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Look at what Audrey's doing.
Yeah, she's pulling a train.
Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
It's Thursday, October 10th, 2013.
Time for your Gitmo Nation media assassination episode 555.
This is no agenda.
Reporting live from FEMA Region 6 in the Travis Heights Hideout, 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 also live, I'm John C. Devorak.
It's Crackball and Buzzkill in the morning.
You know, we were playing around just before we started the show with the slide whistle and the harmonica, and what else did you have going there?
The tambourine.
Oh, this is a new one.
You haven't had the tambourine on the show in a while?
No, I've had it.
Before you've groaned about it, because it's really not a true tambourine.
It's just a piece of wood.
Oh, really?
I didn't know that.
Yeah, it's a little cheap thing.
I've got a targe for a buck.
Well, it sounds pretty good for a fake tambourine.
I mean, how much trouble is it to make a real tambourine?
Why do you have to have a fake tambourine?
This is only a dollar.
I just saw it.
I said, hey, it's a dollar.
The real tamarind, I actually go through the process of buying it.
It wasn't like a POP, just an item I saw as I walked by.
So my daughter's girlfriend, who's a musician, rock musician, we were FaceTiming the other day.
They live together in Rotterdam, and we were FaceTiming.
You were what?
FaceTiming.
FaceTiming.
You don't know what FaceTiming is?
The missionary position?
What's the deal?
FaceTime is what you do on Apple handheld products.
You're video chatting.
Yes.
Well, it's specifically a FaceTime.
Yeah, if you want to just plug a product.
Oh, yeah.
Big plugger of Apple.
Okay, so we're FaceTiming.
And she's showing me around the apartment, which, you know, they've done some cleaning up, remodeling.
And, you know, so her girlfriend has, you know, guitars and keyboards.
And guess what she had, which she can play professionally?
Slide whistle.
No.
Come on.
A kazoo.
No.
An honest-to-God, full-on theremin.
Oh, a real one?
The big giant one?
Yeah!
No, the giant one with Stan and everything.
The whole deal.
Like, you've got to play something for us.
So she's going to do a track for us.
Oh, good.
But I said, you know, you need to hook up with John and show him how to do it.
And you need to get one.
These things are expensive, man.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, I'm trying to buy an antique one.
If you go for a...
Is it Moog who made some?
Was that Mood with them originally?
Probably.
Mood would probably make one.
But the original one, made by Theremin himself, or whoever invented the thing back in the 50s or 60s, was a really big thing.
It was like one of those old radios from the 20s.
Those big, huge things with a speaker and tubes.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, that's the one I want.
Someone's probably got one in their basement.
Since people who are listening are like, what the hell are they talking about?
Let me see if I can find it.
Look it up!
Here's a classic...
D-H-R-M-I-N. Here's a classic theremin sound.
Hold on.
Here we go.
This is maybe not the best example.
He's taking the gesture.
Well, it's going up.
Here we go.
That's someone who's playing just basically the scales on the theremin.
There you go.
Ow!
There you go.
It was used for most science fiction movies.
Pretty much that's the only thing it's useful for, as far as I'm concerned.
I have no idea.
No, I'm telling you, when they first came out, people were playing concert halls with them.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
So is this kind of in the line of the B3 Hammond organ kind of era?
Not quite.
That's not the idea, though.
Exactly.
No, because it was, you know, it was limited to that squeaky sound.
It didn't have a lot of...
Yeah, it's not a lot of...
There's not a lot of range of stuff, you know, like country and western, anybody?
I don't know.
It seems like it's rather limited.
Yeah, it has its moments.
Okay.
My little device, this little thing.
Yeah.
This little piece of crap I bought from Japan.
Mm-hmm.
The Atatone, Atom Tone.
Yes, Amatone.
Yeah, I left it turned on.
The battery's dropped dead.
Oh, wow.
It doesn't even have circuits I can deal with.
And here's the joke of it.
Here's the real nasty part of it.
The battery case is one of those things you have to screw in.
Screw in.
Who designed that?
What were they thinking?
I don't know.
The Japanese have lost their touch.
It is a great day today, John.
Not only is it episode 55555 today, it is 1010, and by presidential proclamation, today is Leif Erikson Day.
Leif Erikson?
Yes.
When's he got to the price of gold?
Well, more than a millennium ago, Leif Erikson, a son of Iceland and grandson of Norway...
That's interesting.
Why would you even say something like that?
A son of Iceland and grandson of Norway.
It's dumb.
Well, this is from the White House website.
He cast off from Norway's familiar shores and set sail for Greenland.
Erickson and his crew were not aiming to make history, but their ship drifted off course in the North Atlantic and they landed in present-day Canada, making them the first Europeans known to visit North America.
And that's why today, by presidential proclamation, we celebrate Leif Erickson's journey.
And we honor all Norwegian immigrants.
In other words, he got lost, so we celebrate.
Yeah.
The first true dude who wouldn't stop and ask for directions.
Ayo.
Yo.
Also, well, today, of course, being 10-10, tomorrow is a very important day, Friday the 11th.
This is, anyone who's a fan of the second half of the show will know that the New World Order and the Illuminati always like killing people on Friday the 11th, so we'll have to stay vigilant and see what's happening.
They do?
Oh, yeah.
Go ahead and look on, you can just Google it, probably, Friday the 11th.
The 11th is one of those numbers, man.
It's like everyone's always getting killed on Friday the 11th.
Either that or Friday the 27th is another one of their favorite numbers.
It's all about the numbers with these guys.
Yeah, well, that's the reason we are vigilant ourselves about tracking these numbers.
That's why we celebrate 5-5-5 show, number 5-5-5, 10-10 day, which is, curiously, you've got very few Chinese who chimed in on that one.
I noticed, I was looking at the spreadsheet, and I'm like, wow, a few people...
There'd be one Taiwanese dude that would listen to the show.
Yeah, a few people were in on it, but not everybody.
It's like, what a spectacular date.
This should be beautiful.
It is a nice day, though, here in FEMA Region 6.
They usually have a parade here in FEMA Region 9.
On what?
On 1010?
Yeah, in Chinatown.
Oh, right.
Of course.
But I think they may have stopped doing it because it's really a Republic of China celebration.
It's the day that the dynasties were overturned, and then the communists kicked the Republic guys out over to Taiwan, where they still celebrate Tan-Ten Day.
And as far as I know, the PRC does not.
So, someone will correct me if I'm wrong.
While we're on the topic of Asians, do you remember when we were talking about the first time Dennis Rodman went up to North Korea...
And we were talking about the Disneyland, ABC connection and everything.
What was kind of your prediction as to what Kim Jong-un wants and what his vision is for the future of the country?
Well, we've said this before from the get-go.
When I first saw that first Vice show, They want to become a tourist trap.
Have you been following the news?
No.
Well, yes, but not that news.
Some news.
Well, North Korea has opened up its first luxury ski resort.
I didn't know they wanted to be a ski resort.
Well, the snow is due in about two months.
There was a little snafu.
Yeah, I'll bet there was.
The Swiss company who has the two ski lifts has not delivered them yet.
That would be a drawback.
Yeah, it's a great ski resort.
We have a small little issue.
Yeah, you've got to climb to the top.
But it's really interesting.
They put you in a snowmobile and drag you up there.
Oh, yeah.
There's pictures in the show notes if you're interested to see it, 555.nashownotes.com.
I found this other source for Korean news, and there's a lot of interesting stuff they're doing.
They have that whole industrial zone.
They've reopened business with South Korea.
There's all these things that are actually really positive that are going on, but whenever there's something in the news here, it's always, oh, you know, they're going to drop a bomb!
They're creating the bomb!
They're going to shoot a rocket!
They're horrible!
They're crazy!
Yeah, that's the way we do it.
I wouldn't mind trying to...
Until they sell out to us.
Right.
Well, I wouldn't mind going to the...
Are you kidding?
I've been itching to go.
It's the Masik, M-A-S-I-K, Masik Pass.
The first North Korean...
It's not just...
It's a luxury ski resort.
Well, they don't know, I'm sure, what that really means.
You don't know.
Have you ever been?
It may be very luxurious.
I'm doubting it.
You know, so I went to...
I don't know if I've told this story before, but I went to China.
Way before Hong Kong was, you know, before 97 and was visiting.
But they were gearing up to become the Chinese mainland.
And this was in the town of Suzhou, which I think at the time only had one factory.
Now they have a whole bunch.
And the only factory there was from Acer built a factory there.
And they had a small amusement park and there was a luxury hotel that we stayed in.
And it was, you know, kind of bare bones, and it was a hard bed, and it was just they needed some work.
But you go into the...
Someone reminded me of the Vice magazine report on Korea.
You go into the breakfast thing, because they decide they're going to have the European-style...
You know, breakfast.
Croissants?
Or the Chinese style.
Actually, a lot of these Asian hotels in the morning, they have this huge spread.
Oh, nice.
You can get anything.
It's all kinds of stuff.
Kind of like in Hawaii, you mean?
Where they have big breakfast spreads in Hawaii in the morning?
I don't know that they do that, but that's true.
Yes, similar.
So they had this big spread, but they always had a million people.
It must have been 40 people watching over the three people in there eating.
Right.
And the thing, the kicker was they didn't quite have everything right because the orange juice was heated.
Wow, that's interesting.
So you had a nice glass of warm orange juice, and oh boy, that's refreshing.
Was there any, is that like their culture with orange juice?
No, they have no connection to orange juice.
They didn't know.
This is interesting.
Somebody took a picture.
Hey man, I got a great idea.
Watch this.
Hey, hey, Xin Lu Xing, put a candle under that thing, man.
We should make that standard.
Oh, God, it's horrible.
I think if we have our no-agenda ski tours to North Korea, we'll have, you know, it's breakfast included.
I think a no-agenda tour to North Korea would be fantastic.
Can you imagine?
We could charter a plane.
I think we'd rather charter a train or something.
I'm just thinking that might not be a good idea.
That's an easy way to get rid of all of us.
Wipe out the show in one go.
We've got the hosts, we've got the supporters, we've got everybody in one go.
No, maybe not a good idea.
It's like the Polish government.
I'm really annoyed.
Of course, nothing new, maybe, but this Affordable Care Act, healthcare.gov website...
Now, you made a big stink when I brought this up recently.
But I'm going to make a different stink.
Okay, make your stink.
You and I, well, you more than I do, but we come out of the technology world, and I am wondering, why is it that not a single, solitary business Big technology reporting outfit,
not CNET, not TWIT, not GigaOM, not TechCrunch, none of these people, none of them, none, none, none, have done any in-depth analysis of what has gone wrong with this project.
And it's astounding to me that the audiences are accepting this level of crap.
It's hilarious.
And I've been doing websites, or I was doing websites, since I put planetrebok.com online in 1993, 1994.
And, you know, I've heard everything.
And, of course, we all remember, you know, the one time it actually was valid and worked is there was the Victoria's Secret live stream of their catalog.
Right, that was a big deal.
It was in the late 90s.
And it was broadcast.com, I would like to point out, which was the huge billion-dollar scam that Mark Cuban pulled off on Yahoo.
That's how he got his money, is he sold this bullshit website, basically a domain name.
And Broadcast.com was going to show the Victoria's Secret models.
And, you know, nothing ever made it on because, oh, it was so successful.
It crashed all the servers!
And, you know, it was okay to say that for a little while.
And, in fact, my own company did the first URL on the Super Bowl.
And I'm trying to think which Super Bowl that was.
I'm going to say maybe 96th.
And we had Oracle as a client, and it was for Oracle.
And I remember quite specifically how unprepared we were at the time, but it's 96.
And Oracle barely had ODBC connectors, and of course they expected us to use an Oracle backend to get these submissions or whatever the campaign was for when they flashed the URL. And it blew up immediately.
So we started bringing on any kind of hardware we could, including, I think, a Microsoft IIS server with, what was that?
Their SQL server, right?
Microsoft SQL server.
And I remember there was a huge problem because even that blew up, except then the error message said, you know, error Microsoft SQL server IIS for an Oracle campaign.
It was like we lost, I think, the business at that point.
But to do this in 2013 is just unacceptable.
And to not have any...
I mean, I found some really good blogs...
Well, you know, it seems as though the coding...
I think I thought you were going to discuss or bring into this...
If you remember, about two or three or four years ago, we would ridicule the government for its...
Yeah, the $17 million websites.
Yeah, so if they're putting millions of dollars into these websites, then they must have dropped a ton of dough into this thing.
Well, the CGI, which is the...
So the American arm of CGI Federal, which is a Canadian company, CGI... They got, I think, $97 million.
But in total, if you look across the board at all of the healthcare exchanges, everything that is bundled up into this, the number is reported to be...
They could have had the WordPress guys do it for a few hundred thousand.
Or just have Amazon.
Amazon could do it in their sleep.
Oh, yeah.
Play the healthcare computers clip so people know what we're talking about.
Okay.
And then I have a couple clips regarding this.
The federal government's new health insurance website had to be taken down again overnight, one week after it went live.
Glitches have plagued the online enrollment system for uninsured Americans.
The Obama administration has declined to release any numbers on how many people have managed to sign up.
Okay, so a couple things here.
And by the way, that was, I think, a key thing.
They still will not say it.
I don't think 10 people have signed up, but they won't admit it.
Well, here's the clips I have, and I want to say there's two parts to this website.
One is the front end, which I think the company is called Development Seed in D.C. They did the front end, and they actually put the source code on GitHub and had people comment on it.
That has very little.
I mean, you get to the homepage.
That part works.
It's all the back-end stuff that doesn't work, and that was all CGI. There's like four or five companies that are part of this.
Now, I just have a couple clips to show you how ridiculous this is, and again, I'm astounded that there's no real calling.
Of course, we know that most of these organizations all suck off the Obama administration, so for some reason they can't be negative about it or whatever it is.
It's very annoying because in 2003, you cannot be playing the web stats game like Jay Carney's spokeshole for Let me look at my book.
Facts and figures I have.
Facts and figures!
As of now, I still have, in the first 72 hours, healthcare.gov had over 8.6 million unique visitors.
As you know, there were seven times more users on the Marketplace website that first morning than have ever been on the Medicare.gov.
Than have ever been on any website ever, including Victoria's Secret.
We could not have known.
A site at one time.
But you still don't know how many people have signed up?
I'm glad you asked that question.
Because I want to be clear about it.
When it comes to enrollment data, I want to clear this up.
He can't find his place in the book.
We will release data on regular monthly intervals, just like was done in Massachusetts, and just like was done and is done when it comes to Medicare Part D. Struggling.
What I can confirm right now is that, by the way, Medicare Part D, I do want to point this out, was also a huge fiasco when that was rolled out.
Do you remember that, John?
Medicare Part D and none of the pharmacies could get, oh yeah, it was also, like nothing learned.
Medicare Part D, that rollout was...
And it's the same systems.
It's the same back-office, big iron stuff.
And so we could have known this.
People are signing up through federal exchanges.
But we're not going to be...
This is an aggregation process, and we're not going to release data on an...
It's an aggregation process.
Write these down, John.
This is good for our consulting business.
Yeah, just a bunch of bull-trapped terms.
It's an aggregation process.
Hourly or daily or weekly basis.
We'll follow models that have existed in previous programs, including...
A similar program in Massachusetts, including Medicare Part D, which is the most recent federal example of this kind of thing, and release enrollment data on regularly monthly intervals.
Alright, so he's just playing some stats there.
Then we have...
Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who of course is...
We have to bring out the big guns and we all have to say the same thing.
Here's the talking points.
One, we didn't expect this amount of traffic.
It was totally unexpected.
Everyone was so excited.
In my wildest dreams, it couldn't be some nutjob who has used a botnet to have some kind of DDoS with fake names pilot.
None of None of that could happen, and no one could ever even question that on any of the technology news sites.
Oh, not at all.
But also, we have to talk about things like hits.
I love anyone who ever says hits.
And we have to compare it to Apple, you know, like iOS 7, you know, of course.
Oh, and by the way, and if you know, and then again, I don't have the clip, but I... I have it all, baby.
I got it all.
What is this constant reference to kayak?
That's the president.
I don't know why he's referencing Kayak.
No, it's not the president.
I was watching PBS NewsHour and one spokeshole came on and she said Kayak.
Really?
Yeah, why kayak?
I don't know.
I don't even think of kayak.
I think of Travelocity.
I think of Hotels.
I think of all these, you know, Expedia, da-da.
Kayak?
Interesting.
I don't know why kayak.
Did you do any research or you just like put it down next to you and then forgot about it?
So what research am I going to do?
I don't know.
I have to go to Washington, D.C. and dig through the damn files in that basement to find out.
See who's invested, yes.
See who invested.
Yes.
Yeah, because we can't just get it.
We won't put it on the internet, for God's sake.
So this is also an issue about transparency.
How can the most transparent administration in the universe not force the makers of this to show the code so we can take a look at it?
There's a lot of people.
We invented the internet!
We have Amazon.
We have...
When Apple does stuff...
Okay.
Anyway.
I'm digressing into that.
So, the comparison continuously of...
Well, you know, when Apple releases a new...
There's a little difference between a whole new operating system and a website.
Okay?
That's supposed to, like, connect to a mainframe.
It's a little different.
But okay.
We're going to have to go along with your bull crap.
And here's Washington when Schultz takes it to a whole new level.
At number.
At number.
So, clearly, we're eight days in, and to be insisting on...
Oh, she's already stammering.
But listen to it.
She's got the best line, though.
...being produced day by day for a six-month enrollment program that is a little bit unfair.
It's unfair to ask for the numbers, Josh.
It's unfair, I tell you.
And, you know, the good news that came out of this problem, and HHS has acknowledged that there's obviously been some technological problems with the server.
The server.
Okay, the server.
But the good news out of that is that the server is...
She thinks server is someone with her divorce papers.
We're apparently designed to anticipate about 50,000 people a day going on the website and moving around.
And it turns out...
Moving around on the website.
Hold on a second.
I'm just moving around on my website here.
Oh.
What?
Can you play that little last part again, what she said?
It doesn't end.
There's another 45 seconds of this.
No, I know, but play that part again.
That part or further back?
What she says, 50,000.
Go back, back, back, back, back.
But the good news out of that is that the servers were apparently designed to anticipate...
Apparently...
I can't help myself.
The servers were apparently designed.
About 50,000 people a day going on the website and moving around.
And it turns out it's been 250,000 a day.
She has completely different numbers now.
Listen, for $600 million, I can crawl to 250,000 people a day.
And sign them up with a piece of paper.
It's also clear that they need to fix those technological bugs.
I don't know any software program or app, for that matter, by any high-tech company that doesn't have bugs and fixes that need to be made in the first few days of the rollout.
Oh!
Because she's an expert now.
She doesn't know of any company that does that.
Yeah, Amazon.
Amazon.
I'm sorry.
I rarely see Amazon pull something back.
Rarely.
I've never seen it happen.
Can I do a little thing here?
I have two more clips.
No, it's about the last clip.
I don't want to stray too much before I bring this up.
She said they anticipated 50,000 people a day.
No, no.
The servers were designed.
Well, whether that designer, whether they have something, there's something, I don't know what the uninsured number is, but it's something like 14 million people.
Everyone has to be signed up by January 1st, I believe.
It's 34 million, and I believe there's a, the deadline is March 30th, 2014.
But okay.
Okay, well then it gives us three.
Most people that, taking it to March 30th, that calculates to 9 million.
50,000 times 180 days.
Right.
How are they supposed to sign all these people up if they're anticipating only 50,000?
You know, this is a new thing that you particularly are doing on the show, and I like it a lot.
It's called multiplication.
Yes, multiplication is quite interesting.
It's called fun with numbers and government bullcrap from spokesholes.
Yeah, it makes no sense.
It makes no sense.
But, you know, maybe they're putting new servers on.
And so that's why there's, in part, why there's a six-month enrollment plan.
Yeah, six months.
So, you know, the analogy that I've used repeatedly is that the Republicans...
What?
That's nine million.
Yeah, so this is all bull crap.
Nobody ever does just a simple math and says, how can you even say these things?
Well, let's listen to our Treasury Secretary, who we haven't heard enough of.
Of course, we lost Timmy Geithner, and we now know that he's not become the new chief of the Fed.
So he's back, and he'll show up somewhere.
We'll have fun with him eventually in the future.
These guys never stray too far.
Timmy's too good.
So now we have Lou, Jack Lou, who is, he has the personality kind of a dishrag.
And the hair to match.
And he was on, I want to say maybe the Fox Sunday show.
I'm telling you, if you look at a picture of him, I don't know what you think, but I don't want to say anything disparaging.
But go ahead.
He looks like he's got Down syndrome.
No.
Yes.
Look at his official government picture.
Just type in Jack Lew to Google and you'll see this little thing on the sidebar.
I'm taking a look.
People with Down syndrome are better looking.
Well, I'm just saying, he just doesn't...
So I don't want to pick on him.
Well, it was an unnecessary thing to say, probably.
No, I'm saying if he has Down syndrome.
Yeah.
No, he doesn't.
But here he is.
Well, God knows what he's thinking, though.
You have had three years to prepare for this week.
If I already had doubts, somebody already had doubts about the government's ability to oversee a sense of the economy, shouldn't this just add to my doubts?
You know, Chris, I actually think that is not what's happened this week.
What happened this week is we saw 7 million people rush to go onto the webpage.
They were rushing!
Seven million!
What are their choices in this new marketplace to buy affordable health care?
How many actually signed up, sir?
They have six months to sign up.
This is a big decision.
How many signed up?
I don't have the exact number, but the question isn't happening.
Do you have any number?
Because the government has refused to tell us on that.
It's the wrong question.
It's the wrong question!
It's a question.
How is it the wrong question?
It's the wrong question.
That's the wrong question.
Just shut up, you.
No, it isn't.
In the end, looking, I can look, and I may have no interest, and in fact, I'm not going to need Obamacare.
The question is how many people have actually signed up.
We know that people take time to make important decisions like this.
They go on, they compare their options.
The fact that so many millions of people rush to get information is a very good sign.
They will set their alarms.
It's not a good sign.
And I don't believe that for a second.
I personally believe this thing is being DDoS to all hell.
And they're so dumb they don't even know it or someone is not telling somebody.
I don't believe for a second that the rollout they did...
I've done rollouts...
Yeah, well, there's a couple other things.
We had a clip, I don't know if we played it, it was a couple shows ago, or one show ago, where somebody at CNN had gone to the site, actually got through, and found that when they put the drop-down menus, had no selections.
How's that got?
That's got nothing to do with DDoS.
You know, it could be.
No, it's a long shot.
You hit a drop-down menu and you get no choices, it says no choices.
No, that's because it didn't propagate.
It wasn't propagating.
It was a JavaScript thing.
It should have been already on the page.
It's not like something they have to do extra.
Yeah, if the JavaScript didn't load because it was generated dynamically with the...
There's a lot of possibilities, but it just seems to me that this website has got more trouble.
But it doesn't matter regardless.
The reporting is not there.
It's so bad that the questions that are coming out of these mainstream spokes holes are better than anything coming out of the so-called technology press.
I'm not going to argue the point.
I don't see any articles, as a matter of fact.
Well, I found a whole bunch of blog posts which are really good, which are done by people who know what they're talking about.
They can point exactly to the – they say part of the problem is it appears that part of this was built with Ruby and Java and that possibly some of the early problems that Twitter had with Ruby of scalability, that that's part of it.
They know exactly what – There's a lot of stuff that won't scale.
But they know exactly which Java back-end app is not working.
There's a lot of really good...
And I put all those links in the show notes for you.
I can get a column out of that.
Yes, and as of today, CNN reports that everyone who did get through and signed up for an account received a message that they have to reset their password.
Because of some great upgrade they did.
So there's that.
And then Kathleen Sebelius, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, was on the Jon Stewart show.
Yeah.
But the clip I have is...
I don't know what...
She's talking like an insane woman, and Jon Stewart is not questioning her.
She's insane.
What is she saying?
Yeah.
As you know, we're facing the end of the Western civilization by having a market-based strategy.
What does that mean?
We're facing the end of Western civilization by having a market-based strategy.
What?
And Stewart's like, uh-huh.
They are bringing Western civilization to its knees by selling private insurance plans on a website where people pick and choose.
How can he say yes?
Is he on drugs?
I know.
I saw this, but I wasn't paying much attention to that particular part of it.
Well, I did.
I think what she's doing is being facetious.
No, no, no.
Yeah.
No.
This is the right wing that says that the world's coming to an end, and that's what she's mocking.
No, no.
And that's why he's agreeing.
Listen to the whole thing.
I don't think so.
It's 37 minutes.
I don't think so.
As you know, we're facing the end of the Western civilization by having a market-based strategy.
We are bringing Western civilization to its knees by selling private insurance plans on a website where people pick and choose.
So I understand your point, and I understand if we could have perhaps...
Okay, this is her idea of funny.
Okay, okay, I'm sorry.
She thinks she's hilarious with that line.
Wow, it's so funny that I didn't even get it at first.
Most people wouldn't unless they spot liberal, liberal code.
Anyway, it's kind of, so I'm literally, I am interested, and so I've tried to sign up a couple times, and I tweeted a picture yesterday, because I tried every day, just to see if I can get an account, and I got through one time, but then I got the email to verify, and then, it must have been 30 seconds, and I clicked on the link, and it said, oh, you waited too long, like, what?
What?
No.
You waited too long for your verification click.
And then yesterday, the template broke.
And so I tweaked this out and I said, wow, you know, and now it's, you know, day eight or day nine.
And, you know, the tweets you get back, because I'm in Texas, if you're like, well, Texas won't have any option enough for the health care.
They don't care about people.
Wow, man.
Who was that you were doing?
Let me see who the name of that person was.
Hold on.
Let me see.
Did you block him?
You should have blocked him by now.
It is Zeneday Zouval.
Keep in mind, Texas doesn't want anybody using the new healthcare option.
That's not true.
How is that true?
It's not.
It's like, you know, no.
Texas opted out of expanding Medicare.
It's not the same as what you're saying, but you bring out...
People are defending...
Oh, hold on a second.
Three followers?
This is probably some Obama bot thing coming from D.C. with a name like Zeneda Zouval.
Really?
He has three followers?
Yeah.
No, that's a scammer.
Oh, yes.
It's typical.
Yeah, it's just a propaganda guy.
You shouldn't have even responded to him.
Anyway, so some really good reporting from people who have entirely different jobs and someone who have worked on some of this stuff in the show notes, 555.nashownotes.com.
And you will actually learn a little bit.
and people speaking under anonymity.
There's a Reddit where some people are explaining what they've seen.
And it does seem like the basic problem is, you know, it's typical of government how you get a project and it's subbed out to all these different companies and no one's really in charge at the top.
And by the way, it makes me wonder, you know, we've seen all these Edward Snowden PowerPoints I don't believe the NSA can get anything done.
Why would they be able to do it if we can't get this healthcare thing together?
Really?
Well, we're talking about computer problems.
Play the clip.
NSA computer problems.
Yeah, this is a good one.
There was word today that power surges have repeatedly damaged a massive new data storage facility for the National Security Agency.
The Wall Street Journal reported 10 meltdowns over 13 months destroyed hundreds of thousands of dollars of hardware at the Utah site.
The power problems have delayed the facility's opening.
Another fine piece of reporting that none of the mainstream technology companies have bothered to even delve into.
I can call a guy at Akamai today and understand what might be happening.
This sounds a little...
I built a data center, famously, in Amsterdam.
I was about, oh, 10 years too early.
Lost about $12 million.
That was where really all my money went.
And I never had that problem.
I don't even understand what the problem is.
There's no information given here.
Of course, the NSA's not saying anything.
And why would they have a meltdown a month?
And who's going to...
Where's the source?
Where's the source of this?
I can't find a source.
It's the CIA. We know that.
Thank you.
But that's beside the point.
They probably are having some problems.
But what...
This is the thing that brings me back to the EFF event I went to where I was told that Obama said we can't hire anyone who knows what they're doing because we can't get security clearances for them.
So they got a bunch of boneheads throwing this thing together, this massive project, billions of dollars worth of gear, and they can't get the power supplies to work?
Or what's the deal?
It's not understandable to me.
Right.
And, of course, there is no reporting, you're right.
No, there really is no...
I'm starting a tech show.
Screw it.
I'm done.
I can do better than that.
Adam on tech.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
I have your blessing, right?
Oh, yeah.
Knock yourself out.
Oh, yeah.
Done.
Hold on.
Done.
Done.
Yeah.
But I really question the government's ability, any arm of government.
What's the NSA's budget?
Six, seven hundred million dollars?
More?
What?
What's the NSA's budget?
$600 billion?
What's their budget?
It's billions.
Yeah?
I know that operation, that thing they're building, isn't that $3 billion?
Yeah.
The Utah facility?
Something like, no, 1.7 or something.
Well, whatever, it's a lot of money for a bunch of computers.
It's not even including the computers.
They're blowing up left and right.
I think that's just the data center.
And why do they call it meltdown?
Oh, that's the Wall Street Journal reporting.
It's a meltdown because it sounds so nuclear.
Yeah, anything to slam the business.
Yeah, exactly.
And by the way, we do have to make more discussion on this.
On?
The nuke situation.
I've been reading about, you know, we've had, you know, all the aircraft carriers are nuclear-powered.
Yes.
All the submarines, and now most of our destroyers and most of the Russian fleet.
All nuclear-powered, yeah.
Yeah, they got these small little, you know...
Power plants.
The one that's in the newest submarine going out has 40,000 horsepower.
A 40,000 horsepower generator, one horsepower delivers, I believe, 750 watts.
So multiply that by 40,000, you could light up a neighborhood with one of these things and keep it going forever.
Well, this is, you know, it was Atomic Rod, Sir Rod, Atomic Rod Adams, who has been a producer and contributor to the show for many years.
He was a former nuke, he was on, I don't know if he was a commander, I think he was in charge of the nuke stuff.
In a sub?
Yeah, he was on the sub for, I don't know, 17 years or something.
That's a horrible duty.
No, he said he liked it.
Well, some people don't get...
I guess you could like it if you have the right personality.
Yeah, well, they have orgies on these ships, you know.
There was just a big news item about...
They had an orgy on a sub?
Yeah, there was five...
Four guys and one girl were thrown in the brig because they had an orgy.
Yeah.
Yay!
In the Navy!
I want to go now.
Sounds good.
Sounds good, people.
Yeah!
That's a recruiting job right there.
We need more waves.
Heterosexual orgies.
Yes.
Very, very nice.
Very nice.
They got caught.
I think someone...
I don't know.
Somebody ratted him out.
Oh, no, no, no.
I think it was on...
There's something I was on video.
Oh, some idiot filmed it on their...
Some douchebag ruined it for everybody.
Yeah, because he wanted to show his buddies.
Dude, she was so awesome, you douche.
Look at what Audrey's doing.
Yeah, she's pulling a train.
I haven't actually heard you say that ever.
41.30.
Audrey.
And why Audrey?
Why is Audrey pulling the train?
Oh, that actually hurt my side.
Oh, man.
Damn.
Very good.
Okay, I have a quick little thing here to take care of.
After I let everyone in on my problem of the song stuck in my head, I got a lot of response.
Apparently...
This Master of the House song that...
Yeah, play it again.
I like it.
Well, actually, this was the subject of a Seinfeld episode.
I did not know.
I remember this.
Really?
It's from Les Miserables.
I went to see it last week.
I can't get it out of my head.
I didn't know.
I guess I missed that episode.
There's a lot of episodes I must have missed.
But I didn't know that he had actually had that.
That was an episode.
Yeah.
I vaguely remember it.
So I did receive several messages.
Play the song.
Come on.
I have a new version.
I'm going to deprogram everybody and make you feel much better.
Do you know how the song goes now, John?
Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da.
To fullrock.org slash NA.
Donate enough to be a knight someday.
Okay.
Ha ha!
*laughter* Thank you, Brandon.
How good is that?
I think that's going to have to be played over and over before it begins to work, but I think you've got something there.
Come on.
I had it after one play.
It's good.
Yeah, I think that'll stick in people's heads.
While we're on that topic, in the morning to you, John C. DeVore.
In the morning to you, Adam Curry.
All ships at sea, boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, and names and knights out there.
Yay!
And all of our human resources in the chat room, noagendastream.com, noagendachat.net.
Hey-hey-o!
Thank you for showing up.
We had a nice pre-stream this morning, those of you who listen live to the program.
And thank you to our artist, hey, it was Nick the Rat.
Who came in once again with our artwork for 554.
And we're always looking forward to what shows up at noagendaartgenerator.com.
And, of course, appreciate everything that our artists do for us.
It's a big deal.
We understand it's not easy.
And, well, thank you.
Just, again, from the bottom of our hearts.
And this is the show that we had hoped to get a lot of people checking in with the meme of 1010 and 555.
A couple showed up, which is good.
We got one who did the 555, and that's, of course, the Grand Duke Stephen Pelsmacher from Belgium.
I have another one on the list before that.
Well, yeah.
Well, the big donor was Ryan Bemrose, who came in as an Insta Knight.
And has a few comments to say.
By the way, I'll start to read his email.
But from this note, on behalf of the ships at sea, feet in the air, folks in the White House, I want to thank you for your courage.
Read that carefully.
I liked what he said there.
Hi, John and Adam.
On behalf of the ships at sea, feet in the air, and folks in the White House, I want to thank you for your courage.
I'm just trying to figure out where he's working.
I think that he might be...
He's in Everett, Washington.
There's a naval base there.
Okay, gotcha.
That's the ship.
That would be my guess if he was involved in anything.
It's giving a month again at work, so I'm donating to the organization that is doing the most good in the world.
Sadly, the company turned down my application for matching funds.
Oh.
By my calculation, and he goes on with some numbers, he's barren.
The last thing I ask for is to keep doing what you're doing.
No agenda seems to be the only sane thing in the world anymore.
With the content, NSA stories, and the mainstream news, I'm hitting more people in the mouth than ever before.
And I asked him, I said, what is the...
What's the deal with this?
Because he's got other donations.
And he sent me a note back.
Because I didn't know if he was a knight.
Because he's already a knight.
He's Sir Ryan Bemrose.
But he was never knighted.
Oh.
I asked him.
I said, what do you want me to do with this instant knight payment?
He says, actually, if you're handing out make goods, I would first mention I was never knighted.
Oh, man.
Does he have a ring?
No, probably not.
So he's a black...
He's a black knight.
He's a black sank-on-sank knight, because he did...
His numbers actually are 55555 and 44444 plus one penny, which he throws in for us.
So he's...
Yeah.
He says he's crediting his first instant-night donation to his wife, Lisa, who was knighted on show 416.
So we damed her...
My second instant night was intended to be for me, show 452, but I didn't get the ceremony because the spreadsheet recorded that I'd already donated for night.
It's not a big deal since I've been enjoying the benefits of knighthood all this time.
I just want to make sure the small hiccup doesn't get in the way of a barony.
And he has a protectorate that he wants, does he not?
Yes.
Puget Sound excluding the People's Republic of Seattle.
What is that?
Let me write that down.
That's funny.
Who would want it?
The People's Republic of Seattle.
Okay.
It's out.
Nice.
Nice.
Sorry, we're all caught up.
And we'll fix it.
He's a baron and his wife's a dame, and we're all in business.
And we're going to knight him, and you can go to noagendanation.com slash rings and get his ring there, and...
The Lord's dames, knights, slaves, and elites, please be upstanding for another donation from the Grand Duke, Ron Pelsmacher.
That's right.
When you are a patron like the Grand Duke Pelsmacher of Belgium, you get your own jingle on the show.
Now we have also an executive producer.
I'm reading his note here.
Show 555-1010 some extra support and karma for all the knights and dames out there.
Make sure we hand out the karma.
You've got karma.
He didn't have a long thing to tell us there.
No.
Christopher Simi in Regina, Saskatchewan has no note I can find, but he's an executive producer.
I'm sure that he'll...
Did you find some?
Because I don't have anything in mind.
I'm going to look real quick while you move on to the next one.
I'll check.
I have a feeling.
Also, in the UK, another executive producer from Langley.
Langley?
UK. Unfortunately.
Samir, we need some Langley money.
Samir Bhatti.
How about some healthcare.gov money?
Damn.
In the morning to you, John and Adam.
In the morning to J to the C to the D from a Brit from sunny Bournemouth.
Bournemouth.
Bournemouth.
I was a regular viewer of Abby Martin's RT show on YouTube, but my good friend Gareth Hobson, who is a subscriber, got me listening to No Agenda since March.
Nice.
It's been a revelation after your discussions about Abby's show, it became more apparent to me how bad she was at reading the teleprompter and the contrived dramatization.
Oh, wow.
I asked my friend Gareth, Gazprom for short, why he would think I'd like your show.
And his response was that he knew I was crackers enough to listen properly.
Nice.
We've tried to hit our friends in the mouth, but sometimes, by the way, in hitting people, you want to preach to the converted.
Yeah, you can't convert the people who are just...
You can't convert people.
You can preach to the converted.
But you can drop little things, but they have to pick it up, you see.
They have to pick it up.
We tried to hit all our friends in the mouth, but sometimes we just want to punch instead.
If we ever started our own UKNA show, we agreed I would be Crackpot and he would be Buzzkill.
In our student years, we did resort to cooking mac and cheese a few times, but at least the ingredients came out of different bags.
And the sauce was made from scratch.
Love the mockery of the British accent, especially when guys like Farage and Haig are talking nonsense, and I would welcome more of it, but I'm still learning how to read between the lines of the politicians.
I do not think there's a difference between those here and the U.S. Together, there's a huge difference.
Well, he doesn't think so.
Yeah, in England, they talk like this.
I'm currently looking for a new job as a research assistant in psychology, so please send some job karma, so let's do that right now.
Okay, here we go.
Job karma.
You've got karma.
Finally, Adam, a few episodes ago you mentioned how Breaking Bad has been ruined!
As a show, and I'd like to know why.
I loved that show from start to the end, but was it something I missed?
Yeah, I'll be simple.
Season 5, everything was turned around.
It was ruined.
It was not good.
The storyline was off.
Is that the season where they had the head on top of the turtle?
No, that was great.
That was the best show for her.
Season 5 was the last season.
I thought it was Big shout out to anybody in Bournemouth who is a fellow listener.
Come and find me at the university.
And then he says, yours, Samir, probably your first Muslim donor.
Nah.
I don't think so either.
No, we have quite a few Muslim donors, actually.
Really?
Yes.
And some of them are in the Middle East.
We have a lot of Muslim donors.
Oh, that's true.
Yes.
Allahu Akbar!
But they're Muslim.
They're normal Muslims.
They're not nuts.
No, but they say al-Akbar.
Yeah, they might.
Yeah, of course they do.
Everybody would.
You just did.
Yes.
Okay, we go to Associate Executive Producer Richard Harriman.
$266.60 from Lisbon, Maine.
In the morning, A&J, there's a few things I appreciate more than the work you do each week.
My beautiful wife, Christy Lake Harriman, is one of those things.
Christy's birthday is on 121012, and I wanted to contribute to her damehood.
A happy birthday karma would be great, too, if you wouldn't mind.
She deserves it.
Absolutely.
Here's a little bit of karma for the dame.
You've got...
And she's on the list.
Of course.
And an associate executive producer just dubbed...
What?
What?
Please be outstanding for another donation from the Grand Duke, Ron Hells Huckles.
$248.94.
And this is where his note is.
ITM, Smokey and the Bandit.
This is a donation to offset the Texas Rangers bite out of your budget for going 94 miles an hour westbound and down on Marfa.
He gave me the exact number of the ticket.
Enjoying the show as much as ever.
Just got behind a few episodes.
Again, I want to catch up the slow way since hence the tardiness of this contribution.
But as for enjoying a lush mac and cheese with the Duke of Silicon Valley, I am but a mere humble slave to the universe.
Track as much as all the rest of you just getting by.
So no need to have courtiers provide us with extravagant offerings.
Just a bi-weekly dose of the show and some occasional karma will do.
Adios, mofos.
Stephen, I mean, Sir Grand Duke, we really love you.
Thank you.
I just love saying I have a man in Belgium who pays my tickets.
Hello?
John has notes.
I thought I had floored you for some reason.
No, no, no.
John has notes.
Where did these notes go?
Daniel Carda?
Yeah, I got a bunch of notes.
Is this a sheck?
Shecky Green?
Why don't I read the note?
Hold on a second.
Just wait.
Why don't I read the note that you have?
Sure, John.
That's no problem.
Daniel Carter.
I'm looking.
I'm looking.
No, I don't have anything.
I have no idea where this is coming from.
This was mailed in, and so there's a note.
And I found it.
The check is still here.
I've got to put that someplace else.
Like in the bank.
Don't put it in your office.
I know.
That's what I'm worried about.
I have actually received emails from people on occasion.
Hey!
A check from eight months ago?
This is rare.
It's rare, but it has happened.
It's very rare.
I do everything in one spot.
Once or twice.
But when I bring these notes and somehow the check stays with the note, then it ends up in the office.
It's stuck to the bottom of your shoe.
No, it's not that careless.
I used to be when I was a paperboy.
So when I was a paper boy, a guy comes out with his foam around.
And the guy, after the whole I'm collecting, and this guy is like a supervisor, he has to make sure you know.
And he says to me, kid...
You handle your money like a drunken sailor.
I had no idea what he's talking about.
I just want to submit my next donation.
It should put me well on my way to getting my knighthood, sending a check, because it makes you feel like I'm sticking it to Visa and PayPal.
You are.
I would like to request some karma and de-douching.
They're actually going pretty well.
Things are.
But you can never get enough good karma or be de-douched enough.
Oh, absolutely.
You've been de-douched.
Oh.
You've got karma.
I'd like to say that the recent content on the best podcast in the universe has been outstanding.
I really enjoy the way you guys connect the dots together.
I don't always agree with your conclusions, but I find the commentary quite interesting and thought-provoking.
If you guys did the nightly news, I might actually start watching it again.
Yeah, well, that may not be...
We're not exactly camera-ready anymore.
Those days are over.
Well, me in particular.
Stop.
That's not true.
I watch you on that Twitch show.
You're a handsome man.
Do you wear makeup?
No.
Well, you're a handsome man.
I used to wear makeup when I was doing the tech TV show, and I got some of these guys who were saying...
Why don't you do that?
Why don't you wear some makeup?
I mean, just put it on before you go to the...
If I was on the show, I'd put makeup on.
Nah.
Actually, when Cranky Geese started, I said, you know, these cameras stink.
They're no good.
I don't need makeup.
Yeah, but I think if you put it on, you would look really...
You're a handsome man, John.
I'm going to say you're a pretty handsome dude.
I'm not noticing that from the lady's response.
I have a few suggestions.
Like that Miriam who's on the show with you?
you know I get it oh sorry hi I couldn't resist.
Yeah.
All the countries trying to repatriate the gold along with all the missing gold from federal vaults, and we are looking into this, and the coming government land grab where they steal our retirement accounts and issue us government retirement accounts, GRAS, G-R-A-S. Not sure what we know about that.
I know there's a bunch of land grabs going on.
The federal government's been buying up the United States very slowly.
You really?
Literally.
Yeah.
Sorry about the typed letter.
My handwriting is atrocious.
Oh, well.
In fact, the NSA has declared my handwriting as a form of infringement.
It's code.
It's code.
It's 256-bit code.
Anyway, thanks for all the hard work.
I'll keep listening to the best podcast in the universe.
Daniel Carda.
Yay.
Thank you.
Thank you so much.
And we do read, especially notes that are...
Executive producers and associate executive producers.
Yeah, and they go through the trouble of writing in.
Yeah, of course we do.
Yeah, we find that to be interesting.
And who do we have here?
The Angry Korean?
Where's this?
201?
201?
Oh, yeah.
We have Anonymous from the People's Republic.
Oh, I'm sorry.
I'm ahead too far.
2109.
Keep location and name Anonymous.
You guys are killing it.
You guys are killing it lately.
Killing it.
Love this shit.
You basically write my political science essays for me.
I've been getting A's and I haven't given you jack shit.
My bad.
Yeah.
Some cash or you and a producership for me, I don't know.
Wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
So this anonymous person from the People's Republic of California has been getting A's in his or her political science essays because of our content?
That's what he claims.
Using our viewpoints?
Yeah.
Wow.
Because it's so unusual and so well done.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
Here's some cash for you and a producership to me.
I can see that working.
I don't know who's happier.
Just a shot of karma for me, please.
JCD, I'm turning 21 pretty soon.
I live in the East Bay.
Beer on me.
Adios, mofos.
I'm going to hand out some karma for sure.
You've got karma.
So you can go and watch the 21-year-old puke after his first...
His first real beer.
His first real beer.
What?
Oh, this guy's...
It's on you, John.
Come on, man.
It's on me, literally.
John D. Soltis at $290.07 says, from Thomaston, Georgia, I've got a handwritten note, which I'm going to have trouble reading in this case.
It's all printed, but it's still hard to read.
Sitting here listening to the pre-stream.
The longer I remain a boner, the more I feel like I need to contribute as a donor.
A true testament to the value-for-value model.
Enclosed is $209.077 shekels.
69.69 times 3.
Due to the confusion over the streak.
Affair equals 1203EST. Fatlady.com.
This money is well spent to propagate the formula for the...
For the general theory of bogativity.
I just learned JC has an encoder in his pants.
Please de-douche me and call out Ed Lehman in Gitmo Nation Sparkle, Spartansburg, South Carolina, for hitting me in the mouth over a year ago and never donating himself.
Douchebag!
Permission granted for shout-out.
He has an arrow pointing at it.
He needs to be de-douching this guy.
You've been de-douched.
Thank you for teaching me the secrets of news deconstruction.
More likely, that has saved me hours and hours of therapy.
With your suffrage, please impart a getting laid karma, and if so inclined, to the gate, to the gate, to the climate gate, plus chemtrails.
Oh, damn.
Okay.
To the gate, to the gate, to the climate gate.
Tempailos.
Nice.
And I think there's a karma on there.
Well, he had the deducing and the karma and everything.
Yeah, we did like a five thing.
Okay, okay, okay.
Sorry.
Who?
I'm trying to read.
Is that noise on your end or my end?
That's my end.
What is that?
What's going on there?
Let me do it again.
Yeah, what's that?
I gotta put some oil on this thing.
Oh, is it your chair or the mic stand?
It's the mic stand.
I grabbed the mic stand.
How old is it?
It's an old Sony mic stand from like the 60s.
Oh, really?
That's kind of cool.
Yeah.
Oh, take a picture of it.
Because I move it around, the bottom thing unscrews and then the whole thing falls off.
Take a picture of it.
I want to see this 1960s mic stand.
That's kind of cool.
I'm interested.
Since I've never been allowed to see your studio.
Well, one of these days.
The Angry Korean in Shelton, Connecticut, $201 is our final producer for today's show, 555.
Hi, John and Adam.
I put up Angry Korean, but my real name is Song John Kim, which I'm revealing because everybody's named Kim, by the way.
Yeah, really?
Because I really need an associate executive director's credits for my college application as a communications manager.
I tanked my SAT, so I really need this.
Oh, you got it.
You got it.
I started listing because of my kick-ass ex-Korean Marine SAT tutor.
Nice.
Who always pitches about how Americans think their tax dollars are the only thing keeping the North Koreans from raping our women and pillaging our towns.
Nice.
Well, all Korean men are, in his words, drafted and dragged through the mud for two bucks a day.
Please repeat this on the air so that he'll shut up already.
Also, please tell him I'm sorry for tanking the SATs.
A final note, I do take offense on the whole Korean pilot, holy fuck thing, because that is racist.
No one is laughing about this in Korea.
Please give me a...
Like a kick to the crotch in a college karma and a D in a D... What is douchebag for my cheap-ass...
Oh, give the douchebag...
Douchebag!
...cheap-ass SAT to, as far as I know, has never donated and keeps doing his laundry at my place.
No wonder you tanked on the SATs.
The guy's probably not a tutor all.
He's a bum.
He's not a tutor.
Hey, yeah, yeah.
I'm a tutor for the SATs.
You've got karma.
Nice.
All right.
I hope you guys for 555.
I want to thank all of them profusely.
Funny notes, by the way.
Thank you.
I always appreciate the notes.
The notes are good when they're funny.
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Well, John, this is, of course, Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and we have, you know, this is October.
So, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, October.
It's, you know, we're waiting for the big meltdown, the October surprise.
We got the shutdown.
And as if it couldn't get any better, Nat Geo, which is how you're supposed to say it, right?
Nat Geo.
The Nat Geo Channel, on the 27th of October, John, have a fantastic show, which we have to watch.
I have the trailer right here.
American Blackout.
Get really dark, and we're going to have to light some candles.
Are you doing nothing, too?
Nobody's doing anything today, because there's no power right now.
No power.
Nothing in here works.
There's no way to see.
It totally doesn't work.
What are we supposed to do?
What are we supposed to do?
We're stuck.
We've got to get some water.
Wait!
Turn!
Turn!
When are you coming to pick us up?
We're now watching this.
Up, up, up, up!
Wait for it!
Wait for it!
The current blackout is the result of a cyber attack.
Why is nobody helping us?
American Blackout.
A premiere movie event.
Sunday, October 27th at 9.
Yeah, bitches!
The National Geographic Channel.
That's right.
On what channel?
Lifetime?
What?
Nat Geo.
Nat Geo?
The National Geographic Channel is playing this piece of crap?
Because it's reality, baby.
It's like real.
It could really happen.
Did you hear the little news report there?
Because of a cyber attack.
Yeah, no, that was the punchline.
Yeah.
Yeah, no, I'd listen once in a while.
Amazing.
Amazing how they do that.
A piece of crap.
Well, luckily this guy's such a small audience, no one's going to watch it.
I'm going to watch it.
I love it.
I'm not.
I refuse to watch this kind of garbage.
I've got other things to do with my time.
I've got to cut my fingernails.
You've got a show to run.
I've got to scratch my back.
Many more important things than listening to that piece.
All right, all right, all right.
So I got a couple things.
I was very disappointed.
Oh, by what?
Well, you know, I've been pushing the Janet Yellen idea.
They're going to put Janet Yellen in the Takeover Bernanke's job.
Yes, yes, yes.
A couple things.
The nomination thing was like a 12-minute ceremony yesterday.
It was really short.
It was like boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, done.
Well, a couple things.
One, I didn't realize she's a midget.
Yeah, I saw that too.
I'm like, Bernanke's already a midget.
What is she?
She's an Oompa Loompa status.
She's got to be like 4'5 or something.
Wait, is it on the Book of Knowledge?
No.
Let me see.
Janet Yellen Haidt.
Let's see.
It would be appropriate.
She's under five foot.
There's no doubt about that.
Hmm.
So that's why Obama didn't want to pick her.
It looks like Jeff, the two of them.
Especially, is he standing on a, it looked like he was standing on an extra little pedestal there.
He was actually in a hole.
So then she speaks.
I go, oh my god, this woman is not presentable.
Just listen to her.
I mean, she's probably a genius, but I'm just saying, I'm not going to be happy listening to her give testimony.
...sector and about the risks of a major recession.
If confirmed by the Senate, I pledge to do my utmost to keep that trust and meet the great responsibilities that Congress has entrusted to the Federal Reserve.
To promote maximum employment, stable prices, and a strong and stable financial system.
Oh my God, you know who she sounds like?
Who?
Let me see if I can find a video of her.
Have you seen Poltergeist?
Yeah, it was years ago.
Yeah, and they had that little midget woman who tries to...
Oh, that little midget woman.
Run to the light, Carrie Ann!
That one.
Doesn't she sound like?
She looks like a little bit, too.
Yeah.
Maybe it's the same...
Maybe it's her.
Let me see.
Let me see if this is a go into the light.
What was her name?
What was that lady's name?
I can't remember.
Anyway.
Is this...
Here.
Yeah, it's her.
It's her.
Oh, Wilson, go into the lights.
No, no, you said no.
Staple prices and a strong and stable financial system.
He said no, go into the lights.
It's her.
It's totally her.
Yeah, well, she's going to tell people to go into the light.
I think we're doomed.
The shutdown has me very concerned.
And I had to get this off of a...
There's this pretty cool European blog that I've...
Let me see.
What is it called?
European Public Affairs.
And it's like a multiple-person blog.
And these are...
I think...
I don't know if it's just people who follow the EU or europeanpublicaffairs.eu.
No, they're probably subsidized.
This is the news and it's not good.
After the end of a relatively productive negotiating period in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, known as TTIP, or as we have been talking about on the show, the super foreign trade agreement between the United States and Europe, which will save the economies of both continents.
or at least, I don't know about North America, but it'll save America's economy and the EU's economy by allowing us to export our gas super cheap to compete with the Putin stuff.
This was last July.
Those at the heart of the negotiations have been excitedly preparing for the recommencement of talks set to occur in Brussels this month.
A factor many of us had not anticipated was that the disagreement between U.S. lawmakers over the debt ceiling would cause the government of the United States to shut down.
As an American in the field of European affairs traveling in D.C. during the shutdown, it was eerie to say at least.
Turns out...
On Friday, October 4th, EU Trade Commissioner Karol de Gucht received what was, without a doubt, an embarrassing call from the U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman.
Negotiations which were set to take place from the 7th to the 11th of October would no longer occur as a result of the U.S. government shutdown.
This is bad.
Yeah.
This is bullcrap.
Kerry's roaming all over the place doing deals.
Why can't our guy move?
While Secretary Kerry will continue being the U.S. presence at the APEC summit in Indonesia, President Obama will now be missing from those proceedings due to complications arising from the playground staring contest, which seems far from over.
So what is taking place, the TPP, which is the Trans-Pacific Partnership, That is a go.
And we're about 90 days away from that falling into place.
And that's good for us because we'll be exporting export-free gas to Japan and other countries in Asia.
So we do get a penny from all that.
So do the Canadians.
They're going to get that pipeline that goes to BC and they're going to pump out a lot.
I'm okay with that.
There are neighbors.
I'm okay with that.
But for the Europeans, this is not good.
Putin's got some trouble.
I mean, he's obviously...
Play my Putin clip here.
This is, I think, this is a throwback idea, and I think this will be fun to watch.
A Russian court has ordered a critic of Vladimir Putin to be held indefinitely in a psychiatric institution.
Mikhail Kosenko was arrested for taking part in an anti-Putin protest last year.
Human rights activists say the judgment is a return to Soviet-era abuses.
I like it.
F. Putin.
F. Putin.
Just sent it to the nuthouse like they used to do.
Just Stalin used to do.
On that, I got an email from Brian the Gay Crusader this morning.
You'll remember Brian, the gay crusader.
Yeah, the one who was challenging you personally for your lies.
Well, I deconstructed with multiple translations the so-called anti-gay law in Russia and said this is not at all about not being able to express homosexuality.
As it turns out, John, you have the line.
I do?
Yeah.
It's just...
It's just what?
A scam?
Just a scam?
To soak the American entertainment industry.
Oh yeah, no, right.
It's a scam to soak the American entertainment industry.
And you know...
Right on cue, John.
Right on cue.
I'm all over it.
Good work.
And so, you know, it's also possible that this guy was nuts and they sent him to the nut house.
I want to read something from Brian.
Do you want to go back to the nuthouse?
No, no, no.
Keep going.
I'm stunned.
I'm stunned and shocked at my own inefficiency here.
So Brian says, Adam, I want you to know I'm still working on the white paper because he was going to write up a real official thing about this debunking we've done.
He says, I feel a little bit like the boy who cried white paper, but I want you to understand why the anticipated deadline has not yet been met.
Now, as it turns out...
So, he said, I've conducted
countless broadcast TV radio interviews focused on diversity issues with CEOs of the world's largest public and privately held companies, prominent U.S. government officials both elected and appointed, key leadership and ownership of professional sports leagues and teams, and notable individuals in the world of entertainment and the arts.
I've written speeches on the topic for CEOs of some of the world's largest corporations, and I've even written many of the speeches for the Miss America 2004, whose platform was diversity.
And yes, I fulfilled every gay boy's dream and got to wear the crown more than once backstage.
That's a good one.
I don't know.
Anyway, it says, to explain what drives me to take the time to make sure...
So he's a professional.
He does this for a living.
Right.
He's no slouch.
This is our producer here.
Anyway, to explain what drives me to take the time to make sure everything in this white paper is rock solid is that I've seen how those who have spoken in support of the Russian child protection laws are vilified and demonized in the LGBT media, and in some cases the mainstream media.
While I obviously don't support the laws, I have no interest in putting something out there that has the smallest inaccuracies which can be exploited or paint me as an Uncle Tom of the gays.
Anyway, so he's famous.
Okay.
Yeah.
We have a lot of famous listeners.
Yeah, but this is really cool.
So the white paper is forthcoming.
And if you would like to know more about the Miss World contest and the crown, he's happy to fill you in, John.
Okay.
And he could probably get you into one of these affairs.
I want to be a judge.
Yeah, right.
All right, dream on.
That's not going to happen.
So we were talking about the government shutdown.
Yeah.
I got two clips.
Oh, boy.
One thing I have, Lagarde, who's freaking out.
And she's in all...
I mean, she's not an American official.
Yeah, I know.
And what happened to her hair?
Oh, did something happen to it?
Yeah, she's got a Hillary cut.
Really?
Yeah, she used to have that up-do, whatever it was.
Yeah.
Kind of that pixie thing, you know, for...
Oh!
Now she's got a bunch of hair hanging down like a Hillary.
It looks like it was done by a Parisian, but the problem is her face is a hatchet face and she doesn't really work.
Yeah, damn hatchet face.
No, it's a hatchet face.
She does have kind of like...
Yeah, it's not a good look for her.
No.
No.
She does have...
It's Hillary hair.
You're not kidding.
Yeah, she's probably going to the same...
She looks like a dude.
Don't you think?
She looks a bit doody.
You think I'm bad.
Yeah, I'm sorry.
Anyway, so what do we have on this biash?
Well, play the Lagarde clip, and you should just see her freaking out, but...
I don't even know if it's a clip worth playing, actually.
Let's start.
Don't play it.
I want to play it.
And without that new cash coming in, it risks defaulting on paying back the money it already owes.
That would trigger a global financial catastrophe.
The head of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, says it is mission critical that this be resolved as soon as possible.
The ongoing political uncertainty over the budget...
Over the debt ceiling does not help.
The government shutdown is bad enough, but failure to raise the debt ceiling would be far worse and could very seriously damage not only the US economy, But also the entire global economy.
President Obama says a debt default would throw the world's largest economy back into a recession, which the U.S. Treasury says would be worse than what followed the 2007 crisis.
And Obama, using rather more direct phrases than the IMF chiefs, said, if we screw up, everybody gets screwed up.
I mean, how many times do we have to watch this?
You know, at this point, you know, of course we know it's going to happen.
You know what my theory is on this?
I brought it up on the Horowitz show.
Oh, I missed it.
Tell me.
And the problem is we have to go to Washington, D.C. to prove this theory to be correct.
But all the staffers on Boehner and all these other douchebags.
They're all on holiday.
They all got a vacation.
Well, they got a vacation.
They're going to get paid for it, but that's not what the real deal is.
They're trying to get the market down far enough so that the day before, this thing has said, oh, yeah, we're opening the government back to business.
These guys will be long with calls.
They'll invest in certain companies that they're already watching, the ones that have slid a lot.
Because there's a bunch of companies that have high betas, and so the market just stutters a little bit.
Those companies fall like a rock.
Well, I guess it already happened.
It says here, stocks soar on hopes for deal to avoid U.S. default.
That's right now on finance.yahoo.com.
Well, and they were buying the day before.
And it would be calls.
That's what you do, because you can leverage the most.
But no, the Congress can trade on this stuff, and why wouldn't you?
Hell yeah, I would.
Well, of course you would, because you can do it.
It's legal.
Yes, all you have to do is send your paperwork within 60 days after the fact down to the basement.
Where nobody's going to ever see it.
Where it's on microfiche, and you can copy it onto paper.
That's it.
So meanwhile, the clip that really got my attention was the one that's the weird government shutdown anecdotes.
Because when I heard this, I went, I'm beginning to think, let me, in fact, I'll do an Ask Adam on this after you play this clip.
Oh, sorry.
It's unbelievable.
On the other hand, there are so many small areas in which the government has a hand that still people will feel an impact.
If you're trying to buy a private jet right now, the FAA can't sign off on that project.
The few people who are doing that.
The few people, one or two who are.
If you run a craft brewery and you're trying to get a new recipe to the market...
Probably a slightly larger population.
A very small bureau of the Treasury Department won't be able to approve that recipe.
Ask Adam.
Ask Adam.
Yeah.
All right, ask me.
Okay, first of all, you have to have...
You can't buy a plane without...
No, no, you need the FAA to approve you to buy the plane.
You can buy a plane anytime you want.
Okay, so that's bullcrap.
You may not be able to register it.
That's possible.
Or if you want to change the registration, but it's kind of irrelevant.
Now, the second part of this...
So, yeah, bullcrap.
I find it extremely hard to believe that a beer maker...
Has to get approval from the government for his formula I just don't believe it.
I'm going to start asking some brew guys about this.
So in other words, I'm over here at Pyramid Brewery making beer.
And so I said, well, you know, and what's the difference between, because you have to adjust to conditions and what you have available.
You might not get the same type of malt.
You might have different kinds of hops.
So I said, let me try something here special for the bar at the place.
You have to go through the government.
I'm not buying this.
If it's true, it's horrible.
This reminds me of a clip that I've been holding on to.
I know you hate it when I do this.
It's Clip Showdown!
Senator Mikulski of Maryland about the shutdown and how it affects the Centers for Disease Control.
So general speeches continue on the floor of the Senate.
What is the pending business before the Senate?
The Senate is in a quorum call.
Thank you, Madam President.
You know who she is, right?
Oh, yeah.
I think we're growing weary of the gridlock, deadlock.
Gridlock, gridlock.
Hammerlock.
Flock, flack, flack.
Hammerlock.
This is a card, man.
Vote her out!
Vote her out!
On our government?
Don't we want to reopen CDC? I could go on to the fact that we could go over diseases after diseases, infections after infections that they won't be monitoring.
Let's take a common one, flu.
We all had the sniffles, but the sniffles can also kill people.
The sniffles can also kill people.
3,000 Americans die from flu.
Vaccines can prevent the flu.
We now, the CDC, the Centers for Disease Control, are out there making sure there was enough vaccine available, that it was being distributed fairly and equitably in the United States.
This is what they do.
Wait for it.
And did you also know that there are disease detectives?
Many people don't know that there are disease detectives.
This is an Ask John segment.
Did you know that there are disease detectives on the government payroll?
Yeah, actually I did know, but I didn't know they were called that.
They're just researchers.
Is it like...
Excuse me, ma'am.
Time to open up.
Adam Curry, disease detective.
So what does Senator Barb mean when she says this?
Sometimes there's an outbreak.
She's Senator Barb, by the way.
That's how she referred to herself in the third person there.
What does Senator Barb mean?
That should be a game show.
People are sick.
People even die.
They wonder what it is.
They dial 911, and it's like a disease identification SWAT team.
John, did you know there was a disease...
You dial 911?
And you get a disease identification SWAT team.
We should try that right now.
Hi.
911, like your emergency?
Yeah, I need the disease identification SWAT team.
Unbelievable.
Any more from her?
Nine seconds.
They go in working with the best and brightest at that state level...
Going to use the best technology and science?
I think I just faded her out.
Yeah.
Disease detectives and the investigative SWAT team.
Why?
Is it a state thing?
Is it like a constitutional thing that we don't just have term limits on these jabronis?
I guess so, huh?
Well, you'd have to make it...
It'd have to be a constitutional amendment.
They did that with the president.
After Roosevelt.
Oh, really?
It was that recent?
Well, it was right after Roosevelt.
As soon as he got...
Once he died, they said, we can't...
Well, obviously, the country had...
We've slowly evolved into wanting a monarch or something.
I think we still do.
I think we've deteriorated in that regard.
And so it was thought that maybe we should put a term limit on the president because you get some real popular guy.
I mean, I think probably Reagan could have been elected a third term.
Clinton for sure.
Right, but these congressmen and senators, congresspersons and senators...
Yeah, well, the problem is that you still need a constitutional amendment.
You could do it on the state level.
You could do it on the state level, right?
But they won't tend to do it because it goes like, well, you know, you got somebody in there for 25, 30 years, and now he's the head of a bunch of committees.
He's funneling a bunch of money into the state.
Right.
Well, so there you go.
That's the exact problem that we're dealing with.
Yeah, it's corruption.
Yeah, exactly.
Well, people, you shouldn't stand for it.
Just shouldn't stand for it anymore.
But everyone's...
They're all so fucking corrupt.
It makes...
You know, and here in Texas now, it's like, Wendy Davis, she's going to run with her pink shoes.
She's going to run for Gunnabur.
Oh, it's going to be great.
It's not going to be great.
She's just as corrupt as the rest.
Her money comes from big law firms.
Come on, people.
Yeah.
Hey, what's with Obama and his, you know, you've brought this up before and I started listening for it more and more.
And he's, I don't know if he's doing it on purpose or he's actually being dumbed down because he's the president or maybe it's the second Obama and it's a guy who never had good grammar.
But read the Libya or play the Libya raid.
You know, we had the Libyan raid.
They raid Libya to grab some guy.
They don't I don't care about international law anymore.
It's probably another violation.
Well, the prime minister was kidnapped anyway, so who cares?
The kidnapped prime minister.
He can't say anything.
He's kidnapped.
Yeah, yeah, there's that.
But anyway, listen to this guy.
Is still making waves.
Libyan jihadists vowed today to kidnap Americans in retaliation for the capture of Abu Anas al-Libi.
And the U.S. military said that it is moving some 200 marines to a base in Italy, just in case.
In Washington, President Obama said that the Libya raid, and another in Somalia, does not mean he is expanding the war on terror.
There's a difference between us going after terrorists who are plotting directly to do damage to the United States and us being involved in wars.
But where you've got active plots and active networks, we're going to go after them.
Where you got...
Yeah, that's pretty bad.
He says where you got, where you have is the right word.
Thanks for being involved in wars.
But where you got active.
Yeah, that's lame.
Where you got active, was he trying to be George Bush or something?
He should have said you gots, where you gots.
Where you gots, that would make more sense.
You gots, where you gots.
Where you gots that.
So this guy's a Harvard grad, okay.
Meanwhile, while we're talking about this, there's this douchebag of the decade, I believe.
Hold on, John, hold on a second.
I think I can give you a clip of the day for that one.
Clip of the day.
Because I didn't, it's so funny, I did not hear it.
I did not hear it.
Yeah, well, I've been listening for you.
And then it snuck up on me, and that was good.
That was very good.
And by the way, I was right.
You cannot officially register an aircraft at this point in time.
You can buy an aircraft.
You can buy an aircraft that has a registration and fly it around.
It's exactly what I said.
You just can't change the registration or can't re-register.
Whatever.
Fine.
So it's not a big deal.
Yeah, it's just numbers.
It's like driving around without your license plate.
It happens.
Yeah, this is November.
So there's this woman that came on the PBS NewsHour, and unfortunately the NewsHour ball-less wonders that they are wouldn't really go after her for not answering any questions whatsoever.
She's Lisa Monaco, and you can look her up, and she just looks like a...
She hot?
No.
She looks like a person that couldn't get a date if she wanted to, because she's grim.
No, no, no.
I'm not going to agree with you.
Oh, you have to see her on video.
It's different.
She's more photogenic than when you see her actually moving.
There's a BrewerReport.com has a very flattering picture of her.
Well, she's not flattering, especially after you listen to her talk.
Wow, I love the one with her in the bra.
What?
No, it's not her.
I'm sorry.
It's got a poor name.
She has a poor name.
Bisa Monaco.
Here comes Raven!
Give it up for Raven!
John, are you making it rain again?
Someone's getting corn-holed today.
Sounds like a recipe for success to me.
John, you actually just did a strip bar announcement, didn't you?
Yeah.
Do it again.
I know guys who do that job.
I've done it.
When I was 16, I did it.
In Amsterdam.
Do it and I'll play the clip.
Well, no, because it doesn't lead into the clip properly.
I like to get these things out in an ad lib fashion.
So here she is trying to answer questions about this guy being stolen off the streets in a country we don't really own.
What does she do?
What is her job?
She is the advisor to the president on counterterrorism and homeland security.
Oh, that's got to be a fake name then.
Just call me Lisa Monaco.
Lisa Monaco.
Okay.
Ready?
You can...
Yeah, play it.
Now back to the weekend military actions in Libya and Somalia.
President Obama is vowing that suspected al-Qaeda leader Abu Anas al-Libi, captured in Libya on Saturday and now being held on a U.S. warship, will be brought to justice.
Jeffrey Brown has our Newsmaker interview.
We discussed the raid in Libya and its aftermath with President Obama's chief counter-terrorism advisor, Lisa Monaco.
Welcome to you.
In his press conference today, the president said, where we've got active plots and active networks, we're going to go after them.
Was there an active imminent threat in the case of al-Libby?
Well, I think, Jeff, what you saw here was a demonstration of the incredible professionalism of the men and women of the armed forces in conducting the raid that occurred over the weekend.
And Anas al-Libi did pose a threat to the United States as a senior al-Qaeda leader.
How is she doing on the amometer?
She's got...
I didn't do a rating on her, but she gets it up there.
Her number's really high on the amometer.
...is also charged in an indictment for his role as part of the Al-Qaeda worldwide conspiracy.
One of the questions that arises in a case like this, is there a clear stand...
Wait a minute.
Does that mean she's a conspiracy theorist?
If it's a worldwide al-Qaeda conspiracy...
...determining when the U.S. goes into another country.
The standard is one to go after those who would seek to do us harm.
And what you saw in the case of the al-Libby raid was, frankly, the unrelenting focus of the United States government to go after and to not forget, no matter how long it takes, to go after those who would seek to do us harm.
Well, so was it more for the past, what he had done in the past that he was indicted for, or was it for some kind of imminent threat that he was involved in?
Well, I think with the case of Al-Libi, he certainly poses a threat and did pose a threat.
He's now in the custody of the United States military, but he did pose a threat as a senior member of Al-Qaeda, but he also, as has been said and has been demonstrated, is a charged Al-Qaeda member.
He's being held on the ship.
Today you had Libya's Prime Minister say that he should be tried in Libya.
You've had Republicans say he should be sent to Guantanamo.
We've seen civil libertarian groups say he should be read his Miranda rights and treated as a criminal under US criminal law.
What exactly is his status?
His status right now is that he's being held by the United States military, consistent with the laws of war and with the authorization for the use of military...
The laws of war?
I'm sorry.
The laws of war?
Of course.
What this raid demonstrated and what this operation demonstrated is our top priority is to go after those who do pose a threat and who do seek to do us harm.
But...
Also, to always first, if we can, capture and obtain intelligence from those individuals.
But do you expect him to be brought to trial in the United States?
So I'm not going to get ahead of that process, but what I will say...
All right, all right.
She's an a-hole.
She's a total a-hole, one of the worst I've ever seen.
And the fact that he put up with it, I have another couple of clips, do you want to hear her some more?
Yeah, sure.
She is the biggest a-hole I have ever seen on the NewsHour.
I don't know why she wasn't vetted.
She does not belong in the public...
She should not be a spokesperson for anything.
She doesn't say anything.
She seeks to do us harm.
Seeks to do us harm.
You know, compliance with the laws of war.
Laws of war?
What is she talking about?
Yeah, I don't know.
I don't want to get ahead of it.
She's from Harvard.
Yeah, she's a Harvard douchebag.
What's her deal?
There's very little on her.
What's her deal?
I don't know if she's married.
She probably isn't.
Google's done something weird, so I get her...
On the Google, it says Lisa Monaco, but then if I want to click, Wikipedia is like really in gray letters.
Anyway, let's see what she's done.
Born in Boston, parents to Anthony and Mary Lou, raised in Newton, Massachusetts, Windsor School, Harvard, Bachelor of Arts.
Has she worked anywhere?
Research coordinator for the United States Senate Committee on Judiciary under Joe Biden.
Okay.
She's one of Biden's kids.
Worked on the Violence Against Women Act, Chicago Law School.
Oh, she's part of the cabal.
Okay.
She's editor-in-chief of the University of Chicago Law School Roundtable.
No, she's never had an honor.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Not true.
In 1996, entered private practice as a summer associate for the law firm Hogan& Hartson.
Intern, essentially.
And she took the bar in 1998.
Oh, that's what she does.
Why didn't she work for DOJ? Yeah, she's a total government shillerama.
Perfect.
But it was, to be honest, I was just like, my skin was crawling listening to her not answer any questions in this kind of robotic, cold, you know, just, oh, the professionalism of this and that.
She wouldn't know what that even means.
But she didn't answer the core questions.
Like, how can we go into someone else's country and just grab people?
Yeah, well, Obama was asked the question in a press conference, and he wouldn't answer it either.
No.
But she just goes on and on about, you know, laws of war, they're very professional, you know, this kind of thing.
I just found her to be the douchebag of the decade.
I mean, it's frightening.
Well, let me give you a douchebag!
Of the decade!
You want to do more from her?
Play a little more until you can't take it anymore.
Is that our first priority is to get intelligence from him.
And as we've seen in other operations of this kind, as with Warsami, who you may remember, was also captured by our armed forces in a very professional raid there as well.
What is a professional way of capturing someone?
Do you lasso them?
I have no idea what she's talking about.
What is a professional way of capturing someone?
Very professional.
How did that Bin Laden thing go?
That was professional.
You shot him in the head, or someone, and then threw him overboard.
Threw him overboard on a ship.
That was real professional.
To get intelligence, and then ultimately to prosecute the individual.
Well, I ask you because there's obviously this question now about whether it's a kind of legal limbo to keep him on a ship in international waters, avoiding Guantanamo on the one hand, avoiding U.S. courts on the other.
Is this a set strategy of the U.S. government now?
Well, I think what it shows is a very clear strategy by the U.S. government to use all the tools, frankly, in our toolbox to disrupt threats, to go after them.
Why don't you show me your toolbox and I'll decide if you can use that or not.
Now, here's the other thing.
She says this a lot.
Toolbox?
The tools?
Tools in the toolbox.
Tools in the toolbox.
This is a process.
This is a methodology.
There is no tool.
Why did she say it's a tool?
It's not a tool.
It's a methodology.
It's a process.
You've got to say tool.
Tool.
A two-will.
It's not a two-will.
In the two-will box.
But she keeps saying it.
She says it over and over.
Listen, back it up and play that again.
That's my favorite.
Two-will in the two-will box.
That our goal is to get intelligence and then ultimately to prosecute the individual.
Well, I ask you...
Oh, crap.
I'm sorry.
I went back too far.
Our first priority is to get intelligence from him.
And as we've seen in other operations of this kind, as with Worsami, who you may remember, was also captured by our forces in a very professional raid there as well, that our goal is to get intelligence and then ultimately to prosecute the individual.
Well, I ask you because there's obviously a question now about whether it's a kind of legal limbo to keep him on a ship in international waters, avoiding Guantanamo on the one hand, avoiding U.S. courts on the other.
Is this a set strategy of the U.S. government?
Come on, baby.
Well, I think what it shows is a very clear strategy by the U.S. government to use all the tools, frankly, in our toolbox to disrupt threats, to go after consistent with the rule of law individuals who pose a threat to get intelligence, and then ultimately to make a decision about what the best disposition is for that individual and to prosecute and hold people accountable.
This is crazy.
And this is on PBS Newsnight.
And they don't call this woman on anything and just say, hey, stop for a second.
You're just full of crap.
You're just talking out of your butthole.
Cornhole.
With your tools.
This is bullshit.
No, it's unbelievable.
Well, that's it.
I can't take it.
I can take one more minute.
Last minute.
Can we skip the last clip?
I got another clip if you could take it.
I know you couldn't take it.
I knew you didn't have it in you.
I just knew it.
I'm weak.
I'm weak.
I don't have the tools.
No matter how long it takes.
Now, one of the lingering questions in this case is did the U.S. have the cooperation, support, and...
Sorry?
This is good.
Your backing of the Libyan government in the raid.
Well, Jeff, we always consult with nations with whom we have strategic relationships, as we do.
Strategic relationships with Libya?
Let me see.
Is that the place that we bombed, and we killed the leader, and we took over, and then we have all this CIA crap set up?
That's cooperation.
With the government of Libya, I think what you saw today is Prime Minister Zaydan made a statement that he values the relationship with the United States and that the United States is a supporter of the Libyan people as we are and we will continue to be so to help them build their capacity to address security challenges.
I'm not sure how to read that though.
Before the raid, was there the okay or the support from the Libyans?
Jeff, I think I'm not going to get into our consultations that happen in all over the world with partners and with other governments.
And what's the situation now?
There have been threats on social media from Libya and North Africa about reprisals.
Hey you, out of the street!
Don't you realize you're douchebagging?
Hey!
I can't take her anymore.
I found something that warrants a little conversation here.
And I think we're going to be seeing the...
Well, the reports are...
If you Google it, you can already see what's going on.
This is really a New World Order thing that just kind of blew me away.
A study came out From the OECD. Are you familiar with this outfit, John, the OECD? Yeah, we've talked about it before.
The OECD is basically the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
Right.
And they are headquartered in Paris, interestingly enough, a chateau formerly owned by the Rothschilds.
Yeah, great.
And their budget annually is about $400 million.
Yeah, spin the bucket.
And most of that is paid for by the United States.
But also, they do big conferences.
So, you know, they have big sponsors like, I don't know, Microsoft and Google.
And what this outfit is for primarily is to set international tax policy to help the elites of the world.
You know, to help the Googles and the Microsofts.
Yeah, so they don't pay too much.
And the Raytheon, so they're not paying too much.
You know, they essentially set tax policy.
And they came out with a study, which is a very large study, and I spent a lot of time yesterday going through it, 466 pages.
The OECD Skills Outlook 2013, first results from the survey of adult skills.
And this is essentially, they did this survey with hundreds of thousands of people over multiple years all around the world to find out, well, come up with some conclusions, and these conclusions are for policymakers and lawmakers so that they know how to run their shittisonry.
And typical of something when it's about skills, the mainstream media sees this as...
They only look at the graphs and go, oh!
This is basically the message about this 466-page survey.
Americans are dumb.
That's pretty much it.
That's pretty much how we work it, yeah.
But it's interesting because if you Google it, if you just do OECD report, in fact...
Yeah, I'm actually on it now.
Those two words, OECD report, you'll see the UK says we're dumb.
OECD says we're dumb.
America, we're dumb.
Everyone's dumb.
Australia, boy, we're dumb.
So the report is being used to tell you you're dumb.
And, of course, it will be misused by, I'm sure, country companies that sponsor this, you know, to bring in all kinds of bullcrap, scholastic things like Common Core, etc.
And I just wanted to review a few pieces of this because the report itself, you will not get this analysis anywhere because this is the only thing the mainstream is able to do with this is, we're dumb.
Look at Japan and Finland and the Netherlands.
They're really smart and we're really dumb, everybody.
Dumb!
And I took some time to really look into what the report is saying, which is something else, which is equally as frightening, but it's not about who's dumb.
These are very small percentages on the dumb scale.
What's dumb is that this is a report and it's being explained to us like we're five-year-olds.
That's what's dumb.
It's really, really fucking sad how this is being brought.
And I thought it's interesting because...
The main thing that is highlighted in this report is, and they took ages I think 16 to 64.
The reason, the real problem that we have in the Western world is adult education.
And about, you know, so people who are no longer in college and what is going to happen to them over the next few decades.
As the report points out very astutely, manufacturing is becoming automated.
So this whole report across the board is trying to help governments, and you'll see this happen.
To focus this citizenry on three things.
Literacy, numeracy, and problem solving in technology-rich environments.
What the heck is numeracy?
Oh, I'm glad you asked, because I actually looked it up in the report.
Hold on a second.
The numeracy.
I have highlights here, but it's...
And when you read what these things mean, it's pretty weird.
Hold on.
Here we go.
So literacy is self-apparent, but numeracy...
Oh, crap, John.
You kind of caught me off guard there.
Well, let's just look it up in the Book of Knowledge.
Numeracy definition.
You look it up in the Book of Knowledge.
Numeracy, the Book of Knowledge, defines the ability to reason and apply simple numerical concepts.
Math, 50,000 people using the website a day, doesn't add up to the number of people that need to use it.
But we're low on that number, so that makes sense now.
Basic numeracy skills consist of comprehending fundamental mathematics.
Very fundamental.
But they actually go into this in detail.
And the one that I found most interesting was, quote, problem solving in technology rich environments.
And in this case, this is what that means.
Respondents had to find a solution to a problem using the information and tools...
They were accessible in simulated computer environments that contained applications such as an internet browser and web pages or a computer-based room reservation system and common applications such as email, word processing and spreadsheet tools.
In other words, the future for all citizens of the world is secretary.
Computer-based rumor.
Order entry.
Order entry.
Here's what's interesting.
Although Japan scores very high in the literacy and numeracy, they were also the highest that opted out of the computer test.
15% of the Japanese opted out of the entire computer test altogether.
There's a lot of caveats in this stuff.
So here are the skills that you will need to survive.
And they literally talk about surviving because these skills equal salary.
Yes.
Can I guess a couple of them?
Read a couple of them.
See if they're on your checklist.
Accessing, analyzing, and communicating information with digital devices and applications such as personal computers, smartphones, and the internet.
The capacity to use these devices intelligently will be a key skill.
No, it won't.
Yes, it will.
Yes, it will.
No, it won't.
These are the same guys that are telling us that we have to set prices on carbon.
I mean, what these guys say goes.
Okay, it's interesting that Japan, Australia, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden have above-average performance...
With high level of quality when it comes to literacy skills.
Easy for me to say.
However, if you look at how these countries are really doing, it doesn't really rack up with, you know, the Netherlands is in severe depression right now.
So I don't know if it really means that it's all that great.
Here is the key points for policy.
Wait a minute.
What?
Go back to the skills that you need.
I want to know what they are.
I'm getting there.
You read one already, the phone.
You have to know how to use a smartphone or you're doomed.
You have to kind of read it in order.
Okay.
Skills needed for the 21st century.
Oh, I don't get it to you.
Oh, man.
Access to and use of computers both at home, work.
I'm sorry, that's a statistic.
There's not one person in Congress that meets any of these skills.
They can actually do any of that.
I know.
I thought more interesting was the policy.
Is podcasting on the list?
Oh, podcasting's not on the list.
It should be.
This is a bogus list if it doesn't have podcasting.
No, it says over and over again, it is about information processing.
And the term, humans as information processors, we are the...
We're basically the only thing...
What computers can't do with processing, and there are a couple things that we do faster and with more skill, that is the only thing...
We will be computer operators.
Like you said, data entry monkeys.
Yeah, order entry.
Data entry, order entry.
So the only jobs...
And I went through this whole report...
And I've marked up a whole bunch of stuff in there.
I mean, it's got graphs and things, and it's beautiful, and of course they call for more research.
Got to get more research funded by this thing.
It's very pretty.
They've made little squiggly lines everywhere.
The only jobs that will be left will be in information processing or entertainment.
What about waitressing?
Well, that is not in the report.
I'm missing firemen.
I'm missing...
Police?
Yeah, but none of that is in here.
SWAT teams?
All the policy...
Yes.
SWAT teams.
All of the policy here is all about education, adult education, but nothing about low-level skills.
It's all about high-level information processing.
And, of course, you can't have a society where everybody is just a high-level information processor.
No.
But that is what they were calling for.
And you're going to see, as you see these reports...
That it's all about how stupid we...
And the worst is the alternative media is picking it up this way.
That's the worst part.
Like Zero Hedge.
And, you know, they're like, whoa, look, we're dumb.
We're fucking stupid.
Put more money...
Common Core would be great.
Well, I think you're pushing it here.
But for one thing, I think this is not going to...
This is crap, for starters.
I mean, nobody's going to pay any attention to this thing.
But I do think you're on the right track with this overriding thesis of yours, which you've been working on for a while.
I don't think this is a good example, to be honest about it.
Listen to the key points for policy and education.
Develop links between the world of learning and the world of work.
Skills development can be more relevant and effective if the world of learning and the world of work are linked.
Learning in the workplace allows young people to develop hard skills on modern equipment and soft skills such as teamwork, communication and negotiation through real-world experience.
Hands-on workplace training can also help to motivate disengaged youth to stay in or reengage with the education system and make the transition from education into the labor market smoother.
This is crazy.
I think you're barking up the wrong tree.
I think this is just a drinking club that comes out of your report once in a while.
A $400 million drinking club?
Yeah, that's drinking the good stuff.
No.
No, no, no, no, no.
Here's what you're going to see.
This relates directly to taxation that goes into education.
And they believe this.
You're going to have to document this for me because I'm not buying any of it.
I don't think it's important.
I don't think these guys are influential.
I don't think this report sounds like a piece of shit that should be discarded.
I'm not on board with any of this.
Then let's watch this play out.
This report has only come out just in the past week.
Let's watch it play out.
And you will see that policy is going to be...
Right now we have the shutdown bullcrap, so when that sideshow is over, this thing will come to the forefront.
I'm a little...
It pertubed, by the way, that they released a second report, and they're not coordinated, which is carbon taxes, the need for carbon taxes in all financial markets and trading systems.
They brought this report out yesterday.
And so then you have two conflicting, you know, two reports that are trying to get the limelight.
That, I think, is dumb.
And everyone's referencing this, too.
Climate and carbon, aligning prices and policies.
These guys set policy, John.
This is for the world.
I'm telling you, this is what these guys do.
And they're listened to.
Oh, it's OECD, it's an authority.
I think this is the New World Order policy think tank.
Eh, I'm not subscribing to this.
You're allowed to be skeptical.
I would think that most of these guys are running out of some of these other organizations, especially some of these EU operations.
I'm more inclined to buy into that.
Okay.
Just to break the tension here and to go into new topics, he might as well play worst Russian announcer ever.
Okay.
All right.
The budget shutdown in the U.S. may be a rehearsal for something much more serious.
October the 17th is the day for the U.S. economy as the country is running out of money.
Mira, how can the problem be avoided?
Is she Chinese-Russian?
I don't know what she is.
She can barely speak.
Why is she on the air?
Is she on Russia Today?
No, Euromax or Euronews.
Euronews?
Yeah, Euronews.
They have something like this on RT I've seen.
Yeah, they have.
My problem is there's an RT network now, you know, that's just RT all the time.
They've got a million shows.
That's where breaking the glass is and all the rest of it.
Yeah, uh-huh.
Breaking the Glass.
Yeah, Breaking the Glass and Abby whatever.
I saw her the other day.
There was a clip someone sent.
It was like 15 minutes.
I couldn't get through five.
And she's beautiful when you look at her square, as you said, in the box.
Yeah, in the box.
She's gorgeous.
Oh, she's so beautiful.
When she's stagging around in heels, waving her arms, she looks like a moron.
But I can't get through her talking like, well, this is really it.
And through all the crazy, outrageous, shutdown, mania, malarkey of the U.S. government.
I'm Abby Martin.
This is Breaking the Set.
It's like that.
It's pretty bad.
But anyway, so RT has a network with all kinds of shows on it.
Unfortunately, I can't get them because the dish is cocked or something.
But I do get the Al Jazeera network, which, by the way, is quite good.
Yeah, I'm pissed I don't have that here.
I'm not getting a lot of material from it, though, but I do find it...
It's actually pretty good.
It is good, but there's not a lot of crazy stuff, which is why it's not much fun.
I mean, CNN has still got them beat for having nutty stuff on there that you want to clip off and ridicule.
So there's not much to ridicule yet.
Before we go into thanking some people for today's show, I have a clip here.
This is a lot of people emailed me the article first, and then I finally was able to find the audio, and I cut it down because it was so boring.
This is Bob Geldof, and I think the Daily Mail did a disservice to their readership by basically...
Wait, wait, stop.
Stop right there.
The Daily Mail did a disservice to their reader?
Yes, I'll tell you.
Is that even a possibility?
It's a disservice to publish the thing.
It was so much more ridiculous than they made it out to be.
Yes, because the report was basically, Bob Geldof says we'll all be dead by 2030.
Oh, that thing, yeah.
But it was much better when you actually...
This is the One World Conference.
This, by the way...
Yeah, another...
I'm sorry, the One Young World.
No, this is a drinking club for advertising agencies.
And the way it works is, this was set up in the UK from, I forget the name of the agency, and essentially they pressure their clients into sponsoring this thing.
It's dubbed as the Davo for young people.
And they roll out Kofi Annan, Richard Branson.
They had Jamie Oliver and Jack Dorsey and Arianna Huffington this year as counselors.
And Bob Geldof, of course, he's always out there.
And so this time it was in, I believe, South Africa.
And I've cut it down so you can actually hear what he really did say.
And it's worse than they portrayed.
You cannot afford to let your generation fail.
It was funny, this whole conference in a stadium, everyone's blowing on vuvuzelas.
No, no, you're kidding.
And they keep trying to quiet the crowd down.
Guys, guys, we have to be quiet.
You know that South African accent?
We have to be quiet to get Sir Bob Geldof on.
There will not be another World War I or World War II. There will be a mass extinction event.
Woohoo!
Now that's cool!
And contrary to the optimism of Muhammad and Kofi, this could well happen on your watch.
And all the signs are there that it will happen.
And it will happen soon.
And so coming together today...
What signs?
Well, that's the point.
That's the thing that you're going to hear in a minute that no one talked about.
What he was really saying.
...gives a sense of urgency.
It is in our interest.
To have the poor with us, producing things, because then they can have money to buy our stuff, and we have the money to buy theirs.
This, by the way, is Bob Geldof's world economic philosophy.
They need to buy stuff so we can have money to buy our stuff, to make stuff to have everyone buying each other's stuff.
That is clear.
Clear!
Will it happen?
It's possible.
It's possible.
You can set a date of 2030.
That's possible.
You hear the Vuvuzelas in the background?
They're all like...
It's hilarious.
Hey man, do I don't like Mondays?
But last week, last week, in a report that was vaguely noticed...
Oh, what could it be?
What could it be?
The scientists of the world said we may not get to 2030.
They did not say that.
I read the report.
Nowhere did they say we won't get to 2030.
There'll be a mass extinction event.
We need to address the problem of climate change urgently, boring as it is.
The metric of climate change is boring urgently today and now because I tell you this.
In the One Young World Conference of 2030...
You'll all be dead, bitches!
Some of the nations that arrived here so proudly at our feetstep right now will not be there to meet us.
What will you do about it?
You must get serious.
No doubt it's part of your agenda.
But the ordinary...
How annoying is it if you're trying to tell people you've got to get on board with climate change and everyone's going...
It's very funny.
I'm just going to try that with everything.
Anywhere I go.
I'm going to go to City Hall here in Austin.
Make a move of Zellen with you.
Wherever you go.
The kazoo is good enough.
It doesn't have the volume.
What are you talking about?
It has volume.
It's so ridiculous.
So that's what it was about.
The guy's a clown.
And I just want to say, you know, the whole...
And he looks like he's half dead already.
He won't make it, that's for sure.
Ah, there's your punchline.
Bob won't make it, you're right.
Anyway, that's what it's about.
Ah, I know you've got to get out on time, John, so we've got to move the show ahead.
I'm going to show my support by donating to the show ahead.
Imagine all the people who could do that.
Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
Yeah, I don't know what it turns out.
We've got to keep it moving, man.
And you're dragging us down.
We do have a few people to thank.
Yes.
Starting with Sir Sizzalot of Gitmo Back Bacon.
Yeah.
$130.30 in the morning, Jacob and Esther.
Seriously, in the morning, can we have the pick and grinning version of Sir Jeff Smith's ITM song as an outro one of these shows?
Oh, which song was that again?
Newer listeners are missing out.
I don't remember the title of it, even.
Sir Oscar Nadal in Tijuana.
Mexico, $111.11.
It's his version of Make It Rain.
Cheers.
Patrick Turner, 1111 in Austin, Texas, who says that he's right down the street from you.
And that's awesome.
Literally.
These are the Make It Rain donations.
Did you put something on the donation?
No.
11111 is Making It Rain.
It's all singles, all ones.
Nice!
All ones.
Yeah, you throw those ones up there.
Make It Rain!
Alejandro in Montevideo, Uruguay.
He says, this is his fourth donation.
Nice.
I like that.
We've got to visit Uruguay.
They get some of the best food there.
Sir Andrew Largeman in Taipei City, Taiwan, felt compelled to donate today.
He said, open the newsletter, and out pops a famous red double ten.
Now, there's the one Taiwanese guy.
He's not Chinese, but he knew about the double ten and that symbol.
I didn't mention what it was, but that's what it was.
Wesley Clark.
The Wesley Clark in Stanley, North Carolina?
Maybe not.
Seems unlikely.
A hundred bucks.
Since Stanley.
Dame Melody Mann in Ringo, Louisiana.
Stack of sixes.
He has, she has.
Upside down in some ways.
Sack of sixes.
I don't know about stack.
Sack.
Sack of sixes.
Sir Bernie Atima.
Atima.
7777 Hinton, Iowa.
Goodbye, love.
Well, thank you very much.
Clayton Dunavant in Austin, Texas, right up the street from you.
What is going on with Austin?
They're finally getting a clue.
You must be handing out discs.
Yeah, that's true.
Josh McDonald, Brunswick, Victoria at 7453.
It's 5555 plus 10 plus 10 plus 8.88 for good luck if you're Chiners.
You know, or a Nazi.
Mark Alcocher.
I think you missed Brian E. Williams.
Oh, Brian E. Williams.
Brian Williams, NBC, 7373 in Streamwood, Illinois.
I didn't know he lived there.
Somehow, I don't think so.
Mark Alcocher.
Alcocher.
Alcocher.
I don't see a pronunciation guide, but 7221 in Houston, Texas.
And he says, we'll be doing some F cancer karma later on, so we'll do it for his mom as well.
Okay.
Do that in a moment.
Grant Gillespie, and here we go.
Hit the button.
Holy crap.
It's time.
A little fast.
Hold on a second.
I'm glad we have it at all.
69!
69!
Brandon Gillespie, Queensland, Australia, 69, 69.
Jonathan Diggle, Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Baronetis Janice Kang in Milpitas, California, right up the street from me.
Ben Hink in Orland Park, Illinois.
And Mark Hall in Austin, Texas, again.
Hey, Austin.
No agenda.
Hold on, hold on.
Mark Hall, very famous.
Mark Hall?
Yeah, famous guy.
He's the subcommandante, he says.
Sure.
And that was it.
69!
69, dudes!
Thanks, Mark.
Mark Hall.
Mark Hall is the lead vocalist for the Georgia-based contemporary Christian music.
That's it.
That's him.
Casting crowns.
Exactly.
You got it.
And he lives in Texas?
That's right.
I don't think so.
Is it true?
No.
On to our sack of sixes.
Sacks of sixes coming from Michael Shambaugh in Topeka, Kansas.
Kent O'Rourke in Frostburg, Maryland.
Christine, by the way, 66.66 is our donation for their celebrator anniversary at the end of the month.
Christine Zachman in Lost Wages, Nevada.
And Sir Robert Goschko in Alberta, Sherwood Park.
Michael Bolling in Parts Unknown.
Dave Mahon.
Mahon.
Mahon.
I know how to pronounce that name, by the way.
Mahon?
It's Mahon.
Okay.
David Hazan in New York City.
Todd.
I got a funny character here.
So I don't know what it is.
Is Todd Froiland?
Froiland?
Something.
I don't know what the Y is doing there.
In Bergen, Norway.
Sean Scogin in Bedford, Texas.
Joaquin something Montenbueno in Valencia, Spain.
Again, we got weird characters that aren't showing up correctly on the spreadsheet.
But Valencia.
Hello, Valencia.
Edward Jacobs in Providence, North Carolina.
Jeremy Goldsworthy in Midland, Michigan.
Steven Schwartz in Schwartz.
Schwartz.
Shirts.
Shirts, Texas.
Where is that?
They make shirts there.
And finally, Henry Reese in Portland, Oregon, our 6666 stack of six people.
Thank you very much.
Kurt Kubal, $60 in Mound, Minnesota Nuts.
Jim Zucal in Los Angeles, California, $55.55.
Ed Elliott Block, $55.55.
These are all for the show, $55.55.
Yes.
Rancho said they wanted to, you know, get something in there.
Rancho Santa Fe, John Haller, Missoula, Montana, Ian Prince.
Ian, how about Ian?
Ian.
Ian Prentice Consulting in Montreal, Quebec.
These are all 5555s.
Bruce D. Hall in Encino, California.
Nuts.
A Rito something or other.
What do you think that might be?
It's B-S-N-I. Well, they know, but it's supposed to be something else.
Because it's a spreadsheet.
We've got to get a universal font for this thing.
Why is that happening?
Is that still PayPal conversion stuff?
It's weird.
I'm not sure.
It must be.
But anyway, I want to thank him.
He's in Switzerland.
WJR Audio Design in Los Palos, California.
Scott Fuller in Cumming, Georgia.
Baronetis Janice Kang.
Yeah, yeah.
Again, MIP is.
Ungernand is German for anonymous.
Yeah, Ungernand.
Hey Unger, how's Nantes?
And Paul Legel in Kansas City, Missouri.
Guy Burton, $50.50, from Brad, what is it, Brackley, North Hampshire, Northamptonshire in the UK. Borislav Marinov, our buddy.
Sir, in Aliso Viejo.
Ryan Marks in Toronto, Ontario.
Sir John Donovan in San Jose, California.
Double nickels on the dime.
Black Baronet.
Paul Peridman in Happert, Netherlands.
Peerdemon.
Is that right?
Peerdemon.
Peerdemon.
Which is an old, old way of saying horseman.
That is man.
Mark Morris, Jonesboro, Arkansas.
$50.
Alter Schwade in Springfield, Virginia.
Paul Vela in Milton Keynes, UK. Jason Fortin in Geneva, Illinois.
And finally, Clayton Dunavant in Austin, Texas, once again.
Once again, Austin is representing.
Tyler Fife in Portland, Oregon.
Finally, Scott Soltis in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
And then Travis Turner in Austin, Texas.
And do you have a note?
Yeah, I do.
No, I don't have it.
Oh, yeah, I do.
Hold on.
He's actually sent a card, I believe.
This is his card.
No, I can't find it.
Well, why don't you look for a second, and I just want to add that Sir John Donovan, of course, our Black Baronet of Silicon Valley...
He gave us double nickels on the dime.
I did want to read his note to celebrate 10-10 day and show 5-5-5.
Please give some jobs, little girl yay karma, to all the producers and citizens just getting by in the USA and around the world.
Also, a douchebag call-out for our federal government politicians messing up real people's lives with this shutdown.
Douchebag!
We will do both.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs!
Youth box, karma.
I do have the note from Travis.
I knew you would.
My name is Travis, he says.
And I was hit in the mouth earlier this year by my brother, housemate soon-to-be-night-and-hell-of-a-son-of-a-bitch Patrick Turner, a.k.a.
Ryan Turner.
He said I may have made a great point on the global warming fiasco, so I thought I'd donate and share.
In the case of man-made global warming, I was having a discussion with my friend who was studying food science on the subject of MMGW. He and his girlfriend, who is studying food science and a vegan, LOL, are, of course, all in.
They seem to despise that I have an opinion on the matter, which I find strange since I'm very green myself.
The science is in!
In fact, more than most, I ride a bus, I assemble solar panels, it may or may not work, I recycle, I do everything.
Certainly more than those two douchebags, I let them know that their data is based on speculation, not actual science, and that the media only presents data that supports the warmest argument.
The point is that it's extremely dangerous for people like this, soon to be scientists, to insist that MMGW is scientifically proven when it's not.
This is essentially a redefinition of the word science from something that is measurable and negotiable, or repeatable, I'm sorry, in nature, to just any hypothesis that sounds too delicious not to believe.
What will this mean for all the fields of science?
We'll see.
By the way, I live off of South Congress in Austin, so I'm literally right down the road from you, Adam.
Literally!
Nice!
He wants a too-delicious-to-believe climate gate combo, which we'll give him, because he wrote in a handwritten note.
Yes, the too-delicious-to-believe.
Oh, yes.
It's too-delicious-to-believe, my friend.
It's been a while, it's been a while.
And a climate gate?
Okay.
It's almost too-delicious-to-believe, my friend.
To the gate, to the gate, to the climate gate.
Nice.
Nailed it!
And Jeremy Goldsworthy keeps sending these cards that are those inspirational ones.
This one says Integrity.
And he's got a bunch of notes here that I can't quite figure out what he's getting at, so I don't think, well, I'll send you a copy and you can figure it out.
Okay.
All right.
Then I have a couple things.
Are you done?
Yes, I am.
We've got a couple things still to do here.
I want to thank Joe over there at Healthy Surprise.
Our box came.
Oh, yeah.
Adam, keep up the great work with the show.
At least I know Mickey will enjoy these snacks if you and John can't stomach the kale.
Yeah, he sent me a note too.
Let me read it.
Keep up the great work.
He says, I'm going to keep sending you kale until I find a flavor of kale that you like.
Did you try the, it was the new kale chip crap?
Kale's crap.
It should not be eaten.
I love the plentils.
I ate those.
The plentils were great.
And Mickey, she ate the gone nuts, clusters of cacao.
They're just nuts.
Well, no, they're clusters of cacao.
Almonds, raisins, blueberries, and coconut.
Yeah.
Yeah, she liked them.
I had those.
Have you tried the cinnamon ginger cookie things yet?
They're not good.
Have you tried the Plentils?
You'll like the Plentils.
I guarantee the Plentils rock.
They really do.
All right.
We have an F-cancer karma request from Sir Lawrence McBride.
My mom's in hospital for radium treatment.
For a tumor on her spine, I need fuck cancer karma.
Incurable, but we all want her here as long as possible in a pain-free life.
Thank you, Sir Lawrence McBride.
I think, you know, keep...
stay positive.
You have to.
And also, Mark Alcoser in Houston, Texas.
He wanted karma for his mom, who has lung cancer.
Yay!
It's just so awesome, isn't it?
You thought karma...
The other day, before we went to La Miserable, we were having a glass of wine with our friends who had invited us.
And there was someone there, and we were talking about parents, and everyone had lost their mom to cancer.
But what came out of my mouth, sometimes I'm worried about what I say.
Yeah, I would be.
Yeah, and I lost my mom to cancer.
I said, what kind of cancer?
Oh, this is my favorite!
My favorite kind of cancer.
And you can see people go, lung cancer sucks.
Breast cancer much easier.
You got to keep humor in it, people.
You got to keep the humor.
Thank you all very much for your sacks of sixes, all of the fives.
That's really nice.
Yeah, lower end, but it's okay.
We really appreciate it.
Thank you, everybody else who's on the monthly program, 33s, 30s, 12, 12s.
There's still 11 11s.
There's still fives, tens.
There's still people on four.
We still have about two guys that are still on the $2.
I don't know how they didn't get bounced by the PayPal, but damn it.
And of course, thank you to our executive producers, Ryan Bemrose, Stephen Pelsmockers, Christopher Simi, Samir Bhatti, and our sales executive producers, Richard Harriman.
Again, the Grand Duke Pelsmockers, Daniel Karda.
Anonymous and John D. Soltis and the Angry Korean.
We really appreciate everything that you do for keeping this show running.
And, of course, we have some birthdays.
Richard Harriman says happy birthday to his beautiful wife, Christy Lake Harriman, She'll be celebrating on the 12th.
Sir Andrew Largeman, the Republic of the Chiners.
He says congratulations to them.
They are 102 years old today.
Jonathan Diggle.
Happy birthday to his buddy, Ryan Neudorf.
Ben Hink turns 33 today.
Magic numbers in Dave Mahan.
Happy birthday to his boss, Peter Rowe.
And happy birthday from all your buddies here at The Best Podcast in the Universe.
And then we have our Black Knight, and Insta Knight, and straight through to Baron, who never received his original knighting, which of course is not good, so we'll bring out the big swords for this one.
Thank you, John.
Very good.
Ryan Bemrose, come on over, my friend!
Thank you so much!
We are multiple contributions to the No Agenda Show, best podcast in the universe, and we are hereby very proud to pronounce the Sir Ryan Bemrose, Black Knight, and Baron of Puget Sound, excluding the People's Republic of Seattle.
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It's all up to you, and thank you again for your continued support of the No Agenda Show.
And we have a new song for you all to learn.
It could happen.
I like it.
I like it too.
It kind of sticks.
I see no evidence that this Mark Hall singer, the musician that does the Christian song, lives in Austin.
That's also not the Mark Hall.
I know who he is.
Oh, okay.
I have a question.
You know how, well, I certainly, but I think both of us over the years, as we've been doing this program, we've discovered that up is down, white is black, truth is false, you know, internet freedom means restrictions on free speech.
You know, if you just look at things upside down or backwards, that that may be the truth.
Would you agree that we've discovered this in many instances?
Yeah, in fact, there's even a woman out there, a British intellectual, that wrote a book saying the same thing, and she says everything is upside down.
So, you can imagine my intrigue, maybe surprise, but intrigue when I received an email from one of our producers, And he said, you know, I think it's time, and why I'll get into in a moment, that I explain to you about spiritual Satanism, also known as theist Satanism.
And he sent me on a number of places to look to understand what this particular, this is not to be confused with LeVay, L-E-V-A-Y Satanism.
Anton LeVay.
Yes, LaVey.
In this corner.
Yes, very big difference.
These are the spiritual Satanists, the theist Satanists.
So is this guy trying to convert you?
Well, I'm going to get to that.
I'll read this relevant piece, which I found interesting.
Our belief, and I truly believe this after a whole crap ton of research, is that aliens created the human race.
Everything before us, up to and including chimps, evolved much like everyone believes.
However, humans were created as a hybrid between a gray and a chimp.
If you think about that for a moment, it makes a ton of sense.
It makes nothing but sense.
Bear with me.
All animals on the planet have far better immune systems than we do are far less prone to disease and live longer comparatively than we would Without the aid of medical care why if we evolved like everything else did we lose all of those aspects?
It would make no sense in fact It would be the exact opposite of evolution and selection.
So then he goes into this whole thing and We were created strictly as a slave labor force for the aliens.
And I've verified, looked at all his websites and the Satanist Bible and everything to understand what he was talking about.
So what he writes here, I don't have to paraphrase, it's kind of spot on with the belief.
The entire idea was to create us, then wipe us off the planet in a flood.
Well, we know how that happened.
It didn't.
So part of the plan did in fact fail.
That does not mean, however, that we have no contact with our alien masters.
In fact...
We very much do have contact with the aliens, though rarely do we speak to them, they speak to us.
This is where Satan comes in.
Satan wanted to bring us...
Now the show is getting good.
Satan wanted to bring us to a more perfect state.
Satan is actually a gray.
He was fought by the other old gods.
Was he a gray name, Satan?
And that's the reason the deal is?
Yeah, and ended up getting chased into what we call hell to escape the other aliens that were trying to destroy him and his allies known as the demons.
In fact, the Bible brings this point up in Genesis when Satan appeared as a snake and had Eve eat the apples.
Okay.
Yes, just like that.
Well, the whole idea is, John, that Satan is actually the good guy and religion and God is all the aliens who are trying to suppress us and give us different religion to confuse us and invented the Tower of Babel so we speak different languages and make us angry and fight and have wars, etc.
But that Satan is trying to really...
Bring us back to the fifth dimension level that we belong in as intelligent human beings.
But here's the thing that I really liked.
You really liked?
He said the reason why he was telling me this...
Is because Satan asked him to.
Oh!
Satan is aware of...
Well, I'm glad you...
That's funny, because they didn't put me on the BCC. No, specifically, Satan is aware of me, likes what I'm doing.
I'll bet.
He wanted me to know that Satan's listening.
Hey, how about some donations then from Satan?
Well, this is what I said.
I said, hey, can I make a deal with Satan?
And he said, yeah, no, you can make deals all the time.
And I said, well, I got a great idea.
How about you drop a couple million on us and I'll propagate this formula forever?
There you go.
Now you're talking.
I want to see you make this deal.
So anyway, apparently it doesn't work that way.
Oh!
I know.
First you have to...
You can do the deals, but first you have to dedicate yourself to Satan.
You can do it...
Oh, there's always a catch.
You can do it right-hand path or left-hand path.
So right-hand path is white magic, and that would take...
You can only do it after a year and a day.
Left-hand path can be at any moment, and basically it's the black and blue candles.
You swear your allegiance to Satan, then you have to sign your name and blood.
You saw your name in blood on what?
I don't know what I want.
He hasn't let me into the full rituals yet.
And that can be done at any point.
So that would be the consideration.
Well, I don't know.
Go either way.
Depends on what's the easiest.
I know you don't like to work hard, so let's take the easy way out.
How can we get the cash fastest as much as possible?
I think this is bullcrap.
We're getting no cash.
My experience with most of these operations, religious or quasi-religious or Satanist or whatever, they want the cash.
See, that's the catch.
No, no, no.
You want to get the cash from them.
I don't think so.
They want the cash from you.
No, this is what...
No, you'll see.
Okay, I'll wait, I'll wait.
Cash always is outflow, never inflow.
I mean, they promise inflow, but it never happens.
It's never from them.
I'm being positive and optimistic.
Yeah.
I should keep tabs on this.
Yes.
This is a question you might be able to answer.
Do the greys still have sex with the monkeys?
I'll get an answer for you.
Don't worry.
I'd like to know.
Maybe they're still doing it with the monks.
So the greys and none of the aliens are good, apparently.
That's the whole idea.
These aliens are all shite.
That's the way the Russians portray them.
That's all bad.
But Satan is the good guy.
And look, all I know is, wow, it wouldn't surprise me.
Why would it surprise you?
No, that's what I'm saying.
It wouldn't surprise me.
So, okay, is that it with this piece of this?
Is this the best you can do with the crackpot side of the show?
I think this is pretty important.
When someone tells me that...
I want a weekly update.
Yes, when someone tells me that Satan is aware and is listening and asked him to reach out to me, you know, I feel...
It feels kind of like Harvey Weinstein is called, you know?
Reach out to Adam.
I'm listening.
I think it's almost like Harvey Weinstein sends a message, you know, through Tom Cruise, and says, hey, I'm aware of what he's doing.
We could bring him into the big show business family.
I just want a bit part.
And I'm like, I'm with you, John.
I'm like, make it rain, Satan, and then I'll sign my name in blood.
I'm down with that.
If you're the good guy, make it rain.
For me and my buddy, John.
But if I'm in, then I'm going to have to co-opt you.
Yeah.
Maybe I can get Mimi.
I don't like that.
Yeah, get Mickey.
No, not Mickey.
Mimi.
Mickey's worried.
She's like, oh crap, what is this?
What is this crap?
She's like, what is this?
It's not good.
All right.
Well, if the note set itself on fire afterwards, I'd be more impressed.
Well, I'm going to keep you updated regularly.
Yeah, no, you should.
This is something to talk about.
Chatroom likes this, by the way.
The question has to be answered, is the monkey still having sex with the grays?
You know, Alistair Crowley, was that his name?
Oh, Crowley, yes, that guy.
He was a big Satan guy.
Yeah, he was one of the major ones.
He's the one, I think Jimmy, what's his name, was part of that group.
The pedophile.
Jimmy, what's his name?
Jim Will Fix It?
No, Alistair Crowley died in 47.
Well, he was part of that crowd, that unsavory crowd.
Okay.
Okay.
All right.
Okay, well, that's good.
That's a great, great, great report.
Yes, you're welcome.
I'm glad that that, now if I can find my clip list.
Well, I'll do another report here, 24 seconds.
It's something I've been talking about for going on four years now, ladies and gentlemen.
And finally, it seems, oh my goodness, it's on the news.
We are back as promised with our exclusive reporting on who was responsible for a monumental health crisis going on not far from our shores, an epidemic of cholera that broke out in Haiti after the earthquake there almost four years ago now.
NBC News has learned that lawyers will file a class action lawsuit tomorrow accusing the United Nations of causing the spread of this disease.
There you go.
It's about time.
Oh, my God.
How long have we been...
We've been talking about this for four years.
Four years.
Yeah, we got it when they first showed up.
But notice they don't do anything until there's a lawsuit.
No one dared to go out and report on this because, you know, you'd be messing with the Clintons, which I'm convinced is why they wouldn't report on it.
Yeah, because you don't want to be...
So one of our friends who doesn't want to be identified sent a note in saying that Kayak...
Chicago has a lot of lawyer connections to Chicago.
Oh, of course.
Former Mayor Daley was a partner in the kayak firm.
You're kidding me.
No.
You are kidding me.
No.
Kat and Munchen, the general counselor of kayak, Karen Klein's husband is a partner there.
It's a Chicago deal.
Wow.
They're just giving them free publicity.
How transparent is that?
Well, jeez.
I don't know what they hope to gain from it.
I guess maybe they all...
They probably all own stock in the company.
It's all legal, you know?
Just mention Kayak a lot.
Maybe the stock will go up.
Did you...
We got so many...
Just speaking of our awesome producers, we receive so many emails and feedback on the concept of multiple drugs leading to.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
To, you know, and of course.
A binary attack.
Well, and there's a big connection to Connecticut.
Connecticut is where we had three, three of these crazies in Connecticut.
One, of course, was Adam Lanza.
Then we had Aaron Alexis.
He started hearing voices when he was in Connecticut.
And we had this unarmed mother who was killed, also from Connecticut.
Of course, interesting to note that Connecticut has a...
A submarine base and actually are listed as using ELF in Connecticut.
I have a PDF here from the ELF-VITA sites.
This is the 211 U.S. Navy ELF sites by region.
It says right here that Connecticut has a couple others, of course, including Djibouti, San Diego a lot, Norfolk, Virginia.
So we should be on the lookout for For this taking place anywhere else.
But a lot of very qualified producers we have listening.
Pharmacists, doctors, etc.
And here's what I learned.
Prozac still seems to be kind of the top candidate.
However, the hamburger helper of the industry, and I did not know that they are now the number one drug Approaching $6 billion in annual sales.
Abilify.
And it would make total sense because Abilify is intended to be used on top of and in coordination and combination with your existing antidepressant.
Right, right, right.
It's a combo.
It's a combo deal.
And this would also explain why the news media don't talk about it because you want to get a lawsuit?
You want to see a shitstorm?
Go on the air and say, yeah, these people are on Abilify.
That's why no one will do it.
Well, that's not the reason.
Abilify advertises a lot.
Yes, well, of course.
It's the same reason.
That's the one that's got the cartoon woman.
On an antidepressant and still feel depressed?
Ask your doctor about the option of adding Abilify.
Abilify is prescribed as an add-on treatment for adults with unresolved symptoms of depression after at least six weeks on an antidepressant.
You're not alone.
A large study showed that two out of three people taking an antidepressant still experienced unresolved symptoms of depression.
Yes.
You may not have to start over.
Abilify is meant to be taken in addition to an antidepressant.
Not instead.
Start a conversation with your doctor.
Hey, get a 30-day free trial.
So the official pharmacist of the No Agenda show, Dr.
Chris...
He says, so he got the full disclosure on the side effects.
You have to go to the prescribing information, which is the most the public will ever get, actually.
You'll notice under warnings and precautions, the possibility of, quote, neuroleptic malignant syndrome, which is delirium.
Neuroleptic malignant syndrome is a life-threatening neurological disorder most often caused by an adverse reaction to neuroleptic or antipsychotic drugs.
NMS typically consists of muscle rigidity, fever, autonomic instability, Whatever that is.
Adatomic.
Maybe you become a robot.
No, autonomic.
Autonomic.
Hold on.
Okay.
And cognitive changes such as delirium and is associated with elevated plasma creating phosphochemism.
Autonomic, involuntary or unconscious relating to the autonomic nervous system.
In other words, you start doing shit.
Sleepwalking.
Yeah, exactly.
And you combine that with messages from ELF And it could happen.
Kill all humans.
No, maybe it's just like they're sending messages to the submarine, but you're picking it up.
Lucio Ball, by the way, she had this, and I found this in the Book of Knowledge, she was the one that claimed after she had a filling done that she was receiving radio stations.
Yeah, this happens to a lot of people, apparently.
The filling is just apparently a fractal antenna, it turns out, and it will receive like a crystal set.
You don't need power, and it just vibrates.
It sends the signal into the jaw, and you can listen to the ballgame without really a lot of work.
You can't tune it, though.
That's the problem.
Uh, no.
You can't only...
Here, let me see if I... Dennis can probably tune it.
You'd have to be...
Okay, what?
Is this a channel for you?
Ah, there it is.
Uh, Lucy Ball resulted in an interview.
The strangest thing that ever happened to her was after she had some dental work completed, having lead feelings put in her teeth.
teeth.
This is a while ago.
She started hearing radio stations in her head.
She explained that coming home one night from the studio, she passed one certain area she heard where she thought was a Morse code or tapping.
This, by the way, is exactly what people talk about.
She stated that as I backed up, it got stronger.
The next morning, I reported to the authorities and upon investigation, they found a Japanese radio transmitter had been buried and was actively transmitting codes back to the Japanese.
Oh, this is during the war.
Yes.
It's a crazy world, isn't it?
That's a wild story.
Wild story of the day.
Well, it's on the book of knowledge.
A couple of interesting pieces of news.
Skull surgery in Argentina not being covered.
Skull surgery.
Let me see what this is about.
The president of Argentina is recovering from skull surgery in Buenos Aires.
Cristina Fernandez had the operation today to remove a blood clot and to relieve pressure on her brain after an unspecified head injury.
Supporters kept vigil outside her hospital and brought signs wishing the 60-year-old leader well.
I'm worried.
It seems to me that her head is her biggest asset.
She is someone who's very intelligent and having to have an operation, regardless of how simple it is, always has its risks.
I'm very worried that there won't be someone able to replace her adequately.
Her head is her biggest asset.
Now, there's a story that's been going around on the blogs and on the underground that really is reported on some of the Asian outlets, but I've been keeping this clip Handy, because I have to describe at least what I'm finding out about.
Read the hornets in China story.
All righty.
Hornet attacks have killed 42 people over the past three months in China.
More than 200 victims in Shanxi province are still in hospital receiving treatment.
State health officials say that more than 1600 people have been injured by hornet stings in recent months.
Officials instructed the provincial government to put medical institutions on alert in order to promptly treat victims.
They have also ordered the extermination of hornets in residential areas.
Local firefighters have reportedly been mobilized to deal with hornet nests on over 1000 occasions.
These hornets are an inch and an inch and a half long.
Why am I remembering something about this from maybe a year or two ago or even longer?
These hornets are huge.
They're the size of a small mouse.
Wow!
And they had a picture of some guy in the hospital.
He had a hornet bite in his neck.
They had a tube going into the bite.
And it was draining him.
I mean, it was like, these things are horrible, and they're coming...
They apparently have moved...
There's apparently an area of China where these hornets were always living, and then somehow they've encroached on some, or the Chinese have encroached on them.
I know what it is.
Monsanto!
It's either that or global warming.
One of the two.
And Monsanto's getting the Nobel Prize, by the way.
For what?
He didn't know about this?
Public relations?
No, it's...
Let me see.
Is it...
Nobel Prize of Agriculture.
Oh, I'm sorry.
It's the World Food Prize, which is the...
Oh, that's not the Nobel Prize.
No, no, I'm sorry.
My mistake.
It's...
Oh, God, I hate it when I do that.
The World Food Prize is their prize.
Yeah, they're giving it to themselves.
Okay, now I see.
I just read over it briefly.
Nobel Prize of Agriculture.
The prestigious World Food Prize.
Please.
This is how bad headlines.
I'm sorry.
I'm glad I caught myself.
Bad.
Chaos in Brazil.
This is a story that has been going on for, I don't know, we talked about it when it began.
It's still going on.
Thieves, scoundrels and villains is the battle cry of thousands of anti-government protesters on the streets of Rio de Janeiro, demonstrating in support of teachers demanding more pay.
Groups of people gathered outside City Hall and across the city on Monday evening and into the night.
Riot police took to the streets with tear gas in an attempt to quell the unrest.
What began as a peaceful march descended into chaos as night fell.
A group of youths known as the Black Blocks hijacked the protest.
Firebombs were thrown at banks and public buildings, and looters targeted shops and cash machines.
Yeah, there's a lot of stuff that you just don't hear about at all because of...
This is all Olympics related.
Oh yeah, and World Cup.
Olympics and World Cup.
Right, both of them.
Yeah.
Yeah, but the news, even the European news, I've been looking, I'm just trying to find anything.
You look over at Euroland, it's all dominated by the stupid shutdown.
The news media are so dumb.
The shutdown's not even entertaining.
The only thing that I did pick up, which is kind of interesting, is that Poland has now confiscated all of the non-government pensions.
Greece will be doing the same.
And it looks like Russia is now also...
Grabbing pensions, but these are pension funds, again, a lot of them have U.S. money invested in them.
So this whole thing of kind of grabbing pension funds, that seems to be spreading throughout Euroland and the Eurozone.
Yeah, it's pretty amazing they can do it.
And that no one talks about it.
Well, it's because they're ready to do it here.
Do you think that would really happen?
I think it could happen.
Not during this cycle, but I think by 2017, there's something that can happen.
So let's wrap up with that, because we have discussed the possibility of a big meltdown in October.
I don't think anyone has the balls to do it, personally.
No, I think they're going to get out alive.
I think October's going to be fine, hopefully.
I don't like the idea of a meltdown in October, even though it's right on the money for the cycle.
Right on the money.
Well, wait a minute.
You don't like the idea?
Really?
Wouldn't you think that was just outstandingly fun?
No.
I don't like the idea.
Luckily, this Janet Yellen, this weirdo, she's going to keep pumping money into the economy because she's all in on this quantitative easing, and that'll get us through October and push us off until hopefully 2017.
I don't like to see it.
The economic collapse is not going to be good for the show.
I mean, the show can sustain, and we're worldwide in all the rest of it, but generally speaking, an economic collapse at that level is not good for anything.
No.
Well, of course not, but won't we just all be in the same hole?
I mean, isn't it just like, pfft, what it is?
Don't we all go hat in hand?
No, we're not all in the same hole.
There's a bunch of billionaires, and we know them personally, that are going to do just fine.
Right.
Right.
We're not in the group that can just coast.
Oh, well, I won't drink Lafitte this week.
I'll drink Mouton.
But we'll still have good stuff for the show.
Yeah, well, the show will be great.
Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
Oh, you mean, yeah, we won't get any money.
Yeah, there's that.
Yes.
And we'll be bitching and moaning too much, which is not necessarily good for the show, but that's what we do.
So, okay.
I think that's a good note to end on.
Nice downer.
Nice downer.
I like it.
Hey, you brought it up.
I'm going to see if there's anything here that's funny.
No, nothing.
Well...
So in the crackpot circles, everyone's talking about it's happening.
It's happening.
We're going to have the stock market crash.
We've got all these drills taking place.
Earthquake drill on the 17th.
The crackpot sites are saying the Pentagon is warning the EU to expect radical change, continuity of government.
Barack Obama will implement a national emergency act.
And you get all that, and it's tiring, because how many times have we seen, oh, it's happening, it's going to happen, buy your food.
People are now tweeting us, shall I buy this storable food?
My advice is always to go to one of these standard rates and data.
Some of these operations have these databases for mailing lists and get a mailing list of all the Mormons.
And now you know where you can go get the food.
Exactly.
Just find your favorite Mormons.
You can make friends with them.
Let me just see if I have the thing here.
Or get the mailing list that Alex Jones...
Incoming message from Satan.
No, grays are not having sex with primates anymore.
We propagate just fine, judging from how many people are on the planet.
And, tell John, no cash required.
No cash required?
What does that even mean?
So you don't have to pay for Satanism.
Oh, so in other words, nobody's cashing in on this book.
No, man.
No, no.
Yeah, that's what they say.
They always say that.
I'm super intrigued.
Alright, hit it.
I'm out.
I'm out.
Hey, so you're off.
You're going to be up northwest for the next show?
No, I'm going to be back.
Oh, I thought you were going to be up there for a little while.
I can't get a good enough interview.
We're working on the internet up there.
No, I'm going up to visit my daughter at the school up in the middle of nowhere.
Oh, okay.
Parents' Day.
Oh, that's nice.
Yeah.
Will they do a play?
Yeah, actually, they are going to do a play.
Yeah, which one?
I don't think she's in the play.
Okay.
Well, that shows the dedication we bring to you on this program.
Going up and down just to make sure we've got good internets.
And I'm going to be getting clips on the road.
Yeah, I got your back, brother.
No worries.
That's right.
Blow the Boovazella.
And we're going to wrap this up real quick.
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