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	You have a higher likelihood of getting tased than getting laid.
	Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
	It's July 25th, 2010.
	Time again for your Gitmo Nation media assassination episode 220.
	This is no agenda.
	I am your agent known as the former Soviet spy.
	Coming to you from the hilltop Watchtower Crackpot Command Center in Gitmo Nation West in the People's Republic of Southern California in the morning.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where the sun's never going to come out.
	It's unbelievable.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	It's Crackpot and Buzzkill in the morning.
	We've got a beautiful day here, man.
	I might as well live in Seattle.
	What way do I do?
	Never mind.
	Are you up north?
	Are you in northern Silicon Valley today?
	Yeah.
	It's weird, you know, I was there for two days and the weather was beautiful.
	Yeah, yeah, well actually about 2 o'clock in the afternoon should be okay, but it was surprisingly chilly last night, so what can I say?
	I gotta tell you, and Christina was with me on this show.
	By the way, I want to apologize and say hello to all the ships at sea and apologize for our tardiness.
	And, well, that's for those listening on the live stream.
	And, of course, a big hello to all the human resources in the chat room listening live now at NoAgendaStream.com and chatting at NoAgendaChat.com.
	Hope you're all nice and charged up.
	Your government needs you that way.
	Damn.
	So, I was in San Francisco for two days, and Christina had exactly the same thing.
	She was with me.
	She says, I feel, when we're leaving, she's like, I feel like somehow there's something in San Francisco, or it's the air, or it's the water, but it kind of sucks the life energy out of you.
	Like, I feel the same way.
	I don't know what it is, but I was like, huh?
	Do you know what I speaketh of, John?
	No, I've been sucked dry for years.
	Oh, man.
	That is such a great opening for the show.
	Thank you.
	That's the best you can do.
	It's not going to be that great.
	Why don't we get right into it?
	No, let's get right into talking about wine and food.
	We've got to get people to go to our little restaurant.
	Oh.
	We were going to talk about something.
	There was some wine and food thing we were going to talk about.
	Didn't we set that up prior?
	No.
	Well, I don't remember.
	We did have a nice meal while I was in San Francisco at our favorite little lunch restaurant.
	Which is so favorite, I can't remember the name.
	Yeah, there he goes.
	It's the French place.
	One day in San Francisco, he can't remember anything.
	It's the French place.
	What's it called?
	Fringal.
	Fringal, right.
	I had the lampshank, which was just outstanding.
	And they had boiled that thing for seven hours or something?
	No, seven days or something.
	I can't remember.
	Whatever the case is, it's a good little place.
	And if anyone wants to go to a good French bistro in San Francisco, we recommend it because you'll probably find us there.
	Yes, you will.
	If you know them in San Francisco, that's where you want to be for lunch.
	And actually, just tell them that we sent you.
	Yeah.
	Do you remember...
	I think it was...
	Maybe two or three times ago, and the guy we were talking to, well, I think we were grilling the waiter about the French chick who serves there, kind of the arrogant French chick.
	I've only seen her there twice, I think.
	She works the odd days.
	No, she's only on Tuesdays for some reason or something like that.
	And then he started talking to us about Sergei Brin's wife.
	Remember that?
	Yeah, right.
	Yeah.
	You mentioned Sergey.
	Sergey.
	Sergey Brin's wife.
	And that she had this really weird DNA business?
	Yeah, she's got some company.
	She's a doctor.
	She runs a DNA service company of some sort.
	I didn't even know he was married.
	Well, it's called...
	I wasn't invited to the wedding, let's put it that way.
	It's called 23andMe is the name of this company and what they do.
	And I remember the guy telling us about this story, and Sergei is also invested in this company.
	Of course, for some stupid-ass reason, I can't get the story open, but it's all right because I remember what it was.
	Sergei invested for some stupid-ass reason?
	Yeah.
	It was a real stupid ass reason.
	No, but it's a DNA company and they take your DNA. Of course, they don't keep that on record or anything.
	And they can tell if you're susceptible to any type of illness in the future.
	Yeah.
	And so I got a report from it.
	So what's wrong with that?
	Yeah, well, nothing really, but I got a report from one of our producers in the San Jose Mercury News.
	You being from that general area, John, I figured you'd probably be reading that.
	There was a GAO probe, which can be quite painful...
	Forwarded to the FDA and Federal Trade Commission about this company, 23andMe, and they essentially said it's bogus.
	The whole thing is bogus.
	You cannot tell consumers that they have a chance of getting, for example, breast cancer or a high risk of it based upon this DNA analysis.
	And I think they might want to put this company, and there's another one, Navigenics, out of business.
	Because it's like fortune telling.
	It's not based on any...
	It's bogus.
	It's not based on any...
	Science!
	Science!
	It just caught my eye.
	I was like, oh, that's kind of interesting.
	And the report even says, uh, Sergei Brin's wife.
	And Sergei also invested in the company.
	Hmm.
	Hmm.
	Anyway.
	So, well, that brings up a lot of interesting points.
	And watch Kiki.
	Watch Kiki.
	The co-founder, Ann Wojcicki, is married to Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google, which partly, oh, Google partly financed 23andMe.
	Ooh.
	Ooh.
	That's interesting.
	Well, that's going to be embarrassing if the whole thing's a scam.
	Mm-hmm.
	Well, or maybe it's right on the money and the government's saying, hey, we want to be the people who have that info, not you.
	Who knows?
	Could be.
	Could be all kinds of weird stuff going on.
	Anyway, John, I'm really hoping we have a few executive producers for this program.
	Yeah, we've got four executive producers and one associate executive.
	Holy cow.
	And I want to push the one executive producer.
	I want to create not a new category, but you know how they do it on the shows where they have executive producer and they have one person's name, then they have executive producer and they have three people's names.
	You've seen this.
	Of course, yes.
	So I want an executive producer, stand-alone credit for Veronica Roberts.
	Veronica Roberts.
	So a standalone.
	By the way, our next step is boxing things.
	I've got to do some work here now.
	I'm going to put the boxing stuff off unless somebody just gives us night money right off the bat.
	$555 with no comments.
	That's just it?
	She just sent us the money and no comments at all?
	She doesn't feel like yakking away.
	Wow, and one of our few female supporters.
	Yeah, and she gets a standalone.
	She's a standalone-er.
	Yeah, a standalone-er.
	Nice.
	And then we have three, three, this is a good one, three executive producers, three executive producers who all gave...
	Don't tell me.
	333.
	Well, actually, it's funny because one of them gave 333.33 and then the other two gave 333.33.
	I don't know.
	There's too many threes.
	I can't stand it.
	That's a magic number in the morning.
	Charles Jordan of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
	Working my way to nighthood.
	Visit my Tiki Bar when you're in Milwaukee.
	The Foundation Tiki Bar at www.foundationbar.com.
	Nice.
	A tiki bar.
	We had a party last night, set up a tiki bar.
	Matthew Payton, Madison, Wisconsin.
	Wait a minute.
	Stop me.
	One of them's from Milwaukee.
	The other one's from Madison.
	Both from Wisconsin.
	Both giving 3-3-3.
	It's too weird, John.
	This is going to be a super special show.
	Well, it's a typical classic random number theory at work.
	I've donated in the hope of getting some good karma for my friend Christina.
	She's been sick for a year.
	And I'll take anything that might help in the slightest way.
	I don't know what she's got.
	Yeah, well, good karma coming your way.
	Get well soon, Christina.
	Yes, please.
	Please.
	Eric Bodenstab in Bonner Springs, Kansas.
	333.
	Someone at the National Treasurer is getting program ideas from listening to the show, our show.
	That's worth some value for value support if it's only because it's funny.
	Also, I need some karma trying to sell my house.
	Right on.
	I don't know what he's referring to, but I'm sure somebody is there.
	Now, just so we don't show up in some GAO report, you know, this karma thing.
	This is not something we've made up.
	This is not a selling proposition.
	It just seems to be there for some reason.
	Yeah, we don't know why.
	But people keep reporting it, so we...
	We're happy to take advantage of it.
	We're not claiming anything, and we don't assure karma.
	Can't be done.
	Zebediah Voigt.
	In Climax, North Carolina, $230.
	And he'd be our associate executive producer.
	And he has a note, which I have to go back and read because it's on the email.
	Somewhere.
	I bumped it off.
	Okay, well, I have it here.
	He's donated this week not only because...
	Oops, no, it came off the spreadsheet.
	Hold on a second.
	You're hopeless.
	No, well, he says, see email, so I've got to go with the email, and then because you...
	Well, if Eric knows that it's...
	If the shill knows that it's an email, why does he just paste the email in there?
	Because I didn't send him the email.
	Hmm.
	And the problem is because you lost the clips, I bumped my browser off of his email.
	As long as it's my fault somehow.
	It is.
	It's always your fault.
	You know that.
	That's what your wife used to tell you.
	I thought we weren't going to get personal anymore on the show.
	Hold on a second.
	I'm just kidding.
	I kid, I kid.
	I'm just not that fast with the typing.
	John and Adam, thanks for the great show.
	I donated this week not only because I enjoy your show, but also because I'm getting married.
	Oh yeah, I have this one.
	This Sunday, instead of wedding favors for the guests, my fiancé decided to make small contributions on behalf of each guest to a charity.
	I went along with this, but only with the condition that we also donate a portion of the contributions to your show.
	Enjoy the hookers and blow on behalf of the Voight Wedding Guests.
	You know, I was thinking, what a wonderful idea.
	Now, of course, this is a horrible precedent for starting your marriage.
	I don't know if it's really good.
	I don't want to donate to a charity, honey.
	Yeah, as long as we can send some hookers and blow to John and Adam.
	You know, it just doesn't...
	Bye.
	I think it takes the charm off the marriage.
	Perhaps just a little edge.
	I don't know.
	But we really appreciate it.
	It's a great idea.
	No, we're not complaining.
	No, it's a great idea.
	And we'd like you to continue.
	Anyone who's getting married, do this.
	This is a great idea.
	And actually, I had them filed under PR Associates for this very reason, along with Nathan Rennick.
	Who I believe is...
	He actually says the last name is pronounced Rennick.
	John butchered it on the last show, even when I sent him an email prior.
	What a buzzkill, he says, or maybe it's just his low T. This week, he won the option to register noagenda.co.
	As the.co domain has become available to the world this week.
	Of course, there's noagendashow.com.
	We don't own noagenda.com.
	I think there's a band or something that owns it.
	Yeah, there's a band, I think.
	So he's registered noagenda.co, and we appreciate that.
	That could be useful.
	On a side note, I'm a sysadmin.
	He says he's been out of work for 18 months, not on the government teat.
	I donated 5510 back on 5510 for the donation drive.
	Finally got some karma love.
	I got a six-week contract.
	There's a subcontract and a big project.
	Work is work.
	When I get paid for that, I'm going to donate again.
	Hopefully that karma will come a bit quicker.
	Love the show.
	Keep up the great work.
	Thank you, Nathan.
	And then, hey, Aaron and Kelly Spears say, my wife and I are both fans of the show, both Minutemen, and with two $5 a month subscriptions.
	Thank you so much.
	Well, we don't have enough to become a knight and or dame.
	We did come up with another way to help spread the word.
	When I signed up for a hosting plan for my own show, theworldofcinema.com, I had a couple of free domain registrations I never used, so now we've got noagendafilms.com up and running.
	And we'll post any films mentioned on No Agenda as well as other films that explore the themes and memes that come up on the show.
	A new film every Monday to tide folks over in between shows.
	Don't worry, we'll keep the Alex Jones film suggestions to a minimum.
	Yes, please.
	The excellent reporting, Aaron and Kelly Spears, and we highly appreciate that.
	And of course, as we appreciate the fine support from our executive producer, standalone executive producer, Veronica Roberts, along with executive producers, Charles Jordan, Matthew Payton, Eric Bodenstab, and our associate executive producer, Zabadiah Voigt.
	Thank you so much.
	That is, of course, really not just appreciated, but highly needed.
	For everybody else out there, you know by now you've got to go out and propagate the formula.
	It's really, really simple.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	New World Order.
	All right, everybody, say it with me now.
	Shut up, slay me!
	Oh, wow.
	Big opening for a big show.
	So I got a couple of things to start off with.
	Since somebody got to knowagendafilms.com, I watched a movie.
	Finally, you've watched your weekly movie.
	So my daughter insisted on watching this movie, but only to ridicule it.
	And so I said, well, hey, I'm all for that.
	And so we watched Twilight.
	Now, that's funny, because I came up with this interpretation I thought was genius, by the way.
	And then as I tell my daughter this story, she says, well, JC's got another theory, and he's got a theory about the movie.
	My theory about the movie is that this movie is an allegory or a metaphor or some model of American business.
	The high school represents the American business in Forks.
	The girl leaves home to go to work.
	She goes to the high school as the representative.
	The girl is the charming little girl that meets her.
	The whole thing looks just like office space, the way it's set up.
	And the three evil vampires that come in and start killing people represent business consultants.
	Who turn into werewolves.
	Well, no, they go around and they're killing people, which is the same as firing, and they try to kill this one girl who's protected by Edward, who represents her mentor.
	But isn't Edward the gay one?
	I don't know who's gay in this thing.
	But anyway, Edward is the...
	No, he's not represented there as gay.
	He's the sensitive vampire.
	Oh, he's sensitive, right.
	And meanwhile, there's an outside influence, this Indian kid, who knows about, apparently their family knows about these things, and he's essentially either a headhunter from another company, or he represents what, you know, outside, her outside business is what she does outside of work.
	But anyway, if you start looking at this thing as a metaphor for modern business, it just all fits, it just all falls into place.
	The thing's genius.
	Now, is this JC's theory or yours?
	No, that's my theory.
	JC's theory is that the whole thing is a metaphor for drug using.
	I'm going with JC. He's a lot smarter than you, man.
	She's addicted to this one form of drug, which is the Edward character, and the other guy's trying to get her off.
	His theory, I haven't talked to him about it, I'm only getting it secondhand, I think is bogus.
	My theory about the metaphor for business and the office environment is right on the money.
	It's absolute...
	Now I see this movie as one of the great works of the...
	Of all time.
	It's at least as good as Atlas Drugs.
	Oh no!
	Atlas Drugs!
	By Ayn Rand.
	Okay, so we need a Twilight jingle for you, John.
	Yeah, that's going to have longevity.
	In 50 years from now, they'll be like, remember that Twilight movie?
	Oh, it was so good.
	They'll be still analyzing it.
	It was so good about American business.
	And by the way...
	By the way, so I looked into the woman that wrote it, and she worked for a while as a receptionist.
	She says she dreamed the story.
	Yeah, she dreamed the story because she was in an office environment.
	She saw what was going on and internalized it, and then this story came out.
	She doesn't even know herself that she's created a kind of...
	A masterpiece.
	It's a masterpiece.
	It's a masterpiece, I tell you.
	Well, now I'll have to go and see it.
	When you watch it in terms of, just think about a business, a corporate thing, you know how those work.
	Well, you know what?
	What's really good is if this is true, and if this has this subliminal underlying message, it's actually really good that all these kids are so into it, because they'll have a knowledge of how much it sucks.
	Right.
	It's preconditioning.
	It's great.
	Yep.
	Okay, well, gee, John, I don't have anything quite that deep.
	Well, you know, we did mention Atlas Shrugged, though, and you did come up when we were sitting around at the Fringal restaurant, sipping on...
	And we had a nice wine.
	Yeah, it's a good one.
	There's another 2007 Cote du Rhone's, which are all outstanding and inexpensive.
	It's like $35 or something, right?
	Yeah, at the restaurant normally.
	Yeah, because I looked it up on my HelloVino app, and it listed for $15.95.
	Yeah, that would be what you'd get at a store.
	Right.
	For anyone out there who looks at wine lists, the 2007 wines from the Rhone are all killers, no matter what the price, high, low, whatever.
	Anyway, you came up with the idea.
	No, actually, one of our producers said, hey, you know, in fact, it was one of our producers from Goldman Sachs.
	We have some supporters over there.
	They said, you know, we're all crazy about Atlas Shrugged.
	Yeah, duh.
	And we've all got the book.
	We all have the Millennium Edition.
	It's part of the assignment.
	Yeah, it's really like, you know, you want to work here?
	Read this book and come back, and there'll be a test.
	And he said, you know, I think I can get some guys to pitch in.
	And, you know, of course, they've got just gobs of money over there.
	And we'd love to do, you know, to finance a film version of Atlas Shrugged.
	And I started looking into it.
	And I talked to Mickey.
	I said, how come, you know, there's been many rumors and they've talked about it.
	And, you know, the last rumor was Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt were supposed to star as Hank and Dagny.
	And they were going to do it, and I guess Brad Pitt pulled out.
	It's like, why is this thing so impossible to make?
	It seems like an obvious great story.
	You know, people know the book.
	It seems like a no-brainer.
	And she says, it is impossible to write a screenplay for this 8,000-page book.
	Because you really, what are you going to leave out?
	You wind up messing it up.
	You're just going to leave out some of the nuances that kind of make it so great.
	Although, even I would be like, can we please cut the whole radio speech in half?
	And I said, well, why don't we just do a miniseries?
	It could be never ending.
	And then you and I were talking about this.
	And, you know, where did the miniseries go?
	We used to have great miniseries, which would go on forever, like Roots, like North and South.
	What else did we have?
	Well, there's that Clavel thing that I can't remember the name of, maybe the chat room can remember, where this guy goes to China, or no, he goes to Japan, and he has to blend in or something.
	I don't know what you're talking about.
	The last miniseries I saw was V, and that failed after like four episodes.
	Yeah, well, V, yeah, V. Well, the ones that most recently, it's apparently ever since Valerie Bertinelli stopped acting, a lot of these miniseries have failed.
	Yeah.
	She was the key to the miniseries.
	She wasn't in Roots.
	She wasn't in North and South.
	No, but she was in all the more recent ones.
	Well, that's the problem right there.
	Anyway, I thought it was a really good idea.
	I mean, a miniseries can go on forever, right?
	It can just keep going, and you'd always be wondering, you know, where does it end?
	Shogun, that's the name of it.
	Shogun.
	Oh, okay.
	Wow.
	Huge.
	Wow.
	Anyway, so...
	Yeah, and then somebody else mentions in the chat, Ken Burns.
	Somebody say anything about Ken Burns.
	Ken Burns probably ruined the miniseries.
	What did he do?
	Ken Burns is the guy who does all these documentaries for PBS where they show an old photo and then somebody reading a letter.
	Oh, is that the Ken Burns effect?
	Where the photo zooms in and zooms up.
	And you have somebody reading a note from Mom written in 1840.
	Man, I'm riveted.
	Who needs Ambien when you've got Ken Burns?
	Alright, let me switch topics.
	We were talking, I think the past two episodes, about the shotgun taser.
	And of course, lo and behold, when you talk about stuff on this show, and this is the beauty of it, and this is why I have like 168 different news items I've tagged in between shows, and I have to look at them all because I don't want to miss them.
	And people sent me this wonderful YouTube clip.
	About the Taser International XREP, better known as XREP. And you and I were joking about...
	I saw this thing, too.
	Basically, you're shooting a battery at someone.
	And I just wanted to play the opening of this.
	It is.
	It is a battery.
	Listen.
	So, how do you take what many people consider to be the greatest, less-than-lethal option on the planet...
	By the way, I love this guy.
	So, how do you take what anyone considers to be the greatest, less-than-lethal option on the planet...
	And make it even better.
	You turn it into the X-Rep.
	Extended Range Electronic Projectile.
	Now, you take all that capability, and you can fire it out of a standard 12-gauge shotgun.
	So this thing, it's like a bullet.
	It deploys little fins, and then it flies, and it hits you really hard.
	Of course, it's coming out of a shotgun.
	Get in with a shotgun shell.
	Well, it's accurate up to 65 feet, and then it deploys a little Kevlar string with a second electrode to give maximum shock range, which then falls into your...
	Well, they keep showing it falling into your groin, but I'm pretty sure this thing's going to fall into your nuts.
	And then it shocks you, and it puts you out for longer than normal, which is, I think, 25 seconds, which should be enough time for you to run and then go jump on top of the guy.
	Now, all of this is great, and this is a seven-minute promotional video, from the Discovery Channel, no less.
	But I'm thinking, we've already had these cases, and of course this is what the cop kind of, he didn't get off entirely, he got second-degree manslaughter.
	In Oakland, you know, oh, well, I grabbed my taser, I thought it was my gun.
	But now when you're actually supposed to shoot these out of a gun, out of a standard shotgun, I mean, the margin for error of, oh, I loaded the wrong shell, is getting pretty narrow here.
	And this is just, this is not okay.
	Asking for trouble.
	And, you know, so I've been talking, I actually went out for lunch with the nerds at the office, the engineers, and we were talking about this, and, you know, just kind of like, you know, this whole taser thing.
	And all these stories start showing up, like this one from the Washington Post.
	Hospitals are now debating, even though they've been using them for quite a while, the use of tasers in hospitals.
	I didn't even know this was happening.
	I didn't either.
	I never heard this.
	Well, on July 8th, a security guard used a stun gun on the 25-year-old nephew of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas after he allegedly became combative when trying to leave a Mariro, Louisiana hospital against doctor's orders, and they tased the fucker.
	No, you can't leave.
	You can't leave here.
	And this apparently is like, here, 2009?
	Take your flu shot.
	No, I don't want a flu shot.
	Over 1,200 people were stunned in hospitals.
	It's like, what?
	They're tasing you in the hospital now.
	What's next?
	You're in school?
	Hey, Billy!
	Billy!
	Shut!
	Shut!
	What?
	Just tase your kid!
	Why not?
	Who gives a crap?
	Oh, you know what?
	I bet you if somebody out there...
	I bet you this is already going on in schools.
	And it's so outrageous.
	It's just outrageous.
	This whole stun gun thing, it's got to stop.
	This is worse than real guns.
	This is such a menacing threat.
	And John, I guarantee you, before I am dead, you're probably out of the danger zone there.
	I'm sure I'm going to get tased somewhere.
	I'm surprised you haven't been tased already.
	I'm going to say something to somebody and the person is just going to whip around and fire electrodes into my butt.
	Just to tell me to shut up.
	You have a higher likelihood of getting tased than getting laid.
	I'm telling you.
	It's crazy.
	That's a t-shirt, by the way.
	It is a t-shirt.
	T-shirt alert.
	T-shirt alert for our t-shirt.
	Higher chance of getting tased than laid in high school.
	It's just like, wow, tasing in high schools.
	And Clarence Thomas, his nephew.
	Supreme Court justice.
	The pubic hair on the Coke can guy, by the way.
	Long dong silver.
	Yeah.
	Long dong silver.
	Most people don't remember that because they're too young.
	Yeah, I remember it.
	Long dong silver.
	That's when Senate confirmation hearings were great.
	Now they're just boring.
	Now they're just boring.
	It was flying back then.
	The Democrats wanted anything but a black conservative.
	They bring out the heavy hitters.
	Yeah, Hill and Knowlton did a great one on that.
	So there's a little-known law that I discovered that stems from 1992, and now is all of a sudden, of course, as we have to save the planet, as we are killing it, is starting to be redeployed, I guess.
	You know, there's a regulation as to how much water a shower nozzle can emit.
	Did you realize this?
	I didn't realize it, but I'm not surprised.
	Yeah, there's a federal maximum for shower heads, and that is 2.5 gallons per minute at 80 pounds per square inch.
	That's quite a bit, if you think about it.
	I don't know.
	I mean, I do know that these rain showers, which actually they deploy in the United Kingdom a lot, You know, the big shower heads that you stand under and it's like standing under a waterfall.
	Yeah.
	So these are going to be outlawed.
	And the federal government now has a tough new line on water-hogging shower heads.
	And so I guess the guy who owns the company that makes the Rain Dance Imperial, which has a 24-inch spray face, 358 no-clog channels, and a triple massage option...
	Is starting the Leave My Shower Alone campaign.
	And wasn't there...
	There's not that many people that use those types of showers.
	Wasn't it William Buckley who said, you'll know that the government has gone too far when a hand reaches into your shower and adjusts the temperature of the water?
	I think that was one of his famous...
	It seems unlikely that Buckley would have said that, but somebody...
	Yeah, he said that probably with a glint in his eye.
	But there you go.
	The government now sticking their hand into your shower.
	Yeah.
	It's like, well, okay.
	My favorite thing during, we had a shower crisis.
	We had a water crisis in California.
	A shower crisis.
	No, that's England where they have a shower crisis.
	A shower crisis.
	So they made everybody go to these low-flow shower heads, and there's still a bunch of them in some hotels.
	They suck ass!
	They totally suck.
	You turn it on, and it's like they make a fine mist spray, and then it doesn't do anything.
	It's like you have to stand there for days.
	No, you have to run around to get wet.
	It's unbelievable.
	I know, they're horrible.
	And there's a nice little note in the hotel that says, we're conserving the earth.
	Yeah, I'm paying 500 bucks for this crappy-ass shower, which is all I really want is a place to poop and shower and shave.
	And you're conserving the earth, the resources, with this stupid shower.
	That's a good voice.
	Yeah, thanks.
	It's my Jackie Martling.
	I'm working on it.
	So, yeah, you've got to use that voice more.
	So, when somebody sent in a note complaining about these hotels that have the green notification, you go to a hotel, you spend $300 for a room, and then there's a little...
	Note on your bed that says, oh, if you don't mind using your towel again, we're saving the environment, we're saving the world because we don't want to wash all these towels over and over.
	That's pretty much everywhere these days.
	I think it's a regulation now.
	They have to put that in.
	And the way to signify you want your towels washed is to throw them in the bathtub.
	And otherwise, please hang it up.
	I feel like my mom is renting out a room to me.
	It's like, please, please.
	And we only change the sheets after every guest.
	I don't like that one.
	That's not my favorite thing.
	I want fresh sheets every night.
	Well, you're paying big money.
	Yeah, for $300, $400.
	And by the way, don't you dare smoke in the room.
	We'll give you the $250 room cleanup fee.
	Or they spray some Lysol or something.
	Yeah, what do they do?
	Well, there's some can of something.
	And basically, I just need one of those cans.
	And they spray that, and it removes the odor, pretty much.
	Yeah.
	And by the way, I don't advocate that because people who want a smoke-free room, it sucks.
	It stinks when you come in and someone's misspoken there.
	Yep.
	But it's basically a $250 ashtray.
	That's the way I view it.
	Hey!
	So that's it for today's show.
	No, I'm so far from done.
	I just don't know where to start.
	Okay.
	I mean, I could give it a little whirl if you want.
	Go ahead.
	What is it that's in your craw?
	Well, the big story that people email to me with glee, I have to say, is that I have a whole section of the pedo bear who strikes again Pentagon workers tied to child porn.
	And I think I mentioned this to you, John, but you probably went like, oh, brother.
	And did you read any of this?
	I said, oh, brother.
	And I said, no, I'm not going to read it.
	And you can handle it.
	Federal investigators have identified several, several dozen.
	Okay, so several would be more than two.
	That would be a couple dozen.
	So several dozen, I'm going to say, is that four dozen?
	I would say three.
	This is from Boston.com.
	So I dislike it severely when the report starts off with a nefarious number.
	Several dozen Pentagon officials and contractors.
	Well, that's not a nefarious number.
	It's a dubious number.
	Dubious number.
	Thank you.
	So let's say about 30 to 300 in my book.
	Pentagon officials and contractors with high level security clearances who allegedly purchased and downloaded child pornography, including an undisclosed number, who used their government computers to obtain the illegal material.
	The investigations have included employees of the National Security Agency, the National Reconnaissance Office, never even heard of that one, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, DARPA, which deal with some of the most sensitive work in intelligence and defense, among other organizations within the Defense Department.
	The number of offenders is a small percentage of the thousands.
	I love this.
	But it's only a small percentage of people working for sensitive Pentagon-related agencies.
	But the fact that offenders included people with access to government secrets puts national security agencies at risk of blackmail, bribery, threats especially.
	And this is true, of course.
	Especially since these individuals typically have access to military installations.
	Now...
	And this is a report by the Defense Criminal Investigative Service from late 2009.
	The NSA, by the way, is actually involved in the investigation of these child pornography fiends.
	What I like about this report from Boston.com, and this is the big story, and they spent money on this, is the reporter, and we might as well...
	We might as well just play this for him right now.
	I hope this guy makes it out.
	You know what happened to the Bloomberg guy who kept moaning and bitching about the $2 trillion the Fed lent to banks overseas and wouldn't tell anybody and still hasn't?
	He died.
	But this guy actually goes out, puts out a little video and talks about his story, which I thought was very brave and very necessary.
	Let's listen to him for a moment.
	I'm Brian Bender here in the Boston Globe's Washington Bureau and I'm looking into some investigations conducted by the Defense Department in recent years into government officials including many with high security clearances who were accessing child pornography.
	These individuals came to the attention of DOD primarily because the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency We launched something called Operation Flickr back in 2006, which was looking into some of these child pornography sites,
	particularly overseas, and found that a number of government officials here in the U.S., including some very secret Defense Department agencies like the National Security Agency, were apparently buying some of these images off the Internet and, in some cases, even using their government computers to do so.
	According to the investigation reports that we have, at least several dozen government officials were investigated.
	Some of them were prosecuted.
	Other cases are still pending.
	And in some cases, the cases were dropped simply because the government didn't think that they would be able to bring a case.
	Officials are particularly alarmed By the fact that these are government officials with very high security clearances who could be compromised.
	They could be blackmailed.
	They could be bribed.
	So therefore, these cases were considered top priority.
	And we're only now learning about them because these investigators...
	I'm sorry.
	What did you say?
	What did you say?
	It could be bribed.
	What's bribed?
	What do you mean it could be bribed?
	I think it just means blackmailed.
	I mean, this is the whole problem.
	He also said several dozen once again.
	Yeah, well, so...
	I find this to be very dubious.
	Well, and I have to agree with you.
	I think that someone or someones went a little bit too far with the blackmailing, because this is what happens consistently in the injustice systems around the world.
	Is that someone, you know, is compromised because someone else has the dirt on them and then it escalates and people either wind up dead or they get, or the lower guys who of course are in the cabal and, you know, they say, hey, well, you know, it doesn't really matter if someone blows the whistle on me, but if I Blow the whistle on you, buddy.
	Well, then you're completely dead, and then you'll be ruined.
	And so they start to out them.
	And I think that there's clearly a nest of this going on.
	I'm not buying any of it.
	Nest bullcrap.
	How about you telling me somebody in the NSA is that stupid and naive to use a government computer to buy child porn?
	Where are they buying child porn?
	What constitutes child porn?
	You're not listening to what I'm saying.
	The real people who are really involved in the nasty business are outing these lower level people.
	Just making shit up.
	Just to create a diversion.
	Oh, we've cleaned it all up because something was getting too hot under their feet.
	And this guy, Brian Bender, he's certainly being used to propagate this message.
	Because it's just too fishy.
	Yes.
	Well, that's my point.
	And, of course, the giveaway is this term, several dozen.
	Several dozen.
	Yeah, exactly.
	And why we, you know, he says it in the writing, he says it when he speaks, it's almost for, that means to me it's the script.
	Mm-hmm.
	It's vague.
	We don't know who they are.
	That way you can't demand to see how many there were.
	Say you're an investigator.
	I demand to see how many people were there.
	I don't know.
	Also, could we just have one person convicted?
	Could we have one name?
	When some douchebag is found with pornographic images on his computer, it's headline news.
	It's, oh, we got one!
	We got one!
	When some kids are sexting each other, which is just another case in Oklahoma or something, they have to register as sex offenders.
	But when this happens in our government, true or not, there's never anyone hung out to dry.
	There's no names in this.
	There's no one who was...
	Well, some were prosecuted, but just kind of swept it under the carpet.
	You're right.
	It's a complete distraction from something much bigger going on.
	And Google actually knows...
	This was very funny.
	Do you ever look at Failblog?
	You know, I do, but it's, you know, maybe once every few months.
	So Failblog.org had, a couple days ago, had a Google win.
	Sometimes they have wins instead of just fails.
	Apparently, for a while, and I don't know if this was just in Italy or if it was worldwide, if you typed in Vatican...
	Into Google, it would send you...
	Either the top result or the I'm feeling lucky, which is probably the same thing, would send you to...
	Let me just get it right here.
	Pedophilo.com, the Italian word for pedophile.
	Somebody Google-washed it.
	That's funny.
	I don't know how you do that.
	I thought they stopped doing it.
	They stopped that from happening.
	I guess not.
	Well, a spokesman for Google Italia, Simone Panseri, said, well, it's not clear this was a result of hacking.
	What?
	I cannot confirm if it is an attack because I have not had any more precise information from the U.S. engineers.
	It's a Google-wash.
	It's a known technique.
	How do you do that?
	Well, it used to be very easy to do.
	In fact, it used to be a big joke because people would...
	By creating a bunch of websites, point to each other and do some other trickery to get the Google thing to perk up.
	If you remember some years ago when there was really an epidemic, in fact, you can look up Google Wash on Google and read some of the old columns written by Andrew Orlowski from the Register because he used to write about this constantly.
	But that was you type in George Bush and then the top thing would be douchebag or something like that.
	Oh, right.
	I do remember that.
	Yeah, you're right.
	And it was like a hobby for a while and then Google did what they had to do to end it and it stopped.
	But apparently somebody's come up with a new technology to do it.
	Well, we want to know what that is because we want to use that.
	That's great.
	There's a no agenda show to the top of anything.
	Yeah, just Obama.
	No agenda show.
	But there's something going on, John.
	There is something, because there's too many stories.
	I'll just run through them, and then we'll be done with Pedo Bear for this week.
	Catholic Sex Scandal reports the Mail Online in the Gitmo Nation East as undercover reporter films priests at gay clubs having casual flings with underage boys.
	And they've got pictures and all kinds of stuff.
	Then we have Washington State, Tacoma, 27-year-old Army sergeant from Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington State has pleaded guilty in federal court to sex trafficking of a child and attempted sex trafficking of a child.
	Sterling Hopesdale.
	See, this guy, this 27-year-old schmuck, they out him immediately.
	Set up one juvenile in a Lakewood apartment to work as a prostitute.
	Had a second juvenile flown in from Wyoming to do the same.
	And meanwhile, of course, that douchebag that we talked about who had clinked in everybody as his buddies.
	He gets off light.
	And then we have...
	This one was...
	Kind of crazy from the BBC. None of this, by the way, reported on your local news.
	Former Pennsylvania Judge Michael Conahan has pleaded guilty to a racketeering conspiracy charge for helping put juvenile defendants behind bars in exchange for bribes.
	This is really a good one.
	So it's not exactly pedo bear, but borders on it.
	This guy was putting juvies into Juvie Hall for cash because it was so profitable with the jail.
	Yeah, because the government pays you so much money per prisoner, so they've been jacking up these, they've been throwing people in for no good reason.
	The San Jose system has got some of this going on.
	They haven't been able to correct.
	It's known as the Cash for Kids program.
	And up to 2,000 juveniles.
	Excessively harsh sentences so he could get kickbacks.
	Yeah.
	That's just another form of child abuse.
	I don't care if you're sex trafficking or sending him to jail.
	I mean, it's all the same thing.
	It's just unbelievable.
	Yeah, actually something has to be done about that.
	I mean, we have more people in jail per capita.
	We have more people in jail in the United States in terms of total numbers and in terms of per capita.
	We've got more people in jail than in school.
	And it's like ridiculous because it's a moneymaker and somebody's profiting from it and they don't give a crap about anything but themselves.
	And it's a scandal.
	And the judges that are in on this should all be thrown.
	They should take everyone out of jail and put the judges in that have actually created the situation.
	And then the lawmakers who have the three strikes laws and all the other stuff where a guy steals a bottle of bop and it's his third strike and he's in jail forever.
	Yeah.
	And even though...
	Well, he's not really the pedo bear, but he is...
	And I'm telling you, there's something going on.
	And of course, you know, power...
	Throughout history, we know that when people have power, it makes them horny.
	Isn't that true?
	Doesn't power make you horny somehow?
	Well, power corrupts.
	Yeah.
	But it's crazy what's happening.
	And of course...
	We know that Al Gore needed to be sidelined.
	I guess what happened is the masseuse from Oregon, I think her case got thrown out for insufficient evidence.
	You know, that he was a sex-crazed poodle.
	And this, of course, was as reported in the Globe.
	Yeah, and then since then...
	Yes, the Inquirer, the actual extension of the Central Intelligence Agency, now has two new masseuses who...
	You've got to read the one line that's in there that's hilarious.
	The therapists claim that when they were alone, and this happened the night of the Oscars, when he went to pick up his undeserved Oscar...
	Um, and it happened again in Tokyo.
	Uh, when they were alone, Gore shrugged off the towel, stood naked in front of the therapist, pointed to his erect penis, and ordered to, take care of this!
	Ha ha ha ha!
	I don't know if the emphasis was on the word this.
	Yes, it is.
	It's in all caps.
	He could have said, take care.
	No, it's all in...
	No, the emphasis is on this.
	Take care of this.
	This.
	Take care of this, bitches.
	Get on that.
	Get on that thing.
	So Gore is not going to...
	They're going to do what they have to do to keep Gore out of the...
	He can't go give speeches anymore.
	No, that's the whole point.
	He needs to shut up, slave.
	He's done.
	And it's like, take care of this will be the catchphrase if he shows up anywhere.
	Hey, Gord, take care of this!
	And I laugh because he deserves it.
	He deserves it so much for trying to scam us into his carbon trading business.
	Which apparently is now dead, right?
	I mean, now the New York Times.
	No, it's not dead yet.
	They're hanging in there.
	And you talk to any liberals that happen to be, you know, unreconstructed.
	And you bring up this whole thing.
	They go, what?
	Huh?
	Oh, no.
	Global warming.
	Yeah, that's terrible.
	You don't question it at all?
	You don't think the carbon trading thing is a scam and cap and trade is a joke because if you're serious you just want to cap things not trade them?
	Huh?
	What?
	But I'm reading in the New York Times that Harry Reid is saying we don't have the votes.
	Oh no they don't.
	They know that.
	We did this on the show already.
	We had a quote from somebody.
	It was a Republican, though, who said, look, once they lost that Massachusetts guy, they don't have the votes, and most of the Democrats aren't going to take a risk at pushing this thing through because it's got a bad reputation.
	They're going to rename it, reformulate it.
	Oh, it'll come back.
	Oh, no doubt about that.
	But right now, they're saying, oh, it's dead for now.
	We can't do it now.
	But yeah, they will come back in some other form, for sure.
	Yeah.
	There's too much money to be made off this stupid public.
	So I have a clip of our next president of the United States, of Gitmo Nation, who of course will be Hillary Clinton.
	And it's so obvious that she's gearing up for it.
	And she took Greta Van Susteren on the road with her to Pakistan.
	Well, there's a couple.
	Yeah, and I know, it kind of turns me on.
	I'm like, just imagine those two, clam bumping.
	So, and Hillary Clinton is, by the way, very well versed in international politics and affairs.
	I mean, she is, for all intents and purposes, a reincarnation of Madeleine Albright.
	Do you find it interesting?
	I thought this observation of mine was curious.
	So we've had our secretaries of state, the ones that go from country to country to country pushing our agenda, and go to Muslim countries who don't have a lot of respect for women.
	Our last three major secretaries in a row were all women.
	Madeleine Albright.
	Condoleezza Rice, who's not only a woman, but a black woman, which makes it even more probably curious to the Muslims, the Saudis or whoever.
	And now we have another one.
	Don't we have any men that can do this job anymore?
	Or are we doing this on purpose?
	I really don't know.
	And I agree with you.
	It seems like that's kind of what it's supposed to be.
	And that's what, you know, clearly that's what the script calls for, because that's why they keep doing it.
	Wait until they get a load of this one.
	Yeah, but these women are all highly intelligent.
	They speak very affluently, and they get along fabulously with all international leaders of all ilk.
	And Hillary, as we already pointed out, she's got the George Washington hairdo going.
	She's totally gearing up, and I think they'll probably resign in time to start running for the 2012 election, as you already...
	Have stated that Obama will probably just say, I'm giving up, I've got to go focus on the kids and the obesity thing and whatever.
	But she sits down with Greta Van Susteren, and it's a nine-minute clip, and it'll be on NoAgendaTV.com.
	So you should watch the whole thing, because she's also touching her nose a lot, kind of like a Coke tick there, which was interesting.
	That wouldn't surprise me.
	and then she starts talking about, it's about terrorism, about Pakistan, then about Afghanistan and how we can't make the same mistake we made previously, and she admits to something in such a cavalier manner, which of course, Greta Van Zusteren doesn't pick up on, but I was blown away which of course, Greta Van Zusteren doesn't pick up on, but I was blown If we walked away from this, didn't give them money today, it would be worse for us from a security standpoint.
	I do.
	I do.
	We're building a relationship that just did not exist.
	I said in our last trip when you were with me that we had a huge trust deficit, in part because the United States had...
	To be fair, we had helped to create the problem we're now fighting.
	How?
	Because when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, we had this brilliant idea that we were going to come to Pakistan and create a force of Mujahideen, equip them with Stinger missiles and everything else to go after the Soviets inside Afghanistan.
	And we were successful.
	The Soviets left Afghanistan and And then we said, great, goodbye, leaving these trained people who were fanatical in Afghanistan and Pakistan, leaving them well-armed, creating a mess, frankly, that at the time we didn't really recognize.
	We were just so happy to see the Soviet Union fall, and we thought, okay, fine, we're okay now.
	Everything's going to be so much better.
	Now you look back, the people we're fighting today, we were supporting in the fight against the Soviets.
	Yeah.
	Now, excuse me, but did she not just exactly say, is the biggest joke of all of this, is that the Mujahideen, which was set up by the CIA with Stinger missiles, and I have something to say about that, that they are now essentially Al-Qaeda?
	Isn't she admitting that?
	No, I think she said, well, yeah, there's that, but I think she's, and the Taliban.
	Yeah, but it's all, you know, first it was Bin Laden, then it was Saddam Hussein, then it's the Al-Qaeda, then Al-Qaeda because the Taliban have links to Al-Qaeda.
	I mean, it all comes back to the guys that we set up in the first place.
	Pretty much.
	And she's actually admitting this, and she's like, yeah, that's right, yeah.
	And Greta's just like, I'm happy to be here on the trip with you.
	Eh.
	By the way, did you know she said they ran on a trip before?
	Yeah, I noticed that.
	When you were with me before, she said.
	Not just on it, when you were with me before.
	Hey, baby, when you were with me before, Greta.
	What do you think Greta has that frown?
	But she mentioned Stinger missiles.
	And I was talking to Tony the terrorist.
	Who drives me whenever I'm in San Francisco.
	And Tony says, oh, these Stinger missiles.
	And this guy, he's more crackpot than I am, Tony.
	And he says, you know, the big joke about these Stinger missiles, he says, they have an expiration date, you know.
	These things are duds.
	They're always talking about, oh, the Stingers, oh, the Stingers.
	But A, they're duds because they just go cold.
	He says, you know, 80% don't work anymore because they just, you know, they have a life, a shelf life.
	And second of all, he says the big thing about a Stinger missile, which is shot from the shoulder, sight only, it's no guided missile, you know, it's just you put it on your shoulder and you fire it, you can only fire it above a certain angle, because these things are built to not fire, so you don't, like, fire into your foot or fire into the ground.
	Because they're basically meant to shoot down helicopters.
	That would be bad.
	But they're meant to shoot down helicopters.
	And everyone knows, this is the big joke, if you fly below 700 feet, the stinger can't actually get you because the tilt is too low and the thing won't fire.
	Unless you're right over the guy.
	But then he goes by so fast, if you're at 500 feet and you fly over, it's almost impossible.
	So these things are basically useless, yet they're always touted as, oh, they've got stingers, oh, they've got stinger missiles.
	But the big joke in terrorist land is that they suck.
	They're no good.
	They're duds.
	It's just like they're useless.
	This is not a useful weapon anymore.
	Yeah, well, I think they have to be designed with that in mind.
	Most of our weaponry is designed with fail-safe mechanisms.
	You know, there's transponders that are on planes, and sometimes the missiles are designed, if they sense that they can't hit that plane, they won't do it.
	There's a whole bunch of fail-safe mechanisms.
	And I think the best one would be if the thing expires, and you try to launch it, it just blows up.
	It kills you.
	In your pocket.
	Although, a big report in the Independent about Fallujah, and this will just tell you a little bit about the type of weaponry we've been using, a headline, Toxic Legacy of U.S. Assault on Fallujah Worse Than Hiroshima.
	Dramatic increases in children born with dysformities, cancer, three arms, all kinds of crap.
	And the reason why, of course, is because we use depleted uranium.
	Fucking poison the whole, the whole, the whole, everyone out there.
	They're all poisoned.
	It's disgusting.
	Yeah, the depleted uranium shells are all over Iraq.
	Yeah.
	And then Israel, very funny, just ha-ha, they come out and say, hey, you know, we're going to limit our use of white phosphorus in conflict.
	Of course, first they denied it.
	White phosphorus, by the way, it kind of explodes in the air and it comes down and it burns you to death.
	It burns right through you.
	Yeah, it burns down through your bone.
	Terrible stuff.
	And they went to the United Nations and handed in a report and said, well, you know, we promise we'll use less.
	We'll limit it.
	We'll only use it to create a smoke screen in combat.
	Meanwhile, you know, there was when they, the last time with the Gaza offensive, they were popping the stuff off left and right, just burning people down to the bone.
	It's just disgusting the things we can do to each other as people.
	And then I'll get off of this because it's just making me crazy.
	Noam Chomsky.
	Duh.
	Tell me about Noam.
	Noam Chomsky is a self-loathing Jewish hyper-intellectual who is a trickster.
	He is one of the foremost linguists in the world.
	He teaches linguistics.
	He's not a politician.
	He's not a political guy.
	He's a linguistics expert.
	And he has a very compelling writing and speaking style, although his speaking style is extremely slow.
	Irritating to listen to.
	And irritating and slow-moving.
	But if you start to deconstruct his work, all his sentences and the way he structures things is so loaded with propagandistic usages and techniques and certain adjectives all his sentences and the way he structures things is so loaded with propagandistic usages and techniques and certain adjectives that I've made an exercise of doing this in front of people, where if you go and look at all his adjectives and you just change them and you don't change any information other than adjectives,
	He is a person that people get addicted to for some reason and they think he's some sort of an intellectual genius.
	I find him to be a very negative influence in the world today.
	Would you like to deconstruct about a minute of his speech?
	Well, I can take a shot at it.
	Yeah, he recorded an address to the United National Peace Conference.
	I'm not quite sure what that is.
	Oh, he's a communist.
	There's probably some communist organization.
	Well, it's about the U.S. and our imminent attack on Iran.
	And some of the things he's saying are the things we've discussed in this very program.
	Yeah, well, he's not dead wrong on everything he says, that's for sure.
	Right.
	Well, let's listen to him, and you just yell stop when you want to deconstruct.
	...military base that it uses for attacking the Middle East and Central Asia.
	The Navy is expanding facilities there for nuclear-powered guided missile submarines with Tomahawk missiles, which can carry nuclear warheads.
	Each submarine is reported to have...
	He's talking about the buildup in the Persian Gulf.
	The striking power of a typical naval carrier battle group.
	The Obama build-up also includes hundreds of so-called bunker-buster bombs, the most powerful in the arsenal, short of nuclear weapons.
	These are intended for blasting hardened underground structures aimed for Iran, of course.
	The planning for these bombs began under Bush but languished Obama accelerated the program sharply as soon as he took office.
	And that I found kind of interesting.
	By the way, the guy is like so anti-Obama.
	Oh yeah, he and many of the progressives that are in his camp and the ones even further left, they hate what they call neoliberals.
	And people should do a little work on this one so they can catch up to this, but Neoliberals are a type of liberal that's a globalist and internationalist, a sleazeball in their minds, and against the people and the true distribution of wealth.
	They want just the rich to get richer and all this sort of thing.
	And Clinton is like the classic, classic neoliberal, and Hillary would be too.
	They're going to hate her.
	Just because somebody's left like this guy doesn't mean he's going to be pro-Obama.
	Well, no, but he's actually left, unlike, this is my point, unlike Obama, who essentially is not left at all, he's part of the whole elite cabal, and he's saying right here, Obama accelerated the bunker busters, he's worse than Bush is what he's saying.
	I didn't know that, by the way.
	He also said that Bush started it and then let it languish, and there was no explanation for that.
	So far, his information is typical of Chomsky.
	A lot of vague assertions, a lot of generalities, all ominous, of course, and then a few sharp needles to whoever he's targeting.
	In this case, it seems to be Obama.
	Yeah, a couple more.
	And they're now to be deployed years ahead of schedule, of course, aimed at Iran.
	A very respected British strategic analyst, Dan Plesch, he points out, I'm quoting him, they're gearing up totally for the destruction of Iran.
	U.S. bombers and long-range missiles are ready today to destroy 10,000 targets in Iran in a few hours.
	The firepower of U.S. forces has quadrupled since 2003, accelerating rapidly under Obama.
	I love that.
	Accelerating rapidly under Obama.
	Several dozen.
	He uses the word accelerate.
	Accelerated.
	Of course, he doesn't know that.
	How does he know, for example, that it's years ahead of schedule?
	I like that.
	It's all bullshit.
	It's just making this stuff up as it goes along.
	How do we know it's years ahead of schedule?
	It could be behind schedule for all we know.
	And how would he know?
	But I do like that he's basically saying Obama is a douchebag.
	Well, that is amusing.
	Yeah, it's very amusing.
	But if it was up to him, you've got to remember, this is the guy, and there would be some people in the chat room or something, oh, this is bullcrap.
	I've looked at this, and I remember when it happened, because I was in school.
	And he was, in fact, it hurt this guy quite a bit, and he's trying to lie his way out of it.
	But Noam Chomsky was a huge supporter of the Khmer Rouge.
	He thought that he was a big anti-war, anti-Vietnam War guy, and he supported Pol Pot, thought he was a great guy, and the Khmer Rouge was a great operation.
	And I heard him go on about this in the 60 Minutes, one of these TV things, and he was just blatant about it.
	But of course we had a million people killed on the killing fields, and it wasn't so great anymore.
	Yeah, and then he denied, oh no, I never thought much of the guy.
	He's backed off from it, but the fact of the matter is he would just as soon have Stalin running things as anyone else.
	So I don't really care much for him, but unfortunately he's got such a big platform that you have to listen to him.
	But anyway, is there any more?
	It's just more of the same.
	He says we're going in to blast Iran.
	And how does he know there's 10,000 targets?
	He's Noam Chomsky!
	He knows!
	I know.
	You know what?
	Would you call me back, John?
	Because you just went to AM. Ooh!
	AM quality.
	Yeah.
	Hi, ladies and gentlemen.
	John DeVore here on the AM radio.
	1260 at the time in San Francisco.
	Just shut him up.
	All right.
	Call me back.
	This is what we do on a live show.
	I'm not even going to cut this out so good.
	Come on.
	Call me back, John.
	You know what?
	He's going to sit there like, you're going to call me back.
	I guess I'll just call him.
	It'd be easier that way.
	You sound better?
	Yeah, much better.
	You were waiting for me to call you?
	No, I had somebody else's window open, so I called them.
	Who?
	You butt-dialed on Skype!
	You butt-dialed!
	Who'd you call?
	I called Steck.
	Oh, no.
	Okay, hey, we're overdue here, my friend.
	We need to talk about this program, how it operates, and the fact that in the last hour you've not heard a single ad.
	Not a single one, because we don't run ads.
	And it's actually the Internet Advertising Bureau, because I subscribe to all that crap.
	These are the guys that determine how the pre-rolls are supposed to be.
	We're like standardized, and how big banners are supposed to be, and all this Internet Advertising crap.
	They are actually testifying before Congress this week, or they were this week, against our privacy, saying, oh, you know, these privacy bills, they will harm business and consumers, i.e., opt in and opt out.
	So they feel that if you give your information firsthand to a company, willingly or not, like in a cookie, et cetera, like a double-click cookie track, that they should be able to do with that whatever they want.
	This is what the...
	Play it.
	Play it.
	Douchebags.
	Come on.
	Yeah.
	Douchebag!
	And their argument is, well, you know, without these fantastic advertisers, the internet would not be where it is today.
	I'm like, oh really?
	What a mess?
	A complete kerfuffle?
	It's a mess.
	Yeah, it is.
	It is.
	Pop-ups, pop-unders, all kinds of bullcrap.
	I was again doing a Google search this week for something.
	All I got was just advertising sites and I went 10 deep.
	To find something out.
	10 deep.
	Oh, you can't find anything.
	I couldn't even 10 deep.
	I had to get 10 deep.
	I couldn't find anything.
	It was unbelievable.
	So let's thank some people that help us because this is a user-supported show.
	That's all it's ever going to be.
	We're not going to take ads.
	If people stop supporting the show, we stop doing it.
	It's just that simple.
	It's not that difficult to figure out.
	We'd like to get more listeners and that would help us actually make money off of the show.
	It's a total numbers game.
	It's not that hard.
	All you have to do is get more people.
	We do seem to be going up In listenership, but for some reason we're not seeing that in the donation numbers.
	No.
	So maybe it has to be a certain percentage.
	Or maybe they have to listen longer.
	I'm not sure.
	We do have new listeners every week.
	They show up on the spreadsheet in green.
	That's what the green is.
	And we don't necessarily talk about him being newbies, but you can see him crop up here and there.
	Anyway, we do have to thank people like David Dietrich from Round Rock, Texas.
	He gave us $88.
	And Matthew Wilson at Hanover, Pennsylvania, $78.65.
	And I think we have a birthday message coming from him, or for him in a minute.
	Stephan or Stephen Stanley at Whiteville, North Carolina.
	He says, I've been listening to No Agenda for more than a year, and that's quickly become my favorite show.
	Sorry it took so long to donate, but please de-douche me now.
	Yeah, it would be my pleasure.
	Do you smell what, Barack?
	Do you smell what?
	Oh, no!
	I'm douching myself.
	Here we go.
	You've been de-douched.
	And he's in beautiful North Carolina, and I attest to the fact that North Carolina is a fantastic place.
	By the way, that dedouching takes place with a high-stream jet-powered nozzle.
	Well, if you get further north in North Carolina, you could use it.
	Cole Callistra, I think, is in North Attleboro.
	By the way, everybody's from the United States this week except one person, which I found peculiar.
	So where's our listeners in Australia?
	Yeah, I got some good Australian news coming up, even.
	North Attleboro, Massachusetts, 50 double nickels on the dime.
	Some karma for his wife.
	We just had an interview today for a teaching job and a little de-douching.
	He needs it, too.
	You've been de-douched.
	Joseph Costello, Pittston, Pennsylvania.
	Not Pittsburgh, Pittston, which I think is interesting.
	Another birthday, boys.
	Donation for his 51st birthday, 718.
	As a physician, I need some karma to survive health care reform.
	I have a real pet peeve.
	I'd like to hear your view on it.
	I can't stand paying $300 or more for the hotel room when I get the little green card.
	We already talked about it.
	And that's who's the one who brought it up.
	Our doctor friend.
	And then finally, we do have a Frenchman.
	Oh, Sacrebleu.
	Sacrebleu.
	This is the third, I believe.
	Tristan Benard, I think.
	Tristan.
	B-E-S-N-A-R-D. Tristan Benard.
	Bonjour.
	Sacrebleu.
	He's from Kremlin, in some part of France I don't know of.
	Unfortunately, because of my fonts installed on my spreadsheet, it's all a mess.
	Yeah, I got a mess, too.
	Bika-paka-dika-dika-dika-france.
	Yeah, he's in France.
	Just discovered Le Chaux.
	And I like Le Chaux a lot.
	Feels like fresh air from the disparity communist France.
	You have no idea how politically dumb people are over here.
	Thank you for politically awakening the population.
	Yeah, well, we do our part.
	John Lake, of course, is a knighthood layaway, and that's it for this week.
	Let me do the birthdays, because I do want people to have their jingle.
	They seem to enjoy it.
	I got a third birthday to mention before.
	Okay, well, you do the third birthday first.
	Hit it.
	John and Adam, thanks for a great show.
	I'm donating today as a birthday donation for my husband.
	Since we don't want our names used on the air, please simply say happy birthday to Night Mage from his wife Dahania.
	Even after 17 years, I can't find a better man.
	Thanks.
	And then we say happy birthday to Matthew Wilson.
	His birthday actually was yesterday, July 24th.
	And our doctor friend who needed some karma to survive health care reform turned 51 last week on the 18th.
	Joseph Jeff Costello, happy birthday from all your friends here at No Agenda.
	It's your birthday, yeah!
	And, um...
	Don Longiana.
	Don Doniana is the word she wanted me to say.
	And by the way, we just got a note from Eric.
	He's on Ile de France.
	Oh, Ile de France.
	Where's that?
	It's right in the middle of Paris, isn't it?
	I have no idea.
	You know, that's the problem.
	We need to go to Paris.
	Oh, yes, we do.
	We need to go see my friend Johnny Depp.
	There was a French guy.
	We had a couple.
	And Vanessa Paradis.
	Hey, Johnny, man.
	How you doing?
	And Vanessa Paradis.
	Now, I had a couple people over yesterday.
	And one of them was a Vanity Fair editor-reporter.
	She'd been there for 15 years.
	Just recently got laid off in the third round of layoffs.
	And this other dude, I think he's French, but maybe from England, whatever...
	And it was really nice to hear these people starting, who I didn't know, their acquaintances of Mickey, and they just started out of the blue talking about Monsanto and BP and all of that.
	I'm like, wow, gee, that's kind of...
	I've been taught now, self-taught, but also Mickey has a taser in the back of my neck.
	It's like easy on the crackpot shit when I have my friends over.
	Because you've got to ease them into it.
	But it was so easy, because they were ready for it.
	They know all this stuff.
	The word is getting out.
	People are awakening.
	And they weren't even listening to this show.
	Now, they probably are today.
	They're definitely listening.
	And it's amazing how many people in this extremely liberal, democratic...
	You know, we love Obama.
	The Republic of Southern California.
	Oh, Southern California is ridiculous.
	Yeah, but they're all like, hey, this guy's a douche.
	He's not doing anything.
	This is crap.
	This guy even knew about Tom Vilsack, the Secretary of Agriculture, being a Monsanto shill.
	And I was like, wow, this is great.
	And I just started laying a couple of things on him about the show.
	And I'm like, wow, yeah, we've got to listen.
	By the way, just as a quick side note, I told the Variety Girl, who had done a lot of reporting, she's met Mel Gibson many times.
	And I laid the Shantix wrap on her that we think that the guys like on Shantix.
	And she went, oh my God, I can't believe no one has picked up on this.
	Mel is a complete Nick-a-dict.
	Can't get off of it.
	He's always sneaking smokes when he's quitting every week or whatever.
	And I said, I think the guy's on Shantix.
	And she said, of course you knew what Shantix does to you.
	So it was great.
	I guess you didn't get the word to him.
	Yeah, well.
	Yeah, well.
	Okay, Ile de France is one of the regional areas where Paris is in the middle of it, not the other way around.
	Now, so dvorak.org slash na is where you can contribute to the show.
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	It'll matter a lot more in the near future.
	You'll find out why.
	It's important.
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	Now we have a couple of subscription programs.
	And this is really, although we love, we love the larger amounts because it's tiding us over until the monthly subscriptions get up to par, which we're probably at a sixth of where we need to be on the monthly.
	So we have quite a ways to go.
	But we started a new program, which is the Mothership Boarding Pass.
	And it seems that people are quite interested in this, and it's $33.33 a month.
	It's a real commitment, but when you think about it, and you really think about what you're spending $33 a month on, my daughter spends three times that amount on aspartame chewing gum.
	We calculated it last night, because she's moving out here in September, and she's like, got to do a budget.
	It's like, well, how much of this crap do you chew a day?
	And it's aspartame, because she's totally hooked on it.
	She had withdrawal symptoms yesterday, when she didn't have any.
	Had to go to the gas station to get her some.
	And she calculates it that it's a hundred bucks a month.
	A hundred bucks a month in gum?
	In aspartame!
	Oh, and aspartame.
	Yeah, well, aspartame gum.
	A hundred bucks, yeah.
	And kids chew this.
	You may chew this.
	Anyone out there, when you do the numbers...
	You're spending a lot of money on stupid crap.
	Gum has gotten very expensive.
	Yes.
	When did that happen?
	Well, ever since, aspartame, which is highly addictive, is put in almost everything.
	It's a drug.
	Hey, here's a question for you.
	When did they come out with these gums?
	And you can see them.
	You go to the store, and the gums are now packaged, so it looks like packages of condoms.
	Yep.
	With a little lid that flips open.
	They've got nice little colors on them.
	But the design work is like condom design.
	Yes.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	I know.
	I know.
	I think this must be like the old candy cigarettes kind of concept.
	I think you're very close to something there, and the whole point is the stuff is now officially addictive.
	Aspartame has addictive properties, and people are getting hooked on it, and so you might as well look good.
	You might as well think you're getting laid.
	Oh, I'm going to open up my condoms.
	I'm feeling good when I chew this.
	So anyway, the $33.33 a month is, and we're only doing a thousand of them, that'll get you a guaranteed spot.
	You get a beautiful boarding pass for the mothership when it comes to take us away to safety.
	And I will point out that just yesterday, and the pictures are beautiful, there was a blue translucent disc spotted over Malaysia, And only a couple pictures of it because camera phones didn't work.
	They actually, you know, people couldn't use their cell phones.
	But this thing is beautiful.
	I think the ships are starting to slowly uncloak.
	So you might want to think about getting your mothership boarding pass rather quickly.
	And, of course, the lower the number...
	Camera phones didn't work.
	That's hilarious.
	The lower the number, the earlier you get to board.
	And, of course, you're supporting us.
	You're supporting the show.
	You could be in the A group.
	The A group, the B group.
	We'll have the A group, the B group.
	No, no, we're going to do Disney characters.
	Okay, everyone in Goofy, you can board now.
	Goofy group.
	But seriously, we jest, but hey, what if, right?
	So the mothership boarding passes, we still have plenty to go around.
	What do we still have, like 800?
	More than that, probably.
	No, we have like not, we have only, we have lots left.
	Okay.
	It's okay, we have to keep plugging it, that's fine.
	People got a letter about this.
	A letter?
	Did you put a stamp on the letter?
	I wish.
	They got an email about it.
	I want to mention something here, because we do send these emailings out once a month.
	Oh, you're sending out all this spam.
	It comes out once a month.
	They're going to send a reminder out, though, next week.
	But we sent you an email, if you've ever given anything to the show, or even if you're on the mailing list.
	And about, you know, two-thirds of the people opened it.
	Some people, yeah, screw it.
	And even when we did the extra show, which people actually paid...
	We did an extra show for them specifically, and half the people still never even listened to it.
	I find it weird.
	What, they didn't listen to the show?
	No, they never opened the email to get the link to the third show.
	Really?
	Yeah.
	Some people just unsubscribed.
	Really?
	By the way, when you unsubscribe, since I'm just going to tell people this is a little inside...
	I use MailChimp right now.
	And when you unsubscribe from one of the, you know, you click the thing at the bottom, it's always risky.
	Oh, they're just going to know I really live.
	No, if you click unsubscribe on these mailings, you will never get another piece of mail because MailChimp is paranoid about, you know, getting sites as spammers or whatever.
	And so...
	You're going to have trouble getting back on the list.
	But it does work.
	You won't be getting any mailing.
	Speaking of mail chimps, I got an anonymous message, but with two great links, about Dr.
	Andrew Wakefield.
	Now, you'll recall that we talked about him.
	This is a very controversial guy.
	And whenever we mention him, then these huge shitstorms of emails start to fly.
	People saying, oh, this guy's a shill for the vaccine company.
	I can't believe you mentioned him.
	And I get tons of medical students, I might add.
	90% of the doctors or PhDs are PhDs in study who say, you know, you should check your facts about autism.
	And of course, it's like Jenny McCarthy, whatever.
	She is kind of hot.
	And she's available again.
	Oh, there's the 1035 right on top.
	There it comes.
	So there's a new study that he has done that was printed, and there's a couple links in the show notes.
	And he's done a study that was not financed by a vaccine company.
	Here's what he did.
	He vaccinated some monkeys, some primates, and tested a vaccinated monkey's brain versus an unvaccinated monkey's brain.
	And by the way, in the vaccine he did put adjuvant and all of the typical stuff.
	That is in what we are basically giving our kids with, what is it, up to 26 or 28 vaccines now.
	And I'm not an anti-vaxxer, but I think that we could certainly back off on a couple of things.
	And the brains of the monkeys who were exposed exhibit a clear pattern of maturination... Maturination... Maturination... Maturination...
	Mature...
	This is why I'm not a doctor.
	They look fucked up.
	Hey, these guys, these sleazeballs in the chat room just kicked me off.
	You've been banned.
	Hey, that's right, John C. Wark was kicked.
	Oh, someone called you an impersonator.
	What a bunch of douchebags.
	Yeah, really.
	Hold on, let me douchebag them for you.
	Douchebag!
	Anyway, it looks like the chimps' brains were affected by the vaccine, and they are in decline of maturation.
	I guess that's the way.
	Similar to Alzheimer's, essentially, which Wakefield is now saying, well, that obviously could be related to autism, which of course very little is actually known or proven about autism.
	So there does seem to be some effect, and it doesn't seem to be good.
	Well, you know, the guy's got to make a recovery because he got completely marginalized with all this.
	Yeah.
	And we're not fans or anybody.
	People call us propagandists.
	That's what I always like when they call us propagandists about stuff.
	Like, what?
	Who were we propagandizing for?
	If we were real propagandists, we wouldn't be begging you for money, now would we?
	We'd be rich.
	That's for sure.
	We'd be paid by the communists.
	That's right.
	We'd be on the payroll of Hill and the communists.
	We'd be rubbing shoulders with Noam Chomsky, baby.
	What are you talking about?
	We'd be having a beer with him as we speak.
	Right after the show.
	Right after the show, we're having a beer with Noam Chomsky.
	I can't believe this two-to-the-head guy kicked me from the chat room.
	He said that you were an impersonator.
	How does he know that?
	Well, because you're never in the chat room.
	You're never in the chat room.
	And you're not registered.
	So what?
	Yeah, well, that's...
	This is how it goes, brother.
	News from Gitmo Nation down under.
	Important news that you need to know.
	Abby Winters, very famous in Australia, is moving her server from Australia to Amsterdam...
	As her operations are no longer welcome there, of course, she is a porn star specializing in lesbian and solo chick porn.
	So abbywinters.com, now a server in Amsterdam.
	Yeah, like that's going to last forever.
	But the big news coming out of Gitmo Nation Down Under is actually two pieces of news.
	Under the Freedom of Information Act, a request was put in and received about the government's plans.
	Remember, they have a new prime minister down there.
	The government's plans to censor the Internet.
	90% of the document was blacked out.
	Reason to stop premature unnecessary debate.
	And you look at this document, it's like a white sheet of paper with just nothing but black lines, 90%.
	Like, well, we just don't want to have an unnecessary debate right now, so we feel that you slaves need to shut up.
	You don't need to see that right now, but how we're going to shut down the internet later.
	And it's just crazy.
	And, um...
	As we already suspected...
	The new Australian Prime Minister, Gillard, I don't know how you pronounce that down there, Julia, Julia Gillard, pretty much came out and said, hey, you know, that climate change stuff that the guy Rudd didn't push through, I think we're going to do that in 2012.
	I'll get right on that.
	So that's coming for you all.
	Yeah.
	Here's an interesting little note I got from John the Recovering Lobbyist.
	Spain win the World Cup, but they also got the Tour de France.
	The guy in second place was killing the Spaniard until his bike mysteriously malfunctioned.
	Really?
	It's a bike.
	And the Spaniard, against all etiquette of the sport, took advantage of that and took the lead.
	Really?
	Then he says, okay, Spain's had enough.
	Tell the secret society to let somebody else win.
	And the Spaniards, another from Tony the Terrorist, who of course drives these people from the airport, he says, there's so many people from Spain and San Francisco right now.
	They're all partying.
	I'm like, uh-huh.
	I wonder.
	And they can clearly afford town cars.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, so someone got a payoff.
	They're all partying in San Francisco.
	That's interesting.
	The USGS, which is the United States Geological Society, is that what it is?
	Service?
	The people who monitor the earthquakes?
	Yeah.
	They have a Twitter feed?
	Yeah, I don't think I subscribe to it, but I know they have one.
	So I subscribe to this Twitter feed.
	And this one comes out July 23rd, so that's Friday, 5.11pm.
	I can't remember a sequence of three closely spaced M7 Plus quakes like this before.
	Amazing.
	All deep with weak shaking.
	M7? M7 Plus.
	M? What's the M? Magnitude.
	Oh.
	Magnitude 7 Plus.
	Okay, and what scale?
	Yeah, we all know.
	But then I go and look at it, and...
	Where was it?
	Philippines, Philippines, Philippines.
	The Moro Gulf.
	So what's going on in the Philippines?
	You must have some theory.
	I don't.
	You must have a theory by now.
	I don't have a theory.
	No, but I thought it was interesting that someone apparently, you would presume this to be an official from the Earthquake Central, for them to say, I can't remember this.
	This has never happened before.
	Hmm.
	Well, no, of course not.
	Because they're flicking the switch again.
	Well, there has to be a reason.
	Somebody might know.
	So here's another one that's kind of off-the-wall story that's floated around.
	This is minor.
	It's not really something that we need to dwell on.
	But apparently Vivek Kundra...
	Oh, yes.
	Mr.
	App.
	The app man.
	He's got the GAO to retract its unflattering audit of Recovery.gov.
	Really?
	The $18 million website.
	And apparently they're also saying, of course, Kundra made a big fuss over this, saying, no, no, you can't do this.
	You're ruining it for us.
	But apparently in reviewing the Recovery.gov dashboard, the GA, you know the dashboard.
	Yeah, the dashboard.
	That's such a Silicon Valley word.
	What's the dashboard for the company?
	Well, here's the chess book.
	GAO's auditor found problems with it and the numbers it produced.
	Bogus!
	As a near real-time database, it didn't use recent data.
	It used data that was between two months and two years old.
	GAO said the old data caused the inaccuracies.
	Kundra countered GAO's word inaccuracies by saying it implies that the most basic standard of measuring ratings had been set and the results are either accurate or inaccurate.
	Because of that binary standard, instead there's much more flexibility in the IT dashboard's rating system.
	You know, they have USAapps.gov, I think.
	Yeah.
	Let me just check.
	Let me see.
	USA, I think it's apps.
	Or maybe it's just apps.gov.
	And they've got, they're like doing iPhone apps.
	Oh, let me see.
	Apps.gov.
	How come I can't find this?
	Oh yeah, apps.gov.
	Here you go.
	And I'm thinking, why don't these guys pay me to promote their stupid apps?
	They should do that.
	They don't care about it.
	They're living off the government tit.
	They don't have to pay you anything.
	It's money out of their pocket.
	True.
	Welcome to apps.gov.
	No, that's not the one.
	I don't think that's the one, actually.
	It says a service provided by the GSA. Right.
	What's cool about the cloud?
	Well, it's cloud computing.
	This is something to do with them because Kundra's a big cloud nut.
	Yeah, but this isn't the one.
	There's social media apps.
	Maybe that's it.
	Maybe that's it.
	Because they had like a whole...
	I remember seeing a page with a whole bunch of iPhone apps.
	Oh, look at this.
	Hmm.
	Google Analytics.
	Price free.
	Enroll.
	Hmm.
	You know what?
	I don't know.
	It was a different page I was looking at.
	Apps.gov.
	Bing.
	Price-free.
	What kind of app is Bing?
	You can get Bing out of any browser.
	It's not just something you download Bing.
	Bing app.
	It's free.
	Bing is a search engine from Microsoft designed to go beyond the ten blue links of today's search to a...
	Does it say any more?
	If I hit enroll, does it...
	Oh, here it goes.
	Oh, please.
	I don't want to hear it.
	Screw Vivek Kundra.
	This is like a promotion for Microsoft, if you read this.
	Yeah, of course it is.
	Pretty funny article in Wired, telling journalists, it's like a starter kit for journalists on how to write about Haiti.
	Ooh.
	It's very funny.
	You want to hear a little bit of it?
	Yeah, give me a bit.
	For starters, always use the phrase, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.
	Your audience must be reminded again of Haiti's exceptional poverty.
	Who sent this out?
	This is from Wired.
	This is...
	No, but where did it come from?
	From Wired magazine.
	This is Wired's own internal document to tell people how to write about Haiti?
	No, no, no, no.
	It's...
	No, no, no.
	It's a joke written by Ansel, whatever his name is, and it's a public document.
	He's mocking the model that he's deconstructing.
	He's deconstructing, exactly.
	Your audience must be reminded again of Haiti's exceptional poverty.
	You are always struck by, quote, the resilience of the Haitian people.
	And it's great because this is exactly how it's always written.
	They will survive no matter how poor they are.
	A two-sentence quote about their misery fitting neatly into the story is all that's needed.
	On your last visit, you always became enchanted with Haiti.
	It's very funny.
	You're in love with this colorful culture and feel compelled to return.
	You care so much about these hard-working people.
	You are there to help them.
	You are their voice.
	They cannot speak for themselves.
	Don't listen if the Haitians speak loudly or become unruly.
	You might be in danger.
	Get out of there.
	Protests are not to be taken seriously.
	It just goes on and on and on.
	Many of the looters are squatters.
	Point out that Port-au-Prince is overcrowded.
	Do not mention large empty plots of green land around the city.
	Of course, it's not possible to explain that occupying U.S. Marines forcibly initiated Haiti's shift from distributed rural growth to centralized governance in the capital city.
	This is a great article.
	It sounds like it.
	You'll like it.
	I'm going to blog it.
	Everyone here loves Bill Clinton and Wyclef Jean.
	There are no dissenting views on this point.
	Never mind that neither lives here.
	Never mind that Clinton admitted to destroying Haiti's domestic rice economy in the 90s.
	Never mind that Wyclef Jean's organization has repeatedly mismanaged relief funds.
	That's all in the past.
	They represent Haiti's best hope for the future.
	Their voices matter, which means the media must pay close attention to them, which means their voices matter, which means the media must pay, you know, dot, dot, dot.
	It's good.
	It's very funny.
	Very, very funny.
	So I got a new meme.
	Or something.
	I don't know what they're up to with this.
	But Fox has decided, and I've seen it on a couple shows, O'Reilly really pushed it the other day.
	Fox has decided that they are a new media company.
	Dude!
	Right.
	Right.
	O'Reilly can't even do his email address at the end of each show.
	He keeps messing up the email address.
	Mr.
	New Media.
	They say they're a new media company.
	There was a big pitch about this.
	Because they were talking about how they handled the Shirley Sherrod thing.
	And the new media companies had this to say.
	The new media companies like us at Fox.
	So he reads a quote from the New York Times discussing, apparently it was a kind of editorial, discussing the situation with that woman from the Department of Agriculture.
	And I want you to listen to his quote, and then when he's done with the quote, I want you to stop.
	Okay.
	He reads from the New York Times.
	He's reading directly from the New York Times.
	Okay.
	New York Times writing about the Shirley Sherrod story.
	And this is a quote from their article.
	It's a hard news article by Cheryl Gay Stolberg and Sheila Duncan or Dawson and Brian Stolter.
	Mr.
	Vilsack's late afternoon appearance capped a humiliating and fast-paced few days, not only for the White House, but also for the NAACP and the national new media.
	That's me.
	Especially Fox News Channel and the host Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity, all of whom played a role in promoting a story about Ms.
	Sherrod.
	So it's humiliating.
	Okay, want to stop there?
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Now, I want you to play the whole thing again.
	But wait.
	Wait.
	He's reading from the article.
	The article says very clearly, and his prompter, I don't know what his prompter says, but on the screen they show what the quote is.
	It says, the national news media.
	Oh, but he reads new media and says, that's me.
	Yeah, but the actual words are the national news media should be embarrassed, and then they include a bunch of Fox people because they're in the national news media.
	Yeah.
	So he's misreading that they're actually slamming him.
	Yeah.
	Well, they're slamming him anyway, but he's misreading this.
	He puts new media, that's me, he says, which is bull crap.
	Then, you're going to play the whole thing from the beginning.
	Then he finishes off with that, and he mumbles about this and that and the other thing.
	And then he does a little neuro-linguistic number at the end, where he says, we apologize for making the mistake.
	Then he says, we were right.
	The sentence should, at the end, he's going to say, we were right, and we apologize, or something like that.
	But it should be, we were wrong, and we apologize.
	But he said, we were right, which kind of puts it in your brain that they were right, but they weren't.
	It's very interesting.
	So you listen to the whole thing.
	First you get this little bullcrap about new media, which he was promoting earlier in the show.
	So obviously Fox is trying to distance itself from what they're calling dead media.
	In fact, if you listen to Rush Limbaugh over the past few weeks...
	Rush Limbaugh is promoting the agenda that the old media, the classic mainstream media, doesn't exist anymore.
	It's just a propaganda tool.
	So Fox has to get themselves out of that quagmire because by Limbaugh's definition, that would include them.
	Got it.
	I find the whole thing to be just like, I'm watching this going, oh, this is going to be interesting to see how they can make this work.
	They're not going to make it work.
	But you might as well play this again, and then you can hear the neuro-linguistic thing at the end, which I think was probably just a mistake.
	New York Times writing about the Shirley Sherrod story.
	And this is a quote from their article.
	It's a hard news article by Cheryl Gay Stolberg and Sheila Duncan or Dawson and Brian Stolter.
	Mr.
	Vilsack's late afternoon appearance capped a humiliating and fast-paced few days.
	Not only for the White House, but also for the NAACP and the national new media.
	That's me.
	Especially Fox News Channel and the hosts Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity, all of whom played a role in promoting a story about Ms.
	Sherrod.
	So it's humiliating.
	Now, I'm just going to say this.
	It wasn't humiliating, New York Times, you pinheads.
	I just made a mistake, all right?
	Everybody makes them.
	You guys make them.
	You guys make a hundred more than I make.
	Because you're corrupt and dishonest.
	I'm honest and not corrupt.
	So what you said about humiliating, we're not humiliated.
	We got the story right.
	We made a mistake in the process.
	We owned up to it.
	You never own up to your mistakes because you're corrupt.
	Right.
	You know what?
	I don't care about this guy.
	We got the story right.
	You should care about him because he has more numbers than anybody.
	Yeah.
	And so there's a lot of crazy things that take place that you spot here and there.
	If you pull them out...
	Yeah, well, he's mind control.
	He's performing a version of mind control by saying, we're great.
	We're new media.
	This new media just chills me.
	That's me.
	This is about media.
	The guy's an old hack broadcaster.
	God knows.
	When I was a kid, I was watching.
	He was on the local stations.
	You know how he has his Patriots and Pinhead segment?
	Yeah.
	I've got a new segment for him.
	Douchebag!
	New segment.
	New segment here, everybody.
	The new Amelia.
	So, do you know they found that 18th century ship under the World Trade Center?
	Yeah.
	Did you read about that?
	It was kind of interesting, right?
	So, I guess they built the World Trade Center on top of that.
	So, they removed this wood.
	Do you know where they moved it to?
	Hangar 17 at JFK. Which is the same place they took all the debris from the World Trade Center to hide it.
	Yeah.
	They took it to the same place.
	Huh.
	Right to...
	Yeah, that's the...
	By the way, I just wonder why, please.
	Wonder why.
	Wonder why.
	Because it has damning evidence in it.
	That's why.
	Like all the other steel that just got shipped off and no one got to analyze.
	Gotta get that recycling going.
	Yeah.
	WTC7 won't go away.
	Go ahead.
	I got a new drug commercial, though.
	Oh, let's do a drug commercial.
	And this is the third in the series.
	It's the trifecta.
	It's the hat trick.
	It's the hat trick where somebody is excoriating the listener for not, you know, it's like the son, you should have listened, dad.
	Listen to your dot, dot.
	Yeah, you need to take aspirin.
	You should have listened.
	You're stupid.
	Listen, shut up, stupid slave.
	Take your drug, take your meds.
	So there's a nut.
	So this is a time, it's again, an underling, the younger brother, telling the bigger brother that he's, which I think there's some societal thing going on here, because there's always somebody, like it's the kid telling the dad, the wife telling the husband, somebody telling somebody who, or the kids telling the father.
	But it's always the dad who's a douchebag.
	It's never a father figure telling a kid.
	No, because we're little pussified wimps and we're stupid and we need to be dumbed down even more.
	What's it for?
	What's the drug?
	It's a new, another new, lower your cholesterol, lower your platelets, lower your arteries.
	It's brand new.
	I never saw it.
	You know that these guys, all their patents have run out.
	They've got no new drugs.
	So they're just trying to, they're just like, hey, you got some chemicals in the back.
	Yeah, I got some powder.
	Let's package that shit up.
	Let's mix it up and tell people they got to take their meds.
	Hey, Pete.
	Yeah, it's me, big brother.
	I'm already liking it.
	Hey, Pete.
	Yeah, it's me, big brother.
	Put the remote down and listen.
	This intervention brought to you by Niaspan.
	So you cut back on the cheeseburgers and stopped using your exercise bike as a coat rack.
	That's it?
	You're done?
	I don't think so.
	You told me your doctor's worried about plaque clogging your arteries.
	What do you call it?
	Coronary artery disease.
	That cholesterol medicine he also wants you on?
	Niospan?
	I looked it up online.
	Hey Pete, you waiting for an engraved invitation?
	If you have high cholesterol and coronary artery disease, and diet and exercise are not enough, Niospan, along with diet and a bile acid binding resin, is FDA approved not only to slow down plaque buildup, but to actually help clear some of it away.
	Pete, as kids I always looked up to you.
	I'm just trying to look after you.
	If you cannot afford your medication, call 1-877-NIASPAN.
	NIASPAN is not for everyone.
	Like people with stomach ulcers, liver, or serious bleeding problems.
	Severe liver damage can occur when switching to NIASPAN from immediate release niacin.
	Blood tests are needed to check for liver problems.
	Tell your doctor if you have muscle pain or weakness.
	This could be a sign of serious side effects.
	This risk can increase with statin use.
	Tell your doctor about alcohol use.
	If you've ever had gout or are diabetic and experience increases in blood sugar, flushing, a common side effect is warmth, redness, itching, or tingling of the skin.
	Ask your doctor about Niospan.
	Fight back.
	Fight plaque.
	Niospan.
	That one plaque only used to be on your teeth.
	Yeah, well, it's everywhere now.
	Back in the good old days.
	Hey, this is your kid brother here.
	Hey, doofus.
	This is an intervention.
	Take the drug.
	This is an intervention, you stupid.
	Stupid, stupid, stupid.
	It says something about bile acid resin.
	There's two or three things there.
	You couldn't even mumble this great announcer.
	He mumbles two or three things.
	Niacin and bile acid taken in conjunction with a resin or something.
	What was the thing about alcohol?
	Let something to your head or something?
	Don't take alcohol and you're going to swell up like a balloon.
	Yeah.
	I don't know.
	We should just make a 10-minute clip.
	I'll do it for the Evergreen show.
	A 10-minute clip of just these horrible things that can happen.
	Which will probably never actually air because we seem somehow to always be able to pull off two shows a week and always have a hope that one day we'll be supported enough to do three and do it basically full-time.
	Because it takes a whole day to prep.
	A day?
	Before I start working on this show, it takes me two days to get ready for this show.
	Well, I'm always tagging stuff, but then I have to have...
	No, I'm always recording clips.
	Right, right.
	So, we must speak briefly about the oil cabal.
	We actually had some pretty angry people.
	In fact, Driller Doug, who I'm now doubting as a source, he actually called us propagandists for what...
	And, you know, of course now BP, yet another Photoshop job has come out.
	This was actually, I had seen this one many, many months ago, I think.
	It's weird.
	I think they used someone else's Photoshopped image.
	This is of the helicopter.
	And the helicopter is supposedly flying over the gulf, and right in the left-hand window, which is actually, in that particular helicopter, I think is co-pilot's side, interestingly enough.
	You can see the tower from where the picture was actually taken when the thing was sitting on the ground.
	They forgot to Photoshop that piece out.
	That's the problem when you do Photoshop and you're doing this kind of thing, because I can phony up a picture pretty well.
	But there's always these little details, and it's like, you know, this reflection or some other, the shadowing.
	One of the main problems, of course, is the focus.
	Some people don't get that you have to blur things so they look equally blurry.
	Yeah, the depth of field, all kinds of stuff.
	But they admitted again to, yeah, well, yeah, that was Photoshopped.
	So now they're fair game.
	I think so.
	And YouTube, once again, a video, and this is a great video, and we looked at it together at the office, and I look at this thing a couple more times.
	I don't see how it can be a reflection.
	So they show the...
	There's a video switching between multiple of these oil cams, which I question because they're all BP branded and who knows.
	I mean, hey, if Stanley Kubrick could direct the moon landing, why can't James Cameron do the BP oil spill, right?
	And you see a door open in the back.
	It's like a guy walks into the studio and then he walks right back out.
	Oops.
	Oh, I shouldn't...
	Oh, I wonder...
	That's why this says do not enter on that door.
	And you look at it, and I'm thinking, John, this can't be a reflection.
	Why would you have a camera on a screen?
	Why wouldn't you just have a direct feed?
	And if it's a video trickery job, it's a good one.
	Yeah, there's a...
	In fact, I'm going to give this to the chat room right now.
	I want them to see it.
	Because the chat room, they may have already seen it, but I just need some real-time feedback.
	It's at 28 seconds, the door opens in the background to the right, and again at 38 seconds.
	It's CNN video, by the way, so it aired on CNN, and I just don't see how it can be...
	You see bubbles floating by, and then all of a sudden to the right of the leaking oil thing, a door opens, and it looks like it's in the background.
	And a guy walks in, and he closes the door and walks back out.
	What is this?
	I mean, it really looks like a mistake.
	I can't help it.
	There's a, I'm going to send you this link, which is a link of the helicopter cockpit thing with people that have apparently gone back and re-Photoshopped it.
	Oh yeah, no, I've seen it.
	Oh, you saw that one?
	Oh yeah, now it's all over the web.
	Now people are putting all kinds of crazy shit out there, like cattle.
	Previously on Lost.
	Very funny.
	However, there are still some congressional hearings going on.
	And two things I want to play.
	This is from Friday.
	This is a technician.
	And he was...
	Well, just listen to what he testifies.
	He actually testifies that the alarms...
	That are supposed to alert for gas buildup, fire, and some other bad thing.
	That those alarms were actually purposely disabled.
	Almost like my browser is freaking out here, of course.
	Why would it actually work?
	Here's where I come in and complain like you did to me bitterly earlier.
	I think my browser is crashing here.
	Oh, use a different browser.
	Yeah, I'm going to.
	You know what, Safari on the Mac, I think it has like a memory leak or something, this new Safari 5.
	Yeah.
	Because after a while, if you leave it open, like a normal human being would do on a computer, it just crashes.
	It just slows down, and then it stops responding, and this Flash stuff, that's got to go too.
	This Flash, it sucks.
	Flash video?
	It doesn't work anymore.
	Do you have this problem?
	Nope.
	Do you get any spam?
	I've gotten maybe two pieces of spam in the last year.
	Happened to be when I was just looking right over your shoulder.
	Damn.
	Alright, here we go.
	Let's try this again.
	Let's see if we can get this video from this guy.
	You're right.
	I should have gotten this from C-SPAN. I should have pulled the clip, but I saw it this morning, and as I said, I had 168 different stories I'm following up on.
	You don't have the handy H2 recorder from Zoom.
	No, I don't.
	What do they cost?
	They're like $150 or so.
	They're the best device you'll ever own.
	Yeah.
	If you have a little jack, you know, you plug in the back of your...
	You have a couple extra outputs from that dish network thing you've got.
	You plug in the jack into it.
	You stick it in the H2. Just leave it there.
	And then when something comes up, you clip it.
	Bing.
	And it does...
	It's a nice wave for MP3 file.
	All right.
	Well, I appreciate you trying to talk it all the way up.
	It's just not playing anymore.
	I don't know.
	It's dead.
	Fucking crap.
	Okay, so anyway, the guy goes on record, and he says, oh, the alarms are disabled.
	Oh, but then it works, and it brings me up a stupid-ass pre-roll.
	Well, let's listen to a dumb commercial.
	Here, this is what you'd have to deal with normally if this show were not sponsored by you.
	Air is unaware if I'm black.
	I wouldn't care if it moves.
	So it stands to reason my ideas will be powerful if they are wise.
	Powerful.
	Save the children.
	What is this commercial for?
	Rule the air.
	Verizon.
	Rule the air, Verizon.
	Did you at any time hear any alarm that would indicate a general muster?
	Never.
	Are you familiar with that alarm that I'm referring to, sir?
	Yes, sir.
	Can you please explain to me how that's set up from the chief electronic tech position, your knowledge of how that alarm is set up?
	The general alarm is set up to inform the entire rig of any of three conditions.
	Number one, fire.
	Number two, combustible gas.
	Number three, toxic gas.
	Each one of those...
	Did you say toxic ass?
	...is a distinct tone.
	And a distinct visual light.
	We have light columns throughout the rig, one red.
	Within the column, there's a red, a yellow, and a blue.
	With the red being fire, yellow being toxic, blue being combustible.
	So you get an audio tone and a visual tone with every general alarm.
	Did you get either one of those alarms even on April 20th?
	No, sir.
	Do you know why you never got that alarm, sir?
	Yes, they were bypassed.
	And how do you know they will bypass, sir?
	Because I've physically seen it on the screen.
	They're actually what's considered inhibited, not bypassed.
	The correct word is inhibited.
	Okay, I'm sorry.
	Can you please explain what inhibited means to me then?
	I'm sorry.
	You have four states of alarms.
	You have a normal operating condition.
	You have an inhibited condition, which simply means that the sensor is active.
	It is sensing and it will alarm and it will give the information to the computer but the computer will not trigger an alarm for it.
	It will give you the indication but it won't trigger the actual alarm.
	And then there's an override condition, which means that the computer will not consider that.
	Do you know why this was inhibited on the Deepwater Horizon system?
	When I discovered it was inhibited about a year ago, I inquired as to why it was inhibited.
	And the explanation I got was that from the OIM down, they did not want people woke up at 3 o'clock in the morning due to false alarms.
	It was waking us up at night.
	I love it.
	The alarm was waking us up at night.
	I was waiting for the punchline, and there it is.
	There it is.
	So Matthew Simmons is a guy who is, what's he, this is a Bloomberg video, by the way, and a Bloomberg pretty respectable news organization.
	He's the founder of the Ocean Energy Institute.
	He pulls apart this testimony.
	Actually, one guy decided to plead the fifth One of these engineers.
	He didn't even want to...
	He just kept pleading...
	I don't have the audio, obviously.
	He just kept pleading the fifth wouldn't testify because he didn't want to incriminate himself.
	Here we are, this guy, who's just a simple-ass engineer.
	Now listen to what Matthew Simmons on Bloomberg...
	Matthew Simmons is founder of the Ocean Energy Institute.
	He joins us on the phone.
	And Matt, thanks so much.
	Always good to talk to you again.
	I know you were hearing what Lizzie was saying.
	Some of the information that I'm seeing here in our Bloomberg story, the pressure inside that well is now over 6,800 pounds per square inch since it was sealed on July 15th.
	Does that give you cause for concern?
	No, it's a total diversion.
	Why do you say that?
	That's the gas condensate that was trapped in the drilling riser, which blew off the wellhead at 10.01 p.m.
	Central Standard Time on April 20th.
	That's a mile-long compressed natural gas.
	What we don't know anything about is the open hole, which is caused by the drill bit.
	When they toss the blow-up preventer way out of the hole, and all the casing out of the hole, and we're flowing a 120,000-day minimum of toxic poison, it's now covered the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico.
	So he's giving us some new information there, which I found very interesting.
	Now, what was the name of this organization?
	Yeah, why don't you look that up?
	It's the Ocean Energy Institute.
	Yeah, why don't you look that up?
	And I'll just let him talk about these guys who were testifying.
	So what they're talking about is the biggest environmental cover-up ever.
	And they knew that that riser would finally deplete.
	And then they could say, it's over.
	And unfortunately, we now have killed the Gulf of Mexico.
	So, Matt, you're saying that those, this is Lizzie O'Leary, you're saying those pressure readings that they are saying are coming from inside that wellhead just aren't valid?
	No, they're the riser pipe.
	Right.
	It's attached to the rig floor.
	And you're saying that's simply a diversion from actually getting a decent reading down near...
	Some five to ten miles away is what the NOAA research vessels have now proved is a deep oil lake that's growing by the day.
	And it's very toxic oil, and its gases are very lethal.
	And basically, if we have a hurricane now, we need to evacuate the Gulf Coast.
	Matt, we have about 30 seconds left.
	Talk to me about the implications for BP. Is bankruptcy in there?
	I love that.
	It's like the most important information we're ever receiving in the world.
	And this is Bloomberg.
	We only have 30 seconds left.
	Can you cram that in there?
	This is what I hate.
	Which is, by the way, why our show doesn't have these kinds of issues.
	Yeah, I hate that.
	So, anyway, here he comes.
	Oh, listen, when people find out the magnitude of the story, I don't know if we can technically clean up the golf, but it would cost at least a trillion dollars.
	As you look back, April 20th was when this accident happened.
	As you look back and reflect on this, what were your concerns about what BP did or did not do leading up to this explosion?
	Well, first of all, when I woke up, when my wife turned on the television at 7 a.m.
	on the 21st, and I saw the shocking news that one of the greatest deepwater rigs ever built by one of the great companies in the industry, Fandosian, Okay,
	so why did they say it?
	Yeah.
	We might be right on that.
	This guy's a basically, I think he's kind of, he sounds like a crackpot.
	Yeah, he looks like one.
	He's a big peak oil guy.
	He's a big believer in peak oil.
	Big believer in the club of Rome and we need to have less people and everyone's going to die off.
	So he's one of these populationists.
	And eugenicists.
	He has got a lot of interesting background.
	He is an investment banker and invested in the oil industry.
	Some people believe that he's an alarmist just so he can get more money.
	Well, the punchline for this, but it takes too long to get to it, is...
	This goes on for like five minutes.
	It says, I'm short BP. I've never shorted a stock in my life.
	Yeah, that seems unlikely, by the way.
	But he said during June 9, 2010, the interview with Fortune, he claimed BP would have a month before they claimed Chapter 11.
	That would be July 9th, which we've passed.
	Which hasn't happened yet.
	Anyway, I thought...
	It's on KPFK, you know, Pacifica, apparently, quite a bit.
	Well, I thought it was interesting.
	No, it is interesting, but it's not to be taken too seriously.
	So, then I'd just like to wind this segment up, because I'm tired of it, except I think it's funny with the fake BP oil camera.
	And we have no reason to believe him now, right?
	We can tear him apart as much as we want.
	Some YouTube videos out of Iowa.
	People questioning whether the rain might be toxic.
	Has it actually blown that far north?
	And one of our producers sent a note and says, you know, I live north of the area.
	I'm seeing dead birds everywhere.
	More than normal dead birds on the street, the grass, the gutter.
	In Iowa, by the way, all the trees are turning brown in July.
	Just like dying off.
	And they're seeing the same type of spots that we talked about earlier along the Gulf Coast.
	Some organic farmers have seen this.
	Hopefully somebody will come up with an answer to this question.
	Yeah, it's jet fuel being jettisoned, I'm sure.
	So, it's...
	Who knows?
	I do believe there's a huge cover-up.
	I'm totally with that.
	So, well, we're almost done.
	I have a couple of clips that would be worth listening to if you want to hear.
	I've got three or four subjects here.
	I only want to do one.
	But I've got a short one here, though.
	Giving Kids Pot.
	Play it.
	Jesus Christ.
	Hold on.
	I wasn't ready for that.
	Here we go.
	No to drugs.
	So why would a mother convince her 12-year-old to take marijuana?
	Sounds outrageous, but she says it's for his own good.
	Is it?
	Here's Chris Connelly.
	The minutes of 12-year-old Ryan's day are filled with emotional turbulence and self-destructive behavior.
	Gods of rage or panic.
	Self-loathing and lethargy.
	He is living a nightmare.
	So the mom gives the kid pot?
	The doctor approved this.
	That's a great story.
	And this kid is just hamming it up to no end.
	It's better than Ritalin.
	Oh, yeah.
	No, that's what she says.
	She says she refused to give her Kid Ritalin.
	Yeah, well, I agree with her.
	I'm not arguing it.
	I'm just seeing a lot more marijuana stories coming out.
	You want to hear a great one from the LA Times?
	Yeah.
	And, of course, this is all because the vote's coming up.
	As California contemplates legalizing the sale of marijuana, the real war over intoxicants in this country is, as always, over alcohol.
	And this story goes on to say that alcohol is good for you.
	And alcohol is better than pot.
	Oh really?
	What PR agency did they hire?
	I don't know.
	This is totally off the wall.
	Yeah, let me see who wrote the story.
	Stanton Peel.
	No link.
	I don't know what Stanton's been writing.
	But yeah.
	Alcohol better, weed not so good.
	Well, there's another jingle we got.
	We didn't do that train stuff today.
	We could if we wanted to.
	No, no, no.
	Just to run it down.
	We're going to do it on Thursday.
	Really?
	We can't.
	Because you need more material because you're going to be traveling anyway.
	Okay.
	So save up the train starts for Thursday and we can do our little thing.
	I do have one thing we can finish the show off with.
	Okay.
	Which is a very interesting Charlie Rose clip if you want to play it.
	Oh, wait a minute.
	Don't tell me it's...
	Tell me about this sexuality.
	It's in your DNA. Is that the clip?
	Come on.
	That's a permanent keeper now.
	You've got more clips than that.
	Let's play one other good thing.
	All right.
	This is one that's kind of interesting.
	This is actually educational.
	Every once in a while, you have to kind of wonder what...
	The left is all freaked out about right-wing talk radio.
	Yeah, because it's popular.
	It's popular.
	What do we do?
	They got ratings.
	So, Bill Press, who is a left-wing talker who can't seem to get a syndication gig, but he's on Sirius and XM, and he wrote a book called Toxic Talk that everybody hopes sells a lot because it just quotes all these right-wingers saying crazy things.
	But he gave a little speech with the strategy that's going to be implemented by the left to To counter the entire right-wing talk radio.
	Oh, they have a strategy.
	The strategy.
	I have the strategy.
	So let's just establish that they don't actually give a crap about the political message.
	They care about the ratings.
	That's what they're bummed out about, is that the right-wing talk radio is killing it.
	Killing it in the ratings.
	Killing it.
	Killing it.
	So they don't give a crap about you or I. They just care about their own paycheck.
	There are ten hours of conservative right-wing talk for every one hour of progressive talk.
	And that does not represent what America is all about.
	So I talk about that, and I also talk about a couple of fixes.
	And I'll tell you about those, and then we'll just drink and party.
	And there are two fixes that I think.
	One of them is that progressives have to go out and do what conservatives did, which is put up the money, buy radio stations, build a radio network, And provide an alternative to people who are really looking for other voices on the radio.
	And I've got news for you.
	David Brock and Eric Burns and I have adopted this as our next project.
	And we're working on it right now.
	We're putting a business plan together.
	So all of you rich liberals who are watching C-SPAN tonight, I want you to know we're coming after your ass.
	And we want your money on the line.
	You don't have to C-spin They have a plan, John!
	They've got a plan!
	Wait a minute.
	Let me get this straight.
	What right-wingers went out and bought a bunch of radio stations?
	These stations have always existed, and they haven't been bought or sold by anyone.
	This big conglomerates have bought them.
	Now, let's take a look at our local two stations owned by the same company, KGO and KSFO. KGO is a left-wing talk station, left and middle-wing talk station.
	And they bought KSFO, and the same management, including the guy who's the program director, who is an extreme left-wing nut, well, to a point, started KSFO and peopled it with the money makers, the Rush Limbaugh's and everybody in between.
	Rush Limbaugh was on KNBR earlier, and he actually bumped Leo Laporte off the air, and they put Rush in, which I still think is amusing.
	And...
	But these guys didn't show up on these stations because some right-wingers went out and bought a bunch of radio stations.
	In fact, the radio station that's the right-wing station in San Francisco is owned by a left-winger, but they can't make money on the other stuff.
	So doesn't this prove our point that Fox is also controlled by the Democrats?
	Yeah, everybody's controlled by the Democrats.
	Yeah, well, that is our point.
	But the thing is, these guys are living in a dream world.
	If they're going to go and buy up a bunch of radio stations and people are going to flock to them, as somebody always told me once, if you wanted to listen to left-wing, real, true, genuine, left-wing, radical, progressive radio, you've got two or three of these Pacifica stations on the West Coast.
	That have been broadcasting for decades.
	When I was a kid, we had these stations, and nobody listens to them.
	Because they're boring.
	They're really boring, and they got somebody beating a drum and talking about Indian folklore and poetry.
	They have a poetry reading.
	I mean, that's what it deteriorates to.
	I've been reading up on that Giorno list that you were telling me about.
	That's kind of funny.
	It is.
	It's hilarious.
	And I guess that woman is now going to sue the Obama camp for FEC violations.
	And it's just like, it's funny.
	Because they were misusing Acorn.
	It's like, ugh.
	Whatever.
	But it is funny.
	The whole thing is funny.
	The whole thing is funny because it's all fake.
	The only thing that appears to be kind of real is stuff like what we're doing.
	We're just pulling it apart for you.
	And we love doing it.
	Pull it apart.
	Get you to think properly.
	The whole idea is to get the listeners of our show to not think necessarily like us, but to think for themselves.
	Yes, and to question things.
	Such as the final two stories I shall do.
	A young woman died of a heart attack while using her sex toy, as she was found in bed with a vibrator by her side and a pornographic film playing on her laptop.
	But more importantly, John.
	A groundbreaking study published in Nature magazine, which is one of the world's foremost scientific journals, Has published the results of a decade-long research project funded by the University of Kansas.
	As it turns out, those mountain ronids, known as marmots, are growing larger and healthier and more plentiful due to climate change.
	And they look pretty scary.
	Yeah, but you know, it seems to me that the marmots could have just moved south and had the same effect.
	Yeah, but John, the science is in.
	Science!
	It's in Nature Magazine.
	Monster marmots.
	When's the movie coming out?
	The Attack of the Killer Marmots.
	Well, it's like somebody pointed out the movie Salt was, you know, exactly the same model of story that you have with the Russian spies.
	The Russian spies, yep.
	And so this person said, you know, every time, now I'm starting to see the facts that you see these news stories breaking out of the blue for no apparent reason, and then a movie comes out shortly thereafter that happens to have the same storyline.
	Yeah.
	Coincidence?
	We've been pointing that out to the point where you don't even point it out much anymore because it's just so ridiculous, you know, whether it's a scam puff piece on 60 Minutes or I still remember the Mothman sequel.
	And you know the Variety reporter who was here?
	She told me that Mel Gibson has actually been working on a movie about conspiracies and the Illuminati and that that may have a lot to do with the character assassination he's gone through recently.
	But he already did conspiracy theory.
	No, no, not conspiracy theory, but this is about the stuff that I'm into.
	Oh, the nutball shit.
	Yeah, that kind of shit.
	Thank you, John.
	I love you.
	Despite all that.
	And I'd love to love you a lot more, but we need some support.
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