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	But I just was looking.
	I was just looking.
	I don't know.
	Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
	It's Sunday, November 27th, 2011.
	Time for your Gitmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 360.
	This is No Agenda.
	From a chilly and windy camp mofo in Austin, the capital of the Lone Star State, in the morning I am the underprivileged belligerent known as Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where it's just another Sunday after Thanksgiving, and it's miserable.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	Miserable up there?
	Is it really bad?
	It's not too bad.
	It's to come down from Black Friday.
	Did you get pepper sprayed at the mall?
	No.
	No.
	I was like, that could have happened to John easily.
	He'd just be walking around in his Crocs.
	What the heck?
	Hey, man, don't pepper spray me, bro.
	That's not okay, man.
	Don't do that, man.
	My soundproofing is not as good as I thought it was.
	I still have Echo in here.
	You have Echo?
	Yeah.
	And I got like a whole bunch of those foam things everywhere and I still got Echo.
	You should use egg cartons.
	No, the foam is really good.
	It's just I don't think I have enough of them.
	Yeah, but it doesn't have that low-rent look of egg cartons.
	True.
	It doesn't have that Gitmo look to it.
	Is that what you have in the Buzzkill bunker?
	You got egg cartons?
	I've got a collection of them.
	I haven't put them up yet.
	I kind of like the ambience.
	I got the window open, the fans going.
	Is it warm?
	Walls are painted with a gloss finish so it echoes nicely.
	Is it warm?
	Is it warm up there?
	It's not warm, no.
	I think it's like 60.
	They're predicting an overnight frost in...
	In Austin tonight.
	Oh, you get to experience one of your early frosts in Austin.
	It gets colder down there than it does in the San Francisco Bay Area.
	Oh, man.
	Which makes no sense to me.
	Well, it's the desert, I guess.
	Last night we had a 40-mile-an-hour wind gust.
	We had a huge...
	The gutters are rattling.
	It's like, what?
	Mickey keeps saying, you gypped me, man.
	I thought we were going to some warm place.
	This is her new word.
	What are we doing in this hellhole?
	She loves it.
	She loves to say, I gypped her.
	It's like, okay, yeah.
	I guess I jipped myself, too.
	Like, holy moly, it gets cold here.
	Should I bring the chili pepper plant in?
	Because that'll freeze to death, won't it?
	Or can that survive?
	I don't know.
	I've never managed to grow a chili plant.
	Because there's just so prevalent around here that I never thought of growing one myself.
	Oh, wow.
	I would think that they probably could handle it, but it's in a pot, isn't it?
	Oh, yeah.
	Of course you bring it in.
	Yeah, that's what I thought.
	I'll just bring it in.
	And the bougainville.
	I'll bring that in, too.
	That'll freeze.
	I think.
	I don't know.
	Maybe.
	Anyway, in the morning to you there, Jean-Claude.
	And in the morning to you, Adam, and in the morning to all the ships at sea and boots on the ground that listen to the No Agenda show on a bi-weekly basis.
	Also, the feet in the air that probably never listen.
	And in the morning to all of our human resources, those who have shown up today in the chat room at NoAgendaStream.com, NoAgendaChat.net.
	Actually, we seem to have a reasonable quorum.
	Who have gathered round to talk turkey with us, post this turkey holiday.
	And I think we both were working on the same news item, which of course is a perfect time to slip this in, not only into the news stream, but to basically keep it out of the news stream, because everyone's too busy with Black Friday, Cyber Monday, get your pepper spray at the mall!
	That no one is paying attention to what's going to happen Monday in the Senate.
	And I think you and I were both working on this bill that is going to be voted on, apparently, Monday.
	Senate Bill 112, I believe it is.
	This is the bill, and this has been passed around the interwebs here and there, that essentially will do exactly what Newt Gingrich was talking about at the opening of the previous presidential debate, is create a separate system in these United States of Gitmo Nation, where a...
	Military judge will determine if you deserve the status of an unprivileged enemy belligerent.
	If so, then they can pick you up and troops will come to your home and knock on your door and take you away and lock you up.
	Now, which bill are you talking about?
	What number?
	I believe it's Senate Bill 112.
	I can double check.
	It's going along.
	It's been parallel with Senate Bill 1867.
	I'm sorry.
	1867.
	You are correct.
	1867.
	And so I'm looking at this.
	Go ahead.
	I like the fact that it's McCain.
	Douchebag McCain, our friend.
	Let's hit him right now.
	A total dork.
	With Levin.
	And who's a Democrat, because they have to, you know, it's funny, they always bicker about all these different kinds of things.
	But when it comes down to cracking down on the American public, the Democrats and the Republicans are locked.
	We agree.
	This is great.
	We agree on something.
	Finally, we agree on locking up American citizens.
	Is this not exactly the same type of legislation they had when they locked up the Japanese Americans?
	Isn't this exactly the same thing?
	No, this is much more onerous.
	It's worse?
	That was something else.
	That was illegal, too, but it was done different.
	It was a different stuff.
	This basically allows the military...
	First, you've got to change a bunch of laws.
	Posse comitatus.
	Essentially, in our country, we cannot...
	Allow the military to police the public.
	It's a law since 1880, isn't it?
	This posse comitatus means the American military may not be used against the American citizens, like in Egypt and stuff.
	Right.
	And by the way, you wonder why people want to support the second...
	Maybe the liberals out there who are against gun ownership should follow this a little more closely and understand the reasons for the Second Amendment.
	The judge is coming.
	I got the judge.
	This is why I moved to Texas, man, for this very reason.
	It's your last stand.
	That's right.
	That's the Alamo here.
	Yeah.
	Camp Alamo Mofo.
	Not too far away from San Antonio, as a matter of fact.
	Davey Curry here.
	While you're down there, you should take a drive and go look at the Alamo.
	It's very funny.
	I'm sure there's going to be Border Patrol there.
	I don't want to go there.
	I was like, this is bad news here.
	Yeah, that's where they set it up.
	So, subtitle D, detainee matters.
	Now, I, of course, what I usually do is I go through these bills and see what other things they refer to.
	So, how did this happen?
	Because, you know, they are not actually changing the Posse Comitatus Act.
	I figured out how this worked.
	Section 131031, affirmation of authority of the armed forces of the United States to detain covered persons pursuant to the authorization for use of military force.
	So this is the portion of the bill that says a person who was a part of or substantially supported Al-Qaeda, the Taliban, or associated forces, which I think is the no agenda audience.
	I think we can be deemed as associated forces.
	If you are engaged in hostilities against the United States or its coalition partners, including any person, any person who has committed a belligerent act...
	What does that mean, belligerent act?
	Well, let's look up the definition of belligerent first.
	Let's just do what we always do.
	Belligerent.
	Here we go.
	Adjective.
	Hostile and aggressive.
	A bull-necked, belligerent old man.
	Hey!
	You better lock your window.
	What?
	Hostile.
	Get off my legs!
	That's the belligerent right there.
	That is the definition.
	Bull-necked, belligerent old man.
	That's the first definition.
	Engaged in a war of conflict as recognized by international law.
	Noun, a nation or person engaged in war or conflict as recognized by international law.
	Then we have derivatives, belligerently.
	Origin late 16th century from Latin, belligerent.
	Waging war from the verb belligerare, from bellum, which is war.
	So basically, if you're just doing war talk, or if you have directly supported such hostilities in aid of such enemy forces, and what is, I guess they imply support being money, but it could just be holding up a foam finger saying, go, go, you're good.
	Yeah, it could be a foam finger.
	Go for gold.
	The way they do things, that's what it will be.
	I have a different take on this whole thing.
	When you're finished with your little elaboration here, I want to...
	Okay, let me just go through how this actually came to be and how it can actually happen.
	So, here, detention under the law of war without trial until the end of the hostilities authorized by the authorization for use of military force.
	So what they're doing is they're referring back to a previous document, which I shall grab for you now.
	Hold on a second.
	We have to go back to Public Law 107-40 from September 18, 2001.
	This is just one week after 9-11.
	Authorization for the use of the United States Armed Forces.
	So this has been on the books and renewed by both presidents, Bush and Trump.
	And, of course, Obama.
	The president is authorized to use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11th, or harbored such organizations or persons in order to prevent any future acts, blah, blah, blah.
	A specific statutory authorization consistent with Section 8A of the War Powers Resolution, We're good to go.
	And here I have highlighted, well this is basically telling you how Congress and the Senate, it has special rules for how new executive powers are to be passed, which of course is exactly what's taking place.
	And which happens, so they've had these closed-door Senate committees and House committees, which not publicized, not on C-SPAN. No one's talked about it.
	And then all of a sudden there's a vote on Monday.
	Of course, everyone's still drunk.
	And it's Cyber Monday.
	We've got no time.
	We're going to be shopping.
	The whole world is going to be in front of their computer shopping, not watching C-SPAN. Yeah, the nerve of these guys to do this on our shopping day.
	Yeah, that's belligerent right there.
	That's un-American.
	It's abhorrent, I tell you.
	So then specifically, Section 1036, Procedures for Status Determinations.
	This is what's important.
	This is from the bill that will be voted on on Cyber Monday.
	How do we determine if you are to receive your Miranda rights and essentially be prosecuted the way the law of the land is supposed to work in the United States or how this will take place if Newt Gingrich is president and he says, you know what, I think you're a bad guy.
	I'm going to go take care of you.
	Here's how it works.
	One, a military judge shall preside at the proceedings for the determination of status of an unprivileged enemy belligerent.
	So some judge from the military is going to sit there and say, you know, you seem to be a bull-necked old man.
	You are now an unprivileged enemy belligerent.
	Well, let's assume it would be some hippie protester, some unreconstructed hippie protester, probably my age, shaking his fist at everything, you know, shaking his fist at every bird on a wire.
	You're supporting terrorism.
	There you go.
	Well, there's birds on a wire.
	Two, an unprivileged enemy belligerent may, at the election of the belligerent, be represented by military counsel at proceedings for the...
	Maybe I could get Demi Moore.
	She was hot.
	Wasn't that Officer and Gentleman?
	Wasn't she in that?
	Continue.
	Be represented by military counsel proceedings for the determination of status of belligerent.
	The Secretary of Defense shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a report on any modification of the procedures submitted under this section.
	The report on any such modification shall be so submitted not later than 60 days before the date on which this modification goes into effect.
	So essentially, if they want to change these rules, they just send a little note to Congress.
	Hey, we're changing the rules.
	And my take is set up.
	This has been going on since 9-11 with the War Powers Resolution and using the War Powers Resolution to create these executive powers.
	And our constitutional scholar president, Barack Obama, is happy about it.
	Oh, yeah.
	He doesn't care.
	And, of course, we can use drones to prosecute you.
	Well, drones will be legalized.
	So, I want to take this in a slight...
	I think this is somewhat different.
	Okay.
	Christine Lagarde, your buddy, was on 60 Minutes, not this Sunday, last Sunday.
	And she was interesting.
	By the way, I want to put in the book of predictions that she will be France's first female prime minister or president.
	How about Queen?
	Can we just make her Queen?
	That would be better.
	She's already a Queen.
	So, anyway.
	Hey, bada bing, everybody.
	She was on, yakking with that woman that was beaten up in Egypt.
	Played with Lagarde on Worst Case Scenario.
	It is a very serious situation, unprecedented in many ways.
	What's the worst case scenario?
	Stalled growth, high unemployment, potential social unrest as a result, and financial markets in disarray.
	For many people around the world, for many Americans, It feels like they've been here before.
	Is this worse than 2008, the current crisis?
	You know, it's a continuum of 2008.
	Let's face it, it's the same process that is unfolding before our eyes.
	With the potential to be worse?
	I'm reasonably optimistic and sometimes desperately optimistic.
	And I want to be desperately optimistic and I want to believe that countries will understand that they can actually change the course of things.
	And if you look at the US, what are you most worried about here?
	Political bickering.
	So, uh...
	The way I heard that is we're going to be locking people up in FEMA camps.
	What I'm hearing, and I got to this point from, got back on my cycles book, and I'm not the only person that looks at these cycles.
	In fact, a lot of people do, and I'm sure government people do too, and they have to have looked at what happened in the 30s.
	I believe that they are anticipating a complete meltdown, and these laws are being passed for the purposes of trying to control what's going to be a huge mess.
	John...
	We've been talking...
	I've been saying this since 2008 on this show.
	Well, so have I. I mean, I've got it in the book.
	Hello.
	But I'm saying that this thing has got nothing to do with anything other than just controlling what's going to be a huge mess, and it'll be in the next two years.
	That's why they've got to pass these laws under the darkness of night.
	So will you then agree with me that this FEMA camp stuff, which has been talk of conspiracy theories forever...
	Although I will say that they would be handy.
	Convenient.
	It would be convenient.
	I'm not on board with the FEMA camp thing because I think that this is bogus, but if somebody can actually document some of these camps, and I know you say they do, but every time I've seen, the last time I saw documentation for a FEMA camp where they actually had pictures, I happened to have seen that facility in Slovenia.
	So it's bull crap.
	But I think that there's a lot of weird stuff going on.
	And a lot of it has to do with these Border Patrol guys up in the state of Washington.
	It's all practicing.
	And by the way, these Border Patrols, look at the states that they're in.
	It's in Texas, free state.
	It's in Washington state, free state.
	And I think what will happen, just look at what happened with Black Friday.
	People, when they can shop, or not shop, because someone's in the way, they go nuts.
	So what if the ATM system doesn't work, or the banking system just closes down for a bank holiday for four days, and no one can get any money, you can't buy anything.
	I think that's when, what?
	I can't shop?
	What's next?
	Football's going to be off?
	This is probably why they resolved the NBA lockout.
	We've got to give these people something to do.
	That's a good one.
	Put basketball back on the air.
	Well, I think that's just basically the Obama back out of the office.
	He's bored.
	He's like, I'm so bored, man.
	He's got the jitters.
	He doesn't have his back, his b-ball to watch.
	I'm going to throw my b-ball back on the tube, boys.
	I've got to watch some basketball.
	No, I think that they're getting ready for...
	The terrorism thing is a complete hoax.
	Really?
	Well, I'm sorry I'm saying that again, but maybe I got a new listener out there, but we know that it's a hoax per se, but as an excuse for this, it's a real hoax because this is about corralling the public when all hell breaks loose and they can't control anything anymore and they got to bring the military in.
	And the National Guard's all overseas.
	They can't use them.
	No, they're all occupied.
	Being used.
	Which is another thing, mixing the National Guard with the military, which should be illegal, is also part of this whole scheme.
	This is a well-thought-out situation.
	That's why you've got insiders like McCain involved.
	The guy's always involved in these inside deals.
	He's like in Libya, Syria, Egypt.
	He's always there.
	Usually it's with Lieberman.
	It's interesting that he's now with, what is it, Levin?
	Yeah, well, it's because Lieberman's an independent.
	Oh, he needed a Democrat.
	Right, he needed a Democrat.
	Of course.
	Of course.
	What am I thinking?
	Yeah, well, I think we're both on...
	Kind of thinking the same way.
	Yeah, and what disturbs me is that only Ron Paul appears to be against any of this kind of thing.
	And, of course, he's been completely shoved aside, kicked to the curb.
	Should I tell you something about Ron Paul?
	Last night, for some reason here, I sleep very lightly, or I'm still sleeping lightly, and lots of things come to mind.
	It's the vibe, man.
	I'm feeling it, dude.
	Because when you're in L.A., you're always rolled up into a ball, sucking your thumb, scared to death.
	And it's the 101 fumes that are knocking me out.
	And the fumes that have carbon monoxide.
	It's like I'm dead, actually.
	Technically, clinically, I'm dead at night there.
	I remember in 2000, I think it was 1999-2000, the Dutch elections were about to be swept by a guy named Tim Fortan.
	And this was this 6'3", 6'4", tall, bald guy, highly intellectual, gay man.
	And he was basically saying, we've got to stop the Islamification of the Netherlands.
	We've got to turn all this crap back.
	This is out of control.
	And the whole country was behind him.
	Everyone was like, yeah, this guy is right.
	And he was the only one.
	And all the elites were going around like, oh, man.
	And literally a week before the election, some crazy animal activist shot him five times with two different types of bullets.
	And his party actually won posthumously.
	They still won the election.
	I fear for Ron Paul's life right now.
	Please don't put this in the book.
	I fear for his life.
	No, don't put that in the book.
	Listen to...
	Now I'm in the studio and I've got the cable box that I can rewind.
	This was Fox...
	This weekend, with some douchebag, talking about Iowa, which Ron Paul, the Iowa caucus, Ron Paul stands a large chance of sweeping that.
	And this is the so-called Republican network, the right-wing network run by Democrats, obviously.
	Here's what they had to say about him.
	He continues to do very well in some of the polling.
	How would you handicap his chances in Iowa?
	Ron Paul has a very passionate base of support.
	Probably the most passionate of any candidate.
	He certainly is popular with a certain constituency.
	Which he means idiots.
	A certain constituency, not nutcases.
	The field is split in Iowa.
	Who knows what could happen?
	He could do very well there.
	He is well organized.
	However...
	However, let me be clear.
	Let's be very, very clear, because you have to understand one thing, stupid people listening to me.
	I think it needs to be clear that even if Ron Paul does well in Iowa, even wins Iowa, more scrutiny will be applied to his foreign policy, which I think is completely unsustainable in a Republican field.
	There's no way in my mind he could possibly win the nomination.
	No way.
	No way possibly.
	Never, ever could not happen.
	It's just impossible to even fathom that, because he doesn't want to kill people.
	That's not American.
	He's got also, as we talked about in the last show, he has an attitude about Iran, which is more logical.
	I have a couple of clips that kind of segues into this that I just want to get out of the way.
	I should have run them when I ran the Ron Paul clips on Thursday.
	But can you play...
	There's two of them.
	If you like the first...
	Well, let's play the second one first, which is Iran Has No Bomb.
	This is Seymour Hersh, the famous investigative journalist who's always floating around, and he's got very good contacts in the intelligence community.
	His whole MO is just basically...
	He's a conduit for Mossad, CIA, MI6... Mostly guys who need to talk at the bar.
	And he's on Democracy Now!
	discussing Iranian...
	that Iran has no bomb and the fact that this whole Iranian thing is nuts.
	And that's worrisome because, again, it's a political issue there.
	Everybody in the country is moving quickly to the right.
	Israel is, obviously.
	And I can just tell you that I've also talked...
	Unfortunately, the ground rules are so lousy in Israel, I can't write it, but I've talked to very senior intelligence people in Iran, in Israel rather.
	If you notice, you don't hear that much about it, but the former head of Mossad, Mayer Dagan, who left, who was...
	The guy that orchestrated the attempted assassinations in Dubai, etc., no dove, has been vehement about the foolishness of attempting to go after Iran on grounds that it's not clear what they have.
	They're certainly far away from Obama.
	Israel's been saying for 20 years they're, you know, six months away from making Obama.
	But I can tell you that I've talked to senior Israeli officers in Israel who have told me, A, they know that Iran, as the American intelligence community reported, I think it was in 07, there was a national intelligence estimate that became public that said, essentially, Iran did look at the bomb.
	They had an eight-year war with Iraq, a terrible war, 1980 to 1988.
	And we, by the way, the United States sided with Iraq, Saddam Hussein at that time.
	Iran then, and then years after that, they began to worry about Iraq's talk about building a nuclear weapon, so they did look.
	In that period, let's say 97 to 2003, no question, the American NIE said in 07, it was augmented in 2011.
	I wrote about it a year ago in The New Yorker.
	It said, yes, they did look at a bomb.
	But they knew that there's no way they could make a bomb to deter America or Israel.
	They're not fools.
	Persian society has been around for a couple thousand years.
	They can't deter us.
	We have too many bombs.
	They thought maybe they could deter Iraq.
	After we went in and took down Iraq in 2003, they stopped.
	So they had done some studies.
	We're talking about computer modeling.
	Yeah, well, we know this, except that's not the way the report came back.
	The report came back saying, well, we got all these secret documents from some country that shall go unnamed, and they say they've got a bomb, so they've got a bomb.
	No one takes the time to read the reports.
	We read the report here on the show.
	No bomb.
	Right, but meanwhile, we've got the Newt Gingrichs and all these other guys.
	Gingrich is the worst of this group, by the way.
	He's an a-hole.
	He has been pounding the drum for this and that, and that glib style that he has.
	But you know what I think?
	You know what I think, John?
	I think he has made a deal with the Clintons.
	And he's got the backing of the Clintons.
	And I know it sounds weird, them being Democrats and all.
	But I think that that's the deal that he struck.
	He's got a huge backing.
	And I believe the Clintons are behind him.
	Well, that's just all.
	You just came up with that just now?
	No, I've been thinking about this.
	I've been studying this.
	Let me get this.
	I have to look this up now.
	Because I recall listening to Gingrich recently talking about something he did with the Clintons, or with Bill.
	Gingrich Clinton.
	Well, I know that he did the global warming commercial with Nancy Pelosi, which was for Al Gore's reality show.
	So he's on board with the Gore camp.
	And Gore's just a little sucker pussy boy for Clinton.
	Yeah, Bill Clinton praises Newt Gingrich over his thoughtful immigration policies.
	There you go.
	He's done a deal with that.
	Bill Clinton praises old foe Newt Gingrich on Newsmax.
	There you go.
	This is good.
	Listen to this.
	This is new.
	This is broke, by the way.
	17 hours ago.
	Former President Bill Clinton praised his erstwhile nemesis, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, crediting his strong debate performance with propelling him into the frontrunner status.
	For the GOP presidential nomination.
	Quote, it's not any traditional charisma, said Clinton, who discussed his new bestseller, his book.
	He says Clinton believes Gingrich is emerging because, quote, he thinks about this stuff all the time.
	Yeah, this is all he does when he's shopping at Tiffany's.
	I've got to be thinking about that.
	In September interview with Newsmax, Clinton had predicted that Gingrich, who at the time was polling in the single digits, would make a comeback.
	That's interesting.
	So the way this works in the United States of Gitmo Nation is you need money.
	Because if you don't have money, you don't have commercials.
	If you don't have commercials, then the networks aren't interested in you.
	And that's why Ron Paul is getting all this airtime.
	It's because he's running commercials on the networks.
	He's got the money now to run commercials.
	They're being very smart about it.
	And Gingrich, his campaign was blown up.
	It was dead in the water.
	And then he did a deal with the Clintons.
	Because it doesn't matter if it's Democrats or Republicans who win.
	It's the same people.
	So this to me sounds like an endorsement from Bill Clinton.
	Yeah.
	Totally.
	Now, let's just take this a little further.
	Because there's some more study that I've been doing.
	So, let's say Obama...
	Let me just get this off my chest.
	Sure.
	What would happen if Gingrich somehow got the nomination and to be bipartisan he had Hillary as the vice president?
	Right.
	Oh, man.
	That's like a Clydesdale.
	Clippity-clop.
	Clippity-clop.
	Go on with your...
	All right.
	So we need...
	Let's say Obama doesn't quit, because at the end of the day, that's going to be up to Valerie Jarrett, you know, a senior advisor to the president, the slumlord from Chicago.
	So my prediction to date has been they're going to have to either replace, they're going to have to put a candidate in, or it's also possible that they are going to have someone pop up and run against him.
	To weaken the vote, because he has to go.
	He cannot become the president for a second term.
	So this is what happened over the Thanksgiving holiday.
	One, I have a short clip for the other.
	I just have some backup documentation.
	Here's what happened over the Thanksgiving holiday.
	I loved it.
	I thought that was one of the most wonderful...
	It was Dana Perino, of course, on the five.
	It made me feel like I should not have been in the diner, but where she was serving people.
	And one of the people quoted in the article that she served said, you're an incredible inspiration.
	So that was a nice story.
	It was so nice to see her out, up on her feet, back in action.
	It really was heartwarming.
	Because a lot of people, you know, you don't get to see her very often.
	But it's so remarkable.
	When we were watching it, my sister looked at the camera.
	She goes, wow, look at her.
	Yes.
	What a hero.
	The American hero, Gabrielle Giffords, serving turkey dinners at Thanksgiving.
	That is a campaigning moment, no doubt about it.
	No matter what she's campaigning for, it's a campaigning moment.
	But even more interesting, and it was interesting that it happened, but I tried to pull a clip and it was just absolutely nothing available because the guy is so incredibly boring.
	Rahm Emanuel, mayor of Chicago, former chief of staff to President Barack Obama, Obama did something very interesting.
	He was in Iowa and he was at the Jackson dinner, which traditionally the Democratic candidate will go there.
	It's like between $100,000 and $10,000 a pop for this dinner.
	And he did a whole speech supporting Obama.
	But what was interesting...
	Is that two days after that, there was this huge interview on NBC, a whole profile.
	And this is very, very typical PR. You have someone do something, and then you do the big network interview.
	I think they're positioning Rahm Emanuel to possibly be the guy who would all of a sudden pop up and say, You know what?
	I know how this works.
	I've been there from day one.
	The president is just tired.
	I'm going to have to run for president.
	Oh no, that's out there.
	It's either him or Gabriel Giffords.
	But if he doesn't quit, if Obama doesn't quit, which is our original prediction, then I think it's going to be one of those two who are going to step in.
	Well, for one thing, the fact that Rahm won Chicago is one thing because it's a machine election.
	It doesn't really have to do with you actually having to be liked.
	No, no.
	It's polling machines, right?
	There's a lot of corruption in Chicago.
	It's a known fact.
	You don't say!
	So, I would think that they are scrambling to find somebody.
	But they got nothing.
	I mean, because it looks like they're either going to have to keep Obama in, even though I don't think he wants to run for re-election.
	I think he'd just as soon take his, you know, because he's got to make more money and he's going to have all the amenities of having been a previous president.
	So he keeps the security, free security guards and all the rest of it.
	And then the retirement package and all kinds of expenses.
	And his terrarium to keep nice and hot before his lizardness.
	And, um, but they got, you know, they both party, neither party except for Ron Paul, and nobody wants him to be elected, so everybody's against him.
	I mean, the Republicans hate him, the Democrats hate him.
	They're amused by him, but they got nothing to do with it.
	And the networks and the news media hate him, or they've been told to, and they think they do because they're so dumb.
	I don't know.
	I don't know what's going to happen.
	This thing is getting funnier by the minute.
	That's why I think Gingrich has somehow snuck into the action again, even though he's got a lot of luggage.
	Baggage.
	He's got luggage, too.
	Under his eyes.
	Well, the president...
	The president is unloading his baggage.
	Remember we talked about on the last show the first buddy, body man, Reggie Love?
	Reggie Love!
	I-Reggie.
	The president calls him I-Reggie.
	That he all of a sudden quit because he had important school work to do.
	Let me think.
	Job as the first buddy or getting my degree.
	That's an easy choice as far as I'm concerned.
	Or you could at least wait a year.
	The pictures of Reggie Love in college are now resurfacing everywhere.
	And I have these pictures.
	They're linked in the show notes.
	360.nashownotes.com.
	Of him passed out drunk at college and guys teabagging him.
	No.
	Yeah.
	Oh, God.
	It's pretty rough.
	Yeah.
	So, warning, when you look at the pictures in the show notes, be warned.
	So, I think there's some hanky-panky going on.
	They didn't want, you know, Valerie Jarrett's like, okay, look, we've got to be real careful here.
	They're out for us.
	Get out.
	You're gone.
	Just leave your stuff.
	Don't worry about it.
	We'll send it later.
	We'll send someone over.
	Yeah.
	Go.
	Leave.
	Wow.
	Yeah.
	That's disgusting.
	Well, you know, what's that douchebag on HBO? When Bill Maher is always talking about the teabaggers, you should show a picture of what it really is.
	It's not really a nice thing to say to someone, you're a teabagger, because it means when someone's drunk, you're sticking your penis in their mouth.
	It's not really nice.
	Although it could be quite tasty.
	Reggie Love.
	Yeah, and of course, the mainstream media doesn't do anything with this.
	No, they can't.
	They don't know what to do, how to do it.
	They don't know how to deal with it.
	I mean, what are they supposed to do?
	Show the pictures.
	I can just imagine being in one of these editorial meetings.
	Can we talk about this, boss?
	Hey, I got this picture.
	I don't know.
	I don't think our readers would appreciate this.
	It's introducing too many variables to the conversation.
	I got this picture of this guy teabagging Reggie Love.
	Can we run that?
	A salon could run it, or the Drudge Report, or any of these other...
	The Sentinel.
	Anyone could run it.
	The Advocate.
	K-USA could run it.
	No one's running it.
	No one's running it.
	Except the No Agenda show.
	And for that, we received some alms.
	Yeah, not much.
	Nobody listens to the Thursday show.
	Nobody listens to this show.
	We can talk about tea bagging all we wanted.
	It's not going to make a minute difference because nobody's listening except the chat room.
	But we did have a couple.
	We do have two producers for this show.
	One executive producer came in late, but I want to read...
	He came in drunk is what he did.
	He came in drunk.
	We've been asking for guys to come in drunk, and this guy didn't.
	This will lead into, by the way, I think people want us to talk a little bit about wine and food.
	I do want to discuss the scotch he's drinking, and so I can give people some ideas about what's going on in the world of...
	Oh, very good, yes.
	...of liquors.
	Yes.
	So let's go.
	Here we go.
	$300 came in from D at MIT. Dammit.
	Dammit.
	And he's in Joondalup, Western Australia, which as far as I know is just inhabited by wallabies.
	Kangaroo wallabies.
	Yeah, mate.
	So here he is.
	I'm going to read it kind of the way he'd be reading it, maybe.
	Are you ready?
	Yeah.
	Here I sit, having gone through half a bottle of Blue Label, what a lovely drop it is, thinking how Adam keeps doing me in the douche.
	Is it the age-old battle of Dutch hate the superior Germans?
	Give me my bike back!
	Nah.
	He thinks I'm an Australian.
	He beat me at the finals.
	What does that mean?
	Maybe the U.S. Open or something?
	Some soccer game?
	I don't know.
	I don't know.
	I've been at a loss to explain.
	I love this show, but the first time I donate, I'm an adulterer.
	The second time I explain my adultery, the third time Adam makes me sound like a loser of a stoder.
	Just because I'm coddling a bottle of the good stuff?
	Trust me, it takes more than a bottle.
	Wait a minute.
	So this is the same drunk donor?
	It's like he's donating drunk now for the third time?
	Yeah.
	Okay, good.
	I'm lost in the land of Oz.
	Let me sip some more scotch that costs as much as my donation.
	Adam, it is hard to part with funds.
	Heck, my total contributions to your show equal my credit card interest rates, charges in a month, and man, that sucks.
	I wish I was loaded.
	Yes, the jingle's in my head, but I am aware of my action.
	Adams, I deduce you as I forgive you.
	I love you, man.
	Since John keeps you in line and karma to me and my family.
	The longs have run out of dammit.
	John, I please put my son Xander on the birthday list.
	He is up for it on the 10-12.
	I think it would be thrilled to have my child called out for his birthday.
	As long as you don't mention adultery like you did last time.
	What does mean dad?
	Never mind son.
	Just Adam being a douche.
	Don't tell mom.
	Lobster on the barbecue.
	Excellent.
	This is good.
	This is the kind of note we like reading.
	Because we like people to kind of reveal our real listeners.
	So he's drinking apparently Johnny Walker Blue.
	Now you're going to tell us that this is bull crap, this blue stuff.
	By the way, the Asians love it.
	The Japanese love this stuff.
	Well, the blue is the expensive...
	Yeah, hell yeah!
	Johnny Walker is a blended scotch, and the company is owned by D'Asio, who owns half the world of spirits, and they're going broke half the time.
	They bought out Seagram's, and they bought out the distribution of Chateau and Estates, and then they...
	Bought all these expensive wines, and it was about a year and a half ago, two years ago, when they said, we can't do this anymore.
	We can't handle this.
	Too much work.
	And they dumped all these unbelievably expensive wines on the market at half price.
	I picked up a bunch of burgundies and everything else.
	Next to nothing.
	Nice.
	But these guys are incompetent, basically.
	So they take the Johnny Walker brand, and they've been messing with it.
	So the experts out there, there's a couple of interesting Johnny Walkers.
	If a Scotch drinker's out there, you should know this.
	The stockers generally, the red, the black, the blue, are blended scotches.
	That means they have neutral spirits mixed in with the single malts, and so it's a little smoother.
	The blue is the best of the group.
	It's very expensive, and many experts think it's the most overpriced.
	And the smart money...
	We'll buy either the green or the gold.
	Now, the Johnny Walker Green, I think they've changed what they used to be up to.
	Because I was told years ago when I was tasting at the International Wines and Spirits Competition, which has the best tasters, they've got these experts, by somebody that at the time, and this was about, I don't know, six, seven years ago, that the Johnny Walker Green was the stuff you wanted to buy because it was all the leftover that the Johnny Walker Green was the stuff you wanted to buy because it was And you can look this up on Wikipedia, the tonnage of single malt distilleries that Diageo owns.
	I think it's Diageo, by the way.
	Diageo.
	Yeah.
	They bring in all these single malts and they throw them into the green label and the smart money would just buy that.
	It was kind of a mix of single malts.
	No neutral spirits.
	I now, if I look on their wiki page, it says that the green is a blend of four single malts from the different corners, the four different styles of scotches in the bottle.
	And it has stopped winning awards and the awards are now going to the gold label, which is...
	What I was told the green was, which is a mixture of 15 or 20 different single malts and it aged for 15 to 18 years.
	That is what the real connoisseurs think is the Johnny Walker to drink if you're going to drink Johnny Walker.
	And most people think that the blue is good, but it probably costs twice as much as it should.
	And that is your information regarding Johnny Walker.
	Buy the gold.
	That's all I can say.
	Go for the gold.
	Anyway, so this is what happens when you drink too much of this stuff at once.
	Well, apparently it's good stuff.
	Well, yeah, he seems to like it.
	I can't afford it.
	We drink Jack here.
	Jack is good.
	We drink it in that big bottle, like the gallon bottle.
	The big giant bottle.
	Mickey's so price conscious.
	I love her for that.
	He's like, you know, we like our scotch.
	I'm like, yeah.
	Here it is.
	It's like this huge bottle.
	I think it has a handle on it, too.
	No, it doesn't have a handle.
	It's just a huge bottle.
	It's a huge bottle, yeah.
	We buy it in bulk.
	That's the best way to go.
	Jack Daniels has always been a...
	If you were in Europe...
	It's inexpensive.
	It's like a treat.
	It's like $50 for a shot.
	Yeah, it's special.
	And I used it, you know, I made your special sweet potato recipe for Thanksgiving, the fake bogative holiday.
	And instead of bourbon, which I couldn't afford, I used the Jack Daniels.
	It actually worked quite well.
	No, anything that's got that flavor, check down is just fine for that.
	And I added a little bit.
	You know what I am using all the time now?
	You told me after, I think it was one of our post-show deconstruction sessions, you told me that I should cut up the chili peppers and put them into vinegar and just mix it up and let it sit for a while.
	And I've done that.
	I use apple cider or cider vinegar, actually.
	This stuff is amazing, and I put it on everything.
	I make sauces with it.
	I put it on just...
	It'll go nice on some lamb, anything you're cooking.
	And it gives that little extra kick, and it has a nice little flavor to it.
	It's phenomenal.
	It really is great.
	Yeah, it is good.
	I'm just saying.
	It's a food tip.
	In fact, the other day I got a couple of, I think I got four of these habaneros, big ones, big red ones.
	I said, ooh, red habaneros, which are very hard to come by.
	And they're so hot.
	I have them.
	You have some habaneros?
	Yeah, yeah, I'm growing them.
	So I mixed some habaneros with, I took a couple of them and mixed them with some regular Fresnos and some other red chili, so it was going to be a red sauce.
	And then I put in some tomatillos, which help balance off the acidity, and then ground the whole thing up in a blender with some vinegar, salt, and pepper.
	And...
	But then it would be extremely excruciatingly hot.
	But curiously, and I don't know why this is, and I've never read about it, but I can tell you that if you take and make a habanero sauce and you let it set for like two or three days in the refrigerator...
	It's fantastic.
	It drops the heat down by at least 30, 40, 50, 60%.
	It drops it way down.
	And then you can now eat it and you still get that smoky habanero flavor, which is very distinctive.
	And you're not blowing your head off, you know, or abject agony.
	And by the way, that...
	Habanero is about, I think, one quarter of the concentration of capsicum that they have in that pepper spray.
	Speaking of the capsicum, just briefly, because I did some research on that.
	So the capsicum, is it called capsicum or casicum?
	I can't remember now.
	I pronounce it capsicum.
	That's what everybody said.
	I don't know how it's...
	I don't have to look at the word.
	Do you know that it is not...
	Megan Fox was saying that it's a food product.
	Oh, it's a food!
	It's not Megan Fox.
	It was...
	Megan.
	Her name is Megan Fox.
	Megan Fox.
	That's her name.
	Megan Kelly.
	Megan Fox.
	We're now going to call her Megan Fox.
	I'm the Kelly Network.
	Actually, it's not regulated by the FDA. It's regulated by the EPA because it is deemed a pesticide.
	Oh, well, that's what I said.
	They were spraying them like it was a bug spray.
	Exactly.
	The concentration of capsicum in bear spray is 1% to 2%.
	In the pepper spray, the pesticide they used on the Occupy Wall Streeters at UC Davis, 10% to 30%.
	So it's like a multiple and strength to bear spray.
	Bear spray!
	Which should stop a bear.
	It's unconscionable.
	It is.
	Alright, do we have another...
	That guy should be imprisoned.
	And I think there's some laws that apply to his use of that stuff.
	That guy actually should be in jail, that cop.
	Yeah.
	In the general population, too.
	Yeah.
	So we got one more associate.
	So we can poop on him.
	Associate executive producer is Anonymous.
	Oh.
	From Bridgewater, New Jersey.
	$200.
	Anonymous of Bridgewater says, Greetings and in the morning slaves is a targeted donation.
	No hookers, no blow, no rent boys, no Cabernet.
	How boring.
	This is seed money to finance the building of the new home of the Ministry of Bogativity.
	What?
	I would highly recommend this building be constructed of drone-proof materials utilizing the best cloaking technologies for which the science is currently in.
	Since I'm sure I'll be too full of tryptophan to propagate the formula today, I'll just send my cash.
	Happy thanks.
	Thanks, stalking day.
	That's thanks-taking day, I think.
	Thanks-taking, sorry.
	Well, stalking is even funnier.
	Well, you know that they're building that Europa building in Brussels, which is going to cost 400 million euros.
	Have you seen this thing?
	Yeah, I have.
	It's ridiculous.
	Made of glass and metal and I think cloaked and drone-proof materials.
	So we're on our way, John.
	That's what it'll take, about 400 million euros.
	And Anonymous is helping us on our way to our very own building for the Ministry of Bogativity.
	That's great.
	Yeah, the Ministry of Bogativity would be ideal.
	So we appreciate these two supporters who have shown up.
	We'll have a very short segment later on as well.
	To be expected, we know how it works.
	And still, here we are doing the show for you on the day when no one gives a crap about us.
	Nobody will listen to this show.
	No, no.
	I sent Adam an email.
	I said, why do we do this show on Sunday?
	And Adam says, you know, after Thanksgiving, because every year it's the same thing.
	Nobody comes in.
	Nobody listens.
	Very few people go back.
	They'll listen to the next show.
	They won't listen to an old show.
	He says, I don't know.
	I've got nothing else to do.
	Yeah, that's exactly right.
	Yeah, it is cool.
	What else are you doing on Sunday morning?
	What else am I going to do, man?
	That's a good point.
	I really don't have much to do either.
	I could watch face the nation.
	The shows were all pre-taped and completely boring.
	There was nothing wrong.
	Yeah, and everything is a rerun.
	I know.
	The shows are all bullcrap.
	You can't even watch any good shows.
	Fareed Zakaria, the anti-constitutionalist douchebag from Pakistan, the whole show was an ad.
	It was an ad for the Steve Jobs book.
	And, you know, the author who, God, if I see him on one more show, I'm going to puke.
	And then he had another ad.
	What is the commercial you've seen the most on CNN recently?
	Do you know what that is, by any chance?
	No.
	For the Dyson vacuum cleaner.
	They had the new vacuum cleaner.
	The ball?
	Yeah, but they had the new short one.
	It's like a dust buster, a Dyson dust buster.
	And they have the guy on the show, and he's talking about his innovations.
	It's a complete ad.
	Vacuum cleaner salesman?
	Yeah.
	He's a vacuum cleaner.
	Vacuum cleaner salesman on the show?
	Yeah, on the show talking about inhalation.
	These are the guys that used to go door to door.
	Yeah, with his ball.
	Anyway, if you'd like to support us for being here on These Days...
	Dvorak.org slash NA. I had to crank it up a bit for some other stuff.
	Yeah, and don't forget, you can also go to channeldvorak.com slash NA, noagendanation.com, and thenoagendashow.com has a link to the donation page, too.
	And we have a few PR initiatives.
	Always nice to see these forwarding to noagendashow.com.
	Occupythewaves.com, which I kind of like.
	As in airwaves.
	You know what?
	In my move, I found my original FCC broadcast license.
	Your third class phone?
	Yes, I do.
	I got it.
	I think I still have mine somewhere, but I have no idea where it is.
	I think I'm going to scan it.
	It's a little card, right?
	It's like a credit card size.
	No, I had a big certificate.
	Oh, really?
	I predate you.
	Hmm.
	It wasn't as big as the first class phone, which is a huge certificate.
	No, this is just a little one.
	This was a good size certificate.
	It was a size 5x7 or 8x10 sized.
	So anyway, I'll scan those and I'll put that up.
	Also, badhair.us.
	I guess there's a Hamid Romney domain name, but we like it.
	Badhair.us.
	Karmicwash.me.
	Which I think is very nice.
	It also has...
	We have the.com, the.org, and the.net, and.info as well.
	And Dronophobia.com.
	This one I like a lot.
	Dronophobia.com.
	You're not liking it?
	No, I'm writing it down.
	I like it so much.
	Okay.
	And of course, everyone else out there, you can do something to help us out as well.
	It is very simple.
	Go out and propagate our message!
	Our formula is this.
	We go out...
	We hit people in the mouth.
	News!
	World!
	Order!
	Say it with me now, everybody!
	Shut up, slave!
	And just before we leave, the topic of scotches, if anybody wants to know what my favorite scotch is, and I would recommend getting this if you want to blow somebody's mind.
	30-year-old Laphroaig.
	Oh, Laphroaig.
	You know, we used to...
	One of my first clients, when I first started my company in 93 or 94, was Scheffler& Somerset.
	You know them?
	No.
	They import all the single malts.
	So I had barbacks in my office with all the single malts, with Lafroix, with Oban.
	I mean, it was just a total bonanza.
	We were just drinking all the time.
	Great client.
	Shifflin and Somerset.
	Yeah, well, I think they're gone.
	They're all gone.
	But anyway, Laphroaig 30 is very expensive, but it's worth it.
	And it's not, and believe me, Laphroaig, people would say Laphroaig is terrible, because if you have it, you buy this stuff from Costco, it's 10 years old.
	It's almost undrinkable.
	It's like drinking, or just biting into a pine car.
	It's like Windex.
	You can clean windows with it.
	It's just ridiculous.
	But 30 is just like, wow.
	It's like, it's the ultimate scotch.
	So we have a prediction very close to coming true.
	Very, very, very, very close to coming true.
	You know, we're waiting for the 99% concert, the benefit concert, for the 99% attended by the 1%.
	And no sooner had I looked at this than we have our Occupy Wall Street soundtrack, the Occupy This Album, which will be available sometime this winter, featuring DJ Logic, Lady Tron, Warren Hayes, Toots.
	And the Maytals, Mike Limbaughd, Airplane Pageant, and others.
	And Miley Cyrus checking in with...
	Miley Cyrus posted this to her YouTube account.
	It is a video consisting of Occupy Wall Street footage with a hot slamming hip-hop R&B track to go with it.
	Yo, Miley be on the tip!
	She know what's going on!
	Hit me now, Miley!
	Woo!
	Woo!
	Partey!
	Partey!
	It's called the Walk of Liberty.
	The Walk of Liberty?
	Yeah, that's the title of the track.
	And so I guarantee you we're going to get the 99% benefit concert.
	It's coming up.
	And Miley Cyrus, she's in.
	She's already shilling for a spot.
	Lady Gaga can't be far behind.
	Yeah, Lady Gaga would make the thing...
	It would be hot.
	It would be kind of an interesting battle at the top.
	A battle.
	They would have a cat fight.
	It's going to happen, though.
	It is so going to happen.
	You know, it's almost getting...
	Our predictions are just...
	It's so easy to do these predictions.
	Yeah, because it's like walking down Broadway.
	Yeah.
	You know what street's next.
	It's like the train leaves the station.
	It's on a track.
	Exactly.
	Exactly.
	We have...
	I'll save this one for later.
	I'll save that.
	It's too good for now.
	Let me see.
	While we're on the squirrel tip...
	Oh, actually, let's talk about what's happening.
	I have a little theory here about what's going on in Syria.
	Because they're rolling out the script.
	So we have the rebel army...
	In Syria, the Free Syrian Army calling for airstrikes on strategic targets.
	So basically a no-fly zone.
	That's what that means.
	That was in the news in the past two days.
	Yeah, we're not fighting yet.
	Not yet, not yet.
	We have the George Bush aircraft carrier right off the coast there.
	The Russians also have their aircraft carrier.
	Then we have the International Crisis Group writing about all the things we have to do, particularly when it comes to the Central Bank of Syria.
	So the script is rolling out, but the best one is from the United Nations.
	A United Nations human rights panel expressed alarm Friday at reports it has received a Syrian security forces torturing children.
	Yeah, this is...
	Where's the rape?
	Well, no, that didn't work.
	The rape thing no one bought, so they wanted to do it somewhere in between the dumping kids out of incubators and raping women with Viagra, so they came up with this one.
	Syrian security forces torturing children.
	Torturing children, really.
	But I know what's going to happen, because we know that we made a deal with the Russians, And that's like, we're not going to go in there.
	Unless, and here it comes, unless, and this is such a fractal, I think you'll love it, unless Syria would attack Turkey.
	I have, and this is, I have a little news clip.
	Listen to this.
	Now listen, from Euronews, this is them, well just listen to this and then I'll explain, I'll expand on the theory.
	It's crackdown on protesters continues.
	Syria has until the end of the day to sign an Arab deal letting monitors into the country.
	Same script as Libya, Arab deal, the Arab League.
	...or it could incur sanctions.
	The Arab League deadline has officially expired, but a source said the door would be left open to Damascus for a few extra hours.
	The day after dozens were reported killed amid an overall death toll of 3,500 according to the UN, this latest amateur footage appears to show...
	And by the way, the whole thing is amateur footage.
	There's not a single professional camera shot in the piece.
	So no let-up in the onslaught.
	Russia opposes sanctions and says it needs more information about a French idea for a humanitarian corridor.
	Humanitarian corridor.
	This is a new one.
	I love this.
	The humanitarian corridor.
	Russians.
	To poop on you.
	Bring medicine or other supplies to civilians.
	This would Russia, as a matter of principle, proceeds from the premise that at this stage what's needed is not resolutions, not sanctions, not pressure, but internal Syrian dialogue.
	But meeting his Italian counterpart today, Turkey's foreign minister said his country was ready to act in unison with the Arab League over Syria.
	So here's what's going to happen.
	I'm calling a false flag in Turkey.
	Because we have the setup, right?
	We have everyone's in place, everyone's ready, but we need a reason.
	And this is exactly like Desert Storm 1, where Iraq jumped into Kuwait.
	That was the impetus.
	Like, oh, okay, now we gotta go.
	This is not okay.
	You're in someone else's turf.
	We're friends with them.
	We've been setting up friendships with Turkey.
	We've had Clippity Clop, Lucifer.
	Everyone's been in Turkey.
	We're gonna have a false flag event that's gonna be blamed on Syria in Turkey, and that's when we go.
	Yeah, no chance.
	Because we don't go.
	I'm looking at the New York Times, so here's the Sunday paper, which is the mouthpiece of the CIA. There is zero, zero coverage of anything, including, it's not even like mentions.
	In the entire front section, there's not one single Syrian story.
	If we're going to go along the lines of what you're thinking, which is just because something's happening, that we're going to do something, play the Bahrain still having issues, which is reported on Democracy Now!, which gets no coverage from either the spokesperson of the record, the New York Times, or your...
	Conduits of information, whatever they might be, play this little thing.
	Clashes have erupted in Bahrain ahead of today's release of a report investigating the crackdown on the pro-democracy uprising earlier this year.
	The Bahraini monarchy commissioned the supposed independent probe after crushing protests with the help of Saudi troops.
	At least 26 people were killed.
	Over 1,500 people were arrested.
	Thousands lost their jobs after protests erupted in February.
	Bahraini activists have questioned the report's credibility.
	The Bahraini monarchy is funding the probe and footing the bill for commission members to stay at the lavish Ritz-Carlton Hotel and Spa.
	So you have to understand, of course we're not going to do anything with Bahrain because it has the Formula One races there.
	Are you nuts?
	And we're not going to do anything with Bahrain?
	Yes, we are.
	Because they've already done the deal with Exxon.
	The Russians have already done a deal, a quid pro quo, with Exxon for whatever oil is going to be found here and there between Cyprus and Syria.
	So this is all put on the back burner.
	This is an MI6 BP oil thing that you're being suckered into believing.
	No!
	No, no.
	First of all, may I please point out that the New York Times posted a story about Syria two hours ago.
	You're reading the, what is that thing, that ancient thing called?
	It's called the paper that people actually read.
	Nobody goes to the website.
	This will be out in tomorrow's times.
	It's the Sunday and Saturday paper that makes the difference.
	Okay.
	Well, we can agree to disagree, but I think you're wrong.
	I think we will have a false flag.
	I'm not saying that they're not trying to do something, but I'm not...
	By the way, there's a picture of Hillary on the front page of this paper that is enough.
	It's a collector's item.
	You've got to find it.
	Look for the article by Scott Shane.
	It's called The Cross Party Lines Lobbying for Iranian Exiles on Terrorists.
	Listen, it has Hillary walking past these three douchebags.
	I'm telling you, this picture is...
	I've got to find the...
	Wait a minute.
	Is this the three douchebags from Egypt?
	I don't know who these douchebags are.
	It's her techno experts.
	Yes!
	These guys are going to say Deutschmeier, whatever it says on their yellow t-shirts?
	Oh, hold on.
	I'm trying to find...
	I don't have this picture on my front page.
	No, you're going to have to dig for it, I think.
	Who's the article buying?
	Thank you, love.
	Scott Shane.
	S-H-A-N-E. What's that?
	Oh!
	Eggnog!
	Yay!
	Hey, thank you.
	That's nice.
	Scott Shane.
	Yeah.
	S-H-A-N-E. A-N-E. Hold on.
	I mean, this picture is great.
	And what's it called?
	What's the article called?
	Across party lines lobbying for Iranian exiles on terrorist list.
	That's weird.
	Thank you.
	It's not in here.
	I can't find it at all.
	That's too bad.
	That's too bad.
	Somebody must have called from the White House.
	That picture off.
	We don't want people downloading it.
	Hillary definitely had her techno experts at work in Egypt.
	Here's the news clip.
	You probably saw this.
	Hello?
	Why are you not playing?
	This is weird.
	Oh, that's your Bahrain clip.
	I'm sorry.
	Hold on a second.
	Where's my techno experts clip?
	Here we go.
	Techno experts.
	With a smile on his face, one of the three American students jailed during protests in Egypt arrived back home tonight in Philadelphia.
	I'm so thankful to be back in Philadelphia.
	I'd like to thank...
	What's in Philadelphia, John?
	Egyptians!
	Spies!
	Dude, spies!
	My parents, my mom, and my dad for the support.
	Gregory Porter just wanted a hometown meal after his long trip from Cairo.
	Fucking cheese steak.
	Police arrested the 19-year-old and two of his friends during deadly riots in Cairo's Tahrir Square Sunday.
	Authorities accused the three of throwing firebombs at Egyptian security forces clashing with protesters.
	The U.S. government helped bring the college students back to America when prosecutors decided not to press charges.
	I'd like to thank the embassy in Cairo for all the things they did for us.
	Of course.
	As well as the administration at the American University in Cairo for all their help and support.
	And Hillary!
	Tahrir Square remained relatively peaceful.
	So here's what's going on in Egypt.
	It's exactly upside down.
	The army took over, and they're saying, well, we don't think we should do elections right now, because everyone that wants to get in, in particular, Albert Adai, who is this guy from the International Crisis Group, he's on the board there.
	This is the guy that we've been tracking for months.
	Yeah, and I should mention that the two of us have predicted the Egyptian military would take over after this thing began, because they're all trained here.
	Right.
	But what's happening now is that Clippity Club Lucifer said, okay, it's time to get our boys in.
	And the army, the military, is going, no, we don't think so.
	And so, oh, no?
	Okay, we're going to bring our techno experts out.
	In fact, we've sent a couple over from Philadelphia.
	And they're going to chuck some bombs at you and make it all look like a horrible thing on television.
	Because exactly, what do you see on TV? You see the Egyptian riots.
	What do you not see on TV? You don't see Bahrain.
	Because this is important.
	This is what it's all about.
	This is not about another uprising.
	This is yet again the techno-experts going in and trying to overthrow by popular vote or whatever, or popular action, to overthrow and get El Baraday in.
	ElBaradei is the guy who even said in a statement he is willing to not run for president if they'll make him the leader of the Transitional National Council.
	I mean, does it get any funnier than that?
	It's hilarious.
	Yeah, just like Libya.
	So then McCain can go in with the Exxon and McDonald's and everybody else.
	It's a total takeover.
	Well, yeah, I don't think they're doing a very good job of it.
	Well, Hillary's too busy getting ready for the birth of her baby.
	So you have to see this picture then.
	Anyway.
	All right, go on.
	Well, no, that's basically what I had to say about it.
	I mean, isn't that enough?
	Yeah, I guess.
	We had that, you know, our buddy there who did TrueIslam1.com.
	Who got arrested in New York where we made a bomb that would have done what looked like he was drilling holes in a pipe for?
	That guy?
	Oh yeah, that guy.
	So, what's his name?
	Lieberman comes out and he says, let me see, he sent a letter.
	I have the letter here somewhere.
	Hold on a second.
	He sent a letter to Google.
	This is actually something you should report on this.
	Hold on, let me just find the Lieberman letter.
	Lieberman?
	Yeah, he sent a letter to Google.
	Here it is.
	He says, to Larry Page, actually, I'm sorry, not just to Google.
	On Saturday, the New York Police Department arrested Jose Pimentel for constructing a pipe bomb.
	He didn't.
	To be used against U.S. military service members, allegedly used the Internet to access instructions, blah, blah, blah.
	Pimentel's Internet activity, both his spreading of bomb-making instruction links and his hate-filled writings, were hosted by Google!
	By the way, that's not true because I looked at TrueIslam1.com and his pipe bomb making instructions and links are not on that site.
	It's a very boring site.
	On his site, www.TrueIslam1.com, Pimentel stated, quote, people have to understand that Americans' policies are all legitimate targets in warfare, blah, blah, blah.
	As demonstrated by this recent case, Google's web hosting site, Blogger, is being used by violent Islamist extremists to broadcast terrorist content.
	Pimentel's site is just one of the many examples of homegrown terrorists and lone wolves on the dangerous blogger using Google-hosted sites to propagate their violent ideology.
	In September 2008, in response to a previous request that YouTube not allow terrorist content on its servers...
	Google changed its YouTube community guidelines to expressly ban terrorist content.
	In November 2010, Google introduced a flag button for terrorist content on YouTube.
	Have you ever seen the terrorist flag?
	I have to put that on a lot of sites that I think are terrorist sites.
	I'm glad we have 700 domain names.
	I continue to appreciate and commend these important first steps, but I am disappointed that Google has not developed a consistent standard throughout its many platforms.
	Unlike YouTube's community standards, bloggers' content policy does not expressly ban terrorist content, nor does it provide a flag feature for such content.
	So he's basically asking for a flag, a terrorist flag.
	I think it's the Al-Qaeda flag, isn't it?
	A terrorist flag.
	A terrorist flag.
	Lieberman.
	And I pulled up an old clip of Lieberman.
	This is the guy who just said this.
	I'll give you an idea of how well he understands the internet.
	Where's my mouse?
	Here we go.
	This guy is such an idiot.
	He's telling us, here's how the internet works according to Joe Lieberman.
	You have an internet bill, it's been called the kill switch bill, that would allow the president to seize control or shut down portions of the internet if the U.S. was under some sort of cyber attack.
	I don't know if you've seen the internet lately.
	There's a lot of people out there who think that what you are granting the president is absolute power to shut down freedom of speech.
	I mean, this is just over the top.
	No way.
	And total misinformation.
	No way, man.
	I don't know if people are intentionally peddling the misinformation.
	Here's the fact.
	Fact.
	Fact.
	Cyberwar is going on in some sense right now.
	Our civilian infrastructure, the internet that runs the electric grid, the telecommunications grid, transportation, all the rest is constantly being probed by...
	Nation states, by some terrorist groups...
	Let me ask you a question.
	Why put the transportation grid on the internet at all?
	That's not necessary.
	It's baffling.
	You know why?
	It's not necessary.
	Why?
	We talked about this on the X3 show.
	People out there should check it out once in a while.
	X3show.mevio.com We talked about this.
	This is because everybody's so lazy that they just as soon put everything on the Internet so some fat guy can sit at home scratching his gut while he's like, let's see what the conditions are at the plant, you know, without having to go in.
	Let's see what the temperature is at the core.
	I need to know the temperature of the core.
	And I just want to do it on my iPhone with my app.
	That's the only reason.
	Why would you put any of this stuff connected to the internet?
	Of course, that is bullcrap.
	Colonize criminal gangs.
	Gangs.
	And we need this capacity in time of war.
	We need the capacity for the president to say, Internet service provider, we've got to disconnect the American internet from all traffic coming in from another foreign country.
	This guy clearly does not understand the internet.
	Disconnect it from all incoming traffic.
	It's only an American internet.
	It's a big firewall, like those Chinas have.
	Or we've got to put a patch on this part of it.
	A patch!
	We need a patch!
	A band-aid.
	Give me a little patch.
	The president will never...
	Take over.
	The government should never take over the Internet.
	And listen, we've consulted, Senator Collins and I are proposing this bill with civil liberties and privacy experts.
	This is a matter of national security.
	Security!
	A cyber attack on America can do as much or more damage today by incapacitating our banks, our communications, our transportation as a conventional war attack.
	And the President In catastrophic cases, not going to do it every day.
	Not going to...
	No, not every day.
	Maybe every Sunday.
	It makes it sound like he's going to be doing it all the time.
	But not every day.
	We're going to have an internet-free Sunday, everybody.
	So not today.
	Not today.
	Tomorrow.
	Tomorrow we're going to patch it.
	Take it over.
	So I say to my friends on the internet, relax.
	Hey, friends on the internet.
	All my friends out there, relax, chillax, bro.
	The president's not going to do it every day, man.
	No way, chillax.
	Take a look at the bill.
	And this is something that we need to protect our country.
	Right now, China, the government, can disconnect parts of its internet in the case of war.
	We need to have that.
	We need to have the same thing.
	Whatever China does, we should get.
	Idiots.
	And then write, ooh, we need a flag on Blogger.
	Blogger.
	One of those dangerous bloggers.
	This tells you how great Google Plus is going to be.
	You'll have a special circle, a terrorist circle.
	You can put your terrorist friends in there.
	Come on, Larry, do it.
	Read the bill, Larry.
	We want consistent guidelines.
	Bloggers got to do it.
	You got the terrorist content out there.
	Like bomb-making stuff.
	Get it off.
	So you sound a little bit like halfway between Larry King and Beavis.
	Or Butthead, one of the two.
	I can never mix them.
	I can't do...
	You were doing Larry King, and then you also had a little Beavis-Butthead action in there with the laughing.
	We'll take it.
	We'll take it.
	Can you do it on call, though?
	That's the problem.
	What, that one?
	Yeah.
	You drop into it.
	Yeah.
	You're Larry King.
	Hi, Mrs.
	Spenders are a little bit tight today.
	I'm off the air.
	That idiot, Pierce Morgan.
	Stupid idiot.
	Fucking Brit.
	Hey.
	Generating into a kind of a George Bush after he's about 90.
	Anyway.
	It's all good.
	It's all good.
	Okay, where were we?
	Oh, well, here's one.
	Actually, I have a pet peeve.
	Ooh!
	I'll be ready for the jingle.
	It's not a long pet peeve, but it's a pet peeve.
	Play pet peeve.
	Wait, wait, let me set it up.
	All right, all right.
	So this woman...
	Wait, let me ask you a question, a production note.
	You're going to set it up, I'm going to play the pet peeve, and then you want to come back before I play the jingle, right?
	Yeah, I'm going to say something and then you play the jingle.
	Because everyone loves it when you go crazy.
	I'm not going to go that crazy, but you'll have heard this peeve before.
	It's a pet peeve of mine.
	So this woman is some idiot from the White House who's a representative of, at some meeting, one of those C-SPAN things.
	I have her name downstairs on an envelope.
	I forgot to bring it up.
	But it's beside the point.
	The point is that you hear people doing this constantly, and it just drives me nuts.
	Somebody's going to ask her a question.
	Take one more.
	The gentleman in the back there.
	David Yaskin, Starfish Retention Solutions.
	So you're talking about resources for consumers, and that's really good.
	I work with colleges every day who are looking for best practices of how they can improve college completion.
	What's the U.S. government doing for the administrators of these colleges to help them?
	That's a great question.
	How is that a great question?
	It's a stupid question.
	Why do people say that's a great question when it's not a great question?
	It's just a question.
	More.
	More.
	Have you ever noticed this?
	And I've seen it in meetings all the time.
	Somebody's asked some stupid question and instead of just answering the question, you say, that's a great question.
	Where do you learn this?
	Is there a seminar that tells you to say that's a great question when it's clearly not a great question?
	If I hear a great question, I'll know it.
	I've never heard one.
	I've never heard in my life a great question.
	They're all just questions.
	There's not a great question.
	Why is she saying it's a great question?
	It's not.
	I published that interview with the guy who wrote Among the Truthers yesterday.
	Remember we talked about him?
	Yeah.
	And he actually did that in the interview.
	He said, that's a great question.
	Now, in this case, it actually was a great question.
	So I didn't go off on him.
	When people say that around, if I ask a question, something, I usually don't show up for things like this, but if I did, and I ask a question, somebody says that to me, I always come back to them.
	I always say, I don't think it's a great question, it's just a question.
	Or what I'd like to say is, are you an idiot?
	That's not a great question.
	Right.
	Well, I didn't want to be confrontational with the guy because I just wanted to hear what he had to say.
	And he was going on about, you know, the Internet is a place where it confirms stuff.
	So if you're researching things, you're only going to find sites that confirm your belief and confirm what you're already thinking.
	And I said, well, when you're researching this book, didn't you do exactly the same?
	Didn't you wind up in that trap where you're just finding stuff that confirmed that all conspiracy theorists are tinfoil hat-wearing loonies?
	And he said, that's a great question.
	Yeah.
	And I think it was a great question.
	Well, I think it was an interesting observation.
	Okay, it wasn't a question.
	You're right.
	It wasn't a question.
	Here's a question for you.
	A question for you.
	It's kind of an Ask John question.
	And in fact, I would like to set it up because this is what the American president thinks is the American dream.
	In the end, the folks I hear from in letters or meet when I travel across the country, they aren't asking for much.
	Not much.
	They're just looking for a job that covers their bills.
	They're looking for a little financial security.
	They want to know that if they work hard and live within their means, everything will be all right.
	They'll be able to get ahead and give their kids a better life.
	That's the dream each of us has for ourselves and our family.
	Just getting by.
	That's the American dream according to the president.
	That's the American dream.
	The American dream.
	Just getting by.
	So the McLaughlin group, which as we know is a scripted show, a scripted talk show.
	Strictly scripted, yeah.
	The same question was posed.
	What is the American dream?
	And before I play the clip, because they went around the table, and you can already kind of guess that Eleanor is the stupidest, Isn't that her name, Eleanor?
	Yeah, Eleanor, she's an idiot.
	What an idiot.
	She reminds me of, like, someone's mom I wouldn't like, Eleanor.
	You know what I mean?
	Yeah, she's like the mom, someone's mom you wouldn't like.
	That's a good observation.
	I like it.
	What is the American dream, John?
	Just getting by?
	Or do you want me to tell you what the American dream is supposed to be?
	I would love to hear what the American dream is supposed to be, according to Jean-Claude de Barac.
	Well, that you're in an environment where there's so much freedom that you can make anything out of your life that you want to and you can be as successful as you have a desire to be to the point where you could be Bill Gates and a billionaire.
	Here's the McLaughlin Group.
	What is the American dream today?
	Has it been redefined as a result of the financial slowdown?
	Pat?
	The American Dream is the belief of each and every American growing up that if he studies and he works hard and he gets a job and he stays out of trouble...
	He can just get by!
	He will be able to build a good life for himself, his wife, his family.
	That life will get better and better gradually.
	There may be some bumps, but at the end of it, his children will have even a better life, John.
	Is that the definition of the American dream, John?
	Not by any standards I've ever heard.
	That's just getting by.
	Play by the rules.
	Read a lot.
	Read a lot of books.
	Do what you're told.
	And then at the end of it, at the end of your human resourcefulness, then you die and your kids have it a little bit better.
	Of course, adjusted for inflation, it's exactly the same.
	So that's incorrect.
	That is not the American dream.
	That was beautiful.
	Yes, that was Pat Buchanan.
	Another douchebag, apparently.
	Yes, total douchebag.
	The American Dream is not being redefined, but what is happening is it is being postponed for tens of millions of Americans for the last three years.
	Hold the phone!
	The American Dream is being postponed.
	And for some Americans, I think it has been cancelled.
	No American dream for you!
	No!
	You may not have an American dream!
	No American dream for you.
	We've cancelled your American dream.
	Go home!
	American dream, Nazi.
	Yeah, that's him.
	Okay, now, the mom everyone hates.
	It's redefined in the sense that it's less materialistic, and that's not necessarily a bad thing.
	I think people are looking for...
	It's been redefined as less materialistic.
	It's not necessarily...
	Redefined by who?
	By Eleanor.
	No, by Obama.
	I think there's more individuality and this notion that you have to do better than your parents.
	I think that's fallen by the wayside.
	Yeah, because we're getting crushed.
	And I think a lot of young people may feel liberated.
	They don't necessarily have to follow their father's path and earn more and they can find their own way.
	So...
	I mean, I don't think it's all that depressing, and I think the numbers you put on the screen show that people are redefining the American dream in a way that they feel comfortable with, and they're optimistic.
	I think that this is not a pessimistic society that we live in.
	Okay, let's just check with our panel of experts.
	Jean-Claude Duarte, Eleanor says the American dream has been redefined to just getting by.
	That's not a bad thing.
	Is that correct?
	Now let's move to the new chick who could be hot if she lost 20 pounds.
	Beth, welcome.
	Thank you.
	What do you think about this?
	Well, the dream has been redefined.
	It's no longer the singular collective vision.
	It's much more personal.
	And the traditional milestones of the recent past, like a nuclear family, you have to be married, have children.
	Excuse me.
	John, do you have a nuclear family?
	They're not irradiated yet.
	What does that mean, the nuclear family?
	It means a husband, a wife, and two kids.
	Where does the term come from?
	Where does the term come from?
	I've heard it all my life, but I don't know where it came from.
	Children get a college degree, own a home.
	Those have all gone by the wayside.
	Wayside, all gone.
	Everything goes by the wayside.
	It's all gone.
	It's all gone.
	Much more meaning over materialism.
	No materialism, just meaning.
	Here, can I have a loaf of bread and I'll give you two ounces of meaning for that.
	I'll give you a bunch of meaning for the bread.
	Here's some meaning.
	Success, it's about having a financial safety net.
	Oh, socialism.
	Yeah, it's not about success, it's about having a safety net.
	Family, it's about broader social relationships.
	Networking, Facebook.
	A new do-it-yourself American dream.
	Ah, it's the new do-it-yourself American dream.
	Well, I don't have to ask our panel of experts.
	I'm just going to say, no, you're wrong.
	Now, the black guy.
	Who's the black guy on the panel?
	I like him.
	Who's he?
	He's a good guy.
	He's a round-faced guy.
	Wait a minute.
	Let me guess.
	Is he the token Republican?
	Is that the idea?
	You know, he's an independent Democrat, a little liberal on the liberal side, if I'm not mistaken.
	Page, I can't remember his name.
	Let's listen to him.
	But it is an American dream.
	Oh, it is.
	It's alive and well, and it's important to Americans of all ages.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	The American dream of socialism and Facebook is alive and well, according to Beth.
	What do you think of Beth's answer?
	Well, I think that's fascinating, and I agree with it 100%.
	It's interesting.
	I think it's become a cliche to talk about the Internet era, but you know the Internet era has brought about more individualism and more individual abilities.
	To me, the American dream, in one word, is opportunity.
	Now, that I like.
	That's the American...
	Would you not say, John, that's a good definition of the American dream, opportunity?
	Yeah.
	Okay, we're going to give him a little...
	Very good there.
	That's what has kept more people wanting to get into this country than wanting to leave.
	And like Pat said, it's not a question of you having guaranteed results, but you have the opportunity to succeed if you work hard and get ahead.
	Okay, so now in the script, John, so now we have the last guy in the table making some sense.
	What do we do as the Curry-Dvorak Consulting Group?
	What do we have to do if we have to propagate the message of just getting by?
	Well, we have to give it back to the host who will somehow summarize it in a way that the powers that be...
	We summarize the message in such a way that it nails down the answer.
	But we need a transition.
	Was somebody going to interrupt?
	Of course!
	I wonder who that would be.
	Give it a shot.
	Well, if I was just setting, if it's page yakking away, Buchanan likes to interrupt on, he's like the interrupting guy, but since he's, I'm looking at this layout in my head and I would assume that he's sitting next to McLaughlin and Eleanor sitting next to him, so Eleanor might butt in.
	No, no, Buchanan is one removed from McLaughlin.
	Yeah, Buchanan's on the right-hand side at the bottom.
	Yes.
	Eleanor is across from him, and then Page would be sitting next to...
	What's his name?
	And then the pretty, almost pretty girl is always sitting next to McLaughlin on his left.
	It's funny how that works.
	That's kind of the way your shows work.
	I always set things up a certain way.
	Yeah.
	All right.
	It's Buchanan, of course.
	Yeah, of course.
	Buchanan is the interrupter.
	Yes.
	And much of our politics is shaped by whether or not that dream is really alive for people or not.
	That, you know, if you don't have equal education, can you have equal opportunity, for example?
	Issues like that.
	I think...
	Everybody's making sort of the same point, what I've described.
	That's how you do it.
	Everyone's making the same point.
	The point is...
	Oh, that is good.
	That is good.
	It's nice, isn't it?
	That's the writers.
	Yeah, that's a good job.
	That's a good job, right.
	Whatever anybody says, you normalize it, the interrupter comes in, normalizes everything, and then if it's going to be wrapped up, then McLaughlin would have a summary.
	Here it goes.
	But part of the American dream is freedom.
	It's the same thing that Clarence means when he says opportunity.
	The freedom to...
	Live the kind of life, the alternative lifestyle.
	Alternative lifestyle.
	If you're gay, isn't that what he's saying?
	What is alternative lifestyle?
	Where did that come from all of a sudden?
	No one talked about it.
	When he says it, it means gay.
	...that you described and all the rest of it.
	Those have always been there, but there's no doubt more and more tens of millions...
	Are rejecting the traditional American dream for what they see as their own personal dream?
	If Americans are remaining, and I think you indicated this, Beth, personally confident, notwithstanding the circumstance, personally confident, how does this translate?
	And then he moves on.
	So a nice wrap-up.
	I think McLaughlin could have done a go-to-break wrap-up, but they didn't have a break scheduled there.
	Then they just pulled that into how does Mitt Romney translate to that, which was useless.
	But there you go, ladies and gentlemen.
	That is the American dream, as has been redefined by the president.
	And ruined by the gays, by the way.
	If you didn't notice, what Buchanan said was kind of a hit job on gays and their alternate lifestyle having something to do with this, if you noticed it.
	Yeah, that's why he brought up, that's why I even stopped the clip, the alternative lifestyle.
	Yeah, the gays ruined it all.
	So somehow the gays are ruining it for everybody.
	In some subtle way.
	I don't know how he managed to pull that off, but that's the message I got.
	Yeah, I think it was intended to project that way, and he's absolutely right.
	The gays are to blame for everything.
	In the end, the folks I hear from in letters or meet when I travel across the country, They aren't asking for much.
	They're just looking for a job that covers their bills.
	They're looking for a little financial security.
	They want to know that if they work hard and live within their means, everything will be alright.
	They'll be able to get ahead and give their kids a better life.
	That's right.
	That's the dream each of us has for ourselves and our families.
	That's right.
	Every single night I go to sleep and that's the dream I have of just a little security net.
	I just want to work really, really hard.
	Hey, wait a minute.
	I'm actually living the American dream, aren't I? Well, you're just getting by.
	Yeah.
	They're in Austin.
	Had to move to Texas.
	Well, I'm liking it here.
	There's a lot of interesting people in Texas.
	Oh yeah, no, Texas is loaded with characters.
	And no one talks like, no one talks with a Texas drawl here, by the way.
	Not so much.
	Austin is pretty much the most cosmopolitan of all the cities.
	Actually, the most cosmopolitan technically is Dallas.
	But in terms of being a kind of a liberal college town cosmopolitan, that style, Austin has it and it's so internationalized that there's very little, especially Texans actually talk to their teeth.
	Not too much of that there.
	You get that in Fort Worth.
	Nope.
	And there's a lot of interesting...
	Technology companies, startups.
	Have you been to any of the bars in the downtown area?
	Now, Mickey is going to take me, because she's been bar hopping.
	She's been bar hopping.
	There's actually this one little area where people go to eat, and I forget the name of it, but it's this little kind of enclave, like a little hippie enclave right off of, I think it's off of 6th Street, actually.
	And so there's these little bars where you kind of sit outside on the terrace, and they have all the food trailers, the food trucks.
	Oh, this is different.
	I haven't been there since that began.
	Yeah, it's very cool.
	So you select your cuisine, and then you basically...
	Cuisine from the food truck.
	No, it's good either.
	By the way, somebody doesn't look back on this as a depression item.
	Well, I know we had to live, we had to eat off the food truck for a couple of years, but the price was good.
	It was excellent.
	No, it's really nice.
	She drove me through the area, although no one was there because it was like 11 a.m.
	And so you select your cuisine, and then you walk back, and you sit down, and the bars there are basically bars, and so you get the food from the food truck, and then these terraces, and it's like wooden buildings, and that's shacks.
	It's kind of a little hippie enclave.
	It's just a very small street.
	I can't remember the name of it.
	Maybe someone in the chat room will know.
	And it's really cool.
	Yeah, it's a good vibe.
	Very good vibe.
	Yeah, sure it is.
	And everything else is a mall.
	You know how to cook in Texas.
	Everything else is a mall here.
	There's a lot of malls.
	Mickey can't handle the mall.
	She is not a mall person.
	Do they have one of the big giant monster malls?
	One?
	What do you mean one?
	Everything is a monster mall.
	It's frightening.
	Christina came for a couple days.
	She wanted to go to Forever 21, which is like a really cheap clothing shop, which is really cheap here in Austin.
	The prices are unbelievable.
	And so we went to the, what was the name of it?
	Like the Rock Creek Mall or something.
	We got to an Apple store here.
	So you seem like the type of person who'd be very uncomfortable in a mall.
	Let alone, but even though you're blaming it on Mickey.
	I'm okay with malls.
	I'm alright with that.
	I find it very handy, you know?
	You just go and just do stuff.
	I almost bought a pickup truck, by the way.
	Oh, I was so close.
	Oh yeah, you have to have a pickup truck if you live in Texas.
	Actually, you have to have a pickup truck no matter where you live.
	So there was a 2001 Dodge Ram with the big block.
	With the extended cab, and it had fat tires, was jacked up a little bit, the dual exhaust.
	It was black, which is not that good necessarily because it gets really hot here.
	Tinted windows, but it was high miles, 174,000 miles.
	Yeah.
	And I'm like, that's a lot of miles.
	I'll tell you, for pickup trucks, we had one, we bought it at about 175,000 miles and took it to 380,000.
	Yeah, I'm sure you can do that, but the guy wanted, he wanted, it was seven.
	Yeah, it's too much.
	I'm telling you, the weird thing about pickup trucks is they hold their value, they grind out tons of miles.
	I thought five and a half was a reasonable price for that.
	Yeah, that sounds right.
	But he wouldn't go lower than six and a half.
	I'm like, okay, brother.
	I just walked away.
	But it looked the part.
	It looked so awesome.
	Oh, my God.
	It had a...
	You know that sound?
	Yeah, nine miles to the gallon.
	Just getting by, brother.
	How much am I driving?
	I mean, I'm sitting watching C-SPAN all day.
	It's just in case I have to go run an errand.
	Get some 2x4s.
	Yeah.
	Throw them in my, what do you call it?
	Throw them in the bed.
	In the bed.
	In the bed.
	And I need to put a gun rack in.
	Oh yeah, definitely.
	Gotta get me a gun rack.
	Just a couple wooden guns.
	So you're saying 174,000 miles is not too much.
	The only thing is, the price was just too much.
	I felt the price was too high.
	Well, you know, you're going to get a feel for it after a while.
	I mean, our pickup truck is a wreck, so we've got to just get rid of it and get a new one.
	But they're just amazing at holding their value.
	You know, pickup trucks are told it's a different animal than cars.
	And generally speaking, if they're well-maintained, you can put a lot of miles on them because they never really put a high-performance engine in them.
	They put kind of a clunky, you know, grinding engine that just runs forever.
	Right.
	Well...
	I'll find something.
	This week I'll find something.
	What do you need a pickup truck for?
	What happened to the...
	You're going to sell the Range Rover and the...
	No, the Saab is sold.
	Oh, it is?
	Yeah, the Saab is sold.
	And the Range Rover we drove out here.
	Right, you're going to sell it or are you going to keep it?
	No, I mean, I just put another two grand into it for the suspension, remember?
	Oh, right.
	Yeah, no, no, no.
	Are you kidding me?
	No, I mean, my budget is...
	Did you find a guy that can work on those things?
	Yes, yes.
	We got a guy who can work on it.
	So we're good there.
	Well, the good thing about Austin is it's international enough that they have probably, you know, a specialist for almost every car.
	They do have a specialist.
	Except they don't have a lot, unless the car is so unpopular that they can't support the guy.
	So what I also could do is I saw a 2001 Range Rover identical to the one we bought for $5,500, much higher miles, 104,000 miles, but it still has the air suspension, so I know that's going to break.
	But I'm thinking if I get two of them, then when the apocalypse hits, I can always have one running all the time with the parts from the other.
	Yeah, that's the way to go.
	Don't you think that's an idea?
	Alright, I wanted to get a bicycle.
	Wait until you see the truck couldn't get up.
	I ain't going to be driving no bicycle on that, brother.
	NPR, our national treasure, as we get closer to business models here, just like CNN, where they're rolling out the vacuum cleaner sales guy, they apparently felt it was necessary to run ads for our military, particularly for the Air Force, and did a whole piece about, well, can you guess what it is?
	No, I have no idea.
	Oh, come on.
	A military ad?
	Yeah, and they're recruiting a specific type of person.
	Computer junkies.
	Yeah, and why would they be recruiting computer junkies?
	For to drive drones.
	Yes, indeed, John.
	Win, lose, or drone.
	That's right, if you have glasses, if you just like playing computer games, you are perfect.
	So come on down and play with us.
	Win, lose, or drone.
	So here's the NPR piece.
	This is Titan 1-4.
	No signs of life.
	Today, like the Wright brothers, the Air Force is still trying to convince people that what they do isn't science fiction.
	Titan 1-4, hold your position.
	That's literally the tagline for this Air Force recruiting ad.
	Unmanned aircraft is identifying enemy sniper.
	It shows a robotic aircraft scanning a desert landscape with a camera that looks like a bright red eye, alerting troops on the ground of a nearby sniper.
	Thanks.
	The message on the screen?
	It's not science fiction.
	It's what we do every day.
	Back at the Air and Space Museum, there's an exhibit featuring planes a lot like the one in the Air Force ad.
	You've heard them called drones, though the Air Force doesn't like that term much.
	They call them remotely piloted aircraft.
	So they have this whole piece, and that was the entire commercial, by the way.
	I have the commercial as well.
	It's 30 seconds, so she just told you what was on the screen.
	So they played the commercial, and then they bring in the recruiter!
	What does come next?
	Singer says, not a single Western aerospace company has a manned combat aircraft in research and development.
	The Air Force says it now recruits more pilots for unmanned planes than fighter and bomber pilots combined.
	The MQ-1 Predator is the military's main workhorse.
	In September 2001, the Air Force had one.
	Today, they have 57 Predators flying 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
	We wanted to know what these changes mean for the men and women in uniform.
	Yeah, we were so curious about that.
	Gee, that's the investigative reporting NPR does.
	Wow, you know, what does this mean for recruiting, you know, your main business?
	Could you please tell us in this free commercial?
	I'm Major General James Posse.
	I'm the Deputy Chief of Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance for the United States Air Force.
	POS helps oversee the Air Force's surveillance programs, which mostly revolve around drones.
	It's a program that's grown dramatically in just the last few years.
	Take this story from a couple years ago.
	POS was speaking to a group of new Air Force officers in Alabama, trying to get the crowd fired up.
	I asked how many folks were going to fly transport aircraft.
	Big cheer.
	How many folks wanted to fly fighter aircraft?
	Huge cheer.
	Then I asked them, well, who wants to fly the single most effective weapon system in the global war on terror in the United States Air Force?
	Who wants to fly the single most effective weapon against the war on terror in the United States Air Force?
	What a line!
	Who wants to fly that?
	It's like written.
	Yeah, he practiced that one.
	You want to go kill some terrorists, son?
	Do you want to fly that because you're really going to get a boner when you pull the trigger?
	Who wants to fly the MQ-1 Predator?
	The MQ-1 Predator.
	Not only was there silence, there was a couple boos.
	Posse knew how they felt.
	He joined the Air Force in May of 1992 for the same reason.
	Now let's humanize it.
	He wanted to be a fighter pilot, but it wasn't long before he found out he needed glasses.
	So, son, if you can't be a fighter pilot, don't worry about it, because if you wear glasses, we're looking for you.
	You've got those Coke bottle-bottom glasses, son.
	You're good to fly our Predator drones.
	So, I had to go with Plan B, which was to be an intelligence officer.
	It's been almost as much fun as being a fighter pilot.
	But an Air Force recruit today might not need a Plan B. That's right.
	You don't need a Plan B if you're a recruit, son.
	Remote aircraft pilots don't need perfect vision.
	They don't have to worry about getting airsick.
	The job has become more popular with recruits.
	This is great!
	This is me!
	You don't have to worry about getting airsick.
	You don't have to worry if you can't see.
	This is fantastic.
	In fact, the Air Force now has a career path specifically for drone pilots.
	There's a career path!
	They're still looking for the same qualities.
	Spatial awareness, critical thinking skills.
	Still, flying drones is different.
	Yes, this is fantastic.
	John, how much do you think that ad was worth to NPR? No, I don't know.
	That whole, that's got to be, that placement for something that long has to be about a couple hundred grand, it seems to me.
	I think they did really, really well on it.
	Played the commercial, had the guy, had the recruiting message, had everything in there.
	It was like Mark Bunting should have done that team.
	Today on Bunting's Windows, we talk to...
	Yeah, I want to tell you, son, about the Predator drones.
	You don't need a plan B anymore.
	All you need is to just...
	Come on, boy.
	You got spatial awareness?
	You know what's around you?
	Look over the left.
	Yeah, you got spatial awareness.
	This brings up something.
	I didn't get a clip from it because I was just too boring, but it does bring up this point.
	I was watching the, you know, while you were watching C-SPAN, I was watching the Pentagon Channel.
	Yay!
	I have that somewhere on my box.
	I haven't found it yet.
	Yeah, the Pentagon Channel's on there.
	It's actually quite good.
	I mean, there's a military channel, which is a commercial that shows a bunch of stuff about Hitler, but the Pentagon Channel's actual government propaganda.
	The Hitler Channel is what it's called.
	The Hitler Channel.
	The Hitler Channel.
	Yep.
	So I'm watching this special on The Warrior Zone.
	Oh!
	And the first one was opened up at Fort Riley and it was a big deal.
	It just opened up in September.
	And they're going to open ten more according to the guy who's putting these things up.
	And I think it's some private company.
	I haven't...
	I've got their name.
	This is a bunch of initials.
	And what they've done is at the various military facilities they've set up this huge basically Dave and Buster's What's a Dave& Buster's?
	Dave& Buster's, or a DMB, the Dave& Buster's, or you should check one out once in a while.
	You drive by them all the time on the freeway.
	Dave& Buster's is essentially the next generation of Chuck E. Cheese.
	Yum.
	Which is what this Warrior Zone is kind of like.
	And essentially, it's a huge...
	Spacious nightclub filled with computers.
	Video games.
	Video games, computers.
	But these are all networked, so they can play networked games, which is the big deal now.
	Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	I know about it.
	This started in Florida, didn't it?
	Isn't that where Dave& Buster started out?
	I think Dave& Buster's.
	Well, Dave& Buster's, I don't know if they have the network stuff.
	Well, the Warrior Zone.
	That started in Florida.
	Wherever Fort Riley's in Kansas, so that's the first one.
	Hmm.
	They may have had some other kind of testing facilities in Florida.
	So these are not arcades.
	These are recruiting offices.
	No, no.
	This is for the soldiers.
	This is on base.
	There's no recruiting involved.
	This is a rec center.
	And they have a cafe selling good food.
	Yogurt.
	Yogurt.
	Then they have all these things, and these guys go in there, and they play basically war games.
	They're playing, you know, because they're showing it.
	I think that this is one of the ways that they're going to be, because I think at some point the Army is going to be just like the rest of these guys, and they're going to say, look, everyone had, look is what they're going to say, look.
	Let me be clear.
	Every one of these branches of the military have got these drones.
	You know, the Air Force, the CIA, which is the fifth branch of the military, I guess.
	Remotely piloted vehicles, John.
	And these drones...
	Remotely piloted vehicles.
	By having these different events and having tournaments and all this sort of thing in the Warrior Zone, you probably identify one or two thrillingly good video game players that you can pull out, which is, I think, the only reason the movie The Last Starfighter has never come out a second time like every other movie in the world.
	The Last Starfighter was a movie about, if you've never seen it, you should watch it.
	This should be on our list of movies to watch.
	It was a kid that was playing some video game that nobody could beat, and he beat the game, and the next thing you know, the aliens grabbed him and said, you're our new general.
	Took him into outer space because they were in some battle with some other alien force.
	You win!
	This kid was so good at the video game.
	I think that that is the model for the Warrior Zone.
	There you have it.
	Meanwhile, while our next...
	A little crack potty.
	It should have been after the donation segment.
	No, no, no.
	I figured we had done by now.
	No, I put it into the donation segment because I want to show that what we just did, what we're just discussing, and if we'd had that monotone guy on, we could have made $100,000.
	$200,000 maybe.
	Yeah.
	Instead...
	I'm going to show myself the mood by donating to no agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, on no agenda.
	Right in the morning.
	Enhanced.
	Thank you.
	So, we have a few donors that came in to help us.
	A couple of new ones, too.
	Jose Geddes in Montijo, Portugal, I believe.
	And I think it's pronounced Geddes, but the Portuguese names are pronounced differently than you'd think.
	Guedes, Guedes.
	Our original, it says, I live in Portugal, a.k.a.
	Gitmo Nation Fado.
	Yep.
	Been a regular listener since show one, so the first thing I really need is a big de-douching.
	You've been de-douched.
	He actually asked for a de-douching.
	Yes, we're indeed dutching, and a lot of people don't spell douching right.
	He needs some karma because he's currently between jobs and waiting to know if he's got a new job in Gitno Nation, Kuduro, Angola.
	Oh, wow.
	Here's some karma.
	You've got karma.
	Sorry, I could have done a double shot, but I didn't know this.
	So, if you get to Angola, stay in touch.
	We got a meal.
	Marty Twat...
	Toivaka?
	Toivaka?
	Toivaka.
	Is he from Turkey?
	And Turku.
	Oh no, that's Turku.
	Turku is...
	Gitmo Nation, formerly known as Nokialand.
	Oh, Finland.
	Finland.
	Now Euroland.
	Please send karma to my friend who is recovering from blood cancer, and please expose Stephen Elop as the mole of Microsoft, who he is.
	Okay, so we'll call him a douchebag.
	Douchebag!
	And now your friend recovering from cancer is some karma.
	You've got karma.
	Some cancer karma.
	It says it's a trend.
	Google buys Motorola, Microsoft buys Nokia.
	We're screwed here, but at least we have some reindeer meat left when Nokia and Euro are gone.
	Hail the foot.
	Can I make an observation that I held a Windows phone the other day?
	Mm-hmm.
	Not bad.
	No, I've discussed this in print.
	I think the problem with the Windows phone, you have to read my column about how I believe it's the tiles that are the issue.
	Tiles are very difficult to navigate as opposed to icons.
	When you take your phone and you start looking for icons and colors and all this as opposed to big square tiles, you'll find the phone easier to use.
	Insofar as the phone itself is concerned, the Windows phone is very slick.
	And snappy.
	And it's very slick and very snappy.
	One problem they seem to have is, for one thing, they have not seeded these phones.
	Yeah, they haven't given them to people like us.
	Yeah.
	Like Google does.
	Normally, these companies, and I'm going to tell people about this, this is just a fact, they throw these phones into the...
	They say, here, use one of these phones and try it for a while and see what you think.
	And because the phones are only...
	They go out of inventory so quickly, it's not really costing them anything.
	So generally speaking, the smart money...
	It peppers the phones all over the place.
	So everyone who's writing or blogging, they all get a free phone, which is one of the reasons you want to do this kind of thing.
	And then you get the phone and you like it, you may say something good, or there's a debate, oh, that phone stinks.
	So I've used that phone.
	It's not that bad, just like Adam just did.
	I just held one.
	But these people at Microsoft are idiots.
	You know, there's another way we could make money.
	They could give us a phone and, I don't know, $10,000 and we could say, hey, John, what did you think?
	Let's just try this out.
	Wow, this phone is so cool, Adam.
	These tiles, man.
	I've never seen anything like it.
	You were so wrong about the tiles.
	I find them so easy to navigate.
	I was wrong.
	Check, please!
	We can do it.
	Carl Maron in Malmo.
	No agenda karma is powerful stuff.
	My last dose got me laid.
	Whoa, I gotta be careful with that button then.
	By the way, I want to mention, Jose gave us 142.56, 142.56, Marty gave us 127.36, and Carl, the guy who just got laid, gave us 124.07.
	The most uninteresting number in the universe.
	Which is the most uninteresting number in the universe, and we're going to put a special link to people who, because look, apparently, you can only get laid, you can get laid from the karma, give the 124.07, and then...
	But it's the 124.07 get laid karma.
	As it supposedly only lasts a week, here's to another week of good karma.
	Greetings from Tokyo, which has recently been neglected by the earthquake machine.
	You can give him another karma and see what happens.
	All right, pull down your pants, buddy.
	Here it comes.
	You've got karma.
	Send pictures.
	And we hope for another one, two, four.
	It's going to cost you $124.07 from now on.
	It's a lot cheaper than a hooker.
	Using karma to get laid is a bit of an abuse.
	It's a lot cheaper than a hooker.
	Candice Blaney in Toronto, Ontario, 12345.
	Howdy, John and Adam.
	I've been listening to the show for about a year and it's high time I stopped being an undouched boner and stopped being a thoroughly cleansed donor.
	In addition to the 12345 slash $133 Canadian.
	Really, I thought we were still on the other side of that.
	I will also dutifully maintain the $5 a month from here on out.
	My sister Caroline, who introduced me to the show, remains a large boner.
	Give her a douchebag.
	Douchebag!
	But I love her anyway.
	Big changes all around for our family this year, so please send us some karma.
	I have to laugh every time I hear Adam mention the Hill Hammer's clip-clopping.
	Clippity-clop.
	Clippity-clop.
	The Clivesdale Clippity-clop.
	Give her a karma.
	Yeah, of course.
	Whoa!
	Holy moly, that was a hard one.
	You've got karma.
	Sorry, my karma levels are off.
	Apparently, when she was younger, I guess, the principal's office in her elementary school was near the classrooms, and when you heard the clip-clopping coming down the hall, you knew somebody was in trouble.
	Thanks for making my time at the gym both hilarious and informative.
	I'm telling you, that's what Hillary Clinton, she's like the principal.
	She comes clippity-clop, clippity-clop, clippity-clop.
	Then you know you're in trouble.
	Then you know you're going to get droned.
	We came, we saw, he died, clippity-clop.
	Mount Pleasant, Illinois, Anonymous.
	Happy Holidays from IT Ninja.
	I want to let everyone know that Karma works $121.21.
	We also have, apparently, Candace came in again at $115.99 for something or other.
	Well, no, that was her Canadian.
	She's a $133 Canadian, and it turned out to be $300 U.S. Oh.
	Oh, that must be it.
	There you go.
	Another Anonymous donor from Middletown, Rhode Island, $99.99.
	You missed Eric Brown.
	You missed Eric Brown.
	And Eric Brown, Felton, California, 10550.
	Hey, Eric.
	I'd like to hand out some comments to Bananas from the Rogan board and request that John and Adam appear on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast.
	Joe Rogan is a Ron Paul supporter and overall cool human being with a comedy podcast that's constantly number one on iTunes.
	It'd be a great boost for the No Agenda show if that happened.
	You know, people keep saying this, and it's like, yeah, I'll go on the Joe Rogan show.
	I like his podcast.
	I'd be happy to, but he doesn't invite me.
	Yeah, you can't just go on it.
	It's not like you, hey, you're doing a podcast I want to be on today.
	No, we have the annual podcast meeting.
	Hey, this is the podcast meeting?
	I'm supposed to be on your show this week.
	Oh, yeah, that's right.
	Right, come on the podcast.
	It's not like a club.
	We're all like sitting together like happy podcasters.
	Hey, you're going to be on a...
	Why don't you come on my show and do yours?
	Yeah, man.
	Shadi Hazazi in Damascus.
	Wow.
	48.
	Damascus, UK? This is the best way to jump out of bed to go to work on Monday mornings.
	Um...
	I think it's got something, I don't know, I can't arrest this.
	But wait a minute, is he from Damascus?
	It says Damascus, UK, but I presume that would be Syria.
	Yeah, I would, but I think it's because the way the PayPal operates, I think that's the way it came out, I think.
	I don't know.
	It seems like he's in Syria.
	Because he's got a website or something about hookahs in Syria.
	I don't know.
	I don't know what he's saying here.
	I do know that 3923, which he sent us in pounds, is thank you, brother, in Japanese somehow.
	Okay, Shadi, thanks.
	Greg Stone, Sir Greg Stone, to you, is Rapid City, South Dakota's night.
	Double diggles on the dime.
	Giving thanks for the bogative holiday to you in the morning.
	If not skipped over, appreciate a plug for the Etsy store.
	Etsy.com, E-T-S-Y.com, slash shop, slash Rory Stone.
	SirStone, RoryStone.com, P.S. I'm 24 and plan on supporting this show as long as I can.
	Call out all the douchebags listening who can donate but do not.
	Hank Wevers in...
	Vafers.
	Vafers, as in Vanilla Vafers.
	Nilla Wafers.
	Nilla Wafers.
	Go ahead, try the place.
	You can do it.
	In Loy Warden Friesland.
	All right, Loy Warden Friesland.
	I love the show.
	Just give me some karma, please.
	I'm only donating when I can give the money.
	Continue with the real nice show, please.
	Thanks.
	You've got karma.
	Alex Azatis in Highland Park, Illinois.
	50 bucks.
	Long-time boner, short-time donor.
	Sorry for only being able to afford 50 bucks for my first donation, but I'm still slowly digging myself out of a hole dug for me by the elites.
	In fact, three years ago I had a tooth pulled with the intent of getting an implant, but I am gap-toothed to this day.
	He needs some getting laid, karma.
	But I'd rather gum my food and donate what little I have to you for all the entertainment value you have provided me.
	That's an additional expression of my gratitude, and because it only cost me $7.49, I purchased the domain rformulaisthis.com.
	Oh, cool.
	Which points to no agenda show.
	I should also use some serious karma in hopes that it makes the love of my life and best friend Sissy, who puts up apparently with a missing tooth...
	Wake up and realize that despite the obstacles that have plagued our relationship, which amounts to 1.5 hours in distance between us and my immaturity...
	He's in jail.
	He's in jail.
	We truly are meant to be together.
	Plus, it doesn't hurt that she is a hot Mexican milk.
	Oh, wow.
	I get to do this?
	That's...
	You've got karma.
	I love the gumming the food by donating to us.
	That's awesome.
	Sir Peter Snakes in Amsterdam, Sir Peter Totes in Sugar Land, Texas, 50 bucks each.
	And Dame Tanya, $50 from New York City.
	Dame Tanya here, hope you both had a great and delicious fake Thanksgiving.
	I did a wild turkey, by the way, and I can report on it now.
	Anyway, requesting a big shot of karma for a friend, Chris, who's making it through a really tough time.
	You've got karma.
	Thank you very much, Dame Tanya.
	Before you get into your turkey, do you realize that we went through an entire donation segment without anyone calling us out for our award-winning show?
	You mean...
	Best podcast in the universe!
	Dear happy, happy efforts.
	Best podcast in the universe.
	In your body.
	See, all the kids know it, but no one said it during the donation segment.
	Yeah, it's weird.
	Well, that'll happen once in a while.
	We didn't get a lot of donations.
	Let's face it, this is a show nobody listens to.
	This is the worst two, except Christmas, New Year's thing.
	That's going to be a disaster.
	We don't get a lot of money this time.
	That's why we kind of overpush the people that do help us.
	Anyway, so I had a wild turkey, which was something to, you know, and it's just like, it's nothing that you'd expect.
	For one thing, it had a real strong pheasant flavor.
	It had none of that turkey stench.
	Yeah, turkey can smell.
	I agree.
	It can smell bad.
	The cheaper the turkey, the cheaper the Safeway turkeys, those big butterballs and all the rest, those things stink.
	It's like cheap, you know, farmed salmon.
	Farmed salmon stinks and it oozes a white milk when you cook it.
	It's just a disgusting product and so are these turkeys.
	This turkey didn't stink and even though it was a long skinny bird with legs that are about three feet long.
	It was a milf turkey.
	A tilf.
	There you go.
	It had a large, it was a long, but it was a pretty good-sized breast.
	It was a bigger breast than you'd think.
	But it wasn't a big, fat breast.
	It was a long, thin breast.
	With a big nipple.
	And, uh, are you okay?
	And it was actually, and it cooks like a regular turkey, more or less.
	We cooked it breast side down, which you could do easily with this type of turkey.
	I always cook my turkey upside down.
	20 to 25 minutes a pound.
	They're 10 pounds.
	They're not big.
	This was stuffed, and it worked out fine.
	It was actually a really good bird.
	25 minutes a pound, 10 pounds, so you did 250 minutes?
	Actually, I did three hours.
	Because on another list, if you've got a 10-pound wild turkey, it's three hours.
	It's at 325.
	So at the Camp Mofo we're renting, we have a double oven set up, which is outstanding.
	It's a Kenmore, which is like Sears brand.
	I'm like, how good can this be?
	This oven is outstanding.
	It is so incredibly good.
	And the day after Thanksgiving, fake holiday, bogativeness, I did lamb with the broiler.
	Wow.
	Wow.
	This oven is great.
	Well, it could be.
	What's the...
	Have you normalized the temperature with an oven thermometer to make sure the thing is on the money?
	No, I haven't done that, but I will.
	You should.
	But it's brand new, so I guess it's going to be okay.
	Is there an adjustment knob?
	Calibrate them properly.
	Is there an adjustment knob?
	You want to calibrate it to make sure that your oven is at the right temperature.
	I don't like to do these recipes, but when you do baking, where it has to be really rigid with everything you do, you need to make sure those temperatures are accurate.
	That's your tip for the day.
	That's right.
	That's your tip, everybody.
	And thank you so much for those of you who did donate.
	It is, of course, highly appreciated.
	Good to see some knights and dames in there.
	They always come through on the tough days.
	They know what it's like when we're just trying to get by.
	And remember, everybody, at noagentanation.com, we have the slash jobs for a human resource locator, and we also have the hot, sexy slave T-shirts on sale now, and the lanyards.
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	Do we ever get any money from Eric?
	Or is he just selling that stuff and is he hoarding the money?
	I never see, like, a donation from the shill saying, here's your money.
	No, actually, he's donated a couple of times, and he says he wants to do it semi-anonymously.
	He just doesn't think it contributes anything to the show to mention it, so he doesn't.
	Okay.
	Well, good.
	Good.
	And now, John, it's time to hit our reality show.
	We can't wait.
	We're doing it now.
	We can't wait.
	We'll show you how.
	Oh, Bob!
	That's right.
	The We Can't Wait Show now has a jingle.
	Yes, we can.
	Here's what's going on.
	Moody's has now threatened a downgrade.
	It's a repeat of last season.
	You remember last season on the We Can't Wait Show.
	We couldn't agree on raising the debt ceiling.
	And, of course, at the very last minute, the very last hour, we came in.
	Well, we got the downgrade anyway.
	But the show was good.
	It was very exciting.
	And now the rating agency has issued a statement saying that the Congressional Super Committee's failure to come to a compromise on the U.S. deficit dilemma could trigger a downgrade.
	So we have about 37 days left.
	And we're just waiting for the president to come out and say, We can't wait.
	Here's what I'm going to do.
	I'm going to continue to cut payroll taxes.
	That's a pretty good sound effect, by the way.
	And I'm going to raise taxes on millionaires and billionaires.
	And that's what's coming next on We Can't Waits.
	We're doing it now.
	We can't wait.
	We'll show you how.
	Obama!
	Do you remember that jingle?
	It's from the 70s.
	Yeah, vaguely.
	So I have to go back to the New York Times again.
	Oh, well then you might need the jingle.
	Do you need the jingle?
	Go ahead, play it.
	I think you need the jingle, man.
	John's gonna hum the Sunday Times There's a lot of memes in this paper today.
	The top one includes a photo of the guy looking off.
	In fact, the photo of the guy's head is over in Ronald Lauder of S.T. Lauder.
	He's looking off the paper.
	It's a very symbolic thing.
	You're supposed to be looking into the paper.
	He's looking off the paper.
	That's interesting.
	This is the big headline and photo at the top above the fold on Sunday.
	And I think the message here is that it's either a message to the elites or it's a message to the...
	I think it's a combination message, but here's what the headline is.
	You can figure it out.
	A family's billions artfully sheltered.
	S.D. Lauder Ayers' tax strategy typify advantages for the wealthy.
	So what they're saying, there's two messages.
	One, to the slaves, these bastards, we have to jack up their taxes on these guys because they're cheating us.
	Yep.
	One.
	The second message, which is to the elites, is, look, this guy's getting away with it.
	You'll get away with it.
	Just let us raise the taxes.
	Don't worry about it.
	It'll look good on paper.
	Yeah, we'll figure it all out.
	It's all going to be good.
	And then we'll just let, we'll just, you know, and don't worry about it.
	It's not going to really bring in any more money or anything.
	It's just going to look good.
	It'll, you know, It'll quench the bloodthirst of the masses.
	So just tax the rich when you won't really get any more taxes at all.
	So it's a scam.
	You know, I had in the show notes a couple shows ago, we didn't get to it, I have the number, the amount that people have donated by checking the box on their tax return where you can just donate to reduce the deficit.
	Yeah.
	How much money do you think it is?
	$20,000 max?
	Not quite that bad.
	No, like $3 million.
	Oh.
	$3 million.
	Thanks.
	$3 million.
	That'll make a big dent in that $15 trillion or whatever it is we owe.
	It's getting there.
	Alright.
	Was that it for the Times?
	No, there's a couple other things.
	Let me just say what's on it.
	I'll just give you the whole front page.
	The post-uprising, a new battle.
	This is about Egypt and what the Arab world has reshaping itself without mentioning Syria.
	El Baradai is coming in.
	Yep.
	NATO strike kills Pakistani forces raising tensions.
	This isn't a big bowl face.
	25 soldiers die.
	We have a beef coming up with Pakistan.
	Well, you know why?
	Because they're now doing business with China.
	Did you read that?
	No, what?
	Hold on a second.
	I'll find it for you.
	I filed it away under...
	Here we go.
	Drone Nation, actually.
	Pakistan and China are staging joint military exercises, showcasing their relationship as Islamabad's ties with Washington suffer.
	So they're doing war games with China.
	Oh, yeah.
	That's not good.
	I don't know why these countries don't get a clue.
	Stay away from China, countries.
	Really?
	Are you going to get bombed?
	When we start the show, we should say, in the morning, to all countries listening.
	To all countries, stay away from China.
	NBA reaches a deal that's below the fold.
	Well, that's necessary.
	Next to that, TV attack ads aim at Obama.
	Cross-party line, this picture of Hillary, which is priceless.
	I can't wait to see it.
	And then the little blurbs at the bottom, which lead you inside, always have a message in here.
	Perils of commerce in China, coincidentally in the exact same opposite kitty corner to that article about Pakistan.
	Apparently, if you do business in China, they'll kill you.
	That's basically what it says.
	Some poor guy went over there and it's just miserable for him.
	Bomb kills 11 in Iraq.
	And then they talk about the California Railroad fiasco.
	Oh, yeah.
	They're going to do it anyway, though, right?
	Yeah, they don't care.
	California's so screwed up, they don't give a crap.
	We got no money, so let's go spend some.
	And then the stealth giant of the gun industry, a whole story about some company, the Freedom Group, which apparently has bought most of the gun manufacturers.
	The way this works, you know, we have these companies like that.
	We talked about Diageo earlier.
	And they bought, if you go to the web, go to the wiki page and see what they own, and you'll go, the Diageo company, you'll go, holy crap, everything is owned by these guys.
	Yeah, they're big.
	Holding companies are all over the place.
	You know where their headquarters are.
	London?
	No.
	No, hold on a second.
	Headquarters in the Netherlands.
	I think they moved to London.
	No, I think they moved from London to the Netherlands.
	Oh, well that's possible.
	I think I would know about the Netherlands.
	Not necessarily.
	Remember my guy Eric, Taxi Eric?
	Did he ever transport you while you were over there?
	Yeah, he almost got us killed.
	Yeah, so his account is Diageo.
	That's what he makes his money on, is Diageo.
	That's a big one.
	And then trying to kill my friends.
	That's what he does.
	Yeah, he was reaching around for something.
	Fucking truck stop dead in the road.
	That's my man.
	That's my man, Taxi Eric, on the case.
	That's it?
	Yeah, that's the New York Times.
	John's gonna hum the Sunday time.
	Yeah.
	Here's something for you, John. .
	And now, back to real news.
	Reports from the European Union.
	We've been very, very busy.
	We have the Eurostat, which does statistics of Gitmo Nation Euroland.
	Who has the fattest women in the land?
	Mexico.
	No, in Euroland.
	Oh, let's see.
	Oh, brother, this is a good one.
	I'll go with Italy.
	No, the Italians are hot, baby.
	No, no, no.
	Yeah, but when they get to be 40, there's not so much.
	They looked at 19 countries.
	Come on, you can do it.
	Are you making me guess again?
	Yeah, why not?
	The fattest people in all of Europe that includes the UK? Women, women, women.
	What did you say?
	That includes the UK? That includes the UK, yes.
	Okay, UK. Very good.
	24% were recorded as being obese in the UK. Just over 22% of UK men are classified as obese, coming second only to Malta.
	Malta.
	Those fat asses in Malta.
	Malta fat butts.
	Yeah, but this is the country.
	And I saw this happen.
	I lived there for five years.
	Remember, this was the thin white dude who was all pissed off and had a pitch pork running down the street.
	That was the Brits.
	And now they became all fat and bloated because no one cooks anymore.
	They're all getting stuff from Tesco's.
	And they're eating salt and preservatives, essentially.
	Wow.
	Gitmo Nation East.
	You're killing yourself.
	But I have to say, I like me a Rubenesque woman.
	I'm okay with that.
	Well, yeah, and that sort of thing.
	My story of the week.
	That wasn't my story of the week, but okay.
	That seems like it.
	Okay.
	Six-year-old charged with sexual assault for playing doctor.
	We talked about this on Thursday.
	No, no, no.
	That was a different story.
	Oh, this is a different one for playing doctor?
	That's the story where the two little kids kissed.
	Oh, okay.
	Little kid kisses and now they want to hold him up for sexual assault.
	By the way, this is part of our meme theme that we've talked about before.
	Where nudity equals pornography.
	Now kissing equals sexual assault.
	assault and I saw when they first started pushing the kissing as sexual assault was when all of a sudden some women's groups during some it was one of the uh anniversaries of vj or ve day uh victory in europe when they had that picture that was on the front page of the life magazine in 1945 whenever 44 45 of the of the of the sailor giving that woman a big kiss in times square yeah it's a classic sure Yeah, it's a classic.
	And then they were saying this is just sexual assault, him kissing her.
	And then the photographer, I guess who was still alive, came out and said, hey, this was staged three days earlier, you idiot.
	Yeah, it's porn.
	So they dropped the ball on that, but now they're trying to make it so a little boy kisses a little girl or a little girl kisses a little boy.
	Sexual assault?
	Register, register, register.
	Six-year-old Grant County boy has been accused of first-degree sexual assault after playing doctor with two five-year-old friends.
	Now, a federal lawsuit has been filed against a prosecutor who attorney says trying to force the boy to admit guilt.
	Can you imagine a little kid in court?
	Attorneys for the parents of the six-year-old who's being referred to as D said the prosecutor Lisa, Lisa Riniker, has gone too far by bringing a felony sex charge against a first grader for touching a five-year-old girl inappropriately while playing doctor last fall.
	Wow.
	What is wrong with these assholes?
	Really?
	They're taking all the fun out of being a kid.
	That's how you learn about it.
	One of the articles said that the boy, if found guilty, would be put on the sex offender list when he turns 18.
	But how crazy is it that in primetime television we have people talking about vagina and penis all the time, but then when kids go to inspect it, you're a sex fiend.
	That's six.
	First grader, you're just looking around.
	You don't know anything.
	This woman should be arrested and thrown in jail For?
	In the general population.
	For being an asshole.
	Along with, who else did we throw in the general population?
	I forgot we threw somebody else in.
	Was that Lieberman?
	Did we throw him in there?
	Lieberman.
	Lieberman.
	Get in jail with Lieberman.
	What's her name?
	No, she has a number now.
	Lisa Rinneker.
	She's in Lancaster, Wisconsin.
	There's a blog entry, thebork.org slash blog.
	General population.
	We're in with the general population.
	She's a disgusting person.
	Yeah, that's wrong.
	That's what you're supposed to do when you're that young.
	You're supposed to like...
	And then boys usually go like...
	Sex at six.
	Yeah, boys usually go like, man...
	He's a predator!
	He's a predator!
	Get him off the streets!
	But I just was looking.
	I was just looking.
	I don't know.
	Give me a break.
	Anyway, so this is my story of the week.
	Yeah, that's a...
	And those things are complicated, by the way.
	When you're like five or six, you're like, what does that thing work?
	What the hell are you doing?
	What is the, look at this!
	What is all this stuff?
	What happened to yours?
	John.
	Oh boy.
	My story of the week would have to be, and this was passed around the interwebs quite a bit, the discrepancy in Time Magazine covers.
	Have you seen this?
	Oh, yeah.
	Yeah, this went all over the place.
	Yeah, so we have Europe, Asia, and South Pacific.
	Time magazine has clearly a protester.
	It says, Revolution Redux.
	Of course, this is about Egypt.
	And it's a guy with a gas mask and glasses, like dark glasses, and looking pretty, you know, holding up his fist, you know, in the old Arab Spring fist there.
	Looks like he has an iron fist, like he has one of those Nintendo gloves on.
	And in the United States, we have a sweet little drawing of a little dude with glasses, and it says, why anxiety is good for you.
	And I was wondering what your take was on this.
	About what?
	Why we have a different cover instead of Revolution Redux.
	Why do we get the little, why anxiety is good for you.
	Because they're obviously targeting the different audiences based on something.
	Memo comes down from the intelligence agency and says, look, we don't want these people worked up about this.
	We've got to do this.
	This has to be pushed.
	It's like a conductor of a symphony.
	Trying to keep the horns, you know, don't play that so loud.
	I think it's keeping us calm is what it's meant to do, right?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, just keeping us nice and calm and take your time.
	Don't worry about it.
	It's okay to have a little bit of anxiety.
	It's all fine.
	It's all groovy.
	Don't worry.
	Everything is fine.
	Don't look over there.
	Don't look at brown people with their fist up in the air.
	Please don't get any ideas.
	Just be calm.
	Take your meds.
	All will be good.
	Still no IRS Form 990 from the Clinton Foundation.
	Oh?
	Well, I'm sure it'll be out any minute.
	Yeah, coming any day now.
	There were a couple of interesting little science things.
	Let me see if we have...
	The science is in!
	Apparently, in Gitmo Nation Lowlands, at the Eurasmus University...
	I think that's Rotterdam.
	They have created a bird flu virus.
	And people are rather worried about it.
	Dutch scientists have created a flu virus which is so deadly there's no doubt whether the research should be published according to the Volkskrant which is considered to be a reputable newspaper although of course completely controlled by the elites.
	The paper says American experts are worried detailed information could fall into the wrong hands and that terrorists could recreate the virus as a weapon.
	The fears are notable because the work was carried out on behalf of the National Institute of Health in the US Why?
	Because it's safe to do it over there.
	If it leaks out, it's only 17 million people.
	Not like here.
	We don't want the virus being built here.
	Yeah, and it'll take out half of Europe.
	Yeah, well, so what?
	They're going to get over here eventually.
	But by then, we'd have the vaccine.
	Yeah, well, of course.
	This is what it's all about.
	The research team, led by Ron Fouchier, who sounds like not a Dutch guy, Professor of Virology at Erasmus Teaching Hospital was able to create a highly infectious variant of the bird flu virus, H5N1. Good on you, Holland.
	Thanks.
	And here's another interesting...
	The Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula is apparently collaborating with Boko Haram.
	Have we talked about Boko Haram on the show?
	Yep.
	They're a, what are they, another terrorist group?
	It's a made-up thing, whatever it is.
	Isn't that Procol Harum?
	It's a new spin-off group.
	They couldn't get the trademark because the one guy wanted to give it up.
	Yeah, so they...
	It's a Boko Harum.
	Boko Harum.
	A water shade of pale.
	Well, apparently Procolherum and Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula have developed a horrible virus that is so lethal, it is twice as deadly as cobra venom and is meant to be deployed by suicide attackers on some high-target operations.
	This is a poison or a virus?
	Well, it's a...
	It sounds like a poison.
	Well, actually, they call it a vaccine in this story.
	So I think what they mean is it's in a syringe.
	And the idea is if you're at a Procol Harem concert, all of a sudden the guy might jump off the stage and stick you right in the neck.
	Or maybe it's like curare where you can dip some blow darts in it or something.
	Sources further conform to what they call vaccines are due to first be launched in West Africa and that the dreaded Nigerian-based group Procol Harum is the source of deployment.
	So be on the lookout for that.
	I'd say, hey countries, don't go to Nigeria.
	Don't do business with China, don't go to Nigeria.
	And then we have the...
	What did that Large Hadron Collider cost?
	Was that like $5 billion?
	It was more than that, wasn't it?
	It was a huge amount of money.
	And the whole point was to find...
	Let me look it up in the Book of Knowledge.
	Oh, please.
	So this thing was intended to find the Higgs boson molecule, I think.
	Did you call it a molecule or particle?
	No, it's a particle.
	Particle.
	Well, I'm not quite sure what it cost.
	John's looking that up, and of course this thing runs all under Switzerland and into parts of, I don't know, this whole thing is underground.
	It's like a very expensive operation.
	Now CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Family Research, physicists have raised the possibility that Higgs boson, the particle that some believe gave the universe its form after the Big Bang, just might not exist.
	Hey, thanks for letting us build this really big thing, but it might be bogative.
	Higgs bogative.
	Ten billion dollars.
	Ten billion dollars for the Higgs Bogative particle.
	Higgs Bogative.
	And here's what will interest you.
	Researchers said it might soon be clear whether the Higgs Bogative is a chimera.
	Wasn't that your thing to look out for?
	Well, chimeras, people are chimeras.
	That's one of the things.
	There's some studies in it, which I think helps explain two or three phenomenons.
	Phenomena.
	Chimera is a human.
	It tends to be twins in the womb where one of the twins literally absorbs the other twin and becomes a single person when they're born.
	It eats it.
	But they have two completely separate sets of DNA within them.
	So why are they calling the Higgs Bogative a chimera?
	That means it may be so much part of another, not an organism, but another particle that it actually doesn't really exist.
	It was just theorized.
	It got eaten.
	It's like you can't say that a person that's a chimera that has the two sets of genes is two people.
	And you can't separate the one out.
	There's no way.
	You can't chop them out of there.
	I mean, I think this accounts for a lot of transsexual operations where people just can't get over the fact that they're not the sex they were supposed to be.
	Because when you see Sonny Bono's kid, whatever his name is.
	Ann Coulter?
	When you see anybody that is, you know, they're naturally that sex and it just so happens to be because they're chimeras.
	But I think it also might explain some DNA anomalies where people do a DNA test on somebody who did something but the DNA doesn't match so you let them go.
	I think there's an issue there that he's addressing.
	Oh, no.
	Well, anyway, don't worry about it.
	Get your checkbook out.
	If Higgs Bogutiv has not found, the researchers say, we need to move on to explore the next set of possibilities.
	This sounds so, like, bullcrap to me.
	I've always thought this thing was highly suspicious, this whole operation.
	And now it's like, oh, sorry, $10 billion later.
	Sorry, it might not exist.
	Whatever.
	We tried.
	Yeah, we'll do what it doesn't...
	Hey, we tried.
	That's what really counts.
	So, I think it's back to my theory that this is to create a Stargate.
	Anything?
	I have a...
	As a final clip, we don't have to play it.
	Judge Napolitano did a great rant.
	Like a four-minute rant.
	Oh, he always does those.
	But yeah, we haven't played one for a while.
	It promotes his book.
	Do you want to do that at the end of the show?
	If you want.
	Yeah, let's do it at the end of the show and then hit the, we'll finish it that way.
	Alright, you got anything else you want to do?
	Yeah, I do have a couple of things.
	I did want to talk a little bit about Black Friday, which was the most promoted and also the most successful Black Friday, which is a sales day after Thanksgiving.
	When I was a kid, I never heard of this term.
	No.
	But there's a, I got two clips.
	One is, we can skip, which is the woman going on and on about how great Black Friday was because it sold more, 8% more than last year.
	But the Macy CEO talking about good deals.
	And this was on Bloomberg.
	The Macy CEO is going on and on about good deals.
	And he drops his little thing at the end.
	I go, this product actually exists and it costs this much money?
	You'll see if you can pick it out of this little laundry list of products he plugs.
	Different customers here at the second wave of shopping this morning.
	Now, how promotional are you now?
	How promotional do you plan to be versus where you were before the recession?
	Well, you know, we are a promotional department store at Macy's, and so our focus is all about having great value, and we really concentrate on that.
	But it could be anything from a $6.99 pillow from Ralph Lauren upstairs or a $19.99 Rampage boot for young women to a Justin Bieber fragrance at $65, but the promotion there is you get his holiday CD. I'm getting you that for Christmas.
	Can you imagine?
	Wait a minute, let me get this straight.
	My jaw dropped when I'm listening to this idiot.
	$65, this is a good deal, by the way, by his standards.
	$65 Justin Bieber fragrance, because he's a fragrance expert, obviously, and you can just imagine what he'd come up with.
	And by the way, it's unisex.
	It's for boys and girls.
	Is it now?
	Yeah, for Chimera.
	Go figure.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	I would have never guessed such a thing.
	Let me just check this out.
	Hold on a second.
	Justin Bieber.
	Fragrance.
	Let's see.
	It's called Someday, the irresistible new perfume.
	Okay, let's do the commercial.
	Hold on a second.
	Let me bring up the page.
	This is from JustinBieberSomeday.com.
	All right, here we go.
	Someday by Justin Bieber.
	Hold on a second.
	There's no information here.
	Oh, here's the fragrance.
	Hold on a second.
	I've got to get the fragrance page.
	Here we go.
	Wow, it's quite a collection.
	This looks really good.
	Let's see.
	$65.
	You can experience.
	Let's see.
	Hearts across the web.
	Oh, this is a good deal, baby.
	I'm telling you.
	I think Miss Mickey will love this if I show up and say, Hey, baby, how are you doing?
	Yeah, why don't you buy her that for Christmas?
	That'll go over.
	Wait, I think there's music to this site.
	Hold on a second.
	Justin Bieber's Hearts Across the Web.
	Justin Bieber's Someday Hearts Across the Web.
	Come on, play.
	Go heart to heart.
	Hey guys, to raise awareness and support Pencils of Promise, let's create the Pencils of Promise.
	Hey, Justin, I got a Pencil of Promise right here in my pants, buddy.
	Biggest digital chain around the world.
	Joining Hearts is simple.
	Just upload your picture and invite your friends to do the same.
	If 500,000 people join the chain, Give Back Brands, who I've partnered with to make Someday my fragrance, will help build over 50 schools.
	So join me and my friends with Hearts across the web to make a difference.
	Pencils of promise.
	Someday, from Justin Bieber.
	Hearts across the web.
	500,000.
	We'll give you a pencil of promise.
	He's like, here's a pencil.
	Cool.
	I got a pencil that Justin touched.
	This is the problem with America.
	We're all gonna die because of this.
	Right here.
	This is proof.
	Yeah, it's pretty bad.
	I think this is a message for Eric the Shill.
	I'd like, even though it's trademarked, I think we can get away with it.
	I'd like the No Agenda Pencil of Promise.
	We can sell that on the site.
	Pencil.
	Yeah, it's a number two pencil.
	Yeah, ten bucks.
	Yeah, the No Agenda Pencil of Promise.
	Come on, this is good.
	This is good stuff.
	Justin Bieber's doing it.
	Are you kidding me?
	This is good.
	This is very smart.
	Pencil of Promise.
	Exclusively from No Agenda.
	But wait.
	For $19.95, we'll not send you one Pencil of Promise.
	We'll send you two Pencils of Promise.
	Just pay for separate shipping and handling.
	Anything else?
	That's the kicker.
	I've got other stuff.
	I'm not going to beat that.
	I don't think you can beat the Pencil of Promise.
	The chat room has some good ideas about it, and I think they're into it.
	They say it has a penis-shaped eraser, and it's a pencil set for $33.33.
	Stop chewing my pencil of promise.
	No, wait.
	Continue.
	I think we're good.
	All right, everybody.
	Those of you who donated, thank you for not being boners and supporting us on the worst day in history for the No Agenda show.
	Eric DeShill is in the back channel going, huh?
	He smells revenue.
	Pentelope promise.
	No Agenda Producer Update coming up on the stream right after the show.
	Those guys, like, they think it's...
	Not only is it great to have no audience for the No Agenda show, they want an even lower audience for the Producer Update.
	Perfect, perfect.
	This is production, I tell you.
	Gitmo Slave and Mr.
	Oil running the stream.
	Very happy that they're doing that.
	Coming to you from Camp Mofo, where's chilly and windy here in the center of the Lone Star State.
	My name's Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where...
	It's not the best I've seen.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	We'll talk to you again on Thursday right here on No Agenda.
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