Soared by a wisdom shin Never mind you weren't clear Let the color draw you in Medication when you're out of fear Come around when you thought you were back home Come around when you loved and let it go Told you and I told you twice Yeah In the end you weren't wise Let the color draw you in Medication when you're out of fear Come around when you thought you were back home Come around when you loved and let it go Told you and I told you twice Come around and start a new life for me now I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna pretend I pretend, pretend pretend pretend pretend pretend pretend pretend pretend pretend pretend pretend pretend pretend pretend pretend Come on, yeah. Come on, yeah. That's pretty amazing. Waters. Welcome to Skid Row Studios in downtown Los Angeles. This is the weekly wrap-up where we get you caught up on the week's biggest stories. Like us on Facebook. Subscribe free at the iTunes store. You can always go to the weekly wrap-up Facebook page during the week and tell us what stories you want to talk about. I am your host, Ken August. I am joined today, as always, by the host of Bad Advice, Mr. Drew Marks. Good to see you. Are you awake? Somewhat. Somewhat. A little bit. Drew's had about an hour's sleep in the last couple of days. Not as good of a story as we would generally like that to be, however. We are also welcoming actor, comedian, and the only person I've ever met who's actually been on... On Jeopardy. Jeff Hendricks. How are you, buddy? Me and my enormous brain. You know what they say about that. No. No, I guess I don't. I didn't win Jeopardy. I was simply on it. So, no, probably I don't know what they say about it. You share information as they need, as they ask for it. That's it. So, let us know if you have anything you want to talk about. Call in. The number, 800-893-9562. That's well done. You guys painted that up on the wall for me. That's awesome. 800-893-9562. 800-893-9562. Obviously, we will check in on the breaking news, the shooting at the Sikh Temple. It's another horrible shooting. Our hearts go out to the victims. We're still learning more. Maybe we'll have a moment of silence to represent the gun control debate. That won't happen. We'll discuss whether or not the Chicago and Boston mayors helped Chick-fil-A set a record for one-day sales. Talk about the Olympics a little bit and the bad fluence that is women's badminton. Obviously, we will hit on some politics. And Obama signs a secret order for Syria, which I don't think he knows what secret means. And a whole lot more. But let's start off with the breaking news. The shooting in Wisconsin, another terrible shooting. Seven people, the seventh being the actual shooter, were killed. We're just finding out more. They don't know too much about it as of yet. Four were found dead inside. One police officer was shot. Several times in what seems like a firefight with the... No, that's what I said. He's the guy that took the shooter down. No, no, no. They've since said that a second policeman shot the guy. Really? Not the guy that took a couple of bullets? Although they say that guy's going to be okay. Yeah, I don't think that makes that guy any less of a hero. But yeah, that is what they're saying. But I mean, it's still changing. You did seem a little disappointed that that guy couldn't get... He's a hero without good aim? He is. You know what? He took the bullets while the other guy shot him is what we're going with right now. But they're all heroes over there at this point in time. We'll find out. We'll find out more. Obviously, they don't know the motivation. They don't really know much about it. No, it's a horrible story. Between that and Colorado, it's enough to make you sick to your stomach. Yeah, we'll check in on that douchebag as well over in Colorado. It had to be done. So as we get more info, obviously, if we get any more now, we will mention it. I mean, what you hope is... Obviously, they're wondering whether it's a hate crime and the thought is, and this is all speculation because nobody knows anything really yet, but is whether they have been targeted incorrectly for a hate crime, which is not only racist and stupid, but poorly aimed. Yeah. And yet, obviously, the most likely scenario. That's what terrifies me. I think you're right. I think I'm wondering if it's going to come out he had a hatred of Muslims and unfortunately, he didn't know any better. That is what actually one of the members of the temple were reporting. You generally don't credit these people with that hate that want to go out and shoot up some people. You're saying that's smart, true? Exactly. I'm not going with they're the geniuses in society. No, but we don't want to. I mean, we don't want to do, you know, what was done in the Trayvon Martin case, which is, it's one thing to talk about it. It's another thing to assign motivation and then before you know anything and then everything, every case that was built in the press was wrong. But that being said, yes, if I had to bet, I would assume it was an idiot who was obviously an idiot, but you assume it was a hateful idiot who didn't even know who he was hating. On the car ride in, again, this is just, you know, it's hearsay at this point because it wasn't confirmed, but I had the CNN on in the car and they were talking about, it is, they were waiting for confirmation, but supposedly this guy who was wearing a white tank, you know, white beater. The shooter you're saying? Yes. Okay. They said because he had this tank top on, they were able to see that he had a 9-11 tattoo. What is a 9-11 tattoo? Cracker Jacks? Yeah. Well, you know, it's either, I'm assuming either just like, you know, always remember the 9-11 or, you know, buildings. I don't know. But they said, you know, something related to 9-11 and they always say that. They love, I mean, until they, until Giuliani was reported Giuliani always say that. Yeah. Well, it's just a matter of time before someone says Obama set it up to try to get gun control back in the... Oh, I'm sure that's already out there. Oh, yeah. But we will hopefully find out more. Is he a Sikh? Is that it? If he's not a Muslim, he's a Sikh. Yeah, well, unfortunately, a lot of people here don't know the difference and they just want to hate somebody. Not that any one group is right to hate, but, you know, it's bad enough that you're hating groups based on stereotypes. It's another thing. You're hating the wrong group based on stereotypes. Now you're just stupid and hateful. Hopefully. And unfortunately, this guy's... Well, I say unfortunately. Fortunately, he's dead. But unfortunately, we won't find out any information from him specifically. I would like him to eventually be dead. Unless he's left his little manifesto, you know. Yeah. As he starts searching his Facebook page, you know, that kind of thing. Yeah, no, that is possible. That is possible. Well, so, tragic, and we will learn more. But while we're staying on gun-related tragedies, charges were filed against James Holmes, 24 counts of first-degree murder, 116 counts of attempted murder, which is basically two counts for every person that was killed or wounded. The second count being an attitude of universal malice manifesting extreme indifference to the value of human life. Well, you'd think the first first-degree murder would cover malice towards human life. It's a legal backdoor coverage in case they try to establish insanity. And they're just going to say, well, then it's just completely... It's depraved indifference. You may not have known the difference, but for you to go into a theater, there should have been some reasonable expectation if you start spraying bullets around, someone's going to get hit and hurt. Yeah. If you didn't know, yeah. If they confirmed you, you wouldn't know that. So first-degree is premeditated. Okay. Don't forget the one count of really bad hair. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. That's the one count. Don't forget the one count of really bad joke. Let's listen to this right here on James Holmes, about James Holmes. A new investigation raising questions about warning signs and whether the university attended by the suspect could have a chance to die. or should have taken action. For weeks, the world has been wondering, did anyone see signs this would emerge from a seemingly ordinary Ph.D. student? ABC News has learned psychiatrist Dr. Lynn Fenton, who was treating Holmes at the University of Colorado, was also a key member of the school's threat assessment team. In fact, these documents ABC uncovered show Fenton actually wrote the university's policy on threat assessment. What's more, our affiliate KMGH is reporting exclusively that by early June, Fenton actually notified other members of the team about her concerns about Holmes' behavior. But on June 10th, three days after Holmes bought an assault weapon, he suddenly told the university he's quitting. And so, sources tell KMGH, the larger threat assessment team never had a formal meeting and never intervened. Because once he quits school, he's no longer a threat. No longer a threat. He's no longer their problem. Yes, that's the thing. So the question is, so the question is, is, well, two questions. One is, what should they have done? And two, what could they have done? Well, with doctor-patient confidentiality, you're talking about a real tough, tough question. Well, except she was already able to, I mean, she notified that beta team, the behavioral evaluation and threat assessment team, which she was a member of. She notified them that six weeks in advance. Oh, well then, some... Here's the thing. But then he started dropping out and they went, before they met to deal with it, they went, oh, well, he's dropping out. So she knew. And they also say that in order for her to do that, it has to be more than just general statements. He has to imply that he's going to do something or he's been planning to do something. Yeah, I also believe with that doctor-patient confidentiality, if there is, you know, even like with the priest or whatever, it's like if there is a threat. Eminent threat. Yeah, that doesn't apply. You can notify someone. Well, yes, which comes to, I mean, what did he say in order? He said something that made her feel this guy is a threat. Right. And in order for her to do that, apparently it had to be some implication that he was going or wanted to or was planning to do something, not just statements of, I, you know, I wish this shit would happen. I have a sort of offbeat question with this. It's not even a joke. I'm serious. When you order porn or something like that, it comes in a plain brown wrapper. But this guy online was ordering ridiculous amounts of bullets and guns. Like seriously, does the UPS guy not notice that these things are just being delivered? You know, it's being delivered legally. Bullets are us. Legally. I understand, but in massive amounts. Legally. Yeah, but not all through. I mean, he went out and got the assault rifle, I believe, in person the day, the day he failed his oral exam. I mean, you know what? This sucks. I'm going to go get an assault rifle. Fortunately, I can do that. I guess ice cream just didn't do the trick. No. Yeah, I failed my exam. I think I'm going to go drink usually or... I find that's a great answer for most things. And Jeremy, my producer, wherever you are, I'm sure you find that a good answer for most things as well. Drinking. Yes, but you know what? I mean, I don't know. I mean, if she's contacting, the question is, if you felt it was a big enough threat, I understand there may not be anything you can do. They did not contact the police. They're no longer... He's no longer their responsibility. Isn't that the first person if you have any concern that you might want to contact? Well, I think the first... Yes, and I believe... I would think, but I would think, well, the first person to contact apparently is this assessment team, this threat assessment team. Once they're contacted, if you felt that they needed to be contacted, now you say, oh, he's no longer our responsibility or you can word it, he's no longer our... We have no jurisdiction over him anymore if he's dropping out. We should maybe tell somebody else who might be concerned. Thank you. Thank you. As opposed to, well, we've done all we can. Well, no, I think Drew got it right. It's a CYA. It's a cover your ass situation. Once he was off campus, he was no longer that university's concern. Right. Which is a really narrow-minded, stupid way to look at it. If they thought he was going to spray bullets on campus, they would have done something because they're covering themselves. But he's like, out there, it's their problem. And they obviously felt that was possible enough for her to be able to feel that she needed to discuss it with people. But then, yes, once the only part of that sentence was changed, the word campus was taken out of that. Apparently, they went, okay, well, that's all we can do. I'm guessing that person isn't feeling too good about themselves right now. Probably not, but I'm sure they're also in a cover your ass mode. Well, the school is. I'm talking about the individual. Same thing. Yeah. Do you find most people don't cover their own asses? Immediately. So, I mean, I'm sure. I'm wearing pants. That's all I'm saying. All right. I wanted to talk. We didn't last week, and I wanted to talk a little bit. You know, it's hard to go. Well, you know what? Before we go to the Olympics, I do want to talk about the Olympics eventually, but Chick-fil-A, obviously, had a big week. Let's listen to this. Chick-fil-A will be ground zero in the culture wars today. The restaurant chain set a sales record on Wednesday thanks to a nationwide boycott in support of its president's opposition to same-sex marriage. Today, a nationwide protest is in the works. ABC's Tumman Bradley has the details. Today at Chick-fil-A restaurants across the country, gay customers plan to fight back, not only showing up, but also kissing in protest of the fast-food chain's opposition to same-sex marriage. Chick-fil-A has been caught in the middle of the cultural clash over marriage, with gay rights advocates calling for a boycott of the restaurant after the Chick-fil-A president said this about marriage. I think we're inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say, you know, we know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage. Chick-fil-A says it's always been up front about its core beliefs. The company's founder uses biblical principles to manage the business. For example, Chick-fil-A is closed on Sundays. Now, when I say biblical marriage, does he mean you can have as many wives as you want, or you can sell your daughter into marriage for a good piece of land? Which biblical... No, I think they're very specific that you have to marry your brother's wife if he dies. Yeah, and have sex until she gets... If the husband dies before the wife gives him a son, she has to marry his brother and keep having sex until they have a son. Now, if this was on your podcast, if this was on Bad Advice, everybody would come immediately with the question, well, what does she look like? Yes. That's okay. Yeah, it's interesting how biblical... They pick out which biblical parts they want to use. The other thing I think was interesting about the audio clip we heard was the guy said, he finds himself caught in the middle. No, you're not caught in the middle when you step up and you say, oh, by the way, here's a certain group of people I don't think should have the same basic right that I have, and I'm going to throw a shit ton of my money behind this idea. That is true. You got a First Amendment right. I got a First Amendment. That's fine. But as soon as you start bankrolling hate, you've stepped over the constitutional line in my book. Well, okay. Well, here's where I... And I fall... No, not necessarily constitutional, but you should expect backlash. That's different, yes. Yeah, you should be able to take that on the chin. And that is, that to me is where things went kind of wrong is this guy has felt this way always, and he's given... Now, a lot of people didn't know Drew actually was the first person to tell me that he gives to, you know, anti-gay causes, and, you know, donates money to that. Well, I work in craft service, and Chick-fil-A will... Actually, if you work on a production, will send in a free lunch. They do it all the time on shows, but they won't send it in to certain shows if they don't agree with the content. So, like, rules of engagement, we get free chicken lunches, but when we did celebrity sex addiction or celebrity rehab, they're like, no, no, no, no. We don't want our product with that show. So that's how I found out. I didn't know they were a Christian organization until that started coming up. And I'm like, really? Interesting. That's amazing. Now, to me, here's the problem. And for anyone, obviously, who doesn't know, Mike Huckabee Chick-fil-A, the owner, announced his stance on anti-gay marriage, and he also, in the clip, you heard he said it's a slap in God's face. And so, although, can you slap God in the face? Either way. You think he's... Wouldn't he turn the other cheek? Hello. Thank you. Well played. Well played. And so, Mike Huckabee called for a national appreciation Chick-fil-A day, and they said, there were just lines all over the place. Now, here is where I think things went wrong. Even though they meant well, mayors of Chicago and Boston, Emanuel and Mayor Menino of Boston, who has some of the best clips of sports names butchered ever, but those two guys who are all for gay marriage, basically came up with a plan and said, we don't want you here. We're going to try to fight. And they've since backed down as to we're not going to necessarily keep you out. Rahm Emanuel has backed down and said, we're not going to try to keep you out. But just the audio clips of sounding like they're going to try that has changed this from the original bullshit freedom of religion to now freedom of speech. And that's the annoying thing because before, if Rahm Emanuel would have just come out and said, you don't share the same beliefs that our people have and I don't think you'll do well, that's different. But when you say, I don't think you should be here for that reason, now what you've changed is everybody who's saying, hey, you have freedom, you know, this is a freedom of religion issue, which is bullshit, but they claim that. But to me, obviously religious freedom is not, I'm telling you that you can't get married because my religion doesn't believe it. That's not religious freedom. Right, but that's what, that's what they, that's what they hide behind all the time. Right, but it's horseshit. Right, nobody's telling churches they have, to marry gay couples. Correct. But legally, the government would recognize it. So I don't have a problem with the church continuing to not recognize gay marriage. If you're going to believe in fairy tales in the first place, then you can live by whatever rules you want. We have, no, part of having religious freedom is as long as you don't, you know, force your views on others, you can practice and do, you know, believe whatever you want. And that's religious freedom and that's fine. Right. Even if yours is stupid. Right. Right. And the thing is, is Chick-fil-A, despite what, you know, we disagree with, with his personal beliefs, they didn't, you know, it's not like they not serving, they're not, not serving gay people. Right. They're not. No. No shoes, no shirt, no, yeah. No boyfriends. Right. No, no, I understand, but, you know, so, I mean, if that's the case, you really have no leg to stand on other than make it public, this is what he stands for and you can boycott if you want. But once you say we're going to, once there's even an audio clip of, hey, we're going to try to keep you out, now all those- You're as bad as the other side. Correct. So now you have people waiting online who are saying, you know, there's, somewhere in this article, there's a guy who says he is an atheist and pro-gay marriage, but he was there because he felt it's a freedom of speech issue. You lend legitimacy to a cause that shouldn't have any. Yes. Yes. Now- Now, you saw the people lined up too, right? Some of them. They're hard to look directly at. Well, I'm telling you, what you have here is dietetic Darwinism. My friends. Let them eat to their hearts, their soon-to-be-stopped-up hearts, content. It is delicious. I, no, it's got pickles and you lost me on that one there. Ah, but it is delicious. It is. I wish that chicken sandwich did not hate gay people because it is delicious. The largest, the owner of the largest Wendy's franchise, I don't know if that means, I don't know how many he owns, but how many stores he owns, but Jim Furman in the Carolinas, obviously somewhere down there, he owns a bunch of Wendy's and they put up a sign that says, we stand with Chick-fil-A. No. No. Wendy's Consumer Relations Department then responded with, this is one independent franchise's personal opinion. We are proud to serve customers of varied races, backgrounds, cultures, and sexual orientation with different beliefs and values. Bearing that in mind, this franchisee has decided to remove the message from his restaurant signs. Not the Baconator. The Baconator can't be coded in both bacon and hate. It tastes so good. You can't have bacon on my hate burger. No, it doesn't. You can't have bacon on my bacon burger. Hate on my bacon? It does taste good and I know what Baconator means to you as well. That's a lot of meaning to you. I'm surprised they don't throw their support behind Jack in the Box because at least that's the kind of relationship they support. If it was Anne in the Box, they couldn't do it? They'd have to protest? That's nice. All right. Let's talk Olympics, man. I want to get your guys' opinion and find out how much you've been watching, but listen to this. This was a golden day for Team USA at the Olympics. Swimmer Michael Phelps officially became the most decorated Olympic swimmer and Olympian of all time. And the fierce young women of the gymnastics team leapt and vaulted their way to victory. The first team gold for America's female gymnasts since 1996. Since 1996. All right. So first of all, we have Michael Phelps. Oh, that's a great picture, Drew. Drew showed me a picture of a woman sitting in a Chick-fil-A chair, or let me rephrase that, kind of sitting around a Chick-fil-A chair. The chair is barely noticeable. Yeah. That's a large woman. Ma'am, could you give us back our chair? So have you guys been watching the Olympics? Well, more like clips. Like I'll watch after the fact. Well, you kind of have to now because it's in London and you find out a lot of shit, but if you already know the score, do you watch it? I don't watch the long events. You don't watch the full anything. No, but like if I'm flipping through the channels, I'll actually watch a little bit of the gymnastics or if there's a quick swim meet or something like that. I'll tell you what I found interesting actually. It was fencing. Yeah, actually it's funny. I've been watching a lot of that myself. It's very high tech. They have the whole Darth Vader thing happening and they light up with colors. That pulled me in too. I was watching with Jeff and he was explaining some stuff to me about it. But I was watching, yeah, the high tech quality of fencing is bizarre to me now. And a lot of screaming. More than women's tennis. A lot of, yeah. Way more than women's tennis. A lot of the chanting. Well, we actually did that on Bad Advice for a while. You know, they're outlawing, they're outlawing the grunting. The women's grunting in tennis. I don't want to do it here. Yeah, they would have to do it here. That was bizarre because that's different. In tennis, it seems like you're doing it while exerting energy. To get that extra. Full swing and exerting. And maybe there's a, you know, there's a head game thing going in there. But the weird thing is they said it's okay for the men to do but not the women. Yes, that is true. That is actually true. That is odd. I didn't know that. Really? Yeah, that is true. But now in fencing, they don't do it until afterwards. Right. It's a celebratory scream in fencing. Which was strange. Well, I watched the two women do it and it was like, when one was charging, it was almost like the way Zulu warriors like used to yell to scare the people coming at them. She was doing that when she went on the, like the attack. She was like, ayayayayay. It's like it was enough to really make you want to, like, ayayayay, stop. I watched the 10,000 meters run with the British guy. The young guy who had made the first move from England to just outside of Portland, Oregon to train with Lopez, one of the better distance runners ever. Great story. And he won it and was just, the guy that he had trained with the whole time came in second. Ah, that's nice. And his daughter comes up and they're wrapped in the British flag. See, I can always get, I can always get sucked into that. That is the thing. It's a great, yeah. I have less interest now and I should say I watch less. And just because I'm sure because I'm older, I have more shit going on. But first of all, I've always been more of a winner. I'm a Winter Olympics guy. But I've watched less of the Olympics over the years since they've gone, what, every two years they've alternated the Summer and Winter Olympics. But I can still always, I always emotionally can get wrapped up and less the story they want to tell you. I'm not going to sit around and listen to the story beforehand. But when they win and the family comes out and you just see, the emotion of it will still get me. I can't watch closing ceremonies because as soon as they kick into slow motion winning and losing and Whitney Houston singing, it's all, I get all emotional. I can't do it. I can't do it. It's sad. I actually like, you know, I know a lot of people kind of are against him now, but like, I like the whole Michael Phelps thing because he's like, yeah, it's cool to win, but I'm good. You know what though? He's very mellow about the whole thing. He's hemp powered, by the way. Yeah. 22 medals. He is the most decorated Olympian of all time. Olympian in history and he's just like, I mean, at that point, it's easy to be mellow because what are you going to say? You can't be like too excited because then you really come across as an ass. You know? He said, they said, because I always wanted to be retired by the time I was 30. Okay, that's kind of a dick thing to say. I believe he meant retired from swimming. Swimming, all right. But, what do you do after that? It's like what Paris Hilton said, she was retiring. Fuck, from what? Yeah, but at least we know what Phelps does. This guy wins medals. 18 golds, he finished with his last gold. Now for me, I'm too stupid to know when we get to, you know, swimming or, or any sort of racing and they give me the meters. It's like, what I need somebody to do is forget the meters and tell me about, yeah, tell me about how long it is. Be like, well, you know what this race is about from here to the Ralphs. Okay, great. Now I know how far it is. No, in the same way as I, uh, how many laps? Are they going? Because I don't know whether they're getting to the finish line or if they're just going to, I'm like, oh, he forgot to stop. No, no, no, he's got three more laps. I don't, I don't know when I'm excited. Now, do you think he gets more endorsements? Because, you know, he had a bunch and then when the whole pot smoking thing, they went away. Subway didn't go away. What, what, what do you do when you smoke? You get hungry. that's fine, but yeah, he did. You swim to a Subway. I got $5, man. A sandwich? How many cookies can I get for this bronze? Actually, it would be more appropriate if they sold like a fish sandwich. Okay, did anybody catch dressage? Anybody catch any dressage? I hate the notion of it. I, I, and it's not, there's the Romney thing. I have, I have laughed. I tell you what, I couldn't, I couldn't get through more than four minutes of it, but I laughed for the first three and a half minutes of that. Did you see the Colbert report when he was doing it? Yeah. He interviewed the guy and you could tell the guy's like, he's making fun of me. Yes. It's an indefensible sport. It is silly. I mean, horse, horse dancing. I, I mean, here's the thing is, I watched three different people go, they all look like the Monopoly guy on a horse and I can't tell the difference between any of them. But it's the horse that's doing it all. Right. That's the part that angers me. The horse doesn't win shit. The horse doesn't win anything. Yeah. The horse, if it breaks its leg, they shoot it. But you know, the Olympian gets an, that's, you're not an athlete. He wins his ability to not be dog food. That is, that is what he wins. He wins life. Okay. Well, the last thing that I will notice that this is the first Olympics where I have, I have continuously read about people getting kicked out. First, we had the Greek triple jumper was kicked out before the Olympics for tweeting. Right. The hurdler. Yeah. Then it was, it was a Swiss soccer player who called these South Koreans Mongoloids and he got kicked out. Good. But the girl, the one who, about the immigrants. Yes, that's the Greek, that's the Greek triple jumper. And then now there's four teams, one from, four doubles teams of badminton players, women badminton players, one from China, two from South Korea, and then another team from Indonesia. Eight in total were kicked out for all trying to lose so they can, not to lose for money to blow the game, but to get a better seating or a better matchup in the next round. Worst part of that is that because it's one less team, it's that many less times you get to hear them say shuttlecock. Yeah, you know what, this is shuttlecock blocked if you ask me. Nice, well done, well done. Thank you. That is nice. I mean, it's the same thing as currency manipulation. I mean, it's, you know, that's what you do. You make it so you're always going to win. Yeah, but I mean, you have to, you have to stop it. You can't do it. You can't, I mean, you can't let. It's the Olympics. You have, you have to try. Thank you. Yeah, no, exactly. No, yeah, I agree with that. All I'm saying is, first of all, two things is, I mean, because people have said, is it different than at the end of a season for playoff seedings and you're resting your stars for the last three games of the season knowing if you lose, you're going to get, you're going to go down or you're going to go down a little bit and play a better team, a better team, a better matchup. These people are not a paid sports franchise. Wow, well put. These, you know, so I do think the rules are different and should be different. Yeah, so, well, if you can't purposely lose to the point where, I mean, subtly, I mean, the place was booing them. You were booing these. You're upset with bad acting. Yeah, I'm saying, if you're going to be bad but you're bad at being bad, you're like, come on, come on. I mean, I hit the top of the net. These people were hitting the bottom of the net and letting the thing drop. You're like, it's bad, Mitten. You got to the Olympics. You can't be that bad. You can't be Larry from my eighth grade gym class trying to play the game and hurt himself. You're saying, Pete, Rose is going, I could have made that shot. Pete Rose made 38 bucks on that thing. He said, give me eight bucks on disqualification. All right, let's talk a little politics. Let's wrap up. We started last week. We talked about Romney eating his foot for a good portion of his trip over to London and then Israel. This just in, on a health note, he actually has a very bad case of athlete's tongue now. Oh, nicely played. Nicely played. This foot is not good. This foot is not good. Kosher? No. So when he first got there, we talked about, obviously, he had a backtrack for an aide making some Anglo-Saxon comment that Obama didn't understand that relationship. He backed away from that, obviously. But then when he was in Israel... Why wouldn't he understand that? Obama's not a tutor. I'm shocked. You know what? This, by the way, this just in from the Chinese badminton coach, by the way. He's 100% right. He took the words right out of my mouth. There's no booing involved. I'm sorry. All right, let's listen. Let's listen to this. Palestinians are reportedly outraged over comments made by GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney at a fundraising breakfast in Israel. WI and KFB, has more. Romney told donors that their culture is part of what has allowed them to be more economically successful than the Palestinians. His comments have outraged Palestinian leaders who called them racist and out of touch. Romney compared the per capita GDP of the two regions and said culture is what makes the difference. The Guardian writes there may be a few other explanations. Romney's analysis failed to touch on other potential factors such as decades of war and siege and checkpoints that sealed the territories from the outside world. A Palestinian official called the remarks racist and said Romney doesn't know enough about the region or its people. Romney's camp says his remarks were mischaracterized. My remarks were taken into context. Is that what he was claiming? They were played back in their entirety. How dare you? They were only meant to be understood by white people. Yeah, well, by the handful of Jewish donors that he had in the room. Did you catch that the radio station was W-I-N-K? No. Wink radio? Wink, wink, nudge, nudge, Romney. That's funny. Mittens? He's playing to the crowd in that fundraiser breakfast. You gotta know better. If you're going to... Dude, know your history. Be a smart guy. At least know how the press works. Yeah. I mean, if you're going to be... Know your audience. But if your audience is going to end up being everyone because the press is there, I mean, the thing is, is I don't have any problems with the pandering when you're trying to make money. Both sides do it. It's just smarter. You want somebody to do it a little better than that. And then the bad backtracking. That's worse. But the other thing is, all of his statements all along, it's such blatant pandering to the base. He doesn't... I don't think that they really care for pissing people off. No. Oh, you mean the Romney campaign? No. The most telling clip of him of this entire campaign was when he was on the bus about four months ago and he just said, all I need is 51%. Yeah. He doesn't care. Yeah, he doesn't care. He doesn't give a fuck. And as long as he can... He can make this deal. It's all about the deal. Let me get the deal. Let me get the deal. Let me make the... I want to be president. He doesn't care. No, no. That seems pretty accurate. I mean, he's shown that. It's what do you want me to say? What do I need to say? Yeah. Now, while he was there, he did hail Israel's healthcare system as a model of efficiency and effectiveness. Romney praised Israel for spending just 8% of its gross domestic product on healthcare while still remaining, quote, a pretty healthy nation. Quote, we spend 18% of our GDP on healthcare, 10 percentage points more. That gap, that 10% cost, let me compare that with the size of our military, he says. Our military budget is 4%. How does Israel do it? Well, they created a national healthcare system in 1995. Right. So Romney's good with a national health... or some sort of healthcare system like that. He's fine with... In Massachusetts. As long as it's not here. Yeah, in Massachusetts, it's in Israel, but not here. But not here. Right. Again, just because he... It's not like he wouldn't have supported it. It's just, it wouldn't have worked for his campaign. Yes, if the Republicans suddenly said, we will support that again since it was originally their idea years ago anyway, yes, he would flop on that immediately, no doubt. But still, again, if your whole campaign is... or a good portion of your campaign has been, we're going to get rid of Obamacare on day one. Don't bring it up. Yeah, don't praise fake Obamacare. It's not fake Obamacare. It predates Obamacare by... You know, it started in 95, for God's sake. No, that's true. That is a valid point. That is a valid point. But now back at home, he's got a fight with Harry Reid. Listen to this. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, doing what gamblers often do in his state, he's doubling down on unproven allegations about Mitt Romney and taxes, claiming he didn't pay any taxes for a decade. Governor Romney reacted sharply today. It's time for Harry to put up or shut up. Harry's going to have to describe who it is he spoke with because, of course, that's totally and completely wrong. It's untrue, dishonest, and inaccurate. It's wrong. So I'm looking forward to have Harry reveal his sources, and we'll probably find out it's the White House. So far, he has not. He's not backing down a bit, offering no facts, no evidence, just allegations and insinuation. So the word's out that he hasn't paid any taxes for 10 years. Let him prove that he has paid taxes because he hasn't. That's my favorite part of the Harry Reid show. That's my favorite part of the Harry Reid show. That's my favorite part of the Harry Reid thing, by the way, is, by the way, let me tell you people, I am Harry Reid, and I'm letting you know that I have a source that you don't know who he is, but he told me Romney did not pay taxes. By the way, now that you've heard that, the word is out. Romney has not paid taxes. I put the word out, and now it's there. But here's the thing. It would be so easy. Let's say Harry Reid does have someone that says something. He's like, okay, tell you what, on the count of three, you know how like when you're going to do that exchange, like, on the count of three, on the count of three, I'll give the name and you give up the taxes and let's see who's right. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I mean, obviously Romney responded. I mean, here's the thing is, Romney responded with basically saying it's a lie. It's one thing to say who's your source, which we heard, and put up or shut up, but he obviously said it's a lie. I've paid a lot of taxes over the years. Yeah, but how does the put up or shut up not apply to both sides? Well, here's the thing is, I think before Harry Reid said anything, you know, there's a push for Romney to, you know, let his taxes out, to let everyone see his taxes, tax returns. However, he legally doesn't have to do it. Similar to, just to take the other side for a moment, and obviously we know how ridiculous this is and we'll get to that in a bit, but Obama's birth certificate bullshit. Yeah, exactly. It's the same thing. Right, but until he released it, he went two years without releasing it and they just, he released what he needed to release, but the other side was going, whoa, whoa, why don't you just release it? And you're like, well, because why do I have to? Screw you. Now, obviously, everyone assumes that Romney doesn't want us to see his tax returns because otherwise, why would he give the other side something to, to at least speculate about? That, and he gave 23 years of returns to the McCain-Palin campaign in 08. Well, to the McCain campaign, which made it become the McCain-Palin campaign. Yeah. So, if that isn't a clue that there's something probably kind of stanky in the woodhouse. Stanky in the woodhouse? Stanky in the woodhouse. Now, he did say when he was questioned about it, he, recently, he said, uh, he was, he was asked whether, because the one year that he did, uh, give in, it said he paid 13.9%. Yeah. Um, and so he was asked whether he has paid less than 13.9% in which, in a Romney-like style, he went, well, I, I'm not sure. I don't know those numbers. Well, I'll look into it. what was legally required. Yes. And then he said, I will look into it and I will let you know. And then the next day when they asked him about it, his spokesman said, we've already released all the information we're going to release. Yeah. Which, which once again is, is not, you know, you can argue whether he should or shouldn't have to release more tax returns, but it's, again, the lack of, lack of diplomacy, that's not the right word, the lack of Bill Clintonism to be able to go, dude, you know you just got questioned. Don't say yes in the next day you're going to say no. Right. Be more vague. Tell him you want to know what the definition of is, is. Oh, Jesus, just shut up and make me king already. Let the Mormons run the planet. Shut up and make me king. But, you know, I mean, so, but now, you were saying why is the, why is the proof not, you know, the burden of proof not on him to put up or shut up? My only argument would be Harry Reid came out of nowhere and said, and I believe Harry Reid probably has some kind of source and as a matter of fact, it was said to a woman, a woman in CNN, it was reported to CNN that a second source said close to be to Harry Reid told a reporter at CNN that the original source does exist, it's a Bain investor and is a credible person. However, that source is also unnamed. So you got an unnamed source confirming a first unnamed source. Right. But if you just come out with an accusation, similar to the birth certificate, as ridiculous as that one seemed and eventually was, hey, we're making this accusation, it seems like it's based on nothing because you've given us nothing, so we're gonna, we're gonna give you no proof as to why we're coming with this accusation, now it's on you to prove us right or to prove us wrong. And you're like, no. It's almost impossible to prove us wrong. It's a negative. Right. Not to mention, it didn't happen. All I actually, if I'm Romney, all I have to do is release what I've released. Yes. And obviously, if he had something, I mean, here's the thing is, if he had anything that looked good enough that he can just be like Harry Reid's lying. Right. That's what I'm saying. It's, I can't say facts, but the likelihood is he did pay because most rich people don't have to pay those high amounts. Yeah, but we don't know if it's zero. But I mean, even if, let's say he paid 8%. No, but if he paid, exactly. If he paid 8%, basically, he doesn't want to look like, I'm sure, I mean, I would assume what he did is legal. I would assume if he was illegally paying taxes or not paying taxes for years, he's not running for president. But that, that's part of the problem though, is that it is legal. Well, yes, and that's, that's what I agree with you that he does not want to be a poster boy for what the Democrats are saying his tax code would look, would make America look like. And Jeff, you touched on something about Palin. This week, Cheney, Dick Cheney took his, his fake heart and took it out for a walk and told, told people that Palin, the decision for Palin for the VP nomination was a mistake. He said she, she lacked the number one requirement for a vice president, which is readiness to step into the, step into the office. I thought it was testicles. I find your lack of preparation disturbing. So, now if you cross both Palin and John McCain off the list, that leaves 12 people in the world who don't think Cheney's an asshole. So, what do you do there? He's right though in this case. Which 12? Oh, no, you, they're all, Hannity is four of them. Ridiculous. They all work for Fox News. So, Cheney's got a, a bug up his ass because supposedly we released secret information? Cheney's always got a bug up, a bug up his ass. I think it's an artificial bug at this point. I think the real bug died several years ago and it's been, replaced by a, well, that's because it was a parasite that fed on human flesh. Well, didn't Cheney, go ahead. Well, I was going to say, I was going to say to wrap up the, the bullshit that they were, to wrap up the bullshit that they were talking about as far as Harry Reid's, because Fox News was big on Harry Reid. You at least got to come with your sources. It's ridiculous for you to say you have no sources. We, this isn't even a credible story. And then I thought about this. So, do you feel that you have settled that question about the origins of, uh, uh, President Obama's birth certificate? Look, his mother, to the best of everybody's knowledge, was never in that hospital. Okay. Okay. The document may have been tampered with according to many, many people. Okay. Okay. He's got grandmothers and you have people in his family that say he wasn't born in this country. Okay. Okay. Forgetting all of that. Do I think he was born here? I have no idea. That is a horrible investigation. Almost any question you ask Donald Trump. I like that. Is that your hair, Donald? I have three, three strong factoids and then I'm going to finish it up with I have no fucking idea. Thanks, buddy. That was helpful. That was helpful and all of it's wrong. How did that guy, how, how, I, I, I don't even know how, I got nothing. How is, how is he, how is he the fucking Donald? Uh, that, because his dad left him a billion dollars, half a, half a billion dollars. Did he? Yeah. Oh. Um. Which at one point he managed to lose Yes, but when you're, once you have that much money you can become poor and you're not our kind of poor. You're poor like them which means you can just get more credit. But, uh, let's stay over, uh, let's stay over in, well, in the Middle East if we were ever, were we in the Middle East? I don't know. But we're going to go over there now. Going from Donald Trump to staying in the Middle East. Well, he should be in the Middle East. Um, let's go to, uh, let's go to the Middle East. Anon has quit. He has quit and he blamed, uh, seemingly everyone. The United Nations and Arab League peace envoy, Kofi Anon, has resigned after six months of trying to find a political solution to the crisis in Syria. Syria's foreign ministry says it regrets Anon's resignation and the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, calls it a great shame. Al Jazeera's Kristen Salumi in New York has more for us. Kofi Anon said the increasing militarization of the conflict in Syria was making it very difficult for him to do his job. But his primary concern was the lack of unity in the international community. In particular, on the Security Council at the United Nations about how to handle the crisis. There was plenty of blame to go around. On the one hand, he said that Russia, China, and Iran needed to use their influence on the Syrian government to pressure Bashar al-Assad to step down. But on the other hand, he also called on the United States and the Europeans as well as Arab countries like Qatar and Saudi Arabia who support the opposition to use their influence to bring opposition members to the table. First of all, I wish you would stop jumping up and down away from the microphone. But, okay, here's my thing with this. First of all, Kofi Anon, who they refer to as, he's a Nobel Prize winner. They refer to him as one of the best diplomats around. He quit and he said, quote, without serious, purposeful, and united international pressure, including from the powers of the region, it is impossible for me or anyone to compel the Syrian government in the first place and the opposition to take the steps necessary to begin a political process. But they credit Kofi Anon for negotiating. Within a few months, he negotiated a six-point proposal that called for Syrian government to withdraw its heavy weapons and troops from populated areas and the rebel fighters to put down their guns. My question is this, is how much knowledge of a region and how much diplomacy do you need for that general of a peace plan? Here's my peace plan, guys. You stop shooting. You stop shooting. Let's transition. My God, you're incredibly naive. You've got to quit. That's what I mean. And then he's like, you know what? These guys didn't listen and those guys didn't listen. They didn't want to stop shooting. Yeah, so I'm out of here. I blame everyone. I personally think he quit as soon as he realized the observers are unarmed. Yeah, and they're unarmed and they fear for their lives so they're not leaving. You're getting shot at. Yeah, which is actually, as much as that sounds like a joke, that is actually true. They had observers in there for months and they went, well, we can't really go anywhere because we're in danger. So they observed from their windows. I mean, he blamed his, like I said, he blamed it on everyone. Russia and China do a lot of business. A lot of business. A lot of business. And so they have refused to allow the Security Council to basically do anything that may lead to a stronger intervention. However, Obama, it has been reported from Reuters, has signed a secret order. That's just with the Rothschilds to take over their central bank. And the word secret apparently is optional in this case. Secret order. But it is an order that allows not to arm the rebels, but it allows the CIA and other U.S. agencies to provide support that could help the rebels oust Assad. Pretty vague. Stop short of giving the rebels lethal weapons. Go ahead, Jeff. I smell a poison cigar in Assad's bedroom. That's been tried. That's a classic CIA. It didn't work in Cuba, but it was tried. That's because they fucking didn't use Cuban cigars. Yes. He's like, I'm not smoking that crap. That's a local cigar. That's a Marlboro. Reuters reported that along with Saudi Arabia and Qatar, Turkey had established a secret base near the Syrian border and the U.S. is helping with communications through that. Also, we are now, the State Department has said we're set aside $76 million in humanitarian aid for the Syrian people. Wow. Could we get some of that to go to Alabama? No. Louisiana? Maybe. Probably not. All right. But, you know, my only question really here is is it good when the press is telling us about secret stuff? Is that nice? Do we want that? I don't know how that helps, but let's come back to craziness here. America's new person to hate, Drew Peterson, trial started. Will County State's attorney, James Glasgow, began his opening statement by saying Kathleen Savio's death was cold-blooded and staged to look like an accident. The prosecution maintains that Drew Peterson's death was a result of a sexual assault. He said Drew Peterson was angry and didn't want to share his $300,000 pension in the divorce. A van transported the 58-year-old defendant to court from jail at around the same time. The former Bolingbroke police officer is charged with murder in the 2004 drowning death of Kathleen Savio, who was found dead in her bathtub. He's also the sole suspect in the 2007 disappearance of his fourth and much younger wife, Stacy. Prosecutors allege he murdered her, but Peterson has not been charged. Will County State's attorney, James Glasgow, is trying this case himself and to prove it, he's relying on circumstantial evidence and they hope hearsay statements from both Savio and Stacy Peterson that will allow them to speak from beyond the grave. This guy's like the Larry King of murderers. He just keeps getting married. Well, that's, it's kind of hard once, you know, one is bad. Yeah. Once you pass that threshold and you're getting into two and they're your wives. Well, now here, yeah. Now here's, I had to look it up because in my head, everybody, he, every woman, he met, he killed. Apparently, it turns out that's not true. It turns out that's not true. He married, he married Carol in 74. They divorced six years later because he was cheating on her. He married his second wife and two years later, she, they were married for 10 years and she claimed, as well as her daughter, claimed that he, he abused them both. But she divorced him while he was cheating on her with the next wife. The next wife, he married, that was Kathleen. It sounds like Newt Gingrich's history too. Well, if he gets, if Drew Peterson gets off, he's going to run for president as well. Kathleen Savio, Savio, they got divorced in 2003. So they were married for 11 years. The police were called to his house between 2002 and 2004 18 times for domestic disturbance calls. Wait, where does he live? I don't know. Now in jail. Do they, no, do they have Google in that area? Because I'm just thinking these women that he's dating, like seriously? Amazing. Don't you, don't you, don't you, don't you, don't you, don't you, don't you, don't you, don't you, look up and go. It gets worse. It gets worse. This is a good idea. Kathleen's body was found in a waterless bathtub. Her death, death was initially ruled an accident. A waterless bathtub? She drowned in a waterless bathtub? In a waterless bathtub with blood on her head. A coroner's jury, which I never heard of, met with a police officer who was friends with Peterson who assured the jurors that Peterson was quote a good man who had never hurt his wife. So, except according to his other wife. So he gets married again. The dead one. He gets married again to Stacy, who was also his alibi for the death of the previous one. Nice! Stacy's body disappears. And when that disappears, the previous wife's family went, this is bullshit. Exhumed Kathleen. They exhumed the third wife's body, turned around and went, and they looked and went, oh, this actually looks like it was forced and then she was placed underwater. And so they changed it to homicide and arrested him. The ruling, they said the state's attorney's office said a homicide staged to look like an accident. Now, Stacy Peterson, who is still missing, he claims she called him that night and said, hey, I'm leaving you and I'm leaving the car at the airport. Yet, she's never spoken to her family again either. Even though she just left her dad a voicemail shortly before that giving her new phone number. Have they checked Disneyland? Lost and found, maybe. Reverend, Stacy Peterson's past... Pastor also said that she told him she was afraid of her husband and that he killed his previous wife. And if she dies, he's probably responsible. So they have to rely on basically testimony from dead women, hearsay from dead women in order to put this guy in jail. I don't know. Just let him marry again. He seems to have a pattern. That's the crazy thing, guys. He's, again, a 23-year-old. He's 50-something-year-old after that fourth one. A 23-year-old got engaged to him, moved into the house. Who, by the way, screaming. My douche of the week. Is this woman... 23-year-old? 23 years old. I believe she has moved out now, most likely because he is in prison. Okay. Actually, she should have married... It wouldn't have been a bad move. Marry him now and keep all his money? Marry him, exactly. And take... He's clearly not going to be around for too long. That is actually very true. All right, let's move to headlines. We've got a lot to cover here real quick. Another, though, this one's slightly different. Nobody stole anything, but another financial mess-up. Knight Capital Group... Lost $10 million a minute. It announced Thursday it lost $440 million when it sold all its stocks accidentally that it just bought because of a computer glitch. The losses are greater than the $289 million the company made in its previous quarter. The firm went down... The firm's stocks went down 60% on top of the previous day when it went down 32%. Now, is this the same company that developed the software that was used by several of the other people, or is that a different company? Or is that a different... I believe that's a different company, because... Oh, okay. I believe that is a different company. This is a new trading software that has been installed, although I do not see any sign that they're suing that person, so I am shocked. Gore Vidal died. Author, famous author, who's 86, complications of pneumonia, known for screenplays, Broadway plays, novels, essays, was actually married to Jacqueline Kennedy at one point. Not married into the family, I apologize. Also, he wrote Ben-Hur, Academy Award winner for... Best Picture. Sad, sad, great voice, silence. Great social critic, too. Yes. And going from that highbrow to significantly lower brow... Is? Despite not talking to each other, Kristen Stewart and Robert Patterson will have to do promotional stuff together for the final Twilight movie. Apparently, Robert Patterson, while being bummed out, is staying at Reese Witherspoon's house. That, I mean... I had an ex-girlfriend who just destroyed me and I never got to stay at Reese Witherspoon's house. Here's the thing. Did you ask? No, I did not. Between the two of them with the look that's always on their face, how can you tell if they're sad? If you thought the Matrix movies, by the way, had great special effects, the director of those movies has gone from Larry Wachowski to Lana Wachowski. That happened a while ago. Yeah, but she... No, no, that was happening a while. That's not an overnight process. Apparently, back in the day... Give me a knife and it is. In 2002, she was still a he and married. They were going through a bitter divorce. I can understand when you want to say, I want to be the same sex as you, why that might cause problems in a marriage. I don't know if that was the reason, but it's the first major Hollywood director to come out as true. ¶¶ ¶¶ Oh, and when you loved and let it go Told you and I told you twice In your eyes