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	Yeah, you just get it out of the air.
	The energy's around you, man.
	It's around you.
	Adam Curry.
	John C. Dvorak.
	It's Thursday, January 3rd, 2013.
	Time for your Gitmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 475.
	This is No Agenda.
	Wrapping up the Red Book entries in the lowlands of Gitmo Nation, Day 28, living in exile in Amsterdam.
	In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where it remains cold and chilly, I'm John C. Devorak.
	It's Cragball and Buzzkill in the morning.
	And may I be the first to wish you a very happy National Stalking Awareness Month.
	I didn't know I needed to wear stockings.
	By presidential proclamation.
	And that also includes, by the way, cyberstalking.
	Oh, stalking!
	I thought you meant stalkings.
	No.
	National Stalking Awareness Month.
	That's one of those bogus things you just threw in.
	It's not bogus.
	It was signed by Autopan.
	It's real.
	The deal is complete.
	I've seen these things.
	We've watched the C-SPAN. We know what's going on.
	So, Happy New Year!
	Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
	We do have a Happy New Year thing.
	What do you mean?
	And I think we should at least play one clip right off the bat, the New Year's celebration thing, showing you that what happens, you get a guy in there forever, four or five terms, he becomes Mussolini, and you get this kind of a report.
	More than one million people from all over the world, crammed into several blocks around Times Square.
	Three hours before the ball dropped, there were so many people, you couldn't get close enough to see it.
	And this year, there were no food vendors or public toilets.
	Poop on the floor, slave!
	Hold on a second.
	People say I sound like crap.
	Hold on a second.
	Do I sound like crap to you?
	I sound good to you?
	You sound good to me.
	Wow!
	How come no public toilets?
	I mean, how hard is it to throw a couple of porta-potties down?
	What's the problem with that?
	Oh, because it'd obviously be filled with a giant bomb.
	Oh, right.
	Oh, yes, of course.
	I'm sorry.
	The giant poop bomb.
	Yeah, that is crazy.
	Well, Happy New Year, John.
	Let me just say, we are here now in 2013 as we enter our sixth year.
	Is it six years already?
	Is this what we're doing?
	Heading to six and heading to show 500 in about 24 episodes.
	Wow.
	I have to say, well, first of all, let me ask you how your celebration was and I'd like to say something about mine.
	Okay, well you probably had more fun than I did because Europeans have, you know, well actually we had, we didn't do anything special.
	We watched the fireworks as we can do off the porch.
	Yeah.
	Because it overlooked San Francisco, so we watched it.
	It was actually quite a good display.
	Now people do not explode their own fireworks on New Year's Eve in the United States, correct?
	No, it depends on the state.
	In some states, it's legal.
	How about California?
	But in California, no.
	Generally speaking, in fact, this year, they cracked down on what's normally done, especially in East Oakland and Richmond, where people take their 45s, and they go outside and take about six rounds in the year.
	Oh, I know.
	I miss home.
	I miss home so much.
	Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
	Just like Iraq, Iraq.
	I miss...
	Saddam used to do that.
	I miss bopping off a couple rounds of the judge.
	Would have been nice.
	I miss my judge.
	Yeah, well...
	Yeah, well, let me...
	So he had some champagne, you know, the same old, same old.
	It wasn't anything special.
	Okay.
	He can't go out anywhere.
	They got the million patrols are trying to bust everybody.
	This country has become a bunch of duds.
	Yeah.
	Duds?
	Wait a minute.
	You insulted the Americans on the last episode by saying it'll be hard-pressed to find an American who can find Europe on the map.
	This went viral, by the way, this quote of yours.
	And what was this new one?
	This country is filled with a bunch of duds.
	Let me just make sure we get the quote properly.
	At the real Dvorak, everybody.
	A bunch of duds.
	Well, here in Gitmo Nation Lowlands, where everyone has apparently the equivalent of what the Free Syrian Army has in explosives, it was quite annoying.
	I'm not a big fireworks fan.
	I like looking at a fireworks display, but I'm not really big into the loud explosions.
	It just freaked me out.
	It's just like, I don't need this.
	But what is very interesting is here in the lowlands, and I believe it's many countries in Europe, but it was very interesting to watch it specifically here, they have the big year-end lotteries.
	And this is what everything is centered around, the year-end lottery.
	And now we have the state lottery.
	And they both may have involvement with government.
	The state lottery obviously does.
	But they really pay for most of the entertainment on television.
	And they have these really big bombastic shows.
	And it's so interesting, you could even buy a fifth of a ticket.
	So a full ticket is 30 euros, and you can buy a half a ticket, a quarter of a ticket, or a fifth of a ticket.
	And then, of course, you would share with the other co-owners of the ticket.
	But the lottery I wanted to discuss with you briefly and have a really, really big event on New Year's Day is the Postcode Lottery, which would translate to the Zip Code Lottery.
	John, I have no idea why this is not going on in America.
	This is a Curry Dvorak.
	It has us written all over it.
	We need to start this lottery.
	And let me explain how it works.
	You play via automatic bank payment, so every single month.
	I love this part already.
	Every single month, and you can choose one lottery ticket, two, I think as many as you want, essentially.
	And the drawing is done on zip code.
	So, what happens is, so let's say I'm here in zip code 1017DM, and that's an entire street.
	And so they pull the zip code, and then the celebrities, who are part of these big television shows, it goes on for days, the whole wind-up for this thing.
	They didn't come to your home with these huge envelopes, And they say, oh, you know, you're in the zip code, so that means you win.
	How many tickets do you have?
	That determines the prize amount.
	And also, how many Kanierpünte, which is kind of like awesome dude points, for the length of time you've been playing.
	And then you get a large cash prize.
	And the entire prize is divided up by...
	in the neighborhood so they divide essentially twenty million euros into the amount of winners in the street whose zip code was chosen now here's what I love about this because invariably you see on television you see these poor people who like win a million euros or two million euros or even you know four hundred thousand euros and then you look at the other people in the street who have their curtains drawn because they didn't play They didn't
	have any tickets.
	The peer pressure.
	The peer pressure is outstanding.
	It's outstanding.
	Can we go visit this person who is a loser who didn't play?
	You can just see people committing suicide.
	Can you imagine being in the street where the big prize fell and then you didn't buy any tickets?
	Worse, you didn't have any super awesome bonus points, so you got a lousy $200,000 where your neighbor got $2 million.
	Even then, you'll feel like a loser even though you really won.
	It is the most unbelievable peer pressure Gitmo Nation thing I've ever seen.
	And the way these celebrettis go around to all these people's homes and they have the big checks, they pull out of the envelopes, and it's sad literally.
	Literally.
	So the whole New Year's consists of slaves who have won money, and now they're heroes.
	It's great.
	They're heroes for letting this lottery take money from their bank account every month for God knows how long.
	But because they were smart enough to play, they're national heroes.
	And we have Holland's new millionaires.
	Let's see how the new millionaires are doing.
	John, why is this not being done in the United States?
	This peer pressure is a great system.
	I'm sure it's being considered.
	We need to be in on it, because the amount of entertainment shows that are put together, that are sponsored by this zip code lottery, everything is financed from it.
	I don't know how it's possible to be in on it, because in this country, illegal lotteries are what they are, which is illegal.
	But why should it be illegal?
	It can be a legal lottery.
	We have Powerball, don't we?
	That's a legal lottery based on legislation.
	Right.
	That's what I'm saying.
	We need a new lottery based on legislation that works.
	Think about it.
	This could save the postal system.
	The postal system doesn't need saving.
	Just play with me now.
	I'm glad you like this sort of scam.
	I love it.
	It's awesome.
	I just sit there just watching like, ugh.
	So I got all my clips today, by the way, I want to mention.
	I picked up off of the...
	Somebody has a German, I think it's in Berlin, satellite, the C-band.
	Oh?
	Slingbox.
	Ah.
	So I was watching what I could.
	Now there's a bunch of crazy, I don't know if we should maybe introduce some people to the idea of what's on German television in general, not to mention what's on the satellite dishes.
	But let me give you, maybe you can explain it to them.
	I have a little piece of German programming, which I have as an Ask Adam item.
	And why don't you maybe first guess what this might be.
	Okay, now you know that it is possible that I will be able to understand the German spoken here.
	Oh yeah, no, I'm sure you can understand it.
	Maybe, maybe, maybe.
	I can understand this German.
	It's essentially numbers.
	Is it something like that?
	Yeah, well, why don't you play it?
	I'm so happy GX2 is making a living in Germany.
	That's fantastic for him.
	Yes, I know what this is.
	Why don't you explain it?
	Because when Americans first go to Germany and they flip on the TV, they run into these channels.
	And on the satellite, I swear to God, there must be 50 of them.
	Yeah, it goes on all over Europe.
	I don't think it's just Germany.
	No, it is all over, but Germany really has a lot of it.
	Right, so after hours, when it's not cost-effective to put in expensive lottery-sponsored programming...
	Then you basically have a bunch of girls who will be...
	And it typically is live.
	They're sitting in a room with a bunch of pillows, and they're scantily clad.
	And they'll be on the phone, and essentially they are talking to people who are calling that number, that 999-Svide-Svide-Svide, whatever she said number.
	And then, of course, you can go private with her.
	It's kind of like a webcam sex thing, only a little different.
	999-9999...
	Now, the funny thing is about this, to me, is occasionally, because unfortunately there's no real guide to this dish, and it's got like 2,000 channels, so I'm punching, you know, I've been spending hours going down channels.
	Wait a minute, this is what you spent New Year's Day doing, isn't it?
	I spent a lot of time on this thing.
	I only found two worthwhile channels.
	Sky News, which is actually much better than BBC. I don't have this...
	Whose Slingbox did you get?
	No one sent me this login to the German Slingbox.
	I found a Slingbox sharing website.
	Oh, homework.
	There's a huge underground of this.
	Okay.
	Because nobody got me a New York Slingbox.
	All right, all right.
	Don't complain.
	I can gripe and gripe, but never mind.
	So what is your question?
	What's your question?
	No, it's not a question.
	I'm saying I'm going through this, and then there's the occasional channel.
	I swear to God, it's a 50-, 60-year-old woman.
	Have you seen this?
	I don't know what you're going to say, but I like it already.
	A 56-year-old, horrible-looking woman, naked, with rolls of fact.
	Seriously.
	And she is offering her, you know, to bad boys or something.
	It's some crazy thing.
	I couldn't quite pick up what she was angling for.
	But there was a number of these sites, and it was literally...
	You know, it was not pleasant, let's put it that way.
	Whoa!
	And you hit the channel button as fast as you can trying to get the satellite thing to change channels.
	Sure, John.
	Welcome to Europe.
	Yeah, sure.
	Oh, quick, change it, change it.
	Oh, honey, I can't get it to change it.
	It won't switch.
	I don't know what's going on.
	What's happening?
	Oh, okay.
	Well, yeah, so that sounds like you had a good time there.
	And by the way, hello, hell froze over.
	New Year's Day, you showed up on Google+.
	Yeah, I did.
	So I start the New Year off right.
	Yeah.
	Because you're grousing so much.
	Mr.
	Barak, he's never going to show up.
	He's a jerk.
	Yeah, that's pretty much it.
	That's about it.
	I mentioned in the intro there that we're going to wrap up a couple of Red Book predictions.
	You did bring the Red Book for today's program?
	I have it right here.
	So let me take this in sequence here for a moment.
	I caught a couple of things from the U.S. I tried to soak up as much culture here as possible, obviously.
	And people seem to be liking that, this change on the show, which I'll tell you my experience is a lot less likable.
	This has now been a month, 28 days in exile, full month, dual rent, cold.
	Dual rent.
	Yeah, what do you mean?
	What are you laughing about?
	It's not that funny.
	It's not that funny.
	You know, we're about to get kicked out.
	You're about to get kicked out.
	I mean, this is hilarious.
	No, it's not hilarious.
	It's anything but hilarious.
	We're about to get kicked out of here, and we're about to get kicked out in Austin, because, you know, we only have the lease until February 15th, and a nightmare.
	Okay, so I caught a little bit of the year-end retrospective from CBS News.
	And you know these year-end things.
	Yeah, I know.
	I was actually thinking I was getting...
	You wanted to do...
	I got...
	This was the funniest thing.
	I didn't do one.
	Okay.
	I didn't do one either, but I wanted to play for you the piece of CBS News' year-end retrospective.
	Of Benghazi.
	Now, we all remember what happened in Benghazi.
	If you were to produce this, John, what would you put in there?
	You have to have the regular canon that the public expects, which is that it was an attack of some sort.
	All the evidence tends to point to a failed kidnapping attempt as an October surprise to benefit the Obama campaign.
	That failed, which is why Hillary was very upset at the time, you could see it visibly, and why she's not going to ever testify before Congress about this episode.
	So that's the background as far as...
	Well, you're fired.
	Even that is way too much.
	And in Benghazi, Libya, an armed attack killed U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.
	Four State Department officials eventually resigned over the incident.
	And there you go.
	That's it.
	Simple and easy.
	I'm like, wow!
	Unbelievable!
	What happened to all those 20 people that they ferreted off in the German?
	Yeah, and the fact that those four people didn't resign, they just resigned one piece of their job and they took other gigs and the whole thing is bullcrap.
	And of course, we now have hiding Hillary.
	Hide and go seek Hillary Clinton.
	And by the way...
	Would you let me just flow through this before you do a by the way?
	Because I'm afraid you're going to like...
	Step on your bit, exactly.
	Go on.
	I'll wrap this up real quick.
	So, of course, you're not allowed to...
	Come up with any conspiracies about Herr Hillary because, you know, that's crazy.
	It's just crazy talk.
	Now, of course, on the last episode, I brought up pretty much a clear piece of disinfo that is out there about this accident that Hillary may have had and that that related to a SEAL team member who had supposedly committed suicide.
	And I already said, you know, this is a very shaky source that this is coming from.
	And now you kind of see it all over, and it looks like it came from Sor Shafal, which is just bullcrap, just total bullcrap.
	Our theory has always been very, very simple.
	But first, let me play a piece of Representative Israel, who will just tell you how insane you are to think that Hillary might be faking this, or there might be something else going on.
	In fact, Representative Israel could actually be on This Week in Tech with Leo.
	Facing direct questions on Benghazi.
	What's your thought?
	Well, look, that's what's wrong with Washington.
	You know, the people who invent conspiracies behind every cloud.
	These are the same people who said that the moon landing was staged in a Hollywood set.
	There you go.
	I'm crazy.
	The same people who said the moon landing was staged on a Hollywood set are saying that Hillary has ulterior motives.
	But we found the smoking gun.
	I have it here for you.
	I've got a smoking gun.
	Our theory, of course, at least one of the theories, is that Hillary is on deck for a complete makeover, a facelift, the whole nine, because of course she has to Rest up, get ready.
	You know, she's going to be running in a couple of years and she's got a lot of work to do.
	And if you've seen any recent pictures and you know how many women feel about their appearance, then you probably would agree with that.
	Here is smoking gun proof.
	That she is indeed doing just that.
	Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was released today from a New York hospital where she was being treated for a blood clot in her head.
	The secretary left in a motorcade with former President Bill Clinton and their daughter Chelsea.
	Margaret Brennan is at New York Presbyterian Hospital.
	Margaret?
	Anthony, Secretary Clinton was just discharged from the hospital.
	Her car pulled away just moments ago, and her spokesperson released this statement saying her medical team advised her that she is making good progress on all fronts, and they are confident that she will make a full recovery.
	Now, earlier today, Secretary Clinton made her first public appearance in three weeks as she walked out of the Harkness Eye Institute and into a secure van.
	Okay, let's stop right there.
	And let's take a look at the Edward Harkness Eye Institute, which you will be able to find, John, at ColumbiaEye.org.
	And while you look that up, I will tell you that the things they do here is laser vision correction and eye plastic and reconstructive surgery.
	And if you look at all the photographs...
	She comes out with the huge sunglasses on, the Jackie O sunglasses.
	By the way, this is exactly...
	I was thinking about going back and pulling a clip from our own show saying that when you first see her, she's going to have huge sunglasses and a big scarf around her.
	In fact, I think you said that.
	Yeah, I did.
	Because that's what you do.
	You wear these...
	These are not normal sunglasses, and why are you wearing them at all?
	These are huge sunglasses that cover up two black eyes.
	And notice that Bill and Chelsea and the Secret Service guys, not even the Secret Service guys are wearing sunglasses, and they always wear sunglasses.
	She did not have the scarf over the head yet, because that work hasn't started yet.
	It's very obvious.
	That work just has not started.
	She just had her eyes done.
	Let's finish the report.
	Along with a smiling Bill and Chelsea Clinton and accompanied by security detail.
	Now, there are private doors here at the hospital she could have used to avoid those cameras, but she chose to walk out smiling into the cold New York air.
	And the State Department does say that Secretary Clinton has been very active by phone and in communication with her staff.
	And I'd like to point out she was also not in a wheelchair.
	Someone who has a blood clot and all this stuff going on, typically, what is she doing in the Eye Institute?
	Only one thing.
	They don't do anything?
	No one ever said, oh, she has a vision problem?
	I didn't hear any of that.
	It's not behind her eyes.
	The blood clot apparently is somewhere around her ear.
	No, no, no.
	She's going to look dynamite.
	Well, it's going to take a while.
	Yeah, it's going to take another eight weeks for sure.
	But apparently the procedure hasn't been done yet.
	She's doing it piecemeal.
	So she's got the eye job first.
	So I call this smoking proof.
	What do you say?
	I'm all in.
	Good.
	I mean, when I saw the sunglasses, I saw that picture.
	I said, oh, brother.
	Okay, well, this is the giveaway.
	But then she had all that stuff wrapped around her neck, too.
	But obviously, she hasn't had her jowls worked on.
	No.
	She hasn't had the face part of it.
	No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
	That would take it too long to heal.
	So this will happen in the off-season.
	But you see, this is very important.
	She's shown that she's alive.
	So that's what she did.
	It's very important that she showed that at least she's not dead.
	You know, here's what I... Let me give you another off-the-wall thing.
	I think that this is just a coincidence that she couldn't do the Benghazi, and I think this was scheduled.
	No, no, no.
	It's like, oh, no, now they're going to think I'm trying to avoid the Benghazi thing.
	I'm just trying to get in with the right doctor.
	It's like, look, I don't care, Benghazi, Schmengazi, all right?
	I'm going to go see that doctor.
	It's very hard to get a spot open up on Dr.
	Lewenthal's schedule.
	This is just not going to happen.
	Well, in the morning, and Happy New Year to you, John C. Dvorak.
	Well, in the morning, and Happy New Year to you, Adam Curry.
	Also, in the morning, and Happy New Year to all the ships that see boots on the ground, feet in the water, subs in the water, feet in the air, and all the dames and knights out there who support the show so assiduously.
	Yes, and also our barons, our baronesses.
	We have our black knights and black dames, of course.
	Thank you.
	And our artists.
	Who always are supporting the program through their excellent contribution.
	You can find it at noagendaartgenerator.com.
	Thank you, Nick the Rat, for the previous episode's art.
	Always good to see another Nick the Rack...
	Nick the Rack...
	Knit the Rack!
	Good to see another Nick the Rat piece up there and in the morning to you there in the chat room.
	Noaginastream.com, noaginachat.net, the human resources there, depleting their $9.1 million value.
	Just goofing off.
	Thank you so much.
	Actually, they did some good work for me earlier today.
	I couldn't get to an audio thing.
	I just threw a URL into the chat room and like hungry wolves, they dove on it.
	And back came what I needed.
	It was kind of nice.
	That's what chat rooms are good for.
	Thank you, Joe, who did a little PR campaign.
	He said, here's an idea.
	I donated to the VLC Kickstarter.
	I guess VLC or doing a Windows 8 version or something.
	As part of the Kickstarter, they offered me a credit for being one of the backers.
	Since I don't care that much about such a thing, I asked them that the show get my credit.
	Just trying to hit some people in the mouth.
	And there it says, noagendashow.com, no agenda, best podcast in the universe.
	I think that's a very good idea.
	If you're going to contribute anywhere, you can always contribute in name of the show.
	Yep.
	I think that's a very good one.
	It's actually a very good idea.
	And other ways to contribute are by...
	Calling C-SPAN. Yeah.
	Yeah.
	I've been listening to these calls.
	No one does that.
	No, I'm Bill in Fort Worth, and I'm calling as an independent, and I think that everything is bullcrap what they're doing in the Congress.
	Do you have a question, sir?
	No!
	Well, yeah, I have a question.
	You know, these guys have been screwing around.
	But at that point, see, even you could do it.
	Do you have a question, sir?
	Yes.
	What is the best podcast in the universe?
	I give you a choice.
	Noagendashow.com.
	Noagenda.
	That's how you do it.
	No one ever does that.
	Think about how legendary that would be.
	It's so easy.
	I think what happens is people think that C-SPAN is probably detrimental to your health.
	You're probably just watching like, ugh, it's painful.
	And I was watching in the middle of the night I was watching the Fiscal Cliff voting thingamajig on the streaming website.
	That's how bad it is.
	I was actually watching that at 3 in the morning.
	It was like 1.30 and I'm like, okay, they're going to do a vote.
	And I was like, we'll do it in the 9 o'clock hour.
	I'm like, ugh!
	No, that's 3 a.m.
	No.
	And apparently there wasn't a midnight deadline or anything.
	So as long as the thing was underway during the...
	So they did most of it.
	They got rid of that minimum tax.
	Well, John, let's just be honest.
	Let's just be honest.
	It's bullshit.
	Well, apparently...
	The whole like, oh, it has to be done by midnight.
	We're all going to die!
	This is total bullcrap.
	What they did was bullcrap, too.
	In fact, what's funny about listening to both the Sky News and the VanCat, which has a 24-hour news station in Europe, so you can watch news all...
	I mean, it's not like the carefully chosen feeds we get.
	You get all kinds of weird usages that they won't give to the Americans.
	Here's one from one of the stations.
	On the cliff is a fudged deal.
	Who uses this term?
	Some critics won the bill, doesn't go far enough.
	It is a fudge deal.
	I think anybody who thinks that it's anything else...
	My mom used to say this.
	Probably deludes themselves.
	I think we are going to hit problems again come February when President Obama presents his budget for 2014.
	And clearly one of the issues in that is going to be the debt ceiling and the budget deficit, which at $16.4 trillion is wholly unacceptable.
	I think we need to reintroduce the term, John.
	Fudge.
	Fudged.
	What does it mean?
	Well, you can do it in multiple ways.
	What does it mean?
	You've made fudge of it.
	Oh, fudge.
	What does that mean?
	What's wrong with fudge?
	Fudge is a chocolate delight.
	It's a delectable.
	Oh, fudge.
	So why is this bad?
	Hey, fudge you.
	Fudge.
	So what's wrong with it?
	I don't get this.
	I don't see how this term is a negative term.
	Well, if you think of the British, and you think of the American, and you think of all the derivatives, it's somewhere between fuck and poop.
	It's fudged.
	It's fudged?
	Yes, it's fudged.
	It's a fudged deal, I tell you.
	Fudged.
	I got something that you didn't see.
	The Obama campaign sent out a video.
	Did you catch this one?
	I don't think you did.
	This was not on television.
	So the Obama campaign emailed...
	I guess he's going for a third term because the Barack Obama campaign is still alive.
	And I pulled out a 40-second clip.
	And it's funny because they have different producers and it's not as slick and there's no cool background.
	It's just like a flag.
	The mic isn't placed right.
	Obviously, they grab them like, Hey!
	Hey man, Barack, Barry, Barry, do one for the campaign, man.
	Okay, alright.
	I'll do something for the campaign.
	And he put a twist on this, which was, I'll tell you what it is.
	It's eat more of the rich, but then he winds up with just a killer ending.
	Obviously there's still more to do when it comes to reducing our debt.
	And I'm willing to do more.
	As long as we do it in a balanced way that doesn't put all the burden on seniors.
	You can hear how the audio is all goofy and it's just poor.
	Poor production.
	For students or middle class families.
	But also asks the wealthiest Americans to contribute and pay their fair share.
	Wait, you have to do more!
	Rich people pay more!
	Once we get this done, we can get to work on the issues that will determine whether America prospers, not just in the next four years, but for the next 40 years.
	Okay, this is important.
	Write this down, John.
	Here are the things that he's going to be doing.
	Winding down the war in Afghanistan in a responsible way.
	Okay.
	Reforming our immigration system and protecting our children from gun violence.
	Hold on.
	Yeah, let's talk about that reform the immigration system.
	I'm not so happy with it.
	Oh, protect the children from gun violence, yes?
	Freeing ourselves from foreign oil and...
	Screw you.
	Fudge you, Canada!
	...the harmful effects of climate change.
	Reforming our schools and opening the doors of higher education to more Americans.
	Now, what can all that mean?
	What can all those things combined mean?
	Spend more money.
	In other words, making sure this country remains a place where you can make it if you try.
	Wait a minute.
	I can make it if I try?
	There's a song in there somewhere.
	There's a lyric.
	We can make it if we try.
	It might sound a little better, you can make it if you really try.
	I think that could be nice.
	He didn't even say that.
	He just said, you can make it.
	He probably forgot it.
	You can make it if you really try.
	No, he just said try.
	If you just try.
	I think I'm just going to try it.
	Oh my goodness.
	I apologize to the universe for the American dream being, give it a try.
	Well, he has a new twist that he pulled out, and I think this is kind of interesting.
	He pulled, on one of his press conferences after the signing, he came up with this, which I have the clip, is Obama logic on paying bills.
	He's finally, this could open up a can of worms, but this is essentially what he said.
	While I will negotiate over many things, I will not have another debate with this Congress over whether or not they should pay the bills Okay, so he's throwing it at Congress because Congress, in fact, is responsible.
	For the budget.
	Well, of course.
	Although, interestingly enough, Congress is not only responsible, but legally, only Congress can write a bill that raises revenue.
	Interesting how the Senate did this, but that's maybe another story.
	Actually, if you follow Boehner's Twitter feed...
	I'm sorry, I must have skipped.
	I must not be following him.
	The House initiated it.
	It's true.
	Oh, okay.
	Boehner had the thing done, something that they sent to the Senate.
	The Senate just rewrote the whole damn thing and sent it back.
	But it didn't initiate in the Senate.
	It was done properly.
	But nobody follows Boehner's Twitter feed.
	Twitter?
	Hold on, John.
	His tweeter feed, and so they missed that.
	I found the song.
	I found the song.
	Ah, good.
	This is the song for the American Dream.
	We'll just wait for the chorus for a moment. .
	Do you recognize the song, John?
	Oh, yeah.
	John's like, oh, yeah.
	Yeah, I wrote that.
	Here we go.
	Just the two of us.
	We can make it if we try.
	Just the two of us.
	That's it, right?
	That's the one.
	You can make it if you try.
	Yeah, I think so.
	That's where he got it from.
	Okay.
	And he probably, him and Michelle must be listening to that song constantly.
	Just the two of us in the 747.
	Just the two of us.
	GX2, you've got your work cut out for you.
	That's all I want to say.
	747.
	Yeah, so...
	Of course, I read through the...
	I read through the bill...
	Which is H.R. 8.
	That's the Senate version.
	Of course, it passed unchanged.
	Did you have a chance to look at anything?
	Did you have any remarks?
	No, I knew you would.
	You love reading legislation.
	It's sad.
	Why bother?
	I know.
	It's so sad because I really do.
	It's kind of weird.
	I really do.
	I think it's charming.
	Okay.
	A couple of things were fixed.
	Your favorite, the alternative minimum tax.
	Of course, it's not gone.
	It's just been patched and indexed.
	Yeah, but it's indexed permanently now, so we don't have to deal with this crap.
	Well, until they change it again.
	That's true.
	They can change this at any time.
	They will change it back.
	They can do whatever they want.
	It's Congress.
	They should get rid of it.
	Actually, CBS did a pretty cool rundown of a couple of the bennies that were slipped in there.
	I was surprised that CBS did it.
	So I'll hand it over to CBS for a second, then I'll mention a few other things.
	The Fiscal Cliff Law passed so quickly, many in Congress never realized it was full of special interest tax breaks, one of which allows auto racetrack owners to speed up their tax deductions.
	Another tax write-off goes to Hollywood, a $20 million break any time a TV show or movie is shot in an economically depressed area of the United States.
	There's a subsidy for rum made in Puerto Rico, a tax break if you train a mine rescue worker, and a tax credit for every kilowatt of electricity produced by the wind.
	All told, a fiscal cliff law designed to reduce the deficit added $74 billion in spending through changes in the tax law.
	Yeah, so I thought that was a decent rundown.
	It certainly wasn't everything.
	I mean, if you look at...
	Let me see, what did I have here?
	Oh, I just got to go down my list.
	Extension of Indian Employment Tax Credit.
	I mean, so these cheap bastards don't do anything for the show, yet our government is extending tax credits for the employment of Indians.
	Very annoying to me.
	Railroad track maintenance credit, there's Warren Buffett's gotcha.
	He got his little Benny in there.
	Wait a minute.
	Stop a second.
	Indian, they moan and groan about this, and there's still a tax credit for people, like if I was going to use India to outsource, I would get a tax credit to do that, right?
	No.
	I believe it's only if you bring Indians over here.
	Oh, even better.
	Yes, I'm not kidding you.
	I'm not kidding you.
	I don't know why no one brought that one up.
	To me, it like jumped right out.
	I'm like, really?
	Okay.
	There's extension of tax-exempt financing for the New York Liberty Zone.
	So if you happen to be lucky enough to be building in the New York Liberty Zone, which of course is where the World Trade Center stood and where the new World Trade Center is being erected, you get a tax-exempt financing, so there's a little scammage in there.
	Extension of credit for two- or three-wheeled plug-in electric vehicles.
	I didn't know you could get a credit for that.
	Did you know that?
	Two or three wheels.
	Yeah.
	Well, that means there's a tax credit for a Segway?
	That's correct.
	It's a two-wheel plug-in electric vehicle.
	Um...
	Let's see.
	Then we have the unemployment benefits.
	Yeah, we got all that.
	Then we have...
	Oh, yes.
	There was an extension of the agricultural program.
	That is a supplemental financing for the asparagus farmers.
	Remember, this is an extension.
	So I guess this was put in place when Bush was in office and asparagus was doing poorly.
	Apparently.
	And we've now extended it because asparagus has not recovered.
	Damn that asparagus.
	Now, here's a couple things that I wanted to actually talk to you about because I didn't quite understand.
	Improve and make permanent the provision authorizing the Internal Revenue Service to disclose certain return and return information to certain prison officials.
	And I'm not quite sure why, but we know the prison system is so corrupt and so rotten and commercialized.
	Oh, yeah.
	That when I read, in general...
	It's a slave labor camp.
	Well, so apparently, I think that the IRS is now disclosing what prisoners have made, and they're disclosing it to prison officials.
	I don't know.
	So you're like, hey, that guy's rich.
	Let's give him some benefits, or let's rough him up.
	Let's rough them up.
	It's a very, very, very strange provision, and it's a long one.
	Maybe someone out there will be able to figure it out, but restrictions on use of disclosed information.
	Any return or return information received on this paragraph shall be used only for the purpose of If you're a prisoner, do you have to file your tax return?
	Well, I think you're under the...
	If you're a prisoner...
	Well, let's see.
	Okay, this has got to have to do with white-collar prisons, because an average poor black guy caught for smoking a joint in East Oakland or in West Texas.
	Which is what most of these dudes are, by the way.
	Yeah, most of these guys are that.
	Some guy, poor schlub in Texas who's in jail and being made to do a lot of extra free work for 10 cents an hour.
	It doesn't get to the point where he has to file a tax.
	There's no way.
	But a white collar prisoner who's making income interest and he's got all these different things going on on the side, in the background, because he can't stop making money, he has to file a tax return, of course.
	Wow.
	Okay.
	So now his tax return goes right to the warden?
	Is that the deal?
	Yeah, I guess so.
	It's got to have something to do with a different class of prisoners.
	Okay.
	All right.
	And then, of course, the film and television productions.
	I think that's just fascinating.
	You know how the president and the politicians always talk about...
	Wait, wait, hold on a second.
	Wait, wait.
	Stop, stop, stop.
	Are they not making any money?
	Is that the problem?
	Yeah.
	I guess.
	The Hollywood people and all those limos and Ferraris.
	They're not making the dough, man.
	Justin Bieber and his Fisker and his Ferrari both.
	He's got a million cars.
	I mean, they're broke.
	I'd like to point out this was not for the music business.
	This was for certain film and television productions.
	And I would like to say that you know how the president in particular, but politicians in general, will talk about the special tax breaks that the oil companies receive.
	This is a lie, and we've talked about this many, many times on the show, that these tax breaks are available to anyone who produces anything in America, such as software.
	So Apple and Microsoft, they enjoy this tax credit.
	The film and television and music industries already enjoy this tax credit as well as the oil companies if they produce here.
	And in fact, Hollywood is actually getting the actual additional tax credit that the president and other politicians accuse the oil industry of receiving.
	Up to 15, I think they actually changed it from 15 to 20 million dollars.
	Let me just check here.
	I think it's from 15 to 20.
	If you produce in like Detroit, which is great because that's all the movies are.
	That's all anyone needs is a background like Detroit.
	It seems like every single movie is Armageddon.
	So that's fantastic.
	And that was pretty much it.
	It was pretty straightforward.
	I have one more.
	Oh, yes.
	Yeah, I did have one thing that I found a little disturbing.
	The Comptroller General of the United States shall conduct a study on the potential of clinical data registries to improve the quality and efficiency of care.
	That wasn't it.
	I thought there was a...
	It was like a DNA database thing that I saw.
	I swear to God.
	Here it is.
	Yeah, let's throw that in.
	I'm telling you.
	Advancement of clinical data registries to improve the quality of healthcare.
	Oh, yeah.
	Yeah.
	There was a commission thing.
	Hold on a second.
	This was actually quite funny, if I can find it that quickly.
	There was...
	For some reason they threw in like a commission thing, like we're going to create a commission for long-term health care of people on Medicare, which to me sounds like a death panel.
	Yeah, probably.
	That's essentially what...
	I thought I had that one marked.
	Maybe I didn't.
	I've got to look at that one.
	But I'm pretty sure that there was a death panel provision in there.
	So the whole thing, of course, is just bogative.
	It was a big show.
	Proving once again that politics is truly Hollywood show business for ugly people.
	Everyone got their little moment in the sunshine.
	Everybody did their little bit.
	The whole deadline was obviously bullcrap.
	This didn't mean anything.
	We could go over the cliff and it's not like it was irreversible.
	We'll just backdate it.
	Just to add insult to injury, the president signed it with his auto pen while vacationing in Hawaii.
	I mean, come on!
	How many...
	How much of a beating do we have to take?
	And then in two months, well, now I guess we're going to have that whole stupid debt ceiling conversation again.
	It's like reruns work to a certain extent in Hollywood, but there is a limit.
	You know, even Terminator can only do so many sequels.
	You can't continue to do this.
	We're not going to care anymore about the debt ceiling.
	And then in the first of March, we're going to have the whole sequestration conversation.
	It's boring.
	It's completely freaking boring.
	So, hey, did you notice, by the way, that overnight, Al Jazeera bought Current TV? Now, this to me is the...
	I have...
	This is mind-boggling to me.
	Mimi, yeah, I got it from Mimi.
	No, no, no.
	It's mind-boggling.
	Look what happened.
	Al Gore sold his crappy television network to Al Jazeera.
	For a rumored $500 million.
	Yeah, well, that's bogus.
	Yeah, I think it is, too.
	That's what you call a face-saving press release.
	I've seen this happen, and people should be aware of it.
	Yeah.
	People say, oh yeah, we sold for 500 million terms not disclosed.
	Terms not disclosed is the key.
	Because there's no terms.
	Because there's not 500 million.
	It's bull crap.
	There's no way it's 500 million.
	That station isn't worth...
	Probably worth less than $100 million just for the clearances.
	Yeah, it's the clearances, but they lost Time Warner in the deal, which is a huge part of their clearances.
	Oh yeah, boom.
	That's done.
	So it is truly only the clearances.
	And by the way, everyone's fired.
	Forget it.
	Chunk, start looking, buddy, because you're fired.
	It's just going to turn into Al Jazeera.
	It's just turning into Al Jazeera America.
	Yeah, they bought some clearances.
	If they got $50 million out of the deal, it would be a miracle.
	And notice they did it before the fiscal cliff deal was signed so they could beat the increase from 15% to 20% of the capital gains tax.
	Right.
	A-holes.
	I don't know what the capital gains would be, but whatever.
	It's a shoestring operation.
	I mean, that's why Olbermann quit because he couldn't take it.
	Listen to this.
	Al and I, this is from this.
	What's the CEO's name?
	What's his name?
	Isn't it Hyatt?
	Is that his name?
	Is it Joel Hyatt?
	Who's the CEO? I think it's...
	Let's look it up.
	Let's look at the book of knowledge.
	Yeah, Joel Hyatt.
	Yeah, Joel Hyatt.
	Al and I did significant due diligence as part of our evaluation process.
	That's code for, Hail Mary, we're so happy we could find some stupid sap to buy this piece of crap.
	We were impressed with all that we learned about Al Jazeera and its journalistic integrity.
	Yeah.
	Global reach, award-winning programming, and growing influence around the world.
	That influence has recently been demonstrated by Al Jazeera's important and impactful coverage of the Arab Spring, which was widely credited as being the most thorough and informative coverage from any media company.
	In fact, and here it is, here's the real reason why Al Jazeera bought Current TV. Colin Powell told Al, that's Gore, that Al Jazeera is the only cable news network he watches.
	That's right, ladies and gentlemen.
	I'm Colin Powell, and I only watch Al Jazeera.
	Did I lose you or are you back?
	No, no, I'm back.
	What?
	Okay, well, because Colin Powell and Gore are both with Kleiner Perkins.
	Yeah, he's in on the deal, of course.
	Yeah, he's in on the deal.
	Well, Al Jazeera, here's the problem with Al Jazeera.
	Al Jazeera never got on any of the networks consistently.
	They were floating around on MXZ networks.
	Yeah, but they're on Comcast, Time Warner.
	No, they're carried.
	They're here and there, but they don't have like an established conduit that I know of.
	It doesn't matter.
	It was all syndicated, from what I could tell.
	There wasn't any 24-7 thing.
	Do you think that they said you could have Joy Behar as a slave, that they threw her into the deal?
	Do you think they just like, just come pick her up?
	Here she is.
	Here's your television network.
	Oh, and here's this.
	Maybe the whole thing came around this.
	They had a meeting when they said, what do we do about Joy Behar?
	Well, who hired her?
	I have an idea.
	Let's sell the station.
	Sell the station.
	Get rid of her.
	Oh, it'd be so funny.
	Tom, you know, I harbor no bad feelings, but, you know, poor Chunk, man.
	What's he going to do?
	No one's going to hire him.
	No one's going to hire anyone from that network.
	No, Chunk is going to go on to the, he's going to pull a Andrew Sullivan and he's going to go on, he's going to do what we're doing.
	He's going to bring out a, because he's got, you know, he's got, he doesn't know, you know, he sees guys like, who's the guy that used to be with the man show?
	That's Carolla.
	Yeah, Adam Carolla.
	Carolla is actually just doing what he does.
	Well, he's selling Mangina or whatever that stuff is.
	Yeah, well, he's selling a lot of stuff, but he's making serious money on his show.
	No, he's not making...
	Stop.
	He's not making serious money.
	He's doing okay.
	He's not making serious money.
	He's making...
	It sounds like he's making...
	It doesn't matter whether he is or not.
	Exactly.
	He makes it look good.
	I agree.
	He looks like he's making serious money, and so does Lycus.
	He looks like he's making serious money.
	Who's that?
	The fact with Lycus is Lycus did some sort of a deal in his last years as a radio guy.
	Who's Lycus?
	He got a player pay deal, essentially walked away with millions of dollars without doing any work.
	Who's Lycus?
	I have no idea who is this Lycus you speak of.
	Oh, Lycus is one of the big shots.
	He was in Texas for a while.
	He's one of the big podcasters now.
	But anyway, there's a bunch of these...
	Wait a minute.
	I'm the podfather.
	I've never heard of him.
	This cannot be...
	Oh, you should.
	Look him up.
	Okay.
	He does essentially a...
	Right.
	So essentially...
	Okay, so here's the deal.
	That's what's going to happen.
	That's my prediction.
	So Chunk is going, look at all these guys, damn it.
	They're all making all their money selling gold coins.
	Exactly.
	Exactly.
	I can sell me some gold coins.
	How come we're not selling gold coins?
	We should be selling gold coins, my friend.
	We're so dumb.
	About to sell gold coins.
	Did you read that whole statement, though, from the Al Jazeera deal from Joel?
	It's really funny.
	No, I didn't.
	Is it worth reading?
	Yeah.
	Link in the show notes, of course, at 475.nashownotes.com.
	There's a couple of choices.
	First of all, it's all Al and I. Al and I are thrilled and proud to announce that a few moments ago, Current was acquired by Al Jazeera, the award-winning international news organization.
	As you may know, Al Jazeera is funded by the government of Qatar.
	Which is the United States' closest ally in the Gulf region, bestest friends, and is where the United States bases its Middle East Air Force operations.
	Hmm.
	I have had first-hand knowledge of Qatar's policies as a result of my tenure on the board of the Brookings Institution.
	The Sabin Center for Middle East Policy is a joint venture of the Brookings Institution and Qatar and has offices in Washington, D.C. and Doha.
	Qatar.
	Its purpose is to propose practical public policies that can contribute to peace in the Middle East, and its founding director is my friend, Martin Indyke, the former U.S. ambassador to Israel.
	I'm telling you, this is the funniest thing.
	Anyone on the inside who even knows a little bit how this works, it's hilarious to me.
	It really is.
	What a Hail Mary bullcrap thing to say.
	When it started, it actually was kind of interesting.
	They were trying to do something different.
	And now, Qatar, as Atomic Rod pointed out, Suratomic Rod, I should say, they are the largest producer of liquid natural gas.
	So you can be sure that anything that is on this new Al Jazeera America will be promoting the use of LNG. In fact, you and I, John, we can, right now, here's another great idea we'll never act on, which we're full of.
	We can put together a whole series of great uses for natural gas.
	Liquid natural gas.
	And we will sell it to them as a series.
	As a package.
	As a 13 episode.
	We'll show a city bus running on LNG. We'll show an airplane running on LNG. Whatever.
	We'll make some crap up.
	We'll send some producers out into the field.
	Just do a voiceover and we're done.
	Because that's all it's going to be.
	It's going to be one big propaganda machine.
	From the country that tries to bring you peace.
	In the Middle East.
	Well, anyway, so that's the end of them.
	See you, Chunk!
	Hey, everybody!
	It's the Joy Behar and Chunk Chink podcast!
	The best podcast in the universe!
	I guess when Gore started doing his show himself, he was on and off a couple of days, and the ratings did nothing.
	They can't do anything to move the needle.
	They said, oh man, what are we going to do?
	And they finally found somebody to take it off their hands.
	Yeah, that's a real...
	Yeah, it's a total Hail Mary.
	Total Hail Mary.
	And I wonder how much...
	They raised money too, didn't they?
	Didn't they have to pay something back somewhere?
	I know they went public.
	No, they didn't go public.
	So they raised a lot of money pre-public.
	Remember that IPO didn't happen?
	No, I don't remember any of that.
	I can't remember that.
	Anyway.
	Let's thank some producers.
	Yes.
	Oops.
	We have a couple of producers here that need some big time thanks, including, we'll start off with the big one, the number one, our patron.
	The great and wonderful baron, Stephen Pelzmockers, decided to come in with a New Year's contribution of $2013.69.
	Oh my goodness!
	Happy New Year and all the best for 2013.
	I wish upon Jedediah and Amos, producers of the best podcasts in the universe.
	Give yourselves, as well as all the dames and knights of the No Agenda Roundtable, a Happy New Year karma so that both the show and all of our good fortunes may continue for a long time yet.
	I added just a sprinkling of Swazilnuf karma, 69 cents.
	One never knows when that might come in handy.
	Look forward to the pins.
	As a reminder, the barony will also always have room to welcome you both.
	Why?
	Because?
	Min allerbeste wensen ook voor Mimi en Miriam.
	What?
	Very good.
	Min allerbeste wensen ook voor Mimi en Miriam.
	How does he know Mickey's real name?
	That's interesting.
	Oh, really?
	Well, we accept your karma.
	Thank you very much, Baron von Pelsmachers.
	You've got karma.
	He sent me a note today that it looks like he has a new castle coming up in February in the Barony.
	Just for those of you who don't know, who might have skipped that episode, he also has France.
	Oh, yes.
	No, he's the Baron of Belgium and France.
	Yeah.
	Maybe the way he's going, we're going to have to give him Spain and maybe Portugal eventually.
	Depends on which way he wants to go.
	We could probably pick those up cheaper.
	He could go toward Austria.
	It might make more sense.
	Well, you know, there's a lot of him to do in France.
	We'll keep it with France for a while now.
	That's good.
	Yeah, well, there's a lot we could do in France if we could get over there.
	Thank you very much.
	Number two on the list is Craig Whiting, who is an Insta Knight from East Kilbride South somewhere.
	Lanarkshire?
	Lanarkshire?
	Probably Lanarkshire.
	Lanarkshire.
	And he sent a note in on the email.
	My PayPal didn't have the little box for a message.
	I don't know why not.
	Can you credit me as just Sir Craig of Manamana?
	This is not a drunk or surfer dude donation, but a Scottish donation.
	Does Jeb's voice skills...
	Skills stretch to us.
	No, I don't.
	I worked on it, believe me.
	Because I wanted to do Willie of The Simpsons, but I've only achieved a few sentences and they won't fit in, so I can't do it.
	Let me write this down.
	It's Sir Craig of Manomena?
	Because that's not in my notes.
	Sir Craig of Manomena, Manomena.
	Okay.
	Happy New Year, Slave Adam and Slave Jeb.
	I'm hoping to be the first night of 2013.
	You know what's so funny about these crazy names they just start giving us?
	Is that we've made a policy on the show as a meme to rename everybody.
	And now we're getting renamed.
	Now, it was just a matter of time before it caught up to us.
	Well, it's been five years and finally, finally people are calling us different.
	I like what Baron Pelsmacher said there.
	Jedediah and Amos.
	I think that's taking it to a new extreme.
	Appreciate it.
	I'm hoping for it to be the first night of 2013, so I'm sending this shortly after midnight L.A. time to try to get the first donation of the year.
	And I think you did get that.
	I need a quick de-douching and a Chinese ITM karma for a prosperous New Year's for all.
	Okay, quick douching and a Chinese...
	Douchebag!
	Ow!
	Ow!
	Oh, jeez!
	I hit myself!
	I hit myself with that.
	I didn't mean to do that.
	You've been de-douched.
	You've got karma.
	I had a huntsman just to make up for the slip there.
	Sorry.
	Paul Boyer in Howell, Michigan, 65765.
	Adam's ploy to bake my spirit.
	I think he meant break, but maybe bake.
	It could be bake.
	You never know.
	Finally succeeded, and the thought of never getting my much-desired night ring has driven me to raid my account at the last possible moment and top off my donations before the end of the year, making myself a member of the Order of the Knights of Procrastination.
	I have been swishing a jingle combo around in my mouth for the last few months, and I would love to see if Adam can pull it off.
	I would like you've been de-douched, followed by just the end of the Atlas Shrug jingle.
	In other words, you've been de-douched by Ayn Rand.
	And I would like to send it out to John.
	Happy New Year.
	Keep it up.
	I'll be listening.
	Ring size 14.
	You've been de-douched by Ayn Rand.
	Nailed it.
	Nailed it.
	You should have cut off that farting sound that's at the end of that clip.
	That's not at the end of the clip.
	Julian Cowley in Honolulu, Hawaii, 475.
	Just list my name.
	List his name as Jules Reed.
	Dear John and Adam, in the droning, the donation comes just in the nick of time as we fall over the cliff and all the rings go missing.
	It's still 2012 in this part of the world, and hopefully I'm still able to make the deadline, which you did.
	I am looking forward to going through the night's bucket list, probably starting with sake and chardonnay tonight, but I think I can hold off on the rent boys for a while.
	Thanks for sharing your keen thoughts and insights, and let's hope 2013 actually becomes a less interesting year.
	Uh-huh.
	No chance of that.
	Really?
	Good luck, pal.
	Good luck with that one.
	I'm sure you will know what to do if it does not.
	All right.
	Simple karma shot form.
	Happy to bring that to you.
	Thank you for your support.
	You've got karma.
	And good old Terry Heyman in Baytown, Texas, 37152, topping off in the morning.
	Lots to say, but no time to say it.
	So just sending my cash.
	Happy New Year.
	Karma to the both of you, your families, and all the no-agenders out there.
	Enough said.
	You've got karma.
	Texas used to be right down the road for me, that Baytown did.
	Where is Baytown?
	I don't know, but it's a lot more down the road than it is now.
	Yeah.
	Spiros Betas in Napanee, Ontario, 33334.
	I don't have an email from him, and we'll just let that stay there, but he's going to be a knight today.
	Robert Sears Sima in Portage, Indiana, 219.
	He'll be associate executive producer.
	The others are all executive producers for today's show, 475.
	And he says, Rob, from Portage, this is my first donation going toward a 2013 nighting show, 474 producer mentioned in the possibility of broadcasting no agenda on the radio as a public affairs show.
	This gave me an idea.
	The FCC is opening up more low-powered FM licenses in October.
	Oh.
	By the way, we had a couple of these years ago.
	I didn't know anything about this.
	They're opening them.
	So, hmm, interesting.
	I'll have to look into this.
	This is good.
	Good info.
	Yeah, maybe some producers could start new community radio stations to propagate the formula and start an anti-NPR that really is a national treasure.
	If a ham can broadcast around the world from his car, how hard could an LPFM station be?
	Some general karma would be great.
	Yeah, I'll tell you, technically that just ain't going to happen.
	The LPFM is not going to be broadcasting around the world, but I think it's a good idea.
	No, it's very short.
	Yeah, I'll look into it.
	You've got...
	Karma.
	I'm definitely gonna look into Definitely going to look into the new low-power FM licenses.
	It's a great idea.
	Yeah, I know.
	LP-FM broadcast is probably like a couple square miles, maybe, if you're up high enough.
	The antenna is up high enough.
	It's very low-power.
	It's line of sight, no skip.
	Yeah, it's a very small area.
	The LP-FM is what's used in, like, if you go to some museum sometimes, they'll actually have a broadcasting station.
	And that's usually AM. Or if you drive by...
	This house has five bedrooms, two baths, two and a half bathrooms.
	Have you ever heard those?
	The real estate radio?
	No, I've never, but that's funny.
	Oh, you've never heard that?
	Oh, it was really big in Jersey for a while.
	Really?
	Yeah, yeah, and it was really corny.
	So you set up an LPFM outside your house that you were selling?
	It's not even LPFM. It's almost like a baby monitor, and you have to literally be standing...
	A baby monitor on AM. Yeah, and be like...
	This house has a really nice pool in the backyard.
	We have some great yard work that's being done.
	Please inquire at Joe's Real Estate.
	That's kind of what it sounded like.
	About as legible as it is.
	Ryan Burgett, or Burgett, one of the two, in Bethel, Washington, Bothell.
	20419.
	Rodney Gravenstein here.
	Donating high as a kite on this suspicious day.
	I guess he wants to be referred to as Rodney Gravenstein.
	You should be high as a kite.
	Oh, man.
	Donating high as a kite on this auspicious day.
	With this amount, I shall have attained one of the highest honors in this Gitmo nation in an impressive extended knighthood for use by the maidenhoods of the land.
	It should also put me at the 1120.13 and guarantees me a ring.
	Hot damn thanks to bong hits, bourbon, and the best podcast in the universe.
	I'm well on my way to greatness since we are such animals.
	So think the powers that be.
	Thank the powers that be.
	We must be managed.
	May this newly minted night receive a Lone Wolf.
	Hey, Citizen, two to the head.
	Best of luck to all NA-ers, my family, and friends.
	You rock!
	All right.
	By the way, Bong Hitson Bourbon is on the list now.
	Bong Hitson Bourbon.
	That's a good one.
	All right.
	What does he want here?
	Lone Wolf.
	Hey, Citizen, two to the head.
	We got that.
	Hey, Citizen.
	Ha ha ha ha.
	Okay, Tyler Fox in Flagstaff, Arizona is another associate executive producer, $201.30.
	Here's some money I should be sending to the IRS, but they gave me 120 days to pay off my 211 tax debt, 2011.
	I figure it's better spent helping you to kick off the new year in some old-fashioned jingle-less karma, please, for all of us self-employed slaves paying down tax debt and dodging AMT this year.
	Here's a quick TSA goon story.
	A listener should hear if you don't mind reading it all.
	My friend Clint flew to Salt Lake City and checked his handgun in a lock case, strictly following the TSA website guidelines.
	Phoenix TSA okayed the case when he flew to Utah a week ago.
	Last night during his return, a TSA goon in Utah told him the case was unacceptable and would not allow him to check it.
	They forced him to buy an overpriced low-quality case from JetBlue after harassing him as much as possible for wanting to exercise his right to travel with his legally possessed firearm.
	After buying the case, he went back to the offending TSA goon's ID number, got the ID number, so he could file a formal complaint.
	The goon took off when he saw Clint coming.
	He took off?
	Oh no!
	He's going to get my badge!
	I can just see those bloated lesbians running away.
	Anyway, he says, here's a fun freedom fact.
	Arizona concealed carry permits are honored by 37 other states and Arizona driver's licenses.
	Don't have to be renewed until you turn 65.
	Happy New Year and good luck to Adam and Mickey in the safe return to Tejas.
	And he wanted a simple karma, so we'll give him that.
	Thank you.
	You've got karma.
	Good story.
	I like that.
	I like stories like that.
	It's funny.
	No, it's a good story.
	I enjoy it.
	That's a good story.
	Good TSA stories.
	Two more associate executive producers.
	Matt Astberry in Wauwatosa.
	Wauwatosa!
	Wisconsin.
	Hello, Adelaide and Joanne.
	Please accept my humble donation to facilitate the creation of the best podcasts in all universes.
	That says a lot.
	I'm more worried about my six-month-old human resource not having received no agenda karma than I am about him not being baptized.
	Please give me a double shot of karma, one for my sweet little guy and one for me to assist with the various conflagrations.
	Do you want to throw in one hot milf for my one hot milf?
	Well, I wouldn't say no.
	Thanks again for being there for me when CNN, Fox, ABC, and the rest have left me for dead.
	And for some reason, I can't find...
	Where's the...
	Oh, here it is.
	Got it.
	Was it One Hot Milk Baby Karma?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, okay.
	That's One Hot Milk Baby.
	There you go.
	Hello, baby.
	You've got karma.
	And finally, James Herka in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
	$200.
	Please credit this as James Herka.
	You have to write this.
	Well, that's what we got.
	Sydney, New South Wales.
	Note, Happy New Year, gentlemen.
	The donation is for me to complete my knighthood just before the end of the year.
	And he also has a birthday thing.
	We'll put him on the list.
	And that concludes our list.
	Our broadcast day.
	Pretty much.
	Our producers and the associate executive producers for No Agenda 475 want to remind people that we do this show twice a week and we need your help for the upcoming Sunday show, which is usually the numbers don't come in as well as they do for Thursday.
	And we want to get this year off to a good start so we can do more.
	Pay double rent.
	Pay double rent.
	Poor Adam has to pay double rent.
	It's double rent.
	That's right.
	That's right.
	Well, thank you very much.
	Let me give you the address one more time, just in case you didn't know.
	And of course, we always will accept a good helping of mouth-hitting.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	You.
	Water. Order.
	Hey, citizen.
	Chefs.
	Chefs.
	There you go.
	You know, I received quite a bit of email about the AEDs that I brought up on the previous Of course, you're thinking, what the hell is an AED? That is the Automated External Defibrillator.
	Oh, right.
	Yeah, you talked about that in the last show.
	They're showing up.
	They're buying them for everyone.
	Well, what I talked about is that there's a bill that has been introduced by Representative Laura Richardson of California to provide a grant for AEDs, Automated External Defibrillators, Defibra Heart Starters, to be put into all schools everywhere.
	I got a lot of emails from people, people saying, hey man, this is a really good idea!
	We need this!
	But no one actually had an example of someone surviving because of some quick thinking and someone grabbing one of these devices and restarting somebody's heart.
	A lot of people said, oh, these things are really good, they're really smart.
	You grab it off the wall.
	It starts talking to you so you don't need any training.
	It tells you what to do.
	You must put paddles on bare chest.
	And then it determines the voltage.
	So these things are amazing.
	They cost about a thousand bucks each.
	A thousand bucks, which most people who wrote me call very affordable.
	A lot of these people were doctors.
	We have a large contingent of medical professionals who listen to the show.
	And I'm like, so what really are we doing here?
	Because to me, I'm thinking, if we can do this, why don't we have EpiPens at every school?
	In case a kid has, whoa, he's got a peanut allergy and he's dying, get an EpiPen.
	And by the way, lots of people have EpiPens in schools, so don't email me.
	Just don't email me at all, thank you very much.
	But do we really need a government-sponsored grant to have EpiPens in all the schools?
	And it turns out that this Congresswoman Laura Richardson is, of course, a shill for the medical devices industry.
	I wouldn't like just to point that out, just to get my little gram of satisfaction here.
	She also introduced the repeals excise tax on medical devices.
	She's actually a Democrat, by the way.
	She's actually against the excise tax on medical devices, which...
	It went into effect as of January 1st.
	She's trying to repeal that for specific medical devices, which would include, oh, I don't know, defibrillators.
	It's like a 2.3% tax.
	She also has introduced the Breath of Fresh Air Act to provide elementary and secondary schools with nebulizers.
	Oh, yeah, of course.
	If you get an asthma attack, there's going to be a whole wall full of things.
	John, do you need a nebulizer?
	Luckily, the nebulizer was right here in your office.
	I mean, there has to be a point where people do have to fall off the edge of the earth.
	People do have to die.
	We can't have a device for every single thing in every single public place.
	I look in the statistics.
	There's about 280,000 heart attacks a year in the United States.
	Not all of those are people that die.
	And by the way, these numbers are also all over the map.
	You know, you read other places where you say 300,000 people need a defibrillator.
	It doesn't mean that they would have died without it.
	But you know how many AEDs are deployed nationwide already?
	There's more than a million and a half of these things hanging everywhere, like theaters.
	And it's law.
	It is law that these things have to be hanging up.
	And I'm sorry.
	How many people do you think even know where they are?
	Well, now we do have the international green symbol for the defibrillator, which has been internationally recognized as the symbol.
	It's a green heart with a plus.
	You have not seen this, have you?
	Yeah.
	And of course, Laura Richardson's campaign finance reports, according to Open Secrets, her top donors are all from the medical device and pharmaceutical industry.
	Actually, you look at who's donating to her campaign, the whole thing is just funny.
	Let's give you a couple names.
	So what you're suggesting is there's corruption involved.
	Yeah, there's gambling going on, I'm sure.
	So I'm looking at this symbol.
	You know what it looks like to me, unfortunately?
	It looks like a caution sign.
	It looks like, don't come near this thing because there's electricity and it will kill you.
	Doesn't it?
	Yeah, it does.
	So here's who's donated to her campaign.
	I just wanted to give you a rundown of the names.
	Cordoba Corporation, Carpenters and Joiners Inc., Landmark Medical Management, New Democrat Coalition, Swift Ships, Teamsters Union, AT&T, Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, American Association for Justice, Mueller-Marsk, Boeing Corporation, All these corporations giving all these money to all these Congress men and women.
	It's bogative.
	And then they come up with these things.
	Like, oh, we have to have asthma pump on the wall.
	What else?
	We have to have asthma pump.
	I mean, there has to be an end to stuff that we are forced by law to put into public places in case someone has an attack.
	I think there is just a limit.
	Or am I now sounding like, oh wait, a Republican.
	That's what I'll be called next.
	But isn't that just a little crazy?
	Well, since this stuff never gets used, it's just a waste of money.
	Well, that's what I think it is.
	But everyone's like, oh, this is fantastic.
	We should have these.
	It's life-saving.
	At a point, at a certain point, how much life-saving...
	I mean, you're paying for it.
	For some fat, overweight schlub who gets a heart attack, I'm sorry.
	Hey, hold on a second.
	Yes?
	Play the clip.
	Just, by the way, this is a huge controversial...
	...issue in Europe, especially in the UK, because the UK just came up with a thing saying, anyone's overweight, we're going to pull you out of the healthcare system.
	Now, being overweight could actually help you live longer.
	That's at least according to a controversial new study into the effects of obesity.
	Researchers in the United States say carrying a few extra pounds might actually reduce your risk of an early death.
	Sky's Health correspondent Thomas More explains.
	A new year and a new determination to get fit and lose weight, but those extra pounds from Christmas indulgence could in fact be a lifesaver.
	New research shows people who are a little overweight are less likely to die prematurely than those who stay slim, contradicting the long-standing advice of most doctors.
	It's good to have a little bit of body fat.
	I don't think you should be trying to stay at a very low weight.
	But I think everything else is in moderation.
	That has to be utter ****.
	Excuse my French.
	Where do I get this stuff from?
	You don't believe me at all?
	No.
	I think he said fudge.
	So, in fact, and you play part two of the clip there, it's an interesting, they actually, this is pretty well documented.
	American researchers pooled the results from 97 studies involving nearly 3 million people with a range of body weights.
	The findings were consistent.
	Sometimes that surprises people, but they really should not be too surprised, because in our categories of these 97 studies, 80% of them showed that there was lower mortality in overweight than in normal weight people.
	So overweight by how much?
	Because obviously obesity.
	No, it's not morbidly obese.
	Right.
	Not like Michael Moore, but I mean, how overweight?
	But how overweight?
	Like, you're probably a little overweight for what you should be.
	What?
	Come on, be honest.
	Be honest.
	Does my butt look big?
	Is that what you're telling me?
	No, your butt does not look big at all, honey.
	It looks tight and sexy.
	I would say the thing is like 10 or 15%.
	In other words, you're not buffed, essentially.
	Right, right, right.
	One of these is, you know what, you could lose a little weight, that kind of thing.
	Not like, holy crap, are you fat!
	That's very scientific of you, Jebediah.
	They actually brought that up in the report, and you have a 29% higher chance of dropping dead if you're really big.
	But no, they're talking about 10, 15, 20% overweight.
	Can I make a prediction, something for the book?
	You have the book?
	Okay, I've got the book.
	I make a prediction that we will have, in public spaces, just in case of an emergency, because you know how incredibly dangerous it could be to the young human resource, we will have emergency diaper dispensers.
	Put it in the book.
	Put it in the book.
	You'd laugh at me.
	You'd laugh at me.
	You must have seen one already.
	No, but some idiot is going to get paid.
	By the way, it's a big scam, these diapers.
	It's very expensive.
	Anyone who has kids know this.
	And, of course, diapers are crap.
	But the whole thing is bad.
	But you will have emergency diaper dispensers.
	You watch.
	That's how far it goes.
	That's a good idea.
	I think it's a better idea than the defibrillator.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	Hey, we're going to have a rerun.
	Rerun.
	Uh-oh.
	What's this?
	You're talking about the deja vu thing.
	You're bitching about how, oh, God, you know, these things keep...
	We get sick of the same story over and over.
	What do you have?
	Falklands.
	Okay, here we go.
	Argentina's president's written an open letter to David Cameron demanding Britain hand over at the Falkland Islands.
	Tom Parmenter is here with the details.
	And, Tom, what exactly is in this letter?
	This is Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner at it again you might say because we've heard this kind of thing before from her but again she's putting the point directly to David Cameron this time in the form of an open letter that is printed in several of the newspapers this morning saying that we want the Falklands back and she's using today the 180th anniversary of We're good to
	to hear again because the referendum that's coming up on the islands in March and so this issue is going to be very thorny for some months and it goes back quite a while because you may remember at the G20 meeting in Mexico last year she thrust a letter right into David Cameron's face as he was walking between meetings.
	Interesting.
	Well, you know, 180 years ago, I mean, this is like a pretty, I mean, this is like, why isn't the Mexicans, the Mexico, want California back?
	It's less time lost than that.
	What do you mean?
	They don't want that piece of crap.
	No, they don't want it.
	No, the place is broke.
	They don't want that.
	Well, they don't now, but a few years ago they did.
	But this is interesting because Argentina was in the news here as well.
	And I wonder if there's a correlation.
	You know, our crown, Princess Maxima, who will be queen when the prince known as Prince Pils, which is Dutch for beer, when he becomes king, when the queen abdicates.
	And some are saying it could be this year, 2013.
	So she is from Argentina.
	And she is Maxima Zoraneta.
	And if you look up Zoraneta, if you can spell it, I'll give you 10 cents.
	Her dad is once again being accused of disappearing people, up to 30,000.
	Of course, the Argentinian government, they disappeared a lot of people.
	And this was before Miss Fernandez, but maybe Mr.
	Fernandez was a part of it.
	But all of a sudden, they bring his name up again, and he's being accused of disappearing people in Argentina.
	I wonder if there's some kind of thing going on where it's like, hey, we want those islands back.
	And then Cameron says, oh, yeah, we're going to start pressuring all your people.
	You know what I mean?
	There could be something going on there.
	Could be.
	Something's amiss.
	The Falklanders, by the way, they do vote on this occasionally, and they've always wanted to stay British.
	Oh, yeah.
	Chris Christie's running for president.
	Yeah.
	I mean, he hasn't said that.
	No, but it's pretty obvious.
	Did you see this complaint of his?
	Well, yeah, of course, that there's no Sandy vote for the $60 billion of bull crap.
	Yeah, yeah, so I have the...
	I have the clip.
	It's quite funny, but what he's doing is he's distancing himself from the current Republican club.
	Right.
	So he's still a Republican, but he's finding a way to push himself away from these, essentially a bunch of boneheads.
	You know, the good news is, here's the good news.
	This guy's going to live a long, long time.
	Staying in the U.S., President Barack Obama has urged Republicans in the House of Representatives to vote on a bill aimed at delivering federal aid for states affected by Superstorm Sandy.
	Particular anger was directed toward...
	I just need to point out that, in case you didn't know, it's called Superstorm Sandy...
	Because if it were a hurricane, different insurance comes into play.
	So a lot of people didn't get a proper insurance payout because it was not classified as an actual hurricane.
	That's why you hear the media consistently calling it Superstorm Sandy.
	House Speaker John Boehner for cancelling the expected vote.
	New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, a Republican, was among those sharply criticizing Boehner before the Speaker changed course.
	There's only one group to blame for the continued suffering of these innocent victims, the House majority and their speaker, John Boehner.
	This is not a Republican or Democratic issue.
	National disasters happen in red states and blue states, in states with Democratic governors and Republican governors.
	We respond to innocent victims of natural disasters, not as Republicans or Democrats, but as Americans.
	Or at least we did, until last night.
	Last night, politics was placed before our oath to serve our citizens.
	For me, it was disappointing and disgusting to watch.
	Last night, the House of Representatives failed that most basic test of public service, and they did so with callous indifference to the suffering of the people of my state.
	If I can just...
	Do you have something you want to say about this?
	No, go ahead.
	Well, of course, I read the bailout package, the $60 billion package.
	This is not for citizens.
	This is for FEMA. This is for cop cars, new Department of Homeland Security stuff.
	And, yeah, there will be loans made available, but this isn't really for...
	It's not like...
	The way you hear him speak and Peter King was crying in the house and everyone was crying over this package.
	There's so much bullcrap money being thrown into that.
	There's money for West Virginia in there.
	This is...
	It's really...
	It should be discussed.
	It should be debated.
	It shouldn't be ran through.
	And it's not like that money is going to go to the actual citizens.
	It's not like, oh, well, I'm so happy I'm helping.
	It's my people, too, in New Jersey, you know?
	But it's not like this money is really going directly to help these people.
	It's just not.
	It's not.
	It should be debated.
	And Christie's...
	The New Jerseyans I know really hated Christie before Sandy.
	They really, really despised the guy.
	And I don't forget things easily.
	So this got thrown into his lap and then...
	We love a good hero story.
	But no, I'm just going to say this is bullcrap.
	That Sandy package, $60 billion, is filled with all kinds of stuff that just doesn't belong there.
	And I think no one should get anything and you should see what your government is actually doing because they don't give a crap about you.
	Just don't give a fudge at all.
	A single fudge.
	All right.
	Well, and I have...
	That's my opinion.
	That's my opinion.
	I could continue with the Clip of the Day.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	Did I say that?
	I didn't mean to say that.
	I don't call Clip of the Day.
	Wait a minute.
	Do you have something you think is a candidate?
	Why, do you have something?
	I got plenty, but I'm holding back.
	I'm holding back on this.
	I'll be like, you know, I'll just give you this one and see if you can top it.
	Okay.
	It's a children's TV cartoon series called Liberty's Kids.
	And the clip was shown on the soup.
	It's very obscure, but it's out there.
	It's floating around.
	I'd love to get the original series because I'm sure there's more gems like this.
	There's nothing seditious about an intelligent woman wanting to keep well informed.
	That's for Black Dick to decide.
	Boson, pass the tow line.
	Black Dick?
	That's what the sailors call Admiral Howe.
	Give us Black Dick and we fear nothing.
	But why do they call him Black Dick?
	Perhaps he has a dark temperament.
	Yeah, you got it.
	There's nothing to fear when Black Dick is around.
	Thank you for a juvenile laugh.
	It's always nice.
	Alright, I'm not going to top that, but I do have some Bogut of PR that I'd like to introduce.
	We love Bogut of PR. And the first is an actual Bogut of PR move, and the second is an ad for a drug which I'm dying to try out.
	So Bogut of PR first.
	Yeah, hit it.
	In Aurora, Colorado, a PR move gone wrong.
	Very wrong.
	The movie theater, where 12 people were shot to death last summer, has offered families of the victims an invitation to attend its grand reopening.
	The families have declined, calling it a disgusting offer.
	I would say, mission accomplished!
	How can he say it's a PR move gone horribly wrong?
	It's like, I know one thing.
	Theater's back open.
	Wow.
	Right?
	Yeah, who was that?
	Where did you get that clip?
	It sounded like Man's Bridge from Canada.
	No, I don't think so.
	No, I think it was CNN. CNN, yeah, CNN. And here is a new sleeping drug.
	Which I'm dying to try out.
	Intermezzo.
	And I think it has some highly desirable side effects.
	Intermezzo?
	Like the singing?
	Yeah, intermezzo.
	Going to sleep may be easy, but when you wake up in the middle of the night, it can be frustrating.
	It's hard to turn off and go back to sleep.
	Intermedso is the first and only prescription sleep aid approved for use as needed in the middle of the night when you can't get back to sleep.
	It's an effective sleep medicine you don't take before bedtime.
	Take it in bed only when you need it and have at least four hours left for sleep.
	Do not take intermezzo if you have had an allergic reaction to drugs containing Zolpidem, such as Ambien.
	Allergic reactions such as shortness of breath or swelling of your tongue or throat may occur and may be fatal.
	You missed!
	Don't talk over it!
	Don't talk over it!
	You're missing the best part!
	...of your tongue or throat may occur and may be fatal.
	Okay!
	You understand?
	Intermezzo should not be taken if you have taken another sleep medicine at bedtime or in the middle of the night or drank alcohol that day.
	Do not drive or operate machinery until at least four hours after taking Intermezzo when you're fully awake.
	Driving, eating or engaging in other activities while not fully awake without remembering the event the next day have been reported.
	Abnormal behaviors may include aggressiveness, agitation, hallucinations or confusion.
	Alcohol or taking other medicines that make you sleepy may increase these risks.
	In depressed patients, worsening of depression, including risk of suicide, may occur.
	Intermezzo, like most sleep medicines, has some risk of dependency.
	Common side effects are headache, nausea, and fatigue.
	So if you suffer from middle-of-the-night insomnia, ask your doctor about Intermezzo and return to sleep again.
	I love that your tongue may swell up and you might die.
	And you may not know that you were eating or walking around.
	So this is essentially a pill that works for four hours.
	Yeah.
	And it's intermezzo, it's called that, because it's for in the middle of the night.
	So you wake up at four in the morning, and you go, oh my god, it's four in the morning.
	Why am I awake?
	And I'm wide awake.
	Let me go take a pill.
	Instead of saying, wow, I'm up at four in the morning, I could do some work again.
	I could be productive.
	Exactly.
	I could be productive.
	Yeah.
	By the way, Bong Hits and Bourbon also works.
	I'm reliably informed.
	And I think that you should try that first.
	The best podcast in the universe in no way endorses Intermezzo as an actual aid to be used for sleeping.
	Yeah, take some warm milk will put you out.
	Or read a boring book.
	When I wake up in the middle of the night, I get up and I do something for an hour or two.
	And then I'm tired again.
	I'll go back to bed.
	Everyone should do that.
	You do that or you don't do that anymore?
	No, I do that.
	That's a logical thing to do.
	If you wake up and you're awake.
	In other words, you can't go back.
	You should fall asleep within seven minutes.
	So if you get up and you say, well, maybe you should go back to sleep, and then you're still awake.
	It doesn't happen that often, but it does.
	You get up and do something.
	Yeah, do something productive.
	Yeah.
	Write an essay.
	Yeah, write an essay.
	I've done that.
	Hey, good news, John.
	Very, very good news.
	DigiCell, the telecommunications giant, and Marriott International recently broke ground on a $45 million hotel in...
	Haiti.
	Port-au-Prince, Haiti!
	Absolutely!
	Opening up in 2015, that's right, the 175-room hotel is a milestone for both companies.
	It's Marriott's first in Haiti and Digicel's first foray into tourism.
	And I want to point out, Digicel, you may remember, received a lot of support and, what is that, um, uh, oh yeah, money...
	To put in place a micropayments, cell phone payment system in Haiti.
	They own the, basically they own telecommunications in Haiti.
	So they took this money, and you can say it wasn't that money or some other money, it's bullcrap.
	And they said, oh, we have all this money, and there's a couple hundred thousand people who are pooping their guts out because of cholera, living in tents, and eating dirt cakes, but we'll just make sure that you don't see that from our new hotel that we're going to build.
	It's just disgusting to me.
	This is in the New York Times, who reports this with the headline...
	Business travelers in Haiti will have a new Marriott because there's so much business to do in Haiti.
	Well, there is, of course, we have new factories where we put our slaves to work to build cheap garments.
	Of course, there's the gold and mining industry as all of that was quickly arranged with the brand new president who used to be a musician, Martelli.
	Magic, sweet Mickey Martelli, the musician, after they kicked the other musician out because his britches became too big for him.
	And then, to top it off, here's an amazing story.
	Bill Clinton and George W. Bush are closing, actually they have now closed, their Haiti fund.
	That's right.
	Meg Galloway Pierce, vice president of marketing and communications of the fund, told the Associated Press that the Clinton-Bush-Haiti Fund will terminate, it did, December 31st because it will have spent all of the money it raised from business organizations and individuals.
	So how much money do you think they raised that they spent?
	All this money!
	All the money from the Clinton-Bush Haiti Fund.
	By the way, this is the...
	We just need cash.
	I know a lot of people want to send blankets or water.
	Just send your cash.
	How much money do you think they raised and spent all of it, John?
	How much?
	How much?
	I have no idea.
	Well, it should be like three billion dollars.
	$54.4 million.
	What?
	Yeah.
	That's it.
	Apparently, that whole pitch, that don't send blankets or water, just send your cash, all of the telethons, everything that all went to the Clinton-Bush-Haiti fund, was $54.4 million.
	I thought they collected like $3 billion.
	No, no, no.
	I'm sorry.
	No, that is not correct.
	$54.4 million.
	I can't even talk about it anymore.
	This really turns my stomach.
	And every single time we do another, we'll have another benefit for some bull crap to make you feel good.
	Not you, probably, John.
	But other people.
	I'll text my $10.
	And these elites, they steal it.
	That's amazing.
	They love stealing money.
	I think the Netherlands alone gave more than $54 million.
	It's crazy.
	And DigiCell, recipient of some of these funds, apparently not just from Clinton Bush Foundation, they're building a $45 million hotel.
	In fact, it's almost a one-for-one.
	Just boggles my mind.
	Fudge.
	Fudge, I tell you.
	How do you spell DigiCell?
	D-I-G-I-C-E-L-L. That's the way I'd spell it.
	That's not the way you spell it?
	No, I said that's the way I'd spell it.
	Oh, okay.
	Because I can give you the URL if you want.
	I just have to open it.
	I was actually wondering if they're publicly traded.
	DigiCell?
	Hold on a second.
	I've got to reopen my thing here.
	DigiCell.
	Is it all one word?
	Let me just see.
	It is...
	Oh, it's one L. D-I-G-I-C-E-L. DigiCell.
	One word.
	Did you sell Jamaica?
	They're in the Caribbean, I guess.
	Yeah.
	He's probably traded in some weird stock exchange.
	I just wonder who's on the board.
	Oh, that's a very good point.
	Well, can you find out?
	Any luck on that?
	Yeah, you can find out if I can get their symbol.
	Usually, unless it's trading in the summer.
	I think their symbol is...
	The Jamaican stock market.
	I'm not going to get very far.
	I think their symbol is an all-seeing eye with 666.
	Is that possible?
	Antigua and Barbuda.
	Hold on.
	They are the country's largest employer.
	Hold on.
	I got a link here.
	New York City.
	The Cayman Islands.
	That's where I bet you they are.
	Ten bucks, their headquarters are in the Caymans.
	It says, Dennis O'Brien, is he the, after two years, I'm reading this here now, impatient buyer's pretends, who is, okay, it's Dennis O'Brien, an impatient Irish billionaire who tends to make his points with a few choice an impatient Irish billionaire who tends to make his points with a few choice Haitian brownies, is determined to change all that.
	In a recent Sunday morning, his vast telecommunications company, Digicel, it might be Irish.
	Could be.
	Oh, you're not looking?
	You've given up?
	I'm looking now.
	I'm looking.
	I'm on the Wikipedia page for Dennis O'Brien.
	The guy looks like a piece of work.
	He would chew you out.
	Yeah, he does.
	What are you looking me up for?
	Get off my Wiki page!
	Got an MBA from Boston College.
	That's pretty funny.
	Right.
	Okay.
	While you're looking that up...
	We'll look that up later.
	While you're looking that up, let me do a little...
	I just want to remind everybody that I am still maintaining killlist.curry.com.
	We've had quite a few entries in the past week or two, and another one added today.
	Now, reports from northwest Pakistan say that a militant commander has been killed in a U.S. drone strike.
	Pakistani officials told the BBC that Mullah Nazir and at least five other militants were killed in the missile attack in South Waziristan.
	Do you notice the use of the word militant seems to have entered the vernacular?
	No longer is it just terrorists.
	No longer is it enemy combatants.
	No longer is it Taliban, although that does come up later, I think.
	Militant seems to be.
	I mean, is a militant actually an enemy of ours?
	What is the definition of militant?
	Militant just means somebody that's agitated.
	Is that the actual...
	Shaking their fist.
	Put it down, John.
	Put it down.
	Let me just...
	Militant.
	Let me see what the definition is of militant.
	So if you're shaking your fist, you can now get a drone.
	Let me see.
	Militant.
	And I have...
	Adjective?
	No, we want the noun.
	A person who is active in this way.
	What does that mean?
	As a militant?
	Oh, in this way would be aggressive in support of a political or social cause, typically favoring extreme violent or confrontational methods.
	Oh, okay.
	That sounds right.
	Okay, let's continue.
	Near the Afghan border.
	Well, more now from our Islamabad correspondent Ali Makbul, who's been explaining how well-known Mullah Nazir is.
	He's one of the key figures within the Taliban in northwest Pakistan.
	He's a man who controlled a large part of Southwest Are you pleased?
	I've never heard of the guy.
	But the Americans are very pleased.
	Well, maybe an American is.
	I don't know who that might be.
	He said the Americans.
	I just want to make sure that you're pleased.
	Well, I'm not...
	I don't know any...
	No, I'm not pleased.
	The problem in Afghanistan is that they're not just fighting the Taliban there, but then those militants often escape across the border into Pakistan, and Mullah Nazir was somebody who not only provided safe haven within South Uziristan, but also provided fighters and material support for the insurgency across the border in Afghanistan.
	Alright, so let me just explain this one more time because people who listen to the best podcast in the universe know that you had never heard the word Waziristan ever before in your life until you heard it on this show.
	And the reason why is the pipeline, the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India pipeline is supposed to go through Waziristan.
	And these guys, you know, they should have paid them off, but I guess we're too cheap.
	And so they're saying, hey, get away from me with your pipeline.
	And everyone who's in the way, if you've got a village, you're in the way of the pipeline, you're going to get droned.
	And that's what's going on here.
	They're no threat to the American security anywhere.
	That's for sure.
	We're invading on their...
	The BBC had a whole entire documentary, and no one asked the central question, which is, what danger are these people?
	What danger are they?
	Are they plotting in their yurt?
	No!
	They're protecting their turf or they're angry about being infringed upon and it's all about this stupid pipeline.
	Once in a while we just have to stop and say, hold on a second, what is going on?
	Either that or we're in the middle of our game show.
	Win, lose, or drone!
	We really need to get that one going.
	It's better than the postcode lottery.
	Well, the postcode lottery.
	I do have another book.
	What?
	Nothing.
	Just the postcode lottery.
	I thought you were groaning at me.
	There's a new Tom Cruise movie coming out in 2013 called Oblivion.
	Here's a little bit of the trailer.
	Text me.
	166, back online.
	60 years ago, Earth was attacked.
	We won the war, but they destroyed half the planet.
	Everyone's been evacuated.
	Nothing human remains.
	We're here for drone repair.
	With a mop-up crew.
	Drone repair!
	Drone repair!
	Hello!
	Hey, Oban, are you in there?
	Yeah, what's up?
	Drone repair, been called.
	Hey, I didn't call drone repair.
	No, the drone called us.
	Awesome.
	Drone repair.
	All right, let's see what we got.
	Oddball news from the United States.
	You had your good view of the bill that passed and you had some analysis.
	On Sky News, they took a different tact and they just found some oddball laws to ridicule the Americans from the British side.
	A couple of things are kind of interesting.
	Stuff people should know.
	The fiscal cliff, and we're talking about the states, what's going on there.
	But other things came in, and, you know, there's 400 other local and state measures have come in.
	Some cracking ones.
	If you go to Kansas, you know, in Wellington, you're not allowed to own more than four cats.
	And this is a law that's come in, and nobody's heard about this, because obviously we were concentrating on the fiscal cliff.
	And Kentucky, you're not allowed to release feral hogs.
	You know, the number of stories that sort of get missed, but these are laws that are being given as much attention in the local area.
	And I don't know if you spotted the bottom of that, but actually, if you go to Illinois, you're not allowed to have shark fin soup.
	Yeah.
	Fascinating.
	Yeah, make fun of the Americans.
	Cracking.
	I think that's another word you never hear on the shows they give to us.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, I mean, they wouldn't report that the President signed the National Defense Authorization Act 2013, would you?
	I mean, you wouldn't hear that, where the amendment to protect Americans was vitiated.
	And that would be a good word for the Brits.
	Yeah, instead of cracking.
	Yeah, cracking.
	Yeah, he vitiated that cracking good amendment.
	No, there's nothing like that.
	You don't want that kind of thing.
	No, there's not.
	Meanwhile, this is actually...
	You kind of went past me.
	This is the last bit of really serious dronage stuff I've got to do.
	So there was a lawsuit.
	The ACLU and a whole bunch of A journalist sued the government over not releasing certain documents under the Freedom of Information Act regarding the legality of droning American citizens.
	Okay?
	So you with me so far?
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	So the lawsuit essentially said that.
	It's like, you know, it said, hey, we sent in all these Freedom of Information Act requests, requesting documentation that shows how you can legally drone people in other countries that we have not declared war upon, especially if some of those people might be American citizens.
	And...
	So the judge came back, and I have the judgment here, and it says, I'll just read the pertinent piece here.
	Okay.
	This court is constrained by law, and under the law, I can only conclude that the government has not violated Freedom of Information Act by refusing to turn over the documents sought in the Freedom of Information Act requests, and so cannot be compelled by this court of law to explain in detail the reasons why its actions do not violate the Constitution and laws of the United States,
	because, that's got to go back here, The executive branch, under the Constitution and laws of the United States, indeed has the power to not disclose this.
	And then the judge goes on to say, the Alice in Wonderland nature of this pronouncement is not lost on me, but after careful and extensive consideration, I find myself stuck in a paradoxical situation in which I find myself stuck in a paradoxical situation in which I cannot solve a problem because of contradictory constraint and rules, a veritable catch-22.
	I can find no way around the thicket of laws and precedents that effectively allow the executive branch of our government to proclaim as perfectly lawful certain actions that seem on their face incompatible with our Constitution and laws while keeping the reasons for their conclusion a secret.
	How about them apples?
	Wow, that's a good find.
	If there was a clip, that would be clip of the day.
	Doesn't that basically mean like, okay, we can kill you, and it's legal, but we can't show you how it's legal?
	Yeah, pretty much.
	I mean, is there any way to...
	I mean, can this go to the Supreme Court?
	Is there any way around the conundrum?
	Yeah, if you get killed, you can sue the government and take it to the Supreme Court.
	Unfortunately, you're dead.
	But if they drone you to death, I can sue on your behalf.
	Maybe, maybe not.
	They could have some real interesting things regarding standing, which is your ability to sue on somebody else's behalf or concerning somebody else.
	Well, I could help Mimi and the kids do it and I could report on it.
	Maybe, but they'd probably get droned in the meantime.
	I would say there's not a – I don't know.
	I don't know how it could be done.
	I mean they've been suing.
	There's a number of the ACLU and a bunch of other guys are suing over this.
	Wrongful death suit would be the way to go it seems to me.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And the thing that really bums me out is, you know, this is sealed.
	The documentation is under seal.
	And, of course, it will one day be declassified when we actually are dead.
	That's the thing that bugs me is we'll never get to see this.
	Because, I mean, these things are sealed for, what, 50 years, 75 years?
	I mean, they're sealed forever.
	And, of course, it will be declassified eventually.
	And somewhere in the future, some schmucks on a podcast and they go...
	Oh, man!
	Can you believe this crap?
	Read what they had to go through, stupid slaves!
	Don't you think?
	Yeah, absolutely.
	I'm bummed about it.
	Well, that brings up the clip I have here, which, yeah, you could be bummed about it.
	The 60,000, you know, now the numbers are coming out of how many people are dead in Syria.
	Yeah, whatever they say, sure.
	Whatever they say, but here's what I have to take on this.
	Over 60,000 people have been killed since Syria's uprising began in March 2011.
	That's according to an independent report by the UN. A study commissioned by UN Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillai took data from sources including the government and opposition groups.
	The numbers have been steadily increasing as the conflict drags on.
	All right, your take.
	So I'm thinking, you know, if we had gotten more involved with some no-fly zones, we could have jacked that number way up.
	I'm going to show myself a little by donating to No Agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh, yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, on No Agenda.
	More Dead Syrians.
	In the morning.
	Woo!
	Darling, could I have a Jameson?
	Love?
	Here comes Mr.
	Jameson now.
	Harvey Lee, we want to thank in Federal Way, Washington for $120.13.
	He says, I could not find a note from you, Harvey.
	Too many dead people.
	I need to drink.
	There's too many dead people.
	Yeah, go drinking.
	This is show 475.
	We're thanking our producers, Alan Silver.
	It's Alan, just plain Alan in Silverdale, Washington, 8850.
	After listening to your show, I switched on the car radio to my local NPR station, KPLU 88.5.
	And the very first thing I hear was, it's not too late to support your favorite Lister-supported program.
	So in honor of that request, here's 88.50 to my favorite Lister-supported program.
	There you go!
	Perfect!
	Yay!
	And the best podcast in the universe.
	How about a You Can Take That to the Bank, Fiscal, Cliff, Parliament mumble karma for all the taxpayers.
	Happy New Year from hell.
	Hold on a second.
	Wait a minute.
	Take that to the bank.
	Wait a minute.
	Take that to the bank.
	Fiscal cliff.
	What else?
	Parliament mumble.
	Parliament mumble.
	Okay.
	Jeez, Louise.
	I wasn't ready for it.
	Okay.
	Jeez.
	Where's take it to the bank?
	bank.
	I don't know where take it to the bank is.
	You can take that to the bank.
	I don't know where it is.
	I'm sorry.
	I don't know where it is.
	Oh, here it is.
	You can take that to the bank.
	And a karma.
	There you go.
	Finally.
	Got it.
	Sorry.
	You've got karma.
	It's not easy doing this stuff.
	Andrew Ott in Wahoo, Nebraska.
	It's 7897.
	Happy New Year.
	Thanks for the public service.
	Radu Purtuk.
	Parts Unknown 7692.
	Ian and Alan love this show and entertainment.
	Since I'm sending some love in exchange with every penny, wish you both and your loved ones a prosperous new year.
	William Johnson, Marietta, Georgia.
	Uh-oh.
	69!
	69, dudes!
	Hey, Jack and Alan, here's a little value for value to keep the best podcast in the universe going.
	Could I get a little don't eat me over the cliff karma for my wife's job search?
	Okay, don't eat me over the cliff.
	That means fiscal cliff, I guess.
	The scream.
	Yeah, yeah, okay.
	Well, you know, it's like you're going too fast.
	Don't eat me, Hillary Clinton!
	You've got karma.
	That's kind of a good combo.
	Yeah, Heinrich Ulbricht in Dresden, Deutschland.
	Or what's the new one?
	What was the one somebody came up with?
	Doucheland.
	I thought it was finally time to donate.
	Grandma said I should spend the money for something I like, and so be it.
	Please give a New Year karma shout to my lovely girlfriend Katja, who always complains when I turn on your voices.
	Let's see if the karma cares about that.
	Love your deconstruction, especially when it covers Europe.
	All the best from Dresden.
	It's imagination.
	Germkin something.
	Heinrich, turn off those douche nozzles.
	I do not like them.
	You've got karma.
	Come here and take off my lederhosen.
	Daryl in Green, Maine.
	6969 in the morning, John and Adam.
	Just call me Daryl from Green, Maine.
	I've been donating anonymously for a couple of years or so.
	According to the No Agenda Nation, I've been a knight for some time.
	So here's the 6969 donation to claim the knighthood for myself and keep the streak going.
	Could I get some get laid karma if it's not too much to ask for?
	And an in the morning jingle we don't hear as often as we want to.
	Oh, okay.
	Love the show.
	In the morning.
	You've got karma.
	There you go.
	Potter Greek Media.
	Sean, as a matter of fact.
	Wait, wait, wait.
	That ended our streak.
	Oh, no.
	There it goes.
	69!
	69, dude!
	Three?
	It's over now.
	It's over.
	Probably.
	Potter Geek Media.
	Sean.
	Cinnamon-son.
	New Jersey.
	It's Sean, the Taco Bell slave.
	Back to support the best podcast in the universe once again after quite a long hiatus of just getting by.
	I've been a boner for too long.
	However, my girlfriend, Kiara, has certainly loved my boners this past year.
	But I know you deserve some support for all that you have done last year.
	Thanks for the awesome news analysis, laughs, and insights.
	That's why I continue to listen.
	Can I get my favorite combo?
	The science is in, de-douching karma with the don't-eat-me Hillary.
	Is that it?
	Ready?
	Yeah.
	The science is in!
	You've been de-douched.
	Don't eat me Hillary Clinton!
	You've got karma.
	He does say that if a Taco Bell slave can donate, anyone can.
	Exactly.
	Damian, a relative, Damian Curry in Melbourne, Australia, 6666.
	Wow.
	Please thank Leo for putting me on your podcast.
	And he goes and says something nasty about Leo.
	Very nasty.
	Anyway, many thanks for the quality of your work and try to donate again as funds become available.
	I leave you with a passing observation.
	Do you think the humans here are from an alien race put on this planet to F it up?
	Well...
	Survey says...
	No, no, we just fudge it up all by ourselves.
	Yep.
	Royce Kokami in Aiea, Hawaii.
	6464.
	In the morning, Happy New Year.
	To start off the new year, I'd like to give Cody a dedouching and a shot of karma and a yay.
	Okay, it's a tough one.
	You can work on it.
	I can do it.
	For Courtney, Aaron, Portia, Kelly F, Palom, Chris H, Jason, Andrew, Cody, Mega64, Jabroni Pictures, and all the internet soldiers.
	And last but not least, the fine folks at BG Bandits.
	All of you take care, be safe, and hopefully we'll survive another year.
	Royce.
	You've been de-douched.
	You've got karma.
	Kyle Kinzel in Green Bay, Wisconsin, 5510.
	Please call out all employees who can't work their scheduled shifts as douchebags.
	Douchebags!
	Douchebags like them that forced me to have to work an eight-hour shift starting at 10 p.m.
	on New Year's Eve.
	Can I get a squirrel two to the head, Karma, to help me get through my transition at work to being a manager?
	Keep up the fantastic work.
	Squirrel!
	You've got Karma.
	We have a no-name person, Natchitoches, Louisiana.
	Natchitoches.
	Nacotish.
	Nacotish?
	N-A-T-C-I-T-O-C-H is Nacotish?
	How do you get the K in there?
	I'm just reading the note.
	Isn't that Kodish?
	That's what he says.
	Reminding you of some history in the 19th century.
	They called them railroad senators.
	Brought and paid for, literally, to vote the right way.
	So why are you surprised about Feinstein?
	She's just a 20th century surveillance senator.
	Google, Facebook, along with some nameless NSA installations, all in her backyard.
	She's protecting the base by backing these bills.
	Call me Jason Bourne of history.
	You are a hate citizen.
	He is the Jason Bourne of history.
	Jason, born of history.
	Hey, citizen, too delicious karma.
	Hey, citizen.
	It's almost too delicious to believe, my friend.
	You've got karma.
	Nailed it.
	Scott Fishman, 50-50, from Bloomfield Heights, Michigan, no comment.
	Donald, uh, Philipchuk, Philipchuk in Calgary, $50.01.
	Just sending a few bucks.
	You can just get by living the American dream.
	Here's a donation to get the year started right.
	1616 plus 3333 for shipping and handling for his Eagle of Peace and Knighthood ring.
	Didn't we have him last time?
	Yeah, we did.
	I think he got knighted last time.
	And by the way, it's not 1616.
	It's 1668 for some unknown reason.
	I think we did all this.
	No, no.
	It's a new one.
	It's a new one.
	Okay.
	Well, give a big douchebag to PayPal.
	Douchebag!
	The Canadian loony is more valuable than the U.S. buck.
	Official rate, one Canadian dollar equals a buck of one U.S. And they still ding me on the exchange.
	I was so excited to become a knight and also in the midst of a week-long cold while skiing in beautiful B.C. I forgot to ask for a de-douching.
	Please give me a hey, citizen, where you will obey de-douche karma.
	All the best for 2013.
	Okay.
	Oh, bless you, darling.
	Miss Mickey is really sick.
	Uh-oh.
	Yeah, she got like the flu.
	You okay, darling?
	D3. We're giving you karma.
	She needs to go home.
	Take some more of the Jameson.
	The Jameson.
	Yeah, the Jameson.
	By the way, we are not alcoholics.
	What do we want?
	That's how you get.
	What was his combo?
	It was, hey, citizen, you will obey?
	D-douching?
	Yeah.
	Oh my goodness.
	Hey, karma.
	Wow.
	Hey, citizen.
	You've been de-douched.
	You've got karma.
	Come on, man.
	That's four.
	I mean, it's stretching, right?
	It's harder for me to do.
	Yeah, try to keep it down to three people.
	Please, people.
	Sir Alan Bean, our knight in Oakland, who sends us...
	Just by the way, there's a number of people that do this.
	They send us...
	One guy sends a donation on PayPal that varies from eight cents...
	To $5 to sometimes $10, depending on the show.
	And Alan Bean sends $50 once a month or so, but he mentioned last Sunday's show was exceptional.
	He was right in there with the $50 donation, essentially, for last Sunday's show, which was an excellent show.
	Glad you liked it.
	Sir Borislav Marinov and Eliso Viejo is also in $50.
	He sent some karma to the young knight, Yasin, who is having surgery next week.
	And finally, two more $50.
	Wait, wait, hold on.
	I've got to send the karma.
	I've got to send the karma.
	You've got karma.
	Karma, karma, karma.
	Greg Brunsel, Sir Greg in Kenosha, Wisconsin, $50.
	An anonymous donation, it turns out, from somewhere in Texas, $50.
	And finally, Benjamin Blondin from Walton.
	I don't have that.
	I've got to stretch this out to see what it says.
	It won't stretch.
	Stretch me!
	Walton Hills.
	Walton Hills, Ohio.
	And he wants...
	I can't read his note.
	It's all garbled.
	Pretty sure I reached knighthood weeks back.
	Emailed John.
	I said, look into it.
	Sounds like the Psycho's book.
	Yeah, very funny.
	Here's $50 towards 2013's knight pin.
	And apparently he only has...
	You have $9.30, so you're not quite there yet, according to Buzzkill Jr.
	Buzzkill Jr.
	Buzzkilling.
	Yeah.
	And he said something about Atlas Shrugged.
	Oh, boy.
	Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.
	I got a gratuitous one here that I feel like something in me, in my body, told me I had to do this one.
	If you don't mind.
	Yeah.
	Doesn't happen often.
	Hey, John and Adam.
	Wicked Slave here.
	Now, Wicked Slave has been around the show for a while and has donated before.
	But this is kind of a basic plea for help.
	Wicked Slave here.
	Sorry for messaging you without donating.
	I've run into a bit of trouble and could really use some karma.
	On New Year's Day, my aunt...
	Found out I was Wiccan and kicked me out of my rump.
	Luckily, a co-worker is allowing me to crash on her couch while I recuperate.
	And I figured, is probably good policy, John, for you and I to be on the good side of the Wiccans, if you know what I mean?
	You've got karma.
	Ah!
	I think it might not be a bad idea.
	Because, you know, they tend to like...
	Yeah, they do these crazy...
	Candles around the bathtub and stick a knife in you.
	Stick a knife in you.
	So I figured we might as well...
	You want the good karma from the Wiccans.
	I felt it was okay.
	I think we can take a little...
	It's like a down payment.
	I'm pretty sure the Wiccans will support the show.
	We know Wicked Slave has in the past.
	So there you go.
	Thank you very much for kicking off 2013 with support for the best podcast in the universe.
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	It is totally value for value.
	That's the entire system.
	We're not putting anything behind a paywall like Andrew Sullivan.
	It's not a freemium model.
	Can you imagine that?
	If you had to say to people, oh, I have a freemium model.
	It just sounds so wrong.
	It's freemium.
	What is that?
	Oh, you never heard of freemium?
	I've heard it, but it's like one of those cornball venture capitalist terms.
	Exactly.
	Exactly.
	The whole idea is freemium.
	I think that's how Al Gore sold the current to Al Jazeera.
	It's like freemium.
	You show people this, and then you tell them the good stuff is somewhere else when they pay for it.
	But it never is freemium.
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	And of course, because we have tons of people who got in just in time for the new year, we have a slew of knights who are all going...
	Now, are these brand new 2013 knights, even though they completed in 2012?
	Well, we do have the one knight who got in as the first knight, which is Craig.
	Sir Craig of Manomena.
	Manomena.
	And even though Baron Pelsmacher is also in that group.
	Actually, Craig's came in right, like you said, at one minute before midnight.
	I think they'll all be 2013 knights.
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	Well, then grab that thing.
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	Are you reading that?
	You've memorized that crazy list?
	Yes.
	Well, yes.
	And I added the...
	He's a pro, ladies and gentlemen.
	Hey, everybody!
	And I added the Bob Hitson bourbon, which I... I want to mention to these nights, the 2013 nights, that they will all get rings because they all came in for the deadline.
	Yeah, they came in on time.
	Absolutely.
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	Now entering second effort show.
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	There's the theremin.
	I want one.
	Somebody's got to find me a real theremin.
	I bet you we can get a theremin for you.
	Okay.
	So I told you that we were...
	By the way, can you imagine me having a theremin here?
	It would probably interfere with this computer because of all the crazy RF coming off that thing.
	I love it.
	I wouldn't be able to use it.
	I bet you someone, one of our producers has a theremin somewhere that we can use on the show.
	I bet you.
	Oh, somebody should.
	I hope somebody has a sling box in New York.
	And if anyone can get us in touch with Maradona in Argentina, that would be appreciated.
	Well, by the way, a slingbox in Australia would be awesome.
	Okay, so I love it.
	I love it, I love it, I love it when we get to cross off another thing out of the Red Book.
	And I think that I have...
	I mean, we've had so many pieces of...
	We started off the show with diehard proof that Hillary Clinton's getting a face job.
	Now, something that I've been all over for more than a year, actually been over for much, much longer, and this is the existence of what I will generally call earthquake machinery.
	Now, many people scoff and laugh at me, but of course you can't really do that because I've shown you many times, I've linked to it, I'll link to it again in 475.nashownotes.com, the actual testimony of Secretary of Defense Cohen, who testified that many other nations were using biological weapons such as earthquake machines and we needed to have them as well.
	Do you recall this, John?
	Apparently there's some mention of earthquake machines in a UN document.
	Yes.
	But this is actual testimony in our own United States Congress.
	So we don't even need it in the UN. The UN called for that no one should have these biological weapons.
	And what Secretary of Defense Cohen said was, we probably should have our own just in case.
	So when Fukushima, when the earthquake occurred, and they've had several large earthquakes off the coast of Japan since, and many prior, but this tsunami thing was pretty crazy.
	It knocked out the reactor, which of course has prompted Japan now to stop all nuclear energy.
	Germany said stop all nuclear energy.
	Be very afraid of nuclear energy.
	It's all going to melt down.
	Your fish are radioactive.
	We're all going to die.
	Oh, the cloud is floating over.
	Well, we're not dead yet, and I submit to you that this is a cabal move against nuclear energy, and now, of course, we'll all be told to move to liquid natural gas.
	Do you remember, I guess it was a couple of months after the Fukushima event, That we were getting all these emails from people that say, oh, the thing is going to blow.
	Yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	And there's proof positive it's going to blow up.
	No agenda should be on this.
	Hundreds of thousands of people are going to die.
	Die!
	I tell you, die from radiation!
	Now, the problem I had with the earthquake, and I said it the day after it happened.
	I said, this was a planned event.
	It was a very, very, very shallow earthquake.
	Remember, it was like one kilometer, if even that, according to the seismology.
	And I had a problem with it.
	I said, this feels to me like this was set in motion.
	Remember we even tracked some company that had some weird apparatus they set up?
	There's all kinds of things pointing to a man-made event that caused this tsunami.
	And of course, crazy, moon landing guy, global warming denier, Holocaust denier, Republican, racist, whatever you want.
	Listen to this report from New Zealand.
	A secret operation in the 1940s to develop a tsunami bomb in coastal waters on the Fungapalo Peninsula north of Auckland has been uncovered.
	The United States and New Zealand conducted secret tests of the bomb designed to inundate coastal cities, but the operation, codenamed Project SEAL, was shelved just months before the atomic bomb was used on Japan in 1945.
	The secret plans were uncovered during the search by the author and filmmaker Ray Waru.
	Over a period of several months, they carried out almost 4,000 test explosions to kind of calibrate the size of explosions, the number of explosions, and the depth of an explosion in the water would need to be in order to create a tsunami effect. and the depth of an explosion in the water would Ray Waru, who uncovered secret tests to develop a tsunami bomb in New Zealand waters.
	So you can call me whatever you want, but there is proof, proof that the United States tested 4,000 tsunami bombs before they dropped an actual atomic bomb on Japan.
	man.
	So you think for one second that these a-hole oil cabal elitists, you put it past them that they would blow one of these things off to make nuclear energy seem really scary?
	I question you, Jeb.
	Well, you know, I don't think they have the wherewithal, but I mean, it would be within the, well, they have the money.
	I don't know.
	Maybe when they do those deep drill, those deep holes, they've got the same gear.
	They can put something down in there and blow it up.
	I don't know.
	It seems unlikely.
	I just want to point out...
	Unlikely...
	Earthquakes actually do exist.
	Yeah, but this is a very shallow one.
	Yeah, it was a weird one.
	It was a weird one, but I called it immediately, and here is proof that there were tsunami bombs for Japan.
	How about this for a concept?
	Stop!
	You can't refute it.
	Go ahead.
	What's your concept?
	They were testing these things and they planted a bunch of them and that one didn't go off until then.
	It's like one of those old bombs.
	They got these bombs in London.
	They find them every once in a while.
	It went off accidentally.
	There's one left over.
	Sure.
	Sure.
	Hey, there's something weird I noticed over here.
	All the cars, but even like really high-end taxis like Mercedes, they have this economy mode.
	Echo mode, yeah.
	Yeah.
	Does this exist in America?
	Do you know what this does, this echo mode?
	Yeah.
	What?
	It existed for 20 years.
	Oh, yeah?
	What does it do?
	It apparently makes the engine get a little better.
	No, no, no, no.
	This is a different echo mode.
	When you pull up to a stoplight or if you stop, the engine cuts out.
	Oh, one of those.
	Oh, I hate that.
	It's the most annoying thing!
	And is this supposed to actually do anything?
	Well, here's one of the...
	You know, I've been testing cars, but I've been doing this for a number of years.
	All the cars here have it, by the way.
	It's like, you know, it must be required by law or whatever.
	All the hybrids obviously do, but it is not a problem because they're electric.
	These are not hybrids.
	These are just the regular cars.
	Well, General Motors about, I think about five or six years ago, came out with a bunch of cars with this feature.
	And so they wanted me to test one of them, just drive it around with them, and it was a truck, a pickup truck.
	And so I met them over here somewhere, and I jumped into the thing, and they said, and it was fine.
	It didn't seem to, you know, you stop at a stoplight, the engine drops dead, and then you punch it, and then you wait, this millisecond is going.
	It's kind of annoying.
	Yeah, kind of.
	So I said, well, let me check it.
	Let me see if this thing really is any good.
	And so, which I do anytime there's a car around here to drive around.
	I always take it up this unbelievably steep hill called Marin that takes you right to the top of Grizzly Peak.
	It's a real painful hill to go up and a painful hill to come down.
	Right.
	So then you stopped halfway.
	The engine cuts off.
	And they go back about a mile before it comes on.
	So I'm up there at the stop sign, but I'm at like a 30 degree incline.
	And I let go to step on the gas.
	And I do step on the gas, but the car is already rolling backwards.
	And it goes back about 20 feet.
	I said, this doesn't seem safe to me.
	And so they never talked to me for a while.
	Is there any evidence that this actually saves the planet?
	What is it supposed to do?
	What is it supposed to do?
	Well, what it does, if you're in the traffic jam and stop dead, it stops the engine and doesn't just waste gas as you sit there.
	I mean, that's all it does.
	But when you start the engine, doesn't that take extra gas?
	Did you really save anything?
	Yeah, a little bit more, yeah.
	It's not that much.
	But it's unnerving because I'm not used to it and we take a cab somewhere And at the stoplight, it's like, dude, your engine just quit.
	It feels weird.
	And luckily, there's no...
	Gotta be hard on the battery.
	And doesn't it cut off the air conditioning?
	They don't need it here, obviously, but wouldn't that cut off the AC as well?
	Nah, they could be running on battery.
	Do you know the battery cars?
	That's not how it's hooked up.
	I mean, American air conditioners, obviously, and I think this has changed in a lot of cars, is done by the belt of the engine, but there's other ways of doing it.
	Did you know that in 1897, actually it didn't really start until 1904, I think, that electric cars were all the rage, that the Roush and Lange Electric car.
	That was like the big...
	They were producing, I think, 50 a month or 200 a month.
	And that everyone was driving electric cars in 1904 until they came out with the combustion engine.
	Did you know that?
	Yeah, when they came out with the more practical combustion engine.
	You know, you could drive and then put some more gas in it and drive some more.
	But here's the thing.
	What kind of battery?
	Were they using lead acid batteries?
	Yeah, they had to be.
	I mean, that's the thing that hasn't really...
	I mean, is it just me or...
	Can't we come up with a better battery?
	It seems like...
	I wonder about this.
	When I was writing for Forbes, I was doing a lot of energy stories about different technologies, including like the zinc air.
	Is that why you're no longer writing for Forbes?
	No, it was a long story.
	I got time.
	So I'm writing these stories.
	So I got into the scene quite a bit, and I still kind of keep up.
	And I ran into, I was talking to all the guys who do these really weird and exotic batteries will tell you the same thing.
	Battery technology hasn't really changed in any meaningful way.
	I mean, it's changed, it's been tweaked.
	And, you know, the lithium batteries are interesting, but this is all tweaks on old inventions that go back.
	Almost everything is public domain.
	They go back, you know, 100 years.
	No one's come up with a new battery idea.
	Or has it just been suppressed, perhaps?
	Believe me, no.
	It hasn't been suppressed.
	Some magic battery zero-point energy.
	Yes!
	Yeah, you just get it out of the air.
	The energy's around you, man.
	It's around you.
	It's orgone energy.
	Well, you know, you can stick basically a metal pipe in the earth and power a light bulb, a small one, but you can power a small light bulb.
	I mean, there is indeed energy all around us.
	That's undeniable.
	It's great.
	It's everywhere, man.
	It's everywhere.
	Are you being a dick to me?
	Is that what I'm hearing?
	Come on, you know I believe in this.
	I think it has been suppressed.
	It was Tesla.
	And the water that you can burn.
	Well, they burned all of his research, all of his documents.
	You know that guy had something going on.
	You know he had some ideas that were way good.
	Well, I mean, I don't like the idea of burning documents, that's for sure.
	Yeah.
	But these inventions are out there.
	If somebody could come up with a great new battery technology, especially in this market where everybody wants...
	I mean, right now, and I'm going to...
	You know, I mentioned I've driven all the battery cars and clutch cars and...
	The battery cars are non-starter for me.
	I mean, the Volt is the only one that's acceptable, as are the plug-in hybrids, because if you don't have a motor, at some point you're going to go out somewhere and you're not going to be able to get back.
	It's no good.
	No, I know, I know.
	I'm just still, I'm thinking that there's...
	By the way, the other thing, if you want to talk about old ideas, which is still viable, one of the other popular cars around the 1920s, I suppose, was the steam engine car.
	The Stanley Steamer was one of the most famous, and the things apparently could go like a bat out of hell.
	Really go fast.
	What was the fuel supply?
	Was it coal?
	Just a little gas burner.
	Oh, yeah.
	Anything.
	You'd have kerosene, you know, just something to heat up the tank.
	To make the steam.
	Yeah, that would work.
	And once the thing got steam, you know, got a head of steam going, you could just go like crazy.
	Well, but that's, now you've, thank you, congratulations, you've essentially just created nuclear energy, because that's what nukes do, is they just heat up water, and then there's a turbine.
	Right, and there's no reason you can't have a small, a very, and I think it's a turbine.
	With a Tesla turbine.
	A little bitty.
	Tesla turbine.
	Yeah, a Tesla turbine.
	Come on, these things are amazing.
	You need a small nuke plant that is the size of a computer mouse.
	Yes.
	About that big.
	And you'd have that in your car.
	It would last for 100 years.
	And you'd be a steam engine of some sort or whatever you want to use.
	And you just drive it around forever.
	One payment, you're done.
	And we call it The Black Dick.
	Okay.
	In the morning.
	man. .
	Yay.
	Yay.
	Onward.
	Where's my list of clips?
	I don't know what you're...
	I got my list here.
	You want to hear a funny Sharpton clip?
	Oh, I love Sharpton.
	Okay.
	This is obviously someone who called in to...
	Sharpton has a radio show, I guess?
	Maybe he has a...
	Yeah, I believe he does.
	I think he has a radio show.
	Someone called him, set him up, and then his answer, of course, was priceless.
	Any civilized society, you do not see massacres continue to happen from Tucson, to Aurora, to Columbine, to Virginia Tech, to where we are now in Newtown, to Chicago, and you keep the same laws when clearly they're not working.
	What happens when the criminal goes to Nise, Al?
	Then you deal with knives.
	What did he say?
	I couldn't understand a word of this.
	So he's like, from Aurora to Columbine to Newtown, blah, blah, blah.
	You have to deal with the problem.
	And then the caller says, what happens when the criminals go to knives, Al?
	And he says, then you deal with knives!
	Take away the knives!
	Yeah, they have to register knives in some parts.
	By the way, Sandy Hook.
	Interesting.
	So remember last show we were talking about how there was a massacre in Australia and because of that there was a big ban on certain types of weapons in Australia?
	So that was the Port Arthur Massacre.
	And Steve G., one of our producers, I think he might be from Australia, pointed me towards the Book of Knowledge entry in Wikipedia.
	And here's what's interesting about that.
	Because I said, could this be our Port Arthur Massacre?
	Here's what he pointed out to me in the Book of Knowledge.
	Martin Bryant, bless you, darling, he is the guy who eventually pleaded guilty to the crime.
	He was from Newtown.
	Oh, really?
	A suburb of Hobart.
	How about that, huh?
	That's a good one.
	That's like a New World Order kind of Illuminati type of thing.
	Yeah, that's a good one.
	I like it.
	And now, of course, there's all kinds of weird stuff happening.
	I have the list here.
	Um...
	Police.
	A high school student arrested for doodling.
	He doodled something that looked like a gun.
	Arrested the kid.
	Oh, please.
	This is pathetic.
	Maryland Elementary School suspends six-year-old boy who pointed finger and said, pow.
	And then we have in San Francisco, up in your neck of the woods, this report.
	And it was a dark poem, and in the wake of the Connecticut tragedy, it raised red flags and triggered a quick response by school officials.
	So this is a girl who wrote a poem.
	And now the student is facing the possibility of being expelled.
	Woo-hoo!
	I understand the killings in Connecticut.
	I know why he pulled the trigger.
	Those words in Courtney Webb's poem prompted school officials at the Life Learning Academy on Treasure Island to suspend the 17-year-old senior until further notice.
	Why are we oppressed by a dysfunctional community of haters and blamers?
	The meaning of the poem is just talking about society and how I understand why things like that incident happen.
	So it's not like I'm agreeing with it, but that's how the school made it seem.
	Courtney says she didn't turn the poem in as an assignment.
	Instead, the teacher discovered it in class and took it to the principal.
	Courtney says she's turned in dark poems about suicide and sadness in the past with no problem.
	It's a genre she likes.
	For example, any person I could think of would be like Stephen King.
	He writes weird stuff all the time.
	That doesn't mean he's going to go do it or act it out.
	Exactly.
	That's a very smart young woman there.
	How crazy.
	Yeah, she should be encouraged.
	Yeah, she should be valitorious.
	Screw her.
	Screw her.
	Stick it to her.
	Isn't that crazy?
	Isn't that just nuts?
	This is the kind of thing.
	It's the only thing that really galls me the most.
	Yeah, I know.
	Well, I have a thing here that is deconstruction worthy.
	And we've stayed away from Sandy Hook because we know there's a whole bunch of stuff wrong with that.
	We know.
	It's undecipherable.
	There's bullet holes in cars outside.
	But from teachers who were killed inside, and there's bullet holes from inside the car going out.
	I mean, you can't even make this stuff up anymore.
	That's so crazy.
	I do put the links in the show notes, 475.nashownotes.com.
	We're not going to discuss that.
	What I do want to discuss is this lawsuit.
	So, one of these surviving kids, six-year-old girl who has actually been on, you've seen her interviewed here and there, certainly on CNN, her family started a lawsuit, then retracted the lawsuit, $100 million lawsuit, and the lawyer was on CNN. One minute of clip of him, and then I want to talk about it because I think that it's very obvious what is going on here, but listen very, very carefully to everything he's saying.
	And he's a nut job as well, obviously, otherwise he wouldn't fit in the script.
	Sorry, wrong one.
	Here we go.
	An attorney in Connecticut has withdrawn this request to sue the state for $100 million in the wake of the Sandy Hook school shooting.
	This attorney represents the family of this six-year-old girl who witnessed and survived the shooting just from a couple weeks ago.
	He says the state failed to take steps to protect the children from harm.
	He is...
	Irving Pinsky, Ivan Pinsky, he is with us this morning.
	Forgive me, I have two different versions of your first name.
	You're perfect, it's Irving.
	Mr.
	Pinsky, good morning.
	Let me just first ask you this, you know, with regard to this young girl, what is the family telling you?
	Why go after the state of Connecticut?
	Well, that's not really their decision, even though legally it is technically.
	The truth is that it's our legal strategy, and we're not only going after the state of Connecticut.
	But what we had to do to get the state of Connecticut was we had to file a request for permission to sue them.
	You can't even just sue them.
	That's the law in Connecticut and many other states.
	So we filed it, and then we got new evidence coming in, plus we had all this backlash of intense nervousness.
	So we drew it, but we reserved all rights to bring it again within the next year.
	Let's talk a little bit about the backlash.
	I mean, John and I were both in Newtown a couple weeks ago.
	It's the toughest story I've ever covered.
	Very tenuous there right now.
	And I imagine just so recent after what's happened to these young people that you have gotten quite a bit of backlash.
	Why continue if you so will choose to do so?
	It's a natural reaction to get that backlash.
	I know that.
	But on the other hand, when I get called, I have to save the evidence.
	I can't wait for the attorney general to get their evidence or the police to get their evidence.
	As a lawyer, I'm looking for different evidence that they are.
	So I had to go in early.
	And that was not made clear to the public because there's so much of the fog of disaster.
	So I just was doing my job, and I'm still doing it, and I've got a year to file the request.
	Real quick, what kind of backlash are you talking about?
	So it's like a six minute interview with this guy that's linked in the show notes.
	But I know what I'm hearing.
	What are you hearing in this?
	I'm not hearing what you're hearing.
	What are you hearing?
	I'm hearing shut up money is what I'm hearing.
	The kid clearly saw what happened.
	The guy goes and immediately files the request.
	No intent to sue anything, but he has to file and withdraw.
	He gets a whole year then.
	He wants shut up money.
	Yeah.
	That's what this is about.
	It's shut up money.
	Hush money is the word.
	I call it shut up money.
	$100 million.
	Shut up slave money.
	Shut up slave money.
	$100 million.
	It's very obvious.
	And he's like, I've got the evidence.
	There's new evidence.
	I can't wait for the other evidence.
	And the guy's got evidence.
	Evidence.
	Yeah.
	Well, that means this will never come to the fact.
	No, of course not.
	Of course not.
	But why else?
	The guy probably should be bought off for a mill.
	Someone wasn't included in the deal, that's for sure.
	Yeah, apparently.
	There's a hole in the story.
	Let's just hope nothing weird happens after that.
	There's a good report from Iraq that was...
	It's played in Europe.
	You've probably seen this.
	But I swear that none of this is coming over here about Iraq falling apart.
	It's actually falling apart.
	Welcome back.
	It's time for Focus tonight.
	We're turning our attentions to Iraq, a country blighted by sectarian rivalry a full year after U.S. troops withdrew.
	The Sunnis complain that they're being sidelined by the Shiite government of Nouri al-Maliki.
	They've been staging large protests for more than a week and even managed to block key trade routes.
	Prime Minister Maliki says he's prepared for dialogue but will not tolerate endless demonstrations.
	And in a new twist, the Shia cleric Moktada al-Sadr has joined the Sunnis.
	He says Iraq should have its own Arab Spring moment.
	Kate Williams has this report.
	Okay, you can stop.
	I saw this, actually, because I didn't want to say it, but I've been watching Sky News over here because it's the only news that is actually watchable.
	Yeah, it's very watchable.
	Although, VanCat, if you can get the English version, is very good, too.
	VanCat isn't on here for some reason.
	I've got all kinds of other stuff.
	I've got Sky, BBC. BBC International is kind of cool because Holly Garani is on there.
	Yeah, I can't have yet to find that on the dish.
	She's still sexy.
	I don't know why they don't use her in the States.
	Holly Galani?
	What's her name?
	Holly Galani?
	I don't see her.
	You know what I mean, though?
	She's sexy.
	And there's also kind of breaking news that they play in Europe.
	And I swear, you'd think I'd know about this, but in fact, this is a surprise to me.
	It was only because I had this dish in Berlin, but they won a Grammy as the clip.
	Ready?
	Grammy award-winning punk rock band Green Day have announced that they're getting back on the road following last year's cancelled tour.
	Frontman Billy Joe Armstrong sought treatment for substance abuse after an outburst on stage in Las Vegas.
	The band have notched up five Grammys and sold over 65 million records worldwide.
	Here's your boys!
	Notched up.
	Notched up, fudged up.
	They notched it up.
	It's funny because I had that story.
	I was going to ask you if you knew that your boy had come out of rehab.
	Ah, you do love those Green Day boys.
	Now, here's the one.
	This was my favorite clip.
	If it wasn't for the good clip of the day, this, I think, this is a propagating the BS. You know that there's a TV show called Bones.
	Yeah, I never watch.
	And it's about an Asperger's genius that is good at doing deconstruction.
	He's an a-hole.
	He's an a-hole.
	Who?
	The Bones.
	Isn't The Bones an a-hole?
	Or am I thinking of something else?
	I'm thinking of a different show.
	I don't know what I'm talking about.
	Anyway, no, this is really a good story.
	It's very well constructed.
	But to do the old, oh, let's see if we can take a look outside the lens.
	See if you can boost the image.
	Enhance.
	Or my favorite one that we had a couple years ago where we got an image of a guy in a window off of a shiny bolt from a type or something.
	Enhance.
	Zoom in.
	Rotate.
	Yeah.
	See if you can get something out.
	Anyway, there's all that crap.
	This one here was like the eye roller.
	I have not heard anything this bad probably for two or three years.
	I was able to restore part of the text from the paper scraps that you sent me.
	One contains a fraction, one-third, and the letters A-R-G-A-R. It comes from the word margarine, and the one-third is a one-third of a cup.
	The papers were from a cookbook.
	Eight different pages.
	Is there any way to tell which cookbook?
	Yeah, I ran the typeface through the Library of Congress database, and I got the name and the date of publication and a lot of tips on how to cook for prisoners.
	It's the Gordon Institutional Recipe Index, 1993 edition.
	I ran the typeface.
	It's Zingbats.
	It's Diff Whips.
	I ran the typeface to the Library of Congress database.
	This database, by the way, does not exist, obviously, because there was no such...
	What do you mean she ran the typeface and she got the date of publication?
	Give me a break!
	What kind of idiots do they think the public are?
	Say it again.
	Do the line.
	What kind of idiots do they think the public are?
	No, not that one.
	I mean, what she did...
	She ran the typeface through the Library of Congress database.
	Perfect.
	Nailed it.
	What a crock!
	Butter.
	It was margarine.
	I knew that word was margarine.
	I ran it through the typeface database.
	Perfect.
	Redbook?
	Yeah, I got it.
	Prediction?
	What?
	Burma?
	Burma.
	Okay.
	Time to start some droning, no-fly zone, get ready to move in.
	Of course, we know there's a pipeline.
	Everyone can take a drink, but the prediction is, what you see in Syria, Burma next.
	High in the air above Kachin State, not far from the Chinese border, a helicopter gunship fires on the ground below.
	Filmed from rebel trenches by an aid agency, these pictures clearly show jet planes being used against fighters from the Kachin independence.
	Now, please, filmed by rebel fighters by an aid agency.
	Please.
	Army.
	It's part of a marked escalation in an 18-month-long conflict that's displaced more than 75,000 people.
	As the jet approached, it just sounds like it's screaming so loud.
	Here's an American photographer who happens to be there.
	Everyone ran into the bunker and ducked, and as it turned, we could see that it wasn't going to fire in our position, but it started firing a machine gun at a different KIA position just a couple hundred meters away.
	So just put it in the Red Book.
	That's why Clippity Clop was there.
	Yeah, you know, Hillary was there.
	You know, Barack was there.
	We're hugging the hot chicky, whatever.
	You know, it's time.
	Whatever it is, it's time to do some crap in Burma.
	Yeah, this so delicious woman you're talking about.
	Yeah, that would be the one.
	You know, the one with the big sunglasses.
	It's almost too delicious to believe, my friend.
	Exactly.
	And she was referring to that woman from Burma.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Exactly.
	Alright.
	I got nothing else.
	Really?
	Nothing else?
	I have an end show clip.
	What might it be?
	It is about two and a half minutes of explanation on the floor of the house about FISA. Since no one else is talking about it.
	Essentially it just tells you that you're going to be eavesdropped on.
	Oh, yeah.
	You have to play it.
	I mean, I think it would just be one of those, you know, like...
	One of those things that main...
	Another uplifting thing to begin the new year.
	Exactly.
	Mainstream media can't play any of this stuff.
	You know, it's from C-SPAN, so we might as well just roll it out.
	Who was telling me, by the way...
	By the way, you know, the C-SipSpan stuff is all public domain.
	Yeah.
	And not all of it, so they have some exclusive stuff, but it's rare.
	But most of that's covered by fair use.
	But the networks should run this stuff without even any issue.
	No, no, no.
	Instead, we have German chicks in lederhosen over here hawking a phone number for you to call them so you can jerk off.
	Essentially.
	Yeah.
	That, by the way, would be a good start if we had at least that in America.
	Day 28 in exile.
	Miss Mickey coming down with the flu.
	And I am going stir-crazy.
	But hey, I'm living that American dream, everybody.
	Just getting by.
	Let's reform immigration, shall we?
	Here in the lowlands of Gitmo Nation.
	In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where the sun is now shining, I'm John C. Dvorak.
	And it's gray here.
	Once again, what a surprise.
	We'll be back on Sunday right here on No Agenda.
	In the morning...
	...discussion and the amendments that will be offered.
	It is never okay, never okay for government officials to use a general warrant to deliberately invade the privacy of a law-abiding American.
	It was not okay for constables and customs officials to do it in colonial days, and it is not okay for the National Security Agency to do it today.
	So if the government is going to use general warrants to collect people's phone calls and emails, it is extremely important to ensure that this authority is only used against foreigners overseas and not against law-abiding Americans.
	Now, despite what the presiding officer and the Senate may have heard, This law doesn't actually prohibit the government from collecting Americans' phone calls and emails without a warrant.
	The FISA Amendments Act states, and I want to quote here because there's been a lot of inaccuracies and misrepresentations on this, The FISA Amendments Act states that acquisitions made under Section 702 may not,
	quote, intentionally target a specific American and may not, quote, intentionally acquire communications that are known at the time of acquisition to be wholly domestic.
	But Mr.
	President, the problem with that is it still leaves a lot of room for circumstances under which American phone calls and emails, including purely domestic phone calls and emails, could be swept up and reviewed without a warrant.
	This can happen if the government didn't know that someone is American.
	Or if the government made a technical error, or if the American was talking to a foreigner, even if that conversation was entirely legitimate.
	And I'm not talking, Mr.
	President, about some hypothetical situation.
	The FISA court, in response to A concern I and others have had, the FISA Court has already ruled at least once that collection carried out by the government under the FISA Amendments Act violated the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution.
	Senate rules regarding classified information prevent me from discussing the details of that ruling or how many Americans were affected over what period of time.
	But this fact alone, Mr.
	President, clearly demonstrates that the impact of this law on Americans' privacy has been real and it is not hypothetical.
	You may return to your business, citizen.
	Adios, mofo.
	Eat me!

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