Putin's Playbook

00:00 No, no, they won't. No. Yes, they will. No, no. Adam Curry, John C. DeVore. And Sunday, May 21st, 2017. This is your award winning Gitmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 9 or 3. This is no agenda. All the nut jobs in politics so you don't have to. And broadcasting live from the darkest corners of the internet here in the capital of the drone star state, in the clu-deo. In the morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry. And from northern Silicon Valley where we're well known for a jackrabbit start, I'm Don C. Dvorak. It's crackpot and buzzkill. In the morning. Jackrabbit start? I'm not familiar with this. You're not? Is this a phrase from the Shays? It actually is but it refers to people

00:47 It's refers to leaving the stop line stop lines the stop sign when you're stopped at the line oh And then you do a jackrabbit start you just take off like a rocket All right everybody kicking it off nice hey, I've determined actually You know before we start the show we always have his live stream of the show and Which we do for a number of reasons. One, we like having people interact and feedback through the War Room, noagendastream.com But we also have a couple things. I have to play the fat lady, which is Valkyrie. But you, and it takes one to know one, you have a form of Tourette's. Did you know that?

01:33 I did not know that. Yeah, it's kind of a Tourette's by proxy. You see, Tourette's is an urge to do things, you know, grunt and tick and stuff. You cannot... I think you have these impulses, these urges, you can't not stop playing sounds. And, you know, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think there is some kind of Tourette's in there. Yeah, it's possible. Yeah, that's all right. Well, welcome to the club. Maybe yeah So this effort just went by and I should mention and it did have an additional car Oh a nice one one of those Exactly beauty it was like an old dome car, but it wasn't from the California's ever dome Some other dome car. I've never seen before with a red side. It had a red stripe on the side Okay, yep some rich guys going by

02:32 I just wanted to read an email right off the top, because it came in this morning, from a longtime producer, Professor Dave King. I think last time we spoke he was in Germany. He's been around the world. He teaches, I believe he teaches English, but he may also teach music. And here was his note. Oh, he must love my stuff. Yeah, yeah, he does. In fact, here's his note. Putin must be your main donator. Too much BS and your senseless conspiracies. A real waste of time. I'm unsubscribing. Thanks." Thanks, Dave. Yeah, Putin. Yeah, Putin's... Yeah. I'm okay if you don't like what we're saying and you want to leave, but senseless stuff like that is just... makes you look dumb. Putin, sure. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I'm rolling in the dough. I think you should use the Putin scream for a couple weeks. We should do it. Get our quote up, you know?

03:28 What's the senseless conspiracy theory? I don't know. It was from the previous show. He thought it was that we had senseless conspiracy theories. I don't know. I'll tell you one theory that may not be senseless, which I feel kind of bad because it's kind of my beat or my wheelhouse. I should have mentioned that with everything going on in the United States media, we do need to remember that this is now completely legal ever since the 2013 repealment of the Smith-Mundt Act. All this propaganda might not have happened if not for that. It certainly would have been more illegal. Nah. He says, nah. They've been doing it for years, illegal or not. Maybe they just feel better about doing it, I don't know. I think the Comey... Probably somebody wrote a memo and they said, oh God. I mean, the Comey stuff has been absolutely fantastic.

04:19 Because it brings in the nut job. You mean yeah, they call me the nut job. It brings in the the alternate universes people are completely confused and I'm you know, there was a lot of glee glee on the the Trump supporting side as they went back to May 3rd of this year to testimony from FBI director James Comey which It's proof, it's proof that he testified under oath. It didn't happen. Trump did not in any way try to obstruct justice. The way you would want it. But yeah, we work with the Department of Justice on all of our investigations. So if the Attorney General or senior officials at the Department of Justice opposes a specific investigation, can they halt that FBI investigation? In theory, yes. Has it happened?

05:12 Not in my experience, because it would be a big deal to tell the FBI to stop doing something without an appropriate purpose. Oftentimes they give us opinions that we don't see a case there and so you ought to stop investing resources in it. But I'm talking about a situation where we were told to stop something for a political reason. That would be a very big deal. It's not happened in my experience. So it's not happening in my experience, he says. But this question was about the Justice Department, not about the president or the executive branch. Well, he kind of said nothing happened anyway, but this is like the clapper stuff. Over and over again, the right wing plays the clapper clip, which is like, no, there's never been anything that looks like it's been messing with the Russians.

05:56 And then they play, they ask him again, then they ask him again, he keeps saying the same thing. And they keep bringing up, oh, the Russians, the Russians, the Russians, then gas clapper again. He says the same thing and then their right wingers play that clip. And it's just ridiculous. The whole thing I think is kind of summarized by Professor Cohen, who of course, our boy. Our man, our boy, our homie. He's our homie. So he came on the RT, where he could really say what he wanted to say. Yeah, well, that's of course he's a, I'm sorry, obviously he is a Russian operative. We all know this. He's on RT. That's where Flynn hangs out. So this guy has no credibility. Screw the fact that he's a professor. So I got a couple, I actually have three clips from him on the Sophie show. Sophie's an interview show. Yeah, I don't like her. I don't like her show. I don't like her. That's so I can get these clips. Yeah, exactly.

06:51 So, let's listen to—and I said so twice there—let's listen to—and I think this applies to the clip you just played. This is Cohen on the resistance. Speaking about the mainstream media, Fox News says the DNC is planning to spend a million dollars on a so-called resistance summer, and that's supposed to be a series of meetings and rallies against Trump across the country. Are they hoping to ride a grassroots anti-Trump wave? Maybe, you know, where could it— Well, at least they're asking the right questions. We know this is about re-election. We know it's about the midterm. So she's asking the right questions, our Sophie is. And where could it take them, actually? Well, it's already started. There's no mystery here. Through my wife, the editor of The Nation magazine, I'm fairly close to

07:44 Or, if not close, at least I see and hear of them leading figures of the Democratic Party. And the Democratic Party... Wait, wait, is The Nation a left-wing or a right-wing publication? It's a progressive magazine. Oh, so it's Dimension B? Yes. Oh, how does he live with her? I think they're both like high... When you're a heightened intellectual, professorial type, and especially emeritus, there's a lot of leeway given within the relationship, I believe. He's just a crazy professor, don't worry about it. It's just his professor things. Leading figures of the Democratic Party, and the Democratic Party, particularly the Hillary Clinton wing of the Democratic Party,

08:33 has already made it clear that it's going to push this Trump-Russia story at least until the congressional elections in 2018. They think it's a winning issue and I think it's fairly clear that this is Mrs. Clinton's hope to run again because she will say, I did not run a bad campaign, I did not lose, Putin stole my election from me and gave it to Trump. And they're going to push this at the grassroots. It's already out there at town meetings, at the Democratic grassroots. And it's got, they're going to push it and push it at least until the elections off your elections, we call them in two 18. So this is a given, this is a no matter what facts emerge. Yeah. That's kind of what he said on Tucker as well. Yep. This is his new thing. And I think that's maybe the thing that triggered the letter writer.

09:27 Because it sounds like a crazy conspiracy. Why would they? Oh yes, of course. Ah! Obama. So why would they do... Thanks Obama. So why would they do anything crazy like that? That's a conspiracy theory. Yes, conspiracy. It's a conspiracy theory that the Democrats want to take some House and Senate seats back. I'm unsubscribing. That's describing you and your crazy conspiracies that the Democrats want to win from House seats. All they say, all they talk about is the... In fact, hold on, let me give you this. This was really nice. This was Cummings. Oh God, the worst. Yeah, Cummings with a little message for the media. Thank you all. I really appreciate you all. Thank you. By the way, by the way, one other thing. If there is any moment that the press in our country's history has a major role, it is this moment. This is your moment.

10:25 You have got to put it out there so people can understand what is going on. I have said it before. I'll say it again. And I'll say it again. This is about the fight for the soul of our democracy. We cannot afford to lose this one. We cannot afford to lose this one. It's in his head. It already did. But this is in his head. We can't afford to lose. I know what he's talking about. The elections. He's not talking about anything else. Yeah, of course. They're in trouble. Well, you wouldn't think so from the way people are responding to the news. What is the agreement you have with your two journalist friends? Agreement? The bet, the bet, the bet. Oh, well, we don't have a current bet. We're trying to work up a bet that's going to involve Trump getting kicked out of office before his term's over.

11:29 So on the Bill Maher show, I was blown away by this. He cut the same bet that you are about to cut with your two incredibly intellectual journalistic friends. Who write for was it times and whether you know what no one knows now? They're both actually retired from the newspaper business ones now professor in the other ones We can't mention them by name anymore is that is that not done. It's okay It's just I just don't want to get because every time I mentioned by name I get a call ah I thought they didn't listen Yeah, so one of their names gets out and then their buddies say hey, did you hear them talking bad about you? So then they then they go listen, okay, and then I have to take a bunch of grief. Ah well Here's Bill Maher, and you may want to send this to them so that they can get in on the action This is your bet he was yet on as his first guest What's this guy's name? He's the

12:26 the from the Sinclair broadcast group which is one of these uh Boris Epstein one of these guys there but you're right which is Sinclair broadcasting you're very right wing radio tv stations independent on radio station and radio too that makes sense I think so he's on and he's he's kind of an interesting guy he's like yeah I mean I don't care you know we'll uh we'll talk about whatever we need to talk about and Bill Maher comes up with the perfect bet with the perfect Anti and with the perfect timeline which I believe you must recreate with your friends. All right, so let's get to this and look I don't want to make this adversarial obviously we are from different sides of the spectrum, but look is the universe as long as you Keep it straight with me. But look, but look, but look, yeah, but look listen to me. It's because I'm more important. But look as long as you keep it straight with me. Let's do it. Let's do it, exactly.

13:16 It doesn't have to go out of the box. But, you know, first off, how long do you think Donald Trump can be president? I think he'll be president for eight years. Yeah. I love the laughter. These people are so in their own universe. A gentleman's bet, a hundred rubles. I don't know the conversion, you might. No, no, no. There you go, that's the anti-John, 100 rubles, that'll make him chuckle. And I'm not saying that because you're of Russian heritage. I don't think you're a Russian spy. I think there are plenty of dumb Americans, I don't mean you're dumb either, but I think there are plenty of Americans who support Donald Trump and they think they're doing the right thing. Okay.

14:07 Come on, you're telling me that you think Donald Trump will be there until January 19th 2025? Yes. And here's why. Gentlemen's bet, he's out by Christmas. This Christmas? You have to send me that clip. I think I can close the bet with that. Yes, 100 rubles. Out by Christmas. Uh-huh. Wow! Okay, now these people are deluded. Now where this comes from, I was watching C-SPAN and I was gonna use this clip later after maybe playing a couple of other clips because it kind of explains a lot. But we gotta roll it out now apparently. Well, after that, that's insanity.

14:52 And this guy's a brain expert and he wrote a book, I got his notes. Even though he's also kind of a Trump hater, but his name is Robert Sapolsky and he wrote this new book just came out called Behave, the Biology of Humans. Oh, that should be an interesting book. And so he talks about the amygdala and the frontal cortex. The amygdala is kind of the reptilian brain and then the frontal cortex is the judgment part of your brain which says, I don't think I'm going to... Oh man, this is the kind of stuff that would be perfect for the brain professor. Too bad he won't talk to me anymore.

15:30 The frontal cortex is the executive and it says no you're not going to go there. You're not going to make stupid bets. You're not going to do anything like bet that Trump's out before Christmas. No stupid bets. That's that function of the... It's one of the functions of the thing. Although I made a bet because one of our producers wrote in and said hey I'm at the Preakness I said put $10 win place and show on cloud computing for the show. And you won! I don't know. I don't know if he ever put the bet down. I think with cloud computing won, didn't it? Yeah. Yeah. What a great name for a horse. I know, I thought so. Cloud computing. So, because my frontal cortex is in good shape and I want to remind people that listen to this show... Wait, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, how do you know your frontal cortex is in great shape? Because when I play this clip, you'll realize why. Because I'm not under a lot of stress because I voted for Hillary or still want Hillary to be president. This is causing problems for people's frontal cortex.

16:30 and is making them unhealthy and stupid and making judgment. It really screws up your judgment, hence what we just witnessed with Bill Maher. Let's play this clip. This is Brain Under Stress. And this has now entered the realm of neural plasticity, the fact that the brain can change in response to experience. And for example, if you've now just spent these last few months mired in trauma and stress, Your amygdala will have grown larger. It will have formed new connections. The circuits there will be more excitable and your frontal cortex will have become more sluggish and atrophied. In other words, at that critical moment, the amygdala is in a more hysterical hyperreactive state and the frontal cortex has that much less capacity to get there in time and say, wait a second, are you sure before you pull the trigger there? You can see that changing.

17:25 Wow Okay, it's the wise decision to vote on or the bet on the cloud computing Yeah as opposed to bet on that trumps out by Christmas because my frontal cortex and most of the listeners of our show who have been calmed down by the show Yes are in much better shape physical and physical health and mental hygiene Yes, but there is a solution to this It's simple, amygdalaectomy. That's all we need. Amygdalaectomy. Actually they've done that. They've done those tests that was discussed also and it makes it so you just don't you have a zero fear about anything. You just walk off a cliff. I need to, you need to send me a link to that full thing. That was on C-SPAN you said. Was it on? Yeah, it was on C-SPAN. I have to find that and send it to the brain professor.

18:16 I'll see what you send this link. Yeah, I want the whole thing. I just don't want to go back and forth on topics. We might as well play the only other clip I have, which is a very interesting clip on oxytocin. which he also discussed. Is it oxytocin or oxy... cotton? I'm not sure now. Oxytocin. What is oxytocin? It's an enzyme. It's not an enzyme, but it's a hormone. And it is used, you can buy it over the counter on Amazon.

18:52 It's the love drug. Oh, and it's a Spanish fly. If you look it up on no, if you, it's like an ecstasy effect. If you look it up on Amazon, you can read about it there or you can read about it anywhere you read about it in the wiki. But it's, it's the idea was you take a little nasal inhalant. You, you, you meet up with somebody, you both take a shot of this, you fall in love and, or at least you're amenable. At least you can put up with each other, one of the group, but But the modern research with this stuff, which has been called all sorts of things, has got a little twist at the end, which I think is definitely worth knowing.

19:30 And this is the oxytocin story. Get me some of this stuff. There's a whole new horrifying field of neuroscience called neuro marketing where if you spritz oxytocin up people's noses, they're more likely to believe all sorts of gibberish and nonsense. Oh my God, this is fantastic, John. Oh my.

20:09 I need this. I got it over the counter. You said I'm on Amazon. Go ahead. Leave all sorts of gibberish and nonsense of people trying to sell you stuff, whether it's their political viewpoint or some geek off. I mean, if they could spray oxytocin through the vents and like Costco all over this country, what that would do to the economy of like sort of the nonsense that people would buy. Okay, so oxytocin promotes pro social behavior. until you look more closely. And what recent work shows is that's exactly what oxytocin does. It makes you much more cooperative and generous and charitable and all of that with people who you categorize as being just like you.

20:50 It makes you more pro-social towards in-group members. And when it comes to out-group members, it makes people more xenophobic and more preemptively aggressive and less cooperative. And the greatest study showing this was a couple of years ago. And this was a group in the Netherlands where they got their usual sort of lab rats, which was college volunteers from some like university there. Stone lab rats. And what they did was they gave everyone this standard classic problem in philosophy, the runaway trolley problem. Is it okay to sacrifice one person, push them in front of a runaway trolley to save five? And there's a whole world of research done on that. So they sort of established the baseline levels at which people would be willing to push somebody to save five.

21:35 Now, what they did was they gave the person they were pushing onto the track a name. A third of the time, the person would get a name that apparently is just like your stereotypical Dutch name, Dirk or Peter or something like that. A third of the time or the remainder of the time, either of the two groups of people in Holland tend to have a lot of outgroup hostility towards Germans. Oh, that's right, World War II or people with Muslim names. So now you've got the scenario, do you push Dirk in front of the trolley, do you push Do you push Otto in front of the trolley? Do you push Mahmood in front of the trolley? Mahmood? No. What they show is give people oxytocin and they're less likely to sacrifice Dirk, whereas they can't leap fast enough to push Wolfgang and Mahmood there under the tracks. Oh my goodness. Oxytocin doesn't make us nicer. It makes us nicer to people we're already predisposed towards being nice to. It exaggerates us-them contrasts. All right, we might as well just go home. That's it. Done.

22:38 It's done. It's obvious. I know what's happening. Hello, finally. That's what it is. They shoot an oxytocin into the air, and this is the result. I'm wondering whether, yeah, well that's not it, but I'm wondering whether or not how many people buy the stuff from Amazon who are liberals versus people who buy the stuff from Amazon who are, uh, conservatives and I'm guessing that if anybody would, because it's the love drug, it would be liberals and this would just make it worse because they hate, already hate conservative people. They won't even listen to Rush Limbaugh for example. They won't listen to him.

23:18 I wonder how much of this is going on because I think it's an element and I think it's an element of the also the amygdala story is an element of that woman that you played on the show. Yeah, that was screaming her head off like a maniac. Yeah, and we got some letters on that some guys dozing off this is he woke up. Everyone kind of liked it though that was what oh yeah, I loved it That was surprising to me that you loved it. We have a special mix of that actually later. You'll do it. It's about time all right Let's take a look at the Amazon reviews for a moment I just ordered it pure oxytocin accelerator one ounce nasal spray for adults only Let's see what the reviews are it must be reviews Yes, here we go, okay

24:02 I'm a researcher with a master's in pharmaceutical bioengineering from the University of Washington holding access to state-of-the-art biolabs. When I received the package, I analyzed it via an ELISA assay as well as an NMR assay. The ELISA was negative for oxytocin. The NMR was consistent with tap water. So he's saying it's not even in there and oh the reviews are- ow I have to unorder this the reviews are all one star? Let me see if there's a five star. It's a couple of five stars here. Let's see. Great product, helps. Hmm. I don't know this- do you think this is- that this is the real deal?

24:42 Well, from that one guy who did the analysis, I'd say no. No, no. Let's see. I would unorder it. There may be some real deal on there somewhere, but if that guy did what he said and just a big a tap water, it's a placebo, which wouldn't surprise me, by the way. A lot of these. Yeah, that wouldn't surprise me at all. Let's see. Let's check out another one. Here's another one. Let me see. Well, you got a few minutes to unorder it. You should unorder it now. Yeah, I'm gonna, but I'm going to order this one because this has good reviews. This is the OxiLove Oxytocin nasal spray. No unnatural preservatives or fillers. In other words, water. I'm just going to get them all. I'll try them all. You know, I do that for the show.

25:29 I would definitely not get the one that was... I would get... I would drop the other one, because you're giving these guys money for selling water. I think it's irresponsible. Yeah, that's... Okay, you're right. I've dropped it. All right, let me just click it off here. Good. Okay. Good. Done. Taken care of. Wow, that's interesting, John. Adam Curry arrested for getting into a fight with a black man. What? Oh, oh yeah. What, after I take the oxytocin, you mean? Not so sure. Gosh, I don't know where to go from that because when you take that into account, who knows where this stuff is being spread. Well that and the amygdala issue with people that are all tense and upset because Hillary didn't win and they're still that way to this minute. We have a societal problem here. Yeah, but one that may be, we may be sabotaged.

26:32 There's that too. Yeah, I mean, you know, I make a joke about the chemtrails. Clearly I'm just joking. But I will say that in Australia, the organization Pax Vax have applied for and looks like they are going to receive permission to spray a... let's see which vaccine is it? It's the vaccine for... I think it's West Nile. There's no vaccine for that. What the hell was it? There it is, PaxVax. They say they have a modified live bacterial vaccine against cholera. It doesn't seem like a good thing to be spraying around. Dr. Ostendorff- Well, if they're going to do that, I'm sure if you look at the thing in its entirety, you'd discover that these are ideas to be applied by crop dusters.

27:34 You can't drop it. No, you can't do it at chemtrails. I understand that. But it would be sprayed like in New York with the West Nile virus they sprayed as well. Yeah, you could crop dust the whole town. What are they gonna do about it? Yeah, but it's a little different to be spreading a live cholera virus. Why don't you just have the boogers? It's attenuated. Okay. Of course, the attenuated virus was, I think, the early polio pioneers were confronted with attenuated polio viruses that weren't attenuated enough. Right, right, right. Which is the problem. I'd like to just- Yeah, just kill everybody with cholera. Well, try it on New York first, and then we'll see how it rolls out later. I'd like to get back to Comey for just a second since we got him here.

28:14 The most recent kind of meme that came out over the weekend was really Dimension B type stuff about, well here's the report from MSNBC. Benjamin Wittes recounting the day of that now famous public embrace between Comey and the president at a... Who's Benjamin Wittes? I have no idea but I'll mention he was one of the, he's the guy that's been on the circuit, I've seen him a couple times. But let's stop right there because I was watching this clip and I watched it twice This embrace. Did you see this? There's no embrace. He calls Comey from the other side. No, no, zero. Well, no. Well, let's just listen to the story. I thought he got a big bear hug.

27:34 You can't drop it. No, you can't do it at chemtrails. I understand that. But it would be sprayed like in New York with the West Nile virus they sprayed as well. Yeah, you could crop dust the whole town. What are they gonna do about it? Yeah, but it's a little different to be spreading a live cholera virus. Why don't you just have the boogers? It's attenuated. Okay. Of course, the attenuated virus was, I think, the early polio pioneers were confronted with attenuated polio viruses that weren't attenuated enough. Right, right, right. Which is the problem. I'd like to just- Yeah, just kill everybody with cholera. Well, try it on New York first, and then we'll see how it rolls out later. I'd like to get back to Comey for just a second since we got him here.

28:14 The most recent kind of meme that came out over the weekend was really Dimension B type stuff about, well here's the report from MSNBC. Benjamin Wittes recounting the day of that now famous public embrace between Comey and the president at a... Who's Benjamin Wittes? I have no idea but I'll mention he was one of the, he's the guy that's been on the circuit, I've seen him a couple times. But let's stop right there because I was watching this clip and I watched it twice This embrace. Did you see this? There's no embrace. He calls Comey from the other side. No, no, zero. Well, no. Well, let's just listen to the story. I thought he got a big bear hug.

28:54 Let's listen to the story and then we can deconstruct. It makes more sense to listen to the dumbness first. Benjamin Wittes recounting the day of that now famous public embrace between Comey and the president at a White House reception shortly after the inauguration. If you watch the video, he extends his hand and Comey's arms are really long. He extends his hand kind of preemptively. And Trump grabs the hand and kind of pulls him into a hug, but the hug is entirely one-sided. He's standing there trying to blend in with the curtains with his blue suit. And he's on the other side of the room too. He gets as far away from Donald Trump as he possibly can. And he's standing there just hoping he won't get called on. And he thinks he's almost made it through the ceremony and then

29:39 And Trump looks up and says, and there's Jim. And then it goes in and shakes his hand and then an awkward hug. Comey was just completely disgusted by the episode. He thought it was an intentional attempt to compromise him in public. This is insane. This is really insane because when you look at the video, first of all, the idea that Comey Apparently even told or wrote, I was hiding to try and blend in the curtains. The guy's six foot eight. Well, there's another issue that keeps being ignored and you just did it again. He's standing right in front of the president.

30:21 He is in this, there's a big circle and the president's talking, the president's talking right, if he stands straight forward, he's talking right at Comey. Comey's right in the middle of the group. I'm not ignoring that. He was in front of the blue curtains right in the middle of the group. Yes, he wasn't hiding in the curtains. I've you was now if he was behind the curtain and his head was no no no no I don't think that was ever said he was trying to blend in with his blue suit into the blue curtains that is what is well no the other thing that was said that was bullcrap was he was as far away as possible he was on the other side of the circle right straight ahead yeah now if he wanted to do like

31:01 do something so he wouldn't get noticed so much, he would be over on the side. We're arguing about something that is completely senseless. It does not matter. People in dimension A see one way and dimension B see the other way. They're never going to see that. I saw it with my own eyes, they will say. He stood as far away as possible. He was trying to blend into the blue curtains. And I've seen some hugs coming from Europe. I know when handshakes turning into hugs or kisses on the cheek go wrong or wrong side. None of that. He pulled them over to whisper something into his ear. Exactly. There was nothing about a hug or anything. There was no hug at all. But it will never be seen by people who cannot straddle and only live in one dimension. They cannot see it. And you know why?

31:51 Yes, oxy- chemtrails! No, the amygdala has swollen up, it's making new connections, and the smart part of the brain, the frontal cortex, is shrinking. Shrinking. Jeez. I got a great example of that. Our pal, Maxine Waters. This I think is the quintessential MSNBC interview. You've probably seen it. A lot of people have seen this already. It's about two minutes. And I think it's one of the street reporters from the Morning Joe show. Maybe when Mika and Joe are fighting in the back, then the panel takes over a little bit. Has Maxine Waters on. And it's just like the previous time. The guy keeps

31:01 do something so he wouldn't get noticed so much, he would be over on the side. We're arguing about something that is completely senseless. It does not matter. People in dimension A see one way and dimension B see the other way. They're never going to see that. I saw it with my own eyes, they will say. He stood as far away as possible. He was trying to blend into the blue curtains. And I've seen some hugs coming from Europe. I know when handshakes turning into hugs or kisses on the cheek go wrong or wrong side. None of that. He pulled them over to whisper something into his ear. Exactly. There was nothing about a hug or anything. There was no hug at all. But it will never be seen by people who cannot straddle and only live in one dimension. They cannot see it. And you know why?

31:51 Yes, oxy- chemtrails! No, the amygdala has swollen up, it's making new connections, and the smart part of the brain, the frontal cortex, is shrinking. Shrinking. Jeez. I got a great example of that. Our pal, Maxine Waters. This I think is the quintessential MSNBC interview. You've probably seen it. A lot of people have seen this already. It's about two minutes. And I think it's one of the street reporters from the Morning Joe show. Maybe when Mika and Joe are fighting in the back, then the panel takes over a little bit. Has Maxine Waters on. And it's just like the previous time. The guy keeps

32:40 Asking, but what do you mean? I want to define what you mean by collusion because what you're talking about... We should probably stop. What is the definition of collusion? Consult the book of knowledge. I'm going to consult the book of knowledge. Collusion is where two people get together and make an agreement. All right secret or illegal wait, let's get the Miriam Webster. That's the one we always like we don't just our choice Yes, secret agreement or cooperation especially for an illegal or deceitful purpose acting in collusion with the enemy and and What I like about this clip obviously it's Maxine Waters and she's nuts. This is the true Washington nut job She's sincere about it, which makes it better

33:27 Yes. But what she deems collusion, this is the right question. That is what is, you know, we need a word for it. Should we say enlarged amygdala? Amygdolitis. We need a word for it. You know, we need to... something about here just listen i want to define what you mean by collusion because what you're talking about uh... seems more circumstantial to me bank records uh... perhaps contacts that were of a nebulous nature uh... who knows why flint was talking to the russian ambassador it could have been it seems to be about sanctions collusion to me is very specific it means that the russian government or actors within we're trying to elect donald trump but i want to know what collusion means to you because that seems to be the standard

34:12 by which you're saying he should be impeached. Yes, absolutely. I am talking about strategies that were developed working with the Trump campaign. I really do believe that much of what you saw coming out of Trump's mouth was a play from Putin's playbook. I think that when you... It should be paid from Putin's playbook, Maxine, not played from the playbook. You saw coming out of Trump's mouth was a play from Putin's playbook. I think that when you saw him absolutely calling Hillary crooked, the locker up, locker up, all of that was developed. I think that was developed strategically.

34:53 with people from the Kremlin, with Putin. And I think it's more than bank records. So they had a meeting, probably a webinar. And, hey, Donald, good to see you. We have some very good ideas. We have some some good slogans that only Russians can come up with, like, lock it up. This is very funny here in Russia. Sure, Maxine. I think that you can see that visits, you know, to Moscow were made during the campaign by Manafort and others. I think it's a lot more absolute. So you think the Russian government developed the talking points for the Trump campaign? The strategy and the tactics. I think that there was a cooperation in developing strategy about how they could ensure that Hillary Clinton was not elected. They need Trump.

35:43 will be there to support lifting those sanctions. That's what they really want to happen. They want to drill in the Arctic. Tillerson has negotiated a multi-billion dollar deal with Exxon to do that drilling. They can't get the equipment, the supplies, and all that they need until the sanctions are lifted. They want Trump, not only will he support Lipscomb. What do you think she exactly means by that? Is she saying that ExxonMobil, the US version department, can't get to the Arctic without Russia or that Exxon wants to drill on Russia's Arctic turf? I'm a little confused about it. I believe, and this is just from

36:24 So I didn't study this by any means, but Exxon and Russia did a deal. And the only reason they would do a deal is to share resources. And they went to drill. And again, I believe this is the Russian, I mean, the Russia's got all the resources. They got tons of oil, but they need help to get it out of the ground because they don't have all the necessary modern technologies to do it or the equipment. And I think that's what she's talking about. I think she's probably I like her logic, even though it's convoluted. It actually makes some sense in dimension B and it actually makes a little sense in the middle. Well, if your amygdala is the size of a football, yeah.

37:02 Only will he support lifting those sanctions. He also will turn a blind eye to the expansion that Putin is trying to do. He does not care about them having invaded Crimea. I love this. She's so confused. The expansion. He's not afraid of him invading the Crimea. She means Ukraine, which is not the Ukraine. It's Ukraine. But she says she... Well, no, I think she is referring to Crimea. Yes, as... The Russians took over Crimea. Right. I'm just... She says, oh, I see what you're saying, because it was just the Crimea. The Crimea. I'm just ant-fucking over it, but it's funny. We'll turn a blind eye to the expansion that Putin is trying to do. He does not care about them having invaded Crimea, and he does not care...

37:51 whether or not this egotistical maniac Putin is attempting to reunite the whole Soviet Union. I know we need to go soon, but just to be clear, there hasn't been no actual evidence yet. No, it has not been. No, it has not. And I want you to know, every time I've talked about impeachment, I've said, we've got to connect the dots, we've got to get the facts, we've got to do the investigation. That is what leads to impeachment. And I also said that Trump will lead us right there. All right, thanks Maxine. I have from the War Room. The Treasury Department, and this is from April 21st, said Friday that it would not issue any waivers to U.S. companies, including ExxonMobil, seeking to do oil and gas drilling with Russia in violation of current economic sanctions.

38:45 So that is, and oh, in a statement that mentioned the company by name, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, a fine Tourette's sufferer, T.S., said his department had made its decision in consultation with President Donald J. Trump. Well, how about them apples then? Well, she's off her butt. Yes, their amygdala is huge. Let's go back to Bill Maher with Boris Epstein. Another word, and I looked this one up because, you know, when you talk about collusion, it's interesting that Maxine Fields' collusion is coming up with the strategies to, say, lock her up. And what was the other one? She's a Hillary's a crook. You know, these are all very, very good. We should have Russia, you know, writing speeches for everybody. They're great. We should have Russia doing jingles for the show. Yeah.

39:36 This should be right, this should be doing the show. Oh wait, we're already Putin sponsored. What am I saying? This is about the word meddling, meddled, meddling. I unsubscribe. But shouldn't, okay, since we're not going to agree on the part that isn't completely now nailed down by law enforcement, let's just go to the part that's incontrovertible which is that the Russians meddled in the election all 17 of our intelligence agencies say that you know and I really this already got me because the correct answer is well all 17 agencies said with high confidence they didn't one of them wasn't even high confidence yes one of them was not high confidence and which one was not high confidence NSA NSA they were not high confidence and

40:24 Well, let's listen. You would agree to that, right? Well, come on. So we can get into the back and forth and into the minutia of that letter you're talking about because actually... Letter? All 17 agencies have said Russia did... So do you think the president didn't win the election? Now, that was the incorrect response. The only correct response to this, which will not help your case from when dimension A and B clash, is, yes, it's the same 17 agencies who had high confidence in weapons of mass destruction. It won't get you anywhere, but that is the only possible answer, not do you believe the president won, which when you listen to it, Maher does. But it's the meddling. It's the meddling. So do you think the president didn't win the election? Answer my question first.

41:13 All 17 of them. Whose side are you on? I'm on America's side. Okay, but then all of our intelligence agencies say this. You don't back them up? So there's a special counsel and the special counsel will come out with an answer and I'm confident that it'll show that there was no, just like the president said, no collusion. Now whether Russia tried to meddle... I specifically said this is not collusion. Ooh, enlarge the amygdala. Question. This is the part that's not controversial. So this is the medal question. Meddling. Russia meddled in our election. Please just admit that. You'd have to ask Russia whether they took the meddling. Oh, for fuck's sake. How would I know? Okay, but then you're, like your boy Trump, you're saying you don't believe all

41:51 are intelligent. I like how you're boy Trump. Boy Trump, you're saying you don't believe our intelligence agencies. No, what I'm saying is this. Well, you don't. The president, let me answer. This is what they say. The president won the election fair and square. That's not the point or the question. Whether there was an attempt at meddling again, how would I know? You're asking me to... Because our intelligence agencies, all of them, say there was. Yes, you question the CIA? Okay, okay. Well, see Boris, this is why we are having a problem. Because I can't even get you to come to the place that all people, including the Republicans, agree is the fact that Russia did meddle in our election. It's not quite agreed as a fact, but was there a seemingly assumption meddling? It is a fact. It is settled science. The science is in!

42:45 Science! That was a shaggy dog story. But we nailed it. You did. Meddling. Definition of meddle according to Merriam-Webster. To interest oneself in what is not one's concern. Interfere without right or propriety. Now I would say this is a contradiction in terms, for it is definitely in Russia's interest and their concern who was president of the United States. Therefore, It's not meddling. It's not meddling. It is their concern. And I would say by the same token, when the State Department under Hillary Clinton attempted to discredit Putin's election,

43:28 That was also not... That was meddling. No, because we had an interest. Ah, you're right. That wasn't meddling either. See, this is an example of the bloated frontal cortex that just thinks clearly. Yes, because my amygdala... That's because you're not under stress from this election. My amygdala hasn't even dropped yet, I'm telling you. Oh, wait, there's something else. It doesn't do much for your sense of humor, but it does make you very logical and it does a lot of positive things. Now, there was something in there I was trying to think, what was it? There was something confusing. Oh yeah, I want to make this point, which is that the Russia meddling and whatever it was, I don't believe, I'm still on the Seth Grogan, no, the Seth the Rich. Another guy named Seth, by the way, Seth's rich. So Seth is, and he's in that same age group, Seth the Rich who was murdered. I do have a clip of a guy reading from some chat room.

44:23 about Seth Rich. And the reason I want to bring this up is because I don't think the Russians had anything to do with the DNC hacks. I never thought they did. I don't know, I don't think you ever thought they did. And I'm very annoyed by people who are now taking it as fact that they did. Science. It's science. And this includes Rush Limbaugh. Oh, really? Yes. Rush Limbaugh is all in on the idea. He's fine with it. But he's all in with it. And so he tries to... The meddling or the hacking? The hacking. He's all in with the hacking, which I think is a huge mistake. Zero conclusive evidence of that. And I just want to remind people that the DNC and the DNCC didn't ask the FBI to look. They wouldn't allow them. Right. And they would not give up the machines when they were asked to give them up so they could look. So these machines were untouched. So not, this cannot be 100% 17 agencies all agreeing if they haven't touched that server.

45:22 Yeah, they were just agreeing on something vague. It was a kind of a rigged question. They weren't really agreeing on anything meaningful. But let's read or listen to this guy as a podcast or reading the content from the chat board. This could all be bull crap. I would like one of our doctors, we have plenty, to go over the jargon that this guy throws out and try to give us an impression if this guy is actually a doctor. that wrote the note or if it was an intern or just full of crap this thing's bullcrap it's interesting enough that I think it should be played. And who is this that I'm playing? Seth Rich, anonymous report. A person on something called BoardNet and within BoardNet on something called forward slash Paul forward slash posted the following last Wednesday May 17th.

46:11 I am a fourth year surgery resident here who rotated from WHC, Washington Hospital Center, last year. It won't be hard to identify me, but I feel that I shouldn't stay silent. Seth Rich was shot twice with three total gunshot wounds, entry and exit and entry. He was taken to the OR emergency where we performed an X-Lap and found a small injury to segment 3 of the liver which was packed and several small bowel injuries, pretty common for gunshots in the back exiting the abdomen, which we resected 12 centimeters of bowel and left him in discontinuity. Didn't hook everything back up with the intent of performing a washout in the morning.

46:55 He did not have any major vascular injuries or otherwise. I've seen dozens of worse cases than this which survived and nothing about his injury suggested to me that he'd sustained a fatal wound. In the meantime, he was transferred to the ICU and transfused two units of blood when his post-surgery crit came back at minus 20. He was stable and not on any press oars, and it seemed pretty routine. About eight hours after he arrived, we were sworn by LEOs, law enforcement officers, and pretty much everyone except the attending physician and a few nurses was kicked out of the ICU. It was weird as hell. At turnover, change of shift, that morning we were instructed not to make rounds on the VIP that came in last night.

47:46 That's exactly what the attending said, and no one except me and another resident had any idea who he was talking about. No one here was allowed to see Seth except for my attending physician when he died. No code was called. I rounded on patients literally next door but was physically blocked from checking in on him. I've never seen anything like it before and while I can't say 100% that he was allowed to die, I don't understand why he was treated like that. on just one low-level doc. Something's fishy though, that's for sure. Okay, this is... BoardNet is 4chan, pretty much. So I'm taking this... I know this guy, he's a YouTube podcaster. A Youcaster. He's a... yeah. Yeah. He's not up there with Jenna Marbles, but you know, he's got some good... No, he's no Jenna Marbles. But he's just reading. I just thought I'd do that, because it's all I don't want to rap about. Yeah, but it's... It's probably... it could be bullcrap, but then again...

48:44 I love how it's iffy. Yeah. Okay. Sure, fishy said fishy fishy. Well, the war room is saying is saying iffy and they all read not all but a lot of them look at 4chan This is like those FBI guys who show up on 4chan. Oh, yeah I'd like to hear from a doctor telling me about the jargon and what they think What kind of a person could put something like this together sounded like credible jargon in the beginning there for sure about what happened? Yeah, well, there should be an autopsy we should not Look, it wouldn't surprise me if... And Comey, I want to say, I think he's also on Hillary's hit list. And there's some confirmation... Why? Oh, you think so? Just because of his gaffe? Well, here is a clip from Trey Gowdy. Trey Gowdy is an attorney. He's been a representative for what, five or six years.

49:47 And there was a lot of talk of, oh, maybe he would be a great FBI director. A lot of Republicans I know, oh yeah, this is it, Trey Gowdy's the perfect guy. And it's qualified. I'll just say the current thinking is it's going to go to Newt Gingrich. But I've also heard Joe Lieberman and there's all kinds of- I've heard Joe Lieberman too, which makes zero sense to me. No, it should be a woman. And you watch, it's going to be a woman. Just to mess with everybody's head. But before we get there, Trey Gowdy, he refused. He said, I'm not, I'm not appropriate for this gig. And it's not just because he thinks he doesn't get confirmed. It can't get confirmed. Listen to this conversation. One thing we're left with still in all of this is an empty seat at the head of the FBI. And your name was on that shortlist. You asked for it to be taken off. Why? Why do you think you're not the right person for that job?

50:37 I think the country can do better than me, quite frankly. I did have 20 years in the courtroom, Martha. That's the best job I've ever had. But the reality is, in this current political environment, I am known more for being asked to chair one committee than I am the 20 years I spent in the courtroom. And my first rule of friendship is don't ask friends to do things that are not in their best interest. the senate confirmation process would be dreadful and it'd be miserable and quite frankly I think the country deserves a woman or a man who is devoid of political taint and what... Taint, he said taint.

51:15 It was devoid of political taint. And whether I like it or not, whether I wish I could wash it off or not, I have been in politics for six years. I think I could be fair, but I don't know that I could get the job and I don't know that I could convince a sufficient number of my fellow citizens that I would be fair. And quite frankly, they deserve an FBI director that is above reproach. Was that news conference enough in and of itself to let him go, do you think? No, and I think when history knows the full fact pattern pattern that led director Comey to have that July news conference. I mean, I think what your viewers know is a meeting on the tarmac between the spouse of a suspect of the suspect of a or the target of an investigation. The attorney general, what your viewers don't know, Martha and what Jim Comey frankly can't tell them because it's classified and I can't tell them because it's classified. There were a lot of other reasons that Jim Comey decided to take that decision upon himself. And I think history

52:12 And I've had plenty of differences with Jim Comey. I want to be really clear about that. Lots of them. But I think history is going to be much kinder to Jim Comey in that July press conference than the Democrats were when he had it. I think he had access to information that because he is a stand-up guy and he's not going to disseminate classified information, although God knows everybody else is, he's not going to do it, even if it casts him in a negative light. So all your viewers see is this meeting on the tarmac Jim Comey had access to additional information that I am convinced left him with no other choice than make the decision he made in July. So you're saying he had no choice, there was pressure on him to not prosecute Hillary Clinton? Is that what you're suggesting? No, I think he had access to information and he wanted to safeguard the integrity of the investigation and the integrity of the process.

53:01 And I probably ought to just leave it right there. I think he wanted the public to have confidence. He had access to information that your viewers don't have, and they may not ever have because it is classified. But trust me when I tell you this, Martha, I know what it was. And I have been a critic of Jim Comey in the past. but he made the only decision he could have made with respect to appropriating that decision away from the Department of Justice and making the decision himself. And history will be a hell of a lot kinder to him than the Democrats were at the time. I only take away from that that you're suggesting that there were more entanglements between the Clintons and perhaps the Justice Department than everyone understands. You're very perceptive. Okay. Thank you. So you got me.

53:48 Well, there you go. There you go. And that's stuff. Yeah. And so it kind of puts Comey back in the light of he damned if you do damage, you don't. Yeah. So if anything, that's why he said he made a bunch of comments. He's glad to quit. He almost said that. Yeah. He just doesn't like this nut job stuff and all the other crazy things that, you know, I don't even know if the nut job thing's true, but it's funny. At least it's funny. How could we possibly know? I like Trump's tweet though, did you see that? Which one? He said, I never called Jim Comey a nut job, that nut job, something like that.

54:25 I never called that nut job Jim call me a nut job in the meeting with the Russians. It was something of that to that Okay, yeah, that would be that's his idea of humor Now my ears how about this for a name? How about this for a name? I'm gonna put this in there name a name a name Bratton Bratton Bratton Bratton who's that again? Oh Bratton is the guy who cleaned up New York City. Bratton's the guy who went to Los Angeles and became chief of police. Bratton is the guy who went to Boston and cleaned up, or didn't clean up anything. But Bratton's like Giuliani's boy. Yeah, yeah, interesting. Interesting choice. Bratton. And Bratton's very political, but he's also a non-partisan. He's not like a Democrat or Republican, you can tell. And he's a big name.

55:16 She's a big man on campus. She's a BMOC. BMOC. Well, none of this sits well with the media. And Matt Lauer really identified it and said it properly because he's in on Operation Mockingbird. Appointing a special counsel, good news, bad news, I think for Democrats. On the one hand, it ramps up the pressure on the White House. On the other hand, if you're a Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee or Senate Intelligence Committee, you wanted a lot of key witnesses to come in and raise their right hand in public hearings and you wanted to drive headlines with that. You have less of an ability to do that. Yeah, no, I think they were

55:55 counting on having some highly public hearings. It looks like a lot of it's going to play out behind the scenes right now. Like I said, you can't drive headlines because you can't hand it to us to drive the headlines. You can't drive headlines. Thanks, Matt Lauer. Yeah, no. Yeah, no. See, I almost cut that out because like if I leave that in you'll get distracted. You'll yell yeah, no, and then you won't hear the actual piece of the clip was about. And I was correct. I should have known that. Just from having an enlarged frontal cortex. Yeah. Because I'm so relaxed. My amygdala is almost missing. Let's hear. We do have a clip since you're talking about media. Let's might as well play Cohen.

56:36 Again I say get the three Cohen clips. Yeah, they're like the three Cohen brothers. Yeah All turned female now. Yeah. On the media. The Foreign Policy magazine is reporting that NATO is reworking its usual discussion format to suit Trump's quote short attention span asking halves of states to limit statements to four minutes. How ridiculous is this? I mean, isn't the president of the United States the president of the United States and not a child? Fortunately, you live in Russia and you're spared some of this media stuff. I just saw what I think is the cover of the New Time magazine. Used to be a very, very popular magazine. Less so today, but it's seen. And the cover has a drawing of the White House.

57:27 that has been turned half into the Kremlin. So they've merged the Kremlin and the White House, and this is the motif that there's some kind of Putin-Trump axis in the White House, which New York Times columnists write about all the time. So what's published in Foreign Policy magazine ought not to be taken seriously. Scarcely anything in the mainstream media today can be taken at face value. Everybody has to study for his or herself in America today. And that meets the stature of the No Agenda show. Yes, and looking at the cover, which I had not seen, I'm glad to see that some No Agenda artists are working outside of the show. This is a total No Agenda art project. Total.

58:16 It's funny. That could have been one of my guys. It's funny for a show, but on Time Magazine, you know, following these same old memes again from the shrunken Frontal Court text. Who gives a crap about Time Magazine? Make these decisions. Well, that's true. Who gives a crap? The thing was about Foreign Policy Magazine. I think it was funny that he trashed it. Yeah. I did want to say, I think I sent you a text message by rare exception. On Netflix, the documentary Get Me Roger Stone is a must watch. So I go to this event in San Francisco. It's one of these little small mini trade shows that this guy puts on. And I go to this thing and he comes up to me, John Pepper, and he comes up to me, he says, you've got to see the documentary Get Me Roger Stone. It's not even political.

59:04 And I said, huh, the second guy that's promoting this thing and he gives me a long story, but I have not yet sat down to watch it, but I'm assuming it's dynamite. Well, it gives you, it's very similar to how the Adam Curtis documentary, Hypernormalization, how it gives you a lot more context in that case about Libya. When you look at this history of Roger Stone, which I knew very little about, I would say I had never even heard of him until until Alex Jones had him on regularly, and I still didn't really know his history or the context. It's very interesting what he's done, and when you hear him, I think it was 19... Well, no, there's a couple of things that he's doing, but so the Make America Great Again, completely said by Reagan. It's just a 100% Reagan copy. I didn't know that. Reagan said this multiple times. I'm gonna make America great again. It's like, whoa, okay.

1:00:02 And there's all these things that are taken and you hear Roger Stone is really all over Donald Trump and Stone is a very interesting character. Very interesting back to the back to Goldwater days. We're talking about this idea that again, I'm just gonna be my last one of doing a callback on what we just talked about. Cohen again brings up something you would you just said which is Trump didn't invent make America great again he just kind of Said it as and made a hat he made a hat. That's what he did

1:00:39 Well, looking at the documentary, I would say that was very planned and it looks like Roger Stone planned it. I think a lot of things were planned with Trump and I think one of the things, yes, that's not something Trump would dream up, I agree. No. But this is an interesting kind of an analysis of the NATO thing when Trump said, well, we should rethink NATO and do all that sort of thing. Cohen brought something that is just like one of those head slappers. It's like, Cohen, which Sophie brought us, what about NATO? He's going to bail on NATO. And Cohen makes the simple assertion, this is hardly a new idea. This is all they've ever been talking about since 1991. Why is Trump a bad guy? Coming up next week, the president's previous statements about NATO's irrelevance had alliance members on edge. Do you expect something new to come out of this summit?

1:01:32 No, that's repaired. That's another example of bogus allegations against Trump. I mean, if you wanted to ask me about the scandal involving General Flynn, that may be the silliest part of the whole thing. But all Trump said was, I wonder if NATO is obsolete. Well, Sophie, since the end of the Soviet Union in 1991, that has been a regular discussion topic in Washington at every think tank in Washington. People have said, what's the mission of NATO when the Soviet Union no longer exists? And NATO found a new mission, didn't it? Expanding toward Russia. That's been about its only mission. And Trump has asked

1:02:15 asked is it an obsolete mission and he later decided no it's not obsolete but it's a legitimate question. Huh. Well, this came up in different articles and in context of NATO, the president's trip to Saudi Arabia and the subsequent deal that he made. It was a good day in the office in the desert kingdom for Donald Trump. Visiting Saudi Arabia on his first presidential trip abroad, Trump sealed a $110 billion... Can we... This is for the Trump presidency. And it's in Saudi Arabia. Does it sound like bagpipes to you? It does. What is going on? They need some hipper. I mean, where's Elton John? Where's Tiny Dancer? I mean, this is no good. It was a good day in the office in the desert kingdom for Donald Trump. Visiting Saudi Arabia on his first presidential trip abroad, Trump sealed a $110 billion arms deal with his hosts,

1:03:17 part of up to $350 billion worth of business according to the United States. All a far cry from his political troubles at home. Community is very happy. Community? You mean a military industrial complex? We want to thank you and Saudi Arabia. But hundreds of billions of dollars of investments into the United States and jobs, jobs, jobs. Honored with a traditional sword duck. A new twist on the classic. Trump's beginning a marathon trip through the Middle East and Europe. He'll give a speech on Sunday aimed at rallying Muslims in the fight against Islamist militants. Despite some of Trump's previous comments about Islam, the Saudi foreign minister has called his visit the start of a turning point between the US and the Arab Islamic world. So what I'm reading is that the part of the strategy and of course

1:04:21 I'm going to try that again. Part of the strategy and naturally, yeah you heard it, naturally we have been selling arms. We were reading these during Obama's presidency. You know, and it was always, oh here's three billion plus another billion of other. It never defined, you know, what the other stuff is, which I think is, you know, part of payoffs or whatever is necessary. And this is very good for America, like it or not. You know, we make stuff that kills people. Usually if they're brown and live in sandy areas. So, it's a great deal, but what I'm understanding is he wants Saudi Arabia to be kind of the linchpin or the central country for an Arab NATO.

1:05:06 I think it's, I don't know if it's in this clip or not, this is Charles Payne I think on Fox and Friends. The arms deals is important but people should realize Saudi Arabia is already one of the largest purchasers of arms in the world and I think it's a magnificent deal for me economically. I think the other things that are going to happen is Saudi Arabia is shifting away from oil. In 2012 we had a 38 billion dollar deficit with Saudi Arabia. Last year we had a billion dollar surplus. So, they understand that their purchasing power is dwindling. They've got a lot of money, but they've got to make a transition not unlike what's happening in the United Arab Emirates, Dubai. And I think they're going to need American expertise, American corporations to be able to do that. They want to become a banking and tourist area. Tourists don't go where bombs are blowing up. By the way, it's unfortunate perhaps that Donald Trump won't get a chance to look at their wall. Have you ever seen the blueprints of their wall?

1:05:59 They're building a wall just in case somehow the ISIS army breaks through that impenetrable. Okay, Chapel could not No, this one you can't go over or under but the bottom line though is it is a reset and And it's a it's a it's a military and economic reset that's needed and I think it's gonna have huge So it sounds to me like that it wasn't mentioned here, but that NATO thing makes sense. Oh There was a bunch of confusing commentary in that little bit. For one thing, Saudi Arabia has no interest in becoming a tourist trap for anything but Muslims going to Mecca. Period. Yeah, done. I agree.

1:06:39 Dubai now is on the other hand wants to be the world's shopping center and tourist trap. Which they already are. Well, let's get definitely close. I don't know anything about this wall. I do know... Oh, the wall, you gotta see this thing. You can just... Where's the wall? Where is it? Well, it's not built. But it's... Where's it gonna be? It's going to be, I have it here, it's going to be between Kuwait Will they expect an invasion from Kuwait? Well, no, but it's border, you know, obviously borders. It's the little, not, it's halfway, it just kind of connects with Kuwait. So they see that as their proxy all the way to Jordan. And so it cuts off all of Iraq. Interesting.

1:07:29 But the idea of them being... Imagine, you know the end, they call it the Maginot Wall? I have no idea what the... What is it? There's a bunch of historians out there that get a kick out of that. Would you mind explaining it? I'd like to know. The Maginot Line, that was the wall that the French built so the Germans wouldn't attack it before World War II. And so the Germans went around it. Yeah, they could easily go through Jordan or through Kuwait. It seems like there's a flaw in the wall. There's a flaw in the wall, I tell you. There's always a flaw in the wall. Well, I do have the CBS, I want to get this out of the way, the CBS rundown on this visit, because there's a number of interesting things, and I'm going to put some pictures in the newsletter.

1:08:09 Because you had to visually see some of this stuff. And a lot of it wasn't in this report. But there was like, for example, the guys who were serving coffee, this was on C-SPAN. I got the pictures from C-SPAN. They had this big room and Trump got some award. And the guy serving coffee appeared to be carrying 45 automatics with him. And there was hundreds of these guys, now with his gun. Well, you were strapped, man. And then there was the other thing, you know that black thing that goes around the headdress? I talk about it all the time. I've talked about it on the show a dozen times. Yeah, the band that keeps your... That band, it's got a name. Yeah. And... Manbun.

1:07:29 But the idea of them being... Imagine, you know the end, they call it the Maginot Wall? I have no idea what the... What is it? There's a bunch of historians out there that get a kick out of that. Would you mind explaining it? I'd like to know. The Maginot Line, that was the wall that the French built so the Germans wouldn't attack it before World War II. And so the Germans went around it. Yeah, they could easily go through Jordan or through Kuwait. It seems like there's a flaw in the wall. There's a flaw in the wall, I tell you. There's always a flaw in the wall. Well, I do have the CBS, I want to get this out of the way, the CBS rundown on this visit, because there's a number of interesting things, and I'm going to put some pictures in the newsletter.

1:08:09 Because you had to visually see some of this stuff. And a lot of it wasn't in this report. But there was like, for example, the guys who were serving coffee, this was on C-SPAN. I got the pictures from C-SPAN. They had this big room and Trump got some award. And the guy serving coffee appeared to be carrying 45 automatics with him. And there was hundreds of these guys, now with his gun. Well, you were strapped, man. And then there was the other thing, you know that black thing that goes around the headdress? I talk about it all the time. I've talked about it on the show a dozen times. Yeah, the band that keeps your... That band, it's got a name. Yeah. And... Manbun.

1:08:48 It's a man bun type thing. The guy, it's, and we've talked about this on the show before, I'm going to just reiterate, a lot of people believe that the most radical of the Islamists are, consider that black thing a piece of unnecessary adornment and a sin to wear it. And so in a group of Arabs, you wouldn't wear it. Oh, right. Okay. You can spot the most radical of the group because they don't wear that black ring. I think it's called a munt? No, I don't know if it's called a munt. There's a name. I decided to put what the name is. So I'm looking at this to see if there's any...there's only two radicals, radical Islamists, but based on that thesis in the meeting.

1:09:37 And the C-SPAN caught him. And they didn't show up on the big table, they didn't show up in any of the CBS reports, they didn't show up anywhere, but they showed up at one of the gatherings and C-SPAN cameras are just roaming around, doing, there's nothing going on. And it was, it was Ivanka Trump, the way that it was seated, there was Ivanka Trump had a couple of Arabs around her, but there was Lance, Fribas, Fribas, sitting next to... Freebus from now on, yes. Freebus is sitting next to one of these guys. It's usually like there's like two Americans and there's an Arab and American. It's all a big mix. But one of these guys is sitting next to Freebus and then Kushner... And then another one of those dudes probably. Yes. So those two guys... Surrounded.

1:10:32 surrounded Kushner only. He was the only target of their affection. And I found that very interesting. And I don't know if he, he doesn't have a clue. He doesn't know this, I'm sure, because nobody does. And it's not as though, you know, I'm the only one, but other people do know this. And he's just sitting there stupidly talking to these guys. And it was very, the layout of who was sitting next to who was quite interesting. And another thing that was only mentioned in, I think it was C-SPAN, I don't think it's mentioned in the CBS report, When they brought their 100 plus people over, a bunch of them, and they never would name them. I think maybe it is in the CBS report, but then I'm mad about the fact that they wouldn't name the guy. They bring him out, he's meeting with some Arab guy shaking his hand. A bunch of the CEOs of the arms companies of the United States went on this trip. Mm-hmm. Of course. This is their trip. This is their sales trip. This is the closing meeting.

1:11:29 Are you eating a pizza? Yeah, it's trying to iron out finishing touches Attention there left Air Force One without stairs for the first family to descend then the stairs and red carpet did not align But the president and first lady made the best of it meeting the king and tell him I didn't see that they didn't know what the plane like taxi forward what happened? No, what happened was they rolled out the red carpet, the plane comes in, and there's no ladder for the plane. So they don't know what they're doing. So the plane is stopped, the engines are off, and they roll out the stairs finally, and then it doesn't line up with the red carpet.

1:12:11 Oh man, you can't trust them, can you? So these idiots couldn't get the plane to stop in the right place and the red carpet apparently was a pain in the ass to lay down because it's a mile long. And so what they did at the bottom, they come down the stairs and then there's a little rug, a beige rug. No agenda bath mat. No agenda bath mat. You get to the bottom and they have to walk over a couple of steps to get to the red carpet. Did not align. You know, that's the stuff that Obama had down, man. He had people to do that stuff. You know, and I think that's still... He should know this. He's a Hollywood guy. What an idiot. How many... Didn't this happen in China too?

1:12:51 Yeah, there were no stairs. He's a director. Producer. But the president and first lady made the best of it, meeting the king and taking in sounds of cannons and the sight of US-made and Saudi-purchased jets overhead trailing red, white, and blue exhaust. Yeah! After ceremonial coffee, the president and King rode into Riyadh together. The leaders signed an agreement on $109 billion in new U.S. arms sales to the kingdom and $200 billion of Saudi-backed investment over four years in U.S. infrastructure projects. Saudi princes posed with numerous U.S. defense industry executives to celebrate. At a meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Nayef, the president sounded upbeat. Tremendous investments into the United States and our military community is very happy and we want to thank you.

1:13:47 No U.S. president has made Saudi Arabia or any Muslim country their first foreign visit. Mr. Trump did so with two overarching goals. Challenge Iran's military influence in the region and recruit majority Muslim countries to do more in the battle against ISIS and Al Qaeda affiliates in the Middle East and North Africa. Secretary Tillerson. This growing partnership is really grounded in trust. trust between our two nations that we are pursuing the same objectives. Scandals and investigations followed the president here. Tillerson was asked about a Washington Post report that the FBI had identified a person of interest inside the Trump White House as part of its investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election. I do not have any information or knowledge regarding the person of interest that's been referenced.

1:14:38 In route here, the White House did not deny another report that President Trump told Russian officials he fired FBI Director James Comey because he was quote, a nut job. And that that dismissal took some of the pressure off the Russian probe. You know, I've got nothing to do with the report. I'm thinking we could travel with the president because you know, screw that noise with the bagpipes. John, get your recorder man. We can do better than that. I mean we can do better. I think you're right. Yes, I can't get the recorder that fence of the input fingers over all the holes III so shrill now there was one faux pas luckily we found something he did wrong the president messed it up again

1:15:27 And this time it's poopy. Poopy poopy. I think by most accounts the first day of the president's very first foreign trip was very successful. You know, these things can be fraught with peril. You can make a wrong move and derail the whole thing. But the closest that the president came to a faux pas today was when he began to drink tea with his left hand and then switched over to his right hand. Very important in the Muslim world to eat and drink with your right hand. Look it up if you want to know the reasons why. Ha ha ha. Poop. Poop. I made a poop joke. I didn't know that. I mean, I knew about the... Well, come to think of it, when I... Rationale, but I didn't know that this had happened. When I was in Iraq with the Dutch Marines, we went to visit one of the neighboring clans. You can't really call it what it is. And there were a bunch of the elders sitting around. To pay them off, to bring the money. A pallet of cash. Here you go. All right, we're done.

1:16:28 And we all sat around now and the only thing could you sit? everyone sits in a kind of a rectangular room and You sit with your back to one wall and the other guys were sitting all on with their backs to the other wall You know you cross your legs. You never ever ever Point your feet at the other side That's what I was told at no point that anyone say oh you better drink your coffee Which I like their coffee and their tea both of them That shit wakes you up. No one ever mentioned anything about that. Eating with your right hand, yes, but never about drinking the coffee. And they would have warned me. And there wasn't like a bunch of Arabs on the other side going, pfft, pfft, pfft. No, there was none of that. So I'm not even sure that's for drinking. It might not be. I know for in India, definitely.

1:17:24 I've never heard it so much being so important in the Arab world. Well, one of our dudes named Mohammed, I'm sure, can clue us in. We'll find out. Speaking of poop... I'm a little disappointed. You know, this show has come up with tons of good nicknames for usually for reasons because we can't really remember someone's name so we have to give them a nickname and then people kind of remember and everyone knows who we're talking about. Yeah, Freebits. Freebis. Freebis would be one, yes. The other would be Pocahontas which we came up with way before Trump. We can't use. Can't use it anymore. And now we also, you know, this was a

1:18:05 I'll play the clip and then I'll tell you. I don't care what he says to the Russian Prime, to the Russians. This is Jeffrey Lord, the Trump shill who's always on CNN, and Anderson Cooper. I don't care what he says to the Russian Prime, to the Russians. I mean, he's the President of the United States. If he wants to say that, Barack Obama wants to say whatever. If George Bush says, I looked in his eyes and thought he was a great colossal... If he took a dump on his desk, you would defend him. Say it! I mean, I don't know what he would do that you would not defend him. So Anderson said, yeah, Trump could take a dump on his desk and you would defend it. And then everyone's calling him Anderson Pooper all of a sudden. I mean, I had that way early on. You originated it. I'll give you that one. We even have jingles about it. Yeah. Yeah, but now it's ruined. Yeah, well then just the last time we can play it, I guess.

1:18:57 It's a short version anyway, there was a pooper in the longer version doesn't matter it's done Can't play it anymore over co-op. It's stolen stolen stolen and Hmm. What should we do here? Well? I have an idea no yeah, I don't have anything spiffy I So, would you lead into the idea? Yes, I'll just give you the idea. I'd like to thank you for your courage and say in the morning to you, John C with a C stands for completely no idea today. Dvorak!

1:19:40 Well, in the morning to you. In the morning to you, Mr. Adam Curry. Thank you, Mr. Dvorak. Thank you. In the morning to all the ships at sea, the feet on the ground, the boots in the air, the subs in the water, and all the dames and all the knights out there. In the morning to everybody in the war room. Good work today, people. Noagendastream.com. But you can also listen to great podcasts streaming 24-7. There's all kinds of great things on that. We have the Dvorak Horowitz Unplugged. We got to the Grimerica guys, we got... I think we do... You know, Jen Briney, man. Have you listened to one of her most recent shows? I listened about a week ago, why? Yeah, she's getting a little... My advice to her would be straddle a little bit. Well, yeah, sure. Her amygdala is getting too big. I think the amygdala is popping out of her eardrums.

1:20:35 Now she made a change, I don't know if she changed back or not. I found it very disappointing. I haven't talked to her about it. Yeah, you need to talk to her. She dropped her jingles and songs. She had a song. Yeah, Jeff Smith's song. Yeah. I'm so tired of being lied to. It's a great song. She dropped that? Great song. Well, you didn't notice? Or did you just listen to her show? No, I listened to it two, three weeks ago. And I dropped it. She dropped it now. She does a cold open. Yeah, and just kind of hi. I'm janet. She's gonna she usually says something at the beginning annoying So she's so she starts with so so what it is so so I'm jen briney anyway She dropped it because she says that they will not let her play any music whatsoever on iheart radio She's on iheart

1:21:26 Well, she says she is. Oh, I may be wrong. And I guess she is, but I go to iHeartRadio and try to find her. I can't find her on there. But this is something that has been gifted to her, and legally she's allowed to use it. It's a Jeff Smith original. Apparently, iHeartRadio doesn't believe it. Oh, geez. They're just dicks. And she's not highlighted on iHeartRadio. She says, well, because of the great reach, I'm getting more listeners on iHeartRadio. I'm hard radio? Really? Nah, nah. I don't know how I thought that was a mistake. And of course, also, fuck, damn it. I'm trying to not say that. Nick the Rat on Wednesday nights with the Sewer Chat is another fabulous show. So definitely check it out. And people are always in the chat room. Then I would also like to thank Comic Strip Blogger.

1:22:16 Once again bring us artwork guys on a tear. I've known him for how long have I known this guy now 15 years? a podcast that condemned our show yeah called Joe agenda Yeah, he used to really it truly condemned us yeah on and on my slobby brother the war hack And what and if they finally couldn't keep up now we need to talk about this for a moment because he did the artwork for episode What are we today? 930 we're at 931 right so he did 930 let me just see what the what was the title of that oh yeah off script and what he did we actually really liked

1:22:59 piece of artwork by a different artist and it was it was the White House decked out as a reel-to-reel recorder. Kind of a top shot and that's why I said this Kremlin thing it was very close. It was a good idea. But then we find out it was from, I think, a Newsweek cover from Watergate. And he didn't... You could have done so much to change it, to add parity, but there was no parity, so not fair use, so we couldn't use it. And commenter bloggers... By our determination, it was not fair use. By our determination, yes. Yeah. We do have this thing. You can take the other art and kind of incorporate, but you do have to change it substantially and use it differently. Yeah.

1:23:40 This didn't qualify, didn't quite get there. It was the best piece, but it was not cutting it. And then, and then, uh, Comics for Bloggers, uh, White House Volume One was funny too. It was nice. That was well done. Well, that was a kind of, I would call that a classic Martin J.J., Nick Durant, simple but deep and funny. And that's really all we're looking for. Yeah. In general. We had a bunch of other stuff. I'm looking at the art now and there's the Bueller, Bueller, Bueller. That was also funny. It's kind of funny. People are still using, of course, Comic Strip blogger throws the numbers and we don't like that because you can never use the piece. No, no, he does that for the tweet.

1:24:25 Yeah, and that's what he's getting. He's getting the tweets. Yeah, he loves that. You know, you know what this guy, this guy, he's always been in IT, he's developed apps. I don't know what he does. He's a great illustrator. He has a lot of good ideas. But he's, you know, it's hard to make money that way, obviously. Well, you have to be full time and be connected. Yeah. We do have some professional illustrators. You should start stalking Scott Adams, maybe you'd learn something. Well, Scott Adams is cartoonist, this is another completely different business. I don't know if Scott's ever done an illustration. And this is completely different. It's like columnist, you know, how do you get your job? You just get it.

1:25:09 How do you become a big podcaster with all these people and sending you money? I don't know if you just work for 10 years Yeah, you do it for 10 years and you'll be there 10 years people won't invest the time. It's just that simple Thank you. Well, you know we we had a was it agenda 31 has gone on permanent hiatus. So you also were on the stream. Oh Yeah, it's very difficult to keep this up. Yeah, it's hard work. I mean, especially when you're starving. Brian is keeping it up, but you're like, I think you're probably right. She's not straddling what now she's becoming a hysterical, but I really disappointed in that in the fact that she would change her show.

1:25:51 fundamentally. Yeah. She used the songs as a... Look, this is a proven format. Proven format. The Jeff Smith, Sir Jeff Smith, Knight of the No Agenda Roundtable was very instrumental in the beginning of podcasting and certainly with our show, but he has done openers for so many different podcasts, which are funny, very recognizable, very... I mean, to stop using that because I'm hard radio all of a sudden and then oh it's great reach that's compromise I could I I did that I compromised everything I thought about podcasting for about seven years in my own company until I could not stand myself any longer and had to leave

1:26:35 Yeah. That's pretty much- that sums it up right there. I can't take it. I can't take myself anymore. I'd rather starve and I got close. I ate my airplane. Boohoo, I know. Boohoo! Boo-hoo, he ate his airplane. Oh yeah, poor baby had to shell an airplane. Yeah, I know. You bet. Anyway, thank you very much, Comics Through Blogger, all of our artists, Noah Jenda, ArtGenerator.com. Highly appreciate all the work you do, and that's why you get a special credit right up front in the show. Exactly. So let's thank a few people. Now, this is a very top heavy. I've never seen anything quite so top heavy as this particular show. We have like nine executive and associate executive producers and like 19 producers between 50 and $200. So we have very, then the second donation segment is going to be very short.

1:27:32 compared to the normal donation segment. Oh, interesting. Interesting. Okay. Yeah, it's very top-heavy. I've never seen anything quite like it. But that's fine, you know, especially when it comes to our top-heavy dudes. Top, top, the top of the top. Topics. Sir Anthony Trusnitch in New Hope, Minnesota, $1,000. Now he doesn't say anything about being an instant knight and he's not listed, or is he? You mean on the nighting list? Yeah. Well, he's already a sir. I know he's okay. He'd be a baronet. Let me just double check. Oh, no, here it is. I like to be baronet. There it is. I'm sorry. Yes. Baronet of studio. Okay. Howdy. This donation will take me to baronet and I'd like to be baronet of the studio. Quaint. So Quinto Quinto Quinto. I would believe. I don't know. Quinto.

1:28:20 I could use some jobs karma, the Trump kind, as I have left my job and I'm moving to the Tampa area. I like people that leave their jobs and send us $1,000. And then ask for jobs karma. Send us $1,000. Also drop in a 69 jingle and a call out to Sovereign Tech. Alright, I think I have that 69 D9 jobs jobs jobs and jobs. Let's vote for job You've got karma. Yeah, we go

1:28:58 And then here we are with Sir Animas of Dogpatch. Dogpatch, 500 bucks. He sends these notes and we can't figure out who he is. And I guess he wants it that way. That's fine. Yeah, it's fine with me. Thank you for continuing to lead the way in 21st century news reporting. Innovation and freedom require courage. I encourage all listeners to support the independence of speech by donating." Now this is the first time he's ever actually said anything without complaining. Well, wait, you haven't finished the note yet. No. Wow, wow, well that makes up for Dave. No, not Dave, who was, yeah, Dr. Dave. Who unsubscribes. I'm unsubscribing. Oh, the unsubscribe guy, Dr. Dave? Yeah.

1:29:50 John thank you for your on podcast walkthrough of Windows 10 default settings. Few readers appreciate this level of institutional spying underway, teaching how you can opt out of some is important and valuable. Wait, wait, say that again? What's he talking about? When I went to the show a couple of shows ago, I went I had a Windows 10 pop up on my screen and I went through the clicking these things to turn things off. Ah yeah, yeah, yeah. Did you ever get the driver for that USB box? I did get the driver I think but I haven't tried to see if it works so I'm still behind on that. Yeah because you were telling me, we don't have to talk about it now necessarily, but you were telling me how hard it was just to get the, you had to... Oh, it was ridiculous! I have got nothing good to say about the Scarlett. Well tell me for a second.

1:30:34 Okay, you want to get it doesn't have for one things the scarlet, so it's one of these USB. It's a very pretty looking box Good-looking box, but it's the same you know M audio makes a similar box and so do a couple other people you plug the M audio box and people always bitch But the M audio box works great, but it craps out after a couple years for some reason we've had to blow up on the show I have two of them blow up yeah and And you plug the M-Audio in and Windows says, okay, M-Audio box is plugged in. And then you go to Skype, oh hey, you got your M-Audio box plugged in, how do you want to use it? And you put this thing in, nothing. Actually. Doesn't show up in any of the device lists or anything like that? No, it doesn't do anything. You plug it in and you get this. That's the sound of Windows not recognizing a new device.

1:31:24 So you have to go and get the drivers from the company, but you just can't get the drivers. You have to sign up for this and that, and you have to answer a quiz, and you gotta go jump through rings. You gotta do some captures? Yes, you do. And so by the time you get to the end, then you have to put in the codes and stuff that they gave you. And then if you back off and go back and try to do it again, then they say the code's already been used, and you gotta restart all over from scratch, and you gotta get your... It was hours. It was not worth it. I would not buy one of these things again. Just because you, why don't you just send me a driver? No, no, no. So then it installs like five or six things, which is classic bull crap. And I'm going to have to uninstall half of them, I'm sure. And it's like Adobe pulls this stunt. When Adobe wants you to update

1:32:12 Upgrade your flash. No, they say oh and by the way, we're gonna install McAfee if you don't click this other box and and they always have the let Adobe update for you in future automatically is always pre-selected I despise that Despises. So this device, which I still haven't put online, may not even work for all I know, but all I know is I had to jump through hoops to get the drivers supposedly on the machine. I'm not even sure they're on there. Very, very disappointing product. I do not recommend this thing in the least. Well, you know, this technology and, you know, of course we moved, we moved and I have one card, one Visa card.

1:32:57 that, you know, by use for everything. And I changed the address, we went through that last week, where I couldn't even change it at the bank's website because this is a new building and it didn't exist, according to them. But now, like, yeah, oh, let's watch a movie last night. Okay, click, click, HBO. Ah! Couldn't authorize your card! Sorry, you know, then I have to go all the way to Roku and change it there and you know, and stuff with passwords and two-factor authentication. It was Friday night! You know, the Keeper and I were getting romantic. Yeah, baby, I'm gonna flip on some music here, you know, and I go to, uh, to, uh,

1:33:41 Apple music has a playlist that I like, I've pre-selected. And I'm like, oh yeah, click. Oh, please reauthorize with iCloud and two-factor, get a text message. I just want to get lucky here, people. It's unbelievable. Technologies, shit. It's just shit. Alright, I'm sorry. The science from the ground up is crap. I digress. Anyway, back to Sir Onimus. Adam, thank you for mentioning hypernormalization and periodically referencing Kaczynski's work. He was a murderer, he was unhinged, but he was also brilliant. His Industrial Society and its Future, published in 1995, includes anastrodomous-like quatrains on how technology evolves and influences social behavior. In the political correct environment, which he calls out specifically.

1:34:27 Yes, those who want to protect freedom are overwhelmed by the sheer number of new attacks and the rapidity in which they develop. BOG comment, my three visits to South Korea this year, a significant minority of professionals expressed support for some kind of reconciliation with the North. The new South Korean president's interest in reconciliation should not be a surprise. And he's working on Duke of Dogpatch. So fantastic. Well, we always appreciate not of course. It's getting bad, John. What? I said, of course, again, I keep saying, yeah, you did. I'm sorry. I'm not catching it more. I can't go on or or beat the beat. Do this very bad today. OK, it's been very bad. I'll just shut up. OK, Tony Cabrera, four hundred forty two dollars and eighty nine cents. I.T.M. This is Tony from no agenda shop dot com with the latest cut of the shop's profits.

1:35:19 Just when I think I'm really about to take a break from the shop, focus on my other neglected projects, you pull me back in. Not only does your show keep me informed, it also inspires me and other artists to think outside the box. And I'll take some extra time, karma, since this is what I need the most to get the shopping and all my other projects done. Keep up the great work. So realize that when we receive, and this is, thank you very much, this is a great donation, $442.89. This is one third of the T-shirt profits. They take a third. Which covers their costs, but I don't know if they do it at the profit or the or I don't know what it is But they also give a third of the money to the artist. This is really this is a beautiful beautiful thing that's taking place and I have to say I got to order like ten more of those Shirts, I rarely wear a shirt with our name on it But the one that was artwork one time and I said let's make it a shirt man that thing is beautiful

1:36:14 Good. It's beautiful in black, it's beautiful in red. Now it's very nice. He needed some extra time karma. What does he need here? Yeah, he needs extra time karma. You got it, man. Thank you so much. Appreciate it. You've got karma. Oh, hold on a second. I didn't realize this was coming up. We do have to do this properly. Ladies and gentlemen... In the morning, citizens and slaves of Gitmo Nation, please stand and salute Sir David Foley, Grand Duke of the USA. Yes! The Grand Duke! Yeah, when is Melisand getting his jingle? You know, I... I can't... Usually someone takes care of that, just shows up, I guess.

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1:37:53 333 33 in Henderson, Nevada. He sells us. He works in a slot machine manufacturing operation really yeah, where? Gaming no he's in the Henderson. Hi nice Nobody lives in Vegas, they live in Henderson. Hello gents, Uncle Dave here with a donation that will take me over the hump to knighthood. What makes donating to No Agenda worthwhile isn't just that you're providing a small batch news service by doing the work week after week that investigative journalists used to do, i.e. before news departments merged with the entertainment divisions. It's that every once in a while Adam provides a graduate level summary in the history of the Middle East.

1:38:30 the CIA, NSA rivalry and so on. If that alone isn't worth supporting, what do you guys need to do? Jungle fire nude while Maxine Waters provides commentary? Well, it would be entertaining. Juggling fire? Yeah. Anyway, here's my triple flat-chested boob donation of three times one eleven eleven making the magic donation amount three thirty three thirty three. I'm sending it now because my birthday is May 19th. Is he on the birthday list? I don't think I put him on the birthday list. I'll add that now. It's what I do. And this donation allows me to give myself a present of knighthood because I live in the Las Vegas area lost wages and work at a company that makes slot machines and the software to run casinos. Fascinating. I want to henceforth be known as Sir Uncle Dave, Knight of the One-Armed Bandits. The only jingle I would like is the full Let's Get Social song at the end of the show. Oh, geez. OK. It's not that long.

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1:48:26 I have a couple of clips. All righty. And I want to mention something that was interesting to me. At least I didn't check ABC and NBC. I agree that I didn't do the whole thing, but CBS didn't even play it. They didn't play the story. Huh. The CIA broadcasting system was not going to mention it. It's not a story there, boy. They didn't do it on Thursday, they didn't do it on Friday, they didn't do it on the weekend show, they didn't even mention it then. Not once, but did they do Chelsea Manning? Chelsea Manning? Did they do Chelsea Manning being released? Back in the day? I don't think so. Maybe. I don't remember for sure, but I do know that PBS did it.

1:49:05 PBS actually played the Assange story. I just thought it was reprehensible, personally, that CBS wouldn't play the story. They've got all these other crazy stories. It makes nothing but sense. I know, I agree that it makes nothing but sense. And what did you feel of the timing of this? Do you think there's some timing thing? I think so. Earlier in the day, Sweden's top prosecutor said she was dropping a European arrest warrant against him. It had been issued in connection with an alleged rape. It was news Assange had been waiting to hear for seven years.

1:49:49 But it was far from clear that the Wikileaks founder would be able to leave the embassy. British Prime Minister Theresa May refused to say whether Britain would extradite him to the US. Well, we look at extradition requests when we receive them on a case-by-case basis. And in relation to Julian Assange, any decision that is taken about UK action in relation to him, were he to leave the Ecuadorian embassy, would be a matter—operational matter for the police. U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has said prosecuting Assange would be a priority. He called WikiLeaks a hostile intelligence agency.

1:50:27 And with Assange still at risk of arrest in Britain for jumping bail five years ago, he looks set to remain in the embassy for now. And let's get these others out of the way. This is Pompeo, the CIA director, who seems to be a douchebag if you ask me. Well, beyond arrest and extradition by British authorities, some are concerned that the US might try to get hold of Assange by other means. They believe a snatch and grab CIA operation could be on the cards as its head has repeatedly lambasted WikiLeaks and its founder.

1:51:03 WikiLeaks walks like a hostile intelligence service and talks like a hostile intelligence service. Ignorance or misplaced idealism is no longer an acceptable excuse for lionizing these demons. Assange is a narcissist who has created nothing of value. He relies on the dirty work of others to make himself famous. He's a fraud, a coward hiding behind a screen. Yeah, this is great. I think there's a lot of stuff going down. The CIA and the other intelligence agencies in the USA are mad as wasps because the current... Wait, they're mad as what? Wasps? Wasps. Wasps.

1:51:54 The CIA and the other intelligence agencies in the USA are mad as wasps because the current leaks about Vault 7, you know, the CIA hacking capabilities, the WikiLeaks is continuing to put out. It's probably angering them more than anything else. So they will want to try and get Assange anywhere they can. USA does have a slight track record of snatching people around the world illegally, kidnapping them and taking them off for torture, black prisons, whatever. And it's also been announced over the last few days that the American administration is reopening some of those black rendition sites. So I think Julian Assange has got something, you know, quite a lot of things he needs to be concerned about. Oh yeah. Yeah, they're going to black bag him.

1:52:37 Yeah, they're gonna black bag him. This is a great country. And I think there's a couple of things going on. We, well, just as an aside, I'll mention that for sure, for sure, for sure, Anthony Weiner is going to have an unfortunate incident. For sure. I would put that in the red book. I would put a checkmark next to it. Now we know he said he's sick. He's a horrible person. Uma apparently, although I have not seen filing documents, everyone seems to have more info than me. Have you seen filing documents for divorce? I have not seen it. I have not seen it. So there could just be a... You'd want to disassociate yourself from this guy. But until I see documents and I'm... Why does she get preferential treatment but sealed or not published? I don't understand.

1:53:27 So he's going to have an on it's just it's in the cards. I feel bad, but it's in the cards and The guy that we haven't talked about I think he's also in trouble is Snowden and I'm not sure how it all fits together But I the moves are feel obvious to me You know what really kind of makes me kind of ill is Pompeo and Sessions those guys wouldn't even have these jobs if it wasn't for a songe Yeah I'm totally convinced of that. No one can convince me otherwise. Trump would not have won the election if it wasn't for Assange. I think you're right. I think you're right. But man, it's just... So Assange, snatch and grab, black hoods, black bag him. Accidentally killed. Weiner is going to make... It will look like a suicide.

1:54:20 Two to the head, gun in the left hand. You know, the Clintons are very good at that. Very, very good at that. Just go ahead, read up on it. Read up on wiping your butt with your left hand. Another guy that's in the news, but this has to do with Seth Rich, is Kim Dotcom. Oh wait, before I forget. Chelsea Manning, also in trouble. I'm telling you, in trouble. She looks good. Have you seen her new look? No. I gotta say. Kind of hot I don't think that I don't have to admit like yeah, you gotta look there Chelsea is alright I Don't see Chelsea being on there hmm. Well Chelsea is ground zero for WikiLeaks so well I'm not convinced that she's a target okay um

1:55:14 If she drops dead, yeah. I would then say, well, you're right. Okay, that's not how the Red Book works, but all right. Now, Kim Dotcom's in the news because he says he not only knows Seth Rich, but he was working with him to feed WikiLeaks these so-called Russian hacks. Now this guy could be in trouble for saying that, and he's all over the Twitter with this. Who is this? Kim Dotcom. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I saw his tweet. He says, I'll give written testimony if they ask me. Mm-hmm. Well, there's... I think he's legit. I mean, I think he's not... He said that Seth Rich was a Mega Upload user. Yeah, I'm sure he was. In fact, I'm sure there was some... maybe Mega Upload was a go-between between Seth Rich and the WikiLeaks, and Kim had something to do with it. I don't know why... why would he admit to something like that if it wasn't true? Yeah.

1:56:15 There were some other very, very weird, in this regard, in two to the head regard, there were a couple of weird things that were said. Let me see if I can just... No, this is back to Bill Maher show. And remember, I'm just looking at the Hillary hit list and who was irritating and who needs to be cleaned up. There is other news, pretty big news that happened this week. Anthony Weiner pleaded guilty to tweeting his dick. And Roger Ailes died. Listen to that. Wow. Yay, dead! Let's participate. Roger Ailes died. A bunch of blusters, the eight holes. Woo! Dead! Between those two stories. And the guy, of course, fell down the stairs and was in a coma. But yeah, dead! Death to our opponents! The guy programmed an entertainment network. Are you kidding me? That's evil. Roger Ailes died.

1:57:12 Between those two stories and the horrible week Trump had, perverts got their comeuppance. If there was a movie made about this week, it would be called Pussy Strikes Back. Yeah, because he knows who's killing. It's Hillary. I don't see that as that funny. I see it as truthful. Truth. Yes, Roger Ailes, okay, but when somebody dies you're supposed to not say bad things about him So let me just say when it came to making old white Americans more frightened and more ill-informed Nobody did it better We'll set you free that's right truth and then Jake Tabor said something while he was being interviewed always loved the journalist being interviewed

1:58:02 That I thought was borderline. Always considered, in the olden days, that was considered bad form. To be, yeah, well Jake Tapper has let loose a couple... Journalists interviewing journalists, I mean, come on. He's done a couple, well that's what the New York Times podcast is, it's fantastic to listen to. But Tapper is a, remember he was interviewed on, he was the one that broke the Donna Brazile story when he was talking on some local radio station being interviewed. So Tapper, but he takes it a little far here. The president seemed to be complaining and expressing a degree of self-pity. And I'm not exactly sure what these people who are about to put their lives on the line are supposed to feel pity about. And what he's talking about is his commencement speech to the US Coast Guard cadets. And I agree to a certain extent there. So that's my first reaction.

1:58:47 My second reaction is four US presidents have been actually literally assassinated and killed. So I think that there are people who have been treated worse than President Trump has been. Oh, there's still time. But more broadly speaking... Holy crap, this is unbelievable. Yeah. Let's listen to the whole thing here. Just listen to that again. literally assassinated and killed. So I think that there are people who have been treated worse than President Trump has been. But more broadly speaking, when it comes to a president who has been treated unfairly, I mean that president led the charge claiming that the first African-American president was born in Africa. Which is not only a charge that is false but it is not a little bit racist. It's not a little bit racist. Interesting choice of words. Yeah, so there's still time to kill him and then he would be really treated worse. I mean that I found that going pretty far. Disgusting. And now this witch hunt thing because I saw the headlines. This again by the way is judgment. This is a judgment problem.

1:59:49 Why would he say that? This is a, this is a poor, if Trump gets shot, these guys are gonna have a hell to pay. No they won't. Well you were recommending it. No they won't. That's what it, bullshit. No, no they won't. No. Yes they will. No. No. And let's, let's not hope that happens. Hey was this, did he, did Trump say witch hunt himself? Did he start that? I don't know when. Did he start by saying, did he say witch hunt at the, at the Naval Academy? He said, he's been saying witch hunt now and again. Okay. Yeah. Well, some reporter used it. I didn't know who had started it. Mr. President, let's get your reaction to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein's decision to appoint a special counsel to investigate the Russian interference in the campaign. Was this the right move or is this part of a witch hunt?

2:00:44 Well, I respect the move, but the entire thing has been a witch hunt. And there is no collusion between certainly myself and my campaign, but I can always speak for myself and the Russians, zero. I think it divides the country. I think we have a very divided country because of that and many other things. So I can tell you that we want to bring this Great country of ours together, John. And I will also say very strongly we've had tremendous success. You look at our job numbers, you look at what's going on at the border, as we discussed before, you look at what will be happening, you're going to see some incredible numbers with respect to the success of General Mattis and others with the... Yeah, that's some telegraphing about Afghanistan. That's Shesha's going down. ISIS situation. The numbers are staggering how successful they've been, the military has been.

2:01:37 Tomorrow, as you know, I'm going to Saudi Arabia, going to Israel, going to Rome, and we have the G7. We have a lot of great things going on. So I hate to see anything that divides. I'm fine with whatever people want to do, but we have to get back to running this country really, really well. We've made tremendous progress in the last hundred and some odd days, tremendous progress. Yeah, what happened to our country? Prez. That's interesting. Well, he is picking up the long answer concept. Yeah. He sounded a little bit like John Kerry. That's why I left it in.

2:02:17 I go on and on and then furthermore, it's really, really great what we're going to be doing. All you have to do is ask Fred over here, sitting over there, Fred, I think about blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Yeah. Yeah. Great. Let's just play a little, just a little dimension B just for a moment because it was good. Don Lemon. It's always good. Don Lemon is always good for a laugh. And he had on right-wing radio guy Dennis Prager. He's a right-winger, must be. Yeah, Prager is kind of... I don't know him. Even Trump didn't like. Huh, really? Prager is kind of... just to give you an idea, Prager is pretty much... there's different schools of right-wing talk. There's the modern school which is invented by Rush Limbaugh.

2:03:04 And then there's the old school, which was in every city had about two or three of these guys along with left-wing talkers. And they would be usually locals, and they had a kind of a funny pattern. They were very interesting, but it was like a formulaic show, and it was very arrogant in a very specific way. And people who study this would don't know what I'm talking about, but Prager is an old school guy. The more I think about that, and the more I think about this clip, and the one that'll follow it, I think we need to help everyone. John, are you in the Shays? Are you strapped in? Uh-oh. Yeah, I think we need to- Yeah, I gotta put my- Yeah, I think we need to get in the travel machine. We're moving over to the ultimate universe. Hold on, people! America first! America first! You choose the...

2:04:06 Woo! Oh man. Darn, that's hard. That dog! Yeah, he's up- well, the he signif- that's our signal, you know, then we know we've arrived. Because that dog is in both universes at the same place, the dog straddles, the dog's like, what- what happened? There's a flash of light and you're back again, but eh. The dog knows. Dogs understand this stuff. Here's dinner Dennis Prager and some massive massive clashes of universes here I see this as simply another of the series of hysterias that the left is created I don't know Don how much you covered it, but I recall you did cover. I just don't know how much

2:04:41 And that is the, for example, the massive amount of anti-Semitism and racism that the Trump election unleashed. That was all a lie, pure lie, 100% lie. No it wasn't. That's not true, Dana. I'm sorry, but speaking as someone who was on the receiving end of those horrible insults, I can tell you that it was not a lie and I'm a conservative. It's not a university. You have to let people... I couldn't use that line. Hey, this is not a university. You gotta let me speak.

2:05:17 That's a good one. Try it at the dinner table, John. I have to let people speak. I will, but I'm not going to let you speak falsehoods as someone who lived it. Go ahead. Apparently black Jew. I have a 35 year record in the media. I've never been once attacked for saying a falsehood. So just, I don't know what your record is, that's mine. So let me repeat. It was a 100% lie that his election unleashed anti-semitism. And we'll start with that. Hundreds of Jewish community centers had bomb threats called in. To the best of our knowledge to this day, 90% of them were called in by a Jewish kid living, an American Jewish kid living in Israel, and the other 10% were a black radical who was trying to oppress his girlfriend. You're talking about two instances. We have no example. You're talking about two instances. I'm sorry? Dennis, you're talking about two. No, not two.

2:06:09 Don, not two. All the hundreds. You're talking about two instances and that is, I have to say that you're not right about that. But why? Tell me where it's wrong. Ask Ben Shapiro and the other Jewish conservatives that got savagely attacked on social media during this. Yeah, this is a very important part of the clip. There's more to come. But this is something that is, we've talked about it before. I believe we identified this years ago with when sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me was changed to sticks and stones may break my bones, but words really hurt. This is, when someone yells at you or on Twitter, that's not an attack. That's not being attacked.

2:06:56 It's just not being attacked in the context of how she's saying this. Ask Ben Shapiro and the other Jewish conservatives that got savagely attacked on social media during this whole thing. Oh, social media, please. Everybody gets savagely attacked on social media. Not like that. This was not unleashed by Donald Trump. Jonah Goldberg, you can ask all of them. Actually, this started with the bullying. That's how it started. Remember? It started with bullying, with the anti-bullying laws. You can't say this, you can't say that. Man, you... We were also watching... The social media is the worst. We were also watching last night the first two episodes of the Hugh Hefner Playboy story on Amazon, which is new. Another good thing to watch. Because we're now very much in the politically correct culture, very much like the late 50s, the mid-50s.

2:07:50 Where, before the Kinsey report came out, where sex was, you know, you can't talk about it, you don't do it, you know, be quiet, extremely conservative times. But in... in a, not in a political conservative sense of the word, but just in no nudity, don't talk about it, you know, all of this stuff. And America is still messed up over that and it's spread. And the one thing America spread to all countries is this puritanical bull crap about the human body and sexuality. Not like that. This was not unleashed by Donald Trump. Jonah Goldberg, you can ask all of them what they've gone through. For me on the racism side of it, I received that too. So, I mean, this,

2:08:28 I'm sorry Don, but you know what? This conversation when you bring people like this on, they're not helping the cause. You're deflecting the cause. People like this, people like this is not helping the cause, you see. The cause that Don is all in on, I guess. The cause to what? Impeach Donald Trump? I'm sorry Don, but you know what? This conversation, when you bring people like this on, they're not helping the cause. You're deflecting, you're trying to diminish what's going on here. And you're not refacing the reality of what actually happened during Trump's election. I gave you one huge example of the anti-Semitism. I'm a Jew. I've written a major book on anti-Semitism. The manual reference made half a dozen threats out of hundreds. No, no, no. At this point, Don has finally received word from the control room.

2:09:11 It doesn't work in the other dimension. No, it doesn't! The control room is busted. The man you referenced made half a dozen threats out of hundreds. No, no, no. The Jewish kid in Israel made about 150 of them. That's not true. You're talking about a Jewish kid in Israel. Yes, he did about 150 Jewish community centers. But I think the ratio, somebody, Larry Elder, a colleague of mine, who happens to be black, I think it's only relevant because we're talking about racism here, and doesn't think Trump has unleashed racism, did a CNN analysis and it seems that it was only... Just because he's black, it doesn't mean that he is aware and it doesn't mean that he is smart. He's not woke. He's not woke, everybody.

2:10:01 Just because he's black doesn't mean he's a wolf. He's unleashed racism. Did a CNN analysis and it seems that he's black. Just because he's black doesn't mean that he is aware and it doesn't mean that he is smart. Oh, he's very aware. He's one of the brightest guys I know. And it doesn't also mean that he is not co-opted by certain things and that he doesn't reap the benefits of having a certain black vote. This is such a cop out. This is such a cop out by conservatives that are in the tank for Trump. In the tank for Trump everybody. In the tank for Trump. It's interesting that, I find it actually fascinating that Lemon, and I guess the control room, didn't know about this kid in Israel that was busted for calling at least 150 of these Jewish community centers and threatening them with a bomb. And he found out first that Lemon thought two, and then the control room said maybe a couple dozen. So nobody knows the story, and this is CNN? If I was in the control room, what I would have done

2:10:56 is I would have immediately gone to Snopes to get my facts. So let's see if we can find a half dozen. Alright. You may want to help me here. Let me see. They do- they're doing news now. That's interesting. There's no rating on this. Huh. This is very strange. So they just report- they report, but they don't do, uh, they don't give a rating. Oh, that's interesting. Only the War Room can find it. They'll have a look for me.

2:11:34 So yeah, they didn't know but I'm sure someone looked it up. That is odd that my control room doesn't work in this universe. That is very strange. Well, I got one more clip and then we gotta get out because... No, no, I gotta think that while we're in the universe I wanna play. You wanna play it now? No, I want you to finish your clip. This is BBC and BBC has a Republican pollster on, John McLaughlin, not the guy who's dead, obviously. And this is a journalistic question that I have for you. Journalism seems to work differently in this universe. There are no facts that prove there was any collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians. We don't know yet, do we? Nobody knows. Oh, we do know there are no facts as of right now. And in fact, I worked on that campaign, I can tell you there were no facts.

2:12:18 And it never came up in the polls, and it never showed up in the electorate, and there was no evidence that they tampered with any election ballots at all. So they keep on spreading this. Hillary Clinton got destroyed in the election. She was supposed to win, and it was the biggest upset for the establishment that they've ever seen. So they invented this myth. that the Russians interfered. And you know what? They'll keep talking about General Flynn. You know who took more money from the Russians than General Flynn did? It was Hillary Clinton. I can't let you say that on air without the people you're accusing being here to speak for themselves. I can't do it. I can't do it. I would like to talk to you. We would very much like to talk to you once we hear back from Mr. Mueller. Let's do that. Can we? Can we make a date?

2:13:03 Well, Mr. Mueller, he just... Let's hear it when he reports. Let's talk again. But I'm talking about facts and this is all over. I can't let you make those allegations, John, I'm sorry. Not on air, because we'll be held liable as well. Those people have to be allowed to defend themselves. Thank you. Let's talk again when we hear from Mr. Mueller. Does this make any sense? No. You can't talk about other people without them being there because that would be libelous? Where did you get this from? It's the BBC. BBC. Onty. The British Broadcasting Community. Wow. That's nuts, what he said.

2:13:42 Yeah, it's incompetent. But it's okay to say the president colluded with the Russians without the president there to refute it. Or I guess that guy is refuting it, so I guess that's okay. I didn't know about this rule. There's no rule. It's just nonsense. He made it up. This is the dimension, baby. This is, I mean, yeah, this is... Where did this alternate universe story come from? It came from the alternate universe. That's right. So do you know about this character, Tuck Buckner? Tuck Buckner? So, you know, uh... No. Alex Jones made it on a public apology about something he said about Chobani yogurt. I didn't I missed this controversy Yeah, something he said some you know just some casual comment about him hiring Syrian refugees Yeah, something and so he made some comment. They didn't like so he had to publicly apologize and why? Because I guess he lost a lawsuit. Oh, okay. They sued him hmm

2:14:42 So this character, and I want you to identify the comedian, came up with, and I have to tell you a couple of things about this, doing, I've never heard anyone do an Alex Jones impression, but I can't imagine it's healthy. Not for your vocal cords. When I did the tech grouch, I did the tech grouch and the tech hippie. We had to get you tea with honey and lemon. It was unbelievably harsh. We had to help you rest, you had to take your time. Even doing the tech hippie, which was kind of a surfer's voice. I can do it spot here and there. A classic, by the way, the tech hippie, a classic, ladies and gentlemen. But doing the tech hippie was, took so, it was like a five or six, seven minute bit and you had to kind of reshoot it. It's very hard on your throat. So I don't know how this guy who you're going to have to identify, because I'm going to have you identify because it's like, oh brother. I don't know how he does it, but this is Tuck Buckner making fun of Alex Jones's apology by apologizing because he's got a show too.

2:15:43 Matt, brain fighters, is how the lesbian conspiracy has maintained its vice grip on our nation's chia seed supply, alright? That's how they reproduce, okay? It's their demon seed. Now, a sincere, forced apology. During the period of my entire career, certain statements were made on the Brain Fight Twitter feed, YouTube page, company Skywriter, and also for my enormous man mouth with his man words. And I am now legally required to understand those words to be wrong. So I will now offer the issue of the following corrections. I regret

2:16:27 that I mischaracterized Virgin Airlines, I do know now that they do not use their planes to spray clouds of Viagra onto our nation's playgrounds to incite an anti-government revolution of unstoppable middle school sex warriors. My bad. In addition, I have learned that fruit by the foot is not made out of reptilian skin shed by George Soros. But I stand by the idea that George Soros' skin would be a delicious and nutritious treat. Actor Jeff Goldblum is not a robot controlled by Islamic field mice.

2:17:09 I have no idea what the religion of those field mice is. My apologies. I also see now for the first time that WISE is not coating the inside of its potato chip bags with an emasculating chemical polymer in an attempt to reduce our genitals into hairless mounds easily controlled by psychic Huma Abedin. Nice try, Huma. He goes on for another five minutes. Not bad. What he has really, he doesn't quite have the tone, but he's got... I would talk to the end of the sentences. Yeah, he's got that. I can do it. Oh yes. I can do it. I can do it. Women just circled the Christians and went, Satan, Satan, Satan, oh give us power! Ah, Satan!

2:17:57 No one can do that. No one can do that. No, it's just he's got polyps and that's the only way you can get that voice to do it without hurting yourself. There was a by the way, who is the person that did that bit? I don't know. Stephen Colbert. Really? Yep. He added a whole segment and he did that bit in about seven minutes. Not bad. I think he's going to make it a regular bit. This is replacing his old character. Yeah, yeah, it's good. It's good. It is it's actually good. He can perfect it because what he's missing is I read the documents go read for yourself Okay, so you choke up at the end because it's hard to do that voice the new order I can work on it. I think well, okay, you can work on it But Stephen Colbert, I think he's gonna hurt himself. No by doing that. Yeah, he will hurt his voice Because when I was doing Freddy the Firewall Hey kids, it's Freddy the Firewall

2:18:58 And Colbert should probably he works on Broadway used to he should find some vocal person that so he can do it properly not hurt him Yeah, cuz there are ways of doing stuff like that But you need a vocal coach that will keep you from hurting someone sent me a link and I don't it was like People magazine or oh wait a minute. We got to get out of the out of this No, not yet. Not yet. Not yet. Okay, then And in this in this magazine it had six celebrities who you didn't know were hot back in the day And they've got Betty White in there and but you know who was number one at the top Alex Jones Alex Jones and when he was a kid he was a good-looking guy. I think I knew this it's very good-looking guy Yeah, I'm not I don't want to say he's ugly now

2:19:44 But, you know, he's got bags under his eyes. He's not a good looking guy, but he's not like he used to be. Oh man, I was quite surprised by that. Spent quite a week with Chelsea Manny looking hot and Alex Jones. And what's the other funny thing is, kind of a reverse twist, when Clooney was a really young guy, he was a goofy looking kid. He was goofy, right. And now he's like, oh man, I'd do him. Damn it. Well, not really. It's too short. But you know, waking up at like, 4am. See how weird it's getting in this dimension? Let's get the hell out. Are you ready? Let's get out of here everybody! Strap in, hold on to something! We are moving back! Across the straddle line! Here we go! Ugh!

2:20:44 Let's take advantage of this moment, John. I'm gonna show my support by donating to KnowAgenda. Imagine all the people who could do that. Oh yeah, that'd be fab. On KnowAgenda, moaning. And we do have a few people to thank for showing 931. We don't have as many as I'd like, but we have a few. Let's start with, or up top of the list is Todd Rothkamp in Ripon, Wisconsin, $101.01. It's a binary donation. Kevin Coburn in North Olmsted, Ohio, $100. Baron Mark Tanner in Whittier, 100. Carl, and he donates twice a month. Carl Haberger in Rochester, New York, boob, 8008. Chris Durkin, boob. Tyler Sink, Benton, Illinois, boob. Amanda Bolin, 7470. She's got a birthday call out for her buddy.

2:21:54 That was for best friend Matt and her dad Jeff Kenyon. I don't know if he's on the... I don't see that on this note. No, it's right underneath Jake Kenyon. I'm sorry. Oh, that's Jake. It's all yellow. Yeah, you're right. And it's actually a lighter shade of yellow and I even missed it. Eric did a good job. Jake Kenyon in Morayfield, Queensland, Australia, 5656 with a birthday call out. Daniel Smith in Dayton, Ohio, 5555. Jesse Carl in Arundel, Maine.

2:22:37 Ryan, we don't have too many maniacs that donate. He sent us an email. Well, I will read the email. It's not gonna be right here. Ryan Kennedy in Andover, Massachusetts, 5123, and the following people, we're already at that point. The following people are $50 donors. Dan. What? I moved the keyboard. I keep moving the keyboard, and this time where I put it was like behind me to the left. That's where I love my keyboard. This is like is where I? Are you playing twister? What are you behind you to the Mars? Yeah, okay? We got starting over Daniel. What happened stop no no stop. What happened you put it to the left But what happened I found it. Oh you could find it. Oh, okay?

2:23:22 I have to scroll, we're at the bottom of this list, I gotta scroll down so I need the keyboard. And so I usually put it over to my right, right next to this, this whatever this is on here on the floor. And for some reason I put it way back, I moved it, I didn't wanna find it. I think I hate myself or I hate the show. Eric, $50. Curtis Singer, golden color, oh I hate this segment. Eric Singer, golden color out of 50. Desperately need a swift and thorough de-douching. You've been de-douched. Please call out my man Wolf as a douchebag. Thanks for all you do. Andrew Gusick in Greensboro, North Carolina, 50. Jason Clegg, San Diego, California, Kevin Porter, 50. I think it's Sir Kevin Porter. Andrew Benz in St. Louis, Missouri. And last but not least, Greg Stoddard.

2:24:17 in Mesa, Arizona. He sent in what I call an important note, which is very long. It's about fentanyl. And I'm going to save this note. and read it on the show completely because it's very interesting. He's a registered nurse working in emergency medicine. This was a very good note, yes. Past 11 years, he administers some of the drugs mentioned in the podcast to patients on a regular basis. I'm very familiar with narcotic administration and the effects on patients. Back in December 2015, I was in a significant motorcycle accident. I was given narcotics for my six broken bones. So I've had all the narcotic meds I am writing about.

2:24:56 I'm working in the ER. We constantly encounter narcotic addicts seeking pain meds. These people know well which drugs are the best ones to reduce their discomfort. Regarding fentanyl, you said it had a short... I didn't say this, by the way. You said it had a shorter half-life. No, I don't think that came up in the conversation at all. No, it didn't, but he heard it. And this is some of what makes it safer to administer. If a patient's going to have an unanticipated allergic reaction to fentanyl, or if it sedates them to the point where normal breathing becomes an issue, then the shorter half-life can become a real blessing. The faster it wears off, the shorter the amount of time we have to deal with the adverse reaction. The three primary used narcotics in use today are more, this is me, this is an example of me not reading the note.

2:25:40 The three primary used narcotics used today are morphine, fentanyl, and Dilaudid. I don't know how to pronounce it. I used to know how to pronounce it. Spell it, spell it, spell it. D-I-L-A-U-D-I-D. You mentioned and people know that fentanyl is probably the strongest of the three, but don't let that fool you into thinking that it relieves pain better than any other narcotics, especially this is an issue of dilution more than strength. Regarding pharmaceutical and narcotics, the concentrations of these three narcs are essentially the same. Since we are talking about tiny amounts of liquid or pain relief,

2:26:16 The volumes are about the same for the three Narcs even though the dosages are very different. The volume of fluid administered is roughly the same. The makers of each med dilute and package in vials that offer the same amount of pain relief per volume. I think that's some specifics. Well experienced narcotic addicts always prefer Dilaudid. I know it's not being pronounced right. Dilaudid? Dilaudid? It's dilaudid or something. Over the other narcs because it's less likely to cause nausea or itchiness and it lasts two to four hours when giving it in IV. Addicts and people seeking narcs like it so much that they give it nicknames like vitamin D. People that will know it's correct name pretend to mispronounce it when they ask for it by name while trying to sound like they didn't really know how to

2:27:01 I don't know how to pronounce it anyway. It goes on. Anything else in here that's important? In summary, there we go, we'll go to that. I would say all the milligrams of fentanyl is way lower than morphine and dilaudid since it doesn't come in concentrations, blah, blah, blah. The person would break into a hospital to steal narcs for recreational use. The order of desirability would be dilaudid, morphine, then fentanyl. Okay. It's just kind of a backgrounder on being in the business. Yeah, there was another note that came in with someone who was very well versed in illegal narcotics of the opium variety. Yeah, I thought you're gonna read that one. You got it? No, I thought you know, yeah, I think only you have it. I don't think I had it. Oh, that's why I think I read that one already. No, you read it. No, here it is. Typical. You read it to me after the show. Really? Yeah.

2:27:54 I don't think so. Okay. Okay. No, nevermind. If anybody out there remembers, I was talking about the guy who says I was a drug dealer, so I should know. He's telling us how to cut heroin. That's what it was. Yeah. That was a good note. I need to take some. I think it was, I said, if anyone in this chat room remembers or war room, tell me, I can read it again. I have it still somewhere. So they're always the first ones. They're always the first kind of fun. All right. All right. Well, thank you all very much. Sincerely appreciate the support. It was top heavy. People came in, a lot of people under the $50 level. And there was, I don't think this got to Eric. This is from Sir Scott of the Armory.

2:28:45 John and Adam, I hate to do this, but I'm writing to protest John Owen's knighthood title as Sir Johnny O. Knight of Armament on show 9 or 2 7. As the original Black Knight of the No Agenda Armory knighted in 2012 on episode 474, John's title is a little too close to comfort. With the check you have received for $80.08, along with my regular semi-weekly auto check payment of $12.50, I am now a baronet. If the peerage committee agrees with my reason for protest, I as a consolation for sire Johnny O offer my personal contact information and honor to pledge his loyalty to my burgeoning protectorate of the no agenda armory as a loyal subject after he chooses a new title. Well, there is a seniority and first come first serve thing going on with these titles. We have to, we'll take it under advisement. Wow, that sounded pretty noncommittal.

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2:32:24 Mutton and Mead, all of that for you. Go to noageneration.com slash rings and Eric the Shill will get all your deets. Your deets. And we'll ship it off to you. Ooh, producer Drew had a bias incident. I thought it was interesting in the social justice warrior realm. Yeah? Yeah. He says a few months ago he was looking for apartments in Mountain View that would be closer to work. He's a Silicon Valley guy. at one leasing office as we were filling out the application. I don't remember exactly what the setup was, but I think we were asked about possibly disqualifying factors. He says, I have no credit because I refused to update my address with Experian TransUnion and my social justice warrior feminazi girlfriend, whom I chain in my basement, has defaulted student loan debt.

2:33:21 His off-the-cuff response as the leasing agent was that we should be fine as long as we weren't Trump supporters. Now we're not, but the comment did not sit well with either of us and we ended up renting somewhere else. I doubt he was serious. He played it off by saying there were some, that there were some there already. In fact, I'm pretty sure that denial, denying a rental application on that base would be illegal. Yeah, probably. But this is what's going on. Yeah, of course. Just what's going on. It's just what's happening. People are nuts. It's judgment issues. Yeah. So we got a couple of things, a little catch up jobs here. First of all, they're taking down the statue of Robert E. Lee in the middle of New Orleans. Yeah. All these Confederate things have to come down. Yeah, they're all coming down. And so is the Dukes of Hazzard in reruns? Because that's got to go. That has to go. That's got to go. You cannot have the General Lee, a car named General Lee.

2:34:13 No, it's got a flag on it and then you got a bunch of stereotypical characters that don't really exist or maybe they do. But let's play, I have an issue with this. Not that I'm taking one side of the, what I have an issue with is PBS and I'm gonna play, first let's do a background of Robert E. Lee on CBS. 152 years and one month after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his army to Ulysses S. Grant, a statue of Lee is falling in New Orleans tonight. Omar Villafranca is there. After 133 years of standing over New Orleans, a statue dedicated to Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to history. New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu. These monuments celebrate a fictional, sanitized Confederacy, ignoring the death, ignoring the enslavement. The statue of Lee is the first one to come down in broad daylight.

2:35:09 Under the cover of darkness, workers removed the statues for Confederate President Jefferson Davis, General P.G.T. Beauregard and the Liberty Monument because police say there were threats made against the crews. If we take down these statues and don't change to become a more open and inclusive society, then all of this would have been in vain. Protests erupted in New Orleans when the city decided to remove the monuments. Both sides argued over whether these monuments celebrated racism or Southern heritage. Dr. Maria Ortiz with the Southern Christian Leadership Council worked for 44 years to bring the monuments down. I would point up there and I would say you devil you coming down one day. I thought

2:35:53 of the oppression and what my grandmother, and they sweat blood down in this sorrow. Businessman Frank Stewart thinks the statues should remain. And I really don't think that anybody should have the privilege of changing history because history is truth. No word on where the statues will end up but Anthony the mayor says they cannot be displayed outdoors on public property. By the way, that Andrew Jackson statue has got to be 40 feet tall or something. It's fantastic to have in your backyard. Wait, so President Andrew Jackson?

2:36:32 No, I said I meant Robert E. Lee. Oh, I was going to say you confused me there. But what other statutes they pulled out? Well, they're pulling down mostly Robert E. Lee's all over the place. So they're pulling, they got something like 700. In the second report, there's a mention of the numbers, but there's huge numbers of Robert E. Lee and there's huge numbers of the president of the Confederacy, who they mentioned in the other report. They're the ones they take down late at night. But there's other ones. And I'm concerned about the loss of certain things because there's a bunch of confederate graveyards that I visited. They're great. We need to dig them up and toss them out? That's what I'm thinking. Yeah, dig them up, toss them out. They don't deserve a proper burial.

2:37:16 So let's play the second. Here's my gripe is really about what showed up on PBS. This is Robert Lee, PBS, one by city native and jazz musician Wynton Marsalis, urging the removal of the monuments. Many have argued it was an appropriate response to the killing of nine black church parishioners that year in Charleston, South Carolina, by avowed white supremacist Dylann Roof. Weeks after that attack, South Carolina removed the Confederate battle flag from its state capital. Back to today, New Orleans plans to store the statues until it finds an appropriate location for them. But their removal has angered opponents who see this as suppressing or rewriting history in the service of political correctness. Many years later, when historians or politicians declare a war unjust or immoral, does that negate the ultimate price these soldiers and families paid?

2:38:07 Soldiers do not make policy. Elected leaders do. A lot of this, people are against it, or even not from here originally and don't understand our culture. And a lot of people, even from here, don't know their history. Last week in Baton Rouge, the Louisiana Statehouse passed HB 71, which would require a referendum before any military monument could be renamed or removed. In a show of defiance, black caucus members walked out after the vote. Meanwhile, last weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia, torch-bearing protesters, including white nationalist Richard Spencer, marched against the removal of a Robert E. Lee statue there. The Southern Poverty Law Center counts more than 700 Confederate monuments and statues on public lands across the country. The vast majority of those are in the South.

2:38:58 So, is this the right approach for dealing with the darker sides of U.S. history? I'm joined now by two men who have wrestled with this very question. Brian Stevenson is founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative. He's helping build a national monument to the victims of lynching in Montgomery, Alabama. And Walter Isaacson is a historian and writer and president of the Aspen Institute. Welcome to you both. Walter, I'd like to start with you first. You are a native of New Orleans. You were there when they're bringing Robert E. Lee down off his pedestal today. What do you make of the city's moves? Okay, I had to stop it because they're gonna go on and on. Here's what bothers me. Walter Isaacson starts off by saying, well, it was a symbol of white supremacy and it had to go. And it's a great thing that it's gone. So he's like, you know, Isaacson's a guy who's all in. He's all in for CIA. He's like a spook if he's not, he's not when he should be.

2:39:56 And he's the one who wrote the giant Steve Jobs biography and he writes a lot. Ah, that's the guy, yes. Is he a historian? He's like a you look him up on the wikipage and you can't figure out what he is But anyway, so but the point is is that he comes in his bitching and moaning about that. They should have gone long ago That's what his thesis the other guy says. Yeah, we we need some We need to have a monuments to people that were lynched terrible situation. There's no monuments for them Oh, yeah, and so the both of them were thinking this is a fantastic that they're getting rid of these damn things because they're eyesores and they should go and they represent white supremacy.

2:40:33 I'm thinking to myself, I'm watching this going, wait a minute, the state house of Louisiana passed a law saying you can't take these things down without some, you know, some sort of a hearing. And they went on and on. So what I'm watching is I'm watching two people on PBS as I bitched about before on the same side of the topic as if the science is in, it's settled, it's bad to have these Let's have two people come on like they do with global warming. Two people come on and say, yes, these statues have got to go. I don't care whether they go or not personally. I would like to hear the other side of the argument. This isn't an argument about whether Hitler was good or bad, but that's the way they're playing this. This is a problem that we're seeing with PBS more and more and more. They do not give us a balanced report. They give us a one-sided report that's predetermined so far as the,

2:41:26 The ethics or the, whether it's good or bad, it's all predetermined and packaged and given to us this way with the two same guys. The same thing with Brooks and Shield. They both hate Trump. What good is this to listen to these people? I'm not getting any- Shit, shit, sorry. You could have timed that anywhere. You could have timed it anywhere. The point is I don't like this. There may be a good reason to keep those statues up. I'd like to hear it. I will give you that reason, it was in the report and it's something I heard and it relates to... Culture, and I see this with the with Mastodon. It's kind of falling off the radar, but knowageinthesocial.com is still puttering along fine. Thank you very much. Everyone enjoys it. I like it much more than Twitter. I feel much freer there. I don't have to worry about other douchebags, although it's open. But you know, this idea of blocking and banning servers so that no one on your server can see anything. The thing that I have a problem with is

2:42:25 how and and make no mistake GNU social mastodon all social justice warrior driven yes is stop all anime now I look at a lot of this stuff and I'm also like how man that looks like stop anime all anime we have to block servers that post anime why I'm gonna just Because a lot of it looks like it's sexualizing young girls, children. And my answer to that is you have, you don't, this is completely cultural. This is, in Japan, that is seen very differently. And in the South, and I like that in that report, it was kind of slipped in there. The way I've experienced this, and I've talked to people in the South, I've been to the South, hey, I'm in Texas.

2:43:15 The way people experience, you know, statues, it is all remembrances of a very difficult time when there was brother against brother, you know, North-South, you know, there's been tons of movies about it, which we also should completely outlaw, never ever. We should burn the celluloid, please, for fear of triggering anyone over the racist war. It is culture. To the people in the South, it is more reminder of what happened. And if anything, I would say a reminder of, dude, let's not do that again. That's culture that did... I'm a Yankee, you know, I can't... we can't fathom that. We can't understand. But as you say, then you get a bunch of people coming in who don't live in the South saying, rip it all down, the douchebags from the Southern Poverty Law Center, 700 million dollars in the bank. No.

2:44:13 Well, my complaint is again... It's valid, it's valid, completely valid. You are absolutely right. It's disgusting. That is not journalism and who cares if their funding is taken away from them? For this very reason their funding should be taken away. But I'll say something else regarding PBS funding. PBS should not be buying British BBC theatrical pieces. If it's American taxpayer money, she'd be spending on American productions, not BBC. No one ever says anything about that. Well, they've never been called out for that. No one ever says anything about that. It's always, you know, it's always the British series. Oh, yes, BBC. Oh, it's great. We've bought the BBC. And it's not free. No, it's not free. That's for sure. Not free at all. Yeah. Screw those guys. They're a horrible outfit. Horrible. It's getting that way. Yeah.

2:45:08 I want to do three quickie reports from Euroland. We'll start first with, this is quite a big number, I'm surprised it didn't really make it to the press here. There's no let up in the migrant influx to European shores. A reported 5,000 were rescued on Thursday and Friday during multiple operations in the Mediterranean Sea. The Italian and Libyan coast guards coordinated the missions which took place off the coast of the African nation. One lifeless body was also found. It comes days after the Italian Senate Defense Committee recommended stricter monitoring of NGOs and other humanitarian organizations operating in the Med. The commission also proposed that Malta and Tunisia, which lie geographically closer to Libya, should do more to help combat the huge numbers of migrants using the country as a launchpad for reaching Europe.

2:46:01 According to the International Organization for Migration, over 45,000 migrants have made the treacherous Mediterranean crossing this year so far. 1,332 people died or went missing during the journey. Actual people dying horrible death, although I hear drowning is the way to go. horrible death, 5,000 and this is not enough, this is not interesting to the United States media. No, no, no. They got a great Europe story, we'll get to that in a moment, but first another thing that was not covered at all. The city of Berlin is accusing its own police of a cover-up linked to the Christmas truck attack that left 12 people dead.

2:46:39 The capital's interior minister spoke publicly about the explosive findings. A new document appeared dated November 1st 2016 containing details of telephone surveillance. Based on this document, attacker Anis Emri was suspected of commercial-level gang-related drug trafficking. These charges were serious enough to obtain an arrest warrant. There was a second version of the document dated January 17th 2017 but clearly backdated to November 1st This version no longer refers to professional and organized trafficking, but only to drug dealing. And Germany's interior minister too has been left shocked by those accusations and is demanding answers from Berlin police. We asked locals how they feel finding out that the attack may have been prevented. This is a tragedy. Things could have been done differently and those people would still be alive. It saddens me.

2:47:33 the feeling that they don't take so much care about the security in Germany. German government, political correctness, the tendency to try to cover things up. to sort of push the problem aside without actually solving it or to pretend that everything's fine. So a nice little bit of RT propaganda there at the end with the man on the street. We're all very aware of how that works. Oh, they love doing that. But I did not know about this falsified memo, backdated memo, and that it has all the appearance of being covered up. None of that. But, oh yeah, what went viral? What was the big news? Oh boy.

2:48:11 Oh boy, everybody. Although everyone in Dutch aviation has known this for decades and pretty much every Dutch citizen knows about it. But no, well, everybody send Adam the story. It's crazy. Dutch King Willem-Alexander has been moonlighting as a pilot for the past 21 years, according to a Dutch newspaper. The 50 year old royal takes to the sky twice a month on short haul services for national carrier KLM. Despite talking to passengers over the intercom, the king has This just shows you how dumb it is when you actually know something about a topic.

2:47:33 the feeling that they don't take so much care about the security in Germany. German government, political correctness, the tendency to try to cover things up. to sort of push the problem aside without actually solving it or to pretend that everything's fine. So a nice little bit of RT propaganda there at the end with the man on the street. We're all very aware of how that works. Oh, they love doing that. But I did not know about this falsified memo, backdated memo, and that it has all the appearance of being covered up. None of that. But, oh yeah, what went viral? What was the big news? Oh boy.

2:48:11 Oh boy, everybody. Although everyone in Dutch aviation has known this for decades and pretty much every Dutch citizen knows about it. But no, well, everybody send Adam the story. It's crazy. Dutch King Willem-Alexander has been moonlighting as a pilot for the past 21 years, according to a Dutch newspaper. The 50 year old royal takes to the sky twice a month on short haul services for national carrier KLM. Despite talking to passengers over the intercom, the king has This just shows you how dumb it is when you actually know something about a topic.

2:49:06 And then they're showing all these 747s, 737s, 757s. He flies Fokker 70 twin engine turboprop. It's a nice little guy. It's a real plane. But it's not a jet. And this is not like a big secret. Everybody knows he's been doing this. So what? No, that's what hits the news in America. Yeah, well they don't want to give you any real news. Now I was thinking about, I have this one offbeat clip. Well actually since you mentioned pilots, let's talk about the Turk, the crazy Turk on the plane. Yeah, yeah. A Turkish man was taken into custody Friday after disrupting a flight from Los Angeles to Honolulu. As Carter Evans reports, the suspect had also been arrested at the airport before the flight.

2:49:53 FBI agents led 25-year-old Anil Uskeneel off the plane in handcuffs. On the runway in Honolulu, American Airlines Flight 31 was surrounded by authorities after being escorted to the airport by two F-22 Raptors. About halfway through the flight from Los Angeles to Hawaii, passengers say the Turkish national got out of his seat and headed for the front of the plane. He was screaming and talking to himself and then he walked up to the front with a blanket on his head. I saw a panicked look on the flight attendant's face and she rushed the car to

2:50:28 to the entrance to first class. They're like, can somebody please help? Can somebody please help? Passengers say Ooskaneel was holding a laptop computer and that raised suspicions with the recent laptop ban on some international flights. He wedged in and he's pushing but then she says you're not coming in here. Lee Lorenzen helped the flight attendant keep Ooskaneel away from the cockpit door. By then a bunch of guys grabbed him and they found some duct tape And I think they went back there with pillows and blankets just to tape him to his chair and keep him subdued. On the ground in Honolulu, the plane was searched and no explosives were found. Less than 10 minutes to go. Okay? So a thing. Yeah, I hear you. I hit the mute button. So a couple of things.

2:51:19 I guess they always have duct tape on the plane because all these guys are now being grabbed by the passengers and then duct tape. I always travel with gaffer tape, not duct tape. I usually have some gaffer tape. I got my ranch hand, I got my gaffer tape. So you take, so you take, so the thing is now they're taping these guys. I think it's gotta be extremely painful to take the duct tape off. Yeah, that's like a form of torture and you're stuck on there. You know you duct tape you probably duct tape his mouth and To the seat yes to the seat. Oh, man. I hope that happens on one of my fly. Yeah, you just duct tape him Hey, I got some gaffer tape everybody stand back now this guy was arrested for

2:52:02 earlier in the day at the airport for busting through one of the no-go zones. Really? Yes, and they let him go so he could make his plane. I think this whole thing was a setup. Yeah, hoax. Yeah, I agree. Bullcrap. And we didn't even really have time to talk about the beating that the people received in front of the Turkish embassy. Oh yes, that was a few days ago. Yeah, by all these guys in suits, they're a bunch of arrogant security guys. Scum, thugs, goons, goons. Yeah, and they're all claiming privilege for what is diplomatic immunity.

2:52:44 And the cops, man, they were like, what? They'd never seen anything. You could tell they were confused. Like, what the hell is this? Who are these guys? And they looked like men in black. Yeah, it's definitely worth finding a YouTube clip of these guys. So they're kicking and punching guys. It's very funny. Now I only have, I have a couple of clips I can do, but I got one that I think that maybe I have to play so we can keep up with what's happening in, uh, Iran. Yes. Yeah. I have that too. This is Liz Palmer from CBS. She's in Iran. I guess she just roams around everywhere. And she's giving a kind of an interesting report where the... Before we get into the report, what I noticed in all of these reports, because they had, you know, the election... Right. The guy was reelected.

2:53:32 We already knew it's you know, it's a very young country, but man they look hip they look urban They look like they're with it. You know, they're woke They're woke. They're very that didn't you know that didn't strike you or something? You hadn't really seen when you see images of Iran. I have seen I've noticed this for over a year. Oh I've noticed this for a long time, that they bring it up a lot, that half the population's under 25. No, I know that, but the clothing is really what did it for me. It was not one of those bland, kind of dusty shots with people in traditional garb. No, they're well-dressed. Yeah, they're not well-dressed, but it's like one of those urban outfitters dressed well. Yeah. I think I even saw some man buns there.

2:54:14 A massive voter turnout clinched the election for the incumbent president and moderate Hassan Rouhani. In his victory speech on state television, he said Iran had chosen a path of engagement with the world. Rouhani had been running against the hardliner Ebrahim Raisi, whose populist campaign included cash handouts for the poor. But it was Rouhani who captured the huge youth vote, with promises to push forward liberal reforms and international relations. At lunchtime in the heart of Iran's main bazaar, hungry Iranians flock to the Muslim restaurant. The portions are large and the price is low, which really matters to people because years of punishing sanctions have hurt.

2:55:05 In fact, data from Iran's central bank shows that after sanctions kicked in in 2006, the amount of meat and rice Iranians ate at home went steadily down every year for a decade. When the nuclear deal was finally signed two years ago, Nasrin Saifi, the restaurant's accountant, was relieved, as everyone was when some sanctions were lifted. But Washington's stayed in place. Do you think this Rouhani guy is good? No, I don't think any of those leaders are good. Yeah, probably just as crappy as ours. He's just as... There's that. He's just better. Yeah. Well, they got to get rid of all the religious guys. I know plenty of Iranians. Yeah. They all say... And then again, we all know... In fact, they accuse us of... Or their big leaders of being in cahoots with the US. Wouldn't surprise me. It's very... Yeah. Wouldn't surprise me either.

2:56:04 I just have to play these three little shorties about China in case something happens between now and the next show because there's just too many stories to ignore. But the tension, some of this is about the islands. Flexing its military muscle as regional tensions multiply, the Japanese Coast Guard has resumed annual drills in Tokyo Bay after a five-year pause. This mock rescue scenario was staged just days after a real flare-up with regional rival Beijing in a territorial dispute over waters and islands in the East China Sea. For this minister, the role of Japan's coastguards becoming all the more important.

2:56:46 with the surveillance of waters around the Senkaku Islands and dealing with repeated missile launches by North Korea. The Japanese and Chinese have long been at loggerheads over the tiny uninhabited islands called the Diaoyu by China. Controlled by Japan, they're claimed by Beijing. Addressing other security issues, Japan's maritime drills also include anti-extremist operations. So false flag could be in the horizon with some anti-extremist drills going on, but you know we have some issues with the Chiners. This was surprising and you'll have to focus your hearing interpreter because this is Duterte.

2:57:31 from uh... yeah okay yeah but if you can't it's short and he's saying something really clear and he's having trouble with the Chiners too that is ours and we intend to drill oil there if it's yours well that is your view but my view is that I can drill the oil if there is some inside the bowels of the earth because it is ours well we are friends we do not want to correlate you We want to maintain the present warm relationship. But if you force the ACL, we'll go to war. And now, so he's saying, hey, I didn't hear the punchline. The punchline was, yeah, we can all pretend we're friends, but if you're going to get in my way, we're going to go to war. All right.

2:58:23 He's going to go to war with China. And this came out this morning on the New York Times website. China killed or imprisoned up to 20 CIA sources between 2010 and 2012, the New York Times is reporting. Whether the US intelligence agency was hacked or whether a spy helped to identify the individuals is unclear. At least a dozen people providing information to the CIA were killed by the Chinese, according to the report, dismantling a network that was years in the making. Officials told the paper that one source was shot in front of a government building in China, saying the aim was to send out a warning to others about working with Washington. The CIA has declined to comment on the contents of the article.

2:59:26 You know, no one, this just comes out all of a sudden. I don't know if they're talking about it on TV right now, but they should be. This is a big deal. And then... I heard the story, but I think it was a foreign source. I don't think we have... This is not played on CBS, I know that. Well, well, but you know, it seems like a part of the idea is we don't know if someone hacked and that's how they found out about the operatives. And this is what's always being said is that operations like WikiLeaks and other whistleblowers, they put intelligence assets in life threatening danger.

3:00:03 Right. And here we have some form of proof this may still just be- be bubbling under, but... Uh... I- I- I just had to get that out there, because I feel like- I know, I think it's definitely- I think the timing is good, you did- I knew that story. I didn't bring it on the show, I could have, I didn't. Nah, it's alright. This is why we're a duo. I didn't have a clip, I didn't have a clip. This is why we're a dynamic duo. I do have one last, because we want to listen to something a little lighter. Well, I gave you the ten minute warning, I'm- have the end tune going, but okay. Oh you do? I can't hear it. Oh well, I stopped it now anyway so let's do your last clip. Yeah, let's do your last clip then. Okay, I'm gonna play a clip from a show, TV show called Mrs. Secretary. It's about Hillary Clinton when she was the Secretary of State. It's with Tay-Leone. Love her. Now this is a standard storyline and I noticed this last week this was going on and on and on. If all the liberals in Hollywood

3:00:58 I want to make a kumbaya moment for everybody so we're all one happy family, one world government, and we're all one. No nations, no borders, no genders. Why do they continually, without without stopping these liberals. I don't like to use the word like that, but you know, but the writers in Hollywood are all pretty liberals, liberal, liberal. Why do they keep doing these anti-Muslim stories? They never stop with it. And I'm saying this on behalf of all of our dudes named Mohammed out there and everybody else. This is just a clip from the show Out of the Blue. It's ridiculous. When they spoke among themselves,

3:01:40 It was mostly in Arabic, but sometimes they'd speak in broken English. What did they say? Right before we went into the tunnel, Ramzan told Hamid something about a fee for a room. Like a hotel room? That's all I heard. Fee for room. I don't think they're speaking in broken English. What do you mean? Room in Arabic is room. Fee is in. Fee a room? It means in Rome. Ooh, room service? Are we in touch with Italian armed forces? We're establishing a link with Defense Minister Bellucci now. Sign of the drone? It was just spotted over a Farentino 40 miles southeast of us. Heading for Municipio 7. It's a straight shot to Vatican City. Ever since its inception, Al Qaeda's been trying to even the score for the Crusades. They're after the Pope? Head of the Infidels.

3:02:47 Yeah, there's a lot of that on that show. Stop with these stories if you're so sincere about all this stuff. There's a lot of that. I like that show though. I like it a lot. And of course... He's like, tail-y only. He's just kinda... My buddy, my buddy, the secretary's secretary. He used to do a podcast on Pod Show. Oh, okay. Yeah, he's a good guy. He also did Jersey Boys. Yeah. Hey, good guy. Alright, bye! Thank you so much! for tuning in to the best podcast in the universe. Remember, we have another show on the way. That will be Thursday. Remember us at Dvorak.org slash NA. Until then, in the morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley where there's... I think we're in a drone-free zone. I'm John C. Dvorak. We will return in our drone-free zone. At least I'm in FEMA Region 5 on Thursday. Until then, no nations.

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3:05:29 Let's get the search to the speed of light Give it up, Mary McCoy. Here's what I've said. I've said that we need the information. We need to connect the dots. And we got to drill down. We've got to connect the dots. Get the facts. Connect the dots. Do everything that I possibly can to help connect the dots. I've said we've got to connect the dots. I've always said if we connect the dots, I believe that they should have to connect the dots. We're able to connect dots. And if we determine the facts, if the dots are connected, let's get to the bottom of it all. Let's see if the dots connect.

3:06:16 in television sets. but increasingly isolated. It's good to have you on the show. We have, in the last 24 hours, said the US president needs to, yes, this is a national crisis. We need to think creatively about what to do. The Speaker of the House, you had on there. It's good to have you on the show. 500,000 of it from Terry McCaul. What your creed is make sure impeachment is.

3:07:12 All I've been doing is for my officials to tell you what, come out, name those people, and we'll have something to talk about. Why don't you put your creativity hat on for us for a second? Why don't you put your creativity hat on for us for a second? Take a look at what's on my mind. Everybody, look what's on my mind. Everybody, it's good to have you on this show. Yes, this is a national credit. Screaming at television sets. Screaming at television sets. Screaming at television sets. It's good to have you on this show.

3:08:18 Hey, UN word. Hey, UN word. Hey, UN word. How you doing on that I-word thing? How you doing on that I-word thing? I haven't heard that. In the last 24 hours, we keep hearing that I-word a lot. I haven't heard that. It's not in Pete's John. It's the I-word. The I-word. It was sexual. Pretend it's it.

3:09:00 Fuck! It's- it's not impeach. Clip after clip with F word. The R with I. Every F clip after clip with I word. Impeach me. I word. Impeach me. That I word thing is the script. The script. The s- I word. Fuck! The I word. It's- it's not impeach, John. Gotta be. Call me, call me, call me, John. The I word. AHHHHH! AHHHHH! AHHHHH! AHHHHH!

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