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I swallowed the slide whistle.
Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
It's Thursday, April 26, 2012.
Time for your Gitmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 403.
This is no agenda.
Enjoying my sustainable slavery here at Camp MoFo in the capital of the drone star state, Austin Tejas.
In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
And from northern Silicon Valley, where it's raining, I'm John C. Dvorak.
All right, man.
you What happened with the war on chicken, dude?
What about it?
It turned into the war on mad cow.
Well, the chicken thing wasn't working out.
This is a big...
I'm like, what?
How can that...
They can't be, like, doing that?
It was the war on chicken.
Now the war on chicken will return.
They've been busted.
I finally got a clue it was just all PETA. They're always bitching about everything.
I actually think I found out what that was about.
Okay.
The War on Chicken.
Well, you might as well play the theme because it might be the last time we get to play it.
That's right.
All right, let's do that right now.
The War on Chicken.
We'll be right back.
I've become so overly sensitive to these PR moves now that everything I see is like, oh, there's got to be a PR move.
I've got to go check it out.
And so here's what I came up on this one.
For those of you who didn't know, it probably was worldwide news.
Oh, we've got a mad cow's disease in America!
And it's a mad cow, mad cow, mad cow, mad cow.
And they show the crazy cow chewing with his tongue out the side of his face, which is the international symbol for mad cow.
Right?
And it's like, oh, this is horrible.
And this cow was discovered at Baker Commodities.
Baker Commodities doesn't make cow meat for human consumption.
If you look at bakercommodities.com, they take basically dead animals, who are already dead, and they process them into biodiesel, leather jackets.
It's literally on their website.
They've got a little flower sticking out of a petrol tank.
That's your dead cow biodiesel.
They've got hides, and you see some leather jackets.
Yellow grease, which is some kind of cooking oil, I guess.
Tallow.
It's not used for cooking.
No, no.
There's tallow, but they also have yellow grease.
What's yellow grease?
I don't know.
I don't like the sounds of it.
It's like pink slime.
Yellow grease.
Hey, give me some more.
Hey, we need more yellow grease on the griddle.
Oh, here it is.
Pancakes.
Pancakes.
Yellow grease is the product produced from the recycling of used cooking oil that is utilized as a high-energy feed additive.
Where you see a bunch of very happy chickens in the picture.
Anyway, so this has nothing to do with the human food chain, apparently, as they say.
And things happen really, really quickly.
So first it was like, Oh, mad cow!
Mad cow!
Mad cow!
And then it's like, oh, don't worry about it.
It had bovine disease inherent.
It happens.
Don't worry about it.
Then...
Hold on a second.
Maybe you could do a cartoon voice.
The thing you do with the blah, blah, blah, blah is actually quite amusing.
Very cartoonish.
Okay.
Well, I'll start auditioning for that.
Okay.
Looking at our production numbers today, I might have to.
Yes, we're below the minimum.
But then, here's what caught my eye, and I'm aware of this.
South Korea then says, oh, we're no more meat from America!
And we know from Uncle Don that the beef import thing in South Korea is a big deal, right?
It's a huge...
Yes, they're very proud that they grow their own beef and eat their own beef, and it's a high-quality product, and they are very reluctant to get involved in the world trade of carcasses.
Right.
Of dead things.
So two big supermarkets said, oh, no more American beef.
We don't trust it.
And literally, 24 hours, maybe 30 hours later, oh, it's okay.
we're back on we're good with the beef from America like wait a minute so So I go searching around.
He was pulling strings on that one.
Yeah, someone must have been.
And then I read, you know, in all these...
I'm not really good at the charts.
I'm going to ask you to take a look at this.
I read, you know, like, analyses of this.
And some people saying, oh, this is not a food health and safety issue.
This is a political financial issue.
I'm like, okay.
Because South Korea pulls a lot of weight with the cattle futures.
And here is the report I get from Bloomberg.
And maybe I'm misunderstanding what's written here.
Cattle futures rebounded from a nine-month low as countries from Canada to Japan said they will continue to import American beef after the U.S. reported its first case of mad cow disease in six years.
So apparently, and if you look at the chart, we see that the cattle futures were down.
And I guess if you were to manipulate these markets, and there's a lot of high-frequency trading in cattle futures as well, what I understand...
I'm not sure of that.
Oh, I see it everywhere.
No, it's beside the point.
Okay, so I could be wrong on this, but is it possible that these...
And you see so much volume, like a lot of volume just before the beginning of April.
The question you haven't asked yet is yes.
It was manipulated.
Yes.
I'm reminded of a couple, over the last couple days, PBS has been playing all these great stories.
Two-part, like four hours of the banker's crash and a special on the 29 stock market crash.
And there was a clip, which just kind of relates to this in an odd way, about how the market was manipulated in the 20s.
Uh-huh.
And I've got this 1920 stock market game clip.
And the very first of the clip I missed, but the guy said, he's talking about the reporters that worked for all the major newspapers and how they were bribed into writing stories to play the game, but play the clip.
...financial journalists who undertake.
This includes reports from the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Herald Tribune, you name it.
So if you were a pool operator, you'd call your friend at the Times and say, look, Charlie, there's an envelope waiting for you here, and we think that perhaps you should write something nice about RCA. And Charlie would write something nice about RCA. A publicity man called A. Newton Plummer had canceled checks from practically every major journalist in New York City.
Then they would begin to what was called painting the tape, and they would make the stock look exciting.
They would trade among themselves, and you'd see these big prints in RCA, and people will say, oh, it looks as though that stock is being accumulated.
Now, if they are behind it, you want to join them.
So you bought and you buy stock also.
Now, what's happening is the stock goes from 10 to 15 to 20, and now it's at 20, and you start buying.
Other people start buying 30, 40.
The original group, the pool, they stop buying.
They're selling you the stock.
Now 50, and they're out of it.
And what happens of course is the stock collapses.
So the only thing that we're doing wrong in our analysis, so you agree with me that this was a total market manipulation, there's a whole bunch of, you can see on the volume of the cattle futures, just about mid-March, just about the last week of March, all of a sudden volume is up by four times the volume it's been since December.
What we do wrong is we catch it right after they do it.
Well, that's what the problem is.
You have to actually literally be on the inside of it.
You've got to be in the game.
You've got to be in the game.
We're not on the inside of it.
It's very hard to pick these things.
This is the problem with amateur stock market people.
Like us.
And I put myself in that category.
Yeah, like us.
Otherwise, we wouldn't be doing the show.
We wouldn't be doing the show, no.
I wouldn't be talking to you, nothing like that.
No, we'd be in Paris, you know, having a nice meal.
Yeah, exactly.
So anyway...
The guys who do this, who pull the stunts, unless you're in with them, you just never...
It's always, oh, I just missed...
Oh, geez, I just missed that one.
It's just everything, you just miss it.
And if you try to play the game, you'll usually get burned.
Yeah, you get screwed.
Because the idea is that you will get into...
I mean, like they said, the guys who promote the thing, as it goes up, they're the ones who are selling it.
Yeah, of course, that's what it is.
You're selling it on...
Sell on the news.
Yeah, sell on good news, buy on bad news.
So, let me just see.
Maybe there's someone in this company or someone that we would recognize.
Because someone had to be on the inside of Baker Commodities.
Well, what I would do, you know, most of these companies have PR agencies.
And nowadays, all the PR agencies are pretty much two major companies.
And there's a conflict of interest written all over it.
One of these days, an upcoming newsletter.
Yeah, we should do that.
I'll discuss this in more detail.
Yeah, I have another one that I want to talk about.
But first, let's thank our one executive producer for the day.
And by the way, we would have had none.
This executive producer came in at the last minute, and the only reason I let him go past the midnight deadline is because it's his birthday today, but he came in late.
So we would have had zero executive producers for this show because people have either an interest in the show or the last show we did sucked.
Possible.
That's possible.
There's no other reason.
You could blame the tax thing, but I think the tax thing should...
No, I'll go for last show sucked.
Okay.
Last show sucked.
Last show sucked.
We'll just assume it would suck, then that was that.
And that's Alan Thompson, who's in New Carrollton, Maryland.
3333.
He's donating today to celebrate his birthday, which is today.
With this donation, he's donated over $1,000.
Please see the accounting below to complete my knighthood.
Please call out all non-donors as douchebags.
Douchebag!
And then he'll take some karma.
Of course.
We're happy to give that to you.
Thank you for being our executive producer.
You've got karma.
The sole executive producer.
I also have no PR mentions, so there we go.
We've hit peak podcasting.
Apparently.
Yeah, just like peak oil.
Yeah, peak podcasting.
We're over the edge, and it's all downhill from here on out.
It's all right, because I already did the work, so we might as well tell everyone what we've been working on.
But if you would like to support us, and actually, I will take a moment here.
We've been working on the Hot Pockets 2009 tour, and of course no one has been able to come up with a trailer that we can tow to do our tour.
And the only other...
Maybe none of our listeners have trailers.
This is possible.
It's a weird group of people that have trailers and probably they don't listen to our show.
They're even weirder than the RVers.
Yeah, I guess.
We have a couple of RV offers when we did.
Right.
So renting an RV is out of the question.
Renting a trailer is about $100 a day.
And of course, there's the Mustang Sally, which is already in the kitty, so to speak.
We already have the Dodge Ram 2002 with the new tires.
So that'll be able to do the job.
But if we want, you know, if we want to do two or three weeks, so, you know, we need an additional two, three thousand dollars that would have to be donated in order to do the tour.
I mean, we could do it that way if we don't want to wait, you know, to see if someone has some rickety thing.
Well, let's give it a couple more weeks.
Okay.
All right.
At any rate, I do want to thank Scott Morgan.
A producer here, a local in Austin, who is going to do a fundraising barbecue event in Austin.
A fundraising barbecue event?
Yeah, for the Hot Pockets Tour.
Oh, good.
Yeah, I think it's a great idea.
So we're going to figure out when to do that.
And of course, if you like what you hear, if you like the deconstruction of the news, if you like hearing that all that bull crap about mad cow disease turns out to be a big scam that none of us were in on, No, otherwise we wouldn't be moaning.
But at least when you're at the cocktail party or the office water cooler, you can sound a lot smarter by saying, excuse me, that was market manipulation and here's how it works.
You can go and you can print out the chart and you can hold it up and people go, wow, you're smart.
You should have a raise.
Give the man a raise.
Exactly.
Then please go to...
Of course, we're always looking for people to go out there and propagate our formula.
It's extremely simple.
Here it is.
Our formula is this.
We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
New world order.
Shut up, slave.
So while we're on it, let me roll out another one.
Now, I learned this from you.
On the last show, you did an excellent job of catching the...
Was it the last show?
When was the War on Chicken?
Was that the last show or the show before?
The War on Chicken began two shows ago.
Right, but on the last show, you actually deconstructed the whole thing?
Anyway, there's actually a YouTube video.
On the war on chicken?
Yeah, yeah, I tweeted it.
It's really good.
That's Arsonomics.
He puts together YouTube videos of little bits of the show, and he goes to the websites.
And so he showed all the websites with the dizzying, sped-up production.
It was last show that I think they had the dizzying.
Exactly, exactly.
So I found a...
Dizzying.
Dizzying, exactly.
So I came across a new one.
I have not yet found the origin of it, so I may need your help in that.
I'm sure our producers can get into it.
I'll play the ABC News report, and you can Google all the key words, and you'll see that this is exactly the same idea.
There's a number of words in here.
Look for words, disturbing trend.
Disturbing trend.
Actually, it's a disturbing trend among teens.
Yeah, it's got to be long enough to really bring it home that it's all cut and paste.
Yeah.
Disturbing trend among teens and foam.
Warning to parents, there is a disturbing new trend among teens.
They're using hand sanitizer to get drunk.
Doctors are so worried, they called an emergency news conference in Los Angeles.
ABC's Paula Faris has the details.
This is supposed to clean up our lives.
But it's becoming a dirty and dangerous little household secret.
And it's sending teens to the hospital.
Kids getting hammered off hand sanitizer.
I like that.
It's good alliteration.
Kids getting hammered off of hand sanitizer.
They're separating the alcohol through a distillation process and creating a potent punch that's like slamming a shot of the hardest liquor.
Simply taking table salt, mixing it with the hand gels, and subsequently then putting it in a filter.
The liquid that's produced is a very high content alcohol.
And just yesterday, an emergency press conference at LA's Children's Hospital was called after nearly a dozen area teenagers wound up in ERs with alcohol poisoning.
We have patients coming into the emergency department with these kinds of signs and symptoms, slurred speech, lack of balance, changes in their mental state.
If kids don't realize how concentrated it is and take a large quantity of it, take a few shots, certainly kids can die from this.
Parents, be cautious when not using the gel.
Make sure you place it out of reach.
Or you can consider using a foam sanitizer because it's much harder to distill.
Okay.
So, I go into the Googles and I use Disturbing Teen Trend.
Let me see.
We have 64,000 results.
And it's all the same thing.
It's disturbing trend among teens.
Dangerous new trend for teens.
Dangerous teen trends.
Getting drunk.
Use foam.
Use foam.
Here's another example.
So we would deconstruct this.
I'm going to just jump ahead and tell me where I'm wrong.
You're going to deconstruct this to show that this is actually a promotion for some foam company that makes the foam version of desanitizers.
Yeah.
Kids don't watch these news stories.
No, of course.
They're too busy getting hammered on hand sanitizer.
They've got no time for that.
So the parents will be watching it and they'll say, well, who knows?
Maybe little Sally is getting wasted on the hand sanitizer.
Let's buy foam.
Let's find the foam kind from now on.
Here's a CNN report that's a lot shorter.
Concerned this noon about teens drinking the alcohol from hand sanitizer in order to get drunk.
A half a dozen teenagers in Southern California had to be taken to emergency rooms in the past few months for alcohol poisoning.
Many liquid hand sanitizers are about 62% alcohol which makes a 120 proof drink.
Experts say parents should buy foam hand sanitizer because Foam hand sanitizer.
So the only company...
So I looked at Purell, because they do have a foam hand sanitizer.
They're not promoting it on their website, so I don't think that's the one.
Walmart does appear to have a big push towards foam sanitizer.
So I'm thinking this is a Walmart.
I can't find the original press release, though.
And this is the real tip-off.
It's not like the hospital all of a sudden said, Oh, we've got to call a press conference about this.
No.
This was the University of California in San Francisco.
Who have a division.
Let me just get the name of the division because it was quoted everywhere as well.
And they did some research.
So, you know, they're probably getting their research funded by Johnson& Johnson or Walmart or whoever it is.
Um...
They could be working together, too.
They could be working together.
But it's so obvious that no kid has died.
Do kids come in confused?
By the way, I really wonder how many kids have ever...
I mean, who's going to do it?
It's humiliating.
If you're a kid that's such a loser, you can't find some older kid to go buy you some beer.
Yeah.
What the hell kind of a kid are you?
And they actually show a YouTube video with a kid squirting the hand sanitizer right into his mouth.
You know that's a joke.
You know that's some douchebag just like, hey, watch this.
I'll get on TV. It's completely nuts.
Hey, in the morning to you, by the way, John.
Well, in the morning to you, Adam Curran.
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And to our human resources in the chat room, all lined up, charged up, ready to go.
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Just piggybacking on that.
The whole idea of showing YouTube videos as proof of something, it's really annoying.
It's getting worse.
Yeah, so here's...
This is about Syria, and I have a lot of thoughts about Syria.
Of course, now that we have the so-called UN monitors, which apparently, looking at the only video that's available, which is YouTube video, is two Land Rovers with big UN letters on the back.
That's all we see.
I saw one guy with a blue beret.
Oh, okay.
Roaming around some nondescript area.
Some set.
It's just stock footage.
Yeah, no, it's all B-roll.
So we can have UN monitors in Syria, but apparently we can't have any journalists there.
No one is there to document it.
So you have this shill, this incredible douchebag.
What's her name?
Well, you'll recognize her voice.
She's the one that was roaming around Gaddafi's RV. Remember that?
She did the tour of the RV. Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
So, she speaks Arabic, which is her hook.
And she's in Beirut, in Lebanon, where she's reporting.
Of course, Lebanon is in on this whole Syria deal.
And she...
The report...
There is no fact...
Just listen to this.
It drives me nuts.
She only has YouTube, unconfirmed sources, people from the opposition, nothing, not a single fact.
And this is news.
...posted to YouTube late on Wednesday, appeared to show...
Appeared to show...
...monitors touring the Damascus suburb of Douma.
This is an area that had been under siege, according to opposition activists...
Opposition activists...
For the last few days.
It is also an area where dramatic video was posted to YouTube.
Dramatic video posted to YouTube?
On Wednesday showing rebel fighters firing on government armor as it moves...
You don't see rebel fighters.
You see like some tracers going through the air.
...through streets in this particular suburb.
And when it comes to a ceasefire, well, many will tell you that it most certainly does not exist at this stage with the...
Many will tell you.
Many.
Many, many.
I mean, I did some reporting.
Just many, many people said, it doesn't exist.
Hey, it doesn't exist.
Death toll continuing to rise.
Hundreds being killed.
Hundreds?
100?
100?
200?
300?
900?
It was allegedly said to have been implemented.
And violence being reported.
Being reported?
Ah, you're killing me, bitch!
Throughout pretty much the entire country.
Pretty much, pretty much.
It's not, it's not, it's just very small.
Pretty much.
Pretty much.
Activists are saying that yes, in some parts of Syria.
Some parts, you know, it could be north, could be south, could be over there.
The government has removed its tanks from certain areas only to hide them in others.
Video posted to YouTube showing that taking place in the province.
You see a tank behind them, like a molehill.
It's like they're hiding.
I can see they're hiding those bastards.
They're hiding behind that dirt over there because I can see the big tanks.
For example, many opposition activists and analysts are saying that even if and when the 300 monitors do eventually arrive in Syria, that is quite simply not a sufficient number to be able to truly monitor the entire country.
Opposition activists are also saying that even if there should be some sort of hypothetical end to the bloodshed, end to the government onslaught, they would be unwilling to sit down to any sort of negotiating table with the regime as long as Bashar al-Assad remains in power, which makes any sort of political transition at this stage highly unrealistic.
So the only thing she did well in that was the pronunciation of Assad's name.
That's the only thing that was good.
That she can do.
Wow, what was this on?
CNN! CNN has just gone down the tubes.
But this is their main correspondent.
This is a vague report with no real substantiation for anything.
No kidding.
And no specifics at all.
But it's all YouTube videos and alleged in some parts and could be over here, could be over there.
You know, it's like the opposition says, he said, she said.
There's plenty of people, there's plenty of journalists over there.
Plenty.
We've talked about this in show after show.
And you can find them.
Many of them, they're on French TV. They work for Russia Today.
They work for the Swedish group.
I thought they all got killed.
And they all are saying the same thing.
This is bullcrap.
But those reports are no good.
No, of course it's not good, and I'll tell you why.
They're trying to escalate this, and France, the foreign minister of France, has already called for action within the next two weeks.
Gee, why would that be?
Let me think.
What's going on in France?
Oh!
Elections?
Elections, perhaps?
He is calling for immediate action.
We have to go in there.
Of course, we have all kinds of bombs exploding, allegedly, seen on YouTube.
We don't really know, because no one has any factual reporting.
Here's the smoke plume on YouTube.
64 people killed.
They want to keep Sarkozy in.
They're so afraid.
That he's not going to make the cut, which is a very likely possibility.
And, by the way, say hello to the new boss, same as the old boss.
Hollande, the first thing he wants to do is renegotiate the fiscal compact with the European Union for growth.
Yeah, that's a good one.
That they're willing to actually go and kill people.
They're willing to do it, because of course, if you're in the middle of a war and you've got stuff happening, you don't want to, at that point, you don't actually want to kick anybody out, because that would be bad, and you can shill on that.
It's just, it's disgusting.
So not only is the news media helping presidents get elected, but they're selling you bogus foam sanitizer.
It's two ends of the spectrum.
That's it.
I'm done.
Good night, everybody.
Okay, so long.
See you again next week.
All right.
Be here all the week.
Well, while we're talking about the bogus reporting, we have to point out, I had a couple of clips I might as well bring out early, which is...
Whip it out, Johnny Boy.
The BBC, which you'd think would be a good news article, is actually full of crap.
Which one?
The first one?
I got two of them here.
One is full of crap and one is full of shit, so I'm not sure which one to play.
Let's go with the full of shit first.
Well, one of those great chefs, Marco Piat White, has a starring role in the Summit, and he joins me now in our Singapore studios.
Mr.
White, thank you so much for joining us.
You've been dubbed a celebrity chef, a restaurateur, television personality, even the godfather of modern cooking.
Do you like to be called all of these titles?
I don't care about it.
You just like to be called a cook, a chef.
That's what I am.
But tell us, Mr.
White, how did it all start?
When did you get this inclination to become a chef?
When I cooked an egg on my head.
Now, first of all, I never heard of this guy.
And you're a foodie.
You know this stuff.
Well, then I realized I have heard of him.
He was the replacement for Ramsey in Hell's Kitchen.
He's like a Ramsey clone, even though he claims to be Ramsey's mentor.
He's an actor.
He is an actor.
And so I started looking up some of his stuff.
The godfather of modern cooking just made me laugh out loud.
That comes right from his Wikipedia page that has been so carefully massaged.
That's based on another article that was just essentially...
It's one of these Ask Min or some weird website that just...
They ask you, can you give us a profile?
And your public relations people send them a bunch of crap that's bull crap.
And then you just print it.
You just print it.
And then the Wikipedia picks that up and puts it in the Wikipedia, including this odd fact.
The one that really got me was the youngest chef in England to win three stars for Michelin.
And then the other one which snuck in there, which was the first – he had the first restaurant.
And this cropped up, I think, two or three places.
The first restaurant in the UK that got three stars in 1995.
Well, I remember going to a three-star restaurant before 1995.
So I did a little research and discovered that it was actually 1982 that La Gavaroche got three stars, which was a bit before 1995.
This is all bullcrap.
Yeah, well, it's fine reporting.
And then this guy, this idiot, this from Singapore, that sounds like Rico Chacon from ABC here locally.
I know who that is, actually.
Rico Chacon.
He was never Rico Chacon.
It was always Rico Chacon.
Rico Chacon.
San Jose.
Rico Chacon.
San Francisco San Jose.
So I can put up with you.
Okay, well this is a fluff piece for this character.
But it's all bull crap.
Wait a minute.
The BBC is running their show, I presume.
I would assume so.
So here we go.
The BBC is full of crap.
This one is the one that was holy.
Well, actually, JC and I are watching at the same time as he's looking this stuff up.
He's saying, what?
This is all bull.
And let me explain what the, run the clip and then I'll tell you what they were showing on the screen.
Half a century ago, the Salton Sea was known as the French Riviera of California.
But now the good times and the sea itself are drying up.
Wait a minute.
I've been to Salton Sea.
You already get it.
Yeah, it's Salton Sea.
It's like, it's Trailer Park.
There's a trailer park, and there's never been more than a trailer park there, and they're showing this clip, the French Riviera of California.
Wait, wait, let's play that again, that's great.
Which is a dead sea in the middle of the desert.
Let's play it again, let's play it again.
Half a century ago, the Salton Sea was known as the French Riviera of California, but now the good times and the sea itself are drying up.
Formed accidentally in the early 1900s, the area became a tourist attraction, boasting yacht clubs and all the trappings of a luxury resort.
But as salt levels rose, the wildlife died, and now the price tag to save the sea is deemed too high for the cash of Stratt State.
Wait a minute, let me just say something.
Miss Mickey and I... When we did our test run with the RV, remember we did a test run and we went to Joshua Tree.
And the route we took brought us on the way back through Salton Sea.
And Mickey was like, oh look, there's a little lake, let's go have lunch there.
And we're driving through, he's like, wow, can I take pictures?
I'm like, no, not only are you staying in the car, you're locking the doors.
It's a trailer park and we had lunch which consisted of A pizza, like a DiGiorno pizza that was heated up in a toaster oven at the local shop.
Indeed, everything's closed there.
But what was there to begin with?
It's never been the Riviera of California.
That's total crap.
50 years ago, which means in 1965, which is in recent memory.
But it's always been just a shithole.
Yeah.
That people used to vote on it.
So they show these pictures to try to get you some feeling of the river.
So they have some old B-roll.
Yeah.
And they got one thing that was a family at a picnic table with an old Pontiac behind them.
Which is still there.
It's still there, that Pontiac.
There's nothing there.
There never has been anything there.
Why are they making this?
This is a bullshit story of the highest order pushed out by the BBC for some political reason has to do with, you know, fixing the salt in the sea or washing it away or just closing down the area.
But to make up something like that used to be the French Riviera of California, it's beyond belief that they would do this.
They are a fucked up organization.
Pro!
Harsh, but I like it.
I like it when you talk dirty like that, big boy.
Wow.
It was just galling.
Yeah, I'm looking at the wiki page to see if someone slipped it in.
It's a joke!
Did someone slip in French Riviera?
No.
Not yet.
French Riviera.
According to the BBC, it's the French Riviera.
Someone please put that in.
Could you put that in?
You know, remember we had the wiki page for Annoying?
And someone indeed put Christine Lagarde's picture, full page.
It's still in the history.
It lasted about three seconds.
Yeah, well, there's a lot of...
And the wiki police went, ugh, you can't put annoying in there, man, ugh.
And I want to commend you, John, for a very good newsletter that you sent out.
Not commending you because it didn't help us in any donations to the show, but it was what I expected to see from you.
It was a blurb, a column.
What do you call it?
A column, yeah.
It was a good newsletter, and it was about the potential for race riots as a part of the Scampaign being run by the current administration.
In the United States of Gitmo Nation.
And not two seconds, not two seconds after this thing drops into everyone's mailbox...
We get, like, Dr.
Drew is going to have Rodney King on, and we've got...
Oh, my goodness.
What is this?
I have...
Yeah, it was weird.
The CNN started doing...
No, you totally called it.
I mean, as long as they got the newsletter and said, here's our story.
Let's go with this.
I'm telling you.
Here, this is...
What is this?
NBC Los Angeles.
They're doing something amazing.
I can't believe that they're doing this.
If you go to twitter.com slash real-time LA riots, they've queued up the reporting on the riots from 20 years ago with today's timeline, and they're tweeting in real time as if it was 1992.
Are you with me?
Yeah, it's interesting.
So if you go to real-time L.A. riots right now on Twitter.
Oops.
For some reason I messed that one up.
Let's see what they say right now.
Twitter slash real-time L.A. riots.
Let's see what's happening with the riots in real time 20 years ago.
We're up to speed thanks to NBC Los Angeles.
It's taking a second here.
Officers should be entitled to use sufficient force to subdue a criminal or protect his own life, Forewoman said.
Report via LA Times.
Total deliberation time so far, 12 hours.
You know, they're counting it down to the riots on Twitter.
And then we've got Dr.
Drew, who brought out, of all people, Marcia Clark.
Oh, God.
The attorney for O.J. Simpson, the prosecutor against O.J. Simpson, who has...
I don't know.
This is what she does.
She's written a book.
Everyone's promoting a book.
Rodney King's promoting a book.
I mean, that's why he was on.
Rodney King's book is, what is it called?
The Riot Within, My Journey from Rebellion to Redemption.
Here's just a little piece to show you how Dr.
Drew just combines this with the Trayvon Martin case.
Footage of myself and Rodney King at the site today where he was beaten in 1992.
Officers from Los Angeles Police Department were acquitted of that beating.
Rodney King.
The outrage over the controversial verdict sparked days of civil unrest throughout Los Angeles.
I recently asked King if he felt a kinship with Trayvon Martin.
Oh, of course.
Why wouldn't we do that?
American male whose tragic plight has, of course, triggered outrage.
I've been in Trayvon's shoes many times.
Tell me.
And I've been in Trayvon's shoes when I was young.
This is not good.
At that age.
It's scary being black and growing up these days.
When I was young.
These days?
It's scary growing up these days.
Not even scary being black.
It's scary being a white girl in Los Angeles.
It's scary being the parent of a white girl in Los Angeles.
Where by myself it was scary.
It was a different feeling for me.
It's like survival.
It's like you watch your back.
But it's hard to explain it, but it's a different feeling being black and growing up, and being black and being by yourself.
Now this is very interesting, because the conversation is being taken in a particular direction, and he'll come back to that with Marsha Clark.
And growing up in the world is also another ballgame.
Is it better now?
It's definitely better.
Things are definitely better.
Yeah, because we've got food stamps now on the credit card.
It's much better than it used to be.
You know, this is America because things will always be getting better, you know, just based on our history and how our country was built.
Things are definitely not like they used to be.
And laws and things, it's a slow process.
I think Rodney King is actually pretty good in all this.
I mean, he's being a positive guy, and I like that.
But then Drew will bring it right back down with Marsha Clark.
We have came a long ways, and we've got to give ourselves credit for that, you know?
I thought that was rather profound, what Rodney was saying there.
And yet he is taking grief for being compared, the comparison that he doesn't make, being compared to Trayvon Martin.
You made the comparison, Drew.
People have said that he has compared himself to Trayvon Martin in some of these statements.
Here he just said, I've been in his shoes when I was younger.
That's right.
Which is a very distinct thing.
I agree with you.
It really is a distinct thing.
He's not saying, that night that I was beaten, I was doing the same thing as Trayvon Martin.
He's not saying that.
No, but you're making that convenient combination for us.
And what he is saying is unarguable.
You can't argue with that.
Growing up black in the United States is a different experience than growing up white.
Now, I have an issue with this.
How would she know one way or the other?
Yeah, so here's two white people talking about something.
It's a fact.
You can't argue.
Well, it's a fact.
There's many, many different scenarios growing up in America.
I'm telling you...
Not if you're trying to set up race riots in the country.
Shh!
Ixnay on the...
riot ace, whatever's A. Don't talk about that.
My daughter is 21 years old, a white woman in Los Angeles.
She gets harassed continuously.
Continuously.
Touched.
Groped.
It's not easy growing up.
Period.
But why do we have to single this out?
I mean, what is the point?
Well, we've got to get Obama re-elected.
So here's the big issue I have.
I actually had an argument with Ms.
Mickey the other day.
Argument's a big word.
Yeah, it's a big word.
Ruff, ruff, ruff, ruff, ruff.
We were having a conversation.
We had some friends over for dinner.
And she said, you know, well, you know, and whenever I bring out what I think is historical facts, she immediately goes, oh, shoot, you know, she's awesome at that.
She's like, yeah, I hadn't thought about that.
But America gets this big, ugly stamp as we are the racist, the KKK, we're the horrible people, our history.
I mean...
It was the Dutch who transported the slaves.
They bought them, they stole them, and sold them.
And today we have over a quarter of the population discriminates women by making them walk behind them and cutting their genitalia.
It's like, why do we have as Americans this incredible stamp of horrible racists?
This is worldwide.
People, yeah, well, you know, you guys are the slaves.
What?
What?
Although, I'll say, if someone said to me, you have a horrible slave issue right now because you have a majority of black people in prison working for three cents an hour, making billions of dollars worth of products, I'd say, okay, I agree with you on that one.
But stop already with the slavery.
Stop already.
Let he who lives in a glass house cast the first stone.
So what was the argument about?
That America is not the worst country in the world when it comes to slavery or discrimination of what one would think would be God-given rights, often confused with human rights.
No, except for the prisons.
The prison system, I'm all down with that.
So this is clearly trying to build something up.
This is inciting a riot.
This is inciting a riot.
We are on our way to inciting riots by bringing this stuff up.
And where are all the left-wingers who made such a fuss about women not being included in the conversation in Congress when it was all men talking about birth control?
When we have all whites talking about racism.
You know, without, I mean, it was Marsha Clark and this Dr.
Drew yakking with each other and both asking leading questions of Rodney King, who's kind of a naive fellow, you know, minimally.
And so he could be easily led down the path of saying what you want him to say.
Yeah, but that's CNN. There was some other stuff on CNN. Somebody sent us some mail talking about how they're bringing...
CNN is...
Well, they're doing a whole special.
I think NBC is doing a special...
Rodney King is making the rounds.
I mean, he's just going everywhere, and he's like, yeah, I got a book, you know?
Yeah, he's got an...
Some agent came up to him.
Said, hey...
Probably part of the scheme.
I mean, why not the 25th anniversary?
Why does it have to be the 20th anniversary?
Because it better matches what's going on for pre-election.
So how about in August?
I would take this right back to Axelrod.
Oh, yeah.
Yes.
Hitler, you mean.
He looks like Hitler, doesn't he?
Don't you think he's a son of Hitler?
Don't you think he looks like a son of Hitler?
Somewhere between John Hodgman and Hitler.
If you draw a little Hitler mustache on Axelrod, he's Hitler.
Think about it.
I'm just saying.
He stammers in a funny kind of staccato way that makes you kind of have to listen to specific little phraseologies that he inserts.
Let me make a prediction here.
So on the 29th of April, that's when we have the culmination of the 20th anniversary.
We should have a big celebration.
We should do a concert.
For the 20th anniversary of the Rodney King LA riots.
Now, 1965, August 11th, we had the Watts riots.
Now, that would coincide nicely, I think, with the verdict in the Zimmerman Trayvon Martin case.
Right, and we know the way this goes, well, if they're going to play the same fractal script, which is what I imply in that newsletter, Zimmerman has to get off.
Oh, of course he does.
No, this is obvious.
So he's found not guilty, and then all hell breaks loose.
And then all these news networks get to yak about, they get to analyze this to death.
With all kinds of hand-wringing and, oh my God, what about Obama?
Obama gets slipped in.
Just got Axelrod written all over it.
By the way, Obama went off script.
Let me just say it this way.
They're trying a new script.
He came out with a video, which was not one of his regular show things.
Not like the weekly address.
And it was a video with Arabic subtitles, and it was directed specifically at the people of Sudan.
He had a message for the people of Sudan.
In recent weeks, rising violence and fighting have taken the lives of innocent civilians, men, women, and children.
Heated rhetoric on both sides has raised the risk of war.
So today I want to speak directly to you, the people of Sudan and South Sudan.
In your lives, you've endured extraordinary hardship.
You carry in your hearts the memory of family and friends you've lost.
But in recent years, against great odds, you've made remarkable progress toward breaking the violent cycles of the past, toward building a future of peace and greater prosperity.
Now all that progress is at risk of unraveling.
So my message to you today is simple.
It doesn't have to be this way.
The future belongs to you.
It is in your hands.
You have the power, the choice, to say what comes next.
Whether your children will live in war or peace.
The choice is yours and now is the time to choose peace.
As I've said before, those who have the courage to walk the path of peace will not be alone.
You will have a strong and steady partner in the United States of America.
So this is something new.
Of course, we have slaughter going on.
We have Sudan killing the people who live in the caves, who obviously have internet and are watching this.
And they live right there on the pipeline, which is what's being blown up.
It's all a part of kicking the Chiners out.
And this comes in concerto with a United Nations Security Council resolution.
You know, we're the boss now, the Security Council.
And the boss hog is Susan Rice, my favorite.
And I was listening to her.
They call it, you know, right after they come out of the Security Council meeting, they do a little stand up in front of the microphone.
And as she was talking, I heard all these acronyms and I had to look them up.
Members of the Security Council.
Condemned in the strongest terms the attack on an African Union, United Nations, hybrid operation in Darfur.
Hybrid operations?
Like, whoa, hybrid, what is going on?
Unimid patrol.
Unimid!
In West Darfur on 20 April, in which four peacekeepers were wounded.
Peacekeepers!
One of whom subsequently died as a result of injuries sustained in attack.
So here's what we do.
We gotta start killing the peacekeepers.
Let's look up this UNAMID. What is UNAMID and what are the peacekeepers?
UNAMID is the African Union-United Nations hybrid operation in Darfur.
Facts and figures.
Let's see.
20,000 military personnel.
Uh-huh.
6,432 police.
Peacekeepers.
Oh, we've just upped it current as of...
Oh, that's authorized.
But current, as of March 31st, 23,447 total uniformed personnel.
These are not peacekeepers.
This is an army.
They've got an army there, and now she's bitching and moaning that someone got killed.
Well, yeah, they're in a war zone.
They're not peacekeepers.
They've got guns.
That's because they have a blue helmet.
It doesn't mean that they're any good.
So this is...
Are they UN blue helmeted UNers?
Yes, they're helmeted blue UNers.
Peacekeepers.
Black is white.
Yes is no.
Right is wrong.
Peacekeepers.
How about war starters?
So they're...
And Sudan is on the list, as we know.
It's on the General Wesley Clark list as one of the countries to take.
Right.
So Sudan is being ramped up.
Syria is obvious that we're...
It's so obvious that we're going in.
And through our proxy, which would be Turkey, they're the ones that are going to call for Rule 5 of the NATO treaty, the North Atlantic treaty, because they've been attacked in the zones that they set up.
So they encroached on Syria's land, and then someone tossed a hand grenade.
And they're like, oh, it blew up.
You're attacking us, so now we have to go in.
It'll be a no-fly zone.
We'll kill everybody and drop bombs.
But not too much.
We don't want to break too much infrastructure.
And I'm telling you, Lebanon is behind this.
Lebanon has a lot to do with this.
I haven't quite figured it out yet.
Yeah, there's something with Lebanon and the drugs.
Then Obama...
He's set up a new scam.
He was at the Holocaust Museum talking very seriously and earnestly.
And so we have this new panel.
And this is the one we've got to keep our eye on.
This is the panel against atrocities.
Which, of course, consists of pretty much the Pentagon.
Yeah, this is kind of like if you're committing atrocities yourself, you want to create an organization to monitor them so you can control the organization.
So you never get...
Yeah, you never get nailed for atrocities.
Right.
This is like that guy, your favorite guy, the coach in Pennsylvania who is a pedophile, had a kids' organization to help the children.
Yeah, of course, help the children.
Help the children meet me.
All right, here he is at the Holocaust Museum talking very earnestly.
We've stepped up our efforts in other ways.
We're doing more to protect women and girls from the horror of wartime sexual violence.
With the arrest of fugitives, like Vatko Mladic, charged with ethnic cleansing in Bosnia.
The world sent a message to war criminals everywhere.
We will not relent.
In bringing you to justice.
Be on notice.
Justice.
Now we're doing something more.
Ah!
We're making sure that the United States government has the structures, the mechanisms to better prevent and respond to mass atrocities.
Hold on a second!
Who died and made you boss?
We have the structure and the mechanisms To not just see what's going on, but to go and prevent it.
So now we're in charge.
Just so you know, bitches, we're coming to get you.
So I created the first ever White House position dedicated to this task.
A czar.
A czar, yes.
That's why I created a new atrocities prevention board.
Atrocities prevention board.
I'm an atrocities prevention officer.
I need to check you.
Bring together senior officials from across our government to focus on this critical mission.
This is not an afterthought.
No, no, no.
It's all in the plan.
We believe that.
This is not a sidelight in our foreign policy.
Definitely not an afterthought.
Atrocities Prevention Board.
The board will convene for the first time today.
Yahoo!
Party!
Party!
We're drinking!
Across government, alert channels will ensure that information about unfolding crises...
Alert channel.
It's like a bat signal.
...and to sending opinions quickly reach decision makers, including me.
Well, that's good to know.
Including me.
Our Treasury Department will work to more quickly deploy its financial tools to block the flow of money to abusive regimes.
Right.
Steal money again.
Steal your money, which has just been done.
It works.
We did it to Gaddafi.
I think we took Mubarak's money.
We've frozen money from here and there.
It's pretty cool.
Did you see the executive order?
Oh, no.
You're going to tell me about it, though.
Yeah, this is the executive order about...
Oh, it's an unbelievable one.
Hold on a second.
I've got it here.
It's a really big one.
It's about Iran and Syria.
It is executive order number...
I don't know if it has...
It's got to have a number somewhere.
Well, here it is.
Executive order blocking the property and suspending entry into the United States of certain persons with respect to grave human rights abuses by the governments of Iran and Syria via information technology.
This is a new one.
Oh, this is interesting.
Yes.
So they're blocking the...
In other words, we're...
Nope.
We're censoring the internet is what it's saying.
Well...
I'll give you the highlights.
Tell me it doesn't say that.
I'll give you the highlights.
I, Barack Obama President, hereby determined that the commission of serious human rights abuses against the people of Iran and Syria by their governments, facilitated by computer and network disruption, monitoring and tracking by those governments, and abetted by entities in Iran and Syria that are complicit in their government's malign use of technology for those purposes, threaten the national security and foreign policy of the United States.
So what he's saying is, because they block Facebook, and, let me see, eavesdrop and read email, which sounds a lot like what happens here.
Exactly what happens here, except they're blocking Facebook.
Well, that you know of.
Well, no, we're monitoring.
Facebook is a useful tool.
Right.
Well, but they're saying monitoring and tracking by those governments.
So what you said is so true.
Set up a commission to watch the other guys...
Do what you're doing yourself.
So here is...
You already know how it works, so you can do it easier.
So here's the pertinent pieces, and it's all marked up in the show notes, 403.nashownotes.com for your convenience.
All property and interest in property that are in the United States, that hereafter come within the United States, or that are or hereafter come within the possession or control of any United States person, anybody...
Including any foreign branch of the following persons are blocked and may not be transferred, paid, exported, withdrawn, or otherwise dealt in.
Okay.
It's the persons listed in the annex, which of course is not provided.
Any person determined by the Secretary of State, any person in consultation with or at the recommendation of the Secretary of State, all your stuff gets stolen.
If you have operated or have directed the operation of information and communications technology that facilitates computer or network disruption, monitoring or tracking, that could assist in or enable serious human rights abuses by or on behalf of the government of Iran or the government of Syria.
So they're saying that you can be abused, that it's a human right to not be monitored.
This is kind of what it says, the way I'm reading it.
If you have sold, leased, or otherwise provided directly or indirectly good services or technology to Iran or Syria, likely to be used to facilitate computer or network disruption, monitoring, or trafficking.
Hello, Silicon Valley.
You're out of business.
No kidding.
Hello, Cisco.
You're out of business.
Any transaction by United States...
So Huawei, this is another...
You know, I really wonder if this is not...
This is essentially giving the business...
And it's a large industry in Iran's very scientific-oriented culture.
And they have a lot of computer technology there.
And they need servers.
They need routers.
And so essentially what Obama's doing here is giving the business of these countries straight to the Chinese.
and Huawei can do all that stuff by the way there's nothing that you can get from Cisco that you can't get from China cheaper so he's essentially turned over the industry to the Chinese maybe it's part of the scheme could be and then we can blame the Chiners for facilitating evil governments
that's a possibility for those persons whose property and interest in property are blocked pursuant to this order who might have a constitutional presence in the United States I find that because this is a good one because of the ability to transfer funds or other assets instantaneously prior notice to such persons of measures to be taken pursuant to this order would render those measures ineffectual
I therefore determine that for these measures to be effective in addressing the two national emergencies identified in the preamble to this order, there need be no prior notice of a listing or determination made pursuant to Section 1 of this order.
So what I read from this is, we're not going to warn anybody that you can't send your routers over to Iran or Syria, because otherwise we couldn't catch you.
I mean, it's ridiculous.
Don't warn anybody that we're doing this.
You know, make sure that you're subscribed to the RSS feed of the White House press office, otherwise you'd never know, because the news media isn't reporting on this.
So they're not sending out any notices.
No, they're reporting on the French Riviera of California being the Salton Sea.
So, there's...
But, you know, there's also just taking your money...
So, does this also mean I can't, like, import...
What if I go to...
If you set up a website...
Well, let's...
Well, say I set up a website that sells Persian rugs.
Yeah, well, could that...
Are you going to come grab all my rugs, or what?
I don't know.
Let's listen to the final 30 seconds of Obama here.
Our military will take additional steps to incorporate the prevention of atrocities into its doctrine.
Its doctrine?
So what does that mean?
Prevention of atrocities into its doctrine?
And it's planning.
Planning?
Okay, we're planning something.
The State Department will increase its ability to surge our diplomats.
Surge the diplomats!
You ready for a surge, boys?
What kind of diplomat takes place in a surge?
Only one that's armed.
Experts in a crisis.
Experts.
USAID will invite people and high-tech companies to help create new technologies to quickly expose violations of human rights.
Really?
Can I get that contract?
And we'll work.
With other nations so the burden is better shared.
Because this is a global...
There it is.
New world order, everybody.
We'll work with other nations so the burden is better shared.
We'll do it through our world army and NATO. Responsibility.
In short, we need to be doing everything we can to prevent and respond to these kinds of atrocities.
Atrocities?
Because national sovereignty is never a license to slaughter your people.
Ha ha ha ha ha!
Let that one go down in history.
President Obama, national sovereignty is never a license to slaughter your people.
Now, droning is okay.
It's just the use of knives and head cutoffs that is not okay.
Isn't that amazing?
Yeah, yeah, wow is right.
That's a good quote.
Yeah, it's a great quote.
So Obama...
But it's a license to imprison most of them?
Yeah, no, no.
That's okay.
You can imprison.
The highest per capita imprisonment of any society is the United States per capita and in total numbers.
That's not slaughter.
That's slavery.
So it's okay to imprison and enslave your own public?
Yes, yes, yes.
That's okay.
That's okay.
So President Obama...
I want to get that straight.
President Obama, who, of course...
Desperately wants to look cool.
And of course he's succeeded momentarily with his appearance on Jimmy Fallon.
This was, of course, we set you up for this months ago.
We revisited a couple weeks ago about the, and I think I figured something extra out here, about the, they've even come up with a hashtag, don't double my rate, dude.
Everybody tweet your congressman, hashtag don't double my rate.
So this is the 2007 bill, which reduced the student loans to 3.4%, which could easily be extended.
He is incorrectly being cited by the news media as wanting to extend it.
That is absolutely not true, because you can extend this up through 2018.
It's right there in the original bill.
No, no, we don't want to do that.
We're doing a complete recapitalization.
We're bailing out the banks at the behest of our military budget.
Which is known as the Overseas Contingency Operations.
That's where the new bill is going to be paid from.
And this is important.
So he wants to look cool.
He goes on Jimmy Fallon, who does a horrible job interviewing him.
I mean, why don't you just get on your knees and suck him off, Fallon?
I mean, really.
That was the worst interview.
It was unwatchable.
It was completely unwatchable.
He does the slow jam the news, which is released a day ahead of time.
I mean, again, Goebbels is laughing in his grave.
And the obscenity of it is that he is at the University of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, pretending that we have to keep education affordable But it's the same thing with the healthcare, but not by actually forcing the university to charge a normal rate.
And don't forget that just a few weeks ago we pointed out that tuition has gone up 750%, almost twice as much as healthcare costs, which have gone up 400% in the last decade.
Well, I'd like you to know that one semester for the 2011-2012 academic year at Chapel Hill for in-state residents is $20,000.
$41,140 for out-of-state residents.
The guy is at the university doing a sales job.
And by the way, that's a state-run operation.
Why is the tuition anything more than a dollar?
He is doing a sales job.
He's selling...
Banking loans.
And are the idiots there lapping it up?
Oh, listen to this.
So here he is.
First of all, he loves everybody.
Let's talk about his American dream.
But what I want you to know is that the degree you earn from UNC will be the best tool you have to achieve that basic American promise.
The idea that if you work hard, you can do well enough to raise a family and own a home, send your own kids to college, put a little away for retirement.
That American dream is within your reach.
And listen to the slaves.
That's not my American dream!
My American dream is not working hard, put a little away for retirement.
Yeah, especially when you're in debt.
My American dream is to be king of the world, to succeed, to create huge, great things, to go to the moon, to dive to the deepest depths.
To be all that you can be.
That's my American dream.
Can you play that again?
Because he's kind of altered the American dream.
It's the same basic low-end American dream he's always been pushing.
And by the way, I want to ask listeners and you, why haven't the Republicans picked up on this meme and written him into the ground over it?
Because they have the same American dream for us, John.
They believe in the same values.
Work hard, you stupid slave.
Put a little away for your retirement so you can eat dog food.
But what I want you to know is that the degree you earn from UNC will be the best tool you have To achieve that basic American promise.
The idea that if you work hard, you can do well enough to raise a family and own a home, send your own kids to college, put a little away for retirement.
That American dream is within your reach.
I'm sorry.
That is not my American dream.
My parents said to me, anybody can be president.
You can be president as long as you dream and work hard towards it.
And they never said, son, let me sit you down here for a second.
I want you to dream big now.
Of putting a little away for retirement.
Putting a little away.
This is the American dream.
Put a little away.
Put a little away for retirement.
Work hard and die.
That's not an American dream.
What part of the dream is...
When did the hookers come into the dream?
Oh, I'm sorry.
That's only if you work for government.
Yeah, that's right.
And then he pulls out this crap.
And that forces students like you to take out a lot more loans...
There are fewer grants.
Can I get an amen?
Wait a minute.
He just said that that forces you to take out...
I don't know.
Can I get an amen?
I got it.
And there's a weird...
I got this right from...
What's this say amen crap and they all yell amen?
Oh, it keeps on going.
But there's this weird hiccup in the audio, and this is directly from C-SPAN, and I didn't see the video jump, but you can hear the audio...
Really, you'll hear it just before he gets to the amen.
It's like they've cut something out, but I couldn't see the edit in the video.
And that forces students like you to take out a lot more loans.
There are fewer grants.
Can I get an amen?
So he says that forces you to take out a lot more loans with fewer grants.
Can I get an amen?
That's not an amen.
I thought amen was good.
Yeah, amen.
Yeah, yeah, listen.
Now, the average student who borrows to pay for college now graduates with about $25,000 in student loan debt. the average student who borrows to pay for college now That's the average.
Some or more.
Can I get an amen for that?
Some folks have more debt than that.
Amen!
Why are we amening more debt?
This is like a propagandistic piece of work where he's getting them to almost agree that this is good.
Debt is good.
Amen!
Debt is good.
You're going to graduate with a $25,000 debt.
Can I get an amen?
Amen!
You're going to graduate with debt.
Amen!
I mean, that's what it is.
Yes!
I mean, that's obviously...
Well, that's not what he meant.
It's what he said.
Well, I mean, he didn't write it.
We know that.
You know he's just reading it.
So whoever, the Axelrod.
Axelrod.
Axelrod.
You know it's Axelrod doing it all over again.
So here's my basic theory on this.
So this, of course, is part of this campaign.
And it's like, Republicans, he said, Republicans, they don't want you.
They want you to pay lots of money.
Republicans, evil.
So this bill, which, okay, there's bills out banks and, you know, who gives a crap?
And there's nothing new there.
But the reason why it can't pass has been set up in the bill.
As we reported at the very end, the last, the The very last paragraph of this entire bill, I'll read it to you.
Funds appropriated or otherwise made available for a fiscal year to carry out this act, and the amendments made by this act shall be made available from the funds available for overseas contingency operations.
That is the military budget.
So the Republicans, of course, are going to say, we can't take away from the military budget.
We can't pass this.
It's a setup.
So they're set up to be the bad guys, as usual.
Total setup.
And so Obama can go into the elections moaning and groaning about how the Republicans are trying to screw the students.
So let's see if anyone actually reports on the problem that this is, because we have no way to pay for it.
We have no money.
And it's like a triple whammy, because there's no way you can win.
I mean, Democrats wouldn't vote for this to be taken out of the military budget either.
But it's going to be made...
The Republicans will be made, because they've already been set up as the bad guy, or Republicans don't want this, because it's being taken out of the military budget.
Let's see if they actually say anywhere on the news, we're not going to do that because we can't cut the military budget.
Which...
By the way, I'm fine with.
You know, cut it.
But, you know, let's not give everybody a loan.
Let's make the state school free.
The military, the Defense Department can't even come up with an accounting for all the money they spend.
Exactly.
Hire a couple bookkeepers and just see what's going on there.
It's obviously a scam.
Yeah.
So, that would be all for it.
You know, go ahead, take it out of the military budget.
Just give it.
Just make the state school free.
Make it free.
But it should be.
It used to be.
Relatively free.
Yeah, we can't do that because we've got a huge basketball program to support.
Basketball pays for itself with ticket sales.
Yeah, but that's not going to the college.
That's going for the hookers.
Go on.
Well, that was it.
Oh.
Well what do you make of, since we're talking about the Defense Department, what do you make of this latest thing that Panetta goes over to the Defense Department from the CIA and decides to create a secondary intelligence spy network?
Uh...
What?
You didn't know about this.
It's like everybody's wondering, why don't you have the DIA? And he says, I can't remember.
In fact, I didn't do a piece on this.
I thought we were talking about the DIA. This is not the DIA? No, this is a new kind of a...
It may be umbrellaed by the DIA, but it sounds like it's not going to be.
It's a whole new operation that is used to turn businessmen to take your average business asshole who's setting up shop in Singapore to also work for the DIA, or not work for the DIA, but work for the Defense Department as a spy.
Well, that's what the CIA already does.
That's what the CIA says.
They say, hey, wait, we already do this.
No, no, no, no, no.
You're not doing it right.
You're doing it wrong.
It's like these guys, these DIA, CIA guys have been in competition, and obviously the DIA is the one that's working for the White House, because Panetta seems to be a White House guy, and he went over to the CIA first to see, you know, so they could get a clue of what was going on over there, because who needs these CIA guys screwing things?
Oh, I know what this is.
I think this is the cyber guys.
Isn't this the cyber intelligence?
No, no, this is not about cyber.
This is about the businessmen.
They're going to turn to all these, you know, just, they want to recruit businessmen, which means that every businessman that goes anywhere to do anything is going to be suspect in a foreign country.
It's going to be a spy.
The worst thing you can do to the business community is make every...
It's like they've done that with journalists already because they've used journalists as spies.
And so a journalist shows up in some place and next thing you know they think he's arrested as being a spy when he may or may not be.
Let me just say, I'm still reading the FBI book written by Tim Weiner, the same guy who wrote The Legacy of Ashes, the CIA, and I have my questions about the legitimacy of this book.
Two things.
One, we have always had A war against our own citizens.
Hoover had reams and reams of people that were on lists and were getting picked up and arrested without warrants.
The huge multi-organizational structure, exactly like Department of Homeland Security.
This is a fractal, what we're seeing right now, of what the SIS was and the FBI. But the thing that, of course, caught my eye...
Hoover was not gay.
The whole thing about Hoover being gay, according to this book, was made up.
There was one British journalist who wrote something once and it caught fire.
And there's no evidence, if you saw the J. Edgar movie, there's no evidence he was having sex with that guy, whatever his name was.
The guy he was living with.
Yeah, they were very, very close and he left his estate to him.
But according to Weiner's book, absolutely not.
No evidence whatsoever was totally fabricated.
Interesting, right?
Was that what the book was written for that purpose, is to re-establish Hoover's reputation?
I don't think so.
I think, well, it could be in a way, but what I'm taking away from it so far is this is all a fractal, John.
All of this.
We've had NDAA-type legislation.
We've had the anti-Reds bill.
If you're a member of the Communist Party, you get picked up.
This was not just a little Hollywood thing.
This has been going on since the 1920s, but big time.
Big time.
Big lists.
And spies and snooping on people and opening up their mail and rummaging around and infiltrating groups.
This is nothing new for us.
We're a big nation of spies.
You may be a spy for all I know.
Well, I'd like to get a check if I am.
You're probably my handler.
Could be.
I'm waiting for the check.
So that movie...
That movie was...
The J. Edgar movie?
Yeah, it's completely the opposite.
Which was essentially...
A hit job.
It was a hit job on the FBI. Yeah, but it was suppressed.
The movie, yeah.
Well, the FBI suppressed it because I don't think they liked it.
No, and I'm sure that Clint Eastwood is paying dearly for it.
I guess he figured he's old enough he can get away with doing something like this.
And who cares?
He's got plenty of money.
And what are you going to do?
So, of course, the distraction still here in the United States of Gitmo Nation.
Well, you have two distractions.
The John Edwards.
I don't understand why they keep that distraction going other than to cover up any other campaign finance shenanigans that are actually going on at this moment.
You know, to make this is the scapegoat guy.
I'm feeling sorry for him.
But of course, it's the hookers and blow.
And so they called Lucy, Lucy Napolitano, to the stand in the Senate there, and they grilled her.
And wow, she scares the crap out of me.
She has a communication with these people.
And she'll sit there and go like, yeah, of course, we'll take care of that.
No problem.
We're all over it.
Yeah, it's like, oh, wow.
I think these senators are afraid.
She looks a little like J. Edgar Hoover.
She does.
She is the reincarnation of J. Edgar Hoover.
And the senators are afraid of her, John.
And Feinstein, a senator from California, extremely powerful, extremely powerful senator.
She, I mean, out of nowhere, she basically comes out and says, stop arresting my illegal aliens.
I've got to play this for you.
It's agriculture enforcement audits.
Obviously I have a bias.
We have 81,000 farms in California.
Virtually all of the labor is undocumented.
What happens is, in harvest season, canning season, ice swoops in.
Now that sounds about right to me.
If you want to go catch the illegal aliens, I'm sorry, undocumented workers, code, during harvest season, go swoop in!
Go pick them up!
No, no, no, no, we can't have that.
We've got a problem.
I've tried for 10 years to get an ag jobs bill through, and I can't get it through.
The fact of the matter is that if we want American produce, the labor is generally undocumented.
Now, how does this work?
I don't understand.
If the labor force is undocumented, I think there's a lot of people who would want to go and work there.
There's people out of work in California.
Now, okay, not good enough for Feinstein.
...to find a solution to this.
So I am hopeful, and I know that you're doing aggressive I-9 audits of ag employers.
I'm very concerned that these are going to decimate on-farm and farm-dependent jobs.
I think the base of the problem is that there is no provision under the current immigration law that enables more agricultural workers to be documented.
And so we have some employers, and we try to pick those who are really knowingly and intentionally violating the law when they have other options, trying to focus on them through the audit process.
I think what's happening here is Feinstein is saying, hey, stop screwing with my state.
And Janet came back and said...
We'll only get some little guys.
Don't worry about it.
The people who are doing the right thing and are good in our book, like the big companies, the really big ones that you're probably shilling for, we'll leave those alone.
The underlying issue goes back to the immigration law itself.
Senator Schumer just murmured to me, most don't have any other options.
California is a state that can't use the H-2A program, the visitor program.
So it depends on a large, skilled, rotating, generally undocumented coterie of about 600,000 workers for 81,000 farms.
If ice swoops in, farmers can't plant, they can't harvest, they can't can, and this has been happening.
I want to bring it to your attention, and, you know, it's a hard problem, but if this body won't take action, you're going to put ag, we're going to put ag out of business.
And I'm really concerned about it, so if there is any thoughts you might have...
I would very much appreciate them.
And the last...
So, I was blown away.
She's literally saying, please don't arrest my illegal aliens.
That's exactly what she's saying.
And by the way, if this is some sort of a problem, she's been trying to get some legislation to make them legal for the ten minutes they're needed.
Why don't you just have Obama, her buddy Obama, California supports, write an executive order.
It would be done.
Yeah, because Obama's not her buddy.
That's the problem.
Well, the problem is because Obama already knows that California's a bunch of lackeys that are going to vote for him anyway.
He doesn't care about California.
This is like the black community voting.
They're not going to do anything for poor people because they're going to vote for the Democrats.
So screw them.
They're in their pocket.
They're in our pocket.
We need to get bankers to vote for it.
So let's give them the money.
So while everyone is trying to get some, you know, all the news, like, oh, they're talking, oh, the hookers, oh, yeah, she's going to stop it, oh, this was not right, no, the real hooker action.
All the hooker story, they never talk about the fact that prostitution is legal.
Well, they do.
I've heard it.
But that doesn't matter.
It's not appropriate behavior.
Which, by the way, as Ms.
Mickey pointed out, all business runs on hookers.
Everywhere you go, there's hookers.
That's what the world is like.
It's hookers.
But the real action is at the State Department.
If you want some real hardcore hooker action, you work for the State Department.
Ah, beautiful little press conference there with Victoria Nuland.
And someone came up with a doozy.
Americans might consider the ongoing soap opera involving the Secret Service.
Except this doesn't involve the Secret Service.
We're talking about three US Marines who apparently have been punished, as well as an employee of the US Embassy in Brasilia, who apparently were implicated in tossing a prostitute out of a moving car.
At the State Department, we throw our hookers out of the car, man.
We don't mess around with them bitches.
Now, where was this?
Brasilia.
Oh, in Brasilia.
Yeah.
So you got to listen because, I mean, I cut out a whole bunch of stuff.
There was a lot of back and forth and had they been disciplined.
But, of course, you know, Panetta already admitted that these people were prosecuted.
They were demoted, thrown out of the country.
And now Brasilia wants to sue Brasilia.
The State Department employee who threw the hooker out of the moving car.
I just want to repeat that.
Threw the hooker out of the moving car.
But no, no.
It didn't go down that way.
Sometime last year, and we wanted to find out, since we know that the Marines have been punished, who was the employee of the embassy?
Was this person an American?
Was this person a local hire?
What can you say about a pending lawsuit now, apparently, against the embassy?
Well, first of all, your report of the incident question is not accurate.
Oh, John, John, John, what do you think really happened?
Well, apparently not that.
So, you don't think that they threw a hooker out of, like, Pulp Fiction?
I can just say, get the bitch out!
So they didn't throw a hooker out of a moving car.
This is incorrect, according to Ms.
Newland.
In terms of what actually happened.
Second, this is something that happened back in December.
Oh, it happened half a year ago!
Stop!
Why are you bringing this up now?
What, hookers are important all of a sudden?
There was a State Department employee involved.
We did cooperate fully with the appropriate Brazilian authorities, including with the civil police.
None of the Americans involved in the incident are still in Brazil.
The civil police, as I understand it, are still working on their case and no charges have been brought by the Brazilian authorities.
When you say that none of the people involved are still in Brazil, does that imply that the embassy employee is an American?
Correct.
Okay.
And does that person still work for the U.S. government?
I do not have the answer to that.
I believe so.
Of course.
I mean, if you throw hookers out of a car, you get promoted!
But, as you know, we don't talk about our personnel issues.
No, I didn't know that.
Why don't you talk?
I didn't know that either.
What is that?
For privacy reasons.
Oh, privacy reasons.
We can scan your email, look at you naked in the security naked body scanner.
But when you throw a hooker out of a moving car as a representative of the United States of America in a foreign country, we don't talk about that because it's privacy.
What about the description that you read of the incident is incorrect?
Well, Roz talked about somebody being thrown out of a car and this kind of thing.
That is not what happened in this case.
What did happen?
She's even saying that Panetta already said that did happen that way.
He already said that to reporters.
She's just ignoring that.
She's going to give her version of the truth.
Our information is that after four embassy personnel left the club, a woman involved in this incident attempted to open a car door a woman involved in this incident attempted to open a car door and get into a closed and She was not able to do so.
She fell, and she intervened, and she injured herself.
I fell down the stairs. .
She tried to enter the moving vehicle, like all good lookers do.
And then she fell and hurt herself.
Oh, wow.
You know, the fact of the blather is that it's a bonanza working for the United States government.
It's an absolute bonanza.
And you can take all your money, which of course is the people's tax revenue, and you can spend it on hookers.
And it's a big-ass party.
The head honcho, Hillary, gets a free pass.
Go ahead.
She works hard.
She can go party in the club.
For all we know, it was a lesbian hooker.
Who knows?
It's privacy.
You can't talk about it.
It's a bonanza.
It's just one big bonanza.
I love it.
So I wonder if we'll hear anything about that.
I wonder if anyone will bring that one up.
The media will cover it.
I like that one.
I think that's pretty good.
Yeah.
Yeah, hookers.
There's nothing like a good hooker story, John.
You've got to admit.
Yeah, I don't understand why they keep avoiding it.
It's almost like the White House is running these newspapers.
Well, there's only six big media companies, and they're told what to do, and that's what they do.
Meanwhile, of course, the American media is all over the fact that Ron Paul has won Iowa and Minnesota and Washington State.
You hear it everywhere.
Everyone's talking about how he actually is winning all the delegates.
In fact, they're...
Which is the point you're making.
Apparently, Ron Paul is picking up so much of these elections.
Many of these states, it's like they win a primary, but it's only a suggestion.
And so you end up with a bunch of delegates who end up throwing in with Ron Paul.
And now the underground media is picking up the fact that Ron Paul still may have the edge in terms of actual votes when you get to the convention.
Because if Romney does not win that first round, which it's possible he won't, then this thing is going to go wide open.
Yeah.
Yeah.
What are they going to say?
I was looking at my own blog and I was noticing there was a, last August there was a graph showing all these different candidates, Michelle Bachman, and how much news coverage they got compared to Ron Paul, which was at the very bottom of the list he got.
Nobody covers it.
What would the news media have to do?
Because you know they'd have to do something.
If all of a sudden Ron Paul goes in as the kingmaker or the king in the convention and they missed it.
Well, I was going to suggest the following.
Because, you know, Rachel Maddow, she did a little report where she said, oh, did Ron Paul just win Iowa and Minnesota?
Which, apparently, according to the delegate count, he did.
Iowa.
I mean, Iowa's the big one, right?
That's the one that everyone focused on.
That's the one that Romney won, and it turned out Santorum won.
And they made a big deal out of that.
Now, there's no talk.
So if I were running the show, because we have months and months and months to go, because this is a reality show, I would pull it out.
I would put it front and center.
You can run at least a month on this.
No.
Someone's got to do it.
They won't do it because he is not in the script.
And that they can't take a chance on talking up Ron Paul and people are all of a sudden starting to listen to him or maybe take him a little more seriously.
Or not getting the money.
Or read what he has to say or any of that stuff.
You do not want that.
You can't take a chance that he'll win this whole thing.
So shut up.
He was on MSNBC. No, CNBC. He was the guest host in the morning.
Did you see that?
CNBC with his 4,000 viewers?
Duh.
But I'm just...
He was...
Being the guest host of CNBC, which all of Wall Street watches.
Yeah, I know they do.
I used to do a lot of CNBC work, and I'd done some stuff when Market Watch was still owned by CBS. I'd done some TV that goes through a Market Watch syndication, which had something like...
I don't know, 50 times the viewership of CNBC. And I would get responses from people in the street.
Certain kind of people would have seen me on that show.
But when I did CNBC, every stockbroker that I've ever met in my life watched me.
Exactly.
I mean, they have a huge audience of movers and shakers.
And they'd be like, hey, man, you buy stocks and bonds?
You're on that CNBC, aren't you?
Hey, you buy stocks and bonds?
You want to get rich?
Like, leave your wife rich?
Guys like that, you mean?
Not those guys, no.
Anyway, go on.
He was great.
He's an important audience, let's put it that way.
He was great.
And he was, left and right, just slamming.
They'd bring on some analyst, and Ron Paul would be just like, no?
No, and he was very calm.
They let you talk, kind of, on that show, which is good.
You can get on YouTube, obviously, but it was just really, really enjoyable to watch someone who just had a different opinion, wasn't one of these whores, who was just pimp and crap, and no one really had any counter to what he was saying.
They were like, oh, yeah, oh, hmm.
Except, you know, of course, it's like, why don't you give up?
You know, they always say that.
Why don't you just give up, man?
Don't you give up?
You're annoying.
Don't you stop that?
You're annoying us.
He's in Austin today, Ron Paul.
I think we're going to go tonight.
Oh, well, you should go see him.
You've met him.
Hey, have I met him?
You talked to him.
Yeah, I talked to him.
I don't think I've ever met him in person.
You should go down there and say hello.
He's at the LBJ library.
This guy wins.
We've got to finally get to the White House dinners.
Oh, are you kidding me?
I've got to kiss Miss Mickey in the China room.
Yeah, he's at UT, the LBJ Library.
It's a free event, 7 p.m.
this evening.
I'll pack him in if it's all the students.
Oh, it's going to be huge.
So Miss Mickey and I are planning on going.
I think that would be kind of fun.
We'd go down there and we'll just hoot and holler.
You can't get in touch with one of his handlers and you could probably get in backstage.
You know, Mickey suggested that.
I'm like, you know, what am I going to do?
It's like, I know Jesse Benton who runs the campaign.
I know Doug Weed.
But it doesn't matter.
I mean, I'd rather be in the field meeting people and talking to them and hearing what people are saying.
Some stickers.
Hey, by the way, what happened to noagendastickers.com?
Is it gone?
No.
It appears to be.
What?
Hold on a second.
No agenda.
This is bad.
Is it off the air?
Oh boy.
It's not looking good.
It looks like the server or something.
I don't know who was hosting it.
Man, I guess you're right.
It's gone.
I got three No Agenda stickers from Eric the other day, so I can give those out.
That's three.
We need like a handful of business cards or stickers.
You can find some of those business cards.
Yeah, I got my Gitmo shirts.
Gitmoshirts.com.
I got that one with the Drone Star State.
I think I'll wear that.
That'll be kind of cool.
That would be good.
See if anyone picks up on it.
Let's take a little break here, Johnny Boy.
I'm going to show my support by donating to no agenda.
Imagine all the people who could do that.
Oh, yeah, that'd be fab.
Yeah, on the agenda.
Woo-wee!
In the morning.
First, I want to start off with a make good.
Uh-oh.
Yeah, well, it was a make good.
Not that we didn't credit Bill Jarema, is his name, with...
He sent an irksome note that we credited him for show $399 and $400.
He donated $400 just before show $399, which he got him a double.
But he had no note on there because he said there was no way of putting a note, and I don't know...
Everybody else did it, but I don't know.
So he sent a note in, but it went in my spam box.
So he wanted, and I'm going to read his note now as the make good.
I thought I'd point out some message thread below, supporting the show, and had my smoking hot wife listen twice to the executive producer segment for show 399 to 400, only not to get...
What he wanted, which was the Dvorak...
Here's what he wants.
He wanted a de-douching karma with a Dvorak slide whistle stinger.
Slide whistle stinger?
Yeah, in other words, you know, a dedouching, and then at the end of some sort of a, you know, we've done that.
So I think we have to give him that.
Okay, but it's...
We apologize for missing it on show 400.
Okay.
But how about doing a double, because he doesn't know, this came in before you got the slide whistle, so we can do a double slide whistle stinger with two people.
Is that a punishment or is that a bonus?
I'm not sure which one that is.
Oh, that's a good question.
I don't know.
Here we go.
You've been de-douched.
You've got karma.
Beautiful.
It's a thing of beauty.
You okay there?
Are you alright?
I swallowed the slide whistle.
Thank you.
That's the opening of the show.
Mark that.
Oh, now when I talk...
That really hurts.
In the morning to you, everybody.
All right.
Let's move it along.
Okay.
Anyway, sorry, Bill.
Oops.
What was that?
Yeah.
Okay, let's just thank a few people.
McTank, Black Knight McTank, $150 from Playa Del Rey.
I don't have a note from him, so I'll look it up.
Charles Anderson in Columbus, Ohio, 139.38.
Here's my donation, 139.38, which is double 69.69.
Which I guess continues the trend a little bit.
I'm hoping for some double get laid karma because it's been so long.
I don't even remember the last time I got laid.
This also puts me...
This is our listeners.
It also puts me into the knighthood territory as I've been in the 333 knighthood territory since the beginning, waiting for you.
We've got to get a boarding pass.
Charlie in Columbus.
P.S. The Mayan Challenge going is awesome.
And then he needs to find his race.
Yeah, because he's a black knight.
Do we have him listed as a knight coming up?
Yeah, I think he's a black knight, I think.
Let me see.
Is he on the list?
No.
Because J.C. found three knights in his pile.
So what is this?
I have three knights.
Yeah, but not Charles Anderson?
Yes, Charles Anderson.
I'm sorry.
Yes, he's on there.
He's on there.
We're good.
David Yeagley in Pleasanton, California.
Wait a minute.
He needs his karma, man.
Hold on a second.
He's got karma?
Yeah, the guy's never...
He can't remember when he's got laid.
He asked for getting laid karma and you won't give it to him?
You are a cock blocker.
You've got karma.
You'll now get laid.
Yeah.
Send pictures.
In Pleasanton, California, 123.45 in the morning.
If you could knock me up with some much-needed get-laid karma, it would be, what is wrong?
This is right next to the other guy.
This is what's crazy.
Our listeners either have cancer or can't get laid.
I'm not liking this.
No, me neither!
Yeah!
You've got karma.
Alright.
Now we got Sir John Smith coming with a nice hundred dollars from St.
Petersburg, Florida.
I hope you enjoyed it.
He sent me a bottle of wine, curiously from Washington State, from Florida.
And I thank you for that.
I'm running my first triathlon in four years on Sunday.
I need some serious huntsman chigga chigga ching karma, revering the donors and renouncing the boners.
Yeah, let's do that then.
He doesn't understand this situation.
You've got karma.
Okay, well at least we got off the get laid karma.
Andre Kelka in Prague, $100.
This is a dollar a show.
As a member of the 300 Club, I owe you that hundred.
Currently listening to NA379. By the way, people are getting way behind on the show.
Stop that.
It's not necessary.
Maybe we should...
You know, the last show we did was almost three hours.
We should shorten the show.
Or maybe we should just stop for a couple weeks so everyone's caught up.
That's an idea.
If I make the credits, I'll likely realize in August of Nighthood, a huge backlog of shows, you know.
I don't know.
You put it in your car.
You make a CD, burn it, play it in the car.
You drive around that much, at least.
Kelvin Jones, our PhD from Parts Unknown...
The wife is gone, so I can send you money again.
Can you extrapolate?
I'm gone?
He's the one who talks about his wife's in the room, so he can't send money.
Is she in the backyard in a hole?
She hates the show.
Oh, right.
She hates the show.
I got a call back.
I was interviewed for a job.
I will go to Kingsville, Texas in two weeks, but they are my third best option.
Hopefully, by the time you read this on the air, I'll get a nod from the school in Trinidad.
That'd be nice.
We need a person in Trinidad.
Regardless, I'm set for default to be my last act of loving no agenda.
No need for karma.
Just let all new listeners, call all new listeners douchebags and let the boners know that this crackpot conspiracy theorist gives and they should too.
Why?
Because.
Elvin Jones, 6969.
The trend continues.
Douchebag!
Okay, that's for the people out there who are boners.
Big Dan Lovin.
Big Dan Lovin.
Parts Unknown, 6969.
Another one.
Uh, calling myself as a kinster, as a donor with a boner.
I lost my home in November and just last Saturday lost my job.
The new American dream of just getting by seems so far away at times.
Please accept this donation.
And I would love a shot of karma as I search for a new job and, or a new of my business.
What?
Not sure.
Having too soon have my own very...
Obviously, this is drunk writing.
Yeah.
Have my own very Katrina Camper.
Thanks, FEMA. Big old Dan Lovin, a.k.a.
BigDanLovin on Twitter.
Think you'd love FetLife.com as a private free Facebook for those with an alternate lifestyle.
Oh, hold on.
Fetishist.
Oh, FetLife.com.
FetLife.com.
So let's give him some karma for the camper and the job.
You've got karma.
Oh.
PetLife is a free social network for the BDSM and fetish community.
This is a great picture.
There we go.
Look at the picture.
I haven't gone there.
Hold on.
Let me go there.
It's like a Secret Service guy who has a hooker all tied up hanging from a net.
FetLife.com Get some water there, John.
You okay?
Can I have someone bring you some water?
I'm good.
Oh, yeah.
They all got a big smile on their face.
98.6% of Fetlifers would recommend FetLife to a friend.
It's got 1.3 million members.
Hey, get someone to listen to the show.
Yeah, really?
They've got 6 million pictures.
Send some.
I'm sorry.
Okay, onward.
Colin Peterson in Bow, or Bow, Washington, 6969.
Grebulon.
Hey!
It's from Grebulon.
It's my birthday again this Thursday.
Keep up the wonderful work.
We got a call out for him.
Michael Michaud, $60.
Nyan Nessler in Altmura, Minnesota.
Double nickels on the dime.
Long-time boner, first-time donor.
Needs a birthday shout-out for his friend.
We got that.
Wait a minute.
Two to the head.
Needs a two to the head de-douching.
One bullet for him and one bullet for me.
Thanks for the greatest podcast in the universe.
You've been de-douched.
I guess that is kind of a de-douching.
Oops, I just overshot my spot here.
Okay.
Patrick Deary, Sarnia, Ontario.
Double nickels on the dime.
White hat, Jan.
Jean.
Jean in The Hague.
I would like a birthday shout-out to my girlfriend, Nancy, who is celebrating this Thursday, and some extra real estate karma for her.
You've got karma.
Thomas Gillier in Kentbridge, Ontario.
Double niggles on the dime.
Thanks for the greatest podcast in the universe.
Martha, my lovely wife of 33 years, would chuckle if given a slide whistle plus douchebag call out in her honor.
It's a slow slide whistle.
Okay.
You've been de-douched.
Boop, boop, boop, boop, boop.
Bye.
Thank you.
You overdid it.
Ryan Benson, Tampa, Florida.
Double nickels on the dime.
Please include on today's show, uh, last is the last minute donation.
I'm writing you back to thank you for the anti-police state karma on last Tuesday.
It worked.
I beat the system.
More timely, though.
Wish my best friend David Galloway in Dallas a happy 31st.
And he is the one who, ah, dying here.
Introduce me to your excellent show.
Is JC there?
He's not here, no.
He's listening.
Do you want to just go to the toilet and drink something?
No, I'm good.
Out of the toilet bowl?
I'm not going to drink anything from the toilet bowl.
Who do you think I am?
Go to the fetish site, next thing you know you come up with stuff like that.
Jesse Anderson in LeClaire, Iowa, 50.
Greg Stearley, 50.
Sean Rubel in Fraser, Michigan, hey I need some test score karma to keep up the good work, 50.
You've got karma.
Jan Houghton in Kaiser, Oregon.
Birthday shout-out coming.
Sir John Matthews in Huntersville, North Carolina.
Did you get my note about the green card lottery?
Yes, I did.
Thank you very much.
Alan Levine for Congress again, which is A-L-L-A-N-L-E-V-E-N. Our Congress guy for Congress Committee.
Paid for by Alan Levine for Congress.
Approved by me.
Mike Bernstein in Bettendorf, Iowa, $50.
Paul Vela, Sir Paul to you, in Tauchester, $50.
And finally, Stacey Hayden.
He becomes a knight today, by the way.
That was his final installment, the $50.
Oh, I didn't realize that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Cool.
Okay.
I thought he was already a sir.
In the morning, I was recently introduced to your show.
This is Stacey Hayden from Denver.
My smoking hot boyfriend, Derek, several months ago, introduced me to the show.
And while his birthday is on Tuesday, I can't resist calling him out as a douchebag.
Because he is still a no-boner.
Just like many of his friends.
I'm able to celebrate with him this year, so please give him a birthday shout-out.
Do we have him on the list?
Derek?
By Stacy?
No, I'm glad we caught that.
Ooh, you sounded just like David Caruso.
I'm glad we caught that.
Perfect!
I'm glad we caught that.
Zoom in.
And then you have to have a punchline to there.
Enhance.
And I also want to, there's a girl named Haley who wants some karma for her sister.
I was going to college.
You might as well give her some.
You've got karma.
And that should wrap it up.
We didn't have a very big...
We didn't get a lot of help for this show, show number four.
Well, it's because the last show sucked, apparently.
Could have.
We want people to remind people to go to channeldvorak.com slash na, dvorak.org slash na, noagendashow.com and noagendanation.com.
But, you know, if you haven't donated for a while, think of us when you, listen to the stuff that we did on today's show.
It was fantastic.
So far, we haven't even gotten to the rest of it.
There is something I'd like you to try.
We got a nice note from Robert Seals, one of our producers in Gitmo Nation East.
And I'll read this verbatim to you because he did a little experiment.
He says, In the morning, citizens, I wanted to let you guys know of an experiment I tried.
I wanted to see if not listening to you would change my attitude.
My brother said he stopped listening to talk radio, right-wing talk radio, and found he was happier.
So I thought I'd stop listening to you guys, hoping that I would find ignorance bliss.
All I managed to do was become uninformed.
I found I was never not happy.
I was just concerned and upset with the ways of the world.
So now I'm back.
I will continue to be a faithful listener, and I've restarted my $5 a month subscription.
Sorry, that's all I can afford right now.
Take care, and I'm looking forward to the Hot Pockets 2009 tour.
This is good.
I think that's very good advice, and our mantra has always been, go away.
We find that works very well with our listeners.
Go away.
Don't listen.
See how you feel.
I think that's a good experiment.
Yeah, well, he learned his lesson.
And all we really want is just some value for value.
So if you would consider that, that would be highly appreciated.
I should mention something else just in passing.
You know that guy who sends us, I don't have his name handy, but he sends us the package of vegan food every so often?
Yeah.
It's a subscription thing.
You get a box.
Yeah, the big box, yeah.
I can recommend something.
Yeah.
Anyone who sees this and they go to the Whole Foods or anything, it comes from Brazil.
It's called Samba 99 Cupuacu.
C-U-P-U-A-C-U. And it is a protein boost with Brazil nuts.
It is some sort of a gooey, a gabagoo that's got a bunch of Brazil nuts in it.
It's absolutely delicious.
Is it a bar?
It's not really a bar.
It's like a long gob of goo that you can hold.
It won't, like, get all over your hand or anything.
So it's not really a bar.
I mean, it could have been enclosed in chocolate or something, I suppose.
It's just essentially a gob of goo.
But it's delicious.
Not only does this exciting Brazilian fruit contain an incredibly high amount of antioxidants, it also contains many antioxidants that are found in no other fruit on Earth.
A pharmacy in a fruit!
Nice!
It's a pharmacy in a fruit.
And a dessert topping in a flora wax all in one.
Yes.
Alright.
Very nice.
Again, thank you all so much for your, well, those of you who supported the show.
Hopefully you'll like this episode better.
We don't know what happened there, but it definitely fell off a cliff.
And it's disappointing, but it does happen.
You know, also my letter, which you liked, may have been depressing.
Yeah, I don't know.
Try a happy one.
I'll do a happy letter.
Hi, everybody.
Everything's great.
Everything's cool.
Hey, throw some hookers out of the car.
Dvorak.org slash N-A.
It's your birthday, birthday.
I have no agenda.
Happy birthday, Alan Thompson.
He congratulates himself for celebrating today.
Grebulon, also congratulations to you on your birthday today at 26.
Ryan Lessler congratulates his friend, Kurt Kubal.
White Hat John says happy birthday to girlfriend Nancy today.
Ryan Benson's buddy, David Galloway, turns 31.
Stacey Hayden...
She congratulates her smoking hot boyfriend, Derek, on Tuesday.
And Citizen X says happy birthday to N.A. Groupie.
It is also her birthday today.
Happy birthday from all your buddies here at the No Agenda Show.
Also known as the best podcast in the universe.
And we do have a couple of nights coming on board.
This is great because they still get in on the night rings, which will end when the world ends at the end of this year.
And someone actually mentioned we should try badges.
Now that the TSA has...
They've got real badges now.
Maybe we should just get a badge.
Like a shield.
Hello?
And what would it say?
No Agenda Knight.
It would look like a police badge, but it would be No Agenda Knight.
And you could have it in a handsome...
We can discuss what we've been talking and thinking about, and I was thinking of that pin that they give out in Canada.
Because no one's going to wear a big old badge.
No, no, you can have it in a handsome wallet.
You can have it in a handsome leatherette wallet.
You're going to get clubbed.
You can't walk around with a badge.
What's this phony badge you're carrying?
You're going to get clubbed.
The way things are going, you'll get arrested.
Our listeners are not baby seals.
They're not going to get clubbed.
Club.
Alright, let's induct three of our knights today, if you can just grab your sword there for a second.
Where is it?
I don't see it.
There you go, I got it.
Alan Thompson, Charles Anderson, and Paul Vela, step forward, gentlemen, as you are today being inducted into the exclusive club known as the Knights of the No Agenda Roundtable, you have supported the program in $1,000 or in excess thereof, and that is highly appreciated in our value-for-value proposition.
So we hereby, Knight B, Sir Alan Thompson, Sir Charles Anderson, and Sir Paul Vela, Knights of the No Agenda Roundtable, For you, the bennies are here.
Hookers and blow, red boys and chardonnay if you prefer.
Hookers and blow, wenches and beer.
It's all at the round table.
Enjoy!
Boy, you're hamming it up more.
I'm doing a Leo Laporte.
Enjoy.
Have you ever heard him do his promos?
I think you can do the David Caruso voices when you want.
You need the punchline, though, because at the end he says, well, you know, and he says, this is the end of this guy for walking across the street.
I don't know how to do it now.
I'll write some material for you.
That's what I'll do.
This is the end of this guy.
This is the end of this guy.
And we'll imagine...
That I'm David Caruso?
We'll imagine David Caruso putting the sunglasses on and hitting it with the punchline.
The way I'm telling you it sounds exactly like him.
And special thanks to Alan Thompson, our sole executive producer for episode 403.
If you want to support us, we will talk about it, I guess, on Sunday.
Any scripts to read?
No, that's all dried up.
I wonder why.
I wonder why it's all dried up.
No scripts to read.
I sent the other one in.
It's the first thing I do is I clip it, I send it in, and the auditions have stopped coming.
It wasn't that bad.
My agent is like, this guy's an a-hole.
He's not taking it seriously.
Something like a-hole material.
No, we don't want him.
No, I have yet to get a single gig out of that.
Sucks.
Sucks balls.
Sucks.
Talking about a-holes.
So in the last week or so, they had a big meeting, a big conference, I guess, to promote and to talk about the future.
So kind of like a clone of Ted through the Singularity University.
What?
What is this?
Is this a crackpot university?
You don't know about the Singularity University?
Look it up on Google real quick.
Singularity University.
This is a screwball school that was kind of started by Kurzweil and his theory about the Singularity, even though they've changed it completely.
I mean, it's supposed to be about robots taking over the world, and now instead it's a...
Well, I'm against this then.
I'm not for this.
No, you'd be against this anyway when you hear any of these speeches.
Singularity U. We got a hot babe on the cover there.
I'm interested now.
Hmm.
Does she attend?
She's actually a guy.
Oh.
So, no.
I don't know.
Shows you what I know.
So you can go to their faculty and you can see who's kind of, you know, got...
It's just a bunch of characters, Silicon Valley types.
What do they teach?
They teach?
Well, they teach how we can change the world and all this kind of...
I don't know what they teach.
They don't teach anything.
Well, then maybe we can get a teaching gig if it doesn't matter what you teach.
Well, that's an interesting idea.
You know what these people on this faculty list?
They all look like they're consultants.
Well, the guy who heads it, if you go to the Board of Trustees, is this guy, Peter Diamandis, who looks like, I don't know, and then Ray Kurzweil is a co-founder and chancellor.
So they had this big meeting, and all the douchebags from Silicon Valley were at this thing listening to it.
It was essentially a bunch of TED talks.
I thought Ray Kurzweil looked cooler.
He doesn't look so cool.
And what's this with the logo?
What's this with the Superman logo these guys are using?
That's kind of gay.
Where's that?
Look at the S. That's their Singularity University.
Okay.
It's interesting there's some people here that are trustees that should know better.
Oh, Malik should be on this.
Okay.
So, let me fit right in.
So, I got a couple of clips.
Let's start with the first bullshit.
When you get an idea about what they talked about.
Start here, clip.
Connected and exchanging ideas.
It has gone up as population has gone up.
It's gone up as people have concentrated in cities.
You know, the coffee shop is the location where people exchange and share ideas.
Now, the global coffee shop is the internet.
And the more people connected, the more innovation we have.
Think about the fact that a Maasai warrior in the middle of Africa today on one of these cell phones has better mobile comm than President Reagan did 25 years ago.
Oh, I get it.
So this is the Diamante's character.
This is a circle jerk club is what this is.
Oh, totally.
Totally.
So they show a picture of these Maasai warriors.
One of them scratching their head looking at the cell phone and the other one talking to somebody.
And they're still out in the desert.
They probably can't get a signal.
And it's like they have better connectivity, a Maasai warrior, than Reagan did when he was president.
So what?
It's got nothing to do with anything.
So we can track him with a drone and kill him.
So they go on and on and on with this crap.
So here's the kind of thing we get.
Now play Singularity University on solar.
And this starts off with Kurzweil.
He's not even there.
I don't know if you've ever seen these things.
It's a box with a glass screen behind it, and an image is projected so you can kind of see through it.
It looks kind of like a hologram, but it's not.
It's like a weird monitor, and he's talking.
He's being interviewed by this bonehead who is doing this.
This is on PBS. Pessimistic.
And I think the major reason that people are pessimistic is they don't realize that these technologies are growing exponentially.
For example, solar energy is doubling every two years.
It's now only seven doublings from meeting 100% of the world's energy needs, and we have 10,000 times more sunlight than we need to do that.
One last high-tech frontier, meat.
At the moment, livestock production takes up a third of the world's ice-free land, generates nearly a fifth of the world's greenhouse gases via organic exhaust, front and rear.
And eating just one serving of red meat a day, says a new Harvard study, correlates with a 12% increased risk of death.
Enter in vitro meat, not to be confused with pink slime.
We have the technology now.
It's being done in a number of labs to actually grow meat products in the laboratory, in the test tube, so to speak.
And people say, wait, it's disgusting.
Have you ever seen how chicken McNuggets are made?
But an in vitro hamburger doesn't sound like it would be good for you.
Well, actually, these kinds of new food products will be far better for you because they'll have the best proteins, the best fats, the nutrients built in.
It'll taste like a hamburger?
It'll taste better than a hamburger.
By this time, we were sufficiently wowed, if not downright overwhelmed.
But keeping our journalists...
Okay.
Can I respond to this?
Well, before you respond to it, I want to make a couple observations and you can respond.
One, according to Kurzweil, who was the first speaker, the second speaker was Diamandis.
The solar power or solar collection is doubling every two years and in seven more cycles, which would be in 14 years, we'll be able to power the entire globe with solar.
What bull crap!
The second thing is you do, I mean, this thing about the meat, we don't even know how nutrition works anyway, but somehow we're going to make this perfect burger that tastes better.
How does he know?
When has this been a product that he's had?
Anyway, go on.
Well, so these people are the peons.
They are the pawns of the Illuminati New World Order.
They're too dumb.
Really, they are stupid people.
I don't know many of them.
Kurzweil, of course, I know, and he has a lot of groupies.
It is a big circle jerk.
They all go there to get gigs from each other.
They're all consultants.
But in the meantime, they're spreading incredibly dangerous ideas about integrating it in with technology to eating in vitro meat.
What the hell does that even mean?
These are dangerous people, and this organization should be shut down.
In fact, it should be firebombed.
It should be firebombed.
Founding Partners, Autodesk, Cisco, Google, ePlan Adventures, Nokia, Kaufman, Genentech.
It's a drinking club.
It's a drinking club, like you would say, except I call it a circle jerk.
It's a circle jerk drinking club.
Hey, reach around, will you?
Oh, yeah.
Cool.
All right, Ray.
You got another one of these?
No, the other one was just actually...
Is it more about the meat?
All I'm just saying is this something people should keep an eye on because it's very...
I think it's sick, personally.
Don't buy into it, whatever you do.
And all these guys are smiling all the time.
I did a lot of work, and I couldn't avoid it on vaccines.
It started with Baroness Maggie.
She sent me a great document.
Wow, I had no idea this document existed.
It's in the show notes, 403.nashownotes.com.
This is the 2012 report from the FURMA. The PRMA or the PHRMA. This is the America's Biopharmaceutical Research Company's medicines in development.
Vaccines.
Would you like the highlights?
Uh-oh.
Mm-hmm.
Nearly 300 vaccines are in development currently.
300 vaccines.
For what?
Well, I'm glad you asked, John.
These findings illustrate the major contribution that vaccines have made in saving countless lives around the world.
In the past several years, many successful new vaccines have been developed, including one against human papillomavirus, HPV infections, that can lead to cervical cancer, one to guard against pre-exposure to anthrax virus, and a vaccine to prevent pneumonoclonal infections, that's pneumonia, and a vaccine to prevent pneumonoclonal infections, that's pneumonia, I guess, in high-risk populations.
But vaccines are not only for preventing infectious diseases, no, in 2010, a new cancer vaccine for the treatment of prostate cancer was approved in the United States, and many more are in development.
So they even are saying that vaccinations that aren't vaccines but are treatment for certain types of cancer, which last time I checked, I don't think was a virus, that you can catch out of the air, or, you know, don't go visit the cancer patient because you might catch the...
you know, unless you're inoculated.
So even they're calling that vaccines.
I'll just run down a little list here.
We have Greer Laboratories developing a cat allergy vaccine.
We have Allertine Therapeutics developing a peanut allergy vaccine.
Oh, here's a good one, John, in case you have ragweed allergy.
There's a vaccine coming out for ragweed.
We got a lot of cancer, gene therapy, breast cancer.
It's all going to save you, by the way.
You should take these shots because you will never get cancer again.
What is this one?
Pancreatic cancer.
Oh, damn.
Steve Jobs just missed the vaccine.
I can't believe it.
That's such a shame.
We'll scroll down here.
I highlighted a few more.
Oh, this is from Creusel in Leiden, the Netherlands.
AIDS! Prevention of HIV infection.
Just take the shot.
Have all the anal sex you want.
No problem.
There's lots of HIV vaccines.
Vaccines.
Herpes simplex.
Anthrax.
Yes!
All vaccines against all these horrible, horrible, horrible things you can catch.
Influenza A virus, the staph infection, which I think you can actually catch.
Yep.
Smallpox vaccine.
I thought we had a smallpox vaccine.
Why do we have to have a new one?
I don't know.
What's wrong with the old one?
Apparently not.
Maybe it's out of patent.
They've changed it somewhat.
Go down a little bit here.
Ricin.
What is ricin?
Ricin.
R-I-C-I-N. Ricin is the poison that's in the castor bean.
It's a poison.
It's not a disease.
There's a vaccine against ricin poisoning.
It says prevention of ricin poisoning right here.
That's a vaccine.
It's not a vaccine.
Yes, it is.
It's right here in their own documentation.
It's called antidote.
No, it's a vaccine.
And look at this one.
We have Janssen Immunotherapy, AFRIS, and Bay Hill Therapeutics, all with Alzheimer's disease vaccines.
Vaccines, I'd like to remind you.
And then, of course, we have the NICVAX, which is now in Phase 2.
That's for smoking cessation.
We have Celtic Pharma with the cocaine abuse vaccine.
It's a bonanza of beautiful vaccines.
Now...
I caught something the other day which shows you the marketing and how horrible this really is.
Are you familiar with Adam Levine?
Do you know Adam Levine?
The name's very familiar.
Okay.
Adam Levine is a judge on The Voice.
Oh, right, that guy.
He's from Maroon 5, which is even lamer than those guys Green Day that you like.
And Ms.
Mickey and I watch this show.
We watch two shows a week.
It's our big TV night.
We watch The Voice on Monday, followed by Smash, which is still a great show.
What?
Yeah, it's a great show.
It's not a great show.
It's a great show.
So, and I've always looked at this guy, and he can't talk.
He's always...
And Carson Daly was the host.
He was trying to hurry him along in these live shows, and he can't talk.
And he looks...
I've always thought he looked incredibly stoned.
And then I come across this little commercial.
I wondered why I couldn't organize my thoughts.
It was my ADHD, and like many kids with ADHD, I didn't outgrow it.
I remember very distinctly not being able to focus, so that was right around the time when I actually saw a doctor.
If you were diagnosed with ADHD as a kid, you might still have it.
Take a quiz at ownyouradhd.com to recognize your symptoms.
Then talk with your doctor.
Looking into it is really important.
It's your ADHD. Own it.
Own it!
Own it!
Be a part of the Own It Project.
So there's this contest.
The Own It Project?
Yes, ownitproject.com.
The mission of the Own It Project is simple.
To encourage young adults and adults 18 plus to take responsibility for their ADHD. To own it!
Want a chance to be part of the Own It Project?
If you're an adult with ADHD, create a video that shows how you're owning it and enter for a chance to win here.
If your story is chosen, you could win a prize package and the opportunity to help encourage others to own their ADHD. It's your ADHD. Own it!
Sponsored by Shire.
Oh, who is Shire?
Let me see.
Shire.
Let's look at their product list.
S-H-I-R-E? Oh, yeah.
You can find it at Shire.com.
Shire makes Adderall, Agrilin, Allertech, Carbitrol, Dermagraft, Vivance, Prometine, Pensa, Mintec, Midon.
These are the drug guys telling you that you need to take drugs.
And wait, wait, wait, wait.
Hey, wait a minute.
Why would drug guys do that?
Because they're drug dealers.
But however, John, they are working in close cooperation with Everyday Health.
Everydayhealth.com.
Own your ADHD. Let's take the adult ADHD screening contest.
Test, I'm sorry.
Are you ready to take the quiz?
It's only six questions to find out if you have ADHD. Are you ready?
Yeah.
Okay.
How often do you have trouble wrapping up the final details of a project once the challenging parts have been done?
You can choose from never...
Rarely.
Oops.
Sometimes.
Often.
Or very often.
Very often.
Very often.
Okay.
Click.
Next.
How often do you have difficulty getting things in order when you have to do a task that requires organization?
Same thing?
Well, it's never, rarely, sometimes, often, or very often.
Very often.
Very often.
Okay.
I need to clean my office.
What can I say?
How often do you have problems remembering appointments or obligations?
That's why I use a calendar.
How often do you have problems remembering appointments?
Often.
Often.
Okay.
Why should I remember any of those things?
I need to write it down.
When you have a task that requires a lot of thought, how often do you avoid or delay getting started?
Back to the office.
Very often.
I'll answer that one for you.
Very often.
Well, actually, no.
I'd say often.
Often.
Okay.
I'll do often then.
How often do you fidget or squirm with your hands or feet when you have to sit down for a long time?
Nah, that's pretty neutral.
So, rarely or sometimes?
Rarely.
Rarely.
And finally, how often do you feel overly active and compelled to do things like you were driven by a motor?
Rarely.
Oh, you scored a total of 21.
ADHD may be likely, John C. Dvorak.
Oh, I gotta take the drugs.
Based on your responses to this adult ADHD screening quiz, you may or may not have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
People who have answered similarly to you sometimes qualify for a diagnosis of ADHD or ADD and have sought professional treatment of a disorder.
You should not take this diagnosis of a disorder or recommendation of treatment.
However, if you would be available to the likely benefits of furthering diagnosis from a physician trained mental health professional, you will rule out a possible attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
You're good to go.
I think you should consult your physician.
Yeah.
I should.
Since we brought this topic up, and since I told everyone I took the ADHD medicine, Oh, that's right.
You took it as an experiment and you thought it was the worst thing in the world.
Yeah, it tripped me out.
You took a hit of Ritalin.
I'm surprised they're not knocking on your door and arresting you.
It tripped me out.
So here's what I would recommend.
And there's a great television show from the UK, which of course is totally meant to make Americans look like idiots, even though they prescribe these drugs just as frequently in the United Kingdom, I know.
It was all put in the show notes.
The guy goes and lives with the family and all the kids.
The dog's even on antidepressants.
It's hilarious.
It's a hilarious show.
If the doctor recommends...
And by the way, I see these kids on this TV show and they're like, kids!
They're like, take a shower.
No, I don't want to take a shower.
I don't feel like taking a shower.
I hate you, mommy.
That's what kids do!
No, no, no.
Get the kid on drugs.
And the doctors, they're like, he's doing very well with his, uh, uh, what is it?
Authority, uh, uh, what's the ODD? That's the, uh, I don't know.
Obstinence defiance disorder or whatever.
Yeah, defiance disorder.
Defiance disorder.
No!
If you're going to give that to your kids, I recommend before you give the kid that first pill, take it yourself.
Take the Ritalin.
Take the Adderall.
Wait for an hour or so until it kicks in.
And see, because you as an adult, you will know, unless you're already drugged up, you will know what your brain does.
And this is what I witnessed.
And so I know when I'm high on something.
I know that, okay, this feels different.
And this is the difference that it is.
And do I like this high or not?
And imagine your kid feeling like that when he's three.
Three years old.
And then, when you decide not to give it to your kid, which you will, sell it to the teenager next door and make a profit.
That's my advice.
Because I have to say, if you're looking for a high...
In other words, get the prescription anyway.
Get the prescription, don't give it to your kids, sell it to the teenagers who know what it's doing and want to get high.
Now, on the vaccine front, we've got another...
It's a good thing you're in Austin.
We've got another campaign underway.
This is a good one.
Deers come with the territory in most pediatricians' offices where kids have a strict vaccine schedule to follow.
But you won't find stickers and lollipops at your general practitioner's office.
I think we do a much better job immunizing children in this country than adults.
A new survey by Walgreens finds nearly half of American adults are unaware of government-recommended vaccines for their age group.
It really is an issue, I would say, of awareness and also access to a healthcare professional who can help educate you.
Most of us know about yearly flu shots, but experts say all adults over age 65 should get the pneumonia vaccine.
One shot should last the rest of your life.
Those itchy chicken pox you had as a kid can rear their ugly little heads again now that you're an adult in the form of an extremely painful condition called shingles.
There are a million cases a year of shingles, and it's not just a rash.
It's a very painful rash that can be debilitating.
But studies show a Zostavax booster shot can cut the chances of developing shingles by half, or at least reduce the severity of the disease.
Ah!
Doctors say the number one reason we're seeing an increase in whooping cough cases in children is because their parents haven't gotten their pertussis booster shot.
It's added to the diphtheria and tetanus shot that's recommended every 10 years.
These diseases are not rare diseases that you won't encounter.
They will hit home.
Doctors say the best way to protect yourself and your family is to roll up your sleeve.
Erica Edwards, NBC News.
That's NBC News with a commercial for Walgreens and all the products they sell.
This is pathetic.
This is your news media.
This is why people should be donating to the show more.
Anyway, this line in there really bothers me, which was the line, it will eliminate or reduce the severity.
Yes.
Does this stuff work or not?
No.
In other words, you get this shot for shingles and you get shingles.
And then no matter what form of shingles you get, because the shot didn't apparently work at all, you can say, well, you know, it would have been worse.
But you don't know that.
So this is gross.
It doesn't do anything.
If you don't get shingles, you don't get shingles.
You get shingles, you get shingles.
And because the shot didn't do anything, but you can make the claim without reduce the severity.
How do you know it reduced the severity?
So this goes right back to the previous episode where we talked about kids who have been inoculated against whooping cough, the pertussis vaccine.
The majority of them get the whooping cough, but they get it because they didn't get their booster shot.
No, they're getting it because you're injecting your kid with the actual virus, and it's not working.
And I'll wrap it up here because it just freaks me out how, you know, my goodness, the drug dealing that's going on is just outrageous.
Apparently, so I don't have proof of this, but apparently a lot of the polio vaccines are not working.
And what they've done is they have renamed polio to, this is how Guillain-Barre syndrome came into light.
And what I'm understanding is that the polio vaccines are not working in large amounts of cases, and the symptoms that people are getting, so they don't freak people out and say, well, these polio vaccines don't work, that they just change the name of the disease and say, oh, well, you've got Guillain-Barre syndrome.
And that will kind of explain why people get that when they get their polio shot.
The Folio Shot used to work.
What changed?
Well, for the same reason they have to make a new smallpox.
I think they're just throwing crap together and calling it something and shooting you up and charging you $400.
And let me just say, here's how it works with the HPV. I've noticed this twice now.
And I will have to say, with women in my life, let me put it that way.
You go for a pap smear, which is a good thing to do.
You go for the pap smear.
The doctor calls you up.
Smear, not shmear.
Shmear is what you put on a bagel.
That's exactly what it looks like.
Pap smear.
And you go for a pap smear.
I love the way that sounds.
And the doctor calls you up and says, oh, yeah, well, you know, this is not really good.
The results came back and we're not quite sure.
We think we have to do a biopsy, which freaks you out.
And I've heard this from multiple women in my life.
So then you have to go do a biopsy, which is unpleasant.
It's not a horrible, horrible thing, and as a man I can't imagine it, but it's unpleasant.
And they snip a little thing away and they send it off to the lab.
Then you're freaking out for ten days.
Then the lab comes back and says, well, would you please come to the office so we can talk it over?
So you're shitting yourself now as a woman.
There's poop coming out of you.
You're like, oh my god, I have cancer!
And they sit you down and say, well, you know what?
It turned out it's okay.
We had two results and one said maybe and the other said no.
And it turns out you're okay.
However, you probably should get the HPV vaccine just to make sure.
This is what's going on.
This is how it's being played and I want you to email me because I guarantee you this is the sales cycle and they're doing it everywhere in America and it's terrorizing women and it's getting them to buy very expensive vaccines that don't work.
And I spit on you pharma industry.
Yeah, well, how much does it cost for an HPV series?
$400.
How many do you have to get?
Two.
It's two shots of $400.
It's two shots, so it's $200?
No, it's $400 each.
$400 each.
What?
Yes, $400 each.
So you have to spend $800?
No wonder they're pushing this.
They're taking a piece of the action.
Duh.
And this is how it works, and I've seen it happen three times.
There's no reason for it to be that expensive, but obviously it's that expensive so you can make some quick money.
Yeah, unless you're gouging.
Please, I would like you to send, I guarantee you I'll get a hundred emails of people saying, wow, that's exactly what happened to my wife, my daughter, my sister, my mom, whatever.
Yeah, well, there's probably a few doctors out there that aren't trying to screw their customers.
No, I don't think so.
My doctor's pretty good.
Yeah, you sound real healthy.
He thinks the country's over-vaccinated.
Of course there are good doctors.
Of course there are.
And there's good bankers and good lawyers.
There's good everything.
But in general, no.
No.
It's set up and it's rude.
Yeah, well, it's a money-making business.
You can tell when you walk in the place if it's a scam or not.
It's destroying people.
Well, to lighten things up...
Please.
I think we should revisit...
It's something we've never had a clip of.
Oh.
And I think it's something we should revisit because people that listen to our show, especially overseas, they've never seen a lot of the types of...
Early reality television is not what you see today.
But early reality television still does exist in the form of, well, one of the earliest, Maury Povich.
This is a classic clip.
I haven't seen Maury Povich for years, and I said, I bet you I can get a clip from this, and it's just everything he does is this, essentially.
Now, this is really, really a strange story.
Because Catherine sits here being accused by the love of her life, Chris, of having an affair with a married man.
Chris expects the married man may be the father of their two daughters, one-year-old Lee Asia, nine-month-old Kai Asia.
The married man she's supposed to have an affair with is Chris's own 55-year-old father.
When I first heard the woman about me screaming Chris's father, I was disgusted.
I would never ruin my reputation like that.
Hell no!
Hell no!
The fact about it is that he's not just denying one of my daughters, he's denying both of them.
I have done nothing but love Chris and be there for him.
Even though he cheated on me and put me on the back burner.
Chris and Tony has been there for me and my girls.
He treats me like I'm his own daughter.
Even though Tony was helping me, it does not mean he was sleeping with me.
So Catherine took a lie detector test too, so we're going to find out those decisions.
Thank you.
So I've never heard a round of applause for lie detector test.
Can I play you a clip from the Maury Povich show?
Play.
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We're talking about the next generation of kids breaking into the music business.
And just like Josh and Benig, my next guest also started young.
By age 15, MTV VJ Adam Curry was hosting rock and roll radio in Amsterdam, of all places.
Today, he's the host of the hottest show on MTV, the top 20 countdown.
Please welcome Adam Curry.
And here he is, screwing his wife's sister.
Woo!
Woo!
I was on the Maury Povich show, man.
That was before he turned into this character.
I know.
But the funny thing is, that's an old clip.
Yeah.
I don't know.
I think it's weird you have it at the ready.
Well, I just Googled it.
Oh.
That's an old clip, but his voice is not...
He's got that voice.
The Maury Povich voice is extremely identifiable, and it's not changed an octave.
An octave.
It wouldn't change an octave.
And he's still married to Connie Chunk.
So anyway, that's kind of what TV... Maury Povich turned into kind of a straight-up talk show journalist, which is during when he introduced you back.
Well, the original guy...
The original guy.
The original, original guy was Morton Downey Jr., Well, you're passing up Wally.
Wally George.
Okay, I'm sorry.
I don't know the Wallys.
And actually, there's a guy that predates them all, and I'm trying to think of his name.
He was extremely popular.
A square-headed guy.
I think he was the original.
Morton Downey Jr.
came in this...
A second generation character of this ilk.
And he said so himself in his bio before he died that they would stoke him up on meth.
Who was that?
Benzedrine before he went out there.
And so he was all pumped up and out of his mind.
And I have to say it was extremely entertaining.
Good.
I like that.
Very cool.
But yeah, Maury Povich evolved into this kind of...
I don't even know what kind of a show that is.
Alright, so that was incredibly uplifting, John.
Thank you so much.
Can I bum you out now?
Can I just bum you out now?
You always do.
Yes.
On Tuesday, we continued in the Senate with investigations about the MF Global scandal.
And a reminder, John Corzine, who has bundled over $500,000 for President Obama, who just seems to be on vacation somewhere.
We have no idea where he is.
He's hanging out.
The people who currently were working at the bank, the failed bank where they stole customer money, are getting bonuses.
And we are investigating.
Let's listen in on Tuesday's Senate hearing about the investigation, the opening by the chairman of the committee.
I'll call this here into order.
Today's hearing will examine the lessons learned from the collapse of the MF Global, the misuse of customer accounts by one of the world's largest commodities and derivatives brokers has shaken confidence in our markets and deserves a thoughtful discussion of how to better protect farmers, ranchers, and investors going forward.
Who is this guy?
I forget his name.
Oh, he sounds like this must have taken place after lunch.
He sounds like he's had eight martinis or he's had a stroke.
No, he has a speech impediment, and I can bring up the page and tell you who it was.
But the thing that I noticed is we're not looking at sending anybody to jail.
And I was like, what have we learned from this?
Are you kidding me?
What have we learned from this?
Because, you know, we have to figure out how it doesn't happen again.
No, no, no.
I want to figure out who the a-hole...
We know who it is.
We know it's John Corzine.
We know Joe Biden and Barack Obama blow the guy on stage because he raised so much money for them.
Former Goldman Sachs banker.
Nothing.
Oh, we just move right along.
Don't worry, Eric Holder's looking into it.
Luckily, at least we have one question...
One question to Mr.
Free, F-R-E-E-H. He is the assessor in the case, so he is guiding the bankruptcy and the proceedings on behalf of MF Global.
He also happens to be the former director of the FBI. Yeah, Louis Free.
Listen to him.
Let me ask you this.
Has it been part of your effort and review to determine who, what individuals, at what level, I'm trying to think of here structure more than any individual, but what individuals created the set of decisions that created the challenge that we have?
Yes, Senator.
I mean, that's the subject both of my investigation and Mr.
Giddens.
We're looking to determine the available causes of action, including fraud, lack of fiduciary responsibility.
I love the word fiduciary because it has the word douche in there.
I think that's great.
And where are you in that investigation at this point?
We're just beginning it, sir.
What?!
You're just beginning?!
It's been six months!
You're just beginning.
So you cannot identify, at this point, the responsible parties?
I could not do that fairly at this point.
No, no, no, no.
Because I'm an FBI guy.
This is...
I have no words for this.
I'll tell you, there's an interesting thing about this character, Free...
I don't know why he did this, but in 2009 he became an Italian citizen.
Oh, really?
I didn't know that.
That's pretty good.
Why would an American director of the FBI decide to become an Italian citizen?
Is there an extradition treaty between Italy and America?
Well, I don't know.
Maybe there's something screwy going on.
I would say there's probably no extradition treaty.
He wouldn't be too popular necessarily in Italy because he was the guy behind the Pizza Connection investigation.
He was lead prosecutor, which was a drug trafficking operation in the United States that used pizza parlors.
Hmm.
But, uh...
Hmm.
He also was behind the Waco thing, as far as I can tell.
Let me see.
Is there an extradition treaty?
Extradition treaty, U.S., Italy.
Come on, book of knowledge.
Yeah, we have Italy.
So that can't be it.
There's some other reason, obviously.
Probably just a tax dodge.
It must be.
Because no one pays taxes over there in Italy.
That's why they can't use cash anymore.
No more cash.
Ah, the Dutch Bank.
They're doing this campaign.
It's on TV all over the place.
I think it's for ABN Amro, I think it is.
Not to use cash anymore and how handy and cool your card is.
They got these two old bags and they're like buying pizzas and ordering hookers and buying little tiny Gitmo cars and it's all on the card and how cool.
And they're like a comedy duo, only not funny.
They're really, really going for it.
Yeah, it's easier to confiscate money if you don't actually have any money.
It's not only that.
If you understand how the banking system works, as long as you never actually have to poop out euros or dollars or anything like that, then the money really never exists.
It's just in the central banking system.
And it's just, you know, checks and balances left and right.
And so you don't actually have the money.
If it never becomes even the fiat paper money, which is questionable if that's money, and it sits in the bank, it's just worth more and they just spin it around and around, which is, I think, what Europe needs right now because they can't have people hoarding cash.
They need to have all these numbers to give to the bank, so the banks can then go and buy, you know, the bankers can buy boats and yachts and Greek islands and oil companies and gas companies.
And Haiku Herman...
Actually, spell it out.
Listen to his math.
This is Haiku talking about the European Investment Bank, and he's basically saying, watch what we do.
We should have this system.
You put a dime in, and you get $1.80 out.
Listen to how he does the math.
To fill financing voids left by the markets, the European Union also has its own investment bank, the European investment bank.
So he's literally saying to fill the void that we have, so to pay off bankers, we have our own European investment bank.
Let's see how it works, Haiku.
The biggest multilateral bank in the world.
People tend to forget this.
I forget this much.
It isn't very well known by the wider public, although I suppose many of you do know it.
Which one is it?
European Investment Bank lands directly to the larger ones of you and helps banks provide loans to smaller businesses.
It was a partner in developing important infrastructure projects, such as windmills and solar power stations.
And during the crisis, when banks took fright and the market retreated, the European Investment Bank substantially upped its game, ensuring that crucial projects continue to receive the necessary financing.
Today, without new capital, The bank would soon be forced to scale down the actions.
Certainly, new capital means calling upon European governments and taxpayers.
Okay, so he's saying European governments, i.e.
taxpayers, you have to put money into this bank and here's how it works.
Yet there is a convincing case to be made.
Shouldn't we therefore examine how the EIB can expand the role there where it is most needed?
I think we should.
With 10 billion increase in the capital, we could expand the bank's overall lending capacity to 60 billion of new loans in the next three years to support new investments up to 180 billion euros.
Such support is essential for countries and companies to be able to grow themselves out of the crisis.
So you put 10 billion in, It turns into $60 billion magically through the fractional banking system.
Over three years is $180 billion.
This is a great system!
It's like the T1 lines that used to sell back in the day, remember?
Yeah!
You get a fractional T1. Fractional T1. They sell it as a T1. Right.
And you say, well, then you're getting this, you know, one real megabit, supposedly.
Yes.
But it was always shared.
Yeah.
Fractional.
By like 20 guys.
Fractional T1. How is this my T1? But that's crazy.
It's like, so you taxpayers...
It's a shell game is the word.
Yeah, well, if you know how the system works, which is to mind meld, really, you know, it's just, if you put $10 billion in, so you slaves give us $10 billion, thanks for working, we turn that into $60 billion, over three years it's $180 billion, and we give that to the bankers.
We can bail them out of their bad investments in your roads you don't use.
I think your thesis that to go totally cashless would allow this to really propagate to an extreme, but you have to get there before the whole thing collapses, and there's only one country that's bit Which is your Holland.
We're the first suckers to go cashless.
Unless you can get the entire population of the EU to go 100% cashless.
But they're doing that with laws.
This is a house of cards.
It's going to fall apart.
They've only got a year or two to do this.
Yeah, but this is why they have all the laws.
Italy, Spain, I think Greece as well.
Cash transactions illegal over 2,500 euros.
By the way, Gitmo Nation Netherlands cabinet did fall.
I don't know if you heard it.
Did you hear the sound?
No, I don't think the media picked it up.
So they will have snap elections on September 12th.
Snap election.
I don't understand why it's a snap election if it's going to take six months.
That'll be very interesting to see, certainly in light of the fact that Amnesty International Amnesty International has now come out and said, Netherlands, you discriminate against Muslims.
Whole big report.
Of course, Amnesty International is not only run by a former United States State Department shill, but it is financed by USAID and the State Department.
And here it is.
European countries are discriminating against Muslims for demonstrating their faith, especially in fields of education and employment.
This is what Amnesty Rights Group Amnesty International said Tuesday.
In a report focusing on Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Spain, and Switzerland, Amnesty urged European governments to do more to challenge negative stereotypes and prejudices against Islam.
The report was particularly critical of countries that have brought in outright bans on face-covering veils and on the wearing of religious symbols in schools.
Rather than countering these prejudices, political parties and public officials are all too often pandering to them in their quest for votes.
So, bad on you.
Bad!
Has Amnesty International got to do with any of that?
I thought they were about...
Human rights!
Ah, no-fly zone over Holland!
They're hurting the Muslims!
Ah, well, it'd be very interesting to watch this election with Geert Wilders and how that rolls, you know?
It'd be very, very interesting.
And I think that's about all I've got.
Oh yeah, projected price of a pack of smokes in New Zealand in the next 5 to 10 years?
About $70.
Actually, 8 years.
Yeah, 5 to 8 years.
$70, that is the goal.
As they want New Zealand, the whole island has to be smoke-free.
The whole island.
Just the whole island's smoke-free.
Why?
I don't know.
The sheep are complaining.
Well, the reason why is if you take away the obvious, like, oh, this is so bad, you shouldn't be smoking, then, you know, you can take away anything.
What will it be next?
That's what you've got to ask yourself.
What will it be next?
Ms.
Mickey and I took a little trip on Monday, an overnight trip, and we had to fly.
And we had to opt out on both ends.
So there's a new script.
Oh, there's a new script?
There's a new script.
The first thing when you say, I'd like to opt out, is, you know this is not an x-ray machine, right?
I'm like, I know exactly what that machine is.
And the next thing they say is, alright, stand over here, it's going to take a while.
This is the new script.
I got it on both ends of the trip.
Two different cities.
Exactly the same?
It's going to take a while?
It's going to take a while.
Same thing.
Why is it going to take a while?
Because you're a pain in the ass.
Oh, that's the reason.
Because they're patting people down constantly, whether they go through the machine or not.
And the funny thing is, it didn't take a while.
They just say that.
Yeah, it's part of the script.
Well, they don't want you standing there too long.
And so the Austin guy, he was very nervous.
And he has to run through the whole script, including giving me the option to have a private screening.
Yeah, they always say that.
And he forgot that.
Because when he was reading the script about, you know, how I'm going to hit you with the back of the hand, pat, you know, inside, I'll tell you sensitive area, resistance, whatever, I was looking at him with a laser, laser beam in my eyes, and he started to sweat.
I almost felt bad for the guy.
And then as he moves in, he's like, oh, and do you want a private screening?
Said, no.
I want you to do it here in public.
I really have been waiting for you to get into my waistband.
Come on, you TSA baby.
So that's the new script.
Be on the lookout for that.
But when they say, it'll take a while.
It doesn't really take a while.
They just say it.
This will take a while.
This will take a while.
It'll be a while.
I wish we had some TSA people that could send us some of these scripts.
Listeners.
Yeah, if we had a new script, that would be nice to have.
That would be.
Well, maybe.
I'm sure someone can send us something.
Well, maybe.
And I'll give you one other tip.
A happy tip, just to end it all off.
Because of the new procedures...
You know that now we're going to have these machines that check your ID against your ticket?
Right?
Yeah.
So they've overlooked a very important thing.
Now this is only for no agenda listeners in the United States of Gitmo Nation.
This is a big one for you.
It's a big, big, big tip.
So because they have now stepped up this checking the ID against the name on the ticket and they're going to have machines for it, they're so focused on it that you can walk right into the first class line, which is no wait, because they don't check if you have a first class ticket.
So, you know, we are in Southwest.
And we just walk right into the first class line and no one checks it.
And all the other stupid sheep are standing there in the roundabout in a little hamster maze.
We just walk right in.
That's funny.
Because they don't check it anymore.
Because they used to have, like, some kind of airline official checking to see if you have a first class ticket.
So that's now gone because it's now these morons who work at the TSA. And they're not checking for that.
They're just like, how do I turn on the blue light?
Right, they're not, yeah.
Yeah, they wouldn't.
All they care about is matching these two things and putting a little mark, a meaningless scribble on the boarding pass.
So, if you take all things into consideration, the best part of flying first class is not having to wait 45 minutes to go through the humiliation tunnel of the TSA. So I think that this program has just given you a free upgrade, and that is certainly worth a donation to the program.
There you go.
That's value for value right there.
There's no two ways about it.
It's a fact.
And we'll see if the show sucked or not.
Well, I don't know.
We need more help than we got in this show.
It was very light, very light.
Two new shows on NoAgendaStream.com tonight.
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That's 9.30...
What is it?
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Austin, Texas.
In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
And from northern Silicon Valley, where it's not only stopped raining, but it's nice and sunny.
I don't know.
I don't know what's going on.
I'm John C. Dvorak.
We'll be back Sunday right here on No Agenda.
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