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	Oh my god!
	You dog you!
	We're old friends.
	She's sexy!
	Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
	It's Thursday, April 11th, 2013.
	Time for your Gitmo Nation Media Assassination, episode 503.
	This is No Agenda.
	Polishing up my anti-social personality disorder here at the Travis Heights hideout in Austin, Texas.
	Capital of the Drone Star State in the morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And without further ado, from northern Silicon Valley, I'm John C. DeMora.
	It's Crackpot and Buzzkill in the morning.
	Yeah, no further ado.
	Is that what Bitcoin doing for you?
	What a fantastic, fantastic thing to see.
	Look, it's not like I didn't agree that we both agree that Bitcoin is the beanie baby of the financial crisis.
	In fact, I tweeted that just to remind everybody that that is what you said, what you asserted.
	Yes, and that's what makes me think that we have a crash coming because the beanie baby phenomenon was the same thing.
	Worthless crap means nothing.
	The trade it is thought was had great value.
	Yeah.
	I love the, on Reddit, they have a subreddit, and it's like, hold strong, everybody!
	It's really funny.
	We got a wall.
	We got a wall at 100.
	By the way, it was probably a floor at 100.
	No, no.
	They call it a wall.
	A wall?
	Yeah.
	You're falling down, straight down.
	It's not a wall down there.
	The Bitcoin community calls it a wall.
	Don't be a denier, man.
	This is a natural correction.
	By the way, this was the same group.
	Many of them weren't really old enough, but it was essentially a bunch of tech nuts that helped start the Beanie Baby thing.
	It was indeed.
	It was geeky nerds, wasn't it?
	A lot of them.
	And then, of course, then it went mainstream, and that's when the thing really skyrocketed.
	Yeah, then it became like...
	Right, for this technically to be the same way, it would have to get picked up by the public and then just become worth thousands of dollars and then crash to zero.
	But you know what's interesting about the...
	If you have no idea what's going on...
	I have a report.
	Well, oh, hold on a second.
	Oh, my goodness.
	This is a local news reporter trying to explain Bitcoin.
	What's the report title?
	Oh, I got it.
	All right, here we go.
	Come on, come on, load up.
	It prohibits it.
	It probably sounds a lot like a scam to a lot of people.
	Virtual currency?
	That's right.
	It's money that you can't touch.
	But people are snapping it up like crazy.
	Your mask is on something called the Bitcoin.
	It's got a lot of open space.
	Taylor Moore of Nashville is selling his property in Canada, asking price $405,000 or a few thousand bitcoins.
	Bitcoins are digital coins you can send through the internet.
	I've used it for a few online purchases and it's been the simplest thing that I've ever used.
	So, what exactly is a bitcoin?
	Actually, it's probably easier to talk about what bitcoin is not.
	They are not physical coins.
	They are not wads of paper cash.
	Bitcoin is digital money.
	Transactions from computer to computer.
	Nothing you can hold in your hand.
	Well, it's a virtual currency.
	You're right, you can't touch it, but most of your dollars in the bank you can't really touch anyway.
	Declan McCullough of CNET says special software assigns your Bitcoin currency a unique code that you keep in a virtual wallet.
	Bitcoins are transferred directly from person to person via the net without going through a bank or clearinghouse.
	Two years ago, Bitcoins were worth less than a dollar each and were unknown outside the tech world.
	So, first of all, I think that it was this actual podcast...
	That asserted that this was not something to invest your time and money into.
	Correct?
	And we were attacked several times.
	Oh yeah, this is reminiscent of another clip by AFL later.
	But yes, we were attacked from a number of sources.
	No, no, no.
	From the Bitcoin community.
	Right.
	It was from the Bitcoin.
	Yeah, the true believers.
	It was the true believers that attacked us.
	And it's sad now because I'm reading on the subreddit, which was just hilarious yesterday, a couple of things.
	First of all, this is all about the exchanges.
	We need new exchanges because MT Gox, which is how I call it, but it's, I guess, Mount Gox.
	MT Gox.
	It's the main exchange.
	And of course, this is where everything's manipulated.
	And supposedly, they got a distributed denial of service attack with people selling or bots selling Bitcoin, whatever.
	The whole point is that we said, don't do this.
	And I read sad stories of people like, man, I just got in yesterday.
	Oh, no.
	Really?
	I worked for Bitcoins.
	That's my favorite.
	I worked for Bitcoins, not feeling too good now.
	Yeah.
	When you get paid at $266 to the Bitcoin, and what is it currently?
	It's $120,000.
	Still high.
	Yeah.
	It's worthless.
	It's worth zero.
	Right.
	So everyone's like, man, what are you going to do with all your Bitcoin mini?
	I'm just holding on.
	I have still 100 Bitcoin, so in theory, I lost like $16,000.
	Of course, I had nothing to start with, and I didn't put this as all found money, so-called money.
	But I wonder, so there's this outfit called BitPay.
	And the way BitPay works, and help me understand this, John.
	Wait a minute.
	Don't put those kinds of demands on me.
	So they give you a bitcoin if you're selling stuff, if you're a merchant.
	Now, I'm not a merchant.
	They have a good little PR thing going on, the first bar in New York City to accept bitcoins.
	How do you buy a drink with a bitcoin?
	Well, it's a process, but you get like a QR code.
	No, it doesn't matter.
	I need a drink.
	Here's my question.
	I can't remember my number, bro.
	It's kind of long.
	Give me like a double, and then I'll give you a Bitcoin tomorrow.
	So they give you a Bitcoin address.
	The minute money is deposited, Bitcoins, I'm sorry, are deposited, it shows up at the current rate in your account, and they transfer that amount to your bank account minus 1% fee.
	I thought there was no fees involved with this great scam.
	But bear with me because I'm asking you a question.
	So on this meteoric rise, I've been like, every day I'm like, I'm going to sell a Bitcoin.
	Honey, it's time.
	And so I don't sell it.
	I just transfer it to my BitPay account.
	And then, you know...
	Boom, it's there in dollars and they send it to me.
	So what happens to an outfit like that who received, I don't know, maybe they received a thousand bitcoins yesterday from people who expected to see it change into the current rate.
	They only do their transfer once a day to the bank account.
	So how do they eat the loss on that?
	Well, actually, the way most of these things work is mutual funds have a similar kind of a setup.
	They have a certain time when they do the transaction.
	And it's at the time of transaction that the calculation of what you get is made.
	It's not like...
	In the morning.
	By the way, in the morning, Adam.
	Oh, hey, in the morning to you, John C. Devorak.
	In the morning, all ships are sea boots on the ground, feet in the air, and subs in the water, and dames and knights out there.
	Yeah, and...
	In the morning!
	The chat room.
	Anyway, in the morning, you send your Bitcoin in to them thinking you're going to get $160 if they...
	I don't know how they're set up, but generally speaking, the way it's supposed to work is that when the transaction actually takes place, you get the transaction amount at the moment.
	Yes, I understand.
	So you get $100 instead of the $160 expected.
	No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
	That's not how they're doing it, at least.
	Well, they're doing it wrong.
	Well, that's why I'm asking.
	How can those guys survive when you have...
	They can't.
	That's why you don't do it that way.
	Science!
	You don't do it that way, because that's what can happen.
	You get whipsawed right...
	That's what I mean, yeah.
	Do you like my new jingle?
	Science!
	Do you recognize that voice?
	Is that you?
	No.
	Science!
	Name the voice.
	Oh, God.
	You know, Eric DeShill is an expert at this point.
	Oh, you can do this one.
	Science!
	Who would rip our show off while claiming he's never heard it?
	Oh, that's Leo.
	Science!
	Exactly.
	That is Leo.
	Oh, who can you rip our show off without...
	I'm just saying.
	Yes, he does that.
	What?
	You're doing a podcast?
	What?
	Twice a week now, what?
	Oh, before we start, remember on Show 500, well, we have started technically, I guess.
	On Show 500, you brought back a couple of clips, and we played them, and these were just crazy things that only really this show has stopped to talk about and think about.
	But one clip in particular, one of our producers went, holy crap!
	I mean, you guys, you're playing it for the second time, and do you actually hear what is being said?
	And this is in regards to the, do you believe an attack on the homeland is imminent within the next six months?
	Right.
	Said in 2009.
	Right.
	And everyone said yes.
	Well, that wasn't really the question, nor the answer.
	Okay.
	Yeah, I know.
	And it took me a while to understand, because this email was coming in, and I got so much email.
	And I try not to reply, because when you reply, then people think, oh, goody, I have a little chat with Adam.
	Let's send another email.
	Adam hooked.
	I got another email from him.
	Let's see if he actually signs off even with his initials.
	See, I answer all email.
	You're such a dick.
	You do not.
	All right.
	So let's listen to this again with new ears.
	Intelligence to the head of the CIA. They were all in agreement.
	Listen.
	What is the likelihood of another terrorist attempted attack?
	On the U.S. homeland in the next three to six months.
	Now, did you hear what she said?
	Yes, it was like an attack or attempted attack.
	The likelihood of a U.S. attempted attack.
	Now listen to the answer.
	High or low?
	Director Blair?
	An attempted attack, the priority is certain.
	The priority is certain for an attempted attack.
	No, yeah, you're right.
	Actually, that answer is ludicrous on the surface.
	I mean, we know what it means is yes.
	The priority is we're going to go do something.
	Yes, that's exactly what it means.
	Play the whole thing over again with it in mind that she's asking if we're going to attack ourselves in some phony baloney way.
	And is it important that we do so?
	Which is the reinterpretation of that question, right?
	That's the real question here, yes.
	Intelligence to the head of the CIA, they were all in agreement.
	Listen.
	What is the likelihood of another terrorist attempted attack on the U.S. homeland in the next three to six months?
	High or low?
	Director Blair?
	An attempted attack, the priority is certain, I would say.
	Mr.
	Panetta?
	I would agree with that.
	Mr.
	Mueller?
	Agree.
	General Burgess?
	Yes, ma'am.
	Agree.
	Mr.
	Dinger?
	Yes.
	And notice that none of them say, because the question was high, medium, or low, and they're just saying, no, whatever he said, you know, the priority is high for an attempt to...
	The priority is high.
	The priority is high.
	We've got to do that.
	So you just have to listen, people.
	That is the lesson here.
	And even we miss that.
	I can't believe it.
	Man, we need to play our jingle for that, huh?
	Here we go.
	Because words do matter.
	Unbelievable.
	Unbelievable.
	So the Bitcoin thing fell apart.
	No, no, no, no, no.
	This is a normal market correction.
	This is how the free market works.
	Yeah, what am I thinking?
	This is a market correction.
	Shall we read some from the Bitcoin subreddit?
	Yes, I want to hear some of this.
	Okay, here is one.
	I think this subreddit should seriously consider having suicide hotline info posted.
	Okay, that makes sense.
	Please stop crying.
	Move over to another exchange and save the future of Bitcoin.
	Oh, man.
	The one that I had yesterday seems to have been bumped off.
	That was just hilarious.
	People are just like, oh man, who else didn't sell?
	I mean, have you ever seen these...
	It's just like a bunch of old ladies.
	Well, no, it's more like the Yahoo bulletin board penny stock forums.
	Well, they're a bunch of old ladies too.
	Right.
	Well, yeah, I don't know if they're old ladies, but they're all just sitting there.
	They're not old ladies.
	They act like old ladies, fidgety old ladies.
	Right.
	So everyone's very surprised that they weren't able to really trade when this price fluctuation.
	Oh, that's a very interesting phenomenon.
	All right.
	Well, I'm just waiting now.
	Where are y'all?
	Come on back.
	Let's wait for the love, the Bitcoin love, after we told you so.
	We did.
	We told everyone so.
	Well, you are still...
	No!
	No, John!
	What are you talking about?
	I expressly told you to take the Bitcoin donation off of the donation page.
	Yeah, I know I did that.
	So here's my point, people.
	So let's say we're counting on exchanging this into money to pay for rent, which is pretty much what we do with the funds you support us with.
	So that we can, you know, rent and food.
	There's not much else I'd do.
	Well, bills, yeah.
	So if people had donated on the last show, which was already low, and they had done it in Bitcoin, and we would immediately have had only 40%.
	Can you imagine?
	Yeah, it would have been a huge...
	Yeah, it would have been sad.
	It would have been a really sad day.
	Okay, well, in more lively news...
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	I'm going to read the headline and then read a little bit of the article.
	Okay.
	Bras make breasts saggier.
	Oh.
	A 15-year French study reveals.
	So they were studying breasts for 15 years.
	It says here, women have long been told that a good bra can help support the chest, relieve back pain, and prevent sagging.
	However, a new 15-year French study reveals the opposite.
	Braws do little to reduce back pain, and over time they can actually make breasts sag even more.
	Really?
	Indeed.
	Indeed, he says.
	Roulian and his team, I'm going to skip through a little bit of the article, and his team spent years majoring the changes in the breasts of 330 women using a simple slide rule and caliper at the center of Hospitalier Universitaire.
	Ah, that's French.
	Where he carried out his research.
	Yeah, those French guys.
	Carried out 15 years of majoring breasts.
	And this was funded.
	This was a funded research project.
	The study found that women who took off their bras for good experienced a 7mm measured by the measurement tool lift in their nipples each year.
	Each year they didn't wear a bra 7mm up.
	Researchers also found that braless women developed firmer breasts and saw their stretch marks fade.
	Okay.
	Anyway.
	Well, that's just great, John.
	Thank you for that.
	That's why we are the best podcast in the universe, everybody.
	Nobody's been reporting this.
	It's been under-reported.
	What I did see was a huge interview with Anthony Weiner and Huma Abedin in the New York Times.
	They're trying to get him back in the fold.
	They figured the public's going to forget what a pervert he is.
	Well, here's what's interesting.
	I'm looking at this article.
	I'm like, you should just Google it real quick just to grab it.
	It's like 10 pages, web pages, that is, online.
	All right.
	Aberdeen's what?
	It's just H-U-M-A.
	Huma.
	Huma.
	So this is, let me see if I can find this for you.
	Soul-searching wiener seeks forgiveness.
	CNN.
	One hour ago, he's got a PR person.
	Well, here's.
	ABC News.
	Okay, so here's what's interesting.
	Running for mayor.
	So he's running for, he's considering running for mayor.
	That's what this is about.
	And.
	So it's normal that you're going to start cranking stuff up.
	So I read this interview this morning in its entirety.
	It is an unbelievable fluff piece.
	This is the New York Times.
	Yeah, this is a fluff piece.
	I'm looking at it now.
	Anthony Weiner and Uma Abedin's post-scandal playbook.
	It's a picture of them around the table.
	He's barefoot.
	I think they're both barefoot in the picture.
	No, no.
	She's got some sort of leopard skin.
	Oh, right, yeah.
	Flats.
	She's got flats.
	Okay.
	So I'm reading this.
	So this is not only completely full of crap.
	It is such a puff piece.
	And this is the New York Times.
	This is a potential mayoral candidate for the hometown of this newspaper.
	And this is one big fluff.
	There's not even one mention.
	Of the fact that he's Jewish and she's Muslim.
	And that's not in the whole article at all, but it's all about their relationship and their marriage.
	There's no mention of Bill Clinton having officiated over their wedding.
	And in fact, what's very interesting is all the time Anthony Weiner is talking about maybe he should run, maybe he's considering it, not once is it written, I don't know if he said it, not once is it written that he cares about the city of New York.
	It's all about him and about his path.
	And I told you, I met this guy, I interviewed him for CNN when he was still a councilman.
	He is an asshole.
	And I said that when he remembered before we even knew he was lying.
	I said, this guy is a total political douchebag.
	When were you working for CNN? They had a CNN special series and they would have different celebrities.
	This is my MTV days.
	Different celebrities go out and interview politicians.
	You had the big hair then?
	I had the big hair and I interviewed him.
	I'd like to see that interview.
	I interviewed him, but then I also went to see his uber granddaddy, which was Chuck Schumer, and I interviewed him in Washington for the piece.
	What do you think?
	What?
	Tell us about these two guys.
	Okay.
	Anthony Weiner is an asshole.
	Chuck Schumer is the asshole of the daddy's asshole.
	I mean, it was so uncomfortable for me.
	I bet.
	And Wiener, I mean, we talked about this on the show when this was all coming down.
	This guy is just creepy, icky, doesn't give a crap.
	You know, he only shows up for the cameras.
	I mean, I saw the whole thing taking place when he was a councilman.
	So this is clearly a move, and then I see the article is written by Jonathan Van Meter, or Mater, depending on how you pronounce it.
	Google that name for a second.
	This will give you a kick.
	Jonathan Van Meter.
	M-E-T-E-R. And look what he's done recently.
	Just look at the Google.
	Let me see.
	Oh, do you think he did every single piece for Hillary Clinton?
	Do you think he did the Vogue piece for Hillary Clinton?
	You should actually Google Jonathan Van Meter and Hillary.
	That's even better.
	And let's see all the puff pieces that he's written.
	In Hillary's footsteps.
	Under, let's see, top ten things we learned about Hillary Clinton from Vogue magazine.
	Hillary's crush on David Miliband.
	Hillary Clinton's lighter side.
	This guy is, you know, he's on the Clinton payroll.
	You see it?
	Yeah, I'm looking at some of his stuff for the New York Magazine.
	But then he writes for New York Times about a possible mayoral candidate.
	By the way, the guy has $4.5 million in the Anthony Weiner for Mayor Fund and another $1.5 million left over from the Senate, which he gets to keep.
	And, you know, New York...
	It's the House.
	I'm sorry, the House.
	If New York would elect this guy, they deserve it.
	But it's so obvious that the Clintons are pushing him.
	And we knew this from the start.
	We knew that this was the whole deal.
	Well, he's got the wife, Hillary's girlfriend's wife, and so that's one important aspect.
	The Clintons are a couple of emperor types, and so they figure they can get more money.
	I mean, how much more money does Bill Clinton need?
	I mean, he's already halfway to the grave, and he's still trying to make as much money as he can.
	Well, now of course we have Chelsea who is...
	Oh yeah, well of course that's in the Red Book.
	That Chelsea would run?
	Yeah, of course it's in the Red Book.
	Long ago in the Red Book.
	So when we first saw Chelsea do something, we figured she was going to run for something.
	She was going to run for a congressman in Southern California.
	I didn't clip it.
	And by the way, for the woman she's turned out to be, she's a great speaker.
	She's very, very good.
	And she was being interviewed, I don't know, probably ABC and some friendly, compromised news network.
	And it's like, well, are you going to run?
	She's like, well, no, but should I feel that there's an obvious need for better representation?
	I'll run if drafted.
	No, no, no.
	She's like, I'm very happy with my current representation, but should I feel that that's different?
	Yeah, I'll move to some place where I'm not happy with those people there in Southern Nevada.
	So then I can go run there.
	This is the dynasty.
	Well, New Yorkers are idiots anyway.
	I mean, Hillary Clinton, who's never really lived in New York ever, waltzed into the U.S. Senate as a senator from New York, which just shows you how weak-willed the New York public is in general.
	Because she's not a New Yorker.
	How does she represent New York?
	And then, of course, she promised she wasn't going to run for anything else and immediately ran for president against Obama thinking it was a shoo-in.
	Of course, she was so lazy because she was too overconfident.
	I think they do have an overconfidence problem.
	Yeah.
	So that may screw things up.
	I just thought it was kind of interesting.
	We'll see if the New Yorkers are so dumb that they elect this dick I think it would be funny.
	Instead of the Big Apple, it would be the big dick.
	So do yourself a favor and read this article.
	I've been trying to read it right now while we're talking.
	It's unreadable.
	How compromised is the New York Times?
	I mean, so the two, like three bastions we have left that are still held as like, you know, because the Tiffany Network, that went away with Dan Rather.
	Then we have the New York Times, which is supposed to be, you know, the paper of record.
	And then we have our National Treasures, PBS, and NPR.
	NPR, by the way, who have been doing a fundraising drive, because I listen to as much media as possible.
	You're going to make millions from selling all that gear.
	Well, so I literally, I wish I could have recorded.
	So we have KUTFM in Austin, which is pretty funny when you say it in Dutch.
	KUTFM! Believe me, it's funny in Dutch.
	Yeah, I know what it means.
	I heard the host literally say...
	You know, we look forward to your sponsorship, and if you want the name of your company, Red On Air, only $750 will do that.
	I think that's borderline illegal.
	No, it's not.
	Well, first of all, I'm like, we charge $50.
	We're a good deal.
	What's this $750 to get your name mentioned?
	Crapalola.
	Oh, that's only in the local station, too, which probably has a smaller audience than we do.
	It's Austin!
	It's Austin!
	Can you believe that?
	I can just use it.
	Whoa, honey, I think we shall do that.
	That would be good for the hardware store.
	We do have a Philharmonic.
	We do have some kind of orchestra here.
	I think the Austin Philharmonic.
	I think we have that.
	Or the ballet.
	There should be a symphony orchestra if there's a Philharmonic.
	A lot of people don't realize the Philharmonic is what you named the second band in town.
	I think we have a symphony.
	Austin Symphony.
	I don't think it's doing too well.
	Yeah, austinsymphony.org.
	There you go.
	We do have one.
	As I said, not doing well, though.
	You know, those bands are hard to maintain.
	They were doing some special, I mean, generally speaking, in a good orchestra like that, or a good symphony orchestra, almost everybody in the band is getting paid over $100,000 a year.
	Oh, wow, really?
	Yeah, and sometimes it goes way up, and the conductor, a good conductor, gets $2 to $5 million.
	What?
	Yeah!
	For waving a stick?
	For waving a stick?
	Apparently there's a little more to it than that.
	Oh, bullcrap, here, watch, I can do that.
	There you go.
	Waving a stick.
	Are you kidding me?
	Waving a stick.
	Waving a stick.
	That's why the sound is so good.
	If you can't pay that kind of money, especially for some of these really talented musicians, you sound like crap.
	It doesn't take much to sound like a heist band.
	Because your stick waver is no good.
	You need a better stick waving dude up front.
	Wow.
	Well, anyway, we do have some supporters who came in lower than your typical National Treasure donation amounts, but at least we do have some...
	We have three executive producers for this program.
	We've got a bunch of people.
	This is good.
	This is good news.
	This is what it should be like.
	Let me just say one thing, John.
	Mickey felt so bad for you on Sunday.
	Why?
	Because, you know, I came out and she's like, oh my god, doesn't John really feel crappy about people not giving him any donations for his birthday?
	And I'm like, nah, fuck him.
	I don't give a shit if he feels bad.
	That's exactly what you should say.
	So let's thank a few people, starting with our buddy up in Tigard, Oregon, depending on your persuasion, Sir Melanson.
	Oh.
	Monsieur Dwayne Melanson.
	Dwayne, yeah.
	In the morning, I hereby claim my territory as the Earl of Oregon.
	Is he an Earl now?
	Yeah, he's got like eight knighthoods or something.
	Yeah, he's been a supporter of the show for years.
	Yeah, he's been a long time.
	So he's probably, yeah, Earl.
	Great.
	And Earl of Oregon sounds like a winner.
	By the way, I want to mention to people out there that these appearances and declarations may seem a little silly, but when they all get put into a book or posted somewhere or something, someday in the future...
	Yeah, it won't be so silly when society collapses and you've got a piece of paper to show that you own something.
	That shows that you're the Earl of Oregon.
	Yeah, it's not going to be so funny then.
	You laugh now.
	That's right.
	Anyway, he commemorates us with a $503 donation.
	503 is one of the Oregon area codes.
	Oh, very nice.
	And he'll be a member of the 503 club.
	Beautiful.
	In Oregon, you can't pump your own gas.
	This is true.
	When you go to Oregon, they pump your gas for you.
	Oh, is that against the law?
	It's against the law to pump your own gas.
	Really?
	And it used to be, they'd always have, everywhere around the country, of course, when I was a kid.
	Full service, yeah.
	So you drive up, they come running out, and they pump your gas, and wash your windows, and check your tire, and you'd open the hood.
	They'd check your oil and make sure you had enough oil in the car.
	Yep.
	Seriously, and then they'd give you free maps.
	Maps.
	Hey, buddy, you got a map?
	I remember that.
	I remember my dad, like, hey, you got a map?
	Yeah, I remember that.
	Maps became a business.
	No map.
	No service.
	Pump your own gas.
	Shut up, slave.
	Shut up and get out.
	Boy, that's progress for you.
	He has two bumper stickers on his car saying, read the Constitution.
	Nice.
	All right.
	Thank you, sir.
	And you will have Oregon.
	Oregon is yours.
	Done.
	Josh Jackson in West Sacramento, California.
	3-3-3-3-3.
	So Tuesday I'm driving home from my divorce lawyer's office.
	That's how a good story always starts.
	Yes, this is a good story already.
	And I'm feeling pretty bummed.
	Driving home, I get to the segment of Sunday's show where you guys are discussing the general lack of donations and listener recognition of John's birthday.
	I got such a huge laugh hearing Adam wish John happy birthday with that pathetic and hilarious party horn in the background.
	It's a winner.
	I've gotten so many laughs from the No Agenda show, but this might have been the funniest moment in No Agenda history.
	It brightened my day and I knew I had to donate.
	Happy belated birthday, John.
	Do you know that, Josh, when we moved into the Travis Heights hideout, he sent us a number of four-leaf clover bulbs.
	Bulbs?
	Yeah, apparently they're...
	Well, yeah, they're bulbs.
	I didn't know that they grew in bulbs.
	And we've planted them, and yes, four-leaf clover bulbs.
	Are they big bulbs?
	Yeah, they're kind of...
	Well, not huge, but they're a little oblong.
	All right.
	I mean, do you have any experience with four-leaf clover bulbs?
	I thought four-leaf clovers were just a mistake for me.
	Apparently, leprechauns sell these on the internet, and he sent us a box in dirt, and we planted them, and they're sprouting.
	So we have little sprouts, and soon, hopefully, we'll see if we have actual four-leaf clovers.
	Ah!
	Yeah, that was so nice of him, because he lives in California.
	Put a little piece of plastic bloom in there, and then send it to your friends, a four-leaf clover in a plastic gob.
	Yeah, that's right, yeah.
	Hey, we can sell them.
	Yeah, sure.
	Sir Barry Hanna in Ocotox, Alberta, where all the money is.
	333, no comment.
	Nicholas Caldwell in San Diego, California.
	He will be an associate executive producer.
	$250.
	Great work.
	Best content out there.
	Interested to hear your deconstruction of NBC and Fox threatening to go off broadcast after the aerial court decision.
	73.
	What?
	What is this?
	I don't know anything about this.
	You know what?
	I will talk about Ariel after we're done.
	Okay.
	All right.
	It's a funny idea.
	All right.
	At least it was legalized.
	Alan Bowes in Langley, British Columbia.
	Happy birthday, John.
	Happy not your birthday, Adam.
	One more payment towards the Baronet of Langley.
	No, no, no.
	A baronet does not get a protectorate.
	Yes, that's the rules of the peerage.
	So what good is a baronet if you just...
	It's just a better title than knight.
	Do you get more chicks with that?
	We're thinking of giving townships to baronets, so he probably could get Langley.
	But then there could be a baron of British Columbia, which would lord it over him.
	Okay.
	Kathleen, but we have to, you know, this is getting complicated, but it's worth it.
	It's worth it.
	When the apocalypse comes, it'll be worth it.
	Yeah, no, people will say, okay, you're the boss there of Langley, and then I'll take care of the town.
	I got it.
	I got you covered.
	Kathleen Bowman or Bowman in Quartz Hill, California.
	I don't even know that exists.
	Two, two, two, two, two.
	So sorry I missed donating for John's birthday.
	He probably wouldn't have appreciated the $112 I was going to donate as an agent.
	Did you see your wiki page, by the way?
	At one point you were 236 years old.
	That worked out well.
	That's cute.
	I was going to donate as an age guest to 112.
	You guys are better than most things.
	Not including chocolate ice cream.
	Disclaimer.
	You are, let's see, your age is, oh yeah, they say you're 61 today.
	Trevor Chapman.
	You're only 4'1".
	Will my protectors of the wiki page please take notice?
	Four foot one.
	Ministry of Truth.
	Was that it?
	Are we done?
	No, no, I'm finishing.
	I just had a sip while you were laughing at me.
	Trevor Chapman in Brampton, Ontario, 202.
	Happy belated birthday, John.
	This donation is a total of 13 squared plus 33.
	Nice.
	Keep up the most excellent podcast and keep hitting them in the mouth, Trevor Chapman.
	Great White North.
	And that'll close out our executive and social executive producer segment for show 503.
	And we want to remind people to go to NoAgendaShow.com, NoAgendaNation.com.
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	It really makes a difference when we have great art.
	Support seems to go up.
	This is something we've been tracking over time.
	Yeah, you grew up the opinion that the art makes the show.
	Yeah.
	We could just sit here and just blabber for hours, which I guess we do.
	As long as the art is good.
	Well, let me say, I want to thank Nick the Rat for the previous episode, 502, for the artwork.
	That was fantastic.
	Really appreciate that.
	I want to thank Thorin for the artwork that I put in the newsletter.
	Ah, yes.
	And what's interesting is that Bag 33 art really looks good as a logo on a letterhead.
	So Mickey said to me, she said, because she gets the newsletter, she reads, I love the artwork for the bags.
	When do we get the bags?
	I'm like, this is never going to happen.
	No, no, it's happening.
	It's not going to happen.
	Oh, please.
	Eric's on it.
	Oh, okay.
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	He registered a domain for us, which I think is, you know, we don't really encourage that anymore.
	We still have a good 700 domain names forwarding to noagendashow.com.
	He registered guardiansofreality.com, which I think is a good one.
	That might be.
	Yeah, he's got a little landing page there for us, and so that is highly appreciated, Illuminati.
	And as John just mentioned, please continue your support of the best podcasts in the universe.
	We have plenty of proof that there's reasons for you to do that, because you just can't get this kind of deconstruction anywhere else.
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	We'll hear people in the mouth.
	New World Order Chefs Chefs Yay, yay, yay.
	Shutting the up and slave.
	Shutting the up and...
	Um, okay.
	A little Red Book action for you.
	A little theory stuff going on.
	A little red book?
	You want me to bring the red book and start writing in it?
	Nah, get it ready, get it ready.
	I've got it ready.
	I've got a pen in hand.
	Okay, this is about the North Korea hype.
	First of all, what is the BBC thinking with this terminology?
	On the news now, South Korea has raised its alert level ahead of an expected North Korean missile launch.
	Intelligence services in Seoul say that the North has prepared two mid-range missiles for imminent...
	Mid-range.
	I love newscasters who...
	Mid-range.
	She is actually working as a talking head on the BBC. Yes, BBC, mid-range.
	Mid-range.
	...arrange missiles for imminent launch, despite warnings from China to avoid provocative moves.
	Well, North Korea says that foreigners in the South should leave for their own safety, as it warns that the region inches towards thermonuclear war.
	I mean, really?
	Thermonuclear war?
	Well, first of all, there's a real one simple flaw here, of course, is thermonuclear is an H-bomb.
	This guy hasn't built a bomb that can even reach the A-bomb potential of the Hiroshima bomb.
	So there's no chance, unless we threw an H-bomb back at him, which we wouldn't do, and they're not going to drop a bomb anyway.
	So this is, like, very irresponsible.
	It's not just irresponsible, it is wrong.
	It is just wrong.
	And then you take into account that the woman can't even pronounce her R's.
	Thermonuclear war.
	As it warns that the region inches towards thermonuclear war.
	Thermonuclear war.
	Okay, so there's a little meme that cropped up that I didn't catch it at first, but then after I started hearing it come back and back, and I'll play two clips where this meme crops up, I think I know what's going to happen.
	First, we have alarming new video coming out of North Korea to show you.
	Take a look at this.
	You see missiles being fired on North Korea's coast.
	The secretive regime released this video yesterday.
	Now, we don't know if these missiles are real.
	They may have even been photoshopped.
	But a U.S. official says two medium-range missiles have been loaded onto launchers on North Korea's east coast.
	Okay, so officials say two.
	Not one, but two.
	North Korea, the situation with North Korea getting even more tense in just the past hour.
	There is a new intelligence out there that North Korea could be planning multiple missile launches at any moment.
	That's on top of expectations.
	Pyongyang plans to test fire two mobile missiles from its east coast.
	Okay, two.
	So they're pushing this two thing.
	And, of course, you know, there's no message from the KNAC, the Pyongyang News Agency, that says, hello, here's two missiles!
	That's not true.
	I mean, you can go look.
	They have an English version.
	I also didn't see any video shooting stuff at the coast.
	But okay, it doesn't matter.
	I checked this stuff because I don't just take it for granted.
	Was there any video of Un with his binoculars?
	That's my favorite.
	Yeah, where he goes like, huh?
	Huh?
	Huh?
	What?
	Huh?
	He's always looking through binoculars.
	So here's what I think is going to happen.
	At the same time, of course, we have Japan preparing for incoming missiles.
	Here's what I think we're going to see.
	We're going to see a launch.
	Now, we've already established there will be two missiles.
	We will see a launch, and one will either be shot out of the air by a patriot, or will just explode or just disintegrate.
	I will assert that Kim Jong-un is on our side, and he's just doing whatever we tell him to do.
	But I think we will find the second warhead, In Japan, let's say Okinawa is an example, that undetonated, put this in the book, we will find the second warhead and we'll be like, wow man, we're really lucky, we dodged the bullet, but we will find it, it will be nuclear, and this will be the impetus or the accelerant for some type of action.
	There's no other reason to be hyping two missiles.
	Yeah, it's an interesting theory.
	Because, of course, they're only going to shoot one.
	But then we'll say, oh, but he shot the second one, and it was a dud, and it landed.
	Let's see.
	Let's see.
	A dud.
	What's this thing?
	Washed up on the beach.
	Hey, Betty, what's this thing washing up on the beach?
	I don't know.
	Call the MPs.
	Maybe they know what it is.
	It's a dud.
	I'm telling you it's a dud.
	And, holy crap, I've just been doing so much work, I hope people appreciate this.
	We were listening to the Vice President.
	I thought that is a lot of work.
	Yeah, because I had to go back and listen to it again.
	The Vice President, waxing poetic, remember his New World Order thing?
	His whole, what we need is a, well, I have the clip here, about the New World Order.
	And then he mentioned something in here that we went like, what is that about?
	What?
	The affirmative task we have now is to actually create a new world order.
	Because the global order is changing again.
	And the institutions that have worked so well in the post-World War II era for decades, they need to be strengthened.
	Some have to be changed.
	Pay attention.
	So we have to do what we do best.
	We have to lead.
	We have to lead.
	We have to update the global rules of the road.
	We have to do it in a way that maximizes benefits for everyone.
	Because obviously it's overwhelmingly in our interest.
	This is not a zero-sum game.
	It's overwhelmingly in our interest.
	That China prosper.
	That Mongolia prosper.
	There it is.
	That nation's big and large.
	So he won China prosper and Mongolia prosper.
	We've spotted this Mongolia thing when you played that the last time.
	Something's up.
	Well, that's why I'm playing it again, John.
	Yeah, of course I did.
	Why would I torture you with O'Biden talking about the New World Order if I didn't have something?
	Yeah!
	Mongolia is the world's fifth fastest growing economy, and we now have the ninja miners in Mongolia who are finding gold everywhere, apparently.
	What?
	Yeah.
	Yep.
	Ninja miners who are called that because they look like when they take their gold pans up to the rivers to pan, they look like turtles.
	And there's a gold rush.
	There's a gold rush in Mongolia.
	Huh.
	Yeah, they got like huge nuggets popping out.
	There are 60,000 ninja miners.
	Let me get this straight.
	So we have an area here, China, Mongolia, this old...
	Mongolia is kind of like, it kind of plopped in the middle there, yeah?
	Yeah, that's been populated with human settlements for what?
	100,000 years?
	Yeah, God knows, yeah.
	And now they're finding gold?
	Mm-hmm.
	Are you kidding me?
	I'm just reading what the Washington Post says.
	Something sketchy about this.
	So here we go.
	Also, if you read their top five reasons why Mongolia is interesting, and this comes out when Biden says it.
	And this guy, we know Biden can't keep his trap shut.
	We know this.
	He's always giving it away.
	He's like the tell.
	He is the tell.
	So number one, as they say, the ninjas, who, let's see, they are actually dragging down the real mining economy, because there's so many of them.
	Number two, they're becoming too dependent on China.
	Which could be interesting.
	We may want to break them off from Chinese rule.
	But this is really about the mines.
	And I guess maybe we have mining interests in Mongolia?
	If we have mining interests, it would be in rare earths.
	Now, I would think that if you run into a mineral-rich area, and gold is something of an indicator, at least some minerals are there.
	And we know that China, the whole of that region, has lots of rare earth elements, which is what you need for modern technology.
	Yeah, for your iPhone.
	And we also know, in fact, they're going to bring, I guess they're going to bring an asteroid into orbit.
	You know about this.
	Well, like I told you, right?
	Everyone laughed at my tractor beam theory.
	They're going to use a rope, I believe.
	Anyway.
	A chain of bitcoins.
	They're going to bring an asteroid.
	And this is NASA doing this.
	This is not done by the Google boys, I'm sure.
	No, no, they put out a contract for it.
	NASA has put out an award contract.
	Oh, so it's a contract deal.
	So then it means that SpaceX or any of these guys...
	The guys who already tried to bring in the Russian meteor and failed and it blew up.
	So they're going to bring in...
	This is a small one.
	This is only one mile.
	Okay.
	And they believe that if they screw up, which I... I mean, I know they can do the math to make these things actually work, but there's always some gotcha that they didn't take into account.
	But let's just say it screws up and the asteroid is then flung toward the Earth.
	You want it to go into Mongolia, basically.
	Well, that might be an interesting theory.
	I didn't even think of that.
	Well, we don't want to hear it.
	Yeah, go to Mongolia, blow up the place, and then these miners just scour over.
	Well, of course, the only thing is, apparently, the calculation on this asteroid, what will be left if it hits the Earth's atmosphere, which you don't want, because it'll be a great display, and you get a bowling ball.
	That's all that's left?
	Really?
	Yeah, it's a bowling ball sized item.
	Yeah, that's how big an asteroid has to be.
	You have to imagine things that have to be really huge to do any serious damage.
	But the bowling ball itself will be like 10 A-bombs, you know, just boom!
	Right.
	Because it'll be coming in at some ridiculous speed.
	Again, Mongolia, good place for that to happen.
	That'd be interesting.
	Well, that would definitely, because right now you can't go in there with, you know, you can't be an American company with a bunch of dynamite and start blowing up Mongolia to get the rare earth minerals.
	Anyway, okay, well, a lot of interesting stuff going on.
	Well, so, but I guess the point is, something happening with Mongolia, O'Biden mentions it, so it's China, Mongolia, and then other countries big and large, remember that?
	Other countries big and large.
	Yeah.
	What an idiot.
	But for him to mention Mongolia, there's something going on.
	You're right.
	Over the years, he's always been a tell.
	He is such a...
	He just says all these casual things, and if you just look every one of them up, it's something that's...
	He just got out of a meeting where they were talking about Mongolia.
	Yeah, China, Mongolia.
	Riddled.
	In fact, he is the one that tipped me off to this war on crazy that's going on.
	I guess we're going to get some legislation, an amendment passed today in the United States of Gitmo Nation, which will have very little to do.
	And this is kind of what's fascinating, is that the news media that pretends that have the press cards and everything and the jackets with the big CNN logo on it, So they're all running around saying, well, this is a failure.
	Obama's getting nothing.
	He's getting no ban on assault weapons.
	He's getting no ban on magazine clips.
	Magazine clips!
	They can't just say it properly.
	It's all magazine clips.
	All this is about is some kind of universal background check.
	And I, of course, have...
	Looked into exactly what this legislation is.
	It's based, I think, on Senate Bill 374, and we don't actually have the full text yet, but it's known as the Fixed Gun Checks Act of 2013.
	But perhaps we should just have a little spin around the dial.
	Here in Gitmo Nation, United States, to hear the barrage of crap that has just been lauded over us for the past 72 hours.
	It's been super, super annoying.
	And of course, this really isn't about guns at all.
	But let's just listen to some of the lies.
	Here's a Christiana Anumpur.
	Who I used to regard quite highly.
	Really?
	Yeah, I thought she was in the Desert Storm, the original Gulf War.
	You know, she had a thing going on, and she felt kind of real.
	Yeah, but then she sold out, and then she went to ABC and failed there, and now she's back.
	And listen to this lie.
	Well, look, I mean, this debate has been going on for a long time.
	The fact of the matter is that in states inside the United States...
	Okay, you talked over it, so I'll play it again.
	I knew you were going to do that.
	Here we go.
	Well, look, I mean, this debate has been going on for a long time.
	The fact of the matter is that in states inside the United States, where there are tougher gun laws, there is lower gun crime.
	Really?
	Have you looked at Chicago?
	Fact.
	Fact, she says.
	Fact of the matter.
	In states with tougher gun laws, there is lower gun crime.
	That is a blatant lie.
	Yes.
	That's a lie.
	For a long time, the fact of the matter is that in states inside the United States where there are tougher gun laws, there is lower gun crime.
	Yeah.
	We know that Thursday is going to be the real showdown day in the U.S. Capitol to see how the Congress reacts.
	Newtown families are there.
	They've been talking about it.
	And they're very committed to sensible gun control.
	Ah, okay.
	Here we go.
	Common sense, sensible facts.
	Common sense, sensible.
	Okay.
	Let's listen to some common sense things.
	This is Senator Manchin.
	Manchin, I think, who yesterday, I believe, announced that, oh, looks like we got some kind of deal.
	And he really took it to an extreme.
	And with the Senate and House, hopefully passing these common sense measures and the president's I love that he says measures, by the way.
	That kind of made me feel good.
	I'm like, oh, maybe he's a no-agenda guy after all, but no.
	Back home where I come from, we have common sense, we have nonsense, and now we have gun sense.
	Oh, thank you very much.
	We have common sense, we got nonsense, and we got gun sense.
	All right, now let's listen to some of the nonsense.
	You know, when Joe Biden, he was up there talking about the facts, and of course he had to really telegraph that this is one big magic number scam.
	In the past 213 days since Sandy Hook...
	3,300 people have died at the end of a gun, and you've witnessed it.
	It's amazing, that number.
	It just pops up.
	How do we get the 33 worked in there?
	I don't know how they got 33 worked in there.
	That's unbelievable.
	Joe, make sure you say it twice so they know that you're telegraphing the magic number to me.
	You've witnessed the aftermath of it.
	I have the cream of the crop of the nation's law enforcement in this room today.
	You could cite for me what's happened in your jurisdictions.
	In the last 113 days.
	3,300.
	Thank you, Joe.
	Thank you.
	So I want to make sure I heard it.
	3,300.
	Then we had our favorite person from Texas.
	Sorry?
	I'm just still, every time we hear this 33, we've been talking about this for five years, and we still don't know what the code actually means.
	It's a specific meaning, unless it's just a casual reference that this is bullcrap.
	Bullcrap.
	Yeah, it's bullcrap.
	The other way.
	So here's Sheila Jackson Lee.
	Oh!
	I thought she was done.
	Wasn't she out?
	I thought her term was ended or over, or she was quitting.
	Congresswoman, it keeps getting re-elected by the idiots in her area.
	Which is Dallas, I'm sure.
	Yeah, hello.
	Not Austin.
	So I believe we are no longer at the point where we can have sermons, or we can mourn, and yet not do something.
	Let me thank...
	I think applaud is not the appropriate terminology.
	You've got to listen to this woman.
	Let me thank.
	It's like, there's a way that this woman talks where she...
	I think that I have to use the common language of the sensibilities to underjustify to be, make sure that I sound like I am talking to the electorate of the officiating parties who like to...
	Sounds like a parody of a parody of a black person from the 1800s.
	Yes.
	An embarrassment.
	Listen.
	Those parents who flew on Air Force One from Newtown, Connecticut, you can imagine that they are hurting.
	Tears came to my eyes as I saw them de-plane.
	Come down off of those out of Air Force One, knowing that they are still hurting.
	I heard a quote that said, for some of us, it's months.
	For those parents, it's one day at a time.
	To imagine little ones, five and six years old, whose bodies were riddled.
	Riddled.
	And they are here on the hallways of Congress.
	They're on the hallways.
	To be able to ask us, can we do the right thing that is for the American people?
	And I want to answer today a question that I raised.
	I want to answer a question that I raised.
	She wants to answer a question she raised.
	Can we stop the filibuster?
	Can we resolve the fact that...
	That was everyone talking about the filibuster.
	Defensible gun legislation.
	Wait a minute.
	Defensible gun legislation.
	Resolve the fact that sensible gun legislation does not violate the Second Amendment.
	And in fact, we protect the Second Amendment.
	No one has challenged the Second Amendment.
	No one has challenged concealed permits for concealed weapons that are in many states.
	But we have said that the tragedy that occurred in Arizona, where someone was using an automatic weapon and had multiple rounds...
	An automatic weapon, John!
	I thought this was new.
	I didn't know you could have an automatic weapon.
	They don't sell them.
	It was an automatic weapon.
	I heard her say it.
	It was an automatic weapon.
	Automatic weapon.
	Automatic weapon.
	She's from Dallas.
	She doesn't even know what an automatic weapon is.
	Well, apparently...
	So the guy had a machine gun, is what she's saying.
	Apparently, the president...
	Like a Tommy gun of some sort.
	Apparently, the president is using the same talking points.
	Ecoutez, mon frère.
	Last night at a no-cameras-allowed Democratic fundraiser in San Francisco, President Obama misstated the kind of weapon used in the Sandy Hook shooting.
	Advocating for stricter gun control, the president said, quote, it is possible for us to create common-sense gun safety measures that respect the traditions of gun ownership in this country and hunters and sportsmen, but also make sure that we don't have another 20 children in a classroom gunned down by a semi-automatic weapon, by a fully automatic weapon in that case, sadly.
	So he actually corrected himself and said fully automatic.
	Wait a minute.
	So he corrected himself wrong.
	Yeah.
	And said fully automatic.
	So he actually said the right thing, although it wasn't true because we know now that the guy only used the pistols.
	Right.
	I mean, which, by the way, seems to get...
	Well, you know, without really getting into it, there's a discrepancy here that really is bothering me.
	Listen to this.
	Today, Connecticut's governor signed a tough new gun control law.
	Parents who lost children at Sandy Hook Elementary School stood behind Dan Malloy as he signed the bipartisan bill passed late last night.
	It expands an assault weapons ban, requires background checks for all gun purchases, and limits ammunition magazines to 10 rounds.
	The Sandy Hook killer murdered 20 first graders and six educators, firing 154 rounds in four minutes using 30-round magazines.
	Okay, so first of all, we know that according to the evidence, fact...
	That he did not empty the magazines because that was part of his gaming training.
	That he would just reload whenever, I guess, he had riddled some of the children.
	So he did not...
	In order to empty 154 rounds in four minutes, let's just presume that he did have...
	A semi-automatic rifle, which he didn't.
	He had handguns.
	But okay, let's just go back and listen to the lie.
	That would mean he would have to have reloaded at least four times to reach 154 or probably five or six times.
	Definitely was pulling the things out for no good reason.
	Yeah, so that would have been six times.
	But in four minutes...
	So, but, you know, where is this statistic coming from?
	This 154 rounds in four minutes.
	This is coming from lies.
	I never heard it.
	Yeah, no, this has been bandied about quite a bit now.
	Even the President said...
	The four minutes.
	The under five minutes is what the President said.
	Does somebody have a stopwatch on this thing?
	Apparently.
	Yeah, no, they've got all of this information.
	All of this.
	The only thing we don't have is any pictures or evidence or anything like that.
	Well, I've got a couple of gun-related things I want to discuss.
	Okay, because I do want to get to the crazy part, but you want to do the gun...
	Let's do this first, because I just want to throw this in so everyone has this before we continue.
	Okay.
	So we have it out of the way.
	Yeah.
	So I'm watching the nation's...
	Treasure, the news hour.
	It's just nation's treasure, yes.
	Glenn Eiffel?
	So they have a thing on guns and violence.
	Sorry?
	Glenn Eiffel?
	Glenn.
	Glenn, yeah, Glenn Eiffel.
	Obama's buddy.
	Shouldn't even be on the show because of the book she wrote.
	Is she on?
	Was she hosting Glenn Eiffel?
	I think it was Glenn Eiffel that did this interview with Paul Barrett.
	They figured they're going to get this guy out there.
	He's a New York Times bestseller, Glock!
	The Rise of America's Gun, which is his book.
	And so I don't think they expected him to come out of the blue by giving us some very interesting statistics.
	Well, I think there, as with many social issues, there's a downside and an upside, and obviously we've got far too much gun violence in the inner cities.
	We have far too much gun violence in other segments of society.
	But it's also important to put on the table and to think about, as we analyze how to move forward, the fact that, in the aggregate, actually gun violence is going down sharply.
	And has been going down since the early 1990s.
	Violent crime overall in this country is at about half the rate that it was in 1980.
	And big cities, though they still do have pockets of terrible violence and social dysfunction, overall are actually safer today than they were 20 years ago.
	And is it known why that's happening?
	Well, there's a great deal of debate over that.
	Okay, stop.
	Now, you have to listen to this.
	There's a great deal of debate over that, and they leave out one kind of an interesting stat, which I'll reveal after they're done with their little, you know, oh God, how can we explain this?
	How do I explain this?
	There's got to be some way of explaining it.
	Of explaining why it's gone down, you mean?
	Yeah, it's gone down to an extreme.
	Do I get to guess?
	I'll listen first.
	I'll listen first.
	There's a great deal of debate over that.
	It is almost certainly not any one factor.
	Determining why crime levels shift is a very, very difficult challenge for social scientists.
	The ingredients probably include the higher rate of incarceration, which has been very pronounced over the last couple of decades, shifts in police practices, targeting certain neighborhoods where there's a lot of violence as opposed to just kind of randomly patrolling the streets.
	And also improvements in certain cities in social programs and in improving public housing.
	In some cities, there's been very, very concentrated public housing that's been dispersed to some degree.
	And I'm sure the circumstances vary a great deal from city to city.
	Science!
	So, of course, being the nation's treasure, there's one interesting stat.
	I'm not going to have you guess because you just guess.
	You know what it is.
	Let's just read off a couple stats here.
	In 1970, there were 150 million guns floating around the United States.
	Oh, okay.
	I get it.
	Yeah.
	All right.
	It climbed progressively.
	2013, 300 million guns.
	More than any time in our history, we're armed more.
	And the gun violence has gone down.
	How is that possible?
	Tell us a little bit about what goes on in Texas.
	You know, I tell people this all the time.
	We have no carjackings.
	We have little to no gun violence anywhere.
	I'm just talking about Austin, which I really know.
	But you can just look up the headlines.
	And there's no one breaking into homes.
	And we're polite to each other in traffic.
	Please, after you.
	Sir, please, after you.
	I don't know what you're packing.
	Go ahead.
	Exactly.
	In Texas, once they legalized Carrie, it was like, it's just that crimes went right to the floor.
	And the gun numbers from 150 doubled since 1970 when there was really a lot of violence.
	Doubled and the crime rate went down.
	They did not bring this up.
	This guy would know this because he just wrote a book about Glock.
	But no, it's probably because they're arresting more people, and the police procedures seem to be improved, and they are also patrolling areas where there was gun violence instead of randomly patrolling, and I don't know, it's hard to say.
	So we have to put up with this crap.
	Well, there's a couple things going on.
	So first of all, it seems like everything that's being done here is going to speed up gun purchasing.
	Which is just basically good.
	I mean, you know, it's like, yeah, we'll do a background check in two minutes.
	Great!
	Great!
	Make that shit faster, boy!
	However, this, of course, is really the war on crazy.
	And I was surprised when I did some of the research about gun legislation.
	Now, we have...
	And these amendments, or the amendment...
	I think it's S-374, whatever is going to get passed probably, the Fixed Gun Checks Act of 2013.
	It refers to U.S. Code Title 18, Section 22.
	This is the main legislation which is put in place as a part of the Brady Bill.
	So this goes back how many years, John?
	20 years?
	25 years?
	Well, the Brady bill, I believe, was introduced in 83.
	That's 20 years?
	Yeah.
	No, that's 30 years.
	30 years.
	30 years ago.
	So I'm just going to read this to you, and then you'll understand maybe a little bit better about what's going on.
	And this is just a very long process that has been going on for a while, and they've finally gotten there.
	This is not about taking your guns away.
	This is about locking you up because you're crazy for anything.
	So, U.S. Code, Title 18, Section 922, it should be unlawful for any person to sell or otherwise dispose of any firearm or ammunition to any person knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that such person is, one, under indictment for or been convicted in any court of crime punishable by imprisonment, is a fugitive from justice, is an unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance...
	It's very important.
	And here's the big one.
	This is the one that Biden...
	I didn't record him saying it, but he kept saying this over and over again.
	I should have clipped it, but I just couldn't stand looking at him anymore.
	Number four.
	Has been educated as a mental defective.
	Okay.
	We're in Nazi Germany?
	So this is 30 years old.
	Educated as mental defective.
	So I go and I'm like, what does mental defective really mean?
	And it has been specified, federal law, According to the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act.
	I guess the Brady Bill was discussed.
	It was actually passed in a form in 1993 during the Clinton administration.
	Oh, in 1993.
	Oh, okay.
	Well, that's when the bill was actually passed, the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act.
	I think there was attempts to pass...
	The so-called Brady Law or Brady Bill, previous to that, and I can't find a reference to the exact date, just so people don't think that we don't try to get things correct.
	So it did become law in 1993, as I'm reading it here.
	Yeah.
	And the definition of mental defective, which means, and you will have to have been educated as a mental defective defective, Mental defective, man.
	The definition of a mental defective in this case includes anyone whom a court, board, commission, or other lawful authority has determined to be a, quote, danger to himself or other because of marked subnormal intelligence or mental illness, incompetency, condition, or disease.
	So this, I would say, is rather broad.
	Now, of course, what we're doing here, if you go in and you look at this act...
	This is not anything...
	This has nothing to do with real gun legislation.
	This has to do with grants to the states.
	Because this is a state issue.
	A state determines what their gun legislation is.
	Now, in order to get a federal...
	And, of course, this is what the president has been working on.
	In order to...
	Make it look like a federal mandate.
	All of the states have to get on board.
	Interestingly enough, if you look at most of the laws for the states, you'd be surprised what the actual definition of mental defective is.
	I'm going to pull up Texas, just to show you that I'm completely unbiased in this.
	And here are the 12 different things if you are determined to suffer from at least one of them.
	Then, and I'll go into an important one in a minute, at least one of them, then you are forbidden from having a gun.
	This is Texas.
	This is already law.
	So what is happening in the United States Senate now is they are bribing the state's attorney generals.
	But they do.
	With money to implement this into their background check systems, the NICS, I think is what it's called.
	And we're talking hundreds of millions of dollars, which no one is going to let pass up.
	So, Texas, possession of a firearm by the mentally ill, as determined, involuntary psychiatric hospitalization.
	That's common sense.
	Psychiatric hospitalization.
	Inpatient or residential substance abuse treatment in the preceding five-year period.
	Diagnosis in the preceding five-year period by a licensed physician that the person is dependent on alcohol, a controlled substance or similar substance.
	That's very much like the Brady Bill.
	Or diagnosis at any time, at any time, by a licensed physician that the person suffers or has suffered from a psychiatric disorder or condition consisting of or relating to...
	Schizophrenia or delusional disorder.
	Bipolar disorder.
	It's half our audience.
	Chronic dementia, whether caused by illness, brain defect, or brain injury.
	Disassociative identity disorder.
	Intermittent explosive disorder.
	Or antisocial personality disorder.
	Let's take a look at antisocial personality disorder.
	Since I live in the state of Texas and I am a gun owner, I think I'm probably in violation.
	The World Health Organization has determined you have antisocial personality disorder if you have at least one of the following conditions.
	Callous unconcern for the feelings of others.
	Oops.
	Gross and persistent attitude of irresponsibility and disregard for social norms, rules, and obligations.
	Uh-oh.
	Uh-oh.
	Incapacity to maintain enduring relationships though having no difficulty in establishing them.
	Very low tolerance to frustration and a low threshold for discharge of aggression including violence.
	Incapacity to experience guilt or to profit from experience, particularly punishment.
	Markedly prone to blame others or to offer plausible rationalization for the behavior that has brought the person into conflict with society.
	So, I think I got at least three of those.
	At least three.
	So, by this, I should not be allowed to have a handgun.
	Hawaii has their own...
	I just pulled a couple.
	You are mentally defective if the person is or has been diagnosed having a significant behavioral, emotional, or mental disorder as defined by the most current diagnostic manual of the American Psychiatric Association.
	That would be the DSM, ladies and gentlemen.
	And there we have it.
	Congratulations.
	You are going to be...
	What?
	What?
	It's a good job.
	You wrapped it all around into a bundle.
	Yep.
	And you presented it one piece at a time without getting boring.
	There's nothing boring in there.
	Thank you.
	And then you wrapped it around and you came off the track with...
	You took the spur and you went over to this mental thing and then you found some documentation.
	Then you spun it back onto the main line and bingo, there's that stupid book again.
	The best podcast in the universe I do want to mention that there is one little sidetrack, one little footnote here.
	There is a new concept that I believe will help me, and I think I can actually get some government money for this new concept known as neurodiversity.
	Have you heard of this?
	No, but I will.
	Neurodiversity is a concept suggesting that neurological differences be respected and recognized as a social category on par with gender, ethnicity, class, or disability.
	And what qualifies, you ask?
	Well, individuals with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, autism spectrum disorder, dyscalculia, dyslexia, dyspraxia, dyslexia, and half the population's dyslexic, and Tourette's syndrome.
	Oh, we need to get that government grant.
	I'm getting me some government money for my neurodiversity.
	Wow.
	Which means we need a new jingle.
	Neurodiversity!
	Yeah, neurodiversity.
	Neurodiversity.
	So, you know, I can get affirmative action because of my Tourette's Syndrome.
	I should be first...
	In fact, I think I should get a parking pass, an invalid parking pass.
	Because I have Tourette's Syndrome.
	Disability parking pass, not an invalid.
	An invalid shouldn't be driving.
	Invalid.
	I'm sorry.
	Invalid.
	Disability.
	They don't call it a disability parking permit.
	They do here.
	They call it a cripple pass here in Texas.
	That's bad.
	Cripple pass.
	Hey, but how cool is that?
	Go for it.
	Dyslexic is now disabled.
	What you're saying is every dyslexic, which is half the population from what I can tell, from Jay Leno down to Mimi.
	And Ms.
	Mickey.
	Ms.
	Mickey's dyslexic.
	There you go.
	You have parking permits.
	No wonder.
	So I'm in Las Vegas.
	I'm in Las Vegas at NAB. Wait a minute.
	What is this, a hooker and blow trip I don't know about?
	You know about it.
	There's no agenda broadcasting exhibition in Las Vegas.
	I'm surprised you didn't come.
	So I go down to the parking area where they have...
	Wait, wait, wait, wait.
	Back it up, back it up, back it up.
	You flew out of what airport?
	Oakland.
	And did you choose any of our no agenda travel tips at the Gestapo?
	I'm wondering whether even discussing this is legal because it's possible there will probably be something about lying to an official.
	But I'm going to give you a hypothetical.
	This is not necessarily something I did.
	But let me just say that if you go to the line, and there's always a guy standing there between the scanning machine and the magnetometer, there's a guy there, you tap him.
	Right.
	And so you will find that if you just make a motion to your shoulder, like your left hand, and you touch your shoulder with it, the guy immediately says, can't lift your arms.
	Really?
	He already knew this hypothetical situation.
	And I said, I'm sorry.
	Hypothetically, you could have said.
	I would have said something like, no, just this one.
	I had dislocated shoulder.
	This is what you might hypothetically say.
	I like that as a hypothetical idea.
	I have neurodiversity.
	So it's just like, oh, yeah, no problem.
	Good luck.
	You know, and he just immediately goes flying through.
	On the Las Vegas side, hypothetically, same central thing.
	And the guy, this guy, same thing.
	They just jump to conclusions.
	And then he's really sympathetic.
	Oh, it's okay, buddy.
	Get on through there.
	Hypothetically, you could have been sent through the magnetometer instead?
	No.
	No, I was sent through the magnetometer.
	I mean, I was hypothetically sent through the magnetometer.
	Yes.
	But it was like with a lot of, with a kind of an oomph.
	You know, it's like, get in there, you know, fight it off.
	Shake it off.
	Get back into the game.
	Walk it off.
	So that trick, which is, you know, obviously used by just a...
	Yeah, well, only by people...
	This would be...
	They would have required doctor's notes or something.
	God knows what they're going to do when they finally get a clue.
	But it really speeds things up because you get in that round thing that when you get in that...
	By the way, if you get in that round thing...
	Well, anyway, I can go on, but...
	If you get on the round thing, it takes about 10 or 15 seconds out of your day, and you can zoom through the magnetometer.
	Anyway, hypothetically.
	Hypothetically, hypothetically.
	Okay, so...
	I'm back in Vegas.
	Right.
	So I'm driving around, and I have to have meetings with somebody, one of the microcompanies or something, and I have to get...
	I had to go to a lunch, and I had to come back.
	And so I'm driving past the front, and there's like a thousand...
	I swear to God, there must...
	Well, I actually took a picture of this.
	There's probably 50-plus open parking spots.
	And where is this?
	This is in front of the Las Vegas Convention Center.
	That never happens.
	No, you've never been to a moderate show.
	I only go to hit shows.
	This show is big.
	It had 95,000 people attended and it had the three halls fit.
	And they all talk like this.
	Hey everybody, how you doing?
	Welcome to NAB. Hey man, haven't seen you in a couple of years.
	Some local anchors roaming around with their exact...
	They just saw stereotypes all over.
	The stereotypes of...
	You actually loved the show because it was so loaded with stereotypes.
	So I go driving around.
	No, no, no, you can't.
	You can't go in there.
	I said, well, you've got spots.
	There's tons of spots back there.
	And the guy says, no, we're saving them for the handicapped, the disabled.
	So how many disabled are going to go into the show at 3 in the afternoon when it's an hour before closing?
	Did he have a badge?
	He had a yellow thing on.
	It said Vegas parking.
	Did he have an armband?
	It's a scam that Las Vegas Convention Center is corrupt.
	So anyway.
	Did he have an armband?
	No, I should have, though, with a swastika.
	Anyway, I got to see a lot of cool stuff, and I really enjoyed going to this show.
	So, was there anything new?
	Any news you're coming back from the NAB? There was some cool stuff.
	The main thing, I think the highlight of the show...
	It was Sony, actually, of all people.
	They had an 80, I think it was an 85-inch or 82 or 84-inch 4K. 4K was everywhere.
	I actually wanted to see some 4K displays.
	And what is 4K? This is like these televisions that no one will ever buy?
	No, they'll be buying it when they come down in price.
	Just like the 3D. Right.
	So it was like, no, you'll be buying a 4K TV, I guarantee it.
	Dude, I barely have HD. What are you talking about?
	You know me.
	I'm not going to buy that.
	I don't give a crap.
	It's 3840 by 1080 times 2.
	It's 20...
	Yeah, and C-SPAN looks so great on it.
	2160.
	What a waste.
	Well, there's a lot of...
	In fact, a lot of the demos, they didn't have good...
	The content has to go in at 4K to come out at 4K. Otherwise, it's just blurry.
	But anyway, so what I got to see, though, was the 82 or 84-inch Sony 4K 3D... Which was actually quite interesting because it's like, wow.
	And that's $24,000.
	But the cool one, which had no price attached to it, and I had no idea this was going on, but they had a 56-inch, I believe, something like that, It's OLED 4K, which was unbelievable.
	I think it's the most amazing thing I've ever seen in my life, literally.
	I mean, you just can't stop looking at this thing.
	They have to pretty much pull you away from it.
	That's the most amazing thing.
	Have you ever been to the Grand Canyon?
	Have you ever seen the Mona Lisa?
	I'm talking about technology.
	Oh, okay.
	Or display technology, to be specific.
	I have not seen anything like this.
	It was just riveting.
	And the weird thing is, I was under the complete impression that Sony's company is not very good at selling anything, apparently.
	I was under the total impression that Sony had kicked the OLED display technology to the curb and stopped working on it.
	Meanwhile, they got the biggest one I've ever seen at 4K. So, I don't know.
	There was a memo that...
	It just bothered me.
	Right.
	So, was there anything cool at the show was my question?
	That was cool.
	Oh, okay.
	There was a lot of mixing stuff, a lot of new mic technology.
	Hey, did you get to talk to any mixer people about the project?
	Yeah, I actually made good contacts, which we'll talk about later.
	With big names?
	Well, there are a couple big names.
	Okay, because we got one of our producers.
	He's an industrial designer, and he's offered to design it.
	Ooh, an industrial designer, so it's going to look good.
	It's going to look good.
	And I have ordered all the bits and bobs.
	It'll still be, because it's like circuit boards and crap, it'll still be another two weeks before I have the demo.
	But this is going to be, I'm calling it.
	The Podcaster.
	Did you register that?
	Yeah, good luck with that.
	You better.
	There's no way you can register that.
	Yeah, you can.
	No, no, no.
	It's too...
	It's a trademark.
	No, no.
	Yeah.
	I also don't have the thousands of dollars it takes to register that.
	No, it doesn't.
	Well, I'll call it The Poopcaster then.
	I don't care.
	It doesn't matter.
	People will buy it.
	If we make the best podcast in the universe with this thing, everyone will want one.
	So I'm at the New Tech booth, which is one of the potential makers of this thing, as a matter of fact.
	So they, of course, make the TriCaster.
	Right.
	A couple of things I found.
	For one thing, they're number one in the world for selling switchers.
	Yeah, I believe that.
	Well, I guess.
	So I'm chatting there, and I don't know if this guy wants to be mentioned, so I won't mention him, but so one of the guys comes up, because he's in a conversation with a bunch of the executives, and he says, hey, no agenda show.
	He goes on and on.
	Really?
	Wait a minute, this is one of the execs?
	No, this is a guy from, I think it's from Adobe or from another company that was talking to New Tech about something.
	Hey!
	Hey, no agenda show!
	That's how he comes up?
	Pretty much.
	Did he have crumbs in his beard?
	No, he was a good looking guy.
	He was a regular looking guy.
	He didn't have a beard.
	But since he was there and everyone was saying, oh, well, yeah, what's this all?
	Because there's a lot of people that should be listening to the show and they're not.
	Right.
	And I said, tell him the No Agenda show is the best show in...
	And then he goes, No Agenda is the best show in the universe, or it's the best podcast in the universe.
	He actually mimicked the exact phrase that we've been drumming into people.
	Really?
	He says, yeah, you guys should be listening to the No Agenda podcast.
	It's the best podcast in the universe!
	Because none of them get the joke.
	Did he have a wooden leg?
	No, he didn't have a wooden leg.
	I gave him a lanyard.
	Very good.
	Oh, you took some with you.
	Good.
	Oh, yeah.
	Yeah, all right.
	Okay, well, that's my summary of the National Association of Broadcasters, ladies and gentlemen.
	Very good.
	Good work, John.
	Good work.
	You at least confirm we have one person listening.
	That's pretty much all you seem to have done.
	Out of the blue like that, you can probably extrapolate the audience.
	Really?
	Yeah.
	Okay, Giant Voice System.
	This is another one of our projects.
	This is...
	It's kind of scary, you know?
	So, okay.
	So, mac and cheese, I think, it's established as a fact that we identified the mac and cheese meme way before anybody else.
	In fact, we even had jingles.
	Living the mac and cheese life.
	Mac and cheese.
	And, um...
	No, I didn't put that one in there.
	No, I'm just saying.
	Go on.
	Did you get the email from the guy who says he was at the doctor's office in some highfalutin?
	Yeah, yeah.
	And they were showing how to make healthy mac and cheese for your kids.
	Yeah, I know.
	You slaves can get used to mac and cheese.
	Here's all you need to know.
	Mac and cheese.
	Okay.
	So we've got this giant voice system thing.
	This is not...
	Just a one-off.
	So we had our shill in Chapel Hill, who sent us the giant voice system that is just...
	Photo.
	Photo, but also the recording, remember?
	Right.
	Resume normal activity, slaves.
	So here is another...
	I just want to collect these.
	Oh, yeah.
	So here's another giant voice system recording in these United States of Gitmo Nation.
	It's the weekly test of the giant voice system.
	They actually say it.
	This is the weekly test.
	That's a beauty.
	This is the weekly test of the giant voice system.
	Nice.
	All right.
	And there's a movie coming out called The Purge.
	It looks like an interesting script.
	The whole idea of The Purge is that once a year in the United States, everything is legal.
	And so basically you go kill people.
	Star Trek episode from the original series.
	Oh, I didn't know this.
	Yes.
	Well, they turn it into a movie.
	And in it, of course, Giant Voice System.
	Yeah.
	This is your emergency broadcast system announcing the commencement of the annual purge.
	At the siren, all emergency services will be suspended for 12 hours.
	Your government thanks you for your participation.
	I love that.
	Your government thanks you for your participation.
	Now, that is the theatrical version.
	I have here, Whelan, Whelan makes the giant voice systems, the one that we've seen.
	They have pre-recorded voices that you can load up for your giant voice system.
	Oh, nice.
	So what would you, let's do a chemical release.
	Should we do a, should we listen to a chemical release recording?
	Love to.
	Okay, chemical release.
	Here we go.
	Chemical release.
	Stay inside buildings and close windows and doors unless advised by authorities to evacuate area.
	Chemical release.
	Stay inside buildings and close windows and doors unless advised by authorities to evacuate area.
	Chemical release.
	I think this is an opportunity for you.
	Finally!
	Well, let's see.
	Let's see.
	Let me have...
	Do that one.
	Try doing that one.
	See if you can do better than that guy.
	That guy's got a boring voice.
	They should get a pro like you in there to do it.
	I agree.
	I agree.
	Let me try one here.
	I have the scripts, too.
	So hold on.
	Let me get it going here.
	Two.
	One, two.
	All right.
	Almost right.
	Two, two, two.
	Check.
	Two.
	All right.
	Is that too much?
	You don't hear the echo, do you?
	I don't hear any echo.
	Okay.
	Well, trust me.
	Attention.
	There has been a chemical release in your area.
	Everyone should evacuate immediately.
	That's pretty good.
	Here it goes.
	Attention.
	There has been a chemical accident.
	No, no, no.
	Stop, stop, stop.
	What?
	Am I doing it wrong?
	Yeah, you're running your words together.
	They have to be very distinct and separate.
	You said there as, there has, there has.
	You're right, you're right, you're right.
	Attention.
	An emergency condition exists.
	Stand by for instructions.
	An emergency condition exists.
	Stand by for instructions.
	I don't think I'm all that good, really.
	It's better than that guy.
	Let's try this one.
	Terrorist alert.
	A terrorism alert has been issued.
	Please follow procedure.
	Whatever the fuck that is.
	What?
	That's actually a real follow procedure?
	Yeah, listen to it.
	Here it comes.
	Terrorist alert.
	A terrorism alert has been issued.
	Please follow procedure.
	Ow.
	Ow.
	Ah, my goodness.
	We're all doomed.
	So if you have a giant voice system in your area, please record it so we can make a compilation CV. Yes, we're collecting those weekly or whenever they do them, announcements off the giant voice system.
	Yes, and it's best of it actually if they say this is a test of the giant voice system.
	Extra bennies for that one.
	I'm going to show my soul by donating to No Agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, on no agenda.
	Giant voices from...
	In the morning.
	All right, we do have a few donors that we want to thank profusely.
	They're all producers, of course.
	And we're starting off with old Philip Meeson.
	Sir Philip, to you, in Welsh Pool Pows.
	This is a make good donation for forgetting John's birthday.
	Sorry John, hit yourself up for some donation karma.
	We'll play that.
	Alright.
	You've got karma.
	Uh, Edward Napple in Croydon, South Victoria.
	Uh, he said, months ago I told his wife I was giving 50 to your show, no way, she said, so I gave 60.
	Now I told her I was giving 100, and again she said, no way, so here's 140.
	Good work!
	Ha ha ha!
	And by the way, I think this is okay because I, and having been married twice, you've been married twice, John, haven't you?
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Would you say that it is a, and I can be totally sexist here because this is part of my neurodiversity.
	Yeah, you're a sick man.
	I'm a very sick man.
	So I can be misogynistic.
	Would you say that women have a problem with pricing?
	I give you an example.
	How much was that dress, honey?
	It was only $100.
	Oh, and you look at the tag, it's $199.
	This seems like a trend.
	And it's not malicious, by the way.
	It's not malicious.
	Yeah.
	It's not.
	It's just like they see a price.
	You know, it's like, how much was that?
	$40?
	No, it was $49.99.
	That's $50.
	Well, they're optimists.
	Ah, there you go.
	I guess thank a few people here.
	Patrick Turner, Austin Texan, $11.
	By the way, before I get in trouble, Miss Mickey's never like that.
	That's good to know.
	Patrick Turner, by the way, is in your town.
	William Langford in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, $100.
	Christian Collins, San Carlos, California, $100.
	He wants to call out his mom and dad as douchebags.
	Douchebags!
	I'm sorry.
	William Ashby Mobile, Alabama, $100.
	Dennis Cruz, Sir Dennis Cruz to you in Beaverton, Oregon, home of the Mustard Factory.
	Lee Scarback, Springfield, Pennsylvania, 70.
	Oh, Cruz was $99.99.
	Oh, niner, niner, niner, niner for him.
	Niner, niner, niner, niner, or as our friend Hitler would say, Lee Scarback in Springfield, Pennsylvania, 70.
	Eric Olson, Water Valley, Mississippi.
	69!
	69, dude!
	Says, by the way, it's a late donation for John's birthday.
	Maybe this will help him get some to make up for being late.
	Alec Doherty, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 6969.
	First time donor.
	Doty.
	His name is Doty.
	Doty.
	What did I say?
	It didn't sound right.
	Doty.
	It's Doty.
	I thought it was Doty.
	Doty.
	Yeah, I'll say Doty.
	I think it's Doty.
	I think it's Doty.
	He says Doty.
	Okay.
	Steven Taft.
	Sir Steve in Marietta, Georgia.
	Steven Sevchuk in West Orange, New York.
	These are all 69.
	No, no.
	New Jersey.
	West Orange, New Jersey.
	That's my old...
	What did I say?
	New York.
	Oh, I didn't get...
	You didn't get enough sleep, honey?
	Yeah.
	When did you come back from NAB? Last night?
	Yeah.
	How much partying did you do there?
	Honestly.
	Nothing really.
	You were there two nights?
	Three nights?
	Just one.
	Oh, really?
	Yeah, I showed up early in the morning, which I didn't get any sleep to get into town.
	Then I did all my meetings.
	Did you have a drink with anyone at night?
	What did you do in the evening?
	What did you go for dinner?
	I went to...
	What's the name of the place?
	It was that good.
	No, I go there all the time.
	It's Cherko.
	The Bunny Ranch?
	It's the little secondary place at the Bellagio.
	I took Kiki Stockhammer.
	What?
	Yeah.
	Dr.
	Kiki?
	No, that's Kiki something else.
	This is the girl who works for New Tech.
	Kiki Stockhammer?
	Yeah, you can look her up.
	There's a million pictures of her.
	And I'm getting back into the good graces of New Tech who make the TriCaster.
	And, you know, then good things will happen.
	Kiki Stockhammer!
	Oh my god, did you see this picture of her bending over?
	Is that her?
	No.
	That can't be her.
	It's a redhead.
	Yeah.
	A redhead with a black leather suit on is what I see.
	Yeah, she's in a band.
	Oh my god!
	You dog you.
	We're old friends.
	She's sexy.
	Kiki Stockhammer.
	Make my poopcaster, baby.
	Heather Simkin in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, 66-66.
	You didn't close out the 69-69.
	Huh, sorry.
	69!
	69!
	Sorry, I was preoccupied with Kiki Stockhammer.
	You were distracted.
	Kiki Stockhammer.
	And by the way, is that a real name?
	Yeah.
	No.
	Seriously.
	No.
	German girl.
	Come here, you, the Gippen and the Stockhammer, huh?
	Come here, the guy that Stockhammer.
	Anonymous.
	I should have gone!
	Anonymous, 6133.
	And he's wishing me a happy birthday.
	Edward Bertheusen in Amstelveen.
	Hey, Amstelveen.
	Amstelveen.
	Edward Beerthausen.
	Beerthausen in Amstelveen.
	Amstelveen.
	Veen.
	Double niggles on the dime.
	Timothy Darby.
	Wivenhoe Essex.
	Double niggles on the dime.
	Eric Schmidt.
	Eric Schmidt!
	From Frankfurt.
	From Frankfurt, Deutschland.
	Is it wrong, Eric Schmidt?
	Damn, damn.
	5150.
	Bitching about PayPal.
	Andrew Epperson in Portland, Oregon.
	Chris Whiten in Millboro, Virginia.
	Zane Bland in Milford, Ohio.
	Christopher Rivera in Superior, Colorado.
	Jason Fortuna in Geneva, Illinois.
	And Paul Vela in Milton Keynes, UK. Christopher Walker.
	What?
	I was supposed to yell at you.
	Why?
	Oh, that's the next one.
	I'm sorry.
	Christopher Christopher Walker in Parts Unknown.
	A couple of anonymous ones, 50 bucks, and that'll close our segment of Producers for the No Agenda Show, number 503.
	That's right, and we have a beautiful...
	Show notes at 503.nashownotes.com.
	That's where you can find all of the executive and associate executive producer credits right there at the top along with our artists.
	And thank you to everyone who has supported the program today and also made John feel a little bit better with some birthday giving there.
	Again, we mentioned your name under the $750 level like NPR in Austin.
	NPR in Austin.
	Hello.
	Anything over $50 will be mentioned unless you specify anonymous, but it's much better to do under $50 if you want to be 100% anonymous.
	And, of course, thank you to the multitude of people who, in addition to giving a one-off donation, have also signed up for monthlies.
	It really does help.
	We appreciate your support of the best podcast in the universe.
	If you would like to do more support, $750.
	We'll mention your name on the air.
	To Borat.org/NA It's your birthday, birthday, oh no question.
	Not only one to mention today, it seems kind of light on the birthdays, which means either not a lot of people were born around this time, the list of the show, or people are just not listening anymore.
	Either one is possible.
	Steven Savchuk congratulates himself.
	He'll be celebrating on the 13th happy birthday from your buddies here at the best podcast in the universe.
	Whoa!
	Whoa!
	Whoa, what happened there?
	Wow.
	Let me see, something went wrong there.
	That's weird.
	That is over-sensitive iPad.
	It's not coming from the iPad.
	That's the crazy thing.
	And we have a knighting.
	Edward Beerthausen from Amstelphane.
	Looks like he's got his accounting in.
	He's been a supporter of the program for a long time.
	And if you wouldn't mind, I've got mine here somewhere.
	You know what?
	Looks like Wow.
	Here we go.
	Where's yours?
	That was yours.
	I'm sorry.
	What are you talking about?
	That was you.
	I don't know.
	Is there a third person in the room?
	Something's not working very well.
	All right.
	Edward Beatty has a step forward, my friend.
	You have supported the No Agenda Show, best podcast in the universe, in the amount of $1,000 over many years of your layaway knighthood plan, and we sincerely appreciate you doing that for us.
	We hereby pronounce the Sir Edward Beardhuisen, Knight of the No Agenda Roundtable.
	Come on down, sir, for you.
	We've got hookers and blow, rimp boys and chardonnay, hot pants and booze, wenches and beer, reubeness women and rosé, geisses and sake, vodka and bill, bong hits and bourbon, sparkling cider and escorts, and mutton and mead at the roundtable with all the knights and the dames.
	Wow, this is really, it's crunching today.
	What's going on with that?
	It's really, it's kind of weird.
	Well, hold on, hold on, hold on.
	We're not done yet.
	No, I have a title.
	We have a...
	Hello, Mr.
	Peerage.
	We have a title change, and that is Sir Dwayne Melenfant is now an Earl.
	This is really only because he's got his accounting in, and I really recommend get your accounting in, people, so you can get your protectorates.
	Right.
	You have to request it.
	You do have to request it.
	You know, we're not going to do it for you.
	So, Sir Dwayne Mélenchon now officially becomes the Earl of Oregon.
	Earl Mélenchon.
	And we appreciate his continued support.
	And I'm sure he'll be going for the dukedoms and the Grand Dukes.
	It looks like he's well on his way to joining the elite club of Grand Duke Stephen Pelsmockers.
	If he gets Grand Duke, he could probably pick up the whole West Coast.
	I think he could even grab Hawaii.
	Yeah, that might be inconvenient to rule Hawaii.
	But who gives a crap about Hawaii?
	How many donors have you seen coming in from Hawaii?
	They're too busy hanging loose.
	Hanging ten.
	Hanging loose with that little symbol.
	Okay.
	So anyway, one more thing I wanted to mention about the NAB. Yeah.
	So I'm at the information booth and I hear this.
	Guys say, where's the FCC? This is the National Association of Broadcasting.
	Hold on.
	Can I ask you a question?
	Can I ask you a question?
	Yeah.
	You went to the information booth?
	Yeah.
	Are you one of these guys who says, I'd like some information?
	No.
	I asked them where the press room was because it wasn't listed anywhere.
	Okay.
	So, but meanwhile, I'm waiting to ask the simple question.
	The guy says, where's the FCC? He says, oh no, FCC can't be here because of the sequester.
	Because of the Ryan sequestration?
	So I'm coming back and I'm sitting next to a licensing attorney that was at the NAB. And he works out of Oakland.
	He's going to be a good source of information.
	And he says, hey, wasn't that bull crap about the FCC? He says, it's a fee-based organization.
	Their entire budget is based on all the fees they collect.
	What's the sequestration got to do with anything?
	So they just didn't want to show up.
	Why were they dodging the conference?
	Because.
	Two things.
	Why because?
	One, the lawyer had it both.
	He said one is that the FCC is trying, thanks to the lobbyists from Verizon and all these companies, in the dead of night, they've decided to kill off low-powered TV, that whole spectrum, and just give it to these douchebags, and they don't want to have anyone bitching at them, so they Hold on, hold on, hold on.
	Explain this.
	What is low-spectrum TV? Low-power TV. LP TV, it's called.
	It's in Wikipedia, and it's a long discussion.
	It's for rural areas that can't really afford to...
	They can't get the big signals, and they can't afford cable.
	And so they can set up a shop in these little areas and get a really nice little license and broadcast television in the middle of nowhere, Wyoming.
	But can it be your own programming, or do you have to rebroad?
	Really?
	What?
	Yes.
	I know.
	We should be in on this.
	We should have that.
	We should have tons of them.
	Because they're usually little groups of five and six.
	So they're killing it.
	It was, I think, implemented in the 80s.
	They're going to just kill it, and they don't want a bunch of people bitching at them so they didn't show up for the meeting.
	Now, second.
	But there's more.
	Wait, there's more.
	But wait, it says it's supposed to go until September 1st, 2015.
	Yeah, well, it's supposed to go forever.
	But anyway, they're going to kill it.
	Believe me.
	I believe you.
	They're ruining everything.
	Now, the other thing is, which is, I think the main reason they want to show up, because all the big boys were there, apparently, and I told this guy to send me, I'm going to have to get the documentation for this, but apparently they've put the kibosh on any improvements of any broadcast television, Let's say I own KGO in San Francisco.
	If I make any improvements by just using new technology, which is another reason that people...
	New license.
	You got to file for a new license?
	No.
	Can't do it.
	Period.
	You cannot do anything.
	At least they push this through.
	And this, again, I think is the cable operators.
	They push through that.
	If you do something to your station that either you want to do or that you're going to do that will extend the reach of the signal, even though you've got the same wattage, but say the signal goes an extra mile than it used to.
	No.
	No.
	This doesn't seem like they're protecting our interests.
	No!
	This is just to get people over the air.
	You know, there's disconnecting that's going on where people are getting a Roku box and then getting a TV antenna and watching regular television over the antenna and the Roku box instead of paying $150 a month for Comcast or whoever it is.
	They're trying to put a stop to that.
	They don't want people...
	Doing that?
	They have to have a cable.
	And then, of course, the next thing that you'll see, which we've predicted on this show, at some point the FCC is going to step in and start regulating the cable industry.
	And I think there's some pro quo going on here.
	Right.
	You let us regulate you.
	We'll do this for you.
	We'll kill all broadcast television.
	We'll kill broadcast television, but you've got to play ball.
	There is no limit to the number of LPTV stations that may be owned by any one entity.
	Yeah.
	Interesting.
	We could have a string of these things, or we should probably get a whole...
	But nobody uses this.
	No one gives a crap.
	That's almost as bad as my Morse code hobby.
	Wait a minute.
	Don't you occasionally hear somebody talk back to you?
	Let me tell you.
	Last night, I had a dream.
	And I woke up, and this is one of the rare, and I wrote it down.
	I had an idea for Morse code, and it's a box.
	And this is going to be, like, really, really cheap.
	A real cheap thing, but it's going to be fun for the whole family.
	And it's going to put Morse code on the map.
	It's going to put Morse code on the map, I'm telling you.
	Putting Morse code on the map.
	Did you know, by the way, that Samuel B. Morse was an accomplished and world-class painter?
	I'm trying to think of...
	No, I did not know that.
	He was a world-class painter?
	Oh, yeah.
	No, he was considered...
	In his area, he actually had some seminal works that he did.
	I think, you know, it's funny.
	I think I have heard that someone had some of his art, but I didn't know.
	Let me just see.
	Really?
	Samuel Morse, huh?
	World class.
	World class.
	Really?
	Famous painter, yeah.
	Huh.
	These are the kind of things you learn on the No Agenda show.
	Absolutely.
	Absolutely.
	I love Morse keys.
	Tell us what your idea is.
	No, I'm not going to tell you my idea.
	No, I'm going to build my idea.
	So you're putting your stake in the ground right here.
	Yes, me.
	Adam Curry are going to revolutionize Morse code and make it a household thing.
	Make it cool again.
	Cool.
	Okay, make it cool.
	All right.
	So I've got to see.
	And in fact, you will be like, oh man, send me one of those boxes.
	You watch.
	And you'll be able to use it with the internet, without the internet.
	Of course, that's the whole beauty of it is you want to be able to use it without the internet.
	And I think that many, many people will either buy this box and use it illegally or Or, what I hope is that people will buy this box and go and get their license.
	Because the cool thing is that when, even if you have, you don't need to be a general license.
	You know that little pansy like starter license you got?
	That one?
	You can use it with that.
	Oh, really?
	Yes!
	Can you use it with Family Radio Systems?
	Yes, yes, yes.
	Or that other one?
	There's one that's even more...
	GPRS, yes.
	Yeah, GPRS. Yes, you can use it with that, too.
	In fact, GPRS is notorious amongst the hams out there.
	Yeah, we hate it.
	Because all of them are running illegal amps.
	They're pushing the signal way past what's allowed.
	And their bitch is that, which is another reason the FCC didn't show up, the bitch is that it's interfering with all kinds of stuff and the FCC is doing nothing about it.
	They don't care.
	Screw it.
	You guys wanted this thing?
	You got it.
	Here, go knock yourselves out.
	Well, interestingly, all over Europe now, Their local versions of the FCC are clamping down and are taking away pieces of spectrum for special events and all kinds of weird stuff.
	Yeah, that's going to happen here if we don't get everybody involved.
	Now, speaking of this type of legislation, let me just go to Euroland for a moment.
	I received a document.
	Hold on a second.
	Let me open this up here.
	Now, the European Starfleet Command created a document known as the European Audio-Visual Media Services Directive.
	Now, this is a very complicated, and I have a link in the show notes to it so you can take a look, very, very complicated set of legislative documents.
	Again, it is the European Audiovisual Media Services Directive.
	And the idea behind this is that all local state-based media commissaries or commissions, like the FCC, for each individual state in the Euroland zone, which I have the Dutch example, use that directive to create laws about audiovisual media services.
	And the interpretation is astounding.
	So I would like to just read for you what is actually going on in the Euroland zone.
	This is the Dutch version of the Media Authority, known as the Commissariat for the Media.
	And they have harmonized their Dutch Media Act with the European Audiovisual Media Services Directive.
	So this brochure that I have, which you can find marked up in the show notes, we do that as a service, by the way, highlighted, provides information about the provision of a commercial media service on demand and the laws you have to follow if you have that.
	First of all, if you are a commercial media services provider, you must register as an on-demand service within two weeks of starting.
	You have to register.
	So what is an on-demand media service?
	Well, if all of the criteria below are met, you are an on-demand media service.
	If A, it is distributed via public electronic communications network.
	Oh, I know where you're going with this.
	Let me finish the list and then I want to hear.
	It is based on a catalog.
	Yeah.
	It consists of videos and has the primary purpose of offering videos.
	It falls under the editorial responsibility of the provider.
	So it means not like just put any stuff you want on it.
	You actually have editorial control.
	It has a mass media character and can be seen as an economic service.
	That's pretty much anyone who starts anything with video on the internet.
	That's what I'm thinking.
	Well, don't...
	If you recall, and it's in the book, or I'm not sure, we have talked about licensing blogs for years, literally.
	Yep.
	And I've always wondered when they're going to drop the hammer on this.
	Did you get your blog license?
	I mean, we...
	We have a podcasting license system in the No Agenda show, but the idea of actually needing a fee-based license so the fees can go to somebody like the FCC who won't show up at the National Association of Broadcasters using a bogus excuse.
	Beside the point, there's a fee-based thing involved and there'll be oversight.
	There'll be enforcement.
	There'll be a whole agency of enforcement officers going through the blood.
	This is illegal.
	May I read?
	Read number four.
	Regulatory fees.
	Media service providers that offer commercial media services on demand shall owe the Dutch Media Authority a fixed amount for each individual media service on demand.
	This amount will be set by the Minister of Education, Culture and Science.
	Science!
	Media service providers that have registered will receive an invoice for this from the Media Authority at the end of each calendar year.
	Ha ha!
	Here's the regulation.
	Requirements.
	Advertising.
	Advertising messages must be recognized as such by their form and content.
	This is an ad.
	Advertising messages must be clearly distinguishable from the remaining content.
	They are to be preceded by and ended with visible and or audible bookends with the statement of advertising, advertisement, or words to that effect.
	Clandestine, surreptitious advertising is prohibited in all cases.
	Advertising for medical treatments is not permitted.
	Really?
	So product placement is out?
	Sponsorship and product placement.
	For sponsored media content, all sponsors must in all cases be listed at the beginning or at the end in order to inform the audience.
	The sponsorship reference credit is not solicitous.
	Video content that consists of news, current events, or political information may not be sponsored.
	This is amazing to me.
	How does this stuff even get that far?
	Because no one's paying attention, because they're all watching The Voice.
	No, actually what they're watching, and I have a clip, is golf.
	As most of these greens are push-up greens, and anything right or left, you never get a good bounce.
	Let's go to 15.
	Marcel Seam now, from 175 yards.
	With his second, boy, his round just came apart back at 12 with that triple, John.
	Yeah, that was tough.
	He was going so nicely.
	Look at this.
	So a tap-in bird there for Marcel Seam.
	Get him to seven under.
	Wow.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Who watches this stuff?
	28 seconds of my life.
	Gone.
	Erased.
	Erased from history.
	Oh, let's just stay with the Euroland zone.
	So I thought this was...
	I slipped into golf.
	Thank you.
	You watched it, apparently.
	No, no, I was...
	You know, just channel surfing, and I heard this is the most idiotic thing I've ever seen.
	I clipped it.
	So, in, let's see, a Polish magazine...
	Hey, you know what I'm thinking?
	We're going to have to have a license to do this show.
	Well, I don't...
	We might get lucky because it's like, pfft, podcast.
	It gives a crap.
	That's how those elites think.
	Video.
	Video is what it is about in the Eurozone.
	Video.
	Video.
	We can't have them doing video.
	That's a propaganda tool.
	I don't care about this.
	I went from Russian to Austrian.
	That was pretty good.
	It was very good.
	A Polish magazine has put Angela Merkel on the cover of their magazine dressed as an Auschwitz prisoner behind barbed wire.
	And it's getting pretty rough there.
	In fact, did you see the...
	Check this out, John.
	Do you have a browser?
	Yeah, hold on.
	Browser ready?
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Merklepicture.curry.com.
	All right.
	Merklepicture.curry.com.
	Do it before the chat room does.
	Yeah, I'm getting there.
	I think you need more bandwidth the way you do this.
	More bandwidth?
	That's enough bandwidth.
	Merklepicture.curry.com.
	I'm waiting for it to come up.
	I think the chat room will be me doing it.
	Yeah, they might have.
	Nope, there it is.
	How awesome is that picture?
	Now, is that a real picture?
	I think it's a real picture, yeah.
	And that's her on the left, I would assume.
	Is that correct, yeah.
	It looks like her, doesn't it?
	Yeah.
	It doesn't look photoshopped.
	Germans have a lot of these nude beaches.
	Yep.
	And actually, when it comes to kind of Ruben-esque women, I mean, she was okay.
	She actually has a figure.
	Yeah, had.
	Yeah, had.
	Kind of a thunder-thigh look, but that's okay.
	I wonder what happened to the babes on the right.
	One of them...
	I don't know.
	The one in the middle?
	I don't know.
	I'll be working for it still.
	By the way, chat room, if you look at this, you will never be able to get this image off.
	This will burn into your retina.
	Yeah, probably not a good thing.
	Sorry.
	Sorry if that happened.
	All apologies.
	No apologies.
	And this is my final bit on the Euroland zone.
	So if you didn't think it was bad enough that your European human rights...
	This essentially forces you into giving up your possessions, i.e.
	your money, if it's in the public interest.
	We read this to you on Sunday.
	The European Union is now looking at interbank deposits when a bank is failing as a part of the bail-in.
	This is their new meme.
	So, what this means is...
	If a bank in, oh, I don't know, Portugal or Spain is about to fail, the IMF will no longer bail it out because that's what the ESM is for.
	We warned you about that.
	So the ESM will not bail out the bank.
	The depositors and investors shall bail in the bank.
	And if that's not enough, they will take any money that has been lent to them by another bank.
	Let's say you have an ABN AMRO account or an ING or a Rabobank account.
	That money will be used for the bail-in.
	So they're actually going to take money from your bank in a whole different country.
	Wow.
	Yeah.
	And this is like, it's just okay.
	Link's in the show notes.
	Wall Street Journal wrote about this.
	This is amazing that the public is putting up with this.
	John, they're watching golf.
	You're so right.
	Although the public in America, there is something about America.
	When it comes to humor, we just kick ass.
	Did you see that Michelle Obama did a Twitter thing?
	She had a hashtag.
	It was so stupid.
	You should never do this, by the way.
	People, if you want to learn how to do public relations, call the Curry Dvorak Consulting Group.
	Don't listen to your own people.
	I guess what she wanted to do was kind of like an AMA, like an Ask Me Anything Reddit.
	Except, you know, of course, she's Michelle Obama, so she's not going to do a little Reddit thing.
	No, I'm going to do it on Twitter with the hashtag Ask Flotus.
	Flotus stands for First Lady of the United States.
	So the hashtag got hijacked very quickly.
	Shall I read you some of the...
	I'm sure it did.
	Do these idiots have any clue about what's really going on out there?
	No, no.
	It's hubris.
	They think they can do anything they want.
	Now, you can go look at the hashtag now and there's still lots of fun stuff.
	I'll just read a couple.
	Which of your three kids is the hardest to control?
	Sasha, Malia, or Joe?
	Is there a better way to fight obesity than making people too poor to afford food?
	Ask Flotus.
	That's a good one.
	Good one.
	Do you feel guilty your family vacations have cost over $1 billion and you're turning kids away from the White House on theirs?
	Good one.
	If our public schools are so good, then why don't your kids go to them?
	Good one.
	What's the best vacation destination to escape to when you really feel like spending my tax dollars in style?
	Did they not expect this?
	Where in the Constitution does it state, the First Lady of the United States shall tell kids what to eat?
	How weird is it to present the Oscar for Best Movie about the successful rescue of embassy personnel?
	That's a good one.
	When your hashtag gets hijacked, are you mad at Al Gore for inventing the internet?
	These are great.
	Americans are fantastic.
	No, the commenters, they're always good for a laugh.
	Yeah.
	I mean, we are the trolls of the universe, by the way.
	And, of course, then we have, so, you know, because of the Ryan sequestration, you know, the White House tours are canceled.
	However, soon to be televised, I believe, on April 16th on our National Treasure, PBS. Mr.
	President, everybody, come on.
	That's right, everybody.
	I wish I could get me some Justin Timberlake to perform at the White House.
	The administration, I don't even know if it's the Obamas, but they must be insane to think that it's okay to have a Memphis Soul night at the White House.
	A Memphis Soul night.
	With, you know, Justin Timberlake and, you know, to have, you know, the elites of the elites swinging it out.
	And they're actually going to televise this, John.
	They're going to put it on television.
	Just throwing it in your face.
	So I wish I could do his voice, man, because I have the transcript of what the president said.
	They even published the transcript.
	Everybody, please have a seat.
	Give it up for our musical director, Booker T. And the Memphis Soul All-Stars.
	I just want everyone to know, it's my second term, so rather than hail to the chief, we're going to go on without their little change in tradition.
	Now, before we get started, I'm going to exercise some presidential prerogative to say a few words about two very special people who are here with us tonight.
	This will humiliate them, but I'm going to go ahead and do it anyway.
	It actually does say applause in here.
	Tonight I am speaking not just as president, but as one of America's best known Al Green impersonators.
	So I have a new appreciation for what Al once said about the Memphis Soul sound that he helped create.
	Justin, stop blowing the whistle, Justin.
	We don't even know ourselves how the music has endured for so long and how it came out of us.
	It just goes on and on and on and on and on.
	Oh, God.
	If really...
	We've got folks here who are at the beginning, legends like Mavis Staples, Charlie Musclewhite, William Bell, and Eddie Floyd.
	We've got artists like Cyndi Lauper and Ben Harper and Queen Latifah.
	Charlie Musclewhite lives over here in Marin.
	Wow.
	Pretty sure.
	Queen Latifah, Cindy Lauper, shame on you.
	Justin Timberlake, shame on you.
	Shame on you.
	Let them eat cake, bitches.
	Shame on you.
	Just shame on you.
	I didn't see B.B. King there.
	Isn't he dead?
	B.B. King?
	No, he's still kicking.
	You sure?
	Pretty sure.
	If he's dead, I'd be surprised.
	Let me see.
	I'll check the book of knowledge while you're talking.
	Well, I'm going to play the jingle.
	Consultant!
	No, he's not dead.
	He must be incapacitated.
	He's 87.
	You're not going to invite him?
	They want living people.
	They want people that we can groove to.
	Queen Latifah, clearly Memphis soul, baby.
	Where was Jay-Z? Oh, I'm sorry.
	Jay-Z was on his treasury-sanctioned junket to Cuba.
	This was weird.
	So Jay-Z and Bianchi, they go to Cuba, and apparently the treasury is the one who approves trips to Cuba.
	Did you know this?
	No.
	What?
	Huh.
	Yeah, well, I can give you the...
	I know if you're a journalist, you can easily get a visa and go there, but you have to find some way to get there.
	But that's still, apparently...
	That's done through the Treasury.
	The Treasury.
	So here's a question that came up in the White House press briefing.
	Jay, two members of Congress have written to the Treasury Department expressing concern about the trip to Cuba last week by Beyonce and Jay-Z. Does the White House share the concerns that somehow the travel restrictions have been pulled out a little bit, that people-to-people traveled and it's not allowed for tourism?
	Well, I would say a couple of things.
	Decisions made about cultural travel and academic travel are made by the Treasury Department, and I would refer you for specific cases to the Treasury Department.
	It is certainly the case that under this administration we have eased the ability to travel to Cuba for those purposes, but the decisions at the individual level are made at the Treasury Department, not here.
	The trip was sort of built by them and by the Cuban government.
	That's not a White House matter.
	That's a Treasury matter.
	So they mention here People to People.
	And this is the non-profit People to People was started in 1961 by Eisenhower.
	And it was intended to be, you know, to have, you know, I guess hands across the border have children.
	And it literally is for children.
	It's for college kids and children to travel to not just Cuba, but to all kinds of places.
	And this nonprofit is in cahoots with, let me see, I have it here.
	So it's People to People International with Ambassador Groups, Inc., A specialized group of travel and educational service providers.
	And the only real thing I could find there is Discovery Student Adventures.
	The whole thing is very, very weird.
	And I think maybe just a really expensive commercial for one of these travel providers, you know, that they got Jay-Z and Bianchi.
	I mean, they charge millions of dollars, I'm sure, for this.
	I mean, why do we want to promote tourism in Cuba?
	Yeah.
	It's really strange.
	Well, maybe it's telling us something we need to consider.
	This is why I bring it up, because I don't really understand, but it is people to people.
	You hear it referenced, and people to people, they go to the Treasury and get permission to allow this type of travel.
	And I don't understand why, A, Bianchi and Jay-Z, they don't seem like students.
	They don't seem like students.
	Well, let's see.
	First, they jump in their private jet.
	So it's not really a problem to get to Cuba.
	So they jump in the private jet and zoom over there, and they do a concert.
	Obviously, there's a concert involved.
	I didn't see a concert.
	It might not be, you know, maybe it's a private concert.
	So the lead concert for the douchebags that run the place.
	There was a conflict.
	They couldn't make the Memphis Soul Night because they were in Cuba.
	Yeah, singing for the Castros.
	And probably opening negotiations.
	Here's how it goes.
	Here's how it goes.
	So who is it now?
	Who's in charge of Cuba?
	Dave Castro, Adele's brother.
	So Dave is like, Hey Barack!
	No, he's an Israeli now, apparently.
	It's Fidel Castro's brother's name, actually.
	Dave.
	It's going to be Dave from now on.
	So Dave calls up and says, Hey, you know, I really want to continue to be an a-hole, because I've been doing that since the Kennedy days, and my brother, he's tired now, and he's drooling, and he's in a wheelchair, but it's my turn now, and if you want me to continue to be an a-hole, here's what I want.
	I want...
	Bianchi and Jay-Z to perform at my birthday.
	Send them.
	Okay, hold on a second.
	We're going to find out this guy's birthday.
	It might be that, exactly, what you just said.
	Raul Castro.
	So that is a whole shitload of Castros.
	Okay, Raul.
	Nope.
	June 3rd.
	So it's not his birthday.
	So let's see.
	It probably is somebody's birthday, though.
	Oh, well, Raul was first put in as the first secretary of the Communist Party in 19th April, so that's an anniversary.
	But that's on the 19th, that's in a week.
	Looking for any other connections to April.
	The oldest woman in Cuba celebrated her birthday?
	No, do you think she got it?
	No, I don't know.
	We don't know everything, but I did want to point it.
	No, we don't, but we have a clue.
	That's the key.
	But it's probably money laundering, if anything.
	I mean, look at these non-profits.
	And so I guess the non-profit can then, they probably spent money or, you know, it's got to be a money.
	Maybe they're going to load the plane up with cash.
	Or come back with dope.
	We've got a bunch of these dollar bills.
	We don't want our public using them.
	Can you just send a plane?
	It will just ship you pallets of the stuff.
	Exactly, exactly, exactly.
	And hence the treasury.
	Yeah, that would make sense.
	And the only reason why the treasury is, you know, they can block assets and people with assets from traveling and doing stuff.
	So maybe it has to be something like that then.
	Well, we'll never know.
	Baseball?
	Baseball?
	Don't they play good baseball?
	Oh yeah, no, very, very good baseball.
	News flash.
	There's this guy named Cespedes who's with the Oakland A's.
	The guy is a tremendous, I think last year was his first year, a fantastic player.
	He can hit and run, can throw.
	And then, I'm going to shut up for a bit, but I do have some important Al-Qaeda, Inc.
	news.
	As you know, Al-Qaeda is, of course, incorporated, and we've heard many of the elites talk about their corporate business, their corporate dealings.
	The board meeting, yeah.
	Yeah, the board meetings.
	Al-Qaeda's branch in Iraq says it has merged with Syria's armed opposition group Jabhat al-Nusra.
	A move that shows the rising confidence of hardliners within the Syrian rebel movement.
	So this is a merger of sorts.
	I don't know if it was a reverse merger.
	But it is a merger nonetheless.
	Sounds like a reverse merger.
	Reverse merger.
	And then I have a document, which you will find only in our show notes.
	It is titled AQECA. It is the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center.
	It is a document, and I think we need to read through this as it pertains to the cyber warfare coming to America.
	Remember, we are the web warriors.
	You and me, John.
	We are the cyber...
	What do we call our show?
	The protectors of all things real.
	Reality police.
	Guardians of reality.
	We are the cyber soldiers, the kilobyte combat commandos, the web warriors, the megabit battle knots, the database dastards.
	That's us.
	We now have to look out for the Tunisian Cyber Army.
	Recent attacks targeting the Pentagon, Department of State, Customs and Border Protection, Office of Personnel Management have been claimed by the Tunisian Cyber Army, also known as the TCA, under the hashtag OpBlackSummer.
	These people really take this seriously.
	Um...
	February...
	To me, by the way, it's the Tennis Ball Cricket Association.
	Right.
	That's the TCA. Also the Television Critics Association, Thoroughbred Charities of America.
	Texas Commission on the Arts.
	Recent tweets...
	This is an official U.S. government document.
	Recent tweets, claims, and operational focuses have indicated that the Tunisian Cyber Army, TCA, is being influenced and or assisted by other nefarious actor sets...
	For example, the two most recent attacks targeting the Pentagon and state involved...
	Are you ready for it?
	The Al-Qaeda Electronic Cyber Army.
	What a crock of crap!
	We've got this business to get into.
	There appears to be no open source history of this particular subset of Al-Qaeda.
	There is very little evidence to show that the Al-Qaeda hacker team has been active prior to the past 60 days or so.
	However, fact!
	The Al-Qaeda Electronic Cyber Army is a force to be reckoned with.
	So they track in this document social media.
	Recent Twitter posts from the Tunisia Cyber Army also indicate that they are going to start potentially targeting the energy sector as per the direction of the Al-Qaeda Cyber Electronic Army leadership.
	Here's the tweets.
	How does anyone believe any of this bogus crap?
	So they have a hashtag A-Q-E-C-A. Hashtag.
	Let me write...
	A-Q-E-C-A. Hashtag.
	A-Q-E-C-A. And the...
	Here it is.
	They literally have this in their document.
	Oh my goodness.
	They have a logo.
	Yeah.
	Oh yeah.
	The Tunisian Cyber Army 1 is the Twitter handle.
	And at TN underscore Cyber Army.
	This is so much bull crap.
	It's just a bunch of douchebags who are just tweeting.
	And by the way, how hard is it to call up Twitter and say, hey, look, we've got the Al-Qaeda electronic cyber army using your system.
	Can you please track what IP address this is coming from so we can send in a drone?
	But oh, no.
	No, no, no.
	Just leave it be so we can use this.
	So there's a video.
	You might want to run the video that's sitting at the top of the posts.
	Hold on a second.
	Use the hashtag.
	Pound hashtag?
	Yeah, exactly.
	Pound hashtag, A-Q-E-C-A, and then there's a video right there.
	Really?
	Okay, hold on a second.
	You have to expand the top tweet, which says consternation.
	Yeah, right now, of course, Chrome is...
	Oh, I see.
	Consternation.
	Phone call from Tunisian Cyber Army.
	Okay.
	God, could it be any slower?
	They have a phone number.
	Yeah, yeah, go on.
	Yeah.
	Anybody's interested is 216-284.
	This call is now being recorded.
	This call is now being recorded.
	So I'm in the background.
	I'm sorry if I can't talk to you on Skype.
	And I have a phone call.
	Maybe I'll call you to later.
	And do a paper sent me over Skype.
	I'm glad I did that.
	Boy, that's bad.
	Anyways, it's plus two.
	I don't know where this is.
	Plus 21, I guess.
	628-418-606.
	Anyway, just go to Twitter.
	You can get the number right there.
	Call them.
	Say hello.
	Yes.
	In the morning to you, bull crappers.
	Hey, is this Langley?
	Call the number.
	Just call the number and say, hello, did I reach Langley?
	Is this the farm?
	The farm.
	Ask me if it's the farm.
	Trust me.
	It's code.
	They'll know what you're talking about.
	Is this the farm?
	Is this the farm?
	Unbelievable.
	It's unbelievable.
	This has no legs.
	I didn't even hear of this until you brought it up.
	It's a dead end.
	Okay.
	Well, I tried.
	I mean, it seems to me I would have heard of it if there's anything important.
	No.
	Okay, so I have something.
	By the way, I'm reneging on my claims for Clip of the Day.
	Yeah.
	I don't want it.
	You don't want it?
	I don't want it, but I still want it because you did have this clip first, but you didn't play it.
	No.
	I do want to play this clip from this MSNBC woman.
	It's been around, you know, this clip is also like...
	Yeah, it's on my blog too, but it's just something we never played and I feel bad about that because it's something we should have played because it's just a classic, you know, kind of arrogant douchebag talking about how your kids don't belong to you.
	And I just thought it was just, you know, total MSNBC propaganda garbage.
	Just socialist...
	We have never invested as much in public education as we should have because we've always had kind of a private notion of children.
	Your kid is yours and totally your responsibility.
	We haven't had a very collective notion of these are our children.
	So part of it is we have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents or kids belong to their families and recognize that kids belong to whole communities.
	Once it's everybody's responsibility and not just the households, then we start making better investments.
	All your kid are belong to me.
	So, uh, drop your kid off at the school.
	Say, hey, it's yours now.
	Take it.
	Take it home.
	Anyway, I just found it was an annoying kind of a thing.
	Melissa Harris Perry, whoever the hell, you know, she's like, she's actually shows here as kind of a middle-class black woman professional.
	And if you actually look her up and look at her picture, she's like a One step away from the Black Panther Party, you radical-looking crazy woman.
	Right.
	Oh, I wanted to say that I predicted that Michigan would win the NCAA. And I, of course, said that Louisville can beat anyone.
	Did you see the video?
	Were you watching after the game?
	No.
	Is it the coach, Rick Pitino?
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	So you have to look for this.
	It's in the show notes, 503.nashownotes.com.
	So, of course, I was pretty sure that Michigan was supposed to win because, you know, they need it because Detroit has been hijacked by benefits.
	Yeah, but as I said, Michigan, the University of Michigan is not in Detroit, and, you know, but anyway.
	Well...
	I think the theory was valid, but I think you were...
	Well, if you look at the video after the game, fireworks went off.
	Oh, so you're thinking...
	Did you see this?
	No, I didn't, but can I guess what you're going to tell me?
	Yeah.
	You're thinking that...
	The fix was in for Michigan to win, but Louisville wouldn't execute it properly, or the kids didn't know about it, and they didn't care, or whatever, and so they blew it, and so Patino was showing some fear because he might be killed in the next year.
	He ducks like he's being shot at.
	You have to see this.
	You can probably just Google Patino fireworks.
	So fireworks went off, and he ducks like he's under attack, like there's someone shooting at him.
	Huh.
	Mm-hmm.
	Mm-hmm.
	See, at least you stick to your guns.
	Yeah, well, let's see.
	Patino ducking.
	I bet you can just Google that.
	Someone made a cool little...
	Here, top hit.
	Watch Rick Patino duck for cover.
	Los Angeles Times, no less.
	Is it video or do they have video?
	Rick Pitino's firework reaction at the final.
	Why is everyone giving Pitino grief about ducking last night?
	Because he was supposed to win the game.
	No, he's supposed to lose the game.
	I mean, lose the game.
	I'm sorry.
	Lose the game.
	Hello.
	He's supposed to lose and then he...
	Here we go.
	And then we hear the...
	He's ducking.
	Hey, Patino, they're not going to shoot you right after the game.
	Just stay out of the hot tub, man.
	Yeah.
	He was supposed to throw the game.
	All right, so we'll have to keep it.
	We now have a death watch on Patino.
	Mm-hmm.
	It'll be open for 12 months, and then after that it's closed.
	Okay.
	I know that a lot of no-agenda people are pissed at me.
	Why?
	Because they bet on the game, of course.
	Oh, they bet on Michigan?
	Yeah.
	Don't bet on sports, ladies and gentlemen.
	If it's rigged at all, you don't know how it's rigged.
	Unless you're an insider.
	Of course, I think a lot of people probably lost money on that game, if what you say is true.
	I think so.
	I think that's why he was afraid he was being shot.
	Well, we'll see.
	It'll play out shortly.
	That's funny.
	Okay.
	Yeah, it's possible.
	Although I still think, yeah.
	Patino knows he's not going to get too many chances at the national championship.
	I wasn't that interested.
	Well, I was having dinner, so I don't know.
	I didn't care.
	You were having dinner with the Bakkenstopper?
	Uh-huh.
	What's her name again?
	Bakkenstopper.
	Julie Bakkenstopper?
	Stockhammer.
	What's her first name?
	Kiki.
	Kiki Stockhammer.
	Julie Bakkenstopper.
	Kiki Stockhammer.
	Julie Bakkenstopper.
	You guys should meet.
	You should have lunch.
	Have lunch.
	I have an end of show clip that I do want to play today, so I'm just claiming that right now.
	It's a short one.
	George Carlin with a classic that one of our producers pointed out to me, so I'll make sure that I'll play that for you.
	Yeah, I have a couple of things I want to bring up at the end.
	Well, we're at the end, so let's go.
	All right.
	I have a question about all this controversy over the morning after pill and the bomb of it.
	So I have a clip from this little gab fest of women that shows up on, I can't remember the name of it, but it's called Contrarian View or something.
	It's all women grousing about men with some semi-famous people at the table.
	They're all a bunch of liberal Democrats, obviously.
	And so Obama administration has been, you know, fighting with the FDA and everybody in between in the courts because the Obama administration doesn't want this morning after pill to hit the streets free over the counter, you know, buy a pill.
	To girls of any age.
	Girls of any age.
	And Obama wanted it by prescription because the pharmaceutical industry calls the shots here with him.
	I don't think it was by prescription.
	I think it was an age limit.
	Yeah, that was one of the things.
	But originally, the way it was sold before was by...
	No, no, no.
	Plan B is not by prescription.
	Okay, well, whatever the case, I thought it was only by prescription.
	I think that's what Obama would prefer, because they can charge more.
	Yes.
	But, okay, so, but there was an AIDS thing, and then the court said, no, that's bull crap, you can just have to sell it to everybody.
	Yeah.
	And so, and so, so this is really a fight going on between the courts, Obama.
	Meanwhile, these women, on the morning after pill, weird question, they twisted in some way that's like, what?
	What has that got to do with anything?
	You gotta hear it.
	I'm Bonnie Herbey.
	Welcome to To the Contrary, a discussion of news and social trends from diverse perspectives.
	Up first, the future of Plan B. A federal judge has ruled the morning-after pill should be made available over-the-counter for all ages in the Southern District of New York.
	The current federal law only allows it for women 16 and older.
	In his ruling, the judge said the federal government was acting in bad faith when Dealing with the requests to make the pill universally available.
	The decision counteracts the Obama administration's rejection of an FDA recommendation to make the pill available for all ages without a prescription.
	So, Congresswoman Donna Edwards, what impact will this ruling have on the Republican so-called war on women?
	Well...
	What have the Republicans got to do with this?
	So I have a different take on this.
	And I wasn't going to bring it up because it's...
	You know, it's like one of those issues.
	I have a take on it, too.
	My take is that we can't have people performing their own abortions, you see.
	We have a whole industry of baby-killing to support.
	And I'm...
	You know, I have...
	Rather conservative views about this.
	But I think that there's a whole industry of abortion clinics and Planned Parenthood and a lot of money involved with the right to choose.
	And so, yeah, I think it's like, yeah, you have your right to choose, but not at home.
	You need to come in and talk to us.
	I think it's a little more nanny state.
	That's a sinister look at things, but I have a more interest.
	It's not sinister?
	The whole thing isn't sinister?
	It's sinister.
	But let me just say what I think the elephant in the room everyone's ignoring and why doesn't somebody do something because everyone makes a big stink about rape, obviously, because rape's a big deal.
	Right.
	But statutory rape is a little more sketchy and a little more interesting.
	If some 13-year-old goes in to buy this pill, why don't they book her immediately and And then find out who she had sex with and throw the guy in jail because this is a statutory rape issue.
	Because there's nobody under the age of 16 in most states or 18.
	Actually, in the majority of states, you have to be 18.
	And if you actually leave the country to go have sex with somebody, by law, by U.S. law, you have to only have sex with somebody 18 and older.
	So in a place like France, where 14 is the age, if you had sex with a 15-year-old, you could be arrested when you got back.
	So they make a big deal about all this stuff.
	John, no, no, no, no.
	100% correct.
	And the number one reason why they don't want that is because it's all the politicians who are a bunch of pedo bears raping these children.
	They would get caught.
	And that's true.
	And this whole thing would be very easy to deal with.
	Let the girl come in.
	Then you just book her and take her to juvie.
	Find out who she had sex with.
	Go get the guy.
	She came in for the pill.
	It's already the prima facie evidence.
	It's enough to at least take some actions.
	Probably get a warrant.
	And boom!
	You got a pedophile or you got some creep.
	Capitol Hill would be empty, my friend.
	Yeah.
	No, I think you've nailed it.
	I think you've nailed the whole problem, and he's getting a lot of pressure.
	Nobody has brought this up.
	Not one journalist has said anything about this.
	This is a rape that this woman, this girl's coming in.
	She has been legally raped, even though she may have loved it.
	It's beside the point.
	Statutory rape, that's right.
	God, John, you nailed this one.
	I did.
	I wish I could give you nail of the week.
	I don't have nail of the week.
	You do, in my book.
	That was excellent.
	Wow.
	Well, and I think the pedo-bear meme fits right in.
	I think it makes total sense.
	And Obama's like, oh, crap, man.
	There's like at least 50 guys with that Memphis Soul thing.
	Like, you know, we'd have empty seats.
	They're out screwing a 14-year-old as we speak.
	Right.
	Wow.
	Hey, what?
	Sorry, go on.
	No, I mean, I was going to say on that happy note, we should end the show.
	It doesn't get much better than that.
	It's so simple for this question to be asked.
	Yeah.
	Where's the New York Times?
	The New York Times, have they written about this?
	Have they waited?
	No one asked a simple question.
	Really?
	Unbelievable.
	Unbelievable.
	Good work.
	Well, I am proud to be associated with you.
	I love how the chat room misconstrues what I say into...
	Check this line out.
	I am glad that AC says he believes that the government should control individuals.
	Did you hear me say that?
	What?
	Did you hear me say that?
	No.
	This is the douchebags in the chatroom.
	They always come up with stuff like this.
	No, it's only one.
	It's, uh...
	Let's see.
	K-S-S-X-18.
	Kick.
	I'm going to have to be a channel half-operator.
	Crap.
	I'm not even a half-operator.
	Well, I don't go in there because they kick me.
	I'm no good.
	All right, John.
	Well, belated happy birthday.
	Nice to see everyone checking in and pitching in a little bit there on your 4'1 birthday.
	And we will be back on Sunday with more media deconstruction and analysis.
	Remember to support your podcast and not the douchebags at NPR who have more value in studio equipment than we'll ever see in five years of podcasting.
	Coming to you from the Travis Heights hideout here in Austin, Texas.
	In the morning, everybody, my name is Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, my name is John C. Dvorak.
	We'll be back on Sunday right here on Nueva Agenda.
	Millions of semi-conscious Americans day after day shuffling through the malls, shopping and eating, especially eating.
	Americans love to eat.
	They are fatally attracted to the slow death of fast food.
	Hot dogs, corn dogs, triple bacon, cheeseburgers, deep fried butter dipped in pork fat and cheese whiz, mayonnaise soaked barbecue, mozzarella patty melts.
	Americans will eat anything, anything, anything.
	If you were selling sauteed raccoons assholes on a stick, Americans would buy them and eat them.
	Especially if you dipped them in butter and put a little salsa on them.
	This country is big time, pig time.
	Forget the bald eagle.
	You know what the national emblem of this country ought to be?
	A big bowl of macaroni and cheese.
	A big bowl, because everything in this country is king size.
	King size, extra large, and super jumbo.
	Especially the fucking people.
	Living the mac and cheese life.
	Mac and cheese by Ayn Rand.
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