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	It's an interesting A, B, C, D, E, E, D, C, B, A. Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
	It's Sunday, January 20th, 2013.
	Time to get Monation Media Assassination, episode 480.
	This is No Agenda.
	Celebrating Obama No.
	1's Inauguration Day from the capital of the Drone Star State here in Austin Tate House.
	In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where I'll be celebrating Obama No.
	2's Inauguration tomorrow, I'm John C. Devorak.
	It's Craig Vaughn and Buzzkill!
	Well, you can celebrate both.
	I mean, they're both valid presidents.
	I only believe in the one Obama.
	They're both valid presidents.
	No, I liked his number two guy better.
	I was watching this, and they have, for those of you who...
	You're the one with the ear anomaly.
	That's the giveaway.
	I think it's just the gray hair.
	I don't think it's the ear anomaly.
	I think it's the gray hair.
	Yeah, he said he was dyeing his hair, and he, you know...
	So we've had, you know, we have the press corps sitting outside, you know, in the little panels, like, you know, for I guess just to, for like white smoke to rise out of the White House that the Pope has been inaugurated.
	I don't know.
	Here's a little thing that I picked up.
	President Obama, though, he's going to tie a record on come Monday.
	He's going to tie Franklin D. Roosevelt's record of getting two double swearing-in ceremonies.
	Two double swearing-in ceremonies.
	She blew the report.
	No, wait.
	She's not done yet.
	That's right.
	I mean, look back to 2009, during the swearing-in when Justice Roberts was giving the oath.
	That was sort of the public one.
	They stepped on each other, and then there was one word, faithfully, that was moved out of place, and there was some talk as to whether or not it was legitimate.
	And I know at the time we asked the White House whether they would repeat it.
	They said no, but in fact they did.
	There was a second oath that was administered.
	It was private.
	It was at the White House.
	This time it's a different issue.
	According to the Constitution, the oath has to be administered just before noon on the 20th.
	Well, the inauguration doesn't typically take place on a Sunday, so they will have a private ceremony on Sunday with just some family members in the Blue Room at the White House.
	And then on Monday, you'll have this sort of official public oath administered.
	Yeah, so I guess it doesn't typically fall on a Sunday.
	Although, coincidentally, tomorrow, of course, I think it's Martin Luther King Day, isn't it?
	Monday?
	A federal holiday?
	I thought that was Friday.
	I thought that was Monday.
	Oh, man.
	Did I miss it again?
	I thought it was Monday.
	No, Monday.
	Is that right?
	I don't know.
	Now you've confused me.
	I thought Martin Luther King...
	Then there was a poor celebration, I'll tell you that.
	Maybe you're right, because I think the post office delivered the mail.
	January 21st.
	Yeah, it's tomorrow.
	Exactly.
	It's tomorrow.
	For those of you who are new to the program, this is actually a John C. Dvorak theorem, is that we have two presidents, and the first time this happened, where there was a private inauguration, a second private inauguration, that was questionable, but a second private inauguration, that was questionable, but now, indeed, we have, yet again, two inaugurations, and it appears, from what I understand, despite pleas from the press, that this will be private, and there may be some, like a pool photographer, but I don't know if there's going to be video of the event in the like a pool photographer,
	and This is one where the devil appears.
	The Blue Room, by the way, is...
	Hold on.
	I wrote this down for her.
	I picked up this Wikipedia article.
	It's a very elitist room.
	It's kind of like a French elitist thing.
	Hold on a second.
	I can't find it off the bat.
	The Blue Room.
	Here we go.
	Blue Room White House.
	The Blue Room is furnished in French Empire style.
	Ha!
	Fitting.
	Eight pieces of Gildan European beach furniture purchased during the Monroe administration furnished the room.
	From Beelzebub himself.
	Included is a berger.
	That's an armchair.
	That's a throne.
	There's a throne in there.
	It's berger.
	Armchair with enclosed sides.
	Small throne.
	That's funny.
	Everybody's eyes turn red in there.
	In the blue room.
	Your eyes turn red in the blue room.
	Be careful.
	And they rise from the fire pit.
	Wow.
	Anyway.
	Who knows what the oath is in there.
	I am hurting today, John.
	You got the flu?
	No.
	Remember, I threw my back out while in Amsterdam.
	Oh, yeah.
	Well, yeah, you were...
	Yeah, right.
	And you had to fly back with a bad back.
	That's got to be not good.
	Yeah, well, it's...
	So it hasn't, you know, gone away.
	And this, of course, is originally from a motorcycle accident I had in...
	I think it was 2002 when I landed on my back.
	And that's when I decided flying helicopters is much safer than motorcycles.
	Yeah.
	And so, after much prodding, and you know me, I don't like the inside of hospitals, I don't like doctors, I don't like the pharmaceutical industry, but I'll try kind of anything else, and I'm still a loyal fan.
	Yeah, you don't mind going to Quacks.
	No, I don't.
	I don't.
	And in fact, I think that's where many of the secrets of healing exist.
	So I still go to our applied kinesiologist and acupuncturist, Dr.
	Ron.
	And I have no allergies anymore and I feel great.
	Are you whistling at me again?
	Hey!
	What are you doing?
	Are you listening to my story?
	Yeah, yeah, you're the one to apply kinesiologist.
	That's why I use speakers.
	So, you know, Mickey has had very severe joint pain probably most of her life, and she found a guy about half a year ago who has completely healed her, Dr.
	Ken.
	And Dr.
	Ken, and I thought you'd be interested in this, John, he practices something called PNM myofascial release.
	Release?
	Yeah.
	And P&M stands for Pin and Move Myofascial Release.
	How do you spell myofascial?
	M-Y-O-F-A-S-C-I-A-L. And it's...
	I got it here.
	It's a combination of myofascial release...
	What is this called?
	Ischemic pressure and deep tissue massage with movement through targeted ranges of motion and areas being treated.
	So, while you're looking that up, I'll tell you basically what it is.
	So, you lay down on a massage table and he has these rubber bands...
	You almost said tabloid.
	I'm still on my French elitist, and I almost said tafel, which is Dutch for table.
	I know.
	I know where that came from.
	So he laid down on the massage table, and he puts you one leg at a time in a big rubber band.
	So it's kind of like a sex swing idea.
	Oh-ho!
	Yeah, I'm telling you.
	Is this the glass rod treating it perchance?
	Well, here it comes.
	And then what he does is he'll press really, really hard on your muscles...
	And while he's doing that, he's moving your limb around, basically your leg.
	And then at a certain point, and this is where I got a little creeped out, he said, okay, I'm on my right side, and my left leg is in the rubber band, and he has a stick.
	I kid you not, John.
	He has a stick, maybe.
	I'll bet he does.
	About three quarters the size of a baseball bat.
	And then he pulls my pants down behind me.
	And I'm like, uh-oh.
	That's what I'd say.
	What are you doing with that stick?
	But then he uses the stick like a rolling pin almost but literally just leaning on these muscles with a lot of force.
	And as crazy as it sounds and as kind of frightening as it was...
	It's really done an amazing amount of good.
	I had two massages in Amsterdam.
	This guy is a fascinating guy.
	His job is to drive all pharma-based companies out of Austin.
	He says, I can fix anything with my stick and my rubber band.
	And, you know, he's talking, and slowly, and I'm like, ah, this guy is a member of the academy, right?
	He's one of us.
	And I know Ms.
	Mickey had already been talking to him, so, you know, I'm listening to what he's saying, and then he's like, how about this gun legislation?
	And I'm like, I lay into it, and it's like, oh, dude, this isn't about guns.
	It's actually right up your alley.
	This is about getting kids on meds.
	And I tell him about the stuff that we talked on the previous show.
	And he's like, oh man, that's so cool that I know this.
	Because I got all these guns.
	I went out and bought a whole bunch of guns.
	Another sucker.
	And he has this 9mm and he's like, you need to help me because there's something with the ammo.
	And he opens the cupboard and it's in his office.
	It's the 9mm.
	You never know.
	Yeah.
	And he's like, I had a problem yesterday, and I haven't taken it out to the range, but this one cartridge got stuck, and I was trying to get it out, and then it fired, and look, there's the hole in the couch.
	She went right to the couch to the floor.
	I'm like, okay, we need a little bit of gun safety lessons, which we'll have to talk about.
	But this guy, really very fascinating, and he tested my blood.
	I don't want any needles or anything.
	I just hate that.
	I said, do you know what your blood type is?
	I said, no, I don't.
	Do you know your blood type, John?
	No, you know, I used to know it.
	It's something that, I mean, I guess it's kind of handy to know.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Yeah, I knew it.
	Once in a while I ask about it.
	Oh, okay, then I forget.
	Well, I'm A-positive, as is Miss Mickey, turns out.
	Ah!
	You can give each other blood.
	I think maybe it's illegal for us to have children or something.
	I don't know.
	No, no.
	No?
	That's a good one.
	I don't know.
	Anyway, so yeah, we could give each other blood.
	So he was telling me kind of the history because I'm like, you know, what is this bullcrap?
	O positive, A positive, A minus, AB positive.
	And he kind of synopsized it for me while he's hurting my finger because I don't like being cut.
	And he says, you know, the original people from, like, Africa were all O positive.
	And as, you know, as we migrated out all over the world, depending on the diets that we had, you were eating a lot of fish or, you know, meat or whatever, it started, you know, just basically through evolution that morphed somewhat.
	And I'm not going to say it exactly the way, I'm sure I'm not exactly right, but the difference in...
	For instance, 75% of all Native Americans are O-positive versus a majority of citizens in the U.S., which are no longer O-positive.
	And the difference between an A-positive or an O-positive or A, B, negative, whatever, is basically one molecule of glucose.
	I think that's what he said it was.
	But it's like the way I equated it to one bit of a processor.
	One bit is different.
	And he says that's why what happens is if you're A positive and you get A negative blood in a transfusion, that negative blood is essentially going to be attacking your A positive blood and it will kill you.
	That I know.
	It's like you have to have the right blood, right?
	Otherwise you'll die if someone gives you the transfusion.
	Do you know anything about this?
	Are you going somewhere with this story?
	Yeah, I am.
	Do you know anything about this?
	Do you know how this works?
	I know that it works.
	I'm not, like, sitting around musing over it, no.
	I mean, have you ever thought about this?
	No.
	But it turns out that there's many foods that have this one molecule, this one, I think he said...
	Oh, yeah.
	Yeah.
	Don't be so skeptical immediately.
	Oh, brother.
	Okay, I want to hear more of this now.
	And you should avoid foods that have this one molecule because they are actually bad.
	Don't do it.
	I hate it when you do that.
	Hey, don't do that.
	What?
	You're mocking me.
	I haven't even gotten through the story.
	Oh, I'm just listening.
	I'm listening intently.
	You're going...
	So the one molecule that's different is thus poison for your blood type.
	Oh no!
	So, I am not supposed to eat tomatoes?
	No!
	You don't like tomatoes?
	Is that what you're telling me?
	No, I do like tomatoes, but I'm not supposed to.
	Wouldn't you eat them?
	Well, apparently, it's not of a good sort for my blood type.
	Really?
	What happens to you then when you eat tomatoes that your blood type, that your body rejects?
	You puke?
	No, but it can hurt your digestive tract somewhat, yeah?
	And I'm not supposed to have red meat, but of course you don't want too much red meat anyway.
	But, you know, just weird things that you can't...
	Like, for instance, cashews are not good for me, for my blood type.
	This is bullcrap.
	Why?
	It's not bullcrap.
	I mean, I kind of put up with a guy with his massage therapy, but now we're dealing with just nonsense.
	I think, yeah...
	Shut up already!
	Science!
	Science, science.
	Well, there's a whole book and everything, so I'm going to beat up on it.
	Oh, I bet there is.
	I'm going to read up on it.
	He looks good.
	I'll tell you, he's 53.
	He looks 33.
	Yeah, well...
	Well, I'm glad you took us on that little tour.
	Well, I think people are genuinely interested.
	First of all, they're interested in my health and my well-being.
	Anyway, we've got to get done on time today with the show because our landlord, we have to get out of here.
	Our landlord has put the place up for sale.
	So, you know, and we're like, you know, we're like, yeah, they're cool, you know, so yeah, we'll do whatever.
	There's a big lockbox on the door now.
	That guy's coming in at noon.
	Oh, I'm telling you.
	It's like people are like three showings a day.
	You know, and if you're not home, then you kind of got to put your crap away.
	You don't want, you know.
	Right, because people steal it.
	Exactly.
	We usually go to these home openings just to steal stuff, you think.
	Just to steal stuff?
	Look at that book.
	You know, I've been looking for that book.
	But there may be good news on the horizon.
	There is this kind of dilapidated mansion in Austin.
	In town.
	Dilapidated.
	Is it dilapidated?
	What did I say?
	It might be the way they pronounce it in Texas, but believe me.
	What is dilapidated?
	Is that a word?
	No, there's no such thing as dilapidated.
	Okay, it's dilapidated?
	Dilapidated.
	It doesn't sound good.
	No, that's why it sounds like it means it's dilapidated.
	It's run down.
	It's a run down mansion.
	Yes.
	I like it.
	And it looks, I swear to God, it looks like the White House.
	Oh, don't think twice.
	You need a couple of dogs.
	You need some hound dogs out front.
	One of the bathrooms has a gold swan as a faucet.
	And so I threw in like a real lowball number and they call back and they're like, yeah, we'll let you know on Monday, but we're definitely considering this if you'll do at least 18 months.
	I'm like, are you kidding me?
	Who's going to fix up the place?
	Is it filled with bugs?
	Well, there's a few issues.
	For instance, there's a water feature in the back, which I swear there's an alligator or a crocodile living in there.
	There's a water what?
	A water feature, like a pond.
	What's a water feature?
	It sounds like a movie.
	It's a pond with a pump.
	You have a pond in the backyard.
	Oh, yeah.
	So there's a swamp in the backyard.
	And there's a pool, a swimming pool.
	And I guarantee it's green colored.
	Oh, yeah.
	And there's a swimming pool with flamingos on the bottom.
	Is the pool clear or is it mossy?
	No, the pool looks okay.
	Okay, well, that's good.
	But, you know, it's like...
	You've got to put a lot of chlorine in those pools.
	Some rooms are okay and some rooms are a bit dilapidated.
	Yeah.
	But, you know, we could make it work.
	We could totally make it work.
	Sounds like it'd be fun.
	Yeah, that's what I said.
	Did Marjorie see it?
	Marjorie?
	Yes, she was there.
	It took her a second to kind of get over.
	What did she say?
	Well, she first went...
	I would hate for people to look at this house and then think that I actually am living there.
	Why?
	It just sounds like the White House.
	It's an old southern mansion, it sounds like to me, with the big pillars.
	It's Tara.
	It is exactly, it is Tara.
	It's just a little run down.
	You're down on your luck.
	You don't actually see the run down part from the front.
	Oh, perfect!
	It's the facade.
	It's a total facade.
	And we're like, we're going to put teepees in the front and rent them out.
	Look where Curry's living.
	He's the money.
	That's exactly what people are going to say.
	I like it.
	Everything sounds...
	So far, the checklist is...
	You're not missing a beat.
	I thought we were pretty good.
	I mean, there's certainly room enough for everything we need to do.
	We can have our own mommy and daddy room with special things.
	Is there a ballroom in the place?
	A what?
	Ballroom.
	A ballroom?
	Yeah, a ballroom.
	Well, yeah.
	You know, where you dance.
	Not with a dancing floor.
	It's not necessarily a ballroom.
	No, it's kind of center hall colonial.
	Is there a giant dining room?
	Yeah.
	With a chandelier.
	Really?
	Yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	But the bathtub with the golden swan...
	Is there a table in it that will hold like 20 people?
	I know.
	We have to supply our own table.
	I figure we just put some workhorses up and...
	No!
	We'll have to think about this.
	But there's certainly enough room for a new camp mofo.
	There's no problem there.
	And if you come to visit, we'll never see you.
	He's out in the west wing!
	Your bathroom needs some grouting work.
	But on the back, the back wall, because there's a garden...
	By the way, when I travel, I bring my own culk.
	With caulking gun?
	Yes, with a gun.
	Because I have a gun if you need one.
	I got a caulking gun.
	Anyway, so we're really, really hoping now kind of that this happens because that would be very funny.
	It has a circular driveway, I kid you not.
	Oh, nice.
	Yeah, where you can pull up front and then drive through.
	Junk cars.
	Get some miscellaneous cars and hang.
	Put them in there.
	Hello, that's all we have is miscellaneous junk cars.
	What are you talking about?
	Buy a couple more.
	Put one up on blocks.
	One, you've got to put one up on blocks.
	Just to make it look good.
	You were right.
	Well, Mickey's talking about putting up...
	You need a couch.
	A couch on the veranda.
	Just on the front lawn.
	Not on the veranda.
	Just on the front lawn.
	On the front lawn.
	Sitting there.
	A brown leather couch with holes, with springs popping out.
	That's what we need.
	Now, Ms.
	Mickey wants to put teepees up and rent them out for South by Southwest on the front lawn, which I think is a brilliant idea.
	It's definitely an off-the-beat path idea.
	Maybe a zoning issue.
	Zoning issue.
	You think?
	Yeah.
	Anyway, so we'll keep you posted.
	We should know by Thursday's show because we do have to move out of here.
	We've already called a great name for a company, by the way.
	Two guys in a van.
	This is the best marketing I've ever seen for a moving company.
	Two guys in a van.
	It's probably not a moving company.
	It's two guys in a van.
	It's exactly what it is.
	It's two guys in a van and a Google AdSense.
	That's what it is.
	So they're going to move us, but we just don't know where yet.
	Hopefully that's it, because we're just looking for something that fits our personality.
	And I think we've struck personality gold with the swan.
	We should have taken a picture of that.
	The gold swan is outrageous when you see it on the bathtub.
	It's just, you know.
	Anyway, so it's a bit murky and danky and dusty and moldy and everything, but we can make it work.
	We can make it work with a little bit of elbow grease.
	So we'll see.
	I'll keep you tuned.
	And in order to facilitate our move, I would like to put a request out to the No Agenda Producer Armé Fraction.
	Miss Mickey's art is in the running to be the cover of the 2013 New Dutch Photography book, which is a hardcover book, which goes to all the collectors and agencies and art directors, and it's a really big deal.
	But now, what the publisher's done is something I really hate, Is they said, well, we're going to put up ten covers, and the one that gets the most likes on Facebook will be it.
	Oh, you know, I wrote a column.
	I read your column, and this is, you know, go ahead, talk about the column in regards to this.
	Well, here's the thing that triggered the column.
	This was for MarketWatch.
	I was moaning about this idiotic likes.
	Oh, likes.
	Like, anybody cares.
	You know, you got a bunch of likes.
	Oh, I got so many likes.
	What bothers me is now I'm finding webpages Where I go to the webpage and the webpage grays out completely so I can't see it and there's a little bitty icon in the middle of the page that's the Facebook logo and it says likes underneath it and then there's a little very small X to kill this thing or I click on the logo and it gives this website a likes.
	So in other words, they're giving me a splash screen for all practical purposes so I can give them a likes even though I've never seen this page before.
	You just got to do it now.
	I like it.
	I don't even know what it is.
	That shows you what a scam this whole likes thing is.
	They should get rid of it.
	No, no.
	You're going to facilitate now because we're going to use this like scam to get Miss Mickey some work here.
	So go to coverart.curry.com.
	You should do it now, John, before the chat room catches it.
	I don't have Facebook accounts.
	No, it's public.
	Coverart.curry.com.
	It's a public site, so you'll be able to see it.
	And if you don't have Facebook, sign up for Facebook.
	No, I'm not signing up.
	And like Ms.
	Mickey's art, Coverart.curry.com.
	Does it just take you to Facebook and you can't log in?
	It shows the art.
	Yeah, okay.
	What do you think?
	This is hers with the woman with the mask of stuff.
	That's a dude.
	It's a dude.
	Whatever.
	But anyway, it...
	Isn't that a handsome cover?
	Yeah, that's a very, and it looks very Dutch.
	Yeah.
	I mean, it has a Dutch kind of a style to it that it's hard to describe unless you've been there a few times.
	It's nice though, isn't it?
	So that's, we want everyone to like that.
	I don't like this one.
	It's a pretty girl, but it's not that good.
	I don't think the other ones are very good.
	I think they're okay.
	I mean, they're beautiful, but as covers, I don't think they quite do it yet.
	Well, let's see.
	No, no, there's one with the kid cut in half.
	It's no good.
	That's sick.
	No, no.
	See?
	There's only three.
	Yeah, they're also loading them over time.
	Oh, there's another one.
	Oh, this is terrible, this one.
	The hand blocking the sun on the woman's face?
	That's not good, right?
	That's not very good.
	No, I'm telling you.
	Miss Mickey's got a...
	I think it's a lock-in.
	We just need all the lights.
	Oh, this one here at the back of somebody's head or whatever it is?
	I can't even figure it out.
	Which one is that?
	I don't see the one with the back of someone's head.
	It's like a bunch of blonde hair and it looks like a wig.
	I don't even know what it is.
	It creeps me out for some reason.
	I've got to see.
	I don't even know.
	Oh, this guy is a horrible...
	I can't figure out how many likes she has.
	The guy with all the freckles or whatever he's got, he's got a burnt face.
	Not good.
	Oh man, Mickey has 200...
	I kind of like the one with the bird.
	What is this?
	It's hard to read the logo against that light yellow background.
	It almost washes it out.
	This is a problem because you see the kid cut in half?
	Yeah.
	That's got 228 likes.
	I don't get these numbers.
	And Mickey has 201 likes.
	Oh, you gotta pound it.
	This is crazy!
	And that's, I mean, with all due respect, that's not a cover.
	The kid cut in half.
	No, they've got a bot pounding the thing.
	Yeah, this is a scam.
	And the other thing that bothers me, it's like...
	While we're on it.
	It's like you go to some site, go come to our site, and you go to somebody's direction to go to something because they're going to give you information, let's say.
	And it's on Facebook.
	You've got to log into...
	Or how about this software?
	Here's some new date book software that help you remind you of this and that.
	Use your Facebook login.
	Oh, no.
	I don't do that.
	No, I don't do that.
	No, that's crazy if you do that.
	So the guy that has 228, he's, I think he's at the, does he teach at the academy?
	He's got all kinds of stooges.
	He's got thousands of listeners and some of them have Facebook accounts.
	It's a disappointment, but they do.
	Yeah, I'm translating here.
	For people who haven't done it yet, like my picture.
	Just hit the picture and click like.
	Of course, that's what everyone is doing.
	Ah, this like thing.
	It was so, I'll tell you, just to go along with your article.
	Because I read your article, it's a good article.
	In marketwatch.com.
	Yeah, funny enough, I found the article because Mike Elgin Google-plussed it.
	That Google Plus thing is pretty outrageous.
	It kind of works.
	So I'm going to try and not...
	Well, hopefully these people don't listen.
	I'll just tell you the story.
	So there's someone who does photography and it's of certain clothing, etc.
	And Mickey's like, oh, have you seen these pictures?
	I'm like, yeah, yeah.
	No, of course not.
	I said, let me open up Facebook.
	I'll look.
	And then she's like, oh, that one's really...
	Oh, that's a horrible picture.
	I know she said the dress or the picture or whatever.
	And I look at it and see, but it says you liked it.
	And you just told me that it's horrible.
	Yet you liked the picture.
	What does that say?
	What was her excuse for this anomaly?
	She went...
	Yeah, you're right.
	What is up with that?
	Because, you know, all you're doing is, you know, you don't actually want to comment and say, hey, that picture or that dress sucks.
	It blows.
	So instead of that, you just, I'll just click like and, you know, my conscience is clear.
	That's what it is.
	All of Facebook.
	Facebook is so idiotic and I just have to make jokes about it all the time because the whole thing is one big positive fakeness world.
	Never do you see someone post on Facebook Oh, I think I want to throw up from dinner.
	No, it's like, look at my amazing dinner.
	Here's a picture of my food.
	Woo!
	Awesome!
	I love the pictures of the food.
	Yeah.
	Not that I've never taken pictures of food, but I don't recall ever posting that.
	No, but it's all about everybody's amazing life.
	Yeah, I think that is your theory and I think you're right.
	It's a reality show.
	Look at all my friends.
	I got all friends.
	I got all these friends.
	I'm amazing.
	I'm communicating with my friends.
	I'm amazing.
	It's just amazing.
	It's so awesome.
	My life rocks.
	I just never read on this.
	This is the self-esteem generation.
	I never read about someone saying, actually my daughter does that.
	She's a terrorist on Facebook.
	She's like, this sucks.
	That's my daughter.
	Anywho.
	So they had that Google Plus thing, which I forgot to call the woman to get verified.
	Damn.
	Clarissa.
	Was her name Clarissa?
	You can't be in much of a hurry with that job.
	I forgot.
	Ah!
	Z, here's Mickey with an update.
	249 likes.
	We've beat the other guy.
	Keep it coming!
	So far, now it's a war.
	Yeah, well, of course it's a war.
	And this is just a live audience.
	This is just a live armé, yeah?
	There are no agenda armé fraccione.
	Once we go podcast, it's going to be all over.
	Yeah, it'll be good.
	This is good for the entire enterprise here.
	The infrastructure.
	Anyway, John, I'm so happy we have a new bad guy.
	Aren't you going to say hi first?
	Hi.
	In the morning to you, John C. Dvorak.
	I was hoping you'd say that so I could say in the morning to you, Adam Curry.
	Also in the morning to all the ships at sea, boots on the ground, subs in the water, feet in the air, and all the knights and dames out there.
	Yes, and of course our No Agenda Armé Fraccione in the chat room, noagendastream.com, noagendachat.net.
	Thanks everybody for liking Mickey's work.
	Just linking the liking.
	And our artist, Martin J.J. Struck again on episode 479.
	This is 480.
	And you never know what the artwork will be.
	Check it out.
	It seems as though the artwork No Agenda Art Generator is failing.
	Yeah.
	I got another note this morning saying I can't log on.
	People can't create a new account.
	Was it Paul Couture or was it one of the other guys who did that thing?
	I don't remember, but I think people can't create an account.
	Is that the problem?
	Yeah.
	So we can't get new artists?
	This is great.
	We have to put up another site if we can't get this one fixed.
	I don't know who has the back end keys.
	Let me see.
	Who is no agenda?
	I wish it was Randy Asher who did this site, but he disappeared.
	Well, this is what happens.
	You know, they're like Van Gogh's.
	Paul Couture?
	No, it's Paul Couture.
	I have his email.
	Hello.
	I forgot what it is.
	It's registered to Paul Couture.
	Okay.
	So I said, what was his email?
	Email here is paul at paulcouture.com.
	Oh, we'll try that.
	I have a different one from some...
	Yeah, I saw what you sent.
	Well, I really, really...
	Let me see, when does it expire?
	Ah, it expires July 29th of this year, so...
	We gotta wake up, Paul.
	Get your artwork in quick, people.
	Everything is going down the tube.
	As witnessed by today's lousy donations, which were subpar, to say the least.
	Let's thank our executive producers before we continue.
	I do have a story that we've been missing.
	We have one executive producer and two associates.
	The executive producer is Melody Muggler in Fountain, Colorado, who came in with $250.
	So she's got the good bonus executive producer number.
	And she wants to say greetings to Yoda, Han, and Leah, long-time boner, one-year, first-time donor.
	Found out about the best podcasts in the universe from Leo shows while deployed in Afghanistan.
	I should have written in sooner about the fighting season over there.
	Fact.
	I'm sorry.
	It's just like, oh man, I just got back from the fighting season in Afghanistan.
	Woo!
	Woo!
	Most of the fighters are imported in the spring and leave the country before winter hits.
	The locals are more or less waiting it out until 2014.
	Thanks for providing your insight into what is reported out there.
	I have included a list of possible subjects you may want to look into.
	Quote, Troops to Teachers program.
	Oh, man.
	School shooting or boot camp for all Coast Guard and drones.
	Hold on.
	Hold on.
	I've got to write this down.
	Hold on a second.
	Are you having trouble hearing me today?
	No.
	Are you just ignoring me?
	Okay.
	Hold on.
	Troops...
	To teachers.
	This is stuff we've got to look at, man.
	This is good stuff.
	Okay, what else do we have?
	Boot camp for all Coast Guard and drones.
	Should the Coast Guard be a loophole for drones to be flown in the U.S. or the start of the civilian military force?
	That's interesting.
	Of course.
	Well, the Coast Guard reports to Lucy Napolitano.
	I have a clip because they brought the Tiger teams into the Bay Area.
	Do you want to do that now or...
	No.
	It's not the Tiger team, by the way.
	It's the Viper team.
	But I like the Tiger team.
	Tiger team, Viper team.
	Yeah.
	Advertising.
	Yeah.
	G.I. Joe movie pulled from last summer release for 3D effects redo.
	Oh.
	Was the plot too much like something that happened in current events or something that is in the works?
	Oh.
	She wonders.
	Anyway, so we'll look into these things.
	Karma request.
	Hey, Citizen.
	John's saying fudged a deal, which we don't have as a clip.
	We don't have...
	No, but I think we can...
	I'll just say it.
	Yeah, we can just do this live.
	That's an idea.
	Right after Hey, Citizen, say fudged a deal.
	And then I have to play Hillary Too Delicious to Believe.
	And then Karma.
	Okay.
	Are you ready?
	She's in Drip Pan Fort.
	Of course, in Colorado, whatever.
	Yeah, hit it.
	All right.
	Hey, citizen.
	Fudge deal.
	It's almost too delicious to believe, my friend.
	You've got karma.
	I did not...
	I'm a little bearish on your fudge deal there.
	You didn't like it?
	It didn't sound gooey.
	I could have probably put more into it.
	Yeah, it's okay.
	I'm not getting work anyway as an actor.
	Well, maybe you can get in that new G.I. Joe redo.
	Steven Vanderhoof.
	Sir Steven, to you in Belhaven, North Carolina, 22345.
	My donation amount relates to the two firearms I've acquired since the November election.
	Another one taken in by the...
	Pharmaceutical complex.
	He got an AR-15 Colt 223 and a Remington 1911-45 automatic.
	I am ready to defend my life, my family, and my little bit of property, really.
	Against what?
	The choppers?
	Black helicopters?
	Against the flu?
	Against the weaponized flu?
	In answer to your question, a few shows ago, John H&K came out with a new upper receiver for the M16 M4 that uses a piston to push the bolt back.
	Earlier models have direct gas blowback, which over time will foul and jam the weapon.
	I'm not a credited gun buff, but that was one thing I heard about last year.
	Apparently you are a gun buff.
	You should talk to my massage guy with the stick and the rubber bands.
	I got a friend in the special ops who verified the article.
	I'd like to have a jobs, jobs, jobs.
	Don't look over there.
	Italian shut-up slave.
	Okay.
	He's glad you're back.
	You can read that.
	I'm just waiting for you to finish the actual...
	Glad to have Mr.
	and Mrs.
	Curry back in the United States Gitmo.
	There you go.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	Yeah!
	Nothing to see here.
	Ooh, look at that!
	Shut up, slave!
	Statsito scabble!
	There you go.
	Thank you, Sir Steven.
	Michael Levin in Brooklyn, New York, $200.
	It was another associate executive producer.
	ITM, Jeremiah, Alfonso, and Marjorie.
	Alfonso?
	He just, he won some karma.
	I have a feeling that these nicknames, I think they're hurting donations.
	You've got karma.
	Something is.
	Yeah, I mean, this has not been a good week, for sure.
	No.
	Why is that?
	Are we sucking?
	Is the value down?
	I mean, must be.
	I can't imagine.
	Are we just not doing a good job?
	Are we hitting the wrong things?
	Well, I got a story that should liven things up.
	You know what it is?
	I think it's because we missed it.
	We failed to report the story.
	This is from about two or three weeks ago.
	And we just dropped the ball on it.
	Talking about dropping stuff.
	So, you do hear about, you know, Al Roker goes to the White House and takes a dump in his pants.
	Oh, really?
	You're really going to do this story?
	That's the only explanation I can have for these donations.
	Okay, where is it?
	How come I can't find the clip?
	I know what clip you mean, but I can't.
	There's no clip.
	I got no clip.
	Oh, that he pooped his pants.
	I just wanted your thoughts.
	Can't a man ask for somebody else's thoughts once in a while?
	Yes, of course.
	I'm sorry.
	Without a clip?
	Can you imagine being in a normal situation?
	You're at a bar?
	Really?
	Yeah, I have a clip.
	That's funny.
	That's how I talk to people all the time.
	Hey man, how about those 49ers?
	Yeah, they're pretty good.
	Did you see what happened the other day?
	In fact, you know, John, this is how people operate.
	They do show clips.
	That's what the whole smartphone thing is about.
	Hey man, look at this crazy cat video.
	Happens all the time.
	No, no, no.
	I think what we...
	So yes, Al Roker pooped his pants and actually went on a press tour for it.
	And then he takes his dirty underwear and shoves them in one of the...
	He left them there.
	You know about that, right?
	Yeah, he threw them out and left them in the...
	In the garbage in one of the bathrooms in the White House.
	Yes, I know.
	Disgusting.
	Why would he even tell that story?
	The guy's an a-hole.
	And I want to thank Joe of HealthySurprise.com, who has always said, these boxes are nothing to be sneezed at, John, or snozen.
	Did you check it out with your blood type that you could eat all that stuff?
	No, because I got the box before I got the blood type thing, but I immediately ate the apple chips.
	I like those a lot.
	I did too.
	They're good, but you know they're $85 for one bag of chips.
	Adam, every year around this time I sit down and make a list of everything I'm grateful for.
	You and the No Agenda show are on that list.
	I don't have to go on about how much I enjoy the NA show and how you're doing something no one else is really doing.
	You've also inspired me about Austin, Texas and getting out of California.
	Healthy Surprise has been growing over the last year and a half, and when we outgrow our current facility, I'm thinking about moving out to Texas and the land of liberty!
	Enjoy these snacks.
	If you don't, I know Miss Mickey will.
	Here's to a great 2013.
	Thank you, Joe.
	That's really kind.
	That's very, very sweet.
	I like that.
	And, you know, yes, you should definitely come and check out Austin.
	Everyone else from California thinking about moving to Texas, we hear Dallas is nice.
	Move on.
	I like Dallas.
	So the script is playing out once again, John, and we have a new bad guy.
	And this is a great bad guy because he's hot looking.
	He's got an awesome nickname.
	He's got a name that you can, his real name, you can remember.
	I'm just so delighted that now that, you know, we will see Zero Dark Thirty is, of course, in the running for several Academy Awards.
	It will win one of them.
	Five, actually.
	Can I say something before you go on to this?
	Of course.
	Yeah.
	Of course.
	One of the reasons we're probably not doing well with donations is because we don't mention that perhaps if they went to Dvorak.org slash NA, it would increase the...
	So it's kind of like, you know...
	Maybe mention that we...
	Telling people where they can...
	There's places you can go.
	Where they can help us?
	Yeah, that's true.
	Dvorak.org slash NA. And it might be worthwhile to get people to get on the mailing list.
	Yeah, the mailing list is very worthwhile.
	You can find that in the show notes.
	Today's show notes will be 480.nashownotes.com.
	That's a part of the deal of our value for value proposition.
	We'll talk about that later on.
	And of course, if you do want to do something, you can always propagate the formula.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Milk.
	Water. Order.
	Shirt slave.
	Yes.
	Thank you for catching me.
	Okay, who's our new...
	Tell us about the new Osama.
	Well, first, let's listen to the script.
	You know, because we fixed Osama...
	We've got to get a new leader for the Al-Qaeda.
	We have Libya.
	We pretty much have Egypt in our back pocket.
	Looks like Syria is taken care of for now.
	That's just over on the other side there.
	But in Northern Africa...
	You know, or in Africa itself, we have these very important oil-rich nations, which would be Mali and Algeria, and we need to be in there.
	Actually, I question the Mali thesis, and I have a clip.
	Mali is not about the oil.
	Okay.
	There's no oil there, generally.
	There is most definitely oil.
	It's not about the oil, and that's why the French are involved.
	Well, let's listen to this.
	Well, as we've just heard, some analysts suggest Africa's untapped natural resources could be the main reason attracting Western powers to the continent.
	It's also being cited as a pretext for the intervention in Mali.
	Despite the country being considered among the world's poorest nations, it has plenty to offer when it comes to the wealth that lies beneath.
	The African nation is the continent's third largest producer of gold.
	As you can see here, it trails only South Africa and Ghana in that respect.
	And there are some forecasts...
	Did you tell me this is about gold instead of oil?
	Then you're falling for it.
	Nope, I'm not saying that at all.
	...it could move into first place in gold exports in the near future.
	Energy is another of Mali's economic trump cards, with its uranium deposits believed to number over 5,000 tonnes.
	France relies almost entirely on uranium as fuel for its nuclear power plants, and it's believed the French government is now eyeing the Mali deposits after its main source of uranium supply in Niger was threatened by major workforce strikes there.
	Oh, very good.
	But it's about something that they want to steal from Molly.
	Yeah, and gold's a bonus.
	Yeah, it's a huge bonus.
	So let's just say there's stuff there that we want, and we certainly don't want the Chinas.
	It's still the energy business, so there's an oil angle.
	Which is that if you're getting energy from the oil companies, there's something going on.
	It's a hedge.
	There's no oil there.
	But we also certainly want to make sure the Chinas stay out.
	That's always the case.
	We always want to keep the Chinas away from it.
	So we'll just roll out the script again.
	France's troops in Mali may have the support of the locals, but back home in Paris, the government is calling for a lot more aid.
	The battle for Mali, where Islamic militants control much of the country, is proving more difficult than expected.
	A West African force to total 5,000 troops is being deployed to lead the fight, but French and African leaders are asking other world powers for funding and logistical help.
	Sound familiar?
	Sound kind of like Libya?
	Residents of northern Mali have been fleeing south in a refugee crisis that the United Nations is warning could lead to hundreds of thousands of people being displaced.
	The Islamists have been targeting groups of girls and women to rape them.
	Oh, that's right!
	Refugees, rape them!
	That's why I left Gao with my daughters.
	Prediction!
	Angelina Jolie coming up!
	Came here.
	Safety is also a concern in areas outside the insurgents' control.
	Human Rights Watch has reported abuses by Malian security forces in the central town of Nyono.
	I'm just waiting for the Viagra angle, where they say, they were handing out Viagra so they could rape their women and children!
	I think that was a one-shot because that kept too much blowback.
	No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
	I don't know.
	We'll see.
	It never was used again.
	So we have a new guy who has been working for the CIA since 2003.
	Back in the day, he was a part of the group Preaching and Combat.
	The Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat is what it is.
	GSPC. And he's been in Algeria and Mali since 2003.
	His name is Mukhtar Bel Mukhtar.
	Listen to this.
	Listen to this.
	This is ABC News, by the way.
	And as you know, ABC News is the most compromised news organization in the business.
	The producers are married to people who are direct advisors to the president.
	It's complete incestuous business.
	Mokhtar Bel Mokhtar.
	Mokhtar Bel Mokhtar.
	Ruthless rogue Al-Qaeda leader.
	Ruthless rogue Al-Qaeda leader!
	Who bizarrely also runs an African organized crime network that reportedly has made tens of millions of dollars in ransom from kidnappings and the successful smuggling of diamonds, drugs, and cigarettes.
	Cigarettes!
	Okay, now this guy, if you look at his picture, it is...
	You know how we have the Sheen legacy?
	Where we have Martin Sheen and then we have...
	Mukhtar Mukhtar?
	Yeah, Mukhtar Bel Mukhtar.
	So this guy looks like a very young Osama Bin Laden, a handsome, devilishly handsome rogue man, and he's made millions in kidnappings and smuggling cigarettes, and we call him...
	His nickname is Mr.
	Marlboro.
	Mr.
	Marlboro, that's right.
	Now, in 2003, we used to call him the One-Eyed.
	That's according to a BBC report that I have here.
	He was known as One-Eyed.
	One-Eyed Mokhtar, Bel Mokhtar, Mr.
	Marlboro.
	He's very, very cold.
	Very business-like.
	The Canadian Robert Fowler, a former UN diplomat in Africa, was held hostage for four months by Bel Mokhtar.
	Now when you say UN diplomat, that's essentially spook.
	I think this guy was Canadian.
	So he's going to tell us how Mukhtar Bel Mukhtar is very cold and business-like.
	He's a rogue.
	He is the new devil.
	Until freed in 2009.
	Fowler says he is a man to be feared.
	I was afraid for my life all the time.
	I was afraid for my life when I woke up in the morning and when I went to sleep at night.
	He's a very serious player.
	Serious player.
	There you go.
	Mukhtar Bel Mukhtar, everybody!
	That is the new man.
	The new kid in town.
	Mr.
	Marlboro, one-eye.
	Mukhtar Bel Mukhtar.
	What's the one-eye?
	I don't know.
	He's got two eyes.
	Yeah, I know.
	I'm just saying.
	I'm reading it directly from the BBC website.
	He used to be in a band band.
	Used to be a what?
	Yes, the band of around 300 fighters reportedly aims to topple the Algerian government.
	Now, if you look at the timeline, 2003, this guy definitely is CIA. 100%, just like Bin Laden.
	Just like another psycho they've got on there.
	Of course, but have you seen pictures?
	I'm trying to find pictures.
	I've got one picture of some black guy.
	Yeah, he's got black hair.
	No, and he's got a turban, this guy.
	So if you look at Mokhtar Belmokhtar, I can't find a picture.
	It must be easy to find a picture.
	Maybe you're not spelling it right.
	Yeah, how am I supposed to spell it?
	M-O-K-H-T-A-R. M-O-K-H-T-A-R. Well, that's different than I'm spelling it.
	Well, yeah, but you might be dilapidated.
	M-O-K-H-T-A-R. M-O-K-H-T-A-R. Mokhtar Belmokhtar.
	Okay, Bel.
	B-E-L? Yeah, so it's all one word.
	Mokhtar Belmokhtar.
	Now my Google's not working.
	They don't want me to see his picture.
	Right there on images.
	I've got nothing.
	I've got a blank screen.
	Oh, this is so great.
	The PR is rocking.
	This is the Telegraph in the UK. Mokhtar Belmokhtar, face-to-face with the untouchable jihadist leader.
	Yeah.
	Mokhtar Belmokhtar.
	They are building this mother up!
	Well, they've been doing that for a couple of weeks.
	We probably could have gotten on this earlier.
	I always thought it was a good name.
	You know, my browser's done.
	Am I dead here?
	Browser down!
	Browser down!
	We have a buzzkill browser down!
	Vector 5!
	Vector 5!
	Is your Internet Explorer not working?
	That's what it looks like.
	Hang on.
	What was that browser that used to come with AOL? I don't know.
	Wasn't it...
	Didn't AOL have like a crazy-ass browser?
	What was that?
	No, wasn't that Netscape's browser eventually?
	I don't remember.
	Are you still using NCSA's Mosaic?
	The dynamically rendering images.
	Remember that?
	This machine, this second machine, luckily I've gone to a two-machine approach to this show.
	Oh, whoa!
	A two-machine approach, everybody!
	Welcome to year six of the No Agenda Show.
	Thanks.
	Hey, can't take a chance.
	Reading from The Independent.
	How Mr.
	Marlboro Mokdar Bel Mokdar's reign of terror struck fear into the heart of Mali.
	I mean, this is amazing.
	Oh, here's how he got his nickname.
	Oh, this is great.
	It's M-O-C-T-A-R. The application of Sharia law in the central eastern city by the supposed righteous one-eyed warlord.
	He's blind in one eye.
	He should have a patch.
	A patch would do it.
	That would be so much better.
	Yeah, they look like a pirate.
	His battalion is named Those Who Sign in Blood.
	I mean, this is...
	I can't...
	M-O-C-H-T-A-R, right?
	M-O-K... M-O-K-H-T-A-R. Jeez, Louise.
	I'm telling you, we should be writing the screenplay now.
	It's got everything.
	Those who sign in Blood Battalion.
	The One Eye.
	Mr.
	Marlboro.
	Come on.
	This has got everything you need in here.
	This is great.
	Are you still...
	I'm still struggling with this.
	Let me try it.
	Have you been able to find one...
	I can't.
	I'm telling you.
	Hey, everybody.
	And now it's saying, do you mean...
	Ah, finally.
	Now the guy looks like a total psycho.
	But look, doesn't he look great?
	Oh, yeah.
	And he has one eye.
	According to the reports, he has one eye.
	He must be blind in one eye.
	Look at his eye.
	His left eye.
	No, his right eye.
	His right eye looks closed.
	No, his right eye to you, but his left eye.
	Which one do you think is the bogative eye?
	I think the eye that's his left.
	His left.
	But that one's open more.
	It's bugged open because it's a phony eye and it's just stuck in there.
	It's a glass eye?
	Yeah, it would be.
	Oh man, does this get any better?
	I'm just this thing.
	He had a glass eye.
	There's only one picture of him.
	He made millions smuggling cigarettes.
	That's the second picture of him.
	His name is Mukhtar Bel Mukhtar, Mr.
	Marlboro, coming to kick your ass, whether you're in Mali or Algeria.
	Here's a picture of him from back in...
	Now, the Weinstein Company presents Mr.
	Marlboro.
	You know, the voiceover job is, you know, yours for the asking.
	Yeah.
	Mukhtar.
	Bel Mukhtar.
	Mukhtar.
	Bel Mukhtar.
	Now playing in theaters nationwide.
	What will the title of the movie be?
	Mr.
	Marlboro Goes to Washington?
	Would that be...
	Mukhtar smokes him.
	Whoa, I like that.
	Mukhtar.
	Smoke him if you got him.
	How about that?
	Mukhtar.
	Mukhtar Bell Mukhtar in Smoke Him If You Got Him.
	Because it's a series.
	It's not just one.
	So he made his living as a cigarette smuggler.
	Yes.
	Yeah, okay.
	But how did he lose the eye?
	Let me see.
	I'm starting to put a butt out on him or something.
	Let me see.
	Let me see if it says how he...
	Oh, here it is.
	On the BBC. Must be true.
	I got it.
	The guy has a great story.
	Okay.
	One-eye veteran.
	He's a veteran.
	Okay.
	Belmokhtar lost his left eye fighting with government troops in the 90s and now wears a false eye.
	It's glass.
	That's what I said.
	Do you actually...
	Is that the right...
	You know the one reason that I figured that one out?
	Because I was watching something on the military channel the other day, and there was some poor CIA guy who had gotten into a wreck, and I kept looking, and I said, what's wrong with this guy?
	Every time he blinked, only his right eye blinked, and I noticed that his other eye, which was bugged out, was a glass eye, because he got burned.
	This guy's got the same look.
	Just a vocabulary question.
	Do you wear a false eye?
	Is that correct?
	I don't know.
	Because the BBC says he now wears a false eye.
	It's not like a hat.
	No.
	Wears a false eye?
	Is that what you do?
	If the BBC says that, it must be true.
	Anyway, so what do you think?
	Okay, so we got the same script.
	We've seen this in military.
	I don't understand why they can't come up.
	Why bother coming up with something new?
	No, no, no.
	You already bought the cow.
	But this is what I'm saying, is you and I, and we're already late, I totally agree, but if we get on it now, we could have the screenplay done in six weeks, and we could start shopping this thing.
	You know, we'll, I mean, this is, it's a guaranteed winner.
	People will option it.
	They'll definitely option it.
	They'll be like, eh.
	What we have to do is a small book.
	A giblet.
	A giblet.
	No agenda world do this book for us.
	Everyone can get a chapter and volunteer.
	Uh-huh.
	Crank out a book that is a story, and then we can option the book as a screenplay.
	Yeah.
	Unless you want to do a treatment, is what you're saying.
	Yeah, we have to have a screenplay.
	No, you have to do a treatment before you do a screenplay.
	Nobody looks at screenplays anymore.
	Look at treatments.
	No, we just want to have the book so that someone can option the book to do the screenplay.
	Or we can do a treatment which is less sized than a book.
	John, let's be honest.
	We're not even going to write a frickin' book.
	Eh, well, treatment's shorter.
	But maybe we could just...
	You know what's important?
	How about doing a one-page outline?
	That's kind of...
	That's more our style.
	Yeah, you get right on that after the show.
	A one-page outline.
	Now, I'm too busy, man.
	I'm busy because the show is not going to carry me through the rest of my life.
	So I'm making a product.
	I'm making an HF, SDR, QRP, digital mode transceiver.
	What?
	Yeah, exactly.
	You're going to have Made in China?
	Oh, yeah.
	No, of course I want to talk to you about that.
	Oh, should I upgrade my Java?
	No, probably not.
	Okay, let's go over some of the clips we got here.
	Well, I was going to play something.
	I was leading into my clip.
	Oh, I thought you were done.
	No, it's leading into my clip that I'm creating a product for ham radio operators that...
	Oh, no, I'm talking...
	Do you have a clip about that?
	Yes, I do.
	I thought you were going to have a clip about Mokhtar Mokhtar.
	No, I'm done with him.
	We're going to do an outline after the show, a one-pager, and then we'll chop that around.
	All right.
	We're in the money.
	Hell, yeah.
	And while we're waiting for our ship to come in, I'm going to try building a Chinese piece of crap product and sell it to ham radio operators around the world.
	All right, tell me about it.
	The audience has got to be big.
	I mean, how many operators are there?
	There's got to be millions of them.
	I hope so.
	Yeah, you only have to advertise in three magazines, and they spend thousands of dollars.
	Yeah, that is kind of the advantage when you have such targeted marketing.
	Exactly.
	So I have come up, I'm not going to tell you exactly what it is, but I've come up with it, and I'm already prototyping it, and it's going to be really fun, really kick-ass, but I have another market.
	Call it Radio Narco.
	It's enough telecom equipment to communicate across states and international borders.
	State-of-the-art gear that includes antennas, transmitters, receivers and other equipment, in this case seized by the Mexican Army.
	Equipment is available to just about everybody.
	And it can be set up in just a matter of a few hours.
	Lozano says the cost of installing a radio station can be as low as $5,000.
	More sophisticated systems can cost up to $30,000.
	Small change for international criminal organizations.
	Exactly.
	I think we're good to go.
	My product is perfect for Mexican narcos.
	So you're okay.
	It's perfect for it.
	It's some sort of repeater.
	No, no, no.
	Stop guessing.
	It's going to be a great product.
	The point is, it's a digital product.
	It's going to get a lot of people interested in ham radio.
	And maybe just put an ICOM sticker on it.
	I know exactly what it is.
	You do?
	It's something I want.
	Tell me what you want.
	It's a digital continuous wave code key broadcaster.
	All you do is type in the computer and it sends it out as Morse code.
	Yeah, only that it can do the Morse code, but it's a little faster if we use Olivia or PSK63. OCW. Okay, we'll make a Bakelite version for you that does CW. Okay?
	No problem.
	Yeah, Bakelite.
	You know, I think I've always wanted to own a Bakelite place.
	A factory that makes Bakelite.
	You know, Bakelite is still manufactured.
	What is it used for?
	Bakelite is the original plastic.
	No, I know what it is because I used to have a phone made out of Bakelite with a rotary thing on it.
	But where does it come in handy these days?
	It comes in handy in situations where you don't want...
	It won't transmit...
	You can't get energy.
	It's essentially an insulator.
	It insulates from electrical current.
	It insulates from heat.
	It's very useful.
	Right, right, right, right.
	It also makes funky things because you've got that feel, that kind of weird feel of Bakelite.
	It's not cold, it's not hot.
	It's hard to, you know, when you've got it, when you have Bakelite in your hands, because of the heft and the relative temperature of the Bakelite compared to the temperature of the room, you know you've got Bakelite.
	Right, and it's cool when you hit it with a hammer.
	It shatters.
	Yeah.
	In one go.
	It's awesome.
	Bakelite.
	Yeah.
	Used to have a bakelite.
	Okay.
	How about a clip?
	Yes.
	How about one?
	Viper teams in Emeryville.
	Now I want you to pay careful attention to the man on the street that they interview and it gives you all this insight.
	I think we need to set it up just a little bit and it comes along with the news which was completely misinterpreted by many.
	I'm so surprised that the TSA is removing the initial slave scanners.
	I actually have two of those clips too.
	I have body scanners one and body scanners two.
	I'm going to set it up and then you roll out the clippage.
	So the RAPISCAN backscatter contract has been terminated, which, by the way, means that L3 Communications gets the new contract.
	So this is just money going from one slave scanner to another slave scanner.
	And strangely enough, there were people who actually know me who sent me emails saying, isn't it great?
	They're going away!
	Bzzzzzzzzz!
	And as a part of the complete entrapment of the citizenry, we have these Viper teams, which is the rapid response TSA agents who show up at sporting events, school sock hops, and at train stations, apparently.
	Sock hops is where it's most important.
	Let's play a couple body scanner clips.
	Hey, let's play some body scanner clips.
	Here's what's interesting to me about it.
	Is that, yeah, they're going to pull them out.
	There's two things.
	One, I was under the impression, and tell me that you were too, or don't.
	Yeah, I'll tell you something.
	I was under the impression that they had fixed these RapaScan jobs, so all you got was an outline.
	Oh, we only get an outline.
	You can't see the naked body.
	Blah, blah, blah.
	And now we understand that you can't.
	They never did this.
	It was all bogus.
	They lied to us.
	Oh!
	Yeah, that's one thing.
	The second thing is, and I think the real reason for this, you know, because the software apparently, they can't fix it with software, so they have to pull them all out.
	But the other thing I think they still have not addressed or gotten around is the kiddie porn issue.
	It is against the law in this country to even have a kiddie porn image, even if you don't look at it.
	But if you are in possession, there's no circumstances where you can be in possession of a kiddie porn image.
	That is not true.
	If you work at the Pentagon, that is okay.
	Because they've...
	Right, well, these people don't work at the Pentagon, so the TSA people are collecting kiddie porn essentially every time they send a little girl through the scanners, and they do that, even though they try not to so much.
	But anyway, so they can never get around that, but they're not talking about...
	And then the other thing is, which was in one of the reports, if you read the news, that is not covered by any of these TV stores, and I have two TV stores that are never mentioned.
	Apparently, RapaScan had phonied up some test results, and they were caught red-handed with a bunch of bad information, and they were just, part of this is the process of scolding them for bullcrap.
	And we saw this in the testimony.
	No, we didn't see all of it, because some of that testimony was locked.
	Oh, yeah, it's a state secret.
	Yeah, woo!
	But anyway, so let's just play these two things and you get the idea.
	Body scanners one and body scanners two.
	This in recent memory is being removed now from airports.
	The TSA said it couldn't resolve privacy problems with those expensive and revealing full-body x-ray scanners.
	But that doesn't mean that all of the scanners are going away.
	Natasha Barrett is at Dallas Airport tonight with a look at what to expect the next time you fly.
	Natasha?
	Well, Leon, there's been a lot of talk about those revealing body scanners right now.
	Interesting how now there's talk, revealing, revealing, so revealing.
	You know, it's the same press who were sucking the Politano's cock the whole time when they were rolling him out.
	Not as much radiation as from a cell phone.
	Yeah, and now it's like, oh, it's revealing, you whores.
	76 of them have been removed from airports nationwide.
	174 to go, including the ones here at Dulles Airport.
	But before all that happens, the new and improved ones have to be installed.
	The company that makes the Rapiscan body scanners used at Dulles Airport and Nationwide couldn't make passenger images less revealing.
	Now the Transportation Security Administration will remove the naked image scanners at all airports.
	The company, OSI Systems, loses its $5 million contract with the government and must pay to remove the scanners.
	If you're a freaking flyer like...
	Wait, stop, stop.
	Do you think we can pick a couple of these up?
	Well, that'd be cool.
	Can you imagine how awesome at the front of the White House, our White House here in Austin, you have to go through the naked body scanner?
	I don't see why not.
	I mean, they should go for maybe a couple hundred bucks.
	Yeah.
	You're going to have to either scrap them or sell them.
	Oh, John, I have another great business idea.
	We buy up a couple of these and turn them into showers.
	I guess you don't like my idea.
	I'm trying to imagine what you're talking about.
	You make showers and you sell them as a cool-looking shower.
	You mean you walk between the two and then you get blasted with water?
	No, no, no.
	People put these in their bathrooms as a shower.
	It's a conversation piece.
	Yeah, well, that's for sure.
	You have to have a pretty big bathroom.
	All right.
	Body Scanners Part 2.
	I want to finish one.
	I'm digging your clip.
	Internationally, if you want to maintain a high degree of security...
	The RapidScan machines will be replaced by new body image scanners, which must have privacy software.
	60 new scanners will be installed this month and next month.
	I mean, it doesn't matter to me if somebody can see my body for like a split minute or something, like 30 seconds.
	That doesn't bother me.
	I'll take your dress off, bitch!
	No!
	You know, I was thinking the same thing.
	Here she is.
	It doesn't bother me.
	Show me your tits.
	Yeah, for just a split second.
	Just for a minute.
	Yeah, it's only a split minute.
	Oh, come on.
	Flash a nip.
	Come on, baby.
	Come on.
	Just for a second.
	You don't mind, baby.
	You don't mind.
	You know, these news reporters, they only...
	What is the...
	What happened to the...
	The journalism school thing where you're supposed to get a pro and a con.
	So you get the one guy saying, oh, safety, I need safety.
	I feel real good about the safety.
	And then you get somebody that says, I think these things are stupid.
	What good do they do?
	There's just a bunch of TSA theater.
	Where's that clip?
	Instead, we have a guy saying it's great because it makes me feel safe when I travel internationally.
	And then some chick who wants to be an exhibitionist.
	How is that balanced reporting?
	Does it get better than this?
	Does it get even better than what I just heard?
	No.
	That's the best act.
	I want to hear it again.
	I want to hear it again.
	I can see my body for like a split minute or something.
	You know, 30 seconds.
	She's even defined.
	30 seconds.
	You know, it's like a minute.
	I'm okay with 30 seconds.
	For those of you listening at home, Okay.
	Let's try it right now.
	Let's just look.
	30 seconds.
	Okay.
	Are you ready?
	Time.
	You ready?
	You ready to go?
	Yeah, I'm ready.
	Okay.
	And I'm going to look at your boobs.
	Go.
	I got the time.
	I got the stopwatch going.
	I'm looking at them.
	I'm looking at it from the side.
	Maybe we'll look at it from the top profile view.
	Hmm.
	Oh, is your nipple stiffening just because I'm looking at it?
	Because it's only 12 seconds so far.
	You okay?
	You sure you're okay with this?
	You really okay?
	Oh, yeah.
	The left one seems a little bit bigger than the right one.
	That's kind of interesting.
	Oh, well, I have to say it's been very nice, this little encounter we've had together.
	And you can now pack up your boobs in two, one.
	Thank you very much.
	Yeah, it's a long time.
	It's more about security to you.
	Yeah, I'm more concerned with security, yeah.
	While you're secure, Matt, please move along.
	TSA released this statement today.
	By June 2013, travelers will only see machines which have automated target recognition.
	Automated target recognition.
	Well, I know where I'm putting the bullseye.
	That allow for faster throughput.
	This means faster lanes for the traveler and enhanced security.
	As always, use of this technology is optional.
	Yeah, thank you, because we prefer valet service.
	We don't want targeted service.
	We want valet service.
	You can skip a clip, too, and let's go on to the Viper teams.
	Because in the Viper teams clip, and I've always believed that this whole thing is a...
	Well, we both think so.
	This is a scam to sell these machines, and they're going to put them in everywhere.
	And they're going to put them in at this idiotic train station, which is...
	But anyway, so the Viper teams show up in Emeryville and the report we get, this fawning report about how great it is, shows no balance against it.
	One guy does say, I don't think we need any more security than we have.
	But everybody else is going on and on about how great it is because it's better to be safe than sorry.
	Might as well be prepared.
	I love it.
	This is fantastic stuff.
	She noticed them right away.
	The many black-clad TSA inspectors at the Emeryville Amtrak station.
	And it's a presence she appreciates.
	Would you like to see them out here more often?
	I would.
	What?
	Ken Hurd.
	Just in case, you never know.
	Ladies and gentlemen, this is Trade 528-528.
	As part of their nationwide Viper team effort, the Transportation Safety Administration put about a dozen agents at the Emeryville station to see and be seen.
	We've blurred their faces because some of these TSA inspectors also work undercover.
	The visible deterrent is making a presence known at the station, getting on the train, talking to passengers, letting the bad guys know that we're here and letting the passengers know that we're here and working with law enforcement to really tailor our Viper teams to their needs.
	The idea is to look for signs of trouble in a place that can be difficult to police because of its wide open environment.
	That said, the TSA and Amtrak believe that working together they can make rail travel as safe as it can be.
	We do have random baggage checks, and we do have, at some of the larger stations, we have canine units, and we do random sweeps of stations and tracks and infrastructure.
	Some of those who regularly travel on Amtrak told us they think the current level of security is just enough.
	You wouldn't want to go through screening, would you?
	No, I would hope that we don't come to that.
	I can't see trains being really the source of a security problem, but maybe I'm not imaginative enough.
	Now, the TSA's Viper teams aren't just used to patrol transportation sites like this one.
	They also have been and will be used at high-profile events, many of them here in the Bay Area.
	We'll have more for you on that tonight on ABC 7 News at 6.
	In Emeryville, Lori Anthony, ABC 7 News.
	I would just like to play a quick clip from our president just a couple years back.
	Imagine boarding a train in the center of a city.
	No racing to an airport.
	And across the terminal, no delays, no sitting on the tarmac, no lost luggage, no taking off your shoes.
	No, that's funny.
	I guess you don't have to because you just go through the naked body scanner.
	It's only 30 seconds that they're looking at you.
	It's okay.
	Naked?
	Yeah, it's all good.
	It's totally good.
	So, they're walking around, so the bad guys, so that makes the bad guys aware that they're there.
	Why don't they just arrest the bad guys?
	What is happening on the trains that they need these idiots roaming around the Gestapo in the all black?
	Need, we remind you.
	45 on their hip.
	I don't think they're armed.
	Are they armed?
	Oh, God, yes.
	Not the TSA. These Viper teams have got 45s on their hips, and they're big ones.
	Really?
	Yep.
	Let me take a look.
	It's not just a normal, like a shoulder, or a 45 normal holster.
	It's kind of on some sort of a pivot.
	It's like a fast draw holster.
	They got the leg brace, the leg strap?
	Yeah.
	Oh, my God.
	It's a really fancy looking thing.
	It looks expensive, whatever it is.
	It's got a big clip over the top.
	It's probably got that magnet so only you can get it out of the holster.
	Wow.
	But I thought TSA, well, what do I know?
	They're armed to the gills.
	They're walking up and down the train.
	Those guys look scary.
	And it's like, we're making everyone aware we're here to make sure the bad guys know we're here.
	What bad guys?
	What, people randomly paying $40 to ride the train?
	Mr.
	Marlboro.
	What are they doing on the train?
	Mr.
	Mulbrook.
	I mean, I just thought it was...
	And nobody's upset.
	You have some old woman.
	Oh, it's great.
	Better to be safe than sorry.
	Better to be safe than sorry.
	It's great.
	Play the very beginning of that clip again so you can hear that woman.
	Okay.
	What was she doing?
	Viper team, right?
	No.
	Yeah.
	Might as well be prepared.
	This Amtrak...
	Might as well be prepared.
	A passenger says she noticed them right away.
	The many black-clad TSA inspectors at the Emeryville Amtrak station.
	And it's a presence she appreciates.
	Would you like to see them out here more often?
	I would.
	What?
	Can't hurt.
	Can't hurt.
	It's all good.
	Can't hurt.
	What an idiot.
	Well, all of this, you know, they're really ratcheting it up again.
	And I do have some interesting news that kind of relates to...
	I thought we killed Bin Laden.
	I forgot to mention, in the Zero Dark Thirty movie, they refer to him once again as Usama Bin Laden.
	This has never really been explained to me.
	Right, we actually discussed this about four years ago.
	Yeah.
	The difference between the Osama and the Usama.
	Must be a different guy.
	Right?
	Yeah, could be.
	Well, do you remember the outcome of that discussion?
	It was just, it was a style of consideration depending on the media outlet.
	Well then, but the movie...
	And I would say that the president, everyone's talking about Osama, Osama, Osama.
	In the movie, it's all Osama, Osama, Osama.
	And they're all saying Osama?
	Yes, yes.
	Osama.
	Must be code for something.
	Or they just say Bin Laden, which is even trickier.
	Because Bin Laden, there's a hundred people in that family.
	It could be anyone, Bin Laden.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, so we did have an interesting occurrence take place up there in the Seattles coming in from Hawaii.
	We had quite a scare.
	NORAD was alerted.
	And this all goes along.
	These media reports, it's all a part of just indoctrinating the citizenry of Gitmo Nation with fear, fear of death.
	Death.
	But the words matter in this one.
	It's just very interesting to listen to this report.
	It was a call that triggered a national security response.
	This is just right there.
	You already know enough.
	You can make a call.
	A call can be made.
	A national security response, which is bullcrap.
	I didn't get like some kind of air raid sirens going off in Austin, Texas.
	It's a national signal.
	Phone call made!
	Phone call made!
	Trigger the alert!
	This afternoon, the FBI office in Honolulu, Hawaii, received an anonymous phone call from somebody indicating that there was a hijacker on board Alaska Flight 819.
	A hijacker.
	Now, notice, when is the last time we had a hijacker?
	In the 70s, I think.
	I mean, really?
	Take this plane to Canada.
	Quebec!
	Take it to Quebec!
	Oh, it's a Dreamliner.
	Crap!
	Land it quick!
	From Kona on Hawaii's Big Island, bound for Seattle.
	I mean, if you're a hijacker, I mean, just logically, who hijacks an airplane going away from Hawaii?
	This is crazy!
	What, take me to Cuba?
	Really?
	From Hawaii?
	Which way you want to go?
	I mean, a hijacker.
	You know, they didn't say, a terrorist.
	This is why the thing is bogative.
	You know, I don't hear the word, he wasn't screaming, ala akbar, none of this stuff, you know, there's no, just hijacker.
	Seriously, last time a plane was hijacked, it is 70s, I can't remember anything past that.
	And the caller actually gave the name of a person who was in fact a passenger on that flight.
	The FBI alerted the flight crew on board.
	They monitored the passenger, but noticed nothing unusual.
	What does that even mean?
	Hey, Jim.
	He was sleeping.
	Monitor the passenger in 35H. Yeah, I got my eye on him.
	Can you imagine somebody calls you in, some joker calls you in, and then everyone walks by you after that, the whole flight, looking funny at you like...
	Yeah, Hawaiian Airlines, 819, monitor passenger in seat 35A, possible 100.
	Yet NORAD confirms, out of an abundance of caution, it launched Operation Noble Eagle.
	Operation Noble Eagle!
	America!
	Fuck yeah!
	You got a hijacker.
	We're launching Operation Noble Eagle, bitches.
	He scrambled two F-15 aircraft and directed them to escort a commercial airliner.
	After guiding the plane to a safe landing, Port of Seattle police boarded...
	They couldn't land safely without the guidance of the jets.
	It's impossible, you know, because they might have flown to Quebec.
	This guy did nothing to indicate he was a hijacker on the plane, and there's nothing in his background to indicate he has a proclivity for that.
	So now the FBI may have another case to investigate, whether or not that anonymous person called in a hijack hoax.
	And I can promise you that the FBI in Honolulu is going to investigate that, because that's just not something that we can stand for.
	That's just not something we can stand for.
	We can't.
	We had uprising Noble Eagle in full effect.
	And this was a hijack hoax.
	We're not going to stand for that.
	I mean, is...
	Yeah, cool.
	So, okay, here's where I saw this story, and I said, well, okay, there's some, this guy, the guy is the key to figure out who called it in, because I would assume that unless the guy was a complete moron, which is possible, and he called it in, I guess, from the land.
	He didn't call from his cell phone on the plane.
	Right, yeah.
	So how would he know anything was going on in the plane?
	But that's okay.
	So he calls it in from some, probably, I would think a phone booth or someplace or somebody else's phone booth.
	Do they still exist?
	Do phone booths exist?
	Can you find one?
	Well, yeah, I think there's still one or two around.
	I don't know how you're going to get away with this, because unless he had a burner or he found a phone or somebody else's SIM card, I don't know how you...
	Whatever the case is, this is somebody...
	These guys are like frat pals or something, and this guy thought it would be funny.
	Hey, I got a funny idea.
	Well, check this out.
	You know Bill's flying back to Seattle?
	I'm going to call him in as a hijacker.
	Oh yeah, that would be great!
	This is the kind of clowns that we have.
	This is the kind of thing that goes on.
	And meanwhile, the security apparatus can't deal with it.
	They're going to throw the book at it.
	But they're angry.
	It costs like hundreds of thousands of dollars to scramble jets.
	We're not going to have this.
	The FBI is not going to have this hijacking hoax business.
	It's not just...
	Listen to the guy.
	Called in a hijack hoax.
	And I can promise you that the FBI in Honolulu is going to investigate that because that's just not something that we can stand for.
	That's just not something we can stand for, young man.
	It's like, you know, when your mom would, like, grab your face and squeeze your chin really hard and say, this is just not something you can stand for, little man.
	Geez Louise.
	No, my mom did.
	That was her thing.
	If I was a brat in public, then she'd take her hand and put it underneath my chin around my face and squeeze my cheeks really hard.
	But she'd be like, oh honey, now we're going to be really nice.
	I have permanent rosy cheeks.
	But she would say something like, oh no, we're going to be really sweet, aren't we?
	While she was squeezing my cheeks.
	Child abuse.
	Nah, fuck that.
	I miss her.
	She's dead now.
	This sucks.
	I'd give anything for her to squeeze my face.
	And you know what?
	She also threatened me with the hairbrush.
	She combed your hair?
	No, no.
	She was going to threaten you in particular.
	She said, I'm going to cut your hair.
	No, she would spank me with the hairbrush.
	She only did it once or twice, but as an uber threat, if you do...
	There's no leverage on a hairbrush.
	That's not a good spanking.
	Wait!
	Here's the leverage.
	If you do that, I'm spanking you with the hairbrush, bristle side down.
	Oh.
	That was her leverage.
	It was one of the spiky ones with the metal.
	Yeah, and it had to make you think you're going to be punctured.
	I was abused as a child.
	Hold on a second.
	This is bad.
	Well, you did start taking notes on this.
	Everything you've told me so far is pretty abusive.
	I'm having flashbacks.
	Oh, no.
	I've been abused.
	I'm an abused child.
	He was always abused.
	Ah, which leads me right into the war on brains.
	Everybody.
	Yeah, the war on brains.
	So, of course, we discovered on the previous episode, and this is really why you should be donating to this show, because you're not going to find anywhere an analysis of this gun legislation that is really just a...
	The icing on the cake for the pharmaceutical, for the entire pharma industry, for the healthcare industry, which is what it is.
	And we're now going to find 750,000 new folks, young folks in schools who have mental health issues, and we're going to cure them, which of course we do with all kinds of medication.
	And the reason you're not seeing any of that analysis is because the pharmaceutical business, the industry, pays for most media.
	Just look at the commercials.
	A shout-out, by the way, to Farmer Chris in Austin at the market where we get our eggs.
	His wife gave him a smartphone for his birthday.
	And so now we can listen to the show.
	And he's freaking out.
	He loves the show so much.
	And he's now like complete crackpot.
	He's connecting dots.
	He's like, remember the PB... What?
	It sounds like he should start giving you free eggs.
	No, no, no.
	We pay for our...
	There's value for value.
	He thought that the PBA drug, the laughing and crying drug, he thought it was very convenient that came out right around the time when we had all of these Sandy Hook parents laughing hysterically.
	Interesting, right?
	Interesting.
	I liked it.
	Hey, that actor.
	Yep.
	He's laughing too much.
	But he was funny about his wife.
	He's like, my wife, she's drinking the Kool-Aid.
	She's totally hypnotized.
	And she watches the news and they'll say, how was the news, honey?
	She said, oh, there was only drug commercials.
	Mm-hmm.
	Exactly.
	All right, so this is from PBS, which is another national treasure here in the United States of Gitmo Nation.
	It's public television where they get money from, what do you get?
	Advertisers.
	That's right.
	Every 16 minutes they roll out commercials on this public utility.
	And they have this woman on, and she is from a D.C. organization.
	She's a doctor, a doctor.
	And, hold on a second, War on Brains.
	I'm looking at the show notes, 480.nashownotes.com.
	She's from the Nation's Children's Hospital, the Children's National Medical Center, which is in D.C., which, I'm not quite sure what it is, but it looks probably like a front for lobbying.
	And here's this doctor who thinks it's just great that the president has enacted these presidential memoranda so we can get mental health, finally, some help in schools.
	It's really to provide the services in the school systems by having counselors, by having psychologists, mental health social workers in the school setting because that's where children spend most of their day.
	It's easily accessible and, in fact, there was a Mental Health in School Act that was proposed in the 112th Congress that put forth funding for this particular intervention And I'm hoping that, you know, this sad, horrific event will, you know, make us rethink supporting this particular bill so we can put the resources in the school system.
	Great!
	So we're getting lots of resources into the school system.
	And, of course, I checked H.R. 751.
	That is the Mental Health in Schools Act of 2011.
	The purpose of the Act is to revise, increase funding for, and expand the scope of the Safe Schools Healthy Students Program in order to provide access to more comprehensive school-based mental health services and supports.
	Now, do you really think that they're going to put these, what did she say, psychologists, counselors, monitors, that these people are going to be in the school going, oh, come here, Timmy, let me hold your hand, let's talk about your fears.
	No!
	It's like, here, Timmy, pop this pill, it'll be groovy!
	This is the legitimate drug dealers now being welcomed into your child's school.
	What's interesting about this, there's a couple of little sub-stories going on, but one of the things that's interesting to me is that with the Sandy Hook thing, it was kind of a double-edged sword because they're trying to push stuff, but these are first and second graders in kindergarten.
	What are they going to do?
	Oh, I'm glad you asked.
	We need to catch them early on, John.
	Yeah.
	But at the same time, you know, it's a well-known fact that 50% of...
	Well-known fact!
	Science!
	I want you to hear everything.
	This is kind of hard to hear.
	50% of those who have eventually a mental illness starts before the age of 14, and about three-quarters have mental illnesses by the time they reach 24.
	So in my mind, and from my perspective, mental health is really a children's issue.
	And so if we can catch them young and we can intervene early on, I think we'll go a long way in not seeing adults becoming aggressive, violent, because we'll be able to treat some of the illnesses early on.
	Let me just review.
	We've got to catch them.
	We've got to catch them early.
	We can treat them.
	Catch them early, treat them.
	Catch them early, treat them.
	The kind of sub-stars.
	I actually saw that woman do that thing.
	I didn't think it was clip-worthy, but you have better backup material.
	But there's a couple other things that were going on.
	One was Chunk.
	Chunk, yeah.
	He did a whole thing.
	I clipped if I didn't bring it.
	You didn't bring it to the party?
	I didn't bring it to the party.
	I shouldn't bring it to the party.
	You're at the wrong party, my friend.
	But now I'll just tell you.
	And he came up with this thing that was just hilarious.
	And it was an analysis.
	And it actually, I was thinking about it.
	Because I was in the petroleum industry during this era when we switched from leaded gas to unleaded gas.
	And there's a thesis floating around out there that all the school violence and all these guys, especially as they're getting older, were all brain damaged by the amount of lead that was put into the environment until about 1972 or so when lead was taken out of gasoline.
	And so you had this huge spike in crime.
	Say you were a little kid and you were affected by the lead in 1970.
	You'd be 14 years old.
	You'd be like in the mid-80s.
	You'd be a violent person.
	Right, right.
	You'd be brain damaged and then you'd be violent.
	And he showed, and I had to say, the chart was good, how crime went up and up and up.
	Yeah, but this is a story that's been around.
	Yeah, it's been around, but I think there's two interesting kickers.
	One, it's a possibility.
	And two, was that all that stuff with Police Chief Bratton and all these other guys and the current downtrend in crime has nothing to do with the police.
	Right.
	He wouldn't come out right out and say it, but the police are, you know, kind of not important in this whole scheme of things.
	And the drug kids now, it's like this little, it's not, they don't need it now because there's not this lead in the environment.
	The second thing was, and this is what really galls me in I don't want to get too far off the track, but there was a thing that happened with Bette Midler, who came out with a couple other people and bitched about the reason that we're having all these school shootings and other things, which are, as we know, are really not uncommon, it's not more than ever, is because of Ronald Reagan.
	And how he let all the insane people out in California and they closed the mental hospitals.
	Yeah!
	I actually have a small clip of that here, but then I want to comment on it because, to me, it's the most outrageous thing.
	Let's do it.
	Let's do it.
	It's about crazy people.
	It fits right in.
	The Reagan insane asylums, ready?
	Yeah.
	Basically, Dr.
	Joe Schiff.
	Oops.
	Sorry.
	No, no, no, no.
	You and Bette Midler need your head examined, okay?
	Maybe you guys should be, not you, maybe her, institutionalized.
	The number of institutionalized mentally ill people in the U.S. dropped from 560,000 to 130,000 in the 60s, long before Reagan came to play into this.
	He did not do that.
	Of course he did it.
	I mean, he did it.
	Deputizing doctors, it's very dangerous making them informants.
	To Greg's point, it should be the family who knows the patient best that commits them.
	So, Dana, on one hand, Schieffer compares the gun debate to Hitler and Osama bin Laden.
	Bette Midler says it's Reagan's fault.
	Robert Redford said...
	So...
	I remember this period, and it actually did begin in the 60s, long before Reagan, and it began and got into full steam, and again, by the way, there was lots of lead in the, there was a lot of tetraethyl lead that was in the environment during this era.
	Yeah, excellent movie.
	And then became a movie in the early 70s.
	And that shut the door on the whole idea that we should be locking people up left and right.
	But this was all...
	There wasn't one conservative in the country that was for this.
	And Reagan just went along with it because he's in a liberal state in California when he was governor.
	He essentially shut down half of the places.
	And all the liberals, not to make this a dichotomous complaint, but all the liberals were applauding it.
	And now they're blaming him.
	I mean...
	Make up your mind, people, on what side of the fence you want to be on with anything that goes on out there.
	Done.
	Juicy fruit.
	My favorite kind.
	Hey.
	Hey, hey, hey.
	Hey, hey, hey.
	How about that?
	Anyway.
	Well, I find it fascinating that I have some more backup material about what is really happening here because we are...
	All of our rights and privacy and basic things are being so violated.
	I mean, like a big, huge tree trunk is reaming us from behind while we're all being distracted with this, like, you know, can it have a pistol grip bullcrap?
	Seriously.
	I know that one still cracks me up.
	It's a big, big joke.
	Have you heard of the rationale for that?
	No.
	We actually had a clip where it was suggested.
	No, what is it?
	Well, the pistol grip keeps the gun from riding.
	When you're firing in semi-automatic mode, it starts lifting on you.
	Well, how come shotguns that they do skeet shooting with don't have that then?
	Well, because you're shooting one shot at a time.
	Well, actually, when you're shooting traps, you can shoot two or three shots off.
	Yeah, not two.
	You don't have to use a side-by-side or an over-and-under.
	I think I've seen the competitions where the over-and-under guys reload, don't they?
	Am I imagining that?
	I think you're right.
	I think I've seen that.
	I think in a technical competition, I think you can only have two shells.
	I think.
	I don't know.
	I've shot skeet and I've shot traps.
	But I had a side-by-side, so I was reloading all the time.
	I don't know what the rules are.
	So let me wrap up this thing with this woman, and of course this is the culmination of the conversation, is really what we're talking about here.
	If your doctor can, and I'm going to tell you exactly who the doctor will report you to.
	If your doctor can report on you being an unsafe person, then there's a discussion here to be had about your privacy versus safety of the citizens in general.
	Briefly, Dr.
	Joshi, of course, at the same time, there's all this need to find these people and to identify them and to let authorities know.
	I love this.
	We've got to find them, John.
	We've got to root them out.
	We've got to get the crazies, the ones who are going to snap at any moment.
	It could be my neighbor!
	You know, again, as I said earlier, it's sort of walking a fine line, you know, balancing the individuality and the privacy of the patient and at the same time, you know, keeping folks safe.
	Did you hear it?
	Keeping folks safe.
	Oh yeah, keeping folks safe.
	So this is it.
	Keeping folks safe versus privacy of the individual patient.
	So I think we have to be deliberate.
	We have to be thoughtful about how we proceed.
	And we will have to see how best to really identify, at the same time be able to provide services.
	But my sense is, before we even get to the point of severe aggression in some of these youngsters, hopefully we can catch it early so it doesn't get to that point.
	Catch it early!
	Catch it early!
	Severe aggression.
	Yeah, catch it early.
	Most of today's kids, the boys are all wearing dresses.
	Oh, John, you sound like an old man when you say that.
	I couldn't resist.
	The boys are not wearing dresses.
	I apologize to all the boys.
	Yeah, the boys are not wearing dresses.
	Anyway, to wrap this up.
	President Obama really only put in a couple of presidential memoranda, and the one that is interesting is the Improving Ability of Relevant Executive Branch Records to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System Memorandum for the Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies.
	Now, this is the NICS, and this is glossed over.
	In fact, I glossed over it as well, thinking, ah, that's just some thing.
	And when you buy a gun, then someone calls up the NICS and they check and see if you're not wanted.
	Well, let me tell you.
	This is the National Instant Criminal Background Check System.
	And this is the list, John.
	This is the list of all lists.
	And as a part of the new memoranda, The president is asking for new measures that...
	I'm going to get the wordage here.
	Okay, there's a couple of points here.
	New measures for the relevant records possessed by any agency that can be shared.
	Number of those records submitted to the database is accessible by the NICS. Okay, so the NICS is not one system.
	Not one database.
	It's a database that connects to other databases from other agencies.
	So this is going to be like your FICA score.
	In fact, it'll probably be connected to your FICA score.
	Efforts made to increase the percentage of relevant records possessed by the agency that are submitted to the database.
	The database.
	I got a database.
	Accessible by the NICS. For agencies that make qualifying educations, Related to the mental health of a person, the measures put in place provide notice and programs for relief from disabilities as required under the NIAA. So the important part of what I just read there is that the agencies,
	and I'm going to give you the list of the agencies, Department of Defense, Health and Human Services, Transportation, Veteran Affairs, Homeland Security, Social Security Administration, Office of Personnel Management and Management and Budget, I don't know what they're doing there, or any other agencies such as the chair may designate, they will be able to make educations, what's the word?
	Adjudications.
	Yeah.
	Is that the word?
	Yes.
	Adjudication.
	Adjudication.
	I looked it up for you.
	Formal judgment or decision about a problem or disputed matter.
	They'll be able to make adjudications about your mental health and put that on your record, which can then be accessed by the Social Security Administration.
	This needs to be fought, people.
	This is what's bad.
	But wait a minute.
	So you're telling me, from what you've uncovered, and I wonder why you were mispronouncing that, because earlier it didn't make any sense in the sentence, but I thought it might be some new usage.
	You're telling me that any of these agencies can access this file, this Skynet file, and put in there, this guy's nuts.
	They can tag, yeah, exactly.
	So you get some a-hole that works in some agency, Department of Education.
	Yes.
	And he's got a hard-on for you, just thinks, you know, that you should be, he doesn't like you.
	This guy's impossible to work with, and he's an a-hole, and he's probably insane.
	And you could put that right in there.
	Yes.
	Huh.
	Yes.
	Tell Mimi about this.
	Why?
	Why?
	She's always yelling at people.
	When she deals with agency, she gets hot.
	Oh, really?
	Yeah, she chews them out.
	She gets hot.
	Oh, baby.
	Well, so, you know, the obvious...
	So you yell at some guy over the phone, and the next thing you know, you're considered criminally insane.
	No.
	How about you just post something stupid on Facebook?
	That's a database.
	Oh, yeah.
	That goes straight into it.
	It's connected.
	It's all connected.
	I've always been telling people, you know, why do you get, you know, it's like, especially the youngest generation that seems to care less about, you know, they don't, because they're not educated on the importance of privacy and our own history of the country,
	and so they become extremely careless about themselves, and you'll see a whole page of flicker images of somebody who's plastered Drunk, and then grabbing women's breasts and having his tongue sticking out and making all these silly faces, and he thinks that's hilarious.
	Or she, a lot of women.
	Yeah, she, yeah.
	And then you go, and if you're doing due diligence on employment, you look and you find their pictures, and you go, I'm not hiring this guy.
	But if it gets worse than that, and these things get permanently put into a record, run by the government, how does anybody think this is good?
	So here's the final one.
	So they're putting together, of course, the NICS Consultation and Coordination Working Group.
	And this is to ensure adequate agency input in the guidance required Of this memorandum.
	For subsequent decisions about whether an agency possesses relevant records and determinations concerning the records to be input and provided to the NICS. So they are, it's a call, it's a come to Jesus, all hands on deck, all hands meeting.
	Yeah?
	And everyone has to bring their data bass.
	And we're all going to say, what do you got?
	Well, I see.
	I've got the DUI records.
	Good!
	Hey, all right.
	Let's connect that up.
	All right.
	What do you got over there?
	Well, you know, I got...
	Let's see.
	What do I got?
	I got this thing from Facebook.
	Oh, very good.
	Let's connect that to the database.
	Very good.
	Bring it all together.
	The working group shall convene regularly and is needed to allow for consultation and coordination between the Department of Justice and agencies affected by the Attorney General's implementation.
	Including with respect to the guidance required by Section 1A, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
	Okay.
	Well, can I interject here?
	Yeah.
	Knowing how, having worked inside a government agency and knowing how things generally work anyway, especially with this, as we listen to these clips that we've been listening to today, where you start hearing that better to be safe than sorry kind of thing, that would say within an agency, that would mean, well, you know, we don't think this is relevant.
	Put it in anyway.
	Exactly.
	Exactly.
	It's better to be safe than sorry.
	Better safe than sorry.
	And you end up with these humongous dossiers.
	Because, you know, I can buy a 4-terabyte myself.
	4-terabyte hard disk at Costco for less than $150.
	4 terabytes.
	So the government has got so many.
	So the file space is unlimited.
	So just load it up with everything you can.
	So when you have to look someone up, you can probably find something in there to condemn them.
	Are you sure you're not a Fed?
	Just kidding.
	That's the way I do it.
	Yep.
	Anyway, everybody, so this is what we do.
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	in.
	So we start with some thank yous to some of our donors for today's show.
	480, which I thought would get a bigger response, but just 480 is kind of a cool number.
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	Sir Herbie thinks has hijacked Sir Jake's laptop to donate because he listens too.
	Please give $1 to Adam and $99 to John.
	Get it?
	Yeah, how come he didn't get a lot of sleep last night?
	What happened?
	Oh, I don't know.
	I have no idea.
	I ended up...
	Were you restless?
	Go ahead.
	Just talk to me.
	I was staying up late and then all of a sudden I was downloading some...
	I had a piece of music that I wanted to edit.
	And then I found my old clip.
	I used to do all those interviews, but then I found this clip I've been working on for a couple of years where I've taken...
	Now you're going to just think I'm nuts.
	No, no.
	Hold on.
	Just hold on one second.
	So first of all, we're learning a lot here.
	We're learning that you have been working on a clip for a number of years.
	I mean, you are the Van Gogh of clippage right now, my friend.
	It's a clip.
	And in the middle of the night, I just want everyone to have the visual.
	John is hunched over.
	He's got his green visor on with one single lamp on the bureau.
	He's editing.
	Okay.
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	So I took this song, Surfer Bird.
	No!
	From the Trash Men.
	You mean...
	About the bird, bird, bird, bird.
	About the bird.
	Yeah.
	Well, in the middle of that song, they...
	And then they start singing.
	Right, right, right.
	Papa Umamao?
	Yeah.
	Papa Umamao.
	So I took the thing and I took and I slipped that out and actually put the Papa Umamao song in...
	And then took it halfway through and then I cut into the middle of that and started cutting into the middle of these songs and dropping other songs, half of other songs in.
	And then I'm coming out the other side.
	You're doing a mashup.
	Well, it's an interesting A, B, C, D, E, E, D, C, B, A. So it ends with Surfer Bird.
	My, I can't wait to hear this.
	When does it drop?
	When does your new joint drop, yo?
	So, the problem with this thing is that it's so long that, I mean, you start playing with this thing at like 12 and you're like 1.30 because you've got to listen to it so you can get the right moments because you've got, when you start to do these medleys, if you, in fact, there's a medley.
	It's a mash-up medley.
	I love it.
	I have this one with a whole bunch of little intros, and I got this one spot.
	I can't clean it up.
	In other words, everything sounds like it fits, except for this, right in the middle of it, there's this one little thing where I can't quite get the timing right.
	It just jerks.
	It's just like somebody talks, and it doesn't sound good.
	No, I know, but can I ask you a question?
	What is the ultimate destination for this fine product you're creating?
	I'm just doing it for the love of the music.
	No, that's great.
	Is it listenable yet?
	Can you send me something?
	I can send you some stuff.
	I'd love to.
	Come on, this is awesome.
	I'll do it as a CD for you.
	I'm thinking that there's some commerce in here.
	I think there's commerce in some of this stuff.
	Yeah, I agree.
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	Exactly.
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	We were creeping, weren't we?
	With Clarissa.
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	For the next level of research, try the horizontal creep.
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	Yeah.
	No, there's Adam and John.
	I guess I could do this.
	Oliver Reich in South San Francisco.
	Uh-oh.
	Oh, here we go again.
	69!
	69, kids!
	Did not find a note.
	Oh.
	That's a bummer.
	Sir Sam Lung again from Toronto, 69, 69.
	Keep up the great work.
	Hang him in my mouth, especially these trying times.
	Looking for some little, some parliament yay, followed by a little girl yay for my smoking hot girlfriend who has an audition for the symphony.
	We have a lot of musicians listening to the show.
	Oh, musicians know where it's at.
	Hold on a second.
	Sorry about Surfer Bird.
	So he wants a Parliament mumble, yay, little girl, yay, karma?
	Is that it?
	Yeah, I guess.
	Yeah, because she's looking for a job.
	Okay.
	Yay!
	I don't have enough slots in the jingle player anymore for all these combos that have to be made.
	You need a second...
	An assistant is what I need.
	Can you imagine?
	Or, you know...
	Baron von Pelsmacher's in Belgium, France.
	ITM, Laurel, and Hardy.
	Belgium, France.
	Sadly, I need to reserve some money to pay for the new castle.
	But nevertheless, I want to express once again my appreciation for a fantastic series of recent shows that had me laughing a lot.
	The absolute best thing to do under the circumstances that bedevil me.
	And what better way to do that than to help with the swazzle enough streak alive, keep it alive.
	I understand there's talk of getting a fantastic Lizzie.
	The fantastic Lizzie at Damehood, and I want to be more than happy to donate any of my recent contributions toward this, and she is more than deserving.
	Please give her some of her own little girl yay and a massive dose of karma as well.
	Lizzie, je bent geweldig.
	Geweldig.
	Very good.
	Geweldig.
	Can you imagine, so Lizzie's going to become a dame, and I could just see it like, what is this pin?
	What is this crap?
	What is this damehood that you speak of?
	She's not going to want it.
	She's just going to be completely blase about it.
	Now, I think she'll be very happy and pleased.
	Oh, okay.
	Well, I hope so, too, then.
	Wow!
	You've got karma.
	Bradley Carrier, Lexington, Michigan, 6969.
	Been in a rut for a few months now.
	I decided it's time to shake off my bad mojo, and there's no better way to do that than by donating to the best podcast in the universe.
	Could I get some karma and a Don't Eat Me Hillary to help me get back to being a productive slave?
	By the way, I would have loved to see the looks on the TSA agent's faces when Adam yelled, Just go through the slave scanner!
	They were actually kind of cool about it for some reason.
	I don't know.
	It's almost too delicious to believe, my friend.
	I'm sorry.
	That was the wrong one.
	This is the one you wanted.
	Don't eat me, Hillary Clinton!
	You've got karma.
	You got a bonus there.
	Jessica Blevins in Tampa, Florida.
	I could not find a note from Jessica.
	She came up with 6969.
	I'm sure she has a story to tell.
	David Eckersley in Yalingup, Western Australia, 6969.
	That's it.
	6969, dude!
	He says, I don't need the getting laid karma, but I could definitely do with some house selling karma.
	Instead, anyone after an Aussie property bargain on the outskirts of Perth, that could be us, check out makeanoffer.com.au.
	Oh, let's take a look at that while the karma plays.
	You've got karma.
	Let's take a look.
	makeanoffer.com.au.
	Let's see.
	What do we get?
	We get...
	Oh!
	You know, we should move our operations so we're in the South Hemisphere during the winter and the North Hemisphere during the summer, like birds.
	Have you seen this place?
	Perth Hill's best-kept secret, hidden away on 21 acres but still within the Perth metropolitan area, is this wonderful European country home that reminds most who visit it of Tuscany or Provence.
	Surrounded by a parkland setting, this rammed earth home...
	It's unique in every way and has...
	It's a dirt hut.
	And it's featured in both Bell Magazine...
	Hold on a second.
	This looks fucking beautiful, man.
	Why don't you move there?
	You know, it's very hard to get a...
	Work permit in Australia.
	It's a nice place.
	Yeah, this does look like a Tuscan...
	It's beautiful.
	Yeah, it's very pretty.
	Oh, my God.
	Well, I hope you sell it.
	It looks very...
	It's rammed earth.
	How do they do that, ramming earth?
	This looks like it's made out of wood.
	Roger Ramjet.
	He's your man.
	Ram and earth.
	Yes, he can.
	Good.
	Okay.
	Well, you got your karma.
	Hope it works.
	Thank you very much for supporting the show.
	Nice view, by the way.
	Yeah.
	Justin Robinson in Colorado, Spring 6611.
	Double sixes on the sticks.
	Okay, I'm not sure if my first donation went through.
	I donated yesterday and the funds have not left my bank.
	We just moved and the address on my PayPal doesn't match my bank records.
	Not sure if it prevented from going through.
	Blah, blah, blah.
	This should be a donation for his wife Elisa Robinson turning 24 today.
	Didn't we do this one?
	I'm pretty sure we did.
	I remember that came in at the last minute.
	This is the one that came through.
	Right.
	Yeah, Elisa.
	We did that last show.
	We put her on the list, but I don't know if we...
	We didn't repeat this.
	Yeah.
	He's giving my brother Sean and his girlfriend Alara...
	Automobile karma.
	Oh, that's what he...
	Okay, he needs some automobile karma.
	Hey, citizen, two to the head.
	Anything else?
	Yeah, okay.
	There you go.
	Back to the mashups.
	All right, there you go.
	For some reason, that clip sometimes doesn't want to fire properly.
	Hey, citizen.
	You've got karma.
	Actually, I like that one.
	I hate a citizen with the gunshots.
	Yeah?
	Hey, citizen.
	I haven't seen that comment.
	Yeah, it does sound kind of good.
	It's like, hey, buddy, boom, and then they shoot you.
	It's not buddy.
	Hey, buddy.
	Hey, folks.
	Folks.
	Gene, Paul, Krishna, whose note I cannot find.
	Hey, folks.
	I looked.
	5555.
	Robert Hall in Phoenix, Arizona.
	5555.
	Dear Judd and Atom.
	Thanks for keeping it real.
	Can I please get a shut up at science fiscal cliff scream?
	Rob, the American cubicle dweller in Hellizona.
	Shut up already!
	Science!
	Steven Nelson in Wheat Ridge, Colorado, 51, to double nickels on the dime.
	Robert Luke, Sandy, Utah, double nickels on the dime.
	This is Shittison 2K on G+. I can't really say I like Google+.
	It's more like their version of facelift.
	I'm a geek in the mold of Adam's background, but I'm here to support my hero, my hero, John C. Dvorak.
	I have followed him for near 30 years.
	Here I am, the stupid!
	I make no excuses as to my reasons.
	Murmudgeons forever.
	Speaking of facelift, have you noticed the glasses Hillary Clinton is wearing?
	Have you noticed?
	I did too.
	She comes out and she's wearing...
	I swear to God, I've looked at lots of pictures of her and I've...
	I don't ever remember her ever wearing glasses.
	I've seen her wear reading glasses, but there's like a concave...
	There's like a whole fishbowl on the inside wrapping around her eye.
	It's almost like she has glasses over glasses.
	It's really crazy.
	And that, of course, is to help strengthen the tissue from the eye lift that she had during her so-called bout in the hospital as she came out of the actual eye clinic.
	Maybe she had LASIK surgery too.
	But also, her jowls?
	You obviously don't know what happened, but it's something.
	Look at her jowls.
	She still has them.
	I think we're just looking at puffiness.
	This was phase one.
	I mean, she was looking pretty rough.
	As a plastic surgeon assistant, because my ex-wife had a lot of work done.
	This is a multi-phase approach.
	In about three months from now, she's going back in.
	Now, there won't be a whole news story and everything, but she is going back in about three months.
	Well, as soon as she quits the job.
	Because you know what was supposed to happen is Susan Rice was supposed to, you know, there was supposed to be more focus on her and there were supposed to be hearings and Senate selects, whatever, you know.
	She's scheduled with the right guys.
	She just could not get out of it.
	Interesting that the day after the inauguration is when she's supposed to testify about Benghazi.
	On Tuesday is when she's supposed to testify.
	And the news will be nothing about, eh, this is what the ball was like.
	And here was the president and the first lady at the other ball.
	And here, look at their dancing.
	And there's Bianchi singing for them.
	Oh, it's so lovely, isn't it?
	Oh, it's so fantastic.
	Michelle Obama, by the way, God, she looks good.
	She does this Hollywood...
	Miss Mickey was saying that.
	She is the height of fashion.
	She is Vogue magazine right now.
	I think the first time ever we've had a first lady that is literally pushing fashion.
	Man, Jackie Kennedy had a lot of influence.
	Alright, let's go.
	Robert Stokes, Midlothian, Texas.
	Double nickels on a dime.
	Thanks for what you guys do.
	I'm saying a prayer for you two today.
	Oh, can I say it?
	Sure.
	Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
	According to his great mercy has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled and unfading.
	Kept in heaven for you who by God's power are being guarded through faith for salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time.
	One Peter, one, three to four.
	Isn't that what the guy is?
	You would actually be a good preacher.
	You get the right voice.
	I lift up my hill.
	Okay, let me try this.
	I lift up my eyes into the hills.
	From whence cometh my help?
	My help cometh from the Lord, he that shall keepeth me, so the sun shall not burn me by day, the moon shall not burn me by night.
	You got a problem with me doing Psalm 121?
	What are you, atheist?
	You got a problem with that?
	Kevin Lacombe in Port Orchard, Washington.
	5369.
	I've been a douchebag since the Twit episode when JCD first talked about doing no agenda.
	Please de-douche me.
	I hit Joe Lacks, ITM, but he's still a douche.
	Give him hell and a douchebag.
	Douchebag!
	You forced me to donate because now I hear things like when the president said on gun health control, there will be pundits and politicians and special interest lobbyists publicly warning of a tyrannical all-out assault on Liberty 6.
	Not because that's true, but because they want to gin up fear or higher ratings or revenues for themselves.
	My head tilted to the side when I heard, not because that's true.
	Oh, that's funny.
	Words do matter.
	I didn't catch that.
	I didn't catch it either.
	Geez, that's a...
	Wait a minute.
	There will be pundits and politicians and special interest lobbyists publicly...
	Did we really miss that, Dvorak?
	That's embarrassing.
	Hold on a second.
	Hold on a second.
	Continue.
	I'm going to look that up.
	Keep up the good work, John and Adam.
	You're the best podcast in the universe, that's for sure.
	Can I have two to the head, little girl?
	Yay.
	Karma?
	Or just two to the head?
	Well, if he wanted de-douching, that's what he wanted.
	You've been de-douche.
	Why?
	Well, you look up that.
	I'll continue with Paul Lindquist in Hammond, Wisconsin, 5115.
	Mm-hmm.
	Followed by Sir Scott in Herndon, Virginia.
	And all he wants is a shut-up at Science Karma for me to grad...
	for his grad school and other personal endeavors.
	Okay.
	Ready?
	Hit it.
	Hey.
	Misfiring.
	What happened?
	Oh my god.
	It's broken.
	Shut up already!
	Science!
	You've got karma.
	Olivia Guiera.
	By the way, it was gray-haired Obama who they inaugurated.
	I've got this video on C-SPAN. Okay, well the other guy will be the other one.
	Round Rock, Texas.
	50 bucks.
	My husband and I are huge fans.
	My husband and I, she says.
	Now you other guys are huge fans.
	You're obviously doing something wrong.
	Today is his birthday and he will be listening.
	So happy birthday, Dougie.
	Fresh.
	Love, sugar tits.
	No.
	She says.
	Really?
	Mark Giddens, Bainbridge Island, Simon Horn in Carindale, Queensland, Sir Mike Westerfield in Parts Unknown, and Kyle Bauer in Worcester, Ohio also all gave 50 bucks without comment.
	That'll be our donation segment for today's show 480.
	We want to remind you to go to dvorak.org slash NA. Please help us for show 481.
	We're heading towards show 500, which should be a big deal.
	Also...
	ChannelDivorek.com slash NA and NoAgendaNation.com and NoAgendaShow.com should have someplace you can click and get to the donation button.
	I'm almost there.
	Not because that's true.
	Let's see.
	No results found.
	Maybe...
	I'm not looking in the right place.
	I would be blown away.
	Because...
	Yeah, I would be stunned that we didn't catch that.
	Pundits, right?
	Pundits, pundits, pundits, pundits is the key word here.
	Or pundits.
	How do you spell pundits?
	P-U and pun.
	Like pun.
	Hey!
	Pundits.
	Like D-I-T-S. Yeah, well I must not be in the right one then.
	East Room.
	We'll look it up.
	We'll look it up.
	Yeah, that's really bugging me.
	I mean, that's just crazy.
	I can't believe that we actually missed that one.
	My God.
	Well...
	You know, this is what our show is about.
	This is why our listeners are producers, and this is why you support the program, and you really need to get on the stick, yo.
	Dvorak.org slash NA.
	It's a birthday party.
	I know what you're doing.
	I'm pretty sure we've done it, but, you know, it doesn't hurt doing it twice, John.
	Justin Robinson congratulates his wife, Elisa, turns 24 today.
	Olivia Guerra says, happy birthday to her hubby, Dougie Fresh, and the Get Fresh crew, and Jeremy Johnson's brother, Blake, celebrates, along with Forrest Mulcahy, who congratulates Joe Graceffo.
	Happy birthday from all your friends here at the best podcast in the universe.
	And as you already guessed, no nightings.
	No nightings, sorry to say.
	All right, be that as it may.
	Nothing going on.
	Nothing going on but the rents.
	Well, there is something going on.
	I want to ask you.
	I'm going to do an ask.
	I'm just going to ask you a question.
	It was a simple question.
	What major film festival is going on as we speak?
	The Cannes Film Festival?
	No.
	You should know this.
	Is it Sundance?
	It's funny you should say that because that's probably the answer I'd give.
	But the real one I have, it's the Hindu Film Festival in Bollywood.
	And here's a red carpet report from the film festival.
	Oh!
	Do you have to be a part of this red carpet report or we just have our reporter standing by?
	I think our reporter will be there on the spot for us.
	Kashyap, Varun Dhawan and Ayushman Khurana, each looking dapper than the other.
	Here's what they said at the event.
	We always say that it's the most prestigious award to win.
	It's an archived award.
	It's been for years.
	Nearly 60 years of film fair has happened.
	So it's a very special award.
	It's a very important award.
	This year, there are a lot of films.
	- - Okay, so you know, you mock, You just mock.
	You mock the second half of the show.
	Now entering second half of the show.
	Somehow, somewhere along the line, while you were in between mashing up songs from 1932, you somehow thought that it would be funny to mock the second half of the show and mock the entire nation of India.
	India.
	Yeah, well, you know.
	That was pretty funny.
	They don't contribute to the show at all.
	They really don't.
	Not second half material necessarily, but something that you actually tweeted.
	This is funny.
	People who are new to the program know how it works.
	We never speak outside of the program.
	There's only two times.
	We might speak like three seconds before the show starts.
	But we always have a kind of a post-mortem after the show where, you know, we're like, eh, what do we do?
	You know, okay, how do we think?
	Yeah, about this, about that.
	It usually consists of John saying, don't say this, you should never do this.
	This is bullcrap.
	That's exactly what it is.
	Because I never have anything negative to say about you, ever.
	Ever.
	Ever.
	And then we choose the art.
	And then we choose the title, which usually goes, John going, I got nothing.
	That's not true either.
	Come on!
	Here's what it is.
	I write down about 30 titles, and then I read them off.
	He goes, that stinks.
	That's no good.
	Nah.
	Sucks.
	No.
	I don't say that.
	No.
	And then it's like, that's it?
	No.
	Okay.
	So, after the...
	And sometimes there will be a topic that just comes up and we'll talk about it.
	And after Thursday's show, this patent came up that is being discussed on other shows.
	And I just wanted to say a few things because it's getting a little bit out of control and I've got to hit everybody in the mouth on this.
	Okay.
	And so what's funny is you tweeted and said, we talked about it on Thursday's show!
	I thought we did.
	No, we talked about it right after.
	That's the whole problem, is we talked about it after the show.
	That's one of our theories, is why we shouldn't be talking at all.
	Exactly.
	This is the big mistake.
	So that's why I want to bring it up now, because I dove back into it.
	Okay, so...
	What's going on here?
	I'm giving you the floor.
	Well, I need your input.
	There's a company called Personal Audio, and they have filed suit against Ace Broadcasting.
	That is the broadcasting network, the podcasting network that Adam Carolla...
	Adam Carolla Entertainment.
	Yes, I guess he owns it.
	I don't know if he has partners.
	Well, he had partners, and then he fired him, and now they're suing him, too.
	Oh, I didn't know that.
	That's interesting.
	He's got two suits going on.
	Interesting side note.
	We'll talk about that.
	No, that's very interesting.
	I didn't know that.
	But also, HowStuffWorks.com.
	And I read the complaint, and the complaint basically says, we have this patent.
	8.112.504.
	And as a part of that patent, we feel that our rights have been infringed upon.
	And their main patent, not the 504, they have a couple of patents.
	By the way, the inventors, people say, patent trolls, patent trolls!
	I mean, no one has actually taken the time to read anything, I can tell, from how Leo's talking, how Carola's talking, and no one has actually looked at what's going on.
	The personal audio system was designed by Jim Logan, Dan Gusling, and Charles Call.
	Jim Logan, a serial entrepreneur, had previously been the founder and CEO of Microtouch Systems, Inc.
	Just stop me if you heard any of this, John, if you know these companies.
	A public company that by 1996 had grown to become the world's largest manufacturer of touchscreen systems, so not necessarily a patent troll, Logan is a named inventor on 39 U.S. patents, some of which became the basis for another company he founded, GoToIt Media, subsequently licensed patents to Universal Music, Cisco, Motorola, and others before being sold, etc., etc.
	So one of their patents, the 504 patent, is licensed.
	They came up with it in 1996.
	But they incorporated this personal audio in 2011 or 2012, so it's not like this is a new patent that all of a sudden popped up.
	This has been a patent from 1996, and these guys at the time, I guess, were smart enough to say, hey, you know, we should patent the idea of a playlist.
	And, you know, like it or not, that's the patent system.
	You can patent that.
	And it's very detailed.
	And they patented at the same time a system where you have episodic content and it's stored on a server and commercials are inserted.
	Hello?
	Does this ring a bell with anyone?
	And then you have a player on the other end, which is why they mainly have licensed their technology to companies that make players online.
	Like Apple and some of these other companies that actually have hardware.
	And for a system that consists of the server and a client.
	Which, essentially, you could maybe make an argument that a Flash player that knows who you are when you log into a site and says, hey, there's a new episode here.
	You should go get this.
	It's arguable that that would fall underneath their patent.
	Now, they have put out a memo about podcasting.
	And I just want to read a bit of this so you understand why it might relate to...
	Why they're trying to make it sound like podcasting.
	So this patent that they have, they say, today...
	Podcasts typically take the form of an industry standard RSS or Atom compliant file whose URL is stored by the client player device when the user subscribes to the podcast.
	By 2013, it's expected that more than 39 million users will listen to podcasts.
	Personal Audio's 1996 precursor to podcasting, so they're not saying that they invented it, they're not saying they have a patent on it, their precursor is described and claimed in Personal Audio in their 504 patent, And an additional pending divisional application, both of which are entitled System for Disseminating Media Content Representing Episodes in a Serialized Sequence.
	So, seeing as the complaint that they have filed against what people are calling podcasters, I'm sorry, HowStuffWorks.com, which is 50% of the people being sued, is not a podcaster!
	Okay?
	So it's just not.
	That may...
	I think this is just a trial balloon for this patent they have pending.
	They're trying to prove that they have a valid patent that has not been approved yet by taking someone who is going to be vocal and who is visible.
	The mistake people are making is by saying, they're going after podcasting!
	They're getting the guys at the top first!
	And then everyone's going to get fucked!
	No.
	No.
	If they really were going to go after money, they would go to NPR, okay?
	That is the number one podcaster.
	I'm sorry.
	It is not Twit Network.
	It is not Leo Laporte's thing.
	It is not Ace Broadcasting.
	It is NPR. And they have a lot of money.
	And the government...
	The sponsored enterprises, they license stuff very, very quickly.
	These guys are trying to prove something, and they're kind of doing a good job.
	They're taking an easy target, someone who doesn't have a lot of money, someone who there's no money to gain.
	And they're just going to try and improve through whatever Corolla has on his website and HowStuffWorks.com, which is not a podcaster.
	It's not a podcast, okay?
	It's a site that has some things that look similar.
	They're trying to make a case.
	They don't have a case.
	They're trying to make a case.
	That's what's going on here and nothing more.
	So this whole way, we've got to bond together.
	Podcasters united!
	Let's get a lawyer!
	No!
	No!
	Are you insane?
	Who is that person in there with you?
	This is total insanity.
	There's supposed to be two of us doing this show.
	You got somebody in there screaming.
	Hey, Dvorak, stop screaming.
	So, well, here's one of the things that, you know, that these guys like to do, because I've been involved as an expert witness in a lot of these patent lawsuits over the years.
	I haven't done too much recently.
	I should keep getting donations like this.
	Exactly.
	We should be doing...
	We should be in this racket.
	You get to, you know, the expert witness work is about...
	It's about typically $350 to $500 an hour, depending on what...
	An hour?
	Yeah.
	Holy crap.
	Nice.
	All right.
	All right.
	$350 is what I charge.
	May I just point out one thing, John?
	When it comes to podcasting, do you think I could be an expert witness?
	Do I have some credibility?
	Yeah.
	No, you'd be top of the list of the expert witness, which you may be used for.
	But here's what the trick is.
	One of the things you learn when you do a lot of this stuff, and I don't do things for the money.
	I do them so I can learn about how the mechanism works, so then we can discuss it on this show, even though I didn't know about the show at the time.
	So anyway, one of the things these guys like to do, and you can spot this when you deconstruct the final news story, is that Adam Carole, Ace Entertainment, and whatever the name of this company is, has come to an agreement.
	Exactly.
	See, this is why our show works, because I do this, and then you give me the...
	Perfect.
	Continue.
	Comes to an agreement, details not disclosed.
	Exactly.
	We will be paying our patent fees for this thing.
	And what these guys like to do, and I've been told this by a number of patent attorneys, it's the old trick.
	It's the oldest trick in the book, as a matter of fact.
	You go out.
	And they'd like to do it with bigger companies than they have here.
	But you go out and you find some company and you show them that you're going to sue them and they know they can beat you with $40,000.
	You say, we don't really want to sue you.
	What we want to do is we want to come to an agreement and you will license our technology.
	Yes.
	Can I take it one step better?
	I'll bet you Corolla makes money out of the deal.
	That's rare.
	But anyway, it's just possible.
	He doesn't know how to make money.
	But anyway, you're going to be publicly licensed.
	So now, in the future, oh, Corolla licenses it, even though he's not paying anything.
	Or even Leo, they might get two or three people involved in this.
	That's a quasi-scam when you do it, but that's what you do.
	Oh no, he's licensing, he's licensing, we're suing you.
	Yep.
	Yep.
	And nobody's really lying.
	I mean, the whole thing is like a smokescreen.
	People should fight these things, but I don't know.
	You've seen terms not disclosed.
	But your point is you're right on target because it's the reverse.
	And by the way, I think that they don't have a case at all.
	And if they do, well, you know, then, okay, if you have a player or some crap like that, certainly if you have a device, you've got to pay a licensing fee.
	Okay, so what?
	That's what it is.
	We don't have to pay a licensing fee because I don't have a player.
	I don't have a Flash player with episodes or anything.
	I just won't do it.
	Fine.
	Then you'll just have to go to my site and download it.
	You have to get a BitTorrent or whatever.
	Fine.
	We'll work that out.
	It's what it is.
	You don't want patents to work that way?
	Do something about it.
	Stop bitching and complaining about it.
	Everyone's a little whiny bitch.
	That's the biggest problem I have.
	Without having actually read the documentation, and their strategy, you're right, is try and get people to say, okay, because you watch, they'll fold, all of them.
	Yeah, we're licensing the technology.
	And then they go after the NPR and BBC and the big guys, where the real money is.
	There's no real money in this.
	It was never intended to be real money.
	The internet is not meant to be real money.
	Yeah, that's pretty much the deal.
	Yeah.
	So let's see how it shakes out.
	Alright.
	We don't have a player.
	We don't have a playlist.
	We are players, though.
	I mean, I have a playlist of my surfer bird thing.
	Now that you can go to jail for.
	That's why it's just private.
	I'm just doing it for my own amusement.
	That's like slashing Rembrandt's paintings.
	Cutting up the surfer bird.
	Cutting up the surfer bird, man.
	That's not good.
	I only have two...
	Well, if we're technically still in second half...
	Which I think we are getting close to the end here.
	I'd like to play a clip of Connecticut Governor Malloy.
	Connecticut Governor Malloy, and these clips are now coming kind of after the fact.
	This is amazing.
	Sandy Hook is kind of a hobby now.
	Not for the show.
	It's going to be like 9-11.
	You can go on forever.
	There's never going to be some big court trial and all the guilty are going to be hung.
	This is not going to happen ever.
	So I'm kind of giving up on it.
	But I do like to...
	When someone says words...
	And you listen to them, and it's just so clear what they're actually saying, but it's ignored.
	It's interesting to me and entertaining.
	Here is the Governor Malloy of Connecticut, right after the Sandy Hook tragedy.
	Today, a tragedy of unspeakable terms played itself out in this community.
	Lieutenant Governor and I have been...
	Spoken to in an attempt that we might be prepared for something like this playing itself out in our state.
	Did you hear it?
	He said it twice.
	Played itself out?
	We have been spoken to.
	Oh, he's been spoken to.
	We have been spoken to that something like this might play out in our state.
	So who spoke to him?
	Play the whole clip again.
	Spoken to in an attempt that we might be prepared for something like this playing itself out in our state.
	I got it.
	You're right.
	I missed it.
	We've been spoken to...
	That something like this might happen.
	Might play itself out in our state.
	Right.
	And that was also...
	There was a...
	Right.
	I thought we were not going to talk about this anymore.
	A second half of the show!
	Come on!
	I get to do that.
	All right.
	The only other thing I need to do is give you guys a little bit of mouth-punching about this event.
	What was that, John?
	You know what that was?
	It was a girl fight in the New York subways?
	Yes, exactly.
	No, that was the Bulgarian political party leader who was on stage and the dude came up and tried to shoot him in the head.
	Oh, tried to shoot him and then the gun misfired.
	Right.
	So...
	Coincidentally.
	What do you think that's about?
	Well, let me think.
	Pipeline.
	Yay!
	I would like you to go to europipes.curry.com.
	E-U-R-O-P-I-P-E-S.curry.com.
	While I read you the most recent headline, Bulgaria pulls out of controversial oil pipeline project.
	So this is the Burgos Alexandrupolis oil pipeline, which is very important to the Russians.
	And it's these guys who literally, it's the relatively new political party, who have come in and all of a sudden they said, hey, screw you, we're not going to do this pipeline, and then get out of here.
	So I question whether the gun was meant to fire at all.
	You can rig a gun easy enough not to fire.
	I have a feeling it was just a little message.
	Well, if you saw the pictures of the guy, I mean, the guy got up on stage and got over to the guy and had the gun at him for a really long time.
	In normal situations, I mean, if this was an American situation, the snipers would have taken that guy out long before he even got the gun close to the other guy.
	Right, right, right.
	So this is not right.
	This whole thing, I was very skeptical about this, too.
	But yeah, that would make sense.
	Yeah, well, they learned their lesson.
	And then they probably left a message, hey, remember Poland?
	Exactly.
	We've got the whole government if you guys don't play ball.
	And by the way, nobody's the wiser.
	That's right.
	So I have an end of show clip if you want to play it.
	Well, I was just going to finish this up if you don't mind.
	Oh, okay.
	Well, there's more.
	I know you didn't go to it, but bookmark europipes.curry.com.
	It is the best map I've seen yet.
	It's a beauty.
	Of all of the pipelines.
	And if you see, central to that map is Baku.
	The map is almost built around Baku.
	Who have now also greenlit the TNAP pipeline to Europe through Turkey.
	And so that's the Trans-Anatolian pipeline.
	And that, of course, is ours.
	That's BP, Stat Oil, Total.
	Oh, that's the Frogs, I'm sorry.
	The Brits and the Frogs.
	They're turning their attention to uranium.
	Yeah.
	Uranium.
	Uranium!
	And I think...
	Let me just see if I had any...
	Because I... Yeah, I had a...
	I had a quick little Boeing versus Airbus thing.
	Oh, okay.
	I want to hear that.
	Yeah.
	So I kind of just was looking more closely.
	Now, this is the...
	We have an Airbus competitor coming.
	Right?
	The...
	What is it?
	It's like the 350?
	Is it the 380 or the 350?
	What is the one that's coming, John?
	Well, the 380 is the double-decker that they released.
	It'd probably be a smaller jet with good gas mileage, because the 380 is a competitor with the 747 for long haul.
	Yeah, but the 380 hasn't actually...
	Is that thing sold yet?
	Yeah, no, they're out.
	They're out and about.
	Maybe it was the 350.
	I don't know if it was a 350.
	Well, anyway, first of all...
	I'll look it up.
	These planes are plastic, okay?
	And so the whole part about these planes is the plastic airplane.
	It's supposed to be cheaper, make less noise, you know...
	There it is.
	It is a 350.
	Airbus 350 unlikely to be affected by Boeing 787 problems.
	I told you.
	It's a 350.
	I told you.
	It's what they're doing.
	What is the...
	Well, besides it being plastic...
	It's a wide-body...
	It's actually made out of rubber.
	Rubber bands is what it's made of.
	The 350 was originally conceived as a variant of the A330 with a few changes to compete with the 787 and the larger 777.
	The design was unanimously rejected by prospective customers, and Airbus was forced to revise the proposal.
	It has 8% lower operating costs than the 787, so it's more fuel efficient.
	Even more fuel efficient.
	Yeah.
	That means it's more plastic.
	Yes, much more.
	Now, and you can't park these things in the desert heat.
	The launch customer is Qatar Airways, so they definitely want a gay air-conditioned hanger.
	And by the way, it has the winglets, it's got the curved, it looks like a stolen 87.
	Yeah.
	But these plastic planes, in general, I'm just not, I don't like them at all.
	I don't think, sheet metal and rivets, I don't like the whole idea.
	And the seating in the coach is 3-3-3.
	Really?
	The worst.
	Ugh, that's horrible.
	That is horrible.
	Someone's always the man out.
	You can't even sit with your buddy.
	So when these plastic planes fly, just like the previous Airbus, things happen.
	And they do get grounded.
	But the media is trumping this up.
	And I'm like, why is this happening?
	There's definitely...
	Boeing didn't blow someone properly.
	And then I got a clip of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood.
	Oh, that guy.
	So he's like...
	Well, he's the crook involved in this.
	He's the worst, and he's dumb.
	Well, but he's obviously the crook.
	Well, tell us about, you know, luckily he's a public official, so you can call him a crook.
	Yeah.
	Go on.
	What, you can't do that?
	Not to people, no.
	It's a libel.
	And what could they do?
	Sue me for every bullet I own?
	Well, you're probably judgment-proof.
	It's libel.
	You're judgment-proof, but it is libelous.
	I mean, don't people have to have heard what I said for it to be libelous, like more than ten?
	No.
	Oh.
	So if I just say to you, hey, that guy's a crook, and someone else hears it, that's three people total now know it, that's libelous?
	Yes.
	Bullshit.
	Ah!
	That's bullshit.
	I'm telling you.
	You can get sued for that?
	And what good is that?
	Well, in your case, it's not going to do anybody any good, but I'm just saying.
	So I speak without fear.
	Yeah, it's because you're broke.
	By the way, guys, you want to cut more specs before you do your thing?
	The 787 seats 210 to 250.
	The 350, with better gas mileage, the XWB, extra wide body, I guess, seats 314.
	It looks like a better plane.
	Basically the same range of 15,000 kilometers.
	So when you listen to Ray LaHood, who is above the FAA, and you hear the laissez-faire attitude with which he speaks about this, it's obvious.
	Is this a grounding that could possibly be lifted by next week?
	Here's what he had to say.
	This is complicated because we want to make sure we get it right, and the flying public expects us to get it right, and so it's going to take a little bit of time.
	Can you get it done by early next week?
	Oh, you know what, I just, I don't know the answer to that.
	I'm not the one doing the examination and the work, and so we'll just, we'll see where it takes us.
	Yeah, it's going to take a little bit of time, you know.
	Yeah, I'm waiting for the, you know, maybe I need a new car, you know what I'm saying?
	Yeah, we'll see.
	Maybe next week.
	You know, it kind of depends on, you know, what happens.
	There's no rush, really.
	We want to get it right.
	The public expects us to get it right.
	Listen.
	This battery crap, big deal.
	Cracked windows, big deal.
	It's not a big deal.
	Windows crack all the time on aircrafts.
	It's not a big deal.
	It's being trumped up by the complicit media.
	And dumb media, quite honestly.
	Because we should all be taking the train and going through naked body scanners and having Viper teams shake you down.
	But this guy, what a crook.
	Alright.
	I'm going to do a little thing here.
	I just want to make sure we keep people up to date with some breaking stuff.
	Kashmir is heating up again.
	I want to play this clip so people realize that this thing between Pakistan and India is not done.
	India demonstrated its resolve to fight fire with fire along the volatile line of control, directing all of its battalion commanders on the fiercely contested boundary to retaliate with all their might if the Pakistani army provokes them by violating the ceasefire or by pushing militants into Jammu and Kashmir.
	The fact that the army chief issued an unequivocal warning to Pakistan to cease and desist from misadventures along the border is a confirmation that there is going to be no immediate de-escalation of tension, especially as a defiant Pakistan refused to own up to the beheading of an Indian soldier and mutilation of another soldier's body by its elite SSG commandos on January 8th.
	Speaking around the same time that Pakistan brushed aside India's charges at the brigadier-level flag meeting at the Chakhanda Bagh crossing point in Poonch district, Jain Singh accused Islamabad of resorting to outright lies.
	Although Jain Singh emphasized the current tension would not escalate into a conflagration, holding that several stages have to be crossed before the two countries go to a full-scale war, he did admit the first stage of the spiral had been reached.
	External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh would decide on Islamabad's offer of foreign minister-level talks.
	All right, it's good enough.
	You get the idea.
	Hold on, man.
	I'm playing your tune.
	You know that, don't you?
	Yeah.
	What is it?
	I can't remember.
	It's Led Zeppelin's Kashmir.
	Oh, I never knew the name and the title of that song.
	Really?
	Yeah, it's funny.
	Oh my God.
	Oh, okay.
	Because that's how long that bull crap has been going on.
	Nothing's going to happen.
	But they've reached the first level of the thing.
	I know, but I just want to make sure it's into the mix here, so if something happens, we can say, wow.
	We can say, wow, wow, we knew that.
	We knew that.
	Wait a minute, why don't you just throw a whole bunch of stuff out there?
	I'm going to start doing that, by the way.
	Hey, can I just say that I saw Led Zeppelin II in concert on Friday night?
	Who are they missing?
	It's a cover band.
	Oh, how are they?
	Amazing!
	So this band travels certainly all around the country.
	I think they're from Chicago.
	But they've been around the world.
	And basically, it's Led Zeppelin.
	You know, one time I was at some event in Seattle.
	I went out with a friend.
	We started floating around the bars in Pioneer Square.
	And there was a cover band of KISS. Well, there's a million Kiss cover bands.
	Yeah, I know, but I'm telling you, this band was so good.
	It was like, you wonder why people waste it.
	It seems to me to be kind of an ironic waste of talent.
	Well, yeah, I mean, I was thinking about this, because I don't think I've ever been to a cover band show.
	This is not a tribute.
	I wouldn't call it a tribute.
	There's a difference.
	You've got tribute bands, you've got cover bands.
	And these guys, they just take it, I mean, they are really good musicians.
	Of course, you know, you can't get Led Zeppelin back on stage, because, you know, some guys there are dead, you know, it's like this kind of...
	I think this was kind of a combination because they were dressed up in the same...
	I mean, if it was just a cover band singing their songs, but these guys were dressed up.
	They had the pyrotechnics.
	They did everything.
	Right.
	So Led Zeppelin was not really a big pyro band, but the singer, he's kind of got this sexy plant look with his shirt open, and the guitar player, I mean, the guitar player, Jimmy Page, has kind of...
	You know, kind of the hair and everything.
	But, you know, the music was really, really good.
	And, of course, they just played hits.
	And it was great.
	And the audience was, there were 20-year-old kids there who knew all the lyrics.
	And then there were smoking hot hippie chicks walking around, you know, and people smoking dope and drinking beer.
	And then there were old hippies, really old hippies, like me.
	It was very entertaining.
	I have no problem with that kind of thing.
	No.
	I just find it hard to believe everyone can come close to the virtuoso playing abilities of Plant.
	You mean Paige?
	You mean Paige?
	I'm sorry, Paige.
	I'm the singer.
	I've met Plant and Paige, but never have seen them, of course, play as Led Zeppelin, so I'm bummed about that.
	So, Paige would pull out, on one of the songs, he pulls out a violin bow.
	Yeah, oh yeah.
	Did this guy do that?
	No.
	I didn't see him do it.
	He might have.
	I didn't see him do it.
	Anyway, yeah, I'm sure it was entertaining.
	Anyway, I got a couple of end-of-show clips.
	Well, you can only play one.
	I know.
	I'm going to ask you which one.
	I got Nigel Farage on Russia Today.
	Going on about the upcoming Cameron speech.
	Yeah, this is the speech where BMW and other big companies are saying, oh man, don't do this speech.
	Yeah, well, Farage says it's all bullcrap.
	The speech is just a cover-up for the pro-EU. I think that's boring compared to something that's actually boring, seemingly boring, and it's a little slow-moving, and it's a little, I don't know, it's boring, but it's from C-SPAN. Could you please, can we listen to something boring?
	It's from C-SPAN, but it's Bernicke discussing auditing the Fed.
	Oh, the Bernanke.
	And talking about what a scam it is.
	Oh, about the audit?
	They're never really going to audit, you mean?
	No, nobody knows what they're talking about.
	He says, you have to hear it.
	It's a great clip because it's like educational for the No Agenda listeners.
	You've never heard this before.
	All the Ron Paul people don't realize they've been duped.
	Duped?
	Wow.
	Okay, well, I think that's the better of the two.
	The Nigel clip is floating around.
	Everyone can see that.
	The Bernanke is something from C-SPAN, which is our speciality, I might point out.
	This is what we do, so you don't have to.
	So you're not going to see this or hear this anywhere, necessarily.
	All right, Jean-Claude, that's great.
	Happy Obama gray hair with the Ironomaly inauguration day.
	Exactly.
	Ha, ha, ha.
	Tomorrow...
	That'll be tomorrow.
	Well, tomorrow's the other dude.
	Yeah, the other guy.
	Obama number two.
	Gray-haired guy's already in.
	Okay.
	It'll be great with Beyond K. He's singing and everything.
	It's going to be fantastic.
	Coming to you from the capital of the Drone Star State here, where we need your support and your donations, please think of us.
	In the morning, I'm Adam Curry.
	And in the morning, from northern Silicon Valley, where I reside, I'm John C. Dvorak.
	We will be back on Thursday once again for another action-packed episode of the best podcast in the universe here on No Agenda.
	This question comes from an audience member.
	How do you respond to the people who question the constitutionality of the Federal Reserve and would like to severely weaken it?
	And furthermore, how do you respond to members of Congress who wish to audit the Fed?
	Well, I'm not a lawyer, so I do know Article 1.
	Never mind.
	LAUGHTER I'm not a lawyer, but the Fed has been around now for a century, and nobody so far has had a Supreme Court case.
	I'm not going to get into that issue.
	I think the Fed performs the critical role of managing the monetary system, which is, of course, a power that Congress has to delegate, which it has done.
	Let me talk to the other issue, which is, I think, more substantive.
	As you know, there are bills in Congress that would, quote, audit the Fed.
	And it sounds like something, how could anybody object to auditing the Fed?
	I mean, don't you have to look at people's books and see what's on their books?
	Well, the trouble with audit the Fed is that that's not what it's about.
	It's a misnomer.
	The Fed's books are thoroughly and completely audited.
	We are audited first by an outside private sector accounting firm, which gives us a clean bill of health.
	Secondly, all of our books, all of our financials, everything is open to the GAO, the Government Accountability Office, which works for Congress and for the government and can look at anything it wants to look at.
	And third, we also have an independent inspector general that is able to, you know, evaluate any aspect of the Fed's financials or activities that it would like.
	If you'd like to see more about this, the Fed's website, federalreserve.gov, has a detailed discussion of all the various audits that the Federal Reserve goes to.
	So all our financials, all of our activities, are thoroughly audited.
	With one exception.
	And that exception is that in the law which created the Government Accountability Office, the GAO, there is an exception made for monetary policy.
	In other words, the GAO can do anything it wants at the Federal Reserve, but what it can't do is go in and audit a monetary policy decision.
	Now, what the Audit the Fed bill would do is very simple.
	It would strike that clause.
	So if the Audit the Fed bill passed, then a congressman who didn't like the Fed's latest interest rate move could say, GAO, go audit that.
	And what that would mean would be the Government Accountability Office would send its staff...
	Into the Federal Reserve to look and see, you know, why did you guys raise interest rates and begin to investigate that decision?
	And it seems to me that's the first step toward basically the Federal Reserve no longer being an independent central bank.
	There's a very strong agreement around the world that if you want monetary policy made based on long-term considerations and not based on short-term political considerations, and the central bank needs to have some independence in making monetary policy, what this bill would do is strike at the very heart of that independence.
	It's my opinion that many people who support the bill just think it means what it sounds like, which is something about the financials.
	It has nothing to do with the financials.
	It has to do with whether or not Congress can ask the GAO to investigate a decision by the Fed that it doesn't like.
	And again, I think if you want a healthy economy...
	You want to have a strong and independent central bank, and that is not consistent with that bill.
	Shut up, slave!

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