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	Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
	Keeping citizens informed and aware across the entire Gitmo Nation, this is no agenda for March 1st, 2009.
	This is no agenda.
	Coming to you from the Crackpot Command Center in southwest London, Gitmo Nation East, I'm Adam Curry.
	And I'm John C. Dvorak here at Buzzkill Bastion, Silicon Valley North, Gitmo Nation V. It's Crackpot and Buzzkill in the morning.
	A new montage.
	Yes, you didn't pot it up fast enough.
	No, I sucked.
	I'm sorry.
	There's a lot going on here, you know.
	A lot of mouse work.
	I actually looked into, because there's, you know, there's so much is firing from the computer screen, so it's actually quite inconvenient to do stuff with a mouse in that regard when you're doing radio stuff.
	I looked into what turns out to be like a holy war type situation.
	I looked into implementing mouse, was it focus follows mouse on the Mac.
	What is that?
	Well, it's a very old Unix X11 type thing.
	In fact, it still works that way, and it's a source of huge debate.
	On many Unix GUI systems, if you mouse over another window of a different application, even though you're not bringing it to the forefront, the focus of wherever the mouse is means that your keyboard will interact with that window and that application.
	Without having to click.
	Without having to click, of course.
	When you click, then it obscures other windows.
	And so OS X does have a version of its scrolling works on focus.
	So if you have an application in the foreground and you want to scroll your browser window that's in the back, that works if you do it through like a mouse scroll wheel.
	But you can't do key input commands.
	I was reading an article on today.
	It's fascinating why that's not implemented or if it ever can be.
	A lot of it is basically Apple saying, this is good for everybody.
	Now live with it.
	But it would be nice if I could do it.
	Yeah, it would have been in that intro there where you were dead in the water after I said hello.
	Don't make me do it again, man.
	Hey, John, how are you?
	Okay.
	Okay.
	Having some oatmeal here in the morning.
	In the morning.
	Oh, you're too quick for me, baby.
	In the morning.
	See, if only I had that follow focus thing.
	It could have been much faster on the draw.
	Yeah, well, you'll probably, one of these days, be in the groove.
	At some point, you're going to do a perfect show.
	Shoot me when that happens.
	Oh, just to get into the vibe here, I wanted to say that I took the Lady Patricia Friday night to see Jersey Boys in London.
	And I'm sure you haven't seen it, have you, John?
	Yeah, you're sure I haven't seen it?
	Well, they did play it here in San Francisco.
	They had the touring troupe.
	That's where I saw it first.
	Oh, you've seen it twice now.
	Well, this was why I actually was very...
	Well, Patricia had not seen it, and I was very interested to see what a London version would look like with British actors.
	Well, wait, let me guess.
	Let me guess.
	So...
	I would think, because San Francisco is interesting to go see plays in, and I think this is probably true for any of these secondary markets.
	The audience is so appreciative that if somebody puts on the worst piece of crap in history, they get a standing ovation.
	So it's like an Obama speech.
	There's these standing ovations constantly.
	And at the end, you know, the curtain call for crap.
	It's almost hard to take.
	Let me tell you, coming from Jersey, I really resent that remark, okay?
	Jersey boys and that story can never be compared to Obama.
	Not good.
	I'm comparing this scene at the San Francisco theater to, you know, where some people just give standing goes for no good reason.
	I would say the audience reactions were very similar, although in the San Francisco version there were people kind of getting up and dancing during some of the songs.
	Obviously it's a musical.
	God, I hope they weren't spinning.
	No.
	Average age in San Francisco.
	And I saw it before it was classified as a bona fide hit, which is kind of nice.
	And one of the actors who actually used to do...
	I don't know if he still does a podcast, Eric.
	He used to do a podcast.
	He invited me.
	And I loved the show, and I thought it was fantastic.
	And so I was interested to see what it would be like in London's West End.
	First of all, packed house.
	This thing has been going for, I guess, a year now here at the West End.
	Not a single seat left over.
	And it was really hard for me to get into it because even though the accents were pretty much there, you know, they sounded kind of Jersey, there's just something that you just can't replicate it.
	You just cannot replicate a true Jersey attitude.
	You know, it's not even the way the words sound, but just, you know, it's very subtle...
	Ways of standing, shifting your weight, body language.
	Great performances as not bumping into the furniture, getting their lines out, and fantastic singing.
	The guy who played Frankie Valli was a phenomenal, great singer.
	But it just didn't make it.
	They can't do it.
	In fact, there was one guy who plays a couple of different roles.
	He plays like a cop.
	He plays a DJ. He plays a record company owner.
	And I'm like, that guy has got to be an American.
	And he was the only American in the cast because he could really hit it.
	He could portray it.
	So it was just interesting that it really, for me, just really didn't work.
	I'm sure the New York version would have been the one that really rocked.
	Oh, I wish.
	I wish.
	Let me just play one bit of a song from the fabulous Frankie Valli to get into the mood.
	Surely you know this one, John.
	Yes, one of the ones that I would have never played.
	Ah, what a great song.
	See, I like the stuff where there was a beat.
	Well, this has a beat.
	It picks up.
	I'm just saying.
	You know, you have that...
	You have kind of a...
	Sappy, sentimental vibe?
	Mm-hmm.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, that's me.
	So I guess I wanted to bring something up, by the way.
	Okay.
	Before I forget.
	Shoot.
	Yeah.
	Better hurry.
	The Oscars and this list that was leaked.
	Yeah, it was interesting because it was right on except for one.
	Yeah.
	So it means it was...
	It was fake.
	Yeah, it was fake.
	It was fake.
	Yeah, I fully admit.
	I didn't say it was definitely the list.
	We both agreed.
	But what was interesting is the one that was missed was not the small or obscure one like the documentary, which was spot on, Man on the Wire.
	It was Sean Penn winning instead of Mickey Rourke.
	Right.
	For Best Actor.
	Now, here's the possibility.
	What do you think of this?
	The list is leaked.
	You know everybody in the audience has seen this, because they pass it around, right?
	I mean, let's face it, if you're a nominee...
	Oh, yeah, of course, of course, yeah.
	And so everyone's getting freaked out by the fact that their thing is nailing one after another after another.
	So let's say this happens.
	The committee itself, whoever's running the show says, look, this is terrible.
	This is the worst thing that could possibly happen.
	Switcheroonie!
	And they say, what can we do to kill this and give it to somebody that, you know, well, you know, Sean Penn came pretty close to Mickey Rourke.
	And he's got a message that we don't have anybody to give us this communist message that we need to highlight the whole thing.
	You know what happened?
	I can just see it.
	And it's like, what?
	So they have a meeting, right?
	It's this kind of dank, dusty boardroom, you know, all secretive stuff.
	And like, what should we do?
	And then someone hits the red button.
	Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
	Quick, let's call Crackpot and Buzzkill.
	They'll know what to do.
	So anyway, that's my theory.
	I did want to mention something else about the Academy Awards.
	The Slumdog Millionaire winning five awards, I believe?
	Or more.
	Yeah, I just wanted to say that's total horseshit.
	Yeah, it was a good movie.
	Was it the best movie?
	No.
	Did it deserve all these accolades?
	No.
	Why did it win?
	Because Hollywood is taking billions of dollars from India, from the Bollywood industry.
	Steven Spielberg, I believe, $1.2 billion in money from India.
	Everybody knows there's no more money, because money for Hollywood comes from...
	Interesting sources.
	Big companies.
	Big hedge funds.
	People who have way too much money and want to put it into something sexy.
	Maybe get laid by an actress.
	That's where Hollywood money comes from.
	And that has been drying up.
	And Hollywood sees the writing on the wall.
	So they went to India.
	And this was a total political move.
	Because who votes on these?
	The members of the academy.
	So it's all the people who are behooved by Indian rupees coming into the system.
	Right.
	I agree with that 100%.
	Well, thank you.
	It bugged me a little bit that no one's really been saying that.
	They don't say anything.
	If it wasn't for the two of us, none of us would have ever been said.
	And this is exactly why we need to accelerate completion of the Adam Curry-John C. Dvorak Library, which we'll talk about later in the show.
	So, yeah, no, I mean, and the thing about the movie is that people, they go to see it thinking it's going to be, you know, a world, you know, this, it's a, you know, I don't know.
	I haven't seen it yet.
	But people have gone to see it.
	They say it's somewhat depressing, a little disappointing.
	It doesn't live up to the hype.
	You've seen it.
	Yeah, and it's okay.
	You know, yeah, it's a good movie.
	But, you know, all the movies this year, they were just a bunch of dogs.
	I mean, I didn't see.
	Well, The Wrestler was a good movie.
	Yeah, the rest probably should have won.
	No, I've only seen clips from it, but it just looks like it rocks, and everybody, all those big shots that know what they're talking about think it's great.
	So, I'll watch it on DVD. I don't think it's out yet.
	It's probably not out yet.
	I'll see it on HBO. I don't see what's the rush.
	Why do you have to see these movies immediately?
	Well, it's herd mentality.
	If you want to be a part of the conversation at work or at school, if you haven't seen it, then you're a douche.
	Nah, just say you saw it.
	Well, that's what I just did, and you bought it, so perfect, isn't it?
	Ah, okay.
	Well, that's good to know.
	You know, we only recently got our HD television.
	I've been really behind on that.
	I've been a tube guy, really.
	I like a big-ass tube, and Patricia finally said, no more tube.
	Did you get a plasma or an LCD? Well, man, I stood for a long time debating between the Samsung LCD and the LG plasma.
	And the LG Plasma has a contrast ratio that's out of control, like 115,000 to 1 or something.
	And we looked at it in a situation similar to what we might have in our viewing quarters.
	And I was like, it's too dark for me.
	Actually, it's just too dark.
	I'd really let Patricia call the shots on it.
	She'd agree.
	So we got the Samsung LCD, which still has, I think, a 60,000 to 1 contrast ratio.
	It's got the 200 megahertz.
	So it's a proper 1080 hoopity-poop thing.
	And I saw what I see last night, American Gangster with Denzel Washington.
	God, that looks so good in HD. Everything looks good in HD. Well, besides the fact that you can see every little...
	I showed it to Patricia and I said, hey, by the way, when you're on television...
	She's on SBS, so they don't have an HD signal.
	And I said, but if you're on any of the state-run channels, here's how close up we can actually see you.
	And she's like, oh no!
	This is horrible!
	I can see the makeup just sitting on their heads!
	I said, yeah, absolutely.
	You can see dirty floors, all kinds of stuff.
	So what's the screen size?
	Relatively small, actually.
	40 inches, which was perfect.
	They don't even make 40.
	Yes.
	No, yes, they do.
	The LCD is a 40 inch.
	It's a very typical, because normally it's 42.
	I think it's 37, 42, but the Samsung has a 40 inch, which is very perfect size.
	So what do you pay?
	Let's go.
	Come on.
	What do I pay?
	America wants to know.
	1,100 pounds, I think.
	1,200 pounds.
	About 1,500 bucks.
	$1,500 for a 40-inch LCD. They can get that one of those at Costco?
	$750.
	Yahoo!
	Yeah, but you can't get the Curry's quality and service that goes along.
	I like shopping at Curry's.
	And I give my credit card and they're like, huh?
	I said, yeah, I own the joint.
	This is a test, bitch.
	Curry's.
	So there's a bunch of electronic stores called Curry's?
	Yeah, it's a huge chain.
	Huge.
	Yeah.
	I get a lot of search traffic for that.
	I used to have Google ads.
	I'd have curry ads all over the place.
	I got tired of it.
	But a great, interesting story, by the way, the American Gangster, because it...
	And I had seen it already, but it kind of brought back what I always say.
	You know, this is the story of Frank Lucas and New Jersey cop Richie Roberts, who brought him down.
	Frank Lucas was one of the biggest drug lords on the East Coast, I should say.
	And he was bringing in, this is the time of the Vietnam War, he was bringing in heroin on U.S. military transport flights.
	And it's so funny to see that he builds up this empire, he's got this great supply chain that's coming in on military flights, which I say has never stopped until the war ends, and then his business basically goes bust.
	I'm like, yeah, hmm, I wonder, we need more troops in Afghanistan.
	This is a good idea.
	We don't want the supply chain to slow down for any reason.
	Yeah, there's probably something like that going on.
	Well, I was watching our president at Lejeune, is it Air Force?
	No.
	It's North Carolina, right?
	Lejeune Military Base?
	I don't know.
	Lejeune?
	Lejeune?
	I don't know.
	It could be anything.
	I had to look it up, but I don't feel like it.
	Okay.
	It's in North Carolina.
	Jackson?
	You can just say Military Base and you've got it covered.
	Okay.
	And he was addressing the troops and this is where he publicly announced that we will remain in Iraq for another 18 months at which time the withdrawal will begin but we will leave 35,000 to 50,000 troops in Iraq At least until the end of 2011,
	which just blows me away, where first he voted against the war, then it's like, I'm going to get our troops out, then it's like, well, we'll get them out in, well, I guess 16 months, 18 months doesn't make that much difference, but if you read...
	Very closely, what has been written about this and what he's saying, it is dependent upon what's happening on the ground.
	So it can change at any time, essentially.
	But I wanted to play a little sound clip, John, from the very end of him addressing fine young men and women of the Marines.
	And just listen to how he changes the truth, literally, before your very eyes slash ears.
	You ready for it?
	Go!
	Now, as a nation, we've had our share of debates about the war in Iraq.
	It has, at times, divided us as a people.
	To this very day, there are some Americans who want to stay in Iraq longer.
	By the way, who are those Americans?
	Could you please all raise your hand without talking?
	Yeah, but they want to stay in Iraq longer.
	Yeah, apparently there are some Americans who would like to stay in Iraq longer.
	And some who want to leave faster.
	But there should be no disagreement on what the men and women of our military have achieved.
	And so I want to be very clear.
	I love it, because this is like the warning.
	Whenever President Obama says, I want to be very clear, or let's make it clear, or I want to be very clear, that's when the bullshit is about to come.
	That's almost like someone saying, honestly, or in all honesty, that's when bullshit is being announced.
	Stand by, here it comes.
	We sent our troops to Iraq to do away with Saddam Hussein's regime.
	Okay, John, why did we go to Iraq?
	Wow.
	To get those weapons of mass destruction.
	Thank you.
	And you got the job done.
	Commission accomplished.
	You got the job done.
	Oh, but it continues.
	We kept our troops in Iraq to help establish a sovereign government.
	What?
	What?
	To help establish a sovereign government?
	You mean the puppet we put in there?
	And you got the job done.
	Mission accomplished.
	Mission accomplished.
	He does the repetitive thing.
	You got the job done.
	There'll be a punchline at the end of that.
	Leave the Iraqi people with a hard-earned opportunity to live a better life.
	That is your achievement.
	That is the prospect that you have made possible.
	There are many lessons to be learned from what we've experienced.
	We've learned that America must go to war with clearly defined goals, which is why I've ordered a review of our policy in Afghanistan.
	So, I can't even listen to it anymore.
	So, let's just go back to the...
	That's another lie as well.
	It's like, oh, I'm going to go to war.
	I'm going to review that with Congress.
	No, no.
	Congress is the only one who can send us to war, not the President.
	It sounded to me like he was saying it's up to him.
	Well, that's the impression that they like to convey to the public at large, so that way when Congress complains about some action taken by the President out of the blue, they look like buffoons.
	So how about that, we went to topple Saddam Hussein's regime?
	That's a lie.
	That's not why we went there.
	We were lied to about it to get in there, but why doesn't he just lie?
	Tell me, Daddy.
	I have no idea.
	He does it because he's got an agenda.
	Agenda.
	He has an agenda.
	And I'll tell you what the agenda is, is to create another Vietnam, which is what we're going to end up with in Afghanistan.
	And perhaps there is a drug angle here.
	Because everybody, you know, if you talk to a lot of these analysts, they say that the whole thing is about the drug trade in Afghanistan.
	There's so much money to be made from it.
	You could pay for the whole damn thing.
	And, you know, and the other thing is, you know, go back to what my father once told me.
	He says, you know, the Republicans are the Depression Party.
	They always get us into a depression.
	And the Democrats are a war party.
	They always get us into a war.
	So turning over things to the Democrats as because, oh, they want, you know, they want to get out is bogus.
	I mean, we're not getting out.
	Here's the opportunity.
	If you remember when the elections took place in 2006, it was an anti-Bush vote.
	In fact, I think the 2008 election was an anti-Bush vote.
	I don't think people were necessarily voting for Obama.
	I mean, the Democrats were, but I think the independents were just sick of what was going on.
	They didn't vote for anybody.
	So they put Obama in, but there was an underlying theme that this was an anti-war thing.
	You didn't want war.
	We're going to get out.
	Just get out.
	Out.
	But there's no evidence that they're going to do that, and there would never be any evidence if you've been following the Democrats ever.
	I mean, they're the ones who, in the Vietnam situation, they're the ones who cranked it up.
	It wasn't anybody else.
	It was, you know, Kennedy followed by Johnson, who really started throwing troops in there, and even phoning up certain battles, you know, to get more troops.
	And, you know, they got themselves into a huge bind, and the guy had to finally quit because they couldn't get out.
	There's no exit strategy at all.
	And Nixon had to come in and just kind of make a mess over there, and maybe he ended up getting us out.
	It was a Republican.
	There's a Vietnam coming up, this Afghanistan thing.
	It's a dead-end place to be.
	We should just bail out.
	By the way, wait, wait, stop.
	Let me mention something.
	How come we just can't leave?
	Well, of course we can leave, because that, thank you!
	Finally, someone lost their question.
	Wait, wait, stop, stop.
	Let me just mention something.
	I always notice that the Americans, in particular, are highly critical of Asian cultures, because all these Asian cultures, you put them in a bind, and they can't do this, and they can't do this, because they have to save face.
	They have to save face.
	It's just part of their culture.
	They're those poor idiots.
	They have to save face.
	Oh, we can't make them do that, because they have to save face.
	But what is it with us?
	We seem to be more interested in saving face than any Chinese ever.
	Don't get me started on that.
	I'm done.
	You're done.
	Well, some interesting dialogue in this movie.
	By the way, the stream seems to be fucking up, so...
	Sorry, people.
	You'll have to download it later.
	Some interesting dialogue about how many people were basically...
	And not just on the drug side, but on the judge side, the cop side, the lawyer side, the military side.
	How many people were dependent?
	And at one point, Denzel Washington, obviously, as...
	Acting as this Frank Lucas said, I've put so many kids through college.
	He said, I've put all of the judges in this town, I've put them through college.
	All the cops, I've put their kids through college.
	And when you think about it, if that type of drug trade would go away, I mean, that's when the economy truly would collapse.
	So yeah, I think there is a drug angle for sure on this.
	I just can't see any other way.
	Which brings me to another point.
	Hit me, baby.
	So I'm watching C-SPAN, and they had a bunch of the speakers, Ron Paul, for example, and a bunch of others that are at something called CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference.
	Yeah, I saw this movie, this video.
	Okay, so anyway, Rush Limbaugh was giving a speech, and he went overtime by like an hour.
	You guys can talk forever.
	By the way, I was watching a lot of these speeches, and I ran into one where Maureen Dowd, I'm going to make a clip of this because she's got to be the worst speaker in the history of public speaking.
	She reads word for word from a sheet of paper.
	Without even looking up?
	Without looking up, in a screechy voice.
	And she giggles at her own material because it's so well written.
	And then she gets lost and starts fumbling through the papers thinking that she said something, whether she did or not.
	And it's just horrible.
	And then you see Rush Limbaugh, who looks like he's not even working from notes, although I'm sure he is, who just add libs to ours.
	Or it looks like he does.
	But here's the thing.
	You're mentioning the drug thing.
	So here in California...
	There's a...
	Tom Ammiano, who is a city councilman in San Francisco, kind of a troublemaker, wanted to run for governor once, but he's unacceptable as a state candidate, for sure.
	He's decided to introduce into legislation, I think maybe he's in the Senate now, or the state Senate, or something like that.
	He's introduced...
	because he must be, or Assemblyman.
	He's introducing into the legislature the...
	Legalization of marijuana in the state of California.
	Right.
	And the people who have analyzed this say it'll add a billion dollars in tax revenues.
	California's broke, okay?
	It'll add a billion dollars in tax revenues.
	You're broke and you're dry.
	Sorry?
	You're broke and you're dry.
	You got no water either.
	Yeah, it's raining right now.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Southern California, dude.
	Dry.
	Southern California should just move.
	Anyway, so...
	Go back to Mexico.
	Go back to Mexico.
	Oh, shit.
	Save a million dollars in taxes, or get a million dollars in taxes, and probably save another million dollars in overhead for the prison system, and also probably another billion in law enforcement crap that had just cost money to enforce these drug laws.
	They should, you know, as a...
	I've always believed as a libertarian that many of these drug laws should be repealed.
	Now, what got me on the CPAC thing, the conservatives, and the local talk radio guys, we have a...
	In the Bay Area, we have...
	Two stations that play conservative talk radio, the Rush Limbaugh Show and Michael Medved and Gold, some guy named Gold, and a bunch of these other kind of second and third tier people.
	And they all...
	Are just going crazy over the fact that somebody's introduced this legislation, these conservatives.
	And so I'm listening to, you know, and I'm thinking, why are these conservatives?
	And I'm going to read a quote from Limbaugh, who says, I wrote it down, Limbaugh.
	It's easy to remember.
	That's part of my note-taking shorthand.
	He went on about somebody claiming that the conservative movement as it now exists is stale.
	And so he makes his following quote.
	He says, there's nothing stale about freedom.
	There's nothing stale about liberty.
	And I'm thinking, and this is kind of a theme that's been going on at the CPAC thing, about liberty and freedom.
	Personal responsibility is another big one.
	Personal responsibility.
	Government should not be involved in your day-to-day life.
	And Limbaugh himself says that as soon as you close the door to your house, there's no business of anybody's what goes on inside.
	How does this jive...
	With wanting marijuana to be, you know, against the law.
	I mean, how does it jive with all these onerous laws that are nothing more than kind of a modern version of prohibition?
	How does that jive?
	I'm not getting it.
	What is wrong with, where am I missing the conservative agenda here?
	Where they go on and on about freedom and liberty and personal responsibility as the theme, the principles, which Limbaugh, in fact, Limbaugh, I like it.
	Just keep saying limbo.
	That's much better.
	I forgot to say limbo.
	I'm stuck with it now.
	Anyway, how does it jive one with the other?
	And, of course, Limbaugh was strung out himself on OxyContin and could just as easy be in jail for the rest of his life.
	I'm not seeing the connection between these so-called conservative principles and their being so outraged about trying to legalize marijuana.
	And, by the way, I do not use marijuana, and you know this.
	No, I've offered you many times.
	I said, come on, John, don't you want to be cool like all the kids?
	Come on.
	I mean, once you get past 16, I don't understand why you'd be trying it.
	So it's like I don't see the argument, oh, you know, once it's legalized, everyone's going to be stoned.
	You know, this is bull.
	And where's the personal responsibility?
	I don't get it.
	I don't get the conservative...
	Message on top of this.
	And man, I'm telling you, these conservative talk radio guys are just going berserk over this idea.
	Oh, it's terrible!
	Somebody who's an old-fashioned conservative can explain this to me.
	I'd like to know.
	Well, this, of course, was a campaign promise by Obama that he was going to stop the persecution of medical marijuana and was going to change the laws.
	And so there's a lot of people saying, hey, yay, it's really happening.
	Interestingly enough, though, if you go to whitehousedrugpolicy.gov, The medical marijuana reality check still kind of broadcasts a different message about the use of medical marijuana because it could, of course, unintentionally cause serious harm to patients and all kinds of other stuff that they've written there.
	So I still don't believe it'll actually happen.
	It's just a little placating thing.
	Just shut up, people.
	Here's a little bit of legislation.
	We'll bang that around for a while.
	But you're right.
	Well, you're right about...
	About it being your own business, you're wrong about not smoking it after you're 16.
	So another thing that Limbo said was he called that the Obama address to Congress as a State of the Union show.
	It's not a State of the Union.
	I know.
	I don't get why these guys are saying this.
	I mean, what is the point?
	I don't understand why the media...
	It's not even called a State of the Union in the Constitution.
	And, you know, in fact, I don't think there's any mention of State of the Union in the Constitution.
	There is a, from time, I think it even says literally from time to time the President will address the joint session.
	Yeah, but the State of the Union is addressing the public, not the Congress.
	Now, here's another thing.
	Limbaugh mentioned something that was kind of funny.
	He thinks it was cool to give this anecdote, but I thought it was not.
	He took a day off of his show because he was invited.
	To lunch with Bush the day after his birthday, and then Bush had a cake for him that was made in the shape of a microphone, and a couple of the staffers came by and sang happy birthday, and he told a story, but he said that everybody believed that he went to the Obama dinner, which was that same night that was a bunch of conservative talk show people and conservative writers were invited to Obama's whatever it was.
	A white tie thing?
	One of those white tie things?
	I don't know what it was.
	It was just a meeting for the conservative people to meet with Obama.
	I don't know if it was a white tie, black tie, or no tie.
	But it was funny because Limbaugh apparently wasn't invited, which, you know, it's like if you're going to bring the conservatives in, it would be kind of silly to leave him out of it, especially on purpose.
	But everyone thought he went to it because he took the day off without telling anybody.
	But it was to go have lunch with Bush.
	And obviously it was in his private jet the way he described it.
	So he takes his private jet to Washington, grabs a limo, goes and has lunch with Bush.
	Who tells him, you know, the talking points for the day.
	And then he jumps back in his plane and goes home.
	And he tells this story as if it was something that, you know, it seems that that would be embarrassing.
	I mean, the problem he's having now, anyway, is that he sounds like an apologist for, you know, the Republican Party.
	I mean, he's defended, along with a bunch of these other conservative talk show guys, this idiot Bobby Jindal.
	who gave this horrible talk that is being mocked here and there.
	And it seems to me that the Republicans and the conservatives in particular really have an issue with self-analysis and self-criticism.
	They won't, they just, no, they won't know.
	Jindal's a great guy and the speech was great, when it wasn't.
	I mean, I don't know, these conservatives are just blowing it.
	We got a couple of emails about that as well from listeners.
	and And what people fail to understand is that just like President Obama is doing really a bang-up job at mind-controlling everyone with his cadence, his candor, his body language, his entire presentation is slick, it's very professional, he's got a great way of doing it, I would hire the guy for our tech network in a heartbeat.
	That's as bad as this guy was.
	And it's all about that.
	The message is really conveyed in very short sound bites with someone who looks the part and does it well and delivers.
	That's what it's about.
	It's what you watch television shows for.
	It's what you believe in politics is how it's delivered.
	There was a guy when, you know, the Republicans used to dominate the state politics in California, especially the governor's offices locally.
	There's always just a split.
	And then the Democrats got a hold of the main party or the governorship with this Gray Davis guy who was just the worst governor in history.
	Is that the guy who killed Chandra Levy?
	He's the guy who...
	He is, isn't he?
	No, he didn't kill anybody.
	He's the guy who...
	Was responsible for the rolling blackouts.
	Oh, right.
	He killed old grandmas who fried to death in their overheated apartments.
	That guy, yeah.
	The problem was that the Republicans were taken over by the evangelical religious nutballs here in California.
	And so they couldn't field anybody that was acceptable.
	And then they had this argument, where are our principles?
	We're not going to just put anyone up there who can actually win.
	Yeah.
	And so I wish I could remember this guy's name, and somebody out there probably knows who it is, but Schwarzenegger, the only reason he got in is because it was a recall that they orchestrated, and Schwarzenegger got in with, you know, because they had a real popular choice.
	It was the public that got to choose who was going to run for, or who was going to be governor, as opposed to the party.
	And so he got in, now they can't get him out.
	Of course, now he's going to be out again, because I think it's terms up.
	But they had this guy that all the conservatives wanted to run.
	And it was McCarthy or McCain.
	He had something like his name.
	I can't remember his name.
	But he was very smart.
	You heard him on the radio.
	He's kind of like Ron Paul.
	And you saw this guy.
	He's like cross-eyed.
	No offense to anybody who's cross-eyed.
	Yeah, but...
	But I'm telling you, guys running for governor, he was cross-eyed and kind of goofy looking.
	And you look at him and you would not vote for him.
	Right.
	It just wasn't going to happen.
	No, but he's the best man.
	He's got the principles and da-da-da.
	And it was just like, these guys are nuts.
	And this thing about the marijuana thing is a perfect example.
	I mean, I don't know what they're thinking.
	How's that not government interfering with your personal life?
	It's public safety.
	Let's switch over to Gitmo Nation East for a moment, because as we speak, some interesting things are taking place in Brussels.
	An emergency meeting was called a financial crisis meeting for 1 o'clock today with the 27 heads of government in the EU. Actually, it's over now.
	Or it should be over now.
	now they're going to meet for three hours.
	And before this one o'clock meeting, the prime ministers of the top dogs, No, I'm sorry.
	The Eastern European...
	Nine Prime Ministers of the Eastern European Bloc were going to meet separately before this meeting.
	There is humongous crisis...
	And it's kind of starting to become clear now.
	So now we have an East and West Europe again.
	So the Eastern Bloc, who of course were bailed out by, or not bailed out, but who have lent, they've borrowed hundreds of billions of euros from their Western neighbor states.
	Right, suckered them.
	Yeah.
	So there's a divide now.
	And of course, the presidency of the EU is now held by the Czech Republic.
	And the problem is basically there's no leadership.
	There is no Obama of Europe, which was entirely the plan to have that set by now.
	That was one of the main rules of the Lisbon Treaty, was to have one single European president that would be that for at least a year or whatever length of time.
	And of course, Sarkozy wanted to be that.
	Yeah, strong man.
	Yeah, he was really pushing this.
	France rammed the Lisbon Treaty right through without a referendum, even though in a referendum for the Constitution of Europe it was voted down.
	It's essentially the same document.
	So that messed it up.
	It really messed up their plans, which is why there's so much crisis right now, because everyone's doing their own thing.
	Everyone's trying to get themselves bailed out by borrowing money from different parties.
	It's a mess.
	The wheels are coming off of this thing, and no one knows what to do.
	I'm surprised it's taken this long.
	God, this EU thing has been, you know, this is a 40-year project, man.
	This is not just something from the past couple of years, but...
	I think it even goes back further than that when you really start tracing its origins.
	Well, yeah, if you go back to all the individual treaties that exist, absolutely.
	And Gordon Brown will be visiting the President of the United States on Wednesday for a private meeting.
	And that's when I guess he's going to bring the message and say, okay, we're ready to go.
	Tell us how to pull the switch.
	You know, just let me know and we'll let it all come tumbling down.
	So somebody says, by the way, the stream works if you specify the port number.
	Yeah, you have to specify the port number.
	The stream was a different problem.
	Don't worry about it.
	It's fixed.
	So we're in dire, dire straits here.
	Yeah, but what does this mean?
	What does dire straits mean?
	Well, I'll tell you what that means.
	What it means is the financial system has to change.
	The Ponzi scheme collapsed.
	The entire public markets, put everything together, the subprime mortgages, the credit card debts, people not paying, the defaults, and of course, the big monster of them all, which would be the unraveling of the derivatives market, which could go up to a quadrillion dollars, $1,000 which would be the unraveling of the derivatives market, which could That's the problem.
	That's why we own 80% of AIG is because that's where all this crap is sitting.
	It's all of these derivatives.
	If that unwinds, then everyone will be broke, every country, every bank, according to the numbers.
	So whether they do it in a controlled manner, which they're attempting to do, but of course, we all know the money is not actually going anywhere except into bankers' pockets.
	So far, it could change, but so far, that's what's been happening, literally into bankers' pockets.
	So whether they do it in a controlled fashion or not, it has to come apart.
	It has to unravel.
	They've tried this.
	So it's either nationalization for every bank everywhere, or I would favor, blow it up.
	Let it go fast and then we can figure something out.
	So this is why you hear President Obama publicly talking about the cap and trade program.
	It's called a carbon-based economy.
	All of these words are there for a reason because they are preparing to bring in a new financial system that doesn't necessarily mean different money, a marrow, all that crap, maybe, whatever.
	But a new money system has to be brought in and it has to be based on debt once again.
	Because that's the way our uber lords, the people who actually own the earth, they think, that's what they've done for centuries, is a debt-based system, debt-based economy.
	So they have to come up with a new system, and because there's no leadership in Europe, they don't know what to do because of a number of mistakes that were made in this takedown in the U.S. There's all kinds of confusion, and Obama is not actually a leader.
	There is no, you know, whoever's leading this is behind the scenes.
	Well, that's always been your theory.
	Well, yes, of course.
	So now, who, but yeah, can you identify this group of individuals or a person?
	The owners of the central banks.
	The people who are actually the full shareholders and the money behind the central banks.
	The Federal Reserve, which is the U.S. central bank, its actual membership is a secret.
	It's a secret.
	So it's those people, but I can give you a couple names.
	But there's something much bigger going on right now, John.
	Much, much bigger.
	I believe there is a full-scale war going on between warring gangs.
	And let me give you some data points, if I may.
	There is no coincidence in submarines crashing underwater, satellites crashing in space, airplanes coming down.
	There is no coincidence in this.
	Particularly, and I can't get this Iridium company out of my mind.
	So I've been doing some more digging.
	Iridium is the company that has these 64, 65 satellites circling the Earth, low orbit.
	Do you have any idea what Iridium provides when it comes to services?
	I thought it was just these silly satellite phones, right?
	And maybe some internet-based stuff in the field that's handy for in the desert.
	Well, we already discussed on this program that Iridium is pretty much a full military unit at this point.
	Just look at the board of directors.
	Just go to their website.
	You can see it right there.
	But they provide...
	It's amazing.
	They provide...
	By law, you have to have LRIT, which is long-range international tracking.
	Every single vessel.
	In the world is connected to this or a similar, but this is now, they just announced record results in February.
	You know, they're the fastest growing satellite company.
	They have all the business.
	They provide tracking, guidance, communications.
	Man, they have boxes installed on 737-800s, which is exactly the model that crashed outside of Schiphol.
	Which actually provides data and is a two-way link as to fuel consumption, throttle settings.
	Everything is completely under the grid.
	And so when you get things happening where satellites are basically crashing into each other, not by mistake, but by design, okay?
	I've already told you that's my theory, that that's not just a simple oops mistake.
	These satellites can move away.
	They are powered.
	There's all kinds of things that they know about what's around.
	The space shuttle can't launch right now.
	The space shuttle can't launch because there's all this debris floating around at low orbit.
	Someone is at war or someone is sending very specific messages.
	Two submarines, two atomic submarines collide into each other.
	I believe that there is something going on with navigation systems.
	And then if you start looking into Galileo, which Europe wants to have their own GPS system, why?
	Why do they want to have all this?
	Because it's a huge blanket of power.
	And I can even take, we joked about it last week, Boeing versus Airbus.
	Well, on that Turkish flight that crash-landed in Amsterdam, there were four Boeing engineers.
	All of them directly involved with the, well, I don't know if they're installation, but all of them engineers on the early warning aircraft system being installed for the Turkish Air Force on Boeing 737s, which is this huge antenna that can detect missile launches which is this huge antenna that can detect missile launches from thousands of miles.
	You know, these things fly around.
	It's kind of like an AWACS, only different.
	Multi-billion dollar contract.
	John, there is so much going on.
	Just between Airbus and Boeing alone, getting a contract, and by the way, Turkey has always been on the fence.
	Oh, maybe we'll take Airbus.
	Maybe we'll take Boeing.
	Oh, we'll take a little bit of both.
	Do you know how much that means?
	It's not one of the true industries that we have left, is these aircraft manufacturing industries.
	These are hundreds of billions of dollars of contracts.
	Is that worth...
	Showing, hey, you know what?
	Your Airbus sucks.
	Watch.
	Oh, it landed in the Hudson.
	No, your Boeing sucks.
	Oh, it crash-landed.
	Knowing that they're also connected.
	It's too many close connections with Iridium and defense contracts and actual all-out war.
	I guess this kind of changes the subject from legalizing marijuana.
	No, no.
	It's a direct result of marijuana.
	Yeah.
	So, okay.
	I mean, I like the idea that somebody's messing with the...
	Navigation.
	Navigation?
	It could.
	Think about it.
	Well, you know, this should be documentable.
	Well, that's what I was...
	I thought you called a little bit early.
	I was incorrect about that, because I was actually still on this Iridium thing, and I'm looking at all the...
	Iridium has specific things they've installed on 737-800s.
	There's a lot of control.
	What if someone has the capability?
	Don't think that these guys drive around with a TomTom.
	That's not what's on a 737.
	These are very sophisticated flight systems.
	They get shit installed from all kinds of companies, and they're upgraded all the time.
	And I'm quite confident that they're probably just as connected as ships are.
	And that there's a lot of data going up and coming down.
	And so what if the glide path...
	Maybe they're not doing it in the old-fashioned...
	Well, they probably aren't doing old-fashioned glide slope, which is basically a transmission-based system on a vertical and a horizontal antenna, if you will, so you can get your glide scope.
	What if the glide scope was...
	What if the data that was sent to their systems was incorrect?
	And then there may even be control over throttles.
	I mean, these things...
	Airbuses, the computer land has lots of control.
	They've got authorization over all kinds of things that pilots used to have 100% control of.
	I feel messaging going on here.
	Big, big messaging.
	Yeah, and you could actually, if you could remotely get control of an Airbus and just drive it anywhere you wanted.
	I believe that to be true.
	Yes.
	Interesting.
	Interesting.
	Well, we should just keep our eyes on it, because there's connections all the time.
	Well, let's see if anything else bumps into anything else, but yeah.
	Well, be on the lookout for Iridium.
	Iridium is a very interesting company with a lot of interesting services.
	Well, let's see.
	By the way, AIG invested in Iridium.
	I'm just saying.
	They don't do a big business.
	I mean, their quarterly revenue is...
	Like a billion dollars or something.
	No, no.
	The revenue is only 76.8 million.
	This isn't even a $400 million company.
	This is really rinky-dink.
	But they made money.
	Did you see the...
	No, they lost money.
	I'm looking at their earnings report right here, February 26, 2009.
	This is so funny.
	Go ahead and you read that, and then I'll read their press release.
	Despite higher sales, earnings at Iridium Satellite LLC, which provides mobile satellite communications services, plummeted 83% to $1.5 million for the quarter ended December 31st, compared with the same quarter of 2007.
	Okay, now from their website.
	Breaking news.
	February 26th.
	Iridium Satellite today announced financial results for the quarter and the year ended December 31st, 2008.
	Iridium Satellite reports record 2008 results.
	Total subscribers approximately 320,000, up 37%.
	Revenue up 14%.
	Operational EBITDA up 33%.
	Net income down 83%.
	Up 23% for 2008, though.
	Iridium Network proves resilient in wake of satellite collision, blah, blah, blah, blah.
	Yeah, well, there's an example of a press release.
	Yes.
	Well, it's breaking news on their site.
	Breaking news.
	Well, their business is up.
	Their revenues are up.
	Speaking of breaking...
	I was talking to the lovely lady Patricia about our conversation about 12% of greenhouse gases being produced by cow farts and sheep belches.
	And you know what she said?
	She said, why don't we just get rid of all the men?
	Which I thought was a novel solution.
	Yeah, that's probably also part of the vegan agenda.
	So now people criticize me for saying vegan instead of, I guess it's vegan, which doesn't make any sense.
	If you're going to pronounce it based on, I'm looking at the word, I decided it should be pronounced vegan, because it's from vegetable, so it should be vegan.
	So I think vegan is a better pronunciation than vegan, or vegan, for that matter.
	I guess we have a couple of vegans that listen to the show.
	Well, I should hope so.
	We could learn something.
	Yeah, I'm sure.
	I've got nothing against vegans.
	Vegans.
	The vegans are okay.
	It's the vegans, man.
	That's the problem.
	The vegans, they're okay.
	Do you have notes?
	Because I've got a ton of them, as usual.
	Yeah, I got one thing here.
	Well, I had some notes on Limbaugh and other stuff going on.
	Good fight last night on HBO. I don't like watching men hit each other.
	Yeah, it's too bad.
	Well, fine.
	I'm not going to make you.
	So, who is Taylor Swift?
	Taylor Swift?
	Yeah, this is the new...
	I don't know who's the one that picks, says, okay, we're going to make her a star.
	And they find some girls.
	This is a very cute-looking, puffy-faced blonde who is now...
	She's a singer, and she's been on everything.
	She's on this show and that show, and she was highlighted on Saturday Night Live, which was a rerun, but she was first around a couple weeks or maybe a couple months ago.
	Country?
	Country girl?
	Country singer?
	Yeah.
	I don't know.
	She sings kind of that middle-of-the-road, quasi-yodeling, lesbian-sounding kind of tunes.
	But the problem is she doesn't have any range.
	She's got no range at all.
	So she's got kind of a flat voice with a very small, really narrow range, and the material is weak.
	So I'm watching her, but she's pretty.
	So Andrew Grumet, by the way, comes up to me.
	Here we go.
	Hold on.
	Oh yeah, okay.
	Okay, yeah, I know who she is.
	Yeah.
	Andrew Gromit.
	Andrew Graham says, oh, you know, my wife and my daughter are really into this girl named Taylor Swift.
	I mean, I don't know what he was going to tell me because then I went off on him.
	Something about Taylor Swift, I guess.
	But it's just like overnight, it just happens.
	I've never seen anything like it.
	Does she have a background?
	Has she paid her dues?
	Has she been around forever singing the blues in Memphis?
	I mean, the next thing you know, she's there and she stinks.
	I had a similar experience when my wife and daughter were talking about Lady Gaga.
	I used to live in the hits.
	Up until about 1992, I know pretty much everything about Top 40 that there is to know.
	And I've met everybody between 1980 and 1992.
	Anybody who was anybody, I know.
	But after that, I just lost interest and also tried to get my head out of it.
	And then we're talking about this Lady Gaga.
	Of course, Lady Gaga had a number one hit for five weeks or whatever.
	And it's utter crap.
	Yeah, she had this one song.
	Yeah, it's utter crap.
	It's a great dance tune.
	It is a great dance tune.
	I can't remember the name of it.
	Well, I heard this on American Idol I was watching, which I love that show, obviously.
	It's just fucking great.
	And I hate it.
	Yeah, I know.
	And then they have this new judge.
	I forget her name, but I guess she's like a record company exec.
	I'd rather be watching boxing.
	Go ahead.
	Everything you want to hate about a record company executive, this girl embodies, which is why I like to watch these types of shows.
	And she's saying there, you know, you're what we call a packaged artist.
	You've got everything.
	You've got the right looks.
	All we need is the song.
	And I'm like, well, yeah, that's how it works.
	But they're selling a product.
	There's no difference between Blue Magic and these packaged artists.
	It's a drug.
	It's a cheap product.
	Cheaply produced, imported on military planes drug.
	That's how she got here.
	She was imported on a military transport plane.
	Yeah, with a bunch of sham wows.
	It's horrible.
	Anyway, I just find it annoying, personally.
	Yeah, but...
	That's okay.
	It's something to bitch about.
	I mean, I just, I don't know.
	Maybe, you know, maybe she's an opera singer for all I know.
	I just don't see it.
	But I love it where, you know, I'm going into global satellite war, warring clans, undersea wars, and you're like, I hate this singer.
	She's really no good.
	I'm the American.
	I'll tell you how it works.
	Here's how it works.
	Because they're doing this now in the UK. The city of Southampton is now going to have their water fluoridated.
	Even though 78% of the population is against it, and there's a possibility water fluoridation could go worldwide, and the result of this is possibly your teeth become stronger, but certainly you become subservient.
	Oh, please.
	Have you not read the CIA book we've talked about so often?
	You mean the Legacy of Ashes?
	Yeah.
	Is there a fluoridation chapter in there?
	Yes.
	Turn down your speaker just a bit, John.
	This is the part that my uncle was involved in.
	I ran Contra, so these guys have to pick up the drugs.
	They've got to get it out of this military camp.
	And they fluoridate the water because that would keep everyone kind of subservient and calm.
	But it specifically says in the book they over-fluoridated so everyone was sick.
	They were throwing up and they were just sick to their stomach because they put too much in.
	But it literally says in the book, we fluoridated their water supply so they would be subservient and would be very calm when we came in to get these big trunks of drugs which were in weapons cases.
	So yes, that's what it's for.
	That is what it's for.
	End of story.
	I'll have to go look the book up again.
	Yes, please do.
	It's about three quarters, maybe four-fifths of the way through the book.
	It's the whole Iran-Contra thing.
	Well, there's no excuse for if the public doesn't want it, they shouldn't have it.
	Yeah, but the public needs to shut up.
	Just shut up.
	So what other depressing news do you have?
	Well, it's not depressing.
	So Jeff Jarvis came out with a book called What Would Google Do?
	If anybody sees it, it's actually a good book.
	That's my plug for his book.
	What's it about?
	It's just kind of an analysis of the way Google does business and their methodologies and their attitudes about things and how they see the world.
	It's just kind of a gimmick book, but it's extremely well written.
	He was going to be on Cranky Geeks, and then he didn't show up.
	And so he was going to get a nice plug for his book, because it's one of the few books I've seen recently.
	Because I look at a lot of books, and I mean, I look at them.
	And this is one I could actually read.
	I was just kind of stunned.
	There was a beautiful picture in the paper here.
	I can't remember which paper it was.
	A book supplier went out of business to their warehouse.
	They couldn't empty the entire warehouse, so they just opened it up to the public.
	I didn't know about this.
	I'm so bummed.
	There were just tens of thousands of books, and you could just go in, and as many as you could carry, you could take away.
	And, of course, it became an incredible mess.
	You just see these huge mounds of beautiful books lying, people rooting through them, trying to find something.
	God, I'm pissed I missed that one.
	Oh, well.
	So meanwhile, the Rocky Mountain News, and somebody's sending me a copy of the last issue, which I guess ran Thursday or one of these days.
	The paper's just within a few days of 150 years old, and the scripts with the owners, they just shut it down, said, screw you.
	And the San Francisco Chronicle's about to go out of business, and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer's about to go out of business, because Hearst...
	You know, can't seem to make any money.
	They're losing a million dollars a week at the Chronicle.
	How do you lose that much money?
	I don't know.
	We talked about it last week, so I can only give you the same I-don't-know answer.
	I just keep asking the same stupid question.
	But anyway, so the Rocky Mountain News went out of business since then, and I guess they lost $20 million last year, something like that.
	They just couldn't afford to stay open.
	And everybody's all, you know, sad.
	So here's the big conspiracy going around the interwebs and into the networks that I'm tied into.
	And I like it as a possibility.
	I hate it, of course, if it's true, but I like it as a possibility.
	Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is, of course, talking to the Chinese.
	And the rumor is now that she has given promises or maybe even entered into a more formal agreement about use of eminent domain in the United States.
	Oh, yeah.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	We need to borrow $2.75 trillion.
	China, would you please front us the money?
	China's going, hey man, your shit don't look too good right now.
	You got any collateral?
	And they say, well yeah, we have this eminent domain policy, which means the government can take your shit, your land, your house, etc.
	for just compensation, whatever that would be then, or however that's calculated, and that essentially that has been given as collateral for the next round of purchase of a huge amount of securities which are on the block ready to go.
	So you've heard of this?
	Well, let me just read you from a blog post we did on February 23rd.
	CO2 rollback coming soon.
	Interesting eminent domain angle is the title of the post.
	And it's about an article about cutting greenhouse gases, the czar clampdown, the Carol Browner and all the rest of it.
	At the very, very, very, very, very end of the article, there's this paragraph, which says, separately, Browner said the administration was this good, you know, like, they just dropped these bombs at the end, because people are tired by the time they get to the end.
	Separately, Browner said the administration was also going to create an interagency task force to site a new national electricity transmission grid to meet both growing demand and the president's planned renewable energy expansion.
	It says, citing has been a major bottleneck to renewable growth and lawmakers and administrators or administration officials have said that they'd likely seek greater federal powers that would give expanded eminent domain authorities.
	Mm-hmm.
	Right now they've got enough eminent domain to take your house over and drive.
	It's like Douglas Adams' story.
	What do they need to expand it for?
	How worse can it be?
	What bad things do they have in mind?
	Well, the Chinese would want to have their money back.
	That could be pretty bad.
	So they're going to just grab a bunch of property and say, okay, you Chinese, you can have this.
	Here's a town for you.
	Yes.
	Well, it is a constitutional right that the government has.
	Eminent domain is in the Constitution, I think.
	Isn't it?
	Yeah, there's something about eminent domain somewhere.
	They have the authority to do certain things for the good of the country, but I think...
	What do they need to expand it for?
	What is wrong with the way it is?
	I mean, there's something screwy about it.
	This eminent domain thing is a real problem.
	Well, you're asking the question, but I'm giving you the answer.
	What they would need to expand it for would be to have collateral for these huge loans.
	I mean, is that not reason enough?
	Doesn't that make sense?
	Yeah, it has a certain sixth sense.
	Yeah, maybe.
	Journalists are in big trouble over here.
	Why?
	There was an inquisition, is what I'll call it, in front of the Treasury Select Committee.
	Robert Peston, this is a BBC reporter, he is the guy who broke the story of Northern Rock being in such trouble which triggered the run on the banks, the run on Northern Rock.
	And there's a lot of hatred about this guy.
	I mean, massive, massive hatred.
	Not just from politicians, but also from citizens who are saying, man, you should have shut up.
	If you had just kept quiet, then there wouldn't have been a run on the bank.
	And this Inquisition, I watched some of it on the BBC. There's a link in the show notes that I'll put.
	And you can read through how they tried to corner him, but they literally were saying, you know, you had a responsibility not to report this and you started this economic collapse.
	It's just amazing what they're doing.
	Hmm.
	You have a responsibility.
	I guess there's that word over here.
	You have a responsibility.
	And he said, well, look, all the big players knew it.
	There was a run inside the bank.
	Why couldn't the normal people who had money in the bank from the outside?
	Wouldn't it be an outside run?
	I mean, of course he's right.
	But it's just crazy.
	You can't go picking up reporters.
	Well, not like I picked them up, but they really scapegoated this guy.
	Hmm.
	Well, so much for the scene over there.
	This is just going to get worse.
	Okay, so here's another story that's...
	Can we change the subject now?
	Yeah, of course.
	You can go and do whatever you want.
	So you hear about the thing that they're trying to do with the real ID and the little chip they're trying to chip all driver's licenses?
	Yeah, this is basically the illegal unconstitutional ID card.
	They've changed the wording of what they're going to call an enhanced driver's license.
	Ah, it's an upgrade.
	Nice.
	It's an enhanced card.
	It's apparently the Janet Napolitano, I think, yeah.
	She's promoting it.
	But meanwhile, of course, the Christians have considered this to be the mark of the beast.
	It is the mark of the beast.
	Of course, it fits in line with exactly what the...
	What the scripture is written is that we get to the point where you have the mark of the beast and that would be your implanted chip and your life is controlled through it.
	I can see how people view it that way.
	Yeah.
	Oh, man.
	Oh, this is...
	Thank you, by the way, whoever sent me that picture of Nancy Pelosi.
	Which one?
	It must be Photoshop.
	Well, I mentioned something about her chest.
	Oh, somebody pumped up her breast and sent it to you?
	I'll send you this picture.
	I can't hate her now.
	This picture gives me dreams.
	Um...
	There was one other interesting thing I wanted to say about the crash, the Turkish Airways crash.
	Oh, this picture is BS. But it's hot.
	It's in the show notes, folks.
	Don't worry.
	Something interesting.
	The Dutch version of the National Transportation Safety Board is chaired by Meester Pieter van Fullhoeven.
	He is married into the royal family.
	He's married to one of the princesses.
	And he's a Bilderberger, the whole thing.
	He's been around for a while.
	And I can tell you a funny story about him and Patricia in a second, just to show you what kind of credibility I have for him, or what his creditworthiness is.
	So they took the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder from this unfortunate accident.
	And what happened is the Justice Department said, hey, we want to see it because, you know, we're responsible for terrorism, whatever.
	And Fulhofer said, no, you can't have it.
	And so now there's this political flap going back and forth about this flight data recorder.
	But there's an interesting backstory to this, which I think we've touched on lightly, that there's been significant strain between the Dutch Department of Justice, in particular with the Secretary General, because this is the guy who admitted to journalists that he had sex with underage children.
	And Turkey, according to reports, has been blackmailing him for many years because, of course, Istanbul is a great place to go.
	And, you know, there's like a dissident that's locked up for life in Dutch jail, and there's all kinds of wacky shit going on.
	And I was thinking, maybe it's possible that these guys wanted these tapes, you know, to hold them over the Turkish government.
	But Turkey is a very interesting kind of, they're in the middle of this huge web.
	You know, they talk to Iran, they talk to the West, they talk to, you know, it's all these different political moves, and it's just fascinating to watch this unprecedented stuff happening.
	And, you know, for Fullerhofer, being a member of the royal family of Bilderberger, as I said, and the guy who stuck his erection into my wife's back when taking a picture one time at some event, is just an interesting little character.
	There's a lot of stuff going on interesting to follow.
	He's a masher?
	Yep.
	They were taking a picture because she did a performance, some royal performance or whatever, and he was behind her in this photo setup, and he was just rubbing his stiffy up against her.
	That's terrible.
	Yeah, I don't mind saying it.
	What a disgusting person.
	Thank you.
	He's the guy with the ears.
	He's our Prince Charles.
	Very, very funny.
	So what's his name again?
	Von Fullerhoven.
	Yeah, don't worry.
	I won't even...
	I've got links in the show notes.
	All right, we'll see how silly he looks.
	Yeah, and then just imagine him mashing up against you.
	A masher.
	Oh, that's nasty.
	And that is the definition of a masher.
	I just got a Twitter here.
	That Iridium possibly supplies financial transactions.
	That they're a network for financial transactions for the banks.
	Interesting.
	Interesting.
	So what else you got on your list?
	Tons of stuff.
	Well, go.
	Give me another one.
	Give me something interesting this time.
	Okay.
	The connection between...
	Do you have any celebrity news?
	Yes.
	Well, the whole country here has been so fascinated with the Jane Goody story.
	I don't know what that is.
	Jay Goody, she won Big Brother and subsequently went on to become a celebrity and even appeared on Celebrity Big Brother.
	She was the one who got kicked out of the Big Brother house, the Celebrity Big Brother house, supposedly for bullying and or racist comments about the Indian actress.
	Do you recall that flat from, I guess, two years ago?
	This was huge because, you know, she said...
	I can't remember what she said, but it was some derogatory term or whatever it was.
	And she's a very common type girl.
	Yeah, and she was told to say this, of course.
	Obviously.
	But it was the House of Commons were discussing it.
	Oh, we have bullying going on on TV. Blah, blah, blah.
	So she got cancer.
	Cervical cancer, I believe.
	Which, there's another story there for another time.
	But now she's dying.
	And this has been front page for weeks of every periodical, above anything else, Because she's selling her story to every media outlet because she wants her boys to be set, to be taken care of.
	So you can imagine how this enamors everybody and everyone's drawn in.
	So there's a reality show running.
	We're watching this girl die.
	It is...
	It's a disgusting spectacle, not on her part, but just on what we've become as people.
	She's bald, and her husband's in jail because he beat some girl severely, I guess, because he's in jail for 18 months.
	She's like, oh, I want to marry him, and so the judge lets him out of jail, not just for the wedding, but for the wedding night.
	And she sells the story to OK Magazine, reported 700,000 pounds, which I think is possibly true.
	And that's what people are looking at.
	They're not interested in the shit we're talking about.
	That is the story here.
	That is the story.
	Wow.
	Yeah.
	It's kind of depressing.
	I think our show is depressing.
	We're not going to get anybody to give us any money if we...
	Oh, yeah.
	There you go.
	Perfect moment.
	After the dying cancer celebrity Big Brother story, John, let's talk about our library.
	Hold on.
	Hold on a second.
	We can't just talk about the library.
	This is No Agenda.
	All right.
	The Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak Library Project.
	John.
	So we have a...
	This library thing, you know, of course we have to put up the library site, but we're still looking for donations from the people who actually use this show.
	Of course, apparently, you know, to bring themselves closer to suicide with the topics we had today.
	So I don't know if it's, maybe it's a legal suicide, what do you call it, when you help somebody?
	Euthanasia.
	Now, there's assisted suicide.
	That's what the word I was looking for.
	A lot of people listen to the show when they're on their bicycle or at the gym or they're going to work and they have a long drive.
	Just throw myself under the bus.
	And they don't want to listen to commercials or they don't want to listen to stuff.
	Nobody else brings up these topics, even though some of them are a little...
	Fringe.
	Do you know why no one brings up these topics, John?
	Because you're exactly right.
	The people who are hypnotized watching mass media, they want a different story.
	They want something that's uplifting and heroic.
	They don't want the actual truth.
	They don't want to hear what's really going on in the world.
	That's why.
	Well, we have a number of listeners that seem to like this material.
	And it's in the hundreds of thousands.
	And we need to get them to pitch in because this is a public-supported show.
	So if you can go to Dvorak.org slash NA, we would seriously appreciate your help.
	And I want to thank everybody who's already done this.
	Yes, thank you indeed.
	And there's a lot of them, but it's not as many as we need to say the least.
	And we're probably, you know, when we do the library, we're going to give them a code, and then they can go online and look at some stuff that we're going to keep separate from the rest of them.
	I got a funny email from someone.
	I'm seeing if I... I thought I saved it to my notes.
	Yes.
	You were going to do the slash library thing, too, but I guess...
	No, it's coming.
	We'll do it this week.
	I have to do it during the week when a grommet's around, and we can just do it.
	You said you were going to do that earlier.
	I'm a laggard.
	Yeah, that's correct.
	Someone sent us a really funny email.
	I thought I'd save that, about the donation.
	Hold on.
	Come on, Google.
	Come on, Google Mail.
	Here we go.
	God, I love Gmail.
	Adam, now that I'm an investor in No Agenda, I demand to have my name on an entrance brick in the new Curry-Dvorak library.
	Yes.
	I vote that you change the plans to a library slash winery.
	Good idea.
	I expect to see a rendering of the new library on Curry.com before long.
	Yes, some will have to do that.
	I also demand a seat on the board of directors at No Agenda.
	Whoa, that's a heavy one there.
	$2 per month is a lot of damn money.
	You guys better not run off with all that money like Madoff.
	I also expect to receive a state of No Agenda each year.
	State of no agenda address.
	And best of no agenda when you guys are on vacations.
	Please use my investment wisely.
	That's actually a good idea.
	The winery idea?
	Well, the winery is always a good idea.
	Especially, you know, in a down economy when you get these things cheap.
	No, I'm thinking it's probably not a bad idea to do a state of no agenda at some point.
	And then also I think a best of would be a good idea because I think at some point we need some evergreen material just in case we can't do a show.
	I don't like the idea of evergreen material.
	The whole idea just makes me think Sound of Music.
	Evergreen doesn't sit right with me.
	I'm just saying we should have some sort of backup plan in case we can't do the show.
	There's no reason for us not to do the show unless one of us is physically incapacitated.
	I'm going to be in Holland at the end of April.
	Yep.
	And I might not have a connection that's worth a crap.
	One of the times I was in Europe recently, I go online and they did the connection.
	You get a card at the front desk.
	And yeah, you got a pretty good connection.
	And then it just craps out.
	It says, oh, you've used all your capacity.
	You've used too many bits.
	Insert coin.
	It's unbelievable.
	Yeah, it's like going to whatever.
	That was pretty funny, the Ryanair story, which of course got way blown out of proportion.
	They've got kind of a wacky chairman.
	He says, oh, you know, I'm considering charging for the toilets.
	You have to put a pound into the toilet.
	Yeah, right.
	That was even on the front page of the Financial Times.
	It's like, God, will you take that seriously?
	Although there's a great...
	Picture that I'll put in the show notes that shows the Ryanair emergency placard.
	Have you seen this one?
	It's highly bloggable.
	I figured I'd give it to you.
	The Ryanair placard.
	And, you know, in case of an emergency, in case of pressure loss, insert one pound into slot to release oxygen mask.
	Secure your own mask, but do not help others.
	They must pay for it themselves.
	If the plane has to land in an emergency, insert your card into the chip and pin device.
	When the transaction is complete, exit the aircraft.
	It's cute.
	Yeah, it's very cute.
	Okay, I've got...
	Well, let me read you some email here.
	This is a piece of folklore that's been going around.
	I think this has been around over and over again.
	I just got it again, but I'm going to read it.
	This, to me, is just total urban legend bull, which is kind of funny.
	So it goes to the following.
	This is a mail I got from John Montana.
	In addition to communicating with the local air traffic control facility, all aircraft in the Persian Gulf AOR are required to give the Iranian air defense radar military a 10-minute heads-up if they will be transiting Iranian airspace.
	This is a common procedure for commercial aircraft and involves giving them your call sign, transponder code, type aircraft, and points of origin and destination.
	I just flew with a guy who overheard this conversation on the VHF Guard emergency frequency 121.5 MHz while flying from Europe to Dubai.
	It's too good not to pass along, which, of course, means it's bullshit.
	Which means there's no actual recording of it.
	It's just a transcript.
	Here it goes.
	The conversation went like this.
	Iranian air defense radar.
	Unknown aircraft.
	You are in Iranian airspace.
	Identify yourself.
	Aircraft.
	This is a United States aircraft.
	I'm in Iraqi airspace.
	Air defense radar.
	You are in Iranian airspace.
	If you do not depart our airspace, we will launch interceptor aircraft.
	Yeah.
	They never say it that way.
	I know.
	Aircraft.
	This is the United States Marine Corps F-18 fighter.
	Send them up.
	I'll wait.
	And then no response.
	And then what?
	That's it.
	No response.
	They wouldn't respond.
	That's the joke.
	So then they wouldn't say anything.
	Okay.
	People, you've got to come up with better material than that.
	Well, that's like...
	Airplane radio transmission jokes are plenty.
	That's a pretty good one.
	But there's a lot of them that float around.
	Okay.
	Let me see.
	By the way, this is the third week in a row now that I've said that California is really...
	Southern California is really in dire straits with the water situation.
	You keep saying, oh, it's raining, but that's Northern California.
	This is a real state of emergency...
	For California being pretty big.
	They're in a desert.
	What do they expect?
	Is that your answer?
	What would they say in your days?
	Blow up and dry away?
	Dry up and blow away?
	I'm telling you, they're in a desert.
	What do they expect?
	They've stolen all the water from Northern California.
	We used to have in the San Francisco Bay Area when Hetch Hetchy Reservoir was like a normal place where we'd get drinking water, probably some of the finest water outside of New York City, which, by the way, has terrific drinking water.
	Except for the plutonium.
	But anyway, so it was just the tastiest water ever.
	And then, oh no, we had to divert most of it to Southern California because they were expanding and the Orange County's got, you know, building new homes and blah, blah, blah.
	Next thing you know, all the water goes down there.
	So our water tastes like crap now.
	So what do you think?
	I'm bitter?
	Well, I'd like to understand that.
	They've stolen the water.
	Don't you have the same water supply, just less of it?
	Or are you getting your water from somewhere else now?
	We're getting it from another source that sucks, apparently.
	It's just it's all polluted and they have to chlorinate the crap out of it.
	So when it comes out of the tap, you smell chlorine.
	You know, you got to buy a Brita, you know, just to be able to choke down the water.
	That used to be fantastic.
	Wow.
	Yeah, okay.
	It's a reasonable complaint.
	I mean, it's a quality of life issue.
	It's a quality of life issue.
	Thank you.
	I'm glad you finally got it out.
	It's taken me three weeks to get you to respond to it.
	So you have a dry spell going on.
	And then here's a way.
	Here's another one.
	I don't know.
	Have you ever been to Bermuda?
	Yes, I have.
	You know, they have no supply of water in Bermuda.
	There's no well.
	You can't drill a well in Bermuda and get water.
	So what do they do for their water supply?
	They don't have big reservoirs.
	There's not enough room on these islands.
	So no, what do they do?
	Every house has got a crazy kind of a lime roof.
	They're all white.
	A lime roof that is real clean.
	It's kept clean.
	And every time it rains in Bermuda, all the water that hits every roof in every home gets funneled down into a tank in the basement.
	And they essentially have created a self-sustaining water system.
	Oh, that's right.
	Jamaica does a lot of this, too.
	Yeah, I've seen it.
	Yeah, these places do that.
	I don't understand why they don't do that in these dry areas like Los Angeles and parts of Texas that's always having a drought, where it rains like a son of a gun every so often.
	In fact, Los Angeles has these huge ditches, these huge pits, these giant, you see them in the movies all the time, these giant pits where the rainwater goes washing down when they have these tremendous storms that just throw a ton of water all at once into the area, and it all gets shoveled off back into the ocean where they could be collecting it.
	And then they complain when they run out of water.
	They make no effort to do any sort of catching of all the rain that they actually get.
	They just waste it all.
	And then they steal our good drinking water so they can, you know, water their grass and fill their pools.
	This is a call to arms, Josh.
	I have no sympathy.
	I'm telling you, I have no sympathy for them.
	Screw those Los Angelenos.
	This serves you right for living in the desert.
	I'm with you, John.
	Screw those guys.
	There are ways of doing this.
	And they're all a bunch of greenies down there.
	How come they haven't got these Bermuda roofs that save the water?
	I don't get it.
	Save the water.
	Oh, I got another beautiful data point.
	You know, people are annoyed by you continually lighting that...
	or playing with your cigarette lighter constantly.
	Who says they're annoyed by it?
	I did.
	Okay.
	On Wednesday morning, the same morning of the Schiphol Turkish Airlines crash, the head of the National Police Department's Special Operations Unit shot himself in the head.
	Suicided himself.
	Twice?
	Yeah, of course.
	Of course.
	Just to be sure?
	I just love this shit, man.
	I mean, how can it not be connected?
	Now let's go over this one again.
	I didn't know this.
	So this is the...
	Who?
	What police guy shot himself in the head?
	This is Bexet, I think Octay is how you pronounce it.
	The head of the National Police Department Special Operations Unit shot himself in the head early on Wednesday in Ankara.
	Oh, so he was in Turkey.
	He was in Turkey, yeah.
	Why is he in Turkey?
	And what is special operations?
	Well, he is in Turkey.
	This is like the special ops unit of Turkey.
	So he shoots himself.
	There's four Boeing engineers on board who are involved with the early warning aircraft system, and this is all relatively new, all these contracts being awarded.
	We've got Iridium satellites.
	Dude, there's something going on here.
	I know there's something going on.
	Well, there's a lot of billions involved, so anything's possible.
	You know, you can get a guy to knock someone off for 20 bucks on the street.
	I'm sure someone's willing to kill a couple people if it's about billions.
	I'm just saying.
	Yeah, but they have to be better than some street hit thug.
	Well, I think they're very sophisticated, obviously.
	And there's a radioactive guy running around.
	Oh?
	In the UK. Yeah, police are searching for Thomas Leopold of Hammersmith.
	Leopold, I guess he was convicted for child pornography, but he has been given high doses of radiation as treatment for a thyroid condition.
	And he didn't show up, and now people are worried about him, and there's a report out for him, and his doctor confirms he is dangerous in terms of radioactivity for a period of six weeks after treatment.
	I didn't know that this existed, that people are actually dangerously radioactive.
	Something about this story doesn't make sense.
	Maybe there's a doctor who's in our audience that can tell us what that's all about.
	Actually, a friend of mine is a nuclear physician.
	He used to be involved with shooting people up with various things.
	Then you put them in a machine and you could see all kinds of weird stuff.
	But I'll ask him.
	So the background of this is a thyroid condition, and he shot up with radiation to treat it, which has made him radioactive for the next six weeks.
	This doesn't sound right.
	Leopold was in charge of a tutorial college in Harrow, northwest of London, was seen a few days before his hearing on a car ferry destined for Southeast Ireland.
	But he was questioned by Special Branch police officers.
	Who would have seen him on a car ferry?
	How would they know this?
	Someone with a Geiger counter.
	Unless they're following him.
	Who would have seen him on a ferry?
	Weird story, isn't it?
	Yeah, it's a strange story.
	It'll be in the show notes.
	UK police hunt for dangerously radioactive teacher.
	Just gotta love that headline.
	So just to wrap it up, because it's really what leaves people with the most to talk about, about our little program here we do twice a week.
	First of all, I'd like to say that I have to rescind, maybe not the right word, I have to tell you I do believe in climate change now.
	Because I've looked up the meaning of this word.
	And as long as it's not about global warming, yes, climate change is afoot.
	The political climate, the financial climate, the economic climate.
	And I think that this is now just a code word, John.
	This is a good one.
	Now, this is one of the better things you've done for the whole show today.
	Well, you know, it takes a little while.
	Climate change is a code word for, you know, the changes afoot.
	Yep.
	Because climate, of course, is what you predict, and weather is what you get.
	You know, that's two very different things.
	Climate is just a predictive model, and in some cases, a historic model.
	But really, climate change, it makes so much sense to me.
	It just hit me.
	I'm like, yeah, I get it.
	Climate change.
	It's code.
	You know, if things are going the way you actually think they're going, Our show's not going to be on for much longer.
	No, I've thought about that, and I've had many discussions with my wife about it.
	You know, Homeland Security and all.
	And...
	No, I... Although, you know, a lot of times, you know, you get a show like this, which is, you know, the Crackpot and Buzzkill special.
	Right, which is why we hype that up, of course.
	You end up with this thing, you know, there's just a couple of, just like that show they have, the overnight, used to be Art Bell show.
	Coast to Coast?
	Coast to Coast.
	Yeah.
	You know, they have people on there that are just, you know, they're eye-rolling crazy.
	You know, the people that say there's a bunch of prisoners in the middle of the earth, you know, and you can drop a microphone down a volcano and you can hear them screaming.
	Ah, shit.
	Now, you took my last topic, man.
	What are we going to do now?
	That kind of stuff.
	And it's like really wacky, wacky stuff.
	Or it's like you and those aliens that are supposedly around.
	Or the flying saucer that was supposed to land.
	Well, you notice I'm not talking about that much because I, too, was very disappointed.
	So I'm like, yeah, fuck it.
	I'm not going to talk about it.
	That's no longer credible where I got all that shit from.
	Obviously.
	Climate, noun.
	The prevailing attitude, standards, or environmental conditions of a group, period, or place.
	Origin, 1315 to 1400.
	Climat, klima.
	Synonyms, mood, atmosphere, spirit, tone, temper.
	I'm right there.
	That's cute.
	I like it.
	We need a jingle or something around it.
	Oh, yeah.
	Cool.
	Climate change.
	We'll have to think of something.
	One of our listeners will come up with something, for sure.
	All right, let me just see if there's one last thing.
	I'm in, by the way.
	I'm in with you on the climate change thing.
	Okay, cool.
	Thank you.
	I was just looking if there was one upbeat thing I could leave on.
	Surely you have something.
	That would be different.
	Uh...
	No.
	I'm sorry.
	It doesn't seem to be possible.
	Um...
	You don't have anything left?
	That's it?
	I'm thin this week.
	Sorry.
	Yeah, I mean, I got tons of stuff.
	It's just...
	You're right.
	I don't want it to all be downer stuff.
	Guys lighting themselves on fire.
	Topless coffee shop in Maine.
	That's kind of cool.
	I like that.
	As a recession buster.
	Uh-huh.
	Men and women.
	And, well, there you go.
	I think we just have to call it a show, Johnny.
	Alright, well, we'll have more stuff for everybody on Thursday when we...
	I don't know what's going to be happening between now and Thursday, but probably a lot.
	I do find that the wait between Sunday and Thursday is harder.
	I mean, it's an extra day.
	The Thursday to Sunday thing, I can handle.
	But I do Jones a bit.
	Oh, really?
	Yeah.
	Well, we could rotate.
	We can do between Wednesday and Thursday and Wednesday and Thursday if you wanted to.
	I don't think anybody...
	I think we should stick with the schedule.
	Yeah, we have to do it on Thursday because I'm driving back from France Thursday.
	And I'm going to be there Wednesday.
	France?
	France.
	What are you doing in France?
	I have a course.
	I'm taking a course.
	In what?
	Final Cut Pro.
	You are?
	Yeah, it's a special master class.
	You have to go to France to get a course in Final Cut Pro?
	Well, this is something in the time period that worked out for me, yeah.
	It's not like a basic thing.
	It's like a master class thing.
	It's a big deal, you know?
	I need to...
	There's nobody in Britain that can give you this material?
	I'm just not seeing why you have to go to France.
	Well, again, there's nothing for the timing.
	It just didn't work out right.
	Hmm.
	I mean, this is like, you know, the media management stuff.
	I do a show, you know, there's six days a week.
	So, you know, at a certain point, you know, yeah, the hard drives are filled up, and you've got to manage the media, and there's all this, you know, real...
	Process flow stuff that once you kind of, if you really read through the manual, it's like, okay, my eyes are glazing over.
	But if you see someone who actually does it and you follow along, it makes it a lot easier.
	And templates, building, it's a whole bunch of stuff.
	Don't give a shit about this.
	Anyway, so Thursday I'll be back in time for the show Thursday.
	Well, why don't you pick up some produce or something while you're there?
	Yeah, I could do it.
	You know, you're supposed to give me that bottle of wine for, you know, to bring it over.
	You never did.
	I've never been able to find it.
	You have to go to Barry Brothers.
	Have you been to Barry Brothers?
	Yeah, I've got other things to do.
	I don't even have time to do a daily source code.
	I'm going to go to Barry Brothers?
	Bring your ass over here and we'll take care of all that shit in one go.
	We won't have time.
	Okay.
	Alright, that's it.
	That's it.
	I'm done.
	I'm through.
	I'm finished.
	Dvorak.org slash NA. We needed some help.
	Thank you.
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