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	Who is this idiot?
	Adam Couric.
	John C. Dvorak.
	It's Thursday, May 3rd, 2012.
	Time for your Gitmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 405.
	This is No Agenda.
	Proud to be your confidential human resource 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, we're third time's a charm.
	I'm John C. Devorak.
	And it's Craig Vaughn and Buzzkill.
	In the morning.
	Second time's often good, too.
	Well, I figured I'd have that in there just in case you blew it again.
	This is why people should listen live, because that's when you hear not only when we mess up, or when I, I'll say it, when I mess up the beginning of the show, but of course you also get to hear our beautiful and incredibly musical slide whistle concerto.
	The worst.
	I think we're getting better.
	Yeah, well, that's still...
	We can take that on the road, brother.
	We were great.
	It wouldn't make any difference.
	It's still a slide whistle.
	Just practice.
	How's the patent coming for the...
	What is it called?
	The Syntheslider.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, it's coming along.
	We're moving along at our normal pace.
	Someone registered the domain name but neglected to send us an email about it.
	He's probably sitting on it.
	He's probably like, yeah.
	It's like a patent troll.
	Screw those two guys.
	I hate that show.
	Yeah.
	Wait until they come out with their syntha slider.
	I'll screw them then.
	I have the domain name.
	Yeah.
	Well, I have to say, it's quite a lot of news going on.
	I mean, not on television, of course.
	Oh, by the way, television now officially for the first time in, what was it, two decades that less people watch television?
	Less hours per person, per family, per household?
	Yeah, I know.
	Well, that's been a trend.
	It's been trending that way.
	There's no reason for it to change.
	No, this is the first time Nielsen actually made a big deal about it.
	And it's like 45 minutes less per year or something.
	It's like 30 seconds a day less.
	CNN, however, is officially dead.
	They're gone.
	I mean, I can't even watch them anymore.
	Oh.
	It's what Mickey calls mom news, which I think is an insult to moms.
	But yeah, they have, on average, it's now like 100,000 people watching.
	What?
	Oh yeah, it's that bad.
	Sounds like tech TV. In the morning.
	Did tech TV ever get past 80?
	I'm not so sure.
	No, I don't think so.
	I think the typical listeners were about 40.
	But we were beyond the asterisk, so there was enough numbers that you could count them.
	Right, right, right.
	Well, beyond the asterisk, asterisk is minimum 10,000, I think.
	Yeah.
	I think that's what it is.
	Well, there are shows that are on cable that get an asterisk.
	Well, welcome to the Asterix Podcast, everybody.
	This is the No Agenda Show.
	Some call it the greatest podcast in the universe.
	I'm Adam Curry, and in the morning to you, John C. Dvorak.
	In the morning to you, and in the morning to all ships at sea and boots on the ground, and the feet washing ashore in the Vancouver coast.
	And let us remember our submariners, the ships under the sea, who are definitely tuned in and listening.
	Well, there's one guy.
	Well, we know of one.
	That's good.
	And, of course, our chat room.
	Everyone's charged up, ready to go.
	Nice to see you there.
	Noagendastream.com.
	Noagendachat.net.
	Speaking of boots on the ground and ships at sea and under the sea, I got an email from one of our listeners at Fort Stewart.
	Where our president was...
	Remember, he went on stage again and said, you've got to marry up.
	Marry up into the gene pool.
	Yeah, he says that all the time.
	In the morning, Adam and Joe...
	We brought that up on the...
	There was an interesting kind of anomaly.
	We brought this up on that Generation X3 show with the kids.
	Yeah, another Asterix program.
	Oh, definitely.
	I can't even say it.
	Asterisk.
	It's double platinum asterisk.
	It's a hard word, asterisk.
	Asterisk.
	Asterisk, yeah.
	It was interesting because...
	Dorian, the female member of the panel, she said that they have an anomaly.
	She says, what happens when you might want to marry up, but both parties in the relationship both think they're smarter than the other person.
	In other words, you could have both parties thinking the exact same thing.
	How could you marry up?
	Say you both thought the other person was smarter.
	And you wonder why this is an asterisk show.
	You had to see it.
	It was very funny.
	Yeah, it was great.
	Well, let me continue with my email from Fort Stewart.
	Men and women serving there.
	From your comment on the last show about, quote, there are no listeners at Fort Stewart during the conversation about Obama, I would like you to know there are quite a few here, military and civilian.
	Just wanted to add, in our battalion of about 1,500 soldiers, when our commander asked who wanted to go to President Obama's speech, we had an astounding two volunteers.
	So we were all forced to go because no one supported him.
	What?
	Yeah.
	So they had a battalion of 1500.
	The commander says, who wants to go to see the president?
	And two douchebags go, you know, like they pull the hand back down.
	I'm sorry.
	Well, that's a smart group of people because the old army rule is never volunteer for anything.
	Yeah.
	Oh, that's true.
	Who knows what you had to do after the guy?
	You don't know.
	So then they were forced.
	They were forced to go.
	Forced march.
	Yeah.
	Isn't that awesome?
	I love it when we get emails from our military.
	That's a Japanese guy.
	He didn't understand the question.
	No, no, the forced march.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	World War II reference.
	So, the campaign is in full force, man.
	This is really quite amazing.
	The only thing that's been on the so-called news, which we're here to deconstruct twice a week for you, about two and a half hours each time, is, of course, now that we celebrated the first anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden,
	Now, of course, it's perfect time to release the information, the treasure trove, the gold mine that we discovered in his compound in Abbottabad.
	Which, by the way, I'm quite pleased to hear that we are pronouncing it correctly.
	There was one guy, there was a discussion on, I think it was Face the Nation or something, and who's the old guy, Bob something or other, Bob Vila?
	Schieffer.
	Was it Schieffer?
	Bob Schieffer.
	And he's going, Abadabad, everyone's going, Abadabad.
	And one guy says, well, I was actually in Abbottabad.
	I'm like, yeah, I bet you were, because you pronounced it correctly, Abbottabad.
	Yeah, you think that these guys, you know, they have all these books, you know, the network guys are supposed to pronounce everything correctly, unlike us.
	Yeah.
	You know, we're just podcasters.
	Yeah, asterisk podcasters.
	They never do.
	Don't they ever go to the gazetteer?
	There's an NBC book on the topic that shows all the pronunciations, a very collectible book, a giant book of how to pronounce things.
	I don't know.
	Of course they don't.
	Of course they don't.
	Well, I've got a couple of clips about this.
	Okay, well then, I have one.
	Actually, I have two of Erin Burnett, but she's not even worth it.
	I thought you said CNN was dead and you're still...
	I didn't watch it.
	Someone sent it to me.
	But I have an ABC clip.
	But let's do your clips first because I'm going to win the coveted Clip of the Day award with my clip.
	Early in the show, right off the bat.
	If you are so confident that you will, then you probably will because I don't believe I have a clip of the day competitor.
	I just have some interesting clips.
	Why did you show up to the meeting then?
	So here we go.
	So let's start with...
	So I was getting the clips from...
	C-SPAN? No, from NBC, which is going to have a slant because NBC is just a promotion company for Obama.
	Right.
	But there's the little things that slip.
	And Hillary is one of the people that, you know, she's so free, you know, in the way she yaks about things.
	I thought there was a little anecdote here by Hillary that drew it in a piece of information I was unfamiliar with.
	Operations command outlined a possible raid on the suspected bin Laden compound.
	I had 100% faith in the Navy SEALs themselves.
	Bill McRaven, the head of Special Forces, had worked with us for months to think through every possible scenario.
	He's a guy who inspires a lot of confidence, and he's a no-nonsense guy.
	I remember the moment in the sit room, you know, someone said, well, you know, this sounds really dangerous that we're going to expose our guys and what do we know is going to happen?
	And he said, well, with all due respect, we've done this hundreds of times.
	Really?
	Hundreds of compounds, huh?
	Or hundreds of Bin Ladens.
	Which one is it?
	I have no idea.
	It was never explained.
	Hundreds of times of what?
	You know, I was reading the White House Insider over there on the Ulsterman blog.
	And this is an old report.
	It was maybe six months ago or so.
	And he says...
	And this is before all of this, again, six months ago.
	He says it's absolutely not true that Panetta had already signed the order that he and Hillary Clinton and Robert Gates were all on board.
	We want to do this.
	We're going to go in.
	And Valerie Jarrett, according to the insider, refused to let President Obama say, go ahead and do it.
	And it got so bad that Bill Daley...
	Remember the Daily of the Daily Crime Family, Chicago Crime Family, that he had a one-on-one chat with Valerie Jarrett, and only then did the president say, okay, I'll give the 48-hour, and then they actually pulled him off the golf course to come in to the sit room.
	It's completely the opposite, and it was Robert Gates who said, look, if you're not going to do this, I'm going to resign early, and he kind of followed through on that.
	And Hillary Clinton apparently said she was going to start leaking information that the president couldn't make a decision.
	That's from the insider.
	That's pretty funny.
	Now, the way they explained on this, this was a whole show, essentially, about this celebration.
	And I did one more clip.
	Celebration!
	Hold on a second.
	Let's celebrate!
	Woo!
	Woo!
	You didn't celebrate with me.
	Oh, brother.
	So anyway, Mike Mullen was the one who apparently was the real let's do it this way, according to this show.
	They also said that Hillary was wishy-washy.
	The Gates wanted to just drone the place.
	I'm all for that.
	Yeah, why are we, what's the point?
	Let's just drone it.
	So they wanted to blow it up, but then you couldn't figure it was the guy, you know, who it was that you killed, they say.
	Right.
	And then, uh, and then it was, he had to wait, he had to go, he, Obama had to sleep on it, and then he came, and it was the next day that he decided to do it.
	He had to sleep on it.
	Supposedly the way it went.
	Well, let me sleep on it.
	But Mike Mullen, who is the Navy guy that was the Chief of Staff, has been replaced by an Army guy.
	And I like Mullen.
	I think he seems like a straight shooter.
	He does have a little commentary here that was on the show that kind of discusses the whole thing.
	The planning picked up speed, and by April 21st of last year, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the time, Admiral Mike Mullen, attended a dress rehearsal with a team of Navy SEALs at a mock compound they'd set up in the Nevada desert.
	I met that night every single member.
	The night of the rehearsal, every single member that was on that mission.
	I got to look each of them in the eye.
	They showed me in their execution of rehearsal and also in that steely-eyed glare that they give you that they were ready to go.
	Did they suspect anything when the chairman of the Joint Chiefs came to watch them practice and drill?
	I never asked that question.
	I certainly suspect that they did.
	When did they learn exactly what their mission was and who their target was?
	Actually, you'd have to ask Bill McRaven that.
	But they're not idiots.
	I mean, they knew certainly how critical this was.
	They knew who they were and who they were working with.
	Uncle Don really likes Mike Mullen.
	He seems like a really nice guy.
	Yeah, like the kind of guy you want to have a beer with.
	Yeah, and then you wouldn't mind working with in some way, shape, or form.
	This other guy, Bill McRaven, who I didn't recall him interviewing on the show, is the guy who was behind the whole thing.
	And he's recently become a four-star admiral.
	He is the head, he's not only the head of special operations, and he's a Navy guy, which is weird.
	I think he's stationed at an Air Force base, so this is fishy.
	But he's a Navy guy, and he wrote the book on special operations, literally.
	You can look him up on Amazon and there's a book called Spec Ops and he has got the whole thing for anybody who wants to know how it works.
	He's got the whole thing outlined.
	He's like one of those writer general types.
	Does it include crashing the helicopter into the fence?
	Is that part of the operation?
	I think the book was written before this.
	Before helicopters.
	Yeah.
	Alright, are you ready for my clip?
	Because I have no clip.
	Okay, here we go.
	I'm ready.
	Let me sit down.
	Okay, it's a long clip and we'll have to stop it because there's so much in it.
	It's so funny.
	This is the completely compromised...
	I'm doing some stretching.
	I'm doing some stretching.
	This is the compromised ABC News.
	I need to remind everybody of that because, yeah, NBC is a rah-rah outfit for the administration, but ABC is compromised.
	The president of news, his sister, is special advisor to the president.
	Can't say it enough.
	And Diane Sawyer is toasted, as usual.
	She's hot, though, when she's toasted.
	I like her when she's kind of like this.
	She's kind of like, ah.
	And, you know, so what can we do now that we have this treasure trove?
	We've got to bring that out to the front.
	And let's just rerun the script.
	Was it a year ago that they brought out the bombs in breast implants?
	Was that a year ago that they tried that and everyone just laughed at them and nothing happened?
	I don't remember the timeline on that, but it was a while back.
	It was a while back.
	Okay.
	So let's go through this report.
	Our top correspondents, Diane Shire, and whoever that other dude is, went out and just got all the info, but couldn't report on everything, of course, for national security.
	Let's listen in.
	Good evening.
	As we come on the air, ABC News has learned that U.S. authorities are studying a new terror threat tonight.
	Members of Al-Qaeda using body bombs.
	Body bombs!
	Oh boy!
	Explosives that have been surgically implanted in their bodies to evade security.
	Tomorrow, it will be the one-year anniversary of Osama bin Laden's death, making this week a time of heightened concern on the ground and in the sky.
	And ABC's chief investigative correspondent, Brian Ross, is here with these new details.
	All right, Brian.
	Diane, well, tonight, American and European authorities tell ABC News they fear al-Qaeda will use these so-called body bombs to target Americans overseas and U.S. flights coming in from overseas.
	All right, so notice that it's American and European authorities.
	No one mentioned by name, of course, because that's not how it works.
	It's just a PR stunt.
	As a result, security at several airports in the United Kingdom and elsewhere in Europe and the Middle East has been substantially stepped up with a focus on U.S. carriers.
	And additional federal air marshals have been shifted overseas in advance of this week's anniversary of the bin Laden raid.
	The plot is not so far-fetched.
	Don't you love it?
	The plot is not so far-fetched because you can imagine this could actually happen.
	Listen up.
	Open your mind to this.
	This is going to be good.
	There is plenty of room in the stomach area for surgically implanted explosives.
	Plenty of room in my...
	How's your stomach area, John?
	Do you have room for some C4? Yeah, I've got plenty of room here.
	Now, let's look at the chart.
	We're actually looking at a body, an anatomical picture of a body.
	The surgeon would open the abdominal cavity and literally implant the explosive device in and amongst the internal organs.
	Right in there.
	Right in between the intestines.
	Right in there.
	You see that spot?
	Right between all that poop there?
	Because, you know, when this thing goes off, it's going to make a big mess.
	Now, how can we tell if someone has had this surgically implanted in their stomach?
	The liver.
	For the last year, U.S. authorities have publicly warned that the Al-Qaeda affiliate in Yemen and its master bomb maker, Abraham Al-Asiri, have been designing body bombs with no metal parts to get past airport security.
	How do you think you set one of these off?
	Do you have to, like, hit your stomach really hard?
	Well, if there's no metal parts, I mean, your blasting cap is a metal part.
	Yeah.
	So how would you set it off without a blasting cap?
	This is not explained.
	I mean, as far as I know, most of these things that are high explosives need a blasting cap.
	Well, our international correspondent forgot to ask that question, but it doesn't matter because it gets better.
	We are treating the information seriously.
	Asiri actually put a bomb inside his own brother, who he's seen here hugging farewell for a suicide mission aimed at the Saudi Arabian intelligence chief three years ago.
	The Saudi officials survived, but Asiri's brother died in the attack.
	Was that ever really explained?
	Was that a body bomb?
	I thought it was in his turban.
	Well, I don't know now that you mention it.
	I recall that it was in his turban, and that it went off and it blew his head off, but it was in his turban, not a body bump.
	But he can change the story, for God's sake.
	Yeah, please.
	We're ABC News.
	I'm Diane Sawyer.
	In public, U.S. officials say there is no incredible information of an imminent attack.
	Wow, please, you didn't hear that.
	But today, White House counterterrorism official John Brennan called the Al-Qaeda group in Yemen the greatest threat to the U.S. And it continues to seek the opportunity to strike our homeland.
	Brennan also revealed for the first time some of the details of Osama bin Laden's seemingly despondent writings discovered in his compound after the raid.
	Brennan said bin Laden admitted al-Qaeda had lost its way, agreeing that a large portion of Muslims around the world have lost their trust in al-Qaeda.
	Confessing to disaster after disaster in al-Qaeda plots, Brennan said that bin Laden urged his followers to flee the places away from aircraft photography and bombardment.
	As to this current threat, U.S. authorities say they have made adjustments in security screening to make it easier to spot.
	Now how do we spot people who have body bombs, John?
	Just as a question, what would you think?
	Well, I think we have to, first off, you check them for hemorrhoids.
	Okay.
	That's a good one.
	Well, you make them strip and see if they're lumpy.
	Okay.
	The body bombs.
	But how can they do it?
	You said there's no metal involved.
	No metal, but they have turned up some of the radiation that goes into the body.
	Oh, we've turned up the radiation that goes into the body.
	Radiation?
	Where they put a nuke inside the guy?
	We've turned up the radiation.
	Put an A-bomb inside of him.
	That'll do some damage, by the way.
	No, listen.
	He's talking about the body scanner.
	We've turned up the radiation.
	Oh, my goodness.
	How can ABC News...
	Here's your dance clip of the day.
	You're right.
	Oh, let me finish it before we get to the full-on award ceremony.
	He actually says, oh, we just turned up the radiation.
	Wait a minute.
	The TSA told me when I went through recently, you know this is not radiation.
	Now it's radiation.
	What is it, ABC News?
	Just turned up the radiation.
	Just radiate the slaves.
	As well as looking for people who might have had recent operations.
	Might be walking funny.
	Walking funny.
	Ministry of funny walks.
	I'm walking funny.
	Hey, hey, hey, you're walking funny.
	Hey, Mickey, you're screwed.
	and you're walking funny.
	This is unbelievable.
	It gets even better.
	Or might have surgical scars.
	That's one way to...
	Because it has to have been done fairly recently.
	The explosives cannot stay in the body long, so it would be a more recent operation to insert it.
	And I know, Brian, you were asked not to report some critical details, and you have not.
	We have not.
	There's some that we've left out.
	For national security.
	For national security, yes, of course.
	Some details.
	Like, it's a lie.
	Is that the detail you left out?
	What is this deal about the explosives can't stay in the body for long?
	Why?
	Who says?
	Why?
	Was that explained?
	Or is that just one of those details?
	Maybe it could be in there for a year so the scar heals completely.
	I don't know, man.
	It's like this ABC News.
	There's a bunch of people roaming around waiting for the scars to heal so they can walk through without being caught.
	Let me give myself my award first here for a second.
	They said they were going to crank up the radiation.
	So anyway, so...
	Sub-clip that.
	You've got to pull that little sub-clip out of the clip.
	I will, I will.
	So I heard Brennan talking, and this was really interesting.
	I'm like, hey, wait a minute, Brennan, and Brennan, of course, is President Obama's advisor on...
	I have his exact title.
	Brennan is an interesting dude.
	He's the chief counter-terrorism advisor.
	Correct.
	And after he left the Bush White House, he became CEO of the Analysis Corporation, which has been rebranded to Soterra Defense.
	That's one of those little groups, one of those little Rubicon operations.
	You want to be in that group for sure.
	So I'm like, wow, he did a speech, and he did indeed.
	He did it at, where did he do this speech?
	The Wilson Woodrow Library, International Center for Scholars.
	And I'm like, okay.
	I tried to get a clip from that thing.
	I was watching that, and I didn't find it.
	The guy's boring.
	Did you see the slave that got ejected?
	I don't think you saw the whole thing.
	Is this the one with the woman?
	Yeah.
	He was a 16-year-old boy, and you killed him.
	That one?
	Yes.
	That slave that got ejected?
	Yeah, I love that.
	Yeah, I saw it.
	Do you think it was worthy of letting people listen?
	Because ABC News certainly didn't think it was worthy of playing anything.
	You know, I had to think.
	It's a long story why I don't have that clip.
	That doesn't matter.
	Here it is.
	...and is increasingly looking to attack Western interests in Nigeria, in addition to Nigerian government targets.
	More broadly, al-Qaeda's killing of innocents, mostly Muslim men, women, and children, has badly tarnished...
	And I want you to listen how, after she's ejected, how he just picks it right up and continues.
	...image and appeal in the eyes of Muslims around the world.
	Excuse me, will you speak out about the innocent by the United States?
	What about the hundreds of innocent people we are killing with our drone strikes in Pakistan and in Yemen and Somalia?
	I speak out on behalf of those innocent victims.
	They deserve an apology from you, Mr.
	Brennan.
	Ma'am.
	How many people are you willing to sacrifice?
	Why are you lying to the American people and not saying how many innocents have been killed?
	Thank you, ma'am, for expressing your views.
	There will be time for questions and answers after the presentation.
	Shut up, slave!
	...in Pakistan who is killed because he wanted to document the drone strikes.
	I speak out on behalf of Abdulrahman Al-Awlaki, 16-year-old born in Denver, killed in Yemen just because his father was someone we don't like.
	I speak out on behalf of the Constitution, on behalf of the rule of law.
	I love the rule of law.
	I love my country.
	You're making us less safe by killing so many innocent people around the world.
	Shame on you!
	And they close the door.
	And?
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	More broadly, al-Qaeda's killing of innocents, mostly men, women, and children, has bad...
	The guy is unbelievable!
	Thank you.
	And he just continues.
	He did actually explain...
	He could have said something like, well, that was unfortunate, or something light.
	No, no.
	He just keeps prattling on.
	Just rolled back the prompter.
	More broadly, he just starts over.
	Hey, Brennan, you're an a-hole, okay?
	That's just the plain, simple fact of the blather.
	But he did explain.
	I'm surprised you didn't like what he said, because he did kind of explain how it works and how they decide when to drone somebody, the so-called COC, the chain of command.
	I think it's worth listening to.
	I probably didn't get it, because I can't explain why.
	Something about this guy is just, I can't really...
	He's boring, but you've got to listen to him.
	Yeah, well, it's real difficult for me to listen to this guy.
	Well, try it this time.
	Well, I'm not going to go into sort of how many times, what proportion.
	This, by the way, was the question and answer session.
	Maybe you missed that.
	Did you see the question and answers?
	No, I was gone.
	Oh, okay.
	Here's the question.
	In instances, there have been sort of either approvals or declinations of these recommendations that come forward.
	But I can just tell you that...
	You need a recommendation to get droned, apparently.
	There have been...
	Numerous times where individuals that were put forward for consideration...
	I just spit my coffee.
	They were put forward for consideration.
	Really?
	For this type of action, it was declined.
	Oh, John, I'm so lucky.
	My consideration was declined for droning.
	You make reference to signature strikes that are frequently reported in the press.
	I was speaking here specifically about targeted strikes against individuals who are involved.
	Everything we do, though, that is carried out against al-Qaeda is carried out consistent with the rule of law, authorization of use of military force and domestic law.
	Hold on a second.
	Rule of law, authorization of military force, and domestic law.
	Just so you know, it's completely legal.
	And we do it with a similar rigor, and there are various ways that we can make sure that we are taking the actions that we need to.
	We need some analogies.
	Give me an analogy, Brennan.
	To prevent a terrorist attack.
	That's the whole purpose of whatever action we use, the tool we use.
	It's to prevent attack and to save lives.
	To save lives.
	We save lives by killing people.
	And so I spoke today for the first time openly about, again, what's commonly referred to in the press as drones, remotely piloted aircraft.
	Hey, let's say it properly from now on.
	Remotely piloted aircraft.
	RPAs.
	This is not drones, you stupid plebs.
	Don't use that word.
	That can give you that type of laser-like precision.
	Laser-like.
	That can excise that terrorist or that threat in a manner that, again with the medical metaphor, that will not damage the surrounding tissue.
	Oh, it doesn't damage the surrounding tissue.
	So what we're really trying to do, Al-Qaeda is a cancer throughout the world, It's a cancer!
	Metastasized.
	Metastasized cancer!
	In so many different places.
	And when that metastasized tumor becomes lethal and malignant, that's when we're going to take the action that we need to.
	It's surgical precision.
	Laser-like.
	Excise.
	Cut out the cancer.
	Even though it doesn't really exist anymore.
	Cut out the cancer.
	I apologize to the rest of the world.
	I'm with that lady who got picked up by the big police officer in a yellow uniform.
	Big fat guy.
	He literally picked her up and carried her out.
	Yeah, literally.
	I think it took a while for him to get a grip on her, though.
	I think he was letting her go blather for a while.
	I don't think so.
	In a real, you know, one of these situations with a guy like Brennan on the stage.
	They tase her.
	They should be instant three guys, boom, she's out.
	Yeah, she'd be just diving on her, tasing the crap out of her.
	Actually, yeah, you're right.
	Exactly.
	Dive on her, tase her, and pull her out of there before she can go on and on.
	We need to make a point about this.
	She's been out on for a long time.
	All right.
	You didn't see that on TV, did you?
	You used to see those things on TV. When something like that happened on the news, it would be like, wow, can you believe that someone did that?
	There was a thing that took place, and I think it actually stems from streakers.
	We need more streaking going on.
	There used to be streakers in this country.
	By the way, if you're a streaker, in other words, running around naked, you will be cited as a pervert and put on the sexual list.
	Yeah, the sexual offender list.
	Predator's list, whatever it is.
	Pedo bear list.
	So...
	At some point, I think it was during, I think it was also a decision made by the sports department of many of these networks that says, do not, if somebody streaks across, do not put the camera on them under any circumstances, because it was determined from high above that it just encourages other people to do it.
	Right.
	So during the early days of streaking in the 70s...
	Did you ever streak, John?
	No.
	Are you kidding me?
	Come on.
	Do I look like a streaker to you?
	Come on.
	I don't know.
	You might be concealing some Al-Qaeda bombs in your body.
	Yeah, you'd be dragging along the ground.
	We know where the fuse is, that's for sure.
	You notice he missed that.
	So, anyway.
	I heard it.
	The...
	So they would show it.
	They'd show the streaker.
	They'd do a little blotch out of the private parts, but they'd show the streaker running around the stadium in a football game or something.
	It was hilarious.
	And then somebody would grab him and they'd haul him up.
	So they stopped doing that.
	And I think it's been just generally just a policy by all these stations not to show anything that's off script like this protest because it will just encourage others.
	And what, of course, what it does is it puts a damper on everything because people say, well, I guess it's okay because nobody's protesting.
	Well, that's not entirely true because we recently had the guy, he was a techno expert, but on the good side, sysadmin, and he took all his clothes off at the TSA checkpoint.
	And they showed that everywhere.
	It's just like, oh, he got naked, crazy guy got naked.
	I think we need streaking to come back.
	Streaking would be a very, very good meme to bring back.
	I don't think it's ever really totally disappeared.
	I know it takes place in soccer games in Europe.
	No.
	Rarely.
	Rarely.
	It seems rarely because they don't promote it anymore.
	I'll never forget when I was seven or eight and I saw my first streaker on TV. And this was a guy who had a huge schlong and he was like waving it around and the cops didn't know what to do.
	He was like doing one of those hula hoop moves and was flapping up and down.
	And I was like, oh, that's awesome!
	This guy is cool!
	Ha ha ha!
	That needs to come back.
	And you've never been the same.
	Look at you now.
	This is true.
	This is true.
	All right, let's thank our producers for today's program.
	John, as we've already handed out a clip of the day, we've already given people some value for value.
	Show's over.
	Let's see if we can get something back here.
	You have a few generous producers, including...
	I guess this is Elon Shemes.
	Shemes, yeah.
	Shemes or Eon?
	I'm not sure.
	Ian.
	Ian Shemes.
	He's from Israel, right?
	He's Israeli.
	He says 12-12-12 is his birthday, so he gave us 12-12-12.
	He's the new knight.
	He's the number two on the list, I think, right?
	Number two or number three?
	Yeah, I think he's number two.
	No, we have Sir Gitmo Slave, we have, I forget who our second one is, and then we have Elyon Seamus.
	Cool!
	So, 12-12-12 is his birthday.
	Isn't that wild?
	Yeah.
	So, how can he resist?
	Thank you for the shows, and Adam, thank you for the DSC-864.
	Love you, man, no homo, which I guess is one of your memes or something.
	It's from a long time ago.
	Your Dutch knight living in Israel.
	There you go.
	And then we have Oslok Christensen.
	And he does have a note, which I have to go find.
	Oh, here it is.
	Greetings from Gitmo Nation, Oil and Fish.
	He's a Norwegian.
	Just sent some cash and a dedouching.
	He needs a dedouching and he also needs a karma, he says, and a P.S. He needs a dedouching and a karma.
	But he'd like to call out his friend Geer Helge Akko.
	Axlen, A-K-S-L-E-N, as a douchebag.
	Douchebag!
	He says he loves the show.
	Keep up the fantastic work.
	And he says, I have to pronounce his name.
	So I guess he expects me to pronounce Osloch incorrectly, but as he's noticing, I'm pronouncing it correctly.
	And he's a new knight.
	He came in with a nice round number.
	Awesome.
	Oh, my God.
	I feel great.
	Now let me deduce him here.
	You've been deduced.
	You've got karma.
	Awesome, Osloch.
	Thank you so much.
	Sir Dwayne Melanson from Tigard, Oregon.
	I love pronouncing it Tigard.
	44444.
	Sir Dwayne here from Get Monace and Tigger.
	It's funny.
	Early bird on the 444 Club.
	This is 333 plus 111.
	Love those numbers.
	I also like to do a 420, but my recent big check to the IRS makes that a no-no.
	I'd love some karma and a Dutch in the morning.
	I love the Norway manifesto breakdown that Adam did.
	It was very good.
	Yes, indeed.
	We don't have a Dutch in the morning.
	I'll have to do it live.
	You can just say it yourself.
	Yeah.
	In the ochtend!
	You've got karma.
	Love the harmony.
	Yeah, it was great.
	Anthony Montgomery, Westfield, Indiana, 303.
	It would be...
	We'll make him an executive producer for today's show.
	I challenge others considering a knighthood to do it before 12-12-12.
	Here's my first installment of 303-03 towards 12-12-12-12, which I intended to complete for 12-12-12.
	That's a way to do it.
	Do four equal payments?
	That's cool.
	That's good.
	Yeah, I should put it on the option list on the website, dvorak.org slash NA. Does the numerology merit extra karma?
	It certainly does.
	You've got karma.
	My associate executive producer is Aaron Magoffin, one of the two, Woodstock, Ontario, 29197.
	Fellas, I prefer to say that donating is lusting.
	And I've been humping your awesome show for far too long without a proper whore's remuneration.
	Ha ha ha!
	Let it be said that I require no karma because I've been skimming it from everyone else since it started.
	After all, no agenda is entirely open source.
	And instead, Adam, you can play the It's the Sunday Morning Service gospel jingle because I wrote it and sang all the parts and almost blew a nut singing John C. Dvorak.
	I accidentally played it at a church website meeting.
	Boy, was my face red.
	But I'm certain that Taylor Swift could not do a better job.
	Wow, that's so nice to hear from him.
	Yeah, let me play that for you right now.
	My children, it's a Sunday morning service.
	Tell us to know what gender.
	Give us a man of courage.
	We're going to get a little job.
	Job.
	To the floor.
	Lord, help us out.
	So he played that in church by accident?
	Whoops.
	Whoops.
	What the hell?
	What is this?
	Thank you, Aaron.
	That's nice.
	Executive producers, associate executive producer.
	I want to thank them for supporting this show, which is show number, I just closed the spreadsheet.
	405.
	405.
	And remind everyone to go to dvorak.org slash nachanneldvorak.com slash nanoagendashow.com where you can also listen to the show and noagendanation.com.
	Where you can also buy a coin or a mug.
	By the way, the mug, I think the mugs, which are not going to be done again, by the way, they're all...
	Oh, they're out, is it?
	No, because apparently the government, it's a long story, but Eric got harassed, essentially, by bringing these mugs in.
	From where?
	China.
	Really?
	Is it like an embargo on mugs?
	Yeah, no, it was just a nightmare.
	No, wait a minute.
	You're telling me there's a mug embargo?
	No, he was targeted for some reason.
	Yeah, gee, what could that be?
	I wonder.
	What could it be?
	What could it be?
	I'm looking to see if there's an embargo on Cuban mugs.
	Oh, I'm sure.
	I've been wanting to get some Cuban mugs.
	They're made out of cigars, you know that?
	The mug maker.
	Here we go.
	Embargo.
	No, only on Cuban mugs.
	Interesting.
	I'd love to hear the story one day.
	That sounds fascinating.
	No PR mentions, but that's okay.
	We do appreciate our brand new nights.
	Executive producers, very, very kind of you to support the program, support the work, of course.
	You see how it goes, right?
	And luckily there's two of us.
	You know, John didn't make it.
	He fell down after watching half of the John Brennan speech.
	And, you know, I in my youth was able to stick with it and got a second clip.
	Yeah, but we're both watching, and we're doing it so you don't have to.
	Of course, you can always go out and you can propagate the formula, which goes something like this.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Come on, everybody!
	Shut up, snail!
	Right on.
	Nah, it's good.
	I love it when people really help us out.
	And we will be thanking more of our producers later on in the program.
	Oh, that's what I forgot.
	Darn it.
	I knew I had that clip somewhere.
	I was one of these guys...
	It was a Navy guy, I think, and he talked like that.
	I think it was J.C. walking by and said, holy crap, what is wrong with this guy?
	Sometimes Obama also talks like that.
	Have you noticed?
	No, I haven't noticed.
	When people do that, it's highly annoying.
	You almost want to say, hey, dude, stop it.
	All right, other big news this week, John.
	Wow, I mean, the media is just really, really, really on message.
	On message, I tell you, because not only do we need to make you very, very afraid of body bombs so we can turn up the radiation.
	But we also have to curtail your First Amendment rights and get ready to clamp down on speech so you can't say something ugly to anybody else, because that would be illegal.
	We already have all these bullying laws, and let me tell you, this is not just something that happens with humans, my friends.
	This happens in nature, and it's bad.
	We have to stop the bullying!
	On that wayward dolphin, stranded in shallow water outside Los Angeles, rescuers are now speculating the mammal may be a victim of bullying.
	And is afraid to swim to freedom.
	ABC's David Wright has that story.
	Gee, ABC again, huh?
	For nearly a week, this wayward dolphin, nicknamed Freddy, has kept to the shallow waters of a wetlands reserve in Orange County.
	Peter Wallerstein and five California Fish and Game officers got out their paddle boards and tried to shoo him into the open ocean, but something unusual happened.
	Four other dolphins appeared to be waiting to gang up on Freddy.
	He turned tail and ran right back to the shallows.
	For some reason there's tension amongst the dolphins.
	He's gay, that's why!
	Was it bullying?
	We don't know, but it was some kind of discipline.
	Did he seem scared?
	He seemed very scared.
	And I've been doing rescues for...
	What does a dolphin who's scared look like?
	Does he have a grimace?
	Is he shivering?
	How do you know if a dolphin is scared?
	This report, by the way, is outstanding the way they package this.
	Keep listening.
	27 years in Southern California and I haven't seen anything like this.
	Strange behavior for creatures we think of as smart, playful, and good-natured.
	Will Flipper ever bully another dolphin?
	He's as happy as we are.
	This is mind control, people.
	This is total mind control.
	This is incredible.
	This is the clip of the day.
	No, we can't do two.
	Can we do two clips of the day, really?
	We've done two before.
	Clip of the day.
	Ladies and gentlemen, Adam Curry is on a roll.
	That's right, everybody.
	It's the clip of the day.
	How you doing?
	Dolphin's being bullied.
	He looks so frightened.
	If you can tell if he looks frightened, then you can also tell if he's gay or not.
	And there's four dolphins ready to beat him up.
	They're like harassing him.
	How's a dolphin beat up another dolphin?
	I guess they poke him.
	I've swam with dolphins.
	Have you ever done that?
	That's pretty cool.
	No.
	Oh, man.
	Did I ever tell you this story?
	No, I'm not interested.
	It involves penis.
	I'm even less interested now.
	Okay.
	I won't tell my dolphin story then.
	It's a good story.
	If somebody wants to contribute to the show and demands you to tell it, then maybe we'll do something.
	I'm against it.
	You're against the dolphin and penis story?
	I want to hear the rest of this segment.
	Are you done?
	Yeah, pretty much.
	I think this is ludicrous.
	These news people, I mean, this is, and they make like millions of dollars, some of these anchors on these.
	Diane Sawyer makes millions of dollars, and she's drunk.
	She's awesome.
	I mean, you know, we need to, and you know what now, Ryan Seacrest, as predicted.
	Ryan Seacrest is making, you know what he makes now?
	Oh, let me guess.
	Just salaries without his production company?
	Eight million.
	He makes 50 million dollars.
	Yeah, but that's with the Cardushians.
	Yeah, well, yeah.
	And power to him, but this guy is going to be on the Today Show.
	He's going to be the special correspondent.
	Oh, man, I hope they blow something up at the Olympics because he's doing that.
	I hope they blow him up.
	Oh, we're so sorry.
	We blew up Ryan Seacrest.
	Oh, here's some of his hair.
	I have respect for him, though.
	I have nothing against him, personally.
	It's just like, this guy is now going to bring us the news?
	Yeah, it's ludicrous.
	Please.
	Please.
	So I have an interesting...
	It depends unless you want to stick with the bullying topic.
	No, I'm okay.
	I just wanted to point out that bullying laws are being put in place and they take away your right to say to someone, you suck.
	Did you just drop your bottle of scotch?
	I was banging a...
	It's your bottle of scotch.
	Are you vying for that Diane Sawyer job already?
	Yeah, I am.
	I just can't drink enough.
	So the new chief of staff is this guy, Martin Dempsey.
	Obama's chief of staff?
	The joint chief of staff.
	Oh, right, right, right.
	Well, I think he's not quite as just...
	He seems...
	He's always telling jokes.
	He comes out when he gives a speech.
	He tells lame jokes.
	He's Irish, obviously.
	He looks Irish, and he looks like he probably can drink with the best of them.
	But he seems like a pretty good guy, too, like Mullen.
	But he's a little less circumspect.
	So when he does his, he does a lot of talks and he's on, he seems to be more of a media whore than Mullen ever was.
	And he tells these stories that are like my favorite.
	And so he was talking about the Iraq war and he was just kind of briefing some group about one thing or another.
	And I got this clip out of this.
	It was a How Dumb Were We is the name of this clip.
	Where he explains what we were doing when we were Iraqi.
	He says that it's taken us like 10 years to even figure out anything, apparently.
	And you play this and you'll see what I'm talking about.
	So I was training this group of, let's call them National Guardsmen, really, is what they were.
	I mean, that's what we call them now that I remember, the Iraqi National Guard.
	I was training them to actually operate in a counterinsurgency environment against an enemy that was very well armed, by the way, even by then.
	By October of 2003, the enemy began to manifest itself, the insurgency.
	And they were good.
	I mean, they were armed and equipped and organized.
	But the police that we were building were being trained in investigations and in traffic tickets, traffic circles.
	I'm not making that up.
	And I'm not denigrating it.
	It was an instinct.
	We were mirror imaging our own experience.
	And the police were getting clobbered.
	I mean, their police stations were being run over.
	They were being killed by the dozens.
	And so it took us a bit of time to come together, Department of State, Department of Defense, and decide how we would work collaboratively on building up both the Army and the police.
	And we conceded that for a time these police are going to have to have capability that you wouldn't have to have while you're sitting here in Washington, D.C. So I'm thinking, as I'm listening to this, he had a very long talk, that you remember when we waltzed into Iraq, they thought they were going to be throwing roses at us, and all it was was essentially we're going to take over the place for a while and then just put our institutions in as if.
	Yeah.
	Rumsfeld's naivete and the whole Bush group's naivete about this I think was pretty much summarized there by Mullen talking about they're teaching the cops how to give traffic tickets because that's what we do.
	This is where I'd like to tell my story again about my visit to Iraq in 2003 when I was with the Dutch Marines at Camp Smitty.
	We were broadcasting live for a week, so we were there for about 10 days.
	And every day they would take us out to a different place or a different town or to see something.
	It was like a little sightseeing.
	It was like a little touristic journey with flak jackets and helmets on.
	And they took us to one of these training camps where they were training the Iraqi guard, as he called it.
	We used to call it the National Guard and we don't call it that anymore.
	And I think somewhere there's video of it.
	In fact, I'm sure there is.
	I'd have to call someone to dig it up.
	Have you ever seen the program, the British television show from the 60s called Dad's Army?
	No.
	Okay, so you have to YouTube that.
	You have to see Dad's Army.
	This is like a bunch of...
	It's almost like Hogan's Heroes with Colonel Schultz.
	Sergeant Schultz and Colonel Klink, right?
	So Schultz, he was basically a dumb, fat German.
	So these guys, they line up, and they're giving...
	They have a drill instructor, and the drill instructor says, About face!
	And I swear to God, John, half the guys turn right, the other half turns left.
	It was the funniest, funniest thing I'd ever seen.
	Like, these guys, they can't do shit!
	They can't...
	They couldn't do anything!
	With unloaded AK-47s.
	Just wouldn't, like, it wouldn't mock rifles.
	Because, you know, God forbid that someone would get an ID and start shooting up the place.
	It was ridiculous.
	It was a total scam.
	And we were literally, like, looking at each other like, what the hell is that?
	Am I on a face?
	I gotta put a clip, a YouTube clip of Dad's Army and you'll know exactly what I'm talking about.
	It was just like that.
	And we were just like, whoa, okay.
	Anyway, just wanted to give that little anecdote.
	Yeah, no, you know, they've shown these occasionally on some of these news shows that will show some of this stuff where these guys are, they can't hold the gun, they drop the guns.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.
	You know, they fire the gun and then they drop it out of fear, you know, kind of thing.
	Whoa!
	That was an explosion!
	Something's wrong with this gun.
	What a scam.
	It would be really funny if we didn't kill 100,000 people or more.
	It would be hilarious.
	We're essentially a bankrupt country now.
	Play the Iraq War How Dumb Part 2 and we'll see what he says there.
	Over time, this whole of government collaboration began to bear fruit.
	But to your other point about the complexity of this, you know, issues of rule of law, and I'll add corruption, are extraordinarily difficult to overcome because it's very difficult for us to even see it and then, let alone having seen it, address it.
	And as you know, just two years ago, we had to stand up an anti-corruption task force in Afghanistan because we realized that the very mission was being placed at risk because of corruption.
	So I wouldn't suggest to you that we have turned the corner on fully understanding...
	First of all, how to address that as a whole of government.
	Secondly, what the military's role is.
	But I will say we've come a long way since 2003.
	And I think that as we go forward as a learning organization, we have to keep plugging away at it.
	By the way, the end of this story is we're closer as an interagency, as various agencies.
	We are a network.
	We are a network.
	But what we're all challenging ourselves now is how much better do we need to be to confront the challenges that are coming.
	We know how to confront the ones we just passed by.
	You don't need that, man.
	Just get some drones.
	It's like 10 years.
	10 years.
	Ten years since 2003 that he's talking about.
	I mean, what?
	These guys are just breaking the bank.
	And they're, well, you know, we didn't know anything about the corruption.
	Look, it took us ten years to figure that out.
	Well, now we figured that out because they're not in the milieu, obviously.
	They're in the green zone in Iraq, for example, or whatever.
	They're just not out there.
	They don't know what they're doing.
	Essentially, they're just admitted incompetence.
	And we suck.
	And we know it.
	Yeah, we suck, but we're learning.
	Yeah, we're getting there.
	We're learning some stuff.
	It's good.
	Yeah, it took us a while, you know, but we're learning.
	We're better than we were.
	Yeah, it's only 10 years.
	What's your problem, slave?
	Shut up and pay me.
	So we missed something, John.
	Oh, we miss something all the time.
	Yeah, but luckily I picked up on it because, again, this is from C-SPAM. Is it a meme we missed?
	No, it's a huge, huge policy document.
	Oh.
	Yeah, which I took the liberty of reading through for us, and I was quite surprised by this.
	And this coincidentally happened April 17th.
	Which was just about the time I think the President, the Secret Service scandal was taking place.
	And to revisit that for people, our assertion is that the Secret Service scandal was a cover-up, a cover if you will, so that the United States would not have to talk about drug policy with the Colombians and the Brazilians and the Guatemalans who basically want to make it Not only completely legal to draw down drug trafficking, which is proven to work in countries like Portugal, but also to take a fee on anything that they find.
	They wanted their money.
	They wanted their money back because this stuff was confiscated.
	But, of course, we know that the illicit drug trade is what's keeping the United States economy afloat, and the primary mission of the Secret Service is to protect the integrity of the American financial system.
	You may not believe that, but if you go to their website, it says it right there.
	It's their number one mission.
	Number two is to protect the president and the vice president and anyone else they deem necessary.
	But our drug czar outlined our new drug strategy.
	And I did not know we had one.
	A drug strategy?
	Well, we have a new one which was officially released.
	It's the National Drug Control Strategy for 2012.
	It was officially released the very same time that this was taking place.
	Basically, this should have been discussed at the summit.
	Yeah, you're right.
	But it didn't get discussed.
	So I'm watching C-SPAN. I'm like, drugs aren't okay.
	And then I'm like, hey, hold on a second.
	Let me characterize those views for you.
	On the one side, we have a very vocal, organized, well-funded advocates who insist that drug legalization is a silver bullet for addressing our nation's drug problem.
	Then we have the other side.
	On the other side of the debate are those who insist that a law enforcement-only war on drugs approach, the one that was just mentioned, is the way to create a drug-free society.
	You know, if only we could spend more money on prisons and enforcement and increase arrests and the seizures of drugs, that logic goes, the drug problem will at some point just go away.
	Well, the Obama administration strongly believes that neither of these approaches is humane, they're not compassionate, not realistic.
	Probably most importantly, they are not grounded in science.
	The approaches also do not acknowledge the complexity of our nation's drug problem or reflect what science has shown us over the past two decades.
	Whenever you can put the answer to a complex problem on a bumper sticker, you probably don't have much of an answer.
	That's why two weeks ago we released the National Drug Control Policy, and it pursues a third way for our nation to approach drug control.
	This is a 21st century approach to drug policy.
	It's progressive, it's innovative, it's evidence-based, and it represents what we believe is a way ahead for drug policy.
	So you can imagine, my head swiveled around, there's a third way.
	John, we've only been discussing the two ways, and now there's a third way, which is the 21st century solution to the problem.
	And after this invigorating speech from this very motivated speaker, I'm sure you're dying to hear what that third way is.
	Well, I'm sure you looked it up.
	Yes, I did.
	And it's, well, it's only a couple hundred pages.
	So that was Director Kerlikowski.
	How do you spell his name?
	Kilo, Echo, Romeo, Lima, India, Kilo, Oscar, Whiskey, Sierra, Kilo, Echo, Kerlikowski.
	So this is the National Drug Control Strategy known as the NDCS 2012.
	And I just want to outline first the strategy.
	Reflects new developments in our efforts to reduce drug use and its consequences, but our goal remains the same.
	That goal is very lofty, John.
	A 15% reduction in rate of drug abuse.
	Wow.
	That's, wow, you guys are setting the bar really high.
	15%.
	So already I'm intrigued.
	So here is the detail of the goals.
	Decrease the 30-day prevalence of drug abuse among 12 to 17-year-olds by 15%.
	Decrease the lifetime prevalence of 8th graders who have used drugs, alcohol, or tobacco by 15%.
	Decrease the 30-day prevalence of drug abuse among young adults by only 10%.
	Because we've got to keep the money moving.
	We can't decrease too much.
	By the way, to interrupt for a second, I looked this guy up on the Book of Knowledge, and he's a blockhead.
	Yeah, he is.
	He is a blockhead.
	Good point.
	Reduce the number of chronic drug users by 15%.
	And then we want to improve the public health and public safety of the American people by reducing the consequences of drug abuse.
	This is important because we're sending a lot of people to jail.
	Reduce drug-induced deaths by 15%, reduce drug-related morbidity by 15%, and reduce the prevalence of drugged driving by only 10%.
	We've got to keep people drugged and driving.
	You know what, not to interrupt again, but you know what one of his jobs was in the 70s?
	His responsibility was saluting President Richard Nixon as he boarded the presidential helicopter.
	That was his job?
	That was his...
	That's his guy, and he was awarded the presidential service badge.
	That's correct.
	Yeah, actually, I did have that.
	I did have that information.
	Yeah.
	I know.
	Go on, go on.
	He was like a greeter.
	He's like a greeter.
	Welcome to Walmart.
	That's what he'll be doing.
	Like Telly Savalas used to be at Bally's.
	So what surprised me...
	Oh, no, I'm sorry.
	It didn't surprise me.
	So they're going to reduce this by 10%, 10%, 15%.
	We've got to make the money back somewhere.
	Guess where we're going to do that?
	We're going to do it in healthcare.
	It all comes together and all starts to make sense through the SBIRT program, the SBIRT, which stands for Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment.
	How does this work?
	Screening for illicit drug use and use of prescription drugs enables physicians to guard against possible drug interactions and start a conversation about the negative effects of illicit drug use on health.
	Computer SBIRT holds promise for decreasing several types of illicit drug use in hospitalized women after childbirth.
	Providing S-Burden health systems, that means insurance companies and the whole healthcare system, including primary care, hospitals, and urgent care settings, and ensuring these systems include specialty treatment or referral to treatment brings medical care for substance use disorders into broader health systems as envisioned in the Affordable Care Act.
	So what's going to happen here?
	You're going to be involuntarily screened for drugs, and they even put it in here, they're making up codes.
	Here it is.
	SAMHSA, or whatever that is, has partnered with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to develop and disseminate the codes available for billing SBIRT services to Medicaid.
	So it's in the system.
	So you're going to be screened and tested.
	You'll get an early intervention.
	And that is all going to be paid for, of course, by insurance, which means that it's all going to come out of our premiums, I guess.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, just another way to gouge the public.
	By requiring that insurers offer coverage for substance abuse issues.
	substance use disorder treatment services, the Affordable Care Act, which is known as Obamacare in the public mouth, will expand access to substance use disorder treatment and help establish it as a part of mainstream health care systems. will expand access to substance use disorder treatment and help When the Affordable Care Act is fully implemented in 2014, millions more Americans will have coverage.
	It will therefore be necessary to expand and further train the specialty and primary care workforces.
	John, this is going to be a bonanza.
	Because, of course, everybody's high.
	We all know that.
	Now, there's some statistics here which I thought were interesting under Chapter 4, Break the Cycle of Drug Use.
	Annual state corrections spending has increased to more than $50 billion in 2010.
	I like the way they make it a disorder.
	Of course, it's a disorder.
	In 2010, over 7 million people in the United States were under the supervision of the criminal justice system, over 2 million incarcerated and the remaining 5 million on probation or parole.
	I mean, you're talking about some big numbers here.
	And then we have...
	And I hadn't heard about this, and this is the thing that really blew me away.
	There's just a line I picked up.
	With the enactment and retroactive application of the Fair Sentencing Act, the disparity in sentencing between offenses for crack cocaine and powder cocaine has been drastically reduced.
	I'm like, well, what is this all about?
	Now, the Fair Sentencing Act, which we missed, quite honestly, was signed into law by President Obama in 2010.
	Yeah, we didn't completely miss it.
	I was aware of it.
	This law was passed for the purposes of normalizing sentencing between blacks and whites.
	Right, but what it does is there was a 100 to 10 sentencing disparity.
	In other words, if you had 5 grams of crack...
	You faced a 10-year mandatory minimum for carrying...
	You faced 10 years for 5 grams of crack.
	So what they've done now is they've moved that up so they haven't reduced cocaine.
	Cocaine is you have to have 500 grams before you get your 5-year mandatory.
	Because, of course, rich people...
	500?
	Yeah.
	500 grams?
	Yes, of powder cocaine faces five-year mandatory minimum.
	That's a quarter pound then, right?
	Yes, that's a lot of blow.
	Good thing, because it's like a Scarface.
	But think about it.
	This is for rich people.
	The rich people who can afford that, I have no idea what it costs, but it seems like that would be a tidy sum.
	For 500, if you get nailed with 500 grams, and of course every congressman has 500 grams in his office.
	But for black people, as you point out, the way it's literally written in this, they changed it from five grams of crack, which, of course, even Whitney Houston said, crack is whack, we don't do crack, which is obviously a little bit of rock cocaine boiled down in some horrible chemicals.
	They've raised that so you can now have 28 grams of crack before you get hit with a five-year mandatory sentence.
	This is great!
	The message is, smoke more crack!
	Am I nuts or am I... Smoke more crack!
	Hey man, how many grams?
	25 grams?
	You're good to go!
	Don't worry about it!
	Smoke more crack!
	It's awesome!
	Well, that's the favor that Obama's done for the black community.
	They've been waiting for him to do something for the black community, and you can give Obama 100% of the credit for that one.
	That we can smoke more crack.
	Yeah.
	Good!
	Well, that's great.
	I think this is a 21st century solution right there.
	Smoke more crack.
	Smoke more crack.
	Smoke more crack act.
	Yeah, the smoke more crack act.
	So apparently, you know, so what they're doing now is they're saying, well...
	The administration supports a combined health and safety approach to addressing substance abusing offenders.
	And so they now have drug courts, where I guess they count how much crack you had.
	And by the way, this is a $10 billion bill, of which $6 billion is still going to law enforcement.
	So it's complete crap and just lies.
	There are 2,600 drug courts, and that number continues to grow as this...
	As this document points out proudly.
	Okay.
	Let me just skim through this here for a second.
	They want to disrupt domestic drug trafficking in production.
	Again, a 21st century solution.
	And this one got kind of crazy.
	Transnational criminal organizations operating in the United States produce, import, or distribute illicit drugs through the nation, posing a persistent and dangerous threat to public health and safety.
	These organizations use parcel services, tunnels, aircraft, trains, boats, vehicles with hidden compartments, and other conveyances to traffic drugs into and throughout the nation, particularly along the southwest and northern borders.
	Hello, Canada.
	Are you paying attention?
	In addition to traditional drugs, here it comes, communities are now concerned with the new synthetic drugs.
	Such as those commonly sold as bath salts.
	This is our bath salts meme coming back.
	And synthetic cannabinoids sold as spice or K2. And this, of course, ultimately creates criminal organization.
	So we've got to crack down on the spice and K2 and on the bath salts.
	So we're going to maximize federal support drug law enforcement task forces.
	Let me just scroll down here for a second.
	We're going to improve intelligence and exchange and information sharing with these so-called fusion centers.
	This is very scary, these fusion centers that are popping up everywhere.
	And here's what's interesting.
	As a part of this, we're going to develop a national plan for southbound interdiction of currency and weapons.
	Now, I had to let that sink in.
	Because it says here, to enhance efforts to combat bulk cash smuggling, i.e.
	i.e. money going out of the country southbound, ICE has expanded its operations at the Bulk Cash Smuggling Center in 2011, which is an investigative support and operations center designed to assist ICE and its international domestic law enforcement partners with the investigation, seizure, which is an investigative support and operations center designed to assist ICE and its international domestic law enforcement partners with the investigation, seizure, forfeiture, and arrest of subjects involved in transnational crimes that are facilitated by the movement of
	Don't let it leave the country.
	And then finally, you Well, there's something about eradicating marijuana cultivation, which basically is all about California.
	But here is the counter-domestic methamphetamine production.
	By the way...
	If they get that program underway and they start eradicating marijuana cultivation, which is mostly in Mendocino County, I might add, if they want to know where to go, and they start busting, burning these places to the ground and getting rid of all that stuff, you can then, these idiots who are growing this stuff and voted against legalizing marijuana in the state of California and promoted not having marijuana legalized, medical marijuana...
	Because they were making so much money in the black market.
	They deserve what happens.
	They brought it on themselves.
	It's Calusa, Glen, Lake, Mendocino, Tehama, and Trinity, to be exact.
	It's listed in there?
	Oh, yeah.
	Huh.
	Yeah, no, you were right.
	John, I always know that you know what's up when it comes to weed.
	So here's an interesting...
	Well, I'm in Berkeley, so I guess it has something to do with it.
	So, of course, meth.
	Meth is a big deal.
	Because, you know, you can have a meth lab in your pants, as we learned on the previous episode.
	Yeah, you can have it in a Coke bottle.
	Yep.
	Counter-domestic methamphetamine production.
	How are we going to do this?
	The danger posed by the smaller labs remains significant.
	I guess that's the one in your pants.
	Several options are being considered to further reduce methamphetamine production, including prescription-only status for pseudodefledrine and ephedrine products.
	In other words, you will now have to get a prescription for NyQuil.
	Another healthcare bonanza, I tell you!
	But here's a word that I hadn't heard of.
	Improved restrictions that are designed to eliminate smurfing would decrease the number of methamphetamine laboratories and the corresponding dangers they pose.
	Had you ever heard of smurfing?
	You know, I have, but I can't for the life of me know what...
	I can't remember what it is.
	From the Urban Dictionary, in relation to meth, smurfing is a term that is used to describe a person or group of people that go from one store to another in order to gain enough...
	Oh, right, right, right.
	Grabbing one bottle of pills.
	Exactly.
	Interestingly, the term smurfing actually comes from the banking world.
	Yeah.
	Smurfing as it relates to banking was coined to describe a process in which a bank would break up huge financial transactions into smaller ones in order to avoid tipping off the government or raising any red flags.
	I thought that was kind of interesting that we have the word smurfing used in there.
	So as I go through this entire thing, it seems to be a war against bath salts.
	It seems to be a war against NyQuil.
	It seems to be encouraging poor people to smoke more crack because you're not going to go to jail now.
	And it seems to not only encourage but codify into law The process, because whenever you go to a doctor, you write down, do you take any drugs like cocaine, marijuana, etc.?
	Of course, you always say, no, no, no, I don't do that.
	It doesn't matter, because he's going to screen you now.
	And it's going to be a part of your healthcare package, and it will be mandatory.
	And then you're going to get an intervention.
	So you're going to be there, and the doctor's going to close the door, and it's going to lock.
	And he's going to bring in your friends and your parents, and it's a big pain in the ass, and they've got to get treatment.
	All he's going to really bring in is a bookkeeper so they can keep track of all the money they're going to soak you for.
	Because they'll have codes for it.
	Yeah.
	More good news.
	And by the way, all this is marked up in a PDF file for you under clips and stuff in the show notes at 405.nashownotes.com.
	Just so you know, you're going to get mandatory drug screening and intervention.
	But it doesn't matter because as long as you stay under the 28 grams of crack, you're good to go.
	Great.
	That, to me, spells 21st century solution, John.
	Right there.
	Yeah, definitely.
	So, yeah, time marches on.
	What can I say?
	On the topic of...
	I don't want to say drugs, medical, world of medicine.
	I have a clip.
	Tell me if you can see why I clipped this show.
	This is a new HBO show called Girls.
	Oh God, Mickey watches that.
	She forces me to watch.
	It's terrible, but did you catch this one?
	Good afternoon, Cortler Gallery.
	Hey, it's me.
	Hi, you.
	How are you?
	I got a call from the doctor with my results.
	Yeah.
	And?
	Do you?
	It would appear that I do, yes, have something.
	My God.
	What?
	I kind of can't believe that I'm saying this, but I have HPV, so...
	Marnie?
	Are you crying?
	It was just so unfair, Hannah.
	Like, you're so careful about sex and everything, and you're, like, nervous.
	I just figured that, like, for people that are really, really scared of flying, their planes never go down.
	It's just not how it works.
	Oh, my God.
	What if you can't have children?
	Marty, I'm fine, okay?
	I'm fine.
	Fucking Adam.
	He didn't give it to me, okay?
	He got tested, and he doesn't have it.
	I think it was Elijah.
	So this is very interesting.
	Hold on a second.
	Did you catch the second meme in there that was subtle?
	Yeah, about the he got tested.
	No.
	It wasn't Adam.
	Think of Adam in the Bible.
	It was Elijah, a dirty Jew.
	Well, let me expand on that.
	I'm glad you got this because I was very tired when this was on.
	And I remember Mickey and I looking at each other going like, oh my God, really?
	Are they promoting this?
	But they took it one step further.
	So they explain the entire process of testing that boys cannot get tested for this.
	But even better, the dirty Jew Elijah, as you point out, turns out he's gay.
	And he's always been gay, and he was even thinking of having sex with men when he was having sex with her.
	So as this story unfolds, I guarantee you, he is going to have to get tested so he doesn't get throat cancer.
	And I know this because I have developed a relationship with several doctors ever since we started on this HPV testing thing that I started to uncover.
	And by the way, thank you, Arsonomics, for creating an awesome YouTube video, which for our world has gone viral, like 98 people.
	That's very viral for us.
	We're just fighting it.
	We're fighting the man.
	Screwing the man.
	But I've gotten emails from people from like sanevax.org and like, oh, you should interview me on your show.
	I don't even answer the emails.
	They're all crazy themselves.
	But I have developed a relationship with two doctors, and one of them I'm calling Dr.
	Deep Throat.
	Dr.
	Deepthroat, he's giving me all the information and even some documentation.
	What I want to know is, is there an actual script?
	Is there a scam to the HPV testing process?
	Just to review quickly...
	And this was also on the HBO show.
	You go in for your annual, or in some cases it's every two years, you go in for your test, your pap smear.
	I like to say smear.
	Your pap smear.
	You get a call that says, well, it was inconclusive.
	And that means you could be precancerous.
	This, by the way, huge red flag with all these doctors.
	They're like, the word precancerous, which came back in this show, they talked about it.
	Yeah, she actually said that she had precancer.
	Pre-cancer is not a medical term.
	If someone says to you, pre-cancerous, you can say you're full of crap.
	That does not exist.
	It is not a medical term.
	So then you have to come back.
	You do a very uncomfortable biopsy.
	You're freaking out.
	And then exactly what's happening here, because it's an STD. You only get it through having sex with someone.
	And men carry this around forever.
	And, you know, you're like, oh, did my husband cheat on me?
	What went on?
	And then it turns out that you don't have it, and that's when the sales pitch occurs, and the doctor says, you know, you should get the HPV shot.
	So here's what Dr.
	Deepthroat tells me.
	He says, these machines, remember, Hologic is now teamed up with Merck, who makes Gardasil, the vaccine.
	He says the machines have a very high rate of false positives by design.
	He says these machines are highly regulated by both state and federal government.
	Those entities, I'm reading verbatim, tend to lead towards false positives because it lends to a lower rate of malpractice suits.
	So he says the whole thing is systemic.
	So they're meant to throw a huge number of false positives because not only are they worried about malpractice lawsuits, which is probably at the top of the list, but the minute that happens, boom, you go from $70 to $700 to $800 for the HPV shot.
	And, of course, the medical practitioner walks along in the profit process.
	As Dr.
	Deepthroat says, Unfortunately, these false positives lead to a number of problems.
	Although a lot of the physicians are genuinely good people with the best patient care in mind, which I believe, they are limited by the test results given them.
	The insurance industry dictates a minimum level of certainty before a treatment is dictated and covered, and depending on the lobbying abilities of the industry, that certainly is thus defined typically by the state's Board of Health.
	It's a nasty cycle.
	It's getting worse.
	As drugs become tailored to genetics and eventually individuals, it will only become more corrupt.
	In short answer, he says again, it's rigged by design.
	He is getting me the statistics on the amount of false positives.
	He also points out that only 10% Of the positives for HPV actually turn out to have HPV, which I thought was a very, very low number considering all of the hysteria.
	So, not necessarily, it's even worse than we thought.
	You know, I wish I had someone who said, yeah, I got this script from the guy who sold the machine to me, and here's how it works.
	It's even worse.
	They're designed to produce false positives, and that's why Gardasil, made by Merck, who makes Gardasil, and Hologic, who makes the new high-throughput test lots of women over time, are in cahoots with each other.
	The whole thing is completely rigged.
	Unfortunately, and this is the only thing that really bothers me, is that the medical profession, the bad actors, the greedy ones, are misusing this and terrorizing women.
	Here's one note from Ben They keep on streaming in people who see the same thing happening over and over again.
	My wife's experience was a little different.
	She had a checkup, was fine, but was still recommended to get the HPV shot.
	She explained she was married and not worried, and the doctor said, Well, you never know.
	Men aren't faithful.
	You should protect yourself.
	Wow.
	What a great guy that doctor is.
	Isn't it outrageous?
	Yeah.
	Unbelievable.
	She should have slapped him.
	So we'll see the...
	Now, of course, this HBO series is very interesting.
	I'm glad you reminded me of it.
	Because I want to see how this unfolds with the gay guy.
	If...
	What a good catch, by the way.
	The Adam and Elijah bit.
	Let's see if the gay guy now is worried if he's going to get the HPV shot.
	Because he can't get tested, but he'll get the shot.
	So, you know...
	We don't know who's paying for these programs.
	But you can bet there's something going on.
	Yeah, it's just essentially corruption.
	It's systemic corruption within the medical industry.
	Thanks to the insurance companies.
	This is the whole thing.
	I mean, this is Obamacare.
	It's just pushing...
	People keep saying, well, Obamacare, people aren't going to get...
	It's all about insurance.
	If they would go to single-payer, government-controlled...
	I mean, even though I know every right-winger out there thinks it's terrible, socialized medicine is no good, look how bad it works in England and all the rest of it, it would at least get these insurance companies out.
	Yeah.
	We could deal with it later.
	We're the Americans.
	We can fix these things.
	We can make these things work.
	But right now, this is going in the wrong direction and it's creating a huge problem.
	Can you do that again?
	We're Americans.
	We can make things work.
	That was really good.
	Really good.
	Do that again.
	Where are you, man?
	What were you with your American speech?
	We're Americans and we can make things work.
	Beautiful.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	That's what you're passing on to your kids.
	Not HPV. You are passing on humongous cost.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	Dr.
	Deepthroat just emailed me.
	Only 10% turn out to be cancer.
	It's even worse.
	I thought it was HPV. It says only 10% turn out to be cancer.
	You could have HPV, but not the cancer kind.
	You could just have the human papillomavirus, which will go away.
	Your body actually fixes that.
	Yeah, it's just like herpes.
	Well, the herpes doesn't necessarily go away.
	Oh, that's true.
	Herpes doesn't go away.
	Thank you, Dr.
	Deep Throat.
	I love Dr.
	Deep Throat.
	Open wide.
	Open wide.
	So that is how it rolls, everybody.
	I got a lot of...
	You know, I am humbled by the people that listen to our show.
	And quite honestly, it scares me at the same time.
	Well, actually, a lot of them have managed to correct us properly.
	But it scares me.
	These smart people are listening to the show.
	Are they really that smart?
	Well, they like the entertainment value of the show, I think.
	They like the body bomb stories.
	That's where they're tuning in.
	Hey, man, let me hear that one again.
	That was good.
	So, talking about news media being off base on stuff.
	So, I'm watching the follow-up press conference on the Murdoch hearings in London.
	Yeah.
	And they had this one woman...
	Should I play the verdict?
	I have the verdict clip and then you can do the...
	Yeah, play the verdict clip and then we'll play something from Louise.
	Here is the verdict.
	The view of the majority of committee members, Rupert Murdoch is not fit to run an international company like BSkyB.
	I'm personally disappointed that some members didn't feel sufficiently convinced or confident to hold the most powerful to account.
	They felt they couldn't support sections 216 to 229 of the report.
	I'd like to point out before you continue that in the UK, if you say someone is fit, that usually means they're hot looking.
	And with that, I agree.
	Rupert Murdoch is not a good looking guy.
	Well, that is age.
	He is not fit at all.
	So this got picked up, what you just played, got picked up by the national media.
	Oh, Murdoch, Murdoch, Murdoch.
	He's not fit.
	And so Louise Mench, who is the blonde on the committee that you've commented on before.
	She's not very hot.
	No, she's not unattractive.
	But she's a conservative and she explains this.
	And I've never heard this before at the rationale for why she's one of the people that voted against the final conclusion because of the Murdoch thing.
	And she explains it here.
	That even in a report as partisan and down political lines as this one was voted on, no member of the committee could find it in their hearts to say that either Jabes or Rupert Murdoch had misled the committee.
	Nobody.
	Even in the report as it's published.
	Therefore, it did appear to us that something negative had to be found to say about Rupert Murdoch since nobody was going to conclude that either he or his son had misled our committee.
	And therefore this line about Rupert Murdoch not being a fit person which echoes optimally Ofcom's fit and proper test was stuck in on the basis of no evidence presented to the committee whatsoever, and we just could not support it.
	As I say, even though many, many votes went against my point of view on James Murdoch and on the corporate culture at News Corporation, I would definitely have voted for the report had that language not been placed in it.
	Oh, interesting.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	Yeah, it was just bullcrap.
	Well, this is a blackmail scandal.
	That's what this is.
	They're blackmailing Rupert Murdoch.
	We know that, and I think a lot of this is coming, of course, from the government in the Gitmo Nation East.
	But I would wager that the Obama administration wants Murdoch on board.
	And again, I've now started watching Fox News because CNN is no good.
	They got rid of Napolitano.
	That guy's in trouble.
	Big trouble.
	They let him do walk-ons now.
	And I think it's blackmail.
	It certainly can be used for blackmail.
	Well, there were a couple of interesting other little side bits.
	Yeah, it could.
	And I think, well, we'll see how this goes as the election gets closer.
	But there was also this, apparently they don't know what to do about this because it hasn't come out since the 1950s where a bunch of people, not Murdoch and his son, were accused of misleading parliament by essentially lying to these committees.
	And I thought that was kind of interesting.
	And this guy discusses a little bit in this clip.
	As the Chairman said earlier, the purpose of the motion for the House will be to decide whether people are guilty of contempt of Parliament.
	And we're all agreed on that.
	And that is the substance of the report.
	It's what we're investigating.
	It's the first time it's been done since the 1950s.
	And we've spent a long time talking about something which isn't even included in the next steps of the report because it is tangential to it, although obviously a subject of interest.
	I would point out that Mr Colin Myler is the editor of the New York Daily News and we have just found that he has misled a select committee of Parliament.
	I would hope that a little bit of attention would be paid to the unanimous findings of the committee when named individuals misled Parliament.
	And furthermore, to answer the very good question posed by Lucy Manning, which is if somebody comes in front of Parliament and lies to it, What happens next?
	Off with the heads!
	We don't necessarily have the procedures in place and we will therefore be referring it to Parliament to find out what to do.
	But serious conclusions have been drawn about people misleading Parliament on which we're all united.
	There is a lot in this report on which the committee completely agrees.
	And, you know, that's the shame that we weren't able to agree on the report itself because of the line about Rupert Murdoch.
	Cut off his ghoulies, I tell you!
	You lied in front of Parliament!
	Remove your testicles!
	Right away!
	Love it.
	So they're at their wits' end about what to do about it.
	They don't know.
	Apparently there's no procedure.
	We have no rules.
	Nobody ever does this.
	No one ever lies.
	This is crazy.
	How can you lie in front of Parliament?
	So the editor of the New York Daily News is one of the guys.
	He was the editor of the News of the World, and he scampers off the United States as quick as he can.
	Morton Zuckerman, I guess the guy who's the publisher, who's always on that show with...
	The McLaughlin Report.
	Oh, right, right, right.
	He's the publisher of the New York Daily News, and he hired this guy, fired the other guy, and put this guy in as part of some larger scheme.
	This is great.
	And it's just the whole thing is just rotten.
	No wonder.
	I'm feeling good because I see real journalism going on.
	I consider we may not be right, but we've got experts.
	We consult experts.
	We keep them just as anonymous as real journalists.
	We read through stuff.
	We look at stuff.
	This is journalism, and it's happening.
	CNN is dead because of the alternative media.
	It really is.
	By the way, interestingly enough, their profits are huge.
	CNN? Yeah!
	They had like $600 million in profit.
	I don't understand how that works.
	Well, that's what they do.
	You sell out.
	You put that Hollywood, HLN, Hollywood News Network.
	You put a bunch of extra, extra, extra kind of shows on.
	And you have Pierce Morgan doing softball interviews with everybody he can.
	But the ratings aren't there.
	But I mean, they must be charging an enormous...
	CPM, because their ratings are so poor.
	I mean, how are they making that much dough?
	Maybe it's just payoffs.
	I don't understand.
	Oh, John!
	Oh!
	bend over here comes a sign the war on chicken We'll be right back.
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	Ladies and gentlemen, there is a huge war on against chicken.
	And here is report number one.
	Breaking news this afternoon.
	A massive fire destroying several barns at a Weld County poultry farm.
	Sky Fox live over the scene near Rogan where a massive plume of smoke can be seen for miles.
	That's right.
	500,000 chickens killed in fire.
	I'm telling you, those PETA people are crazy.
	And now we have one from NPR, which we have a new jingle for.
	Sponsorship, underwriting, advertising, call it whatever you want.
	We are NPR.
	Moving on to money.
	Here's a report from NPR.
	Also, enemy combatants in the war on chicken.
	Woo, little...
	Americans are now eating more chicken than beef or pork, and meeting that demand is an industry that some have dubbed Big Chicken.
	Texas is a major player in the industry, and so now Texas must manage a problem that in other circumstances we might describe as fallout or blowback.
	They're using actual military war terms in the war on chicken, John.
	It's getting really...
	Well, it makes sense.
	It's heating up.
	A member station KUHF in Houston explains what that problem is.
	Dan Franks has a beautiful view from his home 40 miles east of Waco.
	A pond, a pasture, wildflowers in full bloom.
	But just barely visible off in the distance, or about a half a mile from the chicken houses, is what Franks calls an agri-factory.
	As an agricultural factory.
	There are more than a million chickens over there.
	I was in town, you know, and everybody was asking what stinks, and, well, it's the chicken houses.
	Ah, that's the problem!
	They stink!
	They stink, I tell you!
	That's right, ladies and gentlemen, another episode of...
	The War on Chickens.
	There you go.
	Wrapping it up nicely.
	Yeah.
	I like the NPR jingle.
	That's pretty cool.
	The new NPR jingle.
	Yeah, it's good.
	I like the way you did the donut with the thing in and out.
	It's good.
	Let's take a little break here.
	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.
	No agenda.
	Chicken stinks!
	In the morning.
	Yeah, there's chicken stinks, but our donors don't.
	No.
	We have quite a few we want to mention.
	We do have a special Sanco de Mayo coming up on Saturday, recommending people donate 5512.
	What?
	Which would be 5-5-12.
	Tomorrow would be the best day to do it and to be riding the money.
	And it's also one day before the demise of Europe because we have elections in Greece, in France, and one other one, I think.
	Yeah, it's going to be pre-demise.
	It's going to be a great Cinco de Mayo.
	Yeah, it is.
	Which is, you know, might as well have something going on because it's a phony baloney holiday if ever there was.
	Only one town in Mexico even celebrates it.
	Really?
	Really?
	I didn't know that.
	Look it up.
	They don't even celebrate it?
	No, it's not a Mexican holiday.
	It's an American, you know, Americans picked it up.
	Oh, man.
	Just because they're looking for another excuse to party.
	Well, nothing wrong with that.
	No, there isn't, I have to say.
	Anyway, we want to thank some of our producers.
	Alex Walter in Lenexa, Kansas, $111.11.
	Good morning to you, John and Adam.
	I sympathize with your experience with your Ruger zombie killer a few years ago.
	I had a KTEL P3AT, which is also a 380 and similar in size and construction.
	I have it here.
	Here, I have it here.
	There it is.
	I was glad.
	What do you have?
	The zombie killer right next to the terminal there?
	Dude!
	I'm doing a podcast here.
	For your next true zombie killer, suggest the Caltech KSG, and he's got a link to it.
	Oh, cool.
	It's a bullpup design with two tubular magazines.
	He goes on and on.
	Oh, I've seen this one.
	Yeah, it's pretty awesome.
	Please wish my lovely wife Stacy a happy birthday.
	She's on the list.
	And it says turning 40 this Friday, which is the International Star Wars Day.
	That's tomorrow.
	And she's listening to the show more and more.
	We'll get a kick out of it.
	Would you please have Adam say in his sultry broadcast voice something to the effect of, Hey Stacy, happy birthday.
	May the 4th be with you.
	Hey Stacy, happy birthday baby.
	And may the 4th be with you.
	I thought I'd add a little.
	Yeah, that really helps.
	Adam Schmidt in Minnetonka, Minnesota, 10101.
	I'm amazed by the quality of the No Agenda show.
	I'm coming in again with my binary donation, which works out to be 21 in decimal, fittingly enough, to request some more karma from my sweet lady, Jenja the Ninja.
	The last batch worked.
	John, since you know the correct pronunciation now, it's Minnesota, not Minnesota.
	All right, let me get some karma then.
	You've got karma.
	Warren Carroll in Des Moines, Washington.
	$100.
	The donation is a thank you for providing such a great show for no upfront cost.
	This show has opened my eyes and taught very simple journalism techniques to see through the media's bullshit.
	Yay!
	After watching the president's recent Afghanistan address, I, for the first time, searched for the actual document and read it.
	Some serious economic hits man stuff in it.
	Thank you, and you can look forward to more donations from me.
	P.S. I'm an officially donating drunk.
	And by the way, the document that President Obama signed with Karzai, that's the guy with the cape, in case you didn't know, he was regal.
	He's got a cape, and the hat is made out of lamb fetus skin.
	No joke.
	It means nothing, because...
	Congress has to ratify it, as does the Afghanistan Tribal Council or whatever.
	So it's completely meaningless, and it really says nothing.
	nothing.
	Other than that, we'll be at war until, uh, for the next 24 years.
	Yay.
	Paul, Paul, uh, Michael or Mitch, I don't know.
	What do you think?
	Michelle.
	Paul Michelle.
	Baltimore, Maryland.
	Guys, 7777, thanks for the great show.
	Keep up the good work.
	I need some gambling karma and some slide whistle to make sure it really works.
	Alright, I'll hit the karma, you do the slide.
	You've got karma.
	Michael O'Grady, Augusta, Georgia, 55-55.
	You missed Christopher.
	Oh, yeah.
	Sorry, we got two.
	Oh, wow.
	This is the only one.
	We just barely snuck through.
	Christopher Yagi, Ottawa, Ontario, 69-69.
	And that is our only 69-69.
	Oh, it is.
	You're right.
	We almost broke the spell.
	Yeah, almost.
	Gerald Giannette in London, Ontario, 6666.
	No comment.
	Michael O'Grady, Augusta, Georgia, 5555.
	I've been listening for some time now.
	I thought it was finally time to honor my bi-weekly entertainment duo...
	With a value so they could preciously provide.
	For the value they preciously provide.
	I wish that it could be more.
	I like this.
	We are your bi-weekly entertainment duo.
	Adam Curry, John C. Deverak.
	Deverak.
	But the American dream is taking its toll for this modest amount.
	I only have these requests.
	John, take a gander at the Australian Economic Theory.
	Mises.org has the audio libraries full of it, all for free.
	Austrian, I'm sorry.
	It will help to unify.
	No, I've read it in Mises.
	I know the Austrian theory.
	I got a tip for you.
	It'll be in a future show for somebody that predates all these guys, and it's just, like, amazing.
	Anyway, Adam, your evocation of Jim Croce and Prince on the Daily Source Code has left me deeply touched.
	Thank you for the experience.
	I cannot wait for another drunken DSC sans the audible mic curating.
	What the who?
	That's peeing.
	Oh.
	I peed.
	You were peeing on the show?
	Yeah, I took the mobile mic outside and peed against the garage.
	And it was a sound peeing tour.
	Ah, that's entertainment, ladies and gentlemen.
	Boo, boo, boo.
	Hey, I'm not knocking our double nickels on the double nickels.
	Reverend O'Grady.
	Joseph Esposito, Sir Joe the Dish Slave in Stockton 5512, wishing us a happy Senko.
	Put this donation toward my wife's damehood.
	Can I get some clippity-clop karma for our family?
	Oh, God.
	Sorry, I wasn't ready for that.
	Clippity-clop karma.
	Here we go.
	It's clippity-clop.
	The message is clear.
	Joe's clippity-clop.
	Ha, ha, ha.
	You've got karma.
	I like that.
	Yeah, it's not a bad combo.
	Okay, these all the following are going to be just sangled at mile 5512 donations.
	William Bryant in Spartanburg, South Carolina.
	I just want to get a quick karma from my good buddy Glenn Woodfin at woodfin.com, glennwoodfin.com, who did a SEO work to correct a no-agenda Google page listings a few shows back.
	It's right.
	Glenn Woodfin, he did a great job.
	G-L-E-N-W-O-O-D-F-I-N. He's got a great thumbs up for you guys, but I wanted to make sure his name got mentioned.
	He did also get me hooked on Noah Jen.
	He could use some karma for more paid gigs.
	Well, this is the guy, if you want to own the first eight pages of Google, this is definitely the nine.
	No conflicts!
	You've got karma.com.
	Jay B's in Louisville, Kentucky.
	I was decided that a portion of my annual Kentucky Derby bet was better served feeding value for value as a long-time boner, first-time donor, along with this obligatory deduction.
	Can I get an L-Sharpton conflict bite?
	We don't know if we can dig that up that fast.
	Followed with some Syntheslider love.
	So he needs a de-douching and if you get the...
	I don't think I have...
	I don't think we have the conflict.
	The conflict one is not at the ready.
	It's not one we normally use.
	Let me just see.
	No, I don't.
	I'm sorry.
	And I don't have the syntha slider hooked up either.
	I feel bad.
	I'll tell you, give him a de-douching and a karma.
	De-douching and a karma.
	You got it.
	You've been de-douched.
	You've got karma.
	Steve Bottoms in Reno, Nevada.
	5512 as is Ken Rourke, who's going to be a knight, I think.
	Yep.
	He reached knighthood in the last donation.
	He's got a big hand, apparently.
	He's got a huge ring size.
	Sir Greg Laudrup in North Hills, California.
	Gracious, he says.
	Maxell Roberts in Crown Point, Indiana.
	Happy San Juan de Mayo.
	Take a shot at karma for myself.
	You've got karma.
	Matt Litke in Tinley Park, Illinois.
	I listened to when you only had one show a week.
	I would like some new job karma and a birthday mention.
	We got you on the birthday list.
	And his birthday is Sanco de Mayo.
	That's interesting.
	Do I have a taco recipe?
	I do.
	We're not giving it to you.
	People want these recipes hooked to the newsletter, so I'm going to do a little site.
	Maybe every few newsletters I'll do a cool recipe that I think is...
	Love it.
	Yeah, I'd love it.
	I'd love to have some cool recipes.
	They're really good.
	Walter Nicholson in Shreveport, Louisiana.
	Robert Weber in Lake Forest, California.
	Thank you for the show.
	Ian Gilman, Rockford, Illinois.
	Don't jingle me, bro.
	I don't require any jingles for this donation.
	Donate any jingles you would normally have played to charity.
	Okay.
	Sir Michael Miller in Tiburon.
	Cinco de Mayo.
	Darren Porter, Rockville, Indiana.
	Sam Leung.
	Leung.
	In Toronto, Ontario.
	Leung.
	Is my Cinco de Mayo donation to the best podcast in the universe and also celebrate my birthday.
	We've got him on the list in calculations.
	He's also a black knight.
	Yep.
	And so we'll give him that.
	And not getting laid karma for me.
	He needs some not getting laid...
	Wait.
	I think he wants to...
	Oh yeah, and some not getting laid karma for me to keep focused on assassinating the media.
	Oh, he doesn't want to get laid.
	Okay.
	Sure, dude.
	You've got karma.
	Might want to check and see if you've got a penis.
	Sir Dave probably does.
	A big one.
	Sir David C. Pugh, North Canton, Ohio, in the morning.
	Gregory Shun, Jr., Green Bay, Wisconsin.
	Also double nickels on the dime.
	Then $55 from Kyle McQuestion in McKeston in Pickering, Ontario.
	Take a week for the money to go through.
	Can I please get a douchebag for my father?
	Oh, hey.
	Fallen asleep.
	No, I didn't.
	I fired it, but it didn't go.
	You might as well get it ready for another one.
	Poured Monsanto's poison on the weeds.
	Oh, no.
	And herbs growing in my vegetable garden because he's incredibly inconsiderate.
	Can I also get a karma from my garden because it will need all the help it can get?
	Kills the garden.
	You've got karma.
	Yeah.
	Abraham Daly, Gorham...
	Maine.
	Maine, 5446.
	First time donor, 5446 is a reference to Toots and the Maytel song.
	Huh.
	I know I'm not the first one to donate this amount.
	Not sure if this is where I need to leave my message.
	Apparently it is.
	Been listening since I first bought a used iPod for $25 in 2008.
	Got into Twit, learned about Noah Jan, that goes on and on.
	The past year I got a graduate assistant position at my school, so now I have some cash on hand, but I still remain a douchebag.
	Started relisting the ODSC. I liked it a lot.
	Tonight I've been drinking beer with the local Sabago Brewery, and he's a long-time douchebag.
	Doesn't deserve any karma, so pass any karma on to Ron Paul.
	All right, let's give it to Ronnie Boy then.
	You've got karma.
	Uh...
	Uh...
	What did I... I just clicked on something.
	Melody Mann.
	I want to send a birthday shout-out to Jim Mann, the considerate hubby who turned me on to this show way back when you thought you had fewer than 15 female listeners.
	But...
	What to get the man who has everything?
	Oh, good question.
	Why?
	Because the continuation of the best podcast in the universe, of course.
	Ladies, aren't you happiest when your man is happy?
	The formula is this.
	He supports the show.
	He's entertained and educated on his long commute.
	So he's unconcerned by the lamestream media.
	He looks cool and collected while everyone else is freaking out.
	The boss starts noticing how often he pegs the global trends.
	So he gets a promotion.
	With a new promotion comes a gob of money.
	So he takes you on vacation.
	Not only should you cheerfully, cheerily support his wish to donate, you should tell him it's his duty to the well-being of his sweetie pie.
	That's one of the best sales pitches I've ever...
	We're going to put that sales pitch in one of the newsletters.
	That's a good one.
	That is a good one.
	Just send it out to the ladies.
	Oh, the ladies.
	By the way, we got an email from Sarah, who was a producer on episode 333.
	Yeah?
	With a picture.
	You saw the picture, didn't you?
	Oh, yeah.
	Yeah, Sarah.
	Whoa!
	Hotness!
	She was showing off.
	She's hot.
	Come on.
	Super smokery hot.
	She's gorgeous.
	Yeah.
	Luke Rayner, London.
	London.
	I guess London, UK, because he gave us 33, 33 pounds, which converts to 52, 31.
	I love this show.
	It's become even more valuable source of news to me since I am currently taking a year-long sabbatical from my job feeding young human resources delusions of grandeur, college music teacher.
	Yeah.
	I no longer have the 45-minute morning commute in which I listen to shows to Radio 4's today show.
	I feel so much better for not hearing the brainwashing yet soothing tones of John Humphreys.
	Can I get a shot of karma for my AdSense site business?
	Future project in mind, keeping AdSense site where profits will go to no agenda.
	That sounds good.
	He needs a karma shot.
	You've got karma.
	Jeffrey Anderson of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 5115, says the last show was great and did not suck.
	You guys always do a great job no matter what the donations show.
	I'm giving value for value to a palindromic tune, 5115.
	I was greedy and selfish and asking to get laid karma.
	I'd rather do this and I'd rather ask for regular karma to meet a nice girl.
	Mm-hmm.
	Sean Pyle, Streamwood, Illinois, 5101.
	Last few shows you mentioned donations are down.
	They've run their very lengthy and detailed scientific analysis.
	I think my algorithm has identified the cause of this anomaly.
	Donations equals down.
	Why?
	Because two words, slide whistle.
	As a long-time listener, I've always cringed when I heard.
	In recent months, it's always been more like the John C. Dvorak slide whistle show than no agenda.
	And now there's two...
	As an experiment, go two weeks with no slide whistle.
	I have a suspicion donations will go up inversely with decreased slide whistle.
	I suspect only people that like the slide whistle are the same people that purchase Zamfir seeds.
	George Zamfir.
	From 3 a.m.
	infomercials.
	What do you say?
	Do you think we can abstain for two weeks?
	I'll think about it.
	I think it adds a dimension to the show that no other show has.
	I agree.
	So, anyway, we have a number of $50 donations, including alanlevineforcongress.com, which is A-L-L-A-N-L-E-V-E-N. We want him in.
	I'm confused.
	He keeps sending us notes that it's not working.
	It wasn't working.
	That his donations to the show are not creating karma or whatever for him.
	He keeps sending long notes.
	You read the notes?
	Send him some karma right now.
	Yeah.
	All right.
	And go and vote for this guy.
	Sounds good.
	You've got Carla.
	You have to be in Georgia.
	I don't know how many listeners we have in Georgia.
	We've got listeners in Georgia.
	For sure we do.
	A-L-L-A-N-L-E-V-E-N-E. Sir Christopher Lawton in Dartmouth, Massachusetts.
	50.
	Andrew Heverson in Gravenhurst, Ontario.
	50.
	Alan Martin in No Place, Parts Unknown.
	Greg Brunstall, Kenosha, Wisconsin.
	He's going to become a knight.
	He's $50 in.
	Jeffrey Muldner in Omaha, Nebraska.
	50.
	Vicki Bryden in Monmouth, Maine says, My husband and I both love the show.
	Please keep up the good work.
	We are first-time donors and would like a de-douching with some karma.
	50.
	And more slide whistle from both John and Adam.
	And more foodie stuff from John, she says.
	Wow, alright.
	This is rocking.
	You've been de-douched.
	You've got karma.
	Robert Dearden is Black Knight Robert in Hoboken, New Jersey, also 50.
	Now, here's what we're going to do.
	We are going to, I'm going to create, this won't happen right away, but I'm going to create a, like a, because people donate at different amounts.
	We'll have, like, two donation, special voting donations, where people will vote with their money, literally.
	And so, if they vote, if they select one, it'll be similar amounts, like a small amount, just so we can count votes.
	Small amount.
	And then there'll be like 6 and 5 or 10 and 11, something like that.
	And then we'll add the votes up after like a month of this, and then we'll decide that will kill the slide whistle.
	And you can vote as many times as you want, but we will notice this.
	If it's all the one same guy, then we'll think twice about it.
	Wow, John, what a spectacular promotion.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, great.
	Dude, says Richard Terry, dry firing a gun can damage it.
	A lot of people say that.
	That's as controversial as, does it really?
	He says, just because it's rare to break doesn't mean it won't.
	Where I used to sell guns, we would refuse to even show someone a firearm if they dry fire without a snap cap.
	Plus, it's bad safety practice.
	I know too many people who accidentally shot someone while thinking it was unloaded.
	Well, that's a problem.
	That's true.
	Alright, well, thank you all very much.
	Because of our Cinco de Mayo celebrations, rather long, but there's plenty more value for value where all that came from.
	And I do have a very quick 2009 update.
	We seem to have a little problem.
	Brandon, who I'm hoping can become Baron Von Brandon of the great state of Texas, is concerned that Mustang Sally won't be able to pull his trailer.
	Yes.
	A lot of people have this concern.
	Did you do some look?
	Did you look it up?
	It's in the book.
	Well, here's the problem.
	Because, yeah, I have the Dodge Ram 1500, but it's the big block and all the specs that I see everywhere has it with the smaller block.
	Anyway, we're going to test it out when he comes back.
	Are you going to test it?
	Well, testing is going to flat areas of Texas.
	It's not going to be the same as going up the Rockies.
	We have a hill here.
	Quite a hill.
	Oh, you have a hill.
	Quite a hill, yes.
	He says, ideally, you set up a Dodge 2500, 3500, Ford F-250, F-350.
	I mean, I don't have any of this.
	I got the 1500 Sport, which has the short bed, has back seats, so it has the dual cab.
	But it has the big block.
	But people are saying, hey, you can burn out your transmission, your brakes.
	I'm getting worried about this.
	Yeah, it's got nothing to do with the engine if the transmission can't deal with it.
	How do I know if the transmission can deal with it?
	Well, you could always just see what happens.
	We'll find out.
	And then you have to get a new transmission.
	Apparently, we're going to find out.
	There's got to be some documentation on this.
	I'm not buying the fact that there's no documentation that could just say, yes, you can pull that trailer.
	Well, there's numbers.
	And the numbers say that even a 1500 small block should technically be able to pull it, but not, you wouldn't go up the hill.
	Because we're going to go through the Rockies now.
	By the way, mickeyatcurry.com is the email address.
	You can email Ms.
	Mickey, and she's taking care of everything.
	Looks like we're definitely getting some meetups organized, which is very exciting, so people are getting on board.
	And you can go to itm.im slash tour09 for all of the information.
	And remember that you will go to dvorak.org and find out about this stupid slide whistle competition John is putting together.
	But also you can continue your donations for Cinco de Mayo and for your knighthoods, obviously.
	It's your birthday, birthday!
	On no agenda!
	Alex Walter congratulates his wife, Stacy.
	She turns 40th on Friday.
	Melody Mann says happy birthday to her man, Jim Mann, her husband.
	Sam Long, Leng, congratulates himself on the third.
	One day we'll get his name right.
	And Matt Lickick congratulates himself.
	He celebrates on Saturday on Cinco de Mayo.
	Happy birthday, everybody, for your buddies here at the No Agenda Show.
	And we've got to move along swiftly here as we have a number of people tonight.
	And this is great news.
	These are people, some of them have been long-time donors of the program, giving us our value for value and our Achieving Knighthood.
	You'll get your rings.
	2012, the last year, we'll be able to do the rings.
	After that, it's a new premium item.
	Of course, who cares?
	Because we'll all be dead.
	That's on the 20th.
	Sword?
	What's a dead day?
	What's a dead day?
	21st.
	Sword.
	Sword.
	Present arms!
	Ian Seamus, Aslak Christensen, Kent O'Rourke, Sam Luang, and Greg Brunsel, Step Forward.
	Gentlemen, congratulations all of you who have contributed to the No Agenda podcast in the amount of at least $1,000, including those who are black knights.
	Very proud to have you here supporting our program, and I hereby pronounce these.
	Sir Ilyon, Sir Aslak, Sir Kent, Sir Sam, and Sir Greg.
	Knight to the No Agenda Roundtable.
	Hookers and Blow, Rent Boys and Chardonnay, Wenches and Beer, or Hot Pants and Booze.
	The choice is yours and you deserve it.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	That's a pretty good group.
	That's a great group.
	Good people, too.
	All good people.
	Really, really good.
	Thank you all so much.
	It's encouraging.
	It helps us continue.
	Doing what we do.
	And it's quite a bit of work.
	And there's actually a lot more work where we've done a lot already.
	Let's see.
	Well, I do have a fun clip.
	It's a long clip.
	You can cut it here and there, but it's probably worth listening to most of it.
	This is a clip I found.
	It's a little background.
	John Walker is a very interesting person.
	I love his whiskey.
	No, this is the John Walker that founded Autodesk.
	Oh, what is Autodesk?
	Is that a CAD system?
	Yeah, it is the CAD system.
	Okay.
	Computer-aided design.
	He's worth, I estimate, he's worth about $300 million, maybe.
	Okay.
	On either side of it.
	And he...
	Renounced his U.S. citizenship some years ago and kind of shook his fist at the country and left and moved to Switzerland.
	Right.
	Some place in Switzerland.
	In Zouk.
	And he's a very conservative investor and his money is managed by Goldman Sachs.
	And by the way, when he left the country, he apparently did a bumper sticker, although I've never verified this with him, I've only communicated with him a few times, that said...
	When Russia, the communist Russia fell, it was like, he said, one evil empire down, one to go.
	Oh, okay.
	Russian flag and American flag.
	So he's got issues with the American government.
	So he had a meeting with Goldman Sachs that he recorded and then published on his website, which is called Formilabs.
	It's like Formilabs.
	It's spelled F-O-U-R-M-I-L-A-B-S dot C-H. And he has all kinds of crazy stuff on that website that's very entertaining and very interesting.
	And he likes to write book reviews.
	It's what rich guys do.
	Or really poor guys like us who have nothing better to do.
	Yeah, well, he's got more time on his hand, maybe.
	Whatever the case is, he apparently had been doing business with Goldman Sachs since 86, and he was irked with them because they started soliciting him.
	Because he has no...
	All he invests is uses Swiss francs, and he invests in sovereign debt of the most secure countries of the world.
	Like Greece?
	And that's all he wants to do.
	His whole goal...
	Sorry?
	Like Greece and Spain and the Netherlands?
	No, he doesn't do that.
	No, anything but.
	His goal is to not lose a nickel.
	He says he's got plenty of money.
	He feels a lot of people invest.
	They make a bunch of money and then they blow it.
	Mm-hmm.
	And so his approach is just the opposite.
	So the Goldman Sachs guys kept firing his broker, you know, his various brokers.
	They have a broker for you, they fire him.
	The brokers got back to Walker that they were firing him because they weren't selling him this junk.
	They weren't gouging him enough.
	They weren't gouging him enough, right?
	So they re-orged the whole Goldman Sachs Swiss operation and brought in a...
	I can't describe him as anything other than a douchebag.
	The guy shows up at Walker's house with his assistant and they try to sell him on different things and try to make him feel better because I guess he was going to walk with his funds.
	Well, how many millions he's got with him, I don't know.
	He was just going to leave them to tell Goldman to screw it.
	And by the way, he mentions in his blog that two weeks after this interview, this conversation, which was recorded with their knowledge because the recorder was right in the middle of the table, he quit them anyway because he just was not convinced these guys were looking out.
	They wouldn't follow his simple instructions.
	But I only took a small snippet, but you can imagine this went on for, this was an hour.
	We'll post it on the website eventually.
	I'll put it on my blog.
	But this is a small snippet that is hilarious.
	Incorrect.
	And it's a spin that you have received from people that have, you know...
	Ulterior motives.
	Yes.
	And they have decided to progress their career and their...
	Or we decided that...
	Oh, by the way, stop, stop, stop.
	The guy uses this term, this is the guy from Goldman Sachs, the fired guys were progressing their career.
	I've never heard this term before.
	He says, oh no, he decided to progress his career, or we've decided to progress his career.
	I like that.
	I've been career progressed many times.
	Yeah, I'll bet.
	One of the reasons why we have decided that they should progress their career somewhere else is because they were telling things like that.
	So it is not true that you have given call sheets for specific products to your customer representatives in which they have to confirm that they called and pitched that product to their client.
	That's not true.
	That's never happened to me.
	I've been here for five years.
	No, that's not the question.
	Does that happen?
	It does happen that we have product launches that we have and that we identify clients that might be interested in those products and that part of the responsibility of the sales force is we're applicable and we're suitable and we're appropriate.
	To contact clients to market those products.
	Absolutely.
	But in situations where we have a discretionary relationship, especially where we have guidelines of restriction from clients in doing something that is completely different and has nothing to do with that.
	So why is it then that when I have a discretionary agreement, which is strictly limited in its guidelines, I receive, by email, a pitch for the Facebook deal.
	Which said that if I disclosed it, I would be subject to criminal penalties in the United States of America.
	That's the most outrageous thing I have ever received in my entire life.
	I would have sent it to the Financial Times, except I went to their website and it was already there.
	That was an outrage.
	Well, why did I receive that?
	I've been in this meeting.
	Oops.
	Well, you know, the fact that...
	No, I don't know.
	I asked you why did I receive that.
	Yes, interesting question.
	This is obviously a deal that we have facilitated and a deal that we have promoted to some of our clients, right?
	It is part of the discretion of our investment professional to present and propose investment opportunities to clients.
	One of the things that we ask our investment professional to exercise their judgment is To what clients it's suitable or appropriate to present those type of offers and to what clients it's not appropriate or suitable to present those offers.
	So it was at sole discretion to present that to me after we have had conversations in an interval of every six months over a period of two years in which he never raised anything like that to me before.
	In which I made it perfectly clear that I am the most risk-averse investor you have ever met, that I have no interest in equities because a huge amount of my net worth is still in one NASDAQ stock, the company that I founded.
	And suddenly it popped into his head to say, this is a guy I should pitch the Facebook deal.
	I'm actually very familiar with that situation, so let me address that.
	That's absolutely the case.
	And the reason is that I was part already at the time of the Facebook offering and responsible for this entity.
	And I can tell you that I didn't list it and I didn't provide any client list and I didn't have any conversation with...
	Suggesting that he should pitch that product to you.
	And I can tell you that in London, they would not know, frankly, who you are and what your accountant...
	That's even worse.
	By the way, we don't even give a crap who you are, man.
	We don't know in London.
	We don't give a shit about you.
	...to that information.
	So it was...
	I'm quite comfortable in saying that it was a product or an investment opportunity that we had.
	And probably that an understood or fully grasped the extent to which you didn't want to be shown investment opportunity like that one.
	And in any case, this is a deal that we would have never booked or invested in on a discretionary basis in the context of the mandate that you had given us.
	So there are clients that appreciate to be shown opportunities or shown investment ideas, and there are clients that are not because they're not inconsistent with it.
	But in 25 years, nothing like that had ever happened before.
	Right.
	That was a long clip.
	So anyway, that was a long clip.
	But there's a funny thing.
	They start off with their sales for sales.
	They're talking about sales guys, sales guys.
	And then they change it.
	They change the term to investment professional.
	Yes.
	Who is progressing his career.
	Professional investment.
	That's great.
	Anyway, the guy was...
	The whole thing is an hour.
	And it is just one of those meetings that you're just a fly on the wall and you just shake your head the whole time.
	It's just like these guys are trying to sell, sell, sell.
	And he's not...
	He's not even remotely interested in anything they have to sell, so he dumped them.
	Well, this leads me nicely into the next segment, which revolves around the presidential hopeful Congressman Ron Paul.
	Who, now that Newt Gingrich is officially out, is the contender against Mitt Romney.
	And he's been doing some very interesting appearances of late, which I like very much.
	I think it's an interesting strategy.
	First, it was CNBC. He was on The Morning Show as a guest host.
	And then he appeared on Bloomberg Television, which, again, has a rating of asterisk.
	However, a lot of people do watch Bloomberg Television who are in the financial industry and who have access to cash and could possibly support them.
	I kind of like this is surely a Doug Weed strategy.
	Did you see this where it was Paul versus Paul?
	Did you see this particular item?
	No, I did not.
	Ron Paul versus Paul Krugman.
	Now, Paul Krugman is, I believe, a Nobel Prize winning economist who writes for the New York Times, correct?
	Yes.
	Yeah.
	And I think the guy always comes across as a dick.
	Yeah, he does.
	And so there was this tête-à-tête...
	No, he didn't win a Nobel.
	He won a Pulitzer doing this.
	Krugman?
	I thought he...
	No, I'm pretty sure...
	Paul Krugman.
	Let me look him up.
	We have to be accurate.
	We do it in real time, everybody.
	We consult the book of knowledge.
	Oh, here he is.
	Yeah, I thought he was a Nobel Prize winning economist, if I'm not mistaken.
	Public president, yep, yep, informally, oh, he won the Sveriges Riksbach Prize in Economic Sciences, informally the Nobel Prize for Economics.
	Oh, okay, so his credentials are even kind of lame-o.
	But he always comes across as a dick.
	I can't help it.
	He writes stuff.
	I don't know.
	He looks like a douchebag.
	Yeah, he does.
	That's a douchebag beard.
	Douchebag!
	So he's actually in studio, which always gives an upper hand for someone.
	Oh, yeah.
	Yeah, you're in the studio.
	You got the upper hand.
	But this was a very interesting exchange.
	I've cut it down into two pieces, and I'm going to play this first piece, and then I'm going to ask you some questions about it, because you, of course, have studied the Austrian economics, which Ron Paul subscribes to.
	And then we will play clip two, as it turns into a war on history.
	Well, there's certain things.
	You can't leave the government out of monetary policy.
	If you try to think, you know, we're going to just let it set itself, it doesn't happen.
	The government is actually always, the Federal Reserve, the central bank, is always going to be in the business of managing monetary policy.
	If you think that you can avoid that, you're living in the world as it was 150 years ago.
	We have an economy in which money is not just green pieces of paper.
	With faces of dead presidents on it.
	Money is the result of the financial system.
	It includes a variety of assets.
	We're not even quite sure where the line between money and non-money is.
	It's kind of a continuum.
	And look, history tells us that in fact a completely unmanaged economy is subject to extreme...
	Volatility is subject to extreme downturns.
	I know there's this legend that people like probably you, Congressman, have that the Great Depression was somehow caused by the government, caused by the Federal Reserve, but it's not true.
	The reality is that was a market economy run amuck, which happens, happened repeatedly over the past couple of centuries.
	I'm a believer in the market economy.
	I'm a believer in capitalism.
	I want the market economy to be left as free as it can be, but there are limits.
	You do need the government to step in to stabilize.
	Depressions are a bad thing for capitalism, and it's the role of the government to make sure that they don't happen, or if they do happen, that they don't last too long.
	So here, Paul Krugman, the fake Nobel Prize winner.
	Well, we have to remember, right off the bat, He brings in a piece of questionable information that ruins the premise of whatever he's going to say from then on.
	He says the Great Depression happened during the reign of the Federal Reserve, which is supposed to control things to the point where you don't have a Great Depression.
	So his logic is already askew.
	Because, you know, the Federal Reserve is in full force during the Great Depression.
	Oh, yeah.
	And they weren't doing anything to stop the Great Depression.
	No, they triggered it.
	So, well, that's arguable.
	I think it's a cycle, so nobody triggered it.
	But that's another debate.
	So he immediately is dealing with a false premise.
	And so the whole thing, for me at least, right now, is completely off the tracks.
	And he goes on to do two things.
	First, he says, this is the role of government.
	Which I have not read in the Constitution.
	It's not supposed to be the role of our government.
	Would you agree?
	Yeah, I agree with that.
	And with you.
	And the second thing, which was annoying to me, is he pulls out a meme which has been used consistently against the congressman, the next president of the United States.
	He says, you want to take us back 100, 150 years.
	You want to turn back the clock.
	You're living 100 years ago, douche.
	This is something that I've heard over and over again.
	Correct?
	Correct.
	Yeah, and he said 150, which is funny since the Federal Reserve is only 100.
	Yeah, it's not even 100 years old.
	But he does it for effect.
	It's a meme, and they've been using it over and over again.
	Ron Paul, however, was prepared for this.
	Oh yeah?
	I'll take your 100, and I'll do it times 10, bitch!
	And it really destroys an important feature of the economy, and that is savings.
	Savings tells us something, and it tells us if capital is available.
	This notion that capital can come out of the expansion of the money supply is remote.
	Now, Professor Krugman indicates that we just want to go back 100 years or so.
	That is not exactly true.
	We'd like to improve on what was like back then.
	But he wants to go back 1,000 years or 2,000 years, just as the Romans and the Greeks and all other countries debased their currency.
	They didn't have a computer.
	This idea that we need a Federal Reserve to run things, well, or a central bank, that's just a modern era.
	Can you clarify what you mean by go back 1,000 years?
	Is that fair?
	What did the Romans do to their currency?
	The Byzantine Empire had a gold standard for a thousand years and they did quite well and they didn't fight wars.
	But the Roman Empire eventually destroyed their currency.
	They put them wage and price controls before they diluted the metals, they inflated, they thought wealth could come by fooling the people.
	Who would want today, if they had ten years to send their kid to college, would they put their money in gold coins or a treasury bill making one or two percent?
	Take that.
	You silly-ass, fake, noble economist.
	That'll take you a hundred years.
	I'll make it a thousand years.
	I really like that.
	I thought that was a very good point.
	Yeah, it was good.
	It was good, good.
	The 40 people, yourself included, that watched it were probably impressed.
	And you know what Krugman's retort was?
	No, I know what it was.
	It was like, no, I'm not, and so are you, or something like that.
	Yeah, very close to it, yeah.
	They can't keep up with the inflation or the devaluation of the currency.
	There would be nothing there.
	Nobody puts their money in a TV or bond.
	I am not a defender of the economic policies of the Emperor Diocletian.
	I'm not a defender of the Emperor Diocletian.
	Get out there and whoop Obama's behind!
	They should be playing that at rallies for Ron Paul.
	They really, really should.
	You know, that was lame.
	He knew the Diocletian.
	That was really childish.
	That was poor.
	Yeah, because he's a douche.
	I mean, he might as well have just said, whatever.
	Yeah.
	I'm just saying, dude.
	Hey, Ron, I'm just saying, whatever, whatever.
	All right, two more little ditties I've got.
	We have to go a little bit longer, just a little bit because of the amount of donations, or at least until we're tired of each other, which is, that moment is coming.
	Happened.
	Yeah.
	So, a lot of techno-expert stuff going on at Gimmo Nation East in the United Kingdom, as the Pirate Bay has now officially been blocked, or there's now a law that says ISPs, internet service providers, can no longer allow access to the Pirate Bay.
	Which, of course, is laughable, like this is going to stop anything.
	And Virgin Media, of course, Richard Branson, little slut that he is, is right on board with the first ones to block it.
	And there was an interesting conversation on the Today Show.
	The Today program, I should say, in Gitmo Nation East.
	Let me just...
	Let's see, because they had on the guy who's in charge of the, what do you call it, the ISP alliance or whatever, and they had the member of parliament, the woman on, I can't find her name right now, who essentially says we've got to block everything and we've got to stop all this.
	So it's about the Pirate Bay, right?
	It's about the Pirate Bay.
	But what does the conversation turn to within 30 seconds?
	Can you guess?
	No.
	No, yes you can.
	Well, it's a bit as if you're ducking your responsibility here.
	If you know, and everybody does know, that certain websites offer something illegal, why do you not simply block that?
	Why do you need a court to tell you to do that?
	Well, content is...
	There's a variety of contents on the internet.
	There's music, there's films, there's millions of websites.
	And it's not for the ISPs to be the police of all that content out there.
	Why not?
	Why not?
	I mean, you are making it possible for them to do something illegal, whether we're talking about films or music or indeed pornography, hardcore pornography.
	Why should you not put in place restrictions on those people?
	Who is this guy?
	He's the host of Today program.
	But he doesn't stop.
	Now it's all about porn.
	Of your own volition.
	We've worked in lots of places.
	If you look at what the internet industry has done over many, many years to protect children online, a lot of work is done in setting up the Internet Watch Foundation, and that's to do with material that is child abuse material and clearly breaks the law.
	And any child can access pornography tomorrow or today in the next ten minutes at the drop of that.
	They know exactly what to do and how to do it if they can get it because you haven't blocked it.
	You haven't made it impossible for them to get it.
	Oh, won't somebody please think of the children?
	Final thought, sorry, do you accept that the internet is changing?
	Of course it's changing, and it will continue to change, and that's why the ISPs are being very receptive to having these conversations, talking about what is the best way of dealing to protect children, but at the same time to allow people to see content that they want to see that does not break the law.
	John, forgive me for...
	Go on, Claire Curley, very quickly.
	Just to say, I think the time is coming when the internet should not be treated differently from any other form of media.
	We don't accept it with any other media, with telly or mobile phones or anything else.
	Why should the internet be different?
	Argh!
	The guy should go on and say, look, here's the problem.
	You know, yeah, your company can block whatever it wants.
	I'm like the guy who sells ink to the printers.
	I got nothing to do with what they print with it.
	But it's even worse.
	The Member of Parliament said we need to treat it like any other media.
	Yeah, that's what I said, but the ISP is not...
	It's just a neutral...
	It's like the ink manufacturer.
	They got nothing to do with any of this.
	No, of course not.
	You can't look at all the content that's flying by.
	I mean, it's impossible.
	John!
	John!
	Oh!
	Won't somebody please think of the children?
	I didn't know you were good.
	You used it once.
	It was beautiful.
	Then you draw attention to it.
	Yeah, because you're making our point for us again.
	We don't have to do that.
	Of course it's like ink for the printer.
	But the douchebags there consider it to be idiots.
	Who is this idiot?
	A member of parliament.
	Someone in the chat room will know.
	Oh, these are horrible people.
	Why don't you give them a douchebag?
	Yeah.
	Come on, a douchebag!
	Let's give them a douchebag.
	Now, you want to hear some real douchebaggery?
	Haven't...
	Entire months go by that I don't think of flipping to MTV. For good reason.
	Because I'm from Jersey, and Jersey Shore does not represent.
	But there's a...
	There's a program on...
	I don't know if they do this on television or if they only do it on the website.
	It's called MTV's Rap Fix.
	Rap Fix.
	The Rap Fix.
	We're going to fix it.
	And on this program, they had Killer Mike and Prodigy from Mobb Deep.
	You know those guys, right?
	Oh, yeah.
	You're rocking their tunes.
	And the most insanely interesting conversation about Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman.
	And we just got to listen to this, because there are two points of view here, but the things that are being said are mind-boggling.
	I mean, it was definitely a murder.
	You know what I mean?
	That dude.
	Right off the bat, definitely a murder.
	You know that dude?
	That Zimmerman dude, definitely a murder.
	Murdered him in cold blood.
	Cold blood.
	You know, he was out there thinking whatever in his mind that who knows what was going through his mind.
	He was doing out there the dude Zimmerman.
	Dude Zimmerman.
	Hey, the dude Zimmerman.
	Who?
	By the way, that's racial at this point.
	Because you don't say dude to black people, do you now?
	That's a white guy thing.
	A dude Zimmerman.
	This is so wrong that this is being fed to our children.
	I don't know what he thought he was doing, you know what I mean?
	But he murdered that kid for no reason.
	Because, you know, we had the court.
	He murdered the kid for no reason.
	You know what I mean?
	And to me, it's up to the police department out there in Sanford to handle that the right way.
	They were supposed to arrest him.
	You know what I mean?
	Because that's the law in Florida.
	You know, there's self-defense law in Florida, but you've got to prove it was self-defense in court.
	You can't just tell the police, oh, it was self-defense, and then you walk away and they don't arrest you.
	They're supposed to arrest you, and then there's a trial, and you have to prove it was self-defense.
	The burden of proof is on the person that's claiming self-defense.
	Oh, this is new!
	The burden of proof is on the charged.
	This is being fed to our children, John, through popular rap music, the bad old rap music, and it gets better.
	I mean, doesn't that, you know, I don't know law.
	I didn't study law, so...
	It's not like that in the South.
	Now, here's Killer Mike.
	Killer Mike is better.
	No, it's not like that in the South.
	Georgia has the same law.
	It's one committee that writes these laws, and what they do is they target states where the gun lobby is strong, and they know they can get it passed.
	In Georgia, if you make me feel threatened, I can legally kill you.
	The problem is these idiots who we have supposedly leaders of the black community, they tell you to de-arm yourself when you should be arming yourself.
	If you live below the Mason-Dixie line, gun laws allow for you to arm yourself.
	You should be armed.
	You know what I mean?
	Because we live in a state where we are hunted.
	Oh, God!
	We live in a state in Georgia where we are hunted.
	Really?
	They're just hunted?
	I'd name the state of Georgia if I was being hunted constantly.
	I do agree, though.
	You said, yeah, you should definitely be armed.
	Absolutely.
	That'll even everything out.
	It's like Texas.
	Everyone's armed.
	Everyone's polite.
	There's no problem going on.
	This is being broadcast to children.
	No.
	I'm telling you, this is doomed.
	All we're doing is we're painting the end of times on this show.
	Painting the end of times.
	Well, if you're in Boston, next time you take the subway, the metro, you know what the Department of Homeland Security is planning on doing?
	In Boston at the metro?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	What?
	The Department of Homeland Security has installed sensors in the MBTA system to detect biological agents, and they've been testing to see how the air moves.
	Now they want to release particles in the tunnels to see how well the sensors work.
	I wonder why they have to test it live like this.
	I don't know.
	Can they test it somewhere else?
	Not where there's actual people around.
	Federal officials tell us they plan to test the subway sensors by releasing a bacteria that they say is used in food supplements.
	They say it's been rigorously tested and has no adverse health effects for low exposure with healthy people.
	Is there any risk for us?
	You know, they say for healthy people, who are the majority of the riders on the subway too?
	So, I'm so-so.
	I'm not too, too worried about the test because they have really rigorous hoops they have to jump through, I'm sure.
	And I think I would trust those hoops, personally.
	Trust the hoops!
	Now, federal officials tell me that they plan to release this bacteria during off-peak hours, probably overnight.
	Now, they are inviting the public to give input.
	This is required by law.
	They've also set up a hearing so that people can come and ask questions and voice their opinions that will be here in Cambridge on May 16th.
	And for more information on all of this, you can log on to our website.
	Yeah.
	Here's my input.
	Don't do it!
	This is a very bad idea.
	This has been done before.
	This was done in the, I think, the 50s maybe, in different parts of the country.
	They're always testing.
	And people get sick because there's a bunch of people who are allergic to some of these things.
	It turns out to be a fiasco.
	Shall I tell you what the bacteria is?
	I'm looking for it now.
	What is it?
	B. subtilis, as in Bacillus subtilis.
	Also known as the hay bacillus or grass bacillus, a gram-positive, catalase-positive bacteria commonly found in soil.
	Unlike several other well-known species, B. sublux has historically been classified as an obligate aerobe, and apparently it will kill old people.
	Well, maybe that's what they're trying to do.
	Maybe this is a cover-up for just killing some of the old people in Boston.
	They're annoying.
	Well, the thing is, it stays around.
	It reproduces for decades.
	It doesn't go away.
	Oh, yeah.
	The whole subway system will stink.
	Does it have a smell?
	I'm sure.
	After it starts reproducing and kind of malforming into some sort of...
	And it rots when it dies like anything else.
	A dead bacteria smell.
	Hmm.
	It can remain viable for decades and is resistant to unfavorable environmental conditions.
	But that one woman says, oh, we can trust them.
	This is like that bonehead I had on the clip show, but we had him before.
	It says, with the lisp, this kid, oh, you know, what else can we do?
	Let him test us.
	Let him strip us at the airports.
	Let him x-ray us.
	And so you guys better be safe than sorry.
	These kinds of people.
	Well, this also is a potential for a false flag.
	This happens very often when there's a test and we'll set up a drill and then all of a sudden, oh, it's real.
	Someone put some real bad crap down there.
	That is possible.
	Don't know if it's going to happen, but it's possible.
	However, what we really need to be freaked out about is that the H5N1 paper is going to be published.
	In fact, the headline from Time, another compromised news source, says, H5N1 paper published, deadly transmissible bird flu could be closer than thought.
	This is the scientist, one from University of Wisconsin, and the Dutch scientist from Erasmus University in Rotterdam.
	They're going to publish...
	The paper on how to make the bird flu-swine flu combo.
	Yeah, so we can kill everyone.
	Yeah.
	So look for a lot of stories about dying of bird flu and probably ramping up some vaccines or something or doing something nice about that.
	What's interesting, and I'm following this, not for this show, but the way that...
	The medical journal system is effed.
	Do you know anything about this?
	How Elsevier, who publishes these, they charge universities for the publishing.
	Yeah, and then you had to get a subscription, which cost a fortune.
	You know what it cost to subscribe to Nature magazine?
	$40,000 a year.
	Yeah.
	$40,000 a year.
	But they charge by each subscriber.
	So you pay for your subscription, but if you're...
	If your paper is published, so first it goes through a peer review, which is anonymous, so that can be rigged, you know, payoffs, etc.
	Then they publish it.
	You, as the university that publishes, has to pay $30 per recipient of the paper.
	Wow, that's high.
	Yeah, that's crazy.
	Yeah, there's your CPM. Yeah.
	It's not a cost per thousand.
	What's the cost per thousand on that?
	Multiply $30,000 is your CPM. I have no idea how many people subscribe, but I was like, wow, that's pretty out there.
	Reading some of the stuff about, during a Senate hearing in 1977, it was revealed that the Pentagon had conducted numerous secret germ attacks on cities without public knowledge in an effort to test the threat posed by biological agents.
	In other words, this isn't anything new.
	These tests may have caused outbreaks of disease, which occurred in some of the test areas, writes Leonard A. Cole, citing a Senate inquiry.
	Since the 1940s, the military and the CIA have conducted numerous tests on the American people, including the release of dengue fever-carrying mosquitoes in Georgia and Florida.
	Woot!
	Oh, man.
	Love it.
	So here's...
	I don't know if you received this.
	I got a lot of these.
	Apparently, nuclear experts from the US and Japan, such as Robert Alvarez of the Institute for Policy Studies, have sent an urgent letter to United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, who are warning about the high risk of the Fukushima Unit 4 spent nuclear fuel pool.
	That one more earthquake and the whole world is going to die of radiation.
	Yeah, I saw this.
	Now this is everywhere.
	You can just Google...
	It's a meme.
	Well, no, it's a copy-paste thing.
	Well, it's becoming a meme.
	So I consulted our resident nuclear power expert, Atomic Rod, and he sent me the American Nuclear Society Fukushima Daiichi ANS Committee report.
	And nothing could be further from the truth, according to the report.
	And I tend to believe the report.
	Here's just two quick notes from it.
	You mean you believe the report from a source that we trust, as opposed to some hysteric making it up?
	Well, let me tell you about the hysteric in a minute.
	First, let me give you the details of the report.
	Then I'll tell you about this guy, Robert Alvarez, because I figured out some stuff about him.
	Fukushima Daiichi's Unit 4 spent fuel pool has been carefully inspected by seismic engineers.
	Where necessary, structural reinforcement was added.
	Qualified engineers believe that the pool and its supports are sound.
	It would not be affected if an earthquake the size of the one, which was unique, which could happen in another 1,800 years unless an earthquake machine is turned on again.
	The initial event occurred right at the site of the reactor, so it would be very interesting if it happened again at the exact same spot, the exact same magnitude.
	And from the report...
	In April, a concern developed centered around the strength of the structure supporting Unit 4 SFP. Between May 31st and June 20th, steel support pillars were installed to provide protection against damage that might result from additional seismic events.
	And from that report, Robert Alvarez has deemed everything to be so dangerous, we're going to die, that we have this meme to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.
	Let me tell you about Robert Alvarez.
	He was a music major in college before he dropped out.
	And he is the resident nuclear expert at the Institute for Policy Studies.
	You should take a look at this outfit.
	It's ips-dc.org.
	Huge.
	Harry Belafonte is on the board of trustees.
	But here's what's interesting.
	Well, that's a giveaway.
	He was the head of the Department of Energy during the Clinton administration, but was fired from that job after his teenage daughter turned him in for growing dozens of pot plants in their basement.
	More interesting...
	He got married in that time, just before he was appointed the Department of Energy chief.
	He was married to an anti-nuclear activist lawyer who represented Karen Silkwood in the famous Silkwood case against Kerr McGee.
	Yeah.
	This guy is a total inside douchebag shill.
	I hear Alex Jones trying to sell iodine pills.
	This is not going to happen.
	This is only, and if you look at IPS, it's a big Agenda 21 corporation.
	I'm looking at it.
	It is totally.
	Ideas into action for peace, justice, and the environment, sustainability.
	This is a war against a cheap...
	It could eventually be cheap.
	A cheap, clean fuel.
	And I'm becoming more and more of a nuke guy, I have to say.
	I mean, I'm no nuclear scientist.
	I don't see Dame Astrid and Sir Mark dying of radiation.
	How many people were killed outside of the explosion there in Fukushima?
	None.
	No one died from radiation.
	There were a few who could maybe have 1% more developing cancer in their life.
	Well, sucks.
	This is where that report comes from, this blog.
	It's not a blog, this is a huge operation, John.
	It's not just a blog.
	We'll look into this in the days ahead to see what these people are.
	These guys are absolute, total douchebags.
	But beware, because people send me this stuff saying, oh, we're all going to die, Fukushima.
	No, the media's not reporting on it.
	I'm sorry.
	My bullshit detector...
	Yeah, I'm always disappointed when people take something that's superficial.
	I mean, we try to make it clear that everything is bullcrap until you look into it.
	But then they would take some rumor floating around from this maniac, you know, this literal hysteric, And then they would pass it on to us as if there was some scandal going on.
	Yeah, the scandal is that you've been hook, line, and sinkered yourself, listener.
	And you should rethink how you're approaching these information items.
	You're approaching them wrong.
	In other words, once we go away, you're doomed.
	And it works the other way, too.
	This is another one that I got.
	We're going exactly the opposite direction.
	Headline, when farms can cause climate change, finds new study.
	Isn't this great?
	Everyone's like, hey, look, wind farms, climate change!
	Again, you've been duped.
	So everyone copy-paste this headline.
	So that was the Telegraph in the UK. Here is earthsky.org.
	So this is all people anti-nuclear and wind.
	And it says, you know how you can use a ceiling fan to pull warm air down from the top of a room in winter?
	Which, by the way, I'm a pilot.
	I've flown, you know, for every thousand feet, it's two degrees colder.
	So I don't know what you're talking about.
	NASA announced on April 29th, wind farms in Texas might be doing something similar.
	They appear to be acting as fans to pull warmer air closer to Earth's surface at night.
	As a result, according to the study of satellite data, whose results were released yesterday, An area of west central Texas covered by four large wind farms warmed to a rate of.72 degrees.
	And was like, oh, look, look, look, wind is bad.
	If you actually look at the report, this is what you need to do.
	Go to nasa.gov, look for the report.
	I know it's a pain in the ass.
	You've got to use their search, or maybe Google won't find it because the only thing that's out there is this.
	A little caveat in the report.
	The warming estimate applies specifically to this particular region and covers a time when wind farms were expanding rapidly.
	This estimate should not be considered directly applicable for other landscapes and regions, nor should it be extrapolated over a longer period of time as the warming would likely plateau rather than continue to increase if no new wind turbines are added.
	The warming is also considered a local effect, not one that would contribute to a larger global trend.
	That's the actual report.
	So you've got to be very, very careful.
	And I know a lot of blogs out there, you know, this is, I think, why you come to No Agenda, they'll be like, hey, look, Wayne sucks.
	It might suck, but not because of this study.
	Not because of this study.
	That's the point.
	I like wind as an alternative source, but having been in the Holland Wind areas where they have the big ones, those big monsters, those things make a creepy noise that really just drives humans away.
	I mean, it's just not a good sound.
	Well, if we're fortunate enough to build our container home where we want it here, and I've put in a low bid because, frankly, what can I afford?
	And the land is owned by a trust, so they don't give a crap.
	Who knows if that happens?
	But it borders on a bird preserve.
	I'll bet you, $50 right now, because that's all I can muster, That if I put up a windmill, they're going to force me to take it down because I'm killing birds.
	Yeah, killing birds.
	Which, by the way, when I was in Holland, where they have these big monsters, and we went to giant wind farms, I never saw one dead bird.
	I mean, you think you'd be a dead bird down at the bottom, don't you think?
	Down at the bottom of the base?
	A couple of dead ones.
	Yeah, a couple of dead.
	There's no dead birds.
	We're the dead birds.
	Where's all the dead birds?
	I was expecting to see piles of pelicans.
	Piles of pelicans.
	You have created so many amazing show titles this time around, John.
	It was really good.
	All right, so...
	Wait, before we go out or start to wrap, we've got to mention something I keep forgetting to mention.
	Unfortunately, it's so late in the show, we have to do it again.
	To the artists, do not...
	Give us art that has the two of us in the art.
	We did that for a whole year, the early days of the art, for the album covers.
	And we stopped it.
	If you haven't noticed, there hasn't been a picture of Adam and myself on the album cover for two, two and a half years.
	I don't know about that.
	One might have crept in, John.
	Okay, maybe.
	I'm not sure about that.
	I don't remember one recently.
	But whatever the case is, stop doing that and give us clever art that relates to the show or some pun or something.
	I mean, Nick Durrett is a good guy to take a look at his stuff because he does, generally speaking, quite amusing pieces that are all...
	Thorin is also quite good recently.
	Anyway, so finally, there's one meme going around that I want to mention, which was I couldn't figure out where this meme was coming from, but people kept bringing it up.
	And apparently it comes from Morgan Stanley, I believe, and who I didn't realize this, but it's explained in this little clip, which is Morgan Stanley has been following Congress, I guess, since, I don't know, the 1800s.
	In terms of how people are voting?
	Because this meme has come up with, oh, we haven't had this kind of a Congress since 1870.
	And I said, well, who's making this stuff up?
	It's actually a fact.
	Play this.
	Political problem, but the political problems are very dominating.
	That as a result of the last four years, our politics have actually become more polarized, less communication, less ability to work across party lines than it was in 2007-2008.
	Actually, than it was in 1870.
	We do this count of the party-line votes in the House and Senate, and we are as polarized in our history as from, I think it's 1870 onward in the House, rather than the Senate, and just at the previous peak, which was arguing about Reconstruction.
	So I just found it to be a curious fact that they actually have been...
	Morgan Stanley, the big investment house, has actually been monitoring this for some investment purposes, obviously.
	And it's true.
	We haven't had a Congress this bad since 1870.
	That's it?
	That's your encore?
	That's your goodbye swan song?
	That's how we leave everybody with that?
	I thought it was uplifting.
	Okay, you finish then.
	Look at that sigh, a teenage girl's sigh.
	I bought the Samsung Galaxy Note.
	Oh, why?
	Why?
	You're an iPad guy.
	No, no, no, no, no.
	I haven't used the iPad other than for jingles, and I haven't used the iPhone ever since you gave me that Google phone.
	I've been using that one, and that was just...
	It was just becoming too slow.
	It was a very good phone.
	It's just becoming too slow.
	So you got that kind of that mid-sized thing that Samsung has, that big phone?
	It's outstanding.
	You and Leo...
	Yeah, apparently Leo likes it too.
	It's an outstanding device.
	It's very fast.
	I don't think I need any tablet.
	It's a perfect size.
	I mean, I have big hands, so that works.
	It's huge.
	And you put it up to your head and people are like, whoa.
	Yeah, what's wrong with this guy?
	I don't make many phone calls.
	You don't call me, no one calls me.
	So that's an uplifting way to go.
	So you like that thing too?
	No, I love it.
	I don't like it.
	I love it.
	That's a head shaker for me because I've played with it.
	I mean, I don't see anything wrong with the Nexus S, the one that you now think is too slow or whatever.
	It's too slow and too small.
	I like the size.
	It's light.
	You can put it in a shirt pocket.
	It doesn't make your shirt say.
	Yeah, but you only actually use it to make phone calls.
	I mean, I use my phone throughout the entire day.
	I'm on my phone all the time to collect stories from NoAgendaNewsNetwork.com.
	I can't have these little teeny keyboards making me mad, so now I have a much bigger keyboard.
	It's virtual, but it's a much bigger keyboard.
	And much more...
	I mean, I'm old now.
	I'm going to be 48 in September, so I have a harder time seeing.
	It's relaxing my shoulders.
	I'm not scrunched up all that much.
	It's very, very good.
	You should give it a try.
	You really should.
	And the LTE, by the way, that might save our ass one day.
	I get 20 megabits down on that phone.
	5 megabits up.
	Don't you get capped, like, right away?
	I haven't had long enough to know.
	I have unlimited bandwidth, whatever that means.
	Well, I played with the phone, Leo's, and I do have a gag for people.
	I played it on him and he managed to get out of it.
	When you borrow somebody's phone...
	Lock it.
	No, well, you could do that, but no, I think it's better.
	You go and you go to the language and change the language to Greek.
	Because it's very hard to figure out what button to push to get it back, right?
	Yeah.
	And everything's in Greek.
	This is why I don't invite you over to the house.
	Probably.
	Probably one of the reasons.
	You do this nasty crap like that.
	Alright, it's a great gag.
	Eh, hilarious.
	Anyway, that's an uplifting way to get out.
	And a reminder, time sheets are due next Tuesday.
	If you want your healthcare benefits, John.
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