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	Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
	It's Sunday, August 4th, 2019.
	This is your award-winning Gipo Nation Media Assassination, episode 1161.
	This is no agenda.
	Tallying up all the 33s and broadcasting live from the frontier of Austin, Texas, capital of the Drone Star State.
	In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from Northern Silicon Valley, where we're beating this effort one more time.
	I'm John C. DeVore.
	It's Crackpot and Buzzkill.
	In the morning.
	When we're dead and gone, people will know.
	When it came to us versus the Zephyr, we ultimately were the winners.
	You got it.
	You got it.
	Every single time.
	Yes.
	I think we want some time back.
	All right.
	Here we are.
	It's Trump's fault.
	You said it yourself before we started.
	Well, let me...
	I have a quiz for you then.
	Okay.
	I want you to ask me...
	I'll tell you what question to ask me, then I'll answer it.
	Okay.
	I'll play along.
	All right.
	Ask me...
	If it was Clinton's fault that Columbine happened.
	You know, I was wondering, John, back in the day, was it Clinton's fault that Columbine happened?
	No.
	Look, man, as far as I'm concerned...
	Wait, I got three more questions.
	Oh, God.
	Okay.
	Ask me if it was Obama's fault that Aurora happened.
	You know, there's another instance I was thinking of.
	The movie shooter, the Batman shooter in Aurora, Colorado.
	Was that Obama's fault?
	No.
	I have another question.
	Not one, not two, but three shootings at Walmart.
	And, in addition to that, last night, there was another shooting.
	God, I don't even know where this was.
	No, this morning.
	Actually, it was...
	Was it this morning?
	Yeah.
	Dayton.
	Dayton, Ohio, yes.
	Is that President Trump's fault?
	Yeah.
	Okay, just checking.
	Not only that, but I'm watching this news this morning and Beto O'Rourke comes on CBS and directly blames Trump.
	Tell me you have a clip of that.
	I just couldn't.
	It's probably going to be redoable.
	Wait, wait.
	Then Beto O'Rourke goes right over to ABC. And blames Trump.
	Not only that, but he also mentions all of Trump's flaws, including the fact that without mentioning anything other than this, without even mentioning where this stuff happened, he says Trump Said that Nazis and white supremacists are fine people.
	Hello, Scott Adams.
	Did he at any point say Trump is literally Hitler?
	Because that would have been the best.
	No.
	Unfortunately, no.
	They went to a panel, though, with four people that all thought Trump was responsible.
	Holy shit.
	Well, you know, here's what I saw.
	It was...
	Within minutes, it was Trump's fault.
	Everything, and of course, we're just talking about the third Walmart shooter, as if you're some kind of prophecy, future seer.
	Wait, we are.
	We had a newsletter wherein you specifically, before this attack even happened, mentioned that the two other Walmart shootings had not been covered.
	That did go out, didn't it?
	That's what I saw in the newsletter.
	Yeah, the newsletter you read went out.
	That was before the third shooting.
	Was it not?
	I don't know if it was before it or not.
	Oh.
	It was before Dayton.
	Well, for sure.
	I was looking at these previous...
	There were two Walmart shootings before this one.
	Two of them.
	One didn't get reported because I don't think it was a big deal.
	I don't know.
	All I know, there's a lot of shootings all of a sudden.
	Yeah, and so this came on the heels of a report from the FBI, a so-called memo that was uncovered, which kind of spells out People who believe in crazy conspiracy theories should really be labeled as terrorists.
	Yeah, that was kind of coincidental.
	And I was thinking the reason why we didn't hear anything about Walmart shootings before this one in El Paso You know, you've got to be quiet about Walmart.
	They spend $3 billion a year in advertising.
	We don't want people to be afraid.
	We certainly wouldn't want the news to mention that Walmarts are gun-free zones.
	And I saw a lot of people saying, Oh, Texas!
	Everybody's got a gun!
	How come no one took them out?
	Well, before you go on, did you see the unpublicized...
	The shooter in the Walmart in El Paso.
	Did you see the picture of the black woman who pulled out a gun and started firing at him?
	No, I didn't.
	Fantastic.
	Oh, good.
	Definitely got out of the way of her.
	Oh, shoot.
	All right.
	The thing I want to do first off is just whether this is his or not, it's claimed to be his manifesto.
	I'm a student of manifestos.
	I feel if someone's going to write something and then go kill other people, That is the El Paso shooter.
	Yes, the El Paso shooter.
	It's at least worth discussing or at least exposing what he wrote.
	And within minutes, contrary to what he actually writes, he was being called a white supremacist, white nationalist, Trump fan, everything.
	And I marked up his manifesto and I just wanted to read a couple passages from it because the mainstream won't do it.
	Have you seen anyone...
	Read anything from his manifesto.
	Nothing, right?
	Not a thing.
	No, of course not.
	If it contradicts their idea of what should be reported, how it should be reported, what their objectives are, which is to get Trump out of office, it won't be reported.
	Yeah, so I'm reading this with the same interest I had when I first read Ted Kaczynski's manifesto as the Unabomber, thinking...
	He also read...
	You also read that character up in Norway, or whatever his name was.
	Anders Breivik.
	Well, that was a compendium more than a manifesto, which really, I would say, a lot of it is used as the ultimate background, the base information pool for which this, and the Christchurch shooting, quite frankly, these manifestos from the Christchurch shooter, which his manifesto is illegal by law to possess.
	You cannot have that in New Zealand.
	You are not allowed to have a copy of the video.
	You're not allowed to have a copy of his manifesto.
	That is illegal now.
	It was illegal pretty much immediately.
	I think one kid got in trouble and may go to jail for having a copy of the video.
	So the same interest I have as to why the Unabomber killed these people with bombs blowing up, maybe he had something to say.
	So let's just start with the oddness of mainstream media calling this guy a Trump supporter and white supremacist with the last paragraph of his manifesto.
	My ideology has not changed for several reasons.
	My opinions on automation, immigration, and the rest predate Trump and his campaign for president.
	I'm putting this here because some people will blame the president or certain presidential candidates for the attack.
	This is not the case.
	I know the media will probably call me a white supremacist anyway and blame Trump's rhetoric.
	The media is infamous for fake news.
	Their reaction to this attack will likely just confirm that.
	It seems like even if you want to call him a white supremacist and a Trump supporter, you might want to mention that he said he wasn't.
	And that's the main thing that bothers me.
	Now let's try and get inside this guy's head if he actually wrote this.
	Now, the title of his...
	Hold on, stop, stop, stop.
	Why wouldn't he have written it?
	Who else would have written it?
	Or what would be the point of it if he didn't write it?
	And so far as who does it benefit?
	I think we have to read through it to find out if he didn't write it.
	I mean, it's filled with political positions and information about his so-called thinking.
	So whether it's him or someone wrote it for him or someone wrote it completely unrelated to him, we can't just ignore it.
	That's the thing that bothers me.
	We have nothing but panels and panels of people on news shows, so-called news shows, You actually watch real news, you know, so-called real news, like on PBS. M5M. Yeah, you know, and network news.
	They could at least say, hey, let's just talk about this.
	This is interesting.
	What is this guy thinking about?
	And he starts...
	Oh, no, no, no.
	What am I thinking?
	Yes.
	Not gonna happen.
	It just encourages others to write manifestos.
	Bad idea.
	Okay, well, obviously on the No Agenda show, we think a little differently about that.
	It's probably worth finding out what the guy was thinking.
	And if action needs to be taken, then that can be taken.
	And he starts right off with the title of his manifesto is The Inconvenient Truth.
	Now, this harkens back to the Christchurch shooter, indeed back to Anders Breivol's compendium.
	And he starts off by saying, in general, I support the Christchurch shooter and his manifesto.
	This attack is in response to the Hispanic invasion of Texas.
	I didn't even say anyone mentioned that in their reporting.
	It's at the top.
	It says it right there.
	This attack is a response to the Hispanic invasion of Texas.
	That seems pretty clear.
	No.
	I listened to the president and went and go kill brown people.
	That's pretty much the M5M message.
	I'm going to read a few paragraphs here.
	Some people will think this statement is hypocritical because of the nearly complete ethnic and cultural destruction brought to the Native Americans by our European ancestors.
	The natives didn't take the invasion of Europeans seriously, and now what's left is just a shadow of what it was.
	So he's now saying that people often don't recognize that you're being invaded, and before you know, it's too late.
	Actually, the Hispanic community was not my target before I read The Great Replacement.
	Now, the Great Replacement is what the Christchurch shooter referred to, and that is, we discussed it on the show previously, that is the theory that white Europeans are being replaced by brown people from poor countries systematically and on purpose.
	And the Great Replacement, if anything, is probably, and that's not a benefit, I think that's an actual book, isn't it?
	The Great Replacement?
	We've talked about this.
	No, I don't think so.
	I'll look it up.
	Keep talking.
	Okay, then he has a heading, political reasons.
	In short, America is rotting from the inside out, and peaceful means to stop this seem to be nearly impossible.
	The inconvenient truth, title of his manifesto, is that our leaders, both Democrat and Republican, have been failing us for decades.
	So, by his own words, he's against both parties.
	The takeover of the United States government by unchecked corporations.
	He's against corporatism.
	Due to the death of the baby boomers, the increasingly anti-immigration rhetoric of the right and ever-increasing Hispanic population, he's slamming the right here, America will soon become a one-party state.
	The Democrat Party will own America and they know it.
	They've already begun the transition by pandering heavily to the Hispanic voting bloc in the first Democratic debate.
	Now he actually puts some blame on the Democratic candidates for pandering to Hispanics.
	They intend to use open borders, free health care for illegals, citizenship, and more to enact a political coup by importing and then legalizing millions of new voters.
	How can you not read that as, I hate what the Democratic candidates are doing in this primary?
	He's saying that.
	Maybe that's why they don't want to discuss it.
	Hello?
	The heavy Hispanic population in Texas will make us a Democratic stronghold.
	Losing Texas and a few other states with heavy Hispanic population to the Democrats is all it would take for them to win nearly every presidential election.
	Although the Republican Party is also terrible, many factions within the Republican Party are pro-corporation.
	Pro-corporation equals pro-immigration.
	Continued immigration will make one of the biggest issues of our time automation so much.
	This is literally talking points of the candidates that we saw on stage, including Andrew Yang, as he continues...
	America will have to initiate a basic universal income to prevent widespread poverty and civil unrest as people lose their jobs.
	Everything that he says in the opening of this manifesto is against what we've seen in the past few weeks in democratic debates.
	He seems to be influenced by what he saw.
	A couple of things I can stop.
	Yeah, please do.
	Please, of course.
	Okay, The Great Replacement was also The Grand Remplacement was a book done in 2011.
	You were right.
	A French book.
	But if you read the wiki page, of course, they're going to take it a little differently.
	They're going to say The Great Replacement is known as The Replacement Theory.
	It's a white nationalist right-wing conspiracy theory.
	Yeah.
	Of course.
	Which states that the complicity of replacists, we don't use that word.
	No, it's a good one.
	Let me write it down.
	Replacists.
	Replacist elites.
	Let me write that too.
	The white French population, as well as the white European population in Europe at large, is being progressively replaced with non-European peoples, specifically Arab, Berber, and sub-Saharan African Muslim populations from Africa and the Middle East, through mass migration and demographic growth.
	The theory was based on Renaud Camus' 2011 book, The Great Replacement, It specifically associated the presence of Muslims in France with potential danger and destruction of French culture and civilization.
	So that's that, and when you mentioned Andrew Yang, there is a huge thing going on right now to find that Yang's campaign is bitching about, because Yang is the one who promotes this idea of the robots.
	And universal basic income, the two things he mentioned.
	Yes, it's his main thing.
	They're hornswoggled through, I guess, details or little gotchas in the qualifications list of how to get on the debate stage.
	They're trying to get him off the stage.
	Who is they?
	The Democrat Party.
	Yes, of course.
	Well, then they should just say that the shooter referenced him in the manifesto.
	He'd be gone in a heartbeat.
	Well, then people would look at the manifesto.
	Oh, yes, this would be wrong.
	Yes, not going to work.
	You may continue.
	Even though new migrants do the dirty work, their kids typically don't.
	They want to live the American dream, which is why they get college degrees and fill higher-paying skilled positions.
	This is why corporations lobby for even more illegal immigration even after decades of it happening.
	They need to keep replenishing the low-skilled labor pool.
	I never actually thought about it like that, but I buy it.
	Recently, the Senate, under a, all caps, Republican administration, has greatly increased the number of foreign workers that will take American jobs.
	To compete, I'm skipping parts, obviously.
	To compete, people have to get better credentials by spending more time in college.
	It used to be that a high school degree was worth something.
	Now a bachelor's degree is what's recommended to be competitive in the job market.
	The cost of college degrees has exploded as their value has plummeted.
	And this is why I said we really don't know if he wrote it.
	It doesn't sound like a 21-year-old's writing.
	Just doesn't.
	What do you feel?
	Well, I haven't read it.
	Okay.
	Well, what I'm reading to you.
	Just the structure...
	He might have copy-pasted parts of it.
	That's possible.
	I don't know.
	I just felt the grammar...
	I can't say one way or the other because there are plenty of writers.
	I mean, Gore Vidal wrote his first novel at 19, so, I mean, anything's possible.
	The American lifestyle affords our citizens an incredible quality of life.
	However, our lifestyle is destroying the environment of our country.
	Now, this is very similar to the Christchurch shooter, his manifesto, where he's a greenie.
	He's an ecological terrorist.
	He fights ecological destruction.
	The decimation of the environment is creating a massive burden for future generations.
	Corporations are heading the destruction of our environment by shamelessly over-harvesting resources.
	This has been a problem for decades.
	For example, this phenomenon is brilliantly portrayed in the decades-old classic, the Lorax.
	Do you want to explain the Lorax?
	I don't know the Lorax.
	Oh, geez.
	We've discussed the Lorax, I thought.
	I don't recall that.
	Well, I wasn't prepared.
	I can look it up.
	I swear, I was like, yeah, once you look it up, I'm like, oh, John can explain that one.
	I can explain it because I don't know it.
	Then he goes into the gear portion of his manifest.
	Now, this is also relatively new when it comes to shooters.
	Very clear about what weaponry they're going to use.
	He had two main guns, the AK-47, also known as the WASR-10.
	Which is the civilian version, so it's not full automatic.
	He actually complained that it overheats massively after about 100 shots fired in quick succession.
	And then he discusses the rounds he will be using, or used, the 8M3 bullet.
	Which he says, actually fragments like a pistol hollow point when shot of an AK-47 at the cost of penetration.
	Penetration is still reasonable, but not nearly as a normal AK-47 bullet.
	It's definitely a bad choice without this bullet design.
	Then he says, my other gun, the AR-15, the round on this gun isn't designed to fragment, but instead tumbles inside a target causing lethal wounding.
	This will be a test of which is more lethal, either its fragmentation or tumbling, which is kind of sick.
	Yeah, very sick.
	Reaction.
	Was this guy's last name Mengele?
	No.
	Then we're almost at the end here.
	Heading reaction.
	Statistically, millions of migrants have returned to their home countries to reunite with the family they lost contact with when they moved to America.
	They come here as economic migrants, not for asylum reasons.
	This is an encouraging sign that the Hispanic population is willing to return to their home countries if given the right incentive.
	And then he goes on to say, an incentive that myself and many other patriotic Americans will provide.
	Personal thoughts, reasons and thoughts.
	So we're at the end here.
	My whole life I've been preparing for a future that currently doesn't exist.
	The job of my dreams will likely be automated.
	Thank you, Andrew Yang.
	Hispanics will take control of the local and state governments of my beloved Texas, changing policy to better suit their needs.
	They will turn Texas into an instrument of a political coup which will hasten the destruction of our country.
	The environment is getting worse by the year.
	If you take nothing else from this document, remember this.
	Inaction is a choice.
	I can no longer bear the shame of inaction, knowing that our founding fathers have endowed me with the rights needed to save our country from the brink of destruction.
	Our European comrades don't have the gun rights needed to repel the millions of invaders that plague their country.
	They have no choice but to sit by and watch their countries burn.
	People who are hypocrites because they support imperialistic wars that have caused the loss of tens of thousands of American lives and untold numbers of civilian lives.
	The argument that mass murder is okay when it's a state sanction is absurd.
	Our government has killed a whole lot more people for a whole lot less.
	Then he has a portion here, which is, yeah, I'm not sure what reading this comes from, but this is the very kooky part.
	I'm against race mixing because it destroys genetic diversity and creates identity problems.
	Also because it's completely unnecessary and selfish.
	Cultural diversity diminishes as stronger and or more appealing cultures overtake weaker and or undesirable ones.
	The best solution to this, for now, would be to divide America into a confederacy of territories with at least one territory for each race.
	This physical separation would nearly eliminate race mixing and improve social unity by granting each race self-determination within their respective territories.
	This is...
	Isn't this something...
	I've read something about this before, about the splitting it up and giving each race its own state or territory.
	Malcolm X, probably.
	That's interesting you say.
	Yeah, that's interesting.
	So I already told you about the ideology part.
	Here's something that doesn't compute with, because he got captured, might My death is inevitable.
	If I'm not killed by the police, I'll probably be gunned down by one of the invaders.
	Capture, in this case, is far worse than dying during the shooting because I'll get the death penalty anyway.
	Worse still is that I would live knowing that my family despises me.
	This is why I'm not going to surrender, even if I run out of ammo.
	If I'm captured, it will be because I'm subdued somehow.
	Hmm.
	Yet, he got captured, and he didn't look subdued.
	I don't know.
	And then at the end...
	Then at the end, again, he says that this has nothing to do with Trump, that he hates both parties, he hates the corporatism, and...
	So there was, just as an aside, there was something, I didn't record this, and it's not on my clip list, but somebody was talking about how cool, in one of these talk shows, how cool and weird it's going to be when the Democrats take over Texas.
	And when O'Rourke was, who I guess would be the king of Texas, O'Rourke was...
	Kaiser Beto.
	Kaiser Beto.
	It had something to do with it.
	Now I'm going to have to start looking into this thing because they're trying to flip Texas Democrat, which would be quite amusing as far as I'm concerned.
	I think it's actually quite possible to do that.
	I really do.
	I think we're not far off from...
	Just look at who's in Dallas and Texas, Dallas and Houston and Austin.
	Look at what El Paso is.
	The Castro brothers.
	Yeah, that's San Antonio.
	These are all sanctuary cities, I might add.
	So, I think this is correct.
	Now, we had a Democratic governor, a very famous one, Anne Richardson, I think everyone liked her.
	Or hated her equally.
	It was a love-hate relationship, but she was respected, I guess I could say.
	So yeah, that's possible.
	I never see this kind of talk on Twitter from people who are 21 running around pissed off.
	Well, people on Twitter who are 21 and running around pissed off are...
	Or just a bunch of weenies on Twitter.
	I mean, come on.
	Miss Twitter.
	From the conspiracy side of the house, which I feel I also need to cover, this would be categorized under Gladio, Operation Gladio B, which means there's definitely correlation to what the Gladio strategy would be, which is a strategy of tension and unrest.
	And you do that by these types of shootings.
	We've had quite a few in a row.
	Everything was dead.
	Nothing was, to coin a phrase, nothing was happening news-wise.
	Everyone's getting ready to go on vacation.
	The government is on leave for six weeks.
	We're all quieted down.
	We don't have another debate until September.
	And then we get a whole bunch of shootings in a row.
	I think by now my count is six, with at least several people killed at each one.
	And what is the guy doing with ear protection?
	The other Walmart guy, shooter, also had ear protection.
	Just a psychological question, which I have no expertise in.
	If you're going to go and shoot and you say, I need to die in this, but I need to protect my ears.
	It hurts!
	Are you kidding me?
	It's very painful.
	Last time I was shooting, I forgot to put my protection or put the thing back on.
	I shot a.45.
	Were you indoors?
	My ears were ringing for a half an hour.
	I'm not going to go shooting without protection.
	To be shot or not shot doesn't mean you had to put yourself into miserable pain.
	It just seems if you...
	I don't know.
	It's not typical of mass shooters.
	Can I say that?
	Certainly not two in a row.
	There's two things that aren't discussed.
	One, whether any of them are wearing ear protection seems to me.
	I don't see that discussed.
	A, and B, whether they're on some sort of drug.
	This is the real issue here that nobody discusses.
	Thank you.
	And nobody has discussed it on any of these cases recently.
	They don't say, was he on Ambien or was he on...
	Ritalin, or was he a kid that was on Ritalin?
	He's off of Ritalin now, and he's on Adderall.
	I mean, nobody brings any of this up because, of course, the big networks are supported by the drug companies.
	Which brings me to my first clip for the day.
	We can move away from the show.
	I don't think we have anything else, do we?
	I mean, this is what we have.
	I don't have shooting.
	I finally dug up some other stuff.
	Well, let me go into what we were just talking about, about big pharma and how it's not discussed.
	And all these children, if you're 21, I think you're still...
	Before we go too far away, I do have two clips that are connected in an offhanded way.
	Connected to the shooting?
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Well, it connected to what you read, the manifesto and some other things.
	Sure, okay.
	Okay, this is from Designated Survivor Season 3, which was moved off, it was kicked off the air and moved over to Netflix.
	Wait, this is the, what's his face, Sutherland kid?
	Sutherland plays the president who was, they killed everybody and he became the survivor because they always take, when they give a.
	Right, he was kind of the loser guy in Congress and because everyone was killed, he becomes the president.
	Yeah, now he's a Democrat and he's running and they're up to season three and this is the end of it.
	They've killed the show.
	So we got one episode left after episode nine.
	So episode nine, he's running up against a Trump, well not a Trump, too much of a Trump-like character, but a Republican, a bunch of creepy Republicans.
	And these creepy Republicans are up to no good.
	And of course, he's like the good guy, but he's behind in the polls because he doesn't want...
	I don't want to do anything too spectacular.
	So we have a premise.
	So this is the Designated Survivor, Episode 9, Season 3.
	This is the first clip.
	And listen carefully to what's going on.
	Oh, by the way, wait.
	The guy running for president has this aide, his top guy, who is the guy they're talking about and what nasty thing he's done.
	I have eyes on target.
	The FBI has Phil Brunton under 24-hour surveillance.
	How the hell is Moss's chief strategist connected to the bioterror threat?
	Feds found someone who'd been solicited by Brunton to research and develop bioethnically targeted infections.
	And we've confirmed that.
	NSA was brought in and they've now tied Brunton to the dead terrorist Mumberg through phone records.
	Do I have to tiptoe around the GOP elephant in the room?
	Is Moss involved?
	FBI doesn't know.
	He couldn't be.
	Well, if he is, his loyal attack weasel will never tell.
	Moss is ahead in the polls.
	Brunton will stay quiet, hoping for a pardon if he wins.
	Where are we at with the arrest?
	That, Mr.
	President, is the question causing a run-on imodium at the DOJ. The grand jury handed down a sealed indictment, but Director Vargas prides himself on keeping the FBI apolitical.
	Which is why they back-channel this through the White House Counsel's Office.
	I just want to make a comment before you deconstruct this.
	Immediately some trolls were like, who cares about a TV show?
	Well, you'd be amazed at how programative these things are and how people believe they've heard or seen some historical fact based upon something they saw in a television show.
	How about Chernobyl, which people actually have said it was a great documentary?
	That's why.
	Oh, you know, anyone who brings that up in the chat room obviously doesn't listen to the show much A or B. It should be just kicked and banned from the chat room.
	That's my opinion.
	Anyway, so this Brunson character has developed or worked with someone to develop some sort of a biological warfare thing that kills brown people.
	Yeah, great.
	And the idea is to change the balance of the tipping balance because there's a bunch of lectures.
	Within the show, there's lectures on how the white man, who's really around 70% pretty much self-identified whites of the population, it's going to be less than 50% probably in a year.
	So...
	So they've got to do something about this.
	And the evil Republicans, of course, are behind it.
	But it turns out, there's a second clip here, and then I'll wrap it up.
	But the second clip here, which is a shorter clip, kind of takes it to the next level.
	This biological weapon isn't what we think it is.
	It's worse.
	Mass sterilization.
	That appears to have been the intended outcome.
	The bioweaponized flu was going to be introduced into populations with high minority growth rates.
	Large swaths of the population would become infected, but then they'd get better.
	What would be undetectable was that it had been genetically sequenced to sterilize its minority hosts.
	Whoa!
	Okay.
	Let's stop right there and let me just do this.
	I did this a couple of times on this show.
	This is an old science fiction story.
	That's been readapted.
	And in fact, the last time I saw this exact story being run down as a drama was on Stargate SG-1.
	Is that with Scott, what's his name?
	Whatever.
	One of these guys.
	But anyway, so SG-1, they go to this planet and there's two or three white folk.
	The story's been switched.
	Two or three of these white folk and they're working the planet in this giant, giant And there's nobody else around and they're wandering around.
	They fall in a hole and inside the hole they find all these documents that show that this trick has been played on the white people and they've all been sterilized through some disease which was biologically engineered to do it.
	And spread by dogs.
	Sorry, it's a new twist on an old classic I'm working on.
	The next round of this bullshit story can come up, and these guys were just dumb.
	And so this is like, you know, these guys are – so the way this story goes on is it gets out and the public finds out just before – one week before the election, even though the FBI didn't want to do anything because they don't want to interfere with the election.
	They go on about that quite a bit.
	And then as the story concludes and is being brought out that they're trying to kill everybody with this biological weapon, the Republicans are – Somebody finds out that the Democrat main operative has been using CIA, CIA, exclusive CIA spying stuff to get these, get, just steal information from the other side because there's a mole in the Republican Party and the Republican Party is leaking a lot.
	Hello.
	But then they find one clip where it turns out that the guy running for president knew nothing of it and there's proof that he knew nothing of it.
	But meanwhile, the election is now going toward the, swinging toward the Democrat.
	It's a convoluted Hollywood six story trying, again, using everything they can in every direction to demean the Republican Party.
	It's just what it is.
	Well, in this case, it appears more that the Democrat Party, specifically in the shooting case at Walmart, specifically the candidates and their discussions in the past debates, certainly was some reason for forming this guy's mind and opinion and actions.
	Let's go back to what we're always looking at.
	Do we know anything about any of these shooters ever if they were on psychotropic drugs?
	At all?
	No.
	The reason why, as we know, just turn on the news channels for sure, but turn on PBS. You can see who it's sponsored by, proudly brought to you by all kinds of big pharma, big pharma research, big pharma manufacturers, etc., Not just the only ones.
	They've got the war machine in there, too.
	Boeing and McDonnell Douglas, ADM, all these fantastic corporations.
	So it cannot be discussed.
	And the Empire is going after two of the uppity candidates in the most recent debate, Tulsi Gabbard, which we'll get to in a moment.
	They're going after her in quite a classic way.
	Marianne Williamson, they're really doing a number on her.
	Actually, this is a two-parter.
	We'll start with, and it's Big Pharma who was after her specifically.
	And she's made her positions quite clear in her documentation on her website.
	And she will never become president in the United States in the current status quo for a number of reasons.
	But one of them is the anti-pharmaceutical stance.
	So Ari Melber on MSNBC gets her on the show.
	And listen to him really trying to describe her, without saying it, as an anti-vaxxer.
	He'll keep pushing it.
	I think she does okay explaining her position, but you can already see that she's not going to go very far.
	One of the questions is one that's often posed sometimes about Republicans who are knocking, for example, climate science, which is, these are your views...
	Where do you come down on who you get your cues from on medicine or science?
	Because, as you know, in a related issue, there was this question on vaccinations.
	You just mentioned the well-being of children and pesticides.
	You had cast skepticism on vaccinations.
	I wonder if you could better explain to us where you come down on that, given the science and the concern that...
	Given the science and the concern...
	He's a scientist.
	Vaccinations do work, and people need them to keep these communities safe.
	Well, once again, I think it's an overstatement to say that I cast skepticism on vaccinations.
	On the issue of vaccinations, I'm pro-vaccination, I'm pro-medicine, I'm pro-science.
	On all of these issues, what I'm bringing up that I think is very legitimate and should not be derided and should not be marginalized, particularly in a free society, is questions about the role of predatory big pharma.
	I'm going to jump in and then let you respond, obviously, but just so my viewers are...
	Mind you, she's saying predatory big pharma on a channel which is mainly run by money from predatory big pharma.
	...keeping up with us.
	I'll read a little bit of what you said since you're talking about the depiction, and then I'll hand it back to you.
	The quote here was, it's no different than the abortion debate.
	The U.S. government doesn't tell a citizen in my book what they have to do with their body or their child.
	Vaccine mandates were, in your view at the time, quote, draconian and Orwellian.
	I hand it back to you.
	Now, she realized that draconian, because she said a lot of stuff, and she really glosses over things she said in the past, because I think she's kind of an anti-vaxxer, quite honestly, by today's description.
	So when she hears that, she's going to try and dismiss that a bit and move into her position.
	Right.
	Well, the issue of draconian and Orwellian, this is the issue.
	When I was a child, we took far fewer vaccines.
	And there was much less bungling.
	And there was much less chronic illness.
	I don't know why.
	You know, this is not a topic that I have consciously chosen to...
	This is not some big topic for me.
	Yeah, and don't you realize they're trying to get rid of you and they'll take this topic to do it?
	But I have to tell you, it should not be derided.
	Do you think vaccinations are contributing to things being worse now?
	See, he's trying to get her to say it.
	Is that what you're suggesting?
	No, no, no.
	What I'm saying is that in 1986, there was this vaccine protection law.
	There was, and there have been $4 billion in vaccine compensation payments that have been made.
	And there was much less chronic.
	There was something like 12% chronic illness among our children previous to that law, and there's 54% now.
	I don't see why in a free society.
	You know, what is going on here?
	When you look at the fact that big pharmaceutical companies lobbied Congress to the tune of $284 million last year alone, as opposed to oil and gas, which has lobbied Congress to the tune of $125 million last year, When you look at all the money that is spent by pharmaceutical companies,
	even on our news channels, when you look at the fact that there are two pharmaceutical lobbyists for every member of Congress, and even when you look at the tens and even hundreds of thousands of dollars that have been paid into the coffers of even presidential candidates, why are we so okay with the complete shutdown of any conversation about this topic?
	And it ends there, of course.
	So that's just a primer for what the Empire is doing.
	Now we're going to try and go in.
	She's right on every one of those points.
	Totally.
	Of course she is.
	I think it's a lot of our position, too.
	The main one being, you can't have an honest discussion if you're being paid by the guy who is being discussed.
	It's quite difficult to do that.
	Why would it?
	Anderson Pooper takes it five steps further when he gets her on the air.
	Oh yeah, this was good.
	Now this comes on the heels of a Kennedy kid committing suicide, diagnosed with clinical depression.
	I Again, we can't have a talk about that.
	We won't really know.
	Did she overdose on something?
	Was it her regular meds?
	Did she commit suicide?
	We don't know.
	We'll never know because it's...
	Listen to the numbers.
	A quarter of a billion dollars.
	And that's just to the politicians.
	It's in the $20 billion, $18 billion range for marketing in the U.S. on pharmaceuticals.
	A lot of that going to television news networks.
	So here is a great slapdown, I'd say, although it will not get her elected between Marianne Williamson and Anderson Pooper.
	With due respect, when Kate Spade died, you tweeted out, how many public personalities on antidepressants have to hang themselves before the FDA does something?
	Big former cops to what it knows, and the average person stops falling for this.
	The tragedies keep compounding.
	The awakening should begin.
	You do seem to be implying, A, that Kate Spade was on antidepressants, which I don't think we have any knowledge of, nor is it anybody's business.
	But you seem to be linking...
	No, it's no one's business.
	We don't want to know.
	We don't want to know what's going on, because the truth might come out.
	Again...
	Famous people with antidepressants and suicide, and many people who are on antidepressants have had suicidal ideation long before they were taking antidepressants.
	Ooh, Anderson's a doctor now.
	This is great.
	And the FDA, there is a black box warning on antidepressants that for people 25 years old and younger, the risk of suicidal ideation is increased rather than decreased.
	Do you know how many teenagers and young people...
	But not for people over 24.
	But not for people over 24.
	And again, just...
	Putting out a blanket tweet when in the wake, you know, on the day somebody has died, implying that they were on antidepressants and that's what caused their suicide, that just seems irresponsible.
	Well, Anderson, I could say the same...
	Stop!
	Wait, wait, wait.
	Listen to her answer.
	It's worth it.
	Then we can discuss.
	Listen to her answer.
	When in the wake, you know, on the day somebody has died, implying that they were on antidepressants and that's what caused their suicide, that just seems irresponsible.
	Well, Anderson, I could say the same thing to you, given how many pharmaceutical companies advertise on your show.
	I don't know.
	I've never seen the ads on my show, so I don't know what pharmaceutical companies...
	Well, you might want to look at it.
	I've never seen the ads.
	I don't know what you're talking about.
	Wow, what a liar.
	That's not true.
	Oh, yeah.
	He'll double down.
	There's no way that he doesn't know about the ads.
	Oh, he'll double down.
	The point I was going to make was that when he asked, is that irresponsible?
	How is it irresponsible?
	Irresponsible in what way that she said?
	I would say it's just an offhanded comment, snide remark, in fact, that we're going to do something about all these antidepressants.
	Yeah.
	What's irresponsible about that?
	I'm not understanding.
	Well, he's a scientist, you see.
	He's defending his advertiser.
	He's saying that's irresponsible because if you say that, then people will really go crazy if they don't take our meds, which are paying for my salary.
	Oh, I didn't know that.
	I never see the ads on my show.
	I don't know what I'm talking about.
	That just seems irresponsible.
	Well, Anderson, I could say the same thing to you, given how many pharmaceutical companies advertise on your show.
	I don't know.
	I've never seen the ads on my show, so I don't know what pharmaceutical companies...
	You might want to look at it.
	But I've got to be telling you, I'm not impacted by who advertises on my show.
	I don't know who advertises on my show.
	It's not any interest to me.
	I'm sure it is to people in this company.
	But I don't care.
	What I care about...
	is people who are dying and there's a stigma for people actually seeking medical help for something that could save their life and, you know, that has saved my life and I think it's important.
	So here's Anderson being Dr.
	Anderson and explaining why he's important and he's agnostic and nothing influences his journalistic credibility.
	Which is a lie.
	Of course it's a lie.
	I mean, you can't turn on CNN without seeing who's sponsoring.
	And that was...
	And I don't...
	Quite frankly, I'm shocked that he thinks he can get away with a lie like that.
	That's fine.
	I just say, I don't know, and I don't care.
	It's of no interest to me.
	That's the definition of...
	There's not a journalist in the world that honestly would say that it's not...
	It's not possible.
	I've gotten into discussions with people about this.
	If someone's advertising all the time and they're carrying the load, in this case, pharmaceutical companies are carrying the load of the advertisement, it's not as though it's like some schmuck that, oh, okay, well, my pillow guy's not going to advertise anymore.
	What are we going to do about it?
	He may be propping up Fox.
	He is propping up Fox at the moment.
	But that's just disingenuous and that's a lie.
	Yeah.
	You always take it into consideration.
	You don't want to get fired for saying something bad about an advertiser.
	Let's wait for Anderson Cooper to do a special on drug-related deaths from pharmaceuticals.
	I'm waiting for that special.
	That would indicate to me that, okay, maybe he's being sincere, but...
	Nobody's sincere about this.
	This is just a blatant lie.
	For eight years, I worked in a high-output production environment with a lot of sponsors on cable, and you knew exactly who the sponsors were.
	You know how you know that?
	You know that by never making a joke about Skittles.
	You never make a fucking joke about Skittles because they were carrying the network in the beginning.
	And you know these things.
	You don't make jokes.
	We could even make jokes about Madonna, because she was carrying the network to a degree at one point.
	But now, the definition of irresponsibility is not knowing who is paying your bills.
	Anderson Cooper.
	What if it was some right-wing Nazi propagandist outfit?
	You wouldn't know?
	Please.
	That, you know, when I read people saying, well, all these drugs cause suicide, I mean, that's just not true.
	I don't say that.
	Anderson, I'm sorry.
	You have not.
	On this program, I'm sorry, you said to me a few minutes ago, with all due respect, I felt very little respect here.
	I felt very little opportunity to say what I believe.
	And I feel the person who's had some blank statements said about them on this program is me.
	I have simply never had the blanket conversation that you are now suggesting that I've had.
	And when it comes to people who are suicidal, I have a 35 year career working with people in despair.
	I have had a 35-year career working with people in crisis.
	I've had a 35-year career working with people in pain.
	I have people whose psychiatrists send to me to have worked with them.
	I have been up close and personal with people in their pain and in their despair for decades.
	And the idea that I am glib about that conversation is a complete mischaracterization and misrepresentation of my career.
	I'm not casting aspersions on your career or saying you're glib in any way.
	You are deadly serious about this and you have very strong beliefs and I'm discussing them with you.
	I just don't understand some of your public statements and you've addressed them.
	Let me speak.
	And he can't let it go because he has to defend the advertiser at this point.
	He's defending.
	Wouldn't you say?
	This makes no sense.
	If you don't know your ads, why don't you just let her speak or get into it?
	But he's defending.
	You know, first of all, a couple of things.
	When you're interviewing and someone's got something to say, you try to let them talk themselves out.
	Yes.
	Unless they're going to be like Beto O'Rourke did on ABC this morning where they let him talk too much.
	And he went on and on and on about how Trump, you know, is a big fan of Nazi white supremacists.
	That's the right message, of course.
	And they never cut him off.
	But for the most part, In this situation, with Cooper trying to get this stuff out of her, I don't know why he just...
	Yeah, he's being very defensive.
	He's defending something.
	Exactly.
	I'm not saying you're glib in any way.
	You are deadly serious about this, and you have very strong beliefs, and I'm discussing them with you.
	I just don't understand some of your public statements, and you've addressed them.
	Let me speak.
	Anderson, let me speak.
	This is not a conversation that we're having.
	Well, I think it is.
	I need to try to...
	You say you didn't say stuff, and then I read you quotes, and this is a conversation.
	But you don't let me explain.
	When people are taking antidepressants who have had serious, serious pain and serious depression in their lives, and they are helped by them, I'm happy for them.
	Yes, I believe that.
	I am happy for them.
	When I meet...
	By the way, I'm pretty sure Anderson may be on antidepressants.
	That may also be what he's defending.
	I meet young people, and I meet them all the time.
	Once again, I'm the one here who has had a lot of experience with people in pain.
	But I just don't think telling people that it's going to numb them is a good idea.
	Oh, well, that's your belief.
	I believe that to tell a person under the age, may I speak, when I believe that a person under 25, and I meet them all the time.
	You're not specifying this in your comments.
	You're saying 1 in 10 are on antidepressants, not a good sign, not a time in American history for us to be numbing our pain.
	Telling a person who's depressed and is 40 years old and thinking about suicide, that if they take it out of your present age...
	Huh?
	What?
	I said most of them.
	Excuse me, I'm not talking about people who are suicidal.
	I'm talking about people who are depressed about the world today, given the fact that the world is depressing.
	Clinically depressed people are not depressed just because the world is depressing.
	See, again, it's Dr.
	Anderson Cooper, who now knows all about clinical depression.
	Excuse me, but you are the one making some blanket statements here that there is no particular scientific evidence to prove.
	You are talking about clinical depression as though there is a blood test.
	Now you can talk about, you can talk about chemicals.
	Yeah, this is, okay, this is why I had this long clip.
	This is important because this is the truth about clinical depression.
	Um...
	And I think certainly today's under-25s, as per the black box labeling, are told that this is just an imbalance in your brain.
	It's a chemical imbalance.
	And by the way, you cannot refute this.
	If a doctor says this to a young person and you say, hmm, I'm skeptical, you need to shut up.
	The doctor said there's something wrong with my chemistry in my head.
	And that is the selling point.
	That is the unique selling point of antidepressants, in particular SSRIs, which we really don't have full research on by admission of everybody.
	We don't exactly know all the long-term effects of them.
	And we should mention that in most of these ads, they will actually state that.
	They'll say, we don't know why or how this works.
	And then they just keep going.
	Yes, and the under-24 mention is also in the disclaimer.
	The world is depressing.
	They have a chemical imbalance.
	Excuse me, but you are the one making some blanket statements here that there is no particular scientific evidence to prove.
	You are talking about clinical depression as though there is a blood test.
	Now, you can talk about chemical imbalance, but you can also talk about chemical changes that come about through yoga, chemical balances that come about through prayer, chemical changes that come about through sugar, and that come about through nutrition.
	Given that, what my conversation has been, particularly that I am very concerned about, is teenagers and people in their early 20s, that are underage, who are told, and I meet them all the time.
	And they go, and they go, and some young woman, you know, the 20s are hard.
	They're not a mental illness.
	Divorce is hard.
	It's not a mental illness.
	Losing someone that you love is hard.
	It's not a mental illness.
	We're on the same page about over-prescription of drugs and, you know, aggressive marketing campaigns by big pharmaceutical companies and people, especially young people, should know dangerous side effects of some of these very powerful drugs.
	I think we're on the same page about that.
	Really?
	And, you know, I think you have expressed your opinion tonight.
	You know, some of the language you've used, it has raised concerns, and I think it's fair that I ask those questions, and I think you've addressed them very well.
	Well, I think it would also be fair for me to have a little more opportunity to answer them, but perhaps at some point you'll...
	I would love that.
	I would like the conversation to continue.
	And I don't mean to make you feel disrespected, because that's really honestly not my intention.
	Marion Williamson, I appreciate it.
	Alright, alright.
	We'll be right back.
	Pooper gets a raise.
	Good job, Anderson.
	You made her look...
	They hung in there.
	He could have done better.
	He could have done better, I'm telling you.
	If he wanted to really make the farmer guys look good, he could have done better.
	If I was in a meeting afterwards, I would have chewed him out.
	Anyway, nice knowing you, Marianne.
	It's too bad.
	Well, she's...
	No, it's the end.
	I still think she's a funny candidate to have.
	I hope she gets her in the next debate.
	I can guarantee you she will be in the next debate because from a television show perspective, you need her.
	You need the Crystal Lady.
	It's very important she's there.
	Otherwise, it will not be entertaining enough.
	Well, I definitely want to get rid of Yang.
	I have a funny Yang clip from here in Texas.
	Our local broadcast association, known as the Infowars, have a new character out on the streets called...
	Millennial Millie, or Millie the Millennial.
	It's kind of like a Stuttering John type thing from the Howard Stern show.
	Right.
	They throw her out on the street with a microphone, and they go ask these questions.
	So she's got a list, and she's reading.
	And she goes up to Andrew Yang, who apparently has decided that we will have a news ombudsman in the Yang administration.
	And...
	When you say ombudsman, is that...
	If you can pronounce it, it's easy for you to say.
	If you can even pronounce the damn word.
	Ombudsman.
	Ombudsman.
	Why does he just use czar?
	That's so much easier to remember.
	No, Ombudsman is a very specific person.
	They used to have one of the New York Times where they finally got rid of it.
	It's like the public editor?
	Is that what that is?
	The public editor was also a form of it.
	But the OMS Budsman is a neutral character that the company hires because the company, a self-aware corporation, says to itself, I am going to, we don't, you know, we're not really connected with the, you know, we could be making mistakes and there's no way we're going to find it because we're actually a bunch of yes men and that's the way corporations operate.
	So we're going to hire somebody called an oms budsman, and that person is going to just be a neutral person.
	We're going to pay him.
	No matter what they do, we're going to pay him, and they're going to take questions from the audience, and they're going to resolve situations that we are totally unaware of or we don't think is important.
	And that's what the Ombudsman does.
	Do we have any examples in current government?
	They always get fired.
	Well, here's Millie the Millennial.
	A lot of people said you did good during the debate.
	I love stuff right off the bat.
	You did good!
	A lot of people say you did good!
	Yeah.
	A lot of people said you did good during the debate site.
	Do you feel glad?
	Do you feel...
	Okay.
	I just have to stop here.
	There's a couple things that bother me.
	One, here's, this comes close to my, one of my pet peeves that I don't bring up with people because it's petty, but it does bother me.
	When someone says, here, did you, did you?
	Wait, wait, is this a jab at me for zoologist?
	No, not, no, no, not at all.
	It's pretty petty if you ask me.
	No, this is, this is very petty.
	This is pettier probably.
	When, when, you know, say, hey, did you try, did you take a test drive in that car?
	And I say yes.
	Here's the question.
	How did you like it?
	Well, that implies that I liked it on several levels.
	I mean, can someone just say, did you enjoy it?
	What was your thought?
	Or how did you like it?
	You don't like the generalized question, how did you like it?
	Yeah.
	Which people ask all the time.
	It's almost like a filler.
	Well, it almost means, so you liked it, right?
	How did you like it?
	Well, you can always say I didn't like it.
	Why don't you do what you should do?
	I know what it is.
	It's eating at you that you don't do this.
	I would do this.
	Somebody asked me how I liked it.
	I just took the car ride.
	Now you're going to be the guy.
	I'm going to be you.
	So that Bolt, how did you like it?
	What makes you think I liked it, you dick?
	Wait, let me write that down so I know how to do that.
	Yes, okay.
	No, we don't do that in Austin.
	People are actually carrying weapons, so no.
	This is not the way to speak to people.
	Well, that's what I would do.
	If I were you and I gave a crap about that question, people would ask me something like that.
	I'd go, I don't know.
	Backslash on the pettiness on my part.
	Here we go.
	Continue with Millie the Millennial and Andrew Yang.
	Yeah, I feel really glad, especially after the last debate.
	I feel like I didn't get a chance to lay out my vision for the economy of the country, and I feel like I did this time, so it's great.
	What do you think about...
	No, no!
	What do you think about...
	Sorry, I just want one question.
	Just one question.
	Just one question.
	Okay.
	Why do you think that we need to have a news ombudsman in America?
	We're just about to enter the era of deepfakes, where we're not going to be able to make heads or tails of the stuff we're seeing online.
	And we know the Russians have already been hacking us.
	It's going to get worse when literally you could have a picture of me saying words on a video, and it could be something that gets doctored.
	So we need to start having countermeasures in place.
	That's what I believe in.
	Do you think it's really good to be policing the press, though, and speech?
	I'm sorry, we've got to go, guys.
	Do you think it's good to be policing free speech?
	Thank you.
	Yang, is it really a good idea to be policing the press?
	I'm not going to answer you.
	Thank you.
	The goal is to protect the American people.
	But isn't it, you know, you guys are supposed to protect our rights.
	Okay, so a couple things.
	One, she pronounced almsbud men correctly, which was impressive.
	I will say this.
	I can see why you didn't understand the definition because the way he answered that question was wrong.
	Yes.
	In fact, the arms budsman seems to be only there to protect President Yang.
	Right?
	Yeah.
	That's what he said.
	It's just the opposite of an omsbudsman.
	That's what he said.
	Yeah, that's what he said.
	So maybe Yang doesn't understand what an omsbudsman's role is.
	I'm of the opinion that that's correct.
	He doesn't understand what an omsbudsman's role is.
	He's thinking of it as some sort of a fact checker.
	Yeah, Snopes.
	Not a fact checker.
	Not a fact checker.
	To protect my presidency.
	And the way he just cavalierly said, we ought to know the Russians are hacking everywhere.
	Fuck you, Yang.
	Get out of here.
	That guy is a Silicon Valley douchebag with his UBI. Get out of here.
	Get out of here.
	This is nuts.
	I'm looking at that UBI. It's going to be 1,000 times 150 billion a month.
	Go away.
	Go away.
	I can do math.
	All right.
	It depends on how much money the robots make.
	Well, he's right about automation.
	I said this on the show before.
	I'm going to say it again.
	When I was a kid, and I remember this, when I was a kid, and I'm talking fourth, fifth grade, we were told that Someday in the future, the robots would be doing all the work, and we, the people, would benefit from all their hard work.
	UBI was never brought up.
	Universal basic income was not what the term was.
	But we were somehow going to reap the benefits of not having to work and letting the robots do all of our work.
	I've remembered that forever.
	And you know what?
	People would believe it if you gave them one thing.
	If you gave them one thing, they would believe this story.
	And that's the flying car.
	Because that was the dream.
	The Jetsons was the dream.
	We've got our Elroy.
	We've got the mom and dad.
	We've got our flying car.
	We've got the dog.
	We've got the robot maid.
	Robot maid.
	And everyone looked really happy.
	We were flying around to go to some green bubbles and over there.
	And we never came through with the flying car.
	That's part of the problem.
	That's why people are starting to not believe it anymore.
	Now, let me just play this one clip from Tulsi Gabbard.
	This has been fantastic, the way they're trying to get rid of her.
	She, of course, attacked...
	Before you go on that one, I want to mention that, because I never thought of doing this as a segment, but Michael Savage...
	No, so not Michael Savage.
	Mark Levin, the great one!
	Mark Levin has been going after her as some sort of a moron.
	That Tulsi's a moron?
	Yeah.
	So he's part of the Empire, then?
	I think so.
	In fact, I was driving around, and so I was listening to these guys, and he was on one of his shows, and he was going on and on about how he was really sounding like a neocon, even though he was defending himself as not a neocon.
	But he really had nothing good to say about her, and he was slamming her.
	Slamming her.
	About what, specifically?
	Oh, about her thinking that we should get out of these wars.
	Oh, so he's a warmonger.
	He had some demeaning nickname for her, Tulsi Gulsi or something stupid.
	I can't remember what.
	Gabby Gabbard or something like that.
	Interesting.
	It's not a very good one, but...
	No, none of them were good.
	Well, I've been a fan of Tulsi Gabbard for five, six years, so this is nothing new for me.
	And I just like her whole appearance.
	There's a lot of things that I don't agree with, but okay, it doesn't mean I wouldn't want to see her as president.
	She'd be interesting.
	The soldier card gives her some credibility in some commandeering issues.
	But she attacked Hillary Harris, which, by the way, is exactly what...
	Who's Hillary Harris?
	Kamala Harris is Hillary.
	She is Black Hillary.
	Oh, Hillary Harris.
	I get it.
	She is Hillary.
	The way she walks, the way she talks, the way she reflects, the way she laughs, the way she demeans.
	She's Hillary.
	She is a Hillary clone.
	She's done it herself.
	She's done a very good job.
	It's a milieu thing, no doubt.
	But I find her highly unlikable.
	And she didn't get to do her storytelling in this past debate because of time restraints, which is her strong point.
	And she didn't do that at all or very well.
	And she wasn't expecting the attack from the white hat literally standing next to her.
	She was blindsided and she's pissed about it.
	And she immediately went on the attack.
	What happened right after the debate is I saw bots on Twitter.
	And they're bots.
	It's not hard to see what a bot is.
	Posting, like a real person, that Tulsi Gabbard is supported by Russian bots.
	I'm actually seeing bots posting about candidates being supported by bots.
	This is how stupid it's become.
	And that, you know, the search, that everyone was searching for her is not true.
	It was Russian bots that were released to game the numbers so she would get more airtime.
	I mean, I'm a conspiracy theorist, but even this is just too dumb for me.
	But okay.
	The real way we attack Tulsi Gabbard is, of course, through one of two avenues.
	One is she hates gays because her dad was very religious and protested against quote-unquote gay rights when she was a child, and I guess she held up a sign and participated, which she's apologized for way too many times.
	And the other one is her visit to Assad.
	And this, of course, equals you to a Russian agent.
	If you go visit the dictator who killed his own people, who just ripped him to shreds, who had no...
	Isn't he an orthopedic surgeon?
	He's like something...
	Really mundane occupation this guy has.
	His dad, yeah, there's a lot to be said about him.
	It seems like son got a lot of bum rap and false flags, and we have some proof of some of these so-called biological attacks, which turn out to be bullshit, including admitted setting the stage by the White Helmets.
	There's a lot of crap, but she went there, so forever she will be really a Russian agent, because Putin supports Assad, and Assad is therefore carrying water, etc., all the way down the line.
	So that's the attack, and of course...
	Yeah.
	Did you get the Cuomo clip?
	The clip that I have here is...
	We hadn't played this.
	This is the post-debate chat with, again, our man, Anderson Pooper, with Tulsi Gabbard.
	And this is right after Kamala Harris had pooh-poohed her.
	She's got 0.01%, whatever.
	So here we are.
	The only thing really she said about you is she said that you were essentially an apologist for Bashar al-Assad, that you would never criticize him as a...
	I think it's unfortunate and a disservice to voters in this country that she resorts to cheap smears rather than actually addressing her record, the issues that I've raised, and the fact that she said she is proud of this record.
	If that's the case, then voters deserve to hear about why she's so proud of the lives that she has negatively impacted, the families that she's torn apart in California.
	If voters are wondering, what is your take on Bashar al-Assad, what do you say?
	My take is one of a soldier, where I've seen the cost of...
	Oh, boom, there it is.
	That's where she plays the soldier card really well.
	That's a smart move.
	What is your take on Bashar al-Assad?
	What do you say?
	My take is one of a soldier, where I've seen the cost of war firsthand.
	In Iraq, serving in a medical unit, every single day confronted with that high human cost of war.
	So I will never apologize for doing all that I can to prevent more of my brothers and sisters from being sent into harm's way to fight counterproductive regime change wars that make our country less safe, that take more lives and that cost taxpayers trillions more dollars.
	So if that means meeting with a dictator or meeting with an adversary, absolutely, I would do it.
	This is about the national security of our country.
	I understand that position.
	Do you consider him a torturer or a murderer?
	That's not what this is about.
	I don't defend or apologize or have anything to do with what he has done to you.
	But if you're president of the United States, it's fine.
	Okay.
	Just that last phrase shows how slanted pooper is.
	There's no reports of Bashar al-Assad disappearing people.
	That's what the Russians are always accused of.
	Did you catch that?
	He hasn't disappeared people.
	Well, he's...
	Yeah, he has.
	He must have.
	No.
	And he also bombed him.
	You know, he bombs his own people.
	Well, that is the narrative.
	But I've never heard he disappeared.
	He's tying her to Russia.
	That's what he's doing.
	Well, also death squads in South America.
	Um...
	Yeah, there's that.
	I mean, CNN hates her.
	I don't know why.
	I can answer the question easily.
	All you have to do is look at how much money everyone's raised.
	That's all.
	They only care about how much is in your FEC filing, how much money you raise that you're going to give to them in ads.
	That's all they care about.
	That's how the polls are done, that's how their rankings are done, that's how the lineup on stage is done.
	Yeah.
	But why do they have to, why do you even bring her on?
	I don't get it.
	Because she hurt the Queen!
	Oh, that's right.
	The Queen brings in a lot of cash.
	Yes, she hurt the Queen.
	You can't be hurting the Queen.
	And she potentially ruined, ruined their show.
	The show was supposed to be between Biden and Kamala.
	That was the show, and she didn't know her place.
	She didn't even get to do her website at the end.
	They cut her off.
	She didn't know her place.
	I mean, that's what it appears to be.
	When Cuomo went after her, it was really nasty.
	Did you get any of that?
	No, I got other stuff to do.
	I mean, I didn't think this was going to be a topic.
	And Cuomo goes after her and he claims that, why do you have this?
	She has on her website.
	He goes after her website.
	Right.
	Including the one where Trump sent a bunch of missiles over there.
	Which now it turns out that the gas guys in Geneva or wherever they are, that group that does all the chemical weapons – Oh yeah, yes, yes, yes.
	Those guys.
	They said there's no chance.
	There probably wasn't even anything that took on.
	The whole thing was acted.
	Yeah.
	And she has all these data points on her website and Cuomo's going after her.
	We've seen evidence.
	We've seen the suffering of the children.
	He's going on and on and on.
	He did a thing.
	In fact, he did a thing on...
	Listen to this.
	This is an example.
	This guy's hard to watch.
	But this is a short clip of Cuomo just doing a little aside at the end of his show on Trump's racism.
	And listen to this.
	We're missing the point of what the problem is with the president's pattern of pounding people of color and the places they live.
	Here is his best defense.
	I'm the least racist person there is in the world, as far as I'm concerned.
	First, and this really matters, least racist doesn't mean not racist.
	That's correct.
	He's pounding people of color in the places they live.
	How many people is he pounding?
	He should have said slam or butt slam!
	He's pounding then, okay.
	Well, 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 crazy Cuomo, John C. Dvorak!
	Well, in the morning to you, Mr.
	Adam Kerr.
	Also in the morning to all ships that see boots on the ground, feet in the air.
	Sub's in the water!
	And all the dames and knights out there.
	In the morning, to our troll room.
	They're not having an easy time this morning with me.
	You can find the trolls and join in at noagendastream.com.
	It's fun to say whatever you feel like.
	It's just like Twitter, only no one else sees it.
	it that's what's great about it it's just a very small group of people uh but it is where you can listen to a great amount of shows including ours live we've got reruns music shows talk shows from all over the world the netherlands from australia from kandenavia and It's 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
	And the bonus of going in there and trolling the hosts and everyone else, noagendastream.com.
	We'd also, of course, we're very happy to our, you know, very pleased with our back office guys.
	You know, the engineering, stream management, and wizardry of Mark van Dyck, Void Zero, Ryan Bemrose.
	It's a cast of thousands.
	And today we want to thank Darren O'Neill for the artwork for episode 1160, 1160 episodes.
	The title of that was Vat Camel, V-A-T, the Vat Camel.
	And this was a piece of art that we discussed quite a bit before choosing it.
	You didn't like it.
	We had a discussion before we ultimately chose it, and this was by Darren O'Neill, who has done many successful pieces of art through the Art Generator, and it was a, I guess it was Bernie with the old Muppet, old Muppet guy at the back of the theater.
	Old Muppet Bernie.
	Yeah, with Stettler and whatever their names are, one of those guys.
	Stettler and Hadler and Stettler and somebody.
	Who hated it?
	And, you know, clearly on stage in the CNN debate.
	Yes, go ahead.
	You're going to tell me what I thought.
	Well, I will explain what the deal was and this should...
	People should take note.
	I like the piece overall because your complaint was, well, that's not the background they used on the debates.
	No, no.
	I'll tell you what I said.
	It looks like it could be just one of the panelists that works for CNN and there's no real connection to Bernie.
	I said the way you see this, it looks like it could have been just a talking head on CNN. It did not really show me this was the debate stage.
	Yeah.
	That's what I said.
	Yeah.
	And I agreed, and then I said, my counter was, I don't care.
	Even if it was something else, I just think it's a funny image.
	And once John says, I don't care, I want it, you just got to give in.
	That's it.
	Otherwise, he starts pouting and gets grumpy.
	Don't kid yourself, you do the same thing.
	And you could have vetoed it, and you wouldn't.
	I save my vetoes for important things.
	The rest of the artwork was...
	None of it was killer.
	Yeah, I had no alternative, that's for sure.
	And we couldn't find anything quickly in evergreens, and so we really didn't have a lot of choices.
	I like the piece anyway.
	Well, listen, we had fried eggs in the shape of a penis.
	We had pickle heads.
	Oh, that's what I wanted to talk about, the pickle heads.
	This guy, Mr.
	Pickles Bennett.
	The reason I call him Mr.
	Pickles is because it looks like he was eating pickles because his mouth is a little rounder.
	He's got a little butthole mouth.
	And I thought that if you're going to – it's not because he's shaped like a pickle.
	But if somebody had shoved a pickle in his mouth and made that the artwork so he had a pickle choking on a pickle – I thought that would have been a good piece.
	So, now, the one that I liked was by Mike Riley, was the pumped Biden, where his head is hinged open, and there's a million colorful pills popping out of his head, and he's got this really goofy look on his face.
	That's the one I liked.
	I didn't like it because I thought it was gruesome.
	And I'll tell you why I think it was gruesome.
	It reminded me of one of the Silence of the Lambs movies, where they chopped the head off of Ray Liotta.
	And he'd have the top of his head missing and his brain there, and he's sitting there at the dinner table, and I thought it was so sickening and gruesome that it harkened back on that too much for my taste, and it gave me the creeps.
	Okay, well, I don't remember that argument, and I don't remember that scene, or if I've even seen the movie.
	Well, I didn't go into the great details.
	I just said that piece was, to me, it was, I didn't like it.
	Right, right.
	So the way it worked is like this.
	John had a personal issue with that.
	I will not pull a veto card on a personal issue.
	Well, you can't pull a veto card, because I already vetoed it.
	You used a veto?
	You used the veto?
	You didn't say veto.
	No, no, I didn't use the veto.
	I didn't have to, because you knuckled.
	And that's how we choose art.
	Thank you.
	We are available as judging for a county fair art.
	Beauty contest.
	We can do anything.
	Beauty contest for sure.
	Now, of course, we really do appreciate the work from Darren O'Neill and all of the artists who sometimes have trouble creating new accounts.
	Has this been fixed?
	I keep getting people saying they have a problem creating a new account.
	Is there something wrong?
	I don't know.
	Could you reach out to Paul?
	Sir Paul Couture?
	Send him a note.
	He doesn't want to do this anymore, by the way.
	No one steps up.
	That's because it works fine.
	Shall I tell you something?
	With over...
	Let's see.
	What is there now?
	How many pieces of artwork are in this thing?
	14,000 or something.
	I can tell you exactly what we have.
	It's a Drupal website, so anyone knows how to do Drupal.
	Yeah.
	Go shoot yourself first.
	13...
	Remember when Obama implemented some slick shit and it was all Drupal?
	Oh yeah, Drupal.
	Well wait, wasn't healthcare.gov Drupal?
	Yeah, maybe.
	The $2 billion website?
	Yeah, $2 billion worth of overhead.
	I wanted to remind everybody.
	$54 million website.
	And they used to brag about how much they spent.
	Do you remember that it was so bad and they couldn't get it up and running?
	And this is important for Hillary Harris.
	They could not get this thing up and running.
	It wound up costing at least $2 billion, what I recall.
	Kathleen Sebelius had to resign over that bot.
	She resigned in disgrace.
	And yet she's writing the healthcare bill, the healthcare positioning for Kamala Harris.
	That's something that should be brought up.
	And what is she doing at Medicare Advantage?
	Is she going to build another great website over there?
	Please.
	Alright, so yeah, you know, and if this is lost, if this breaks and goes away or Paul really gives up, it's possible.
	He can just be sick and tired of it.
	I get it.
	We don't pay anything.
	We can't.
	This is the beauty of the Value for Value network is people pitch in where they can.
	Somebody, please, it's on the homepage.
	He would like to have someone transition to maintain this.
	You know, it's possible.
	That there's not one guy out there amongst our pretty big audience that knows anything about Drupal.
	That's possible.
	Drupal.
	Who the hell would use that might be the response.
	It is a good database backup.
	Drupal is considered, although I guess it would be even better if it was headless Drupal.
	Headless Drupal.
	Doesn't the Drupal come from the head?
	Anyway, noagendaartgenerator.com.
	I looked at Drupal once because I do WordPress and that lesser style of page management or content management.
	And I looked at Drupal and said, well, maybe I should learn Drupal, you know?
	And I went over and, no, it's just not worth the time.
	It's pretty rough.
	But okay.
	Anyway, noagendaartgenerator.com.
	Thank you, Darren O'Neill, once again coming through, and we do appreciate it.
	Although there's no evidence, I believe that it does help with people clicking on shows that are new because they're triggered by some beautiful imagery or something at least interesting and different.
	And it's a little reminder, and not a lot of shows do it, and we seem to be here after 11 years.
	Which is also in thanks to the producers who have no Drupal experience, still want to contribute, so they send us their cold, hard-earned cash, and we like to thank all of them openly, transparently, and with Jubilee for supporting the program.
	We do it early on with our executive producers and associate executive producers who come in with amounts of $200 or over $300.
	That's just like Hollywood.
	Except we deliver the product that you want.
	You are paying for it.
	It's your production.
	And we'd like to thank those people right now.
	Okay.
	You're done?
	Yes, sir.
	Louis Peps carried the show along with Sherry Sterko, but he carried the show in a big way with $2,300 and $22.
	Whoa!
	What?
	$2,322.
	$2,322?
	$2,322?
	That's what he says.
	Did he hit the jackpot?
	The lotto?
	What happened?
	Well, he did send in a PDF file, which I will now look at.
	Okay.
	When he sends in a PDF, that means there must be something interesting there, I'm guessing.
	Oh, that's funny.
	Where is the PDF? I opened it.
	I opened it.
	It's got to be here somewhere.
	I think I have it here.
	I have it.
	There it is.
	Uncle Adam and Brother Buzzkill.
	Look.
	Look.
	Here's the deal.
	Look.
	This actually came from Joe Biden.
	I'm sorry if you feel that a year and a half of freeloading makes me a douchebag, but we all have to learn how...
	In other words, this is a buildup.
	How to be more aware in this day and age.
	Well, you weren't aware that I existed, so perhaps all three of us deserve a de-douching, right?
	I'm not sure exactly, but yeah, of course you deserve a de-douching.
	You've been de-douched.
	Prequisite first-time donor exposition.
	I was reared in a Catholic school in a ritual of confusingly experience most of my pre-pubescent high school holidays in a Southern Baptist chapel.
	Good old Kentucky cognitive dissonance.
	In other words, raised as a Catholic in a Catholic school, but a Baptist.
	I carried the mantle of a plotting stoner through my 20s before transmuting into an overly engaged small business owner in the first half of my 30s.
	Lost in the muck and mire of the M5M bullshit after the 2016 election I toggled between the apathy and overstimulation of my daily entrepreneur lifestyle via real politics.
	Oh, wait, wait, hold on.
	That's the subreddit politics.
	That's the politics.
	Via Reddit politics.
	Yes.
	Not subreddit, Reddit.
	This Adderall-affected side-scrolling had my amygdala the size of a goddamn grapefruit, man.
	By the way, they don't shrink, so I don't know what you're going to do.
	I was hit in the mouth by a flash flood of interest in magic, often indulged through podcasts.
	You know, one of the friends of...
	Magic with a K. M-A-G-I-C-K. It's a card game.
	One of the friends of my son, Buzzkill Jr., his buddy's brother is one of the magic champions of the country and makes over a million dollars a year playing magic.
	And has he donated to the show since he knows your family?
	He's playing magic all the time.
	Anyway, openness to introductory conspiracy theory research and the miracle of my 20-something girlfriend breaking up with me out of nowhere.
	The Apple Elgos did the rest.
	Talk about a superfectal.
	A superfectal.
	Superfecta.
	Honestly, I think I hated Noah Jen in the first handful of listens.
	I was more than 25 episodes.
	Wow, I hate listener.
	I was more than 25 episodes deep before I stopped skipping donation segments.
	I was prone to only listen to the first hour, and then I would insanely queue to the next oldest episode.
	This behavior was certainly disconcerting.
	Hold on.
	He says disconcerting in quotes.
	Yeah, disconcerting.
	Then again, I'd find myself cringing at alleged latent misogyny in the early days.
	Blame it on the Bernays.
	Edward Bernays.
	He's got a lot of puns in here.
	Crazy little asides.
	Saying disconcerting.
	Thanks to the psychological shiatsu of the best podcast in the universe.
	By the way, normally we don't read letters this long.
	But if you want to send us $22,000 plus, it's getting red.
	And besides that, it's somewhat entertaining.
	Yes, I find it very entertaining.
	Psychological shiatsu of the best podcast in the universe.
	I've middle-fingered social media.
	I now have a Nokia E71 on the deck to celebrate my imminent exit strategy and often find myself playing How to propagate the formula without Pearl harboring this poor slave's brain in my downtime.
	I've learned that a hearty Trump the human is a filthy shitheel, but preface before discussing Gitmo Nation policy with my lefty friends is a decent first down game plan.
	That said, I've had my fair share of fourth and eighth Pechenik Hail Marys, which historically have a piss poor conversion rate.
	Regardless, I'm grateful that they are part of my playbook, and it's all due to your tutelage on Thursday and Thursday.
	Okay, I can hear them playing me off the dais.
	Please knight me, Sir Mittens of Falls City, Baronet of the Bluegrass, Long Synth Melodies and...
	Pajotin Land Lambic for me at the round table.
	He says Analog Synth Melodies.
	Analog Synth, what did I say?
	Not that.
	Analog Synth Melodies.
	Okay, Analog Synth Melodies and Pajotin Land Lambic.
	I guess it's some beer.
	For me at the round table, if it's amenable to Adam's Ad Lib.
	Yeah, Ad Lib, it's a request.
	I'm putting it in right away.
	Also, cheap plug for the Mason-Dixon meetup on October 13th, assuming it has gone live on noagendameetups.com.
	Finally, jingles, and I think he's already triggered those on the sub-note.
	Reverend L's mint tulips into, that's true, before culminating into brain surgery recovery goat karma for fellow Louisville and associate, Executive producer Ashley Eisner Beyer.
	See episode 1150.
	Oh, yes.
	She had donated and her partner, her husband, had sent in another note that she was having brain surgery.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Thank you for your...
	He's giving this karma to her, which is super, super cool.
	Yes.
	Thank you for your courage, ITM, and such.
	Louis Pep's.
	All right, Louis Pep's hand sign.
	Very nice.
	Well, thank you.
	I'm going to go dig around for some analog synth melodies and Pajotan Lambic for you.
	The synth, I'll look for the Pajotan Lambic.
	We'll have that at the table.
	Thank you for your courage.
	This is very kind of you and very...
	Very supportive of the work.
	Absolutely.
	They sit out on the sidewalk sipping mint tulips.
	That's true.
	You've got karma.
	Wait, did he want a goat karma?
	No.
	Did he say that?
	Probably.
	Yes, he did.
	Recovery goat karma.
	Yes.
	Okay, here we go.
	You've got karma.
	I'm done.
	Wow.
	Okay, now we have Sherry and Ryan Sterko, who gave two separate checks, which indicated two separate donations, and I gave this one to Sherry because she's going to be an insta-dame.
	Woo!
	A thousand dollars, a check for a thousand dollars from Bend, Oregon.
	Wow.
	And I have a note.
	Which covers both of the donations.
	You're right.
	They did come in and just save everything.
	This is so cool.
	Yeah.
	The time...
	Yeah, the 33 thing didn't work.
	Not to mention the math problem.
	The time has come for my smoking hot husband and I to claim our titles.
	First, a big apology from me.
	This is my first time donating.
	Please de-douche.
	You've been de-douched.
	My husband and I love the show and haven't missed an episode since introduction to it in November of 2015.
	Thank you, Uncle Dennis.
	Or Denis.
	The two of you have brought a sanity in what is beyond crazy times.
	Thank you for making us laugh and saving our amygdalas.
	At the round table, we ask for chairs next to one another because couples that know agenda together stay together.
	This is true.
	It's true.
	Ample evidence of that.
	To share with other gin connoisseurs, we are bringing barrel-finished Gompers Gin from Redmond, Oregon.
	It's made with hand-picked Oregon juniper berries, golden pear, and lavender, finished in Oregon Pinot Noir barrels, a real gem of a gin.
	Your bottle should arrive to you shortly.
	I hope you have Adam's address because...
	My bottles tend to leak, break.
	They never quite make it to Austin.
	Somehow, it's the post office there in northern Silicon Valley.
	Replacement for your weed cup.
	By the way, that weed cup is, of all the mugs and cups...
	Wait a minute, I don't even know about a weed cup.
	The weed mug is the one that got broken.
	Oh.
	For titles, it says I'd rather be, I don't know what it says, but it's dynamite.
	For titles, my husband would like to be known as Sir Ryan of Central Oregon, Sir Knight Ryan, so it would be Sir Knight Ryan of Central Oregon, and I would like to be known as Dame Bear of Bend.
	Ooh, I like that, Dame Bear of Bend.
	Lastly, a cover for good measure, and any L Sharpton ditty, you can't go wrong.
	Keep pumping out rock-solid shows, and we'll keep punching people in the mouth.
	Cheers, Sherry and Ryan.
	Okay.
	I'm sorry, was Annie Sharpton and what was the other thing she wanted?
	Karma.
	Oh.
	R-E-S-P-I-C-T. You've got karma.
	Can't go wrong with a Rev Al.
	John Byrne in Oklahoma City, California.
	I said California.
	Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
	$333.33.
	Before Colin Kaepernick completely disappears from the news, which is interesting because he has been disappearing from the news.
	I wanted to pass on a short story.
	Excuse me.
	I'm still waiting for those shoes that you claim was a promotional stunt to come on the market.
	Remember, I don't forget these bets.
	Give it time.
	In January 2016, my wife and I went on a cruise out of San Francisco during the NFL playoffs.
	There were cruise ships full of people wearing their team's clothing.
	Now, this was before Kaepernick ever took a knee.
	Within hours of boarding, I met a San Francisco 49ers fan and asked, what happened to your quarterback this year?
	2015-2016 season.
	To try and make a long story short, he told me Kaepernick's teammates hate him.
	If you replayed the games from that season, you could see where the offensive line often purposely let Kaepernick get hit.
	There's a tongue twister.
	Hard and sacked.
	He went on to say that he had a relative that worked for the 49ers.
	I think the relative was in the equipment guy, or was the equipment guy.
	And was told Kaepernick had slept with the wife and girlfriend of two teammates.
	Uh-oh, that's a no-no.
	One of the teammates being an offensive lineman.
	Oh, well, that would explain a few things from that year.
	Yes.
	It's a good story.
	I met this man every day, smoking area, and we spoke of football all 10 days of the cruise.
	He was a knowledgeable football fan and gave me no reason to doubt him or a story that he told me that first day.
	Kaepernick broke a golden...
	Broke a golden rule of the locker room, and word of such actions gets around the NFL. That is why no team...
	Well, this is...
	I don't know if that's the reason I didn't want it.
	I'm not buying that one, but okay.
	This is why no team wanted him in their locker room.
	No NFL owner or coach would want such a person in a leadership position on their team.
	AF, John, OKC, PS, if you feel it might be appropriate, play.
	I've got information...
	Before something good like, we told you so on no agenda.
	No, that's been banned.
	That's banned.
	But I do have the other one.
	Is he done here?
	What else did he say?
	Yes, he lives on Easy Street.
	Well, thank you very much, John.
	We appreciate the note and the support, of course.
	I've got information, man.
	New shit has come to life.
	I'll give him a little karma there.
	You've got karma.
	Okay, good.
	Now we have Ryan Sturko, and I've already read the Ryan and Sherry letter up there at the top, and he's $277 in Bend, Oregon, and will be knighted today.
	Sherry signed both checks.
	Oh, wow.
	I don't even know if he listens to this show, you think?
	Honey, don't worry about it.
	You're a knight.
	Now get back and do the dishes.
	Yeah.
	Where did we out?
	Sir James Carlson in Denver, $275.
	He also wrote a note in.
	This came in as a check.
	There we go.
	Typed it out.
	A short letter on donation.
	I've not had any extra money to donate to the best podcast in the universe for several months, but I can manage it now.
	Living in the sanctuary city of Denver has become extremely expensive, and I was not able to make a donation in January as in the past.
	But I still rely largely on the real and truthful news from your interpretations.
	Other sources, not very much aside from the weather, and that is only 50-50 for meteorologists today.
	I am sorry, but I could not attend the Colorado Springs gathering on the 19th as I had a previous engagement.
	I understand why you would not want to meet in Denver with all the crazy people here.
	I do want to attend a gathering in the future.
	Keep up the great work.
	Thank you again.
	And hopefully I can return to donations when I wish to.
	I listened several times to each episode.
	There's a number of people that do that.
	To each episode to derive the many things that might be missed.
	Maybe that's related to age.
	I'm in my 70s now.
	Jim Carson, are my knight titles something similar to Catman?
	My cats would not be pleased to not mention that.
	So, I'm not sure what his knight title is, but we'll call him Sir Jim.
	Let me see.
	Did he not send anything along?
	I think I have a list here.
	Let me see.
	He's already been knighted.
	Yes, he has.
	Okay.
	What is happening here?
	Well, he indicates that he might want to be knighted.
	Well, he has to let us know what he wants.
	Jim Carson or my knight title, something similar to Catman.
	My cats would not be pleased not to mention that.
	Okay, well, you're going to have to clarify, and then we will continue from there.
	Yes, please do, and we'll be happy to bring you to the table.
	Just want to make sure we do it.
	I give him a karma first.
	Of course.
	Of course.
	Hello.
	Duh.
	You've got karma.
	Sure up.
	Sure up, sure up.
	In Seattle, 233.37.
	Sirup here, you two are great.
	Got a humble request.
	John, I don't drink, so I'm out of my element here.
	I want to buy a nice up to $200 bottle of wine for a friend who's getting married.
	Got any recommendations?
	White is his thing, and that's not some neo-Nazi white supremacist crap.
	He just likes white wine over red.
	Well, I mean, if you want to spend 200 bucks, I would say there's a number of whites you can get that are extremely expensive.
	But if he likes white, that means he probably likes champagne.
	And for 200 bucks, you can get him a bottle of Dom Perignon.
	That's what I would do.
	Because that's a great tip.
	I mean, is champagne considered just a white wine with bubbles?
	That's what...
	What is it, other than that?
	No, I mean, when someone says, I really am into white wine, who is not a wine connoisseur...
	I don't know a white wine drinker who doesn't like champagne.
	And if he's into white wine, he just wants a white still wine, you know?
	It's like, well, yeah.
	What I would recommend is go for the Cristal because it has more impact than the Dom Perignon.
	It'll just make you look that much cooler as a gift giver.
	I would disagree.
	Because?
	Well, a couple of things.
	One, I think Cristal is a better product.
	I agree with you on that.
	But Dom Perignon is more of the gift wine.
	I think Dom Perignon, everyone recognizes it.
	The label is identifiable from a distance, which is not the case with Cristal.
	And it is a good product.
	And it's not 200 bucks.
	You can get them, I think Costco has it for 166, something along those lines.
	If you want a white, white, I've got a couple of ideas.
	It would be in the Polini Montrachet or one of these Montrachets.
	I was going to say that.
	Or a Corton Charlemagne, which is high quality.
	Okay, here's your backup.
	It's not that expensive.
	It's probably about $100, $120.
	It's a Louis Latour Corton Charlemagne.
	Ooh, yes, the Charlemagne, yes.
	Get them two bottles.
	Yeah, well, no, but if you're going to do that, buy one for yourself.
	Buy a Magnum.
	Oh, that would be nice.
	Yeah.
	That's cool.
	All right, Nate, but that's enough wine talk.
	I think Magnums, there's never enough wine talk.
	I think as a gift, just as a layperson, if it's not someone who really is, like, technically into wine the way you are...
	Like, knows all the names?
	It's a big deal.
	Actually knows the names?
	Knows the names and stuff.
	And the brand?
	It just looks cool.
	Like a Cristal Magnum just looks dynamite.
	I'm just looking at it from a gift perspective.
	Cristal Magnum's at least $250, maybe $300, maybe closer to $400.
	He said $200 is his budget.
	Okay.
	And finding those is not easy.
	Also, finding a Magnum of Corton Charlemagne is probably impossible.
	You know a lot about wine for a poor podcaster, my friend.
	I started early.
	Before it was over.
	Before the gravy train ended.
	And I actually can buy wine.
	I was telling the keeper.
	Investment wine and sell it for enough money to buy more wine than I don't.
	Well, that's the trick.
	Yeah, that's the trick.
	That's how you got to do it.
	That's not easy.
	Yeah, I was telling the keeper.
	What was I telling her?
	She doesn't know a lot about your history.
	John, man, it was the shit back in the Comdex days.
	Didn't you organize the chili cook-off?
	Weren't you the king of all chili cook-offs?
	No, I wasn't.
	That was organized by one of the software companies, and I won the first two of them.
	That's where I fit into that.
	Oh.
	Well, I oversold you then.
	We organized this chili cook-off.
	People used to buy PC Magazine just to read the back.
	That's true.
	Even I was in the middle.
	I thought, where were you on the back?
	You were on the back of something.
	Mac user.
	Was that Mac user, really?
	Yeah, I was also on the back of Deck Professional.
	Yeah, yeah, I have a whole collection of those.
	Right next to my QRZ Magazine.
	All right.
	Is that it?
	Do we have any more to thank you?
	I know.
	That would be our last syrup.
	Syrup is our last associate executive producer.
	I want to thank these folks for...
	Supporting show 1161 and producing it.
	Yes.
	At that level.
	At the high level.
	The highest levels.
	These are indeed the highest levels.
	We'll see a couple of you back at the roundtable just after our second donation segment.
	And I'm really blown away.
	This has been beautiful.
	Thank you very much for a great Sunday.
	It's the second Thursday of the week.
	These credits, of course, that you get executive producer or associate executive producer are real.
	So you can put them anywhere you want and display them proudly.
	If anyone ever brings that in any question, we'll be happy to vouch for you.
	And for those of you who would like one of your own titles, go to our website, which explains exactly how you can support the show.
	It's dvorak.org slash N-A. And now that you know exactly which wine to buy your friend, if he likes white, go out and prop a game!
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
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	This shark's leave.
	you you you you Hey, I spoke to...
	Do you know Ken?
	Ken, who used to work at the first company?
	I don't think you know Ken, do you?
	Ken Clark?
	I never heard of a Kenny Clark.
	Well, he was the VJ coordinator at MTV when I got there in the 80s, and he worked for me for a while, actually at home for a couple years when I was very busy with syndicated radio shows and running around.
	So we're also good friends.
	Been friends for about 30 years.
	And we haven't spoken in...
	Well, he missed my second wife entirely, so that's how long we haven't spoken.
	And he called me and said, Yeah, really?
	We haven't talked?
	Shit, you got married, so let's talk.
	He's been living in Portland, Oregon for the last 17 years.
	I just wanted to give a little...
	A little bit of feedback on what he told me.
	Because we talk about wines, we talk about what we know about Portland, that it seems like things are kind of weird up there.
	They've always been weird.
	In fact, it's Austin's sister city, so people claim.
	But he had a number of things I just wanted to run down because I thought they were all very interesting.
	And the first one is that, obviously, the housing market, which he got out of, the housing market went so insane, which is exactly what's going to happen.
	It's happening now in Austin as Portland, Oregon was the number one country to move to.
	He says that half of Silicon Valley's employees have now all moved to Portland and they're telecommuting with the exact same jobs.
	Their jobs are in Silicon Valley.
	Their jobs are in California.
	Now they telecommute.
	I mean, and of course their living expenses are half.
	They literally could not afford to live in the community where their company is located because of the gentrification and the wealth and the prices going up.
	Mainly the high-end houses go up.
	With all the houses.
	I mean, the problem is that they didn't get in early when they had a shot at it some years ago because they wouldn't sacrifice, which you have to do.
	And now they're priced out and even though they can make $120,000, $150,000 a year, they can't afford it.
	And the people who were there who were just living and they see their homes go up, all of a sudden they're worth a lot of money.
	They look around like, well, it'd be great to sell my home, but they can't buy anything nearly comparable for the same money, so they're not moving out.
	They're not selling.
	Right.
	So the rental market is exploding.
	To the rental units, there's two big employers.
	Nike, of course, is the huge employer in Portland.
	I think that's a well-run company.
	It's very respectful of its employees.
	The other one is Intel.
	And he says, all the Intel employees, all Indian, Pakistani, and all developers, it's complete...
	The home of the H-1B, Intel, Hillsborough, Oregon.
	That's exactly what it is.
	Because we both enjoy the flower very much, and he says that what happened in the weed industry with the legal marijuana, he said this has ruined Portland, whereas they had a very vibrant...
	They still, I guess, to a degree, have a vibrant microbrewery culture, although InBev has come in and bought a lot of them up.
	They're still little breweries, and you can still have a good time.
	And somehow, the Portlandiers thought, you know, this would be great.
	It would be kind of like one big, giant, you know, Grateful Dead city.
	We'll have nice, cool little coffee shops and places to go, you know, talk about weed, smoke weed, have a nice weed culture.
	He says, it's the worst you can imagine.
	They have over, like, some crazy amount of 10 million tons of weed they've overproduced, which they can't ship out of state.
	So they can't get rid of it.
	People can't smoke it.
	There's so much of it.
	And everyone's going out of business except for these big chains, these big boxes, you know, like the Walmart of weed.
	He says it's horrible.
	And everyone's going out of business.
	What is the Walmart of weed?
	I forget the name.
	Get me the name.
	A lot of these are public companies now.
	They just screwed everybody over.
	Yeah, you can go to the big box dispensary and get some cheap weed, but all the mom and pops who are trying to build on their own farm, all have been either bought out or pushed out.
	It's a great example of American corporatism ruining everything.
	Not that I'm against corporations, but this is what you get.
	And I sent you this morning.
	Did you see they finally released the plans of the Google building for Austin?
	Did you see this article I sent you?
	No, I did not see this.
	Holy crap.
	It's going to have 5,000 Google employees.
	In Austin?
	Yeah, it's right next to our old building in downtown.
	Downtown Austin?
	Yes!
	It's like this big...
	I keep saying like, like a damn millennial.
	It looks like a large sail.
	It's right on the water, so that's the whole idea.
	That building, that hotel in Dubai?
	Yes, in Dubai.
	It does a little bit.
	Barrage or whatever it's called.
	It does a little.
	It's not quite as high.
	It will have...
	I don't know how many stories.
	I thought it was maybe 35 stories, I think they said, which is comparable in height.
	But the thing is, monstrous.
	5,000 employees.
	Where are they going to live?
	Well, that's going to jack up prices.
	How are they going to commute to downtown?
	We don't have a real transportation infrastructure that can handle this.
	And apparently, they only...
	Why didn't the city council zoning people do something?
	Stop it.
	And that's the next thing that we talked about.
	Portland, our sister city, has the Camp Anywhere rule, which this is the city ordinance that was just lifted in Austin, where you can camp anywhere.
	Ken says, Adam, they're in public parks, on jogging paths, bike paths, sidewalks.
	Everywhere you go, there's tents and people camping.
	You cannot walk anywhere in a public space without there just being tons of tents everywhere.
	He said, people used to like to go to downtown Portland.
	It was cool.
	We could hang out.
	People aren't going anymore.
	There's tents on the sidewalks.
	This is where we're headed in Austin.
	Although, just as a side note, the community first, I was very happy to see Scott Adams tweeted this.
	People Magazine did a feature on a great non-profit here in Austin called Mobile Loaves and Fishes, where they have affordable housing, which is micro-homes, $300 a month, and you have to pay for your own electricity.
	But they help people go through drug addiction, other addiction programs, then they bring them in, then they can actually work on site doing certain jobs to make money for their rent, and it's run profitably.
	This non-profit, as in a plus balance.
	I looked at the $990 yesterday.
	The CEO only takes $110,000 a year.
	And that's him and the CFO. Everyone else is pretty much a volunteer.
	Fantastic program, which should be a model for anyone.
	It's Mobile Loaves and Fishers, the Community First Village.
	I'll be reporting more on that.
	I'm going to go visit them because I'd forgotten about them in this whole conversation.
	Well...
	What?
	I have a clip.
	Of Mobile Loaves and Fishes?
	No, no, I got a clip about homeless encampments and all the rest of it.
	Oh, okay.
	You guys are all, you know, the guy up in Portland, your buddy up there is moaning and groaning and you're moaning and groaning and we got into a beef about this some time back.
	When I was in Austin, I said, you know, your homeless thing is kind of It's kind of lame.
	It's kind of like low end.
	Well, I mean, we're not living up to people shitting on the sidewalk like your hometown.
	Worse than that, if you want to play this clip, it turns out that as usual, despite the size of Texas, California is number one.
	And this is the clip Trump on the homeless, a local report.
	California at a campaign rally last night, saying half of all homeless people are in California.
	KPI X5 political reporter Melissa Cain in San Francisco with a little fact check.
	Melissa?
	Yeah, Alan, President Trump dropping that jarring statistic during his campaign last night, saying that half of all unsheltered Americans live in the state of California.
	So we checked, and he's right.
	But we wanted to know why.
	Why are so many people living on the streets in California?
	At a campaign rally in Ohio, President Trump said Democrats can't be trusted to run the government.
	He cited San Francisco as an example.
	The conditions in Nancy Pelosi's once great city of San Francisco are deplorable.
	They're deplorable.
	He also said California is not housing its homeless.
	Nearly half of all the homeless people living in the streets in America happen to live in the state of California.
	What they are doing to our beautiful California is a disgrace to our country.
	It's a shame.
	The world is looking at it.
	According to the 2018 Homeless Assessment Report by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, 47% of all unsheltered people live in California.
	The unsheltered are homeless people who are not in shelters or temporary housing.
	Well, now that's an honest report, finally using a term that makes sense.
	Thank you.
	So when the president says nearly half of all homeless people living on the streets live in California, he's right.
	According to the report, the total number of people is about 90,000.
	Governor Newsom says he welcomes the federal government's ideas and resources.
	If you've got a critique, offer some advice and counsel on solutions.
	And if you have advice and counsel on solutions, also provide resources.
	Governor Newsom also said HUD is slashing funding for housing.
	And that's an issue also brought up by Jeff Kaczynski.
	He's the director of San Francisco's Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing.
	Since 1978, the federal government has cut HUD's budget authority for low-income housing by well over 50% in current dollars.
	And I think that cut really tracks the rise of modern-day homelessness.
	He says the funding cuts hit California especially hard because it is also very difficult to build here.
	I think we need to figure out ways to streamline housing construction.
	We need to look at our zoning laws.
	We need to look at our investments in affordable housing.
	Is there more?
	Oh, no, there's more.
	So as we said, California is 47% of the nation's unsheltered homeless.
	And to put that in perspective, the state with the next highest amount is Florida, with 7% of the nation's unsheltered homeless.
	So California is not just at the top of the list.
	It is far and away the state with the most people living on the streets.
	Live in San Francisco, Melissa Cain, KPIX 5.
	Okay, you keep ringing your bell when she says unsheltered, so I'm sure you have a point to make.
	No, the point is that you guys, moaning and groaning, Portland, Austin, I said this, is nothing.
	You have no clue.
	7% is the next state on the list.
	This situation here is unbelievable.
	It's beyond believable compared to just whining about a couple of tents on the streets in Portland.
	We have nothing to complain about.
	I apologize.
	What are we thinking here?
	This is so stupid of us.
	We don't want to prevent anything.
	That is my point.
	Well, your point's made.
	You live in a shithole, apparently.
	Well, this is another example of Trump pointing out persons of color and the cities they live in and attacking them.
	Well, Pelosi is not a person of color and it's got nothing to do with anything, but that's beside the point.
	This Trump tech dog, they wanted to do this report.
	One of our producers sent me this clip, which is embarrassing because this is a local station.
	And they wanted to do this report as bull crap.
	Here's Trump again.
	Let's fact check him and let's get him.
	You know, nail him for this because this is new.
	This has not come up in the conversation.
	And so they started fact checking and it turned out to be true.
	And then there were these social justice warriors at KPIX. Oh, my God!
	He's right.
	Well, what's interesting is the term unsheltered.
	So the two things that were interesting, the consistent use of the term unsheltered, which is much more accurate than saying homeless, and again, and this is what our Mayor Adler in Austin is doing, you're right, we have nothing to complain about.
	You're completely right.
	It is very innocuous and minor compared to what's going on on the entire West Coast, but California in particular.
	It's that his plan is the same.
	I hear the same, well, we need affordable housing.
	No!
	You need to...
	And the Mobile O's and Fishers, they have a truck, food truck program where you can get free food.
	And that's where they onboard people saying, hey, man...
	You know, you could get yourself off the street.
	You can make some money.
	You can pay your own rent.
	Be independent.
	Be a member of society.
	Go through this.
	You have to have at least a mental health issue or an addiction problem, and they'll help you go through the program.
	You come out of the program, and you can go right into their program.
	And it's successful.
	They have 200 people there now.
	They're building Phase 2, which I have another 500 people.
	I'm going to go visit.
	I'm going to come back with a report.
	This is in Austin.
	This is very encouraging.
	But no, our city council and our mayor are, we need affordable housing.
	We need affordable housing.
	Idiots.
	And speaking of which, being a former real estate agent for REMAX, he told me what is going on in this industry, and that will be my final report from Portland.
	Amazon in particular, but also the typical real estate sites like, what's your favorite, Zillow, etc.
	They plan to remove the real estate agent entirely from the process.
	And he says this is what the Amazon home delivery door lock was all about.
	He says they want everyone to have a door lock that they can open or close for people who want to come into your home to look.
	Or if you want to have your home looked in by prospective buyers and they want to do everything online, the whole process, from finding a home to purchasing it to having your mortgage all through Amazon, all seamless, no real estate brokers, no humans involved at all.
	That's their endgame.
	I didn't know this was happening.
	Yeah, well, the real estate people would know.
	Makes sense, though, doesn't it, when you think about it?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Well, especially with the creeping prices going up and up and up and up.
	So the houses now used to be selling for, I'd say, $50,000 or million-dollar houses now.
	And so the real estate brokerage fees that you pay for signing the same paperwork is going up from being $10,000 to $10,000 just to sign some papers.
	Yeah, the market's got an issue.
	I always thought that this, you know, you have to get a license to be a real estate agent.
	I thought this was, you know, isn't there, is there liability for agents if they mess something up or if they don't explain something?
	Is there some...
	Idle insurance covers that.
	Hmm.
	Anything gets messed up.
	That's what title insurance is for.
	But when you think about it, when you think about the data and the surveillance and all the information that most people willingly give to Silicon Valley, which eventually winds up in data brokers' data warehouses such as Axiom, owned by big advertising giant WPP, or in any of Oracle's data broker databases...
	It's very easy to know how much you can afford, help you to fix your credit through our other app, Credit Karma, or what's the new one now?
	Credit Seed, or there's a million of them.
	Or your bank.
	Your bank is doing this too, and you help you get on a better path, pay your bills on time.
	Ooh, your magic number went up.
	Oh, now we can give you some more credit.
	You can go buy this house, and we'll take care of it.
	Cradle to grave.
	You're just a piece of meat, human resource, a brain in some body.
	With a wallet attached to it.
	Piece of meat!
	What did you say?
	I didn't hear it.
	No!
	Piece of meat!
	I just want to make sure I got it without me talking over it.
	Yeah, it was okay.
	All right, so let's talk about something I teased in the newsletter and I got to talk about because this is unbelievable to me.
	ABC, NBC, CBS, maybe there's some articles in some of the newspapers, maybe.
	But nobody, nobody, and I struggled and struggled to find out what the hell's going on in Hong Kong.
	Yeah, I only got one report.
	Yes, it is.
	Don't they have a general strike scheduled for tomorrow?
	Tomorrow.
	Yeah.
	Now, and I have finally found the report.
	I said, well, it's Canadian Broadcasting.
	They've got something.
	Nothing.
	So, well, the BBC's got something.
	Nothing.
	So, let's see.
	Where did I finally get the final report?
	Al Jazeera.
	The only people that had any reporting.
	That's where I got my report from, too.
	That's insane.
	They shouldn't get a report.
	Well, wait.
	I found something in the process of doing the research.
	I have the reports of that, but there is a really good little summary.
	It's about a two-minute summary, which I had to chop out all the Chinese because they had a lot of Chinese people talking with subtitles, which does not do our clips any good.
	But this is a backgrounder that Vox put together that is pretty decent.
	And the name of this clip is Hong Kong.
	Oh, hold on.
	Hong Kong backgrounder.
	Yep, got it.
	We want an independent investigation into alleged police brutality and for charges against demonstrators to be withdrawn.
	It follows weeks of escalating protests triggered by a controversial extradition bill.
	Andrew Thomas is live for us in Hong Kong.
	Andrew, how many people are on the streets?
	Probably about 100,000 people.
	It says Hong Kong background.
	And that's what it's coming up as?
	Yeah.
	Hong Kong backgrounder Vox.
	Yeah, that's what the clip plays?
	I bet you I know it happened.
	I overrode it.
	Alright, never mind.
	I'll dig up that clip again for the next show.
	We can play the Hong Kong 1 and 2 if we want.
	Did this ruin everything?
	No, no, that was just a background that people need to know, which discussed how this whole thing began, and, you know, because I think it's been dropped from our news media to such an extent that nobody knows what the hell's going on.
	It doesn't really affect the major report of what's going on today, which is all hell's breaking loose.
	All right, so we'll go back, and now we do Hong Kong...
	News 1, yes?
	Actual Hong Kong news.
	Yeah, got it.
	Probably about 100,000, Peter.
	This is a particularly significant protest because those protesting are civil servants.
	They work for the government, a government that they have come out and defied by protesting against.
	An open letter was sent out on Thursday by the head of the civil service here in Hong Kong telling civil servants, teachers, doctors, other professionals who work for the government not to come out and protest because to do so would be to put the...
	Idea of impartiality of the civil service at risk.
	But they've been defied.
	We're expecting tens of thousands.
	We think there was well over 100,000 people here right in the heart of Hong Kong in a park right beneath one of the main bank buildings here in the centre of this city.
	And the people just spilled right out of that park into the streets all around.
	They were hundreds deep.
	Now, these protests started, of course, in June.
	We had further protests throughout July, and here we are now on the 2nd of August, and the protests show no sign of dying down at all.
	We've got more due on Saturday, two on Sunday, and then there are calls for a general strike on Monday.
	Now, this protest was completely peaceful.
	It was quite a festive atmosphere, in fact.
	People had cars driving past, blaring out of the music of Les Miserables, the musical.
	The revolution song from that has become something of an anthem for this movement.
	Right?
	People seem to be going now.
	There's been a bit of rain in the last half hour or so, which has perhaps dampened things a little, but certainly no sign of violence.
	But in the last week, there have been more days with protests than there have been days without, and it looks as though that will continue throughout the month of August.
	Go ahead.
	Now, the thing that happened was Beijing sent out a bunch...
	They've got their own propaganda arm, which is with the Hong Kongers.
	They watched and they said, well, the one thing is this is just a bunch of radicals rioting.
	Like our civil servants, the people working for the government, they're not going to do anything because they know better.
	And so they immediately went on strike, those people.
	And so the government is completely beside itself.
	And because every time they try to do anything, it just gets worse.
	They will refuse to get rid of this woman who's running things.
	And these riots are not stopping until they pull this bill.
	And now they're getting ahead of steam to, as he explains in the second part of the clip, to maybe, you know, let's...
	We don't like this direction that the Chinese are dealing here, are doing, because in fact, when they...
	Is that when England turned over Hong Kong in 97, there was an agreement that Beijing was supposed to be hands-off until 2047, specifically 50 years.
	What does hands-off mean?
	That means they can't be running Hong Kong.
	Okay.
	So that's where the two systems, one blah blah blah bullcrap comes from.
	Can I add some context from Boots on the Ground?
	Sure.
	Producer No Name?
	Hong Kong will get worse.
	Each week worse than before.
	It will get worse until annihilation.
	I'm reading verbatim.
	The China government wants it to escalate.
	Young men without property ownership have no hope.
	At current income levels, it is impossible to buy a house.
	Young women with no money won't date men with no property.
	And the women can easily get a middle-aged sugar daddy, in fact, multiple sugar daddies.
	Most government workers come from law-abiding, hard-working families, but now are priced out of buying a home and even renting.
	Rents go up a good 20% per year.
	Violence is coming late September or into October.
	Massacres and civil war.
	Have a nice day.
	No name in China.
	I'm not going to disagree.
	That is obviously also fueled by the gossip scene there.
	Be that as it may, this isn't getting better, and the Chinese aren't doing a very good job of dealing with it.
	But the problem they still have is this night 2047 issue.
	Right.
	And so if they violate the terms of the agreement that Britain set down to turn over Hong Kong, I suspect that there's a possibility that Hong Kong can either turn into a Singapore city state or the British may have to come in there and do something about the deal that they got screwed on. I suspect that there's a possibility that Hong Kong can Or the British may have to come in there and do something about the deal that they got screwed on.
	That's what it's looking like.
	Send the British Navy!
	Go save Hong Kong!
	That's the fear.
	Where is the lump of coal to get the Navy going?
	So let's play part two.
	Is this a problem for Carrie Lam and a problem for Beijing in as much as, I guess, to ask you the question a different way, Andrew, does this chime with the atmosphere, the feeling that makes people go on the streets and protest even though those earlier demonstrations are kicked off in May?
	The hook for those was a different issue completely.
	That's right.
	Well, this all began with these controversial proposals to introduce extradition laws here, allowing people to be extradited to mainland China.
	And the government has essentially put those on ice.
	It hasn't completely scrapped them as the protesters want, but it's effectively done the same thing.
	But these protests are no longer about that.
	This is now just a general movement calling for more democracy in Hong Kong and for calling for less oversight from Beijing.
	But of course, that's the last thing that Beijing wants to give people here.
	They do not want to be seen to be backing down on anything.
	And when it comes to One of the big issues, which is the resignation of the chief executive Carrie Lam.
	Well, if they were to, and I'm talking about Beijing here, if they were to allow her to step down, it would look like a big victory here for the protesters in Hong Kong.
	And the concern, of course, in Beijing is that that potentially could spread beyond Hong Kong.
	To other parts of China.
	And that is the big, big elephant in the room here.
	They don't want that rabbit to be pulled out of the hat.
	They don't want anything here in Hong Kong to happen that could spread elsewhere.
	Now, they have tried to dissuade people from protesting.
	There was that video that was released on Thursday by the Garrison of the People's Liberation Army of China.
	And that was showing the army dealing with hypothetical riots.
	The essential message there to protesters...
	Was if you come out and protested big numbers, we could, if we wanted to, send in the military.
	And look what would happen if we did.
	That was a warning.
	It certainly hasn't worked tonight, though.
	They're expecting, as I say, tens of thousands.
	We think there was well over 100,000 people who took part in this one.
	And there's no sign of these protests dying down any time soon.
	Andrew, thank you very much.
	Here's a question.
	Is this a result of our current economic policy, i.e.
	tariffs and trade wars?
	Or is it a part of it?
	What is not discussed here is, are there provocateurs?
	Are there people on the ground helping these protesters to stand up against the evil Chinese government?
	Well, Noodle is not there.
	Not that we know of.
	There's no evidence of this, and it hasn't been brought up in the conversation by any of the outlets that you'd think would bring it up.
	It's mostly being suppressed.
	I personally think that there's got to be some, I would think, because you have to remember that the CIA network in China was wiped out.
	Killed.
	All killed a couple years ago during the Obama administration.
	By some bad actor in the CIA who was a Chinese mole, I guess.
	Got everybody killed.
	So they killed all these guys.
	And this could be some sort of payback for that.
	I don't know.
	I mean, the problem that we have is that nobody is covering this.
	Why do I have to go to Al Jazeera to get a story that's this huge?
	Who owns everything?
	You're not getting it out of Hollywood.
	The Chinese own Hollywood.
	They own the theaters.
	Even democracy now doesn't have the story.
	Hey, you don't know how deep this Chinese stuff goes, man.
	There is Chinese money all over the place.
	Joe Biden, the likely nominee for Democratic candidate, is entrenched in Chinese finances with his son, Hunter, and the billion-dollar hedge fund.
	This is shameful.
	This is an example of a failure of the mainstream media.
	We're going to have a general strike in Hong Kong tomorrow.
	This is not a minor couple of...
	I mean, they'll cover like 40 people protesting a Trump visit.
	Oh, look at this.
	40 people are here and they're all saying, why do you hate Trump?
	And they'll cover all that crap.
	And we got close to a million people day after day.
	This is like the same thing with the yellow vest protest.
	They've stopped covering it.
	What good are they if they can't cover this stuff?
	And now in France, you have the black helmets.
	Have you heard of this movement?
	No.
	Oh yeah.
	Of course not.
	Why would I? How could I possibly have heard of it?
	The black helmets are immigrants who are pissed off that they have no opportunity and they're dying.
	And now they're rioting.
	And they're rioting properly.
	You didn't see any of that.
	You barely get it on your own news.
	It's serious.
	This is very...
	Now we have the mainly African immigrants...
	Flipping out about not getting enough money, not being taken care of, no jobs, no opportunity.
	Of course, they were promised all this.
	And now they're rioting.
	These are major worldwide events that need to be covered by somebody.
	And if I have to dig these stories up from Al Jazeera, you know something's wrong.
	That's our promise to you.
	We dig to get it.
	Yes.
	We call it the podcast promise.
	I'm going to show myself old by donating to No Agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
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	Yeah, on No Agenda.
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	Kubarius K. These are a few people to thank for show 1161.
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	We got another international donation.
	Nice.
	He's $101 and he says, it's not my first donation, but I've never requested to be de-douched.
	Please do it.
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	Trying to get a Warsaw, Poland meetup.
	I don't think there's about five people in all of Poland that, well, maybe.
	It could be possible.
	Maybe I'm wrong.
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	He did send a note.
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	The reason I'm reading this note or even mentioning it, he has Donald Trump's handwriting.
	Oh, really?
	Yeah.
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	Matthew, you can do it.
	A Donald Trump signature, we wouldn't be, you know, it would be considered a copy.
	You can copy stuff as long as you tell people.
	But I'm thinking, we got some Trump hats, some things, you know, maybe we could get signed.
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	Sent some photos from the meetup.
	Kind of mentioned this.
	Which meetup was this?
	This is the meetup in Orange County.
	Yeah.
	A few people, and here's the problem.
	People should take note.
	The time...
	Let me explain this, because I'm deep in this, so I can do it really quick.
	In fact, can we do that at the end when we do the meetups?
	Because there's a couple things going on.
	Okay.
	Don't make a note, because I'm going to forget my point.
	Yeah, no, I have it all lined up to talk about it.
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	His house is number 33.
	Uh-oh.
	He's in Netherlands.
	I could not resist him, though I thought I'd chip in.
	Thanks for the weekly amygdala stimuli.
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	Alexander Mikuryev in Nashua, New Hampshire, 58.
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	Well, no, actually, he's going to send it towards his spouse's damehood.
	Oh, okay.
	He's on the birthday list.
	Oh, he had already reached knighthood last year, which he didn't realize.
	He says the layaway program works.
	This now, the balance goes towards his spouse's damehood, and he wants to be known as Sir Alex the Knight of the White Mountains, which I think we have no problem with.
	And it's also his birthday tomorrow, so he'll be on the list.
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	And we'll give you karma and everything for your smoking hot milf and her endeavors.
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	Nancy Murphy in San Bruno should be at the next meetup in the Bay Area.
	We're going to have one on the 8th.
	Come on over, Nancy.
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	And finally, Sir Brian Watson in Raleigh, North Carolina.
	That's our group of producers for show 1161.
	I want to thank each and every one of them profusely.
	Also, thank you to the people who came in with our 33 donation.
	There were a couple.
	The people did participate.
	Somehow, John had come up with some math equation that meant a lot of 33s.
	I can't tell you how many people donated to this special.
	A lot of people did 30 to 33, but that's normal.
	33 was 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
	Six people, yeah.
	That was a winner.
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	That's one mother I'd like to.
	Okay, I hadn't heard that one in a while.
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	And today is the 4th of August 2019.
	We do have a list for your birthdays.
	Alexander Merkuriev, who we'll be speaking to in a moment.
	He celebrates his birthday tomorrow on August 5th.
	Em of the Mid-Valley says happy birthday to his douchebag dad, Kent.
	Turning 70 years tomorrow.
	Jill Jontry to her husband, Kevin Knutson.
	Knutson, there you go.
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	That is today.
	himself.
	Happy birthday from everybody here at the best podcast in the universe.
	All right.
	Well...
	You're doing the meetings before the nighting?
	Yes, we always do that.
	And you asked me this the last show!
	Okay, so here is what's going on.
	I got two notes of despair.
	One from the professor over on noagendasocial.com who went to the Seattle meetup, walked around for an hour, could not find anybody, had no idea if it was even happening, was very excited to go to his first meetup, and did not find anyone there.
	And that sucks.
	It's sad when that happens.
	And I thought that was bad until I got the note from Sir Hashtag Null.
	ITM Adam, unfortunately my son, Sir Dragonheart, and I just returned from the Orange County meetup, very disappointed in that we could not find other N.A. people.
	We drove an hour and a half from West L.A. to get to Golden Road Brewing and got there around 1.15 p.m.
	The meetup hours were 2 p.m.
	to 8 p.m.
	And we're very lucky since parking was completely full, but found a spot as someone was leaving.
	The location is very big with a large inside space, mainly for people eating and a main bar and a large spread outside space.
	My son and I spent the next hour and a half walking around trying to find where the meetup was going to be based or at least to find other NA attendees with no luck.
	We asked the staff.
	No one knew anything.
	Anyway, he says, this is not a reflection of you or John or the meetup organizers, but if people are going to set meetups, they should be some way of connecting with everyone, finding everyone.
	This is especially true for people we have never met or a location we've never been to.
	He was very sad with...
	Are you back?
	It's in here.
	Okay.
	So he and Sir Dragonheart were very sad.
	So I, of course, got in touch with the back office.
	And lo and behold, do you know what happened?
	It was a glitch.
	This is my favorite answer.
	And the glitch, there's a couple things going on here, but the big problem is...
	For some reason, on the noagendameetups.com site, if you don't specifically set the time zone of, and this is what the glitch is, this is why we like explaining it, the time zone will default to Africa.
	If you don't set it explicitly.
	So that's why they probably showed up six hours before the meetup, didn't know it, and had a bad experience.
	And I think the professor may have had the same at the Seattle meetup.
	It defaults to some GMT time.
	Well, Mimi told me Africa.
	Well, yeah.
	It's Africa.
	If we're in Africa, it'd be great.
	Yeah.
	And now, there's also things I believe we can do to make it easier for people to identify, and there should be a contact that you can reach out to.
	So we are definitely having that worked on.
	Daniel of NoAgendaMeetups.com is fixing the glitch.
	So I'm really sorry that happened.
	But in general, I think we need to be careful that these meetups...
	If you're going to go, you have to have had some contact somehow.
	What else did you have on this?
	That was it.
	And I think people who put together the meetup, because these are not our meetups, these are meetups that the community is using, should check the time on the meetup site to make sure that it's not in Africa.
	Yeah.
	And that apparently was not done.
	But most people found the meetups, which makes me wonder what's the difference because there was not special mailings or anything.
	I'm not sure why some people didn't have this issue.
	Well, first I thought people were just scheduling meetups and then bailing and not going.
	That does not seem to be the case.
	No, the meetups happened.
	Yeah, I saw pictures of the Orange County meetup.
	But I guess we have to have some kind...
	Maybe we should introduce the lapel pins here.
	Because that's a lot easier to recognize people.
	Gee, you're just disconnecting all over me here today.
	Now.
	Twice in a row.
	Anyway, so, yeah, it was very annoying.
	Yeah.
	But once you get there, once you go to one, apparently you can have a darn good time.
	And I would recommend, if you're in California, you can get to one today.
	Today is the fourth, so Solvang, California.
	Simultaneously, there's a Hamnet meetup.
	This is new to me.
	I haven't looked at the details, so I'm not sure what frequency this is taking place on.
	But go to noagendameetups.com to find out about that.
	And I'll give you the rest of the list.
	We have another new one.
	I'm just going to do the new ones here.
	We have Berkeley, California on the 8th.
	This is the one you'll be at, I presume?
	Yes, this is Berkeley, California, Gilman Brewing.
	It's on the website, noagendameetups.com.
	It'll be at 5 o'clock tomorrow.
	To about 5, 6, 7, 8 maybe on Thursday the 8th and it will be and that's the West Coast time.
	What is that in Africa hours?
	I don't know what is in African hours but I guarantee it's not those hours.
	And I'll be there, and I think Buzzkill Jr.
	will be there, and Mimi will be there.
	Everyone will be there, except Eric, who's going to be up, obviously, who went to the Portland meetup and a couple other ones up there.
	Yeah, we're getting lots of good reports, except for the two I mentioned.
	So this is something that works, and it is incredibly important for mental health to go speak to people in person who are...
	If not like-minded, at least won't get triggered about anything you're thinking or saying.
	And another new one is August 14th in Warsaw, Poland.
	So they are international.
	You can find one almost anywhere where you live.
	Go to noagendameetups.com and if there's not one near you, start one yourself.
	They are a lot of fun.
	And as you can see, John and I are starting to attend those where applicable and where we can.
	Again, noagendameetups.com.
	And now it's time to bring out four people.
	We've got a couple of nightings and a daming, so you need the big blade for today's procedure.
	I got it.
	Yes, you do.
	Up on stage, I'd like to invite Louis Peps, Alexander Mikuryev, Sherry Sterko, and Ryan Sterko.
	The four of you are now eligible for your seat at the round table of the No Agenda Knights and Dames.
	Thanks to your contribution, the amount of $1,000 or more to the best podcast in the universe.
	And I hereby pronounce the KD, Sir Mittens of Fall City, Baronet of the Bluegrass, Sir Alex, the Knight of the White Mountains, Dame Bear of Bend, and Sir What was that thing I was supposed to have at the table?
	Darn, I got cut off.
	I had that one extra...
	One extra thing was in your note.
	Oh, darn.
	I didn't get it.
	It was the beer and something else.
	It was Analog Synth Melodies and Chopper.
	Oh, Pajottenland.
	There we go.
	Pajottenland Lambic.
	I thought you wrote it down.
	Yeah, well, it got messed up.
	Sorry.
	Pajottenland Lambic.
	There we go.
	It's in there.
	Thank you for becoming Knights and Dame of the No Agenda Roundtable.
	This is something that is cool when you go to a meetup and you see a lot of your other peers and you get on the peerage map at itm.im slash peerage.
	It's an honor to have you here at the Roundtable and thank you again for all of your support and all of your courage.
	Go to noagendanation.com slash rings.
	Eric DeShield will get your information and send them out to you as soon as possible.
	Remember, Dvorak.org slash NA. Okay.
	I have a Joe DeGenoa update.
	You're beat.
	Yeah, well, you jumped in to tell me he was full of crap.
	Well, you can shake hands with Lou Dobbs.
	I didn't jump in.
	Yeah, you did.
	You came in with a bull crap clip to show that this guy is full of crap and is not coming up with anything as he promises, which is true.
	It's very true.
	I've been following this guy as long as you have, and he's got good info.
	It's funny to listen to him, but I've never seen anything come of it.
	Okay, well, now he's doubling down as he and his wife, Victoria Tumzig, they don't have the same last name in their law firm, frequently appear on Fox Business News, that's the bastion of conspiracy theories, on the Lou Dobbs program.
	And they keep promising Lou Dobbs it's happening any day now.
	That's where the initial, oh, it's coming Wednesday, which, you know, of course, was last week.
	Nothing happened.
	So now they're back, a two-parter.
	We start with, well, something new has happened.
	We have Inspector General Horowitz, who is investigating the investigators, We're going to drain the swamp.
	And now we add to that Connecticut's John Durham.
	Going to drain the swamp.
	Take it from Joe.
	But by any traditional standard, this thing is moving with lightning speed.
	See?
	Lightning speed!
	In a very short period of time, John Durham has interviewed, I understand, dozens of potential witnesses and has moved into setting up a grand jury.
	So, it's going to happen.
	I will say this.
	I think people need to be reasonable in the expectation of potential criminal charges.
	Oh.
	This is a very difficult area of the law to bring criminal charges where government officials are claiming that they acted in good faith.
	We may see some initial cases which are not brought, but eventually Durham is focusing on a very large criminal conspiracy involving defrauding the United States government of the faithful service of these agencies.
	I think ultimately he will get to the point of bringing charges.
	It isn't going to happen quickly.
	And there are going to be some instances where he isn't going to have enough evidence to charge even some pretty big people initially.
	But some of these players will be involved in more than one series of criminal investigations.
	So if they get a pass in one instance, they may not get it in another.
	It's going to be rough.
	It's going to be difficult.
	But believe me, Bill Barr is not going to pass up the opportunity to do the right thing.
	Alright, so more promises from Joe that it's going to happen.
	You've got to be realistic.
	Like when you see Comey get off on his leaking shards, that's because we're going to catch him on something bigger.
	Now, I really want to believe this.
	It's just we've been burned so many times by believing that it's going to be, you know, tens of thousands of indictments, grand jury convening, sealed, and oh, it's going to happen.
	But he does have an additional data point.
	As a result of the appointment of Durham, people are flocking back to Horowitz to, quote, correct their testimony, to let him know that they've remembered new things, that they found out stuff.
	Stuff that they didn't know about.
	People are worried, and they should be, because it's now beginning to become very clear that Durham is moving forward with speed, and people are going to Horowitz and asking to be re-interviewed.
	This includes FBI officials and others, and as a result of that, I'm delighted he's delaying.
	And it's going to make Mueller look even worse when Dr.
	Mifsud gets to have his say.
	And he's already been interviewed...
	By both Horowitz and Durham.
	Trust us, Lou.
	Oh, I trust you.
	I trust you implicitly and explicitly.
	All right.
	There you go.
	Right after that, did they leave the building, the Fox building there, and a guy in a white jacket and a butterfly net chased him down the street?
	I don't know, John.
	I don't make up the news.
	I just report it, sir.
	I report what the news is reporting.
	So I don't know.
	I don't know.
	They've fallen on bad times that they're about to be on Fox Business.
	I mean, you're really going downhill if Fox Business is your outlet.
	But we're still very hopeful.
	A couple things.
	I think we should just mention that AOC, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, she is the storm of the new Justice Democrats, the Democratic Socialists of America.
	She is the one that is driving a lot of the narrative of the new Democratic Party.
	Her chief of staff...
	I mean, he was chief of staff, but this is the guy who found her, who trained her, who set her up, who funded her, has left the building.
	And that was the news yesterday.
	This was after the meeting with Pelosi?
	Yes.
	So he was probably pushed out.
	I think.
	But did you read this morning, apparently the feds are investigating him for election finance fraud.
	Yes, they were using a middleman.
	They were doing some hinky stuff with the money.
	Yeah, so do you know exactly what they were doing?
	He had a corporation that they ran all the money through that him and his wife, I guess, ran or something along those lines.
	This was brought up during the campaign.
	I remember it.
	Yeah, I remember it.
	And Pelosi seems to have been fed up with this guy after...
	This was all stemming from a tweet that...
	It came out of either her office or one of the offices or from the guy or the assistant who also got fired that made an illusion that the moderate Democrats were kind of Inheritors of the old southern Dixiecrat and a bunch of racists.
	Right, that was what he had said, yes.
	And so Pelosi, that was the end of the line for Pelosi.
	Pelosi, I guess, read her the riot act and told her, I don't know what she can do that's really horrible.
	Well, it sounds to me like it went like this.
	Okay, here's how it works in the big girl world.
	We're going to pursue your guy.
	We're going to hang him up for finance shenanigans.
	You should probably get rid of him now.
	Otherwise, you're going down with him.
	I think that's the kind of game Pelosi plays.
	That would work.
	And the timeline works.
	But where will that leave her?
	Can she actually tweet without him?
	Has she tweeted anything since?
	We're waiting for the writing.
	I don't know that she can even make a coherent sentence without this guy.
	Well, I don't think she's dumb, but she certainly doesn't have the writing.
	We're so sure that he is pretty much everything that she says.
	Yeah, including all the questions in the committees.
	Yes, and he has now gone to the Democrat Socialists of America, and they're going to continue with their Green New Deal, which, by the way, is fitting in very nicely with all this fake meat.
	That even Horowitz is eating fake meat, impossible burgers, and other chemically produced soy crap.
	He's doing that because he wanted...
	His recommendation, not his recommendation, but for the game we play on the show, he shorted it.
	He had to eat it to see what it was like.
	Oh, he shorted it?
	Okay, good.
	Well, part of the new IPCC report, which according to the Guardian was leaked...
	So this would be the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
	A leaked draft of a report on climate change and land use, which is now being debated in Geneva by the IPCC, states it will be impossible to keep global temperatures at safe levels unless there is also a transformation in the way the world produces food and manages land.
	And they go straight to farting cows.
	All part of the Green New Deal.
	We laughed about it.
	All part of the Green New Deal.
	The methane.
	So we will need to eat different meat.
	And I guess because America just rejects the idea of eating bugs, it's really not caught on.
	They keep trying.
	They even released grasshoppers in Vegas.
	Now Vegas is making grasshopper pies and different grasshopper dishes as a promotional goof.
	But Americans won't really eat bugs.
	We just evolved a little further than that.
	Try that in Europe, maybe.
	So instead, we do what Americans love.
	Give me something fake that looks just like it.
	Spam.
	We're the country you can handle it.
	As long as it looks the right way, we'll put it in our mouth.
	I hate to say it, but that's what America is.
	And so now it makes sense to me.
	Now I understand.
	I always thought it was odd that these Impossible Burger and Fake Meat Limited, whatever they're called, they go public.
	They're worth billions of dollars for fake food.
	Now I get it.
	It's all part of the Green New Deal.
	Well, everything's part of something.
	Yeah.
	But it's a scam.
	Well, I don't know if it's a scam.
	I'm not eating that stuff.
	I'm not eating that stuff.
	Jay had to try it once and she didn't care much for it.
	But, oh, Burger King's in on it.
	These guys are in for a rude awakening.
	People are going to try it once.
	I mean, yeah, if you're a vegan, if you're a vegan, you're not eating at Burger King anyway.
	There's no way.
	But if you're just some experimental, oh, well, let me try it because it's trendy, and you have one, you go, I tried it, and that would be the end of it.
	This is going to be, this isn't going anywhere.
	I hear people who say they like it.
	Oh, this is very interesting.
	They're lying to you.
	Americans, yeah, well, they're lying to themselves.
	Americans will eat anything as long as it looks the right way.
	We're really stupid.
	See, I have a total disagreement with that.
	They'll eat anything because it looks the right way until they taste it.
	It's made from peas.
	So anyway, I'm not buying it.
	It's not going to go anywhere and it's going to be dead.
	Dead on arrival.
	Well, not dead on arrival because everyone has to try it once because they're promoting it.
	Wait until we see the TV shows where they're promoting it.
	I will be getting clips.
	I'm sure it's on its way.
	Yummy!
	Yummy, yummy, yummy.
	All right.
	Where did the time go?
	Yeah, it went right too fast.
	I have two funny clips then.
	All right.
	To finish, if we're finishing.
	Yeah, but I do have...
	Okay, we'll move...
	No, no, no, no, no, no.
	It can easily wait until Thursday.
	It can easily be funny.
	I got OTG stuff, which is fun.
	Not funny, but fun.
	So we move that to Thursday.
	What you got for funny?
	Well, I got a couple of retro clips.
	There was a time...
	There was a time...
	I was noticing these...
	I'm back in 2009 looking at old clips.
	And there was a time that we tried to do stuff that was...
	We edit more.
	We do more things to make things funny and more ludicrous than we do today.
	Really?
	I've noticed this trend, yeah.
	For example...
	Here's one.
	This is the coming to an end clip.
	This is where, remember in 2009 when Ling Ling and Ding Dong, those two Berkeley journalism students.
	They were walking in North Korea.
	They were somehow walking in China and wandered into North Korea for some unknown non-CIA reason.
	We were just hiking.
	Just hiking in this area.
	Yes, I remember.
	And they were caught and they were taken aside.
	Locked up.
	And then Clinton went back, flew him back, you know, came in a boat, and they were crying in their press conference.
	And so this is the kind of joking way I produced this particular clip.
	Okay, which one is it?
	Coming to an End, Ling Ling.
	But we knew instantly in our hearts that the nightmare of our lives was finally coming to an end.
	Yeah!
	Okay.
	So that's the kind of thing.
	We were more...
	It was more a comedy show back then, I guess.
	That's what you always called it.
	Yes.
	So then there's the other one.
	And the other one I've got is another example of this sort of...
	I would call it juvenile humor that we've kind of grown out of.
	Yes.
	Is the way you would edit a clip.
	So it would sound like this.
	This is the Hyundai ad.
	Okay, so really what you're saying, this is what you used to do, because I didn't edit these clips.
	This is your doing.
	Of all the things that are changing lately, Hyundai Assurance has remained rock solid and gotten even better, because now it gives you something else.
	Gas.
	I don't even remember that.
	Okay, I'm going to give everyone something really actual on the way out.
	This is On the Street in L.A. It'll be our last clip.
	John Legend, the famous composer, singer, songwriter.
	John Legend's the guy who said that if you're a creative, a creative person, and Andy Sorkin says you have to be a Democrat because there's no way a creative person can be a Republican.
	It's just not possible.
	Holy crap, do we still have that one?
	I wonder if that's...
	You'll never find it.
	What is this pitch?
	It's John Legend here.
	I'm hosting a virtual phone bank for Swing Left this weekend to help get out the vote ahead of the special election in my home state of Ohio.
	That's too boring.
	Anyway, here's a couple of thoughts he has on the president as he's leaving a restaurant to get into his...
	Blacked out vehicle to drive home.
	Our president is a flaming racist.
	He's a piece of shit.
	He says piece of shit shit all the time.
	That's what he does.
	We need to get him out of office.
	What do you think can be done?
	There's a lot that can be done.
	It's got an overall century of history that created the problems that they have.
	And we need to focus on making all of our communities better instead of talking shit about our communities just because you're a racist prick.
	Donald Trump is an evil fucking canker sore on America's whole landscape, so we need to get him out of office.
	It really makes you wonder if he writes those songs himself.
	He really doesn't have a good command of the vocabulary.
	It doesn't seem very poetic.
	No, it didn't even rhyme.
	It's so disappointing.
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