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594: Tears Will Come
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Why is anyone wasting their time under any circumstances?
Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
It's Sunday, February 23rd, 2014.
Time for your Gitmo Nation media assassination.
Episode 5-9-4.
This is no agenda.
Scrutinizing all superfoods from FEMA Region 6 here at the Travis Heights Hideout in Austin, Texas.
Capital of their own star state in the morning, everybody.
I'm Adam Curry.
And from northern Silicon Valley, where they're looking for the real El Chapo, I'm John C. Dvorak.
It is Crack Vaughn Buzzkill.
Yeah!
That's so funny.
I so agree with what our producer sent us.
Yeah, I know.
As soon as he sent it, he said...
Yeah, we got an email from...
Is our producer living down there in Mexico?
Was that the deal?
We can't tell what he is, but he was apparently living in Mexico as something for some reason or other.
And he says the guy in the video is an imposter.
It's not the real guy.
Well, good on you for calling that, though, John.
We had the Three Amigos meeting last week, or a couple days ago.
And, you know, I was looking at the TPP and TTIP, and, of course, this is also about the NAFTA superhighway going straight up to Scandinavia.
But you said, oh, no, no, no, there's also a little meeting with the Sinaloa cartel.
Must have been.
Well, we're on it.
There's very few news reports.
All we see is what the AP sent out.
And they captured this guy, supposedly, is over in somebody's house.
No guards.
Eating a burger.
Just grabbed him.
And it would seem to me, there's a number of...
Back up, back up.
This is one of the richest people in the world, this guy.
Yeah.
So yeah, the idea that, you know, hey, we happened to pop by for this little meeting and we figured we'd come and bust you right now.
And it was American law enforcement as well, correct?
Yeah, DEA. Yeah.
Well, let's do a little background for people who want to know what happened.
The head of the Sinaloa cartel is supposedly arrested.
And we've already known from depositions in Chicago, and we've discussed this, and others have discussed it long since, but we discussed it years ago, where there was some guy got arrested who shouldn't have been, and so they're deposing and trying to do discovery on the holders group.
Attorney General's Office.
Justice, yeah.
Yeah, the Justice Department for a deal to show that there was a deal done between the Sinaloa cartel and the U.S. government.
That's what Fast and Furious was all about.
It was to send guns to the Sinaloa cartel, period.
It wasn't about anything else.
So that they could ruin all the other gangs, take over, and in return, they received free passage, certainly to Chicago, but other areas of the United States to distribute their wares.
Did I just lose you?
Thank you.
Thank you.
Yeah, no.
That happened in our little pre-show as well.
Let's hold on one second.
So, that wasn't good.
What is this?
Is this Windows 8 rebooting on you?
No, it's 7.
It's giving me a blue screen of death out of the blue.
Every time it does it, I take something off the USB. Oh.
And then I have to reboot.
It reboots fast, but there's something.
I'm looking at the chip.
Hello, hello.
This is Window Tech Support.
Have you tried unplugging device, waiting 30 seconds, and then turning on again?
Yeah, that's exactly what I've been doing.
Have you installed new drivers?
Come on.
I'm looking at this.
Files that help describe this problem.
Windows mini dump, and then there's just a big DMP file that means nothing.
You know you installed something.
No.
Yeah, you're saying it's exactly the same as it was on Thursday.
Yes, exactly.
I don't use this machine for anything.
All right, can we continue?
I know where it was.
I was saying the idea was they would take over all the...
Okay.
Can we just cut in?
Or how do you want me to go?
No, I've been recording the whole time.
I've been singing songs.
Oh, God.
You're going to kill the show.
Clap your hands.
So let's get back to Gusman.
If this is reboosting, I'm going to go to another machine.
All right, good.
So the idea was that the Sinaloa cartel would take...
It's like from some plot.
Somebody sent us a science fiction plot.
Apparently this has been done in the movies.
Where the idea was to let the Sinaloa guys take over the whole place and then kill all the other gangs off.
And then we would just be doing business with one group and it would make life easier for everybody all around.
And so this does not fit into the schema.
No, it makes no sense.
And by the way, if they truly have the number one guy, don't you think our president would be doing a press conference and jumping up and down and going, woo, all children are safe now?
Yeah, excellent point.
That's what I'd be doing.
There's nothing.
They didn't even play it on NBC. And this is a guy that people know his name.
He's a celebrity in a way.
Yeah, El Chapo.
Yeah, El Chapo, Guzman.
Everybody knows this guy.
But yet there's no one thumping their chest?
I find that hard to believe.
Yeah, the lack of chest thumping is ridiculous.
So it either says...
I don't know.
We can make some suggestions, but it seems as if he's either going to...
They needed to get a hold of him.
So this is one way.
He wasn't answering his phone.
So now they're chatting about something, and he's going to either escape with some spectacular escape.
Yeah, that would be good.
Or they're going to shoot him.
And it won't be him, of course.
No.
And he's going to move to Switzerland.
Maybe he wants out.
I mean, it's possible.
He's saying, look, this is...
I'm tired.
I'm tired.
This is a lot of work.
So this is fishy.
Well, it's kind of interesting that it comes on the heels of the banks essentially being given carte blanche to launder drug money.
Yeah, so all of that is kind of set up.
I would believe that the Sinaloas are kind of ruling all the gangs.
It looks like that.
It looks like it.
And if this really happened, here's another data point.
Wouldn't you think that another gang would be jumping to get into position or someone would move up?
There's usually a new guy who then presents himself.
Right.
As the...
Plan B gang.
Yeah, the copy to tuti copy, whatever.
Yeah.
We'll have to see.
But I'm also very skeptical of this being the real deal.
Alright, well, I guess we solved that one.
Good, alright, onward, yes.
Well, I'm a little under the weather today.
I don't like to complain, but I do have to tell you that I'm weak.
Ms.
Mickey had two art openings, one Thursday night.
Oh, is it wearing yourself out?
No, it's...
For the almighty dollar.
Yay!
Oh, it's...
Oh, man, just people, when you do an art opening...
And everyone's talking to your face like this, and they're spitting in your face.
Oh, right.
God, man.
And tall people.
Not about that.
So we had two open.
One was organized by her collectors, which is awesome.
And by the way, do you ever have any of these guys that come up to you and they got like something died in their stomach?
Oh, no.
There's actually a dead bird in the back of their mouth, you mean.
Yeah, that guy.
Well...
So we had the...
You keep turning away from him to no avail.
Well, being 6'4 is good in this case.
Oh, that's true.
But last night, so we had the collectors, which was, you know, really...
That was really, really fantastic.
You know, like Dan Rather's wife, you know, kind of like these kinds of people who are around Austin who are collectors.
And then last night we had...
So there's also been advertising and, you know, people know about this show.
So there were a lot of people who were invited, but also people who just saw, you know, go and check it out.
And I don't know what it is, but I am like a crazy magnet.
Gee, nobody would have figured that.
And you know the kind of crazy that can come to an art opening, John?
You know the really wacky ones?
Actually, no.
Oh, please.
I mean, I go to these things.
I do the same thing you just described, which is I'm walking.
I happen to be in the area, and there's an art opening.
And I go in before it opens.
I'm saying, oh, what's going on?
Oh, so-and-so's coming.
I say, oh, what's...
And he say, you should come.
Okay, I'll...
You get some free cheese.
And some lousy chardonnay.
In a plastic cup.
In a plastic cup, exactly.
Yeah.
And then everyone spits in your face.
Yeah.
So anyway, I woke up this morning and my left eye won't open.
I got a pink eye, you know, whooping cough, measles.
I don't know what I have.
It's bad, bad, bad.
But I have to say that I've been following everything that's going on, a lot of mainstream followage, which we've had to do.
But the one thing I wanted, as the Olympics are closing today...
I watched a little bit because I kind of lost the fever, but I was watching the women's...
You never had the fever.
I had the fever in the beginning big time.
One day.
I got real fever for the team pursuit speed skating.
Wow.
That's fun to watch, man.
Especially when they'd stumble.
Well, yeah, when their skates get intermingled.
Oh, absolutely.
Oh, that's a good one, yeah.
But I saw, late, late, late, I saw...
I've never watched Bob Costas.
You know me.
I don't care about sports.
I don't watch sports.
I watch the Super Bowl.
I might catch the World Series, the final game, and I watch a little bit of the Olympics.
Figure skating.
But Bob Costas had never really paid attention to him.
And, of course, he wasn't on because he had double pink eye.
Somebody went to an art opening.
Yeah, he's got to stay away from the art openings.
And he's short.
By the way, Friday night, Molly was in town, Molly Wood, and we went out for dinner.
And we made the mistake.
We got lucky.
But we had oysters the night before an important thing or travel, which was very dangerous.
That's just a rule.
And Mickey actually said, oh, we didn't adhere to John's rule.
Never have oysters before an important day or travel.
We're okay.
Anyway, so I see Bob Costas, and I had no idea this guy is a robot.
The stuff he...
He's unbelievable.
I'm trying to think how I can explain...
Let's get a little background.
Costas, who's been working sports forever, and he's a little sports jock sniffer.
He's a real wannabe.
He's got one of the smoothest deliveries in the world.
Never flubs.
But what he says is the writing is stupid.
The writing's always stupid, but you can listen to him forever.
And not hear anything.
Costas couldn't read his own prompter because he was blinded by this double tape guy.
Right, exactly.
That's why he couldn't do the show, because he couldn't see.
They took him off and they put Matt Lauer and a couple other guys in it who were just, you realize, when you watch these other guys try to talk about this banality, this sort of sports banality, which is just the stupidest crap there is, they couldn't even come close to mesmerizing you the way Costas does.
So as I'm watching the coverage, and he has Michaela Schifrin on.
And this is an 18-year-old girl.
She's like Taylor Swift, except you don't really want to have sex with her.
And she can't sing, and she's really mentally 14.
But she's a fantastic skier.
And I realize all that he's showing is her parents freaking out in the stands, and then they had a camera in her house back home and wherever she lives.
So they had given the family a widescreen TV with a camera in it.
So they could record the family and relatives cheering as she won.
And that's really all they're showing.
And he is...
You know, when you win the gold medal and you've been trained by the International Olympic Committee to talk the right way about the sponsors and you have media training, she must have taken off or played hooky for all of that.
And Costas couldn't understand it.
He's trying to have a so-called interview...
And he's asking all these questions, and she's just coming back with complete...
I think there was answers scripted, but she didn't realize she was supposed to read them.
And at a certain point, Costas gets so angry, he has the cue cards in his hand, like the little cards, the index cards.
He throws them in the air, and then says, oh, you go ahead and you read the toss to the commercial.
What?
And I recorded this.
I've never seen Costas lose it.
It was what she said, so we're picking it up here, and he's already had four minutes of her, and he's had enough, because she's not playing the game.
She's not reading the script, or the script didn't appear on the prompter, or she's just dumb.
I don't know what it was, but he could not handle it.
That's so...
I didn't know they had cameras in there.
I knew they were watching, and they got a new widescreen TV just so they could watch the Olympics, but I didn't know that...
Yeah, the Olympics look good in high def.
They do.
And you looked especially good out there today, grabbing that gold medal.
I mean, it was not unexpected because you were highly touted coming in, but it's one thing to have a chance or to be among the favorites, another thing to do.
He's looking for the human interest story here.
He's really, he's waiting for her to say, yeah, you know, I really, I worked hard.
Because I was a kid.
Yeah, you know, I've been skiing forever, sacrifices, you know.
Does she have some sibling who has a horrible disease?
I don't know, maybe not.
So he's digging.
He's waiting for her to pick up on something and say something nice.
Is there a sense of relief, satisfaction?
What's it like?
A lot of relief, for sure.
Especially after that bobble the second run.
But, I mean, for the most part, I don't really...
I'm just really tired right now.
It's a night race, so we start the day just later, but...
And now she's going to make a fundamental mistake, which cost us...
Digs in deeper and hates himself for it, where they talk about what time they're recording this and when it's being broadcast.
Because, of course, you never do that.
You never talk about the fact that it's not live and this is not done.
It's, I don't know, 1 o'clock in the morning right now?
It's about 2 a.m.
Sochi time.
It's about like 36 hours past my bedtime.
What is she doing?
She's ruining my interview.
About 2 a.m.
Sochi time as we tape this and as people watch this, it's just after 1 a.m.
on the East Coast and the West Coast in New York and L.A. and we're confusing everyone.
Yeah.
Good luck figuring this one out.
It's a puzzle, but no, I'm really...
Right now, I'm clenching my butt cheeks.
I'm like, oh, this is so bad.
This is like the worst interview ever.
I'm really excited, and I mean, that's...
I don't really know how to put it, but...
Alright, so Costas is...
Now he's going to throw a Hail Mary, and basically it drops after two feet.
Are you too tired to party?
Yes.
By the way, when he said party, she went into like an MKUltra trance.
She went, uh...
Oh, no.
Party.
Yes, I'm too tired to party.
This is the party.
Talking with you is the party.
Talking with you is the party.
This is where he loses it, John.
When she says to Casa, talking with you is the party.
Boy, oh boy.
You gotta have something better than that to look forward to.
A good night's rest and a party tomorrow.
I mean, you are the best thing I could look forward to.
Thank you so much.
You're welcome.
Why don't you just throw it?
Did you just throw your cue card?
I don't need those.
You throw it to commercial.
It says it right there.
Go ahead.
Why would he do this?
The only reason I can think he's making her throw it to commercial is because she was not reading the prompter the whole time or something like this.
Huh.
It was really weird.
That is weird.
And then she actually...
It could also be that they want to hire her to do commentary or something.
Oh, no, no, no.
Well, yeah, I know.
This is a dingbat.
They wouldn't hire her.
She's too young.
Oh, yeah.
Never work from it.
Susanna Guthrie is smart.
I'm sorry.
Susanna Guthrie is not this dingy.
Well, she's pretty close.
She's pretty close.
Anyway, I just thought that was weird.
He was throwing the cue cards and getting all pissed off.
Yeah.
Billie Jean King had a little thing to say.
Of course, the Dutch won the most medals in an ever-competition thingy for one team since the Ice Age.
So everyone's talking about that.
They really did well because they're ice skaters.
I don't know where to get these guys.
Well, that's what we do.
And Putin came over to...
I think her name was Wooster.
I forget her name.
They tried to actually make her...
Stand up for gay rights.
I think she's bisexual or lesbian.
I don't know.
She's openly something.
And Putin came over to the Holland House, which is where we party.
We're well known for our parties, us Dutch.
And...
And he hugs her.
And this is big news over there in the Olympic Village.
Make of Vladimir Putin's visit to the Holland House.
I don't know if you saw this earlier in the games.
One of the Dutch speed skaters won a gold medal, Irene Voest.
And he went and saw her, and she's openly gay, at the Holland House and gave her a big hug.
I think I saw a little bit of that.
Just real quick.
I thought that was great.
Did he know she was gay?
I think he did know she was gay.
Good for him.
I think he knows deep down.
How sad is this?
This is pathetic.
It's so sad.
You know that he's a human being and they're a human being.
He's a human being.
I'm glad.
It's great.
It's good for you, Fred.
Way to go!
Way to give the hug, baby!
Yeah, girlfriend!
That's so pathetic, this.
Yeah.
Was there something about the Holland House early in our coverage of this bull crap?
Yeah, that everyone...
Like weeks and weeks ago?
Yeah, that Heineken was supplying it and everyone was like, oh, Heineken should not supply the beer for the Holland House.
Oh, right.
It was the Heineken and the beer.
The funniest thing that I have here from the Olympics is Morning Joe.
As, of course, Ukraine kind of sort of...
The play was on.
We saw something happen.
We're not sure exactly it was real or not.
And Mika Brzezinski, whose father is basically the architect of all of this robbalization, he has a couple of interesting books you might want to check out.
She works for MSNBC and she was very adamant about all these horrible people making money off of this tragedy.
We have three flashpoints across the globe right now.
Ukraine, in very vivid terms.
Syria, where the bloodshed goes on just at horrific levels.
Crimes against humanity being committed.
And then of course Iran.
Who looks like they're going to walk away from the table and move towards nuclear weapons.
What's the common denominator in all three of those world crises?
Vladimir Putin.
What's the United States response?
What's the President going to say?
What's the Secretary of State going to say?
What's the United States government going to say?
What are we going to do?
How aggressively are we going to work against Vladimir Putin?
That's the question.
Well, I think you add to that question, what about all the people making a lot of money at the Olympics?
The people performing there, the people competing there, the people sponsoring there.
What are they going to do?
Why are they there?
Is this okay?
I'm just curious.
How about NBC, you ditz?
Who is that guy?
That's Joe Scarborough.
And this is on MSNBC, right?
Yeah, but first of all, he's doing exactly what he should do, is covering up the fact that the United States and other actors are making all the rubble.
So he's doing his job, but then she's so ditzy, she's basically saying, oh, we shouldn't be making any money, including my own company.
I thought she was being...
It sounded to me as though she's being sympathetic.
Yeah, but that's dumb.
No, it sounded like she was saying, we can't be mean to Putin, because what about all these people that have jobs because of the Olympics?
No, no, no, she's saying it's crazy, it's detestable that all these people are making money off of Putin's enabling it.
That's what she's saying.
Oh, I'm not hearing it that way.
Okay, that's the way I heard it.
Well, play it again.
I would be interested in listening with your perspective.
Okay.
Well, I'll take his part out because his part is obvious.
Yeah, I got his part.
We know what he's doing.
We've got all the people making a lot of money at the Olympics, the people performing there, the people competing there, the people sponsoring there.
What are they going to do?
Why are they there?
Is this okay?
I'm just curious.
It's kind of strange, isn't it?
Yes, it's very strange.
Wait a minute.
He's an evil dictator and we're making money.
Oh, here's an a-hole.
Yay!
There was a guy on the PBS NewsHour that wrote a book called Russia.
He describes the people of Russia and the problem with Russia, and he discusses a little bit about this, including some interesting factoids.
A Russian book guy, too.
I would like to go over this guy's little commentary because in part two of it, he brings up a couple of interesting points that I don't think anybody really reflects on to any extreme.
And it leads me to discuss the Curry-Dvorak consulting possibilities.
Do you want me to play one or two?
Well, let's play one so we get a little background on this.
And in my many travels across Russia, it seems to me that Russian behavior is understandable, and there are patterns behind it.
Well, so let's look at that through the guise of the Olympics, right?
Because we're seeing the Olympics from the opening ceremonies to the whole staging.
How does this Russia that you see manifest itself?
Well, I think the Olympics are a very traditional Russian event.
I mean, this is a country that has built St.
Petersburg to be the European city on a swamp, professed it, wanted to spread communism around the world.
The Olympics, in a way, are another grandiose project to try to catch up to the West.
But I think what really characterizes these games to me is that they show how much Russia actually lags.
Because if you look at what's going on in Russia, Moscow may be full of luxury cars and fancy restaurants thanks to the riches from Russia's vast energy wealth.
But you don't have to go to Siberia.
You can just drive 50 miles outside of Moscow and see a countryside that's literally dying.
I've visited many villages where there were Two, sometimes even one, elderly person living in what used to be villages on muddy tracks.
And the poverty, alcoholism, disease, in many ways, Russia's heading toward crisis.
Has he ever been to Albuquerque?
I don't want to say too much, but you don't have to drive too far here either to get some of that alcoholism and dirt road stuff.
Yeah.
Well, he goes on, he does have a couple, and he has an interesting thesis, which I think is interesting for the one reason that, well, after you play this clip, which is a little long, but I have to say, it brings to mind a couple of interesting points that I think I'd like to at least discuss for a minute with you.
Two of the things that you write about a lot, and then again, I think we see in the Olympics, from your writing and others, power and corruption.
Tell us what you see.
And again, how do they manifest themselves in the Olympics?
Well, we've heard a lot about corruption in the Sochi Olympic Games, the most expensive games ever, at more than $50 billion.
$7 billion are reported to have gone to companies connected to one man.
This man happens to have been Putin's childhood friend and former judo partner.
But I think what happens at the top reflects what's going on in the rest of the country.
A former central banker said that in 2012, $50 billion were sent illegally outside of Russia.
But it's more than that.
I think that we have this idea that...
I need to ask you, can I, do you mind if I interrupt it here for a moment?
No, go ahead.
The whole corruption thing, which I've now heard this 50, sometimes it's 51, I've heard people say $52 billion.
Corruption from who?
Who gives a crap?
You know, it's not like we all pitch in and send money to the Olympics and he's ripping us off.
I mean, it's a huge building project.
No, no, I agree with that, and that's where it's leading.
Yeah, okay.
By the way, yeah, okay, so the Olympics cost $50 billion and a bunch of it went to his buddy.
So what?
And all the rest of it's really none of our business.
No.
It's the way they do things.
Yeah.
But when you finalize this, that's when the point will be made.
Putin has ruled according to a social contract, according to which, as long as living standards keep rising, the Kremlin is more or less free to be as authoritarian as it likes.
I don't think that's quite true.
I think the glue binding Putin's regime to the Russian people is corruption, because bribery involves everybody.
Well, that's what I was going to ask you.
I mean, why is it accepted?
Explain that.
Why would corruption be the glue if there is a...
And I recently spoke to Masha Gessen about her new book about Pussy Riot, and we see Pussy Riot, some of the members showing up in Sochi, and we've had some reports of them being attacked for it.
But the general population seems, at least from the outside, to accept the system.
Sure, because they're part of the system.
I was saying about how Russians have practical motives for acting the way they do.
I think that the glue binding the system together, as I said, is bribery.
Everybody has to pay a bribe.
If you drive a car, you will certainly have to pay a bribe when you're stopped by a traffic policeman, which happens almost every day.
If you're the owner of a corner store, for example, you have to pay the fire safety inspector, the health inspector, the building code inspector.
Everybody pays bribes.
And I think bribery not only coerces people because it enables the authorities to prosecute almost everybody, it also co-ops people.
Because if you're paying a bribe, you get something out of it.
If you're the corner store owner and you're paying the police to ensure that no harm comes to your business, You feel that you've got something over the competition a couple blocks away.
Man, have these guys ever been to Italy?
Or Chicago for that matter.
Here's why I'm looking at this.
Because J.C.'s friend who was living in Ukraine for a long time, He talked about this, and you would commonly be bribing cops constantly, and it was like, whatever happened, you just paid them off, and it would make things run smoothly, and things did run smoothly.
I think it's a public relations problem.
I think the way bribery is done...
In some of these Eastern European countries, which is just endemic and part of the system, which is what's always overlooked.
It's literally part of the system.
The way it works, these guys don't get paid enough.
This has to happen.
I just think it needs to be renamed, and this is why people should hire us once in a while, to open tipping.
And we have an app for that on iOS and Android.
Yeah.
We're up for that.
Open tipping.
Yes.
What is the problem?
Now wait, when you go to a restaurant, why do you leave a tip?
For bribery.
I'm bribing.
Hold on.
Very good.
We bribe people all the time for the better table, for the, you know, to get in the front lines.
It's everywhere.
Of course we do.
Of course we do.
But it's a tip.
What are donuts for cops?
What is that?
That's not bribery?
No.
That's bribery.
Some cops don't take free donuts, but that's rare.
You know, the cops that don't take free donuts, they're called thin.
Ha ha.
Okay.
Well, and this was on what again?
PBS? That was on the NewsHour, yeah.
And this guy's got this book that might be worth reading.
He's a very interesting character.
And he was trying to let us...
The American public doesn't know crap about Russia.
No, no.
And we have all these preconceived notions.
I mean, I have the stereotypes.
I get a big kick out of them.
You know, hookers from the Ukraine and all the rest of it.
And by the way, you're like the premature aging phenomenon that you run into in certain cultures back there.
Well...
Yeah, open tipping.
If they would just get a...
If Russia got a clue...
I like it.
He'll get WPP's boys out there and they can fix the whole thing up.
I like it.
I think it's good.
Hey, they were talking about Pussy Riot.
Is the music video out yet?
Can I look at that footage again?
This is the music video.
The whole thing was a music video shoot.
Oh, right.
It had to be that because those guys, those phony baloney Cossacks.
Yeah, they were actors and they were hitting the girls on the ass.
Whatever that piece of rope was.
If it was real, cops would use a baton and be beating the crap out of them.
It would be over in two seconds.
No, no, no.
This was the music video, and it's funny to me that AP and everyone is all in on it.
And then they rough up one guy with the camera.
Of course, that's part of it.
This is the guy you're supposed to hit who's a free press.
And then one of these so-called Kazakh guys, he was actually filming himself.
So you'll see his footage in there.
This is...
I mean, come on, people.
By the way, let's...
Ukraine for a moment.
Let's for a moment here.
So I'm watching everything unfold, and this is very interesting, because, you know, whenever you can have...
bring back an actor who, you know, who has distinct features, it's always great for ratings.
You know, so this is why we bring back Yulia Timoshenko with that crazy hairdo.
Besides being an attractive female...
She wears a crown.
Yeah.
Does anybody notice that she's wearing a crown?
Yeah.
Well, she's insane.
But she's insane.
I mean, I don't think anyone knows where she's from.
She was at one point, maybe she still is, the richest woman in Ukraine.
She's the gas princess.
And she was thrown in jail and convicted because she took out contracts on people and had them killed.
There's a reason why all this happened.
She is completely pro-EU. And she's always been pro-EU. And so that didn't work out for her.
And they threw her in the brig.
And now, all of a sudden...
I mean, here's what I saw happening.
I didn't see police...
With brutal, not of any of the video that I've seen.
I didn't see police killing protesters.
I saw protesters beating the crap out of police, or so-called protesters.
And there's this one guy who is in every single picture, all footage.
I'm sure you've seen the guy.
He's got one of those goofy helmets on.
And he's got like a, it's like a drape, like a curtain, as a cape.
Have you seen this guy?
Probably.
He's in all of the photos.
The guy I saw over and over again had a gay rights hat.
No, I didn't see that guy.
I'm talking about front line guy.
Front line.
He's got like a tablecloth or a curtain or something.
You see him.
He's at the presidential home.
He's on the barricades.
This guy is very recognizable.
You'll see him.
And, you know, so when you really see what is going on here on this stage where we had these so-called protesters at the airport doing a similar, like a citizen's arrest on politicians who were trying to escape, I said, no, no, no, no, you're coming back and you're voting on these laws.
I mean, come on.
This is coercion.
It's like, yeah, and one of them is to pop this woman out of jail, and then she's up there like, oh, like she's the chosen one.
This is really, really, really obvious what's happening here.
This is not okay.
I want to exchange one corrupt group with another.
Well, here's a...
And the joke of it is, you know, they want to put, you know, this is a Russian, pro-Russian guy, then they want some pro-Ukrainian guy.
The joke of it is with this woman...
And I only looked this up because I was looking at her and said she's 53.
Women in the Ukraine, and you can talk to people that live there, and it's not necessarily a bad stereotype, but they look like they're 70 when they hit 30.
It's just something, and there's a long explanation genetically why this happens.
She's 53, 54, 55.
She looks like she's 20.
No, not anymore, John.
Did you look at her on this thing?
Yeah, but she doesn't look as old as she would if she was Ukrainian.
Yeah, but she does not look 20.
No.
Well, compared to the women in the Ukraine, I mean, no offense to the Ukrainians, but they know what I'm talking about.
She doesn't have a mustache, yeah.
But she's Latvian, and Latvia's got this weird, you know, they have the blonde parade, and it's a weird place for women.
Just the whole thing was such an obvious setup.
I watched some Al Jazeera America, and they called in Skype to some local blogger, who knows what side of the spectrum she's on, this particular reporter, but she just gave an interesting little rundown of a few things I think we should listen to, because it was not the mainstream messaging.
Now to the breaking news out of Europe.
A situation changing by the hour.
In about the time it takes to ship a package from New York to California, anti-government protesters in Ukraine have taken...
I'm not sure.
I don't know which clip this is.
Hold on a second.
Let's listen to this anyway.
This sounds kind of interesting.
About the time it takes to ship a package to Europe...
...Kiev's main square seized control of the president's office and today begun the formation of a new and very fragile government.
One week of unofficial war, and this morning opposition protesters are calmly restoring a new kind of order.
They began a revolution three months ago, but the real work happened in just days.
I'm sorry.
Yeah, this is my clip of listen to how neatly it's all packaged up for the idiots in the West.
Ukraine's president, who has been MIA, appeared in a TV interview calling the revolution a coup, comparing it to the Nazi invasion of Germany.
There have been conflicting reports about whether or not he is resigning.
We know that President Viktor Yanukovych's office and his very elaborate compound have now been seized.
I want to bring in NBC's Richard Engel, who is live on the phone.
Oh, I'm sorry.
No, this is Richard Engel.
Remember, this is the guy who did the fake report about being hacked in Sochi.
Well, he was in some cafe in Moscow.
Yeah, but the whole report was bullcrap.
No, it was bullcrap.
Yeah, Engel is compromised.
So here he is.
He's not staying for the rest of the Olympics in Sochi.
Oh, no, no, no.
I mean, he's boots on the ground now in Kiev.
Was he ever in Sochi?
No, I think he was only in Moscow.
And so now he's boots on the ground here.
So Richard Engel is clearly part of the pundit program there from the agency.
I'm from Kiev with the very latest.
Richard, is it too early to say the president's regime has been toppled?
I think it's fair to say that a revolution has taken place.
A revolution has taken place?
They are 70% there.
The Capitol is now in the hands of the protesters.
The government buildings are in the hands of the protesters.
The presidential offices are occupied by demonstrators.
The police, all of the interior ministry forces, have firmly come out in a statement saying, They are with the people.
The army is saying it will not get involved.
The president has had to flee the capital city.
Parliament has taken over.
This has been effectively a parliamentary coup.
And the legislative branch has ousted the executive branch.
And all day, Parliament has been meeting, broadcasting their processions on loudspeakers and passing law after law.
And to answer your initial question, the laws that they are passing, which would normally require presidential approval, are being implemented.
For example, they passed a law to release Yulia Tichenko, who was a former prime minister, main rival of the president.
She has been released.
She is back in Kiev, and she's expected to address protesters any minute.
So I can literally see Victoria Nuland sitting there.
All right, get those guys back from the airport.
Sit down.
All right, pass this.
Pass this.
I mean, would they just wrote these laws in two minutes?
Come on.
What I found interesting was they had a...
I was watching one of the networks and they had a B-roll of the head guy.
What's his name?
Yevshenko.
Klitsch or Yatz?
Or the other guy?
No, the guy who was running the place.
They're trying to oust.
Yeah, Victor.
What?
We just call him Victor.
V-Y. Victor Y. Yeah, that guy.
V-Y. V-Y. So they show him signing something, but then I saw this, and it was him...
It was some B-roll somebody dug up of him filling out the Wednesday on his calendar.
Uh-huh.
So I thought that was, so they don't have any photos of this guy seems to have disappeared.
I have, there was an interesting thing on NPR, PBS, or NewsHour, where they had one of the guys emerge from the Atlantic Council.
What is this?
Is this a think tank?
Yeah, it's kind of a real heavy-duty one, too.
It's one that we don't hear much from.
It's a Ukraine side note from the Atlantic Council guy.
You might want to play that for a second.
Today in the Maidan, the chants used to be Zeka Hetch, which means con be gone, ex-con, since he served two terms in prison as a young man.
And the new chants are, you know, death to the prisoner.
So, you know, there is a call for a capital penalty, even though Ukraine no longer has the death penalty.
But there is a rage out there in the public, and I think he is aware of that.
It's been said that some of his valuables are being removed from his lavish residence north of Kiev, which has over 100,000 square feet and these lavish ponds and lakes in which over $100 million has been sunk.
Valuables have been removed from his offices in The presidential administration.
And I don't even know if he's coming back.
I love how they do this.
They're trying to make it look like Saddam's palace now.
This guy, you know, there was a democratic election.
Well, apparently this guy had a place, and if you listen to the next report, which is the bald guy from France, Van Cat, who I think has plugged in enough to give us some interesting things, give us some interesting insight, he has a description of the guy's place.
I don't think that this is bullshit.
...about the deal.
...about the deal.
They've been let down too many times in the past.
They feel that there have been a lot of false hopes, a lot of false promises in the past.
Times when they felt perhaps they were on the verge of perhaps the President Viktor Yanukovych, who is the universal opposition's perhaps biggest enemy, public enemy number one, the man that they have wanted to resign, to step down immediately.
That has been their demand really since day one of this three-month protest.
And so there's a real sort of disconnect this morning between, on the one hand, the political and the opposition leaders calling this deal a triumph.
And obviously, in many respects, it does look very ambitious.
The early elections you were talking about, the call for constitutional change, obviously the call for reforms and a unity, a national unity government, not to mention amnesty for all of those who have been, for all the protesters and those detained.
I think, and free chocolate for everybody.
I think that would add nicely to the changes in Ukraine.
It's just not enough for many of the people in this square, and you don't have to talk about the hard lines, also the moderates.
You have one group who's actually saying they will not lay down their arms, and they're calling on Viktor Yanukovych to resign by 10 a.m.
local time today.
That's just in a couple of hours.
So Doug, in spite of these concessions that are being made by President Yanukovych, he's clearly under pressure here to resign.
How likely is that to happen?
Not at all.
I'll tell you one thing, he's under pressure, but he's not in Kiev this morning.
According to most reports, he left Kiev overnight.
He hasn't fled the capital, although there is some rumors on the internet that that's what he's done.
He's in Kharkiv, which is a town in the east of Ukraine, according to the reports.
A town where he is seen as more of a bastion of his support, although that support, as we know, has been dwindling across the country, not just in the West, which is much more with the opposition, but also in his traditional bastions in the East.
Now, his supporters basically saying that this is normal business as usual.
He's just touching base with his base and his supporters.
But there's a lot of speculation.
Why isn't he on the Capitol the day after these historic accords?
He is a weakened man.
That is indisputable.
The question is, what is he going to do next?
What are his next moves?
And how quickly will he abide by the terms of this agreement signed yesterday?
I think it's great.
At this point, it is a complete media.
Now they're just rolling out the media plan.
It doesn't make any difference what really happens anymore.
It's just whatever the media decides is going to be it is going to be it.
Yeah, no, this was since the beginning, huh?
Yeah, yeah.
I don't think this is new.
This whole thing is a media.
Was that the end of the clip?
Yeah.
Oh, well, he describes his 100,000 square foot residence, which is going to be interesting.
No, it was not in that one.
Now, the Atlantic Council, by the way, which seems to be an anti-Soviet operation that's involved with a bunch of these Eastern European countries, there's a couple of things I noticed I wanted to point out.
One is that the way you spell Kiev.
How do you spell Kiev?
I believe it's K-I-E-V. That's the way the Russians would spell it.
Ah, I'm a pinko commie.
Now, if you're a Ukrainian, you'd spell it K-Y-I-V. Yeah, K-Y-I-V, right.
And the pronunciation is slightly different, too.
It's Kiev.
Kiev.
Kiev.
And then I don't have the clip.
I'm going to try to get it because I couldn't...
Why was this an issue?
Some technical issue.
I had a...
Nuland spoke to a group of oil executives, and right behind her, by the way, was a huge Chevron logo.
How convenient.
Well, we know Chevron got a big contract to drill in Ukraine.
And I don't know if she's doing this on purpose or what, but she pronounces it Kyiv.
No.
No.
I believe she...
I'm telling you.
Oh, that would have been clip of the day.
What do you mean, technical issue?
It's a long story.
Keeve.
I'll get it.
She says Keeve and she says it a couple of times and I'm wondering if she's talking about something else or it's a code word or she's an idiot.
No, it's code.
You know she's not an idiot.
Newland is no moron.
Well, she's the one that also says Klats and Yats, and she's got all her little shortcut pet names.
Yeah, she just says Kev, Kev.
It's just Kev.
It's kind of Kev.
I got some inside information.
First of all, the reason, just backing up a little bit, the reason why Yukoschenko, VY, the president, The reason why he backed out of the...
Yukashenko.
Yukashmami.
Yanukovych.
Yanukovych.
The reason why he backed out is in the agreement that the EU handed to them...
Was a security clause which effectively made them an acting member of NATO. So that's what this really is all about, and that's understandable.
I didn't know this.
Yeah, no, this is the reason why he flip-flopped.
They can't accept that.
No, of course not.
The Russians aren't going to put up with that.
No, it's a security clause.
It's like making Kentucky a part of the Warsaw Pact.
Yeah.
And, of course, there's the Crimea, where the Black Sea Fleet is.
Now, you brought this up on Thursday, that there's this port down in the south.
This is where the Black Fleet, the Russian Black Sea Fleet, is stationed or part of it.
There's no way that you can just say, oh, yes, no worries, Ukraine now has a NATO security agreement.
That's not going to happen.
You know, there's a funny history behind that Republic of Crimea I just ran into.
Apparently, it was always Russia.
It was always part of Russia, this little area.
And Khrushchev, when he was the premier, whatever he was, the head of Russia...
He gave that chunk of land to the Ukrainians because, and it was no because, he was a Ukrainian himself.
And he thought it would be a good thing for them to own.
Interesting.
I thought that was, so it's really always been Russia.
Well, so there's a couple things.
Now, my understanding is that really there was some kind of agreement somewhere, and I'm thinking Germany and Russia.
And I have a very strong feeling that there is something big going on between Moscow and Berlin.
And the idea was that they were going to somehow...
They had some agreement about Ukraine, and something went wrong.
And it started really with the Russians killing all of the Polish government.
Now this happened in, what was that, 2011?
I don't know.
We were all over that.
Yeah, I think it was 2011.
During the assassinations of the leftover bodies.
Yes, everyone was just gone.
And this was supposed to connect, and of course Poland connects very nicely to Ukraine.
And all of that connects through to Germany.
And somehow, I think Putin got shanghaied.
I'm not sure.
Somewhere some power changed.
I'm not quite sure what happened.
But from what some of our insiders have told me, the 2012 European football championships were held in Ukraine.
And this is when all of the actors came in.
Advisors for how we should set up the media and advisors for the buildings, etc.
And I can actually point to Paul Ronsheimer.
He's a German journalist.
And this guy is on the ground with Klitschko.
He's everywhere.
You can kind of see that there's certain...
Members of the press are on the inside.
I mean, seriously, just traveling with these guys.
Well, the press has always been known to camouflage poorly, I might add, spies.
So now let's look at something.
We're seeing all these shots of Ukraine.
Whose video is this?
We have cameras in strategic locations, we've got the stages, we've got microphones, amplification.
Where's all this coming from, from these people with curtains and single-shot rifles?
Come on.
This is a professional operation.
And it's being shot very, very professionally.
Curiously...
I think it was Showtime or something, but they've been playing Wag the Dog a lot.
One of my favorite movies.
I like it a lot.
There's a bunch of things about them.
When's the last time you saw it?
Not that long ago.
A couple years ago, maybe.
They're so deep that I watch them and say, I don't remember this scene.
I don't remember the part about the shoes.
Someone had the wrong shoes on and they changed them?
You don't remember the part about the shoes either?
No, I don't.
The guy that was supposedly behind the enemy lines, who was the psycho, Woody Harrelson, they called him Shoe.
And so they came up with this idea of tying shoes together and throwing them over telephone lines and everything all over this country.
So the whole country was having to celebrate Shoe and bring him back.
Oh, yes, I do remember that.
Yeah, of course.
And it was like, this movie, people have to go watch this movie again.
It is just phenomenal.
It's when Chroma Key was done on blue screen before it became green screen.
That's how old the movie is.
Yeah, it's pretty old.
Well, anyway, I'm just looking at this from a television perspective.
I'm seeing the shots.
They've got the camera shots up above.
This was not a YouTube revolution.
This was a professional job.
You know, somewhere there's a director.
Yeah, because they've got guys with eyeballs that know what they're doing.
There's a director, there's a producer, there's uplinks.
I mean, there's a lot going on.
This is not some country on the brink of civil war.
Not like Venezuela, for instance.
Which is.
We've got no feeds from them.
No, you don't see in no live shot there.
Or Bosnia-Herzegovina, which is, wow, this is in play big time, again.
Ugh.
So yeah, this is very obvious.
I think that tears will come.
The thinking that I'm getting from people sending in messages is, after the Olympics, so that's today, I believe it closes, Putin may just have to do something.
Because we can't have this.
We're not going to split it into...
No, we're not going to do any of that.
This is a non-starter.
My question is, and this does go along with the lines of the clip that you had about what is Russia?
Is it really just Moscow, St.
Petersburg, and the rest is a dirt road with a bunch of vodka drunks?
Does Putin really have the firepower?
Does he really have the balls?
Or is he a paper tiger?
You know, is all of this posturing, this, you know, look at me with my shirt off, is that because he really doesn't have the military might, the muscle, the money, whatever it is, to go against the EU and NATO, to strike back, to say, screw you guys?
Well, first of all, that Ukraine, or the Ukraine, as you know, it's not the, it's Ukraine.
Ukraine.
Ukraine is not part of NATO, so he can waltz in there.
What is NATO supposed to do?
Are they going to just start taking it upon themselves to say, well, I think Somalia, let's go get them, although they have done that with Libya.
Thank you.
I think it would take a lot of nerve for the NATO folks to all of a sudden think they own the Ukrainian Republic.
Well, we shall see how the script rolls out, because that is exactly what is being said.
Well, here's...
I got a little clip of...
I love when she talks, because she's the no-chin monster, the high representative of the European Union.
Yeah, the high...
I didn't know that she was...
I guess she's pro-marijuana.
I've never understood why they call her the high representative.
Of course, Hillary Clinton just calls her...
Like the high priestess.
Yeah.
Hillary Clinton just calls her Kathy.
But it's Baroness Ashton of the High Representative of the European Union, who I thought had left her job, but maybe that's just after these upcoming elections.
And she, before the script rolled out of here's all these laws we've implemented all of a sudden, she was coming out with sanctions and just some interesting talk.
It's absolutely clear that this violence is completely unacceptable and should stop immediately.
So she's making it sound like, you know, like there's evil, evil Ukrainian army is killing people, which I just didn't see it.
And any further escalation should be avoided.
Those who are responsible for human rights violations should be brought to justice.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Human rights violations.
That's there.
There we are.
Should be brought to justice.
We call on all sides to engage in an inclusive and meaningful dialogue to de-escalate the situation and to find a political solution.
We have, as you know, in the visits that I've made, talked about the importance of this dialogue.
But the prime responsibility to get this moving lies with the President.
We know the elements for a lasting solution, the formation of a new and inclusive government, constitutional reform, and the creation of conditions for democratic elections.
And we remain ready to support Ukraine in this process of political dialogue.
Our offer of political association and economic integration remains on the table.
Economic integration.
As well as our commitment to enhance people-to-people contacts.
People-to-people contacts?
What are they, ChristianMingle.com?
What is this, people-to-people contacts?
It's weird.
But in the light of the deuterium situation, we decided as a matter of urgency we need to look at targeting sanctions.
We've agreed to suspend export licenses for equipment for internal repression.
Ah, equipment.
She means guns.
Exactly.
Yeah, that's exactly what she's talking about.
Is it possible we want to rebelize the place?
No.
No, no, no, no.
I don't.
Well...
I think it's just about the oil.
You know, the history of the...
Well, yes.
The history of the Ukraine, this used to be called the breadbasket of Europe.
History of Ukraine.
Did I say the?
Sorry.
History of Ukraine.
It used to be the breadbasket of Europe.
The land was fertile.
It was perfect.
And the people of Ukraine, they've been getting short under the stick for a while.
There was the starvation of Ukraine in the 30s, 32, I think.
Somebody pointed out...
Which was, of course, they were invaded, and then Stalin starved them out.
Somebody pointed out that Ukraine has been owned or dominated by some other country since the 1400s.
They've never been truly independent.
Some other country?
Well, I mean, yeah, besides Russia.
Oh, okay.
I got you.
And a country somewhere, somehow, yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So they're not used to being, you know, doing their own thing without...
So they would probably, you know, if they lost Russia as their patron, they'd probably be very comfortable with another patron, which would be, you know, the boneheads from the EU. Yeah.
The only problem is the economy.
That's the issue.
That's their real problem.
They have to do something about their debt and their money.
I don't know.
One thing I know for sure, none of these people talk and give a crap about the citizens of Ukraine.
They do not care about that.
All they care about is the oil contracts.
Chevron and Shell have the two big ones.
Maybe the fertile land, if they can re-fertilize it.
But if we see Yulia Timoshenko coming back into power, that's just hilarious.
It would just be too funny.
The queen.
Princess Leia.
Do you see what I'm talking about?
That's been her trademark.
Because she's insane, John...
It's like Cher.
She's like Cher with the crazy hair.
It's her trademark because this is what megalomaniacs and celebrities do.
You know, like Yahoo Serious?
Or how about that AOL digital profit guy?
This is what people who have no talent do.
Oh, I'm sorry.
I was the hair guy, too.
Oh, well, there you go.
So it works.
Case in point.
Case in point.
I was going to come in with one.
Case in point.
It's what it is.
And then, you know, she comes out of it.
So she was in jail.
But, oh, wait.
I need to have my hair braided before I go speak to the people of the revolution on stage with my microphone good to go.
I don't think she's I think that's a wig.
No.
That's just a thing.
It's a crown.
It's a literal crown of braided hair.
It's not even real.
It's not even her.
Some slave she had whipped.
Cut her hair off.
They just took some lady and threw the crown on.
It's not even her.
Man, oh man, oh man.
All right.
Well.
So we just have to wait and see how it plays out.
But blood on the moon is what I'm predicting.
I'm thinking that this cannot stand.
So somehow the narrative has to change.
Everyone's kind of hedging.
Like, well, we're kind of there, but the president really hasn't said, okay, I'm stepping down.
And they're talking about elections in May.
And he has to get out.
But this is all...
This is...
Everything that's happening here is really against human rights of the people of Ukraine.
I mean, they had democratic elections in 2010.
We had all the monitors there.
Everyone said, yes, it was clean as a whistle.
It was great.
This guy's in.
And now it changes?
Now all of a sudden that wasn't a good one?
No.
Well...
No.
I think it's possible that the Ukrainian people as a whole are just naturally dissatisfied.
Yes.
It could be, and I believe that's the reason we have Klitsch and his brother as co-world heavyweight champions.
They're just irked.
Eat the crap out of everybody.
Yeah, they're just so pissed they win by kicking your ass.
So now we have something similar in Bosnia.
Oh, and by the way, just one little aside.
Again, Buskill Jr.'s pal who lived in the Ukraine for a number of years, even though they graduated from the same cause he went there.
In Ukraine.
He says that the litany is that the Georgians are the brains of the Eastern European countries and the Ukrainians are the muscle.
Well, the Georgians are now also in play once again.
Oh, good.
Amongst all of this.
You're not hearing me sometimes.
I don't know if you can turn up your speaker or something.
Sometimes I'm talking and you're just talking over me.
Like you don't care.
I just don't want to get feedback.
In Bosnia-Herzegovina, they are now talking about the...
You're getting a lot of lost packets, by the way, is one of the reasons.
Oh, really?
Uh-oh.
This may be too loud.
One, two.
No, it sounds good.
I'm not hearing anything.
Okay, good then.
Bosnia-Herzegovina, they now talk of the new era of discontent.
But there's a fantastic NGO, a non-governmental organization.
They have to come up with a new meaning for NGO. Okay.
I'm just saying, just keep it in the back of your head.
So there they have the Initiative for Better and Humane Inclusion, who is working on the ground there.
And this is a very interesting outfit, which, of course, I looked up for our pleasure.
Let me see if I have it here.
These guys, they basically take money...
From UNICEF and all these other really big United Nations type organizations.
And they funnel it through to all these other little things or these little projects that they have.
And if you just look at it, and they're at ibhi.ba.
Oh, man.
All this money comes in from mainly UNICEF, which is UN money, which I guess we give.
Give me those letters again.
India Bravo Hotel India dot Bravo Alpha.
B-A, Bosnia something or other.
Here's social reform in the NGO sector.
It's really fascinating just to see how all of this money flows.
And I was kind of thinking about all these NGOs.
It's so out of control in America.
If we stop the tax-exemptness of non-profits and if you donate to a non-profit, if you don't deduct it, we could solve the deficit forever, just for once and for all.
There's so much money not being collected in taxes for this bullcrap.
Everywhere.
Everywhere.
It really needs to stop.
This is worse than churches.
And I'm not condemning churches for being tax exempt.
But in terms of the amount of money that's saved because the churches don't pay property tax or any sort of tax, this is way beyond what people bitch about the churches.
Nobody bitches about this.
So here's a report that came out.
You might have heard about this.
And actually, I got the report because I wanted to see what they're saying.
This is Human Rights Watch.
The Human Rights Watch, now we all know as no agenda producers, that this is funded by mainly the State Department and the, what's the democracy, that democracy group.
And it's about the, actually the title of the report is A Wedding That Became a Funeral, U.S. Drone Attack on Marriage Procession in Yemen.
Yeah, this story.
Now, I got a real problem with the drones.
I don't like the whole idea.
And you'd expect Human Rights Watch would be the guys who are all over this and are going to make some changes.
So here's the report that you probably heard about.
An investigation into a U.S. drone strike in Yemen.
Human Rights Watch is reporting a December strike may have killed up to a dozen people on their way to a wedding in Yemen, among them the bride.
That's based on interviews with witnesses and many officials and relatives of the dead.
These officials say only members of al-Qaeda were killed in the December strike and are refusing to make the results of two investigations public.
Alright, so first of all, Don Lemon, I don't know where he got his information, but in the summary, page 2 of this report...
It says, everyone in the procession was a civilian, including all of the dead and injured, and the bride received a superficial face wound.
The bride did not die, Don Lemon, not according to the reports.
Maybe he's reading from a different report.
I'm sure he is.
No, I'm sure he's not.
He's reading from the report that was especially made for CNN. Yeah, special CNN report.
So I want to give you a couple of the, and within just reading, I didn't have to read the report, which is only 36 pages, which is not a lot because these NGOs, what they do is create big reports with lots of information.
That's what they're supposed to do.
I didn't have to go past the summary and recommendations to understand what they're doing here.
So Human Rights Watch found that the convoy was indeed a wedding procession that was bringing the bride and family members to the groom's hometown.
The procession may also have included members of AQAP, although it's not clear who they were or what was their fate.
So this already is sounding a little more dodgy, like, well, maybe there were some guys there.
This raises the possibility the attack may have violated the laws of war, I want to read that again.
This is Human Rights Watch.
But they now talk about the laws of war by failing to discriminate between combatants and civilians or by causing civilian loss disproportionate to the expected military advantage.
Now, I would think in basic Human Rights Watch...
I don't want anyone to die.
I don't want anyone to be killed.
But now, all of a sudden, there's a number.
Provisos.
Yes.
You cannot cause civilian loss disproportionate to the expected military advantage.
Okay, so what you're looking at, obviously, is a report designed to make it look as if somebody cares and that if the drones get out of control and start killing people indiscriminately, we're on it.
Well, it's even worse than that.
So now, in the summary, the legality of the December 12th attack hinges on both the applicable body of international law and the facts on the ground.
So now I'm already understanding this document is supposed to get us prepared to have legalized drone strikes that are all good according to international law.
And it says here, This is a cover-your-ass document, and we see that in the recommendations.
Again...
This is Human Rights Watch, who under the guise of you're killing wedding parties, are now going to recommend the following.
Here's what I would recommend.
If I were a human rights advocate, I would say, my recommendation would be, don't kill people.
It's not nice.
Instead, Human Rights Watch says, to the governments of the United States and Yemen.
Ensure that the United States is taking all feasible precautions to minimize harm to civilians in targeted killings.
Use lethal force.
I know.
Come on, it's a comedy.
Anyone with a sense of humor sees what's going on here.
This is their number one recommendation.
Be careful when killing people in a targeted manner.
I know, it's laughable.
Really, this should be read by some comedian.
Gilbert Gottfried should be reading this.
Use lethal force only when absolutely necessary to protect human life.
So you can only kill someone when you're going to save someone else.
It's like human lives saved or created.
And it should all be in accordance with international human rights law.
So somewhere in international human rights law, it must state that it's okay to be killed as long as, you know, you're a bad guy, I guess.
Yeah, bad guys can be killed.
Recommendation number two.
Again, my recommend...
I'm sorry?
I just say who determines who's a bad guy is another story, but go on.
Recommendation two from Human Rights Watch, a human rights organization.
Again, my second recommendation would probably be let's try to be friends.
Let's not send pilotless airplanes to shoot Hellfire missiles upon people who may be getting married.
No, no, no.
The recommendation to implement a system of prompt and meaningful compensation for civilian loss of life, injury, and property damage from unlawful attacks.
Wasn't Ford Motor Company condemned profoundly because they put a dollar amount figure on the Pintos when they were being blowed up when somebody rear-ended one?
Yeah, that's very good.
Yeah, that's right.
And they were condemned for, oh, you can't put money on the value of a human life, and it was the same people.
Interestingly enough, of course, this has been going on for a while as it states in this recommendation, the United States also should institute a system of condolence or ex gratia, gratia payments, as it has done in Iraq, Iraq, and Afghanistan.
A system of condolence.
All right, here we go.
Hey, we're really sorry.
I'm telling you, this is...
It would be a recording, by the way.
Yeah, it would be...
We're really sorry for killing your bride.
This is a recording.
We're really sorry for killing your bride.
This is a recording.
Exactly.
Or it'd just be a robocall.
That would be fun.
Yeah, something like...
Hello.
Hello.
If your name is Ahmed...
Hello.
This is the U.S. government calling.
If your name is...
Please say...
We're sorry to have killed your bride.
This is a recording.
I'm sorry.
I just snotted all over myself.
I'm sorry.
I was holding my nose.
That was not smart.
Ah, sorry.
Anyway, then to finalize, the second recommendation is only to the U.S. government.
So the first one was to the governments of the United States and Yemen.
Now this is to the U.S. government.
Explain the full legal basis on which the United States carries out targeted killings, including the attack on December 12th.
And publicly clarify all policy guidelines for targeted killings.
So this is part of the setup that we already identified, which comes right into us being able to kill an American citizen.
This is still in play.
Oh, yeah.
And here it is.
Let me just prove it.
Hold on.
I got it here.
Oh, crap.
Here it is.
Hold on.
Hold on.
This is...
So this report, there's no coincidence about this report.
The timing of it, these things, you know, they don't just appear magically like someone sat down and wrote 36 pages.
No.
With this particular recommendation, no.
It comes amidst all the bombs, the toothpaste, and the shoe bombs.
Al-Qaeda in Yemen have...
Al-Qaeda in Yemen.
In Yemen.
A master bomb maker, Ibrahim Alassiri, in their ranks, who is still at large.
Now this is a guy who was responsible for several of the attempts on US aviation in the last few years.
He's ingenious at making bombs.
He's constantly trying to come up with new ways to get past airport security.
While some in the administration described the threat as aspirational, a desire to attack...
What?
Is that Sylvester the cat?
That's Barbara Starr.
She's CNN's Pentagon correspondent.
This U.S. official tells CNN the TSA would not have taken the steps to warn the airlines unless the threat was real.
Now, this is where she just messed up.
Because TSA has nothing to do with...
That's internal.
This was supposedly Department of Homeland Security who was telling security at other airports...
International airports, they had to be careful.
This is not TSA. Already the story's coming apart, but it's going to come into view very quickly.
The official telling CNN, this threat may represent a renewed effort by al-Qaeda.
This is not just some flip comment on the part of a bad guy.
One big worry, al-Qaeda may have developed...
Again, the video you're seeing is a shoe...
It's a boot hanging and it explodes.
I kid you not.
You're seeing a shoe explode on screen while she's doing this report.
Some new type of hard to detect bomb that can be hidden in shoes.
Screening technology couldn't detect the explosives and the bomb might have little or no metal content.
U.S. officials also confirm there are a small number of American citizens in Yemen with Al-Qaeda.
With American passports, they could readily re-enter the U.S. I'm coming in from Yemen.
I'm getting on the plane in Yemen.
I'm trustworthy with my American passport.
Now, fundamentally, U.S. officials are holding their cards very close to their best about what is really going on here, offering very little detail.
But it does come as there's growing concern about Americans overseas fighting with al-Qaeda in places like Yemen, Somalia, Pakistan and Syria.
Here are the pieces.
We have the repeated threats of new bombs from the master bomb maker.
It could include Americans with American passports who will be taking these into the United States and blowing up airplanes.
And, of course, Human Rights Watch says it's okay to drone people if they are bad.
Yeah, that's just the idea.
So it's set up.
It's good to go.
So we just need to wait for someone to go, to die.
Well, it'll happen shortly.
Somebody's going to get killed.
Human Rights Watch.
I know.
You have a real hard-on for them.
Oh, I got a hard-on for another.
Well, first, I want to thank you for your courage, and I want to say, in the morning to you, John C. Dvorak.
Well, I want to thank you for your courage, and I want to say, in the morning to you.
Also, in the morning, all the ships at sea, and the boots on the ground, the feet in the air, the subs in the water, and all the dames and knights out there, and the very few, I might add, very few producers and executive producers for this show, 594.
Yes, and in the morning to all, yes, in the morning to all of our human resources in the chat room, Thank you.
Highly appreciated that you are here, along with our artists.
We thank...
Let's see.
We thank...
Joshua Pettigrew.
Yes, Pettigrew did a very nice piece.
And meanwhile, by the way, I might mention that we're noticing that...
At least I'm noticing that Nick the Rat is electioneering now on Twitter and elsewhere to get us to pick his art more.
Oh, really?
Now, I want to...
I did a...
How's that working out for him?
I like Nick's stuff.
I did a review of last year's art.
All of last year's art.
And Martin J.J. was the number one provider of art for the show.
And Nick the Rat was number two.
And there was really nobody close to those two.
There was a few others that came in a lot, but not like those guys.
So I don't know what Nick the Rat's...
Nick the Rat had a nice piece.
It had lots of double entendres and meanings to it.
It was a good piece.
And we were close to choosing it, but we chose this one because we just liked the whimsical aspect to it.
It was quite a pretty piece of art.
But we want to thank some executive producers and associate executive producers, namely one executive producer, our friend Sir David Foley over there in Los Gatos, who came with 594.33.
He's the baron of Silicon Valley.
No, he's an Archduke.
Archduke.
ITM, John and Adam, please find my donation for Club 594 plus my 33 cents Illuminati tax.
Looking forward to some analysis on the BTC crash of Mount Gox.
You know, the funny thing about that Mt.
Goxin, it was actually crashing while Horowitz and I were doing DH Unplugged and we were looking at the arbitrage opportunities for the Bitcoin.
And we couldn't figure out why.
As we watched, it went from $400 to $260 during the one hour.
That we did our show.
And I don't know if I have any analysis on it yet.
Well, hold on a second.
It's at 622 now.
So when did it go down to 200?
Last Tuesday.
Oh, really?
I don't pay attention to it anymore.
It's a scam.
It's obvious.
Hello, this is a complete scam.
But I'm waiting.
It'll go up to $10,000.
I'm holding on to my Bitcoins.
I would hold on to mine if I were you.
Sir Mark Wilson, $200 in Glasgow, UK. Hello, gents.
A couple of months ago, I asked for karma, and it worked.
And now I'm a step closer to being a fully qualified member of the Evil Empire's Department of Bean Counters and Financial Bullshitters, a.k.a.
Chartered Accountant.
Woo!
Anyway, in recognition of passing, I got a bonus from work, so here it is.
Here's the show's cut.
Some more karma would be great.
Best wishes, Sir Mark Wilson, Glasgow, Scotland.
Congratulations, Sir Mark, and thank you very much.
We highly appreciate that value for value.
We'll take anything we can get.
This is great.
You've got karma.
He will be one of our associate executive producers and one other.
This is a short list.
One other, one last, one cog in the wheel left.
Peter Szuski in Kirkland, Washington.
$200.
Name, location, Kirkland.
Note, in the morning, John and Adam.
And thank you for your courage.
I would like to thank my two buddies, Harry and Dalit, for their courage.
They both hit me in the mouth, and I even managed to guilt one of them into donating.
I believe Dalit still deserves a gentle douchebag call-out.
Douchebag!
Preferably followed by a Russian ITM jingle.
If available.
And it was.
And the Chinese one.
Just in case.
Okay.
And that's it.
Hold on, let me throw him a little karma.
You've got karma.
Yeah, that's not so great, everybody.
I mean, it's great.
It was very disappointing, but...
Well, you know why?
It's very obvious why, John.
Hello?
I mean, your fault is clear.
I have actually...
Well, I switched from kittens to puppies?
Yes, you put a puppy in the newsletter.
My newsletter doesn't normally have dogs or cats.
I think the problem was there was a holiday on Monday, and every holiday week we get some one day's crap.
But why don't we start taking holidays off then?
We didn't really work that day anyway.
We took it off.
Okay.
And by the way, the amount of people who said they'd love a 12-hour Noah gender.
Yeah.
They're nuts.
What were you thinking?
Why did you even say this?
People are all in.
Let him hope it's possible, but still, I didn't say we're going to do it.
It could happen.
And I said it would be spur of the moment.
Today could be the day.
No.
Not going to happen.
Not going to happen.
No.
I got two little quick PR things to mention.
Okay.
I received my box of the new No Agenda 33 tote bags.
They are, wow, what an improvement over the beta version that we tested a while back.
Nice.
These are nice.
And Eric has got them up for sale there on his website, noagendanation.com, in the store.
So I wanted to give a plug for that.
They are really nice.
They go for $11.11, and a portion of that benefits the show.
And then I wanted to thank producer Ron Boyd, who has completed the No Agenda album art book.
It's available for your iOS iBook.com.
But he's also made a PDF available of it.
It's really beautiful.
He's categorized them by theme.
So in the PDF version, I've seen all the Hillary Clinton ones, all the Barack Obama ones.
It's really well done.
And when you take a look, At the art that has been created over the years by our artists.
I mean, it is phenomenally beautiful.
So this is all available.
I believe it's all free.
And he spent a long time working on it.
And we highly appreciate his work.
I don't know.
I think it's free.
Let me see the Apple iTunes where he's got the No Agenda album art book.
Yep, free.
That's cool.
Exactly.
So we appreciate that.
Thank you very much to our executive producer.
We have a lot of value for value, or value for no value, or whatever you want to call it, on this show.
I think this show is the best podcast in the universe, period.
I agree.
As do our associate executive producers, and again, our executive producer, David Foley, thank you very much.
We will also have a few more thank yous, but again, it's a very short list, so this is, well, that's what it is.
As you say, holiday, I think it's the puppies.
I don't know.
I think the value is definitely there, so that can't be the problem.
Please go to...
I'm sorry?
I was going to say the puppies, per se, are now on probation.
Yeah.
All right, everybody, probation or not, you need to get your ass out on the street and propagate our formula.
Our formula is this.
We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
Whoa!
Whoa!
Order!
Shut up, Wayne!
Shut up!
A couple of interesting stats for you, John.
Just a couple of stats.
Yeah, stats.
We should have a jingle.
Interesting stats.
First of all, another 35 gay protesters arrested in Boise, Idaho.
Bringing the total now to, I think, 77.
Funny how we didn't hear about that anti-gay news anywhere.
Oh, yes.
Stray dogs.
7,500 stray dogs.
18,000 stray cats roaming the streets of...
Wait, let me guess.
Sochi.
Detroit.
Well, something must be done.
And this was kind of the...
The depressing thought.
I was reading up on Detroit about basically how banks ruined Detroit.
A lot of financial trickery went on to create this bankruptcy.
But what was interesting to read is that the entire debt of Detroit that created the bankruptcy of a city is still $1 billion less than Facebook paid for WhatsApp.
Yeah, there's a funny irony to all this.
Yeah, there is.
So, $18 billion debt for Detroit.
Company goes bankrupt.
Just think of the dogs alone, people.
Just 7,500 stray dogs.
Half a million people left the city, and yet WhatsApp is worth $19 billion.
These things are just a little crazy.
Yeah.
It makes it funny.
It makes the whole thing funny.
It does to me.
We had a note from one of our producers who said, got into the show and he tried to get his wife to listen by hitting her in the mouth.
Oh boy.
He said that he had to describe the show to her.
She's one of our newer guys.
And she says, oh, it sounds so depressing.
And he had to convince her it was really a comedy show.
Yeah, we're a comedy podcast, exactly.
But, um...
I think on the surface, I don't think our sales pitch, again, we should hire the DeVore, Curry DeVore Consulting Company to get the sales pitch evened out a little more so it doesn't have, so the description of the show isn't depressing.
Oh.
People have to describe, you know, we just let people do it on the Wikipedia.
People can, I always say, tell people to look to No Agenda, look it up on Wikipedia, read it there, you can get some idea.
And you can kind of get the hint that it's...
We're an uplifting show.
We're not a depressing show.
Why don't we just say we're a comedy show?
Well, because we don't really do jokes, and I think we can go actually an entire show without getting a laugh.
Commonly, I think, actually.
Have you watched Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show?
Hey-oh!
Yeah!
I'm on fire!
I'm on fire now, baby!
Okay, so Southern Poverty Law Center.
I'm on an NGO tear.
I'm so angry about it.
Yeah, this is another one you got a heart on for.
Yeah, well, I hadn't looked at their Form 990 in a while.
Okay.
How much money these guys have.
Ugh.
Now that's depressing.
Oh, wait until you hear him.
And of course the Potok guys, the a-holes.
And this group, all they do is incite racism.
Just incite racism and lie.
And he just lies.
He's a horrible man.
Well, the reason you do that is because this is like you want to get more money.
So you incite what gets you the money.
Yes.
Well, in fact, as you'll hear, they were actually accused of that.
But we have to go back to get into the...
Because, of course, these guys don't appear upon the scene until we have some racial issue.
Now, I didn't see them during the kill the kids with the loud music in the car trial, which I have no idea what it was about.
The last time we saw them was, you know, it's always, typically it's about hate groups who want to kill the president.
Because they don't like a black man in the White House.
This is a, I hear this a lot.
But it started with Ted Nugent, who had a little rant.
Yeah, but it's important.
I want to say something after you play.
You're going to play the Nugent clip?
I've got to play the Nugent clip, but then I need to play the response to it and expose the incorrectness, at least.
Just so everyone knows, here's what he said.
I'm sorry?
I didn't say anything.
Oh, I'm sorry.
That was Nugent talking.
Wow, you sounded like the Nugent.
I sound like Nugent?
Hey, sing Cat Scratch Fever for me, man.
Come on.
Galvanize and prod, if not shame, enough Americans to be ever vigilant not to let a Chicago communist-raised, communist-educated, communist-nurtured, subhuman mongrel Like the acorn community organizer gangster Barack Hussein Obama to weasel his way into the top office of authority of the United States of America.
Alright, so the key phrase here that is going to be taken out of all context ever is subhuman mongrel.
Mongrel, by the way, I think means dog.
And of an unidentified breed.
That is the definition I found.
Okay.
So here is Brolf on the CNNs.
This actually happened earlier in the week, but then it came around to the Southern Poverty Law Center, so I brought this back.
I hadn't played this, but here's Brolf lying.
The problem here is when you call the president a suburban mongrel, which has not only a disparaging reference, but also an historic racial reference.
This is a professor, by the way, who is now claiming this has a historic reference.
...in some places.
And then when you call feminine women politicians fat pigs...
Which I didn't hear Nugent say.
Then Abbott has to make a decision.
And he had to say, do I keep Ted Nugent on the stage with me or not?
He has chosen to do so.
And by the way, we're talking about Greg Abbott, who was running for governor of the state of Texas, primarily against Wendy Davis, who has the pink shoes.
And that's what happened today.
Now, listen to Brolf.
Brolf is going to take what this guy just said, and he's going to expand on this racial comment.
I mean, do they know the history of that phrase, subhuman mongrel?
That's what the Nazis called Jews.
Okay.
I'm sorry.
This is not true, Brolf.
Leading up and during World War II to justify the genocide of the Jewish community, they called the Jews untermensch or subhuman mongrels.
If you read some of the literature...
I'm sorry.
So, he's...
He's just embellishing.
Untermensch, indeed, is subhuman.
But it wasn't Untermenschweinhund.
It was Untermensch.
So, you know, to call someone subhuman is one thing, but to now invoke Nazis, Jews, because that's what Ted Nugent said, it doesn't even make sense.
And this has now become like this huge media frenzy.
The machine is eating this alive.
But it is not true.
Untermensch has nothing to do with mongrel whatsoever.
...that the Nazis put out.
There's a long history there of that specific phrase that he used involving the President of the United States.
So isn't there Godwin's Law, isn't there, when you invoke Hitler and Nazis, you've got to stop.
I mean, you just have to stop that.
But no, we bring on, and this is Erin Burnett, and she had a very interesting Potok, who is kind of the spokeshole for the Southern Poverty Law Center, With the, I guess, an editor from the National Review.
His name is, I think he has like a Muslim name.
And it was very interesting to hear this conversation.
A little long clip, but almost immediately you can hear where the Southern Poverty Law Center and how much money they're making.
It is just disgusting when you think, when you really hear what the guy's talking about and the racial hatred he is inciting.
Well, I think the best data shows that, in fact, anti-black racism has risen over the last four or five years.
What is anti-black racism?
Do you mean that you're a racist against people who are anti-black?
It doesn't even make sense what he's saying.
There's polling that shows that both implicit and explicit anti-black attitudes among American whites have gone up quite significantly between 2008 and 2012.
Notice he's using this time as the president's first election, 2008-2012.
To the point where now more than half of white Americans have these anti-black attitudes.
Wow!
So more than half of white Americans...
Hate black people.
That's what he just said.
This is an outrage.
Half of white Americans have...
I think that's the real evidence.
All right, Raihan, half of white Americans...
That's the real evidence.
Yeah, no, this is...
What real evidence?
No, he has no evidence.
Polling, polling data.
Now we have the guy who's going to put him in his place.
Interesting.
Have anti-black attitudes?
I think that's extremely misleading.
When you're looking at things like implicit associations, when you're looking at things like so-called microaggressions, some people have identified things that we're characterizing as anti-black attitudes.
The trouble is that if you use these same standards in the past, you would see there's actually been a sharp decline.
You'll see, for example, that one out of 12 marriages in the United States are now interracial marriages.
You're talking about if you count things as racism then that you count now and did an apples-to-apples comparison and a boy dropped?
Exactly.
You need to have an apples-to-apples comparison.
And the thing is that people are getting very creative in what they're characterizing as racism.
When you look at hard statistics like interracial marriages, interracial friendships, when you look at the level of racial segregation, you've seen enormous progress over time.
And I think that we should celebrate it.
And I believe this guy is telling the truth.
When you look at it over time...
If you think about it, Normally, when you have a president, no matter black, white, could be a Chinese guy.
The president does, and this is taught in all the political science classes because it's a fact.
Well, it's a truce, not a fact.
The president really sets the standard for...
He's a standard setter.
It's like the queen who appoints some tea company to be her tea company.
And so blacks are more accepted probably now than ever before because we have a black president, not in spite of having a black president.
And that, by the way, is I believe this sort of thing when you had Bill Clinton in office and he was getting sucked off by Monica Lewinsky is why there is now a teen epidemic of oral sex.
You're probably right.
I don't doubt that for a second.
They're certainly more aggressive, I'm told.
Yes.
So this is bogus.
A black president has made racial...
I mean, yeah, there's still the guy who hates his neighbor.
But it's essentially the other way around.
These guys are full of crap.
And all these guys, Bill Maher's and the rest of them, elected a black man.
Yeah.
Whereas more than half of the United States voted for the black man.
So you can't tell me that.
Yeah, that's one.
Because they didn't vote for the black man.
They hate him.
That's your polling data.
Mark, what do you what's your response?
Mark, Mark to that. - Thank you.
Well, I think if you're talking about a 50-year span or a 100-year span, obviously that is correct.
Oh, okay.
Well, thank you for fessing up.
It is false, though, that it's only some kind of weird, implicit test that shows the rise over the last five years or so in anti-black racism.
What is this?
I don't...
I failed to understand the term anti-black racism.
Well, he says it so often.
Shouldn't it just be black racism?
Racism against blacks?
No, because you say black racism, but maybe it sounds as though blacks are being racist.
I believe this to be a term that they're promoting.
They're pushing it.
I agree.
That very much includes explicit anti-black racism.
And we've also seen an enormous growth over the last 15 years or so in the number of hate groups.
Now, we know about his, we've discussed his hate groups, where he'll take three guys in a newsletter and call them a hate group like the KKK. Primarily white supremacists.
Supremacists.
From about 602,000 to more than 1,000 today.
So there are a number of things out there that suggest this is going on, and frankly, I think a piece of it is the...
Can you stop one second?
I want to throw something in there just as a subtle point.
This numbers increase has a lot to do with something in the same time period called the internet.
Yeah, absolutely.
For all we know, there could have been 30,000 of them before pre-internet, but we never heard of them.
Exactly, exactly.
Little guys in the corner church, some sort of crackpot guy.
We don't know, but now that there's an internet, you get real numbers because people can do it cheap.
Yeah, everyone can put up a website.
You get something going, exactly.
It's going on, and frankly, I think a piece of it is the permission-giving that people like Ted Nugent, in effect, give.
When Ted Nugent describes the black president as a subhuman mongrel, he is using language that comes right out of the Nazi party.
No!
That is an outrage!
That is an outrage.
This is not true, would he say?
No, I think they actually dropped the ball on this idea.
I don't know where they came up with going with this anti-Semitic approach.
I believe, I don't know this to be true personally, but I believe if you did some research, you would find in anti-abolitionist Literature, you might find something similar to this, and you could use that, and then you could up the ante on the race card that you're trying to play, but they're not doing that.
You could do a slave thing, but instead of doing the slave thing, they're doing the Jew thing.
I think it would be much more effective.
I mean, seriously, can you just separate the Jew thing from the slave thing?
I mean, get your messaging right.
We need to consult these guys.
Right out of the Klan.
It's right out of the Klan.
It has an effect.
The Klan never said...
Where's this in the Klan?
This is not in the Klan's documents.
A major politician in Texas.
The Klan who is Democrats, by the way.
Refuses to condemn this in any way.
You know, I think it in effect tells certain people out there it's alright to have these kinds of...
That's right.
That's right.
Texas, we're a bunch of anti-black racists.
We hate him.
That's true, Ryan, that it tells certain people.
Now comes the eye-opener.
You ready for the number?
Stand back.
That it's okay?
I mean, people who already think this, people who, you know, no normal person would, but certain people?
Quite the opposite.
I think what we see is a world in which anti-racists have a lot of voice, they have a lot of influence.
So whenever someone says something like that that's so appalling, what happens is that they get an enormous amount of pushback.
And I think that that's a very good thing.
But another thing is that we have organizations like the Southern Poverty Law Center that really have grown enormously in recent years.
For example, in 1995, the SPLC had net assets of about 52 million.
In 2011, they had net assets over 250 million.
And, you know, this is not a period of time during which racism increased by a factor of five.
Rather, they've been able to grow by drawing on incidents of this kind and then weaving them into a story about racism growing.
Racism is real.
It needs to be combated.
But we also need to be wary of people who profit from the perception that racism is something that it's not, which is to say a growing phenomenon.
I was, I'm, first of all, yeah, right?
They won't have that guy back on.
No, he's done.
Who is that guy?
He's from the National Review.
Oh, okay, he's a National Review writer.
He's good.
Indeed, I'm looking at the 990 for the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Their income for this year, total revenue, $40 million.
Donors unknown, of course, because of the nature of the nonprofit.
You don't have to tell where the money came from.
That's always nice.
Their total net value, net assets, $256,554,758.
That's a quarter of a billion dollars for these frickin' jabroni salaries alone.
$19 million.
The guy that was on the show there was probably bringing down a million a year.
Well, no.
Well, not directly.
So Richard Cohen, who's the president and CEO of the Southern Poverty Law Center, $300,000 salary.
Good expense account, I bet.
Oh yeah, no expense.
Well, they have...
Well, so here's the Chief Trial Counsel, Morris Dees.
He's at $306,000.
They have...
I'll tell you, this is...
They have $220 million in investments and other securities, of which only $8 million is publicly traded.
They have $15 million in tax-exempt bonds.
Are they a venture capital company?
Yeah, this is exactly what it is.
But we don't know, because we don't really know where the money's coming from.
You see, we're not allowed to see that, but I think the non-profit NGO regulations really have to change.
This is not okay.
That should be what our NGO focuses on.
No, no one will give us money to ruin everybody else's NGO. That won't work.
I'm not convinced that you're right on that.
I know what you're saying as a cynic, but I'm not totally convinced that you're...
I think there's a lot of people that would...
So let's look at what they spent the money on.
And here's the real scam.
Here's where the real money goes.
So they spend a lot of money on raising money.
Or they call it canvassing or telemarketing.
So they spent $1.6 million sent it to Grassroots Campaigns, Inc.
in Boston, but they only brought in $731,000.
So that was a loss of almost $900,000.
But then the telemarketing...
Wait, wait, wait.
You're telling...
Give me these numbers again.
They sent so much money over to this grassroots operation...
Yes, for canvassing.
...and they brought back less?
Yes.
Gross receipts from that activity was $731,000.
So they lost almost $900,000 on that.
Now you have telemarketing, also Boston, Massachusetts.
So there's a couple of them.
Telefund, Inc., They spent $384,000, brought in $632,000, so net profit there of $248,000 just by calling people.
Yeah, you get those calls.
Hi, I'm Rachel with Account Services.
But it's roughly half.
Every place you look, telemarketing, they take half of the money they bring in.
Well, they've got to get paid to do what they do.
Especially squeezing blood from a turnip.
But that's pretty good.
Oh, and here's a little thing.
Periodically, the spouse of the chief trial counsel accompanies him on trips when her presence supports the business purpose.
This occurs infrequently and at the minimis cost to the center.
Minimalist?
No, it says minimis.
M-I-N-I-M-I-S. Oh, it says at de minimis.
Oh, de minimis.
De minimis costs to the center.
Dues for membership in a social business lunching club is paid for by the organization on behalf of the CEO. And they also have the health club membership for every employee.
Now, this is good.
This is good fighting racism.
$300,000 health club.
They get to join some exclusive all-white clubs.
And it's a golf club.
No Jews or white or blackies here.
Uh-uh.
Not here, sir.
No.
Alright, so let's have Potok respond to this, I thought, very eloquent, factual retort saying you are profiting off of your primarily racist, inciting comments.
Mark, let me give you a chance to respond to that since obviously that's you.
Since I'm a counsel of foreign relations and we're buddies and we drink all the time, obviously that's messed up, man.
Who he's talking about.
Well, it's simply an ad hominem attack on the part of my counterpart here.
You know, the reality is that people out there are worried about what is happening in this country.
I think it is undeniable that we've seen a remarkable amount of polarization over the last five or six years, and that is very likely the reason that people send us money.
That you extort money?
I'm not buying this people $40 million.
Who's sending that?
The idea that the data I'm citing has somehow been produced in order for the SPLC to get wealthy is just, you know, kind of a gutter attack that doesn't really mean much.
Yeah, it's exactly what is going on, is what's happening.
I want to take a quick aside here.
I watched this clip.
It must have been CNN. I don't know who she works for now, but you've seen this woman.
Her name is Dana Bash.
She's with CNN. She's the one with the big eyeballs and the little mouth, and she looks like an alien.
She's CNN. She's a political correspondent.
Yeah, and she's got these huge eyeballs.
She's a gray person.
No, she's not a gray.
But keep going.
You don't know that?
How do you know that?
She's too tall to be a gray.
I wouldn't make you think she's tall.
Let me look her up in the Wikipedia.
I don't think her height's in it.
I think she could...
Consult the book of knowledge!
I believe she's a tall blonde.
I do not believe she's a gray.
I'm sorry.
I do not see a height listed.
No?
As usual.
Okay, we'll leave that in advance.
She's got Ted Cruz sitting in the chair, who was suckered, apparently, even though I'm not a big fan of Ted Cruz.
And I do want to mention, just as another aside, is that I was going, I went to the stage, so I listened to Michael Savage.
which is one of the radio talk show guys.
And he went ballistic, which is his best time to listen to radio.
He goes ballistic about somebody approaching him about native advertising.
And he says the deal, and he told the deal, he says he was on confidential, he couldn't say what the company was, even though he kind of hinted it was the Tea Party Express.
Uh-huh.
They came to him, and they apparently have gone to all the right-wing talk show guys, and the deal was you have just two, three, four spots in a three-hour period, Plus, you have to bring on a representative to talk about the Tea Party and to promote the PAC and push people toward the PAC, and you have to bring one on every hour and a half.
And at one point, you have to editorialize as part of the native advertising about how great this is.
So just for people who are new to the show, native advertising is this new thing and it's new to the interwebs where advertisers control the story.
The editorial content.
The editorial content.
They trick you into thinking somebody is writing a story about them legitimately, like it's a legitimate story, but they're actually paying for many things.
Here's an example.
Here's an example.
Okay.
I would say, John.
Hey, John.
Hey, Adam.
Have you received the new chocolate healthy surprise box?
Holy crap, that is fantastic.
It really is.
Hey, by the way, Adam, how can you, you know, we're getting those things.
They're fantastic.
How can listeners get one of them?
Well, if you go to healthysurprise.com, y'all can get yourself one of these boxes, too.
Yeah.
And it would be like we were actually plugging these guys.
And by the way, the last healthy surprise box that we got, there was some weird chocolate in there that is actually...
Good.
No.
I love the chocolate.
Little round ones?
Have you had one of those things?
Little round ones.
They're horrible.
I don't know what the little round ones is.
The little round chocolate thing.
It's got grit in it.
It's got like just the sugar.
It's horrible.
I actually had to throw the whole thing out.
Okay.
Well, we like our chocolate box.
But anyways, that would...
I'm a fan of this.
So if we got a big check...
If he paid us to do that, that would be native advertising.
That would be native advertising.
Exactly.
Now...
So Savage went off the deep end on this and bitched and moaned and he kept talking about Ted Cruz.
Apparently this has got something to do with Ted Cruz.
And meanwhile, so he goes to commercial break and I switched to Hannity.
And Hannity was doing the whole...
Hannity had a substitute in there, but she was talking to a Tea Party Express, and the whole thing, I listened to it after listening to Savage go off the deep, I said, this is it.
Hannity's obviously being bought off by these guys.
So right now, I want to tell people out there, when you're listening to any of this crap on the radio, you've got a good chance of being duped by this bull crap.
So meanwhile, Dana Bash has got...
This is a great Shaggy Dog story.
She's got Ted Cruz on the chair and he got suckered into coming in for some reason.
And so she plays him the Ted Nugent thing.
And then she goes after him.
Would you allow Ted Nugent on the stage saying such a thing?
Would you apologize to Ted Nugent?
And she just goes ballistic about this Ted Nugent thing.
And he's going, he was ambushed.
He goes, you know, he's got a right to say whatever he wants.
Would you, you know, condemn what he says?
Well, I don't agree with what he says.
I never said any of that.
Anyway, it was very funny.
But did she set him up by saying, this is what Hitler called the Jews?
Did she set him up like that?
Oh, wow.
Perfect.
I like it.
Anyway, so be on the lookout for this bull crap.
Oh, man.
Wow.
I woke up this morning about the go-to fail.
You've heard of the go-to fail?
You're talking about...
The Apple go-to film?
The go-to and the code and the Twitter or something?
This is Apple.
Oh, Apple.
Yeah, so they released an emergency patch for iOS, but they also have to release it for 10.9, whatever, the Mavericks thing.
It essentially, I'm going to give you some words, but here's how I understand it.
It actually is a vulnerability for their version of SSL, for secure communication over the Internet.
And when you see this bug, and if you understand anything about code, And the fact that it was introduced into the iOS code about four weeks before the PRISM document claims that Apple was on board, you gotta think this is no coincidence.
And it is literally a bug in the code.
And if you look at the code, it's...
So using a go-to statement, now we know this from our basic days, it'll be, you know, 10, print hello world, 20, go to 10.
So the practice of using go-to statements in modern code has probably been frowned upon for about 25 years.
At least.
Yeah, because it's not a very good idea because it can come back to bite you in the ass when something changes somewhere unrelated.
Yeah, because you say go-to here, but meanwhile you don't remember that was there, and then you change something where it was going to, and you're ruined.
You can't figure out why.
So this is essentially a security handshake failover.
And somehow, erroneously, so there's a statement that says, if the secure socket layer state is this, then go to fail.
And then fail is a separate command, which should then essentially fail the handshake.
But then underneath it was an erroneous line that just said, go to fail, without an if statement.
So when you're logging in, just when you're submitting your password to a website, it would essentially render.
So anyone who has an iPhone or anything like that, and I'm still on 6, which is where this was introduced, you go to gotofail.com and you'll see that it's compromised.
And then there's, you know, it does my sslwork.com.
There's all these other places.
And this is, and all of a sudden this has now come to light.
But you look at the timing because people are looking at the code.
This was introduced three to four weeks before the PRISM slide says that Apple joined on board the program and was open for the NSA, you know, had basically had a back door.
So essentially it turned off the security of all?
Yes, yes, yes.
Well, not entirely, but you can use a, it does not validate a certain type of certificate, so you could spoof it very easily.
Yeah, essentially is what it meant to do.
For me, this is a big pain in the ass because I had not upgraded to iOS 7.
I really didn't want to do that, but now I can't use a device that is just broadcasting passwords.
I've used my banking software on this iPod Touch.
Basically, anyone who was snooping my packets, which could be Wi-Fi, which is the only way that thing connects, would have my information.
This is unacceptable from Apple.
Unacceptable.
And I think that there was either a rogue agent who put this in, In fact, that's the only thing I can think of.
People are saying, oh yeah, you didn't have debugging turned on.
Bull crap.
Bull crap.
This is such a dumb bug.
This is such a rookie mistake.
The fact that they would allow developers to use go-to statements in your SSL TLS code?
Really?
Very, very, very sketchy.
It's very handy.
Yeah, well, but Apple will get a pass, of course.
Oh, well, they fixed it, at least.
Yeah, well, it's like the Human Rights Watch, essentially, that they went over all the details of the killing of the wedding group.
Yeah, yeah.
And so it's fine.
Everybody's happy, because this looks legal.
Yeah, it's legal.
We're on top of it.
Yeah, good to go.
Very, very, very disturbing.
Very, very disturbing, I would say.
Oh, we have a quick break here.
I've got a direct connection here.
Let's check in with Tom Hartman.
Tom Hartman.
Are you trying to hurt me?
Check in with Tom Hartman.
Come on.
Average 68 with highs of 110 counts per minute.
Farmington, Minnesota is sitting at 40 counts per minute with spikes to 62.
And Rapid City, South Dakota is hovering at 39 with highs of 55 counts per minute.
Radcast's alert level is 100 counts per minute.
However, they remind us that there is no such thing as a safe level of radiation.
Oh, damn it.
You took so long to get to Tom Hartman live that we missed the San Francisco readings.
What are you talking about, San Francisco?
There's got to be high readings because of Fukushima.
Oh, I'm sorry.
It's okay.
Next time, we'll keep an eye on this.
I'd like to know, by the way, I'm of the opinion that Hartman actually thinks he's setting a trend here.
By reading the bullcrap radiation numbers?
Bullcrap radiation levels.
Yeah, I might actually start doing something dumb like that.
It's just funny enough.
It's just funny.
I have a question for you.
And this actually came up...
So, let me step back.
A couple things happened in the Agenda 21 climate, science, global warming stuff.
And it started kind of with an email...
Someone who asked us about our stance on global warming and he was new to the show.
And you wrote a very eloquent email, which I put in the show notes, kind of explaining why we're not buying this.
Yeah, we're not on board.
We're not on board with it.
And then at the same time we discover the great, let me see, what's the name of it, the great climate, was it the great global, no, why the great global warming swindle, no, the great global warming swindle, that's it.
Yeah, it's a great, excellent film.
It's a great film, and what it shows is how CO2, and this of course, everyone's debunked everything, but how CO2 follows heat, not heat following CO2. Which logically makes sense if you think about it.
Yes, it does.
And then Bill Nye was on C-SPAN. A rare moment.
I was almost borderline getting a clip of that.
Well, I got one.
Oh, I didn't know you'd have one.
Well, there's a reason for it.
Okay.
Let me do this.
First, let me play you a little clip.
From the Great Global Warming Swindle.
And by the way, we should mention, this is an old movie.
Yeah, it's from 2007.
It's four...
What is it?
Seven years old.
Seven years old.
And done by, I think, BBC, wasn't it?
Or was it Channel 4?
No, no.
This was independent, and they have lots...
It's really very entertaining.
It did air.
It did air in the UK. It didn't do any good, did it?
No.
Well, what's interesting about it, well, they go into the science very deeply, but there's also a number of IPCC members, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, who actually authored parts of one of the first reports, and here's that little segment that I pulled out of the movie, and there's a link in the show notes to where you can actually see the whole thing, but it's fun to listen to this.
I've often heard it said that there is a consensus of thousands of scientists on the global warming issue and that humans are causing a catastrophic change to the climate system.
Well, I am one scientist and there are many that simply think that is not true.
Man-made global warming is no ordinary scientific theory.
It is presented in the media as having the stamp of authority of an impressive international organization.
The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC. The IPCC, like any UN body, is political.
The final conclusions are politically driven.
This claim that the IPCC is the world's top 1,500 or 2,500 scientists You look at the bibliographies of the people and it's simply not true.
There are quite a number of non-scientists.
And to build the number up to 2500, they have to start taking reviewers and government people and so on, anyone who ever came close to them.
And none of them are asked to agree.
Many of them disagree.
Those people who are specialists but don't agree with the polemic, And resign.
And there have been a number that I know of.
They are simply put on the author list and become part of this 2,500 of the world's top scientists.
People have decided you have to convince other people that since no scientist disagrees, you shouldn't disagree either.
But that, whenever you hear that in science, that's pure propaganda.
All right, so definitely worth watching.
I like that because there were actual IPCC guys.
Yeah, there was a lot of heavy hitters on there, but they're all, you know, at the University of Winnipeg and places where they didn't get hounded to death.
Yeah.
Just shut up.
Well, and so, a couple things.
They point out that there's a big moneymaker.
Well, I was thinking about, this is seven years ago.
This climate change business...
It truly is, along with stuff that kills people, like bombs and planes and ships and weapons, it truly is a huge part of the economy now.
I think the elites are basing a lot of the economy on...
This premise, this is why we make solar panels and windmills and green and battery cars.
All of this comes from this basic premise of man-made global warming.
But there's a little other piece to it, which I have a question for you.
When you texted me, you said, oh my God, look at C-SPAN 2.
By the way, this is how exciting our lives are.
Hey, man, turn on C-SPAN 2 now.
We don't do it as much as we used to.
But when I get it from you, I'm like, because I had just taken a shower.
I had to go to Mickey's show, you know, like C-SPAN 2.
Damn, I got to turn on the C-SPAN. Something's happening right now.
And it's Bill Nye the science guy, the comedian clown fighting for two hours this went on.
A religious guy, I don't even know who it was, and the argument was, and they're on stage, creationism versus science, essentially.
Science!
Science!
And so here's a little bit of, just so you hear how Bill Nye is talking.
Now, I just want to remind us all, there are billions of people in the world who are deeply religious.
Who get enriched.
Who have a wonderful sense of community from their religion.
They worship together.
They eat together.
They live in their communities and enjoy other company.
Billions of people.
But these same people do not embrace the extraordinary view that the earth is somehow only 6,000 years old.
That is unique.
And here's my concern.
What keeps the United States ahead, what makes the United States a world leader, is our technology, our new ideas, our innovations.
If we continue to eschew science, eschew the process, and try to divide science into observational science and historic science, we are not going to move forward.
We will not embrace natural laws.
We will not make discoveries.
We will not invent and innovate and stay ahead.
So if you ask me if Ken Ham's creation model is viable, I say no.
It is absolutely not viable.
All right, so now I'm watching this...
With that in mind, I'm watching this documentary.
Can I just throw in something?
During this whole thing, I didn't watch the whole thing.
I couldn't take it.
My mouth, my jaw was wide open the whole time.
Why is anyone wasting their time under any circumstances arguing about whether the earth is 6,000 years old or not?
There are too many things...
I could be cleaning my office.
I mean, it's just a ludicrous argument.
What difference does it make?
No, the earth is obviously not 6,000 years old, but I'm going to debate some guy who thinks it is for some religious reason because he believes it is?
There's nothing to discuss.
It's what he thinks.
So what?
There's something interesting here.
Okay.
As I'm watching this documentary, and they're talking about millions of years, and thousands of years, and hundreds of thousands of years, and evolution, and you cannot believe in man-made global warming without believing in evolution.
It is impossible.
Associative bullshit.
Why is it then...
Why does our president, on one hand, say climate change is real, but then at the end he says, God bless America.
Which one is it?
Do you believe that God is going to bless him?
That would be clip of the day.
Thank you.
But this really bothered me.
And Gore.
So here's Gore.
He just did a speech in Kansas City.
And he says, Vatican City wants to be the first CO2-neutral sovereign city-state in the world.
They have two advantages.
It is very small, and they have God on their side.
I mean, you cannot have everything you want.
You can't say God is real if you believe in the...
The global warming.
The theory of, yeah, the global warming period in evolution.
Yeah, you've got to make up your mind, people.
So this is the same thing, and we've said this before, if you believe in peak oil and global warming, you've got nothing to worry about.
Problem will solve itself eventually.
Yeah, that meme apparently went around just enough, not because we started it.
I think it's other people that have come up with the same conclusion.
That peak oil thing is dead.
I don't hear it used at all.
No, it's over because of the dichotomy.
People couldn't handle the question.
The real thing that I think is still the most viable way, you know, if you believe this, even though these people are insincere because they're in the cap and trade, which is what we discussed, they're obviously insincere.
They wouldn't be in the cap and trade.
They'd be in the cap.
And if they really believe this all to be true, then they would go with modern nuclear power, which is not what was built in the 70s or the 50s or the 60s.
This is like 50 years later.
This is breeder reactors.
This is thorium.
The thorium reactors, the ones that are enclosed, they never give off waste.
There's a million of these things you can put in your backyard.
They're running every new ship being built by the U.S. Navy.
All our aircraft carriers are using nukes.
All our bases are pretty much powered by these small little ones.
Why are we not saying, let's just go there and there's going to be no more CO2, excess CO2? It's not going to happen.
Because of Fukushima, Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, China Syndrome, we're all going to die.
Nuclear bombs, Nagasaki, Hiroshima.
That's why.
It's ridiculous.
Anyway, so I just...
I'm sorry I sent you to that.
No, that's okay.
No, no, but I just feel that this needs to be pointed out, that if you are going to say I'm all in man-made global warming, millions of years of data, then please do not invoke God on me.
How can you say that?
Because if God truly blesses America, then he will protect us.
Fix things.
Fix things.
Or maybe you're not on board.
So this debate of 6,000 years in creation.
And last night, I was really confused.
I got into bed.
I said to Mickey, I said, do you think that maybe there's a third option or a combo?
So maybe it's not just creationism.
Maybe it's not just evolution.
Maybe there's a third option.
Which would be the Greys, obviously.
Or maybe there's, you know, like there was millions of years of evolution.
We became, you know, we started to evolve and then, you know, there was an event where we accelerated, you know, like some magic potion, poof!
And here we were.
Well, genetics do have a cascade effect, which is interesting.
It's best observed with dogs and actually some other animals that breed and have a genetic change.
When we were breeding dogs, it wouldn't just change their personalities or habits or the fact that they can hunt.
All of a sudden, they look like completely different beasts.
Since dog breeding is so popular, we're inventing new breeds all the time.
It's astonishing what happens when a cascade effect takes place and the dog all of a sudden has a completely different pattern of coloration and different hair and eyeballs of different color.
The cascade effect of gene selection is not fully understood.
I'm not using puppies anymore.
I have to say, I see, maybe it's probably my age, but I see such an increase in dog ownership.
And I look at these people, I'm like, why do you want a dog?
I mean, why?
You can't let the dog run around loose.
You've got to pick up his crap.
What is the pleasure of this?
I don't know.
I mean, I've had dogs.
I like dogs.
I like dogs, too.
But I don't go out of my way to own one, even though I own a bunch of them, because Mimi owns a bunch of them.
Yeah.
Yeah, but they...
Cats are even more interesting because they have a parasite that if you ever catch this disease, you love cats.
Yeah, but I also don't like the cat.
I don't like having to empty the cat's poo box.
Oh, the poo box is the worst with cats.
I'm sick and tired of...
That's why you catch that parasite, by the way.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's why pregnant women can't have cats.
But it's just, I don't know.
I've had all kinds of pets.
Every pet known to man.
But I don't see how dogs are...
Like a tiger?
Yeah, I've had that too.
Today's society...
And I see people...
Observe.
I see people with dogs at the market here.
There's a big thing in them.
Get your dog on the leash.
And half the dogs are being pulled along.
I smell something good over there.
Necks yanked away.
Oh, this is my dog!
Sit, sit, sit, sit!
Goodbye, sit!
Why?
Why are you yelling at the dog?
You want chicken?
You want chicken?
Sit, sit, sit!
What are you proving to me?
You've trained this dog into getting some chicken to sit.
Wow, I'm impressed.
It's sad.
I find it really sad.
I'm sorry.
I have a tangent.
I'm going to show my support by donating to no agenda.
Imagine all the people who could do that.
Oh, yeah, that'd be fab.
Yeah, on no agenda in the morning.
We do have very few people to thank for the show 594, including Andrew Walton, who came in with $223.33 from New Hope, Minnesota.
And he says, I don't want to wait another 196 months for my $5 monthly subscription to earn me a knighthood, so I decided to move it along a little bit.
And what he says, while you're still producing content.
In other words, do you know something we don't know?
Yeah, before the native advertising comes in that makes us rich men.
Yes!
Beyond our wildest dreams.
Great value for value.
If I could get a jobs karma, we'll give all the karmas at the end.
That'll be your job karma.
I did get a note from Frank Montwell from Haley Corners, Wisconsin.
He donated $112.34.
Get the douchebag button ready.
This is his first donation, so he needs a de-douching.
We'll do de-douching and karma at the end of the show, but we do these in real time.
He wants a douchebag call out to his nephew, Michael Johnson, who punched me in the mouth last summer, and so give him a douchebag.
Douchebag!
And it's Blaine Sang Saar, who I punched in the mouth shortly thereafter, yet both have never donated.
Douchebag!
And he has a request for a night name, which I'm not going to give away because then somebody might steal it.
Yeah, that's like domain names.
Yeah, you've got to be careful.
You've got to be very careful.
Dame Sam Menor in Victoria, Australia, $111.11, and she wants to make it rain for Jenny.
So we'll put her on the list.
When is the club open, man?
I told you, probably next Thursday.
It looks like the painters are in.
Today, and it should be dry and ready for work, because we expect it to be dried out by tomorrow afternoon.
How's the poll?
And they're working on Sunday, for God's sake.
How's the poll?
The polls are all greased and ready.
All right.
Christopher Wolf in Mooresville, Indiana.
$111.11.
No note on if he wants to bring anyone to the stage.
Alex Sorley in Bergen, Norway.
He once wished to call Douchebag on the payroll office who belated my donation.
With a temporary problem.
Douchebag!
Let me do a bad Chad.
Bad Chad from Colorado.
Here's $100, value for value as informally agreed upon.
A gentleman's deal without need for contracts or lawyers or contrivance.
Thank you for your courage.
That is a somewhat facetious statement based on some bullcrap elites, what they say to each other in public, but I think I mean it earnestly.
The commitment you and John have made to this ideal is courageous.
I sincerely hope the two of you realize that your efforts are appreciated and valued.
If you could, please hit me with that job karma we discussed.
Now, Chad stayed at our house when he was going for a lieutenant, and he had to take the test here in Austin, or get the training.
So Monday and Tuesday, he has incident command scenario, interview and oral defense of his prioritization of a list of predetermined objectives.
If I am successful, I will progress to the Chief's interview the following week.
There's another candidate in the process that I have hit in the mouth.
To him, if he's listening, I can only say this.
You should have donated, douchebag.
Douchebag!
I love that.
Well, this is Bad Chad who wrote the mountain bike toilet roll story.
He's good.
He's a good writer.
He should stop saving people's lives and just write.
What I tell them.
You can do both.
Patrick Mangan in Tacoma, Washington, $100.
He says some of his coerced tax dollars got returned.
Oh, very nice.
Good old Dame Joni Dottifray in Morgantown, West Virginia.
She's been lazy and hasn't made it to the bank to make arrangements for replacing my monthly PayPal donation since you guys apparently kicked me off, right?
Yeah, on purpose.
We hate you.
So here's what I owe to ensure my reservation for the mothership.
All right.
And so she needs a karma.
She's a dame.
You can give her a karma shot.
She wants a mother-in-law karma shot.
You've got karma.
What is a mother-in-law karma shot?
Maybe we should have combined it with this.
Don't eat me, Hillary Clinton!
That'll be the mother-in-law karma shot from now on.
Uh, we have a couple of these and only a couple of these.
69!
69, dude!
Literally a couple.
We have two birthdays listed and highlighted, but I only see one on the birthday list.
Am I wrong?
Am I looking at the wrong list?
I got two.
I got two.
Oh.
James Durant in San Diego, California, 69.
And Raymond Breslin in Arlington, Washington, 69.
That's it.
That's it for the swazzle nuts.
That's dead.
All right.
Jeffrey Zimmerman, Cranberry...
Township.
Oh.
$60 in Pennsylvania nuts.
Steve Sims, Petersburg, Virginia...
5678.
Double nickels on the diamond.
East Brunswick, New Jersey from Kevin Nunez.
Erez Schatz in Binyamina, Israel.
Binyamina.
Like Benjaminville, I guess.
Binyamina.
We need reports from Israel.
Binyamina, we do.
Would be useful to us.
Anonymous in somewhere, Kansas.
And we have a...
He wants to give himself a douchebag.
We don't do that.
Yeah, you can only call someone else out as a douchebag.
Macy...
That are Maciek.
Stolowicz.
Stolowski.
Stolowski in Calgary.
Macy Stolowski.
Yeah, it's not Macy, though.
It's something else.
Macy, Macy, Macy, Macy, Macy Stolowski.
Tia Bell in Bergfield, Berkshire, UK. Finally, somebody in the UK this week.
Jason Daniels in Dallas, Texas.
But these are all $50, by the way.
Peter Cohen, Balamina, Antrim, which is not in the UK. Where is that?
I don't know.
I'm not sure.
Eric Veet in Dublin, California, right up the road from me.
Kyle Bauer, parts unknown.
Baroness Tanya Wayman in New York City.
She sent us a note with a smiley face on it.
And she just says she doesn't like PayPal either.
Bogdan LeCendro in Irvine, Texas.
And finally, Benjamin C. Smith, another Oaklander down the road from me, 50 bucks.
And that concludes the people who donated helped us out with four or five...
Show 594.
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We've got some twos, some fours, some fives, 11-11, 33s, 12-12s, all kinds of donations.
And it's really beautiful.
We could use some more on Thursday.
But I'm sure we'll have more value for value coming your way.
And as John said...
And here they are, James Durant or Durante 36 today.
And Jeffrey Zimmerman congratulates his wife, Jennifer Zimmerman.
She celebrates today.
Happy birthday from all your buddies here at the best podcast in the universe.
Yes, sir.
That's it, of course.
No nightings, no title changes.
That's usually what happens when we have a down day.
It does happen.
New meme alert!
New meme alert!
We need a jingle for that.
New meme.
Do we not have something?
Not that I know of.
Really?
We don't have a new meme?
Let me see.
No.
Really?
You think we have...
Meme of the day.
Meme of the day.
Meme of the day?
Okay.
Nice.
No.
That's no good.
Don't use it.
So they're training a new guy over there at the White House to be the spokeshold.
His name is Josh Earnest.
And when you get the new guy...
Is Carney quitting?
Well, you've got to think that Carney is ramping up.
Yeah, of course.
Eventually he's going to have to quit.
But he's tired.
He may have a different gig.
Sometimes these guys die.
These spokesholds.
It's not a great job.
It can go very wrong.
But I think he's got a fantastic opportunity.
He has put in the hours.
I would give him a glowing recommendation if I were president.
So they're bringing in the new guy, Josh.
Josh Earnest.
And when you have the new guy, you always want to try the new stuff out with the new guy.
Because if it doesn't fly, then you say, that's the new guy.
That's kind of how it works in corporate America, and I think that's also...
I think the State Department did the same thing when they had Harf.
Yes, yes.
On the one hand, and this other...
What's her name?
The one that does most of the work?
Well, there's Marie is the band camp girl, and then there's the red one with no soul.
Yeah, that one.
Yeah.
Why can't I remember her name now?
Well, it'll come to me.
Well, anyway, her and Harf were going at it, who's going to get the job, and the soulless one got it.
She pops up from time to time, though.
The band camp.
Anyway, so new meme.
And I've been tracking this and you laugh at me because, oh, it's so funny.
You think I'm supporting Tom Perkins, which I'm not.
I do not support Tom Perkins.
I do not support Tom Perkins.
I do not support him.
But I find his observation interesting that there is a definite war on rich people.
Yeah, those poor, helpless, rich people.
They must be just like the Jews in Germany.
They're so helpless.
They can't do anything about their plight.
So tell me what this is code for.
He said it four times in a span of five minutes.
I clipped out each of the four times.
Unfortunately, Republicans refused to even consider the possibility of raising from revenue by closing some loopholes that benefit only the wealthy and the well-connected.
The president, in a sign of his willingness to compromise, included those entitlement changes into the formal offer.
Now, did you hear it?
No.
I thought you said it four times.
I heard two things.
Where's the four?
No, this is the first time he said it.
You didn't hear it?
There were two clips there.
Well, here comes the second time he says it.
Okay, okay, then I'll get it.
...and middle-class families to make sacrifices in pursuit of reducing the deficit and not ask the wealthy and well-connected to make some sacrifices, too.
That it's just not fair.
Are you hearing it?
And it's not good policy.
Wealthy, well-connected, one word?
Yes.
No, it's the wealthy...
And the well-connected.
I think in the second clip he says wealthy well-connected.
Well, let's listen to the third time.
And why they think that it's good policy-making to ask senior citizens and veterans and middle-class families to make sacrifices, but say that corporations and wealthy individuals and well-connected individuals shouldn't have to bear any of that responsibility in making those sacrifices.
It doesn't make sense.
It's not fair and it's not good policy.
Do you think he thinks he's mixing it up a little bit when he says wealthy and well-connected, then wealthy, well-connected, then wealthy, and you know what I mean?
I'm talking about well-connected.
This is like, obviously, what's put in front of him.
Let's listen to the fourth one, then we'll discuss.
If we're going to ask seniors and others to make sacrifices by changing entitlement programs, then we're also going to ask corporations and well-connected individuals to give up some of their tax loopholes.
So well-connected.
So it's the wealthy, the well-connected, well-connected individuals, the well-connected.
What exactly is, when are you well-connected?
Because clearly you need to hate those people.
But what is, what is well-connected?
Do they have so much money that we have to soak them?
Well-connected doesn't mean you're rich.
No, that's my point.
There's the wealthy, and a separate group now, new, is the well-connected.
So who are they going after with well-connected?
Arguably, he's well-connected.
He's in the White House.
No, he's totally well-connected.
So what does this mean?
Where are they going with this well-connected meme?
You watch, it's coming.
No, there's nothing to watch.
It's obviously already in play.
But who are they?
That can be anybody.
No, it could be anybody.
That's the joke of it.
And it doesn't mean that they have any money.
I think...
If you're less than three degrees separated from Kevin Bacon, which I am, by the way.
I'm only two degrees.
I'm well connected.
If I go meet the guy, would I be a one degree?
You'd be a first degree, yeah.
You'd be well connected.
Wellconnected.com.
Well-connected.
Define well-connected.
Well-connected.
The free dictionary.
Highly influential, important relatives and friends.
Well-connected.
Unconventional approach to building genuine something.
Well-connected adjective.
You know how you could be well-connected?
Through a group like, I don't know, church?
Synagogue?
No, no.
If a churchgoer is not well-connected.
I mean, they could be, but I don't think that defines them.
Depends which church.
Well, anyway, I'm noticing this as a meme, and I find it disturbing.
Well-connected.
Yeah, it's not something you want to hear being brought up as a target.
Because it's like, stay at home!
Yeah.
Otherwise, you're going to be seen as well-connected.
Yeah.
I find it troubling.
Someone who is well-connected has important or influential relatives or friends.
This is like a threat to somebody.
Well, yeah, it's got to be a threat to some group.
I just don't understand.
Are they talking Republicans?
Are they well-connected?
Or is it if you're in an NGO or a super PAC or...
Did you actually look up the wealthy and well-connected?
Let's just see if it's what the Google comes back with.
Oh, interesting.
Here's a couple of people already picking up on this.
Now it's the well-connected.
Okay, why?
Does anyone have an answer?
This is from CNS News.
Yeah, I don't know what that is.
That's probably some...
Cybercast News Service.
It's some little guy.
Yeah, well, that's a Republican site, it looks like.
But what is it?
What is wealthy and well-connected?
I don't...
New York City's wealthy and well-connected.
Hate it when they're the ones...
What does this say?
Well, I'm well-connected.
I'm super well-connected, but I'm not wealthy.
No.
No, not at all.
New York City's wealthy and well-connected.
This would be you.
And this is right.
The headline nails you.
Connected.
Hate it when they're the ones feeling the class war.
Oh, Tom Perkins, please save me.
I'm right.
You watch.
We are going to be throwing well-connected people to the lions.
We get a double hit with Tom Perkins.
Occupy for accountability.
Alright, well you've spotted something we have no idea about.
It's something we need to keep an eye on and we'll see where it goes.
Alright, then I might as well just play these because this is our First Lady of the United States of America.
She is now the spokeshole for all things you'd expect to need.
And she goes on the Jimmy Kimmel Tonight Show, and here she is promoting the Affordable Care Act, and how else would you do it but to condescend the...
You need to do this.
You need to condescend people into joining us.
While you're here, I have to talk to you.
I want to talk to you about the Affordable Care Act.
It's in March?
Is there a deadline?
The end of March, absolutely.
Yes, it is.
Because a lot of young people watch our show.
Would you like to tell them, like, why would they?
Because a lot of people don't have money to spend on this.
Well, thanks to the Affordable Care Act, young people can stay on their parents' insurance until they're 26.
But once they hit 26, they're on their own.
And a lot of young people think they're invincible.
But the truth is, young people are knuckleheads.
There you go.
That's perfect.
The people you actually need in your system to make up for the old people, you need to be condescending.
And also you need to kind of like skirt around what, you know, because, you know, why are they knuckleheads?
I think they're making a huge mistake here.
Yeah, well listen, you have to listen to the last 15 seconds, why they're knuckleheads, and then you can get into the mistake.
You know?
They're the ones who are cooking for the first time and slice their finger open.
They're dancing on the bar stool.
Young people.
It's not like AIDS, cancer, anything like that.
No, no.
Slice your finger.
That's why you need affordable care.
The way to do it is to get the media on board with the same way they did with the last flu season where all of a sudden they're giving us a death count on a daily basis, which they could have done any year with the same numbers.
Get the media on board at the hospital and find the kid who fell off the bar stool, cut his finger open, or has cancer or whatever, and go in there and say, I'm going broke, man.
I didn't think this would happen to me.
I didn't think this would happen to me.
And then begin to hound the public.
And in fact, if you want to, why does the government do what they can do best?
Send some goons out and beat the crap out of the guy.
Hospitalize him.
And put him on the air.
Yeah.
No, it would happen to me, man.
I wish I'd go join the health insurance program.
I wouldn't be broke.
Now, here it goes.
Hi, I'm Adam Curry.
I used to be a well-connected knucklehead.
Until I sliced my finger open cooking for the first time.
And what will they be cooking?
I don't remember much, but they probably like mac and cheese.
That's one of my big...
That's advanced.
Mac and cheese casserole, it's pretty simple.
It's more than two ingredients.
I mean, that's...
I'm in ramen noodle area, yeah.
You gotta love it when the first lady's out there promoting mac and cheese and slicing your fingers.
Who is that?
Is that Fallon saying he eats ramen noodles?
Yeah.
Oh, that's great.
And then just to top it all off...
There was a segment where the U segment, I guess it's a Fallon Saturday Night Live skit, and the first lady is there, and of course, potato chops!
Yeah!
Yeah.
You know, instead of potato chips, a healthy alternative, it's kale chips.
Woo!
Woo!
There you go.
Yeah, we talk about mac and cheese, which is a depression food.
Depression food.
The poor man's lettuce.
Kale is the poor man's lettuce.
Again, another depression food that's been pushed into the limelight because apparently bugs won't even eat it.
Hey, I got an email from one of our producers, John Hamlin.
And he said, on Thursday's No Agenda show, 5, 9, or 3, y'all read a note from a reader who said she grew up referring to kale as poor man's cabbage.
Oh, I thought it was lettuce, but cabbage.
And deconstructed the PR company and rebranded it as a superfood to jack the price up.
I enjoyed your previous deconstruction of kale, and that story sounded all too familiar.
You see, my maternal grandfather played polo, and therefore hung around with the kind of elites who can afford to keep 20-plus horses, employ three pro players, and a groom from South America, travel the seasons, and oh yeah, not work for a living.
Grandpa lived in West Palm Beach during the winter polo season and would sometimes fly my mother down to visit him.
It was during one of these trips that Mom met the Mushroom King.
Yeah, I got this.
This is a great note.
According to Mom's reporting, the Mushroom King earned his nickname and his riches by convincing people that Portobello mushrooms were something other than garbage.
Before he came along, Portobello's were considered a trash mushroom that grew like a weed alongside the quality fungi.
At that time, the good shrooms were small, white, and delicate, while the portobello was big, dark, and floppy.
As the story goes, the Mushroom King managed to flip the script and made a fortune in the process.
That sounds believable.
Yeah, flipping the script, that's the way you make money in this country.
So what can we do to flip the script?
What products can we take that is basically garbage...
Waste.
Waste product.
Well, we're doing that kind of with the news coverage, which is garbage.
Well, that's true.
That's true.
And we are flipping it into interesting analysis.
Yeah, but we're not getting rich in the process.
We've already done our job in that regard.
We're not getting rich in the process.
No, we're not getting rich, but it is fun.
And it's also enlightening for people to realize what a bunch of crap is out there.
In fact, I had this interesting clip.
It's not that interesting.
But this is the Olympics, and they have to play this because there's nothing really that scandalous about these Olympics except some bad judging of events, which is always going to happen.
But they had a little play on the Nancy Kerrigan, Tonya Harding thing from, I don't know, 20 years ago.
Wow, does anybody remember this?
Does anybody know what's going on?
If you watch the Olympics, they did because they kept talking about it.
It's like, you know, history, if you forget your history, you're going to have it reminded forever, you're going to have it thrown in your face.
There's a bitter joke there.
I'm sorry, I blew it.
But anyway, play this little clip because it brought up an interesting point that, according to at least one of the skaters who watched this carnival that took place with the media, the media frenzy, he believed it was, for him, it was the death of the media.
It was, why bother with these people?
You could not miss this practice session.
Here they are, together, on the ice for the first time.
There are about 300 or 400 cameras at the practice.
It's a practice.
I wasn't afraid of her, but I thought it would be a zoo to put us on the same ice and I was right.
Nancy Kerrigan wore that white lacy dress that she was wearing the day she got attacked.
Humor is good and it's fun and I thought it's empowering and it's, hey, I'm here.
I can do this.
I'm back.
I'm ready.
I saw press jammed into this one little area.
I saw the Washington Post, People Magazine, the New York Times, the National Enquirer, and you go down the line and they were all equals.
This may have changed skating a little bit, but to me it changed media forever.
All the clicking and slashing when I did my jumps, it made me fall and hurt myself.
Both of them are on the ice.
It's inevitable that they're going to pass each other.
And when they came like this, the click, the whir of the cameras.
I mean, it sounded like a million firecrackers going off.
But that was the money picture.
This was that big of a deal.
So what you're saying here is it's so pathetic they could not drum up any controversy that they had to bring this back?
Yeah, but more importantly to me was besides the noise that 300 cameras would make in the olden days before digital, all shooting at the same time because they're all a bunch of robots taking the exact same shots that normally I would think a pool guy could do, right?
One guy?
Yeah.
Do we need 300 photographers from every media outlet, including the National Enquirer and everybody in between?
I mean, it doesn't make any sense.
It's stupid.
And the guy who was saying that it changed for him, it changed media, I think...
Which, by the way, predates the realization that this is all crap really predates our show, which started six, seven years ago, by a decade at least or more.
It's just astonishing to me that this hasn't been picked up.
To any extreme, like we do on our show, at all.
I mean, I think the last guys who used to pound the media for being a bunch of shills and jerks was I.F. Stone, which was like doing a newsletter in the 1960s, and he died.
And even before that, the Seldis character.
But those used to be in the form of newsletters.
But there's no serious people seriously looking at what a crock of crap that is being fed on a 24-hour basis to the public.
No.
There's nobody.
Except for us.
I think we are one of the few.
I think somebody every once in a while takes a shot at it, but they're so poorly equipped or poorly trained or they don't have enough background or they're insincere or they're still kind of part of it and they can't really release themselves completely.
Well, that's it.
No, you've nailed it there because most people, even when they're critical, are part of the system.
I think it's mainly based around ads.
Selling seeds.
Yeah, if you're in any kind of business where there is an advertiser, then you can't go against the system.
You just can't.
Even if your advertiser is seeds and iodine and whatever, you can't go against it.
For instance...
I guarantee you, it's already a bit of a story, but I think this will get some legs, and I'm going to debunk it for you right now.
Outernet.is.
Have you heard of this, John?
Outernet.is?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I looked into this a little bit, and then I dropped the ball.
Right.
So this is another non-profit which is funded by some pretty big names here, the Media Development Investment Fund, MDIF.org, who I might add give us nothing.
But I will give you a couple of names here.
The Foundation for Democracy of Media, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Omidyar Network, Pierre, drive my car, the Open Society Foundation, Soros, Oxfam, Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, they funded TOR, Swiss Agency for Development.
It's the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
It is the...
And they help media.
The usual suspects.
But they don't give us any money.
Now, they are funding the outer net.
And this is such a scam.
So, what they're proclaiming to be able to do...
So, Outernet.
Information for the world from outer space.
Unrestricted, globally accessible broadcast data.
Quality content from all over the internet.
Available to all of humanity.
For free!
And then, there's subtext here.
by leveraging data casting technology over a low-cost satellite constellation, Aldernet is able to bypass censorship, ensure privacy, and offer a universally accessible information service at no cost to global citizens.
It's the modern version of shortwave radio or BitTorrent from space.
Okay, I have to say...
Bullshit!
This is so...
full of it.
They are claiming that they will be using CubeSats.
So whenever you get into BitTorrent and shortwave radio, you're now in my backyard.
Aviation 2.
I have communicated with satellites.
Cube satellites.
And it's absolutely possible, if you're really lucky, you can even do it with your little rubber duck antenna if you know exactly when the satellite is overhead.
You can open up the repeater and you can actually hear your message come back from the satellite.
Fun to do.
You can do it with a $50 China radio, but really you need a directional antenna.
Oh, and I'm sorry, it's 5 watts.
And the CubeSat is not on all the time.
It's only waiting and it receives a signal, flips on the repeater, broadcasts it back.
And these things go out of business after a couple of years because, you know, the batteries, you know, it just doesn't recharge enough.
So they're claiming that they, and this, by the way, is on 400 megahertz, which is why you need five watts.
You really need more to do it properly.
Now, they're claiming that you will be able to use your Wi-Fi radio on your smartphone, which will be any smartphone you want, Which is 2.4, 2.6 GHz.
And that you will be able to receive these satellites just by having your phone in your hand outside.
And this will not work for a number of reasons.
One, you need a lot more gain on these frequencies.
Now you're much higher in the frequency band.
Wi-Fi, its entire protocol is meant to be short distances, not low-Earth orbiting satellite.
And then these things are going to have to be broadcasting all the time in order for you to pick up the Wi-Fi signal.
This is bullcrap.
It is not going to happen.
It is a lie.
Someone is soaking these guys, this NDIF. We should be so lucky.
And they've got, like, pictures of people holding up their smartphones.
Yeah, I saw that.
It's pathetic.
Well, that shows you how dumb the public is.
I mean, it doesn't even make any sense.
And then the idea that it's going to go anywhere and it's not censor-proof.
Does anybody remember the good old days when the communists were fighting us in a Cold War and we would have Voice of America and they just put up a bunch of scramblers?
Yeah.
It doesn't take crap.
It just takes...
Yeah, you take one guy with a couple thousand watt antenna over here and you won't be able to pick the signal up for 10 miles around.
How's that censorship-free?
Now, this is as dumb as the Google balloon project.
Oh, where's that?
You don't hear about that anymore.
Maybe this is just a hoax.
It's not a hoax.
This is a hoax.
No, the guys are answering questions on the...
I got into this.
I was like, okay, what are you doing?
I think what they want to do is technically, I think, impossible.
And besides the fact that they're not building an internet, they want to do data casting like DVB or digital radio.
The way the technology press is picking up...
Oh, that way they can send a message to us all.
Yeah.
The way the technology press is picking this up is, Wow, this is so cool!
These guys got the internet, and, you know, Pierre, drive my cars, front me in, it's really smart, it's really awesome!
Free internet!
Are you doing Twit today?
I guess this is a column for me, thank you.
Are you doing Twit today?
Yes, I am, as a matter of fact.
Four dollars.
Says this one comes up as a news story.
Well, it won't get very far because I think even Leo knows that, being a ham too, knows enough.
Let's see.
I've seen some...
So what should I do?
Should I just clam up and see how south it goes and then jump in?
No, no, I think, yeah, you be quiet.
Who's on the show?
Who's on the show with you?
A reporter from USA Today and somebody else.
Oh, USA Today will be all in.
Perfect.
No, this guy, the only reason I like working with this guy is because he's pretty cynical.
What's his name?
I can't remember.
I feel bad about that.
I like him so much.
No, I should know his name.
I just don't.
I do know his name.
I just, it's not coming.
That's good.
And I like the guy a lot.
He's a good guy.
Yeah, you should say nothing.
And then when it comes up, you let everyone talk about it.
And you say, that's going to be so cool.
That's what you gotta say.
Wow, that's gonna be so cool.
Actually, the Wi-Fi protocol, you said it was not only designed for short distances, but if you fully implement the protocol, if it senses you've gone past a certain distance, it will not retrieve the data.
Yeah, of course.
You have to actually disable that aspect of it to get it to go more than a mile.
So I have experience with these things.
I think it's time for like 1,200 feet or something.
I have experience with these sats.
It's off the wall.
It's so dumb.
But maybe we can learn something from this.
We create a satellite or something.
I mean, they're looking for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars they're getting from this outfit.
I guess there's the guys with hundreds of thousands of dollars burning a hole in their pocket.
How come we don't...
Well, we're clearly not well-connected, are we?
No, it's a good thing.
That would be the final problem.
All right.
Hey, I've promised to get us out on time, so I'm doing that.
I'm getting people saying, hey, you guys are taking on...
The show's too long.
The show's too long.
Yeah, the show's too long.
Okay, so of course we will have an update on Ukraine.
Well, it's very possible that Russian troops could storm Ukraine before Thursday.
We'll have to see.
I say no.
And Monday, I'm getting two teeth extracted, so I'll be cranky all week.
What?
Yeah.
Well, this is my year.
I'm getting all my teeth done this year.
You're having your two front teeth removed?
No, no, no, no.
There's two molars that I've got.
You're just going to get caps.
Or crowns.
Crowns, yeah.
Well, I had to save up.
The guy's been hounding.
He said, your teeth are going to rot out of your head if you don't do something.
I've got to save my money.
So, that's what I spend my money on.
I must be...
A promotion for Adam's teeth.
Yeah, right.
I must be well-connected.
And we'll meet each other back here on Thursday.
Looking forward to that here in FEMA Region 6 in the morning, everybody.
My name's Adam Curry.
And from northern Silicon Valley, where I... The weather, by the way, is very nice.
We're in a drought, and it's going to cost us big money.
I'm John C. Dvorak.
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