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Is that a weather reference?
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So I know you watched the pageant last night, because I was doing...
I watched part of it.
I watched the beginning and the end.
I kind of missed them.
I was doing something completely different.
And I get this text.
I'm like, oh, I'm going to go see.
Who knows?
Maybe it's my daughter or something.
I don't know.
It's like, is John...
You know, should I read your text?
No.
Yes.
I'm reading your text.
I'm like, my God, he's actually watching the Miss America pageant.
I didn't mean to, but what happened was...
That one of the news outlets had a, apparently the show was over when they broadcasted on the West Coast, and one of the news outlets said who it was that won.
No.
And I said, oh, that's interesting.
I've never thought of watching the show with it in mind that I'd know who wins from the beginning.
And how was that?
Was it a good experience?
No, it wasn't any good.
So, but the thing was, the thing that got me, and anyone who watched this piece of crap, it's really a dated show.
It's very old-fashioned.
They had all the women...
Apparently, each and every one of them had a spray tan, so they were all ethnic-looking.
Every one of them.
I mean, it looked like the Miss Mexico contest.
But that is what you told me on Thursday's show.
I live in Mexico.
That is the makeup of America.
We are brown.
The whole world is becoming brown.
Nothing wrong with that.
Well, apparently, but even the pale, you know, Norwegian types, and it was a blonde that won.
I mean, they're not that dark.
I mean, you just can't get that dark.
Some people just haven't got the melanin.
You can't do it.
So they had everybody at the beginning dressed in these horrible dresses, which were one of the sponsors, which just made everybody look...
It was just unflattering, let's say.
So I thought that the entire group of people...
I mean, I just thought from number one to number 54, there were 54 of them, weren't the best-looking women, but they were made up with...
Besides having the spray tans, they had some sort of greasy makeup.
So they were all greasy looking.
And they were lit poorly.
And so they were all very homely.
But then at the end, when they had new different makeup and different lighting, they looked pretty good.
So I'm thinking, oh, this is ridiculous.
Was it a Donald Trump production once again?
No, no.
Trump does Miss USA. Yeah, you're right.
This is the old one, which is, you know, it's very jingoistic.
The only clip I made was the clip of a couple of the questions, including the question and answer from the winner, which they do a little differently at the end now.
First, they put a bunch of girls up there, like 20 of them, and then they only ask the five finalists a question.
Well, the rest of them stand there like idiots, and then they tell them all to get off the stage, you guys lost.
So I thought it was a very poorly done show.
Well, do we want to play this clip?
Well, if we want to play the clip to get right into the propaganda, I mean, I was stunned by the questions.
Let me just give you a little setup here.
By the way, are you okay?
You sound like you have a cold.
No, I'm still getting over that same cold, but I picked up this kind of gravelly, weird voice, and I'm kind of enjoying it.
Yeah.
Sounds great.
We're all enjoying it.
Particularly with the attitude that matches.
My normal, malefluous voice will be back.
But meanwhile, I've got this kind of gravelly voice.
I think I could do some voice.
Hey, and you're shouting!
Yeah, well, I can't get any voice.
You're shouting.
You're really shouting at me, man.
I have to push a lot of air through to get this voice to come out at all, okay?
Okay.
So I can turn back.
I can move away.
No, no.
It's not the volume.
It's the...
Style.
Yes.
It's the general style.
It's the shouting style.
It's the style that's irritating.
Just chill out, man.
It's okay.
We'll hear you.
It's okay.
We understand.
It hurts.
Your throat hurts.
So anyway, so they've got this thing, it's in Las Vegas, one of the first times, I guess they used to have it in Atlantic City.
Atlantic City, yeah, that's where it used to always be.
So they have the questions, they're not by any of these judges, because heaven forbid, you know, you might have a corrupt judge.
They're from people on the street.
And then they have the person standing, giving the question, and behind them is a logo of one of the casinos.
And it's like they're standing right next to the logo.
So there's the palms, there's the flamingo.
You're not telling me that's like product placement or something.
It's total product placement.
And the guy who's asking the question, apparently these questions weren't written by them.
And they had to memorize them, I suppose.
And so the delivery is just dreadful.
This is the semi-finalists plus the winner.
The second girl is Miss Nebraska, who I found to be offensive.
I'll tell you why.
She offended you or the question offended you?
Her answer to the question offended me and then she offended me.
I'll explain why later, but I don't particularly like somebody's religion being thrown in my face.
And she managed to do that to an extreme at the end, at least the way I saw it.
And I'm sure some people out there say, well, you know, maybe you're too sensitive to this stuff.
But I found it personally offensive.
Now, let's play these two.
This is the whole thing.
This is question number one and question number two.
You see they're extremely political.
Wait, wait, wait.
I only have one clip, don't I? Yeah.
They're both on there.
And I found the questions to be ridiculously political, and the girls, of course, can't answer them.
And the first girl, who didn't win, obviously, she circumvented the entire question.
And the other girl, the Miss Nebraska chick, she kind of answered the question.
She answered the question the same way I think that Adolf Hitler would have answered it.
Did she have a mustache, John?
Did she have a little brush mustache, by any chance?
Jackie Brown!
And Jackie...
Oh, never mind.
Why am I even asking questions?
Congratulations.
Here's your question.
What color is the White House?
The rivalry between our country's political parties has gotten ugly.
What does Miss America teach us about healthy competition?
Wow.
Here we go.
I am so grateful to be up here with 52 other incredible women.
We all love each other and support each other.
And I think that no matter what, we need to support each other as Americans and not partisan.
I think that if we come together and we try to compromise, that's the way to get things done and that's the way to solve problems.
I think that we should take after Miss America and love one another and try to compromise.
Thank you, Jackie.
Congratulations.
Now let's all hold hands and tell a secret.
Unbelievable.
Great.
I love the sound effects between the questions.
Here's your question.
I have three questions left on this card.
And the next one goes to Miss Nebraska, Theresa Scanlon.
Oh!
I'm getting a question!
Theresa, congratulations.
Here's your question.
Everybody's talking about the WikiLeaks.
How do we balance people's right to know with the need for government security?
You know, when it came to that situation, it was actually based on espionage.
When it comes to the security of our nation, we have to focus on security first, and then people's right to know, because it's so important that everybody within our borders is safe.
Wait a minute.
This has got to be ABC, because we know they're the compromised network.
Tell me this was on ABC. John?
I think it was.
Of course it was.
My goodness, I can't believe it.
Oh, that's great.
And so we can't let things like that happen, and they must be handled properly.
And I think that was the case.
Thank you very much.
Step backstage.
That was it?
Yeah, that's all I got.
I mean, the rest of it was just bad.
So let me take a look at the overnight ratings.
Hmm.
I don't see.
Don't they have overnight ratings?
They should.
Maybe they don't.
They should have it.
Maybe they just don't publish it.
Anyway, so this woman, she's the shortest woman in the group.
I don't know how tall she was.
She couldn't have been more than 5'3".
Maybe she was 4'9".
I don't know.
All the other women towered over her.
And she was very pretty.
She was a very pretty girl, even though she looked like a Mexican chick at the beginning.
Which doesn't mean Mexican chicks are ugly.
You're not saying that, right?
No, no.
What I'm saying, though, is she's a blonde, and she looked ethnic, and then she looked like a blonde Scandinavian at the end.
And it was just like I couldn't see that she was going to win with this dark makeup.
She has, like, a joker mouth.
Oh, does she?
Yeah.
Is this Teresa Scanlon?
Yeah, she might not be photogenic.
Yeah, she has like, well, I think it's drawn.
All these girls, they look like, you know, one different woman after another.
I mean, it was like, because they, I don't know, I just found the show.
Teresa Scanlon has done work in the past to help girls with eating disorders.
Yeah, by screwing up so they actually get an eating disorder looking at her.
I'm so against these things.
Well, I'm not for them either.
But anyway, the point is, let's go over the...
At the end, she wins and goes...
She goes crazy.
And she starts doing the one, there's a number of emotions.
It's okay.
I'm done.
No, I want to tell you about the religious thing.
Oh, okay.
You don't have a clip of that.
I think people should be identifying these things.
Sure.
I mean, I don't think if somebody wins, they should start crossing themselves a million times.
You know, if they're Catholics, they're going, oi, oi, oi.
Or crush the dishes.
Or throw down a prayer mat.
Throw down the mat.
And start praying to Allah.
I mean, I just don't think that this is appropriate.
That would be amazingly cool if Miss America won and threw down the prayer mat.
How come that never happens on TV? That would be awesome.
So, but this, but they let people get away with this, you know, holding the Pentecostal thing, which I find annoying, where, you know, there's two versions of this I've seen.
One of them is you hold your arm straight up, straight in the air, you hold your hand straight up in the air, and then you take your palms and bend them backwards so your palm is facing the sky.
This is to receive the blessings or whatever, and you hold your arms, and you hold your arms like that.
Oh.
So that's one of the things.
But the one that she does, which is, I don't know which group this is, if it's Pentecostal, which generally most of these groups are, she holds her arms at about, she holds them out forward, like imagine a Heil Hitler salute with both hands.
Only bending backwards.
Only flip the hands over so your hands are...
Oh, right, right, right, right.
And then drop your fingers forward as though you're holding a giant, like a platter, way up in the air.
So you're holding a platter way up in the air.
To catch the money.
That's the platter to catch the money with.
So you're up there with a platter, way up in the air.
Of course, there's no platter.
And when I see this, I'm thinking, why don't you just tell us what religion you're at?
Name the church.
Thank them.
I just don't know.
It just bugs me.
Oh, but you know, it's like you're never that angry or upset when, like tonight, the Golden Globes are on.
You know that half of the acceptance speeches will be like, I thank God, and I thank God for giving me the strength.
It's a We always see on shows like that, only this is a little more dramatic.
We see on sports events, too, and people do complain about it.
I mean, this is not...
I mean, I just find it offensive that if there's any belief in religion in any way, shape, or form, that it would be attributed to this show, and you'd be...
I don't know.
Maybe it's just me.
Maybe she's praying to the ABC president.
You know, thanking him.
He's God.
Put her on.
Yeah.
Something like that.
I'm thinking it's more along those lines.
Anyway.
Anyway, maybe I'm off base.
I'm sick.
I'm sick.
Wait, let me roll this out for you.
Let me roll this out for you.
You always do this when there's a pageant.
You're always getting upset about it.
You know, I think I'm ill.
And I don't mean to say that Mexican women, but many of us, I mean, I watch Mexican soap operas.
The women are gorgeous.
You do not!
You watch the telenovelas?
Obviously.
I love you, man.
In fact, when you're like this, you're best.
If only you could be sick all the time.
I'm not actually sick-sick.
Well, maybe I am.
This voice of mine, though...
Have you taken your meds?
Have you taken your meds?
That is the meme of the day, by the way.
Take your meds.
Which brings me to a point I want to bring up later in the show.
Let's thank our one lone executive producer for today.
I knew it was going to happen.
And you were so right.
You warned everybody.
You said, if you want to get in as executive producer, this is the episode.
This is the one to do it.
And it's a double whammy, right?
Yeah.
Yeah, it is.
It's Michael Miller out of Tiburon.
He's on his way to nighthood.
His wife is hooked on the show, and he wants to give her a hello.
Catherine!
Hello, Catherine Miller!
Hey, Catherine.
How you doing?
By the way, he's also the only...
Member of the 270 Club.
Yeah, he is the lone member.
And we'll actually make it for him and Catherine.
Or if we want.
I don't know.
He doesn't care.
The 270 Club.
We have $270.
He's executive producer of show number 270.
And we have no associate.
We have nothing else.
It's a very thin week.
I think that basically he's telling us that the last show we did, which was the one that had technical difficulties, was a piece of crap, which I have to assume because we got such low input this week.
Except for one guy that I'm looking on the list.
Michael Miller is a first-time donor, but Patrick, we have another one coming up.
Patrick Griffin, yeah, we'll talk about him later.
We have two new listeners who cared enough to donate to the cause.
So I did get my, it was so funny, I went through three days, essentially, of connectivity problems.
And I'm still waiting for AT&T to hook up the DSL. Like, how hard can it be to plug a wire in?
I mean, I've got an outlet here.
So we have some kind of redundancy.
So on Friday, when these guys are finally supposed to show up, I get a call in the morning, and it's like, we recently fixed a network outage in your area.
Do you still need...
I'm like...
You know, of course it wasn't fixed.
Anyway, long story short.
Hold on a second.
Let's get back to this story from the beginning.
Okay.
Now, I'm under the impression you had a modem problem.
Oh, yeah.
No, it was my fault.
Shut up, slave.
No, it wasn't my modem problem.
It was they had a truck in the street Thursday and Friday.
And Mickey was like, hey, hop out, go talk to him.
I'm like, no, this is a very bad idea.
If I go talk to these guys, something might happen.
Blood might flow.
This is not a good idea.
I'll wait for my appointment.
Anyway, so a guy shows up, and two guys show up.
Two time-worn cable guys.
Hey, Adam, we heard you had some problems.
Fans of the show.
Check this out, John.
The fans of the show.
They've heard the show.
They're loving it.
They're like, yeah, this really sucks.
And he's like, yeah, our customer service people are assholes.
We hate them, too.
We have to deal with them.
They tell us to reboot the modems.
Can you believe that?
I'm like, really?
Have you turned off the modem?
I hate them.
So there was something in the street, but the guy then hooks me up and he upgrades me without charge to the new modem, which now gives me 2 megabit per second upstream.
Yeah, they really did their best.
And he gave me his cell phone, his personal cell phone number.
Now you're talking.
24-7.
Throwing your weight around.
Last show, you're moaning and groaning and cussing and spitting.
And now, because one of them knows you, you're a big fan of the company.
No, I'm not a fan of the company.
I'm a fan of this guy who's trying to help us out.
I'm not a fan of the company.
Time Warner sucks.
I'm surprised you didn't go back and change the title of the last show.
Time Warner Rules!
Hey, quick couple of PR mentions before we move on.
First of all, when it comes to donations, seeing as we're so low today, maybe we have to change our strategy.
The BBC interviewed Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia.
And unfortunately, they have a video, but the question that I was so interested in is not in the video, so I don't have a...
I don't have audio of it.
But the guy, the interviewer says, you know, what's up with your face on all the banners, dude?
And he says, you know what?
Those banners outperformed the others two to one.
How frightening is that?
So the dog little face of Jimmy Wales saying, oh, a personal plea!
Oh, it isn't money!
Outperforms all others two to one!
You know, he's probably, you know, a lot of times people make these facts up.
You think he's lying?
No, I actually don't think he's lying.
I believe he probably did outperform two to one.
These banners outperform the other ones two to one, he said.
I think maybe because no one wants to see my ugly mug anymore, the people thought, let's give the guy some money so he'll go away.
Well, that's possible.
That is highly possible.
That's a good strategy.
Or get a shave, Jimmy.
Yeah, I'll take that one.
Hey, Adam and John says, Joe Terrio, long-time writer, first-time listener, actually long-time listener, underemployed shill.
I've been wanting to donate.
Times have been dramatically bad the past couple of years.
While my financial situation hasn't improved much, I think yours is about to.
I've set up a donation page for No Agenda at Gazelle.
It's noagenda.gazelle.com.
Gazelle allows people to donate old electronics and the proceeds will go to you via me for the moment.
Listeners, just go to the website, find their gadget, describe its condition, and Gazelle will send a postpaid box.
Put your junk in the box and you get money.
So, wow, that's an interesting idea.
I didn't know about this.
I got a lot of junk.
Now, now, no family members, John.
Just gear.
Put your junk in the box.
This goes back into the pot.
Yeah.
So, interesting concept.
We like that.
Those of you using the Pocket No Agenda iPhone app, update your iPhone app for new streaming freedom.
The app has been updated to reflect the new streaming servers that Mr.
Oil, Gitmo Slave have been working on.
Man, have you seen NoAgendaChat.net, John?
Have you looked at this site?
Yeah, it's been improved by Paul T., one of our in-house artists.
Well, there's a whole bunch of guys.
A whole bunch of guys have been working on this.
Yeah, the whole thing.
We actually have a lot of upgrades around the system.
A lot of people are very complimentary about the stream and the actual mechanisms that are in place.
Yep.
Which are, ironically, a threat to modern radio.
Doug has actually had his own show the other night.
Doug had his own show?
What was he doing?
Yeah, he was spinning records, taking requests.
Oh, okay.
Well, yeah, he can do that.
I thought he was going to have a talk chat show.
We're thinking Doug and Stephen Hawkins doing a show together.
Yeah.
I do want to mention NoAgendaWords.com.
We don't always mention all the great ongoing PR initiatives, but it's always fun to see what the word of the day is.
NoAgendaWords.com.
And then a shout-out to Gitmo Nation Down Under, our good buddy Maynard down there, who is always trying to slip it in the morning in to promote the show and make us laugh.
He's on real radio down there.
Unlike what we do, all this Mickey Mouse stuff, he's on real radio.
And he says, Adam, I recently interviewed Gary Kennedy, a big-time food inspector, who helped write the salami code of practice for Gitmo Down Under after a salami killed someone a few years back.
Apparently there was a salami scare in Australia that we didn't hear about.
Oh, so now the salami tastes like crap.
Well, he had some poignant questions about that and more.
I often listen to John C. Dvorak on a number of podcasts, and he is a big fan of deregulating the salami industry because he...
That, by the way, is your ringtone.
I'm a big fan of...
Hello, I'm John C. DeVore.
You can go and meet the press.
I'm a big fan of deregulating the salami industry.
He's a big fan of raw milk.
He thinks the salamis taste better when they don't have as stringent rules to them.
What would you say to someone like that?
I'd say he needs to shop around.
Yeah, shut up, slave, and shop around.
You don't know what you're talking about, John.
You don't know what you're talking about.
A lot of small butcher shops who still make salamis made the way they used to make them overseas.
I've got a couple of clients who do that.
So if you want to eat some salami in the morning, what salami would you recommend if you're into the raw taste?
A cup of colos, good.
I filter my water because I'm concerned about fluoride being a mind-controlled drug.
Is there any evidence either way on that?
He goes right into it, right?
As far as I know, fluoride is not a mind-control joke.
So it's just me.
Yes.
So this stuff's happening.
I'm the one that's doing it.
Yes.
Yes.
It's a mind-controlled...
Beautiful.
It's not a mind-controlled drug, Maynard.
It makes you docile.
There's a difference.
But we appreciate it.
And, John, you're infamous now down under for your salami expertise.
Yeah, apparently.
And you are the leader of the Leave the Salami Industry Alone movement.
Well, you know, it reminds me of a story.
Oh, I've got somebody calling.
I've got to take the phone off the hook.
I'll let it ring out.
So, oh, there it goes again.
Well, why don't you go do that, and I'll thank Michael.
And I'll give my salami story on my return.
I will thank Michael Miller once again for being the executive producer of No Agenda, Episode 270, and the one and only member of the exclusive 270 Club.
It goes away after that.
After this, you can't become a member anymore, only for the next episode, the 271 Club.
Everyone else out there, we would appreciate you going out and propagating our formula.
We still need that, day in and day out.
Our formula is this.
We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
Two, one, order.
Stay with me loud and proud.
Shut up, Steve!
You're really going to tell us the salami story, huh?
Well, no, I don't have to.
But I'll tell you this.
this i really appreciate our uh friend down under for for plugging the the fact that salamis uh which is a which is a essentially a preserved meat that has a history that goes back you know thousands of years the fact that they need to this sort of regulation in fact you know one of the things like in washington state for example we had this deli and we sold salamis but in washington state you have to keep salamis refrigerated when it's a when it's a preserved meat that doesn't need refrigeration
in fact when you refrigerate it usually a mold forms and ruins the salami anyway so good salamis in europe Go to Europe, get some salami, and you'll see what I'm talking about.
There's good salami here now and again, but generally speaking, it's over-regulated.
So, I predicted two weeks.
We're one week into it, but this whole tragedy in Tucson continues.
Yeah, you know, I was skeptical, but this is ridiculous.
We're in day number eight, and the noise level is exactly the same.
And it's really two things.
It's anti-gun and it's pre-crime.
And it's becoming rampant.
I mean, I have a couple clips I'd love to share because I was just tootling around the Gitmo Nation mainstream channels.
And it's unbelievable.
And this morning, just before the show started, I turned on Meet the Press, which, of course, I can't watch the whole thing because the show starts, but they were having a whole roundtable, and they're really stretching now.
Well, it's really bad because the incident happened just before Meet the Press last week, so last week's Meet the Press was all about this.
Well, so they had Al Sharpton on, who, by the way, was like, last time I was on here was in 1981.
He's complaining.
So he's bitching?
He's bitching.
They had Tim Shriver.
First of all, I had dinner a while back, maybe three years ago, and I sat next to Tim and his wife.
Lovely people.
But he looked like he got a face job or something, man.
The guy looks pretty again.
But he had totally nothing to say.
He's the president of the Special Olympics.
And I don't know why he was there.
And they had Peggy Noonan on.
Oh my gosh, I'm going to have to pull some...
If this thing is still alive on Thursday, I'll have quotes from her.
She's like, we shouldn't be so obsessed with our freedom about people saying what they want to say.
I'm like, what?
What?
Oh yeah, she's out of control, this Peggy Noonan.
Out of control.
We shouldn't be obsessed with what this country was founded on.
Yeah, exactly.
Wow.
Oh yeah, no, no.
Peggy Noonan.
And the whole thing is like, we need to give our educational facilities the tools.
We need more tools.
They need tools in order to be able to report...
Mentally unstable children to the authorities so they can take their meds.
Literally, the word meds is everywhere.
Well, you know, as long as we can get them on meds, it'll be okay.
There was a lot of med talk.
There was a lot of drug talk on the O'Reilly shows, the right-wing shows.
They were talking about this guy.
And there was a lot of miscellaneous talk about how people should be discovered early in the process and then locked up, which is a pre-crime thing.
Yeah, totally.
But they're using mental illness as kind of their handle, their leverage.
So my favorite, and I rarely ever am able to watch or even have the stomach to watch, Parker and Spitzer.
This is, I don't know where Parker comes from, but Elliot Spitzer, I thought until he got assimilated because they busted him for the hookers, he was doing pretty good.
He was going after corruption and cartels and organized crime and he had this little problem of $5,000 a night hookers and they're like, oh yeah, you want to do that, Elliot?
Screw you.
So they busted him and now he's on board with the program.
Yeah, I think so.
Yeah, it's too bad because I had a lot of respect for the guy.
Well, before you play your clips, I want to do a pre-clip.
A pre-clip on pre-crime?
Because this kind of emphasizes, I think, the point you're going to be making.
Okay.
Which is just a casual story.
You know one of the guys who was shot was basically locked up.
Yes.
And it's discussed very quickly in this funny way.
They just kind of pass it over as though it's no big deal.
Victim turns bully clip.
Hold on a second.
This is on PBS. A long-planned gun show went on as scheduled in Tucson today, but in this western city, there has been no apparent backlash against firearms.
In another twist in this story, one of the shooting victims, Eric Fuller, who was hit in the leg, was arrested at a town hall meeting organized by ABC News.
After a discussion of gun rights, he held up his cell phone and told one of the other people at the meeting, you're dead.
He was arrested, charged with intimidation and threats, and involuntarily committed.
Yeah, so I had that exact story.
I'm glad you had a clip.
Involuntarily committed.
Involuntarily committed.
I mean, there was no assault.
He didn't say, I'm going to kill you.
There's no assault in that, but the association with the camera is very interesting, and we don't know exactly what happened.
They were doing a special, I guess, for ABC, which is to air later, so there's no video of it yet.
Yeah, and they'll cut that out.
No, they won't.
Oh, no, they'll spin that.
Are you kidding me?
Well, maybe, but I think unless they have it just right, they'll cut it out.
So, Parker and Spitzer have this French guy on.
And, of course, we have to show these stupid slaves in America what Europe thinks of us.
Because the rest of the world is looking down their nose at us, John.
We are so, it is unconscionable that we have the guns.
So they bring this guy on...
I'm trying to find his name.
He's pushing his book, which he'll talk about in the first segment immediately.
There's three clips I've got here.
And he comes on, he's got like a tuxedo shirt open to like halfway down his chest, which is shaved...
He's got this hair slicked back, this gray, crazy, like gray fox hair.
And he goes on, I clipped about a couple minutes, but he was on for ten minutes uninterrupted.
So I guess he's really important.
And you just have to listen to what he's propagating and...
And then the true elitist message comes out in the final clip.
The American love for guns.
I think those from Europe look at the way we deal with this gun issue kind of in amazement.
How do you respond to it?
What a setup there, huh?
The American love for guns.
Do you love guns, John?
Are you just loving them?
Do you go to bed and say, I love you, gun?
I don't see that.
It's bullcrap.
It's bullcrap.
But this is propaganda.
This is the Ministry of Truth.
This is a media assassination we're about to do, and it's necessary.
I respond, I don't understand.
Do you know that since 68, since the murder of Martin Luther King...
Is this guy a joke?
Is this a comedy act?
You've got to listen to it.
It gets better.
I think he's an actor, actually.
You're right.
There's no French guy I know that actually talks like an American actor playing a French guy, except this guy.
Had more than one million victims of average citizens with guns.
Like...
Poor little Christina Green.
So here's talking point number one.
This is a big one.
This nine-year-old girl who was caught in the crossfire, apparently, or shot, who knows, we don't know, born on September 11, 2001.
This is a huge meme, and just before the show started, they were using this on Meet the Press as well.
Born on the very day of September 11th.
And then, because guns are in free sale, I can go.
When I go out of here, I can go in a shop and buy.
Just feeling a little foam.
I know exactly how it happens.
I did it when I wrote this book.
So, what he's saying, for those of you who don't understand, Inspector Cluzeux...
He's saying...
First he said, I can go and buy a gun.
I just need to fill out a little form, which is patently untrue.
And of course, he gets called on it, luckily.
I tried.
You bought a gun in the United States?
No, I tried.
I tried.
I tried.
I did not, of course.
I investigated how it can be done.
I asked.
I made my enquiry.
I want to buy a gun.
What should I do?
Just fill a form.
Just give a few informations.
This is crazy.
It is the country.
I think you are number, I don't know, number high in the countries where you have free guns.
So, how don't you want to have such tragedy as the one you had in Arizona and others Christina Greens?
You will have more.
So this is the setup.
And the setup is we're crazy.
It's nuts.
It's easy for anyone.
Apparently even a wacky French guy can buy a gun in this country, John.
It's an outrage.
What's interesting to me, hopefully you don't belabor this, because this particular...
Effort to associate this with guns has fallen flat almost immediately.
Oh, I disagree.
I completely disagree.
You might disagree with the media.
They may have not fallen flat with the people trying to beat the drum, but they've done polls, and as of today, the poll is like 20% think some things should be changed, and 80% say no.
This is going nowhere.
What got me going on this is I went to the barber.
I call him the barber.
He's actually a hairdresser.
Yesterday.
And this guy's Iranian.
As is everyone in Los Angeles, by the way, apparently except for us.
The Mexicans were down there, too.
Yeah, it's Mexicans, Iranians.
And Russians.
A lot of Russian mob.
Yeah, they're all here.
Well, we got...
Yeah, no kidding.
More on the mob later.
And he says, and we always talk, and he's a smart guy.
He says, so what do you think?
We're kind of nuts about all these guns, right?
What?
Are you telling me?
Yeah, no, I mean, we have to keep the guns out of the hands of the crazies.
This is, yes, John, of course, if we actually wanted to get rid of the Second Amendment, we would do it.
But the issue is, it is really being pumped very, very hard Okay, I'm not even going to play the second clip from the French guy.
I think this is you in Los Angeles where they're totally freaked out.
I want you to jump to a clip.
No, no, you can't do that to me.
No, this one I can do because this is a debate we're having.
Okay.
I want you to play the Pat Leahy gun control in Vermont clip, which was on like yesterday on C-SPAN, where Leahy is at some town hall meeting and they're going back and forth with questions.
And Leahy, who would have something to do with changing the gun laws, being who he is, listen to his little ditty.
Last weekend, do you think there should be more talk about gun control and do you foresee any legislative push for that on Capitol Hill?
There will be, but I don't know if much will change.
That's an easy answer.
It's interesting.
Vermont has the lowest crime rate in the country, lowest or second lowest, and doesn't have gun control.
But I would not want Vermont laws to be in an urban area.
We have to decide what works best.
Yeah, no, I totally understand what you're saying.
But this is the media mecca of the world.
This is where all the programming comes from.
You cannot deny that if you repeat the message enough over and over again, it's going to get through.
I mean, this is how advertising works.
No, I'm not going to argue the point of the theory.
I'm just saying it's not getting any...
You know, advertising does work with the repetition of a certain message, but if the message is rejected out of hand, which I believe this one is, and when you have people like Leahy himself who has a pretty good feeling about what's going on in terms of the halls of the legislative branch...
And by the way, I want to make a point.
When somebody says, this reminds me of editors in newspapers.
Oh, yes, the story's really interesting to me, but the public won't like it.
You know, there's no crime in Vermont because there's no gun laws whatsoever.
You can just go walk in and grab a gun.
And what was that sound clip from?
What program did you pull that from?
It was one of the C-SPAN. Right, exactly, which no one watches.
This is my point.
I'm not saying that this is done as a method of propagandizing the public like what you're doing, what you're showing.
I'm just saying this is really where it's going to end up.
It's going to bump right into guys like Lady.
I hope you're right.
I hope you're right because I think...
That if you push it enough and you get enough actors and enough...
Because you watch...
I can almost...
Open up the book.
Open up the prediction book.
We're going to have a Guns Across America thing.
We're going to have a whole bunch of celebrities...
I think we should have Guns Across America.
We're going to have a whole bunch of celebrities getting on board to get guns off our streets, get guns out of hand, get unstable kids on meds so they can't get guns.
And you know why?
And here it is, because I'm skipping the whole clip where the French guy keeps on going on about...
Well, at least play the punchline to the clip.
You said there's a punchline.
The punchline is...
This is the punchline where he talks about Sarah Palin.
Sarah Palin.
And this is the true message.
Of course, Sarah Palin should watch her words.
You cannot have a military language when you speak politics.
You cannot...
Draw a map or present a map of America with 20 targets.
Targets!
And you cannot...
When you are a political responsible, you are the guardian.
Now listen to this.
You are the guardian.
Listen very closely, Jean, so you understand what the job of the political and journalist and intellectuals is.
Of the world.
For example, when Sarah Palin says that she is victim of a blood libel, This is incorrect.
She should not say that.
It is felt as an insult by a lot of people who are themselves the inheritors of a people who was victim of blood libel.
You, you, journalists, we, intellectuals, they, political responsible, have duties.
Our main duty is the use we make of the world.
Ah, listen, the use we make of the world?
Why is that?
This guy even on.
Listen, listen, listen, listen.
He's a stooge from France.
You're talking over the punchline.
The guardians of the world.
This is one of the lessons we try to develop in our book.
Writers responsible, we are guardians of the world.
There you go.
That was the point.
We are guardians of the world.
And that went unchallenged by Spitzer and Parker because they agree.
No, no.
That's not why it went unchallenged.
They couldn't understand.
They were either zoned out by this bonehead.
They couldn't understand him.
Or they couldn't understand a word he said.
No, they understood quite well.
The guy is saying that the intellectuals, the politicians, and the journalists are the guardians of the world.
And that's the way they feel.
And that's the way.
We're going to get the guns across America.
Well, if that's not the most elitist thing I've ever heard in my life, I think that's pretty much...
It is.
Of course it is.
We are the Guardians.
Can you imagine?
I mean, this is one of the things I think people like this show that we do, which is neither one of us really believes we're the Guardians of much.
I'm the Guardians of my poop.
That's about it.
You know, and it's like the thing that you are is just unbelievable arrogance.
I mean, the arrogance level has got to be to the max.
They were sitting there going, uh-huh, yes, yes, Mr.
French guy, yes.
Yeah, we are the guardians of the world.
We are the guardians of the world.
And the fact that Peggy Noonan would go on about, you know, freedom of speech being a bad thing, if what you say is true, which wouldn't surprise me, the whole thing is rigged.
And then we have this bonehead from Nebraska, you know, holding up her platter of hors d'oeuvres in the air, and Talking about how the WikiLeaks thing is espionage and we should protect it.
Her message was, we should protect ourselves.
Before we even think of freedoms, we have to think of safety.
Yeah.
Which, of course, the Jeffersons and the Franklins have made commentary about this 200, 300 years ago.
It's bordering on the...
Insane.
Yeah.
Well, but the real insanity is that And without a doubt, there's going to be tools in place everywhere.
So my neighbors, now I don't think the ones across the street will do it, but the ones next door might.
They'll be like, you know, he's a little unstable.
You know, he has that weird head digit thing, kind of like that tick, and he's always talking about government conspiracies.
I think he needs to be on meds, and I'll be involuntarily committed.
Or shot up on something.
Meds!
Take your meds.
I'm Adam Curry.
This is the No Agenda show.
Yeah.
So there's this story from Tennessee.
uh... and it's one of those uh... me too like stories that the uh... uh... that the media loves to pull together some of local stations not a big deal but i thought it would be kind of interesting to listen to the clip and then i'll shut up about it because i think we've made our point uh... to listen to the discourse to to to the language that is being used to describe people who need to be locked up and then uh... half our audience can go uh... bolt the door robin eric henderson was arrested in september
His sister spoke to us tonight, but she asked that we not show her face or give her full name.
She says the mental health description of the Arizona shooter, Jared Loeffner, is the same as that of her brother.
Uh-huh.
Uh-huh.
Pay attention, because you might know someone just like this could be in your family.
This is Stephanie.
Her brother is Eric Henderson.
He currently sits in jail after he was accused of calling Congressman Phil Rowe's office and threatening violence.
Eric, I never thought would be capable of doing anything like that.
But they didn't think the same thing of this guy.
Stephanie compares her brother's actions and thoughts to those of Jared Loeffner.
Officials say Loeffner shows signs of mental issues, including a history of fears about the government.
Yeah, you guys have meme one.
Fears about the government.
If you talk about being afraid of your government taking over...
Yeah, this is cropping up a lot.
This is bad.
This is bad.
Stay tuned for more because it gets really funny at the end.
Stephanie's brother, Eric, suffers from delusions and all...
Delusions.
How do you suffer from delusions?
Is that like you can...
Oh, he's suffering from delusions.
I like the way you have the juxtaposition of the two memes.
You have the meme of the government, fear of the government, and then the word delusions in the same kind of mind frame.
Separated by one word.
We thought the government was out to get him.
Uh-huh.
The government is out to get you.
He's in jail.
They're out to get him and they got him.
Oh, the irony!
It was similar.
The delusions that Eric had, very similar.
Just as more and more it's released, it's like a story I've heard before.
I've seen that movie before.
Oh, my God!
This is so good.
I've seen that movie before.
Mm-hmm.
Stephanie says she knew her brother was sick, but never thought he would try to hurt anyone.
Today, Congressman Roe says he won't let people like Henderson and Loughner stop him from doing business.
I certainly don't want to let one person who is disturbed like this interrupt how we conduct business in a country with 300 million people.
Tennessee lacks mental health laws that allow families to step in and help.
State representatives...
Ah, I think we need some tools to help.
I'd like to help.
Help, yeah.
We need to step in and help for families.
Yeah, we're going to help you.
Locking you up.
Yeah, that's right.
Doug Overby is working on such a bill.
He needs help.
There's the bill.
He needs help.
It's called the help bill.
Meanwhile, though, this sister says even though her brother did not act on his feelings with violence, she knows the same can't be said for everyone in his situation.
Here they caught him in time.
Thank God.
And Eric's sister says she hopes her brother can get the treatment he needs while in jail.
Right now, Henderson sits behind bars in Lexington, Kentucky, facing more than five years in prison if he is found competent to stand trial.
So not only do you get picked up because you're delusional, and sorry, you can't even defend yourself because you're too crazy.
So you might as well keep you in there for ten years before you get your five-year sentence.
Now there's more.
But wait, there's more.
All right, Allison, thanks for that report.
Let's follow that great report up with another great one, Allison.
East Tennessee has been the scene of several deadly shootings that involved gunmen with a history of mental illness.
In December of 2007, a man killed an employee at a West Knoxville Hooters.
Officers later shot and killed that suspect, David Rudd.
His family said he had spent years in and out of mental hospitals and jails, and they feared his life would end violently.
And it was just over a year ago...
So this is the historical, right?
You've got to pull it all together because there's a trail, there's a history of crazy people shooting people.
And just one year ago, oh my gosh.
Oh, you may know someone like this.
That police aid teacher, Mark Foster, shot two administrators at Inskip Elementary School.
Foster has a 22-year history with mental illness.
A school investigation found his mother had raised concerns about him in a letter.
Just a couple of months after that shooting, Abdu Itza opened fire at Park West Medical Center, killing one person and injuring two more before killing himself.
People who knew him said he was unpredictable and thought the government had planted a microchip inside his head.
A local mental...
We all know a guy like that.
This is the tinfoil hat crowd.
You're talking to one of them.
Yeah, exactly.
So I fear for my life now.
I'm going to have to get a special report on you.
I could just see my neighbors.
He was a really nice guy.
He seemed really typical, but it was the mumbling.
And there was the head shaking and all that talk about the government and guns.
No, we're happy he's getting his meds now.
And you'll see me with a jacket on, with a straight jacket.
Yeah, that's how the show's going to end.
Ha ha ha!
What will you do?
I don't know.
It's not going to be easy to carry on.
I'll just play music.
But it's all about the mental illness and putting together laws and tools so we can dope people up and lock them up.
So Mimi came up with an interesting no-agenda thought, which relates to this.
And as soon as she said it, I said, obviously.
Talking about locking people up and all this other sort of thing, if you remember, I went through over this cuckoo's nest and Ken Kesey.
Well, Ken Kesey and a lot of other people were always paranoid about getting locked up for no apparent reason or because they were a little nutty.
So they all moved to Oregon because Oregon has the most liberal laws.
It's almost impossible to get somebody locked up.
Oregon is not only a state where you have, even though there's some evidence this is changing, but for the most part it's not.
You can't just lock people up.
Oregon's kind of a bunch of, as she put it, a bunch of old hippies.
In fact, I know a couple of them that have moved up there, and they essentially would be defined as old, unreconstructed hippies living in Oregon.
And they are pushing back against the FBI opening more offices.
They're pushing back against the TSA doing this and that.
Now they're pushing back, pushing back, pushing back.
So does anybody think maybe, you know, setting up the Christmas bomber in Oregon, of all places?
Very good point.
May have something to do with it.
And also, there was an intel engineer in Oregon that went to take al-Qaeda training after September 11th.
There's a lot of pushing back against Oregon by the government because they want to get Oregon on board, refuses to do anything.
Ah.
Oh, makes so much sense.
Of course, Oregon.
So I am predicting, I'm putting on a prediction list that Oregon will be a continuous target of the government.
In other words, more nut balls will be showing up in Oregon, supposedly.
You know, like the Christmas bomber.
She also pointed out the meme that, if you haven't noticed, Christmas is being used to associate with terrorism.
You had the crotch bomber was on Christmas.
This last Christmas was the Christmas tree bomber in Oregon.
And the shoe bomber was over a Christmas situation.
So Christmas seems to be an associated thing.
While I was discussing this with her, I forgot to mention on the show that Montana, another one of these states out west that feels that they should do things their own way, It's been passing laws left and right.
It's getting no coverage whatsoever by the mainstream media, but they're passing a number of laws which are designed to turn the federal, Trump's, the state idea on its head.
By making it so that the local county has more authority than the state government, and the state government has more authority than the federal government, they're actually passing laws along these lines to try to, I guess, to get a Supreme Court case on nullification and Tenth Amendment specifically in play.
I think we're going to see some Al-Qaeda terrorism pop up there in Montana.
What do you think, John?
I would guess so.
Okay.
Well, if that happens...
Wow.
Then I think that's almost inconclusive proof.
Well, I think we don't even need the proof, but the Oregon thing is something worth watching because that seems to be like the high-profile area.
I guess it has a lot to do with the fact that Oregon is just telling the feds to get lost.
So, just a couple of things.
There's actually a thread that you and I are both on, and it popped up.
I thought it was interesting.
The above top secret website, which of course I read all the time.
Where Mr.
Lochner, the alleged assailant, appears to have posted more than 100 messages in July 2010.
Couldn't actually find those.
One member worried whether a series of posts could have pushed Mr.
Lochner over the edge and if they shouldn't have reported him.
It's like, if you're going to be on AboveTopSecret.com and you're going to report everyone who says something wacky there, you'll be doing a lot of work.
But the feds are now investigating the site.
So I can't go on there anymore.
I can't be watching that site.
I can't be reading that.
They track me and like, oh, yeah.
Well, you know.
More evidence against you.
He had the Tourette's and he was reading above Top Secret and he was talking about chips.
Yeah.
I mean, if they could take our show, we've got years of material.
Yeah, there's 270 times at least an average of like an hour, yeah.
Well, probably closer, because if we run over all the time, I'd say probably the average is two hours.
Whatever the case is, we have like, you know, 500 hours worth of material that they could go, with a fine-tooth comb, they could pull out enough stuff about you, probably me too, to prove we're crazy.
And let's not forget the pictures I have in my red G-string.
Yeah, that would do it.
Thank you, darling.
Thank you, darling.
That's two.
Hey, you know what, John?
The whole darling thing you were counting?
Yeah.
Paid off.
Well, I figured you were up to something.
Pay it off.
Big time.
It paid off for you, but it didn't pay off on donations.
Well, now it's my fault because I say darling too much?
Please.
I find it as offensive as the woman from Nebraska.
Please.
Hey, the Hollywood Whackers just got an interesting twist.
As you know, Veronica...
Cohen Chasen, former Russian publicist, was murdered in cold blood in a very obvious hit, and no one's talking about it anymore, of course.
But she was a publicist, and there was an interesting headline that caught my eye just yesterday.
You know we have the Golden Globes on tonight in Hollywood, John.
And Michael Russell...
I think the guy actually was part of the founding of the Golden Globes, the television program, as its publicist, filed a multi-million dollar lawsuit against the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
These are the guys that actually run the show.
of payola.
Because he had...
They...
He was going to...
Payola in a sketchy awards show...
Hold on a second.
I have to get my pen.
Yeah, duh.
But it's fun to see it in court.
He said, look, I'm not going to represent the show anymore if you guys don't stop taking bribes for nominations.
And, of course, everyone's going crazy about this.
But there is so much.
You have to understand, if you win the Golden Globe, then you're on track to win the Oscar.
And winning this stuff means something.
It is money in the bank.
Yeah, no, whatever the bribe is, it's peanuts compared to the results.
Money in the bank.
So, of course, he'd have to win his case, but I don't think a guy who has been...
What would he win if he wins his case?
Two million dollars.
Oh.
And he'd probably win something else.
And I think this guy should watch himself.
Yeah, I would think.
And it's the Foreign Hollywood Press Association.
Note the word foreign, as in Russia.
Well, the foreign press, you know, it's just like, the awards are pretty funny because once you create this kind of foreign press and it's like a clubby thing, you can pretty much give the awards to anybody you want to.
Right, but it's all very connected.
I mean, we don't get the DVDs for voting for the SAG Awards, which is like the industry thing.
Oh, you're getting the DVDs now?
Yeah.
Well, I'm not.
Mickey is.
Yeah, well, you can still have them.
Yeah, so you get the DVDs, and it's intended to entice you to vote, you know, to watch the movie so you can say, oh, it's a good movie, I'll vote for it.
Because everyone knows the social network is going to get it.
It's going to get all the awards, undeservedly so.
And deserve it.
That King's Speech I told you about, you've got to see that.
Everybody's telling me the same thing.
The King's Speech is the greatest movie from last year, and it should win all the awards.
It's really, really good.
It's really good.
In the morning, Mr.
Curry, I'm a regular listener of No Agenda Daily Source Code.
I'd like to give my thanks to you and Mr.
Dvorak for all you do, enlightening us ignorant slaves in the world.
That said, I'd like to bring a few things I've observed to your attention.
You may or may not realize my background is that of a U.S. Marine loyal to this nation's principles.
I joined believing in our Corps' value of honor, courage, and commitment.
I love being a Marine and have served honorably in Iraq and will again soon in Afghanistan.
I'm in the reserves now.
Things are changing.
Over the last few years, our training center has been upgraded with new weapons, equipment, fortifications, and security.
Our commandant has implemented a policy changing the reserves into an operational reserve, readying us to be effective across the globe and within the continental United States, which is against our Constitution, John.
The Marines have always been asked to be a force in readiness with direct control given to the President, outside of congressional control, but now with the buildup of our reserve forces and changes in policy, this mission is becoming troubling.
Not long ago, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley called for martial law in Illinois, and the military is now prepared to answer that call.
My fellow service members are bound to not speak ill of the President or this country, and as a Marine, I am sworn to only obey all just lawful orders, but I'm from the old Corps, and how many young service members might follow a leader of orders that might infringe upon our own people's rights?
And here it comes.
I had not heard this directly from the horse's mouth, and I have it now.
A survey put out in Marine Base 29, Palms, California, asked in one question, quote, If you received an order to remove firearms from the American public and you refused, would you take it by force?
That's what they're asking our military.
And the person refused to give you the gun.
You read it as though you read it funny.
I think you missed a word.
Were you there?
It says, if you received an order to remove firearms from the American public and...
Oh, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
You're right.
I did read it wrong.
And they refused.
Would you take it by force?
That's a pretty messed up question.
I'd heard this.
Someone else told me that their brother had received this question and I didn't mention it on the show because I thought it was so egregious and it wasn't direct and now I'm getting this directly and I've verified this pair of boots on the ground is for real.
I find that disconcerting.
And the results of the poll?
Don't know.
Unpublished, of course.
Well, somebody's got to get us the results of that poll.
It'll be interesting to see, because the way we're educating the kids today, we're not giving them any constitutional information.
They don't know where, you know, the founding of this country is a mystery.
They don't read, you know, Jefferson, or they don't even know who Abraham Lincoln is in some regards.
He's the guy on the money.
And I remember, you know, even one of my kids, I won't say who.
Thank you, love.
I asked one time, I think he was...
You're not going to say who?
It's a he.
That rules out a couple there.
I think he was in the, I don't know, fourth grade.
Well, that rules out the other one.
No, they've both been in the fourth grade.
No, but I don't think...
Anyway, it doesn't matter.
You won't guess who it is.
But anyway, whatever the case was, I said, just out of the blue, because they had some bonehead teachers, who freed the slaves...
You know, who was generally considered responsible for freeing the slaves?
Right.
And his answer was Harriet Tubman.
What?
Harriet Tubman?
No, I take it back.
I take it back.
His answer was Martin Luther King.
On TV a few days later, some woman on the street answered the same question with Harriet Tubman.
And who was Harriet Tubman?
Well, Harriet Tubman is a woman who was an abolitionist who was very well regarded during the pre-Civil War era.
And I don't know, you can look her up.
She's in Wikipedia.
She's responsible for a lot of the thinking.
Huh.
That went into the abolitionist movement.
It was clear that Abraham Lincoln would have been the right answer.
I mean, if we're going to have a common thread of history that everyone kind of agrees to, I mean, you could probably make the argument for a million different...
I mean, you could say Martin Luther King freed the slaves because they were free at last only then.
I mean, you could get into the philosophies of it all and have a good time.
I don't think a fourth grader was doing that, to be honest about it.
But the point of the matter is nobody's getting an American education in such a way that a Marine that comes out of the educational system would know that he can't take guns away from American citizens.
He shouldn't even be on the streets in the United States.
And so here's my standard answer, and then we should move on to something else.
Yeah, it's boring.
But my standard answer is, you know, the guns, and the frog guy was talking about that the whole time, about, you know, the pioneering spirit and the wild west.
We have guns so that our government is afraid of us.
If I can just paraphrase the Second Amendment, isn't that kind of the deal?
So we've got guns, so if our government gets nuts, we've got the guns.
Yeah, whether it's local or state or federal.
In fact, the matter is, let's go back to the story.
I don't want to keep telling it.
I'm not going to tell it again, but I'll re-mention it, which is Cassius Clay with his cannon out in front of his house because the local authorities are trying to arrest him because he was an abolitionist.
So the whole point is, it is to protect the human resources or the slaves because no one was really freed.
The black slaves were freed.
And then we just came around and we're all slaves again.
We have guns in this country, and that's why we haven't been completely overridden like Europe, where you can't do anything.
Yeah, that really takes a lot of gall for some guy coming over from Europe.
French guy.
And he talks about the democracy of America.
Excuse me, republic, dude.
Republic, republic, republic.
I may not know who Harriet Tubman is, but I know we're a public.
I got a real funny one.
This is straight from the Ministry of Truth.
This is awesome.
The GAO. Is it the GAO? Yeah, the General Accountability Office, who I think...
Accounting.
Isn't it accountability?
No, it's accounting.
I think it's accountability.
No, I think it's accounting.
Okay, I think it doesn't matter.
Well, I think we can look it up.
Yeah, why don't you wiki that?
They actually publish a lot of very interesting reports which are largely, I think, ignored.
It is accountability.
Thank you.
The General Accountability Office...
They publish a lot of interesting information that goes nowhere, and I think they're independent of government somehow.
They've got a.gov, their investigative arm of Congress.
Right, so they're supposed to investigate stuff.
But it all kind of goes, you know, it's like, oh, they've got a whole report, then they make recommendations.
We've read it a couple of their reports, and it's just like, eh, whatever, GAO. It doesn't even sound good, GAO. It sounds like an NGO. We don't know what that is.
No one cares about it.
All right, all right.
All right.
Good.
So they did a sting operation.
When the FDA, the Food and Drug Administration, they did a sting operation.
Wow.
Two, actually.
So here's how the FDA, the Food and Drug Administration, works.
When someone wants to submit either a drug or something for testing, you have to run it through the FDA. And the FDA then eventually, you know, you get FDA approval for stuff.
So the FDA, of course, they outsource this to for-profit companies.
And these are called institutional review boards, or IRBs.
And they are the ones that are supposed to go and check and see, you know, they're supposed to do the research.
Make sure the science is in on this stuff.
So you can understand the potential conflicts right there.
I don't have to explain that to anybody.
So they set up a sting operation to see if they could get a human trial approved On a product, and they came up with a product called, it gets really funny, adhesioblock, which was described as a gel that would be poured into a patient's stomach after surgery to collect the bits and pieces left over from the operation.
And the instructions, so they put in for a human trial on this.
And in the instructions, you have to pour a liter of this gel into the wound, and then basically it's like the gel hardens, and then you can pull out the scalpels left in there by...
And it's made by this company.
They made this up.
The company called Device Med Systems.
The company's headquarters listed as a post office box in a shopping mall.
The doctor leading the development, Jonathan Q. Kruger.
But then they had a couple other really good names in here.
Here we go.
They had the principals April, P-H-U-L-S. As in fools.
Timothy Whitless.
Alan Roos.
Company's location.
I like Roos.
Yeah, Roos.
Cheatsville, Arizona.
The application?
Approved.
And they've done this twice now.
Well, that's funny.
Yeah, so...
I'm looking at the picture of the guy who runs the GAO, which is this guy, Eugene Louis Dodaro, who must have a great sense of humor.
I think it's very funny that they put Cheatsville, Arizona.
Cheatsville.
The whole idea of this stuff, you pour the gel into the wound to pull out the scalpels when it hardens.
I mean, please.
And so it was approved.
So, I think it's very cool that the GAO does this kind of stuff, and of course...
And nobody pays any attention.
No attention whatsoever.
No one will give a crap about it.
But enjoy your meds.
They're groovy.
Huh.
So I want to do a new show.
I'm sorry.
Yes?
I'm sorry.
Go ahead.
No, I was going to switch us to donations, but you had something.
I've got one more thing I want to discuss.
Yeah, sure.
And I'll leave it right to donations.
Okay.
You're looking at these paltry donations we have this week.
I want to start another initiative, and I think this would be a good time to do it.
One of the things I noticed, you know, when it comes to the situation that happened in Arizona, the Tucson thing, I realized there's one word, and then I realized that there's a lot of these words that are used by the media, and I want to make a collection of them, which are kind of, you know, I'll be calling it the No Agenda Glossary Project.
But this particular, this is not a word, but two words.
Excuse me.
These two words have never shown up.
They show up in a lot of stories, and it could have shown up, it seems to me, with this story, but it didn't.
Somebody decided that this was not going to be in the story, and that is the two words or the phrase, isolated incident.
Right.
Now, by all definitions, this situation in Arizona, if we look at the history of the entire country going back to the 1700s, this...
Really is a textbook definition of isolated incident.
Except for Abraham Lincoln, who was also shot in the head from behind.
That was a pretty isolated incident.
When we're taking a look at the timeline here, it's pretty rare.
Oh my God, don't tell me.
You're also looking at the timeline.
Everyone's looking at the timeline on television.
We've got the timeline.
What are you, on the talking points list there, on the email blast?
I'm just saying that there's a bunch of these little phrases, like isolated incident, that are chosen selectively.
To slant stories.
In this case, it's removed selectively.
It was omitted selectively.
You have to tell me, you can't say that this cannot qualify as an isolated incident.
It's not as though congressmen are having guns shot at him every two minutes.
Well, it clearly isn't because we have crazy people shooting people.
Crazy people with guns is no longer an isolated incident.
Everyone knows someone in their family who could potentially be doing that.
Yeah, well, that's the point.
If they would have used the word isolated incident and you would have pushed the story down to page two, this whole thing would have blown over by now.
You wouldn't have anything going on.
We wouldn't be talking about it and we wouldn't have this two weeks minimum of coverage of this isolated incident.
And our Guns Across America telethon, which is coming up.
So anyway, the point is I want to make a collection of these little words and phrases and put together a little glossary that people can use or just flip through and just almost like that bingo game where you just throw the word in.
If you use the word isolated incident in these stories, would we still be talking about it?
I don't think so.
That's the point.
So I want people to start looking at news stories, looking for these kinds of phrases and whether they're there or whether they're missing.
Right.
Anyway, it's a new project.
I want to thank Dan Bogro.
For re-subscribing to his PayPal $5 a month.
He's been a subscriber for a year, so that's $60, and we appreciate that.
And he says they just disconnected his subscription, and don't worry, I've re-subscribed.
That kind of sucks.
And I want to give him a little bit of karma for his...
He's got some bad shit going on there.
You've got karma.
I sent a note to a couple of these guys, and I think everyone should do this.
If you get disconnected from your subscription and you really haven't done anything weird or different, would you please contact PayPal and grill them as to why this happened?
Exactly.
Well, you know, as to why, you know that Tim Geithner is now the guy who determines if a financial institution can do business with you or not?
What?
Yeah, there's a whole article that I won't belabor it, but it's in the show notes, noagendashow.com.
Timothy Geithner, the Secretary of the Treasury, is the guy in charge of determining who a bank can or cannot do business with.
So in the case of WikiLeaks, he determines that.
If you look at all the law and you follow it back, and he has indeed been asked, he's the guy that determines whether a bank can do business with no agenda.
Or where the PayPal could do business with no agenda.
Really?
Yep.
Yep.
When did that happen?
Well, do you really want me to look it up?
No, I mean, is this something new?
When did you find out about it?
Well, it's funny because I just got it in the email.
Hold on a second.
I'll look it up for you here.
Well, we can deal with it later.
Anyway, I just thought it was interesting.
I think part of it is because...
No, it is odd, but he's in charge.
I mean, he's in charge of the money.
This is the whole point.
Hi, gents.
I've called out my friend Sean Patchurek as a douchebag on the show a while ago, but he has not budged, even though he's been listening since around episode 20.
His birthday was on 1-1-1-1, and he turned 33.
No kidding.
I told him he better donate.
He didn't.
My wife and I were planning on going out to dinner with his wife and him.
In a twist of karma, it snowed five inches in three hours.
We could not make it to the restaurant.
I later asked him, you know why it snowed?
He replied, yeah.
Because I didn't donate.
Yeah.
Exactly.
Well, that's probably true.
Exactly.
Brian Morris.
So you want to...
Thank a few people.
I want to thank Michael Grudem from Ocala, Florida, for $116.11, which is an interesting number, to say the least.
Hey, guys, just wanted to donate.
This has been a while, and guilt's been eating me away.
Oh, no, that's bad.
Please call out my one-time boss, Robert Branch, as a douche...
Douchebag!
Although he did turn me on to the show, he has never donated.
Don't you hate that?
He was a pretty crappy boss.
You guys make my commute very entertaining, and all the hookers I give rides to really enjoy the show.
No, does it really say that?
Yeah.
Oh, so wait a minute.
So he's playing the show while he's giving the hookers rides?
Yeah.
But he's got give rides to in quotes, which I'm not going to get into.
Yeah.
So we don't know quite what that means.
Do you think he's a trucker?
I don't know.
He might be.
I mean, it sounds like a trucker.
I mean, he's out in the middle and it's the kind of place where a trucker would live.
If you're a hooker and you listen to this show, let us know that we'll make you an honorary hooker.
We love hookers.
Honorary hooker.
Anastasia Perove in Toronto, Ontario, $100.
Patrick Griffin, first-time donor in Warren, Michigan.
My media assassination coin, 101010, has been added to my pile of prized possessions.
I'm sending you 6.666 times 2X, which is 33.33 times 2, because I value the value for value for value philosophy.
Another donation of 51.50 from Alamo, California.
Podcast for peace.
Long story short, thanks to Christina and her ticket.
That's Christina who got her bail, $189.
Oh, right, right.
Meanwhile, his son missed a court date.
You guys have to get a calendar.
Read the story.
It looks interesting.
I ran out to the courthouse because he realized it was missing a court date.
The clerk granted an extension for 30 days.
My son's 18.
We'll pay his fine if he can't get community service.
A day later would have been too late.
There would have been a warrant issued for his arrest and a fine increase.
Since you saved me hundreds of dollars, I'm donating again.
Thank you.
I've also been hanging out at noagendachat.net and OSDCS. That's the open source daily source code.
Played podcast for peace.
I will pledge a donation every week.
You play a new episode on the stream.
Our production team is committed to 1,000 weekly episodes.
We are number 270 this week, just like us.
Yeah, the cool thing with the open source radio project we're doing is that anyone can basically put a show together.
It's getting pretty cool.
The whole noagendastream.com is something interesting.
I got radio guys...
Who are saying, hey, can I do something on that stream?
I'm like, no.
It's not for mainstream douchebags.
No.
I've got serious radio guys who think it's so cool they want to do something on the stream.
I'm like, no.
Well, can't they do something that's a little off, you know, different?
No.
If they quit their job.
You can't be mainstream and open source at the same time.
It doesn't work.
Come on, John.
I mean, you're the one that manages the stream, so it's up to you.
Chris Slowinski, Jason Burke, and Jason Dozier, respectively, from Sherwood Park, Alberta, Richmond, Texas, and Kansas City all gave $50.
And that's all we got this week.
Whoa.
Okay.
Yeah, I see what you mean by it being low.
Except for a few.
You know, we have some, 33, and some other people that came in.
Somebody's donating on the side to your bail bonds.
Yeah.
I have an idea that might help with donations.
It's working very well for this outfit, what are they called?
Oh yeah, the Vatican.
They seem to know a thing or two about donations.
So I don't know if the news was kind of, it didn't really hit big here for some reason, but Pope John Paul II moved one step closer to sainthood on Friday.
Yeah.
When his successor approved a decree attributing a miracle to him.
Because apparently you only need two miracles and then you become a saint.
So he's halfway there.
And so what apparently happened is...
And this is the dead guy.
The late Pope John Paul II. Yeah, the guy was in office for so long.
I mean, he should have been able to accomplish something, you'd think.
So he cured a woman of Parkinson's disease.
And the science is in.
As the current Pope said, hey, he cured that woman.
He's one step closer to a saint.
So I think we could give out sainthoods.
If you can have someone attest to the fact that you've performed a miracle, and you can do two of them, then you get a sainthood.
I mean, these guys are on the same program we are.
There's nothing different between what the Vatican is doing and we are, except, oh yeah, the crazy religion part.
No, we need to work on the sainthood idea.
It's good, though, right?
We haven't got to the baronies yet.
I mean, I still think these...
Well, I'm in charge of the stream.
You're in charge of that.
Where are you?
Well, the baronies, you know, I mean, we've only got one baron so far, but we haven't really put together a program and then advertised it.
What are the things...
Well, I'll take...
You know, even though all the darlings and the shows have fallen apart last time...
Oh, please.
I'm not going to blame you.
I'm blaming myself...
Because I don't think that I picked...
For one thing, we could have done a little more on the 1111.11.
Well, it didn't fall on a show day, which was part of the problem.
It was a problem.
And then there's also another...
We have another tip sheet, another talking points memo that has not gone out.
We need to sit down and figure out what it is.
We...
Well, you do that.
Well, you have to always approve the thing.
Here's how the approval process works.
I get an email that says, have a look at this, I'm sending it out today.
That's the approval process.
And somehow I get that voice into the email.
I don't know how I manage it, but...
You didn't send back the approval on the last...
I did, too.
I certainly did.
No, on the one that I just did.
Which...
I didn't receive it.
I know.
You haven't sent it.
If you send it, I can approve it.
You didn't send anything.
So I want the people to go to noagendashow.com, dvorak.org, slash, N-A. You should be able to remember that, and channeldvorak.com, slash, N-A. And give us a little more...
Be a little more aggressive and help support the show a little bit, because this last episode...
That's bad.
Pretty mediocre.
And then, of course, people complain when we complain, which is annoying, to say the least.
People, they should be giving us suggestions for good stories.
I don't like the rollercoaster thing, though.
I mean, I would rather just be kind of like we have...
Yeah, no, that bothers me.
And what bothered me, I knew this was going to happen, and the thing that I was worried about...
Because I did all those checks that came in.
That's about a month's worth of checks I read.
So that is kind of your fault.
I mean, I'm not blaming you because, you know, whatever.
No, you can blame me.
It's my fault.
No, no, no.
It's okay.
Neither of us is to blame.
It just is.
But because you did all the checks, it looked like we got a huge amount and everyone was like, oh, they don't need any money.
And then we wind up with, you know, like a couple hundred bucks.
Old money.
Yeah.
Except for Michael Miller.
Which does not the bills pay us.
Michael Miller's our savior.
So Mickey went out to, I will say this, Mickey went out with a girlfriend, actor, producer, friend of hers, and there were a couple people there, and this one guy, I don't know his name, maybe she told me, I don't know.
He was a fan of the show.
The listenership has increased, but we have 1%ers here.
1% of the audience supports the show with financial donations.
The guy says, is it really true that you guys live off the...
The donations of the show?
And she says, well, Mickey has to work and other stuff in order to make it work.
She says, yeah, in general, that does pay the rent.
And Mickey says something really beautiful.
She said, but every morning I wake up and I feel supported.
And I have to agree, I wake up, I feel supported by people.
And it's very different than getting a salary check.
You know, it's a very different feeling.
I wake up and I feel supported by a lot of people.
I look at the chat room, I feel supported.
Maybe it's just me.
No, I think it's definitely different.
It motivates me to know just beyond...
It's like the value...
It is true.
Value for value for value.
I get the value I get from not just the financial support we receive, but the fact that people are thinking of us that way.
Wow, man.
It's uplifting.
It really is.
Now, that said, I'm moving to Montana because I can't afford to live here anymore.
Or Oregon.
I think Montana would be more fun.
Well, Oregon's got better food.
But, you know, Letterman lives in Montana.
I mean, a lot of people live in Montana.
They go there.
This is big sky country.
I don't know.
You know, unless you've been to Montana, you don't really know what big sky means.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, big sky is fun.
I have seen it.
I've been to Montana.
Yeah, it's big sky.
And what it is, it's an optical illusion.
Because the clouds, I don't know, you know, you go to Montana and look at the sky, it's like, holy crap, this thing is huge.
But it's no bigger than the sky I've got here.
Yeah, it is!
It's bigger!
It's bigger!
It just looks bigger.
I don't know what they, you know, it's just something about the way the clouds form or who knows, but it's big sky country.
Now, for those of you not moving to Montana or Oregon where there's better food, have no fear, because in case you didn't hear about it, the science is in!
European scientists have, thank God, we're so lucky, John, found a way to genetically modify chickens so they won't transmit bird flu.
Yeah.
This is great.
Boy, that's good news.
This is good news.
So enjoy your tasty Monsanto chicken, which pretty soon everybody will have because we can't risk bird flu.
We have to have genetically modified chickens, which brings me to food.
I have seven different food links.
I got a food story, too.
Alright, so I'll just give you a couple of highlights here.
The World Bank, World Trade Organization, and other multilateral organizations are pushing for more production and more trade liberalization.
Their approach is exactly how Africa became unable to feed itself after previous food security.
Under the guise of investing in agriculture, huge amounts of money are being offered to debt-ridden countries in exchange for long-term leases to their food lands.
Farm lands now more valuable than anything else.
And I think the Tunisia ousting of their leader had partially something to do with food.
And there are more riots every day that you're not going to hear about because it's not good.
Yeah, we're going to have a...
There's something going up about the food thing.
Global food chain stretched to the limit, says MSNBC. Signs of the strain can be found from Australia to Argentina to Canada to Russia.
This is all part of population control.
Well, ultimately, yes.
Oh, here it is.
We are entering a danger territory, said Abdul Reza Abassian, chief economist at the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, that's the FAO. The United Nations fears that the latest run-up in food prices could spark a repeat of the deadly food riots that broke out in 2008 in Haiti, Kenya, and Somalia.
If this guy's name was pronounceable, maybe someone would quote him.
So yeah, and of course food prices in these most nation states are also increasing, but no one talks about it.
What's your food thing you got?
I just want to tell people out there who are always looking for food ideas and tips, and when we talk about the better oils and the ones that are generally sold, which are hexane extracted, it turns out there's a really good article, you can look it up, in the East Bay Express, probably the...
The website is ebx.hy.pr slash hexane.
Apparently, most of these health bars that are out there, they have this new scam that says, made with organic ingredients instead of being organic, which has actually some legal implications.
Right.
And so what they do is they use these hexane-extracted soy products, and then they put it in the bar, and of course you can end up with hexane, which is something of a carcinogen in your system.
I always tell people that unless you're using olive oil or some of these things you know are expeller-pressed, to get hexane out of the oil, which is what most oil has got trace amounts, if you cook with it, in other words, heat it up, the hexane will blow off.
But it turns out that the Cliffs bar, the Builders bar, the The Mojo Bar, the Luna Bar, the Balance Bar, the Odwalla Protein Bars, and the Whole Foods Super Greens Bars are all part of this kind of scam made with organic products, but they're not approved by these groups that are investigating the health food bar scandal.
In about one minute...
When Mickey actually receives this part of the stream on her iPhone, she's going to walk over to the pantry and look and see if her health food bars from Whole Foods are one of the ones you just mentioned.
The only good bars are Bumble Bars, Lara Bars, Soy Joy Bars.
Hey, I got some Soy Joy for you right here, baby.
Come on over.
And Nature's Path Optimum Bars and 12 others.
There's a report floating around that tells you which bars are healthy and which ones aren't for people who are...
Hey, send me that link.
I want to put that in the show notes so people can look at their bars.
Because a lot of people eat these things thinking they're healthy and that they're organic and good for them.
Yeah, and they're not necessarily.
I mean, I'm not that freaked about it, but I can see where people can get concerned.
I mean, if you're going to go on that path, you've got to stick to it.
Other news is kind of interesting, which is not being played up at all.
Wait a minute, she has Macro Greens?
Was that on your list?
Not on either list.
It might be on the bigger list that they have.
Macro Life's Naturals.
Does it say organic or made with organic products?
Let me see.
It says no sugar added.
Great school snack.
Best tasting, 100% natural, cold processed, health building and raw.
No wheat, gluten, preservatives, soy, corn, artificial colors, flavors, GMOs.
Oh, it's made with pure love.
And what's this one?
It says made with pure love.
You open it up, there's nothing in there.
It's air.
Pro Max, was that one of them?
Pro Max, lemon bar?
Baby, what are you eating?
This is not food.
This is like sawdust.
What is this stuff?
Oh my gosh.
I think we've stumbled onto something.
Yeah, so Promax is not on your list?
It's not on either list.
Mm-hmm.
It's all non-GMO, soy protein isolate, soy protein nuggets.
Soy protein isolates are usually not healthy.
Oh, can we hear that?
Soy protein isolates are usually not healthy.
However, I have some soy protein nuggets for you.
But I... So we're on this.
One of the Gitmo Nation East top agricultural scientists put up a trial balloon, John.
You know how vaccines are slowly...
They've got the smoking vaccine and the cocaine vaccine, which of course have nothing to do with vaccines whatsoever.
The policy director of the Soil Association is very angry that...
The genetically modified crop dudes are now trying to rebrand GM crops as vaccinated or inoculated.
You with me?
Yeah.
So be on the lookout for that.
Just like high fructose corn syrup has become corn sugar, Now we will see genetically modified goods and crops being branded as vaccinated or inoculated for your convenience.
This is very dangerous.
Words matter big time here.
They're just trying to kill us.
It's all part of the...
Yeah, well that works, right?
Kill us off.
Wouldn't it be possible just to...
Can we not turn it back?
Have we gotten so far with the 7 billion people on Earth, whatever, is it now so far that we have to have all this bullcrap stuff that is called food?
Can't we just go back to kind of the way it was?
The way it was with famines every so often and a big war?
I guess you're answering my question.
Yeah, we can.
And we're going to.
And I think that we're leading up to one.
The little wars that we're doing are just a prelude.
There's a couple of war situations that are evolving that the media is, especially one, the media is ignoring completely.
You mean the German troops in France?
Well, no, the German.
I'm talking about what's going on with Belarus right now.
This isn't being covered at all.
It's an oil battle between Russia and Belarus.
There's going to be some action.
The Europeans and the people in Belarus.
Belarus has oil.
And the Russians won't let the oil out of Belarus without taxing it at 100% of its cost.
Right.
So the Belarusians are getting a little irked by this, and so there's all kinds of different weird activities taking place in Belarus that was not being covered at all.
If you read the news stories, they're all different, and they're all handling different things in different ways.
But that won't kill enough people.
No, it won't.
But we've got a million that we can kill off real easy over in North Korea.
Yeah, that's true.
That'd be easy.
Hold on, I'm counting.
So we've got a million in North Korea.
How many in Belarus?
I don't know.
We need to kill off like two billion, though.
No, we have to kill off a billion somehow, but it helps.
Just one or two?
I mean, seriously, what do we have to kill off so we don't have to eat sodas?
Well, we have to kill off a billion.
Only a billion?
Doesn't seem like enough.
Okay, well, the people that are crazy about population control, they believe that the Earth's population should be 600 million.
No, no.
Yeah, yeah.
500.
Oh, sorry.
500 million.
Right.
And that would be enough slaves to do all the dirty work.
Yeah, you'd have enough slaves and you'd get to keep all your stuff.
That's the Georgia Guidestones.
You know those crazy stones?
You ever heard of those?
Yeah, the ones, and they have the 500 million on them.
Right, right, right, right.
No one talks about those, but those are kind of funky.
Yeah, I know.
No one knows what there are.
I mean, it's like mysterious.
Yeah, they're Guidestones.
This is the stuff you should follow if you want to live.
That's what the Guidestones are.
I mean, no one knows what they are.
No one knows who put them there.
Yeah, that's what I mean.
That's not what you said.
It's okay.
It's alright.
It doesn't matter.
It's just cool.
Whatever they are, who knows.
Why don't you explain to people what these things are?
There's some crazy stones, like big boulder.
It's like a big boulder, isn't there?
One or two?
I haven't looked at it in a long time.
I haven't looked at it.
It's like the Ten Commandments.
And it says, you know, kill everybody.
So we've got 500,000 people.
500 million.
500 million.
I'll Google it right now.
You know, it's one of those things that you look at as a crackpot, and then you're kind of like, you know.
You're not that much of a crackpot.
It's kind of like our Stonehenge, in a way, only it's not this big.
A large granite monument in Georgia, in Elbert County.
And it has, in eight modern languages, the following ten commandments.
I'll call them commandments.
One, maintain humanity under 500 million in perpetual balance with nature.
Two, guide reproduction wisely, improving fitness and diversity.
Hey!
Unite humanity with a living new language.
Spanish.
Rule passion, faith, tradition, and all things with tempered reason.
Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts.
Let all nations rule internally, resolving external disputes in a world court.
That's a biggie.
This is New World Order stuff, is what it is.
Avoid petty laws and useless officials.
That's a good one.
Balance personal rights with social duties.
Prize truth, beauty, love, seeking harmony with the infinite.
And be not a cancer on the earth.
Leave room for nature.
Leave room for nature.
And these are the ten guiding principles listed on the Georgia Guidestones.
I thought there was one more at the bottom.
I only have ten.
Oh, I thought it said what last one was eat more chicken.
Yeah, it said, by the way, Hot Pockets are good for you.
Especially in the microwave.
They are awesome.
No one knows where they came from.
They just appeared overnight, apparently.
Interesting to look into it.
I'll put a link in the show notes.
I think they should be destroyed.
I'm not thinking it's a very good thing, because you say we can get by with just killing off a billion people.
We can get by the way we are.
Yeah, but it's just we have to eat poop.
We don't have to eat poop.
The fact of the matter is we're doing just fine.
I don't see what the panic is.
People are not eating very well.
Well, they're not eating very well in North Korea.
So play the clip I have.
This is the war.
We're building up to a war with North Korea.
I mean, they keep bringing this meme.
This is from our NPR national treasure.
And Margaret Warner apparently is floating around Korea.
And she says that the Koreans are ready for an attack.
The North Koreans are going to attack.
Wait, we have someone from NPR in North Korea?
No, she's in Korea.
Oh, okay, but she's not in North Korea.
She might be in North Korea, but I don't think so.
I think she's in Korea.
Because if she's in North Korea, Bill Clinton's going to have to go rescue her.
You can't just walk around in North Korea.
Rescued her a couple of times already.
But anyway, the point is that you listen to this and it's like, what?
Because it's so close and because of the way the North has amassed its forces, remember that the North has the fourth largest army in the world, over a million men, huge, huge network of artillery systems, 13,000 or so, the largest special ops forces, I'm told, in the world, and most of it, 70% of it, in the last couple of decades has been moved Right up against the DMZ. Now, a lot of it's hidden underground, but right up against the DMZ, as I said, so close to where we're standing here.
So the prospect of surprise attack is a very real one.
And that's not to mention the fact...
Hold on, hold on.
How is this a surprise?
We haven't known this?
Over the last 20 years, they've been moving all the troops to the border, so there could be a surprise attack.
Who's going to be surprised?
The fact that the matter is not going to be any attack at all, but continue.
But of course they've got missiles, they've got enough plutonium for, it's believed, six nuclear devices, and authorities here believe potentially thousands of North Korean sleeper agents embedded in South Korean society.
Next week you'll have a series of reports on the NewsHour.
Tell us what you're covering.
Well, Ray, we're going to take a closer look at this military standoff, the North-South tensions, what's behind it, where it's going.
We're really going to spend an entire piece just talking to ordinary South Koreans about how they feel and how their feelings have evolved.
And then for something different, we're going to look at the South Korean education system, which you may know produces students that score in the highest ranks.
So as part of, well, hold on, I'll let her finish.
Internationally, frankly, far ahead of the United States.
And of course, we will be keeping a close eye on South Korea's reaction to the WHO visit to Washington.
So I guess as part of our free trade agreement with South Korea, we promised to send Frontline in to do feature pieces on them from time to time.
Is that the deal?
Oh, yeah.
Is that the deal?
And, you know, make sure that we're aware of the fact that North Korea's got a bunch of...
Troops.
Yeah.
Standing around.
Yeah.
I met a woman from South Korea at LA Photo.
There's a big photo expo that's going on here right now.
And it was kind of cool.
She's like, I'm on North Korea!
I'm not trying to make a mockery of her, but that...
And I said, yeah, yeah, Korea, very interesting.
Kind of interesting, that trade agreement.
She says, yeah, oh, we're burying pigs and cattle alive!
I said, foot and mouth.
Yeah, we never heard of foot and mouth!
I said, no, that's part of the deal.
Didn't she read the fine print?
She said, we get to export beef to you, and you have to bury your cattle.
And she went, what?
What you saying?
She did not get the irony of what I was saying, unfortunately.
No, of course not.
Why would they?
Yeah.
Although there's a lot of protests that go on.
I mean, Korea, if you ever remember, historically, they used to always have these student riots.
Oh, they're very passionate.
Oh, man.
Yeah, and the cops would be with these big shields, and it looked like some sort of a medieval battle.
Yeah.
Yeah, we don't do anything like that in this country.
Yeah.
Hey, um...
So I just need to talk about rain for a second here.
Because, of course, we've got 549 dead in Brazil.
I love those numbers.
So you know that it's not a weather modification thing, that it's not a New World Order-caused storm when they just throw out numbers like that.
No threes in the numbers, nothing.
Yeah, it wasn't 300 or 3,000.
So it's like, okay, whatever.
So it's real.
It's really bad there.
But of course, we still have Australia.
And I'd like to remind people that this is not necessarily, for those of you who believe, this is not biodiversity.
This is not climate change.
This exact thing happened in 1974.
Queensland is built on floodplains.
They've got a dam.
Everyone who lives there knows that no matter how high that you build a dam, it can overflow when it rains.
This is not like something incredibly new.
It's horrible and it sucks.
Definitely.
A floodplain is a floodplain for a reason.
Yeah, I mean, it totally blows for them, and I must say that I think the Aussies are great, the way they're coming together, and it's heartwarming to see how they deal with it, but they know it.
I will say, someone pointed this article out to me, August 8, 2010, the Queensland government Did a deal with the Thai king Bhumipol Ajayij to acquire their rainmaking technology and to put it into effect.
What?
Yeah.
Where'd you get that?
That's a good one.
Yeah, this is...
Thai rainmaking comes to Queensland, August 8, 2010.
Because, you know, they had a big drought in 2009, and so they would have been working on getting the rain...
Because, of course, it exists.
We know it exists.
It's just...
See the clouds.
There's other ways of doing it.
Over here in California, we have some guy who sings a lot and jumps around.
And we've got cloudbusters.
You can do a cloudbuster.
Which you can reverse to make it rain.
The climate and geology of Queensland drought area is very similar to some parts of Thailand, so we're quite sure this technology can be used effectively in Queensland.
So what's the technology?
It's seeding.
It's the technique.
So it largely relies on...
Silver nitrate?
I'm going to tell you.
The technique largely relies on cloud seeding generally undertaken using chemicals that promote the formation of water droplets within the cloud formations.
So I'm just thinking out loud here...
Specifically.
It doesn't say specifically what they're using.
I'm just thinking out loud that maybe someone, you know, overseeded something.
You think?
Shot too much seed in the cloud.
And that might have not been so good.
Apparently.
But what's interesting, this meme is cropping up in Los Angeles, media mecca of the world.
And the meme is this.
If you thought you had to be afraid of the big one, well, your fears may be unwarranted.
There's another big one coming to California.
This is all over the local news.
Have you seen this yet?
No.
So the big one is not going to be a major earthquake.
Oh, no.
It's going to be a major flood where water will be measured in feet instead of inches.
Major flood where?
In California.
Where?
It's being called Arc Storm.
Arc Storm.
I love it.
How many feet up in the air are you?
Why do you think I'm up here?
You might be surprised, says this article from MSNBC, the Ministry of Truth, a group of 117 scientists.
The science is in!
Who work for the USGS, the United States Geological Society, aren't talking about earthquakes.
Instead, are warning us of something that could be more destructive.
The USGS unveiled Friday a new study of what they call an arc storm scenario.
Arc storm.
An arc storm scenario.
Terror, an arc storm scenario.
A megastorm that would measure rain in feet instead of inches.
Here, you can see the weather map.
Here it is.
Where would it play out?
A ten-foot wall of water could flood a swath of the state from the Yosemite Valley to the Pacific Ocean.
By the way, John, a similar storm hit back in 1861 and left the Central Valley of California impassable.
You were there.
What was it like?
It was impassable.
So the science is in.
It's the arc storm.
The arc storm is coming.
Chief arc storm scientist Lucy Jones said their models show one in four homes would experience flood damage.
I'm staying up in the hills, man.
I think it's great up here.
I'm getting me a generator.
Yeah, and that Curry guy, he has Tourette's and a generator.
Okay.
Let's see what we got here.
I knew you'd get into it.
Yeah, there's a movie.
Oh!
There we go.
What's it called?
The Flood.
Ha ha!
You're kidding me!
Well, you don't think this is right?
Awesome!
Awesome!
Well, 2007.
That's an old movie.
No, there's another one up here.
A new one?
Well, it looks like it to me.
No.
There's got to be a...
I guarantee there's a movie being worked on right now.
Let's see.
I don't have the...
What I need is the...
What we should do is have the Hollywood Reporter in front of us at all times.
It should be on IMDb.
It would be...
Well, yeah, you can get the title.
No, IMDb, The Flood.
Let's see.
This is very good, John.
Someone in the chat room will probably find it before we can.
Maybe it's called The Ark.
There could be an arc movie.
There's some movie.
There's got to be, yeah, you know, you're so right.
The minute the science is in, there's always a movie.
Very good, John.
There's got to be in production.
There's probably some movie in production.
It's going to be about a great flood.
No, but it's got to be biblical because they've got the arc flood thing in there.
Maybe it's called the arc flood.
The word arc, it may sound like a biblical movie.
It could be a Noah's Ark film or some grand Cecil B. DeMille style movie.
But I guarantee there's something in production as we speak.
The only one I can see is 2007, but that's already done.
2009 movie too.
Well, maybe they're ahead of the game.
No, no.
It's in production.
It's got to be.
Because otherwise they're just blowing their water.
Free publicity.
I'm looking at the chat room to see if they can find it.
Flood.
Flood.
No.
2012.
The coast is moist.
What is that?
Raiders of the...
That sounds like a porn film.
Raiders of the Ark Flood.
No.
No.
That's not it.
Raiders of the...
By the way, so I finally saw the last Raiders of the Lost Ark movie.
Which for some reason came and went, and it was on TV eventually about the skull, the crystal skull.
This is the worst film ever.
It's horrible.
I know, it's horrible.
It's horrible.
The day after tomorrow, too.
This time it's just rainy.
Ooh, it could be that.
I like the coast is moist.
That still sounds good.
Purple rain.
Okay, chat room.
The Ararat Anomaly.
That's a good one.
That would be about the Noah's Ark.
Mount Ararat, yes.
Hmm, what else could this be?
I totally concur with your...
Okay, we'll just have to isolate the film.
Crystal Skull, Ark Flood?
No, okay.
Okay.
I will say it was pretty wet this year, here in Gitmo Nation West, the People's Republic of Southern California.
The year's not over.
No.
Sometimes February's the wettest month.
Then the other science is in global warming, huh?
This is from Yahoo News, from the Wynn Perry, the live science senior writer.
Even if humans stopped producing excess carbon dioxide in 2100, the lingering effects of global warming could span the next millennia.
The results?
By the year 3000, global warming would be more than a hot topic.
The West Antarctic ice sheet could collapse and global sea levels would rise 13 feet, according to a new study.
And this is a new study that was created using a computer model.
Yeah, those are always right.
Just the same computer model that says it won't, in the year 2000, said it will never snow again.
The children will never see snow.
Only in snow globes will children of England see snow.
Yeah, well, they have better computers now.
So, yeah, this is a very interesting report, and it's being misused everywhere.
People need to understand and evaluate...
The effect of studies.
Because a study comes out, it's turned into news.
All the time.
It happens time and time and time again.
I know.
We should be doing a study ourselves.
Well, maybe that's not a really good talking point.
It doesn't really work.
But we should be doing a study ourselves.
But yeah, it costs so much money to...
You've got to do it right.
That's what Hill and Knowlton does so well.
They understand how to do this stuff.
They rock it.
We're not good enough at that.
Well, most of the big agencies do.
What we needed is somebody on our side in one of the big agencies.
The thing is, you know, it's funny that our show kind of permeates certain parts of society and then when somebody gets a hold of it and then they pass it along to their friends.
But there's still huge groups of people that have never heard of this show.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Well, we have to do something about that.
Stickers.
Where's our stickers?
I got an anonymous note from someone.
An anonymous person.
Yeah.
Who works in the white label ATM industry.
Adam, this is a very big but extremely small industry at the same time.
Please keep me anonymous.
I thought you would like to see the next generation of ATMs coming out.
I've attached a JPEG screenshot.
The machines have three optional readers, barcode, fingerprint, or contactless card reader, i.e.
smart card.
About two years ago, ATMs in Europe and England were upgraded to the EMV standards.
That's the European MasterCard visa to help with prevention of fraud.
Canada is currently forcing all their ATMs to be upgraded to this standard as well.
This is the new one that we're looking at here.
America has been resistant to this upgrade, mainly because America has more small banks and they haven't agreed to adopt the standard yet.
An EMV card has the regular magnetic strip, a chip built into the card.
There are rumors that some of the banks in Canada have sporadically turned off the mag strip on the debit cards, in essence, cutting off one's access to the account.
And indeed, you look at the specs on this thing, barcode fingerprint reader and contactless card reader.
And who makes the software?
Microsoft.
You know, this is just another way to try to get us cashless.
Oh, yeah.
In Holland, they're loving it.
They had a study.
Why does anybody like cashless?
Oh, it's so inconvenient.
Does anybody realize that if you're cashless, you can just be wiped out instantly by an onerous government?
No, they don't.
No, they don't.
And in Gitmo Nation Lowlands, every single time, they have this pin thing, right?
We've talked about this.
So they've turned the personal identification number into a verb.
Can I pin that?
Yeah, you can pin that.
And they have a slogan, pinning is winning.
What?
Yeah, pinning is winning.
That's their slogan.
Winning what?
It's winning in ease of use.
So they even have little signs at every cash register.
Small amount?
Yes, you can pin it.
No problem.
So everyone is like, hey, this is so great.
I don't have to have cash.
The slaves in Cape Mo Nation Lowlands are so programmed...
They actually believe, they have not for a second thought about the implications of a cashless society, and they are going to be first.
You wonder why the Nazis walked all over them back in World War II. Well, they couldn't find the bullet to fight back.
That was part of the problem.
They couldn't find the bullet and the bikes were all stolen.
We laugh, but it's not that funny.
We find their weak spot, the bicycles.
Yeah.
But, no, people actually think they see this as a great benefit.
Oh, that money is so annoying.
Oh, it's inconvenient.
It's so inconvenient.
But already, if you're over 65, they've put into effect, I think it's now fully in effect, that over 65, which, by the way, is considered old...
You cannot pin more than 300 euros because that would be dangerous.
Because an old 65-year-old idiot would be walking around helpless.
See, now in the United States we carry guns.
By the way, there were two people that were armed at that event in Tucson.
Oh, really?
Well, how come they didn't shoot back?
Or did they?
Apparently the guy was firing away before they could even get their gun out.
I'm surprised somebody didn't gun the guy down.
But, interesting though, isn't it?
How Lowlands is just...
Yeah, but they keep showing these studies how the retail people love it.
It's great.
It's making everything efficient.
It's helping customers quicker.
They tried that for a while.
Visa tried that with McDonald's and it didn't quite work.
But they'll get there.
They'll get there here.
The pinning thing is really smart.
Here it's like credit or debit.
It's complicated.
And of course, we have to continue the credit thing here.
You know, it's funny because one of the drawbacks to this whole movement...
I mean, you can't have everything.
But when you have a lot of...
Illegal aliens, for example, and you have a lot of people that are moving over to California, specifically from China, who are very skeptical of everything.
They run a cash business.
I mean, there's lots of restaurants around here, Chinese and Mexican both.
They wouldn't take a credit card if you begged them.
By the way, to clarify, the 65-year-old limit is for cash withdrawals at the ATM with your PIN card.
That's not how much you can spend in the shop.
You can spend as much as you want, but when you're old and feeble, when you're old and feeble, you barely get around.
You know, Lex, my old boss, he has the house in Bonaire, and we hang out with him.
He's got the beautiful art place in Amsterdam.
He's 67.
Oh, he's lucky to be alive.
Yeah.
He's like, what the hell is that?
He's like, I'm getting all my money putting it in my mattress.
Okay, you might want to consider a gun.
It's crazy.
Unbelievable.
So, I'm not a gamer.
Do you play any games at all there at the house?
You know, I used to be pretty adept at games, and then I realized at some point that it's an incredible waste of time.
Right.
I mean, I have enough trouble understanding the sub-commands in Photoshop.
Right.
Let alone getting into a game.
And I know for a fact that people that get into World of Warcraft, for example, they just are on this thing for unbelievable hours.
So the big game, the huge hit is Call of Duty, the latest one that came out.
Oh yeah, Call of Duty is a monster.
It's huge.
It's a monster, and everybody tells me it's addictive.
So someone sent me a sound clip from a portion of...
Because you're immersed in this thing, it's like a movie.
Yeah, and you're like shooting people, and you're, you know.
Oh, not just shooting people, but imagine now you're playing this game, and I've seen the video of this.
I've linked to it in the show notes.
Oh, it's gorgeous.
And there's all kinds of stuff flashing and numbers and sound.
The sound effects and sound engineering, or soundscaping, I should say, is amazing.
Now listen to this clip of audio that takes place in Call of Duty, which I do not own and have not played.
And honestly, I'm afraid looking at the clip...
Because I think I'm going to get mind control.
Reznov's been dead for five years.
He died at Vorkuta during the escape.
All the years you thought he was with you, that was just in your mind.
I trusted him.
That's why it worked.
It was their attempt at MKUltra.
Djokovic programmed you to kill Kennedy and Reznov sabotaged you.
No wonder kids are thinking crazy.
He's saying it right there!
MKUltra, they programmed you to assassinate Kennedy.
I mean, if you're putting this stuff in the video games...
Right.
Duh!
Listen to more of this.
It's amazing.
He wanted revenge for all the Dragovich done to him.
Dragovich, Krechenko, Steiner, three new victims.
There are gaps in your memory.
Periods where you went MIA and we couldn't account for you.
But now that the brainwashing's been broken, all that lost time will come back.
We need to leave.
The Nova 6 strike is imminent.
MKUltra.
Wow.
Uh-huh.
In Call of Duty.
Well, I didn't catch it.
One of our programmers was able to free himself from the game.
Fantastic.
Yeah.
Yeah, there's a bunch of brainwashing going on at all levels, which I want to remind people is one of the reasons we go into, for example, Real News.
Oh, my goodness.
And now, back to Real News.
So I have the, we haven't done this for a while, and I moved from show to show, but I do have the teaser for this week's main Hollywood, Access Hollywood show.
Oh, you don't have, I like extra, extra, extra, extra.
I like it too, and I'm disappointed.
Ooh.
But this is Access Hollywood.
Okay, here we go.
I feel good.
Now Catherine opens up.
You get stronger.
Her love for Michael.
Catherine's first words on how they took down his cancer together.
I'm Billy Bush plus proud dad John on Little Ben and Travolta's big family dream.
You know, I had three, and that's pretty good, but, uh...
How you feeling, Kelsey?
Who is this woman?
Kelsey, chaos!
That's the new fiancé on TV with Camille's kids.
I'm Maria Menounos with Grammar's Perfect Storm in stormy New York.
We're planning to get married soon.
Have it on both ankles.
And it gets worse.
So obese, he's on the brink of death.
I'm Shawn Robinson with our stunning Heffy exclusive.
You promised me that we were.
You want to see what a $2,000 pair of shoes looks like?
Then a very revealing look at our gals getting Golden Globes ready.
It is so see-through.
And now, it is Catherine's turn.
Welcome to Access Hollywood.
And now, back to Real News.
So that's it.
You've got it all wrapped.
I don't know what they said.
I don't know.
I have no idea what went on there.
I have no idea.
Lots of grunting and noises.
Someone had their Golden Globes out.
I know that.
That sounded kind of hot.
Oh my, oh my, oh my.
And you know that there are people sitting there going like, yeah, I understand everything.
I know totally what's going on.
I get that.
What's the problem?
Huh?
Yeah, it's just, it's the news.
What's the problem in the news?
Everyone was terrified of Doug.
I've seen grown men pull their own heads off rather than see Doug.
I'd be very afraid of Doug.
Doug is dangerous.
Doug is extremely dangerous.
Doug can get you after he reads the news on the stream, noagendastream.com.
I have one funny thing from Get My Nation Vodka, which I've got to set this up here.
So there's a documentary that came out about Anna Politkovskaya.
I think that's how you pronounce it.
This is the journalist who received two to the head.
Remember that?
We were doing the show already when that happened, I think.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And so in this documentary, they talk to Boris Beraskovsky, and he is...
I guess he's the guy, he's like, he owns, he's an oligarch.
Media tycoon, and he is the guy who put Putin in place.
I think actually, he might have had something to do with Boris Yeltsin even.
He's been around for a while.
But in this documentary, he says some pretty amazing things that I wanted to share with people, so you kind of understand what Russia's about, and very, very interesting.
Not everyone sees the years under Yeltsin through the same rose-tinted spectacles as Berezovsky, who made his fortune in this period.
Television networks, oil fields, airlines...
Is this Marlo Thomas?
Who is doing the voiceover?
I don't know.
I don't know.
I have not seen the documentary.
I only got the clip.
It could be Marlo Thomas.
Could be.
He was one of the most powerful men in the country.
And is said to have brought Putin to power.
There you go.
So he made his money during Yeltsin and he brought Putin to power.
And now he is famous for having said somewhere in an interview, you could take a chimp and make him president of Russia.
And he clarifies that statement with a little interesting statement at the end, which should be good for all of our Russian friends to hear.
I heard people saying that Berezovsky could even make a monkey become president of Russian Federation.
Is that true?
You know that Russia is extreme, yes?
Extreme country, yes?
And it's extreme, let's say, presentation, but...
But did you say it or is it a joke?
No, no, it's definitely a joke, yes.
But a good joke?
No, I don't think that it's a good joke.
I just told that if we pick up anyone from the street, absolutely unknown, but nevertheless not from the tree, like monkeys, yes, on the street, yes, And it's not a problem to make him a president of Russia because, unfortunately, Russian people are slaves.
It's Susan Sarandon, by the way.
Oh, really?
Wow.
Eric the Shill has an ear for any voiceover.
He can tell you who the person is instantly.
So, unfortunately, he says Russian people are slaves.
Yeah.
Wow.
So what else is new?
Well, I thought it was nice to hear it coming from the slave master.
Yeah.
That's kind of cool.
I like that.
Yeah, nobody's paying attention.
What else you got there?
Oh, I think the one thing we cannot overlook because we predicted it.
You can cross this one off the prediction books, John.
As Lucy Napolitano came out and said, you know what?
That virtual fence we got going on there at the border, what a waste of money.
That is, oh man, we got to get rid of that because we have better technology.
We've got drones.
Oh, yeah.
Yep, here they are.
Drones flying along the border, and all they've got to do is hang a left, head up north, and then they're over our house.
Well, you know, they already put the drones in, and we talked about this on the show, up in the northern Canadian border.
Yep, it's there.
Well, Florida, they have the little mini drone, like the drone with training wheels, the starter kit.
But I think the ones that will be flying at the southern border, they're going to be real.
That's going to be the real deal.
Yeah, the ones that can stay up for 20 hours and shoot you.
Yeah, that was...
Yeah, great.
I don't know if anybody else remembers this, but maybe it should be on our alert.
The people that maintain the movie database of movies to watch, I'll have to bring it up.
This is RoboCop, which essentially kind of predicts this.
And we all laughed about it back then, right?
I mean, isn't this exactly like, what's the Schwarzenegger movie?
Where you have the naked body scanner?
Terminator.
Was that Terminator?
It was either that or there was the one where you imagined he was on Mars.
The Mars thing, yeah.
Yeah, we got RoboCops.
We got...
We have...
What was the...
Oh, man, I'm so bad at this.
What was that other movie that...
Where they fight to the death.
They get thrown down the chute and they have to fight on the streets and...
Oh, it's Escape from New York?
No, not that one.
That's a good one, too.
That should be on the list.
It's Something Man.
Running Man?
Running Man, that's it.
Total Recall, Running Man, Minority Report, all of these movies coming true.
Yeah, it's also Fahrenheit 451 should be on there.
Really?
You think that belongs on the list?
Oh yeah, absolutely.
It's very similar.
Very interesting.
And also, what was the one about the guys when you're 30 years old, your little light blinked on your hand, you had to be shot?
Oh, where you're invalid.
Yeah, Eric, what's the name of that?
That was the crazy science fiction one that was really minimalist, that movie you mean?
Well, I don't know if that's the same one that was the minimalist one, but everyone over 30 had to be killed and this guy had to escape somehow.
Demolition Man, that's what it was.
No, Demolition Man was different.
The chat room was just going crazy.
Logan's Run.
Have you seen Logan's Run?
I haven't seen Logan's Run.
Logan's Run, that's the one I'm talking about.
Gattaca, that's the one I meant.
Gattaca.
Okay, Logan's Run is the one where when you're 30, they shoot you.
Okay, so I think we need to set up a Netflix channel.
Can we do that?
Is it a Netflix channel?
Or how do we do that?
You know, I just got a Roku.
Did you get yours?
Did you talk to that guy?
I have a Roku.
Roku's a great box.
I think it's the best one.
Oh, my God.
So one of our producers is setting up a No Agenda channel on Roku.
And I don't know exactly what he wants me to promote or not, so I'm not going to mention anything until it's all set up and I'll do whatever he wants.
And he says, do you have a Roku?
I said, no.
He said, well, let me send you one.
And it came yesterday.
Oh, my God.
Where was my life before Roku?
Really?
This thing is amazing.
Yeah, no, Roku is the box.
I mean, it's got C-SPAN on there.
You can watch all the C-SPAN and the White House videos.
It's like my show prep is in one channel.
It's phenomenal.
Yeah, I know.
It makes Apple TV. It looks like poop.
This is the box.
Yeah, no, it's been in the box for over a year.
I mean, they introduced a couple new versions of it.
I think they just upgraded everything at CES. I talked to the CEO. Of Roku?
Yeah.
How are they doing?
I mean, is that working?
The guy had a smile on his face.
I don't know how they're doing.
No, but he was...
Well, it wasn't because of the hookers, because we know they weren't there this year, so maybe it was sales.
But I'm thinking we could do a channel, if these guys are setting it up right, a no-agenda channel.
Think of all the stuff we could have in there.
We could have all of our movies, all of the stuff we talk about, could be right in there.
It could be a really entertaining channel.
It could be really good.
And hopefully they'd approve it.
I mean, they have kind of like an app store process, right, where they approve stuff.
You know, I'm not sure how the Roku model works, but I got the guys.
I'll call them up and find out.
Well, so one of our producers is working on a No Agenda channel, which I think would be awesome.
So, of course, we get the stream in there and all that stuff.
But it would be great if we could have more of the multimedia stuff we have.
It could be poured right in there.
I mean, this Roku thing, it really blew me away.
I was like, wow.
You know, it's like YouTube.
You can get all YouTube videos in there.
Yeah, I'll go have lunch with these guys.
They're in Saratoga.
They're local.
I think I said, you know, they're in Saratoga.
I said, I think we should have lunch, and I think they said, yeah.
I feel like such a douche that I've never really paid attention to Roku.
I had no idea.
And it's like HDMI. You plug it in.
You plug in the power, and you do your Wi-Fi password, and it works.
Yeah.
It's phenomenal.
The cable company should be very worried about this.
Oh, no.
If I was a cable company, I'd be worried sick about that Roku box.
I mean, it's the extreme version of all the stuff Netflix is doing on the Xbox 360.
Well, you get Netflix on the Roku.
Yeah, it's all on the Roku.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I know.
But Roku has that.
Plus, it's a good setup.
It works easily.
It has other stuff that other systems don't have.
It's got a lot of value add.
It's dirt cheap.
$70?
Yeah.
I think the most expensive one was just got some extra features.
It's like $100.
It's about $100.
It's literally dirt cheap.
Yeah.
There's no reason not to have one.
I mean, I can get rid of all of my television.
The $200 a month I spend on...
The only reason I really want...
I mean, I just want C-SPAN, really, and then Mickey needs E. She's going to hate me for saying that.
She needs the E channel.
I need E to watch Bridalplasty and Married to Rock.
You know the Kardashians, I follow Khloe and Kim Kardashian on Twitter.
You do?
To even out my WikiLeaks follow.
And they're now shilling for Microsoft, Microsoft Office.
So they've got 2 million followers, and all of a sudden the tweet shows up from Khloe like, the new Microsoft Office is great, with a link.
Really?
Yeah, I'll put it in the show notes.
Boy, Microsoft just sunk to some new lows with that kind of marketing.
Here it is, here it is.
Get a free trial.
Here, I'll put it in the show notes.
Kourtney Kardashian.
Get a free trial, MS Office 2010.
Great new features.
Click here to get started.
And it's been liked by 300,000 people.
And retweeted by 24 others.
My God, you are slaves.
Yeah, 237,924 Facebook likes.
Make it great.
Join the fans and like Microsoft Office 2010.
Great article, by the way, if I could just compliment you at the end of the show.
Was it PCMag or something about Facebook?
Oh, yeah, why I don't use Facebook.
Yeah, great article.
Thanks.
You said basically it's just AOL. Yeah.
Say, hello.
Hello.
No, that was really good, and I saw you got some good link love from Reddit on that, and I hope people take it to heart.
Well, my comment was, I think my best line in there was that the only reason you use Facebook is to try to find, so some lost relative might be able to run into you if you wanted that.
I don't really need to be tracked down.
I think what people really use Facebook for is to find that hot chick in school.
I got a non-Facebook connect, which is very interesting, from my old babysitter in Kensington, Maryland, when I was six.
In a crazy twist of fate, her husband purchased source code from you.
Oh, that's very funny.
I thought she was going to ask you if that left ball ever dropped.
Did you sold some source code at one point?
I could look it up.
Who?
You did.
You sold source code to her husband.
Oh, I could be.
In fact, I'm going to tell you exactly what it was.
Everybody at one time in their life had to sell source code to get by.
I just wanted to make...
Even if it wasn't your own.
It was either public domain or somebody I was licensing it for.
My husband, Herb, bought the American rights to the Force Compiler.
From John Dvorak and Mike Saransky.
Oh, right.
Yeah, Saransky and I were partners in a company for a while.
What was the Force Compiler?
Well, the Force Compiler was a precursor.
May the Force be with you.
Essentially, it was a D-based Sephora clone that was very similar to the one that Microsoft ended up buying.
It was actually a pretty good product.
But you didn't sell it to Microsoft?
No, Microsoft bought something else.
Yeah.
And so here I am working with you.
Yeah.
I heard that little note there where you're saying, very similar to something Microsoft bought, which I didn't get.
And thank you.
Now you're right.
Here you are working with me.
Being supported by human resources all around Gitmo Nation.
No end of show clip from me.
You got anything?
Actually, I do have an end of show clip.
What?
A movie clip.
From Eric Boghossian.
Oh yeah, that's actually probably worth playing.
You know, Boghossian, I didn't realize, I mean, he's an actor now, but he was a stand-up comic, who is apparently, I guess he must have been in love with Lenny Bruce.
I mean, because he sounds like, this is a Lenny Bruce clone, this clip.
Actually, this might not be from the movie.
This might be from his stand-up routine, actually.
No, it's totally from his stand-up, an old stand-up routine.
You're hearing like a wannabe Lenny Bruce, unfortunately.
So it kind of bothers me.
But other than that, it's not a bad bit.
Alright, I'm off to go get this tattoo of my Virgo sign removed now that I'm a Leo.
We'll ask about that on the next show.
Yes, distraction of the week.
Coming to you from Gitmo Nation West, the People's Republic of Southern California.
I'm mentally unstable and proud of it.
My name is Adam Curry.
And from northern Silicon Valley where it's, I don't know, confusing.
I'm John C. Dvorak.
We'll talk to you again on Thursday right here on No Agenda.
You know what I find fascinating?
Human nature, the nature of human beings, what they like, what they don't like, what turns them off, what turns them off, what incredible appetites they have.
Night after night they stay glued to their TV sets, watching some pinheaded newscast to go on and on about today's gruesome murder or vicious rape.
They sit there and they suck up TV dinners and munch on popcorn while they absorb the minutia of today's massive mudslider, exploding chemical plant.
Thousands dead and dying.
Hundreds blinded.
Munch, munch, munch.
Carol, get some more salt while you're in the kitchen.
Oh, hurry up, hurry up.
Just their hands are sticking out of the mud.
Come on, quick, quick, quick, quick.
You're going to miss it.
Commercial's coming out.
Come on, quick, quick, quick, quick.
And these same people, they watch a PBS special about dolphins and they start crying.
And then they stay up late, they watch an old Christmas movie starring Jimmy Stewart standing a bridge someplace on Christmas Eve.
They go berserk.
The next morning, they jump into their sporty compact cars.
They race each other on the highway while they sing along with some ardent rock singer going on and on about an emaciated, dark-skinned, hopeless people turning the dung half a world away.
So they feel so guilty about that, they go home.
They run out a check for $5, mail out some post office box in New York City.
And they feel so good about that, they go to bed with each other, and they kiss, and they lick, and they fawn, and they suck each other.
And they hold each other really, really tight, because they really, really care.
I'm going to show myself all by donating to No Agenda.