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	Yeah, I do.
	Shut up.
	Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
	It's Sunday, December 29th, 2013.
	Time for your Gitmo Nation media assassination episode 578.
	This is no agenda.
	Closing out the year with non-can distraction bullcrap from FEMA Region 6 here at the Travis Heights High of Nostin Tejas.
	Good morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from the northern Silicon Valley, Pacific Northwest, I'm John C. Devorak.
	It's BlackBot and Buzzkill.
	Yeah, I had to stop, John, just before we started because all of a sudden we were talking about something really interesting.
	I'm like, wait a minute, this is not being recorded!
	It's a travesty!
	The travesty.
	The travesty.
	But what was it?
	I forgot.
	See, that's how important it was.
	I had sent you an email.
	I used Google Mail, and it's for the first time this happened.
	For some reason, Google Mail, which used to take big attachments, is balking at the idea.
	So this time, instead of just sending a dead letter into nowhere, it gives me an error message, which I've seen for the first time.
	It says, these attachments are too big!
	Would you like to use Google Drive?
	I'm looking at your attachments and the total file size for your attachments is 27.9 megabytes.
	That's Typically too big for just about any mail server.
	Most won't accept over 10.
	I have mine set to 15, but I think for you I even have an exception to 20.
	Yeah, when you're doing 20, and what exactly is 20, where is that size coming from?
	Let me see, what is the big file here?
	There's probably one oversized file.
	Whatever the case.
	I'm also encoding at 128 when I should be doing 96.
	Yeah, there's that then.
	But anyway, so yes.
	All I know is in SquirrelMail, I got a 50...
	But it's not SquirrelMail.
	You know how email works.
	It's not the...
	Yeah, I know.
	It's not the interface.
	It's just the interface.
	Okay.
	So anyway, so it asks me to do this.
	So I say, okay.
	And so it sends you the files.
	Oh, no, no.
	Oh, wait, no.
	You made a mistake.
	You were supposed to say, okay, Google.
	So I say, okay, Google, and it sends it off.
	And then Adam gets in bitches about it.
	And then he makes the bitches because he has to click an extra button.
	And so then he makes the offhanded comment that email was never meant for such things.
	So he got to a debate.
	I don't think, first of all, I don't think I pontificated like Richard Stallman or anything, the way you made that sound.
	I think what I said is, I don't think email was intended for these file sizes.
	In fact, I remember the early days of email and file sizes, and one megabyte took exactly one hour to download.
	And then the chick had her underpants on.
	Whoa!
	So, I remember back in the day, it was never set up with this in mind.
	But it could be.
	And I made the comment, yeah, with the slow speeds, you still have some limitations that were just set by the slow speeds, but I made the comment that when ARPANET was developed in 1969, it was done for the military and academia, the military-academia complex, so they could send stuff around, and it would be big files, because what else are you going to say?
	Hello?
	Goodbye?
	It wasn't like Twitter.
	Wow, what was that sound?
	I was banging the keyboard with my hand as I reached up to grab a cup.
	Okay.
	I believe that the UUCP protocol, which was a part of the newsgroups, that that was developed for large file sizes.
	We had tons of, you know, so basically a forward store copy system, which has been long since retired, although you can still get to a lot of these newsgroups that were cached, I guess.
	But there was a real system, and it would break it up into sizable bytes, dependent upon the bandwidth, and it was a very interesting, non-decentralized system that was working very well for quite a while, that was intended for files.
	Well, there's always been files that people want to send around.
	That was my point.
	Yes.
	I'm just thinking...
	You're reminding me of another off-topic thing, and I hate to bore the public with this crap.
	Why not?
	It's the end of the year.
	News groups.
	Whatever happened to news groups for like an interesting phenomenon.
	But that's what I'm talking...
	I'm talking about news groups.
	That is...
	Yes, but hold on a second.
	Do you remember that there was a program that came out...
	You're not doing it right.
	Go like this.
	Hey!
	There was a newsgroup program that was out.
	I wish I could remember the name of it because I liked it.
	It was like a search engine for newsgroups and you could pretty much organize.
	And then Google bought them.
	Yes.
	And then incorporated them into the search engine.
	There was a thing you could click on and look at newsgroups.
	And then it just disappeared with all the newsgroups and all the data.
	Gone!
	What was the name of that?
	Remember?
	Yeah, no, I remember.
	Remember?
	Yeah, I know.
	Someone's on my ass about that, and he's right.
	And I catch myself saying it all the time.
	It's really bad.
	I think you got me saying it.
	Remember?
	No, I remember.
	Remember?
	It was...
	Maybe the chat room will know it.
	So, of course, it was Usenet, obviously.
	That's what we're talking about.
	You're talking about that specific application, the Windows app?
	Yeah, remember that thing?
	Do you re-member that thing?
	I do remember.
	Hey, wait a minute.
	If it's re-member, then you can member.
	Yes, but what is member?
	I have no idea.
	Yeah, that's a mindfuck, isn't it?
	If you can remember, then you should be able to remember.
	Deja News?
	Yeah, yeah, Deja News.
	Thank you, Klaatu.
	Good call.
	Mr.
	Bobo, chat room.
	The chat room is now on their site again.
	Oh, wait a minute.
	Are we winding up the year with a positive note for the chat room?
	Yeah, they can come up with Deja News.
	Deja News, exactly.
	And I remember, oh my gosh, this is going to be a tough one this week.
	When I first was on the internet, and I had registered MTV.com, and I would go into the alt.music.binaries or whatever, and I would even just post the message, and here's the typical, and by the way, it was that guy.
	Hey, you're going to ruin the internet with that commercial crap!
	Oh yeah, those guys.
	They were killing it during that era.
	Yeah.
	Everywhere.
	They were everywhere.
	This is a non-commercial news group.
	You can't have a.com email address.
	Not kidding.
	Not kidding.
	This actually happened.
	No, I remember that whole era and these guys moaning and groaning.
	This is like the era, this is a reminiscent show, I guess.
	This is like that period of time that probably ended about five or six years ago when you lifted an image from somebody else's site for your blog or whatever.
	You didn't take the image because that actually was illegal.
	I talked to people like this.
	You would use the link.
	You'd link to it.
	You're stealing my bandwidth.
	You're stealing my bandwidth.
	Yeah.
	Wait a minute.
	Aren't you on a plan?
	Aren't you and everybody else on a fixed monthly plan?
	Are you paying for bits?
	You're stealing my bandwidth.
	Now, let me give you this story.
	I don't know if I've told you this story.
	Oh, God!
	I've got to ding myself.
	Ding!
	You remember Gopher, obviously, before the World Wide Web.
	Of course.
	Okay, so I had MTV.com and was a headless Sun 3 running at DigX above the Chinese restaurant.
	And it was Sun OS 3, I guess, or whatever.
	It wasn't even Solaris.
	I don't know what it was.
	It doesn't matter.
	And so I got the binary.
	I think I might have even compiled the gopher demon, gopher D, set up a gopher server, and I had a couple bits of what I call, I think I called it cyber sleaze or something, and I had little bits of news and snippets, and that was about it.
	And then I got an email from the University of Minnesota saying that this was an inappropriate use of the gopher server, and I had to pay a $5,000 license.
	What?
	Yeah, yeah.
	Because I wasn't, but they felt that that was a commercial use of the Gopher server.
	And I said, well, I don't have $5,000.
	And I did not have $5,000.
	Believe me, VJ didn't get paid a lot of money.
	And I cut a deal with him, and if you Google Adam Curry gopher t-shirt, you can see it.
	There's a video of it.
	And they agreed, and somewhere I might have an email in writing, that they would waive the $5,000 fee if I wore a University of Minnesota gopher t-shirt on MTV. This is just to show you how stupid it was.
	And they said, oh, okay, well, if you do that, then we'll waive the $5,000 license.
	Go, gophers!
	And there's a video somewhere on YouTube of me wearing a gopher t-shirt.
	And I remember MTV guys going like, what is up with that?
	Because they had no idea.
	They were like, hey, we were on AOL. This thing rocks.
	Who needs the internet?
	We got keywords.
	Keywords.
	Yeah.
	Well, you know what?
	I think it's interesting sometimes to stand still and reminisce about how far we've come, where we've come from, and then to see that we have Twitter today now has a higher market cap than 50% of the Standard& Poor market.
	Based upon absolutely no profits and just another version of someone trying to monetize the network itself, which is impossible.
	You cannot monetize the network just by making connections between people.
	This has been tried time and time again.
	It doesn't work.
	You can get very rich tricking investors and speculators into thinking that you're doing it, but it never works out.
	Ever.
	Name one time it's really worked out.
	And you call yourself a technology journalist?
	But seriously, I don't think the only thing that has truly worked, and I remember, it was search.
	It's got to be search.
	Search is going to rule the internet.
	And boy, were they right.
	And of course we had AltaVista.
	And, you know, I think that eventually also was, was that purchased by Yahoo, maybe?
	Who bought AltaVista?
	I think Yahoo bought.
	I think it was Yahoo, as a matter of fact.
	But Search was, of course...
	If you can equate dropping the ball with any one company, that would be Yahoo.
	And it wasn't until, essentially, Google kind of tripped over the idea of AdSense, which also wasn't theirs.
	I believe they acquired that, if I'm not mistaken.
	Yes, they did.
	In fact, I ran into one of the developers of that code once for lunch.
	And that was genius because of the concept of searching and essentially getting advertising back.
	And it may not look like advertising, but wow, it's advertising.
	Almost every single link is advertising.
	One way, just rap genius or rap guru, whatever, just got put into Google jail.
	anytime on the internet you have a way that someone can cut off your way to make money then it was never a good idea in the first place and it's and it's another failed attempt at monetizing the network the network is the network anyway that's i don't want to get in that rant too early because that's Fuck it.
	You know what?
	So this is the conversation you just got from us.
	The only thing we didn't talk about was FidoNet.
	We could have, of course, been on CNN with Anderson Pooper.
	When you look back at the year, what stands out in terms of these kind of...
	Scandal-wise?
	Yeah.
	Oh my god, it's like a buffet.
	There's too many delicious ones.
	Listen to this roundtable of a retrospective.
	Who's that laughing hyena?
	I don't know.
	It might be S.E. Cup or somebody.
	I don't know.
	This guy, the buffet of scandal, the most important story of the year is Rob, the mayor of Toronto.
	Rob Ford.
	This was so lovely.
	I want to be an American patriot, but it really is for me.
	Rob Ford, too.
	I love a good cunnilingus joke on the evening news.
	Who doesn't?
	Who among us does not?
	Wow.
	This is your CNN, people.
	Cunnilingus.
	Whoa!
	He said cunnilingus.
	But wait, Anderson can make it better.
	My mom went through a romance memoir about the man she had dated, and I use that term loosely.
	And she described one guy she was currently dating, who my mom was 85 at the time, as the Nijinsky of cunnilingus.
	Write it down, John.
	Show title, Nijinsky of cunnilingus.
	Thank you, Anderson.
	And she made me proofread the book.
	I was like, no.
	What is the point of that joke?
	The point is to show you how useless mainstream media is, because when it comes to the end of the year, and they just have to show up just to complete their timesheet, this is what you get.
	Because, God forbid there be any, I don't know, News?
	No, the PR companies are all on vacation, so there's nothing to talk about.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	Yes, no, there is something to talk about.
	Why don't we get started really, really early?
	We should start early on.
	Let's get it going now.
	Speaking of Chris Christie, a new poll shows that he would be neck and neck in a race with Hillary Clinton if he were running for president.
	There you go.
	Let's make it neck and neck now.
	Why wait?
	Exactly.
	Because, Nick, I mean, we should remind our newer listeners of one of the No Agenda theses, which is like feces.
	Yeah.
	Wait a minute.
	They will forever have these candidates running neck and neck, no matter what, so they can extract as much advertising revenue from each of them as humanly possible.
	And here's how they do it.
	This report does go on a little bit, but this is so key.
	And it has to start 24 months out.
	That's kind of what it is these days.
	More money.
	More money, exactly.
	We need to get the advertising budget set, and he will actually talk about this in this piece.
	The CNN ORC International Poll shows Christie leads Clinton 48% to 46%, with an error of 3%, meaning basically it's a wash.
	Now they're going to bring in some...
	This, by the way, is the Huffington Post, who has these news videos, and they have some guy who is the executive editor who's at home, On his Skype...
	Stop.
	Before you go on, I have to make some mention of this.
	So I had a clip for the last show, and it's not important, but let me just explain.
	The Huffington Post, or HuffPo, as it's commonly referred to by these people...
	It's somehow gotten into the mainstream media through a backhanded way.
	There was a Today Show segment that's on, I think it's on regularly, where the three Today Show hosts sit in three catbird seats, bar stools, next to each other, across from another stool, which is the Huffington Post guy.
	Yeah.
	And they show photos of the week's news.
	And it's called the photo segment.
	It's the best photos of the week of the news.
	And they're not good photos.
	They're just crap.
	And they show the photo.
	And the Huffington Post guy describes what happened.
	He tells what the news story is.
	And the three of them...
	I'm going to bring the clip back out for the next show, by the way, because now I think about it.
	The three of them giggle and laugh and...
	All the while, this guy is describing the news story.
	This is a news show.
	This is the news people sitting there laughing and giggling at this Huffington Post guy telling them what the news was.
	What is this?
	Well, they're so amazed that someone actually has taken time to talk about the news instead of promoting their corporation's other entertainment products.
	They're tickled pink.
	Oh my gosh, it's a news guy.
	Oh my God, I didn't know they still existed.
	That's all that's going on, is promotion of other corporate properties.
	That's for sure, but anyway, go on with this Huffington Post person.
	Zach, if this thing happens, it is going to be one...
	And of course, it's like some British accent type guy.
	We know that this is kind of the...
	Yeah, let's defer, in other words, the American public, let's defer our thinking and analysis to some British phony.
	Yeah, if you've got a British accent, you can get pretty far in the news business here.
	Look at Piers Morgan.
	A hell of a tight right, right?
	Right?
	I think so.
	He's maybe Australian or Kiwi.
	It doesn't matter.
	It's that Anglophile thing.
	I think Hillary Clinton's popularity is very strong with Democrats.
	I think there are a lot of progressives in the Democratic Party.
	Now, just listen to this analysis, because you're going to be killed with this for three years straight.
	You're going to hear this crap.
	Holding their nose about the prospect of a Hillary Clinton presidency who will then shut up and vote if she actually is on the ticket.
	I would be very enthusiastic about voting for the first woman president.
	Chris Christie has done a good job up until this very, very bizarre traffic scandal of painting himself as a good governing, you know, principled person.
	I don't know what happened.
	I don't know what this traffic scandal is because...
	Traffic scandal!
	If I saw it or heard about it, it completely passed through my noggin.
	But this is what we're going to have.
	And they're starting now, John.
	Somewhere someone made a decision, and once one starts, they all have to go.
	Because when it starts, then the money starts to flow, and they have to grab it.
	And it's going to be, oh, scandal!
	And then you know what?
	Here's proof that it's happening.
	The New York Times.
	The New York effing Times comes out with the most ludicrous year-end analysis of Benghazi.
	And at the end of this huge study they've done, John, the innocence of Mohammed or Muslims, the video, according to the New York Times study, actually did have influence on what happened in Benghazi.
	I am gobsmacked by this.
	Gobsmacked!
	A new report suggests there's no evidence al-Qaeda played a role in last year's attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi.
	U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed in that incident.
	An extensive investigation by the New York Times concluded that the truth is very complex.
	It suggests that an American-made video criticizing Islam did spark anger in the run-up to the attack, and that al-Qaeda did not infiltrate Benghazi prior to that attack.
	Instead, it blames local militants.
	The report says the attack was not meticulously planned, but that it wasn't spontaneous either, and that there were some warning signs.
	It also suggests the current U.S. focus on fighting al-Qaeda distracts from protecting broader American interests.
	So this is clearly the New York Times clearing a path For Hillary, because this is the albatross, and it has to happen now, because we're heating up, we've got the Chris Christie thing happening, and we need to get this out of the way, and this is pure propaganda.
	Well, it's written by David Kirkpatrick, too.
	Isn't that the guy who did the Vogue piece on Hillary?
	I bet you it is.
	He may have, but he's been around for a while.
	He used to be at Fortune.
	I've run into him a number of times.
	He bumped heads.
	Let me read you the Chris Christie scandal.
	New documents reveal that a high-ranking official in the administration of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie knew that Fort Lee, New Jersey, had issues with traffic congestion around the George Washington Bridge long before he authorized a seemingly unnecessary study that closed down lanes to the bridge and made traffic worse.
	Wow.
	That's it.
	That's the scandal?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, lanes were closed down unnecessarily.
	On Meet the Press this morning, David Kirkpatrick blamed the video for the attack in Benghazi.
	I guess this must have been this morning, which we haven't seen yet, of course.
	Kirkpatrick is the Cairo Bureau Chief for the New York Times.
	And the title of this particular piece is David Karpactor of the New York Times gives Hillary a gift for 2016.
	Yeah, putting the blame back on the video.
	And no mention of, of course, the Times actually says there's two things that could have happened here.
	They don't even take into consideration the third, which is what we believe to be true.
	This was supposed to be a kidnapping of the ambassador to have an October surprise to solidify the win for the president in his reelection bid.
	And it went horribly wrong.
	The messaging was off.
	Everything, you know, Hillary was beside herself.
	It was coincidental with the CIA operation.
	That was going on right next door.
	Right.
	They moved guns.
	Yes.
	And of course, the irony is that he won anyway.
	And he was always going to win.
	It was only the media with the bull crap, oh, it's neck and neck, right to the end, to keep the money flowing that actually freaked out the campaign.
	They actually, if you read some of the backstory, they actually were concerned that they would lose.
	And the guy who, for the New York Times, again, the genius who was always predicting it, which wasn't all that hard, what's his name again?
	Right, he went over to ESPN. He's the sports statistician guy.
	Oh, right.
	So where he could be making, if you're in politics, there's more money in politics than in sports forecasting, I would think.
	I would, well, if you get with the right consultants, I'm sure.
	This guy, he could be predicting the stock market.
	His algorithms were so genius.
	He was unbelievable.
	He beat out everybody.
	Everybody had it wrong.
	He had it right.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, speaking of wrong and right, I looked into this thing.
	Okay, so here's what happened.
	John, we got received an email, and it mentioned the Berkeley Freedom Club, and then John got into this whole thing about The Freedom Club and the Act of 1871 is what I found out that it's really about.
	And where the claim is the United States in 1871, with the creation of the District of Columbia, really became a corporation for the, and most of the articles that you read about this, for the evil bankers.
	Sometimes it's evil Jewish bankers, just to add a little bit on top of it.
	And that, you know, your name capitalized is your legal corporate entity name that you don't own, that the United States owns.
	Anyway, so you look into this and you called it a big phony bullcrap.
	So many words.
	Well, kind of.
	And subsequently, here's what I get.
	John is wrong!
	He's that same guy.
	Why does he keep listening to the show?
	Here's a video that will prove it.
	And I get some guy like...
	In 1871, the United States became a corporation and the evil bankers took over.
	Now, let me...
	That's exactly what it sounds like.
	That's the video.
	So I did look into this and I spent an inordinate amount of time going...
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	No, no, no.
	I find it important because...
	When people email blanket things like, he's wrong, this is the truth.
	My airline tickets still have my name in all caps.
	Does that mean my corporate entity is traveling and can I get a tax refund?
	There's absolutely no evidence.
	No evidence.
	And don't send me YouTube videos with some guy saying there's evidence and putting some things up on the screen.
	I looked at the Act of 1871.
	I looked at the 1874, because, of course, in 1874, the 1871 Act was removed.
	And then there was the third Act.
	I read all of it.
	I can read.
	I can read.
	And nowhere.
	And let's just take, even if it was true, There is very little difference between a corporation and a country.
	And you've got great companies and great countries and crappy corporations and crappy countries.
	And it's all about the leadership and what you allow to happen as a person.
	But it's a cop-out.
	It's a cop-out.
	So what if we're a corporate?
	Even if it were true.
	So?
	You still get to kick people out.
	You still get to vote.
	You still have a voice.
	But you've let yourself be completely suppressed like a moron.
	And that happens in companies too.
	What are you afraid of?
	Anyway, I got really angry at the messaging.
	It all came to me.
	And I said, please send this to John.
	I can't find your email.
	Oh, here it is.
	John at Dvorak.org.
	D-V-O-R-A-K.org.
	John at Dvorak.org.
	I'll email him tomorrow.
	What?
	It's easier to email.
	Maybe people think it's funny that I get a rise out, that I get angry.
	I find it highly amusing.
	It's frustrating.
	It's like the Fukushima thing.
	And I try to stay away from this because...
	Yeah, I'm a crackpot, but at a certain point, I just have to stop, pull the plug, okay?
	So now there's this video, and this has been sent to me by a number of people.
	This guy's on the beach with a Geiger counter, and it's going crazy because the Fukushima radiation is now in San Francisco!
	And here's the audio from this guy's Geiger counter.
	Here I am.
	I'm over background.
	The alarm's going off.
	The alarm's going off!
	You're on the beach.
	Oh!
	That's sort of the levels we're dealing with here.
	That's the levels we're dealing with!
	It's 150 CPM! And the alarm's going off!
	And so this gets emailed to me multiple times.
	Most people saying, I don't know, man, but you should look at this, because the guy's got a Geiger counter, and it's going beep.
	And here's the headline.
	Fukushima radiation hits San Francisco.
	Fukushima radiation reaching California beaches.
	Why aren't you dead?
	Oh, no, you're up in the north.
	I wouldn't go home.
	Don't go to San Francisco.
	You're going to die.
	Of course, when people have to realize that if you're looking at these CPMs, really that's only a tenth of the background radiation in that particular count.
	CPMs, counts per minute.
	You don't even know if it's alpha, beta, or gamma radiation with this Geiger counter.
	But the way people are so...
	Beeping.
	It's beeping.
	I set the alarm at 99.
	It's going off at 150.
	Well, yeah, you set the alarm at 99.
	And I put the calculations in the show notes from someone who knows what they're talking about, from a nuclear physicist.
	I get tired of doing it.
	But you have to stop.
	There's been a hundred children dying of thyroid cancer in Fukushima, but the press is not talking about it.
	Shh!
	It's a secret.
	Now, that we didn't land on the moon?
	Okay, I'm with you.
	But this stuff has to stop.
	Alright.
	But here's part of...
	This is a pet peeve show.
	This is our theme.
	We always have a theme in every show.
	Well, let me add this to it.
	Let me add this.
	You'll like this.
	And I think this is all about lies.
	So from a very young age, and I don't recall this happening when I was a kid, quite honestly, but now we are propagating...
	Now, Santa Claus is fun and everything, and it's nice, you know, and we have a little fight about whether he's black or white or fat or skinny, and if he comes from Holland, does he have slaves, he's black people, whatever it is.
	But then we have this NORAD, and this is the military, And we've seen the videos.
	That's peeve number two.
	And we've seen the videos, how the NORAD is tracking Santa, and we've got F-16s accompanying him to shoot off any evil Al-Qaeda, trying to down him.
	And then on Christmas Eve, or maybe it was the 20th, yeah, Christmas Eve, we have the First Lady of the United States, Michelle Obama, taking calls.
	They took 117,000 calls this year from children.
	And by the way, the website took 20 million unique visitors.
	It's amazing how we can set up a website to track a phantom guy with a sleigh flying through the air, but healthcare.gov doesn't work.
	It's pretty amazing how our government is put together.
	That is a very good observation.
	And we have a transcript.
	Of Michelle Obama, here it is, photos and remarks from the First Lady's conversations with children while tracking Santa.
	And I wish I had video or audio because it would make it so much more entertaining for the show.
	How old are you, Killeen?
	I'm six.
	You're six.
	What's the number one gift you asked Santa for this year?
	Child, inaudible.
	Yes, well, you've been good this year.
	Have you been a good girl this year?
	Yes.
	Mrs.
	Obama, yes, alright, well, I think Santa's on his way to your house, so you better go to sleep because he won't come until you've gone to sleep, okay?
	Yes, that's okay.
	And then as we move along, the First Lady starts telling the children, let me see if I can find, here he is.
	Hello, is this Ella?
	Child, yes.
	Mrs.
	Obama, hi Ella, this is First Lady Michelle Obama.
	By the way, does she really say that?
	Hi, this is First Lady Michelle Obama.
	She must have been reading a script.
	I'm here today.
	Yes, she was reading a script.
	Here's her script.
	Hi, Ella, skip logic.
	This is First Lady Michelle Obama.
	Your name here.
	I'm here today helping the folks out at NORAD track Santa.
	And is that what you're calling for?
	Are you calling to find out where Santa is?
	Child, yes.
	Miss Obama, yes?
	Well, I'm looking on the radar screen and I see a sleigh.
	I see a sleigh with eight tiny reindeer and right now he's over South Sudan.
	That's in Africa.
	And then she goes on about South Sudan to every kid.
	Oh, he's in South Sudan.
	South Sudan.
	What?
	Yes!
	He's in South Sudan right now.
	That's Africa.
	Make sure you know, and maybe next time you read about South Sudan, you know, when we drone some kids there from Djibouti, then you'll know what's going on and you'll be prepared.
	Disgusting, John.
	Way to tell kids that the fake guy with a sleigh over South Sudan.
	I mean, the fake guy with a sleigh is one.
	That we're tracking him through our most sophisticated radar technology is two.
	But that he's over South Sudan?
	Really?
	Wow.
	That would be clip of the day.
	If it was a clip.
	Yeah.
	I looked, believe me.
	I'm like, oh, please, let there be some video.
	It's just photos.
	Yeah, photos.
	And yeah, it's South Sudan, South Sudan, then I think over Rwanda later on.
	Oh, it's over Rwanda now.
	So they're actually, let's see, how long would it take to get from South Sudan to Rwanda with eight reindeer?
	Oh, Miss Obama, it's 20 minutes later.
	I think you should talk about Rwanda.
	Also within easy flying distance with the drones from Djibouti.
	Sad.
	Well, that's just the way.
	This is not getting any better.
	No, it's not.
	It's not getting any better at all.
	Especially with Hillary in office.
	Well, yeah.
	With Hillary in office.
	You know, as I reflect back on the end of this year, human beings, they just, they will, it's all, we have egos and we only care about ourselves and we will do anything to screw somebody else to make ourselves feel better.
	We'll do anything.
	And it's gotten pretty bad.
	You know, I'm...
	And this will sound...
	I'm just losing faith in humanity.
	I'm losing faith.
	Is this your revelation?
	Is this what happens?
	And you get up there in the years and all of a sudden you're like, hey, wait a minute.
	Humans are assholes.
	Hmm.
	And they're pretty much just mean to each other all the time.
	Well, you know, I think that's the appeal.
	I finally started to...
	I was going to have it finished, but I'll probably have it finished by Thursday.
	I finally started watching House of Cards.
	Hmm.
	Ah, very good.
	Very good.
	And it's like, everyone, it's about the politics of Washington.
	People should definitely watch it.
	If you have a Netflix account, it's free.
	I also started re-watching Rubicon, which is also free for a Prime account on Amazon.com.
	So that's also worth watching again.
	So I'm watching this thing, and Mimi's seen it a couple of times.
	I said, these people are all, every single, is there a sympathetic person in the show?
	They're all a-holes.
	They're all backstabbers.
	They're all duplicitous.
	They're all creeps.
	And Mimi, yeah, no, that's it.
	They're all a-holes, everyone in Washington.
	And what got me about that, just that thought...
	How is Obama, with all these tech guys sitting around the table in Washington, D.C., referencing the show as if it's some sort of, he'd like to be like that guy?
	What kind of president is this?
	Yeah, no, you're absolutely right.
	I wish I could be like him, because I'd get something done.
	So he'd be a bigger a-hole.
	Yeah.
	Wow, yeah.
	He's sad, man.
	Well, anyway, as we wind down 2013, gee, John, that didn't take long.
	I suppose this is the kind of thing that was expected to happen at some point, but I'm surprised it happened so fast.
	Nobody really thought Duck Dynasty was going away.
	The show is too valuable to A&E, and it's too valuable to the Robertson family.
	But it's interesting that it only took about a week between the time the suspension was announced and now the time that it's lifted.
	Face palm?
	I can't believe it.
	They've lifted the suspension on the Robertson fellow.
	Wow!
	Gee, what a surprise!
	Yeah.
	Yeah, besides you predicting it was walking down Broadway.
	Yeah, but within a week?
	Yeah, it was pretty quick.
	It was a little quicker.
	Apparently, it was like somebody really got the phone call.
	I think it was somebody down from Comcast Central.
	Oh, yeah.
	Well, if you follow...
	Wait a minute, wait a minute.
	We didn't approve this promotional stunt.
	Hey, who signed off on this PR job here?
	Wait a minute.
	What is this check you sent to this company?
	Yeah, exactly.
	Disappear from all known.
	Talking about things disappearing.
	So I'm listening to the rundown.
	I'm going through ABC's news rundown.
	You know, let's do it online or watch them online.
	It's like a one-minute commercial and then a minute of it.
	It's a horrible commercial ratio.
	But I'm going through it.
	And then all of a sudden, they play this clip right now.
	Right in the middle of things is the WTF clip.
	It comes out, and boom, they're playing it.
	Fourteen years after he was convicted for the torture murder of 33 young men and boys, John Wayne Gacy has been executed.
	He died early this morning of a lethal injection in an Illinois prison.
	Here's ABC's Aaron Hayes.
	Wow, hold on a second.
	First of all, magic number...
	In Chicago, Illinois, I love it.
	Hundreds had waited outside to hear that John Gacy had finally died.
	After last words, he called his execution an injustice, Gacy was given a fatal injection of chemicals.
	He was gasping or choking or something, and then after that was pretty much nothing.
	In the execution chamber, an IV was placed in Gacy's arm.
	Three chemicals were to flow through, one to knock him unconscious, another to stop his breathing, and a final one to stop his heart.
	John, we're more humane with dogs.
	Why don't we just chop the guy's head off?
	Did you hear that he was choking and he couldn't breathe and then he died?
	Put this on TV, people!
	But there was a problem.
	The killing chemicals got clogged.
	The second chemical didn't completely go in in the first instance because there was a gelling or clogging in the line.
	It took 18 minutes for Gacy to die, about four times longer than expected.
	And his attorneys insist that may have meant excruciating suffering for Gacy.
	No one deserves to suffer.
	The particular method that they're using here is inhumane.
	Gacy's prosecutor though said he had little sympathy for someone who had killed and tortured 33 young men.
	He got a much easier death than any of his victims.
	In my opinion, he got an easier death than he deserved.
	This is not the first time an execution has gone awry in this country.
	In Texas, injection lines leak spraying chemicals at witnesses.
	Florida, flames shot out of one man's head as he died in the electric chair.
	Alabama, an electric chair malfunctioned, requiring two tries to bring death.
	That's our first season right there!
	Opponents of the death penalty say executions are at times torture, and that, no matter the crimes of the individual, is wrong.
	The state of Illinois plans a review of its lethal injection procedures.
	Thus far, no more executions have been scheduled here.
	Aaron Hayes, ABC News, Chicago.
	Wow.
	Okay, so a number of things I want to get to before.
	Besides the amount of messaging in this old news story, my wife walks in.
	She says, oh, they finally killed Gacy.
	Then she says, I'm sure that all the appeals is what made it go on forever.
	I'm thinking, no, this story is from May 10th, 1994.
	Peter Jennings, the guy at the front of the story, has been dead for a decade.
	Why is this news story sitting in the middle of the rundown?
	It was May 1994.
	There's no anniversary.
	There's no coincidental date.
	There's no explanation for the story being in the rundown.
	They just played it.
	There's got to be a reality show on the way.
	There could be a reality show.
	What channel was this on?
	The 33 thing is in there.
	There could be, and finally, I'm talking to her about this later, and she says, you know, maybe there's like some message in there for some like, you know, robots.
	They had to run this story again because it triggered something.
	Hey, what channel was that?
	This was on the ABC News website, where they have all the news stories, one after the other, with a commercial in between each one, and it would just show it up right in the middle of it all.
	Okay, I'm just Googling ABC reality show execution.
	The name of the reality show would be Death Row.
	Well, of course.
	And it would be about guys on Death Row.
	Let's just see, ABC reality show, Death Row.
	Let's just Google that.
	Hold on.
	You never know.
	I mean, how long have I been predicting this and this is going to happen?
	No, I know.
	You predict this commonly.
	Yeah, so China has the show, but it got...
	Well, they have a death row show.
	I think it's called...
	Isn't there some, but it's about people on death row, but they don't actually go all the way through to the execution?
	I don't know.
	It's probably one of their other...
	Whatever the case is, I found this extremely disturbing.
	I have no idea why it was going on.
	Then I found it even more disturbing that my wife would say that...
	Actually, intellectually, I'm like, John Wayne Gacy, that was a long time ago.
	But when I hear this, I'm like, I don't know.
	I could have easily believed that happened yesterday, too.
	Yeah.
	Why?
	Because the man on the TV said so?
	Exactly.
	It's like we've already lost track of some of the most important or important in some sick way events.
	This happened in 94.
	This was like 20 years ago.
	Wow.
	And it plays like, well, this just happened.
	Oh, they finally killed a guy.
	It's about time the son of a bitch should have been killed years ago.
	Some suggestions from the chatroom.
	Death Dynasty for the reality show.
	Or Ho Ho Ho, You're on Death Row.
	Which I kind of like.
	Ah.
	Yeah, but you know what, John?
	you Even though it's 15 years too late.
	I know, because when I started to hear...
	Actually...
	When I first heard it, I had the same reaction, except when I saw it, I saw Peter Jennings on the screen, and I immediately knew you knew that was wrong.
	You knew that was wrong, of course.
	But I can see where half of our listeners just right now are thinking the same thing.
	That's why I didn't say anything in the meantime.
	Right.
	I find this very, very disturbing.
	Well, there was, of course, some actual news, and it was planned perfectly.
	It was planned right alongside the cover-up of the John Wayne Gacy execution.
	We had to distract from that.
	Also, you probably noticed you didn't hear a lot about the Duck Dynasty guy going back on the Duck Dynasty.
	That one probably was not top of mind.
	But oh, oh no, we got something good.
	We got something.
	Case closed, people!
	Troubling new details about last year's massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School and the man who went on that deadly killing spree.
	Today, police released thousands of documents from their investigation, including revelations the killer's mother had considered moving to our state and enrolling her son in a special school.
	So I have a couple of reports here from different news networks regarding this.
	And I, of course, downloaded all of the documents, gigabytes worth of documents, of video, of photos.
	There is pretty much absolutely nothing new, but they're going to regurgitate again instead of actual discussion about the crime scene, which, oh, I'm sorry, it doesn't exist anymore because it's been leveled.
	These things tend to happen with really horrible, questionable incidents.
	They tend to break stuff down and ship it off to China and turn it into coins, commemorative coins.
	So Sandy Hook, of course, all we're going to talk about is the crazy kid.
	Not about anything else, but we have tons of video inside his house.
	Look at the computer hard drive he smashed, which, by the way, there were multiple computer hard drives, and there was tons of information they got off of hard drives, but they make it sound like impossible.
	He had smashed it, so we'll never know what motivated him.
	ABC's Marcy Gonzalez has more.
	It is now a closed case.
	John, closed case.
	Everything else you're about to hear is irrelevant.
	...into the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School concluding today with Connecticut State Police releasing their full report.
	The thousands of pages...
	Can you stop, stop, stop, stop.
	This woman is not Soledad O'Brien, but sounds exactly like her.
	I've noticed this voice is cropping up with a number of women announcers.
	It is a very specific sounding voice, and Soledad is the first one I've ever heard use it.
	Did you notice this?
	Yes, absolutely.
	And it has a sense of urgency.
	So it's pushing, moving you forward.
	But not really delivering on anything other than the words.
	Right, the voice itself creates the sense of, which is weird because when she started doing that voice, that urgent voice, she was like on the fast track to be a top star at NBC and then she got sidetracked and ended up floating all over the place.
	Now she's doing God knows what.
	But this voice, this woman has, every time I hear it I think of Soledad.
	Yeah, no, I agree.
	It's a little different tomber.
	Tomber.
	Maybe.
	But it is the cadence and the urgency, and the case is now closed.
	Covering witness statements and nearly every other...
	Every other, nearly every...
	How would you like it if I talked to you like this the whole time?
	You would think, my God, this guy really has some kind of issue.
	Detail of the investigation.
	While graphic images and details were redacted, the report does include video showing shell casings on the floor of the school where 20 students and 6 educators were murdered.
	Remember, it's 20 students and what happened to the youngest, most innocent, 20 of the youngest and most innocent, and it's said 6 educators.
	And why do they keep doing that?
	There's some messaging going on with that, and I wish I... I don't know why.
	But again, what we don't have, and it turns out this is Connecticut law, that the victims are not even identified by name.
	The names have been redacted.
	All photographic evidence is blacked out on these PDFs that I downloaded.
	Everything in the video is redacted.
	We know from the previous report that the ballistics...
	100% in every single case of all shell casings, inconclusive that these were fired from the Bushmaster.
	Inconclusive!
	It says it right there, black and white.
	But of course, we couldn't talk about that because that would bring the wrong sense of urgency.
	Inconclusive, there's a picture of the Glock that he apparently used to kill himself with.
	Spotless.
	Spotless this Glock is.
	I really examine this.
	Not a speck of brain matter, or I don't know how he killed himself, because why tell us?
	I thought he shot himself in the head.
	Spotless.
	Not a speck.
	Not a nothing.
	Completely clean.
	Last December.
	As well as images from inside killer Adam Lanza's home.
	A gun on the floor of his mother Nancy's bedroom.
	A gun on the floor!
	Where she was shot to death.
	In Lanza's bedroom, the video...
	And how come we don't see a picture of her shot to death?
	I need to see some of this stuff.
	I'm sorry.
	You can call me a...
	A horrible person, but I need to see it.
	I can't believe our news media.
	I can't believe.
	I just don't believe you.
	Shows garbage bags covering the windows, and there are images of the computer police say Lanza smashed, destroying a potentially key piece of evidence that could have helped investigators learn more about how the 20-year-old planned the massacre and why.
	What's very clear is that he was thinking about committing this crime.
	Though the motive was not determined, there are details giving insight into the killer's emotional issues and his obsession with mass murders.
	I haven't even heard someone talk about someone like this since Adolf Hitler, when he was in the eagle's nest.
	That's right.
	That's right.
	We were inside with guns on the floor.
	Do you remember when we first attacked this story and we had those clips that have all seemed to have disappeared where the next door neighbor says, yeah, he seemed like a normal kid?
	Oh yeah, oh yeah.
	He's just a kid, you know, he's pretty, I don't see anything weird at all about him.
	Or hadn't seen him for 20 years, we had one of those neighbors.
	Oh, yeah.
	Well, let's listen to Al Jazeera's way.
	This is a news model, actually.
	And Al Jazeera, I have to say, is getting pretty good.
	They've got news models.
	Have you seen them on AJA? No, no, I have not.
	Okay, I have AJA now.
	I think they took Al Jazeera off my, or they moved it.
	Well, they added it here.
	They moved it on my Dish Network.
	I don't know where it is.
	Oh, well, they've added it.
	I have AJA, baby.
	I got AJA now.
	And we have news, but we got pretty girls.
	Pretty girls.
	What is her name?
	AJA? That's Al Jazeera America.
	Oh, no, okay, what about the girl's name?
	I think it's at the beginning.
	I don't know.
	Okay, never mind.
	It doesn't matter.
	Stephanie, the report is roughly 7,000 pages long, and it gives the most detailed picture yet of Adam Lanza's fascination with guns and violence.
	Again, it doesn't tell us anything about the murder, anything that really happened, if there was a murder.
	It gives us no evidence whatsoever.
	It has exactly the same active custodian guy 911 tapes.
	But, hey, you know what?
	Most importantly, we've got 7,000 pages of incredible detailed look at Adam Lanza.
	Still, his motive remains a mystery.
	The report includes videos, photos, and recordings of 911 calls.
	This footage of Lanza's home shows that in almost every room there were guns or materials related to guns.
	Oh, yes.
	I'm sorry.
	She says guns are materials related to guns, and then they zoom in to a closet, and way back in the closet, there's a target with some bullet holes in it.
	Which, by the way, I have a couple of those laying around myself, too.
	I always keep them laying around.
	Of course you do.
	They're cool.
	Yeah.
	By the way, a new range opened here in Austin, just south of Austin.
	And you know what's great about a new gun range?
	No bull crap.
	No one has complained yet, so there's no crazy rule.
	We were blowing up cars.
	This range has just some cars, and they put Tannerite on top of it, and you blow up the Tannerite.
	And on the 26th of December, we missed it.
	They had machine guns.
	You could just rent a machine gun and blast for a while.
	Fantastic.
	But of course, you know.
	That means you're probably prone to killing somebody.
	Like ammunition and receipts for gun purchases.
	Lanza shot his mom in their home before heading to Sandy Hook School, where he killed 26 people.
	The report includes images like this, but photos and videos of the young victims at the scene are withheld or blacked out.
	In one 911 call, a wounded kindergarten...
	Now listen to this.
	You'll recall this 911 call.
	This is where the woman said, and there's another state trooper on the line.
	It's like, I'm shot in the foot.
	She's really calm.
	You remember that, John?
	Of course.
	We're the only ones who ever played that clip.
	She's really calm, and she says, no, look, I'm here.
	There's six other adults in the room.
	The door's closed, but it's not locked.
	And it was a very calm and collected call.
	Now, here is the news model, and she's going to...
	Maybe we should get that call and just play it next to it.
	She's going to tell you how the call went and see if you feel any more agony over it.
	A wounded kindergarten teacher says she's with her class in their room and she thinks the gunman is in the hallway.
	The dispatcher says, can you stay on the ground there?
	The teacher responds, we can, but my door is not locked.
	He asks, is there any way you can lock it?
	She answers, no, he's out in the hallway.
	And Stephanie, the state police commissioner, wrote a letter accompanying the report and he says he hopes its release, though difficult for families, will help them heal.
	Now, I'm not quite sure why it would help the families of the victims heal, other than, I don't know, the cover story is complete.
	But, you know, we heard the 911 tape, and it didn't sound anything the way she said it.
	She was shot in the foot.
	There was no mention of that.
	She was wounded.
	Yeah, wounded, but, you know, shot in the foot.
	And she sounded way different.
	But you know what?
	I'll tell you.
	Why don't we just bring it all around with this report, back to the original narrative, the day this happened, on the day itself, what was the reason, John?
	What was the reason that this happened?
	Do you recall?
	No, as a matter of fact, it's been lost in translation.
	Ah, they'll bring it around, and they somehow have facts and proof that this is why this happened.
	Just over an hour ago, authorities in Connecticut released the...
	This is MSNBC, by the way.
	Full state police report on the Sandy Hook shooting.
	Now, the report includes thousands of pages with some information redacted, as well as images, some of them graphic, related to the...
	How do you know they're graphic if they're redacted, lady?
	...elementary school rampage by Adam Lanza.
	We're coming through the details now, and while there's still no clear motive, one early finding, based on an interview with a relative, shows Adam Lanza may have been angry with his mother, who was his first victim, for volunteer work that she did at Sandy Hook.
	Volunteer work that was confirmed in a thank you note to Nancy Lanza dating back to 1999.
	There you go.
	Perfect.
	An interview with a distant relative, which is a part of this 7,000 pages, really proves that he was mad.
	Mad because his mom volunteered.
	The letter gated back to 1999.
	A thank you letter.
	Thank you for your service.
	In 1999.
	Yes.
	And that's why.
	That's clearly why.
	He was mad because he's crazy.
	And his mother, she worked at the school.
	You know what?
	So all of this stuff, they'll slip up somewhere.
	Something will happen and the web will find it.
	The internet will find it if it's there.
	I mean, I feel horrible.
	You've already found tons of stuff.
	I know, but I feel horrible about this because it feels so wrong that I have to question what happened.
	But every picture, John, not anywhere.
	And according to the stories, they had one child was taken to the hospital, died in the hospital.
	That never happened.
	We have the coroner saying all bodies are still in there.
	We left everything in there.
	We didn't take anybody out.
	There was nothing.
	There was none of that happened.
	I'm not crazy.
	Ah, it's...
	Oy, oy, oy.
	I just get super...
	Oy, oy, oy.
	Thank you for your courage and everything else.
	I found it.
	Yeah, you did.
	You found it.
	Thank you.
	Well, actually, a lot of people sent it to me.
	That's right, John C. Dvorak.
	Thank you for your courage.
	And in the morning to you.
	In the morning to you, Mr.
	Adam in the courage curry or something.
	Yeah.
	And in the morning to all the ships of the sea, boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, and all the dames and all the knights, both of them are out there.
	Yes.
	And thank you, human resources in the chat room.
	Noagentistream.com.
	Good to see you all lined up, ready to go.
	Looking all purdy.
	Thank you to our artist, Dictator.
	It provided us with the album art for episode 577, and I will say again, I'm very happy that apparently, if you wait a while, it also works on the new podcast app.
	But it's not immediate.
	A couple episodes have to come through, and then you get the album art.
	But it's working on a whole bunch of other things, so this is good.
	This is very, very good.
	I'm very happy about this.
	It's always like a work in progress to get these systems to even do what they're supposed to do.
	I blame you.
	You invented it.
	Well, no, what happened is Apple improved it.
	And they improved it with all this proprietary stuff.
	So it says iTunes.
	Do you actually hand code this stuff?
	Yes, I do.
	How long does that take?
	Well, okay, so here's the post-production process.
	Besides the show notes, it's pretty automated, but I do have to go through it to make sure all the credits are right and make sure I don't leave emails in with people's email addresses or other things they don't want disclosed.
	I have to be very careful about that.
	That part goes pretty quick, but I have to edit the file, take off the beginning, the ending, add a fun little opening to it as well, which means I have to post-process.
	The whole thing has to render out.
	And then once I've done a blog post with the show notes, I copy that.
	I have a little thing called Feed Creator or something.
	And it does some of the iTunes tags, but not all of them.
	Nothing really does it all.
	I think we've heard about it.
	Are you sad you asked?
	Yeah, very.
	But I actually have to hand code this line in every single time for the album art.
	Because there's no program I have that does...
	And please, don't email me with all your great ideas.
	Yeah, this app does it all!
	Runs on Windows NT. Yeah.
	Oh, I got a lot of that too.
	A lot of...
	John doesn't know shit about Windows 8.
	It makes me cry, people!
	I don't care if there's a small Skype app.
	I don't care!
	Send it to him!
	I'm glad you think it's funny.
	It's hilarious.
	It's not.
	People always...
	John doesn't know crap.
	My favorite one.
	My favorite one.
	I'm so disappointed in John for not knowing.
	Did I forward that one to you?
	That you could download a regular version of the Skype and put it in the regular...
	Yeah, well, that's not what I'm doing, okay?
	Go and get it.
	I got it from the Skype site, and the Skype site nowadays doesn't really have an alternative to the...
	Hey, forget about that, man.
	This is our last show for this year.
	Our last show.
	The next show will be in January.
	Someone sent me an interesting note about that.
	He has a great donation.
	I love this.
	People are really trying to help us out.
	I've got a great donation amount for the first show of the new year, which will be 579.
	The amount should be 579.11.
	Four in a row.
	Perfect fit.
	Like, yeah, we'll see how many people give us that.
	Why is 579 such a good number, 578 or 560?
	Well, it's sequential.
	579.11.
	Sequential odd numbers.
	579.11.
	That's interesting.
	It's different.
	Anyway.
	It's not like the killer, like the ones we missed.
	Right.
	12, 13, 14.
	Which is coming up this year, by the way.
	We missed quite a lot.
	12, 13, 14.
	Get ready for it.
	We missed a lot of good ones.
	All right, let's thank a few people who helped us out on Show 578, including the know people that belong to the 578 Club.
	Sir Richard Bagwell, 123456 in Jupiter, Florida.
	This is my third annual contribution.
	He does this every year.
	123456.
	I had to get it in before the year's end to keep the streak alive.
	He's going to ask for some job karma because in the past, the past job karma I've received, I can continue donating like this because of it.
	Okay.
	Sorry, I can't get that sentence out, but apparently the job conference kicked butt with him.
	Thank you for your courage and giving me the hope to continue living the American dream of just getting by cordially, Sir R.S. Bagwell.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	You've got to come up.
	Thank you very much, Sir Richard Bagwell, for your annual contribution and huge support of the best podcast in the universe.
	And this surely brings him up to...
	Is Three a Baron?
	I think so, yeah.
	If Three's a Baron, he should look and see if...
	I don't think that's on the list, is it?
	Do we have him listed as a change?
	I don't think.
	Let him tell us what he wants for his barony.
	Yes.
	What protectorate?
	Meanwhile, the Duke of Silicon Valley, Sir David Foley, came in with a sack of nine.
	Nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine.
	He says, enjoy this bucket of nines.
	Hopefully it will help with Christmas donation or vacation donations.
	Vacation?
	It did, as a matter of fact.
	Vacation?
	Are we going to take vacation in 2014?
	I don't know.
	All right.
	I think we can do working vacations.
	I don't think it's that hard.
	I know this year you had to get away from it all.
	Well, the way things are going, you know how hard it can be.
	Name the song.
	They're gonna crucify me.
	Yeah.
	All right.
	Sir Brian Ferguson in Foothill Ranch, California, 33333.
	As for JCD, I can do songs from the song, not the lyrics.
	As for JCD's newsletter, Sorry 2013 Was So Miserable, Hopefully This Makes It Better.
	The karma from my previous contributions has paid off this year.
	Another guy!
	I love that.
	So he's paying it forward.
	Please give me a little girl yay, no conflict, karma, uh, Baronette Brerford.
	Brerford?
	That's what he calls himself.
	Okay.
	Yay!
	There's no real conflict!
	You've got Carmen.
	Nice.
	Nice, nice, nice.
	And James Wells from Flagstaff, Arizona, whose note is unfindable.
	If he has one, he just sent us a donation of 300 bucks, and we'll push him up to executive producer.
	So we have four.
	It makes it nice and balanced.
	Jean from The Hague.
	227.50.
	Hey, Adam and John, the donation should land my knighthood accounting included with the email.
	I kindly request to be knighted as Chevalier Jean.
	Chevalier Jean.
	Nice.
	Additionally, I'd like another round of real estate karma from my smoking hot girlfriend, Nancy, since it worked great last time.
	Ha ha ha.
	And he needs the little information from you.
	Oh, well, Jean, email me directly so I can give you the Wi-Fi info.
	And here you go.
	Thank you very much, Jean.
	You've got Carmen.
	And we shall be knighting you later on in the program.
	Nick Izemendi, 22222 in Waterford, Michigan.
	Hey, you and that other guy just giving my value for value.
	Hopefully my donation counts as to make it rain.
	Please call up Diane and Vera, my dad's obot friends.
	I hit people in the mouth.
	We'll do another segment at the club probably next Thursday.
	Yes.
	Or next Sunday, one of the two.
	I hit people in the mouth constantly.
	I'm writing these down.
	I have my laptop outfitted with an in-the-morning bumper sticker.
	And, you know, my daughter has, I don't know where these stickers came from, but she has a clear in-the-morning bumper sticker that she puts on her suitcase.
	Really?
	And she walks around with it, and it just looks like the suitcase was made for this bumper sticker.
	I've never seen these.
	I don't know where they came from.
	They're clear.
	I do have a painting of you wearing a uniform.
	I have my laptop outfit with an in the morning bumper sticker and I wear my slave t-shirt everywhere.
	Many ask if the barcode is real.
	When I'm at home I listen to the show where I play computer games.
	I turn the music off and just listen to you two.
	This works too well as I have run out of current shows to listen to.
	Hopefully that will help inspire those who have fallen behind.
	Please add my birthday to the list that's on there.
	I'd like some George Clooney spy karma.
	It's my younger brother's favorite jingle.
	Thanks and I love the show from Nick Esmendi.
	George Clooney.
	It's a spy.
	You've got karma.
	And that's a nice combo actually.
	That's a nice musical combo.
	Works well together.
	I like it.
	It does work nice.
	And thank you, Niazmendi.
	Daniel Rudin in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, $211.11.
	He says, 33 is the magic number karma.
	And he says, thanks, no agenda is one of a kind.
	Keep up the good work.
	Okay, no problem.
	33, that's the magic number.
	You've got karma.
	It is indeed the magic number.
	We still don't know what the magic's about, but it's one of these dates.
	Then we can close down the show.
	Blake Israel, $200.02.
	It's a palindrome.
	Sending this donation from a rest stop somewhere in Virginia nuts.
	Actually, it would be Virginia peanuts if you think about it.
	This should complete my knighthood.
	If possible, I'd like to be known as the knight of procrastination since I told myself I would complete my knighthood in 2013 and I slacked off like normal until the last possible opportunity.
	Can I get some moving karma with the kicker of Adam's choice from my upcoming move from Connecticut to California?
	Thanks, and keep it up in 2014.
	Yes, indeed, and we will be knighting you the knight of procrastination.
	And so it's a karma with something of my choice, huh?
	Okay.
	You've got karma.
	Blocking cords and scanning files.
	He's your best friend.
	Chinese attacks are just no match for Freddy.
	No agenda.
	Just when we kill off the character, we get a jingle for him.
	Yeah.
	Don Rosakis.
	D-A-W-N, Montclair, New Jersey.
	This season says, the future-in-laws ruined Christmas for me this year and it's abundantly clear that I will never be accepted into their shitty family.
	I have decided to donate to no-agenda family.
	Instead, Adam, you're a delightfully eccentric and empathetic older brother I never had.
	John, you're the quasi-genius cranky hoarder uncle I never had.
	I adore you both and the show more than words can express.
	Can I please get a douchebag call out for my in-laws?
	Douchebag!
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	Give him that.
	Try it again.
	Douchebag!
	As well as a two to the head for a friend of the douchebag family who shall remain nameless.
	Parfois, vous nevez plus qu'il a filmé les inculeurs dans la tête.
	Yep.
	Dans la tête.
	There you go.
	Love and redacted comments, which apparently is a...
	I've seen this everywhere now.
	Redacted...
	Slave D. Yeah.
	Love and redacted documents, actually.
	Yeah.
	Redacted.
	I think we want to thank Don and the rest of the producers for No Agenda 578.
	And good luck with your karma.
	And remind people to go to Dvorak.org slash NA for the next show, the first of 2014.
	Let's start off with a bang.
	Dvorak.org slash NA. Wait a minute.
	You said that like your stripper guy.
	Let's start it off 2014 with a bang!
	Yeah, you did.
	No, this Trevor guy's different.
	I heard it.
	And we'll be knighting you later on, people, so stay tuned for that and continue to propagate the formula.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	That's right, slaves.
	I saw that movie, speaking of slaves, The Butler?
	Oh yeah, The Butler.
	Have you seen it?
	No.
	It was pretty good.
	I don't see things until they show up on HBO. Well, this is Mickey's, you know, the SAG Awards thing.
	She gets all the movies now.
	All right, you get all the movies for free.
	We're on the Bender.
	Yeah, and, you know, these are all the Weinsteins.
	These Weinstein guys, they know how to do it, man.
	No wonder they win so much.
	They almost hand-deliver these DVDs.
	It's every day.
	Bing, bing, bing.
	Here's another one.
	Oh, another Weinstein production.
	That's not a bad movie.
	Weinstein or Weintraub?
	No, Weinstein.
	It's Harvey...
	Oh, Harvey Weinstein.
	Harvey and his brother.
	A pretty good movie, I would say.
	And it certainly gave me an alternative view...
	Of course I intellectually knew, but had not been portrayed or depicted before my eyes until this movie about the path from the civil rights movement when I was born, literally in 63, 64, all the way through to the election and inauguration of President Barack Obama from an African American, i.e.
	black standpoint.
	With some historical context, which was pretty well done.
	There were some things that went, ugh, really?
	Such as, the movie really made it look like John F. Kennedy was killed because he said something about segregation in the South.
	I'm not kidding.
	It was very, very closely connected.
	I thought that was an unfair...
	I thought that was revisionist.
	Totally.
	And there was something else.
	Oh yes, when Martin Luther King Jr.
	was killed, in the movie there's rioting, and it's completely obvious that the black rioters are breaking Jewish shops with like, you know, literally almost like Weinstein's Jewelry store.
	And I thought that was...
	Maybe I missed something.
	I'd never heard about that.
	But it really made it look like we had black on Jew violence.
	Yeah, that sounds dubious.
	That's not a propaganda film.
	Oh, wait.
	It was a Hollywood movie.
	Never mind.
	Oh, but Mariah Carey, she doesn't have a single line in the movie, which is very, very well done in the beginning.
	Lenny Kravitz is in this thing.
	And you have no idea it's Lenny Kravitz.
	You're like, hey, shit, that's Lenny Kravitz.
	He's good.
	He's a good actor.
	Anyway, it was really nice.
	I would recommend everyone have a look at it.
	Yeah.
	Well, if I had a bunch of screeners in the house, I probably would have a look at it.
	Yeah.
	I know you would.
	So I have a few interesting clips.
	First of all, since we were slamming the media at the beginning, I might as well put this in here.
	This is a...
	I just got the biggest kick out of this story.
	There's some guy shot up.
	First he shoots his wife, and then he goes and shoots his old boss.
	He just takes care of a lot of grudges and then shoots himself.
	Of course.
	And that's one of the...
	That seems to be the way you do it these days.
	We used to just go and shoot people, and then we'd go, okay, arrest me, I didn't mean it, but now you've got to shoot and then kill yourself.
	Yeah.
	So I have this shooting spree clip we can play.
	But the better one is, there's this black woman, I guess she was in Texas and she shot her husband.
	And then she moved to Seattle and then she moved to...
	Michigan or someplace.
	And they finally tracked her down in a dead cold case.
	They found her.
	It was a big deal.
	Big story all over the place.
	But it wasn't the story that was even remotely interesting.
	This is the murderer caught clip.
	It wasn't the story that was interesting.
	It was the way they...
	They handle the man on the street.
	Oh yeah, of course.
	And I just thought this really set it off for 2013 and the media and just making the public what it is.
	Gina Huff was indicted in Texas back in 1977 for trying to kill her common-law husband.
	Investigators from a cold case unit tracked her to a suburban neighborhood outside Detroit.
	She apparently avoided being caught by moving to Seattle, then to Michigan.
	She married and even changed her last name.
	I'm thinking, like, now I need to be careful, you know?
	Like, you never know who is your neighbor.
	Like, you live in a quiet neighborhood, but you never know who's living behind this door, you know?
	Stay home, people!
	Be fearful!
	Do not leave your house!
	You never know who's living there.
	It could be a killer!
	You know, this brings me to an email we received from producer Brad.
	And for those of you new to the show, our listeners are producers, and boy, is Brad a producer.
	Adam, listener producer, recently got an email at work, which is a for-profit education institute, probably a charter school, that included the following, which appeared to be from a form, not sure if it is or not, There have been several incidents involving armed individuals who enter occupied buildings with the intent to physically harm the occupants, men, women, and children.
	The Federal Emergency Management Administration has developed an online instructional course to address this type of situation.
	Yes, John, this is the active shooter course from FEMA. 9-1-1, what is the nature of your emergency?
	There's somebody with a gun in the main entrance to the mall, and I don't...
	Active shooter situations are unpredictable and evolve quickly.
	Are you prepared?
	No!
	That's how the course starts off.
	Would you like to...
	I don't have clips, but I have a few choice little bits from this course.
	Oh, I'm all ears.
	Go.
	Okay, and again, this is Brad, who did a great job of copy-pasting and giving us all kinds of nice little excerpts.
	Understanding active shooter incidents.
	One of the slides here.
	Active shooter incidents are becoming more frequent, according to FEMA. Well, I think that's probably a lie.
	We have the data to show it's not more frequent.
	All employees can help prevent and prepare for potential active shooter situations.
	An active shooter is an individual killing or attempting to kill people in a confined and populated area.
	Want to write that down just so we know for sure that's what an active shooter is?
	Typically, there is no pattern in the selection of victims in an active shooter incident.
	Common motives include anger, revenge, ideology, and untreated mental illness.
	Are you catching a pattern here?
	Good practices for response include being aware of your environment and any possible dangers, like the guy with the gun.
	Taking note of the nearest exits in any facility you visit.
	So wherever you are, just like an airplane, always be looking for the exits.
	You never know.
	If you're in an office, stay there and secure the door.
	If you're in a hallway, getting into a room and securing the door, and as an absolute last resort, attempting to take the active shooter down.
	Here's the primary goal of law enforcement in an active shooter attack is to eliminate the threat.
	That's the exact wording of the douchebag cop.
	Since he was reading from this memo...
	Which douchebag cop is this?
	The douchebag cop...
	Oh, yeah, of course, yes.
	As the first responder's primary responsibility is to eliminate the threat, they will not be able to stop and help injured persons until the environment is safe.
	Officers may arrive in teams with tactical equipment such as vests, helmets, rifles, tanks...
	Officers will need to take command of the situation.
	Expect to experience officers shouting orders and even pushing individuals to the ground for their safety.
	Saving the crap out of you.
	Wear regular patrol uniforms or external bulletproof vests, Kevlar, helmets, and other tactical equipment.
	They may be armed with rifles, shotguns, and or handguns.
	They may use pepper spray or tear gas to control the situation.
	They may shout commands and may push individuals to the ground for their safety.
	And finally, you really need to be vigilant.
	Current or former employees typically do not become violently and unexpectedly.
	Instead, they display indicators of potentially violent behavior over time.
	Now remember, John, this is part of the training.
	So you need to be on the lookout for current or former employees who may be displaying indicators.
	That's right.
	For example, days before the office shooting at a software company, the shooter angrily confronted management over personal financial issues.
	One member of payroll told her family that his behavior frightened her.
	A few days later, the shooter then asked two of his co-workers to sign his will.
	The shooter at the warehouse incident was fired six months earlier for poor performance.
	It was reported he showed up late or missed entire days and was argumentative!
	Explosive outbursts of anger, talk of financial problems, and repeated violations of company policies are just some indicators of potentially violent behavior.
	In order to help prevent potential active shooter incidents, we must alert a supervisor or other official if we believe an employee or co-worker exhibits potentially violent behavior.
	So here it is.
	Indicators of potentially violent behavior by an employee may include increased use of alcohol and or illegal drugs, Unexplained increase in absenteeism, vague physical complaints, noticeable decrease in attention to appearance and hygiene,
	depression or withdrawal, resistance and overreaction to changes in policy and procedures, Repeated violation of company policies.
	Increased severe mood swings.
	Noticeably unstable emotional responses.
	Explosive outbursts of anger or rage without provocation.
	Suicidal comments about putting things in order.
	Behavior that may suggest paranoia, i.e., everybody's against me.
	Increasingly frequent mentions of problems at home, escalation of domestic problems in the workplace, talk of severe financial problems, talk of previous incidents of violence, empathy with individuals committing violence, increase in unsolicited comments about firearms or other dangerous weapons, and violent crimes.
	Maintain your strength, citizen.
	How is this not everyone?
	Your jurisdiction is in peril.
	Yeah, of course that's everybody.
	People bitch and moan.
	That's what they do.
	In fact, I'm reporting you.
	Why?
	What did I say?
	Well, there's all kinds of increases in your issues.
	Like what?
	Well, you've had explosive outbursts of anger or rage without provocation.
	Never.
	There's definitely increased use of alcohol.
	No, I'm actually cutting back.
	Noticeable decrease in attention to appearance and hygiene.
	I haven't heard you clipping your nails recently.
	That's only when I'm doing the show.
	And you've repeatedly violated company policies.
	Well, they're bad policies.
	We're talking about that.
	There's one thing I thought of when they mentioned the kind of bogus excuses for not coming into work.
	Yeah.
	I had a supervisor when I was with the air pollution district who always advised everyone.
	when he said you have to make sure you use all your sick leave and time off.
	Just don't let it build up.
	Right.
	So the way to go, and it happened, I actually managed to do this.
	When you quit, you have no sick leave because they don't pay for sick leave.
	When you quit, they do pay for time off.
	Maybe they do.
	It depends on the company.
	But essentially, you want to leave with zero, which means you took all your sick leave and all your time off when you quit.
	And his main thing is if you're starting to accumulate too much sick leave, take off Fridays or Mondays and call in with General Malaise.
	And that's on the list!
	It's on the list!
	Mr.
	D.C. Vorak!
	Open up the door and jump dial!
	Now!
	He's hoarding in there.
	He's collecting, he's archiving all kind.
	What is he building in there?
	N-1-1, what is the nature of your emergency?
	There's somebody with a gun in the main entrance to the mall, and I don't...
	Active shooter situations are unpredictable and evolve quickly.
	Are you prepared?
	I am now.
	Thank you, Federal Emergency Management Agency.
	So I... So...
	Anyway, I ran into that fat thing that came and went.
	Oh, the fat talk?
	Tyra Banks apparently had to get in on this.
	Oh, yeah, of course.
	So she was on her show, or she had a website or some YouTube video or something, and I just said, you know, I mean, this woman, I find her to be one of the more annoying personalities on television.
	Hey, what's up?
	I'm Tyra Banks, and this is Parade Rewind.
	When I was a little girl in elementary school, I was very outspoken, but not necessarily in the right way.
	So, like, I would talk a lot in class and get sent to the principal's office, and so I like that now I can shift my vocal-ness for a positive.
	So I just found out I'm number 57 on Twitter, and that's so amazing, number 57 in the entire world.
	It's like, wow, where does that come from?
	Because there are people that are way more known than I am.
	There are a group of people that I like to follow, and they might be like sarcastic tweets, and a lot of them are teenagers.
	Like, I'll follow them, and they're like, oh my god, Tara, thanks for following me on the ninth grade.
	I'm like, oh my gosh.
	I'm working with Special K to fight fat talk.
	There are so many women.
	Wait a minute, she's in on the Special K promotion?
	Yeah!
	God!
	...that do fat talk, that look in the mirror and say that they're not good enough.
	So I want to put a stop to that.
	You know, and there's so many different ways that we can be better.
	Like a mom can say, you know what?
	I'm not going to do fat talk in front of my daughter.
	I'll try to improve my body.
	I'll try to eat healthy.
	I'll try to work out, but I'm not going to say that I'm disgusting in front of her.
	So people can get involved by sharing their shush.
	So what I did is I did a selfie of myself and I did a picture of me going shh and I did a selfie click and I hashtagged it fight that talk.
	I say to start with one thing at a time first of all.
	Look in the mirror and find one thing that you think is beautiful.
	I have one friend that's like I got the cutest knees.
	Celebrate those knees.
	That's the first thing.
	And then the second thing is if there are things that you don't like, you know, that's human.
	That's okay.
	I don't miss modeling very much because I have America's Next Top Model.
	So for the past 10 years, I'm creating photo shoots, executive producing the television show.
	And I do look back to those modeling days when it was just some people on your nails, somebody on your hair, somebody on your makeup, and you're just like...
	It was a pretty non-challenging life, but it wasn't easy.
	You know, there's a lot of isolation with modeling.
	You're by yourself constantly.
	Stop the clip!
	Thank you.
	Feel courage and everything else.
	Wow.
	That was pretty bad.
	This woman is the worst.
	She's so full of herself.
	You wrote a column, I think, that I saw the other day.
	What was that?
	Somehow I was thinking about it, how it related to this.
	Maybe it was about the code.org.
	Maybe that's what it was.
	Somehow it related to...
	Oh, okay.
	I see what it was.
	PC Magazine was a good column, by the way.
	Did you write this before Christmas?
	Must have.
	Probably.
	I don't know.
	Maybe.
	What was it?
	Well, it was kind of...
	Well, of course, you see Code.org as a ploy to sell more computers.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	I have to skip this ad.
	One second.
	That was really handy, PC Magazine.
	Code.org is dumb.
	Did I say that?
	Yeah.
	And if you want to see how dumb it is, watch some videos on its Tumblr.
	Oh, yeah.
	But then, so what's the point of all this?
	This is actually, this is very good, John.
	America wants more students to gravitate towards STEM, science, technology, engineering, and math.
	This is turning out to be harder than anyone in power expected.
	And here comes the genius of your article.
	For one thing, boys and girls are dissuaded by the social norms to care about STEM. They look around, see that too many people in these fields are unemployed, and they bail, which is hipster talk.
	And the American curriculum is being dumbed down, proven by declining test scores despite teaching for these tests.
	Kids can't find Missouri on a map, but these code folks are pushing for the schools to buy computers and tablets.
	Maybe that will help.
	Help the computer companies.
	Bottom line, that is.
	Based on what's popular on TV, the media only extols the virtues of singing, not the virtues of a STEM education.
	Teens are more likely to be watching and admiring some idiot driving his bike off of a roof on YouTube than anything else.
	That, my friends, is writing.
	That's poetry.
	Yeah, borderline poetry.
	Yeah, singing.
	I was watching.
	You're right.
	Should I watch The Voice or America's Next Singer or America's Got Talent?
	You're so right.
	You dance and sing.
	Yeah.
	You nailed it.
	That's why I like the article so much.
	You totally nailed it.
	Totally nailed it.
	A couple things that are bubbling out, bubbling under, bubbling around.
	Interesting court case.
	You will recall in 2010, we changed the rules of...
	Engagement, but also the rules surrounding incarceration time for people who are dealing crack cocaine versus people who are dealing powder cocaine.
	And if you're dealing crack cocaine, you can pretty much get sent away to prison for life.
	And without a doubt...
	Are you going to hang in there?
	What's that?
	You need some water?
	No, it's okay.
	I'll be okay.
	And, of course, this was seen as inherently racist because crack cocaine is used in poor and, according to the debate at the time, predominantly black people.
	And Hispanic neighborhoods, but I would say black most especially, that's where the crack cocaine is being used.
	So people who are poor and are dealing drugs, the poor people's drug, get thrown into jail possibly for life, while people who are dealing the rich folks drug, which of course would be white, it's much easier on them.
	In fact, just look at that guy from Florida.
	Even he was using, he didn't even have to go sit one day in jail.
	The senator, I think it was senator.
	Yeah.
	So there was a court case, and very interesting that the NAACP was not honest about this.
	The court case results around the reform, the ratio from 100 to 1, so 100 times the punishment for crack cocaine to 1x for powder cocaine to 18 to 1.
	So for some reason, still we have to have crack, and really, is there a difference between Not that I've ever smoked crack, but...
	Okay, so somehow that changed in 2010.
	And the idea was that it would be applied retroactively.
	So that everyone who's been in jail, instead of your 100-to-1 sentence for dealing crack, you get reduced to 18-to-1.
	And the Obama administration, specifically the Justice Department and Holder in particular, sued to have that overturned.
	I got this from the Black Agenda report, by the way, which is kind of cool.
	We've got No Agenda, we've got the Black Agenda.
	It's like the Black Panther faction of the No Agenda show.
	And so the NAAC reports on this, neglects to mention that it was the White House, and in particular the Department of Justice, who wanted this overturned to keep people in prison.
	So, not retroactive.
	Do not apply this retroactively.
	And of course we know why.
	Because politically, that would be too hot of an item for the prison industrial complex, i.e.
	the prison state that we live in.
	And there it is.
	There are the two foremost black men in the country.
	You can't get much higher than that.
	Who do not want this to be applied retroactively.
	This incredibly racist issue that was not even overturned, but adjusted in 2010.
	I was blown away by that, and the fact that no one reports on it, except the Black Agenda report.
	Well, I think we're really, to be honest about it, we've stopped being blown away by people not reporting on good topics.
	Okay, I should use a different language then.
	I'm not surprised.
	I don't know what to say either.
	I mean, I've been trying to say, oh, there he goes again.
	I mean, there's a million things you can say, but if you're going to be honest with yourself, you really have never been.
	Yeah, it's true.
	It's true.
	I'm not really blown away.
	It's true.
	I'm disappointed.
	To say the least.
	Disappointed.
	Disappointed but not completely stunned by the simple fact that they don't care.
	They're told not to report on it.
	I mean, they're all in bed with the White House, let's face it.
	Yeah, it was kind of funny.
	There was a lot of stuff going around.
	He did his hour-long keynote.
	For the Computer Chaos Club in Germany.
	And he did it via video conference.
	You know, he's not going to leave Brazil ever.
	All these things, he's supposed to be at South by Southwest, right?
	I bet she's not coming to South by.
	I bet she's going to be on video conference.
	Yeah, that's all he does now.
	Skype?
	Yeah.
	It was pretty funny.
	And by the way, can somebody go visit him and show him how to mic himself?
	It's on Skype with one of those shotgun mics off of a cheap camera.
	He should be miked.
	He always sounds like he's in a bucket.
	Yeah, that's definitely not great.
	It's extremely annoying.
	So I only really started watching the video this morning around 7.30, and it's an hour, and I was doing a lot of other stuff, and I was like, okay, I'm not going to...
	Which video was...
	I'm sorry, was this the testimony video?
	No, this is the keynote that he did for the...
	Oh, yeah, he did a testimony in front of one of the European...
	Oh, no, no, I saw that.
	I saw that.
	That was...
	Yeah, and it was the same thing.
	It was unwatchable.
	Yeah, unwatchable.
	But he tried to do schtick.
	And let me tell you, doing shtick on a video conference is not a good idea.
	Because you can't really get the timing of the audience, of them laughing.
	You can't really feel what's going on.
	And then you're making all these pregnant pauses to let the audience fill in with the laughter and it falls flat and it's very uncomfortable to watch.
	And he starts off by saying, I almost lost the most important story of news in the history of all mankind because I couldn't figure out PGP. And just the way he said that, you know, it's like, not like I almost lost the opportunity to change the perception of the American public and the world.
	No, no, I almost lost the most important news story.
	He was an egomaniac.
	But he did do some funny stuff on MSNBC, which I want to play, because I'm an equal opportunity offender.
	And this did make me laugh.
	I'm like, yeah, you go.
	Well, Glenn, some people have looked at the journalists whom Snowden has chosen to give information to speak with.
	It's a select group of journalists.
	What do you say to your critics who say that you've become more of a spokesman for Edward Snowden?
	I think that's ludicrous is what I say to that.
	Every journalist has an agenda.
	We're on MSNBC now where close to 24 hours a day the agenda of President Obama and the Democratic Party are promoted, defended, glorified.
	The agenda of the Republican Party is undermined.
	That doesn't mean that the people who appear on MSNBC aren't journalists.
	They are.
	I think every journalist has a viewpoint.
	My viewpoint is very clear.
	I don't hide it.
	It's that I think what Edward Snowden did is very admirable and heroic.
	But at the same time, the ultimate test of a journalist is, is what you publish accurate and reliable?
	And I think with regard to every story that we publish over the last six months, there hasn't been a single correction made to any of them.
	Very few have been called into question.
	And I think that's the ultimate question when it comes to is this journalism.
	Well, of course, when you're showing it to the White House and the NSA and the CIA all up front, no, there's not going to be a lot of questioning, because they're fine with you publishing two or three pages from a full PowerPoint deck that suggests something.
	Sure, that's, yeah, of course they're not going to question that.
	Well, how come the person on MSNBC didn't ask that simple question?
	Because she was too busy defending MSNBC. Well, I think the point is not so much about MSNBC and what happens here, but more that sometimes when you talk about Edward Snowden, you do defend him, and some people wonder if that crosses the line.
	Sure, I do defend him, just like people on MSNBC defend President Obama and his officials and Democratic Party leaders 24 hours a day.
	Well, not everyone on MSNBC does that 24 hours a day.
	No, not everybody, but a lot of people on MSNBC do.
	That's where he screwed it up at the end.
	He shouldn't have just said that.
	That was unnecessary.
	He was way ahead, and then he went, a lot of them do!
	No, no, no, no, no.
	Anyway, I thought that was kind of funny.
	Yeah, no, he blew that.
	He got defensive when he should have said...
	But it was funny.
	I thought it was funny.
	The line would have been, well, that's interesting.
	It's news to me.
	Or anything.
	Something glib.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Brush it off a little more.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, no, he's in fight with the...
	It's funny.
	He's fighting the media now.
	It is the ultimate circle jerk where he's now fighting the media.
	It's no longer about the actual story.
	It's about Grand Greenwald.
	And how he's, you know, justified about him, him, him, him, him, him.
	Yeah, no, that's true.
	We're stuck with Glenn Greenwald for the next couple years.
	Yeah, we'll see.
	We'll see.
	I'm not so sure about that.
	What do you think is going to happen?
	I think he's going to change careers.
	I think he's going to stop being a journalist.
	I don't think he...
	And do what?
	I don't know, go back to law or something?
	I don't know.
	Consultant?
	Yeah, maybe.
	Let's change topics.
	Lingerie Football League.
	Is this somehow a theme that comes back every year at the end of the year?
	Tanned, toned, and just as tough as the guys.
	No, these aren't pro athletes.
	They're the girls next door.
	Some, even moms.
	I feel really good.
	I feel like we have the momentum.
	It's halftime in a football locker room.
	See?
	Even though they're ahead, their coach is not at all pleased.
	After 18 years of coaching men, Coach Hack feels the biggest compliment he can pay these ladies is to treat them just like the guys.
	The worst defense in a f***ing league stops you.
	You guys are much better than this.
	Welcome to the big leagues, the Legends Football League, where ladies dressed in nothing but a bra and booty shorts play football.
	None of the players get paid, so her day job?
	We're going to go through that information together first.
	Selling life insurance.
	Her brother, Simeon Rice, played 12 years in the NFL and even won a Super Bowl.
	Wow.
	Why did you throw that on me?
	Was that really necessary?
	Yep, because there's a line in there.
	And there was a line that came up later in the show.
	They don't talk about this.
	This is on Nightline.
	This is one of those unctuous women.
	Hold on.
	This was on Nightline?
	Yeah.
	It was on Nightline or ABC. I think it was Nightline.
	It was on a news show.
	It was a major news item.
	It was a seven and a half minute piece.
	They don't get paid.
	They mention this and they gloss it over.
	And then later they say to be playing a league you have to have insurance but the league won't pay for the insurance.
	And if you get injured, the league won't pay for any of it.
	That sounds like, I don't know, slavery?
	So I'm watching this and there's a bunch of girls dressed in essentially bras and panties out playing football to a crowd of people and it's broadcast on some cable network.
	Now, two things come to mind.
	One, why isn't that the issue of the story instead of just a puff piece for the league?
	A, which again is the news media's fault.
	They don't give a crap about anything.
	And B, how come this can't be like twisted into the, gee, I wonder why women don't get as much money as men.
	If you're going to volunteer yourself to work for free in a game that's actually a rough sport that you can injure yourself easily, and one of them was a dentist worried about her hands, you know, you don't start moaning and groaning or asking for legal recourse.
	Don't play.
	Don't work for free.
	It's just that simple.
	The world is filled with people that are working for free, and it's killing everybody.
	Anyway, but I found this extremely annoying that they would run a piece like this, talk about how these women are working for free in a commercial operation.
	This is the same, by the way, you're going to get somebody out there, you get invited to talk at CES, ask them how much they're going to pay you.
	You're not going to pay anything.
	Why are you doing it?
	Zero.
	Yeah.
	Goodwill.
	Oh, for the publicity?
	You're not going to get any publicity from any of these things.
	It's goodwill.
	Don't work for free.
	Yeah, I agree with that.
	I think that's a very...
	If there's any advice you take away from the No Agenda show in 2013, don't work for free.
	And a lot of people do it, particularly when it comes to show business.
	And I've seen this all my life.
	Oh yeah, but you know, it's goodwill.
	I get interview requests all the time, from the Netherlands in particular, where I'm still famous for all the wrong reasons.
	Right, you're famous for all the wrong reasons.
	All the wrong reasons.
	Although we do have listeners from there.
	Yeah, we do.
	And they'll always say, oh, can you come on this show?
	And I'm like, you know, I live in Austin.
	Oh, yeah.
	So are you going to send me tickets?
	I think with two round-trip tickets and maybe a hotel, I would consider going on a show and espousing some of my logic.
	Yeah, you get a trip, at least.
	And the answer is always the same.
	Oh, well, we thought maybe you'd be in town anyway.
	Oh, really?
	And you want me to spruce up your little television talk show?
	Well, don't you want the exposure against the criticasters?
	No, I get invites to advance every so often.
	Oh, get your special VIP. Are you going to fly me there?
	Well, no, we don't have a budget for that.
	We'll give you a cool-looking badge.
	Well, you're making money on this thing.
	You're not going to fly me there.
	We'll give you a cool badge.
	We can't do that.
	It's not in the budget.
	We can't afford it.
	Well, then why are you going to go, oh, you want me to spend the money to go to your crappy event?
	Yes.
	On my dime.
	Right.
	Yeah, exactly.
	You're starting to figure it out.
	This is the PR. It's on MTV, too, apparently.
	Oh, there you have it.
	It all makes sense now.
	Viacom?
	Cheap bastards.
	MTV were always notorious for not paying people enough or nothing.
	Or Union Busters.
	The only shop, I think, still in New York City that is non-union.
	In New York, that's hard.
	Yeah, that's very difficult.
	Non-union shop.
	You have to buy off to a lot of people.
	It probably costs you more in fees.
	Yeah.
	To keep the union out than if you were unionized.
	Tom Freston was pretty good at doing stuff like that.
	He was pretty good, I have to say.
	Well, that's...
	Hey, guess what?
	What?
	Flu season.
	I see the clip already.
	Turning now to a health alert this morning.
	We're seeing a real jump in the flu across America.
	Ten states are now seeing widespread outbreaks up from just four one week earlier.
	Let's go now to Dr.
	Jennifer Ashton, who's in Boston this morning.
	Dr.
	Ashton, good morning.
	Wait a minute.
	Let me do a sound effect.
	How severe is the flu we're seeing at this point in the season?
	Well, Dan, in terms of severity, it's really the same severity that we've been seeing so far.
	The flu season hasn't peaked yet.
	We expect that to happen in January, February.
	But what's changed recently is how many states are affected.
	As you said now, 10 states reporting widespread flu activity.
	That's up from four.
	And if you look at a map, it's everywhere from Alaska and Wyoming to New York and right here in Massachusetts.
	It's interesting to see how spread out it is.
	What flu strain is predominant?
	You know, John, I don't know if you've looked at this graphic that we have up on the screen, but my God, it's interesting to see how spread out this is.
	Have you seen the colors?
	Have you seen all the orange?
	I mean, there's orange here and there, and there's some red, and I mean, it's just very interesting.
	What are the signs and symptoms of this particular strain?
	So far, what states are reporting to the CDC and to their local health offices are the influenza A, H1N1 strain.
	This is the strain that caused the pandemic in 2009.
	Oh, it's back!
	It is contained in...
	Well, we can do it now.
	It's the No Agenda Swine Flu.
	Thank you very much for bringing it back, people.
	This year's flu vaccine, so it's well-matched to the circulating strain.
	And we have to remember, the symptoms are not subtle.
	This causes very high fever, severe headache, chest pain, body aches, cough.
	You can remain sick for a week and remain contagious for up to a week after that.
	Oh, well, this is exactly what I had.
	But I've already had the H1N1 in 2009, so it was not as severe as it was.
	I didn't even really complain on the show about how I felt.
	You did this time.
	No, I didn't today.
	I didn't complain about not feeling well today.
	No, not today, no.
	You're okay now.
	I'm totally okay, but I had this time.
	Although your voice is down at least one dog biscuit.
	There already have been deaths, and unfortunately, Dan, we do expect there to be more.
	So if you get the flu, you're not going to be questioning whether you have the flu.
	It won't be subtle, as you said.
	Correct.
	Here's the question you hear all the time, especially when we get to this point in the season.
	Is it too late to get vaccinated?
	Oh, oh, oh, whoa.
	Hold on a second.
	Let's take a look for a second here.
	Go, go!
	I'm going to put $20 on No, It's Never Too Late.
	How about you?
	John C. Dvorak, what is your bet in this round?
	I'm betting they're going to say it's never too late.
	Never too late.
	I'm saying not too late.
	John says never too late.
	Let's go to the videotape.
	Absolutely not.
	It is not too late to vaccinate.
	Oh!
	I think I win!
	No.
	I said not.
	You said never.
	No, I says not too late to get the vaccination.
	And you said never.
	I said not.
	You said never.
	Remember, the flu season goes up until April.
	There is plenty of vaccine available.
	About 145 million doses were made this year.
	Oh, we got it.
	Can we can we sell that?
	Can we give it away?
	It does take about two weeks for you to get that immune protection, so you should talk to your clinic, your pharmacy, your doctor about getting that vaccine right now.
	And, you know, we have to remember, this is not a bad cold.
	I actually had H1N1 a few years ago.
	I do not smoke.
	I do not have asthma.
	Dan, I thought I was going to die.
	Oh!
	Hold on.
	I smoked cigarettes and weed at the time in 2009.
	I got H1N1. I stopped smoking momentarily.
	At no point in a week did I feel I was going to die.
	Ever.
	Here's the thing that is kind of overlooked with the story like this when she comes off the wall with this bull crap.
	You know, these are the people that are all in on this vaccine.
	How come she didn't get a vaccination?
	How'd she get it in the first place?
	Oh!
	How'd she listen to her own news stories?
	Oh, it's never too late!
	She never got one.
	John C. Dvorak on the ball again, noticing that little, little nitty-gritty thing.
	And I'm sure the guy asks her that, right?
	In the remaining 11 seconds of this report, he'll say...
	Of course not.
	It is very serious and needs to be taken seriously.
	I think I remember that.
	It really knocked you out.
	Dr.
	Ashton, thank you very much.
	And again, just a hammer.
	She's a doctor, no less.
	She's a doctor!
	Oh, crap.
	Oh, crap.
	You know, this doesn't happen very often, but I'm going to give it to you again.
	Yeah.
	She's a doctor.
	Yeah, she's a doctor and she got this.
	In other words, she wasn't taking her own advice because she's probably a good reason.
	Because she's a doctor.
	This is like so transparent.
	Nobody notices, of course.
	Oh, she got sick.
	That's terrible.
	I better get my shot.
	Good punchline, John.
	I like that a lot.
	That was good.
	Well, I have a little follow-on clip I've been keeping for...
	Crap, three weeks now.
	Many people believe daily supplements will keep them healthy.
	But a panel of experts reviewing three studies on multivitamins finds no evidence supplements prevent chronic disease or death, and they should be avoided.
	Have you followed this?
	Yeah, I have, but why avoided?
	Well, because it can actually kill you.
	There's no evidence of benefit, and there is evidence of harm.
	Our recommendation is don't waste your money.
	Previous research has shown beta-carotene, vitamin E, and possibly high doses of vitamin A can increase death and that other antioxidants have no benefits.
	About half of people in the U.S. take multivitamins.
	It's a massive industry, taking in about $30 billion a year.
	The Council for Responsible Nutrition disagrees with the latest review.
	It argues supplements are an appropriate option for consumers who aren't getting enough nutrients from food.
	How are you?
	Dr.
	Robert Graham agrees.
	There may be an argument to continue taking a multivitamin to replace or supplement your not healthy diet.
	Yeah, here's how this goes, by the way.
	Hello?
	Come on in.
	Come in.
	Yeah, are you?
	Oh, where's Bill?
	Oh, I'm the new product manager for Centrum.
	Oh, okay.
	Well, I'm with ABC News.
	We got a couple spots open for you guys on Thursday night, Wednesday night, Friday night, Saturday night, Sunday night.
	What do you think?
	Oh, no, no, no, no.
	We're cutting way back on our advertising.
	We don't think it's very effective on the television.
	Oh, really?
	Cut to article.
	Hello?
	Hello?
	ABC News?
	Advertising division?
	Are you calling from the field?
	Yeah, we're losing our ass out here.
	What's happening?
	What's going wrong?
	What's the problem?
	They stopped advertising the Centrum product, and a couple of these other vitamin companies have bailed on us.
	We've got to go after them now.
	Hold on a second.
	Let me call over to the news division.
	They know what to do with these people.
	News division!
	No...
	Hello.
	News division.
	Hey, news division.
	Hey, listen, we got a problem with these Centrum guys.
	Can you, I don't know, do a hit piece?
	Yeah, we already got a piece in the can.
	We'll run it tonight.
	Put it right after that doctor who never took the flu shot.
	That's a good one, too.
	We'll pick up some...
	You're a real asshole, by the way.
	Yeah.
	Hey, the news division.
	Do you have a green visor when you talk like that?
	Yeah, dude.
	Shut up.
	Oh, that was a good one.
	All right, well, thank you very much, people.
	That's how the big boys do it.
	We, on the other hand...
	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 in the morning.
	We've got a few people to thank, and starting with Jonas Astrum from PayPal Socks in Sweden.
	It's a nice little town.
	It is a very small town.
	$130.
	Clearing out my PayPal account to thank you for a great 2013.
	Thank you for your courage.
	Thank you, Jonas.
	Justin Gearing in Manhattan, Kansas, $111.33.
	Call to the stage, my girl Trixie.
	My wife will understand.
	Sure.
	Yeah, I never agree with all your analysis, but...
	I always like that.
	Yeah, okay, fine.
	I never agree with all your analysis, but your research is top-notch.
	Too bad you...
	I suck it up on the report.
	Thank you for the hard work.
	Justin, you're killing me, man.
	And I'm sure your wife will understand about Trixie.
	Yeah, Trixie.
	Maybe Thursday when we hit the club.
	We'll get her maybe Thursday.
	The club will reopen.
	Well, you should probably say something like, we don't really agree with how she dances, but her boobs are top-notch.
	Santosh Narayanan.
	There we go.
	Wait a minute.
	Hold on a second.
	What's going on here?
	He's actually in Tamil Nadu, India.
	This is...
	Janai, $100.
	What?
	Is this the first or second time ever?
	No, from India itself, I believe this would be the first time.
	We've had a lot of Indians from England and the U.S. Right, right.
	And Pakistanis acting like Indians, which doesn't count either.
	No, that's not even close.
	All right, then read this whole note.
	Dear Adam and Eve, in the morning, it's finally happened.
	I'm an outrageously arrogant Indian Brahmin who lives in a castle in India and has servants.
	Yay!
	All you can come up with is 100?
	Really?
	He's a cheap-ass Indian.
	No agenda's been part of my bedtime routine for at least five years now.
	You should wash your hands by now, then.
	You guys have not only helped me sleep...
	This is so good.
	...but have also helped identify the BS and propaganda in the news for what it really is, part of government programs to brainwash citizens and make us slaves.
	And he actually has slaves.
	This is the funny thing about it.
	Yeah, well, that's good for him.
	After John's multiple attempts to demean Indians, I decided to take matters into my own hands and make a donation of $100, which is.00000000008.
	Per person of India's 1.23 billion population.
	I hope this is enough to keep John happy for at least some time because contrary to popular belief, arrogant Indian Brahmins are also just getting by, although we hate to admit it because we're superior.
	Keep up the good work and continue entertaining us, but stop bad-mouthing the Indians.
	Happy New Year.
	Santosh from India.
	Well, I don't know how I feel about this.
	I feel very positive.
	I feel positive.
	We'll see how long this sort of thing...
	In abeyance, the common crap I dish out to the Indian cheapskates is going now into the vault for a while.
	Well, yes, I think that's proper, but also I think that we can call it a streak.
	One more Indian.
	We're on an Indian streak, ladies and gentlemen.
	Sir Grebula on Intellivision.
	And wants to thank us for a great year of entertainment and news analysis.
	Gerald Small in Chesterfield, Missouri.
	7890.
	Mac Tank.
	77.77 in La Jolla, California.
	Hey, you missed my daughter Winnie's Dame donation from September 14th?
	So I guess that makes her a black lady?
	And what is happening here?
	Why is this not highlighted?
	What's going on?
	Hey, you missed my daughter's Winnie Dame donation back on September 14th, so I guess that makes her a black lady.
	Karma for the hosts and listeners.
	Well, since she's already a black dame, we can look into this, and it will go on Thursday's show.
	Eric will be sent a note.
	Will you do that?
	Can I count on you?
	Yes, he will take care of the accounting.
	And we appreciate the sack of sevens, and we apologize if we mess that one up.
	Stuff does happen.
	It happens a lot.
	Not too much, but it does happen.
	It happens enough.
	Matthew Lay in London, 7777.
	He's been listening to the show for over a year and been increasingly more guilty for not donating.
	So good.
	He says he could call himself out as a boner.
	Why don't you give him a de-douching?
	I'd be happy to.
	You've been de-douched.
	James Catalano in Hopkins, Minnesota, $75 is also just new on the agenda.
	Brian Rogers, $70.07, a palindrome from New York City.
	$69!
	69, dudes!
	I'm sorry.
	Gary Rosenbacher.
	Carrie Rosenbarker.
	Carrie Rosenbarker in Endwell, New York.
	Christopher Gray in Grand Blanc, Michigan.
	If I can just interrupt, this is kind of interesting.
	Long-time boner, first-time donor, says Carrie.
	I decided to triple the amount of my post-tax Christmas bonus.
	What do you work for, Scrooge McDuck?
	You tripled?
	This is your post-tax Christmas bonus?
	This is three times your Christmas bonus?
	You got to check for $30 after taxes?
	Not even.
	Well, he may be facetious here.
	I don't know.
	It's not much of a bonus.
	No.
	Might as well hand that out in cash.
	Buy a six-pack of designer beer.
	Sam Leung in Toronto, 69-69.
	That kills it.
	You got Christopher Gray, right?
	You got him on...
	Yeah, Christopher Gray and Grand Blanc.
	Right.
	Well, it's only three.
	We're not even going to close the jingle.
	No, no, no.
	We don't close the three.
	It's done.
	It's done.
	Michael Siegenthaler, 66-66.
	Bruce Johnson from Parts Unknown.
	Bruce Johnson in Edina, Minnesota, 60.
	Kevin Wood in Auburn, New Hampshire, 55 double nickels on the dime.
	Hank Weavers in Leovarden.
	Hank Weavers in Leovarden.
	Hank, Vabers, and Leovarden.
	Close enough.
	Paul Webb and Twickenham.
	Middlesex, and last but not least, we've got a very short list here.
	Hold on a second.
	Paul Webb, Twickenham, says, John, if you fancy a career change, I run a strip club in Piccadilly, London.
	You would be perfect for the Monday afternoon DJ slot.
	That's the lowest of the slots, but I'll take it.
	You got a deal!
	How about a guest job first?
	When I show up in London next time, I'll work the Monday afternoon.
	I will pay money for a video of that.
	In fact, I think...
	I'll have the sunglasses on.
	I'll have a crazy shirt that's just out of control.
	That would be worth quite a bit of money.
	And I can find some music that would work.
	Yeah, you bring your own tracks?
	Bring some tracks?
	Bring some tracks.
	Hey, JCD, you got some tracks on your stick?
	And finally, of all parts, I know Peter Tote's $50.
	That ends our donation segment for show 570.
	You're reminding people that we do have a new year.
	So let's start off with a bang.
	579-11 will be an interesting one.
	It is 579 will be our first episode number in 2014.
	And yes, we'll kick it off with a bang.
	Quick note here from SirGQ.
	You know, we always...
	If our knights have something important to say...
	Adam, John, thank you for your courage.
	Please let my beautiful wife, Steph, know that quitting smoking is difficult.
	Pictures to follow.
	Dude, he sent me, like, some really pornographic shit of him and his wife.
	Nice.
	Do you want him?
	I'll send him out.
	At least I can be grossed out with the rest of us.
	Interestingly, she's smoking.
	Okay.
	Well, that's what she's trying to stop.
	Heyo!
	I do have to read from Callum McKenzie's note.
	He donated $33.30 in Glasgow.
	I've been on the mothership boarding pass for the last 29 months.
	Thought I'd throw on double this month to round off the year.
	And if you would kindly throw in a penny to complete my knighthood.
	I'm not expecting the mothership to launch anytime soon, but expect it will still leave before Richard Branson has anyone on that spaceship.
	Can I ask for a short shot of karma for all No Agenda Monthly subscribers and for me to be knighted?
	Sir Bert of Gitmo.
	Absolutely.
	And it's Gitmo Nation independent wild haggis.
	Yeah.
	He makes an excellent point.
	So two points, actually.
	First of all...
	People who are on the layaways or on the monthlies, whatever number, eventually you get the ring.
	You get the brass ring of life.
	You get the no agenda knight ring.
	And you get knighted and you sit at the table and you get the hookers and blowers, the rimp boys and chardonnay.
	It does happen.
	This is beautiful to see that.
	He's been doing this 29 months.
	And we thank him for his courage for that.
	But also, he says something interesting about Richard Branson.
	And I put in the show notes under the out there...
	A very, probably the best moon hoax explanation, moon landing hoax explanation I've ever read.
	It's from 2009.
	It's called Wagging the Moon Doggies.
	And when I read this about Richard Branson, I thought to myself, you know, it's interesting why we are now, it's been 47 years since we landed on the moon.
	And we did this, how many times did we land on the moon?
	Eight times?
	I don't remember the number anymore.
	And it was interesting because, you remember who was president during all these moon landings?
	I believe it was Lyndon Johnson.
	Yeah, and Nixon.
	Right, later it was Nixon.
	And you know, what was going on in the world when these guys got in?
	We had Vietnam.
	And kids were getting blowed up everywhere.
	Right, there was riots in the street.
	Yeah, whenever something bad happened, we just threw a bunch of guys into a cigar tube and said, go land on the moon.
	And we loved it.
	America was great for it.
	But I don't understand why Richard Branson, of all people, here's a guy who has access to capital, he has an international airline, he has a United States airline...
	All made off the record business, we should add.
	He has record labels.
	He's got an island.
	He's got all this stuff.
	Why is he dicking around and he can't even get this one little rinky-dink, you know, 400-mile-into-space thing together when there's enough people who would pay tons of money to land on the moon and bounce around?
	It's kind of cool, you know, that gravity which makes you go slow motion.
	It's funny how gravity does that.
	Why doesn't he do that?
	Why doesn't he go all the way?
	Is it so hard?
	Why doesn't Elon Musk do this?
	It seems like there's so much more money in that.
	That's what I mean.
	Come on.
	Elon Musk?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, SpaceX.
	He has all those rockets.
	Why doesn't he do that?
	It's 47-year-old technology.
	You just put some of that gold aluminum foil to protect yourself from the radiation around, you know, the legs of that lunar module thing.
	And you have that, you know...
	Well, I think the challenge has been made.
	And I really am very disappointed in, again, Elon Musk, That dune buggy thing that folds out of a suitcase?
	Whatever happened to that technology?
	That was some cool crap, man.
	I don't even know what you're talking about.
	The lunar dune buggy.
	Oh, yeah, the dune buggy.
	It folded out of a suitcase.
	I'd love to have one of those.
	So let's give a shot at Karma for all the No Agenda monthly subscribers.
	There you go, everybody.
	You've got Carmen.
	And we'd love to start the new year off with a bang, so please go to...
	And happy birthday, Nick.
	Nick Esmendi celebrates on Tuesday the 31st.
	Daniel Rudin turns 33 on January 1st.
	My sister will also celebrate on January 1st.
	And James Catalano celebrating on the 31st.
	Happy birthday to all of you as we wind out 2013 from the best podcasts in the universe.
	Your buddies here at the No Agenda Show.
	It's your birthday!
	And so we have not one, not two, but we have three knightings to do.
	So this is great.
	You will be the 2013 Knights.
	I thought you brought that thing up there.
	Here it is.
	Oh, okay.
	I see it.
	Perfect.
	Jean from The Hague, step forward.
	Blake Israel, come on down.
	And Callum McKenzie.
	Gentlemen, it's time to induct you into the roundtable of the Knights and the Names.
	So hereby I proudly present the, pronounce the, Chabalier Jean, Sir Blake, Knight of Procrastination, and Sir Bert of Gitmo Nation, Independent Wild Haggis.
	Gentlemen, for you, of course, we've got the hookers and blow, the rent boys and chardonnay.
	We've got all kinds of goodies.
	But most of all, mutton and mead, sparkling cider, and escorts.
	Maybe the bong hits in bourbon if you're into that.
	And we're looking forward to more goodies for the Knights in 2014.
	Besides the rings, and all of the three of you need to go to noagendanation.com slash rings to fill out the info if you haven't done so already.
	And if you want, you can get your Hot Librarians and Jaeger Bombs, your Opium and Warm Orange Juice, or your Cannabis and Cabernet.
	It's all there at noagendanation.com slash rings.
	And check out the store while you're there.
	Any bad picture of us?
	Worst picture of us.
	Oh, so here we go.
	I like yours better than mine.
	You get a bear on your shoulder.
	Yeah, but it's an old picture.
	It's my old glasses.
	It's my old hairdo.
	You look good, though.
	You look better than I do.
	You look really dapper.
	Yeah, a little too dapper, I'd say.
	No, I think you look dynamite, actually.
	Although you don't have that flesh wound from the hockey puck you got hit with, apparently.
	No one told me about that.
	I had to find out about that on some show.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, the hockey puck thing.
	It was terrible.
	And by the way, that's what all abused kids say.
	Is Mimi beating you again up there, man?
	The hockey puck.
	I fell down the stairs and the hockey puck hit me in the head.
	Are we doing predictions?
	Oh, it's for the goal, you know?
	The guy slaps the thing back at me and hits you right in the head.
	It hurt like hell.
	Are we doing predictions?
	Let's do predictions a little later.
	I want to ask you a couple of questions first.
	Is it multiple choice?
	Just one.
	No, it's just a simple essay.
	Okay.
	Let me get my number two pencil.
	Why is Bill Clinton swearing in this DeBasio guy from New York City as mayor?
	Oh, the new mayor of New York?
	Yeah.
	Well, he's a Clinton operative, and this is what you do in how the mob does it.
	Because Clinton will also take him out when it's time.
	And then he can say, I brought you in, I can take you out.
	You didn't find this peculiar?
	No, not at all.
	New York politics, and ever since this de Blasio was Hillary's campaign manager for her senatorial run, it makes total sense.
	No, I don't see the problem.
	Why would it be a problem?
	He's not a problem.
	I just find it peculiar.
	He's not in New York.
	Oh, I guess he does have an office in New York.
	Totally new.
	He has in Harlem.
	But he's not in politics there.
	And when does an ex-president start, you know, swearing in New York City mayors?
	I mean, that's a pretty peculiar list.
	I don't know that it's happened before.
	Well, when does the first lady teach children about Santa flying over South Sudan?
	I mean, come on.
	What's more realistic?
	Well, let me ask you a different question.
	Okay.
	How come only RT seems to be the only network station that is covering the riots in Turkey?
	Because the Russians have an inherent interest in Turkey because all of their pipelines and the future trans-Eurasian rail line, which they're doing with the Chinese, will run through Turkey.
	Do you think the Russians want Erdogan out?
	Because they're really pushing this rise.
	I don't think so.
	It's the top of the news on RT. Well, this is a good question.
	And I have two entries in the Turkey heading for the show notes.
	One is, and this is from Associated Press, The, quote, Rift with U.S.-based cleric Wydens is the title of this.
	And this, of course, is the Gulen movement run by the guy who's in Pennsylvania, placed there by the CIA and the State Department, as if there's a difference, Fethullah Gulen.
	I have to think that the rubble that is being orchestrated, the rubble as you call it, is a CIA move because this guy is...
	Essentially causing this scandal, which I don't think it has to do with the riots per se.
	Tom, I would think the Russians, they don't want this rubble.
	They want it to be relatively stable.
	I don't think they're on the causing crap sandwich side.
	Do you?
	Well, my consideration is the fact that the only people covering it, and they're not covering it from a perspective, like you mentioned that this character...
	Fertul Laguna.
	Yeah, that guy.
	Is behind you, or the U.S. intelligence is behind you, or anybody else is behind it.
	They're covering it like...
	Like this guy, like the Erdogan's got to go.
	I think it's Erdogan.
	I think that's how you pronounce it.
	I'm sorry, Erdogan.
	Erdogan is a missing name.
	Ah, okay.
	Well, this makes sense.
	That makes sense.
	No, it's Erdogan.
	It's Erdogan.
	Yeah, but I think you pronounce it Erdogan.
	I think it's kind of...
	Well, I'm going to find out.
	While you tell me your thesis, I'm going to put it in the name pronouncer, which I have to use now and again.
	Okay, have the name pronouncer pronounce your last name, and then I'll believe the name pronouncer.
	If it says Dvorak and not...
	No, it'll say Dvorak.
	What does it say?
	It won't say Dvorak for Erdogan.
	No.
	No, I hadn't expected that.
	No, true.
	True.
	Okay, here we go.
	I've got pronounced names.
	There's two of these things.
	Pronouncednames.com is one of them.
	Let me see.
	Oh, yeah, I can't write it because this is Windows 8.
	Oh, you ran it.
	Yeah, Dvorak.
	Dvorak.
	Yeah, that's mispronounced.
	Yeah.
	We'll do Erdogan.
	Okay.
	Erdogan.
	Okay, so this thing sucks.
	Okay, that sucks.
	You've got to find the other one.
	But anyway, this is beside the point.
	Something's amiss.
	That's all I have to say.
	Okay, here's what's amiss.
	The economic miracle that was Turkey, which expanded 10% annual rate of GDP in 2011, 2012.
	Yeah, no, they were kicking ass to show that about it.
	The lira, it's the lira, the Turkish lira, has collapsed.
	This thing is collapsing.
	Now, we can't discount the Chinese in all of this.
	Do we have any China news besides the fact that they're lending money and selling the missiles?
	I think it's two sides.
	What riots exactly are they showing, RT? They're showing some nasty riots.
	Although, again, do you remember the newsletter from a few weeks ago where they had that great photo showing the guy standing in front of a set of people that look like they're protesting?
	Remember that one?
	Yeah.
	I mean, you don't know because of the way they shoot it, but there were some long-distance shots that looked like it was tens of thousands of people burning the place down, making rubble.
	And the way that RT handles it, it was like, you know, I was beside myself, because they are, you know, especially now more than ever, they're the news arm of the Russians.
	According to AP, many believe the probe, and this is the probe of several members of his cabinet who have had to resign and have been fired, The probe was orchestrated by followers of Pennsylvania-based spiritual leader Petula Gulen, a moderate preacher whose network of Muslim believers command a global empire of business, media, and education interests.
	Sounds like Stavros Blofeld.
	Sounds like a James Bond guy.
	It kind of sums it up as far as I'm concerned.
	Dvorak's ball sack.
	Sorry.
	I don't know where they shut up I don't know where that came from Gulen was a government backer until recently but the power feud between Erdogan and Gulen has become increasingly public in recent weeks Gulen has prayed that quote God bring fire to their houses this is a good article and Erdogan responded with a promise to quote go into their caves and expose them neither side has named each other
	So this is pretty serious.
	The moderate preacher wants God to bring fire to their houses.
	That's fighting words.
	Well, there's a falling out, and you can basically assume that there's some corruption involved on both sides.
	I mean, I don't buy this Gulen's guy's story at all.
	Let's see what it says in the Wikipedia about him.
	Do you have a half an hour?
	What, by Gulen?
	He looks like a sad sack.
	I never realized he's just a sorry-looking guy.
	He doesn't look that moderate to me.
	He's a grandfather nobody wanted.
	Of course he's not moderate.
	But I don't know about sad sack.
	You read the Book of Knowledge on this guy, and you start getting pretty...
	Now, we have...
	We have a producer who is feeding me as much as possible about what's going on.
	That's where I get a lot of this information from, and he's on top of this.
	He's really investigating a lot of what's going on.
	Even he is not quite sure, but I'll ask him about the Russia connection.
	But the only thing I can see geopolitically is all of the gas pipes from, well, not all, but a majority of the gas pipes run through Turkey and And the Chinese are in there with their missiles and they want to have a railroad built, which the Russians will also benefit from.
	Yeah, so here's the thing in the Wikipedia that's interesting.
	Views on contemporary issues.
	Gulen has criticized...
	Laicism as a politics rooted in a philosophy of reductionist materialism, blah, blah, blah.
	Who cares?
	But he's also argued that Islam and democracy are compatible, and he encourages greater democracy within Turkey.
	That's us.
	That's our approach to this.
	That's what we'd like to see, because then we can manipulate it.
	Right.
	He argues that a secular approach is not anti-religious and allows for freedom of religion, which is, of course, Turks have always been secular, at least since Ataturk.
	According to Gulen and Democratic secular countries, 95% of Islamic principles are permissible and practically feasible.
	There's no problem with them.
	And the remaining 5% are not worth fighting for, which I mean is stoning people, I suppose, is part of it.
	So there's something fishy about this guy.
	There's something fishy about the riots.
	There's something fishy about RT being the only real heavy-duty coverage of the problem.
	Right.
	I'm thinking that maybe the Russians are in bed with what's left of the military, which have mostly been rousted by Erdogan, and they're ready to take over the place with the military junta.
	Now I think you're saying something very important, because if I were Russia, and I was riding a horse with my shirt off, shooting me some tigers...
	I would be very happy with what the Yankee Doodles are doing.
	It's kind of a reverse of what we do.
	So we cause this stir with our shill in PA. Everything starts to fall apart.
	Erdogan's looking bad.
	The Russians are like, hey, let's go in!
	And you're right.
	Maybe part of that is the junta, you said?
	Well, there wouldn't be a junta.
	It would be just a military takeover.
	It could be done in a lot of different ways.
	But the military hated this ever again to begin with.
	He got rid of most of the main guys.
	Turkey has a history...
	Of being secular by law, and every time some creepy Islamist gets in there, they would take over the country and kill the guy, and then do another election until they got somebody they liked, and then the guy would stay in there.
	This last time around, because Erdogan was so popular, he got to them before they got to him, and they're now kind of a reduced group.
	They're not as powerful as they once were, but it's possible that working with the Russians, something might be going on.
	Saturday, an estimated 4,000 people gathered in central Ankara for a protest organized by a, quote, civil servants union, calling on the government to step down over scandal and chanting, may the thieves' hands be broken!
	No violence was immediately reported.
	On Friday, riot police used water cannons, tear gas, and plastic bullets to push back hundreds of protesters trying to reach Istanbul's main square.
	Police also broke up a similar demonstration in Ankara, the number of protesters.
	You know, I think there is just, you know, I am so happy that Anderson Pooper talks about his mom's cunnilingus instead of this stuff.
	Because honestly, I mean, this is just so unimportant.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, who cares?
	Right?
	Let's talk about some...
	Why does any...
	How do these people live with themselves?
	You know, the thing is, I'm sure they would try to do a story or even try to just discuss this.
	Say, you know, the American public doesn't care about what the hell's going on in Turkey.
	Get that crap off the air.
	We gotta sell some vitamins here.
	Let's see.
	Well, right now, I'll just look over at the CNNs.
	Oh, they're actually doing a story on what I thought was very funny, and I'll play it for you.
	I have a clip.
	Oh, hello.
	Absolutely.
	Amazingly well, actually.
	Morale is remarkably high.
	You know what this is?
	Yeah, I know what it is.
	It's these boneheads.
	These elites, the kids of the elites have decided to get in a boat.
	Let's go visit an old camp in Antarctica because we're cool and we got nothing else to do.
	The rich kids of Instagram.
	Rich kids.
	This is a perfect reality show.
	Send the rich kids of Instagram to the Antarctic.
	Have their boat.
	I hope they freeze to death.
	Because they're showing a lot.
	You know, it's a possibility.
	That boat may be there forever, because, you know, it could be just surrounding, boom, freeze up solid, they can't get to them.
	They have to chopper them out if they can.
	In a blizzard, you can't.
	I see a chopper flying right now, and it's not live.
	Icebreaker gets closer to stranded ship.
	Ah, crap, John, they've got an icebreaker on the way.
	Yeah, but that doesn't mean the icebreaker can get there.
	Yeah, but then they can get the helicopter.
	Well, maybe the icebreaker can get stuck, too.
	It all fits perfectly with the global warming.
	Yeah, they've got to kill this story.
	Well, they're not.
	That's CNN's only thing.
	The rich kids of Instagram are stuck in the ice.
	It's a funny story.
	The rich kids of Instagram.
	That's the perfect title.
	Great Christmas.
	We've just been, unfortunately, incredibly unfortunate.
	We're deeply frustrated not getting out of the open.
	And by the way, if you know any rich bastards, this is how they talk.
	Incredibly unfortunate, old chap, that we were just about to get out of here as we'd reached the camp, the base camp.
	We spent a couple million bob on doing this little trip down here just to see if we could do it.
	Incredibly, what a spot of bad luck, man!
	That is, I say.
	We were down here following in the footsteps of one of the great explorers and scientists, Douglas Morrison, on his Australasian Antarctic expedition, looking at how much change has been in this environment the last hundred years, and we had a fantastic day on the 23rd.
	It was lovely!
	We had a little sport, a little picnic down Working on the Antarctic continent.
	The ship was heading north.
	We were aiming to get out.
	The satellite data had been great the day before.
	But just as we were coming back to the ship, the conditions were closing in.
	We moved as quickly as we could.
	But the ship just couldn't get through.
	And Christmas morning, we had to put the alert out there.
	Please, someone help.
	We put the alert out.
	We had the flags up and we shot some flares.
	Let's break out.
	So how much time passed, Chris, before you just, I guess, hoped that maybe the sea ice or the wind might change its direction and when you realized, okay, we're not getting out of this on our own?
	Don't answer that.
	We hope you never get out!
	Rich kids of Instagram.
	Stuck on ice.
	Which reminds me, since you're talking about the Brits, let's go to Parliament, and they had a special segment of the special meeting in Parliament.
	Oh, is this about the law?
	Sorry?
	Is this about the new law?
	This is about the bullying law.
	Yeah, yeah, the bullying law, yeah.
	So they had all these kids from every part of the country and from Wales and everyone else, and they all came and told about how bad bullying is and how they had to put a stop to it.
	And this is just one example.
	I couldn't record much of this because it was so bad.
	Parliament will now consider the second motion of the day relating to zero tolerance towards bullying in schools as printed on the order paper.
	To move the motion, I call and invite you warmly to welcome, from the east of England, Mr.
	Jakub Makowski.
	Thank you for your courage.
	Thank you, Mr.
	Speaker.
	Everyone is unique, special, different.
	Everybody's beautiful.
	And I think it is fair to say that if we were all exactly the same, this world would be an extremely dull place.
	Unfortunately, a lot of young people get bullied because they are unique or different.
	But aggression is not natural.
	Causing suffering is not either.
	No human is born evil.
	Bullying is something that people learn.
	According to the national survey for the charity of bullying, 69% of young people in the UK report being victims of bullying.
	But what about all the people that do not report it?
	This problem is real.
	And it affects thousands of young people.
	So it is our duty to do something about it.
	We have to choose this as a national campaign and make our mark.
	Because we must help to reduce bidding.
	We must do it now.
	The amount of bidding that takes place is hugely concerning.
	But the fact that it became normal, natural and accepted is more concerning.
	It went on and on and on.
	Send me a link to that, because I wouldn't mind watching the whole thing.
	That is fascinating.
	It's fascinating because we have a First Amendment here in the United States, which in California is really no longer valid because you have anti-bullying laws, and there's more states that are coming on board with this.
	And bullying has become, you know, sticks and stones will break my bones used to be the old saying, but names will never hurt me.
	But now, that's done.
	I was talking to the official brain professor of the No Agenda show about this, I don't know, a week or two ago.
	And I reminded myself of something that we identified in the...
	Whenever there is a suicide...
	Well, I'm generalizing, but in every case we've tracked, when there's a suicide of an LGBTQI youngster...
	The same, either the exact same or same type of lawyers appear on the scene talking about anti-bullying laws.
	And if you'll recall, John, we tracked this a while when there were two or three suicides in a row of these kids, and most of them are special, so they were LGBTQQI. And they were bullied and then they committed suicide.
	And the lawyers who show up, I want to see if I can find it in the show notes.
	This may have been before we had the search index, but I'll see if I can find it.
	The lawyers who show up and start pushing for anti-bullying laws are pharmaceutical lawyers.
	They represent pharmaceutical firms who have these kids on drugs.
	It's always the same lawyers.
	Do you recall that we did this research?
	No, but this doesn't surprise me that it's possible that I just forgot it.
	Yeah, it was one of the girls, I'm going to look for it, and if I can find it, I'll put it in the show notes.
	And we tracked these two women, these two women lawyers, who were all about the anti-bullying laws, and we have to get this in place, and this is crazy, but their clients were pharmaceuticals.
	And that's the thing that is never really looked at when it comes to Suicides of, and that's really the only time it's in the news, but now the United Kingdom has gone so far over to one side that you have the Indra, is that what it's called?
	I don't know.
	Yeah, well you can't annoy anyone.
	That's what this is about.
	Oh yeah, you can't annoy.
	It's against the law to be annoying.
	Yeah, it's UK anti-annoyance.
	I think that's what it was.
	Anti-annoyance law.
	Yes, kids too annoying?
	Antisocial Injunction Plan.
	Antisocial.
	But it wasn't antisocial.
	It had a different name.
	I think it was...
	Let me see if I can find this.
	I wonder how long it's going to take you before they start picking up podcasters at the border, say a flight to London.
	You have an annoying podcast.
	Yes.
	Well, I'd have to say thank you for your courage.
	You're absolutely right.
	We aim to be annoying.
	IPNA. There we go.
	The IPNA. Which stands for Injunction to Prevent Nuisance and Annoyance.
	A replacement for the Antisocial Behavior Order.
	You're annoying.
	Here's a fine.
	Yeah.
	That's where it's going.
	Although Farmer Chris at the market...
	He said that for some reason, the 577, he said he was laughing so hard.
	He said he thought the show was hilarious.
	577?
	Yeah, the last show.
	The one before this.
	I don't know where he gets it from.
	But I said, well, this is great because, you know, we really want to just win comedy awards.
	That's really what we're all about.
	In an unusual drug bust in Massachusetts, police found 1,200 packets of heroin labeled Obamacare.
	Yay, that was a good one.
	I've been keeping that for weeks.
	Well, you know, you remember the series The Wire?
	Yeah, I never really watched it.
	Which now is mocked as the only thing white people ever thought was good TV. There was all, and I think this is true, all the various, when they had Hamsterdam, when they opened up the free market of just selling in the street quasi-legally, every...
	Every drug, every form of heroin apparently was packaged differently and given a name like a firecracker.
	So they had all these different names for every product.
	And there was good, better ones.
	It cost a little more and all the rest.
	So I'm sure that that...
	And I think this was accurate.
	I think Obamacare is probably when they said, what would you like?
	I could get some Obamacare.
	Oh, yeah.
	Okay.
	That's the good stuff.
	Yeah.
	Oh, the good stuff.
	Yeah.
	So the good stuff, the Obamacare.
	Ah, yeah.
	We got some.
	It's going to cost you 20 bucks.
	And then there was this little report which, well, this is an Ask John.
	Rarely get to do this.
	Somebody who's not waiting in line to enroll is the president of the United States.
	We learned today from the White House.
	Initially, they said he enrolled this past weekend and signed up for what they called a bronze plan, paying about $400 a month in premiums.
	But then they came back to us and said, well, wait, he didn't actually enroll.
	They said his staff did it, and that's because of his unique circumstance, obviously his commander-in-chief, that his personal information is not in various government databases.
	So healthcare.gov could not actually verify his identity, oddly enough.
	That's the beauty.
	Now, there you go.
	That would have been a clip of the day.
	I love that clip.
	He had to do it in person this weekend, but he was in Hawaii, not in Washington.
	He was signing up for the D.C. Exchange, so his staff did it.
	So they say, look, this was a symbolic gesture to get behind it.
	But the bottom line here is the president liked his plan, and he'll get to keep his plan, which is not exactly the exchange.
	They don't even realize themselves what they're saying.
	No, they've completely lost it.
	So the president is not identifiable in any government databases?
	How does that work?
	How can that be?
	Did he not file his taxes?
	They always put his tax return on whitehouse.gov.
	Does that not actually get filed?
	Does he not really pay the money?
	Does he not sign something?
	It looks like an official form.
	This could be a scam.
	I mean...
	I think you're dead on.
	And they don't even notice that they're saying this sort of thing.
	Funny, isn't it?
	It's depressing.
	That's not depressing.
	Hey, let's do prediction.
	That's not depressing.
	What's depressing, so I got this document from NASA, which I can send out, or maybe I'll make a link to it in the newsletter.
	And this nutty lady, I sent you the link to this woman.
	And you couldn't take it.
	Oh, no, not this.
	First of all, hello, 2010.
	It's like this nutty lady.
	We know this nutty lady.
	Yeah, she's a nutty lady.
	How does this nutty lady...
	I mean, I just couldn't...
	I was watching her and it's just like...
	How do you even make these...
	How do you think like this?
	I mean, this is what I think...
	Maybe our show helps to prevent this sort of thing, but people go crazy.
	And just so you know, this is why I brought up the wagging the moon doggy thing, because I couldn't believe that you would send...
	I mean, if John is interested in NASA stuff, let me give you something really good to look at.
	But no, he sends me the nutty lady clip, as if...
	And he's like, whoa, this is really good.
	We should watch this.
	Like, I've never seen...
	It is good.
	It's hilarious.
	Come on.
	Play a little bit of the...
	But they talk...
	What's going on with your clip?
	The smart meters that are being deployed around the globe.
	The replacement of our electric meters, which will also and does include the replacement of all of our gas meters and our water meters.
	By the way, do you recognize what the voice kind of sounds like?
	No.
	Mimi.
	No, not really.
	Yes, yes.
	Listen to the accent and the cadence.
	And we'll be connected to our food supply when they collapse the currency and they issue energy allowances.
	And that will all be controlled through the metering system.
	And by the way, she's spot on about the smart meters.
	But they talk about the use of low frequencies, microwave frequencies.
	Yes, the Internet of Things.
	This is exactly what the CIA is doing.
	Please.
	And they mention in this NASA document the U.S. Army report.
	The U.S. Army report is on our website, smartmetersmurder.com.
	By the way, great domain name.
	Please, I mean, come on.
	This is funny material.
	You're right, though.
	Maybe it would be like this if I wasn't a stabilizing influence.
	If you left her alone for too long and didn't check in with her, I could totally see her posting on Facebook.
	These smart meters, this is exactly how they're going to kill us.
	They're going to take our money and then give us credit.
	Shut down the electricity.
	Well, Mimi...
	Okay, I'm sorry.
	It was a private conversation, so I won't bring it up about what she did to certain celebrities up there.
	Yeah.
	It's about a 20-page Army document that talks about the use of frequencies to target the enemy.
	We're the enemy.
	Yes.
	And they say 100%.
	Well, how did you go from that to we're the enemy?
	We are the enemy.
	We are the slaves.
	You know what?
	This is good stuff.
	Let's play them all out.
	I'm going to do some commentary.
	No, no, no.
	This is good.
	Thank you, John.
	I didn't have to do it.
	Great.
	...of the human population will be affected by these frequencies.
	Yes.
	What's her name again John?
	Just give me her name.
	Nutty lady.
	Yeah, nutty lady.
	Here we go.
	Part two of nutty lady.
	Document.
	The U.S. Army report.
	The U.S. Army report is on our website.
	Smart meters.
	How did you cut this up?
	This is crap.
	I expected this to go differently, so I had to do a reprise.
	So how do the elite shield themselves from their own weapons?
	Oh, they have the magic potion, of course.
	This guy, by the way, during the interview, is trying to keep a straight face.
	No.
	How do the elite shield themselves from their own weapons?
	Let's find out.
	Well, that's a really good question.
	Oh.
	And some of the information that we've come across is, of course, they have methods far ahead of anything that we...
	Oh, they have secret space technology.
	Of course they do.
	...have available to ourselves, such as cancer cures.
	They don't get cancer.
	Of course, yes.
	How many elites do you know that die of cancer?
	Well, none.
	Cancer.
	There's chip mechanisms that we understand can fend off certain frequency attacks.
	We also know that they're interested in transhumanism.
	So much of what they're doing globally, they're interested in.
	Yes, transhumanism.
	Let's move on to the next clip.
	Allow people to be targeted with the weaponry that they cannot wait to roll out on us.
	Oh, yeah.
	They're already doing it.
	You know those newscasters who start going, that's the weapon.
	You add the drones, you add the micro-dust, you add in the beam weapons that they tell us.
	Directed energy beam weapons, and not micro-dust, but RFID dust, yes.
	Internet of Things.
	Are you on Twit today?
	Last Twit of the season?
	No, it's a rerun.
	Too bad.
	It'd be a long haul for me.
	I'd have to do it over.
	True.
	But the next time you're on the show, when someone says Internet of Things, ask them what the origin is of Internet of Things.
	What should the answer be?
	The answer is Petraeus at the In-Q-Tel CEO conference.
	He's the one that talked about the Internet of Things.
	And everyone now talks about, oh, it's going to be great.
	We're going to have the Internet of Things.
	Everything will be connected.
	My refrigerator will be able to order milk for me when I'm out.
	But meanwhile, the Internet of Things is spying on you and tracking you, and this woman, this nutty lady, is right!
	They also have a blast wave accelerator.
	Blast wave, write that down.
	Blast wave accelerator.
	Okay.
	And when you look at the population of the United States, the majority of the population lives along the coastlines.
	And the blast wave accelerator was a tidal wave invention that the United States...
	Used on Fukushima!
	Dreamt up with the Soviet Union back in the 40s.
	Actually, it was going to be used in World War II instead of the bombs, but they decided to use the bombs instead.
	And the blast wave accelerator exploits the methane deposits on the seabed and causes a fingerprintless, plumeless tidal wave on low-lying areas around the perimeter of any country.
	I want that on a t-shirt.
	A plumeless.
	What did she say?
	Plumeless.
	Anyway.
	Beautiful, John.
	Great.
	Thank you.
	You're making my point for me.
	Apparently.
	That was a mistake on my part.
	All right.
	We're wrapping up my end here in the six-week cycle.
	Paul Anthony Ciancia.
	Or better known as CIA and CIA, who was...
	He is accused of the LAX airport shooting spree.
	Right.
	Who, interestingly enough, also got shot in the neck, just like the Sarniff bro.
	Oh, that's interesting.
	Yes.
	He pleaded not guilty.
	What would they have stuck in their neck?
	Oh, they shoot him.
	But he pleaded not guilty.
	This is just like the Holmes has pleaded not guilty.
	A lot of these guys plead not guilty.
	And I don't know if it's a technicality.
	They're pleading not guilty to be deemed not guilty by way of insanity, or I'm not sure what it is.
	And there's another thing, J.C., Buzzkill Jr.
	sent out this link, I think he sent it to both of us, about the identifiable images of bystanders extracted from corneal reflections.
	Yeah, I got that.
	Why don't we have any of that from Boston so we can see the kids, you know, putting the backpacks into the trash containers?
	Why don't we have any of this?
	It seems so perfect.
	Well, I think it's because there's something phony about those backpacks.
	I have one last clip.
	All right.
	Digital versus analog.
	I want to set this clip up.
	I did these clips last night.
	I do not remember what this clip's about.
	T-Bone Burnett, who you know and love, said, Digital sound has dehumanized us, and it's taken away so much of what we hear without telling us.
	He's correct in that.
	I think that the downfall in technology in the 80s, when digital equipment started to come around, really saturated music with really bad feelings and tones.
	There's an analogy about analog versus digital.
	Analog is this.
	If you drop a needle or a magnet on a tape recorder, And you record.
	You're dragging that pencil across the table.
	And you're recording.
	Digital is this.
	It doesn't matter how many samples you do per second.
	It's still that.
	There's empty space constantly through it.
	And I think some people think it's psychologically fatiguing, which is a whole other story.
	But the idea is, you know, these scratches in this table, you know, some people think that that's actually recording sound.
	If I scratch this table right now, it possibly could be recording what we're talking about right now.
	And so I think we need...
	Were you high by any chance when you recorded this clip?
	No, I was just annoyed.
	Tell me about this.
	What?
	This is kind of bull crap.
	I've heard this before.
	And yeah, maybe when you do the D to A conversion back to analog, you don't have a bunch of spaces in there.
	It's bullcrap.
	I've heard this before.
	There's like this anti-digital when it comes to certain technologies.
	Oh my God, you know, it's killing us because there's all these holes in the data.
	You know, as you're hearing bop, bop, bop, bop, bop.
	You're not hearing that.
	Anyway, I just found it extremely irksome.
	Tell me about this sexuality.
	It's in your DNA. I found it.
	It's superstition is what it is.
	You know, so I think there is definitely, when you listen to MP3s, there's no doubt that your brain is filling in blanks because of the compression.
	You are getting a degraded signal.
	It's just degraded.
	It's not high fidelity.
	I'm not going to argue against the degradation, but there's no blank spaces in there.
	If you slowed it down, you took a look at the wave.
	There's not a hole.
	That's just a moron trying to explain something.
	What's happening?
	Okay, let's get to our predictions.
	Okay.
	You got some predictions?
	I got some predictions.
	Here's my first prediction.
	I will get into a huge argument and row with someone because I will be responding to an iOS iMessage group chat without knowing it and say something shitty about a person who's on the group chat.
	That's my first prediction.
	What kind of a prediction is this?
	Because group chats...
	Okay, my prediction then.
	I will pick up the phone and drop it on the floor.
	Group chats have to stop.
	You don't know what it is.
	You don't know what this annoyance is.
	You have no idea what this horrible, horrible invention from Apple is.
	Apple has created in their iMessage, which you use for your SMS text messaging, the ability to text message people like it's a group chat.
	And then all of a sudden everyone's chatting with each other through SMS. Why don't you do that on Twitter?
	No, but it's supposed to be private.
	And then when you want to go send a message to somebody, you see their name in the list instead of, you know, new message, look through the address book.
	You just click one of those old messages and you send the message and then it turns out it's on a group chat.
	Oh, that's not right.
	It's totally wrong.
	This is like recording the after show on a no agenda.
	Voila!
	Voila!
	Alright, I have three more predictions.
	Your next one?
	Well, besides dropping the phone...
	Yeah.
	Okay, my first prediction is on the same level of yours.
	I will get a new phone this year.
	And I don't know what it will be, but I believe it will be a Motorola.
	A space station accident will release a bioweapon.
	What?
	Yeah, that's one of my predictions for 2014.
	What kind of a bioweapon is it being?
	You're saying they're developing bioweapons up north?
	No, they're up north.
	Yeah, way up north.
	Yes, yes.
	A bioweapon will be released accidentally from a space station, not the International A Space Station.
	Yeah, okay.
	Okay, then I'll come up with this one.
	I'm doing this on the fly.
	The six-week cycle will end in 2014.
	Ooh, what happens to the agency?
	I think it'll be funded or there'll be some other way of getting money or something else will happen.
	But they can't keep this up because it's getting so obvious that too many people, somebody besides us is going to pick up on it and they're going to say, let's stop doing this.
	Do you think as a part of this prediction that we will have one big final hurrah?
	Maybe.
	Before they go.
	It's a one huge, amazing, just outlandish honeypot event.
	And then the meeting will be, oh, Jesus.
	Excuse me for taking the Lord's name in vain.
	We can't be doing this, boys.
	We've got to shut this down.
	Is that what you envision?
	Well, something was going to happen, because this can't go on.
	If it went the whole year, I'd be stunned.
	The San Andreas Fault will rupture.
	Where?
	Southern California.
	Yeah, that's been in the cards for a while.
	I think it's coming in 2014.
	We need that.
	Yeah, we do.
	And, wait, do you have one more before I give you my final one?
	A famous celebrity that's in our list of famous celebrities who are always stooging for the government will be killed.
	No, they're off.
	Turkey will be invaded and the entire EU will be destabilized.
	Invaded by who?
	Well, we'll see.
	I don't know who.
	I don't know.
	What, did you get these in a dream?
	Yes, I wrote them down.
	Edgar Cayce style?
	I wrote them down.
	No, the real answer was, Mickey wrote them down as I babbled them off.
	No, no.
	You laugh all you want.
	I will.
	Okay, Apple will fail.
	Fail?
	Yeah, I think the stock's going to collapse after a bad rollout of some crappy product.
	But when you say fail, to what degree do you mean fail?
	It's going to get a lot of attention.
	Hmm.
	Will it hurt the company significantly?
	Yes, yes.
	It'll seriously hurt the company's image.
	Do you think Tim Collins will be thrown out?
	Tim Collins.
	Maybe.
	Could happen.
	Hmm.
	Yeah, I could see that happening.
	Wow, I didn't expect a technology prediction from you.
	I'd throw it in because people think I'm an Apple basher.
	I might as well bash a little bit.
	True.
	Yeah.
	He's always saying that.
	It's that same guy.
	Yes, I know him well.
	Yeah.
	All right, then.
	If that's it, then, well, then that's it.
	Well, we can continue the predictions for the first couple weeks of January.
	You just don't like my predictions.
	You just don't like that I'm predicting doom and gloom.
	Is it really doom and gloom?
	I just thought they were lame.
	Okay.
	You know, the bioweapon, how's it going to survive?
	You know, it just doesn't make sense.
	Okay.
	Well, we'll see, won't we?
	I mean, I'm sorry.
	Yeah, that's one arrogant way of putting it.
	Yeah, I'm sorry.
	I mean, it's not the...
	You know, I'm sorry that you didn't like my predictions.
	Yours were stupid.
	That's okay.
	We listened to...
	When we all die, you'll know why.
	All right, we listened to eight minutes of the lady talking about the murdering smart grid.
	The murdering smart grid.
	Alright everybody, that will do it for 2013.
	We thank you for your courage.
	We appreciate your support of the program.
	And we will need a lot more because it seems like there's going to be plenty of work ahead in 2014.
	Plenty of work.
	And the only way we can do it is with your support.
	And as you know, we don't just sit here and say, send us money.
	We give you credit.
	Executive producers, associate executive producers, producers, we...
	Have full transparency.
	Full disclosure.
	Because it's all we do.
	There's nothing else we do except, I don't know, John writes some columns, which are pretty good.
	And, as you know, he doesn't do them for free.
	Well, maybe he does.
	Hey, PC Magazine, let me do this for free.
	It's good for my image.
	Somehow I don't think so.
	It's so exciting.
	All right.
	Coming to you from FEMA Region 6.
	Hopefully it'll still be here.
	Happy New Year, everybody.
	Talk to you next year.
	In the morning, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from the Pacific Northwest version of Silicon Valley, which is really not much to brag about, I'm John C. Devorak.
	We'll talk to you again next year, right here on No Agenda.
	Enjoy.
	Thank you.
	Feel courage and everything else.
	There is no necessity for a network of anything anymore.
	Every individual who has a creative idea or wants to communicate something, It's a detriment and detractor from your mission.
	If you have something to say, like this show...
	Go and do it.
	Find a way to sustain yourself.
	Networks will take away all your money.
	It is completely against the true internet, interconnected network way of communicating.
	It is a money scam, and they're going to take away money.
	No one will make anything.
	There'll be nothing but tears will come from this.
	It never works out this way, ever.
	Amen.
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