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	We've got to reunite these countries, put the Disneyland in there, and just go have some fun.
	Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
	It's Sunday, April 14th, 2013.
	Time for your Gitmo Nation, Media Assassination, Episode 504.
	This is No Agenda.
	From the Travis Heights hideout, where SoCo meets MoFo in Austin, Texas.
	In the morning, everybody, I'm your keyboard cowboy.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where I'm reading tweets, I'm John C. Devorak.
	It is Crackpot and Buzzkill.
	In the morning, while I'm at Yana.
	That's for our Spanish listeners.
	Yeah, we know the Spanish listeners are way on board with the conspiracy theories.
	So, yes, I decided to up my game.
	We don't have conspiracy theories.
	Correct.
	We have conspiracy fact.
	Conspiracy fact.
	So, I don't know how much they have to pound us with this, but today's New York Times, New York Times, you should dig around while we're doing the show and see if you can find the cover of the New York Times magazine.
	Okay.
	And you'll see a giant photo of Uma and Anthony.
	Wait, but isn't this the article that we read from?
	Wasn't that actually in the New York Times Magazine?
	No, this is today's New York Times Magazine.
	Oh, really?
	Really?
	Yes, it just came out today.
	Today.
	Wow, let me see.
	It looks like the same hagiography.
	Is it written by the same dude?
	Yes, but is it written by the same dude?
	Yep.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Same shill.
	Jonathan Van Meter.
	Yeah.
	They do have the one set of commonalities.
	They have that one picture of the two of them sitting at the desk.
	I don't see it.
	I'm looking for it, but I don't see it online anywhere.
	I don't know if they put the New York Times Magazine photos online.
	Anyway, it's like a longer, I think it's the same article or at least a longer version, but why do you run it twice?
	Well, because it's important.
	Why do you run it in the paper and then you run it in the New York Times Magazine and give them the front page with giant red letters, Uma and Anthony, the private life of a former power couple?
	Because, you know, well, here's a small prediction then.
	The weird thing is, I hate to say this because I don't really care, but you do look to see if his jeans are unzipped.
	That's not even worth an in the morning.
	That was really not that good.
	That's supposed to be funny, but that's exactly what everyone will do.
	No.
	That's not like a couple head shots.
	Well, then again.
	Even that doesn't get an in the morning from me.
	No, I think it's very simple to predict that the New York Times...
	In the form of Mr.
	Van Meter there, we'll have a huge exclusive interview with Hillary Clinton.
	That's why this is happening, because he does all the Hillary puff pieces.
	He did the Vogue piece.
	He did the behind-the-scenes with Hillary.
	All of that stuff is what this guy does.
	So this is being pushed, and there's a quid pro quo for that.
	Wait, wait, wait.
	The quid pro quo from who?
	From Hillary.
	He's doing them a favor?
	No, he's doing it to get Hillary in a big exclusive when she announces or something.
	It'll be something like that.
	But you're saying that he's doing this hazy Irish for the benefit of Hillary.
	Yeah, of course.
	Her girlfriend is...
	Yeah, that's her.
	Uma Huma is her girlfriend, of course.
	And the whole thing was always set up that way.
	We went through all this.
	Anthony was going to become mayor.
	Yeah, we did as a matter of fact, so we don't need to go through it any longer.
	Okay.
	But Hillary did crop up, though, over the weekend.
	Actually, it was, I guess, on the 5th that she really showed up at this woman's conference.
	Again, as some of our producers have pointed out, wearing her fuchsia dress.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	She's always free and easy.
	I don't know what that dress is supposed to prove.
	She was talking at this women's conference with a bunch of really bad information.
	Actually, I think misleading, incredibly misleading information.
	I have a clip.
	I want to play just a bit of it.
	Yeah, sure.
	Well, there's a couple of Clinton clips.
	I'm not sure which one.
	Work and life expectancy?
	Yeah.
	Okay, here we go.
	We now have American women at the high levels of business.
	Yeah, and how well is that working out?
	Let's see, what do we have?
	What was HP? Carly Fiorona?
	Ferrucci?
	Fiorini.
	Fiorini.
	We have some other great women CEOs.
	Well, HPU is just a bad example every which way.
	It hasn't been any worse than the guys.
	All right.
	Chemia, government, you name it.
	But as we have seen in recent months, we're still asking age-old questions about how to make women's way in male-dominated fields, how to balance the demands of work and family.
	Yeah.
	The Economist magazine recently published what it called a glass ceiling index.
	Okay.
	Ranking countries based on factors like opportunities for women in the workplace and equal pay.
	The United States was not even in the top ten.
	Oh no!
	Recent studies have found that on average, women live shorter lives in America than in any other major industrialized country.
	Think about that for a minute.
	Hold on, John.
	Let's wait for one minute.
	I'm waiting.
	I've got to think about this.
	Yeah, for a minute.
	Is this really true?
	I've heard this statistic, but I've always kind of questioned it.
	The first statistic, the glass ceiling thing, is bogus.
	All you have to do is go look at how they figured out these numbers.
	It's really got more to do with how many women ditch diggers are working for union wages in a country and what opportunities they have.
	So you have countries like the number one country in the world was New Zealand.
	I think Sweden was number two.
	So if you want to become a ditch digger...
	I think you could do very well and you don't have to compete with the men.
	The whole thing was that is bogative.
	Then she apparently pulls a non sequitur and links it to this life expectancy thing.
	Well, yes, this is true, but men are even worse off in the United States than women.
	It's not as though the women are dropping dead and the men aren't.
	No, they're still living five years or more longer than men.
	But our life expectancy in this country is flatlined because our health care system sucks.
	Our food supply is poisoned.
	And there's a number of factors involved here that have contributed to this.
	And she doesn't have anything to do with it.
	It's got something to do with the gender gap or whatever.
	Okay, so this is very interesting.
	So what you're saying is men in America are also very poor off, but in fact the women in America live longer than the men in America, which is what I've always believed.
	It's still true, but she doesn't say anything about that.
	This whole thing was a very misleading, typical Hillary kind of thing.
	But what is our life expectancy?
	Are you on the cusp there?
	Are you on the edge?
	You could go at any moment.
	I think men live to 72 and then they...
	Wow.
	That's it?
	That's the average.
	I mean, the average is, of course, if you get that far, you get shot at getting...
	That's an average.
	Not that many people die at 72 in fact.
	Although the people who have died at exactly 72 are always amusing.
	Right.
	A barrel of nuts.
	They tend to be health nuts.
	Yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	Right in the average age.
	But anyway, so this is a very misleading.
	It was some conference on women, for women, by women.
	And another one of the speakers, which is all the other Clinton clips I have, was Chelsea.
	Uh-huh.
	And her, played a little short, there's a little short intro to her thing, which as soon as, I wasn't going to watch it until I heard the intro and I said, wait a minute, it's the Chelsea Clinton moderates a panel pre-announcement.
	Also at the Women in the World Summit in New York City, Chelsea Clinton moderated a panel of women tech entrepreneurs.
	This is just over 25 minutes.
	Wait a minute.
	Women tech entrepreneurs?
	Wait, so she had Marissa Meyer there, of course.
	No!
	She had nobody.
	She couldn't swing the bat hard enough to get anybody worth their shit.
	Wow!
	So she had some woman who was a Google...
	Like somebody that worked at Google who started a venture capital company in New York and who didn't know anything, like QXS Capital.
	I never heard of them.
	She had a woman who was from AT&T, who I do have a clip from, you have to hear her, who could not say anything coherent.
	It's AT&T. We don't hear anything on their phone system either, so that kind of makes sense.
	Whole idiot.
	And then they had the key person that was on.
	There's another one.
	Hold on.
	Hold on a second.
	I'm reading it right here.
	And let's see what we have.
	So this whole article, I'm reading about the article.
	They talk about, so she should have had Sheryl Sandberg, obviously, who has...
	Right, she did not have Sheryl Sandberg.
	Because, you know, Sheryl Sandberg has, you know, a big...
	Everybody's talking about it.
	Yeah, it's the big seller book, Lean In.
	Lean Forward.
	No, Lean In is not Lean Forward.
	You're confusing that with her other promotion.
	Lean Forward.
	Then we have Marissa Meyer.
	Over was the first working time.
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh, John.
	In the morning.
	Really?
	The panel consisted of...
	Reshma Saujani, founder of Girls Who Code, a non-profit.
	Non-profit.
	I'm so sick of non-profits.
	Leah Busk, the founder and CEO of TaskRabbit.
	Oh, now that you mention it, I forgot to get a clip from her.
	She was just the dingiest.
	Well, you know, she sounded like a valley girl who was just a dummy.
	Yeah.
	Oh, thanks.
	Thanks for sharing.
	That's an online mobile marketplace that allows users to outsource small jobs or tasks to others in their localities.
	Yeah, it's not a bad idea.
	Andrea Zurek The founding partner of XG Ventures, venture capital's firm that invests in burgeoning tech companies.
	What does burgeoning mean?
	Like they're bulging at the side?
	They're going to blow.
	They're going to blow!
	And Esther Lee, Senior Vice President of Brand Marketing, Advertising, and Sponsorships at AT&T, who I'm sure underwrote the entire conference.
	Otherwise, why would she be there?
	That's why nobody was there.
	There wasn't one...
	It's a moderately famous woman, except the Girls Who Code girl.
	And you can kind of get a glimpse on the Girls Who Code.
	Play the Girls Who Code preamble, which was the way they started off the segment, with a movie, you know, one of those little movies?
	Yeah, you've seen these, right?
	Yeah.
	Go to these conferences and play some crappy movies.
	I think it's called a vignette.
	Is that what it is?
	I think it's a video vignette.
	They play a video vignette to introduce us to everyone.
	And, of course, nobody that's in the video vignette is actually on the panel.
	But it gives us an idea of how things are changing.
	What are you doing?
	My family is huge and crazy.
	Altogether in this household is eight children.
	It's a hectic, busy life.
	I'm 16.
	My father, he's working 15-hour days and he's trying his best as he can to support us.
	My life was pretty difficult when I lived back in Brooklyn.
	Things were just really hard.
	We didn't have much money.
	I was in the library one day in my school and the librarian comes up to me and says, Julia, I think that you'd be a good fit for this program.
	You should try it out.
	I looked at the paper and it said Girls Who Code and something just clicked.
	In Girls Who Code, I learned everything from robotics to user interface and web design.
	We also learned programming languages.
	I don't know if you guys want me to explain it.
	You just want to play it?
	Play it.
	I just want to play it.
	That's really cool.
	Being involved in exposed technology has definitely changed my life.
	Now I've decided that I want to double major in computer science and physics when I go to college.
	Julia has been an inspiration to the whole family.
	Is she a 12?
	Wow.
	Wow.
	Yeah.
	This is...
	Okay, yeah.
	Oh, robotics.
	Yeah, okay.
	You know, all these things are scams.
	Well, there's a lot of them that are, and girls who...
	But there's this major push to getting girls to code.
	But what is the...
	We'll see again in JavaScript.
	All right, let me take a look at this.
	Girls Who Code is a non-profit.
	Why does it have to be a non-profit?
	Why?
	Why, why, why, why?
	Well, they make the mistake, and I'm going to...
	I'm sick and tired of this non-profit culture.
	It's sucking off the teat of the government, and it's just to keep people...
	It's a jobs program.
	All these non-profit bullcrap things.
	Well, if they get a government grant, then I would agree with you, but they probably did not, you mentioned it.
	Well, I'm looking at it right now, because this is, let's see, Kristen Titus, she's the executive director.
	Who is she?
	Who's this other woman, then?
	Yeah, Kristen Titus.
	She is former consultant to non-profit organizations, foundations, and corporate partners.
	Uh-huh.
	Uh-huh, yeah, okay.
	Ashley Gavin, what is, let's see, Board of Directors.
	Board of Directors and Brain Trust.
	They have a brain trust, John.
	We need a brain trust.
	It's called our knights.
	But it's an insult to call them brain trust.
	Yes, the brain trust of...
	Oh, let's see.
	Oh, AT&T is a sponsor, a 2013 program partner.
	And that's how it works, people.
	Well, that's coincidental because on the same panel was this dude from AT&T who had nothing to say, by the way.
	So, I think mobility, smartphones is just the beginning.
	Whenever someone says mobility, it's like...
	Run!
	Run for All right.
	Some of the things that we're working on are things like our home automation, connected car.
	Think about the light.
	Connected car.
	Oh, think about...
	This is...
	Home automation is so important.
	I don't know how people can't get by.
	I don't know how they get by before home automation.
	Your home must be totally automated.
	God knows when you leave for the office and you're...
	Oh, I forgot to turn off the kitchen.
	Here's how it works.
	Here's how it works.
	Mickey says to me, honey, can you turn on the back light before we leave?
	Sure, honey, I'll automate that.
	And I literally stick a plug into an outside socket.
	I'm not kidding.
	And then sometimes when we come home and it's all pretty and the lights are on, I'll say, gee, someone cares.
	And that's it.
	Usually I forget the front porch light.
	But home automation, this has been going, remember X10? This is how it all started.
	No, I remember home automation in the 70s.
	What was that, with strings and pulleys?
	No, I'm telling you, the X10 thing is predated by other crazy ideas that never went anywhere.
	When X10 came around, it was like, this is it finally standardized.
	That's it, standardized.
	And you had these big, ugly things you had to plug in everywhere.
	Oh yeah, big clunkers.
	So I put an X10 system in my mom's house.
	Uh huh.
	Maybe she would...
	John, hello?
	Can you come in and take this stuff out?
	I can't figure out how to use it.
	Take this stuff out.
	You push the button and it turns it on.
	No, no, no.
	How you mock the dead.
	That's crazy.
	This is exactly what she said.
	Same thing with a microwave.
	Hold on.
	I've got to listen to the rest of this woman.
	Because so far, we are exactly 11 seconds into the clip.
	Well, actually, you're listening to Chelsea.
	No!
	This is Chelsea?
	The woman comes on.
	It's worse.
	Oh, no.
	I've got to rewind this.
	Okay, so the connected car.
	Okay, prediction.
	Chelsea Clinton, big Ted speech coming up.
	She's going to do a big...
	This is a shoe.
	Damn, you got one.
	You don't even have to put it in the book.
	You know it's coming up.
	You know it's coming.
	So, I think mobility, smartphones is just beginning.
	It's just beginning.
	And you know the people sitting there going, Chelsea's so smart.
	I've got to make sure that this is Chelsea.
	I remember when I clipped it, I thought I kept Chelsea.
	You think it's Chelsea?
	I don't know.
	But I just want to point one thing out.
	And this will sound, you know, this is going to come across as this whole segment.
	So far, I think women have already kicked, turned off the show.
	Because they're like, oh, these buddies.
	But seriously.
	They haven't heard what we're about to say.
	Right.
	Right.
	I hope it's coming.
	When one woman is bullcrapping and the other woman is talking about her, they always use the word smart.
	Oh, she's so smart.
	Smart.
	I've just heard you...
	Oh, you know, she's just an incredibly smart, smart woman.
	Some of the things that we're working on are things like our...
	That's the AT&T woman, yeah.
	Connected car.
	Think about the life that goes on in your home and your car.
	What goes on in my home and my car?
	Think about it.
	Think about it.
	Turning on the lights for your kids.
	Whoa!
	Hey, what happened to the key around the neck?
	Hey, honey, do you have the iPad?
	No, where is it?
	I've got to turn the lights on for the kids.
	They're going to be sitting in the dark.
	They won't know how to turn the lights on.
	They won't know how to turn on the lights because they're idiots.
	Our kids are so bad.
	Things like that.
	Things like that.
	So we're really getting into a place where it's about life spaces.
	Life spaces?
	I'm sorry.
	Life spaces?
	I love this.
	It's not just about productivity.
	And this is where we actually need women at the table to create the right kinds of solutions.
	Yes, because we need women.
	Women have the answer.
	They have the right solutions for our life spaces.
	We had a hackathon.
	A hackathon.
	John, she's hitting all my buttons in 30 seconds so far.
	A hackathon.
	I knew that it would.
	When I listened to her, she had nothing to say.
	She just had cliches.
	Let's keep it going because this is great.
	Las Vegas in January.
	Interestingly, at the hackathon, there were How is that interesting?
	Because she's taking money to promote women, I guess.
	It's an example of the type of technology that was created.
	The winning team used this cat ears that actually measures your moods.
	Oh, no!
	This is a big thing with women in tech, by the way.
	The cat ears?
	No, it's measuring your mood.
	You're talking about the cat ears?
	You've seen these.
	Yeah.
	The whole thing is just...
	It's idiotic.
	Go on.
	Okay, this is a very interesting outfit.
	I'm doing some Googling here, too.
	Call management platform to create...
	Call management platform is called an answering machine.
	Call management.
	It's called voicemail.
	Call management platform.
	It's not just anything.
	It's a platform.
	It's called voicemail!
	John, I left a...
	We need a different word for message.
	I left a communication on your call management platform.
	Communications unit on the platform.
	To create a new technology that senses your mood and decides whether to call into voicemail.
	I told you, it's a voicemail!
	It's a freaking voicemail!
	Wow!
	Wow!
	And so he actually demonstrated it right on the screen.
	He's like, I didn't turn off your phone call, it was my mood.
	Yeah, I bet you're not taking calls at least once a month.
	That was it?
	It's over?
	Yeah, well, sorry.
	I mean, they're laughing.
	That was the joke.
	You know that they wanted to make that joke.
	Except they can't do that, of course.
	I guess maybe they can.
	Maybe the women can get away with it.
	Who was that you just played?
	That was AT&T Clinton Idiots.
	Oh, okay.
	So we still have left.
	Girls Who Code.
	The girl from, who I thought was the CEO, but apparently she's not.
	The Girls Who Code girl.
	Now hold on a second.
	I'm looking at Girls Who Code here.
	So this is a non-profit.
	And they're underwriters, advertisers, call it what you want.
	They're 2013 program partners.
	Our Twitter, GE, Knight Ritter...
	AT&T, Goldman Sachs, IAC, that's Barry Diller, Intel, Cornell, NYC, Tech, eBay, and then they have funders, a lot of the same, and in addition to that, Google, Sequoia Capital, Craigslist Foundation, the Teal Foundation, and this is a who's who of douchebaggery.
	Meet the girls.
	Meet the girls.
	Hi, my name is Julia.
	I'm 15 from Brooklyn.
	I love physics and enjoy sports.
	Work at a local food bank.
	I save silver foil to help the poor black children in Africa.
	Testimonials.
	Yeah, you're right.
	At this address, 28 West 23rd Street, is also the Editorial Freelancers Association, who had a Scrabble Night recently, I'm seeing here.
	Nice!
	Oh, I missed it.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	No, upcoming April 24th, our monthly Scrabble Night.
	Open to all takes place at EFA headquarters.
	Let's see.
	What else is on?
	In Good Company is located there.
	What's In Good Company?
	They are at the same floor, same address, everything.
	In Good Company, where women entrepreneurs go to work, meet, and learn.
	Oh, this, of course, is the commercial side.
	I see.
	You fund everything on the bullcrap side with your foundation, and then they have In Good Company, where women entrepreneurs go to work, meet, and learn.
	Or is this just another scam?
	Well, this is on their website.
	Our story, like that of many entrepreneurs.
	So who's in this?
	Founders?
	Amy Abrams?
	Adelaide Lancaster?
	Hmm.
	Well, that's definitely commercial.
	I mean, it's just a whole nest of women up there.
	I noticed that the color pink is used excessively by both these websites.
	They're probably...
	A little bit sexist.
	Yeah, probably developed by the same company.
	It should be coded by the girls who code.
	And then AppNexus is also the same address.
	What is AppNexus?
	I've heard of AppNexus.
	Haven't I heard of AppNexus?
	What is AppNexus?
	Let me guess.
	AppNexus, today's most powerful, open, and customizable advertising technology platform.
	Ah, spammers.
	Right.
	Alright, let's listen to the Girls Who Code.
	...and speak about their journey, having them talk about, you know, the things that they learned, how they're building their business, so that the girls see women who look like them.
	I mean, that's also the most important thing, especially for the girls of color that are in our program.
	Girls of color.
	Oh!
	They're in our program, utilizing our messaging platform.
	You know, when we started Girls Who Code, I couldn't even find one black female engineer in the entire city.
	Can you imagine that?
	So, you know, for these girls...
	Yeah, really.
	I know.
	I can at least think of one.
	It's like John Kerry and his binders full of women.
	We just had our application process as Google, and you saw all these Latino, Asian American, African American...
	I love it when...
	She must be Latin.
	Latino?
	No, she's Indian.
	Oh, really?
	Because I love it when...
	It's kind of like when you have...
	Yeah, like we have this guy in the Bay Area who's a Latino reporter.
	He's always been...
	But he's been doing this for like 25 years.
	Right, and then the minute he says...
	It's San Jose!
	Latino.
	Latino.
	Application process at Google and you saw all these Latino, Asian American, African American girls coming in, you know, saying, I want to learn how to code.
	Did she say Asian American?
	I don't know.
	Play it again.
	We're going nuts here.
	...coming in, you know, saying, I want to learn how...
	Hold on.
	I'm back a little bit further.
	I think she said Asian American.
	It's a new one.
	...for these girls, and it's so powerful for girls who have...
	We just had our application process as Google, and you saw all these Latino, Asian American, African American girls coming in.
	Asian American, African American.
	Why don't you say Mexican American?
	Or Latin American.
	I guess you could say Latin American, right?
	Latin American, Asian American.
	No, Latin American I think would refer to someone that lives in Latin America.
	It's a problem.
	But you could say Mexican American.
	Yeah, Mexican American is better.
	Or you could say Latin American American.
	But I like Latina.
	Latina.
	Yeah, so why do they get the special moniker?
	Asian American.
	They're saying, I want to learn how to code.
	Teach me.
	Black American?
	No, African American.
	From the country of black?
	I mean, what's the deal there?
	You see companies.
	You know, one of my girls, Cotty, came here from Senegal.
	And in Senegal, they don't give women or girls exposure to technology.
	And so, within the first day of the program, we had to teach her how to use a mouse.
	But eight weeks later, she had built a website on how to teach other girls...
	How to use a mouse!
	...how to code in 32 different languages.
	Right.
	Okay.
	Well, good.
	It's affirmative action for women is what it is.
	Essentially.
	Right?
	There's something more going on here.
	I don't think it's an affirmative action thing at all.
	There's a huge push to just get low-wage coders into the marketplace, flood the marketplace with coders, for some nefarious reason.
	I have yet to figure it out.
	I think that, you know, this is essentially, especially they're talking about this sort of coating that's modern coating.
	It's, they figured they, I'm going to, now this is where I'm going to go a little bit off the deep end here with this.
	You could get a little complaints from someone.
	But it's a little bit like knitting.
	Okay.
	And it's a very tedious little process, and somebody's coming up with an idea, you know, I think women can do this.
	Let's stick them with this crappy job.
	And so they, and women are falling into it, like there's no tomorrow.
	Right, okay, okay.
	Oh, I'm totally with you.
	This is like wartime, World War II, and all women went to work in the factories.
	Welders.
	Thank you.
	This is also a tedious job.
	It hurts your eyes if you do it wrong.
	Go on.
	So you're thinking this is a code monkey type of assembly line that is being cranked up here.
	Yeah, I believe so.
	And with the new products out there that are amenable to this sort of monkey-like behavior, Git, for example, is pretty much taking over the...
	What is taking over?
	Git.
	Git?
	Yeah, you should look into this.
	This is Linus...
	You mean GitHub?
	GitHub?
	Is that what you're talking about?
	Well, it's the Git...
	The program is called...
	Yeah, it's a software revision...
	Yeah, I've got a GitHub account.
	Oh, you would?
	Yeah, of course I do.
	So anyway, so Git, which is the basis for it, is being used by everybody except, I think, Google.
	And...
	So it makes it now you can do big projects without stepping all over each other.
	So I think you can set up an assembly line of code monkeys cheaply.
	And if there's enough of them, we don't have to bring in H-1Bs out of India who aren't that good anyway, believe me.
	And you can tell because they obviously aren't making any money in India or we show some benefits since the Indians can't speak English and listen to our show.
	But I'm okay with that.
	What, creating these assembly lines?
	Yeah, I mean, look, we clearly need to do something, so it's not, I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing.
	No, I never said it was a bad thing, but I'm just telling you, I think it's onerous because it's not, you know, everyone thinks they're going to become Steve Wozniak or Bill Gates or some sort of entrepreneur like the girl that was up there, the dingbat, who ran that little company, who never thought she'd ever become an entrepreneur and never thought of herself as one.
	Right.
	Whatever that rabbit is.
	Task rabbit.
	So the Girls Who Code Inc.
	was incorporated in 2012, has not filed any Form 990 information.
	So this is a very new organization.
	Right.
	I think it's taking advantage of what's going on on the East Coast.
	They're sticking it into the West Coast.
	The West Coast has these movements that started some time back to, like, you know, standardized coding amongst the assembly line workers, essentially.
	And the East Coast is always, you know, with all these politicos and the Bloombergs and all these other guys, they're always trying to get on, you know, Silicon Alley.
	What crap that is.
	And they're always trying to, you know, scrounge up some attention.
	Well, this is...
	This is what I mean.
	In New York, they have tech stars.
	They've got all these bogatives.
	That's why the Teal Foundation is in on this.
	I think at the core, all of these types of programs are intended to...
	Get people working, doing things, and then if there's that next thing that just happens to pop out of it, to be the first one to jump on top, pounce, and screw whoever invented it.
	That's basically what I think is going on with all of these initiatives.
	We do a hackathon.
	What is the point of a hackathon?
	It's like all of these things.
	Pitch your project.
	Operation startup.
	Angels Limited.
	All of this stuff is hopefully defined the next cool thing and then just have an edge and be able to beat everyone to a pulp.
	Because the investors, they all think, and these of course are all Usually guys who had a very successful IPO or their firm was bought.
	Now they're an angel investor.
	And they're all just looking for the next thing.
	And they'll do anything to get it.
	Every college in the universe is doing this.
	And if it's not that, then it's to rent desks to poor saps.
	That's what's happening in Austin.
	Oh my God, John.
	This Google Fiber thing.
	It's like everyone's, oh, I'm moving to Austin.
	Stay away.
	Stay away.
	Douchebag.
	It's a curse.
	I talked to the guy.
	What town do you hate there, Paige?
	You know, that Austin needs to eat crap.
	Let's put the fiber in there.
	That'll screw him.
	So I spoke to the guy, I'm not going to mention his name because I want to speak to him again, who works for the city, who is partially responsible.
	They put in a bid originally and then Kansas City won that, but they never really stopped.
	And this whole thing is really, it's a mayoral bid.
	So, you know, we're going to have an election pretty soon.
	We know that the current mayor is not going to run.
	So, you know, we're probably going to see a woman mayor in Austin.
	And she's kind of Miss Google now, which makes total sense.
	Oh, great.
	Good move, lady.
	And, of course, Google gets all kinds of benefits for this.
	They get taxes back, which is appropriate because it's good.
	It'll bring in real jobs into Austin.
	It's just, I'm getting this onslaught of, oh, we'll set up our startup in Austin.
	No, no, listen, don't.
	There's no money here.
	There's none.
	There's none.
	We have one venture capital firm, Austin Ventures, and if they pass on you, there's no one else going to give you money.
	So don't come.
	Because you're like, hey, why did Austin Ventures pass on you?
	Well, I don't know.
	Well, we're not interested.
	If they can't get the locals.
	Yeah, we're not interested.
	No one's flying out.
	And you should know this rule.
	Anyone out there who thinks they're going to do a thing and they're going to do it in North Dakota.
	Venture capitalists, where most of them are in the West, the number one venture capital area where you can get this kind of money just to start something up is in the West Coast, on the West Coast.
	It's generally in Silicon Valley.
	Every one of these guys, if you talk to any one of them, honestly, they say they will not take a connection flight anywhere.
	Well, you can fly direct to Austin.
	If there's a direct flight, yeah, well, there is a direct flight out of San Jose specifically for venture capitalists to go to Austin.
	But I can tell you this much, too.
	They don't even like doing that.
	No.
	No, of course not.
	If they can take a quick drive, if their driver can take them to a place within...
	No, no, if it's within range of their Fisker.
	Fisker range.
	And if the Fisker is in flames, at least the Tesla has to be able to make it.
	Otherwise, they're not interested.
	Exactly.
	So I'm just going to say, we're not interested in you.
	Go away.
	This fiber is for our porn business.
	Yes?
	And Austin will become a hub of porn.
	You have porn?
	We're going to have porn.
	Oh, good.
	It's fantastic.
	Are you kidding me?
	Anyway, so I did say to the guy at the city, I said, hey, you know, you're sucking with this.
	It's great to have the fiber, but there's nothing else.
	Rent is not cheap.
	It's not cheap in the city.
	We have a lack of spaces for people.
	It's only going to fund the pockets of these a-holes who have like three entrepreneurs.
	Like, well, if you rent a chair for $500 a month here in our incubator, we guarantee you you'll have interaction with the successful entrepreneurs.
	They tried to sucker me into that.
	I'm like, no, no, no.
	I'm not having any of that.
	I wouldn't even accept money to do it.
	Hey, let's thank the people who actually make this show roll, because you know there's no money in Austin.
	I'm not getting any subsidies to do this.
	We do have our system, which is fairly close to the Hollywood system of producers.
	I got a lot of feedback from our producers.
	Some people call them listeners and audience.
	We call them producers because they actually are making the program.
	No, they are producers.
	Well, they actually are.
	And then we have our executive producers and associate executive producers who just like the big shows, like the Tonight Show.
	They put up the money.
	And here, of course, they only get a credit and some honor, and if they produce enough, they can move up the chain into knighthoods and baronets and baronies and earlhoods and dukedoms.
	But there's no actresses, no drugs.
	Yeah, it's kind of a drawback.
	But it's also not as expensive as, you know, it's like two and a half men.
	Yeah, it's not as expensive.
	If you want to be a producer.
	For a lot of different ways.
	But we do get your credit right there up at the beginning as the show is opening.
	And we're open now, so who do we thank, John?
	Well, we want to thank Tim Sonder for sure in Eaglemont Victoria for $800.
	And he should complete his donations for a knighthood.
	And if either should require any advice or the better halves bits.
	My wife is an excellent OBGYN and is happy to provide service.
	Send pictures.
	Yeah.
	And he wants to be known as Sir Papsmear?
	Yes, he's now Sir Papsmear as of the knighting later in the day.
	Wait, so we have dentists.
	This is good.
	We've got dentists.
	Now we have OBGYN. And if we have questions, we have to send pictures.
	We have architects, too.
	In fact, Dame Astrid came in with $610.
	And we are running the numbers on her because we believe...
	Oh, she's got to own at least half of the island of Japan.
	We'll probably take over Japan after we figure out how to get the numbers out.
	I tried to get that this week, but I didn't do it.
	Hi, Adam.
	Can you please activate the Giant Voice system for the following announcement, she asks.
	Yeah.
	Let me see.
	No, I have to activate the Giant Voice system.
	Giant Voice system has been activated.
	Dear John, we care about you every day, not just on your birthday.
	May you and Adam guard reality for the next 500 shows.
	Best from the land of cherry blossoms, Dame Astrid and Sir Mark.
	Please return to normal activity.
	Nice.
	Thank you, Dame.
	I had some more of those, by the way.
	Someone sent me some.
	We'll do that in a second.
	Oh, we'll do it later.
	But Earl Melanson from Tigard or Tigard or Tai whatever it is in Oregon.
	414.
	My Earldom note got truncated.
	In Oregon, you can't pump your own gas.
	That's what we said.
	I have two bumper stickers.
	Read the Constitution and in the morning.
	Lots of gas attendants ask, is no agenda show like Alex Jones?
	I say, no!
	It's a better and hand them a no agenda.
	It's way better, he says.
	And he hands them a no agenda CD, which he believes is a great PR ID. And by the way, the new No Agenda CD compilation is out.
	This is a fantastic initiative, noagendacd.com.
	And so no longer are we doing the Archive of the Month.
	This one is just titled literally, Take the Red Pill.
	And you can download the digital files to burn your own CDs along with the artwork at noagendacd.com.
	And we really appreciate that as a PR effort.
	Werner Flipsen in Bergschenshoek.
	39999.
	I could not find a note from him, but he's up there.
	Hold on a second.
	Yeah, Berkentuk.
	Hold on a second.
	I think we do have...
	I know who he is, and I know what he's done.
	I don't think I'm at liberty to say.
	Well, don't say that.
	Well, no, but I think he did have a note that he wanted me to read.
	Let me check.
	Here it goes.
	No!
	No, I guess I don't have it.
	Oh, wait.
	Maybe if I check here.
	Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.
	Yes, he says...
	Oh, okay.
	Yes, he did send me this.
	I'm translating freely from Dutch.
	$399.99.
	$333.33 as a pure donation.
	Could you please send the rest to a friend of mine in Bitcoin?
	He wants me to send $66.66 in Bitcoin to Joop Kerst.
	Okay, I'll do that.
	Please.
	But we can't make this a habit.
	No, never do that again.
	You shouldn't have done it this time.
	I didn't do it yet.
	I didn't do it yet, but he's asking.
	Let's just say he is important in the wireless connectivity arena.
	Oh!
	I get it.
	So I don't mind hooking him up for his buddy Yoke.
	Not a problem.
	Why can't he just do that himself?
	Yeah, man.
	I don't know.
	Because he thinks I'm loaded.
	I'm on in Emeryville, California.
	3-3-3-3-3.
	Hey, John and Adam haven't donated in a while and thought that while I was blazingly drunk was as good a time as any to forge forth towards my eventual damehood.
	I'd like to ask for a bit of apartment safety karma while I'm at it.
	Two days ago, mine and my fiancé, Sir Joe Wagner's house, was broken into and we'd like a layer of defense to ward off evildoers.
	Wow.
	Thanks for all that you do to brighten our weeks.
	All the best, Beth and Joe.
	Wow.
	No, that sucks.
	Well, here's, of course, here's some karma.
	You've got karma.
	Apartment safety karma.
	That's horrible.
	Yeah, terrible.
	I guess they don't live in Texas.
	They live in Emeryville, where if they had a gun, they probably would have helped.
	I guess on the last episode, I said, you know, we don't have carjackings and burglaries in Austin, that I know in Austin.
	And, of course, one of our producers, like, in the past two years, 7,000 burglaries!
	I'm like, well, yeah, I mean, it's kind of a figure of speech.
	Of course there are some burglaries.
	Like, you deny that that's a burglary?
	You're saying, it's not the Valhalla that you say it is because you've got guns.
	It's not the Valhalla.
	And I said, well, let me look at Chicago.
	Who is this guy?
	He keeps to write you a lot.
	So I looked at Chicago.
	Chicago has about three times the amount of people that live in Austin.
	Ten times the amount of burglaries.
	So I'm like, okay.
	And for some reason, you didn't write me back after that.
	Typical.
	Of course not.
	No.
	So let's go to our associate executive producers of Vlodek Zeleniek.
	Vlodek Zeleniek, I think.
	Zeleniek, maybe, yeah.
	New York City, 20202.
	John White and Jackson, Tennessee.
	Wait, wait, wait, wait.
	He asked for some job karma.
	Oh, he did want some job karma.
	The problem is, you know, people can't pronounce your name, Vlodek.
	Like, hey, call that guy.
	Let's call the other guy.
	You've got karma.
	The only days you'd change your name to something like...
	Yeah, to Bubba.
	Well, Bubba's not what you'd change it to.
	John White in Jackson, Tennessee, 201.
	He'll be our last associate executive producer.
	For episode 201, apparently he's...
	Falling behind.
	My main reason for donating is to get enough producer credits to get listed on IMDB. So John Mack and Adam Cheese, how do I get IMDB to list me?
	Just send in cash karma, please, Sir Dr.
	Sharky.
	P.S. I'll mail you each a prescription for Cipro to use against the upcoming anthrax attack.
	Oh, that's highly appreciated.
	Yeah, that would be a good idea.
	Could you send a double dose for Miss Mickey as well?
	I've got a bunch of people in my family.
	But whatever, we'll get it.
	Yeah, I think you can go ahead and just apply at IMDB and you're good to go with one producer credit.
	I've seen people do it.
	But you need seven to become a member of the Producers Guild of America.
	That's the goal.
	So anyway, here is your cash karma coming your way.
	We've got karma.
	Thank you very much, Sir Dr.
	Sharkey.
	And that's our segment from producers for today's show, 504.
	We're coming.
	505 is next.
	505.
	Good number.
	You can go to dvorak.org slash na channel, dvorak.com slash na, noagendashow.com.
	Hit the donate button there, or noagendanation.com.
	There's also a donate button at that site.
	And I want to thank Eric Voss for doing the artwork for episode 503.
	It was hard.
	We had to go back into the archives to find an evergreen.
	Literally nothing came in by the end of the show.
	It was weird.
	And we don't know if it was something wrong with the system, or if everyone just gave up, or...
	I don't know.
	But this does not happen at all.
	Put them to sleep?
	Yeah, it's also very possible.
	We do appreciate the work the artists do.
	It's, you know, the...
	Really, we can't do much more than give you credit and highlight you, and we often use the artwork in the newsletter.
	But know that it really, truly is important what artwork is associated with every single program, and we appreciate it.
	For all of your help, as John just said, do consider us for this coming Thursday, and until then, I want you to go out and propagate our formula.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out...
	We hit people in the mouth.
	We'll.
	Chef Ray.
	Well, it's a Sunday, and it's always fun to...
	How's the weather?
	You know you never said hi to me today.
	I find that very annoying.
	In the morning to you, John C. Dvorak.
	Oh, okay.
	Well, now I can't continue until you kind of reciprocate.
	Oh, in the morning, Adam.
	And in the morning, all ships and sea boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, and knights and dames out there.
	And in the morning to the chat room.
	Hi there, chat room.
	The chat room saying, the difference between Alex Jones' show and no agenda is Alex Jones shouts at his audience.
	We laugh and ridicule at them.
	So that's pretty much it, I guess.
	But there's no one I like ridiculing more...
	Seeds.
	...than...
	Storable food.
	I always like to ridicule Diane Sawyer when she's drunk.
	That's my favorite part of it.
	Well, that means that we always have a segment for every show.
	And here it comes.
	It kicks off right at the beginning.
	Evening.
	America is the land, the nation of plenty the richest.
	What?
	I can't even start this show without watching it.
	So it's supposed to be America is the land, the man, the...
	It sounds like you're saying Nambla, which is the...
	Nambla!
	Boy, I love the association.
	But it's not even, the word land is not even, it's nation for some reason that's on our prom.
	Good evening.
	America is the land, the nation of plenty, the richest country in the history of the world.
	But we have real numbers tonight on the staggering increase in people barely getting by.
	Yes!
	Just getting by.
	Well, she said barely.
	It's close enough.
	Close enough.
	This, of course, relates to the budget that President Obama has.
	Now, have you looked at this thing?
	It's budget.gov.
	Don't even try.
	It's just a joke.
	But, I mean, it's impossible to get through.
	I mean, it's just...
	And I'm pretty good at this stuff.
	Because they've also split it up into 15 different PDFs.
	You know, it's not like one document.
	Like, real tricky stuff.
	They're like, eh, Curry will hate this.
	He'll never go through it this way.
	So the only thing I know...
	I think this is why ABC, of course, is promoting everyone just getting by.
	Which, of course, is the true American dream.
	It's because of the President's budget.
	What's interesting though is, from what I understand, in this budget is the change of Social Security living standard to the CPI. And that's worth noting for two reasons.
	One, it means that, and we've talked about this before, it means that if you currently are eating grilled cheese sandwiches, Which costs $2, but you can get by on mac and cheese, which is $1, then you're basically going to get $1 instead of $2.
	Is that simplifying it too much, or does that kind of explain what the CPI is, John?
	The Consumer Price Index, which, by the way, they calculate differently, constantly, for that exact reason that you're describing.
	Right.
	It's a formula.
	I don't know if you're explaining it at all.
	Well, they have the replacement thing in there.
	That's what's nefarious in this case, is if you're eating steak, if steak goes up, you can eat spam.
	That's essentially kind of what the thinking is.
	It's like, we're not going to raise you your money because instead of eating steak, you can have tuna a la king.
	You can have cat food.
	This is what Bernie Saunders was talking about two years ago already.
	Yeah, well, let me just refer people to ShadowStats.com.
	There you go.
	If you go there right now, you'll find that the front of the page shows you the difference between the government bullcrap official CPI and the alternative 1990-based CPI. And you can see that the difference is about two percentage points or more.
	And also there's an experimental CPI that's on there, which I don't know what that is.
	But if you go back, they have one chart that shows it from 1980 to the present.
	And it was lockstep for a number of years.
	And it started to really split, massively split during the Clinton administration.
	Apparently he is the worst offender.
	He had the thing at least 5% above Trump.
	Or below what it really was.
	So anyway, yeah.
	They're screwing with us.
	So here is...
	And this was just kind of cool that it's always fun to dive back in the archives because I knew I had it somewhere.
	This is...
	President, candidate Obama, then Senator, promising that he would never do exactly this.
	John McCain's campaign has gone even further, suggesting that the best answer for the growing pressures on Social Security might be the cost of living adjustments or raise the retirement age.
	Let me be clear, I will not do either.
	I think he's done both, hasn't he?
	Haven't we actually done exactly that?
	The diamond age is now ratcheted.
	Yeah, that's why.
	It used to be 65, then it became 66.
	It's going to 67, and then 68, 69 is just around the corner.
	70 is where it's going to end up.
	But this is, we're turning the corner in the United States in so many ways.
	Well, of course, the war on crazy, which we're going to have to talk about again, which is covered as the war against guns or ammo or whatever.
	But it is the war against crazy.
	And this Melissa Harris Perry, the woman who said, you know, your kids belong to the community or the state.
	The government.
	The government.
	Yeah.
	She didn't say that for me.
	She basically said the kids belong to the government.
	Yeah, the government's got to take care of them.
	So here, and these are part of...
	I mean, we could be, we could, we can do this.
	We can turn the country into Sparta, you know, where the kids, you know, after they're 10 years old, they were sent to a military boot camp, which wouldn't be a bad idea, and then you just keep, you know, you get to raise the kids for 10 years, and then you never see them again.
	I'm sure a lot of the women in the Obama administration would appreciate that.
	So here is MSNBC. That was a promo.
	An MSNBC promo.
	And so she has another one that is doing the rounds.
	Americans will always want some level of inequality because it's a representation of meritocracy.
	People who work hard and sacrifice and save their money and make major contributions.
	We think that they should earn a little more.
	They should have...
	This is so amazing to me.
	We think they should earn a little more.
	Just a little bit.
	Just a little more.
	More resources, and that's fine.
	But we also, however, have to have a floor under which nobody falls.
	And if you're below that, especially if you're a child and you're below that, we are not going to accept that.
	You do have the right to healthcare and to education and to decent housing and to quality food at all times.
	Okay.
	Good luck with that.
	Yeah, especially all the slumlords that happen to be in the Obama administration.
	Yeah, I'm looking at you, Valerie Jarrett.
	She is the slumlord of all slumlords.
	So, of course, we get everything thrown in our face today with it being tax day in these United States of Gitmo Nation, meaning you have to file your tax return tomorrow, the 15th.
	And so, of course, the word comes out that the president has done his taxes.
	And wow, he made less than last year.
	He's down.
	How can that be?
	He's down.
	He's down.
	I guess he didn't sell as many.
	He made less in what way?
	He gets a standard salary as president.
	How can he make less?
	Would they cut his benefits?
	No, no, no, no, no.
	Here it is.
	He made $608,611 in 2012, down more than 20% from the year before.
	Do they conduct those vacations he takes with his wife in dual 747s?
	The decline in his pay comes as sales of Mr.
	Obama's books slow down.
	His books.
	Now, but here's the kicker.
	They've got to throw it in your face.
	He and his wife, Michelle, paid an effective tax rate of 18.4% and donated $150,000 to 33 different charities.
	Okay.
	So you know that's where it is.
	33 different charities.
	33.
	33.
	Once again.
	Once again.
	So there was a party.
	In a birthday party, Friday night, a good friend of ours.
	And, wow, man, I think we can break it down to three kinds of people in this country.
	The people who are completely oblivious and asleep, who actually I like a lot, because they're just like, hey...
	They're kind of nice.
	Like, hey, it's all good.
	They don't watch TV. They don't read newspapers.
	They don't care.
	And they don't know anything or care.
	But they're interesting.
	They're creative.
	Hey, let me play a song for you.
	That's great.
	Then you have the wide awake, very few and far between.
	I think I met two.
	And so many are too wide awake, but for my taste, that's good.
	And then you have this big, zombified, programmed mass.
	And I actually got into a verbal spat.
	How do you do this?
	What?
	How do you do this?
	How do you get into these arguments with people?
	Okay, so I was introduced to this woman, and it was like, she lives half-time in Austin, half-time in California.
	Silicon Valley.
	Uh-huh.
	And everyone was, because people know kind of what I do, and they're like, oh, you two should meet.
	You two should talk.
	Oh, yeah, I love that.
	If anyone says that to me, it's like, I don't think so.
	And really, I was like, okay, I'm just going to be really calm.
	She's like, I am the yellowest liberal in the universe.
	That's how she introduced herself.
	What does that mean?
	I don't know.
	I don't know, but I think she meant she's a coward?
	Obama bot.
	I don't know.
	I'm like, oh, okay.
	And then, you know, somehow very quickly, Mickey's like, oh, we love Austin and we love everyone so polite because they got guns.
	And this woman's head like swivels on her shoulders.
	You don't have automatic guns, do you?
	She said, yeah.
	See, this is the old, they don't know the difference between an automatic and semi-automatic gun.
	Right.
	And I said, no, semi-automatic.
	Yeah, no, I meant semi-automatic.
	She said, yeah, but what Mickey has, that's a revolver, right?
	No, it's a semi-automatic.
	So she doesn't quite understand that, you know, a hand...
	You know, pistols are called automatics, as opposed to revolvers.
	But that doesn't mean they're machine guns.
	No.
	It just means you cock them once and they just cock themselves automatically.
	So they're automatics.
	So they don't know the terminology of the weaponry.
	Correct.
	Well, neither does our president.
	That's true.
	He said, yeah, right.
	And I'm like, okay, I've got to jump in and save her here.
	Because, you know, I'm like, wow.
	Okay, yeah.
	So, yeah, yeah.
	So, by the way, I have an AR-15 with a 30-round magazine.
	You said that?
	Yeah, that's me.
	I'm like jumping on the grenade so Mickey can go away.
	I swear to God, she like backed away.
	And this is taking place in the kitchen.
	And then she's like, what?
	I said, yeah, that's right.
	It's a semi-automatic Colt M4 carbine, and I have multiple 30-round magazines.
	She's like, wow.
	You think that's normal?
	I'm like, yeah, you know, it's not abnormal.
	And then she said, well, do you think that it's normal that the Aryan race nation is going around killing cops in Texas?
	No.
	I'm like, what?
	Wow.
	Which, by the way, today in the news has been, you know, the law enforcement is saying looks like they were wrong about that.
	So, yeah, so I can see already, like, oh, man, she's completely programmed.
	So I'm like, oh, you know, listen, this is really only just a war on crazy.
	You know, and so I'm trying to back away.
	I'm trying to back out of this, like, you know.
	Jumped right in with both of you.
	But I had to do that for Mickey.
	Oh, right.
	It was to protect my wife.
	Save the lady.
	Save the lady.
	And then she's like, well, you know, I like you a lot.
	Oh, thanks.
	Would she like you at all?
	I don't know.
	Well, no, because I'm cute, probably.
	Yeah, probably.
	And, you know, so then she's like, and I said, well, gee, wow, you know, I think that your Democratic representatives have really misled you.
	You condescending prick!
	She said that?
	Yeah.
	Why do you even presume I'm a Democrat?
	I said, I didn't say you were.
	I said you're Democrat representatives.
	Your Republican representatives mislead you a lot, too, but in this case, this is your Democrat representatives.
	She called you a condescending prick.
	Holy crap, what a weirdo.
	So I shot her.
	Just to get back to the story before you do.
	There is a yellow liberal.
	That's, yeah, okay, what is it?
	There's a bunch of different colors.
	The liberals, which, by the way, are all Democrats.
	She's a Democrat.
	She's a yellow liberal.
	Yellow liberal is commonly most associated with liberalism in Europe, being the official color of the alliance of liberals and Democrats for Europe.
	It's a group.
	Yellow is also associated with libertarianism, though.
	No, she was no libertarian.
	No, she was no libertarian.
	There's purple, there's red, there's white, there's pink, social democrats, orange, Christian democrats, green, the greens are the greens, gray, brown, blue.
	There's a bunch of these colors.
	You have to look it up under political color.
	It was pretty harsh.
	I mean, it was...
	But I could take it from her because it seemed like this was kind of her shtick.
	Oh yeah, I know these times.
	You're all over Berkeley.
	Well, in fact, she could have been straight out of Berkeley.
	She's a large woman, kept talking about how she loves women, so she's a lesbian.
	That's okay, and none of this matters to me.
	She's a lesbian looking for trouble.
	That's a show title.
	Write it down.
	Lesbians.
	That's for our other business.
	For our porn business.
	Write that down.
	But it was just kind of bizarre how she was yelling at me.
	But I took it as shtick and so I started yelling back.
	I'm a bipolar.
	Well, this is really just about being insane, and right now it's about you can't have a gun because you're bipolar, but soon it'll be you can't drive a car.
	My shtick, right?
	Oh, you can't be around children.
	I thought she was going to projectile vomit at me.
	And she just could not grasp.
	Why would anybody, what sick soul in that party thought you should meet this woman?
	The host.
	That's the person I could track down.
	No, it's my friend.
	He knows.
	He thought it was hilarious.
	John, this is something you could have done.
	Are you kidding me?
	You love doing, you love setting up this stuff.
	Why would you go to a party where this person even showed up?
	Although I've...
	Nah.
	Look, it was...
	I actually enjoyed it, but a number of people did come up to me later and say, are you okay?
	I'm like, yeah, I'm okay.
	I'm not a pussy.
	This is fine.
	But, you know, it was just...
	It doesn't happen very often that I meet someone like this.
	And I'm going to talk to her again.
	I can't wait.
	I mean, I should record it.
	We could actually do a podcast.
	Do you have an Android phone?
	Yeah.
	Well, there's a little program.
	Yeah, I know.
	But I don't have to hide it and just say I'm going to record you for crazy.
	For crazy.
	You will be reported as such to the authorities.
	Well, and I went through the whole thing and she said, well, I have to take an antidepressant.
	I said, well, then you're not allowed to have guns legally in the state of Texas.
	Your line would have been no shit.
	That's no shit.
	Yeah.
	You don't say.
	But then, you know, I'm following the news.
	Sorry.
	I'm following the telescreen for the past couple days, just looking what's going on.
	And some amazing things have happened in this war on crazy, which is being hidden as a war on guns or ammo or background checks or whatever it is.
	And I just like to run around the dial And just play a few things.
	First of all, pure proof from spokeshole Carney that this is just a little stepping stone.
	Well, as you saw in the President's statement yesterday, and as you've seen all week from the President and the rest of us, we have been encouraged by bipartisan progress on this very important package of proposals.
	There is still work to be done.
	This was simply, while very important, a first stage in an effort to get sensible, common-sense legislation that would reduce gun violence in America while protecting Americans' Second Amendment rights...
	So it's common sense, sensible, gun sense.
	First step, though.
	Just the first step.
	So it's all about...
	And remember this, because there's a couple new memes that we have to track.
	So common sense, gun sense is a new one.
	Buying guns on the internet.
	Pastor Rick Warren, who is very famous.
	Is he a televangelist, Rick Warren?
	He's really famous.
	No, he's not like a...
	He's a megachurch mogul.
	Right.
	Yeah, megachurch mogul.
	So his son apparently committed suicide earlier this week.
	And, of course...
	Pastor Rick Warren made some startling revelations about the suicide of his son Matthew.
	On Thursday, Warren tweeted, quote, someone on the internet sold Matthew an unregistered gun.
	I pray he seeks God's forgiveness.
	I forgive him.
	Matthew Warren shot himself to death last Friday.
	Law enforcement officials haven't confirmed the pastor's claim, but did say the gun's serial number had been removed.
	And that was all Nothing, John.
	Oh, please.
	It's going to be illegal to sell guns on the internet.
	That's how this legislation is going to prevent this.
	Now, the best thing, though...
	Oh, John, would you...
	Of course it's not going to prevent it, but for my friend from the Berkeley area, or wherever she's from part-time...
	We'll make it Berkeley.
	Yeah, she's now officially...
	She wasn't a Hummer, but she could have been.
	We'll make it Berkeley.
	This is what these people see and believe, and then, of course, this was my favorite.
	This is what Al-Qaeda...
	This is Morning Joe.
	And my favorite part of Morning Joe is listening to, what's her name, Mika, Micah, Malika?
	Yeah, I don't know.
	The Brzezinski kid?
	I never watch Morning Joe.
	Listening to her going, yeah, oh yeah, crazy.
	Yeah, that's the best part.
	So this is about the Al-Qaeda video of Adam Gadon, famous Al-Qaeda operative, saying, it's so easy to buy guns in America.
	This is what Al-Qaeda has to say.
	You know your background check system is weak even when Al-Qaeda makes a video pointing out how easily attainable guns are in the U.S. You know your background system is weak.
	Your background check system is weak when even Al-Qaeda...
	I mean, Al-Qaeda's not even saying it!
	The website BuzzFeed pointed out this 2011 video by American-born Al-Qaeda spokesman Adam...
	American-born Al-Qaeda spokesman.
	Is it spokesman?
	It gets better.
	Since when?
	Listen to CNN. CNN had an even better term for him.
	Hold on, here it is.
	You know who's watching this whole gun debate play out in America?
	Al-Qaeda.
	Al-Qaeda.
	I gotta say it twice.
	Al-Qaeda.
	Al-Qaeda.
	You know who's watching this whole gun debate play out in America?
	Al-Qaeda.
	Al-Qaeda.
	Already thinks America's gun control system is weak and American Al-Qaeda spokesman...
	American Al-Qaeda spokesman.
	This is fantastic!
	America's gun control system is weak, and American al-Qaeda spokesman says it is so easy to get guns in America that wannabe terrorists should take advantage of it.
	That's right.
	Because they can't get guns in Afghanistan, they can't get guns in Pakistan, they can't get guns in Iraq.
	Alright, so, of course, if you're from Berkeley and you're a lesbian looking for trouble, what's your favorite talk show on television going to be?
	What's your favorite?
	Come on.
	It would obviously be Rachel Maddow.
	No, that's news.
	I'm talking about so-called news.
	Talk show.
	It would have to be Bill Maher.
	I'm so sorry, but this is the problem with the gun debate, is that it's a constant center-right debate.
	There's no left in this debate.
	Everyone on the left is so afraid to say what should be said, which is the Second Amendment is bullshit.
	Why doesn't anyone go at the floor of it?
	Beauty.
	Clip of the day.
	Clip of the day.
	Really?
	Oh, that's so kind of you.
	I don't know if I deserve it, but screw it.
	No, I'll take it.
	Clip of the day.
	The Second Amendment is bullshit.
	I'll say it.
	I'm Bill Maher.
	I can say it.
	And I invented the iPod.
	Screw Johnny Ives.
	Johnny Ives, you ain't got shit on me.
	Then we have our Vice President Joe O. Biden.
	That is his middle name's O. What is it?
	Orville?
	Orenbacher?
	What is his middle name?
	I don't know.
	Well, come on.
	Let me look it up in the Book of Knowledge.
	Hold on.
	Yeah, I think we should consult it.
	Joe O. Biden.
	The reason why I always see that is because when I look him up on C-SPAN video archives...
	Joseph Robinette Biden.
	Robinette?
	Yes.
	But it's O. It's Joseph O. Biden.
	No.
	Yes, it is.
	No.
	It's Robinette.
	Joseph R. Biden.
	Okay.
	I'm going to cspanvideo.org.
	I fill in Biden in the search.
	Okay.
	And what comes back is...
	We've been saying Joe O'Biden for so long you've been having dreams about it.
	I'm fucking sick.
	Video dreams.
	Whoa.
	Okay.
	Must be Orville.
	Well, here's Orville Biden on the Morning Joe show, and this to me...
	Hold on a second.
	By the way, what kind of name would you name your kid Robinette?
	It sounds like the Shirelles.
	Hi, I'm Joe from the Shirelles.
	I don't know, man.
	And that's not a big thing in Pennsylvania to call your kid Robinette.
	I guarantee you that.
	Sure.
	Alright.
	Here he is.
	He makes just the most insane comparison to assault rifles, which of course we all agree it's crazy.
	You don't need those for hunting, do you?
	I mean, these things are just for one thing and one thing only.
	For killing.
	Fenton blows it in half.
	I looked at him and said, Dad, why'd you do this?
	I said, I want you to understand the power of this weapon.
	I want you to understand the power.
	Everybody who owns guns, the guys you represent, they take great pride in the fact that they, in fact, but what's happened here is, look, it used to be we were dealing almost...
	Yeah, no, he can't speak.
	Exclusively, Joe, with hunters.
	Hunters.
	When I did this the first time in 94, it was the one group I had to go speak to and make sure they were satisfied with what we were doing were hunters.
	There's a whole...
	I'm a gatherer, Joe.
	I don't know what you're talking about.
	A new sort of group of individuals now who, I don't know what the numbers are, that never hunt at all.
	But they own guns for one of two reasons.
	Self-protection or...
	They just like the feel of that AR-15 at the range.
	They like the way it feels.
	It's like driving a Ferrari.
	It's like driving a Ferrari, John.
	It's like driving a Ferrari.
	He really likes to shoot, this guy does.
	How can you even...
	Get a shotgun!
	You really can't have it all.
	You can't say the people who have AR-15s are rednecks living in the hill countries of Texas ready to shoot any black person who comes by and then say that we like them because they like Ferraris.
	You can't have all this.
	I'm sorry, you just can't have all this.
	But this is all part of the telescreen programming, which of course had to include our favorite singing and dancing television show.
	Too soon after the Sandy Hook shooting, Glee's latest episode, which aired last night, centered around a shooting inside the high school.
	Hey, let's get started.
	Everyone just spread out of high, spread out of high, high.
	Find a place to hide.
	Let's go over there.
	The images of students crying, running, and scrambling for cover were too much for some residents of Newtown.
	Here's Andrew Paley, the father of two boys who survived the December shooting.
	We're in a healing process here in Newtown, and it's too soon for those of us so close to what happened on 1214 that it would have reopened wounds that we're trying to heal.
	Do you hear the meme?
	The new meme?
	12-14.
	12-14.
	That is the new meme.
	So they're really, really pushing this.
	And this comes back, again, very interesting.
	I got a message from the president today on my textually written communication platform, also known as email.
	It's funny because he starts his email off with, Hello, everybody!
	Literally.
	Dash, dash.
	Hello, everybody!
	Each week, like many, many presidents before me, I sit down to record a short address to the nation.
	It's something I take very seriously because it offers a chance to bring focus to an issue that needs to be part of the national dialogue.
	But today...
	I've asked someone to take my place.
	Francine Wheeler is a mother.
	She and her family live in Newtown, Connecticut.
	Four months ago, her six-month-old son, Ben, was murdered in his elementary school along with 19 other children and six brave educators.
	Blah, blah, blah.
	So he gave up his presidential address, his YouTube show, to Francine Wheeler and her husband David.
	Now this is unprecedented, I think.
	I do not know of a time when any president has given up his or her presidency, given up his Do you know of any time when that might have happened?
	I've never heard of such a thing.
	I don't think it's a good thing, actually.
	Have guest stars?
	Yeah, I think it's not okay.
	I found this to be the most shameless...
	Something probably the Obama administration has ever done in its entire six years or five or six years.
	Did you see it?
	Oh, yeah.
	Now, did you catch everything in here?
	There's a bunch of stuff in there that's interesting.
	I clipped a small piece.
	No, we have to play the whole thing.
	Oh, you want to play the whole thing?
	Oh, really?
	Okay.
	Well, let me preface by telling you who Francine and David are.
	Do you know who they are?
	Yeah, I did that research.
	What did you come up with?
	Well, Dave is an actor.
	They're both actors.
	Yeah.
	She also worked as the personal assistant to Maureen White, financial chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee.
	Oh, you got me on that one.
	So when they got married, and let me read it to you.
	When they got married in 2001, October 2001, Francine Lobos, daughter of Antoinette and Carmen Lobos, Bonita Springs, Florida.
	It's been married today with Daily Wheel, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
	Miss Lobos, 34, works in New York as a personal assistant to Maureen White, the finance chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee.
	The bride is also a music and movement teacher for infants and toddlers.
	She graduated from Allentown College of St.
	Francis, is a SAG and equity member.
	Mr.
	Wheeler, actor and musician, based in New York.
	So they're both actors.
	Right.
	But they are SAG card-carrying members.
	There's something I was interrupting you about, is that disinformation is discrepant.
	If you look up enough of them, enough backgrounds on them, you can't really tell when they moved into town.
	It's like eight years ago, it's a year ago, it's four years ago.
	It's very disturbing to try to pin down a lot of this.
	You actually got quite a bit.
	Well, I was blown away by the...
	I mean, she's reading a script.
	She's reading the teleprompter.
	With a lot of weird stuff in it that just doesn't make any sense whatsoever.
	Here's what got me.
	She kind of...
	She breaks down a couple of times and they cut away and she's normal again.
	So she sounds like a psycho.
	If you just listen to the audio, she sounds like she's completely insane because her mood changes too much because of the lousy cutting.
	Whoever edited this did a pretty crappy job.
	Well, her eyes stay dry.
	What?
	Her eyes stay dry.
	That's what, exactly, that's what got me.
	I don't, she's not a very good actress.
	A good actress, by the way, you can tell them to cry and they'll just drop a tear right on the spot.
	Right.
	She couldn't even, she, if she, she lost her son and she, I haven't ever seen this because I've seen people interview her.
	John, this has been going on with Sandy Hook with every single person you see on TV. You've not seen a single actual tear.
	Show it to me.
	Show me one piece of video, and it's horrible to think that this could be this big of a scam, but you need to show me one of these people on the 60 Minutes piece, anybody, even the teacher, Ms.
	Soto, what's her name, the one who keeps doing interviews?
	I have seen people with a dead dog on local television break into tears.
	Not Sandy Hook.
	And this woman goes right into this crying, fake crying, and she never drops a tear.
	It was just like, are they that cold-blooded?
	Or maybe they took some special class, or they're told not to cry, or when they cry, they did a second take.
	But their eyes would be all red.
	No, you'd see it.
	You'd see it.
	And this is the stuff that when people hear this, and hear us discussing this, they go insane.
	They threaten to come and burn my house down.
	Because who am I, insensitive a-hole, to be talking like this?
	Remember Robbie Parker?
	The guy who's laughing and yucking it up before he then goes into this whole sad thing?
	This has been constant with this.
	Constant.
	And it's all the same memes.
	Killed at the end of a gun.
	Riddled.
	20 young angels and 6 educators.
	Why can't we say teachers anymore?
	Educators.
	It's so scripted.
	It's so scripted.
	It is freaky.
	And we decided to stop talking about it, and it still keeps coming in.
	I can't help myself.
	This was the most shameless thing I've ever seen this president do.
	And especially, I mean, it was really bad.
	Hi.
	We have to play the whole thing.
	As you've probably noticed, I'm not the president.
	I'm just a citizen.
	And as a citizen, I'm here at the White House today because I want to make a difference, and I hope you will join me.
	Here we go.
	My name is Francine Wheeler.
	My husband, David, is with me.
	He looks like Dan Aykroyd.
	A little bit.
	He also looks like somebody else, too.
	Another actor actually looks really like, and I can't think of his name, but he looks just like him.
	We live in Sandy Hook, Connecticut.
	David and I have two sons.
	Our older son, Nate, soon to be 10 years old, is a fourth grader at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
	Our younger son, Ben, age 6, was murdered in his first grade classroom on December 14th, exactly four months ago this weekend.
	David and I lost our beloved son.
	So now it's close up.
	And unless they redid makeup and took away puffy eyes, no tears.
	And Nate lost his best friend.
	On what turned out to be the last morning of his life...
	Ben told me quite out of the blue.
	See, now, this is what bothered me.
	I'm going to give everyone the benefit of the doubt.
	This is entirely true.
	Everything happened this way, and there was no confusion with the medical examiner, about long gun, short gun, rifle, whatever.
	There's no weird stuff, nothing.
	And we saw pictures, and we've had all of this.
	Let's just say all of that happened.
	Even then, this script...
	And her delivery...
	I mean, if it was a mother really just speaking and saying, holy crap, you know, we got to change...
	But she's reading the script.
	Yeah, and using sub-clauses like, out of the blue.
	Out of the blue.
	And with this bullshit story, because a six-year-old does not come up to his mother out of the blue.
	I hate to go this far with it, but I don't care.
	A six-year-old doesn't come up to his mother out of the blue the day of the shooting and say, Mom, I want to be a paleontologist.
	I still want to be an architect, Mama.
	But I also want to be a paleontologist.
	I had to look up the word!
	Six years old, wants to be an architect and a paleontologist, but meanwhile he's a piano player.
	Because that's what Nate is going to be, and I want to do everything Nate does.
	Ben's love of fun and his excitement at the wonders of life were unmatched.
	His boundless energy kept him running across the soccer field long after the game was over.
	What's he doing?
	Just running around?
	Ugh!
	And he couldn't wait to get to school every morning.
	He sang with perfect pitch and had just played at his third piano recital.
	Irrepressibly bright and spirited, Ben experienced life at full tilt.
	Full tilt.
	Until that morning, 20 of our children and six of our educators gone.
	Out of the blue.
	Out of the blue.
	I've heard people say that the tidal wave of anguish our country felt on 1214 has receded.
	There it is.
	But not for us.
	You hear it, 1214?
	To us?
	It feels as if it happened just yesterday.
	And in the four months since we lost our loved ones, thousands of other Americans have died at the end of a gun.
	There it is, end of a gun.
	Thousands of other families across the United States are also drowning in our grief.
	Please help us do something before our tragedy becomes your tragedy.
	Sometimes...
	You know, it's funny.
	Just looking at that again, wow, that was kind of weird.
	That almost felt like she is sitting there pleading as a double agent saying, oh, please, they're forcing me to do this.
	Whatever's going on, please help stop this insanity because these people here are insane.
	Oh, play that back again.
	Listen.
	I'll take it from there.
	But not for us.
	To us, it feels as if it happened just yesterday.
	And in the four months since we lost our loved ones, thousands of other Americans have died at the end of a gun.
	Thousands of other families across the United States are also drowning in our grief.
	Please help us do something before our tragedy becomes your tragedy.
	Am I just seeing things?
	Yeah, I think you're reading into it, but I like it.
	I mean, I think it's legitimate.
	Sometimes I close my eyes and all I can remember is that awful day waiting at the Sandy Hook volunteer firehouse for the boy who would never come home.
	That is a movie title.
	It's either a movie of the week, or it's going to be a book, or the boy that would never come home.
	Write it down.
	Write this down.
	The same firehouse that was home to Ben's Tiger Scout Den 6.
	But other times, I feel Ben's presence filling me with courage for what I have to do, for him and all the others taken from us so violently and too soon.
	We have to convince the Senate to come together and pass common sense gun responsibility reforms that will make our communities safer.
	Also, that was something new in there.
	Common sense gun responsibility reforms?
	This is something new.
	All the others taken from us so violently and too soon.
	We have to convince the Senate to come together And pass common sense gun responsibility reforms.
	Wow.
	This is new.
	Gun responsibility reforms?
	Yeah.
	Not sure what that means, but seeing as she didn't write it, it means something.
	That will make our communities safer and prevent more tragedies like the one we never thought would happen to us.
	When I packed for Washington on Monday, it looked like the Senate might not act at all.
	Then, after the president spoke in Hartford, and a dozen of us met with senators to share our stories, more than two-thirds of the Senate voted to move forward.
	But that's only the start.
	That's also Obama rhetoric, move forward.
	...bills that will help keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people.
	And a lot of people are fighting to make sure they never do.
	Now is the time to act.
	Please join us.
	Now is the time to act is the name of their campaign.
	If you look at WhiteHouse.gov.
	We also missed the ring at dangerous people.
	Oh, I missed that, yeah.
	You can talk to your senator, too.
	Or visit WhiteHouse.gov to find out how you can help join the president and get involved.
	Help this be the moment when real change begins.
	From the bottom of my heart, thank you.
	And I find it fascinating that her husband is just sitting there the whole time.
	He often looks over at her.
	Yeah, but no lying, nothing.
	He's just sitting there.
	I found this to be extremely creepy, whether it's true or not.
	I thought it was shameless.
	This is the worst thing I've ever seen anyone do, especially for a president to pull a stunt like this.
	There's no tears.
	The thing was totally written by somebody else.
	There's no way she would talk like this.
	No.
	Whether anything happened or not.
	But I think her lack of tears makes you wonder.
	And, you know, every detail was just unnerving.
	And here is Eleanor Clift of the McLaughlin group.
	You know, she's always got the script because, you know, is she from Berkeley?
	She should be.
	She should be.
	The Newtown families and Gabby Giffords are in the gun debate to stay, and over time their voices will be more powerful than the NRA. The culture of guns is beginning to go through a transformation in this country.
	I also got a lot of hate, a particularly strongly worded hate email about my take on Gabrielle Giffords.
	And I wrote down a note to myself that I need to revisit that there's a lot of discrepancies with what happened there.
	And a lot of actual actors on the scene.
	We went through all of that.
	Remember that?
	Oh yeah, we should rerun that show.
	Make a note that we do that on our next Best Up, because it was very long and detailed, and there was a lot of information, and there was a lot of weird 911 calls, and I think our ultimate conclusion was that there was a federal judge who needed to get killed for whatever reason, but that a lot of this seemed extremely weird, and when people send me pictures like, just look at her!
	Like, you know, I've been in media for 30 years in mainstream media.
	I've done the photoshops.
	I've done the video imaging.
	It's so much of it.
	It seems harmless when you're doing it.
	It seems harmless when you fake this or fake that or pretend.
	And basically, you know, hey, look, that's newsflash.
	The weatherman is not standing in front of a giant moving screen.
	Okay?
	Newsflash.
	It's green.
	They superimpose it.
	He's looking at a monitor off to the side of the set.
	So all of television is trickery.
	Pick up a magazine.
	Pick up Vogue magazine.
	Michelle Obama, the first lady, is on the cover.
	It's photoshopped, okay?
	It is photoshopped.
	Everything's photoshopped.
	It's all photoshopped.
	This is all fantasy.
	Look at the Gulf War where we've got, what's the douchebag's name there in the Baghdad Hilton and they're laughing it up and pretending and then they go stand in front of a few shrubs down in the basement in the blue screen.
	That was before green screen.
	It's been going on for a long, long time.
	A long time.
	So in this war on crazy, there are a couple of interesting articles that came out.
	This just came out from...
	What was this?
	This is Slate.
	Of course, the DSM-5 is coming out soon.
	And Slate did the numbers.
	And according...
	According to the DSM-IV, the one we're in right now, already...
	Explain what DSM is to people.
	DSM is basically the Bible for psychiatry.
	The Diagnosable Mental Illness...
	It's actually...
	What does it stand for?
	DSM is...
	I should know this.
	Hold on.
	Now you ask me.
	DSM. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
	That's what it is.
	Diagnostic and Statistical Manual.
	And this is pretty much a license for doctors and psychiatrists and the pharmaceutical industry to prescribe you drugs.
	Most of these drugs are amphetamines.
	You know, there's some uppers, there's some downers, there's some bennies, some poppers, but it's all basically drugs.
	It's not really helping you much.
	And according to the research that's done here, with DSM-IV, it comes out every year, currently, or not every year, but it seems like every year, currently we have DSM-IV, and some, I thought it was coming out now, DSM-V, which is the new Bible, 50% of Americans,
	actually 46.4%, according to the Slate article, have a diagnosable mental illness in their lifetime, according to DSM-IV. And what 5 is doing is it's not creating more mental illnesses because I think they went from like, it's like 79 and they went to 150 and now it's 280 different, oh here it is, DSM-IV is 297 diagnosable mental illnesses.
	Or mental defects, if you want to actually call it by the law, which is how the gun legislation is working.
	In 1980, it was 265.
	In 1952, it was 100.
	So they're not going to go to more than 297, but now they split it up.
	So you get autism, you get the spectrum.
	And then you have all these different pieces on the spectrum, so it's almost like a quintupling because they're breaking out all of these things like, oh, you've got Asperger's?
	Well, you've got all kinds of Asperger's.
	You've got Tourette's?
	Well, you've got the Adam Curry kind.
	You've got the guy yelling cunt on the plane kind.
	You get all these different kinds.
	And everyone will fit into a category somewhere.
	Everyone.
	And this is exactly where this is taking us, is diagnosing you with something, and if you've ever had medication, then you're it.
	That's it.
	That's done.
	Then they can do whatever they want with dangerous people.
	Well, there's a lot of dangerous people.
	So, apparently, what's going on with the gun thing is that I didn't realize this until I was watching C-SPAN for hours on end during one of these things.
	And there's this guy, what's his name?
	David Koppel and a bunch of other people up on the podium talking about what this is done in Colorado.
	About Colorado being the lead...
	Experimental state.
	And at the time when they were doing this, and I was thinking, well, let me just play a couple of quickies here.
	Play the meta strategy.
	Well, no, wait.
	This is a good one, too.
	Gun assault.
	Here, play the gun assault rifle BS in Bloomberg.
	I didn't know about this.
	The bills that passed in Colorado are not Colorado-only bills.
	They are drafted by Michael Bloomberg's people.
	They are lobbied in Colorado by Michael Bloomberg's contract lobbyists.
	Is this the mayors against guns?
	Is that the lobby they're talking about?
	That could be.
	Whatever the case is, Colorado seems to be the test market for all this stuff.
	And what apparently they did, they got the Colorado, you know, there's a lot of gun owners in Colorado because you need to shoot the coyotes.
	And so they've gotten guys to vote against their own people.
	They're representing certain group of people.
	They're voting against them because apparently Bloomberg's come in and I guess Biden called all these guys.
	So you've got to vote for this.
	You've got to vote for this.
	And, Will, don't worry about it.
	You're going to get some flack, but we're going to throw a bunch of money at you for the next election to get you back in there.
	So don't worry about it, because I know they're going to give you crap about, you know, why did you vote this in?
	And this guy discusses something.
	And this guy, this couple guy, is actually a government attorney who represents police departments mostly in front of all kinds of different courts.
	And he found all kinds of weird stuff that was in this legislation, which is...
	Pretty much designed to get all the guns off the street.
	And Bloomberg seems to be the main guy behind this.
	He even mentioned a Bloomberg anecdote where he wouldn't let the National Guard come into town in Brooklyn when there was looting going on after Hurricane Sandy because he didn't like the idea of guns at all.
	So there's more complexity to this, especially in Colorado, than meets the eye.
	But anyway, finish this clip.
	They are the national model for what President Obama and...
	Mr.
	Bloomberg are going to try to push in Congress.
	And yet, if they were actually interested in saving lives, we know none of these bills will work.
	And how do we know that?
	Because the Eric Holder's Department of Justice, the research arm of that is called the National Institute of Justice.
	And in early January, the National Institute of Justice did a report on various gun control proposals.
	That report was understandably kept secret from the American people, but it's been leaked and it's available.
	And here's what the National Institute of Justice said.
	And again, this is the research arm of the United States Department of Justice.
	First, the ban on so-called assault weapons, which many of you know are only different and superficial characteristics, such as where the grip is on a gun and whether the gun has a black plastic stock that can be adjusted versus a solid wood stock, things like that.
	The National Institute of Justice said this does nothing.
	These guns are rarely used in crime.
	There's no point in doing this.
	And, of course, this confirms the study that was done by researchers selected by Janet Reno, not one of the top pro-gun cabinet officers in American history, to conduct a study on the 1994-2004 Feinstein ban.
	On so-called assault weapons and on magazines.
	And that report issued with preliminary reports over the years and then a final report in 2004 said that that ban accomplished nothing.
	No lives were saved that they could see in any statistically discernible way.
	It didn't change...
	How many shots were fired in confrontations or anything else?
	They could find, after 10 years, no benefits from the laws.
	Before you continue that, my Berkeley friend, she also brought up the violence in video games.
	And I was like, you know, she said, I'm in psychology or something.
	I said, well, if you have a report that shows where there's actual correlation, I'd love to read that because everything I hear, it just doesn't exist.
	There is no direct correlation.
	Interesting, though, that we're going after video games but not after the movie industry.
	That did shut her down a little bit.
	You don't have to play any more of this, so let me summarize.
	I like it.
	Holder, of course, is the guy who famously said, we need to brainwash the people.
	You've seen that clip, I'm sure, haven't you?
	See, I think we've talked about it before.
	No, I think we may have talked about it, but I was just looking through the clips.
	I don't think we've actually ever played it.
	It's a favorite of what...
	Dig it up.
	Dig it up.
	Yeah, I got it.
	Here we go.
	Right here.
	I've got...
	It's not that hard to find.
	Hold on.
	Here we go.
	Eric Holder.
	I'm not sure how old this clip is.
	Don't tell me we're going to get an ad, please.
	Don't give me an ad.
	We just have to be repetitive about this.
	It's not enough to simply have a catchy ad on a Monday and then only do it every Monday.
	We need to do this every day of the week and just really brainwash people into thinking about guns in a vastly different way.
	Brainwash.
	Brainwash.
	Well, I'd say they're on the right path.
	Oh, yeah.
	We've already identified half the memes that were in the speech given by Wheeler.
	Let me ask you a question, John, because here we are at the point where our show separates itself from the guys who sell seeds and storable food and gold.
	Do you think that the current administration, Actually believes the world will be a better place if all guns in America were gone, if they could actually do, well maybe we should say, do you think they can really do that?
	And is their motive pure?
	Is it really to be able to save just that one child?
	Is that really what this is about?
	Or do you believe there is some...
	A crazy thought behind it that...
	Oh, well, there you go.
	Now, I think there is a crazy thought behind it.
	I think this guy stumbles on it.
	With the meta-strategy clip, and let me just say that you have to really listen to this and start thinking deeply about, you know, the idea of both these parties.
	They just want to run the place.
	They just as soon be king.
	They just as soon, you know, keep re-electing Obama until hell freezes.
	Or it's the same with the Republicans.
	They would just as soon, you know, re-elect Bush forever, apparently.
	And so both these guys are always playing these great games.
	Listen to the meta-strategy clip.
	I think this may be part of what you're trying to determine.
	That's the wrong approach.
	That's a political approach whose purpose is to divide suburban women from the Republican Party.
	That is the meta-strategy of what's going on here.
	And it's not about saving the lives of anyone or especially not saving the lives of school children.
	Wow, hold on a second.
	That's crazy.
	I had this clip that I didn't use.
	Oh my goodness.
	This is already happening.
	Hold on.
	I have to go into my system, but it'll be well worth it.
	Hold on a second.
	So explain that while I look up this clip.
	He believes that creating this, especially concentrating on the Sandy Hook thing and the crying mom giving the speech and all the rest of it, is targeting women specifically, and apparently the show is too, targeting women specifically who are very sympathetic about this thing to separate them from the Republican Party and make them permanent Democrats because it's...
	Democrats are working in their interest to save the children.
	And if you look at a lot of women, like this woman who freaked out at the party you went to, her head swung around like a mad woman.
	You're so right.
	This is an example of what they're trying to create, a nation full of these women.
	Okay, I have the clip.
	This is NBC, what's his name, Chuck Todd, and here it is.
	Look at the political divide.
	According to our NBC News Wall Street Journal poll, 82% of Democrats support tougher gun laws, only 27% of Republicans.
	How are the Democrats going to bridge that gap?
	But I want to highlight another number that might convince some Republicans to do this.
	Look at the massive gender gap.
	It's as large of a gender gap as we've seen on any Ooh!
	Wow!
	Wow!
	So that could be the meta-strategy.
	And I want to thank Dave Jones for building me a fantastic system to run this show on.
	We call it Freedom Controller.
	Go to FreedomController.com because I literally just typed in women guns into my search box and it brought up the article that I'd saved.
	Nice.
	Yeah, that's a damn nice system.
	Now I've got to do a screencast to show everyone how this thing works.
	It's outrageous.
	So this may be what you're looking for.
	Okay, let's keep our eye on that.
	Wow.
	Wow.
	It makes so much sense.
	Of course they don't give a crap.
	I think everyone who has any sense in their brain or has not been brainwashed by the telescreens knows there's no way you can take away all the guns.
	It's futile.
	We also, if you look at the real statistics, it's not so bad because crime has really gone down with the doubling of the amount of guns.
	So all of that is kind of good news.
	But if you really think about it from a very evil perspective, of course we've got the president is out on the road the whole time now for the midterm elections.
	And this is it.
	This is the strategy.
	I think you're right.
	What's this guy's name who's...
	Dave Cappell, K-O-P-E-L. Dave Cappell?
	Really?
	I love his movies.
	He's a very funny guy.
	He's a very funny guy.
	I think you've nailed it.
	They really don't give a crap about your children.
	They don't give a crap about your children.
	They don't give a crap about you.
	They just give a crap about winning and winning and winning.
	And so now...
	And taxing and taxing.
	Well, okay.
	There's that.
	Republicans.
	It doesn't matter who's in charge.
	No, the Republicans are worse.
	They're the ones who started the two wars.
	So let's...
	Wow.
	There's an example.
	The Colorado law, which we're going to assume this guy's right, is the test market for the whole thing.
	They're going to roll this out everywhere they can.
	Well, Connecticut already has it.
	Right, Connecticut and Colorado.
	And by the way, the more I listen to this thing that's going on, I'm thinking, well, Aurora, you had all these Columbine.
	They figured Colorado's got to be the ripest place for this.
	This is your number one market because you had, first you had Columbine as the setup, then you had Aurora, which is very sketchy.
	And now you've got a whole population of a state that you, let's see how far we can push them.
	And so these laws are so onerous that this guy's now going to describe some of the stupidities In the temporary transfer aspect, for example, in Colorado, if I have a gun, and you come over and you say, hey, you got some guns, and you say, yeah, you want to see this new gun I bought, and I hand it to you?
	That's a transfer?
	That's a temporary transfer that requires a background check, and worse, when you give it back to me?
	That's another transfer!
	Both $20 each and both up to Colorado, a three to nine day wait.
	Now, what happens if I say you got any good porn mags?
	Got any skin flicks, boy?
	No problem.
	Play this guy discussing something.
	Here's a bill that passed the Colorado legislature under the bill written by Michael Bloomberg.
	That's a crime.
	Every time I do that, when I take one of my guns and hand it to a student, without having put that student through a background check, that's a crime punishable by up to 18 months.
	In jail, in Colorado.
	And then when the student wants to hand it back to me, we have to do another background check on me to get it back.
	And both ways on that transaction, it costs $20.
	And that applies to every single transaction, temporary transfer of a firearm during a safety class.
	I'm feeling there's a market here for an iPhone app.
	I mean, this is fantastic.
	Well, John, thank you very much.
	You have educated me.
	I know you've educated our audience, but you've educated me.
	And the next time the gun thing comes up, instead of going into the war on crazy, which of course is a nice benefit and a long-term gain for everybody who likes holding power over the sheeple and the shittisons of Gitmo Nation, I'll just say, no, no, no, no, no.
	This is just so they can all get re-elected.
	Just so they can get more women voters and get the women to run away from the Republicans.
	I think that's what it is.
	It is...
	If you look at Occam's razor, you know they don't care about the guns.
	You know they don't care about the citizens.
	They just don't.
	No, Biden himself is going on about how great shotguns are and he's driving a Ferrari.
	Come on.
	Yeah.
	No, this is just purely to get the women to run away from the Republicans.
	It's a genius strategy.
	Genius.
	And I beg of you, please go and find any program, mainstream, alternative, or otherwise, who give you this type of analysis.
	If you do, come back and let me know about it.
	I'm going to show myself the Lord by donating to No Agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh, yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, on No Agenda.
	In the morning.
	We do have some people to thank for supporting the show and the work we do.
	Starting with Andrew Terry and Brackley North...
	What is it?
	I get off to a great start.
	Northampton?
	I'm like Diane.
	Northampton.
	In this land of common nation.
	Northampton.
	Let's do everyone like Diane.
	In the UK. And rather than personal mention, could you instead play a karma shot for you and Adam?
	We'll take it.
	Oh, yeah.
	Gladly.
	You've got karma.
	Todd Brink in New Berlin, Wisconsin.
	$100, sir.
	AJ in Caldwell, Idaho.
	At...
	The number is...
	69!
	69, dudes!
	He's our baronet of the Treasure Valley.
	Wait a minute, wait a minute.
	You can't have a protectorate as a baronet.
	Well, he called...
	He says the...
	This is still debatable.
	You are the secretary of peerage, and quite honestly, you're sucking a little bit at the job.
	Well, you think I suck at it, but you have no idea how difficult it is.
	The actual peerage secretary of the UK has got secretaries.
	You've got Buzzkill Jr.
	We are giving small areas within a barony confine to the baronets.
	That's what we've decided.
	Yet you have no time to look up and see what title we have to give our Japanese architects.
	No, that has to be done in the database.
	I don't do that.
	Oh, you have your people for the database?
	Somebody has to run the database program, and that means they have to pull all the numbers out, and then they're going to do that, but they didn't.
	They've got to feed the hamsters.
	They've got to feed the hamsters.
	Somebody didn't do it.
	What's the rush?
	Wait a minute.
	Somebody didn't...
	Grand Blanc, Michigan, 6969.
	Somebody that doesn't want her name mentioned, his name mentioned, or somebody's name mentioned, Odenton, Maryland, 6969.
	Sir Jason Stephenson lost wages in Nevada.
	Sir Zog and Elwood...
	Oh, that's it.
	That's our 6969.
	6969, dudes!
	Sir Jason wanted to call himself out as a douchebag.
	Okay.
	No problem.
	Sir Zog in Elwood, Illinois, 693.
	Gregory Lawrence with an O, which is interesting.
	Cortland, Illinois, 6933.
	Why don't we get 6933?
	Oh, it says, being a techno expert like many No Agenda producers, I need to look at my P-subnet today for something at work.
	I mean, it happens all the time.
	Imagine my surprise when up comes 6933-69255.
	I knew this was a signal.
	Time to donate.
	I think donating your internal subnet IP address qualifies as pretty damn awesome.
	It's pretty funny.
	Yeah.
	Joan Dottifray, our St.
	Joan, Dame Joan, Morgantown, your old stomping grounds, West Virginia, 61.
	Very long note.
	She wanted to let me know that she felt bad for missing my birthday.
	Yeah, as she should.
	But she says she's always behind in her listening.
	Marcos Murayama Nagasaki in Lima.
	Wow.
	Peru.
	I just started a new job and they gave me a locker to put my stuff in.
	It's the magic number 33 locker.
	I'll give you a little...
	So, are you a ball boy for the Mets?
	The Mets?
	I don't know.
	Magic number 3-3 locker.
	Well, the Lima Letts.
	Oh, maybe.
	I don't know.
	Maybe they have lockers.
	I have no idea what the working conditions are.
	Heather Simkin in Henley-on-Thames, 5513.
	It's lovely, yeah.
	She has a birthday coming up.
	Brandon Savoy in Port Orchard, Washington, 50.
	Mike Westerfield, Sir Mike to you, 50.
	And finally, Dan Greb in Lansdale, Pennsylvania, 50.
	That went by pretty quick.
	Yeah, it wasn't a lot.
	But we did have some good big donors up at the top.
	So I think we've evened it out.
	I want to remind people again to go to Dvorak.org slash NA. And we didn't get any checks.
	We had checks that came in that didn't get included.
	Partly my fault.
	And they'll be on Thursday's show.
	So if anyone sent anything in with notes or anything like that, we'll read them then.
	Yeah.
	There's a couple.
	What was I going to say?
	Oh yeah, we have...
	I think this is the flip side of the donation we got from...
	Who was it?
	I think his girlfriend...
	Well, here it is.
	Joe Wagner says, My fiancé and I are regular listeners...
	And I myself am a knight.
	Today she was working from home, left for 90 minutes to get her hair done and do some shopping at Target.
	When she came home, the lock had been picked to our place.
	$10,000 worth of portable electronics and all of my firearms were stolen.
	That's a transfer, by the way.
	Eerily enough, the house was left in perfect condition.
	My passport, cash, credit cards, plenty of other valuables, electronics were ignored.
	If you could send some renter's insurance karma our way in Emeryville, we could really use it right now, not feeling at all safe, knowing round two could be around the corner next time we leave the house.
	You know what he needs?
	Home automation.
	How about some cameras?
	Yeah, well, it was part of home automation.
	Hey, good news, we've got a couple of birthdays.
	As we just read in a rather short list today, Heather Simkin congratulates herself, celebrated yesterday.
	And Sir AJ's son, Nate, congratulations to him.
	It is his birthday today.
	Happy birthday from Uncle John and Uncle Adam!
	I didn't mean to swipe the sword at your kid there.
	Sorry.
	That was a mistake.
	And I do want to remind you, we have a Thursday show coming up.
	It is episode 505.
	Always fun to look at the numerology.
	Dvorak.org slash NA. And two nights we need to take care of today, so if you can...
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	Ah, there you go.
	Todd Brink, Tim Saunders, step forward please, both of you...
	Welcome to the Elite Club of the No Agenda Knights.
	Todd had no special moniker, but Tim certainly did, so hereby I pronounce the Sir Papsmear!
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	And being producers of the best podcast in the universe.
	And truly has been great to see a lot of the feedback coming in.
	I just want to run through a couple of notes, if you don't mind.
	No, go.
	Jean-Claude.
	I like to talk about home automation, though.
	Wait, are you on Leo's show today?
	Yeah, I am.
	You should just bring it up there.
	Yeah, I should.
	Yeah.
	I bet you'll get him going forever.
	Maybe.
	He might be a home automation guy.
	Alright, so a lot on the giant voice system, strangely enough.
	First of all, Google is now in partnership with Nixie, whatever that is, and they're going to start allowing safety notifications from local authorities to appear at the top of search results.
	So the giant voice system does not just exist in the real world, also on the cyber landscapes, where you will be seeing the, you know, it's kind of like the, do you have those signs in California with like, Amber Alert?
	Old crazy kook walking around.
	Get him?
	Yeah, they have him in Washington State.
	Kids kidnapped.
	Lots of information in the show notes from producer Rory sent a whole list of links about who makes these things.
	They're also known as mass notification systems, but I like it when it's called giant voice system.
	But the best email I got on the Giant Voice System was from Greg S. Knight of the NoHo Squirrels.
	And he said, you know, you are missing out on a great opportunity.
	And he sent me six different scripts, little lines I should read for our Giant Voice System, which our producers are going to put in place.
	So, of course, everyone's going to get their own speaker system.
	And with a horn and going to put it up on your roof or on a pole somewhere and slap on some solar panels to make it look like the real deal.
	And we have to provide the jingles, the alerts.
	Would you like me to read them?
	Yes, please do.
	And then people should get the recorders going.
	Yeah, get your recorders going.
	John, I know you can't hear it, but I have the giant voice now on.
	Oh, wait a minute.
	Hold on.
	If you read it with the echo in place, won't it just exaggerate it?
	Won't it be natural to the actual usage?
	Yeah, but it sounds better on the show.
	It sounds better on the show if we do it that way.
	Here we go.
	Attention!
	Please stay indoors.
	Chemtrails are in effect.
	Attention!
	Do not drink the water.
	There is fluoride in your cup.
	Attention!
	Attention!
	9-11 was an inside job and WTC7 won't go away.
	This is like the no agenda version.
	There is a flu outbreak.
	Please stand by for the no agenda swine flu minute.
	Check this one out.
	laughs If you are interested...
	God.
	If you are interested...
	Jeez, you can't even do this simple chore.
	Because it's so ridiculous.
	If you are interested in advertising on the joint voice system, please go to dvorak.org.
	yeah okay okay that's it I think I've had enough of the giant voice.
	You have a little more.
	There's a food shortage.
	Please stay in your homes.
	Wait for your ration of mac and cheese by Ayn Rand.
	So anyway, if I thought that would be so awesome if we just had that.
	From North Korea, from the South Korean propaganda front lines, email from one of our producers who shall remain nameless.
	Hey guys!
	I think he means Heil guys.
	Not sure to make of this, but not entirely surprising.
	My wife has a friend stationed in South Korea.
	Says that he doesn't know what South Korea...
	He says he doesn't know what South Korea has U.S. news covering, but what's shown up on our news is nothing like what is really happening.
	He says U.S. media has actually asked for trucks, jets, etc.
	to fly overhead or drive by during their shoots, and the bases are complying.
	It makes for great TV. He also says that routine movements as such are being attended by the media so that they can show something happening and pass it off.
	It's like those phony baloney riot things that we do.
	Yes!
	These were where a bunch of guys would gather in a spot and hang around, and RT would come by and film them, and then they'd go home.
	Yeah, this is fantastic.
	It's just a public take.
	Yeah, so apparently whenever there's a live show, they've got a producer with a script, you know, he's like...
	Okay, alright, and action!
	Fly over!
	Fly over!
	I want more jets!
	Fly over!
	You know that's exactly what's happening.
	Wow.
	But this is why we have the best podcast in the universe, because we have producers worldwide, and we take their information.
	Instead of fusing it to Buffalo, the listener.
	Yeah.
	Of course, everything is all ready and good to go because we're ready for the nukes to launch.
	The U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is on his way to Tokyo for the final leg of his tour of the Far East.
	He's left China, having secured an agreement to work together to reduce the mounting tension over North Korea.
	He'll be in Tokyo as they come flying over.
	My theory is they'll find a warhead that didn't go off a dud Warhead nonetheless.
	And then Brolf had Bonky Moon on.
	This was...
	Brolf is so sexed up.
	He has such a hard-on about having...
	Just being on CNN, he thinks that he is the window to the world.
	Like, everyone watches Brolf Witzer.
	Because Brolf is the, I mean, I cut it down to like a minute, of him and Ban Ki-moon.
	CNN exclusive, the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon making a direct appeal, a direct appeal to North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un in his native language.
	It happened during my interview with Ban Ki-moon.
	Listen to this.
	I cut here.
	They're watching you in Pyongyang right now on CNN. How does he know that?
	Brolf really thinks that Kim Jong-un is sitting there watching...
	Oh, it gets worse.
	...international.
	If you have a chance to speak directly right now to Kim Jong-un, you can make a statement, make a request from him.
	What would you say to him?
	I was like, could you play Sympathy for the Devil?
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	What kind of request are we talking about?
	Look at that camera right over there.
	Speak to Kim Jong-un in Korean.
	So I think what's going on here is Monkey Moon, you know, he still has his SAG card, but he needs a little direction on set because he gets a little forgetful.
	And so Brawl was like, look into that camera there.
	Speak, Monkey Boy.
	Speak in Korean.
	Can you believe the lunacy of this, John?
	This is the Secretary General of the United Nations who has now been convinced by Brolf Witzer to speak into the camera because apparently Kim Jong-un is...
	He's a huge fan of Brolf.
	He is a huge fan.
	Because, yeah, I guess, you know, Brolf signed a...
	Well, Brolf was...
	He did take a trip there.
	So maybe he, you know, left some autographed pictures, you know, some 8x10 glossies.
	Where did Rolf go there?
	That was a while ago.
	He keeps hyping about it.
	Yeah, it was a couple of years ago.
	All right, so he gets Kim Jong-un, I mean Kim Jong-un, well, same guy, whatever, his cousin, Ban Ki-moon, to this other actor to communicate to him, and then Rolf is going to, like, laud this over his colleagues.
	And this goes on forever, by the way.
	And so then he brings Christiana Annapur on, you know, in a try box.
	Along with Fareed Zakaria.
	And I cut out the whole, you know, because they're actually now talking about, you know, what Dempsey said and about the missiles and not the missiles.
	But Brolf was having none of that because this is all about Brolf.
	By plane or by boat, he does not believe that they have the ability to put it on any missiles right now.
	But they're perhaps working on that.
	And Brolf was going, oh, shut up, woman!
	Shut up!
	Shut up!
	Get back to me!
	In order to deter the United States.
	Wolf?
	Fareed, and I think this new DIA assessment, it is pretty chilling, but let's get back a little bit to what Ban Ki-moon told me.
	Yeah, that's really chilling, but let's get back to me for a second.
	Just getting back to me.
	He would be willing to go to North Korea and speak directly with Kim Jong-un.
	And then when I asked him to speak in Korean to the North Korean leader, you heard what he had to say.
	I am Bronf.
	I have the power over all of these idiots.
	He made that direct appeal.
	I suspect that kind of gesture is precisely what the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, would like to see to get that kind of respect, if you will, despite the provocative steps he's taken in recent days.
	Rolf made Ban Ki-moon respect Kim Jong-un.
	Made him respect him.
	Respect him.
	Unbelievable.
	It's like, wow!
	These people just have...
	Anyway, so here's the real problem.
	This is John F. Kerry.
	That's how he signs his name, by the way.
	JFK. John F. Kerry.
	Basically laying down the law.
	Welcome back to Starting Point, everyone.
	North Korea will not be accepted as a nuclear power.
	That comment from Secretary of State John Kerry at a news conference in Seoul, South Korea, just a short while ago this morning.
	It comes as the North is poised for a missile launch, and classified intelligence reveals Pyongyang may be capable of delivering a nuclear warhead.
	Classified.
	It's also classified.
	It's also secret, this big script of yours.
	But the one I like the most...
	So what do you think the F stands for?
	Without looking, what does the F stand for in John F. Kerry?
	Well, it can't be Fitzgerald, because that would just be too freaky.
	So I'm going to think it's Francine.
	Forbes.
	Oh, yeah, I knew that, actually.
	Forbes.
	John Forbes.
	Because he's related to the Forbes family.
	He could be.
	Yeah, he is.
	No, I remember looking that up.
	Ugh, I'm a douche.
	That head is so big.
	Well, it's not like that, but it's a big horse head.
	Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
	All right, so this is my favorite part of what we're doing.
	And this is where you know something cool is going to happen.
	...that's highly visible at Pearl Harbor has been deployed, apparently to monitor the North's military activity.
	The Navy confirms the X-band mobile radar system set sail late last month.
	Nicknamed the Gulf Ball, it is the world's most powerful mobile radar system.
	The Pentagon reportedly deployed it to monitor North Korea, which has made numerous military threats in recent weeks.
	Another Pearl Harbor-based warship will be headed to the region tomorrow.
	So this is the SBX-1 X-band radar system.
	This thing is badass.
	It does look like a giant golf ball on a big drilling platform.
	This is what they use to influence harp-based storms with.
	This is kind of the ground radar for HAARP. And this is...
	I'm thinking bad weather ahead for somebody.
	Somebody...
	Probably...
	I mean, so North Korea doesn't really have a shore.
	I guess maybe they got a little bit of the peninsula up there on the Russian side.
	Because I guess the 38th parallel kind of runs from China through the peninsula.
	So maybe between Vladivostok and the coast there.
	It's not a great...
	Let's put it this way.
	Kim Jong-un shouldn't be wearing his bathing suit.
	Yeah, they have a huge coast.
	On the east coast, right?
	They have both.
	They have a west coast on the Gulf of West Korea, and then they have a huge coastline that runs all the way up from the DMZ and all the way up to Russia.
	It's actually quite long.
	It's the length of the country.
	That's what I said.
	But I thought they didn't have one on the West Coast.
	No, they have a West Coast one, too.
	Let me take a look.
	They've got a lot of water around them.
	You want to have some fun?
	This is the place.
	Oh, yeah.
	But the problem is it'll do the same damage in South Korea.
	Yeah, no.
	Well, it'll screw up the Chinese.
	I think the place to do it is the East Coast.
	Because you've got the whole peninsula there all the way from...
	Yeah, then you've got to screw up South Korea, too.
	From Udok.
	It's no good.
	No, no, no, no, no.
	Come on.
	By the way, doesn't it look like Florida?
	Come on.
	These guys look like Florida.
	In fact, I'm going to say Superstorm Sandy was just a test.
	And Pyongyang is about where Orlando sits.
	Which is where they can put Disney World.
	It's so sad.
	They've got to get this out of the way.
	We've got to move on this.
	We can't just sit around with this stupid crap going on.
	We've got to reunite these countries, put the Disneyland in there, and just go have some fun.
	I mean, this place has got to be fantastic.
	It's untouched.
	And the story is getting boring.
	Yeah, the story is totally dull.
	Forget it.
	How long do they think they can keep this going?
	I don't know.
	We're getting sick of it on our show, and we like this kind of thing.
	I do have one kind of an oddball clip since you want oddball stuff.
	No, I want the truth and nothing but the truth.
	Well, this is the truth.
	You were mentioning journalists a little while ago and some of the things they do to phony up...
	Well, not just journalists, but the media, period.
	So I think once in a while somebody gets a hold of the PBS people because I think there's a lack of respect.
	And so they get home and they give him a bullshit story.
	And I'm going to play this cloning tree story.
	Now you have to remember, I don't want to go on to ask Adam or anything, but I don't know, but most people know, how do you propagate fruit trees?
	You take cuttings, this is what grapes do, you take cuttings from the trees that exist, and you stick them in the ground and they root and you have another tree.
	You don't take seeds from From a peach and plant the seed and expect to get the same tree.
	It's just not going to happen.
	Is that true?
	I had no idea.
	Oh, okay.
	Well, now you know.
	Now, first of all, a peach has a pit.
	It doesn't have seeds.
	No, the pit is a seed.
	Yeah, but you made it sound like there was a whole bunch of seeds in a peach.
	No, no, no.
	It's a single seed.
	I mean, an apricot has a pit, and you drop that thing in the ground.
	Okay, well, hold on.
	So Johnny Appleseed, when he went out and just dropped Appleseed, that didn't grow the trees?
	That's not how the apple tree grows?
	You can grow a tree from a seed, and I suppose Johnny Appleseed could do that, but you don't have a type of tree.
	You can't get the same tree from every one of those seeds.
	They're all different because they're breeding and God knows what.
	Most of them don't bear fruit.
	I have, for example, in my backyard probably about 20 plum seedlings that are the result of my biting into a plum and then eating it and then chucking the seed out into the yard and then...
	Along with the tires and stuff in the back there?
	Yeah, and the thing up on blocks.
	I can just see you go, hey, what's this?
	What's this in my plum?
	So they don't give you any plums.
	They just blossom.
	But anyway, so the way you propagate grapes, for example, you take a Cabernet and you stick another piece in the ground.
	That's the way it's done.
	It's called cloning.
	Yes.
	Well, apparently somebody at PBS doesn't have any clue about this, including the whole staff.
	Wait, let me guess.
	And they thought that this was genetically modified?
	I guess.
	I'm not sure.
	Spring in Washington and the cherry blossoms have arrived.
	Hari Sreenivasan tells us how scientists are working to keep the trees blooming.
	More than a million visitors flock to Washington, D.C. each spring to view the cherry trees.
	But the stock of original trees is rapidly depleting.
	On Science Wednesday, learn about how the efforts are not just to replace the trees, but to clone them.
	All that and more is on our website, newshour.pbs.org.
	Science!
	Hey, so, that's funny.
	So NPR has Science Friday, but PBS has Science Wednesday?
	Yeah.
	What is this?
	I don't know.
	These people, they don't know anything about, apparently, nothing about science with that report.
	Science!
	Science!
	We're going to clone the cherry trees!
	That's how you do it, you idiots!
	We have to clone them.
	Oh, wow.
	You know, this would be great for our Wednesday Science Hour.
	Science!
	Science Wednesday, everybody.
	Now, I have one more little...
	I got another clip where I want to run.
	Yeah, well, I'd love to hear you.
	This is a rant.
	This is a rant.
	Now, this is Art Laffer, who is the famous...
	The Laffer curve.
	He's a very famous economist.
	I have no idea who that is.
	Well, you can look him up on the Wikipedia.
	Laffer, L-A-F-F-E-R. Okay.
	How tall is he?
	He doesn't say.
	4'2".
	So, anyway, they...
	He was in discussions.
	They were talking on one of these Fox business or something about Buffett, who's always still making noise about taxing the rich.
	Got to tax him more.
	And so this is his little rant, which brings up my point once again.
	Uh...
	Do I just play the clip and then we hear what your point is?
	Shared sacrifices, they say.
	Warren Buffett and Obama this week.
	Yeah, no, it's the wealth tax.
	That's what it's got to be.
	Budget, he's saying if you're making more than a million bucks, you've got to pay at least 30% in taxes.
	The Buffett rule.
	It seems reasonable that those of us with more should pay more.
	Well, we should pay more.
	I mean, if you make ten times as much as I do, John, I think it's perfectly right that you would pay ten times as much in taxes as I do.
	I mean, that to me seems perfectly, obviously fair.
	But when you look at Warren Buffett, what really is unfair is he paid about six one-hundredths of one percent of his income in taxes.
	That's not fair.
	Aww.
	And that doesn't even include his not paying capital gains because he owns Berkshire Hathaway and his company buys and sells the stocks.
	He doesn't do it personally.
	And he's also got an insurance company who, as we all know, has huge tax advantages.
	I mean, Warren Buffett is the master.
	He's the king of tax circumvention.
	And to have him tell other people to pay more in taxes is truly obnoxious and hypocritical.
	But because he pays so little, it seems reasonable that he should say, change these rules, make me pay more.
	Yes, he does should.
	But he didn't.
	I watched every time he talked about it, and he never once suggested taxing unrealized capital gains.
	He never once suggested limiting the amount of deductions on gifts to your family's 501c3s.
	He never once mentioned any of that stuff.
	I mean, for obvious reasons, that's what would have gotten him.
	It is hypocritical.
	And, you know, it's like Howard Metzenbaum of Ohio, who was the father of the estate tax, the death tax.
	Six months before he died, he moved to Florida so he wouldn't have to pay the Ohio estate tax.
	John Kerry in Massachusetts, buying his yacht and harboring it in Rhode Island.
	I mean, on and on it goes.
	Their behavior is not bad, John.
	It's their words, it's their policies, it's their recommendations and influence on Others that's so hypocritical and disgusting.
	Oh, very nice.
	I like that.
	That's true.
	I got no problem with, you know...
	But John Kerry doesn't need a yacht.
	He just needs to put his head in the water.
	Hop on, kids!
	So here's the point.
	They never bring it up, by the way.
	These guys will bring up these arguments about hypocrisy and all the rest.
	They never bring up the obvious.
	The elephant in the room.
	Wealth tax.
	We need a wealth tax.
	And by the way, you take anyone out there who says, oh God, I can't have a wealth tax because I got $2 million worth of properties.
	And go ahead and do the calculation.
	Look at what a wealth tax may...
	Just look at the arguments about it and take a look at the numbers and do a calculation on your own.
	You have to have over $5 to $10 million before the wealth tax itself starts to...
	Amount to more than you're normally paying in taxes.
	That means that actual wealth.
	You have $10 million in actual wealth.
	It's going to start ratcheting.
	And when you get to the levels of billions, yeah, you're going to be paying a lot.
	But you want to be paying a lot, according to Buffett and Gates.
	He wants to pay more, so let him pay more by instituting a wealth tax.
	Why do you get so upset about this?
	I don't know.
	I just love getting upset about it.
	To me, this is what the semi-automatic weapons are for.
	Hey, pay up!
	Pay up!
	Alright, I got a couple things I was tracking.
	So CNBC has now officially added the Mt.
	Gox Bitcoin rate to its ticker.
	Oh, that's disgusting.
	But it's gotten worse.
	So now they're talking about it.
	Now it just shows you how compromised this whole deal is.
	So I'm very, very, very happy to play a couple of clips.
	This is Kudlow, and he has a genius idea.
	You know, Robert Kotz, a lot of conservatives have argued for years that we should have competing currencies, okay?
	That the money the Fed prints is not reliable.
	So here's this Bitcoin as a competing currency.
	Do you think it has a shelf life?
	I really think it does, Larry.
	And it's not just about conservatives versus liberals.
	A lot of people in their 20s, they really like this Bitcoin.
	It's taking on a lot of support because...
	Hey, those youngsters, they really like that Bitcoin.
	People find you don't have to deal with banks.
	It's online currency.
	So I think the younger generation is really going to start to click with this more.
	Okay, so I thank Jared for this to work.
	All right, what is he going to say?
	What is he going to say?
	What insane thing is he going to say?
	I'm not even going to take a guess.
	Bitcoins should be linked to gold.
	That would give them value and permanency, and that would give them legal tender.
	The states can give it legal tender.
	What do you think about that?
	What a great idea, Larry Kudlow, you moron.
	All right, the New York Times, of course, the former BBC guy is now running it.
	And the New York Times sucks so bad with all their Hillary blowjobs that no one wants to read them anymore.
	So now they've got to do...
	Those hip kids, those 20-somethings who love the Bitcoins, they love video.
	Let's do a video about Bitcoin.
	Now we hear that the Winklevoss twins, who are known from Facebook as Olympic rowers, are now investing in Bitcoins.
	You know when the Winklevoss twins...
	Olympic rowers are investing in Bitcoin.
	You know something smelly.
	First of all, tell the world, tell me, what's a Bitcoin?
	What's a Bitcoin?
	First of all, tell me, what's a Bitcoin?
	I think probably the best way to describe it is as an invisible, virtual form of currency.
	Invisible, virtual form of currency.
	This is the New York Times.
	Worse than Beanie Babies.
	At least you had a little Beanie Baby.
	You could look at it.
	You could toss it around.
	Miss Mickey wasn't around.
	I explained the Beanie Bobby phenomenon.
	Remember, that was crazy.
	It was completely out of control.
	They had their own TV show where they were auctioning them off on the fly.
	It was a 10 cent doll and they were going for what?
	$500?
	Oh, some of them were going into thousands.
	This is a very unique Beanie Boobie.
	It was created by programmers in 2009.
	I love this guy explaining it to the New York Times.
	And a very sort of complicated set of algorithms that create new bitcoins.
	And there's a finite number.
	And what's been so surprising about this is that people have actually been willing to pay real money for them.
	How much are they worth?
	At this point, there's something like 11 million outstanding bitcoins.
	And as of last count, that was worth about $1.5 billion.
	All right, so that's just going on.
	Just on and on with lunacy.
	And now that these guys are in the game...
	It's crazy.
	It's crazy.
	And by the way, the BTC to dollar ratio is 91 right now.
	So listen to the spread, John.
	The buy, 91.
	The sell, 99.
	If this happens in a stock or in an interbank rate, it's like, you know...
	The Armageddon is here.
	You can't have a 10% spread.
	You can in penny stocks.
	Yeah, but this is not a penny.
	This is $91.
	It's completely, completely insane.
	Not quite as insane, though, as the conversation about climate change.
	So we have a new shill.
	Actually, she's been a shill for a while.
	Gina McCarthy, who sounds like she's from Boston, and she is being grilled...
	In the Senate to become the new Lisa Jackson, the new EPA Administrator.
	Okay, hold on a second.
	What's her name?
	Gina McCarthy.
	Why do you want to know?
	I want to be looking at her picture as I listen to her speak.
	Not sexy.
	Well, I'm assuming that.
	Yeah.
	Oh my goodness.
	Yes, exactly.
	Let's hear what she has to say about her important agenda.
	As we continue our efforts to address improved air quality, we must also, as the President has made clear, take steps to address climate change.
	Climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our generation, and facing that challenge with increased focus and commitment is perhaps the greatest obligation we have to future generations.
	But I am convinced that we are up to that task.
	Common sense steps can be taken to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases while opening up markets for emerging technologies and creating new jobs.
	This administration has already, through our greenhouse gas and fuel economy standards, set us on a path to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 6 billion metric tons just by doubling the efficiency of cars and other light-duty vehicles by 2025, which will save consumers an average of $8,000 at the pump and reduce our reliance on foreign oil by 12 billion barrels.
	Well, at least she can read the script when it's right in front of her.
	That $8,000 thing is such bull crap.
	Yeah, in 2025...
	I keep hearing it all the time.
	2025, one Bitcoin will be $8,000.
	Who's going to give a crap about $8,000 in 2025?
	2025.
	Jeez, Louise.
	All right, so then we had the...
	Oh, wait.
	Are you going to stay on climate change?
	Because I do want to play a clip.
	I have two more.
	I have two more.
	Okay, go.
	I'll let you finish it up, okay?
	All right.
	Here I have...
	So, in this conversation, we have Bernie Sanders, the independent from Vermont, who is all over, like, you know, we have got to do something about climate change.
	Either you're for us or you're for the terrorists.
	And Inhofe...
	Inhofe, Inhofe, Inhofe, Inhofe, Inhofe, Inhofe.
	He's pretty much on the It's a Hoax.
	And they had a fun little tete-a-tete, which was just hilarious.
	Let me just conclude, and I'm glad that my colleague Senator Inhofe is here, because Jim Inhofe and I are good friends, although we have rather strong disagreements on the issue of global warming.
	And by the way, this is why I love watching C-SPAN, because this is the kind of entertainment, top-quality, unwritable entertainment you get.
	And what Senator Inhofe has written and talked about is his belief that global warming is one of the major hoaxes ever perpetrated on the American people, that it's a hoax pushed by people like Al Gore, the United Nations, and the Hollywood elite.
	I think that is a fair quote.
	From Senator Inhofe.
	Is that roughly right, Senator Inhofe?
	Yes, I'd add to that list, moveon.org, George Soros, Michael Moore, and a few others.
	All right, there we go.
	And everyone's just laughing.
	It's fantastic.
	So that is the issue.
	That is exactly what the issue is.
	Do we agree with Senator Inhofe that global warming is a hoax and that we do not want the federal government The EPA, the Department of Energy, to address that issue because it is a quote-unquote hoax, according to Senator Enough and others?
	Or do we believe and agree with the overwhelming majority of scientists who tell us that global warming is the most serious planetary crisis that we face and that we must act boldly and aggressively to protect the future of this planet?
	That is what the issue is.
	And that is why I'm supporting Gina McCarthy.
	Okay, very good.
	Very, very lovely.
	But then over at the XL Pipeline...
	We had Barton, a Republican from Texas, and he had...
	We've talked about how it's not really going to be...
	Remember when there was peak oil, John?
	That thing that everyone used to talk about?
	Oh, peak oil.
	Oh, we're going to run out of oil.
	Oh, no more oil.
	Oh, peak oil.
	We're all going to die.
	We'll have no peak oil.
	Oh, peak oil, peak oil, peak oil, peak oil.
	Remember that?
	Oh, yeah.
	And what we used to say, well, if you believe in peak oil, then there's no problem.
	We're going to run out of oil.
	End of story.
	We'll have nothing to burn!
	Global warming is solved!
	And people are like, uh...
	You're not playing fair.
	We haven't pulled that out recently.
	No, because peak oil went away when the president started saying we got all this oil and gas.
	Because, you know, it turns out we didn't run out.
	Remember, we were on the downslope Oh, yeah.
	You have all those charts, kind of like Netanyahu's bomb with his fuse.
	Oh, we're running down.
	Listen, we're going to run out.
	It's going to get really...
	By the way, gas now, three bucks in Texas.
	So that was all a lie, obviously.
	But Barton takes it once.
	I've got to use this one next time.
	Okay.
	I don't think it's a secret that I'm a proponent and supporter of the Keystone Pipeline, so it's somewhat redundant for me to ask too many questions.
	I would point out, though, that people like me that support hydrocarbon development don't deny that the climate is changing.
	I think you could have an honest difference opinion on what's causing that change without automatically being either all in that it's all because of mankind or it's all just natural.
	I think there is a divergence of evidence.
	I would point out that if you're a believer in the Bible, one would have to say the Great Flood is an example of climate change.
	I'm with him.
	Yeah, I'd like to see you do that one.
	I think I can pull that one off.
	I'm going to wait until my Berkeley friend is back.
	I'm going to try it on her.
	I think she actually said, you do believe in evolution, don't you?
	Oh, she did?
	Yeah.
	I would have called her out on that one.
	Talk about condescending.
	Yeah.
	That's very condescending.
	She's a perfectly fine woman.
	She sounds like a dipshit.
	No, no, no.
	The problem is these people get hypnotized by the tele-screen.
	This is what's happening.
	And they've become dipshits.
	We literally have drugs now called Soma.
	People don't even see the irony of that.
	And they're taking it.
	So I have this clip, which was Michael Crichton on the Charlie Rose show.
	It's a little long.
	It's not that long.
	He's the Jurassic Park guy.
	Yeah, and he's dead.
	Oh, he's dead?
	Oh, he died a number of years ago.
	Really?
	Yes.
	I didn't know that.
	His last major book was State of Fear, which was about global climate change.
	Huh.
	And if you listen to him on this, you can see what the problem is.
	Because I've known two or three people and people who know people that are in climate sciences.
	Oh, you know people who know people?
	I know people who know people.
	Hey, so I should stop sending fan letters then, I guess.
	That's kind of dumb.
	And so one of the...
	And so one of the things that keeps cropping up is that, you know, I think this is bull crap, but you can't say anything because you get...
	The amount of negative input is more than any normal person can take.
	So you get, essentially, by people like Joey Behar, you get shouted down if you have any skepticism whatsoever.
	And Crichton, in this interview, mentions that this was the worst experience he's ever had in his life.
	Science!
	He was shouted down for writing a piece of fiction.
	Here we go.
	...about myself.
	I liked it, actually.
	Yeah, thank you.
	And I'm trying to do another one.
	And I'm actually, I mean, it sounds perverse to many people, but I'm proud of having done the book about global warming.
	I mean, if you listen to this conversation, you have to be thinking...
	I knew everybody was going to be against me, and I thought, this is what I believe, and I'm sorry, and I said it.
	And I did it, and I've taken just flack for it.
	But you know what?
	It is what I believe.
	And you're proud that you did it because you went into rough seas.
	Very rough seas.
	And nasty, and personal, and brutal, and unfair, and mean.
	Well, what was nasty, brutal, and unfair, and mean?
	Oh, Charlie, this is...
	I mean, you want to look at what people say.
	For example, when I started talking about genetics, people said, well, you know, you might get some criticism for this.
	Well, I haven't gotten any criticism for genetics, let me tell you.
	I know what criticism is.
	But...
	I've had the experience of having had books in print for 40 years.
	So I can go back and look at the stand that I took in favor of abortion when I was a medical student in Boston in 1967, six years before Roe v.
	Wade, and I can look at that and go, was I right or not?
	And I think, damn it, I was right.
	And I'm imagining when I wrote this book, when I wrote The State of Fear, I was imagining, what's it going to look like in 40 years?
	I think I'm going to come out just fine.
	So, of course, I didn't read State of Fear, but what was in it?
	It's just a hoax.
	Okay, I get it.
	The science is in!
	Science!
	Science!
	Yeah.
	Yeah, well, you know what?
	He thinks he got it bad.
	He should see my email, Crichton.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	He's dead.
	Yeah, he should read my email.
	Oh, my God.
	You should have a special spot, like, once a month where Adam reads his email.
	Oh, well, should I just...
	Pull one up.
	Let me pull one up.
	And, okay.
	All right.
	I can...
	I just got to go to my scent box because that's where all the good stuff is.
	Because you respond to these people.
	Well, you know what?
	When people are...
	When they're producers of the show...
	Okay, so here is...
	Title...
	Where's the subject line here?
	Nice play, ass clown.
	That always gets my attention.
	Adam.
	Chad is not a producer of the show.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Your take on Gabrielle Giffords is obscene.
	Take a bullet to your brain and come back better than she has.
	Then you can say she's gaming us.
	My fucking God, you have truly shown your true colors.
	You are a waste of water.
	The NA show is all for show and dollars.
	Congratulations, though.
	You and JCD, by his letting you take this position, have truly taken taking to the max.
	And then he has his signature.
	Think green.
	Don't print unless it's absolutely necessary.
	Oh, he's got one of those little disclaimer at the bottom of his email saying, don't print this?
	Yeah.
	And so, yeah, that one just went on and on and on and on and on.
	You know, it's stuff like that.
	And I read that, and these are very smart people who, I guess he came in later into the game.
	That's why I wrote down, like, we've got to re-explain the Gabrielle Giffords thing, because when you really look at what happened and what we saw, which was not a head wound gushing.
	In fact, they didn't even have, not even a compress on her head when they were rolling her into the ambulance, which is kind of weird for someone whose head supposedly was blown open.
	And then all these actors and all this stuff.
	No, you have to get that old show.
	We have to dig up what that show was and then refer people to it.
	But I realize that is also a flaw in the program.
	A flaw is that we forget that we already...
	Yeah, not everybody who's listening to this show right now has listened to 500 plus shows and they know all the memes and all the backgrounds and the basis for the memes.
	I haven't even listened to all these shows.
	I haven't.
	Rarely.
	No, I mean, even when I'm doing it, I'm not really paying attention.
	Well, I've noticed that, but that's good.
	All right.
	You want to, let's see, we can go out with, I got two things to...
	Another mail.
	You like that.
	You don't get those emails.
	See, this is no fun.
	I usually get my, the way people attack me is usually on some public forum.
	I'm convinced that you just don't read your email.
	Oh, no, I read and answer all my emails.
	Everyone knows that.
	Bull crap.
	No.
	Let's see if I can find another one for you.
	It is the internet era, so you have to take these with a grain of salt.
	What do I have here?
	Oh, yeah, that was the carjacking.
	I already did the carjacking one, right?
	Yeah, the guy called you out for saying there's no crime in Texas.
	Yeah, I already did that one.
	That was pretty tame.
	I've already learned to ignore the chat room unless there's a whole bunch of exclamation marks like, oh, we must have really messed something up.
	Because people are just snarky.
	You just gave them a code now.
	Now you're going to see these exclamation marks all over the chat.
	But here's what I find in 9 out of 10 cases.
	And that's why I respond.
	Honestly, it is a...
	I do it as a public service because I know that someone's really angry and they call me names.
	In fact, this guy also...
	I should read you the other email he sent me.
	And he's probably a very smart guy.
	Not necessarily.
	No, I think he is.
	Hold on a second.
	I doubt it.
	I got to look at it under subject.
	I love squirrel mail.
	It's pretty good.
	Here we go.
	Same guy.
	Subject pig.
	Adam, you are a pig.
	No offense intended to real pigs.
	Until you acknowledge that your position regarding Gabrielle Gifford's speech shortcomings is hardware determined rather than otherwise, take a bullet to your brain and come back better than she has.
	So, 9 out of 10 cases, I will reply to these, not because I really am that hurt, although it is annoying, but because I know that I'll go back and I won't yell at people and say, hey man, that was kind of unnecessary and here's how I think about it.
	And people will usually, 9 out of 10 cases, they'll wind up apologizing.
	Yeah, you know, I really shouldn't have said that, and I was just confused, and my wife left me, and my dog died, and I haven't paid the rent in two months.
	And people literally take their huge anger and baggage and throw it onto me.
	And I have just learned to accept it, and I'm here for you.
	I'm here for you when you need that friend, that friend who talks to you through your earbuds and you think he's the guy, he's the problem.
	It's his fault.
	It's his fault.
	You can come to me.
	You can come to me and you can yell at me and I will reach out with the other hand and embrace you.
	I think when I'm doing that speech you need to play a little more kind of like in a D minor the whole time.
	D minor is not going to...
	Oh, okay.
	I don't have to get the right...
	I got a D minor here, but I don't...
	Hey, is the Confederate flag...
	Is that considered racist?
	Yes.
	I didn't know that.
	Is that something of late?
	Because remember when we had the Dukes of Hazzard?
	You had the General League?
	Since the 60s.
	No, come on.
	So you're telling me the Dukes of Hazzard was one big racist show?
	Yeah.
	Really?
	Really?
	By the standards of the people who think the flag is racist.
	But is that flag really racist?
	Is flying...
	It's a flag.
	What the fuck is racist going to be?
	Hey, you flag, stop calling me honky!
	So...
	When did this become...
	I did not know that wearing a Confederate flag or just having...
	Sure, wearing a Confederate flag, total racist.
	Really?
	Yes.
	Geez, I'm glad I found out.
	I had no idea.
	What, you have a Confederate flag shirt that you're going to wear to the farmer's market on the Sunday?
	Yeah, I got a Lynyrd Skynyrd shirt.
	Well, there you go.
	I didn't know this.
	So when did this become racist?
	I think it became racist after a bunch of battles in the South Carolina legislature about the Confederate flag.
	I think it all stems from action in South Carolina and Georgia.
	And then it became kind of synonymous with redneck racist.
	I don't know.
	It just evolved.
	It was an evolution.
	It wasn't a revolution when it came to this.
	It just evolved into a racist thing.
	Well, I stand corrected.
	There was this whole thing.
	LL Cool J and Brad Paisley, the country guy, they did a song together.
	And there's this whole thing on the New York Times New Music Podcast about the Confederate flag being racist.
	I'm like...
	I don't know.
	I remember it used to be kind of cool, but it was never considered racist.
	I don't know.
	This must be something from the late 80s or something.
	I'd have to do a little research and I could probably track it.
	Could you do that?
	I'm interested to see when this happened, when it became racist.
	Okay.
	I'll look into it over the next few weeks.
	I can give you a real good explanation if I just do a little research.
	Hmm.
	Interesting.
	I live in the Berkeley area.
	I know all these things.
	I can tell it's racist.
	I'm going to talk to some hummers up there, and I'm sure they can tell you all about it.
	And then I think the only thing that I think is just interesting we need to play...
	So Tommy Vitor used to be the national security spokeshole for Obama.
	And he's a young guy.
	And this guy, if he's 30, then he can't be a day over 30.
	Very young guy.
	And he's on...
	God knows what he's on.
	Oh, the lead with Jake Tapper.
	The lead with Jake Tapper on CNN. And if you want to know how the Obama administration thinks about killing people with drones, just listen to this guy.
	He started his own political consultancy now.
	So I guess he's going to become a lobbyist.
	The speechwriter, they teamed up and they've created this lobbying firm, which is the whole reason he's on Jake Tapper, to promote his connections to the White House.
	But I was just listening to him like, this sounds exactly like the way they actually think inside the White House.
	And its assertions that civilian casualties have been exceedingly rare.
	You saw this report from McClatchy.
	What's your response?
	It seems to me that a lot of The coverage from the McClatchy report was Obama administration is not telling the truth about who we're targeting, who our drones are targeting.
	I mean, I think the Obama administration has actually talked a lot about this.
	They target al-Qaeda and associated forces across the globe.
	And the good thing about a drone versus other tools is that you can be incredibly precise.
	A drone can loiter on a target for days, if not weeks, to make sure that women and children are not in the area.
	Do you hear this?
	Do you hear this?
	Weeks.
	Bull crap.
	Weeks.
	It can loiter for weeks, and it's incredibly precise.
	A drone can use a far more precise munition than, say, an F-16.
	But in these examples I looked at, they aren't always.
	It says that they're not always sure who they're killing.
	No, it's a war.
	I mean, there's a war.
	Ah, there it is.
	It's a war.
	That's the excuse.
	Hold on a second.
	Give me a link to the declaration of war.
	And Pakistan, no less.
	No, no.
	It's a war on Al-Qaeda.
	They want to kill America.
	I still want to see a declaration of war.
	Yeah, of course not.
	But this is how they think.
	It's a war.
	I mean, there's a war in Afghanistan.
	There's a global war against Al-Qaeda.
	A global war against Al-Qaeda.
	And, you know, it's a horrific consequence of war.
	The innocent people sometimes die.
	What I do know, having been in the White House, having been in these discussions, is that the president cares deeply about limiting civilian casualties and doing everything possible.
	Listen to him.
	We're doing everything possible to make sure we're targeting them precisely.
	This is what I do know, having been in the White House.
	Oops, what the hell happened there?
	Whoa.
	Whoa.
	We're doing everything possible to make sure we're precisely targeting Al-Qaeda and these other extremist groups that are trying to kill Americans.
	They're trying to kill Americans, John!
	Shut up, slave!
	We don't hear much from him about this decision, but...
	I mean, is he wrestling with the same ethical issues that the rest of us see when we look at the story of the innocent people who are dying, whether or not it's turning people against the U.S. instead of for the U.S.? Absolutely.
	Look, I've talked to him directly about these issues.
	He cares deeply about the moral and ethical underpinnings of these issues.
	Sure.
	So do his top staffers.
	And it's something they talk about constantly at the White House to make sure that, you know, the question is not, can we legally take a drone strike?
	It's, should we?
	Is this the right policy?
	Is this a tool we're using as a last resort?
	So they don't even care about the legalities.
	It's just, should we do it now or later?
	Those are the sorts of things they wrestle with and the White House will continue to do.
	You know, you heard from him in the State of the Union about some of these issues.
	I think you'll hear a lot more over the next four years because these are important legacy issues.
	Oh, it's a legacy issue.
	He'll be known as the drone star president.
	Drone Obama.
	And that's for his boring, hile everybody speeches and for his killing of innocents.
	And then Bachman, I just gotta play this because she's right on with the questions.
	Did you see her questioning of John O. Brennan?
	No.
	First of all, she looks...
	She's persona non grata now, so she can do whatever she wants.
	Yeah, and I love her demeanor in this.
	And I have to say, she looks extremely cute.
	Close up.
	She looks really good.
	Just close up.
	She's total milfy.
	We know she's three foot nine and everything, but I just love this back and forth between her because she knows what happens.
	She knows what happened in Benghazi.
	She knows what's going on with the drones.
	And even the DIA clapper interjects and says something really stupid, which we didn't know.
	Just listen to this.
	That's a good question of Director Brennan.
	When the White House conducted their armed drone strikes in North Africa, particularly in eastern Libya, prior to the attack on our mission in Benghazi on 911 last year, did the White House notify the State Department of the armed drone strikes before they were made?
	So this is very interesting.
	This is something we have not heard before.
	And she sits on the Intelligence Committee.
	She says, when the White House struck with their drones, did they tell the State Department?
	So she's basically saying the White House did this.
	And she's asking Brennan, who at the time, of course, was in charge of this as the advisor to the White House, if they told the State Department this was taking place.
	Brennan is not going to have any of it.
	For those of you who've forgotten, Brennan is now running the CIA. Armed drone strikes in Libya?
	What?
	I'm unknowing of such, and I would defer to the White House to address your question.
	I'm unknowing of such.
	Were there any armed drone strikes in Northern Africa that were made by the White House?
	White House doesn't have a drone capability, responsibility, whatever, so...
	No, no, they don't have a direct capability responsibility.
	Did they have any directives toward having armed drone strikes in North Africa?
	Again, I don't know what it is specifically referring to, but again, I would defer to the White House on whatever happened at that time.
	Isn't this great?
	I just love how you can say, you know, you should go talk to those guys, not to me.
	Well, you can speak to the capability.
	Here's a clap.
	The UAVs that were flying over Libya were military and were unarmed.
	And this is another thing we've never known, even though we've heard that they had drones flying around for hours with video, and there's tons of videotape of the raping of Stevens and killing, subsequent killing, all due to the insanity of this administration in trying to get the president re-elected under false pretense.
	And so were there any armed drone strikes that were made in North Africa prior to 9-1-1?
	In Libya?
	I'm asking in North Africa, I'm asking Director Brennan, were there any armed drone strikes that were made by the United States in North Africa prior to 9-1-1?
	Well, we usually don't talk about any type of specific actions, but again, I don't know what you could be referencing.
	Wow.
	Yeah.
	I mean, you can't write this.
	I need somebody to say something.
	She's just giving up.
	She's done.
	Yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	No, she's way done.
	But I like that she kind of gave it up.
	She told us that there was an armed drone strike.
	I like that.
	She slipped it in there.
	That'll be handy.
	There'll be some future reference, and you and I will go, oh.
	Okay.
	Yeah, it's basically code.
	And then I guess we have the big Margaret Thatcher burial scene.
	I was hoping the guy would get through the whole show, the last show and the next show without bringing this up.
	No, I just...
	I was just going to say pay attention to everyone who's there.
	This is going to be a star-studded celebrity gathering.
	Yeah, even though none of them ever met the woman.
	No, but they're all part of the Pedo Bear Network.
	Because, you know, Margaret Thatcher...
	Just Google Margaret Thatcher Jimmy Savile and sit back and watch the fun.
	Her whole cabinet is what started all of this.
	These people are just sick.
	Even though, you know, without Thatcher's policies, Britain would have been crap a long time ago.
	The end result is the same.
	It's crap.
	Looks like a few good things here.
	There she is with Saville and he's got a big 99 thing going on.
	99?
	Oh, that was 99 kids killed this year.
	I don't know.
	What was that?
	I don't know.
	That's just the creepiest guy.
	You know, he looks like, I'm looking at the picture of him with his big cigar in his mouth.
	Can you go Google?
	Here's the Google thing I did that I got this picture.
	Margaret Thatcher, Jimmy Savile with the one L, and then hit images.
	And there's a picture of him in the second row with this big cigar in his mouth.
	Hold on, I'm hitting images.
	Play along, everybody.
	Yeah, play along.
	Yeah, with the really big cigar?
	Yeah, John Kerry.
	Okay.
	Come on, doesn't he look like John Kerry?
	Yeah, you're right.
	He's got the same big oblong head.
	He looks like John Kerry.
	If John Kerry was a comic, it would look like this.
	Have you ever seen John Kerry and Jimmy Savile in the same picture?
	Let's check.
	John, remember to F. John F. Kerry.
	No, I do not believe we have any images of the two of them in the same picture.
	Well, there you have it.
	I think we've stumbled onto another interesting tidbit.
	Yeah, it's an interesting tidbit, all right.
	Hey, we went over.
	We shouldn't be doing this.
	I know.
	You're the one that had all these extra things.
	I thought we were going to finish up.
	Well, I'm sorry.
	Got me distracted and I'm looking up images.
	We need to talk about, on Thursday, we need to talk about the new tax evasion mission in Euroland, along with the Dutch banks, man.
	This is no joke.
	Their online banking keeps failing, people's accounts keep going to zero, and overdrafts, and all kinds of crazy stuff.
	Well, it sounds like a test.
	Yeah, well, it's been going on for a while.
	It is definitely concerning.
	And hopefully we'll have a version of the CISPA bill, which is all being done in secret, so I can't really comment on it until I can see it.
	And when that happens, we'll have a complete breakdown, of course.
	So please remember, Dvorak.org slash NA. We need as much help as we can get to continue on our quest.
	And until next week, coming to you from the Travis Heights height out in the morning, everybody, my name's Adam Curry.
	I'm from northern Silicon Valley, where I'm reading tweets.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	We'll talk to you again on Thursday right here on No Agenda.
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