Well, why are they patting down that old woman and that old man?
The guy's 90.
Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
It's Thursday, November 22, 2012.
Time for your Gitmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 463.
This is No Agenda.
Proud to be a lazy and incompetent here in the capital of the Drone Star State, Austin Tatehouse.
In the morning, everybody, and...
Happy Thanksgiving.
I'm Adam Curry.
Hey, and from the Pacific NW bunker, here I am, John C. Dvorak.
It's Crackblot and Buzzkill.
I saw on the weather it's raining up there.
It's actually not raining at the moment.
You see, they lied to me again.
I hate it when they do that.
It's like, whoa, up here in the Pacific Northwest, you can't even see Washington State.
The window right now, there's not a drop coming down.
I don't know what they're talking about.
Well, I told you, they're lying.
They all lie.
So you are up with La Familia in Washington State.
Party time!
Woo!
Mimi has her high heels on again, is that what you're saying?
She's in bed.
Is she not feeling well?
Is she okay?
No, she's sleeping.
Oh, okay.
Her and Jay stayed up all night cooking pies.
Oh, I did like every other Texan.
I went to HEB and bought me one.
Oh, yum.
Yeah, well, I'm all alone.
We actually cooked a pumpkin pie from an heirloom pumpkin that actually looks like a giant cucumber.
Uh-huh.
A pumpkin that looks like a cucumber.
I'm visualizing.
Actually, more like a squash.
It looks like a squash.
But it's a giant green thing, and the part where the sun doesn't hit it is the distinctive orange pumpkin color.
Okay.
But the flesh, the actual meat inside the pumpkin, inside this pumpkin, is superior in flavor.
So we should, at least that's what I'm told.
I'll find out later when I bite into the pie.
Well, I'm all alone here at Camp Mofo.
No one here for Thanksgiving.
I'm going nowhere after the show.
It's true.
No, I don't feel bad.
Get some hookers.
Even the hookers have somewhere to go.
Nobody ever invites the hookers to Thanksgiving dinner.
I think the hookers, there must be like some big hooker Thanksgiving dinner because no one's available.
They're like, I don't know, Friday.
You'll be first in line Friday, but no, sorry, bub.
Sorry, Bob.
Sorry, Bob.
But this, of course, is a lead-in to an annual thing we do here on the No Agenda show, the best podcast in the universe, where we explain the bogative nature of the holiday known as Thanksgiving.
I present to you the expert of all bogative holidays, John C. Dvorak, Ph.D. Okay.
You caught me.
You could have given me a little heads up so I could have jumped to the...
Because I've got...
If you go to Dvorak.org slash blog, you will get...
And type in Thanksgiving, you will get some of the really great material.
Some of the great materials.
I actually have two posts.
Could you stop hitting stuff?
Was that your keyboard?
What are you doing?
My God, it sounds like you're hitting the table with a stick.
No, it doesn't.
Yes, it does.
I have ears.
Anyway, well, the mic is unfortunately way too close to this thing.
That's the problem.
Okay, so Thanksgiving was actually pretty much, the Thanksgiving we have today stems from Abraham Lincoln.
And there was one event that was documented in the 1600s, one and one only, where the Indians were invited to some sort of a meeting.
And I think they killed them.
Just the latest information I've gotten.
Update, update.
Hold on, let me just back up for a second.
And for those of you who do not live in the United States of Gitmo Nation or in the United States of Canadians, where they also celebrate Thanksgiving but not on the same day, we have a holiday here.
And I will explain to you how this has been taught to children all across the land.
This is the story as children are taught.
And I can tell you immediately because I was taught in the same way and it's been reinforced over the years.
So one year, after the first year of the pilgrims being in America, it was a very, very hard year.
But luckily we had become friends with the Indians who had shown us how to grow corn and turkeys.
And stuffings.
And we were so thankful to them that we sat down at a big meal with turkey and corn and stuffings and pumpkin pies that looked like squash.
And we had a meal of Thanksgiving.
And we all held hands.
And then we went around the table and we all told everyone what we were thankful for this year.
And that is the story of Thanksgiving.
Well, that's funny because we never told anybody what we were thankful for, but the story is still basically the same.
Okay, let me read from the post that I did some time back.
The term Thanksgiving was brandished throughout the U.S. history and officially codified by Lincoln in 1863 at the behest of an activist writer named Sarah Hale.
She's the one.
Before 1863, there was no Thanksgiving per se, but a lot of proclamations We're good to go.
So there was, the only thing that people kind of like to believe is that in 1860, or I'm sorry, in 1621, there was a three-day one-shot party modeled after something called Harvest Home, and it wasn't called Thanksgiving, it was Harvest Home, it was the end of the Harvest Party celebrated in parts of the British Isles.
And that party didn't happen again for, I don't know, 100 years or something.
Anyway, it's bogus.
The whole thing is bogus.
That's the point.
It's bogus.
It's a bogus holiday.
And by the way, here's a good one.
I just picked this up.
This is new.
Oh, a new meme, yeah?
They started it as a, it was going to be the last Thursday of November, and then once they picked up on the notion that it was the triggering point for Christmas, they moved it up a week to get the merchants more money.
This shows you how ridiculous this holiday is.
And now the talk is, they're thinking of moving it up another week.
Really?
Where did you hear this?
This is floating around.
They're actually discussing, the Congress is discussing for the benefit of, because everyone wants, they can't get enough of this Christmas shopping.
Yeah.
Black Friday.
Black Friday.
So in the next couple of years, it may be...
Where it is now, it'll be a week earlier, so they can get a weekend of extra shopping.
Well, I have a problem right now.
I have a real problem with something that's going on, and in my new politically correct mode, I think that it is a racial issue to call Friday after Thanksgiving Black Friday.
I think it should be called either African American Friday, or I think...
African.
That's not what it's...
Hey, you know what?
Around Thanksgiving, every single year, we go through the same racial crap over in Euroland because it is this time when St.
Nicholas, known as Sinterklaas, shows up on his steamship from Spain with his Black Peets.
So just like we have the Thanksgiving story every year, we've got the Dutch racist a-holes from Holland.
Arriving in Amsterdam, St.
Nicholas, heralding the start of the Dutch celebrations for Christmas.
As always since the mid-1800s, he is surrounded by his helpers, Sparta Peten, Black Peter.
According to tradition, they carry a book full of names of the naughty children and also hand out sweets.
The presence of the fictional character in the celebrations has sparked a growing row with accusations of racism led by one activist who last year was arrested for protesting without permission.
Here's the thing.
Did you hear that?
This cracked me up when I heard it the second time.
The guy who was protesting this fictional character with his fictional Black Pete helpers was arrested in the Netherlands for protesting without permission.
How awesome is the Netherlands?
He was protesting without permission.
Now listen to the rest of the story.
When this tradition was started, the general idea was that black people were worth less than those who were white.
We are now in 2012, and we have to admit those ideas from those times don't apply to now.
St.
Nicholas of Sinterklaas, as the Dutch call him, has been celebrated for many centuries.
The Black Peter character was only introduced in 1850.
Now, get ready, because the Dutch have to get around this somehow, because, you know, we've still got to be the racist Dutch.
You know, we can't just, like, get rid of our black helpers.
We assure that Amsterdam is a very multicultural city, and you can't really blame us for racism.
When I was a teenager, I had the impression it was racist, but not now.
They are black because they get dirty climbing down chimneys.
Go Dutch!
Go Dutch!
That's a good one.
Don't children, they're black because they climb down chimneys.
Yeah.
Every year they try to get rid of it.
Every single year.
I love it.
Good old Dutch.
Good on ya.
Get your black people out there.
Out front and center.
So, anyway, so the kids actually showed up yesterday.
My daughter, Christina, and her boyfriend, Juan.
I thought you were by yourself.
No, well, the deal is, they came last night, so we had kind of like a mini Thanksgiving meal, and then Juan's whole family lives in Corpus, Corpus Christi.
What is a mini Thanksgiving meal?
You had a chicken instead of a turkey?
Yeah, you are correct.
We had a chicken instead of a turkey.
And we had eggnog, and we got drunk, and had all kinds of, you know, this morning I had, you know, all the cereal that Miss Mickey doesn't allow because she's not here.
You know, like the colored cardboard with the sugar on it.
We had that.
Oh.
Uh-huh.
It's my favorite.
You know, stuff that comes.
A toxic show today.
Yeah, honey smacks and honey nut Cheerios.
What were you doing with those in the house in the first place?
No, I went out and bought them yesterday because the kids are coming.
Are you kidding?
Come on, the kids are here.
I gotta have, like, nastiness and crap and drinks.
The kids are here.
Let's have cereal.
Let's have crap and booze.
Yeah.
And so they got up this morning and they are driving to Corpus Christi where Juan's whole family is.
And, you know, Christina really loves big family, which she doesn't have.
Of course, grass always greener, other side thing.
So she loves doing the whole Thanksgiving thing with the big Mexican family, which would be hilarious.
Which I was invited to, but I'm like, ah, it's alright.
And so they're coming back Friday.
There's so many jokes that you can do with that setup.
That it just makes sickens me.
Where were you?
It sickens me.
I can't use half the material.
Why not?
We got Black Pete's.
We can do anything you want.
We got Black Friday.
You can do whatever you want.
We've got...
Anyway, so...
And then the kids are staying through Wednesday, so I'm set.
And tonight, I'm literally...
I'm just going to cook up some of the French dude from the markets.
It was Merguez.
And I got some pumpkin pie from HEB. And I'm going to sit on the couch with my hand in my pants and watch television.
Because I'm all...
And maybe I'll pop a couple of Vicodins.
Party!
Party!
Well, there's a good story.
There's some guy for Thanksgiving, I guess he cooked and ate his wife.
Oh, really?
To eat the evidence?
Oh, wait, there's a different story.
Where did this happen?
Texas cannabis.
Texas?
Really?
Well, this is an old story.
This is not the one.
Oh, the guy finally got...
This is not breaking news?
What is this?
This is not breaking news?
No, no, this is from...
There's a new one.
This happens every year.
Wife killed, cut up, and cooked her husband.
Thai mother cooks and eats her young sons.
Yeah.
Texas cannibal zombie kills, cooks, and eats his girlfriend.
But that was a couple years ago.
Yeah.
Wife kills hubby, chops him up, cooks him, eats him.
It goes on and on.
I mean, this, I guess, is a trend.
Well, in the morning to you, John C. Dvorak.
Well, in the morning to you, Adam Curry.
In the morning to all ships at sea, boots on the ground, subs in the water, feet in the air.
And in the morning to all the knights and dames out there who support the show from the get-go.
Very good.
And all of our artists who are consistently bringing us great art.
You can find all of that at noagendaartgenerator.com.
Thank you very much, Sir Nussbaum, for the artwork in episode 463.
We've got another...
Well, we're here.
We're here on a holiday, on a Thanksgiving, even though John is actually going to be celebrating and is going to be cooking and stuff.
And we're here.
We showed up for you.
We tried to do that.
And I think this year, the holiday season, we'll be here.
We'll be on Christmas, New Year's, every single day because it doesn't even fall on show day.
So we're just going for it, right?
Yeah.
So I also want to thank Nick Durrett for the art for the newsletter.
Oh, very good.
It was a fun newsletter.
Really good piece of art.
Can I get straight into some racism stuff since I'm on it, kind of?
Well, we have a lot of...
We ended up with a lot of contributors, so I think it would be amenable to get the executive producers mentioned early on.
Well, let's rock it then.
Okay.
We have a slew of executive...
Excuse me, associate executive producers.
Uh...
With two nights, two insta-night donations.
One of 12-12-12-12.
John, you've got...
Let's see, this is a long note.
JCD can read this part if he wants to give a shout out to his son.
Credit this donation to Molly Kincaid.
Jason still wants to be a douchebag.
And he says, Hello Buzzkill Jr.
He loves Hot Diggity Dead, which is his novel, which you can get on Amazon for the Kindle.
I'll read more after I'm done with Halo 4.
Anyway, read the note in my best, if it wasn't such a big donation, I would try to struggle through this thing.
Read the note in your best drunk, southern drunk voice.
Oh, alright.
Are you going to do that?
I think all southerners, it's just a drunk sound, so you can just do a southern accent and talk a little bit like it is with a little kind of slur at the end.
Watch a YouTube video for someone like a girl if you do.
On second thought, don't I'd hate to be the one who ruins the 2012 last Thanksgiving of all time no-agenda podcast because I wanted DeVar to sound like a nerd girl when he read my donation note.
Alright, first things first.
Hit me with a douchebag right now because I've listened for a few years without giving.
Actually, DSC got me to here, so I may have been on the ground floor of this thing, and I don't And if I don't help, I might be in the smoking, broken mess of another failed podcast.
Adam!
WTC7 won't go away!
I know he's reading the notes.
So no, you guys, nobody's going to give us love on Thanksgiving or even listen, well, the listening part's still up for grabs.
You did get a lot of love.
Or even listen, Guilt Trip finally pushed me over the edge.
I'm taking care of the less donation.
One fell swoop.
Here's a 12-12-12 donation making me an insta-dame.
Dame Molly.
It has a nice ring to it, but really I had planned to do several weird combo donations and he goes on.
This is creepy.
I can also see myself gathering my friends around the Roku to hear this live.
This is my command.
Double niggles on the Dime Mothership ticket podcast license.
Hot and juicy.
Too tasty to believe donation.
Here's hoping PayPal gets it in time.
Give my long friend Jason Phillips a douchebag hit.
Douchebag.
We were both converts from the DSC days, but I beat him to the punch.
I'm using this donation, PayPal, but my money, so I guess it should net him some absolution, but not much.
Anyway, that was a long-winded note from, credited to Molly Kincaid.
Dame Molly, and I'd like to see, I don't know, a picture?
Where's the picture?
Where's the picture?
Didn't we have like a huge...
Combination of things I had to play for this?
That was it.
You played it.
It was a WTC7, a couple of douchebags.
Okay.
All right.
I'm just trying to keep up with the program here.
Another donation came of $1,122.12, which I'm not understanding.
Oh, 11-22-12.
That was a date.
That would be the date today.
That's today's date.
Time to take your beds, John.
Sir Robert Rock sent that in without a note.
Wait a minute.
Robert Rock has done this before.
Yeah, he's just...
Robert Rock is one awesome hombre.
Yeah, he is.
He's like, I'm a sir.
I don't need a bunch of stinking douchebags or anything like that.
And he's from Anchorage.
Yeah, I know.
We've got to go visit him.
We've definitely got to go visit him.
Well, thank you very much, Sir Robert.
J.D. from SJ, California, long-time boner, first-time donor, give me a D-douchey and a Hey Citizen Huntsman karma, and his donation was 46364, which is a palindrome for the show 463, but he added the 64 to make it more balanced.
Okay, so did he want to de-douching as well?
Yeah, de-douching Citizen Huntsman Karma.
Okay.
You've been de-douched.
Hey, Citizen.
You've got karma.
All right.
Rocket is the first...
Congestion.
So we have another 463 donation.
This is amazing.
We have four members of the 463 Club.
It's from Christina Lake in Lisbon, Maine.
In the morning, John and Adam, I'm donating this amount to the Best Podcast Universe because, one, it means I'm part of the 463 Club and rounding up by 35 cents, that's exactly how much my fiancé, Richard Harriman, and I had left to reach knighthood, crediting all my previous donations toward him.
See, accounting below.
I'm so happy I could get this done for this show because I wanted to wish you a happy Thanksgiving and get Richard a knighthood before 12-21-12, our wedding day.
Hey!
It's my wedding present to him.
That's a good wedding present.
I think people should be giving the gift of donations to the No Agenda show as gifts for Christmas.
There's nothing like a woman who does that that doesn't just say, I love you forever.
You are my man.
I'd like to get the...
Today's the 22nd.
Oh, 1221.
So yeah, she wants to get the ring for the wedding.
Tell Mimi to get out of bed.
Send it right now.
Mimi, get out of bed.
Right now.
Get out of bed.
Do it.
We'll work on that.
It should be doable.
Please keep up the great work.
She ruins it.
We're requesting an Atlas Shrugged Little Girl Yay Karma for the wedding.
Thanks for working so hard.
Okay.
All right.
Well, congratulations, you two crazy kids, on your wedding, and what a lovely wedding gift it is.
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.
Wow!
You've got karma.
That's a beautiful thing.
Baron von Pelsmacher.
Hey!
Nice!
The Baron is back!
Baron's back.
463.
Happy Thanksgiving to the progenitors of the best podcasts in the universe.
Fact!
Fact!
Central question is that even on holidays, they continue to hit us slaves in the mouth.
Why?
Because it's the best way to propagate the formula.
Some karma and a little girl yay for both you gentlemen.
Enjoy your Thanksgiving.
Yay!
You've got karma.
Thank you, Baron.
Thank you so much, amigos.
And then we have, let me just do one quick little search here just to make sure.
Because I didn't see Hoffman's thing on here earlier.
It's so loud.
It is so loud.
It's like, who am I now?
Okay, we got...
I'm John Typing!
I'm Typing!
Don't bother me!
I'm searching!
David Hoffman, Sir David Hoffman with no note that I can find it from NOLA, Pennsylvania, a member of the 463.
William Wilford B. Kessler in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, interestingly enough, 333.33.
Thanks for doing what you do so I don't have to.
To you douchebags out there, please donate already on this day of giving thanks and just think if this podcast ceased to be.
Just think if this podcast ceased to be.
That's what he's asking rhetorically.
As in...
Yeah, well, we have nothing to listen to.
Yeah, that would suck.
The work John and Adam do isn't easy, and the charismatic pairing of the two is unique.
That's for sure.
That's what I'm thankful for.
If for some inexplicable reason you think their time isn't worth anything, then donate your time worth.
Remember, they do it just so you don't have to.
You certainly deserve more than just getting by.
I hope this helps with some antenna funding.
Who wants a little girl?
Yay, karma.
Thank you very much.
Yay!
Yay!
Wow!
Antennas!
You've got karma.
So we got a note today from some guy who says, you know, he's now thinking of getting, he says it was so cool to hear you key up your little transceiver and then hit the repeater and then have it come across the speakers or my little machines in my house just so instantly that he got jacked up.
And he says, this is great.
This technology.
I'm going to become a ham.
Talk more about ham.
He thought it was fascinating.
Well, let me just say that the Daily Morse Code, DailyMorseCode.com, is taken off.
And there's links there on how to become a ham, what we're doing.
And after the show, we do a net.
DailyMorseCode?
Yeah, DailyMorseCode.com.
You should look at it because the album art often references you.
Yeah, that's figures.
The slogan is, working random dudes while waiting for JCD to hit the repeater.
That's pretty much what we do.
Yeah, I hit the repeater next Thursday.
Yeah, right.
We'll see.
We'll get me set up.
How about Sunday?
What about Sunday?
I got things to do.
I got family here.
There's a million dogs in this place.
There's cleaning that needs to be done.
I mean, I got to cook again.
I'm cooking every night for a huge group of people.
Oh, okay.
Oh, I'm sorry.
I didn't know that, you know, you had things to do.
Yeah, I got to, you know, things.
Things.
Things.
Anyway, that's, you gave me this little girl, yay, karma?
Yeah.
Yeah, sure did.
Random Hillbilly in Elkins, West Virginia, which would be where there would be random hillbillies.
Doesn't need anything but more drunk John and Stone John.
Well, maybe Sunday.
Ah, what a night.
Anonymous in Double Bay, New South Wales, 30333.
This donation should make me a night.
You can call me Sir Humphrey.
Yes, Minister.
If you don't have one already, do watch Yes, Minister for Politics 101.
Is this a British or Australian show?
I don't know.
Look it up on Yes, Minister.
Yeah, it must be.
Happy Thanksgiving.
Drone game show.
Theme song.
Heard too rarely.
He wants you to hear the karma after the drone game.
Win, lose, or drone.
Got it.
You remind me of the two cranky Muppets, Statler and Waldorf.
Or maybe you are the Woodward and Bernstein of our era.
President Obama equals black preacher plus Elvis.
Adam, hey everybody.
Last bunch of shows have been...
This is just random notes, by the way.
It's still gotten new here.
Last bunch of shows have been of a very high standard.
Well, we're falling off the boat on this one.
I'm drunk and I'm just going to write some letters, numbers, words.
It's very hard to multitask with no agenda.
That's where he thinks it's great.
And he asks, where's Leo's donation?
Oh, that's right.
Yeah.
A thousand dollars.
Alright, so what do I do here?
Do I have a...
Is there a call to action?
Drone and karma.
Oh, okay.
Oops.
Why does it go like that?
Maybe I should just do it that way.
That's interesting.
Hmm.
What?
What?
It's like I haven't done the win, lose, or drone in such a long time that I, you know, I queued up the wrong one.
Sorry.
Sorry.
Don't get all angry with me.
Win, lose, or drone!
That's right.
Thank you very much for your donation of $303.33.
That means you will not be subject to our game show Win, Lose, or Drone!
Karma.
Karma.
Jeez.
You've got karma.
Win, lose, or drone!
Karma.
There you go.
Anthony Montgomery, hopefully no one will ask for that again.
Anthony Montgomery in Westfield, Indiana, 30303.
My final installment from 3030303 towards my 12-12-12 knighthood, I decided not to wait until 12-12-12 because it seems right that I should complete this goal for Thanksgiving.
Indeed, I thank you for your accurate analysis, your red book bullseyes.
I thank you for improving my own thought process when hearing the so-called news.
I'm a fan of history, and I know that corruption has always been part of our system, and you've helped me integrate that knowledge with what I see and hear in the media.
Most of all, I thank you for the entertainment that has brought me.
Instead of anger and frustration, I'm beginning to laugh.
The absurdity of it all.
That's our goal.
Yeah, there you go.
I need no more karma, so instead, please give yourselves the heartfelt best podcast in the universe from me.
Best regards.
May God bless you.
The best podcast in the universe.
Okay, now we got something interesting.
Devin Smith.
Hello for $250.
Hello from south of France.
Uh-oh.
Stop the press.
Stop the press.
The south of France.
France.
Really?
Well, first of all, this can't be a Frenchman because Frenchmen don't donate.
And they don't have the name Smith.
No.
Or Devin, for that matter.
Ron mentioned that he hit me in the mouth during the last episode's donation.
How true.
This is my European Thanksgiving donation.
I'm thankful for no agenda.
My wife turned 40 on Tuesday and is slowly becoming a fan.
He's a niece.
He wants a MILF karma.
Hey, I hear there's lots of them down there.
MILF! That's one, mother.
I like this.
You've got karma.
Nice.
Nice and niece.
I love niece.
Nice and niece.
Chris McGraw in Alexandria, Virginia, 250.
Greetings from Northern Virginia.
Yeah, you know what that means.
So I've got some extra cash this month.
Why?
Because my mortgage refinancing closed yesterday, so I figured the only honorable thing to do is put the extra cash toward the best podcast in the universe on this Thanksgiving day.
I didn't heed the warnings from you both on the lifespan of karma so I could use a booster shot to get me through the Black Friday and Cyber Monday marketing bull crap.
Please give me a parliament shot to the head, Karma.
I'm shooting for that knighthood before the end of the world next month because I want a ring.
Happy Thanksgiving.
You've got karma.
Karma.
There you go.
Meanwhile, here's Ron Pepper from San Francisco.
My best friend has been living it up in France.
Aha!
Not in the Saskatoon of France.
For several years now, we both decided to donate.
Since we haven't found a chance to talk over the phone lately, I thought this would have some fun and deliver news during the donation segment of the best podcast in the universe.
Everybody wins.
So on the last show, I sent a shout-out with a very thinly disguised message, but he didn't appear to decode it.
He should have taken my advice and listened with his wife to avoid that happening.
She is in the radar for this sort of thing.
Or she's on the radar.
She has a radar.
So here is the same message in a more direct way.
It would be perfect if you'd read it, John, in a JCD deadpan style.
Here goes.
A.D., guess what?
We're having a baby.
Yay!
Give us some karma for the baby.
You've got karma.
Nice.
Did you get that one, Devin?
They're having a baby.
Wink, wink, nudge, nudge.
Sir Sean Connolly in Naperville, Illinois, 200.
Just trying to do my part to support the best podcast in the universe.
Thank you, Sir Sean.
Thank you, Sir Sean.
Lovely.
Marcel Genota, 200.
Gentlemen, sorry about the two donations.
I had too much wine and made an error, and the initial donation was inadequate.
The exact amount of the donation doesn't have any meaning.
It was just a balance of my PayPal account, which we recommend, by the way.
People get money in there.
PayPal's making money off of it.
Please give a shot at karma to yourselves.
Best podcast in the universe.
Hey, what do you mean?
How does PayPal make a bunch of money off of it?
They've got your money and they're collecting interest on it.
Oh, really?
Well, sure.
What do you think they're doing with the money?
I don't know.
Just like watching it for you?
They're putting it, they got it in a money market or something or other, and they're just collecting money off the money left in there for some reason.
Really?
You think they're doing it?
You don't think they just leave it there?
Just sitting there and just...
It's idiotic if they are leaving it.
I wouldn't do business with them if that was true.
You've got karma.
Just checking.
Black Knight Eridudarian in Trabuco Canyon, California.
$200 even though you feel it's a bogus holiday.
Happy Thanksgiving.
Thank you.
It is a bogus holiday.
I don't think it's bad that it's a bogus holiday.
I like what I'm seeing here.
And you'll always say it was your excellent, well-thought-out newsletter.
But I think that people really, even though they know it's Bogative, they're saying, it's a day of thanks, and I'm thankful to the best podcast in the universe.
And I think that's why we're seeing so many...
Executive and associate executive producers today.
Well, then bogus holidays have a benefit.
We need more.
We should have our own holiday.
There's always Father's Day and Mother's Day and Hallmark Days.
Fourth of July is good.
Christmas has got to be a winner.
But this is different.
This is a day of thanks.
This is what's warming my heart.
People truly are thankful for what we do.
This is an outpouring of thanks.
This isn't like Christmas, here's a gift, you know, a tie or socks.
Do not send us your socks or your blankets.
Or Old Spice.
Old Spice.
I have actually received that once.
That was not funny.
I think you seem like an Old Spice guy.
Lori Jutila in Helsinki, Finland.
Here's my donation for show 463, the Thanksgiving edition.
The donation is for a triple threat.
I'm now an associate executive producer for the show.
The donation completed a knighthood, accounting provided, and I am requesting a birthday call out as my birthday is on the 22nd today.
I'm thankful for the work you do.
The analysis, entertainment, and insights you provide twice a week are valuable and very much appreciated.
Can I get a Huntsman Karma?
You can take that to the bank.
Best regards, Lori.
Yes.
Nice.
Yes, Lori, you can get that if you send a picture.
Helsinki.
Come on, this is hot finish, babes.
He's just sitting up there and, you know, I just have a visual.
Hot finish, babes.
Lovely.
Okay, we'll give her her thing.
Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying.
Let me give her her thing.
You can take that to the bank.
You've got karma.
Thanks, Laurie.
We have an anonymous donation of 200 bucks from the job seeker in Amsterdam.
Need some job karma to make sure that a job interview I recently had will come through.
I'm at my wit's end with my current job and I'm spending far too much on whiskey to cope with...
What?
I'm spending far too much on whiskey to cope at the end of the day.
Okay.
So maybe also add a dap of liver karma.
Yeah.
Combine this with a MILF and two to the head.
You're drunk.
The guy's drunk.
He's obviously drunk.
That's one mother.
I like this.
You've got karma.
That's not a good combo.
That is the weird combination of the month.
That is not a good combo.
Hi, babe.
You sexy milf, let me shoot you in the head.
Makes no sense.
That concludes our really outstanding contributions for today's show.
I am very, very, very happy.
Thank you all so much for doing that.
And we have, so we already thanked Sir Nussbaum and Nick the Rat for our art.
There was a...
And we can also assume that on Sunday's show we'll have no donations whatsoever.
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A couple of PR mentions that kind of slipped through on the radar here.
By the way, I registered a domain name to go along.
I thought, you know, who knew that Iron Dome was going to end after eight days?
You know, I'm really disappointed because I registered irondouche.com, which, of course, forwards to noagendashow.com.
That's an evergreen.
Iron Douche.
It's like everyone has an iron something.
We have an iron douche, irondouche.com.
So that kind of fell flat.
Maynard there and down under.
He is going to be in Melbourne on the 28th presenting the How Not to Get a Radio Show with the ABC to the Australian Skeptics National Conference.
ABC, of course, is the Australian Broadcast Corporation.
Maynard is a big supporter of the show in Australia.
And he says, while I'm in town, I'm going to put the call out for any listeners of no agenda and any skeptics to get together and have a drink and argue about HAARP, etc.
So it will be held at the Penny Black in Brunswick at 6.30pm, and that is on the 28th.
Maynard has a blog somewhere.
I'll put a link in the show notes, and I'm sure he'll be updating that, so make sure you check that out.
There was a YouTube video, which you have to see.
It'll be in the show notes under PR. Someone put together a 38-minute YouTube video, John.
You have to see this thing.
And it's basically everything we gripe about, but all of the videos with us kind of, you know, in and out between it.
I mean, the audio doesn't even make any sense, but it's an outstanding, outstanding piece of work.
It makes us look a little crazy because it doesn't really have any of the deep analysis that we do, but it is something worth taking a look at and worth sharing.
And finally, I would like to say big in the morning to the writers of the program, what is it, Up All Night.
I think this is on the NBC's Up All Night.
Are you familiar with this sitcom?
No.
Up All Night.
So Up All Night had their holiday Thanksgiving episode.
And at the very end, there's a scene.
And in this scene, there's like a turkey carcass on the ground and the neighbors are all standing around it.
And they're trying to figure out who would have done such a heinous thing as throw a turkey.
I mean, it's a stupid show.
Obviously.
That's why we don't watch it.
But what happened in those last few minutes of the show was rather interesting.
It's disgusting.
Makes you wonder who your neighbors are.
I mean, who would throw an entire turkey carcass in the street?
Savages, probably.
Right?
No way to behave in a society.
Come on, why do we have a neighborhood watch?
If you see something, say something.
Hey.
And it was almost in the right melody.
What do you think?
I think it had to come from us.
Could be.
I mean, it wouldn't surprise me.
There's a lot of writers of some of these shows that listen to our show.
But I've never heard anyone.
Many times looking for ideas.
Yeah, let's hear it again.
If you see something, say something.
If you see something, say something.
I think it's pretty close.
That's close.
We'll give them credit.
Thanks for stealing our jingle.
Hey, thanks a lot, guys.
That's cool.
And, of course, big in the morning to everyone here in the chat room who showed up for all the human resources, who showed up for our big Thanksgiving bogus holiday extravaganza.
And we appreciate you being here.
And of course, to our executive producers and associate executive producers, these are real credits.
You can join the Producers Guild of America.
You can put it on your IMDB. Unlike the douchebags in Hollywood, we will absolutely vouch for you that you were an exec or associate executive producer on the show.
And of course, you can always go out and propagate the formula.
Our formula is this.
We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
Real.
World. Order.
E-S-A-N-A. Chaps.
Slaves.
And there you go.
Alright, now can I get back to racism?
Because I'm on a racism thing today.
Well, I got, curiously, a racist clip.
Oh, awesome!
Let's hit your racist clip.
Where is it?
Well, it's not really a racist clip.
The analysis leads to a racist analysis.
Okay.
And by the way, did you hear, did you discover interesting things where...
Well, you go with your race thing, and I'll try to come back with something.
All right, I'll hit my race thing.
So Susan Rice, who is the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, who I despise just in general.
Yeah, why do you despise her?
Do you have any reason for this?
Yeah, because she's an arrogant, lying douche knuckle.
Okay.
I mean, you know, but of course, me saying I despise her, these days, you know, I'm sexist and racist.
That's pretty much what I'm hearing everywhere.
So, when we have not just one, but apparently, I think, 97...
Senators have come out and said, President Obama, you cannot nominate Susan Rice to be the successor of Hillary Clinton because she screwed up this whole...
The Benghazi thing where she went on all the talk shows, the Sunday talk shows, and she came up with a story which pretty much was bogative and a lie.
And so the response from many people...
Yes?
Well, I make sure to mention that she claims that this was talking points provided to her by the CIA, which the CIA... What she patently rejects, and our thesis is that Hillary set her up to fail, with the bogus talk.
That's my opinion.
Just something new?
No, thank you.
Well, thank you for bringing that up.
So she came out with a statement where she said, hey man, I was just doing what I was told.
But she doesn't actually say CIA. She says something else which no one has really picked up on, even though it's very prominent as to what she's saying.
With the obvious.
As a senior U.S. diplomat, I agreed to a White House request.
Okay, so it was the White House who requested her as a senior diplomat.
To appear on the Sunday shows to talk about the full range of national security issues of the day, which at that time were primarily and particularly the protests that were enveloping and threatening many diplomatic facilities, American diplomatic facilities around the world, and Iran's nuclear program.
I did not know that she talked about Iran.
She's saying Iran, which means she's lying, because it's not.
It would have been Iran.
And she did not talk about Iran at all, as far as I know.
But here it comes.
The attack on Benghazi, on our facilities in Benghazi, was obviously a significant piece of this.
When discussing the attacks against our facilities in Benghazi, I relied solely and squarely on the information provided to me by the intelligence community.
Now, I ask you, John, what is the intelligence community?
Is this like a club where we can go check in and have a drink?
Is it a social network?
I mean, this is the biggest bunch of bull crap.
And no one's saying, excuse me, the intelligence community could be CIA, FBI, DNI, DHS. It could be so many things.
The intelligence community, she's not saying anything here.
Anything.
And she does it again.
I made clear that the information was preliminary.
And that our investigations would give us the definitive answers.
Okay.
She didn't make it clear.
If she was making it clear, we wouldn't be arguing the point.
Everyone, particularly the intelligence community.
There it is again.
Everyone.
It's a one.
Everyone.
The intelligence community.
John, as an expert schooled in organizational charts, what is the intelligence community that would give her this information?
Who is that?
Hillary Clinton has worked in good faith to provide the best assessment based on the information available.
You know the FBI and the State Department's Accountability Review Board are conducting investigations as we speak, and they will look into all aspects of this heinous terrorist attack to provide what will become the definitive accounting of what occurred.
Definitive.
Like the 9-11 commission.
She has a grating style of speech.
That would be another reason why I dislike her.
It's the way she talks.
I mean, it's grating to listen to her.
She's so...
She's snotty.
But it's funny because...
Well, she is snotty and she really...
You know, she's...
She's arrogant.
And I've seen her because they have this thing called the United Nations.
They have a camera set up and they call it a it's like a weird name, like a entrapment.
It's a strange name where you walk out of the assembly room and you walk straight into the press onto the podium.
And I'll have to look it up, what they call those little speeches.
Because I watch a lot of this stuff, so you don't have to.
You see the preamble before the questions start, and she'll be like, you're not doing too close, are you?
Okay, zoom out a little bit.
This is literally the kind of stuff she says, because she wants to look pretty.
And it's just like, it's confirming my statement that politics is show business for ugly people.
And she's not even that ugly, but she's ugly on the inside.
So here, of course, we've got a problem with Susan Rice being nominated to follow Hillary Clinton, which may even be the reason why Hillary, as you, I think, correctly have said, Why Hillary gave her these falso talking points is so that she cannot become.
And Hillary's probably called all the senators and said, no, no, not her.
While Hillary Clinton navigates the complex politics on the ground in Gaza, President Obama's top diplomat at the U.N. is facing angry politics in Washington.
Angry?
Ah, this is a code word.
Here's how it starts.
By the way, that's a journalistic term, slamming.
That's how we talk in news today.
She's slamming.
Slam dress!
Threatening to filibuster her if she's nominated.
Many other Republicans have joined in.
97 members of the House sent the President a letter Monday opposing Rice.
Okay, 97.
So that's quite a bit.
So this, of course, we need some conversation because there's angry stuff going on.
Ooh, code word.
Let's go to our buddy Soledad O'Brien on CNN who sets up Representative Clyburn so he can just say it the way it is.
You bunch of racist pricks.
The Black Caucus incoming chair, Marsha Fudge, who you know well, says that she actually thinks that this is more about the fact that Susan Rice is a woman and that she's black.
Would you agree with what she's saying, that there's a racial or sexist component to a lot of these comments?
Or would you say, as the letter seems to say, they use the word incompetent and they use the word undermining the desire to improve U.S. relations?
Now let me ask you a question, John.
The words incompetent and undermining and perhaps even lazy.
What do these words mean to you?
It means she's a black woman.
And we have to vote for her because she's a black woman.
We don't need a black woman.
Here we go.
You know, these are code words.
Code words!
Ah, it's code words!
We heard them during the campaign.
During this recent campaign, we heard Senator Sununu calling our president lazy, incompetent.
These kinds of terms that those of us, especially those of us who were born and raised in the South, we've been hearing these little words and phrases all of our lives, and we get insulted by them.
Okay, let me just...
We've got to stripe a couple of more words off the list, John.
Please add the L word and the I word to the list.
You can no longer say lazy or incompetent.
And here is Marsha Fudge of the Congressional Black Caucus.
And she did a little press conference to yell about this.
Can I interrupt this train of thought for a second?
Yeah.
What gender was Condoleezza Rice?
Now, I believe she was Secretary of State.
Yes, that would be correct.
Now, she was a woman, I believe.
Well, the jury is still out on that.
And I think, I could be wrong, but I think she's black.
And I think even she might have served for a Republican president.
Huh.
Yeah.
And by the way, where is Condoleezza Rice standing up and saying, this is bull crap, you don't hear her doing that.
And she's happy to talk on, you know, to promote football jerseys.
Let's listen to Marsha Fudge.
There is a clear, in my opinion, a clear sexism and racism that goes with these comments that are being made by, unfortunately, Senator McCain and others.
It's unbelievable.
This is unbelievable.
And I was so delighted.
When I saw on, it was Fox News, and someone pointed the clip out to me.
Michael Myers, who is from the New York Civil Rights, I think it's called New York Civil Rights, is an organization, black man.
And he just laid into all of this in a one-minute pet peeve of the day that I just love.
Obviously, she is the flunky for the President of the United States, and we all know that.
Oh, did I become racist and sexist by saying that?
You know, I want to reply to that congresswoman from the Congressional Black Choir about her opinion of it.
Choir?
Choir.
I call it the Congressional Black Choir because they sing the same old song, the same old siren song of racism and sexism and separatism.
Choir?
Choir.
They sing the same old song.
And this woman, in my opinion, is racist and sex...
Well, your opinion, to use a rap word, Congresswoman, is ludicrous.
I am so sickened by this unrelenting, this ceaseless, this craven cry of racism and sexism every time someone disagrees with them.
She's like the fall guy in this situation.
The whole idea...
In the 21st century of Congressional Black Caucus, to me, is offensive.
Why?
They should go out of business because they still judge people and talk about people in the basis of their skin color.
Why do we need a Congressional Black Caucus in the 21st century?
Why do we need to have racially gerrymandered districts so that blacks can elect blacks, Asians can elect Asians, and Latinos can elect Latinos?
We have lost the culture, and we've lost the country.
There you go.
I love that.
There's a black man saying what a white man can't say.
Yeah, well, white men can't say it, but they won't say it.
Well, correct.
We won't say it because then you get branded as a racist and a Holocaust denier and whatever else.
Well, this is what happens.
This is what happens.
It's really, it's a bad, it's very, very bad what's happening.
And we need more people like this.
And where, by the way, is the Congressional Black Caucus saying, hey, wait a minute, somebody set Susan Rice up.
That's what they should be doing.
I know they're too dumb to do that.
Yeah, true.
Anyway, so that is our...
It's easier to pull the race card and just blame everybody.
And let's just remember Condoleezza Rice, but let's just pull this card, which is so ludicrous with the fact that Condoleezza Rice was a longtime Secretary of State, black woman, same thing.
So why all of a sudden is that everyone hates black women?
Well, they don't like this one woman.
Black or whatever.
If she was not black, it wouldn't make any difference.
To me, it's really, really disturbing.
America has always been branded, particularly by Europeans, by the way.
Many Europeans who actually sailed the slave ships from Africa.
America is still branded as the most racist.
You've got KKK. Don't go to the South.
They're racist.
They'll kill you.
This is a perception.
That is propagated.
And I'm sorry, I'm just not going to accept it anymore.
And our own political leaders propagate this.
Turn on the television, if you must, and look at the characters.
Look at what is being portrayed in the so-called modern arts.
This is not true.
We have completely accepted it.
But you don't like that.
You need to continue to separate us so it's being thrown on us.
It's being propagated.
It's quite odd.
Well, the hypocrisy is what gets me.
So here's my stories.
So we have Alan West, who I never liked him.
He's a Republican in Florida who was just a warmonger, it seemed to me.
And, you know, nothing but trouble.
But he was very entertaining.
And I have two clips, and then I'll ask you a couple questions about this.
Alan West is a black Marine.
Marine, black guy.
A straight talker Republican.
There's a lot of black Republicans that don't want to admit.
Nobody wants to face that fact.
But anyway, play the clip of him.
He lost his seat that he had.
He was a Tea Party guy.
And he lost his seat.
And here we go.
Out in class warfare.
And Allen West was just, you know, a symbol of that.
He allowed himself to be used by the Tea Party movement as a symbol of their movement to help them advance, you know, that cause.
And unfortunately, you know, he got played.
And he is going home.
Yes, indeed.
Joy, another man of unique political genius, Joe Walsh of Illinois, has also lost, and he's going to be going home very soon.
Does this indicate that the Tea Party in the House is literally falling apart?
You know, I think it's interesting, because I agree, Alan West was probably the most potent symbol of the Tea Party, in part because in Florida, I can tell you, he was the Tea Party.
He was their favorite candidate, and he embodied all of the belief systems that the Tea Party wanted to put forward, the whole idea of shrinking government, the abject hatred of Barack Obama, who he literally said he can't stand and who he described as a despot.
And so his ideas were synonymous with the Tea Party, and I think both he and Walsh losing is symbolic of the Tea Party having risen so high, really taken over the Republican Party ideologically.
Amazing election in 2010.
And he won in 2010.
He won in a district that was a swing district.
That's good enough.
I get the point's been made.
Yeah.
So here, let me ask you a quick question.
Now, if I'm not mistaken, these same ideologues on the Democrat side of the aisle Weren't they all telling us what a racist party, the tea party club, it's a drinking club, it's a drink tea.
The tea party drinking club was a bunch of racist a-holes.
Now how has Alan West become the symbol of the tea party movement, A, and B, according to this woman doing analysis.
He got played.
He was not only a symbol, but he was the Tea Party in Florida.
Right.
So how did he get played if he was the party, and how is it a racist situation if he, a black man, is the symbol of the party?
This whole thing is so ridiculous listening to these people blather on about this stuff.
It's actually sickening.
Can we move on to Jew hate or something?
Because there's so much more hate in the world, John.
Do you have more on me?
Do you have any Jew hate?
There's tons of Jew hate this week.
Oh, good.
Do you want to do the second Alan West clip?
No, no, that's fine.
I think we've got enough out of Alan West.
But I do have the Rockets at Jerusalem clip, which might have something to do with the hatred.
Yeah, I think you're moving in the right direction.
John Howell.
Mr.
Speaker, I declare an interest that I've just returned from a visit to the Brazilian authorities and to Israel.
The Foreign Secretary's call that Hamas bears the principal responsibility for the crisis and could end the conflict by stop bombarding Israel was attentively heard.
However, does he agree with me that the use of long-range imported missiles by Hamas capable of striking Jerusalem has made this much more difficult to achieve?
Yes, absolutely.
It is clear that the armory of rockets in Gaza has changed since the time of Operation Cast Lead, and that there are now longer-range rockets.
We've seen them launched at Tel Aviv and in at least one case at Tel Aviv.
Jerusalem, of course that is an escalation of the threat to Israel, but it only underlines the importance of taking forward all the work on a negotiated peace and settlement in the Middle East, which has been supported across the House.
So here's, this is our buddy Haig.
Yeah, Alexander.
We don't like.
Christopher, whatever his name is.
I don't know if it's Christopher.
Hank, I think it's Hank.
Hank Haig.
Hank Haig, yes.
The foreign minister of the Great Britain.
Britain's.
He, does anybody for a minute believe that they're going to shoot, I mean, either one of these groups is going to start bombing Jerusalem?
Well, hold on a second.
Now, a lot happened since we last spoke on this program.
And I have a number of observations.
I think we've jumped a little too far with this.
You went straight into it.
We've got to back up a little bit.
Beep.
Beep!
First of all, I have been following this from all aspects.
I've had CNN, MSNBC, ABC, Fox, even CNBC.
The tweeters, including that kind of hot woman who's the spokeshole for IDF, the Israeli Defense Forces.
She's kind of hot in kind of like a milfy kind of way.
She tweets kind of sexy.
She tweets sexy?
I don't know.
She tweets Anderson Pooper and all kinds of stuff.
I don't know.
There's something about her I like.
But I've been following a lot of blogs from shittisons in Israel.
And I'm going to come out right now and say...
It's time, Israel.
Would you please go in and just, you know, you're all saying it.
You're all saying it.
This is universal.
Universal that you just want to kill them all.
So please, do it.
Just roll in, roll over everybody, flatten the whole thing, get on with it already, because I want to watch other things on the news.
This is really pissing me off.
And it was like, everyone's like, I'm so sick and tired of this.
Who gives a crap about who's doing what to whom there?
I don't care anymore.
You're not meant to care.
Let me finish.
This is theater for the voting public of Israel.
It's got nothing to do with anything.
This is bull crap, this whole thing.
I was leading up to that, but you want to take the wind out of my sails?
Is that what you want to do?
You don't want to let me get into my rant?
No.
Well, excuse me, did you wake up and think, I'm going to talk to Adam, he's an idiot, he doesn't get it?
Is that what you were thinking?
No, but I'm looking at, you're talking about Lieutenant Colonel Avital Leibovich?
Yes, that's the one, yeah.
She's kind of...
You're crazy.
So here is Anderson.
So I got a whole bunch of things to show you that this is not only for the voting public, that this thing is the majority of this entire eight-day war is one big bogative promotion campaign for politicians and for Iron Dome, and that they don't give a crap who dies because of it.
I have some people here, some people there.
Who cares?
And by the way, If this was a real war, then someone, if you really want to make an impression, you've got to blow up one of these CNN journalists, okay?
They're standing there in Gaza.
You clearly know where they are.
You have the coordinates where you're blowing stuff up behind them.
You know, you can't even see.
You're not even blowing stuff up.
You're, like, lighting up firecrackers in the background.
Please, please kill a CNN journalist.
Could it please be Wolf Blitzer, if I could choose?
And here is...
He won't go over there.
He's there!
What are you talking about?
Wolf Blitzer is there.
Yes, Blitzer is there.
He can't even read the freaking teleprompter.
And Pooper is there.
And I told you about all the fake video that is being held in this propaganda war.
Here's Pooper retracting the video.
Because all they have, you never see anything happen live.
It's always, oh, we got some video.
And it's always from Reuters.
Last night we aired this.
Video showing a man being pulled from flames in Gaza.
After the video aired, we were pointed to an Israeli website that showed another image, this image, the man who was being dragged standing unconscious.
The allegation made was that the man was playing for the cameras when he was seen dragged away and was not, in fact, wounded.
Now, the video we aired came from the news agency Reuters, and their feed to us did not include the image, obviously, of the man standing.
We asked Reuters about it today.
They said they don't know the source of the image of the man standing or when that image was shot.
They also said that they never saw or shot any similar image.
So the bottom line tonight is we can't independently verify when that image of the man standing was taken, if it was taken before or after the other image was taken of the man being dragged away.
We obviously will not be using either image again.
This is not only a traditional military conflict, but one that's being waged in the media as well.
Really?
And our only goal in all of this is to report the truth, the facts on all fronts, and that's why we've sent so many reporters and producers into the field.
No, no, no.
Yes?
What?
He sent all...
Yeah, they sent all those...
If they want to go to where the action is, go to Afghanistan.
Obviously, there's nothing going on, and they wouldn't have sent all these reporters.
There is something going on, and it's the promotion for the Iron Dome.
What?
The defense system had just been installed in Israel's largest city a few hours earlier.
Several days into the conflict, it's already clear the Iron Dome is having a big impact, picking off hundreds of rockets.
I got a tour of the Israel Aircraft Industries plant that assembles the air defense system.
Deployment is a matter of minutes.
Dr.
Israel Osnovich is one of those in charge.
One key element is an advanced radar.
The radar searches, locates, tracks, and intercepts and guides the intercepting missiles within several seconds, few seconds within the launching time.
So they have this whole package, which is like eight minutes on CNN. I just said, did you say, okay, I'm going to interrupt you for a second.
I just sent you an email with the demo reel on this piece of crap that they're talking about, which makes zero sense.
You've got to take a look at this video and then incorporate it into what you're talking about.
Do something for yourself and I'll watch this video then.
I'll just describe it to people.
There's a radar they're talking about.
It's got a little thing on the side of a tank.
The demo they show is one of these little rockets.
The tank has a bubble around it.
Well, that shows that's the bubble of safety.
It's like the dome of silence.
Is there voiceover with this, with this video?
No, it's a stupid music.
I wish there was voiceover, because it would have been good to make your voice.
Oh, here comes the rocket.
Oh, ooh, ooh, wow.
So anyway, the rocket comes in, this radar talks to the rocket at the very last second, and then the rocket veers off and hits a wall.
Here's how it goes.
Hey, rocket!
Hey, rocket, this is radar calling.
Yes, what do you want, radar?
Hey, rocket, I want to talk to you about not coming through my dome of safety.
Okay.
That's literally how it goes.
Exactly!
But of course, we still, you know, by the way, we sold another one of these THAAD things.
Remember we sold the last one to, what was it, Jordan?
No, Qatar?
Qatar?
Yeah, Qatar.
6.5 billion.
We just sold another package, 6.5 billion, to Saudi Arabia.
Right.
And I think this is part of the whole deal, isn't it?
We say, hey man, here's...
Here's a little demo of what this thing can do.
And everyone's in on it.
Here's the CNNs.
Hold on a second.
Where's the...
There was some great promotion...
Wait, first, this is the BBC. Because we never see it live.
The BBC was able to do a radio version, which I thought was pretty funny.
But the camera wasn't working?
Well, no, it was BBC World Service.
So this is kind of the cool thing about this.
You never see a live shot where the actual rockets are coming down, right?
They always say...
Two minutes ago!
We just saw this happen!
It just happened over there!
But they never show it to you live.
It's too bad the war ended, but maybe the ceasefire will quit.
And so the BBC, of course, is doing this in audio for the World Service.
And it sounds like one of the reports.
In fact, let me do this.
We're going to do a report, right?
And then we're going to play the BBC World Report, which supposedly actually happened.
How does that sound?
And then you say, let's see if you can tell the difference.
Now, I'll be the reporter, and you'll be at home base.
Okay?
Okay, we're here in London, but we've got to...
Wait, you remember the most important thing you have to say?
Remember?
You want to make sure I'm what?
I have to do what?
You're safe.
Be safe.
Yeah, okay.
Okay, I'll put that in there.
We're here in London.
We've got Adam Curry in the Gaza Strip right now.
No, I'm sorry.
Where are you, Adam?
I'm in Israel.
You're in Israel?
Okay, you're right in the line of fire of the missiles.
Uh-oh, and it looks like something's coming here, and luckily we have...
Iron Dome is going!
Iron Dome!
Wow, I've never heard this impact.
It's so amazing.
We have the Rockets incoming.
I don't know what to get.
Sounds like a close call there, Adam.
Say it.
Say be safe.
Adam, you okay?
Say it.
Be safe.
Be safe.
I'm queuing you, man.
I'm queuing you.
Say it.
Say it.
I was getting to it.
You're going to stretch the bit out a little longer.
It wasn't one of our best efforts.
Here's the BBC version.
On a bus, I'm calling it a martyrdom operation.
Now, we don't think that this is a suicide bomb attack, but certainly that's what we're seeing.
This is a massive cab right now, right in front of me.
It's probably...
...way from where I am in Gaza City.
through screens of John are you all right about?
Yes.
We're all fine, yeah, but that is about a kilometre from where we are.
We think you should...
We have massive plumes of black smoke.
John, we think you should take cover.
Thank you.
I think we're okay now for the moment.
Well, we think you should take cover.
John, be safe, and we'll return to you later.
That was John Donelson in...
I'm telling you, our report...
I think you should take cover, Adam, and be safe, you idiot.
Be safe, be safe.
So, I'm watching Aaron Burnett.
Because, you know, I'm home alone, obviously.
And so we're all serious and we have this guy.
His name is Ben Wiedemann.
And Ben Wiedemann is a very interesting guy because he is the senior correspondent for CNN. And they cut to him and he's not ready.
In fact, he's talking with the producer about dinner.
And this is, you know, it's supposed to be all scary and stuff.
I caught this and I immediately recorded it here.
Many of the people in Egypt obviously don't support working with Israel at all.
And within the past hour, there were several explosions in Gaza City.
Let's get straight to our team there.
Keep the nose out of the tall.
Obviously, it looks like we're having a little bit of a problem with that shot, but we'll be getting...
So he's talking about, I had my nose in the feed bag, and the producer there on the spot, he's like laughing, and the producer is going like, yeah, we were all at the trough.
And then Aaron's like, obviously, we're having some technical difficulties.
Yeah, because it's not scary.
The whole thing, it may even be green screen for all I know.
And then I'm like, who is this Ben Wiedemann a-hole?
Who is this guy?
And I look into it.
He is the CNN from his Wikipedias.
He is the CNN senior correspondent in Cairo.
But where did he come from?
His father, a retired diplomat, spent most of his childhood outside of the United States.
He's clearly from a spy background.
But he originally was hired by CNN as a local Jordanian employee.
The job was fixer, producer, and sound technician.
And now he's the senior correspondent, John.
They do this all the time.
Nick, that guy Nick Robertson, I think his name is, he was the satellite engineer.
It's like these guys who are clearly have no journalistic credentials whatsoever get these big titles and get to do all this stuff.
And then I'm like, what else has Ben Wiedemann done?
Well, Ben Wiedemann was the guy who reported, here it is, CNN's Ben Wiedemann said on Thursday that he had discovered what appeared to be processed uranium sitting in a Libyan warehouse filled with thousands of barrels apparently containing radioactive material.
He is the reporter that broke the story on the yellow cake.
This guy is a phony.
The yellow cake, which we know was not true.
This guy is a big, fat, frickin' phony, and we caught him on tape laughing about sticking his head in a feed bag because there's nothing going on.
Of course some people are getting killed.
Do you really think that the elite BS a-holes in Israel or Palestine or Gaza or anywhere in the world give a flying crap about you shittisons?
No!
But you certainly got worked up about it.
They don't give a single flying crap about you.
If they jingle.
Yeah, okay.
I don't see Curry's pet peeve all the day.
Geez.
Yeah, and so it goes.
Well, by the way, you left out the thing that happened three days ago when Anderson Cooper, Pooper, had to...
Take one of these explosions behind him and duck and cover.
I think I did see that.
Did you have audio on that?
Do you have something?
No, it's all over the internet.
No, I don't.
But, yeah, the bomb happened and he ducks.
Remember that old guy that used to be on...
In the first Gulf War, there was some guy who was ducking and weaving constantly when he was on the air.
He was on the roof.
And he's ducking and weaving like he's dodging bullets while he's giving a report.
Now, this is...
The whole thing is fake.
And literally what I read is the Israelis, they're pissed, they're so angry, but they're angry at the wrong people.
This whole thing is set up just to mess with your head.
And by the way, have you seen the austerity measures in Israel?
Your own government is starving you.
You need to go kick their asses first.
The whole thing is so incredibly annoying.
And obviously, CNN and everyone has been sent off to go cover that.
So whatever you do, don't look at Benghazi.
Don't look at the fiscal cliff.
Don't look at anything that's going on here in America, please.
Woo!
And then Hillary goes off to go blow Morsi.
I mean, what is that?
She has to go out on a high like, I made peace.
So don't look at Bengali.
Which is how they say it in Washington, Norton.
Don't look at Bengali.
Because I made peace between them.
I did it.
I'm Hillary.
Hillary.
They're maniacal megalomaniacs.
Seriously.
And I'm thankful for that.
Otherwise, it wouldn't have a show.
Well, there's that element, and I agree with that.
But yeah, I think that pretty much summarizes the situation.
There was one little glimmer of hope.
So, of course, Turkey came out, and Turkey said, Hey, man, those Israelis, they're terrorizing everyone.
They're terrorists.
These are acts of terror.
Now, this is a problem because we're friends with Turkey, and we're also friends with Israel.
And, you know, you can't, that's like not a cool thing, right?
You're the man in the middle.
And our buddy Matt over there from Reuters, he was not having it with Victoria Nuland.
And it was just so beautiful to just hear him lay into her, and just one of these exchanges where you just go, I wish that was on television more often.
It would not be helpful for you to discuss any of your conversations that quiet diplomacy is the way to de-escalate that.
Well, you've been doing your quiet diplomacy now for almost a week.
How's it going so far?
He's like, how's that working out for you, huh?
We are working hard with the parties.
I would have heard to anybody that maybe being less quiet might get more results.
The squeaky wheel gets greased, that kind of thing.
You're staying silent while people are dying left and right.
Matt, we are being far from silent.
You're not telling us anything about when the Turks come out, when the leaders of Turkey come out and say that Israel is engaged in acts of terrorism, and you refuse to say that you don't agree with that, or maybe you do agree with it, that's being silent.
Matt, we have made a decision that we need to engage in our diplomatic work diplomatically.
We have been very, very clear about where we stand on this, which is that we don't practice diplomacy from the podium.
We have been very clear that Israel has a right of self-defense.
We've been very clear that rockets continue to be fired and land on Israel.
We've been very clear that we are working...
To try to get this conflict de-escalated.
We have been very clear about our concern for the civilians and innocents on both sides who are getting cut in this.
You won't stick up for your ally Israel when the Turks, another one of your allies, say that they're engaged in terrorism in Gaza.
We have been extremely clear about our concern for Israel's security, about the fact that Israel has a right to self-defense, but I am not going to go further than that.
Why can't you say that you don't agree with the Turks?
Because I'm not going to get into a public spitting match with allies on either side.
We're just not going to do that.
Do you think that that's worse?
A public spitting match with one of your allies is worse than hundreds of people dying every day.
I don't understand the question here.
There's not a question here.
You're just looking for a fight.
Let's go.
The fight is already on.
The fight's going on over there.
Absolutely.
And you guys, by refusing to say anything about what you're trying to do, or refusing to say whether you agree or disagree with comments that are being made by your allies or others...
That makes things worse, not better.
We, of course, agree that rhetorical attacks against Israel are not helpful at this moment.
Is that what you were looking for, Matt?
Yes.
Thank you.
Shut up, slaves!
Shut up, slaves!
But the best, the best, the best, the quote of the year comes from our very own president, now serving in his second term, Is it like when you get in for the second term, just like George Bush, do they put something in the food that makes you an idiot?
Does the White House kitchen do something?
What he said, what our president said on his Asian trip there, blew me away.
There's no country on Earth that would tolerate missiles raining down on its citizens from outside its borders.
So we are fully supportive of Israel's right to defend itself from missiles landing on people's homes.
So did I just hear the President say that if you're a country and another country is sending missiles onto your citizens, that you have the right to defend yourself?
Like Pakistan, Yemen, all these places where he's sending drones to kill people?
Is it okay so he's now inciting terror?
He's saying, hey, hey, you idiots there in Yemen.
If you got someone shooting rockets at you, you should go and defend yourself.
Does anyone see the irony of this statement?
Makes nothing but sense.
No one picks up on this.
It says, Mr.
President, since you just said that, how do you feel about when you send rockets from drones onto Pakistanis and onto Yemenis and onto Malis and elsewhere and Djiboutins and wherever else you drone people?
Does anyone see the disgusting irony of this statement?
No.
No.
Everything's rehearsed.
There's only one...
Yes, even my feigned outrage is rehearsed.
Exactly.
Talking about rehearsed.
So I played that Rock is a Jerusalem clip.
I was listening to Haig again.
You know, our buddy, Harry Haig.
Yeah, Hank.
Hank Haig from the Department of whatever.
Department of Foreign People.
So...
I've got three clips.
You heard the Rockets of Jerusalem.
And remember, we've already had, I think it was Tony Blair clip from two or three years ago, I should remind people of this, where he spilled the beans on these parliamentary things that take place.
They're rehearsed.
They're rehearsed.
Right.
The questions are pre-chosen, and the guy who's in the box that calls on people...
You mean the guy with the wig?
The guy with the wig who calls on people.
He calls on them, and it's off a list, and the question's already known, and the answer's been rehearsed, and it's never been more obvious.
Yeah.
Hold on a second.
Hold on a second.
Hold on.
Let's do it.
The Open of the World, John C. DeMar, I want to all speak.
It's never been more obvious than these questions they ask this Harry Haig guy.
Here's one, the political solution BS, and it's just like, here's, I'm going to ask you a question that you're going to, or it goes like this, you're going to ask me a question that is what I, gives me the ability to read off my talking points and agree or disagree with you in some way that's important for the government to express.
Would the Foreign Secretary agree that Maintaining a purely defensive strategy in Israel is neither effective nor economically sustainable.
Well, clearly such a strategy hasn't succeeded in reducing the number of rocket attacks.
That has gone up over a long time, although it has protected many Israelis from the consequences of those rocket attacks.
But as we've said before, as I said in my statement, there isn't a military solution to this problem.
There is only a political solution.
Sorry.
So the question is, what kind of a question, like, I want to say a certain thing, so I say to you, would you agree?
What kind of a question is that?
Would you agree with this comment?
I think this is the greatest podcast in the universe.
Well, yes, I would agree.
This is the best podcast in the universe.
So anyway, there's one more of these, and this one I think is a little more obvious that the question's bogus and the answer is two.
Which one is that?
More Parliament with Haig.
Jim Cunningham.
Very much, Mr.
Speaker.
The Foreign Secretary earlier on mentioned the fact that the window of opportunity was closing for a two-state deal.
Is that because Israel will not let the sanctions on the Palestinians and it would be impossible for Israel to dismantle the settlements?
Well, certainly the more settlements are constructed, yes, the harder it becomes for anyone to envisage a two-state solution working.
That's really the heart of this argument, particularly the expansion of settlements in East Jerusalem, which of course makes it harder for Jerusalem to be the shared capital of both states, as all of us envisage in an eventual settlement of this issue.
So, yes, we're on the same lines.
Now, here's what I think happens.
I think that a memo goes out, you know, they've got like, maybe they do it on ham radio.
They got a memo that goes out, a cable.
It's like, oh, hey, we're going to do that thing again here in Israel.
And everyone's like, oh, good, finally.
We can talk about, we can have long conversations about nothing.
With buzzwords like two-state solution.
And more importantly, we can sell crap.
We can sell weapons and imaginary shields and domes and rockets that talk to radars and backwards.
And it's just great.
You know, it's great for the economy.
It's great for politicians.
It's getting close to the holiday.
You know, we're too tired to come up with anything that means anything.
Who cares if a couple of shittisons get killed in the process?
It doesn't matter.
Yeah, it doesn't matter the scheme of things.
I see things.
And the news media, they're like, oh, road trip!
It's like, I swear to God, that's the way I see it.
And if you don't see it, then you either need to be listening to more of this program or stop.
Because that's all it is.
And you're just an irrelevant peon that, you know, as long as you bleed well on camera, you're useful.
Yeah.
It works for me.
Now, Miss Mickey asked me at this point, when I talk like this, to say, but there's hope.
There's lots and lots of hope!
So I didn't realize that all of you, but Haig said, all of us envisage.
Envisage.
He says all of us envisage.
And what he was referring to was that Jerusalem itself will be the capital of all these different states.
Of course.
That's the envisage.
That's the envisage.
Of course.
Oh, okay.
I wish them luck.
Anyway, the whole thing is...
Yeah.
It's wag the dog.
I mean, we did get a couple notes or something.
We have a lot of listeners in Israel, and one of them says, Oh, that's bullcrap.
These rockets, these Patriot missiles are knocking these things out of the sky.
Yeah.
And so I like to know, now there's two ways to do it.
One is they're either knocking them out of the sky, which is what I think Thad does that.
Yeah, that's Thad.
Or they're knocking them out at the last second with this crazy dome thing.
Well, hold on.
All I've seen, I've only seen one video, and it's the two little chemtrails that go up.
Yeah, I saw that same video.
That's the only video there is.
There is no other video.
With everybody with a cell phone, you'd think there would be something.
Now, they have some explosions that they've filmed, but I don't know if that was done recently, or it could be taken from Yemen, for all I know.
I mean, this is the problem with these B-rolls.
They're all over the place.
And I'm starting to see the...
I saw it on CNN, and I've seen it on other networks, where they're showing a loop.
Once again.
Yes, exactly.
Yeah.
Uh-oh.
Uh-oh.
Oh my goodness!
John!
John!
They're bombing Austin.
Yes, the Mujahideen.
They're bombing Austin.
Take cover.
Take cover.
Be safe. Be safe. Be safe. Be safe.
You're late because the Iron Dome effects don't last long enough.
You've got to get in quicker with the be safe stuff.
Okay.
Be safe.
Oh, man.
It's just...
Here, what was this...
I had another clip from that douche.
The...
What was it?
What did he do?
The audio engineer?
Let's see.
Where is he?
Here he is.
Here's Ben Wiedemann, the audio engineer.
Well, I think it's pretty clear that we are moving in the direction of...
I can hear shattering glass out there right now.
The building just shook, of course, because I was looking at the camera, I didn't see where the blast took place.
Anybody see it?
Okay, to the north of this building here.
So, despite talk of ceasefire, Hala, it appears that the guns are still firing.
Ben Wiedemann, John Amy, now all of us in the office basically ducked to the floor.
I don't know how you remain standing, basically didn't even flinch.
Clearly you've been in this region a lot longer than I have.
But for all that talk of a cooling off here.
So, you know, and just as we've been talking, and I've been very specific when we started this topic, not to look at the chat room.
And so now I glance over, and of course, we get the minute you talk about this, and by the way, this is why this conversation never takes place in the mainstream media, because immediately your sponsors would be pulled, you'd be thrown off the air, you'd be fired, you're whatever.
You can't have this conversation about this bull crap that has been going on here in this particular region of the world for...
How long, John?
How long has it been going on?
For 70 years, almost?
Well, the recent iteration started in the 40s.
Right, so 70 years.
Yeah, 70 years.
But historically, you can go back, and this is something that's been around this area.
It's almost cursed.
Right, but you get these things like, you're a Zionist, you're a Jew hater, Adam's this.
It's like...
That is the whole problem, you see?
And people are like, there's plenty of video.
There's video all over the place.
No, there's not.
It's like, I mean, do you ever go to movies?
Do you see what's, you're being mind-controlled.
You're, you know, this is, it really is, wag the dog is the closest thing to it.
And if you're really that adamant, please, get your gun, join the army, go kill each other, please.
I wish that you would all kill each other there.
Just...
Kill each other.
Get it over with already.
I'm so sick and tired of this charade.
Yeah.
Then you have all these...
The real problem is you get all these people that aren't aware of the script...
And they blow up a bus.
You know, there's a lot of dummies that just...
Oh, no, no, it's even worse than that.
Then there was the whole...
Then you get the Twitter war.
You get the Palestinian woman who lives in England tweeting, Oh, false flag, false flag from the Israelis.
Like, people, you hate...
It's like...
When you have a neighbor who you can't live next to because you hate each other so much, your next door neighbor in the house next door, here's how it ends.
Either A, you wind up killing each other, or one or the other, or one or the other moves away.
There's no other solutions to this.
So I'm just saying, why do the Israelis stop every single time?
And why do the Palestinians not get better rockets from their buddies in Iran?
Why?
Why?
How come this isn't over already?
Why?
We know, oh, you can't nuke them because we'd have fallout.
Well, there's many ways.
Poison the water!
What else can we do, John?
Electrocute them!
Come on, John.
Come up with some creative ideas.
This should be over already.
If it was over, then all the weapons systems would be sitting languishing.
We can't have that.
This has to drag on forever.
Thank you.
That is my entire point, and you will not get that point anywhere else.
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Kill each other!
In the morning.
We do have a few people to thank.
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I live in New Jersey.
Somehow in the midst of the absolute devastation wrought by Sandy, the hurricane, my friend's family and home...
have all been spared.
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If it isn't, I do.
No agenda is hurricane relief for the soul.
I did a couple of hours of lessons from Sandy.
I've learned that we can survive, but should be better prepared.
I've learned nothing can close the Chinese restaurants around here.
That's interesting.
Nobody brought that up.
It takes less than 24 hours after a storm for every money hungry thief in the United States to arrive in your town to help you at either time and a half or double time pay.
Wait, hold on a second.
Hold on a second.
So during Hurricane Sandy, the Chinese restaurants remained open and were serving?
Yeah.
Hmm.
It makes you wonder about the freshness of their product.
Well, you know...
He wants to know if he's a black knight.
I don't know that.
Maybe you should ask JC. Oh, I see.
A knight?
Yeah, he's going to be a knight.
We got that, but a black knight, he doesn't know.
I don't think he's a black knight.
I don't think so.
I don't think so either.
That's all right.
But you're good for the music.
Sir John Smith, St.
Peter.
By the way, it's not a thing to be...
The black knight is essentially us admitting that we screwed up.
Yeah.
So it's not like, you know, a special designation.
St.
Petersburg, Florida, $100 emergency room visit has kept me from donating for a while, and that means one thing and one thing only.
I'm in danger of being a douchebag boner.
No, no.
The correct phrase is, and that usually means one thing and one thing only.
That's the correct CNN phraseology.
Yeah, that usually means one thing and one thing only.
Last few shows have been outstanding, he says.
Thank you.
Dustin Kekta in Gilbert, Arizona, $100 as well as Raymond Williams in Lafayette, Louisiana, $100.
Chris Whitten in Millboro, Virginia, Happy Thanksgiving.
And Karma for you guys working on the holiday, $100.
Bogative holiday.
You've got karma.
Bogative, but valuable holiday for...
People in the retail industry.
Michael Morch in Allberg, Denmark.
100.
Kiwi Chris in Wellington.
Uh...
I know you thought I was dead, as I've not donated in so long.
Yeah, there were so many earthquakes there.
We didn't hear from him.
Like, how about that producer we got in there?
He's dead, man.
He's dead.
Nah, he's just dead.
Well, getting by feels like death.
Let this just mark the return to donating, as I feel like I've been reborn.
I don't want any weird jingle combinations, but just a little karma for my big bike race on the 23rd.
160 kilometers around Lake Taupo.
Aiming for four and a half hours.
And yes, I will be adorned with a full Lycra, no agenda, cycling uniform, trying to spread the word to at least a thousand people.
Keep up doing what you do.
Hey, can I ask you a quick question, John?
You've got karma.
Would you mind if we just both disconnected for a second and then reconnected and see if that makes any sense?
Am I sounding funny?
Well, pretty much the whole show.
You've been scratching, like I said.
But let's just...
Who knows?
It'll be worth trying.
I'll disconnect, too, and reconnect.
All right.
Bye.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to Mumble.
I think it's probably just something going on with this...
Wait a minute.
Did you disconnect at all?
No, I'm still trying to close all these windows.
Oh, well then I'll disconnect again just to show you how quick I am.
I'm disconnected.
We are quite happy with the mumble system though, I'll have to say.
But let's see.
Okay, now I'm back in.
And let's see when John...
So John comes in and is like, Oh, my settings are all messed up.
Anyway, thank you, Kiwi Chris.
Does it sound any better?
No, it's still scratchy.
I'm scratchy today.
I'm itchy and scratchy.
It's just something with your...
God knows.
You don't have that groovy computer that you have in San Francisco.
No.
No.
There you go.
Joe Collins in Woodbridge, Virginia, $99.99.
Hold on a second.
I wasn't ready for that.
You try to help a guy out.
Yes, the...
After the recent analysis of Petraeus and Benghazi thoroughly blew my mind.
I knew it was time for a donation.
This is Sir Joe Ho talking.
Talking about the riots and making predictions has given me the opportunity to hit people in the mouth a lot lately.
And the more who listen, the less control the slave masters have.
I would like a hello everybody drone again, naturally.
Take that to the bank.
No karma for me.
Instead, send it to my grandfather, who's currently fighting cancer, and after his face finally recovered from a lymph node operation, he's back in treatment for a tumor in his lower back.
If this is too long, you can skip that last part, but don't forget the karma for him.
Now we'll do that.
Hello, everybody!
You can take that to the bank.
Here's Andrew.
Karma.
Karma.
Stand by.
If you keep stepping on people's karma, they're not going to like you.
It might be better.
Andrew Gardner, Avenue Merrill, Niner, Niner, Niner, Niner.
Ay, ay, ay, ay, ay.
Hello, hello.
In the morning.
Bringing out my PayPal account, which we recommend people do.
Can I get the old school niner, niner, niner, niner from Adam?
Followed, that's you.
Followed by little girl yay and around to karma.
Niner, niner, niner, niner!
Little girl.
You've got karma.
Niner, niner, niner, niner!
Yay!
There you go.
Saved it.
Okay.
Saved it!
Let's see what you got.
C-Mike in Kansas City, 8888.
If possible, let Adam read this one.
Okay, go.
Hold on.
I wasn't prepared for this.
Oh, this is 8888 to congratulate Adam on passing his general class exam.
I'm sending along $88.88 and I challenge the rest of the No Agenda hams to contribute to the official donating is loving giving level.
Yeah, so 88s in ham speak is love and kisses.
73s is...
See ya.
Good buddy.
Greetings to you, and 88's is love and kisses.
John, rather than waiting for you to figure out the PL tones on your Chinese radio in order to get you into your local repeater, I encourage and invite you to join the hams on the air online at Echo Link Node 3373. I encourage and invite you to join the hams on Once you grace us with your presence, I promise to stop putting the JCD jokes in the Daily Morse Code podcast artwork.
Please send me some house-selling karma, as well as an extra special karma shot to my wife, who is due to deliver our fifth human resource just after the first of this year.
Managing our $46 million worth of human resources is hard work, and she deserves a ton of credit.
Lastly, please play the Atlas Shrug jingle.
While 62 and a half hours is pretty long for an audiobook, listening to it on my iPhone is the only way I could have ever read it.
So we've got a couple of things here.
So first...
Atlas Shrug.
By Ayn Rand.
And we have a special...
And we have a...
A special 8888 donating is a loving giving level for all the hams.
You've got karma.
Now, could you decode that, John?
Yeah, it said.
It's actually 8888.
8888.
Eric Bowdenstab.
I'll go...
Yeah, I've got to do something so I can get off the DMC podcast artwork.
Sir Eric Bowdenstab to you.
St.
Paul, Minnesota 7636.
Cue cheesy music.
I'm thankful for you no agenda show this holiday season.
I'm a student and a knight.
I must show you this with a donation.
After all, donating is loving.
Matthew Eskridge in Huntsville, Alabama.
75 bucks.
He wants to hear the Atlas Shrug jingle, followed by 999.
Atlas Shrug.
By Ayn Rand.
999, 999, 999, 999.
William Smith.
Nuts.
Nuts.
Louisiana nuts.
7388.
Mr.
Peabody here.
Congrats to KG4. He got the wrong call sign.
That's for some guy, Adam M. Curry.
Get the wrong call.
It's KF5. Yeah, what is it?
What's yours?
It's something else.
It's KF5SLN slash AG. And it'll change soon because I get to do a shorter call sign.
I get a new one.
And then when I get my extra, then I'll have like four.
And then I'm going to get like NANA or something.
Or like, you know, something really cool.
Because you can just do a four call sign because you're like, you got bragging rights as an extra class.
It'd be cool.
I want to make sure Thanksgiving show gets appropriate love.
Enjoy recent Benghazi analysis, which I find spot on in theory.
But have to say, please be careful with historical references.
Confusing the USS Liberty in 1967 with the USS Maddox in 1964.
By the way, not sunk and NVA had PT boats and torpedoes.
Never had any subs.
You know, I've got to say something about this.
So, we do the show on the fly, right?
And we do it live, and we both have knowledge of things.
But when we screw up, or certainly when I screw up, People go insane.
We always do a mea culpa when we find out that we made a mistake, and sometimes it's just, it's not even, it's not an intentional mistake, and sometimes it's just carelessness.
We even did it on the show.
We said, oh no, no, we're wrong.
On the very same show, in the same conversation, and still people are like, you're crazy!
Really?
Like, you know, which to me actually is very beautiful because it means that we're so spot on most of the time that when we stumble, then people really are upset.
So I feel pretty good about it.
But I was surprised.
Like, I can't believe you got that one wrong.
It's clearly in the history books.
Sorry.
There's a bunch of weird stuff.
You know, I wrote a column about the USS Liberty attack.
And years ago, it was an op-ed.
I think it was in San Francisco Examiner.
And I got a bunch of...
I talked about it in detail.
And I got some very strange mail from people after that one.
It's a weird, weird story.
Tell me, what kind of weird mail?
It's like, it was like angry that I discussed it.
It was just strange.
I mean, it just, it was like baffling.
They didn't read it.
Sometimes you'll get feedback because somebody doesn't pay any attention.
They think you said one thing, you said something else.
This happens a lot on this show too.
So you guys are wrong about this and that.
No, no, that's exactly what we said.
I don't know.
Some people don't listen very carefully.
But do you...
I mean, was there something weird that you wrote about this particular...
I mean, this is not a typical...
Well, it was...
No, I just wrote the details of the thing.
I don't know what the bit was.
I had some...
I was making some point about...
I don't know what.
It was years ago.
I mean, decade at least.
Was that for PC Magazine?
No, it was the San Francisco Examiner.
I just said it was an op-ed.
Oh, I'm sorry.
I missed that.
I missed that.
And...
It just creates all kinds of, you know, it's weird because the Israelis attacked this thing and to keep it away from a situation that killed a few people, it's very strange.
Can I just say, don't bring it up anymore because now you've always...
I think it's cursed.
Yeah, this is one of those things, it's cursed, you can't talk about it.
If you bring it to what you just said, now you're going to get people sending big archives of here's what really happened.
You know, meanwhile, CNN and Fox and MSNBC are lying in your face all day, and people are like, oh, okay.
That's good.
Rarely is anything unprecedented, he goes on to say.
Keep up the good work.
He needs a, hey, citizen, two to the head, it's delicious karma for some job-related issues.
Okay, hey, citizen.
What was it?
Hey, citizen, two to the head, it's delicious?
Yeah.
Hey, citizen.
I mean, that is the land of unconfirmed.
Oh, shoot.
I'm sorry.
I got the wrong one.
Well, it's like, you know, there's so much to do.
Let me try it again.
Hey, citizen.
It's almost too delicious to believe, my friend.
You've got karma.
There you go.
Sorry.
That's a good combination, actually.
Yeah, it's easy to use.
Anonymous in DeBerry, Florida, 7218.
Chris, new job karma.
He's waiting for the word on the great new gig.
Happy Thanksgiving.
Happy Thanksgiving.
You've got karma.
Right down the street from me is Jeremy Johnson in Port Angeles, Washington, 69.77.
Greetings from Port Angeles.
77 cents to bring back the slide whistle.
Are you sure he's not living in your house?
Are you sure he's not downstairs?
He might be.
I'll find out at dinner.
Ashley Hurst, our friend, the fisherman lady who sent her photo of herself.
Remember?
69!
69!
Very cute picture.
Very, very cute.
Thank you for taking your time to do a show today.
I was recently in the AT&T store waiting in line with all the other slaves and I decided to hit people in the mouth.
I changed all the internet browsers on the smartphones to the noagendashow.com.
I even got to see one man's reaction.
His interest seemed piqued.
I am a lady, Adam, and I love that flowing mane of Harry.
So glad you chuckled at my last donation.
Douchebag to my friend Gus.
Hold on.
Douchebag!
Who has been listening for months without donating.
Two to the head for the idiots I visited in Portland last week.
Pretty please finish it with a Parliament mumble.
So is she requesting a karma, actually?
Yeah, give her a karma anyway.
Hold on a second.
I've got to get the Parliament mumble.
Yeah, no.
She sent us a picture of her holding a...
What kind of fish was that, John?
It's a huge...
It looked like a huge bass.
Yeah.
But it could have been it.
She likes my hair and bass.
You've got karma.
Excellent.
Thank you, darling.
Thanks for the picture.
I was sexy in a weird way.
A girl holding a giant fish.
Dave in Desboro, Amherst, New Hampshire, 6969.
Please refer to me as Shag.
Okay, Shag.
I've been a 12-12 monthly donor for much of this year, but I felt you deserved a little something extra for showing up on Thanksgiving.
I figured a 69-69 would be a good way to help keep up your spirits.
Little girl, shut up, slave, two to the head.
Little girl, yay, would make my day.
Okay?
All right.
Shut up, slave!
Donald Philip Chuck What do you think?
Nuts.
Calgary, Alberta.
That's where all the money is.
Yeah, that's right.
Chuck Nuts.
Hey, Chuck Nuts.
In the morning, John and Adam, the best podcast in the universe from the economic engine of Canada, Calgary.
Hey.
Just a quick note to let you know, I've enjoyed listening to the show this past summer while on vacation in Florence, Rome, Tisa, and Monterosso, Sanct, Sanctera in Italy, and the beautiful city of Montreal and Quebec.
Thanks for the great edutainment.
Where else can I learn about the etymology of the Steely Dan?
Please throw me some getting laid karma and also please spare some karma for the Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian Football League who will be playing against Toronto this Sunday.
And the final for the Grey Cup, eh?
I hold off on the de-douching until I donate a bit more.
For now, please give me a hello citizen douchebag.
Food of the head karma.
Adios mofos.
Okay, so it's a hey, citizen, to the bag, to the bag, what?
Hey, citizen.
To the bag, yeah, to the bag.
Hey, citizen.
To the bag.
Adios, mofo.
You've got to the bag.
Hey, come on, man.
That was a quadruple element there.
It was tough.
Alexi Volensky in Albany, New York, 6960.
I love you guys.
Listening on my Roku while slaving away in the kitchen while wife working in the hospital.
Can I have two delicious karma for my turkey?
That's a good one.
And I was typing this note while paying attention to instructions while tasting wine.
Thanks for all you do.
By the way, Roku channel is a few installs short of 40k.com.
Not sure what that means.
It's almost too delicious to believe, my friend.
You've got karma.
Nice.
I'm liking that for the description of the turkey I'm cooking.
It's almost too delicious to believe, my darling.
Oscar, Sir Oscar Nadal in Tecate.
2969 says, I'm one of the Europeans at Celebrity Thanksgiving.
Here's my donation.
Thanks for the great service you guys give.
Christoph Eilers in Eulenstedt.
Eulenstedt.
Outland Stata.
Which is where the...
I don't know if it's...
That used to be where all the Amsterdam University students would live.
Maybe they still do.
Outland Stata.
Well, maybe he's a university student.
Michael Bradbury at University...
What does this say?
Heights, Ohio.
6969.
Figures time to donate to the show since I've been listening for a few months.
The hours of listening pleasure you guys have given me has made me a different...
Maybe take a different look at all the news I see and the political debates I've heard around me in Ohio.
I would not wish election season in Ohio on my worst enemy.
It's enough campaign ads to drive you crazy.
And by the way, I would love to get a hold of that campaign ad where Romney pushes the old lady off the cliff.
What, this is a real ad?
Yeah.
Romney's got an old lady in a wheelchair.
He's taking her to the top of a mountain, and then he pushes her off a cliff and laughs.
And this was an Obama ad, I guess?
Well, I think it was by one of the Obama, you know, super PACs.
Yeah, he wasn't going to put his name on it, but he's laughing all the way to the bank.
Are you sure it wasn't Paul Ryan?
Paul Ryan.
Because I see the video here.
No, no, it's an old lady.
No, that, yeah, duh.
No, that's probably the parody video you're looking at.
Well, in attack ad, Paul Ryan kills grandma in wheelchair from Forbes.
I thought it was Romney that was pushing the lady over the chair.
I mean, have you, you know, when you hear about these things, do you ever consider this?
No, I saw it.
This great invention called Google, where you can like find stuff?
I saw it.
No, I don't use the Google.
Anyway, he's like a two-to-the-head little girl, yay karma.
Yay!
You've got karma.
Yeah, it looks like...
Well, this is from August.
No, that can't be.
It doesn't make sense.
John Haller in Missoula, Montana, 6969.
I love the show.
You act like two old married people crabbing and annoyed with each other.
I suggest on a day that you don't want to do a show that you play an old one and point out how correct you were or wrong.
Life is great, he says, right?
Remco Van Dyke.
I like that.
We were right or wrong.
Carry on.
Keep calm.
We were right or wrong.
Remco Van Dyke from Holland, 6969.
Harlem.
Harlem.
Greg Filer, Sir Greg Filer, as a matter of fact, in Lauderdale, Minnesota Nuts, 6969.
I cannot miss out on the chance to say thank you for all the work the whole crew does for the show.
As a graduate student, there is little to be thankful for on this Thanksgiving, but the show is one.
Keep up the section and we all will keep donating.
It's so nice when people who are studying or in school, when they send us notes.
I got a great note from a student.
The other day, and he was asking about some drone information because he's making an app for a school project that will actually, based upon your features, so based upon what you look like, the color of your skin, where you live, which of course is done through GPS, it will determine your chances of getting killed by a drone.
I can't wait for this app to come out.
I need a copy.
Yeah.
Baron von Pelsmuckers is back.
Come back again.
Hello, Baron.
6969.
He likes to get that 6969 in there.
Another fine newsletter on top of two weekly episodes of the best podcasts in the universe compel me to donate twice this week.
Fact.
Why?
Because he just loves the memes.
Why?
Because today on the European calendar we have a palindrome of 21-11-12.
Another one we missed.
I also have renewed reason to believe that the karma works so...
So I'd like a second helping of the Swazzle Nuff kind topped with a little girl.
Yay!
Keep up the great work.
Happy Thanksgiving.
For the Baron, I'm going to give him a...
69!
69, dude!
Wow!
The Baron gets extra.
You've got karma.
Which he deserves.
Woo!
Sir Atiyah in New York, 6969.
Here's some birthday and 69 in French karma for my boy Danny Gray, whose birthday it is on Friday the November 23rd.
I would like to have a douchebag sent to Marvick Burgos for being an owner.
Douchebag!
And Adam, give yourself a friendly douchebag while you're at it.
You know why.
Douchebag!
Really?
What did I do?
I don't know.
You did something bad.
If you don't mind giving me a plug at eadamatia.com for anyone in the New York metro area needing some professional photographic services, you can look forward to a second knighthood when the money starts rolling in.
Speaking of which, I have still not received my night ring.
We will get on that.
She only sends about once every week.
Wake up, Mimi.
Mimi!
Get on the stick!
Rick Barkhouse in Smith Falls, Ontario.
69-69.
A greeting from Gitmo Nation, Beaver Tail.
Happy Yankee-Turkey Day to you both.
I found myself this Wednesday morning in the uncommon position of being totally caught up on no agenda episodes, which left me with nothing but time to reflect upon my bonerism.
When I also noticed it was a palindrome, day 12, 11, 12, I knew that was time again.
I had to ask you for, can you take that to the bank, followed by the parliament, yay, karma.
Call out Howard McRae as a douchebag.
Douchebag!
He is just a general all-around douchebag, but he doesn't listen to the show either, so I hope that qualifies.
Okay.
You can take that to the bank.
YAY!
It- You've got karma.
A lot of buttons to push.
6969 from Jay in Cincinnati.
The donation is my meager attempt to assuage the lull in donations caused by the holiday.
Because this is my first donation, I kindly request a dedouching plus travel karma shot for all the No Agenda listeners traveling over the holidays.
You've been dedouched.
You've got karma.
Peter Moore in Waterna, South somewhere.
Nuts.
South.
Victoria.
Melbourne, actually.
The Paris of Australia, he says.
I heard about your podcast when you were on the Twit a while ago, and I've been hooked ever since.
Please give me a de-douching karma, science karma.
You've been de-douched.
Science!
You've got karma.
Thomas Badrick in Nutley, New Jersey, 6969.
Greetings again from Gitmo Nation tanning mom.
Yeah, that's Jersey, all right.
69!
69, dude!
Thank you.
And that closes the segment we know known as Swazelnuff.
Boris Marinoff, Sir Marinoff, to you and Aliso Viejo, 6666.
With a thank you, Robert Kane.
Colombiana, Alabama, 6666.
Let me be the first to wish you a happy 6th anniversary with this special donation.
Yeah, I know, a bit early, but I screwed up and missed the 5th and don't want to miss the next one.
Big thanks to Adam AG. And the daily Morse code as well.
I've been inactive the last few years, but I'm dusting off my gear so I can get on the air again.
I'm also in the process of getting authenticated with Echo Link.
Hope to see you there soon one day.
I don't think when my grandfather passed away, I inherited most of his ham gear.
Some of it is duplicates of gear.
I already had some books and antenna analyzer and some other miscellaneous stuff of interest to a newly minted general ham.
So let's just say I'll send some of them your way.
That's so kind.
Yeah, well, 73 from N4IXT. Talking to random dudes since 1998.
Actually, it's working random dudes.
Michael Sandahl in Landrum, South Carolina, 6666.
Mike here from the great Gitmo State of South.
We don't need to encrypt your tax records.
Carolina nuts.
I just started listening the week after Adam appeared on Twit and I felt it was time I did my part to keep the two of you going.
I'm donating 6666, otherwise known as quadruple nickels on the double sticks.
Double 3333, only 3.03 away from 6969 or Satan with a spare.
Ooh, I like that.
Satan with a spare.
Last Sunday, as my MILF and our two human resources were traveling north through Indianapolis, keeping an eye out for drones, on our way to Indianapolis or Illinois for Thanksgiving, I spotted a Who is John Galt bumper sticker on a Kia Soul.
Losers.
Really?
Realizing the heavens.
You know, so my wife said, you know, I like the Kia Soul.
I think we should get one.
I said, I don't know.
I said, I think it's a funny looking car.
It's kind of cool.
This is the one that I like, the car that I liked.
And I talked you out of it.
Yeah, with the hamsters, with the walking hamsters that drive it.
Yeah, well, I rented one.
Yeah, you told me this.
And it's crap.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Sorry.
Realizing the heavens were speaking to me, I would have like an Atlas Shrug, two to the head, parliament mumble karma shot for you, all the listeners, and my family as we head back south this coming weekend.
Keep hitting them in the mouth.
I'll keep donating.
Atlas Shrug.
By Ayn Rand.
You've got karma.
You've got to put some variety in it.
What am I doing?
I'm not doing anything.
No, I'm not doing that.
That's on the clip.
What am I supposed to do about it?
Ian Chaffee in Los Angeles, California.
How about Ian?
Not Eon.
I don't know why I do that.
Ian nuts.
Ian.
Ian.
Ian Chaffee in Los Angeles, California.
6214.
Apologize for the late football scorer donations.
I've been trying to pretend the season isn't happening.
Fortunately for no agenda, Coach Jeff Tedford has been experiencing the worst blowouts of his career.
If you recall, I've been donating this season based on each week's Cal score, win-lose.
Or draw.
Unfortunately for the show, it seems as if he is on his way out.
Thank God.
If possible, please give me and Coach Tedford some clippity-clop, a drone-again de-douching karma.
Here's the more great No Agenda shows each week and a better Cal football team next year.
It's clippity-clop.
Showhouse clippity-cloth.
The drone again.
That's for me.
You thought karma.
A little much.
Robert McBeth in Vancouver, B.C. sends in 60 bucks saying the postal resource would like to send a douchebag to Harper, Chopra, and Raitt for their efforts to destroy the Canadian Postal Service.
Oh, this is something to look into.
Yeah.
Eon Chaffee in Los Angeles, California, 5917.
How about Ian?
Oh, I did it again.
What is he giving two donations for?
So that he can hear you say Eon twice.
I don't know why I say that.
It's going to...
Yeah, Ian.
Yeah, it's like...
Well, this is not saying I-An.
Christian Herzog, otherwise known as Sir Zog in Elwood, Illinois, find the show too valuable to not support, and I like to encourage everyone listening to help as they can.
I'm doing okay, but if I could get some too-to-the-head, too-delicious karma for the family and the show, I'd appreciate it.
I'm reminded of an old 70s t-shirt slogan, gas, grass, or ass, nobody rides for free.
Boners unite and support the show.
It's almost too delicious to believe, my friend.
You've got karma.
I believe the gas, grass or ass was a bumper sticker.
Jeffrey Cadman, Wheaton, Maryland.
You know, people hitchhiked a lot in the 60s and 70s.
Wheaton, Maryland, 5322.
Please can buy my 1122 monthly subscription.
Looking for some birthday karma.
1122, okay.
You know, I used to hitchhike, and then one time I had a bad experience.
What happened?
As a kid, well, the bus going home from school where we lived at the time would only go like once every two hours, and then I was like, ah, screw it, I'm just going to hitchhike.
And I was, what was I, 15, 16, I think?
And the guy picked me up, and he was driving along, and then all of a sudden he's like touching his crotch, and I'm like, oh, it freaked me out.
I was like, pull over now, pull over now, let me out now.
And nothing happened, but it really shook me up.
It was weird.
He was like...
That explains a lot.
You are such an a-hole.
Yeah.
Bruins Clothing in Watertown, South Dakota, 52.
Lee Bruins again from Bruins Clothing in South Dakota Nuts.
Which is...
Just plugging away here, making jackets still.
Setting bucks aside for no agenda when the business can spare it.
Hoping to stay afloat against the wave of China-made winter coats.
Yeah.
And this is a guy that...
You have one of these coats.
Yeah, with a concealed carry pocket.
It's an outstanding product.
Yeah, and it's extremely warm.
BrunsClothing.com, I think it is, right?
B-R-U-N-S, BrunsClothing.com.
Yeah, and they're American-made, and they're not expensive.
No, and it's not, yeah, it's made by an American old lady, not an old China lady.
Podcast for Peace is in with that from Alamo, California, 5150.
Why?
Because I want to say thank you for doing the show today while I drive to grandma's for dinner.
Oh.
Anonymous from Moscow, or Moscow, whatever you want to call it.
We should get the official pronunciation for Moscow, or Moscow.
Just checking in from Gitmo Nation, Putin.
A bit of karma with Parliament mumble would be useful for my government job.
I think it's actually Mokba, is what we should just call it.
You've got karma.
Gitmo Nation, Mokba.
That was $51.50.
Kevin Seifert in Tascadero, California, $50.01.
Here, here to crack pot and buzzkill for a continued destruction of the BS fed to the slaves by the government's spokesholes.
Being a small business owner, it's hard to scrape up some cash, so I took $50 from the old lady for you.
I wonder what consequence awaits for such action.
Oh, well, would you play a lone wolf to the head?
It's too delicious, Combo.
Yeah, of course.
Oh!
It's almost too delicious to believe, my friend.
You've got karma.
You know, I want to stop this show right here and say, compliment you for being able to do these crazy combinations of...
It can't be that easy because you do it at the last second, so you have to find the right clip.
Rarely screw it up.
It's amazing.
Well, thank you so much, John.
The show has got so much professionalism just kind of built into the scheme.
However, are we nominated for Best Produced Podcast at the Podcast Awards?
No.
I don't think there's a bet.
I was listening to some old shows from four years ago.
Really?
Were you touching yourself?
No, of course not.
But I was listening.
And the production values on this show, once we got the intro jingle that we play at the beginning of the show, it's went through the ceiling.
All the shows before that was you yammering on forever.
I am Adam Curry, and we do a show every day or every week, a couple times, once a week.
It's once a week then.
And my friend here's John, and I'm over there.
Yeah, I'm here.
I'm here, coming through.
And yeah, we talk about, did you go out to dinner this week, John?
Yeah, yeah, I went out to dinner.
I went to dinner this week, and I had a meal.
It's really not very good.
It's amazing we got through it.
Well, it was also much shorter.
It was like...
Well, let's be honest about it.
People weren't supporting the show.
I don't think we were asking for people to support the show.
There's a lot of things that go along with that.
And maybe we weren't ready for that yet.
In fact, I'm pretty sure we weren't ready.
We just weren't ready.
Yeah, we just weren't ready for that yet.
By the way, can I just interject?
We're almost done here, but...
Chunk?
You know Chunk?
Yeah, you know Chunk who I'm talking about?
Yeah, Chunk.
Listen to this a-hole rip us off.
Not a big deal.
But here's the interesting part.
Nearly a billion views on the TYT network.
That's awesome.
And now we've been nominated for Best Video Podcast, Wasikterlan.
Wasikterlan is not part of the description of the nomination.
It's part of the 8th Annual Podcast Awards.
Oh my gosh.
Okay, so that means that if we're nominated for an award, we need the TYT Army.
We need to call upon the TYT Army.
So, first of all, they have an army.
Oh my gosh!
Is there a bat signal for the TYT army?
Really, Chunk?
Really?
Bat signal?
Really?
All these people, they just take our analysis, take our ideas...
I didn't realize how gay he sounds, that guy.
They take my gayness, they just steal my gay.
This is an outrage.
We've got Hollywood, you know, taking our jingle songs.
We've got...
We've got Chunk taking my gayness and our bath signal.
We'll have the drone thing that's going to get stolen.
Oh.
I think both of them.
Both drone again.
Blah, blah, blah, blah.
And the winged loser drone.
Oh, yeah.
And they'll be like, how cool are we?
Yeah, we got a billion views.
A billion views because we are stealing all the material from that No Agenda podcast.
Which, by the way, anyone can take whatever they want.
Yeah, it's open source.
Yeah, it's open source.
But we still bitch about it.
Yeah, we'll still bitch about it.
Open source bitching.
It would be nice just to say, hey, thanks, dudes.
Yeah, that wouldn't hurt.
Matthew Parker in Park Ridge, Illinois, 50 bucks, greeting from the land of Obama nuts.
He'd like an Atlas-shrugged karma.
Yeah.
Atlas Drugs.
By Andre.
You've got karma.
Donald Go-Gwen. Or Go-Gwen.
What do you think?
G-O-G-U-E-N. Westminster.
I like Go-Gwen. Go-Gwen.
Westminster, Massachusetts.
50 bucks?
You know, Massachusetts, that's coming in.
Fourth, small donation.
Must mean a lot, because I wouldn't pay for entertainment.
In a word full of free choices, coincidence, I think not.
Put me down for some karma.
You got it.
We'll also give you a...
Coincidence?
I think not!
You've got karma.
Another 50 bucks from Anonymous in Wilmington, Massachusetts.
Please announce Mass of Tax Nuts.
Please announce this as Anonymous.
Dear John and Adam, personal little karma for me and a douchebag to anyone that hasn't donated.
Douchebag!
I was laid off two months ago and not very many months.
Money has gotten very tight.
I'm 57.
I think it's going to be a tough job search.
No kidding.
Yeah.
So if I can donate, then almost anyone can.
Value for value.
What part of that concept don't you boners get?
Thank you very much, Anonymous.
That's heartwarming on this Thanksgiving.
He wants a karma.
Yeah, of course.
You've got karma.
But it's not impossible.
I just say, it's not impossible, the job search.
I mean, everyone's going to be working part-time.
I think, actually, the less college education you have, the better these days.
You gotta lie.
I'd never bet the college.
You're hired.
You're in.
Here's ten bucks an hour.
JQ and Chi-Town.
Illinois, 50.
ITM, fellas, thank you for your work.
I'm very grateful to have the best podcast in the universe in my life.
Here's 50 bucks, keep it up.
Jaris Corporation in Arlington, Virginia, and you know what that means.
Please give me some job karma, as well as a nothing to see here.
You guys are swell.
Consider me guilt-tripped.
Don't look over here.
Nothing to see here.
Ooh, look at that!
Guilt-tripped, be guilt-tripped for me.
Now he's a happy camper.
Ciro Piccirillo.
No.
Ciro Piccirillo.
Ciro Piccirillo.
Piccirillo.
Henderson, North Carolina.
Hendersonville, North Carolina.
Pronounced Ciro Picarrillo.
Oh, duh.
Listener says episode one.
And a monthly 11-11 subscriber.
Check to see if you're still an 11-11 subscriber.
Yeah, please do.
Because this is the worst thing.
We lose out on this deal.
I had to share an extra bit of love this Thanksgiving.
Thanks for all you do.
Give yourselves a shot at karma.
We'll take it.
You've got karma.
You've got karma.
Visionary J.K.L.M. Inc.
in Wichita, Kansas says, even if it's a bogative holiday, I want to give thanks for the best podcasts in the universe.
He's a dunebuggygolfcarts.com guy.
Yeah, and you know what the dunebuggygolfcarts, Miss Mickey told me, they now have a roof.
Oh, that's cool.
So you can play golf in the rain.
dunebuggygolfcarts.com.
They now come with a roof.
Yeah, that's cool.
Thanks, John.
And finally, Eric Veet in Dublin, California, 50 bucks.
And Kyle Bauer from Parts Unknown, 50 bucks.
That'll be our donors for show 463.
I want to thank each and every one of them and people who donated lesser amounts for keeping us going here.
And it was a very good day.
For Thanksgiving, I don't know how many people are actually listening.
You know what's crazy about this?
I went so overboard on material and stuff.
This was a long segment, so we're going to go longer than normal.
I wasn't expecting this.
I am completely blown away by the outpouring of thanks for the best podcast in the universe.
Yes, we're not nominated.
Yeah, for the best produced.
You know, we don't have a billion YouTube views because of broken iPhones or anything like that.
You know, we're just two guys.
Hey, what kind of podcast awards have voting where you can vote multiple?
It's a People's Choice Awards.
They have a good awards thing, because I've set these up.
It has to have judges who are credible making the decisions.
Yeah, a panel.
A panel of professionals.
Well, this is the problem because then I would...
A panel of professionals.
I've described this situation before.
I've been in a lot of newspapers and magazines.
You go in there, you have an editorial meeting at noon, you bring a bag lunch, you sit there chewing on a ham sandwich, and the five of you go, what do you think we should give the award to, editor?
He says, ah, give it to these guys.
Okay.
And you're done.
At least they're pros.
Yeah.
You can't stuff the ballot in one of those meetings.
Thank you all so much for helping us out, supporting us, keeping us going.
We really do try to give you value.
And on this day of giving of thanks, I would like to thank a couple people.
I would like to thank you, John, first of all, for being my partner and being the counterweight.
Otherwise, I'd be nowhere.
I want to thank your whole family, of course, for putting up with your crap so that you can be an a-hole on the show.
It's really nice.
Especially Mimi.
I miss her.
I haven't seen her in three Thanksgivings.
That's how long it's been.
And I want to thank Gitmo Slaves, Mr.
Oil, Void Zero for all that they do on keeping the show rolling.
And of course, all of the human resources, our artists, our knights, our dames, thank you all so much because I am actually getting by.
That's the good news is I know that I will get by day by day.
Wish it could be more, wish it could be better, wish it could be more consistent.
Wish you had a newer car that was more reliable.
Yeah.
Well, yeah.
Yeah.
Basically, whenever we go somewhere now, Mickey and I have to take the truck because, you know, the climbing over the seat thing is kind of old when you're 6'5".
You know, like getting in the driver's side door because the passenger's door won't open.
And it's hilarious because she'll, like, have an appointment somewhere and she'll pick someone up.
You have to get in the back.
You can just get in the back and make it look like she's a chauffeur.
Have her wear a black hat.
A cap.
A cap and boots.
A cap.
With boots and a riding crop.
Leather boots, black cap, riding crop.
She can drive.
You can be in the back trembling.
But anyway, it's great.
It's a lot of fun doing this.
And I like it.
I really do like it.
And I love watching C-SPAN so you don't have to.
I love reading through government legislation.
Although I can't wait to really get that cranking again because we really don't have any legislation.
I look at that NDAA thing.
And it's like, let's wait for the next round, because they're going to put stuff in there, amendments and everything.
And I kind of read you the highlights of all the space weaponry, but let's wait, because I'm waiting for some good stuff to show up.
So that's coming.
But I'm really happy.
Oh, and of course, thanks to all the hams who are putting up with me.
The hams are on the air.
And you can show your love and support at dvorak.org slash N.A.
It's your birthday, birthday.
Oh, no, no, no.
Martin Osterhau congratulates himself.
He turned 57 yesterday.
Laurie Jutlia...
Laurie Jutlia congratulates herself, I say, on the...
It says himself here, but I'm going to say herself.
Celebrating today, the 22nd.
Sir E. Adam Atiyah says happy birthday to Danny Gray.
Celebrating tomorrow.
Jeffrey Kadman, he is celebrating today.
Happy birthday.
Kyle Magnum celebrating on the 26th.
And Devin Smith says happy birthday to his wife, Shirley.
She turned 40 on the 20th.
So, very happy birthday to all of you here from your buddies at the Noah Gentler Show.
It's his birthday, yeah.
Did you want to thank anyone before we go to the Knights?
Do I want to what?
You want to thank anyone?
Yeah, I want to thank you for doing the show.
I want to thank Buzzkill Jr.
for doing the spreadsheet.
I want to thank Eric DeShill for once doing the spreadsheet.
And I want to thank Mimi for making the coffee.
I mean, everybody gets a lot of thanks here.
By the way, you're going to have to hold off a second because normally I fly with the sword.
Oh no!
Yeah, so I got a backup sword, but it's in the closet.
And I'm going to have to go get it.
But yeah, no, TSA took my sword.
Hang on.
Okay.
I'm back.
Is this what we call theater of the mind?
It's smaller.
All right, ladies and gentlemen, time to crown some Knights and Dames.
What a list we have today.
Molly Kincaid stepped forward.
Christina and Lake have Richard Harriman come forward.
Humphrey of Yes Minister, Anthony Montgomery, Laurie Jutila, David Daniels, and Edward Bradley are hereby...
Pronouncing all knights and dames of the No Agenda Roundtable.
What a list!
Move over!
Get some chairs ready for the hookers and blow, the red boys and chardonnay, the gaishas and sake, the wenches and beard, the hot pants and booze, and I missed one.
The Rubenesque women and rosé.
We need to balance that.
We need more for the women because we're getting more dames now.
And we need to have...
We only have Rent Boys and Chardonnay, which can also be, you know, just for our more sensitive nights.
But we need something, another thing for the dames.
You know, how about Chippendales and chocolate milk?
God.
Chippendales and...
Give me a drink with a C, an alcohol drink.
With a C?
Yeah.
Cosmopolitan.
Chippendales and Cosmos.
Now, it has to be a ch sound.
Ch, ch.
Ch?
A ch?
A drink with a ch.
A cheese gimlet.
No.
No.
One word.
Chippendales and...
A chimlet.
No.
That's not...
Well, that's not a drink.
A chimlet.
Yeah, the chimlet.
It doesn't sound like a good drink.
Oh, it's delicious.
We'll have to work on it.
You like cheese?
We'll work on it.
Seriously, though, thank you very much to our knights and dames.
So Christina Lake actually had Richard Harriman now become a knight.
That's how it worked.
That sounded a little messed up.
And the dames.
Good, good, good.
Oh, Chippendales and Champagne.
There you go.
There you go.
Perfect.
Chippendales and Champagne.
Yay!
Good.
A lot of kind of crazy pharmaceutical news coming through that I just wanted to run through these with you.
There was a big study.
I love it when the studies are done.
It turns out that the best way to treat post-traumatic stress disorder is?
Take a brown paper bag, come up behind a guy, blow it up, pop it.
That's really funny, John.
That's really, really funny.
No, so this, of course, is a study that is done to see what we can do for our soldiers, our troops, our men and women coming home who have been overseas multiple times in these crazy-ass, ridiculous wars against terror.
The study recommends giving sufferers of post-traumatic stress disorder MDMA, also known as ecstasy.
How about that?
Geez.
I don't think this is a good idea.
They say it is very, very effective.
And this is a professional-grade study.
Um...
But of course, you know, I mean, well, does this mean that we can then get, like Adderall, we can, you know, there will be a black market in ecstasy?
That's what I'm thinking.
Is there a black market in ecstasy already?
Right, but it's not a pharmaceutical ecstasy.
Oh, the good stuff.
It's mainly people in the Netherlands.
Do you know the most ecstasy comes from Holland?
No, I had no idea.
Holland, they make the most pills in the universe when it comes to ecstasy.
But of course, you can make it in your basement.
Everyone can make ecstasy.
You're just not allowed to.
But I think what they want to do now is create a real trade in ecstasy.
Because of course, the pharmaceutical companies with the government really want to become the legal drug pushers.
So I think that's why that is happening.
Brand new guidelines from the US Preventative Services Task Force, which I believe is a part of the Centers for Disease Control, recommending everybody ages 15 to 64 should get an HIV test, even if you're not at great risk.
Basically the way they can sell you some bogus shots.
Yeah, yeah.
That'll be the AIDS vaccine.
Even if you're not at risk?
Yeah, yeah.
Literally.
That's literally what it says.
It's even worse because they say in this...
And I gotta wonder who these jabronis are.
They're talking about the high-risk groups.
And actually, I think...
If you believe in all this, the high-risk group is probably single women 25 to 35, but they, of course, only talk about men.
Very, very strange.
We have, ah, yes, treating criminals for ADHD. Giving them the ADHD medicine.
Turns out that's really good for criminals if they're in jail.
So we're now going to be providing Adderall and Vyvanse and Ritalin to prisoners.
And believe me, you'll be paying for it.
And then there's some great recommendations here.
If you go to youdotherest.com, the U being just the letter U, so youdotherest.com.
This is the Makers of Vyvanse, which is an ADHD, kind of an Adderall type of medication.
They have some app recommendations for you if you're on their medication.
Are you going to this website?
No, give it to me again.
Youdotherest.com, except the you is not Y-O-U, it's just you.
Youdotherest.com.
And here it is, looking for app recommendations.
And they recommend you use Evernote.
A front for Evernote?
No, they're selling Vyvanse.
But they're like, since you're messed up, since you're a confused slave, you can't keep shit straight in your head.
This is...
It's like dexamphetamine dimesylate.
Yes.
Amphetamine.
Yeah, but it's like Adderall.
It's essentially Adderall.
Well, it's the same stuff, it's just in a different package.
And they're saying, you should get Evernote, and you should get all these apps that will help you organize your life as a completely confused, you're hyped up on Vyvanse.
Stoned on speed.
Let's see what their recommendations are.
Getting organized.
It's really quite sad.
Really quite so.
Also, the panel favors know, can know, papers, and tux do.
To do.
This bare bones are visually compelling.
To do.
Get it?
To do.
Oh, how funny.
To do.
Got it.
Took me a while.
Yeah, the Evernote, can know, everything a physical textbook can do, iHomework, and Instapaper.
Yeah, maybe I could say...
Epic win.
Yeah.
Epic weird.
A lot of plugs here for software.
Yeah.
Epic weird.
Obviously, these guys are on this drug.
And then there's the notify me.
And don't forget my note.
And don't forget list omnilist.
And then things.
I do two or three of them at once.
Come on, man.
Come on.
Hey, don't be a douchebag.
Come on.
Put it in there, man.
Come on.
Come on.
You can do it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Hey, so this Indianapolis thing.
This Indianapolis explosion is getting crazier by the day.
Indianapolis authorities have opened a criminal investigation into the explosion that leveled part of a neighborhood earlier this month.
We are turning this into a criminal homicide investigation.
There is a search for truth.
And there is a search for justice.
Apparently there's two searches going on.
One is for truth, and then over there, there's a search for justice.
The November 10th explosion killed two people.
They live next door to the house that is the focus of the probe.
Investigators suspect natural gas, but they're also looking for people seen in the area in a white van.
I mean, it's so obvious.
You show up to the explosion.
John, this could either be a natural gas explosion or...
It could be the guys in the white van.
Urge anyone with information about this matter to contact Crimestoppers.
And now they are going to demolish 28 homes on that block.
So I would say they're covering up the evidence of whatever blew this up.
This is, really, people in Indianapolis, you should be protesting.
You should be out there saying, tell us the truth.
What is going on?
You know like when 9-11, when they carted off all that steel and then made a ship out of it or whatever?
Also, we couldn't see what was going on, how the steel had melted away.
This is the same thing.
They're carting off the evidence in plain sight.
Now, okay, it may not be a drone.
I still think that this was a drone strike that came.
Well, you're not sticking with that bull crap.
I can stick with that.
Well, did you have something better?
Yeah, the guy was blowing up his house for insurance reasons.
John, we've already been through this.
This is not the type of explosion a gas...
You can't...
You can't do this...
You can't with C4. Oh.
Really?
Really?
Well, then why don't they say C4? Why don't they just come out and say it?
Why are they cleaning everything up and saying, oh, guy in a white van?
Why?
This is what I don't understand.
I mean, why do they have to hide that?
Why don't they just say, hey, this guy was nuts, he blew himself up with C4, or...
Well, I think it's because for the reason is that they've already made the determination it was a gas leak, and now they're covering their tracks so they can at least have some bogus...
No, I disagree.
That has not been determined.
Everyone's saying it's not a gas explosion.
So you've got to make up your mind.
I mean, the reason that they're hiding something is because there's something to hide, not just because they're embarrassed that they said gas explosion.
Come on!
Alright, so what do they have to hide?
A drone hit?
Yes, something like that.
He's not buying the drone thing.
Okay, I've been on this.
You dismissed this whole story from the beginning.
No, no, somebody should have seen something.
This is just like you and those missiles in Israel.
Why didn't, you know, you'd think somebody would have seen some drone, you'd see the missile coming down and blowing up the guy's house.
And still, why is there no, what would be the point of it?
It wasn't near the government buildings.
Your original thesis was it was near these government agencies.
And then we got the report.
It's ten miles out of town.
It's nowhere near anything.
Right.
And then we found out that one of the guys who worked at one of these government agencies was killed.
Yeah, well, there's something to that.
You may have something with that guy.
Okay, but, you know, it's a process.
All I'm saying is I'm staying on the story.
I'm sticking with the drone.
You watch.
Hey, it's also possible that someone hijacked a drone.
Now, that would be a story worth covering up.
There you go.
Because if somebody...
And by the way, this is very doable.
Somebody hijacks a drone.
Maybe an ex-drone pilot.
You don't know.
If somebody knows how to fly the thing, knows what button to push to fire a missile.
I was reading...
Because, you know, they've delayed...
What's going to happen to those guys, those ex-drone pilots?
They're going to have too much information.
They're going to have to be killed.
Hmm.
Yeah.
They don't make a lot of money, drone pilots.
They make very little money, actually.
And their hours are all screwed up.
And I was reading that in the NDAA 2013.
That, you know, there's not a lot of, you can't get a promotion.
Kind of you sitting in that chair and flying that drone, that's it.
You know, and here's your 25 bucks an hour.
It's not a very glamorous thing.
It's not like being a jet pilot.
Of course, they all think they are.
Hey, man, I fly for the government.
No, you don't.
You move a joystick around.
Give me a break.
Um...
Meanwhile, Scahill, is that his name?
The guy from the nation?
Scahill?
By the way, I think it would be the guys would get more job satisfaction if these drones had machine guns and they'd allow these guys to strafe.
Don't you think?
Yeah, of course.
For just once in a while.
Yeah.
I was talking on the 3373 No Agenda Ham Reflector to a guy.
He wandered in onto our frequency, 79 years old, in England.
And he lives in Hastings.
And he's like, hey, we got a ham radio.
We're going to a ham radio club over here.
But it's funny because we have all this World War II equipment.
And then, you know, I was like, oh, that's kind of cool, man, because, you know, I used to fly in England, and, you know, from time to time, I'd be joined by an old guy, old geezer, flying a Spitfire.
And he's like, oh, yes, we have several of them here!
And then he starts talking about what he calls the bumble buzzers or something.
Oh, I forgot.
I should have written it down.
He was talking about the old V1 and V2 rockets.
Buzz bomb.
Buzz bomb.
These were the original drones.
And I think the V2s were the ones that really bombed a lot of London.
So it was essentially a bomb with wings and an engine, which is a drone, only it didn't really have any sophistication.
Well, actually, I would agree with that about the buzz bomb, but not so much about the V2, which was just an out-and-out rocket.
IBM was a ballistic missile.
It just went up and then came down.
The buzz bomb would fly over the place and buzz everybody and make a racket that scared people.
But then it would crash, too.
Well, it would run out of fuel and just drop.
And then blow up.
So the guy's telling me the buzz bombs, the bumble bombs, I think he's got bumble bombs or something.
No, but they were always cold.
I thought it was always buzz bomb.
Maybe there was something the English had some other phrase for it.
So he says, well, what happened is the guys in the Spitfire, when these buzz bombs were incoming, they would go over and then they would tip their wings to send them off course to send them into the sea.
Can you imagine that?
The guy would fly next to it, then he'd put his wing underneath, and then he'd move the stick.
Flip it!
Yeah, and he'd flip it, and it would go off, and it would crash into the sea.
That's hardcore crap right there.
Yeah, that's what you call flying.
That's flying, yeah.
Not this drone crap with your joystick in a container.
So, Scahill, he's from the Nation magazine, and he was on MSNBC, and he had something pretty good to say about why the CIA has been so militarized and how they keep their secret budget in place.
Let's talk about budgets, and we know that the CIA's operating budget is classified.
I'm working at least on those details.
But might all of this evolution come as a result of budget issues, which we know are present everywhere in the government?
Why not there as well?
Well, I mean, it's an interesting question.
I mean, the drones are a relatively cheap form of technology.
I think that's one of the reasons why they're so attractive.
The other part of this, though, and this may sound cynical, is that My sense of what happens on Capitol Hill is that when General Petraeus would go before Congress as the director of CIA or Admiral McRaven, who's the commander of the Special Operations Command, Congress members say, well, how do we measure progress?
And in their eyes, you know, body counts does the job.
How many al-Qaeda figures have been killed?
The president made it a centerpiece of his national security campaign when he was running against Romney.
How many times at the convention did they say Osama bin Laden is dead?
Or the president would say, if anyone doubts my resolve, ask the 23 al-Qaeda figures that we've killed.
I think we're sort of operating on fear, and also Congress is asleep at the wheel, and this is the easiest way to sort of say, well, we're winning the war on terror, when in reality we may actually be creating more people than inspiration to commit acts of terrorism in countries that most Americans haven't heard of.
Mali, Mauritania.
I mean, these are the next fronts.
I kind of like that whole body count thing.
Just body count for Congress.
How many do we kill?
How many do we get with that thing?
What, 3,000?
Yeah, it's a throwback to the Vietnam War.
We had these bogus figures that they used to throw at everybody, and they took the hook, line, and sinker until some years later when the war was deconstructed and a few books were written by the Secretary of Defense.
It turns out that everything was a scam.
Speaking of scams, right on schedule, there's a couple things that have to happen on schedule.
We know from our agency contacts, producers in the agencies, that once every six weeks, the FBI has to get some homegrown terror going.
We've got to roll some people up.
And I think, when was the last time?
Was it not six weeks to the day?
I don't remember, but it is very routine.
Wait a minute.
Before these four guys in L.A., which I'll play the clip from, who was before that?
It was...
Wasn't it some moron that they gave a button to and they made him push it a few times?
It was a single lone wolf.
It was a lone wolf guy that was going to blow up a building.
Oh, the Federal Reserve guy.
Oh, okay.
He's going to blow up the Federal Reserve of Boston or New York or something.
Remember that?
Yeah, I just want to look at the date.
Hold on.
I want to look at the date.
I'm not going to kill this page.
Thanks, Chrome.
It crashes a lot more than it used to.
Yeah, I've noticed that too.
It was October 17th.
Well, what do I say?
It's like two months, six to eight weeks.
October, November.
No, it's exactly six weeks.
October 17th.
Well, yeah.
Five or six weeks.
So almost six weeks.
Every six weeks, we've got to arrest somebody.
This one, though, is hilarious.
Quotes one of the defendants referring to Kabir as a Mujahideen walking around the streets of L.A. and that he came out here to recruit brothers.
The complaint says the four Southern California men shared violent and extremist material on Facebook, including video messages from Anwar al-Alqi, the now deceased leader of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
So what they were actually sharing was the Inspire magazine, which I have downloaded.
I think you've downloaded it at least once, haven't you, John?
No, no, not going to happen.
Yes, you have.
Yes, you have.
No, I don't download that kind of contraband, my friend.
It's too delicious to believe.
Here's the best part.
And they liked various other links and postings.
So, if you like something on Facebook, which of course, the acronym FBI is Facebook Incorporated, It's like, it's so obvious.
We know Director Mueller was walking around saying, hey Zuck, how you doing?
I was in the building.
It was in the Time Magazine article.
Facebook is the FBI. It is the agency.
Get off of Facebook.
Certainly if you're going to like terrorist content.
What an idiot.
I'm going to target some...
I mean, these guys were just talking.
And they're talking trash!
And they're liking links!
It's just, you know, it's...
Anyway, good job on the FBI. Right on target.
So our next, let's see, what is six weeks from now?
That should be December.
Ooh!
Christmas!
Christmas!
We should have another Christmas plot!
A Christmas bomber!
Don't you think?
Yeah, there will have to be a Christmas, but let's take a look at this.
I actually put it in the red book.
Let's put it in the red book.
We need another Christmas because it'll be six weeks from now.
Ben, we need to get a little more creative.
I'm just going to put Christmas event.
Event.
Let's call it.
What would be creative?
So we've already had...
Federal Reserve was creative.
So we have to make people like Adam look more frightening.
So I think it should be a lone wolfer.
Ham radio.
Yeah, I think you have to vary.
It's Lone Wolf Team.
How about this?
Ham radio operator.
They won't let that happen.
There's too many hams in the government.
Oh, okay.
What could we do?
What would be...
I mean, it's got to be something...
Because, you know, it's going to get boring.
And the FBI listens.
The agency listens.
So we might as well give them an idea.
And if we give them an idea, then they'll play it out, and then we'll say, ha, Red Book, and it'll be funny.
Okay, I think it's going to be an attack on the Staten Island Ferry or something like that.
Now, why the Staten Island Ferry?
That's not very good.
No, it's got to be some boat.
Because that way they can institute TSA people at boat.
Now there's ferries all over the country, right?
You just get on them.
You have that.
Well, for that, why not just do trains?
Well, trains are possible because they haven't had...
They've given up on this high-speed rail.
They've already got all their money in place, so they made their money.
So that's done.
The train...
Yeah, airplanes are boring.
They can't.
If they do another airplane, which I believe that's what they'll do, because that's the model, it's going to be another, like, a pant bomber or a foot bomber or a guy who's had the operation has a fake arm, which is loaded with explosives.
I don't think so.
I don't think so.
I think we can actually...
No, I think we can actually help them come up with a strategy.
I think we can, it has to be something where we can add some crap that we don't need.
A company can sell them some bull crap.
So, boats, I think it's got to be trains.
I think it should be a train and a drone is going to help somehow in this rescue.
I think that's feasible.
We can modify this as we go along before the day actually happens.
Because they're going to have to work on it.
Well, they may have better abilities than the two of us have in terms of dreaming up some bull crap.
I mean, come on.
The printer cartridges with a bomb in them.
That was pretty good.
That was lame, actually.
But it was interesting.
And the pant bomber.
I mean, that was good.
The crotch bomber.
I mean, come on.
That's great.
That was kind of good.
You know, and he tries to light his crotch on and be like, what are you doing?
I'm lighting my dick on fire.
I mean, this just kind of makes no sense.
Yeah, exactly.
And he's got to be an idiot.
You know, I think we should have, it'll be maybe another guy trying to come in from overseas.
I'm going to put that in.
There's going to be a guy trying to come in from overseas.
You know what?
That would work, and I'll tell you why.
Hold on a second.
There's new software.
Hold on.
Let me get this.
Here it is.
I've got information, man!
New shit has come to light!
This is from the BBC, a US, the British arm of SAS. So we add extra information for that board or agent to help them identify what level of threat they might be.
And that's a risk score.
This is a risk score.
So they're talking about how the board agents can protect Protect the homeland from being intruded by tariffs.
Somebody might have a very low risk score that would be presented to them which says let them pass freely.
Or it might be a very high risk score that says you really want to look at this individual and understand why they're coming into the country.
By the way, this is so disgusting to me that we already have a credit score, now we're going to have a risk score associated with each individual.
And, you know, even though you're low risk, you'll still have a score.
This is disgusting.
And look at them in a little bit more depth.
This is the BBC reporting, by the way, who put a little hip music to this promo.
If we take a look at this particular individual...
There are a series of categories that make the statistical model suspicious about this individual.
So, for instance, what you might find is that the visa was applied for and paid for in cash.
Ooh!
Oh, right, right.
Listen, listen.
That, combined with the way the ticket was purchased, combined with perhaps the point of origin of the passenger, combined with their age, and combined with where they've been previously, might give you a pattern that is indicative of a high-risk passenger.
Yeah, I love it.
And then there's sexuality, the colour of the skin...
I mean, all of this stuff.
You can have a risk profile.
So they're trying to sell this.
That's why the BBC did this whole commercial.
The whole piece was five minutes long, John, on this software company making this bogative crap.
Yeah, we're going to have a rating.
You get a nine.
Well, how come I didn't get ten?
You paid with cash.
You paid with cash.
Pretty suspicious.
Yeah.
And now, back to real news.
Oh, watch out, geeks!
Ooh, it's so exciting!
Scientists working on NASA's six-wheeled rover on Mars have a problem, but it's a good problem.
They have some exciting new results from one of the rover's instruments.
On the one hand, they'd like to tell everybody what they found, but on the other, they have to wait to make sure their results are not just some fluke or error in their instrument.
How many times do we have to listen to this bullcrap NASA PR? Next month, we're going to tell you.
It's a big surprise.
It's going to be great.
You never guess.
We found a village of toads.
How many times have they disappointed us with this crap?
Every single time.
Well, we found water.
Oh, we didn't.
Oh, we got...
There's life on Mars.
Dead life.
No, we don't.
Yeah, I didn't even want to clip that story because I didn't think it was interesting.
I did get a clip of...
Well, thanks.
Thanks for just slamming me.
Yeah, you're welcome.
Your buddy Pistol.
Why is he my buddy?
Isn't he your buddy?
Don't you like him?
Pistol?
No, he's a TSA douche.
Well, he gave a little talk about traveling, making sure to stay safe as part of that theme of yours.
Stay safe.
Stay safe?
I don't have a stay safe.
No, it's TSA. Rather than eliminating risk, demonstrate our agency's commitment, first and foremost, to security, but they also underscore our understanding that the vast majority of passengers do not pose a threat to aviation.
Right.
I keep waiting when I fly.
That's all I got?
That's all that's here.
That's all I got.
Hey, good job.
At least my clips are coherent.
Yes, well, thank you very much.
So the thing, what he was talking about, he says, they're not going to pat down or run through the system.
People over 70 or under 6 or something like that.
No, if you're 73, you don't have to take off your shoes or your jacket.
That's now listed.
Did you fly or did you drive to Washington?
I flew.
You didn't see the sign?
No, I didn't see a sign.
I would have noticed if there was a sign.
Did you go through the first class line, by the way, at San Francisco?
I flew out of Oakland.
Well, they have a first-class line in Oakland.
Premium line.
Yes, and it shoots right into the place where you're going to have to refuse to take...
Okay, here, let me give you an explanation of this.
I mean, I know you get a big kick out of doing this.
There's nobody there.
If I go to the first-class entry, which I could do, they shunt you right into a machine.
That's right.
They shunt you into a machine.
They shunt you.
If I go to the regular line, which has nobody in it except five people, I go to the magnetometer.
Now, why would I go to the first-class line?
So I can cause a scene?
At Oakland, no, excuse me.
I don't know what you're talking about, but at Oakland, you go through the priority line, because we've done it, and you just show up at the TSA douche earlier, and then you can still choose whatever lane you want to go into.
You're not forced.
You're not shunted.
That's not true.
You just were too afraid.
You were afraid to get caught.
No, I didn't.
No, I'm afraid to get caught.
You are not a first-class passenger.
When you're flying on Southwest, I don't even know how you get into that lane because it doesn't make any sense.
Business select, my friend.
You just walk behind Miss Mickey.
You just let her go.
Yeah, well, if I had Miss Mickey as my guard, I'd probably go anywhere.
So here's the sign.
I'm surprised you haven't seen this.
Attention, passenger 75 and older.
If you were born on or before today's date in 1937, you can leave your light jacket and shoes on during screening in this lane.
Because apparently, if you're 75, you're not dangerous anymore.
This is funny because this contradicts the early days of this bull crap when they used to say, I remember hearing people say it on these talk shows.
They'd go, well, why are they patting down that old woman and that old man?
The guy's 90 and they're making him go to the side and they're patting him down.
And the argument was, well, they're so old they got nothing to lose.
They would bomb the place because they got nothing to lose.
Remember that?
Yeah, no.
In fact, I think if you're at the airport and you see some old man or lady, and by the way, 75 is not that old.
I don't think that's old anymore.
I mean, I know lots of 70-year-olds who are quite fit and okay, thank you, and are very active and have a very active sex life.
Yeah, 90 would be more like that, but go on.
So 75, if you see someone taking advantage of this, I think you should shout and say, Hey!
That lady's got nothing to lose!
Sprisk her!
If they have a cane, kick the cane.
Say, hey, stop this woman.
Stop her.
This old lady, she might be explosive.
She has nothing to lose and you're letting her through.
That's exactly what they were arguing.
Now it's changed.
I think we need to talk about this.
This actually shows how much security theater there is, more than anything else.
Because, first of all, it's so ageist.
Like 75, like, oh, he's 75.
He's not going to blow himself up anymore.
Because he's old.
I'm surprised you're not seeing it.
Oh, by the way, did you hear the story where the kidnapping plot variation?
Yeah, that it was actually that it was Romney That it was the Republicans and that it was exactly the business plot?
You mean that one, the complete reverse of our theory?
No, no, no.
I haven't heard the Romney one.
That's pretty good.
And I'm not buying that one because of the way Clinton reacted to the whole thing.
Because obviously he was in on this.
No, this is the one where the whole thing was a scheme to first kidnap the guy.
The whole thing was actually kind of a reverse plot to get the blind sheik.
Right.
The guy who tried to level one of the towers of the trade center years ago, eight years before the 9-11.
Yeah.
Exactly eight years.
It was going to be a trade.
It was going to be a trade.
A trade to get him out of the...
Yes.
Because there's a bunch of Muslims right now that are making a big fuss, and Morsi's one of them.
They want the blind sheik released.
But we can't do that.
How old is he?
Was he born on or before today's date, 1937?
Yeah, you just take a plane ride out.
And he's safe.
He's good to go.
He's not dangerous.
Anymore?
Let's find out how old is he.
The blind sheik age.
I'm looking him up.
He's pretty old.
74.
Oh, no, no.
Well, he'll have to wait.
What is the birth date?
The exact date of his birth date?
May 3rd, 1938.
He'll have to wait.
He'll have to wait until May.
But it's coming up.
So, in May, he will officially no longer be a dangerous terrorist.
I have a picture of him.
Oh no, it's just his headdress.
Anyway, he looked like Santa Claus there.
Yeah, so the idea was to do this deal to get this guy out of the country.
But, you know, I think the truth will never be fully known.
No.
No, that is true.
I had a little pedo bear.
I'm still over for dinner.
Yeah.
Yes, with my rice and beans.
Whatever you do, don't eat the liver.
I was kind of surprised that this hasn't gotten a lot of play, actually.
Elmo, Kevin Clash resigned from Sesame Street after another man claimed today he had sexual relations with Clash when the accuser was underaged.
Sheffitt's Nice, Nichelle Turner's with us in Hollywood tonight with all the details.
Nichelle?
I don't understand why this isn't an outrage.
So this Kevin Clash, and the documentary about Elmo, which I saw, I think it's called Being Elmo, is quite cute.
It really is.
Can you imagine?
I mean, there's so much material with the Elmo guy.
It's like, wow, you can think of a lot of just horrifying situations.
You have to see the documentary.
You can probably get it on Amazon, Roku, or Netflix, or whatever.
You should really take a look at it.
Because this guy, Kevin, is a superstar celebrity.
I mean, he opens shopping malls with his gig.
And it's a whole story.
But he's also very influential.
A lot of kids who want to learn how to use puppets come to meet him.
And I don't know exactly who the first or second accuser was.
But having seen the documentary, I got a pretty good idea who it might have been.
You know, I found the whole thing kind of creepy.
So this is Sesame Street, man.
This is a guy from Sesame Street having inappropriate sexual relationships with children.
I mean, does no one see that there should be a complete investigation of every puppeteer in Sesame Street now?
We should be ripping these people apart?
Why is there no call for this?
Everyone's like, oh, it's okay.
I mean...
Because it was Elmo.
Elmo's okay?
No, he's not okay.
Elmo is the pedo.
Elmo's okay.
He's okay.
You know what I'm saying?
I'm surprised.
I'm really surprised.
Everybody's laughing about it.
That's the problem with this story.
It's never going to have any legs because it's so silly.
But it's not funny.
No, not at all.
I've got to laugh at my horrible Elmo imitation.
That was bad.
It was bad.
If I heard him a few times, I think I could do it.
But to me, it was just like, why doesn't anyone take this seriously?
I mean, there could be something going on with all these puppeteers.
Might be a group of them.
Yeah, Cabal.
Cabal.
Elmo Cabal.
Pedo Cabal.
An Elmo Pedo Cabal.
Yeah, possibly.
Possibly.
Alright, what else we got?
I don't know, you still got some...
Oh, the Dutch prince, Frizo, the one who's been in coma for a year, the one who got, you know, he was in the avalanche.
Right.
According to reports, he now is showing minimal consciousness, just like his mother, the queen.
You know, I saw this coming.
How far away?
As soon as you said minimal consciousness, I knew there was going to be followed up by...
And you got the timing right.
It wasn't like you were going to drag this joke out.
I got it.
I got it.
You nailed it.
Thank you.
The minimal consciousness is the actual word.
And that is the actual news report.
It's like begging.
It's just begging for this.
So, I got a couple of clips I want to run by.
Play the one, government percent of GDP. This ran on the morning, Joe.
They were talking about, you know, the fiscal cliff and all the rest.
And somebody threw this little bomb in there.
It doesn't mean high taxes cause high growth.
We have plenty of counter examples.
Too many variables.
The real issue is the size of government.
And if we really want a big government, then everybody's going to have to pay for it.
That's probably a consumption tax.
But if that's the way we want to go...
By the end of the 90s, we were sitting at 19% of GDP. What are we at now?
23%, 24%?
For government spending, yes.
And we're headed toward 30+.
Whoa, wait a minute.
I heard two things in there.
First, I heard consumption tax, which is VAT. Then I heard 19% to 23%.
That is pretty much the rate of VAT in every country in the world that has it.
Well, that number comes into this conversation.
That number, and it's heading to 30, is so bogus.
We're already at 40.
So what is the point on the morning, Joe, to throw out these bogus numbers?
You can look it up anywhere you want.
In fact, I sent you a link for the show notes, which has some of this.
But we've been at 40 for a while, and we're moving up to 50.
So why are they coming up with this bullcrap 19% going to 23% heading to 30% when we're at 40%?
I'm telling you why.
Government spending as percent of GDP is 40%.
I thought it was higher than that.
No.
I thought it was 60%.
That's pretty high.
It's actually 39.5% or something like that.
I'm telling you, but you're not hearing me.
You're not hearing me why.
So people, let's start with this.
The elites don't give a crap about people and they hold them in contempt as they are stupid.
So the mind control is spending is 19 to 20 percent.
In order to offset that, we have to have a 19 to 20 percent consumption tax.
That, I think, that's the programming that I hear going on.
You might be right.
I mean, it may just be a little bomb drop in there just to get people to think, well, 19 to 20, they were having a 20% VAT, so that's going to pay for everything.
Oh, great!
Well, there's also a meme along similar lines.
So we have, of course, climate change is back on again, now that Obama doesn't have to go through another election.
And the new meme, and I haven't gone through the whole report yet, but I will put it in the show notes, is 4 degrees.
And the IMF has released a report, what if the world were 4 degrees warmer?
So we've gone from 2 degrees now to 4 degrees.
This is the new meme.
And with this comes the $23 per cubic ton, metric ton, I think, of carbon.
$23 of carbon tax.
I think we're going to get it.
We're going to get it in this administration's reign of terror.
Yeah, I think so too.
Although, it's going to be tough to get that one past the Democrat House.
He'll just do an executive order.
So here's, turn down the heat.
Why a 4 degrees Celsius warmer world must be avoided from the IMF? Why don't you say a 100 degree increase should be avoided too?
I mean, this is bogative.
Well, the thing that I love so much...
There's no evidence it's going to go 4 degrees.
Yeah, there's tons of evidence.
Hey, come on, what are you talking about?
IMF! The science is in!
Science!
And of course, the news now that is being propagated that by 2020, but even starting in 2017, America would have more oil than Saudi Arabia.
It's like, what happened to peak oil?
I don't get it.
What happened to the oil?
Peak oil, where's that?
Where'd that go?
Of course, this could only be achieved by fracking, but still, it's not like it's gone.
I mean, it's like, if I understand the numbers that are coming out now, which is being carefully avoided by many news channels, Here, the GAO, that's the Government Accountability Office.
Is that not a government outfit?
Aren't those a bunch of feds?
Yeah.
Estimate.
But they're independent.
Right.
But, you know, we take their word for it when they estimate what Obamacare is going to cost or what the military is going to cost, right?
We take their word for it there.
Oh, yeah.
Okay.
So, the GAO estimates the amount of oil recoverable In America, to be three trillion barrels.
And they go on to say, in the past 100 years in all of human history, we have consumed only one trillion barrels of oil.
So that's pretty cool.
That's a lot of oil.
Shh, shh, shh, shh, shh.
I love it.
I love it.
And believe me, I don't want fossil fuels either.
I want nuclear.
Everyone goes insane about it.
Everyone goes insane when I say that.
I don't see why.
I think it's a reasonable perspective.
Personally, I don't mind fossil fuels that much.
No, I mean, I like the idea of nukes, man.
It's cool.
So I got one more clip.
The other stuff we can save until Sunday.
But I have one more thing, which is Chris Matthews.
Going on and on about soaking the rich with all these rationales.
In other words, just jack up the...
This whole thing is...
You can just see this coming down Broadway.
They are not going to solve this problem by the first...
Obama's not even in the country.
He doesn't care.
It used to be that what you need is...
The left wants to feel they won the election, which is fair.
You should get...
I always think you should get at least a 60-40 deal after the election, even a divided government.
If you win the election or the electoral vote, you ought to get the best deal.
My best deal would be the president put his teeth marks right into the neck of the rich right now and say, your rates are going up, buddy.
I'm not going to go sorting around looking for deductions and screw the temples and churches around the world and get rid of charitable deductions.
I still want you to give the charitable groups, but I'm taking your rate up, or it was under Clinton, when you were doing pretty fat and happy.
So you've got no complaint.
We're going back to where we were in the 90s.
If you did that, I think people on the left, the progressive side, would say, you know what?
I'll take my piece, too, if he's wanted to do that.
But if he pulls back and says, oh, jeez, I guess we'll just go with some deductions, then the left's going to say, if that's all you're doing to them, you ain't going to do nothing to us.
Well, you can't do it.
You can't do it with deductions.
You absolutely cannot do it.
Even if you could.
Even if you could, he's right.
Right.
Blah, blah, blah.
So, hey, by the way, wasn't this a meme in the whole debate that, oh, you know, the Republicans want to go back in history.
They want to go back to the Bush years.
They want to go back.
They want to go back.
We're looking forward.
Forward is our motto.
Forward.
And now all we hear is Clinton.
We want to go back to the 90s?
Does this make any sense to anybody?
And how come they're not getting called out on this?
Why do you even care?
I don't.
Okay.
It's hopeless.
Alright, well, we're on elites.
A quick clip from our buddy Nigel Farage over there in the...
Oh, then we wrap.
Yeah, short clip.
Short clip.
Just funny.
What we've seen this morning from the Commission and Parliament is a passionate defense of high salaries, index-linked pensions, chauffeur-driven cars, and a lifestyle that none of you would actually enjoy out there in the real competitive world.
It's the status quo convincing itself that it's doing a good job, despite the fact the public increasingly doubt you.
I would remind you that every time taxpayers' money is thrown at common European projects, the results are less than a success.
The common fisheries policy and its environmental degradation, and now, of course, the euro, and not just an economic, but a social disaster that is engulfing the Mediterranean.
and it's all based on a flawed thinking that the state if it has power and money can create wealth the dead hand of bureaucracy is destroying innovation and destroying jobs in europe national democracy and free markets would be a much better model i love the dead hand of bureaucracy it I like it.
It's really good.
I don't know where he comes up with that.
Where does he come up with that stuff, is my question.
Oh, he's got writers.
Or maybe we should send him stuff.
Send him ideas.
I have no idea.
Hey, maybe we should do that.
We should send him little nuggets that he can use.
I think we can keep the nuggets here.
I got an end of show clip, a short one.
I see you have one.
Yeah, but mine's a thematic clip.
We can do it on Sunday.
I got some good stuff.
It's a clip with a payoff joke at the end.
So it's, what's that guy, Stephen Fry?
That's his name, Stephen Fry.
And he's talking about something that happens in nature, and then there's a payoff joke at the end.
So that will be our Ed's only, it's a short one.
So that's our end of show clip.
And I have to add that, yes, we're screwed, but there's hope.
Hope and change.
That's what you're supposed to say.
Yes, because I've been through this all many times before.
Ah, I missed the cue.
You did.
I've seen this a million times.
And then if I read my history, there's lots of it happening in the past.
Go back to the 900s when people were eating each other.
Oh man, would that be awesome or what?
What a great time.
Good times.
Good times.
Eat.
Eat each other.
So we'll probably do a No Agenda Hams net after the live show.
You can go to Echolink3373 and DailyMorseCode.com, I guess.
And have yourself a great Bogut of Thanksgiving, John, with your family there.
Thank you.
Enjoy that, and I shall have an apple in my room, by myself.
Aww.
Yeah, that's what I want to hear, exactly.
Aww, that's horrible.
Come on over.
No, no, no, no.
Anyway, we'll be back.
Write the homeless over and feed them.
Okay.
No, because I'm going to be too busy with having my hand in my underpants sitting on the couch to do that.
We'll have a beer then.
Coming to you from Gitmo Nation, Drone Star State Capital-like thing, a doodle, Austin, Texas.
Happy Thanksgiving, everybody.
I'm Adam Curry.
And also a happy Thanksgiving from the Pacific NW Bunker.
I'm John C. Dvorak.
We will be back on Sunday to bring you more quality analysis right here on No Agenda.
Parasitic wasp that has the most extraordinary life cycle.
They're called jewel wasps.
They go up to the cockroach.
They then impart a sting into its brain, which turns it into a sort of zombie.
It doesn't kill it, but it kind of makes it just...
This poor cockroach, he then gets packed into the nest, and then he lays eggs inside.
And the baby wasp is born in and eats the cockroach alive from the inside in a very special order to keep the cockroach alive.
So there you go.
I thought I'd leave you with that charming thought.