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Sept. 22, 2013 - No Agenda
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In full acceptance of the voices in my head, back in the Travis Heights hideout in the capital of the drone star state, Austin Tejas.
In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
And from northern Silicon Valley, where I'm casually reading arts and leisure in the New York Times, I'm John C. Dvorak.
Oh, man.
Okay, I'm completely nasal today.
No?
Yeah, no, believe me, I am.
Well, to you.
Yeah, no.
If you didn't have said anything, no one would have noticed.
Oh, no.
You still sound like that other Adam.
Someone's getting cornholed today.
Sounds like a recipe for success to me.
I sound so much like him.
You have no idea.
That's not true.
Not at all.
I don't sound like him at all.
That's unfair, actually, you're saying these things.
No, so we came back last night.
Big delay on the flight.
Oh, great.
I hate it when this happens.
And this is so typical.
You get a scheduled airline, like American Airlines, which we flew.
And those are the ones that always wind up being late because they have something happen in the morning and then it all starts to stack up.
Whereas if you can just take a JetBlue or a Southwest or one of these things that just goes back and forth, back and forth all day, there's never really a problem with those.
Right.
It's true.
Something happens in Chicago at 1 o'clock in the afternoon and then it just cascades over the whole country and everything's late.
And then, of course, the flight attendants are all pissy.
Because, you know, even though the flight crew changes, the flight attendants are the same for that whole day.
They start at 8 in the morning and then, you know, they're...
Yeah, now they have to essentially work overtime.
Yeah.
And they don't get paid, I'm sure, or that maybe they do, but they don't like it.
No.
So it took quite a lot of effort to get our flight attendant kind of to be nice.
Him.
Him?
Yeah.
Oh yeah, those guys get a little...
I threw some gay on and it worked out.
Did you bat your eyes?
No, but I let them know I was a part-time member of the Academy and everything works out.
I'm coming out of Hollywood for a reason.
Okay, so we're coming out of Hollywood and we only had a day and a half since we last did the show.
And what a douchebag town.
So, of course, the Emmys are.
Are they tonight?
The Emmys or are they Monday night?
Tonight, I think, right?
Oh, they could be tonight.
Yeah, thanks for reminding me.
Yeah, I think they're tonight.
I do have hot news next Sunday night.
Or I think it may even be Saturday night, which would be good because it's pre-show.
Miss World!
Yay!
It's the season.
When it rains, it pours.
Miss World.
Okay.
So it's Emmys and all the hotels are all filled up with hospitality suites with goodie bags.
What a scam this is.
I had a board meeting over at Mevio and they have this spot now in the W Hotel.
So we had a board meeting in the W Hotel.
Right on the same floor where they had one of these hospitality suites.
And you just see one Celebrity and all B and C's, I'll point out.
One after another with their stylist or their handler or whatever.
Oh yeah, the B's and C's are the worst because they have this...
Bogus entourage they can't afford.
But the stuff they get, it's like, because the restroom, you had to go kind of through the security to get into the restroom, you know, the security for the guests, for the hospitality suites.
Oh, my goodness.
It's like there's wristwatches, shoes, you know, complete bags.
I mean, anything you want.
It's a bonanza for these people.
And I went, hey, I'm Adam Curry.
And they went, Yeah.
So what?
I want to wash.
Where's your red ribbon?
Yeah, exactly.
Where's your wristband?
Where's your green ribbon?
What ribbon do you have?
I don't see any ribbons on you.
Where's your wristband, slave?
Where's your wristband so we can give you gadget bag number six?
But even the hotel we were in, which has a little pool kind of in a courtyard, all of a sudden we're out by the pool.
We're just hanging after the show on Thursday.
And one of my friends was coming over who was from Holland, and he's been there for a couple weeks now with like, I don't know, DJ Tricky, DJ Chucky.
Do you know any of these guys?
DJ Poet.
Yeah, there's a lot of these DJs.
By the way, these DJs, they're like $75,000 for an hour of whatever they do.
Some of these DJs get paid lots of money.
Oh my goodness.
It just doesn't seem that difficult to me, but okay.
Well, so he comes over and we're hanging by the pool and all of a sudden the staff just starts cleaning up chairs around us.
How about this for an idea?
You're an old DJ from the olden days.
Yeah, hey!
Why don't you throw your name in the hat and be this celebrity guest DJ for 70 grand at one of these shindigs in Hollywood.
You get the hobnob with the upper class elites.
You know, I could actually do it.
I know you could.
I'm stunned that you haven't thought of this.
No, no, I've thought of it, but then I'm like, oh, really?
Oh, come on.
You don't start until like one in the morning.
And then you gotta have a patter.
Well, no, it's not even a pattern.
You can literally pre-mix stuff and then just pretend like you're doing all this crazy stuff on the wheels of steel.
Gee, I don't think that's ever been done.
No, but you can do that.
But the problem is, it's always going to be like a Saturday night, and then the show will suck.
Seriously, I'd rather do this and be poor.
I'm just saying, you know, that you would be doing this on this party night after the Emmys, which is Sunday night.
Yeah, I could.
And there would be a whole bunch of 40-year-olds who would be like, yeah, hell yeah, Adam Kirk.
I remember him.
He still has hair.
So what you want to do is get this huge wig.
So as long as you don't die, I won't do it.
But if you kick the bucket.
No, I'm telling you, you should still do the Sunday night gig.
With a huge wig.
You got to wear a big wig.
Really big poofy hair.
This is a total outrageous wig.
I'm writing this down.
This is not a bad idea, actually.
This could supplement my income a little bit.
I don't think I can get the 75 grand, but I can certainly get, you know...
You can get 25 for sure.
2,500?
You can get 25 grand.
You can get 25 grand for doing a DJ set?
Absolutely.
But you gotta use the wig.
In the morning!
Alright.
Let's get down to some real business here.
And then you won't be complaining so much.
You only can do it a couple times a year.
I mean, it's not like you're gonna be making a living.
What are you talking about?
That's like half a yearly nut right there.
I know, but I'm just saying, it's not like you're going crazy.
I wanted to point out that it was no more than two and a half weeks ago that on this very program, sometimes known as...
The best podcast in the universe!
I said, our producers in Kenya are raising flags...
Are saying something's going on, there's something up with Kenya, there's weirdness happening, the International Criminal Court is involved, and then in succession, within two and a half weeks, they discover this huge underground water supply, which basically saves the region, and then this mall massacre in Nairobi.
The producers of this program are starting to freak me out a little bit.
Well, they're everywhere.
It's a network.
It's a good network.
It's a good network for people who want to keep up with things.
Yes, hello.
Police scrambled for cover as gunshots rang out at an upmarket shopping mall in Nairobi.
Inside, the mall, popular with Westerners, was under siege.
Witnesses said a group of men armed with automatic weapons stormed the shopping center and shouted that anybody who was a Muslim could leave.
They then started spraying gunfire and lobbing grenades into crowds.
These graphic pictures of the aftermath show elderly people, women, and children among the dead.
Mall worker Sujar Singh said police were no match for the gunman.
I saw a guy by the main entrance.
I think he was shot.
I went to help him.
This guy shot at me.
He missed me.
Terrified shoppers took cover for hours, trying to make their escape any way they could, even crawling through air vents.
The U.S. State Department said American citizens were among the wounded and condemned the attack as a senseless act of violence.
As people sprinted out of the shopping center and emergency crews tended to wounded survivors, Kenyan soldiers rushed in to flush out the militants.
And more than 150 wounded is already too late.
There's a couple of things going on with this particular shooting.
First, let me give you an email that came in early this morning from producer Vin, who's on the ground there.
He says, I'm just going to paraphrase, he's been sending a lot of reports.
The Kenyan government...
Has been under-reporting the casualties.
And this now, this morning, turns out to be true as these terrorists, as we are about to find out, are still in the mall holding people hostage.
He says there's been a warning for expats to avoid this mall for over two years.
Prime target, he says, Israeli-owned, frequented by affluent Kenyans and expats.
He's even been there himself a couple of times.
He says it was a very nice mall.
Al-Shabaab now is taking credit for it on Twitter.
This is the level we've come to.
Al-Shabaab claims credit for killing people on Twitter.
The Al-Qaeda-linked Somali militant group Al-Shabaab has claimed responsibility for the massacre.
The group said it repeatedly warned Kenya to pull back its troops out of Somalia or face severe consequences.
And Jim, tonight they warned more attacks are on the way.
Here is one of the Wes Clark Seven popping into the story, which is incredibly convenient to have Somalia all of a sudden be a part of the picture.
So we have Al-Qaeda being brought in.
This is in Kenya.
This is a Bill Clinton initiative country.
This is Bill's hometown.
So you know that there's going to be all kinds of help that has to be sent there, particularly if we have an issue with Somalia, which, you know, that's kind of an interesting place, and we've just had all of this Somali aid, and we're trying to help people out, sending troops in there.
And then, by coincidence, this is very bothersome if you see the pictures and hear the story of New York Times photographer Tyler Hicks, who not only just happened to be in the neighborhood, Yeah, by coincidence.
But he went in while this was taking place.
I get more chilling details for you on that terror attack at a mall in Kenya.
Earlier today, I talked to a New York Times photojournalist who witnessed that carnage.
Yeah, his name is Tyler Hicks, and actually he went into the mall after the shooting as people were filing out.
He started there taking pictures of the scene.
Listen to this conversation.
I happened to be close by to Westgate Mall when the violence broke out yesterday.
And as I approached the mall, I could see lots of people running away.
And as I got closer, it was clear that there were people who had been shot.
I saw people who had been shot in the stomach and the leg.
Dozens of injuries streaming out among just terrified civilians.
I continued to move carefully along the front of the mall where I saw three men who'd been killed just at the front entrance of the mall, one of them still inside the car that he'd been driving, and continued to proceed up into an upper parking garage where I, again, saw more people streaming out.
There were the police in the army who were Working there, we're desperately trying to get people evacuated out of the building.
I saw this as an opportunity to get inside, to go against the flow of the people and into the mall and to see what...
I don't know if you've seen these pictures that he's taken, but these are award-winning photographs, as he was conveniently, just coincidentally, in the neighborhood, and then went right past the police and the army, upstream, past the people coming out into the building as this is taking place.
Quite an amazing story, I think.
Yeah, it's peculiar.
Most of the photos, in fact, I'm looking at today's New York Times, which has one of its pictures on the front page.
Most of the photos are online.
The paper itself didn't run that many of them, which I found peculiar, too.
I think it was CBS or one of the networks that had most of them.
Huh.
Yeah, I know.
It's weird.
Here's something that Vin told me that is actually, this is a handy tip, and you might want to write this one down.
This is, you know, at No Agenda, we give you all kinds of tips.
For instance, if you just say you can't raise your arms, you don't have to go through the slave scanner.
I might want to point out that worked again like a charm.
Here's a handy tip.
If Al-Shabaab is going to kill you in a shopping mall, they may ask you if you know who the Prophet Muhammad's mother is.
Apparently, they let Muslims go.
They did not shoot any Muslims in the mall.
And this is kind of like the Second World War, where the Yanks would try and catch undercover Nazis.
Right, by asking if they knew the Yankees score.
Or who won the World Series.
Right, which, of course, you'd be shot in the head.
I'd be like, Boston Red Sox?
Seriously.
I always didn't say the Boston Patriots.
So here's the tip.
Someone asked the name of the Prophet Muhammad's mother if they did not know the answer.
The answer is Beverly?
Close.
If they did not know the answer, they were shot in the head.
The answer is Amina.
Amina, of course.
A-M-I-N-A-H, in case you need to spell it.
They're going to look at me and go like, he's no Muslim.
Just get that guy anyway.
Now, simultaneously, and this is kind of where our other producer, who was unnamed, was telling me about, the Kenyan deputy president was in The Hague.
He's been at this international criminal court trial under suspicion of, I think it's like I know, killing some people in 2007.
And he said, hey, you know, I'll be back for this trial, but I gotta go because there's stuff going on in the country.
And they said, okay.
So the trial has been adjourned.
Yeah, and the guy is just like, here it is.
Lawyers for Deputy President William Ruto asked judges to adjourn his international criminal court trial to allow him to return home to deal with an armed attack on a Nairobi shopping mall.
Wow.
Yeah, and it's like, okay.
I can see where that would be related, as predicted by our very own producers.
Yeah.
So there's a lot of things going on here.
You have to question Al-Qaeda in general.
And this doesn't seem like a typical Al-Qaeda attack where they usually like to blow things up.
Right.
And simultaneously, usually two or three places at the same time.
Right.
So now they have hostages and they're in.
And now there's also Israeli advisors are on the scene.
So there's forces behind this that clearly are not being brought to the foreground.
Although, of course, if you listen to the narrative now on CNN on their fantastic New Day morning show, it's obvious what's going to be happening here in the United States.
You can probably just cross it right off the red book, John.
But is there any practical way, you know, to keep terrorists out of a mall at the whole point is, you know, open access for customers.
Come on in and spend some time with us.
What practically can you do?
Yes, Christie, but actually...
This is a professor, by the way, who is an expert in homeland security.
Malls have limited accesses.
They may have several of them, but they're not infinite the way a downtown area is.
Therefore, access control can be There can be the sense of watching people coming in who don't fit the profile of usual customers.
You don't look like a shopper!
Come over here, I'll tase you!
But the thing to remember is that as a result of this, these horrific issues, these horrific pictures that the New York Times photographer has produced, it's going to create some pressure on Mall security in this country as well to make sure that there are evacuation procedures that have been tested,
that there are lockdown procedures, that there is coordination with police and other special resources to keep the places safe.
I just love how we're using it to train the slaves here.
This is fantastic.
We'll have a couple of events.
Yeah, we'll have lockdown.
We'll have scanners.
The funny thing is that today the Oakland A's are playing the Minnesota Twins.
I didn't get a clip.
I was thinking about it, but I didn't know you were going to go in this direction.
I should have.
And this will be the first day at the baseball stadium, the O.Co Park, also known as the Alameda County Coliseum.
That they are going to institute a full Security ring around the park.
Security ring, no less.
With scanners and bank checks and magnetometers and the whole thing.
Really?
And here's my question.
Because they warned everybody they're going to do that sometime this year.
Yeah.
And then they're going to continue to do it.
And my question is, when's the last time somebody had a shootout in a baseball park?
I mean, what indication is there?
Do they know something we don't know?
I mean, what's the deal?
It's just bull crap.
It's just another way to sell more machines.
Yeah, yeah.
And inconvenience the public.
Yes.
Of course, we have somebody listening say, well, the public was highly inconvenienced at the mall in Kenya.
Yeah.
Now, so, you know, we don't know enough.
It's very early on in this, and, of course, the great thing is that we have all of these producers who are on the scene who already predicted this was going to happen.
And please don't go tweeting, you know, no agenda, nailed it again!
Yeah, Nairobi!
Hashtag dead!
No, don't do that, because...
People are like getting on my shit for that.
We're orchestrating it.
Or like we're cheerleaders.
Yeah, really.
I get the biggest kick out of the guys who root.
Oh, yeah!
100 dead!
Woo!
Woo!
So this is not what you want to do.
But it's obvious that we'll be able to dig in.
It should go, sadly, no agenda was right again.
Yeah, some people do that.
Some people do that.
That's better.
But anyway, we'll certainly be bringing you more information as it comes in because we have boots on the ground and that's going to be a hell of a lot better probably than what you get.
What I'm amazed at is when you see these pictures...
We've had shootings in multiple places, multiple mass shootings.
There's never a New York Times journalist around to get some awesome shots that are published everywhere.
This is some amazing stuff he's got.
People shot up and bleeding and just gory.
We didn't see that with any of our recent events.
We saw the explosions in Boston, but that's about it.
Yeah, the New York Times reporter just happens to be there.
Just happens to be there.
Well, his beat is Africa.
This is the guy who was also in Libya and who...
He probably shops a lot.
This is the guy who...
He may be legit.
He may be just the guy who likes to shop.
He likes to shop.
No, he was also the guy who was in Libya, and remember the journalist who died of, I think, an asthma attack or something, and he dragged him across the border?
That's this guy.
Right, that's that guy.
That's Tyler Hicks.
Yeah, well, Hicks may be tipped off.
It's possible.
It's very possible.
And, you know, you hang around the mall there in...
But, you know, if your beat is Africa, you know, it's one thing to be like Northern Africa, like Libya, but then it's like, oh, yeah, and I'm also...
I happen to be in Nairobi...
I mean, you know what I'm saying?
It's like...
Well, that's a hell of a beat, because that's a hellhole.
Yeah, it's also, it's quite a commute.
We passed through Nairobi once on a flight to South Africa.
The family.
Oh, I didn't know you'd ever been there.
I didn't know you'd ever been there.
Yeah, of course.
But it was only a stopover, and everyone got robbed in the airport.
And you too?
You got robbed?
The whole family?
Well, actually, I had a bunch of...
This was back in the olden days.
Did you have Buzzkill Jr.
on the leash?
No, no, he was too old for that.
Oh, okay.
Hey, wait, but dude, you're never too old for the leash, okay?
Well, in your case.
So...
You go into the airport lounge to wait for your flight to take off, and a bunch of Nairobi police and soldiers came in and started robbing people.
And you really can't have any much resort, you know, and they'd find people that were, I don't know, they never picked us out.
So, but they were robbing people.
They would go up to a guy and they'd point a gun at him and take his money.
Wow.
And, okay.
Alright.
And then the next guy, the next guy, and...
What's the Prophet Muhammad's mom's name?
It wasn't that way.
It was just a straight up robbery.
They didn't play any games.
Okay.
And so then everyone went back, you know, the people bitching and moaning at the airport.
They could do nothing about it.
And then anything that was left inside the plane was stolen.
Wow.
And then the guys would say, oh, you've got to take everything with you.
And then funny enough, this is when I'm working at Tech TV, and there was one of my guests.
Really?
With Kevin Rose and Leo Laporte?
Gosh, those were great days, John.
So one of my guests on the Silicon Spin shows, I knew personally for a while, and she told me that she went to Nairobi, and I said, oh, did you get robbed?
And she said, yeah.
They stole her camcorder, which is something apparently worth a two-year salary for a typical citizen.
And she said that she had to tell...
She says she had to tell her husband that she lost it because it was so embarrassing because she was apparently warned that, you know, you have to keep everything on your person or you just get stolen.
Terrible place.
Terrible place.
And by the way, the airport?
Crap hole.
You know, I lived in Uganda for three years.
That must have been a thrill.
I don't remember that much.
We've talked about the time that I was in Libya and where my parents thought I'd been stolen.
I don't remember that.
You probably did, but it's one of these things.
You know me.
Yeah, so we were on our way to Kampala, and I was, I don't know, 10 months old or something, and they landed in Libya for refueling, at Tripoli, I think, and my parents got off the plane.
You know, there were guys around there with machine guns, and everyone had to get off the plane, but I was sleeping, so they left me in...
By the way, thanks, Mom and Dad.
They left...
Hey, a leash would have been a little cooler, so they leave me in the plane sleeping, and it's very controlled, like, get up, get up, get up, and then they're out, and then I guess it's one of these older, must have been a DC, I don't know what it was, maybe it was a DC-3 for all I know.
1964, possible.
Or 65, I guess.
So they're ushered back on the plane, and then the plane's taken off, and they put me to sleep.
They left me sleeping like two or three rows back.
And then the plane's taken off, and my mom goes to check on me, and the door's closed, and it's just a bundle of blankets.
There's no Adam.
But it's like the door's not opening, and so now my mom's like freaking out.
She's like, no, we're not.
We're going.
Screw your kid.
And they take off.
Well, what had happened is I had woken up, I guess, and I had climbed out of my seat and I had crawled underneath all the seats all the way into the back row.
But they did find me eventually.
But there you go.
I could almost do an e-book about that story.
You can barely remember this story.
You're a baby.
It's a giblet, everybody.
Hey, by the way, John, the newsletter.
That you sent out yesterday.
Best art ever.
This needs to be a t-shirt.
What, the Balmer picture?
No, the Balmer picture can be on the back, but the mac and cheese fragrance, the smell of poverty, what is it?
This is a great piece of art.
If you haven't seen this...
Did you get it off the art generator, you must have?
Yeah, no, we saw it before as a potential for a show, and I think because of the content, I can look at it up and see which other piece beat it.
But I always thought the piece had evergreen potential, so I used it in the newsletter.
No, it's great.
Let me see who the artist was.
Essentially, it's a Chanel No.
5 bottle.
And it says on it, Mac and Cheese, and then the subtitle on the bottle is, was it The Fragrance of Poverty?
It's beautiful!
Yes, Thorin did it.
Oh, of course, of course.
Yeah, this is the one where we had, we ended up using the fake National Enquirer looking Oh, okay.
So this is only a couple episodes ago.
Mad Men Asad's Chemical Weapons.
Right, right, right, right.
This one was in episode 547.
And it came in second, but yeah.
Yeah, so you can find that at NoahArtGenerator.com.
It's a great piece of art.
And Mickey was freaking out.
She's like, I gotta tweet this.
This is the best ever.
It needs to be a t-shirt.
It needs to be a good t-shirt.
Can we get Eric to do that?
I don't know.
Eric actually jobs out his t-shirt.
Eric apparently...
Do you just want the bottle?
Or do you want the whole No Agenda Buzzkill crackpot thing?
Well, we should have our branding somewhere.
It doesn't have to be the whole thing like that.
But it needs our branding.
It should have noagendashow.com or something somewhere on it.
It doesn't have to be...
Yeah, probably right underneath the bottle.
Yeah.
I hear Eric's living in a trailer.
He is?
Yeah.
No, here's the deal.
He's building two houses.
Let me tell you how this came to be.
So, you know, someone said, one of our knights sent kind of a pissed off email saying, you know, you give us no respect.
I've been a knight, but whenever I donate, you never say sir.
And I'm like, you know, and I know what happened is because we had this huge database problem and, you know, Eric's been, you know, I know he's busy, he's doing a lot of stuff and he has to rebuild this.
So I just forwarded him the email.
I said, is there any way we can do it?
And he says, you know, short answer, no, it'll take a couple months, which is totally cool.
So this is not a complaint at all.
I don't want him to take it the wrong way.
But he casually mentions, you know, it's a little tough living in the trailer.
I'm like, what?
It's pretty bad with the Dvorak family.
Yeah, we're all living in trailers.
Double wides?
So, no, he's living in, he's got, you know, he has his place, he's moving to Port Townsend, and he's building a house for his genetic dad and himself.
Genetic.
His genetic dad.
It's called fraternal.
Oh, is that the word?
So he's like, it's like an hour drive to go back and forth.
And so he bought this little trailer.
And so it's pretty funny, actually.
He's holed up in the trailer.
But he's had like three kids?
Yeah, that's another reason to be at the trailer.
Oh, it's just he's in the trailer by himself.
Yeah.
Oh, smart man.
Okay, I get it.
I get it.
I get it.
So he's in the trailer, and so he's out there, and he cooks over fire, and he's growing his beard, and he's got an AR-15, a special one.
Because there's some dog coyote that's a mix of some sort of a big breed of dogs and a coyote that has a pack of coyotes in the area.
So he's a prepper.
And he's trying to kill the damn thing.
The dude needs a ham radio license.
He needs to string up a dipole or something.
Then he'll be complete.
He needs a dive ball.
I'm actually surprised he hasn't got his ham license yet.
He can get it.
I mean, it's very easy to get it.
A tech license is very easy.
It's not hard at all.
Everyone should get one, by the way.
That's what I say, and that's what I said with floods in Colorado.
Get on the air and tell people where we are.
Everybody should have one.
I travel with my HT, with my handy talkie.
Wherever I go, you never know.
Particularly in Los Angeles, you never know.
So anyway, let me just get back to that about the douchebagginess of the Emmys and everything.
Everyone's pissed off.
The whole town is talking about it.
Because they're going to do...
They always have the dead segment when someone...
They look at the past year, all the people who died.
On these award shows?
Yeah, no, they have the dead segment.
They usually have somebody...
Right, but they're also doing an extended, separate dead segment.
It's not going to be on the air?
No, it's going to be on the air.
But there's now a bruja because Corey Monteith...
Is that his name?
The glee kid who OD'd on heroin?
Right, right, right.
So he's getting an extended tribute.
Why?
While Jack Klugman, and this is what Jack Klugman's kid is, so he died, you know, he was Quincy, and he just died recently.
He's a great actor.
He's in a lot of movies.
He's done movies, television shows.
A lot of TV shows.
So he gets like a little mention, like, eh, Jack died.
They won't even say it.
They'll just rotate his picture.
And meanwhile, the Cory the Glee kid gets a whole special extra montage.
Why?
To promote drugs was Miss Mickey's theory.
And look at what happens if you do drugs, kids.
You get extra special attention.
I don't know.
It makes no sense.
Oh, yeah, I can see people getting bent out of shape about it.
Yeah, yeah, so that's...
Well, there's this gay thing going on that may have something to do with it, too.
And the propaganda is thick and heavy, and I think this may be part of the...
This actually may be part of the Russian thing.
This was actually on this morning.
This is CBS Network.
They had a whole special on Cher, of all people, and she's just moaning about the fact that she can't get work.
And she says, well, I look too young to be old and I look too old to be young or something.
She had some complaint.
Of course, she had so much.
But play this clip in here.
Tell me this isn't propaganda.
She was approached recently about singing at the Winter Olympics in Russia.
Okay.
You can't cross that line.
Which line?
The gay line.
You just can't.
Russia just passed strict anti-gay laws.
Bullshit!
My gay following has kept me, in the old days, alive.
You know, when no one else came to see me.
I've had really bad times.
They've always been there.
Always.
Yeah, well, hey, join the club, sister.
That's who supports me.
Okay, so first of all, the Winter Olympics will be telecast on CBS, so this is, of course...
No, NBC. It says right here.
What?
I think it's CBS. No, it's NBC. There's never going to be CBS. CBS Winter Olympics.
I think you're wrong, John.
CBS, let me see.
Are you sure?
It's always NBC. They bought the Olympic stuff for the next weekend.
The Winter Olympics, too?
Well, okay.
Then I may be wrong.
Well, let me just find out.
Let's not let this slide.
Yeah, this is important stuff, people.
Wow.
NBCOlympics.com.
Okay, so in the day of the Winter Olympics?
Yes, it's NBC Olympics, 2014 NBC Olympics in Sochi, Russia.
Okay, I'm sorry.
Well, this was a slam, of course.
I mean, CBS. And by the way, all the stuff on NBC, they haven't really been, they've been kind of quiet about the whole thing.
They haven't been pushing the propaganda line.
That makes sense.
So yeah, first of all, this is a blatant lie.
This did come up, by the way, at a...
I had a meeting, and there was a lunch I was going to be at with Mickey, and it was one of our friends, a lovely lady, a lover husband.
He's a real radical leftist ex-hippie who's now a douchebag Hollywood lawyer.
But he's a great guy.
He always says he's just on hiatus, but he'll get back to being a radical once again.
It's really wealthy.
Very, very sweet people.
And they're coming out of the lunch.
I can see on Mickey's face, she's like, oh man, where were you?
I needed you.
Because the first thing is, alright, so now you're going to tell me that this is not true about the Russian gay laws?
I'm like, oh jeez.
And we're in the hotel lobby, I'm like, yeah, I can't...
It'll take a little more just to get into this with you, but...
So yeah, I think you're right.
This may be a gay propaganda thing.
Interesting.
Interesting angle on that.
I hadn't thought about that.
Interesting.
It's all just to highlight the Russians.
So there's a lot of kind of, you know, there's a couple of semi-gay stories.
There was this girl in, I have a clip of it, a girl who, and I believe there was a lot of cruelty involved in this, and it's kind of not a great story.
And maybe we should just reiterate, We are in a Cold War psychological warfare situation between the United States and Russia.
In particular, it is anything anti-Obama, anything anti-Putin.
Just as an example, Snowden is in Russia.
And there's a lot of stuff coming out directly targeted at our president.
And what's kind of sad is that the gay community is allowing themselves to be used for this stupid cockfight.
Yep.
I know.
In fact, as people who listen to the show regularly know, we've had people challenge the thesis, which is this is bullshit.
Yes, our gay crusader Brian.
The great gay crusader himself.
And he realized that Adam was right.
Adam actually read the law.
This came up.
I was at the EFF conference.
Confab on Thursday night.
This is the Electronic Frontier Foundation Whistleblower Awards?
It's actually...
It's called the Freedom Awards or the Pioneer Awards or something.
So we were nominated, clearly.
I wasn't nominated.
And I only went to the schmooze so I could see it.
A couple of interesting things that I got to...
I haven't seen Larry Lessig for a while.
I got to chat with him, but I got to...
Did you say hi?
You know, Larry and I have worked together on Creative Commons stuff.
Did he mention me at all?
Did he say, hey, how's Adam?
He doesn't even know we do a show.
Nobody there does.
There was one very attractive girl that was there, and she says, you do no agenda?
Oh, wait, we had hot chicks know us.
What was her name?
I can't remember her name offhand.
Yeah, right.
Why don't you look at the number she gave you, John?
Come on.
I had to question her about this because I was suspicious that she knew us at all.
But that's okay.
So I got to meet Daniel Ellsberg.
Okay.
All right.
Excellent.
I'm not a big celebrity hunters.
That's kind of cool.
But I thought it was interesting to meet him.
Daniel Ellesberg's here?
Where is he?
So I just barged right in and introduced myself.
Did you question him about that Bogative Drinking Club in New York that everyone's a member of?
The Laura Poitras, Glenn Greenwald, Freedom of the Press Foundation sponsored by Mother Jones?
No, I didn't, because it was impossible to hear him, A. In fact, I had to yell in his ear what my name was, and it was a noisy event.
Oh, that's too bad.
But I picked up a few interesting tidbits.
It was interesting.
There's a bunch of these little companies that are building these so-called journalism tools.
Let me write this down.
Journalism tools?
I ran into three of them.
Does it involve a pencil and a pad?
No, it involves rigging your iPhone up So as you're doing anything, it immediately gets transmitted out and off the iPhone so if somebody confiscates your phone, you don't lose all the data that you've collected.
But I just get the sense that it goes straight to the NSA, then gets edited.
Gets edited down.
And then we don't get that one picture.
Right.
And that's all anyone was talking about, by the way.
They're all freaked out about the NSA and their...
Talking about technological ways to beat the NSA. But are any of them considering the fact that it is the press that is doing this?
That it is a journalist who is releasing this consistently?
No.
In fact, when I brought up the, with one little group, I brought up the Russian gay thing, because they came up in the conversation, because it does, apparently, all those damned Russians.
And I brought it up, but I cut the chase with the argument, because I didn't want to have to go through, and I think this is the problem you had, it's too much of an explanation.
Right.
So, thank you.
We need a one-liner.
And by the way, a lot of people need this.
It's a scam to gouge Hollywood.
Oh, yeah.
That's the way to do it.
And they said, what?
And I said, here's the deal.
I said, this is bullcrap.
This is only about propagating the gay message to children.
And since all Hollywood movies kind of do that in one way or another, they're going to stick it to Hollywood and they're going to either charge them a lot of money to show their movies there or they're going to ban all the Hollywood stuff.
$31,000.
Yeah.
That immediately shuts down everything.
There's no more debate.
Because everyone buys that.
Excellent.
There you go.
Another no agenda tip.
Another tip.
Okay.
So let's just repeat the words.
It's a scam to rip off Hollywood?
Is that what it is?
Yeah, basically.
And the details, when you get in lower, if you do this as an individual, you get a slap on the wrist equivalent to jaywalking.
If you do it as a corporation, it's $31,000 per violation.
So that's how, and of course all movies that come out of Hollywood, they always want to have that PG rating, which is for kids.
Right.
13 and over.
They could find that in anything.
So I did get, there was one anecdote that was interesting.
Good work, by the way, John.
Did you hand out any discs?
I did.
I always hand out discs.
And did you have the discs in a plastic bag?
Were you walking around with a plastic bag like a lunatic?
No, they fit in my back pocket quite handily.
I just think it's a better look if you have a disheveled a little bit with a plastic bag.
Yeah, right.
That looks great.
With CDs.
It's the look I'm going for.
Hey, did I have one of my CDs yet?
Ellsberg's like, I can't hear you.
I can't hear you.
No wonder.
So Larry Lessig brought this story up, and it was kind of funny because at first I didn't get to talk to him because he had a bunch of well-wishers, a bunch of groupies.
Were they hot?
Hanging around him.
Oh, Larry!
And so he finally got away from the groupies, and so we were just standing around with people that actually know the guy.
And it was funny, because when he said, he just dropped into the conversation, he says, well, I had a meeting with the president.
Exactly.
And so everybody, because we all know him, just gave him shit for saying that.
Right.
Oh, that's funny.
I said, O'Reilly, what president?
Everyone else is hooting and hollering.
So he finally apologized.
That's great.
And so he had his little...
He said it wasn't with just him.
It was a little group of people and they were bitching and moaning about the NSA and some other things and how there needs to be better...
Way of blocking these kinds of things.
And anyway, they were asking for some sort of technical change.
And they talked about all these geniuses out there that can fix all these different kinds of problems.
And apparently the president, after listening to these guys, says, you know, you're right.
There's all these guys out there that could probably fix all these problems.
They're superstar nerds.
And he says, the problem is we can't get any of them a clearance.
We can't get them a security clearance.
Because they're all stoned.
Now, here's what J.C., Buzzkill Jr., who's today's birthday, he pointed out at the dinner table, he says, hey, that's a bowl, and I should have, if I just thought of this, I would have thrown it right back at him, because Larry would have been upset.
Right.
The president can give a security clearance to anybody he wants.
That's, yeah, I guess he can.
No, it's absolutely true.
And by the way, how did he get security clearance with his Coke background?
Who?
The president.
Yeah, well, there you have it.
He's the president.
John's like, what?
What did you hear about JC? What?
I never heard that.
I'm talking about the president.
Yeah, I don't know.
Exactly.
So anyway, it was an interesting event I took off before I couldn't...
Before it got annoying, yeah.
It doesn't take long.
But you didn't have to pay, right?
You got comp tickets?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay, good.
Because it was like 75 bucks or something.
I didn't want you to pay for it.
Well, I mean, come on.
They're covering it.
I'm reporting it to the world.
I'm reporting.
That's right.
Did you use your tools?
I had a camera.
The guy comes up there.
They had a press geek there.
It was pretty funny.
Hey, you know that camera?
Yeah.
Make sure you get permission.
Have them sign a release.
Yeah, don't worry.
It was not a good venue for taking photos.
No.
Well, before we go any further, John, I need to mention that today, by presidential proclamation, is National Prisoner of War Missing in Action Recognition Day.
Today is also National Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve Week, and, by presidential proclamation, National Historically Black Colleges and Universities Week.
Nice.
Yeah, known as HBCUs.
And on that note, I will say in the morning to you, John C. Dvorak.
Well, in the morning to you, Adam Curry.
Also in the morning to all the ships that see boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, and all the dames and knights out there, and there's plenty of them.
Yes, and there sure is, and even though we sometimes neglect to address them by their correct peerage names, we love you regardless.
And in the morning, everyone there in the chatroom, noagendastream.com, noagendachat.net, and in the morning to Mr.
Oil, who has not slept a wink since the arrival of his little human resource, and somehow he thinks it's going to get better.
No, it's not.
Just around the time that you're sleeping, then you're awake because you don't know where the kid is, and the kid's got your car.
Am I right or what, John?
No.
It depends on your kids and how you raise them.
I never had any of my kids steal a car.
I didn't say steal.
You give them the keys and then you're thinking about, oh my god, they're out there with the car.
They're doing drugs.
I don't know.
Your style is different than mine.
Yes, that would be correct.
Wouldn't it be boring if our style was the same?
Well, the show would suck.
So let's talk about...
Yes, let's thank our producers.
Let's thank a few executive producers for today's show, which was a really memorable show number I should have put in the newsletter, 550.
Yeah.
But of course...
Yeah, of course.
That's how good we are.
Yes, because we're very dumb when it comes to like...
But we did have two of the knights out there, Sir David Foley and Grant Sinor...
Who were awake and paying attention.
...believe that he may be a knight, should be a sir.
If he's not, he should be.
And they both came up with the 550 thing on their own and gave us a note.
Sir David Foley says in the morning, he's the Duke of Silicon Valley, Duke Sir David.
Enclosed find 500 for the best podcast in the universe.
He's a member of more clubs than anybody else that we know of.
Anyone who wants to go to 4kspecial.com and purchasing a 4K TV or digital aquarium gets a $50 discount using the promo code NA. And I'll match that discount with a $50 donation and no agenda.
I gotta tell you, this is another thing in Hollywood.
Everyone's talking about 4K TV. Kind of the way they were talking about 3D, only this 4K thing is something that can actually happen.
It actually will happen, right?
Yeah, 4K will happen.
Okay.
Everyone's talking about, hey man, we're shooting on 4K. I can't imagine what it costs to shoot on 4K. Nothing.
What do you mean nothing?
No, you can shoot 4K. All the cameras shoot 4K now.
It's not that big a deal.
It's just storage is a big deal.
Yeah, and transmission.
Yeah, but I'm just talking about people are recording on 4K. Yeah, you're right.
Most of the cameras are at the sensors on today's cameras.
Are 4Ks?
Yeah, 4Ks.
Many of them are beyond 4K already, and they just need to shoot a video onto them.
Well, thank you, Sir David Foley, Duke of Silicon Valley.
We really appreciate it.
I'd like to hear from him.
Maybe you can send us a note privately if anyone's taking advantage of that $50 discount.
I want to know if people are buying this stuff.
It must be.
I just want to know if our people are buying it.
Yeah.
Well, I would love to have a 4K TV. Yeah.
Well, he's not selling TVs.
He's got...
I don't know what he has.
He's got those boxes.
Maybe find a second.
Anyway, I feel right at home now like I never left Hollywood because this is how it works.
We got our executive producer credits in the opening credits of the show, and these are the people who make the program happen.
So this is great.
We are so Hollywood.
Grant Sinor, $550 in Leawood, Kansas, calling out John Helmuthead.
Helmuthead.
Helmuthead.
I think it's Helmuthead.
I think it's Helmuthead.
And Lance Fisherman.
I think he's a...
Lance Fisherman and Helmethead as supreme freeloading douchebags for turning me on to no agenda and never contributing.
No, that's not okay, man.
You've got to contribute.
If you turn someone on...
There's two guys, two douchebags.
Hit it again.
Oh, I'm sorry, two douchebags.
Douchebag!
Sir Guy Boise.
No, Guy Boise.
Boise.
Sounds like an African name.
He's Israeli.
He's the guy that's...
Remember when...
He's in Rehobot.
Remember Rehobot.
Remember when Ms.
Mickey, when they took her brand...
She's going to hate me for saying this.
Remember when the OB tampons were taken off the shelves mysteriously?
And they were gone for months?
And women everywhere were freaking out about this?
He sent them from Israel.
Remember that?
I do remember that.
He sent a care package.
I don't forget these things, man.
You hook a guy's wife up during a tough time of the month.
You're a brother for life.
So he gave us 34569, which is a good number.
He's sitting in the Scheipole Airport listening to the show.
It made me once again thankful for all the value you two bring.
I'm assuming he's on our network there.
It also made me think that next time I should ask you for this.
Oh, he didn't.
Oh my gosh!
Guy Boise!
All you have to do is email me the code.
Never mind, I flew back home and sat down to make this donation.
$299.74 for my birthday.
Yay.
Sunday, September 22nd, the same as JC's.
$6969 for some of that.
And $4624 to top it off to get a nice number.
Thanks again for all the hard work you do.
It's been great.
Well, make sure you email me so I can send you the Schiphol Airport No Agenda Wi-Fi code.
It's well worth it.
Yeah.
Sean Connolly in Naperville, Illinois, 248.
And I can't find a note from him.
So if you have something to say, Sean, send us another note.
Let me double check.
I do have a note from Sir Tim Tillman, who came with $200, associate executive producer for Mechanicsville, Virginia.
And Tillman says, just made a small donation which should make me a baronet.
It was one of the first knights in the ceremony.
As part of my baronet status, I would like to have the full ceremonial honors.
Yeah, and I think he deserves this.
Of course!
Yeah, he was contributing before we even had knights.
Right.
That's the deal with him.
And he got his, I guess he had the money, you got a knighthood, or just assume knighthood, but he never knighted, literally.
And I don't even know if he has a ring, so he has to go to noagendanation.com slash rings.
Right, he should do that.
Make me the baronet of Central Virginia.
It's simple and not flashy, which is like a slam on the others.
Yeah.
Love the show.
You guys give me a reason to get through the week.
And he'll drop a sack of sixes in October.
Hell yeah.
Okay.
Sack of sixes, baby.
Sack of sixes.
Kat and Rory Leander in Sechelt, BC. $200.
Says just hi, Frank from NSA. Yeah, that's what she just says at the bottom of her note.
Hey, Frank.
Really?
She says...
Actually, I had a back and forth with it.
Oh, yeah, Tom said the whole thing here, yeah.
Hey, my husband and I just started listening to the show in April.
I decided we needed some karma for dealing with the police state.
Also, could you please wish our human resource a happy first birthday for the 25th?
My husband listens to your show all day while driving around for work, and I'm always slipping things into my classes to try to get my students thinking.
You guys have a very entertaining show.
So glad my friend Rock Harvey...
Sounds like a total porn name.
Hey, Rock Harvey.
Hey everybody, Rock Harvey is coming at you right now.
Someone's getting cornholed today.
Sounds like a recipe for success to me.
So I saw this email from Kat and I said, and I'm interested because I always love it when we have educators educating kids with no agenda stuff.
stuff.
I said, well, what do you teach?
And she says, I teach K-7 music and band at three schools.
I love what I do.
I feel that the arts are the last refuge in our institutions of critical thinking.
I honestly believe that is why governments are doing all they can to undermine it.
Well, yeah, of course.
I think so, too.
I agree with that 100%.
Yeah, like, what is it, Common Core?
Is that the thing that everyone's on now?
Common Core is the curriculum, the Obama administration thing?
I don't know.
We need to look at this.
There's something weird going on with it.
Anyway, most recently we talked about songs being stuck in your head.
The kids thought it was funny, and I asked them if they thought it could be true about ELF waves.
Oh, she's gone all the way with it.
Nice.
One came back with a very critical response.
One student reminded us that the Canadian government interned Japanese people during World War II, took their land and sold it to pay for the war.
Therefore, they are capable of everything we're thinking of.
It's just a matter of if the technology actually exists.
You gotta love that Canadian kid thinking up there, don't you?
Yeah, that's actually pretty liberal.
Basically, the kid just said, yeah, the government are cruel a-holes, so as long as they got the technology, of course they'll do it.
You've got some smart kids there, Kat.
Well, that's why, in fact, people always seem to forget that the Constitution was written to protect the public from the government.
Oh, man, I saw...
And limit what it can do.
That's what the only thing it's about.
I know.
It's not about giving them, you know, making it so they can tax the crap out of us.
Yeah, I saw one of those videos.
I thought about clipping it for a minute, but I decided against it.
One of those man-on-the-street things where the guy says, can you name three of the amendments in the Constitution?
And of course, in this piece, no one can mention three.
But the ones they do say is, the right to bear arms.
I have the right to bear arms.
I have the right to free speech.
No, no.
Those are not the amendments.
The amendments say...
That the government cannot infringe on your right that you already have.
You haven't been given anything by the Constitution.
So even these...
And specifically the federal government.
Yes.
And it's so sad.
It's so sad that people don't...
The fundamentals are not...
The whole idea, as you just said, is...
And that's why it's a great system.
Is that the Constitution is to prohibit the federal government from infringing on rights you already have.
You're not some slave who's given some trinkets.
Here's ten trinkets, slave.
This is what you get.
No, you have all this.
These are just some extra precautions.
We're doomed.
Let's see, we got a note here from Rory.
You mean Regina Schaefer?
We just did Kat and Rory.
Thank you very much, Kat and Rory.
You're associate executive producers for the show.
Appreciate it.
S-C-H-A-R-I-N-A rhymes with.
Oh, boy, John.
Welcome to third grade.
That's what everyone who lives in Regina says.
Have you ever met anybody from there?
Canada, the Canadians.
They all say that.
Yeah.
Okay.
No.
I've got no notes.
Regina Regina.
You can send us a note later.
Please do send us a note because I want to know what Regina's...
We don't have a lot of...
Actually, I think we have more women than we used to have who listen to the show and support her.
I think we've got a pretty...
Our audience is probably about...
I'm guessing just off the top of my head around 35% women.
Really?
Which is pretty high.
It's very high for podcasts.
Yeah.
Yeah, so I was at the EFF thing and there's a real cutie comes up to me and says, so what do you do?
And I said, podcast.
I'm a podcaster.
And so she just turned and walked off.
It's very strange.
Never, ever, ever say that.
You might as well say, I pick my nose and eat the boogers.
I mean, it's a horrible thing to say.
I'm a podcaster.
I'm sorry, I have to go poop now.
They'll do anything to get away from you.
Rolf Lehmann in Wiesentwil, Switzerland.
$200 in the morning.
Swiss Senna here.
Oh, Swiss Senna, yeah.
Swiss Senna.
A few weeks have passed since my last donation.
So I do need a...
Do I need a de-douching, he wants to know?
No.
But he says yes, so give him a de-douching.
Okay, de-douching.
You've been de-douched.
So, just to annoy John C., maybe a little Atlas Shrug.
Atlas Shrug.
By Ayn Rand.
Well, I'm working.
I listen to a lot of podcasts, but I have to say yours is the one with the best sound and volume levels.
Oh, thank you.
You can thank Adam.
He produces the show.
Keep up the good work, and I'm looking forward to what the guy will disclose on September 23rd.
Yeah, that's the guy about MKUltra with the Michael Jackson tapes.
Yeah.
Well, we'll see.
That's tomorrow.
I'm curious.
Yeah, we'll see.
I'm curious.
Could be something.
Could be nothing.
We could be dead tonight.
Yeah, we're on top of it for you, though.
Michael Siegenthaler in Phoenix, Arizona.
Well, I finally made it.
Please knight me as Sir Skits.
Send any size ring you got.
I'll never wear it on my hand anyway.
I might mount it onto the butt of my gun.
Perfect.
That would be cool.
Now that's hitting him in the mouth.
By the way, I want three geishas and a bucket of fried chicken.
Okay, hold on a second.
I want you to add that to the list.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'm copying it.
Pretty soon the list will take up most of the show.
I think we should vote on this list at some point.
Really?
Well, not yet.
It's not like we're doing it every single show.
Well, that's true.
Let me just put this in here.
I'm going to put in three geishas and a bucket of fried chicken.
Okay, it's in.
We'll take care of you.
And those are our executive producers for show 550.
You want to thank them all around?
Find people to go to Dvorak.org slash NA, channeldvorak.com slash NA, No Agenda Show, or noagendanation.com, and there should be a donate button somewhere there on the page.
And help us for upcoming show 551 on Thursday, which I believe this next week, because of the cycle of things, is going to be interesting.
There were a couple of good PR initiatives that took place.
I want to mention that NoAgendaCD.com is now completely relaunched.
Ramsey Cain is doing a huge deal now.
This is part of his actual job, his boss.
This is his task that his boss, who is, of course, a producer and listener, has said, this is what you are going to do.
You work for my company, but I'm making you do this, which is noagendacd.com.
You can download this.
You can burn this.
He has all these shorter segments.
Definitely go and check that out.
I think I'm doing some jingles or something to make it even snappier.
So be on the lookout for that.
Then we have, if you go to blog.curry.com, John, there's two entries there I'd like you to take a look at.
Blog.curry.com.
Let me just make sure it got through.
I think it did.
Yes.
So the top there you'll see, the top entry is no agenda road sign.
You see that?
I'm just getting there now.
I have to type, and I have a...
No agenda road sign.
All right, so you click here for the picture, so you want to click on that.
And I'll read the email from Matt Milligan.
Hola, Senor Adam.
Oh, nice.
Yes, here are some pics of my first attempt at basically a chalk billboard on a hillside along a busy highway going into Sparks, Reno.
Okay.
Not that easy to read in the pic, but easily legible in person while driving.
He did it with a $10 bag of lime from Home Depot.
He says he has since found a more upright hill closer to the road.
He's going to attempt it again this Monday night.
Good.
This is a great idea.
When you take a look at this picture, though, it is great.
And I think you should actually say, Google no agenda show.
That may even be better.
Maybe you can add that.
Don't you think, John, that would be good to say Google No Agenda?
Or do you think No Agenda Show is good enough?
Well, if it's going to be Google, then it would be Google No Agenda.
Right.
Or No Agenda Show.
But I think putting No Agenda Show on the side of a hill is a good idea.
And it's also visible from the air.
I think if anybody's near an airport runway...
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Some area...
Because most people...
I don't know about you, but I like to look out the window when I'm flying.
Yep, yep.
And so I look out the window to see what things look like from the sky and I play a game.
Would I be able to, where is that?
And it would be cool to, I think like on a rooftop or something, right by an airport where the planes are coming in so it's visible from the air, I think would be cool.
That bag of lime, two bags of lime would probably really do the trick.
He wants a karma shot.
He's going to get a karma shot for that.
You've got karma.
And we really appreciate that.
I think that is a great initiative.
And we have a celebration if you go back to blog.curry.com, John.
Are you back?
No, not yet.
Okay.
Well, just the back button.
It shouldn't be all that hard.
Well, I wasn't leaned over the computer.
I was enjoying your verbosity.
What?
The second entry, no agenda racing.
We are now second in the nation in our class.
And you can click on a picture of Sir Andrew Gardner in the winner's circle.
Look at this picture.
Look at this.
I mean, we've got banners.
He's got no agenda racing all over the bike.
This is the 600cc class.
You got it?
Yeah, I'm looking at it now.
How awesome is this?
And by the way, Andrew's kind of a good-looking guy.
Yeah, I think the girls should throw themselves at him.
Hell yeah.
Look at that.
But he's a motorcycle racer, too.
What could be sexier?
Yeah.
I don't know.
I don't like kissing beards and mustaches, but he's a sexy-looking guy.
Yeah.
So he's got no agenda racing there.
I'm very, very proud.
We're second in the nation, and on the same page on my blog there, you can see a video of the race.
He started like three rows back.
Like, 19th place or something.
And finish second.
That's good.
And those videos are cool.
He's got the telemetry.
You can see where he is on the track and how fast he's going.
And you've got the sound and everything.
It's smoking.
It's hot.
I just think that once in a while...
He should have, like, a horn on the side.
A horn.
And a horn.
And as he goes by the grandstand...
Dvorak.org slash N-A. Wouldn't that be cool?
Yes, that would be very cool.
Okay.
Well, that's probably not going to happen.
Anyway, thank you very much to our producers, and continue to propagate the formula.
Our formula is this.
We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
New world order.
Shut up, slay.
Shut up, slave.
Before we move on, I do have a sad note to pass on, but I did want to take just a moment.
One of our financial producers, who was always handing off...
It's kind of a weird chain of events, but I was receiving through our producer, Trev, Trev Merkin, I was receiving a daily financial newsletter that is a real high-end thing that only, you know, like top financial people receive, and he was being given it to pass on to us from a gentleman named Patrick, Pat Fundra-Elst.
And he passed away suddenly.
I know.
Because Trevor, this guy's kind of like an uncle to Trevor, and he didn't know what was going on.
We weren't getting the newsletter, because every morning it would show up, and then Trev would parse it.
One of those daily guys.
Oh, it's fantastic.
So our sympathy, of course, is with his wife, Agnes, and Trev, and everyone else who knew Pat.
So very, very sad news.
Of course, also sad that we won't be getting the information, but it just sucks when you lose someone who's cool like that.
Okay.
Yeah, sorry.
I didn't mean to bum you out, but we celebrate when the new human resources are born, and we need to celebrate those who move on to better prepper fields.
Well, apparently we've done a deal with China.
I didn't know about this until I heard one of the Chinese trade representatives speak at the Brookings Institute.
And he speaks fairly good English, but he decided to say all this in Chinese, which made it for a lousy clip.
Do we have a long clip of that?
Because that would be funny.
Yeah, well, that's being translated, but...
Play the clip, and then we can talk about what it might have to do with anything.
But today you can rest assured that I will not say sorry again, no matter what foreign policy questions you raise.
This is a year of great significance in China-U.S. relations.
Last June, the two presidents held a successful and historic meeting in Annenberg, a state of California.
The most important outcome is that China and the United States agreed to build a new model of major country relations.
The agreement is strategic, constructive, and path-breaking in nature.
It has charted the future course for our relations.
It will surely produce A positive and profound impact on the Asia-Pacific and indeed the evolution of the international landscape.
With the agreement come two questions.
First, what is this new model of relations about?
And second, how to make it a reality?
President Xi Jinping has laid out a clear vision for the new models.
In his words, the essential features of this model include number one, no conflict or confrontation, number two, mutual respect, and number three, win-win cooperation.
This answers the first question.
No conflict or confrontation is the prerequisite for the new model of major country relations between us.
There's no real conflict!
Interesting.
Yeah, so they've signed, and it's like Hitler signing, he did that with the Russians.
They signed a non-aggression pact, which is what this sounds like.
And then there was the other parts, which included, what was the last one?
New ways moving forward or something?
No, it was the win-win cooperation thing.
So, in other words, they're supposed to work together to win-win.
And who was this again?
This was, I think, the trade minister or one of the big shots in China who was at the Brookings.
I mean, the only thing I can think of is that the Chinas, of course, they want natural resources.
They're doing tons of deals with the Russians.
You know, I've got to tell you, man, I don't trust these Chinas.
Well, this particular guy looks pretty suspicious.
Dodgy.
Dodgy China.
No, but you know, they're like your fair-weather friend.
You know what I mean?
It's like they're doing big deals with Russia for oil.
And that's, by the way, the term that they invented to describe themselves to the Pakistanis and the Afghanistanis, saying that we're like fair-weather friends to them, and you should trust us because we're long-term.
The Chinese people are long-term.
We'll always be with you.
And so then they move in and they essentially exploit their position.
They are all over Kenya, by the way.
Oh, yeah.
No, they're all over most of Africa.
No, we know that, but I was surprised about now that there's a lot of Chinese stuff popping up in regards to this Nairobi thing.
Well, let's go over one more time, which we haven't discussed for quite a while, the basic trick that the Chinese use in Africa, which has been discussed by our governments and mostly discussed by corporations.
The Chinese bid for very large projects, which are very often very ambitious and are never necessarily finished on time.
With the proviso that all the stuff that they do, they bring in their own workers, and they set them up in their own housing, and they build these little cities.
But the big proviso is that they can bring in whatever they need, tax-free, tariff-free.
Let me mention that these projects will be...
So they'll say, we want to develop in your region, and we'll just take Nairobi, Kenya as an example.
They're all over the place.
We're going to start a mine here.
We want to get these natural resources, these minerals.
But we will build roads.
We will build a hospital.
We will build a university.
And we will bring lots of Chinese restaurants.
I'll bet there are.
So they make this deal.
And a part of the deal is this creating this tariff-free importation deal.
And what they end up doing is they bring in everything under the sun and create a gray market in the country and sell and undercut everybody else.
So they'll bring in, for example, Huawei routers.
Mm-hmm.
And they'll set up a computer store and they'll sell the routers at half the price you'd pay for a Cisco because the Cisco will have a big tariff hanging off of it.
Even if Cisco wanted to match the price, they couldn't, literally.
And so they create this market that just upsets...
The apple cart.
And they do it in every one of these countries.
And that's kind of the game they're playing.
And they do build these great roads and all these other things at the same time.
But they're really trying to get rid of more of their products.
They're a manufacturing country out of control.
And they've got to move stuff.
And so they're just decimating all these markets.
And the cool thing is, once they've built the road and they've got the mines going, then the Americans come in.
And then we like, you know, first we get the CIA to start up some Al-Qaeda activity.
And then we come in and start bombing the place and droning everybody and suggesting you Chinese might want to leave.
And they do!
Yeah, well, they left Libya, if we recall the Libyan action.
The first 35,000 refugees out of Libya were Chinese.
Right, and there were whole cities that were being built by the Chinese for the Chinese, and there are photos of these places, and they're massive.
The Chinese seem to like building cities overnight, but it was all bombed out, and the Chinese all left.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's usually a good thing to do.
So this agreement about no confrontation.
Basically, they're saying, hey, don't drone me, bro.
It's interesting.
And the second part of it, of course, was implementation.
I didn't take that clip because it was boring.
The first clip was bad enough.
But the Chinese are trying to work with us without...
They're trying to work...
But again, I think you're right.
You can't...
And the Chinese, American Chinese that I know, I've had a lot of discussions with, and they feel the same way.
They always say, oh, you know, you've got to be careful.
You know, the Chinese, you've got to be careful, because you can, all of a sudden, you know, you buy something and your money disappears, and so does the company.
And they all say this.
What do you mean?
You buy something, your money disappears.
Well, I mean, Eric has had this problem.
He ordered some samples of something, and then all of a sudden the guy just took the money.
Never provided anything.
And you can't do anything about it, which is a real problem.
It feels to me, when I'm hearing this...
We now know that it is, in many ways, particularly with loss of revenue, loss of opportunity cost, with traveling and changing specs and basically overseeing your Chinese manufacturing partner, that it's become cost effective to do this in America.
And it seems like they also are a little on the defensive side.
I'm worried that people will stop coming over.
It may also be a marketing thing.
Maybe we should be on the lookout for marketing messages about how great China is.
Maybe that's what the real agreement is about.
Maybe.
Something is weird about this whole thing.
And we do have this new trade agreement very similar to the one we're setting up with the Europeans.
Yeah, the Asian trade?
Asian-Pacific trade associated with something.
They keep having these meetings.
Which is to get...
Some sort of smoother, you know, but again, there's this issue of cheap Chinese products coming into and decimating a market, which has happened here.
Of course, that's why there's no manufacturing jobs unless you're in the highest of high tech.
You know, you have Raytheon, you can get a job there.
Right.
Or Boeing, you can work at Boeing, although Boeing's jobbed out a lot of their stuff, although I think that's the end of that because of this fiasco with the 787 where they basically lost their ass on the project.
Right.
And it's still a plastic plane.
Which we don't like here at the No Agenda show.
We like sheet metal and rivets.
It's like the people who gave me crap.
I was saying something about the Tesla S, which is glued together.
Yeah, with Elmer's.
Elmer's glue.
I have to say, I mean, this is an $80,000 car.
Yeah, but you could have bought one for $55,000 when they were first offered.
Yeah, I could buy five of the cars I have right now for that.
But that's irrelevant.
It's a sexy-ass car.
Oh, yeah.
It's gorgeous.
Gorgeous inside and out.
So why can't Detroit make a car like this?
Hello?
Well, that's a good question.
That is the true question because I just don't like the battery part.
I don't want the battery.
I don't want a battery car.
It doesn't seem like a good idea.
That's 1890s technology, people.
Well, the other problem with the battery car is that the risk of electrocution It does exist.
No, seriously, the fire departments have all been trained Priuses are notorious for killing people.
Really?
Yeah, by electrocuting them.
It's like it's been suppressed information.
Yeah, and the fire departments are the ones who freak out because if the car catches on fire and they have to put it out.
Oh, they don't want to be spraying that because, yeah, oh, interesting.
It becomes a huge issue.
Or if somebody gets into a wreck and you have to go after them with the jaws of life, You cut across the wrong part of the car with those choppers.
Boom!
Is there that much current running through these things?
That things are laced.
The Prius is laced with juice?
Yes!
I gotta look into this.
Nobody talks about this, but this is like one of the scandals about these electric cars.
Prius electrocution.
Don't get in a wreck.
Let me just see.
Prius electrocution, let me see.
Man electrocuted by Prius.
Oh, well, this is, but that's 2009.
Prius plus first responders plus electrocution.
Hmm.
Interesting.
Electrocution danger.
Huh.
Yeah.
That's interesting.
I didn't know that.
There's more reason to hate these things.
Electricity is kills.
Wow.
Okay.
Don't get into a wreck with a Prius.
If you're in a Prius and you get in a wreck, get out of that thing.
Another tip from the No Agenda show.
You've learned a lot listening to this show.
Don't get in a wreck.
Don't get in a wreck with a Prius.
It's not good for you.
I did have a chance to...
There was a big...
It was kind of snowed under because of all the...
Still the Navy Yard and this bogative debt ceiling...
How many times do we have to see this reality show?
How many times do we have to go through this?
I mean, they're not...
I guess it's a two-year cycle, it looks like to me.
Yeah, but it's no good for ratings.
It's boring.
It's horrible for our show because it covers up real stories.
So there was a four-hour Benghazi thing, a Benghazi hearing, as we now passed a year.
And I'd like to reiterate, because people forget that we know what happened in Benghazi.
It was a kidnapping, an attempted kidnapping set up by most likely the State Department, and probably in particular Hillary Clinton and her cabal.
To kidnap Chris Stevens, and this would serve as the October surprise, and a chit, of course, for Hillary, but as the October surprise, because the president would then negotiate his freedom...
Just in time for the elections, and it went wrong.
And the Tunisian terrorists who were sent in to do this job got a little overzealous, probably because, you know, someone figured out Chris Stevens was gay, and then they raped him in a most...
also never reported or barely reported.
I mean, they, like...
Well, we also...
Yeah, we also determined that there may have been two operations going on at the same time they were communicating.
Yeah, crossed wires.
So there was a CIA operation to move guns.
Yeah, weapons up.
And it crossed with, which just shows you how much disarray there is, and of course the CIA really is trying to run the world, and certainly the country.
And the sad part is the election went to the president even without all that.
But then there was the big cover-up, you remember, with the so-called video, which we all called bullcrap on immediately.
Right, and we had one other aspect of this analysis.
There was no reason for the president to suspect that he was going to win so easily because the media had bullcrapped the public into thinking it was a close race so they could continue to get advertising revenues from both parties.
Which is why they always do that.
Yeah, that's why it's always a close race to the very end and then the guy sweeps.
It's like, what happened?
How did this happen overnight?
Well, it's because you've been...
No, it's because the New York Times guy had all the numbers and he knew it.
That smart guy.
Yeah, one guy.
The one guy.
The one guy.
I'm surprised they didn't shoot him.
He was the only one who said, what are you guys talking about?
This race is over.
And then there were, we heard initially 35, but it turns out close to 100, witnesses who were there at the compound.
And I would think a lot of them are CIA. That's why, you know, but they've all been hustled off.
They were sent over to Germany.
They were stuck in Germany for a while.
Some of them wounded.
We also reported on this immediately, and now a year later, they have still never been heard.
They've never been...
They're not allowed to talk about it.
Yes, and this is what Daryl Issa, who is an interesting guy, by the way.
I finished that book, This Town...
The book by the New York Times writer about Washington, D.C. A lot of it is about Issa, and particularly about Issa's PR guy who kind of rose really quickly.
Because Issa, his fortune comes from a car alarm.
He made the Viper car alarm.
You know that car alarm that says, Step away from the vehicle!
Back off!
Woo-woo-woo-woo!
That's how he made his money.
Did you know that?
No.
Yeah, he's that guy.
Remember those annoying car alarms from the 90s?
They were terrible.
I hated them.
Yeah, so that was his main product.
And he made a huge fortune on it.
And I think he continues to make car alarms.
So the guy's kind of like Icky.
He's like the Jason Calacanis of politics.
Whoa, I didn't know where that came from.
All right, so here is Derek.
Luckily, of course, Jason doesn't listen to the show either.
He knows I love Manhattan at the same time.
Yeah, really.
All right, here is Isaac grilling Admiral Mullen.
You said that the administration, the secretary, and so on made your job easy because you had full access to 100 witnesses and the attempt was to have full transparency.
Correct.
Do you think that Congress should have that same option?
In other words, since the State Department has not made one of those witnesses you interviewed first available, meaning people in Benghazi who are fact witnesses, none have been made available.
As a matter of fact, even the names have been, to the greatest extent possible, withheld from this committee.
Do you believe that's appropriate, or do you believe that we should have access to fact witnesses as we review the process?
Mr.
Chairman, I think that's, and I've been in government a long time, that's something that historically, and certainly in this case, has to be worked out between the Congress and the executive branch.
Admiral.
If something like the coal attack occurred again today, and Congress said we wanted to speak to people who were on the deck of that ship today, would you believe that we should have a right to speak to those people in order to understand the facts on the ground?
I love this question.
I love that he did this.
He's very, very smart.
That day.
I'm asking from your experience and that.
In a DOD framework.
I don't know what would limit you to do that, quite frankly.
I am in the process of issuing subpoenas because the State Department has not made those people available, has played hide-and-go-seek, and is now hiding behind a thinly-veiled statement that there's a criminal investigation.
As you know, there was a criminal investigation on the coal at any time that Americans are killed abroad.
So the answer, quite frankly, is we are not being given the same access that you had or Mr.
Sullivan and his team had.
And that's part of the reason that this investigation cannot end until the State Department gives us at least the same access that they gave your board.
Excuse me.
So, I'm now thoroughly convinced that Daryl Issa is only putting on this charade to get more money out of somebody.
You know, election funds, whatever.
This is the same tired story over and over again.
We know we're never going to get to the bottom of it.
Certainly not in the public sphere.
I think most people know by now in politics what happened.
No, I think that Congress knows what happened.
That's why they...
So this is just over and over again.
Some people don't know.
And here's a little clip of the mega-Obama-bot Barbara Boxer.
Boxer?
Is it Boxster?
Boxer?
Yeah, Boxer.
Boxer.
I like Boxster better than...
Well, from now on, she's Barbara Boxster.
She's the one, as you recall, that used to try to pick up the air pollution inspectors.
Oh, do tell the story again, John.
You really want me to tell you?
Yes, yes, because I... Yes, yes.
We had two people, a member of the board, the Regional Air Pollution Board.
One of them was Boxer and one of them was Feinstein.
And I have these two anecdotes about both of them.
But the Boxer one is the most interesting because...
After one of the meetings, she would always try to solicit one of the air pollution inspectors.
We all had cars.
And you were an air inspection?
Yeah, I was.
I'm an expert on air pollution, believe it or not.
Yeah, I believe it.
So, we had these cars, and she would find some, okay, can I get a ride home?
And all the guys would bitch about this because she'd make a pass at everybody, trying to get them in the sack.
Now, she's not, certainly back in the day, I think she's doable.
Well...
She still wears kind of whorish makeup.
Yeah, but that's what's so great about it.
Yes, but imagine this being 25 or longer years ago, a long time ago.
She would look pretty good.
Yes, that's what I'm saying.
Yeah, no, I think she probably was.
But it was very annoying.
Nobody wanted to take her driver.
It was like everyone would scatter when she came out of these meetings.
She looks kind of like a news anchor.
She's sexy.
How was her body?
Was it okay back then?
I don't know.
I never fucked her.
John!
Jesus.
Whatever the case, it would be the funniest thing to watch everyone scatter.
Jump in their cars and drive off as fast as they could.
Hey man, I gotta pick up the kids.
Soon everyone took off.
It looks like she had dark hair back in the day.
She still does.
No, no, no, no.
No, she's like blondish, darkest blonde.
Anyway, so she is a super-duper Obama bot, and here's her contribution.
She's dumb, by the way.
That's a real problem.
Wait a minute.
How about Feinstein?
Was she whorish, too?
No, not at all.
But she was just the opposite.
She was very prudish.
But she was also, I would say, she was even dumber.
Well, listen, you can't fix stupid.
We all know that.
That's what we say here in Texas.
That's a longer joke.
Alright, here's Boxster in her contribution.
Kind of like this as she rebuts what is being said.
She's having none of what's being said.
The senator from Texas.
I thank my friend from Kansas for his leadership and for his reasonable call that we ascertain the truth on this very important matter.
Given the year-long collective failure of our government either to gain clarity on what happened in Benghazi on September 11th or to extract any retribution for the terrorist attack, Congress should now form a joint select committee to launch a proper investigation.
We have four dead Americans.
It has been a full year.
My co-sponsors on this recommendation and I Have had enough without answers and without the truth.
I therefore ask unanimous consent.
The Rules Committee be discharged from further consideration of Senate Resolution 225.
Is there objection?
I object.
I object!
I would like to explain why, if that would be appropriate for the next two minutes, if I could.
Objections heard.
Senator may proceed.
Thank you.
I'm proud to be on the Foreign Relations Committee for many years and this Benghazi Occurred.
And the Foreign Relations Committee held hours of hearings.
I sat through those hearings.
And I want to say to my friends, I share their dismay that we haven't caught the perpetrators, but I want to remind them that the president who caught Osama bin Laden, who killed so many of our people, was President Obama.
And when he says he's going to do something, he won't rest until he does it.
So...
Is he now O.J. Simpson?
And I want to point out to Senator Boxster that the president was playing Old Maid with Reggie Love in the White House executive dining room, or Spades, whatever he was playing.
He didn't go catch Osama bin Laden.
By the way, no one caught him.
They killed some dude.
Shot him through the head, threw him in the ocean.
We get to see these shots from the mall in Kenya.
Yeah, but we can't.
We would be too shocked to see a shot.
And then they threw him over the side.
I mean, just as fast as they could.
Because all Muslims get thrown over the side within five hours.
Unless you know Muhammad's mom's name.
Do you remember it?
Amina.
Very good.
This is a tip.
So this is so...
It's just mind-boggling.
This woman is on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
And Speck, particularly with the knowledge that we have that she was just whoring.
With air pollution guys, that's low.
What?
Well, I'm sorry, John.
It's a good case.
You show some ability to judge things.
So around this time, now, all of the Democrats on the panel on the dais, they've left the building.
Mind you, there were not a lot of people in on this at all.
I mean, it was not the center of attention for media coverage.
But Sean Smith's mom gets up there, and she's testifying.
Remember Sean Smith's mom?
No.
You will when you hear what she has to say.
No.
Wait a minute.
I take that back.
I apologize.
I was told a few things and they were all lies.
All right.
Obama and Hillary and Panetta and Biden and Susan.
I love how she says Hillary and Susan.
Isn't that great?
Not, you know, Secretary Clinton or Ambassador Rice.
No, Hillary and Susan.
All came up to me at the casket ceremony.
Every one of them came up to me, gave me a big hug, and I asked them what happened.
Please tell me.
And every one of them says, it was the video.
And we all know that it wasn't the video.
Even at that time they knew it wasn't the video.
So they all lied to me.
But what they said was, I will check up on it and get back to you for sure.
And you know how many times I heard from them?
None.
I don't count.
People of America don't count.
The only thing that counts is their own selves and their own jobs, and the people that are involved in this get suspended for a short time, paid the whole time, and then rehired, or whatever it is that they do.
I want to know what happened to my son.
Why can't these people tell me this?
I love this!
That is...
There you go.
That's it.
These people are only involved with themselves...
And here's a lone mom.
Yeah, crying in the wind.
And that's exactly what it's about, people.
And America is not unique in this.
No, of course not.
That's why we need to be protected from our government.
They're a bunch of douchebags.
Yes, exactly.
So you were down in Hollywood?
Yeah, I was.
I got a little clip.
I didn't know this was going on to such an extreme.
It sounds like Berkeley is the West Hollywood animal rights action going on.
Southern California City is believed to be the first in the country to ban the sale of fur.
Stores in West Hollywood cannot sell anything made from the skin or pelt of animals.
The city passed the ordinance two years ago, but officials consulted with retailers before putting it into effect.
Retailers could face a misdemeanor after three citations.
West Hollywood is known for its animal-friendly laws.
It bans the declawing of cats and recognizes pets as companions and owners as guardians.
I remember this was taking place when we still lived there.
That was about two years ago.
I'd forgotten about the, you don't own the pet.
It's your companion and you're just a minder.
Yeah, you're the guardian.
Yeah, that's funny.
But they had to do that because otherwise it doesn't fit in with the fur thing.
Well, they have that same sort of thinking in Berkeley, although Berkeley probably is kicking itself for not banning for sooner, because it hasn't done that yet.
In our area now, we have the plastic bags are banned.
Oh, yes.
So you've got to bring your own bag in, and so you go to these places, and there's people with...
But first of all, you don't have to...
Grimy old bags that are dirty.
But it's a scam.
It's a scam, because all that happens is you don't have a bag, and then they charge you two bucks as a fine...
An alternate bag usage fee, and then they just give you a bag.
Well, not here.
What it is, you have to buy the bag for 10 cents or 20 cents each.
And it's usually a paper bag, and it's usually really small, so you have to buy a bunch of them.
And meanwhile, of course, we have gotten to such an extreme that even though you can still get plastic bags for, like, if you buy a bunch of cherry tomatoes, you've got to put them in something and put them in a plastic bag.
We still have these...
Unbelievable idiots in the Berkeley area, especially, who will bring all the, you know, like piles of little tomatoes, these little small miniature tomatoes, put them on the conveyor belt one at a time.
And so these little tomatoes are rolling all over the place, and these guys are trying to move them onto the scale.
And so then the guy takes these little tomatoes and then puts them in a grimy old bag.
It's just horrible.
I hate shopping around here with these people.
Yeah, I can understand.
I'm sorry.
The other thing that bugs me, in Berkeley, nobody knows how to make a left turn in a big intersection.
You know, you say you have a left turn lane and there's a bunch of people behind you.
Normally, what a normal driver who knows what he or she is doing, you push yourself halfway into the intersection, especially in a crowded situation, the light turns yellow.
You and the guy behind you and the guy behind you can all make the turn.
Pop through, yeah.
But do that.
They stay at the line.
Way back...
That's actually illegal.
That is the California law you're supposed to pull forward.
I don't think you're allowed to stay at the line.
No, no.
I don't know that that is...
I don't believe it is illegal.
But they stay at the line, and then when the light turns, you know, yellow to red, they shoot out and make the turn, and everyone's stuck.
It screws up all the traffic, and you behind them don't get to go.
Oh, it's just annoying.
Yeah.
All right, well, I'll hit it for that.
John C. DeVore at the Eve of the Day.
A little bit of slave training that I need to talk about.
And I can't remember if we talked about this or if it took place, but it is upcoming, 2013, in your area, John.
Urban Shield.
This will be Urban Shield, Alameda County, October 25th through 28th.
As you know, Urban Shield has grown into a comprehensive, full-scale, regional preparedness exercise.
Assessing the overall Bay Area UASI region's response capabilities related to multiple discipline planning, policies, procedures, organization, equipment, and training.
Urban Shield continues to test regional integrated systems for prevention, protection, response, and recovery in our high-threat, high-density urban area.
Urbanshield.org if you're interested.
You may want to get out of town, John.
Yeah.
I might.
It might be a good time to take a little trip to Europe or something.
Yeah, right.
They also have a vendor show.
Vendor?
Yeah.
I think we talked about this last year or the year before.
They do a big drill, essentially.
Let me see.
There's videos here.
But they also have vendors, and they show off all the cool stuff they've got.
All the groovy gear, which you may want to see.
So that is taking place up in your neck of the woods.
Then we also have, coming up in November, this is a little more disturbing, the Grid X2. And this will be held across the country.
Let me get this open.
This is from the New York Times, actually.
This is one of those things that kind of flies under the radar, this story.
But, oh, you've reached your limit of ten complimentary articles this month.
Well, fuck you, New York Times.
I already got an offline copy in the show notes.
The electric grid, as government and private experts describe it, is the glass jaw of American industry.
This is the New York Times.
It's the glass jar of the American industry, John.
Last jaw?
A boxing term?
Yes, of the American industry.
The editors let that go through?
It's the opening line.
The opening line of this New York Times article.
It's called The Lead.
The Lead.
L-E-D-E. As worries over the power grid rise, a drill will simulate a knockout blow.
That's the headline.
This is why thousands of utility workers, business executives, National Guard officers, FBI, anti-terrorism experts, and officials from government agencies in the United States, Canada, and Mexico...
That's the North American Union.
Oh, brother.
Oh, yeah.
And more than 150 companies and organizations have signed up to participate.
One goal of the drill, called Grid X2, is to explore how governments would react as the loss of the grid crippled the supply chain for everyday necessities.
Yeah.
So, okay, here's the drill.
Most of the participants will join the exercise from their workplaces.
With NERC, that's the National Emergency Response...
Yeah, the NERC. These guys are high, okay?
They're smoking crack.
They are totally stoned.
They are high!
And by the way, they could hire us to come up with more fun and games.
This is dumb.
We can do much better than this.
But this is all part of your slave training, people.
And here's another.
This is up in Washington.
This is Olympic College had an active shooter drill.
Simulated gunfire and panic erupted on campus at Olympic College in Bremerton for an active shooter training exercise on Friday.
Over 300 first responders and actors went through the drill.
We have multiple law enforcement agencies who have responded along with several fire and rescue units.
In this scenario, a gunman is loose on the campus.
Law enforcement has to take him down while emergency crews tend to the victims.
Sadly, in the reality of the world we live in today, this is some real possibility.
We just want to make sure everybody has a clear, simple plan of action.
Local law enforcement agencies, Kitsap County Fire Districts, Harrison Medical Center, the Washington State Youth Academy, and Kitsap County Emergency Management all took part in the training.
While some people living nearby were startled to see the huge response, those involved say nothing makes them better prepared than live training.
The events of earlier this week in Washington, D.C. reflect that.
This is an exercise that has been planned for well over a year.
So if something like this ever happens for real, they can get their jobs done faster.
Saving lives.
Saving lives.
That's right.
We'll save lives.
So all these drills...
First of all, whenever there's a drill...
So we have two big ones coming up.
It has the nasty habit of turning into a real-world situation.
So we'll be on the lookout for that.
I think when they do these drills, this is a recommendation of the criminals out there.
They do one of these big drills.
All the cops are from all over the place.
Now's the time to go rob a bank.
It's another no-agenda crime tip.
That's the time to do it.
So what does this result in?
Now back in the day, there's one thing.
We have freedom of speech.
What is the example of one version of freedom of speech that is not allowed?
Well, yelling fire in a theater?
Yes, correct.
That has now changed in 2013.
A gun scare forced an Oregon movie theater to be evacuated last night.
Witnesses say an argument erupted in a back row during a movie.
Someone thought they heard the word gun and shouted the word, which caused a panic.
Somebody heard the word gun.
What was this, like a mic check?
Well, everybody yells gun now?
Someone thought they heard the word gun.
Gun!
But what really happened is even funnier.
Police say there was never a gun, but some nearby businesses went into lockdown.
Lockdown!
So we locked down our doors, and it was a little scary at first, but then when we saw people kind of leisurely hanging outside of the theater, we kind of realized it wasn't as big of a threat as we thought it was.
So what do you think happened?
Let me tell you a couple things here first.
Did you notice in the last clip and this clip, both of them, Had some dingbat woman.
It's a better thing not to do.
This is again to propagandize the females of this country to vote Democrat.
That's correct.
You put the women up there and then they express themselves and everyone goes, oh yes, she's right.
She's right.
Better to be safe than sorry.
Vote Democrat.
So what do you think actually happened in this theater?
I don't know.
Some guy was...
I don't know.
I mean, I have a lot of lewd thoughts.
Well, your lewd thought may be close.
Here is the final eight seconds of this report.
Officers say the whole thing started after a man urinated on a teenager in the back of the theater.
What?
Really?
Gun?
Gun?
I get it.
I get it.
Funny.
What a great story.
Hey man, stop pissing on me.
This is not okay.
And somehow that led to gun.
Yeah, that's a gun.
Gun, gun, gun.
Wow.
You gotta love it.
That's just funny.
Then I have actually an email that came in from one of our producers.
In school, and we love it when we have the kids not having any of this crap.
Adam, today my class had the displeasure of being talked to by a visiting AT&T employee regarding the company's It Can Wait campaign involving texting while driving.
You may want to read along if you want.
Itcanwait.com is the website.
To start off the ad, the employee showed us an absolutely terribly produced documentary and then proceeded to pass out no text on board stickers for our cars, which coincidentally almost had bigger AT&T logos on them than the messaging itself.
To my horror, some students were so impacted that they asked for a second sticker.
After the sticker fiasco, we were told to pull out our phones and go to AT&T's website where we were supposed to take some retarded online pledge.
As if it couldn't get any worse, we were then directed to sign a massive AT&T logo-covered banner to then be photographed by the employee to, quote, take back to AT&T. After the whole ordeal, we were shown more poorly made films smothered with AT&T signage.
What makes me happy is that I listen to the best podcast in the universe is that at a certain point in the documentary, some girl whispered to me, I'm trying not to cry.
Oh my God!
The irony was, I was trying not to laugh in the morning.
And now that is a producer!
That is the youth of America.
He's got to turn that girl around.
He's just a flipper.
Flip?
You've got a flipper.
You've got a flipper.
It has more than one meaning in the Adam Curry sense of things.
Absolutely.
We won't talk about it.
The documentary is like 37 minutes long.
Have you seen this?
Itcanwait.com?
No, I'll watch it though, but I will take some clips from it.
There's got to be some subtle stuff in there to get you to buy more AT&T stuff.
So there was a special report that one of the networks ran on the, and I think this is hilarious because it actually revealed some interesting facts.
And I took four parts of this.
And this is the sexualization of little girls.
Mostly, though, the sexualization of, like, 14-year-olds because it's 2013 and the Big Depression is going to hit in 2017.
So you give them four years, they'll be 14.
Now they'll be 18.
In 2017, 19.
Or if they're, like, 13 years old, they'll be, you know, 17, 18, and whatever.
Just in time to become hookers.
So...
Wait, this is a government hooker program?
Is that what you're saying?
Well, no, it's just a societal thing, but it's actually the corporations that are somewhat behind it.
And I just have a great conclusion, but let's play parts of these little things.
Let's start with the beginning, which is the sexualization of girls, part one.
The only thing I'd like to do is I'd like to set this up properly with a jingle.
Is that okay?
Oh, yeah, hit it.
It's the Wiglish of Curry Heart!
Yeah!
The sexualization of seemingly ever younger girls in the name of art or fashion or advertising offends much of the public and gives parents valid cause for concern.
And yet the trend shows no sign of abating.
The latest scandal spans the Atlantic from the pages of French Vogue to a provocative t-shirt produced by an American retailer popular with teens.
Here is ABC's Dan Harris.
This young woman here posed in a supremely provocative manner on the back of a motorcycle and then here on a skateboard with a six-pack of beer dangling from her hand.
This young woman was just 15 years old when these pictures were taken.
Her name is Haley Clausen.
She is now 16, and her parents have now filed a $28 million lawsuit against Urban Outfitters, which sold these t-shirts with her picture on them, and the photographer who took the picture, Jason Lee Perry.
Is she showing anything?
Is she showing any private parts?
That's the real question.
Now, if that was the case, I completely understand.
Perry says the pictures were published in a magazine and posted on Haley's own Facebook page.
But he didn't hear from the parents for a year and a half until they filed their lawsuit.
In it, they say they did not consent to the use of the image.
They call it salacious and x-rated.
Well, I didn't see it that way.
And I think if people do, I think it's kind of bad on them.
Because I look at it and I think, it's a really cool shot.
Yeah, shot is the right word.
So the one picture of the girl, she looks like a model anyway.
She's very attractive in kind of a youngish, sexy way.
Of course.
She's high and smoking.
Yeah, of course.
I get it.
Yeah, so she's got her legs.
She's wearing shorts, but she's got her legs spread.
Yeah.
Kind of a welcoming position.
So it goes on.
They're going to get nowhere with this lawsuit.
She was posting the pictures on her Facebook page because she wants to become professional or whatever.
So now we start to get some explanations from this that don't quite hit the mark, but it becomes more funny, the story.
This story lands smack in the middle of a global spasm of controversy over the sexualization of young girls.
And this is the poster child, if you will, a ten-year-old girl named Tilenne Blondeau, who provoked an uproar when she graced the pages of French Vogue, jutting her hip out suggestively here.
And here, wearing lipstick and an updo, lying face down on a tiger.
The blogs erupted, with some writers calling the pictures creepy and worse.
When you see pictures like this, what do you think?
I think that I'm seeing a very young girl being sexualized, being gazed at in a very adult way.
The girl's mother said, my daughter's not even naked.
Let's not exaggerate.
It is possible that people might not be so upset if this were just an isolated incident.
But these days, famous underage actresses are getting in on the act.
13-year-old Elle Fanning has her sultry stare down pat in these Marc Jacobs ads.
And Haley Steinfeld, from the movie True Grit, in these Mew Mew ads, looks, according to one observer, like a child bride.
Although she's called these pictures sophisticated and timeless.
What's driving this, do you think?
I think we're seeing more parents that are vehemently dedicated to making their children famous.
So...
I think parents, mothers and fathers alike, are not necessarily turned off by someone coming to them and wanting their child to appear a certain way at younger and younger ages.
I've seen these pictures and I remember it disturbed me.
The pictures of the girl in Vogue?
Yeah!
They showed them on the show, and I'm looking at her saying, what is the word?
This is like the pageant girls, essentially.
No, no, no.
I disagree.
It is not like toddlers in tiaras.
They are dressed like vamps.
Hookers.
Well...
There is also, there's a scene I didn't clip.
I think I might have to throw up just thinking about it.
You look at it, it's like, oh my god, if she was 17 or 18, you'd be like, that's smoking hot.
Ah, but she's 10!
Yeah, I know, it's ludicrous.
It's sick.
It's actually dumb.
I'm sorry, it's fashion.
But they have a scene with this woman and her...
Her 12-year-old, I wish I could...
Probably she had to see it.
And she's talking to her 12-year-old.
There's a lot of stuff.
This is a long report, so I only clipped a few things.
She's talking to her daughter.
She says, I don't think that's age appropriate.
And the girl is a 12-year-old with absolute note.
Obviously, it was just...
Persuaded by mass media, which is really the sick part of the whole thing.
That's the sickest part.
To thinking that this outfit she was wearing was even remotely...
I don't think it was appropriate for anybody.
It was a horrible looking outfit.
And she's arguing for it.
It was just like, wow, this poor mom.
Because the girl was obviously just taken in by whatever.
But here's what it really is all about.
They are being taken in.
Just wait for the number...
In clip three, there's a number.
There's a number.
This number is huge.
Play clip three.
But there is something else driving the sexualization of girls in our popular culture.
Corporations who are keenly aware that tweens, girls between the ages of 8 and 12, have $43 billion a year to spend on clothing, beauty products, books, entertainment, and more.
In recent months, Abercrombie& Fitch had to pull its padded bikini tops for girls as young as 8 after a public outcry.
A French company selling lingerie, get it?
Sounds like lingerie, for girls as young as 4, had to defend its products as innovative and unexpected.
And an American company selling baby kinis for girls as young as three months old came out to say that its products were just for fun.
No wonder we're going broke.
We're targeting the wrong audience.
We need the tweens.
Forty-three billion dollars?
Billion?
Really?
So this is – when I heard that number and I realized – and by the way, the last clip has another insight from even more billions.
When I heard the numbers, I realized that what they've done is they've – you know, they can't sell kids toys anymore because there's all these – you know, there's all these restrictions on – We're talking eight-year-olds here on what you can do on Sunday morning cartoon shows.
There's a big outcry.
Oh, these poor kids are being exploited, which is true.
But it was actually...
I always believed that the kids...
At least my kids, they would watch this stuff and they would be talked into buying some piece of crap.
Yeah, no, no, no, no, no, no.
What we were talked into was buying the Froot Loops with the plastic toy inside.
Well, that too.
That's what I remember.
Well, I remember the kids, there'd be some G.I. Joe thing or some crazy thing that looked really good.
It was like these little flying helicopters or something.
And you knew it was a piece of junk.
And so you'd give in...
At least to the biggest piece of junk you could find.
This was my trick.
Okay, you really want that?
Okay, you've got to do some chores.
You get him the gift.
Do some work, slave.
Do some work.
Then you get him the thing, and it's a piece of crap.
It breaks right away, and then you go into it.
So this piece of crap, which I said was a piece of crap, I might add, This is what you want.
This is what you got.
Now just start thinking about these ads more.
You're talking to a little kid.
But think about it.
These people are trying to rip you off.
They eventually get a clue.
But this is a more sinister thing.
Now the funny thing is...
What's sinister is they're trying to accelerate these kids into an older age group where they're selling something different.
Right.
In fact, tell me if you could figure out what they're going to end up selling him in the long run when you play part four.
All this corporate porn, as some critics call it, can make it very tough for parents like Diane Goldie when they go out shopping with their daughter.
I don't really like it.
I don't know.
It's just not a young person's outfit, really.
It's even tough for parents like Madonna, who, as a younger woman, made parents squirm.
When she writhed around singing about being a virgin.
Now, the international one-name superstar has some pretty regular parental concern.
We have arguments about how short the skirt is or, you know, is there cleavage?
As psychological experts survey today's landscape, with even child stars like Miley Cyrus and high school musical Ashley Tisdale sexing up their images, they worry that our culture and our corporations are stealing girls' childhoods.
The American Psychological Association says girls exposed to too much sexual imagery are more likely to be unhappy with their bodies and to suffer from depression or low self-esteem.
Oh, thank goodness.
It's the pharmaceutical industry.
Hello.
Nice.
Nice job, guys.
And this is exactly why, and how many times have we covered this?
Whenever there's a suicide, some kid was bullied because they were gay or because they were unpopular, and there's suicide, lo and behold, there's always the same lawyers from the same firms who are there to distract attention away from the fact that these kids were on some kind of antidepressant or psychotropic drug.
Yeah.
It always happens.
Oh, my God.
This is so sickening.
No agenda show.
Like a kick to the crotch.
Yay!
We need more kid jingles, that's for sure.
That's going to sell the show.
All right, John.
Very good report.
Very good.
It's the Winkly Hooker Report.
I'm going to show myself old 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 have a lot of people come through for this show 550.
Oh, nice.
Christopher Jones, $100 from Macungie, Pennsylvania.
I'm not sure how to pronounce that.
M-A-C-U-N-G-I-E. It looks like Macungie to me.
I'm happy now I'm out of college.
I have a real job just out of college.
I can finally become a donor.
I've been a boner for way too long, having been a listener since the very beginning.
The show has been an important part of my education, opening my eyes to the truth behind the media's lies.
Looking forward to becoming a...
Oh yeah, you will be.
You will be.
Patrick Sullivan, $100 from Alberta, Canada, where all the money is.
Michael Miller from Tiburon, $70, wishing J.C. Buzzkill Jr.
a happy birthday.
Oh, that's nice.
Brian Barrow, Wooten Bassett.
In the UK, and I guess we might as well play the jingle.
We do have a couple of these 69-69 donations.
69-69!
You could kill the jingle if you feel that way.
No, no.
Sir Mac Tank.
As long as they're coming in, I'll play the jingle.
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Emmy Cooper from 69-69 Hampton, New Hampshire.
And we have your husband on the birthday list.
And we'll put a little girl yay and a karma at the end.
Hugo Aguiar in Curitiba, Puerto Rico.
No, from Curitiba, Brazil.
Oh, wow.
Hola.
Hey, friends.
Drunken donation.
I'm a little worried you guys cracking the six-week cycle.
This could be dangerous, but please keep it up.
Ha, ha, ha.
I don't know what that means.
69!
69!
It's a drunk donation.
It doesn't have to mean anything.
It's good.
We have a bunch of 66-66 well-wishers.
Sack of sixes.
Charles Eves in Lake Zurich, Illinois.
Good old Monica Lansing in Drayton Valley, Alberta, where all the money is.
EA from Woodland Hills, California.
Ryan Nessler, El Toro.
Minnesota.
Nuts.
Peter Mulroy, Brooklyn, New York, and Simon Marciniak in Poland.
Huh.
Nice.
We need some reports.
We do indeed.
Nate Wilson in Charleston, South Carolina.
Sarah Dardarian, of course.
Jennifer Buchanan in Charleston, South Carolina.
Kaylin Nistor in Northville, Minnesota.
Or Michigan, sorry.
Northville, Michigan.
Yeah, hold on.
He wants a milf from my hot Romanian wife, Jeanette.
I'm sorry.
Whenever there's a...
Milf?
That's one mother I'd like to...
I can't just pass that up.
He wants the train whistle, which I do not have handy.
Ooh.
I do have this whistle handy, though.
Let's see if I can pull it out of the box.
I think it's a red...
Robin.
It's not a great sound, really.
No, I don't...
When's the last time you've heard it?
No, I've never heard this one, I don't think.
Anyway, Nathan...
I'll do the train whistle late in the show.
I'll go grab it.
It's on the shelf.
Nathan Souser is...
Somewhere.
Parts Unknown.
And that will be our 6666 donors.
SACA6 is for our upcoming 6th anniversary on October 23rd.
Eight?
Eight?
It is.
I keep forgetting.
You can't remember from one minute to the next.
Matt Vesely in Salt Lake City, 66.
Vesely.
It's Vesely, I think.
Vesely.
What'd I say?
Vesely.
I think it's Vesely.
Oh, Vesely.
I think it is Vesely.
You're right.
Give him a little, play some karma for him at the end.
Phillip Myers in Palo Alto, California, 55-55.
Patricia Hansen in Portage, or Portage, Michigan.
Sir Jeffrey Gerlach in Lincoln, California, 5150.
Wait a minute, we've got a break for our night here.
He wants a little job karma.
We always do that for our knights and dames.
You've got karma.
And in your note, because we haven't had the computer fixing this problem, put your...
Put your title in, please, because...
Yeah, so we can run it into...
It's amazing that we have, you know, any data at all, which is great.
Half of our people are knights now.
Yeah.
The ones who donate are, yes.
Yeah, the ones who donate are.
And so we need to at least say, sir.
Yeah.
So please, please let us know.
Rick Zanotti in Camarillo, Brillo, California, 50...
And these are all $50.
Paul Wheeler in Fort Mill, South Carolina.
Eric Veet in Dublin, California.
Kyle Bauer in Parts Unknown, 50.
And Dan Grabb in Lansdale, Pennsylvania.
All $50.
And I'll conclude our contributors for show 550.
And I do need to make a correction.
One of our...
The two Saka Sixes we got on Thursday's show from Michael Stajuhar.
I'm sorry, it was show 548.
One of them was from Dame Citizen X. Oh, good old Citizen X. Yeah, we apologize.
I mean, stuff does happen.
You know, it's not like we have a huge back office.
Yeah, Eric was baffled by it because it came into the spreadsheet oddly.
I think it was just some sort of a follow-up we didn't catch.
But sometimes PayPal is a little wonky, too.
Well, actually, I would say that because Gina Smith, you know, because I write for her new domain.
Aren't you a co-founder of that?
Yes, I'm a co-founder of the new domain.
You can call yourself a co-founder.
It's fine.
She says...
Eh, seems a bit much.
She says that...
She wants to be a producer of the show on behalf of this website.
Right.
$200 like a couple times a month and she's told me that she had put this in PayPal and And I didn't show up at all, so I don't know.
I haven't even seen a Gina Smith donation.
Well, I'll find out what happens.
She ended up donating it to Leo.
This would be bad.
I like what she's doing, because whenever you write a kick-ass article, then she'll tweet...
Oh, she goes crazy.
And she's actually a major super tweet.
I mean, she's just...
Is she kind of hot?
Let me see.
She's always been pretty.
She used to be on ABC. And that's where she has a following of nerds.
Right, right.
No, she is.
She is sexy.
She has a huge following of nerds that think she's the hottest thing ever.
But she's great at retweeting.
She just has a cute face.
I'm a face guy, personally.
It's cute.
Alright.
I retweet, and I want to help you guys in your adventure there.
I think it's a good idea.
Well, you know, you've got to write somewhere.
Nobody else will publish the stuff you're writing.
I know, the good stuff.
As being a co-founder, I can write about how to build a hot dog, and that's just too bad.
Yes, that was good, by the way.
I liked your hot dog story.
The hot dog story, which I liked it, too.
All right, for everybody who donated LGY and the Karma, for those who don't know, hashtag LGY. Little girl yay is what that's all about.
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You were supposed to do it three times a show.
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It's funny.
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And we say happy birthday to the following producers.
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September 22nd is his birthday.
That would be today.
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Amy Cooper says happy birthday to her husband, the show from Chapel Hill, Adrian Cooper.
He's celebrating today, the 22nd.
And, of course, We have a big shout-out to sometimes part-time worker and certainly analyst of the No Agenda show, Buzzkill Jr.
celebrating today.
Happy birthday from your buddies here, the best podcast in the universe.
Let me ask you a question about that, John.
Whenever it's my daughter's birthday, and she hates it when I do this, I tell her the story of how she was born.
Oh, jeez.
Tell us the story about Buzzkill Jr.
He was born in a house in Oakland.
At home?
Yeah, at a home birth.
Well, that's it?
Yeah, that's about it.
And then he grew up, and now he's a coder who does JavaScript.
And makes more money than his old man.
He makes a lot of money.
Yeah, I know.
But, you know, it's still a sketchy business.
Ha ha!
And by the way, I think you missed a little kicker on that.
Yeah, we're trying to turn our daughters into hookers for the Great Depression and then get them strung out on drugs.
I mean, this is the worst scenario that I've ever seen.
I haven't missed it because then the money still goes to the establishment.
Elites.
Oh yeah, no, the money.
It's all about the money.
And these drugs, man, the stuff that they've got.
Did you get that email from the guy, one of our producers, who was talking about Adderall?
And he said it's just 100% amphetamine speed.
Yeah, he says it's Black Beauties.
Black Beauties, that's what it was.
Yeah, Black Beauties.
Yeah, he says it's called biphetamines.
And I don't know that this is true.
When I read that, I was going to look into it, so I wasn't prepared to discuss it.
But if Adderall is just a combination of amphetamines...
It says amphetamine on the bottle.
Does it really?
Yeah.
It just says amphetamine.
It's not even an S. It just says amphetamine.
The one that I've seen.
Which is brand name Adderall.
Oh, is that what you finally ordered?
No.
No, man.
What do you mean, from the Silk Road?
Yeah.
No.
No.
Do I sound strung out?
Are you strung out?
No.
Do I sound it?
I mean, when I used to be a pothead, the show wasn't all that different, was it?
Actually, everybody says it was.
I don't believe that for a second.
No, JC does, Mimi does.
Did they like it more then?
Did they think it was better?
Because I'll start smoking again.
Some of our old-timers thought it was...
It was sometimes better because of the international aspect of the show.
Well, that I agree with and that's why it's always good when we travel and we continue to do the show.
It certainly spices it up, gives us new injection of information.
We do that, but I mean...
But here's what my thought is.
Based on the kind of feedback we've been getting over the last, I'd say, six months in terms of show qualities, and the kind of analysis that you've been doing mostly, I've done some, but you do the real deep analysis on actual paperwork.
Yeah.
And you come up with conclusions, and we sometimes modify the conclusions when we discuss them.
I think there's no comparison to the quality of the show that we're currently producing compared to the old show.
We're really flailing.
We were just developing what our model was going to be.
Yeah, we were figuring it out.
And I think I agree with you.
But if you want, we can certainly do a test.
Yeah, if you want to get stoned.
I can get baked and we can do the show.
Hey, man.
Whoa.
I haven't used this stuff for so long.
I'm not sure I want to do this again.
But I never would talk like that.
I would never talk like that, ever.
Oh, man.
I don't think I could smoke the stuff that they're doing today, man.
It's horrible.
Why don't you just shoot yourself?
We had to like, you know, toke, you know, like a whole doobie.
In fact, we called them doobies.
It used to be a social thing.
Yeah!
They sit around and they go around and around and around and then people start listening to music.
Now it's like the special stuff they have for these medical marijuana guys, you take one of this stuff and you might as well shoot you.
You're done.
Well, no, you actually can shoot yourself and you won't feel it.
Yeah, that's for sure.
So here I'm looking at the drugs.com site, Adderall.
Yeah.
Derrick name, amphetamine and dextroamphetamine.
What?
What?
That's all it is?
Yeah, it's just amphetamine.
That's what I'm telling you.
So it's Benzedrine?
Yeah, Benzedrine, right.
And Dexys, Dexys and Bennys.
And by the way, I'd like to say...
That's terrible.
I think Thursday's show, for people who are like, we had more crackpot when you were stoned, I think Thursday's show with the ELF and the remote neural monitoring, I think we were pretty out there.
The problem is, it doesn't sound so crackpot anymore.
That's the problem.
It's like, even you were like, yeah, well, it's certainly plausible.
Yeah, I'm in on some of this stuff.
I'm just not in on the car that goes around running off of water.
I have a couple of titles in a knighthood here that we've got to do, so I want to do this.
Sir Tim Tillman becomes Baronet of Central Virginia.
That is FEMA Region 3.
Congratulations, Sir Tim, and thank you for your continued support of the best podcast in the universe.
And we have Michael Siegenthaler.
He had a special request as for his knighthood, so first we're going to...
Draw the swords and cross them.
Very good.
Come on, Michael Siegenthaler, step forward.
Very happy, of course, to give you your long overdue knighting.
As you have deserved that due to your support of the best podcasts in the universe, I hereby pronounce the Sir Skits, Knights of the Noah General Roundtable, for you, sir, as requested, three geishas and a bucket of fried chicken.
I'll take the Rent Boys and Chardonnay today.
Thank you very much.
Thank you for supporting the best podcasts in the universe.
And we will need your help again, not just yours specifically, Sir Skits, but everybody for our Thursday show.
Remember that.
I thought we had two nightings, no?
No, I have Sir Tim Tillman, became Baronet of Central Virginia.
Did I miss something?
Let me double check.
Tillman?
What about...
Oh, you got Tillman.
Yeah, but Tillman, he changed to a baronet.
But is he the guy that didn't get knighted?
Now you're confusing me.
No, I don't think so.
Yeah, I think he's the guy that didn't get knighted.
Well, holy crap!
Tim Tillman, step forward!
This is really bad, but there you go.
It's our system.
Our back office is in a trailer.
Sir Tim, thank you for your extra, extra special support of the No Agenda show.
Black Knight.
We hereby pronounce the Sir Tim Tillman, Black Knight and Baronet of Central Virginia and of the No Agenda Roundtable.
All right, I'll give you the Rent Boys and Chardonnay.
Unless you want the Wenches and Beer or the Rubenes, Woman and Rosé, and maybe it'll just be the Hookers and Blow.
I need a little more info, Eric, next time we do the, give me the things.
Because, you know, I can't remember stuff during the show.
It's a little hard.
This is true.
You have to be, I've told everyone that you have to be scripted when it comes to these sorts of details.
Well, I mean, you know, because when something happens in the spreadsheet, you know, it's not like I have, it's like we're doing stuff.
By the way, I need to point this out.
We make this shit look easy, people.
Okay?
It's just, it's not automatic.
It's not like we're on autopilot.
People are like, oh, it's a great show to listen to.
There's a lot going on.
My hands are always busy.
And somebody, well, that's beside the point.
As somebody pointed out, I need an In the Morning once in a while for some of these great lines.
Yes, you do.
As somebody pointed out, this show sounds good.
Yeah, and it's funny because we also have audio engineers and lots of people who are very critical.
Of course, I'm working on the Ultimate Podcast device, which actually enables better shows on the road, I feel.
And we had the show in Los Angeles.
I'm in a hotel room.
And it was very nice because this producer said, hey, man, I heard a little click.
And once I heard the click with the noise, I couldn't unhear it.
It was really annoying.
And he wasn't complaining, but he was just saying, you know, I heard.
And I wrote back.
I said...
Yeah, you're right.
I'm not in a studio.
I'm plugging into a hotel Wi-Fi network.
I'm sitting in a corner.
It's astonishing that we can do this show.
I have three machines.
I have to set one up as a Wi-Fi access point and do port forward.
It's a whole bunch of stuff that goes down that has become kind of automatic for us.
You've done this, but you listen to other podcasts and you'll hear the difference.
And also, the way you, and I'll give you the props, John, you understand the technical aspect and what's happening, and then you will play along and you know how to adapt to the situation.
It's hard for me to explain what you're doing, but people don't know.
Even little time delays, all kinds of things.
This is, damn it, we're just professionals!
God.
Just getting by.
Yeah, I step on the end of your lines once in a while just because of the timing.
Yeah.
I know it's going to be a short leg.
Okay, so I've got this clip.
I don't know what to make of this yet.
I just first identified it.
I noticed the logo and there's a strange group of people behind it.
Sounds like a good operation, but you never know about some of these things.
Play the Team Rubicon clip.
Members of a unique disaster relief group are using skills from the battlefield to help Colorado residents dig out and clean up.
Team Rubicon is made up of military veterans who respond to disaster areas in the U.S. and around the world.
Veterans say they appreciate being able to use their military training to help rebuild lives.
Of course, the mentality of serve, of all times, of everything, serve your country.
So being here, it's easy to come home and serve your people, which is our community.
So it's nice to come home and help people out that are close to home.
This is kind of interesting.
Team Rubicon?
Yeah, and you can't find out who's behind it.
This is what bothers me.
But you do find the Clinton Initiative having something to do with this.
Team RWB, a group I've never heard of.
Go to the Team Rubicon, TeamRubiconUSA.org, and then hit the button you want to go to as our partners.
TeamRubiconUSA.org?
Yeah.
What are these, like vigilantes or something?
No, no, no, no.
Okay.
I don't know what it is.
That's what I'm saying.
That's why I'm bringing it up.
Join, serve, and deploy.
Bridge the gap.
Wow.
Yeah, now go to the identity and then click on sponsors and partners because you can't find out who's running this thing.
This is the closest you're going to get.
Identity.
They also have regions.
And they have regions.
Let's see where Region 9 is.
Let's see if that's California and Nevada and the rest.
Let me see.
I'm Region 6 here.
The same as FEMA regions.
Exactly.
Let me check Region 6.
Let me see if I'm in Region 6.
Yes.
I'm Region 6.
Interesting.
Interesting.
Wait a minute.
What is this?
Now go to Sponsors and Partners and read out loud for the listeners.
Read out loud.
Goal zero.
No, read out the logo.
They've got this crazy logo, which is on the back of all these Rubicon people.
Wait, wait, wait.
I see.
I meant our partners and sponsors.
Yeah, on the right, there's a little thing that says, what's with the name?
What's with the logo?
Okay, what's with the logo?
The Team Rubicon logo consists primarily of a cross turned on its side with a river flowing through it.
The cross represents the traditional symbol of medical aid.
It is on its side because Team Rubicon represents such a departure from the current paradigm in disaster response.
The river flowing through the cross represents the gap that exists between large natural disasters and conventional aid response.
Team Rubicon serves to bridge this gap, providing field triage and relief operations until large aid organizations and nations can provide definitive care.
Wow.
Well, come on.
This is El Segundo, California.
And if you look at the big logos up there, there's Goal Zero, Team RWB, which is a sinister-looking kind of NRA logo, Clinton Initiative, Google.
How about the Home Depot?
Home Depot, yeah.
Goldman Sachs.
Oh, Palaniteer, which is, you know, that's the NSA thing.
Urban America, jeez.
Palaniteer's interesting.
It's geomapping technology allows Team Rubicon to effectively identify work zones.
Yeah.
Come on, don't, I mean, is this a non-profit, or?
Well, this is the thing.
You can't figure it out.
Wow, this is, oh, okay, you've just ruined the rest of my week.
I figured that's why I did that.
Come on, jeez.
I'm going to have to be all over this.
This is crazy.
Identity.
What happens if you just do a...
Hold on a second.
If you do a lookup...
Oh, Judy Linklade.
Who?
One of the media...
Oh, we've heard of her before.
Doug Dome.
I got some names, finally.
Kristen Robinson.
See, whoisteamrubiconusa.org.
Let's just see if there's anything on the Whois record.
Sometimes that's where they...
I just stumbled onto this last night, so I said, ah, this is interesting, because of this report.
Jacob Wood has registered.
Hmm.
That's really interesting, John.
Okay, we're going to have to look into that.
Social donate...
It has something to do with getting veterans off the streets or something.
I'm not sure.
Jake Wood is the co-founder and president of Team Rubicon.
And his profile can be...
Oh, he's also on LinkedIn.
I'll go check that out.
Oh, yeah.
Do that.
He's on the...
Profiled in the website IdeaMensch.
IdeaMensch?
Oh, here it is.
Team Rubicon engages veterans.
Interesting.
Hundreds of U.S. military veterans, many returning home after fighting 10 years of war, find a renewed sense of purpose for their skills and experiences through Team Rubicon.
Wow.
Okay, well this is something we've got to look into for sure.
Yeah, it might be a good thing, it might not.
But if the Clinton operation is involved, I don't like it.
No, we're not liking any of it.
But we'll see.
Interesting.
I do need to bring us back just a second to what happened at the naval shipyard.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, I think that is...
I got nothing new on that.
Yeah, I think I have a couple things.
So, the New York Times ran a story headline, Did antidepressants play a role in Navy Yard Massacre?
Who's the one who said Ambien?
We said Ambien.
You said Ambien.
The drug reportedly prescribed was trazodone.
Trazodone?
Trazodone.
I haven't even looked it up.
T-R-A-Z-O-D-O-N-E. Trazodone.
Let's look this one up.
Meanwhile, while you're looking that up, I'm going to play a little clip of this because, as we've had in the Red Book for a long time, this has now turned into a full-blown war on crazy.
Okay.
President Obama and the First Lady will attend a memorial service tomorrow for the 12 people who were killed in Monday's Washington Navy Yard massacre.
As we've learned more this week about the shooter, Erin Alexis, the image of a young mind suffering from mental illness is taking shape.
And when the conversation again turns to gun violence, startling misperceptions about mental health in America are also being revealed.
According to a recent Gallup poll, Americans believe mental illness is more of a culprit in gun violence than access to guns themselves.
Even studies show that a majority of mentally ill patients are not violent.
Ironically, during what could be a moment to have a very real conversation about the need to increase access to mental health care services and the stigmas that are associated with it, some are using this issue to talk on safety but try to stay on the NRA's good side.
And not surprisingly, many of these same people are doing everything they can to defund the Affordable Care Act.
Which would do more to provide access to mental health care services in America than ever before.
According to a 2010 government study, about 40% of the 11.4 million adults with serious mental illness...
Listen to these numbers.
40%, 11.2 million Americans with serious, serious mental health issues.
What are these serious mental health issues?
...went untreated.
And the top two reasons were inability to afford mental health care and the stigma of admitting psychiatric illness and seeking help.
By recognizing that mental health and addiction should be treated like any other illness, we actually could begin to remove the stigma and the shame.
But some in the media, they aren't done.
What kind of a report is this?
Well, it's basically a setup to slam Fox.
Listen.
Alan said we need to decrease the stigma around mental illness.
The opposite is true.
Certain forms of mental illness, I'm not talking depression or PTSD, but paranoid schizophrenia, we need to increase the stigma, which is to say we need to make it really clear this could become dangerous.
I have paranoid schizophrenia.
That's what conspiracy theorists are all about.
That's what they say.
Yeah.
I would never turn my back on you.
No, I'd never turn my back on you either.
You might flip out.
Thanks.
What is going to happen?
I don't know if it's in the Red Book.
I want to say it again.
In fact...
Put it in the book!
Put it in the book!
Put it in the Red Book!
Oh, you like that one, huh?
I actually like that one.
We have another one, actually.
I'll play the other one after I make the prediction again.
So first it's going to be access to guns.
Then it's going to be, well, you know, we've prescribed this antidepressant for you.
You probably shouldn't be driving.
I mean, it's really kind of not a good idea.
And then it'll be, well, you know, we really don't want you around children, you know, so really you shouldn't be out and about.
And then you'll be wearing like a yellow star on your jacket.
I'm telling you, this is what's going to happen.
We're going to put it in the Red Book, yeah.
I like the first one better, actually.
Thank you.
I think they're both good.
The first one's a little jazzy, it's quicker.
But we're keeping them both, because I think they're dynamite.
That's our producers, ladies and gentlemen.
That's how they roll.
I don't know.
You know, I'll have to think about this.
This is definitely, I still think, I'm going to base everything on just turning more women into Democrats.
Well, it's always the women.
They're very sympathetic, and they're always, oh, now the latest thing is, oh, the Republicans are trying to kill Obamacare.
Yeah.
Oh, those horrible Republicans.
How can anyone with children even think of voting for a Republican?
Yeah.
Did you hear what the President said regarding this?
So the whole thing about raising the debt ceiling, and this has been analyzed to death, and this is all that the heads are talking about on so-called cable news and news in general.
And the idea is we're going to go through this whole show again.
We're going to not raise the debt ceiling because that way we can defund Obamacare.
That's all theater.
The president, though, has said some interesting things.
He said, well, we've done this a hundred times.
It's raising of the debt ceiling since the 50s, which, of course, he's basically saying, it'll be fine.
We're going to do it again.
This is just the same old dog and pony show we always go through.
And then he's saying, well, but this doesn't actually raise our deficit.
It's just paying for the bills we've already racked up, and everyone's yelling about that.
But the thing that gets me...
Is how he brings this message.
And he's basically telling you, you are stupid.
You're a stupid, stupid citizen.
Now, this debt ceiling, I just want to remind people in case you haven't been keeping up.
Maybe you haven't been keeping up because, you know, you're dumb.
Raising the debt ceiling, which has been done over a hundred times, does not increase our debt.
It does not somehow promote profligacy.
All it does is it says, you've got to pay the bills that you've already racked up, Congress.
Here it comes.
It's a basic function of making sure that the full faith and credit of the United States is preserved.
And And I've heard people say, well, in the past there have been negotiations around raising the debt ceiling.
It's always a tough vote because the average person thinks raising the debt ceiling must mean that we're running up our debt.
Average person?
Oh, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry I'm not a constitutional law professor.
I'm just an average person.
That is so condescending.
Yeah, he's a condescending guy.
I really despise that.
Yeah, I can tell it bugs you.
So we have to admit to a couple of things here that they don't want to talk about.
Of course, we just went through the charade two years ago, and the government has actually had a showdown where they stopped, you know, they didn't raise a debt ceiling, they shut down the government for a while during the Clinton administration.
It was shut down completely.
Yep.
And it was a big deal, I guess, for a shoot.
And then finally somebody knuckled under and they changed a few things.
And the debt ceiling is a bogus creation anyway.
The debt ceiling was put in place because we kept getting our debts higher and higher and higher, and somebody came along with the idea.
And I think it was bipartisan, which was similar to this crazy thing where they set up a committee, and if there's no committee, the committee couldn't come to a conclusion they'd have a sequester or sequester.
Right.
And that was another bogus thing they created.
They brought it on themselves, and you have to blame the president for this too.
But the debt ceiling thing is just a bogus creation that was done to hopefully prevent the debt from going out of control.
But it has been raised 100 because it's bull crap.
We don't have, you know, the debt ceiling shouldn't even be there.
We wouldn't be having these...
Phony baloney arguments constantly, and you just have to live with the consequences of mismanagement, which is what's going on anyway.
I do think that there's a new version of the script this time, because the president keeps saying, I will not debate the full faith and credit of the United States, which is constitutional language.
Is it not the 14th Amendment?
I'm not sure.
Well, the full faith and credit of the United States shall not be questioned.
So if I were to write the script, because that's what it is, it's just another script playing out, I would have the Republicans shut down the government and then the President open it up again under executive order as a constitutional move.
That would be the script I'd like to see.
I think that would be kind of funny.
The faith in credit clauses in Article 4, Section 1 is right in the Constitution.
Oh, that's what I meant.
Article 4, Section 1.
Right, it's not even an amendment.
It's part of the basic...
No, no, it would make sense.
It's not an amendment.
Right.
Whatever the case.
Yeah, I know that would be a good bluff.
I mean, calling everybody's bluff, because as somebody pointed out, the amount of income that we have coming in from taxes does pay the bills.
Yes.
It just doesn't pay these increases.
Yes.
We have all these increases, and they want to spend more money.
It won't pay for that.
But it pays the normal bills, and there's no way of going bankrupt.
It's not going to happen, because there's more money coming in than is going out for that purpose.
But for all this new stuff, and all these talking heads ignore this.
This is all about the increases.
Let's add to this program.
Let's send a bunch of ships over to Syria.
Yeah, why not?
Let's launch some...
Let's send some missiles.
Let's blow up a $1.5 million missile for no good reason.
Yeah.
Nice.
Anyway, since...
So this is bogus.
I didn't get any clips about it.
I'm not even interested in...
No, I didn't do it either.
That's the only reason I brought this in is because that just made me angry.
Like, we're too stupid to understand, really.
Really?
Good news, though, although nothing new to the No Agenda listener and producer.
Big, big article in the Daily Mail, and everyone was emailing this like we didn't know.
Bill Clinton's former mistress, Jennifer Flowers, has come.
And I think she already did this interview.
I remember this.
She came out and said, Bill said that Hillary is bisexual.
Duh.
I didn't know this was published.
Yeah, it's in the Daily Mail.
And Bill said it?
Bill actually said, the quote is, Bill said, Hillary's had more pussy than I have.
Oh, this is bullcrap.
But that's what's published.
Yeah, that's the Daily Mail.
Yeah.
I can imagine Bill saying that to somebody over a beer.
But I'd already heard this story.
This is part of the Hillary 2016, let's discredit everything we can do.
This is old.
I remember this from maybe years ago I've heard this.
Yeah, I've heard this sort of thing commonly.
It's like, okay, I mean, I was listening to Thawm Hartman, and he's got one pitch that he's pretty good at, which is the, although I'm not agreeing with any of it, about how we should change the Constitution so you can't give money to political candidates, essentially.
Right.
And he...
He talked about Citizens United, which everybody's all up in arms about, supposedly.
I think it's a bogus argument, too, because it allows anyone to spend money any way they want.
Large corporations want to spend it.
They're going to do it anyway.
But he pointed out the...
The whole thing came about to the Supreme Court because it was based on a hit piece they were doing on Hillary so they'd get Obama to get elected because there's a lot of people that really are fearful of Hillary getting in.
Now, we've had it from a lot of sources that we know in the Virginia area that there's no way she's going to get elected.
Something's going to happen, but I don't believe that anymore.
I've always believed she's...
Wait a minute, wait a minute.
What sources are you referring to?
You talked about this one...
Oh, that the Secret Service guys were all pissed off and they would not let it happen?
You mean that?
Yes, that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, that remains to be seen.
I agree.
Look, first of all, stop the presses.
When I go to bed at night...
I pray that Hillary Clinton will become president.
Because I need to make a living.
And, you know, watermelon head Kerry is okay.
He's getting funnier.
You know, he brought us Marie Harf and stuff.
But really, President Hillary Clinton is my dream for this show.
Yeah, that'd be great, unless they shot us.
So, within the Tom Hartman rant, there was this little, somebody pointed this out, they sent it in one of our producers, but it's the black guy named Muhammad part of the clip, which is funny.
Yeah, I know.
I'm glad you got this.
Because they wanted Obama to be the candidate, because they thought that a black guy whose middle name was Muhammad, that they're Hussein, rather.
That's pretty funny.
Yeah.
He has one funny.
One funny.
Very good.
Yeah, I was thinking of taking a bigger piece, but I said, no, that's all he needs is that.
No, that's enough.
That's enough.
I want to say in the morning, or actually I would say to our Gitmo Nation Deutschland, I don't know if the polls have closed, but they're voting.
We'll see if Herr Merkel stays in.
It's a done deal.
Well, yeah, but she might have to have a new coalition.
That could be interesting.
I haven't gotten any results or early polling numbers yet.
Yeah, it looks like she's going to.
Oh, I'm sure she's going to win, but who's she going to be with is what's going to be interesting.
It'll be interesting.
Yeah, I agree.
And this was a pretty cool article.
This came from The Local, which is a German publication.
It's in English.
The local.de.
And it talks about the booming market in cyber insurance.
And that's an angle we hadn't looked at.
We have looked at all of this Snowden stuff as, you know, lots of consultants coming in, lots of bullcrap stuff you need that you don't need that you're going to have to buy, all kinds of, you know, firewall thingies.
But really, the big money right now is being made in companies and apparently private individuals who are now buying cyber threat, cyber damage insurance.
You know, the funny thing is, this is not...
I had lunch probably close to a decade ago.
With John Quarterman, who wrote the book called The Matrix, Computer Networks and Conferencing Systems.
And it was an early book from 1990 that described the way the network was set up.
And he was working for an insurance company that was setting these sorts of things up.
And this was a long time ago.
So I think it was a long-term project, but it was to ensure you...
Your company gets attacked and all your stuff.
Now you have insurance.
This isn't new.
I think it's just re-emerging.
I think that this is potentially huge.
It'll be part of your homeowner's insurance.
The question is, what really will constitute damage?
And how will it be proven?
I think that was the problem in the first place.
I don't know.
I don't know how they're going to do this.
Hmm.
So I have a clip.
People always say, well, you know, a lot of things won't happen if everyone was armed.
Yeah, that would be kind of my thesis.
Yeah.
And I also see it as that if you have two douchebags with guns, you kind of get a fine result out of it.
And here's the shootout clip over tailgating.
Hmm.
Jokey?
Well...
Two men in Michigan shot at each other in a road rage-fueled gun battle.
Witnesses say one driver got upset that the other was falling too closely, so he pulled into a parking lot, and that's when the second car followed.
And that is when angry words turned into deadly actions.
A confrontation took place outside the vehicle, and handguns were eventually drawn and shots were exchanged.
Both of the subjects held valid concealed pistol licenses.
Both men were shot and killed.
Police are nothing who fired the first shot, but witness a driver who was tailgating fired first.
Yeah, well, it works.
System works.
System works.
I love it.
I don't know why it's sick, but I found that story to be quite amusing.
I like it.
I like it.
Let me just do this real quick, John.
Adam's gonna read his email on the No Agenda show.
Just to get it out, because otherwise it won't make any sense.
Two quick notes regarding the hit songs, the top 40 hit songs I keep hearing in my head.
That I believe are being put there.
Producer Pim says, you know, this is really weird.
When you said Steely Dan reeling in the years, it slightly shocked me because that song has been in my head this week as well.
I was wondering what it was doing there since it's old and I don't even like it.
So he's not sure, but he heard it before I mentioned it.
And then producer James says, just a thought, you know, maybe you were programmed to hook up with Miss Mickey and she's an operative for some agency, really, like we didn't know that.
Oh yeah, we should do that already.
Well he says, who planned the Hot Pockets route through Utah in the first place where the music started?
The pancakes.
He said, the pancakes are one half of a binary trigger.
And John is also likely involved.
You know, I'm laughing, but I'm not really laughing.
It's all possible.
I think the pancakes being a binary trigger is interesting.
I like it.
I like these theories.
It makes nothing but sense to me.
Nothing but sense.
Who planned the trip through Utah?
Who planned the desert trip when it all started, huh?
Mm-hmm.
You got anything to play us out, big boy?
Let's see if there's anything.
I got this.
Well, we got the blackout.
There's more shootings in Chicago.
Here's a funny story.
Harvard wants more money.
Harvard University has set an ambitious goal to raise more than $6 billion over the next five years.
It's the biggest fundraising campaign launched by a university.
A university official says almost $3 billion has already been raised, but the fundraising goal for 2018 remains $6.5 billion.
The university says it plans...
It has to use the money to expand research and teaching in several departments, as well as to renovate some dorms.
Harvard's endowment at the end of the last fiscal year was just less than $31 billion.
Holy crap!
They got like a nest egg like Microsoft.
$31 billion.
And they won another six.
For what?
That's what I'm wondering.
What is the point of all that?
I don't understand how this...
This is out of control.
And finally, the...
But wait, there's more.
There's one more, which is the suspect's cycling killing.
An annual bicycle ride along the New England coastline turned tragic after a car hit four cyclists, killing two of them.
The crash happened this morning on a two-lane bridge in Hampton, New Hampshire.
Two women from Massachusetts were killed.
Two other riders were hurt.
Investigators say a 20-year-old woman was driving southbound and crossed into the northbound lane for some reason, hitting the cyclists.
Authorities have not said whether the driver will be charged.
Okay.
Assassination.
Yeah, no kidding.
Boston breaks.
Anyway, that's all I got.
Speaking of Boston, the report that is due of the marathon bombing has been delayed indefinitely.
Oh, wow!
That stuns me.
And this is from the Intelligence Community Inspector General Forum.
Update.
Yeah, no, we...
It'll be one of those forgotten stories, and we'll never see the movie of the guy putting the...
The whole thing is just very...
That's the thing.
Thank you for reminding me.
The thing we want to see, we'd like to see the video of one of the Sarnoff brothers dropping the backpack into the waste can, the one that everyone says exists, but even the governor has not seen.
Right.
We would like to see that.
All right, John, I think we've kind of done it for today.
Yeah, you can now go do your gold show and then...
My what?
My gold show?
My gold show.
Oh, that show.
Yeah.
Right, gotcha, gotcha.
Are you doing twit?
No, I'm not doing twit today.
Oh, that's too bad because you could have said, neener, neener, neener, I told you there would be fake lines around the block.
Oh, that actually came up last week.
The line began when I did the show last Sunday.
Oh, good.
All right.
Just wanted to make sure you got to say neener, neener.
Well, I don't use neener, neener, but I do it.
I do neener, neener, neener, neener.
All right, everybody.
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