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	Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, like with the dog drinking water.
	Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
	It's Sunday, August 18th, 2019.
	This is your award-winning Gilmore Nation Media Assassination, episode 1165.
	This is no agenda.
	Tracking Bigfoot Maxwell and broadcasting live from Opportunity Zone 33 in Austin, Texas.
	Capital of the Drone Star State.
	In the morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where I'm skipping it, I'm going to flip homes in Greenland.
	I'm John C. Devorak.
	It's Crackpot and Buzzkill.
	In the morning!
	You know, when I read that about Trump saying he wanted to buy Greenland, I'm like, oh my god.
	Smartest thing I've heard in the past year from anybody.
	Well, they're all poo-pooing him.
	Oh my goodness.
	This is fantastic.
	Well, I have a clip.
	Oh, good.
	I read up a lot on this and it's a very interesting idea.
	Well, if you read up, then you know this is not the first time we've tried to do this as a country.
	Correct.
	That's correct.
	Where is my Greenland clip?
	You know, I've been doing this a lot.
	Don't tell me another clip slip.
	Or you just named it something really strange.
	It could be Trump economic rundown, good clip.
	Despite a rollercoaster week for the Dow and some worrisome economic indicators, President Trump continues to insist all is well on the economic front.
	I think we're going to have a very long period of wealth and success.
	But the president's trade war with China and sagging economies in Europe and South America have rattled the markets and stoked fears of a recession.
	A major warning sign for the president, who sees a strong economy as key to his re-election.
	You have no choice but to vote for me, because your 401ks down the tubes, everything's going to be down the tubes.
	According to the president, both the media and the Federal Reserve are working against him and holding back the economy.
	In recent days, the president has phoned Wall Street CEOs to discuss the markets.
	Many in the business community are worried.
	Two-thirds of the CFOs surveyed by Duke University expect a recession by the end of next year.
	Markets and businesses are starting to think that the president may not really have an endgame here.
	Michael Strain is an economist at the conservative think tank AEI. The president has been insistent that China is bearing the economic burden of the tariffs, when of course there's lots of good research that shows that US consumers are facing higher prices for certain products.
	President Trump continues to defy conventional wisdom, but historically, presidents seeking re-election have won when they had a strong economy and lost with a weak one.
	Well, I like the clip.
	It was sucked on the Greenland front.
	Nice clip, yeah.
	But the Greenland part, which I did...
	I don't know where this clip is.
	It's just not here.
	It was a PBS clip.
	It was quite good.
	They talked about all the other people who tried to do this over the years, including Truman, I think.
	Well, here's the reason why I immediately thought this is interesting.
	What is Trump known for?
	Buying properties at low prices and selling them at high prices.
	Buy low, sell high.
	This is what the guy does.
	His Palm Beach mansion.
	It's all this stuff.
	He buys it for $7 million, sells it for $50 million.
	I understand what he's looking for, and he knows how to do his diligence on that.
	And then you look into the history of the United States buying.
	I mean, we bought a lot of our country.
	The Louisiana Purchase.
	Hello?
	Hello?
	I mean, that was a pretty big chunk we bought from the French.
	Alaska from Russia.
	All good deals, by the way.
	None of these broke 100 million.
	In fact, most were much lower.
	And I guess it was, was it Truman or Eisenhower who tried to buy after?
	So in World War II, Greenland said, hey America, come and hook us up.
	I believe it was Truman.
	I don't think Eisenhower made a shot.
	I think it was Truman too.
	There's been attempts earlier.
	There's an attempt in the 1800s.
	We have tried to buy Greenland more than once.
	Yes, and the reason I think always would be that it's strategically a great spot to be these days, thanks to global warming and people.
	Yeah, if you're going to buy into global warming, why go to Mars?
	Go to Greece.
	Yeah, because it's going to be beautiful there.
	We're going to have beaches.
	It's going to be fantastic.
	Also, keep an eye on the Russians in the Arctic area.
	It's a great spot to expand our existing military base for, oh, you know, to be able to detect ballistic missiles, read, shoot ballistic missiles.
	That's fantastic.
	Because the permafrost is melting...
	Rare earth metals are now easier to get to.
	I mean, it's phenomenal.
	But here's the real thing that's going on.
	And it's not just the opportunity of Greenland.
	Greenland owned by Denmark.
	Denmark, of course, could sell it.
	They can only sell it by constitutional order.
	They set this in stone when they accidentally came into possession of Greenland.
	There would have to be a referendum of the 58,000 people who live there, who, by the way, are kind of Trumpy in some ways.
	This is what irks me about this missing clip.
	Yeah.
	Thank you.
	I'm going to have to tell you what irks me.
	I got this.
	They're kind of Trumpy.
	Some of them are kind of Trumpy.
	So they go and they go into...
	This is CBS because there's a man on the street.
	And they go up there and they talk to various Greenlanders.
	And they go, well, I don't know.
	They're kind of like wishy-washy.
	And some guy comes out and says, no, no way.
	There's no way this horrible Trump could blah, blah, blah.
	And he goes on and on.
	The guy is Chinese.
	LAUGHTER Oh, that would have been great.
	Well, too bad.
	It would have been better in video.
	Well, so here's something interesting about this concept.
	And maybe we'll do it right after this, we'll get into it.
	But there's a lot going on with the central banks, with these negative interest rates, which is very confusing.
	And I actually went looking for, a couple days before this Trump wants to buy Greenland business, I was looking at the Kaiser Report with Max and Stacey.
	And they were talking about specifically this new mortgage that they are offering in Denmark where they pay you to take the mortgage and that's because they have a negative interest rate on savings.
	So leave it to Max and Stacey, specifically Stacey in this case, to explain how that works and then you understand that Denmark is basically in default.
	They're bankrupt and so it might be a very opportune time to come in and give a little influx of cash.
	Denmark's third largest bank is now paying people to take out a mortgage.
	What this means is that if you buy a house for $1 million and pay off your mortgage in full in 10 years, you would pay the bank back only $995,000.
	No mortgage payments would be due between the purchase and payoff date.
	So effectively, a borrower only has to repay principal with a small discount, guaranteeing that the bank loses money on the loan.
	and that's a negative .5%.
	And referring back to that film we did about Iceland in, I think it was 2008, about the Ponzi scheme there, Danske Bank was the one who initially put out this report suggesting that Iceland was a Ponzi scheme about to implode.
	Now in Denmark, as you're pointing out here, they're using the exact same technique of using the hyper-leveraged Mortgage property assets as collateral to create this enormous Ponzi scheme.
	So the negative interest rates are a reflection of a Ponzi scheme, not as economic policy.
	And yeah, you might end up having zero mortgage and the bank paying you half a percent a year or a percent a year.
	But let's keep in mind that the value of the property itself, if it drops 50%, 60%, 70%, 80%, that's not a good deal.
	So here's their economist from Yaiska Bank, which is offering this mortgage.
	It's another chapter in the history of the mortgage, he says.
	By the way, Stacey not doing voices on the show.
	And she does it very well.
	Their economist from Yaiska Bank, which is offering this mortgage.
	It's another chapter in the history of the mortgage, he says.
	A few months ago, we would have said that this would not be possible.
	But we have been surprised time and time again, and this opens up a new opportunity for homeowners.
	In practical terms, the negative rates will act as a subsidy to the repayment, and the repayment portion will become smaller and smaller as the debt is reduced, he said.
	Yes, I hardly understand it either.
	In fact, I said it can't happen, but we have figured out how to make a negative rate mortgage...
	So, what's in that little description, and Max is going to explain it in a minute...
	Is this little spread between a negative half a percent that you'd be paid to take out a mortgage versus, and here it comes, 0.75% negative interest rate on savings.
	And they said it would subsidize or whatever.
	But what they're doing is they're taking money from one side and giving it to the other.
	How to make a net.
	With their five basis points in between.
	Get a rate mortgage.
	This is another wealth confiscation scheme.
	If you have a large sum of cash at the bank, they charge you a negative three quarters of one percent to store your cash at the bank.
	It's a negative interest rate.
	So the bank is taking money out of your account every year to the tune of almost one percent.
	They don't pay you to have your money at the bank.
	They take money away.
	Now, with a negative mortgage, that money is going to a mortgage buyer.
	So they're confiscating wealth from savers and they're giving it to property speculators because the banks have always made their bones in property law.
	Their balance sheets are heavy with property.
	And if they were forced to mark to market the value of that property, they would all have to declare insolvency.
	So to keep their fee stream going, they are engaged in guaranteed property loss mortgages.
	Your property will lose catastrophically with these mortgages because it's a 3,000-year bubble.
	At the same time, your savings are being confiscated by negative interest rates.
	At the bank.
	Max is so good at explaining something really clearly and then leaving you confused with the last five things he says.
	It's like, 3,000 year bubble, what?
	Yeah, see, that's the problem.
	He slipped that in.
	That's bullcrap.
	I mean, you could say everything's a bubble, and from a 3,000-year-old, a 3,000-year bubble.
	So he throws that stuff in.
	He also threw in earlier, he threw in another nonsense concept.
	He says, yeah, you're buying the mortgage, but you're going to lose 50 or 60% of its value.
	Yeah, I don't understand.
	Why would that happen?
	Because of a housing bubble?
	It wouldn't happen.
	We've already seen the housing bubble and what they look like and they've come and gone.
	So it's not any big shock to know what they look like or that in some areas property values go down.
	Detroit being a good example during the collapse.
	But that's not a worldwide phenomenon.
	And this negative interest rate thing is kind of a – it's not just in Denmark.
	It's all over the world.
	Yeah.
	Well, not in the United States.
	It accounts for the fact that things are depressing.
	It's a true depression.
	The prices are going down and deflationary thing happening.
	But it's not to the extreme that he's describing it.
	Well, look, this is Max, so of course we understand how he speaks.
	In 10 years, we'll be like, oh yeah, he's kind of right.
	Max was telling us about Bitcoin for 10 years.
	Oh yeah, I guess he was right.
	Maybe he foresees the future.
	I don't know.
	But anyway, I presume that the Greenland bonds or treasury bills, whatever they have, I'm sure that they have a negative yield curve or whatever on their debt.
	Or Denmark, I should say.
	Denmark.
	Yeah, Greenland, their whole debt structure is based on something.
	They dug a hole and they threw a box of coins in it.
	That's pretty much the government's...
	So it sounds like a good deal, is my point.
	If he could close it.
	Yeah.
	Can you imagine?
	They already said no.
	I would right away be buying property.
	Just give me a little piece of land.
	They already said no, but it doesn't mean anything.
	What are they doing with it?
	There is a moment the Chinese are moving into Greenland to exploit it, but they haven't made the choice to try to buy the place.
	The Chinese haven't Now that I know of have gone to Africa or all these places where they go and bought anything.
	No, no, they just say...
	Are they in Greenland with their operations?
	Ah, okay.
	And yet another reason to go.
	How many are in there?
	I don't know.
	All I know is that they're there and that Trump knew it or somebody told him.
	Next thing you know, he wants to buy the place and kick him out.
	That's why I thought it was so funny to hear this Chinese guy saying, no, America's no good.
	How a potential Chinese-built airport in Greenland could be risky.
	So they're building an airport.
	Like you need two on that island, because we've got a base.
	We've got a base.
	We have a base up in Thule, I think it's the one that's up north.
	And they can build an airport, but their airport would be for transport to move minerals and stuff out.
	Of course.
	That's exactly what they want.
	And I think that's the move.
	That's the move right there.
	Very funny.
	I'm sure he meant it, though.
	All right, well, hey, let's do some financial news.
	This GE thing, did you guys talk about that on DH Unplugged?
	Let me play this news report.
	This developing story on the heels of this nearly 170-page report from...
	Madoff whistleblower and financial investigator Harry Marco Polos.
	We're getting now a response.
	We got a response from GE on this report earlier today, but now we're getting a direct response from GE CEO Larry Culp as well.
	He says, quote, GE will always take an allegation of financial misconduct seriously, but this is market manipulation, pure and simple.
	Mr. Marco Polo's report contains false statements of fact, and these claims could have been corrected if you checked them with GE before publishing.
	The report, the fact that he wrote a 170-page paper but never talked to the company officials, goes to show that he is not interested in accurate financial analysis, but solely in generating downward volatility in GE stock so that he and his undisclosed hedge fund partner can personally profit.
	You may recall earlier today on Squawk on the Street, we had Mr. Marco Polo, Marco Polos on.
	I actually asked him why he hadn't spoken to the company.
	The point he had made was that he was relying on financial statements, and that based on his experience talking to the company, he didn't want to put them in a position to be able to destroy any kind of evidence or financial documentation.
	Nonetheless, this is the response from GE CEO Culp, and we'll continue to bring the latest as this story unfolds.
	Now, I was looking at the troll room, like, oh, this is fake, the guy's name is Marco Polo, but this guy has credentials.
	Oh yeah, he's brought down a number of large...
	He was the Bernie Madoff guy.
	Yeah, he's the real deal.
	And the thing that I thought was most interesting about this is...
	Well, first of all, you hear in that messaging, well, he hasn't even talked to us, man.
	Well, you're a public company, douchebag.
	Everyone should be able to calculate numbers.
	Him doing this, if it's market manipulation, that would be pretty stupid to go around everywhere saying, hey...
	Look at me.
	They suck.
	No good.
	And not mean it.
	But third, it's long-term health care insurance.
	What exactly is that?
	I have no idea.
	Before we go on, I want to mention a couple of things about GE. GE has been known to be like this lingering zombie dog for a decade, at least.
	It's always been, oh, GE is the worst.
	They can't do anything right.
	They got their jet engine company, which is pretty, I mean, they got good companies, but overall, the whole company is kind of flagging.
	And it has been ever since Jack Welch, you know, instituted stacked ranking at the company.
	He's the one who introduced it to the world and ruined, I think that ruined the company.
	I think stacked ranking ruins all companies is what it does.
	Anything Marissa Meyer touches.
	And I think she's a stack.
	Yeah, she's a big fan.
	And this is a technique where you...
	Look it up.
	We're not going to go into great detail about it, but look it up.
	It's called stack ranking.
	It's a personnel management technique that is possibly...
	It's musical chairs of the business world.
	It's the world's worst system.
	And Microsoft ran it for a long time and they run the company right into the ground.
	Anyway, that comes from GE. And I remember the one time...
	I was at some event and I was sitting at a table with a bunch of, this is like 20 years ago, GE executives and they were the most arrogant jerks and they were bragging about how they invented this and they, we invented the TV remote control, you know that?
	I remember that.
	Were they drinking at the time?
	It was something.
	Hey, man, shut up.
	Hey, Mouse Man, we invented the remote, right?
	And we invented the alarm clock, and we invented the push button.
	And they go on and on with all these old inventions of how great they are.
	And I found it very, I said, there's something wrong with these guys.
	Hey, man, we invented the fridge, man.
	Shut up.
	That was Westinghouse, I think.
	Maybe it was General Electric.
	Whatever.
	It seemed to me that they were just blowhards.
	Mm-hmm.
	Well, this long-term health care insurance problem they have is interesting because when we're talking about health care in America and Medicare for all, all these different things, the real problem that we have in our health care is the insurance company, the insurance sector.
	That's why the prices got jacked up, and I'll give you one example.
	Pet insurance.
	Before pet insurance, you go to the vet, $25, maybe a little bit more.
	Pet insurance, now you can't get out for under a grand because of pet insurance.
	So now you're expected to pay $70 a month for your pet insurance.
	And they jacked up the prices.
	It's how that market works because it's not a free and open market.
	It's regulated.
	But if these companies are going broke because they don't have the money...
	Here's the Marco Polo guy explaining the numbers.
	Right?
	I mean, we've been seeing them make write-offs, the power business, reserves against the insurance business, which is at the heart of what you're saying is the problem here, ultimately.
	Why now?
	Why choose to investigate now?
	We were doing another case last year against a long-term care insurance company, and then we spotted all the losses from these insurance companies landing on GE's books.
	So we switched focus to GE because the fraud was so much bigger here.
	So you're saying that the $15 billion that they've set aside saying, look, people are living longer, it's tough to get high interest rates to set against what we're seeing in this business, is simply not enough?
	Correct.
	They took $15 billion.
	They need to take $29 billion more.
	They've been nothing but negative surprises for years.
	$22 billion for Alstom in November.
	$15 billion in January 2018 on long-term care.
	$773 million this quarter for energy grid.
	They have big surprises.
	They're always negative.
	They should have been taking them all along in smaller chunks.
	They wait till the last minute, and they hide things from the market.
	First quarter of 2021, they need to take a $10.5 billion gap right down.
	It's a non-cash charge, however.
	It's accounting, yeah.
	Right.
	But an $18.5 billion immediate cash charge whenever the Kansas Insurance Department requests it.
	They had a $15 billion write-down in January 2018, but they had no cash to pay it.
	So they had to spread it out over seven years.
	That's the problem with GE. They're cash poor.
	They say they have almost $17 billion in cash.
	The problem is their current liabilities are $60 billion, so the cash is nowhere near enough.
	And I guess the low interest rates are one of their big problems.
	They can't make any money on the money they have.
	Well, yes, there's that.
	But it's probably, at least money's cheaper for him.
	But he's right about all this.
	But I think it's just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to these liabilities, these unfunded liabilities, which is what we're talking about here.
	All the states have them.
	Yeah.
	I mean, I can't imagine what, you know, the CalPERS here in California and all these other places, and all the big corporations have them.
	And countries, John.
	They're all doomed.
	Countries, entire countries have these liabilities.
	And it's all because of this insurance scam.
	We've all watched it.
	So now what?
	There's no reason to pay $1,500 a month for health insurance.
	Makes no sense.
	Oh, but I'm so happy doing it.
	I mean, that is the leverage that the Democrats have in the 2020 election, even though they're not playing it right.
	How do they have leverage with that?
	Well, they're pushing for, you know, Medicare for all.
	Most of the leaders are, except for Biden.
	Right.
	And they've got an argument to be made.
	It's like some people, their annual salaries aren't as much as their health insurance costs.
	Well, let's – And what is that – there never used to be health insurance costs.
	All these things are bogus that prices of drugs weren't designed.
	Nothing was until health insurance scam came along during the Nixon administration.
	Well, let's see what I was going to say.
	Let's hear how Medicare for all would work in the United States.
	We have a pretty good example.
	The UK national health system.
	Everyone says it's great.
	Why can't we be like them?
	Let's have a listen.
	Make sure to remove your dentures before surgery or you could swallow them.
	That's what happened to a 72-year-old man in Britain.
	The man had minor surgery.
	He returned to the hospital six days later complaining of blood in his mouth and difficulty breathing.
	Doctors were not able to diagnose the exact problem, so they sent him home with some prescriptions for mouthwash, antibiotics, and steroids.
	But he returned two days later and that's When they found this denture lying across his vocal cords, they took him into surgery.
	He wound up in the hospital for another six days.
	Take out your dentures before you have this baby, Lourdes.
	Oh, man.
	That's going to be great.
	That story makes no sense.
	Of course not.
	I had it laying around for like three shows.
	I had to play this sometime and get that off the books.
	Okay.
	Well, yeah.
	I don't know what we do.
	The insurance scam is what it is.
	You never hear anyone talking about it.
	Where's Elizabeth Warren talking about the insurance companies?
	They're saying people don't talk about it because the networks won't pick it up if they do.
	The networks are, you know, pharma is the main beneficiary of the whole thing with their billions and billions in profits selling, you know, screwy drugs.
	Yeah.
	And they dominate the advertising, and it's corrupt.
	The whole thing is corrupt.
	We're one of, I think, maybe two countries in the entire world that allow drug manufacturers to advertise and promote expensive drugs on TV. I don't know why we do it.
	It's obviously the corrupting influence.
	It doesn't help.
	And then you have the guys like Obama, who's number one, when he was running for president, his number one investor.
	Was the insurance industry.
	The insurance industry.
	And guess what they got?
	They got Obamacare.
	Yeah.
	And now they get to make as much money as they want.
	Yeah.
	Well...
	Okay, well, that's the end of the show for me.
	I'm properly depressed.
	Well, let's go buy some land in Greenland.
	I'd love to go.
	Have you been in Greenland?
	Have you ever stopped over there?
	No.
	I mean, what would be the reason?
	I mean, there's a lot of places in the world I've been to Iceland.
	Refueling.
	Refueling.
	People refueling Greenland, they're refueling in Iceland.
	Iceland, I think, more frequently.
	Well, Iceland's actually a great place to have a stopover.
	Yeah, because they have the big shopping center.
	They have people.
	The actual people.
	They have people in bars.
	Lots of bars.
	How many Chinese are in Greenland?
	I hadn't even thought about that.
	Of course.
	Those guys.
	Hey, I was wrong about the dress, the Epstein dress, although I'm still not convinced it was hanging in his apartment, but okay.
	I guess it's real.
	What are you wrong about?
	Well, I said, well, I had definitely seen...
	You said it was a Photoshop job.
	Well, I had seen this before.
	I had seen this image, and I didn't know if it was a picture or whatever it was.
	And so this is not new.
	New is that it's in Epstein's house, but I found the evidence that it's there to be quite sketchy.
	But I didn't even think it was an actual painting, but it was.
	And it was auctioned off in 2012.
	He's obviously a fine art collector.
	I mean, that does not bode.
	If it really was in his house, that's pretty bad.
	Yeah.
	And, you know, Bill's coming by to visit from time to time.
	Is that just to poke him in the eye?
	I don't know what the point of it would be if he comes to visit.
	He probably doesn't visit that area.
	Or into the rooms in the back.
	Yeah.
	As we discussed, it's like, we're never going to find out about Epstein.
	Everyone's going to go crazy and all the conspiracies.
	I don't even read it anymore.
	And then we got, of course, I was interested in Jelaine Maxwell.
	And now she's become, you know, like Elvis, like Bigfoot.
	Oh, there she is!
	At an In-N-Out burger.
	Who took this picture?
	You know, there's no evidence that this was a recent...
	And who the hell sits in the...
	On the picnic tables at In-N-Out Burger, the whole point, In-N-Out.
	It's a drive-thru.
	You don't actually eat there.
	You can.
	I have once.
	Okay.
	Now, I have my thoughts on this because I think there was messaging here.
	I think this was spooky stuff.
	Well, this whole book, there's no evidence that's the book she was reading.
	There's no photographic evidence.
	That's why I think this whole thing was staged.
	Yeah, by 4chan.
	No, it was staged to send out some message about this book.
	I read this book.
	Okay, go ahead, take over.
	I'll keep us going.
	Okay, well, first of all, she shows up in a very posed photo with the book, and she has a review section.
	A lot of people say, well, it's not really her.
	It could be anybody.
	It's just Gene Maxwell on Amazon.
	Yeah, and she had reviewed the book.
	She reviews books, and she reviews mostly junk books.
	She reads junk romantic fiction.
	But if you look at all her headlines, it looks like a perfect place to call home.
	It just looks like a perfect place to drop messages.
	What, on an Amazon review site?
	Yeah.
	Oh, that's interesting.
	Okay.
	And if anyone hasn't seen the series Rubicon, 13 episode series that they killed, you see that this kind of stuff goes on and it seems like she checks in.
	If you look at her books, she checks in if there's just every so often she checks in with some stupid review and she's got coded words.
	It reads like something coded.
	And the Rubicon story always goes into how books are used a lot.
	To get messages across you, the decryption code is in your original message, and then you go to some book, perhaps the book she just read or claims to have read.
	And then you have to go and you look up the letters or whatever.
	This and that.
	Whatever.
	And everyone assumes that she's Mossad, and so she writes this review of this book in the Amazon.
	Give us the name of the book first.
	The name of the book.
	Heroes Fallen Heroes.
	The Book of Honor.
	Okay, it's about intelligence community?
	The Book of Honor is written by this guy, Gup.
	And this guy is a professor at one of the back east colleges.
	And you can't really look at his background and see him as a spook, but all he's written is spook books.
	And he wrote, he's the guy that's most responsible for writing about the Greenbrier Inn, which is the giant facility underneath this resort in, I think, North Carolina or South Carolina, one of the two.
	And it is the underground place where all of the Congress was going to go live if there was a Holocaust.
	Ah, yeah, yeah.
	So he busted that, and they had to shut it down.
	I don't know why they didn't turn it into a tourist attraction.
	It's beyond me.
	But okay, they shut it down.
	Because it had the zero-point energy going.
	They couldn't let on about that.
	$150 million in wasted work.
	So anyway, that's this guy.
	And he did a couple of CIA books.
	So he goes to see the way he does this book.
	I'll explain it because I didn't think much of it, by the way.
	And if there's anything that seems like to be a coded book, it's this thing.
	So he said he went to visit CIA for some interview and he stopped at the stars.
	There's a bunch of stars.
	The Wall of Honor.
	The Wall of Honor.
	And he notices there's only 12 of those people or 13, some small number that are actually listed in a little black book that is under the wall of honor that I guess some people have access to.
	It's locked.
	But there's certain people that they know who these stars.
	This represents this guy, that guy, this guy.
	Meanwhile, he says something like 49 of them are not identified.
	And so he decided that he's going to identify them as his goal in life.
	And so this book identifies about 15 of them that aren't listed on there.
	And the CIA refuses to talk about it.
	And it's kind of interesting because they're – and he tells their whole story.
	It's a very interesting read if you want to read.
	But in there he slips in a lot of crazy – A little information about the CIA training.
	And he puts a lot of details of stuff in there.
	And this is the book that she reviews.
	And she is reading.
	And to me, she's sitting there with this book.
	And she's reading the book.
	And the discrepant thing that everybody noticed is that she's got a hardcover copy of the book.
	She's a big Kindle user.
	And on the book review...
	It specifically says she's got a Kindle version because the Amazon tells you what you've read or not read.
	Ah.
	Kindle version, but apparently she has a hardcover too, which he had at this shoot at In and Out, which is kind of code if you think about it.
	I want out, I'm in, I want out, I'm in and out.
	Yes.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	That's kind of the first obvious thing I noticed.
	Yeah.
	And so this picture of her crystal clear, she poses for the picture.
	So to say this, she wants an extraction or she wants to get sent back to wherever.
	I don't know what she's asking for because we don't know.
	We just don't know.
	But something's fishy about it.
	Here's a review from August 15th by G. Maxwell.
	A comforting read after a personal tragedy is the headline.
	And I think these headlines are all code for one thing or another.
	August 15, 2019.
	Format, Kindle edition.
	Right, so having the book is...
	makes little sense.
	The hardcover.
	Well, unless you have two.
	I mean, it's possible, but it's likely.
	A good friend of mine...
	No, she'd be reading it with a Kindle.
	Right.
	Good friend of mine died...
	I can't remember which one she has, but she did buy in her list on her review, she has a cover for a...
	She bought a cover for a...
	Now, can I just ask you a question?
	Have you seen her with this book in the photo?
	No, I just saw her sitting there posing with...
	Double Double or whatever she was eating.
	I have no idea.
	But we don't know because there's a lot of speculation.
	Oh, look at the book she's reading and it's this book and that's the one she's reading there.
	But we have no evidence of that, correct?
	The guy who took this photo and got it posted.
	There's something that's very fishy about this whole thing.
	No kidding!
	She's like Bigfoot, man!
	Another sighting!
	Okay, keep going.
	On her Amazon review, she's listed as living in Portland.
	Hmm.
	Okay, onward.
	August 15th, Kindle edition.
	A good friend of mine died recently under very tragic circumstances.
	Some of us saw it coming for quite a while, but it was still a huge shock when it finally happened.
	I picked up this book at the advice of a friend and absolutely couldn't put it down.
	I'd read it walking the dog, getting fast food, In-N-Out Burger, Or even just lounging around the house.
	It helped me realize that my friend really believed in something and that giving your life for the CIA, NSA, FBI, Mossad...
	Or other intelligence agency is truly a higher calling and not something to mourn.
	A wholehearted recommendation.
	Eh.
	Was it her?
	Just somebody coincidental?
	Was it a coincidence?
	And why is Mossad chucked into that list?
	Hmm.
	Hmm.
	Hello, Alex Jones.
	I have John C. Dvorak for you.
	He'd like to talk to you about the Mossad.
	That's pretty good.
	I like it.
	I don't know why you're reading that and I'm not, but...
	Because you poo-pooed it right off the bat.
	Of course I poo-pooed this.
	G. Maxwell as the Amazon user.
	I mean, give me a break.
	If anything, that's Jeff Bezos under his command doing that.
	It goes back to 2012.
	Yeah, but this recent post is the 15th of August.
	Yeah.
	She's been posting all along.
	She posts.
	She doesn't go more than six months without posting.
	Okay.
	And if you take one of her older posts, are they just as whacked?
	Some of them are kind of screwed, but most of them are just little coded things.
	It's just you can't tell.
	You can look at them.
	Go over them.
	Just go look at the link.
	I like it.
	And maybe you can see something.
	All I know is that I know that there are people that can see, look at one of these things and go, oh, she's using the first verb.
	And then that refers to how many letters in that verb?
	Right, right, right.
	I can't.
	Nobody, a normal person can do that.
	No, I refer back to 4chan.
	I'm expecting results from them.
	They should be doing this work.
	Well, I don't see any results from anybody.
	No?
	Alright, well, I'll take a look at it.
	It's just neural networking.
	You eventually see the patterns.
	This is from Sir Ducifer.
	Greenbrier is in West Virginia.
	Is that where it was?
	Was it West Virginia?
	West Virginia.
	And they still give tours of the underground bunker.
	Well, I don't know.
	How can they say they lost all this money?
	Wait.
	Well, here's a clue.
	And Sir Ducifer says, I performed puppet shows there in 97.
	I think maybe they need to adapt their programming if they want to make money, if they're using Ducifer's puppet shows.
	Yeah, that's quite a tumble.
	Wow.
	So where the government is going to convene to some guy, one of our listeners?
	Not just a listener, a knight.
	Punch and Judy?
	A knight, my friend.
	A knight doing Punch and Judy shows.
	Yeah.
	We are taking over the government.
	That's what I'm seeing.
	I don't know why you see it that way.
	Okay, I'm glad we got that straightened out so I don't have to do a mea kelper on where this place is located.
	But yeah, this writer is the guy who busted those guys.
	Well, interesting.
	Well, I will definitely go back and look at historical stuff, and we'll keep our eye on it, see if something new pops up.
	But, again, still is like...
	I think because she was in and out that she's done.
	She's out.
	She's already gone, you think?
	I think she's either been pulled away...
	No, she's dead.
	I think she's...
	We'll never see her.
	But we will keep seeing...
	Well, I keep having sightings of her.
	Like Bigfoot, I'm telling you.
	Bigfoot.
	Elvis.
	You might be right.
	She might move to Israel and just stay there.
	Work at a government bureaucracy job.
	Hey, who knows?
	She didn't sneak into Israel the day after Epstein died.
	There was a 10-hour baggage outage at the airport.
	Everything was a disaster.
	Ben-Gurion Airport.
	Perfect time to sneak in.
	Yeah, and actually, that would be a perfect time to sneak in.
	Meanwhile, this staged event at the In-N-Out Burger was already a done deal days earlier.
	Oh, they must have had that on file.
	Yeah, of course.
	Yeah, you're ready to rock with that.
	So she's back.
	She said, you got your safe?
	You're here?
	Okay, let's run with the other thing.
	And then the story goes in the New York Post.
	But wait, it was Daily Mail first, wasn't it?
	Didn't this come from the UK? First.
	Maybe.
	Maybe.
	It was some one of these news organizations willing to play ball.
	No, this is Vicki Ward.
	She's the pass-through.
	You watch Vicki Ward's passing it on to her contacts in the press.
	Yeah, there's a twist for you.
	Well, anyway.
	There's something up.
	Good report.
	Meanwhile, back home, we had the...
	The big freak out and boycott of Equinox and SoulCycle.
	What?
	SoulCycle and Equinox.
	The boycott.
	We had the boycott.
	Remember the CEO of the company that owns the gym and the spin class?
	Oh, the spin gym guy.
	Spin gym guy.
	Boycott.
	The spin gym guy.
	Hold on.
	That, by the way...
	That's an exit strategy.
	I'm going to write that down.
	Spin gym.
	So you go there and you can spin and gym.
	I'm telling you, it's a combo.
	It's the spin gym.
	Yeah, you're pumping away and you're pulling down weights.
	At the same time?
	Yeah.
	Perfect.
	Spin gym.
	Okay, I'm writing that down as an exit strategy.
	So, you know, of course, I'm a spinner.
	By the way, it's good business.
	There's real money in the spin business.
	But you've got to keep your nose clean.
	You can't have your founders donating to Trump because people started to boycott.
	Ah, Trump!
	And I don't know how effective the boycott was, but every spin studio, as it's known, they do what they call charity rides or community rides, and so a portion of your fee will go to a local charity.
	It's a very community-oriented thing.
	It's great for social justice warriors.
	Now, it's, hey...
	There's still money coming out of these places going to charitable organizations, so you can't fault that, even though it's all virtue signaling, etc.
	So what they're doing is they're giving every instructor at every equinox, at every soul cycle, a monthly community ride which will be free to the people in the class, but the equivalent of a full class in money will be given to a charity of the instructor's choice.
	So I think it's a pretty good loop around, a pretty good way to...
	To make people continue to feel good about themselves even though they hate the fact that the guy gave to Trump and I think crisis is averted.
	So well done.
	Everyone's moving on.
	But there were other organizations who were extremely worried about what they saw here.
	Like, holy crap, we cannot have this shit going down.
	95% of our boys in this network donate to Trump.
	It's all public.
	What are we gonna do?
	The NFL preseason is in full swing, but a move that the league made away from the field is grabbing headlines.
	The NFL reached an agreement with rapper Jay-Z's entertainment company, Roc Nation, to advise the league on entertainment offerings like the Super Bowl halftime show.
	The deal also puts the company in charge of amplifying the league's social justice program called Inspire Change.
	The league has been criticized for its approach to social justice because of its relationship with Colin Kaepernick.
	Wednesday marked three years since the former quarterback first started kneeling during the national anthem to protest police brutality and racial injustice.
	Inspire Change is designed to help combat the issues Kaepernick addressed.
	But some players aren't happy that Kaepernick is not involved with the program.
	Safety Eric Reid, who also protested with Kaepernick, tweeted, the NFL is championing social justice to cover their own systemic oppression in blackballing Colin.
	He also criticized Jay-Z, saying the rapper, quote, knowingly made a money move with the very people who've committed an injustice against Colin and is using social injustice to smooth it over with the black community.
	So, Jay-Z, the most disingenuous human being on Earth, goes over there like, yeah, oh yeah, man, that was great, you guys get the black community, and he's going to advise on the halftime show, and let's make sure that whoever's there doesn't have to partner up with some white, who's complaining about Maroon 5, you know, why'd this guy have to go on with the big M from Maroon 5, the white guys?
	Okay, fine.
	And then he cuts out Colin Kaepernick, doesn't bring him into the deal at all, because this is what it is.
	Kaepernick was a problem.
	Now he's permanently been replaced.
	And just like with the Nets, where Jay-Z had like 0.02% of the team, but runs around courtside like he owns the whole thing...
	That's cover for a fine investment which gentrifies the whole neighborhood.
	It's unbelievable.
	And these guys think it's about Kaepernick that they're covering that up.
	Did you hear Trump mentioned in that?
	Even though Trump's been the big problem with the NFL? No, nothing at all.
	Smokescreen.
	Yeah, a good one though.
	But you've got to be careful of this Jay-Z, man.
	Yeah, he's a devil worshiper, I think.
	I don't know about that.
	I don't think he cares too much about black people.
	He does care about his bottom line.
	Yeah.
	No shit.
	No shit.
	Anyway, I'll play this as a congratulations, and you not only called it, but you nailed it.
	After I glibly said, oh, you're wrong about Stacey Abrams.
	She's coming back.
	You nailed it with the Biden head exploding VP strategy.
	Yes, I did.
	I nailed it.
	Do you want to be Vice President?
	Well, Fair Fight 2020 is essential for every single thing that we want to accomplish in 2020.
	It's about making sure that we have a level playing field and that we are not fighting voter suppression single-handedly.
	But what I do want to say is that my focus is on making sure that we use the primary to build for the general.
	If, however, a nominee decides that they would like to include me on the ticket, I would certainly be open to that.
	But my focus and my mission is to make certain that no matter who our nominees are, that we have in place the kind of robust response, but also anticipatory offense, to make sure that the right to vote is sacrosanct in every one of those battleground states.
	Yeah, no, obviously that's extremely valuable, and I know that that's where you're putting a lot of your time and energy.
	But back to the vice presidency for a second.
	Have candidates asked you?
	I've not been asked to run for vice president because everyone who's running for president right now is focused on getting that nomination.
	And I think we all know it's deeply presumptuous to assume that anything happening after or after the primaries is known yet.
	But what I do know is that voter suppression is real, that we saw just this year in Texas, in Tennessee, in Arizona and in Florida, steps taken by Republicans to further constrict the vote.
	And if you go to fairfight2020.org, you can find out more about our initiative.
	And I know we want to talk about what happens next, but we have to focus on what's happening now.
	And right now, the Republican National Committee has a new carte blanche to engage in behavior that has been forbidden since 1981.
	We know that states across the country are further putting in place obstacles to the right to live.
	Yeah, blah, blah, blah.
	So, just to recap, the former New York banker told me months ago, keep your eye on Stacey Abrams.
	That's the big push is going to be on her.
	And of course, it didn't exactly work out the way we thought, but now with the possibility of Joe Biden still being the candidate being pushed by the money, by the networks, which is all that really counts, knowing that Joe's head could blow off at any time, and this is not just a joke, he's had, was it two?
	He's had two full brain surgeries?
	Oh yeah, two, right.
	Two full brain surgeries?
	It took the top of his head right off.
	He's the first to tell you about it.
	You know, it would be pretty good to have a successor who everybody wants, and this is a Soros sister.
	Her gubernatorial run was partially funded by Soros, and she is the perfect embodiment of the democratic strategy to drive a wedge between black men and black women and have black women say, this is the way we're going to go.
	Get in line.
	She's perfect for it.
	And she's a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
	How does that happen?
	Right.
	And no one ever asks any questions about what exactly was the voter suppression with your FairFight2020.org.
	It was FairFight.org, but I guess you needed to rebrand just the URL FairFight2020.org.
	This It goes back to the 2018 election where she had people on the street with a different non-profit registering people to vote, not writing down the names accurately.
	A large number of those that her team collected, which were not written down correctly, were then declared not eligible.
	That's her big voter fraud.
	That's her big claim over what happened in Georgia.
	Her own people...
	Of course, they think they did it right, but then the—of course, this makes it problematic—the current governor at the time had them reviewed and said, well, these don't match, so when they don't match, they get tossed out, and she says that's why she lost, and it was voter suppression, specifically of black Americans.
	But no one ever really talks about what exactly happened, because when you know all the details, it's a little...
	And this 2020.org, you can donate.
	Oh, by the way, it's not a 501c3.
	It's not a non-profit.
	The donate page is run by ActBlue.
	So it's going straight into the Democratic National Committee coffers.
	Yeah.
	It's not, or, I mean, it's being routed through them, let me put it that way.
	Now, not dissimilar to what Trump has with Win Red, but, you know, it's about being a member of the machine, as you say, part of the CFR. So not very trustworthy, but I think you nailed it.
	Well, I think she's sketchy.
	No kidding.
	That ticket's not going to win.
	Biden, Abrams is not going to win as a ticket.
	It's not a winning ticket.
	It is a ticket that I can foresee.
	It makes nothing but sense if I'm a Democrat and I'm trying to – and I've resigned to the fact that Joe Biden is the one that's next in line and we have to give him the baton because – We didn't give it to him.
	Instead, we gave it to Hillary.
	We probably should have given it to him then, let Hillary wait.
	But, you know, it's the same thing when McCain ran.
	It was a similar kind of a deal.
	That goes to Zephyr, by the way.
	Oh, how many cars?
	Looks like 10.
	I didn't count them.
	I missed it.
	It's going by too slow.
	So...
	So they have to...
	One of these things, McCain, oh, McCain has to be the nominee, and then Romney, you know, wasn't really...
	There wasn't really anybody to run, because in the off-season, it's like, who cares?
	He's going to lose anyway.
	But...
	So Biden's the guy.
	I mean, unless...
	Although...
	We've talked about...
	Mimi and I have talked about this, and I'm kind of in agreement with this idea.
	Biden is trying to get himself out of this deal.
	God, I don't want to die in the Oval Office.
	Yeah.
	He wants to get out of it.
	He doesn't want to run for president.
	He's insincere.
	He hasn't been juiced up.
	They haven't drugged him up so he can get up there with some fire.
	The term is jacked up.
	He's jacked up.
	He's gaffing left and right.
	Now it's just accepted that, well, you know, we try to keep him off the air as much as we can because he can't seem to go five minutes without saying something that's stupid.
	I mean, Trump does the same thing, but he does it in such a different way.
	You know, just to interrupt you on that, very interesting.
	I don't know if you saw the New Hampshire rally where he...
	Yes, I have a couple of clips from it.
	Well, the guy that got kicked out...
	Here, hold on a second.
	Let me just play this for a second.
	Oh!
	That guy's got a serious weight problem.
	Go home, start exercising.
	Get them out of here, please.
	Got a bigger problem than I do.
	Got a bigger problem than all of us.
	Now he goes home and his mom says, what the hell have you just done?
	We are continuing our incredible movement, the greatest political movement in the history of our country.
	There's never been a movement like this, never.
	Our movement is built on love, and it is.
	Just fat shamed the guy.
	But here's what's interesting.
	Producer Sean sends in a note.
	He says, I was at the Trump rally in Manchester.
	Trump made a mistake by shaming the wrong person.
	Three people in the uppermost balcony behind Trump held up a white sheet with the words Jews against the occupation.
	A fat guy ran up, grabbed the sheet and then threw it down from the balcony.
	The fat guy ran back up to the protesters, started dancing around.
	Security walked up and removed the protesters.
	By this time, Trump realized exactly where the commotion was and he looked up behind him.
	The fat guy was still dancing and Trump just assumed it was him doing the protesting and proceeded to shame him.
	I was down in front of the podium and the folks murmured, oh, no, it wasn't him.
	The fat guy did not even appear to be bothered by Trump's mistake and many people went up and shook the fat man's hand.
	Yeah, there was a report later with the fat guy saying, I'm good with it.
	I'm a huge Trump fan.
	Maybe he got a kick out of it.
	I'm not sure, but he was not offended.
	That's great.
	I like the idea of kind of shaking the fat man's hand.
	Hey, you're the fat guy!
	Well, you know what?
	I think Trump, I could be wrong, but I think I also read a report that Trump actually called him.
	Oh, I'm sure he did.
	On the phone.
	I'm sure he did.
	To apologize.
	Yeah, I'm sorry, man.
	I'm a fat guy.
	I'm sorry, dude.
	I'm a fat guy, too.
	Hey, fat brother.
	Yeah, exactly.
	No, there's someone who's not triggered by his own visible issue.
	We all got something going on.
	Don't we know?
	I just want to say we got excoriated for making fun of dead dogs.
	Oh, God.
	Let's stay at the Trump rally because I do have two clips.
	Okay.
	Making fun of dead dogs?
	Yeah.
	We'll get back to that.
	Let me make a note.
	I got two clips from it.
	I could have gotten a hundred.
	By the way, I don't think this was one of his best.
	No.
	He was very disorganized.
	He repeated himself a number of times on the same talking points.
	I didn't think he had a lot of fire.
	I don't think it was one of his big speeches.
	But he made a few points, new points, or at least points I don't remember.
	And I thought I'd play a couple of them that I caught.
	This is one of them.
	This is the...
	Random talking point.
	Question, where did you watch?
	Were you watching this on YouTube or were you watching the stream?
	Because I think most networks didn't really carry it.
	Fox interrupts it.
	I got it on YouTube.
	Okay, good.
	Hard to believe, isn't it?
	Democrats are now the party of high taxes, high crime, open borders, late-term abortion, and socialism.
	Oh!
	The Republican Party is the party of freedom.
	Now, I got the biggest laugh out of this.
	This is a classic where you just do a laundry list of things that the other side is representing, and then you just drop in some stupid cliché at the end.
	And we are freedom!
	If the Democrats did it, their payoff would be, and we are justice.
	Probably.
	Or equality.
	Yeah.
	That's the justice and equality group.
	Okay.
	Now, here's one.
	That's actually more of a funny point.
	Now, this is an actual point that he makes that I thought was very interesting because this is one of his goals.
	He loves going after Obama ever since.
	It's so apparent, at least to me, that ever since that correspondence dinner that Trump attended in the waning years of the Obama administration, I think the last year of it, Where Obama just insults the shit out of Trump.
	Well, and quite honestly, it was because Trump was trying to, you know, unmask him as an illegal resident of the White House with his birtherism.
	So the snipe was not unexpected.
	No.
	But it seemed to really bug Trump.
	So his whole job is to do what he can to humiliate Obama.
	Now that he's got the podium.
	It's like a roast.
	No, it's WWE. And while this is all taking place, we have Scaramucci...
	No, what's his face?
	Yeah, Scaramucci popping up.
	It's like the guy, you know, like the old...
	The Russian duo who comes into the ring and like, you suck, and he gets bopped out.
	I mean, it's WWE. It's showtime.
	It's actually even cornier than that, but...
	Let's play.
	This is a very interesting clip, and I never thought about it much because we know for a fact that already Trump has put in more federal judges than any president in his first two years.
	Mm-hmm.
	He had put more judges on the federal benches than any president in history.
	And I didn't really understand how he was doing it, but here's an explanation.
	So importantly, we have confirmed more than 140 federal judges.
	Within 90 days, it will be 179 federal judges.
	Thank you very much, President Obama.
	Thank you very much.
	I don't know what happened to them, but I came to office and I had 138 judges that were not appointed by President Obama.
	So I say, thank you, Mr.
	President, very good.
	And they'll say, he was a great president.
	Oh, the fake news.
	He was a great president.
	If he was a great president, how come he left me 138 judges to appoint when everybody says that's the single most important thing a president of the United States has to do?
	Great president.
	He was great.
	He was a great president.
	And these judges will apply the laws written, including we appointed two great Supreme Court justices, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh.
	Now, wait a minute.
	There were 137 open spots?
	That's what he says.
	That's how he got that number so high.
	Wow.
	So these weren't replacements.
	There was just no one in the slot at all?
	Right.
	According to this story.
	I didn't know that.
	And it makes sense because his numbers, I was fascinated by how did he get all these judges appointed?
	I mean it's like that's all he's doing is just appointing judges.
	How did he manage to do so many?
	And apparently that's the reason because Obama dropped the ball.
	This is the opportunity and people – I think he's got a point if this is true because Obama could have been putting good liberal judges in to push their agenda and no.
	Yeah.
	We've got a bunch of right-wingers or quasi-right-wingers pushing their agenda.
	So that was a mistake.
	Yeah.
	A big one.
	Interesting.
	Obama, according to The Hill, Obama is trying to...
	Allergies just hit all of a sudden.
	Obama is trying to take some kind of active role in Joe's campaign.
	Former President Obama has summoned top aides on former Vice President Joe Biden's presidential campaign to Washington for a personal briefing as Obama appears to be taking an active interest in Biden's campaign for the Democratic nomination.
	The New York Times reported Friday that the two met last month for lunch.
	And that Obama summoned top members of Biden's campaign to his Washington, D.C. home earlier this year for a briefing on Biden's communications and digital media strategies ahead of the former vice president's campaign launch.
	The former president has reportedly urged Biden's campaign to include younger advisors, and the Times reported that the former president is frustrated with some of Biden's closest advisors, who he perceives as out of touch with the younger activist base of the Democratic Party.
	I think that the Hill they actually recorded on an iPhone while they're driving to work.
	These voiceovers.
	I don't know what they're doing over there.
	It's the worst.
	Is that where Crystal Ball works now?
	Yeah, I think that is.
	Yes.
	No, is it the Hill?
	I don't know.
	I don't care about these people.
	What I care about, and since we're going to have a very short, certainly second donation segment...
	Our donations are terrible.
	I have a pre-donation clip I need to play.
	Remind me before you run donations.
	Okay, I will remind you.
	Um...
	What I'd like to talk about, and you are uniquely qualified to give us a little deeper look into this, is this transcript that Slate put out of the New York Times kind of internal town hall, which from what I understand was recorded, and then the recording got out, and then Slate decided to transcribe it.
	Of course, in fact, I even sent it to you.
	I was stupid.
	I'm sure you already knew it from your Lib Joe friends.
	But this was, the way I see it, quite a condemnation of how the newspaper of record really anticipates the news moving forward.
	And I'll just summarize, but I'd like to hear your entire take on it.
	Where apparently they had set up the newsroom to be ready to pounce on...
	You know, on the Mueller report, and this would be it for Trump, and they've organized around that, and it all came to a head and blew up with a headline that the print hub couldn't do right because there wasn't enough space, and why didn't we just call Trump a racist, and why can't we call him a racist?
	You're literally seeing the transition from...
	Russian agent to he's a racist, and now that's going to be the big story, according to the executive editor of the New York Times, in advance of anything.
	And so it shows that they're not really a news organization.
	What does it show?
	What are we reading here?
	Well, it shows the...
	The inmates have taken over the asylum, for one thing.
	Much of this that's going on at the Times is the staff, the writers, the reporters.
	They're all Trump haters.
	And just to back up a couple of steps here.
	First of all, it was very strange that Slate did this in the first place.
	Because this is kind of an internecine kind of...
	The silent law where the cops have where they don't talk about stuff.
	It's Fight Club.
	You don't talk about Fight Club.
	This is the Washington Post on Slate.
	And Washington Post is the one that's responsible for running the story.
	So you mean they're doing it against their competitor.
	Slick move, Bezos.
	And I think that this is not going to sit well.
	Because this reminds me of the case, and we see this in the big networks, the broadcasting networks, where one of them will go maybe do a story about working conditions at Disney at the park.
	Yeah, you don't do that.
	And the next thing you know, there's a scandal at GE. I mean, I remember when NBC was owned by GE, there'd be all of a sudden, there'd be a...
	GE scandal that was being played up on one of the networks because they had played something.
	So they do this.
	This is the problem with big, giant corporate news media.
	Well, can I just say, them doing that is obviously based on racist ideas.
	They are racists because Carlos Slim, a Mexican, owns the New York Times, so they're racist.
	That's a good point.
	Racist for publishing this.
	This is a very racist act of the Washington Post.
	Now, the point in the article, though, is that the staff is the one that's pushing for all – they're complaining and they made the headline change.
	We put that – I showed the headline change.
	People can look at it in the last newsletter.
	There was a good picture of the old headline and the new headline.
	The old headline was Trump urges unity versus racism and – That got everybody bent out of shape because Trump's a racist.
	We should have just said he's a racist.
	That should have been the headline.
	It would have fit perfectly.
	Yeah, Trump is a racist.
	It should have been the headline.
	So they had this big town hall and somebody obviously is not on board and recorded it.
	Or took a recording.
	I don't know how they got the recording.
	I have no idea.
	But it's doable.
	You can do it.
	If you're standing next to the speaker, you can have a Zoom in your pocket or even your cell phone.
	It has good, like, and to record is a very good device.
	I've done that.
	And it will pick it up quite nicely.
	And then you can just put it out there and let somebody transcribe it.
	So the guy's probably, there's probably, I hate to say it, I know it's pretty sketchy, and people might condemn me for it, but it's possible that there's a Republican somewhere on the New York Times.
	Oh, no!
	Oh, no!
	I think it's possible.
	We've got to root out the Republican.
	Get him out of there.
	Shave his head!
	So this is the executive editor, and apparently everybody else, a lot of other people, Schulzberg, everybody came out and spoke.
	And it's they're trying to calm down the staff because the staff is all kind of jittery and amygdala swollen and they're trying to oh my god you know he didn't this Mueller thing didn't work out it backfired and now what are we going to do and so they've been pushing this this talking point about the racist Trump and I don't know where what they expect from it but Bernie I think Bernie is the example of making the best mockery.
	He's making a mockery, he doesn't know he's doing this, but I have two examples of him.
	Okay.
	And we'll go to those, because I don't have any clips from the meeting.
	No.
	This is Bernie on Trump, it says Trumo.
	Bernie on Trump in Iowa.
	But we cannot maintain a presidency where the president is a racist?
	Yes!
	Where he is a sexist?
	Where he is a homophobe?
	Where he is a xenophobe?
	Where he is a religious bigot?
	He didn't say anti-Semite, the religious bigot.
	I like it.
	Religious bigot.
	So here he is like a couple days later on the Ari, whatever this guy, this Ari character on MSNBC. Here Ari asks him about something that triggers Bernie did go into his spiel.
	Here he is again.
	Well, I wish I could tell you, Ali, that I am shocked.
	I am not.
	We have a president who, tragically, is a racist, is a xenophobe, and who is a religious bigot.
	Hold on a sec.
	So, is he leading the Times, or is the Times following Bernie?
	Is that what we're concluding here?
	I don't know, but I know that most of the people that are involved with this...
	I think the Times is following Bernie, to be honest about it.
	And Bernie, by the way, cut his thing down to three points from five.
	Yes, yes.
	First one was racist, and then it was sexist, homophobe, xenophobe, and he's a bigot.
	Religious bigot.
	Now it's just he's a racist.
	I think it's racist, xenophobe, bigot.
	A religious bigot.
	Right.
	Which is ludicrous.
	But, okay.
	I think that...
	I think Bernie's an individual actor.
	The New York Times and the Washington Post have both...
	And Bernie called out the Washington Post for this.
	They've both decided to kill Bernie in terms of kill stories about him and make him look like an idiot.
	There's a long expose, and I think it was the Columbia Review of Journalism or someplace.
	They isolated this writer who writes of the Bernie.
	She's got the Bernie beat.
	For the Times?
	Yeah.
	And all she does is excoriate him.
	That's all she does.
	She just goes after him.
	She's a dogged Bernie hater.
	So the Times is just all hate Bernie.
	But let's just review.
	It's just a replay of the 2016 election where the media did not show his huge rallies, did not give him any attention, and just basically squeaked.
	And he's not a Democrat!
	They hate him.
	They don't like him.
	They fall back on that.
	Apparently the Washington Post is doing the same thing.
	Now, overlooked in all this, in the bitching and moaning going on, is the main factor.
	We can't overlook it.
	It's one of our themes of our show.
	Bernie is for campaign.
	And Bernie, by the way, I'm going to harken back to my meeting with the Bernie guys at the rally I went to in El Cerrito to get them to release the full report from Mueller.
	And this guy's a Bernie guy.
	And I got into an argument with him.
	I said, well, Bernie had his chance last time.
	He couldn't get past it.
	And then he made the huge mistake of supporting Clinton.
	And no Bernie supporter liked that.
	And many of them voted for Trump because of it.
	And I told it to this guy.
	The guy looks like Bernie, by the way.
	This guy I'm talking to.
	Oh, it's a milieu.
	And he said, yeah, it is, totally.
	And so he says, well, yeah, we know that's a real problem, and we've gotten back to it.
	And I said, and Bernie's promising all this and that, and now everybody's promising it, so he's not that unusual.
	He's not unique.
	He's not unique, no.
	And so he says to me, though, he says this to me, and I think this is the key.
	He says, well, you know one thing.
	What Bernie says he's going to do.
	He'll do it.
	They won't.
	And I had to agree with him on that one point.
	And that's the point that the media cannot let Bernie get this nomination because he is for campaign finance reform, which means they get less money.
	It's a simple equation, people.
	As long as he's one of these guys promoting campaign finance reform and you know that he will implement it, unlike the big talkers like Warren and the rest of them that talk a big game and never do anything, Bernie will probably do it and they'll be screwed.
	We can't have Bernie.
	Put an attack dog on him at the New York Times.
	Put an attack dog reporter on him at the Washington Post.
	Let him bitch about it.
	So what?
	And we're just not going to let him get any traction.
	And he still gets traction.
	He still can't get past Biden.
	So this is all about the money, as far as I'm concerned.
	And as much as...
	I'm sure Bernie's a nice guy.
	He seems like he's reasonable in many, many ways.
	But the fear of...
	Trump is not going to do anything.
	Capitalism will trounce whatever Bernie is trying to sell.
	And there's your proof.
	This capitalist system we have is not going to let that happen.
	It's just not.
	It's not.
	Yeah, you put a couple of attack dogs on.
	It is part of the system.
	Yeah, it's how it goes.
	Now, what is your bonus special clip that we have to do pre-donation segment?
	Yeah, I want to play this.
	Somebody sent me to...
	They didn't give me a specific show, but they sent me to the fourth season.
	Like we're in our tenth season.
	Of our show?
	No, I'm just saying...
	Our fourth season.
	The Malcolm Gladwell Revisionist History Podcast.
	Oh, the fourth season.
	It's on the fourth season.
	So I'm going to figure out what he's talking about when he wanted me to listen to, but I did play the beginning, and I guess there's more inside the podcast.
	I played the beginning, and this is the reason that I can't emphasize enough for people to consider their donation schedules for this show.
	Because I want to play...
	Because you could make a heck of a lot more money doing what Malcolm Gladwell is about to do, as you're going to hear.
	I don't know if it's helping the public.
	It's kind of a sellout thing to do.
	I wouldn't do it.
	I don't like the idea of doing it.
	That's why we do our donations the way we do them.
	Because you might end up with something like, this is the beginning of the Malcolm Gladwell podcast, and he starts it with an ad, and here's how the ad goes.
	This history is brought to you by AT&T Business, and I'm having a conversation with the President, Chief Marketing Officer of AT&T Business, Mo Kadaba.
	We're talking about the coming 5G revolution.
	We started the conversation last episode, and now we're going to explore a little deeper.
	When we start connecting everything at lightning speeds, what are the possibilities?
	Real-time translation via your device.
	As I'm walking down the street.
	Exactly.
	So the beginnings of that exist today.
	However, when you think about each one of those commands has to go back to some central cloud that might be hundreds or thousands of miles away from you, versus in a 5G world, it's literally within dozens of miles.
	So it's essentially doing it in real-time translating on your behalf.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Flawless communication.
	Wow.
	What's the point in taking languages anymore in school?
	This should have come along 30 years ago and saved me high school French.
	That's the start.
	There's more, way, way more, when we come back with Mokadaba.
	Tell us what's wrong with that ad, John.
	Well, of course, he's never going to question any of the bull crap that this guy just delivered, that apparently, wherever you are in the world, there is a massive server within six miles of you that is taking care of all your 5G needs.
	I don't know how you can do that, how that's even possible, but that's what the guy just said.
	and so you walk around and it's so fast and you've got your 5G irradiating you as you're walking down the street probably burning out your eyeball melting your eyes but you can still see your thing and you can do some translation on this fly because there's a server right there somehow right next to you almost now I will This is the kind of crap.
	Now, AT&T is not a small operation to put out little pennies to do this sort of thing.
	This costs at least one.
	It could be more.
	This costs at least $25,000.
	So for this episode, the minimum, minimum he picked up for this podcast is $25,000 for one show.
	Minimum.
	Could be more.
	It could be a half a million for all I know.
	But...
	AT&T is not going to write a check for less than something like $25,000.
	It's just not, what's the point?
	That's not how they do advertising.
	Advertising anyway.
	I just found it abhorrent.
	And I found it was disgusting the way he just panders to this guy.
	And then he plays along with the game.
	You know, I don't have to take school.
	When I was in school, I didn't take French.
	It was unbelievable.
	It's the inherent...
	What was it?
	Implied?
	I keep forgetting the term.
	The corruption?
	Passive.
	Passive corruption.
	Thank you.
	The passive corruption.
	This wasn't even passive.
	It was active corruption.
	This act of corruption.
	Unbelievable.
	Unbelievable.
	I'm going to go back and pick up some more of these 5G stories.
	That's good.
	I love that a lot.
	You can believe anything.
	You can believe anything the guy says.
	I mean, you know, I trust him now.
	It's like his assertion is beyond belief.
	It's not even possible what he says.
	And with that.
	He goes lapping it up.
	Like with the dog drinking water.
	It's unbelievable.
	And with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage and say in the morning to you, the man who put the C in counting Zephyr cars, John C. Dvorak.
	Well, in the morning to you, Mr.
	Adam Curry.
	In the morning, all ships in the sea, feet in the air, subs in the water, and all the names and knights out there.
	And in the morning to our troll room, hanging out there at noagendastream.com, where there's always a fantastic show to be listened to.
	Oh, any show notes refuse to connect?
	That's interesting.
	Oops.
	I don't like that.
	Shoot.
	We have servers down.
	Server down.
	Yeah, AT&T cut us off.
	Yeah, something like that.
	Anyway, thank you very much, Troll Room, for being there to troll along.
	How many trolls do we have hanging out right now?
	Let me see.
	We got 1,252 trolls!
	There's no more trolls in Norway or Denmark.
	They're all in our troll room.
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	We do it twice a week on Thursdays.
	That is noagendastream.com.
	And I would like to say in the morning to Irritable, who brought us the artwork for episode 1164.
	The title of that was Jacked Up Joe.
	And this was the Occam brand razor.
	It was simple.
	It was beautiful.
	It made sense in the context of the Epstein story.
	And actually, even though we had some discussion over the size of the print on the razor blade, it turned out pretty well.
	People could read it okay, and everyone had a good time.
	The other stuff, we had a lot of Windows jokes with hookers.
	Great story, by the way, a classic Dvorak story.
	If you didn't hear it, go to episode 1164.
	It's just dynamite.
	Is there anything else that we, I don't think there was much else that was really fabu, was there?
	No, it was, yeah.
	I think that was clearly the best piece, conceptually and visually.
	Noagendaartgenerator.com is where you can find all of the artwork, where you can upload and participate in this twice-a-week showdown.
	It is a big part of our Value for Value Network.
	We really enjoy it.
	People like the changing artwork.
	I had to send a note to the Apple guys that were helping me set up an RSS feed.
	They love when our images change.
	The podcasting guys at Apple, by the way, they do something very...
	Unique still in this world.
	They will still recognize a small-time celebrity like myself and help me out directly, the boss.
	Like they should.
	The way Hollywood's supposed to work.
	Our version of Hollywood.
	Yeah.
	I like it.
	Yeah, but you've been in touch with those guys forever.
	Yeah, well, but I like it.
	It made me feel good.
	They're actually fans of the show, but not necessarily listeners.
	They can't say it.
	I don't know if that would fly.
	I don't know if they can say it or not, but I get the feeling that's a good example of what a podcast should be like.
	Exactly.
	Change the cover art.
	Exactly.
	We do it the way you're supposed to do it.
	Of course, why not?
	We have the inventor Working on the show.
	Before we start thanking some people, I have a note from Felix Wilson, who we knighted on the last show, and he received, as you recall, his knighthood from an anonymous patron, an anonymous donor who came in with $1,000, made Felix...
	Sir Chris Wilson's son made him a knight, and so he has two quick notes he'd like me to read, and I'd like to share that.
	Dear Anonymous Patron, thank you for sponsoring my No Agenda Knighthood.
	I wasn't expecting it, and it was a lovely surprise for my parents as well as me.
	I enjoy making people laugh, and I'm glad you found my clips funny.
	Regards, Sir Felix.
	And then he has one for us.
	Dear Adam and John, thank you for knighting me.
	I wasn't expecting it, and while it was fun, there wasn't enough stuff at the round table for a child my age.
	The sherbet tasted yucky and made my tongue cold, and the friendly lady smelled funny.
	You know, it was weird having the hookers a blow and the rent boys in Chardonnay around 8-year-old Felix, but we did warn everyone in advance.
	I checked with my mom, and she suggested the attached children's menu, which I shall be serving today at the roundtable.
	Daddy suggested pizza and ping-pong, but Mommy said, no way, and slapped the back of his head with the magazine.
	That made him laugh even more.
	For my title, I would like to be known as Sir Felix the Early Knight.
	I have a special message I would like Adam to please play that I recorded for all the No Agenda parents.
	Thank you for your courage, Sir Felix the Early Knight.
	My name is Sir Felix Wilson.
	The youngest knight to join the No Agenda Roundtable.
	While I'm eternally grateful to my anonymous patron for their extreme generosity, and I'm proud to sit beside my dad, who's still a douchebag, at the roundtable, there is one thing that you all forgot.
	I've no one to play with.
	There are only grown-ups here doing grown-up things that I'm too young and innocent for.
	And someone disconnected the Wi-Fi when you went OTG so I can't even play Fortnite.
	Please go to devorac.org and sponsor a child today.
	I'm bored and lonely and I need some friends to play with.
	Continuing in the fantastically successful vein of abusing children for financial gain.
	And donations are not great today, so it comes in at perfect timing to guilt people about their children.
	Yeah, you need to get some pictures.
	Maybe get a picture of it in some sort of...
	Some garb that would be appropriate.
	Alongside the sad puppy, which is coming into the next newsletter, by the way.
	Alright.
	Felix and the puppy.
	Maybe he could be with a sad puppy.
	Yeah.
	Okay, this is show 11, what is it, 65?
	Yeah.
	That's the one.
	Michael Taylor's at the top of the list, $350.
	He says, I've listened to your show since episode 1065.
	Huh.
	Huh.
	The result of a referral by my son, who's listened since episode 559.
	Having tuned out all other media prior, I was skeptical, but soon was relieved and immediately hooked.
	While not perfect, yours is truly the only outlet that comes close to not having an agenda.
	Your deconstructions that include factors beyond what we are told makes listening during my commute something to look forward to.
	Being near your ages, I am almost exactly Adam's age, and yes, I remember him on MTV. The affinity keeps growing.
	While there are other value-for-value platforms, to me, your show stands out as worthy of support.
	It'd be great to listen now to douchebag-free jingles.
	Okay, listen now.
	Oh, it'd be good to listen now douchebag-free.
	He once jingles jobs, Pelosi, health karma, and it's true.
	And I'll give him a de-douche.
	You've been de-douched.
	That's true.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	You've got karma.
	Next on the list is Anonymous1001, $333, and he sent an email.
	Which I could have printed out, but I had to find it here in the scrollman.
	Here it is.
	It's a sincere privilege to donate to what we must acknowledge as a singular voice in the increasingly challenging information landscape.
	A perfect intersection of Info World and the daily source code.
	What an unexpected mosaic for us all!
	Please pass along my thanks to Mr.
	Curry for his determined analysis in the MarTech-AdTech synergy that is happening with companies like Axiom and LiveRamp.
	I work with many people named Ben and Bernice that are responsible for architecting data and identity solutions with these and other DMP slash digital onboarding solutions.
	Wow, that's a mouthful.
	That come from the meme generator?
	I don't know.
	That was good.
	He's clearly in the data broker business.
	He knows what's going on.
	We struggle in the trenches every day against what seems to be an inevitable collapse between personally identifiable information in the third-party cookie-slash-digital fingerprinting systems.
	Hopefully, hopefully, my modest donation will provide an additional incentive to follow the topics someday soon.
	To follow the topic.
	Follow the topic someday.
	If he means by that, he's going to send us something important to relate, perhaps.
	For example, Adam might find interest in Axiom's close known relationship with another Arkansas force, the former Arkansas governor, Mr.
	Clinton, and his DNC. In my honest opinion...
	The references to the 1990s to the Clinton powerhouse of the fundraising is a straight line to the proprietary identity resolution keys found at that company between Toad Suck and Pickles Gap, Arkansas.
	So what he's talking about here is Axiom, who, by the way, I accidentally identified as having been purchased in our many talks by Oracle.
	That is not true.
	They were purchased by WPP, one of the largest advertising corporations, conglomerates.
	Yeah, but I had also somewhere talked about it being acquired by Oracle.
	That was a mistake.
	But they are originally from Arkansas.
	That's where their headquarters were.
	And you know where they just opened up, or actually just like a year ago, where they opened up a new headquarters?
	China.
	So this is the company, the data broker, that really is the go-to for all information about people.
	And they've got the financial flows.
	They sell back to Facebook and Twitter and Google.
	That's how big these guys are.
	Yeah, and then coincidentally, they're from Arkansas.
	Little Rock.
	And he signs off Anonymous 1001.
	Anonymous 1001.
	Anonymous 1001.
	Alright, Anonymous.
	Okay.
	Onward to Daniel Senz.
	I think, you know, I always have trouble pronouncing his name.
	Senz.
	S-A-E-N-Z. He isn't currently, or it's going to be a night.
	250 bucks.
	He's an associate executive producer.
	It's my extreme honor to be inducted into the Knights of the No Agenda Roundtable, accounting below.
	I'd like to be known as Sir Musical Signs.
	Signs.
	Maybe it's Signs is how you pronounce it.
	Signs?
	Signs.
	Sir Musical Signs.
	So Daniel Signs.
	Signs.
	That sounds about right.
	Feels right.
	At the roundtable, I request Capazoli de Ventura.
	Capazoli da Venere.
	Wait a minute.
	How am I going to pronounce this?
	Capazoli da Venere, which means nipples of Venus.
	You know, I have the kids' menu with Felix there today, but okay.
	And a bottle of Paul Roger Reserve.
	Okay, hold on.
	Let me order this.
	I've got to put the order in at the round table.
	You know, the funny thing is, Paul Roger is really one of the great...
	Champagnes.
	So it's Capazoli di Venere and a bottle of Paul Roger Reserve, correct?
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Yeah.
	Got it.
	Okay, I put in the order.
	It's not cheap, that stuff.
	Oh, no.
	Well, I wouldn't say it's overpriced, but it's pretty expensive.
	No agendas have come to me on many hours of commuting and travel, and for that I am grateful.
	You are the voice of...
	Sanity and reason.
	You call out the BS that is inherent in our media, which consequently creeps its way into our everyday conversations.
	Well, if we don't, it's a great show idea.
	What?
	If we don't do that, someone should.
	It's a great idea for a show.
	Yeah, it is.
	We should do it.
	Your producers are the best and provide amazing content, adding elements to your show not found anywhere else.
	This is a fact.
	And so he requests the following jingles played seamlessly, he demands.
	Oh, okay.
	Seamless they will be.
	They're always seamless.
	When are they not seamless?
	No, they're sometimes a little herky-jerky.
	Ah, you don't use threads.
	I request the following jingles played seamlessly.
	WTC won't go away.
	Shut up already.
	It's science.
	Obama, no, no, no, original without the music, and karma.
	Thank you again, Sir Michael Sines.
	All right.
	Musical Sines.
	And we'll see you at the roundtable.
	WTC7 won't go away.
	Stop already.
	science no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no hey hey You've got karma.
	Zeamless.
	Zeamless.
	Yeah, that was pretty good.
	It was.
	Thanks for your approval.
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	I try to be objective.
	Elizabeth Pendergrass is also objective when she gives $218.08 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
	Pretty girls are all in Alabama.
	ITM, Adam and John.
	I believe it is customary to request jingles at the beginning of a donation.
	So my husband's, or my requests, I get that one, are as follows.
	Two to the head, do you see the juice and evil laugh?
	This donation is a drunken birthday present to myself as I turn 31 on 818.
	I can't see if I can do a drunken southern birthday.
	Alabama girl.
	Two shoots of the wind, you can't tell the difference.
	A humbly request, a health comment from my Uncle Roger, who is in recovery from open-heart surgery, and an F cancer from my dog, Heidi, who is diagnosed with splenic hemoglosocoma on Friday.
	If any No Agenda pet owners have pets with cancer, I welcome any advice you have to give.
	I have No Agenda social account, so feel free to message me with any suggestion or information you may have at Eliza at NoAgendaSocial.com.
	Do we have those emails?
	Well, it's not an email.
	That's how you address it.
	No, man.
	This is how the Federation works.
	So you could be on gab.com and you could follow and or post to and or DM Eliza at Eliza at noagendasocial.com.
	It's like a new world, man.
	It's federated.
	She attaches a picture of Heidi when she was healthy.
	Yes, I'm one of those millennials.
	Very beautiful dog.
	I saw the picture.
	I can't thank you both enough for the consistent twice-weekly dose of sanity, entertainment, and high-quality shows that have enriched my life for the past decade.
	Woo!
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	But thank you very much for supporting us.
	And yes, of course, you're on the birthday list and here's what you asked for.
	Oh my gosh!
	Can you see that juice?
	You've got karma.
	And last but not least is Baron Dirty Dick Bangs of D.C. in Washington, D.C., $200.
	Donation penance for sending you guys an unusable clip.
	Bill Maher, yes, it was very unusable.
	He sends us a clip.
	I think it's completely usable, and I've actually shortened it for play today.
	He sends us a clip of Bill Maher and then he's laughing over the clip.
	Oh, I didn't get that.
	I have the original clip.
	I don't have the Dick Bangs version.
	No, Dick Bangs, he took like his phone or something and he held it up to the TV and as the clip is going, which you can't hear anyway, he's laughing his ass off.
	Is he going like, this will be clip of the day, man!
	Is he doing one of those numbers?
	No, it's just short of that.
	So I'm sure...
	I'm sad I didn't see that.
	I didn't see the...
	Yeah, I have a clean version of the clip.
	Not the one of him over it.
	I called him out on it.
	He says, of course, since he got called out, he says, I wasn't submitting the clip to be played.
	I wanted to make sure you guys saw it so you could go to the source file and clip it.
	It says usable version.
	Okay.
	John guilt-tripped me as if I was submitting for the show versus just getting it on your radar.
	So in the future, how does a strictly financial producer like myself, a man has got to know his limitations, submit clips to get on your radar so you guys can decide whether...
	We talked about this before.
	We'll talk about it again after your note here as soon as I finish.
	Whether you're going to clip a source file, nor how do you get no agenda show quality, in other words.
	Should we even be sending possible clips to you?
	It's more trouble than good.
	Now, the shout-outs.
	Team ABC, Arch...
	What's this?
	Team ABC. This is the ABC of the bangs.
	Oh, Archie Campbell Bangs, age two.
	Love Shrek.
	Balls and Bugs.
	Barrett Alexander Bangs, age three.
	Love's lacrosse.
	Ketchup.
	We call it Dippy.
	And Mickey Mouse...
	Mickey Mouse, Colton Reed, bang.
	Oh, okay.
	And Mickey Mouse, then Colton Reed, bangs, aged four months, loves smiles, kisses, and his duck wubba nub.
	Wubba nub!
	I don't know.
	If people want to do this, they can put it in a note.
	Rub-a-nub.
	I'll read anything.
	Rub-a-nub.
	You know this is just one...
	Dick Bangs is probably...
	He doesn't have a family.
	He's just one guy.
	He's like, I'm going to make him say...
	You would have to have a family to come up with duck-wub-a-nub.
	Duck-wub-a-nub.
	That's a show title.
	Duck Wubbinub.
	You're right.
	Hell yeah.
	Duck Wubbinub.
	Thanks for all you do.
	Please accept my penance and help educate me to help you.
	NJNK, unless you want to make the kids laugh with a goat scream or something.
	Baron Dirty Dick Banks of DC. Alright, so first of all, let me just say, just be yourself because you just helped us.
	You gave us a possible show title.
	You're done.
	That's what a producer does.
	Good job.
	John, go ahead.
	Okay, there's a number of ways of going about this, I think.
	Now, first of all, you probably have to have some off, some recording gear, or if you clip stuff from the internet, you can use Audacity or any number of systems.
	That work most of the time to clip live audio streaming off your computer.
	And so you run the clip and then you record it on one of these systems.
	Audacity works for me.
	And then you can clip, shorten it, you can edit it a little bit and send it to us.
	It's just that simple.
	Always send it off as an MP3, not a wave.
	It's too big.
	And there's a plug-in to make MP3s on Audacity.
	You can just download it.
	It's easy to get to.
	It's no problem.
	The other opportunity is if you have a Zoom or some little recorder that you can plug into your TV or your DVR into the audio output, you can make a clip that way.
	And then you can move that to your computer and send it to us.
	It's just that simple.
	Some people also, they will look at a clip and they see like it's a long clip that they want us to watch or not watch.
	And they can give us a link to the clip with a time code telling us where the important part of the information is.
	That's the way many clips are received.
	And with some proper context.
	Yes.
	That's why I didn't know what was going on with this Malcolm Gladwell clip because I couldn't find what he's talking about because he just randomly said there was something...
	And that's how I ran into this.
	I got that beginning.
	So what you're getting to here is everyone...
	We don't talk about listeners.
	How many listeners you got?
	I don't know.
	We only have producers.
	Yeah, we only have producers.
	And you produce in a certain way.
	And so when you're sending us something or if you're tweeting a link...
	Also not very handy is replying to a tweet and just putting my name there because I have to click in, click in, and it's like, I'm not interested or I've already seen it.
	But when it comes to email, definitely in the subject line context of what you're sending.
	Just think as a producer, that's all.
	And Dirty Dick Bangs?
	I think you're a typical financial producer.
	Not everyone can do clips.
	But if you got something, you want to make sure we see it and never withhold from sending us something because the number one thing that makes me chuckle in email is, well, I'm probably the 1,000th person to send it to you, and you're the first.
	That happens more often than you know.
	It happens all the time.
	All the time.
	People are like, ah, they got that, and then you don't send it.
	If you really think that, throw it on Twitter.
	It's something I understand.
	That's the inbox.
	I never go to my feed on Twitter to see what people are doing.
	Rarely.
	It's just another public inbox.
	And No Agenda Social.
	Honestly, I get the best clips and stories from NoAgendaSocial.com.
	Anyway, that includes our support for...
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	Now that you know how many cars there are to a Zephyr, you should go out there and propagate our formula.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Water.
	Order.
	Her amygdala's gone rabid.
	Shut up, slave.
	you Okay, so two things.
	I'm just trying to stay on track and remember what we were going to talk about.
	So the first is...
	Dogs are people, too.
	So yeah, we got excoriated for making fun of...
	Well, we weren't making fun of the dogs dying.
	This is the green-blue algae that has killed at least three dogs in the Austin area.
	We were laughing about the clip where the comparison of the dog to a baby, as in a human baby, was just a little over the top.
	And if you're offended, where have you been the past three years when I've been bitching about, and I love dogs, but bitching about dogs and their owners specifically?
	You've been, three years at least, especially when you're living in the big high-rise apartment, which was dog piss, smelling, horrible.
	Let me reiterate, a building being pet-friendly is fine.
	I'm okay with that.
	But when everybody has a dog, and many have multiple dogs...
	And the owners are just shit.
	Then, you know, we don't care or I'm not sure what the mentality is.
	Or like, you know, everyone's dog pisses in front of the building.
	I'll let mine piss there too.
	It starts to smell when you walk into the building.
	I mean, it's just like, it's normal.
	And then there's in the elevators, no one cleans stuff up.
	So it's more, it says more about the owners.
	And the, you know, the comment that I got was, you know, well, for some people we can't have children.
	These literally are our babies.
	Well, no!
	No!
	No!
	I feel...
	I'm happy that you have something to replace that, you know, but we can still make fun of it.
	Can't we?
	Please?
	You touched a nerve, you cat!
	Well, here's what pisses me off.
	We're stupid.
	Because for three years we've been talking about how people are going crazy.
	They're not having actual human kids.
	They are taking dogs and Putting them in strollers and taking them into restaurants and all things we didn't used to do.
	And many countries don't...
	It's cultural to still not accept that.
	But okay, we've now adopted them as our babies and we're treating them as our babies.
	And we've been seeing this trend grow for three years and we missed...
	We're missing exit strategy after exit strategy.
	This one, especially with your knowledge of food and my knowledge of large-scale business...
	We could have nailed this!
	Recent figures show Americans spend more than $72 billion a year on their pets, including more than $30 billion just to feed them.
	You hear this?
	Now some new food options have appeared, particularly for dogs, with ingredients that rival those we feed ourselves.
	And it appears dogs can tell the difference.
	Some ground beef, potatoes, few potatoes, and then just like fresh fruits and veggies.
	I feel like I'm looking at what you'd make for me.
	Yeah!
	But Rinaldo Webb is actually preparing a personalized meal for man's best friend.
	There's a little bit of pumpkin.
	Always good for them.
	Yeah, I mean, this is actually great for dogs that have, like, sensitive stomachs.
	More than ever before, pets are being treated as members of the family.
	And Webb is betting their owners will want to feed them that way.
	I was a consultant working in pet food factories.
	I saw they were able to use what they call 4Ds, so dead, dying, diseased, and disabled, like meats, for actually making the product.
	I just didn't feel super comfortable feeding that to my dog Winston, so I started cooking for him.
	He loved the food.
	That expanded to kind of my close circle of friends, and then Pet Play really grew out of that idea.
	We also have our barking beef, our most popular dish for the dogs.
	The company's meals are designed with a veterinary nutritionist and made in a USDA facility.
	For about $4 a day, dog owners can satisfy the foodie in Fido with fresh meal deliveries.
	Portion sizes are based on weight and activity level.
	This would have been such an easy business for us to start.
	I'd even tested some of these green grocer, blue apron shoe thing, these meal kits.
	Yeah, you were all into the meal kit for a good six months.
	I would say about three, but okay, six months.
	But we missed this obvious exit.
	Well, we missed it, we missed it.
	Mimi's written a book that's never been published on dogs.
	It's a family tradition.
	It's a family tradition.
	I'll publish this book.
	It's a short book, it's a small book, but it's about cooking for your dog.
	Which is right what you're talking about here.
	Only it's cooking for your dog in the natural way.
	Dogs came about because they hung out the garbage dumps outside of the early civilizations.
	And they became...
	They like eating garbage.
	They eat from garbage cans.
	They eat cat shit from the cat shit thing.
	Which is disgusting, by the way.
	No kidding.
	They eat...
	I had a dog that lived 25 years and basically ate one thing and one thing only, scraps.
	And I fed him scraps and table scraps.
	And he was the happiest dog ever.
	And Mimi feeds a lot of dogs.
	We feed dogs table scraps.
	Other people, oh, no, you can't do that.
	That is what dogs love to eat and they live longer.
	They love eating scraps.
	Some people are stupid.
	If you can't feed them chocolate, you can't feed them grapes or certain things you can't feed them.
	But table scraps generally you can.
	Leftover spaghetti.
	Dogs love leftover spaghetti.
	I think PETA just got a hold of us.
	We're being DDoS'd by PETA. You're back.
	You're back.
	You dropped out for a second.
	I did.
	Yeah.
	Well, that's a shame.
	I had a good little pitch going there.
	Do the end, because it was just the last sentence.
	I was just saying that dogs have been raised on scraps, and this is just reverse engineering the process.
	This is not really, you know, yeah, it looks like you're making a special meal for them, but you might as well feed them scraps.
	No, here's what's going to happen.
	You buy that food for your dog, whatever that dog has left over, you can eat.
	You eat it.
	Yes, that's the way it's going.
	Dogs are people, too.
	I love dogs.
	Just not that many of them.
	Around.
	They're good here.
	Okay.
	I do have a few.
	I have a couple clips I want to play.
	Okay.
	I do have.
	I was going to tell you what I have.
	Well, why don't you play what you got?
	Yeah, that's why.
	Just let me go.
	Go knock yourself out.
	So I have the original clip shortened that Sir Dick Bangs was talking about without his commentary.
	And I feel it's a little long.
	It's four minutes, which is long for this show.
	Holy crap!
	Yeah, but in context, now did you see this?
	Were you able to sit through?
	No, I did not see this.
	I saw the Dick Bangs clip.
	It might be good.
	Maybe I'll interrupt it to break up to four minutes.
	I don't think we have to because, now, we play Bill Maher clips all the time of the idiotic stuff they talk about, the stupid things his guests say.
	And honestly, even though I'm pretty sure it's a bit, you know, when he goes, well, I hope for a recession so we can get Trump out.
	It's like, I think that's, I guess that's outrageous, you know, like Howard Stern used to say, outrageous things.
	And it gets people talking about him.
	I understand what he's doing there.
	But in his heart, sometimes he comes out with some very interesting observations and will excoriate his own people.
	And also hidden in this is very obvious who he is supporting for the 2020 Democratic nominee.
	And surprise, surprise, it's not Joe Biden.
	But he did say some things that I thought were very astute that align extremely with the no agenda thinking, certainly about some newer generations, but also just something that you and I are confronted with every day, which is what you did 30 or 40 years ago.
	And this has become a part of the cancel culture.
	Well, you an asshole 30 years ago, so you must be a dickhead now.
	And he just put it into a perspective that I thought was no agenda worthy.
	Bill Maher.
	Kamala Harris was our Attorney General here in California in 2010, and I contributed to her campaign.
	And I was disappointed when she opposed legalizing marijuana.
	Well, now she's for it.
	That's all that matters.
	We don't need to beat her up about 2010.
	That's called learning.
	We used to want that in a leader.
	Obama was against gay marriage when he became president, as was most of the country.
	But then...
	I've been going through an evolution on this issue.
	And do you recall who got him to evolve?
	Biden.
	I did want to interrupt here.
	As many people don't remember this, and I remember we saw this happen exactly, and it was one of the biggest gaffes Biden has made.
	This was supposed to be part of Obama's legacy where he would legalize same-sex marriage and he was going to go through this evolution and change his mind and he was going to set the gays free.
	And Joe Biden was...
	Of course, Biden was in on what the strategy was, and he was interviewed by...
	Was it...
	Robin from ABC, from Good Morning America, I think?
	And Joe lets it slip out.
	Oh, no, I really think we should have same-sex marriage.
	Freak out in the White House the next day Obama's out there.
	Oh, yes, I've evolved.
	Their whole...
	Rolling out of Obama, savior of the gays, was blown by Joe Biden.
	And I think a lot of people haven't forgiven him for that, for not attaching that whole legacy to Obama.
	You remember?
	That's kind of how it went down, wasn't it?
	I believe you're correct.
	Okay.
	Anyway, back to Bill Maher.
	Humans evolve.
	You could be against gender inclusive bathrooms and then one day change your mind because you have to take a wicked piss.
	People need to stop pretending that if they were alive back when, they wouldn't have been the same asshole as everyone else.
	Yes, you would.
	I know your parents told you you're exceptional, but not to the point of seeing the future.
	You would have driven without seat belts and drank when you were pregnant and hit your kids and hit your neighbor's kids.
	They did that shit.
	Yeah, I remember.
	Because woke sight is not 2020.
	And you don't have ESPCP.
	Extrasensory politically correct perception.
	If you were around in the 1980s, you would have worn those horrible colors.
	laughter And the big shoulder pads.
	You just would have.
	You're not Nostradamus.
	And if you were around in the 1780s and you were rich and white, you likely would have had slaves.
	The first abolition society in America was founded in 1775 and it had 24 members.
	24 people in the whole country thought slavery was wrong the year before we declared independence.
	Stop being surprised.
	We used to be dumber than we are now.
	The humans of tomorrow will be horrified by us!
	They won't believe we used to sexualize people during sex.
	Millennials seem to think they came along right as society met perfection.
	laughter Do you really think future generations will look at what you're doing?
	The man buns and the...
	The giant stupid ear-stretching earrings and say...
	That was the moment civilization peaked.
	we can add nothing more man buns clapping the loudest You're not morally better than your grandparents.
	You just came later.
	You're just the next upgrade.
	You're the iPhone 11.
	Yeah, it's funny.
	Nobody has trouble grasping technological evolution.
	Nobody writing a love note with a quill ever said, why can't I send a dick pic?
	Nobody in 1975 asked, why is it my TV flat?
	Why?
	Why is my 8-track not satellite radio?
	Nobody speaking into that Kleenex box that we had at first was mad at it because it wasn't a smartphone yet.
	Things get obsolete because we grow and improve, including us.
	Can we please stop pointing out people breaking rules that didn't exist yet?
	and just grandfather in the shit you would have done if you were alive then.
	I'm sorry Joe Biden had to get along with segregationists.
	But when he first entered politics, he had to get along with Aaron Burr.
	So what I find most interesting is that the people who are in that audience, who are exactly the people he's talking about, are the ones yelling and clapping the loudest.
	Well, the problem is with that show...
	You don't know how much of that is sweet and how many applause signs are lighting up.
	That's true.
	Or there's some guy in the corner there jumping up and down doing jumping jacks.
	You know, one of those guys who runs the crowd.
	Yeah, the exciter.
	I can't get much of it.
	Well, I thought it was a good...
	It's definitely...
	I'm sorry?
	That was interesting.
	It was a good point.
	I don't know what the point of the point was.
	I mean, is this because we have Billy Crystal and Blackface doing an interview with Rob Reiner?
	No, I'll tell you why.
	And I cut all that out.
	It was two minutes of preamble, and this is what showed that he is all in for Kamala Harris.
	He was ragging on Gillibrand.
	He was basically ragging on everybody for calling out Joe and calling out Kamala.
	But didn't call out Kamala calling out Joe, which was kind of telling because he's all in on Kamala Harris.
	She has a lot of baggage.
	She's a cop.
	She's a lousy DA. And this is all recent, though.
	This is not like 20 years ago.
	She was just there.
	He feels eight years ago we should already forget.
	That's what he feels about Kamala.
	Yes.
	That's his deal.
	Well, good luck with that Bill.
	That's not going to happen.
	No, Kamala is not.
	And she's unpleasant.
	She's got that glued-on smile that just doesn't look right.
	She's insincere.
	She's no good.
	Not really, no.
	She really isn't that good.
	I mean, who is?
	I mean, that's why Joe is leading the pack, because at least he's pleasant.
	I'm...
	There was a whole...
	He's losing it.
	The guy's...
	He's getting up there.
	Yes, but he used to have a pretty decent head of hair.
	He had plugs.
	Remember the plug era?
	He had plugs?
	Oh yeah, before the show.
	This was some years back, but he was getting ball in front, so they plugged him.
	He's got all plugs in front, so he had a million plugs put in.
	And after a while, they could comb him out, and he looked pretty decent.
	He looked pretty good, but I didn't realize the plugs are going to die too.
	It's just some sort of coating or something on him.
	I'm not sure what the deal is.
	Well, the plugs, isn't that real hair when they put in the plugs?
	Yeah.
	I'm sure they have a warranty, an expiration date.
	Well, I don't know.
	I didn't know that plugs...
	I mean, same thing I noticed with...
	Joe has outgrown his plugs, man.
	This reminds me that we have a famous basketball player from the Bay Area that used to play at the Warriors called Rick Barry.
	And Rick Barry used to have a lot of talk shows.
	He has three sons that are very successful broadcasters.
	But he used to do Dr.
	Marinelli or something.
	He used to go on and on and off to Hair Club and these different things that make him look so good with his hair.
	You see him now, it's like he looks like Biden.
	Right.
	So, I don't know.
	That's not a good look.
	Marianne Williamson, still my favorite person in the Democratic primary.
	Will she make the next round of debates, or is she not going to make the cutoff?
	I believe she's going to make it, because Hickenlooper's dropped out, so it opens up a new slot.
	And where's that other guy?
	What happened to...
	Oh, Schultz, is he running independently?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, I guess he's running independent, not as a Democrat, right?
	Schultz?
	Howard Schultz?
	Yeah.
	He's out of the game.
	He's not going to do anything.
	He's done?
	It was just a fluke?
	I think so, yeah.
	But who's going to make his stire?
	Apparently he just needs one more poll and he's in the next debate, so that should be funny.
	Oh, he's going to buy a poll.
	Yeah, he's going to buy a poll.
	Okay.
	Excuse me.
	Yeah, you got the cough today.
	Got a nagging cough.
	I got to get some lozenges.
	So Marianne...
	Well, I hope she does...
	Because I can see that she's not far off from the way the media portrays her from the guy, you know, from the guy, the vermin supreme, the guy with the boot on his head.
	That's basically the way the media...
	Right, left, everyone...
	Whoa!
	Crazy crystal lady!
	Which is...
	It's really...
	It's quite rude.
	I mean, she's very successful at what she's done.
	She's helped a lot of people in the process.
	You can't deny that.
	Nobody's denying it.
	She's ridiculing her.
	She's a crazy crystal lady.
	It's terrific.
	Why would you want to pass up this opportunity?
	Well, because I'll take an extra two minutes out of my day to play something that she said that was interesting.
	And so I would say that this is the thing that Mar really needs to be talking about, is that we have forgotten that we are the government.
	The people have the power.
	Now, do I think Marianne Williamson's going to change it?
	No.
	But she was in San Francisco, did an hour-long talk, and I watched it, and I thought it was pretty decent.
	And here's two clips from that.
	This is her explaining...
	How the people have always changed the course of history in the United States.
	It's obvious, but she does say it.
	The conventional political establishment is not the fix to all this, ladies and gentlemen.
	The conventional political establishment is the problem.
	It is time for the people to step in now.
	now.
	And if you look, I think this is a very, very good time to read up on American history.
	Because it's really a fascinating story and it's an important story.
	And when it comes to the history of the United States, just like with the history of your family when you go to therapy or the history of your tribe or your ethnic group, you're empowered by an understanding of your history.
	And we're empowered by an understanding of American history as well.
	So let's be very, very clear.
	In 1776, the most enlightened principles that were ever coded into the foundation of a country were coded into our Declaration of Independence.
	The gnarly part is that the men who risked their lives to establish those principles of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for all people, the equality of all people, governments are instituted to secure those rights, and it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish that government if it's not doing its job. and it is the right of the people to alter Those principles were laid down by men, 41 of 50 some odd, of whom were themselves slave owners.
	So this dichotomy has been with us from the very beginning.
	We have been throughout our history not only a nation built on the most aspirational and enlightened principles ever coded into the founding of a country, but we have also been throughout our history.
	Throughout our history, we have at times represented the most violent transgression against those principles.
	All I'm saying to you, ladies and gentlemen, this is not the first time.
	We are not the first generation to have to push back against forces that are essentially undemocratic.
	They did it before.
	Slavery was responded to by abolitionists, and the suppression of women has been responded to by two major waves of feminism and the women's suffragette movement.
	Institutionalized white supremacy and segregation was responded to by the civil rights movement.
	We are not the first time to have to deal with this.
	Let's just not be the first generation of Americans to wimp out on doing what it takes.
	She totally has the right idea, but the voice and how she does it just doesn't deliver right.
	You're right, it sounds like Crazy Crystal Lady, but I like what she's saying.
	Meh.
	Gee, I've never heard anything like that before.
	Well, have you heard it this time around?
	Has anyone said that?
	No, they're mostly screaming at Trump.
	Yeah.
	I do want to play this clip I've been meaning to play for a while since we're talking about candidates.
	This is Bernie again.
	And this is when he was on the Joe Rogan show, and this is the gaffe that I thought was kind of amusing.
	I think a lot of people caught it, and Joe didn't.
	Nobody followed up.
	What did you think overall?
	I mean, you've got Biden's a gaffe machine, but Bernie's not.
	What did you think overall?
	Overall, I found it to be quite weak.
	I expected a lot more from that interview with Rogan.
	I don't think Rogan likes him.
	Yeah, but I just...
	And Bernie is never looking him in the eye.
	He's looking down.
	He's...
	Well, Joe, I tell you.
	I tell you.
	I tell you, Joe.
	The world right now is spending a trillion and a half dollars on weapons of destruction designed to kill each other.
	And maybe, just maybe, if we had a kind of leader, and I hope to be that leader, who says to the world, instead of spending a trillion and a half dollars killing each other, maybe we'll use those resources to transform the global energy system and save the planet for our kids and our grandchildren.
	That's the goal that I have.
	Well, these ideas sound great, but in the competitive environment of global politics, how would you convince Russia or China or any of these countries to do something that would put them in some sort of a competitive disadvantage?
	Well, and the answer is, Joe, if we do not do that in 50 or 100 years, everybody is going to be at a terrible disadvantage.
	And look, I'm not telling you that tomorrow it's going to happen.
	But you've got to make the case.
	These people, you know, Putin is a dictator.
	I dislike him intensely.
	You know, Xi and China, very authoritarian, so forth and so forth.
	But they're not crazy people.
	And presumably they have concern about their kids and their grandchildren.
	This is a planet under siege.
	You know, I don't want to become a science fiction.
	You've all seen the movies, the media, racing toward Earth.
	We're going to blow up the Earth.
	What do we do?
	Well, we've got to get together.
	This is, in a sense, what that is about.
	You know what I think about?
	In 1941, after Pearl Harbor, we were faced with a war in the east with China, a war in the west in Europe with Hitler.
	Within two years, the United States had transformed its economy to address and win the war, basically in two or three years, by re-industrializing America.
	We can do it.
	We can lead the world.
	That's what we have to do.
	Wait a minute.
	What was the big flub?
	China?
	China?
	Woo!
	Did he say China?
	Yeah.
	War with China.
	What an idiot!
	He had a big war with China in World War II. Yeah, remember that?
	So he's thinking of war with China.
	That's on his head.
	That's on his mind.
	Yes.
	He said, I would never vote for this guy.
	So that's not a flub.
	That is the truth wants to come out.
	Yeah, he wants to have war with China.
	Let's just listen to it in context again.
	You know what I think about?
	In 1941, after Pearl Harbor, we were faced with a war in the east with China, a war in the west in Europe with Hitler.
	Within two years, the United States had transformed its economy to address and win the war, basically in two or three years.
	I think you're right.
	I think he wants to go to war with...
	I'm going to give you a borderline for that.
	That was a good catch.
	That was a good one.
	Now, Joe's not really listening.
	I got a flub.
	Obviously.
	So this wasn't just a flub.
	It was, the truth wants to come out.
	And I also have a, the truth wants to come out clip.
	And this is about Bruce and Nelly Orr.
	And they are deeply involved in this GPS, Fusion GPS, steel report with the golden showers.
	And I'm sure this is from Fox News or Fox Business News.
	Before we play that, can I just throw in a little thing?
	I don't think I brought up the show.
	But I'm going to bring it up.
	This whole golden shower is peeing all over the place and making the bed stink, whatever they're up to.
	And all this other stuff that Trump, you know, is somehow involved with.
	It's always overlooked that Trump is a germophobe.
	You've brought this up many times on the show.
	That's right.
	Guys, I don't remember if it was the dinner table or if it was on the show.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	All right.
	So again, the truth wants to come out.
	And Nellie Orr is in constant communication, not only with Bruce, but with his underlings at the Justice Department on a whole host of matters, sending news reports in the original Russian to her friends at the Justice Department, of course trying to smear Donald Trump along the way.
	You know, it turns out Nellie Orr may have been the most significant hire by...
	The truth always wants to come out.
	Wow.
	Jeez.
	Come on.
	That one makes it scratch.
	I have to give you a Borderline for that, too.
	Oh, thanks.
	I appreciate that.
	Borderline.
	I have to do a whole show on these things.
	Nelly whore.
	Nelly whore.
	Wow.
	Woo-hoo!
	Let's see.
	I've got a couple more.
	Oh!
	You want to do some news?
	Because we've got to catch up on some news stories.
	Let's talk about Zimbabwe, for example.
	Oh, yeah.
	Let's do some, like...
	Oh, you mean...
	No.
	Don't tell me you're actually...
	Wait.
	That's not what I want.
	No, it sounds good.
	There's more.
	There it is.
	There it is.
	If you look at my warehouse, it's pretty much empty.
	This business has been decimated by loss of money.
	You sell your products to customers before you actually get hold of your money.
	There is movement in exchange rates and you lose money and you are unable to replenish.
	These queues are just ridiculous.
	If I am to take chances here, I will spend the whole day, which means I will lose pretty much the entire working day just queuing for fuel.
	Okay, I just made a short clip because I couldn't get any really good reports, but Zimbabwe is in a world of hurt.
	They're back to the 2008 era where they got outrageous inflation.
	This guy's showing that his store is dead empty because apparently the process there is you sell your products before you get them.
	And because of the inflation rate, you end up having to give the product that's already been pre-sold at a price that costs you money, you end up losing your ass and going broke.
	That's how fast the inflation is going?
	Gasoline lines that are one day's wait.
	Oh my goodness.
	And this is because the Zimbabwe monetary...
	Mugabe was the guy who ran it, and they got this new guy who's no good, and the country is shot and is not being discussed by the mainstream media at all.
	It is completely...
	It's just, it's broke.
	Well, can't we say Trump isn't, here, media, here's something, you can still talk about Zimbabwe just by saying, Trump is such a racist, he doesn't want to even mention the problems in Zimbabwe, man.
	And then you can go into the story.
	You're giving him ideas, but it's a good one.
	Hey, is it the, is it, oh, wow, wow, it's hyperinflation is really what we're talking about here.
	I'm looking at the chart, that is, it is actually off the chart.
	It's off the charts.
	What is their monetary unit in the...
	Well, this is the same operation they had.
	Remember the $100 trillion notes?
	Oh, we still have...
	Yeah, I still have one of those.
	I got a couple of them.
	So they're worth even less now?
	It must be.
	Oh, they're not worth anything.
	They've had to change...
	They did what the Brazilians did.
	They changed the name of their currency.
	Oh, okay.
	The Brazilians did it at least twice that I know of.
	They had Cruzeros and then Criso.
	They had something.
	Then they went to the Real...
	And you keep doing that, and then you just like a reset button.
	But then those things hyperinflate if you don't have it under control, which hasn't returned to Brazil, luckily.
	But, you know, there's too much inflation.
	But apparently in Zimbabwe, this situation has returned.
	So we'll be looking at some more super high nomination bills.
	So the new sovereign currency with the introduction of the real-time gross settlement dollar, or the Zim dollar, Oh my god.
	Yeah, this is really bad.
	Yeah, well, you know what?
	The world can be burning down around us as long as it's not...
	I mean, if it's a white guy with a gun...
	Stop!
	Go look at that guy, then back to Trump.
	I know, it's pathetic.
	It's really it.
	Here, we've talked about this for months now.
	The swine fever epidemic in China and the rest of Southeast Asia began a year ago, and it's still spreading.
	Christine McCracken and her colleagues at the big financial firm Rabobank have been talking to their clients in China, companies in the pork business, trying to figure out how bad it is.
	Every day we hear of more outbreaks.
	According to their latest estimate, African swine fever is killing off so many pigs that by the end of this year, China's production of pork could be cut in half.
	That's roughly 300 to 350 million pigs lost in China, which is almost a quarter of the world's pork supply.
	Which I found stunning.
	Should I be stunned by that?
	You should.
	It's a massive number.
	African swine fever is not swine flu.
	This disease is harmless to humans.
	It can spread through contaminated pork products or the clothes of people working with infected pigs, not through the air.
	But the virus is really hard to get rid of, which Chinese farmers are finding out.
	They've had a hard time repopulating herds.
	It's hard to decontaminate a facility in a short amount of time.
	Generally, it takes at least six months to sometimes three years to decontaminate a site.
	McCracken says many Chinese farmers have slaughtered their herds early out of fear the animals might get infected.
	So there's still pork on the shelves.
	In the past month or so, consumers in China are starting to see the impact.
	Pork prices are rising.
	It's really hard to see how this is going to end.
	Though at some point, you know, they'll just be better, more biosecure facilities that have fewer chances of getting the virus.
	Traditionally, almost half of the pigs in China came from small backyard operations, hundreds of thousands of them.
	Those farms, though, if they can't protect their animals from infection, may not survive.
	Yeah, and that looks to be the way it's going.
	This is a massive problem.
	But not worth reporting on.
	No, there's no reason for that.
	And I think another thing that's underreported, I have a clip.
	Tell me it's Hong Kong.
	It is being reported on a little bit, but it's not really, the impact of it is not being discussed much.
	This is the cashmere situation.
	Oh, yeah, and it's funny you have a clip for that, or funny.
	This was exactly, it's interesting how that works.
	My handler, Steve Pachenik, remember, when I was talking to him about Epstein, he had already kind of telegraphed, I want to talk about Kashmir and India and Pakistan, and you and I have talked about it.
	A little bit.
	But where's this clip from?
	Who had the audacity to stray off the Trump hate train to talk about something else?
	Other people in the world.
	Oh, they're brown!
	Democracy now has the ability to walk and chew gum.
	They still hate Trump.
	Tension is growing in Kashmir as Pakistani and Indian troops have repeatedly exchanged fire across the line of control.
	Al Jazeera reports six Indian soldiers as well as three Pakistani soldiers and two Pakistani civilians have died over the past 24 hours.
	This comes just over a week after India revoked the special status of the Indian control part of the Muslim majority region.
	Meanwhile in London, thousands of demonstrators rallied Thursday to protest India's crackdown in Kashmir.
	Sheikh Ramzi is the director of the Oxford Islamic Information Center.
	It is totally wrong, totally wrong to capture the countries, totally wrong to occupy the countries.
	It's going to be second Palestine, it's going to be many people die.
	And of course, unfortunately, two countries, unfortunately, two countries are nuclear.
	And one of them gets stupid, they can destroy the whole world.
	Well, this is obviously a proxy thing.
	India is in direct competition with China.
	China has put massive amounts of money into Pakistan.
	Time to crank it up again.
	We've got production moving away from China going to India.
	Hong Kong is another one.
	They're singing the Star Spangled Banner at the protests in Hong Kong.
	If not meant to actually...
	That could even be the Chinese doing that.
	Well, it's...
	Oh, come on.
	The Chinese are doing...
	Yeah, on purpose, just to make us look like we've got something to do with it.
	Well, we do, and I think it's great.
	Well, we do or we don't.
	What's the problem?
	Let's go back to Kashmir.
	All right.
	The Indian government just said to hell that we're taking this whole place over.
	What is the population breakdown, do you think, in percentage of Kashmir?
	By what?
	Because it harkens back to something you just said.
	By what?
	Population breakdown of what?
	Chinese?
	Muslims?
	India's a Hindi.
	45% Indians.
	Yes.
	35% Muslims.
	Yeah.
	And it accounts for 20% Chinese.
	Sure.
	And that's where?
	Kashmir.
	That's Kashmir.
	In Kashmir itself.
	Yeah.
	20% Chinese.
	Wow.
	What's all that about?
	They don't discuss that, of course, in any real way.
	So we don't get any news about any of it.
	We have to go to find some papers written about it.
	China's probably pulling one of those stunts where they come in and the next thing you know they're taking over the place like they do in Africa thinking it's a bunch of dumb shits.
	And India got fed up with it and put the kibosh on it because they are competitors.
	And somehow it has to do with the water in the Bhutan region that the Chinese need.
	I've got to look into this again.
	But the water in the Bhutan region is a part of this.
	And the Chinese need it for whatever industry they're cooking up.
	And India could just block that water flow.
	I mean, it's a mess.
	It's always been a mess.
	Yeah, well, this is now, it's got an extra dimension.
	China.
	Hey, man, we should write a song about it.
	We'll call it Kashmir.
	It's just a thought.
	Anyway, so that's another thing we're not getting any coverage on.
	Thank you.
	Thank you, New York Times, as you have your town hall.
	It's all about hate.
	You're not calling Trump a racist.
	Racist.
	We're not calling him a racist.
	But no, the rest of the world could collapse.
	Do you have any other real news?
	I have, it comes closer to home, I do have, I think I have one, we got the, I got a good thing on the Talib, not going to Israel thing, which is a kind of a hokey story, but I thought it was funny.
	This is the one of the, one of our congresswomen that Trump's.
	That's not a real news story.
	I mean, do you have a real news story?
	Well, real news used to mean celebrity news when we started that jingle.
	Well, we have to change it around.
	Do you have anything of interest for the rest of the world?
	Yes, the hottest ever climate report.
	Oh, see, that's what I'm looking for.
	Hottest ever climate report.
	The National Oceanic Administration has confirmed July was the Earth's hottest month since record-keeping began 140 years ago.
	In a statement, Noah said, Much of the planet sweltered in unprecedented heat.
	The record warmth also shrank Arctic and Antarctic sea ice to historic lows.
	July was the 415th consecutive month.
	Meanwhile, Australia is facing criticism for watering down a climate agreement at the Pacific Island Forum, which has just wrapped up in Tuvalu.
	Fiji Prime Minister Frank Banimarama tweeted, We came together in a nation that risks disappearing to the seas, but unfortunately we settled for the status quo in our communique.
	Watered-down climate language has real consequences like water.
	like waterlogged homes, schools, communities, and ancestral burial grounds.
	Wow.
	Great report.
	In other words, Fiji didn't get the money they wanted from Australia.
	Exactly.
	Well, there's a new term which I think supersedes the climate crisis, and it really wraps it all up into one.
	It goes just a little bit further.
	Because of this story, it's appropriate to play this 26-second clip from George Monbiot.
	Yeah, he's that guy, the climate writer for The Guardian.
	Socialist from England.
	Old-fashioned socialist.
	Yeah, you don't have to say socialist from England.
	You can just say he's from England.
	Everybody knows.
	Everybody knows what's going on over there.
	It's redundant.
	Exactly.
	I would say that Bolsonaro is the most dangerous man on Earth.
	He wants to rip down the Amazon rainforests, the biggest terrestrial ecosystem on Earth.
	If those rainforests are destroyed by Bolsonaro, we are screwed.
	And those rainforests store a phenomenal amount of carbon.
	If they are cut down and burnt, that carbon goes into the atmosphere.
	It will massively accelerate climate breakdown.
	There it is.
	Climate breakdown.
	Oh, I like that, climate breakdown.
	It's multifaceted, because our climate is breaking down, but the climate breakdown is the breakdown of the whole idea of the Green New Deal, of moving forward with the new economy, with the solar panels, etc.
	So I think climate breakdown, I think it's one for the books.
	I'm in.
	I'm going to show myself mood by donating to No Agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, on No Agenda.
	Hey, John.
	We do have a very few people to thank for the second half of the show here.
	The agenda is starting with Sir Ever of the What?
	1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
	Ari...
	Ari...
	Kiaragi.
	I think it's Kiaragi.
	Kiaragi?
	Kiaragi.
	But the donation is for Brian Mickey for his 52nd birthday, and he's on the list.
	Kaylin Nistor in Northville, Michigan.
	81-80, Sir Rick in Arlington, Washington, a regular, 69-96.
	It says 86, but I know that's not it.
	Barron Mark Tanner is 6789 in Whittier, California, twice a month, comes in.
	Dean Roker, 55-10.
	Andrew Benz in Imperial, Missouri, 50-05.
	Don Lemon's index finger...
	50-01.
	I believe this is also Maxine Gravel.
	Oh, dual personality.
	I like it.
	I think we've got some splitting going on.
	Now we have $50 donors, name and location.
	We're already down to that.
	I just realized the context of Don Lemon's index finger.
	That's nasty.
	Scott Lavender, Montgomery, Texas.
	David Timmons in Oklahoma City.
	Brad Taylor in Duval, Washington.
	Judy Schwartz in...
	Bernie, I think.
	Bernie, Texas.
	She's the Baroness of Kendall County, actually.
	Dame Judy.
	Adam Money in Middletown, Missouri.
	John Camp in Antlers, Oklahoma.
	Joel DeRuey and probably Sir by now in Savannah, Georgia.
	Sir Jerry Wingenroth in Saugus and Sir Spud the Mighty in Marietta, Georgia.
	That's our complete list of producers for show 1165.
	That's the shortest donation segment we've had in a year.
	Yes, it's only 20 people.
	Yeah, it's very problematic.
	Actually, it's not even that many.
	It's 5 minus 23, 18.
	18 people.
	Well, of course we want to thank these people profusely.
	They're the best.
	Yes, these are the best, standing there when no one else will.
	Thank you.
	And thank you to everyone who came in under $50, either to remain anonymous or those of you who are on some of our subscriptions.
	They do sustain some, and it's appreciated.
	And if you are a donor, a producer, and you have some available funds, please do one of these.
	Because you may not notice it that much, but it really helps the show over time with some scale.
	A mistake I've made is I have not visited my PO box recently, and I went the other day.
	Holy crap, this thing was overflowing.
	And I have a cookie tray filled with stuff, and I can't thank everybody with all their notes, etc., but I just wanted to make sure you had some of these items.
	Did you get the night 3D printed nightstand for the ring?
	Yes, he wants to put that into public domain, so people, if they have a 3D printer, they can print this little guy.
	It's a frame holder with a little ring holder, and it says no agenda all over it.
	And it's a 3D printed object, so it has that...
	How to explain it?
	That certain magic of a 3D item.
	It's really magic.
	But it's great.
	It has a frame for your certificate.
	It has a ring holder for your ring.
	And it has a spot for the sealing wax.
	It's really a beautiful piece.
	So he will put the plans.
	I haven't done this.
	He wants to know if we can give him the go-ahead.
	You don't need that, actually.
	You can just do it.
	No, just do it and send us the link.
	He wants to release the code.
	Yeah, he should.
	I think this thing also will shoot.
	It's also a gun in disguise, isn't it?
	You can print that up.
	I haven't been able to find a bullet for it.
	So I got my weed mug.
	Thank you very much.
	The one that John had cracked mine.
	Oh, it's about time.
	Isn't that a great mug, by the way?
	Yeah, it's a fantastic mug.
	Thank you very much, sir.
	Hashtag null.
	By the way, people do not send checks or money for the show to my P.O. box.
	That makes it complicated.
	We have accounted for it, but yeah, so the Sir Daddy Cass of the Love House did the 3D print.
	I got the Mighty Islands book from Tom Starkweather.
	Let me see what else I got here.
	I got the Trump 2020 badge.
	Oh, a listener in the Netherlands sent me, based upon our conversation about Mad Magazine, And this is Sir, who is it again?
	I remember he was from Hilversum.
	Fred van Leeuwen, associate executive producer, he sent me two mad magazines, classic mad magazines, one in Dutch.
	Oh, nice.
	Yeah, and with the fold in the back, and it's the Alfred E. Newman on the front.
	What is this from?
	September 72.
	And that's a nice little collector's item.
	I got a beautiful wedding gift from Sir Mark and Dame Astrid in Japan for the keeper and myself.
	Two actual pieces of gold, very thin 24-karat gold with a good luck thing that we immediately did, of course, Japanese tradition.
	Thank you to them.
	I've got my meeting book.
	I've got this beautiful engraved wood.
	How many months went by?
	Only about three weeks, really.
	I have this plaque from Sir Schmuck, Night of the Green Chili.
	With American Eagle on it and this statement, people are innocent until alleged to be involved in some type of criminal activity.
	John Brennan, director of the CIA. That's going on my wall.
	I appreciate that.
	That's a good one.
	That's the keeper.
	That's a good one.
	And then I got album art, literal album art.
	I can't remember if the whole family worked on this one.
	Some sage.
	I think I've got most of it.
	Anyway, so everyone knows I received everything.
	Thank you.
	And I will go more often, so I don't have to do it.
	Since we have a short segment today, it's okay.
	Hold on.
	Let me put it down.
	My gosh.
	I need a whole separate spot just to take care of that stuff.
	Okay.
	I had some other...
	Let me see if I have anything else I need to do.
	Because we had...
	So we've thanked everybody there.
	What else do we have?
	Oh, yes.
	Well, we have a couple of, yeah, we have some things to do here at the very end.
	Let's first make sure everyone gets their karma that they would want to have.
	And again, thank you.
	And remember, you can support the show.
	And you probably should if you're a true producer for our show on Thursday.
	Go to dvorak.org.
	Here we go with the karma.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	Hey, what's going on?
	Everything's falling apart.
	Why is my...
	My jingles aren't working.
	Oh, shit.
	Oh, no.
	Hold on, let me...
	I think I can disconnect something and it'll work again.
	Let's see.
	Let's see if it comes back to life.
	Stop tape.
	No, I'm not going to stop tape.
	Are you kidding?
	This is the beauty of it.
	There it is.
	It's a birthday, birthday on No More Champion.
	Hi, yesterday, today is the 18th of August, 2019.
	Elizabeth Pendergrass, she is on NoAgendaSocial.com, celebrates today.
	Happy birthday, Elizabeth.
	Bill Patterson, it says happy birthday to Lindsay, a.k.a.
	DC girl of Alexandria, Virginia.
	Also a big No Agenda Social hangouter.
	It's her birthday today.
	And Eri Kiragi says happy birthday to Brian Mickey, 52 years old tomorrow.
	Happy birthday from everybody here at the Best Podcast in the Universe!
	I think we should go straight to our, um, let's see, a title?
	Let me do that one.
	Title changes.
	Turn and face the slate.
	Guys changes.
	Don't want to be a douchebag.
	We've got one title change for today.
	This is Sir Mittens of Fall City.
	He upgrades with another total of $1,000 to the No Agenda Show.
	That's your show and becomes the Baron of the Bluegrass.
	Congratulations, Sir Mittens.
	We appreciate your support of the No Agenda Show.
	And then we have two nightings and a special roundtable today as we're rolling out the children's menu.
	Wouldn't you have the second title change to Chris's kid?
	Well, I was actually going to invite him to the round table.
	Oh, okay.
	Never mind.
	Because he didn't really get his name, so we now have his name.
	So he's a knight.
	This is just doing a little more official with his name.
	And he did bring the kids' table menu, so I figured we should do it properly.
	Ah, okay, so he gets the second look.
	Yeah, so get out your kiddie sword.
	Yeah, thank you.
	Daniel Sands!
	Daniel Sands, step on up!
	And you over there!
	Felix Wilson, come on by, gentlemen.
	Both of you are entering the No Agenda Roundtable of our Knights and Dames, and with good reason, and deservedly so, and I am very proud to pronounce the case the...
	Sir Musical Signs and Sir Felix the Early Night.
	A special edition of the round table for you today.
	Of course we have Capazoli de Venra and a bottle of Paul Roger Reserve.
	We also have Cookies and Dough, Red Flags, Red Frogs and Chocolate Cakes, Spaghetti and Meatballs, Noodles and Dumplings, French Fries and Fortnite, Theme Parks and Water Slides, Toasted Marshmallows and Minecraft, TV and Staying Up Late.
	And for the adults, we've got Mutton and Mead.
	That was courtesy of Sir Felix the Early Knight.
	And both of you can go to noagendanation.com slash rings.
	Eric the Shill will get you your appropriate rings out once he gets your information.
	And thank you for supporting the best podcast in the universe.
	No Agenda Meetups!
	All right, taking a look at the meetups.
	Here's what's going on for the month of August today in the prettiest little town on the West Coast, Victoria, British Columbia, between 1 and 3 p.m.
	at Phillips Tasting Room.
	Let's see, that is Sir Stephen organizing that one.
	Brand new for the 21st of August.
	That'll be Wednesday.
	No Agenda Woodlands Tex-Mex in Woodlands, Texas.
	That'll be at Rico's Grill.
	Let me see if we have anything on the note.
	It'll be from 6 p.m.
	to 10 p.m.
	Adam and John posters will be present to serve as guiding lights when you arrive.
	Donation envelope slash jug slash de-douche container of some sort will also be available.
	Remember, bring your amygdala but not your trigger.
	Ryan Bradley organizing that.
	The 22nd, that's this coming Thursday.
	Scandinavians in Scandinavia meet up from 5 p.m.
	to 7 p.m.
	at Union Chicken in Toronto, Ontario.
	This is better than record store in-store gigs, man.
	This is fantastic.
	Just another excuse to drink beer, hang out with other No Agenda producers and listeners.
	That is Bishop, who's organizing that.
	Also on Thursday, Charleston, South Carolina, the six-week cycle meetup at Moe's Crosstown.
	Another six-week cycle event, picking up another Thursday at the following weekend.
	Let's see.
	And that is organizing Dame Jennifer Buchanan.
	August 23rd, that's Friday.
	Salem, Oregon, number two, local 33 south from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Archive Coffee and Bar.
	Knights and Dames, producers, all you under the protectorate of the Grand Duke of the Pacific Northwest.
	You are welcome.
	Tim, executive producer of episode 962, is organizing that.
	Sunday, August 25th, Comic Eye Brewing in Lincoln, Nebraska.
	That meetup from 3.30 in the afternoon to 5.30 in the afternoon.
	This will be the inaugural Nebraska No Agenda Meetup, a meeting place for great minds and open discussion.
	Amazing handcrafted beers and ciders.
	Tyler organizing that Thursday, August 29th.
	Burning Man.
	This is coming from Jason Deluzio.
	Now, we heard about this meetup, which will be at Burning Man Black Rock City, 2.33 p.m.
	to 4.20 p.m.
	Okay, good.
	Burning Man is huge, but where is it going to be specifically?
	My camp is at 6 o'clock and K. We are called Big Puffy Yellow.
	This is clearly a Maxwell code, but I'll read it again.
	My camp is at 6...
	O-O and K, we are called Big Puffy Yellow.
	You'll know you found it when you look around and everything is yellow.
	We'll probably meet under the shade structure.
	It's yellow.
	If you're having a hard time finding us, ask for Jason from Philly.
	If you're asked to specify which one, ask for the original Jason.
	If that fails to clarify things, you can ask for the good-looking Jason.
	If this still does not sort things out, it means you've probably been speaking with the other Jason who is neither as good-looking as I am or original, so you can just ask for JTM or Delusio.
	Immediately following the No Agenda meetup will be the Big Puffy Yellow's 15th annual 420 party featuring some pretty tasty cocktails and sweet beets.
	Looking forward to seeing y'all in the dust.
	Fantastic.
	There you have it.
	I want to know how that goes.
	That's going to be dynamite.
	That is fantastic.
	I don't think anyone will remember how it goes.
	Hey, man, we had a great time.
	I think.
	Also, go to noagendameetups.com for the meetups reports.
	And that's where people are also posting pictures of everything that happened at the most recent meetup.
	And these are really good.
	They're good for the soul.
	It's good to meet other people.
	It goes from 70s to 70s.
	Everything all in between.
	It's a really, really fantastic opportunity to meet people who will not condemn and won't get triggered.
	It's just that simple.
	All right.
	So I have three news items I want to get out of the way before we kill the show.
	All right.
	But one of them, I'm going to save this one, the one to the end.
	But first of all, let's talk about, at least get it out of the way.
	A 16-second clip about the bogus bombs in New York, which got everyone all bent out of shape.
	I don't even know what the meaning of it was.
	It's not part of the six-week cycle that I know of.
	The man behind a bomb scare in New York City is in custody tonight.
	Police say he allegedly put two devices inside a subway station Friday morning.
	The devices were believed to have been pressure cookers used to make bombs.
	But it turns out they were just rice cookers.
	No charges have been filed.
	Oh, so the guy basically just had rice cookers, and rice cookers not equal pressure cookers, by the way.
	He had a couple old rice cookers he threw out.
	And so they arrested him?
	Yeah.
	Oh, brother.
	And also, it looked like he had cerebral palsy or something, because the shots they had of him being arrested, he was jerking around like a guy, you know, a certain kind of a style of brain damage.
	And they didn't talk about that.
	So that was the end of that.
	That was a bullcrap story.
	Then we have Kim Jung, Kim Il, the new, you know, These guys are sending off missiles again and this is kind of an interesting story because I have a take on it.
	Rarely has North Korea tested missiles at this pace.
	Six short-range ballistic missiles launched in three weeks.
	U.S. intelligence officials say these are new missiles which are solid-fueled and mobile and can launch with little or no warning and fly at a trajectory that makes them harder to intercept.
	Despite their short-range, they can threaten American troops based in South Korea.
	But President Trump insists he's not worried.
	I have no problem.
	We'll see what happens.
	But these are short-range missiles.
	They're very standard.
	According to North Korean accounts, Kim Jong-un ordered the tests in reaction to an ongoing U.S.-South Korean military exercise.
	Even though it is largely a computer war game, Without any of the live-fire pyrotechnics of previous years.
	Former intelligence analyst, now CBS News consultant Robert Carlin, thinks the exercise is just a convenient excuse.
	They have to test these new systems.
	They've been working on them for some time now.
	They were ready to roll them out and this was their opportunity.
	Last week, President Trump tweeted he received a letter from Kim apologizing for the tests and saying he would like to restart nuclear negotiations as soon as the U.S.-South Korean exercise is over.
	The exercise is scheduled to end next week, so there's still time for the North to get some more tests in.
	After that, the real test will be whether Kim stops launching and starts negotiating.
	Margaret?
	So this looked like it was just kind of some sort of back-channel agreement.
	We're going to do these because they had, you know, they insist the military insists on doing these exercises with the South Koreans, even though Trump doesn't want to do them.
	So they do like a lesser version, giving Kim the chance, according to the CIA guy, to test some of their systems, these new systems.
	And Trump calls them these short-range missiles or standard.
	I don't know what he's talking about.
	And so they get these tests out of the way.
	And it serves a secondary purpose, which is, look at these missiles.
	They're only going to be short-range.
	Korea needs to buy more defenses, so let's sell more stuff.
	Hello, sales.
	Hello, sales.
	So this is a sales gimmick.
	Sales job, yes.
	It seems to me.
	And they will stop testing after the exercises are over.
	So the way, if I understand it correctly, which I think is the gambit, is you have Kim Jong-un doing that, and then we've got our own thing, our own exercise going on.
	Did Trump call up Kim Jong-un and say, hey, can you shoot something off so I can sell some more rockets over here to the south?
	I think there was a back channel that allowed him to do this.
	Well, the whole region has always been used for that entire purpose, is to sell more weapons.
	That's why they're on the axis of evil.
	I think they're part of it now.
	I think they're part of the gimmick.
	Part of the scam.
	I like it.
	Very good.
	It would make sense.
	Well, yeah, of course.
	Cut him in, too.
	Now, the other story was they have this...
	This woman, Tlaib, who is the Palestinian congresswoman, who, you know, Trump said, you know, there's a big scandal.
	Can I just say, there's no such thing as a Palestinian congresswoman.
	I'm sorry.
	You know, she's from, where's she from?
	In America.
	Michigan, Pennsylvania.
	I don't know.
	It's a good question.
	I lost track of her.
	Okay, but there's no such...
	You can't just say she's a Palestinian congresswoman.
	I misspoke.
	Okay.
	Anyway, she's a Palestinian sympathizer.
	She's from Michigan.
	And her mom or grandma is in Palestine, not in Palestine, but she's in Israel someplace.
	West Bank.
	So we're going to all visit over there with Tlaib and Omar.
	We're going to go and Trump says, you know, they should.
	Hold on one second.
	Isn't she specifically a part of the BDS movement, the boycott, divest, and sanction?
	Yes, she's a big part of it.
	Okay, because that's a real movement against Israel.
	And that's why Trump said that.
	I don't understand why.
	And as soon as they saw what Trump had to say, it was like a hint.
	Everyone believes Trump demanded it of Israel, so they cut him off and said, no, you can't come.
	Then...
	Tlaib made a fuss because her poor dying grandma is on her deathbed and she's got to see her and she begged for mercy.
	So I have two clips because there was a piece of information in most of the clips or most of the reports that I didn't get a good handle on and it got answered.
	Let's play this clip which is the background.
	It is Tlaib polite on CBS. It's a shame to see her.
	An emotional Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib addressed supporters in Detroit Friday after announcing she will not travel to Israel to see her 90-year-old grandmother in the occupied West Bank.
	More than anything, I'm a granddaughter.
	Tlaib has called Israel's policies towards Palestinians oppressive.
	And racist.
	She and fellow Democrat Ilhan Omar were scheduled to visit Israel this weekend.
	President Trump has been feuding with the freshman lawmakers for months.
	Speaking to reporters Thursday, he called for Israel to block the trip.
	I think it would be a terrible thing, frankly, for Israel to let these two people who speak so badly about Israel Upending diplomatic norms, Israel decided to bar their entry.
	Israel reversed its decision after Talib appealed on humanitarian grounds to be able to visit her grandmother.
	But Tlaib ultimately canceled her visit, saying that Israel had imposed restrictions meant to humiliate her.
	President Trump tweeted, Tlaib obnoxiously turned the approval down.
	A complete setup.
	The only real winner here is Tlaib's grandmother.
	She doesn't have to see her now.
	Tlaib's grandmother doesn't see it that way.
	Speaking outside her home in the West Bank, she shot back, May God ruin him.
	I was happy that she was coming.
	Okay.
	you Okay.
	Alright, so the thing that got me about these reports, and this is classic mainstream media reporting, What were these things, what were these requirements that Israel imposed on this woman that would humiliate her and all the rest because she had to refuse the invitation?
	She wasn't allowed to participate in any protests.
	I think that was the...
	Pretty much.
	Let's listen to how democracy...
	You'll find out exactly what it is because it's discussed that...
	On Democracy Now!
	on the clip, Tlaib not going to Israel.
	Israel's announced it will conditionally allow Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib to visit family in the West Bank a day after barring both Tlaib and fellow Congresswoman Ilhan Omar from entering Israel to travel to the occupied territories.
	Israel is still refusing entry to Omar.
	Israel initially blocked entry to both lawmakers after President Trump took the unprecedented step.
	Of publicly urging Israel to bar entry to the women, the first two female Muslim members of Congress.
	On Thursday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended Israel's initial decision to bar both of the U.S. lawmakers.
	By law, we are not willing to admit anyone into Israel who calls for the boycott of the state of Israel and acts to delegitimitize the state of the Jews.
	Israeli authorities say Rashida Tlaib will now be allowed entry on humanitarian grounds to visit her ailing 90-year-old grandmother on the condition she does not promote the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement during her visit.
	Well, there you go.
	So it was all a sham to start with.
	It was a scam, a sham.
	She wanted to go there to push her BDS thing right in Israel.
	And now that she can't do that, because hell with the grandma.
	She didn't want to see this old lady.
	Well, what gets me is that the United Kingdoms of Gitmo Nation East has been blocking American citizens from visiting there for very similar reasons by saying, oh, you're a troublemaker.
	We don't want you in.
	Michael Savage.
	But there's been many who have been turned away at the border.
	There's never a big outrage about that, ever.
	And we give just as much money to EU countries and support them as we do Israel.
	We blocked Modi from coming over here, who was a politician in India, before he became Prime Minister.
	Well, he wasn't blocked.
	He came, he was just over a couple of weeks ago.
	No, now we're good friends with him.
	We've got a different guy.
	Yeah.
	Now I have the last thing I wanted to discuss.
	A different guy.
	A different guy.
	So, the last time I wanted to discuss was the Portland situation.
	I have, like, you know, the clips are no good because nothing really happened in Portland.
	There were a couple of skirmishes.
	I got to...
	I'm trying to get this cleaned up, but I want to play the Portland police announcement, which I thought was weird.
	This is the fourth police bureau.
	Southwest NATO is closed.
	The sidewalks are closed.
	Get out of the street.
	Get off the sidewalks.
	Southwest NATO is closed.
	And the original citizens...
	Citizens, do not worry.
	Just go to your home, stay inside, and continue to watch the mainstream television.
	All will be well, citizens.
	Now here's the thing about this.
	Get out of the streets.
	The sidewalks are closed.
	The streets...
	Where are you supposed to go?
	To your home to watch M5M. How do you get there without going on the sidewalk?
	You're being very belligerent, citizens.
	Shut up.
	Now, there's another report on CBS. I'm not going to bother playing it.
	But the thing I got the kick out of was Scott Adams, who normally is a very kind of a nonviolent guy and all the rest.
	I don't know.
	He looks like the kind of guy that could snap and kill everyone with an axe.
	I'm not going to say that's not true.
	So let's listen to it.
	But he had a very short clip of him discussing, I think, to get into the gist of this.
	Now, what's Antifa gonna do in response to being accused of being a domestic terrorist group?
	Well, it looks like they're gonna put on masks and show up and beat up people.
	Now, if that's not entertaining, you're dead inside.
	He has a point.
	The problem is...
	Well, you know, you and I are like that.
	I think we should have criminal executions.
	Capital punishment should be on television.
	I think we should show all death and violence instead of just this gussied-up version that we see in video games and in war movies.
	Show the real thing.
	Show real people getting beat over the head.
	They don't do that.
	That would change people's attitudes, believe me.
	Dead on the inside.
	Well, he has the right attitude from a television production standpoint.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, he's spot on.
	He's spot on.
	He's an entertainer.
	All right.
	Well, I got lots of stuff to talk about.
	We'll hold it for Thursday.
	I have new information on the Opportunity Zones.
	I've learned a lot about that from our producers who are actually Opportunity Zone fund managers.
	We have the best producers in the business.
	I'll have some OTG news that shows you once again that it's all about the stacks and racks.
	Not about social justice necessarily, but the real money is the advertisers for these Silicon Valley companies.
	And we'll dive into that.
	I didn't even get to the...
	Let's just do the Mercedes commercial.
	I didn't even know about it until you pointed it out.
	Just at the last thing.
	This is Mercedes Canada.
	And they have a series of commercials abusing LGBTQ +, which is wrong to start with because it's LGBTQQIAPK. Everyone in No Agenda Nation knows that.
	And so they have a line of BMWs, Mercedes, I'm sorry, that are in the Pride flag color.
	So we're going to jump on the Pride wagon and we're going to show these beautiful colors.
	You can choose your own color, which color you identify with, which apparently you have to be LGBTQIAPK to want any of these colors.
	And it's fine.
	I'm happy that they do it.
	They're going after their target market, which is often dual income, no kids, very high net value, and the people who are portrayed in the...
	Virtue signalers.
	It's complete virtue signalers, and it's all fine.
	But the rule is, when you use the media for your own goals like this, or whether you're an individual or a corporation, eventually it's going to come around.
	So we'll see when and what happens.
	I personally find it to be...
	I don't know.
	Have a listen.
	I find their music offensive above all.
	Green.
	I love it.
	It's nature, it's birth, it's balance, and it is everything grounding.
	Green means the intersection between the LGBTQ plus community and climate change and the earth, because without the earth and without caring for where we are, we have no community.
	We have no reason to fight.
	I identify most with the green color and the pride flag.
	I am so close to nature in my life and in my work.
	My identity is natural.
	During my coming out process, I felt like I wasn't gay enough and I wasn't straight enough.
	I doubted my identity for a really long time.
	When I came out to my family, my mom and dad, they weren't as supportive as I thought they would be.
	And they didn't talk to me for about two weeks, but I found support and I found love in the LGBTQ plus community.
	The flag is a symbol of hope.
	It's a symbol of inspiration.
	It unifies us all.
	I am a natural product of the universe, and however I choose to identify is a natural thing.
	That's why I resonate so much with the color green.
	My name is Matt.
	My name is Sarah.
	My name is Daniel, and I identify as a gay man.
	Bisexual person or a queer person.
	And I'm a proud gay man.
	And so they show the green car.
	Now, I don't mind this type of advertising, although I think it kind of puts LGBTQ plus people on par with, you know, the Geico lizard and the...
	It's pandering to an extreme.
	It's really a disgusting commercial.
	The Liberty Emu and stuff.
	It's just like, you know, it has nothing to do with the product.
	The product's not going to be any better because it's that color.
	But yeah, it seems like pandering.
	I don't know.
	I mean, I... This is clearly the direction, but we saw Gillette pushed it too far, and it did cost them billions of dollars, which they found to be very valuable.
	These are the millennials that are creeping into these advertising agencies with these ideas, and the know-it-all attitude where you don't know what people are thinking anymore.
	You're out of touch, and then they come up with this stuff, and this is what the result is.
	We're going to see more and more and more of this because these kids are incompetent.
	Well, it is true that I feel out of touch.
	I was alerted.
	I just did it moments ago.
	I was alerted that when I said, oh, yeah, it's all about the Benjamins.
	Well, that was just saying that shows how incredibly unhip I am today.
	You got to say it's all about the racks and stacks.
	So, we don't know what we're talking about.
	But, we'll see if that works for Mercedes-Benz.
	I think it's interesting...
	Racks and stacks sounds a little too sexual for my taste.
	Well, I think a stack is $1,000 and a rack is like a whole bunch of them.
	Something like that.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, coming up next on NoAgendaStream.com, random thoughts...
	There's always something good there at noagendastream.com, so check that out.
	End of show mixes we have lined up for you.
	Some Sir Chris Wilson.
	We've got...
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	It's been a while.
	I haven't played the Let's Get Social song.
	And something from UK PMX. Throw that out there for you as well.
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