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	Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
	It's Thursday, August 1st, 2019.
	This is your award-winning Gitmo Nation media assassination episode 1160.
	This is No Agenda.
	Evaluating the elites and broadcasting live on 6930kHz from the frontier of Boston, Texas.
	Capital of the Drone Star State in the morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where my hand is stuck on some device that's got that goop on it.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	It's Crackpot and Buzzkill in the morning.
	That's right.
	Simulcasting on 6930 kilohertz USB today.
	Whatever that means.
	Oh, we're on shortwave.
	You can't do a commercial.
	It wasn't a commercial, I guess.
	No.
	You can't do a radio broadcast on shortwave.
	I'm not doing that.
	There's some pirates out there who have taken our stream.
	They are?
	Really?
	Yes.
	So they're on 6930 kilohertz USB. I think they try to switch to AM from time to time, but they're not getting very far with that.
	I don't know what the power is.
	What do you mean they're not getting very far with that?
	Because you don't have the right gear?
	Or is it because somebody's knocking on the door?
	No, you're going to get much...
	You need a lot more power with AM modulation.
	If you're doing USB, you can get around the world with some skip.
	Skip?
	Skip.
	With some skip, baby.
	And I got some skip.
	And it works.
	And I can hear you in Berlin.
	I got some skip.
	Yeah.
	Oh, yes.
	Well, I know what we were doing this week.
	Okay.
	Oh, you talked about the last couple days.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, well, that's this week as far as I'm concerned.
	We're busy.
	And I, you know, and so you watch these debates.
	So what you're telling me is you take Monday off.
	Oh, yeah.
	No.
	No.
	There's no real days off.
	People are always like...
	It's so easy.
	It's so easy.
	You just talk in the microphone for three hours twice a week.
	Yes.
	People outside the country may not realize it, but we've had democratic debates.
	I think we've got eight more to go, by the way.
	Oh, God.
	Um...
	On Monday or Tuesday and Wednesday because there's still 20 people.
	They all want to get in, you know, say something.
	And so they have to do it over two days with pretty much the same questions.
	This is basically the fight, the battle royale for who gets to face off against Donald Trump.
	Yes, and unfortunately for the Democrats, the party regulars, the people, the public, the Democrat voters, they still seem to favor.
	I think he'll drop a little bit and pick up again.
	They favor Biden and I'm watching the debates and you have clips probably.
	I have a lot of mostly short, short clips.
	I have a lot of them though because I thought just funny little clips was the way to go.
	But unfortunately, Biden is their guy and You watch Biden perform and he stinks.
	So I have to assume that the other candidates are so abhorrent to the Democrat voters that they keep giving Biden the top nod because these guys are just offensive.
	All of them.
	You know, when I looked at the spectrum of these 20 candidates, I saw, well, first of all, from time to time, I heard something decent.
	I'm like, oh, that's an interesting idea.
	You know, there's some novel ideas, some different ideas, but no one really had the full package.
	But when I looked at all of them, the diversity, I was really proud of our nation of nutcases.
	I mean, it really was a lineup of jabronis, but I really appreciate what CNN did.
	It's like they were listening to our show.
	They totally made this into a wrestling match.
	Did you see that opening?
	The big bombastic drums and everything is like, that's right!
	Tonight, 10 morons will battle for the royale cage match to the death!
	This is CNN, the Presidential Candidate Debate!
	Looks good.
	Should have done a little echo.
	It would have been better.
	A little bit, yeah.
	A little bit.
	So something you noticed in the previous round, which were produced by MSNBC, it was similar.
	The staging was very similar to a degree.
	No American flag.
	No.
	And it's really odd when you get someone singing the national anthem and everyone on stage is singing, that our flag was, oh shit, not there.
	You're on a roll today.
	You've been writing material.
	I took notes.
	I took notes.
	Well, just a few things about...
	Did you notice that Bill de Blasio is holding his nuts while everyone else is holding his hand in their heart?
	The one guy.
	What an idiot.
	Oh, man.
	Oh, oh.
	Also, Marianne, at the first debate, Marianne Williamson also didn't have her hand over her heart when it started, and I think she looked over and went, oh, crap, I should probably do that.
	But de Blasio right next to her did not.
	No, de Blasio was not next to Marianne Williamson.
	She wasn't?
	He was on the second night.
	Oh, who was next to Marianne Williamson on the first night?
	Another drip.
	A lot of drips that we don't care about.
	A couple other observations.
	First night, Dana Bash.
	Dana Bash.
	First, we learned how to pronounce her name.
	It's Dana Bash.
	Yeah.
	She is, what is she, three feet tall?
	With a big head.
	And giant eyeballs.
	She is an alien.
	Apparently with her, this is the best they could do in terms of shape-shifting her into something believable as a human.
	They're following my rules, though.
	Tiny people, big head, do great on television.
	I was pleased to see that her head was way out of proportion with her body.
	And the red outfit.
	And we're in television executive mode here.
	The red outfit, I thought, looked very good on her.
	Second night, this black outfit?
	What was that?
	It was horrible.
	Well, she apparently has a dresser, because CNN has these people in the back there.
	You should wear those tonight.
	As opposed to Elizabeth Warren, who seems, somebody pointed out, she wears the same clothes.
	Yes, she does.
	She does.
	She does.
	And Tulsi Gabbard, I love the white outfit.
	My personal fashion advice is probably not the really tight pants, because, you know, it's just...
	She's a little heavy, but looked great.
	And tan shoes.
	Not white shoes, tan shoes.
	That was a faux pas, as far as I'm concerned.
	Otherwise, she looked fantastic.
	And what else did you notice?
	I look at these things.
	This is important stuff.
	Come on, this is a show.
	This is a real show.
	I made the point that both Klobuchar and Warren were dressed up with the noteworthy...
	And I'm from the Bay Area.
	We know these things out here.
	They were both dressed up with the color coded as dominatrixes.
	And that was to get some, I guess, attention of some people.
	The black and red in that form is ridiculous.
	There was something else that bothered me.
	Throughout the whole first evening, to avoid the mistakes MSNBC made with audio, they decided, ah!
	We're going to have the gooseneck microphones will be just for the theater, which Jake Tapper at one point, I forgot to clip it, said, yes, everybody here in the Fox studio, instead of Fox theater.
	What?
	Yeah, I know.
	I should have clipped it.
	I'm an idiot.
	Oh, you didn't get that?
	No, I didn't.
	No.
	I just remembered it from my notes.
	Well, it was the Fox Theater, so...
	Yeah, but he said the Fox Studios, right?
	Oh, are you shopping around, Jake?
	What's on your mind there?
	So they had the gooseneck microphones on the lecterns.
	Those were for the audience, and then they mic'd everybody separately with a lavalier mic, which is a good decision.
	However, however...
	That explains the second...
	Okay, yeah.
	There were sound issues throughout this.
	Yeah, I saw exactly what happened.
	So the first thing that happens is, and particularly night two, Joe Biden did a lot of it, but it happened on the first night, is the candidates would be leaning forward and they ruffle against the mic.
	Like that, with their clothes, and you could hear...
	In the theater.
	Except to me, it sounded like someone was walking upstairs.
	Like, what is going on?
	It's like, is the garage door open?
	Kept hearing this...
	But Biden had pushed his mic to the side, and this is why you got feedback, because no one could, I guess, crawl under there, and the commercial breaks were sparse, to go and correct that.
	And then when Kamala Harris came on, then the engineer just got confused, and he was turning up the wrong shit, and I heard him filter it.
	She went from, all of a sudden, she was like, really easily.
	And then it came back.
	So there was some issues.
	Well, it was apparently a nightmare for the, I guess, the semi-pros that were doing this work.
	Yeah.
	It was very bad.
	Very bad.
	Poor.
	But, since we're talking about this, I don't have a lot of clips from the first night, because I really concentrate on the second night, but I have kind of a rundown from the first night.
	Okay, I have a clip from the first night that I'd like to share, but yeah, what's...
	We can do the rundown, which has a number of these clips kind of built in, and I think it hits it pretty much.
	This was the first debates rap NBC. Uh...
	Under the word first.
	Okay, I thought it would be under your label here.
	Got it.
	No problem.
	This morning, a clear divide as moderates and liberals clashed over the direction of the Democratic Party and who can beat President Trump.
	Folks, we have a choice.
	We can go down the road that Senator Sanders and Senator Warren want to take us with bad policies like Medicare for all, free everything, and impossible promises that'll turn off independent voters and get Trump re-elected.
	I don't understand why anybody goes to all the trouble of running for president of the United States just to talk about what we really can't do and shouldn't fight for.
	The moderates trying to make the case that progressive senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders are too extreme.
	So, again, I think if we're going to force Americans to make these radical changes, they're not going to go along.
	Throw your hands up.
	But you haven't...
	Some of the sharpest disagreements over the Medicare for All plan backed by Warren and Sanders that expands the government-run health insurance program for Americans 65 and older to all U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents.
	The move would eliminate private health insurance for some 150 million Americans.
	Why do we got to be the party of taking something away from people?
	We are the Democrats.
	We are not about trying to take away health care from anyone.
	That's what the Republicans are trying to do.
	Ohio Congressman Tim Ryan pressing Sanders on whether his plan would be better than union health care plans.
	You don't know that, Bernie.
	We'll come to you in a second, Congressman.
	I do know, and I wrote the damn bill.
	There were also heated moments on other key issues from immigration.
	And I expect that people who come here follow our laws, and we reserve the right to criminally prosecute them.
	To gun control, when Montana Governor Steve Bullock, who didn't qualify for the first debate, struck a personal note.
	Had an 11-year-old nephew, Jeremy, shot and killed on a playground.
	We need to start looking at this as a public health issue, not a political issue.
	In the crowded field, many candidates hoping for a breakout moment.
	Author Marianne Williamson may have gotten one.
	If you think any of this wonkiness is going to deal with this dark psychic force of the collectivized hatred that this president is bringing up in this country, then I'm afraid that the Democrats are going to see some very dark days.
	Okay.
	There are a couple of things we have to say about this first night.
	First of all, Bullock...
	Let me mention that I cut that short.
	Oh, it was boring what they made there.
	And I don't mean it...
	To reflect poorly on you because it's what we got.
	No, no, no.
	I think they hit the high points.
	They got the punchlines.
	They got Elizabeth Warren talking about that's what the Republicans do.
	And then they had the Dark Knight thing or whatever.
	What's her name?
	They had Bernie.
	I wrote the law.
	Well, I have a couple other things.
	So, Bullock.
	Now, we hadn't seen him before, and as I'm looking at this guy, and he also incorrectly kept looking way too far to the right, so you only saw him on profile.
	But about one quarter profile, he looked like Kevin Spacey.
	And he kind of had that fake TV president thing about him.
	Oh!
	I did not pick up on that, but I can see it.
	Yeah, he has a lot of Kevin Spacey kind of look to him.
	So that's why he was probably mugging.
	He was mugging the whole...
	That's what I said.
	He was like a TV president.
	Kind of like, oh, I'm above all this.
	Well, no.
	Go away, Bullock.
	Before everything started, though, and I only got this off of YouTube.
	Someone clipped it.
	I had missed this.
	The DNC chair...
	What's his name?
	Perez?
	He was warming up the crowd.
	I didn't see that, but I got 12 seconds of him.
	I ought to get the memo on climate change, because climate change is an economic crisis!
	It's a public health crisis!
	It's a moral crisis!
	It threatens our universe!
	And we must take action now!
	I miss that too.
	So he sounds a lot like Howard Dean.
	He does.
	All he needed was...
	It would have been perfect.
	Speaking of Green New Deal or climate, was it Elizabeth Warren who has the Green Initiative plan?
	No, Green Industrial Plan.
	I'm sorry.
	Green Industrial Plan.
	Maybe.
	Which I liked.
	I liked because the acronym is GIP. Like, this is perfect.
	Get your Green Industrial Plan out there, please.
	Well, it should be pronounced GIP. Bernie had a nice...
	something you won't hear in that report, for obvious reasons.
	He had a very nice point about the healthcare industry.
	He could have said big pharma, but healthcare industry.
	And was cut off immediately for touching the third rail.
	By the way!
	By the way!
	The healthcare industry will be advertising tonight on this program.
	Thank you, Senator.
	Senator Warren, it's your turn.
	Shut up!
	Shut up, please!
	Your time is up, please.
	Shut up!
	With that talking point.
	Yeah, don't do that, Bernie.
	That's wrong, and Jake jumped in.
	Well done, Jake.
	Threw himself on the grenade.
	Very good, Jake.
	Now, Don Lemon...
	Who, of course, only got to ask a few questions.
	I really felt he shouldn't have been there.
	He has no journalistic integrity.
	And his questions were, some of them, were very racist, or at least bigoted.
	What do you say to those Trump voters who prioritize the economy over the president's bigotry?
	What do you say to those racists over there?
	What's your answer to that, huh?
	What do you think?
	Like, come on, Don.
	They shouldn't have had, you're right.
	He shouldn't have been there.
	He did not belong up there, and he was just, he made it cheap in the whole event.
	Now, so the one clip I have at some length here is from Marianne Williamson.
	You know I'm a fan.
	I love the candles and the bath and everything, and I'm all about the salt bath bomb.
	Although I'm always imagining more of a bubble bath guy.
	I like the bubble bathroom.
	Yeah, that's what I thought.
	So I learned this morning that Marianne Williamson is being coached by none other than Antonio Moore, who we've discussed on the show a couple times in relationship to American descendants of slavery.
	I found an article that spells that out quite clearly, that she's been calling.
	Because when she went into this, I'm like, either she's talking to someone who knows, or she's been listening to the No Agenda show.
	Speaking of reparations...
	Ms.
	Williamson, many of your opponents support a commission to study the issue of reparations for slavery.
	But you are calling for up to $500 billion in financial assistance.
	What makes you qualified to determine how much is owed in reparations?
	Well, first of all, it's not $500 billion in financial assistance.
	It's $500 billion, $200 to $500 billion payment of a debt that is owed.
	That is what reparations is.
	By the way, notice how she deftly puts Don LeMond in his place and says, yeah, it's not assistance, Don.
	It's actual payment for debt owed, or as we've heard here before, services rendered.
	Deep truth telling when it comes.
	We don't need another commission to look at evidence.
	I appreciate what Congressman O'Rourke has said.
	it is time for us to simply realize that this country will not heal.
	All that a country is is a collection of people.
	People heal when there's some deep truth telling.
	We need to recognize that when it comes to the economic gap between blacks and whites in America, it does come from a great injustice that has never been dealt with.
	That great injustice has had to do with the fact that there was 250 years of slavery followed by another 100 years of domestic terrorism.
	What makes me qualified to say $200 to $500 billion?
	I'll tell you what makes me qualified.
	If you did the math of the 40 acres and a mule, given that there was 4 to 5 million slaves at the end of the Civil War, and they were all promised 40 acres and a mule for every family of four, if you did the math today, it would be trillions of dollars.
	And I believe that anything less than $100 billion is an insult.
	And I believe that $200 to $500 billion is politically feasible today because so many Americans realize there is an injustice that continues to form a toxicity underneath the surface, an emotional turbulence that only reparations will be.
	Thank you very much.
	Well, she nailed all the points.
	I don't think it'll help her much, but she nailed it.
	Well, she nailed Don Lemon, too, while she was at it.
	Yes, well, he deserved that.
	She had a couple of good moments, and we looked at the Google's...
	Do you have the dark side clip?
	You mean her with the That's True Girls?
	Is that what you're talking about?
	No, where she goes on about, you know, the dark forces.
	Yeah, you know, she needs to shut up about that because I think she's probably evoking dark forces more than anything.
	I'm not so sure she's clean of dark forces.
	She's got all kinds of interesting spiritual stuff that she does.
	I didn't like that.
	But she was the most searched...
	You think she's a Satanist?
	No, I don't think so.
	She was the most searched on Google, according to Google Trends, during and after the debate.
	A lot of people love tweeting those maps out.
	And for the second evening, it was Tulsi Gabbard, who I liked the first half of the show.
	Let's just call it a show.
	And I loved how she zapped Kamala Harris a couple of times.
	I have that complete exchange.
	Yeah, good.
	In fact, it's so good that it might be worth playing.
	It is...
	It's actually the only real long clip that I did.
	Most of these clips are extremely short because I knew you'd be irked by the fact that I have one, two, three, five, I got like a dozen clips, including some terrific Biden gaffes.
	Joe was informed.
	Yeah, but let's analyze.
	This is almost three minutes.
	It starts with, this is Tulsi versus Harris.
	And this is a, to set it up, It starts with Biden trying to do the exact same thing.
	Yep.
	With almost the exact same points.
	But Biden's up there fumbling and mumbling and he's stuttering and he's making all these – he's just not performing well.
	And I have to admit I was wrong when I – Hold on a second.
	I think you dropped out.
	What did you say?
	I said I was wrong.
	It must be Skype.
	I was wrong when I said that they would juice him up for this debate.
	Probably some testosterone.
	I would think maybe some various kinds of roids.
	Adderall.
	B12. Worse than that, you heard what he said right in the beginning when Kamala Harris walked out.
	Go easy on me, kid.
	Go easy on me, kid.
	That was dumb.
	Dumb easy.
	Yeah, that was dumb, but can I just call you Joe?
	So...
	Let's listen to this back and forth.
	It's a very entertaining moment because it seems to me that this was Tulsi cementing The distinct possibility of her being the vice president on a Biden ticket.
	False accusation that Joe Biden is a racist.
	What's your response?
	I want to bring the conversation back to the broken criminal justice system that is disproportionately negatively impacting black and brown people all across this country today.
	Now, Senator Harris says she's proud of her record as a prosecutor and that she'll be a prosecutor president, but I'm deeply concerned about this record.
	There are too many examples to cite, but she put over 1,500 people in jail for marijuana violations and then laughed about it when she was asked if she ever smoked marijuana.
	Boom!
	She blocked evidence.
	That was, I mean, what an easy one to do.
	Well prepared and just nailed it.
	I mean, that was, and then, you know, that was just the first jab.
	And then just from there, she sliced her.
	She blocked evidence that would have freed an innocent man from death row until the courts forced her to do so.
	She kept people in prison beyond their sentences to use them as cheap labor for the state of California.
	And she fought to keep cash bail system in place that impacts poor people in the worst kind of way.
	I liked that she specifically said cheap labor, which of course is what the 13th Amendment does.
	And it's one of the big problems, is you cannot be a slave unless you're incarcerated.
	And California loves slaves.
	They love slavery.
	That's kind of what Tulsi was saying.
	Yeah, kind of.
	That's what she was saying.
	Thank you, Congresswoman.
	Senator Harris, your response?
	As the elected Attorney General of California, I did the work of significantly reforming the criminal justice system of a state of 40 million people.
	Now here I could hear she had her...
	Her whole drive as a rebuttal to anything was, I did the work.
	I did the hard work.
	I've done all the work.
	I've done the work.
	She does some gratuitous slap.
	I mean, she does some cheap shots in here, and she doesn't get away with it.
	Her voice is cracking.
	She's very upset.
	Very upset.
	She's perturbed.
	Which became a national model for the work that needs to be done.
	And I am proud of that work.
	And I am proud of making a decision to not just give fancy speeches or be in a legislative body and give speeches on the floor, but actually doing the work of being in the position to use the power that I had to reform a system that is badly in need of reform.
	We created initiatives that were about re-entering former offenders and getting them counseling.
	It is why, and because I know that criminal justice system is so broken, that I am an advocate for what we need to do to not only decriminalize but legalize marijuana in the United States.
	I want to bring Congresswoman Gabbard back in.
	Now, what she should have done here, and this was a mistake on her part because it would have been beautiful.
	She could have come back, Tulsi, and could have said, well, while you were doing the work of incarcerating people for cheap labor, I was in Iraq.
	Alright?
	I was in Iraq.
	Something like that.
	I disagree with you.
	Oh, really?
	Oh, I think that would have been great.
	Yeah, I don't think throwing the soldier card in at this point would be works.
	I mean, we only have two candidates in the whole 20 that have been to war, and I think the public Generally speaking, is not interested in that kind of bragging.
	Well, I'm glad you didn't listen to me then.
	Well, I mean, it's possible that you're right.
	I'm just saying I don't like the idea.
	Yeah, I got you.
	The bottom line is, Senator Harris, when you were in a position to make a difference and an impact in these people's lives, you did not.
	And worse yet, in the case of those who were on death row, You're innocent people.
	You actually blocked evidence from being revealed that would have freed them until you were forced to do so.
	There is no excuse for that.
	And the people who suffered under your reign as prosecutor, you owe them an apology.
	Senator Harris.
	My entire career, I have been personally opposed to the death penalty, and that has never changed.
	And I dare anybody who is in a position to make that decision, to face the people I have faced, to say, I will not seek the death penalty.
	That is my background.
	That is my work.
	I am proud of it.
	I think you can judge people by when they are under fire, and it's not about some fancy opinion on a stage, but when they're in the position to actually make a decision, what do they do?
	When I was in the position of having to decide whether or not to seek a death penalty on cases I prosecuted, I made a very difficult decision that was not popular to not seek the death penalty.
	History shows that, and I am proud of those decisions.
	Senator Harris, thank you very much.
	Senator Bennett, a question for you.
	Maybe, see, if they'd come back to Tulsi after that...
	Oh, that's when she could drop the Iraq bomb.
	That's when she should have said, fancy?
	It wasn't so fancy in Iraq, but thanks anyway.
	No, no, no, no, no.
	It goes like this, because Harris used the words, I was under fire.
	Ooh, yes.
	I was actually under fire?
	Oh, that would have been nice, wouldn't it?
	It would have been dynamite, but then they went to Mr.
	Pickles instead.
	Now, I thought this other exchange between Harris and Gabbard was better for a couple of reasons.
	And I also thought it showed how expertly Kamala Harris pivoted away from the danger.
	This was about health care.
	The reality is right now we don't have a healthcare system.
	We have a sick care system.
	And there are far too many people in this country who are sick and unable to get the care that they need because they cannot avoid it.
	So the core of this problem is the fact that big insurance companies and big pharmaceutical companies who've been profiting off the backs of sick people have had to see the table writing this legislation.
	Now, Kamala Harris just talked about Kathleen Sebelius, who helped write her bill.
	This just pointed to the fatal flaw in her proposal.
	Sebelius works for Medicare Advantage, private insurance company who will stand to profit under her plan.
	If we're seeking to really reform our healthcare system, we've got to shut out big insurance and big pharma out of the drafting process so they cannot continue to profit off the backs of the sick people in this country who are searching and in desperate need of care.
	Senator Harris, your response?
	Well, unfortunately, Representative Gabbard got it wrong.
	Kathleen Sebelius did not write my plan.
	She endorsed it as being one of the plans that is the best to get us to a place where everyone is going to have access to health care in America.
	And when we talk about this again, I'm going to go back to Vice President Biden.
	And this is what's wrong with the rules.
	What I didn't like.
	Because they should have come back to Tulsi Gabbard after this.
	But she was very smart, Harris.
	She said, well, I'm going to pivot over here to Biden.
	And when you mention Biden, then he gets to respond.
	And Gabbard didn't talk for another 15 minutes.
	This is true, but I will say this.
	Because they kept it on screen as a two-shot, they had Harris on the left and Tulsi on the right.
	When she says, well, she had nothing to do with it.
	She just endorsed it.
	And Tulsi just had this great smile.
	And that was enough to close the deal for me.
	I agree.
	I agree.
	I thought it was...
	And CNN just got lucky.
	Kamala Harris did respond to these attacks.
	After the show with Anderson Pooper.
	Did you expect that?
	Did you see this bit?
	You might have.
	I did.
	I shot.
	Oh, okay.
	So you know what her tactic is.
	From Tulsi Gabbard, had you had interaction about that in the past?
	And how do you think it went?
	Well, I mean, listen, I... This is going to sound immodest, but I'm obviously a top-tier candidate, and so I did expect that I would be on the stage and take hits tonight, because there are a lot of people that are trying to make the stage for the next debate.
	For a lot of them, it's do or die.
	Well, yeah, and especially when people are at zero or one percent or whatever she might be at.
	And so I did expect that I might take hits tonight.
	But, you know, listen, I think that this coming from someone who has been an apologist for an individual, Assad, who has murdered the people of his country, like cockroaches, she who has embraced him and an apologist for him in a way that she refuses to call him a war criminal, I can only take what she says in her opinion socially.
	And so, you know, I'm prepared to move on.
	I'm prepared to move on.
	This may sound somewhat immodest.
	Yeah, it doesn't look good on you, Ms.
	Harris.
	She just came across as snide, snooty, bitchy, mean, angry.
	Now, I don't think she smiled once.
	Well, fake smiles.
	Not liking Harris.
	I think she's done.
	I think she's toast.
	And just to finish up my thought on Tulsi Gabbard, all of that stuff was great, and then near the end, you know, she's wrapping up, and all I heard was progressive talking points, and this, and the world.
	Yeah, it wasn't a good ending.
	She didn't have a great ending, no.
	And she's the only one, unless you count Biden, which I have that clip, she's the only one who didn't, and this is, I think all the candidates obviously watched The first debate, because in the first debate, only one candidate, or maybe two, dropped their, when they wrapped, they dropped their website address.
	Except for Joe.
	On the second night.
	No, no, Tulsi didn't have hers either, that I recall.
	I guess you did.
	I don't think so.
	Oh, no, you're right.
	You know what?
	They cut her off really quickly at the end, which is also odd.
	I don't think they did as well with the moderation the second night as they did the first night, which was really good.
	Well, the first night, a couple of people did their websites, and then the second night, they all did it.
	Yeah.
	Except Joe, and Joe did the following.
	I have the clip.
	And it's gotten a lot of attention.
	I don't want to do all my Joe Biden stuff right away, but where is it here?
	It's the Joe Biden 33, I think it's called.
	We've acted together.
	We have never, never, never been unable to overcome whatever the problem was.
	If you agree with me, Go to Joe30330 and help me in this fight.
	And I'm kicking myself this morning as I see that some guy, of course, registered Joe30330.com and put up some spoof.
	No, I don't think so.
	I heard it was Yang, and he has a redirect right to his own website.
	No, I thought it was some guy named, a fake candidate named Joe.
	Let me see.
	It might have changed.
	Let me see.
	Joe30330.com.
	Let's see what's up there now.
	I like the 33 in there.
	Josh for America.
	Oh, Josh for America.
	Okay.
	Yeah, meet Josh.
	The first Gen Zer to declare candidacy for this office.
	Alright.
	I was pissed.
	Like, oh, what an opportunity.
	Could have done it.
	We might have been on time if I thought about it.
	This is like being the 10th caller.
	I mean, you know everybody was hitting that thing.
	A lot of people got that idea.
	I'm sure.
	I'm sure.
	But what is that?
	Well, it's a big cock-up.
	What he was supposed to say is text Joe to 30330, but instead, because everyone was saying go to...
	That's what it was.
	It was a text.
	Which by itself is stupid.
	There's no call to action with text Joe to 303...
	That's not a call to action.
	He does have a website.
	I think it's Joe2020.com.
	Yeah, Joe2020.com.
	So, yeah, it was a huge...
	It showed the world...
	Okay, general point.
	I'm sorry.
	I don't want a president this old.
	I don't want Bernie Sanders as a president that old either.
	This has got to be a cutoff.
	I'm done with it.
	It's too old.
	I can't vote for guys like that.
	And Trump, same boat.
	Trump is crazy now.
	Wait until he starts losing his mind.
	And, you know, dementia, it can happen, you know, it can happen at any minute.
	It can happen at any minute.
	You start losing it, and who knows what could go wrong.
	Well, it kind of happened with Reagan, and he was still in office in the second term.
	Right.
	Well, I'd take Melania then running the show, because isn't that what Nancy did?
	Wasn't she running the show for a while?
	No, I think you're thinking of Woodrow Wilson's wife.
	I thought Nancy got all her star charts.
	Well, she always did that.
	I remember when Reagan first got elected governor of California, they had the swearing-in ceremony at like 12, 15, you know, right after midnight.
	Uh-huh.
	And they looked into it.
	It was because Nancy had an astrologer who said this was the power time.
	It's the right time to do it.
	Yeah, exactly.
	So it was midnight.
	They're having this swearing-in ceremony in Sacramento.
	I guess Reagan was just, okay, whatever, fine.
	All right, Nancy.
	Whatever I have to do.
	All right, Nancy.
	So let's do that.
	Let me get the bite.
	Let's get some of these clips out of the way because some of them are short and funny.
	I have, this is one that got my attention.
	This is Booker bringing up some stuff.
	I think this may have been at the end or during one of his raps.
	And I'm listening to this going, what?
	This is Booker Debbie.
	Play that clip.
	I believe that we in the United States Congress should start impeachment proceedings immediately.
	And I'll tell you this, Debbie Stabenow now has joined my call for starting impeachment proceedings because he is now stonewalling Congress, not allowing or subjecting himself to the checks and balances.
	We swore an oath to uphold the Constitution.
	The politics of this be damned.
	Isn't Stabenow a...
	Who the hell is it?
	What has Debbie Stabino got to do with anything that he would bring her in?
	She's not a candidate or an important person?
	Oh, it's because she's from Michigan.
	That's why.
	They were in Michigan.
	Oh, he's just dropping a name.
	Yeah, exactly.
	He's just trying to get a go.
	Okay, the national audience.
	Here's another one from Booker.
	This is him on the redacted report usage.
	My response is...
	Stop, stop, stop.
	This is one of those clips where I want...
	I'm going to analyze it because it's a way he does this that I thought was fascinating because it was...
	Made zero sense, but play it.
	My response is exactly that.
	I've read the report.
	I've read the redacted versions of the report.
	We have something that is astonishing going on in the United States of America.
	We have a president that is not acting like the leader of the free world.
	He's acting like an authoritarian against the actual constitution that he swore an oath to uphold.
	All right.
	This is a very interesting structure in terms of propaganda.
	He makes it sound as though the redacted versions are even more important than reading the report itself.
	Yes.
	Now, he goes, I've read the report.
	In fact, he didn't say in fact, but he's what he's implying.
	In fact, I've read the redacted report as though it's better.
	What is this?
	Well, it's a mistake in his brain.
	And I think there's other things that go on there.
	None of the senators or anyone in Congress is allowed to say, from the Democrats, is allowed to say they've seen the unredacted Mueller report.
	You remember there was like, well, no, if you don't release it unredacted to the world, then we don't want to see it.
	Right.
	So he's got that in his head, and he has to say, I think he was trying to correct himself by saying, well, I've seen the redacted, but instead he made it sound like it was really super special.
	That's a good catch.
	I'd forgotten about that tool.
	Now we have Inslee, who is the...
	Wait, can I do one booker?
	Oh yeah, if you've got Booker.
	I don't have any more Booker.
	Yeah, I kind of like this because it had profanity in it.
	Well, a couple things.
	First of all, Mr.
	Vice President, you can't have it both ways.
	You invoke President...
	This was a good zinger.
	So it was about climate...
	I think it was...
	Was it criminal justice or climate change?
	It was one of...
	Biden was being really evasive because he didn't want to fall into the trap that Obama had.
	It'll become apparent when we play the clip.
	So he was waffling around, basically saying, he couldn't say I didn't agree with what we did, then didn't agree at the time.
	And then Booker nails him with this.
	Well, a couple things.
	First of all, Mr.
	Vice President, you can't have it both ways.
	You invoke President Obama more than anybody in this campaign.
	You can't do it when it's convenient and then dodge it when it's not.
	And the second thing, and this really irks me, because I heard the Vice President say that, if you've got a PhD, you can come right into this country.
	Well, that's playing into what the Republicans want, to pit some immigrants against other immigrants.
	Some are from shithole countries, and some are from worthy countries.
	We need to reform this whole immigration system and begin to be the country that says everyone has worth and dignity and this should be a country that honors for everyone.
	Don't let the Republicans divide this party against itself.
	And he was right about that.
	I thought there was a gaffe that Biden made.
	Hey!
	If he's got a PhD, bring him in!
	He said if they could walk across the stage, he'd bring him in.
	He had some crazy gaffe there, too, which I didn't catch.
	I mean, I didn't get a clip of it.
	Yeah, there's that and all that, but when Booker goes on in that direction about the, just let everyone flow in, you know, he should have added, because who's going to clean our toilets?
	Which was that comment on The View that was so funny.
	Because that's what he's implying.
	Yeah.
	That was good.
	Now let's go to, this is Inslee who came, who was just horrible.
	There's two guys that were the worst, Inslee and Bennett, who I call Mr.
	Pickles.
	Because Bennett's got this little bitty mouth that looks like he does nothing all day but eat pickles.
	And, or do whatever else he would do with a really small mouth like that.
	And, um...
	But Inslee is the nutcase with the climate change, takes credit for everything.
	He's from Washington State, correct?
	He's the Washington State bonehead.
	Now, he has a...
	It may be a tick, or it's the way his...
	You know, something about his muscles, because the right side of his mouth kept going down.
	Did you notice that?
	I mean, I'm really sensitive to...
	I did not notice that, but it sounds like Bell's palsy.
	No, I think it's a tick.
	Yeah, and I'm always looking at this stuff.
	Yeah, you're more aware of him.
	I'm pretty aware of him for a normal person.
	Yeah, but he was lucky because he could turn his head to the right all the time, and he didn't really see it.
	But it's kind of odd, and he has a school headmaster kind of vibe about him.
	Yeah, he's annoying.
	But there was a good one, followed by a Biden gaffe, which I'm going to like to get into a couple of those.
	But let's play...
	This is Inslee followed by Biden gaff.
	Well, I know the firsthand horrific impact of climate change on Americans across the country already.
	Just look at my face.
	The family who I saw with their aluminum home, now just a pile of molten aluminum.
	They lost everything in the Paradise Fires.
	The non-profit in Davenport, Iowa, that was washed away in the floods.
	We have to act now.
	Look, climate change is not a singular issue.
	It is all the issues that we Democrats care about.
	It is health.
	It is national security.
	It is our economy.
	And we know this.
	Middle ground solutions, like the Vice President has proposed, or sort of middling, average-sized things, are not going to save us.
	Too little, too late is too dangerous.
	And we have to have a bold plan, and mine has been called the gold standard.
	Now, we also need to embed environmental justice.
	I was in zip code 48217 in the Detroit neighborhood the other day.
	Right next to an oil refinery where the kids have asthma and they have cancer clusters.
	And after talking to these folks, I believe this.
	I believe this.
	It doesn't matter what your zip code is.
	It doesn't matter what your color is.
	You ought to have clean air and clean water in America.
	That's what I believe.
	Vice President Biden would like to get you to respond.
	Governor Inslee just said that your plan is middling.
	There's no middle ground about my plan.
	The fact of the matter is that I call for the immediate action to be taken.
	First of all, one of the things that we're responsible for 15% of all the pollution in the country.
	In the country.
	What?
	Instead of in the world, he said 15% in the country.
	This is why he cannot be president.
	He has too much of this.
	He's a gaffmeister.
	I have a collection of gaffs, if you're interested.
	Well, let's play this part two of the Inslee clip.
	I put it there for some reason.
	It's probably something he said funny.
	Look, we have...
	Right there.
	Look.
	There was a lot of look, fact of the matter.
	Look.
	At the end of the day, it was a lot of...
	The deal is...
	A lot of...
	Oh, the deal...
	Look, the fact of matter is, the deal is...
	Look, we have...
	These deadlines are set by science...
	Mr.
	Vice President, your argument is not with me, it's with science.
	And unfortunately, your plan is just too late.
	The science tells us we have to get off coal in 10 years.
	Your plan does not do that.
	We have to have off of fossil fuels in our electrical grid in 15.
	Your plan simply does not do that.
	I've heard you say that we need a realistic plan.
	No, I didn't say that.
	Here's what I believe.
	I believe that survival is realistic, and that's the kind of plan we need.
	He says the science determines the timetable or something like that at the very beginning.
	It's computer models, not science.
	Do these guys even know that computer models are behind all this crap?
	No, of course they don't.
	And it just dawned on me about Joe.
	Joe was really in a fight for the first time.
	He's always been set up.
	He's always been the shoo-in.
	He's run for things he's lost before, of course, but look at him with Obama.
	It's like, I'm going to win.
	I think he expected it to be just as rigged as ever in his favor or something.
	Yes, because these old-time politicians, Hillary was one of them, They all believe that there's a pecking order.
	This is what the Republicans, with John McCain running for president.
	Why'd they run him?
	I mean, John McCain was, you know, he was overlooked a few rounds earlier, and so he had this...
	The chosen one mentality, and the party went along with it.
	This happened again with Romney, to a lesser extent, but definitely happened with Jeb Bush, and he would have been the nominee under most circumstances until, luckily, and if anyone doesn't like Trump as president, imagine Jeb Bush...
	Luckily, Trump came along and knocked him out rather quickly, and that's what's happening to Biden, except for the fact that these other candidates have no appeal, and none of them have a Trump kind of karma or charisma.
	None of them.
	Not a single one.
	They're all playing the old game.
	Well, I do have...
	If we want to just start doing some Biden ones, I do have a couple of Yang clips that are funny.
	Okay, a couple things about Yang.
	One, socks.
	Stop it.
	Just wear some normal socks.
	He walked on stage with like some...
	He has black pants, black shoes, white socks with blue stripes.
	Stop.
	You're hip.
	We get it.
	His slogan is, I'm an Asian who loves math.
	I double-checked again.
	That's a ridiculous stereotype.
	It's racist, but he can say it because he's an Asian who loves math.
	So it's funny.
	I think it's okay.
	But I go look at his math because the idea is, and that's really the only thing.
	Every answer is, well, I'm going to give everybody $1,000 a month.
	That's 18 or older, every man-woman thing.
	18 years or older in the United States will get $1,000 a month.
	And he said, do the math.
	I've done the math.
	So I go to his website.
	Have we discussed this?
	How he's going to pay for this?
	Because I'm doing the math.
	I'm thinking, well, how many people is that?
	150 million that are over 18?
	I'm just making a guess here.
	$1,000 a month?
	I count $150 billion.
	That's quite a lot of money for your little universal basic income.
	Is that how he's going to pay for it?
	We're just going to...
	No.
	10% value-added tax.
	Oh, that's right.
	He's the vat.
	That's his plan.
	It's like, oh, yeah, now I remember.
	Yeah, no, 10% today, 15% tomorrow, 21% next year.
	That's the way it works.
	Never, never, never going to go for the value added tax.
	Never let the camel in the tent.
	Especially not the vat camel.
	And he's got some crazy stuff.
	Listen to this one.
	This is debates young, moving people to higher ground.
	Eight seconds.
	Yes.
	Oh, oops, sorry.
	Pooped out.
	There we go.
	We are 10 years too late.
	We need to do everything we can to start moving the climate in the right direction, but we also need to start moving our people to higher ground.
	And I'm giving you $1,000 for the trip.
	Because we're all going to die in the floods.
	That's his point.
	Mover to higher...
	Okay.
	And here's his other short one.
	This is Yang on the AMA. It is not just you.
	Amazon is closing 30% of America's stores and malls and paying zero in taxes while doing it.
	How is Amazon closing 30%?
	What is he talking about?
	Well, you know what he's saying.
	He's saying that Amazon's success is drowning out small mom-and-pop shops, true, and that they pay zero tax while they're doing it.
	That's what he's saying.
	I mean, you understand that, right?
	Yeah, it's what he thinks.
	Now, here's the other one.
	This is not him or anybody else that's on the debate stage, but this is the clip that's been floating around.
	This is the traumatized girl clip.
	And when I hear somebody talking about moving to higher ground, as if something...
	I'm looking at...
	This is such a sad clip.
	Oh, my goodness.
	Yeah, I'm looking, by the way, the mudflats are there.
	It's not silt.
	And...
	There they are.
	Still there.
	It hasn't moved.
	I don't see him.
	I'm on higher ground, but I don't know why I should move to higher ground, but okay.
	But you end up with this poor girl.
	We need a trigger warning.
	A trigger warning.
	Warning.
	You are about to hear the voice of a severely abused child.
	I just don't know if they're going to do anything.
	And I just, I'm so concerned with the fact that if they're not going to change anything, then what's going to happen to humankind?
	What's going to happen to our, what's going to happen to the whole world if no one does anything?
	It almost doesn't sound real when you see the video.
	It's so, it's so sad.
	Yeah, she's dead sincere.
	Oh my God, it's just, it's the worst.
	How do you do this to the children?
	There's global warming nuts.
	Do they have any sense of anything?
	I mean, it's horrible.
	It's horrible you have a girl like that.
	There's nothing.
	She's going to live unless she kills herself, which is always possible with this kind of pressure.
	But she'll live to be a fine old lady.
	But no.
	You know Greta?
	Greta Thunberg.
	Oh, Greta Thunberg.
	Thunberg.
	She's going to visit a couple of these climate change conferences.
	And because she can't fly, as you know, that would be killing the world.
	She will be making the crossing with the crew of the Malaysia 2, the 18-meter racing boat.
	And they will go from New York, I think, or she's going to go to New York, and Santiago on a racing yacht, which is small.
	18 meters, what is that?
	That is about a 50-footer?
	Yeah, 55 feet, probably.
	That is the world's worst ride.
	Oh, yeah.
	No, you see the picture.
	She's going to be puking the whole way.
	She will not arrive well.
	You're going to have to fly her off with the chopper.
	You know, that's something for the book.
	Red book right there.
	They're going to have to evacuate her from the ship.
	There's no...
	I mean, I... And I'm a pilot.
	You have to be a professional to be on one of those things for an ocean crossing.
	I think I would turn that down.
	I've flown a lot of crazy aircraft, but I don't think I'd want to do that one.
	Especially if you're down below.
	You're going to be so sick.
	So sick.
	But, saving the world.
	Thank you, Greta.
	Yeah.
	Okay, so I have my two biting clips.
	If you want to hear them, you can play yours.
	I have...
	I have his end comment, which is idiotic.
	We can play that right now.
	Yep.
	Four more years of Donald Trump will go down as an aberration.
	Hard to overcome the damage he's done, but we can overcome it.
	Eight more years of Donald Trump will change America in a fundamental way.
	The America we know will no longer exist.
	Now, when I heard that the first time, I'm like, is he one of these conspiracy guys that thinks it's going to be martial law and Trump will have a third term?
	Is that what he's thinking?
	What is wrong with him?
	Just for people who don't know, you get two terms in America.
	So a total of eight years.
	Yeah.
	Now, maybe, maybe, because you can get two extra two-year periods in government.
	I don't know if you can be president.
	No, no, no.
	But, you know, it doesn't happen.
	But eight more years of Trump, I mean...
	It's for, you know, he's just confused.
	This is your point earlier.
	Yep.
	But this is also my mea culpa for thinking that there's somebody in his camp that's smart enough to juice him up.
	Well, you know who he has now.
	He's got the Sanders woman who ran Bernie's campaign last time in 2016.
	Yeah, and he can, you know, they could shoot him up with some vitamin B12. No, it didn't happen.
	There's all these other little crazy, who knows what the military has.
	You can get something from the Pentagon.
	So this is the other one that I captured, which I thought was interesting.
	This is the Biden charging station comment.
	Oh, yes.
	My plan calls for 500,000 charging stations around the country.
	So by 2030, we're all electric vehicles.
	Yeah, we'll all be electric vehicles.
	And Detroit was like, what?
	What are we going to do?
	First of all, let's just do the math on this.
	500,000 charging.
	What do we need 500?
	How many gas stations?
	You don't know on the top of your head.
	Nobody does, but I'm going to tell you.
	I'll ask you.
	Just take a guess.
	How many gas stations are there in this country?
	I'm just going to guess.
	50,000?
	The estimate is between 112 and 150.
	They don't know for sure.
	Hmm.
	I guess because of the quickie marts.
	Right.
	So there's 150,000 max gas stations.
	Why do you need 500,000 charging stations if that's the case?
	Well, maybe he meant to say 50,000.
	At this point, we don't know what he was thinking because he said everything else wrong, especially when it comes to numbers.
	That's a point well taken.
	Especially when it comes to numbers.
	I feel bad for him because he got pushed into this.
	He got coerced in.
	They dragged him in.
	Don't worry, Joe.
	We got your back.
	The way it went down last night, I'm thinking...
	They actually, they screwed him on purpose.
	The problem is, no one really popped up to take that space.
	Or if they did, and it was Kamala Harris, then Tulsi Gabbard derailed that.
	Something is going on.
	Joe is not well prepared, not shot up.
	I agree.
	You gotta shoot him up with something.
	And maybe a lot of this is just, you know, let him go.
	Let him go.
	It'll be fun.
	Good for ratings.
	Well, yes.
	I think you're right.
	I think that they put him in that spot to, I don't know, maybe they figured, well, let him take a beating here, because he's going to have to deal with Trump, who's a real prick when it comes to doing this sort of stuff on stage.
	And they say, well, Trump will kill him.
	And I have to remember, I remember back when Trump did his debates with Hillary, he didn't win those debates.
	It was, oh, Trump, you know.
	No, he didn't.
	He was just, he was intimidating, and he's, he, I don't think he was that good of a, he was great with the Republicans, because there were a bunch of weenies, but Hillary held her own, and I think a lot of people thought she won the debates.
	It didn't help.
	It's interesting you bring that up.
	I did a, I did a pilot show yesterday with Moe.
	Think about doing the podcast, so we did one episode.
	It's stuff that'll flow into No Agenda.
	It's kind of Aerosmith, Run DMC, Black Meets White, something like that.
	We're still working on it.
	And he brought a clip, which I didn't realize may have been...
	Very instrumental in getting Trump elected by turning at least a percentage of the black vote away from Hillary, but perhaps with this ad, and I didn't remember this ad, when you listened to this, what was the one line that Trump used that made black America go, oh, hold on a second?
	What?
	Do I take a chance?
	What have you got to lose?
	Yeah, what have you got to lose?
	I remember that.
	So here was Hillary's ad.
	This is the newspaper of the Ku Klux Klan today.
	The front page story is Make America Great Again, with a big photo of Donald Trump.
	Will you unequivocally condemn David Duke and say that you don't want his vote or that of other white supremacists in this election?
	I don't know anything about white supremacy or white supremacists, so I don't know.
	Trump management was charged with discriminating against African Americans and breaking federal law.
	If I were starting off today, I would love to be a well-educated black because I really believe they do have an actual advantage.
	I have a great relationship with the blacks.
	Oh, look at my African American over here.
	Look at him.
	The man that was, I don't know, you say roughed up, he was so obnoxious.
	Maybe he should have been roughed up.
	Why doesn't he show his birth certificate?
	Why do you have to lose?
	You're living in poverty.
	Your schools are no good.
	You have no job.
	58% of your youth is unemployed.
	The violence.
	The death.
	The lack of education.
	In these inner cities, it's unsafe.
	You can't walk to the store and get a loaf of bread.
	You get shot.
	Total poverty, drugs, and horrible, horrible violence.
	What do you have to lose?
	And according to Mo, he says, that really did it.
	Especially the end.
	What have you got to lose?
	Big echo effect.
	This is how stupid people can be.
	And out of touch.
	So the theory is that Hillary, with that stupid ad, got him elected.
	Yes!
	That's as good a theory as any.
	You only need to pull a couple percent of the black vote.
	I do remember it vaguely.
	Anyway, I've got 30 seconds of Joe bumbling around.
	Because we further support the ability to...
	Excuse me.
	Anyway, that's what I think...
	The fact is that The bills that the president, excuse me, the future president here, that say that we need a realistic plan.
	Here's what I believe.
	Here's what I believe.
	Go to Joe 30330.
	Because when he was saying something, it didn't come out right either.
	So, I'm sorry, America.
	If you thought Joe was your guy, no.
	He's just not.
	Now, how are the polls?
	Did you see the polls at all?
	I don't think the big polls will be out until the end of this show.
	I just want to know what the spin is.
	I mean, is mainstream still saying, oh, Joe's still the frontrunner?
	Yeah, they're going to have to do that because who else amongst these 20 people can bump him off?
	Well, I was going to say, who's got the money?
	It's what it's always about.
	These shows are really just the media evaluating the candidates and who can make the most money and give it to us for advertising.
	So they have to go with Joe.
	I don't think that's going to change.
	I mean, there's eight more debates.
	There's six more debates.
	There's a lot more debates.
	So they're going to definitely have, Joe's going to have his day, because there's no way that at one of these debates they don't pump him up with roids, speedballs, anything.
	And I sound cynical, but I'm serious.
	Well, then let's be serious and let's not talk about speedballs.
	What should we actually administer to him?
	I'm interested in what really is the solution.
	What does he need?
	Drugs.
	What kind of pharmaceuticals?
	I think a lot of B12 from now until then.
	Butt shots of B12 just to get his levels way up.
	Sharpen him up a little bit.
	I think there's a number of other brain helpers that you could probably use that would work.
	Testosterone for sure.
	And give him a little more...
	And what happened to his hair?
	He used to be Hair Plug Joe.
	Now he's just a bald guy.
	Dude, the top of his head's been off, what, three times now?
	Is it two times or three times?
	Yes, we forget about that.
	No one brings it up.
	Do we still have that clip?
	Let me see.
	Biden head.
	I thought we had that somewhere.
	Maybe they should take it off for a third time and just pour some stuff in there.
	Just jump it in.
	Can't I find that?
	That's too bad.
	Head, top of my head.
	I can't find it.
	But yeah, he's had two brain operations.
	He had one aneurysm, so it was an emergency operation.
	I mean, it's not so great.
	Not so great for Joe there.
	I feel bad.
	He's got to know that he's...
	I do have, for your consideration, two ISOs.
	Okay.
	Well, we always love that.
	These are from Biden.
	Number one and two.
	You can play one.
	Mr.
	President, this is America.
	Okay.
	I thought it would be a nice ending to the show.
	Yeah, could be.
	And this is two.
	This is the United States of America.
	Yeah, I think the first one is better.
	And the second one, if you listen carefully, he says, United.
	This is the United States of America.
	Oh, we have a winner.
	United.
	United States of America.
	I have a little ditty for you as well.
	My name is Felix Wilson.
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	Without Adam or John?
	How would you survive?
	Well, some of you might find refuge with Nick the Rat.
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	We will be locked in mental cages in dementia B. Listening to Nick the Rat's Sewer Chat podcast from the toilet.
	Please go to dvorak.org slash nate and donate now.
	Children shouldn't have to listen to podcasts out of toilet bowls.
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	And with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage and say, in the morning to you, the man who put the sea in the vat camel, John C. Dvorak.
	In the morning to you, Mr.
	Adam Curry.
	In the morning, our ships and sea boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, and all the dames and knights out there.
	In the morning to the trolls.
	Hello, trolls.
	Let's see, how many trolls do we have today?
	We've got, uh...
	Well, I can't find out how many trolls we have for some reason.
	Anyway, how about this?
	There we go.
	939 trolls in our troll room.
	NoagendaStream.com.
	That's where you can hop on, listen to the live stream.
	Lots of people like listening to the live stream.
	Stuff happens before.
	You got pre-shows, tons of live shows.
	Bloopers.
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	And it's fun.
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	Now, the last episode, 1159, 1,159 episodes in the can.
	Title of that was Showly.
	And the artwork was related to our closed captioning segments.
	There were a couple people who did that.
	And this was a piece of art done by Bear Ass Gorilla.
	Who I think he's had a couple other...
	Let me see.
	Oh, he had basic Spanish for Democrats.
	That was his last...
	I think that was his last win on the artwork.
	Yeah, that was a good one.
	And...
	There's no Spanish in the debates, did you notice this?
	Yeah, no, they stayed away from that.
	Castro.
	Adios.
	Anyway, so a bunch of closed caption logos, and it wasn't particularly funny.
	Of course, it was on a really old TV with the big knobs on the front, but it was appropriate, and it was just a good piece of art.
	You look at that again...
	This is part of what we like about the value of the artwork.
	People see this, it shows up in their podcast apps and like, oh, there's something new.
	Instead of just a little badge that has a little extra number in there so you know how many you haven't actually listened to...
	Fresh piece of art.
	Ah!
	Let me click on that.
	And it works, and we appreciate it.
	And you can participate, noagendaartgenerator.com, and we thank all of our artists.
	And today, we honor Bear Ass Gorilla for his contribution.
	Thank you very much.
	We should mention at some point that Adam Spiel, which he just gave, is all supposition.
	We have absolutely no evidence for any of it.
	Correct.
	I'm trying to think.
	You can't come up with it contrary to that.
	But why would you talk me down, man?
	Because I just think we need to be honest with the public.
	Okay.
	I will keep you to that.
	Go ahead, sir.
	Fine.
	Honest.
	Honesty first.
	I like the supposition.
	I think it makes nothing but sense.
	But I remember one time I had...
	I was doing Silicon Spin and this woman who, I can't remember her name now, but she did one of the books on Paul Allen and I've always liked her.
	She's always saying this crazy stuff on the show and she would say, out of the blue she says, is there any evidence that word of mouth actually works?
	Okay, well this is also kind of you.
	You like these things.
	This is true.
	You like being very literal when people speak.
	And you like to stop the flow of conversation just to say, there's no evidence of that.
	There's no evidence!
	This is bullcrap!
	That's okay.
	We like the art because it's pretty.
	But when you get to be Joe's age, once you're there, I'm going to have to start warning you about stuff.
	I'll be juiced up.
	I get juiced up for the show.
	I took your advice.
	You take two vitamin B12s before the show, you told me once.
	I don't know if you still do that.
	Oh, no.
	I take Ginkgo Forte and Bacopa Complex.
	At Bacopa.
	Bacopa Complex.
	Oh, yeah.
	No, I'm tripping.
	So let's thank a few people for show 1160, starting with Sir Roy Pierce in Fort Pierce.
	Of course, Fort Pierce is with an I, not an E. 334.
	He sent a note in.
	He sent a check in, and there's a note attached to it.
	Not much.
	He says, Teen Vogue published an article postulating prostitution should be available as a career choice.
	I think I read a story about this.
	I forgot to bring it up.
	It's like April 26, 2019, why sex work is real work.
	Yeah.
	And then he says, perhaps Jeffrey was just ahead of his time.
	Roy Pierce.
	Okay.
	Thank you, Roy, for that insight.
	Thanks, Roy.
	Yeah.
	Thank you, Roy, for the 334.
	Yes.
	SirCal of lavenderblossoms.org, 330.
	Hey, SirCal, yay.
	ITM folks, I've been meaning to donate earlier in lieu of all the support I get from...
	No agenda listeners, but the busy season at the firm can make me procrastinate.
	At the farm.
	What did I say?
	Firm.
	You said firm, yeah.
	Sorry.
	I hope all is well with you and your family.
	Stay organic.
	Sir Cal of lavenderblossoms.org.
	You should go there for your CBD needs.
	Yes.
	And in particular, the CBD salve.
	It's incredibly powerful.
	Very useful.
	Not for ingestion, but if you have muscle ache, backache, don't ingest it.
	Abrasions, anything.
	It's like magic sauce.
	And Sir Cal, we appreciate what you do.
	Sir Cal, lavenderblossoms.org.
	Thank you very much for your courage, sir.
	Next, Tracy Bassano in Madison, Alabama, 33333.
	She's actually donated a couple of times, and I remember one of her notes.
	She's an interesting character.
	Okay.
	Hello, Ola Crackpot.
	She's a Bama girl.
	Oh, right.
	Rocket City, where we are dancing in the streets to celebrate the 50-year anniversary of the moon landing.
	Wink, wink, Adam.
	Space Force.
	I want to shout out to my handsome engineer, John Bassano, for leading Space Force.
	Peace and love.
	Fabulous.
	Madison is in the Huntsville metro region.
	And in one of her earlier notes, she suggested that we do a meetup in Huntsville because it's Rocket City.
	Oh, yeah, that's a good idea.
	That's a really good idea.
	Alabama is a great place.
	Brock Pilgrim.
	Oh, it was something else I was going to...
	Yeah.
	Brock Pilgrim in Bourne, Massachusetts.
	333.
	And I see there's a blank here.
	So I will go Pilgrim.
	P-L-I-G-L. I will look him up on the...
	On the squirrel mail, which is a cue.
	Is it going to take that long?
	Well, if I'm clicking on searching, it takes forever to just open the box.
	Yeah, it's all right, baby.
	Don't worry, we're going to get your notes.
	John's clicking through it right now with Internet Explorer 3.0.
	That's right, everybody.
	When you look for your donation notes, there's only one way to find it.
	And John C. Dvorak has the solution.
	It's the word of no to me!
	Slow down!
	Slow down!
	There's no note.
	Ha ha ha ha!
	Ha ha ha ha ha!
	Beautiful.
	Very well done.
	In fact, there's no notes from Brock ever.
	So I'm not sure why.
	Maybe it's not Harry.
	There's a Harry Brock.
	Harry Pilgrim.
	Yes, we have Harry Pilgrim, but not Brock Pilgrim.
	No Brock.
	Okay, sorry.
	Anyway, thank you for that.
	How about you give him and also give Tracy a...
	Goat karma.
	Goat karma, sure.
	Come here, goat.
	Come here.
	You've got karma.
	Goats ahoy.
	Sir Carl with a K, Rochester, New York, 23333.
	John and Adam, this is my annual associate executive producership, and he'll be the first associate executive producer for show 1160, in honor of my smoking hot wife, Jen, whose birthday was celebrated on July 30th.
	It seems like no agenda is gaining a ton of momentum lately, and rightfully so.
	The show has been fantastic, and will only get better when Hillary joins the race in October.
	Isn't this where we say there's no evidence?
	I mean, come on.
	There's no evidence of us gaining momentum?
	I'm just reading the note.
	I'm not questioning the note.
	I'm just reading the note.
	Oh, okay.
	All right.
	The show has been fantastic and only will get better when Hillary joins the race in October.
	And by the way...
	Hey, you know, everyone sucks so bad.
	I mean, how much...
	What have you got to lose?
	Bring Hillary in.
	I want to thank you for the plugs you've provided over...
	And talk about somebody who can get money.
	Yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	And the media would just immediately jump on the bandwagon.
	Yep.
	Although every woman I've spoken to who was a Hillary voter or considered voting for Hillary has all said, oh, no, I hope not.
	Please, no.
	Oh, no.
	There's a real aversion.
	They don't want to go through that agony again.
	Maybe that's it.
	There's so much trauma.
	Because you know they're going to vote for her again.
	Yeah, this trauma.
	That's what it is.
	Good point.
	Okay.
	Solved.
	Solved.
	Thank you for the plugs you provided over the years for my show.
	Who are these podcasts?
	Which is, by the way, a very good show.
	It's about podcasts.
	Yep.
	And these guys, a couple of them, they go and they listen to a podcast and then they discuss what is...
	Why it's crummy.
	Especially JCD who listens or has listened and I dare say enjoys it.
	Because of your endorsements, I'm proud to say we have a lot of No Agenda fans in our subreddit.
	Proudly promoting the best podcast in the universe.
	Well, at least that subreddit does because ours doesn't.
	Keep up the great work.
	No jingles needed, but I love a new business karma for my marketing agency.
	Much appreciated.
	Sir Carl with a K. P.S. Jen turned 50 on July 30th.
	So it's not something she's super stoked about.
	Well, thank you for mentioning it.
	Yeah, I'm sure she's real happy about that now.
	She's on the list.
	You've got karma.
	She's on the list.
	Dinner will be burned.
	Dave, what did you have to tell him that for?
	Dave Kaplan, $230.42.
	$333.33 Australian pesos.
	Okay, you get bumped up.
	Executive producer, that's right.
	Donation for my birthday on 29 cents, which is, what is that?
	July 29th.
	All Australians should know.
	Wow!
	$230.42 is $3.33, and that's all you have to donate to get an executive producer, if you happen to be an Aussie.
	If I was a younger man, I'd be saying to the keeper, let's go live like kings in Australia.
	Did you see the picture of that spider?
	No.
	No.
	There was a spider.
	It was Fletcher or one of these guys.
	No, it's Chris.
	Chris Wilson.
	He took a picture of a spider and this spider is on top of a toilet.
	Straddling the toilet bowl with legs on both sides of the thing.
	Is he using it or is he just straddling it?
	I don't know.
	He might be using it or maybe putting a web up so the turds get caught.
	I don't know.
	But it was gross.
	Anyway, 29.7 in Sydney, which is the same as 28.7 in Gitmo.
	This brings me to $666.66 toward being Sir Capo of Gunya Beach.
	I guess.
	Jingles.
	Reverend Al.
	Money shot.
	And it's true to the head.
	Love ya's for all you do.
	Now that's interesting because that's Manning.
	That's not Reverend Al.
	People do this a lot.
	They confuse the two.
	So what does he want here?
	Money shot is true.
	It's true.
	Yes.
	Okay, I got it.
	That's a show of money shot!
	Woo, Jesus!
	Woo, Lord!
	Look at that!
	That's a money shot!
	Ted Ann Conway is a money shot!
	That's true.
	All right.
	You've got karma.
	Sir Voight in Tempe, Arizona, $200.
	ITM gents, please de-douche me because I have not donated since my knighthood.
	You've been de-douched.
	Do you think you're immune to needing a de-douching after you become a knight?
	No, well, you know, some people feel they need a good de-douching.
	Yeah, probably a cleanse.
	It's like a cleanse.
	Great shows recently.
	Servoid, that'd be that.
	No jingles, no karma, except for that.
	So we want to thank these folks for being executive producers and associate executive producers for show 1160.
	Yes, and a little bit of feedback on our karma.
	There's some follow-ups on karma, which is always fun to do.
	Sir Chris, we've spoken about him often.
	You heard son Felix earlier.
	He says, ITM Adam and John, karma works!
	You'll remember, against all odds, mom came home from hospital Friday afternoon.
	Not the hospital, but from hospital.
	She's up and about and taking care of herself again.
	Thanks everyone for all their prayers, karma, good vibes, and well wishes, and thank you all for your courage, Sir Chris the Drunken Minstrel.
	And another karma follow-up.
	Adam and John, my wife Ashley Eisner-Beyer was an associate executive producer on show 1155.
	She wrote in asking for some karma for upcoming surgery for our Moya Moya disease.
	What is that?
	I don't know.
	Moya, Moya.
	Look it up.
	I don't want it.
	M-O-Y-A, M-O-Y-A. Look that up.
	She wanted me to write you guys and let you know the surgery karma worked.
	Her neurosurgeon told us her procedure went perfectly, exactly as she planned.
	She's home from the hospital, the hospital, and recovering with me at home.
	Getting better and back to normal every day.
	We both love all the hard work you put in for the show.
	And again, the karma worked.
	Thank you for your courage, William Byer.
	Happy to hear that.
	Did you look it up?
	It's terrible.
	You didn't look it up, did you?
	Yeah, I did.
	What is it?
	Moyamoya disease, a rare progressive cerebrovascular disorder caused by blocked arteries at the base of the brain in an area called the basal ganglia.
	The name Moyamoya means puff of smoke in Japanese and describes the look of the tangle of tiny vessels formed to compensate for the blockage.
	Wow.
	Learn something every day here on the No Agenda Show.
	Stuff you don't want.
	That and whatever Joe Biden has.
	We don't want any of that.
	Well, indeed, thank you.
	And we have a number of executive producers.
	Wait, we need to learn a little more.
	Okay.
	Under, is Moya Moya disease curable?
	Moya Moya does not improve without treatment.
	While moyamoya itself is not curable, surgery to provide alternative blood flow to the brain prevents the symptoms related to moyamoya and can provide an excellent long-term outcome with significant stroke risk reduction.
	The more you know in the morning.
	And thanks to our executive producers and associate executive producers for supporting our show.
	No Agenda Show.
	It is, after all, your podcast.
	We treat you like Hollywood producers because you're putting the money in.
	You're keeping it going.
	That's exactly what you do.
	Well, you don't really have the actors and actresses for you to hang out with and go pouring around with.
	We're working on it.
	11 years and we're working on it.
	But it is, of course, the only way we keep going.
	We take no money from any commercial interests, no commercials, nothing.
	It's all you.
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	If anyone has a problem with it, we'll be very happy to vouch for you.
	And everyone else will be thanking people $50 and above in our second segment.
	And please remember, we have another show coming up on Sunday.
	To contribute and to support the show, go to...
	Well, now you know exactly what was wrong with Joe Biden.
	You can go out there, tell him that, and propagate.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Mr.
	President, this is America.
	Shut up, slave.
	Well, what's the date?
	Today is August 1st, 2019.
	What day of the week?
	It is a Thursday.
	Oh, huh.
	Well, I've got this clip here from Bill Sill.
	He's got an old radio.
	It looks like a radio guy.
	You know, I did not clip this because I'm like, it's dumb.
	Nothing happened.
	But no, you have to...
	Give it away.
	You have to get this to rub it in my face.
	Thank you.
	All right.
	Go for it.
	Explain this to me.
	Now, Bill Sill is a guy who plays a lot of DeGenova clips like you do.
	Gee, thanks, John.
	My favorite guy, Joe DeGenova.
	Yes, the U.S. attorney.
	So here's the thing that ran.
	He ran this on his podcast on Tuesday.
	I don't have the whole thing.
	I got a minute of it.
	But why don't you play this and then we can talk.
	Good afternoon reporting on the coup.
	Remember back to the dim recesses of time when President Trump ordered new Attorney General Bill Barr to declassify information regarding how spying on the Trump campaign started in 2016?
	Oh, that was May 23rd of this year.
	I know it seems like ages ago, but it was only nine plus weeks ago.
	A month before that, Joe DiGenova, the former U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, previewed what was coming down the pike with this revelation, which we discussed on April 25, 2019, in Still Report 2648.
	Well, the wheels of a righteous Justice Department do grind slowly, but very, very surely, and the first visible fruits of that are about to appear.
	According to DeGenova, the first load of declassified documents ordered released by President Trump will start to come out tomorrow, Wednesday, revealing who was behind it.
	And yes, this news will cover up, to a certain extent, the next televised debate among the Marxist socialists, sometimes known as the current Democrat Party.
	Yeah, there's an interview where he said that.
	I thought you were going to play that, because I have the interview where DeGenova says it's coming out on Wednesday.
	I took the summary course.
	I've left the DeGenova stuff to you.
	If you want to play a DeGenova clip.
	So what is he talking about, this guy DeGenova?
	DeGenova says that Investigate the Investigators is starting up in these...
	What is the guy's name?
	There's two prosecutors, two special prosecutors who are going after the deep state.
	Drain the Swamp.
	And this is all happening, and he gets everybody all jacked up, and then it doesn't happen.
	So, I don't know.
	Nothing came out.
	So, I don't know.
	DeGenova is slacking.
	Well, or that, or somebody should call him out on this.
	Now, I'm reminded, DeGenova is reminding me of this guy who's now on CNN, used to be on Fox all the time.
	And you remember him.
	If you saw him, you go, oh, yeah, that guy.
	And if you look him up on the Wikipedia or you look in his background, he was suspended numerous times.
	He used to be on Fox and he was this guy, Ralph Peters.
	And Ralph Peters is one of these hit men.
	He's like a guy.
	He's an ex...
	I don't know.
	He's ex-intelligence and he's ex-military lieutenant colonel, I think.
	And he comes on and he's a bulldog.
	And he said, like...
	Obama's a pussy!
	And he'd go on and he'd just slam the Democrats and Obama and the Obama administration.
	And he was always grouchy and he was just like...
	You know, horrible guy.
	And I mean, even if you like that sort of thing on the right, this was your guy for a while, but he got tiresome, and they finally fired him from Fox.
	He says he quit.
	Okay, quit.
	Because now, why did he quit?
	Oh, because now he doesn't like Trump, even though he was a, you know, attack dog for a while.
	So now he's on CNN, and now because he's a hired gun, this reminds me of, remember Ed, Ed Schultz?
	Yeah.
	Ed Schultz used to be an attack dog on MSNBC. And then they sent him to RT. He went to RT and then he became just the opposite.
	And then he died.
	And then he died.
	Like within a year.
	It was really sad.
	Poor Ed.
	But he was an attack dog by profession.
	So he could take either side.
	So here he is, Ralph Peters on CNN. Now he's on the other side and he's attacking Trump.
	Well, the fundamental problem seems to be that we have a president who refuses to accept empirical reality, whether it's presented to him before his eyes or through an intelligence briefing.
	We have a president who, in the intelligence briefings he does get, I can tell you that our intelligence personnel have had to reduce extremely complex issues To one page of bullet points, and the president's mind still wanders off that one page.
	So you've got a guy who's not interested in intelligence.
	He really just somehow believes that he can make it up as he goes.
	And yes, he wants sycophants.
	He wants yes-men.
	He doesn't want to be challenged.
	And he has found, it appears to me, the perfect sycophant.
	Someone who is utterly unqualified.
	Utterly, profoundly unqualified to be the Director of National Intelligence.
	And Anderson, I heard somebody on CNN earlier actually saying, well, you know, you can learn on the job.
	No, you can't.
	It's like learning to be a brain surgeon on the job, except that intelligence work is much, much tougher.
	It takes...
	Oh, you can learn on the job if you've got 20 years or 30 years, but you've got to understand everything from human, from the agents who are out there risking their lives, up to the satellites, the technology, the analysis.
	You have to have a deep background in world affairs.
	Profound.
	You can't just Wikipedia, you know, go to Wikipedia for the problems.
	And so again...
	This candidate, the wonderfully named Congressman Ratcliffe, that's a screenwriter's dream, he shouldn't be anywhere near the office of the Director of National Intelligence.
	Think of the people we've had in those years.
	Jim Clapper, people like that, who know what they're doing and gave their lives to intelligence.
	Are you going to put a monkey in there?
	Okay, I was about to call you out for two back-to-back boring clips, but the end got kind of funny there.
	Well, the punchline at the end was the funniest.
	Yeah, I heard it.
	He's a monkey.
	Yeah.
	Well, I thought that was good.
	It's sad I waited so long for it.
	So, well, you know, this guy, but the guy goes, he was always long-winded.
	He goes on and on and on.
	And this guy, Ratcliffe, if you look him up, you know, he's a lawyer and he's in Congress.
	Now, hold on.
	You've got to back up.
	You've got to tell people what's going on because it's not just American AM radio listeners.
	Let me get a lecture here.
	Yeah, I am lecturing you.
	Hell yeah.
	And now...
	This is a bogus position.
	This is called Director of National Intelligence.
	It's been peopled by people.
	There's like a retiree gets in there, like Clapper.
	I'm going to disagree with you, but I'll come back to you in a second.
	And the reason I say that it's just a figurehead job, because these agencies don't cooperate with each other.
	And this guy's supposed to make it all come together with one big boss at the top.
	Who was the Director of Intelligence for Bush?
	Bush?
	The Director of National Intelligence.
	Yes.
	Which is different.
	Well, let's see.
	Who was before Bush?
	Bush preceded by...
	Well, let me find him here.
	I'll just give you the answer.
	Okay, give me the answer.
	Uncle Don.
	My Uncle Don.
	He left the CIA to become the Director of National Intelligence.
	So I'm going to disagree a little bit with the figurehead.
	Maybe this was different 40 years ago.
	Well, Director of National Intelligence, DNI, It's a new position.
	When was Uncle Don in that job?
	Bush?
	Well, you know what?
	As they would say, let's stick a pin in this and they'll check.
	But okay.
	This came in as a result of 9-11.
	Oh, then maybe he was National Security Advisor.
	I'm wrong.
	I'm wrong.
	Yes, you are.
	But this job was designed after the 9-11.
	Because all the FBI knew this and the CIA knew that.
	And if the FBI and the CIA both knew what each other knew, well, it never would have happened.
	So we've got to create this bogus position.
	So they create this position, and the last guy was Clapper, and there's the guy, every time they ask him a question, he didn't know anything.
	Which proves that it's a bogus position.
	Yeah, so this guy Ratcliffe, who seems to be qualified to me, he's on the intelligence committees, he's been in Congress for a long time, he's a hot-shot lawyer, he's a big defender of Trump, there's no doubt about that, he's the guy who chewed out.
	He's on the intelligence committee, right?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, so he's the shill, that's the guy you want.
	So he's a guy that can be, can do the job.
	But now, according to Peters, who's now, you're going to see, they'll get sick of this Peters character at CNN because he's too much.
	I mean, as bad as these other people are, they're clownishly bad.
	This guy's seriously bad in terms of he's very serious and stern.
	And the other ones are just funny, like Navarro and these other people.
	They're just hilarious.
	You can't not laugh at them.
	So this guy's not going to fit into it.
	I don't know where he's going to end up.
	The Blaze, maybe.
	Maybe who knows?
	Yep, it's time to go OTG.
	There's a couple of news stories that I desperately want discussing, since this is all about connected everything in your life.
	And it's been going on two years now that I have not had any type of smart device that does anything other than phone calls, text message, and has a web browser.
	And I feel pretty damn good about it.
	We'll start with Consumer Reports.
	It's not that the hacking of vehicles is unknown, but you're going to want to think about what your next car will be.
	Consumer Watchdog President Jamie Court says this report released today is a result of interviews with 20 anonymous whistleblowers, including software engineers, technologists, and experts working in the auto industry, who warn many of the new models released next year We'll automatically connect their vital systems, including engine, braking, and steering, to the Internet, and that these cars are at risk of being remotely controlled by hackers.
	All right.
	Let's drive.
	Consumer Watchdog points to this YouTube video showing two white-hat hackers, those who find vulnerabilities and inform the auto industry.
	The guy in the back seat with the laptop appears to be connected to the car over a cell phone Internet connection.
	All righty.
	He's going to try to take control of the steering.
	Three, two, one.
	Here's another YouTube video which appears to show Chinese white hat hackers inside the car, while another hacker who's reportedly in their office 12 miles away tries to take control of the brakes.
	Shut up.
	You're welcome.
	Consumer Watchdog says whistleblowers are warning it is technically possible for hackers to take control of hundreds or even thousands of cars at the same time.
	Now wait for it.
	It completes the brakes in all of them, steers the cars off the road, and there's chaos and people die.
	So what can be done about this?
	Consumer Watchdog says a kill switch could be installed that would disconnect the car's vital systems from the Internet.
	That would enable cars to be operated safely immediately following an attack.
	A more complete fix would be to disconnect the car's computer from the Internet to begin with.
	We are talking about the possibility of a 9-11 scale attack on America.
	And the car makers remarkably...
	We've reached out to all of the major auto manufacturers.
	Many of them have responded by saying their vehicles will be equipped with state-of-the-art security features and that they are partnering with researchers both in government and in private industry to make sure they are up to date and can meet the challenges of the future.
	I really like the idea of just all of a sudden some nefarious terrorist flip a switch and everyone's car starts crashing in and driving off the road and braking rear-ending.
	Turn hard to the right and slam on the brakes, everyone at once.
	It'll be a beautiful choreographed move.
	It'd be something to see.
	Yeah.
	But yeah, this is obviously problematic.
	Well, I think that you've stumbled on our exit strategy.
	Oh, I did?
	You're manufacturing a small kill switch that's embedded in every car.
	You get it on there, and as soon as you get it, you just turn it on all the time.
	No, no, no.
	It comes in our kill switch system.
	It's a system, John.
	Our vehicular...
	I'm sorry.
	The system's better.
	It adds at least $20 to $50.
	Yeah, our vehicular cyber system, cyber protection system, Let's see, it's about a foot and a half long box, and so you get it at home, and it has basically some gaffer tape and a lot of aluminum foil.
	So you put the aluminum foil around your car, you're going to be fine.
	But this is crazy.
	It really is.
	And the oh-so-beloved Bill Barr, Attorney General Bill Barr, he doesn't give a crap about our own protection, particularly when it comes to encryption.
	You remember where Comey was on all this crap?
	Comey and Brennan, too.
	They were always like, oh, we can't have these apps in Silicon Valley.
	They can't be encrypted.
	It's no good.
	Well, we have a term now for it.
	It's called warrant-proof encryption, and your current administration doesn't want you to have it.
	The deployment of warrant-proof encryption is already imposing huge costs on society.
	It seriously degrades the ability of law enforcement to detect...
	And prevent crime before it occurs and after crimes are committed, it is thwarting law enforcement's ability to identify those responsible or to successfully prosecute the guilty parties.
	These costs will grow exponentially as deployment of warrant-proof encryption accelerates and criminals are emboldened by their ability to evade detection.
	Converting the internet and communications platforms into a law-free zone, and thus giving criminals the means to operate free of lawful scrutiny, will inevitably propel an expansion of criminal activity.
	If you remove any possibility that the cops are going to be watching a neighborhood, the criminals already in the neighborhood are going to commit a lot more crimes.
	But there has been enough dogmatic pronouncements that lawful access simply cannot be done.
	It can be and it must be.
	We are confident that there are technical solutions that will allow lawful access to encrypted data and communications by law enforcement without materially weakening the security provided by encryption.
	But I am suggesting that it is well past time For some in the tech community to abandon the posture that a technical solution is not worth exploring and instead turn their considerable talent to developing products that will reconcile good cybersecurity to the imperative of public safety and national security.
	That's right.
	From now on, we're going to call him Bill Barr, the backdoor man.
	And Silicon Valley is adhering to this.
	They are obedient.
	And here's how it works.
	Facebook is the first one.
	They're doing it with Messenger and with WhatsApp.
	And I think a lot of people use WhatsApp.
	They're putting the encryption in a special portion of their app, and this portion of the app will actually be scanning, based upon, I think, keywords, for certain things, I think, keywords, for certain things, undetermined,
	If it finds something that could be deemed illegal, it will shoot that message back to the cloud, back to Facebook, so it can be analyzed for your protection, of course.
	You know, this kind of...
	So they're saying it's end-to-end encryption, but it's so smart that should something really bad happen, then, you know, we got you back, everybody, because it'll just ping our servers with whatever you're doing.
	This sort of surveillance, which we've already identified as really part of more of a blackmail scheme by the government agencies, on the behest of individuals, of course, is It's really ridiculous because – and people buy into it because what did all the surveillance – we got the NSA. We got the phones are tapped.
	Everything we do, every communication is followed and observed and the term he used, which was lawful scrutiny, lawful scrutiny.
	So all this lawful scrutiny, and meanwhile we have a shooting in Gilroy at the Garlic Festival by some lone nut, and we still haven't gotten to the bottom of, and we still have these events that take place.
	They have not stopped, as I think Rory McGovern likes to point out.
	That all the surveillance and all the spying on the public and all the, oh, we got to do this and that, they haven't stopped one single crime that we know of unless they've set it up themselves like the FBI does every six weeks or so.
	This is an excellent point.
	It's never up front.
	It's always after the fact, unless it's a sting by the FBI. Something else that just popped into my mind, and I've been going back and forth with Sir Chris, Sir Chris Jacob.
	He used to live out in that area, and he is in the arms sales business in Nevada, so he was the obvious guy to reach out to.
	First of all, We had a shooting in Gilroy.
	We had another shooting before that in New York, but neither of those were mentioned, and not a single question in two debates about gun...
	I'm sorry, common sense gun legislation.
	Not a single question.
	Why?
	In New York, black people shot.
	In Gilroy, California, brown people shot by a brown person.
	Possibly related to MS-13 or other gang-related activity, which is rampant in that area, which could mean illegal immigrants.
	Nothing.
	Not a single word about guns.
	Hypocrites.
	Good point.
	Total hypocrites.
	It stood out like a sore thumb.
	Yes, it did.
	Anyway, use ProtonMail, people, or learn how to use encryption, PGP, or get GPG tools, and encrypt your messages.
	Even if you're going to send something sensitive over WhatsApp with their bogus, what is it, lawful scrutiny, encryption, warrantless encryption, whatever it is, encrypt it again.
	And you know what's happening now?
	See, the United States Intelligence Services, they don't need to really spy on you.
	They are literally now going and buying the information from Uber, Lyft, your food services, your delivery guy.
	Wherever you have been, wherever you've taken a bird bike or an Uber bike or a car...
	They just go to these companies and they buy it from them.
	They are buying their data just like your city does.
	It's a big joke.
	It's like, yeah, guys, keep tracking everybody.
	That's great.
	You do it for your commercials and give us the information and it flows into the Axiom database.
	They are buying your profile.
	Go ahead.
	I should mention something since you brought it up just in passing.
	The food services, and that includes food delivery.
	There's a scandal.
	I have it.
	I have the clip.
	Well, you have the scandal about the people eating the food.
	Why do you do the punchline if I said I got the clip?
	A disturbing new study shows nearly one in three food delivery drivers, about 28% of them, admit to taking a bite out of your food before...
	It hits your door.
	And about half say they've tempted to dig into your food just by the smell of the meal.
	The meal that they're delivering to your home.
	The driver surveyed all deliver for the big apps you'd expect like Uber Eats, Grubhub, DoorDash, and Postmates.
	Yeah, you know why?
	You know why they're doing this?
	Because they're hungry.
	This is the gig economy.
	This is the gig economy.
	This is side hustles.
	These kids, and it's not just kids, I see a lot of older people They're hungry!
	Yeah, it's a gig economy, and that's exactly it.
	It's not because they're just peckish.
	They're hungry!
	Peckish.
	I'm peckish.
	Let me look.
	I'm never using a delivery service again, and I checked it with the millennial here at home.
	She said, oh, yeah.
	Oh, yeah, all my friends do that who are doing food delivery.
	What?
	She said that all her friends that do food delivery eat the food?
	Yep.
	Yep.
	Well, if it's edible, you know, so if you order Chinese, then it may not be simple.
	You know, you're going to dig in and get some rice or something?
	No.
	But if it's French fries, if it's something else, yeah.
	And I'm just, I'm done.
	French fries.
	Got a grimy hand that goes into the greasy fries.
	So disgusting.
	Slops it all over the place.
	Wipes his mouth with his hand.
	He's got grease all over.
	And when he comes to the door, he's all got a greasy face.
	Again, be the giveaway, it seems to me.
	Now, back to...
	Here's your food.
	Here's your food.
	Back to the tracking.
	So, they're just buying this information.
	We talked about Axiom.
	Actually, I made a mistake.
	I said that Oracle had purchased Axiom.
	Oracle purchased a number of big data brokers.
	But Axiom was bought by WPP, biggest advertising company in the world.
	And one thing, I have to say something else about them in a minute.
	But...
	They have teamed up with the Dish Network and AT&T, and they're working with Roku and with Spectrum and everybody who has a set-top box, and they have come together in this consortium known as NVIDI. I-N-V-I-D-I. NVIDI! Here's their commercial.
	Like a letter that arrives in your mailbox, TV ads can now be tailored to your household.
	It's called addressable advertising, and our innovative solution is really quite simple.
	Take two different households watching the same TV show, but deliver distinct and more relevant commercials based on who's watching.
	Through the power of addressable TV, advertisers can finally move beyond age and gender proxies to target the exact audience they want to reach using unique identifiers such as income, household composition, and even purchase intent.
	Powered by NVIDIA, TV operators around the globe now have the technology to enable household targeting via set-top boxes and other connected devices.
	And because addressable TV targets the person and not the program, the right commercial reaches the right audience regardless of program, format, time or device.
	NVIDIA's addressable TV technology is transforming television advertising, delivering a more relevant and satisfying experience for the viewer and allowing marketers to more precisely target their audiences.
	This solution reduces wasted impressions while producing measurable and improved ROI greatly enhancing the value of advertising inventory for TV distributors and programmers.
	In fact, with hundreds of billions of addressable advertising impressions delivered in the past year alone Chances are you've already experienced an addressable TV ad and didn't even know.
	NVIDIA, the most powerful way to reach your audience, no matter what, when, or how they're watching.
	Great!
	That's great.
	You would know, by the way, you would know when that happens because that means you see an ad for something you already bought.
	Yeah, well, I'm not seeing that yet.
	We will.
	You've kept yourself out of it as best you can.
	Well, we're in the database.
	By the way, this has been the holy grail of television advertising forever.
	I think I first heard about this in the 70s.
	Seriously.
	Yeah, right next to your refrigerator will know when you're out of milk.
	It's the same kind of nuts.
	Nuttiness, yeah.
	Now, speaking of WPP, they were behind the creative for Gillette's ad.
	So they went from be all that you can be to be the best man you can be.
	And it was the whole social justice warrior ad.
	And men suck.
	And we got to teach young men not to suck.
	You suck.
	You're just horrible, misogynistic, sucky dudes.
	So Procter& Gamble came, Gillette is owned by Procter& Gamble.
	They came out with their numbers.
	They wrote off $8 billion, $5 billion of which was attributable, attributed to the crap ad and competitors.
	So they did this big virtue signal and lost $5 billion.
	Hopefully now.
	Hopefully now.
	Why did this happen, you have to ask yourself.
	That's because this happens a lot.
	They have hired, somewhere along the line, they hired some hot shots.
	I'm not going to say women necessarily, but they hired some hot shot millennials who are all in on this.
	They're like that poor little, the same person that makes that poor little girl cry that we played her clip earlier.
	Yeah.
	Those people, and once they get into an operation, you can't get rid of them.
	Because they hire themselves.
	They're like everybody else.
	You hire your like types.
	That's where you go to a company.
	Everyone there is tall.
	How did that happen?
	Or you have a bunch of babes like at Oracle.
	How did that happen?
	How can I get that?
	Why is everybody a babe?
	It's so true.
	Wait, just to say, it's true.
	That's true.
	Oracle hires babes.
	Yeah.
	And even the people that do the hiring are usually babes themselves doing hiring more babes because they like to be amongst – and so once you get one of these social justice warrior types into these operations and they move into a position of power, they can start hiring and be somewhere responsible.
	They bring in their friends and next thing you know, your company is done.
	And that's what hopefully is happening to WPP. Right.
	They can't stop it.
	Once it starts, that was a signal.
	That Gillette thing was the tip of an iceberg that's going to sink this operation.
	You watch.
	Do you think...
	That's interesting.
	There's ways around it.
	If you can isolate all the SJWs, because WPP owns all these companies.
	Yes, they do.
	They have Ogilvy& Mather, Gray, Advertising, Young& Rubicon, all these companies.
	Rubicam.
	J. Walter Thompson.
	Rubicam.
	Rubicon.
	Rubicon.
	At the Pentacon, maybe.
	So you take all of them.
	You should be working over at Gray.
	We're going to move you over then.
	They move them all into one company, and then just...
	Shudder it.
	Yeah, you're right.
	That's the only way they're going to get rid of these people.
	Well, I think the Gillette account is up for review, is what I think.
	Oh, that's, yeah.
	Well, where are they going to go?
	Are they going to go to another company?
	Omnicom.
	They can go to Omnicom.
	They have to go to Omnicom.
	The only competitor.
	Chiat Day or one of those guys.
	Chiat Day is part of one of these groups.
	I think they're part of Omnicom.
	Com.
	Omnicom.
	Com.
	Com.
	No, con.
	It's a con.
	Just before I close out the OTG segment, I got a great email from producer Trevor.
	Further to your various comments about the financial sector, how they want to increase debt so you are more beholden to them.
	This is what we've been talking about, Credit Karma.
	They're tracking everything about you.
	You hook it up to your bank account.
	They know exactly what you're paying, when you're paying it, how much you pay.
	They know everything.
	And, as I've learned in the terms of services, even when you stop using these apps like Credit Karma, they still retain access to your bank account.
	You have to go through quite a rigmarole To get your bank to unhook them, as it were.
	Huh.
	Yeah, that's kind of shitty, but it's in all the terms of services.
	So Trevor works for a large Canadian financial institution a couple of years ago, and we were putting public Wi-Fi in the branches.
	One of the network managers said the following.
	I guess this was a meeting.
	Imagine a person coming into a bank, having their cell phone on them as expected.
	And us being able to, since they have downloaded our app and accepted our terms of service, immediately know who that person is, being able to approach them directly, i.e.
	good morning Mr.
	Curry.
	And then we can take it a step further by leveraging their social network data, finding out Mr.
	Curry was recently engaged and had been looking at a real estate.
	Our conversation will continue along the lines of congratulations on your pending wedding.
	Have you considered a change in housing?
	Would you consider talking to one of our mortgage specialists who can assist you with understanding your options and pre-approved mortgage?
	This was met with applause by the audience of internal staff.
	Meanwhile, it says Trevor...
	Applause?
	It's called stalking.
	Yeah, Trevor says he's never going to enter a physical bank again.
	And this is another thing.
	These bank apps...
	The bank apps are the worst, and they are selling your information indiscriminately.
	And it winds up, before you know it, it'll always be after the fact.
	They're not going to catch you doing anything.
	But I think the most damning part is just taxes.
	You don't want the IRS to know what you're doing.
	You don't want them to know what you're paying, what you're not paying, who you're paying, who you're writing, you know, giving cash to, how much cash you're getting.
	None of this.
	And they get their location.
	It's so bad.
	And thank goodness, I think the Librem 5 Linux phone is finally going to ship.
	You're hopeless.
	Maybe a little bit.
	I really don't want to be hopeless.
	But yes.
	And then, just before we get to our next break, I want to do a follow-up on the closed captions.
	This has been the most emailed topic of the past few weeks.
	We've gone through the brain part of this, which I'm now pretty convinced is being...
	We're seeing some auditory processing issues as a result of people watching movies and television with closed captions on.
	And just to come back, you said that on the last show you said, well, it's not true with you because you grew up with closed captions.
	And I wanted to say that that was actually my brain was in overdrive because I was listening to English reading the Dutch subtitles.
	And I was actually learning better Dutch by following along with what I was hearing and what I was reading.
	But in general, you get lazy.
	And we're very lazy.
	We don't talk on the phone anymore.
	You used to call someone on the phone and ask anyone.
	Do you call them on the phone?
	No.
	Why not?
	It's crappy.
	Can't hear it.
	Because, you know, we're not used to deciphering a voice through a phone line anymore.
	It also has gotten worse with digital phone calls, admittedly.
	I use a landline.
	Which is really good.
	And the landline is duplex.
	We also don't talk duplex anymore.
	You can't talk at the same time on any modern system.
	We can barely do it on Skype.
	So we're texting.
	This is the world we live in.
	Short bursts of text.
	I can't wait until the first closed caption comes with emojis.
	And you know what?
	I'm thinking it's coming pretty soon.
	Anyway...
	Well, I don't want to, before you go on to that, I don't want to get away from what you talked about earlier about the banks.
	Yeah.
	Because I do have a clip I wanted to play to get it out of the way because you mentioned that you don't want the IRS looking at what you're up to because you're maybe buying something with some money, some cash money, and you don't want anyone knowing what it is that you're buying or something to that effect.
	But let's play the ABBA clip.
	We've been singing about it for years and making truckloads of it along the way.
	But now ABBA is in the vanguard of a new wave in Sweden where there's no money, money, money.
	Just cards, cards, cards, and phones, phones, phones.
	Just ask Uwe and Marita Matzen, trying to have a quiet lunch until we showed up.
	The last time you actually used cash.
	A month ago, maybe, or something.
	Which is typical.
	Last year, only 13% of Swedes could remember using cash for a recent purchase.
	What news organization did this?
	CBS. Well, someone needs to be fired.
	Who the hell uses ABBA as a musical money reference in 2019?
	That is completely stupid.
	Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope.
	I didn't have the whole clip.
	The clip wraps.
	It's a long feature.
	It's one of these news features that they do nowadays, which is what everyone does now.
	This wraps around the fact that ABBA did that song, and now the ABBA Museum, which I didn't know existed, a major museum in Sweden, will not take cash, and that's the punchline.
	Ah, okay.
	They only take cards.
	And then they had some of the ABBA people, they're going, oh yes, why use cash?
	It's crazy, crazy to use cash, crazy.
	So I thought that was disgusting.
	I'm going to go back to the closed captions.
	After this slight musical interlude of ABBA. Seriously.
	It's insulting.
	It's insulting.
	No, come on.
	You used to tell me you were a huge ABBA fan.
	Yeah, oh yeah.
	Me, Bjorn, Benny, Agneta, and Frida like this so tight.
	Now, I was more a rock set guy.
	I'm second generation.
	Closed captions.
	And I finally got a technical analysis of what's going on with today's streaming services.
	And this is, I believe this is the main reason why closed captions are used.
	Everyone has this as...
	Kind of off the cuff, like, it seems like today's stuff is harder to hear.
	Grand Duke Dave Foley, who does this for a living, says, here's what I've found.
	Modern mixers are coming, and we've deciphered a lot of this, but I really am happy that we got a technical analysis.
	And he runs UltraFlix, which is 4D, 4K, 8K, a million, like high def, real cool.
	Is it 8K? No, most movies are 4K. This latest is 8K. He's working on 8K. Holy crap.
	All modern mixers are coming through in 5.1 only, with no emphasis or effort put into the down mix into two-channel stereo.
	During our remastering of movies on Ultraflix, we have discovered very often that the stereo mix is not properly balanced with noise versus dialogue, or as we say, music effects versus speech dialogue.
	We created the Hyper Audio Remastering Tool, whereby we run the equivalent of a compressor on the soundtrack to bring the levels more in balance, in addition to fixing clipping run through a warming filter to mimic tube amps, and also ensure that levels between movies are always the same, so the audio experience between different movies is always on par.
	We also found that, and this I think is key, that many of the streaming set-top boxes and smart TVs tell the sending side To send 5.1 even if the output is only going to stereo speakers built into the TV. So I think there's a big flaw is in your Roku box or whatever you're using,
	it's sending a signal saying, yes, send me that 5.1, which of course is looking for a center channel to send the dialogue through.
	The audio processor in these devices often does not do a proper down-mixed stereo, and in several of the low-priced models, does a very poor job of the down-mixed levels, leaving dialogue always lower than other sounds, in particular by not properly mixing in the center channel with the front, left, and right.
	This is where I see our exit strategy.
	We need a box.
	We need a box.
	Yeah, we need a box.
	Need a DSP, Digital Signal Processing Box.
	There's an app that does this for the Xbox, apparently.
	I don't have an Xbox, but a lot of people...
	Call it a Foley Box.
	Just use this software.
	License it.
	There you go.
	Done.
	Exit.
	Okay.
	Well, that's it.
	Last show, everybody.
	I'm going to show my school by donating to No Agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
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	Portuguese pronunciations are not...
	They got all those squiggly lines.
	They're not like Spanish.
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	Svon Pappel?
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	I should know it.
	He owns some rental property in the Congressional District in Baltimore.
	It's been going downhill fast since I spent my time there for work, which is during the riots in 2015.
	He's an Arnold.
	SN is the chemical symbol for tin.
	Tin?
	Sir Tin.
	Sir Tin Man.
	He's the Tin Man.
	Yes, there you go.
	I should know that.
	Danilo Dusaswa, I think, in Cork County, Ireland.
	Ireland.
	Danilo.
	In Ovens, Ireland.
	$55.55.
	Robert Bruckner, $55.55.
	Kimberly Burden, $55.
	Hold on, hold on.
	I'm sorry to stop you.
	Danilo says, having just arrived in Austin in the past two hours for a business trip, I've already been hit by an electric scooter.
	That and being in Adam's hometown was a sign that I should donate a little extra to the show outside of my normal subscription.
	Well, thank you very much.
	And sorry.
	Welcome to Austin.
	Got hit by a scooter?
	Yeah.
	It's getting bad.
	I don't understand it.
	Robert Bruckner, $55.55.
	Kimberly Burden, $55.00.
	Sven Eric Jansen, $52.30.
	He appreciates the work, or somebody does.
	Jason Mertz in Boise, Idaho, $50.01.
	$50.01.
	First time donor.
	Give him a de-douching.
	You've been de-douched.
	I give him that because he says in the last newsletter I used the kid in the cage artwork.
	It was good.
	Kid saying, hey, please donate.
	Now we have $50 donor's name and location if I have it.
	Marcello McGinn Musumeci.
	Praise the Dvorak for pronouncing it completely correct.
	That's what he said.
	Jeremy Cartwright in Rockford, Illinois.
	Robert Fittler rhymes with in Mars, Pennsylvania.
	Mark Hackett in Downington, Pennsylvania.
	Black Knight Sir Mark McPio.
	If you need some house karma, we'll give you that at the end there.
	Ward Detwiller.
	Or Weiler.
	Detwiller, I think.
	50.
	50.
	He says Andrew Lang looks like he lost at beer pong and instead of doing a naked run, had to run for president.
	And last on our list, a very short list I might add.
	Our Thursdays have not been good for some reason.
	Aichi Kitagawa over here in San Francisco came in with a $50 check.
	And I want to thank him and everybody for helping us produce show 1160.
	Yes, you are all producers, as you know, and we have more producers who came in today under $50.
	Some of those came in...
	Well, actually, we didn't have any 49s today.
	In fact, no anonymous, just all subscriptions.
	It was, yeah, I don't know, maybe in two weeks school...
	Goes back and, I don't know, maybe people, I don't know, do people not listen when they're on vacation?
	I went to, when I went to the bank to drop some checks off, which is what I do by hand, drop them off, and I talked to the, one of the, actually one of the higher up tellers, and I said, she said, how's things going?
	I said, it's really slow.
	In July, she says she's noticed that the banks, it's been slow there too.
	Oh really?
	So it's been a slow July in California.
	Well, it's been slow in Austin as well.
	Slow and hot.
	Not how we like it.
	Slow and cold.
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	We've got a couple of carmas to do here by request.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	You thought karma.
	No Agenda Meetups!
	Yes, the meetups.
	There's a lot going on with the meetups.
	Meetups are doing very well.
	Noagendameetups.com We have a couple...
	Can I stop you for a second?
	Well, of course.
	Mimi's going to be here and we decided to do a meetup.
	The Gilman meetup we've done before in Berkeley on August 8th.
	And that was not on the list?
	No, because she hasn't put it on the list yet, because I haven't, like...
	August 8th, and it's going to be where?
	At the Gilman Brewery that we had our last meetup at, the last Berkeley meetup.
	Okay.
	That's going to be the same place.
	It's going to be on the 8th, which is a Thursday after the show.
	And I think probably 5 o'clock, I guess.
	I'm guessing.
	Alright.
	I'll send out a note and we'll talk about it in the next show.
	Yes, Antifa is on alert that the Quadroons will be in Berkeley.
	Today we have a meetup taking place in Seattle, Washington.
	The big two-day meetup, apparently, at the Lotfestival in Germany is August 2nd through the 4th.
	I can't wait to get a report from that.
	The 3rd of August, Orange County, California.
	Solvang, California on August 4th.
	And then we have, as John just announced, August 8th, the Gilman thing.
	Brewery.
	Brewery in Berkeley.
	Murfreesboro, Tennessee, August 9th.
	Chicago, Illinois on the 10th of August.
	Southeast London comes back together on August 15th.
	San Antonio, Texas, August 17th.
	The 18th, Victoria, British Columbia.
	On the 22nd, Charleston, South Carolina.
	It's a repeat for them as well.
	Salem, Oregon returns on the 23rd.
	Lincoln, Nebraska, August 25th.
	And the 31st of August, we have Busan...
	South Korea and Sao Paulo.
	So there's two different ones on the 31st in two very different locations.
	These meetups are where you go to hang out, talk to people.
	No one gets triggered.
	There's no condemnation.
	You meet people.
	You have a human interaction.
	It's incredibly enjoyable.
	We even get John out of the house for him.
	So that should tell you something right there.
	They are very good, very enjoyable.
	And I have a report from the Frisco, Texas meetup.
	And this is from Brian Goldsmith.
	Since we had a Frisco, we had a Frisco, Texas meetup last Saturday night.
	I work for FC Dallas of Major League Soccer.
	He says, wait until you get your team, Adam.
	You think they're crazy now.
	I'm getting a team here in Austin.
	So I thought it would be cool to do a meetup in conjunction with a game, a soccer game.
	Maybe tailgate, beating the stadium club, etc.
	I coordinated the logistics of the meetup and got it on the site, crossed my fingers, had absolutely no idea what to expect.
	I'm an older millennial, just turned the Magic 33 last week, originally from Buffalo, New York.
	Moved here with my smoking hot girlfriend less than a year ago.
	For all I knew, she was the only person who listened to the show in my area.
	To my surprise, we had seven people show up for the meetup, nice picture attached.
	What's even crazier, we have Dame Firecracker, Sir Et, so a knight and a dame, who joined us, who happened to be season ticket holders for the team.
	We were all from different backgrounds, but it was really great to talk to people who had the common bond of the show and to be surrounded by people whose amygdala were not swollen to the size of their head.
	Since I worked for the team, I was busy running around, but would visit when I could.
	I thought maybe the group would sit together for the pregame or a little bit of the first half and then go their own separate way.
	But everybody stayed together for the entire match.
	It was so cool seeing the night rings in person for the same time and really look forward to eventually getting my own in true slave fashion.
	Don got mac and cheese burgers for everybody to eat.
	Sent a picture of that.
	Thank you.
	Very disgusting.
	And I think we'll have repeat meetups in Frisco at another FC Dallas match.
	I might even hop up there for one of these.
	Oh, yeah.
	Go see a game.
	Yeah, go see a soccer game.
	A guy doesn't like sports at all.
	Catch some of the action.
	That's right.
	Well, we have no nightings.
	We have no title changes today.
	And a very short birthday list, but I'm happy to do them.
	Carl Herberger says, happy birthday to his smoking hot wife, Jen.
	She turned an unspecified age on July 30th.
	I don't want to get in trouble.
	And Dave Kaplan celebrated on July 29th.
	Happy birthday from everybody here at the best podcast in the universe!
	Happy birthday!
	And a reminder, if you'd like to support us, please go to Dvorak.org slash NA. We need the help.
	And it's your show.
	You produce it.
	No other way that it's going to work unless we all participate.
	Exactly.
	Yes.
	All right.
	I'm sorry.
	I have a note I can read.
	From one of our producers.
	Because I just thought it was kind of interesting.
	This is kind of a technical note about microphones.
	And it has some applicability to what we're seeing on television and what we do.
	I'm a professional.
	This is producer Ellen.
	I'm a professional production sound mixer.
	He could probably chime in on the sound of the 5.1 thing.
	For many decades, all presidents have used the same lectern mic setup.
	Two Shure SM57 mics with a Shure A2WS windscreen in a Shure A55M shock mount on a dual mic bar.
	We've seen that.
	Now, I always thought that this rig was specific to Obama.
	Oh, okay.
	I didn't realize.
	I thought, doesn't every president have his own sound guy?
	Well, kind of.
	And he discusses it a little bit in here.
	That's why this note's so interesting.
	Because I always thought Obama just liked the SM-57, which to me is like a mediocre...
	I mean, it's not mediocre.
	It's a good-sounding flat mic.
	But Obama's got to get the right voice for it.
	Anyway, he says the Navy provides the audio systems for all POTUS. Huh.
	What?
	Told them he wanted a mic that was right in front of his mouth.
	So rather than getting a modern mic with a slender profile that they would have to buy, like mics used in Congress or the UN, the Navy reaches into the only kit that they have and put an SM57, the same mic, in the same the Navy reaches into the only kit that they have and put an SM57, the same mic, in the same What?
	Result, we have to look for this now.
	Result, the ugliest, stupidest looking face blocking mic ever used for a world leader with the exception of the 1960s mics used in the USSR. Huh.
	A photo of Joe shows him looking more presidential than Trump because he is using the classic twin mic setup that every president has used in modern times.
	And Trump is using a rig like you'd see at a state fair in the hog calling competition.
	Little things like this are seen as at least subconsciously by everyone.
	And I do not think it helps Trump.
	And.
	He's in Virginia, you might add.
	That is interesting.
	Yeah, I thought so.
	Stuff that only a No Agenda show would reveal.
	We knew about the SN57, but we didn't know about the Davey and the rest of it.
	I think just go straight to a snowball from Yeti.
	That's the one you want.
	It's blue.
	It's the snowball blue.
	It's the Yeti blue snowball.
	Snowball.
	So we all have seen the outrage, the controversy over the president saying Baltimore is infested.
	Of course, that's totally racist.
	It's filled with rats.
	Oh, it's extermination.
	It would kill black people.
	He's racist.
	Horrible guy.
	There was something interesting about the original tweet, by the way.
	Do you notice that he spelled Cummings without the S? No, but I think the joint opinion now that there's a lot of code going into these tweets.
	Yeah, and that would be a very pornographic word, something you'd find on the Pornhub.
	Yeah, you'd find stuff like that.
	Are you coming to dinner?
	Yeah, I have no follow-up on that.
	I just thought it was interesting as I was putting these clips together.
	I've got your Elijah clip.
	It fits in perfectly here.
	So, of course, you know, everyone's all up in arms.
	Trump is racist.
	Here's Bernie.
	Joining me now in Detroit, 2020 presidential candidate, Senator Bernie Sanders.
	And Senator Sanders, I know you want to talk about issues, but I do also want to talk about what President Trump said about your former colleague in the House, Elijah Cummings, and his district being, quote, a disgusting rat and rodent infested mess that no human being would want to live in.
	What's your response?
	Jake, it's...
	Unbelievable that we have a president of the United States who attacks American cities, who attacks Americans, who attacks somebody who's a friend of mine.
	Elijah Cummings is one of the most decent and outstanding members of the House of Representatives.
	He fights every day to improve life in his community.
	Racist, just racist, horrible man with a dick.
	Cummings, my best friend.
	My favorite thing was that all the people that saw the word infested as meaning is a racist term.
	Infested, infested, infested.
	Yes, and I understand how that works because something's infested.
	It's rats.
	What do you do with infestation?
	You exterminate, kill people.
	There you go.
	It's about killing brown and black.
	Unfortunately, Bernie in 2015 went to Baltimore, and here's what he said.
	The fact of the matter is that America is the wealthiest country in the history of the world.
	But anyone who took the walk that we took around this neighborhood would not think you're in a wealthy nation.
	You would think that you were in a third world country.
	Now, he didn't say infested, because that would be racist, but he kind of said it's a shithole.
	Thank you.
	In fact, we both had this clip.
	Elijah Cummings in 1999.
	The very guy who's responsible for this and being called out as such.
	Elijah Cummings.
	This morning.
	I left my community of Baltimore, a drug-infested area, where a lot of the drugs that we're talking about today have already taken the lives of so many children.
	The same children that I watched 14 or 15 years ago as they grew up, now walking around like zombies.
	This is only 40 miles away from here.
	And now everyone's walking around with zombies, but that's just because of smartphones.
	It's not even because of the drugs or the rats or the infestation.
	But this has been a problem in Baltimore for a very long time.
	And the mayor's, the most recent mayor, another woman mayor, black woman mayor, has rousted from the job because of corruption.
	Their city government has been the problem the whole time.
	Well, let me get to that in a second.
	First, I want to stay with the infestation.
	In 2015, PBS produced a documentary called, 2016, called Rat Film.
	It was literally about the rats in Baltimore.
	It's just a little piece from that.
	It ain't never been a rat problem in Baltimore.
	It's always been a people problem.
	And that ain't going to change until you educate the people.
	This right here is die track.
	I think that's one of the favorite poisons for the guys because it's a no-choice poison.
	Most of the time we kill exactly what we're trying to kill.
	There's this guy who's kind of a funny old guy who says it's not a rat problem, it's a people problem.
	There's guys with baseball bats and tasers and the size of these rats when they're as big as your calf.
	That's how fat they are.
	Just disgusting.
	So it's been a problem in Baltimore.
	Now, there may have been something, some kind of weird sting that went down.
	A report just came out, and this is actually, here it is, Inspector General Horowitz.
	This is the guy that Joe DeGeno was talking about.
	And this did actually come out on Wednesday.
	A report came out about the Crime Victim Fund.
	Yes, the Crime Victims Fund.
	I'll play this because he's kind of boring, but here is the Inspector General Horowitz, who we have such high hopes for, for draining the swamp.
	Previewing his report.
	Today we released a report that assesses DOJ's administration of the Crime Victims Fund, or CVF. DOJ is not only responsible for prosecuting federal crimes, it also plays a critical role in providing services to crime victims.
	As part of that effort, the Office of Justice Programs, or OJP, distributes CVF funds to states to implement programs like legal aid, In recent years,
	Congress has significantly increased the amount of CVF funds available for distribution, from $745 million in fiscal year 2014 to over $4.4 billion last year.
	Since 2016, we've issued nearly 50 CVF-focused reports.
	Today's report provides an analysis of the systemic issues we've identified as a result of that work.
	Among our findings is that some states used the recent increases in funds effectively to enhance victim programs and support new initiatives, like extending services in rural areas.
	But other states struggled to adjust to the increase in award amounts, didn't plan effectively, and had millions of dollars available as spending deadlines approached.
	We advised OJP that this created significant risk for rushed, wasteful spending and we encouraged OJP to help states develop responsible spending plans.
	Additionally, as the CVF program has grown, states have been able to increase the number of direct service providers they fund each year, from about 4,000 in fiscal year 2015 to now over 6,000 providers.
	This creates more opportunity to serve crime victims But we found OJP needs to help states conduct more effective oversight of these providers.
	Our report includes several other findings about steps that can be taken to improve the management of this very important fund.
	So I only got this this morning.
	The report is long.
	It's a PDF. I found 58 references to Baltimore.
	Is it possible, with the increased money, didn't Trump talk about $1.6 billion or some amount?
	He mentioned an amount, which is why I started to put it together in my head.
	What if they up the money they usually send and the IG was doing his investigation, found out that, oh, there's a lot of these inefficient services that expanded and the money wasn't handled properly?
	By Sunday, I'll have combed through the report.
	It could have been a possible sting.
	Maybe.
	We'll see.
	You're talking about the mayor getting kicked out?
	Well, that the whole state is corrupt, and Trump sets this up by calling out Cummings.
	Someone has to do something with this report, if it's really in there, what I think might be in there, and then you can show, oh, there you go, Cummings, it's full of corruption.
	They only had just a little bit with the woman who sold her books, and they never bought the book, or they never took a receipt of the books.
	Was that the mayor?
	That one with the child kids books.
	Yeah, that was the mayor, wasn't it?
	Maybe.
	Anyway.
	That was like last year.
	I think it was the other mayor that was kicked out.
	One mayor after another gets kicked out of that place.
	It sounds like Baltimore truly is corrupt.
	Yeah.
	No kidding.
	No kidding.
	Yes.
	Some lawyers are crooked.
	Got an update on Epstein?
	Oh, okay.
	I don't have that.
	It's not really an update.
	It's something that just surfaced.
	A piece of his...
	Well, it is.
	We did learn something with this clip.
	This is a piece of his deposition from 2009.
	And a deposition is when pre-trial lawyers get to sit together and ask questions.
	And it's under oath, correct?
	You can't lie on the...
	Well, you can lie, but...
	Well, you can do whatever you want, but you do a pledge.
	You have to hold your...
	I've done them, and you have to hold your hand up and do the whole thing.
	Oh, what'd you do them for?
	You have to be sworn in.
	Were you deposed for some crime?
	No, I was never deposed for a crime, but I was deposed as an expert witness for a number of situations.
	Give us one example.
	People don't know this about you.
	Give us one example.
	I was a part of the AMD. I was given a deposition for AMD against Intel.
	Okay, but what's your speciality in this?
	Marketing.
	Marketing.
	No, it's true.
	They bring me in.
	They say, what's the reaction to the public?
	Because I was writing for all these magazines and I kind of had a sense of what was important and what wasn't.
	They would ask me questions.
	But was this going to be a big hit?
	This kind of stuff that I wrote about.
	And so they'd ask me these questions about it.
	And of course, then they'd always say, so what makes you the expert?
	And what's your answer to that?
	This is why I have a lot of experience.
	I think I've been doing this for like 25 years and blah, blah, blah.
	And I've got a pretty good feeling for it.
	And I've just, you know, go along with them.
	You know, they always tell you in advance, the lawyers, they say, here's what they're going to ask you.
	They're going to do this, they're going to do that, they're going to do this, and they're going to slam you.
	Or, you know, if you do a video deposition, they're going to definitely ask you if you're wearing makeup.
	Are you wearing makeup?
	Really?
	Is that a question?
	Yes, it is.
	Why?
	What would the advantage of wearing makeup be?
	Did it make you look like a jerk or something?
	I'm not sure.
	It's the other side that's doing these questions.
	But they do everything to defame you.
	Did you actually graduate?
	Do you have a degree?
	What's it in?
	Well, that's got nothing to do with this, does it?
	And it's just the way it's done.
	From the very first time I did it, I was briefed very well by one of the Morrison Forrester, I think was the first group I worked for, big law firm in South Bay.
	That handles most of Silicon Valley stuff.
	And they gave me the...
	They read me in.
	I knew exactly what was to expect and how it was going to go.
	And it was exactly that.
	Well, I don't...
	Except one case.
	The guys...
	One of the lawyers...
	I forgot which firm this was.
	It may have been Morrison Forrester.
	But they were...
	They're always there with you.
	So this was the AMD Intel thing.
	And so Intel had this funny strategy.
	And it was really hilarious.
	they would just keep you there for as long as they could to rack up the lawyer bill.
	And so they kept me.
	I'm there for like hours answering this kind of very slow.
	You're going to ask another question?
	Yeah, we're getting to it.
	And it would go to the point where the lawyers for the firm that was representing AMD at the time left.
	He said, you're on your own.
	You can deal with it.
	We've got to go home.
	Well, this is a deposition of a convicted sex trafficker.
	No, he wasn't convicted yet.
	Creep!
	Jeffrey Epstein.
	I don't need to explain what he is.
	This is 2009, before his sweetheart deal conviction.
	They do a deposition.
	They've got his lawyers.
	You'll hear them speaking in the background in between the question and the question restated.
	Because, you know, it does have kind of like a court...
	Process to it, and you can say, hold on, objection.
	I think you can even object, can't you, in a deposition?
	They do, but they typically, at least in these civil, I don't know what these cases are, but it's non-criminal.
	Well, this is really interesting.
	They object, but generally speaking, they say that objection observed, and they just override it, and then it gets cut out later.
	So you still have to answer.
	Generally speaking, you still have to keep talking.
	Oh, okay.
	Interesting.
	Well...
	This is what great fortune.
	Tell me if in any of the depositions you've done, if you've ever been asked this question, and it starts off with, you know, the typical deposition, you know, state your name, etc.
	And I'm curious if they've ever asked you, and maybe in the AMD case, that they asked a question like this.
	Would you wear your right hand, please?
	Yes.
	Do you soundly swear the testimony you're about to give will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth to help you get it?
	Yes, I do.
	Could you please give us your name?
	Jeffrey Epstein.
	Is it true, sir, that you have what's been described as an egg-shaped penis?
	Have you ever been asked this question, John?
	No, this has not come up in the conversation, although I... It's imaginable.
	Just to shake you up.
	What?
	Well, let's continue.
	The lawyer for Epstein, of course, immediately objects to this.
	Form, vague, indefinite, and I'm going to give you the first warning, Mr.
	Cuban, that these types of questions are not only argumentative, but directed in a manner to embarrass Mr.
	Epstein.
	If you continue with this type of question, I will adjourn the deposition immediately.
	Yeah, so this is ridiculous.
	You're just trying to embarrass my client.
	We just can't have this.
	We're going to end this deposition if you do this.
	So, of course, you need to restate the question in a friendlier term.
	Sir, according to the police department's probable cause affidavit, one witness described your penis as oval-shaped and claimed when erect it was thick towards the bottom but was thin and small towards the head portion and called it egg-shaped.
	Those are not my words, I apologize.
	But as Mr.
	Critton has stated that this is a...
	We're adjourned.
	And he rips off the mic.
	What an odd penis.
	What a...
	How did that clip get into the public domain?
	I don't know.
	Someone slipped it out.
	Yeah, whoa.
	So to speak.
	But is this a...
	I'm not familiar with this penis shape.
	Is this a common occurrence?
	You know, I don't know.
	It's something I've never studied.
	So, I'm sure there's people in the Bay Area, there's specialists in this, that would know.
	We don't happen to be one of them.
	And if so, is there a nickname, is there like a slang term for this?
	You're asking the wrong guy.
	I know, I know that, John.
	I know.
	People think that's your chair that's squeaking.
	I know.
	I'm just asking out there.
	Whoa!
	You're on a roll.
	Woohoo!
	Alright.
	I'm sure someone will tell me.
	Yeah, we've got members of our larger production group that have a lot of insight into this.
	And there probably is, I'm guessing, a nickname for something like that.
	Yeah, probably.
	Oh, this sounds ridiculous.
	Oh, this was big news.
	You know, amidst all the purge that's taking place on, well, certainly YouTube.
	Man, you look at a YouTube channel these days, all you see is this video's removed, this is removed, this is gone, it's done.
	There is a purge.
	There is a real purge.
	And...
	The life of a YouTuber is so difficult.
	You're always chasing the algo.
	You've got to have the right titles, the right picture art.
	Very important on YouTube.
	Extremely important what your tag is.
	All these things come into play.
	And people are still getting kicked off.
	They're being demonetized.
	They're really...
	Unable to make a living.
	You recall Loomer, the Loomer woman.
	Loomer, Laura Loomer.
	Laura Loomer, you know, just crying.
	She says, I have no more job.
	I have no more income.
	Yeah, she got kicked off.
	Right, so the YouTubers, they created a union because they are somehow in the delusional...
	Delusional would be good.
	Yeah, they are delusional about the fact that YouTube needs them.
	Where they believe that their millions of views or whatever really makes up a big portion of the, what is it, $8 billion a quarter or something that YouTube does in revenue?
	Sure.
	I'm sure it's your YouTube channel that does that, not hundreds of millions of cat videos or whatever else where the ads just run.
	Crazy stuff that's on there.
	Yeah.
	But okay, be delusional.
	Now, the union really hasn't done much.
	Have you seen this one guy, the kids, the kids, they, you know, they're especially on the dinner nights when everyone's here, everyone will go do the YouTube thing and everyone gets the gun for a minute, you know, the little remote to find the different kinds of things they've found.
	Have you seen the one, there's this one guy, he's got a bunch of these, he's got like hundreds of these videos of him Eating ridiculous amounts of food and crying the whole time.
	No, no.
	Yes, he's in tears, eating just piles of food.
	And then he's sick and he's crying, he's moaning and groaning.
	And he goes on to the next one where he's doing the same thing with some other food.
	It's unbelievable some of the stuff that's on YouTube.
	Anyway, that's on the site.
	Well, there you go.
	Look at how hard the guy has to work to make a living.
	He's got to eat all this crap food.
	He's got to spend some of his internet money, his YouTube dollars, on the food.
	It's very hard to make a living.
	So, the YouTube union has decided to make a bold move.
	This is a German guy who is in charge of the YouTube union.
	He will explain.
	Attention, YouTube.
	Here we go.
	Being a YouTuber is a dream job for lots of young people.
	But two years ago, YouTube turned the dream job into a nightmare.
	The real YouTubers.
	This is bullcrap.
	No, it's not.
	No, no, no, no.
	Why don't you, while I'm, no, I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna blow the punchline to this.
	It's real, and there's something really big there.
	Okay, if it's real, if you just assure me it's real, so I'm not gonna be suckered.
	No, you're not gonna be suckered.
	Okay, go on.
	Attention YouTube, here we go.
	Being a YouTuber is a dream job for lots of young people.
	But two years ago, YouTube turned the dream job into a nightmare.
	The real YouTubers that are the reason for YouTube's big success Are getting censored, deleted, erased and hidden.
	Making a living on YouTube is actually no longer possible.
	Many channels have entirely disappeared or are now reduced to a minimum.
	There is no job security.
	It seems like YouTube doesn't want independent YouTubers anymore.
	Because now YouTube prefers channels run by TV stations or Hollywood celebrities.
	And for those guys, completely different rules apply.
	They won't be censored, they won't be erased, they won't be kicked out.
	YouTube is actually pushing these guys with everything they have.
	All this happens simply out of greed for profit.
	Oh, wow!
	Simply because advertisers prefer Will Smith over the independent YouTuber.
	Let me see.
	Will Smith, guy eating and crying.
	Will Smith, guy eating and crying.
	Hold on.
	But YouTube should not be so sure about that strategy.
	Since one year, we have the YouTubers Union, and we have thousands of YouTubers that are now united and picked up the fight.
	The only problem is that so far, we haven't been able to achieve much.
	But exactly that is going to change now.
	IG Metal, the largest independent trade union on the planet, and the YouTubers Union are now joining forces with a clear goal to bring back the old YouTube.
	We have founded the joint venture FairTube, and now time will change for YouTube, since we have 125 years of experience in the fight against injustice.
	And over 2 million members, plus superb lawyers, are now joining forces with thousands of YouTubers who are really unhappy with the way things go.
	Together, I think we are completely unbeatable.
	FairTube is unbeatable.
	I can't make you a clip of the day.
	I just...
	Clip of the day.
	Because that guy's accent was just fantastic.
	Well, you know who he sounds like?
	Sounds like somebody from Hogan's Heroes.
	Yeah, he sounds like Comic Strip Blogger.
	A little bit, yeah.
	It's funny.
	So they've joined with IG Metal, which used to be the metal workers' union in Germany.
	They do have 2 million members.
	And this video goes on for another 15 minutes, and he's talking to the IG Metal union lady.
	They really have hooked up their FairTube YouTubers' union to IG Metal.
	And here's the sad part.
	The people who are members of this union and who are serious like this guy, they truly believe that they put YouTube on the map.
	YouTube would be nothing without us.
	And they just don't understand how it works.
	And they don't understand that, yes, yes, Will Smith is preferable, not to YouTube, to the advertisers.
	When YouTube can say, we've got Will Smith, you know, this is great.
	Your ad's going to run on Will Smith pretty much for free, because Will Smith's just putting that stuff up there.
	It's great.
	Yes.
	You're just losers.
	Sorry.
	But okay.
	Believe in your union.
	Well, you know, at least be nice.
	Be nice.
	No, I want to be nice, but I want to be realistic.
	People really think that they can make a living off of someone else's platform.
	You can't.
	It's not supposed to work that way.
	Well, that is the issue now.
	I mean, if you had your own servers and did your own thing, which is what we do on this show, as opposed to using Podbean.
	Stop.
	Alright, last one from me.
	We have not had any update on the college admissions scandal, have we?
	We don't even know what's going on.
	It's been wiped off the face of the map.
	I would say it's not at the top of the list of news items that they're playing on now.
	So I have no idea what's going on with that, but there is a new scam.
	A new college admissions scam, which is, when you think about it, could have been a great exit strategy.
	Thank you.
	A new firestorm is erupting over college admissions.
	Families reportedly transferring legal guardianship of their children in order to get financial aid.
	It's totally legal, but there are critics who say it is unfair.
	NBC's Ron Mott has details.
	It works like this.
	Families, some of whom live in million-dollar homes with incomes well into six figures, go to court to have a legal guardian with fewer financial resources appointed for their college-bound students, giving them a better shot at qualifying for need-based financial aid.
	And it's perfectly legal.
	According to ProPublica Illinois and The Wall Street Journal, citing court records, the tactic has been used effectively dozens of times.
	They were filed by one of two law firms and many of them used language in the petition, such as the guardian would provide educational and financial opportunities that the parents could not otherwise provide.
	Advocates of the legal maneuver argue that, unlike the college admissions scandal, which has led to multiple criminal convictions, these students were fairly accepted and are looking for a way to pay for it, as the annual cost of tuition and fees at the nation's colleges have skyrocketed, rising more than 150 percent over the past two decades, a bottom-line increase of nearly $32,000 a year on average.
	They're absolutely cheating.
	Still, some critics contend these families and their students should endure the appropriate pinch based on their resources.
	This technique in particular is new and absolutely deserves everybody's sort of shock and scorn.
	Another wave of controversy cascading down on college campuses.
	Money once again at the center.
	Ron Mott, NBC News, Chicago.
	I've given you a clip of the day for that.
	What?
	A double clip!
	If you wonder why there's a wealth gap, it's because these people that this guy's bitching about, they're just smarter.
	That's just the smartest thing I've ever heard.
	As soon as you hear it, you go, oh, yeah, you got a maid working for you?
	Hey, maid, you're now guarding my two 17-year-olds.
	Hey, maid.
	Maid.
	Sign here, maid.
	The Troll Room reports, DC Girl says that she knows someone did this in 1995.
	Ah, it's an old...
	Yeah, of course they keep it to themselves.
	But they're saying dozens and dozens.
	It sounds like this is probably something that's just been going on forever.
	Yeah, it's a bit under the radar.
	What a great scam that is.
	It's fabulous.
	I don't really like it.
	In fact, somehow I think it's something that you could actually put your ethics aside for.
	Because your ethics are really not aside because these schools with these ridiculous tuitions out of the blue when I went to college at the University of California in Berkeley for almost free, they're the ethically challenged.
	It's ridiculous.
	Ridiculous.
	It's ridiculous.
	It's ridiculous, I tell you.
	I have one last clue.
	Okay.
	So...
	I just thought this, when I heard this, I said, here's a guy who's...
	I realize that Buttigieg is nuts.
	Yeah, I think you may be right on that.
	And this is my proof.
	This is Buttigieg's concept of quote-unquote Trump's gift.
	And what he's...
	What is Trump's gift?
	And when I heard this, I'm going to give you the punchline for it.
	I'm going to give you the analysis before I play the clip.
	This is from a science fiction movie.
	I think even Star Trek did this once before.
	Maybe Star Trek's done more than one of these scenarios that he describes with Trump, and it was just a head slapper.
	You know, the gift of this president...
	Is to take any energy that goes his way, even if it's in the form of criticism, and turn it into a kind of food that he just grows off of and gets bigger.
	That's the code that we've got to crack.
	And I think the way to do it is to name and confront everything that he does wrong, but then immediately go back to talking about the impact that we will have on voters' lives.
	He sucks in energy and turns it into whatever it is.
	It makes him bigger.
	Hold on.
	Let's listen to it again.
	The gift of this president is to take any energy that goes his way, even if it's in the form of criticism, and turn it into a kind of food that he just grows off of and gets bigger.
	That's the code that we've got to crack.
	And I think the way to do it is to name and confront everything that he does wrong, but then immediately go back to talking about the impact that we will have on voters' lives.
	Negative energy is food.
	This is a storyline I have seen at least five times.
	I think this, yeah, and it's one of the older ones with, you know, like the original Star Trek.
	I think you're right.
	All right, everybody, that'll do it for our deconstruction for today's media landscape.
	We missed a lot, but there's only so much time we have.
	So we'll pick some stuff up on Sunday.
	We still have nutty Brexit.
	Nutty, nutty Brexit.
	Maybe all those memos will be released by...
	Yeah, by Horowitz.
	Special thanks to Sir Chris Wilson and Felix Wilson.
	Thanks to Sir Seatsitter and PMX, UK PMX. There we go.
	End of show mixes.
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	And from northern Silicon Valley, where I do not understand why at this hour, which is around noon...
	The traffic is so bad.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
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	And remember, dvorak.org slash NA. Until Sunday, adios, mofos!
	Oh, and such.
	Let me just say that.
	Let me just let me just say that sucks up.
	I have the time.
	I have the time.
	America deserves the time.
	It's my time.
	I'd like to knock the crap out of them.
	Hold on.
	Shame on this body.
	That's not America.
	Let's get sophisticated about this, okay?
	We have to fight fire with fire.
	Okay?
	Would that be?
	This is ridiculous!
	Take back our future and take back our lives!
	I knew about the balance of my time.
	We have got a body in that RV, and it's getting warmer outside, understand?
	We've got to do something about that soon and in a way that no one will ever find it.
	Now, that last part is very, very important.
	Therefore, it seems to me that our best course of action would be chemical disincorporation.
	Dissolving in strong acid.
	No, it's hydrochloric acid.
	It's used for cleaning cement.
	Not hydrofluoric.
	You see, hydrofluoric acid won't eat through plastic.
	It will, however, dissolve metal, rock, glass, ceramic.
	So there's that.
	It's not the best.
	I think nitric acid would be better.
	Look, you skipped...
	Clowned around or otherwise jerked off through every lecture I ever gave.
	As far as I'm concerned, your chemistry education is over.
	Well, let's stop with the hydrochloric acid as being a good way to dissolve a body, because it's not.
	It might be useful as a cleanup to get rid of all traces of DNA. The best you would use lye or sodium hydroxide or something that really is caustic.
	It dissolves even a little body.
	I mean, it would just be a mess.
	It would be horrible.
	And it would just not work.
	It's just not a good way to go.
	Suppose you could buy two bins, legs in one, torso in the other.
	Most chemists are fascinated by what they've always been told that HF, hydrofluoric acid, eats human flesh.
	We thought that we should try it.
	Now, obviously, we can't try human flesh.
	And Brady decided that a chicken's leg, that's an uncooked leg from a dead chicken, is a reasonable approximation.
	That's true.
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