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	Anyone ever gets caught with a hooker has to shoot himself.
	Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
	It's Sunday, November 17th, 2013.
	Time for your Gitmo Nation media assassination episode 566.
	This is no agenda.
	Monitoring the Black Peeps from Racism Central, the heart of Amsterdam and Gitmo Nation lowlands.
	In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where I remain, and tell you, do not buy harmonicas from China.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	What's wrong with your harmonica from China, my friend?
	It sounds like crap.
	You know, it sounded okay when I first got it, but these hyenos, listen.
	Nice.
	Now compare that to a German harmonica.
	Oh, a honer.
	Is honer German?
	Sorry?
	Yeah, they're both honers.
	I have to say, there is really nothing like flying 4,000 miles, being jet-lagged, then doing the show at 6 in the evening and having that piercing sound in your ears.
	Ah, it's piercing.
	Interesting.
	Yes, it's...
	So anyway, how are you doing?
	How is the flight?
	Well, so...
	It was Friday that you flew, and you've been there for days.
	Yeah.
	So we arrive Saturday, of course.
	Saturday afternoon.
	Because you fly through the night.
	I have to say, a couple interesting things.
	First of all, the TSA and airport security are messing up my system.
	Because what used to be, you know, of course we can't raise our arms, so we don't have to go through the naked body scanner.
	But it used to be you could just walk through the premier line to get right up to the front, even with your coach ticket, which is kind of our system.
	Now, of course, Miss Mickey went through a different line because we can't both go through the line with an arm issue.
	That would be kind of obvious.
	But so now, instead of the premium line, it is only known as the pre-check line.
	Because premium passengers, in most cases I guess, are now automatically pre-check passengers.
	What does that even mean?
	Well, you know what pre-check is, right?
	Oh, this is that system.
	Yeah, this is kind of that scam.
	Right, to get more money out of you.
	Yeah, so most people who are super gold status or first class, they automatically are kind of enrolled in the pre-check.
	You still have to have the meeting.
	So there's no more line.
	There's no more first class line.
	You can only, if you're pre-check and or...
	Can you go through the first class line, which is what Miss Mickey and I would always do, is just take your coach ticket and walk right up to the front.
	They never said anything.
	But now it's like, they don't care if you're first class or not.
	It's, you're not pre-checked!
	Which, of course, I'm never going to be.
	I'm not going to be pre-check and give up my biometric data and have you follow me.
	And you know that now the credit scores are pre-checked?
	That's all now combined?
	Why?
	Well, because if your credit score really drops all of a sudden...
	Oh, because you might want to blow up the plane if you've got a lousy credit score?
	Well, you could be considered...
	Is that the rationale?
	Well, I'm not kidding.
	You could be considered a security risk.
	So now all of that's being put together.
	It's crazy!
	Your credit score, which by itself is a big bogus thing, is now combined with your pre-check data.
	So, anyway.
	You can have a credit card in dispute and now be considered an enemy of the state.
	Yeah, I actually, my credit score is, I don't know, it's like 400 all of a sudden because someone ordered AT&T U-verse in Los Angeles and it got billed to me.
	AT&T never even asked me anything.
	They just sent a collection agency, because I guess they were trying to bill someone at that address on my account.
	And I said, no, I have nothing to do with it.
	So the credit agency just put this on my credit record.
	And I'm tanked, because I have no credit cards, anything.
	All I have is just bad debt.
	I'm surprised they didn't do secondary screening on you.
	Come along, Mr.
	Curry.
	I will say, interesting, for the first time...
	Let's see your wallet.
	Yeah, for the first time, because of course we have to fly via Atlanta, I was on a flight where the flight attendant said, you know, you can go ahead, continue to use your electronic devices as long as you have them in flight mode.
	So that's a new thing, of course, that certain carriers are allowing to happen.
	And of course I am.
	And ladies and gentlemen, that's his exciting report from Europe.
	No, you asked me how the flight was.
	Now I'm going to tell you about...
	That was my fault, unlike the other thing.
	Alright, so we arrived here and...
	Wait, wait, wait, stop, stop.
	Let's go back on the flight.
	This is always entertaining to everybody.
	Any incidents on the flight?
	You were in coach or were you in first class?
	Did you get upgraded?
	No.
	Were they nice to you?
	Was the food any good on Delta, I doubt?
	There was no food on Delta.
	Delta's an hour and a half flight to Atlanta.
	We had a peanut.
	And we paid $13 for two Bloody Marys.
	Which is such a bargain.
	That seems like a scam.
	Yeah, you think?
	And everything works nicely.
	You get off the plane in Atlanta.
	You get on a little train.
	Boom.
	Because the flight is connected.
	They know that you're going to go on to Amsterdam.
	Now, there was no upgrade whatsoever.
	Nothing going on like that.
	The flight attendants on the KLM flight are always nice to us.
	They always kind of have that, oh, what a surprise to see you back here in coach.
	Giving it to you.
	Every once in a while, I see some really well-known celebrity in Coach.
	And I think everybody looks at him because they look so sheepish.
	Yeah.
	We just don't care.
	I mean, we've been traveling coach for so long.
	We just don't care.
	In your case, I just really...
	I mean, I consider myself naturally uncomfortable in coach.
	Yeah.
	Because I'm 6'1".
	Yeah.
	But you're like 6'5".
	Yeah.
	And Mickey's 6'1".
	Yeah.
	It's not comfortable.
	No.
	But, you know...
	Well, it's...
	We do pay the extra $100 for...
	was it economy comfort?
	Oh, the two inches.
	Yeah, so, yeah, we'll take those extra two inches.
	That's really nice.
	And, but yeah, no, it's, it's the difference between $900 a ticket and three and a half thousand, you know, from, you know.
	Who has that kind of money?
	Oh yeah, we're going to go to Amsterdam for a week.
	It's a $7,000 round-trip plane ticket for the two of us.
	Yeah, I think not.
	And of course, the Netherlands, we're in an Airbnb right now.
	That's our new thing.
	Why ever stay in a hotel ever again?
	Because they're going to outlaw Airbnb?
	I think the opposite is going to happen.
	They already did it in New York City.
	Oh yeah, sure.
	The government may...
	Okay, let's step back for a second.
	Here's the future of our world.
	And we're seeing this with Uber, and obviously we're seeing with Airbnb.
	You're going to see more of this.
	The world's economy is going to run on, I'd call them credibility market exchanges or something like that.
	So with Airbnb, very much like Yelp, only Yelp got pretty compromised, but I think you actually follow some people still on Yelp.
	But you take Airbnb, you look at the reviews, and you decide if you want to stay in this place.
	And you can always negotiate the price, which is kind of cool.
	But you also have a lot of power.
	So there are a couple things that weren't right here and we called up and said, hey man, do you want a shitty review from us or are you going to knock something off the price or are you going to take care of a couple things right now?
	Because you do have some power because these guys don't want a bad review.
	Conversely, Airbnb has their own database of me and I'm in it.
	And there are, you know, anyone who's renting out their place can go and look up me and see if I got a bad review from somebody else saying, well, this guy trashed the place or...
	So this is really interesting.
	That's what Uber does as well with drivers and passengers.
	So Airbnb may go away, but the...
	Because, you know, as a business, obviously, it's competing with the hotels and tax revenue.
	But I think as we move forward and people start to realize that all these companies, and there's no real good way to make money on the internet other than providing internet access, but regulation will kill these types of businesses.
	But there will be tons of databases where you have this credibility and you can trade stuff and buy things from people directly.
	I think we're going to see a lot of that.
	Well, you know, you have to give credit where credit is due.
	This actually began with eBay.
	Totally.
	This is absolutely where it started.
	eBay came up with the idea that you can buy direct from one person to another and then they would review each other.
	You could say, this buyer never sent me the money or this guy's a scammer or this piece of crap he showed one picture and sent us something else and that sort of thing.
	Even Craigslist doesn't do that.
	Right.
	I mean, you can post something in the commentaries of Craigslist, but nobody reads that stuff.
	actually i would go a little bit beyond ebay and i would give the porn industry uh...
	i would give them props because the porn industry is always a little bit ahead of the curve and i think escort reviews came before ebay escort reviews are one way I never heard of customer reviews.
	Old Adam Curry came over the other day and tried to bang me and he couldn't get it up.
	No, that's not true.
	Okay, but...
	Okay.
	All right.
	I'll take that.
	I just think that...
	All right.
	Everybody wants to do this, by the way.
	This is one of my major pet peeves for the last 25 years.
	Oh, the porn industry is way ahead of everybody else.
	They've done everything.
	It wasn't for the porn industry.
	There'd be no VHS and Sony Betamax, which is bullcrap.
	The thing that made those systems work was sports recording.
	That's why VHS won over beta, because it could record a whole football game, and beta couldn't.
	Oh, is this true?
	I never heard this.
	I like this.
	This is a very interesting take.
	I never heard that.
	Yeah.
	And so, I mean, that's the only reason the difference.
	There was a quality difference in favor of beta, but it could only record two hours.
	And VHS, at the get-go, started recording with four, and then went to six.
	And beta just fell, because why would I want this?
	Well, I can get this.
	And there was also more competition.
	It was kind of like the iPad versus the Android.
	And don't forget, there was also the Philips System 2000.
	Oh, don't get the Magnavox.
	And my all-time favorite was...
	Oh, we're good.
	My favorite one was a guy...
	So I went to a...
	This is that era when they had all these competitors.
	And this guy takes me aside, he said...
	And even Technicolor had a little 8mm job that was kind of ahead of its time.
	But this guy takes me aside and says, no, I don't get this stuff.
	He says, here's the future, this Sanyo V-Cord.
	Ooh!
	This is...
	Where was this guy?
	Where was this shop?
	One of these Pacific Stereos or one of these things.
	Yeah, it's annual V-Court.
	Technology's better.
	It's easier to make.
	Everybody's going to it.
	Everybody.
	You know what?
	I'll take that.
	I think I've never heard this theory about the sports games and the length of recording.
	I've also always heard it was the porn industry.
	And I'm with you on that.
	I stand corrected.
	But regardless...
	One convert out of none.
	Nobody wants to buy it.
	They're all just something appealing about it.
	The porn industry, they're the first to do everything.
	Yeah, they're the first to do pop-up ads, maybe, as it were.
	I think the first real-time streams were all...
	Actually, I think a lot of those came from Amsterdam.
	Casa Rosso was doing their live shows.
	They were streaming them live very early on.
	Doesn't mean they invented the technology or anything.
	So you're on the plane.
	Let's go back to the plane.
	Screw the plane.
	So anyway, so now we're in Airbnb, and I was going to say, you know, a big problem, of course, even though this is a very short trip, and even though it's business-related, because Miss Mickey is working with a new gallery, and her expo here has been extended, so that's all really good.
	So, you know, she's basically paying for it.
	The Euro is just killing me.
	The exchange rate is just out of control, man.
	I know.
	It's hard to be in Europe with this Euro at $1.35, and that's the official rate, but they scam you even more on the exchanges there.
	So you probably go up to $1.40.
	$1.38, yeah.
	So you want to buy a $1 cup of something and it's $1.40 to you and it's already overpriced.
	Actually, they'll jack it up to two.
	Two euros, which makes it three euros for something worth a dollar.
	It's ludicrous.
	Yeah, so I'm trying to hit up old friends like, hey, remember I bought dinner last time?
	Yeah.
	How are you doing?
	I'm in town.
	So, yeah.
	And of course, we arrived yesterday the exact same day as the holy man, Sinterklaas, and his black peace who arrived on the steamboat, the steamship, From Spain.
	The Black Peets were with him.
	And with the Black Peets.
	And of course, we know that this is the big controversy, that everyone is all up in arms, the entire international community and all the immigrants in the Netherlands.
	This is racism.
	We can't have any of this.
	And how many people were protesting and how many got arrested, do you think, John?
	Well, there's probably, I'm guessing, based on the reporting, I'm guessing probably 10,000 to 15,000 protesters and probably maybe 100 arrests and 5 or 6 beatings.
	Well, to be exact, one guy was protesting and got arrested.
	One guy.
	100% of the protesters got arrested.
	Wow.
	Yeah, that's how we should have done it.
	And I'm laughing, you know, and there were no white Pete's or rainbow-colored Pete's or any of this bullcrap people are talking about.
	But the funny thing is, after we debunked this whole United Nations letter that was sent, remember this?
	The representative of, the high representative of...
	Phony.
	Yeah, some...
	Yeah, essentially some consultant who got to use a UN letterhead and who was, you know, calling out to the government of the Netherlands, you have to stop this prime minister, this is racism.
	The BBC ran the report with the The same lady as like real news.
	...illustration that people's experience of Black Pete can be determined by their skin color.
	Today, in a country of approximately 17 million people, more than 3.5 million are either foreign-born Dutch citizens or children of non-Dutch immigrants.
	Many are angered by accusations that Black Pete perpetuates racial stereotypes.
	More than 2 million people have liked this petition supporting the tradition.
	Others, like Michelle, are making more permanent statements.
	This determination to protect Black Peace is for some derived from fears about immigration and the ensuing erosion of Dutch culture.
	There are a lot of cultures coming in here and we are very easy to a lot of cultures, but they are saying now, hey, stop your own cultures.
	But the UN's letter to the Dutch government argues that sometimes cultural rights can be in direct conflict with human rights.
	One of its four authors believes that the image of Black Pete perpetuates racial stereotypes.
	You can understand, I think, easily why black people feel offended.
	It's really the hair which defines to be black.
	And I think a lot of white people don't understand that.
	You don't mess with black hair.
	So this is the lady from the UN, and now she has a new story, is you can't mess with black people's hair.
	So the way the Black Pete's hair, yeah, I know, the way the Black Pete's hair is, which is all like curly and crazy and out, you know, like in a kind of an unkempt afro.
	Now this is her story.
	It's like, oh, you know, everybody knows you don't make fun of black people's hair.
	What?
	I'm telling you, this is insane, and this is the BBC! They have suffered from this inferiority for so many centuries, and I think the last thing we should want is to remind them of that past.
	Of their bad hair past!
	This lady is off her rocker.
	The government has so far rejected international calls to intervene to change Sarsapit's appearance.
	The majority of people are here at yellow racing this event, but there are no racist undertones.
	The UN's view, though, is that just because something is invisible to you, it doesn't mean it does not exist.
	Anyway, so...
	Did you hear that last part?
	Oh yeah, just because you don't see it doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
	I'm going to predict this right off the bat.
	Within 10 years, Black Pete's dead.
	But not just out of the culture.
	They've actually killed him, you mean?
	Well, I don't know about that.
	I mean out of the culture, but they could do it that way.
	That's the way you do it in a soap opera.
	Yeah.
	No, it wouldn't surprise me.
	I think that probably what will happen is...
	We had no protests in the country.
	Nothing's going on.
	Nobody really cares except this one person, this one squeaky wheel, who's drawing attention to it and making it look like it's something that it isn't, which is easy enough to do.
	She is going to result in the whole thing, and people are going to wonder, why did we do this?
	Then they're going to forget about it, and there won't be no Black Pete no more.
	No way.
	Don't be no Black Pete no more.
	Yeah, so that's rather irritating.
	There's a bunch of stuff around the world that they should go after.
	I mean, there's something that happens, I think it's in Wales.
	Oh, no, there's traditions around the world that are even on the UNESCO list of protected traditions.
	And it's literally a guy dressed up in blackface with an orange dress on.
	It's exactly the same thing.
	But it's some other continent, and oh, it's okay there.
	Either that or that the woman, she's just targeting the Danes, or the Dutch.
	Yeah, the Danes, exactly.
	Or the Danes.
	We need to talk about one thing, or actually a couple of things we need to discuss kind of off the bat.
	And one of them, because I'm seeing the emails come in, and I'm getting either, there's a couple things that must be happening.
	Maybe we have more people listening.
	We've reached some kind of tipping point, and this may not be necessarily good, but we're getting a lot of pushback on our big pharma reporting, and the one that I really need to address, or we need to address, is Bitcoin.
	Because people are mistaken what our objection has been versus what is happening and what they think is going on.
	And I actually have an email that might help kind of kick this off.
	But to be very specific, we have always said we don't want to participate in Bitcoin for the way we keep this show running.
	Because we can't use it to pay our rent.
	And as long as you have to exchange this into another, into a fiat currency, into dollars, it is not only, it's risky.
	It's just risky for us because this is how we live.
	And of course people have taken that as, you know, You hate Bitcoin.
	You're stupid.
	And now that the so-called exchanges have put the price at $500, people are saying, we're idiots, we're stupid, we should have known better.
	I'm like, no!
	This is actually proving our point!
	So here's an email that kind of galled me a little bit.
	We were talking about the spread on the exchanges.
	Like, you know, the bid and the ask.
	Yeah, there's a bid and ask spread that's way out of control.
	Yeah, not only that, but I'd like to, you know, people talk about, you know, there's no fees, there's a very low fee when you have Bitcoin.
	Yeah, maybe if you send somebody a Bitcoin, but have you looked at the fees for exchanging your Bitcoin into dollars?
	3%, you know, and of course you might have a cheaper exchange or whatever, but sometimes you have to wait a week for your money.
	It's all these things that are really, really, really risky.
	But here's Transito, and he says, first of all, he's really insulting.
	He says, you know, you guys don't know what you're talking about.
	How is the spread benefiting the exchanges?
	Exchanges only match bids and asks of its customers.
	Either you sell or you wait to be bought.
	Which is, yeah, on NASDAQ, when you have an exchange which is regulated, of course, even that is crooked.
	We know that the, you know, especially with the high-frequency trading...
	But these are not regulated exchanges.
	I took a look across some of these sites, the differences, you know, in price even.
	Some exchanges have it at $500 today, some have it at $480, some have it at $520.
	I mean, how is that even possible?
	How does that make sense?
	But okay.
	Exchange delays, says Transito.
	There might have been a total of, oh, maybe 30 minutes of delays with Mt.
	Gox in the past five months, since after the DDoS protection had been put in place after the crash.
	All other exchanges never had any delays.
	How do exchanges benefit from these delays anyway?
	Wow!
	Can I give you an idea?
	What if the people who run the exchange are playing the exchange?
	Anyone ever think of that?
	No.
	Bitcoin exchanges have had their bank accounts closed left and right for years.
	Their money gets seized by the government.
	The cost and resource required for acquiring an MSB license in every state is about $3 million.
	Opening as a U.S. citizen requires serving Bitcoin exchanges is actually the worst business you get into.
	The problem here is the governments.
	The governments are ruining the Bitcoin experience.
	This is the kind of emails we're getting here.
	Now...
	Hold on.
	Wait, let me finish.
	With the word we...
	What do you mean?
	I don't get any of these emails.
	I'm sorry.
	Is that CC'd to me?
	I don't think so.
	They found a sympathetic source in you and they send you these emails.
	I don't get any of them.
	Why don't you tell John that there might be something...
	They still tell you to tell me.
	Then you'll fall for this.
	Why don't you just tell these guys to get screwed?
	The point is...
	Let me finish the email because this is important because there's more to this and then we can address it.
	Why don't you tell John that there just might be something behind, quote, decentralized math-based assets, like Bitcoin, instead of letting him repeat, the whole thing is a scam, and his sell, sell-to-who joke.
	Here's my favorite.
	I made a few million dollars.
	This is a good joke.
	I made a few million dollars in part by not following your advice.
	Long time listener.
	I've sent you emails in the past to explain how Bitcoin is a perfect fit for donations and a value for value model.
	Still want us to use shitty PayPal?
	Face palm.
	You won't get a fucking dime from me until you enlighten the fuck up.
	So here's a guy who claims to have made millions of dollars, has listened forever, but won't donate to us because we're not enlightened.
	But then he goes on, this is my favorite, stock tip.
	You might have the chance to witness and maybe profit from a Bitcoin flash crash of 20-40% around the 18th.
	And then he sends a link to the coming hearings about the Silk Road and Bitcoin in the Senate.
	But this is not unique.
	And these emails keep coming, and it's like, people, you are falling for exactly what this is.
	It's like a penny stock scam.
	You can't use Bitcoin to purchase anything.
	No, you can if you want to be gouged on price.
	It's like, why would you buy something if tomorrow your Bitcoin might be worth more?
	Well, I'm not going to do that.
	I'm going to hold on to my Bitcoin, and hopefully I'll be able to sell it when it's $1,000, which it will go to, guaranteed.
	But will there be a lot of people around who will take that, who will really do a huge swap for you?
	My joke, my sell-to-who joke.
	It's a great joke.
	Yeah, it's a good joke.
	So this is, you know, it's like, I'm all for it.
	No, no, first of all, these guys are these ankle biters out there that, you know, they make these claims, oh, I made millions, or I did this and I did that, which is typical of a pump and dump guy.
	Then they won't donate, you know, if he likes the show so much.
	That's my favorite part.
	If he likes the show and he won't donate because we don't accept bitcoins because that's all he's going to deal with, does he do the same thing at his grocer?
	When he goes to buy some milk?
	Yeah, facepalm you asshole!
	I'm not buying your milk until you let me buy it with bitcoins!
	Yeah, I mean, so he doesn't do that.
	So why should he do it?
	We've decided not to use BitGo.
	We could have made the decision to do it, but it just seemed like...
	The real reason we didn't do it wasn't because of the speculation part or the fact that you can't...
	The real reason is because you just can't easily move it from A to B to something useful.
	It's not useful.
	Exactly.
	Great, if you tripled your money, or I feel really good about the guy who bought apparently a bunch, I guess I could have done, hey, we could have all done this.
	During the early, early days, you could have bought lots of Bitcoins for 45 cents or 4 bucks or something like that.
	Now, that would have been a nice idea.
	Of course, you wouldn't have kept them.
	You would have dumped them along the way because you wouldn't believe it went up to 20.
	This is a problem with all stocks when you catch them early now.
	And, you know, so what?
	But to just be constantly complaining about our attitude or our thoughts on the matter, which, by the way, is called freedom of speech, freedom of thought.
	We can't think about it this way.
	I can say, do my jokes, that that's bad.
	I can't do that because I have to follow the rules of the Bitcoin world.
	Whatever we say goes.
	Facepalm!
	These guys, if they send me one of these notes, I'll just tell them to fuck off.
	But then, hey, wait a minute.
	I'm doing a show here.
	This is entertainment to me.
	This is important.
	But, you know, because I check into this chat room we have, and I can see the same people, and they're like, boy, they're going to curry into work, going to eat their words about Bitcoin.
	What are you talking about?
	Because it's exactly the opposite.
	It is useless as a currency if the price is not stable.
	We've gone up 20% in less than a week.
	That is not a currency.
	That's a speculative stock.
	This is the point I'm making.
	And what's so sad, and this is where...
	There's no basis, by the way.
	What is sad is that this is being done.
	This is such a genius.
	And maybe Bitcoin's algorithm, everything, maybe it's all perfectly great, but it's playing into the fears of people who actually do listen to our podcast and don't want big governments screwing around with everything and messing with us.
	But you're being taken for a ride on this.
	And the guy who had $980,000 in Bitcoin, he woke up one day, I haven't seen the story where he exchanged that for the actual money.
	We don't know if he did.
	We don't know if anyone would take that.
	I mean, who can exchange a million dollars?
	Is there an exchange that will take my Bitcoin and give me a million dollars cash?
	And am I still going to pay 3% on that to exchange that money?
	I mean, come on, people.
	Be realistic.
	I think it would be interesting if the whole Bitcoin thing also had a backdoor, where all of a sudden you could just make infinite Bitcoins, like, instantly.
	They would pull the rug off.
	I don't know.
	The math is the math, but, you know, it's like these encryption algorithms.
	They're all corrupt.
	It used to be, I went to an RSA convention once, and the first version I think is out called, I think it's True Crypt.
	Did they insert a back door into you there?
	I already had a back door.
	In the morning.
	So they were talking about, before TrueCrypt, there was this product called DriveCrypt, and it had, just for the life of me, I can't remember the name of it, of the encryption scheme.
	But I was told by one of the guys at RSA, he says, the NSA doesn't want people using this one encryption scheme, which was apparently developed by the Swiss banks.
	Hmm.
	It was called Cloud or Soma.
	It had a really funny name.
	And now it disappeared.
	They took it off of TrueCrypt when they brought TrueCrypt out.
	And now you get this triple DES and all these pretty common ones that may all be compromised for all you know.
	But this other thing disappeared.
	And I've always been kind of, eh.
	Ever since I was told that, I just thought the whole thing was fishy.
	Right.
	There was something interesting that came up in the European Parliament.
	Apparently, Linus Torvald's dad is a minister of European Parliament, which I did not know.
	And there was some conversation going on about, I think one, I guess there were a couple of companies there.
	You know, I tried to watch all this.
	It was like three hours of it.
	I didn't have enough time.
	But they were asking Microsoft, like, hey, you know, do you have, have you installed backdoors into your operating system?
	And by the way, it doesn't matter what your answer is because you're closed source and we can't check it anyway, so it doesn't really matter what you say.
	But then Linus's dad said the following.
	That goes to the different way of asking my colleague, actually, almost posed the question when my oldest son was asked the same question, are there...
	I like the Finnish guy saying, dude.
	That's kind of cool.
	When my oldest son was...
	That was some Finnish term.
	I couldn't understand dude.
	I had to listen to it a couple of times.
	He said, when my oldest son was asked, dude...
	Has he been approached by the NSA about backdoors?
	Then he said, no, but at the same time, he nodded.
	Because then he was sort of in the league of free.
	He had given the right answer, and everybody understood that NSA had approached them.
	There you go.
	Yeah, I guess, but I couldn't tell what he said.
	Why don't you tell me what he said?
	So, apparently, Linus was asked, dude...
	Dude, has the NSA ever approached you about putting a backdoor into Linux?
	And he said, no, they have not approached me while nodding his head yes.
	Because of course, I guess he can't say that or I have to go to jail.
	Yeah, they probably show you a piece of paper that you can't say you talk to us.
	Right, exactly.
	There is something really interesting.
	There's a lot of talk here in Europe which came from...
	A New York Times, oh no, I think Wall Street Journal article, which the New York Times reprinted, but it's not based on any leaks from Snowden.
	It's only based on some people who, of course, sources who go unnamed, which is kind of weak because obviously we know that this is now someone trying to scratch back at the CIA because the NSA is getting all the heat.
	It's six minutes past the hour here.
	We have this morning another example of the blurred lines between foreign and domestic intelligence.
	Your personal information and your money.
	The Wall Street Journal says the CIA is building a massive database of international money transfers, which includes millions of Americans' personal and financial data.
	The agency is said to be building the database under the same provision of the Patriot Act that enables the NSA to collect Americans' phone records.
	There you go.
	So that's kind of trying to make the CIA look bad.
	The Europeans are not liking this report at all because, of course, they now know that, you know, basically the CIA is building up a transactional database that includes European transactions.
	Well, that reminds me, because that letter, they're not only going after the CIA or whoever it is, they're attacking Brennan with that, you saw the letter, I'm sure.
	Yeah, the one about Benghazi?
	Yeah, so did anybody have to sign nondisclosures?
	Now we know that them Benghazi people that were there, that they shuttled off to Buffalo, and we can't find them.
	Well, first to Germany.
	They were in Germany for like six months.
	Yeah, and then they made him sign nondisclosure so they couldn't say what was going on, which is, as we always believe from the very beginning, that it was a scam based on the...
	Hostage situation with the Iranians back in the late 70s.
	We should probably just reiterate that briefly.
	This was a botched kidnapping, which was, this is our theory from what we've understood, which was put in place to ensure President Barack Obama's re-election with a re-run of the Iranian hostage script from Reagan.
	And actually, there was something else that came out, a report, and this is funny because it plays right into our theory, our thesis, which we've kind of gleaned from multiple sources.
	Apparently, attackers had inside information.
	They knew...
	Here it is.
	The attackers had knowledge of almost everything in the compound.
	For example, they knew where the gasoline was.
	They knew where the generators were.
	They knew where the safe room was.
	They knew more than they should have known about that compound.
	Yeah.
	If you're being sent in to do a job...
	Yeah, you've got to know what you're doing.
	So the...
	Oops.
	Brennan writes, no, there's none, and of course now this is a big scandal, and what I thought was interesting, though, this was a Mike Rogers memo, so he was in on this, and then I guess, I don't know if he told Brennan to do this, but Brennan, did you see Brennan scribbling at the bottom of this thing?
	Yeah.
	We are not going to tolerate anyone not working closely and cooperating with the committee.
	This guy is the new Cheney as far as I'm concerned.
	He may not have a vice president title.
	Brennan?
	Yeah, he's totally Cheney.
	He's totally Cheney.
	The guy's creepy.
	Yeah, he's funny.
	So this came out and now there's a big kerfuffle over there.
	Well, you said you lied.
	These guys, apparently, I think it's all they do.
	Yeah.
	Send them a memo, they just bullshit you.
	These committees are useless.
	Yeah, the problem is A, the committees are scripted.
	B, the public is just getting hit with, oh, this guy lied.
	He lied, he lied.
	And then your eyes start to glaze over.
	It's like, oh, well, yeah, whatever.
	I'm sure they lied.
	And then...
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	But...
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	We have a bunch of interesting little news items floating around.
	I don't know what I want to get to right away.
	The one-child policy in China has been backed off.
	They're supposedly going to close Chinese labor camps.
	Actually, let's play this clip.
	This is the closure.
	This was from Deutsche Welle.
	What's funny about this clip is the guy who reports from China.
	The two people in the studio are cracking up at this character because he's got this really incredible and odd German, deep German voice with a German accent.
	But for some reason, and I was looking at this, the lips are synced fine on the show, but this guy seems to be saying one thing, and something else is coming out of his mouth, and the two anchors have a hard time, and believe me, I had a hard time not cracking up.
	But when you hear the guy's voice, you go, this is a very strange voice, but this is a report on there.
	Supposedly, I didn't know this was going on as much as it is in China, but I'm almost of the opinion that this is going on here, too.
	Which clip are we?
	Chinese labor camps to be closed.
	They also decided to abolish China's system of re-education labor camps, where tens of thousands of people are interned without trial.
	Wait a minute.
	This is what the FEMA camps are all about.
	This is great!
	They have FEMA camps in China?
	Initially set up to punish critics of the Communist Party, the camps are often used by officials to imprison people who challenge their authority.
	The reform has been welcomed by activists, but there's been no announcement on when it will take effect.
	Alright, for some analysis, we can talk to Matthias van Heijn.
	He's head of Deutsche Welle's China desk.
	We want to start with the camps.
	How do you evaluate that announcement?
	Well, it seems China is taking steps in the right direction, even though it is as yet unclear how far it is moving in the end.
	Even though it has been around for more than five decades, the re-education through labor is not even compatible to Chinese legal standards.
	You know what it is?
	He's a German puker.
	That's what he is.
	Yeah, there's a little bit of that.
	I think that's getting to him.
	He might have been a disc jockey at one point.
	Well, when you look at him, his face doesn't match his voice and his lips don't match what he's saying.
	And he's just like, what the what the what?
	We are talking about a system that allows the police to send people to labor camps without any trial, without any ruling of a judge.
	Close to 200,000 people are locked up in the so-called re-education through labor camps right now.
	Often because of minor offenses like drug possession or prostitution.
	But anybody can be locked up who is, in the eyes of the police, disturbing public order.
	By the way, it's not the first time that the re-education through labor system has been promised to be abolished.
	There have been similar demands already in 2007.
	Interesting.
	Yeah.
	They showed the people and they're out in the fields and they make them farm.
	I guess they're labor camps.
	But that's what we kind of do.
	Now we have all these private prisons.
	The private prison companies are trying to get people to legislate.
	So we put people in jail, three strikes laws, all these things just to keep people in jail so they can exploit them.
	I think we're also...
	I read a report that some cities are taking their homeless and putting them into camps, kind of like on the outskirts of town.
	Nice!
	Yeah!
	So that...
	Yeah.
	I have to look for that report.
	That was a couple weeks ago.
	I was like, oh, okay.
	But, you know, we didn't talk about it because, you know, homeless, please.
	Yeah, well...
	No one cares about the homeless.
	No, not at all.
	So they had the spy hearings in the UK with the CG's, CB's, GB's guy.
	The Bee Gees.
	The Bee Gees guy, who's the head of the, you know, their equivalent CGQP. I can't remember those words.
	They never get the right order.
	C-G-H-Q-L-G-B-T-Q. Anyway, they have a big round building.
	And then they had an MI6 guy, and then they had the MI5 guy who just wasn't saying anything because he didn't need to.
	And we did learn that they're very upset because they're convinced.
	Well, here's the report.
	You can hear it here.
	They insisted that Al-Qaeda is having a field day with the leaked information.
	It was their first joint appearance before lawmakers.
	The heads of domestic and foreign intelligence agencies MI5 and MI6 and electronic surveillance agency GCHQ told the committee they were struggling to thwart terrorism in the age of the Internet.
	It means that we have to anticipate, discover, analyze, investigate and respond and we have to do so globally because the threat is coming at us globally.
	GCHQ gathers and processes vast amounts of internet and telephone data originating in the UK and abroad.
	The agency heads said the information leaked by Edward Snowden had made their work more difficult by changing the behavior of the terrorist groups they monitor.
	What I can tell you is that the leaks from Snowden have been very damaging.
	They put our operations at risk.
	It's clear that our adversaries are rubbing their hands with glee.
	The recent spying allegations involving the British Embassy in Berlin were not discussed.
	When asked about spying on Britain's allies, Sowers said MI6 operated in very few countries and its priorities were set by the government.
	Everything we do is authorized by ministers.
	Thursday's hearing will be followed by further sessions, both public and private.
	Yeah.
	So, it's interesting to me that these guys are...
	One guy says, well, they're after us globally.
	We have to do this because it's a global threat.
	Do you remember the era?
	You're maybe living in the UK during...
	Well, maybe not.
	You're probably still in Holland.
	But there was a period, I guess it was in the 80s and 90s, where the IRA was just bombing the crap out of London.
	Northern Ireland, yeah.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	In fact...
	Oh, I'm trying to think now.
	It was on a regular basis.
	No, I was in London during one of the years.
	It was trash cans.
	The trash cans were blowing up.
	They put bombs everywhere.
	Yeah, it was bad.
	They didn't have the slogan at the time, but essentially it was...
	But it would seem like in those days it was much more about vigilance and it was more like, hey, we're British, because I was living in the Netherlands at the time.
	It was, you know, we're British and we're not going to, you know, we didn't like that the crowds take us down in the Second World War and we're going to keep our eyes out and no one's going to blow us up.
	And, you know, somehow that has turned around now to any one of us might be the guy, you know.
	So instead of this, you know, like collective, we're not going to let the freedom down.
	Well, then, any one of them could have been the guy, too.
	There's no difference.
	Yeah, but that was not for me.
	And there was a lot more action.
	There was bombs constantly.
	I was in London once when there was a bomb thing, because it was Mimi and the kids, and we wanted to go to Henley's or whatever it's called, that big toy store in downtown, and couldn't go there, because the whole air was cordoned off because somebody had blown something up.
	You mean Harrods?
	No, no.
	Harris is the department store.
	It's called Henley's or Hensley's.
	It's a toy store.
	It's a pure toy store like, you know, one of those pure toy stores.
	I think it's Hensley's.
	Somebody will know.
	Whatever the case, we couldn't go there because it was a big deal.
	And there's cops all over the place.
	And this was going on routinely.
	We've had...
	How routine is this?
	Especially because that was an attack by just the Irish Republican Army.
	Now, according to this guy from CBGB... He says, oh, it's a global thing.
	They're all trying to kill us.
	They're trying to kill us from Pakistan.
	They're trying to kill us from Indonesia.
	They're trying to kill us from everywhere.
	But where's all these bombs?
	Well, this is the new talking point, and Mike Rogers is right on that tip.
	It's a little longer, this clip, but he's essentially saying that we in America are now worse off...than before 9-11 because of this.
	And exactly for this, because they're coming from everywhere.
	They're propped up everywhere.
	There's lone wolves everywhere.
	A reinvented Al-Qaeda and a man some call the new Bin Laden.
	Does it get any better, John?
	The new Bin Laden, everybody!
	Stand by!
	One lawmaker says they're posing the biggest terror threat to the U.S. homeland in more than a decade.
	CNN's Brian Todd is working the story for us today.
	Brian, what are you finding out how concerned should we be?
	I think pretty concerned, Jim.
	I spoke with U.S. officials and to the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee today.
	He has got a really chilling warning.
	Mike Rogers says Al-Qaeda poses a bigger threat to attack inside the U.S. right now than it did before 9-11.
	And it's the smaller scale attacks, he says, that are the real danger.
	They've become the new faces of terrorism against America.
	Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the failed airline underwear bomber.
	Nidal Hassan, the Fort Hood shooter, guided in ideology by Al-Qaeda.
	Now a jarring assessment of the threat from Al-Qaeda to launch an attack inside the U.S. from House Intelligence Committee Chair Mike Rogers.
	Now let's just pause for a second here.
	This Mike Rogers guy has to be stopped.
	I mean, he is an idiot.
	He has no idea what he's talking about whenever it's something that we actually understand, certainly when it comes to what he classifies as cyber.
	And all he's doing is spreading fear amongst people.
	And meanwhile, we have clip after clip, week after week of him sitting down on some panel with commercial guys, and he's talking about, yeah, we've got to ram these laws through so you guys can get the contracts.
	I'm paraphrasing, of course.
	But this guy has to be stopped.
	I'm actually calling him corrupt.
	But now they have a different attitude and more affiliates trying to commit acts of violence in the United States.
	To me, that makes the threat much worse against the United States today than it was even before 9-11.
	Worse than before September 11th?
	A U.S. official also tells CNN the threat from Al-Qaeda affiliates has grown.
	They've set up in unstable countries in Africa and the Middle East where they get safe haven.
	Their leaders are encouraging smaller-scale attacks by lone wolves more than ever before, Rogers says, and they have the means.
	And some of the al-Qaeda affiliates have better connections to the West, meaning they can get good paper to go to Europe.
	They can get good paper to get to the United States.
	And what is this new meme, this good paper meme?
	Have you heard this?
	This is kind of interesting.
	I like it, though.
	Yeah, I like it.
	And by the way, one of the reporters, he got this quote from, say to him, wow, because we have increased our insecurity to two or threefold.
	We've got all these guys listening in on everything.
	Are you saying that maybe we should disband all this because it's not working?
	Are you saying that the security mechanism is not working?
	Is that what you're saying?
	But wait, John, don't even stop there because wait until he gives you the examples of these horrible terrorists.
	These small groups of terrorists are more likely to make mistakes, experts say, but they're also harder to detect.
	Because of that, Rogers says, this is not the time to scale back NSA surveillance, as many in Congress want after the spying scandal.
	We are talking about reducing the tools, adding more risk that we're going to miss something.
	The mastermind of the small attack strategy?
	An article in the National Journal points to a Syrian al-Qaeda operative named Abu Musab al-Suri.
	Al-Suri!
	Write it down!
	Al-Suri!
	You've already talked about Al-Suri.
	Yeah, but this is new.
	This is the new Bin Laden, Al-Suri.
	We haven't talked about him being the new Bin Laden, John.
	No, well, that's true.
	That's a new thing.
	Al-Suri!
	Whom it calls the next Bin Laden.
	When CNN national security analyst Peter Bergen and a CNN team interviewed Osama bin Laden in 1997...
	Hold on a second.
	Stop, stop.
	Can you back it up just a little bit?
	Yeah, of course.
	Now, this guy who's giving the report, why is he so worked up and talking fast?
	And he seems excitable.
	Yeah, because he's getting to talk to Mike Rogers.
	You know, he's royalty.
	He's promoting the message.
	A Syrian al-Qaeda operative named Abu Musab al-Suri, who Mitt calls the next bin Laden.
	When CNN national security analyst Peter Bergen and a CNN team interviewed Osama bin Laden in 1997, it was al-Suri who escorted them to the al-Qaeda leader in Afghanistan.
	Bergen calls al-Suri intellectual.
	And dangerous.
	He was talking about inspiring lone wolf attacks.
	Basically, his vision was of a loose network of jihadis that weren't part of an organization that could be easily detected or rolled up.
	Wait a minute.
	So this guy met with bin Laden and al-Suri in, did he say in 98?
	Is that what he said?
	97.
	97?
	Wow, this guy should be writing a book.
	And that's very much like what we've got now.
	Don't you think this is a little fishy?
	Let me think.
	But Bergen says Abu Musab al-Souri is not the next Bin Laden.
	He says al-Souri does not have the leadership skills, the charisma, or the ability to marshal assets like the late al-Qaeda leader.
	Oh, okay.
	Well, this is a problem.
	We have the one guy saying no, and that's no to Mike Rogers, yes.
	That's maybe why he's so excited.
	I cut the report off here, but they were talking about the underwear bomber being an example.
	Oh yeah, we're doomed.
	The Fort Hood shooter was another example of a lone wolf.
	These are the guys.
	This is who's going to do it all.
	What I would like to propose, though, as I'm getting emails from companies who have seen that my email was amongst the 3 million emails that were compromised with passwords at Adobe's fantastic system, their cloud service.
	And their registration service.
	I'm getting emails from them.
	Wait, wait, wait.
	Hold on.
	Hold on a minute.
	Are you...
	Did you tell me that you joined the Adobe Cloud?
	No, but I bought it for Miss Mickey, who needs the most recent versions for her artwork.
	And she didn't provide her own name and you did it all for her?
	It was a Christmas gift.
	Oh, that's why I bought it for them.
	The Adobe Cloud, was that available before Christmas?
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	Or this Christmas?
	This Christmas.
	No.
	Oh, okay.
	Oh, that's sweet.
	Anyway, I keep getting emails.
	The FBI is now warning...
	That you should change all your passwords everywhere, and the government itself now has a huge problem internally because they use Adobe and certainly the PDF product, which has all kinds of crazy stuff in there.
	And I question Adobe in general with their Omniture product, which tracks everything you do.
	But why is it that the CBGBs and the NSA and all this fantastic work that all these government operatives are doing, why can they not stop these ransomware guys?
	Why is this impossible?
	Is it so hard to track down who's doing this?
	I'm reminded of the...
	I've always found this kind of fishy myself.
	I think everybody's baffled by it because it doesn't really make any sense.
	And while we're on that topic, we might as well go to this story, which is related.
	We can go back to this.
	I think I got this from either Deutsche Welle or...
	I like that I'm in Europe and you're watching Deutsche Welle.
	That's kind of cool.
	Well, I don't know.
	I can't get anything else.
	Or it may have been FanCat, but whatever.
	This is the complete child porn story.
	This is a European report of it.
	And I never heard the whole story before, and they had a bunch of good clips.
	It's a little long, but it's very interesting.
	But it brings up...
	The same kind of question you just asked, and it's actually baffling.
	It brings up more questions than it answers, and we'll explain when we get to the end of it.
	To Canada now, where police say they have broken up one of the largest child pornography rings ever seen.
	Close to 350 people have been arrested around the world in an investigation that took three years.
	Authorities said they were able to rescue more than 300 children from abuse and exploitation.
	Police in Australia arrested 65 men as part of the global child pornography bust.
	The operation that began in Canada three years ago is one of the largest investigations of its kind.
	Huge quantities of videos and photos of children being sexually abused and or exploited have been seized in countries around the world.
	The child victims identified in this operation numbered over 300 children.
	These 300 children have had their lives altered forever.
	The images of them become a permanent record of the sexual abuse of a child.
	In this operation, the victims were all prepubescent, with some as young as five years of age.
	The child pornography ring was centered in Toronto, Canada and run by a 42-year-old man who sold abuse videos and photos online.
	Police said the man paid various people to film children for the purpose of creating material for sale on his website.
	Of concern to the investigators was the number of people that had close contact with children.
	The arrests included 40 school teachers, 9 doctors and nurses, 32 people who volunteered with children, 6 law enforcement personnel, 9 pastors or priests, and 3 foster parents.
	The website was set up in 2005 and earned its owner almost 3 million euros.
	He has been charged with child pornography offenses and running a criminal organization.
	Okay.
	Okay, so here we go.
	Let me just throw a couple of these deals out here.
	This relates to this other issue of why they can't stop the ransomware.
	And it makes you wonder about everything.
	The investigation has been going on for three whole years.
	It started in 2013.
	The year 2000.
	I mean, sorry, the year 2010, because it's 2013 now.
	This website was in business since 2005.
	So it went on for five whole years without anybody batting an eye, and they showed images from the site.
	And essentially, this guy sold crap loads of DVDs.
	I don't think it was a download thing, but it was a lot of DVDs.
	It was a catalog.
	And it was all kind of, with a little, they showed the little, I'm Jamie, and I'm my daddy and my mommy don't live together anymore, and I don't...
	I don't understand why.
	I don't think that's fair.
	It's some bullshit thing that gets you to...
	I don't know what the point of it is or why anyone would buy these.
	But it was going on for five years.
	Then it took three years, once they figured out this was going on, to actually come to get 300 customers.
	They never named the man's name.
	The man.
	A man was running the site.
	This man...
	Who?
	What?
	Why can't we get his name?
	He's been arrested.
	This thing is so weird.
	And only 300 customers?
	This thing's been going on for eight years?
	Are you kidding me?
	Yeah, no, this is clearly because in my experience, what I have learned in my research, which I did many years ago here in the Netherlands, is the government, people in the government, in justice departments, are usually complicit.
	And this is the problem, is this has been going on inside these departments.
	We have examples of this in the United States as well.
	And I'm sure other countries, actual news reports.
	And that's how things get stifled.
	And they hire people who have the same disability, I would say.
	Because these things feed from generation to generation.
	These people are sick.
	And need help.
	And the government is failing everybody in this case.
	I'm surprised it was only a couple of people in Child Protective Services or foster parents.
	But no surprise that it's teachers.
	No surprise that it's all people with authority.
	They always kind of skip the ones in government.
	Joris Demink in the Netherlands, it looks like a judge finally said, you know, hey, we will, now that he's retired, and people have been taught, this was the highest guy in the Justice Department in the Netherlands.
	Finally, a judge is saying, yeah, we should probably open up some files and investigate this guy and let some people come forward and testify against him.
	We'll see what happens, but it's a protection racket, and the whole thing is corrupt from beginning to end, and it's been going on for a long, long time.
	So yeah, it's obvious why no one gets named and nothing really happens, and they bag 300 people, and okay, it's all done with, nothing else to see here.
	Yeah, the guy made $3 million from 300 people.
	Do the math on that.
	That also makes no sense.
	That makes no sense.
	That's a lie.
	This whole thing, I'm sure his numbers are different too.
	3 million euros, by the way, which is more like 4.5 million dollars.
	So this is like very typical.
	And where are these spy agencies and all these guys that got all the phone numbers and all the NSA, the Five Eyes?
	Canada's part of the deal.
	They should have been all over this in 2006.
	If the guy opened shop in 2005...
	Why did it take eight years to finally finish the investigation when we have all these, the agencies, the NSA is turning people into the IRS. That's no problem.
	The NSA is turning drug dealers over the DEA. That's no problem.
	But they can't do anything about this sort of thing?
	Or, one step further, they can't do anything about this extortion wear?
	Which probably, because we've already talked about...
	And by the way, the extortion is to be paid in Bitcoin, I might point out.
	The only reason Bitcoin is handy to have...
	Is that right?
	Yeah.
	Oh yeah.
	The new extortionware forces you to pay them in Bitcoin and shows you where you can exchange your money for Bitcoin.
	Oh yeah.
	Believe me, it's part of it.
	I haven't really delved into it, but I'm sure that's part of it.
	And the beauty is that you have people reporting, whether it's true or not, and it probably is, but I was watching this week in Windows something or other or whatever, and And it feeds upon itself, because the reports are, oh yeah, you've got to do this, they'll destroy your keys, your shit's gone, your drive blows up!
	So the promotion is built right into it, but Bitcoin is a part of this.
	You've got to send a Bitcoin to this address, which of course is anonymous, but they give you instructions on how you can exchange your dollars or euros for Bitcoin.
	I think that's...
	Coincidence?
	I think not!
	Well, they can put a stop to it by just shutting down the whole Bitcoin thing.
	Which I'm sure they're trying to do, and I expect it to happen eventually.
	I don't think so.
	I think the opposite, John.
	I don't think that at all.
	I think it's too beautiful.
	Well, let me open up the red book on this one.
	You think Bitcoin?
	Well, you can't shut down Bitcoin.
	That's the first thing.
	You can shut down the exchanges and where you exchange Bitcoin for usable currency, but shutting down Bitcoin itself, I don't think that's possible.
	You can make it illegal to use Bitcoin.
	Yeah, but you can, of course, you can make lots of things illegal, but, you know, it's like drugs.
	You can't actually stop people from buying, selling, and using drugs.
	That's been proven.
	That just doesn't work.
	I know, but it does put it, the drugs thing has a different sociology mechanism than Bitcoin.
	It's kind of, you know, geeks and nerds that use Bitcoin, or try to because, you know, it's useless.
	Yeah.
	I have a different mindset.
	I can't wait to see the subreddit.
	I can't wait to see the subreddit.
	If you have any complaints about my attitude, adam at curry.com.
	I'll take all your email there.
	Sometimes I'll see this stuff happen, and you can just go to reddit.com slash r slash bitcoin.
	You can just see what it says.
	Look at these two idiots!
	These fuckwads!
	That's the guy who said the mouse would never amount to anything.
	Just so you know.
	Washed up MTV VJ! The iPhone wasn't going to pay out.
	Yeah, washed up MTV VJ and the guy who said the mouse would amount to nothing.
	Yeah, these jabronis, you can't listen to them.
	They don't know what they're talking about.
	Stupid podcast.
	Yeah, that's pretty much what you have to deal with.
	That's pretty much it, right?
	That's why we love to get the donations to prove them wrong.
	That's why we are...
	By the way, I want to thank...
	Who was it?
	Our producer who was very, very kind.
	The only one, by the way, as far as I know.
	Oops, I'm going the wrong way here.
	Tyler, who sent us...
	He had just heard the show and sent us a flurry of emails.
	He said, oh man, I got this PowerShell script and I figured it out.
	We can use it to vote 4,000 times.
	It was like two hours left for voting.
	Yeah.
	We have to get a hold of Tyler about a month before next year's show.
	Set up about 25 of these things.
	And just bomb this thing.
	But we have no chance, John.
	We have no chance.
	I think if we have enough people that will set up the script and run it overnight.
	I won't feel good about that.
	I'm not going to feel good.
	I don't care.
	Let me tell you how I feel about it.
	Okay, please.
	I'm going to give you my story.
	So we had, there was a, used to be the, at Comdex, you used to have this famous chili cook-off.
	Oh, yes, I remember this, yeah.
	Yeah, the first chili cook-off, I won.
	Wow.
	And they had professional judges.
	And my chili was...
	It won because the chili was a little...
	It was not a standard...
	It was a better-tasting chili is the reason it won.
	And the professional judges recognized it for what it was.
	It was very, very good.
	And I do have a recipe that I distribute.
	I'll put it in the next newsletter.
	Wow.
	So the chili, the guys, the competitors, mostly one guy from Texas who was also a columnist who was pissed about this, he demanded that the judging have a People's Choice Award because he believed that people were over at his booth telling him what a great chili he made.
	And since he was Texas, he knew what chili was and I went from California.
	But the judges, of course, were stupid and didn't know what they were talking about.
	Yeah.
	So the next year they had the professional judges and they had the People's Choice Awards.
	And everybody who got into the event, they had three coins and they could go around tasting chili and drop a coin to the buckets.
	So I hired two models that were showgirls to control...
	Wait a minute.
	Let's back up for a second.
	So you're in Vegas.
	You're like, I'm going to win this.
	Do you then go to a Vegas theater or do you go to a strip club to find these girls?
	Just modeling agencies.
	You called a modeling agency?
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	So I hired two gorgeous six-foot showgirls and had them in showgirl regalia.
	They were pretty.
	And the joke of it, of course, at the very end.
	Well, anyway, so I had the two girls at the booth and also greeting when people came in.
	She said, oh, you should vote for Dvorak.
	You should throw all your coins into Dvorak's pot.
	And so they just, you know, sweet-talked people into voting for my chili for People's Choice Award.
	Right.
	Which, of course, I won.
	And I had the two girls, arm in arm, escort me up the steps to accept the award.
	I am Googling now.
	Is there any evidence of this?
	Are there any pictures of you and the showgirls?
	A lot of people talked.
	It was a little buzz.
	It was a buzz about it.
	But I'll tell you this.
	The guy from Texas, and other people know who I'm talking about.
	The guy from Texas was just livid.
	his idea i want to find that you're that's the joke the chilies they had changed the judging a little bit and i realized when i tasted all the chilies that had won by the professional judges that i did not and up the and show flavor because it's been a lot of judges work they just love the flavor of ancho which is a certain chili that has a very distinct But I won the People's Choice Award.
	Of course.
	So that's how I feel about these things.
	Okay, well, then I have an idea.
	Instead of getting all these scripts running next time, why don't we just hire two girls, and we'll have them, you know, we'll set up a sequence where for every vote, every time you vote, and you have to send us your proof of voting, and you can go back every single day, or for every 1,000 votes or whatever it is, they'll take off a piece of clothing and we'll post the picture.
	Hey, compared to bots, that idea is not going to get the job done.
	I like it.
	I don't know.
	We can do both.
	A double hit.
	We're coming from both sides.
	We're coming with the bots.
	We're coming with the girls.
	Can't lose.
	We're coming with the bots.
	We're coming with the girls.
	We're going to rock it.
	Wouldn't it be funny if we actually won this year, just regardless?
	We're not going to win.
	Yeah, it's not going to happen.
	Because we don't have bots and girls.
	Let me write that down.
	Bots and Girls.
	That could be the title.
	Not bad.
	Bots and Girls.
	I'm watching CNN over here, just to move along to something else.
	I'm seeing Anderson Pooper on the ground there, which is now being classified as the Super Typhoon, which is interesting.
	We love the word super.
	We do.
	Kale, by the way, is superfood.
	Superfood, yes.
	And did you see Molly Wood tweeted about some gin that was derived, or some gin that was soaked in kale, which she calls super booze?
	Oh, now you're making me nauseous.
	I've got to finish the show.
	It's only 10.30.
	Don't puke yet.
	So I'm seeing Anderson Pooper over there.
	I'm seeing reports on the ground.
	There's multiple CNN personalities there.
	And if you watch the coverage, you'll see, without fail, they are standing in the shot with a whole stack of pallets of USAID stuff, etc.
	And the count now is at, I think, 3,000 people.
	The president came out.
	I got a nice email from the White House.
	We have committed $20 million.
	And I know how you love doing math, John.
	$20 million we've committed to helping these poor people in the Philippines, which of course is conveniently located right there in the Sea of China, which is strategically a great place to be.
	We've run that country before.
	It's not bad being there.
	Now let me ask you this question.
	If we are committing $20 million, and I'm going to presume that encompasses all aid, and maybe it'll go up, maybe we'll add another $20, $30 to the mix.
	Let's say $50 million.
	How much does it cost to have the USS George Washington aircraft carrier, which costs $27 billion, which has, I think, 5,000 people on it, I just did the numbers.
	I think it would probably take about 12 hours of that aircraft carrier sitting there doing whatever it is to reach the $20 million goal.
	Not very long.
	Maybe they're including that money.
	They're not given anything.
	This is bull crap of epic proportions.
	We are there because it's a great opportunity to...
	Not just the George Washington, there's a couple other...
	The support ships are there.
	This is a very nasty thing we're doing.
	And essentially just thumbing our nose at China.
	Hey, here we are.
	We were in Japan.
	What are you guys doing now?
	We're a little closer.
	How you doing?
	It's just disgusting.
	And of course, everyone's going to, you know, do we have a benefit yet for them?
	Have we done this?
	This, by the way, is exactly what happened with the earthquake in Haiti.
	We sent the, I don't know if it was the George Washington.
	We had a couple of boats over there, too.
	We had the aircraft carrier.
	We had everybody running in, USAID. Billions of dollars raised.
	We had not one, not two, but we had three presidents, ladies and gentlemen, three presidents who were asking things like, we just need cash.
	I know a lot of people want to send blankets or water.
	Just send your cash.
	And then at the end of the day, what do we have?
	300,000 people with poop disease, living in tents.
	Yeah, and nobody will fess up and pay the bill on the cholera outbreak that was caused by the United Nations.
	They won't even admit to it.
	Even though they know it's true and it's been documented.
	So it's disgusting to see.
	So basically, Haiti is a lost cause.
	As much as I've been harping on this for years, I think we're just going to have to put that by the wayside because it's what it is.
	You could harp on it for another decade.
	You're still not going to get any of that money.
	No, it's not going to happen.
	Instead of the blankets and the...
	All the people that texted $10, that was just a waste of good work.
	That's already happening, by the way.
	I've seen the text things, and of course, our advice is not to send any money to the International Red Cross, which is always what the White House always recommends.
	I don't like that at all, because they always...
	And the same with Haiti.
	I mean, we have these numbers.
	We've discussed them.
	They take the money, and they say, oh, no, it's a general fund.
	It's a general fund.
	Yeah, general fund, you know.
	And so we'll help out.
	Don't worry.
	We'll do something.
	And I feel bad, but, you know, it's like, wow, it's not the...
	Shit happens, people.
	Yeah, well, shit in the case of cholera, for sure.
	It really does happen.
	Parable.
	Yeah.
	Alright, so what other little mini-rants do we have for today?
	Well, let's talk about you being over there.
	We kind of dropped the ball on this.
	What are you seeing in the streets?
	Adam, what are you seeing in the streets?
	Can you give us a report?
	Yeah, John, I can give you a report.
	Here's what I'm seeing in the streets of Gitmo Nation Lowlands.
	First of all, it is very cold here, and it's gray.
	So it's inside.
	No, people are out.
	Of course, we arrived Saturday, so we had to buy a couple things, like some stuff for breakfast.
	So we went out and people are, it's gray, so people are not happy.
	But I've also noticed that people do not recognize your presence or anyone else's presence.
	I'm trying to see how I can explain this.
	Of course, I live in Texas, which is different where people say, Howdy!
	When you see them on the street, even if you don't know them, they, you know, hat tips actually exist in Texas.
	Yes, that's true.
	It's an interesting contrast to New York where if you went around like that, especially with a woman, she'd either slap you or accuse you of rape.
	Or say she's not a hooker.
	I'm not a hooker!
	So here, people are depressed.
	I think there was this recent study that shows that the Netherlands is the most depressed country in the European Union.
	There's a lot of problems with joblessness.
	Possibly hundreds of jobs.
	The publishing sector is the big news here.
	They are firing people in publishing jobs left and right.
	And these poor people cannot get work doing anything.
	And they think, well, I'm going to start my own blog.
	You know, the worst thing that happened was when Andrew Sullivan, who had a huge blog following, then he worked for The Atlantic for a while, and then he went back to blogging, And he always got on the Mars show.
	He had a lot of...
	He had real high...
	It used to be a rating that used to give people for people knowing you.
	Comscore or whatever.
	I know, but it used to be the M or the E or some crazy thing.
	So he...
	He decides to go and start his own thing, and he's made like $700,000 in subscriptions, which should sustain him at about...
	He thinks he's going to make a million.
	I don't know if he's ever going to get that far.
	Wait, he by himself has made $700,000?
	In subscriptions, yeah.
	Wow.
	Wow.
	He did it a different...
	He had a big audience to begin with.
	He gets lots of publicity for what he's trying to do.
	Lots of it.
	All the news people are covering it, which draws more attention to him.
	And his subscription is like 20 bucks.
	It's like a magazine subscription.
	And he also produces a lot of copy.
	He's not a slouch.
	You've got to have a lot of output for that to work, no doubt.
	You have to have a lot of output, and it has to be compelling.
	It's like our show.
	We would get zero donations if the show wasn't compelling.
	It was just one of the typical podcasts, which would be just boring.
	There's no jingles.
	You mean the ones that people normally vote for?
	Yeah, the ones that will win the awards.
	Anyway, he makes that much, and I think it'll be sustaining.
	I don't think it's going to get bigger, but probably because the model he's using, I believe it'll make him about $500,000 to $600,000 a year for at least a number of years until he gets tired of it.
	Or maybe he'll just keep growing.
	I mean, if he keeps going like that, if he can hit the mainstream from time to time.
	It's a possibility he can make millions.
	The problem with me is not that he's making so much money, but it's a lure to idiots who think they can do this.
	There will be a lot of people that say, well, if Andrew Sullivan can make $600,000, I'm better than he is.
	It's funny you say that, because I was watching the...
	They have Sunday talk shows here in the Netherlands as well, but not like Candy Crowley and all that, but it's kind of like...
	There's some political stuff, but it's really...
	The intelligent people stay home Sunday morning, John, and watch the intelligent talk shows.
	And so they had two...
	kind of the leftist, the Volkskrant, which is the people's newspaper, been around forever, very intelligent newspaper, and they had a guy who started Quote Magazine, which is kind of a rancid Forbes type thing, which is kind of a rancid Forbes type thing, where it's all about rich people, essentially, and their cars, and their watches, and they produce the...
	Nothing could be more uninteresting.
	The rich list.
	Yeah, they produce the richest, the quote 500, which I've been on many times and have laughed my ass off about because I don't deserve to be anywhere near the numbers they talk about ever in my life, even when I had money.
	So it's bullshit.
	But it doesn't matter because people eat that up and they love it.
	And these guys, of course, their magazine, their newspaper and their magazine are doing okay.
	So they're almost gloating, although they weren't really doing it, but they were saying things like, well, you know, yes, this is happening.
	It's very normal that we have to get rid of a lot of these magazines.
	There's no existence because the Internet has won and all the money will follow to the iPads and the iPhones.
	This is where the advertising money will go.
	And I'm like, no, it's not.
	Anyone can be a publisher.
	Anyone can have a radio station.
	Anyone can have a TV station.
	No, it's not like that.
	It's just not.
	No, anyone can be a publisher.
	Oh, yeah, but not...
	Anyone can do a podcast.
	But not make money.
	Well, that's different.
	Well, they were talking specifically about how advertising Euros was going to follow that.
	He's chasing all this inventory.
	Well, advertising is not the future on the internet.
	I'm sorry.
	It's just not the future.
	It's not.
	Why would that be?
	Maybe because it's bullcrap?
	That these users are bullcrap?
	That there's bots that are going to be voting for us next year?
	The bots will be out there with all these different IP addresses and Oh, did I lose you?
	Tyler's Bot.
	Tyler's Bots.
	It sounds like some Civil War thing.
	It's the Tyler's Bots.
	And so Tyler's Bots are going to go out and vote us in, and there's not going to be any way they can catch it because they're going to be coming from everywhere, and there's no evidence of anything.
	I like Tyler's Bots as a brand.
	Tyler's Bots.
	Yeah, we could go into business with Tyler.
	Tyler's Bots, everybody.
	Yeah.
	Tyler's bots.
	Yeah, I just lost you for a second there.
	I don't know what's going on.
	Oh, that's not good.
	No, it could be me.
	I don't know.
	Well, let's see.
	We've been an hour, an hour and a half almost.
	Yeah, that's about time.
	You know what?
	Speaking of Tyler's bots, why don't we do this?
	I'm going to show my support by donating to No Agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh, yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, on No Agenda.
	Since the list is short anyway, John, we might as well do it.
	But we do get to start off with some coolness, don't we?
	We get to start off with our 1-11-11 from Mike Mugler, who is in Fountain, Colorado.
	He didn't give us a woman to, and he didn't say much about making it rain, so we don't have a name for him.
	We do have Uma and Mercedes and Katya coming up.
	Coming up on the stage...
	Guys and dolls, get ready to choose Texas.
	Texas.
	I don't know.
	Ha, ha, ha, ha.
	Let's do it.
	Stages on stage one and two, please.
	I'm sorry, do that one again, we lost you.
	Ready?
	Yeah.
	Hold on.
	Let's get this second one right by killing my microphone limiter.
	Yeah, go, go, go.
	It's good.
	Oh, it is?
	Yeah.
	It's good now?
	Yeah, hit it.
	And coming over to the main stage, direct from St.
	Petersburg, Russia, the naughty nurse, Dr.
	Katja.
	She likes her puppies adorable and her men drunk.
	Guys, you know what to do.
	Order a beer and give it up for a chicha.
	Alright, do Uma and Mercedes again, just so we have it.
	That was really good.
	I like that.
	Get ready for the two hotties from West Texas.
	Uma and Mercedes, they like to ride horseback bareback.
	I think all men are created equal.
	Give it up for Mercedes and Uma.
	Stage one and two.
	Alright.
	Overmodulation was spot on this time.
	Good work.
	Yeah, well, I need something to work on so I can get a fallback.
	Yeah, yeah.
	I didn't have any echo for you this time, but we'll have it.
	We're working on it.
	It's in progress, but I think the scripts really make it work.
	All right, let's see what we got here from Mike.
	Mike Mugla.
	He sent a note in.
	I read some of it because he sent it in.
	He actually went through the trouble of sending a check.
	Thanks for your courage, all the time, and effort you place into the greatest podcast in the universe, including a much-needed pen for John.
	Give me a veteran's pen.
	The pen is the result of another group that gets a message across by hitting our military members in the head.
	Just remember that the pen is mightier than the sword, but not so much against the drone.
	He wants to know if there's a port number that can become a donation amount.
	It's not a port number, but I think he's talking about a point.
	A donation amount to support Freddie the Firewall.
	No, I think he is talking about a port number.
	Absolutely.
	That makes a lot of sense.
	What?
	Well, for the fact...
	Oh, the port 8800.
	Yeah.
	So if we had, uh...
	Hey, boys and girls, it's Freddy the Firewall!
	Remember to keep port 8000 open!
	Something like that.
	We'll let the producers of the program decide which port Freddy the Firewall should do.
	There's another dying initiative, I say.
	You know, the only thing we should do, John, you're cutting up a little bad here.
	Let me just see.
	I have technical call info.
	Let me see if it's you or if it's me.
	Yeah, we got packet loss, man.
	Received.
	I'm receiving packet loss from you.
	I shouldn't be getting any after this connection.
	Hey, who knows what's going on here?
	It's the Airbnb Wi-Fi.
	Anyway.
	What?
	You're on Wi-Fi.
	Yeah.
	What else do you think of?
	Wait until Thursday's show, ladies and gentlemen.
	I'm going to be in Orlando, Florida on Wi-Fi.
	This will be good for a challenge.
	Yeah, and are we doing the show earlier on Thursday, just for good measure?
	Yes, we're going to do the show one or two hours earlier.
	Hmm.
	Okay, because we're actually...
	It turns out we didn't start at 7 here.
	The Daylight Saving Time has synced up with the EU and the United States.
	So it's...
	Oh, there we go.
	That was a good one.
	It seems like we'll be doing it maybe at 4 p.m.
	Gitmo Nation Lowlands time, which would be...
	What time would that be?
	7 a.m.
	Gitmo Nation West time?
	10 a.m.
	Gitmo Nation East?
	Yeah, something like that.
	We'll tweet about it for sure, just so no one gets screwed up.
	So we have Christopher Herring in Munich...
	Munchen, Deutschland, $79, no comment.
	Sam Leung in Toronto, Ontario, $77.77 grand.
	Sack of sevens, very nice.
	Sack of sevens from Calgary, Alberta.
	Uh...
	Yeah.
	He's got this request because he did the 111 donation.
	He wants a retro.
	But we're not going to do that.
	No, we can't do retros.
	New is new.
	We'll throw her in.
	We'll throw Candy into the next round of these next week.
	Okay.
	Heather Simkin in Hanley on Thames in Oxfordshire, UK, 7777.
	And she says, love, Heather.
	Thank you, Heather.
	Now we have a slew of these.
	Oh, boy.
	69!
	69, dude!
	Sean Connolly, Naperville, Illinois.
	69, 69.
	Sage Felker in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
	He's got a birthday.
	We got it on the list.
	Will Prutzman in Frederick, Maryland.
	Birthday.
	Jason Thompson in Whiteland, Indiana.
	Rob Wales in Concord West, New South Wales, Australia.
	Juan in Miami, Florida.
	Or actually, he's in the Dominican Republic.
	And that closes that group.
	69!
	69, dude!
	Still alive.
	Still alive.
	Getting bad, but still alive.
	Who knows?
	Maybe we'll have Freddy's Ports be 69-69.
	That's kind of a good one.
	So we have Machi.
	I think it's pronounced, or Machi.
	Machi or Mechi?
	Machi.
	Machi.
	Machi Prochowski from Stad, Deutschland.
	And he's ridiculing me for my pronunciation.
	I think I call him Maciel or something.
	So I think it's Machi.
	Dear Hanny and Nanny, let me say thank you for your courage.
	You tried and failed catastrophically.
	You butchered my name beyond any rescue, even by our good German medical care.
	My cousin almost died laughing.
	I had to wait ten days to hear it for myself.
	Carl and Tracy...
	Yeah, well, you just heard it.
	Matchee.
	Matchee.
	Carl and Tracy...
	Carl and Tracy Lidner, 6666 from Cary, North Carolina.
	Carlos Martinez in Brownsville, Texas, 5555.
	Sir, Jimmy, freeholobooks.com.
	Somebody bought the Dvorak book, the Dvorak holobook, and they want some karma, and since he's a continuing knight, we'll give some karma out there.
	You've got karma.
	I'm going to send him a box of books.
	It was Adam from Denton, Texas who purchased your Free Hollow book.
	You're going to send him a whole bunch of those?
	I have a box of giant thick books.
	Not just that one, but the real collector's item is going to be the Dvorak's OS2 book.
	Ooh!
	With Rex?
	With Rex script?
	Yes.
	So when I did these, I did some of these massive books, these big thick books when they were popular, and those are perfect for this because you can put a gun in them.
	And I always, when I did these contracts, we always demanded two boxes of books.
	A lot of writers.
	This is actually a very good way to start cleaning up your office.
	Yes, that's what I'm thinking.
	Yeah.
	Just send it.
	The boxes are there.
	There's still a big box and it's packed.
	I can just put the address label, haul it down to UPS, and it's done.
	Good to go.
	Carl and Tracy Lidner, and it comes back to the No Agenda show.
	Cary, North Carolina.
	Carlos Martinez in Brownsville, Texas.
	We did him already.
	Jimmy Friello Books, we did him.
	Kevin Payne in Richmond, Virginia.
	That's what we missed.
	And now these are the last of the group.
	$50 each from Michael Madaloni in Chicago.
	Tristan Mason in Auckland.
	Josh McDonald in Brunswick, Victoria, Australia.
	Christian Mumma in Brooklyn, New York.
	Chris Lewinsky in Sherwood Park, Alberta.
	And finally, my favorite place, Philip Meason lives in Welshpool, Pow's.
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	We really do our best with this.
	We really try.
	But most of our time is spent doing other things.
	I have some slave training stuff I'd like to discuss.
	I think I teased it on Thursday.
	This is Common Core.
	Before, yeah, we definitely need to talk about that.
	But before we do, can I mention one more thing from Mike in Colorado?
	He's had it on his note.
	Yeah, please.
	Because I thought this was creative.
	He says it should be a Red Book entry, but it should be his Red Book entry because he's streaming it up.
	This is an interesting possibility.
	To support Hillary Clinton's run for president, DC Comics will finally get to release Wonder Woman movie in the summer of 2016.
	The web is covered with failed attempts to get this movie made, but could see a strong female superhero feed into the public before the election.
	Interesting.
	Don't you think that actually is a good idea?
	I think it's not only...
	If you're Hillary's campaign?
	Absolutely.
	It's a great idea.
	And of course...
	And make her look a little like Hillary.
	Well, it's funny because there's...
	No, she'll never fly.
	She'll never take off.
	I don't care what kind of cape you have.
	Yeah.
	That'll never work.
	There was something interesting.
	Was it the war on men thing?
	Of course, this is really going to start heating up as we have more and more news about women and almost anti-men as we ramp up towards 2016 and Hillary.
	I think it was under...
	Hold on a second.
	I think I had it under the...
	Yeah, here it is.
	This was a report called The Sisterhood of the Spies.
	I'll just play a little bit so you can just get a taste of what they were talking about.
	You can listen to the full clip in the show notes, 566.nashownotes.com.
	Deep inside CIA headquarters, a special room, the command post the night U.S. Eels killed Osama Bin Laden, and the scene of daily secret briefs by the agency's highest ranks.
	And here's what's new.
	At the given day, there are more women than men at this table.
	For the first time, nearly half of the CIA is female, among them Fran Moore.
	By the way, the shooting sounds in this clip are in the clip.
	What is that about?
	Because this whole, the sounds and the music, it's all like CIA spooky stuff.
	The director of intelligence in charge of the president's daily brief.
	And Sue Gordon.
	So this is our shot, right?
	They're using almost the identical thing in this piece.
	But why?
	What has it got to do with email?
	No, it's spies.
	It's about spies, John.
	Spies.
	Isn't it shooting up the place?
	Female spies do.
	Oh, right.
	Apparently.
	The director of support for America's global network of spies.
	In fact, women now hold five of the top eight jobs at the CIA. Even the deputy director, a heartbeat away from the top job, is for the first time a woman.
	Our Deputy Director, our Executive Director, our CIO, our Director of Support, our Director for Intelligence.
	If anyone had told you when you first started this agency that it would look like this or that you would have the jobs that you have, what would you have said?
	That I would have the job that I'd have, I'd say, are you kidding?
	For decades, intelligence work was an all-boys club.
	Most of the jobs women could get were as secretaries.
	World War II allowed some patriots.
	Alright, so that goes on and on and on.
	But it's kind of interesting.
	The women now dominate the CIA, so now they can take the blame for all this stuff.
	Everyone's like, well, if it was run by women, it wouldn't be a problem.
	But they're making room for Hillary, man.
	Secret Service agents, they're cleaning that up, because as we discussed, the Secret Service really does not like Hillary.
	Now, I think the latest stats are...
	Here it is.
	This is from AAP, I think.
	U.S. Secret Service agents and supervisors have allegedly engaged in sexual misconduct in 17 different countries.
	So we're cleaning up.
	Look for more suicides amongst the Secret Service, because that's how they do it, you see.
	That's the hallmark of the Clintons, I might add.
	So we have a Secret Service agent who spent time with a hooker.
	He got caught, and then he's so embarrassed he has to kill himself.
	Yeah, right.
	Which makes...
	Anyone ever gets caught with a hooker has to shoot himself.
	That makes so much sense.
	So, so.
	Oh, there it is.
	Hello.
	Do I get through my common core now?
	One more thing, since we're on this topic, for the Red Book.
	Chris Christie, who is a real threat to Hillary, I believe, will have a...
	A scare, heart attack, maybe a little stroke or something within the next, I'd say, 12 to 18 months, for sure.
	Oh, I'm all on board with that.
	And it won't take, you know, they can just spike his food or spray him with some prussic acid or do something.
	But it just needs a scare.
	All he needs is a scare, he's out of the election.
	And that is something they always keep talking about.
	Hmm.
	Hmm.
	Yeah, I think that's a good Red Book entry.
	I agree.
	Yeah, it's in.
	He should not be drinking wine in Los Angeles like Breitbart.
	Not a good idea.
	Yeah, a scare.
	Also, that British guy in China who was murdered by that woman was drinking wine.
	They poison you.
	You've got to be careful.
	I have a couple of clips about Common Core.
	And I've saved a couple.
	I was going to play them Thursday.
	I've saved some.
	And then something new came out today, which I want to play at least the beginning of.
	Now, Common Core is the new teaching standards that are being implemented across the United States of Gitmo Nation.
	And what I found interesting, this is a clip from Tennessee, who I think were one of the frontrunners of this implementation of Common Core.
	And this is a high school student who is speaking at some community thing, but it's clearly rigged.
	There's a lot of teachers in the audience.
	The whole clip will be in the show notes, but I want to play this because he explains very eloquently in the first minute of this clip exactly how Common Core came to be.
	And this is...
	It's almost like I could have written this, but he did it and it's perfect.
	So a little setup as to what Common Core is coming from this high school student in Tennessee.
	In a mere five minutes, I hope to provide insightful comments about a variety of educational topics.
	I sincerely hope you disprove the research I've compiled.
	Here's the history of the Common Core.
	In 2009, the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers partnered with Achieve, Inc., a non-profit that received millions of funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
	Thus, the initiative seemed to spring from states when in reality it was contrived by an insular group of educational testing executives with only two academic content specialists.
	Neither specialist approved the final standards, and the English consultant, Dr.
	Sandra Stotsky, publicly stated she felt the standards left students with an empty skill set lacking literary knowledge.
	While educators and administrators were later included in the validation committee and feedback groups, they did not play a role in the actual drafting of the standards.
	The product is a, quote, rigorous preparation for career and college, yet many educators agree that rigorous is a buzzword.
	These standards aren't rigorous, just different, designed for an industrial model of school.
	This is what I really like.
	This is exactly what Common Core is about.
	It is to create drones.
	Just kids who can just follow orders and achieve certain standards, but not even really teaching them the method.
	Anything.
	I got a producer, Brian.
	He sent me an email.
	He might have sent me the link to this clip.
	He says, Common Core sucks donkey balls.
	My son came home with math homework, and I at times have literally no idea how to help him, and I have a degree as a mechanical engineer.
	He says, because in Common Core, you don't learn using the rote method anymore.
	You don't learn long arithmetic.
	Instead, you do bull crap like number lines, fact families, and number sentences.
	WTF is that.
	What?
	Yeah, I'll just finish the email.
	He said, I guess when he's standing in line at the register at Mickey D's, he can draw a number line to figure out what your change is.
	By the way, it doesn't work.
	He's struggling with it.
	As soon as I show him the way I learned, I can see the light come on and he gets it.
	So these are apparently the new way kids are being taught math is number lines, fact families, and number sentences.
	I have no idea what that is, John, but it doesn't sound like the way I learned math.
	It doesn't sound like math.
	Well, you might want to check that out.
	I'm looking up number lines now, and I'm looking at these images where you're...
	This is just idiotic.
	What is it?
	You'd have to see it.
	They've got a frog jumping over these numbers.
	It's kind of like...
	I'm just looking, just a quick hit on what I'm seeing.
	I'm seeing what I, is something like an abacus way of doing math.
	Interesting.
	Very non-standard approach with, well this is really weird, number lines.
	Well, what's the point?
	Has anyone proven that this is a better way to learn math than wrote?
	Four times four is 16?
	That's...
	Oh, God, no!
	Well, I think the ship has sailed, John.
	This is now implemented in almost all 50 states.
	I think Texas is still fighting it, although it's coming in through some backdoor called something else.
	But be reminded that this is mainly financed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, who might have some kind of...
	Skin in the game, depending on what software.
	Yeah, let's sell more computers because kids won't be able to do anything unless you have a computer or a tablet, a Surface.
	What was the other one besides number lines?
	What was the other two?
	Fact families.
	Fact families?
	And...
	What's the last one?
	Number sentences.
	Number sentences.
	I think it's just ways to remember the answers to stuff.
	I don't think that they're actually learning anything anymore.
	Now, I have this clip that I saved from Thursday called Common Core Brainwashing.
	I don't quite remember what was in it, so let's play this while you're looking at your number sentences.
	Common Core or Common Failure?
	She's a solid B math student.
	And did it go down?
	It went down to an F. To an F? Yes, she was failing math.
	A group of moms so fed up with new state education standards, they opt for homeschool instead.
	All of you pulled your kids out of math class here?
	Yes.
	And K2's Dan Casuto spoke with those parents in Hillsboro today.
	Pulling your kids out of math class is a pretty big step.
	My daughter's an A student.
	It went down to an F. To an F. Yes, she was failing math.
	Math is still math, but Evergreen and every other public school in Oregon now teach it differently, using the common core standards.
	But now they'll have to put that into a real-world example, make a story out of it.
	The principal expected more struggling.
	That our teachers feel like it's the best thing for our kids and it's making them really have to look much deeper into mathematics than what they've had in the past.
	With number sentences?
	Are you kidding me?
	Could it really be the best thing if nine families say that their kids were so stressed and so distraught over their failing grades that they pulled them out of class?
	You don't have to answer that, Ryan.
	Okay.
	That's a bit of an aggressive question.
	That's the voice of the Hillsborough School District spokeswoman.
	How many parents took their kids out of math class?
	We have a small group of parents that elected to do online math or math through another venue.
	So it was a very small group.
	How many?
	One percent.
	And that would be how many?
	Nine.
	This is being discussed now by our education secretary, Arne Duncan, and his comment on this, quote, White suburban moms are upset that Common Core shows that their kids just aren't brilliant.
	What?
	Yeah, this is your United States Secretary of Education.
	This is what he's saying.
	This is very troubling what's going on here.
	Now, some teachers, because of course the teachers, you know, they're now being, the teachers are being graded based upon the grades that these kids get, and it's really just about teaching them number sentences and number lines and whatever.
	Some teachers have figured out how to fix this with a new concept called flipping the classroom.
	Here's a new idea getting a lot of attention at Mercer Island Middle School.
	It's called a flipped classroom.
	Instead of lecturing in the classroom, math teacher Donna Johnson records a video lesson for students to watch at home.
	The next day, they do their homework in school, and Donna's there to help them.
	She says this allows kids to watch the video in their own environment without distractions.
	They can slow things down, pause and watch again, or fast forward.
	By having a flipped classroom, I really get to know their strengths and weaknesses, and I've seen some kids just grow tremendously, just leaps and bounds of confidence level and scoring better on tests.
	Donna started the flipped classroom idea last year, and now other math teachers are joining in.
	One thing that helps it work in the Mercer Island School District, all 8th graders are issued an iPad so they can use it to watch the videos and do their homework.
	Woo!
	There you go!
	It's a bonanza, everybody!
	Get your iPad.
	That's what it's all about.
	Yep.
	Flipping the classroom.
	So the kids at home watch the video on their iPad and then they do their homework at school.
	At school.
	Nice.
	This is insane.
	And it's just the beginning, I'm afraid.
	Let me give you an example of a fact family.
	Multiplication facts.
	Here's what you can do.
	You draw a triangle on your paper.
	At the top of the triangle, you have a 12.
	At the bottom of the triangle, you have a 4 on the left and a 3 on the right, or they could be reversed, I think.
	And then in the middle, you have a...
	A times sign, a multiplication sign, slash division sign.
	And that is a fact family.
	Because 12 is, if you multiply 4 times 3, you get 12.
	If you divide 12 by 4, you get 3.
	If you divide 12 by 3, you get 4.
	But the top number obviously don't multiply by anything or divide by anything.
	It's just the home number.
	And this is somehow valuable.
	And this is a fact family.
	Meanwhile, it's an Illuminati sign they're looking at the whole day.
	Yeah, especially with the 12 at the top.
	Uh-huh.
	Wow.
	I don't get the point.
	So you have...
	Oh, this is a fact family.
	So 16 would have...
	It'd be 16 at the top, 2 and 8.
	That could be...
	I don't know why you can't do 4 and 4, but okay, you can't.
	And that's a fact family.
	Now, what you get out of this as opposed to just...
	I don't get it.
	Okay, whatever.
	I quit.
	Facts.
	On the best podcast in the universe.
	That's bad.
	I think this is really a problem.
	And please, take your kids out of school.
	That's all I can say.
	if this common core textbooks that worked if your kids are in this common core bull crap you've got to take them out I don't think that's okay I My kid's too old now for this, but wow.
	Yeah, well, I had this problem when I went to Cal as a chemist.
	Because I had been, I was in the college prep era, they had this thing, they decided to change, this was during the new math era, but there was this thing called, and we all learned this, S-M-S-G from MIT is called Student Math Study Group for all the smart kids.
	And you learned this form of mathematics that when you went to a university and took a regular calculus course, I got a D. You can't pass it.
	Because your brain has been screwed up by this other methodology.
	And then you go to normal, because they're not going to start pushing Common Core at Brown University, I can assure you, where they teach you crazy stuff.
	And you won't be able to get through college.
	This is a way to keep you from getting your kids through college.
	Do we want to put that in the book?
	That's your conclusion?
	Well, now the more I think about it and I look at these diagrams and all this, this isn't anything you can't make the jump from this sort of whatever it is type of study to college because in college they teach traditional stuff and that's what they do and you better have the traditional stuff in the background a step previous to this.
	Is this all part of this STEM thing?
	That bothers me too.
	Science, technology, engineering, and math.
	STEM. STEM. I got an email from Jeremy.
	This kind of fits into this.
	Hey, Adam, I've been following with interest your numerous comments about setting up your own email server and related systems as well as the need to teach our kids how these sorts of systems work.
	And I really think you have a good point.
	I have an 18-month-old son, although I don't have to worry about email, Facebook, etc.
	just yet.
	I have started to think about it.
	I think it'd be great if you and John made some time to talk a little more in depth about this and maybe give the listeners some actual direction.
	On how they can themselves become more informed and how we can teach our kids.
	You guys have a captive audience and I really think it'd be great.
	Okay.
	Now here's my thoughts on this.
	First of all, I think this common core is essentially, well you say it's to, and you're probably right by the way, it's to keep kids out of college because we need a whole generation of people who can run the machine.
	And that's essentially, you know, there's a triangle, and if you want 12 units to roll off, you have to press the 4 button and the 3 button.
	It doesn't seem like much else to me other than robot training.
	Would you agree?
	Well, I'm looking at...
	Let me just go back up just a second, because I'm still looking at some of these images.
	So there is a...
	Sorry.
	There is a picture here of...
	This is a...
	You have to look at this.
	We should put this in the show notes.
	Okay.
	This is one of the things you would do if you were a kid in the fifth grade.
	You would do flying with fact families.
	And there's ABCD. There's a...
	It's 12 questions and they show you, it each has three numbers and you have to figure out the fact family.
	And the fact family, it's so obvious, you just use the last number as the top of the, if it's a pyramid, that's the big number, that's what counts and the other two just multiplied by each other.
	So you're supposed to extrapolate all this.
	It's just stupid.
	You could do this whole thing without knowing anything.
	I think that's the point.
	I mean, you could be brain dead, and if you were just told, take the biggest number and put it at the top, and put the two numbers below it at the bottom, and then put this sign and that sign next to it, boom, you're done.
	You don't have to know anything.
	That's what I think this is about, John.
	And 45 of the 50 states have implemented this.
	And we know about the Governor's Council, or whatever that organization is called, who rolled this out.
	I think this is crazy, is what I think it is.
	And it's meant to build bots.
	Make your children bots.
	Well, these kids aren't going to be happy.
	Well, all they're going to do is just push the buttons, whatever they have to do.
	And the families that say that their kids are depressed because it's so difficult, it's not difficult.
	I think it's so easy if you just go by the formulas that you can create for yourself.
	Oh, I can do that.
	You know, I can put the number at the top and the two numbers at the bottom.
	As opposed to the kids who are going, what is the point of this?
	Perfect.
	I think you and I should write a book.
	A giblet, rather.
	An e-book.
	And it should be essentials your kid needs to know in order to survive the coming robotification of America's youth.
	Yeah, there's that.
	Yeah, we should.
	Yeah, I think it's a good idea.
	And it should be some really simple stuff.
	And, you know, remember when...
	I'm sorry.
	I have to...
	You say so.
	I make the mistake of saying member a lot.
	And I should be saying re-member.
	Oh, you have been saying, you know, this is interesting because I've never noticed you say member.
	One of our producers has been pointing this out to me specifically, so I want to catch myself and say remember.
	Remember when I was in school, when I was a kid, I'm starting to learn how to say it, John, we learned basic.
	When I was a kid!
	We learned basic.
	The programming language?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	And that was a part of what you did, and it was cool, you know, we learned basic.
	And I think there's a couple of things.
	You have knowledge of both of logic.
	It was logical.
	Yes.
	And it also helped you to learn to find mistakes and debug.
	Because it had to be right at the end.
	Although my code was always pretty uniform and simple.
	It was 10, print, you suck, 20, go to 10.
	And that was pretty much the code I did.
	Didn't we all?
	But at least it gave you some skills, man.
	This is not okay, this triangle fact family crap.
	This is more dangerous than Al-Qaeda.
	It's a fact family.
	There's a jingle waiting for that, don't you think?
	Fact family!
	I don't know.
	Yeah, there's probably one if somebody could sing.
	Anyway, I think this is more dangerous than Al-Qaeda, quite honestly.
	Well, maybe that's what they're talking about.
	When they say the danger is worse than it ever was, yes, because of this thing.
	Well, we'll keep an eye on it, obviously, but it seems like it's too late.
	It sounds like it's got slipped in early.
	This kid in high school at least has some observational skills.
	It should be a no agenda listener who just nails it.
	Yeah.
	Well, there are other people.
	But he's graduating.
	He's very probably graduating.
	He's out of there.
	I'm done.
	I'm done.
	I'm out.
	But, you know, there are other people.
	Meanwhile, the Chinese aren't learning this stuff.
	No. No. No.
	Ah, let's see.
	What else do we have?
	Oh, you know, a throwback to or a callback to Bitcoin.
	Remember Cody Wilson?
	Does this name remind you of anything?
	No.
	No.
	Okay, Cody Wilson was the guy who everybody was up in arms about in Austin, Texas, and he created the first 3D printed gun.
	Oh, yeah.
	Cody Wilson.
	His guns are so hard to come by.
	And I think I went on record and said, this guy is a promo guy.
	He's a PR guy.
	He's a shill.
	I'm not quite sure what he's doing other than promoting the war on printers.
	Because, of course, we can't have 3D printers printing up cool stuff.
	And guns is used as an example.
	But we can't ruin American manufacturing by people doing this at home.
	And I think that I was right about him just being a PR guy because Cody Wilson who was kind of silent for a while is back.
	And he has a new product.
	Now, if you were a shill, John, and you were out there just to jump on any bandwagon possible and doing Kickstarters and raising money for crazy stuff and the 3D printer stuff had kind of come and gone and you'd raise your $50,000 and you're moving on, what would you pick in today's world?
	I don't know.
	Wristwatches, wearable computers is the next big hot thing.
	Oh, come on.
	What's the big hype we talk about on this show all the time?
	Hype is probably I'm blinded by it.
	I don't know.
	What?
	Bitcoin, baby!
	Oh, no!
	Yeah!
	Would you mind if I played his Kickstarter video for his new project?
	Oh, please play.
	Maybe you thought you'd act differently.
	Maybe you thought you'd see it coming.
	But the moment's here.
	And it's time to make a choice.
	At its end of empire.
	The United States imagines the power to regulate the world's first great digital currency.
	Bitcoin.
	It's a cyber currency, so how do we get to it?
	To provide a framework for its existence.
	A technology that questions all previous frameworks fitted for its straightjacket.
	Helping the United States is a group of lobbyists and corporations calling themselves The Foundation.
	By the way, The Foundation, isn't that from a book or something?
	Isn't that from a movie?
	It sounds like one of those spy novels.
	Yeah, like The Foundation.
	Oh, The Foundation.
	But it gets better.
	Listen to the sentences.
	And by the way, this is almost like Brad Pitt Fight Club, this video.
	It's highly produced.
	It's just excellent, I have to say.
	But people, keep your bitcoins away from this guy.
	The mission is a performance.
	To both agree with and maintain an independence from regulatory power.
	But you can't have it both ways.
	OnSystem is an international group of activist developers led by Amir Taki.
	Concerned by the Foundation's centralized development and advocacy, they're developing a crypto wallet that runs on a completely independent software stack.
	Okay, write down these, write this down.
	It runs on a completely independent software stack.
	This wallet runs on the back-end Libbitcoin, the Command Tools SX, the Command Tools SX, and the Obelisk blockchain server architecture.
	The Obelisk blockchain server architecture.
	I have wood now.
	A thin wallet.
	The premier version of which will include privacy and security features, trustless mixing, and the foundation of a distributed identity protocol.
	Trustless mixing.
	Help us cover the next four months of time development.
	This guy's got all the new terms.
	It's great!
	Help us make this implementation a line in the sand.
	The technology.
	Now we are all being intercepted permanently.
	This is a state change.
	My personal bank accounts were shut down.
	I was blacklisted from having a personal bank account.
	It doesn't matter.
	I was able to use Bitcoin.
	And now we're hearing stories of people's personal accounts being blocked.
	So hold.
	Why are these so dangerous?
	They were comfortable operating in that environment because they felt that they enjoyed complete anonymity.
	Are you watching?
	Are you listening?
	Yes.
	Bitcoin is what they fear it is.
	A way to leave.
	To forbid.
	To make a choice.
	There's a system approaching perfection.
	Just in time for our disappearance.
	Seldon.
	Let there be dark.
	He's got every meme imagined.
	He's got Atlas Shrugged memes.
	Just before I disappear.
	That's right.
	He's got Nigel Farage in the background screaming something.
	Yeah, he's got Assange in there.
	Everybody.
	And his Kickstarter is called Dark Wallet.
	Which reminds me of Dark Mail.
	A little follow-up on the Dark Mail guy.
	This is the Lava Bit guy that everyone's coming all over.
	So one of our producers is a lawyer.
	And he's actually very close, not to this case particularly, but he understands a lot of this.
	Because we were talking about the Lava Bit guy and what's this warrant about, etc.
	So he went, with me actually, but he sent me a lot of information, went through All of the documents about Lavabit And he said, here's what the problem is.
	This Lava Bit guy was actually taunting the government.
	He wanted a lot of noise, and the government was really confused.
	Like, why does this guy keep doing all this stuff?
	And he's been instigating these court cases, mainly because, this is the conclusion that our producer came to, and I agree with it, is the Lava Bit guy is embarrassed, because his so-called super secure service, It relied on one master key.
	And so there was, of course, not in any document, nothing in all these court cases says that the government wanted to look at the Snowden email account.
	There is no evidence of that.
	And I maintain, although this is just his word against mine, I maintain that the guy made that up.
	There was a warrant two months prior to the request for the master key, a warrant for child pornography that might have been running on his server, or at least someone who had an account who was involved in child pornography.
	And they complied with the warrant and sent them whatever they needed to have.
	But the problem with the so-called super secure system that the genius Edward Snowden was using for his super secret account was that one SSH key could unlock all the accounts on the server.
	And this is not discussed by anyone in your great technology press.
	And this is what this guy's been making all this noise about.
	Oh, the government!
	Oh, they're trying to work!
	They're horrible!
	Let's do dark mail!
	But please, don't look over here and don't see how incredibly insecure my system was to start with to have one master key for every single account.
	So, I'm putting this guy in the Cody Wilson bucket of bullcrap.
	Dark wallet, dark mail.
	What is this?
	Don't be fooled.
	Yeah, I think any time you see the word dark now, that's code.
	Dark podcast.
	We're the dark cast.
	The dark podcast.
	We're underway.
	We're going to get some money to do a dark podcast.
	We're on the dark cast.
	Nobody will be able to figure out how to download it.
	We're on the dark.
	That's right.
	In fact, we have a dark podcast now.
	Good luck.
	Yeah, our podcast is so cool.
	It's dark.
	You have to know where to find it.
	You can't just listen to our show.
	No way.
	It's another No Agenda.
	Hello, it's the All right, time for the Clip Blitz as we wind up this show.
	John, what do you have for us?
	A couple of cool things.
	If you want to start off with the...
	Well, I'm going to finish with...
	I know it's Sunday, so today means high school USA. But wait.
	Let's save that for the end.
	Let's start with the herbal fraud going on in Canada.
	Yeah.
	Some herbal supplements may not be what they seem.
	Researchers in Canada used DNA barcoding to test 44 different supplements.
	They found some were often diluted or replaced entirely with fillers like soybean and rice.
	One third showed no trace of the plant advertised on the bottle, only another plant in its place.
	That's good to know.
	Yeah, perfect.
	So there's a breastfeeding controversy going on and it's kind of universal.
	We have two stories.
	One of breastfeeding in the UK followed by America.
	And tell me if you can kind of spot the difference between breastfeeding in the UK for starters and then America.
	Play them back to back.
	There is an interesting government program underway for new mothers in Great Britain.
	In an effort to boost the practice of breastfeeding among low-income women, moms are now being offered money to breastfeed their newborns.
	Each mom can now collect $200 for the first six weeks of breastfeeding, more if they continue to breastfeed for up to six months.
	The goal is to destigmatize the practice in poorer areas.
	Researchers say the United Kingdom has one of the worst breastfeeding rates in the world.
	One mother is caught between a rock and a hard place.
	A Pennsylvania judge recently told her that she had to stop breastfeeding her 10 month old daughter so the little girl could stay with her father for two days a week.
	It's part of a custody agreement, but the mom says there's nothing agreeable about it.
	He did say something along the lines like, well, she should be on formula or why isn't she on formula?
	She should be able to have formula at 10 months old.
	I'm feeling frustrated, hurt.
	I'm trying to keep myself from crying.
	It's very emotional.
	All right.
	What is this?
	Is there a new dark breast milk market happening?
	It just seems that the UK, I mean, when is the government telling women what to do or not to do?
	Essentially that's what we're listening to here.
	Okay, here we go.
	Snoring in Brazil.
	This is good news for you snorers.
	Snorers out there.
	Avoiding salt could be the way to cure snoring.
	At least that's what Brazilian researchers want to prove.
	They started a study last month hoping to uncover a connection between salt and sleep apnea.
	Researchers believe excessive salt intake builds up fluid in the body and then the fluid shifts to a person's neck.
	When they're lying down.
	Some patients will take a diuretic pill and others will switch to a low-salt diet to see what works to treat sleep apnea.
	Well, there you go.
	The war on salt is on.
	Again.
	We're back.
	Meanwhile, in France, the truckers have decided to do protests.
	This is actually better on film than this report.
	But you have to see these guys.
	If 10,000 trucks will take to the highway...
	You know, and clog all the lanes and then stop.
	Never worries.
	Yeah, they've started.
	Yeah, this is news here.
	This is big news.
	Next, another weekend, another huge protest here in France.
	Thousands of freight trucks blocked major highways in a massive go-slow.
	This is part of ongoing protests over the French government's planned eco-tax, which would slap levies on heavy goods vehicles.
	Protesters in Britain, in northwest France, have become known for their red bonnets.
	Well, they've been taking action, and those protests have been spreading across the country.
	Excellent.
	Yeah, the French are smart, man.
	They know how to do it.
	They don't take any crap from people.
	We used to be able to do stuff with the Teamsters.
	We'd get together and do something.
	No.
	They arrest everybody.
	We throw people in jail.
	We need more prisoners.
	I have something for the clip blitz.
	This is Larry Flint.
	He is publisher of Hustler Magazine, quite a hero.
	And he has said that he is not interested in seeing the guy who shot him.
	He wound up in a wheelchair because he was shot by some crazy guy.
	He doesn't want to see the guy put to death.
	He says it does no good, and he actually has a little callback to something that I have said for many, many years, that there is a reality show in some of these punishments just waiting to happen, and the Gitmo Nation East people in the UK knew what it was about in the 18th century.
	They're part of you...
	Is there a part of you for which it is difficult to separate that long-held political belief of yours from, I would guess, an understandable anger or desire for vengeance against the guy who put you in a wheelchair for life?
	No, because I'm very pragmatic.
	You know, if you're a victim of someone who's committed a crime like murder or something, I can understand why you would want to see someone put to death.
	But when you really take time to think about the fact that our system is supposed to be about justice, not vengeance.
	And when someone sets out to commit a crime like murder, They don't stop and think, well, am I going to get the life in prison or am I going to get the death penalty if I do this?
	That's not the way they think.
	It's not a deterrent.
	It never has been.
	And you know, in England, in the 18th century, pickpocketing was a capital offense.
	And they used to hang the pickpockets every Saturday in a town square.
	And while they were doing it, people would be going through the crowds picking the pockets of the people watching the pickpockets getting hanged.
	So I think the British caught on very early.
	Yes!
	This is a great idea.
	What happened to those days when we would hang people publicly?
	I am such a proponent of killing people on television.
	Yeah, I know.
	You want to make it into a reality TV show, then we can quit this gig.
	Yeah, we could kill people on television, have crowds, you know, the whole thing.
	It's perfect.
	And do ratings, do ratings.
	How many points did it shake enough when it died?
	It's another No Agenda.
	No Agenda!
	All right, take us home, Johnny.
	What do we have?
	High School USA. All right, let's start with High School USA, clip number one.
	Connors, I'm sorry I can't figure a way out of this mess like I usually do.
	Hey, Brad, would you mind punching me just one last time?
	Sure, Blackstein.
	Of course I will.
	Ow.
	I can't believe I'm going to die, Virgin.
	Amber, last week when you weren't looking, I totally popped your cherry.
	Oh, you're the best, best ever.
	Okay, this is it.
	Oh.
	Officer Duffy!
	Uh, you all heard me say freeze, right?
	Ew!
	The murderer's so ugly!
	Well, that depends on your political convictions.
	You see, that isn't his face.
	It's a mask!
	Of President Bush Sr.
	And this is on broadcast television.
	On Fox?
	This is the real fox we're looking at here.
	So we just don't have nothing but, you know, a lot of kinds of sick humor.
	Let's have a little anti-Semite stuff, too.
	Is this clip number two?
	Clip two, yes.
	Oh, eyes are awesome.
	Oh, that's not even the half of it.
	You can do all sorts of things with eyes.
	Did you know that you can blink them and roll them and wink them and close them and make them real wide or real squinty?
	Hey!
	How do you know so much about eyes?
	Yeah, you seem unusually confident on our little field trip to the early 90s.
	Aren't you worried about getting an F? Not this time.
	I'm used to not using technology.
	Being half black, half Jewish, I take part in a cool ancient ritual called Shabbat every other week.
	Neat.
	What's Shabbat?
	It's the Jewish day of rest when God doesn't want you to use electricity for 24 hours.
	OMG, you are so boring.
	Is this what it's like giving someone your full attention?
	This is the worst.
	All right, guys.
	It's another No Agenda.
	No Agenda!
	OMG. Did I really hear that?
	Yes, that's what she said.
	Title of the show.
	OMG. OMG. Oh, outstanding.
	Good clip list, John.
	I liked it a lot.
	Fantastic.
	Yeah, well, Sunday's the best.
	All right, everybody.
	Please support the program.
	Go to dvorak.org slash na.
	We need to do a little better than today.
	And, well, I'm sure we'll get the value for value.
	I think we brought it to you.
	I will have more reports here from Europe, the EU, Gitmo Nation, Lowlands, and everything else that's going on.
	And John, you will be in Florida?
	I'll be in Florida, Orlando.
	Right.
	Giving a talk, or actually just hosting some panels at an event, and then I'll be doing the show and flying back.
	Right.
	So expect us to be one or two hours earlier.
	We will tweet accordingly.
	And, of course, those of you on the podcast will not be bothered at all, because it's a podcast.
	Coming to you from Gitmo Nation Lowlands, the heart of Amsterdam, where it's gray and everybody's depressed.
	In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where I reiterate, do not buy a harmonica made in China.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	We will talk to you again on Thursday right here on No Agenda.
	Adios, mofos.
	The best podcast in the universe!

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