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	Hmm.
	That's enough rain stick for today.
	Adam Couric, John C. Dvorak.
	It's Sunday, February 9th, 2014.
	Time for your Gitmo Nation media assassination episode 590.
	This is No Agenda.
	Increasing activation in brain regions from form the mesolimbic dopamine system.
	Here in FEMA Region 6, the Traverse Heights High-Dark North in Texas.
	Good morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where it's raining and where it rains, it pours.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	Okay.
	It's Crackpot and Buzzkill.
	I don't know.
	This is not good.
	What the hell happened?
	I don't know.
	It's not good.
	Something's going on.
	Let me see what's happening.
	Why is the computer frozen now all of a sudden?
	Hold on.
	Let me just check that again.
	Hey John, how you doing?
	Hey, great.
	Hey everybody, it's the morning zoo.
	Hi everybody, how you doing?
	Is it really raining?
	I heard you got something like 10 inches last night.
	Is that true?
	It's about time.
	Wow!
	And you know that we're completely responsible for this.
	It seems so, or at least it's an amazing cosmic coincidence that once we got the rain sticks going, it began raining finally.
	Even though they predicted it wouldn't rain until April.
	Let me just review.
	It had not rained for months.
	Was it four months, five months?
	It hadn't rained in California?
	Yeah.
	And we pull out our rain sticks as professionally licensed rain stick operators.
	Immediately, it starts raining.
	We did it again on the previous show.
	You got 10 inches.
	But Ireland is pissed off.
	Well, they don't even listen to the show nor contribute.
	Yes, they do.
	Well, some Irish listeners are...
	I don't know that we...
	Do we have...
	We have...
	Oh, this is interesting.
	I'm getting...
	I don't remember.
	I think we have somebody in Dublin.
	Yes, we do.
	We do.
	Yeah, we got Tommy Boy, a couple other people there.
	Right, right, right, right.
	And they're really angry.
	They're tweeting me.
	Stop with the rain stick!
	Yeah, I've seen these tweets.
	Well...
	You know, I guess they're getting flooded.
	I have to say, John, I have lost the Olympic fever.
	Did you watch the opening ceremonies?
	Yeah.
	First of all, I watched the pre-games before the ceremony, after the show on Thursday.
	No, I had the fever.
	I was really, I had Olympic fever.
	I was watching the figure skating.
	You know how much I love the figure skating.
	And the Russians were just kicking ass.
	It was just beautiful.
	And the Americans sucked.
	Dude fell down.
	For team skating?
	I miss that because I don't really...
	I don't like judged sports because I don't think that's really sports.
	Well, there's a lot of technicality.
	My mom was a figure skater.
	Yeah, there's a lot of technicality in it, but it's still judged sports.
	So it's...
	It's subject to corruption and fads.
	Hello!
	That's part of the beauty of it.
	I remember there was some skater who wants to do some wild stuff, but they didn't think it was appropriate.
	It's based on outfits in ice skating.
	Exactly.
	That's what I like so much about it.
	And makeup.
	Yeah, that's what I like so much about it.
	But they wear more makeup.
	I do want to mark it off in the Red Book, even though it didn't exactly appear.
	It wasn't the mutt or the mongrel that we had predicted.
	I saw it in the newspapers.
	I saw it in USA Today.
	Stray dog interrupts opening ceremony.
	I think it's a Red Book come true once again.
	And we, this wasn't even, we put it in the Red Book, but we knew it was going to happen.
	These things, you know, they're just obvious.
	Yeah.
	And now we have, there's all kinds of fun stuff, and we will get into a lot of F Russia stuff today, no doubt, because that involves our friend Victoria Nuland.
	But, so one of the rings didn't open up, and immediately some great hoax on the web.
	I was hoping someone would pick it up.
	Did you see this?
	Apparently, the engineer, whose job it was to have all the rings unfold, he was stabbed to death in his hotel room.
	Oh, hold on.
	Well, I thought it was on purpose because I don't have a clip, but I could get it.
	It was on VanCatch.
	Yeah, that's supposed to be the American ring.
	Is that the...
	Yeah, it was the American ring that didn't open.
	Oh, please.
	I like it.
	Come on.
	Yeah, man responsible.
	And then they said that, but now we're represented by flakes.
	Well, par for the course.
	This is not an accident.
	The man responsible for operating the Olympic rings during last night's Winter Olympic opening ceremonies in Russia was found dead.
	According to local reports, the body of T. Boris Avdiev was found in his hotel room this morning with multiple stab wounds.
	Sure.
	Ha ha ha.
	I wish I had gotten some play.
	There's so many things.
	Of course, along with the whole Russia hates gays thing, it didn't take long for people to find out that GNBC edits these broadcasts.
	And the president of the International Olympic Committee had a whole speech, and he talked about diversity, and they cut a piece out.
	And immediately, oh, they're deceptive!
	Hello!
	It's an edited show, people.
	This is what they do.
	They need to fit in more advertisements.
	Yeah, I think there's some break that Matt Lauer goes, and now they're showing the Russian history, and here's where they break from the past to the future as we break for a commercial.
	Or some crazy line like that.
	Exactly, exactly.
	No, I think what I saw, everything looked good and it's nice.
	I thought it was quite good.
	I thought many of these events they did, especially after they had that horrible walkout of all these athletes and they went to the second part of the show, I thought the show was very entertaining.
	Yeah, I thought it was good too.
	And I kind of liked the whole opening montage and the little girl flying.
	The little girl flying around like a maniac.
	She's doing good.
	Good flyer.
	And yeah, there's a bunch of cool stuff.
	What people don't realize is how incredibly commercial these Olympic Games are.
	And people kind of gloss over it.
	They do?
	Yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	Are you kidding?
	I think people really believe in this whole, you know, oh, you know, it's our Olympic dream and you're representing your country.
	No, you're not.
	You're representing Visa and McDonald's.
	Yeah.
	In fact, I stumbled across, and I don't watch it often, but I saw Amy Goodman's show.
	She had some woman on who, she was clearly a Russian expert.
	And she brought on Samantha Retrosi.
	Samantha Retrosi, let me see, I have it here.
	She competed, I think, in 2006 in the Luge competition.
	And she wrote an article about how the Olympic Games are very similar to the Hunger Games.
	In fact, she says it's so eerily similar where we're all put into groups and it's really dog-eat-dog.
	And then she went into the whole commercial thing, and I thought it was great that this was on television, because you rarely hear anyone really telling the truth.
	Now, she is no longer an Olympiad.
	An Olympian.
	And I was quite surprised they even went this far on the Amy Goodman, what is the name of her show?
	Democracy Now.
	The War and Peace Report.
	Yeah, the War and Peace Report about the commercial, really how these poor boys and girls, how they're really trained by the International Olympic Committee to do one thing, and that's basically to shill for the advertisers.
	Well, as a U.S. national team athlete, I signed a contract every year with the U.S. Lugia Association, and that contract stipulated what I could and couldn't say, how I should use my media time.
	Essentially, I was being trained to be a spokesperson for Verizon.
	What would you say about Verizon?
	I loved it.
	What would you say about Verizon?
	They give great phone service.
	This is how dumb Amy Goodman is.
	She doesn't even understand the significance of this.
	No, I would say, thanks Verizon for making all my Olympic dreams come true.
	The realization of my American Olympic dream.
	This is it.
	This is exactly what it is.
	And I think people really don't see that, John.
	Amy Goodman is right over her head.
	She doesn't even get it.
	No, she's thinking the following.
	Golly, I wish we had everything.
	I could talk about their call quality all day long.
	That would be awesome, man.
	Crap luge bitch.
	Is enabled by Verizon.
	So that's kind of the line.
	It kind of defines how an athlete talks about their relationship to Verizon.
	Of course, it's not always that specific line.
	But during the Olympics, of course, you take on a whole other range of sponsors.
	The sponsors of the U.S. team in general, USOC, The Olympic Committee sponsors.
	Yeah, the U.S. Olympic Committee sponsors.
	I feel like Amy still doesn't understand the significance of it.
	It is a complete commercial event.
	Yeah, and everybody's working for free.
	But this girl has to get a part.
	Listen, she's going to say she has to get a job.
	And so then you become a spokesperson for those sponsors as well.
	So, you know, the sponsorship relationship and, like, the sponsors themselves are contingent upon the actual event, World Cup settings.
	Verizon was the main sponsor.
	The Olympics, you had the full range of U.S. teen corporate sponsorship.
	And yet, despite the fact that corporate sponsorship plays such a big role, you also point out that individual athletes, in fact, often have to take on other jobs just in order to support themselves because they see very little of that sponsorship money.
	Yeah, like zero!
	Very little.
	They get a free jacket.
	Yeah, well, I think they pay for their travel.
	But that's about it.
	And I'm always amazed that people don't see through this, like this big cultural event.
	No, it's not.
	It's not.
	It's just not.
	You're surprised.
	You're amazed.
	I'm sure you are.
	Well, no, I'm not really.
	You're right.
	You're right.
	But I really lost the Olympic fever with all of this, every single channel just filled with, tear this, tear that.
	Oh, it's going to be...
	Jane Harman was on CNN.
	Jane Harman, who looks like...
	She kind of looks like she should be on a 70s sitcom.
	Either that or she could...
	Yeah, she looks like the Partridge family.
	Yes, that's it.
	The Partridge family.
	Exactly.
	You nailed it.
	She's a former representative, and she is on drugs.
	This is new, though, because I've heard her make sense, but for some reason now she's working for the Woodrow Wilson building or foundation.
	I'm not quite sure what that is.
	Some think tank of some sort.
	Yeah, but she's also a contributor to CNN, and she's off a rocker.
	Jane Harman, you've seen all the reports of all the fears out there.
	Fear!
	Fear!
	Threat!
	Are we exaggerating?
	Are these overblown?
	What do you think, John?
	Are these exaggerating?
	Are these overblown?
	No, not by any means, bro.
	U.S. intelligence officials have told me they are deeply concerned.
	These are people who are not necessarily alarmists.
	They're not necessarily alarmists.
	Let me see.
	Mike Rogers, not necessarily alarmist.
	What's that other douchebag's name?
	Yeah, Peter King.
	Peter King.
	Well, I think we're prepared.
	These suicide bombers are whoever.
	Or whoever.
	You've got to listen to her.
	She's great.
	These suicide bombers are whoever.
	The garbage man.
	Whoever.
	Only have to be right once.
	We have to be right 100% of the time.
	100% is not achievable.
	Not achievable.
	We cannot do it.
	We have pre-positioned Department of Homeland Security, FBI, and military folks.
	What a waste of money.
	We have naval warships in the Black Sea, which abuts Sochi.
	It abuts.
	It abuts Sochi.
	We have others in the neighborhood, in the Mediterranean.
	And these are the right things to do.
	Yes.
	It's the right thing to do.
	It's the right thing to do.
	Yeah, just move all these multi-million dollar ships that cost a fortune to drive one mile.
	Let's just move them into position.
	For what?
	What are they going to do?
	Pound and pound the Sochi with cannon fodder?
	Yes, exactly.
	Fire.
	With cannons?
	Fire.
	Cannon shot?
	Yeah.
	Meanwhile, the Iranian fleet is sailing right into our waters.
	Like, hey, idiots up there abutting Sochi.
	It's a hard message to hear.
	Part of the message has to be what Janet Napolitano just said.
	Pride in our athletes.
	Yes.
	And the fact that the U.S. is, I think, likely to win a lot of golds.
	And that's a great statement for our country.
	She's high.
	I'm telling you, she's high.
	But it is a very dangerous world why Vladimir Putin would pick a place that, first of all, is warm.
	Now, Brolf is about to do something amazing.
	He's about to actually say, you're full of shit in CNN speak.
	Because she's going, why Vladimir Putin picked a place that is warm?
	Why Vladimir Putin would pick a place that first of all is warm, with palm trees, but that second abuts the wild west of Russia, the North Caucasus.
	It's the Wild West of Russia.
	Now, luckily, Brolf just can't take it himself.
	I guess he didn't toke.
	It baffles me.
	Well, it wasn't just Vladimir Putin.
	It was the International Olympic Committee.
	They approved it.
	They were the ones who selected it.
	You know, it feels like a vanity project for Putin.
	She's not having any of it.
	Shut up, bro.
	...dollars has really been spent.
	There's presumably a lot of corruption, and there could be penetration by people.
	Who cares?
	Black widows somewhere.
	Black widows!
	A person prepared to take her or his life has a much easier time attacking than somebody who wants to survive.
	Thank you for this fantastic insight.
	Let me review.
	A person who is willing to take his or her life is much more dangerous than someone who wants to survive.
	Let me scribble that down.
	Moron.
	She's always a dingbat.
	This is really bad, though.
	This has gotten crazy.
	Just keep her off the air.
	That's what she needs.
	No, she's got more.
	I got more clips from her.
	Not about this, about something else.
	She comes back all the time.
	It's like she's on CNN now.
	She should do a cooking show.
	Speaking of which...
	And...
	Well.
	What?
	Well, you know.
	Oh, yeah.
	Wait a minute.
	It's another installment of...
	Oh, okay.
	I'm sorry.
	I was kind of relishing the moment.
	Okay, we're going to go back to Sochi.
	That's okay.
	We can do Sochi.
	We're going to take a break right now, ladies and gentlemen.
	And I'm going to ask Adam the big question that I hinted about it in the newsletter.
	You've got your newsletters?
	Yeah.
	With the picture of the dog with the four eyes.
	Very nice.
	And I'm going to ask him now.
	So here we go.
	We're going to start the show off with a bang.
	Hey, Adam.
	Yeah, John.
	Hey, I heard that you had another O-Bot dinner.
	That's right, John.
	I sure am.
	Another installment, though.
	Dinner with the O-Bot.
	Yeah.
	We are right on cue today.
	Well, I must say it's been a while since we had a dinner with the Obots here in Austin, Texas.
	A reminder, these are my friends.
	Yes, and can I ask a question before you begin?
	Please.
	Did this include the guy who would not ever sit down and even have a coffee with a Republican guy?
	No, because he is not one of the Obots.
	I will, however, see him tonight.
	Oh, another dinner?
	Yes.
	Yes.
	Yeah, it's another dinner.
	Wow, back to back.
	Yes, this is actually a benefit dinner and we've been invited to his table.
	So we're joining him and his wife at his table for the...
	Nice.
	Yes, yes, yes.
	And I actually sent him a copy of the white paper that our Brian the Gay Crusader put together.
	He won't read it.
	He replied to my email and said...
	I'll take a look at it.
	I look forward to more heated debate.
	Well, maybe we'll look at it.
	But I mean, that's his premise.
	I look forward to more heated debate.
	Ugh.
	Were you having a heated debate with him?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, that's why I sent it to him over Christmas.
	Okay, you're sitting at the table.
	This is just something to put in the back of your mind.
	Usually, you're going to be sitting at the table.
	Your hands are going to be touching the table edge around the wrist area.
	No, no, no.
	I have my hands in my lap.
	Just once it's in the back of your mind.
	Okay.
	And that's going to be your position.
	The guy's going to be talking, yakking away.
	The wine glass will be about, I'd say, two feet from your right hand.
	In the middle of a sentence, you thrust your right hand forward in one motion.
	Grab the glass and throw it right in his face and then say, douche.
	Okay.
	Can you just thrust one?
	One fell swoop.
	I splash him in the face and say douche.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	You know, so we hadn't had one of these O-Bot dinners for a while.
	And what happened, as you know, I was a bit disappointed.
	And we had nice dinners, of course, but I was a bit disappointed and didn't have anything for the show.
	And what I learned is that these dinners were too close concurrently.
	So now we had a little more time.
	It was kind of like they went to the O-Bot juice machine and filled up their batteries.
	I see.
	Oh, man.
	You hinted in an email that you have good stuff.
	Well, it started off, so the evening before, I had seen two of the old bots, and one of the female bots said, Whoa, oh boy, Sochi, you're getting hacked!
	Everybody's getting hacked over there!
	Richard Engel, I trust him, he's from NBC! And that's exactly what she said, by the way.
	I trust Richard Engel!
	Now, are you going to tell us that it's already been busted?
	Well, but it hadn't been busted at this point.
	So the next day, which is our O-Bot dinner day in the morning, I send her the busted link.
	I say, um, hello, I told you that this guy is not to be trusted.
	It's completely bogus.
	I get an email back that says...
	Why don't you explain to the audience?
	I don't think everybody knows this.
	Okay.
	We actually played a clip from Richard Engel who was talking about the minute you open up your laptop or the minute you turn on your phone, you're immediately hacked in Sochi.
	He said Sochi, although he was actually in Moscow.
	Right, he was in Moscow.
	It wasn't an associate at all, and this whole thing was scripted bullcrap.
	It was completely scripted, or as he would say, yes, it was edited.
	That's why it looks kind of weird, because what they didn't show is that they went to bogus Olympic websites, which you arguably could have gone to from Austin and gotten to the same website, and of course that downloaded some malware, and he also sideloaded an app on his Android phone.
	Yeah, okay, yeah, that's kind of how you get viruses and crap that eats your...
	By the way, did you see that piece?
	Did you see the actual video of that piece?
	No.
	Oh.
	Okay, I'll put it in the show notes.
	Because he opens up a brand new MacBook Air.
	And you've seen a MacBook Air, how beautifully Apple packages these devices.
	And you peel off the little...
	It's kind of a ritual.
	You peel off the little sticker and the box opens and it says, From Apple.
	From Cupertino to you.
	The whole thing just says, Fuck me.
	I'm sorry.
	That's really what it is.
	It's just love.
	Lovingly put together.
	This guy, he's opening the box on camera.
	He's ripping the side open.
	He's like ripping the box open.
	Really?
	Very strange.
	Anyone who has had the pleasure of opening up a brand new Apple product knows how nice it is.
	He was just ripping it like a maniac.
	It's something to be seen because it really confused me.
	Why is this guy doing this?
	Anyway, onward.
	So I send the email and she sends back and she says, well, you know, to be fair, Richard Engel was on Rachel Maddow last night and he did say they were in Moscow.
	And I fired back.
	I said, wait, you watch Rachel Maddow?
	She fires back.
	If I were gay, I would marry her.
	So this is already starting off on a bad foot for me.
	Brother!
	Yeah, right.
	How is Rachel Maddow's neck big?
	How is it actually bigger than her head?
	Have you ever noticed this?
	Her neck comes out, and her neck is wider than her head itself.
	Yeah, it is.
	It's very weird looking.
	There's a guy, a TV host in Holland, who looks so much like her, it's scary.
	Oh, give me a photo.
	I'll do it and put it in the newsletter as I've separated at birth.
	Let's just Google this for a second just so you see it.
	Martin?
	So, M-A-R-T-I-J-N. I don't have my keyboard.
	Hold on a second.
	You don't have your keyboard?
	John, did you come to school without your keyboard again?
	It's on the ground.
	I've got it now.
	Mark what?
	No, M-A-R-T-I-J-N. M-A-R-T-I-J-N. Space?
	Space?
	K-R-A-B-B-E. Krabbe.
	And he hosts the voice, actually, in the Netherlands.
	The voice of Holland.
	He looks like a lesbian.
	Well, hello!
	Doesn't he look just like Rachel Maddow?
	There's one picture of him that I have on the screen.
	It's remarkable.
	It's frightening.
	Separated at birth, Martin Crabet and Rachel Maddow.
	It's a gem.
	Yeah, isn't it?
	Okay.
	So that's, anyway, yes, onward.
	So remember, we have the brain professor and his wife, Marianne.
	We have the artist who wants to marry Rachel Maddow and her husband.
	And by the way, I made killer crab cakes and shrimp.
	It was at your house.
	Yes, yeah.
	And Mickey had the crostinis all set up, good to go.
	So it was really quite nice.
	And so, you know, of course, we're talking about the weather.
	And I swear to God, she turned to me and went, you know, climate change, that's just global warming.
	You know that, right?
	They just use climate change now, but it's really global warming.
	You know that, right?
	I went, uh, I said, uh, yeah, but, you know, it's, and then the professor chimes in, no, no, you know, it's, come on, it's global warming, it has been warming, you know, this is fact, it's just science.
	And I was, I was, they know my stance on global, cool, they know this.
	Yeah, global cooling.
	But it was frightening to actually tell me...
	You know that climate change is just...
	It really means global warming.
	Okay.
	So I actually stopped and I waited and I said, I just want to go on the record.
	It's okay.
	I just want to say...
	I believe that global cooling is taking place.
	That's all.
	And I, okay.
	So there was no argument, but it was like they were having none of me.
	None of me.
	They were doing a preemptive strike.
	But it was a little aggressive.
	Yeah, well, they're sick of you.
	You mocked them on this show.
	I know who the artist is.
	I met her.
	And it's like, you know, I didn't know she was a huge Rachel Maddow nut.
	Yeah, I didn't know either.
	Okay.
	All right, go on.
	Let's go back to the media.
	All right, so we're back.
	Now, both these couples, and arguably we are as well, but are childless by choice.
	Wow, that's a good phrase.
	Isn't that good?
	This adds a very interesting twist to how they view the world.
	And it was kind of interesting at a certain point, because they were...
	Have you ever been around people who are childless by choice?
	Oh yeah, I know a number of them.
	There's two forms of these people.
	One is resignation childless by choice, which means they wanted to have kids.
	Right.
	But then there's the aggressive ones, the other style, which is they hate kids and they don't want to have kids.
	Whenever I see a child in first class, I already know I'm in for a horrible, crappy ride!
	Imagine cleaning your child's diarrhea.
	To keep this on the Tuberani style of discussion, which is a shaggy dog story, which we do very well, I might add, on this show...
	I've noticed the child is by choice and people who are pre-child and their relationship to children on an airplane is very interesting because I, for example, don't mind children.
	I don't like children sitting behind me kicking the seat.
	No, of course not.
	You can usually stop them.
	Yeah, you stop them, of course, of course.
	But I don't care about the kids screaming or crying or doing all these things because I had kids on planes that were my kids and I just think it's karmic justice and I kind of look forward to it.
	I say, ah, there's the kids screaming his head off.
	Mom is embarrassed.
	You can't get her to shut up.
	We had a flight once from Hawaii with J.C. Buzzkill Jr.
	when he was about four.
	And he, for some reason, he was always stubborn.
	And for some reason, we were trying to get him to get into the seat.
	And he let out a blood-curdling scream.
	It was so blood-curdling that, I swear to God, my wife would back this up, the entire airplane cracked up laughing.
	Great.
	And it was like, holy mackerel, I didn't even have that in him.
	But it's like one of those things that I don't, you know, and so I hate people that bitch about kids on planes.
	Yeah, me too.
	But this went a little, and Mickey and I are just being very quiet.
	And we're watching this back, because the conversation, it was very interesting.
	It was like, oh my god, can you imagine cleaning up your kid's diarrhea?
	Yeah.
	And so I hear this line and I said, you know, I never had a problem cleaning up my kid's diarrhea.
	In fact, when she was still in diapers, I'd stick my finger and pull it out if there was poop on it.
	I knew it was time to clean the diaper.
	You couldn't tell by the smell, I take it.
	Well, no, she pooped very sweetly.
	Oh, she was a sweet pooper.
	Yes.
	And so this goes back and forth, and then one of them says, oh, you know, I just realized you actually have.
	You're the only person here who has a kid.
	And I said, yeah.
	And I actually recited some of the...
	Remember we talked about the book about the joy of kids and how it turns out that it used to be an economic benefit, but these days it really makes people sad.
	It doesn't improve their lives at all because you have to make the kid happy.
	So I talked a little bit about that.
	I said, but I have to say that from a metaphysical, chemical, biological place, it's great.
	And of course kids are shit.
	They treat you like shit.
	They're a-holes.
	They forget everything.
	They make a mess.
	They break your stuff.
	But there's also beautiful sides to it.
	And then I said to the professor, I said...
	I said something in that realm, and he got really mad.
	There was anger.
	What did you say?
	It was basically about that.
	I think I said, you really might be missing something.
	You implied that they're bigoted.
	I didn't really, but the anger came back and I said, wow, you're angry.
	Why are you so angry?
	And then he let loose.
	He said, because all of our friends with kids are always telling us, we don't know what we're missing.
	And by the way, both these guys have vasectomies, just to make it even funnier.
	So they can't go back.
	This is interesting to me for a number of reasons, because I was doing some research on some Women on Twitter that are just haters.
	And they're this type, and they like to get their men, I won't mention who the one, I follow this one, she's a famous writer.
	And she likes, she will put a picture of her husband with a big female purse.
	And she'll say, I think men are so sexy when they have a purse.
	And you could do that, you read the accent from the tweet?
	That's pretty good.
	I like it.
	I think men are so sexy when they have a purse.
	Yeah, and I have a friend who I believe probably had a vasectomy because he was talked into it by one of these women.
	Wow, there's too many people in the world.
	There's too many people in the world.
	Get your balls chopped off, buddy.
	Well, let's know what a vasectomy is, I know.
	I don't want any letters.
	Right.
	Anyway, let me just move this forward a little bit.
	That would make you mad, because I think a vasectomy is like you...
	That's why I think he was mad.
	And Mickey's funny.
	At this point, Mickey's jumping in.
	And she's got a whole story unto her own about motherhood, but she says, oh, I would never, ever let Adam have a vasectomy.
	So she's like, hello, fire, here's gasoline.
	Oh, no!
	She's like, I would never want, I want him to always have the capability to produce more beautiful children.
	It's like, ah!
	It's like, poof!
	Now we've got...
	This is the key to this dinner.
	Mickey is the key.
	So now we have a five-alarmor.
	Now it's a...
	And so, well, eventually this simmers down a little bit.
	What?
	Hope?
	Yeah.
	And by the professor's wife, Marianne, she's like, I love your daughter.
	She met the kids when they were here.
	She's always really great.
	She is the funniest, and I'll get to her in a minute.
	I really love her for a number of reasons, because she comes out with the most insane crap.
	But before that, of course, it comes around to Russia.
	Now, I had sent the white paper Previous to this dinner.
	Had anyone read it?
	Well, the professor had said, yeah, I read like the intro, 10 pages, and yeah, you know, they hate gays.
	And then Marianne, Putin's a power-hungry dictator!
	I said, yeah, unlike George Bush, Dick Cheney, oh, you know, Bill Clinton.
	Yeah, he doesn't have any powerful people or money around those guys.
	Or maybe even Barack Obama.
	It was just, you know, oh, it's not possible.
	Well, you know, please give it a shot.
	And in his defense and the artist's husband, both of those guys read it and went, holy crap, what is wrong with our media?
	They did a little Facebook thing.
	Okay, so in their defense, they read it later.
	But they hadn't come prepared to my dinner, which was a little surprising.
	So as a part of this conversation about Putin being a power-hungry dictator, Marianne says, well, did you hear the Koch brothers are at it again?
	And I'm shitting myself.
	I said, what are you talking...
	Well, you can't deny the Koch brothers by the elections.
	With Adelson, I... Yeah, you saw how good Adelson really kicked some butt.
	Yeah, that worked really well, didn't it?
	Gingrich is president, right?
	Yeah, those Koch brothers, they got Mitt Romney in, didn't they?
	Good work!
	Yeah, they got Newt Gingrich in.
	That was Adelson's boy.
	Those guys are great.
	So somehow this now morphs into...
	Oh, I know how it happened.
	In my mailbox, shows up, and I'm ready for Hillary sticker, bumper sticker, which I'm pretty convinced Armando the mailman put in there.
	Yeah, he's like, all right, Armando, that's funny.
	And I tell the story, and then it's like, oh, post office, horrible, losing money.
	I'm like, oh, God, they don't listen to our show, do they?
	Actually, I kind of like the United States Postal Service.
	It's in the Constitution.
	It really is very important for privacy of documentation.
	Mary Ann goes, You go to the post office?
	And Mickey loves going to the post office.
	I have to say our post office here is, it's a drafty.
	But she has, you know, you know Mickey.
	She goes in, she's got everyone wrapped around her finger.
	You know, the big lesbian whose girlfriend or wife is in the military.
	She's got everyone's beck and call for Mickey.
	But Marianne says, oh, that post office, oh yeah, I love sitting there with all of Darwinism.
	What?
	All of Darwinism.
	Oh, jeez.
	Right?
	But I give her a pass, because she really is lovely.
	And then somehow we get into Islam.
	Now we're at dessert.
	And, you know, I said, well, it's been very interesting to see what's going on in Turkey and Syria and learning a lot about how things operate and the Ottoman Empire.
	And, of course, Mickey and I, we grew up in the Netherlands.
	We've seen how things have changed.
	And, you know, we talked about Belgistan.
	And what comes back?
	Oh, well, Islam is no crazier than Christians.
	Like, yeah, I think they might be.
	No, no, no, no.
	Fundamental Christians are just as nutty.
	Oh, religions are crazy.
	You got me on that, but this is something very specific that's going on.
	Could not get it past them, John.
	And then I made the big mistake.
	Wow, that means that, well, you're not, you know, they are reflective, of course.
	Of course, of course.
	And so their input to them, which would be, you know, we know what the inputs are.
	It must be extremely distorted, because we don't really deal with that as much.
	You actually deal with it only as, they're like a proxy for you, and you get a good sense of this.
	I'm in the Berkeley area, so essentially it's around me.
	Yeah, but they're in my house.
	The origins of this thought.
	And the funny thing is, I still really consider them my friends, and I really like them.
	But I'm aghast.
	They're not going to put up with you much longer.
	Well, no, I think they will.
	And what always happens is the next day, there's always like, wow, that was really great conversation.
	I learned a lot.
	Thanks for hitting me.
	They don't say hit me in the mouth, but they do reflect on it.
	But it was too long, and they came in, and they've been reprogrammed, and none of them really looked all that happy.
	No, no.
	They didn't really look happy.
	This perspective and point of view...
	And with the whole kid thing, you know, it's just...
	It's depressing.
	They're being nagged at by their peers.
	They've done something by choice.
	Not irreversible, but, you know, they've kind of chosen this path.
	Yeah, a lot of people do.
	Yeah, sure.
	But here's the thing about that.
	If you're going to make that move, that's why I think the gays can get away with being like this, because their entire milieu is reconfirming their belief system.
	If you're going to mix with people with kids...
	You're going to get a lot of flack.
	You're right.
	Because many people, you'll hear this a lot from celebrities.
	You hear it all the time.
	It's like, oh, I never wanted to have kids, but when I had kids, I wouldn't do it.
	I would always want to have kids forever.
	Well, it was also a, well, you know, we all came from shitty households.
	I said, welcome to the club.
	Everyone comes from a shitty family.
	All families suck in one form or the other.
	Anyway, so now we're near the end of the evening, and it went downhill.
	The professor brought up the Tom Perkins letter regarding the 1%.
	And I said, oh, that's interesting.
	On the show, I took Tom Perkins' side.
	Eyes could not have rolled further back in heads.
	And, of course, I defended my position.
	I said, yeah, look, you know, all I know is that the Germans didn't wake up one day and go...
	Hitler's great!
	Kill the Jews!
	Something else must have gone down.
	And literally, five minutes into this, people are standing up and like, did everyone run off because of the Jew talk?
	Like, no, no, we're tired.
	And that was the end.
	At least he didn't talk about Jew gas.
	I didn't.
	But I said, you know, there's something to be said for any persecution of any minority at any time.
	You have to be very careful, particularly if you're poo-pooing it.
	I said, Hitler was person of the year, man of the year on Time Magazine in 1935 or 37.
	I think he hit Time Magazine twice.
	Twice, yeah.
	You know, so we're poor students of history.
	Anyway, everyone thanks me, and they're out the door.
	You sound like, to me, you're argumentative.
	I had to be.
	I had to be.
	And I'm on their side on this, of course.
	But I didn't bring it up.
	I didn't bring up the Tom Perkins letter.
	I responded to it.
	Why did they bring it up?
	Who gives a shit what Tom Perkins does?
	I'll tell you how it came up.
	It came up In regards to...
	Because the artist used to work for Compaq.
	And that's how...
	And then, you know, talking about old days at Compaq.
	Of course, HP. And that's how Tom Perkins came up.
	And I said, you know...
	And she's like, Tom Perkins is a moron.
	I'm like, yeah, you know...
	So that's how we kind of got into it.
	And it was like, you know, John Doerr.
	No, there's a smart guy.
	I'm like, no, I had him on my board.
	I don't think he's all that smart.
	You know, he's okay.
	You know, but it's not like he knows anything about...
	You know, I've known Dore for a long time.
	I mean, I'm not friends with him by any means.
	But every time I'm around him, I don't know if this is with everybody, but he's always shaking.
	And he always...
	Have you ever looked at his fingernails?
	Is he biting them?
	Oh, yeah.
	No, he has to have Band-Aids on his thumbnail because he chews it all the way off down to, like, the bone.
	It's the most disgusting thing.
	Yeah.
	There's something to be said about people who do that.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	So anyway, I certainly hope that...
	Well, we have another...
	We've already scheduled our next dinner, so...
	I'm telling you, you're done.
	And I think what it is...
	Here's why...
	I do real-time analysis when we talk.
	A lot of stuff is just at the end.
	And in this case, it was your revealing that the two guys put themselves in the corner by having vasectomies.
	I think it was personal.
	I think it's something they didn't want everybody that listens to our show to know about.
	Of course, nobody knows who they are, but that's different.
	And I think you're going to eat shit for that.
	Well, hopefully it'll happen during the dinner, so I'll have some material for the show.
	We didn't appreciate you ridiculing us for a vasectomy and my high-pitched voice.
	I didn't ridicule anyone for a vasectomy.
	Nicky did.
	I didn't do that.
	Anyway, in the morning to you, John C. Dvorak.
	Hey!
	Hey, kids!
	In the morning to Adam Curry.
	In the morning, all ships to sea, boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, and all the dames and knights out there, and yes, I am prepared.
	Yes, and in the morning to everyone in the chat room, noagendastream.com, noagendachat.net, and in the morning to our artistes who always provide excellent art for us, Peter Quistgard, who I do not believe has had a piece chosen.
	He was the...
	Artists who succeeded for episode 489 to be the album art.
	But as you know, knowartgenerator.com, we choose lots of that art for newsletters, people printed out on coasters, on t-shirts.
	There's tons of cool stuff to be done with it.
	And all the art is highly appreciated.
	And of course, we could not be talking the way we speak on this show, for sure, this first half hour, if we had advertisers, if Verizon was sponsoring us.
	We'd have to talk about...
	How great Verizon phones aren't.
	This resectomy brought to you by Verizon.
	So instead we have...
	Just like your calls get cut off.
	Nice one, John.
	Good one.
	Rhymes with calls.
	So we do have a few people to thank.
	Yes, we do.
	Our executive producing group, including...
	We finally have our first...
	Oh, yes, indeed.
	Sir John Harrison, $600.
	Woo-hoo!
	First 600 clubber.
	Which is our sixth anniversary donation amount.
	Pinehurst, North Carolina.
	He gets two executive producer credits.
	One on the show 600.
	Loved your Saturday missives, John.
	I'll take...
	I like to move from cats to dogs.
	Yeah.
	I had a dog picture.
	Yep.
	A MILF would be better, but a dog isn't bad.
	Can I get a MILF, the grown-up one, for my lovely wife, Sherry, and a shot of job hunting karma for my son, John?
	Keep up the great work.
	We look forward to seeing Adam and Mickey at the Saturday Market.
	Thanks, John Harrison, Austin, Texas.
	Yeah, these guys are great.
	They actually moved from North Carolina to Austin.
	They now live in, they've moved, they came to visit, We met them at Halcyon.
	We had coffees.
	And we met them at the market.
	And they came back another time.
	And now they moved.
	They moved to Austin.
	We see them in the market all the time.
	And the first 600 club producers.
	This is great.
	Were they from...
	Is Pinehurst anywhere near a research triangle where all the spook research companies are?
	Totally.
	Yeah, and they're both...
	And so then they moved to Austin.
	Keep an eye on you.
	Yeah, keep an eye on me.
	They're both educators.
	Wink, wink.
	I'll bet they are.
	No!
	That's one mother I'd like to...
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	And his son.
	I've met his son, too.
	I think he's also moved his son.
	He's also in Austin.
	Interesting.
	Yeah.
	James Von Aken in Temple, Texas, another Texan, 36333.
	In the morning, John and Adam, I must say you guys create an outstanding product that keeps me entertained and informed during my drudgery at work.
	I believe you should share in the fruits of my labors as it is bonus time again for me.
	My wife keeps telling me to donate again.
	There you have it.
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	Please send some job karma as I'm interviewing for a new job and MILF. He wants the same thing.
	Exactly the same thing.
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	Well, I can do a little different combo.
	I can do the...
	His wife, Kate.
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	Do you really think they're pissed off?
	Do you really think they're going to be mad about the vasectomy thing?
	Yeah.
	They should have told me.
	Fools.
	Did they tell you they had a vasectomy on the spot?
	Yes.
	At the dinner they told you this?
	Yes, yes.
	They know that this dinner is discussed on the show?
	Yes, yes.
	Well, that's your out.
	That's my out.
	Yeah.
	That and a bulletproof vest is my out.
	And a helmet.
	They know this.
	You know, I have this situation with the economic hitman.
	And he says stuff that, you know, and once in a while I go, well, maybe I should...
	I'm going to tell this to all our...
	We have a lot of people that provide us with information.
	I'm going to make a blanket statement here.
	If you do not want us talking about something...
	Then don't talk to us.
	No, don't talk to us.
	Just stop.
	Well, you could do that too, but I will abide by a this is not to be discussed in caps.
	And put that at the top...
	Of your note in case we're reading something live on the air.
	Do you remember the guy who sent in the thing?
	And even though I didn't reveal his name, he was talking about heroin.
	And I said, oh, he's an addict.
	Or he was an addict.
	And we're making a joke about it.
	He got really pissed off about it.
	You made me sound like an addict.
	I'm sorry, you sent me an email.
	You said you were an addict?
	Yeah.
	If we don't use somebody's name, even though in some situations the person could be identified, I'm less concerned about it.
	Yeah, but you're right.
	If you do not want something discussed, say that.
	I still often, if I'm thinking about, I'll ask, is it okay if I use this on the show?
	I will, but it saves us a lot of time, saves another round of emails and all that stuff, so please do that.
	Yeah, and the other thing that you should know is that because we're a public distribution mechanism that acts as a news outlet, any mail sent to us is like letters to the editor.
	Yeah, true.
	And they can be used.
	Yes.
	With or without your name, but I mean, we're very circumspect.
	We really try very hard.
	We've been pretty good.
	And of course, I do PGP and GPG if you want to send something.
	The funny thing is, ever since I've been doing encrypted emails, I'd say 99% of all the emails I receive that are encrypted are completely not worth encrypting.
	Although everything's worth encrypting.
	I will say that up front.
	But the process for decrypting emails, if you haven't verified someone yet for the first time, you have to go through all this stuff.
	And of course, I don't have passwords set automatically to decrypt because that would kind of defeat the purpose when someone's banging on the door.
	So it's a little more work is what it is.
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	Ah, we finally left Texas for 22-22.
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	Our formula is this.
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	I think we need to talk about Victoria and Newland and Ukraine.
	Yeah, okay.
	And the reason why is because we have a jingle.
	Are we good or what?
	Wow.
	Yeah, that's Matt.
	Producer Matt.
	He's good, man.
	Do you know, if we were working at a radio station...
	Nailed it.
	Yeah, I know.
	And he also did a short one.
	So that was the long one.
	Then we just have a shorty to wind things up.
	If we were working at a real station, we'd have to have a meeting, call the production guy.
	Oh, yeah.
	Call the music bed guy from, you know, time.
	And legal.
	Pepper Tanner.
	Legal.
	We'd have to call legal.
	And it would be, beep the EU. And there'd be some debate with legal that our producer would have to take credit for winning.
	You know, if it wasn't for me, you know, legal would have probably shut this down.
	So I did such a great job because I argued with him.
	Exactly.
	Exactly.
	I have a couple...
	Do you have anything to start off with?
	I should ask you.
	Tell me what you got.
	Before we do the Newlands, or do you want to do the Newlands?
	Yeah, I want to do Newlands.
	I have the RT version, because RT is the one, and the Russians kind of, now they deny, they clip this, and nobody knows for sure, but we're pretty sure the Russians.
	I have a number of meta thoughts about this, but I want to hear yours first.
	So you can scoff at me?
	Sorry?
	You want to hear mine first so you can scoff at my ideas?
	I'm not going to scoff at anything, but what is it?
	No, no, no.
	RT Report, is that the one you want me to play?
	Yeah, play that and this will get us started.
	Alright, that's a long one.
	Okay.
	Our top story this hour, a scandal brewing as Washington's real stance on Ukraine may have leaked on the web and alleged phone conversation between U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and the U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine has appeared on YouTube.
	Let's get more from RT's Marina Portnaya live for us in New York.
	So Marina, what did the two allegedly discuss?
	Well, what you hear these two high U.S. officials discussing is literally putting members of the Ukrainian opposition, moving them around like as if they were playing chess, on how to configure a new government in Ukraine.
	The U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, Jeffrey Pyatt, and the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State, Victoria Nuland, were trying to figure out Who would fit best in what position?
	They said that one of the opposition leaders, Yatsinouk, is the guy with the economic experience and the best governing experience, that he's the guy that should be on the inside.
	They also mentioned Klitschko, another opposition leader, and one more, Tsini Bok.
	The two U.S. officials say that those are the guys that should remain outside of government.
	They even referenced Klitschko as a complicated electron in the circumstance of creating a new government.
	They mentioned even troubles that he's having in his marriage right now, how that could come into play with him having a role in the...
	Hold on a second.
	I have what I thought was the full call.
	I have not heard that about the marriage.
	Have you heard that bit?
	Yeah.
	Really?
	I think the two of us are going to come to pretty much the same conclusion about this whole thing.
	Did it end there?
	No, no.
	30 more seconds.
	The newly formed Ukrainian government, they spoke about keeping the moderate Democrats together.
	They also spoke about the fact that they need something to make their plan stick.
	Once a new government is formed, if it starts gaining altitude, they need some kind of symbolism, be it a U.N. figure to come into Ukraine, give a nod to it.
	They say if that doesn't happen, they said that the Russians could come in and torpedo any plans the U.S. is now putting in place for the new Ukrainian government.
	Okay.
	Now, of course, I left out the EU commentary because I think that was slightly a distraction, but anyway.
	Well, the real distraction, of course, is the actual fuck the EU that she says.
	That, of course, is the actual distraction.
	I want to just go to the very end of that call.
	I have it here.
	I have the whole thing in the show notes.
	I just want to go to the very end to understand.
	I heard some things.
	I just want to make sure that I'm hearing the same things that you were hearing.
	And in general, the way these people talk, it's almost like you and I wrote this skit.
	You know, it's like, what do you think Yat should do?
	Ah, screw that guy.
	Ah, you know, he should stay home.
	He should steady his history, his political tradecraft.
	We could have literally written this phone call.
	And particularly if we were to just go, fuck the EU. Which is how these people talk.
	And Victoria Nuland is a long-time elitist.
	The Council on Foreign Relations.
	She's been in intelligence.
	I think she was in...
	She might have even been in the agency, I think, for a while.
	Which kind of makes sense with...
	Her backgrounds are very spooky.
	Can you just check for a second while I rack this up?
	Was she in the CIA? I just had a thought about that.
	No, she was not.
	I can tell you right now.
	And, you know, fuck the EU. I think Psaki was.
	Psaki, right.
	So here's the fuck the EU. But then listen to what she's saying about...
	She talks about Jake Sullivan.
	Who is Joe Biden's national security advisor.
	She talks about Biden himself.
	And essentially what I hear her say, and then there's one word I want to focus your attention on.
	She's saying to the ambassador, I spoke to Jake.
	No problem.
	We got Biden to give the current Prime Minister an attaboy.
	I've seen this in Silicon Valley.
	You did a good job.
	You get an attaboy.
	You get $500.
	An attaboy.
	It's like a little rub on the head.
	Give an attaboy to the Prime Minister.
	So they're playing all sides of this.
	No, exactly.
	And I think we've got to do something to make it stick together because you can be pretty sure that if it does start to gain altitude, the Russians will be working behind the scenes to try to torpedo it.
	I love the mixed metaphor there, by the way.
	That's very strange.
	If it gains altitude, we're going to shoot a torpedo at it?
	Yeah.
	Really?
	That's a good catch.
	And again, the fact that this is out there right now, I'm still trying to figure out in my mind why Yanukovych did that.
	But in the meantime, there's a party of regions faction meeting going on right now, and I'm sure there's a lively argument going on in that group at this point.
	But anyway, we could land jelly side up on this one if we move fast.
	So let me work on Klitschko, and if you can just keep...
	I think we want to try to get somebody with an international personality to come out here and help the midwives of this thing.
	Yeah, so just so you know, this is very clear.
	They've got the Dutch...
	A former Dutch ambassador to Ukraine who wrote a book about Ukraine.
	That's the Sari guy who they're going to bring in, along with Ban Ki-moon.
	So they're literally saying, you know, we've got cover, we've got, you know, the United Nations is going to help us out.
	They're going to do the whole statecraft, tradecraft thing of essentially putting together the government that the United States wants.
	But here's the end is interesting.
	The other issue is some kind of outreach to Yanukovych, but we probably...
	So he's asking for outreach to Yanukovych, who's the current Prime Minister.
	...on that tomorrow as we see how things start to fall into place.
	So on that piece, Jeff, when I wrote the note, Sullivan's come back to me, VFR, saying, you need Biden, and I said, probably tomorrow for an attaboy and to get the deeds to stick.
	So Biden's willing.
	Now she says to get the deeds to stick.
	I Googled myself nutty.
	What I thought this might mean...
	The deeds, would that be the drilling right deeds?
	What other deeds could she possibly mean that need to stick?
	I don't know, but somebody that's overhearing this knows.
	And let me put right here what I think is going on as my basic metathesis on this.
	And this was triggered by a note that somebody sent me referencing some guy.
	I can't remember.
	It's not going to be in the show notes, but it's a news analysis site where the guy's going on condemning Newland for being an idiot because she must know that these conversations are being taped And once he said that, I said, oh, okay.
	Now, he didn't get this, but as soon as he said it, I got it.
	This is rehearsed.
	This was meant to be intercepted.
	They got lucky when the Russians ran it out, but this was a message to the Russians listening to try to manipulate the situation.
	The fact that it went public, I think, was just a bonus.
	And it got the benefit of the fuck the EU and all the other stuff.
	And the reason I suggest that this whole thing is rehearsed, it was designed to be overheard.
	It was designed to be snooped on because there's no way that they – in fact, this guy was right.
	There's no way that people at this level don't know they're being snooped on.
	So this whole thing is a rigged, bullshit conversation that was designed for the Russians to listen to, to tweak them a certain way, to push them this way or that way, or to get some sort of result.
	The rest, the fact that it went public, is just a triple bonus.
	They couldn't have asked for a better situation.
	Now they've got their message out there.
	We don't know what they're really trying to accomplish.
	Are they telling us that Klitschko is not to be one of the governors because they want him to actually build Or are they saying fuck the EU because they actually want the EU to get more involved and actually take in the Ukraine, which has got to be a great benefit for us because the Ukraine is literally a terrible place.
	And it would be just dynamite for them to become part of the EU and screw it up.
	It's like a poison pill.
	It's like, hey, want some cancer?
	And so you have – you don't know it, but if you look at it from the perspective that this is bull crap and they're just talking to be heard, to be listened to, to be eavesdropped upon, and the whole thing is manipulation at some very high level, and I – I was talking to Buzzkill Jr.
	about this, and I said, here's the key.
	My thesis may be wrong, but if Victoria Nuland doesn't resign or quit or get reprimanded, then my thesis is absolutely correct.
	And I've seen no evidence that she's in the hot seat for this.
	I like it.
	I came to that conclusion and another one.
	And it was mainly based on this soundbite from her that I thought there might be one other possibility.
	Other than to say it was pretty impressive tradecraft.
	The audio was extremely clear.
	So this is a giveaway.
	To me, I thought it's also possible this was an FU from one of the agencies to state.
	So that maybe NSA is kicking back at state slash CIA. To what end?
	I don't know.
	Just to say we can listen to anybody?
	Well, that's a possibility.
	Somebody suggested it was one of Snowden's buddies.
	Possibly.
	Or just somebody in the NSA. But I think it was two-pointed.
	I like that idea, that somebody's pulling a stunt lead.
	But I think they could have found something better than this.
	And this is really pointed.
	It's about one thing and one thing only.
	It's not about their sex life.
	It's not about anything really embarrassing.
	It's about the Ukraine.
	Yeah, but it's embarrassing to Newland, Definitely, all in all, state shill.
	It's embarrassing to Biden, because he's treated like a fluffer.
	I don't think it's embarrassing to Newland at all.
	No, the fuck the EU, that's embarrassing to her.
	I don't think so.
	I think that was done on purpose.
	Of course, I watched all of the State Department press briefings, and you can always count on some good questions there.
	Of course, Matt was asking some interesting questions, but then Ashad or Ashraf, whatever his name is, I forget his name.
	Yeah, the guy sounds like Matt.
	No, he's the guy in the back.
	He's kind of the soft-spoken guy.
	There's a guy in the front that sounds like Matt.
	Yeah, no, this is a different guy.
	On the issue of how you discuss things, do State Department officials routinely use encrypted phones, mobile phones, for their conversations so that comments like...
	That one do not become public.
	Well, Arshad, for obvious reasons, I can't outline for you everything that we do.
	I can tell you that data encryption is available for all Department of State employee-issued government-owned Blackberry devices, regardless of rank.
	All Department of State government-owned Blackberry devices have data encryption.
	However, they don't have voice encryption.
	And of course, as you know, I know you didn't ask this, but just to add one more additional point, Always interesting when the spokesman volunteers information.
	Classified processing and classified conversation on a personal digital assisted device is prohibited in accordance with department policy, which of course is not what this was.
	Now, I like this guy.
	By the way, this guy's voice is like Matt's.
	No.
	Yes.
	When him and Matt are talking back and forth, you can't tell who's what's talking.
	Here's Matt.
	And he's on the right.
	He's not way in the back.
	Here's Matt.
	Okay, now go to him.
	Okay, so they don't have voice encryption.
	The same cadence, you're right, but it's noticeably different.
	So nobody at the State Department has a phone where their voice...
	A mobile phone where their voice can be encrypted?
	I'm not going to outline it further for obvious reasons.
	I think we don't...
	What obvious reason?
	Why don't you say, of course, our shit's locked up.
	We need to convey every step we take and every precaution we take.
	That's the information I can provide to all of you.
	Does the Secretary...
	I think it's perfectly reasonable to ask if the Secretary of State has a mobile phone or access to a mobile phone near him or her.
	This is a good question.
	I think it's a very normal question.
	Does the Secretary of State communicate on encrypted phone lines?
	With voice encryption.
	I think it's perfectly reasonable to ask, but I think it's perfectly reasonable not to answer either.
	This is really weird.
	That's why I take this.
	Why is that?
	And he's not having it either.
	If you're not answering that about the Secretary of State, it leaves open the possibility that he or she does not, in fact, have access to an encrypted cell phone, which would suggest that all kinds of...
	This plays into your theory, John.
	They're honeypotting this thing.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, Carrie doesn't have any encryption either.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, take a listen.
	They're honeypotting.
	Secret, top secret, classified, private comments that he or she might make could be accessed by...
	Well, I just said that classified processing and classified conversation on a personal digital-assisted device is prohibited.
	Beyond that, all I'm conveying is that we're not going to outline every step and precaution we take and what we have access to, whether that's the secretary or anyone else in the administration.
	I think she's honeypotting.
	Now that I hear your theory, I'm thinking, yeah, no, no, no, we don't have any, we can't tell you about that.
	Yeah, no, this is very suspicious in every way.
	I'm in agreement.
	And she was totally impressed with the tradecraft, the quality of the call.
	Let's listen to that again, because she's saying that in a certain way that bugged me.
	Other than to say it was pretty impressive tradecraft, the audio was extremely clear.
	Yeah, it was clear.
	It was very, very clear.
	What is she trying to say?
	I think she may be condemning our own people for not getting stuff.
	Dude, you made it sound too good.
	And it's probably not as good as this.
	What are the Russians up to?
	No, I think it's different.
	I think what she's saying is...
	You made it sound too good.
	To make it sound like you're tapping us, for Christ's sake.
	No, you might be right.
	It's kind of a reverse thing.
	It sounds like you're on a conference call with us.
	It sounds like it's in the room.
	By the way, it was probably on a conference call.
	That's exactly how it sounds.
	Because if you listen to the recording, both her and the ambassadors are equal in quality.
	What do you think?
	That sounds like a conference call.
	It's just a third-party conference call.
	It sounds like you're using one of those conference systems.
	Yeah.
	One of those free ones.
	1-800-CONFERENCE-CALL. Probably.
	I like your theory.
	I like it.
	I really wanted to try and shoehorn it into mine, but I think yours is much better.
	Makes a lot of sense.
	Now, the fact that she's not resigning or getting fired, I mean, that's kind of par for the course of State Department.
	You can have your ambassador killed and you don't have to resign.
	Yeah.
	We just move to another job.
	That gives us a different model.
	We just move to another job.
	I think the thing that has to be done now is to reevaluate what is being said with it in mind that this could all be just misdirection, disinformation.
	They're saying one thing because they want the Russians to do something else.
	And then if you want to go one step higher...
	Maybe the Russians actually sense that this is, because they're not idiots, they sense that this is bullcrap, and that's why they released the thing in the first place.
	No, I want to stick with your theory, because essentially it is a move, and Putin is at, it's his move, he has to make a move.
	If he doesn't, just from a, I'm taking my shirt off and hunting down this tiger perspective, he has to do something.
	It's like poking the gorilla through the cage with a pencil.
	Don't you think he has to say something?
	He's going to have to.
	Well, I don't know.
	Did you watch him in the Olympics when he was seated in the middle of everything?
	Yes, of course.
	He was thinking about something.
	He looked preoccupied to me.
	You can never tell with these guys.
	That's true.
	And he's pretty stone-faced, generally speaking.
	But I don't know.
	Yeah, he has to do something.
	This clearly justifies some form of intervention in Ukraine.
	He has to make a move.
	Even the president.
	Wow, it's kind of coming together.
	I don't have a clip of it.
	The president was interviewed by Bob Costas.
	Which was a very funny interview because Bob Costas has like this stink eye and one eye is closed.
	Yeah, his eye is closed because he's got an infection.
	And the president looks like he's been smoking 15 doobies.
	Yeah, the president, everyone thinks he was stoned.
	I don't think he was stoned, but he looked tired for sure.
	And at the very end, the president says, well, you know, Putin, he likes to sit there and play the tough guy.
	You know, that's kind of his shtick.
	Can you imagine someone saying that about our president?
	Hey, being a stoner douchebag is a shtick.
	Shtick.
	Shtick.
	I think they're poking him.
	And if so, I have to say, bravo.
	Very, very smart move.
	Yeah, they also gave the EU a little what if.
	And they deserve that.
	No, that's what I was going to say.
	Newland's great.
	I have to say she's great.
	If that really was set up that way, and I think she has it in her, she's been around, man.
	Did you look her up or not?
	Yeah.
	Oh, no, I didn't know she's not an agency, but everything else smells of it.
	And if you've got to, actually, you have to go look it up.
	You have to go to the Wikipedia and look at just to see her picture in the Wikipedia.
	All right, everyone do this at home if you're in the car.
	This is a picture of a girl who's having too much fun.
	And it's funny because she's very cute, but when you see her whole body, which we haven't really seen because she's always behind the lectern, she's like Humpty Dumpty.
	I'm sorry to say it.
	I mean, I don't like this.
	Yeah, she could use a little...
	She could do a little spin class.
	Okay, daughter of Yale bioethics and medicine professor.
	Okay.
	Coat Rosemary Hall.
	Is that like some huge, like, elite...
	Well, she went to Brown.
	Okay, Brown is spook heaven.
	I have no idea.
	She speaks Russian, French, and some Chinese.
	Hello, didn't know that.
	Senior Office of Foreign Service.
	Spook.
	Hello.
	Worked for both Democratic and Republican during the Bill Clinton.
	She was Chief of Staff to Secretary of State, Strobe Talbot.
	W. Bush, Principal Deputy Foreign Policy Advisor to Cheney.
	Okay, she's in the zombie crew.
	U.S. Ambassador to NATO. That's the military-industrial complex.
	Special Envoy for the Conventional Armed Forces in Europe.
	Yeah, she's...
	And in terms of manipulation, you have to remember she's married to Robert Kagan, who is a Brookings guy, and he's the founder of the Project for the New American Century, a right-wing deal convict.
	Well, no, these are the guys that said we need a new Pearl Harbor before 9-11 took place.
	Unfortunately, they wrote that before 9-11.
	Gee, yeah, we need a new 9-11, and we need to blow up Syria.
	That's also in the...
	I need to review those documents again, the PNAC, because there's a lot of stuff in there that I think is happening now.
	I know Syria was listed in PNAC because we have to rebelize it.
	It wouldn't surprise me if there's something in there about Ukraine and Belarus and all these other in-between countries.
	I had a clip of Matt.
	I don't remember what it is.
	Let me just listen for a second.
	He was bitching about something in regards to this as well.
	Yesterday and Toria's phone call, you've seen the comments from Chancellor Merkel's spokesperson saying that this is unacceptable.
	Do you have any thoughts on that?
	Do you agree?
	Yes.
	Well, I think if Toria were standing back here again, she would convey to you that she apologized, obviously, because that doesn't reflect how she feels about our relationship with the EU. It's also important to note that she's been in close touch with EU officials since then, not about this, but about work we're doing together on Ukraine.
	So we have a long and enduring relationship with Germany.
	The Secretary was just there last week, as you know, and discussed a range of bilateral issues we work on, and we expect we'll be back to business as usual with them as well.
	Right, but in the phone call she did to say...
	F Germany.
	She said F the EU. Exactly.
	Yes.
	I love Matt.
	He's really good.
	I felt the same way.
	And Merkel, you say, fuck the EU, which is what she said.
	And why is Merkel all of a sudden?
	Why is Merkel jump up as though she was personally offended?
	Uh-huh.
	That was, as they like to use in the big magazines, that was telling.
	That was telling.
	Chilling, yet telling.
	Totally.
	I am familiar with what she said.
	Right.
	So it's a broader thing here.
	I mean, what is your response?
	I mean, do you think that Merkel is, that the Germans are taking this, blowing this out of proportion?
	I mean, what would your response be to her?
	Is it the diplomatic equivalent of, like, lighten up Angela or something?
	What is it?
	I think we're just conveying that obviously we've moved forward in our relationship with the EU. Yeah, yeah.
	Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
	All right.
	We close it out?
	Well, I do have one thing because it's not better than that clip, but I do have one more little clip here that came from also Pataki, Saki, whatever her name is.
	I keep saying Pataki when it's Saki.
	Saki.
	It starts with a P. It's Saki.
	Jim Saki.
	And by the way, they're doing a different angle on her.
	You must look at the video.
	She has her hair.
	Now, she has kind of one of those, you know what it is?
	It used to be like a posh spice.
	No, what's her name?
	Victoria Beckham.
	Yeah, Beckham.
	It's kind of cut down, so it's longer in the front, but it's a very straight edge cut.
	And they're catching her on a different angle, which I'm sure someone thought about it.
	She looks kind of cute in this new shot.
	She's interesting because she worked for the agency, so she looks like she's a field agent.
	She's got all these different looks.
	She'd never recognized her on the street.
	She's perfect.
	And she's redhead, so she has no soul, which is great for being a spokesperson.
	And you can tell when she tries to be funny.
	Now, this thing I got, Sasaki is an idiot.
	I want to set it up.
	This was the...
	And this is actually two clips put together.
	This was the clip...
	There were two clips with a little conversation in between, used on RT. So RT, when they were doing their package, believed that these were the most important clips, and one of them just seemed to ridicule the woman for having no sense of humor with that stupid joke about the fishing boat.
	And I just thought it was, again, telling...
	That they would think these clips from, because you had different clips completely.
	I thought you were going to actually have one that is part of one of yours, but generally, but the RT people for some reason thought this was important.
	She's been in close contact with EU High Representative Ashton.
	Also, let me convey that she has been in contact with her EU counterparts and, of course, has apologized.
	But...
	For these reported comments, of course.
	So you're not confirming that the comments are accurate?
	I saw this.
	It's very funny.
	I'm just not going to speak to a private diplomatic conversation, Arshad, but I'm obviously speaking to the content of the reports.
	You may know the story of how she lived on a Russian boat for about eight months when she was 23, and she learned how to perfect...
	Perhaps certain words in a couple of languages.
	So perhaps it speaks to that more than a pervasive viewpoint.
	You're not suggesting that she has a predisposition against Russia.
	No, I was suggesting that she learned Russian curse words and curse words on the fishing boat.
	This was in English.
	I was making a joke about her learning curse words on a fishing boat.
	Okay, all right.
	Memo to Department of State.
	We'll do the jokes.
	Unbelievable.
	And I did hear that.
	But I like the one woman who took it out of context.
	Does this mean she hates the Russians?
	It's beautiful.
	Media work.
	It's beautiful.
	Hey, meanwhile, how about all those athletes protesting about the gays, huh?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Nothing happening.
	Let's close this segment out.
	out.
	I love that.
	That's one of our better ones.
	That's an evergreen.
	It's a gem.
	It really is nice.
	Dozens of gay protesters were arrested, John, two days ago in Idaho.
	I have to play this clip.
	This is from the Gay News because Andy Hump got a copy of the thing.
	He looked like he was on the show.
	Wait, wait, wait.
	What did you just say?
	Andy Hump got a copy of the thing?
	What is this?
	Of the paper.
	Our white paper?
	Our white paper.
	Oh.
	And he looked, he would never respond to it, but he looked perplexed during the, because they were doing their, like your Obama bots, you have a perspective and you stick with it and screw the facts.
	Who cares?
	And he just didn't seem himself.
	But this, I have to play, this is the clip that they were discussing some of the, some company got mad and they pulled out of their sponsorship and some nobodies, I don't even remember who they were, I don't have the clip of their name, but He does have another, he mentions another major protest, which I will then describe for you because a picture was flashed on the screen.
	IOC sponsors, or the major Olympic sponsors, but they're the first major corporation to condemn the anti-gay laws in Russia.
	The first!
	First, you'd think by now someone else in the corporation would have condemned these laws.
	Also condemning it, second corporation, DeVry University, which you see advertising on TV and you think is cheesy, but in fact, many Olympic athletes are students of DeVry University.
	So there was a protest against all this in London.
	We have a picture of it.
	Very creative.
	They did Swan Lake.
	Outside the Russian embassy there, in protest of the Sochi Olympics and the anti-gay laws in Russia, also out of London, the UK Observer is calling for same-sex kissing from the podium in Sochi, and the waving of rainbow flags.
	And the British government announced...
	Yeah.
	This is not going to happen, people.
	No, and it's actually ludicrous.
	Now, this protest in front of the Russian embassy in London...
	Four people.
	Swan Lake with four people?
	Four people dressed in blue tights and tutus with stuff written across their chest and they were dancing around.
	These four people.
	And this is newsworthy.
	So no, this is a fail, in my opinion.
	Well, it's a fail, but I think it's wildly successful.
	Here?
	Yes, here.
	Brian, the gay crusader.
	So this is his first real journey into the world that we live in every single day.
	He sends me a story an hour.
	Apparently, you know Grindr?
	You ever heard of Grindr?
	The app?
	Grindr?
	G-R-I-N-D-R? Oh, right.
	Grindr is the gay hookup app.
	And it uses geolocation and unreliably informed.
	For stalkers, a heterosexual version of this has never appeared because it would be probably illegal.
	Yeah.
	But for the gay guys here, it's very, very popular.
	And there's a version of this in Russia, and the Daily Mail wrote this whole article.
	It's totally bogative, of course.
	If you use this app in Russia, it pops up and says, you can be arrested because, you know, you're propagating gay propaganda.
	Section 6, with a K, by the way.
	They even misspelled it.
	And so they have all these screenshots.
	Yeah.
	There's a story a day here in the United States, and everybody is just so all in.
	I've given up.
	I'm not going to tell anybody what I think.
	I gave up right away.
	You know me.
	I'm an idealist, John.
	You can pass the thing around.
	I think there's a little paper.
	That's the best thing, and if people read it, great.
	We did get a nice email back from the two Yale professors who had written an op-ed in the Washington Post.
	Saying, hey, you know, do you know how bad it is in America?
	Are you crazy?
	And it was almost like they had read the white paper they had, and Brian sent it to them, and they went, oh, crap, this is great.
	They're not going to follow it up, because, you know, they got tenure.
	They don't want to ruin their careers.
	No.
	No one wants to do it.
	That's why, this is why, the only reason why we can do this.
	We're the only people who can do this.
	And then Pussy Riot, this is funny, Pussy Riot did a show with Madonna, Amnesty International, which of course is State Department, run and funded, so they all hate Russia.
	And this is the liberated duo, but the rest of the band has disowned them.
	They're not even allowed to use the name Pussy Riot.
	They're not real, they've been hijacked.
	I didn't know this.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Let me see if I... Yeah, it's in the show notes.
	It's pretty funny.
	Okay, six members of Russian punk rock collective, Pussy Riot, have signed an open letter insisting Maria Alyokhina and Nadzeza Tolkononovia not be billed as members.
	It said the two had forgotten about the aspirations and ideals of our group.
	The pair performed alongside Madonna at a concert in New York on Wednesday.
	Of course, Madonna's always there.
	And she means well, but she's misguided.
	These two were jailed for two years after singing a protest song in Moscow, known as Masha and Nadia.
	The six members of the collective who signed the letter, and all their names, they said the group belonged to a leftist anti-capitalist ideology, but the pair had become institutionalized advocates of prisoners' rights.
	Unfortunately for us, they are being so carried away with the problems in Russian prisons, they completely forgot about the aspirations and ideals of our group.
	feminism, separatist resistance, fight against author-torianism, author-torianism, author-torianism, moratorianism, personality cult, all of which, as a matter of fact, was the cause for their unjust punishment.
	And they say, hey, our performances are always illegal, staged only in unpredictable locations.
	We would never do a set-up thing billed as here's Pussy Riot.
	Right on, girls.
	Absolutely.
	This is a legal performance.
	So they've been disowned.
	They're not even pussy riot.
	Well, the thing is, though, you have to say they've got their taste of prison and then they saw the injustices and now they're actually doing something that's not just a general bullcrap, you know, political statement.
	We're against it.
	They're actually focusing now, which I think is probably a positive thing for those two women.
	I think you're better off, if you're one of these types, these activists, to find a problem and focus on it and do something about it rather than just bitch.
	Yeah, yeah, that's true.
	So anyway, for me, the games are ruined.
	There's too much terrorism talk.
	They just started!
	No, too much terrorism talk.
	Black Widows 2.0.
	We're all going to blow up.
	Gay this, gay that.
	By the way, did you catch the opening song?
	And this, I thought, was the funniest.
	When they opened the ceremony, the song was by a group called Tattoo.
	Are you familiar with Tattoo?
	No.
	Google T-A-T-U. In 2000, they had a huge hit, and they're not really lesbians, but they portray lesbians in their video clip.
	They're Russian.
	Russian lesbians.
	This is like the ultimate F-U. Like, hey, Wes, here's our lesbian song.
	Oh, yeah, they look like pretend lesbians.
	Right, but I thought that was cool.
	Well, the other thing is they had, in the second half, where they had the really spectacular showing after they marched all these athletes out, they had just an outrageously gay ballet that they presented.
	I don't remember which ballet it was, but there was this one ballerina, and she was flirting with these two guys, a fat guy and a soldier, and then the fat guy and the soldier were going to get together.
	They looked like they were going to become gay lovers, and then she broke them up.
	And then there was a third guy who looked like a guy from the YMCA group, a village people.
	And he was in there.
	And now they're having these guys.
	There was three guys and a girl.
	It looked like some sort of a sexual thing.
	And it was just all, it was just, and nobody, of course, they noticed.
	Can I make a suggestion?
	Can I make a suggestion?
	Get out of the house a little more?
	I don't know what you're seeing in all of this.
	I'm telling you, I actually have it.
	I kept it on the DVR because I knew you'd say something like that.
	I'm going to send it to you on a DVD, and I want you to tell me I'm wrong about this.
	This was a homoerotic ballet.
	Hello, it's ballet.
	Ballet is, by definition, homoerotic.
	Well, this was over the top.
	And it's beautiful.
	Although I find that ballet, sometimes...
	I can do Broadway musicals, no problem.
	Ballet gets a little old for me.
	It's all...
	And I like the athleticism of it all, but...
	I look at those guys' pants and I'm like, why am I sitting here?
	I'm inferior.
	I'm inferior.
	Completely inferior.
	I'm a loser.
	You're using socks.
	No, that's not true.
	No.
	Well, those guys work out a lot.
	Yeah, that should be it.
	And I don't work out at all.
	I'm on that bike all the time trying to, oh, come on, grow, grow, grow, grow.
	I see we both got the, well, my clip is titled Sarajevo.
	Your clip is called Bosnia is Next.
	Let me see.
	I'll play yours first.
	Mine's just a short clip.
	Those are the headlines this hour here on Fransvengat.
	I'm Shona Bhattacharya.
	Thanks for joining us.
	Protesters fought with riot police in Bosnia's major cities in the third straight day of unrest.
	Large crowds set fire to government buildings, including the presidential palace.
	Around 145 people were injured, more than half of them policemen.
	I'll play mine.
	Hold on.
	The situation at the moment in Sarajevo is pretty tense, especially in the city center.
	The entrance and some parts of the presidency, the famous presidency building, are on fire.
	Every single police vehicle in the round has been also burned down.
	And the looting and the rubbering is taking place in the center of Sarajevo, including the very popular shopping mall in the heart of the town.
	To my mind, there are two major reasons for these protests.
	This is the poverty and injustice.
	Bosnia has more than 40% of unemployment rate, and it's the number one for the corruption in Europe.
	The people are very unsatisfied with it, and they are demanding changes, demanding law to take place.
	Yeah, rebelization, I think, is in play.
	Yeah, and when they set the White House on fire, you know something's up.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, rubbleization.
	Rubbleization.
	It's probably needed.
	Bosnia, they just got done being rubbleized.
	Well, they weren't rubbleized enough.
	It's very, very sad.
	And we can bring our guys in there to rebuild the thing so it looks like another Bechdel operation.
	These modern cities that we're putting up here and there are like...
	Before the Chinese do, I guess.
	Based on our previous conversation about heroin and fentanyl and Narcan, we received a couple of emails, which I think will be kind of interesting to go through.
	It's kind of off the news, but once the Olympics are over, then we'll get back.
	I guess Hoffman...
	We've got the Academy Awards coming up, so it'll be talked about again.
	Oh yeah, they'll have a big tribute to him.
	So he's one of our producers who says, most people I know that are addicted, and as it turns out, we have a fair amount of people who have had or are having their experiences with all kinds of narcotics, legal and illegal, and also Narcan.
	But this particular producer says, Most people I know that are addicted had their first exposure to opiates at the dentist.
	Vicodin is the number one prescribed drug in the country.
	Generic name, hydrocodone.
	They get you hooked.
	If you want to get clean, you have to get addicted to another drug like suboxone or methadone.
	And he goes on to say, Doctors, just a business like everybody else.
	Just gotta keep pushing it all the way through.
	And I found that to be interesting that Vicodin would be the gateway drug.
	Yeah, don't you think so?
	I've had Vicodin.
	Yeah, you take a pill once in a while.
	Yeah, but I literally got it from the dentist, which is kind of funny, but I didn't get hooked on it or anything.
	Um...
	But here's the story that turned me on the most.
	Part of my thesis is that perhaps we are poisoning the heroin supply to get people back to the expensive pharmaceuticals.
	It turns out, in 1926, the United States government poisoned alcohol Which resulted in 30,000 people dying, I think, in like a month, to get people off of the illegal stuff and prepared for...
	You know, to get them out of the speakeasies and to prepare them to either, I guess when the 21st Amendment was passed.
	When was that passed?
	That was, I don't know exactly.
	It was after World War I, I think.
	Yeah, both.
	Yeah, both.
	But this article very clearly, because of course there was a lot of denaturing of alcohol so people couldn't just take, you know, there was alcohol around, but the government and states of course would poison it, but denature it so that it wouldn't really be tasty or drinkable at all.
	But this article very clearly lays out how the government was complicit in actually poisoning alcohol to get people to not use the illegal product.
	Which I didn't know they had done.
	I didn't know that until right now, but it doesn't surprise me.
	This is classic government looking out for you.
	That's poison the public.
	Of course.
	Maybe that'll help our cause.
	In the 70s, the government sprayed the Mexican marijuana fields with paraquat.
	Right, which is toxic.
	Mm-hmm.
	Paraquat is interesting.
	When I worked as an air pollution inspector, I had the Standard Oil Chevron Chemicals made Paraquat.
	I don't even know if they make it anymore.
	Unfortunately, it was a nasty product because it had the consistency that looked like Coca-Cola.
	Every year, a number of people died because they saw it in a bottle or something and they thought it was Coke.
	Just one little sip of it and you're done.
	Anyway, onward.
	Yeah, so I thought that was interesting to note that that is not foreign for our government to poison the supply to get people off of it.
	And I was watching the McLaughlin group, and normally Eleanor is a total twat.
	And I don't have a clip of her because she was just so good it wasn't even funny.
	She had it down.
	She's like, oh, people are getting hooked on the prescription drugs.
	Either the doctor takes them off or whatever.
	It's just cheaper for them to go to heroin.
	She had it completely down.
	She knew exactly what was going on.
	Pat Buchanan, on the other hand, Either he's a total moron, possible, or he's lying purposely.
	Outlawing heroin will at least save some people from taking one.
	It ain't going to save more.
	You would probably not know this, but the U.N. has been sounding the alarm about increased opium production in Afghanistan.
	But the White House did not connect the dots.
	Forget the U.N., for heaven's sakes.
	Everybody knows it.
	Frankly, you know who finished off the drug business in Afghanistan?
	The Taliban outlawed it and burned up all those fields and everything.
	And they lost the population, and they decided now they embrace the poppy fields.
	Does he really think that's true?
	I don't know what he thinks.
	The guy's unbelievable.
	He ran for president.
	Well, okay, then yes, he must believe it, because that's about the level of the intelligence of our presidents.
	Anyway, so just to finalize my addiction segment here, I have been searching for some backup to my thesis that Facebook is a gateway drug.
	Ah!
	And I have found a Harvard study.
	Very interesting.
	We did MRI scans.
	And they did MRI scans of people.
	A lot of it's about the anticipation, by the way, of getting a notification that someone has commented on your thing or your like.
	But the MRI scans of patients waiting for Facebook feedback and playing a slot machine and those using cocaine look exactly the same.
	That makes sense.
	Self-disclosure.
	And the people who are Facebook addicts seem to have an addictive personality to begin with.
	Yeah, I don't know.
	I don't have any...
	I have no research on that yet.
	But I did get this.
	This is from the...
	Is this the MIT? No, this is the Harvard study.
	Self-disclosure is strongly associated...
	Self-disclosure.
	This is what you do on Facebook.
	Self-disclosure.
	Strongly associated with increased activation in brain regions that form the mesolimbic dopamine system, including the nucleus accumbens and ventral tegmental area.
	People were even willing to forego money to disclose about themselves.
	So my thesis, and I think what's kind of interesting, if you have a friend or a family member who uses Facebook and they're on it a lot...
	Look over their shoulder.
	They just say, hey, can I just watch where you scroll through your news feed?
	And observe what they're doing.
	Because what you will see is that nothing you will see there is of any interest to you.
	Zero.
	And I'm convinced if I were to do it, if I was doing Facebook and someone else would look who's a Facebook addict, they would find nothing of interest because it's not about actually what you're reading.
	It is 80% about affirmation Being made to feel good because you have a lousy life and you're depressed and the Olympics suck and you have a vasectomy.
	Whatever the problem is, and it's a lot more these days, Facebook is a drug.
	It functions like a drug where you post something about yourself, which is always a lie.
	Amazing cupcake.
	Beautiful sunrise.
	I love this analysis of yours for this, by the way.
	Nothing is funnier.
	I really believe there's something going on here.
	No, I know you're dead serious.
	That's why it's so good.
	Because everything you say is accurate.
	I don't use Facebook, but I know people who do.
	I said it before.
	And yeah, this all makes nothing but sense to me.
	Which is probably one of the reasons I dislike it so much.
	Me too.
	Me too.
	And Twitter is not the same, by the way.
	It is not the same.
	Because the first thing you do is you collect your friends, right?
	This is not really broadcasting.
	This is, because if you do something on Twitter, you know, you get a retweet, big whoop.
	But you want your friends and your family and your distant friends who are, you can't have more than 5,000.
	And by the way, you rank them, you know, it's like you have acquaintances, so you'll see their stuff more often.
	And I think this is why Google Plus is not working.
	Because you need this.
	The plus one, they tried to do that, but they've messed up the whole friend thing with the circles.
	That's where Google Plus, they didn't understand.
	And I think Facebook, Zuckerberg is a genius.
	If you've never seen the movie or heard the history...
	I agree with this theory, too.
	They started this thing out making it with algorithms.
	If you saw the movie, it drew the algorithm on the window so that you would see people that you would be attracted to, would be interested in.
	And so they're very, very smart, and they made this crack, this drug.
	It's like snow crash.
	It really is...
	Excuse me.
	That's something in my throat.
	It truly is built to trigger your mechanism, trigger your brain.
	I'm very curious how Paper is going to work, which is their new app.
	I haven't played with it at all.
	Because it looks like that is much more of a consumption...
	Versus what is really the drug, and that is the post something about your lousy, miserable life.
	If you have nothing to say, then you can always post one of those pictures, a kitten, or some joke, or a link to something unbelievable!
	You want those?
	This is crazy!
	So that people will then reshare it and like it.
	And I know a lot of people...
	And friends on Facebook are very, very smart people.
	And I can see they're depressed.
	They are depressed and they need the feedback loop.
	It's a necessity.
	And it's very, very unhealthy in my opinion.
	Very, very unhealthy.
	And particularly if, like most teens, you like drinking energy drinks.
	You know, add some Red Bull to that.
	You're hyping.
	Your whole body is up just going nuts.
	And you get this, you know, this little, oh, I got a like.
	Oh, I got a comment.
	And by the way, likes.
	And you can, John, maybe you can observe this if you know anyone who has Facebook.
	So people will scroll through their timeline, and when they really can't be bothered to make a comment, but they really do want that person to like them later, you click like.
	I've got to click like, otherwise he won't like my stuff.
	Yeah, no, the whole like thing, I think, is somewhat nauseating.
	Like us on Facebook.
	And the other thing, I've said it before, I'll say it again because I like saying it, which is I hate any website or initiative or software that says sign in using Facebook.
	And I've run into ones that won't let you sign in using anything.
	You have to have Facebook.
	Bull crap.
	Yeah, this happens a lot.
	Other apps that you can't, but that's because...
	Why would another app want you to do that?
	It makes no sense.
	Yeah, it does.
	Because when you do that...
	Makes no sense to me.
	Oh, then you need to do a little research.
	In the development program, if you do that, you get all this information about these people because you get to have all the things they've posted, their movies, their preferences, their sexual preferences, their status, their school, their friends, their friends' information.
	You should look it up.
	If you use the Facebook login and you're in the developer program, you get so much info.
	I mean, tons of it.
	And that's why they do it, man.
	And, yeah, sure, there's some ease of use, but, really, it's all about just getting information so that you can, you know, satisfy your venture capital investors.
	You're telling me that when I'm at some site that's, you know...
	Sign in on Facebook.
	They want me to sign in on Facebook so they can further exploit me or get book on me or figure out...
	Yes.
	Let me ask you...
	Screw them.
	Let's look at the equation differently.
	You're getting a free thing that someone developed, someone put money into, probably venture capital or angel investors.
	They really want to be purchased by Facebook because that's the only way out these days.
	Yeah.
	You're getting the free shiny trinket.
	I'm getting free nothing.
	It's always, always pay somehow.
	Exactly.
	This free thing doesn't work.
	I'm going to show my soul 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.
	Yeah, you're right.
	It does not work very well.
	Well, what works is that if you have people like our great producers who come in and help us finance the show by becoming producers, then it works that way, but then it's not free.
	And it shouldn't be.
	No.
	It's value for value.
	We'll start with out of Waterloo, Ontario.
	One, two, three, four, five.
	Wait a minute.
	Where...
	He sent us a note.
	He said...
	Funny.
	I have a different name here.
	You don't have James Rockle?
	No.
	Right under Michael Miller, number 11 on the spreadsheet?
	Uh, no.
	I have completely different names.
	You sure you got the right spreadsheet?
	Oh, wait.
	Maybe I got the wrong spreadsheet.
	I think you have the wrong spreadsheet, darling.
	Oh, darling.
	Number nine...
	What show are we on?
	Oh, yeah, I do.
	Somehow last week's spreadsheet opened.
	Oh, I see.
	Okay, I got it.
	I got it.
	I know it happened.
	Oh, I'm glad someone's paying attention to the show.
	Well...
	I wonder I couldn't find...
	I'm looking for some guy's name to X out because he doesn't want his name revealed and I have to be careful.
	Okay, you're talking about David Bepper.
	Yes, yes, yes, yes.
	But his also won 2, 3, 4, 5.
	I know, I know.
	That's what threw me for a moment there.
	Yeah.
	Um...
	I want to see what he...
	He does have a note.
	We're not going to read these notes, but this one.
	Statler and Waldorf took me months to get that bingo list to work out, and here I am already hit it a second time.
	This is a true reason for the 1-2-3-4-5 donation.
	Huh.
	I'm not getting what he's talking about.
	Sebastian Alscher, 1-2-3-4-5 out of Frankfurt, Germany.
	And he wants...
	I think he...
	Go click on Clinton-Divorce.com.
	Yeah, okay.
	I know we have this.
	We have different permutations now.
	What is it?
	What's the joke?
	Well, we have ClintonDivorce.com and now Clinton-Divorce.com.
	Well, I'm sure it just forwards the No Agenda show, doesn't it?
	Oh, okay.
	I can check it.
	Don't forget Obama divorce coming up.
	Oh, wait a minute.
	That's the one we had.
	Hold on a second.
	You're right.
	Clinton-Divorce.com.
	I'll just check it.
	Let me see if it goes to no agenda show.
	So we have Clinton and Obama divorce.
	Good.
	Jason Doolin in Lost Wages, Nevada, 1-2-3-3-3-3.
	Kerry Rosenbarker, 1-2-3-3-3 in Endwell, New York.
	Did I do something about 1-2-3-3-3?
	Because C-Squared Productions came in with 1-2-3-3-3.
	Oh, this is the one guy that suggested it.
	I think it was the C-Squared guy.
	Michael Como in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, 1-2-3-3-3.
	Okay, and he makes a note.
	He's going to have his birthday call out.
	It's 1-2-3-3-3.
	Hello, it's the executive order, 1-2-3-3-3.
	Oh, just...
	First of all, you showed up without your keyboard.
	You came to class without your keyboard.
	You have the wrong homework.
	I'm very disappointed in you.
	I think we need a parent-teacher night.
	Okay.
	But mommy never shows up.
	She's too busy drinking.
	I fell down the stairs.
	Gosh.
	I fell down the stairs because mommy was drinking.
	Brian Splitzer in Midland, Michigan, 111-11, and he's got, does he got anyone coming to the stage here?
	Yeah, I think.
	Not today, not today, but I don't see it.
	He's got nobody.
	He loves our gay analysis.
	Brian the Gay Crusader.
	He hit his dad in the mouth.
	It's kind of nice.
	So I hit my dad in the mouth when he started regurgitating the media's droning message about Russia's anti-gay laws.
	By the way, when do we give a shit about Russia's laws of gay, pro-gay, anti-gay?
	It's very agenda-like.
	It's fun.
	It's a reason for straight guys to go learn about gays.
	I'm telling you.
	There's something to that.
	$111 from Robert Love in Orlando, Florida.
	James Scherer in Spearfish, South Dakota.
	Landlocked state with a city named Spearfish.
	Yeah.
	A hundred dollars.
	Woods Woods, a hundred dollars from Westbury, New York.
	Stephen Vanderhoeven, he did send a note, which in my mail.
	I do have to read this because I have a commentary here.
	The note doesn't really say much.
	It's thanks for your courage.
	I enjoyed the past episodes about Common Core and the Chinas rail scheme.
	And he went on.
	But here's what happened.
	So I want to tell this to all the knights.
	And this is Sir Stephen.
	Count the money.
	This is count the money.
	Oh, count the money.
	Yes.
	Yeah, count the money.
	So instead of getting some candles, some sealing wax to do the seal with the ring, which you have to have sealing wax.
	You have to go to a stationary store.
	You have to go to noagendashow.com.
	But you do get sealing wax with your night ring.
	Yes, you do, and you use it up if you use it much.
	But Eric at the nogeneration.com, he sells it.
	But you can get it all over the place.
	Instead...
	Is he doing refills?
	Is that what he's doing?
	Yeah.
	So instead, count the money here, used apparently his wife's strawberry-scented...
	Lipstick?
	Paraffin candle.
	Oh, yeah.
	Yeah, how'd that work out?
	Which is not the same.
	And so there's a gob of goo.
	And because paraffin is just an oil-based product, it's just a whole envelope of strawberries.
	It stunk up the house.
	And it was all greasy.
	And your mail carriers are angry.
	Because it soaks into the paper.
	So you get this gob of grease.
	There's no evidence that this was ever done.
	It worked out at all.
	Don't do that.
	That's the note?
	It's my note to the Knights out there.
	Go buy some from Eric.
	Sir J.D. at 7747 in San Jose, California.
	Is there a 77 for year 7?
	Yeah.
	I guess we're in year 7, that's true.
	That's a good one.
	Yeah, we're in year 7.
	What's the 4-7 mean?
	7-7-4-7?
	7-7-4-7.
	7-7 for year 4-7.
	Yes, I get it.
	I like the 1-2-3-3-3, which I don't get.
	I'm going to add these to the donation page.
	It's a great, great one, I have to say.
	69!
	69, dudes!
	Ray starts this off from Grand Blanc.
	Say his name again, because you just stepped on it.
	Yeah.
	Christopher Gray.
	Christopher Gray.
	Grand Blanc, Michigan.
	Sir Pate Schnakes.
	Amsterdam.
	Richard Chow, Fullerton, California.
	Jason.
	Good old Plain Jason.
	In Wanaki, Wisconsin.
	I requested job, Carmen, this summer and it worked!
	Now I need a little relationship karma.
	Thanks, Jason, from Madison, Wisconsin, home of the noodle kid.
	Yeah, we'll give everyone some karma at the end there, for sure.
	CSS, Computer Solutions and Services.
	69!
	69, dude!
	That's it.
	Ben Blessing, $69.
	Some parts unknown.
	Kristen Smith, Blyton, Lincolnshire, UK, 60.
	Brandon Fenton, Colorado Springs, 59.
	Kristen says, my 13-year-old daughter has started listening to the show, which makes me a very proud father.
	Good for her.
	Indeed.
	If you just tell us her name, we could give a call out.
	Brandon Fenton.
	Did I just do that?
	No, Brandon Fenton in Colorado Springs.
	Okay, we'll do him again.
	Radu Partook in Grosse Ile, Michigan.
	5555.
	We'll give karma to everybody.
	Olaf Wolf in Munich, Deutschland.
	München.
	Dean Warnecki, 5549 from Columbus, Ohio.
	Gary Owens in Lost Wages, Nevada.
	Double nickels on the dime.
	That's a dying one.
	Mac Tank, 5432 in La Jolla, California.
	Aaron Magofen.
	He says, 5-4-3-2.
	Hi, gents.
	5-4-3-2.
	Awesome!
	I thought this might make a good awesome donation amount.
	Karma for the show, hosts, and listeners.
	Outstanding!
	A drama queen, McTank.
	5-4-3-2.
	Awesome!
	Or?
	Aaron Magafin, as we said, Woodstock, Ontario.
	516056.
	Mark Kudrowski and Hugo, Minnesot Nuts.
	50-69.
	And also 50-69 from Kathleen Stokes in Woburn, Massachusetts.
	Two nuts in a row.
	Dennis Price in Pine Grove, California.
	50.
	These are all 50s.
	David Peet, LLC. Aubrey, Texas.
	Daniel Sands in Kirkland, Washington.
	Maxime Berube in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada.
	Where all the money is.
	Hold on a second.
	What is this note here?
	I mean, listening to your show for a while is my first donation.
	Hesitated a long time being a Christian.
	I wondered if it was wrong to donate to you because of your stance on homosexuality and your non-belief in Christ.
	Just being honest.
	But I thought that I should give you a little something for the information you provide along with the pleasure I have listening to your show in spite of our differences of opinions on these matters.
	I'm sure you understand the reason homosexuality and sexual diversity is promoted by the elites is simply to undermine society, and they being Satanists, you would expect them to demonize Christianity as they do.
	But I tell you what, when you become a born-again Christian, Adam, I will donate $50 every month.
	I hope this message doesn't upset you, but these values are truly important to me.
	Adam, whatever you do, do not become a Satanist.
	Cheers from Alberta, where the money is.
	Max.
	I sent a note to him and quoted some biblical citations against this sort of judgment.
	But it's another story.
	Neither one of us is going to become born again anything.
	For 50 bucks a month, I'll consider it.
	Well, you know, if you want to go that way, there's plenty of places in Texas that will dunk you in the tank.
	Plenty.
	And you know, 50 bucks a month, you know, it adds up.
	Sir James of Norway.
	In Reistad, Norway, to be at 50 bucks.
	And finally, last two, John Virtue in Newport Beach, California, and David Cox in Ione, Washington.
	I didn't even know there was a town by that name up there.
	50 bucks.
	I want to thank them and everybody else who helped us on the show, which is show 590.
	And remember to go to Dvorak.org slash NA. And we do have some general purpose karma coming for all of you.
	You've got Carmen.
	That's right, everybody.
	And thank you, Sir James of Norway, for your drunk donation.
	He says, yippee!
	More kittens, please.
	Absolutely.
	Dvorak.org slash NA.
	It's your birthday, birthday.
	Oh, no, my gender.
	Somehow, we messed up a very belated birthday to Black Knight George Funderhorst's Black Knight of Bouncing Hill.
	He celebrated on January 23rd.
	Sorry about that, Sir George, and I hope your health is doing better.
	Owen McGinty says happy birthday to Janice.
	She turned 40 on February 7th.
	And Michael Como says happy birthday to his smoking hot wife, Rianne.
	She'll be celebrating tomorrow.
	Happy birthday from all your buddies here at The Best Podcast.
	No nightings, nothing.
	Nothing.
	Nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing.
	Yeah, we're running low on nights.
	We do have an upgrade.
	We have the baronet second night up there.
	No, that's true.
	Uh-oh.
	Attention all human resources.
	No entry.
	Second half of soul.
	Second half of show, John.
	Second half of show.
	Second half of show, John.
	Second half of show.
	The year...
	I need some echo.
	Hold on.
	2-1-2.
	The year was 1947.
	Some of you will recall that on July 8, 1947, a little more than 66 years ago, numerous witnesses claimed that an unidentified flying object with five aliens aboard crashed onto a sheep and mule ranch just outside of Roswell, New Mexico.
	You recall this, John?
	Oh, yeah.
	This is a well-known incident that...
	The following people were born.
	Albert A. Gore, Jr., Hillary Rodham Clinton, William J. Clinton, John F. Carey, Howard Dean, Nancy Pelosi, Dianne Feinstein, Charles E. Schumer, Barbara Boxer, Joe Biden, and Barack Obama Jr.
	Senior, sorry.
	This is the obvious...
	What are you applying?
	Well, the obvious consequence of aliens breeding with sheep and jackasses, of course.
	In the morning!
	I walked right into it.
	Yay, baby!
	I nailed it!
	Woo-hoo!
	Now entering the second perfect show.
	And I almost flubbed the line, too.
	I got a book for people to read.
	It's finally finished.
	It's another one of these alternative histories, essentially.
	This is probably, I think, the definitive book about Roswell, at least insofar as it ranks the highest in both controversial for the government side of the equation and the flying saucer people side.
	My side, yes.
	I recommend everybody read this book.
	It's quite entertaining.
	It's called The Day After Roswell by Colonel Philip J. Corso.
	Mm-hmm.
	I did a bunch of research on Corso, including reading a bunch of papers that were apparently released from the Freedom of Information Act by the FBI that have since been suppressed, but they're available if you dig around long enough.
	And the guy has definitely got the creds that make him credible, and the people that criticize him and this book Welcome to my show!
	Or it seems fictional, even though it's not supposed to be.
	He claims, among other things, that once the Roswell wreck, which was a flying wing, was grabbed and hauled out of town on the back of a flatbed truck...
	They took a bunch of alien technologies out of it which developed into the transistor, integrated circuits, the laser, and a number of other things that pulse beam weaponry and a number of other things that actually make...
	Fairly close to making no sense in the way things work with science because it came out of the blue with a few of these things.
	Oh, yeah.
	And this is a very funny book to read because it's long, or it seems long.
	I'll read this.
	I'll read this.
	I'll put it in the show notes.
	You will like the book.
	I'm sure I will.
	It's very interesting.
	It's matter of fact.
	It's just like, yeah, these things have landed.
	We've been using these technologies that we steal from these guys.
	We're under attack.
	You'll love the book because it talks about...
	You, me, truly, will like this book because you bring up these wars in space.
	He claims that the strategic defense initiative, Star Wars, and all the rest of this that was put in play was specifically to bring down alien saucers if they ever invade.
	It's time to invade.
	Get the old geezer first.
	It's a book everyone should read.
	I'm not saying it's...
	But there's a number of interesting facts.
	We'll put it on the list.
	You know me, I'm all in.
	I know you're all in.
	There's a couple of things that I personally know that kind of like make you wonder about what he's claiming.
	And it's hard to find this stuff out.
	There used to be Northrup, the guy who invented the American flying wing, was told to stand down and stop all flying wing production shortly after this crash occurred.
	Coincidence?
	Quote the foreword for this book.
	Read the book.
	And the other thing is Shockley, one of the inventors of the transistor, George Morrow used to be a famous computer guy until he died and came out with a bunch of, in the 80s mostly.
	And he worked at Shockley Labs in Silicon Valley.
	And the people working there, because Shockley never did much of anything in terms of new designs or ideas, they all wonder where he got the idea for the transistor because there was no evidence that he could have done this in the first place.
	And so this book is, and I don't know how Corso got away with writing this book, but apparently he was read in so early in the game in the 1940s, in the 40s, that he never had to sign all these, you know, we'll shoot you if you say anything documents.
	A very good book.
	Good book.
	Wow, that's quite an endorsement.
	And I'm not buying it necessarily, but I have to say, in terms of an alternative explanation for a lot of things, the book is great, because it covers...
	You'll see.
	You'll be impressed.
	Anyway, Day After Roswell, it's as cheap as $1.19 in Valor Books.
	But, you know, I put it on the Kindle.
	It's a very fast read on the Kindle.
	It's a paper-white book.
	I love that paper.
	I know you do.
	Hey, if this ever happens to me, do not accept this news report.
	Founder and CEO of American Title Services in Centennial, Colorado, was found dead in his home this week.
	The result of self-inflicted wounds from a nail gun.
	John, if they ever find me...
	Two nails to the head.
	Well, yeah, he actually had seven nails to the head.
	Seven nails to the head.
	And they're calling it suicide.
	Please.
	I love that kind of thing.
	Please.
	If you hear this, seven or eight, they couldn't even count.
	Self-inflicted wounds from a nail gun fired into his torso and head.
	Yeah, that sounds like the way to go, doesn't it?
	I know what I'll do.
	I'll shoot some nails in my torso and then in my head.
	Please do not allow that to be ruled a suicide.
	And I want a full title screen on the dead segment.
	Damn it.
	Okay.
	We got a flu report.
	Oh, hold on a second.
	Do we need to set it up?
	We actually have less flu deaths than you would have in a normal cycle, but no.
	Should we do the jingle?
	I just want to mention, by the way, I'm going to say it again.
	I've said it before.
	I'll say it again.
	The swine flu vaccine, when it first came out, everybody was lined up around the blocks to get it.
	You'd think the entire society would be immune to this disease.
	Can I do the jingle?
	Yes, please.
	I'm sorry.
	It's the No Agenda Swine Flu Minute.
	We got a lot of mileage out of that jingle.
	And this comes as statewide deaths from the flu hit 202 yesterday.
	The Monterey and Santa Cruz County Health Department say they have plenty of flu shots to go around, but they ordered them from manufacturers and could run out temporarily.
	Free flu shot clinic right around the corner, this time at Salinas Valley Memorial Health Care Hospital.
	It's happening on Saturday, February 22nd.
	The clinic will be set up in the parking lot from 11 a.m.
	until 2 p.m.
	Anyone from the Tri-County area can be vaccinated.
	Let's go to the parking lot.
	Get your free shots, slaves!
	Come on, it's good for you!
	Get your free shots!
	Free shots over here!
	You know what I'm reminded of?
	I visualized a bunch of people standing around a parking lot to get a shot.
	When lobotomies were first invented, and I think this was in the 20s, it could be the 30s, I think it was probably the 20s, it became a very popular method for calming down the hysterical out of women.
	Yeah, you just...
	Lobotomy.
	You get a lobotomy.
	You drill in the head and pull out a little bit of brain matter.
	You don't have to even do that.
	Apparently, they used to do lobotomies in Central Park the same way they're doing these shots in the parking lot.
	People would line up, there'd be a doctor there, and he'd have a long needle.
	Wait a minute.
	People would go to the park for this?
	Yeah.
	No.
	It's very popular for a short period of time.
	No.
	No.
	Yes.
	No.
	Yes.
	Wow.
	And the guy had this very long, very crazy kind of a needle, and what he'd do, because this is why it was no big deal, they would take, I think, your left eye and open it up, put the needle in behind the eyeball, and really, seriously, go to a spot in the brain and then nick the connective tissue between the frontal lobes and the rest of the brain, and then you'd go home.
	Because these were very popular for a while.
	Then they started noticing it wasn't working out, but it would calm down the wife.
	I always thought that that's how the vibrator was invented, that the woman would be hysterical.
	In fact, they called it hysterics.
	And they'd send her to the doctor, and he said, oh, well, what you need is you need the orgasmatron.
	And the doctor had the first vibrators, and that's why you have all these movies back in the day when, oh, the handsome doctor, and they all were in love with the doctor, because he basically had this big jackhammer, and the women...
	Yeah, if you look up the history of the vibrator, you'll see exactly this, because women were hysterical, because basically they just needed an orgasm.
	Well, now this guy could do twofer in the park.
	Hey, baby.
	Open your eye and your legs.
	It's a lot of weird stuff that goes on.
	And you know what?
	We're here to keep people from getting involved.
	Thank you.
	And in 80 years from now, people might be saying, can you believe those idiots?
	They went into the park and got shot up with some kind of goop.
	So Bill Maher is a douchebag.
	Okay.
	Fact.
	Hold on a second.
	Do we have it?
	I think we have it.
	Yes, we do.
	We have it right here.
	Fact.
	On the best podcast in the universe.
	Okay.
	All right.
	I'm ready.
	Alright, so Bill Maher goes on a rant against, again, an ageist rant.
	And, by the way, they had S.E. Cup.
	She's the token right-winger on MSNBC? You're all about that, yeah.
	They're all for Social Security, it seems to me, but not when it comes to old people because they should all just starve to death in the streets, apparently.
	So let's just play a series of clips giving you some insight into this guy.
	Something's wrong with him.
	The first one...
	And finally, new rule in the battle for government giveaways.
	We have to stop thinking in terms of rich versus poor or black versus white and admit it's really a war between the young and the old, and the old are winning.
	When it comes to meeting the needs of our seniors, money is no object.
	You know, in America, we talk a lot about entitlements and who are the takers and who are the makers.
	And here's the bottom line from the current issue of Harper's.
	Federal yearly spending per child, $3,822.
	Federal yearly spending per senior, $25,455.
	Douchebag!
	Seniors keep asking, what kind of world are we leaving for our grandkids?
	Well, one where Head Start, nutrition assistance, and child welfare are being cut.
	These days, when Grandpa finds a quarter behind your ear, he keeps it.
	Now, of course, the granddad, the old lady we're talking about here has to pay for utilities and rent and housing and food.
	Grocery.
	The kid, how are you comparing it to some child that's being raised by parents?
	Are you saying that the kids should get $25,000 and the old sir should just get nothing and let them move in with the kid and the sons and daughters?
	I mean, what kind of...
	What is he trying to say here?
	It's also just comedy, John.
	I mean, you know, it's just...
	It's very serious for comedy.
	Play part two.
	That was part two.
	You mean part three?
	Yeah, part three.
	But let's not kid ourselves where our tax dollar goes.
	It goes to grandma because she votes and young people don't.
	So this is his, like, his conclusion is that it's all about the vote.
	And that's the reason they should get nothing.
	He goes on and on.
	He makes jokes about the penal pump, Viagra, all the sex that's going on in the House.
	Apparently, there's another thing you run into with liberals.
	The idea that anyone over 60 has sex...
	Oh, it's just weird, weird, weird.
	It's weird.
	Why would you have sex?
	Like my parents having sex.
	Weird, weird.
	Oh, I can't think about it.
	Yeah, it's very, very juvenile.
	My grandparents, they were well into their 80s.
	I knew there were some hanky-panky still going on with them.
	And I thought that was beautiful.
	Good for them.
	And anyway, this finishes with Mar Part 4.
	But here's what I don't understand.
	Why, if seniors are having all this government-subsidized fun, why are they the angriest people politically?
	And they are.
	76% of seniors say they're, quote, dissatisfied with the way things are going in the country today.
	Why?
	You're getting all the money and half the pussy.
	All right, that was funny.
	Yeah.
	S-E cup and two hysterics.
	She just thought this whole thing was funny.
	He had a joke about Astro Glide, as long as they don't mix it up with the polydent.
	I mean, the materials.
	Right.
	But it's hateful.
	And actually, it was Buzzkill Jr.
	watching this, and he says, you know what's interesting to him?
	And he's a Lacanian philosopher, basically.
	He says that, generally speaking, the comedians of the world stem from the court jester.
	The court jester is a guy who, within reason, ridicules the king, ridicules the cardinal, ridicules the people.
	To entertain them, to entertain the elites.
	Yes, but the target is the powerful.
	It's always the powerful.
	You don't start targeting the people.
	You don't start targeting the elderly.
	You don't start targeting people that are usually helpless.
	What kind of a comic, and Bill Maher does this constantly, targets the people because they're idiot Republicans or because they're old and in the way.
	And he never targets the powerful.
	He's a pathetic example of what comedy...
	Has become with these liberals.
	Right on.
	Well, that's why I don't watch him.
	Well, it's hard to watch.
	It goes on these rants.
	I mean, I try to catch the new rules.
	He's got a couple of jokes in there.
	And then to watch S.E. Cup all in.
	Oh, why would you?
	Come on, man.
	Why would you do that when you have the President's Podcast?
	I mean, seriously.
	You want some entertainment?
	You want some quality programming, my friend?
	You go to the President's Podcast.
	Yeah, hit me.
	And there's a couple of memes in here that we just need to be aware of.
	I want to work with Congress on this agenda wherever I can.
	But in this year of action, whenever I can take steps without legislation to expand opportunity for more American families, I will.
	I've got a pen and I've got a phone.
	All right.
	There you go.
	That's our president.
	Putin is shooting bears with his riding horseback, with his bear back, with his shirt off.
	Our president has a pen and a phone.
	Very, very sad.
	Talking about the emasculization.
	I have two clips about Syria.
	Actually, a couple of Syrian clips.
	But I have the two that I want to play back-to-back.
	One of them is Susan Powers.
	Ah, this is our new ambassador to the United Nations.
	She did a little...
	They have a name for that thing.
	They call it a stakeout, I think.
	When she goes to the microphone at the United Nations.
	Oh, I didn't know that.
	Yeah, it's called this.
	Let me just check.
	If you go to video.state.gov...
	That's where I always...
	I think I saw this.
	It's...
	Let me see.
	Yes.
	Security Council Stakeout.
	Stakeout.
	Well...
	I'm listening to her, and then there's this United Nations spokes guy who comes on sometime after her, and he's the number one guy under Banky Moon.
	And I don't know, I can do this a lot of different ways, but I think it's just good to play him back-to-back because Powers has the masculine voice, and then you can hear what the guy sounds like.
	I note regime statements this morning describing a willingness to evacuate innocents.
	Given that the regime up to this point has described just about anybody living in opposition territory as a terrorist and has attacked them as such, you know, we have reason on the basis of history to be very skeptical and frankly very concerned about anybody who falls into regime hands.
	Is that the one you wanted or not?
	The one that said, is U.M. Ambassador?
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	I'm sorry.
	I thought I had the wrong one.
	Hold on.
	I got it.
	This is the guy.
	This is the male.
	Now, you heard the female voice.
	Now, you're going to hear the guy.
	The United Nations and humanitarian partners had pre-positioned food, medical, and other basic supplies on the outskirts of homes, ready for immediate delivery as soon as the green light was given by the parties for safe passage.
	Aid staff are also on standby.
	And then we have Jade Johnson, who was our brand new Secretary of Department of Homeland Security.
	Who was interviewed by Jane Harmon.
	We know individuals from the U.S., Canada, and Europe are traveling to Syria to fight in the conflict.
	At the same time, extremists are actively trying to recruit Westerners, indoctrinate them, and see them return to their home countries with an extremist mission.
	That's pretty alarming stuff when you think about the thousands of folks that have gone to Syria either to simply fight the Bashar al-Assad regime or to be trained.
	Folks!
	Well, no question about it.
	And some of those folks, by the way, Syria's pretty close to Russia, might try to go...
	Syria is pretty close to Russia.
	Should we look at the map for a moment?
	Jane Harman?
	She really means geographically, John.
	This woman is such a more...
	She was in Congress.
	Syria's pretty close to Russia.
	Might try to go up through the Caucasus and attack at Sochi, too.
	The Caucasus.
	The Caucasus.
	It's like 10,000 miles the other direction.
	How is she...
	Am I crazy?
	Am I missing something?
	Am I wrong?
	No, you're not wrong at all.
	Siri's not at all.
	She's an idiot.
	I'm trying to get the distance.
	I'll give you in a second.
	Okay.
	But here's the quote.
	Here's the money quote.
	Two.
	So, Syria is the Afghanistan of 2014.
	It's a new training ground.
	Is there anything the U.S. can do about this?
	Well, we're trying.
	Our intelligence services are pretty good.
	Pretty good.
	And we're trying to find out who these folks are, where they're going.
	And if we're good at tracking where they are, we will find them before they return and cause us harm.
	We'll kill them!
	Kill them with a drone!
	How far is Syria from...
	It's 1,500 miles.
	No, that's not that.
	I thought it was further than that.
	It's still a three-hour flight.
	Yeah, these guys are on camels.
	Yeah, it would take about a couple months.
	But Syria is the new Afghanistan.
	This is very important.
	Because what she's saying is, I guess she's trying to tell us that terrorists come from Afghanistan, even though we know the terrorists were in Pakistan, and, oh, I know, Germany.
	That's where the terror cell was, and oh yeah, they were Saudi Arabians.
	Ugh.
	Okay.
	Turn off your television, people.
	Or, turn it on when the president has a visitor.
	We had a visitor from a very highly ranked visitor at the White House.
	Sweet Mickey Martelli.
	Of Haiti.
	And you'd never guess.
	How did he get here?
	On a car?
	On the Poop Express.
	On the Poop Express.
	Of course, to review, there are still approximately 150,000 people homeless.
	No, no, no, no, no, no.
	That can't be.
	Because the Clinton-Bush guys, they took in billions and billions of dollars, and then people, they phoned in for 10 bucks a box.
	I know a lot of people want to send blankets or water.
	Just send your cash.
	No, there's still 150,000 people.
	These people should all be living in first-class accommodations by now.
	150,000 people living in squalor, in tents where rape and sickness.
	Of course, the United Nations from the Blue Helmets came in and gave everybody cholera and was pooping.
	People are dying.
	Yeah, and the United Nations refuses to pay a nickel.
	Thousands of people dying.
	What is it?
	Restitution.
	And just horrible, horrible.
	Of course, we have the Bill Clinton suite at the new hotel.
	We have all that all going.
	We've got the gold and mineral rights up there in the hills.
	But 150,000 people by the UN's own admission and billions of dollars missing...
	Just missing.
	No one knows where it is.
	And I haven't forgotten the big George Clooney.
	Oh yeah, Clooney was there.
	Clooney to the benefit.
	And Bon Jovi before.
	Everyone was, oh my gosh, oh it's so horrible.
	How quickly we forget.
	But our president will just play along.
	...now on at the four year anniversary of that tragic event that devastated such a large portion of...
	Not only Haiti, but also devastated the Haitian economy.
	The good news is that because of not just The mobilization of international support, which the U.S. helped to lead, but also because of strong leadership from the Haitian people themselves.
	You'll recall that there were riots, there was all this fake elections.
	The guy they wanted was the other musician.
	He got a big head and they kicked him out and said, get the fuck out of here.
	Don't be flying on private jets, you moron.
	There was, like, all the scandal.
	We remember this stuff.
	We track it.
	We're not falling for this, you liar.
	Liar.
	President Martelli, we've begun to see progress.
	Progress?
	The economy is growing.
	Security is improving, John.
	Economy is growing.
	How about the 150,000 people in the tents?
	Infrastructure's getting rebuilt.
	Oh, we're rebuilding the rubble?
	Rubble's been removed.
	I'm sorry?
	We're removing the rubble?
	We're removing the rubble?
	Health facilities are beginning to open up.
	Schools are...
	Health facilities are...
	Does this...
	Is he...
	Is he...
	He must be high.
	How can you sit there and lie like this?
	And where is the media?
	We're starting to get back into place, and businesses are starting to return to Haiti.
	It's been a very slow and difficult process, and I think we are all recognizing that we have a lot more work to do.
	But my main message today to the President and to the people of Haiti is that the American people are committed to standing with you in this process.
	We want to make sure that all the children of Haiti can look forward to To pooping in your tent.
	The children of Haiti.
	Opportunity.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	Making what?
	Baseballs?
	And prosperity and security.
	Security!
	Prosperity and security!
	This is the one that really makes me angry.
	And I'm very encouraged by the fact that Haiti has now made progress on an election law that could ensure elections this year.
	Yeah, we can bring the same shills in again.
	Help to resolve some of the political roadblocks.
	Political roadblocks.
	Oh, you mean the corruption and the ballot box stuffing and the lying and the cheating?
	Stalled some progress in the country, and I appreciate the president's efforts on that front.
	I'm looking forward to hearing where we can help in other reforms that I know he cares about.
	Such areas as human rights and prison reform.
	Prison reform.
	Dealing with...
	Prison reform.
	It is.
	It's laughable.
	It's just laughable.
	...that are inhibitors to progress in any country, including ours.
	And...
	Now he's just making it up.
	...we will continue to stand by Haitian democracy, Haitian leadership, and the Haitian people in...
	Give them their money.
	...in this slow and steady progress that needs to take place.
	So, Mr.
	President, welcome.
	We're very proud of our relationship with Haiti and we look forward to deepening it.
	Now, if you're this guy, what would you do if you just got this from the President of the United States who clearly is all in on keeping you in there so that you can run drugs through the country and have cheap labor?
	What would you do?
	I'd say, Mr.
	President, where's the billions of dollars collected by the Bush-Clinton Foundation, the billions of dollars collected by the marathon event that they had on all TV stations?
	Around the globe.
	That's what I'd ask.
	Yeah.
	No?
	Thank you, Mr.
	President.
	I'd like to first thank the people of the United States.
	Oh, you're welcome.
	You're more than welcome.
	You're welcome.
	The government and you, Mr.
	President.
	For always standing by the Haitian people.
	No, just standing by.
	Wait for it.
	I'd also like to acknowledge the presence of the First Lady.
	Oh, yes.
	Compliment the President's wife.
	That's what you got to do.
	Michelle Obama in Haiti after the earthquake.
	Yeah.
	I'd like to thank her for her support also.
	Through this meeting, Mr.
	President, I hope we have a chance to discuss matters pertaining to Security, security in Haiti, security in the region, our ability to fight together, narco traffic.
	Ah, there it is.
	To fight narco traffic.
	Uh-huh.
	Sure.
	Now you disgust me.
	I know it's a pet peeve of yours.
	Yeah, yeah, but not enough to play the jingle, but yeah, it is a big pet peeve.
	Interesting train route being set up.
	Another one?
	A new one?
	Yeah, yeah, this is a new one.
	So we have the Strait of Hormuz, which is very important.
	Of course, does Iran control that?
	I think they do, right?
	I believe so.
	And it's very important to be able to get...
	Primarily, of course, oil and freight through this channel.
	You should really pull up a map to see the Strait of Hormuz.
	Are you doing it?
	Yeah, I'm going to do it right now.
	In fact, I'll do it with you.
	It's kind of cool, this.
	Strait of Hormuz.
	Here's a nice map.
	All right, here's the map.
	So we got the straight there.
	You got Iran on the right-hand side, and on the left-hand side, you got Oman.
	Now, I need to zoom out a little.
	Actually, the straight itself is really bordered on the north by Iran, and Oman is at the bottom.
	Well, you're looking at it at an angle.
	Yeah, it depends on how your globe is turned.
	Oh, yeah, if you're looking at it right, if I flip it over.
	It does kind of depend on how you look at it.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	You're right.
	So, what they're doing now, I'll just have to zoom out for some reason.
	Google doesn't want to zoom out very well on me.
	What they're doing is instead of going through the, if you look on the left, Oman, instead of just going through the Straits, they are building a $3 billion railroad through Oman.
	Who's they?
	Oman, Oman, Oman, on the left, Oman.
	The Oman National Railway Company are going to take over the straits business, and they're going to build this railway from south to north, right parallel to the strait, all the way up into the mountains to Muscat.
	And they plan to have this thing done.
	In a year and a half.
	And this is all part of that GCC that the Chinas are a part of and the Russians want to be a part of.
	Everyone's building the big railways everywhere.
	So they're just trying to bypass all of these waterways.
	So, okay, I'm looking.
	Let's say there's going to be a railway that runs from Oman through UAE. Up through, like, near Qatar, and then through Bahrain, Kuwait, and up?
	All the way up.
	Yep, all the way up.
	So instead of going through the strait, and then going to any of those ports, there'll be, and there's mountains here.
	Where's it going to start it, Muscat?
	I think so, yeah, Muscat, yeah.
	So you dock there, you pour all your stuff out, put it on the train, goes all the way through the mountains, in the friendly territory, you see.
	Right, through Saudi Arabia.
	Yep, yep, yep.
	Yeah, so that's a $3 billion.
	Well, that's because everyone's freaked out about the straightest of horror movies being a choke point.
	Of course.
	And along those lines, I learned that the...
	This was a pretty interesting...
	Delays to the Panama Canal, which we've been looking at, so we have the Chinese...
	One of the few news outlets that looks at that.
	Yeah.
	Why would anyone look at it?
	It's so boring.
	So the Chinese are building their own canal through Nicaragua.
	I'm not quite sure what the status is, but trust me, the Chinese know what they're doing.
	So the expansion of the Panama Canal is...
	I'll read you the headline here.
	Delays to the $5.25 billion expansion of the Panama Canal...
	We'll extend a surge in rates for vessels hauling liquefied petroleum gas to Asia from the US. Aha!
	Now we kind of know why this is in play.
	It's going to cost us a lot more money to ship the same amount of liquefied gas that we want to ship if we don't have this canal expansion.
	As long as the Panama Canal remains unfit for taking VLGCs, the very large gas carriers, it's going to have a positive impact on the freight market.
	Assuming exports continue as normal volumes will continue to be shipped, rates for VLGCs will rise to $45,000 a day up from $30,000.
	It's a lot.
	It's a big increase.
	It's 50%.
	Exactly.
	These are big, big, big forces at play here.
	Well, I mean, the Keystone Pipeline, of course, which is going to be part of this scheme, I believe, runs through the country and goes down to those refiners that are in the Gulf Coast, which has to go to get out of there to China.
	They've got to go through the Panama Canal.
	Yep, got to.
	Now, the West Coast refiners, not too many of them deal with this particular product.
	Yeah, but Japan really needs our gas badly because they shut down all of the nuclear.
	Huh.
	Yeah, so they're going to gouge us.
	That's interesting.
	Of course, it's the banking dispute, so it's kind of hard to tell who exactly is behind the gouging.
	Where's the money going?
	It's hard to tell.
	But we've got to be careful, because if they delay that long enough, the Chinese are going to go, hello, Nicaragua, and they're going to open that up.
	Yeah, because everything in China is best price.
	It will give us a better deal.
	For sure.
	Even if they're competing with us, they'll give us a better deal.
	And I would be amiss if I did not mention that apparently the Federal Reserve has issued a warning for bank drills and system stress testing on the 15th and 16th of February.
	Interesting.
	Of course, we have a false flag warning for this type of activity.
	Always have to be looking out for something weird going down.
	The next area within the six-week cycle is actually March 15th.
	So we have to kind of note that.
	This is the last thing that I really have that I wanted to share today.
	I'm pretty sure...
	Where is it here?
	Oh, yeah.
	I'm sure when it happened, when it first was reported, which was months ago, there was this attack on a Silicon Valley or Northern California power station.
	Oh, yeah.
	I keep forgetting to bring that up, too.
	What do you think of that?
	Well, let's explain what it is first.
	Okay.
	So apparently six months ago, and it was caught on camera, some bad actors went in with, I think, automatic assault rifles, and they shot out 17 or 18 transformers at this one power station.
	Now, here's the weird thing.
	The reporting concludes that the shell casings had no fingerprints, that there were rock formations consistent with a very well-organized operation, and that there is some video.
	It's very tough to see what's really going on in the video, but They did succeed in effectively blowing up that substation, and of course power was diverted, and it all worked out.
	What's weird is that it's only coming out now, and it's only being really discussed now, although we've seen this report for weeks if not months, but certainly not six months, I don't think.
	No, no.
	This is only within the last couple of weeks, actually.
	So I got this report, an interview with a guy named Jenkins, who's from the Rand Corporation.
	And he was on Al Jazeera America.
	And he said a couple of things that were very interesting.
	I cut it down, because it was a very long interview, because Al Jazeera has no commercials.
	So they can just talk forever.
	I liked what he was saying.
	And, you know, Rand Corporation, these guys, you don't really often see Rand Corporation guys on news channels.
	Very rarely.
	So I figured that was interesting by itself.
	Of course, there have been no arrests.
	We don't know what motive might have been behind this attack.
	But a former vice president of Pacific Gas and Electric said recently that this wasn't an incident where Billy Bob and Joe decided after a few brewskis to come in and shoot up a substation.
	I'm very disappointed that that's not what was going on because that's my idea of a Saturday night.
	Damn.
	He said that this was a very well thought out attack and that they targeted specific components.
	What does that tell you?
	Well, that suggests that they had either done their homework or potentially they had inside knowledge of how the system works.
	You know, we look at these facilities.
	There's an array of transformers and power lines.
	To the ordinary outsider, it's mystifying.
	One wouldn't know which one to fire rounds at, which ones to go after.
	The fact that in this case it's reported that they were targeting specific components does suggest a degree of more sophisticated knowledge.
	All right, and John Wellinghoff, the former chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, has said that he believes it was an act of domestic terrorism and that it was likely a dress rehearsal for a bigger terror plot that could take down the U.S. power grid and black out much of the country.
	Again, what...
	This is a...
	Now I'm...
	He's got my attention.
	I'm like, okay.
	And now the Rand guy comes out of the blue with something that I had completely forgotten.
	You may still remember.
	What do you think?
	I can't say that.
	I mean, we certainly have seen in our own history in the United States attacks by terrorists on the power grid.
	In fact, in years past, there were attacks on the same power grid that was attacked last April.
	Ah!
	John, can you recall?
	Last April?
	No, no.
	I don't know.
	I'm sure if I'm more reminded, I could.
	This is very interesting.
	What he's saying is, on the exact same power grid, similar attacks, but many, many years ago.
	1970s, a group calling itself the New World Liberation Front.
	Do you remember the New World Liberation Front?
	Vaguely.
	They are the people that targeted Nancy Pelosi.
	The reason why she always said she had a gun.
	Huh.
	Interesting, huh?
	Carried out a bombing campaign directed against the electrical power grid and caused some fairly serious blackouts in Sausalito and in San Jose.
	Were you there at that time or were you not in the valley area in the 70s?
	I should have been.
	Not unprecedented.
	But to carry out a major attack that would bring down the system nationwide, that would require hitting a number of specific points simultaneously to preclude the possibility that the authorities could reroute power.
	Well, I think he's setting us up there.
	That's how to do it.
	Well, here's the way I'm looking at this is that, again, this would be ideal for the March 15th six-week event.
	They bring this up now?
	Why?
	Yeah, exactly.
	You could have just let sleeping dogs lie.
	What's the point of now bringing it up unless it's a prelude to something that the government's doing?
	Well, he has one more zinger in here in his last 30 seconds.
	When U.S. officials warn about attacks on electric power facilities and on the grid, the first thing that most often comes to mind is somehow sophisticated computer hackers somehow getting malware and shutting us down.
	Is that, you think, the bigger threat?
	Now listen to what he says.
	I don't know that it's the bigger one.
	Certainly we've seen more activity in the cyber area as opposed to the area of physical sabotage.
	And that's simply because we are now so dependent on these information systems because there are so many people with this technical know-how which has become increasingly available.
	And we also see a lot of activity because it's criminally driven.
	That is, there are commercial opportunities here.
	Yes!
	Doesn't he just say it?
	It's like, oh, it's criminally driven by the computer industry who are criminals and want business opportunities to sell governments a bunch of hooey.
	Yeah, something we should get in on.
	Well, I'm thinking, for one thing, the question was weird.
	It was planted because if somebody's going out of their way to shoot up a place and then they're targeting certain components, it's got nothing to do with cyber.
	No.
	At all.
	There's no connection.
	But he even said it.
	He said, well, I'm not so convinced.
	I'm pretty sure.
	Of course.
	Yeah.
	And that would actually be really good because the defense contractors and, you know, Everyone's all in on cyber.
	Perfect to have an old school attacks.
	People, we need more military crap there.
	We need, you know, personnel and tanks.
	Well, they're going to do something with these kids from Afghanistan when they bring them back.
	They can put them around these places.
	Yeah, I'm not feeling too good about this.
	I got a clip that'll make you roll your eyes.
	This has got to be the last one.
	I'm cutting you off.
	This is just too funny.
	So this is...
	Don't make it Thaum Hartman.
	I'm going to make it Thaum Hartman.
	It's the Radcast.
	I'm going to set it up.
	This is what he's added, not to his RT report, but to his regular daily radio show.
	He has added this ludicrous segment of his show.
	And just tell me what you think when you're done hearing it.
	I'm Marlise Munoz.
	According to Radcast.org, we're seeing the higher levels of radiation leaving the states for the most part, but we should be seeing the rise of fallout once again in a few more days.
	Lakewood, Colorado is reporting 66 counts per minute with spikes to 90, and Charleston, West Virginia is averaging 43 with highs of 65 counts per minute.
	Colorado Springs, Colorado is sitting at 65 counts per minute with spikes of 94.
	And Oxford, Michigan is hovering at 29 with highs of 71 counts per minute.
	Frederick, Wisconsin is reporting 46 counts per minute with spikes to 80.
	And Spearfish, South Dakota is sitting at 50 with highs of 83 counts per minute.
	Salisbury, Massachusetts is hovering at 81 counts per minute with spikes all the way up to 122.
	And Ithaca, New York is averaging 41 with highs of 65 counts per minute.
	Radcast.org's alert level is 100 counts per minute.
	However, they remind us that there is no such thing as a safe level of radiation.
	Okay, I got it.
	Very smart of you, and I caught it.
	First of all, Radcast...
	So these are the radiation levels of Fukushima, I'm sure.
	We're all dying from Fukushima.
	And he brings out Spearfish.
	Yeah.
	Which is landlocked.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	I was listening.
	One of our donors is from Spearfish.
	He must be dying from the rad count.
	Now, the funny thing is when they hit Massachusetts, they had the numbers all go up, which makes no sense because the distance from one place to another...
	Hold on one second.
	Stop.
	Just stop.
	This was so ridiculous.
	Yeah, no, I agree.
	That I'm going to give this to you.
	I'm giving it to you.
	Late, but not forgotten, or whatever.
	That is so ridiculous.
	He is reading like it's...
	Like it's the weather.
	Yeah, like the fishery report.
	Or the sunset sunrise.
	What a dick!
	He's an idiot.
	Now, but the thing I want to point out is that even with this bull crap, which just can't last...
	It would seem logical that if there's radiation coming from Fukushima, which there's not, it would be higher on the West Coast than the East Coast, but all the East Coast numbers are really high.
	I never explained, of course, that especially Massachusetts is just laden with radioactive radon.
	Radon, yeah.
	To the point where you live in Massachusetts, you usually get a radon detector.
	We had it in New Jersey.
	We had it in New Jersey.
	We had to have a radon detector.
	Yeah, because the Earth and the East Coast ground is...
	Oozing radon.
	Yeah.
	You cannot buy a house without a radon survey.
	Right.
	And many times you have to put like this, like either covering, you got to do different things to keep, because the radon is a gas and it comes into the house and everyone's breathing it.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, no, it's horrible.
	And you grow an extra eye.
	It's really crazy.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, I just thought that was the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
	Was that it?
	Oh, yeah, okay.
	Seriously.
	No, that's good.
	Thank you very much.
	That was very depressing.
	Oh, boy.
	Okay.
	Yeah, we didn't get to any Turkey stuff or Central African Republic.
	We're bad.
	Yeah, well, I'm going to talk a little bit about them and the newsletter, because my thinking now is the poppies are going to be moved there.
	Ooh, I like that.
	Yeah, because we're leaving Afghanistan.
	We've got to put the poppy someplace else.
	Well, for sure, and I have a report for Thursday.
	For sure, we are ramping up big time.
	And Djibouti, of course, is the main base.
	I saw a video of Djibouti.
	They've got Subway.
	They've got Burger King.
	It's just like Basra.
	It's unbelievable.
	The Djibouti base is...
	So we're launching everything from Djibouti.
	Makes sense.
	Yeah, so it makes sense we need to start.
	Yeah, well, we should check out the earth, the climate, the poppy-growing climate there.
	I did.
	I've got all the maps.
	Oh, good.
	Okay, fantastic.
	That will be coming your way Thursday.
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