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You do not punch a puppy when you're smoking weed.
Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
And Sunday, November 4th, 2012, time for Gitmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 458.
This is no agenda.
Tea bagging my left eye here in the hotel in San Francisco in the People's Republic of Northern California.
Yay, good morning, everybody.
I'm Adam Curry.
And from northern Silicon Valley, where I remain, I'm John C. Dvorak.
It's Crackpot and Buzzkill in the morning.
Yeah.
Infected eye.
You have...
Stink eye?
Stink eye.
What is that called?
A sty?
Well, it used to be a stye is a layman's term, but it's called something else.
No, I have an infected eye.
Yeah, you've got to get this goo in it.
You put it in the eye and boom, you're good to go.
Well, when you're doing a show, and not just any show, of course, when you're doing...
The best podcast in the universe!
You can't be like going to the pharmacy in the morning.
You've got to make do with what you've got.
On Sunday in the morning.
On Sunday in the morning.
Miss Mickey has given me a chamomile tea bag.
I have to say, there's something to it.
Well, if it clears it up, you're in business.
Yeah.
You know, I got this, of course, from some of these nasty rich people last night.
That's where I got it from.
Well, you shook too many hands and then rubbed your eyeball?
No, they were licking my eye.
You know, these elites, man, they're crazy.
Hey, we need to lick an eye today.
So let me explain.
Pick him.
Miss Mickey and I are in San Francisco.
Every year we host a charity benefit, which is for the Resurge They've been around for like 42 years, and they are the original charity that sends doctors out, not just any doctors, plastic surgeons, reconstructive surgists, to fix brown people around the world.
Mainly kids, so they have burn wounds, which is very common in developing countries, and cleft lips.
Cleft palates, I should say.
And so we do this every year, and it's really interesting because the people who attend this, these are the medical venture capitalists.
Now, you think that the guys who back Google and Facebook, you think they're rich?
What do you say, John?
Would you say that the medical finance community is richer than that?
Well, you know, if you take a look at some of these VC companies, like Kleiner Perkins, for example, they're deep into all that stuff.
I mean, they were the investors in Genentech.
Right.
And they got a lot of the guys in the company retired, you know, having too much money because of it.
And you should see their boats.
They're really nice.
So these are extremely wealthy people.
But what's interesting is 99.9% of them are Democrats.
You know you've known this.
I've known it.
The richest people I know are all Democrats.
But I'm putting it out there because most people think rich people are Republicans.
And that just does not ring true in my experience.
No, no.
It's never rung true.
The DuPonts, the Hursts, the Gates people, Warren Buffett.
I mean, all these super wealthy people that we personally know, I don't know any of the DuPonts, are all Democrats and they're adamant about it.
Exactly.
You know, the reason I have this rationale for it, which always annoys Democrats, is that's because the super wealthy do not like to see a lot of social movement.
They don't want to see people bumping into them.
They want to keep everything status quo.
And the Democrat Party, as far as I'm concerned, has always been to keep the classes where they are.
Or maybe push you down a little bit if you can.
To keep them away from us rich people.
Yeah, don't upset the apple cart.
We don't want to mingle with them.
Yeah, don't upset the apple cart.
This is good, the way it is.
We like being amongst each other.
Yeah, this is fine.
Just keep it that way.
The Republicans are always trying to, you know, even though not recently, because the Republicans have been acting like Democrats more recently with big government.
Yeah.
But the Republicans, which is why there's no reason to vote for them, the Republicans tend to be like, you know, let's put other people into that category, and the hyper-rich, the elites don't like to mingle with people, like the hoi polloi, it's beneath them.
Right.
Well, they put up with us.
Because, you know, we're doing something for free.
They're like, oh, well, let him hang around.
You're part of the celebrity class, which is kind of a proxy class.
You know, the Lindsay Lohans.
Wait a minute!
Wait a minute!
They get a lot of attention for themselves.
Taylor Swift.
Wait a minute!
Wait a minute!
You did not just put me in the category with Lindsay Lohan and Taylor Swift.
This is an outrage.
But you're right.
A lot of these people's wives, they all got trophy wives.
Not all of them.
I'm telling you, let's put it this way.
They're not inviting Richard Stallman to come up there and do these awards.
No.
I wouldn't go if he was giving an award.
No, but a lot of these VCs, they have wives who are 40.
And it's perfect.
That is my target demo.
They all remember me.
I talked to that guy.
I remember him.
He still has the hair.
Yeah, exactly.
And they all mention it, too.
Oh, yeah.
I've been around with somebody who recognizes you and they always go about the hair.
I literally talked a hundred grand out of one lady's pocketbook.
A hundred grand.
Get them to listen to the No Agenda show.
Yeah, no, if they listen to the show, we'll never get invited back.
They'll be like, oh, that guy.
Oh, no.
No, we heard his pod thing.
No.
No, that's alright.
We don't need him.
Anyway, but what some people know is that it's been, I think, over a year at least, but there was a rare Muhammad coming to the mountain as we shared a meal together, John.
Oh, yeah.
Do you remember?
Or did you forget already?
Yeah, we need to do it.
You know, some people, we have a new night that was wondering if we could talk a little bit about wine and food once in a while.
And I've got a couple things to say about that meal.
Well, let me first say that we had a...
So, you know, Miss Mickey and I come up here on our own dime to this charity.
And, you know, in order to have a meal at the restaurant we ate at, we were fortunate enough to have a patron who actually listens to the show and said, well...
Why don't I pick up the tab so you guys can do some food and wine talk?
And I have to say, we encourage this type of support of the program.
So, you were staying at the Ritz-Carlton, which is not as ritzy as it once was since the Marriott bought them about ten years ago.
No, it's basically a Marriott, yeah.
Yeah, it's a fancy Marriott.
In fact, they've noticed that the way they've changed it recently in the San Francisco operation, it seems to be wanting to compete with the Four Seasons.
I think they're trying to compete with...
I mean, it's got that same kind of...
Yeah, no, I think they're trying to compete with a couple of different hotels who have recently...
They're trying to have, like, a more contemporary lobby with kind of modern-ish art.
Right, a little W, a little W action.
Yeah, a W action.
That's exactly it.
It's kind of a W. And, in fact, the price is W price.
It's not really outrageously expensive.
I mean, all things considered, obviously.
And, of course, you know, before...
Yeah, our restaurant actually had a good...
They had a good, yeah, they had a discount.
They had a good tasting menu that was, you know, got a little tedious after a while, but it was inexpensive and considering.
But they had this, so here's the problem I always have with some of these places.
They don't have a wine sommelier.
And, you know, they can't afford the extra cost if somebody knows what he's doing.
And one look at their wine list, and you can tell it's just an incompetent mash together.
Well, hold on.
You should mention that the wine list wasn't a wine list.
They brought out an iPad in a leather binder.
An iPad.
Yeah, yeah.
I thought that was a bit much.
You should have seen John Roller's eyes.
Okay.
Oh, okay.
So it's like, okay, fine, they got an iPad wine list.
The cool thing was if you tagged one of the bottles, a pop-up came up and gave a little more details, although there wasn't a lot of details.
Whatever the case was, they had wines on there, and wine connoisseurs out there will recognize some of these, but...
1947 Chevelle Blanc, of all things, for $16,000.
And they also had 1945 Petrus for the same price.
And I'm thinking, for one thing, of course we couldn't get these wines, needless to say, but I'm thinking these wines can't be in good shape, period.
But be that as it may, the rest of the list was a mishmash of overpriced wines.
And here's what really got to me, and I really detest this, and I'm saying the word really too much, but I detest The markup, because I'm familiar with all the prices and most of the wines on there, 4X retail.
Really?
Really?
Yeah, the wine we had, 4X retail.
All the other wines that were picked out, 4X retail.
I mean, please.
Obviously, somebody ordered the $16,000 bottle of 47 Chevelle Blanc and sent it back, and now they've got to make up for it.
I have no idea why.
I actually suggested that we order that, and then as it was poured, we say, no, this is corked.
Yeah, you said that.
That was funny.
It's corked.
It's corked.
It probably was, too.
But anyway, so the joke is, so 4X retail is outrageous.
3X retail is outrageous.
A wine list should be, a good wine list and a good restaurant that's not trying to rip off the customer should be three times wholesale.
And that would be a reasonable markup.
So, no.
4X retail.
So I thought that was, that's the Ritz-Carlton.
What was the name of that restaurant?
They redid it.
It's the Parallel 37.
Yeah, Parallel 37.
And so, if you want to overpriced wines, there's the place to go.
Anyway...
Yeah, exactly.
Meanwhile, of course, I walk in with the Mater D, because we walk in to the table, I said, can we talk to the sommelier?
Because I was already looking at the wine list, and he says, oh...
For all your questions.
And I said, okay, great.
So I started grilling him about certain wines, and you could tell he was, he didn't know what he was talking about.
I mean, he was not, I don't know, it's hard to explain, but at some point when you have a rapport with a real good wine guy, and that's why I call him the wine guy, you can tell that they know what they're talking about.
You can tell.
They don't have like, well, they don't say things like, well, it's one of my favorites.
John, this guy was selling refreshments in the foyer.
He had no clue.
Even I could see the guy had no clue.
Yeah.
And, uh, so anyway, I wasn't going to pay any attention.
I was going to pay very little attention to whatever he suggested.
And so I had to wing it, so I picked a safe, overpriced wine.
Anyway, so that was that.
And I think this is going on a lot all over the place.
Could you just tell everyone what we drank?
Because I think people are interested.
We had, in 2009, Far Niente Cabernet Sauvignon, which was good.
It wouldn't have been as good as a Caymus.
It's a pretty label, yes.
And Miss Mickey thought it smelled like perfume.
It was a reasonably nice wine.
Let me see what the retail is for this.
It was quite outrageous, though.
No, I know what we paid.
4X, the retail.
I'm just wondering...
Now, while you're looking that up, we had the tasting menu for dinner, which was six courses.
And I have to say, so they lost their chef.
This is the chef who was there the last time we ate at this restaurant, John, which I think was two, three years ago, before it was this changed modern 37 Parallel.
Yeah, it was a French-style, classic French-style restaurant.
Yeah.
But they had just lost their chef to Michael Minna?
Is that what his name is?
The restaurateur?
Yeah, he went to a new Michael Minna restaurant.
Right.
So it was the sous chef who was still handling the restaurant.
I thought it was good.
I liked it.
You know, little tasty bits of this and that and, you know, some fish and some chicken and then some pork belly and, you know, it was good.
I liked it.
It was decent.
Well, it looks like we paid three times retail for that one.
Ah, anyway.
There were definitely 4Xs on there.
Anyway.
It was nice seeing you, John.
It was nice to see you in person.
Yeah, I know, but the pleasure was mine.
I'm sure it was.
It's so funny.
We meet up.
It's like, hey, hey, where's that challenge coin you got two of?
Yeah, here.
Hey, remember that Liberty dollar you got two of?
I got the KGB. The guys who donated some of these things, I got the KGB challenge coin.
They actually went over.
Adam has it.
And some...
Crazy pieces of silver and a Liberty dollar.
Ah, that's nice.
It's the exchange.
The exchange takes place.
And meanwhile, here I am, Mr.
Stupid.
I bring my Baofeng HT portable ham radio to San Francisco thinking John's going to be driving in in the battery car and he's going to be on the mobile and we'll have a chat all the way on the repeater.
But no.
No, I'm just getting static.
I'm hearing nothing.
Of course.
I didn't bring the battery car.
Oh, a disappointment.
Well, I looked at the traffic and I needed my tag, which gets me across the bridge faster, and I wasn't going to stand in line to use the battery.
I could wait to pay four bucks to go across the bridge.
All right, then.
Well, you're excused.
Anyway, Mickey is more in love with you than ever, and I guess that's a good thing.
Well, she uses me for certain kinds of advice about things like pocket cameras.
Yeah.
And I think I appreciate the fact that I do some research.
So, she's doing well as a photographer, apparently, so that's good for you.
She's doing better than our donations for these last two shows.
Yeah, yeah.
And by the way, I did not get the gig.
The what?
Remember Thursday?
I had a job interview.
Yeah.
It's the first job interview I've ever had, I've ever done, I think.
It's like, nah, that's not going to work out.
When you went to work for radio stations, didn't you have to do a...
Yeah, but this is not a radio station gig.
I'm just trying to get something that'll actually pay the bills.
Radio does not pay the bills, my friend, in case you hadn't noticed.
It used to.
Well, you've got radio, and then you have, below that, you have somewhere, after a whole big void, after Rodeo Clown, there's Podcaster down there at the bottom.
That's a rodeo clown.
You should reconnect to Mumble.
There's a huge delay we've got right now.
Oh, we're getting a delay?
Yeah, I can tell you're really delayed.
Just reconnect.
Okay, I'll do what I have to do.
Of course, when you reconnect, then we know what happens.
Yeah, now it won't work.
It's going to take me another five minutes to get to sound.
It'll be worth it.
It's okay.
I'll hum a little ditty.
But you should really do that.
I'll be right back.
Okay.
Of course, I still have this cold, which I think part of it was allergy-related.
Yeah, I saw you.
You didn't look sick.
Oh, thanks.
Believe me, I'm sick.
You don't look sick.
It's bullcrap.
It's got to either be an allergy, which makes a lot of sense to me.
It's a new area.
And when people move into a new area, in a new culture, they always have psychological issues and they give them allergies.
What?
Okay.
You're saying I have psychological issues?
No, it's what happens when you move into a new environment that's so radically different from everything you're used to, and I would say Texas qualifies.
Yeah, well, it's the mold allergy, and I have pills for it, but I wasn't taking enough, I guess, and so there was like...
No, but there's like a severe allergy alert and I wasn't paying attention and you let that go on for...
They have these allergy alerts.
One day it's cedar, the next day it's, I don't know, ragweed.
None of that bothers me.
No, ragweed's the worst.
I actually am allergic to that.
Well, apparently the mold is what I'm allergic to and they had like a red alert all the way to the end of the scale and I was like, you know, popping two of these pills when I was supposed to be taking 12 a day.
I thought I was on maintenance.
So that's what happened, but then you get this combination of the nasal drip, and anyway, who gives a crap?
There's stuff to talk about in the world, but first let us thank our...
Let me see the list here.
Do we have someone to thank?
Yes, we do.
We have three people to thank, and they deserve all the thanks in the world.
They saved the day.
Because the number of people that came in at the normal race is pretty pathetic.
But not so with these folks.
And by the way, change Vivian Poole's name to Vicki, as she calls herself, on the knighthood thing.
She's in Memphis, Tennessee.
She donated 62969.
And she says the donations should make her total contributions to the greatest podcast in the universe equal 10, 11, 12.
Woo!
I know I'm very late for the actual October 11th date, but I cannot resist the 33 representation.
Those numbers add up to 33.
Right.
And unlike 55-55, which you no longer accept...
In hindsight, it's a mistake.
I feel pretty sure that you will accept my overdue contribution.
I must admit that I missed the food and wine talk from earlier days.
We fixed that.
Yeah, we fixed that today, and all we do is grouse.
Maybe Sunday after Adam's trip to San Francisco, indeed.
But I still find your deconstructions of the media priceless.
Thank you so much for all the work you put into the podcast for all of us slaves.
This seems to be scrambled.
I think you can read it very well.
She's like an...
Hold on a second.
I've got something to drink.
Are you going to do everything in the world?
She's like an Atlas Shrug karma hit.
There you go.
And she says she does not want us to talk through the karma.
It seems like I feel the hit when you let it play unencumbered.
Okay.
Knock yourself out.
Alright, be quiet then.
By Ayn Rand.
You've got karma.
Mmm!
A clean shot of Atlas Shrugged karma for you, Vicky.
Thank you.
Ronald Dreslinski Jr.
in Sterling Heights, Michigan came in with 519.
And did I get a note from him?
I don't think so.
I didn't see a note.
Okay.
If I find a note, I'll look him up during the meantime and then we'll read it at the beginning of the other section if it's in there.
Sorry, Ronald.
We'll get to you.
Daniel Mack in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The usual long-time boner.
First-time donor.
$458.
Hope you received my donation today.
Please continue poking holes in the...
In the net covering our gilded cages, can I have a de-douching and the following parliamentary, or the following parliamentary grumble, little Italian girl shut up slave karma.
Okay.
Hold on a second.
I wasn't quite prepared for that.
So we need parliamentary mumble, Italian shut up girl, little, okay, hold on.
I can get, I can do this.
And he will also be the sole member of the 458 Club.
We always do encourage people to join the episode number of the club.
And here we go with your de-douches.
You've been de-douched.
You've got karma.
You know, for a road show, not bad.
No, I don't think that nomination works, though.
Alright.
But it was a good shot.
It's always interesting to hear these combinations.
Anyway, those are our three executive producers for show 458.
I want to remind people we do have another show coming up on Thursday and we would like some support.
Go to Dvorak.org slash NA, channel Dvorak.com slash NA... The NoAgendaShow.com website has a button you can click on and also NoAgendaNation.com where you can buy all kinds of stuff while you're at it.
And it would be very helpful for us to get back on track here because this has something to do with the mess back east, I'm sure, but it's still pretty low.
Well, it's okay, because you can start blaming me on the fact that no one does 55's 55 anymore, and then you can just, like you started at the dinner, you can just be blaming me.
Okay.
Okay.
So we also want to thank our artists for the previous episode, Daniel McDonald.
Now that we have Martin J.J., has sidelined himself for a little bit.
We're seeing some excellent art come in from alternative artists, and we really appreciate all the work you do.
And you can always check out all of this work at noagendaartgenerator.com.
And of course, these executive producer and associate executive producer credits are real credits.
You can even join the Producers Guild of America, as we are seeing Sir Gene from Dallas, Texas do.
And unlike the phonies in Hollywood, we'll be more than happy to vouch for you.
Of course, there's always one thing you all need to do, and that's go out and propagate our formula.
Our formula is this.
We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
Oh yeah, man, it Come on, little girl.
And I actually forgot to say in the morning.
In the morning to you, Adam Curry.
In the morning to all ships and sea, boots on the ground, subs in the water, and feet in the air.
Also, in the morning to all the pleasant nights out there, and the new nights that are coming up, for all the support they give us.
And to all of our human resources in the chat room, listening live at noagendachat.net, noagendastream.com, as we do the show live every Sunday and Thursday morning, 9 a.m., Gitmo Nation West time.
And of course, we had a lot of people Come into the chat room this morning and go, Hey man, where's the show?
Are they late again?
I bet you it's Dvorak, late again.
So these were people from other parts of the world where the time changes on a different schedule as we fell back an hour.
And I would like to say welcome to Fossil Fuel Appreciation Day, because that's what this is.
I figured it out.
Oh, I didn't know.
I would have celebrated by driving the electric car into a pole.
Yeah.
It's Fossil Fuel Appreciation Day, as I have now researched, once again, I do it twice a year, as to why we are being robbed of an hour.
Because, you know, one way or the other, we're losing it.
We don't magically get it back.
This is not the give-back time, just because you get to sleep an hour longer.
And from what I've read, the scientific fact...
Is that because of the changing of the clocks, we actually wind up consuming about one to two percent more energy than normal.
Because of heating homes longer during dark hours and air conditioning during the extended daylight hours.
So I think that this entire daylight saving scam is just a fossil fuel appreciation movement.
You know, I've got to get...
I can't...
You know, I have some old clips.
And when I talk about old clips, I'm talking about from the 1930s.
They're so old, they're on 78 RPM records, these clips.
And actually, some 78s did come with these clips on them, which is a bunch of Hollywood celebrity types moaning and groaning about...
Daylight Savings Time, when they first put it out, I think it was, they've just been in and out of vogue in the United States for a long time.
Well, it wasn't official in the United States until 1966, which I was surprised by, because, you know, the story is, Benjamin Franklin was a smart dude, and, like, we're burning too many candles.
Please.
I don't, you know, that's probably not even true.
This is an oil-based thing to get people to use more energy.
This is bull crap.
I like the theory.
The real rationale has had to do with farmers, but that's okay.
It doesn't make any difference.
Farmers can get up any time they want.
Before we start going into the regular parts of Australia, I have to mention something.
Since one of our new upcoming nights, Vicky, is in Memphis, And we did mention Taylor Swift earlier in the show.
I have to discuss a press release I received.
Oh.
About Taylor Swift.
Oh, okay.
Well, this is very exciting.
You know, Taylor Swift, of course...
We have to remember, Taylor Swift, we talked about this two or three years ago when she was coming up the ranks.
John, you actually discovered her.
Taylor Swift was...
You discovered Taylor Swift.
Yeah, well, we discovered her.
Her father was a major, major player at Merrill Lynch.
Hedge fund.
Took her and the family, moved to Nashville.
Nashville, exactly.
And bought her a spot in history.
Bought her a spot in history because his specialty was, he was a money manager who specialized in individual management of the super wealthy.
Yeah, like guys who run record companies and guys who run NBC. Yeah, okay.
So he went to Nashville to get his daughter into the stream of things.
Now she's worth apparently $165 million.
Anyway, so this press release comes out from GoBankingRates.com.
It says for immediate release, Taylor Swift loses at the CMAs, but GoBankingRates identifies her five big money management wins.
Wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
Her dad is now pimping her out as a stock picker?
So there's a Taylor that goes on about, oh poor Taylor, she lost, she's the third richest, she's now worth $165, third highest paid woman in Hollywood after Oprah and Britney.
Yeah, I believe that.
Okay, I believe that too.
So Taylor Swift's five smartest money moves, this is what the press release is about.
So what do you think, number one, the smartest money move you can make?
What would be number one on your list?
On my list, that would be to invest in gold and silver.
Okay, well, you obviously got nothing to do with this.
Number one, I tell you what you should have been able to guess, find a good money manager.
Oh!
Oh, of course, that is number one on the list.
We need a top five drumroll for this.
Okay, that's number one, is go to your daddy and have him help you out.
Exactly.
So what's number two, John?
Number two is think strategically about money.
Oh, well, does that mean, like, don't just blow it on hookers?
Well, that's, I think, what it means, but what they have is their little explanation makes no sense.
It says, Taylor made headlines when she shared her decision to sell her new album, Red, in some unconventional places, including Papa John's and Walgreens.
Oh, yeah, Walgreens are unconventional.
How is that thinking strategically about marketing, but not about money?
Yeah.
Idiots.
Anyway, let's get there.
There's just three more.
All right, that's good.
That's good.
Number three is a real good one because it plays into a societal thing that's going on.
And I think it's the only valuable thing on here.
Don't be afraid to buy used items.
Oh, like that dress of hers.
That was clearly from Goodwill.
The funny thing is that she kind of contradicts what used actually means when they have their explanatory sentence.
And let me read it to you.
And you know, I'm thinking, well, this is kind of stretching the concept of used.
Taylor Swift has no problem buying used items, and according to her official website, goes into a trance when I'm in an antique store.
Ha ha ha!
This Louis Couture's desk.
It's used, but it fits my house so perfectly.
I buy nothing but used antiques.
It's the Used Goods Roadshow, everybody.
Brought to you by Taylor Swift.
That's awesome.
Two more.
Think about the financial future.
And then she says she worries about everything and doesn't say too much.
And then number five, now you have to remember, they already said she's got a net worth currently at $165.
She'll probably top off at about a half a billion dollars.
That would be my guess, the way she's going.
By the time she marries the wrong guy.
Well, she's pretty hard to deal with, it looks like, for men.
But the dad is not going to let her lose her anything.
The dad is in control of this.
But here's the kicker, number five.
And it's like, are you kidding me?
Start a college fund.
She wants to start a college fund for her children.
What?!
Right.
She can buy a school.
She's got $165,000 in the bank right now, and she wants to start a college.
Why?
So she can put $40,000, $50,000 aside?
Give me a break.
She can buy a college.
Yeah, she could.
The Taylor Swift University.
That would be something.
Well, that's great.
Now, that's very depressing, John.
Thank you.
You're welcome.
That's really great.
We got the real news.
Yeah.
So let me...
Let me start off by talking about Hurricane Sandy for a moment.
And I'm not talking about New Jersey or New York, Manhattan or Staten Island.
Although I do think, just on a quick side note, I found it, without a doubt, hilarious to see on Friday 800 people standing in line for an iPad Mini while we had 700 people in a different line getting food and water.
That, to me, was the epitome.
Welcome to America.
Welcome to America.
That was the epitome of Americana to me.
No, no, no.
I'm talking about, do you know where 50 people died from Hurricane Sandy, John?
50 people.
Any idea?
Where?
Do you have no idea?
Well, they could have died in Staten Island waiting for Napolitano to show up.
No, no, no, that was 20 people.
They could have died in a food line.
They could have been in one of the suburbs.
They could have been in one of those underground places where all these bums live.
No, it's even better.
It's even better.
While the world's attention was fixed on Storm Sandy's impact on the U.S., the hurricane force winds had already left a trail of destruction across the Caribbean.
In 1980, more than 50 people died as swollen rivers burst their banks and landslides damaged natural habitats and an estimated 20,000 homes.
The island's agriculture sector had already taken a battering from Hurricane Isaac, which hit in August.
After Hurricane Sandy, we've lost everything.
Our plantations, our livestock, and some of us have lost our homes.
This rice that we have left, we're now trying to plant again.
But we don't have much hope that it will ever be harvested, because we've heard that there are more storms ahead.
Across the southern third of the island, the storm caused a widespread loss of crops and food prices have skyrocketed.
One market seller says a cup of rice is selling for about 4 US dollars.
It used to sell at 2.50.
We can't get to another town to buy rice.
We're crying out that prices must be reduced.
Now, before I play the remaining 17 seconds of this report, so this is southern Haiti, Port-au-Prince, or Port-au-Prince, as we would say.
And so this, of course, is where we still have a couple hundred thousand people living in tents, eating mud cakes.
They have cholera.
Apparently, a cup of rice, four dollars for a cup of rice.
Did you hear the kicker?
Up from $250,000.
It was already a rip-off for a cup of rice.
And by the way, we are sending rice all over the place, and the Clintons collected $300 million.
Why don't we just bag rice and ship crap loads of it to Haiti?
I ask you.
The flooding has caused a spike in cholera with around 300 suspected cases.
With many of the population still living in makeshift shacks following the earthquake in 2010, the Prime Minister has launched a new appeal for international aid.
Okay, so this obviously irritates me to no end, because we had these billions and billions of dollars that were collected by our three presidents, President Obama, he had President Bush, and President Clinton, and all they said was...
We just need cash.
I know a lot of people want to send blankets or water.
Just send your cash.
And before, John, before you get into the fantastic star-studded celebrity telethon that we had, which of course we predicted very accurately that this would happen, happened even faster than I would have expected, what...
What we did with some of the exact same people two years ago was collect money for these people in Haiti in the South, which is very important to remember.
And of course now we had this big mission.
It was not just Hillary Clinton, but Hillary and Bill went to Haiti on October 23rd.
One week!
The timing is always everything with these Clintons.
One week before Hurricane Sandy passed through, and I have two clips, just so you can hear the douchebaggery, lying sacks of crap that these people are.
And what they're doing in the North, and making it look like everything is just fine.
First, here's Lucifer Hillary Rodham Clinton herself.
We have been united behind a single goal.
Making investments in this country's people and your infrastructure.
You lying sack.
That helped put Haiti finally on the path to broad-based economic growth with a more vibrant private sector and less dependence on foreign assistance.
Right.
So let me just get this straight.
One week later, we have people in the South already paying $2.50 for a cup of rice, jacking it up to four.
They've got more cholera.
They're still living in shacks.
And what are they doing here?
They are opening up a brand new $300 million garment center.
And run by South Korea.
The South Koreans have now enslaved the people of Haiti under the auspices of Bill and Hillary Clinton.
And I want you to hear Bill Clinton, who is hammered.
You have to see the video.
It's in the show notes, 458.nashownotes.com.
He is sloshed.
He's swaying from side to side.
You can hear it in his speech.
This industrial park in Haiti could provide progress for a nation grappling with instability.
The $300 million project was opened on Monday at an event presided over by Bill and Hillary Clinton.
Long term, it's hoped the park will create 130,000 jobs and a much-needed boost to a country still suffering from the 2010 earthquake.
UN Special Envoy Bill Clinton said the project showed Haiti was no lost cause.
What you see here today is an example of what works all over the world and a rebuke to those who say that progress is not possible or that government is always the problem or something else.
What works?
Did you hear that?
Or something else.
You know, furthermore, you're ugly.
Hillary made me do this.
Something else.
The guy is hammered.
His Haitian rum is good.
He doesn't even know what island he's on.
And meanwhile, there's Martelli.
Sweet Mickey Martelli, the douchebag musician they put in as the president of the country.
He's sitting, you've got to see this video.
The body language.
You've got Hillary to the right of him.
He's on the left.
He could not be leaning any more left.
And his eyes are just like, looking at her like, oh man, I hope she can't touch me with her penis.
I mean, it's frightening.
It is frightening to see what is going on.
These people are ripping off the country.
$300 million in South Korean money to enslave the Haitians, and it's going so well in the North.
They're douchebags.
And by the way, where was the singing for Haiti?
Where was the singing for Haiti?
It wasn't there, because you don't care.
But everyone feels great, because you texted your $10, and they came back, and they fooled you again!
You idiots!
You texted another $10 to the stupid Red Cross.
You know, the Red Cross is funny because they always get grilled about where this money went.
And they always say, well, you know, yeah, you text $10 to the Red Cross and it just goes into the general fund.
It doesn't go to Hurricane Haiti.
No.
It's just Sandy.
Hurricane Haiti.
Hurricane Haiti, that's where it came and went.
But Hurricane Sandy, I mean, it's just unbelievable.
So we had the crazy concert again.
I don't know.
They didn't overdo it.
They just kind of put it on NBC, and then they wrapped it around the regular programming.
But it finished.
It was all NBC guys, and it finished with this crazy pitch at the end, at the very end of the concert.
These guys came out, and Jon Stewart's up there.
Thank you.
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band.
To all the talented artists who joined us tonight, we thank you from the bottom of our hearts.
We have been jamming the lines.
You've done such a good job.
Jamming the lines.
That's a reference to jamming the songs on the stage.
Folks at the Red Cross, if you couldn't get through, they're going to be at it all night, so keep calling.
Keep trying on the web all night.
Jersey strong, man.
Just keep your heart in it.
We're coming back.
New York, Jersey, all the affected areas.
You guys have been very generous.
We really appreciate it.
Good night, everybody.
Hey, John.
John.
By the way, by the way.
Jersey strong, man.
Yeah, Jersey strong, dude.
Dude.
So at the end, when Stewart said that, the last guy I left on the stage, there was Al Roker, who tried to get...
If you hear the very end, he's trying to say something, they cut him off.
Cut it.
Well, of course, Roker's an idiot.
He's a douchebag.
No, that is actually just about the only thing I saw of the show live, because of our dinner, I think.
You must have taped it, because I didn't have a tape here.
Yeah.
And...
And I heard, even Mickey was like, what the hell is that Jersey Strong?
What does that mean?
Is that like a Lance Armstrong reference?
Like Livestrong, Jersey Strong?
Yeah, I don't know.
It was lame.
And all of this, of course, happened on the heels of the borough president of Staten Island saying this live on television.
They put together pots of soup, and they were distributed to the people down there whose homes were just destroyed.
And the American Red Cross was nowhere to be found.
Exactly.
The American Cross, nowhere to be found.
All these people making these big salaries should be out there on the front line.
And I am disappointed.
And my advice to the people in Staten Island is do not donate to the American Red Cross.
Let them get their money elsewhere.
Because we have hundreds of people, hundreds and hundreds of people in shelters throughout Staten Island.
So the guy literally says, hey, they got nice offices, they got nice salaries, but they're not here.
And by the way, I lived in Jersey for many, many years, 15 years, and I built businesses in Manhattan.
And you know what?
No one ever thinks about Staten Island.
That's why they forgot, because they just forgot.
That's what happens.
We think about Staten Island as a garbage dump.
As a wasteland.
And of course, there's real people living there.
But this is the actual culture of Manhattan.
And you saw it coming out.
No one will admit it.
I'll say it.
People don't think of Staten Island.
When you say, where are you from?
Staten Island.
I'm like, oh, really?
Because it's a forgotten borough.
Yeah, it is literally a dump.
It is built on a landfill.
It is a landfill.
And at Forgotten Borough, that's exactly what happened.
No one cares.
Certainly not Bloomberg.
Well, they cared enough that Schumer showed up and gave a spiel and he got chewed out by a bunch of old ladies and then Napolitano showed up.
Well, that was after this guy.
No, that was after this guy is when Napolitano shows up.
There's lots of coverage.
Okay, that makes sense.
Anderson Pooper's on the island all of a sudden.
Who, by the way, he...
I don't have the clip, unfortunately.
I didn't have time.
He said, my family goes back generations to Staten Island.
Really, Anderson Vanderbilt pooper?
Are you kidding me?
Really?
He said that?
Yes.
I wish I had a clip of it.
Well, he has some cousin that lives there?
Yeah.
Who knows?
Who knows?
Maybe he was cottaging.
I don't know what he was doing.
Meanwhile, in Manhattan, here's an interesting little tidbit that's not covered in the news.
Play the free gasoline clip.
All righty.
Across the river in New York City, drivers were no longer lining up at stations.
Instead, they were waiting in equally long queues at National Guard armories.
They'd been drawn there by the offer of free government-provided petrol.
What could possibly go wrong?
Free petrol!
So I have friends down by Exit 100.
Tom's River, I think we've discussed it.
Rumson, but mainly Tom's River, which is the poor side of Exit 100.
And Jack Ponte, guy who's been in the music business for a long, long time.
He's a very cranky, just a cranky dude.
And he was able to get internet service.
He had no electricity in his house for most of the week.
And he's got dogs and whatever, and he's just always complaining.
And he said, Adam, they are not reporting this thing correctly on the news.
We have National Guard with M16s guarding the gas stations.
And all you see on CNN is the same report.
The reporter going like, well, we're getting in line now.
Let's clock the time.
Okay, let's see how long.
Oh, it's 20 minutes later.
Let's see if we're going to get some gas to land.
And then you wait, and then...
We've been here for an hour and a half.
I hope we can still get some gasoline.
But they're not showing the National Guard with the M16s out there.
They're not showing the looting that is going on.
Real looting!
There is looting all up and down the Jersey Shore.
This is not being reported.
Instead, we get these I-reporter reports with the nice doodoo-loo piano music.
And I guess it's meant to make you feel patriotic and good or something about the resilience of the American people.
Jersey strong!
Yeah, Jersey strong, man.
In fact, the president on his, let me get it here for a second, where is it?
The president did his weekly YouTube address, and let me see, I thought I recorded that.
Oh yeah, here he is.
So he's in his flight jacket once again, because this of course is what we do as Americans.
We dress our president up in some kind of militaristic garb to make him look like they're actually doing something.
And so it's kind of this interesting little tidbit that he throws out, and then he goes into his whole America Hell Yeah routine.
If you've been directly impacted by this storm and need temporary assistance getting back on your feet, you can call 1-800-621-FEMA. 1-800-621-FEMA. Or apply at disasterassistance.gov.
If you know folks who are still without power, please spread the word and let them know.
So this is what I don't get.
Did he just say, if you know folks without power, he didn't say, go over there, help them out, give them a sandwich, get them some dry ice, bring them into your house.
No, he said, give them the phone number so they can get assistance.
You can call that number all you want.
It's not going to turn your lights back on.
You know what I mean, John?
That made no sense to me.
He's not a community guy.
He's a community organizer.
He's not a real community guy.
He doesn't think in those terms.
Well, here's his attempt at building community.
And if you don't live in an affected area and want to help, supporting the Red Cross is the best and fastest way.
Oh, just so you know, supporting the Red Cross is the best and fastest way.
That's the best and fastest way.
And can I ask you a question?
Why do I see reports in San Francisco all morning about people giving blood to the Red Cross?
I haven't heard that there was a need for blood.
There's no need for blood.
But this is what it is.
The whole morning on ABC and NBC... Not like something blew up.
No, they're saying, oh...
They're not people being hospitalized left and right needing blood.
I think the Red Cross is in the secondary blood market.
They're selling it to Russia.
I don't know what they're...
Why are they asking for blood?
Weird, huh?
Well, that you mentioned.
I didn't think about that, but you're absolutely correct.
It doesn't make sense.
I mean, they always use blood, but why more blood out of the blue?
Well, here's the rest of the President's moment.
This week we've been humbled by nature's destructive power.
No, no, no.
It wasn't nature.
This was man-made global warming.
It was a missed opportunity, Mr.
President.
But we've been inspired as well.
For when the storm was darkest, the heroism of our fellow citizens shone brightest.
Here it comes.
The nurses and doctors at NYU Medical Center who evacuated fragile newborns, carrying some down several flights of stairs.
The firefighters in Queens who battled an inferno from flooded streets and rescued people from an apartment building by boat.
The Coast Guard crews from North Carolina who saved a sinking ship in stormy seas.
And the rescue swimmer who, when he reached those in need, said, I'm Dan, and I hear you guys need a ride.
Did you see this story?
Because I want to see that package.
I didn't see that package.
No, neither did I. Obviously, I missed a really good produced package.
Hey, I'm Dan.
You need a ride?
I mean, is that not the movie ending to this?
Is that not the way we want to believe reality is?
That we've got Bruce Willis swimming out to some people drowning and says, Hey, I'm Dan.
I hear your people need a ride.
Yippee-ki-yay.
I mean, this is disgusting.
There are still people in Manhattan who have not eaten for days.
They're like 80, 90 years old.
They're on the...
18th floor and no one's come to look for them.
No one.
No one.
No Red Cross.
No FEMA. That's who we are.
We're Americans.
When times are tough, we're tougher.
We put others first.
We go that extra mile.
We open our hearts and our homes to one another as one American family.
We recover.
We rebuild.
We come back stronger.
And together, we will do that once more.
Yeah.
Thanks.
Alright.
God bless you, and God bless America.
Man, Jersey strong.
Jersey strong, Mr.
President.
Now, I do love Americans who do jump in and help each other, help the neighbors.
That's the only thing that's keeping people alive.
Yes, of course, eventually you'll get some kind of something from the federal government.
But again, people are being taught right here in this video.
If you've got a problem, call 1-800-861-FEMA. If you know someone else who has a problem, don't go help them.
Call 1-800-621-FEMA. That's not how you do it.
Hi, I'm Dan.
I hear you need a ride.
Anyway.
Well, you thought my thing about Taylor Swift was depressing.
Well, it's just, you know, yeah, it irritates me.
If you play the clip, Rationing Like 1970, I want to mention that everything you're going to hear in this clip is a fractal of exactly the same, about the same period in time 40 years ago, which is the cycle that exists, and this is the fractal.
We had the same thing, only it was under different circumstances.
As he turned, more than 100 cars and trucks snaked along at a snail's pace.
A little over three hours there, and hopefully another hour will take to get to the pump.
In this part of the state, only one in four stations had both the needed power and fuel supply to handle the demand.
And as midday approached, a new complication, rationing.
The governor of New Jersey has just announced that in less than three hours, motorists will only be able to get gas if the last number of their license tag is even-numbered, and it's an even-numbered day of the month.
Well, we have an even number, but this is an odd-numbered day, and so we're in a race against time to get to the pump.
We did make it before the deadline, otherwise it would be another day until our next chance to fill up.
Yeah, I remember the 70s.
Do you remember the even number day, odd number day?
No, I don't because I was living in the Netherlands.
You know what we had?
Auto-free Sundays.
Oh, that means you couldn't drive on Sunday?
No driving anywhere in the entire country.
Auto-free Sunday.
Wow.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Auto-free.
So just a whole day you were not allowed to drive.
Well, we should throw that in the pot.
That's a good idea.
As a Red Book prediction?
By the way, if you have vanity plates in New Jersey, you are seen as an odd man out and you are only allowed to go on odd number days.
So, yeah, no, it's going to be until, I think they're saying November 10th or 11th, until some people's electricity is restored.
And the only report...
And this was such a bogus report that I saw on...
This was NBC. It was great because we flew JetBlue.
Oh, by the way, once again, JetBlue.
Coach class tickets, priority line.
Hey now, Miss Mickey.
So JetBlue has...
Live television.
And so I'm watching these NBC reports.
I was able to get this one.
Which, I mean, if you look at the report, I think it was totally bogus and made up.
But this was supposed to show you the desperation in Manhattan.
Desperate.
It has gotten here in this neighborhood.
We're here outside the Key Foods Avenue A and East 4th Street.
And people are dumpster diving, and what they're going after here is the food that was inside these key foods.
We presume it all spoiled and was dumped out here for garbage, but instead those here, some that I've spoken with, so hungry.
They literally pried open this dumpster.
You see that door open right now, and they are literally...
Picking through for whatever they can take home with themselves.
We have seen everybody here, from the elderly to families with children, literally up on top of this, looking for whatever it is that they can take home with themselves.
Now, when you hear this report, you're thinking there's people with a diving board going, whee!
They're diving in the dumpster and they're just rummaging through it.
No, there's seven people and they have like sticks and they're poking at this thing like, I don't know, man.
They got like tongs, like kitchen tongs.
No, I don't think I'll take that.
This was not an act of desperation.
This was a lame attempt to try and give some balance to what is really going on.
Your news is fooling you people.
And whether the memo went out and said, you know, we can't have people actually knowing about the looting and about the starvation and the people dying up on the, you know, old people dying on high floor apartments.
Let's just balance it out a little bit and give them a little bit of this fake dumpster diving.
It really, it's disgusting to me.
It really made me angry.
And of course, you know, all we do is we text $10 to the stupid Jersey Strong thing.
The Red Cross has nice salaries.
They don't go to the right places.
They get all kinds of shills to come in and say, yeah, we're doing a great job.
You're not.
You're not.
Get off your ass and go help people.
Don't just text $10.
This is the demise of this country.
Well, I'm not going to argue the point.
Yeah, change your Twitter icon.
Just texting $10 just to make you, ah, I feel good.
I did my part.
I'm done.
Now, where's my iPad Mini?
Where's my iPad Mini?
That's literally what it is.
When's Apple going to lower the prices?
When's Apple going to lower the price of the iPad Mini?
I'm sick and tired of that.
What am I hearing?
Jeez Louise is so noisy here in San Francisco.
You got sirens going by?
No, someone's like, they're working on the road on a Sunday.
I don't know what they're doing.
Oh, yeah.
The way they get paid overtime and get to gouge the public for even more money.
Hey, so we were talking, you brought up on Thursday's show that Lucifer Clinton was in, was it Croatia, Belgrade?
Where was she again?
Yeah.
Yeah, she's in Croatia.
Uh-huh.
And we got a good note from one of our producers.
Exactly.
Ivan.
And you have it there, right?
Why don't you read some of it?
Yeah.
I got the note, and then I also have a couple things for us to look at, including a news article and a map.
John, I've got a map for you.
Ooh, a map.
Yeah, Ivan.
Producer Ivan says, while Hillary visited Croatia on November 2nd, in the November 3rd TV news...
Ivan says it was announced that the Russians are signing up with Hungary instead of Croatia for the South Stream project.
Turns out that the cost is greater with the Hungarians, but the Russians couldn't withstand Croatia's stalling anymore.
And indeed, I find the news report, Croatia regrets loss of South Stream pipeline route.
Now this is, of course, a natural gas pipeline.
And John, right now I'd like you to go to southstream.curry.com.
And I was right!
Immediately we understand why Hillary Clinton was there with the no-chin monster Baroness Van Ashton.
From the European Union, southstream.curry.com, and you will see here a map of two pipeline routes.
One is the Southstream, which is a Gazprom, or GSS as they're now known, the Gazprom Southstream pipeline route, which comes from Russia, piping gas into...
Why is my...
Is it opening for you?
Yeah, I'm looking at it.
Oh, it's on Currie.
It's probably loaded, overloaded the server.
No, no, no, no.
It's actually on some WordPress site.
No, no.
No, I understand.
But it's a forward.
Southstream.curry.com.
Yeah, but you hit it again.
It's fine.
Okay, I got it.
So you see the blue line is from Russia and Kazakhstan going through Bulgaria, through Sofia, going through Serbia, Belgrade, going through Hungary, Slovenia, and then through Italy into Europe.
And then we have the competing line, the Nabucco line, which is the competitor to the Russians, which of course is what Lucifer Clinton is shilling for, coming from Georgia, Azerbaijan, Iraq, going through Turkey, and then going through Bulgaria, and then routing through Romania, Budapest, and into Austria.
Into Europe.
So this, as we, it was so obvious, this is all about the competing pipelines, and they just wanted to cock-block the Russians.
Right, but the Hillary pipeline is not the, I mean, he wrote us a note, because obviously the argument was, if you look at Belgrade, that's where the pipeline should cut across Croatia from there, into Slovenia, instead of going all the way around Hungary.
Yes.
But Croatia seems to be left out of all this, and exactly what does Hillary...
She mentioned, according to the note, and according to her speech, that she wants Croatia to start thinking about LNG, liquid natural gas...
Terminals.
Terminals on the ocean, or there's the Adriatic Sea.
They have a whole huge coastline, the croats do.
But I don't see where it has anything to do with these two things, except for that one...
No, no.
The first thing is cock-blocking the Russians, and then rerouting Nabucco any way that is most efficient to get into Europe, which is why the no-chin monster from Europe is there, and why they're dangling European membership over these countries.
It's like, just participate in our pipeline.
No matter what they want to do, it doesn't really matter, as long as they get rid of the Gazprom line.
It's interesting that these two pipelines are competing with each other.
Well, because they're from two different organizations.
Yeah, I mean, this is reminding me of the early days of the Telegraph.
Ah, do you remember these days?
Yes, I do, as a matter of fact.
In the 1860s, just during the Civil War, there were probably 20 or 30 major telegraph companies.
And over the long haul of, I don't know, a decade or so, I think the telegraph wars maybe ended in the 1870s.
All during that period, of all the telegraph companies, Western Union, which ended up being the one we still know, was notorious for sending out goons to cut down other people's competitors' telegraph poles.
So they'd find somebody, line a bunch of poles up, and they'd send their goons out, and they'd chop the poles down.
And these other guys would try to chop down Western Union poles, and they'd get beat up.
and it was just a joke.
But this seems like the same kind of fractal.
This is exactly why we need more ham radio operators, because we are going to run into this with Internet and everything.
And please join my Echolink reflector, 775753.
I gotta keep plugging that.
Get that plug in there.
I do.
So anyway, Gazprom, just a little bit of nice pipeline news there.
They're launching two satellites at the end of this year.
And I'm thinking, what does Gazprom have to do with satellites?
Is that to watch their pipelines?
Or as you would say, duh.
That's the only thing I could come up with.
I just want some confirmation.
Anyway, so I'm sure Mr.
Oil will be able to fill me in on more of this Nabucco versus Southstream.
Although I don't know if he's still in the business.
He seems to be doing like a travel company.
There's still some missing information from why they took the route from Belgrade through Hungary as opposed to the Russians.
Well, you know, part of it is then that's the Russian pipeline.
I have to say, I've been to Croatia a couple of times because I write for a magazine there and hang out with some elites of the area.
Oh, nice.
Editors.
Nice.
And I'll tell you, you bring up...
To any Croatian, you bring up the Russians, and especially Putin, and they go ballistic.
They think he's a criminal, they go on and on and on, and the Croatians actually, I think, hate the Russians.
Well, there's a lot of hate in the region, for sure.
And Madeleine Albright, because of course all of this goes back to the Clintons originally when they were bombing the crap out of everything there, which of course, you know, I don't believe any of this, oh, the Serbs hate these and the Croats and blah blah.
Well, actually the Serbs and the Croats do hate each other.
Right.
But enough for us to go bombing one or the other?
I don't know the backstory on that bombing thing either.
It was very sketchy.
Yeah.
Madeline Albright was in her birth town.
She was in Prague.
And she was there for a book signing.
And apparently she's not well loved by the Serbs.
Yeah.
And I have a feeling this has to do with her work with the Clintons.
Exactly.
Yeah, sure.
So a whole bunch of Serbs come in, and they start kind of like yelling at her, like you're a war criminal.
Now, Madeleine Albright is about three foot nine, and she's sitting behind the desk, you know, one of these typical book signings.
But she is...
I'm going to play the audio for you.
It may not be that legible for you, John, through the mumble.
Hopefully people who listen to the podcast will be able to hear it.
So you'll hear her start yelling, you know, stop, stop, stop.
And at a certain point, she says, you disgusting Serbs.
Literally.
She does?
Yeah.
No, this was big news.
Oh, I missed this.
Yeah, listen.
They're coming around.
They're getting in her face.
Get out!
Get out!
You hear her?
Get out!
Get out!
She's yelling at these big dudes.
Hey, I'm listening!
Here comes the Stand by.
Could you hear it?
Oh yeah.
You disgusting Serbs!
Get out!
So, uh, no agenda there, huh?
That's a good one.
Yeah.
That, my friend, is Clip of the Day.
Oh, wow.
Okay.
Well, I mean, even when I'm on the road, I apparently still have the juice.
You still have what it takes.
I do.
Clip of the Day.
Disgusting, sir!
If you're going to start singing Clip of the Day, I'm not going to give it a word anymore.
No, I won't.
I won't do it.
I'm sorry.
I won't do it.
Wow, good one.
Yeah.
So meanwhile, since we're talking about this sort of thing, I think the most suppressed news story is about Putin.
About his back.
About his back, my ass.
They think, the smart money thinks that when he went out to that, driving around with those cranes, that that little lighter than air bullshit aircraft crashed.
Then he crashed the ultralight?
And he's all dingy.
Here, play Putin's story.
Russian President Vladimir Putin prides himself on his alpha male image, but recently he's almost disappeared from public view.
Rory Challenge reports from Moscow where Putin's health is the talk of the town.
Donning his aviator goggles recently, Russia's presidents took to the sky.
The September flight with the Siberian cranes of the Yamal Peninsula was a textbook Vladimir Putin publicity stunt.
But is it possible he came down with a bit of a bump?
A few days later at the Asia-Pacific conference in Vladivostok, some observers said he was moving with a limp.
And gossip-hungry Russians have been noticing a few suspicious changes to their leaders' behaviour.
Normally, these roads would be closed down at least twice a day as Putin's motorcade brings him either to or from the Kremlin.
But recently, there's hardly been any sign of him.
As his regular forays into Russia's wilderness prove, Vladimir Putin is a sporty man.
His spokesman explained that anyone who is this athletic picks up the odd injury every now and again.
He's had them before, the spokesman said, and he's just got a little back strain now.
Nothing serious and nothing to do with flying with the cranes.
Hmm.
I don't know if I buy this.
I'm telling you, they showed some shots of him.
He looks like a guy who just had a concussion.
Hmm.
He's got a dingy look.
He's just kind of like, he doesn't look like, normally Putin's got this snide kind of, you know, knowledgeable quality about him.
And he just didn't look right.
But play the second half of this clip and there's another couple of observations.
Hmm.
But since his trip to Vladivostok, a number of official trips have been postponed or cancelled.
Russians are wondering whether there's something more seriously wrong with him.
Putin indeed is secretive in that his private life is fully closed from the people.
We never see him with his wife, we never see him with his children.
His family is totally out of it.
Putin draws his inspiration from the time when he was beginning his career as a KGB officer in the USSR. He may be a tough guy, but Vladimir Putin is 60, and his strength can't last forever.
This alpha male persona is so important to his reputation, though, that information of any infirmity or weakness will be tightly managed.
Rory Callens, Al Jazeera, Moscow.
This, by the way, is also a fractal, John.
I mean, we've seen this with Russian presidents.
And usually they're drunk.
Right?
yeah um now the reason why you don't see him with his wife i believe i mean the guy is clearly gay i mean so whatever's going on there in his palace uh he's he's bi-curious at the least bisexual for sure but probably just really gay um and i think he's probably hooked on something he He's whacked out.
He's out of it.
And they're trying to get him...
Either they're trying to get him back or they're not.
They're just trying to keep him drugged and subdued or MKUltra'd, whatever.
But this is not new for Russian presidents.
No, it's true.
Now, I'm still of the opinion that something bad happened or he hurt his head.
But let's assume that that's not the case and something more along the lines of him being drugged or something like that is in play.
Now, that kind of confirms another curious thing I saw on all these clips.
The close-up shots of him in that ultralight aircraft, He also has kind of a dinghy...
He does not look...
No, he looks distant.
He looks distant.
I agree.
He looks as though he's not a happy camper, to say the least, in that stupid plane.
So, here's the thing that I have a problem with.
Or let me just say, I think there is something wrong.
Because his PR efforts are so well orchestrated.
And we have a lot of friends of the show and supporters, although I don't think we get a lot of actual donations from Russia.
You remember when he did that fishing expedition with Medvedev and they're sitting on the pier there and they're reeling him in one after another?
Now, the story I heard is it is so tightly controlled, these types of PR things that he does, that he had...
Divers, so divers in wetsuits in that pond, putting fish on the hook.
And people figured out that this was happening because they put a fish on the hook that doesn't naturally swim in that water.
Or dead fish.
Well, you know, that little mechanical tail.
You caught a dead fish, Putin.
You're unbelievable.
You're so awesome.
But they're not even doing that.
So maybe, just maybe, this guy has been under someone's control for quite a while.
And we're now just starting to notice it.
But I don't think he's covering up.
I think there's something seriously wrong, but more of the addictive kind, or that someone's just placed him under a voodoo spell or something.
Well, it could be the Russian mob having something to do with this.
I mean, for one thing, there's a lot of these ultra-billionaires that came out of the collapse of the Soviet Union, all by corruption.
And they're a very powerful group as a whole, and they're worried about...
Putin, I think, threw a couple of their boys in the slammer for no real good reason, without a trial, kind of.
Oh, hold on a second, John.
This just in, we have breaking news, breaking news from our Russian friends just in.
Putin's back pain apparently is a cover-up.
There was an assassination attempt.
On his way back from the summit, they destroyed an entire section of the road in the bomb blast, and that's how he hurt his back.
This just in from our trusted Russian sources.
Well, you know, that would make sense.
Would, wouldn't it?
Because he's not coming out with something.
He's going to be driving around in an armored car.
Possibly, you know, the Italians are the ones, the mob, Italian mob is the ones who invented this idea.
You take a part of the roadway, because you have a construction crew that's mob-owned, and you take a huge swath of the roadway and you plant high explosives throughout the thing for about, I don't know, probably a sixteenth of a mile.
And then when the car is going across, or the whole motorcade, as in the case, was a judge that they had to kill in Italy, or maybe it was Sicily, which is Italy, but I think it was the mainland.
Maybe it was Italy or Italy.
They blew up this thing and it made a huge, like a bomb hole, huge, and blew the car into the air into smithereens.
And it's possible that this sort of thing could have happened to Putin.
Well, that news literally just came in as we're doing the show live from one of our trusted Russian sources.
On his way back from the summit, I don't know which summit would that have been, do you think?
Which summit?
Well, let me just...
Well, let me see.
We're talking Putin's summit.
Putin's summit.
You know, I love the book of...
The last big one, they did mention Vladivostok in the...
It must be Vladivostok.
Oh, well, top hit here.
Kremlin denies injury reportedly from bird stunt.
Has grounded Putin.
Okay.
Putin's summit.
That was my thesis.
Yes.
Obama, well, your thesis is the same as ABC News.
Uh-oh.
Okay, we know that our guy's probably better.
I think we have better info than ABC News.
Let me see.
Obama stays away from Putin's summit.
What was Putin's summit?
Was that the Asia...
Oh, was that the big Asia-Pacific summit that Hillary attended?
That was the one in Vladivostok, I just said.
You're right.
You're right.
That was the one.
Okay.
So on the way back, in Vladivostok, of course, it would make sense because he's probably...
You know, it's a home game.
Not liked in Vladivostok.
Not liked there at all.
And they tried to blow him up.
That sounds like a reasonable...
But he's got to do something.
So, Red Book prediction.
He's going to come out and he's going to do a parachute jump.
Or...
What else could he do, John?
Could he...
He likes gallivanting around shirtless with his...
It's got to be something you can do with a back brace on.
So what could it be?
I think he should do something that is not physical on the body, but maybe kill something big.
Can he go shoot something?
Oh, he could go hunting an African and drop an elephant.
Yeah, something big.
He's got to do like a real manly man thing.
No, we'll just keep our eye on it.
But you know it's coming.
Whatever the case is, something is up at this point.
Well, I think even the little bit of information we have is probably better than you're getting from ABC News.
If they've discussed it at all, if they had any time in between...
Well, I didn't think it was being discussed at all by any of the mainstream guys when I first pulled this clip from Al Jazeera.
Yeah.
Well, it's not really, because ABC has now, I saw this this morning, they have purchased the package from CNN, the iReporter package, with the piano music.
Oh.
It's so disgusting.
It makes me want to throw up.
Well, that story isn't obscure enough.
I have one other one that I think is not being covered at all, and when I heard it, because, you know, we're talking about wine and food again, I said, well, that's interesting, that's against the way, but I didn't know any of this.
Play the saffron scam.
The saffron is a key part of Afghanistan's local economy, but recently prices have been falling.
Bernard Smith reports from Pashtun Zargun in Herak province, where farmers are struggling.
It is the most expensive spice in the world.
Saffron has been used for thousands of years in cooking and traditional medicine.
But the saffron farmers of Pashtun, Zagen, have seen the price of their valuable crop collapse.
Farmers are being crippled by the fall in saffron prices.
We used to sell a kilo for five thousand dollars, but now we only get a thousand.
Many farmers say they'll go back to growing poppy.
Much like the opium producing poppy, the saffron producing crocus thrives in this arid land.
It's twenty years since the crocus was introduced here, allowing farmers to turn away from the drugs trade.
Most of the saffron goes to Iran and is repackaged as an Iranian product.
Afghan farmers say a glut of the spice in Iran has hit prices.
They also blame the Afghan government for not providing any marketing support to promote their high quality saffron.
These Iranians have been selling us a bill of goods about the saffron being their product.
I'm telling you, I've stolen it.
I went to the gourmet food shows, and I, oh yes, well, you know, Iran has got all the saffron.
We're the real producers of the best saffron, stuff from Spain and Italy, bull crap.
And they're just getting it from the Afghanistanis, who are growing it by the bushel load, by the kilo load.
Good price, by the way, $5,000 a kilo.
If you get it for $1,000, which is $1.50 the old price, I guarantee if I go to the Iranian store that's down in the street here, they will not have any cheaper prices.
There's a gouge going on.
There's a gouge!
And do you use this spice yourself, John?
All the time.
Because I've never used this, and I'm thinking maybe I should.
It seems to be a very powerful thing to use in your cooking.
Well, I was using a couple basic dishes that you might want to play with.
One is any sort of fish stew.
Would benefit from saffron to an extreme.
But generally speaking, what is used by the Iranians, and I cook rice in that style, it's used in rice cooking.
You color the rice with it and flavor the rice with it, and it's absolutely fantastic.
It's one of the tastiest things you'll ever eat.
Hmm.
Saffron rice.
Saffron it is.
You know, speaking of kind of spices from foreign lands, We were picked up at the airport by our friend, Tony the Terrorist, who used to drive me whenever I'd come in from Los Angeles, when I frequented the Bay Area more often.
Tony, of course, is from Lebanon, but he's in one of these families that are rich in London and all over the place.
He is the outcast black sheep.
He's driving a 2002 town car around San Francisco doing some translation work on the side.
And he probably is a real terrorist.
He has links to Al-Qaeda.
And I'm like, you know, Tony, what is going on with Yemen?
You got to explain why.
Because we talk about everything.
Oh, by the way, he totally confirmed the hostage situation in Syria.
Completely confirmed it.
He said his brother overheard a conversation in Tunisia where they were yelling at some guy on the phone because not only had the ambassador suffocated in the fire, which wasn't supposed to happen, but one of the three other guys was a higher level official who was not supposed to be killed, and the whole thing was ordered from the United States.
So that's confirmed, and I believe Tony the terrorist.
Second, Yemen.
I like the idea that you accept that as confirmation.
From this guy, yeah.
But I don't accept it as confirmation, but I do accept the thesis.
We developed the thesis right away.
Yeah, yeah.
It's okay.
I mean, but he was even like, everyone knows this, is what he was saying.
Oh, well, that I can see.
In the Middle East, people don't realize.
Like, we talk, in the United States, people, especially just a classic.
Like, we talk about Britney Spears.
Or Honey Boo Boo.
Or Honey Boo Boo.
Honey Boo Boo.
You're the one that mentioned Honey Boo Boo, by the way.
In the Middle East, all they talk about is politics and they are all watchdogs of the political system.
We don't even care in this country at all, except for our show.
Yeah, and they all know about what's going on, and they know all the players, and it's tribes, and a lot of it's word of mouth.
But I think that I'm just believing this, so I'm down with this as confirmation.
If it's good enough for Tony the Terrorist, it's good enough for me.
So then I move on.
Remember, I only have a short trip from SFO to downtown San Francisco.
It's only about 25, 30 minutes, so I've got to grill the guy, and Mickey's just laughing.
She's just laughing because she loves it.
And...
I'm like, okay, what about Yemen?
He says, Adam, I tell you, people in South Yemen, he says they're great people.
He says the people in North Yemen, he says they are the worst people in the world.
He says if he had a nuclear bomb, he would go and blow them all up.
This is Tony the Terrorist.
I'm like, well, I don't understand.
These tribes, they're backstabbers, they're liars, you can't trust them.
I said, well, what do they do up there?
Why are we droning them?
And then he said, oh, it's because of the scat trade.
You know that stuff that people chew?
Cat.
Cat, I'm sorry, scat.
Scat is shit.
The cat trade.
I'm thinking, what trade?
What kind of sick trade is this?
I'm sorry, I'm ill.
The cat trade.
That was...
Hold on a second.
Where am I? Here we go.
There you go.
So it's the cat trade.
He says they export so much of that stuff to the United States that people, particularly in San Francisco, people are high on it day and night.
And what's happening, this is just another poppy trade.
That's why we're droning these creeps.
We're taking over their drug business.
This is a drug business no one ever talks about.
Well, it gets talked about occasionally, usually by one of the news weeklies.
It comes up in the conversation.
You can grow cat in this country, too.
It's very hard to get the seeds or the plants.
You can grow poppies here, too, if you want.
You'd have to grow a huge field to make it worth your while.
But...
I didn't know that anybody in this...
Who's using the cat here in the U.S. of A? How about all the brown people?
Really?
Mm-hmm.
This I'm going to have to look into.
I find it hard to believe that cat's being used at all.
For people out there, you can look it up on the Wikipedia.
It's a mild stimulant that apparently workers in the Middle East, the low end, the poor of the poorest of the poor, because stuff is cheap, this cat, can work a lot harder than For their dollar an hour or whatever, they get paid or less.
If they're stoned on cat, because it gives you a lot of energy, it's kind of like cocaine.
It's like poor man's cocaine.
Hello!
I mean, ever hear of crack?
Ever hear of weed?
I mean, these are all drugs.
If there's a market for it, you can bet the United States of America, including our politicians, are in on the game.
It's what we do!
We're having bombs.
Yeah, but we use the bombs to control our business.
What are you doing?
I'm just thinking about this.
What was that?
It was a pen.
I'm going like this with a pen against my chair handle like this because I have this kind of a nervous tick when I'm trying to think about something.
And so I'm making this noise.
Hear it?
In the United States, CAT is a Schedule 1 drug.
Schedule 1.
What is that?
Really?
Yeah.
I think that's the worst, isn't it?
Yeah.
So, of course.
Or the best.
I don't know.
It's the best.
Let's look it up.
What's Haldol, then?
Cat is a stimulant.
Categorized by the US. Yeah.
I don't know what category one is.
What is a schedule one drug?
I'm looking that up.
List of schedule.
Why do they call it schedule drugs?
Schedule.
Who knows?
Schedule.
Schedule 1.
The drug or other substance has a high potential for abuse.
The drug or other substance has no currently accepted medicinal use and treatment in the United States.
There's a lack of accepted safety for use of the drug or other substances under medical supervision.
Texas Board of Pharmacy.
Schedule 1.
Drugs with a high abuse risk.
Period.
These drugs have no safe accepted medical use in the United States, including marijuana, which is bogus.
Heroin.
Heroin, which is also bogus.
MTMA. They're all bogus.
PCP and crack cocaine.
Well, crack cocaine you can do without.
DMT, which is very good.
Schedule 2 is drugs with a high abuse rate, but safe accepted medical things like Percodan.
Regular cocaine, morphine, Ritalin, Haldol, Ritalin, Adderall, all easily obtainable through prescription.
Yay!
And then Schedule 3, 4, and 5 are drugs with an abuse risk less than 2.
These drugs have a safe and accepted medical use, including hydrocodone, which I believe is oxycontin.
Right.
So OxyContin is a schedule of 3, 4, or 5?
Yeah, because that's the legal heroin.
This is classic.
It's the legal heroin.
I love it how people say I have no authority to talk about drugs on the show because I've never done coke.
Did somebody say that in the chat room?
Yeah.
Ban them.
Yeah, ban them.
Kick that guy off.
I'm reading right from the State Board of Pharmacy.
What authority do I need to read from a website?
I am the authority when it comes to dope, to pot, to marijuana, the Mary Jane, the reefer, the herb.
Let me reiterate what I just said.
I am reading directly from the State Board of Pharmacy.
I can't read because of some douchebag in the chat room?
They were complaining about me.
I don't care who they're complaining about.
I'm telling you what I think.
You always are the genius.
No one ever complains about you.
You have all the credibility in the world.
It's that Curry.
He doesn't know shit.
I can't read.
He's a disc jockey.
He's never done coke.
He doesn't know anything.
Anyway, the point is that this schedule thing is crap.
So CAT would be Schedule 1?
Which makes it a highly desirable commodity to be selling.
I've never even known this was available to anybody.
See?
This is why you've got to get out of the house.
You've got to talk to terrorists.
I've got to hang out with more swarthy Middle Easterners.
I'm telling you, man, Tony the Terrorist is a treasure trove of information.
I think it's spelled K-H-A-T. Yeah, but also Q-U-A-T, I think, is another way to spell it.
Q-A-T-G-A-T-M-I-R-A-A. I don't know how you pronounce that, Kat, but okay.
All right.
It's a flowering plant native to the Horn of Africa in the Arabian Peninsula.
Let me see if we've ever had a cat bust here.
Cat...
Cat bust.
Cat bust.
Cat bust by disgraced Toronto Police Drug Squad.
Hey, man, this is like stuff that...
It's a little herb that grows on the...
It's cathaedulis.
It's a very easy to grow plant.
Yeah, it's easy to grow weed too, dude, but we still import that from Mexico.
Dude!
Dude!
Green Bay, Wisconsin.
Three men are facing criminal charges of possession.
They don't want this to get out.
Let me read you this from the Wikipedia before you go on with that.
I have to read this.
Cat contains a monoamine alkaloid called cathione, which is said to cause...
This is it.
Excitement?
Okay.
Loss of appetite and euphoria.
This is a diet drug.
It's in the weightings.
It's in the wings.
We need more diet drugs.
You don't see a fat Ethiopian.
No.
No.
I'm sure it's not because of famine.
They're chewing too much cat.
Yes, people in the chat room.
I've never done blow.
I've never done coke.
I've done Adderall.
Hey, we don't want to...
Just stop talking to the chat room.
They're 86 for the rest of the show.
All right.
Ixnay on the at room, Che.
Listen to this.
I think you're right.
I think that no one wants anyone to know about this.
I bet you this is huge.
I have a feeling the cat trade is so much bigger.
You know, it's a possibility.
This is a great discovery.
But why else?
Because I said to Tony, I said, why are they droning these people up there in Yemen?
He says, first of all, they deserve to die.
That's his Middle Eastern thing.
Well, that's him.
That's him.
Yeah, no bigotry amongst the Middle Easterners.
But I even pushed him.
I said, is it because of the pipelines?
He said, no, man, it's because of their cat trade.
Because you can't trust them.
So I think these guys, they're bogarting, you know, they're like screwing us on some deals, and then to show them who's boss, we fly a couple of drones and shoot a hellfire or two, and like, oh, okay.
So we must be organizing some complete drug route with all this cat.
Look, we got a lot of people who know what this stuff is, and I'm sure they're digging it.
And according to Tony, there's container full showing up here in San Francisco.
Wow!
Yeah!
I can believe it.
In 1854, Melee writer Abdullah bin Abdul Qadir noticed that the custom of chewing cat was prevalent in 1854 in Al-Hudea in Yemen.
Uh-huh.
So this is all...
This is interesting.
This is a total twist that no one has ever even thought of bringing up on a mainstream media news show.
No.
Well, of course not.
Because they don't have the balls.
Bundles of cats seized by the DEA in July 2006.
Bundles of cats.
Bundles, I tell you.
I gotta try some of this.
It's an interesting looking product.
You chew it.
It's chewed much like the coca leaf might be chewed in the mountains of Peru.
Do they have this?
I think this is what I had in Thailand up by the Burmese border.
The women there, they chew the beetle root, but I think they wrap it...
No, betel nut.
That's betel nut.
That's different.
But wait, I think they wrap it in a leaf.
Isn't that the cat leaf?
I think that's the betel nut, the betel juice thing, and you spit out that red goo.
Yeah, I've done that.
That's their stimulant.
They use that extensively in Taiwan, too.
The fresh leaves and tops are chewed or less frequently dried and consumed as tea in order to achieve a state of euphoria and stimulation.
It also has an anorectic side effect.
The leaves or the soft part of the stem can be chewed with either chewing gum or fried peanuts to make it easier to chew.
I smell another no agenda product coming on.
Ha ha ha.
Hey, I've got to try this.
Ladies and gentlemen, if you know where I can get me some cat in Austin.
Now you're just soliciting illegal activity.
I guess you've been doing that for a while.
Yes, I'm going to try this.
Of course.
Are you kidding me?
You're not going to find it.
This is a different milieu.
We are nowhere near this milieu.
Yeah, but we've got Middle Easterners.
We've got Africans in Austin.
We've got a lot of people from West Africa.
I'm sure there's a hookup.
You know the funny thing about this?
I'm just making a wild guess, but I'll bet if you go floating around some of the Middle Eastern stores that are in San Francisco and elsewhere, it's right there.
Yeah, it's probably right there under the counter.
You can just go grab it.
No, I bet you it's right there amongst the vegetables where you go, what the hell do you use this for?
Yeah.
Yes, the old lady.
By the way, I do this when I shop in Chinese areas.
I'll look at some crazy plant, which could be a bundle of cat, and I say, and I look to the old, old Chinese woman who's there buying stuff, and I say, what do you use this for?
And she goes, I don't know.
But why is it in your store, lady?
I said, no, no.
Alright, so this is a new avenue we must pursue.
This is never before discussed.
As far as I know, I've never seen anyone talk about CAT on any mainstream news channel.
And now we know the trade comes directly from Yemen.
And this may be the reason.
No one ever asks.
They always talk, yeah, okay, we're droning people in Yemen because Al-Qaeda on the Arabian Peninsula preparing to attack us.
Okay?
So, yeah, I'm buying that.
I'm really buying that.
Why does anyone buy that?
Well, there's no reason to question anymore.
Are we pronouncing it right?
What, cat?
Yeah, is it cot?
No, no, it's cat.
You sure it's not scat?
Because I think that's better.
I think cat is scat.
And by the way, it's legal in most of the world.
Ethiopia, it's legal.
It's a good wiki page on this.
K-H-A-T. Look it up, people.
It's Schedule 1 drug in America, equal to heroin.
It's consumed by older Mizrahi Israelis.
Raw plant is edible for sale in several open markets.
In Israel, it's legal.
It's obviously legal in Yemen.
Awesome.
It's an illegal drug in Finland.
It's prohibited in France.
It's a non-trafficable substance in Germany.
So you know that this is where the trade is going on.
If it's illegal, that's where your government is trading in it.
Love it.
It's a hard drug in the Netherlands?
Oh yeah.
Oh yeah, of course.
Its use is mostly limited in Holland to the Somali community?
Oh, if it's in Holland, I'll have Mickey bring some back from her trip.
Well, she'll never get it.
Yes, she will.
We know Somalis.
In Norway, cat is classified as a narcotic drug.
Illegal to sell or use or possess.
Most users are Somali immigrants.
This is where you would go to a Somali-owned store in the Bay Area.
And I bet you they got it.
Just like you said, behind the counter.
All right.
Let's move off this and table that to...
To be investigated.
We'll follow up on this.
This is a good one.
You stumbled onto something by accident.
No, no, no.
This is what happens when you get out of the house.
You learn things.
Hello, this is not by accident.
I was an investigator.
I went to my source and asked a direct question and got an answer.
This is not by accident.
This is actual work we do, John.
Well, the funny thing is, it's true, and it seems to me that the mainstream media should have picked up on this cat connection, like, what, five years ago?
Yeah.
And you just ask a limo driver, and they're like, ah, here's the story.
I mean, really?
This is how it works.
That's the state of the art for journalism today?
Well, let us remind each other, we are...
The Best Podcast!
I'm gonna show myself old by donating to No Agenda.
Imagine all the people who could do that.
Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
Yeah, on No Agenda.
We know about cats!
In the morning.
We do have a few people to thank.
A few.
A few.
In fact, I'll tell you, we have 11 people to thank.
So this segment is not going to be very long.
No.
And after I'm done, I want to remind people the reasons they should be helping us instead of just sitting around.
But let's thank the people that were smart enough to...
Stop sitting around bitching in the chat room.
Carlos Quimbe in Cicero, Illinois, $99.99.
Triple three, three, three.
I liked your analysis on Hurricane Sandy, yet surprised you didn't blame it on Adam's 12 inches rain stick, by the way.
Thank you.
It could have been brought up in the conversation.
Yeah.
And going back to Benghazi, I was also surprised you guys didn't connect it to the movie Argo.
Hold on a second.
We have connected it to the movie Argo many times.
Yes, I agree.
We have.
We were talking about Argo before it even happened we were talking about the movie Argo.
Yes.
Right.
Apparently we have to repeat ourselves a lot on the show.
Maybe this guy is behind.
I, for one, believe that was to promote another given fact that was released just a few weeks after the Libya event.
Fact!
Anyways, can I get a MILF? What?
Probably talking about...
That one.
Oh, that one.
Okay, MILF for Ada Jimenez and Gitmo Nation cocaine so she can get a job...
And screw HPV karma for my cousin Marina, who was told she might have the virus.
And I hit her in the mouth so she can be aware they're just selling her Gardasil, which is another good tale of woe that we should discuss, I guess, maybe another month.
One last question for Lord Jean...
What?
Well, I was just going to say, you know, it's very simple to repeat the scam.
I can do that after we give out the karma.
Yeah, we do it.
We've got nothing else to do.
There's very few donors.
One last question for Jean-Claude.
What's a good weapon to take out the preppers and therefore become a meta-prepper?
I don't recommend weaponry.
You have to do your own research.
I can tell you.
Anyway.
Hello, hello, hello, hello.
I can tell you.
What?
Well, for some reason you're on a delay or something, so I'm talking and then you're not stopping.
Or you're just ignoring me.
No, I'm stopping, but apparently the delay is just getting worse.
You want to reconnect one more time?
Yeah, let's reconnect one more time.
It's a good idea.
Okay.
I don't know why it gets this bad.
Well, I'm in San Francisco.
You know, things change.
It's a road show.
Disconnected from server.
Okay, I get you.
It's a roadshow.
I mean, things happen.
You know, he's complaining.
You know, it's like in the 90s...
And back.
Yeah.
In the 90s, it wasn't like we were doing radio shows from hotel rooms easily.
It would take a whole truck with dudes and technicians.
Yeah, I was going to go back to that, by the way, before we're all done.
He needs his...
Whatever.
MILF, whatever.
Yeah, yeah, I know exactly what to do here.
Hold on a second.
MILF, that's one mother I'd like to.
You've got karma.
Alright, let me just answer the question first.
The weapon you need as a meta-prepper to take out the other preppers is an electric vehicle, so they don't hear you coming.
Now, and guess who has one of those?
I almost scared a guy to death.
And guess who has one of those?
Yes.
And the Gardner's Hill thing, just briefly, your wife, girlfriend, sister, daughter, whatever, will go in for a regular pap smear.
They will say, ooh, it looks like you're pre-cancerous.
By the way, every human being on Earth, every person is by definition pre-cancerous.
I'm also pre-death.
You know, I'm not dead yet, so I'm pre-death.
They'll say, oh, your test didn't look right.
You'd have to come in for a biopsy.
Then you go in for a biopsy, which is not dangerous or without risk or without discomfort.
And then that'll come back.
Oh, no, everything's okay.
You don't have it.
But maybe just to make sure you need to have the HPV shot.
And by the way, you got a teenage boy, better give it to him too so he doesn't get throat cancer.
It's a scam.
All right, let's move on.
Well, you also have to mention the fact that the machines they're using are defective.
Well, they're in bed with the company.
So Merck is in bed with the company that makes the new fast-processing scans for HPV. And by definition, by admission, they produce a high level of false positives, mainly as an insurance scam, but also against lawsuits should they miss something.
So it's a high level of false positives.
But it's a scam.
Onward.
*phone rings* Oh, jeez.
See, this is what happens when we...
Well, hold on a second.
I wasn't...
69!
69!
I wasn't ready for it!
You never are for some unknown reason.
Because it keeps showing up earlier and earlier.
Yeah, well, pretty soon it's not going to show up at all.
Daniel Sands in Spring, Texas.
69, 69.
Dear John and Adam, from your cellist friend in Spring Nuts, Texas.
No!
Spring Nuts, Texas.
No!
After listening to you make fun of Better Produced Podcast on the November 1st show, I had to donate.
Thanks for being cyber bullies that I can look up to.
He wants the science karma.
That's us, baby.
Cyber bullies you can look up to.
Science!
You've got karma.
Cyber bullies you can look up to.
Gregory Davies in Lawton, Oklahoma, 6969.
My PayPal just crapped out while donating, so this may come through twice.
Unfortunately, it didn't.
It's Greg the Crazy Australian lost in Oklahoma here again.
I want to say thank you for all the work you guys do.
I just read from the White House Insider on the Ulsterman Report that he's predicting a Romney victory this week.
Would be interested in hearing Adam's ideas and analysis.
What about me?
This already stolen election is driving me batshit crazy at this point.
I have to laugh when illegal immigration came up in the laughable excuse for debates.
Nobody addresses that it costs in excess of $800 for immigrants to apply for citizenship.
Think I should waste my money so I can also waste my vote in a stolen election?
Screw those douchebags.
Also, I am really impressed with the knighthood accounting feature over at NoAgendaNation.com.
Very clever idea.
I have no idea how far towards the knighthood until I saw that.
Kudos to whoever did that was Eric the Schill.
He would like some Hayes Shittison karma.
Yes, we can absolutely provide that.
Where's my Shittison?
Here we go.
Hayes Shittison.
You've got karma.
Just briefly on that White House Insider thing, which I was not going to bring up.
The thing that was interesting about the White House Insider is they talk about how the elections are stolen, and here's how it works, here's the scam, and apparently this happens every single election.
You get people to get the absentee ballots, and then they fill out the absentee ballots, but they also go to the polling station, so they basically vote twice.
And apparently, yes, about 80% of these double votes will get flagged, but 10 to 20%, according to the White House Insider, get through.
And that is the number one way that elections are stolen.
And I'm not saying anything other than, you know, this vote early has been pretty big this year.
And vote Austin.
And vote Austin.
There you go.
Vote early and vote often.
Twice if you can.
And apparently the White House insider, who of course is a former Democratic Party insider, he says that they did this in 2008.
I don't think it would have made a difference, but apparently they did this to ensure Obama's win.
And it looks like both sides are doing it again this election season.
And that sounds very plausible to me.
Yeah, and if both sides do it, it kind of neutrals itself out.
Now, the other thing is, I doubt if they catch 80% of that scam.
Well, that's what he said.
It just seems like a high number.
I think these guys are so lazy, they probably don't catch anybody.
But that's okay.
All right, back to the donation, 6969 version.
Swazzelnuff, I've been contributing.
This is an anonymous guy from Parts Unknown.
Since March 2009 via PayPal, but after reviewing my donation history, I realize I've only contributed $177 in all that time.
Uh-oh.
Since I won a night ring, I have to step up my game, so to get $1,000 to $1,000, I'll donate $69.69 for the next 12 shows.
Well, there goes the, I guess 69 is going to be with us forever.
It will not stop.
That will keep the string going with the time giving me, at the same time giving me a steady supply of getting laid karma for the smoking hot babe I'm flirting with at work.
I request that once I make it up to knighthood, I will be called Sir Swazzle Nuth.
Okay.
Well, let's give him some getting laid karma, then.
It sounds like he needs that.
You've got karma.
Future Sir Swazzle Nuth.
Nice, nice.
Sir Jason Stevens in Lost Wages, Nevada, 6969.
Greetings from Lost Wages, Nevada Nuts.
I just wanted some gratuitous getting laid, Karmie, before I have to travel out.
Can I get a MILF ITM? Also Tuesday will be my 37th.
Can I get a birthday list on the birthday list for my last trip around the sun?
Thanks again for the best podcast in the universe.
Okay, so he needs...
That's one mother I'd like to...
In the morning...
You've got karma.
Matthew Stevens in North Richland Hills as opposed to South Richland Hills in Texas.
Is there a South Richland Hills?
I have no idea.
Please send a shout out and karma for Phone Boy for propagating the formula.
He also gave me a dedouching and some karma.
You guys should consider using Amazon as they don't charge any fees.
Amazon what?
I don't know.
Amazon would...
Oh, is that what Kickstarter uses?
Amazon money thing?
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know anything about it.
Somebody's going to have to brief me on this.
That may not be a bad idea, and should I tell you why?
Why because?
A lot of people already have an Amazon account because they order underwear or batteries or whatever, sex toys from Amazon, books.
If you have a Kindle, you have an Amazon account.
And so they wouldn't have to sign up for anything additional.
We should look into it.
I know you're cautious when it comes to that, but it may be something we can add as an addition.
Look at the money.
It could save us.
It could be $50 a week in fees.
What does Amazon make on the deal?
Why would they be doing this for nothing?
I don't know.
Maybe just to, you know, I don't know.
That doesn't sound right.
Tim Dietrich.
Hold on, hold on, hold on.
They do have free Kindle books.
Hold on, I'm sorry.
You've been de-douched.
You've got karma.
They do have free Kindle books and it doesn't seem to bother them.
No, it doesn't bother them.
No, it doesn't bother them.
No.
My son's almost done with his second detective story.
Really?
He's just pooping them out.
I mean, he's going to have...
He's writing them in parallel.
He's going to have a 13-series set by the time you come out with your first book.
He's got to go with the vinegar book, let alone the economics book.
Vinegar book?
I didn't know about it.
Wait, we have the egg book, the vinegar book, the salt book...
The egg book is Mimi's project.
The cycle book.
Yeah, that's...
The scholastic project.
Yeah, well, you know, it's a tough life.
So, but anyway, John S. Dvorak, if you want to look him up, it's a...
You can buy a copy.
It's only three bucks on Kindle.
Tim Dietrich, Cambridge, Ontario, 6969.
Looking for karma and hope it's activating when I send my cash.
Currently in Long Dong Lake, Northern Ontario, getting taken out of a First Nation community via helicopter because the float plane operator left me yesterday and now the lake is frozen.
What?
Talk about needing travel karma.
Anyway, he needs something that he hopes to be getting here at home sometime during the Sunday show, and how about a douchebag for the float pilot?
Douchebag!
Hell yeah, here's some travel karma for you, chopper boy!
We've got karma.
That's crazy.
And we complain when we miss the subway.
That's weird.
Darn.
And that closes our 6969 segment out for today's show.
6969, dudes!
458.
Another anonymous donor from Parts Unknown 5550.
Monthly donor for having a 111 megabyte file for the episode of 11.1 and for the nice laugh for experimenting with stereo channels.
Yeah, that was on the last show.
I had to donate 111 megabytes divided by two channels for 5550.
Can you please play the anthem for people who only listen to the podcast and properly where all of the slaves stand up mid-show?
Yeah.
Well, I think we can do that.
At least once every anniversary.
Yeah, we should do that now because we have a short donation segment anyway.
And I forgot to do it two episodes ago.
So let's just do it for one of our...
It's 35 seconds.
Ladies and gentlemen, please rise for your Gitmo Nation National Anthem.
And you're welcome to sing along.
In the morning, Gitmo Nation, we are all charged up to be.
Human resources and servants in all lands and all ships at sea.
From the east to west, down under to the lowlands and beyond.
We are happy and distracted slaves.
Hear our gift for nation's song.
In the morning!
Shut up, slave! - Dave.
All right.
Clint Strachner in Fort Smith, Arkansas.
Really nice area of the country.
Double nickels on the dime.
Been a while since I donated, so I decided to send some support your way.
He needs a karma shot.
Absolutely.
You've got karma.
You'll notice, by the way, that we do not have a single 55-55, which is exactly my plan.
Yeah, great.
Thanks.
Thanks for that.
Colin Peterson in Jerome, Idaho, 54-55.
A week late and a dollar short.
Hey-o!
Here's another five.
You're hitting them in the mouth.
Can I get some karma for my new project at work?
And will you please follow it up with Parliament overlaid with the little girl saying yay?
That is a good combo.
Hold on a second.
I've got to make that like a standard combo.
Yeah, you should just, yeah, right, produce it.
Uh, yeah.
Hold on a second, let me just get that.
And he wants that as a karma shot?
Yeah.
Ah, okay.
It's not like this is easy to do, you know.
Yay!
You've got karma.
People like the Parliament.
Yay!
What is up with that?
It's just a bunch of grumbling.
It's weird.
Smith Michael in Fredericksburg, Virginia, $50, saving money from Sir Mr.
Smith and Dame Baroness Maggie Vincent, who are now house poor but karma rich in their new life in Chowdaville, also known as Boston.
J.C.D. being a meta prepper by having a list of all the preppers so he could go and steal their stuff is hands down the absolutely funniest thing I've ever heard him say in his entire career.
Yes.
Thank you very much.
And add to that, by the way, thank you Mr.
Smith and Baroness Maggie Vincent.
Add to that that John, as the meta prepper, has the electric vehicle so he can sneak up on him.
Stealthy like.
They'll never hear him coming.
And finally, Sir Andrew Halverson in Gravenhurst, Ontario, $50.
That'll be it for today's list of contributors.
But let me mention a few things here, because if you're not going to contribute so you can get your words in, I'm going to put my words in.
This is a low number for us.
In fact, for November, it's extremely low, and I want to mention to people that, or remind people that if they go to the theater, they're paying more than they're helping us out with.
They're doing five hours a week, books on tape.
It's rarely 20 hours a month, and we do 20 hours a month, and multiply that by a whole year, and you see what you get.
Parking in San Francisco is 25 cents for five minutes, and if you just go...
For five hours, it's like $60 a month just for parking.
If you go 52 weeks of parking, it can be up to $780 at $3 an hour.
In other words, you're not giving us what you pay for parking Anyway, and by the way, we don't appreciate people saying, well, you know, if I give you guys, I'm giving you guys $50, so my wife's going to get mad.
I mean, if you can't convince your wife that this is the way this is done, because you're buying more than $50 worth of products when you're listening to these commercial shows, it's just really not a good excuse, and it's not, well, you know, my wife might get mad, here's $50 in cash.
I mean, this is not the way you're supposed to be living your life.
I should get a divorce.
I just do not think that anyone really looks carefully at what is needed to get this show on the air and why we're doing it this way, because it's the only way we can discuss stuff like the cat story, for example, or pipelines, or anything else that we look into to an extreme.
And our time is worth something, and heaven forbid that if we get another series of donations like the last two...
We will stop doing the show and find something else to do when it becomes available.
Yeah.
I can't argue and I'm already looking.
But your point is well made.
And here's what you need to remember.
Dvorak.org Slash N A Oops.
Wrong one.
I'm shaken by what you just said.
I'm sorry.
Yeah, I am.
But, you know, you rarely go off like that.
Well, I rarely We see two shows in a row where the response to the shows, when we have good material, has been so mediocre.
We had 11 people.
And by the way, under the $50 donations, there's not a lot of $49.95 or anonymous people either.
It drops off immediately to some 3333 subscriptions.
One, two, three, four, five of them.
And then it just falls down into the low-end subscribers.
And to be honest about it, the number of people who've either subscribed or they failed to maintain their subscription because they get pulled by...
We had another one this week.
I got a note from a guy.
Hey, look.
PayPal sent me this note saying we canceled the subscription when we never do that.
I mean, it's just really, really not performing the way I'd like to see it.
And I blame the audience.
Okay.
let's get to our birthdays.
All right, very short list, but Sir Jason Stevens congratulates himself turning 37 on the 6th.
That'll be on Election Day.
And Rick Dolchini congratulates himself turning 45 tomorrow.
Happy birthday from your buddies here at the No Agenda Show!
It's your birthday!
And it was nice that we had Vicky check in with her completion of her damehood, and Kevin Coakley has also finally made it up to his knighthood, so we're going to drag out our swords here.
John, be careful, because when you're kind of angry, I don't want you to cut yourself.
Ow!
There you go.
The Kevin Copey step forward, please.
And Vicki Poole, the two of you are today joining our round table.
One is a night, one is a day.
So hereby, I thank you for your contributions to No Agenda Show, the best podcast in the universe, the amount of $1,000 or more.
And I hereby pronounce thee, Sir Kevin and Dame Vicki.
Night and day with the Noah General Roundtable.
We got hookers and blow.
Of course, Dame Vicky.
We got remboys and chardonnay.
We got geishas and sake.
We got hot pants and booze.
We got wenches and beer.
It's all here for you, including the Rubenes, women, and rosé.
And please remember where you can help us out in this program.
John, since we were running a little short for the past two weeks and we actually had this conversation at dinner, I have done some work on an additional revenue source.
I was liking it when you were doing the auditions.
Yeah, well the auditions dried up and I have no idea why.
Well, I have one idea.
Yeah, because they sucked.
Well, I didn't get anything.
I think it's because you don't do enough of them.
Yeah, right.
So, um...
I have...
Okay, well, I have a segment idea, too, and you can...
Okay, let me do...
Well, here's...
It's not a segment idea, it is a...
Oh, okay, I have a segment idea.
Okay, this is a product that we've been talking about, about our No Agenda Moonshine, and, um, you know, I... You said you would be looking into it.
I don't know if you had time to look into it.
Yeah, I'm getting a conversation started.
Okay, well, you're getting the conversation started.
I've been working with Sir Jeff Smith...
And I have some of our branding for the No Agenda Moonshine.
And, of course, would you like to hear some of the branding?
Yeah, I hit it.
Celebrity Moonshine.
By No Agenda.
I think we've got a winner.
Celebrity?
Celebrity Moonshine.
By No Agenda.
Not bad.
It has kind of a hickey sound to it.
Celebrity Moonshine.
By No Agenda.
It's going to be, I'm telling you, this is huge.
Now we'll still spell it celebrity, but we'll have people all around the country going, Hey man, have you tried some of that Celebrity?
Yeah.
Or maybe we should just call it No Agenda Moonshine.
No, I think the idea of Celebrity Moonshine, that actually has kind of a ring to it.
Celebrity Moonshine.
Celebrity by No Agenda.
Celebrity.
I think it might work.
Yeah, it's a possibility.
It's just the legal aspects that we have to deal with.
Okay.
I have an idea for a new segment.
Okay.
One that'll make us money?
Yeah, I think people will really flock to it.
Flock to the show because of it.
Okay.
Okay, this is going to be similar to Ask Adam.
Oh, okay.
So we need imaging soon, yeah?
Yeah, and it's called What's John Eating?
Yeah.
Okay.
This sounds like a...
I bite into something and you have to guess what it is in two guesses.
Okay.
Only two?
What is this?
Oh, three.
I'll give you three.
Even genies give you three wishes.
All right.
Three guesses.
Three guesses.
All right.
Yeah, I'm going to bite into it and you can have me re-bite.
Okay.
All right.
Okay, so ladies and gentlemen, it is time once again for What's John Eating?
Yes, here we go.
Okay, sounds very juicy.
I have to say the mumble processing is not doing it much justice.
There might be a problem with this segment.
Yeah, so it sounds like it's very juicy.
Swallow what you have in your mouth now.
Okay.
And then I'd like you to bite slowly, but don't follow it up with all the chew, because I have to hear the bite, and then it has to really settle in.
I'm a little disappointed in this particular thing I'm eating, because normally it's crunchy.
Okay.
One, just bite.
That's a clue.
Right.
Bite, but don't swallow.
Hmm.
Crunchy.
Well...
Hmm...
Is it a...
Okay, I have three guesses.
Is it a persimmon?
Holy crap!
Really?
Did I get it?
First, the who you persimmon.
Now, shall I tell you...
Okay, this segment is done.
Shall I tell you why I guessed persimmon?
Is there a camera in here?
Hey, J.C.? Get the sweeper!
Can I tell you why I guessed it?
Because we were at the market on Saturday, and every stall had their persimmons out, and I figured, huh, they're probably in season, or the harvest is in, and I said, and Mickey's like, what is that?
I said, they're persimmons.
I said, are they good?
I said, well, John likes them.
She said, oh, never mind.
We didn't buy him.
By the way, this segment is a big hit with the chat room.
I know I'm not allowed to talk about him anymore, but they have a lot of really, really good guesses.
I think we keep the segment in.
It's very entertaining.
Okay, you win.
One to nothing.
I was unable to stump Adam.
Alright, let's talk about...
Let's talk about the campaign.
Of course, today we changed our clocks.
A lot of people want to change our president on Tuesday.
We would like to, although we wouldn't like to change it to the Romney variety.
No, it's the same guy on the set paper side of the same coin.
Exactly.
Same guy.
Oh, by the way, before I forget, before we get to that, I got this awesome picture.
Hold on.
I've got another website for you to take a look at.
So they have a new coin in England.
And it is a celebratory coin.
It is a two-pound coin.
But I want you to...
So the back of the coin is supposed to look like...
I forget what it's supposed to look like.
Hold on a second.
Uh...
Why is it not?
I want to open this up here.
I think you need to go to...
Two-pound-coin.curry.com.
Number two-pound-coin.curry.com.
Can you do that for me?
Number two, not just DWO? No, number two.
So two-pound-coin.curry.com.
And the back of the coin is supposed to be Charles Dickens, and the front of the coin, of course, is the queen.
It's a commemorative coin.
But everybody...
I'm not going to give you the name.
Everybody in the UK is saying that it's someone else on the back of the coin and is not Charles Dickens.
You tell me who it looks like.
You got the page?
Yeah, I do.
Who does it look like on the back of that coin?
It looks more like Mark Twain, if you squint your eyes enough.
People think it looks more like Osama Bin Laden.
Osama Bin Laden?
It doesn't look anything like Osama Bin Laden.
Profile?
With the beard?
No, I don't see it.
No, no, no.
I saw it immediately.
Well, I still don't see it, even after hearing that.
With the hat on the top?
No?
I can see the hat part.
Okay.
All right.
Maybe...
Whatever.
All right.
Anyway.
Two-pound coins are one of the worst things they could do.
Why is that?
Every time you change, you know, so your baseline is...
It makes it easier for inflation, for things to...
It makes it easier to cheapen the currency.
Oh, is that why they're doing it?
Yeah.
Huh.
Okay.
Anyway, let's get back to the race.
Now, the one thing I want to point out, you remember the commentary where Mitt Romney's debating and he says, you know, I have four boys and blah, blah, blah, and then a bunch of these douchebags in MSM. He says, oh!
It's a racist commentary.
He said, boy!
All right, let me say it exactly.
He said, I have five boys, and I know what it's like when someone keeps saying something to me that is not true.
And then people turned around and said, he called the president boy, which is not true.
Right.
So here's, I think you can go with this one.
The New York Times today, Sunday Times, front page, top of the left, the big headline in the top left corner, right at the top, A dubious sentence, the top line is, with time as tight as race.
Oh, wow.
Really?
Comma, next line, Obama and Romney zero in.
Now, what does this even mean?
With time as tight as race, Obama and Romney zero in.
What does this mean?
That's mind control.
I mean, that's not even English.
It's not even English with time as tight as race.
Time as tight as race.
That is crazy.
This is subliminal mind control programming, and it makes sense.
And I'm glad you brought this up, because as we know, Fox News is controlled by the Democrats, and we've already seen all kinds of racial tension being created by the Democratic Party.
And here is Bill O'Reilly, who is on the Fox News Network with Dennis...
What's the comedian's name?
Miller.
Dennis Miller.
And listen to what they're bringing up on the democratically run Fox News.
And I look at Barack Obama and I think, you know, I don't sense he likes half this country.
And I think that's coming back to bite him in the took us.
You mean the guns religion crew?
Yeah, just all that disparagement.
Joe the plumber doesn't make that.
He doesn't have a pickup truck.
There seems to be a real disassociation between him and the hoi polloi as the classic.
Do you think it has anything to do with grievance?
Because in some African American communities...
There is a grievance against whites who aren't sympathetic to their cause.
And that may be driving a little bit of it.
So there are some African Americans who believe that the reason they're not prospering as a community...
Do you hear that?
The guy's actually saying black people hate white people.
It's crazy!
Oh, but not as crazy as Bill Maher.
Listen to what he said on his lovely little HBO show.
So I would just like to say for anyone thinking about voting for Mitt Romney, if that's who you are, if you're thinking about voting for Mitt Romney, I would like to make this one plea.
Black people know who you are and they will come after you.
That is so funny!
That, you can't say, I mean, what...
I'm blown away!
You can't say this.
I don't know, but there's all kinds of little interesting memes...
And by the way, just a little bit off the main topic, but still on it.
Obama, I was listening to, I think it was Al Jazeera that did this one too.
And they only played a little bit of it.
They had him live, and I think he's up in New Hampshire, or he's in Virginia.
He's somewhere live.
Or Iowa, I don't know.
But it's beside the point, because it sounds to me as though at the very last minute of the campaign, somebody has the bright idea of developing a new meme.
They only have a part of it clipped here, but believe me, it went on and on and on in the background with him saying the same, see if you can spot the meme.
And President Obama is now campaigning in the swing state of Iowa.
He's currently in the town of Dubuque.
The laid-off furniture worker who suddenly has to retrain at the age of 55 for a new career, trying to figure out how to pay for a community college, she needs a champion.
The restaurant owner who's got some great food but needs a loan to expand and the bank turned him down, he needs a champion.
Earlier, the president tried to whip up the Portland.
They cut him off.
What?
They cut him off, but he kept saying, one thing after another, he's a champion.
Champion, yeah.
When did that show up?
It sounds like a Bill Clinton thing, doesn't it?
I don't know, but why are they running it so deep in the campaign at the last minute?
Well, I can tell you why.
That's easy.
It's associative.
You think champion, you think Obama, you think champion.
I think that's just association.
You know what I mean?
He's already the president.
He's already the champion.
He's the champion.
We are the champions.
No, no, but he's already the champion.
You have to defeat the champion.
He's the champion, and then you need a champion.
You don't need a...
A new champion.
No.
You keep your current champion.
No, you might be right on that.
Yeah.
But it just...
What?
So one of our producers was at an Obama fest where the president showed up, and he immediately got on the stick and sent me...
He said, oh my God, you will not believe the song that they are playing before the president comes on stage.
Now, this producer actually recorded it there live on his iPhone.
It was almost impossible...
To play his clips, because it just wouldn't sound right on the show.
But I pulled a clip from this actual song, which is from a popular band called Sugarland.
Are you familiar with the Sugarlands, John?
Sugarland?
You ever heard of Sugarland?
Yeah, I mean, they're not like your rockin' boys Green Day, but Sugarland has...
The best band in the world.
The best band.
Green Day.
Those kids, they might be something someday, you know, if you keep supporting them.
So Sugar Land has a song called Everyday America, and I'm going to play 30 seconds of it.
See if you can hear the lyrics.
I will read the lyrics to you if you can.
Here we go.
It's the chorus.
Everybody's dreaming me.
Everybody's just getting by.
Now it goes.
Everyday America.
I'm going home.
I'm going to break these lines.
Now, were you able to hear the lyrics through the mumble system?
Well, I heard, everybody's just getting by, home of the great big lie.
Well, that's not quite what it is, but that's what I heard the first time, too.
It's, oh, whoa, everyone's dreaming big, oh, whoa, but everyone's just getting by, which, of course, as we know, is the American dream, as portrayed by the president.
That's how it goes in everyday America, a little town, and a great big life.
But I also heard lie the first time.
I'm like, oh, my God!
This is so perfect.
And this is also subliminal.
We are under attack.
We are under attack.
Where was this played?
This has got to be regional specific music.
It was...
No, Sugar Land is huge.
They win awards.
No, but they're not going to play country and western crap around Obama in the northeast.
I can find out exactly where it came from.
Hold on a second.
Where's our producer here?
Dubuque you Dubuque.
Producer Brian.
Oh, okay.
That's the same place where he's coming up with his meme.
That was Dubuque.
Yep.
So he was here.
Okay, here's the note from producer Brian Byrar.
He donated on the last show.
You see, this is a guy not only donating, he's going into the Obama camp to go and see what's up to report back.
Apologies for the recording quality, using my iPhone.
Okay, biggest surprise that I noticed, I wouldn't have noticed before no agenda, how many times and people expressly confirmed the function of the teleprompter.
Two separate people checked it a total of four times.
Pretty late in the race to accidentally slip off script, I suppose.
Then he says, standing in the cold, and they play the music before the event.
A phrase I heard perked me up.
I did a look-up, found it was Sugar Land's Everyday America.
And he cites the lyrics.
And he recorded that, but I figured I'd get you the good version.
John Mellicamp performed, and then the president came on.
But there you go.
So it was a champion.
I am the champion.
You're just getting by.
We're all living in a big fat lot.
I mean, you are under attack, people.
You are under attack.
Psychological warfare.
But please, don't support this show.
No.
Go send $10 to the Red Cross.
Yeah.
Text it.
Text it.
Text it to them, yeah.
And change your Twitter icon.
While you're out.
Okay.
Meanwhile, of course, Gary Johnson, I was thinking about the coin analogy, is that when you listen to the debates between Obama and Romney, they never brought up any of the things that if you take another coin, which has on one side of the coin, Gary Johnson and Ron Paul, the other side of the coin would be Ralph Nader and somebody like Kucinich.
And what they discuss is like, is never even brought up anymore.
In fact, I have a bunch of Nader was giving a talk at something poet, some place in New York where a bunch of lefties hang out.
And is your left winger?
But he makes some of the same points, and I think there are a bunch of good clips from him on stuff that's never discussed.
I actually think it might be good to combine them as an end-of-show clip, which I'll give you the sequence.
There's a couple here.
But there's one I'd just like to play out of the blue, which is Nader on corporate welfare.
Get corporations off welfare.
That happens to be supported by liberals, democrats, republicans, conservatives, libertarians, but not corporatists.
By the way, I have never met a corporatist who doesn't call herself or himself a conservative.
But I've never met a conservative Who call themselves corporatists.
They call it, on the right, crony capitalism.
We call it corporate welfare.
Subsidies, handouts, giveaways, bailouts, artificial quotas, contrary to market discipline.
All kinds of governmental power and governmental tax collected money to these giant profitable corporations.
Well, this is very interesting that this comes up at this moment in the conversation.
So what you're talking about here is the collusion of government and business.
Is that what I'm hearing?
Yeah, fascism is also known as.
Corporatism, same thing.
Have you seen the most recent executive order that our president put out?
Oh, no, but I'm going to hear about it right now.
Yes, you are.
Because, as you know, we like to read the things that our government publishes.
And not only do I catch them on whitehouse.gov, but our fine producer Chad there in Denver, he's our producer who is now reading everything that comes out on the Federal Register.
This came out on, I think it was just before the hurricane struck, Hurricane Sandy, or Super, Super Storm Sandy.
This came out on the 26th.
By the authority vested in me as President of the Constitution, I hereby order to advance the federal government's use of local partnerships to address homeland security challenges.
Are you ready for this?
Hereby ordered as follows.
The purpose of this order is to maximize the federal government's ability to develop local partnerships in the United States to support homeland security priorities.
Partnerships are collaborative working relationships in which the goals, structure, and roles and responsibilities of the relationships are mutually determined.
Collaboration enables the federal government and its partners to use resources more efficiently, build on one another's expertise, drive innovation, engage in collective action, broaden investment to achieve shared goals, and improve performance.
Partnerships enhance our ability to screw the American people by spying on them!
To address homeland security priorities, from responding to natural disasters to preventing terrorism.
So every single, this whole executive order, here are the departments that are supposed to be nominating and working with companies and corporations in the private sector.
Department of State, Department of Treasury, Department of Defense, Department of Interior, Agriculture, Commerce, Labor, Health and Human Services, Housing, Urban Development, Transportation, Energy, Education, Veteran Affairs, Homeland Security, National Intelligence, Environmental Protection Agency, Small Business Administration, and Federal Bureau of Investigation.
This is the feds colluding with private business.
This is the definition of fascism by executive order from this president.
Good luck, I know, but this is really, this is fascism.
This is the definition of it.
Yeah.
And it scares me.
Well, I don't know.
You don't care?
You can just get by.
You don't care.
You don't care.
Well, you know, at some point you go, well, that's an interesting maneuver.
It's not an interesting maneuver.
It is a collusion of government and business to spy on the American people.
Yeah, no, I know.
I think at some point it's going to be...
It's not going to work out.
And how was that report...
When the economy collapses, by the way, in the next couple of years or next year, probably.
Well, it's going to be handy when that happens.
Well, it's going to be interesting.
Wait a minute.
It might be bad.
Wait a minute.
You just said something.
So, obviously it didn't collapse in October, so we're still thinking March, or is it going to be October next year?
What does the current cycle say?
Okay, well, the cycle would be generally...
The cycle would be...
You have to pick a year, and I'm picking 1893, as opposed to 1933 or 1973, even though there's evidence it could be any one of these styles of problems.
In 1893, it was just an economic collapse for the year of 93, which would mean it would probably take place.
Here's one possible scenario to consider.
Okay.
Which will be outlined in the book.
The president gets re-elected or Romney gets in, but I think we're predicting that Obama's going to get in easily.
And he's going to get back in.
He's going to be celebrating and his wife's going to be happy as a happy camper and everybody's going to be just jumping for joy.
Party, party, party, party.
But he's there to do nothing because the Republicans are already not very cooperative and he doesn't help things.
He's not very good at making them cooperative like he could be.
And so we're going to go off the fiscal cliff.
Right.
January 1st.
Right.
Just boom.
And they're not going to, you know, he said, well, don't worry about it.
I'll get it.
It'll get fixed before then or get fixed right afterwards.
And actually he said a couple of times it'll get fixed afterwards, which is not a, this is not the way to do things.
Yeah.
Because it might not get fixed afterwards.
How do you know?
There's no guarantees.
So it won't get fixed.
And so the fiscal cliff is going to come into play and all hell is going to break loose.
And we'll see.
It's not going to be fun to watch, I don't think.
So that means the collapse would happen in March or sooner and then it would carry out throughout the year.
So next year it's just going to be a mess.
So, March is what we're looking at.
Well, I'm guessing.
Yeah, this is one scenario.
There's about five of them.
I'll outline them all.
So, how much time do I have?
I have four months.
You're okay with what?
With these donations and no job?
No, the donations are going to have to pick up.
I got turned down for a job.
Literally.
Well, you're unemployable.
I am.
I've made myself unemployable by doing this show for five years, and for some reason, John C. Dvorak, Jean-Claude, gets a pass.
He gets to write columns, he gets to be on Twit, gets to do all the...
Are you on that show again today?
I'm clean enough from going on Twit.
Are you on Twit again today?
No, I'm not.
Oh, okay.
If you'd listened to the last show, you would have known that I was not even invited to come on today.
They get sick of me.
They can only do a couple shows.
Yeah, but when you're on, then you get all these opportunities.
You know, you get, like, people calling you.
I mean, I get on.
I get nothing but hate.
You science hater.
You hater.
You hate moon crazy.
This is just that this is, you know, this has nothing to do with me.
No, I'm not saying it has anything to do with you.
All I'm saying is, don't tell me that you attract this sort of follower.
Yes, but don't tell me that I'm going to be okay in Texas.
I'm not going to be okay in Texas with no money.
No, you're going to be okay.
With no money.
I'll be fine.
Ooh, woo, great.
It gets cold in the winter.
No, you're going to be fine.
Things are going to work out.
From your mouth to God's ears.
So let me play one more Nader clip before we do the end of the show clip.
Yeah, do the weed one.
We got a weed one?
Oh, I do have a weed one.
That is the Gary Johnson clip.
He was on Book TV. And this is his really good little spiel on drug laws.
The authoritarian party is often associated with changing the drug laws, and you've advocated for that as well.
Changing the...
Drug laws.
Drug laws, yes.
You know, since 1999, I've advocated legalizing marijuana.
Control it, regulate it, tax it.
I think we're at a tipping point.
With regard to marijuana and legalizing it, I think that Colorado is going to do that.
It's on the ballot in Colorado this November.
Regulate marijuana like alcohol.
I think it's going to pass when it passes, and if it doesn't pass in Colorado, it's going to pass.
50% of Americans now are saying they support the notion.
It's a growing number.
It's a growing number because people are talking about the issue more than they ever have before, recognizing 90% of the drug problem is prohibition-related, not use-related.
That's not to discount the problems with use and abuse, but that should be the focus.
I think when we legalize marijuana, I think we're going to take giant steps forward regarding all other drugs, and that's going to be starting with looking at the drug issue first as a health issue rather than a criminal justice issue.
Let's get the police out on the streets enforcing real crime.
Let's free up the courts and let's empty the prisons of the 2.3 million people that we have in them, the majority category of those being drug-related.
And of course, we're not going to release anybody from jail that has committed other crime in lieu of drug crime.
But those that are in jail, victimless, non-violent...
Drug crime, there needs to be commutation of those sentences, and there needs to be pardons for 30 million Americans that, but for our drug laws, and have served out their sentences, but for our drug laws would otherwise be tax-paying, law-abiding citizens.
Alright, let me say something about Gary Johnson.
I know you're going to vote for him.
Hold on a second.
30 million?
That's bullcrap.
Well, that's off.
Way off.
First of all, the guy's boring.
Okay?
He's not doing his...
No.
He should be...
If he wants to get some votes, he should say, I'm going to legalize cat.
Think about...
I mean, he's going to have half of America going, oh, all right.
Legalize cat.
And then he's...
Get all the ethics to vote for him.
Yes.
And instead of that long, two-minute, boring speech, his message is right.
He should say...
Listen to this!
No one ever did this while they were stoned on weed!
Elsewhere in news today, a Lewis County man is behind bars this afternoon, accused of punching a puppy and throwing it against a tree.
Deputies say the 20-year-old man was intoxicated overnight and beat his family's five-month-old German shepherd.
No one does that when they're on weed, okay?
You do not punch a puppy when you're smoking weed.
You have a story that you've clipped that is a guy punching a puppy?
I thought it was amazing.
That's an interesting show title.
Punching a puppy.
I mean, but that happens when people are on alcohol.
Not when you're chewing the cat or smoking the weed.
That's how...
Gary Johnson, if he ever runs again, he has to have the Curry Dvorak Consulting Group work with him.
Yeah, he could do worse than listening to us, but you've talked to him yourself.
And I said, dude, pick it up.
He's not listening to you.
He doesn't buy it.
As far as he's concerned, he became the governor of New Mexico on a simple, boring type of pitch.
And he's going to be...
You know, he thinks it's great.
He's a bicyclist.
That's another thing.
It's bad.
Oh, really?
A bicyclist?
Hmm.
So for end of show, here's what I'd like to hear here.
You've got a sequence for me here.
Okay.
Yeah, a sequence.
All right.
Number one would be Nader on the defense budget.
Okay.
Hold on.
Let me line it up.
Defense budget.
Yep.
Number two, then we have to take a break and go with a little short one on Gary Johnson on voting libertarian.
Oh, this is like a mash-up.
Yes.
Okay, gotcha.
I was almost going to produce it, but then I said, I can do it, this will be fine.
You said, screw it, let Curry do it.
You can do it.
And then the big finish is Nader on Congress, which I think is a really good finish.
And then you can do a little riffing.
With the Dvorak.org slash NA or whatever you like to do or adios mofos.
You know, you're great at these little deals at the end, so I think that will work.
It's really, you know, the sucking up to me is not going to help.
It really is not going to help.
You are so good at that.
It is not, it's really not going to help.
Well, never mind.
All right, everybody.
So we didn't get to a couple things, but it doesn't matter because by the time we hit the next show, we'll have an entirely new news cycle.
We will have a new president, or at least we will have elected a president, whether it is a new one.
Highly doubtful, but we will have a president.
Will it be a leader?
No.
No matter who we vote for.
Yes.
When you're done, I have to ask you a question that's got nothing to do with the election.
Off air or on air?
You want me to do it now?
I can just do it now?
Yeah.
I'm looking at the twopoundcoin.curry.com and you have a favicon of a small goat.
It's not a goat.
It is the dog cow.
Now, you would not recognize this because in the days when the dog cow was famous, you thought that it was highly unlikely people would want to use the Macintosh because of the mouse.
You don't recognize the dog cow?
No, it looks like a small goat.
Do you know what the dog cow is?
No, I don't know what the dog cow is.
So, when you use the mouse on the original Mac, and these days we have the spinning beach ball.
The Mac 128K? Yeah, it goes back that far.
So, you know today we have the spinning beach ball?
Yeah, you got a ball spinning.
Okay, back in the day you had that little dog, and when the Mac was waiting for something, some process to finish, the dog would do backflips.
And that is the history of the dog cow.
Okay, and you're using it as a favicon, why?
Because.
Oh, okay, good enough.
So, that's it from the hotel room here in San Francisco.
Sorry for some of the sound quality issues, etc.
But no matter what is going on in our lives, we always intend to bring you a show.
Because it must always go on.
When is your flight out?
We're leaving at 5 o'clock, so I'm packing up and jumping out immediately.
Okay.
We'll have a nice flight.
Hey, thanks.
And, of course, San Francisco, we're going to once again try getting to the priority line with our coach ticket.
San Francisco may be hard, though.
They're not easy about that stuff, so we'll see how we do.
Yeah.
It's kind of, you know, they've got a whole bunch of douchebags.
Wait, were you taking what airline?
JetBlue.
Oh, JetBlue, that's in the international terminal.
Yes.
You have to know that, right?
Yeah.
There may be a priority line there.
Yeah, but they've got all kinds of douchebags checking the priority line.
They have a lot of douchebags.
The whole place is douchebag.
Yeah.
All right.
Good luck.
Yeah, well, I will tweet so you'll all know.
And there you go.
Please, please, please consider us this week.
Yeah.
And what are you going to do?
What am I going to do?
Yeah, what are you going to do?
Ford is picking up my electric car.
I have to wait for them.
So yeah, that's the end of that.
Right.
And that's going to be in your little giblet, your monogram there.
It's going to be another...
Yes, it's going to be another one of the almost finished projects.
Okay.
And I would recommend buying my son's mystery...
Maybe you could write...
Hot Diggity Dead.
Hot Diggity Dead.
There you go.
And then maybe I wanted to pay him to do the work he does here.
No, that's not going to happen.
No, that's definitely...
If I want more money.
All right, coming to you from the hotel room here in San Francisco in the great People's Republic of Northern California.
In the morning, everybody, I am Adam Curry.
And from Northern Silicon Valley, where I remain, John C. Dvorak.
We'll be back on Thursday right here for you on No Agenda.
So we need that.
That is the way to create good-paying jobs that are real, that actually improve life in every community in America.
We need to get funds for this by reducing our military budget.
Do you know our military budget is higher in real dollars than it was during the Cold War when we were facing Soviet missiles?
It's now $800 billion, including the wars of choice in Iraq and Afghanistan.
By the way, 70% of the American people won out of Afghanistan yesterday.
If we cut that military budget, which is now $800 billion, to six, five, four.
General McPeak, retired of the Air Force, said a while back, if we can't defend the USA on $300 billion, we better get a new set of generals.
We liberate that money.
We bring the soldiers from those bases all over the world of our empire who are just agitating and making people hate us, including our allies, like in Okinawa.
When and why did you leave the Republican Party and become a Libertarian?
Well, you know, I've probably been a libertarian my entire life, so this is kind of coming out of the closet.
And I don't think I'm unlike most Americans.
I think there are a lot more Americans in this country that declare themselves libertarian as opposed to voting libertarian.
You know, the pitch that I'm trying to make right now is, vote Libertarian with me just this one time.
Give me a shot at changing things.
And if it doesn't work out, you can always return to tyranny.
And I'm going to argue that that's what we have right now.
Congress is the most powerful branch of our three branches.
They don't use some of that power, but they have the taxing power, the spending power, the war declaration power, the investigating power, the confirmation power, on and on.
They are the smallest branch of our government.
We don't have to deal with millions of executive branch employees.
We don't have to deal with judges there for life in the courtroom.
We deal with little Congress.
535 men and women who put on their shoes every day like you and I do.
And they dream every day of getting votes.
But they've figured out that the way to get votes is first to gerrymander districts so that either the Democrat wins easily or the Republican wins easily, sometimes without even an opponent.
Have you heard of Speaker John Boehner?
Here's how smart the Democrats are.
They have made sure that in Southwest Ohio, John Boehner does not have a Democratic opponent.
So, it's pretty easy for most of these people to get re-elected.
A lot of them have no opponents.
More of them have nominal opponents of the major party.
Never mind the Green Party, Libertarian Party, Justice Party, Constitution Party.
They know how to marginalize small parties, keep them out of debates, wear them down with obstacles.
So, What are we doing about our member of Congress?
Adios, mofos.
Right?
Right?
No, that's not right!
Celebrating moonshine!
By no agenda.
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