvanse and how this is treating ADHD or even other forms of youth.
	Yeah, by firing kids with amphetamines.
	Yes, for some reason the amphetamine works and they certainly get better grades.
	I've seen fabulous grades from this ADD and ADHD medication.
	But it doesn't work for everybody.
	Sadly, and you know, kids need help.
	Luckily, there's help right around the corner.
	The FDA has approved the first medical device designed to treat children with ADHD. It's about the size of a cell phone and it sends a low-level electrical pulse to the brain through a patch placed on the child's forehead.
	In clinical trials, it took about four weeks for the results to kick in and children showed statistically significant improvement.
	The FDA says that the device should only be used on children who are not being treated with medication.
	Isn't that special?
	Hey, kid, let me fix your ADHD. Now you can just tase your kid.
	I hope the patch on the forehead is decorative.
	I mean, electroshock, it just seems so outdated.
	Prediction, the lobotomy is going to make a comeback.
	At this point, we can just predict this stuff.
	I agree.
	Let's play this, since we need to know this is very important since we're talking about health issues, is the flu season is going on a continuing course.
	The flu season is still going at 21 weeks and counting.
	That makes it the longest since the government started tracking this more than a decade ago.
	A new strain that emerged in February started causing more illnesses.
	The CDC estimates there have been up to 57,000 flu-related deaths this season.
	So 57,000 dead.
	Flu-related deaths.
	Yeah, related.
	Yeah, which means pneumonia, typically.
	Pneumonia, usually.
	Yeah.
	But I wonder if the new strain is covered in the vaccine.
	They never really make that clear.
	It could be just another strain.
	We had that happen in California, I think it was during our show era, which is probably about six years ago.
	They had a flu, everyone got shot, and then there was some flu called California flu.
	Showed up at the end of the season and everyone got sick.
	All the people that had the shot.
	Right, right, right.
	So...
	That was...
	My approach is somewhat different.
	Keep camouflage on hand, people.
	And a couple of clips of the elites of the world.
	I probably should start with this one.
	Where in the world is Victoria Kagan Noodleman?
	That's right, Vicky Noodleman!
	She went, uh...
	Where did she go again?
	She was at a big thick tank, and then she left after a year, and all of a sudden she was just off the radar, but she's back!
	We are thrilled that Toria is back!
	Said Jim O'Brien.
	Vice Chair and European Practice Lead of the Albright Stonebridge Group.
	She's going in big time.
	This is the Madeleine Albright exit strategy.
	This is a big international group.
	This is no joke.
	Yeah, she gets paid a fortune to.
	Yeah, this is serious stuff.
	Let me see, what is she going to be doing?
	I guess she's going to be at the Europe Practice Group.
	What the hell?
	Why would she be there?
	Well...
	She's going to overthrow the Europe.
	She says that's the EU. She's an expert.
	I was just going to say, we should probably remind everybody who she is.
	The Clintons are still on their, uh, listening tour, which, uh, I think is poorly attended.
	Although I have no actual attendance records.
	This went around on the social media.
	Some guy got so bored with listening to the Clintons talking that he had his own questions that he shouted from right on the side of the stage because he did it on his cell phone.
	Bill, this is boring.
	Why don't you talk about Jeffrey Epstein?
	I want to know about you and Jeffrey Epstein.
	Talk about...
	No, no, you...
	Jeffrey Epstein.
	Flying on the Lolita Express.
	Lolita Express, you pedo.
	Oh, that's too funny.
	Wow.
	We need to know more about that.
	We need to know about Trump on the Pedo Express.
	We need to know about the Clintons.
	No, we're going to find out nothing.
	We need to know about the lawyer, Dershowitz.
	I know we're not going to find out.
	We need to find out this.
	We're going to find out nothing.
	Yeah, you're right.
	I got it.
	This is kind of interesting because this opens the gates to all kinds of hell.
	Okay.
	This is the EPA getting sued for good reason.
	A federal judge in Flint, Michigan, has ruled that residents there can sue the Environmental Protection Agency for contamination of the city's water supply that began in 2014 and continued for years.
	In her ruling on Thursday, Judge Linda Parker said EPA employees knew lead was leaching from old pipes and knew that Michigan regulators were misleading residents.
	Nearly 5,000 residents joined suits against the federal government, alleging EPA officials and employees, quote, negligently responded to the water crisis.
	The federal government tried to have the cases dismissed.
	This is a big deal.
	How so?
	Well, because they start suing the EPA over some of these local things like that.
	For having knowledge and then refusing to do anything about it.
	Because they were preoccupied with global warming.
	They didn't care about the water issues.
	Too busy.
	It's going to change the way the...
	But how is the EPA directly responsible versus states themselves?
	Negligence.
	If they hadn't known anything about it, it would be different.
	But apparently there's evidence that they knew about it.
	They didn't do anything.
	They have...
	They have jurisdiction over the state and regional agencies.
	Okay, okay.
	And the state, you know, in the case around here, we have the Air Resources Board in Sacramento, and then we have the local agencies and the EPA. And the EPA is really the Supreme Court.
	Well, that's your old stomping grounds, isn't it?
	Yeah, absolutely.
	For the California EPA? Yeah.
	The way I learned is that every layer you go up, they're dumber.
	Very strange.
	Okay, so you're uniquely qualified to tell me what the next step would be with this, if the EPA knew all about this and did nothing and withheld it.
	Well, the next step is they're going to get sued for like a billion dollars.
	How much kind of damage is we're talking about?
	It's going to be a nightmare and it's all on Obama's head.
	It's his boys.
	It's that woman, that crazy Irish woman that was running the place and more preoccupied with global warming.
	That's right.
	And is it from Obama's days?
	Yeah.
	That's when the poisoning took place.
	Who was that again?
	What was her name?
	McCartney or something.
	McCarthy.
	Oh, yes!
	Wasn't she the...
	She had the really heavy Boston accent?
	Yeah.
	Yes, here we go.
	Gina McCarthy, here we go.
	What steps should we be taking?
	I'm joined by the nation's administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency, Gina McCarthy.
	Very good to have you with us.
	First of all, the key points of this report, as far as you're concerned, as far as science is concerned, they're not disputable, correct?
	Yes.
	That's correct.
	This is a clear indication that we're already today facing the impacts from climate.
	It's not just about future projections anymore.
	You're right.
	Let's imagine for a moment.
	You're right.
	She was upset.
	Now I remember she was obsessed with climate change and was doing nothing else but climate change.
	Yeah.
	This is, what does it have here?
	Common sense.
	As we continue our efforts to address improved air quality, we must also, as the President has made clear, take steps to address climate change.
	Every single clip we have of her.
	Every clip of her will be about climate change.
	He's like, yeah, air is important, but...
	Being poisoned in Detroit?
	Climate change!
	It's amazing when you just play some stuff that we've played in the past.
	Let me see when that clip was originally.
	It's in 2013.
	Yeah.
	Gosh, we've been doing this a long time.
	All right.
	Okay.
	Let's do one more, and then we'll do our nice Easter end-of-show mixes.
	We have some good ones from...
	Oh, we have the Fletcher with Carolyn Blaney, Sir Chris Wilson, Cyborg Dave, and Tom Starkweather.
	We've got a promo from Horowitz.
	Horowitz and a promo?
	Okay, we got some ditty here from Dominique Sweeney and Sir Seat Sitter.
	It's jam-packed.
	Well, okay, I want to play this clip I've been meaning to play.
	It's a very horrible situation happening to Haitians who were born and raised in Dominican Republic.
	They're being tossed out.
	And it brings to point, one of the great things about our Constitution is our ex post facto laws, which I've been reading from the...
	What is that?
	What is an ex post facto?
	And people should look at ex post facto.
	Can you give us a brief...
	Yes, an ex post facto, which is illegal.
	An ex post facto law is one where, like, for example, let's say you get arrested for...
	Throwing a cigarette butt down on the ground.
	Right.
	And the cops say, well, you can't really charge him with anything because we can't find any laws that say it's illegal for him to do that.
	And so, okay, well, we'll pass the law and now you can charge him.
	So you pass a law that retroactively charges you.
	I got it.
	It's totally illegal in this country in state, any level whatsoever to pull that stunt.
	You can pass a law that takes the onus off of you.
	In other words, you legalize something, and so you legalize marijuana, and you let people leave prison.
	You don't have to, but you should.
	So it does work in that direction, obviously, not in one direction.
	Yeah, it works in one direction, but not the other.
	So you can't all of a sudden pass a bunch of crazy laws making what you did yesterday illegal.
	I'm guessing this is different in the Dominican Republic?
	Apparently.
	There's another border story playing out in our hemisphere on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola.
	The Dominican Republic and Haiti sit side by side, yet have a complex and fraught history.
	During the 20th century, hundreds of thousands of Haitians crossed into the wealthier Dominican Republic to escape poverty and political instability, only to face color-based racism and, at times, violent repression.
	Recently, in what international human rights organizations took to be a swipe at those with Haitian roots, the Dominican government made headlines when it ended birthright citizenship for children born in the Dominican Republic to undocumented parents.
	NewsHour Weekend's Yvette Feliciano has more as part of our ongoing series on Haiti.
	January, in the Dominican Republic city of Jiménie, near the main border crossing into Haiti.
	Earlier in the day, 34-year-old Jesus Lom Exiler says he was detained.
	Exiler, a Baptist pastor, says he was unjustly held by Dominican immigration authorities for six hours.
	They come and ask me, hey you, black guy, where are your documents?
	I took them out and they said, get on the truck.
	And while we drove, I asked, what is the problem here?
	I have my documents.
	And they said they had to verify.
	Exiler was born in the Dominican Republic to Haitian migrants, and he is a legal resident here.
	But he is not a Dominican citizen, and he cannot vote.
	That's because, according to the Dominican government, his Haitian heritage makes Exiler a foreigner in the country of his birth.
	They call you illegal.
	They say you are not from here.
	You are Haitian.
	Go to your country.
	Most of us don't even know Haiti.
	We don't know anyone there.
	It used to be that, with few exceptions, being born in the DR made you a citizen.
	But constitutional and legal revisions that took full effect in 2014 changed all that.
	Under the new law, many Dominicans born to undocumented parents between 1929 and 2007 would lose their citizenship.
	So would their children, their children's children, and on and on.
	The Dominican government has no estimate of the total number of people affected.
	But human rights groups estimate hundreds of thousands suddenly lost their citizenship.
	Yeah, give the Dominican Republic a nice douchebag.
	I wasn't prepared for that.
	I was thinking about...
	Hold on, I'm giving the douchebag.
	Where's the big douchebag?
	Oh, you want the big douchebag.
	Douchebag!
	There's a long...
	I'm putting this together.
	It'll maybe take a week or two.
	There's a group of elites who are buying up islands.
	And, you know, obviously the Clintons are involved.
	But other names.
	Well, Branson.
	But they call it, I think, the 12 Island Challenge and Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
	It's all a part of it and there's weird crap going on.
	Hopefully I'll find some clips to be able to explain a little bit more, but it's either the 10-country challenge or 12-country Caribbean challenge.
	You can look it up.
	Something's going on there that is beyond the pale.
	It's more than normal.
	Mueller!
	That just came in, I bet.
	Yeah, Fletcher's like, nah, not only one, I got two!
	Mueller!
	No, I think it's got to be Mueller.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, Mueller's the way to go.
	Thanks, Fletch.
	Let's hear it at the end of the show.
	Okay.
	Oh, yes.
	Perfect.
	And that is it for the program for today.
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