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Those things give you cataracts.
Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
It's Thursday, October 14, 2010.
Time for your Gitmo Nation Media Assassination, Episode 243.
This is No Agenda.
I sure hope the mothership can navigate through the fog above the Hilltop Watchtower at Crackpot Command Center, which is located in Gitmo Nation West in the People's Republic of Southern California.
Yay!
In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
And I'm John C. Dvorak.
Oh.
Hey.
No, there it is.
It's Crackpot and Bo!
I tried to hit it right after the whistle, figuring that would be your cue, and then it misfired and then it locked up.
Sorry about that.
Hey, in the morning to you, John.
In the morning to you, in the morning to all ships at sea and human resources.
You know what?
I think we should probably do it one more time just because it's brand new.
Should we do the national anthem?
Oh yeah, you might as well.
Ladies, Human resources and service in all lands and all ships at sea.
From the east to west, down under to the lowlands and beyond.
We are happy and distracted slaves.
Hear our diplomatic song.
And of course in the morning to all the human resources in the chat room at noagendachat.net where we have everyone all charged up and ready to go the way their government loves them when we do the show live at noagendastream.com Thursday and Sunday morning.
Hey, guess what?
Big news.
Uh-oh.
Big news what?
They rescued the miners.
Which was completely planned as a distraction for the UFO unveiling worldwide.
Yeah, where was the UFO yesterday?
Everywhere.
It was over New York City.
There were tons of spheres and high-quality video for you, John.
High-quality video.
Germany, we have high-quality pictures.
You know, this is why they planned it.
They totally planned this.
Planned it.
Yeah.
So, by the way...
What do you mean?
Yes.
Yeah.
Where is our jingle?
We haven't played it for months on end.
Nothing to see here.
It's not even queued up.
You know what it is?
I've said everything in the new system.
I'm still trying to figure out where everything is.
Don't look over here.
Nothing to see here.
So, first of all, they are laughing in my face, the evil elites who schedule these minors, which, I mean, could it be any more boring?
The only drama they could put, I mean, at least have a guy, like, pass out or die or something on the way up.
Well, they have one dramatic moment that sucked.
Yeah, that was the wife and the...
The wife who wouldn't show up.
I was like, who wrote this script?
You guys suck.
And meanwhile, CNN, Fox, everybody, they keep having these boring...
They take over the whole show and you have to play this clip, which is the clip from yesterday's Hannity show.
And first he reintroduces the entire story as though we've never heard it before.
So he goes, yak, yak, yak.
And so then he says, let's take it, let's go.
And, you know, apparently, I bet you they put the writers on a hiatus and don't pay them for these shows.
So then they say, let's go to Chile and hear from the president, El Presidente.
And this is what you end up hearing.
And this passes for entertainment.
But first, we're going to go to the president of Chile as he makes some public comments.
What the hell is that?
Is this their national anthem?
It goes on for five minutes.
They should have played our Gitmo national anthem.
That would have been much better.
And the idiot doesn't say, well, they're singing a song.
We'll get right back to that.
Let's go to the studio and talk about this.
No, let's watch the song.
No, instead, they play the entire thing.
This is what I picked up.
Jeff Smith recorded this for me from Fox.
Pay attention to the background music on this piece regarding the Chilean minors.
It's the eighth minor to come to the surface of the country.
You're seeing it live here on Fox and Friends.
Recognize that from anywhere?
It's like a sports theme.
It's our music.
It's our music.
Listen.
Every time it comes up, especially on a chilly morning like this, it does nothing but warm your body to see.
Yeah, it's this.
Yeah, it's...
They're so cheap-ass they have to use the same free shit we use.
Ridiculous.
But listen now for a second.
So, seriously, in all seriousness, so October 13th was supposed to be the big unveiling of the UFOs, who absolutely came.
Absolutely.
And the show notes are filled with videos and high-quality videos, John, what you always ask for, and pictures.
Of these orbs orbiting New York City.
We have pictures from Germany.
There's multiple...
I mean, it's all the same kind of beautiful orb.
So this happened worldwide.
And then, of course, everyone's not looking up at the sky.
We're looking down at the ground.
And then the Illuminati or whoever's in charge of making sure we don't pay attention to the sky, they laugh in my face by having all these memes in there like it's 33 miners.
They had to drill for 33 hours.
You know, 10, 13, 10 is 33.
They're putting 33 everywhere just to say, no one will be looking at the sky.
No, we will have everyone focused at the ground.
You're not buying it.
Well, these little objects you're talking about look like hot air balloons to me.
Oh, right.
Of course they're hot air balloons.
Do you know how hard it is to just fly something in the sky at that height in an area like New York City?
You think that just happens?
By the way, nothing showed up on radar, according to the FAA. Of course not.
It's a plastic balloon.
Okay.
Right.
Whatever.
You can keep denying it all you want.
Why don't they come down and land and say hello?
They never said they would come down and land and say hello.
They said they were going to unveil.
This is step one.
Who did they tell this to, then, if they never talked to anyone?
They told it to the guy who wrote the book about it.
Oh!
Is there a movie coming out shortly?
Yes, there is.
It's called Skyline.
It's called Skyline.
It's an interesting movie, too.
It's coming out in a month.
You got a book.
You got a movie.
What more could you ask for?
But I will say that, regardless of the cover-up of the UFO unveiling, It is completely outrageous that our entire day is consumed by counting down how many miners we're bringing up through this shaft.
Oh no, I can't tell you that.
It's nuts.
And by the way, did you know that this is the copper mine that supplies NASA with all of their copper?
That's why NASA built the capsule, which by the way looks like a 9th grade science project.
The whole thing looked weird.
The capsule, that flywheel.
Yeah, that stupid flywheel.
I looked at that rig, and I said, is this the best they can do?
It looks like an old hobby horse.
It does, with like an old wagon wheel on top.
With a wagon wheel on top that was going slow, and the thing looked like it was going to break.
Yeah, and here's the thing that really irks me.
So they've got a video from Down in the Cave.
Right?
And they've got guys down there.
They sent guys down to help the guys up.
Right.
Well, how come the video is like, see you, see me cam?
You know, chat roulette is better than that video.
You know, what is the deal?
And actually, I asked Miss Mickey, I said, you know, why is that?
Why can't they put like a high quality camera down there?
She says, well, they're 2,000 feet under the surface.
I'm like, that doesn't make any difference.
We're like two miles with the horizon thing.
They had better video from 20,000 leagues under the sea.
What?
Why is my connection work?
Well, I'm on Skype.
You're telling me that NASA uses Skype?
I thought the video was a little peculiar.
It's very peculiar.
This is not a slam against you, darling.
This is an observation that bothers me.
They're critiquing the show on the fly?
Oh, yeah.
She gives me that look like...
Well, that's it for you.
Nothing for you tonight, my friend.
She gives me the drunken goat look because I said that she had heard that they made the goats drunk for the cheese, but I misunderstood that.
Just so no one thinks she's stupid.
I'm the idiot, okay?
This is the point.
She wants everyone to know that Adam is the idiot, not Mickey.
Ladies and gentlemen, you're witnessing the beginning of the end.
In the morning.
So let's mention some producers.
Yeah, let's do that for sure.
Before we do that, I don't want to belabor the point.
But I was looking at the, I guess it was the SVU show.
Special Victims Unit.
And I decided to look over the type of producers and sub-producers and co-producers and the titles.
And for one thing, some of the shows they have executive producer and they have two people listed.
Sometimes they just have executive producer, one person, executive producer, one person, which is what we do sometimes.
What the hell are you talking about?
But this is the number of people involved in producing the show.
Okay, so wait a minute.
Let me just recap, okay?
So what you're saying is this is you, because we have producers and executive producers and associate executive producers on this program, and we have a couple of them, and this, of course, is just like Hollywood, where they actually do this.
This is very normal.
People are involved in a project that usually has to do with their financial assistance, and now you've compared notes here, and you've looked at special victims.
Yeah, I mean, we're weak sisters is what I'm trying to say here.
And they have extra titles that I haven't seen before.
Okay.
So I'm going to go over the exact order and how many people, and they're all standalones.
There's none of these combined executive producer A and B. These are all standalone.
Ready?
I'm ready.
Co-producer, co-producer, producer, supervising producer, consulting producer.
Co-executive producer, co-executive producer, co-executive producer, and get this one, produced by.
Oh, wait a minute.
Oh, gee.
Do we get to have the produced by credit or not even that?
Yeah, you're the produced by guy in this show.
I'll sell that slot.
In other words, produced by apparently is the person who actually works.
It's one guy who actually did something and all the rest just hung out at craft services and banged the groupies.
So after four co-executive producers and produced by, we have again co-executive producer, co-executive producer, executive producer, executive producer.
That's how many people are involved.
All standalone titles.
We really got to work on our producer things here.
Yeah, we need a...
Well, I don't know.
But anyway, we do have a few this week, including Frederick Grimont, who is our stand-alone executive producer.
Oh, I'm sorry, we have to go back to our list.
No, no, no, we have separate executive producers from the 10 to 10 show.
Yeah, we have two separate ones we want to run this week.
Michael Zelina and John Weaver.
Michael Salina and John Weaver, okay?
Put off the list.
On the list for a future show we'll be coming up is Frederick Guimau, who's from Montreal, who is the last man in on the 10-10-10, lucky 10-10-10 celebration night.
Oh, really?
Okay.
And so he's in on that.
He needs good karma for a presentation he's doing on Tuesday to get financing to continue work on his current project.
Pronounced genovig at the genovig.org, which is J-N-A-V-I-G-U-E. If anybody wants to check it out, it's an open source educational video game to teach kids how to learn to read, write, and type.
Hold on a second.
You've got karma.
There you go.
Karma going out to Frederick.
It's in French at the moment.
Oh.
What does have?
How do you say you've got karma in French, Mickey?
What?
What?
She said something nasty.
Never mind.
You have karma.
Let's put it that way.
But she's still pissed at you.
That's why.
Yeah, she's totally pissed at me.
I don't know what's going on.
Alright.
Also go over to 1984comic.com and follow the making of the comic book adaptation of George Orwell's dystopian novel.
Cool.
That should be fun to watch.
Thomas Nussbaum, who comes in as an executive producer from Virginia Beach, Virginia, 33788.
And finally, Dennis Larman, who's an associate executive producer from T-I-E-L Netherlands, which I would pronounce.
Let's try this.
It's Dennis Larman.
Larman.
Larman from Teal.
From Teal.
From Teal.
Teal.
He has an email that he wanted me to read, which I actually have downloaded, if I have the right.
Preparation.
Curiously, by the way, Dennis was called out by his brother.
Ronald.
As a douchebag?
Yeah, but now he's not a douchebag.
Well, he called him a chucklehead.
Well, no, that's not bad.
Chucklehead is fans of the Charlie.
Okay, well anyway, he's a listener from episode one, Dennis.
I live in shame for not donating before, but this will be all changed as of today.
I donated $242.42, which I know the 10-10-10 show has already passed us, but let me explain the amount.
My wife was born on October 6th.
My body turned 41.
I think my brain got stuck somewhere between 26 and 29.
If you say that, it really got stuck at 18.
His human resource.
Because it's how I still feel.
So in honor of the No Agenda show, I organized a big 10-10-10 birthday brunch with loads of food and booze.
Cool.
That's a good thing.
Before giving the big party to celebrate my 42nd year on this planet, everybody started calling...
To get this old birthday boy calling me.
Anyway, as you know, in Holland, these parties are incessant.
Everyone sits in a circle.
And they sit there for a minute.
And they drink coffee.
And it's the same people from the party from two weeks before.
And they talk about the same crap.
It's a continuation.
I've only heard bad things about a Dutch birthday party.
It's not good.
It's not good.
So if you ever, by the way, to normal listeners, if you're ever invited to one, beg off.
That's right.
Swine flu is what I'm saying.
So anyway, that's our executive producers for this week.
No associates?
No, he is the associate.
Dennis is the associate.
Oh, Dennis is the associate?
Okay.
All right.
Let me just put that in the right place there.
A couple PR mentions I'd like to make before we really get into the show.
First of all, happy birthday, Staph and Pelsmockers.
We'll do an official birthday jingle and shout-out for him.
But he wanted to hear his birthday mentioned.
And, of course, he is the top patron of the show.
And, as we all know, I would do a lot more for him than just wish him happy birthday.
We don't want to know.
Coming out very soon, a novel titled One Day in Gitmo Nation, written by our excellent human resource and producer Scott McKenzie from Gitmo Nation East.
Now, he sent me this novel.
It's about 250 pages.
He sent it to me five times in as many months.
It makes it longer.
When someone sends you a book, it's like, hey, read this book.
It's hard.
But I started to read this, John.
I am pooping myself.
It is so good.
It is so funny.
Imagine taking every single meme and Everything we've ever discussed in 243 episodes and turning it into a novel.
I mean, he's got...
But everything is like...
So instead of swine flu, he mentions canine flu.
It's got TSA nightmares in there.
It's got border patrol problems.
It's got Airbus versus Boeing.
It's got zombies.
I mean, everything is in there.
And you're reading through this book, and it's a page-turner.
I swear to God, just go like, oh my God.
Oh, and it's great.
It's well-written, and it should be out in a couple of weeks, and he'll be selling that, and I guess he'll sell it first, and then he'll give it away for free, and of course, proceeds will go to the show.
I just wanted to mention that I've actually, I'm like halfway through it, and it's absolutely phenomenal.
Our first book.
I'm very excited.
We need to have no agenda.
We've created a book.
Yes, we've done a book, and John...
I've known you for a while.
We've talked about your book a lot.
Finally, it's here.
Finally.
There's a new site out, noagendastats.com, which is rather interesting.
Isn't that the same site as our survey?
No, that's No Agenda Demographics.
This is noagendastats.com, and this is stats that come from government sources, as far as I can tell, that show the GDP and how screwed we are, essentially.
It would be useful, yes.
Yeah, like the United Nations Office of Drug, whatever, showing the opium production, all those stats that we talk about on the show.
So that's kind of a cool site.
And then I just want to say hi to Ryan Garcia.
He says, "In the morning, Adam and John, I'm a college student in Southern California.
I'm broke and I can't find the job.
Mostly because I have Asperger's Syndrome and I'm terrible in social situations.
So I was wondering if you could help me.
I can make figurines out of paperclips and I would like to sell them, but I don't know how to get people interested in them.
So I was wondering if you could mention it on the show and I will split the profits with you guys.
Now, he makes really good figurines, I have to say.
And since Ryan's basically reaching out for help, I'd say, here's what you need to do, Ryan.
You need to register a cool domain name.
That has no agenda in the title.
Get your PayPal all set up.
And make some funny ones.
Make some people going through a body scanner at TSA, at the checkpoint.
That kind of stuff.
And then I guarantee you, you will no longer be broke and you'll help the show as well.
I think a little guy going through a scanner is a great idea.
Holding his arms up.
In paperclips.
In paperclips.
It makes a great executive gift.
That would be good on a desk.
It would look phenomenal.
All right, we want to thank our standalone executive producer, Michael Zelina, standalone executive producer, John Weaver, this episode's executive producer, Frederick Guimond, executive producer, Thomas Nussbaum, and our associate executive producer, Dennis Larmann.
All of you, of course, can put this on your resume.
It's an official credit.
It really does count.
I mention this to people here in Hollywood.
They go, huh, that's pretty interesting.
In fact, didn't I hear Leo Laporte say he wanted to get in on the action and get himself an executive producership?
On Twit?
Yeah, he did.
Yeah.
He asked me, he said, what if I just did every show?
Well, then you'd be the executive producer of every show.
Yeah, you'd be...
So can you do that?
Can you actually be the executive producer of every show?
Yeah, you can.
Yeah, of course you can.
Yeah.
He didn't quite get it.
What was funny, though, is he said, I never listen.
Yeah.
He listens all the time.
I know he does.
All right, everybody else, go out there and propagate our formula.
It is incredibly simple.
Our formula is this.
We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
Here we go.
Shut up, sleep!
Lots of great participation from everybody on the No Agenda Primer idea of doing a show that you can send to other people.
A short show, which I think we should do next week, John.
We should either do it right after the show or maybe do it on Tuesday and record it.
I don't care.
I'm game.
And remember I asked people to send in some testimonials?
Yeah, how's that coming?
Yeah, it's pretty funny.
Got any good ones to share?
Hi, I'm Pate from Amsterdam, and I lost 10 pounds by listening to No Agenda.
There's a couple of really good ones.
Hi, Adam and John Hart, in the morning!
So that one we already knew, of course.
Here's one that's interesting.
Hi, this is Mark the Pilot.
I listen to No Agenda, because it gets me laid.
I mean, is that a great endorsement, or what?
I think this is the type of endorsement we're looking for.
Well, there's more where that came from, in fact.
My job as a Soviet spy keeps me away from home a lot.
I used to have to go into the office every now and then, just to check up on the news.
But now, I listen to the No Agenda show, and those guys watch C-SPAN so that I don't have to.
It's great.
Thanks, John and Adam!
Let me just do two more here.
This is pretty funny stuff.
Hi.
I'm just a mindless human resource working customer service for a mid-level educational software company.
But thanks to no agenda, I know that however isolating and soul-crushing my life has become, I can still do my part to support the Afghan opium trade with my tax dollars.
I couldn't believe how easy it was just to contribute pennies on the dollar.
Thanks, John and Adam.
Come on, man.
That's awesome.
Yeah, I think our listeners are...
Off the hook.
I think they've...
Yeah.
It doesn't take much to push people off the track.
It's drop.io slash naprimer, N-A-P-R-I-M-E-R. Upload them.
I think they'll be very handy for the Primer show that we're planning.
Yeah.
But if I heard that, I'd be like, all right.
We used to do a whole disc of those things.
Yeah.
I think people will be like, yeah, I gotta listen to this.
This is good.
We don't have to do it.
How's that work?
Oh, I have a correction to make before we move any further.
I incorrectly stated that the sound clip of Sheila Dickshit was from the BBC. In fact, it was from Down Under.
Yeah, yeah.
So I made a mistake there.
And the producers wrapped my knuckles for making such a mistake.
It does happen from time to time.
But still, it's like an official broadcast.
The guy's been fired, by the way, who said that.
Alright, so a couple of things.
Are we going to start light or heavy?
Light or heavy?
We've been laughing here.
Let's do something heavy.
Oh, I haven't got anything heavy.
I got plenty of heavy stuff.
Alright, we'll start off and I'll catch up.
Well, do you want me to jump right into it?
Is that what you're saying?
I'm looking at my list of clips to see if there's anything, unless you want to listen to that Chilean singing again.
No.
Go ahead.
Well, the Transportation Security Administration is in the news quite a bit as we wheel around Gitmo Nation.
And what is up with Gizmodo?
Are those guys like, they should be donating to the show.
All they seem to be doing is listening to our show and writing articles about it, and actually doing some decent research.
Apparently, as of November 1st, if you refuse the naked body scanner, you're going to get an enhanced pat-down, which...
Includes getting masturbated, apparently.
What?
There's a happy ending involved.
Oh, well, okay, then that's good.
So this has actually been quoted.
That's what the TSA has been angling for all this time.
Sex?
That's what it's all about?
You know, the funny thing is there's none of those crazy devices in Seattle yet.
I hope they don't put them in.
They are now officially mandatory in Gitmo Nation East.
That just came through on Twitter this morning.
You cannot fly in Gitmo Nation East unless you go through a naked body scanner.
Here it's still kind of opt-out.
But what they're saying is, and I'm paraphrasing hearsay, because there is nothing...
Well, I do have something official from the TSA, but there's nothing really official about these enhanced pat-downs.
But if you refuse the naked body scanner, which of course is still going to be your good right, they're going to make it so incredibly nasty for you that you're going to be begging to go through this thing.
And they're insinuating you will even have a cavity search.
I'm like, great.
They're going to, those things give you cataracts.
The scans?
Yeah, sure.
I think they give you a lot more than just cataracts.
They probably give you cancer.
Yeah.
I think we need to get the meme out there.
Well, so they have, this is, here's the meme, it's called Secure Flight, and the TSA is only lifting a little bit of the veil of what is going to be taking place as of November 1st.
Hold on, Adam, hold on, hold on.
I have to interrupt you, I'm sorry.
Before we go on with this discussion, there's some numbers.
I'd like to get a better handle on this.
How many over the last...
I don't know, eight years without the scanner.
How many incidents have there been where we've almost lost a plane because of some terrorist that got through and he would have been stopped?
He would have been stopped by the scanner.
Well, we had the...
Let's just say over the last eight years.
I'm going to say one for sure.
Who?
Well, no.
I mean, no, we didn't...
Well, he had the underwear bomber.
He wouldn't have been found out by the scanner.
Oh.
Um...
We had the liquid bombers.
No, no, no.
They never did anything.
Right.
Zero.
Zero.
So over the last eight years, we've had no episodes.
And we know for a fact that if something does happen or even partially happens or somebody's even thinking of doing something, it gets publicized big time.
Nothing's kept a secret because we've got to keep the public kind of in a fearful state.
So you're telling me nothing, absolutely nothing has happened in eight years, 30,000 flights a day.
In eight years, a day, 30,000.
Do the math.
Nothing's happened and we have to walk through these idiotic scanners so they can see us naked?
Wow, can I hit this one?
Do you have something to hide?
I'm just asking.
Do you have something to hide?
Are you afraid that they're going to see you naked?
Do you have something to hide, John?
You surely have nothing to hide.
It's embarrassing having a 12-incher.
Yeah.
Here we go.
This is the Secure Flight Program from the TSA, which kicks off November 1st.
Coming soon to a checkpoint near you.
At the Transportation Security Administration, your safety is our priority.
TSA is partnering with airlines to phase in our new Secure Flight Program, a behind-the-scenes process that...
I love the behind-the-scenes process.
Anything but transparent.
It's all backstage, behind the scenes.
It's a process.
And don't you love...
Isn't it ironic how these guys talk exactly like the movies when they're doing the Big Brother thing?
The Transportation Security Administration is here for your safety.
...standardizes the way travelers are matched against government watch lists.
Under Secure Flight, airlines will begin asking passengers to book their travel with the name that appears on the government ID they plan to use when traveling, as well as their date of birth and gender.
SecureFlight matches the information for each passenger against government watch lists to identify known and suspected terrorists.
Providing this information improves the pre-flight security process and helps passengers whose names are similar to those on watch lists avoid misidentification.
Is this unbelievable or what?
It costs as much money to produce as one of those machines cost to make.
Secure flight does not affect the security screening that takes place at the airport.
The name passengers provide...
Well, it's for a reason.
Slave, shut up.
...when booking their travel is used to perform watch list matching before boarding passes are issued.
So we're going to get watch list matching before boarding passes are issued.
...on boarding passes or IDs should not impact travel.
The new secure flight measures utilize state-of-the-art technology to ensure passenger information remains private.
Oh, this sounds like a fiasco.
State-of-the-art technology to ensure your privacy.
What does that mean?
Is it one of those databases that can only hold two billion records?
I mean, where does it end?
Your cooperation helps TSA keep the traveling public safe every day at every airport.
For more information go to TSA.gov We'll find out nothing.
Eric did the calculations.
87.6 million flights have happened without an incident, without a crash, without a blow-up, without anything.
So we're spending millions and millions of dollars on these machines so they can see us naked.
It's ridiculous.
Well, the chat room is very happy that you have finally given us your girth.
And we know what the C stands for now in John C. Dvorak.
That's...
Anyway, so what are we going to do?
There's nothing we can do about it because we're just being pushed around again by these government bureaucrats.
Yes, we are.
And we can't do anything about it, of course, because we haven't implemented nullification.
Got a lot of letters on that.
Wow!
It's really phenomenal how big the response was.
People really love the show.
They really love the whole nullification talk, the Tenth Amendment.
I am pretty much done with the book.
Great book, by the way.
Really, really outstanding.
What I like the most about, and this is, what's the guy's name again?
Thomas Woods.
Thomas Woods, who wrote the book Nullification about the Terror State.
That's not quite the subtitle, but that's the way I remember it.
Interesting chapters about the Supreme Court and how the Supreme Court cannot ever be the body that determines whether a law is constitutional or not because they are part of the government.
I thought that was very interesting because we've all just kind of rolled over and just take it as, okay, well, Supreme Court says that's the way it is.
That's the way it is.
Shut up.
Law of the land.
Exactly.
So, yeah, it was good.
There is a couple of websites.
If you type in the Tenth Amendment into Google, you'll find them.
They're kind of heading up this, which I believe, by the way, this could easily become a huge trend, the Tenth Amendment movement, and I'd keep an eye on it as a trend over the next...
Along the lines of the Tenth Amendment, should each individual state be able...
Shouldn't we be allowed to determine what we subject our human resources to at the airport?
Or is that a complete federal function and we've just given that up?
How does that work?
I don't know, to be honest about it.
I think it's...
I don't know.
I mean, the FAA... Theoretically, their rules within a state could be nullified, but then they could, you know, restrict flights.
I mean, there's ways of them making you obey.
There are ways of making you dark.
So, I don't know.
I'm not sure.
We'll start to develop these themes over the next year, so it'll be one of our main things.
So, one of the top things I was following is that I've noticed George Clooney.
Oh, my goodness.
At the White House?
Is that what you're going to say?
Oh, yeah.
He was at the White House.
Then he was giving a talk with this character.
John Prendergast, and if you look him up and then look up some of these organizations he's involved with, you are witnessing or looking at a classic economic hitman.
I mean, George Clooney, the White House has a flicker stream, and he's sitting there getting a briefing from President Obama on Sudan.
Yeah.
So Clooney's become the go-to guy in Sudan.
Why?
I don't understand.
I don't understand.
How did he become that?
What did he do?
He's an actor.
I've come to the conclusion that Clooney works for the government.
Well, he looks great.
I mean, he looks the part, right?
He looks like that.
He could be president.
He would be a great president.
Play a little of the Clooney in South Sudan and I'll tell you about this, what this is.
Okay, here we go.
Adley.
Well, I mean, I've made trips to China.
John's been there plenty of times.
You know, you can't really shame them into it.
He stammers a lot.
Because he's lying.
So what this says, first of all, it was Haiti.
He did the whole big Haiti thing, right?
But then he was dressed down by some CIA guy, whoever it was at one of the award shows, you know, in public, and he was very sheepish about that.
Then he went to do Darfur, and he's been told, apparently told to move out of the Darfur thing and just concentrate on South Sudan.
This is the big thing.
He is now the spokesperson for the Ministry of Truth.
It's unbelievable.
This speech, or this little talk that he's sitting there with this guy John Prendergast, the two of them are sitting there, and who do you think they're talking to?
They're sitting at the Council of Foreign Relations.
Of course, of course.
Let's listen to the rest of this clip.
You know, they're a pretty big country with big needs, and they need oil.
And there's a lot of oil there right now.
It's the third largest oil supplier out of Africa.
So it's a big number, and it's all, you know, you can go there and see Chinese workers in backs of trucks.
Oh my god!
And so there it is.
There's oil, but the Chinese are in there.
We need to go in and take that, damn it.
That's our oil.
Who do they think they are?
They're Sudanese.
Send in Clooney!
Well, what they're telling us, these two guys, is a couple of things.
But first, there's a subtle hidden message.
Now, I want you to play the Sudan Pendergast edited clip.
I edited it because this is so subtle.
This is so subtle and kind of hard to pick up on that I edited the clip.
This is an edited clip which emphasizes, I think, what we're really talking about here.
But I'm optimistic, frankly, because I think if we can get through this period, if diplomacy wins the day, if a negotiated settlement addressing everyone's interests, there's a lot of money to be made.
There's a lot of money to be made.
There's a lot of money to be made.
And this is not an insignificant factor.
And if they can figure out a way to share that, there's a lot of money to be made.
And they can figure out a way to place that border and then stick the pylons in there.
There's a lot of money to be made.
And they can figure out a way.
There's a lot of money to be made to coexist as two separate entities.
I can't quite pick up on the meme, John.
What is it?
Apparently...
There's a lot of money to be made!
Where is Sudan?
Let me take a look at the map here for a second.
So, Sudan is just south of Egypt.
You go to Egypt and take a left.
Who runs that place?
Well, it's run by a dictator who took over as a Muslim general or something.
I don't know.
I mean, you can look it up on Wikipedia.
There's a pretty good history there.
Let me tell you what they're setting up.
So, I mean, whatever it says on Wikipedia or anyplace else is not what's going on.
But you have to read between the lines, besides the fact there's a lot of money to be made.
And this guy...
If anybody watches the show Rubicon, there's like this analysis firm that's kind of outside the government, but they work closely with the CIA and all the intelligence agencies.
And they sell information.
There's a bunch of these operations.
In fact, many of them were at this meeting, and they would introduce themselves.
As soon as they said the company name, it was like, yeah, the Center for Strategic Studies in the Middle East, you know, kind of thing.
There's all these companies that do nothing more than jam a bunch of analysts in a room and go over all kinds of interesting information and come up with ideas.
Or as the woman who headed this thing, it was policy ideas.
But anyway, just to cut through all that crap, what it seems is that what the plan is, is to allow South Sudan to split off as an independent country That's what we're going to support, the United States.
And that will give us...
And the argument we're going to use is that if that doesn't happen, the South Sudanese, who are the Christians in the split...
This is very many African countries have a Muslim North and a Christian South, and other religions, native religions, many.
They can't put up with these Muslims...
Wait a minute.
So South Sudan, of course, borders on Uganda.
Right.
Right.
And then North borders on...
Egypt.
No.
Darfur.
No, Darfur is in Sudan.
Okay.
Right.
I'm sorry.
Yeah, you're right.
It does border on Egypt.
I'm sorry.
Wow, that thing is...
The Sudan is big.
It's the biggest country in Africa.
It's unbelievable, yeah.
So, which means it easily can be cut in half.
But anyway, the point...
Let me just tell you what...
From listening to the Council for a Relations meeting, what I got out of it is what they're going to try to do.
First of all, it's the Chinese who moved into the place with, well, I don't care what you guys do.
Kill each other.
We don't care.
As long as you let his...
You know, drills for oil.
And so essentially the Chinese, they got all the oil wells all over the coast.
And so I believe that the oil field can be tapped from both the south and the northern part of Sudan.
And they can do horizontal drilling now.
Yeah, we can do anything we want.
We're geniuses.
So essentially...
We can't get 33 miners from 2,000 feet, but we can get oil, boy.
We can do that, no problem.
So we're going to cut the country in half.
If we don't, the subtle threat is, well, I don't know what's going to happen.
These crazy people down in the South are so irked, and they've got guns and tanks, and Clooney goes on and on about this.
Oh, they've got guns and tanks, and they've got guns and tanks.
They're armed to the teeth.
But he has to say something about the poor residents.
He can't be about just...
He's got to be about saving someone, otherwise his stick doesn't work.
He kind of throws it in, but it seems as the money seems to be the most...
He throws it in as a kind of a...
Yeah, humanitarian.
He mentions the word a couple of times.
Let's be realistic about this.
It's got nothing to do with anything but...
But oil.
And so they're going to split the country in half and then they're going to go after the oil that the Chinese are drilling out of there before the Chinese get it all out of there.
Apparently it's the third biggest reserve in the world.
It's a lot of oil.
Or the third biggest in Africa at least.
And that's what's going on.
And we're going to somehow get suckered into some sort of military action that's going to cost us taxpayers a bunch of money so some oil companies can go in there Which is, you know, I suppose is, you know, what we do, and we just have to face that reality.
This is how it operates.
It's an economic hitman situation, only this is a little more complicated, because first we've got to split the country in half and have them get independent.
That's a lot of work.
Well, yeah, so what is Clooney's role in all this?
To prepare the slaves to understand the messaging?
I believe so, yes.
Wow, because I guess they wouldn't bring in a heavy hitter like Clooney unless we really had to spend some money on splitting the country in half.
This is going to cost money.
Jeez Louise.
And Obama's in on it.
He's sitting there in the backyard.
And that's why Clooney's in his office, hanging out.
But seriously, he's got his white button-down shirt on, you know, they've got their shirt sleeves rolled up, and they're talking about Sudan.
Yeah, George Clooney, that's right.
He's the man who's going to help us.
This is crazy.
Does anyone else see the idiocy of this?
Apparently not.
No?
Why would they?
I mean, for one thing, we make the accusation, at least I kind of do, that Clooney is either working for one of these think tanks in the side, or he is a go-to guy for one of the agencies.
I think he's MKUltra.
The guy can't even control his own thoughts.
Well, here it is.
You can go that way.
As far as I... I think back more along these lines.
And he gets, you know...
I mean, the guy's just in the right place at the right time all the time.
It's a little fishy.
His aunt, whoever was...
Clooney, what's her name?
Rosemary Clooney was always on the USO thing, so she would have some connections.
I'm telling you, they implanted the guy early when he was just a kid.
Well, they probably got him to sign up early.
I mean, it's like those kids who come out of college, who we know personally, some of them, who are recruited by the CIA immediately so they can become plants in newspapers.
It's funny, a gallery holder friend of Mickey's was over the other day.
And she's had a gallery in Los Angeles, I don't know, it was like 1984 or something, but she's a very kind of radical person, and she has a lot of Iranian friends.
In fact, Los Angeles is often called, what do you call it again?
Terran what?
Terrarianium or something like that.
I mean, there's a huge Iranian community.
And she said that she actually knew a journalist who really was just released six months ago.
Now, this guy you didn't hear about in the news...
He was held captive in Iran, and he was actually tortured every single day.
And she had tons of stories about how he actually kind of endears his torture because the guy was obsessed with New Jersey.
Are there Jews in New Jersey?
And the guy was like, yeah, there's tons of Jews.
No, there's no Jews in New Jersey.
He was completely obsessed with Tolstoy and all kinds of weird stuff.
So she's talking about all these stories.
I said...
So, let me ask you about these other jabronis who kind of were hiking and wandered across.
Oh, the three hikers from Berkeley?
Yeah, she says, spooks!
She says, total spooks!
Everyone knows it.
The whole Iranian community, everybody knows they were total spooks.
Said they're from Berkeley.
Said, yup, spook central.
I'm like, okay, nice to get it confirmed from somebody else in the art world.
We've had it confirmed from two or three people.
All we do is get it confirmed.
Yeah, that's great.
Everybody knows except the people around here in Berkeley.
Well, they may know.
What a perfect place to set up shop.
These guys, the people in Berkeley are idiots.
They keep voting in whatever Democrat runs for Congress, whoever it is.
This is a rubber stamp.
They don't think for themselves.
They get pushed around by their local government.
They're a pathetic group.
Yeah, that's true.
Well, let's set up shop there and put our CIA West Coast Division in Berkeley, right on the campus.
It's perfect.
They've got a recruiting office and everything.
It's awesome.
I can't get over this picture of Clooney sitting with Obama.
It's like Elvis with Nixon.
And he's a handsome guy.
He's just falling in love with him.
He's like, you know what, George, if I can just rub one out thinking of you, you can go invade Sudan.
You can split up the country.
Letterman said that.
Letterman had him on the show once, and he said Clooney's yakking away, and Letterman's just looking at him.
And it had nothing to do with the conversation.
Letterman says, you just get laid wherever you go, right?
That's exactly what it is.
That's exactly what it is.
And he's perfect.
He's absolutely...
I wonder how they...
Well, either they got him really young or they recruited him somehow, but the guy's set for life.
And I think he will have a political career.
Right now he's handy in the role that he's playing, but he could be our president easily.
Yeah, no, I think we might be looking at, this would be on the prediction list, Clooney, a senator or a president, probably not a governor, it's too much work.
No, he'll do the fast track, senator, president.
Yeah, senator, short term.
You don't want to stay in the Senate too long like Hillary, because you have to get in and get out, otherwise you get a record.
Or he could be appointed Secretary of State.
Nah.
That would not go over.
No?
I don't know.
Shoot, I wish he was running in the California elections.
I got my voter thing in.
Oh, he'd beat anybody.
I'm so confused.
No wonder.
The process is...
I look at these ballots.
I don't know all these...
I'm going to vote for the treasurer and all this stuff.
And meanwhile, the only commercials that are running here is Whitman sucks.
Jerry Brown sucks.
Fiorina sucks.
Barbara Boxer sucks.
Everybody sucks.
Welcome to California.
I'm sure it's not different anywhere else, but it's just crazy.
Everybody sucks.
Everyone's evil.
Now, of course, that's true.
But I don't understand how the slaves put up with it.
Can't we have one guy saying, you know, whatever happened to, hey, I'm going to fix everything, damn it.
We got none of that here.
So on my clip list...
Well, actually, I do have a bunch of stuff, then we're going to run out of material, but I do have a bunch.
I know I'm going to get a lot.
Anyone who saw SVU last, SVU, by the way, Law& Order SVU, is the message meme machine.
It's the one that, whatever Obama wants you to know.
And what are the ratings on Special Victims Unit?
It's pretty high.
I don't have the numbers.
I don't have the Nielsen's here, but the show is very successful, but it's not like a number one show.
I mean, NCIS takes that, I think.
But anyway, NCIS is kind of a comedy action adventure.
It's different.
Actually, I have a clip.
They were memeing a little bit as well, NCIS, this week.
I'm looking at ratings.
I'd like to know what the special victims...
I mean, a lot of the country must watch that show.
Yeah.
And they're putting most of their work into it.
I mean, just count the number of producers.
Right.
And we should look at some of these names.
We should find out what these guys are.
Well, here's the name that you want to find out.
I looked at a guy.
I couldn't find him.
But the guy who produced, he was the co-producer, which is a bullshit title.
Uh...
And then he was the writer.
A friend of mine worked on the Law& Order staff as a writer and a producer.
And he says the producers are the writers.
This show is kind of group written.
But he was the writer and it says written by.
And the guy's name is Speed Weed.
Speed Weed?
Yeah.
No.
That can't be.
Speed Weed.
Here we go.
Oh, I've got a link right here.
Interesting.
This is from 2009.
Apparently he was on the crew, you know, I guess.
He was the guy selling it.
The way I would say it, he's the dope seller and the guy who sells meth.
I mean, that's what it sounds like.
On the show?
He's the pusher from the show?
No, I mean, they say the guy that helps the crew out.
Speed Weed.
Anyway, come on.
What kind of a name is this?
Hippies raised this kid, obviously.
Hey, man.
Hey, Speed Weed, dude.
What are we going to call a kid, man?
I think we should call him Speed Weed.
That's right.
Wow.
Alright.
Yeah, he seems to be a mysterious, mysterious guy.
But yeah, he's clearly the one that brings the dope on set for the actors.
Either that or he's anti-dope.
Again, he was raised by hippies.
I mean, it's either way.
Anyway, but the point of this is that a lot of the country is controlled by passing on these messages and they get into the meme pool and people start to really believe what is said and it works.
This is psyops is what we call this.
Yes, and this psyops this week, ladies and gentlemen, was to pull the...
This is an Obama thing.
It's right out of the White House.
Let's stop promoting...
And by the way, this may have something to do with the fact that the Coke and Pepsi people didn't contribute enough money to the campaigns.
So let's blast the soda people.
And how are we going to do this?
Well, let's have a writers' meeting.
Well, let me think.
What we can do, let's equate them with the tobacco companies.
Okay.
Wait a minute.
Hey, who produces that show?
Who's the big producer?
Is that a Wolf?
Dick Wolf, I think.
Hey, Wolfie.
Hey, man, listen.
Those Pepsi and Coke guys, they really didn't do a good job for us.
We want you to go fuck with them.
Fuck with them.
Bring those fuckers down, will you?
So let's start with this.
This is a very long clip, but I've never been honest about it.
This is like a megabyte clip I got here.
I have never seen it laid on so thick.
This is one minute and four seconds.
It's not that big.
It's not short.
This is the SVU Soda Kills Kids Like Tobacco Does clip.
Soda used to mean fun, good times, America.
But now it means 300 pound kids getting winded walking up the school steps.
Yeah, people say we're as bad as cigarette companies.
You don't see me out there forcing soda down kids' throats.
Big Tobacco said the same thing.
Didn't work out too well in court, did it?
Well, Lindsay Elding is why we're not in court.
She was sexy, smart, even charmed the Neanderthals on the other side.
She was that good.
Good.
That's a laugh.
Lindsay Elding and all the soda companies know their products are poison.
Is that why you refused the hundred grand they offered your organization?
That was a bribe to silence us.
We were about to pass a tax on soda when that get-off-the-couch campaign killed it.
That was Lindsay Elding's brainchild.
Well, people should exercise more.
Of course.
But she distracted everyone from the simple fact that soda's bad for kids.
Ask Davy Gam's mother.
She'll tell you what soda did to him.
Davey was 12 when he took his life.
I tried to make him stop with the cola, but he was addicted to it.
Soda made him kill himself.
I collected all the research.
That's great!
Isn't that a winner?
So wait a minute.
Is Glenn Beck on board with this as well?
Because there's an aspartame meme that is running around right now.
And of course, I think we pretty much all know that aspartame is poison.
It's highly addictive.
It makes you go blind.
It's a poisonous substance.
It is in everything.
Try to get a pack of gum that doesn't have aspartame in it.
I defy you.
I defy you.
I saw like a Wrigley's Double Mint.
At the smoke shop the other day, I was like, oh my gosh, that's like old school chewing gum, you know, sticks of gum.
It's like, yes, oh great, I'd love to buy some.
And I flip it over, aspartame.
Everything has aspartame in it.
So if it's diet soda, then yeah, I can imagine where the kid offs himself because of diet soda, but this is all about the obesity thing and ugh.
Wow.
It's big tobacco.
So to make it worse, I got one more, two more actually short clips.
Well, play the little short clip here, which I thought was really interesting because they're going to get all kinds of pressure on this one.
Play the HFCS Makes You Fat.
Just listen to this.
High fructose corn syrup can make you obese.
So they just dropped that bomb in the middle of the show.
Which, by the way, is no longer...
Well, I think this is part of the aspartame meme.
They're trying to get rid of high fructose corn syrup, which is now called corn sugar.
They've rebranded it because there's a war on for that.
It's corn sugar.
It's not high-fructose corn syrup.
Right, which, of course, as we predict on this show, will lead to them eventually changing the word to sugar.
It'll just be called sugar.
All right, so here's the final law and order clip.
Now, the final line, which I want to bring this up, because this is your little bit of neurolinguistic programming by using associative words.
So what they use in this case is the word push as in drug pusher.
I mean, you know, somebody who forces you to get hooked.
And so to use it in this context, as you'll hear, is obviously meant to have a psychological effect on the listener.
One of the most expensive neighborhoods.
No, that's not it.
Stop, stop, stop.
Company pushes soda.
Sorry about that.
A little confusing.
She had a genius for corporate giving.
And it doesn't bother you that the money came from a company that pushes soda?
Wow.
So in other words, if Coca-Cola wants to sponsor something, this is a company that pushes...
Yeah, that's what they sell.
Yeah.
It's not like an illegal product.
The company that pushes soda.
Oh, does it bother you that you're taking money from a company that pushes soda?
It's become a bad thing.
They're going to ban advertising?
That's coming up.
They're going to ban advertising for these soda companies because they didn't cough up enough money during the last political round, and they're not coughing it up now.
I'm warning you out there, the Coca-Cola people and the Pepsi people and those shareholders, they're going to ban advertising of these products on television, and your stock's going to go through the tank.
So short on the Coca-Cola company and PepsiCo, and I think you're...
Well, they can get out of it.
They don't short yet, because if they start coughing up, they start doing enough payoff to the Congress, you know, just tons like the tobacco companies are forced to do.
But the tobacco companies, in the long run, they really didn't work.
No, it won't work for these guys either.
And here's where it's really headed, because we've been tracking this about people being asked if they're smokers on job applications.
This is rampant.
Adam and John getting caught up on the episodes.
This type of thing is becoming very common where I work.
The company I work for made it policy a couple of years.
They will not hire any smokers, period.
Well, it's actually illegal in California to ask that question.
Well, they...
I have an anecdote, though.
Well, the hiring policy, and this is what I love, we will recruit, hire, train, promote persons in all job titles without regard to sex, race, color, religion, gender, pregnancy, ancestry, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, military or veteran status, genetic information, physical or mental disability...
Except where the disability prevents the individual from being able to perform the essential functions of the job and cannot be reasonably accommodated.
I mean, you can be deformed, crippled, retarded, transsexual, bastard, but if you smoke, sorry, no job for you.
That's crazy!
And so, what is it next?
Do you smoke?
Do you drink soda?
I'm sorry.
There's no place for you here at Big Co.
They come for your smokes first, and they're coming for everything, people.
You can laugh, and I said this before, you can laugh about, oh, it's great, the smokers, it's killing us anyway, secondhand smoke.
But that's just the start of it.
Now they're coming for your soda, they're coming for everything.
Except for weed.
Your weed is good.
And your heroin.
Oddly enough.
Your heroin is good.
Oh, the heroin for sure.
Yeah.
So anyway, that's what I spotted.
It was like, wow.
It wasn't even close to being subtle.
So I'm now making SVU a weekly watch because it's essentially a culture watch.
It's what we do so you don't have to.
I'm so glad you're doing that, John.
Yeah, I know.
I don't think you could put up with that show.
I mean, the bad acting on that show is just enough to make it throw up.
Yeah, it's really bad.
I do have one thing.
I did watch, I didn't find anything on the regular Law and Order Los Angeles, which has become kind of a buddy cop show.
It's not even, it doesn't have any memes that I can tell, at least not major ones.
But there was a, they did have a teaser for it, which does have kind of a new meme in it, which is the clip, you might as well play it, which is the L&O Not Over clip.
One of the most expensive neighborhoods.
Pro surfer.
Huge talent.
Is the last place you'd expect to find a gang.
The Moon Bay Crew, a bunch of rich boy surfers with attitude.
But these gangsters have real deep pockets.
You don't want anybody spoiling that view?
You're just trying to make me look like a terrible person.
I'm describing what you are.
A thug.
But this one's not over.
Step away from the girl!
Till the fat guy gets tased.
New Law and Order Los Angeles, next on NBC. What is the point?
It's not over until the fat guy gets tased.
They're just trivializing taser, using tasers.
That should be our slogan.
It's not over until the fat guy gets tased.
That's amazing.
You've got to get that sound effect, which is obviously the sound effect of the taser going off.
Yeah, I'll get one somewhere.
Oh, that's outrageous.
It's not over to the fat guy.
It's like it's so wrong on so many levels.
The science is in!
Science!
Sorry, I wanted to move on to a story that we missed last week, but you actually sent it to me, and even though I had it in the show notes, I'll put it again this week, about the emeritus professor of physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, who resigned.
Yeah.
Yeah, he resigned from the climate change group saying it's a bunch of bull crap and he's not putting up with it anymore.
And when I ran that, I ran that on the Twitter feed.
You know, I said, hey, look at this.
I got a whole bunch of these robots, you know, these Twitter robots that apparently are following me.
I blocked them all.
I said, well, that doesn't mean anything.
You just, what, are you a denialist?
I don't say anything, by the way.
By the way, I'm not on Twitter.
Twitter, to me, is a communications vehicle and a crowdsourcing thing and a thing for microblogging.
I'm not there to take any guff.
As soon as somebody gives me any guff on Twitter...
You're blocked.
You're blocked, bitch.
I never hear from them again.
You're so blocked.
I don't need guff.
I get plenty of guff on my blog.
I get guff when I'm at the store.
I get guff from the TSA. I mean, I don't need guff.
Ladies and gentlemen, that is the word of the day.
Guff.
G-U-F-F, John?
Double F? Yeah, I believe so.
What is the exact definition of guff?
Bullcrap.
I'm headed your way.
Somehow I don't think the thesaurus is going to give me bullcrap as a...
Headed your way.
Headed your way?
Yeah, you're getting guff.
It's not just something that's free-form.
Guff, noun, slang, ridiculous, or insolent talk.
Hmm.
Sounds right.
Let me see if there's any...
No, that's about it.
Insolence would be the good...
Nonsense baloney.
Backtalk baloney.
I don't need a bunch of backtalk baloney.
I don't need no...
I'm a backtalk baloney bigot.
I don't need no guff from you.
Shut up, yo.
So please have a read of the guy's letter which the Telegraph in Gitmo Nation East published in its entirety.
It's great.
The guy just lays it out there.
The global warming scam, he says, with literally trillions of dollars driving it, has corrupted so many scientists and carried APS before it like a rogue wave.
It's the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I've seen in my long life as a physicist.
Anyone who has the faintest doubt that this is so should force himself to read the ClimateGate documents which lay it bare.
I don't believe that any real physicist, nay, scientist, can read that stuff without revulsion.
It would almost make that revulsion a definition of the word scientist.
Wow.
Yeah, he wasn't happy.
You know, I had dinner with a CEO recently, and he says to me, just casually, he somehow came up with the conversation, his brother's a climatologist.
And I said, what does he think about global warming?
He says, this is a bunch of bull crap, but he says he won't talk about it, and none of the other professionals won't talk about it because it's become politicized and they get nothing but guff if they say anything, so it's just not worth the effort, so they just shut up.
And not just that they get guff, but they don't get no moolah.
It's all of your funding gets turned off.
That's the real problem, is science.
And this is what's in the guy's letter as well, is that science is now basically funded by big corporations.
And that's how it works.
And so it goes.
And Al Gore, where is he?
The horny, sex-crazy poodle?
Well, we spotted that early.
They decided to take him out.
Yeah, he's been pushed to the sidelines.
I'm going to show my support by donating to no agenda.
Imagine all the people who could do that.
Oh, yeah, that'd be fab.
We have a few donors this week, and I want to mention to people that if you feel like contributing to the show, and you should, because we provide about 16 to 18 hours of good information because we provide about 16 to 18 hours of good information a More this month, because there's five Saturdays, five Sundays, and I guess five Thursdays?
It's a lot.
We're doing a lot of work this month.
It's okay.
And so go to NoAgendaShow.com or Dvorak.org slash NA, which has most of the programs on it.
I have to take off a couple since our 10-10-10 thing is over.
Yeah, that's over, but the mothership...
The mothership's still coming.
You want to hop on that because now that the UFOs, as announced, showed themselves on the 13th, you know that there's some truth to the matter and we're holding a boarding pass.
For you.
So we do have one make good from last week.
We knighted Ernie Ernst's company rather than Ernie Ernst, and we should probably knight him.
Do you want to do that now?
No, we also have Frederick Grimow who gets a knighthood.
Okay, so we'll do Ernie again then.
We'll do Ernie in the knighthood segment.
Right.
And then other donors this week were Johannes Sporkin out of San Francisco, $100.
Ryan Couture, Fairfax, Virginia.
He meant to donate 4242 on 1010, but he apparently ended up working on Sunday because he works for the company that has Lumberg working there, apparently.
He forgot to donate, so now he did.
Ryan Couture.
Lucas Tehama.
Would be the way I pronounce it, but he's not Mexican, he's Dutch.
I'll try Taima.
Taima.
From?
Lucas Taima.
From?
From Egg Guest.
Oost Geest.
What?
Oost Geest.
Oostheist?
Say it properly now.
Oostheist.
Oostheist.
Yeah, good.
That's close enough.
Thank you, Lucas.
Wow.
For people out there listening to the show, let me dispel this.
This Oostheist thing.
O-E-G-S-T-G-E-E-S-T. Yeah, whose side are you on?
David Burneth, Raleigh, North Carolina, beautiful city, 5625.
After the difficulties you had in the morning, I decided to send you all my full tilt poker winnings for the month of October.
Oh, that's very cool.
Thank you.
I like so.
Anyone who wins on full tilt poker, we deserve the money.
I don't know why.
Sir William Arcand from Draycutt, Massachusetts.
55-10.
Hoping to get a little karma.
Wife lost her cat.
Aww.
That sucks.
Hold on a second.
But it's still missing.
He's got karma.
Hopefully this donation will stir the Entropy Karma pool and help Byte, B-Y-T-E, a.k.a.
Terabyte, find his way home.
Aw, is that his name?
When did the cat's gone?
He's like, you might as well call me Speed Weed.
Call me Speed Weed.
Call me Byte.
Matthew Polakowski from Lakewood, Ohio, 55 double nickels on the dime.
He needs a shout-out to Brian Polakowski.
Yeah, that's listed.
Yeah, we got him on the list.
Oh, and also from his uber douchebag brother Matthew in Lakewood.
They both loved the show and decided to donate as presidents for each other's birthdays.
Please give Brian a de-douching.
Oh, sorry about that.
You've been de-douched.
And Matthew also wants to say a shout-out to his Twitter buddy Craig C. Antomia, antinomia, antinomia?
I don't know.
Antinomia.
Antinomia.
Antinomia Sales.
Sounds like a company.
McKinleyville, California, 5420.
Seems like there's probably...
The note will probably say something like, please don't mention the name on my Twitter, on my PayPal account.
Because that is my...
Sales.
Last name, Sales.
Oh, yeah.
I'll never find that in the email box.
Sales department.
Antinomia.
What is Antinomia?
It's got to be a company.
I got nothing from a sales in the inbox.
And let me try Antinomia.
Antinomia.
You know, if anybody out there wants to...
Send me email with the longer explanation.
Forget it.
Just don't do it.
Just send it to Adam.
Because particularly if you want something kept anonymous.
Send it to Adam.
Yeah.
There you go.
Send it to me.
It's adam at curry.com.
Very simple.
Because if you want something kept anonymous, send it to me.
I'll take care of it.
Anyway, so whatever it is, we'll get to it next week.
Well, good job.
Sir David Ernie.
Hey, Sir David.
Sir David Ernie, Mesa, Arizona, $51.
He wants his size 11 ring.
He's got a big finger.
He's got a very big finger.
Maybe that's basically where it is a thumb ring.
Uh-huh.
I'd also like to de-douche Greg Wilcox of Phoenix since he donated...
You've been de-douched.
He somehow, David, missed it, Sir David.
Chris Slowinski, Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada, $50.
And George Scanlon, Carpentersville, Illinois, $50.
And Brian Romero, Los Angeles, your neck of the woods, is a kickoff donation.
I'll start as a monthly subscriber.
Please de-douche me since I've been listening for two months.
Oh, I've been listening.
That's good, though.
We've got new people, and I like that.
That's it?
Okay.
That's it.
It's your birthday, birthday!
So first of all, we want to say very happy birthday to our super uber patron, Stephen Pelsmarkers, from Gitmo Nation French Fries.
That would be Belgium, for those of you not really in the know where the good French fries come from.
He's celebrating his birthday, and Matthew Palakowski says happy birthday to Brian Palakowski in Westerville, Ohio, from his uber douchebag brother, Matthew, in Lakewood, Ohio.
And then we've got to do...
Two knighthoods here.
Let me just...
Okay, we've got the sword.
Your sword, John?
Here.
Yep, got it.
First, we'd like Ernie Ernst to step forward.
Ernie, we unfortunately credited your company.
Now, your company didn't quite fit into the harness or the chain mail, so we figured it might as well be a good idea to knight you properly for your donation and support of the No Agenda show up to $1,000 or beyond.
We hereby pronounce thee, sir, Ernie Ernst, knight of the No Agenda Roundtable.
Please step forward, sir.
Enjoy your hookers and blows.
And your ring will be on the way accordingly once we have your ring size and the rings are all set.
Are you cool with Sir Paul?
Is everything working on the...
Are we doing well?
Yeah, the problem with Sir Paul is that he has...
You know, he's a freelance programmer who works on contract deals.
And just as he's finishing up his 10-10-10 coins...
He got this job.
It's putting him in the office 16 hours a day.
Oh, okay.
But it's coming, right?
I mean, it's all kind of...
Yeah, I think he's still on track.
It'll be shortly.
We're collecting the ring sizes.
Okay.
Frederick Guimond, step forward, please.
Very special 1010 night.
The last one to get in on the program, and we're very, very happy to see you here in front of us.
So please kneel, slave, as we hereby knight thee, sir, Frederick Guimau, knights of the Noah Tender Roundtable.
Bordeaux and Rent, boys, hookers and blow, it's your choice.
It's all here.
Your ring as well is on the way, sir.
Perfect.
Did I see that again?
Did we get everything?
Yeah, I think we got everything there.
I believe so.
You know, we've been talking for a while, John, about how rich our politicians are.
Yeah, they're really loaded, these guys.
These public servants.
Well, what's interesting is...
Why do the public servants make more money than the public?
Well, I'll tell you why.
Because they pass laws and they have all kinds of inside information.
They know what companies to short, what companies to invest in.
And the Wall Street Journal, there's three links that you'll want to take a look in under elites in the show notes at noagendashow.com.
The first one is the Wall Street Journal, Capitol Hill stock trading, what the academic research concludes.
The second one is congressional staffers gain from trading in stocks.
So this is some research that has been done by the Wall Street Journal.
And essentially it has a number of examples of people on Capitol Hill who are making...
A big bank by investing in companies depending on the laws that are being passed.
But the third article, which actually comes from CNBC, says that it actually does not appear to be illegal for lawmakers to trade based upon information that they have because they don't actually work for the company.
They're not in the industry.
And there is no law on the books that stops these people from...
Passing laws and investing based upon the knowledge they have.
Sounds like a good gig.
I'm thinking they should either A, give us a gig, or B, support the show.
Yeah, they could get more than enough money.
By the way, if you want to support this program, unlike anything else out there, we just ask you to support it.
We don't take any money from commercial interests or play commercials or interrupt ourselves or we're not beholden to anybody except I'm beholden to John and he's beholden to me and that's tough enough.
And you can go to Dvorak.org slash NA or ChannelDvorak.com slash NA. And, of course, NoAgendaShow.com has all the links to the support page.
And we depend on it entirely, and we're putting a lot of work into the show, and we'd appreciate it if you'd help us out.
Yep.
So...
I have some news from Gitmo Nation forehead dot from producer Kenneth from Oslo, who is currently in Varanasi, India.
And, of course, the Commonwealth Games are due to start there.
Let me tell you a little bit about the security, he says, here in Delhi.
Armed police everywhere.
Every now and then a sandbag bunker with machine guns on street corners.
X-ray and metal detectors everywhere.
I took the subway, had to go through a metal detector.
They X-rayed my bag.
I had a pat down.
And only then could I enter the station, which also had a sandbag bunker and a whole group of armed soldiers.
At the stadium, they took everything liquid from me, including sunscreen and hand sanitizer, even coins.
Oh, well there you go.
We later heard people even got their house keys confiscated.
The exploding coins.
And their house keys were confiscated.
Hey, Gitmo Nation East.
Bet you can't wait until the Olympics hit, huh?
That's going to rock.
It's going to be so much fun in the UK. In East London.
It's going to be fantastic.
You're going to be on total lockdown.
And there's a good possibility the lockdown won't go away afterwards.
Yeah, just leave it.
Hey, they work so well.
Ah...
We did get a donation from an Indian, you know, it's rare, but we get them, a huge 700 million, what, a billion English-speaking people, and two people listen to the show.
And he said, no, you can't mention my name, I don't want to know, because he says, you're right, the Indians are incredibly cheap, and if my name was mentioned...
I would be shunned.
I would be killed.
I would be shunned by his family.
For giving somebody some money.
Really?
Is that wrong in India?
Is that cultural?
That you can't give someone money?
I guess that's why there's so many beggars.
Huh.
What do you mean that's not a good gig then?
They don't make any money.
Being a beggar in India?
I think that's probably the worst thing you could possibly have happen to you.
And then my son would argue that if you believe in...
Reincarnation, you can easily pass over one of these beggars by thinking to yourself, hey, he's been reincarnated to what he deserves.
Wow.
It's all an excuse not to be cheap.
I think I've got to use that.
If someone's panhandling, I'm sorry.
Yeah, no, you have to believe in reincarnation, though.
Speaking of gigs, and this falls under the...
All aboard!
Trains good, planes bad!
Woo-hoo!
15 overlooked and underappreciated blue-collar jobs that pay well.
John, number one on the list is elevator installers and repairers.
Average salary, $70,000.
The top 10% make $100,000 installing elevators.
But number two on the list, with an average of $50,000 and the top 10% make $90,000 a year, locomotive engineer.
So don't just ride the train.
Oh, and look, number four.
Oh, boy.
Number four.
Railroad conductors and yard masters.
They're laying it on really thick.
Is there a hiring going on momentarily for train people?
I don't notice it.
I'm not seeing any ads in the paper.
Well, I think we've got to keep a lookout.
We've got to keep a lookout.
This is clearly setting people up to want to be trained people.
There was something related to this story where the person was going on and on about how great it would be to be a locomotive train engineer because nothing could be more fun.
And I'm thinking, nothing could be more boring.
Yeah, how about a stick in the eye?
I mean, it's essentially, I mean, yeah, maybe in the olden days of a steam engine where you're actually busy doing all kinds of stuff trying to control this beast.
You know, it's kind of a chance, and getting dirty and grimy, and it's hot, and it's, you know, it had to be kind of interesting.
But this is just one, you know, I've been in a train thing.
You know, there's a handle, and you move it, and the train starts to go.
That's it.
And so you sit there with his handle.
No, no, actually you have to, and you have to hit the dead man's button every like 20 seconds.
Have you ever seen that?
Well, the one I was on, apparently the handle, if you drop dead and let go of the handle, it would snap back to zero.
I took the, what is it, what they call it, the Asia-Pacific line, whatever, that boring ride from Melbourne to Perth in Australia.
It's 24 hours.
Yeah, it's the...
I've always wanted to take that train.
Let me give you a tip.
Don't do it.
It will...
It's 24 hours, you're going through nuclear wasteland, but of course I was shooting a documentary, so I got to sit up front.
It's a real steam locomotive.
I got to sit up front with the conductor, and for 24 hours, the guy, every 20 seconds, has to hit the button.
Every 20 seconds.
He's talking to you, and then he hits the button, and there's a light that flashes and starts to flash quicker, because if he doesn't hit it within 20 seconds, the thing stops.
I mean, it's a stupefying job.
Completely stupefying.
Now, along with trains good, planes bad, I would like to let you in on a little inside information which may come out in the news.
This is about the new Boeing 787 Dreamliner.
Now, Boeing has posted, it's in the show notes at NoAgendaShow.com, has posted a video of them testing the oxygen mask system on the 787 Dreamliner.
Now, what are...
Insider, who will remain anonymous, has written and said, please notice the number of masks that are failing and do not drop down from the ceiling.
And this insider actually was in this business, the mask business and also the oxygen business.
And here's one of the interesting things.
There is always a number of failures.
The masks don't drop down.
Also, they've done away with the reservoir bags.
So now it's just a mask.
Have you noticed this subtle change?
It's on airlines everywhere.
Well, that bag is so when you puke up, the puke has some place to go.
No, but the bags are now gone.
Why?
Well, it's improvements.
However...
Now if you puke, you have to breathe it.
It wasn't for puke.
Yeah, it was for puke.
That's the whole idea.
No, it was not for puke.
You get in one of these things, the drink drops down, people get sick because the plane's going crazy, and you start puking into the bag, and it goes into that little bag.
That's what the bag's for.
It's not for puking.
But anyway, they've done away with the puke bags.
Suit yourself.
They've done away with the puke bags.
Apparently, though, these masks, they warp.
They are made from material that is not thermally stable, so when the plane heats up, the masks shrink and may no longer fit some people.
So if you've got a big head, you're screwed on the Dreamliner.
But here's the major issue with the 787 PAX system.
That's the passenger oxygen system.
Above each seat, there's a 3,000 PSI cylinder of oxygen.
And the joke in the oxygen industry is the best part of the system is it eliminates the necessity for TSA because a bomb is already installed in each seat above for your convenience.
3,000 PSI oxygen cylinder above each seat?
Well, obviously they made it that high pressure to make it as small a cylinder as they could, right?
Right, but that's a bomb!
Yeah!
Well, while you're looking at high-pressured devices, by the way, right now, as far as I know, unless it's higher, the last time I heard, the pressure, pounds per square inch pressure on his hydrogen car, and by the way, if you haven't noticed, we haven't heard much about hydrogen cars recently, have we?
No, we have not.
But the gas tank for a hydrogen car, fuel cell car, is 10,000.
That's a driving bomb.
Yeah, totally.
Outstanding.
Let me see.
Gitmo Nation Philly.
It's kind of a funny little law that they're working on there.
Lock up your car or face the fine.
A suburban township is debating whether or not to impose fines on homeowners who don't lock their cars.
It's happening in Upper Moreland Township in Montgomery County where people there have mixed feelings about the proposal.
And that's where NBC10's Doug Scheimel joins us live with the story tonight.
Doug?
Now, I love...
This is great news.
So, we have to go live to the scene.
And do you think we can get some idiot to give us a quote that will say this is a good thing, John?
Do you think it's possible?
Well, I mean, you'd look around and you'd look at the dumbest guy you could find.
And he wants to be, everyone wants to be on TV. This one is probably the best ever.
Police claim they don't really have a lot of crime here, and that they say is a good thing, but then they say perhaps it is that sense of security that might be to blame for the crimes they do have.
What?
We have a theft from auto problem in our township.
On one hand, they feel safe enough to leave their cars unlocked here, but on the other, police say they have created open season for thieves in Upper Moreland Township.
It's an enabling issue.
It provides the people with these drug abuse problems to be able to just go down the block, check doors, and grab something of value to trade for drugs.
I don't understand how they come up with this, that they're going to enforce you locking your car.
What is this a part of?
What program are we not understanding?
What did we miss here?
Well, just off the top of my head, I'd say it's part of the bigger picture, which is to make local and state people look stupid because the great geniuses are all in the federal government who would never do something like this.
That's a good possibility.
Investigators claim three-quarters of the car break-ins here are because the car was left unlocked.
So police want to be able to ticket people who keep leaving their cars unlocked in a public area.
I think they should, yeah.
Because you're not supposed to keep a car.
Yes, she is.
This is our person.
This is the genius.
This is the genius.
Because you're not supposed to keep a car unlocked.
You're supposed to lock your car and do the right thing.
If my truck gets broken in until I lose my livelihood.
You must do the right thing!
Are you crazy?
You must do the right thing!
I want to just shout out to people that work in media, especially television.
Try to get someone that is actually understandable when you put them on camera.
I had no idea what she said.
She's perfect.
Miss Swan.
So we really missed a big one on Sunday's show, which was pointed out to us a couple of times.
So we received a note from one of our producers who said, you know, there's this new survey being taken.
And people want to, the surveyors, ask you questions.
It's basically about drinking and driving.
But then there's this new thing that is starting to move in where they want to swab your cheek to see if you've been drinking.
And actually, a couple of...
People sent me bills, apparently in Michigan.
There's a bill that would allow police to give drivers a saliva test.
And this would, of course, not just be to see if you've been drinking, but to see if you have been using illegal drugs such as marijuana and cocaine.
We talked about this on the last show.
But the big thing we missed is, what else do you swab someone's cheek for?
Oh yeah, DNA. We forgot to mention that.
DNA. That's right.
This is the big DNA push.
Yeah, I think you're right.
And I think we did miss it.
That's pretty outrageous.
DNA swabbing.
Alcohol check.
Sobriety check.
Checkpoint.
Slave.
Let me swab your cheek.
Let me stick some cotton in your face.
In British Columbia, they're also moving into the lowering of the legal alcohol limit, going from 0.8 to 0.5.
0.5?
I'm sorry, 0.05.
Is that possible?
Yes, 0.05.
Yeah, 0.05.
Yeah, that's a beer.
It's one beer, yeah.
One beer, and then you better pee, and you're drunk.
You better sleep for three hours, because if they catch you, a slave, you're out.
And you're going to be wearing some Gitmo jewelry.
This is happening everywhere.
And we're all just like, oh, that's good.
That's groovy.
Not a problem whatsoever.
Hey, how's the...
Minor number 28 has just come out.
Great.
They're all out.
You're watching old stuff.
And now, back to real news.
I don't have a clip, but I just had to mention it.
The winner of China's Got Talent.
Yes, the show is everywhere.
Do you know what his talent was, John?
Yeah, he played the piano with his feet.
Yeah, exactly.
No arms.
I'm sorry.
You should be ashamed of yourself for mocking that poor kid.
I'm not mocking him.
I'm not mocking him.
It's just like, wow.
Wow.
Yeah, I was actually going to run that story last show, but then I thought it was tasteless, so I decided against it.
Oh, trust me to bring up the tasteless part.
I've got one for you.
So, what's his name, Vaughn, the actor?
Billy Vaughn?
Ray Vaughn?
Siobhan?
No.
Vaughn?
Vince Vaughn?
Vince Vaughn.
Yeah, Vince Vaughn, the actor.
There was a movie trailer that came out that got everybody all upset.
They had to pull the trailer.
And I have a clip of the part that was offensive, since we're talking about offensive stuff.
And this is kind of real news.
It's a movie.
And then it was followed up by Anderson Cooper Vanderbilt in his commentary on this horrible, horrible thing that took place in this trailer that was just the movie trailer that was just so offensive.
Abhorrent.
Here we go.
Ladies and gentlemen, electric cars are gay.
I mean, not homosexual gay, but, you know, my parents are chaperoning the dance.
Gay.
I was sitting in a preview in a movie theater over the weekend and there was a preview of a movie and in it the actor said, that's so gay.
And I was shocked that not only did they put that in a movie, But they put that in the preview.
They thought that was okay to put in the preview to the movie to get people to go and see it.
And I just find those words, those terms, we've got to do something to change, to make those words unacceptable because those words are hurting kids.
Oh, okay.
It's hurting the children.
It's the G word now.
He's the G word.
Anderson, Vanderbilt, Cooper is the G word.
This is crazy.
For a long time, in the 80s, not even that long ago, you just called...
Gay used to mean happy!
No, it was even before, I mean, all throughout the 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, it was only until, like, in the 80s that it was all of a sudden gay was stolen by the gay community.
By the gays!
Stolen by the gays!
And redefined.
And now we can't use the word gay.
It's the G word.
I mean, there's so much music that was written using the word gay.
Oh, he's so gay.
You know, meaning he's having a good time or he's happy.
It meant happy.
Oh.
It literally meant happy.
Now you can't use the word at all because the word was stolen by one community.
And why?
I don't understand how you get from how you can take that word and then make it refer to homosexuality.
It's always baffled me.
And then, by the way, the women, because they were going to be the gay females, they stopped liking the word.
So now you have a lesbian and gay alliance.
Is it a lesbian gay?
No.
The word has further been changed to mean only gay, only homosexual males.
Pretty soon you'll just be...
Who can keep up with this stuff?
You won't be able to speak.
You just have to be able to mumble.
Because everything you say will be offensive.
And for Anderson Vanderbilt Cooper, who I believe is homosexual...
No, he's out.
Yeah.
He came out recently.
Right.
And for him to then stand up and say it's offensive and hurting the children, that's a bit much.
Anderson?
Yeah, since the pejorative use of the word gay in modern lingo mostly was developed by millennials and ex-gens.
They say it all the time.
Oh, that's so gay.
That's so gay.
Yeah, and let's face it.
Electric cars are gay.
It doesn't mean that it turns you into homosexual.
It's even a reference to homosexuals.
It's not anymore.
It's a loser mobile.
We're trying to get the word back.
Yeah, if anything, can we have gay back?
Can we take that word?
I mean, retard, okay, you can have retard.
I don't need to use that.
But can we have gay back?
I think we should be able to.
Well, we're not getting it.
Well...
Just saying.
I want my gay back.
Not until a fat guy gets tased.
By the way, I was watching the BET Hip Hop Awards on...
What was that, Christina?
Was that Tuesday night?
Monday night?
My God, John.
This is...
First of all, that I have a 20-year-old white girl here who immediately slips into a language that I don't even understand.
I mean, if I said to you, free wheezy, are you with me, yo, bro?
No, you're not, right?
You don't know what that means.
No, I don't, and I don't care.
But this, what we need, because I watch this very closely.
We need a translation dictionary.
No, what we need is we need GX2 to throw some beats down, we need someone to write some lyrics, and we'll have a number one hit.
This is easy.
I can do this.
Yeah, because you, wait, wait, let me stop, let me stop you.
What you're trying to say is that this stuff is so bad.
Yeah.
That even us two older lame guys, plus, of course, our star.
Let me say it's not bad, but it's easy.
It's easy.
All we need is some beats.
Seriously.
Just a guy going...
We need a drum machine.
Yeah.
And then we need some lyrics, you know, kind of like the Gitmo Nation, like our anthem.
You know, some good lyrics.
You know, like, from the crackpot to the buzzkill, yo!
I mean, I can do this.
If someone will write me some rhymes and some lyrics and drop me some beats, boy, we can be tweeting to free Weezy, yo, shizzled.
Teach me how to doogie.
Dougie.
Sorry.
Whatever.
Okay.
I want to do this.
I really want to.
I think we should do a No Agenda Rap song.
It's not rap.
It's hip-hop.
Stop.
That makes you sound old and white.
No Agenda Hip-Hop song that will get us some money for the show.
Totally.
Totally.
And I know I can do this.
I know I can do this.
And it'll be great.
We just got to rock the rhythm to the rhyme, y'all.
As long as you don't start talking like that all the time, I won't mind.
What's the name of the Twitterer?
Cats whatever?
The one who's famous.
Cat Stacks?
Cat Stacks.
Cat Stacks will drop some tweets about us.
Yeah, biggest groupie ever.
And what was the other one I liked?
Who was that crazy girl?
Nikki Minaj.
John, you've got to watch this shit, man.
This is where the kids are at.
We've got to get down to the kids.
Yeah, we've got to start sending them a message, you know?
So we've got to drop some beats on these kids.
We can do this.
So anyway, that's a call out to all of our producers.
Gibbon Nation Lowlands.
Very interesting development.
Actually, two interesting developments.
And of course, they are in complete lockdown, this country.
I feel really bad.
This used to be one of the freest, greatest, the libertines ruled certainly in Amsterdam.
And now the Dutch Telecommunications Authority has announced Dutch hotels must register as internet service providers.
And have to abide by the European regulations on data retention.
Can it get any nuttier than this?
That's ridiculous.
Oh yeah, well they're up in arms, but they have to.
They are, of course, providing an internet service to their guests.
Pumping somebody else's ISP info in there.
They're not doing deals.
Shut up, slave.
And keep the data.
So the hotel in downtown Amsterdam is like doing some cross-licensing with Sprint and Orange to make sure that they got some peering going on?
Dude, you're preaching to the choir here.
But that is what's happening.
They're saying you've got to register as an ISP. Because the government over there is obviously a bunch of boneheaded idiots.
They don't know what an ISP actually does for a living.
That's not even the government.
It's the regulatory authority.
Yeah.
But in Amsterdam, and this is the big one, they're doing a pilot project.
A complete shopping area is going cash-free, completely cashless.
You can no longer pay with cash in these stores.
And of course it's for your security.
Because, you know, there's less robberies if there's no cash.
So you cannot pay with cash in these stores.
You can only pay with a chip card, which is funny that they call it a chip card, a pinpas, which is kind of the Dutch equivalent of a debit card or a credit card.
Was it called a pin pus?
Pin pus.
Pus?
No, pus.
P-A-S. As in pass.
A pin pass.
Yeah.
So, that's it.
They're going completely cashless.
Now, of course, the sad thing is that there are limits on how much you can pin per day.
Already.
See, that doesn't help.
No, of course not.
And people are just like, yeah, this is great.
Yeah, it's really handy.
It's so easy not to have to use cash.
It's great.
Gitmo Nation now the center of the slave universe.
The Netherlands used to transport the slaves.
The Dutch, great at it.
Now they've just made their people into slaves.
Well, that's the irony of it.
Cashless slaves.
It is total irony and sad.
We love you anyway.
You guys should support us.
So what else we got?
What other depressing news do we have?
Have you heard about this?
Where is this thing here?
It's not a large hadron collider, but now it's this new thing.
The National Ignition Facility?
Have you heard of this?
No, it sounds ominous.
I like the name.
Yeah, well, it's...
Actually, let me...
Do I have my Skype open?
I probably don't.
I need to show you this picture.
I'm loading the page now, which is...
It's from Boston.com, the big picture, and so they like to put 8,015,000 megabyte pictures on one web page, which is really handy, except when you want to open it quickly.
So this National Ignition Facility, they're trying to create some kind of...
I don't know if it's a nuclear explosion type thing.
Oh, here it is.
The page is finally loading.
But they want to get more energy out than they're putting in.
It's like a $3.5 billion project here.
Creating a miniature star on Earth.
This doesn't sound good.
Creating a miniature star on Earth is the goal of the National Ignition Facility, home to the world's largest and highest energy laser, and it's in Livermore, California.
On September 29, 2010, the NIF completed its...
This is Berkeley Livermore Labs.
There you go.
It's up your ass.
It's right in your backyard.
The NIF completed its first integrated ignition experiment where it focused its 192 lasers on a small cylinder housing a tiny frozen capsule containing hydrogen fuel, briefly bombarding it with one megajoule of laser energy.
The experiment was the latest in a series of tests leading to a hoped-for ignition where the nuclei of the atoms of the fuel inside the target capsule are made to fuse together, releasing tremendous energy.
Potentially more energy than was put in to start the initial reaction, becoming a valuable power source.
The NIF has cost over $3.5 billion and is part of the federally funded Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Yeah, they've been working on this since the 80s.
Well, they say 1997 here.
But they hope to achieve fusion by 2012.
That doesn't...
Doesn't sound good.
That's bullcrap that 1997 year.
When I was at InfoWorld in the early 1980s, I went out there with John Markoff and they were talking about it then.
And it was like 1982.
But they've built this thing now and it looks like...
What was the name of that Jodie Foster movie where she's in the sphere and she does space travel?
Oh yeah.
It looks like that thing.
It's huge.
It's astronomically large.
I don't know, man.
They shoot this one joule of energy into the dot there of hydrogen.
It produces one half joule of energy.
I mean, that's what we get out of these experiments.
It's groovy.
You are impressed.
Well, I don't like the fact that it's anywhere in California at all, let alone near you.
And they're trying to create fusion and all kinds of bangs.
They would just take out Livermore and part of Pleasanton.
Okay, but you'd be safe?
They'd probably do Scott Adams, the cartoonist, who is there.
You'd be safe?
Is that what you're saying?
I'm pretty sure.
I've got a hill.
There's like a mountain, like a little coastal mountain range behind me, between me and that valley, so the explosion would probably waft up and over Into the sky.
I don't think we could be affected.
Well, anyway, I just Skype you the link.
You should take a look at it.
It's kind of creepy.
Kind of creepy.
What else you got here, John?
There's one clip.
I don't know if we played it or not.
What is it?
The new meme or something?
What is that thing?
X-Factor buzz term?
Yeah, what is that?
I don't know.
It's your clip.
It's not mine.
It's an old clip.
I keep moving it forward, and now I don't know what it is.
Well, let's listen to it.
...reserves at a rapid pace over the last few months have got relatively few choices to where to put the money.
And the fact that China is showing clear support for Greece, China still needs to diversify.
Europe's still one of the places that it's putting that money.
No matter how stupid you might consider that...
Alright, what the hell is that?
Do you know what it is?
It's from CNBC World, where they have these guys, these slobbering people that go on and on for hours and hours with all this analysis.
A good example of this is the other clip, which is sitting there waiting to be heard.
Which is kind of interesting from the perspective of international finance.
We're going to see a collapse of the European Economic Union at some point, and you might as well play that clip in advance of this happening.
That would be blame Germany?
Yeah.
Leading the implementation of austerity measures and said spending cuts would only push the Eurozone into a deflation spiral.
Deficit reduction by a creditor country such as Germany is in direct contradiction of the lessons learned from the Great Depression of the 1930s.
It's liable to push Europe into a period of prolonged stagnation or worse.
Well, if he's saying it, then that's the plan, right?
Soros is always on board with this stuff.
Yeah, so we're talking about long stagnation.
Which means bread lines, right?
I guess, probably.
Well, let's see how the Germans feel about what George Soros has to say.
Sylvia is in Frankfurt.
The Germans, it seems to me, are doing very well, thank you very much, with their fiscal austerity.
Why should they care about the rest of Europe?
Well, one of the lessons that the Germans, fortunately or unfortunately, learned from the Depression is that you have to fight hyperinflation.
That's why we're so inflation paranoid.
But no, you're quite right.
I mean, it seems to me, it's always safe to blame the Germans, let's face it, but it seems to me as if everybody's saying, because we all can't do the right thing, the right thing would be austerity, the right thing would get your house in order, bring your budget deficits down.
We do the wrong thing for a while, and because the Germans are doing a little less wrong, they're getting blamed for it.
And let's not forget how we headed into this Euro crisis, because of overspending and budget deficits.
Fair enough to say, yes, but it was the Greeks that had the overspending, not the Germans.
We've been overspending as well.
We were indeed the first ones, the Germans and the French, who broke the Maastricht criteria.
We should really rewind this back to 2007 when we started this show.
Which I think started with a lot of conversation about the Lisbon Treaty, which I at the time read in its entirety.
And, you know, people, you kind of forget about stuff.
You know, it's just like, oh, that was news, and then, oh, whatever.
And, you know, the French were against it.
Almost everyone was against it, but only a couple countries got to vote for it, or vote on the issue.
And then the Dutch later didn't even get to vote on it.
The British were promised to vote, but that never happened.
That never happened.
And everyone thought that this was just about having the same money.
It kind of made sense.
That's the way it was sold to us.
I was there at the time.
But yeah, it was just so we can have the same money.
It's going to be great.
You don't have to change your money when you cross borders.
And really it turns out that this was all one big scam to take your money away from you.
And now it's happening.
It's happening in what they call austerity measures.
And now they're blaming each other.
And I think that you're right, John.
I think we can actually look at possible war talk between France and Germany in the next couple of years.
It's distressing.
It is.
But the fact that it's just, you know, we just, uh, just, uh, whatever.
We're at the verge of a world economic collapse, it seems to me.
And by the way, just not to change the topic backwards, but I was looking at these photos you sent me.
I can see why you sent them to me.
Holy crap!
I told you this thing is outrageous.
This is not like a little lab.
This is like a waste of the taxpayers' money on so many levels.
I can't imagine.
Thank you.
Three and a half billion dollars for a big ball in the earth.
People have to look at these photos.
Yeah, I'm going to post them into the chat room.
This is why I brought it up.
The National Ignition...
I don't even like the name, okay?
National Ignition Facility.
It's like, this is the igniter of what?
It's bad.
This is bad.
I don't know if it's bad, but I do know it's not going to work.
Do you remember Anna Chapman?
No.
Yes, you do.
Yeah, you do.
Yeah.
She was the red-headed spy.
Yeah, yeah, the hot spy.
Yeah, the hot spy.
Now she's going to take over an oil company.
Well, she's working at the bank now in Moscow.
Oh, bank.
She's taking over a bank.
How does that work?
Because when I saw her the first time, I said, hey, why are we getting rid of her?
She's a good banker.
She's hot.
Don't let her slip through our fingers.
We let her go.
And she's now in Russia.
She's back in Russia.
And she's working at the bank.
I think they're giving her the bank.
They're going to make her the CEO of the bank.
No, you're kidding me.
Yeah.
No.
Look into it.
I've got...
She's working for the Fund Service Bank, but I don't know if she's taken over the...
Well, maybe she is.
That's...
I don't understand.
That was...
So, truly, that was just to promote the movie Salt, that whole thing.
I mean, if she was a spy, how come she's gone?
How come we let her go?
Because she wasn't doing any spying.
None of them were.
They were just hanging out.
It was like a drinking club.
Then, I guess, did they once again suspend the Fort Hood shooter trial?
Oh, yeah.
They can't find the guy.
That's why.
Where do we put him?
Apparently, they had him in court.
The actor died.
No, I think they had him in court.
Yeah, they wheeled him in.
I guess he's paralyzed.
But they had to have a blanket over his head?
I didn't hear that.
Yeah, it's in this report.
The most news in the morning.
CNN's...
The most news in the morning.
American morning.
Weekday, 6 a.m.
Eastern.
We're just now driving onto the Fort Hood base.
A lot of extra security.
You know, we've spoken to about a dozen people since we got down here a couple days ago, and a lot of them have just been telling us they're really looking forward to this being over.
One of the MPs on base told us, you know, hey, nobody likes it when Hassan comes on base.
He said, we do our job, of course, we protect him, but really, we want this man to go away.
We also spoke with the fiancé of one of the most seriously wounded soldiers.
This was a young soldier who had just got back a couple days ago from fighting in Iraq.
He was only a few days away from leaving for officer candidate school.
That's why he was in that building when Hassan was shooting that day.
She told us, based on everything that she's gone through in the other families, a lot of them want to be here to face him in court.
We all cope in different ways, and I know in my situation, I just like to know all the facts.
How many people parished at this thing?
12, 13, 14?
13 I think he killed.
And so far, this is the first family member I have seen ever saying something on tape.
I agree.
I find the whole thing somewhat baffling.
The fact that the family...
Well, you know, there's 13 people killed and a bunch injured, and nobody came up to say...
You know, the news people couldn't find one family member anywhere that could say, hey, this guy's a jerk or something.
No.
They've got nothing.
No, there's nothing.
And they're not in the Army.
No, and this is the only...
She's a very eloquent speaker.
And of course I feel horrible for what happened, but when you listen to some of the accounts of this, and one guy doing all this on a military base, wow.
It's pretty...
I think the blanket over the head thing is in this news story.
Hold on.
As I can get them and...
You know, for me, I'm anxious for the Article 32 to begin so the public can start seeing some of the facts of what really happened that day and, you know, what led up to that day.
Yeah, I'd like to know the facts.
That would be really great.
They're going to delay this, though.
You're going to hear more stories about just how selfless those 13 people were and how many heroes are among the wounded.
Yeah, he had been being held in a county jail nearby.
He spends most of the day either sitting in a chair or in bed.
He's got a TV and a Koran in his cell.
I love that.
He's got the Koran in his cell.
Because he's a terrorist!
He's a terrorist, damn it!
Chris, how much of the case is going to be presented today?
What's the exact procedure to determine whether or not he can face a courts-martial?
Isn't it a court-martial?
He keeps saying courts-martial.
Courts-martial.
It's a courts-martial.
John, what we're going to hear is that the prosecutor is going to lay out the what.
They're going to talk about how he allegedly went out and bought these weapons, how he went to a local gun range to practice his aim, and how he carefully planned this attack.
What they probably won't get into is the why, his motivation.
His alleged links to terrorist organizations overseas.
They probably will not get into that until the actual court-martial.
So, based on what we talked to with some of the families, they want to hear not only how he planned this, but sort of what his motivations were.
It's in the other report.
This is worth it, because this guy sounds like the biggest patsy in the world.
Something is fishy about this whole story.
And by the way, courts-martial is used for a plural.
It is proper?
Yeah, okay.
So they're essentially going to delay this courts-martial until after the November elections when, of course, no one will care because we'll all be talking about elections, which is, I believe, why they would do this.
Back now, bottom of the hour, in our top story, another delay in the hearing for the man accused of killing 13 people and wounding 32 others at Fort Hood last year.
Now the defense has until midnight tonight to prove that the hearing should be delayed once again, this time to November 8th.
Major Nadal Malik Hassan was scheduled to appear in a Fort Hood courtroom today for the first witness testimony in his Article 32 hearing.
It would have been the first time he faced some of the people he's accused of wounding last November.
When the hearing finally started, nearly three hours late, the defense made two requests.
First, they asked again to close the portion of the hearing to the media and the public.
Because you may be right, John, they may not even have this guy.
This is very interesting.
Request was denied.
Second, they wanted to delay the hearing.
Hassan's attorney says he has evidence that would justify putting it off until November 8th.
After that request, the investigating officer decided to recess the trial until tomorrow morning.
He said he wants to give the defense until midnight tonight to put together paperwork that would prove that delaying the hearing to November is a reasonable decision.
It's not in this report, but 20 minutes into the hearing, a blanket was draped over his head.
He was paralyzed from the upper chest down.
He was wounded four times by police who rushed to the scene of the shooting.
Defense attorney says he has trouble regulating his body temperature because of his injuries.
He usually wears a watch cap and long underwear.
So the election is on November 2nd.
Yeah, we won't give a crap.
And this will be after the elections, which is...
We're not going to give a crap.
Yeah.
We're not going to care.
Something screwy.
Yeah, when you put it all together, there's the lack of anyone saying anything.
Remember they went through his apartment and they found HIV drugs?
Remember we had that?
No one's ever brought that up.
Right, he had AIDS or something, apparently.
Right, no one has ever brought that up, ever.
But we had a clip where the guy was in the room and he was going through his stuff and he was saying exactly what he had and he was reading it out.
This was on 60 Minutes or something, one of these news shows.
And AIDS drugs and no one ever followed up on that.
Yeah, he has AIDS. These are AIDS drugs.
They're not used for anything else.
So the whole thing is a sketchy, fishy story from the beginning.
Yeah, we need some help on that.
We're not going to get it.
Nobody knows.
The information's on lockdown.
There may be a mole on this base that could send us a note somehow saying this is all bullcrap.
No, a friend of mine was killed.
That would at least be something.
We'd love to have something.
Not a good thing, but at least it would be more than the sketchy information we have about this thing.
But it's not going to happen.
We're not going to get anywhere.
There really are a lot of people out there who listen to the show and who do contribute.
And that's why we call our listeners producers, by the way, is because they actually are contributing.
Los Angeles Times, I think Michael Krikorian is probably a listener.
What did he steal?
Amazing.
Amazing no more, is the title of his op-ed.
Give the word a rest so it can regain its true significance.
John, this guy wrote down your entire pet peeve.
And he probably got paid like $450 for it.
The entire thing about the word amazing.
For too long now, I've been painfully aware of the failing meaning, diluted power, and loss of essence of, quote, amazing.
Huh.
I just got tangled up with the mic, sorry.
You there?
Yeah.
Oh.
So I found that to be amazing.
There's a lot of amazing stuff out there.
I don't have any more clips either.
What did I have?
There were a couple of things that happened this week that I thought were weird, besides the elections.
Apparently the debate between Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman was entertaining.
I missed it.
I really wanted to catch it.
It's on C-SPAN. They did it on C-SPAN. You can go online and look at it.
Do you really think Jerry Brown is going to win this?
I said from the get-go that Jerry Brown would win it.
And the reason I say that, and I'll say it again, is because people are familiar with his name.
That's the depth of intelligence of the California electorate.
I think that's the same with all voters everywhere.
It's all about marketing and PR. Let's see what we got here.
We got a Jerry Brown.
Gee, I've heard of him.
He's famous.
Yeah, let's see.
If it said Jerry Brown, aged 80, ex-governor's crackpot, moonbeam, loser mayor of Oakland.
Wait a minute.
He's a crackpot?
Now I know who to vote for.
This is good.
He's a total crackpot.
I like that.
From Gitmo Nation down under, more than half the fields surrounding the main Australian base in Afghanistan, John, are being used to grow opium poppies.
Locals question...
This is just mainstream news.
Locals question why troops and police have failed to crack down on the semi-open sale of the poppies.
So it's not just growing, they're selling them.
What, they had like a stand?
Like a fruit stand?
It's a very pretty flower.
According to the report of a respected non-governmental organization, while the Allied forces in Uruzgan, that's where the Dutch were as well, have had some success in convincing locals to grow wheat, fruit, and saffron, opium poppies are still the province's biggest cash crop.
They're not even hiding it.
And they keep saying the same thing over and over and over again.
As long as opium keeps fetching high prices, it'll be difficult to stamp out.
What do you mean?
It's like Agent Orange, that shit, if you're serious about it, which you're not.
Yeah, or just torch it.
You get those flamethrowers.
Yeah, but it's just...
We'll be pointing this out until the war is long over.
and it's still, you know, there's about 10, maybe, I don't know, how many people do you think, I mean, do any of these other people that do these shows, you know, these analysis shows like we do, where you break these things down a little bit, even bring up the fact that this is such an obvious thing going on, and examples of it are like some even bring up the fact that this is such an obvious thing going on, and examples of it are like some years ago when those two Yeah, and they got killed.
Well, they didn't get killed, they got fired.
Well, didn't one guy get killed?
By the editors.
One of them got killed, I think.
NCIS was talking about this.
Not that I watched the show, but someone sent me a clip about some guy who stole the money from the CIA to buy drugs.
And here it is.
The money was going to drug smugglers and opium growers.
You think it actually matters whose side we're on?
There you go.
It doesn't matter whose side we're on.
Okay, now she...
I saw this one.
That woman who's...
She basically...
She's a CIA agent.
Right.
Stealing money from the CIA. Right.
Because she knows that it's all going to drug smugglers and opium growers.
Might as well steal it.
Who cares what side you're on?
She thinks it's ridiculous, so she decides to steal it.
Go ahead.
Just steal it.
Another company we need to invest in, John, with all ten of our dollars.
Dr.
Call.
Look into this company.
Maybe you should talk to Horowitz about it.
One of our producers, Matthew, and this is in the United Kingdom, drcall.co.uk.
He calls this the Blackwater Vaccines.
These are the guys that are outsourced the large-scale flu vaccination program outside of the National Health Service.
And they're like packaging it up with Marks and Spencers, shopping vouchers, lottery tickets, anything to get you to take the flu vaccine.
And drcall.co.uk are the guys now dispensing this in Gitmo Nation East.
I don't think it's a public company.
But I think you're right.
If it is, it's probably a good investment.
Well, oh wait, I got a 404 there.
That's interesting.
Yeah, I got that too.
But the regular site's fine.
Yeah, I'm not seeing any...
Here, Tesco now working with Dr.
Call.
They're doing anything to give you a shot.
Anything.
Yeah.
Dr.
Call is an innovative medical services group providing high quality medical services for both individuals and companies.
So when the doctor comes to calling, you better be sick that day.
You better not be at work.
Wow.
Yeah, they're going to get everybody.
Once you get used to giving people shots, then you can give them anything you want.
All right.
I think that's just about it.
Other than a little bit of Stuxnet news, I keep getting very detailed analyses from engineers and sysadmins, and I think the consensus is pretty much now this was a total don't look over here moment with all the memes in there, the dead foot and the dates for martyrs and all that crap.
But this worm, according to an anonymous sysadmin, is about the SCADA systems.
S-C-A-D-A. Oh, there's the black helicopter coming to get me.
Listen to that.
I can hear it.
Yeah, no, it's a Chinook.
Or Chinook.
What are they doing over there?
Just saying hi.
So the SCADA systems, which is what this bug, this worm apparently is all about, controls everything from how much fluoride is in your water, the power grid, the pumping station used by the gas companies, their oil rigs, the list goes on and on.
This worm has remained undetected.
Penetration is now believed is much greater than has been reported.
Siemens systems were not picked on by chance.
They have had a default ID and password that's hard coded into the system.
This information about this default password has been floating around the net for years.
And there's a significant number of these control systems that still have Windows NT4 boxes in the mix, so they're never going to be patched.
But this is either an attack on Siemens or somehow this June 24, 2012, there's going to be some control taken, and we'll have to see what it means.
But I think it's something that can't just be dismissed as another little worm.
It certainly has nothing to do with all those memes that are in there.
That, I think, is all distraction.
And quite frankly, I would expect more of this on This Week in Tech.
Yeah.
So, I wanted to just make one little comment.
I should probably make this a pet peeve later in a different show.
You see all these pictures of these people of all ages, mostly women, and a lot of teens, having their photo taken, and they have this kissy face.
You ever notice this?
You mean the...
Kind of the pursed lips?
Yeah, yeah, that's the supermodel look.
Where you suck your cheeks in, yeah.
And you have your lips, and it forms wrinkles all around your mouth.
It looks terrible.
Yeah.
It looks like a butthole, actually.
It's the supermodel butthole look.
Surely you've heard of it.
It's like, why?
It's funny because, yes, and this is not entirely new.
It's been going on for years, but every time I see it, it's like, why does somebody think this is attractive?
This, yes.
It's a douchebag look when guys do it.
Well, I don't know a lot of guys that are doing it, but women have certainly been doing this for a while.
And this all comes back to photoshopping and the perception of how you're supposed to look.
I'm sure you've followed the Madonna picture controversy of Madonna's veiny arms that were photoshopped out for a recent photo shoot.
Yeah, she's got veiny arms.
Very veiny arms.
So this is what that's all about.
And so, you know, in most of these pictures, they kind of Photoshop these cheeks so you get higher cheekbones.
It's supposed to look good.
It's all popular culture.
Who cares?
I think it looks hot.
No, you don't.
I'll send you a group.
I'll go collect a few of these pictures and you tell me they look hot.
I think anyone who looks at me like that with their butthole on their head looks hot.
Speaking of buttholes, Rick Sanchez was pointed out to us by one of our producers.
He was one of us, the guy from CNN who got fired for making disparaging remarks about his employer.
He's now backtracked on that.
He says he was tired.
Yeah, he was tired.
Pooped.
Pooped.
He was tired because he had to go to his kid's soccer game or something.
So he was like, you know, I'm about you guys.
I read all my tweets.
He has not tweeted in 12 days.
Yeah, I wanted to bring this up.
He makes a big stink about it.
I'm a real person.
It's the way it is.
I'm tweeting and I'm blogging.
I read your tweets and I'm social.
I am social media.
I'm Rick Sanchez.
I am social media.
My middle name is SM for social media.
And so he gets fired.
And that was it.
No more tweets.
What a phony.
You think?
You know, he...
I was listening to, I don't know, some AM radio station.
This guy's been laughed at every job he's had.
And he's always been an anchor, by the way.
But he's been an anchor in Florida and other local stations.
And people have always laughed at him and always called him a douchebag.
He's so full of himself and he doesn't even know it.
I think he's got to know it.
No, you're right, maybe he doesn't.
But it's like, wow.
All of a sudden he just stopped.
You know, I want my money back.
I bought his book and I read it.
I can't believe it.
I want my money back.
A big shout out to the slaves in New Zealand who had that earthquake in Christchurch a couple weeks ago.
The government has taken that opportunity to instill sweeping powers that are needed to provide assistance to the city of Christchurch.
Of course, it was hit by a 7.1 magnitude.
What that means these days, we don't know.
It's not Richter scale anymore.
However, these sweeping powers do not actually provide for any additional funding for assistance for the disaster victims, but they do allow the government to essentially call up martial law, keep the slaves inside, spot checks, all kinds of crazy stuff, orders in council.
It's like completely taken, they want to take over the...
New Zealand, how many people live there?
Well, that's a good question.
Not many.
Not that many.
More than Iceland.
I think like a couple million.
Well, let's take a look.
And then there's a lot of sheep.
The Earthquake Commission.
A lot of sheep.
4,268,000.
Yeah, that's not a lot of people.
No.
So they're going for a full lockdown of Gitmo Nation.
We've got to have a nickname for them.
Gitmo Nation.
Gitmo Nation New Zealand?
You have to have a nickname like something like Gitmo Nation Sheep?
Yeah, something like that.
Well, if they put up with this, they're sheep in more ways than one.
All right, John.
I'm stretching at this point.
Are you done?
Yeah, I'm through.
I'm done.
I'm finished.
I think we've gone two hours and we'll have a...
Some special material for the next show.
So let us do the Primer show.
Do you want to do that?
I mean, seriously, do we want to do this before Sunday or right after Sunday?
I don't know.
I think we still have to write down some of the themes.
We still could use a few more...
A few more people pitching in with their...
I listen to No Agenda so I can, you know, make millions of dollars or whatever.
And some suggestions on what we should talk about.
Gitmo Nation Wool Warriors or Gitmo Nation Sheep Shaggers is being suggested.
Although Kiwi may be more appropriate.
I think Kiwi's better.
Okay.
So we will be back on Sunday, and we'll have once again prepared to assassinate the media for you.
Coming to you from the Crackpot Command Center here at the Hilltop Watchtower, where the Chinooks are buzzing overhead.
I'm Adam Curry.
And from northern Silicon Valley, where it seems like it might be another unbearably hot day, I'm John C. Dvorak.
We'll talk to you again on Sunday for early morning service right here on No Agenda.
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