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Drone Smackdown.
Adam Curry.
John C. Devorak.
It's Thursday, September 27, 2012.
Time for your Gitmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 447.
This is No Agenda.
Re-acclimating to the all-night helicopter ops in Los Angeles.
I'm coming to you from the People's Republic of Southern California.
In the morning, everybody.
I'm Adam Curry.
And boy, I sure do hope that the mix works out.
I'm in Northern Silicon Valley.
I'm John C. Dvorak.
It's crack, blood, and buzzkill.
In the morning.
What do you mean, the mix works out?
Well, you're real loud.
The sound's real low, and it's modulating.
Oh.
Well, at least you hear it.
It's getting loud, and then it's quiet, and then loud, and then quiet.
You're in Los Angeles.
Yes, I am in Los Angeles.
We are here for the art platform Los Angeles, which is opening tonight.
Miss Mickey being featured.
Her art on Expo here as part of the Miss Mickey Huggendyke World Tour 2012.
Of which I am in the entourage.
That's great.
She does well.
She's got an eye.
Oh, yeah.
We have to point out that, John, you actually identified that a long time ago, and you helped me purchase her first camera.
Yes, we selected it.
She went with the Nikon brand.
Yeah, well, she went away from that, by the way.
Where'd she go to?
Canon.
Yeah.
I was just talking to somebody about this yesterday.
Why are you laughing?
The 5D or D5 or whatever it is.
That's the one.
That's the one you want.
I was talking to this guy who's a cannon shooter and I've always was, in the film days, I was an Icon user and And I've used both of these cameras, both of the lines of the digital.
And I have to say that if I had a choice, I'd go with the Canon.
In fact, when we got her her first camera, there was no Canon option.
There was no D5. I don't think the D3 didn't even exist.
The D5 people really like.
But what I like about the Canons, I mean, the lenses, I think, are equivalent on both of these groups, but the Canon just feels better.
It's something in the chip, because I know a lot of people that use it for video.
There's something in there, some magic mumbo-jumbo or something that...
They were the first ones to go with the CMOS. Oh, is that it?
Okay, you know the technology behind it.
So they're kind of ahead of the game on that.
Everybody else is sticking with CCDs for as long as they could.
Right.
And then Canon, right off the bat, went to CMOS, even though it's harder to do because of the filtering because they're noisy.
And I guess over the period of time they've...
They've perfected it.
So anyway, so yeah, so she has a gallery representing her, and then, so we'll be here.
Now this is like a four-day show, and they're on sale, you know, so I'm like, you know, I'm very interested in Mickey's art, as you can imagine.
So I'm like, okay, I'm going to hang around and make sure that, you know, if I hear the cash register ring, I'm going to go jump on that.
Are they going to have the opening with the gratuitous Chardonnay and plastic cups?
Yes, yes.
I don't know.
I will let you know if it's plastic cups, but that is tonight.
It's always plastic cups.
I'd be stunned if it was anything other than plastic cups.
I'll let you know.
We have lots of people who are coming out to support her.
Even some people flying in from Austin, which is very cool.
And so that's five days or four days here.
And so I'll also be doing Sunday's show here from Los Angeles.
And we're staying at a friend's apartment or condo, which is way cool because obviously, you know, can't just hang out in L.A. in a hotel for four or five days.
Then we go to D.C. next week.
I think we go back to Austin for one day, and then we're on to D.C. where she's at her second show, which is the Emerge art show.
And actually, the Washington Post featured one of her pieces of work yesterday.
Oh, well, I don't get the Washington Post, so...
Well, online you do.
Oh, is it online?
Yeah.
I tweeted the link.
Thanks for looking at my links.
Yeah, of course.
Anyway.
I see a tweeted link.
Oh, tweeter.
Tweet.
You tweeted.
I tweeted yesterday.
Yeah.
Yeah, exactly.
Well, anyway, enough of Mickey.
Yeah, exactly.
Well, let me just say that we had a fun little trip coming out here.
For those of you who missed this no-agenda travel tip the first time around, I would like to reiterate that these days, because of the way the airports are set up, They pretty much don't have any checks and balances to see if you're going through the premium line with a premium ticket or not.
So we, of course, flew southwest, and you can look at all the sheeple standing there like, okay, we'll move on, we'll wait in line here.
But you can also just walk right into the premium line and go up to the front of the line and just pretend like you got a first-class ticket, and the TSA officer is not checking to see if you have a first-class ticket.
No.
They have this new thing, by the way.
What's your first and last name?
It says, when did this start?
Have you had this happen yet?
What's your first and last name?
And then Mickey, of course, is always like, her real name is Miriam Hochendijk.
And I'm always standing next to her, I'm like, and there will be a test later.
Can you say that name?
Anyway, they don't get my humor.
So we opted out, of course, at Austin Bergstrom.
Not a problem.
And I kind of like it now, and I actually tell the TSA agent...
So first of all, here's the travel tip.
First of all, always go through the premium line with your coach ticket.
This is great.
No one checks it.
And you can just speed right to the head of the line and everyone's looking at you like, well, I wish I had a first class ticket.
And then you opt out.
And what happens now, this is also a little new, I think.
They say, okay, don't touch your things.
Point to your bags on the belt and I'll carry them over to the station, to the Feel Me Up station.
And I always say, you know, this is a great deal because not only do you carry my bags...
It's special TSA valet service.
And I get to dress in a nice little area where people aren't bumping into me.
I don't have to be walking on my socks everywhere where people are slapping belts around.
It is.
So you just say, thank you.
I really appreciate the TSA valet service.
You'll make friends.
So you didn't have any incident.
I thought you had an incident.
That's the only reason I was kind of interested.
Not really.
Well, the reason I bring it up because there is a story that I wanted to talk about briefly.
Well, two stories, actually, regarding the TSA. One is this whole pre-check program, which is trademarked, by the way.
TSA pre-checkmark.
You've been following this?
Why are they trademarking this?
Well, I think I'm starting to figure it out because this press release...
Now, the whole idea with this pre-check thing is you give the government your biometric data, so an anal sample, a retinal scan, fingerprints, whatever, and then supposedly...
You can go through a special line.
We don't have it at Austin Airport, nor will I ever get it.
You can go through a special line that is apparently faster, and you don't have to take off your shoes, and you don't have to take your laptop out of your bag.
You do, of course, still have to go through the naked body scanner.
So you're giving up your biometric data.
And I believe that this is turning into a huge commercial operation, because here's this press release about the PreCheck program, and it's totally a PR news release.
Lowe's Hotel and Resorts announces coordinated effort with U.S. Department of Homeland Security, as Lowe's is the first hospitality brand to offer complimentary enrollment to Global Entry and TSA PreCheck.
Hmm.
So Jonathan Tisch, the chairman of Lowe's Hotel and Resorts, and Lucy Napolitano announced their joint effort, this is now three days ago, to promote the Trusted Traveler Network.
And I guess Lowe's is offering you the first Platinum Loyalty Rewards members complimentary enrollment in the Global Entry Program and the PreCheck Program.
So this is total collusion of government...
Database collection and loyalty reward programs.
And I think that this is just the beginning.
Pretty soon it'll be on your Walmart card.
You'll be automatically enrolled.
It'll be an opt-out.
You're automatically a part of it.
I find this to be very nefarious, really.
This collusion with corporate entities on these types of programs.
I think it's weird.
You just went helium.
Okay, well let me just fix that.
Yay!
So while you're doing that, I will line up the second TSA story that I had.
And this flows right into the war on guns or war on ammo, etc., etc.
And I want to make sure that you're back.
Are you back with me, John?
Yeah, I can hear you.
Listen to this quick news report here.
This morning, and a flight attendant is facing charges for taking a gun through an airport security checkpoint.
To make matters worse, the gun went off.
Jacqueline Lovey is a flight attendant for Republic Airlines.
She was busted as she went through security yesterday morning at Philadelphia International Airport.
She was being questioned.
A police officer tried to unload the gun when it went off by accident, firing a round into the wall.
So not only is the flight attendant under investigation, Police have opened up another investigation into the handling of the gun.
Now did you hear about this story at all?
Nope, not at all.
And the funny thing is, whose fault was it that the gun went off?
Well, now here's what's even crazier.
What's really nuts is we have not seen any interviews.
This was like a one-off.
To me, this was a trial balloon, and I think it may even be fake.
Because, come on, a gun goes off at a TSA checkpoint, and this is not huge news?
I mean, an actual bullet went through a wall?
I mean, people would be ducking.
I mean, come on, this is...
When did the bullet hit?
So I believe this is a lie and a bullcrap story, but here's what's interesting.
They show the gun in the report, and I actually found a written report.
Only one or two reports about it online, so this is why I think it was a trial balloon.
It's the Smith& Wesson Airweight, and they're very specific about this gun.
Now, are you familiar with the Smith& Wesson Airweight?
It's a.38?
No.
You have to Google this and take a look at it.
So this is a revolver.
Now, remember, the TSA agent, according to the story, tried to unload the gun, which consists of, oh, gee, I don't know, like opening up the chamber.
No, you flipped a little thing around.
There's no way this gun can go off accidentally.
At least it was cocked.
No, no, but even...
John, look at the gun.
It has an enclosed hammer.
You can't cock this gun.
Is it air weight?
Yes.
Oh, I see what you're saying.
So it's an enclosed...
This is for concealed carry, and I think that...
That's a weird-looking thing, yeah.
Yeah, but you see it has a...
I'm sure I'm not using the right terms, but it has an enclosed hammer.
Yeah, there's no hammer.
Well, it's in there, but you can't...
Yeah, it would be called hammerless, because there's nothing you can see.
So you can't cock this thing.
So someone had to physically pull the trigger all the way back while the cylinder was still in the gun and it had to turn and then had to fire.
Yeah, right.
This is not an accident.
It's a revolver.
It's not an accidental shooting.
I don't think anything was shot, and if anything, because they're pointing this out, and this is known as a very nice concealed carry weapon, I think that this was a trial balloon, but it probably got messed up with, oh, I don't know, Ahmadinejad wanting to kill all the Jews or whatever.
It just didn't get any traction.
So they let it go.
But you watch, there's going to be more stories about concealed carry weapons.
And this flight attendant, who we have not heard from since...
Yeah, you're right.
This story's bogus.
This is a design for...
This is just part of the very slow momentum anti-gun.
Which flight attendant...
I mean, come on.
Yeah, and she was on, like, Revolution Air or something.
Have you ever heard of this...
Republic Air.
I don't even remember.
I thought they were out of business.
Let's check that, actually.
Republic...
That would be funny.
If they're not even flying anymore.
Republic Airlines.
Republic Airlines.
It's a regional jet still in business, I guess.
Purchased by Northwest.
Republic Airlines.
Hmm.
So what airport was this?
In Philadelphia.
Hmm.
Do they even fly to Philadelphia?
That's the question I'm wondering.
Destinations.
Check it out.
Ah, looks like they probably do.
Okay.
Well...
Anyway...
This whole thing is just like, okay...
And, you know, they're so keen to point out exactly the weapon...
To me, it's just pretty obvious that this is a...
Well, obviously they didn't want to put it in full gear, so that's why I never heard of this story.
Well, that's what I mean.
I think that there was just too much other stuff, and there were some other amazing promotions going on.
I mean, really, really good, big promotional stuff.
I mean, this whole...
I mean, I don't know where...
How many clips did you send me?
Do I have all your clips here?
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6...
Okay, 16?
That makes sense?
Okay.
Um...
You know, we had the whole Ahmadinejad interview, which I think I have exactly zero clips from, with Pierce Moran.
He didn't have much to say.
It's always the same.
There's one thing that did come up, and I caught it on the Asian news.
Oh.
Which is, yeah, and it was Ahmadinejad speaking...
Play the clip.
This is the translation, of course.
Again, from Asia.
The U.S. didn't cover this at all.
We've talked about this kind of thing going on a couple of times.
It still has never been discussed by the mainstream media.
Iran meeting in New York City.
Play that.
Ahmadinejad also says Iran is one of nearly a dozen countries forming a new contact group trying to end the 18-month-long war in Syria.
Members will include 10 or 11 countries in the Middle East and elsewhere.
He says they will meet in New York very soon.
So, we talked about how the Egyptian guy decided to put together a team of four countries, including Iran.
Yeah.
And now, apparently, there's a bigger group that's formed of about half or a dozen countries.
This is his contact group.
We're not included, and so we don't cover it.
Yeah, no, this is his contact group, and didn't they already have a meeting in...
In Tehran, a couple weeks back?
They may have.
Yeah, I think they had this first meeting.
This meeting's going to be in New York City, which I find fascinating.
Well, it's so obvious that this is one big joke to everybody, just we're not in on it.
Actually, I do have one clip...
This is Pierce Morgan asking Ahmadinejad, and I love these questions.
It's almost the, if you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be, Mr.
Evil Ahmadinejad?
He says, so if terrorists had flown into your building and killed 3,000 Iranians, what would you have done?
Wouldn't you have retaliated?
9-11 in Tehran.
How would you have reacted to the country that you believed had done that?
So you're saying that the country of Afghanistan was at fault?
Was responsible?
So you're...
I love...
So what happens here, and this is why you got to listen to this, he starts interviewing Morgan, and he just, he starts asking the questions, and Pierce starts answering them.
Being the responsible party as a whole nation?
I think it is inarguable that Al-Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden's men that worked for him were training in Afghanistan.
So Afghanistan was certainly knowingly harboring terrorists who were training to commit atrocities.
I believe that you can, under no circumstances, justify the condemnation and the attack upon a country in order to reach a single terrorist group.
And I do believe that no matter how long you and I or other people speak, This is unexplainable.
Allow me to ask you, do you believe that the various administrations of the United States were successful in eradicating terrorism?
They haven't been.
Has the problem been resolved or has it gotten worse?
Well, it's hard to say.
See, now, he's answering his questions.
This guy is a dummy.
He's masterful, this Ahmadinejad.
So the approach was wrong.
My answer would be, clearly, it has been partially successful in the sense that Al-Qaeda has been unable to commit another attack of that magnitude since.
And again, I come back to if you were the president of Iran and that attack happened in Tehran, It wouldn't have been acceptable to your people for you to do nothing.
Not at all.
Surely we would have pursued the perpetrators not to seek an entire nation.
But I ask you this, during the last 10 years, during the last decade, how many American forces were lost and killed in Afghanistan and Iraq, even today?
So he does this so well.
No matter what the question is, and I've spoken to many people since this interview, and they're hearing completely different things.
They are hearing, he wants to wipe Israel off the face of the map!
But he never says this.
He says, Should Palestinian people...
He always turns it around.
Should Palestinian people have the right to...
He turns it into a question, into some hypothetical, and the answer that people hear is always in the question of the interviewer.
It's fascinating to me how people watch these interviews and literally hear something that is not said.
Yeah, no, it's, well, that's kind of, that's kind of, I have a, if we want to play it, I have, you know, the Howard Stern action this week.
No, I don't know anything about it.
What happened?
Oh, well, I have it as an end of show clip, but he said, he's got a couple of his guys that went out on the streets and asked these ludicrous questions of people.
This was, Nancy Pelosi's daughter did some sort of a documentary.
I think we discussed it or took it.
Yeah, a while ago.
Yeah, I remember this.
Yeah, well, she went to Mississippi and found a bunch of dummies.
So Stern sends his boys to Harlem to talk to Obama supporters.
With the same kind of questions that they either don't know, which seems likely, or they're not paying attention.
And one guy keeps harping on the question, what do you think it was wise of Obama to choose Ryan as the vice president?
Yeah.
That's a great question.
And they all went, yeah, no, that was really smart.
Oh God, that kind of thing.
And we'll play that at the end, because it's a long piece that we play at the end.
But what's interesting about it is the self-assuredness.
Oh yeah, where people are just like, absolutely.
Yeah, this is great.
Very creepy, actually.
Well, yeah, creepy, but it also just shows...
Well, yeah, it's creepy in the fact that it's so easy to show how you can manipulate the public.
Actually, so I do have...
Some clips here of MSNBC. Both MSNBC and CNN cut off Ahmadinejad after a minute and a half.
And they're just like, okay, that's enough of that.
Because the guy was sitting there making sense.
Well, you know, America is kind of evil and they're cutting us off and they're trying to be the boss of us.
Is that okay?
I won't play the MSNBC one, but the CNN one was very funny because then they bring in their analyst and And she just makes stuff up on the spot that he didn't say.
I do not believe that Muslims, Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists and others have any problems among themselves or are hostile against each other.
Now, this is interesting what he's saying here, right?
He's saying, I don't believe that Muslim, Jews, Christians, you know, the Hindus, they have any problem living together, don't have any problem with each other's religions.
He's essentially setting it up to say, you know, we're being played out against each other, which I have to say, I'm agreeing with him on this.
They get along together comfortably and live together in an atmosphere of peace and amity.
They are all devoted to the cause of justice, purity, and love.
The general tendency of nations has always been to accomplish positive, common aspirations, reflecting exalted divine, human beauties, and nobilities.
He's saying nice things here.
You know, he's saying like he's...
Yeah, it's bullcrap, but it's nice.
He's not shaking his fist into his saber-rattling like we like to do.
So, time to interrupt him, I think.
This is no good.
I mean, he's not saying anything horrible.
Hey!
Hey!
Control room here!
Interrupt this douchebag!
Well, the president of Iran has a whole lot of blame for a whole lot of other countries.
What?
He didn't say anything!
Is that what she said?
So we listen to this guy go on and on about how great everybody is.
Love and peace and happiness.
There's a lot of blame.
Yeah, but listen to the analyst she brings in.
Other than his own, specifically those Zionists who he always...
He didn't, he said Jews.
He didn't say Zionists.
At least, not in this piece.
he may have said it 10 minutes earlier.
...calls the uncivilized Zionists and those nations with hegemony and arrogance blaming the world's problems like the environment and double standards and the cultural problems and poverty on many of those capitalist nations around the world.
Jill Dorsey...
Hold on a second, hold on, stop, stop, stop.
Yeah.
Here, it's the capitalist nations themselves, including the USA, our own people are the ones blaming us for the environment with all the global warming bull crap.
Yeah.
We're terrible.
We're going to kill everybody.
Our corporations are evil.
So how's he doing that?
Um...
It sounds more like he's a Democrat running for office in Massachusetts.
Let's listen to the analyst for a minute here.
He's still with me from State Department, our top reporter who always covers that.
Top reporter, John, not just as a top reporter.
She's the tip of the top.
This is not what I was expecting.
I have to say, there's always time for him to turn and get ornery, Jill, but I was expecting something much quicker, a lot more strident language right off the bat.
See, this is very disappointing.
Hey, the guy's talking about love and peace and happiness and kumbaya.
And hey, man, this is disappointing to me.
What's going on with this?
Hey, man, what are you doing?
Pull out your AK-47 and do something, man.
Yeah, you know, Ashley, it's not over yet.
So he could still do that.
But I think, again, hang in there.
We're looking at a man who wants to depict Iran, which is a great country.
By the way, it's a great country, just so you know.
This gets even crazier now I hear this woman.
Persia, and himself, as a great man, a great leader who sees the world the way it is.
He's a great leader!
I don't know.
Just a stooge.
Isn't this crazy how she goes from, I'm so disappointed, to it's a great country, he's a great leader.
Just controlled by, he didn't say it, but the United States.
You mentioned hegemonic powers, and everything is rigged against the lower countries of the world.
Yeah.
Yes, correct.
Hello.
Having to get out from under the bottom of this.
And it also plays into his interpretation of why Iran should have at least the capability of having nuclear power.
He wouldn't say necessarily nuclear weapons, but nuclear power.
Because after all, the big countries do it.
And sometimes that type of message, you know, the big guys can do it, why can't we, does resonate with some countries.
Yeah, only the crazy countries.
I mean, you can't be thinking that, little country, you.
You can't have what the big boys have.
Go away!
And they just say it so matter-of-factly, John.
So matter-of-factly.
You know, it's just like, oh, well, you know.
Little countries can't be having no nuclear power, you know that?
Come on, we're the...
Hegemonics!
It sounds like a name of a group.
The hegemonics?
The hegemonic cats.
So, speaking of deniers, this is great.
Al Gore is cranking up his reality show again.
And it's the...
What is it called?
It's the...
I don't know.
He does like a 24 hours of some bull crap.
So he's on Current.
He's talking about how great it was last year.
And listen to his new meme on how we're going to...
This is about global warming, obviously.
How we're going to propagate the formula.
Last fall, we aired our first 24 hours of reality.
Woo!
That'd be the first from you.
A live-streamed multimedia event from every time zone in the world.
It was a global conversation with over 8 million views and 120 million Twitter impressions.
What exactly is a Twitter impression?
Where does that number come from?
I've never heard of a Twitter impression.
I don't know.
Where is it shown?
Did he get the number straight from Twitter?
This is the bull crap.
He's just making it up.
No, no, no.
Someone in his office, someone had to prove their worthiness and they put together a spreadsheet and said, here's our metrics.
Here's our metrics on how successful we were.
And we had 120 million Twitter impressions.
Oh, that's great.
With comments in the social media stream running every three seconds.
Oh my goodness, John.
This sounds like a global warming nightmare.
Here it comes!
The amount of energy used to do all this bull crap, which is meaningless, is just to probably set back the environment by at least 100 years.
We're doomed.
Exactly.
If these people had, instead of being twittering with all their computers on and movement, if they had just been napping...
That probably would have saved tons of carbon.
And how listening to Al Gore doesn't make you want a nap, I don't know.
Here's his new meme.
Here we're creating something we call the dirty weather report.
It's the dirty weather report, John.
Because you know, climate is not weather.
Or is it?
It's dirty weather.
The weather we're experiencing now is just that, dirty.
It's fueled by dirty fossil fuel energy and misinformation.
What?
It's fueled by misinformation?
Well, then you should be able to get a lot of energy for nothing.
It's fueled by misinformation?
Yes, he's saying there's a lot of dirty weather, a lot of dirtiness in the weather, and it's misinformation is blowing in the wind, apparently.
Here, listen.
This crisis has to be understood in order to be stopped.
The misinformation includes messaging that it's not happening, that we can't solve it, that we can't afford to act.
However, together, with your help and the full force of our 21st century technology and media, we can stop the misinformation and the dirty weather.
By shooting anyone with a dissenting point of view.
Yes!
And we can solve the climate crisis.
So please follow us at Climate Reality.
Tune in November 14th.
And for the many influencers out there who have tuned into this summit, help us...
Hey, are we influencers?
Can we count ourselves as the influencer team?
I don't think we're influencing anyone.
We're just confirming people's deep-seated beliefs that they had confirmed by the media.
Here's his last 15 seconds.
Fight against the messages from the climate deniers.
Woo!
Help us by mobilizing your networks and partners and asking them to watch and participate.
Together we will solve this crisis and we will seize its opportunities.
Thank you so much for all your support.
Yeah, not a problem.
Don't be a denier!
The science is in!
Science!
Science!
All right.
Deniers.
Yep, deniers.
That's us.
Hey, let's thank our...
Oh, yeah, well, before you stall for a second, because I did not open the spreadsheet yet.
Okay, I got it in.
I got it here.
Yeah.
So you just want me to, like, do a little dance or something while...
Yeah, no, play a jingle.
Okay.
Oh, I have this one again.
Yeah, I've got the whole, the rig all set up now, so...
Oh, okay, you're right.
Okay, well, we have one, well, we've got the one executive producer and one, two, three, four, five associates today.
Holy moly.
This is good.
It's good.
Yeah.
Thor Hanks in Seattle, Washington came out with $325 to become an executive producer for show 447.
Devoted less listener and semi-boner, guilted into donating to the best podcast in the universe.
I could use some weight loss karma.
I also missed the Lucifer Hillary nickname.
Hello, where have you been?
I think you used it at least three times last show.
Yeah.
For sure.
It's just a Lucifer clippity-clop.
You've got karma.
Oh, there you go.
There's your weight loss karma.
Joshua Paulson in Ridgefield, Washington.
Hold on a second.
Can I give Thor a little tip?
There's a book called...
What is it, Mickey?
The Four Day...
Mickey?
Hello?
Hello to Mickey.
Hello to Mickey.
The book that we got from Chris, The Four Day Diet?
What is that called?
The Four Day Food?
Four...
Yeah, but what was the name of the book?
Do you remember the name?
The Four Hour Diet?
It's the Slow Carb Diet.
Yeah, that sounds like another gimmick.
Okay, alright.
Do you remember Chris Breshears?
Yeah.
How big was he?
He was thin as a rail.
Alright, you can be a dick all you want.
Anyway, work for him.
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Someone this morning on Twitter was yelling at me.
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On Twitter?
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How many Twitter page views did it have?
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So you can't take it?
Or so the table knows what it is, you mean?
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Could be all kinds of stuff in these karma coins.
Look, you know, proceed with caution.
I'm wondering if those CIA challenge coins that we have have chips.
Yeah.
How about the piggy bank?
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He's put in another 25.
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So I got a whole bunch of emails this morning, apparently in Gitmo Nation lowlands.
Now, this is funny because I scoffed at you.
You had this clip about the Facebook party gone wrong up there in the north of Holland?
Right, with 100,000 people saying they'd attend.
Well, yeah, but 3,000, 3 or 4,000 actually showed up and it turned into...
So, of course, you know, not being in the milieu, as you would say it, this actually was, it was quite a scene.
And it turned ugly and everyone started rioting and they basically broke this entire village.
And what was in the newspaper this morning in the Netherlands, because of course the Netherlands is shocked about this, they're shocked that this could happen, while the rest of Europe burns as we have people rioting for actual reasons, like no food, no house, no job.
This has not hit the Netherlands yet, but people are shocked.
And the article is saying, well, we had the army ready.
And they have a big picture of a tank.
We had the army ready, but the local guys didn't quite know how to reach out to us.
And we have to be ready for the next time.
And yeah, don't worry, we'll set it up.
Yeah, we should have brought in the army.
They should have been there.
The troops should have been on the ground to stop this atrocity.
And everyone's like, wow, my God, they're actually going to roll out The army on this show.
Because a bunch of kids are having a birthday party?
This is pathetic.
Well, this is what's interesting.
Because, and I only learned this this morning from our host where we're staying, this whole thing is based upon a movie called Project X. Have you heard of this movie?
Not yet.
Okay.
So Project X apparently came out a while ago.
Of course, coincidentally, the DVD Blu-ray is now being released.
It's now being promoted.
And I believe it's being promoted in Europe now.
It came out in June or July.
Here in the States.
And the whole premise is, and I have the trailer for you, 30 seconds of the trailer, the whole premise is Facebook party, everyone shows up, the house burns down.
All fun and games.
Until someone burns the house down.
The Blu-ray combo pack from the guy who gave you the hangover.
This is way more than 50p.
Of course it is.
It's plus one.
Come the moments you couldn't remember.
Because you never saw them.
What about this?
What if my parents see it?
Nobody's going to see this but us.
Have you seen the footage?
Project X.
Extended cut.
To the breaking door, yo!
Watch this.
On the Blu-ray combo pack and digital download June 19th.
Yo.
So I think we can see more of these taking place as they roll out the DVD promotion.
Outstanding job.
I'd call another PR success, is what I'd say.
Talking to JC. Yeah, no, it was a winner.
We missed it, because we did the same thing.
I mean, this movie connection, actually, when I brought the clip of it, if I had known that at the time, I could have dropped it on you when you were going, eh, this is just a waste of time.
No, no, you would have had Clip of the Day.
Absolutely.
Because I looked over and I'm like, and I didn't know what Project Egg was.
Apparently it's like this cult hit from the people who brought you The Hangover.
Geez, sorry, I must have missed it.
But I'm sure it's on Netflix, so we'll have to take a look at it now.
But, you know, it's so easy to get the stupid youths Who have nothing better to do to get them into this stuff now.
I mean, this is not just an exercise in PR for the movie.
It's an exercise in showing how you can get the stupid children to do all kinds of crazy things.
They're bored.
You know, when I was a kid, when I was a kid, There used to be things called community centers.
And kids would actually go there.
And there's all kinds of activities.
Yeah, arts and crafts.
Well, there was, you know, pool tables.
Paper mache.
There was a dance thing they would do every week, I think, all the time.
It was amazing.
Arts and crafts, not so much.
There was at least something, a place to go.
I remember my mom would drop me off.
She had to go somewhere.
I don't know what she was doing.
You know, she was probably, I don't know, spying somewhere.
She was like, I'll just drop you off at the community center.
And then, you know, we'd like do crayons.
I was young.
Arts and crafts, paper mache.
I remember that.
You're still in high school, I think, when that happened.
Thanks.
The crayons, at least.
You're so funny.
So funny.
So, let's get a couple things out of the way.
First of all, there's the ludicrous, the ludicrous, beyond ludicrous, distraction of the week.
Please don't tell me this is about the stupid football referee thing.
Yes, of course.
It's the most stupid thing ever.
I don't even know.
This is so beyond me that I don't even know what the hell is going on.
I'm like...
When someone...
People were emailing me saying, this has got to be the distraction of the week.
I'm like, you're so stupid.
Because you're already...
The fact that you're even watching football.
I was thinking, well, this is going to probably blow over.
But now all the politicals got involved.
So play my clip.
First you're going to hear the tweet that Obama made about it, and then Paul Ryan's going to go on about it, and then the kicker is yours truly coming out, not yours truly me, but your best friend making a commentary.
It's like, oh please.
Meanwhile, President Obama weighing in, saying NFL fans on both sides of the aisle hope the ref's lockout is settled soon, and Mr.
Obama is not the only prominent politician who has a problem with the NFL's replacement refs.
Give me a break.
It is time to get the real refs.
And you know what?
It reminds me of President Obama and the economy.
If you can't get it right, it's time to get out.
No, I did not think it was a touchdown.
I thought the pass was intercepted.
And yes, it means that we need to get the strike over and get more experienced people in there.
And we asked you on Facebook.
Okay, so just for the, you know, we have people around the world listening who have not been involved in this stupid distraction.
It's hilarious.
Would you please explain what's going on?
Because it's just, it's such, it's so dumb.
Okay, well, people around the world have their sports or, you know, their sports that they like.
And our sport that we like the most, apparently, in the United States is professional American-style football.
And the bastards who own these teams are making millions and billions of dollars, literally.
They make so much money.
John, you're showing a little too much passion for the whole topic?
Let me get it out of the way.
These owners decided to fire all the referees and bring in a bunch of amateurs from high school.
And they've been botching these games and now it could come to a head.
Right.
Okay.
And so, yeah.
So I had no idea that was going on and I'm very proud of it.
Sorry.
I'm very proud of it.
However, I did catch this news.
And now we want to go to Tennessee where a college student nearly died after consuming large amounts of alcohol through a rather unconventional and disturbing way.
Can you guess what that is?
No, tell me.
An enema.
So now, now, Aaron has my attention.
The University of Tennessee student was taken to the hospital in critical condition with a blood alcohol level over 4.0.
Tonight he's out of the hospital, but the university...
Wow.
I think you're dead at that point.
Yeah, I don't see how you can get through that one.
Alpha fraternity.
Apologies.
But let's get in depth.
Let's find out what this new trend is about, John.
Has been suspended amid an investigation.
Our George Howell is out front tonight following the investigation.
And George, appreciate you're taking the time.
It's a really disturbing story, a disturbing image to imagine this happening.
I love how she brings up the image.
So I'm like, okay, let me think for a second.
Guy's got a tube in his butt.
And someone's jamming some alcohol.
Yes, it is rather disturbing.
Erin, thank you for bringing that up on your news station.
So what exactly went down?
Well, Aaron, these facts disturbing to say the least.
As you mentioned, a blood alcohol level of.40.
That is five times the legal limit.
Investigators are looking in.
So what is it?
.40 or 4.0?
Because now we have conflicting information.
I'm very confused.
To it, trying to get to the bottom of it.
Well, it sounds like it must have been.4.
Well, she said it wrong.
This sounds too high for me.
It's 4% blood alcohol.
You might as well just be...
Yeah, you can light, you can...
Don't light a cigarette.
Yeah, don't light a cigarette.
They believe that Alex Broughton used an alcohol enema to get more alcohol into a system.
Is this what the kids are doing, John?
This is so awesome.
Now, I want to read this statement from police.
They kind of break it down.
There was a law and order about the alcohol douche, or the tampon.
Right, I remember that.
Yeah, sure, I remember the douche.
But...
Anyway, this is good, because I'm going somewhere with this.
As the way they see it happening, upon extensive questioning, it is believed that members of the fraternity were using rubber tubing inserted into their rectums as a conduit for alcohol.
Why is this a story?
This is like...
It's just giving people bad ideas.
Well, this was kind of my question.
Why is this a story?
Abundance of capillaries and blood vessels present...
It's making me sick to listen to it.
It's an instruction video as far as I know.
Is this what these people at CNN think is valuable information?
Well, yeah.
Hell yeah!
Hell yeah!
It greatly heightens the level and speed of the alcohol entering the bloodstream...
Okay, stop it!
Stop it!
They can't take it!
It's instruction!
You have to listen carefully!
...as it bypasses the filtering by the liver.
Now, I do want...
So they actually just explained why it works so well.
...to mention that we've heard from Broughton's father.
He has indicated that that is not the way it happened.
He said that his son...
What?
What?
The liver is not as though you ingest into your stomach when you drink alcohol that it goes into the liver.
First it goes into the bloodstream, then it goes into the liver.
And it's always going to go into the bloodstream, then the liver, so it's going to do the same thing the other way.
It's not bypassing the liver.
Well, this is...
Bypassing the digestive system.
This is CNN with their information.
I'm not a doctor, but I think I'm right on this.
...out of the hospital and back in school, but we also talked, Aaron, to several doctors who gave us a different interpretation of how this happened.
First of all, they say that the alcohol absorption rate would be the same, whether you drink alcohol or by method of this way...
Or have it shot up your butt.
The alcohol absorption is the same.
The difference is you get more alcohol into your system.
And that is the problem here.
So much alcohol.
Again,.405 times the legal limit.
And that's what he had to deal with.
How does that make any sense?
Hold on a second.
He says the absorption rate's the same.
So how do you get...
If the absorption rate's the same, how do you get more into your system?
What he should have said, which is, again, another...
Sketchy description of what they're trying to say.
They don't know what they're talking about, let's say that.
And they should have brought in Sanjay Gupta on this one.
Yeah, Gupta would have said something cool.
Gupta should have done that.
This is the only way that I drink.
So why is this happening?
There has to be a reason for this story.
A movie's coming, a 3D, the enema.
Okay.
Could be a movie.
Maybe The Hangover 4.
Is that coming out?
I think you're right.
We will see a movie where some guy gets a tube shoved up his butt and they force alcohol into him that way.
It's got to be something like that.
Now, along those lines, we received through FedEx from Stuart Green.
Now, you don't remember Stuart, but we stayed at his house on the first Hot Pockets tour in North Carolina in Asheville.
And he sent us two jars of moonshine.
Legally made and labeled.
Yeah, it actually shows up on the market every once in a while.
Well, I'm calling this now.
I'm calling this now.
Well, according to him, moonshine really originated in North Carolina because that's where NASCAR started.
And you'll recall that the NASCAR guys were, of course, really moonshine runners.
And this is made by...
This is a myth.
But go on.
You don't think it's true?
No, I don't think it's true at all.
Where does NASCAR come from, then?
It comes from the racing circus.
We always like to race, and we've always been racing sports cars, and then somebody decided to race stock cars.
It wasn't because they were a bunch of moonshiners looking for something else to do with their time since they couldn't run booze anymore.
That makes zero sense.
Are you very sure about that?
Because I've heard this many times.
Well, sure, it's a good story.
I'm just not buying it.
I mean, I can look into the NASCAR websites and look at the NASCAR lore and how it got started, because it did get started, I think, in the late 40s or 50s.
Wait a minute, wasn't it the Dukes of Hazzard, didn't they start, like they were running away with the General Lee?
Yeah, the Dukes of Hazzard started NASCAR. Yeah.
Anyway, so he sent us these two jars, and I just wanted to read you an instruction.
One is made in the Asheville area, the old way.
This jar is clear and has nothing to F around with.
Don't drink it too fast or there will be trouble.
The second jar has blueberries in it.
It should be really good.
And I have to say, it is really, really good.
Now, he says, my buddy does all the design work for Junior Johnson, and this is the NASCAR-related moonshine that he told me about last year.
Junior Johnson.
So they're making the moonshine, and according to lore, Junior Johnson is one of the guys who started out with NASCAR because he was running the...
Yeah, see, the chat room's even saying it.
Look up Junior Johnson.
I think that's the key.
Let me see.
Junior.
Junior Johnson, seen here in 1985, was a popular NASCAR driver from the 1950s who began as a bootlegging driver from Wilkes County, North Carolina.
It's right there on the wiki page.
Okay, so he was a bootlegging driver.
So what?
Yeah, so it started with bootleggers.
No, it's bullcrap.
Okay.
Alright, I'm sure we'll get a lot of email of people telling us exactly what it is.
Okay, what are we going to do, all us bootleggers?
I've got an idea.
Let's get a big old track and instead of running the boos, we'll just run around in a circle and that'll get it out of our system because you know the way it is.
We've got to drive hard and we've got to drive all the time.
What do you think?
Is that going to do it?
Yeah, man, I think it's going to be great.
What are we going to call it?
We're going to call it NASCAR! Yeah.
We'll call it after that rapper Nas.
Nas Ka.
Very good.
Well, there you go, ladies and gentlemen.
Another bit of history as foretold by John C. Dvorak, your historian on duty.
Anyway, it's really good.
And I'm predicting that we are going to see legal moonshine will be the new tequila.
That could be.
And I think...
If it's done right, it's fine.
It just has to be pretty...
It has to be filtered.
Essentially, it's vodka.
Yeah, but the whole...
Yes, that's what I'm talking about.
The better vodkas are filtered through activated charcoal five to seven times.
By the way, the best vodka, I think, for the price, and it's charcoal filtered seven times, is rain.
And rain vodka is manufactured in the South by this company that really specializes in...
In bourbons and rice.
I think we're going to see hip-hop guys like Diddy's going to...
Listen to me.
Of course, we have the Curry Dvorak Consulting Group.
This is a marketing bonanza, people.
Listen to me.
You've got the jars.
We had drinks last night.
We hooked up with my daughter and Juan, who I hadn't seen in months.
Oh, you're in L.A. Yeah.
And we went to...
Yeah, exactly.
Went to the Mondrian Hotel and we ordered mojitos.
And they literally brought the mojitos out.
Oh, cliche!
Fantastic!
In jars.
In jars.
Yeah.
So, I'm telling you that this is going to be the new...
You're going to see it.
People are going to have their own...
I'm putting it in the Red Book.
Please do, and I wish we knew who was going to do this, because this would be great to invest our $5 in.
Moonshine.
Moonshine.
Next big thing.
Next big thing.
Now you watch...
You watch.
And it'll be supplied with a rubber hose.
Now that would be funny.
Here's your jar and your hose.
Okay, so let's go back to some interesting stuff.
By the way, have you seen these riots that are going on in Greece?
But the Spanish ones, holy crap.
And they're shooting the slaves with rubber bullets and beating them.
Yeah.
They're beating the crap out of them.
So here's a little piece of tidbit I picked up off of Democracy Now that I didn't know about, and I can see why people are rioting.
Play the banks in Spain a clip.
Okie dokie.
Maria Carillon, you've spoken also about some of the effects on people already with the austerity measures in place, quite apart from what might happen tomorrow.
Can you talk in particular about housing and food?
Housing is a big issue because a lot of Spaniards ended up buying houses or homes back during the main housing boom.
And what has happened since then is that, first of all, they bought these houses at very inflated prices, as happened in many other places.
But here we have over 25% of unemployment.
So as people began to lose their jobs and as housing payments went up, the mortgages went up, more and more people lost their homes.
There's been a repossession of many, many, many homes.
And in Spain, there's something very unique to our system, which is that even once the bank repossesses your home, and even when you're evicted from your home and you lose your home, you still are liable for the entire debt.
Which means that not only are people on the streets or having to find alternative housing and pay for it, but they also owe hundreds of thousands to the banks.
This is aggravated also by the fact that most of these banks are being bailed out right now to the tune of 100 million euros, which is about 130 million, I'm sorry, 130 billion euros, which is $130 billion, because of their irresponsible lending practices.
So on the one hand...
Okay, John?
Actually, by the way, $130 billion is more like 160.
I mean, euros is more like $160 billion.
I'm going to give it to you today.
It wasn't hilariously funny, but that was extremely informative.
I didn't know that either.
It's like you go to the Ford company and they sell you a small car Focus.
A battery car.
$15,000 on the car.
And then they say, we're taking it back.
You owe us $15,000.
What?
What?
You take the house back, that's the collateral that you took the loan out for.
And, and...
It's not like now you still owe the money.
No, no, no.
Wow.
I'd be in the streets too throwing stuff.
And they shoot at you.
Yeah, and they're shooting at you.
Meanwhile, the bank's got a huge bailout.
Yeah, and of course the banks actually control everything.
And they're like, hey, banker A says to banker B, go out and shoot some rubber bullets at those dumb slaves.
Wow.
This is awesome.
Well, I have a little related clip which explains, well, listen to this, from the BBC. I thought this was pretty good.
Michelle, who are these people?
Oh, this is not the BBC. I'm sorry.
It's Kudlow.
And he asks, who are these people that are getting shot at?
People in the streets.
Are they government union people?
Who are these protesters?
That's a very good question.
Not really.
Most protests that you see in Europe are often, most of the time, orchestrated by the unions.
This was far more about younger people being out there.
So this was not organized by the unions, even though the unions have been extremely active with protests in Madrid as well.
But remember, they've got youth unemployment there.
I like this because we know that a lot of the unions, particularly, you know, we have the big supermarket protests and people are raiding supermarkets and those are all organized by unions.
But this is real.
This is real, as you pointed out, real anger, real frustration, and that is really dangerous when this happens.
And when you see the actual footage, which they don't show on any of these shows.
No, because of course not.
I mean, that would give us an idea.
Yeah, so the mainstream media in the United States will not show these riots.
I mean, you get it on Demogra, but when you see these good footage, you see it's a huge range of people, from students to old men.
And, you know, everything short of people being in wheelchairs.
I mean, it is everybody.
And they are irked.
And in Greece, it's gotten to the point now where there's just firebombs everywhere.
They're throwing Molotov cocktails at the police.
It's really completely crazy.
And this is...
I don't know.
I don't know how long they can suppress this.
Eventually they're going to have to come up and say, hey, this is not orchestrated by the unions.
This is a spontaneous craziness.
Spontaneous combustion.
But maybe they'll just say, no, it's all because of Project X. It's because of that bad video that's on DVD. We can blame anything now on a video.
Yeah, I like the idea.
A little compilation here of Susan Rice.
I just want to remind everybody that now that the President and the Secretary of State and the entire administration has effectively omitted That the attack and killing of Ambassador Stevens was a planned terrorist attack.
I would just like to remind you of what Susan Rice, our ambassador and henchwoman of Lucifer Clip-de-Clop Clinton, was doing last Sunday on every single news show in these United States of Gitmo.
This is a response to a hateful and offensive video that was widely disseminated throughout the Arab and Muslim world.
We do not have information at present that leads us to conclude that this was premeditated or preplanned.
We don't see at this point signs that this was a coordinated planned premeditated attack.
In fact, what this began as was a spontaneous, not a premeditated response to what had transpired in Cairo.
So, when does someone who lies like this, don't they have to resign at a certain point if you're just caught lying?
Don't you have to go away?
Did she get a promotion?
Is that what really happened?
She'll probably be the next Secretary of State.
I mean, this is unbelievable.
And where is the outrage over these lies?
And all of these douchebags, every single one, it was, you know, Stephanopoulos, she was on Candy Crowley at CNN, she was on the Fox thing with whatever, you know, Mike Wallace.
No one is saying, hey, you're a lying scumbag, Susan Rice.
No one is doing this.
No one said it to her face.
There's no outrage, no articles, no nothing.
Of course, she's not out there partying down.
We're not seeing much of her, but it really, really annoys me.
Yeah, I can tell.
And then here's another thing.
It was obviously staged from the get-go.
We called it.
We called it early, like right away, same day almost.
And it was obviously an attempt to grab those weapons, and they had to go back with a phony baloney protest, supposedly, protesting the poor guy's death.
And the weapon was, I guess, grabbed.
Yeah.
Here's another meme that she's propagating.
By the way, I should mention that Glenn Beck, on his show, deconstructed it pretty much later than we did, but he did pretty much the same thing.
Oh, really?
And he had a whole bunch of...
He showed the car.
He says, this is not the car you drive.
Beck admitted that he drives a bulletproof car.
Oh, I did see this.
Yeah, that he has a security detail who goes out and is there ahead of him.
He has an armored car.
Obviously, and he says the guys were SEALs, which are not.
And by the way, the SEALs, and we mentioned this back in the Bin Laden time frame during that era of the show, which is, I guess, two years ago.
The SEALs are mostly for, this particular group of SEALs are extraction experts.
Oh, really?
Well, yeah, this is one that was sent to Bin Laden's place, too, which was fishy about it.
And so they had to get these guns.
And I guess there were some shoulder-fired missiles or whatever.
Who knows?
We don't know.
We had to extract stuff.
So there's another little meme that Susan Rice was propagating, and I picked this one up on the...
And it's been used over and over again, and I'd just like to talk about it for a second.
She uses this on the Candy Crowley show.
Condemn the violent response to this video.
And frankly, we've seen these sorts of incidents in the past.
We've seen violent responses to satanic verses.
We've seen violent responses to the cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad in an evil way.
Okay, so there's two things she says here.
She says, depicting the Prophet Muhammad in an evil way.
This is very loaded to me.
So let's start with the evil way.
What does that mean, evil way?
Thank you, darling.
He was depicted in a way that was evil?
Or the depictions were evil?
That's a good question, yeah.
It's not a great question.
No, it's not a great question.
But I think what she means is that the depictions were evil.
And I find that disturbing because she's editorializing and making a government decision on what is evil or not.
And evil is a strong word.
Just ask the Google guys.
But when...
Do we have to always call this guy the Prophet Muhammad?
Isn't it just Muhammad?
Does Jesus have a title?
Or God?
Or is he the only religious icon that gets this kind of moniker?
I don't know.
You have to look at the NBC pronunciation gazetteer.
The what?
You know, the networks.
I think it's NBC that has the best one.
I may have a copy somewhere.
It's used in broadcasting and network broadcasting as the final arbiter of how you say things.
Ah.
You've never seen the pronunciation, he has a tear or whatever it is?
Well, I'll tell you, no, but I did have this.
We had once, we had an issue on MTV, and this was, God, this must have been...
Hmm, I'm not sure which album it was, but he was going to be on the Video Music Awards and they had made a deal that we would do a whole Michael Jackson weekend.
And the way we did it is we taped these, the weekends we would tape on Thursday and that would be for Saturday and Sunday because nothing was really live on MTV. And so, you know, we do what was called a 48 and so throughout the whole Thursday we're taping everything, all the VJs, all the news segments, everything is for the weekend so we didn't have to actually work on the weekend.
And then we got this frantic call Thursday night.
Everybody has to come back.
We're doing three days.
We're not only just doing Monday on Friday, but we're doing the weekend all over again, all the news reports, everything, because as a part of the deal, and I don't know if it was Michael or if it was the record company, but the record company had a written agreement with MTV that every single time we said Michael Jackson, we had to suffix that with the king of pop.
So we literally had to go back and re-tape 48 hours of programming to say, Michael Jackson, comma, the king of pop.
And I think that this is what, you know, somewhere there's some kind of deal with the Prophet Muhammad.
The Prophet Muhammad.
The King of Pop.
The King of Pop.
Why don't you just leave this stuff and then go, and Michael Jackson.
The King of Pop.
We'll be out here in a few minutes.
Do you talk to Michael Jackson?
The King of Pop.
Believe me, it was cheaper just to bring all the stupid air talent back.
It was a lot cheaper, trust me, than doing all that post-production.
But I think there's some kind of deal.
It's like somehow there's some deal where you have to say, the Prophet Muhammad.
Does everyone...
Do Muslims just say Muhammad or do they always say the Prophet Muhammad?
I'm curious.
Because for Susan Rice to say...
The Prophet Muhammad in front of Muslims, generally speaking.
Do we say Jesus the Savior all the time?
No.
No?
No.
He's got a better PR agency working for him.
All right.
Just things I wonder about.
Probably, you know, care or one of those operations.
Oh, in the chat room, you have to say Prophet because there are so many Muslims named Muhammad.
There might be confusion.
That's true.
It's like every other Muslim is named Muhammad.
That's a good point.
Muhammad and the 20 guys go, what?
No, man.
No, I meant the prophet.
Oh, okay.
All right.
So I got a...
I'm going to get killed now for making fun of this, I'm sure.
I'm going to be...
I'm depicting the prophet...
You're not making fun of it.
You're discussing it.
Yeah.
So let's go with...
Did you...
Remember the clip last show where the guy in Pakistan says, we want the maker of that film extradited to Pakistan so we can deal with him?
Because the United States keeps pulling this.
They always say somebody commits a crime against the United States.
We're talking about Julian Assange, of course.
He's not a citizen.
He doesn't come here.
He's not subject to the laws of the United States because he's not in the United States and he's an Australian and he's actually in England.
But yet, you know, we're going to arrest him.
So, as though he was an American.
Well, here's a little piece of news that slipped by the...
This was played during the BBC rundown of stories.
This little...
About the Queen?
Yeah!
The BBC has apologized to Queen Elizabeth for revealing that she'd once raised concerns with the government about the radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza.
After losing his final appeal, Abu Hamza is due to be extradited to the US on terrorism charges.
So, okay, so we have two things in this one story.
One is the queen apparently was outed by the BBC for raising concerns about this creep, who is a cleric in, I think, in that part of London, it's all Pakistanis.
And he's the one who says, well, all the planes from the sky should be brought down, we should do this and that.
He's advocating a lot of violence, which wasn't apparently against the law in England, but it's against our law in some way.
So we're having the guy extradited and tried here for terrorism.
He's not an American.
Yeah, how does that work?
We have to do that.
I think it's, you know, the guy's a douchebag and there's no problem, you know, with somebody dealing with him.
You're misunderstanding, John.
There's an international law that is run by elites and bankers that we have nothing to do with.
It's their law.
They do whatever they want and we as stupid media enslaved idiots go, oh, okay.
Meanwhile, the Queen, apparently, because this has got to be controversial, just grabbing somebody, some British UK citizen, and dragging them to the United States and trying them for terrorism when they've never even set foot in this country, and they're not subject to American laws that I know of.
The fact that the Queen apparently had brought this to the attention of the government and makes it look like she was complicit in getting this guy the heave hole out of her country, which is just...
This is, again, we don't need these guys in our country to begin with.
But anyway, okay, he's going to come over here.
So I guess the BBC busted her on this and they had to apologize to her for bringing this up because the Queen, you can't...
The Queen's business is the Queen's business.
It's not the business of the BBC to be discussing anything the Queen does.
Yeah, of course not.
So anyway, this is a very funny, interesting story.
Again, I didn't hear this anyplace else.
No, no, no.
Well, I mean, you can say that all the time about every single story we talk about if you want.
I know, that's what I like doing.
Have you noticed that I like doing that?
So you are a big fan of the David Letterman Show.
I know that you watch it, but I have a feeling you didn't catch it last night.
Not that I did, of course.
I put it on the DVR. I haven't watched it yet because I knew I had enough clips.
I didn't want to deconstruct David Cameron.
For God's sake, what's he doing on the show?
Well, I do have to deconstruct him.
So I did not see it, of course, but I did catch a report on the BBC, and I found this to be very interesting.
Yeah.
New York last night, he found himself being closely interrogated about British history and culture, and he revealed one or two gaps in his general knowledge.
Now, one or two gaps in his general knowledge.
What do you think would be considered a gap?
Just, you know, if you're the Prime Minister of...
Knowing that Scotland's going to split off, I think that would be a gap.
Okay.
Knowing that there were, you know, what parties are, knowing the Queen's name, I don't know.
I think it was about as bad as not knowing the Queen's name.
Here it is.
Do you mind if I ask you a lot of dumb American questions?
Far away.
The Prime Minister was able to explain the differences between the nations of the UK, the size of the population, the extent of the British Empire, and the date and place where Magna Carta was signed.
But much to his embarrassment, Mr.
Cameron was unable to say what Magna Carta meant in English.
And the literal translation was what?
You have Magna...
Again, you're testing me.
Boy, it'd be good if you knew this.
How?
That to me, it's like, he doesn't know what the Magna Carta means?
I mean, that's like, I don't know what the Constitution means.
No, he meant...
I think he meant direct translation.
Well, yeah, but it's the Carta.
It's the charter.
It's the big charter.
If you know what the Magna...
Magna is big, big, big.
Yeah, but I mean, it doesn't...
I mean, am I just nuts that the Prime Minister doesn't know that Carta stands for charter and what this is about?
The Magna Carta is one of the first documents where the people...
Well, not really the people, kind of the elites, but a level lower than the Queen said, hey...
Or the king.
You can't just be like chopping our heads off.
We got to have some agreements here.
It's like kind of one of the founding documents.
This guy doesn't know that?
It's a great charter.
So it's...
What's interesting about that...
Yeah, no, I guess not.
I don't know why.
That's ludicrous to me.
Ludicrous.
No, no, I'm sorry.
The reaction from the David Letterman fans in the audience is ludicrous.
I think it's really good for the American public to be able to see him.
I don't think they know that much about him.
I didn't really have a view of him before this, but I sort of liked him.
I thought he was a good guy.
Yeah, he was a good guy.
These people should be killed.
Just taser this guy.
Not Cameron.
Here's David Cameron.
Of course, the reason he was on Letterman is because he was at the UN with all the world leaders.
And of course, Obama didn't meet with any of them.
He had more important things to do, and I have a clip of that.
But here's Cameron talking at the UN, and this is a jaw-dropper, because it makes no sense what he's saying.
But if anyone was in any doubt about the horrors that Assad has afflicted on his people, just look at the evidence published this week by Save the Children.
Schools used as torture centers.
Children used for target practice.
A 16-year-old Syrian, Goudwa El, who was detained in a police station in Deraa, said this, I have seen children slaughtered.
Okay, I'm glad you brought this up because I went looking for the report.
And there is no actual report, as you'd be surprised to find out, John.
Shocking!
I know, it's shocking.
So, nothing better than a meme.
Of course, the meme is Save the Children.
Everyone always wants to save the children.
So there's an actual organization known as Save the Children.
SaveTheChildren.org.
And if you go to their website, look at their press releases, there is no report available.
They have a press release which says Save the Children calls for more protection for Syrian children.
But I have not been able to...
And a Donate Now button, of course.
I have not been able to find the actual report of the 18 children they interviewed.
18, mind you.
18.
However, the BBC... Did a very good job of unveiling the truth about this report, which apparently they do have a copy of.
More now on these stories that are emerging from Syria and this new Save the Children report.
Again, not available.
If you find it, please send it to me.
Mike Wardridge is our World Affairs correspondent and he's been through the report.
He joins us now.
Mike, what else stands out among these harrowing descriptions of what children have gone through in Syria?
What Save the Children have come up with here is 18 first-hand accounts from refugee children that they have spoken to, that their workers have spoken to.
The accounts in their view amount to Shocking testimony, as they put it, and collectively suggest to them that children have been the targets themselves of...
Listen very closely to what he's saying.
He's already hemming and hawing now.
Collectively, okay...
...brutal attacks that they've seen in a good number of cases, the deaths of parents and siblings of other children, and have witnessed, and in some cases they say, experienced torture.
They don't necessarily suggest who is responsible.
Aha, very important.
They don't say that it was Assad who was trying to cut their arms off.
For these alleged atrocities.
Alleged atrocities.
In the accounts that they have given, nor indeed in many cases is there any time or place to make it clear exactly what happened.
So they don't actually know where it happened or what time it happened or if it even happened at all.
But they certainly believe that this, in their view, corroborates the sort of thing that we've heard before from UN. What?
Well, anyway, is there more to that clip?
Yeah, a couple more seconds.
It's good because he's actually saying this is just bullcrap.
...and other human rights groups as well.
And so in their view, this now even more justifies the UN taking more tougher action on Syria and indeed that there should be a process now of greater documentation of the kind that they believe that they are contributing to.
Okay, here's my look at this thing.
First of all, the assertions by Cameron were that schools were being used as torture centers.
Yeah, which is not being said.
And they were using kids as target practice.
And of course, these other kids somehow got out alive, so that doesn't make any sense.
But let's assume that this was possible.
This is not an indictment.
Let's just say this is all true.
Which I don't believe a word of it, by the way.
No.
But let's believe, because it's too ludicrous.
But let's believe it's all true.
This is not an indictment of the Assad regime, if this is true.
This is an indictment of the Syrian civilization, the people themselves.
Because you can't do these things in a vacuum.
If you're taking all the kids, you know, who have obviously parents, probably shot them, and then you take the kids and you torture them, and then make them run in the field while you take pod shots at them.
Shoot at them like crazy.
This is not a country that's civilized, which begs the question.
This is so bogus, it's ludicrous.
And the fact people lap this up as though it's possible reminds me of the crazy propaganda just before World War I that was unleashed on the American public, which, by the way, resulted in people like Goebbels and others developing propagandistic styles similar to ours.
But ours was showing gorillas coming over from Germany carrying women because all these all the Germans were great apes that were just rapists.
I mean, come on.
This is terrible reporting that this would be on, and Cameron should be ashamed of himself.
That was probably the most beautiful speech I've heard you give in a long time.
No, please help us remember, for those of us who were not alive, again, how the Germans were depicted before World War I, and I presume this really started a lot of the war.
I mean, is this a prelude when this happens, when this type of reporting...
And again, the chat room is now desperately trying to find this report.
There is no report.
You're sending me the same webpage which says, recent press releases and statements, Save the Children calls for more protection for Syrian children.
There is nothing in here about children being used for target practice.
Although I do like the image.
I think that's a pretty funny image that Cameron brought up for us.
Thank you very much.
But this must be then a prelude to a world war.
Well, it's a prelude to something.
But this goes on constantly, this malarkey that they feed the public and people just lap it up.
It's really disgusting.
And it's at the General Assembly of the United Nations, John!
Yeah, it was at the General Assembly!
This is not just...
I'm sure these guys are...
Yeah.
It wasn't something he said on the corner.
No!
Not just like, you know, I just kind of, oops, slipped that one out.
No.
He was using this.
It's a short clip.
Play it again.
I think that's a great idea.
Hold on a second.
But if anyone was in any doubt about the horrors that Assad has afflicted on his people, just look at the evidence published this week by Save the Children.
And please, please, I'm calling all producers.
Find evidence, okay.
Find the report for me.
I just want the report.
Why isn't it on their website?
Schools used as torture centers.
Children used for target practice.
A 16-year-old Syrian, Goudoir El, who was detained in a police station in Deraa, said this, I have seen children slaughtered.
There must have been more to that.
I think you sold a short.
I think there's more to that clip.
That was the core of the clip.
But this also reminds me of Iraqi National Guard throwing babies out of incubators.
Right.
And then taking a lot of Viagra so they could be more raping.
Hey, what you doing, Abdul?
I gotta go rape a bit.
Give me some of that Viagra.
This is what we do.
Yeah, no, this is...
But I'm disturbed by what you just said.
But this is...
What did we have for the Second World War?
What were the images that were...
Well, that was, of course, we had Pearl Harbor.
That's how we got involved there, right?
Yeah.
Well, Pearl Harbor definitely showing just a bunch of...
Well, when they depicted...
The Japanese were actually depicted in a very negative way to demonize them.
The Germans, they went a little bit back to the World War I thing, but not quite to that extent because it was actually a real...
I don't think it took much for us to get into that.
I don't know.
I don't remember how...
We did a lot of movies.
I think it was a lot more subtle.
We had moved up...
The food chain, insofar as propaganda is concerned, except for the Japanese thing, which was pretty ridiculous, but generally speaking, we had gone to a more subtle form of propaganda, which has evolved even further to what we have today with the news media, because it's actually moved into the whole mainstream media, the manipulation of the public.
It was done by Hollywood, mostly, in World War II. They made these movies that catered to, you know, it was usually unfair.
The Germans were torturers.
So nothing has changed.
Nothing has changed.
It's improved.
Well, it's gotten better.
It's changed a lot.
It's gotten really good.
Except for our show, I mean, everybody's all in.
It's still the same idea, though.
You make movies, you make TV shows.
Have you been watching the new show?
Have you seen the show where you've got Revolution?
And it's all bad acting, by the way.
Revolution's terrible.
And by the way, it's stolen from another story.
It's going to be a scandal.
What?
Isn't it just Hunger Games?
Isn't it just Hunger Games all over again?
No, there was an actual story that was produced about a year earlier that was submitted to some Hollywood producers that was the exact same story.
The power goes out and these guys are floating around and there's a bunch of evil guys, you know, stabbing people.
The physics of the revolution is so stupid.
I can't even get through a whole episode.
I tried watching the first...
Somebody wrote in giving us a...
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'm sitting there gritting my teeth for like a half an hour, and then about the...
Just shortly after my remark, I said, I can't take this.
This is off.
It's off the DVR. I'm not going to watch it.
It is one of the worst shows ever on television.
I can't believe...
And the ratings, by the way, even though they've got decent ratings, they ratcheted.
It's like the first 15 minutes, they had a big group, then it dropped off, dropped off, dropped off.
You know, this show has got no legs.
It's horrible.
And dumb.
Wow.
Wow.
Anyway, so this whole elitist thing, the UN General Assembly, of course, the only thing the American news media seem to be able to talk about, but also I think around the world in general, is that President Obama did not meet with any world leaders.
He didn't meet with Bibi Netanyahu.
I think he stopped off and had a quick chat with the guy from Yemen.
Yeah, I think they got dismissed.
I think the interpretation of this is completely wrong.
In fact, they had on Letterman, or no, Jon Stewart had the King of Jordan on his show.
Oh.
And he brought it up.
He says, hey, what's the deal with Obama not meeting anybody?
He says, it's not a big deal.
He says, it's overblown.
Nobody gives a crap.
And I think Obama much rather liked to jump in his 747 and fly to places.
No, he went on The View.
He hung out with Whoopi and the girl.
Yeah, and then he went on The View.
Yeah.
By the way, have a clip.
Yeah, it goes on The View, which is...
Wait, wait, wait.
Before you do that, Bunky Moon was doing some stand-up.
Did you see Bunky Moon's stand-up?
Bunky Moon is the Secretary General of the...
Because after the General Assembly...
They have a cocktail party after the General Assembly.
Was he at Yuck Yucks?
Or was he at one of the great comedy clubs?
No, he was at the cocktail party for the General Assembly.
And he was talking about the President not being there.
I think he must be busy with something at this moment.
Or perhaps he must be stuck somewhere in traffic.
I'll be here all week.
My name's Ban Ki-moon, everybody.
Thanks for coming.
Can you believe that those people were laughing?
Tip your waitresses.
Yeah.
So anyway, so I have a clip from the part of that View show, and it's like, why don't they just...
This is ABC. It was a View on what network?
Anyway, Barbara Walters is an old ABC hack.
ABC. And so she's got, you know, they're big promoters of ABC and generalist promoters of the Obama administration.
So today she asked this loaded question that was just an obvious softball for him to tee up and slam to get a round of applause by.
And I just thought the question was unfair and ridiculous.
Obama on the view, questioned on the couch by Barbara Walters.
Would it be disastrous for the country?
It went wrong.
We're elected.
Well, you know, I think America is so strong and we've got so much going for us that, you know, we can survive a lot.
But the American people don't want to just survive.
We want everybody to thrive.
We want folks to have a job and have success.
We don't want to survive.
We want to get by.
There's a big difference there.
It was unbelievable to me that they would do that.
And then he just, yeah, well, you know, I think we could, yeah, we could probably survive if he's elected, you know, we're resilient people.
And if this douchebag wins, we can probably get through it.
I'm not sure.
Did you hear Madonna shilling for President Obama?
Ugh!
She said something really interesting.
I have the clip here.
Not safe for work.
Let me put it right up front to you.
She's saying all kinds of dirty words.
Nothing you haven't heard before.
But listen carefully to what she says about the President in this clip.
I want to believe in what they want to do.
Am I with you?
And are you with me?
That would be a fuck yeah!
Fuck yeah!
So...
Y'all better call him fucking Obama, okay?
For better or for worse.
Alright?
We have a black Muslim in the White House.
She says, we have a black Muslim in the White House.
I couldn't understand what she said.
Yeah, she says, we have a black Muslim in the White House.
I'm like, she's a little confused.
Listen again.
Oh!
We have a bad movie in the White House.
Everyone cheers.
This will make the clip of the end of show clip even more poignant when you hear it.
Because it's like, what?
Okay.
And people are just like, yeah, baby!
Woo!
Woo!
Oh, my God.
We were doomed.
But how does she come up with that?
She's an idiot.
Well, maybe she...
Okay, I'll take that.
I'm going to show myself a little by donating to No Agenda.
Imagine all the people who could do that.
Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
Yeah, on No Agenda.
Black moves from in the White House!
Actually, I have a clip I want to play before we start thanking our people.
We do have a lot of people who came in with some very unique donations, including, I think, the record for 6969.
But I want to play, you know, Glenn Beck is back on the air and on his own network that he bought and paid for.
And this is the, you know, he'll get into something interesting.
And this is the difference between what he does in general and what we do.
And that's why we have this donation segment.
We can play this clip and you'll see what I'm talking about.
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Don't downplay the important mission in Burundi.
No, of course not.
I mean, everybody knows that one.
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We would not have been able to have that conversation.
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I don't have a note from him, so he's...
Oh, hold on a second, I think.
You have a note from Andrew?
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He came in with $175.
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I know how to pronounce this.
Coquitlam.
Isn't it Coquitlam?
Something like that.
It's in British.
It's in BC. It's somewhere near Spasm.
139.38.
This is a fine number.
John happens to be a single 6969 donation for today and one to be held in emergency reserve for the day.
Nobody donates 6969.
No, no, no, no.
That's not fair.
You can't do that.
You can't be stacking stuff up.
It has to be on the day.
You can't put a one.
You can't do that.
The run must never end.
I don't know why it's even continuing, but it's amazing.
I think it's been a year.
And we don't even put it on the donation page.
No, but we do have swazzelnuff.com, interestingly enough.
Swazzelnuff.
If Adam is now whining about my scheme, which he just did, ask him to douchebag himself from me.
Douchebag!
I'll take that.
Honestly, thanks guys for opening my eyes and ears and keeping them open on an ongoing basis.
It's like going to the dentist.
Painful but necessary.
Truly, that's a terrible description.
We're never going to get any listeners that way.
It's the best podcast in the universe.
I'd like a two to the head de-douching in anything with a Canadian spin if you have anything at all.
I don't have that.
Does he want karma as well?
Just a two to the head de-douching.
I'll give him a karma.
Why not?
Yeah.
Hey.
You've been de-douched.
You've got karma.
Remember, we are on the mobile rig here, so sometimes things go wrong.
I'm trying.
It was Coquitlam, when they were John Cienor.
Rebecca Martin, Vancouver, BC. Another Vancouver, another BC-ite.
Alright.
13333, belated birthday contribution from my husband John, who has listened to every episode of the podcast.
Also, the seventh anniversary of when he moved from the States to be with me in Vancouver.
Beautiful place, I might add.
He could use some karma and a de-douche, and we both love some karma.
Oh, absolutely.
You've been de-douched.
You've got...
No.
You just might want to get a full acre crisis garden, so you really need to get some heirloom seeds.
John, have you planted your heirloom seeds yet?
No.
They're in the freezer.
Just go to heirloomseeds.com and mention our code, which is in the freezer.
In the freezer, yes.
The code is in the freezer.
By the way, that's what we'd be doing all the time if it wasn't for the...
Oh, I'm sorry, John.
I couldn't hear you.
I was having some of my Berkey water filter water.
Mmm!
Sir Jason Stevens, Las Vegas, Nevada.
1-11-11.
Kerry Washimoto in Toronto, Ontario.
$100.
He needs a niner, niner, niner from you.
Niner, niner, niner, niner!
Because it should have been a niner, niner, niner donation.
Chris Whitten in Huntersville, North Carolina, he needs some too delicious karma, if you still have the too delicious thing.
It's almost too delicious to believe, my friend.
You've got karma.
Hey, am I good or what?
You're right there.
Patrick McKenna in Carnation, Washington, $100.
Fast-forwarding through last week's lengthy solicitation segment when I heard Adam claiming he was going to buy a Volt.
Here's $100 intervention bucks.
Come on, baby.
Pony up.
Adam can't fit in a Volt.
And he wants Carmen one and a half milf babies for his wife.
I gotta tell you, I have gotten so many responses.
People are like, they literally want to come to Texas to tie me down so I will not go out and buy a vault.
They're like, dude, you have no idea.
They'll be I had about a half dozen notes from people saying the same thing and telling me to tell you not to buy a oil.
Yeah!
It's like, there'll be no replacement parts, and it's a bad idea, and get a Volkswagen TDI and run it on vegetable oil, which I am a big believer in.
And I have to say, I think I'm persuaded.
I mean, what was I thinking?
This is crazy.
I've got to find myself a diesel.
And some lye.
So I can...
I gotta go back to the biodiesel.
I think people are right.
So this intervention has worked.
Biodiesel?
Jeez.
Biodiesel is great, man.
Oh, it stinks up the neighborhood.
Yeah, but at least I'll be able to...
Guy goes by and you go, what?
French fries?
Yeah, but at least I'll be able to drive when the Armageddon hits.
Yeah, okay.
Alright, let me...
He wanted a...
Karma One Hot Milf Baby.
Oh...
One hot.
I said one half.
Well, we can give you one half if you want.
That's one hot, though, baby.
There you go.
All right.
You've got karma.
For his bride, Shelly.
Good old Dave in Sunderland, Massachusetts nuts.
6970.
No, not good.
No.
That's not how it works.
I want to be read first with the 69 donation.
So here's the 69, 70.
That's kind of chicken.
Yeah, that is.
That's not really cool.
Because I wouldn't want to be the streak to end.
Well, it doesn't continue with 69, 70.
I've been a long time.
Five dollar subscriber will continue to be.
I've got a job in the United Arab Emirates and I'll be moving there soon.
This will be good.
I hope they don't censor you guys there because you can always download it and play.
I love the podcast and the best podcast in the universe.
Special note for Adam.
I kid you not, during my site visit at the UAA, as we walked by a medical clinic, they said the only shots we give there are Gardasil vaccinations.
Wow.
Wow.
Oh, yeah.
I was walking behind everyone so they couldn't see my face.
Oh, my goodness.
He wants a shot of...
You've got karma.
And John, just let me mention something.
If I got the Chevy Volt, you know what's really great?
Is you can always sell that on gazelle.com.
Because, you know, they will send you the box.
You can box it right up and ship it out.
We get the idea.
Come on, that's cool, man.
69!
69, dude!
Karsten Schwartz Nielsen in, I guess, I don't know where this is.
At 6969, I'm still enjoying my right to be a dirty old man.
It pains me to see that this swazzle enough contribution might be failing.
Last week I had one.
We had one.
Yeah, we got close, right.
And just to put it straight, I listen to all the episodes and I'm not behind.
Please give me some job motivation karma.
Yeah, I'd love to.
You've got karma.
Kyle Hanks in New South Wales, 6969.
Keep up the good work, guys.
Sir Carrie Chim in Hamilton, Ohio, 6969.
Got my knighthood last week, and yes, John C. DeVorek is right, I am a guy.
Last name is pronounced how it is spelled, just subtract an H. Keep up the podcast, and I don't know how I would deal with work if you guys ended it.
Jason Stevens, sir.
Jason Stevens in Las Vegas, Las Wages, Nevada, 6969.
Can't let this podcast slip away in the dark.
You guys rock.
David Galloway in Flower Mountain, Texas, 6969.
Keep up the great work and hook me up with some huntsman karma.
Hey, hey, hey, I got that for you today.
Hey, hey, hey.
You've got karma.
It's not like I'm not working here.
Sean McDonough in Highland Lake, New Jersey, 6969.
Please add this to Sir Yaz's total.
You can do the bookkeeping for us.
Akim Barczak.
I'm guessing.
In Hanover, Deutschland.
Akim Barczak.
That's what I'm guessing.
6969.
Good morning to you.
Since most of my tax money is bailing out the banks in the European PIGS right now, I thought it was time...
To take the matter into my own hands and bail out the ones who really need it.
The makers of the best podcasts in the universe.
I demand from all the German listeners who follow my example and cash in the value for value model.
And what about the French?
They listen to the show, I'm sure.
No, no, no, they don't.
They don't.
They don't listen.
We've concluded that they don't.
But I never hear from them because they don't listen.
But he calls out the French's douchebags.
Douchebags.
My brother just finished the Appalachian Trail and we'll be back in Germany.
Appalachian Trail, isn't it?
You say Appalachian?
Well, I used to be, but I still am a fan of Appalachian State.
And then I said Appalachian a number of times and the guy says latch, latch, latch, latch.
It's not Appalachian, it's Appalachian.
Which guy?
The king of Appalachia?
No, the people from the school.
Oh, okay.
All right.
Appalachian.
Appalachian.
All right.
And we'll be back in Germany soon to look for some work.
I want to ask for some job karma for him, mixed with some Mr.
Merkel Arbeit, Arbeit, Arbeit.
Good luck finding that clip.
John, if you ever visit the C-Bit trade show and hand it over again, let me know.
There'll be hookers and blow.
You know, if I were at home, I would have...
This is coming up in March.
If I were at home, I would have had the Arbeit, Arbeit, Arbeit.
I'm sorry.
I mean, I'm good, but I'm not that good.
I don't have...
I mean, I can't be carrying around a whole bag of jingles and sound clips with me all day.
Yeah, you can.
Just digital.
Well, give us karma.
Oh, sorry.
Arbeit, Arbeit, Arbeit.
You've got karma.
There you go.
Jonas Astrum...
Sorry, Astrum, to you in somewhere.
Vendelin?
6969.
Hey dudes, treat yourself to some special Swazelnuff in the morning karma.
We don't have a Swazelnuff.
Well, we have the regular...
No, but you got in the morning.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, we got that.
In the morning.
You've got karma.
Okay, as we continue on our record-breaking pace with another $69.69 donation, Tim Ratter, Calgary, Alberta.
Please find and close $42.21 for each of you.
Oh, he sent us, I have the two packs of these things, 300 path tags.
He had to make the propaganda.
You know what a path tag is?
No, I have no idea.
I leave one of these tags in geocaches I visit as trading swag.
I've never heard anyone who found one comment that they've become boners or donors due to this tag yet.
Put a few, but a few have said they would check it out.
I've also included a check in the amount of 6969.
It's my third modest donation.
I hope to get a ring before they turn it into a bell.
Alright, now what is a path tag?
I don't understand.
Well, I had to ask JC about this.
Oh, you mean your stunt brain?
Yeah?
So, my stunt brain.
So, I had, he says that there's this, it was a popular thing sometime back, and I guess it still is around parts of the world, where there's these little, it's like a treasure hunt game, and you go there, and there's a, I guess you do some work with longitude and latitude, and then you use a GPS, and you find these little boxes filled with goodies.
You mean geocaching?
Yeah, you take one out, but you have to put something back.
And so he's taking his little thing out, whatever it is, you know, a cookie.
Oh, okay.
And then he drops one of these coins in there.
Right, I gotcha.
So we have two piles of these coins.
I remember this.
There were a couple of people doing these geotag, geolocation things and putting coins in.
Yeah, yeah.
That's interesting.
Yeah, it is interesting, kind of.
Leslie Cook in Milford, Connecticut, 69, 69.
I think I'm beginning to feel sore from being punched in the mouth repeatedly by my boyfriend, boyfriend Brian, since an episode shortly after the one about the pipelines.
It's way past time to donate.
Once after shouting boner, donor, douchebag, along with the donation segment, he turned to me and said, I'm the donor.
You're the boner.
Ouch.
Please send Brian a kick-ass round of karma as he deserves it.
Wow.
Hardcore.
You've got karma.
Awesome.
James Allen in Cramlington, Northumberland or someplace, I guess.
No note, but 6969.
Northumberland, yeah.
Northumberland.
Sir Pater Snakes.
Sir Pate is in from Amsterdam, 6969.
Sir Pete here, once again saving the Schwarzenegger streak.
Please do, the thing is this is going to ruin the streak.
We'll have nothing on Sunday.
It's going to break.
The Swazilnuff will be broken.
It will be over forever and I can let the domain name expire.
Please douchebag all karma leeching marketeer jerk-offs.
Douchebag!
That would be you, by the way, on today's show with all the things for these companies.
And caramelize all fine, gentle people that actually create value.
Play the yay children group jingle if available.
Oh, yes.
Okay, and with a karma shot?
Okay, we can do that.
Yeah, caramelize.
Oh, here we go.
What?
You've got karma.
I need a third arm for this show.
I'm surprised you could find that one.
That's one I got from a PBS show.
Well you know what it is?
It's all about how you name it.
That's really what it comes down to.
I guess.
Yay!
Carmelize.
I like the new word caramelize.
Jose Abreu in Lisbon.
Lisboa!
6969 Portugal.
To keep the chain alive and prove Adam's mood, so he stopped being so bitter.
Bitter as in chocolate?
Well, let me get...
Sardine, Portugal, that is.
Bitter as in chocolate, John?
You've got karma.
I love me some Hershey's chocolate.
Daryl Zaremba in Hartford, Wisconsin, 6969.
Short-term boner.
First-time donor.
Greetings from Wisconsin.
Well, I love the show.
I have to take this opportunity to ask you to back off of my man Paul Ryan Sack.
Having followed him from day one, I can tell you he's a stand-up family guy and a straight shooter.
The man comes...
And by the way, you'll get nothing but a kick out of the end of the show clip if you think that's true.
The man comes home from Washington every weekend after sleeping on his cot in his office all week.
He must stink.
Just to be up with his family.
Keep up the media assassination.
Got to get a shut-up slave, two-to-the-head, hey, citizen.
Ringtone.
Oh, for a ringtone.
Okay, so it's two-to-the-head, shut-up slave, hey, citizen.
Okay, here we go.
Oh!
Hey, citizen.
Thought that kind of rocked?
That was good.
Timothy Sion, S-Y-O-E-N, in Wood River, Illinois.
No comment in 6969.
Also, Pat Deary in Sarenia, Ontario, 6969.
Thank you, Canadians, for coming on board this show.
Yeah, big time.
Big time.
John Tirada in Pasadena, California, 6969.
He says, Value for Value returned to NA because the job karma you gave me worked.
I got a job, albeit with a pay cut, was a job.
In any case, let me share the lack of wealth.
All right.
Well, thank you, and we're so happy.
Yeah.
Happy the karma worked.
Let me re-top you there.
A little top-up.
You've got karma.
Maybe for a raise.
Yeah, maybe that'll help.
Get another 69.
My goodness, John, the swazzle knoffs are off the hook today.
She's totally out of control.
Richard Chow, Fuller's in California, 69, 69, without comment.
Pauly Ricama in Helsinki.
69.69.
First, thank you for your job, Karma, last time.
I got an offer which I can't refuse, so big thank you.
Don't thank us.
Yeah.
Now I'm asking for traveling, Karma.
I'm going to travel around South America, Ecuador, Peru, buy blankets in Peru.
They got these, get the baby alpaca blankets, they're unbelievable.
They're on sale now and you can go to Amazon.com and use our code.
Chile and Argentina, you're going to love Buenos Aires.
For the next two and a half months, then I start to go on a new job.
Thanks to you guys.
Alright, here is some traveling karma.
By the way, John, I found it...
It's interesting that traveling...
I always spell this wrong.
I always spell it with two L's.
Yeah, it's wrong.
Why is it...
Shouldn't it be two L's?
It feels like it should be two L's.
I know it's wrong.
Well, the word's travel, and you're going ing-ing it.
So it'd be travel with an I-N-G. Why would you get it?
It's not travel-ling.
Because it feels like the E and the I on each side of the L would be travel-ing.
I don't know.
It just feels right.
I know, I've made the mistake too.
Spell checker always catches me and I always go, oh!
Yeah, me too.
Michael Shoemaker and Rancho Cucamonga.
Michael Schumacher from the Formula One races?
If it said Schumacher, I would say it's a possibility, but I don't think so.
Right.
6969, as the day continues.
Thanks again for the best podcast in the universe and all your hard work, and more importantly, exposing the game called The Elites, in which we are the menial pawns, indeed.
I was a lot happier being an ignorant slave, so thanks a lot, a-holes.
What?
Arion, make me smarter and sadder.
Mike Schumacher.
By the way, JCD... There's a whole thing.
I don't think I can read that.
Thanks, Michael.
Sir Natural in Port Jefferson, New York.
That's 6969.
That's our Dr.
Neninger stuff.
You stressed me out that the streak may end.
John's cranky.
Stop being wounded by his barbs.
John, Adam is a sincere student of your teaching, so stop being annoyed.
You both make me laugh anyway.
Play more clips.
Play every damn clip you have.
You guys are my only news show and I need to last for days.
Stop editing!
Realize you're not donating because they don't like my moniker.
So, Dr.
Nanninger, come on.
Henceforth, Sir Natural, please give me an Italian shut-up slave and more auto-suggestion karma.
This stuff is gold.
And just heard more show and this is your best show ever.
John, stop talking about potato chip stocks with Horowitz and figure out how we profit from Scottish independence.
Actually, that would be a good topic.
Can we get dual citizenship?
Okay.
Good luck with that.
Shut up, slave!
I kind of like it with the both now.
Yeah, I kind of like it.
It kind of works with the shut up slave in front of it.
And he also came in with a second...
6969 saying, stop complaining about the contours of my previous donation note.
It's still pending issues that need to be resolved.
I demand you play every clip.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, concludes our Swazzle Enough segment for today.
69!
69, dudes!
How many was that?
Did you count them?
No.
There was a lot.
And you know what?
I'm not complaining.
I'm very, very happy.
Thank you.
Watch Sunday just dropped to zero.
No, we'll be dead.
John Vale in Pensburg, Pennsylvania, 67 without comment.
Peter Van de Castile in Ghent.
Ghent.
59.75, which is 55.55 plus 4.20.
He wants to get a ding, ding, ding.
You've got squirrel for my girlfriend's job hunt and some JCD advice on California red wine.
As I always like, the culinary tidbits.
The Keaton in 2007 Cabernet Sauvignon.
Hold on a second.
He wants what?
Ding, ding, ding.
Yeah.
You've got squirrel.
How the hell am I supposed to...
You've got karma with squirrel.
He wants the three dings, the squirrel, and then a karma shot.
Um, the squirrel seems to be missing.
Alright, well just give him Carmen, then you got his dings.
Where's my squirrel?
That's weird.
Alright, here we go.
Where's the damn squirrel?
You've got karma.
This is crazy.
The squirrel is literally missing from the...
Oh my God.
The squirrel has run away from my jingle box.
Somebody may have invaded your privacy.
Someone has made off with my squirrel.
Interesting.
Anyway, 2007 Kenan Cabernet, if you can find it, get a bottle.
Oh, by the way, you know, the burrowing owl is still really one of my favorite ones.
And can we get that at Costco, John?
Ollie Nyman at North B Stockholm, 5555.
These are congratulatory.
This is our 5555 donation, which is a congratulatory donation for our fifth anniversary show.
So it's a bunch of fives.
And Ollie says, I've been a fan for years, also been very cheap.
The show has been so good lately, I just have to contribute to the anniversary.
Do some Swedish news and I'll donate again.
Okay, we'll work on that.
Monica Lansing in Edmonton, Alberta.
Really enjoyed the last few shows.
Keep them coming.
Walraven Nico in Singapore, 5555.
Tony Forte, Raymore, Missouri, 5555.
Christian Collins in San Carlos, California.
You and...
Adam, this is my third donation.
Hopefully this episode is your fifth anniversary.
If not, it's coming.
This is the 26th of October.
Taking my money anyway.
Please give my friend SZR1 a douchebag call out.
Douchebag!
Because I'm trying to get her hooked on this show, but she won't listen.
Please give me some job karma.
I'm getting desperate.
You've got karma.
Colin Stallman in Sloman.
Wait a minute.
The squirrel just walked in.
Squirrel!
There we go.
She's naked when she does that by the way.
Colin Stallman in London, 5555, with the comment, five more years.
Ha ha ha!
Okie dokie.
Five more years.
Five more years.
Chris Paul in Chicago, 5555.
For the upcoming 5th anniversary, can I ask for Pelosi jobs along with a bit of karma for me as well as the show?
Thanks, guys.
Oh, man.
It's like...
He's on the road.
Yeah, it's like this...
No, please.
I'm sorry, man.
That's a hard one.
On Sunday, you're going to be back or no?
No, Sunday I'm still going to be here, but I'm going to find the Arbeit Arbeit and the Jobs Jobs.
I know where to look, it's just I can't do it quick enough, you know?
Robert Charles, Charlotte, North Carolina.
Not a CIS admin or corporate anyone.
Home of NASCAR and Moonshine.
Just high school diploma.
Eight years enlisted, now 12 as a blue-collar slave.
Currently have my head above water, so enough to send some support and say thanks mainly, John, for the salt info.
Oh, great.
It was in a newsletter you got people got a hold of.
Ryan Kiefer in Durham, North Carolina.
A lot of people quit the newsletter.
There's no news in it.
We have news in it.
It's not constant.
Ryan Kiefer, Durham, North Carolina, 55-55.
Long time boner, first time donor.
Congratulations on the five years.
Hope to donate more in the next five.
Shot of karma would be great.
No jumping through multiple hoops, jingles needed.
You've got karma.
Remco Van Dyke in Harlem, Holland, 55-55.
Mr.
Snow in Sankt Peterburg.
Sankt Peterburg?
That's what it says.
I think he's in Russia.
He's in St.
Petersburg.
Really?
PayPal came up with Sankt.
He's in St.
Petersburg.
So maybe he's not.
Maybe he's in St.
Petersburg.
He's Mr.
Snow.
He wants to be anonymous.
He's a student.
I've been listening for over a year and promised myself that when I get a job, I start...
Getting by, I would donate, but it seems the way things are going, you guys aren't going to last that long.
This is about all the money I get per month from the Russian government for being a good student slave.
This is my only income, but it's going for a good cause.
I'd like to send some karma to Tom Merritt.
I followed him for Buzz Out Loud to Twitter and found John.
Oh, wow.
Oh, that's cool.
Squirrel!
I found it.
Okay.
He wants a douchebag call out to the 99% boners.
Douchebag!
Yes.
And thank you, Lone Squirrel, in the chat room, for sending me the squirrel.
Squirrel!
You've got karma.
Travis Stearns in Minneapolis, Minnesota, 5555.
William Smock in San Diego.
Looking forward to five more years.
Please give me some driving karma for my trip to Las Cruces.
Yeah.
You've taken that trip.
Yeah, that's Route 10.
You'll get pulled over by Border Patrol for sure.
I think my last donation was on 429.
I got the extended version with the show conversation.
Looking to see if I get another extended show with this donation, 5555.
It's John Haller.
Good luck on that.
I'm sorry, that's winning.
Smock. Yeah. Smock. Smock. Smock. Smock. Smock. Smock.
John Haller in Missoula, Montana, 5555.
Christopher Anderson, Canyon Court.
Is that what it is?
California.
Been a great five years, thanks.
Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait.
That's almost like a eulogy.
Great five years.
Thanks.
Now go die.
Die.
Goodbye.
J.K. Shields in Wick Highland.
5555.
Taking out the side of your mouth sketch in 446 was the funniest thing I've heard in years.
Oh, the technoside of the mouth?
I guess.
Worth $55 on its own.
Keep up the analysis.
Sir Robert Goschko in Sherwood, Alberta.
The show will be running a little long today, by the way, because of all these well-wishers.
Happy fifth.
Thank you.
Michael Muller in Arliss Scheim, Deutschland, I think.
Yes?
No?
55-55.
Alan Adler in Rolling Hills, California.
Congratulations.
Hope both of you go for general class or extra class.
Oh, yes.
Can I just say, John, I am ready to take the test.
I've studied.
The technical, we're talking about ham radio license.
The technical's easy.
Yeah, it's very easy.
Oh, my goodness.
And I found a repeater so that we can talk to each other, good buddy.
Yeah, you got a repeater that goes where?
No, it actually connects to the winds system that you were talking about.
A repeater?
I didn't see one listed anywhere near Austin.
Bee Cave.
It's in Bee Cave, and I can...
Oh, Bee Cave.
You've got to go to the barbecue place there.
What kind of non-sequitur are you throwing at me?
I'm talking about I'm becoming a ham radio operator.
I'm going to take the test.
And you're like, go to the barbecue.
You know what?
I'll go to the barbecue place in Bee Cave, hop on the repeater, and tell you how scrumptious it is.
Great.
Okay?
That sounds like typical ham chat.
CQ, CQ, BBQ. CQ, CQ, BBQ. Down at 80 meters, these old guys are down there doing that.
I'm going to do it.
I'm going to be CQ Jones.
You're going to make a fool of yourself on VHF. I don't give a crap.
What are they going to do?
Joe Huffman, Bella Vista, Arkansas.
Hey guys, got a human resource due in November.
A job interview this Thursday.
I need some healthy baby new job karma.
Also mentioned the No Agenda Human Resource app again so I can pass along some more download money to you guys.
I think we had three downloads in the last four months.
Wait, the No Agenda Human Resource.
That's the...
Okay, go get the No Agenda Human Resource app.
You can find it in the App Store or iTunes.
You've got karma.
My goodness, this is great.
We don't move a lot of product as a problem.
Jimmy Tack and Ood-Gastel.
Out-Gastel.
Out-Gastel.
I bit my tongue.
Very good.
I would have donated more, but since John thinks stealing money from one person to give me to another will save the economy, I feel he can't be trusted with more.
Thanks.
Thanks, John.
Good job.
I don't know what he's talking about.
Also, the boom-bust cycle is completely bogative.
Google Australian economics, Austrian economics, and congratulations on your five-year anniversary.
Yeah, we've never heard of the Austrian.
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Wow.
Well, it's been great.
We really appreciate it.
And one thing for sure...
We appreciate the congratulations for sure.
Yeah.
And the 5555 is fantastic.
It makes me feel really good about doing the show.
I wear my heart on my sleeve.
When it's not going well and donations are low, I get all crabby because I don't like getting by like anybody else.
And you're still contemplating buying a Volt for $200 a month or whatever.
Actually, I heard $166 a month, John.
They've lowered it.
Hold on a second.
That's for 24 months.
No, no, no.
I think that's for $36 or $72.
Okay, well, whatever.
Let me bring up an interesting point because they're condemning you.
Oh, you're never going to get parts.
You're never going to do this.
You're never going to do that.
If it's a leased car...
What difference does it make?
You drive it around for the year or two or three on power from the house, and then you drop it off at the Chevy dealer and say, so long, suckers!
So what difference does it make if you can't get parts?
You've got a car that's leased.
They'll keep it on the road until the lease runs out.
Otherwise, if they didn't, then you can just drop it off and say, I'm through with this thing.
I think it's just a completely lame-looking car.
I think that's my problem.
The black one looks cool.
I actually don't mind.
You know, the truck is...
You backed off.
You let them cow you.
You let them brow beat you into not getting what you wanted.
Yeah, no.
Because Lord knows, for weeks I've been going to bed saying, oh, please, I hope I can afford a Chevy Volt.
I really hope the price comes down.
Yeah, that's what I really wanted.
No, I was just looking at a great deal thinking, this is an $80,000 car that they're now practically giving away.
And I was just looking at the value for value saying, that's a great value.
But I've gotten so much negativity.
Oh, that's because they're haters.
They're haters.
All right.
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This is great and makes me feel great that we're out here on the road doing stuff in crazy circumstances and it's going to be that way for the next three or four shows.
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How about you, John?
You feel good?
I feel like we should wish somebody a happy birthday.
Are you sure you don't want to sell something?
Because we could always try that.
No, I really would.
I think we would stop the show.
This show would be crap.
Do you not hear the jingles?
You do, right?
I've heard that one before.
You hear this, right?
Barely.
Okay.
I don't know what's going on with him, but anyway.
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There it comes.
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Thank you again.
And what?
Tacos.
Tacos.
Tacos and what?
Tacos.
Tacos.
Tacos and hot sauce.
Okay.
Let me ease you into a new meme here.
I don't know if you saw this report.
I was...
I was astounded about the report, and I was going to do a whole segment about it, but then I found that some mainstream media actually picked up on it as well.
And this is the new meme when it comes to drones.
The double tap.
The double tap.
Actually, I have a pretty good clip summarizing this.
Well, I'm actually playing a clip which you're just talking right through.
So, why don't you shut up or I can play the clip.
I can't hear a thing.
Go on.
Well, let's fix that then.
Why can't you hear it?
I don't understand.
I'm not hearing the clip.
I'm hearing you.
Hold on.
Do you hear my clips at all?
I heard the two shots.
The double tap.
Do you hear this?
Listen, do you hear this?
Do you hear that?
Yeah.
Let me be quiet.
That's where follow-up strikes target a location that's just been hit.
And all this is according to a new report from two leading American universities.
Now, the supposed targets are Al-Qaeda and Taliban militants, but the authors conclude that many of those hit are low-level and not at all senior commanders.
Well, our correspondent, Orla Girin, is in the Pakistan capital, Islamabad, and she's been looking at the findings.
It is a substantial report by two respected American universities.
The research was commissioned by the UK legal charity Reprieve which campaigns against drones but the findings are independent.
Now the study says basically that drones are damaging and counterproductive to US security interests.
It says strikes that kill hundreds of low-level fighters are of dubious security value to the United States It says the number of senior militants killed in these strikes is only about 2% and it calls on the US to review the policy.
It also says the US government is very reluctant to admit that there are civilian casualties, although there is significant evidence that this is the case.
And it highlights that practice of so-called double-tap strikes, where there are repeated strikes at a single location, and the follow-on strikes are killing rescuers, first responders, and locals who go to the scene.
That has resulted in people being too afraid to go and help the injured and the dying.
One local humanitarian organization has said to now have a six-hour mandatory wait before they go to the scene of a drone strike.
So I find this very, very interesting.
The phrase double tap is, I think in most recent popular culture, is known from Zombieland as the only surefire way to kill a zombie is by two taps to the head.
But of course, we've been using the two to the head meme...
For quite a while.
And I wonder, does it not really diminish the whole idea of a Hellfire missile coming down out of the sky and blowing you up?
Is that, like, double tap?
Is it...
Well, you know, it seems to me, for one thing, this is sick.
Let's start with that premise.
Thank you.
And so what they do is they blow up somebody's house and kill whoever, you know, a bunch of kids and whoever's in there, now that they've got documented.
It has been documented for a while that they're not really killing anybody important.
Because what are they doing out in the middle of nowhere?
So then, within a few minutes, when people go rushing to help the wounded...
Like, you know, let's say it was a Red Cross truck.
They go rushing in there to help the wounded.
They kill them, too, just as a joke.
That's pretty cool.
What was the point of the second shot?
Just clean up.
Just clean up.
They're trying to help the guys.
Let's kill them.
Let's just clean up.
I mean, it's very, very...
It's sick.
It's sick.
But again, we have to...
Obama's kill list, and supposedly he gets to watch all these videos, according to Ulsterman and others.
And he watches the videos of this.
Oh, it's about time.
Look at the rescuers coming in.
Let's blast them again.
Go now!
Go now!
Go, go, go.
And meanwhile...
It's really nauseating.
And the fact that nobody cares.
Obama's a character.
He's got a great smile, that Obama.
Hey, and then we have David Cameron talking about how horrible the children are treated there in Syria.
How come no one says, hey, these Americans, this president of yours, he's double-tapping kids and rescuers and just killing everybody over there.
How come none of that is there?
Why are we not outraged by this?
Why?
I'm outraged by it.
Oh, you're not.
I am.
I'm totally outraged by it.
It's funny, I thought your report was going to be the exact same one.
It's a funny parallel report to the one I have, which we might as well play, which is the BBC version of the exact same report, which is probably another ten seconds longer than yours.
I'm sorry, what's the title of it?
Because I can't seem to find it.
Oh, it's called Good BBC Drone Report.
So we're both in line with each other, as usual.
Here we go.
U.S. drone strikes in northwest Pakistan are frequently injuring not only civilians but their rescuers in what are known as double-tap strikes.
That's where follow-up strikes target a location that's just been hit.
So says a new report from Stanford and New York universities.
The actual targets are al-Qaeda and Taliban militants.
But the authors conclude that many of those hit are low-level operatives, not senior commanders.
The BBC's Oligarian has more from Islamabad.
Well, this report reaches damning conclusions about the CIA drone program.
It says it's counterproductive and damaging, that it's killing very few senior leaders, and that it is terrorizing an entire community in the process.
Now, according to the authors, senior militants account for only an estimated 2% of drone victims.
But they paint a picture of an entire community living in paralyzing fear.
Men, women and children are looking up at the skies overhead, wondering when death is going to come raining down.
They say that many people are too afraid to attend gatherings like weddings and funerals in case they're targeted.
They say some parents are afraid to send their children to school or the children themselves are too traumatized to go.
One humanitarian worker previously based in the US compared the level of fear in Waziristan with the fear in New York after 9-11.
The report also highlights the risk to rescuers.
It says the practice of carrying out follow-up strikes means that those who go to give assistance after a strike can be killed themselves.
Now the majority of those killed in drone attacks are believed to be suspected militants, but independent researchers Say that several hundred civilians are also counted among the dead.
US officials say the drones are surgically precise, that they limit collateral damage.
This report says that claim is false.
But either way, the administration is expected to continue using these weapons here and elsewhere.
So this is very, very interesting, John, because my report, I think it might have been from RT, your report was from the BBC. I have not seen anyone pick up on this report, which is a U.S. report, I might add.
No one has picked up on this report here.
However...
No, that's not true, because Democracy Now!
had not only a huge segment...
Oh, really?
Oh, they did?
I'll take a clip for a Sunday.
Okay.
A huge segment, but they had the report's main author on.
Oh!
Well, he was actually quite interesting.
Well, NPR... As far as I know, did not do anything about the Double Tap report, but they did have a whole drone segment I'd like to share with you.
It started as trash talk between two contributors to a national security blog.
To settle their differences, they decided to host a drone smackdown.
Not armed drones, of course, but model drones.
Of course.
The kind anyone can buy at a toy store or online.
NPR's Kerry Johnson reports, while the smackdown was all in the name of fun, it also had some serious undertones.
So they had...
Wow!
This is their national treasure.
Oh yeah.
I'll give you a little bit more.
The report goes on for hours, but I'll give you a little more.
So while people are being killed, and rescuers who then go to try and pick up bits and pieces of these people who have been blown apart...
By the way, brought to you by your president and the CIA. This is not the army who does this.
The CIA does this in your name.
And then the rescuers get blown to bits by the double tap.
Our national treasure and the fine editors of national security blogs are playing drone smackdown with each other.
Let's be clear.
This was just a game for national security experts and aviation buffs trying to knock each other's little rinky-dink unarmed drones out of the sky on a beautiful afternoon at the end of the summer.
We're somewhere in Virginia.
Shane Harris, a national security writer and the judge of this contest, sounds merry.
But for a moment last week, the whole drone smackdown was up in the air.
Oh my gosh!
Oh my gosh!
The...
The smackdown was up in the air!
It might not happen because...
A park in Washington had been ruled out after the Federal Aviation Administration warned that machines not much bigger than your kid's toy helicopter didn't belong in D.C.'s restricted airspace.
Oh, we couldn't do our drone smackdown!
These people should be ashamed of themselves.
They should be ashamed.
If you see these people, go spit on them.
Just go up and go, pfft!
You shit!
This makes me angry.
These people, they're supposed to be writing about this stuff.
Instead, they're playing drone smackdown.
Yeah, they should be talking about this report.
I mean, none of our innocent people killed left and right.
It's not doing us any good.
And it's terrorizing.
Talk about terrorism.
That is the pure...
So, you have to understand.
And if you read the actual report...
Here's what is...
So drones are one thing.
So you know what happens is the drone comes by.
It identifies you.
Oh, I'm sorry.
You did a jumping jack.
It kills you.
But here's what happens.
Anytime two or three guys get together and, you know, have a beer...
No, no, no.
But it's worse, John.
So they drone them.
It's worse.
You know, little groups of people meet.
You know, it's funny because if you listen to...
Can I just say something?
Play the clip.
Which is interesting, because...
Hello?
Am I on?
Is this on?
Can you hear me?
Hello?
Hello?
Can you hear me?
With this in mind, what he's advocating is exactly what he's denying these people in Waziristan, who I guess are sworn enemies, even though I don't know that they can come over here that easy.
But okay.
It's just like ridiculous.
Play this Obama on true democracy as part of this discussion.
Can you hear me?
John!
You can now.
My God, I've been yelling for ten minutes.
I just hear you now.
Oh my God.
I was going to...
Well, anyway, I'll play this clip, but I had something to say.
Well, I can't.
I've been saying we're half duplexed or something.
Something went really bad there.
Here, let me play your clip and they'll say something.
True democracy demands that citizens cannot be thrown in jail because of what they believe.
And that businesses can be opened without paying a bribe.
It depends on the freedom of citizens to speak their minds and assemble without fear, and on the rule of law and due process that guarantees the rights of all people.
In other words, true democracy, real freedom, is hard work.
Those in power have to resist the temptation to crack down on dissidents.
In hard economic times, countries must be tempted It may be tempted to rally the people around perceived enemies at home and abroad rather than focusing on the painstaking work of reform.
Okay.
Alright, can you hear me?
I just want to make sure you can hear me.
That was the funniest bit we've ever done.
But don't you think you could be able to assemble and all this stuff?
Why are we denying this to these people?
Well, here's what I was trying to say, which does flow right into this.
The true terror of the drones is not just the strikes.
These things fly around, and they're very noisy.
For hours, just 24-7, they're flying around these people's homes.
So they're in their house hearing, and they're just like, when is it my turn?
This is the terror.
That's what's in the report, which is not really, you know, everyone's talking about the double tap.
The true terror is exactly what our president is talking about here.
He is ordering the CIA, not even our military, the CIA, to have these drones 24 hours a day.
They're flying.
Just imagine that.
And the house blowing up every so often.
This is an...
That level of terror is unbelievable.
But, of course, please, please, those of you who write about drones on national security blogs, please go have a drone-off.
You jerk-offs.
Drone-offs.
Whatever.
Anyway.
Hey, that was really quite weird, though.
I was trying to say...
You just were talking over me, and then I couldn't get you to say anything.
It was, like, weird.
Ah, there's something wrong with that connection.
Maybe.
Yeah.
You've been breaking up on and off.
Oh, really?
I pitched about it too much.
Well, there's nothing...
I can't...
You know, we can try and mumble.
And you always kind of come up, too, which is weird.
That is weird.
It's like when I just said something, you started talking, but you came up from zero, and you were like...
It's like you faded in.
Really?
Yeah, in fact, most of the...
Which is probably why I couldn't hear you.
Oh.
Or maybe the fact that you don't wear headphones.
No, it wouldn't be that.
Believe me, I can hear everything easy enough on these speakers.
Well, let me just try something here.
Don't change it now.
I want to make sure.
Well, this is really quite bad.
We can't have a dialogue.
No, you can't interrupt me.
I think that's fantastic.
Okay.
I got something.
Personally, I thought it was clip of the day.
All right.
Yes.
Yes.
I said yes.
All right.
Yes.
This is not...
I don't know.
Did you hear about this?
I didn't see it reported in any place, but Asia, it was on China News about the fact that the French are going to ban genetically modified corn.
Oh, yes.
No, I've heard a lot about this, actually, and I believe...
That this is actually a part of the Prop 37 GMO labeling PR war that's going on in California.
No, I didn't see it anyplace else but in the...
Oh, no, no, no, no, this has been going on...
Oh, no, no, no.
See, you still can't hear me.
This is really bad.
I can hear you.
No, because I'll talk and then I can tell from your behavior that you can't hear me.
I can hear you fine.
Let me play your clip.
France says it may press for a Europe-wide ban on genetically modified corn.
This comes after a new study found that rats fed NK603 corn, developed to higher levels of cancer, had larger cancerous tumors, and died earlier than controls.
The rats were monitored by scientists at a university for two years, making this the very first long-term study of NK603 corn.
The corn is made by U.S. agribusiness giant Monsanto.
Yeah, so here's the deal with this report.
First of all, Russia, according to reports, has now suspended import of all the NK-603 corn.
So Russia is ahead of France.
But the war is on with this.
Apparently, the French study, they only used 10 rats who were already, like, pre-cancerous.
I'm telling you, this is about Prop 37 in California, about GMO labeling.
I've been feeling this for two weeks now, and I've actually been...
We just haven't gotten to it on the show, but I've put it in the show notes, at least for the past three or four shows, about this study.
And I'm really, John, and of course I'm the first guy who hates Monsanto, but I think that this is a hit piece and I'm not entirely convinced that these rats just developed these, you know, have you seen the video?
It's like the rat has like a tennis ball hanging out of his butt.
Yeah.
That's how big the tumors are.
And, of course, I mean, I don't want...
I try not to eat any corn.
I certainly would...
I don't want any Monsanto product.
But this, to me, feels like this is a PR hit job.
And, uh...
Yeah.
I think you're probably right.
Okay.
Okay.
I still like it, though.
Oh, no, no.
But I like the pictures.
The rats, they're great looking.
Like a golf ball hanging out of his ear.
And the fact that it hasn't been picked up by big mainstream media tells me that this is a hit job.
Because most people would say...
No, no, no, no, no.
Most people would say...
Because, of course, NPR, PBS, ABC, they're not going to go bite Monsanto's ass.
Have you seen that?
That's for sure.
Yeah!
That's why the reporting is not there.
It's one of these weird situations where people think that this is not being reported because we're all supposed to eat the horrible corn.
No, I think in this case it's really a hit job.
Now, is this corn good?
No.
Do we have to get rid of Monsanto?
We should nationalize Monsanto.
In fact...
This is what Roseanne Barr said, who was running for president.
You knew she was a presidential candidate?
No.
Roseanne Barr is a presidential candidate for the Freedom and Peace Party, so she will be on the ballot, apparently.
Hold on, is that different than the Peace and Freedom Party?
It's the same one.
And she was interviewed by Thom Hartman.
On...
What?
Yes, on Russia Today, and here's her platform.
As the presidential nominee for the Peace and Freedom Party, how would you solve our current economic problems?
I would do what Iceland did.
I would kick out the Federal Reserve or nationalize it.
And along with that I would also nationalize all of Monsanto profits because Monsanto is an international corporation and I'm afraid that if America does not nationalize it, some other country will.
So I would just start there.
That's working really well in Iceland and a couple of other countries where we're no longer on a failed system of theft, basically.
A failed system of debt, slavery, and theft.
So I'm for rebuilding everything from the ground up that becomes true representation of true opinions of by and for I am changing my vote.
She's got my vote.
I am voting for Roseanne Barr.
I'm all over that.
What an idiot.
She's great.
I'm voting for her.
She's great.
Nationalize Monsanto, kick out the Federal Reserve.
You know, she's wacky, but I'm really contemplating giving my vote to her.
I really like it.
What else we got?
Hey, welcome, Mrs.
Small Biz, to the party.
Where were you when we did that two hours ago?
I'm sorry?
No, no, I'm just talking.
Just smacking down the chat room.
You know what?
I'm very close to not wanting to look at the chat room anymore.
I give up on them.
People are so harsh, you know.
Too many ankle biters in there.
We work hard, and here's the things I don't...
When people go like...
They do a whole line of Z's.
It's so demotivating.
For what?
Because apparently they're bored with whatever topic we're talking about.
Or they'll just say, this is boring.
In fact, you know what?
I'm logging off now.
I'm logging off.
I can't watch it anymore.
Well, I don't know why you're watching it.
Well, the reason for a chat room in a situation like this is so you can correct yourself in real time when you actually make an egregious error.
Yeah, but I can't do it anymore because it's too distracting because people are just saying crap.
That's because the chat room is not well-moderated.
No offense to the chat room people that moderate it.
All right.
So if someone wants to...
If I make an egregious error, then Sir Gitmo or Mr.
Oil or JC can get in our back channel and tell me there.
I just can't want...
It's so demotivating.
Like, you're wrong again!
You suck!
You're wrong again, you suck!
I swear to God, you're wrong again!
Because it is not like Leo's chat room, even though you...
This is probably your fault.
My fault?
This is my fault?
How is this my fault?
I bitched and moaned about the chat room and said this needs to be strong.
It has to be throw some of these yahoos out.
He said, no, it's going to be too much like Leo's too rigid.
They throw people out and ban them.
Well, I take it back.
You were right.
I was wrong, honey.
You're welcome.
Yeah.
Alright, ADHD drug suspected of hurting Canadian kids.
I don't know if you saw this report.
This is like nothing we don't know, but it's kind of fun to see it show up.
Can I read my favorite story for the week?
Yeah, I mean, why do I even show up except just to play the jingles for you?
Exactly.
That's what the chat room would say.
Thousands of drug-related convictions in Massachusetts may be challenged as investigators learn more about improper evidence handling.
Would you like the clip?
Would you like the clip?
34,000 convictions about drugs.
Turns out that the woman who heads up the lab doesn't even have a degree.
Can you hear me now?
She claimed to have a master's degree.
Can you hear me now?
One, two, check two.
She was responsible for the lab's quality control.
One, two, check two.
So you have 30...
Now, drugs are legalized.
This wouldn't be a problem in the first place.
But we have something like 34,000 people convicted of drug crimes and it's all bogus information from this phony lab in Massachusetts.
Can you imagine the states, the lawsuits that are going to stem from this?
Can you hear me now?
Can you hear me now?
Hello, hello, hello.
Can you hear me?
Can you hang up on me?
Can you hear me?
Ah, this is bogative.
Hello, hello, hello, hello, hello.
Can you hear me now?
Can you hear me now?
Now I can hear you.
Jesus.
They don't blame me.
Ah, no, because I was, the minute I said, would you like to hear the clip?
And I can't, I can't interrupt your flow, which means this is like, we might as well just like go over.
Would you like to hear the clip?
I know, because you can't hear me.
There's something weird with the connection.
Would you like to hear the clip?
Over.
I'd love to hear the clip.
Over.
Making national headlines.
We're going to begin with a story in the Boston Globe in a huge drug lab scandal, which is rocking Massachusetts.
An investigation found that more than 1,100 people, 1,100, are in state prison or county jails because of potentially tainted drug evidence.
Now, this is, of course, the same thing you just read, but you don't have the groovy reaction from your co-host.
Former state chemist Annie Dukin allegedly told law enforcement officials she mixed drug samples to create positive results, increased the weight of the drug samples, even violated evidence handling procedures.
She may have handled 60,000 samples and 34,000 criminal cases.
Crazy.
Dukin has not been charged.
Why?
But a criminal investigation is underway.
That's terrible.
All right.
That's terrible.
That's terrible!
Wow!
Amazing!
Woo!
Alright, let's move on now.
That's what I should do on this show.
Just go like, oh, wow!
That's what I do.
This has really been very challenging to have a conversation when you can't hear me.
It's only the later part of the show.
The connection has fallen apart.
I don't know.
Well, I'm deflated now.
I'm deflated by the chat room.
I'm deflated by trying to make things work on the road.
And it doesn't work.
I don't have the jingles.
And I'm always wrong!
Again!
I'm wrong!
I'm so wrong!
I don't want to be wrong.
Think of the children.
Don't we have that?
Don't we have that jingle?
Will somebody think of the children?
I thought we had that one.
Wow.
I don't know where I'd see.
I have one clip that's kind of interesting.
If you want to hear some guy who's rehearsed.
Can you hear me now?
Yeah.
Okay, just checking.
What do you got?
I have the political analyst from MSNBC who does a rant on Romney that is rehearsed.
And it's absolutely stunning.
There's no way anyone could do this off the top of their head.
It's that good?
I found it very good, yeah.
Absolutely right.
The reality is this, is that Mitt Romney is attempting to exploit the statements by President Obama, take them out of context and use them as a pretext to justify his assault upon the foreign policy of the Obama administration, and yet we know what he really thinks.
Again, we've seen behind the curtain.
We see that the Wizard of Oz is a small guy.
We see he's not the big bad wolf that he claims to be in his hawkish politics.
Here's a guy who dismisses with elite condescension the vast majority of Americans.
And it is just inexplicable to me why Mitt Romney would continue to poll even moderately well among those members of the white working class or working poor or those who are even in the middle class because Mitt Romney thinks they're a bunch of moochers and hangers-on and victimizers and victim-mongers who People go around bellyaching and kvetching about their rate of taxes and denying the fact that they must be self-sufficient.
I mean, his picture of them is so distorted that we can't trust what he says about Obama and we can't even trust what he says about the people who would ostensibly be part of his constituency.
I think the man is confused.
It's not the bump on the road.
It's the bump on his head from which he's suffering a bunch of stars and he can't see.
That's great!
I love that.
It's like the guy has his one shot and he goes to the script.
And he just goes through it.
Right.
And he just hammers it out.
Anyway, that's the MSNBC political analyst.
All right.
Let me...
We've got to close this up.
I think we've got a couple more things here.
One is...
Hold on a second.
Where am I? This is...
We have to be very afraid.
Let me see.
Maybe we can roll out the jingle again.
Where is it?
It's the note.
Now with SARS. We're back with tonight's outer circle where we reach out to our sources around the world and we begin tonight in London where a man is in critical condition with an unknown virus that is related to the deadly SARS infection.
The World Health Organization has issued a global alert over the new virus.
Atika Schubert is in London and I asked her if she knows how he even contracted the virus.
Erin, authorities here do not know exactly how or where the man contracted this virus.
All we know is that a Qatari man is in critical condition with a coronavirus.
This is the same class of virus that causes the common cold, but also SARS. Now, unlike SARS, this virus doesn't just cause severe respiratory illness, it also seems to cause kidney failure.
Now, fortunately, It doesn't seem to spread as quickly as SARS, but this is something that medical authorities still are trying to figure out.
What they do know is that a second patient was diagnosed earlier in June with that same virus.
That patient died.
And what authorities are looking at now is to see whether or not these two patients were in any way connected.
How or where these two may have contracted that virus.
And that will help authorities figure out whether or not this virus is spreading or whether it is already much more widespread.
So I go to the World Health Organization website, who.int, to find this global alert and response report, which they abbreviate as GAR, G-A-R, Global Alert and Response.
And this whole report is based, this entire Aaron Burnett report is based upon this one GAR. And they literally took the guy, so it says here, Novel Coronavirus Infection in the United Kingdom.
Now, what does that sound like to you, that headline, John?
What does that mean?
It means it's a one-off.
But it sounds like the infection is in the United Kingdom.
Oh yeah, right.
It sounds like something's going on there.
On September 11th, this guy who was in Qatar was transferred to the UK by air ambulance from Qatar.
He had this virus in Qatar and they took him to the UK and To have laboratory testing done on him.
And he is not a UK citizen.
And then this report goes on to say they compared information from the clinical sample collected from the 49-year-old Qatari National with that of a virus sequenced previously by the Eurasmus University Medical Center in the Netherlands.
It's identical.
What that tells me is that these guys at the university in the Netherlands synthesized the virus, and now they want to know why this guy in Qatar has their virus, and that's why they brought him over.
There is no virus other than this synthesized thing, and they brought the guy over to have him tested in London, and now it's like, oh, we have this huge problem going on with a SARS-like virus in the UK. This is very, very, very strange.
I would agree.
When I first heard this story, I thought there was something screwy about the virus being perhaps manipulated.
But now that you have this information, it's obvious that what you just said is absolutely what's happening.
They have synthesized this, and they want to know why the guy had it over there, and they can't figure this out.
Yeah, no, it would be of high importance.
That's why they would haul him into the UK under probably...
He's probably in an MI6 lab.
Here's the...
And they have some little...
Coronaviruses, this is still from the World Health Organization website, are a large family of viruses which includes viruses that cause the common cold and SARS. Given that this is a novel...
Coronavirus.
WHO is currently in the process of obtaining further information to determine the public health implications of this case.
With respect to these findings, WHO does not recommend any travel restrictions.
Please note the change is an earlier...
Yeah, I mean, is this...
They're just searching around.
I don't know.
This is nuts.
Completely nuts.
And why bring the guy over?
That's the other thing.
Why bring him over?
It's not as though Qatar hasn't got really high-end hospitals.
Yeah, of course.
They've got tons of great hospitals over there.
For the elites.
And in the United States now, according to ABC News, from another great research report, I have no idea what they're trying to promote with this one, that suicide in the United States has now outpaced death by auto crashes in the United States.
I find that hard to believe.
Death.
So not injury, but death.
I think 44,000 people are killing cars every year.
Well, apparently more people.
The overall combined unintentional and intentional injury mortality rose 10% over the period.
So apparently 12 per 100,000 people commit suicide.
In the United States per year.
And motor vehicle crashes second place.
So our top cause of death is not guns.
It's not terror or terrorists or terrorism.
It's not even automobiles.
It's suicide.
From, of course, all these crazy-ass drugs that we're taking.
I'm editorializing that, but that can only be the logical conclusion.
We're a drugged-out, crazed nation, and we're killing ourselves because of it.
That's one way toward population control.
See, I can stand here and do the one-liners, too.
Yeah, but if you got a gig on CNBC or MSNBC, you'd make some actual money.
I would.
Then we could do that long-winded patter that guy does to a political analyst.
That was quite awesome.
MSNBC doesn't even try to be balanced or even say they are.
No.
No.
And I don't know if you saw the Clean IT draft that the EU has released, which I saw some websites as leaked document.
Oh, we've got a leaked document.
I go to your EU website.
It's just there.
It's a link.
It's not leaked.
Leaked document.
Leaked document.
I do see some similarities between the purported executive order that President Obama will be coming out with having private sector and the government work together on identifying cyber threats and terrorist activities and sharing information.
So they're doing exactly this in the EU. It's called the Clean It Project, which of course is meant to be Clean IT. There are a couple of things I picked up that are kind of interesting in this report, some suppositions and just things that they take for granted.
And just to give you an idea of how the European Union elites think, I wanted to walk through this for you in just a second if you don't mind.
Do you want to hear some of this?
Yeah.
Okay.
This is literally from the document.
The European Union has identified the following offenses that are linked to terrorist activities.
So these are things that are illegal and against the law, which are linked to terrorist activities, including public provocation to commit a terrorist offense.
So provocation.
Which I think is open to interpretation.
Recruitment for terrorism.
Yeah, you think?
Recruitment for terrorism and training for terrorism also when committed in the online environment.
Internet companies, this is who will be adherent to this regulation, Can refer to providers of access, browsers, chat boxes, certificates, domain registration, email, and user control filters, exchange points, hosting, messaging system, search engines, social networks, e-commerce sites, voiceover, internet protocol, and web forums.
So basically everything.
A web forum.
Really?
Preambles.
The internet has become very important to modern society.
The daily lives of individual citizens and for businesses and economic innovation.
Most use of the internet is legal and beneficial to its users.
The internet plays a positive role in our lives and societies.
Nevertheless, you guessed it, the internet is also used for illegal purposes, including terrorism, supporting terrorism, and encouraging terrorism.
Ah, there you go.
Encouraging terrorism, John.
That's going to be illegal.
The use of the Internet for terrorist purposes is illegal by European legislation.
That includes spreading violent propagandistic material, glorifying and encouraging violence, and radicalizing and recruiting individuals or distributing training manuals.
This is all illegal.
So the encouraging thing, I'm a little worried about what that means.
I have a question for you.
Does all this that you're reading mean that a Che Guevara t-shirt will soon be illegal?
Quite possibly.
But only if you take a picture and put it on your website.
Because the illegal content itself, as I'm reading here, does not always lead to radicalization and terrorist activities.
Now, I want to read that again.
The illegal content itself does not always lead to radicalization and terrorist activities, while content that does contribute to radicalization is not always illegal.
Get your mind around that.
So does that mean that if it leads to terrorism and it's not illegal, it is illegal?
Well, let me read it again and see if we can dissect this.
The illegal content itself does not always lead to radicalization and terrorist activities, while content that does contribute to radicalization is not always illegal.
This is the most important line in this document.
What they are setting you up for is to remove your content even though it may not be illegal because it might lead to radicalization and terrorist activities.
Many activities of terrorists start in ordinary easy accessible parts of the internet and are not illegal.
For the above reasons, it is necessary to discuss and distinguish between unequivocally illegal content or activities and cases where it is not clear whether the content or activities are illegal or not.
Ladies and gentlemen, turn off your modem.
Turn off your router.
Pack it in.
You're done.
You're done.
Okay, cheery ending to the show!
Well, I have always said that our show is subject to eventual shutdown by the government.
We're doomed.
Get it while you can, that's the way I see it.
Dvorak.org slash NA, keep us going.
Alright, let's wind it up here with your end of show clip.
It's a long one, but you've played it up enough that I'm very excited about this actually being...
Something pretty funny.
Yeah, it's a man-on-the-street stuff with some place in New York.
They're asking Obama supporters what they think of him and why they're going to vote for him and all the rest.
And it's quite funny.
And Howard and Robin are kvetching in the middle every so often because they're stunned by this.
Now, and do you have a serious receiver?
Is that how you get a hold of this?
No, it's actually on the blog, dvorak.org slash blog.
It's right there.
I edited this down a little bit.
You listen to the Howard Stern show at all, or...?
Yeah, I like the Howard Stern show.
So this is actually a stretch for him to do some political stuff.
Yeah, it is a little bit.
Right.
Okay, so as we get out of here, I will remind you as well.
Dvorak.org slash NA. I am now recruiting.
I would like some brown shirt Nazis for the chat room.
All you need to be able to do is type slash kick.
Fill in the name.
If you're a Nazi, come on in!
Because I'm looking for you because I'm so demotivated by this crap.
And we'll be back on Sunday.
I will be here once again from the People's Republic of Southern California.
And that will be in Los Angeles where the helicopters are like drones at night.
In the morning, everybody.
I'm Adam Curry.
And from northern Silicon Valley.
And by the way, when he gets back from Los Angeles, I go up to Port Angeles so we still have a crappy connection.
No matter what we do, I'm John C. Dvorak.
We'll talk to you again on Sunday right here on No Agenda.
He's trying to change the U.S. Absolutely.
And what do you like that he's done so far?
I mean, he don't got the Medicaid and all that, the medical thing going.
He got most of the jobs like he said he was.
You know what I'm saying?
And he really improved.
But he needed to improve more.
So he needed to stay on up there so he could do more, you know what I'm saying, things.
Like he said he would.
Do you hope he will eventually find and kill bin Laden?
He'll eventually do it, though.
You think he'll eventually find him and kill him if he wins the celebrity?
They didn't know that Bin Laden was dead?
I'm telling you, I can play every one of these interviews.
They don't know Bin Laden's dead over wherever the hell sound.
I don't think this guy knows what day it is.
Yeah, I know.
But this woman, I would have thought, this woman sounded very with it.
Listen to this.
Do you know who you're going to vote for in this election?
Obama.
I just don't like Romney.
What is it about Mitt Romney that you don't like?
Is it that he's pro-choice?
Yes, and it's just his general...
It's him in general.
I just don't like him.
Because he's a Muslim?
It has nothing to do with religion or what his views are.
I just don't like him.
Do you think Obama made the right choice by choosing Paul Ryan as his vice president?
Yes.
Do you think he picked Paul Ryan because he's African-American or because he's qualified?
It could be a little bit of both.
Do you think McCain has a shot this time out to beat Obama for this election?
No.
I just don't see McCain as presidential material.
I don't see it.
What percentage of the vote do you think McCain will get over Obama this time?
About 20, I guess.
If Obama wins this time, are you hoping that we finally catch and kill Osama Bin Laden?
Honestly, I don't agree with the whole war thing, but if we, you know...
Do you think he should just go to jail then, Bin Laden?
Yeah, he could be tortured, but, you know, I don't believe in killing.
How long of a jail term do you think Bin Laden should get when we find him?
It should be indefinite.
Yeah, I mean, it's crazy.
Wow.
Wow.
By the way, I'm pretty sure you can find a bunch of white people who don't know what's going on either.
Well, they do.
You know, again, I told you that Nancy Pelosi's daughter did this documentary of some guys in Mississippi, and they were off the wall, too.
Were they?
Oh, my goodness.
This is some African guy, but you'd expect maybe he doesn't know what's going on.
Are you happy with Obama's vice president pick, Paul Ryan?
Yeah, because, you know, Polaroid has a lot of issues.
Because anything the media shows to him on TV is not right.
Do you like Obama because he's pro-life?
Is that one of the reasons why you would vote for Obama?
Yeah, I like Obama, you know, a lot of issues.
For the human rights side.
Like pro-life?
Pro-life, international, you know, democracy, you know.
Do you like that he's anti-gay marriage?
Oh yeah, you know, that's human being.
So you like that Obama's against that?
Yeah, I like Obama, you know, the way he do about the politics, I like that.
Do you support Mitt Romney because he's black?
No, no, no, that doesn't matter to me.
It's the issue to tell people what you're running for, explaining people your issue.
Policy is the issue.
Now, are you upset that Romney is for gay marriage?
Does that bother you?
Yeah, that bother me for the...
You know what I mean?
He don't know what's going on.
I love how people are so willing to talk.
They're not listening at all.
Yeah.
This guy's like, uh, one guy who believed Obama was a Mormon.
I mean...
Well, we're obviously dealing with a whole population that doesn't listen to the newscast or read a newspaper.
Yeah, but how do you miss that Osama bin Laden's dead?
Because they don't listen to anything.
Do you know who you're voting for?
Obama.
Why?
Because I feel as though he's...
Who are you voting for this election, Obama or Romney?
Obama.
Why is that?
He's done more.
Do you like Obama because he's pro-life?
Yeah.
I'm for that.
Yeah.
Do you support his vice president pick, Paul Ryan?
Yeah, I do.
What do you like about him?
Paul Ryan always has the stats out.
He's always coming with stats.
He basically knows what's going on.
Unlike you!
Do you think people are upset that Sarah Palin's running again this time?
I think she's probably got a little bit more experience this time than last time.
Does it bother you that Obama is a Mormon?
No, but that basically sways his votes a lot in the way that people look at him.
And does it bother you that Mitt Romney is black?
No, that's not the issue, no.
Thank you very much.
I don't know what the hell.
What does anyone say?
It's interesting.
That all you need to do is get your name out there.
Yeah.
Because nobody knows what you're about.
Well, that's what Jesse Ventura was saying.
People vote Democrat or Republican.
You know, it's like, they don't even know who the hell is running.
Right.
Who are you voting for this election, Obama or Romney?
Obama.
I think he's the best president.
Do you hope Obama finds Bin Laden and kills him if he wins?
Yeah, yeah.
I want to see him dead.
John McCain, do you think he has a shot this time out to beat Obama?
I don't think so.
What percentage of the vote do you think McCain will get this time against Obama?
40%.
So it's going to be a close race?
Yeah, I think so.
How do you think Sarah Palin is going to do as McCain's running mate in 2012?
I will vote McCain but not Sarah Palin.
There's been talk that he'll drop Sarah Palin in this election.
Are you going to vote for him then?
Yeah.
And you're going to vote for Obama as well?
Yeah.
Are you happy with Obama's Vice President, Paul Ryan?
Of course.
What's some things that he's done that you like?
He's honest.
He's saying what the other thinking and not saying.
And he's in really good shape.
Well, based on this, I think McCain's going to maybe take it.
I think he must be busy with something at this moment.
Or perhaps he must be stuck somewhere in traffic.
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