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	Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
	It's Sunday, June 5th, 2011, time for Gitmo Nation Media Assassination, episode 310.
	This is No Agenda.
	Podcasting live from the free Hot Pockets Gitmo Nation Tour 2008 mobile studio, currently docked in Borrego Springs in Gitmo Nation West, the People's Republic of Southern California.
	In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	Hello?
	Hello?
	Ali, where it is what it is.
	What happened?
	Just, who are you?
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	It's Craig Vaughn and Buzzkill.
	In the morning!
	I'm sorry.
	We might as well mess it up early on in the show.
	What did you do wrong?
	Everything.
	Yeah, I just did everything wrong.
	You got different buttons?
	You got new buttons?
	Yeah, I do.
	So here's what I realized.
	So, by the way, in the morning, everybody.
	In the morning to you, Adam, and in the morning to all ships at sea, boots on the ground, and Lois Whitman.
	Lois Whitman, indeed, in the morning to you, Lois.
	Now, so, right now we are in the Hot Pockets Mobile, as Miss Mickey and I are doing a pre-test of our Gitmo Nation Hot Pockets Tour Across America 2008.
	We are docked in Borrego Springs, California, in the desert.
	It's very warm right now.
	And so, we've been on the road for three days, and you learn a lot about what you forget.
	Let me work backwards from what I forgot.
	So I have the new mobile setup.
	This is the first time we're ever trying it.
	So far, knock on wood.
	So far, so good.
	Knock on vinyl.
	Indeed.
	The whole thing is carbon fiber plastic, whatever it is.
	So I have dual monitors, I've got the jingle machine here, that thing all works, everything's perfect.
	I also have the control board to do the faders, except I forgot that with the new setup I have a little external Behringer...
	I'm an external audio device.
	That's how we're actually getting everything to you and making Skype work.
	But I didn't have an extra USB port to plug in the control panel.
	And, of course, I neglected to bring along my USB hub.
	The hub.
	Yeah, yeah.
	So I got to control the controls manually.
	And I potted you down.
	I'm so sorry.
	Oh, so when I was yakking, nothing was coming through?
	Very soft.
	Hi, I'm John.
	It was there.
	It was just very quiet.
	He always likes to keep me low.
	You're very low, indeed.
	So, yeah, so we're on the road.
	We're rocking and rolling.
	Sounds like an auspicious beginning.
	So when are you leaving for real?
	Mid-July.
	I don't think we've actually pegged the date yet, but Mickey celebrates her birthday on July 8th.
	We have a big party on the 9th.
	I think you're invited.
	Did you get an invite?
	No.
	Then you're not invited.
	Okay.
	My daughter's birthday is on the 11th.
	Yeah, the 9th of this party.
	Yeah, your daughter's on the 11th.
	Well, you could make it back.
	So we'd celebrate on the 9th, you sleep off the hangover on the 10th, and then you're back on the 11th.
	No problem.
	And then you leave?
	And then a couple days later we'll leave.
	So you gotta get your flights, you gotta get some flights, and then you gotta load everything into luggage and boxes, and then you have to hope that those things show up at the other end of the flight.
	Now you know why we call them the Buzzkill, ladies and gentlemen.
	Yeah, so we have Baroness Maggie Vincent of Virginia, of course, has kindly offered us her Four Winds RV. What if you go there and find that her address is just an empty lot?
	She doesn't really exist.
	Well, we'll figure it out, won't we?
	I mean, there's a lot of stuff that, when you do a trip like this, there's a lot of variables.
	I don't want to just throw wet blankets on things, but it seems that it's a possibility.
	No, we're actually sending a box of stuff ahead.
	Ah, there you go.
	Now you're thinking.
	Yeah, so there may just be a box.
	What if you go there and find out that this stuff has been sold and she doesn't really exist?
	Yeah, I don't know, John.
	Why don't you tell me, Mr.
	Know-it-all, Mr.
	Smarty Pants?
	So we made a list of things.
	This is really good that we're doing this.
	We made a list of things.
	I think it's a great idea.
	It's like that bit where the guy gets in the cab in New York, he throws all this stuff in the trunk, and the guy takes off.
	Yeah, Yo-Yo Ma's cello.
	No, so this is a great trip because we've already figured out a lot of things that we need to bring.
	One of which would be a fan for the mobile studio since I can't have the air conditioner on.
	The air conditioner sounds like I'm in the engine room of a boat.
	So I can't have that running while we're doing the show.
	That's an interesting point, yeah.
	Yeah, and of course...
	Yeah, good.
	This is good that you take a shakedown cruise.
	Yeah.
	Another thing that will be really good to bring along is a corkscrew.
	I would hope.
	So the first night we stayed up in Joshua Tree National Park.
	Make sure you ship the corkscrew in one of those boxes.
	PSA will steal it.
	So the first night was Joshua Tree National Park.
	We're up there, and of course there's no Wi-Fi there.
	It's just a campsite with nothing.
	And absolutely no cell phone connection.
	Although, I have to say, I have three networks with me.
	I have T-Mobile, Verizon, AT&T. So far, AT&T wins hands down as it comes to coverage.
	At least where we've traveled.
	There's another thing to do.
	What?
	When you're on your road, keep a map with you and then put the coverage information down and then it's like it could be a scandal.
	What am I? Consumer reports?
	I think so.
	No.
	Well, we'll figure it out.
	But Verizon, definitely not as great.
	Not in the parts we traveled.
	But anyway, it was awesome.
	It was so phenomenal.
	And by the time we were out of the park, I had 3G on AT&T, and I did my email and stuff while Mickey was driving.
	And you know what?
	We still like each other.
	Well, it's only been a couple days.
	Give me a break.
	And by the way, you should have your seatbelt on when you're in the back.
	Yes, I have seatbelts in the back.
	So...
	Can you tether the 3G connection and make it so it's possible to do Skype or not enough bandwidth?
	Yeah, if we have pure 3G with AT&T, I think we could probably do a show reasonably well.
	I have to shut down a lot of stuff, even on this park Wi-Fi.
	I've got to shut down my email and everything because it's all shared bandwidth and stuff and Mickey can't be on the computer.
	But it's reasonable.
	Again, knock on plastic.
	So far, so good.
	So, it's going to be a hoot, man.
	It's going to be great.
	Are you streaming?
	Can you stream?
	From 3G? Yeah.
	Yeah, I think so.
	I think we got like an average 250 to 300 kilobits upstream.
	It should work.
	It's about what I have now.
	What are you using right now?
	Right now I'm using the park Wi-Fi.
	What park?
	The park where we're parked, of course.
	You're in a park?
	What kind of a park?
	Is it a national park?
	A state park?
	A local park?
	Borrego Springs?
	Are you kidding me?
	Borrego Springs is outside of...
	It is a national park that we drove through to get here.
	This is basically a golf course with RVs.
	Oh, okay.
	So you're there with the old farts.
	No, they're not that old.
	Unfortunately, I have to say, some of them are probably not more than like six or seven years older than I am.
	And I'm like, oh my god, is that what I have to look for?
	Yeah, you're meted there.
	This is the future.
	You're witnessing the future.
	It's time traveling to the future.
	I could do it though, John.
	I could see you making a life out of this.
	I could.
	To be honest about it.
	Yeah, I could.
	I could totally do this.
	Because you're paranoid and crazy enough.
	I could totally do this.
	Hey John, I'm in Ohio!
	Gotta bring back the show!
	Remember the good days?
	What's interesting though, when you're RVing around, is 99% of the people you meet are of the slave variety, who have their eyes so firmly shut, they have no clue.
	You hear the conversations, you're like, oh wow, really?
	We stopped off at...
	What was that?
	Sea...
	See, I've got to write all this down.
	Salton on Sea.
	Have you ever heard of that?
	Oh, the Salton Sea?
	Yeah, well, it's Salton...
	I think it's just a bunch of...
	That's just a dead area?
	Yeah, with that trailer park.
	It's got a dead trailer park?
	No.
	Well, the people in there are alive.
	But barely.
	Anyway, we had lunch at some place.
	That's the refuge of the lost souls.
	Oh, yeah.
	Yeah, we had just missed the luau last weekend.
	Darn.
	But it's fun.
	You know, you sit there and you listen to people.
	By the way, smoking indoors rules and regulations don't apply in salt non-sea.
	Want an ashtray?
	Yeah, thanks.
	That's cool.
	Anyway.
	No, it's going to be great.
	And anyone who is out there in Gitmo Nation and would like to offer us some form of hospitality or services, just email mickey at curry.com, M-I-C-K-Y. And we've got so many cool things coming in, John.
	It's unbelievable.
	We could be on the road for years.
	I guess Mickey is very organized.
	I know that.
	Yeah.
	Are you going to be able to...
	It seems to me you're going to get too much to do.
	You're not going to be able to fulfill all the obligations.
	There's no way we're going to be able to get to everybody, I don't think.
	And also there's a lot of people in the same place, so we may have to combine stuff.
	Have a meeting!
	We'll have a meeting.
	Also, we'll probably also need a little bit of time to ourselves from time to time.
	Nah.
	You have plenty of time to yourselves driving.
	Yeah, but what you notice is, like the show, the work that goes into the show when you're at home and you've got, you know, like 20 megabits down and 2 megabits up, that makes a big difference when you're on the road and you're on Wi-Fi, you're on 3G. Work goes slower.
	And, you know, I can't watch C-SPAN yet because I don't have the...
	even though many of the parks have cable hookups.
	So basically I'm watching C-SPAN over the internet...
	Can you say buffering?
	Yeah, it's painful.
	C-SPAN has the absolute worst video technology you can imagine.
	Sucks.
	They just put all their stuff on YouTube.
	So horrible.
	Yeah, they should.
	Why don't they?
	I don't know.
	Someone paid $18 million for that website.
	Gotta keep it rolling!
	Gotta keep it used!
	So, anyway, I was able to do plenty of work yesterday, and I'd have to say, John, the number one thing on my mind is the possible biological attack in Europe, as everyone is now pooping their guts out.
	Well, I want to hear what you think.
	Well...
	I have absolutely no...
	Well, there's a couple things.
	I don't have any thoughts.
	I got no thoughts.
	I'm empty.
	I got nothing here.
	Germany.
	Well, I want to play a couple of quick clips about this.
	Most of it from Euronews, which I like because they seem pretty impartial.
	But the most important one is from Russia Today, who, of course, are anything but impartial.
	But this is a big deal.
	I mean, I have a lot of contact with people in Europe, and this is definitely a...
	Well, it's definitely a scary situation.
	Nobody knows what they can eat.
	People are dying.
	Now, it's not huge numbers.
	You know, 18 people dying from anything is not overly concerning.
	But if you don't know where it's coming from, and it could be in your next cucumber...
	But of course, they're trying to do...
	Well, there are different factions at work here.
	So first I want to say right off the bat, nobody is even considering the biological attack angle.
	And I don't understand why.
	You know, isn't this what we were told in the United States?
	It's like, you know, the most important things for our security, food security.
	We had this whole food security bill for this very reason, so everything is tracked.
	Now, mind you, we don't have it here in the States, but why isn't anyone...
	Shouldn't these guys who passed this bill be coming out and claiming that they're so awesome they did this?
	Like, yeah, we won't have that here.
	We got food security, not like them Europeans.
	I... I'm actually kind of baffled by it.
	I didn't take that angle because I was looking at some other stories, but now that you mention it, I would think that you could use it as a political football, obviously, just as you said, and nobody's doing that.
	And the other thing that would lead you to think that, the way you're thinking, is the fact that they still haven't isolated the...
	The source.
	Which is what you want, right?
	You need to isolate.
	Yeah, you want to isolate the source, but by now, I was thinking they're just incompetent boneheads, and they can't isolate the source because they don't know what they're doing, because we isolate the source on these breakouts within a couple of days, always.
	Yeah, we can track it back pretty quickly.
	And I don't even know how that works, how the tracebacks work, but we seem to be able to do it.
	They haven't done it.
	It's been over a week, I think.
	All right, so there's a couple of fractions at work here.
	The first, of course, is calm down, everybody.
	Don't panic.
	Despite almost 200 new cases in Germany on the first two days of this month alone, infection rates of the virulent strain of E. coli are said to be slowing.
	If true, it'll be good news for the country's fresh produce suppliers, whose livelihoods have been decimated in the wake of the outbreak.
	The vegetables are just ripening now, she says.
	The salads come in, parsley, radishes, all the stuff that can be eaten raw.
	But people don't want it.
	It's all just lying around.
	At least 18 people have died, and more than 1,800 been infected by the bug since it was detected on the 1st of May.
	Germany's apologised for initially blaming cucumbers from Spain, but that hasn't stopped hundreds of thousands from being binned.
	The percentage of people who actually have severe complications is higher than we expect, and we usually expect to see that in children and in older people.
	So it's very unusual for us to be seeing this in adults.
	Scientists say the E. coli strain is a new hybrid form for certain consumers.
	Consumers have been warned off fresh produce, but EU specialists now say the warning may not be justified, as the source has not yet been identified.
	Okay, so there's the guys...
	I didn't realize it...
	I'm sorry.
	I didn't realize it was May 1st and they haven't identified it since May 1st.
	Oh, yeah.
	No, it's been going on for a while.
	We talked about it on the show that early.
	I know we talked about it when it started to break, but I guess time eludes me, but the fact is that they have a month to identify the source and they can't do it, that's not good.
	No, it's not good.
	So...
	So I think those are the guys who are supposed to be responsible for tracking it, are basically saying, oh, don't worry about it, you know, it could be slowing down, it's okay, but obviously it's still a problem, we're working on it.
	Then we get this report.
	Doctors in Germany are hoping a new antibody therapy will be effective in treating the deadly E. coli bug that has so far killed 19 people.
	Anti...
	what was it?
	What did he say there?
	Did you catch that?
	It was like anti...
	Antibody.
	Isn't that a vaccine?
	Well, I would think, generally speaking, it would be, but I don't know what they're talking about.
	They may have some other mechanism.
	I don't know.
	I don't know why they said that.
	I have no idea.
	Well, because I think that they're going to come out with a vaccine, and we have to be very careful, you and I, because if Russia today ever gets some hot chicks, some hot blonde chicks to host their shows, we could be out of a job, because listen to this report.
	These guys are so, like, this could be, hello everybody!
	Hello everybody!
	This is Russia Today with no agenda!
	Spain may launch legal action against Germany, which prematurely...
	And by the way, for those of you who are wondering, she's not hot.
	Okay?
	We pointed to its cucumbers as the cause of the fatal E. coli outbreak.
	The hysteria over Spanish produce has crippled the country's farm exports and cost millions of euros in just a week.
	And while the source of the infection is still undefined, critics believe the pharmaceutical industry may be the one to benefit from the vegetable panic.
	So already you're set up.
	Ah, really?
	The pharmaceutical industry will benefit from this?
	No kidding!
	Some cucumbers kill.
	That much is clear.
	And it's also become apparent that although Germany blamed Spain as the source of the E. coli, it's not.
	That's costing innocent Spanish fruit and vegetable exporters around 200 million euros a week.
	But all this maneuvering, all these statements show an absolute lack of responsibility.
	What is happening today is a checkmate to the Spanish vegetable and fruit industry.
	It's absolutely unacceptable.
	A useless weapon has been produced which will be of no use to anyone.
	Do you hear the words that are used here?
	So, it's an attack from Germany on Spain, obviously.
	It's a weapon.
	And that's not even Russia today, it was their translation, but they're calling it a weapon, and it just gets better from there.
	The Germans know those who are suffering from the disease, and it will incur huge losses on the Spanish agriculture.
	Calling the European health watchdog discredited, Russia says it had no choice but to ban all fruit and vegetable imports from the entire European Union, a reaction Brussels called disproportionate.
	Russia says it was clear from the beginning the Spanish weren't to blame.
	Looks as if the accusations brought against the Spanish cucumbers were unfounded.
	This was obvious from the outset.
	Why?
	Because if Spain was a source of the disease, why is no one ill there?
	It's not as if Spain could hide the disease.
	This isn't a mild flu you can keep secret.
	German health officials still cannot say what caused the outbreak or what's the transfer factor of the disease.
	And, most importantly, the situation is still not under control.
	It's to the discredit of the European health watchdog.
	It's a very delicate time for the Spanish economy, which is teetering on the edge of needing an EU bailout.
	This is decidedly not a good moment for 150,000 tonnes of produce to go unsold.
	It's also struck another blow to the already fragile relationship between Germany and Spain, after the German Chancellor implied Spaniards were lazy and spendthrift in a speech earlier this month.
	We missed that one!
	That's a beauty.
	Well, I mean, this doesn't help the Spanish economy, which is already in the tank.
	I mean, it's almost, I can see it being a financial attack.
	It's like, well, this is why they're calling it a weapon.
	Why don't we just blame Spain and screw them?
	Yeah, this is why they're calling it a weapon.
	I mean, it could not be a more perfect storm.
	I can't believe that Germany would say something like that.
	And of course, I don't even know who said it first or where it came from, some ministry of truth.
	But yeah, it's like, hey, you know what?
	You're not paying us back?
	Oh, really?
	Okay, so then why don't we just stick it all the way in?
	And then move it around a bit.
	I'm reminded of the situation that occurred when we had a little tiff with chili.
	This was back in the 80s, I think, in the mid-80s.
	And then all of a sudden, somehow, two grapes that were being imported from chili were found to have...
	Just two grapes?
	This was bogus.
	Just two?
	Two grapes.
	Two singular grapes?
	Two grapes.
	Two singular grapes were found with a pinprick and injected with strychnine.
	Oh, I remember that.
	Right.
	Yeah.
	Oh, my God.
	And they found these two grapes somehow amongst the billions of grapes.
	Amazing.
	Yeah.
	We found your grape, bitches.
	And they found these two grapes and they stopped all imports of Chilean table grapes.
	And it put their little, their industry in a tailspin.
	And then all of a sudden they resolved it.
	And then it just disappeared from the news cycle.
	And then nobody ever explained anything about it.
	And the whole thing was bull crap.
	Because how do you find, and they show, I remember seeing the photo, because I actually wrote an op-ed about this in the San Francisco Examiner.
	I saw the photo, because I've obviously been deconstructing the news back then.
	You're a grape expert.
	And so I saw the grape with the whole pinprick.
	I'm thinking, how do you find this grape?
	It's ridiculous.
	This is bullcrap.
	Right.
	So there's more, of course, to this report, and this kind of winds up with the third fraction, which we were all expecting.
	It will overturn.
	No, no, not a fractal.
	A fraction.
	Faction.
	I'm sorry.
	Faction.
	A camp.
	A cabal.
	Or a faction.
	Okay, faction.
	A gang.
	...of the loss of product, loss of sales, and disruption at this time, which is particularly an important time as the harvest comes through on perishable goods, which you cannot...
	This is an economist, by the way.
	...hold back or resell.
	Cynics say all this is just the media whipping up its latest health hysteria.
	In 2005, the United Nations warned the world that bird flu could kill up to 150 million people.
	In reality, the seven years until the end of 2010 saw 303 people die.
	More recently, swine flu was the killer.
	65,000 people were supposed to die in Britain alone.
	Only around 360 people did.
	Encouraged by pharmaceutical companies, European countries spent billions of dollars on unnecessary vaccines.
	As the World Health Organization announces this is a new strain of E. coli, some see farmers benefiting yet again.
	I think probably we'll see very soon behind all of this new declarations from the large pharmaceutical industry like they did with the swine flu that they have something to protect people against the new strain of E. coli that's creating such an unrest across Europe.
	Exactly.
	Antibody therapy, whatever.
	So everybody wins.
	Germany wins because they kick Spain's ass and get to take their beaches for free.
	Pharmaceutical guys win because they get to shoot everybody up in anticipation of the next E. coli outbreak.
	Let's see, who doesn't win?
	Ah, yes.
	Spain doesn't win.
	In fact, they lose quite enormously.
	Actually, the public as a whole doesn't win.
	Well, no.
	Well, somebody's got to get to the bottom of this thing.
	By the way, I don't think people should be using the word pharma in stories that have to do with agriculture, because it sounds like they're saying farmer.
	Another thing for our list when we get the consulting gig for Russia today.
	It's like, listen, you've got to have a couple things.
	I don't understand why they haven't called us.
	Really?
	It's so amazing why they haven't called us.
	You know, one of our producers...
	This is funny.
	Hold on, let me just find it.
	Where is it?
	Here we go.
	Who was it?
	Producer Bass sent a note to the Hot Pockets Company.
	And said, uh, you should sponsor these guys?
	Here's the reply.
	Sponsor them!
	We're gonna sue them!
	Here's the reply.
	Dear Mr.
	Bose, I'm sorry, not bass, Bose.
	Thank you for contacting us at Nestle Consumer Services.
	We apologize, but our department does not support business-to-business interactions.
	Business-to-business interactions are handled through various departments at Nestle.
	For marketing and advertising, please submit a detailed proposal in writing to Prepared Foods Company.
	Good luck.
	That's from Daniel O'Day, Consumer Response Representative.
	That's probably the guy who also does at Nestle tweets.
	Probably.
	He has heard, Danielle.
	Danielle O'Day.
	Well, we appreciate the thought.
	They can follow up and maybe...
	No, we don't need any sponsors.
	Screw those guys.
	We're just going to have, on the side, Hot Pockets Tour 2008.
	It's just shit sandwich and you know it.
	That's our slogan.
	You're going to get sued.
	Don't do it.
	I've got a better version.
	Ready?
	Yeah.
	Hot Pockets.
	Hey, the key is almost the same.
	Hot Pockets.
	Hot Pockets.
	Let's thank some producers, John, before we get any further.
	Yeah, we got a couple of executive producers and a couple of associate executive producers, and we want to thank them for sponsoring today's show and producing it, as a matter of fact, including a new donor, at least, although I do recall his name, Gary Later, in Richmond, Virginia, $333.
	Oh, so he's also a member of the exclusive 333 Club.
	Exactly.
	Donation today includes your cut of No Agenda.
	Oh, this is a floor mat guy.
	That's right.
	We know him, Gary.
	He's No Agenda floor mats.
	You can find his mat depot.
	M-A-T, that is.
	That's a mat.
	And by the way, I have one of these things.
	These are perfect floor mats for the kitchen.
	And it has a No Agenda logo on them.
	It's actually quite pretty.
	Yeah, I have mine.
	Our garage connects to our kitchen.
	And so I have it right there.
	You've got to have one of those mats in the RV. Oh, yeah.
	Yeah, we're going to bring it in the RV, for sure.
	Right on.
	Maybe you could sell a couple out the back of the trunk of the RV. We've got to be selling something, dude, because this thing does eight miles to the gallon.
	We're going to need to have to raise funds somehow.
	Yeah, t-shirts, mats.
	I'm like, we're on cruise control.
	Autographed albums.
	Just CDs.
	Autograph some CDs.
	Just buy anybody's CDs.
	It doesn't have to be yours.
	Here's Jennifer Lopez.
	Here's a J-Lo CD. Let me just sign it for you.
	Hey, Lady Gaga.
	Cool.
	Yeah, we're like, you know, cruise control, we're folding the mirrors in.
	No agenda tour and truck stop swap meet.
	And I need to bring a hose to siphon off someone else's gas.
	This is eight miles to the gallon.
	This is the wrong economy to be doing this.
	Yeah, that's about what they get.
	That's why people, you see them parked in those...
	Yeah, that's why they don't leave.
	Yeah, they sit here and swap wives all day.
	We're not going to go driving around.
	So anyway, Gary got us fistfulofdollars.com, forwarded that to the No Agenda show you can put on your list.
	And when he says when you come out to Virginia, pick up your Hot Pockets lunch truck, stop by Richmond, he'll take you guys to Mama Zoo's.
	Stephen Springer in Garland, Texas, a member of the 310 Club, an executive producer to help Adam use the silver spoon in the morning.
	Please.
	And by the way, he'll now be Sir Stefan.
	Oh, nice.
	Tellman T. Magoo in Cortese, Ontario, Canada.
	Thanks for letting me know I'm not crazy for thinking my news is lying to me all the time.
	Could use some karma for a talk I have to give at Security B-Side Street St.
	John's about clouds.
	Something.
	You've got karma.
	Now, is Kelman an associate?
	He's an associate.
	Came in with 2222.
	He says the big security risk to life and liberty is abuse in the cloud, which I agree with.
	And you two seem to be the only ones tracking privacy and telecom issues at this level.
	He sent me a somewhat longer note, actually.
	Very interesting.
	Jamie, is there anything that we need to read?
	No, not now.
	No, no, it's okay.
	Jamie Stubblefield in Chattanooga, Tennessee, which would be a great little place to stop by when you're driving around down there.
	By the way, Tennessee's got some great little towns.
	Hey, squirrels, little old sis admin here, Fortune 500 Insurance Company.
	The engineers told me about the show, but continue to smell douchey.
	Can you bag them, Jason, Bob, and Dave?
	Yeah.
	Douchebags.
	All of you guys, they're bagged.
	You've been bagged.
	Jason, Bob, and Dave, you've been bagged.
	Douchebag.
	Also for you in the domain, noagender.com.
	Noagender.
	Hold on, I've got to write that one down.
	Noagender.
	That's for the Chiners amongst us.
	No Agenda.
	So he's in for 200.
	He's the associate executive.
	I just want to thank all of them and all the rest of the people who donated.
	Devorak.org slash NA. Noagendashow.com and Noagendanation.com and Noagendashow.com.
	Devorak.org slash NA. Yeah.
	Don't get too close to that mic, man.
	I don't have all the processing that I can handle.
	Okay.
	Well, anyway, I want to thank everybody for...
	Let me fist it out a little bit here.
	Okay.
	Measure the distance.
	Fist it out.
	What do you mean?
	You're fisting your microphone now?
	I take my fist, and then I put it up against the mic, and the distance to where the pop screen is, according to Heil's own specs, should be about four inches from the diaphragm.
	And if you've ever been four inches from a diaphragm, you know what I'm talking about.
	If you're four inches from a diaphragm, you're too close.
	So, anyway.
	You're at the wrong end.
	Yeah, that's better.
	So, do you keep your fist there the whole time?
	If I did that, then it would sound like this.
	Okay.
	That's much better, actually.
	You've never sounded so good.
	Really?
	That sounds good.
	I'm going to keep it this way.
	Okay.
	A couple other PR mentions I'd like to make before we get underway with today's program.
	Thank you very much, Matt, for another fine domain name forward.
	A frothy mix of adamandjohn.com.
	That visual is rough for me.
	Another great forward to noagendashow.com from Dave.
	Bonerintheboxers.com, which we knew that was coming.
	Yeah.
	Fistful of dollars, we already discussed that.
	This is actually a cool one.
	Remember Patrick, the kid who submitted the paper with all the no agenda memes?
	Yeah.
	So he says, in the morning, I've registered naschoolwork.com to make the meme-infested schoolwork initiative an official thing.
	I plan to set up a site, but if anyone who actually knows how to write code wants to, I'm sure I can set something up with them.
	The idea is every time you have to write a paper or do any schoolwork, you stick in memes wherever you can, then send the paper to me and I'll post it on the site.
	Thanks for mentioning me on the show.
	This is a 15-year-old kid, by the way.
	Thanks for mentioning me on the show.
	All my friends are impressed.
	Sorry I'm not using encryption.
	I know how to encrypt a dock, but you're using your key.
	I can't quite figure out how to encrypt this email.
	So...
	I'm working on something extremely cool, which folds right into our next domain name forward, and I've asked Patrick to hold on to naschoolwork.com, because I have now set up with Gus Raya, or R-A-Y-A, that's our producer who got podcastlicense.com.
	Here's how it works.
	If you go to podcastlicense.com right now, John, and of course the site will come down, it'll come crashing down to its knees.
	Don't go to it, just let John go, please.
	Don't type it in just yet.
	You'll see that we'll be able to give you a podcast license, an official podcast license, and we also have internet-license.com coming.
	This is for the podcasters.
	If you pay up your lifetime membership, it's a one-time fee for a lifetime membership.
	You're certified for the entire duration of your human resource existence.
	You will get a podcast license and you'll get your name, your last name,.podcastlicense.com and that page, you'll be able to do anything you want with it.
	And this is the part that I'm working on.
	We'll give you a login.
	You can forward it to your own domain.
	You can put stuff on that site there.
	You can change the whole look and feel of it.
	So right now we have adamcurry.podcastlicense.com and of course gusraya.podcastlicense.com So if anyone ever asks you, if the government ever comes around and says, hey, hey, let me see your podcast license.
	So I want to know, I want to know, is this automated?
	Yes, yes, yes, yes, this is what's so awesome.
	So you pay $33, and then you just type in your name, and then it creates the subdomain?
	Yes, that's exact.
	And so right now, I only set this up last night from the RV. I can already do it from here.
	Yeah, I'm telling you, man, this is the new stuff that Dave and I have been working on.
	This is going to be awesome.
	Hey, Adam, can we go out and eat something?
	You're just going to be on the computer all day.
	Nikki was sleeping.
	She's like, I'm crashing.
	Throw a whiskey in her.
	You're just going to be in the computer all day.
	Are we going to go out?
	Yeah.
	Sure, honey.
	Let's go golfing.
	We're going to have to take up golfing.
	There's so many RV golf park combos.
	It's crazy.
	Anyway, so we're going to do the same thing with patricksnaschoolwork.com and also forthcoming with internet-license.com.
	That may have to be a little bit more expensive since a podcast license only encompasses podcasting.
	And an internet license might have to be $66.66.
	I'll have to figure that out.
	It's a much bigger deal, obviously.
	But it's certified.
	I mean, from the podfather.
	I mean, seriously.
	From the podfather.
	Yeah, in fact, it's going to say on the license, it's going to have the two lines where the signatures are.
	One's John Hancock.
	And the other one is going to say, Podfather and your signature.
	And I'll keep half of my money for Dave Weiner.
	Because one day he'll say, yeah, I want the check anyway.
	No, I wanted to do that.
	No, no, no, no.
	We've discussed it.
	He said, I don't want the money.
	I said, I'll just send you a check.
	Don't cash it.
	If you don't want it.
	That's fine.
	So, anyway.
	Three more domain names that are forwarding here.
	We've got 333.net, and that's number 3, 3 spelled out as 3, number 3,.net, and.info.
	And then we also have shill4hire.com.
	Which is a nice domain forward.
	And all of these, by the way, are all going to be relevant to the same system, like podcast license, so you'll be able to become a part of the No Agenda domain community.
	I'm not quite sure what I'm going to call it yet, but it's going to be awesome, because then you'll be connected into all these different sites.
	Just trust me on that one.
	And then finally, oh yes, a programming note from Eric the Shill.
	And Buzzkill Jr., by the way, is the new name for JC, who's also...
	Buzzkill Jr.
	That's a good name, right?
	It's funny.
	I don't know.
	I think he chose it or something.
	Yeah, well, I've seen him in the chat room.
	In our back channel is Buzzkill Jr.
	I love it.
	It would be really helpful if all the knights and dames and barons and baronesses would go to noagendanation.com and create an account if you haven't already done so.
	Please add your shipping address to your account.
	At this point, he's received a few change of address emails, etc.
	So we've got to start organizing ourselves better.
	If you are a knight, a dame, a baron, or a baroness, and you want to take possession of your ring, which you're in...
	The rings are in.
	The velour presentation boxes along with a stick of sealing wax and your official certification will be on its way to you.
	And I'm very excited about this.
	I can't wait to see mine.
	I can't wait to take pictures.
	What's your ring size?
	You don't even know, do you?
	Yeah, I do.
	It's an 8.
	Hmm.
	Size 8.
	What's your ring size?
	I don't know.
	I have no idea.
	Big mouth.
	I just said.
	At least I'm honest.
	And Miss Mickey is also an 8.
	Oh really?
	Yeah.
	We can wear the same rings.
	And that's perfect.
	I only have to get one.
	Yeah, I only have to get one.
	I need the one with the diamondique on top.
	And then I can propose and take the ring off my finger and propose to her.
	It's perfect.
	Awesome system.
	All right, everybody.
	Thank you so much for your PR efforts.
	And, of course, we want to especially thank our associate executive producers, Kelman T. Magoo and Jamie Stubblefield.
	Our executive producer, Sir Stefan Springer.
	He's also a 310 Club member.
	And our executive producer and exclusive 333 Club member for this episode.
	Of course, you can still get in on that.
	333 is on the way.
	Gary Lader, thank you all so much.
	This is an official credit.
	We're not like those Hollywood phony baloney douchebags.
	If you need someone to vouch for it, we'll be happy to do so.
	Everybody else out there, you know what to do.
	Our formula is simple.
	Go out and propagate it.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Order!
	Order!
	Say it by the pound, everybody!
	Shut up, slave.
	Hot Pockets!
	So, I got a variety of weird clips.
	Okay.
	And one of them, there's no follow-up on this clip.
	It's just something that I found interesting.
	Some years ago, my wife actually pointed this out to me, and I kind of developed, I actually wrote an article about it, about there's certain women in Berkeley that she always refers to as Hummers.
	As what?
	Yes.
	Not hummers, because they always hum when they speak, and they never stop talking.
	There's always noise coming from them.
	It goes like this.
	I'll be a hummer for a second.
	Well, Adam, I've been around...
	Oh, I know what that is.
	I know what that is.
	That's women who don't want to be interrupted.
	So they keep emanating a sound.
	So I found that the new editor of the New York Times is a hummer.
	Is a slow-speaking hummer.
	And I would just slap my head in the...
	Oh my God, this woman's got to be the worst in a meeting.
	And she runs meetings all day.
	Just play the clip.
	Chief, among many other things, she joined the Times from the Wall Street Journal in 1997.
	Jill Abramson, congratulations and welcome.
	Thank you so much, Jim.
	First, just on the personal level, what does it mean to you to become the executive editor of the New York Times?
	It means the world to me, right?
	I grew up...
	This is great!
	Oh my god...
	No, wait, wait.
	Here's what's funny about it.
	When she finishes this little chit-chat here, he freaks because he's got her obviously on a whole block.
	She's blocked for like the E block or something, right?
	Right, right, right.
	So he's listening to her going like this and he's going, oh my God, I'm going to get nothing from her and I've got her scheduled for 10 minutes.
	She's a Berkeley hummer.
	You can hear him panic after she goes through this little humming number right here.
	Here in Manhattan and the New York Times was worshipped in my family.
	Wait a minute.
	This is unbelievable.
	I've never heard this in my life, John.
	It's like she's on Skype.
	You know what I mean?
	When Skype draws out like that...
	Oh, Micah, can you imagine living with this woman?
	The time said was true was the truth, and so I became an avid reader of the paper as a young school kid, and it seemed scarcely believable to me that I will hold the top editorial position in the newsroom.
	Did you ever find yourself longing to be the boss or dreaming about it?
	He's already freaking here.
	He's like, what am I going to do with her?
	It wasn't Taddy's question.
	It's hilarious.
	We need her to do a jingle for me.
	I mean, is this a fulfillment of something that you saw coming sometime?
	You didn't know when, but maybe.
	That's a great description, Jim.
	I hoped that it would come, but felt like definitely it was a maybe.
	I knew because I worked so closely with Bill as his managing editor.
	I got to see his job up close and how much fulfillment he got from it.
	And we both working together got such a kick out of running the news report that, sure, on certain days I would think, boy, it would be nice to have that job.
	But being managing editor for news was a very sweet job itself.
	How significant.
	I'm coming.
	This went on, by the way, and on.
	And I didn't clip the whole thing.
	That's fantastic.
	A Berkeley Hummer.
	This is your New York Times editor-in-chief.
	She is the one with this, I'm going to do a story.
	Hello, everybody.
	Hello, everybody.
	So you can thank, you know, when you read, you know, you just, I just want, I think, I don't know, she's probably a nice enough person for a Hummer.
	But she is like, she's the one that's, you know, that's calling the shots for essentially setting the agenda.
	This woman is setting the agenda for national news.
	Yeah, I like it.
	She's perfect for that.
	On the topic of chemtrails, I am the...
	Thank you, Jim.
	I am the...
	It's like a Buddhist monk.
	Exactly!
	She's like probably as Buddhist.
	It must be.
	I'm...
	Hello, I'm...
	She's doing the Gregorian chant.
	I am running the New York Times.
	I love it.
	Good call.
	Clip of the day already.
	Yeah.
	I give that one to you right there off the top.
	Yeah, there goes my book review.
	Hey, you know, I went to...
	As I always do, I want to go see the President's speech.
	And the White House is completely, I think, I haven't received any email yet, but I think they're completely shilling for the President's campaign.
	I guess it's okay to do that.
	If you go to whitehouse.gov now...
	I don't think it is.
	I think it's illegal.
	Well, there's a welcome page, a splash screen, if you will, and it says, would you like to sign up to get periodic updates from President Obama and other administration officials?
	So, of course, I immediately entered in my email address, and then you don't get that screen anymore.
	And it's gone.
	And you know me, I go to thewhitehouse.gov all the time.
	It's what I do.
	They kept a cookie.
	Erase all your cookies and it'll show up again.
	Duh, thank you.
	I know how the internet works.
	That's not the point.
	This is new, though.
	I'm telling people out there, not you.
	So anyway, I signed up with an email address so I can track it.
	And if I start getting stuff from barackobama.com...
	Then we've got to raise a big flag.
	So you aren't getting anything thus far because my wife is on the mailing list and so she wouldn't be able to try this.
	I'm going to try it too.
	I'm going to put an email address in there right now.
	I'm going to use a specific one because I have a variation of them.
	Yeah, you're awesome.
	I am.
	So I'm going to use a specific one to this and then I can see if they do that.
	Then I'm going to report it to the Federal Election Committee.
	Right on.
	So, the President is at the Chrysler plant, and he's, of course, now, let's recall from our last show, 400,000 vehicles are maintained by the GSA. Was it GSA? The General Supply Administration or whatever?
	The guys who take care of the whole governmental fleet.
	And they did this big press conference and had all the Chrysler vehicles out there.
	Chrysler, of course, paid back their loans to the U.S. government.
	I think Government Services Administration.
	Thank you, yes.
	So we already busted Vice President Joe Biden last week as he was filling in for the president.
	He should have said that.
	Hey, everybody!
	It's Joe Biden filling in for the prez.
	Yeah.
	You'll be back again next week.
	That's right.
	I'll be back again next time he's out of town.
	So Barack's having none of that.
	He's like, I want my show back.
	And now, so you have to remember that they're making a big deal out of this.
	The Chrysler paid back their loans six years ahead of time.
	Well, of course, they did that because they were paying 12% interest on the government financing.
	They were able to secure...
	Yeah, they refied.
	They refied at 8%.
	And, of course, part of the refi deal is that the government, through the GSA, is buying Chrysler vehicles.
	Yeah, it's a scam.
	This reminds me of what you do in the book business, by the way.
	How does that work?
	So you go into a publisher.
	Yeah.
	Not that you interrupt this flow of thought.
	No, I'm interested.
	I'm interested.
	You go to a publisher with a book.
	You got your book proposal.
	And then they say, this book sucks.
	And you say, no, wait a minute.
	You didn't look on page three of the book proposal.
	We have already pre-sold 10,000 books to this company that's going to distribute them free.
	They're going to buy them at wholesale and they're going to distribute them free to all their employees.
	Nice.
	That sells the book deal.
	But how do you do that?
	How do you pre-sell them?
	You go to the company.
	It's very easy.
	You've got to sell them.
	You go to a company.
	See, you're writing a book about something specific like vaccines.
	So you take your vaccine proposal and you walk it over to Merck or one of these big drug companies.
	You guys can send one of these books to all your sales guys and you can give them to your customers and you can do this and you can do that.
	And once the book is published, you can get a special price.
	And they say, yeah, we'll do that.
	And they sign off on it and then you take it.
	We're a book publisher and there's tons of books that are being published today because of the pre-sales.
	Perfect.
	So that, of course, is not quite the same amounts we're talking about when we're talking about 400,000 vehicles in the governmental fleet.
	No, it's not quite the same amount.
	This is bigger.
	Right.
	So, of course, Barack is doing his show from the floor of the Chrysler plant.
	How do you think he starts it off?
	I mean, remember, Joe Biden was there last week.
	We've got to pull everybody back in with our signature catchphrase.
	Hello, everybody.
	I'm coming to you from Chrysler.
	I'm speaking to you today from a Chrysler plant in Toledo, Ohio.
	Toledo, Ohio.
	I just met with workers.
	Workers?
	I just met with workers.
	Workers, you know, we call them slaves.
	Including Jill Opium.
	Jill was born and raised...
	I like that little Jill Opium.
	He's throwing the popping.
	Jill Opium?
	Her name is Opia, but it sounds like opium.
	Hello, everybody!
	Alright, I'll shut up and let's listen to the clip.
	Hello, everybody!
	From a Chrysler plant in Toledo, Ohio, where I just met with workers, including Jill Opiel.
	Jill was born and raised here, in Toledo.
	Her mom and stepfather retired from this plant.
	She met her husband here, and now they have two children of their own.
	Doesn't it sound like it's a plantation, is what it is.
	Yeah, and they know how to propagate.
	Very good.
	They had two kids.
	That's astonishing.
	Awesome.
	This plant has not only been central to the economy of this town, it's been part of the lifeblood of this community.
	Now the reason I came to Toledo was to congratulate Jill and her co-workers.
	That's not true, by the way, because Corporal Klinger was also from Toledo.
	So Chrysler's not the only lifeblood in Toledo, Ohio.
	The turnaround they helped bring about at Chrysler and throughout the auto industry.
	Today, each of the big three automakers, Chrysler, GM, and Ford, is turning a profit for the first time since 2004.
	Chrysler has repaid every dime and more of what it owes American taxpayers for their support during my presidency.
	And it repaid that money six years ahead of schedule.
	And this week, we reached a deal to sell our remaining stake, and that means soon, Chrysler will be 100% in private hands.
	Yeah, of course, he doesn't mention that it's in private hands of the other note holders who they switched to they refied with.
	So I don't like that.
	I don't like him taking credit for something that really isn't credit worthy.
	All that he did is he screwed these guys.
	And Chrysler, I believe Chrysler didn't want the bailout money in the first place.
	They were privatized.
	I don't think they needed it either.
	Yeah, no, they were forced to take it, just like the banks in 2008.
	Now, here's the crazy one.
	So, do you remember what Vice President O'Biden said last week about, you know, what the perfect life is?
	No, I don't.
	Remember, it was like, go to school, work hard, retire with dignity, shut up, slave, and die.
	Birth, death, work, death.
	Yeah, well, this is it.
	This is the American dream, ladies and gentlemen, brought to you by Barack Obama.
	That's how we'll build an economy where you can see your incomes and savings rise again, send your kids to college, and retire with dignity, security, and respect.
	And then die.
	Literally.
	Now, he makes a gaffe in here, which I, you know, they have so many edits in this thing, I would have asked him to retake it, but he didn't.
	That's how we'll make sure we keep that fundamental American promise.
	That if you work hard and act responsibly, you'll be able to pass on a better life to your kids and your grandkids.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	Yeah, act responsibly and work hard and shut up, then you can pass on a better life of working hard and acting responsibly and shutting up to your kids and grandkids.
	Emphasis on shutting up.
	Yeah, well, he's not really saying shutting up, but I hear it in my head.
	I can't help it.
	No, we've got a ways to go.
	Even though our economy has created more than 2 million private sector jobs over the past 15 months and continues to grow, we're facing some tough headwinds.
	This is what I didn't get.
	We're facing some tough headwinds.
	Some tough Ted, did he say Ted wins?
	Yeah, no, it's tough Ted wins.
	So I think he was, the script reads...
	He means head wins, I mean...
	Well, I think what happened is the script reads tough, tough head wins, but in his mind, he's so used to saying tough times that the T crept in there.
	Oh, yeah, obviously.
	It's Tuft Headwinds.
	So he said Tedwinds.
	I'm not mishearing it.
	Either he said Tuft Headwinds or Tuft Tedwinds.
	Either one.
	Let's listen again.
	And continues to grow.
	We're facing some Tuft Headwinds.
	Lately it's high gas prices.
	Whoever's producing that, you're fired.
	Alright?
	You're fired.
	No good.
	Anyway, so I thought that was pretty disgusting.
	Once again, the lies are propagated.
	However, some good news, John, and I would like to congratulate you and everyone else to whom this applies to, as I will read the bottom of the proclamation signed on the 31st of May for all of June 2011.
	Now, therefore, I'm Barack Obama, President of the United States of America.
	By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim June 2011 as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month.
	Woo!
	Hot Pockets!
	It is?
	Yep.
	It's LGBTQASUSA Pride Month.
	What's the Q? It's for Al-Qaeda.
	Oh, okay.
	Don't you remember?
	There was a Q with queer.
	The Q was for queer.
	No, it was one that was really long.
	We did a whole show, a whole segment about it.
	Yeah, it was Q for queer.
	It was lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer.
	I thought there was another letter in there, too.
	But anyway, it was a real log.
	It was ridiculous.
	It was not workable.
	No.
	Anyway, so, uh, happy LGBTQA USA month, everybody.
	So, uh...
	One of our, Brooks, who's gay, he mentioned one time, I was telling him, I said, how did it become, I always thought it was gay, lesbians, GLB, it was GLBT. How did it become L whatever it is now?
	BLT sounded too much like a bacon, lettuce, tomato.
	Well, it was, but it started with gays, it was gay, lesbian, blah, blah, blah, and now it's lesbian, gay.
	Yeah, how come the lesbians get the leading credit?
	He says, you know, a lot of people are a little irked about that.
	Oh, really?
	Interesting.
	Yeah.
	Interesting.
	Yeah, he says he doesn't know when it happened or why it happened, but it's a little irksome.
	And it used to be that gay women were also just gay.
	They had to have their own world.
	They could be gay.
	They had to be a whole separate category.
	And by the way, I feel left out and discriminated against because there's no mention of bi-curious and I feel that I should be able to celebrate my month too.
	You need a month.
	I need a quarter.
	I need a queue.
	Hey everybody!
	I proclaim this bi-curious male quarter.
	I'm pissed off.
	Thanks.
	I think I have a civil lawsuit on my hands.
	For sure.
	So, alright.
	So let's take a look at...
	I've got to get back to my list of crazy clips.
	Crazy clips.
	What you got?
	What you got, Jeff?
	Hey, you know what?
	Can I just say something?
	This is interesting.
	Here, play the hex...
	Tell me, guess what this is.
	Play Hexafoos.
	Hold on a second.
	Sorry.
	You jumped the gun on me, Johnny boy.
	It's also 79 degrees here inside, so here we go.
	It's not bad.
	Hexafoos.
	Hexafoos.
	Can I please have the definition?
	A three-toed or triangular mark put on some Pennsylvania barns to keep evil spirits from the cattle or for decoration.
	Is this the New World Order graduation ceremony?
	Hexafoos?
	Seriously?
	This is the national spelling bee.
	It would be funny if we could have that woman from the New York Times participate.
	Oh!
	Hexafoos.
	H-E-X-A-F-O-O-S. Hexafoos.
	You got it!
	Unbelievable!
	So the Ask Adam, this is an Ask Adam thing.
	Play another minute of the clip and then we'll skip the rest.
	Okay, okay.
	Can I please have the language of origin?
	It's made up of German elements.
	Luciferian.
	Hexafoos.
	Hexafoos.
	Which is a little misleading.
	Can I please have the word used in a sentence?
	I think you've trumped your clip of the day.
	...enlarged his hexafoose when he realized it was the reason tourists stopped at his farm stand.
	Excuse me, John.
	I gotta go enlarge my hexafoose.
	I'll be right back.
	This is Dakota Jones.
	Are there any alternate pronunciations?
	Just the one.
	Hey, what kind of spelling bee is this?
	How many things do you get to ask?
	Are there any alternate pronunciations?
	And they all ask the exact same one.
	This is just thinking time.
	They don't give a crap about that.
	It's just a think, right?
	Yeah, it's stalling.
	If you were a tree...
	Actually, I take it back.
	No, wait.
	It's not really stalling because once the word's announced, the clock begins.
	You get two minutes.
	Oh, okay.
	Alright.
	And you love it when these kids...
	Okay.
	This is the...
	John, this could be our next gig.
	Yeah, I think I'm going to...
	Now the little ten-year-old is about to give his answer.
	I am from the New York Times, and I'm narrating the Spelling Bee Championship.
	...from Dr.
	Bailey.
	While they're still processing how to spell it.
	Hexafoos.
	H-E-X-A-F-O-O-S. Hexafoos.
	Yes!
	That is where all that time on the bus to and from school that he spends studying spelling every day pays off.
	Awesome.
	The triple lutz on that move was just fantastic.
	John, what did you think of that answer?
	I was just amazed.
	I thought the diction was perfect.
	I like the way...
	I like the way he nailed it, because it was confusing.
	Of course, the guy hinted that it was confusing, that it was German in origin, because it would be F-U-S, not F-O-O-S, and he managed to nail it.
	Yes, no, I totally agree, and I think this year's contestants are really raising the bar.
	What do you think, John?
	Mostly homeschool, as usual.
	Yes, homeschool, of course.
	So the Ask Adam is, what network...
	Yes.
	That I watched probably too much of had this show on.
	So, I was going to ask you what network this was on.
	And let me think.
	Can you give me the alternative?
	Does it have three letters?
	No.
	No.
	I'll give you a hint.
	It has four letters.
	Four letters.
	Okay.
	It's not C-spin.
	Four letters.
	Time's up.
	No.
	What is it?
	ESPN Sports Network.
	Hi, everybody.
	Welcome to the 2011 Spelling Bee.
	It's better than poker.
	That's the way I see it.
	Sponsored by Hot Pockets.
	Get rid of poker and put this on.
	Hey, don't say that, man.
	Annie Duke is a friend of mine.
	She makes a lot of money on poker on TV. It's much more...
	I don't know, though.
	I think I would watch a Spelling Bee over poker.
	I thought it was actually kind of entertaining.
	I mean, it's a little slow moving because they asked these same four questions.
	But I think what they should do to speed it up, I think they should make it a little more interesting.
	Cut the clock down to 60 seconds.
	So let me ask you a question.
	Put the screws to these kids.
	Make them sweat, little bastards.
	Hey, do they put the answers on the screen for the viewers at home?
	Yeah.
	Oh, that sucks.
	No, they do it at the very end, though.
	Oh, okay.
	It's about when the kid starts to spell it, they throw it up.
	Oh, well, that's perfect timing.
	That's the way I would do it.
	I would do it like Wheel of Fortune, where I'd have Vanna White revealing each letter.
	Yeah.
	Like some hot chick.
	We would produce...
	Yeah, that would be good, too.
	I mean, come on.
	It's a little slicker than it used to be, because ESPN obviously has some input.
	Right.
	But, you know...
	Can you imagine that pitch meeting?
	Hi, we're Adam and John.
	I've got a great idea for a show.
	We're from the National Spelling Bee Association.
	And we really think this will do great on your network.
	And we're also the hosts.
	We do the voiceovers.
	I love it.
	What time is that on?
	Is that on a regular slot?
	No, it's over now.
	They just did the one that was a special.
	Or does that preempt Sumo?
	I wish they'd put Sumo back on.
	Sumo's actually quite entertaining.
	That's good.
	Next time, will you please call me when that's on?
	Because I want to watch in real time.
	Sumo?
	That's cool.
	No, no, not Sumo.
	The Spelling Bee.
	No, I don't want to watch Sumo.
	The Spelling Bee.
	I like it.
	Thank you.
	Oh, I should have texted you.
	Yeah.
	So did you see the thing I thought was the big news that has been completely suppressed?
	We did have a bunch of...
	Somebody blogged it.
	It's on my blog.
	Is the UN and the international report on the drug industry and how drugs should be legalized Marijuana in particular should be legalized and all the rest of them should be decriminalized because this entire thing has been a farce?
	Yes.
	And this is signed off by the biggest names in the business?
	Yeah, and actually all of the old world, old Europe leaders are all kind of on board with this.
	They all think that this is the way to go.
	It's very interesting.
	Is this the EU clip?
	Which clip is this?
	I don't have a clip of it.
	I couldn't find a clip because I have the article, but I couldn't find any clips because it's been suppressed.
	Nobody wants to talk about it, especially in the U.S. of A. I mean, because let's face it, we have a drug industry that's making people money.
	You know, it's ruining people's lives and screwing up the society, but it's beside the point.
	You know, somebody's making a dime here.
	Yeah, there was something else that I was seeing.
	It's gotten so bad that, and this was from Gitmo Nation East, I believe.
	Let me see if I can find it.
	Apparently, people are so strung out on oxycodone, or oxy, as we call it.
	Oxycontin, yeah.
	Is it oxycontin or oxycodone?
	I think oxycontin is the brand name which I think is still patented.
	And oxycodone, I think, may be what the drug is.
	I'm not sure off the top of my head.
	I'll look it up.
	Yeah, so people are going and robbing pharmacies at gunpoint.
	At gunpoint.
	It's like, give me all your oxy, bitch.
	I'm going to start shooting in five minutes if you don't start giving me the oxy.
	I mean, this is crazy.
	We have people hooked on the wrong drugs.
	I mean, people are going to get hooked anyway.
	Yeah, oxycodone, which is oxycontin, is used to relieve moderate severity.
	It's a class of medications called opiate analgesics.
	It works by changing the way the brain...
	Yeah, this stuff's terrible.
	You looked it up in the big book?
	Actually, I'm looking it up at nationalnih.gov.
	It's where it showed up.
	It was developed, here's the big book, the Book of Knowledge mentions it was developed in 1916.
	Really?
	Yeah.
	In other words, it's one of the ones that said, oh my god, let's just use opium.
	It is opium, right?
	They shelved it.
	No, it's like a special, it's like, here, let's read it, so we all know.
	Yeah.
	It's synthesized from opium-derived thebane.
	It was developed in 1916.
	Wait a minute, stop right there.
	Synthesized from opium-derived, so that means it's a derivative of an opium.
	It's a derivative of a derivative.
	But it means we need opium to make it.
	Yeah, that's what it looks like.
	Right, thank you.
	One of several new semi-synthetic, semi-synthetic, in other words, you don't need as much opium, I guess.
	Semi-synthetic opioids in an attempt to improve the existing opioids, morphine, heroin, and codeine.
	All the good stuff.
	Oxycodone.
	I mean, opium itself is what should be used for most of this stuff.
	Yeah, why not just take some opium?
	You know, it's, because it's, who knows, I mean, the health is, nothing could be as bad as this stuff, as this oxycodone.
	I mean, Rush Limbaugh was strung out on it, taking, you know, dozens of pills at a pop.
	And he was like a major anti-drug guy.
	Yeah, right.
	That should give you pause right there.
	But I guess you can function okay if you're on the Oxy.
	Oh yeah.
	Well you can with all these things.
	So you're crazy strung out but you can still function.
	You can still do a show.
	Hey!
	We could still do a show.
	So it makes me want...
	You know, you think of it, you know, going back to Afghanistan.
	I do have a clip from Afghanistan, about Afghanistan, which makes me...
	And you listen to this clip.
	It sounds as though Karzai is probably strung out.
	Well, his brother is the biggest dealer in Afghanistan, so it makes sense.
	So we just have a couple minutes left.
	What happened with Karzai?
	Crazy town.
	No, I... Wait a minute!
	Who's saying that?
	She mumbles this in the background as soon as she's asked the question.
	This is a woman who just wrote a book called The Taliban Shuffle and our book club should take note and put this book on the list.
	Her name's Kim Barker.
	She's an ex-Chicago Tribune reporter that went rogue and decided to write books and quit the business.
	And she's kind of a clownish character.
	She said crazy town.
	Yeah, he's asked the question, she mumbles, before she gives her answer, she goes, crazy town.
	By the way, this is the guy, lest you forget, that wears the Batman cape and has the hat made out of sheep fetus.
	I mean, I don't need to read no book to know this guy is 100% crazy town, okay?
	She says that she's one of the last people that got to interview him and he won't take interviews with any male reporters.
	The female reporters apparently in Afghanistan have an edge over the men.
	That's what I'd do if I was king.
	And she...
	Anyway, you can hear this whole thing and it's quite funny.
	One important question.
	Is she hot?
	She's not unattractive.
	So we just have a couple minutes left.
	What happened with Karzai?
	Crazy town.
	Karzai...
	There's a couple different things that I think has happened with Karzai.
	First of all, we set him up pretty much to fail.
	We love a leader who speaks English and dresses well.
	We do.
	We especially love a leader who...
	How can she say dressed as well?
	When he's wearing a fetus, a sheep's fetus hat.
	...and control their country.
	We like dealing with one-stop shopping, which is why we kind of like having Musharraf in Pakistan.
	We kind of liked having all those horrible dictators in the Middle East.
	I mean, I think our foreign policy does, we preach a lot about democracy, but we like having a strong man to deal with.
	And so I think that in the very beginning, the sense was, okay, here's our guy.
	And also the Bush administration, we loved having our guys in places.
	And so Karzai was our guy there.
	I mean, can you remember when the Iraq war happened and everybody was saying, God, if only there was a Hamid Karzai in Iraq!
	You know, God, think about that for a minute.
	So, and I think that over the years, Karzai is paranoid.
	He's known to be paranoid.
	He has become increasingly isolated.
	He's...
	He's basically in this palace by himself.
	If you haven't read the story by Elizabeth Rubin about him, it's a great story in the New York Times Magazine.
	It pretty much describes how he's got to this point.
	And I think that he's caught between this whole idea that he really believes inside he is the person who's going to save his country.
	He really believes, I believe...
	That the West is against him and that America is trying to kill him and America is killing people there.
	I think all these crazy press conferences he gives, he actually believes that.
	And that's a problem when your partner has turned into the person who publicly, like, and he's always doing a wag the dog thing, you know.
	Wow.
	Allegations of corruption in Kabul Bank.
	Look at this Florida preacher who sent a Quran on fire.
	And then you know you get riots where Afghans end up getting killed and UN people get killed.
	Yeah, there's this great observation in the book about everything will be going to hell and Karzai will come in when everything's kind of over and appeal for calm.
	That's his way of doing things.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	So last thing, you mentioned Charlie Wilson's War, which is a terrific book, turned into a terrific movie.
	Well, I think that this is a terrific book, and this could be a terrific movie.
	Oh, John, what a shill!
	This woman is a complete shill!
	Karzai was CIA from day one.
	He worked for UNESCO. He's an oil cabal shill.
	He's completely educated in America.
	His brother owns a chain of restaurants, and she's acting like this guy just popped up out of nowhere, and her book's going to be a movie?
	Please!
	She never said that he wasn't a shill.
	She just says he's nuts.
	Oh, yeah.
	But this book and the subsequent movie is all meant to discredit this guy for whatever we need to do.
	We need to pin it on the donkey.
	Well, she could be a CIA shill, too.
	That's what I'm saying.
	She's on the inside.
	It's time for him to get out.
	I learned a couple things from this clip.
	One, if you want to be a dictator, get some good-looking threads.
	That's clear.
	So every dictator who has some hot outfit, some cool uniform, he works for us.
	So there's Gaddafi for you.
	Yeah, that's a meme.
	I like it.
	Yeah, I mean, she just said that.
	We want one-stop shopping.
	We want a guy that looks the part.
	And speaks a little English.
	And speaks a little English.
	Because I speak fluent English.
	So English-speaking, sharp-dresser.
	Sharp-dressed man.
	And Stooge.
	Yeah.
	And let's face it, the cape was a nice touch.
	We probably are trying to kill him.
	Yeah.
	But the cape was nice, wasn't it?
	The cape and the hat.
	I like the hat.
	Wow.
	You know, I should go on trips more often.
	You know, normally I'm listening to old reruns of soap operas.
	You did some work.
	This is nice.
	I like it.
	Well, if you want to hear the best clip, before we go to any...
	Yeah, I'll hear the best clip.
	I think the most interesting clip, unfortunately, this guy can't speak.
	He's a writer.
	Let me see if I can find his name here.
	And I had to cut out the beginning.
	I actually may take the beginning of this clip, which I cut out and put it as a separate clip where he goes, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh.
	For about five minutes.
	Uh-huh.
	The guy's name is Thanasis Kembanis, and his book for the book club people out there is Privileged to Die.
	And he deconstructs the mechanism used by...
	Hezbollah and Hamas to create a culture of suicide bombers.
	Really?
	And it's actually, when you hear this little clip, this one clip where he actually describes the entire mechanism as a cultural mechanism that actually works to...
	And you hear what the mechanisms are.
	The mechanism is based on the fact that women in this particular culture, the Palestinian culture, are very important, but they're still forced to marry these douchebags.
	And if they can get the douchebag to kill himself...
	They get knocked up on the...
	They get pushed...
	Not knocked up as in pregnant...
	Made pregnant...
	Oh, you get all the goodies.
	You get pushed up the ladder.
	They get the goodies and they get pushed up the social ladder.
	Let me understand.
	So, you want to marry some douchebag who then gets killed...
	Well, you have to marry a douchebag.
	They choose the douchebag for you.
	Right.
	You're not going to like the guy.
	Let me listen to this guy.
	The social network that Hezbollah has built up around this idea.
	So, when...
	When a young fighter, let's say, dies and becomes a martyr, the party sends psychologists and social workers around to the family to work with them, make sure that they deal with their depression, make sure the kids are doing okay and adjusting and succeeding at school.
	And this is for two reasons, right?
	One is because they care about their members and they want them to be okay.
	Second reason is because they want people in the Society of Islamic Resistance to see that the families of the martyrs are the ones who thrive the most.
	So if you have a martyr in your family, the Martyrs Foundation is going to make sure surviving kids go to the best schools.
	They're going to encourage the widow to remarry, and usually to someone of high status within the party, often another fighter.
	And the result is that they build an elite.
	And the core of this elite are the mothers and the widows of these martyrs who sort of exemplify the most successful manifestation of Islamic resistance society.
	And people say, ha, ha!
	This is the way to climb to the pinnacle of my society, is by being willing to give my life this way.
	And if I am chosen to die, then my family will be even more blessed.
	And it's incredibly effective.
	Awesome.
	Well, time to move.
	What's funny about it, he does point out the fact that it's the women who make out on this deal.
	That's unbelievable.
	Yeah, it's apparently a whole system.
	Yeah, let's not hear you complain about women's rights anymore.
	Sounds like, you know, it may suck a little bit, but once your guy pulls the pin, then it's a gravy train.
	You're on easy street.
	Yeah, it's a gravy train, everybody.
	I love it.
	I'm going to show my school by donating to no agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh, yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, on no agenda in the morning.
	We don't like people blowing themselves up.
	We like them when they help us do this show, and we've got a few this week, including a new donor, Dave Rederer, out of Evergreen, Colorado, although that name rings a bell.
	Here's 165.33 double nickels on the dime.
	I'll take three birthday call-outs, one for myself, whose birthday is today.
	I'd also like a birthday call-out for my lovely wife, Claire, whose birthday is tomorrow, and one for her sister, Mary McFarland, whose birthday is also tomorrow.
	There's eight years between them.
	I tried getting...
	I tried getting on the No Agenda Nation website to figure out where I am as far as my knighthood goes, but to no avail.
	Can I get a counting of my donations?
	I've heard of him before, but he shows up as a new donor.
	I think Eric had a few problems on the system where something had been double counted or whatever.
	Anyway, he's working it out.
	It's a beta, ladies and gentlemen.
	In other words, it doesn't work.
	It's like Google.
	It's a beta.
	It's worse.
	It doesn't work.
	It's like Google, only it doesn't work.
	That's not fair.
	Listen, I don't want to get the...
	Say something nice.
	Nice.
	At least he's trying to get it to work, but I mean, it's ambitious.
	It'll get fixed.
	Mark...
	Who's soon to be Sir Mark Coy...
	Coy...
	Coy...
	colon colon in venusen no netherlands vanhausen vanhausen vanhausen vanhausen vanhausen yes how's that vanhausen yeah very good okay sir good hey there john and adam hail hail the foot yeah exactly hail the foot everybody hello everybody hail the foot i love this show I You know what's going to happen?
	Hailthefoot.com.
	Hail the foot.
	Hail the foot.
	It makes sense.
	We talk about those feet washing up on shore.
	Hail the foot.
	Hail the foot, everybody.
	Love the show.
	It's keeping me sane.
	You guys make me laugh.
	And at the same time, you're making me a very smart and wise man.
	It's a bargain, speaking in valuable value terms.
	Already being a proud founding producer of the No Agenda stream, I can now finally say I'm a knight of the No Agenda.
	Please send me my hookers and cucumbers in the No Agenda night ring size 12.
	Who needs a cucumber when you've got a size 12?
	Yeah, I'd say.
	I know John loves the stickers, but there are no toll booths to stick them on below sea level.
	We, however, have...
	Is that right?
	No toll booths.
	No, everything is all paid for.
	You have no money, but there's no toll booths.
	Huh.
	Well, however, we have lots of traffic.
	Just stick them on your neighbor or the car next to you during these traffic jams and get lowlands.
	Therefore, I'm preaching the No Agenda Gospel via my car with a nice big in the morning NoAgendaShow.com on the back.
	Greetings from Osterleek or East Lake City.
	I'm Mark Krulian.
	Oster Lake.
	Oster Lake.
	Very good.
	Hail the foot!
	Hail the foot.
	So, in these situations where you have no place to stand, I don't see a lot.
	There are still these little kiosks, these things where they stick up posters and signs for rock concerts and stuff.
	I think those need to be targeted.
	We're not doing enough of that.
	Anyway, 159.46.
	Edward Sheets in Brewerton, New York, 12345.
	David Yeagley in Pleasanton, California, just around the corner.
	Call-out name is Dave Yeagley, last name pronounced Yeagley.
	Hi, John and Adam.
	I did my age birthday calculation, and we forgot about plugging this idea, by the way.
	And we still have six months to go.
	It's stupid.
	Turns out to be 111.
	Coincidence?
	I think not.
	I'm donating in the hopes that you guys will stop bickering amongst each other like an old married couple.
	Well, it's inevitable.
	We're like an old married couple.
	And besides that, there's a whole group of people that listen just for that, which I think is sick, personally.
	Yes, I do.
	It's abhorrent.
	Can you explain what this 111 thing is, how it works?
	Yeah, so this happens once every, what was it, 831 years, I think?
	So it may not happen again in your lifetime.
	I don't know.
	What you do is you take the year that you were born in, the last two digits...
	And the age you will become this year or have become this year, and if that equals $111, and it probably should, then you should consider either signing up for $11.11 a month or going straight for the gambit like David Yeagley there with $111.11, and we highly appreciate it.
	Jared Forster, Regina.
	Regina, sorry, rhymes with.
	Saskatchewan, Canada.
	I love the show, but you guys don't fight anymore.
	This is what the Illuminati wants you to do.
	They're talking about the time.
	Oh, you're bitching and moaning about something.
	$69.
	Let me tell you what it was.
	This was about the college thing, and I got a lot of email.
	You said that college was a piece of shit.
	No, I did not.
	I did not.
	And in fact, let me just say one thing.
	I got a lot of emails about this.
	It's in the show notes at 310nashownotes.com.
	I'll give you two things that people said that I thought were interesting.
	Basically, what I said was, you went to Berkeley, and I went to Salem College for three months and dropped out.
	And I just said, well, here we are.
	You with your college education and your degree and me without one.
	And we're both doing the same way.
	We both have the same way of making our living.
	That's all I said.
	I didn't say it was bad.
	Well, here's the thing that you have to really appreciate.
	I did go to Berkeley, and I'm not a Hummer.
	No, we wouldn't be doing the show if you were a Hummer.
	However, two notes came in.
	One, if you replay that clip, which I don't have on hand, it was filled with memes.
	We were talking about Peter Thiel.
	According to this producer who sent this note in, the whole thing about the meme of college is too expensive, the education bubble, is all about joining the army.
	Because when you join the army, you get your education for free.
	You think, by the way.
	Oh yeah, by the way, forget the limbs that get blown off.
	And then Skyler, he says, as a truck driver, I would like John to know he would be in the company of thousands of Berkeley history majors.
	My second favorite is seeing Stanford English majors, and I've even met one former JPO engineer who lost his job during cutbacks.
	Truck drivers rule!
	Yeah, well, I apologize to all the truck drivers because I didn't mean to demean any of them.
	And I'm sure there's a bunch of history majors that are driving trucks and probably doing very well for themselves.
	Melissa DeLeon in Duncanville, Texas, 6509 is a small start toward my husband's knighthood.
	It's pretty generous.
	That's very nice.
	Today is our second anniversary, so happy anniversary, John Anthony.
	I love you, and thank you for getting me hooked on the No Agenda show during a nasty snowstorm.
	You guys, John and Adam, are the best, and we have been listening way too long not to have donated by now, but I'm putting my husband through his PhD program, and it ain't cheap, as we just discussed.
	So here's how it works.
	There's a blizzard outside.
	Honey, I know what we can do.
	And she's like, oh yeah, I'm getting my hexafoot already.
	Hexafoos.
	My hexafoos.
	My hexafoos.
	I'm all buttered up with my hexafoos.
	And he cracks out the No Agenda show.
	That's very sweet.
	That's very sweet.
	Well, it's been two years, you know, these things happen.
	Two years!
	It's about two years, and next thing you know, instead of, you know...
	I can just see Mickey.
	I can just see Mickey.
	It's like, honey, honey, you know, it's raining, and we're in the RV. I've got an idea.
	Why don't we listen to this week in tech?
	Just see it.
	Gaston Gonzalez Bonar...
	Bonar...
	Bonar...
	Oh, man.
	Bonarino.
	That's got to be it.
	Bonarino.
	That's what it is.
	Yeah, Bonarino.
	Gaston Gonzalez Bonarino.
	Excuse me.
	Sunny Isles Beach, Florida, $59.95.
	Here's an interesting one from Mumbai.
	Abhilash Kumar, and by the way, you have to try to pronounce his whole name.
	Yeah, can I just interrupt you for one second, John?
	I wouldn't mind you calling me back, because you went to, like, the lowest possible codec that Skype has.
	Oh, okay.
	Why don't you call me and see what the routing is.
	Okay.
	And the good thing about this setup, I believe, and by the way, you can hear the wind picking up here as I have the windows open in the mobile Hot Pockets mobile.
	Oops.
	Oh, boy.
	Something went wrong.
	This is not good.
	How's this?
	Hold on a second.
	Ah, there we go.
	I'm back.
	Say something?
	Testing one, two, three.
	You sound like crap, but how do I sound?
	No, you sound great.
	Okay.
	All right.
	All right, let's go on.
	I'm getting an echo now.
	Really?
	Let me try this.
	Let me try something.
	Okay, try again.
	Testing?
	Better?
	No, I still get an echo and it comes in a...
	I can live with it.
	I'm sorry.
	I don't know what to do.
	Okay, well let me just go on.
	Okay, we've got Abilash Kumar and he wants us to try to pronounce his full name once.
	Do you see it in the note?
	Yeah, I see it in the note.
	Here we go.
	It's down here.
	Okay, his full name is...
	Right.
	Pretty good.
	So he says he's Abhilash Kumar from Mumbai.
	And he's been listening to the show for a few months now and has repeatedly heard us talk about the fact that people from India are very tight-fisted and don't like donating ever.
	Right.
	Yeah, I think we've mentioned that, that Indians are cheap.
	Yes, we mention it all the time, and here's what he says.
	Well, you are right.
	We don't, and when we do, we like to get our money's worth, so it would be nice if you could give me a double shot of de-douching and karma.
	Alright, here we go.
	You've been de-douched.
	You've got karma.
	You still getting that echo?
	Yeah.
	I'm sorry, man.
	I don't know what to do.
	I can't help it.
	Okay.
	He needs it for him and his wife and a new human resource.
	He's expecting in a few months.
	He actually says we should use our accents during.
	We didn't do our accents.
	Oh no, I'm not going to do the accent.
	He has a new human resource coming.
	I'm an idiot when I do it.
	Do you want Badur, Roshan, Lal, Albilash, Kumar, Singh, Khrush, Resha?
	Some karma for you.
	And by the way, karma is 100% a Hindu invention.
	You know, the thing about that accent, people say, well, you know, it's racist.
	It's not racist.
	This is the number one way.
	If you take the English language and see the way people pronounce it and use it, this is probably the way the majority of English speakers speak.
	Yeah, and being from Silicon Valley, we know how Indians talk.
	Exactly.
	Very good.
	You are absolutely correct.
	That will be $5 million in Wencha capital.
	Daniel Hutner, Murphy's California, double nickels on the dime.
	John Tucker, Omaha, Nebraska, double nickels on the dime.
	There's a donation for a mention of the Heartland Liberty Fest taking place in Omaha area on Saturday, August 6th.
	People can find out more information by going to heartlandlibertyfest.com.
	I'd also like to ask for people to go to the noagendatour.com and vote for a stop in Omaha.
	We'd like to see Adam and Mickey stop by the Heartland Liberty Fest during the No Agenda Hot Pockets Tour.
	When is the Heartland Liberty Fest?
	Does it have a date on there anywhere else?
	August 6th.
	Oh, we might make it.
	We might.
	We might not, but we might make it.
	You could park in there with all the RVs.
	Yeah, it would be awesome.
	Hey, everybody.
	Hello, everybody.
	Raleigh Rakama, $55, starting my journey from Helsinki tomorrow and traveling to San Francisco.
	Please hit me with some karma.
	You've got karma.
	He's going to need it because he's traveling with his girlfriend.
	He wants to know any good recommendations.
	I'm going to recommend Fringal.
	Yes.
	I just ate there again the other day and the new cook there is fantastic.
	They have another new chef at Fringal?
	This guy, I think, when we ate there the last time, I think that was the guy.
	The stuff is just dynamite.
	It's a good place to eat.
	And not expensive.
	I mean, relatively speaking.
	It's not like an RV park, but it's not expensive for San Francisco.
	From a guy coming in from Europe, it's cheap.
	Indeed.
	Stephen Burrell, Rochester, New York.
	$53.33.
	First time donor, long time boner.
	Please de-douche and...
	And karma.
	Give him a double.
	A double shot?
	You got it.
	You've been de-douched.
	You've got karma.
	You got it.
	Double shot.
	Driving on vacation in time for Sunday morning live show, so please give my girlfriend Nikki some karma, which you just did.
	Yeah.
	He likes the...
	He also seems to like this.
	Yeah.
	By the way, that is an official symphony slide whistle.
	This is the one they would use in the San Francisco Symphony.
	So you could be that guy who's just waiting there the whole concert.
	He usually plays the triangle, too.
	Can you imagine being that guy and missing your cue?
	Oh, man.
	They'd shoot you.
	And finally, Jonathan Dodd out of...
	Hamill, Hempstead, Hertfordshire, UK. Some monies for your efforts.
	Really enjoy the show, John.
	Fifty bucks.
	I'm sorry, also Matthias Merkert and Michelle Moore.
	In Knightsdale, North Carolina.
	So a couple of new donors that we want to mention, even though they're under the $15 level, and of course we really appreciate the lower amounts as well, and anyone who's on the $5 a month program, the 1111, the 33s, all of those under $50.
	Many of them, of course, want to be kept anonymous purposely, so I'm presuming when Buzzkill Jr.
	and Schill send me...
	Is Buzzkill Jr.
	on the payroll now?
	Or is he just working?
	I think he's going to end up getting the...
	Yeah, I think he's going to be...
	He's taking over the Schill's position?
	Taking over the Schill's position.
	Right, because Schill's going to be doing rings and stuff.
	He's going to be busy.
	All right.
	So the new donor list, thank you, Kelman Timegu, of course, one of our Associated It doesn't seem like those are under $15, but maybe...
	I don't know what they are.
	I'm just reading whatever they send me.
	One other...
	Note here from John Little.
	Hey man, it's John Little.
	Change my email if you remember.
	I'm halfway to knighthood, haven't been able to donate lately.
	I lost my job a couple of months ago, and me and my family are struggling.
	If you could send me some karma, I would really appreciate it.
	As soon as I get a new gig, I'll donate again.
	Also, if you and Miss Mickey come through Mississippi, I'm close to New Orleans, so that's an option.
	Would love to meet you all.
	Love you.
	Love you, Miss Mickey.
	Love, John.
	And yes, sir, indeed.
	You've got karma.
	Just because you're on hard times doesn't mean we forget you, my brother.
	Absolutely.
	Are you going to hit New Orleans, you think, with the van?
	We'll try New Orleans.
	I don't know about New Orleans.
	And by the way, it's not a van.
	It's a rig.
	Yeah, the rig.
	We showed up here yesterday at the Borrego Springs RV park, everybody.
	You can come and stalk me now if you can get here through the desert.
	Welcome!
	By the way, people are so friendly.
	I mean, I love them.
	And Mickey's like, oh my god, Americans are so nice.
	And, uh...
	What, would they be throwing mud at you?
	Yeah, you know what?
	Yes.
	So, uh...
	Get out!
	Get out!
	We don't want your kind here.
	So we show up and, uh...
	And she's like, uh...
	What kind of rig you got?
	I'm like, what?
	What?
	And my brains are like scrambled from it.
	Rig.
	Oh, you mean my RV. Yes.
	I'm like, well, rig.
	How big is it?
	30-footer.
	Okay.
	You ever stayed here before?
	No.
	In fact, this is our first RV park ever.
	You get a $20 discount for your first time stay.
	This is lovely.
	I love it.
	We also had a nice chat with Ranger Kalem up in...
	That was another nice experience.
	We have our own little spot there, and the ranger drives by around 5 in the afternoon, and I'm burning wood, right, in one of those bins, except we neglected to bring firewood, another thing on the checklist, so we'd found some crate, and I broke it to pieces, and we're burning it up, and the ranger stops.
	I'm like, immediately, I'm like city guy, like, oh, I did something wrong.
	I'm going to get arrested.
	I'm going to get arrested.
	And he stands in front of our RV and he says, Do I have permission to enter your campsite?
	I'm like, wow, that's really cool.
	And he's a guy with, and by the way, Rangers, what does a typical Ranger look like to you in your mind?
	Like a Smokey the Bear hat, right?
	Yeah, there are a lot of them like that.
	Dude, this guy's got, he's got a Smokey the Bear hat, but he's got his Glock, he's got a taser, he's got a bulletproof vest.
	And Mickey says...
	That's why he's asking for permission.
	No kidding!
	Mickey says, are you wearing a vest?
	You look really buff, I'm sure you're...
	She's like, this is Mickey.
	You look really...
	I thought you went to the...
	Well, of course you go to the gym.
	You look really good.
	Are you wearing a vest, Ossifer?
	Of course, the guy's a two-tour Iraq veteran.
	Luckily, he took advantage of the GI Bill and was able to get a job.
	But he also, he's complaining like they're cutting 20% of the national park budgets.
	And guess what the budget consists of?
	People.
	And people in a couple of trucks.
	Another screw job.
	Yeah, total screw.
	And they've got like five guys for 750,000 acres or something like that.
	I don't know.
	That sounds a little big, actually.
	How big is Joshua Tree, do you think?
	I don't know.
	I have no idea.
	I only visited it once.
	Oh, it's so beautiful.
	Anyway, look at MickeySeas.com to see some of her art.
	You can't call them pictures anymore.
	They're just art.
	So, we want to thank everyone for supporting the show, and we're going to need a lot of support.
	Again, the Class C motorhome does about 8 miles to the gallon.
	There's only a 55-gallon tank on this thing.
	By the time you get going, it's time to refill.
	Yeah, it's like a 747.
	I'm telling you, it's like, ugh.
	So we're going to need a lot of help, and so when we're out on the road mid-July, I think you're right.
	We're bringing a whole bunch of Lady Gaga cutout CDs, and we're going to be selling them just to make up for gas money.
	Signing them.
	Hey, have a Justin Bieber CD. Here you go.
	That was my signature.
	Or you can sign Justin Bieber.
	Who's going to know?
	No, why don't you pre-produce that?
	You signed Justin Bieber.
	At home and ship them to me and I'll sign Adam and Mickey will sign them.
	It's going to be great.
	We're very, very excited.
	So thank you all so much.
	We highly appreciate it.
	As you know, we don't take any commercials.
	This is the new model.
	And by the way, a model that's being replicated by some of the shrewdest businessmen in the business.
	You can call it stealing, whatever you like, but I think imitation is the highest and sincerest form of flattery.
	I'm looking at you, Calacanis.
	And here's how you do it.
	And of course, if that doesn't work for you, if you should be behind the Great Firewall of China or the Great Firewall of India, which is often used as an excuse, you can go to channeldvorak.com slash NA or just go to noagendanation.com and click on the donate button there.
	And don't forget...
	Or I should say, remember, we have our new show notes system, nashownotes.com.
	You can go to any individual episode.
	I haven't done all the back dates yet of the previous episodes, but we've been rolling for about ten now.
	So you can go to 310.nashownotes.com.
	And here's our list.
	We want to congratulate...
	Oops, hold on.
	Wrong one there.
	I've got to get my USB hub.
	Dave Rederer congratulates his wife, Claire, with her birthday tomorrow, and his wife's sister, Mary McFarland, who also celebrates her birthday tomorrow.
	I wonder if they're twins.
	Ah, that guy must be a very lucky guy.
	Happy birthday very much also to Craig from Blackpool and Gitmo Nation.
	Thanks for all of your friends here at the No Agenda Show.
	And then we have...
	Wow, we have a nice little list here, John, of knights.
	If you can grab your blade there.
	Thank you.
	That's good.
	Wow, this is amazing.
	We've got quite a bunch here.
	Let's call them forward.
	Soon-to-be recipients of your official No Agenda Night of the No Agenda Roundtable ring.
	Stefan Springer, Mark Kutland, Jared Forrester, and Jason Stevens.
	Will you all please step forward and kneel as we...
	Thank you for your support of the No Agenda Show in the amount of $1,000.
	Your rings are on the way, gentlemen.
	We hereby pronounce the Knights of the No Agenda Roundtable.
	Sir Stefan, Sir Mark, Sir Jared, Sir Jason, have a seat over here at the Roundtable.
	It barely fits in the RV, but it's ready for you.
	All nights of the No Agenda Roundtable, and we could not be more thankful of that.
	One more time, the place to go to support the show.
	Dvorak.org slash N-A. And a reminder, the show is coming to you this summer.
	Wherever you are in Gitmo Nation, we're on our way.
	Wait, we should do a Gitmo Nation Tour 2008 Hot Pockets.
	Hot Pockets!
	So, John, some very important information reached me.
	And this is a throwback to clips we've been playing throughout the past couple weeks.
	And a question I had, it was an Ask John question.
	He didn't have an answer for me, but we do have an answer now, and I appreciate the multiple questions.
	No agenda producers who went out and did the research, consulted the book of knowledge.
	So one more time, we will play the clip of Lucifer Hillary Clinton and the picture that rocked the world with her hand in front of her mouth in the situation room and the key information in this clip.
	This, by the way, is the hottie from France who was asking the question one more time.
	About Osama Ben-Landon, can I show you this picture?
	You know it.
	It's in the situation room.
	Yes, I remember.
	I saw that picture.
	I didn't know it was being taken at the time, but I saw it later.
	So you are holding your hand in front of your mouth.
	Yes, yes.
	What did you think at that moment?
	Were you frightened?
	What did you see?
	I don't know how to describe it other than it was a very intense period.
	The operation went on for 38 minutes.
	Okay, that's the key bit there, and of course, what did I say on this very program on Thursday?
	I said, one of these days we're going to figure out why this 38 minutes is so important.
	She says it in every single interview, 38 minutes, 38 minutes.
	Well, John, I have the answer.
	Yes, go.
	According to the Book of Knowledge, Wikipedia, The Stargate will remain open so long as matter or energy continues to pass through it to a maximum of 38 minutes.
	Beyond this point, massive amounts of power are needed to sustain a wormhole which ordinary sources cannot provide.
	Where did you get this?
	From the Book of Knowledge, from Wikipedia.
	Look up Stargate.
	Yes, sir.
	Is that what you look at?
	No, you look at Stargate.
	Go look at Stargate.
	So wait a minute.
	You're implying...
	Hold on a second.
	Hold on a second.
	I'm not implying the Book of Knowledge tells all truths.
	No, no.
	You're implying that they weren't really even looking at the Bin Laden thing.
	No, they were...
	No, they were...
	They were watching the Stargate open up.
	Yes.
	Or maybe the Stargate was there at Bin Laden, but they were really worried because the Stargate was going to close and they had to get anything that was going in or out to the wormhole.
	They had to get it done within those 38 minutes.
	That's why it was the most intense 38 minutes ever.
	So you're now making the assumption that the movie Stargate is actually a documentary.
	I'm not making no assumption.
	All I'm doing is consulting the Book of Knowledge and taking it verbatim for the truth that everyone else takes it for.
	John, one thing I know.
	Coincidence?
	I think not!
	There are no coincidences like that, my friend.
	It might have been the Stargate in Libya.
	It could have been the Stargate in the Gulf of Aden.
	We're not quite sure.
	One thing we do know, she was worried that the Stargate was going to close before whatever had to go through it came through it.
	And that's why it was the most intense 38 minutes of her life.
	Apparently Drusilla, the sister of Caligula, only lived to be 38.
	No, I'm not...
	No, no, no.
	This is not how it works.
	It's a book of knowledge, my friend.
	Someone sent me a great headline.
	Bad bling.
	This is an Ask John segment.
	Can you guess the story to the headline?
	Bad bling.
	Bad bling?
	Bad bling.
	Tungsten-filled gold amulets.
	Nope.
	Lindsay Lohan's electronic monitoring bracelet had to be replaced after it malfunctioned.
	What did it do?
	Burn her?
	No, it didn't work.
	Oh.
	So she had to take it to the shop and they had to chisel it off and put a new one on.
	This is her alcohol monitoring bracelet.
	I wonder how they know it didn't work.
	Hmm.
	We're not getting any readings from Lindsay.
	It must be malfunctioning.
	But for them to call it Bad Bling, this is indeed the new Bling.
	If you want to be a rapper...
	Oh yeah, that's a good one.
	Outstanding catch.
	If you want to be a hip-hopper, you've got to have a bracelet.
	Yeah, that would be cool.
	You could go to the clubs and you could have this bracelet around your leg and everyone thinks you're cool.
	Yeah, did we not say exactly this?
	Did we not say, when this first happened with Lindsay Lohan, we said, this is the meme, they're setting it up, it's going to be cool to have the bracelet.
	And here you go.
	And you have to pay for, by the way, which takes you out of the prison system so they don't have to pay for you being in there, A. And B, you end up having to, you have to pay for the damn bracelet.
	Yeah, well, yeah.
	What's your problem?
	It's great, though.
	I want, would somebody please make these?
	We need the No Agenda Gitmo Nation Bling Bracelet.
	It can just be plastic.
	I mean, it doesn't have to have any actual components in there, although that would be even better.
	No, I think it should be blingy.
	It should be plastic.
	That's right!
	We should have, like, the gold-plated with, like, encrusted with diamondiques.
	Hey, Maz, my bracelet.
	Excuse me.
	So, um...
	We did have that one Indian donor, which is extremely rare.
	In fact, I think we probably should...
	We have like three or four Indian donors, which makes us very exceptional.
	Because of him, I put together a clip called, India is fucked up.
	Huh.
	Can I just say one thing?
	Normally, I'm the guy that goes overboard on the language on the show, and now you're doing it?
	Now it's no longer a family episode?
	We have to mark it in iTunes as explicit?
	No, I can't bleep it out.
	I wasn't cussing.
	I was just telling you the name of the clip.
	Can I play it?
	This is from Newsnight on the BBC. The latest set of economic statistics from India show that in the year to March, the economy was growing at 8.5%, and this was regarded in India as something of a disappointment.
	As an emerging power in the world's largest democracy, India, we're repeatedly told, is a success story.
	But not according to the Booker Prize winning novelist Arundhati Roy.
	She claims tens of thousands of the country's poorest people have been killed and hundreds of thousands tortured by corrupt governments in the pay of big corporations.
	My colleague Jeremy Paxman spoke to her.
	This enormous change, the emergence on the world stage of a power the like of which has never been seen before, a voice that's never been heard before, aren't you proud of that?
	It's a false voice.
	It's a lie.
	And I'm not proud of it at all because in the 90s, in the early 90s when the economy began to open and the growth rate began to gallop, Since then, if you look at what it has done to the mass of people in India, you have...
	Yes, we have, I think, the world's largest number of millionaires or billionaires, but we have 800 million people living on less than 20 rupees, which is about 30 cents a day.
	You have millions of displaced people.
	You have more poor people in India than the poorest countries.
	Oh, I'm sorry, misfiring.
	The claim is that poverty has been halved in the last 30 years.
	It's untrue.
	You know, it's untrue and you go and have a look at what's going on there.
	There's an insurrection in the country.
	In parts of the country.
	Well, in vast parts of the country, which is out of control of the government now.
	Okay, you can kill it.
	So, 800 million people living on less than 30 rupees a day?
	30 cents.
	All right.
	Wow.
	Well, this is, you know...
	Hey, send us your rupees!
	Oh, man.
	That's pretty bad.
	It's just a little side thing.
	No, it's more than a little side thing.
	That's pretty bad.
	Yeah, the whole clip, which goes on and on, is depressing.
	Well, let me depress you even further, then.
	Yay!
	This is from CNBC. I believe the UK edition...
	They have the largest representative from the largest LIBOR dealer from the floor of the exchange.
	Do you want to explain what a LIBOR dealer does, John?
	I don't know what a LIBOR dealer does.
	Well, LIBOR is the London Interchange Bank something rate.
	Maybe the O is just in there, just to make it a word.
	And what they do is they swap money around based upon this interest rate, which of course is pretty messed up.
	But listen to the language he's using and you might get more depressed and start thinking about saving up some of your own rupees.
	Just to be clear, what we've got right now is almost near panic going out with money managers and people who are responsible for money.
	They cannot find the yield.
	And you don't want to just be putting your money into commodities or things that are punts that might work out and they might not, depending on what happens with the economy.
	We need to find real yield and real returns on these assets.
	So where do you go?
	That's what you're flocking to.
	You see bad data.
	You see the treasuries rally.
	You see all bonds and all fixed income rally.
	And then the people who are betting against US economy, they start throwing money and getting bearish on stocks.
	It's a huge mistake.
	Interest rates are amazingly low.
	And that, thanks to Ben Bernanke, is driving everything.
	You know, I keep making them point.
	You know, there's a difference between Ben Bernanke and Harry Houdini.
	Ben Bernanke is not a magician.
	We're on the verge of a great, great depression.
	The Fed knows it.
	We have many, many homeowners who are totally underwater here and cannot get out from under.
	The technology frontier is limited right now.
	We definitely have an innovation slowdown.
	So there you go.
	We're on the brink of a great...
	Wow, that's the most depressing report I've ever heard.
	The Great, Great Depression, and the only difference between Ben Bernanke and Harry Houdini is Harry Houdini was a magician.
	LIBOR is not lesbian borgs, as someone suggested on the chat room.
	It is the London Interbank offered rate, and LIBOR, of course, sets the interest rates.
	And this guy sounded pretty panicked.
	I did.
	I can't believe you got...
	Didn't you discuss this with Dvorak on your little show over there?
	I am Dvorak, believe it or not.
	I mean Horowitz?
	Not this particular thing, no.
	Shall I send you that clip?
	I'd like to get his take on it.
	Yes, please do.
	I'd like to get his...
	By the way, all of the clips you hear on the No Agenda show are also available in the assets section of the show notes, 310.nashownotes.com.
	And I have a little bone to pick with you.
	Alright.
	A bone light.
	So, I'm reading my favorite website when it comes to technology.
	PCMag.com Not Dvorak.org slash blog?
	No, no, no.
	That's where I do show prep.
	A little article penned by a certain John C. Dvorak.
	Sony hacker attack has deeper meaning.
	And I quote from the article.
	I've got nothing.
	If I were to hazard a guess, it would be that a hacker is a single young male with good hacking skills.
	A lone wolf with a personal grudge.
	No!
	Are you trying to get me locked up, my friend?
	What are you trying to do here?
	I can't believe you threw in a lone wolf meme on PCMag.com.
	I'm throwing more memes in as we go.
	Perfect.
	Good job.
	Good job, my friend.
	Good job.
	Very funny.
	So, yeah, you can find that column and others at PCMag.com.
	Yeah, right, exactly.
	So I've got a couple of interesting clips.
	So the Virginia Attorney General, who's the guy who took on the Obama administration's Obamacare, him and a bunch of other guys are suing left and right.
	By calling it unconstitutional, right?
	Yeah, well, actually I've got two clips from him where he's blasting the EPA, but then he, I would like to play both of them, but let's start with the clip I would normally play second, but it's the FCC clip, and tell me if you knew about this.
	You know, you who were here for a reason, we being the state, the Commonwealth of Virginia, and coming to an internet near you this summer, the FCC, this is the most brazen one of all.
	The FCC is going to roll out again an order to regulate the internet.
	Oh!
	Oh my god!
	Why is this the most brazen one of all?
	For one simple reason.
	A year ago, in 2010, they had a court ruling telling them they couldn't do this.
	They thought about it and said, we'll do it anyway.
	It's just a court ruling.
	Talk about a brazen disregard, disdain for the rule of law.
	Now, we may not like what courts do all the time, but there's got to be a place where our contests are refereed and fought out.
	This administration doesn't just disrespect states, doesn't just disrespect federal law, doesn't just disrespect the United States Constitution, But they also have no respect for the courts of this country.
	It's amazing.
	It is amazing.
	And this ruling, this order, is what they call it, coming this summer, in my view, is the most brazen one of all because of that.
	Because they have crossed one more line so brazenly.
	So it's...
	I'm glad to tell you there are attorneys general, especially that got elected in 2010, all over the country, who are now stepping up to the plate and playing a role in defending the Constitution, the rule of law, and their states in our federalist system.
	Wow.
	Let me do the trailer.
	Let me do the trailer.
	Coming this summer.
	Lock down your modems.
	It's FCC Regulation 2011.
	Well, we'll have the licenses.
	Yeah, I mean, that's the beauty of it.
	We have your podcast license.
	Go to podcastlicense.com.
	Actually, John, I need you to put a link up on dvorak.org.
	I'll do it.
	As soon as the show's over, I'll create a link and I'll send you a copy.
	You can put it on that site, too.
	Yes, because we need the podcast licenses to propagate.
	You'll get your podcast license at podcastlicense.com.
	And when the...
	When the FCC regulations come down and someone's knocking on your door, he says, Hey, excuse me, Ossifer.
	Can I just show you my podcast license signed by the Podfather and John Hancock himself?
	Wow.
	That's nice.
	The funny thing is most of the clips I collected, which I haven't played too many of yet, involve the government going overboard by doing it.
	Apparently the Department of Energy, there's a whole bunch of stuff on C-SPAN, hours and hours of material.
	The Department of Energy decided on its own to shut down Yucca Mountain.
	What is Yucca Mountain?
	Yucca Mountains is where they're going to put all the spent uranium fuel because it was deemed the best place in the whole country where it would be safe, earthquake-proof, and it's not going to leak and all the rest of it.
	And it may or may not be controversial that they were going to do this, but they decided against all the legal precedents and their own commissions and everything else just to do this.
	And they're starting, they not only shut it down, but they abandoned the site, let a bunch of stuff go.
	It's like a complete disaster.
	I have two clips that kind of relate to this, but play the short clip first.
	The energy department goes rogue.
	Hold on a second.
	You messed me up.
	I was ready with the Virginia attorney.
	Okay.
	Got it.
	Energy Department goes rogue.
	They're documented in the April report of the GAO, including disbanding of the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management that had managed the program.
	Like others, we have questioned the legal and administrative authority of the Department of Energy to disband this office.
	As you know, the Department of Energy requested no appropriations for the waste program for fiscal year 2011 or 2012.
	Except for support for the Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future.
	Yet when the Nuclear Energy Institute and the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners suggested that the Secretary of Energy suspend fee payments by utilities to the Nuclear Waste Fund in 2009, that was denied with an unconvincing pronouncement that all fees are essential.
	NARUC and the NEI have appealed that decision to the Federal Court of Appeals, which is pending.
	We can only speculate how much time and money it will take the U.S. to be ready to accept spent nuclear fuel for disposal if it is other than Yucca Mountain, but it's likely to be decades.
	It seems essential then that we seek out and develop one or more central interim storage facilities to take used fuel from the nine sites where reactors are currently shut down and the property cannot be decommissioned and returned To other productive uses because the waste remains, such as the former Big Rock nuclear power plant in Michigan.
	Regardless of what storage, transportation, or disposal solutions the Blue Ribbon Commission may recommend, they will need certain and reliable financing support.
	Concerning the financial impacts of terminating Yucca Mountain, a more predictable funding mechanism...
	What was that?
	Anyway, it just goes on and on.
	Now, so what's interesting to me about this, and boy, this echo is now completely out of control.
	I'm sorry.
	I'm going to call you right back, okay?
	Okay.
	And ladies and gentlemen, like this is going to be any better, right?
	Might be.
	Okay.
	Do I have to hang up or I'll hang up?
	I'm going to hang up.
	I hung up on you.
	I don't care about you.
	I hung up on you already.
	And now, of course, here we go.
	Let's see if this works.
	Is the echo any better?
	I don't know.
	No, it's not any better.
	It's worse?
	How did it reappear?
	Okay, here we go.
	Let me just finish.
	I watched all these hearings.
	One of the things that cropped up was the...
	And by the way, this was both Democrats and Republicans.
	Both of them reaming the Department of Energy spokeshole who came.
	They wouldn't bring the Secretary because he wasn't going to put up with this.
	And here's an example of a Democrat giving it to the Department of Energy.
	By the way, this shutdown of Yucca Mountains costing the taxpayers $25 billion with no alternative, creating a mess in the entire country, basically.
	But play the reaming the Department of Energy clip.
	This is a Democrat who is, let me get his name, it's Inslee, a Democrat from Washington State.
	Thank you.
	This is very disturbing on a couple of bases.
	One is in my state of the state of Washington.
	We have people very diligently trying to follow their obligations legally and in their profession getting this waste ready to ship to Yucca.
	They're going to be ready to ship 9,700 canisters to Yucca.
	They're doing their job.
	But the department's not doing its job.
	Now, that's on a local concern.
	But on a national concern, I just think this situation is one of a failed state.
	You know, they talk about failed states around the world.
	Because of the failure to follow the clear law here, this is the equivalency of a failed state.
	We've reached a national decision.
	It is unpopular in one local part and a beautiful part of the country, as it will be in any part of the country that we ever have this decision made, and yet we can't execute a decision.
	Now, this sort of flagrant statement that social acceptance is now a legal criteria...
	I don't understand.
	I just asked Dr.
	Lyon, how are we ever to build anything like a nuclear waste repository anywhere...
	Okay, you can stop it.
	This is why I usually interrupt the clips that you play, because they, like, put me to sleep.
	I know, but at least it's at the end of the show.
	And I interrupted it myself.
	But the point is that this is going on, and it's kind of interesting, and that's what it swings back and relates to what the Virginia attorney, who's actually kind of entertaining, says about the EPA, which he calls the Employment Prevention Agency.
	blasts them because what's happening, and I don't want to get into too many details, but we have to start following this, is that the Obama administration apparently is not following either the court that tells it to do something, it's not following the laws, it's not following its own commissions, it's just going rogue on everything.
	Well, that's a surprise.
	There's no agency in the federal government that so egregiously ignores their own rules and the laws in place to bound their authority, and it is already vast authority.
	But no, that's not enough.
	That's not enough.
	Lisa Jackson, the administrator, which is the title of the head of the EPA, said in December of 2009, I'm out to transform the American economy, and I've got the 15,000 people at the EPA who are ready to help me do it.
	Period.
	Full stop.
	End of statement.
	No mention of keeping the environment clean in that statement.
	Transform the American economy.
	They know what they're doing.
	And how they're doing it.
	And again, we are in the last line of defense here.
	More recently, you may have read about the National Labor Relations Board working with Alan Wilson, Attorney General in South Carolina, to fight the NLRB in their attempt to gut the right to work to keep those 22 states that are free of compelled unionization free of compelled unionization.
	Yeah, that's lovely.
	Anyway, I just thought I'd cheer you up there with that kind of stuff.
	Yeah, let me call you back again, and then don't ever call for a reconnect on Skype, because it just went so bad, it's horrible.
	I'm just going to disconnect.
	This is what you get on the road, get used to it for the next 20 years, everybody.
	It's what it's going to be, it's what it is, it's what it's at.
	Hello.
	Yeah, hello.
	Hello.
	So I guess if you get rid of the echo, you just have to regulate your volume there.
	Turn down your speakers when you're talking or something.
	Uh...
	No, actually, the weird thing about this echo is that it's louder than you are.
	Well, that makes no sense.
	I know.
	Let me try something here.
	Hold on.
	It'll be worth it.
	Let me just try something.
	Hold on a second.
	One, two, one, two.
	Okay.
	Did it change anything?
	Let's see.
	Testing, one, two, three.
	Nope, not a thing.
	Do you still have an echo?
	No.
	Yeah, and it's louder than you.
	Right.
	So what you need to do is when you talk, turn down your speakers.
	And then when I'm talking...
	I know I could do that.
	But the problem is that I'll never hear you if you come in.
	Well, why don't we say over?
	Oh, God.
	Over.
	Hello, John.
	Over.
	Hey, I want to make a call out to the producers right now.
	Something very important you need to do.
	Google Video is shutting down.
	They're taking off everything.
	They're deleting everything.
	So there's tons of really important stuff up there.
	I just found out about this.
	I don't have the bandwidth to do it.
	Please, right now, somebody or some buddies, go to Google Video, search for...
	Boys Town Conspiracy of Silence.
	It's a documentary.
	It's a documentary that never aired.
	I believe done by either ITV or Channel 4 in Gitmo Nation East.
	And download that and keep it safe.
	Because this is the documentary about elites in Washington and their misuse of their abuse, I should say, of children.
	And the Boys Town USA Conspiracy of Silence documentary is a must-have documentary.
	For many generations to come, particularly because it's only been aired on the interwebs at Google.
	So please go and download that.
	It's incredibly important.
	Yeah, that's the only place I've ever seen it.
	Yeah, no, I don't think it's available anywhere else.
	And of course, everyone's like, yeah, I saw that documentary, man.
	It's a Google video.
	But you've got to download it.
	We've got to keep these things.
	Yeah, there's ways of doing that, too.
	And so the other thing, the Monsanto documentary is on there.
	Yes, exactly.
	Monsanto.
	I've never seen that anyplace else.
	That has to be downloaded.
	Another important one.
	And there's a little interesting ditty I got from one of our producers, Robert.
	Now, I've been talking about the solar flares, and of course we're going to see increased solar activity.
	It happens every 11 years, and I believe that that is part of the reason we have these power fluxes, although the power companies immediately blame it on the squirrels.
	Squirrels!
	And another producer sent us a note and said, yeah, you know, I know a guy who works at the power company.
	They always keep a dead squirrel around.
	They say, ah, a squirrel did it.
	So they can't blame the power company.
	But you know that it was really...
	And John, I think you even agree that that's probably possible.
	They're doing that.
	They blame it on squirrels.
	I would.
	Yeah, exactly.
	So Adam, I just listened to the latest show and wanted to share some info.
	Our U.S. cloud is based...
	In Vegas, I won't give the name out to protect the innocent.
	It's on a huge power networking hub.
	These guys are Spook Central, by the way.
	A crazy Tier 4 facility.
	They serve places like Area 51.
	Anyway, they let it slip that Fox Networks are moving all of their distribution for the U.S., transferring them from satellite to IP transit, That means instead of bouncing stuff off of the satellite, they're going to be distributing all of their programming through internet protocol, through wires, tubes.
	They explain this because they expect significant solar flare activity in 2012 and 2013 to the extent that satellite transmissions would be unviewable.
	So I think that's a pretty dire warning there that we're going to have some real outages coming if Fox is doing that.
	Yeah, that's interesting.
	Yeah, and I appreciate our producer sending us that note.
	Huh.
	Yeah.
	So, that's about it for me.
	Really?
	I got a couple more things.
	Well, I got one thing.
	I mean, I got a couple things too, but I can hold them.
	Yeah, please do.
	Oh, wait, wait.
	Let's do the one ad.
	Because we talked about the education system in this country.
	Play the trade school clip and tell me what you think I should do this maybe.
	Oh, sounds like John is looking for a gig.
	Okay, hold on a second.
	Here we go.
	This guy is Donnie Holtman.
	He was a staff sergeant in the U.S. Air Force.
	Christopher Holmes, he used to deliver flowers, if you could believe that.
	And this is Michael Chacon.
	He used to work construction.
	What do these guys have in common?
	They all ride Harley-Davidson motorcycles.
	They all used to do something else.
	And they all follow their dream to Motorcycle Mechanics Institute.
	Today, these guys are all in the Harley-Davidson program offered at MMI. They're training to work on an American legend, Harley-Davidson motorcycle.
	MMI is the only 24-week training program developed with and approved by Harley-Davidson University.
	It's designed to set you up for a career working in Harley-Davidson dealerships, and it works.
	MMI places more Harley-Davidson technicians into jobs than any other school.
	I'm John Roffey, a Harley-Davidson instructor here at Motorcycle Mechanics Institute.
	These students will tell you, this isn't work.
	It's a passion.
	Keep the legend alive.
	The Harley-Davidson Program at MMI. Visit mmitech.edu or call today to receive a digital brochure.
	Ha ha!
	You?
	I'm in!
	You know, first of all, I would love to go to Harley-Davidson University and get my degree in chemistry.
	Yeah.
	Better living through chemistry.
	You know, what kind of was fascinating to me about that ad, besides the fact that it was a piece of crap, Who comes up with the idea of having this deep-voiced guy read this kind of copy?
	It's just like, wow.
	Well, it's supposed to be manly.
	You know, it's like, do you want to look at this guy?
	He's John C. Dvorak.
	He used to be a podcaster.
	Now he rides a Harley.
	Come on, man.
	It makes my Huxafoos grow.
	I immediately want to go out and, I want to ride a Harley like John C. Dvorak.
	You could do voiceover.
	I wish.
	You know, Mickey did like one voiceover for NCSI. Oh, not ADR, additional dialogue recording.
	And she got a residual check for like 900 bucks.
	For doing a...
	Really?
	Yeah, for doing...
	And so she got paid for the session.
	You know, it's scale, so I can tell you that, you know, it's like, I don't know, it's not bad.
	It's like $1,500 for doing the session.
	She goes in there and does a couple words, you know, like some Berkeley mumbling.
	I don't know.
	I think we're stupid.
	We missed the episode.
	So I wanted to hear it.
	I wanted to hear her voice.
	And then she gets a residual check for the first airing.
	For 900 bucks.
	I'm like, wow.
	I'm sitting here doing a podcast in a 90 degree heat in a van.
	I need to do ADR voiceover work.
	This is no good.
	You too can be a Harley rider.
	Get on your Harley.
	We are in the wrong business.
	But we got a license.
	That's all I know.
	We got a license.
	Anyway, be very afraid.
	Stop.
	Be very afraid.
	The killer jellyfish are here.
	Jellyfish are invading the Florida coast.
	More than 1,600 people stung just in the last week alone by a type of jellyfish that is rarely found in American waters.
	Scientists say changing weather patterns may be to blame.
	I got you, Denise, in Cocoa Beach, Florida.
	Yeah, well, hold on a second.
	We have a jingle for that.
	There we go.
	Yep, changing weather patterns.
	And of course, these are the same people who tell you that climate is not weather.
	Climate's not weather.
	But changing weather patterns are bringing the jellyfish out to kill ya.
	1,600 people stung.
	That's not good.
	Yeah, no, jellyfish are nasty.
	Especially the man-of-war jellyfish.
	Oh, they'll kill ya.
	Yeah, exactly.
	They will kill ya.
	That's why people should get guns and just shoot them.
	The video on this thing, which you can find the show notes, 310.nashownotes.com.
	The video is out.
	I mean, they go out in a boat.
	It's just like the whole sea is filled with jellyfish.
	Yeah, I know.
	You got to shoot them, shotgun them.
	I'm going to take a dip.
	Hold on a second.
	All right, you can get in the water now.
	No problem.
	And Condoleezza Rice, who has been out on a promo tour, I guess now we kind of are starting to understand why she was out.
	By the way, new meme, new meme alert, building the brand.
	This is what everyone's talking about, Sarah Palin.
	Have you noticed this meme?
	She's building her brand.
	I haven't picked up on it as a meme, but you're right.
	She's building her brand.
	And I'm like, what?
	And by the way, there's something going on with the Sarah Palin stuff.
	I think that her brand building is so successful, that's why they launched this rumor that Miss Mickey handed this to me yesterday.
	She's helping out with the show prep.
	Hey, Sarah Palin's getting a divorce!
	I'm like, really?
	So I think that this is an attack launched against her because she's getting too much ink.
	She's getting more ink than Boehner.
	Certainly bigger ink on the same page.
	I noticed that on one of the right-wing talk shows they were complaining about this because apparently when Romney announces and most of the ink goes to Sarah and now they're getting a little annoyed.
	Yeah, so they launch a rumor.
	That's exactly what you do.
	And please, people, believe me, this is how it works.
	It's like, yeah, we've got to stop her.
	We've got to turn it around.
	What are we going to do?
	Call Hill and Knowlton!
	Don't worry, we'll take care of it.
	We're going to launch a rumor that she's getting a divorce.
	You know, the press loves that.
	We had the boner in the boxers, and now we're going to do the divorce and leave in the first dude, is what we'll call it.
	Yeah, there's your meme.
	Divorce in the first dude.
	But building the brand is the new meme.
	And Condoleezza Rice has been building her brand.
	And now we know why.
	Of course, do you know what her job was before she became Secretary of...
	I'm sorry, she was...
	What was her title?
	Was she Secretary of...
	Not Defense.
	State.
	State.
	Sorry.
	State.
	You know what her job was before she became Secretary of State for George W. Bush?
	Piano tuner.
	Yes, correct.
	You are right.
	A piano tuner at the Chevron Corporation.
	She was on the board of directors at Chevron.
	Why?
	Why would she be on the board of directors?
	Well, she was going to be a secretary of state.
	Listen, there's so much going on with all this oil stuff, which of course is unstoppable and it's not just the stuff you put in your car.
	I mean, this whole RV I'm in is made of oil.
	The computer I'm using.
	Oil is everywhere.
	You can't get away from it.
	Stop.
	It's futile.
	It's the economy.
	It's the basis for our economy.
	Yeah, it's what we roll on.
	All the plastic, all the paint.
	Everything.
	Your lotion.
	Yeah.
	Everything.
	And then we drive through these windmills on the way that we went down to Palm Springs before going to Joshua Tree.
	And I'm like, futile.
	It's futile.
	It's a scam.
	If you think that...
	I think so, too.
	Each of those things cost $200,000 and it's all subsidized.
	Hey, great.
	I gotta get in on that.
	And the railroad is running right alongside.
	Nice.
	Anyway...
	Yeah, Mickey took pictures.
	MickeySees.com.
	You gotta see it.
	Did you stop at the outlet mall?
	Darn!
	Oh, man.
	I was looking for the scenic overlook.
	You're gonna miss half the country.
	A lot of casinos down that way, by the way.
	Oh, yeah.
	Huh.
	Anyway, so here's Condoleezza Rice.
	She's at an event.
	And guess what kind of event she's at?
	It was billed as an initiative to promote the leadership of the United States to develop economically communities around the world.
	And featured former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice partnering with Chevron, one of the largest oil companies in the world.
	We can help countries to begin to build the infrastructure that can attract and properly use private investment and business development, which then produces the jobs for its people.
	While the launch was short on details, there were many references to the important role the U.S. had to play in improving welfare around the globe.
	Global welfare may not be something that pops into the minds of citizens around the globe when they hear the name Condoleezza Rice, more commonly associated with supporting President George W. Bush's invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq.
	You don't want another Afghanistan out there.
	You don't want the northern border of Mexico to look like a failed state.
	You don't want Yemen to, as it's doing, break into civil war and become the new Somalia or the new Afghanistan.
	You don't want that, slave.
	Listen to what we say.
	You don't want that.
	You want what we have to offer.
	So this is how it works.
	You work at Chevron.
	You get all set up, all geared up, all liquored up, all lawyered up, all greased up.
	And then you go and you become Secretary of State, and you go and you invade a couple of countries, and then you go out and then you take over.
	And now Hillary Clinton, along with Deputy Secretary of State Tom Nides, same department as Condoleezza Rice, are hosting a group of corporate executives this morning, I'm sorry, this was Friday morning,
	as part of the Iraq Business Roundtable, Where corporate executives from approximately 30 major U.S. companies, including Citigroup, J.P. Morgan's Chase, Goldman Sachs, are joining with U.S. and Iraqi officials to discuss economic opportunities in the new Iraq.
	Total economic hitmen, total takeover.
	Where's our news media on this?
	This is egregious.
	Egregious.
	That's a good word, right?
	Put that on the word.
	So we've got...
	Here's the companies.
	Bell Helicopter, Cargill, Caterpillar, Chevron, Citigroup, FedEx.
	Of course, we need to fly stuff in quick.
	General Electric, Goldman Sachs, Halliburton.
	JP Morgan Chase, KBR, they're already there, Lindsay Corporation, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Monsanto, National Association of Home Builders.
	Hey John, we can probably pick up a nice lot.
	Occidental Petroleum, Schlumberger, Tupperware, Tupperware, another oil.
	They gotta go door to door.
	Hello, hello, Ahmed, Mohammed here.
	Would you like to buy some Tupperware?
	Ventech.
	It's a party.
	They're doing their own Tupperware party of Iraq.
	Hey, want to buy some Iraq?
	It's disgusting and I'm ashamed.
	I'm ashamed.
	And that's your Obama administration right there, everybody.
	Hello, everybody!
	Buy some Iraq!
	Well, I think we did a great show today.
	We got depressing economic information, corruption.
	You're screwed, human resources.
	You're screwed.
	There's no good news.
	Well, no, there isn't.
	I had more.
	I got good news.
	I got a good news clip.
	You got a good news clip?
	Is it another hexafoos?
	No, no.
	The EU is still partying hardy.
	Okay, hold on.
	EU parties.
	You know what?
	My hands are so sweaty I can't even operate the trackpad.
	Now, these are tough times for all of Europe.
	In fact, they're so tough that amid all the sounds of belts being tightened, the European Union is asking member governments to finance an increase in the EU budget.
	It is curious then that it turns out certain parts of the EU gravy train appear to have no shortage of gravy.
	David Grossman reports.
	These are difficult times financially, but let us put your mind at rest on one concern that may be keeping you awake at night.
	Don't worry, the EU isn't having to cut back on its parties.
	According to a report by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, in 2009 alone, the Commission spent over €300,000 on cocktail parties.
	Including 75,000 euros on one particularly juicy sounding bash in Amsterdam, staged by the EU's research executive agency.
	This event was apparently billed as, quote, a night filled with wonder like no other.
	State-of-the-art technology, challenging art, combined with trendy cocktails, surprising performances, and top DJs.
	We've attempted to recreate just such an event, but shall we say we hit budgetary constraints, and we couldn't attract any real Euro-type celebrities.
	Perhaps because, unlike the European Commission, we haven't got any fabulous gifts to offer.
	Between 2008 and 2010, the commission spent over 20,000 euros showing some special individuals just how much it cares.
	And it also cares in the air.
	7.4 million euros on private jets for the commissioners and their advisers between 2006 and 2010.
	We've got, um, cheese and pineapple.
	Keyline Bar is one of the team who put together the report.
	What we did find were large sums of money which were attributed to what the Commission calls natural persons or confidential expenditure.
	This is when they feel that to publish what the expenditure would be used for is a security problem or may reveal somebody's identity who doesn't want to be known.
	Is this large sums of money?
	We're talking millions and hundreds of millions of euro.
	The Commission has disputed this version of events.
	In a statement, they say, the European Commission is not prepared to give credibility to the totally misleading claims made by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism.
	They go on, the BIJ has omitted the countless explanations the Commission has provided to explain the legitimate expenses that it incurs.
	One thing, though, is definitely true.
	While EU member states are having to cut back the amount of money they spend, the EU and its institutions are pressing for more cash to spend.
	First, the European Commission doesn't have to respond to voters.
	It's not elected.
	Secondly, I think there is a desire in Brussels and in the European institutions to be seen as very important, to be seen as influential.
	And therefore they have a bit of an obsession with gestures, with ceremonies, with these kind of things that we see them now spend money on.
	Rather than actually come up with policies and solutions which citizens have asked for.
	I love it.
	I love that they interviewed Mr.
	Oil at the end there of that clip.
	Yeah.
	So anyway, so they get the party on.
	Yeah, there you go.
	That's your elites in Brussels, everybody.
	Everybody in the United States of Europe, they're spending your money on hookers and blow.
	And you know who they got that from?
	It got taught to them by our American elites.
	Yeah, we know how to do it.
	Yeah, we know how to party.
	We know how to use jets.
	Not a problem.
	Well, I think despite some echo issues, which we'll figure out and we'll deal with, and a little bit of phasing and fading in and out on the Skype, I think we can probably get through the next 20 years this way, John, as I move my entire life to the rig.
	I think you should just go for it and sell the, or not sell, but just abandon.
	Abandon the hilltop crackpot watchtower thingy.
	Just abandon the crackpot center.
	Send the keys back to the landlady.
	And then take off and just go for it.
	The porn industry will be happy they have their house back.
	Yeah, probably.
	Yeah.
	All right, everybody, so we do need your support for this program.
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	And all of our producers, executive producers for the program, congratulations to our Knights.
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	From somewhere in southern...
	Parts unknown.
	Very unknown parts.
	Sweating my balls off.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where I wish I had a better connection on this Skype thing to make the show better, but that's the way it goes.
	I'm John C. Dvorak, and we'll talk to you again on Thursday from another unknown location right here on No Agenda.

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