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439: Struggling Masses

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	I'm like the canary in the coal mine here.
	Well, yeah, something.
	Adam Curry, John C. Devorak.
	It's Thursday, August 30th, 2012.
	Time for your Gitmo Nation media assassination episode 439er.
	This is No Agenda.
	We're a denying medievalist here in the capital of the drone star state, Austin Tejas.
	In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where we got screwed out of the Republican Convention, I'm John C. Dvorak.
	It's Crack Law and Buzzkill in the morning.
	What do you mean you got screwed out of the Republican Convention?
	That's all I've seen anywhere.
	No, it was supposed to be in Sunnyvale.
	Oh!
	I felt I got screwed because my C-SPAN got hijacked by this bullcrap.
	But only one of the channels.
	Yeah, but the other ones, they're running, like, the equivalent of...
	Book TV. Yeah, exactly.
	I love Lucy reruns.
	Come on.
	And I have a book out this week.
	I know.
	I'll be discussing the interlude between World War I and the meetings of the...
	Yeah, exactly.
	How can book TV be so, sometimes they've got good people on, but so boring.
	It's rare.
	They do.
	Every once in a while.
	I have a bunch of book TV stuff that I've kept.
	But it's like, it goes on for days and most of it is just dreadful.
	Yeah.
	So I have a little problem today.
	I'm kind of in a conundrum.
	I might as well tell you right up front just so you know.
	A conundrum?
	I don't think it's a conundrum.
	I have an issue.
	Diarrhea.
	No, I don't have that.
	That's good.
	That's a plus.
	We can just chalk that one off.
	No, it's not diarrhea.
	Would you like to guess what it is, John?
	What is it?
	If it was diarrhea, then we'd probably delay the show.
	No, you know...
	We could do the show from the bathroom.
	Yeah, we could.
	Now that's dick.
	And yeah...
	Okay, you threw me off here.
	No, I was going to say something serious.
	You know, Miss Mickey and I, as a wedding gift to each other, we decided to quit smoking.
	Oh, here we go.
	Well, that didn't last, did it?
	What do you mean?
	Did you quit?
	Yeah, yeah, we quit.
	But we only quit a day ago.
	Oh, you only quit a day ago.
	Yeah, but that's not the issue.
	What I'd forgotten about is...
	And by the way, this is going to be easy for me.
	This time, I'm done.
	It feels just like I quit weed.
	Not a problem.
	Not a problem.
	Because I know the trick in how to do this.
	But...
	What I'd forgotten is that when you smoke, particularly, you know, and I was always smoking during the show, you know, you could hear the light.
	Whenever I started a clip, I'd fire up.
	I forgot what it does to your eyesight.
	What does it do?
	Oh, well, I mean, you got nicotine and all kinds of stuff moving through your blood vessels, so it changes the focal point of your eyes.
	So you got blurry vision?
	Yes.
	Well, close up, I can't see the controls.
	What?
	Is that bad?
	Well, the only other way is I'd have to take off my glasses and sit really close.
	But then, you know, I'm like a moron.
	I mean, it's too close.
	This has got to be hilarious to watch.
	It's not funny.
	No, it's not.
	Because if I'm here...
	Yeah, it sounds like you need to go back to the optometrist and get a different prescription.
	Yeah.
	But do you think it'll adjust after a little while, or should I just, I'd probably just have to go?
	Well, I'd give it a week.
	I mean, but after a week, if it doesn't adjust by then, I would suspect that it's not going to adjust.
	So literally, if I'm looking at your clip list, I mean, I can see it okay, but anyway.
	So I am impaired while driving the show today.
	Okay, well, we'll take that into account when you hit the wrong clip over and over.
	I am visually impaired during this show.
	In the morning to you, Adam Curry, in the morning to all ships to sea, boots on the ground, subs in the water, and to our knights.
	Yes.
	For example, our knights who have maintained a high category of support for the show, and we appreciate the fact that they are knights indeed.
	Indeed we do.
	And I'd also like to wish a hearty in the morning to all of the human resources in our chat room today, noagendastream.com, noagendachat.net.
	Good to see you all charged up and ready to go.
	It's always fun when we stream this program twice a week, Thursday morning, 9 a.m., Gitmo Nation West time, and Sunday morning.
	A couple of shows upcoming I'll be doing from a hotel room.
	All right, we were going to discuss that a little bit.
	Yeah, well, just a little bit.
	Miss Mickey has been picked up by a gallery.
	She has representation, which is, of course, very excited.
	And now she has a couple shows, one in L.A., one in D.C. But I also, on the...
	Do you remember when, last year on the Hot Pockets Tour, we were in Chicago for...
	How was it?
	Chuck?
	Producer Chuck out there?
	You don't remember.
	No, I don't remember.
	I don't remember even going to Chicago.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, there were about, I don't know, 40 people at the meetup.
	Yeah, we were in Chicago.
	So, you know, they kind of wrangled me into being a speaker at the CUSP conference.
	CUSP? CUSP? C-U-S-P. CUSP. Oh, CUSP. CUSP. As in CUSP. Yeah, CUSP. Does that have something to do with cussing?
	No, I wish.
	It's, uh, no, it's like a, I don't know what it is.
	It's like, uh, it's kind of like a Ted without the stigma.
	Does that sound right?
	I didn't know stigma was speaking this on Ted.
	Yeah, he's driving the stigma.
	Anyway, Miss Mickey wrangled me into it because all she wanted to do was just go to a city where they have an H&M, I think.
	But anyway, so there will be a couple of shows.
	H&M's over the hills.
	You should mention that to her.
	No, no, no, no.
	H&M is the only...
	No, no.
	H&M is very important for her.
	It's good because they have her sizes and it's cheap.
	So I'm looking at the website, the CUSP Conference.
	2012 is coming up in September.
	September 18th.
	Helicopters, the definition of independent design of everything.
	It's a design conference of some sort.
	Herman Miller is one of the sponsors.
	Brand Trust.
	Motographics.
	AV Chicago.
	Design Chat.
	I think as a reward for speaking, I get one of those chairs.
	You get a chair?
	Yeah.
	Really?
	Yeah.
	That's not a bad thing.
	Those chairs are not cheap.
	No, I think those chairs are probably a thousand bucks.
	Let's see who the presenters are in the next cusp.
	Really?
	Let me guess.
	Adam Curry?
	Come on, I'm on there.
	Are you going to speak at this one coming up?
	Yes!
	Oh, because you're going to be up there with Joel Bacon.
	Yeah.
	And Marco Began.
	Who are these people?
	Began for mercy.
	Who are these people?
	Anthony Black.
	Anthony Black.
	Of the Black Brothers.
	Of the Black Tones.
	Brian Christie.
	I think I'm headlining.
	Surrounded by his mother's oil paintings.
	I think I'm headlining this, man.
	You're way down the list.
	It's done alphabetically, buddy.
	I know.
	Barbara Coombs Lee, president of Compassionate Choices.
	Oh, that's going to be very entertaining.
	Oh, there you are.
	Right after Coombs.
	Adam Curry.
	It's not easy being a media assassin.
	Adam Curry watches C-SPAN so you don't have to.
	I didn't write that.
	And then it says more.
	And I click on that.
	Hey, John.
	Holy crap.
	There's a bunch of stuff.
	Entrenched in the media business most of his life.
	Adams started in radio at the age of 15.
	Working in Dutch pirate radio and television before becoming widely known for his 1987-94 stint as an MTV VJ where he interviewed countless stars including Michael Jackson and Paul McGregor.
	Don, why are you doing this?
	I don't know.
	Is it funny to you?
	There's no mention of no agenda.
	Really?
	Yeah, it is.
	Not at the bottom.
	Yeah, it is.
	Currently a self-titled government legislator.
	No, I've been listening to Democracy Now.
	It says no we're doing that.
	Have you ever noticed that woman talks like Walter Cronkite?
	No.
	Last summer, he toured the U.S. to meet and talk personally with his listeners, whom he calls producers.
	To get a deeper sense of the impact of his efforts to help people understand what drives the media and the future of the value-for-value model.
	It's kind of a non-sequitur, but it's okay.
	I didn't write it.
	I know.
	I didn't even tell.
	I don't even know what I'm doing, what I'm going to talk about.
	I know.
	What?
	What you should talk about.
	What?
	You should talk about deconstructing all sorts of information, including the information on this page.
	Yeah.
	Let me start with deconstructing this actual piece about me.
	Yeah, no, that would be your show.
	Are you going to be before or after Tom Zaki?
	I have no idea, and I think I'm done with the topic, actually.
	Okay.
	I think I'm kind of done.
	Well, good luck to you.
	Yeah, thank you.
	It was just a little programming note.
	That's all that it was, John.
	How are you going to get the chair home?
	That's my question.
	I don't know.
	We'll package it up with the big box of H&M clothing this Mickey's bringing.
	I'm sure it'll fit.
	You missed last year.
	You missed artist, comic creator, and entrepreneur Molly Crabapple.
	Are you done?
	Yeah.
	With ridiculing?
	Ridiculing what I'm doing?
	Let's go right to the top of the...
	There's a real long line of people who are ridiculing me this week, so if you feel that you want to be in front...
	Who's ridiculing you?
	Really?
	You're asking me this?
	Seriously?
	You live under a rock?
	Yes.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	We're dropping anything to do with you, the rest of the show.
	So did you see the front page of today's New York Times?
	No, I did not, John.
	Why don't you tell me what is on the front page of today's New York Times?
	Go to your email and open the picture.
	The New York Times does apparently not think much of Paul Ryan.
	Now, wait a minute.
	Now, did you actually scan the front page of the New York Times?
	No, they actually have it on the website.
	Oh, well, then why did I... It's very hard to find.
	Why do I have to go to the emails?
	Well, because it might be easier to find.
	Okay, I got it.
	Paper.
	All right.
	Oh, it's a link!
	That's what we call a hyperlink.
	Okay.
	Yeah.
	You know how they work.
	Okay.
	Yeah.
	Front page scan.
	I wish I could see it.
	Ryan...
	Wait a minute.
	Is he in hell?
	Well, let's look at it from a couple of different perspectives.
	People that watch, you've got to get a hold of the Thursday New York Times.
	There's a picture of Paul Ryan.
	He looks like a little kid.
	Divorced from the crowd of, I guess, the devil or whatever.
	I never thought about the hell angle, but there you go.
	Remember, this is with my weird eyesight today, and all I see is like some Beelzebub-looking shadowy figures in the background.
	His head down at the bottom of the frame, by the way, which is a very weird thing to do.
	And then it just looks like red hellfire in the background.
	Yeah.
	Oh.
	Let me see if I can get it from the New York Times homepage.
	You're not going to get it any bigger.
	So what do you...
	You think they don't like him?
	Is that what you're saying?
	That picture would indicate to me that they don't like him.
	You don't put a picture like that on the front page of the paper.
	It's not flattering.
	Look, I got a real problem with...
	This has really been driving me nuts, and it's...
	We have been divided.
	We've talked about this before on the show.
	We have been divided to such an extent that I don't even know where to begin.
	But all I see is people calling each other names, making fun of each other, trying to make really funny jokes.
	This, I think, falls in that category.
	You're like, I got a good idea.
	Let's put a picture of him in hell.
	These are just...
	This whole Republican National Convention, it's ludicrous.
	All it is is just people just name-calling.
	I hate it.
	Oh, I hate it so much.
	And everyone's like...
	Have you been looking at Twitter?
	It used to be you could go on Twitter, you could get some trending stuff, and then you would kind of know what people are talking about.
	Now, Twitter has sold hashtag RNC2012 And so everything you see under that hashtag, which has a whole special look and feel, by the way, is clearly monitored and vetted, so there's not really any negative things going through.
	And they have like, you know, RNCLive hashtag, which will trend for a minute.
	It's nothing but people just saying, oh, I see white people who can't dance.
	Oh, they hate black people.
	It's like, ugh.
	It's just everything is racist.
	And they're stupid.
	They're dumb.
	They're lame.
	What idiots.
	Of course, they do.
	But that's not the point.
	That's all that people are talking about.
	And it has got me boxed in.
	I just feel I couldn't.
	I had to stop.
	I could not watch it anymore.
	I couldn't watch Twitter.
	I couldn't watch television.
	And there was nothing else on.
	I flipped the C-SPAN. You're right.
	Book TV. But it is so low, how we have sung.
	Divided, we will fall.
	We have gotten to this point, and maybe it's just techno experts who are doing this, and I'm sure there's a lot of that.
	The political parties have bots and paying people to do this stuff.
	But it's really rude.
	All we do is we're just a nation of name callers.
	That's what we've resorted to.
	Yeah, and it's a form of bullying, if you think about it.
	A form of?
	It is bullying.
	Yeah.
	So let's...
	So the latest is Believe in America is a promoted, which is the latest hashtag.
	So I just clicked on it to see what it is.
	It's promoted by Mitt Romney, apparently.
	And so I go down and you...
	So anyone could actually put a tweet up with hashtag Believe in America.
	And here's one I have to give credit for.
	From Lee Galize.
	Lee Galize.
	One love is his name, but it's at Lee, L-E-E, underlying Galize.
	Mm-hmm.
	The day they hashtag legalize marijuana is the day I'll hashtag believe in America.
	Good for you, buddy!
	That was an actual promoted one.
	But see, now what's gone is RNC. None of that's there anymore.
	Oh, weird.
	Because they had a whole different skin that would pop up.
	Yeah, I didn't get that.
	But literally, John, I had to look.
	You used to be able to sample the Twitter and you'd get a feel of what people were saying.
	It's either all negative or all positive based upon the hashtag.
	We're so lost.
	We're so out of control.
	We are so doomed.
	And I called Uncle Don yesterday.
	Oh.
	Yeah.
	Because, you know...
	Did he tell you to go visit Bobby?
	Bobby?
	No, no, no.
	So I called him because we're still having problems getting Christina's passport.
	And, you know, I'm like, okay, I'm going to call in the big guns.
	I'm calling in big former ambassador.
	Can you rebrief us on why Christina doesn't have a passport?
	Because she lost her.
	Her passport was stolen.
	This is the second time that she's had a passport replaced.
	She lost one previously.
	But the problem is everything was stolen, so she has no picture ID. You cannot get a picture ID without a picture ID, apparently.
	Yes, Catch-22 is a beauty.
	So she doesn't exist.
	By the way, I recommend to everybody who, when somebody says, has a picture ID, please, I give them my Costco card.
	Very good.
	So her mom even went with her to the passport office.
	So she has birth certificates, she has social security numbers, she's got rental agreements, all this stuff.
	And then they say, no, we need some school records from New Jersey.
	So anyway, so I placed two calls.
	Actually, I found the principal of her.
	I called the school.
	The principal picked up.
	He wasn't principal when we lived there.
	I actually know the guy.
	He's hooked me up.
	What?
	Yeah.
	I called the principal of her school.
	He's hooked you up?
	Yeah, with some school records.
	Okay.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	But I called Uncle Don because I figured, you know, if anyone can pull some strings for me, it's Uncle Don.
	You know, former ambassador, major CIA player, security advisor to Bush Sr.
	You think the guy can arrange some crap for me, John?
	Oh, absolutely.
	There's no doubt in my mind he can.
	So Uncle Don, of course, is already aware of the passport problem.
	So I call him.
	Uncle Don's not 84.
	Leave a message.
	He calls me back.
	Adam!
	How are you doing?
	I love the picture.
	You got a beautiful guy.
	You love him.
	We just love the pictures of the wedding.
	How can I help you?
	Everything fine?
	Everyone okay?
	This is his agency talking.
	I love how he does that.
	And you know he's taking notes.
	Our old habits are hard to break.
	He'll be the first to tell you.
	Yeah, it's about Christina's passport.
	I said, you know, we're having a real problem.
	He says, ah, hire a lawyer.
	I said, that's your recommendation?
	Hire a lawyer ever since all that crap from Department of Homeland Security came in.
	These people are trained to be a-holes.
	They're trained to say no.
	Forget it.
	I can't pull any strings.
	You've got to hire a lawyer.
	Cut the Gordian knot.
	This is the guy who can pick up the phone and call presidents.
	Well, that's a lot different than DH. Apparently!
	He says, that box is closed.
	No string pulling, nothing I can do.
	Is that incredible or what?
	Well, it actually fits into my current world view, so I don't think it's that incredible.
	I was like, wow, okay.
	I mean, this is like that new SEAL book that came out, which everybody's upset about.
	I went back on them and said, look, this was written by the Department of Defense.
	It wasn't written by, you know, maybe the guy has it.
	Does anyone actually believe that this is real?
	Yeah!
	Almost every journalist in the country believes it's real.
	Right.
	Because it's on paper, it's published, and they...
	I'm just saying.
	I don't.
	I think it's something scammish about it.
	Yeah, for instance, the part where they trash the president.
	Of course it's scammish.
	You know, we have this whole organization, this super PAC, which is, uh, we talked about it the other day.
	You know, they're the former SEALs Special Forces Against Obama, or whatever it's called.
	Uh...
	This is a swift boating.
	Exactly, swift boating.
	You want to explain swift boating for people outside of these shores who may not understand what that is?
	Yeah, swift boating was a technique.
	Now it's considered a technique, but it was invented by some Texas hotshots, some rich guys in Texas trying to undermine the John Kerry movement.
	I guess it was 2004 when he was running against George Bush.
	And so they created a...
	They found some guys that happened to be in the same command in Vietnam that Kerry was in.
	And they ran a bunch of...
	And advertisements, super PAC-type advertisements that weren't controlled supposedly by the Republicans, going on and on about how they were a swift boat.
	And he was in an assignment that was called a swift boat.
	And the swift boat were these little patrol boats that went up and down the Mekong Delta or whatever.
	And Kerry won some sort of a Purple Heart or something, got shot, I guess.
	But these guys went on and on about it.
	I never saw him.
	It was bullcrap that he was a big hero.
	I don't know why he even got an award.
	And it was all these guys, former boatmates, you know.
	Boatmate, yeah.
	The guy's a loser.
	He stinks.
	He's not even an American.
	We think he was a spy for the Vietnamese.
	I mean, it was just one horrible thing after another to discredit him.
	But look how far we've sunk, really, in the script where, you know, that was Kerry saying, you know, I was there on the boat.
	Now we're down to a fictional Al-Qaeda guy who had already been dead with, you know, we have, like, fictional all kinds of stealth helicopters with SEAL team members who apparently had already died in a Chinook crash now coming out and saying the guy was, I mean, come on!
	By the way, remember that's What was it when they all died in the Chinook craft?
	Remember that?
	Yeah, I thought they were all gone.
	Like a year and a half ago.
	How does that mesh with...
	Does anybody ever do any research on this?
	How does that mesh with the latest indicator that the guy who actually shot bin Laden died?
	Right.
	That was a story just two weeks ago.
	That was a couple weeks ago, right?
	Yeah.
	Well, I thought he already died in the Chinook crash.
	Yeah.
	Oh, John, please don't try and be rational, because that would not be on board with the program.
	Shut up, Slade.
	Now we've got this new guy.
	We've got the new guy who had an alias, who, of course, we figured out who it was.
	Actually, my favorite thing is that the Department of Defense confirmed his alias.
	What?
	How would they know unless they're in on it?
	It's all meant to confuse us.
	Well, this is very confusing.
	Maybe there's somebody listening to us right now going, what are these two idiots talking about?
	No one can explain this.
	There's a book that came out, supposedly, about the real true story about the assassination of bin Laden.
	No, no, it wasn't assassination.
	Excuse me.
	Okay, about the murder.
	It was the capture.
	Yeah, murder.
	Capture and murder.
	That would be close.
	Capture and murder have been lied.
	And the whole thing is about how Obama lied to the public about the actual chronology.
	Yeah.
	And the whole thing is like, oh, please.
	So, let me just play a clip just to break this up.
	So, I did record one thing.
	Now, did you see the Ann Romney speech?
	Are you going to play some from the convention?
	Because before you do, I think I have a clip that precludes it.
	Okay.
	Because I have a clip that summarizes the Republican National Convention.
	Summarizes.
	Okay.
	And that will help us get into my clip.
	Once again, outstanding production work, John C. DeVore.
	You're welcome.
	I like how you faded out.
	You faded out nicely.
	I had to fade out because I knew you'd say something.
	Exactly.
	This is what we do here in the United States when we pretend that we're going to elect people democratically.
	So now we have...
	I just had to play this one bit of Ann Romney because...
	And she is the...
	For those of you who don't know, she is the wife.
	She would be the potentially future first woman.
	And she went into this bigoted speech and winds up with something that shows how elitist she really is.
	I went, well, I've got to clip that.
	I'm so sorry, but you have to indulge me.
	So this is about how women rule the world.
	We could hear a collective sigh from the moms and dads across America who made it through another day and know that they'll make it through another one tomorrow.
	Wait a minute, John.
	You ready for a collective sigh?
	Made it through another day.
	In the end of that day moment, they just aren't sure how.
	And if you listen carefully...
	Listen carefully, children.
	You'll hear the women sign a little bit more.
	Now, when I heard that, I'm like, what, is he giving it to her that she's sighing a little bit more?
	I'm like, yeah, and, come on, let's hear the story.
	And the men, it's how it is, isn't it?
	It's the moms who have always had to work a little harder to make everything right.
	Now, you know, I hate it when people do this.
	Because that is bigotry.
	It is sexual discrimination.
	Am I incorrect?
	No, I don't think you're incorrect in the least.
	I think you're exactly right.
	I didn't hear that whole speech, and I probably would not have picked up on that.
	Well, get ready to be irritated, because it's not just the moms who work a little bit harder.
	Women really run the whole show.
	It's the moms of this nation, single, married, widowed, who really hold this country together.
	Oh, okay.
	They really hold the country together.
	We're the mothers.
	We're the wives.
	We're the grandmothers, we're the big sisters, we're the little sisters and we are the daughters.
	You know it's true, don't you?
	You know it's true.
	Now, just to go back to Uncle Don.
	Uncle Don, I was surprised.
	Lifelong Republican.
	He turned Democrat and supported Obama.
	He'll immediately just roll into it.
	I'm watching this damn tea party on the National Convention.
	I can't believe.
	If these people win, we're screwed!
	And then he actually, the smartest guy I know, he actually says, Ann Romney, well, she pretty much represents rich women.
	Like, oh my god, have you been reading Twitter?
	But this, of course, this is a factual problem that she's standing here and saying, men, you don't actually do it.
	It's only women.
	Ain't that right?
	Ain't that right?
	Now, here comes my favorite.
	This wasn't a real elitist moment.
	And by the way, before we go to that clip, let me just remind anyone out there, of course, we're trying to be as balanced as we can, but can you imagine the backlash if Michelle Obama gave this exact same speech?
	Oh, of course!
	I mean, this is the whole problem, is we're not even discussing what's really important, and we're playing stupid sound clips, but I do want to highlight what she says next.
	I love you women!
	No, wait.
	Was that Oprah who jumped in front of the mic?
	Yeah.
	She kind of bungled around.
	Yeah, there she was.
	Oprah jumped up and...
	In fact, she thinks she's Oprah.
	Listen.
	And I hear your voices.
	Wait for it.
	Those are my favorite fans down there.
	What?!
	Those are my favorite fans down there.
	Was she pointing and it was her children?
	No, but the fact that she thinks she has fans.
	Those are my favorite fans down there.
	You don't have fans?
	I turned to Miss Mickey and I said, is she going to sing?
	Is she going to do like a Lady Gaga number now?
	She has fans?
	So she is out of touch with reality.
	That's for sure.
	Well, that actually explains...
	I've seen her on the campaign trail on C-SPAN. And she is very personable in a small group.
	And she's got more personality than her husband who exhibits zero personality.
	Even though people who know him say he's just worried or something.
	I don't know why he's acting like this.
	But I... So I always thought that because she was so personable that she would be a good keynote or something later in the convention.
	And I saw this on one of these roundtales, all these people, and they said, they put Ann Romney in the morning.
	They didn't want her to be out there in front of the big audience.
	Right.
	And somebody, I guess, felt the way I did it.
	And all these experts apparently know her better than I do.
	No, no, no!
	You can't put this...
	No, no, no!
	No!
	And I said, well, I wonder what that was all about.
	Now I know.
	So this whole thing, this entire...
	And we're going to have the Democratic Convention coming up soon, and it'll be just as lame.
	It'll be just as lame.
	But the thing that was quite bothersome is that this was a ripoff for at least five states who wanted to nominate Ron Paul from the floor.
	And what went extremely underreported is that I think I told you one or two episodes ago, they tried to change it from five to ten states, and that got declined, and so it was five states.
	But during this convention, while they're trying to nominate Ron Paul, these five states, because you need a minimum of five states, they changed the rules from five to eight.
	So they literally screwed him.
	So what is the point?
	What difference does it make?
	Romney's got the thing in the bag, so why can't they nominate Ron Paul?
	I used to watch these things when I was a kid, and it was like...
	It's because they're maniacal control freaks, and they need to control everything about the message and put a show together so that the children who are watching now will not know any better the next time around.
	It's complete manipulation.
	Wolf Blitzer calls Rand Paul on it.
	This was kind of weird.
	They snubbed your dad.
	And I swear to God, John...
	Seven seconds of audio cuts out the minute it gets a little tense about what actually happened.
	I'll count it with you.
	Here on the floor of the Republican National Convention, tonight's roll call, which you saw live here on CNN. Among other things, Republican officials clearly snubbed Texas Congressman Ron Paul by refusing to read aloud his vote totals from the podium.
	With us now is the Congressman Sun.
	United States Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky.
	Senator Paul, I gotta tell you, and I like your dad, you love your dad, but I like him a lot.
	I was pretty shocked to hear that they wouldn't even read from the podium how many votes Congressman Paul got.
	Well, one of the interesting things was the crowd was reciting how many he got, so when they wouldn't announce it from the podium, you would hear an echo from the crowd of the Ron Paul supporters who were in it.
	And notice Rand can't just say, yeah, that blows, because he's now establishment.
	But listen, when Blitzer actually starts talking about legalities, and then the audio mysteriously drops out, and I'll count it with you.
	Announcing his totals.
	Why didn't they do that?
	This seems so petty and so ridiculous.
	I mean, your father worked hard in the Republican Party.
	He went through all the rules.
	I believe he didn't do anything illegal in getting those votes.
	He went through the process.
	Blister's making too much sense!
	Shut up!
	And this is literally silence?
	You see the video going, and they come right back.
	Okay, plug it in.
	The campaign has been very conciliatory on...
	I mean, this is how maniacal these people are.
	They're cutting audio because Blitzer almost made some sense.
	Well, they're probably going through a central switchboard.
	Oh, yeah.
	A central control room.
	Because nowadays, instead of what you see in foreign news broadcasts where you have a thousand microphones in front of someone, you now have one and it all gets all centralized and then there's a feed that you tap into.
	You don't have to have a microphone up at the podium.
	It all goes through a centralized system.
	And I suspect that all the feeds from everyone are probably going through something because it's probably a requirement.
	Yeah, the Ministry of Truth.
	There's somebody there listening in with a five-second delay button.
	Yeah.
	Oh, cling slam it and just blank it out for a while and see what it comes back in.
	Yeah, because Blitzer was actually saying, hey, that sucked, you know, and he was harsher than Rand Paul.
	He's saying, you know, that's why he didn't do anything illegal.
	Why are they so rough on him?
	And they hit the mute button.
	They literally hit it.
	Now, part of the reason, of course, is because, and this is kind of funny, Ron Paul did have a big convention in Tampa, which seemed pretty full to me, and he spoke for a good hour.
	Oh, it was at the Sun Dome?
	Yes, it was pretty big.
	Which is Florida State, no, not Florida State, South Florida, I think, University.
	And it's a huge football stadium, and it looked at me to be Obama-sized audiences.
	It was big, yeah, it was really big.
	It was huge.
	And of course, he really calls it the way it is.
	One minute of this hour and a half speech, which is really good.
	You know, I think the important thing that we know in this room, and the growing number of Americans are realizing, that the worst thing we can do is remain silent.
	How many times I've been to the campuses, I brought this subject up about military arrests and the problems that we're facing, assassination and torture and all these things.
	And I said, but how many times have you read it or heard about it on the evening news?
	I mean, it's almost like there's a silence out there.
	But early on in the campaign, I would bring up, I'd just sort of say, well, let me tell you a little bit about NDAA. And I would think I had to fully explain it.
	But as soon as I said NDAA, the people in the audience, they were outraged about it.
	Which means we're not silent.
	We know about it.
	But we have to get around the system, which will not report on it, because they're part of the problem.
	They're part of the military-industrial complex.
	Ha, ha, ha.
	They're part of the military-industrial complex.
	Exactly.
	You're talking about the media.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	I love that.
	It's so nice of me.
	It's obviously true.
	I mean, you can see the whole thing.
	It's a stage news, this picture that's on the front of the New York Times.
	But it's hard for people to believe this stuff, John.
	It's hard.
	It's hard for them to believe that it could actually be happening.
	It's extremely hard for them to believe it.
	I have a...
	Got into this argument with a friend who, about that seal book that we talked about earlier in the show.
	You have friends?
	And he would not listen to any alternative theory except that guy was, some guy, rogue.
	He was a rogue seal.
	And I said, why do you get to be a rogue seal?
	This is bull crap and you're buying it.
	A rogue seal.
	Ha, ha, ha.
	Really?
	And this guy's probably really intelligent, right?
	He's a famous journalist.
	Oh no!
	Oh no, this hurts.
	And he's your friend?
	Oh yeah.
	He's a good football fan.
	But this is exactly what the problem is.
	And people just don't want to...
	No, they don't buy it.
	They can't get their head around it.
	It's not even fathomable because it makes no sense that this is done so far off track.
	But let me ask you a question.
	I mean, come on.
	I was thinking, I was talking with JC about this.
	You know, we're talking because he's got apparently the latest thing going on with the truthers.
	Mm-hmm.
	He's got a new argument which is that 9-11 was irrelevant.
	It would have been something else because this authoritarianism was in play way before 9-11.
	It was going to stay in play.
	It just moved it along a little faster.
	So, and I immediately thought to myself, well, I mean, Obama killing Americans just by fiat, you know, I think he should be dead.
	It's nothing new.
	I mean, Clinton killed Gary Weaver's wife and a kid.
	With an FBI sniper who everybody knows who it is.
	He's never been indicted.
	There's never been anything about it ever since.
	Clinton burned down the Waco operation.
	Why?
	Why?
	Because?
	Killed a bunch of kids.
	Why?
	Because?
	And the guy ran it.
	I mean, this is nothing new.
	This has been going on.
	Where it began, I'm not absolutely sure.
	It probably began when the CIA killed JFK. This could be.
	I noticed you didn't say, you're crazy!
	That didn't happen!
	You're nuts!
	A lot of people believe that.
	Yeah.
	That's not a crazy thing like moon bases.
	Well, since you bring it up, I can believe in moon bases if I want.
	So you know, I was on this week in tech.
	You know, I was told to keep you off that track.
	I'm not talking about that show.
	I'm talking about the response.
	That's what I'm talking about.
	What I find incredibly interesting is that if you have an alternative view on the landing on the moon, here is what I have been called in the past 48 hours.
	Is it on Twitter?
	Yes!
	I can look it up.
	Yeah, a Holocaust denier...
	What's that got to do with anything?
	Oh no.
	Even Leo himself said people who deny the moon landing are like people who deny the Holocaust.
	He literally said this.
	Okay.
	So, worse, John, I've been called a Republican because of this.
	Uh-oh.
	Now you're kicking me in the nuts when you say that.
	So somehow we've gotten to this point, and I understand why people get upset.
	You know, all your life, since you were five years old, you think that you're going to be an astronaut, you're going to fly to the moon, and the minute I bring that into doubt...
	You know, that destroys your entire worldview.
	It starts to crumble.
	You don't know what to do.
	So there's 25% of the people say, I'm going to punch you in the face, Curry, when I see you.
	Okay.
	Which is bullcrap.
	But that's okay.
	I can understand people who have that immediate response.
	There's a lot of people, and an overwhelming amount, I felt, probably 40% who say, Well, I think you have your right to your opinion, although that's bullcrap, because that happened.
	But then the people who literally call me a Holocaust denier, you go back to Glenn Beck and Fox News.
	I mean, what is that all about?
	When did any alternative theory become analogous to right-wing racism, xenophobia?
	I don't understand.
	You know, birther, truther.
	You know, this is what I'm seeing now in our normal discourse.
	I was just talking about a moon landing.
	A little minor thing.
	Which, by the way, would we get some rocks?
	Yeah, and that was great for science.
	But what I'm seeing in the conversation is people are calling each other these names without thinking what it actually means.
	And that to me was, actually I was very excited because I'm like, wow!
	If I can trigger, if I can make this Pavlovian response, think of what I can do with this.
	I can use it for good or for evil.
	But it was fascinating to me.
	Literally fascinating how people will say, you don't believe in that?
	Well, you don't believe in the Holocaust.
	You Jew hater.
	I'm like, what?
	Republican Jew hater?
	I mean, this is crazy.
	It's crazy, John.
	I woke up and I'm like, where am I? Can you explain this?
	How does this happen?
	Come on, man.
	Help me deconstruct this.
	This is very common in a fascist authoritarian society where you have to have approved opinions.
	Wait a minute.
	This is what I was afraid you were going to say.
	You're telling me that when a society gets to this point...
	Whether it is a fascist, authoritarian society where you have to shut up, slave, and agree with what the messaging is, this is what happens?
	Yeah, this is what, this is very well explained in the 1984 book.
	I'm like the canary in the coal mine here.
	Well, yeah, something.
	But this is what you get in the...
	Read 1984.
	I've read 1984.
	Of course I've read 1984.
	There's other good books that are out there that have this...
	It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis.
	That's the one I've got to read.
	It Can't Happen Here.
	It's a short Sinclair Lewis book.
	It got him thrown out of the liberal academic community as a...
	Sinclair Lewis is his name?
	Yeah, Sinclair Lewis.
	Very famous.
	He won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
	The guy is a great writer.
	He's dead, but he was a great writer.
	And he wrote this one book.
	He wrote so well that killed him.
	Yeah.
	And, uh, there was even a better, the better, in my opinion, the better writer from that era was John Dos Passos, who was kicked out, really kicked out seriously and turned in.
	He kind of went from being a left winger to a right winger.
	And he did a book that was similar.
	I can't remember the name.
	John Dos Passos?
	Is that his name?
	Yeah, John, and it's D-O-S, one word, Passos, P-A-S-S-O-S. And John Dos Passos is really worth reading, especially the...
	I'd have to go look at his bibliography to tell you the exact book where he turned on his...
	Let's see.
	Which were all lockstep, you know, they were the...
	The liberals tend to be the...
	The right-wingers are the same way, if you think about it.
	In fact, to be the president, you have to have a checklist of what you believe in.
	If you're not against abortion, and you're this and you're that, it's just a whole checklist.
	You vary just an inch from any of the things that's on the checklist.
	Nobody knows who puts a checklist together.
	Somebody...
	And you vary a little bit, and then you're a lib, or a rhino, a rhino, a Republican name only, this kind of thing.
	Republicans have done this with this rhino epithet that they throw at anyone who doesn't agree with them.
	Now, hold on a second, John.
	Was it the USA, the 42nd parallel?
	Was that it?
	That's part of a trilogy that he wrote.
	Okay.
	Do you know which book it is that I'm supposed to read?
	Because I'll read this, man.
	I'll get it.
	I'll have to think about it.
	And I had forgotten to read Sinclair Lewis.
	You did tell me that earlier.
	So thank you.
	So this is actually...
	So they are succeeding now.
	Well, they've been...
	Now?
	No, no.
	But this...
	I have never, John, I have been called many things in my life.
	I'm not a very popular guy for a lot of reasons.
	But this was different, John.
	This was different.
	It was the crowd turning on you.
	But it was the crowd turning on me for something.
	I wasn't on my pulpit going, that's bullcrap!
	It didn't happen!
	It's all a lie!
	The government's conspiracy!
	I didn't say that.
	I said, yeah, I got all time.
	I got an alternative view, you know, it's whatever.
	It was really laid back.
	But the audience, the crowd, surged on me.
	Like you say.
	And these things that they're saying, that's what blew me away.
	Like, you don't believe...
	And even Leo himself said, well, if you don't believe in the moon landings, that's like not believing in the Holocaust.
	Like, whoa!
	So that is what happens.
	Okay, so what...
	You needed to go...
	So what is the next phase?
	John, as a totalitarian state scholar of history, what is the next phase?
	I have a lot of titles by your demand.
	Right.
	Well, the next phase is you have to go to demonification of some specific group of people.
	Right.
	And that probably will be the Muslims.
	And then you have to start rounding them up.
	You've got to round people up.
	And that's it.
	But I don't think the Muslim thing is...
	We've got to round up something that's just something much easier.
	You think it's going to be the Muslims this time?
	That's what we do?
	We just round up the Muslims?
	Well, it makes the most sense.
	We've demonized them in many ways.
	And even though most Muslims...
	And I've said this before and I'll say it again.
	Yeah, there's a bunch of crazy Muslims out there that are causing trouble.
	And they have a huge population altogether.
	And because just a small percentage doesn't take much to mess things up.
	The Muslims themselves, if you really dig around the web...
	Are bitching and moaning about these people.
	Of course they are.
	And they never get any, everyone, especially the right-wingers, they've never said a thing!
	Why don't they speak up?
	They speak up.
	Yeah.
	All the time.
	And nobody pays any attention to them speaking up.
	So that's one of the little twisted things that bothers me, is that they do speak up.
	Have you ever noticed that of all these crazy veterans who want to kill the...
	We'll get to that after we thank our producers.
	Who want to kill the president and who go and shoot up places.
	I wanted to talk to you about that.
	Can I just say one observation?
	Notice how they're never black?
	It's like we have no black people in our armed forces anymore.
	Yeah, when I think it's 60% are black.
	Yeah, and it's only white people who do this.
	Only white veterans who go crazy and want to go kill everybody.
	So, just to lead us into thanking some people for supporting our show.
	Tom Brokaw, and I was amazed that they, maybe this didn't air on television, but it was on the CNN website called, they have a thing called the Red Chair.
	Have you ever seen this?
	They put you in the red chair and you get to talk open and candidly.
	Now I feel like an idiot because I had never seen this.
	I don't think it's on television.
	I think it's only on the website.
	And Tom Brokaw is talking about how he...
	Tom Brokaw.
	Tom Brokaw.
	He actually hates what the elite news media has become.
	As do we, which is, I think, part of the motivation for doing this show.
	So listen to him.
	So on the biggest weekend of the year for Washington journalists, turn it on, and there's Kim Kardashian.
	He's talking about the press corps, the Washington press corps dinner with the president and what happened at this past year's celebration of the elite press media and politicians in Washington.
	And Lindsay Lohan and people in designer gowns and black tie and even the president, you know, up there kind of mocking the press and the press mocking him.
	Out of proportion, I think, to what it had been in the past.
	I just think it sends a wrong signal to the country.
	I can't imagine if you're out there, a small business owner in Wichita, Kansas, or a school teacher who's worried about losing her pension in Seattle, you tune in to see how the American journalistic establishment is protecting your rights, and they're mostly interested in having their picture taken with Kim Kardashian.
	Go, Tom.
	He's not long for this earth, that's for sure.
	I always wonder where he's coming from.
	But I like that.
	I think that's pretty funny.
	No, that was a good one, I have to say.
	And he's right.
	I saw that whole event, and I thought it was a humiliation for the media.
	Yeah.
	They're just a bunch of psychophants, just like the idiot, you know, high school girl who swoons over Justin Bieber.
	I mean, there's no difference.
	Same thing.
	I mean, they can't even be cool around Kim Kardashian.
	Yeah.
	Did you hear, I'm sorry, since we're here, did you hear about the guy who got fired from Yahoo News?
	No.
	You hear about this?
	Okay.
	This was nuts.
	So his name is...
	See, this is where I have problems with my eyes.
	David Challion.
	And so he used to work at PBS. Democracy.
	I think he actually worked at Democracy Now.
	And he actually did the Charlie Gibson Sarah Palin interview.
	Another nice hit job.
	So, I guess on Yahoo News, which maybe that's part of ABC now, I'm not quite sure how it is, they run a package, but his mic is left open, and he's talking.
	And he says, well, I'll play it for you because it was really hard to understand.
	And then I'll give you the quote.
	Let me see if you can hear it.
	It's about eight seconds, so listen closely.
	So could you hear it?
	Very hard, right?
	I couldn't really hear it.
	I heard something about drowning.
	Yeah, so this guy says...
	That was him?
	It sounded like a woman.
	Yeah, while the package is running, he says, the Republicans, or Romneys, are happy to have a party while black people are drowning.
	And of course, the news crew cracks up, because this is hilariously funny!
	It's the Republicans!
	And he was fired immediately.
	Yahoo was, of course, shocked.
	We are outraged by this.
	This is outrageous!
	This is totally outrageous, I tell you.
	But then, who's the woman that you hate so much?
	Well, let me think.
	Let me find my list.
	Eiffel?
	What's her name?
	I don't hate her.
	I think she's really good.
	I said that she's compromised.
	Gwen Eiffel.
	She's totally compromised.
	So she tweets out and says, oh, one mistake doesn't take away from the fact that he's the best producer in the news business.
	She actually defends the guy for saying these things.
	You're not the best producer if you're an idiot and you don't know not to just shut up.
	But this shows the same arrogance in news.
	This is what you don't hear, what goes on behind the scenes.
	It's not like newsroom on HBO, people.
	And these people are extremely compromised.
	All of them.
	Yeah, it's depressing.
	Eh, not really.
	What else would we do?
	I mean, come on.
	I mean, it's good for us because we have producers that think that at least what we're doing is exposing the truth.
	We may not be getting to the bottom of everything.
	We get to the bottom of a lot, though.
	And I want to thank some of the executive producers that came in for the show 439, including a number of new nights that decided, hey, now the summer's over, so let's get back involved.
	Rodney Adams, Forest, Virginia.
	Send in 54321, which I love.
	54321, boom!
	Wait, this is Atomic Rod.
	Atomic Rod.
	Oh, this is Atomic Rock.
	Love this show.
	I think you're wrong about climate change.
	You've been played by oil, gas, and coal supporter propaganda.
	Listeners can learn more at Atomic Insights.
	Yeah, well...
	Well, hold on a second.
	I'm a big...
	You don't think this is a little...
	You think this is a little bit biased?
	Okay.
	But we'll let him have his little moment.
	But hold on a second.
	What have I been duped about climate change?
	What is he talking about?
	I'm the number one guy for backyard nukes.
	I guess there's a lot of step in climate change.
	Everybody should go atomic.
	So anyway, AtomicInsights.com and the Nuclear Literacy Project, and it's NuclearLiteracy.org.
	I hope this donation starts to count down to your recognition that fossil fuel wastes are more dangerous than the industry wants you to believe.
	I'm a little disappointed.
	I mean, I really appreciate Rod's donation.
	Not everybody who's a knight is exactly lockstep with what we think, which is fine.
	And I don't mind hearing these arguments because you can't argue anything unless you hear all sides and pay attention to it.
	But the thing is, I think I'm on his side of the argument.
	Well, he doesn't think so.
	Let's give it to me.
	Anonymous in Coleyville, Texas.
	Which is, where's Coleyville?
	Coleyville.
	I don't know.
	$500 in the morning is a value for value across the transom which will complete my knighthood.
	Please knight me Sir Long the Good.
	Okay.
	Alright, cool.
	He says that you'll know what that means.
	I'm drawing a blank, man.
	Sir Long the Good.
	Well, that's what he is anyway.
	Brian Rowley in Chantilly, Virginia.
	Another Virginian, coincidentally.
	500.
	I'd like to thank you, gentlemen, for all that you do.
	Karma is karma.
	Well, fuck karma!
	That's right.
	I wrote it and John said it.
	I still didn't get the karma I was looking for or any other karma that I could tell, which is an improvement.
	The first time I got bad karma.
	I don't want any more karma.
	Nor do I want anyone else to give me karma.
	I will most likely get bad karma.
	The donation is putting me further in debt.
	But you gentlemen are worth it.
	Now enough about me.
	I hope to God this works.
	I would love to give my only good karma and...
	To and wish Mrs.
	Curry, Mrs.
	Curry, whatever, a happy birthday since we shared the exact same birthday.
	And to you both and your family.
	Gentlemen, I know that I don't do this anymore, but I'm letting you know that I'm not renewing several forwarding sites that I've done and giving you the money.
	For your information, PayPal cut off my one...
	Cut off my one something about his note.
	Here's where they got cut off.
	Two of them are DeportFaridZakari.com.
	I never knew that one.
	I would have promoted that if I knew that was forwarding to us.
	And the other one is DeportPiersMorgan.com.
	I didn't know about these wonderful domain names.
	This is very sad.
	I will continue to keep noagendamilitia.com forwarding it to the best podcast for you.
	Wow.
	Well, of course...
	Now he says he wants...
	Now he says he doesn't want karma, then he says he wants it for someone else.
	For us.
	He wants to give it to us.
	Nail it.
	I'll take it.
	I'm happy with it.
	Absolutely.
	You've got karma.
	Thank you.
	From Chantilly, Virginia.
	Wink, wink, nudge, nudge.
	Yeah, that's what I... I always should say that.
	Papa Guido.
	Hey, Papa Guido.
	Chicago 36969.
	Wait a minute.
	How awesome is it that we have a listener from Chicago whose name is Papa Guido?
	Yeah.
	Hey.
	Hey.
	Oi.
	Hey, great work on the show.
	Longtime boner here.
	Hopefully this magic number starts to make up for it.
	JC has been a fan of yours since I was a kid.
	Thanks.
	I'm building my own 286.
	Hope to join the ranks in the 12-12-12 nights.
	If all goes according to plan, I want to issue a couple of douchebags.
	One for Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel.
	Douchebag!
	We're not giving the Chicago police what they need to do their jobs.
	I was told by an officer that the Popo have to use their personal cell phones to call outside the city 773312 area codes.
	Really?
	Mobile phones, he says, makes this more than idiotic.
	Because it doesn't cost any more.
	No, of course not.
	So that's dumb.
	Also, mega douchebag to the Satan Disciple Street Gang.
	Douchebag!
	Who've been shooting at slaves in my neighborhood for the past three months on a bi-weekly basis.
	Huh.
	I'll try to see some security cam pictures I took of these lowlifes marching past my house wearing bandanas on their faces with guns in hand.
	Please send drones!
	On a related note, I need as much karma as I can get.
	You can chain together to help me dodge bullets, sell my house, buy a new one, and evacuate my two human resources and MILF to the banal safety of the suburbs.
	So he needs a karma?
	Is that what he needs?
	Well, it looks like, yeah.
	Sounds like it to me, my friends.
	You've got karma.
	Papa Guido, we take care of you.
	We take care of you with a karma.
	Sir Upstart Ventures in Windsor Victoria.
	Windsor Victoria.
	Yeah, that would be Gitmo Down Under.
	Oh.
	Victoria is a region, a state.
	Oh yeah, okay, right.
	I was just confused with Canada.
	That's where the Victoria Bitter comes from.
	VB. 333.
	He's an executive producer also.
	Special Gitmo Nation down under birthday present to the Joshua Charteras from Rudy, Sam, and Michael.
	Josh turned 40 and blah.
	For a nine-course degustation menu, they went to the JacquesRaymond.com restaurant.
	And the night was filled with excellent food, fine wine, and quality banter.
	Josh, you're a great influence on all our lives, and we hold you in the highest regard.
	Can you please give Josh a combination?
	Huntsman Ching Ching, Karma Shot, and the young girl Shut Up Slave.
	Adam and John, you have elevated the consciousness of many, and you rightly deserve the title of best podcast in the universe.
	Oh, that's very kind.
	Let me give you the requested karma as you want to have it.
	You've got karma.
	That was like a little extra bit.
	Yeah, I am.
	I have to put the glasses now on my nose.
	This is a real problem.
	I gotta go to the optician.
	Alright, that's the best we can do.
	Sorry.
	Sorry.
	I am sorry.
	Truly sorry.
	But think about this.
	I'll live longer.
	Andrew, you probably.
	Andrew Gamble, Spring Creek, Nevada.
	Happy birthday, Adam.
	Was going to do the 48-48, but the best podcast in the universe gives me much more value than that.
	A shut-up slave karma from my wife, Fran, who turned me on to the show.
	Andrew Gamble, ready for the food riots.
	Are we all ready for the food riots?
	Shut up, slave!
	You've got karma.
	I nailed that.
	Yeah.
	Andy Pelham and Lee to Belgium.
	Oh, by the way, let me just point out that it seems we have an initiative here, 4848, for my 48th birthday on Monday?
	Is that what...
	Yeah, your birthday...
	I forgot about that.
	Yeah.
	Your birthday is on Monday, and so the newsletter team...
	Came up with the idea.
	The staff at the newsletter desk.
	The newsletter desk of trained journalists decided to have a $48 donation in celebration like they had a $60 one for me.
	But then it dawned on me as the editor of this product that $48.48 was more rhythmic.
	It had a nicer quality to it.
	Yeah.
	You know, it's going to be your last 48th birthday.
	But we normally don't mention anyone under 50, so I get to thank people, at least by name, who...
	Yeah, there'll be a list of names.
	Oh, okay.
	All right, good, good, good.
	Well, 48, man, can you believe it?
	48.
	That's your real...
	That is your real birthday, right?
	Yeah, yeah.
	September 3rd, 1964.
	That's right, baby.
	48th.
	Okay, onward.
	Andy Peelman in Leid, Belgium.
	23...
	I think it's Leda, but okay.
	Leda.
	22369.
	Name pronunciation for John.
	Andy Peelman.
	Peelman.
	Or Peelman.
	Not Peelman, like I just said.
	Hi, long-time boner, first-time donor from Belgium.
	It's the third time I try to donate.
	The previous two got screwed because my session timed out while typing the note.
	Oh, God.
	Cut and paste.
	It's easier.
	Yeah.
	So I'll keep it short.
	I listen to you guys at work during night shifts when doing routine jobs.
	I work on a wheat processing plant where we make starches, dextrose maltodextrines, and ethanol, for example.
	It seems that we even import high fructose from Israel to avoid EU quotas.
	On its local production.
	Anyway, I want a MILF shout out to my smoking hot wife, Sandra.
	With whom I finally decided to make a human resource.
	Let's hope it still works since we are both 35 now.
	Some baby making karma might be in order.
	Oh, and call all my real life friends douchebags.
	Douchebags!
	For not listening to the show.
	And a double douchebag for the fact that none of them have ever tried to do some research on the matrix we live in.
	Douchebags!
	Props to the chat room from Peacebee, my nickname online.
	Bye-bye.
	Bye-bye, everybody.
	Okay, we'll give you a little MILF shout-out for Sanderson.
	Pictures.
	MILF. That's one mother I like.
	You've got karma.
	You're always begging for pictures.
	I get them.
	I get them.
	I get them from time to time.
	You never show any of them to me.
	I do, too.
	I think you are.
	My KGB pictures.
	My hot KGB. Yeah, the one you never heard from against us calling her out as an agent.
	Well, she'll be back.
	I have a feeling she'll be back.
	Yeah, but her name will be Fred something.
	All right.
	Different picture.
	How are you doing?
	I'm not Sarah.
	I'm Fred.
	Hope Littman, Arlington, Virginia.
	2-2-2-2-2.
	Wait a minute.
	Another Arlington, Virginia?
	Yeah.
	We got it.
	They're listening.
	They finally picked somebody who got the word out.
	In Arlington.
	Yeah.
	I asked for a de-douching from T. Adams donation.
	I asked for a de-douching from T. Adams donation.
	If you could add a karma shot, and that's one hot meal if you are the best podcast in the universe.
	All from Arlington, Spice Central.
	How convenient is that?
	Okay, so once a...
	A time!
	Yeah, really.
	You've been de-douched.
	That's one hot mouth, baby.
	You've got karma.
	It's advice.
	It's the same kind of analysis anyone does.
	Dean Chartier in Calgary, Alberta.
	$200 in the morning.
	It's been a few weeks, so here's another $200.
	I'd like to mention a movie called The Postman.
	It's a post-apocalyptic movie with Kevin Costner, but it's set in 2013.
	It was made in 1997.
	And although widely panned by the critics, because it's really bad, my somewhat paranoid view is that it's too real.
	Wait, wait, wait.
	Are you editorializing this donation note, John?
	The donation note came in yesterday, and by coincidence, and even though he's not in Arlington, by coincidence, they were showing that movie on, I think, Encore.
	So I went and watched part of it.
	I didn't see the whole thing, but I watched part of it.
	And it's for 2013.
	Everyone's on horses, for one thing.
	And it's about a guy who becomes a postman to blend in with the government or something.
	There's clips in there, and I'll pull them out for the Sunday show.
	Well, you know what?
	I'm going to go and watch that now.
	It sounds like this is a great movie.
	If you don't like it, it's going to be a great movie.
	You're going to see it the same way I saw it.
	Corny!
	Okay.
	At least here in Calgary and Canada, it was removed from iTunes.
	My paranoid view is that it's too real for the New World Order to allow it.
	It was on iTunes, but it was removed about a year ago, at least here in Calgary and Canada in general.
	It's worth a look, and I'd appreciate knowing what you and Adam think.
	I promise not to phone you at home to discuss.
	Please, don't do that.
	I've got no time for that.
	So that's our executive producers for Show 439.
	We want to thank them all.
	It was a good group.
	Holy moly, a great group.
	Yeah, are you kidding me?
	A great group came in just in time for school.
	And it reminds you to go to Dvorak.org slash NA, channel Dvorak.com slash NA, NoAgendaShow.com, and NoAgendaNation.com.
	By the way, NoAgendaNation, So Eric, I don't know if it's because he's getting irked about my mentioning the lanyards or...
	He sent me a box.
	He sent me a box.
	I have 8,000 lanyards.
	Yes.
	And you know what?
	I love them.
	Yeah, I know.
	You're a big fan of these things.
	But people come to the house and like, here, have a lanyard.
	And they're like, oh, thank you.
	That's such a wonderful gift.
	And have another.
	Have a white one to go with your black one.
	I'm going to drop them off over at the media offices.
	Don't give them to those douchies.
	I've got millions of them.
	No, give them to the homeless people.
	Homeless people?
	Love them.
	I will.
	They can clip their cup to it.
	You got a dollar?
	No, but I've got a lanyard.
	Yeah, they can clip their cup to it.
	Ah, that's not a bad idea.
	I think homeless walking around the No Agenda show is a great symbol.
	I think this is a great idea, and from now on, I too, because, you know, we have a thing here in Texas when you, in Austin at least, when you stop at the stoplight outside of the city, kind of on the outskirts of the city, you know, there's people there like, you know, wounded veteran, brain injury, can't get a job, you know, and it's very hard, you know, it's like, but now I'm just going to say, hey man, how you doing?
	Have a lanyard.
	It's value for value.
	Dude, what did you give me?
	Nothing.
	Let me give you a lanyard.
	It could be useful.
	Yeah, I could.
	I think that's better than a dollar.
	Well, it's more practical.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, well, anyway.
	Okay, a lanyard it is.
	Somehow I like the idea.
	I think that's really good.
	I'm going to start doing it.
	And if they go like, what?
	What do you mean, what?
	It's a lanyard, dude.
	You know what I used to like to do?
	When I was at Tech TV and I was a substitute host for this show called Big Thinkers.
	I remember that show, yeah.
	And so Big Thinkers had these hats that say Big Thinkers on the hat that they were giving to all the guests.
	Well, I ended up with a box of them after the show folded.
	Oh, great, yeah.
	And I love giving them to the homeless.
	Because there's nothing funnier than a guy standing there begging for money with a hat that says Big Thinker on it.
	It's kind of sick, but I just thought it was funny.
	But what was the response when you gave them the hat?
	Were they happy, as happy with like a dollar?
	Oh, hey, man, thanks.
	Yeah, really?
	Because they usually have a grody hat.
	They need to get to swap out the hat once.
	But a lanyard could be handy for them.
	They could collect the whole set, the whole No Agenda set.
	And they could have a badge.
	Yeah.
	Homeless.
	Maybe you should make some homeless badges and give them that.
	They put it on the lanyard.
	If you give them two, then they won't have to hold the sign.
	They can just clip it to the lanyard.
	And they can wave with both hands.
	You know, there are people now who are now like, these guys are such incredible douchebags.
	They are laughing at the homelessness in America.
	We're laughing with the homeless.
	We're laughing with the homeless.
	Please remember that so we don't become homeless.
	And thank you, Martin, JJ, for your outstanding contribution to our art.
	We never can thank artists enough.
	And that, of course, was in episode 439.
	If you have any plans to help us, you can always go out and propagate the formula on your homeless side.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Hey, by the way, John, remember we did the Taylor Swift audition?
	you you Thank you.
	Yeah.
	Guess what?
	What?
	Not a peep.
	What?
	Not a peep.
	Not a callback.
	Nothing.
	Maybe I'm not the best director for you, then.
	I think you are the absolute best director.
	I don't understand how you could not be seen as the best director in the universe.
	I've been saying that.
	Alright, onward.
	Yes.
	What else you got?
	Well, I got some...
	I mean, there's all kinds of stuff that I got.
	I got one.
	Let's just change it to go light a little for a second.
	Okay, alright.
	So I'm...
	There's a big rock concert.
	This is from Euronews.
	There's a big rock concert in Reading.
	Yeah, in the UK. Huge, huge.
	Everyone's there.
	Now, I've got a little clip from a report about it, and it's got a guy that's going to talk over.
	Isn't it the Reading Festival?
	Is that what it's called?
	Yeah, the Reading Festival, I think.
	So I have a clip here, and this is an Ask Adam.
	Hey, we can play the Ask Adam thing if you can find it.
	Yeah, well, I'll play the clip first, and then we'll do the Ask Adam.
	Okay, this is the clip, and it's going to have a little...
	Now, I want you to listen to it carefully.
	Can I go?
	Yeah.
	Around 100,000 people were expected at Reading over the three days with Florence and the Machine, the Shins and the Kaiser Chiefs also on the line-up.
	Ask Adam, ask Adam, will he know or will he won't?
	I don't know, but here we go.
	Ask Adam, ask Adam.
	What is the question?
	What the hell is this woman singing?
	I can't understand one word of it.
	And she sounds like a gray, slick wannabe.
	No, but she's Florence and the Machine.
	Okay, she's Florence and the Machine.
	I thought it might be.
	But then again, you know...
	I'm not a big fan of Florence and the Machine.
	But can you just tell me what her lyrics are?
	I want to know what she's saying.
	Yeah, hold on a second.
	I can tell you exactly what she's saying.
	Let's listen to it again.
	I think it was, I don't know.
	I have no idea what she's saying.
	I have no idea what she's saying.
	What is she saying?
	Why are they showing a clip?
	The woman is like, she's over-modulated and she's screaming.
	She stinks.
	I think she was saying, holy Christ, get rid of Putin.
	You sure that wasn't Pussy Riot on stage there, John?
	You sure that was Florence and the Machine?
	So I don't have this in front of me, but I was in L.A. on Monday.
	Oh, okay.
	And I'm driving around, because of what I tend to do when I go...
	So I'm driving around and I go past one of these, like a Transformer or something.
	It's got a huge Pussy Riot poster.
	Oh, really?
	Awesome.
	Yeah, and it said something weird on it, like, you know, they're auditioning or something.
	No!
	And I heard on one of the news stories that they're auditioning for new people.
	They are auditioning.
	Yeah, but I think I told...
	You heard that on this show.
	What are you talking about?
	Yeah, but why am I seeing a poster in L.A.? You know, Pussy Riot, one of our Russian...
	Yes.
	You have that email in front of you?
	Oh, I could find...
	No, I have my email closed, but I could open it up.
	Did you see the link he sent to when the same Pussy Riot people who used to be Voina, which was kind of...
	They're kind of like an arty, anarchistic group.
	They're belligerents, essentially.
	Yeah, belligerents.
	And they had the orgy at the museum.
	Did you see that whole website?
	The orgy at the museum?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	This woman who is now in jail...
	Yeah, go ahead.
	Explain.
	This is one of our better informants from Russia.
	I mean, he's obviously, you know...
	Of course.
	We don't know what he's up to.
	But here's what he...
	Here's a couple interesting tidbits I'm reading from his note on show 436.
	It was more than a note, by the way.
	It's a long email.
	It was essentially a debriefing.
	He's our handler from Russia.
	It was a report of some sort.
	Kasparov's arrest, we talked about.
	Interesting factoid.
	He allegedly bit the cop who dragged him.
	Typical.
	Typical.
	And you're right.
	He's a U.S. operative.
	That's what you said.
	His professional duty is to go and stir things up.
	You can remember that he once streamed his protests live into some commission of the U.S. Congress.
	Yeah, but get to the pussy riot thing, because there's a lot of stuff that he basically confirms that we were right, but then the pussy riot thing...
	I mean, you know, so literally...
	Okay, here we go.
	I'll start reading about Pussy Riot.
	But you have to say it differently.
	It's Pussy Riot.
	You can't say Pussy Riot.
	I have the official pronunciation.
	Hold on a second.
	This is Reuters.
	And Reuters is Ministry of Truth.
	Here it is.
	The lawyer representing the three members of the Russian female punk band Pussy Riot.
	Pussy Riot.
	That's how you say it.
	Pussy Riot.
	Pussy Riot.
	You can't say Pussy Riot.
	It's Pussy Riot.
	Okay, Pussy Riot's an offspring.
	Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah.
	Say it correctly now.
	Pussy Riot?
	Now I sound like Oprah.
	Go ahead.
	I'm going to pronounce this in my own way.
	Offspring of an art group not banned, Viona, war, which means you may recall Viona by the Kiss...
	There's the people behind the Kiss Police Women action.
	Remember that was an internet meme?
	Yeah, the hot chick who's the one now in jail went up...
	You know, if you do this enough...
	And they're literally, they are having sex in a museum.
	And I'm like, a lot of sex.
	Which is, I mean, cool.
	The pictures are great.
	Eventually you're going to get busted for it.
	Yeah.
	They're provoking.
	She and the group was also involved with steel frozen chicken in vagina.
	What?
	Pants a dick on a bridge near FSB, for which they were awarded by the Ministry of Culture.
	Oh.
	For the paint the dick on a bridge near FSB. Paint the dick on a bridge.
	And so they got an award for that?
	An award from the culture minister.
	Awesome.
	Back to Pussy Riot, they protested Putin on multiple occasions, including on Lobnoia Mesto, Red Square, and just got slapped with 15 bucks fine.
	And then there's some links, and he says, the actions are motivated by the enmity, or hatred of orthodoxy, the part about the church thing, and hatred against the members of the Orthodox Church.
	Russian political colonists believe that they are being financed by Boris Berezovsky, a fallen-out-of-favor oligarch hiding in London.
	Yeah, this guy is very angry at Putin.
	Berezovsky, yeah.
	I think Putin took his money.
	Yeah.
	That would be one of the reasons, I think.
	That's how these guys operate.
	Yeah, that's how these guys operate.
	Anyway, also finance possibly the Ukrainian Femen.
	F-E-M-E-N. Yeah, those are the chicks who paint themselves weirdly and are everywhere.
	They're kind of...
	I like their art.
	I like Femen's art a lot.
	I think they're pretty cool.
	But they're going to get busted too.
	Who cut down Christian crosses in Kiev in quote-unquote support of Pussy Riot, although it backfired as it turned up it was a Catholic cross established in memory of communism victims.
	Yeah.
	Now they're threatened to be qualified as extremists for cutting down other crosses.
	And by the way, there have been four crosses cut down in Russia.
	Cut down the cross.
	I see these women as part of a coordinated attempt to divide people in Russia.
	In the last year alone, there was that pussy riot, hullabaloo, Photoshop watch of patriarch scandal.
	I don't know anything about that.
	And the church doesn't pay taxes case.
	And lots of others, including failed attempts to assassinate the mufti of Tatarstan.
	And today's bombing of Dagestan Sheik.
	Also, opposition began to unite with Salafi and Wahhab as separatists in Kazan.
	I think the point of the email is you guys are pretty much only scratching a little bit of the surface of what's really going on there.
	Yeah, and it goes on and on.
	I mean, it goes on and on.
	And this letter is quite interesting.
	We'll be deconstructing it so we can get, you know, our job is to do what apparently the mainstream media won't do, which is to look into this stuff with more than just, ah, what a great name for a band.
	Or, hey, can I get a picture with Lindsay Lohan?
	Anyway, so there's something going on with this group, and this guy's...
	Well, no, what's going on is it's...
	Our man in Moscow is handling it.
	Exactly.
	Our man in Moscow is on the scene.
	And it is anything but to...
	It's just to discredit Putin and make him look like crap, because that's what Lucifer Clinton loves.
	And everyone's...
	It's an evil web.
	Yes, that's what it is.
	Interesting.
	This was big news in New York.
	I only found a radio report of it.
	But a reporter, you want to hear a real shut-up slave?
	This is the other side of the problem with the media.
	When they ask a question, they get hammered into the ground.
	And a reporter, a female reporter, I believe, asked Mayor Bloomberg, Hey, you know, were these cops who shot nine innocent bystanders by accident?
	You know, is this, like, acceptable?
	Which is, I guess, kind of a valid question, don't you think, John?
	Yeah, it's a procedural thing that obviously the cops...
	I mean, this was not good for the public.
	They have cops just going crazy, shooting up the place.
	Well, would you like to hear the mayor's answer in response to your question?
	I'm all ears.
	Let me ask you this, miss.
	Somebody pointed a gun at you, and you had a gun in your pocket.
	What would you do?
	I think that answers the question.
	The police commissioners looked at it.
	They acted more than appropriately.
	I've seen the film.
	The guy turned point his gun at the two police offices, and you can really ask that question after that?
	Shut up, slave!
	That's not how you answer that question, in my humble opinion.
	What a douchebag.
	Where's the douchebag sound effect?
	Douchebag!
	That guy's the worst.
	Now, let's go back to our totalitarian fascist state.
	This is how it works with the media.
	Shut up!
	How dare you ask that?
	How dare you?
	What, do you think the Holocaust didn't happen?
	That got under your craw.
	Yeah, there's some things I'd hate.
	No, I'm sorry.
	Being called a Republican is worse.
	Being called any political thing is worse.
	So that is part of the totalitarian police state vibe when the press just gets slammed down by the billionaire mayor who extended his term illegally.
	Shut up.
	Just shut up.
	Of course, if I pointed a gun at you, how would you respond?
	I mean, isn't that crazy?
	If I pointed a gun at you, how would you respond?
	Yeah, but I'm not the police.
	I'm not trained to respond.
	That's what she could have said.
	Oh, are you kidding me?
	They would have hauled her out.
	They would have tased her.
	And they beat her out.
	They would have tased her on the spot, man.
	Wow.
	So my sister Willow sent me something, which I didn't understand at first.
	It turns out, because I actually went and Googled the story...
	And the story is in the news today, or actually yesterday, today the 30th, like USA Today, and because of some survey, I think she sent me a clip from Law& Order, Special Victims Unit.
	Were you copied on this email, John?
	I might have been, but I didn't see it.
	Okay, so this is a clip from Law& Order Special Victims Unit, and I thought it was real.
	I thought it was like one of her mom friends or something reading something.
	I was like, why is she sending me this clip of someone reading about an article?
	I go and Google the article.
	It actually is true.
	So I'm not sure when this came out.
	I have no context behind it, but I thought, since you watch those shows, maybe you could help me.
	This is a new study published in Science Magazine.
	It found that people who have witnessed gun violence are twice as likely, sometimes three times as likely, to commit an act of violence themselves.
	Nathan witnessed Ted Carthage shoot his mother.
	And just as this study predicts, he reacted with violence.
	So this clip goes on.
	And I Google this.
	And I see, you know, an article.
	Doctors target gun violence as a social disease.
	It's a public health problem.
	Because it's a virus, you see.
	When you have witnessed gun violence, then you go and do it yourself.
	And we will have a vaccine for it eventually.
	But my head is like, what?
	This is a fictional television show that is saying this, and it's actually now in the press?
	Am I nuts, John, or is this just coordinated?
	Well, we're of the opinion that it's coordinated.
	But this was a big one.
	The collective of the show is opinionated as a collective, that it's coordinated.
	This is wild, man.
	I was like, wow.
	A little bit more of that.
	This study equates...
	Gun violence with an infectious disease.
	And that is actually the study that was done.
	Now, you can Google it.
	Gun violence virus.
	Yeah, well, most of this is ripped from the headlines.
	Wow.
	So it would be, they do that.
	No, but hold on a second.
	This is a headline from yesterday.
	So this show was produced way before yesterday.
	Oh yeah, at least four months ago.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, sounds good.
	Sounds right.
	Yeah.
	It doesn't surprise me.
	Well.
	So back, we can get back on the Russia track for just a minute.
	Okay.
	I'm noticing, because I'm watching the different feeds of Russia today, and they're pulling out the old stops.
	Right.
	They've decided, okay, we can't be the kind of, you know, CNN or, you know, MSNB. We're going to be slamming the competition and promote Russia.
	Right.
	So I got two clips that one of them is quite interesting because it actually reveals a news item that...
	I guess nobody, including us, even picked up on, which is censorship by the BBC. Oh.
	Specific censorship.
	Okay.
	And we can play that clip first, which is RT propagandizing against Western media.
	They just slammed the Western media here and then they bring some woman on.
	She's a little hard to understand, but she discusses a clip that was, I guess, polled.
	And then the excuse for being pulled makes no sense.
	Lucy Kaffenhoff reports that much of the Western media coverage is directed against the picture Assad is trying to paint, even if that means sanitizing their own coverage.
	It was another disturbing example of the many atrocities committed throughout the Syrian war.
	A truck bomb with homemade explosives headed for a checkpoint to the entrance of Syria's largest city.
	Oh yeah, this is a great story.
	I follow this.
	This is very, very interesting.
	Hello!
	But the men that are loading it aren't Assad forces.
	They're one of the many groups fighting under the banner of the Free Syrian Army.
	Their captive is said to be a member of the Shabiha, a militia with very close ties to the Assad government.
	The video filmed by the New York Times and turned into an on-air segment by the BBC captured what human rights groups called evidence of an attempted murder, a potential war crime under international law.
	Video of rebels from the Free Syrian Army trying to use a prisoner as an unwitting suicide bomber in their attacks on government forces.
	Now the cameras didn't follow the prisoner who had no idea that while being blindfolded he was actually embarking on a suicide mission.
	He simply thought that he was being given his freedom.
	The very next morning he was said to have escaped after the bombs failed to detonate.
	Now, the BBC had aired the story on August 22nd, but this glimpse into the darker side of some of the tactics now being used in the uprising never aired again.
	The story was also pulled from the BBC website.
	The network told me that this was due to copyright issues.
	Now, this very video raises the question about whether such tactics may be more widespread among the opposition than what has been previously documented.
	Yeah, I saw the entire video.
	It was on...
	They said the reason why they had to get rid of it is they didn't have the rights for the web.
	I mean, all this is bullcrap.
	And the whole documentary, I felt, which was maybe eight minutes long, the whole thing reeked of bullcrap from beginning to end.
	This so-called leader...
	I mean, this guy's a great actor.
	This charismatic...
	He's got the chiseled face.
	He's the leader of the Free Syrian Army.
	The whole thing to me was fake, really.
	And then they got some mullah guy telling the prisoner, hey, take a shower, you'll feel better.
	They show the whole bomb on the truck thing.
	It was scripted, John, from beginning to end.
	Well, it sounds a little doobious.
	Okay, we're going to let you go.
	By the way, before you go, put on this 40-pound jacket, will you?
	Yeah.
	No, no, no, it didn't even say that.
	It's just, you know, it's like, hey, drive this truck with the big tarp over the back, please.
	Drive the truck over.
	Please.
	So anyway, so, but anyway, this is RT going after the, um, everything.
	And my favorite thing is, is describing the Grimm situation clip where the RT people kind of give us an overview of what's going on in Europe and it's quite hilarious.
	With millions in the EU sinking into poverty, unable to afford basic necessities, companies are forced to produce smaller, cheaper goods for the struggling masses in the age of austerity.
	This is the dawning of the age of austerity.
	The struggling masses.
	Yeah, well, you know what that's about.
	It's like, hey, stand back.
	You ain't gonna get no natural gas from us if you don't play it right.
	That's what that is.
	That's a shot across the bow from Russia if I ever heard one.
	Yeah, I think so too.
	Struggling masses.
	Struggling masses.
	In the age of austerity.
	There's an interview, I think it was exclusive to some, maybe the Independent, in the United Kingdom, Gitmo Nation East.
	An interview with Walid, I can't even read, Walid Mualim, who was the fourth...
	Yeah, who was the foreign minister.
	Yeah, I see.
	And so we don't have video that I can find yet, but he says, yeah, you know, the Americans are behind all this.
	This is bullcrap.
	Have you Googled, Waleed, tell me who this guy looks like.
	Give me his name again.
	Waleed.
	I'm so freaking blind.
	W-A-L-I-D Mualem.
	M-U-A-L-L-E-M. Tell me who he looks like.
	M-U-A-L-L-E-M. And tell me this is not a famous actor.
	Pretending to be...
	Oh, this guy.
	I was thinking of somebody else.
	Yeah, he looks like John Goodman.
	Thank you very much!
	It's not looks like.
	It is John Goodman.
	John Goodman is sitting there pretending to be the Syrian foreign minister.
	I guarantee you.
	Look at him!
	It's John Goodman!
	Yeah.
	Totally John Goodman.
	There's one picture that's identical.
	And I like this.
	This blew me away.
	I'm like, what is John Goodman doing in this piece?
	I'm like, what?
	What is this?
	This is funny.
	There's a website called lebanonisnogood.com.
	Blogspot.com.
	And it's got...
	This is the best John Goodman picture, too.
	It says, Arab treason.
	Syrian pig wants peace with Israel.
	Syrian pig, Waleed al-Maulam, the fat Syrian pig, is willing and ready to make peace with Israel, exchange embassies, drop Iran, Hezbollah, like a bag of dirt for nothing more than getting back half of the Golan.
	Anyway, it's a...
	This is a site by a guy named Hannibal in Lebanon, supposedly.
	Well, I think it's very nice that John Goodman is trying to help out.
	He's doing a good job.
	He's doing an outstanding job, actually.
	Oh, by the way, hot news coming out of Manhattan.
	Since, you know, of course, let me just get the logic here.
	When it's really hot and you have a drought, when you don't have a lot of water, that's apparently when you get a lot of mosquitoes who carry the West Nile virus.
	Oh yeah, they're everywhere.
	Do you have mosquitoes in Silicon Valley, up there in northern Silicon Valley?
	Oh yeah, yeah.
	We have no mosquitoes.
	We have very few mosquitoes this year.
	I think the weather's too hot for them there.
	But that's what I'm saying.
	When it's really hot, you have a drought situation.
	You don't have a lot of puddles.
	Does that not go contra to all thinking about how mosquitoes come to be?
	This makes no sense to me.
	I'm sorry, what doesn't make sense?
	That if you have a drought, no water, that there are more mosquitoes.
	That makes no sense.
	No, why would that make any sense?
	They need puddles.
	They need standing water.
	That's how they breed.
	Right, but this is what is now being told.
	Right down, New York City has had 100 plus degree temperatures, correct?
	Heat wave.
	Well, now they're going to spray Manhattan for the West Nile virus.
	Are you kidding me?
	Please, you've got to make sure that you know what they're spraying.
	It's the Bloomberg love potion.
	Yeah.
	I don't know.
	Well, I question this.
	People are just like, okay, spray away.
	It doesn't even make sense.
	You can't say on one hand we've had an incredible drought, you know, global warming, we're all going to die, but because of this we have more mosquitoes and they have West Nile virus.
	You can't give me all these things at the same time.
	Yet they do.
	I pulled a couple of quotes for us, John.
	Just to prove that in the winter of 2010, which was an extremely cold winter, we had blizzards, we had all kinds of weather anomalies, storms around the world.
	And what did, of course, we were laughing like, ha-ha, there's your global warming.
	What did all of the climatologists and weather people, what did they say at the time?
	Well, they would say, in the colding, they would say, weather's not climate.
	So it doesn't mean anything.
	But we expect to have, they've kind of morphed their message into extreme...
	Weather events.
	No, no, no, it's not even that.
	But let's first go back to 2010.
	I have a professor from UC Davis.
	That doesn't mean we're experiencing climate change.
	No, you actually can't.
	You can talk about changes in the weather over the last 40 or 50 years, but when you're talking about climate, you're talking about thousands of years.
	Okay, so weather is not climate.
	You can't say weather is climate.
	Now let's listen to a woman who is from the NOAA. The National Oceanographic...
	Thank you.
	Joining us by phone is Jane Lubchenco.
	She's the administrator of the National Oceanic...
	She's the administrator.
	By the way, this woman sounds like what the Democracy Now!
	lady is going to sound like in about ten years.
	Five years.
	So this is the administrator.
	This is like head honcho of NOAA. Good morning to you.
	It's good to have you.
	Hi, Diane.
	Thank you.
	It's a pleasure to be here.
	Thank you.
	Last week we saw some really unusual weather patterns, not only through the Mid-Atlantic, but even today in the southern part of the United States.
	What do you think has made this year so different?
	Diane, I think it's important that people recognize that weather patterns It's not the same as climate.
	Okay.
	I just want to make sure we had this.
	On record, the NOAA, weather is not climate.
	Can we trust the NOAA, John?
	Should we be able to trust them?
	Yeah, they're compromised.
	So they're always going to be compromised in the direction that benefits them.
	And if they say that, I trust it.
	So I would like to introduce that woman to former Vice President Al Gore.
	The new information that I'll be focused on in this new version of the slideshow.
	That's why he's updating the slideshow, John.
	It's the infamous slideshow.
	Includes a lot of the new...
	He sounds smashed.
	Oh, he's hammered.
	Oh, yeah, he's hammered.
	...evidence linking these extreme weather events around the world to the climate crisis.
	Wait a minute, wait a minute, did I just hear that right?
	Extreme weather events around the world is linking it.
	He has proof.
	And he has a PowerPoint.
	No longer a legitimate question for doubt or debate.
	I know there's some people that don't like to hear it put that way.
	But people around the world are suffering from the consequences of the droughts and the heat waves and the extreme flooding events and the unprecedented windstorms and the fires.
	We've gotten to the point now where it's kind of absurd for anybody to say, hey, nothing's going on.
	What's wrong?
	July was in the U.S. Listen to these numbers.
	I want you to listen to these numbers and deconstruct what he's saying.
	Hottest month ever measured.
	Wait a minute.
	He just said July was the hottest month ever measured.
	Ever.
	Ah, crap.
	I want to go back a little bit.
	Are you still with me?
	I'm listening.
	...hottest month ever measured.
	And globally, nine of the ten hottest years ever measured have been within the last ten years.
	Globally, nine of the ten hottest years have been within the last ten years, okay?
	This is the 337th month in a row.
	Where temperatures were higher than the 20th century average.
	This is great.
	337 months in a row where the temperatures were greater than the 2000...
	20th century.
	20th century average.
	What do you make of that number?
	Besides it's magic 33 and a 7.
	Well, I think it's bogus.
	Yeah.
	And I think it's provably bogus.
	And again, the way that measuring itself has changed its methodologies.
	And so I don't know if you can compare one to the other.
	It's like all of a sudden you have a jacked up baseball that just flies further.
	And you can't compare the home runs hit with that ball with the dead ball era.
	Oh, that's a good comparison, actually.
	All right, let's finish up 10 seconds.
	than the 20th century average.
	And the fact that the news media doesn't report it in that context, every night on the news now, practically, is like a nature hike through the book of Revelation.
	No!
	It's the book of Revelation.
	Okay, now at least I understand what's going on.
	Hold on a second.
	Don't be a denier!
	The science is in!
	Science, science, science!
	The science is in!
	Science, science!
	Which leads me to Bill Gates.
	I'm sorry to hear that.
	Bill Gates has awarded a $17 million grant to...
	Seth Kalichman, K-A-L-I-C-H-M-A-N, part of the Connecticut University, I believe, to establish, quote, an internet-based global monitoring and rapid alert system for finding, analyzing and counteracting communication campaigns containing misinformation regarding vaccines to support global immunization efforts
	interesting laughter Yeah.
	I'm sorry.
	How about that, huh?
	Amazing.
	So we'll be talking on the show, and I'll be like, ah, man, you know, maybe you should consider not getting the flu shot or something.
	And then what?
	All of a sudden, the alarms go off?
	It's coming now!
	$17 million.
	And by the way, it's a $17 million website, which I think is kind of cool.
	Yeah.
	Interesting.
	Yeah, that's just the way.
	This is part of the whole structure of things.
	So we are in a totalitarian state, John.
	Yeah.
	Just look outside.
	Count the police when you're on your way to work.
	And they're not stopping crimes.
	They're giving you parking tickets and making sure you don't go too fast and keeping you in line.
	Has there ever been a time in recent history when we had this?
	When this was...
	This kind of situation.
	I mean, please don't say Hitler.
	Hitler.
	Stalin.
	Please don't.
	Please tell me there's something in modern world, like not just Hitler.
	Is that the most recent one was Hitler?
	Is that it?
	Stalin.
	Stalin is longer.
	How sad is that, man?
	I don't think I can handle this.
	What am I going to do?
	You're in Texas.
	Yeah, this is true.
	I'm just a little more liberal about this.
	Generally speaking, they're not as...
	I mean, they have their own issues.
	Texans, you know, they get a bunch of problems there, too.
	Oh, you mean like...
	It sounds to me like New York City is the worst place in the world with this idiot running it.
	Yeah.
	Well, no, Texas, we have...
	In San Antone, just down the road, they've got...
	Now they're handing out RFID necklaces to the kids in school because they keep losing track of them.
	Like, here, slave, have your slave bracelet.
	Did you have anything that you wanted to lead into our donations with, or can we just go straight to it?
	I'm thinking.
	I'm looking at the clip list.
	Just one little commentary from somebody sent a note.
	You can play this Refinery Fire clip, and I'll just...
	Oh, this is about Venezuela?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Venezuela's biggest oil refinery remains offline after firefighters finally put out a blaze which has raged since Saturday.
	An investigation has been launched into the initial explosion which triggered the fire.
	The disaster, which has left at least 41 people dead, has sparked a debate about safety levels in the industry.
	That's a bullshit thing.
	Now, I'm only playing this because we had one of our donors sometime a few weeks ago say, complaining about the Chevron refinery having its little mini fire, which I thought was a joke of a fire.
	It took a while to put it out.
	But the guy says in the note, he says, well, if that's a small fire, that wasn't that big of a deal.
	A refinery is back online.
	He says, well, if that was a small fire, then I'd like to know what a big fire is.
	Check this baby out here.
	Go find your photos of this.
	This refinery is gone.
	I mean, this thing is a wreck.
	They'll never get this thing back online.
	It'll take years.
	But that's just a little...
	And you know, someone else let me know that there was a Marine that they caught a couple weeks earlier hanging around, a U.S. Marine.
	And of course, you know, they started selling all of their oil and gas to China.
	And this is pretty much sabotage.
	I mean, I think to me that's obvious.
	Yeah, I mean, we've got to get this guy offline.
	And Venezuela has a lot.
	They've got a lot of oil, a lot of gas.
	And, you know, so what are you going to do?
	Are you going to say you can't get out of the ground?
	You just blow up the processing plant, blow up the storage, blow up the pipelines.
	This has CIA State Department written all over it, as far as I'm concerned.
	Yes, but it exemplifies what a bad refinery fire looks like.
	I'm going to show myself the world by donating to no agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, on no agenda.
	That's a bad fire.
	Alright, we've got a few people who came in with some interesting donations.
	Chris Johnson from Edmonds, Washington.
	$142.42.
	Michael Stadduhar, I think.
	He's somewhere in the Armed Forces.
	$101.01 forking my way to a 12-12-12 knighthood.
	El Cid Campidor from Sepulpa, Oklahoma.
	A round of karma for everyone.
	Oh, wow.
	That's nice.
	Thank you very much.
	From the house!
	You've got karma.
	A guy walks into a bar and says, karma for everyone!
	No, uh, no vax, please.
	From somewhere in California, part unknown 6969.
	Ooh, ooh, ooh, careful.
	Bill Gates is going to come and get you.
	For saying...
	For not going 69-69?
	That and for saying no vax.
	I can't believe you screwed up the 69-69.
	I gave it the bell.
	You interrupted what was going to be an artistic completion.
	Oh, okay.
	I'm sorry.
	We need help.
	My wife and I need...
	This is actually a good letter.
	My wife and I need serious no-vaccine-need-to-get-screwed-by-my-wife-instead-of-my-job karma.
	We work for the same company, and our employer is trying to enforce mandatory vaccinations, which include DTaP, which is the one we talked about last show, which is why do we even have this one?
	Flu shot, typically unnecessary chickenpox, and more.
	If you're old enough, you probably had chickenpox.
	Anyway, we sometimes work in hospitals and other healthcare facilities, and the new contracts with some of those facilities require vaccinations for us.
	Right.
	We do not want to get vaccinated, but everyone we have asked has said there's probably nothing we can do.
	We either get vaxxed or get a new job.
	If anyone has any resources they think would help us fight this, please email me at novaxplease.com.
	N-O-V-A-X, please, at gmail.com.
	Anything that might help.
	I wish you guys the best of luck in continuing this adventure.
	I couldn't be happier...
	I couldn't be happier with the value for value model.
	It is only...
	Oh, this goes on.
	Hold on.
	It is only...
	It's the only podcast I listen to anymore.
	Yeah.
	It's because we're the only good podcast.
	So let me give them a special 69...
	Swazzle enough.
	69, 69 Swazzle enough donation, Karma.
	69!
	69, dude!
	You've got Karma.
	Swazzle enough it is.
	Swazzle enough.
	Hey, did we get any 66 on the sticks today?
	We get to it in the process of reading down numbers.
	Oh, okay.
	Cool.
	I'm sorry.
	It's done in order.
	All right.
	Michael Greer in Schickshinney.
	Oh, Mike and...
	Schickshinney.
	Schickshinney, Pennsylvania, or the log house where we stayed in during the 2008 Hot Pockets Tour.
	6969.
	This was on earth.
	Michael and Sarah.
	Swazzle Nation asking for an adios mofo for those who attended the Hot Pockets 2008 meetup and a karma for Adam for his upcoming birthday and thanks for DSC 866.
	I hope there are more in the pipeline.
	I would also appreciate a mention of shikshinyforward.com.
	In late August 2011, after the Hot Pockets tour, our town was destroyed by Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee.
	36 of the town's 38 businesses were submerged.
	And one-sixth of the town's housing stock has been destroyed.
	We're rebuilding and setting a new direction via a volunteer network of community members, but we have years of work ahead of us.
	Oh, wow.
	So let me give the...
	Adios, mofo.
	Let me give you guys a little karma for Shikshini4.com.
	You've got karma.
	Yeah, it was pretty bad there.
	Christian...
	Oh, Christian.
	Christopher Peterson...
	Anchorage, Alaska 6969 as we continue.
	This may be the record breaker for 6969.
	You mean the Swazilov?
	Swazilov.
	Long time boner, first time donor.
	I'm moving from Anchorage, Alaska to Portland this coming weekend.
	Google Maps says it's 2,630 miles.
	Can I get a trains good, planes bad, and a safe driving karma shot?
	Thanks for the great show.
	All aboard, trains good, planes bad.
	You've got karma.
	Maximilian Mann in Constanz, which I think is in Austria.
	Maximilian, hey, Adam and John, short-time listener, short-time donor, going through a rough time, like, get some good old 6969 Karma, one of those 80% of listeners who got to know your podcast from listening to Twitch.
	Oh.
	And the rest of his notes, not truncated by us, but truncated by PayPal.
	You've got Karma.
	Which makes no sense.
	Rob Wales conquered West someplace or other in New South Wales.
	Uh, 69?
	69.
	I haven't donated in a while, but having evangelized the show for some time, I finally brought a friend into the No Agenda listener group.
	Matt Rowe has been listening for over a month, but has not donated.
	So I reckon it's a good time to come clean myself with a donation and to call out Matt Rowe as a douchebag.
	Douchebag!
	Give him two to the head as well.
	Oh, sure.
	No problem.
	Get off!
	No agenda where we shoot our listeners.
	Benjamin Blondin in Brook Park, Ohio, 6969.
	Great job on Twit, Adam.
	I love how you take over the show.
	Yeah, and look what it got me.
	Yeah, it got you nasty notes, which is a good thing.
	Sir Neninger in Port Jefferson, New York's...
	6969 for Adam's excellent appearance on Twitter where he hit that pastel guy in the mouth.
	Did he hit brushwood in the mouth now?
	Maybe Adam can save Leo's show if he keeps coming on.
	Thanks again for the hours of amusement.
	Oh, I almost forgot.
	Send more karma, please.
	I like John's suggestion that the effect is auto-suggestion.
	But whatever, it works.
	Oh, okay.
	By the way...
	You've got karma.
	I've been banned.
	I'm no longer welcome.
	What?
	I've been banned.
	Ah, you got on anyway.
	I know, I'm just saying.
	You don't have to ask, because I'll never go on again.
	I've been banned.
	I've been banned by Leo.
	I doubt it.
	He said it!
	He said it!
	He said it?
	He said, Adam, you're banned.
	He's never coming on again.
	He can go on NSFW if he likes.
	What's that?
	It's like the Brian Brushwood show.
	Like, yeah.
	Are you a dance monkey boy?
	No.
	I've been banned for life.
	For life!
	I doubt it.
	Anonymous in Craigmore, South Australia, 6969.
	Swazilov, gentlemen.
	If people are going to go to the effort of making up words, we may as well use them.
	Longtime burner.
	Burner.
	Long time boner.
	First time donor.
	Props to Maynard for propagating the formula on another podcast and turning me on to this fine production.
	Oh, excellent.
	Thank you, Maynard.
	Thank you, Maynard.
	Catching up on past episodes helped me through a particularly tough time in my own life having to landscape both the front and rear yards of my house.
	A nightmarish task made all the more bearable by your amazing insights and analysis.
	I now listen religiously while commuting.
	A simple dedouching and some generic first donation karma would be greatly appreciated.
	Cool to have you on board.
	You've been deduced.
	You've got karma.
	Okay, here we go.
	Wait a minute, first we have to wind up our Swazzle Enough.
	69!
	69, dude!
	All right, Swazzle Enough is gone.
	Good.
	James Burke, Richmond, North Yorkshire.
	66, double sixes on the sticks.
	All right, 66-11.
	Following John's newsletter, here's a 66 on the sticks for an outstanding product that is also the best netcast in the universe.
	You're going to have two shots to the head.
	You can take it to the bank, Karma.
	Yeah, if I could.
	You ever take it to the bank?
	Yeah, I've got it.
	You can take that to the bank.
	You've got Karma.
	Karma.
	It's hard when I'm so blinded by a clean...
	I like the idea of the two shots and then you can take that to the bank.
	Yeah, it's just...
	It's very creative.
	My current eyesight, it's hard to...
	Good call from James.
	When you can actually see the soundboard, you'll probably be better at it.
	I'll get there eventually.
	Gregory Rosati in Suffolk, Virginia.
	Double sticks on the double six.
	Sticks on the...
	Whatever.
	Hey, come on, man.
	Double six on the sticks.
	And the sticks.
	ITM from Gitmo Nation Pentagon, south right in the heart of military industrial combat.
	I feel compelled to donate 66 on the sticks because last Sunday, while listening to the live feed, a bolt of lightning hit so close to the house that it set off the burglar alarm.
	Needless to say, we have been feeling the effects of the rain stick all week here.
	I'm telling you, people like the stick.
	I'm not shaking unless someone requests it specifically, but thank you so much for appreciating the power of the stick.
	Well, I don't think he wants you to shake it.
	No, I'm not.
	That's why I'm not doing it.
	This is kind of a post donation for this stick.
	Nate Wilson in Wichita, Kansas, 66-11, double sixes on the sticks.
	Okay, I'm donating semi-drunk.
	I am at a bar in Wichita, Kansas, and just got the weekly newsletter from JCD and I would donate while drinking and waiting on my oil change.
	I'll be headed to New Orleans tomorrow to help with the insurance claims.
	I will be there, oh, for hopefully a few months.
	Please give the people of the Gulf Coast a karma shot and one for me as I travel.
	Thanks for all you two do.
	I'm a reformed liberal Obama voter.
	Now I'm a concealed and carrying, constitution-carrying, non-Facebook-using Iraqi veteran Ron Paul shirt-wearing Lone Wolf terrorist.
	And he's drunk.
	Karma to Dr.
	Paul and his supporters of Tapa Bay.
	Alright, man.
	Here's some karma for the people there and for you on your travels.
	You've got karma.
	Funny that he gave us 66 on the sticks, but didn't just...
	He was drunk.
	No, but he's going down to...
	He was pouring.
	Yeah.
	Apparently, this hurricane is worse than Katrina because it turned into a tropical storm and it stopped moving.
	It's doing six miles an hour and just drenching everybody.
	I thought the double sticks on the sticks would work differently where people who were in drought scenarios would request a rain stick shot to help it rain where they are.
	But I think after we used it, so many people saw so much weather, they're like, you know, yeah, here's your money, but stop.
	Pretty much.
	Christian Collins in San Carlos, California, 60.
	You guys rock.
	Truly the greatest podcast in the universe.
	Please give me some karma.
	Short and sweet.
	You've got karma.
	One of our nights where Brian Kaufman comes through 55-56.
	I'm donating because of your great rant against Big Organic last episode.
	My girlfriend loves these bullcrap stores.
	Yeah.
	This weekend we were at one called Sprouts.
	They had this bin where you can buy organic salad mix in bulk.
	It's kind of a bring your own container thing.
	I think the point is to save the environment by eliminating extra packaging.
	Who knows?
	The point in my story is that I saw an employee just dumping the pre-packaged salad mix into the bin.
	Trying to trick people into thinking they're buying bulk salad mix.
	And he said you did great on Twit.
	Mike C. Brooklyn, New York.
	5555.
	I've been a dedicated human resource and as a result was given a hotly sought out after position at the job.
	I need a shot of karma to ensure the new position goes well.
	Here's to living the dream of just getting by just with a bigger title.
	Please give me a science, no conflict, hey citizen karma.
	And the hey citizens for my beautiful Ukrainian wife.
	Who is now on our way to becoming a new resource of Gitmo proper.
	Wow.
	Okay, so it's a science, no conflict.
	What was it after that?
	Hey, citizen.
	Hey, citizen.
	Karma.
	Okay.
	Science!
	No real conflict!
	Hey, citizen.
	You've got karma.
	A little much for me.
	Too many.
	Keep it down to two or three.
	I like the ones where there's a couple good combinations that people have dreamed up.
	Here's the one I like.
	Shut up, Slay!
	That's a good one.
	That's a good one.
	Yeah, I like that one.
	Podcast for Peace, back from Alamo, California, just trying to help out with the Submer Donation Blues, 5150.
	Katina in Stirling, Western Australia.
	I'm a No Agenda fan from Perth and would like to wish my dad, my husband, and my douchebag brothers who always forget they have a little sister.
	Douchbag!
	Spyro Zephyrus rhymes with hero, spyro, hero, speero, not spyro.
	Damn it.
	Spiro.
	Angelo Zafiris.
	A very happy Father's Day for this Sunday.
	Wait a minute.
	Is it Father's Day this Sunday?
	In Australia, maybe.
	What?
	That's not a universally accepted day?
	No.
	It's a bullcrap Hallmark Card Day.
	Oh, okay.
	This weekend in the United States, we have a real holiday.
	Which is Labor Day.
	Yeah.
	Then you start wearing white again.
	Oh, no, you have to stop wearing white.
	You can't wear white shoes after labor.
	No, no, it's white.
	It's shoes.
	No, it's a white jacket.
	You can't wear a linen jacket.
	No, you can't.
	It's shoes.
	Who wears white shoes?
	Women in the South.
	Each week we get our eight human resources together and why they play We Talk No Agenda.
	Thanks, John and Anna, for all the work you do.
	I think she needs a karma shot whether she wants it or not.
	You've got karma.
	Black Knight, George Van Horst in Catshovel.
	Catshovel bouncing Cat Hill.
	Cat Hill in Holland, 50.
	Thank you, Black Knight.
	Greg Reddell in St.
	Peter's, Missouri, 50.
	Can I get a little girl's shut-up slave birthday wish for my son Alex?
	He's turning nine on Sunday.
	He's on the list.
	Shut up, slave!
	We'll give him that right there.
	My Garage Bay in Hilliard, Ohio.
	Request a Shut Up Slay for the Twit fans that complain about an intelligent conversation with their closed minds.
	This is my first donation to the show and request a de-douching and some karma for a better job so it won't be my last donation.
	This is the greatest podcast in the universe.
	Shut Up Slay!
	You've been de-douched.
	You've got karma.
	A classic.
	Keith Van Dyke in Muno someplace or other, South Australia.
	Let me see if I can expand this.
	Sell.
	Yeah, you really should because, you know...
	No, it still says Muno Para.
	Right.
	Well, that's the name of the place.
	I guess.
	$50, no comment.
	John Tappan, Huntington, West Virginia.
	I just made a $50 contribution by PayPal, but it was not apparent how I could attach a note, so I'm sending this to you by email.
	I simply want to congratulate you on your outstanding performance on Twit, where you represented the value-for-value model quite capably, even under fire.
	I'm sure donations will go up!
	Hey, they have already gone up and said, this is my first donation.
	For which I'd like a dedouching, some job search karma.
	Please keep hitting him in the mouth.
	That's very kind.
	Hey, we win!
	You've been dedouched.
	We got 50 bucks.
	It's good.
	It's great.
	It's not good.
	It's fantastic.
	That's $50 more than anyone else gets on that show.
	Yeah.
	Peter Totes.
	Sir Peter Totes to you.
	$50 is no comment.
	Bernie Atama.
	Am I pronouncing this right?
	Is it Atama?
	Yeah.
	It's Atama.
	Atoma.
	Kenton, Iowa.
	And I always pronounce his name wrong because it's been introduced to me too many times as my being wrong.
	So it's only in my...
	All I got in my head is it's wrong, whatever you do.
	In the morning, John and Adam, $50 for my girlfriend's birthday today.
	Please give one hot milf baby to Janet Ropke.
	And a birthday shout out to her.
	Thanks for the best podcast in the universe.
	So he only needs one hot milf?
	He doesn't need any...
	This one says...
	That's one hot milf, baby.
	So let me just...
	Look at this.
	An old-fashioned tradition in Canada and the United States bans the wearing of white after Labor Day.
	Explanations for this tradition vary.
	The most common is that white is a summer color and Labor Day unofficially marks the end of summer.
	The rule may have been...
	Well, here it is.
	The rule may have been intended as a status symbol for new members of the upper and middle class in the 19th and 20th century.
	Uh-huh.
	It's an elitist thing.
	Yeah, that's what I'm talking about.
	Linen jacket.
	Oh, okay.
	Because, you know, us schmucks don't have that white linen jacket stuff.
	I have one.
	I don't wear it that much, but I have it.
	I had it made in Korea.
	I thought it was ironic in some way.
	So we got a couple of 48s, 48s.
	Can I thank these people?
	Yeah, you want to name them?
	You want me to name them?
	You want to say thank you to these people?
	Yeah, why don't you just say it and I'll say thank you.
	Okay, William Ashby?
	No, yeah.
	Alabama?
	Yeah.
	Mobile.
	Mobile.
	Sorry, you're right.
	Borislav Marinov and Eliso Viejo.
	Mark Borghese in Las Vegas.
	Chuck Bennett and...
	Barnett.
	Chuck Barnett, sorry.
	It's Chuck Barnett in Orange...
	in Asheville, North Carolina.
	Sheville to you and me.
	Scott Bennett in Orangeville, Ontario.
	Robert Gold in Toronto.
	And Emmanuel Lussier in Brossard, Quebec.
	That's very kind.
	So these are 48-48 donations.
	Birthday donations.
	Yeah.
	And, yeah, cool.
	My birthday will be on Monday.
	Yeah, you got anyone who wants to give 48-48, you can go to the NoAgenda or DeVort.org slash NA and wish Adam a happy birthday.
	It's 48.
	On Monday.
	On Monday.
	Which is a holiday.
	Monday is a holiday.
	Right.
	You know what?
	But we're working on Sunday.
	It's my birthday.
	Take the day off.
	All right?
	Just take it off.
	It's only a holiday in the American Gitmo nation states, I guess.
	Dvorak.org slash N-A Alright now, let's go to our birthdays!
	It's a birthday, birthday, hey!
	I'm no world champion!
	Mr.
	Upstart Ventures, Rudy, Sam, and Michael congratulate Joshua Charteris.
	Who turned 40 on the 28th.
	Greg Riddell congratulates his son, Alex, turning 9 on Sunday.
	And Bernie Ottema congratulates his girlfriend, Janet Rupke.
	And as we just...
	Oh, what is this?
	Brian Rowley, Andrew Gamble, Michael Greer are all congratulating me, the crackpot.
	Well, thank you so much, everybody.
	And happy birthday to all your buddies here.
	From all your buddies here at the No Agenda Show.
	I'm so blind, John.
	It's not funny.
	It's very difficult.
	Get a big magnifying glass.
	How about a monocle?
	A monocle.
	Or a pince-nez.
	A pince-nez.
	I think a monocle is better.
	A monocle's good.
	It's kind of cool, isn't it?
	I'm surprised they haven't made a comeback.
	Grab your sword.
	Here it comes.
	Rod Adams!
	And the Long the Good.
	Step forward, gentlemen, and kneel!
	And thank you so much, both of you, for supporting the No Agenda show in the amount of $1,000 or more.
	Very happy to have Sir Atomic Rod and Sir Long the Good as knight to the No Agenda roundtable.
	Here you go.
	Knights!
	And I invite you to come sit down for your hookers and blow, your rent boys and chardonnay, your hot pants and booze and chocolate milk and boobies.
	But more importantly, you will receive a No Agenda Night ring.
	We are winding that program up.
	Not the night program, but we'll have new night accoutrements after 12-12.
	If we're still alive at that point, of course, which is always questionable.
	So I've got a couple clips from the convention that I want to run through.
	From the convention?
	Because I was going to go somewhere else.
	That's when I get the convention out of the way.
	At the end of the show, you want to get out of the way?
	And then when I want to do something good, you're going to be like, we ain't got no time, shorter.
	I never do that.
	Do we really have to listen to Paul Ryan?
	Yeah, we do.
	I don't want to listen to Paul Ryan now.
	I want you to listen to the governor of Puerto Rico when he gave his little speech.
	Uh-huh.
	And tell me it didn't sound insincere and sarcastic when he...
	Just tell me...
	You'll hear it near the end where he's whispering in someone's ear.
	And it sounds to me like Big Brother being sarcastic.
	Just listen and tell me what you think.
	Allow me to share an example of that spirit.
	I visited a soldier from Puerto Rico at Walter Reed Army Medical Center several years ago.
	This young man had bravely served in combat and was given little chance to live.
	Without knowing if he could hear me, in every visit, I would whisper into his ear.
	I would tell him how proud and thankful we were for his dedication and sacrifice, adding, no te rindas.
	No, I don't understand.
	That's just the way he talks.
	I don't think that's...
	Did you really feel that?
	No, I think it was his accent, but it sounded like it's sarcasm.
	And the reason it came to mind is because you're the one with this theory about Latins and the...
	Aspect of their sense of humor, which is they don't understand irony.
	They don't understand irony, yeah.
	I think there is something to that, but that is a language barrier more than...
	And by the way, it's very funny.
	I just got a text message, Twitter password reset code.
	I mean, someone's trying to reset my password on Twitter.
	Is that what's going on?
	Or that it's a spammer.
	Yeah.
	But it's funny that I got it on my phone, like an actual text message.
	It sounds like a spam.
	Let me...
	So...
	If you'll allow me to move away from this convention that no one gives a crap about, and Paul Ryan, who I personally don't care about, but if you really want to hear it, I'd be happy to listen to it.
	Well, here's what I... Well, there's a couple of things.
	You know, I can save this for further analysis.
	Well, does it matter to a global audience?
	Does anyone give a crap about this guy?
	Yeah, we have a lot of expats, and our real audience is still U.S. by 80%, so, you know, you can't just...
	Oh, you are so mean.
	We've done...
	Oh, okay.
	We need more international listeners.
	If you want to not play the Ryan thing, which apparently you don't, you have to do me a favor at least playing the summary of the convention once again.
	Okay, I absolutely agree with that.
	Here is the summary of the convention.
	Very good.
	Okay So, Brandon Raub.
	Remember this name?
	Sounds familiar.
	He is the veteran who posted some things on his Facebook and then got taken away.
	Yeah, they hauled him off as an insane maniac.
	Right.
	He's just, you know...
	So his lawyer...
	He's just expressing his freedom of speech.
	Well, no, this is a clear and obvious setup.
	And I'm not quite sure what the thing is behind it, but he shows up in an interview on YouTube...
	And the person interviewing him is John Whitehead.
	Now, John Whitehead is his lawyer, but he's not really a lawyer.
	He represents this institute, which is making sure that everything is constitutional.
	I think we talked about this in the last show.
	They have, I don't know, like $700,000, $800,000 in donations.
	Each year.
	See, what was the Rutherford Institute?
	That's the name of it.
	Rutherford.org.
	And so for some reason, after now Brandon is out and he's sitting down with him, he needs to have an interview, which makes no sense to me.
	If you've been arrested or put away under some specious law about mental illness in the state of Virginia, they can pick you up.
	I mean, you're going to maybe fight that through the court system.
	You're not just going to go and do a YouTube interview.
	Doesn't that sound kind of weird to you, John?
	Like, that's not what a lawyer would recommend as the number one course of action?
	I would agree with that thesis.
	So I watched the 17 minutes.
	I pulled a couple clips.
	I would like you to listen and tell me if this guy is not on a script.
	So here's the...
	Do you have a problem breathing?
	Don't pay attention to the man behind the curtain.
	Someone who has basically been put through a horrific hell for at least a week, but we don't know how much more could be coming from the authority.
	Catch the phrase that gives it away.
	But first of all, I want to talk to you a bit about your past, who you are.
	As I understand it, you're a veteran.
	You've been twice overseas.
	You're a Marine.
	Tell me a little bit about that.
	How did you wind up being a Marine?
	And what tours did you serve and what did you do?
	Well, very specifically, I got out of high school in 2004 and I worked for a year and then looked at what was going on around the world and saw how my brothers and sisters were volunteering to go overseas and I loved my country quite a bit so I figured that I kind of had a place in that.
	Very specifically, it was actually, I always knew that if I joined a service, it would be the Marine Corps.
	What do you think?
	Well, it sounds like it's probably scripted, and the guy's promoting the Marine Corps.
	Well, he keeps saying very specifically.
	And he says very specifically.
	By the way, the interview opens up with horrific hell, as opposed to what other kind of hell are we talking about?
	I know.
	But it's not an interviewer.
	That's his lawyer.
	That's my point.
	Wow, this is his lawyer?
	It's his lawyer doing the interview.
	This is my point.
	So now the lawyer's going to prompt...
	Oh, this is totally scripted then.
	I didn't know he was the lawyer.
	I missed that when you said it.
	I just went through five minutes of intro about John Whitehead being his lawyer, the representative...
	But you had me convinced that this YouTube thing was the first thing.
	Because you said his lawyer wouldn't recommend this.
	So I assumed that this was being done by someone else.
	I'm sorry.
	I was unclear.
	Yes, you were.
	This is his lawyer.
	This is his lawyer.
	And now his lawyer is going to prompt him because he can't remember the word metaphor.
	Metaphor.
	Well, very specifically...
	By the way, don't you love that?
	He's always...
	Very specifically...
	Everything is very specifically...
	Yeah, this is lawyer speaking.
	Thank you.
	Well, very specifically, the line that I posted on my Facebook wall was, sharpen up my axe, semicolon, I'm here to sever heads.
	And what I actually meant was that...
	What we call a metaphor.
	Excuse me, yes, a metaphor, exactly.
	He forgot his line.
	Yeah, but he says, excuse me, as if he knows he forgot his line and he was apologizing.
	Now, I had this video analyzed by some of our listeners who are Marines and ex-Marines, and they looked at this guy and they said, this guy is a douche.
	They would call him a 1369, and you'll have to Google that to figure out what that is.
	This guy is a total douchebag, particularly when it comes to him being a decorated Marine.
	I'll play the 30-second clip and then explain what's actually going on.
	And a little bit of active combat.
	And what kind of active combat?
	You know, a firefight or two.
	Full-on explosions going off.
	So your life was at risk?
	Oh yeah, absolutely.
	So you went to Afghanistan, you went to Iraq, you served as a decorated Marine.
	What does a decorated Marine mean?
	You probably have to look real specifically at the medals that I have.
	Basically, just that.
	You have different medals or ribbons that signify different things that you've done.
	Okay, so you serve your honor.
	What?
	In other words, he's got those ribbons that say, I was here.
	Yeah, exactly.
	It's like, you know, wood chopping ribbon.
	So this is, you know, you get about, if you go through a couple years, you get about 25 medals or ribbons for doing certain things, which are not necessarily equatable to a Purple Heart or an Iron Cross.
	Yeah, but they're decorative.
	They look very cute.
	And so the Marines that I corresponded about and had watched this video, now they think they're not sure what's going on.
	I mean, besides the fact that this guy is a douche.
	He does not...
	There is some agenda behind this, but I can't quite understand.
	Is it to show that the Marines are crazy?
	Is it like some kind of...
	I don't know.
	But this is not normal.
	This is not normal behavior for a lawyer to be pulling his client out and putting him on YouTube this way with this type of talk.
	I'm not going to argue with you, but I can't figure out why they're doing it either.
	It may be a prelude to something else.
	Well, it kind of plays into, I mean, if I just look at the list here, right?
	We have, so the four guys.
	The four assassins.
	Yeah, fear.
	F-E-A-R. The four assassins.
	Yeah, it's like right from a James Bond novel.
	Correct.
	Who apparently, you know, gave themselves up.
	You know, they were, well, you know, we killed some guy, but it was manslaughter.
	And his girlfriend, who apparently they were going to turn him in, so they killed him.
	Yeah.
	So instead of having no charges or some terrorism charges would get dropped, they got murder on their heads.
	The whole thing is really weird.
	It's just a bunch of douchebags.
	But it didn't catch any fire.
	You know, it didn't catch fire in the media like I think it was intended.
	No, I think this was the false flag that everyone was talking about.
	That it was supposed to be...
	Because they say that you bought $87,000 worth of guns and things that go boom, and it was going to go kill the president.
	Well, it was more than that.
	They had a laundry list of things they were going to do, culminating.
	But who screwed up?
	Somehow they screwed up.
	It didn't get out the way they wanted it to.
	Some messaging...
	It's one of those things where, I'm guessing...
	We're going to assume this is a bullshit deal.
	Yeah.
	And what is this picture that they're floating around, all these guys against a gray background?
	That's their PR picture for fear.
	No mugshot in the world is against the gray background.
	They have a height thing and there's all kinds of things you do.
	This is like very weird, this gray background in the mugshot.
	Forever enduring, always ready.
	And then some phony baloney operation no one's ever heard of.
	This whole thing is bullcrap.
	My thinking is they left out a key piece of messaging that they've just dropped the ball on, whatever it was.
	We don't know, obviously.
	It's just an assumption.
	They left out some key piece of messaging.
	So when the thing continued on its merry way to becoming this scandal or something that was going to rock the country, it's like, hey, whoa, whoa, whoa.
	We left out, oh, jeez, we gotta start over.
	Now we gotta get some new guys.
	Oh, man.
	There was more, though.
	There was a top naval officer who was planning to go rogue.
	And take an aircraft carrier to Iran right in the Strait of Hormuz and go blow them up without orders from Washington?
	This is not...
	How is that going to work?
	I don't know.
	These are the stories.
	Why would anybody do that?
	Well, I think somehow it has to show that...
	They're unhinged.
	They're unhinged, yeah, that they're crazy.
	And they're not, obviously, but they are the ones who understand tyranny and I mean, if you're really conspiratorial, you'd say, well, look, what we need to do is we need to demonize these guys.
	Didn't we in the past have this?
	Weren't the Vietnam veterans baby killers?
	What happened in the past?
	Yeah, but you have to wonder if that was coordinated or not, because that just seemed like a natural...
	Apparently, the government lost control of the situation.
	It was just the public bitching and moaning.
	Mm-hmm.
	And yeah, they got a bad reaction when they came.
	There was no celebrations of the Vietnam War for obvious reasons.
	And I think that was a...
	I don't think it was...
	That was, you know, during an era where the control mechanism was...
	Not as firm and entrenched as it is today.
	I mean, everything you have to assume because of everyone being co-opted and compromised, that every single thing that's going on is extremely well coordinated.
	And it's like you always call it the ministry of truth somewhere.
	It's checking things out and telling people to shut up and some of it leaks out and we cover a lot of it on our show.
	But for the most part, it's pretty well locked down.
	It's a lot different than it was in the 60s and 70s.
	But here's what I'm seeing.
	Again, it's only white guys.
	There's no women.
	It's white guys.
	No Latinos.
	No African Americans.
	Just pure white guys with tattoos and who are crazy.
	And they're veterans.
	That's the checklist.
	And if PTS, and you want to put D on that or not, post-traumatic stress, does that only affect white guys?
	Apparently, yes.
	I don't know.
	I have no idea.
	We've been putting a lot of pieces together for a puzzle.
	We don't know what the image is.
	It's like, you know, this piece fits here, but I don't know what this thing is going to look like when it's put together.
	If I look at all the messaging, the way the totalitarian fascist state is going...
	It feels to me like all of this is supposed to create some kind of racial divide within our ranks as citizens of Gitmo Nation.
	That's the way it feels.
	You know, do we have this other thing?
	I'll tell you what, I'll make you a deal.
	Would you please play the Ryan clips from the convention so that I can then play the really important clip from the convention?
	I'll let you play the really important clip.
	I don't need to play these Ryan clips.
	Are you sure?
	Yeah, because the deconstruction I'm going to do is not that interesting.
	But I have a further thing.
	I'm going to use these clips later because I've decided for the Sunday show, of course, I make promises I never commit.
	Right after the Scholastic special.
	I'm going to do that.
	I'm writing the salt thing up as we speak.
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh, that was something else we're going to talk about today.
	We'll talk about it on Sunday.
	Here was the real news coming out of the convention.
	After we have the Yahoo News guy saying that the Romneys would be happy to have a party with black people drowning, we have this happening at the convention.
	The convention in Tampa had a truly shocking development occurred, one that hits home to all of us here at CNN. Two people were removed from this Republican National Convention yesterday after they threw nuts, peanuts, Now, this begs some context.
	Because Wolf Blitzer says an African-American camerawoman...
	He's drawing a connection between, I guess, some racial epitaph that black is animal.
	This story is bull crap.
	Yeah, we'll break it down from Europe.
	This would never happen.
	I don't think, yeah, okay.
	So this is more of what I'm talking about.
	We are being stirred up to be angry at each other.
	Where's the cameraman shooting the person throwing peanuts at him?
	Camera woman, camera woman.
	Camera woman, camera, whatever.
	Where's the camera person taking a picture of this?
	He's got a camera.
	She's got a camera.
	You got a camera, ladies.
	Use it.
	Look what they did.
	They threw peanuts at me.
	Here's the video.
	And they called her an animal, which I think what he's...
	This is a racial thing for sure.
	And by the way, they made it clear with the...
	I wanted to bring this up.
	The assassins, the four assassins, out of the blue...
	Find a picture of one of the guys as a page in the 2008 Republican Convention.
	What?
	They take pictures of pages and document them four years earlier?
	Yeah, exactly.
	And that means...
	This is a bogus...
	This is the most bogus thing I saw in this report.
	As soon as I saw that, here he is.
	We think it's him.
	It's his exact same screwball name, a Gooey Gooey.
	You know, some crazy name that no one's ever seen or heard before.
	It's from Guam.
	Gooey Gooey.
	Yeah, all the Guamanians are named weird.
	He doesn't look Guamanian.
	Whatever the case is, Mr.
	Agui-Gui, there was a, coincidentally, the same kind of Joe Agui-Gui over in the Republican National Convention as a page, because we take pictures of all the pages, and then we document who the guy's name is, because you never know.
	Could come in handy.
	I mean, that is so bogus.
	Yeah, so this was very upsetting to me to see what is happening.
	And that's the only message I've got anymore.
	It's like, don't let yourself get riled up.
	Because this is where it's going.
	This is where we're headed.
	It's this kind of stuff.
	There's more to the report because they ejected these two guys or whatever.
	That was the quote they shouted at this female camera operator who works here at CNN. Multiple witnesses observed this very ugly exchange.
	Republican National Committee Security and Police immediately removed the two people from the Tampa Bay Times Forum, which is where we are right now.
	In fact, the convention Statement says, and I'm quoting now, two attendees tonight exhibited deplorable behavior.
	Their conduct was inexcusable and unacceptable.
	This kind of behavior will not be tolerated.
	CNN issued a statement as well saying CNN can in fact confirm there was an incident directed at an employee inside the Tampa Bay Times forum earlier this afternoon.
	CNN worked with convention officials to address this matter and will have no further comment.
	How about this for a further comment?
	Who were these two people?
	And let's look at their background.
	Yeah, I'd love to know.
	Thank you.
	I'd love to know who they are.
	Yeah, no, there's no further comment needed.
	And by the way, it is by definition racist to say that this is horrible.
	So let's just take it from another perspective.
	If these guys are throwing peanuts at a white camera person, And they say, this is how we feed the animals.
	It's okay, apparently.
	But because it's a black, or as Wolf Blitzer says, African American, automatically there's a racial undertone there.
	I think that's in his head.
	Maybe they're just talking about the mainstream media being animals.
	Like, we call them douchebags all the time.
	Yeah, well, there's not too many racial overtones with douchebag.
	No, but this is a hoax.
	Divided we fall.
	Oh, but this is the only thing that I'm seeing on the tweeters.
	You know, that and ask Mitt Romney if he wears magic underwear.
	Which is apparently...
	Yeah, there's the discourse in the United States of America thanks to Twitter.
	Oh no, but it's highly intelligent people I know.
	Who have sunk down to this level.
	Yeah, no, you're right.
	They moan about that, and they have a bunch of issues that they can't get out of their system, and they giggle.
	Yeah, but this is...
	John, we've already figured out this is because of the totalitarian fascist state that people are in.
	And the only way to let that out is to call people names on Twitter.
	And that's good, I guess.
	No, it's not.
	It's not?
	It's not good?
	It's not good.
	You've got a problem with the society.
	Learn to paint.
	Learn to some art.
	There was a...
	This is funny.
	In the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, some of the great art emerged during a totalitarian period.
	Wow.
	Polish posters, for God's sake.
	The Wall Street Journal, they have a bond expert, and I guess the municipal bond market is so crap that they have to talk about something else.
	She was talking about if you feel really down.
	This whole video, it was like 10 minutes of her talking about how you can lift yourself up.
	On the Wall Street Journal, listen to it a little bit.
	You say there are tangible things we can do to kind of rewire...
	These are two women on the Wall Street Journal talking about pepping yourself up so you don't feel so down.
	...are our brains to act this way if this just doesn't come naturally to us.
	If we're people who, you know, look at the glass half empty as opposed to the glass half full, what would you suggest?
	Sure.
	And so that's interesting.
	The research shows you can really change your perspective in the moment.
	And again, this is so important.
	So what you want to do when you start going down that path of self-criticism, you want to stop yourself.
	You literally can tell yourself, stop.
	Stop.
	I'm not doing this.
	And then I asked a lot of people for tricks that they use, and they were so interesting.
	One woman writes, all of her passwords are self-affirmations.
	This is the best one.
	Here's how you do it.
	Here's how you do it.
	This is what your password should be.
	This is the Bond woman at the Wall Street Journal.
	Your password should be, you are beautiful!
	Oh, interesting.
	One woman writes, all of her passwords are self-affirmations.
	Like, you look great today.
	You're beautiful.
	Do good work.
	That's fantastic.
	Facebook, computer, everything.
	That's fantastic.
	What a genius idea.
	This is the kind of feel-good, new-age bullcrap that's been propagated for the last 30 years in this country.
	Now it's come down to this.
	Self-affirmation passwords.
	On the Wall Street Journal.
	Yeah, well, hey, what can I tell you?
	Self-affirmation passwords.
	The only other thing I really had is...
	Some people got in touch with me about the generics bill that we talked about the other day.
	And I found out that it's really much deeper than you realize if you look at the pharmaceutical association...
	I'm sorry, the generic pharmaceutical association.
	All of these companies have...
	Generic pharmaceutical companies alongside of them.
	I didn't realize this.
	So Merck and Pfizer, they all have companies with other names, like, what is it?
	Mylan, I think it is.
	And they just sell the generic version of the pharmaceutical drug.
	And they are actually the ones lobbying.
	This is where it gets so funny.
	They're saying, oh yeah, we need this.
	We need these high user fees, these $300 million fees.
	We need that.
	You know, to make sure that all the generic stuff is safe.
	But these guys are paid and part and parcel of the big brands.
	They're just posing as generics, which effectively leaves, you know, the Curry Dvorak Pharma Consulting Group, where we intended to make the five-cent Viagra alternative.
	We can't afford the fees.
	Yeah, it's to lock out the competitors.
	Yeah, but I had no idea that there were these really big...
	You know, most of them, like Merck and all these big companies, they make most of the generics.
	Yeah, but they sell them on their...
	Oh yeah, they got little companies that sell them.
	I didn't know that.
	That was completely new to me.
	Like, oh, okay.
	It makes sense if you think about it.
	Well, they actually had a little video.
	That's why I think, by the way, I'm always convinced that a lot of these clone inks for your printer...
	Yeah, or just the same company.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, or like the fake Chanel handbags.
	Yeah.
	So here's a little bit of their video of where they're...
	You might as well make money on both ends of the deal.
	I agree.
	Somebody's going to buy the clone ink, whether you like it or not, you might as well be selling it to them.
	I agree.
	I totally agree.
	On average, only two of every ten new drugs approved by the FDA will ever earn revenues that exceed average research and development costs, revenues that are needed to support the cost of many drug candidates that don't make it, and to fund future R&D projects.
	Generics, on the other hand, have very low research costs because they are approved by the FDA based on the research done by the company that developed the original brand drug.
	They're stealing from us.
	They're cheating.
	They don't pay any money for R&D. Yeah, like you didn't make billions and billions and billions and billions of dollars.
	And also, take a look at your history and see what the patent thing was all about to begin with.
	This kind of propaganda is disgusting.
	I liked your analysis in, was that Market Watch about the Samsung Apple suit?
	That was in PC Magazine.
	Oh, it was good.
	I liked that.
	Well, you said basically Apple lost.
	Yeah.
	Hold on a second.
	Yeah, Apple lost.
	You want to explain why they lost?
	I love it.
	I love your loss.
	Well, it's a billion dollars it's going to exchange, but it's worth more than a billion dollars to Samsung and all the other Android makers for that matter because all this case proved was that they're the same.
	The whole case was about the iPhone is the same as the Samsung phone.
	Or the Samsung phone's the same as an iPhone and therefore they're stealing from us.
	But they went on and on and they overdid it.
	They went to the point where they had Susan Kerr come on and testify that she had a Samsung phone and swore on a stack of Bibles that it was an Apple iPhone.
	This is putting the wrong message out there.
	The Apple iPhone now is not special.
	It's the same as a Samsung phone.
	So you're going to make a decision at the end of the day.
	Yeah, they're going to change a few icons, but it's still going to be the same.
	At the end of the day, when you go into the store to buy one of these phones, and the Samsung phone is half the price of the iPhone, what are you going to do?
	What's the same thing?
	I'll just buy the cheap one.
	It's a huge blunder.
	I do not understand why they did that.
	It's just the hubris of Apple.
	They always sue everybody.
	They've been lawsuit happy since the days of the Apple II, and they can't get it out of their system.
	They should have shut up and just bitched and moaned a little bit.
	That billion dollars is money well spent by Samsung to have this outcome, and they still might not have to pay it.
	The damage is done.
	So just to recap on that, which was a beautiful diatribe, because the lawsuit essentially says they're the same, it was a billion-dollar marketing campaign by Samsung.
	Money well spent.
	Yeah.
	Fantastic.
	And by the way, I also mentioned that column, but this is a parallel of what happened to the MP3 world.
	When MP3s first came out in the 90s, nobody except students were using them, and it was the RIAA that kept drawing attention to MP3s.
	More and more attention.
	This is stealing music.
	Wait a minute, it's not even the same format as an MP3. It must be the same.
	I mean, then they kept suing and losing and winning and suing and losing and winning.
	And it was just like, it went from nobody knew what an MP3 was to everybody knowing what an MP3 is.
	How is that a good idea?
	Thanks for the promo, everybody.
	So anyway, that's my argument.
	Yeah, no, I like it.
	And nobody else took that argument.
	Well, no, of course not.
	I think I listened to hours of analysis by non-practicing lawyers.
	I think they know what they're talking about.
	Your analysis is, without a doubt, the best analysis in the universe, all part and parcel of...
	The best podcast in the universe!
	I would agree.
	Now, walk us out of here.
	What do you got?
	You want to play?
	Come on, man.
	Do something.
	Don't make me play the summary again.
	Okay.
	Well, what do we got with the ASCAM? We got the Puerto Rican.
	Oh, yeah.
	Okay.
	This will be the last one.
	So I'm watching the NHK, which is Japanese TV. And as you know, I'm spending all my time watching these foreign stuff now.
	Don't they make spark plugs?
	NHK? So NHK, which is the Japanese Nippon something or other.
	It says it has it in for Obama, but they have it in for Obama.
	I don't know why, but the Japanese government-supported station essentially is pro-Romni to such an extreme that it's like just wearing it on their sleeves.
	Just listen to this little snippet from a longer report that just goes on and on about how great Romni is.
	Romney has worked for years toward the nomination, but many Americans still wonder what he stands for.
	NHK World's Matt Field has more from Tampa.
	Mitt Romney says he has the experience to lead something he says President Barack Obama has not led, an economic recovery.
	So we'll get this economy going again with more jobs and more take-home pay.
	Voters four years ago bought Obama's promises of change.
	But Republicans and Democrats remain divided.
	And the jobless rate is stuck above 8%.
	People who did vote for him are just as disappointed as anyone else.
	I don't see any tax breaks coming my way.
	So it's been tough.
	Tough four years.
	Romney rebuilt company after company as the chief executive of Bain Capital.
	And he led the organizing committee for the 2002 Winter Olympics.
	Okay, a couple things.
	First of all, they need to fire their editor, unless that was you.
	No, no, you're talking about the dead air?
	Ah, this sucks.
	It blows.
	They have, like, a gate on it or something.
	So when the guy stops talking, it goes to dead silence.
	Okay.
	This is some Japanese technology.
	Question number two.
	Who is this broadcast for?
	It's not in Nipponese.
	So this is meant to propagandize Americans?
	Who was watching this?
	Who was the intended audience of NHK? In this regard, in the English version, it's for...
	Like Singapore?
	It's for Americans who are interested in Japan, or they have something to do with Japan, and probably some expats.
	And I don't know.
	I have no idea what the marketing...
	Completely weird.
	But this thing, especially when they clipped to the two people, instead of having a balanced report, first they say, well, and you use the term Americans bought into.
	Yeah, it's a good term.
	That's a loaded one.
	I think, wow, this is, when I heard bought into, I'm thinking, well, this sounds like this is a propaganda piece.
	Then they had two people bitching, and they didn't have anybody on the other side.
	It wasn't balanced in the least situation.
	So what is going on that this would happen in the first place?
	And why is it being done?
	What is the Japanese?
	What's their beef?
	They got a complaint?
	What is it?
	I'd like to know.
	Apparently.
	Well, maybe we're not doing the right job with the Sakuku Islands.
	I don't know.
	There's something going on, though.
	This was a hit piece on Obama, and it was done for a reason.
	Somebody who listened to that, who's got some Japanese connections, is going to have some idea about what's happening.
	He's going to have to tell us what the heck's going on with the Japanese and Obama.
	By the way, I was not far off as NGK spark plugs.
	You think I'm crazy, right?
	But there are...
	NGK spark plugs are big.
	Yeah, well, I didn't think you were crazy.
	I thought it was a funny line.
	I actually meant it.
	It was not meant as humor.
	Oh, sorry.
	Didn't mean to disappoint you.
	Okay, so I will go to the optometrist.
	Optician?
	What is it?
	No, optometrist.
	Opticians just fit you for glasses.
	No, no.
	I have to have new...
	Just go to an ophthalmologist, actually.
	What is that?
	What do they do?
	It's a doctor who can not only see what the hell the deal is, he can give you drugs.
	Do you have any good drugs?
	I don't need any drugs, man.
	I'm smoke-free.
	I'm drug-free.
	But it's just now I'm a little blind.
	We'll work on that.
	So on Sunday, we'll talk about salt.
	We'll have an analysis of Paul Ryan and the Scholastic episode.
	That's fantastic.
	I don't even have to show up.
	Yeah, no, you don't.
	Coming to you from the capital of the drone star state here in Austin, Tejas.
	Good morning, everybody.
	My name is Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where we missed out on getting the convention, I'm John C. Dvorak.
	We will talk to you again on Sunday right here on No Agenda.
	No Agenda.
	A convention in Tampa, which seemed pretty full to me, and he spoke for a good hour.
	Oh, it was at the Sun Dome?
	Yes, it was pretty big.
	Which is Florida State.
	No, not Florida State.
	South Florida, I think, University.
	And it's a huge football stadium, and it looked at me to be Obama-sized audiences.
	It was big, yeah.
	It was really big.
	It was huge.
	And of course, he really calls it the way it is.
	One minute of this hour and a half speech, which is really good.
	You know, I think the important thing that we know in this room, and the growing number of Americans are realizing, that the worst thing we can do is remain silent.
	How many times I've been to the campuses, I brought this subject up about military arrests and the problems that we're facing, assassination and torture and all these things.
	And I said, but how many times have you read it or heard about it on the evening news?
	I mean, it's almost like there's a silence out there.
	But early on in the campaign, I would bring up, I'd just sort of say, well, let me tell you a little bit about NDAA. And I would think I had to fully explain it.
	But as soon as I said NDAA, the people in the audience, they were outraged about it.
	Which means we're not silent.
	We know about it.
	But we have to get around the system, which will not report on it, because they're part of the problem.
	They're part of the military-industrial complex.
	Thank you.
	They're part of the military-industrial complex.
	Exactly.
	You're talking about the media.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	I love that.
	It's so nice of me.
	It's obviously true.
	I mean, you can see the whole thing.
	It's a stage news, this picture that's on the front of the New York Times.
	But it's hard for people to believe this stuff, John.
	It's hard.
	It's hard for them to believe that it could actually be happening.
	It's extremely hard for them to believe it.
	I have a...
	Got into this argument with a friend who, about that seal book that we talked about earlier in the show.
	You have friends?
	And he would not listen to any alternative theory except that guy was, some guy, rogue.
	He was a rogue seal.
	And I said, what?
	You get to be a rogue seal.
	This is bullcrap and you're buying it.
	A rogue seal.
	Really?
	And this guy's probably really intelligent, right?
	He's a famous journalist.
	Oh no!
	Oh no, this hurts.
	And he's your friend?
	Oh yeah.
	He's a good football fan.
	But this is exactly what the problem is.
	And people just don't want to...
	No, they don't buy it.
	They can't get their head around it.
	It's not even fathomable because it makes no sense that this is done so far off track.
	But let me ask you a question.
	I mean, come on.
	I was thinking, I was talking with JC about this.
	You know, we're talking because he's got apparently the latest thing going on is with the truthers.
	Mm-hmm.
	He's got a new argument which is that 9-11 was irrelevant.
	It would have been something else because this authoritarianism was in play way before 9-11.
	It was going to stay in play.
	It just moved it along a little faster.
	So, and I immediately thought to myself, well, I mean, Obama killing Americans just by fiat, you know, I think he should be dead, is nothing new.
	I mean, Clinton killed Gary Weaver's wife and a kid.
	With an FBI sniper.
	Everybody knows who it is.
	He's never been indicted.
	There's never been anything about it ever since.
	Clinton burned down the Waco operation.
	Why?
	Why?
	Because?
	Killed a bunch of kids.
	Why?
	Because?
	And the guy ran it.
	I mean, this is nothing new.
	This has been going on.
	Where it began, I'm not absolutely sure.
	It probably began when the CIA killed JFK. This could be.
	I noticed you didn't say, you're crazy!
	That didn't happen!
	You're nuts!
	A lot of people believe that.
	Yeah.
	That's not a crazy thing like moon bases.
	Well, since you bring it up...
	I can believe in the moon bases if I want.
	So you know, I was on the This Week in Tech.
	You know, I was told to keep you off that track.
	You do yourself at the beginning of the show.
	I'm not talking about that show.
	I'm talking about the response.
	That's what I'm talking about.
	What I find incredibly interesting is that if you have an alternative view on the landing on the moon, here is what I have been called in the past 48 hours.
	Is it on Twitter?
	Yes!
	Oh, I can look it up.
	Yeah, a Holocaust denier...
	What's that got to do with anything?
	Oh, no.
	Even Leo himself said people who deny the moon landing are like people who deny the Holocaust.
	He literally said this.
	Okay.
	So, worse, John, I've been called a Republican because of this.
	Uh-oh.
	Now you're kicking me in the nuts when you say that.
	So somehow we've gotten to this point, and I understand why people get upset.
	You know, all your life, since you were five years old, you think that you're going to be an astronaut, you're going to fly to the moon, and the minute I bring that into doubt...
	You know, that destroys your entire worldview.
	It starts to crumble.
	You don't know what to do.
	So there's 25% of the people say, I'm going to punch you in the face, Karee, when I see you.
	Okay.
	Which is bullcrap.
	But that's okay.
	I can understand people who have that immediate response.
	There's a lot of people, and an overwhelming amount, I felt, probably 40%, who say, Well, I think you have your right to your opinion, although that's bullcrap, because that happened.
	But then the people who literally call me a Holocaust denier, go back to Glenn Beck and Fox News.
	I mean, what is that all about?
	When did any alternative theory become analogous to right-wing racism, xenophobia?
	I don't understand.
	You know, birther, truther.
	You know, this is what I'm seeing now in our normal discourse.
	I was just talking about a moon landing.
	A little minor thing.
	Which, by the way, what did we get?
	Some rocks?
	Yeah, and that was great for science.
	But what I'm seeing in the conversation is people are calling each other these names without thinking what it actually means.
	And that to me was, actually I was very excited because I'm like, wow!
	If I can trigger, if I can make this Pavlovian response, think of what I can do with this.
	I can use it for good or for evil.
	But it was fascinating to me.
	Literally fascinating how people will say, you don't believe in that?
	Well, you don't believe in the Holocaust.
	You Jew hater.
	I'm like, what?
	Republican Jew hater?
	I mean, this is crazy.
	It's crazy, John.
	I woke up and I'm like, where am I? Can you explain this?
	How does this happen?
	Come on, man, help me deconstruct this.
	This is very common in a fascist authoritarian society where you have to have approved opinions.
	Wait a minute.
	This is what I was afraid you were going to say.
	You're telling me that when a society gets to this point, Whether it is a fascist, authoritarian society where you have to shut up, slave, and agree with what the messaging is, this is what happens?
	Yeah, this is what Jerry will explain in the 1984 book.
	I'm like the canary in the coal mine here.
	Well, yeah, something.
	But this is what you get in the...
	Read 1984.
	I've read 1984.
	Of course I've read 1984.
	There's other good books that are out there that have this...
	It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis.
	That's the one I've got to read.
	It Can't Happen Here.
	It's a short Sinclair Lewis book.
	It got him thrown out of the liberal academic community as a...
	Sinclair Lewis is his name?
	Yeah, Sinclair Lewis.
	Very famous.
	He won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
	The guy is a great writer.
	He's dead, but he was a great writer.
	And he wrote this one book.
	He wrote so well, they killed him.
	Yeah.
	And, uh, there was even a better, the better, in my opinion, the better writer from that era was John Dos Passos, who was kicked out, really kicked out seriously and turned in.
	He kind of went from being a left winger to a right winger.
	And he did a book that was similar.
	I can't remember the name.
	John Dos Passos?
	Is that his name?
	Yeah, John, and it's D-O-S, one word, Passos, P-A-S-S-O-S. And John Dos Passos is really worth reading, especially the, I'd have to go look at his bibliography to tell you the exact book where he turned on his, on the liberals, which were all lockstep, you know, they were the...
	The liberals tend to be the...
	The right-wingers are the same way, if you think about it.
	In fact, to be the president, you have to have a checklist of what you believe in.
	If you're not against abortion, and you're this and you're that, it's just a whole checklist.
	You bury just an inch from any of the things that's on the checklist.
	Nobody knows who puts a checklist together.
	Somebody...
	And you vary a little bit, and then you're a lib, or a rhino, a rhino, a Republican name only, this kind of thing.
	Republicans have done this with this rhino epithet that they throw at anyone who doesn't agree with them.
	Now, hold on a second, John.
	Was it the USA, the 42nd parallel?
	Was that it?
	That's part of a trilogy that he wrote.
	Okay.
	Do you know which book it is that I'm supposed to read?
	Because I'll read this, man.
	I'll get it.
	I'll have to think about it.
	And I had forgotten to read Sinclair Lewis.
	You did tell me that earlier.
	So thank you.
	So they are succeeding now.
	Now?
	No, no.
	But this...
	I have never, John, I have been called many things in my life.
	I'm not a very popular guy for a lot of reasons.
	But this was different, John.
	This was different.
	It was the crowd turning on you.
	But it was the crowd turning on me for something.
	I wasn't on my pulpit going, that's bullcrap!
	It didn't happen!
	It's all a lie!
	The government's conspiracy!
	I didn't say that.
	I said, yeah, I got all time.
	I got an alternative view, you know, it's whatever.
	It was really laid back.
	But the audience, the crowd, surged on me.
	Like you say.
	And these things that they're saying, that's what blew me away.
	Like, you don't believe.
	And even Leo himself said, well, if you don't believe in the moon landings, that's like not believing in the Holocaust.
	Like, whoa!
	So that is what happens.
	Okay, so what...
	You needed to go...
	So what is the next phase?
	John, as a totalitarian state scholar of history, what is the next phase?
	I have a lot of titles by your degree.
	You're in demand.
	Right.
	Well, the next day is whether you have to go to demonification of some specific group of people.
	Right.
	And that probably will be the Muslims.
	And then you have to start rounding them up.
	You've got to round people up.
	That's it.
	You've got to round people up.
	But I don't think the Muslim thing is...
	We've got to round up something that's just something much easier.
	Right.
	You think it's going to be the Muslims this time?
	That's what we do?
	We just round up the Muslims?
	Well, it makes the most sense.
	We demonize them in many ways.
	And even though most Muslims...
	And I've said this before and I'll say it again.
	Yeah, there's a bunch of crazy Muslims out there that are causing trouble.
	And they have a huge population altogether.
	And because just a small percentage doesn't take much to mess things up.
	The Muslims themselves, if you really dig around the web...
	Are bitching and moaning about these people.
	Of course they are.
	And they never get any...
	Everyone, especially the right-wingers, they've never said a thing!
	Why don't they speak up?
	They speak up.
	Yeah.
	All the time.
	And nobody pays any attention to them speaking up.
	So that's one of the little twisted things that bothers me, is that they do speak up.
	Have you ever noticed that of all these crazy veterans who want to kill the...
	We'll get to that after we thank our producers.
	Who want to kill the president and who go and shoot up places.
	I wanted to talk to you about that.
	Can I just say one observation?
	Notice how they're never black?
	It's like we have no black people in our armed forces anymore.
	Yeah, when I think it's 60% are black.
	Yeah, and it's only white people who do this.
	Only white veterans who go crazy and want to go kill everybody.
	So, just to lead us into thanking some people for supporting our show.
	Tom Brokaw, and I was amazed that they, maybe this didn't air on television, but it was on the CNN website called, they have a thing called the Red Chair.
	Have you ever seen this?
	They put you in the red chair and you get to talk open and candidly.
	Now I feel like an idiot because I had never seen this.
	I don't think it's on television.
	I think it's only on the website.
	And Tom Brokaw is talking about how he...
	Tom Brokaw.
	Tom Brokaw.
	He actually hates what the elite news media has become.
	As do we, which is, I think, part of the motivation for doing this show.
	So listen to him.
	So on the biggest weekend of the year for Washington journalists, turn it on, and there's Kim Kardashian.
	He's talking about the press corps, the Washington press corps dinner with the president and what happened at this past year's celebration of the elite press media and politicians in Washington.
	And Lindsay Lohan and people in designer gowns and black tie and even the president, you know, up there kind of mocking the press and the press mocking him.
	Out of proportion, I think, to what it had been in the past.
	I just think it sends a wrong signal to the country.
	I can't imagine if you're out there, a small business owner in Wichita, Kansas, or a school teacher who's worried about losing her pension in Seattle, you tune in to see how the American journalistic establishment is protecting your rights, and they're mostly interested in having their picture taken with Kim Kardashian.
	Go, Tom.
	He's not long for this earth, that's for sure.
	Not with talk like that.
	I always wonder where he's coming from.
	But I like that.
	I think that's pretty funny.
	No, that was a good one, I have to say.
	And he's right.
	I saw that whole event, and I thought it was a humiliation for the media.
	Yeah.
	They're just a bunch of psychophants, just like the idiot, you know, high school girl who swoons over Justin Bieber.
	I mean, there's no difference.
	Same thing.
	I mean, they can't even be cool around Kim Kardashian.
	Did you hear, I'm sorry, since we're here, did you hear about the guy who got fired from Yahoo News?
	No.
	You hear about this?
	Okay.
	This was nuts.
	So, his name is...
	See, this is where I have problems with my eyes.
	David Challion.
	And so, he used to work at PBS. Democracy.
	I think he actually worked at Democracy Now.
	And he actually did the Charlie Gibson, Sarah Palin interview.
	Another nice hit job.
	So, I guess on Yahoo News, which maybe that's part of ABC now, I'm not quite sure how it is, they run a package, but his mic is left open, and he's talking to And he says, well, I'll play it for you because it was really hard to understand.
	And then I'll give you the quote.
	Let me see if you can hear it.
	It's about eight seconds, so listen closely.
	So could you hear it?
	Very hard, right?
	I couldn't really hear it.
	I heard something about drowning.
	Yeah, so this guy says...
	That was him?
	It sounded like a woman.
	Yeah, while the package is running, he says the Republicans, or Romneys, are happy to have a party while black people are drowning.
	And of course, the news crew cracks up because this is hilariously funny!
	It's the Republicans!
	And he was fired immediately.
	Yahoo was, of course, shocked.
	We are outraged by this.
	This is outrageous!
	This is totally outrageous, I tell you.
	But then, who's the woman that you hate so much?
	Well, let me think.
	Let me find my list.
	Eiffel?
	What's her name?
	I don't hate her.
	I think she's really good.
	I said that she's compromised.
	Gwen Eiffel.
	She's totally compromised.
	So she tweets out and says, oh, one mistake doesn't take away from the fact that he's the best producer in the news business.
	She actually defends the guy while he's saying these things.
	You're not the best producer if you're an idiot and you don't know to just shut up.
	But this shows the same arrogance in news.
	This is what you don't hear, what goes on behind the scenes.
	It's not like newsroom on HBO, people.
	And these people are extremely compromised.
	All of them.
	Yeah, it's depressing.
	Eh, not really.
	What else would we do?
	I mean, come on.
	I mean, it's good to have producers that think that at least what we're doing is exposing the truth.
	We may not be getting to the bottom of everything.
	We get to the bottom of a lot, though.
	And I want to thank some of the executive producers that came in for the show 439, including a number of new nights that decided, hey, now the summer's over, so let's get back involved.
	Rodney Adams, Forest, Virginia, sent in 54321, which I love.
	54321, boom!
	Wait, this is Atomic Rod.
	Atomic Rod.
	Oh, this is Atomic Rod, right.
	Love this show.
	I think you're wrong about climate change.
	You've been played by oil, gas, and coal supporter propaganda.
	Listeners can learn more at Atomic Insights.
	Yeah, well...
	Well, hold on a second.
	I'm a big...
	You don't think this is a little...
	You think this is a little bit biased?
	Okay.
	We'll let him have his little moment.
	But hold on a second.
	What have I been duped about climate change?
	What is he talking about?
	I'm the number one guy for backyard nukes.
	I guess there's going to be a long step in climate change.
	Everybody should go atomic.
	So anyway, AtomicInsights.com and the Nuclear Literacy Project, and it's NuclearLiteracy.org.
	I hope this donation starts to count down to your recognition that fossil fuel wastes are more dangerous than the industry wants you to believe.
	I'm a little disappointed.
	I mean, I really appreciate Rod's donation.
	Not everybody who's a knight is exactly lockstep with what we think, which is fine.
	And I don't mind hearing these arguments because you can't argue anything unless you hear all sides.
	But the thing is, I think I'm on his side of the argument.
	Well, he doesn't think so.
	Let's give it to me.
	Anonymous in Coleyville, Texas.
	Which is, where's Coleyville?
	Coleyville?
	I don't know.
	$500 in the morning is a value for value across the transom which will complete my knighthood.
	Please knight me Sir Long the Good.
	Okay.
	Alright, cool.
	He says that you'll know what that means.
	I'm drawing a blank, man.
	Sir Long the Good.
	Well, that's what he is anyway.
	Brian Rowley in Chantilly, Virginia.
	Another Virginian, coincidentally.
	500.
	I'd like to thank you, gentlemen, for all that you do.
	Karma is karma.
	Well, fuck karma!
	That's right.
	I wrote it and John said it.
	I still didn't get the karma I was looking for or any other karma that I could tell, which is an improvement.
	The first time I got bad karma.
	I don't want any more karma.
	Nor do I want anyone else to give me karma.
	I will most likely get bad karma.
	The donation is putting me further in debt.
	But you gentlemen are worth it.
	Now enough about me.
	I hope to God this works.
	I would love to give my only good karma and...
	To and wish Mrs.
	Curry, Mrs.
	Curry, whatever, a happy birthday since we shared the exact same birthday.
	And to you both and your family.
	Gentlemen, I know that I don't do this anymore, but I'm letting you know that I'm not renewing several forwarding sites that I've done and giving you the money.
	For your information, PayPal cut off my one...
	Cut off my one, something about his note there.
	He cut off, here's where they got cut off.
	Two of them are DeportFaridZakari.com.
	I never knew that one.
	I would have promoted that if I knew that was forwarding to us.
	And the other one is DeportPiersMorgan.com.
	I didn't know about these wonderful domain names.
	This is very sad.
	I will continue to keep noagendamilitia.com forwarding it to the best podcast for you.
	Wow.
	Well, of course...
	Now, he says he wants...
	Now, he says he doesn't want karma, then he says he wants it for someone else.
	For us.
	He wants to give it to us.
	Nail it.
	I'll take it.
	I'm happy with it.
	Absolutely.
	You've got karma.
	Thank you.
	From Chantilly, Virginia.
	Wink, wink, nudge, nudge.
	Yeah, that's what I... I always say that.
	Papa Guido.
	Hey, Papa Guido.
	Chicago 36969.
	Wait a minute, wait a minute.
	How awesome is it that we have a listener from Chicago whose name is Papa Guido?
	Yeah.
	Hey, hey, oi.
	Hey, great work on the show.
	Longtime boner here.
	Hopefully this magic number starts to make up for it.
	JC has been a fan of yours since I was a kid.
	Thanks.
	I've been dreaming of building my own 286.
	I hope to join the ranks of the 12-12-12 nights.
	If all goes according to plan, I want to issue a couple of douchebags.
	One for Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel.
	Douchebag!
	We're not giving the Chicago police what they need to do their jobs.
	I was told by an officer that the Popo have to use their personal cell phones to call outside the city 773-312 area codes.
	Really?
	Mobile phones, he says, makes this more than idiotic.
	Because it doesn't cost anymore.
	No, of course not.
	So that's dumb.
	Also, mega douchebag to the Satan Disciple Street Gang.
	Douchebag!
	Who've been shooting at slaves in my neighborhood for the past three months on a bi-weekly basis.
	Huh.
	I'll try to see some security cam pictures I took of these low lives marching past my house wearing bandanas on their faces with guns in hand.
	Please send drones!
	On a related note, I need as much karma as I can get.
	You can chain together to help me dodge bullets, sell my house, buy a new one, and evacuate my two human resources and MILF to the banal safety of the suburbs.
	So he needs a karma?
	Is that what he needs?
	Well, it looks like, yeah.
	Sounds like it to me, my friends.
	You've got karma.
	Papa Guido, we take care of you.
	We take care of you with a karma.
	Sir Upstart Ventures in Windsor, Victoria.
	Windsor, Victoria.
	Yeah, that would be Gitmo down under.
	Oh.
	Victoria is a region, a state.
	Oh yeah, okay, right.
	I was just confused with Canada.
	That's where the Victoria Bitter comes from.
	VB. 333.
	He's an executive producer also.
	Special Gitmo Nation down under birthday present to the Joshua Charteras from Rudy, Sam, and Michael.
	Josh turned 40 and blah.
	For a nine-course degustation menu, they went to the JacquesRaymond.com restaurant.
	And the night was filled with excellent food, fine wine, and quality banter.
	Josh, you're a great influence on all our lives, and we hold you in the highest regard.
	Can you please give Josh a combination?
	Huntsman Ching Ching, Karma Shot, and the young girl Shut Up Slave.
	Adam and John, you have elevated the consciousness of many, and you rightly deserve the title of best podcast in the universe.
	Wow.
	Oh, that's very kind.
	Let me give you the requested karma as you want to have it.
	You've got karma.
	That was like a little extra bit.
	Your mind is a bat.
	Yeah, I am.
	I have to put the glasses now on my nose.
	This is a real problem.
	I've got to go to the optician.
	Alright, that's the best we can do.
	Sorry.
	Sorry.
	I am sorry.
	Truly sorry.
	But think about this.
	I'll live longer.
	Andrew, you probably.
	Andrew Gamble, Spring Creek, Nevada.
	Happy birthday, Adam.
	Was going to do the 48-48, but the best podcast in the universe gives me much more value than that.
	A shut-up slave karma from my wife, Fran, who turned me on to the show.
	Andrew Gamble, ready for the food riots.
	Are we all ready for the food riots?
	Shut up, slave!
	You've got karma.
	I nailed that.
	Yeah.
	Andy Pelham and Lee to Belgium.
	Oh, by the way, let me just point out that it seems we have an initiative here, 4848, for my 48th birthday on Monday?
	Is that what...
	Yeah, your birthday...
	I forgot about that.
	Yeah.
	Your birthday is on Monday, and so the newsletter team...
	Came up with the idea.
	The staff at the newsletter desk.
	The newsletter desk of trained journalists decided to have a $48 donation in celebration like they had a $60 one for me.
	But then it dawned on me as the editor of this product that 4848 was more rhythmic.
	It had a nicer quality to it.
	Yeah, yeah.
	You know, it's going to be your last 48th birthday.
	But we normally don't mention anyone under 50, so I get to thank people, at least by name, who...
	Yeah, there'll be a list of names.
	Oh, okay.
	All right, good, good, good.
	Well, 48, man, can you believe it?
	48.
	That's your real...
	That is your real birthday, right?
	Yeah, yeah.
	September 3rd, 1964.
	That's right, baby.
	48.
	Okay, onward.
	Andy Peelman in Lied, Belgium.
	23...
	I think it's Leda, but okay.
	Leda.
	22369.
	Name pronunciation for John.
	Andy Peelman.
	Peelman.
	Or Peelman.
	Not Peelman, like I just said.
	Hi, long-time boner, first-time donor from Belgium.
	It's the third time I try to donate.
	The previous two got screwed because my session timed out while typing the note.
	Oh, God.
	Cut and paste.
	It's easier.
	Yeah.
	So I'll keep it short.
	I listen to you guys at work during night shifts when doing routine jobs.
	I work on a wheat processing plant where we make starches, dextrose, maltodextrines, and ethanol, for example.
	It seems that we even import high fructose from Israel to avoid EU quotas.
	On its local production.
	Anyway, I want a MILF shout out to my smoking hot wife, Sandra.
	With whom I finally decided to make a human resource.
	Let's hope it still works since we're both 35 now.
	Some baby making karma might be in order.
	Oh, and call all my real life friends douchebags.
	Douchebags!
	For not listening to the show.
	And a double douchebag for the fact that none of them have ever tried to do some research on the matrix we live in.
	Douchebags!
	Props to the chat room from Peacebee, my nickname online.
	Bye-bye.
	Bye-bye, everybody.
	Okay, we'll give you a little MILF shout-out for Sandra.
	Send pictures.
	MILF. That's one mother I like.
	You've got karma.
	You're always begging for pictures.
	I get them.
	I get them.
	I get them from time to time.
	You never show any of them to me.
	I do, too.
	I think you are.
	My KGB pictures.
	My hot KGB. Yeah, the one you never heard from against us calling her out as an agent.
	Well, she'll be back.
	I have a feeling she'll be back.
	Yeah, but her name will be Fred something.
	A different picture.
	How are you doing?
	I'm not Sarah.
	I'm Fred.
	Hope Littman, Arlington, Virginia, 22222.
	Wait a minute.
	Another Arlington, Virginia?
	Yeah, we got it.
	They're listening.
	Finally picked somebody who got the word out in Arlington.
	I asked for a dedouching from T. Adams donation.
	I asked for a dedouching from T. Adams donation.
	If you could add a karma shot, and that's one hot meal if you're the best podcast in the universe.
	All from Arlington, Spice Central.
	How convenient is that?
	A time!
	You've been de-douched.
	That's one hot milk, baby.
	You've got karma.
	It's a bias.
	It's the same kind of analysis anyone does.
	Dean Chartier in Calgary, Alberta.
	$200 in the morning.
	It's been a few weeks, so here's another $200.
	I'd like to mention a movie called The Postman.
	It's a post-apocalyptic movie with Kevin Costner, but it's set in 2013.
	It was made in 1997.
	And although widely panned by the critics, because it's really bad, my somewhat paranoid view is that it's too real.
	Wait, wait, wait.
	Are you editorializing this donation note, John?
	The donation note came in yesterday, and by coincidence, and even though he's not in Arlington, by coincidence, they were showing that movie on, I think, Encore.
	So I went and watched part of it.
	I didn't see the whole thing, but I watched part of it.
	And it's for 2013.
	Everyone's on horses, for one thing.
	And it's about a guy who becomes a postman to blend in with the government or something.
	There's clips in there, and I'll pull them out for the Sunday show.
	Well, you know what?
	I'm going to go and watch that now.
	It sounds like this is a great movie.
	If you don't like it, it's going to be a great movie.
	You're going to see it the same way I saw it.
	Corny!
	Okay.
	At least here in Calgary and Canada, it was removed from iTunes.
	My paranoid view is that it's too real for the New World Order to allow it.
	It was on iTunes, but it was removed about a year ago, at least here in Calgary and Canada in general.
	It's worth a look, and I'd appreciate knowing what you and Adam think.
	I promise not to phone you at home to discuss.
	Please, don't do that.
	I've got no time for that.
	So that's our executive producers for Show 439.
	We want to thank them all.
	It was a good group.
	Holy moly, a great group.
	Yeah, are you kidding me?
	A great group came in just in time for school.
	And it reminds you to go to Dvorak.org slash NA, channel Dvorak.com slash NA, NoAgendaShow.com and NoAgendaNation.com.
	By the way, NoAgendaNation, So Eric, I don't know if it's because he's getting irked about my mentioning the lanyards or...
	He sent me a box.
	He sent me a box.
	I have 8,000 lanyards.
	Yes.
	And you know what?
	I love them.
	Yeah, I know.
	You're a big fan of these things.
	But people come to the house and like, here, have a lanyard.
	And they're like, oh, thank you.
	That's such a wonderful gift.
	And have a white one to go with your black one.
	I'm going to drop them off over at the media offices.
	Don't give them to those douchies.
	I've got millions of them.
	No, give them to the homeless people.
	Homeless people?
	Love them.
	I will.
	They can clip their cup to it.
	You got a dollar?
	No, but I've got a lanyard.
	Yeah, they can clip their cup to it.
	Ah, that's not a bad idea.
	I think homeless walking around to no agenda shows in.
	I think this is a great idea, and from now on, I too, because, you know, we have a thing here in Texas when you, in Austin at least, when you stop at the stoplight outside of the city, kind of on the outskirts of the city, you know, there's people there like, you know, wounded veteran, brain injury, can't get a job, you know, and it's very hard, you know, it's like, but now I'm just going to say, hey man, how you doing?
	Have a lanyard.
	It's value for value.
	Dude, what did you give me?
	Nothing.
	Let me give you a lanyard.
	It could be useful.
	Yeah, it could.
	I think that's better than a dollar.
	Well, it's more practical.
	Yeah.
	Somehow I like the idea.
	I think that's really good.
	I'm going to start doing it.
	And if they go like, what?
	What do you mean, what?
	It's a lanyard, dude.
	You know what I used to like to do?
	When I was at Tech TV and I was a substitute host for this show called Big Thinkers.
	Ah, I remember that show, yeah.
	And so Big Thinkers had these hats that say Big Thinkers on the hat that they were giving all the guests.
	Well, I ended up with a box of them after the show folded.
	Oh, great, yeah.
	And I love giving them to the homeless.
	Because there's nothing funnier than a guy standing there begging for money with a hat that says Big Thinker on it.
	It's kind of sick, but I just thought it was funny.
	But what was the response when you gave them the hat?
	Were they happy, as happy with like a dollar?
	Oh, hey, man, thanks.
	Yeah, really?
	Because they usually have a grody hat.
	They need to swap out the hat once.
	But a lanyard could be handy for them.
	They could collect the whole set, the whole No Agenda set.
	And they could have a badge.
	Yeah.
	Homeless.
	Maybe you should make some homeless badges and give them that.
	They put it on the lanyard.
	If you give them two, then they won't have to hold the sign.
	They can just clip it to the lanyard.
	And they can wave.
	It's a very valuable...
	You know, there are people now who are now like, these guys are such incredible douchebags.
	They are laughing at the homelessness in America.
	We're laughing with the homeless.
	We're laughing with the homeless.
	Please remember that so we don't become homeless.
	And thank you, Martin J.J., for your outstanding contribution to our art.
	We never can thank artists enough.
	And that, of course, was in episode 439.
	If you have any plans to help us, you can always go out and propagate the formula on your homeless side.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Hey, by the way, John, remember we did the Taylor Swift audition?
	Thank you.
	Yeah.
	Guess what?
	What?
	Not a peep.
	What?
	Not a peep.
	Not a callback.
	Nothing.
	Maybe I'm not the best director for you, then.
	I think you are the absolute best director.
	I don't understand how you could not be seen as the best director in the universe.
	I've been saying that.
	Alright, onward.
	Yes.
	What else you got?
	Well, I got some...
	I mean, there's all kinds of stuff that I got.
	I got one.
	Let's just change it to go light a little for a second.
	Okay, alright.
	So I'm...
	There's a big rock concert.
	This is from Euronews.
	There's a big rock concert in Redding.
	Yeah, in the UK. Huge.
	Huge.
	Everyone's there.
	Now, I've got a little clip from a report about it, and it's got a guy that's going to talk over.
	Isn't it the Reading Festival?
	Is that what it's called?
	Yeah, the Reading Festival, I think.
	So I have a clip here, and this is an Ask Adam.
	Hey, we can play the Ask Adam thing if you can find it.
	Yeah.
	Well, I'll play the clip first, and then we'll do the Ask Adam.
	Okay, this is the clip, and it's going to have a little...
	Now, I want you to listen to it carefully.
	Can I go?
	Yeah.
	Around 100,000 people were expected at wedding over the three days with Florence and the Machine, the Shins and the Kaiser Chiefs also on the line.
	Ask Adam, ask Adam.
	What is the question?
	What the hell is this woman singing?
	I can't understand one word of it.
	And she, I mean, she sounds like a gray slick wannabe.
	There's a throwback.
	No, but she's Florence and the Machine.
	Okay, she's Florence and the Machine.
	I thought it might be.
	But then again, you know.
	I'm not a big fan of Florence and the Machine.
	But can you just tell me what her lyrics are?
	I want to know what she's saying.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Hold on a second.
	I can tell you exactly what she's saying.
	Let's listen to it again.
	I think it was, I don't know.
	I have no idea what she was saying.
	I have no idea what she was saying.
	What is she saying?
	Why are they showing a clip?
	The woman is like, she's over-modulated and she's screaming.
	She stinks.
	I think she was saying, holy Christ, get rid of Putin.
	I think it was, you sure that wasn't Pussy Riot on stage there, John?
	You sure that was Florence and the Machine?
	So I was, I don't have this in front of me, but I was in L.A. on Monday.
	Oh, okay.
	And I'm driving around, and I, because what I tend to do when I go...
	So I'm driving around and I go past one of these, like a Transformer or something.
	It's got a huge Pussy Riot poster.
	Oh, really?
	Awesome.
	Yeah, and it said something weird on it, like, you know, they're auditioning or something.
	No!
	And I heard on one of the news stories that they're auditioning for new people.
	They are auditioning.
	Yeah, but I think I told...
	You heard that on this show.
	What are you talking about on one of the news stations?
	Yeah, but why am I seeing a poster in L.A.? You know, Pussy Riot, one of our Russian...
	Yes.
	You have that email in front of you?
	Oh, I could find...
	No, I have my email closed, but I could open it up.
	Did you see the link he sent to when the same Pussy Riot people who used to be Voina, which was kind of...
	They're kind of like an arty, anarchistic group.
	They're belligerents, essentially.
	Yeah, belligerents.
	And they had the orgy at the museum.
	Did you see that whole website?
	The orgy at the museum?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	This woman who is now in jail...
	Yeah, go ahead.
	Explain.
	This is one of our better informants from Russia.
	I mean, he's obviously, you know...
	Of course.
	You don't know what he's up to.
	But here's what he...
	Here's a couple interesting tidbits I'm reading from his note on show 436.
	It was more than a note, by the way.
	It's a long email.
	It was essentially a debriefing.
	He's our handler from Russia.
	It was a report of some sort.
	Kasparov's arrest, we talked about.
	Interesting factoid.
	He allegedly bit the cop who dragged him.
	Typical.
	And you're right.
	He's a U.S. operative.
	That's what you said.
	His professional duty is to go and stir things up.
	You can remember that he once streamed his protests live into some commission of the U.S. Congress.
	Yeah, but get to the pussy riot thing, because there's a lot of stuff that he basically confirms that we were right, but then the pussy riot thing...
	I mean, you know, so literally...
	Okay, here we go.
	I'll start reading about Pussy Riot.
	I'm down on the...
	Is the law large...
	But you have to say it differently.
	It's Pussy Riot.
	You can't say Pussy Riot.
	It's Pussy Riot.
	Here, I have the official pronunciation.
	Hold on a second.
	This is Reuters.
	Reuters, you know, and Reuters is Ministry of Truth.
	Here it is.
	The lawyer representing the three members of the Russian female punk band Pussy Riot.
	Pussy Riot.
	That's how you say it.
	Pussy Riot.
	Pussy Riot.
	You can't say Pussy Riot.
	It's Pussy Riot.
	Okay, Pussy Riot and Offspring...
	Say it correctly now.
	Pussy Riot?
	Now I sound like Oprah.
	Go ahead.
	I'm going to pronounce this in my own way.
	Offspring of an art group not banned, Viona, war, which means you may recall Ravonna by the Kiss...
	There's the people behind the Kiss Police Women action.
	Remember that was an internet meme?
	Yeah, the hot chick who's the one now in jail went up...
	You know, if you do this enough...
	And literally, they are having sex in a museum.
	And I'm like, a lot of sex.
	Which is, I mean, cool.
	The pictures are great.
	Eventually, you're going to get busted for it.
	They're provoking.
	She and the group was also involved with steel frozen chicken in vagina.
	What?
	Pants a dick on a bridge near FSB, for which they were awarded by the Ministry of Culture.
	Oh.
	For the paint the dick on a bridge near FSB. Paint the dick on a bridge.
	And so they got an award for that?
	An award from the culture minister.
	Awesome.
	Back to Pussy Riot, they protested Putin on multiple occasions, including on Lobnoia Mesto, Red Square, and just got slapped with 15 bucks fine.
	And then he's got some links.
	And he says, the actions are motivated by the enmity or hatred of orthodoxy.
	They're probably about the church thing.
	And hatred against the members of the orthodox church.
	Russian political colonists believe that they are being financed by Boris Berezovsky, a fallen out of favor oligarch hiding in London.
	Yeah, this guy is very angry at Putin.
	Berezovsky, yeah.
	Because I think Putin took his money.
	Yeah, that would be one of the reasons, I think.
	It's how these guys operate.
	Yeah, it's how these guys operate.
	Anyway, also finance possibly the Ukrainian Femen.
	F-E-M-E-N. Yeah, those are the chicks who paint themselves weirdly and are everywhere.
	They're kind of...
	I like their art.
	I like Femen's art a lot.
	I think they're pretty cool.
	But they're going to get busted too.
	Who cut down Christian crosses in Kiev in quote-unquote support of Pushy Ride, although it backfired as it turned out it was a Catholic cross established in memory of communism victims.
	Yeah.
	Now they're threatened to be qualified as extremists for cutting down other crosses.
	And by the way, there have been four crosses cut down in Russia.
	I see these women as part of a coordinated attempt to divide people in Russia.
	In the last year alone, there was that pussy riot, hullabaloo, Photoshop watch of patriarch scandal.
	I don't know anything about that.
	The church doesn't pay taxes case and lots of others, including failed attempts to assassinate the mufti of Tatarstan and today's bombing of Dagestan Sheik.
	Also, opposition began to unite with Salafi and Wahhab as separatists in Kazan.
	I think the point of the email is you guys are pretty much only scratching a little bit of the surface of what's really going on there.
	Yeah, and it goes on and on.
	I mean, it goes on and on.
	And this letter is quite interesting.
	We'll be deconstructing it so we can get, you know, our job is to do what apparently the mainstream media won't do, which is to look into this stuff with more than just, ah, what a great name for a band.
	Or, hey, can I get a picture with Lindsay Lohan?
	Anyway, so there's something going on with this group and this guy's...
	Well, no, what's going on is it's...
	Our man in Moscow is handling it.
	Exactly.
	Our man in Moscow is on the scene.
	And it is anything but to...
	It's just to discredit Putin and make him look like crap.
	Because that's what Lucifer Clinton loves.
	And everyone's united.
	You know, it...
	It's an evil web.
	Yes, that's what it is.
	So, interesting.
	This was big news in New York.
	I only found a radio report of it.
	But a reporter...
	You want to hear a real shut-up slave?
	This is the other side of the problem with the media.
	When they ask a question, they get hammered into the ground.
	And a reporter, a female reporter, I believe, asked Mayor Bloomberg, hey, you know, were these cops who, you know, shot nine innocent bystanders by accident?
	You know, is this, like, acceptable?
	Which is, I guess, kind of a valid question, don't you think, John?
	Yeah.
	It's a procedural thing that they, obviously, the cops, I mean, this was not good for the public.
	They have cops just going crazy, shooting up the place.
	Well, would you like to hear the mayor's answer in response to your question?
	I'm all ears.
	Let me ask you this, miss.
	Somebody pointed a gun at you, and you had a gun in your pocket.
	What would you do?
	I think that answers the question.
	The police commissioners looked at it.
	They acted more than appropriately.
	I've seen the film.
	The guy turned, pointed his gun at the two police officers, and you can really ask that question after that?
	Shut up, slave!
	That's not how you answer that question, in my humble opinion.
	What a douchebag.
	Where's the douchebag sound effect?
	Douchebag!
	That guy's the worst.
	Now, let's go back to our totalitarian fascist state.
	This is how it works with the media.
	Shut up!
	How dare you ask that?
	How dare you?
	What, you think the Holocaust didn't happen?
	That got under your craw.
	Yeah, there's some things I'd hate.
	Yeah, there's some things.
	No, I'm sorry.
	Being called a Republican is worse.
	That's actually, being called any political thing is worse.
	So that is part of the totalitarian police state vibe when the press just gets slammed down by the billionaire mayor who extended his term illegally.
	Shut up.
	Just shut up.
	Of course, if I pointed a gun at you, how would you respond?
	I mean, isn't that crazy?
	If I pointed a gun at you, how would you respond?
	Yeah, but I'm not the police.
	I'm not trained to respond.
	That's what she could have said.
	Oh, are you kidding me?
	They would have hauled her out.
	They would have tased her.
	And then beat her up.
	They would have tased her on the spot, man.
	Wow.
	So my sister Willow sent me something, which I didn't understand at first.
	It turns out, because I actually went and Googled the story...
	And the story is in the news today, or actually yesterday, today the 30th, like USA Today, and because of some survey, I think she sent me a clip from Law& Order, Special Victims Unit.
	Were you copied on this email, John?
	I might have been, but I didn't see it.
	Okay, so this is a clip from Law& Order Special Victims Unit, and I thought it was real.
	I thought it was like one of her mom friends or something reading something.
	I was like, why is she sending me this clip of someone reading about an article?
	I go and Google the article.
	It actually is true.
	So I'm not sure when this came out.
	I have no context behind it, but I thought, since you watch those shows, maybe you could help me.
	This is a new study published in Science Magazine.
	It found that people who have witnessed gun violence are twice as likely, sometimes three times as likely, to commit an act of violence themselves.
	Nathan witnessed Ted Carthage shoot his mother.
	And just as this study predicts, he reacted with violence.
	So this clip goes on, and I Google this, and I see, you know, an article, Doctors Target Gun Violence as a Social Disease.
	It's a public health problem because it's a virus, you see.
	When you have witnessed gun violence, then you go and do it yourself.
	And we will have a vaccine for it eventually.
	But my head is like, I'm like, what?
	This is a fictional television show that is saying this, and it's actually now in the press?
	Am I nuts, John, or is this just coordinated?
	Well, we're of the opinion that it's coordinated.
	But this was a big one.
	The collective of the show is opinionated as a collective that it's coordinated.
	This is wild, man.
	I was like, wow.
	A little bit more of that.
	This study equates...
	Gun violence with an infectious disease.
	And that is actually the study that was done.
	Now, you can Google it.
	Gun violence virus.
	Yeah, well, most of this is ripped from the headlines.
	Wow.
	So it would be, they do that.
	No, but hold on a second.
	This is a headline from yesterday.
	So this show was produced way before yesterday.
	Oh, yeah, at least four months ago.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, that sounds good.
	Sounds right.
	Yeah.
	It doesn't surprise me.
	Well.
	So back, we can get back on the Russia track for just a minute.
	Okay.
	I'm noticing, because I'm watching the different feeds of Russia today, and they're pulling out the old stops.
	Right.
	They've decided, okay, we can't be the kind of, you know, CNN or, you know, MSNB. We're going to be slamming the competition and promote Russia.
	Right.
	So I got two clips that one of them is quite interesting, because it actually reveals a news item that...
	I guess nobody, including us, even picked up on, which is censorship by the BBC. Oh.
	Specific censorship.
	Okay.
	And we can play that clip first, which is RT propagandizing against Western media.
	They just slammed the Western media here, and then they bring some woman on.
	She's a little hard to understand, but she discusses a clip that gets polled.
	And then the excuse for being pulled makes no sense.
	Lucy Kaffenhoff reports that much of the Western media coverage is directed against the picture Assad is trying to paint, even if that means sanitizing their own coverage.
	It was another disturbing example of the many atrocities committed throughout the Syrian war.
	A truck bomb with homemade explosives headed for a checkpoint to the entrance of Syria's largest city.
	This is a great story.
	I follow this.
	This is very, very interesting.
	Hello!
	But the men that are loading it aren't Assad forces.
	They're one of the many groups fighting under the banner of the Free Syrian Army.
	Their captive is said to be a member of the Shabiha, a militia with very close ties to the Assad government.
	The video filmed by the New York Times and turned into an on-air segment by the BBC captured what human rights groups called evidence of an attempted murder, a potential war crime under international law.
	Video of rebels from the Free Syrian Army trying to use a prisoner as an unwitting suicide bomber in their attacks on government forces.
	Now the cameras didn't follow the prisoner who had no idea that while being blindfolded he was actually embarking on a suicide mission.
	He simply thought that he was being given his freedom.
	The very next morning, he was said to have escaped after the bombs failed to detonate.
	Now, the BBC had aired the story on August 22nd, but this glimpse into the darker side of some of the tactics now being used in the uprising never aired again.
	The story was also pulled from the BBC website.
	The network told me that this was due to copyright issues.
	Now, this very video raises the question about whether such tactics may be more widespread among the opposition than what has been previously documented.
	Yeah, I saw the entire video on...
	It was on...
	They said the reason why they had to get rid of it is they didn't have the rights for the web.
	I mean, all this is bullcrap.
	And the whole documentary, I felt, which was maybe eight minutes long, the whole thing reeked of bullcrap from beginning to end.
	This so-called leader...
	I mean, this guy's a great actor.
	This charismatic...
	He's got the chiseled face.
	He's the leader of the Free Syrian Army.
	The whole thing to me was fake, really.
	And then they got some mullah guy telling the prisoner, hey, take a shower.
	You'll feel better.
	They show the whole bomb on the truck thing.
	It was scripted, John, from beginning to end.
	Well, it sounds a little doobious.
	Okay, we're going to let you go.
	By the way, before you go, put on this 40-pound jacket, will you?
	Yeah.
	No, no, no.
	Didn't even say that.
	It's just, you know, it's like, hey, drive this truck with the big tarp over the back, please.
	Drive the truck over.
	Please.
	So anyway, so, but anyway, this is RT going after the, um, everything.
	And my favorite thing is, is describing the Grimm situation clip where the RT people kind of give us an overview of what's going on in Europe and it's quite hilarious.
	With millions in the EU sinking into poverty, unable to afford basic necessities, companies are forced to produce smaller, cheaper goods for the struggling masses in the age of austerity.
	This is the dawning of the age of austerity.
	Yeah, well, you know what that's about?
	It's like, hey, stand back.
	You ain't gonna get no natural gas from us if you don't play it right.
	That's what that is.
	That's a shot across the bow from Russia if I ever heard one.
	Yeah, I think so too.
	Struggling masses.
	Struggling masses in the age of austerity.
	There's an interview, I think it was exclusive to some, maybe the Independent in the United Kingdom, Gitmo Nation East.
	An interview with Walid, I can't even read, Walid Mualim, who was the fourth...
	Yeah, who was the foreign minister.
	Yeah, I see.
	And so we don't have video that I can find yet, but he says, yeah, you know, the Americans are behind all this.
	This is bull crap.
	Have you Googled, Waleed, tell me who this guy looks like.
	Give me his name again.
	Waleed.
	I'm so freaking blind.
	W-A-L-I-D Mualem.
	M-U-A-L-L-E-M. Tell me who he looks like.
	Tell me that this is...
	M-U-A-L-L-E-M. And tell me this is not a famous actor pretending to be...
	Oh, this guy.
	I was thinking of somebody else.
	Yeah, he looks like John Goodman.
	Thank you very much.
	It's not looks like.
	It is John Goodman.
	John Goodman is sitting there pretending to be the Syrian foreign minister.
	I guarantee you.
	This is John.
	Look at him.
	It's John Goodman.
	Yeah.
	Totally John Goodman.
	There's one picture that's identical.
	And I like this.
	This blew me away.
	I'm like, what is John Goodman doing in this piece?
	I'm like, what?
	What is this?
	This is funny.
	There's a website called lebanonisnogood.com.
	.blogspot.com.
	That's the best John Goodman picture, too.
	It says, Arab treason.
	Syrian pig wants peace with Israel.
	Syrian pig, Waleed al-Maulam, the fat Syrian pig, is willing and ready to make peace with Israel, exchange embassies, drop Iran, Hezbollah, like a bag of dirt for nothing more than getting back half of the Golan.
	Anyway.
	This is a site by a guy named Hannibal in Lebanon, supposedly.
	Well, I think it's very nice that John Goodman is trying to help out.
	He's doing a good job.
	He's doing an outstanding job, actually.
	Oh, by the way, hot news coming out of Manhattan.
	Since, you know, of course, let me just get the logic here.
	When it's really hot and you have a drought, when you don't have a lot of water, that's apparently when you get a lot of mosquitoes who carry the West Nile virus.
	Oh yeah, they're everywhere.
	Do you have mosquitoes in Silicon Valley, up there in northern Silicon Valley?
	Oh yeah, yeah.
	We have no mosquitoes.
	We have very few mosquitoes this year.
	I think the weather's too hot for them there.
	But that's what I'm saying.
	When it's really hot, you have a drought situation.
	You don't have a lot of puddles.
	Does that not go contra to all thinking about how mosquitoes come to be?
	This makes no sense to me.
	I'm sorry, what doesn't make sense?
	That if you have a drought, no water, that there are more mosquitoes.
	That makes no sense.
	No.
	Why would that make any sense?
	They need puddles.
	They need standing water.
	That's how they breed.
	Right, but this is what is now being told.
	Right down, New York City has had 100 plus degree temperatures, correct?
	Heat wave.
	Well, now they're going to spray Manhattan for the West Nile virus.
	Are you kidding me?
	Please, you've got to make sure that you know what they're spraying.
	It's the Bloomberg love potion.
	Yeah.
	I don't know.
	Well, I question this.
	People are just like, okay, spray away.
	It doesn't even make sense.
	You can't say on one hand we've had an incredible drought, you know, global warming, we're all going to die, but because of this we have more mosquitoes and they have West Nile virus.
	You can't give me all these things at the same time.
	Yet they do.
	I pulled a couple of quotes for us, John.
	Just to prove that in the winter of 2010, which was an extremely cold winter, we had blizzards, we had all kinds of weather anomalies, storms around the world.
	And what did, of course, we were laughing like, haha, there's your global warming.
	What did all of the climatologists and weather people, what did they say at the time?
	Well, they would say in the colding, they would say weather's not climate.
	So it doesn't mean anything.
	But we expect to have...
	They've kind of morphed their message into extreme...
	Weather events.
	No, no, no, it's not even that.
	But let's first go back to 2010.
	I have a professor from UC Davis.
	That doesn't mean we're experiencing climate change.
	No, you actually can't.
	You can talk about changes in the weather over the last 40 or 50 years, but when you're talking about climate, you're talking about thousands of years.
	Okay, so weather is not climate.
	You can't say weather is climate.
	Now let's listen to a woman who is from the NOAA. Joining us by phone is Jane Lubchenco.
	She's the administrator.
	By the way, this woman sounds like what the Democracy Now lady is going to sound like in about ten years.
	Five years.
	So this is the administrator.
	This is like head honcho of NOAA. Good morning to you.
	It's good to have you.
	Hi, Diane.
	Thank you.
	It's a pleasure to be here.
	Thank you.
	Last week we saw some really unusual weather patterns, not only through the Mid-Atlantic, but even today in the southern part of the United States.
	What do you think has made this year so different?
	Diane, I think it's important that people recognize that weather patterns It's not the same as climate.
	Okay.
	I just want to make sure we had this.
	On record, the NOAA, weather is not climate.
	Can we trust the NOAA, John?
	Should we be able to trust them?
	Yeah, they're compromised.
	So they're always going to be compromised in the direction that benefits them.
	And if they say that, I trust it.
	So I would like to introduce that woman to former Vice President Al Gore.
	The new information that I'll be focused on in this new version of the slideshow.
	That's why he's updating the slideshow, John.
	It's the infamous slideshow.
	Includes a lot of the new...
	He sounds smashed.
	Oh, he's hammered.
	Oh, yeah, he's hammered.
	...evidence linking these extreme weather events around the world to the climate crisis.
	Wait a minute, wait a minute.
	Did I just hear that right?
	Extreme weather events around the world is linking it.
	He has proof.
	And he has a PowerPoint.
	No longer a legitimate question for doubt or debate.
	I know there's some people that don't like to hear it put that way.
	But people around the world are suffering from the consequences of the droughts and the heat waves and the extreme flooding events and the unprecedented windstorms and the fires.
	We've really gotten to the point now where it's kind of absurd for anybody to say, hey, nothing's going on.
	What's wrong?
	July was in the U.S. Listen to these numbers.
	I want you to listen to these numbers and deconstruct what he's saying.
	Hottest month ever measured.
	Wait a minute.
	He just said July was the hottest month ever measured.
	Ever.
	Crap.
	I want to go back a little bit.
	Are you still with me?
	I'm listening.
	...hottest month ever measured.
	Ever.
	And globally, nine of the ten hottest years ever measured have been within the last ten years.
	Globally, nine of the ten hottest years have been within the last ten years, okay?
	This is the 337th month in a row where temperatures were higher than the 20th century average.
	This is great.
	337 months in a row where the temperatures were greater than the 2000...
	20th century.
	20th century average.
	How...
	What do you make of that number?
	Besides it's magic 33 and a 7.
	Well, I think it's bogus.
	Yeah.
	And I think it's provably bogus.
	And again, the way that measuring itself has changed its methodologies.
	And so I don't know if you can compare one to the other.
	It's like all of a sudden you have a jacked up baseball that just flies further.
	And you can't compare the home runs hit with that ball, the dead ball era.
	Oh, that's a good comparison, actually.
	All right, let's finish up 10 seconds.
	than the 20th century average.
	And the fact that the news media doesn't report it in that context, every night on the news now, practically, is like a nature hike through the book of Revelation.
	No!
	It's the book of Revelation.
	Okay, now at least I understand what's going on.
	Hold on a second.
	The science is in!
	Science, science, science!
	The science is in!
	Science, science, science!
	Which leads me to Bill Gates.
	I'm sorry to hear that.
	Bill Gates has awarded a $17 million grant to...
	Seth Kalichman, K-A-L-I-C-H-M-A-N, part of the Connecticut University, I believe, to establish, quote, an internet-based global monitoring and rapid alert system for finding, analyzing and counteracting communication campaigns containing misinformation regarding vaccines to support global immunization efforts.
	Interesting.
	Ha ha ha.
	How about that, huh?
	Amazing.
	So we'll be talking on the show, and I'll be like, ah, man, you know, maybe you should consider not getting the flu shot or something.
	And then what?
	All of a sudden, the alarms go off?
	It's coming now!
	$17 million.
	And by the way, it's a $17 million website, which I think is kind of cool.
	Yeah.
	Interesting.
	Yeah, that's just the way.
	This is part of the whole structure of things.
	So we are in a totalitarian state, John.
	Yeah.
	Just look outside.
	Count the police when you're on your way to work.
	And they're not stopping crimes.
	They're giving you parking tickets and making sure you don't go too fast and keeping you in line.
	Has there ever been a time in recent history when we had this?
	When this was...
	I mean, please don't say Hitler.
	Hitler.
	Stalin.
	Pol Pot.
	Please tell me something in modern world, like not just Hitler.
	Is that the most recent one was Hitler?
	Is that it?
	Stalin.
	Stalin is longer.
	How sad is that, man?
	I don't think I can handle this.
	What am I going to do?
	You're in Texas.
	Yeah, this is true.
	Texas is a little more liberal about this.
	Generally speaking, they're not as...
	I mean, they have their own issues.
	Texans, you know, they get a bunch of problems there, too.
	Oh, you mean like...
	It sounds to me like New York City is the worst place in the world with this idiot running it.
	Yeah.
	Well, no, Texas, we have...
	In San Antone, just down the road, they've got...
	Now they're handing out RFID necklaces to the kids in school because they keep losing track of them.
	Like, here, slave, have your slave bracelet.
	Did you have anything that you wanted to lead into our donations with, or can we just go straight to it?
	I'm thinking.
	I'm looking at the clip list.
	Just one little commentary from somebody sent a note.
	You can play this Refinery Fire clip, and I'll just...
	Oh, this is about Venezuela?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Venezuela's biggest oil refinery remains offline after firefighters finally put out a blaze which has raged since Saturday.
	An investigation has been launched into the initial explosion which triggered the fire.
	The disaster, which has left at least 41 people dead, has sparked a debate about safety levels in the industry.
	That's a bullshit thing.
	Now, I'm only playing this because we had one of our donors sometime a few weeks ago say, complaining about the Chevron refinery having its little mini fire, which I thought was a joke of a fire.
	It took a while to put it out.
	But the guy says in the note, he says, well, if that's because I says a small fire, that wasn't that big of a deal of refinery back online.
	He says, well, if that was a small fire, then I'd like to know what a big fire is.
	Check this baby out here.
	Go find your photos of this.
	This refinery is gone.
	I mean, this thing is a wreck.
	They'll never get this thing back online.
	It'll take years.
	But that's just a little...
	Someone else let me know that there was a Marine that they caught a couple weeks earlier hanging around, a U.S. Marine.
	And, of course, they started selling all of their oil and gas to China.
	And this is pretty much sabotage.
	I mean, I think, to me, that's obvious.
	Yeah, I mean, we've got to get this guy offline.
	And Venezuela has a lot.
	They've got a lot of oil, a lot of gas.
	And, you know, so what are you going to do?
	Are you going to say you can't get out of the ground?
	You just blow up the processing plan, blow up the storage, blow up the pipelines.
	This has CIA, State Department written all over it, as far as I'm concerned.
	Yes, but it exemplifies what a bad refinery fire looks like.
	I'm going to show my school by donating to no agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, on no agenda.
	That's a bad fire.
	In the morning.
	Alright, we've got a few people who came in with some interesting donations.
	Chris Johnson from Edmonds, Washington.
	$142.42.
	Michael Stadduhar, I think.
	He's somewhere in the Armed Forces.
	$101.01 forking my way to a 12-12-12 knighthood.
	El Cid Campidor from Sepulpa, Oklahoma.
	A round of karma for everyone.
	Oh, wow.
	That's nice.
	Thank you very much.
	On the house!
	You've got karma.
	A guy walks into a bar and says, karma for everyone!
	No, uh, no vax, please.
	From somewhere in California, part unknown 6969.
	Ooh, ooh, ooh.
	Careful.
	Bill Gates is going to come and get you.
	For saying...
	For not going 69-69?
	That and for saying no vax.
	I can't believe you screwed up the 69-69.
	I gave it the bell.
	You interrupted what was going to be an artistic completion.
	Oh, okay.
	I'm sorry.
	We need help.
	My wife and I need...
	This is actually a good letter.
	My wife and I need serious no-vaccine-need-to-get-screwed-by-my-wife-instead-of-my-job-karma.
	We work for the same company, and our employees are trying to enforce mandatory vaccinations, which include DTaP, which is the one we talked about last show, which is why do we even have this one?
	Flu shot, typically, chicken pox, and more.
	If you're old enough, you probably had chickenpox.
	Anyway, we sometimes work in hospitals and other healthcare facilities, and the new contracts with some of those facilities require vaccinations for us.
	Right.
	We do not want to get vaccinated, but everyone we have asked has said there's probably nothing we can do.
	We either get vaxxed or get a new job.
	If anyone has any resources they think would help us fight this, please email me at novaxplease.com.
	N-O-V-A-X, please, at gmail.com.
	Anything that might help.
	I wish you guys the best of luck in continuing this adventure.
	I couldn't be happier...
	I couldn't be happier with the value-for-value model.
	It is only...
	Oh, this goes on.
	Hold on.
	It is only...
	It's the only podcast I listen to anymore.
	Yeah.
	It's because we're the only good podcast.
	So let me give them a special 69...
	A swazzle enough.
	69, 69 swazzle enough donation, Karma.
	69!
	69, dude!
	You've got Karma.
	Swazzle enough it is.
	Swazzle enough.
	Hey, did we get any 66 on the sticks today?
	We get to it in the process of reading down numbers.
	Oh, okay.
	Cool.
	I'm sorry.
	It's done in order.
	All right.
	Michael Greer in Schickshinney.
	Ah, Mike and...
	Schickshinney.
	Schickshinney, Pennsylvania, or the log house where we stayed in during the 2008 Hot Pockets Tour.
	6969.
	Swazzle North.
	Michael and Sarah.
	Ah.
	Swazzle Nation asking for an adios mofo for those who attended the Hot Pockets 2008 meetup and a karma for Adam for his upcoming birthday and thanks for DSC 866.
	I hope there are more in the pipeline.
	I would also appreciate a mention of shikshinyforward.com.
	In late August 2011, after the Hot Pockets tour, our town was destroyed by Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee.
	36 of the town's 38 businesses were submerged.
	And one-sixth of the town's housing stock has been destroyed.
	We're rebuilding and setting a new direction via a volunteer network of community members, but we have years of work ahead of us.
	Oh, wow.
	So let me give the...
	Adios, mofo.
	Let me give you guys a little karma for Shikshini4.com.
	You've got karma.
	Yeah, it was pretty bad there.
	Christian...
	Oh, Christian.
	Christopher Peterson...
	Anchorage, Alaska, 6969 as we continue.
	This may be the record breaker for 6969.
	You mean the Swazilov?
	Swazilov.
	Longtime boner, first time donor.
	I'm moving from Anchorage, Alaska to Portland this coming weekend.
	Google Maps says it's 2,630 miles.
	Can I get a trains good, planes bad, and a safe driving karma shot?
	Thanks for the great show.
	All aboard, trains good, planes bad.
	You've got karma.
	Max Million Man in Constance, which I think is in Austria.
	Maximilian, hey, Adam and John, short-time listener, short-time donor, going through a rough time, like, get some good old 69-69 karma, one of those 80% of listeners who got to know your podcast from listening to Twitch.
	Oh.
	And the rest of his notes, not truncated by us, but truncated by PayPal.
	You've got karma.
	Which makes no sense.
	Rob Wales conquered West someplace or other in New South Wales.
	Uh, 69?
	69.
	I haven't donated in a while, but having evangelized the show for some time, I finally brought a friend into the No Agenda listener group.
	Matt Rowe has been listening for over a month, but has not donated.
	So I reckon it's a good time to come clean myself with a donation and to call out Matt Rowe as a douchebag.
	Douchebag!
	Give him two to the head as well.
	Oh, sure.
	No problem.
	Get off!
	Get off!
	No Agenda, where we shoot our listeners.
	Benjamin Blondin in Brook Park, Ohio, 6969.
	Great job on Twit, Adam.
	I love how you take over the show.
	Yeah, and look what it got me.
	Yeah, it got you nasty notes, which is a good thing.
	Sir Neninger in Port Jefferson, New York.
	6969 for Adam's excellent appearance on Twitter where he hit that pastel guy in the mouth.
	Did he hit brushwood in the mouth now?
	Maybe Adam can save Leo's show if he keeps coming on.
	Thanks again for the hours of amusement.
	Oh, I almost forgot.
	Send more karma, please.
	I like John's suggestion that the effect is auto-suggestion.
	But whatever, it works.
	Oh, okay.
	By the way, you've got karma.
	I've been banned.
	I'm no longer welcome.
	What?
	I've been banned.
	Ah, you got on anyway.
	I know, I'm just saying.
	You don't have to ask, because I'll never go on again.
	I've been banned.
	I've been banned by Leo.
	I doubt it.
	He said it!
	He said it!
	He said it?
	He said...
	Adam, you're banned.
	He's never coming on again.
	He can go on NSFW if he likes.
	What's that?
	It's like the Brian Brushwood show.
	Like, yeah.
	Are you a dance monkey boy?
	No.
	I've been banned for life.
	Okay, okay.
	For life!
	I doubt it.
	Anonymous in Craigmore, South Australia, 6969.
	Swazilov, gentlemen.
	If people are going to go to the effort of making up words, we may as well use them.
	Longtime burner.
	Burner.
	Long time boner, first time donor.
	Props to Maynard for propagating the formula on another podcast and turning me on to this fine production.
	Oh, excellent.
	Thank you, Maynard.
	Thank you, Maynard.
	Catching up on past episodes helped me through a particularly tough time in my own life having to landscape both the front and rear yards of my house.
	A nightmarish task made all the more bearable by your amazing insights and analysis.
	I now listen religiously while commuting.
	A simple dedouching and some generic first donation karma would be greatly appreciated.
	It's cool to have you on board.
	You've been deduced.
	You've got karma.
	Okay.
	Okay, here we go.
	Wait a minute.
	First we have to wind up our Swazilov.
	69!
	69, dude!
	All right.
	Swazilov is gone.
	Good.
	James Burke.
	James Burke, Richmond, North Yorkshire.
	66.
	Double sixes on the sticks.
	All right.
	66-11.
	Following John's newsletter, here's a 66 on the sticks for an outstanding product that is also the best netcast in the universe.
	Can I have two shots to the head?
	You can take it to the bank, Karma.
	Yeah, if I could.
	Can we take it to the bank?
	Yeah, I've got it, I guess.
	You can take that to the bank.
	You've got Karma.
	It's hard when I'm so blinded by a clean...
	I like the idea of the two shots and then you can take that to the bank.
	Yeah, it's just...
	It's very creative.
	My current eyesight, it's hard to...
	Good call from James.
	I agree.
	When you actually see the soundboard, you'll probably be better at it.
	I'll get there eventually.
	Gregory Rosati in Suffolk, Virginia.
	Double sticks on the double six.
	Sticks on the...
	Whatever.
	Hey, come on, man.
	Double six on the sticks.
	Double six on the sticks.
	ITM from Gitmo Nation Pentagon, south right in the heart of military industrial combat.
	I feel compelled to donate 66 on the sticks because last Sunday, while listening to the live feed, a bolt of lightning hit so close to the house that it set off the burglar alarm.
	Needless to say, we have been feeling the effects of the rain stick all week here.
	I'm telling you, people like the stick.
	I'm not shaking unless someone requests it specifically, but thank you so much for appreciating the power of the stick.
	Well, I don't think he wants you to shake it.
	No, I'm not.
	That's why I'm not doing it.
	This is kind of a post donation for this stick.
	Nate Wilson in Wichita, Kansas, 66-11, double sixes on the sticks.
	Okay, I'm donating semi-drunk.
	I am at a bar in Wichita, Kansas, and just got the weekly newsletter from JCD and thought I would donate while drinking and waiting on my oil change.
	I'll be headed to New Orleans tomorrow to help with the insurance claims.
	I will be there, oh, for hopefully a few months.
	Please give the people of the Gold Coast a karma shot and one for me as I travel.
	Thanks for all you two do.
	I'm a reformed liberal Obama voter.
	Now I'm a concealed and carrying constitution carrying non-Facebook using Iraqi veteran Ron Paul shirt wearing lone wolf terrorist.
	And he's drunk.
	Karma to Dr.
	Paul and his supporters at Tampa Bay.
	Alright, man.
	Here's some karma for the people there and for you on your travels.
	You've got karma.
	Funny that he gave us 66 on the sticks, but didn't just...
	He was drunk.
	No, but he's going down to...
	He was pouring.
	Yeah.
	Apparently, this hurricane is worse than Katrina because it turned into a tropical storm and it stopped moving.
	It's doing six miles an hour and just drenching everybody.
	I thought the double sticks on the sticks would work differently where people who were in drought scenarios would request a rain stick shot to help it rain where they are.
	But I think after we used it, so many people saw so much weather, they're like, you know, yeah, here's your money, but stop.
	Pretty much.
	Christian Collins in San Carlos, California, 60.
	You guys rock.
	Truly the greatest podcast in the universe.
	Please give me some karma.
	Short and sweet.
	You've got karma.
	One of our nights where Brian Kaufman comes through for 55-56.
	I'm donating because of your great rant against Big Organic last episode.
	My girlfriend loves these bullcrap stores.
	This weekend we were at one called Sprouts.
	They had this bin where you can buy organic salad mix in bulk.
	It's kind of a bring your own container thing.
	I think the point is to save the environment by eliminating extra packaging.
	Who knows?
	The point in my story is that I saw an employee just dumping the pre-packaged salad mix into the bin.
	Trying to trick people into thinking they're buying bulk salad mix.
	And he said you did great on Twitter.
	Mike C. Brooklyn, New York.
	5555.
	I've been a dedicated human resource and as a result was given a hotly sought out after position at the job.
	I need a shot of karma to ensure the new position goes well.
	Here's to living the dream of just getting by just with a bigger title.
	Please give me a science, no conflict, hey citizen karma.
	And the hey citizens for my beautiful Ukrainian wife.
	Who is now on our way to becoming a new resource of Gitmo proper.
	Wow.
	Okay, so it's a science, no conflict.
	What was it after that?
	Hey, citizen.
	Hey, citizen.
	Okay.
	Science!
	No real conflict!
	Hey, citizen.
	You've got karma.
	A little much for me.
	Too many.
	Keep it down to two or three.
	I like the ones where there's a couple good combinations that people have dreamed up that I'm impressed with.
	Here's the one I like.
	Shut up, Slay!
	That's a good one.
	That's a good one.
	Yeah, I like that one.
	Podcast for Peace, back from Alamo, California, just trying to help out with the Submer Donation Blues, 5150.
	Katina in Stirling, Western Australia.
	I'm a No Agenda fan from Perth and would like to wish my dad, my husband, and my douchebag brothers who always forget they have a little sister.
	Douchbag!
	Spyro Zephyrus rhymes with hero, spyro, hero, speero, not spyro.
	Damn it.
	Spiro.
	Angelo Zafiris, a very happy Father's Day for this Sunday.
	Wait a minute.
	Is it Father's Day this Sunday?
	In Australia, maybe.
	That's not a universally accepted day?
	No.
	It's a bullcrap Hallmark Card Day.
	Oh, okay.
	This weekend in the United States, we have a real holiday.
	Which is Labor Day.
	Yeah.
	Then you start wearing white again.
	Or no, you have to stop wearing white.
	You can't wear white shoes after labor.
	No, no, it's white.
	It's shoes.
	No, it's a white jacket.
	You can't wear a linen jacket.
	No, you can't.
	It's shoes.
	Who wears white shoes?
	Women in the South.
	Each week we get our age human resources together and why they play We Talk No Agenda.
	Thanks, John and Anna, for all the work you do.
	I think she needs a karma shot whether she wants it or not.
	You've got karma.
	Black Knight, George Van Horst in Cat's Hovel.
	Cat's Hovel bouncing Cat Hill.
	Cat Hill in Holland, 50.
	Thank you, Black Knight.
	Greg Reddell in St.
	Peter's, Missouri, 50.
	Can I get a little girl's shut-up slave birthday wish for my son Alex?
	He's turning nine on Sunday.
	He's on the list.
	Shut up, slave!
	We'll give him that right there.
	My Garage Bay in Hilliard, Ohio.
	Request a Shut Up Slay for the Twitch fans that complain about an intelligent conversation with their closed minds.
	This is my first donation to the show and request a de-douching and some karma for a better job so it won't be my last donation.
	This is the greatest podcast in the universe.
	Shut Up Slay!
	You've been de-douched.
	You've got karma.
	A classic.
	Keith Van Dyke in Muno someplace or other, South Australia.
	Let me see if I can expand this.
	Sell.
	Yeah, you really should because, you know...
	No, it still says Muno Para.
	Right.
	Well, that's the name of the place.
	I guess.
	$50, no comment.
	John Tappan, Huntington, West Virginia.
	I just made a $50 contribution by PayPal, but it was not apparent how I could attach a note, so I'm sending this to you by email.
	I simply want to congratulate you on your outstanding performance on Twit, where you represented the value-for-value model quite capably even under firearms.
	Your donations will go up!
	Hey, they have already gone up and said, this is my first donation.
	For which I'd like a de-douching, some job search karma.
	Please keep hitting him in the mouth.
	That's very kind.
	Hey, we win!
	You've been de-douched.
	We got 50 bucks.
	Karma.
	It's good.
	It's great.
	It's not good.
	It's fantastic.
	That's $50 more than anyone else gets on that show.
	Yeah.
	Peter Totes.
	Sir Peter Totes to you.
	$50 is no comment.
	Bernie Atama.
	Am I pronouncing this right?
	Is it Atama?
	Yeah.
	It's Atama.
	Atama.
	He is in Iowa and I always pronounce his name wrong because it's been introduced to me too many times by being wrong.
	So all I got in my head is it's wrong whatever you do.
	In the morning, John and Adam, $50 for my girlfriend's birthday today.
	Please give one hot milf baby to Janet Ropke.
	And a birthday shout-out to her.
	Thanks for the best podcast in the universe.
	So he only needs one hot milf?
	He doesn't need any...
	This one says...
	That's one hot milf, baby.
	So let me just...
	Look at this.
	An old-fashioned tradition in Canada and the United States bans the wearing of white after Labor Day.
	Explanations for this tradition vary.
	The most common is that white is a summer color and Labor Day unofficially marks the end of summer.
	The rule may have been...
	Well, here it is.
	The rule may have been intended as a status symbol for new members of the upper and middle class in the 19th and 20th century.
	Uh-huh.
	It's an elitist thing.
	Yeah, that's what I'm talking about.
	Linen jacket.
	Oh, okay.
	Because, you know, us schmucks don't have that white linen jacket stuff.
	I have one.
	Oh.
	I don't wear it that much, but I have it.
	I had it made in Korea.
	I thought it was ironic in some way.
	So we got a couple of 48's, 48's.
	Can I thank these people?
	Yeah, you want to name them?
	You want me to name them?
	You want to say thank you to these people?
	Yeah, why don't you just say it and I'll say thank you.
	Okay, William Ashby?
	No, yeah.
	Mobile?
	Mobile.
	Mobile.
	Sorry, you're right.
	Borislav Marinov and Eliso Viejo.
	Mark Borghese in Las Vegas.
	Chuck Bennett and...
	Barnett.
	Chuck Barnett, sorry.
	It's Chuck Barnett in Orange...
	in Asheville, North Carolina.
	Sheville to you and me.
	Scott Bennett in Orangeville, Ontario.
	Robert Gold in Toronto.
	And Emmanuel Lussier in Brossard, Quebec.
	That's very kind.
	So these are 48-48 donations.
	Birthday donations.
	Yeah.
	And, yeah, cool.
	My birthday will be on Monday.
	Yeah, you got anyone who wants to give 48-48, you can go to the noagenda or devart.org slash NA and wish Adam a happy birthday.
	It's 48.
	On Monday.
	On Monday.
	Which is a holiday.
	Monday's a holiday.
	Right.
	You know what?
	But we're working on Sunday.
	It's my birthday.
	Take the day off.
	All right?
	Just take it off.
	It's only a holiday in the American Gitmo nation states, I guess.
	Dvorak.org slash N-A Alright now, let's go to our birthdays!
	It's a birthday!
	Birthday!
	Hey!
	I'm Noah Champion!
	It's your upstart ventures!
	Rudy, Sam, and Michael will congratulate Joshua Charteris.
	Who turned 40 on the 28th.
	Greg Riddell congratulates his son Alex turning 9 on Sunday.
	And Bernie Ottema congratulates his girlfriend Janet Rupke.
	And as we just...
	Oh, what is this?
	Brian Rowley, Andrew Gamble, Michael Greer all congratulating me, the crackpot.
	Well, thank you so much, everybody.
	And happy birthday to all your buddies here.
	From all your buddies here at the No Agenda Show.
	I'm so blind, John.
	It's not funny.
	It's very difficult.
	Get a big magnifying glass.
	How about a monocle?
	A monocle.
	Or a pince-nez.
	A pince-nez.
	I think a monocle is better.
	A monocle's good.
	It's kind of cool, isn't it?
	I'm surprised they haven't made a comeback.
	Grab your sword.
	Here it comes.
	Yeah.
	All right.
	Rod Adams and the Long the Good.
	Step forward, gentlemen, and Neil.
	And thank you so much, both of you, for supporting the No Agenda show in the amount of $1,000 or more.
	Very happy to have Sir Atomic Rod and Sir Long the Good as knight to the No Agenda roundtable.
	Here you go.
	Knights!
	And I invite you to come sit down for your hookers and blow, your rent boys and chardonnay, your...
	Hot pants and booze and chocolate milk and boobies.
	But more importantly, you will receive a No Agenda Night ring.
	We are winding that program up.
	Not the night program, but we'll have new night accoutrements after 12-12.
	If we're still alive at that point, of course, which is always questionable.
	So I've got a couple clips from the convention that I want to run through.
	From the convention?
	Because I was going to go somewhere else, but yeah.
	That's when I get the convention out of the way.
	At the end of the show, you want to get out of the way?
	And when I want to do something good, you're going to be like, we ain't got no time, shorter.
	I never do that.
	Do we really have to listen to Paul Ryan?
	Yeah, we do.
	But I don't want to listen to Paul Ryan now.
	No, I do.
	I want you to listen to the governor of Puerto Rico when he gave his little speech.
	Uh-huh.
	And tell me it didn't sound insincere and sarcastic when he...
	Just tell me...
	You'll hear it near the end where he's whispering in someone's ear.
	And it sounds to me like Big Brother being sarcastic.
	Just listen and tell me what you think.
	Allow me to share an example of that spirit.
	I visited a soldier from Puerto Rico at Walter Reed Army Medical Center several years ago.
	This young man had bravely served in combat and was given little chance to live.
	Without knowing if he could hear me, in every visit, I would whisper into his ear.
	I would tell him how proud and thankful we were for his dedication and sacrifice, adding, no te rindas.
	No, I don't understand.
	That's just the way he talks.
	I don't think that's...
	Did you really feel that?
	No, I think it was his accent, but it sounded like it's sarcasm.
	And the reason it came to mind is because you're the one with this theory about Latins and the...
	Aspect of their sense of humor, which is they don't understand irony.
	They don't understand irony, yeah.
	I think there is something to that, but that is a language barrier more than...
	And by the way, it's very funny.
	I just got a text message, Twitter password reset code.
	That means someone's trying to reset my password on Twitter.
	Is that what's going on?
	Or that it's a spammer.
	Yeah.
	But it's funny that I got it on my phone, like an actual text message.
	It sounds like a spam.
	So, if you'll allow me to move away from this convention that no one gives a crap about, and Paul Ryan, who I personally don't care about, but if you really want to hear it, I'd be happy to listen to it.
	Well, there's a couple of things.
	I can save this for further analysis.
	Well, does it matter to a global audience?
	Does anyone give a crap about this guy?
	We have a lot of expats and our real audience is still US by 80%.
	Oh, you are so mean.
	Oh, okay.
	We need more international listeners.
	If you want to not play the Ryan thing, which apparently you don't, you have to do me a favor of at least playing the summary of the convention once again.
	Okay, I absolutely agree with that.
	Here is the summary of the convention.
	Very good.
	you So, Brandon Raub.
	Remember this name?
	Sounds familiar.
	He is the veteran who posted some things on his Facebook and then got taken away.
	Yeah, they hauled him off as an insane maniac.
	Right.
	He's just, you know, he's just expressing his freedom of speech.
	Well, no, this is a clear and obvious setup, and I'm not quite sure what the thing is behind it, but he shows up in an interview on YouTube.
	And the person interviewing him is John Whitehead.
	Now, John Whitehead is his lawyer, but he's not really a lawyer.
	He represents this institute which is making sure that everything is constitutional.
	I think we talked about this on the last show.
	They have...
	I don't know, like $700,000, $800,000 in donations each year.
	See, what was the Rutherford Institute?
	That's the name of it.
	Rutherford.org.
	And so for some reason, after now Brandon is out and he's sitting down with him, he needs to have an interview, which makes no sense to me.
	If you've been arrested or put away under some specious law, About mental illness in the state of Virginia, they can pick you up.
	I mean, you're going to maybe fight that through the court system.
	You're not just going to go and do a YouTube interview.
	Doesn't that sound kind of weird to you, John?
	Like, that's not what a lawyer would recommend as the number one course of action?
	I would agree with that thesis.
	So I watched this 17 minutes.
	I pulled a couple clips.
	I would like you to listen and tell me if this guy is not on a script.
	Do you have a problem breathing?
	Just don't pay attention to the man behind the curtain.
	Someone who has basically been put through a horrific hell for at least a week, but we don't know how much more could be coming from the authority.
	Catch the phrase that gives it away.
	But first of all, I want to talk to you a bit about your past, who you are.
	As I understand it, you're a veteran.
	You've been twice overseas.
	You're a Marine.
	Tell me a little bit about that.
	How did you wind up being a Marine?
	And what tours did you serve and what did you do?
	Well, very specifically, I got out of high school in 2004 and I worked for a year and then looked at what was going on around the world and saw how my brothers and sisters were volunteering to go overseas and I loved my country quite a bit so I figured that I kind of had a place in that.
	Very specifically, it was actually, I always knew that if I joined a service, it would be the Marine Corps.
	What do you think?
	Well, it sounds like it's probably scripted, and the guy's promoting the Marine Corps.
	Well, he keeps saying very specifically.
	And he says very specifically.
	By the way, the interview opens up with horrific hell, as opposed to what other kind of hell are we talking about?
	I know.
	But it's not an interviewer.
	That's his lawyer.
	That's my point.
	Wow, this is his lawyer?
	That's his lawyer doing the interview.
	This is my point.
	So now the lawyer's going to prompt...
	Oh, this is totally scripted, Dan.
	I didn't know he was the lawyer.
	I missed that when you said it.
	I just went through five minutes of intro about John Whitehead being his lawyer, the representative...
	But you had me convinced that this YouTube thing was the first thing.
	Because you said his lawyer wouldn't recommend this.
	So I assumed that this was being done by someone else.
	I'm sorry.
	I was unclear.
	Yes, you were.
	This is his lawyer.
	This is his lawyer.
	And now his lawyer is going to prompt him because he can't remember the word metaphor.
	Metaphor.
	Well, very specifically...
	By the way, don't you love that?
	He's always...
	Very specifically...
	Everything is very specifically...
	Yeah, this is lawyer speaking.
	Thank you.
	Well, very specifically, the line that I posted on my Facebook wall was, sharpen up my axe, semicolon, I'm here to sever heads.
	And what I actually meant was that...
	What we call a metaphor.
	Excuse me, yes, a metaphor, exactly.
	He forgot his line.
	Yeah, but he says, excuse me, as if he knows he forgot his line and he was apologizing.
	Now, I had this video analyzed by some of our listeners who are Marines and ex-Marines, and they looked at this guy and they said, this guy is a douche.
	They would call him a 1369, and you'll have to Google that to figure out what that is.
	This guy is a total douchebag, particularly when it comes to him being a decorated Marine.
	I'll play the 30-second clip and then explain what's actually going on.
	Yeah, a little bit of active combat.
	And what kind of active combat?
	You know, a firefighter, too.
	Full-on explosions going off.
	So your life was at risk?
	Oh, yeah, absolutely.
	Absolutely.
	So you went to Afghanistan, you went to Iraq, you served as a decorating marine.
	What does a decorating marine mean?
	Oh, I mean, you probably have to look real specifically at the metals that I have.
	But basically...
	Basically, just that.
	You have different medals or ribbons that signify different things that you've done.
	Okay, so you serve your honor.
	What?
	In other words, he's got those ribbons that say, I was here.
	Yeah, exactly.
	It's like, you know, wood chopping ribbon.
	So this is, you know, you get about, if you go through a couple years, you get about 25 medals or ribbons for doing certain things, which are not necessarily equatable to a Purple Heart or an Iron Cross.
	Yeah, but they're decorative.
	They look very cute.
	And so the Marines that I corresponded about and had watched this video, now they think they're not sure what's going on.
	I mean, besides the fact that this guy is a douche, He does not...
	There is some agenda behind this, but I can't quite understand.
	Is it to show that the Marines are crazy?
	Is it like some kind of...
	I don't know.
	But this is not normal.
	This is not normal behavior for a lawyer to be pulling his client out and putting him on YouTube this way with this type of talk.
	I'm not going to argue with you, but I can't figure out why they're doing it either.
	It may be a prelude to something else.
	Well, it kind of plays into, I mean, if I just look at the list here, right?
	We have, so the four guys.
	The four assassins.
	Yeah, fear.
	F-E-A-R. The four assassins.
	Yeah, it's like right from a James Bond novel.
	Cool.
	Who apparently, you know, gave themselves up.
	You know, they were, well, you know, we killed some guy, but it was manslaughter.
	And his girlfriend, who apparently they were going to turn him in, so they killed him.
	Yeah.
	So instead of having no charges or some terrorism charges would get dropped, they got murder on their heads.
	The whole thing is really weird.
	It's just a bunch of douchebags.
	But it didn't catch any fire.
	You know, it didn't catch fire in the media like I think it was intended.
	No, I think this was the false flag that everyone was talking about.
	That it was supposed to be...
	Because they say that you bought $87,000 worth of guns and things that go boom, and it was going to go kill the president.
	Well, it was more than that.
	They had a laundry list of things they were going to do, culminating.
	But who screwed up?
	Somehow they screwed up.
	It didn't get out the way they wanted it to.
	Some messaging...
	It's one of those things where, I'm guessing...
	We're going to assume this is a bullshit deal.
	Yeah.
	And what is this picture that they're floating around all these guys against a gray background?
	That's their PR picture for fear.
	No mugshot in the world is against the gray background.
	They have a height thing and there's all kinds of things you do.
	This is like very weird, this gray background in the mugshot.
	Forever enduring, always ready.
	And then some phony baloney operation no one's ever heard of.
	This whole thing is bullcrap.
	My thinking is they left out a key.
	A key piece of messaging that they've just dropped the ball on, whatever it was, we don't know, obviously, it's just an assumption.
	They left out some key pieces of messaging, so when the thing continued on its merry way to becoming this scandal or something that was going to rock the country, it's like, hey, whoa, whoa!
	We left out, oh, jeez, we've got to start over.
	Now we've got to get some new guys.
	Oh, man.
	There was more, though.
	There was a top naval officer who was planning to go rogue and take an aircraft carrier to Iran right in the Strait of Hormuz and go blow him up without orders from Washington.
	This is not...
	How is that going to work?
	I don't know, but these are the stories.
	And why would anybody do that?
	Well, I think somehow it has to show that...
	They're unhinged.
	They're unhinged, yeah, that they're crazy.
	And they're not, obviously, but they are the ones who understand tyranny...
	I mean, if you're really conspiratorial, you'd say, well, look, what we need to do is we need to demonize these guys.
	Didn't we in the past have this?
	Weren't the Vietnam veterans baby killers?
	What happened in the past?
	Yeah, but you have to wonder if that was coordinated or not, because that just seemed like a natural...
	Apparently, the government lost control of the situation.
	It was just the public bitching and moaning.
	And yeah, they got a bad reaction when they came.
	There was no celebrations of the Vietnam War for obvious reasons.
	And I think that was a...
	I don't think it was...
	That was, you know, during an era where the control mechanism was...
	Not as firm and entrenched as it is today.
	I mean, everything you have to assume because of everyone being co-opted and compromised, that every single thing that's going on is extremely well-coordinated and it's like you always call it the ministry of truth somewhere.
	It's checking things out and telling people to shut up and some of it leaks out and we cover a lot of it on our show.
	But for the most part, it's pretty well locked down.
	It's a lot different than it was in the 60s and 70s.
	But here's what I'm seeing.
	Again, it's only white guys.
	There's no women.
	It's white guys, no Latinos, no African Americans, just pure white guys with tattoos and who are crazy and they're veterans.
	That's the checklist.
	And if PTS, and you want to put D on that or not, post-traumatic stress, does that only affect white guys?
	Apparently, yes.
	I don't know.
	I have no idea.
	We've been putting a lot of pieces together for a puzzle.
	We don't know what the image is.
	It's like, you know, this piece fits here, but I don't know what this thing is going to look like when it's put together.
	If I look at all the messaging, the way the totalitarian fascist state is going...
	It feels to me like all of this is supposed to create some kind of racial divide within our ranks as citizens of Gitmo Nation.
	That's the way it feels.
	You know, do we have this other thing?
	I'll tell you what, I'll make you a deal.
	Would you please play the Ryan clips from the convention so that I can then play the really important clip from the convention?
	I'll let you play the really important clip.
	I don't need to play these Ryan clips.
	Are you sure?
	Yeah, because the deconstruction I'm going to do is not that interesting.
	But I have a further thing.
	I'm going to use these clips later.
	Because I've decided for the Sunday show, of course I make promises I never commit.
	Right after the Scholastic special.
	I'm going to do that.
	I'm writing the salt thing up as we speak.
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh, that was something else we're going to talk about today.
	We'll talk about it on Sunday.
	Here was the real news coming out of the convention.
	After we have the Yahoo News guy saying that the Romneys would be happy to have a party with black people drowning, we have this happening at the convention.
	The convention in Tampa had a truly shocking development occurred, one that hits home to all of us here at CNN. Two people were removed from this Republican National Convention yesterday after they threw nuts, peanuts, Now, this begs some context.
	Because Wolf Blitzer says an African-American camerawoman...
	He's drawing a connection between, I guess, some racial epitaph that black is animal.
	This story is bullcrap.
	Yeah, we'll break it down from Europe.
	This would never happen.
	I don't think...
	Yeah, okay.
	So this is more of what I'm talking about.
	We are being stirred up to be angry at each other.
	Where's the cameraman shooting the person throwing peanuts at him?
	Camera woman, camera woman.
	Camera woman, camera whatever.
	Where's the camera person?
	Taking a picture of this.
	He's got a camera.
	She's got a camera.
	You got a camera, ladies.
	Use it.
	Look what they did.
	They threw peanuts at me.
	Here's the video.
	And they called her an animal, which I think what he's...
	This is a racial thing for sure.
	And by the way, they made it clear with the...
	I wanted to bring this up.
	The assassins, the four assassins, out of the blue...
	Find a picture of one of the guys as a page in the 2008 Republican Convention.
	What?
	They take pictures of pages and document them four years earlier?
	Yeah, exactly.
	And that means...
	This is a bogus...
	This is the most bogus thing I saw in this report.
	As soon as I saw that, here he is.
	We think it's him.
	It's the exact same screwball name, a Gooey Gooey.
	You know, some crazy name that no one's ever seen or heard before.
	It's from Guam.
	Gooey Gooey.
	Yeah, all the Guamanians are named weird.
	He doesn't look Guamanian.
	Whatever the case is, Mr.
	Gooey Gooey, there was a, coincidentally, the same kind of Joe Gooey Gooey over in the Republican National Convention as a page, because we take pictures of all the pages, and then we document who the guy's name is, because you never know.
	Could come in handy.
	I mean, that is so bogus.
	Yeah, so this was very upsetting to me to see what is happening.
	And that's the only message I've got anymore.
	It's like, don't let yourself get riled up.
	Because this is where it's going.
	This is where we're headed.
	It's this kind of stuff.
	There's more to the report because they ejected these two guys or whatever.
	That was the quote they shouted at this female camera operator who works here at CNN. Multiple witnesses observed this very ugly exchange.
	Republican National Committee Security and Police immediately removed the two people from the Tampa Bay Times Forum, which is where we are right now.
	In fact, the convention...
	Statement says, and I'm quoting now, two attendees tonight exhibited deplorable behavior.
	Their conduct was inexcusable and unacceptable.
	This kind of behavior will not be tolerated.
	CNN issued a statement as well saying CNN can in fact confirm there was an incident directed at an employee inside the Tampa Bay Times forum earlier this afternoon.
	CNN worked with convention officials to address this matter and will have no further comment.
	How about this for a further comment?
	Who were these two people?
	And let's look at their background.
	Yeah, I'd love to know.
	Thank you.
	I'd love to know who they are.
	Yeah, no, there's no further comment needed.
	And by the way, it is by definition racist to say that this is horrible.
	So let's just take it from another perspective.
	If these guys are throwing peanuts at a white camera person, And they say, this is how we feed the animals.
	It's okay, apparently.
	But because it's a black, or as Wolf Blitzer says, African American, automatically there's a racial undertone there.
	I think that's in his head.
	Maybe they're just talking about the mainstream media being animals.
	Like, we call them douchebags all the time.
	Yeah, well, there's not too many racial overtones with douchebags.
	No, but this is a hoax.
	Divided we fall.
	Oh, but this is the only thing that I'm seeing on the tweeters.
	You know, that and ask Mitt Romney if he wears magic underwear.
	Which is apparently...
	Yeah, there's the discourse in the United States of America thanks to Twitter.
	Oh no, but it's highly intelligent people I know.
	Who have sunk down to this level.
	Yeah, no, you're right.
	They moan about that, and they have a bunch of issues that they can't get out of their system, and they giggle.
	Yeah, but this is...
	John, we've already figured out this is because of the totalitarian fascist state that people are in.
	And the only way to let that out is to call people names on Twitter.
	And that's good, I guess.
	No, it's not.
	It's not?
	It's not good?
	It's not good.
	You've got a problem with the society.
	Learn to paint.
	Learn to some art.
	There was a...
	This is funny.
	In the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, some of the great art emerged during a totalitarian period.
	Yes.
	Polish posters, for God's sake.
	Anyway.
	The Wall Street Journal, they have a bond expert, and I guess the municipal bond market is so crap that they have to talk about something else.
	She was talking about if you feel really down.
	This whole video, it was like 10 minutes of her talking about how you can lift yourself up.
	On the Wall Street Journal, listen to it a little bit.
	You say there are tangible things we can do to kind of rewire...
	These are two women on the Wall Street Journal talking about pepping yourself up so you don't feel so down.
	...are our brains to act this way if this just doesn't come naturally to us.
	If we're people who, you know, look at the glass half empty as opposed to the glass half full, what would you suggest?
	Sure.
	And so that's interesting.
	The research shows you can really change your perspective in the moment.
	And again, this is so important.
	So what you want to do when you start going down that path of self-criticism, you want to stop yourself.
	You literally can tell yourself, stop.
	I'm not doing this.
	And then I asked a lot of people for tricks that they use, and they were so interesting.
	One woman writes, all of her passwords are self-affirmations.
	This is the best one.
	Here's how you do it.
	Here's how you do it.
	This is what your password should be.
	This is the Bond woman at the Wall Street Journal.
	Your password should be, you are beautiful!
	Oh, interesting.
	One woman writes, all of her passwords are self-affirmations.
	Like, you look great today.
	You're beautiful.
	Do good work.
	That's fantastic.
	Facebook, computer, everything.
	That's fantastic.
	What a genius idea.
	This is the kind of feel-good, new-age bullcrap that's been propagated for the last 30 years in this country.
	Now it's come down to this.
	Self-affirmation passwords.
	On the Wall Street Journal.
	Yeah, well, hey, what can I tell you?
	Self-affirmation passwords.
	The only other thing I really had is...
	Some people got in touch with me about the generics bill that we talked about the other day.
	And I found out that it's really much deeper than you realize.
	If you look at the pharmaceutical association...
	I'm sorry.
	The generic pharmaceutical association.
	All of these companies have...
	Generic pharmaceutical companies alongside of them.
	I didn't realize this.
	So Merck and Pfizer, they all have companies with other names like, what is it?
	Mylan, I think it is.
	And they just sell the generic version of the pharmaceutical drug.
	And they are actually the ones lobbying.
	This is where it gets so funny.
	They're saying, oh yeah, we need this.
	We need these high user fees, these $300 million fees.
	We need that.
	You know, to make sure that all the generic stuff is safe.
	But these guys are paid and part and parcel of the big brands.
	They're just posing as generics, which effectively leaves, you know, the Curry Dvorak Pharma Consulting Group, where we intended to make the five-cent Viagra alternative.
	We can't afford the fees.
	Yeah, it's to lock out the competitors.
	Yeah, but I had no idea that there were these really big...
	Yeah, most of them, like Merck and all these big companies, they make most of the generics.
	Yeah, but they sell them on their...
	Oh yeah, they got little companies that sell them.
	I didn't know that.
	That was completely new to me.
	Like, oh, okay.
	It makes sense if you think about it.
	Well, they actually had a little video.
	That's why I think, by the way, I'm always convinced that a lot of these clone inks for your printer...
	Yeah, or just the same company.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, or like the fake Chanel handbags.
	Yeah.
	So here's a little bit of their video of where they're...
	You might as well make money on both ends of the deal.
	I agree.
	Somebody's going to buy the clone ink, whether you like it or not, you might as well be selling it to them.
	I agree.
	I totally agree.
	On average, only two of every ten new drugs approved by the FDA will ever earn revenues that exceed average research and development costs, revenues that are needed to support the cost of many drug candidates that don't make it, and to fund future R&D projects.
	Generics, on the other hand, have very low research costs because they are approved by the FDA based on the research done by the company that developed the original brand drug.
	They're stealing from us.
	They're cheating.
	They don't pay any money for R&D. Yeah, like you didn't make billions and billions and billions and billions of dollars.
	And also, take a look at your history and see what the patent thing was all about to begin with.
	This kind of propaganda is disgusting.
	I liked your analysis in, was that Market Watch about the Samsung Apple suit?
	That was in PC Magazine.
	Oh, it was good.
	I liked that.
	Well, you said basically Apple lost.
	Yeah.
	Hold on a second.
	Yeah, Apple lost.
	You want to explain why they lost?
	I love it.
	I love your analysis.
	Well, it's a billion dollars it's going to exchange, but it's worth more than a billion dollars to Samsung and all the other Android makers, for that matter, because all this case proved was that they're the same.
	The whole case was about the iPhone is the same as the Samsung phone.
	Or the Samsung phone's the same as an iPhone and therefore they're stealing from us.
	But they went on and on and they overdid it.
	They went to the point where they had Susan Kerr come on and testify that she had a Samsung phone and swore on a stack of Bibles that it was an Apple iPhone.
	This is putting the wrong message out there.
	The Apple iPhone now is not special.
	It's the same as a Samsung phone.
	So you're going to make a decision at the end of the day.
	Yeah, they're going to change a few icons, but it's still going to be the same.
	At the end of the day, when you go into the store to buy one of these phones, and the Samsung phone is half the price of the iPhone, what are you going to do?
	What's the same thing?
	I'll just buy the cheap one.
	It's a huge blunder.
	I do not understand why they did that.
	It's just the hubris of Apple.
	They always sue everybody.
	They've been lawsuit happy since the days of the Apple II, and they can't get it out of their system.
	They should have shut up and just bitched and moaned a little bit.
	That billion dollars is money well spent by Samsung to have this outcome, and they still might not have to pay it.
	The damage is done.
	So just to recap on that, which was a beautiful diatribe, because the lawsuit essentially says they're the same, it was a billion-dollar marketing campaign by Samsung.
	Money well spent.
	Yeah.
	Fantastic.
	And by the way, I also mentioned that column.
	This is a parallel of what happened to the MP3 world.
	When MP3s first came out in the 90s, nobody except students were using them.
	And it was the RIAA that kept drawing attention to MP3s.
	More and more attention.
	This is stealing music.
	Wait a minute.
	It's not even the same format as an MP3. It must be the same.
	I mean, then they kept suing and losing and winning and suing and losing and winning.
	And it was just like, it went from nobody knew what an MP3 was to everybody knowing what an MP3 is.
	How is that a good idea?
	Thanks for the promo, everybody.
	So anyway, that's my argument.
	Yeah, no, I like it.
	And nobody else took that argument.
	Well, no, of course not.
	I think I listened to hours of analysis by non-practicing lawyers.
	I think they know what they're talking about.
	Your analysis is, without a doubt, the best analysis in the universe, all part and parcel of...
	The best podcast in the universe!
	I would agree.
	Now, walk us out of here.
	What do you got?
	You want to play?
	Come on, man.
	Do something.
	Don't make me play the summary again.
	Okay.
	Well, what do we got with the Ascan?
	We got the Puerto Rican...
	Oh, yeah.
	Okay.
	This will be the last one.
	So I'm watching the NHK, which is Japanese TV. And as you know, I'm spending all my time watching these foreign stuff now.
	Don't they make spark plugs?
	NHK? So NHK, which is the Japanese Nippon something or other...
	It says it has it in for Obama, but they have it in for Obama.
	I don't know why, but the Japanese government-supported station essentially is pro-Romni to such an extreme that it's like just wearing it on their sleeves.
	Just listen to this little snippet from a longer report that just goes on and on about how great Romni is.
	Romney has worked for years toward the nomination, but many Americans still wonder what he stands for.
	NHK World's Matt Field has more from Tampa.
	Mitt Romney says he has the experience to lead something he says President Barack Obama has not led, an economic recovery.
	So we'll get this economy going again with more jobs and more take-home pay.
	Voters four years ago bought Obama's promises of change.
	But Republicans and Democrats remain divided.
	And the jobless rate is stuck above 8%.
	People who did vote for him are just as disappointed as anyone else.
	I don't see any tax breaks coming my way.
	So it's been tough.
	Tough four years.
	Romney rebuilt company after company as the chief executive of Bain Capital.
	And he led the organizing committee for the 2002 Winter Olympics.
	Okay, a couple things.
	First of all, they need to fire their editor, unless that was you.
	No, no, you're talking about the dead air?
	Ah, this sucks.
	It blows.
	They have, like, a gate on it or something.
	So when the guy stops talking, it goes to dead silence.
	Okay.
	This is some Japanese technology.
	Now, question number two.
	Who is this broadcast for?
	It's not in Nipponese.
	So this is meant to propagandize Americans?
	Who was watching this?
	Who was the intended audience of NHK? In this regard, in the English version, it's for...
	Like Singapore?
	It's for Americans who are interested in Japan, or they have something to do with Japan, and probably some expats.
	And I don't know.
	I have no idea what the marketing...
	Completely weird.
	But this thing, especially when they clipped to the two people, instead of having a balanced report, first they say, well, and he used the term Americans bought into.
	Yeah, it's a good term.
	That's a loaded one.
	I think, wow, this is, when I heard bought into, I'm thinking, well, this sounds like this is a propaganda piece.
	Then they had two people bitching, and they didn't have anybody on the other side.
	It wasn't balanced in the least situation.
	So what is going on that this would happen in the first place, and why is it being done?
	What is the Japanese, what's their beef?
	They got a complaint?
	What is it?
	I'd like to know.
	Apparently.
	Well, maybe we're not doing the right job with the Sakuku Islands.
	I don't know.
	I don't know.
	There's something going on, though, and this was a hit piece on Obama, and it was done for a reason.
	Somebody who listened to that who's got some Japanese connections is going to have some idea about what's happening.
	He's going to have to tell us what the heck's going on with the Japanese and Obama.
	By the way, I was not far off as NGK spark plugs.
	You think I'm crazy, right?
	But there are...
	NGK spark plugs are big.
	Yeah, well, I didn't think you were crazy.
	I thought it was a funny line.
	I actually meant it.
	It was not meant as humor.
	Oh, sorry.
	Didn't mean to disappoint you.
	Okay, so I will go to the optometrist?
	Optician?
	What is it?
	No, optometrist.
	Opticians just fit you for glasses.
	No, no.
	I have to have new...
	Just go to an ophthalmologist, actually.
	What is that?
	What do they do?
	It's a doctor who can not only see what the hell the deal is, he can give you drugs.
	Do you have any good drugs?
	I don't need any drugs, man.
	I'm smoke-free.
	I'm drug-free.
	But it's just now I'm a little blind.
	We'll work on that.
	So on Sunday, we'll talk about salt.
	We'll have an analysis of Paul Ryan and the Scholastic episode.
	That's fantastic.
	I don't even have to show up.
	Yeah, no, you don't.
	Coming to you from the capital of the drone star state here in Austin, Tejas.
	Good morning, everybody.
	My name is Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where we missed out on getting the convention, I'm John C. Dvorak.
	We will talk to you again on Sunday right here on No Agenda.

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