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March 9, 2014 - No Agenda
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598: Experiential Evidence
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Hello.
Yeah, here I come.
It's a Clydesdale.
Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
It's Sunday, March 9th, 2014.
Time for your Gitmo Nation media assassination episode 5, 9 or 8.
This is no agenda.
Drowning amongst the hipsters and douche knuckles visiting FEMA Region 6.
From the Tower Sites hideout in Austin, Texas in the morning, everybody.
I'm Adam Curry.
And from northern Silicon Valley where I'm out of bottled water, I'm John C. Dvorak.
It's Crackpot and Buzzkill in the You should not be drinking bottled water anyway, John.
Who cares?
Well, it's...
Says who?
Well, it's much better to filter your water and have a...
I like it.
This brand is good.
What brand are you drinking?
Crystal Geyser.
Oh, that is nice.
Well, it's South by Southwest, everybody.
Yeah, I was just there.
Yeah.
Have you been tweeting from South By again, John?
Yeah, I've been tweeting.
I just flew back in this morning, back to California, but after I do Leo's show, back down to Texas.
Oh, you're going to go right back.
Actually, I spent a little time looking at the tweets from South By.
My goodness, what a dumb show this is.
By the way...
Attention.
Attention all South by Southwest attendees.
Internet advertising is a Ponzi scheme.
You've got to let them know once in a while, and they're going to start believing their own hype.
If you just do a search on Twitter for hashtag SXSW, oh man, it's so dumb.
Let me give you a little sampling, shall I? Yeah, let's read some tweets.
Here we are in the No Agenda show, ladies and gentlemen.
We're reading tweets, which by the way could be a show.
75% of adults not adherent to doctor's advice.
South by...
Hashtag SXSW. Seriously, this is what it is.
What was that?
Yeah, it's just...
These are the tweets.
Let's see.
Get a sneak peek at what's to come in beautiful death at the...
Hashtag GoTexExhibit.
It's just...
Everything is dumb.
I'm telling you.
And Miss Mickey, she's like, hey.
Hey, man.
You gotta get me into some of these events.
I'm like, well, no.
No.
What events would she want to go to?
I think she wanted to see Lady Gaga.
She's going to be doing a keynote.
She's about to come in and beat me over the head now.
But here's the funny thing.
Lady Gaga's doing a keynote and Mickey's got to go see it.
Let me lock the door.
Hold on.
But here's the funny thing.
She's not actually doing a keynote, but she'll be interviewed for a keynote panel by...
That's an easy man's keynote.
Oh, yeah, it's the best kind of keynote.
They sit there and they ask you stupid questions.
Yeah, but the interview is by John Norris.
And, of course, I know John Norris.
We worked together for, I don't know, eight years at MTV. Okay.
And I said to Mickey, I said, I will lower myself.
If you wish.
I'm going to lower myself to his level and ask if he has any way to get you in.
He said he's a dick.
Oh, I'm sorry.
I mean, he rocks.
He rocks, a guy.
As long as you get the free ticket.
Oh, man.
So, anyway.
It's interesting.
There are some people in town.
It's just weird.
Although, it rained like crazy yesterday.
It was like a complete washout.
Well, good.
Got that crap out of the air for you.
No, the mold is super high.
This, of course, is also my wife.
She drove like 20 minutes to go get my medication.
What medication?
Do you have an appointment?
Yeah, quercetin, nettles, and mold mix.
That's the only thing that helps.
I was literally feeling faint.
And you do remember what happened with the mold allergy?
I sleep for 18 hours a day.
So you have a mold allergy and you have to take nettles?
Yeah, quercetin.
The nettles, it's nice to have, but it's quercetin, really, which is an anti-inflammatory.
Oh.
Yeah.
Cooking turmeric, too.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh man, oh man, oh man.
Yeah, well mold is bad.
What kind of mold are we talking about?
Leaf mold?
Yeah, like the mold from trees and wherever it comes from, yeah.
Oh, you're doomed.
And those of you who are listening a couple episodes behind, which I think a lot of people really are two episodes behind on the No Agenda show.
It's terrible.
Yeah.
You are not allowed to email any articles unless you are au courant.
Yes, absolutely.
That is a solid rule.
We talk about something for maybe hours, and then somebody sends us, like, all babies are going to be born with two heads, and we discuss it and discuss it and discuss it.
A week later, we get a memo from one of our producers, hey, look at this!
Babies are being born with two heads!
You are, however, always allowed to tweet articles if you're behind so that I can then retweet and ridicule you.
That is okay.
I'm kind of on a Twitter trip here because we had this plane disappear, this Malaysian Airlines flight.
By the way, I solved it.
It was hit by that ICBM that Russia launched.
Yeah.
Oh, you didn't think that was silly?
You must think something like that's going on.
How about Space Wars?
Can we go there?
Because I was reading through the Twitter again, and Twitter needs to do something.
They need to have Boolean search like you can do with Google, where you do a minus.
Well, here's the things I would like to...
And or plus and all the rest of it.
Right.
Because if you just do hashtag, what is it, MH370, whatever the flight number is, you really need to be able to omit so sad, pray, OMG, God, and Allah.
These are the tweets I do not need to see anymore.
And it's so, people are so weird, the things they will say about this, about an occurrence like this.
I never really have done this in a big event.
Go look at Twitter.
But everyone's just like, so sad.
So sad.
I don't even know what's going on yet.
This is the Facebookization of Twitter.
Yeah.
This is Facebook to me.
This kind of crap.
A little bit, a little bit, yeah.
Which is one of the reasons I don't like Facebook.
And you're the one that brought it up.
Yep.
You know, somebody says, oh, my dog died.
And then the next thing, oh, your dog died.
Well, no, you've got to like that.
Sad.
Yeah, I like it.
I like it.
I like it.
Oh, my.
Well, okay, so this is a perfect example.
Now, you're old enough to have some experience with this.
Have you ever had...
Where you think, like someone pops into your mind who you haven't talked to for, I don't know, maybe six months or a year.
They don't live in your town.
But like something is, briefly you think of them, and then two days later you find out the guy dropped dead.
Have you ever had that happen?
Did this just happen to you?
Yes, it happened yesterday.
Okay, who dropped dead?
Robert Pino, who was a friend of ours in Los Angeles.
A Dutch guy, and 55, 56 years old, drops dead of a heart attack.
And two or three days ago, I recall him being in my head, like, oh, you know, next time we're in L.A., look him up, whatever.
But maybe not even that.
And then all of a sudden, my daughter says, oh, did you know Robert Pino passed away?
I'm like, eh.
And so, of course, you know, the thing I'm not going to do is go on Facebook and go, R.I.P., so sad!
Even though I am.
But then you see what people do.
It's strange.
I guess it's a modern way of mourning, I presume.
But it's...
I don't know.
So anyway, have you ever had that happen to you?
Probably.
It feels crappy.
55.
You had a precognition?
It feels crappy?
No, the precognition, that's not the problem.
It's just 55.
Are you kidding me?
No.
Was he in bad health or what happened?
I don't know.
I hadn't spoken to him for a year.
Oh.
And I feel bad.
I could have saved him.
Dude, drop some weight.
That's an old thought, yeah.
So, anyway, that's a bit of a bummer.
I guess it happens as you get older, just more and more people die off.
You just hope you're not one of them.
No, it could hurt the show.
And by the way, last night Mickey and I were talking in bed.
Actually, I met him through her.
And I said, you know, I don't feel sad sad, like I want to cry sad, but I'm bummed out because he was a fun guy.
He was weird.
He was always doing something.
He had a TV show lined up and all kinds of things that was going on.
Yeah, I'm working with Robert De Niro.
One of those guys.
It was funny, though.
And he actually has done a lot for me and for Mickey and for my daughter.
But we were talking about you, and I said, well, if John dies before me, I won't really care so much regarding the show.
I'd miss talking to you, that's all.
I think I would just really miss that.
I'd find something else to do.
Hooking or something.
No, no.
The show will be dead.
It'll be over.
I can coast for a month or two tops, maybe.
But then I have to find some other work.
But I would miss you.
I would.
Oh, I'd miss you too.
No, you wouldn't.
Or if you were executed.
That would bother me more, actually, because I'd be concerned that, well, I don't know, maybe I'm next.
It would be a little annoying, yeah.
So this Malaysian aircraft.
Before you go there, hold on a second.
You're moving too fast.
But we were already there.
You already had the ICBM theory.
I threw that in.
But that ICBM, I'm thinking, is more and more fishy.
But let's go back to the Twitter thing.
So I opened my Twitter because you brought the subject up.
And here's a bunch of people.
I guess you know who the big celebrity must be at the big celebrity.
Well, I can tell you.
I can tell you exactly who they are.
The big celebrities are Ashton Kutcher's walking around.
Of course, we have Julian Assange was on the Skypes and it was boring.
Yeah, we heard about that.
And Snowden is going to be on the Skypes.
And apparently there's somebody screwing with the Skype connection.
Oh, sure.
But they said.
Yeah, okay.
And then Lady Gaga.
But she's not roaming around.
No, she's not roaming around.
And she won't be roaming around.
Steve Case, Eric Google.
Now, Robert Duvall.
Really?
I got two pictures of him.
Here's one from Technology in USA Today, Mike Schneider, live with Robert Duvall.
And another one is, here's Ed Begg.
Can't resist a selfie with Godfather Consigliere Tom Hagen, a.k.a.
Robert Duvall.
And Duvall looks like he's 90.
Oh, yeah.
In fact, he doesn't even look like Duvall.
When I saw this picture, I said, who are these two farts?
And then I, oh, huh.
Well, it's funny you mention that because at a certain point, you know, when men grow older, they become distinguished and they look, you know, they look distinguished and sometimes they start to look better.
And then there's a tipping point.
Right.
And this tipping point...
My tipping point!
I watched that Chicagoland, the first series of Chicagoland on CNN, which is produced by Robert Redford.
And I don't know if...
Is there no one in Robert Redford's group who can say, Hey, Rob, Bob, Mr.
Redford, Chapstick...
I mean, it looks disgusting.
And he's producing it, so it's a close-up of his head, his full screen.
And his lips are all cruddy, chapped, and it's like...
He's up in the Colorado mountains most of the time.
Chapstick.
That's all chapstick.
Where he's wreaking havoc on his already wrinkled to death face.
Do not go on television with your cracked up, crackle-crumpy, crusty, literally crusty lips.
It's like he had a glazed donut.
And there's crust in the...
Oh, it's just disgusting.
Hey, you're complaining about my analysis of the Academy Awards last show, and now you're going off in this direction?
No, I wanted to get into Malaysia.
I'm ready to talk about...
Okay, okay, I'm done.
My wife has already divorced me for outing her on the Gaga thing.
Well, she'll get grief about that for sure.
No.
If it were easy to go, I'd go too.
If I'm going to go see a keynote, the one I want to see is Gaga.
There's good to Gaga.
Hey, there's a couple of Nobel Prize winners giving a talk.
Now, Gaga.
Shut up, John.
Now you're making me look bad.
Stop.
Stop.
All right.
Okay, so the Malaysian thing.
There's a couple of things I'd like to set out.
First of all, this is interesting because...
The plane seems to have just disappeared.
It went off quote-unquote radar, which isn't really radar.
It's an ADS-B system.
There's different systems that we're looking at here, but we never saw...
The systems went off, stopped communicating as far as we know.
And there was no drop in altitude or any of that, and that makes it very complicated to the point now where there's even discussion that maybe they had some event and they turned around and tried to land somewhere instead of crashing into the water.
Who knows?
And we really, really don't know, but this is different from normal...
It's a little different than the Air France accident, for instance.
We have much less data this time.
Nothing.
Now, I will say that we have three Boeing stories in a row, and we are always on the lookout for the Airbus versus Boeing.
So it's certainly being taken advantage of because it started with the hairline fractures in the Dreamliner 787 carbon fiber plastic wings, which, you know, I'm not a fan of that.
Then we had the Malaysian.
I'm not a fan of Boeing's outsourcing their whole product around the world and then making a piece of crap that costs three times as much as if they made it right up here up in the Washington state area.
And then we had an emergency landing.
Oh, it's a Boeing.
It's a Boeing.
I also will say I've never been a fan of the 777.
I never liked the idea of long haul with just two engines.
And they're big, these huge engines.
Yeah, I know.
That's a nice cross-country plane.
It's very comfortable.
Yeah, I'm not a fan of it.
So I'm looking at it obviously from an aviation angle.
There's a couple of things I know for sure.
One, the passport thing.
This is abnormal.
The ICAO system, ICAO is the International Aviation Organization, everyone's a member of it.
The passport system, which is part of the airlines, is pretty rock solid.
If your passport is stolen, unless you haven't reported it, and I'm pretty sure these passports were reported stolen...
There's a flag worldwide.
So for two or three or four, or we don't even know exactly how many people to board with these stolen passports, makes no sense.
This is really very difficult to do.
Getting in and out of countries, maybe that might be much easier, but actually using it to go from one country to the next, the airline will catch the, it should, and this has been going on since, I think, I think this system has been in place for 20 years.
Yeah, and this is going into China, too, which has other restrictions.
It's sophisticated.
This system is not, you know, like some new thing.
So that's...
I'm not glossing over that too easily.
It's like, oh, just some stolen passports.
No problem.
Hop on board.
Then one of our producers, producer Jonas...
Sent me, I think it sent it to you as well, not wishing to add to the pain or throw out wild conspiracies about yesterday's 777 crash.
You likely already know that two of the passengers were traveling on bogus passports, etc., etc., etc.
What you may not know is that the timeline, the same, so he says yesterday, we got this two days ago, other major news broke in the country.
And this concerns the former Deputy Prime Minister Anwar bin Ibrahim.
This is a very old, ongoing story.
I think 15 years ago, the guy was apparently caught sodomizing his wife's limo driver, and so he was removed from his position on charges of sodomy.
Homosexuality, of course, is against the law.
I'm not exactly sure of the law in Malaysia.
He hasn't really been in jail, but this has been an ongoing process.
He joined the opposition party, which I know is pun intended, but he joined the opposition party, and in an upcoming election he was about to become the chief minister of Selangor, the most populous state in Malaysia.
Then yesterday, so this is, you know, the same time this accident takes place, or we hear about the accident, his charges have, so he was acquitted, the charges have been overturned, which means he will have to go back to jail for five years.
So I started looking into this guy.
And this guy is a CIA favorite, or at least he was.
And this is why I'm going, hey, maybe we can tie this in somehow.
And WikiLeaks released his bank accounts.
This guy's got like $8 million in the Bank of Israel, from the Mossad, of course.
He got $10 million in Citibank.
He's got millions of dollars everywhere.
And lo and behold, when I went to look at the State Department briefing, there's our buddy Matt, and he, of course, asked the question.
Now, this is before we knew about the Malaysian airline incident, whatever it is.
Which literally happened that night of this questioning.
But these things are always just coincidental, but you've got to ask yourself, what, why, how?
And if we have stolen passports that got through, maybe someone who didn't want to go to jail was traveling on a stolen passport.
I don't know.
It's possible.
But here's Matt talking to Jen Psaki about this case.
Interesting.
Well, we, of course, given how lengthy it has been, have followed the trial very closely over a long period of time.
The decision to prosecute Mr.
Anwar and his trial have raised a number of concerns.
She actually had to look in the book to find the statement to read, but here it is.
regarding the rule of law and the independence of the courts.
In this high-profile case, it is critical for Malaysia to apply the rule of law fairly, transparently, and apolitically in order to promote confidence in Malaysia's democracy and judiciary.
The ruling also comes on the heels of the February 21st conviction of another opposition figure, Karpal Singh, on sedition charges that also raise concerns.
While we have a strong partnership with Malaysia, we have raised, of course, the Anwar case with Malaysian officials and emphasized that fairness, transparency, and the rule of law are essential to have the confidence needed in their judicial system.
So do your concerns extend beyond...
What you seem to be saying are concerns about political motivation to the actual offense that he has been convicted and sentenced of.
You seem to have strong opinions about anti-sodomy, anti-gay laws in places elsewhere like Uganda.
Do you make the same case with the Malaysians?
So this is interesting.
And Matt, of course, again, there was no knowledge of this accident.
But he is pointing out the obvious that these guys are favorites of the State Department, i.e. the CIA.
Because he's saying, hey, how come you're not talking about the anti-gay laws that may be on the books there?
There's no big deal about Malaysia.
Is this guy kind of your buddy?
You want him to have fair treatment because you're...
I don't have all the details of what he's been sentenced on.
I mean, I've read a little bit about it, but not probably enough.
Blowjobs, Jen.
Blowjobs.
When he was first arrested, you were probably too young to know what it was.
What a blowjob was.
This goes back.
It was 15 years ago.
Well, who knows?
Younger man, you might have been in grade school still when this whole thing started.
Can you check to see if you have raised the issue of the actual law that he has been convicted and sentenced of?
I understand that there are the political concerns, too.
Can I follow up on that?
You talked about the importance of things being handled apolitically.
It used to be the U.S. government's position that the prosecution of Anwar Ibrahim was politically motivated.
Is that still your view?
It is.
Okay, there we go.
I like that point, by the way.
You know, all the anti-gay laws in Malaysia are extreme, and nobody makes a fuss about that, but they make a fuss about all the other ones.
Because we like the guy there.
Yeah, we like that guy, and we've given him money.
So, you know, the one thing's for sure, when you ask anyone on the street today about Malaysia, they're not going to say, hey, wasn't that guy, like, arrested?
And then they overturned it and tried to throw him in jail?
No, you're going to hear about the plane that never came home.
I think we need to keep our eye on that.
Well, if the plane didn't crash and you asked somebody on the street, they would say, what?
What?
What?
Where's that?
Whatever happened to this aircraft.
Honestly, I think there's a bigger chance it never took off.
That's more likely than anything else I've heard.
Where are they getting their radar signature or whatever it was that they saw?
It's a website you're looking at.
I thought this was official documents.
Yeah.
You show me.
I would know where to get it if I had access to it, but this is all just internet stuff.
Who knows?
Who knows?
There's been no heat signatures, no sonic indications.
They found some oil, which is, of course, an old gambit.
Yeah.
Oh, the old...
From the World War II movies.
The old oil slick, eh?
That's what they do with the...
Empty the tubes!
The submarine trick.
Put your laundry in the tubes.
Yeah, yeah.
Some furniture.
Break it apart.
Yeah.
Oh, look.
There's a bunch of laundry in the water.
They must have sunk.
Looks like a direct hit, Captain.
Yeah, exactly.
That is just about the oldest trick in the book.
So, anyway.
I don't know.
I don't know what's going on with this.
But Twitter is unusable, that's for sure.
Twitter.
Twitter has always been a news one.
Sometimes you get an early warning of a news story that's breaking.
Yeah.
But by the time, you know, everyone says, oh, you know, all you have to do is get Twitter.
Just follow Twitter.
That's where the news is now.
That's where all the news is.
And all these bullshit pundits, these old guys who never use a computer in their life and they really like the iPad, they all think that Twitter's really the future.
And even though they work for newspapers, many of them, that's just ludicrous.
Speaking of...
I mean, the South by Southwest news, I think you summarized it.
Just a bunch of garbage.
Well, it's just one big promotional thing.
Although, I have to say, I did not know that Gaga was going to be there.
No, this was just announced today.
When I fly back tonight...
You're going to be pissed, because you're going to miss...
No, I'm going to...
Is she talking today?
No, no, no, no.
I think it's tomorrow, I think.
Oh, I'll be able to catch it then.
Yeah, all right, good.
But speaking of court cases, our knight in New York who was arrested for his drone posters?
Yes, and we're supposed to get samples of and never did, unfortunately.
Well, he's been busy.
I guess.
Oh yeah, those idiots.
Completely exonerated.
All charges have been dismissed.
Good.
Now you can do another set.
We've got some new art ideas for you.
I'll tell you what, why don't we...
That's a long...
That happened like two or three years ago.
Yeah, yeah, well...
They were great, those posters.
Yeah, these things do take a long time.
Well, the problem was he had a.22 under his bed or something.
But I think the search was illegal.
That's why the charges were dropped.
So...
That makes sense.
Yeah, yeah.
Ah, yes.
Anyway, yes, South by Southwest.
It's one of those things.
Mm-hmm.
Anyway, I would like to, just early on here, John, like to thank you for your courage and give you a hearty in the morning.
Hearty in the morning to you, Adam Curry.
Also a hearty in the morning to all the ships at sea, boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, and all the dames and all the knights out there.
And also to our artists, somehow I slipped my mind to thank Joshua Pettigrew for episode 5, 9, or 6.
Which was a great piece of art.
It's a great piece.
Martin JJ on 5, 9, or 7.
Thank you both very much.
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There's also the No Agenda album art book on the iBookstore, also downloadable as a PDF. I'll put the link into the show notes again.
And in the morning to everyone there in the chat room, noagendastream.com.
Good to see y'all showing up for today's extravaganza.
Unlike everybody here at South by Southwest, we do not think...
In fact, we know we're not going to make any money advertising.
Advertisers would run away from us the minute they heard the first 15 minutes.
Right.
They can't put up with this.
Therefore, we are very happy that we have chosen for the Value for Value model people who produce this program and literally do produce it by supporting us financially.
And we have a number of executive producers and associate executive producers to thank today.
We do, as a matter of fact.
Let's thank the executive and associate executive producers for show 598, two shows away from show 600.
And we do have a show 600 donor, anonymous from South Dakota.
I believe this is, this is anonymous in South Dakota, but I believe it could be Warren Buffett.
Yeah, it could be.
Could be.
Hey, boys.
Talk them trains up a little bit more, would ya?
All aboard!
Trains good, planes bad.
Woo-hoo!
So this would be anonymous number one for the 600 Club.
It's very possible we get more anonymous.
In fact, we already have one anonymous, so this would be anonymous from South Dakota, which is exactly the title.
Yes.
All right.
Good.
Sir David Foley, 598, and he made a vote.
The newsletter went out, of course, Saturday, and it had a voting system whereby you would put in between the numbers between 1 and 5 as pennies in a regular donation, and they would count as votes.
And 4, I believe, was one of the selections.
I don't have the newsletter in front of me.
Wow.
Great, John, the one that you wrote.
Yeah, great.
So this is about Easter weekend.
I had requested in a meeting, a company meeting, a stand-up meeting, I'd requested to have that Sunday off.
And of course, we still want to have some kind of programming, so we have as options, we do a show on a different day, we do an interview show, we do a clip show, or you don't let me go at all.
We move the show.
We move the show.
There's no do the show.
And number five means we just go dark.
And we got a number of votes for that, which I don't know if that's a good or bad thing.
Okay.
All right.
So what is four?
You'll keep the tally going.
We'll know.
After we get to the main part, we'll discuss this.
When we get more numbers, we can start to discuss it.
Good.
But that's David Foley, who I went over and visited.
He's down in San Jose.
Oh, nice!
And chatted, and he didn't send a note in on this 598, but I'm sure he really wants some...
He's got a cute little company called Nanotech down there that sells the...
4K screens, and he's going to have a little streaming device, which will stream 4K, and he's lining up content providers.
I know, I know.
His suggestion was to have Skype of the show...
And stream that.
I'm like, don't you want something pretty on these screens?
You don't want us?
You can put it on there for people who want to just listen to something.
It's not going to hurt you.
Yeah, no, but he wants the Skype video.
It's for kids.
Oh, we're not doing video.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Oh, yeah, you're right.
You said he suggested this a couple times, that we should put the cans on our head and have them.
Sit there yakking into a microphone as though that's entertaining.
Just so you know, I've only been to John's house once, and even when I went there, I wasn't even allowed to...
I have not seen his studio, or office, or whatever it is.
It was all...
Me?
Yeah, you wouldn't let me go upstairs.
No, the place is a mess.
Yeah, so...
My studio's a mess.
It's a messy studio.
So no one else would be able to see it.
And I would have heard nothing but...
Knowing you...
I would hear nothing but grief about it.
Was that really the reason why you didn't let me go?
Because you were afraid that I would give you grief about it?
No, no.
I wasn't afraid.
You knew.
You just knew for sure.
I knew.
All right.
Because you're kind of a neat freak.
A lot of people don't realize.
Oh, please.
You don't even think so yourself.
No.
But you have...
No.
We've talked about this before.
You have Tourette's, and Tourette's always...
There was a great special on Tourette's on the PBS. And one of the things that's an earmark of Tourette's people is they're neat freaks.
Well, this is not me.
I'm not really a neat freak.
I know, this is classic neat freak.
It's like you go to somebody's place, the place is clean as a whistle, and there's one piece of dust somewhere, and they apologize for it, saying, I'm just not that clean, I'm sorry there's a piece of dust here.
I am not a neat freak.
I also don't have the cool swearing kind of Tourette's.
No, you don't.
Very few people have that.
That's a myth.
That's the best kind.
Well, there's that one, yeah.
Well, it's the most amusing.
I was on an airplane once.
Yeah, I know.
Yeah.
Bomb!
Terrorist!
Terrorist!
9-11!
9-11!
I was on an airplane with a Tourette's guy who they had to take off the plane.
Really?
They had to remove him from the plane?
They had to remove him from the plane.
Oh, that sucks.
What was he doing?
Well, he was sitting in first class up front as people were coming in and he was cussing at them.
He was just cussing away like a...
I want to move on with the donations, but from time to time, I do meet people who also have some kind of mild form of Tourette's.
And it's really funny because...
You know, then I'll be ticking a little bit and that person will be doing their head thing.
And I just, I always imagine what it must look like to a third party.
It's like, what kind of mating ritual are these guys into?
This is really weird.
But, you know, the Tourette's people always recognize each other.
And you don't go like, hey, you too.
You don't say that.
It's just like...
You don't wink, wink, nudge, nudge.
Tick, tick, tick.
All right.
Anyway, onward.
Onward.
Let's give him some karma.
Let me give him some karma.
Let me give him some karma.
Thank you very much.
You've got karma.
Sir David Foley.
Duke.
Duke of Silicon Valley.
Duke of Silicon Valley.
And he'll, of course, be the 5'9 or 8 Club.
Yes.
Yeah.
Paul Cowan, 522, 24 in Glasgow.
I have a question for you, though.
Yeah?
Why would Warren Buffett be in South Dakota?
Isn't that where he hangs out?
Isn't that where he has his big meetings?
Isn't that the big meeting?
Or is that Nebraska?
Omaha.
You're right, Nebraska.
Well, South Dakota, Nebraska.
Onward.
Paul Cohen, yes.
Paul Cohen.
Glasgow.
I feel I owe you guys this one after you woke me up from being woken up by all the other alternative media shysters.
Oh.
I've been through Alex Jones and the very questionable Max Keiser, and I'm much, much, much more relaxed now after listening to this show.
Oh.
Huh?
Well, first of all, thank you very much, Paul, for your courage and for producing, being executive producer of episode 5, 9, or 8.
This is fact.
While sometimes you can get some very interesting information from other programs, these two guys specifically base a lot of their economic model on fear, which to me is no different than mainstream media.
Yeah, they're trying to scare you into buying gold and iodine tablets.
Yes.
Yeah, and I don't like that.
I don't want to be a part of that.
I can't do that anymore.
I can't be...
When I was on MTV, I would scare people into...
You're never going to get laid because you've got pimples.
So that's why you need Oxy.
You're not going to get laid because you're drinking the wrong beer.
You're not going to get laid because you've got the wrong car.
Pretty much you're not getting laid.
Funny thing was, I wasn't getting laid.
That's the funny thing.
There you go.
Hey!
Woo-hoo!
Truman Child in Provo, Utah, $500.
Noah Jen, a new listener, your show simply kicks ass.
I hope I'm not committing a new listener faux pas with my donation request.
Shout out to my 13-year-old twins that listen to the show with me, Nick and Luke.
Nick and Luke, hello!
Having my name honored with a Putin.
Putin!
Pronunciation on the air.
Truman!
Nice.
Hey, Provo, so this might be another one of our LDS producers.
We got a lot of LDS producers.
Yeah, we do.
Mormons are smart.
Hell yeah.
Well, you know, they also know all about us.
They do?
Yeah, they got the big database.
Oh yeah, they would probably, yeah.
And, you know, Utah is an interesting state.
It's where the rain sticks came from, the magical rain sticks, I would say.
Yeah.
Is this where you had your hallucination?
Which one?
Oh, never mind.
Let's move on.
Yeah, please.
Christopher Wallace, $444.00 in Bronx, New York.
No letter that I can find.
Ryan Benson, 333.69 in Tampa, Florida.
JC and AC, enjoying your latest.
You two sincerely bucked the trend with your work.
I think your regular listeners don't appreciate how rare and insightful your analysis can be.
Literally, no one else does what you do, and we must encourage you as much as we listen to you.
I'm having trouble saying the word much.
That's okay.
You have the clip from, what's his name saying, much?
I can't think he said much.
I don't have a clip.
In fact, Thomas Jefferson might even say it's your duty to expose the truth and just plain old rational thought.
Which is why we do mostly.
Keep up the critical, increasingly rare, hard work.
Sincerely, your distinguished gentleman of the Tesla coil, Ryan Benson from Florida.
I have been following, of course, the mainstream media really, certainly lose media, loves the story of the two RT chickies.
And I want to talk about that after the donation segment, but it really is true.
When you see how dense and really just...
I hate to...
Just because they're women, I don't want to come across as misogynistic, but these two, they're not really the brightest.
Who?
The RT girls who quit.
Oh, the two RT girls.
No, she didn't.
One of them did.
Abby's still working.
No, I know, but no one's doing this kind of work.
No one.
I know.
But also, it's also because of how we do it that we can actually do this kind of analysis and drill down and we don't have to break for sponsors or some crazy top of the hour.
We've got to break away now because we've got some commercials.
No, we've got to get a heart break.
A heart out.
A heart out.
I've got my heart out.
As opposed to a heart in.
Or a heart on.
Okay.
I'm sorry.
I really shouldn't have said any of that.
Let's go on.
Dan Whiffen?
Dan Whiffen, who sent us a note.
$333 flat out from Newfoundland, Canada, St.
John's.
ITM, when I heard the Club 33 was in code violation as per building inspectors, it sounds like you two haven't been playing their game.
Uh-oh.
Oh, you know, this is probably true because the guy...
This guy, this one building guy comes over, and I swear to God he was holding his hand out as if he wanted me to drop a 50 in it.
Oh, really?
I didn't, I wasn't, you know, I'm kind of dense.
I didn't notice it.
I noticed it, but I didn't think about it anyway.
As a structural engineer, he continues, I felt compared to jump to attention to help with the situation and provide whatever engineering services are required to ensure no lives are lost or injuries occur.
Although I'm not sure I can help with any chafing that may happen in the future.
Hello?
Hey.
My only concern is that once the structural engineering shores up the stages to meet all building codes, all building code requirements, the inspectors might play a little vermin infestation card.
One of those.
I would like to thank you for your courage in these trying times.
Never give in to the man's extortion and keep fighting and questioning their authority.
Please accept this 333 USD Canadian ANIA currency conversion is pinching another 50.
It's even better.
As a sign of appreciation of your efforts.
D-douching is in order and I've been appreciating your show for almost a year without consideration.
Dan W. I got a question.
Um...
You have 50s?
Sorry?
You got 50s?
I haven't seen a 50 in years.
20s?
Yeah, I had a 50 the other day.
When you go to the bank, ask for 50s.
Oh, but I never am given a 50.
I never see a 50.
Yeah, I got Garfield on it.
Oh, okay.
Thank you, Dan W. You've been de-douched.
And I'll give you a little karma to add there.
You've got karma.
Deserves the karma.
Let's check it.
Let's check it.
50.
Is it Garfield?
I think it is.
The cat?
No, Garfield.
Garfield, I don't know, a $50 bill?
Hmm.
Maybe it's not Garfield.
I think it is Garfield.
Go look it up while I go on.
I'm not going to look anything up.
Just go on.
I look up stuff for you.
Oh, okay.
Sir Michael Allen in South Plainfield, New Jersey, $250, knight of the railroad conductors and mover of the homeless and drunks off the trains.
You remember him?
Yes.
ITM in the morning.
All I would like today is a JCD mac and cheese and a karma for all those who can't afford to give to the show but needs it.
That's what it says.
Thank you and may the force be with you.
It is, yes, not Garfield, but Grant.
Grant, okay.
This is Grant.
This is our, of course, our producer who likes to tase us.
That's not the one he wanted.
He wanted this one, I think.
What is that?
You've been hitting the button twice.
No, I'm not hitting the button.
What is this?
This is weird.
No, it's mac and cheese.
No, it's the same one.
Here we go.
You slaves can get used to mac and cheese.
Mac and cheese, macaroni and cheddar melted together.
Mac and cheese, mac and cheese, mac and cheese.
There you go.
Onward.
Sir J.D. from Southern Silicon Valley, 246.
Well, he's got the progressive donation.
That's what he's doing.
What?
2, 4, 6?
Well, the progressive donation, he did 1, 2, 3 on Thursday.
Now he's doing 2, 4, 6, and then he'll do 3, 5, 8.
Somehow it adds up to 600.
Oh, okay.
So he will be...
You had the whole conversation with him on email.
Oh.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Gents, I'd like to continue my show, 600 Progressive Donations.
This is going to be for two for 600, two for six.
But I am out with some folks celebrating the Sharks' win and an expected baby for a good friend who owns the bar.
We're in...
Okay, well, that's the way to go.
Keith Chamberlain.
Chamberlain, yeah, in Medford, Oregon.
$200.33.
Nice part of the state.
How about karma for all?
Two to the head.
You can take that to the bank.
Over the cliff scream.
Two to the head.
Keep up the good work.
Oh, there's no keep up the good work.
I think he's just telling us to keep up the good work.
Keep up the good work.
Someday there may be a special place in heaven for you both.
Sir Keith Medford.
You can take that to the bank.
A lot of karma.
You thought karma.
I had to think about all that.
Yeah, it's pretty funny.
And that will conclude our associate executive producers, executive producers for show 598.
We do have a show coming up on Thursday, which will be 599, one day before it, one show before the 600 show, 600 show.
Go to devorek.org slash NA to continue the trend of support.
I'm very excited about show 600.
I'm looking forward to it.
You are?
Yeah, I am.
Well, it is a celebration.
It's a celebration of a model that no one else seems to even come close to.
And I believe that is mainly because we have an outstanding product.
This is the part that people forget.
You got no product, you got no money.
Exactly.
That's true.
So we thank our executive producers and our associate executive producers.
Real credits here, unlike the phonies in Hollywood, we're very happy to vouch for you.
If anyone has a question, you can put it anywhere.
Credits are accepted, so you can put it on your LinkedIn page.
Apparently it does get a lot of people looking at your LinkedIn profile if you're looking for a gig.
And please think of us amidst all of this South by Southwest craziness as John and I are here tweeting away for Thursday's show.
Dvorak.org slash N-A And of course, we'd always like you to go out there and, oh, propagate the formula!
Our formula is this.
We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
Water!
Order!
Shut up, slave!
Shut up, slave!
Now, I got, uh...
I got a new take on Ukraine.
Obviously, everybody has an opinion on this.
Every single news channel is filled with analysis.
If it's not because Obama's weak, it's because Putin's strong.
Everyone's got something going on.
And I'm getting a little tired of it.
I was hoping that this thing would have been settled out so much that we didn't have to talk about Ukraine.
By the way, Obama, I heard him say the Ukraine.
I know.
I've heard a number.
Well, also that cheeky...
What's her name?
The one who quit.
She worked at RT and she says the Ukraine continuously.
Yeah, she does.
It's very annoying.
Okay, I need to play a couple clips.
One, because...
Well, the way she says Putin is just...
I just can't get enough of it.
She's just talking about pooping the whole time.
And no one's calling her on it.
I mean, she's on every single channel.
CNN, but she was also on Fox News, Fox Business.
She's all over the place.
And no one says, excuse me, it's Putin.
Putin, not Putin.
Putin.
Are you American?
Putin.
Putin!
Not Putin.
Putin.
Now, I want to reiterate, you said something very important.
Important.
Important.
You said she is the multi-culti chick of the future that everybody likes.
And you are spot on, my friend.
This girl, if she were working for us and we were running the news channel, but we were running CNN, well, she'll probably wind up.
She's going to be a great addition to whoever hires her.
And I think the fact that she has not been snapped up yet, which I have proof of, I think, Oh, you don't think that this was all part of a snap-up scheme?
No, I'll give you my...
Well, yeah, I think it is part of a snap-up scheme, but I'm not so sure that the deal was in the bag when she did it.
Oh, okay.
But if you and I were running...
She knows.
She looks in the mirror.
She says, ah, this is exactly what they're looking for.
Except for her pronunciation of poo-ing.
We'd have to work on the Putin thing.
Listen to her.
This is her with Pooh-er.
Anderson Pooh-er.
I think this was her second interview.
And what's clear is what's happening right now amid this crisis is that RT is not about the truth.
It's about promoting a Pooh-inist agenda.
A Pooh-inist agenda.
I can't get enough of it.
A ruinous agenda.
A ruinous agenda.
It's also about bashing America.
And I kind of cited some of my background, where I came from, and why I am proud to be an American.
The biggest basher is Abby Martin.
It's hilarious to listen to this.
I've been suffering from a lot of cognitive dissonance.
I think we already had that one.
I can no longer work here.
By the way, she says work here.
I'm sorry.
I made a mistake.
This was actually the first interview she did where she was on the set.
I'm sorry.
I didn't mean to confuse.
This is the...
I should have honked the horn.
Yeah, you should have.
I should have honked the horn.
Let me honk it on myself.
I got too many clips.
Here she is with her new version of Poo-in.
Well, Pierce, that's the first time I saw their reaction.
I was wondering what their reaction would be.
She's on Pierce Morgan.
Hold on a second.
We're not seeing her, so we don't see the multi-culte thing.
Listening to her voice.
Now I'm listening to her voice thinking about this.
She sounds like an idiot.
Well, she does sound like an idiot, but she sounds like kind of a, if you think about it, it's kind of a sexy, sultry voice.
Well, yeah, if she wasn't giggling like a moron.
No, I'm saying, I think she's got, she's in between an honest voice and a puker, as you like to call him, the phony voice.
And a little bit sultry.
I think she's got, with a little coaching, she does need to, if she can't pronounce Putin, I mean, come on.
They're not going to put up with that.
Well, there's a couple things.
I think she's going to be huge.
I think she'll go network.
She cannot be left alone.
This is the thing.
She cannot go off-prompter.
She's not allowed to ad-lib.
And she's certainly not allowed to do interviews, to be interviewed by anyone else.
Maybe she can interview if she reads the questions.
MKUltra, listen to this girl.
And I'm sorry, I apologize.
I'll buzz myself now.
It is from Pierce Morgan.
And listen to how she's giggling and pooing all over the place.
Well, Pierce, that's the first time I saw their reaction.
I was wondering what their reaction would be and actually had some hesitations.
I feared what measures they would take against me, what retaliatory measures.
I love this.
What, you think they're going to come up and shoot you in the back of the head or something because you resigned?
What a crock.
I was so afraid of retaliatory.
I didn't know.
I was hesitant because, you know, they might come up and they might kill me.
Cossacks.
They might whip me like Pussy Riot.
Take against me.
But at the end of the day, Pierce.
At the end of the day, Pierce.
Like I said earlier on Anderson's show, I believe in the truth, trying to seek the truth and disseminating the truth.
Here it comes.
You ready?
You ready?
And what's become very clear, especially in the face of this crisis with Crimea, is that the objective of RT has been to promote Putinist propaganda.
I can't get enough of it.
Putinist.
Wait, there's one more.
It promotes the conflict as Putin wants us to see it.
Putin.
I can't get enough of her saying it.
Putinist.
Putin.
Putinist.
And to bash the U.S. and make us look like we're the bad guys.
Really?
Of course, we don't do anything like that on this side of the fence.
A little intermezzo.
I'm going to come back to the best Liz Wall clip ever.
But Abby Martin was...
Pierce had both of them on.
It's the same segment.
Before you go on, I want to mention something.
Okay.
So I decided, well, this has got to have people, good old boy lefties like Tom Hartman, you know, panties in a bunch.
So I decided to see what happened.
Right after she quits, I watched the Tom Hartman show.
Yeah, because he's on RT. He's on RT, yeah.
Yeah, he's on RT, and it was a guest host.
He couldn't even show up for work.
He was so upset.
And then the next show was a rerun of the song apartment show.
What kind of entertainment is that?
He's a pussy.
Oh, yeah, he's a total pussy.
He's going to let it blow over and skulk him back into the office and not say anything.
Now, a lot of people, when they talk about Abby Martin, I've been receiving a lot of emails saying, you know, she's really trying, you should give her a break.
I'm like, no.
I'm not going to give her a break, because I've watched her show, Breaking the Set.
First of all, dumb name for a show.
It's dumb.
You're not breaking no set.
And the set is like, you know, she means television set.
When you say breaking the set, I always think of the set that you're on.
Yeah, I think of a Broadway play.
Okay, break the set.
Break the set.
It's lunch.
Break the set, everybody.
She is a prompter reader, and she's not a very good one.
I also don't, personally, I don't find her sexy or cute.
I find her mousy.
It's personal.
What bothers me is that they, because she, John, John, John, hold on.
We are talking as television executives here.
We're not talking, this is not how we talk about women.
We respect women.
We're talking as television executives.
If I met Abby, I'd be very respectful.
Absolutely, but we're not talking.
And I like her art, even though it's very amphetamine art from the 70s kind of thing.
It's crazy.
It is kind of kokey.
But there's a picture of her painting, and you can see the real Abby Martin.
She's wearing a skimpy t-shirt, and she's got kind of tight jeans on, but not too tight, not sexy tight.
And she's wearing flats.
So when she's on this show, they dress her, obviously.
In high heels.
Big high-heeled Jimmy Choo pumps.
And then they put her high heels that she can't stand up in.
Everything about that show is wrong.
She's staggering around the set like a drunk.
And then they give her questions.
They have interesting guests on from time to time, but she is so boring.
We could make it better with some coaching, but we'd have to get rid of the whole show, which is her show.
It's my show.
Whatever.
Fine.
It's not great.
It's just not.
It never goes deep.
She is not deep.
And as you'll hear, she's had no time to study up on Ukraine because she's been so busy with herself.
Seriously, with herself.
You conceded you weren't an expert in what is going on in Ukraine, or indeed in Ukraine itself.
I presume now you've probably come up to speed pretty quickly, given all the attention that you've had.
What do you think, with all your experience of broadcasting on RT America, is the correct way for this crisis to be resolved?
Now, what would your answer be if you were coached by the Keurig Dvorak television host consulting group?
Well, I would go on with a discussion of the responsibilities of the EU. I would put it in Merkel's court for the obvious reasons, which I'll have some clips of later, since she's buddies with Putin.
Putin!
Putin!
And I think it's a European issue that the United States should not be involved in unless we do have some – we do have interests, but our interests are all gas and oil.
Now, could we boil that down to an answer for her?
Do you think we could put it on a little piece of paper?
I think some talking points would work.
I hope it resolves diplomatically, Piers.
You know, you can imagine the last couple of days have been pretty hectic.
I haven't really been able to keep up with the day-to-day, but...
Oh!
I've been so...
Yes.
Never say something like that.
The last couple of days have been pretty hectic.
You either bluff your way through the answer or you say, I don't know.
I have no idea what's going to happen.
It's worse.
She's saying it's been so hectic because everyone's wanting to interview me about me that I haven't had time to keep up with the news, which is, oh, I don't know what I do!
Please.
I just hope for a peaceful outcome with no...
Oh, please.
And I want all the black children in Africa to be saved.
Why don't you add that to it, Abby?
This is a bad answer.
Seriously.
If you want, I mean, we're happy to help you out.
The RT people can get in touch with us, but this is not how you do it.
No more military aggression.
I hope the military aggression's scaled back, and I hope we can see a peaceful outcome.
But I think that the real question that should be asked is, why do I have to work for RT to tell the truth about corporations and the U.S. government?
Now, this is very interesting.
Oh, here she is doing what Liz Wall criticized the station for doing.
Now, listen to what she does...
Now, we criticize mainstream media because the way it works with advertising, you are not able to broach topics.
And that's not even because of the advertiser itself, but advertisers have their own opinion.
You don't have to say anything negative about Cadillac or Chevrolet.
You can just say something that they don't agree with or don't want to be associated with, or you can be so controversial that groups will go after your advertisers and pressure them into dropping out.
This happens all the time.
Right, and it's very effective, by the way.
Now, that is the message that Abby should be sending.
And if she had been coached by the Curry Dvorak Television Host Consulting Group, we would have helped her deliver that message While putting Pierce Morgan down, which is always fun when you do an interview.
It's fun to say, hey, you're at that crappy station.
You can't do it.
But she messes it up so spectacularly.
I mean, seriously, you guys are beholden to advertisers that you cannot criticize.
And that's why I work for a station that I can criticize.
Hang on.
Hang on.
I'm free to say what the hell I like.
No one's ever told me I can't criticize advertisers or corporate entities.
So this is what she said it wrong.
Don't say you can't criticize advertisers.
Of course he can say.
I don't criticize advertisers.
I'm not a total idiot.
But that's not the problem.
And all she can go is...
I'm sorry.
She just does not get the cute girl pass for me.
Can't criticize advertisers.
She can't even breathe.
It's so dumb.
Advertisers or corporate entities.
That conversation has never happened in the three years I've been on air at CNN. It never happens.
That's why.
I have said this before.
I'll say it again to any new listeners.
This conversation that he's saying, oh, they don't come up to you and tell you not to do this or do that.
That conversation never happens.
It's implied from the minute you work for the operation.
Exactly.
You know where the bread's buttered.
You're not an idiot.
If you're working as a writer or as a host, you're not an idiot.
So you don't have to...
Somebody doesn't come down and say, oh, whatever you do, do never say anything bad about Coca-Cola.
They're our main sponsor.
And so, oh, okay, I won't say anything bad about Coke, because I was like, yes, maybe I was going to.
No, that conversation never happens.
He's full of crap.
He's disingenuous.
He's a phony, this guy.
But she's...
Well, he's also fired.
But she's also...
Dumb.
Don't talk about criticizing the advertisers.
That's the smallest of all issues.
You can't criticize an advertiser's political beliefs.
The advertiser's a big-time Republican.
You're going to have to toe the line.
If these are guys anti-abortion, you're going to have to deal with that.
You're going to get a note.
You're going to get a minute.
Well, we don't need to be discussing this sort of thing.
Who told you that we can't discuss this sort of thing?
Well, it's just...
Exactly.
Upstairs.
Alright, now we're going to move over to Neil Cavuto.
And he is on, is he on the Fox Business News?
He's on Fox Business.
He also shows up on regular Fox News once in a while.
I don't know, I think this was Fox Business News.
Now he has Liz Wall on, and this is very funny.
Because Neil Cavuto, I never watch any of this, but I got a hold of this clip.
He's a smart guy, so I appreciated what he did here because he's basically saying, did you get any job offers?
All right, so he's not letting up.
So we're going to find out about the job offers, but we first find out that she actually worked for Sean Hannity as an intern.
Yeah.
I didn't know this.
This was news to me.
It's on her LinkedIn page.
So here...
Oh, I'm sorry.
I should have done some investigative work.
Oh, no.
You do the LinkedIn stuff.
I don't have a LinkedIn guy.
Yeah, I'm the LinkedIn guy.
All right.
So now this is a very funny bit.
And she is so off the rails.
Again, if someone has already hired her, and I would agree it would probably be CNN, you need to rein this girl in now.
Okay, before she's going to do something really stupid and people will not think she's that cute anymore, I'm already there.
So, no, that was not...
See?
I mean, this is crazy.
You can't be a serious news reader.
As a giggler.
Yeah, she's a news reader.
She's a...
A news model is what she is.
She's a news model, and she's a good-looking news model.
Yeah, no, there's no doubt about it.
But don't let the giggling go.
People don't know that you used to be an intern here at Fox News.
I think you worked with Sean Hannity.
What do you do now?
What do I do now?
Well, it's all happening very, very quickly.
I'm taking it one day at a time.
It's happening very, very quickly, so I'm taking it one day at a time.
Have you had any offers?
Had any job offers?
It's all been happening really, really quickly.
It's all been happening.
I'm so hot right now.
I think I'm going to go to South by Southwest and walk around and just have everyone tweet that I'm here.
Have you had any job offers?
Who's called you up?
I don't know.
To be honest, I wasn't expecting the firestorm of controversy.
I know that, but if people called you up, if people said, hey, you know, we admire what you did, we want to talk to you.
She's funny.
That's how I do it.
Hey, people call you up.
Hey, you're hot, baby.
You smoking, huh?
We want to hire you to read our news.
You be a news model for us, please.
She doesn't understand how to play the game.
I've...
I don't know.
I work for RT. I don't know.
Is there any place you wouldn't go outside of RT? Is there a place you would not go?
What do you think the answer to this question is, John?
Well, you know, she could say Fox, which would be the most ironic thing to say.
No.
So, we'll listen to the question again.
I don't know.
Is there any place you wouldn't go?
Outside of RT, is there a place you would not go?
Okay, is there a place you would not go?
You have three choices.
Okay, let me guess.
One of them, of course, should be back to RT, but we won't go with that.
Al Jazeera.
Okay, Al Jazeera will be one, yes.
Let's see.
Would PBS? No, PBS wouldn't be.
Oh, well, the one she, well, I'm thinking Pacifica, but that won't be one.
You want to put it on the list, Pacifica?
Yeah, put Pacifica down.
The BBC, I don't know.
BBC. And here comes your answer.
Get ready.
Any place you wouldn't go outside of RT, is there a place you would not go?
I would not go to North Korea.
Okay.
Wow.
Wow.
North Korea.
Hello, everybody.
It's North Korea News.
I'm your news model, Liz Wall.
North Korea.
Okay.
Okay.
And Kabuto's like, okay, moron.
Would you go to MSNBC? Uh, maybe.
In play.
MSNBC's in play.
In play.
Maybe.
Did you hear all of a sudden she got serious?
Maybe.
Big tell.
Would you go to CNN? Yes.
Would you go to Fox?
Would you go to Fox?
Oh my gosh.
Well, we'll see what offers stand.
We'll see what offers stand.
She's doing this so wrong.
She's going to wind up with no job.
No, she's going to wind up as a local someplace.
Yes, exactly.
Hello, Kalamazoo!
When you go to Fox Business, if you don't have it, you should demand it.
I should demand it.
The wrap-up is good.
He's saying you should demand Fox Business.
Listen to how giddy and stupid she gets here.
I should demand it.
I am demanding this.
Okay.
Now, on air, on TV. We'll watch closely.
It's all a promotional stunt anyways, isn't it?
That's what they're saying.
Anyways.
I love it.
Anyways.
All right.
Now, I played this to ridicule this poor woman, obviously.
But also to show you...
You're a shameless...
I am.
Ridiculing person.
This is...
By the way, if you get Erin Burnett...
In a situation like this, she'll be just as giggly and dumb because these are news models.
These are not journalists.
They're not doing journalism like Grant Greenwell.
They are reading Prompter.
Yeah, and they usually have writers.
Yes!
They're not writing their own news either.
Anyway.
Get this out of your system, finally.
Yeah, I think it's...
And she showed up on CNN again this morning.
I didn't clip it.
That's because she's in the office to negotiate, so she might as well do a show.
This way they don't have to pay her.
Exactly.
Seems like a good idea.
Wow.
I've got a little jingle for her.
I hereby dub thee Sir Douchebag.
Congratulations.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Dame douchebag.
There we go.
Dame douchebag.
Ah, my oh my oh my.
Alright.
Alright, you want to talk about Ukraine?
Yeah, I got a couple things.
Alright.
There was a professor, Stephen Cohen, which we had on some clips from the last show, who said the best thing to do is to push Merkel to take care of this problem.
I don't see any clips.
I presume he's been shot.
I didn't move any of his clips forward.
I just decided to jump into further analysis by other people, mainly some people on Franz van Katt, who discussed the Merkel thing, and they actually mentioned some stuff that's even more interesting.
I didn't realize that Merkel was raised in East Germany in and around the time that Pouin, KGB. He was in KGB in East Germany.
I'm sorry, East Germany.
She was in East Germany.
He was in East Germany.
And they both speak Russian and German.
I didn't know he spoke German.
He speaks fluent German.
And he speaks to her in German, which is, I'm sure, unnerving to her.
And she speaks good Russian, apparently, because she learned in East Germany and she studied in Moscow.
So she's, you know, who knows what's going on with her.
So that's discussed in great detail in clip part, Merkel part one.
Cross live now to our correspondent, Damien McGuinness, who's in Berlin.
Okay, stop.
I think my summary was fine.
This guy's boring.
So let's go to Merkel part two.
And this is the kicker to me.
This is what says to me...
This is another revelation.
I mean, it makes nothing but sense.
There is not going to be any sort of sanctions.
This is bullcrap.
Merkel has said that she firmly opposes sanctions.
Would Germany go so far as to block them outright?
Well, the European Union can't really impose economic sanctions without Germany to say so, and the problem is that Germany would suffer probably more than Russia from sanctions between Russia and the EU, because Germany is one of Russia's most important trading partners.
300,000 jobs depend on trade between Germany and Russia.
A third of Germany's energy supplies come from Russia.
So the German economy would really suffer from a break in economic ties between Russia and the EU. So this is something that Berlin is keen to avoid at all costs.
This is why the German Vice-Chancellor, Sigmar Gabriel, is today in Moscow for talks, because for Germany the only solution really is a diplomatic, peaceful one, certainly not a conflict, but also certainly not economic sanctions.
I learned a new term in this regard, and I agree that there's another piece to this.
We've always been talking about the petrodollar.
There is a term which I learned, which is the gas euro.
And there's another term called the gas euro recycle.
And this is how it works with...
I believe Germany takes...
What is it?
Was he saying 25% or 30% of all of Russia's gas export?
And they pay for it in euros.
Those then go to Russia, who subsequently buy German goods and services.
In fact, if you look at the trade balance, Germany has a huge surplus, like a 2 billion euro surplus with Russia.
So these two are linked inextricably.
You cannot unlink this.
It would, and I disagree a little bit with what I heard here, it would hurt Russia as much as it would hurt Germany.
Because it's a cycle.
The Euros, they come into Russia and the Euros go right back into Germany.
And I think that may actually be part of this.
The way I see it is maybe we've been looking at it the wrong way, that this is a way to eventually hurt the Euro somehow.
To knock the Euro down a couple of pegs.
We're not going to get anywhere.
This is Obama's pipe dream.
Now that we're having meetings, as they mentioned, the German vice-chancellor is in Moscow, while we're in Paris with the UK and some Ukrainian guy, and we're trying to scheme against the Russians.
This is not going to fly.
We're going to be hung out to dry on this deal because it's been poorly played.
But also, if you look at the UK, for instance...
If you go to London, there's entire neighborhoods that are Russian.
And I'm talking the richest, richest neighborhoods.
All the money is there.
They're not going to all of a sudden say, oh, you can't come to the UK. You can't go visit your kids who are in our schools.
You can't get your money.
That's not going to happen.
Never.
No, no.
This is some kind of bullcrap mongering that I think Obama is just...
Or the administration is just flailing around while the real work is already being done.
Well, I think let's go back to what you said in the last show, which is that Obama was left out of the State Department loop with these old-fashioned conservatives.
Yeah, the neocons.
The exact same people who took us into Iraq.
Right.
And Obama's essentially flaying in the wind.
He doesn't know what the heck's going on, and he's got no advisors, apparently, that can tell him anything.
And he's got Valerie Jarrett.
Yeah.
He doesn't know what's going on.
So I think this is going to be a huge embarrassment for the country if this continues.
If he doesn't find his way out of this.
He's been shaking.
Oh, you know, we're going to do this.
We're going to stop passports.
No more visas.
We're going to freeze bank accounts.
Nothing of the kind.
Nothing.
Nothing of the kind will happen.
And now in eastern Ukraine, the Chinese-based academy mercenaries are showing up.
I Did you see this YouTube video that's been circling around?
No.
You've got to love the internet, because the guys in Ukraine, they're still a little behind, but you see these fully decked out, I mean, like the guys you'd see walking around Iraq.
I mean, they've got full-on battle gear, the helmets on, they've got all the, you know, not just some dudes walking around with a uniform, they've got the pouches, they've got everything, and the Ukrainians are shouting, Blackwater, Blackwater, Blackwater's here!
Oh, yeah!
No, I saw it as a reminder.
Black water!
Black water!
Hell yeah!
Gotta love the internet.
Oh, Blackwater!
And Donuts.
Donuts.
Well, I have a kind of a, if you're going to do the humor, I got kind of a counter clip to this, which is another humorous clip.
We have a lot of correspondents that have sent us information, and most of Ukraine, they speak Russian.
It's really the national language.
The Ukrainian language is kind of like the Welsh language.
They speak it a little bit in Wales, but it's not like...
It's not an important language by any means.
So everybody speaks Russian, and this just kind of complicates matters, especially when you don't understand any of it.
And if you want to hear a bunch of boneheads, you have to play this.
This is just a little short snippet of people agreeing with saying the wrong thing and then agreeing with the correction and all the rest of it.
This is the McLaughlin group.
My favorite, yes, okay.
We straight in?
Yeah.
They used to have, but I think going forward, John, people talk about, he's not, I don't believe he's going to go into eastern Ukraine or Lithuania, Latvia, or Estonia.
If he did in the latter three, he's crossed.
We know that Ukraine, Ukraine is Russian speaking.
It had been part of Russia until 1954.
You're wrong.
I saw this episode.
You're wrong.
Crimea is 60% Russian-speaking.
You're wrong!
The rest of the country speaks Ukrainian.
You're wrong!
That's correct.
The country speaks Ukrainian.
A lot of Ukrainians hate the Russians.
They hate you wrong!
And Khrushchev gave Ukraine.
No, gave Crimea, not Ukraine.
It gave Crimea back to Russia.
That's right.
What?
Back to Ukraine.
Ukraine.
Russia.
Ukraine.
Whatever.
That's right.
I saw this.
I had to turn it off.
It's a very nuanced bunch of crap.
It's astonishing to me.
I'm worried, though.
I am worried about one thing.
Have you read the big news?
Jabrinsky.
Jabrinsky.
Mika's dad.
Have you read the grand chess game?
Yeah.
Okay.
This is pretty much what he is always pushing for.
Is for balkanization, splitting things up.
And by the way, he's showing up on interviews more and more now, which is very worrisome, because to me it's just him, it's gloating, I love it.
That's because he needs to drop in some memes.
And what is not being discussed on fantastic programs, there was at least $20 million a year sitting there on the McLaughlin Group.
Just of nonsense.
What is not discussed is that Ukraine, not only does it generate more than half of its electricity from nuclear, no one except this show, as far as I've heard yet, has even mentioned the fact that Chernobyl is an hour and a half north of Kiev.
But they have about eight...
High-end nuclear power stations in Ukraine.
The largest in Europe is in Ukraine.
The Zaporizhia.
I think it has the Zaporizhia.
It's the fifth largest in the world.
You know, if we somehow, and this is what I think Jabronsky would want...
Is to start up a civil war, which all I'm hearing is, oh, they hate the Russians, they hate Ukraine, they speak this, they speak that, whatever.
You can do it with your black waters.
All you need to do is take out one of these plants, and you have changed the world forever.
And it wouldn't be that hard.
You could take a couple of guys on foot to go blow up one of these plants.
And then you'd change everything overnight.
I am worried about that.
And no one is mentioning it.
I don't think they even know that there's nuclear power in Ukraine to that extent.
The biggest one in Europe, in Ukraine.
There you go.
That's a good point.
And you get a situation like this?
Well, you know, the fact that none of this is, nobody's talking and all the rest, and there's some of this bull crap about who speaks what, and the Ukrainians hate the Russians even though they're intermarried and half the country's Russian anyway, and all the rest of it, it seems to me that it makes me think that this is some sort of theater and we're not going to see...
And if it's not, of course, then there is danger.
But I still think it's theater.
I don't know if it's designed to embarrass Obama or embarrass the United States in general for us being nosy and busybodies.
Don't know.
I would like, if everyone on the dais is okay, I'd like to put an entry into the Red Book.
Nuclear disaster in Ukraine.
Okay.
I'd like to put it in.
I think it's way too easy.
And you are from the future, so you may have...
I am a time traveler.
Um...
If it is theater, and this is indeed what I'm hearing, I agree with you there, the theater of, oh, they don't like each other, they don't speak the same language, they're allied to this, allied to that, then it's very easy to sell to the people a civil war.
We have Blackwater in, or whoever the mercenaries are, apparently 300 in Kiev alone, And this, by the way, was pointed out to me that this whole spectacle is very reminiscent of the 2002 coup d'etat attempt in Venezuela.
And you can, there's actually a YouTube, it's on YouTube, the documentary, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.
And it was very similar where, you know, people started.
Jackals.
Yeah, they got shot in, you know, there was a big street protest.
And for about two days, or I think it was exactly 47 hours, Chavez was out.
Right.
They tried to assassinate him.
Right.
But they also killed people.
They killed people just like...
Well, I think that's what's going on with these snipers in the building.
Yes.
Shooting at both sides of the debate.
This is a way to start.
You want to foment trouble?
Exactly.
Shoot both sides.
Exactly.
And you're the man in the middle.
This is the way...
This is how it's done.
This makes me think that this is like a State Department trying to pull this stunt.
Well, hello.
Noodleman.
And you got Newland in there handing out cookies.
Noodleman.
And now you got Pisaki apologizing for it.
By the way, did you see her with her red hair?
Yeah.
Yeah.
She looked good.
Yeah, she has a good look.
She has a great look for this folks' hole.
She's great for the gig.
Anyway, I don't like it.
I don't like it.
No, I don't like it either.
It's a bad scene.
We have something to do with it, and we should...
I don't know.
I think we're getting carried away.
Well, I'll just go back and say, if it truly is the neocons...
It truly is the neocons.
And it is, because Noodleman is married to the guy whose brother consulted everybody on going into Iraq.
Her husband is a member of the Project for a New American Century.
They're the ones that said, we need a new Pearl Harbor.
And it came in the form of 9-11.
And they had the whole list.
They had the West Clark Seven.
Let's listen to the West Clark 7 again, although I don't think Ukraine is on it.
So I came back to see him a few weeks later, and by that time we were bombing in Afghanistan, I said, are we still going to war with Iraq?
And he said, oh, it's worse than that.
He said, he reached over on his desk, he picked up a piece of paper, he said, I just...
He said, I just got this down from upstairs, meaning the Secretary of Defense Office today, and he said, this is a memo that describes how we're going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and finishing off Iran.
All right, so they did pretty well on that round.
And it's the same people.
And they said, fuck the EU, we're going to do our thing.
Exactly how did these people get in on the Obama administration, which is supposed to be...
They're not.
...at best as neoliberal.
No, they're not.
They are in the State Department.
I know, but the State Department is still headed by somebody that is picked by Obama.
Yeah, the Yale guy.
Kerry's head is so big, all these people were inside his head.
The door opened on the back of his head and all these people walked out.
And like Zeus ate his wife.
Yeah, he's like the Trojan horse head.
And all of a sudden all these people walked out.
So I have a clip.
This is Obama about making his idol threats saying the Ukraine.
And then I think it ends with Psaki making some commentary.
Assets frozen and visas blocked.
From across the Atlantic, President Obama sent his strongest message since the start of the crisis that those bent on destabilizing Ukraine would not go unpunished.
I signed an executive order that authorizes sanctions on individuals and entities responsible for violating the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine or for stealing the assets of the Ukrainian people.
According to my guidance, the State Department has also put in place restrictions on the travel.
Wow!
Hello?
Did you hear what he just said?
According to my guidance, the State Department, he's being guided by the State Department.
There's your answer.
Yeah, I guess so.
According to my guidance.
Good catch.
Yeah, I heard that and heard it, but I didn't think...
Wow!
Yeah, well, there's your answer.
My guidance.
...for stealing the assets of the Ukrainian people.
According to my guidance, the State Department has also put in place restrictions on the traffic...
My God, I'm sorry.
This is shocking to me.
Shouldn't the State Department be taking guidance from the President?
That's the way it seems to be written in the Constitution.
No.
He's taking guidance from the State Department, from John Kerry, Skull and Bones, Yaley, and all these guys are Yale, Skull and Bones, Neocons.
...on the travel of certain individuals and officials.
The sanctions are targeted at both Russians and Ukrainians responsible for a Russian push into the Crimean Peninsula.
But it's not clear whose names appear on Obama's blacklist.
The White House has already said that sanctions won't apply to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Speaking to Frosvenka, the U.S. State Department said further sanctions were an option if Russia fails to play ball.
What the announcement today did in the president's signing of the executive order is provided the authority to put a range of sanctions in place.
So whether that's individuals or financial institutions, we may start with the list and we can expand that list.
It can apply more broadly.
The U.S. has already said it's pulled out of preparations for the G8 in Sochi and has suspended all talks with Russia concerning trade and investment.
It's still determined to seek a diplomatic solution, but the message was nonetheless clear.
If Russia and its allies take further steps to undermine Ukrainian democracy, there will be further political and economic isolation.
I think the reason why people are prone to saying the UK, the Ukraine, I'm sorry, is because of that.
UK, United, you say the United States.
You don't say the Great Britain, though.
No.
You say the United Kingdom.
Yes.
And so all of a sudden to have a U country without the in front of it, it's an automatic thing.
It's very hard to get that out.
However, if you're a professional, I'm looking at you, Liz Wall.
Or how about you, Obama?
Taking guidance from the State Department.
I have Samantha Power.
I've been watching all of the United Nations Security Council.
Very interesting.
I watched some of her, but I didn't get any clips.
No, no.
I got a quick clip from her with Brolf.
Gosh, she's such a nervous wreck.
She makes you shake when you watch her.
And she's a dude.
She's like a dude.
She might be a dude.
She might be a dude.
But she's got her...
But when she's...
It's kind of interesting because when she's sitting at the desk in the security council and she's leaning...
Because I guess she has bad eyes.
And she has to lean down really far to read her paper, which has her words on it.
Because, I mean, if she had to come up with something herself, smoke would come out of her ears probably.
And she has her blouse as always unbuttoned, that one button uncomfortably too far.
Yeah, she's got a...
Yeah, her look is not good anymore.
And by the way, you know, there is, if she ever learned this, there are bigger, you can make fonts bigger on words.
It's just a thought.
You make it like 18 points instead of like 12 and you can read it.
And the Curry Devorak Consulting Group, we're very happy to write some words for you that are bigger in font.
So here's Sam Powers.
We are pursuing our interests.
We see an interest in the Ukrainian context, not only in standing with the Ukrainian people at this incredibly difficult time, but also standing up for the rules of the road in the international order.
It would be immensely destabilizing if any subregion anywhere could just call a referendum with no regard for the view of the broader population, no regard for the view of the legitimate authorities, and simply decide to join a neighboring country.
Yeah, I think that's the tell.
That's what she's worried about.
And I'm not sure if she's working for state or the administration.
I want to thank the administration because she's so dumb that everything she's saying, that she's probably taking your guidance from somewhere else.
Moldova had a referendum.
There's lots of countries that are going to start thinking about having a referendum and joining Russia, but more importantly, splitting in two.
And that's very dangerous in certain cases, like Ukraine.
Very, very dangerous.
Do you have anything else?
I only have one more clip on this.
I have one more clip, which is a little off topic, but it's about...
I just cracked up listening to this report on the...
Apparently all these websites are cropping up.
Again, if you remember the Georgia situation.
Oh, yeah.
According to everybody, we have to remind everyone, despite what the New York Times and CNN and ABC, NBC, CBS, everyone will tell you, Georgia was the aggressor in South Ossetia.
The Russians retaliated.
Russia did not all of a sudden wake up and attack.
And that is admitted by international bodies, only the lexicon is exactly the other way around.
Well, there was a – at the time that the Georgia situation occurred, we had dissected and done some who-is's and looked at some of the websites that were coming out.
They were clearly coming from the United States and they were done as – from state, we believe.
Now, they apparently – now we're starting to see websites again.
It's very much Hillary Clinton's playbook cropping up.
And these sites, and the one that really got me, these are all sites showing that the Russians are lying to their own people about what's going on in Ukraine.
Yeah.
As if no other country ever kind of bullshits their own population.
But that's fine.
And they're scolding the Russians.
I don't get what that's all about except for the fact that one of these websites in particular, the one that's highlighted, is written in Ukrainian and English.
How convenient.
So let's play it.
You get a little feeling for why I thought this was funny.
Which clip am I looking at here?
This would be Ukraine news watchdogs.
Ukrainian activists have had enough of Russian media circulating what they say is false information about the current crisis in Ukraine.
And so they've decided to take action to take to the web and debunk Moscow's propaganda.
A number of sites have emerged online over the past few days aimed at setting the record straight.
Platforms like StopFake.org, written in Russian and English, or FakeControl.org, available in Russian and Ukrainian only, have been cataloguing all the articles and other pieces published in Russian media since the start of the crisis that contain major factual errors.
Two sites with a common objective prove pro-Kremlin media outlets are intentionally misinforming the public about the situation unfolding in Ukraine.
Liga.net is serving a similar purpose.
The popular Ukrainian news portal has published a list of myths relating to the Ukraine crisis currently doing the rounds online.
It includes one article, for example, that claims hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians are trying to flee the country.
The story comes with a photo supposedly illustrating this mass exodus.
.
Thank you.
It was a photo in Poland, apparently.
That's like the Newswire 24 thing that came through today.
According to the iskranews.info last night, Ukrainian gold reserves were loaded onto an unidentified transport aircraft in Kyiv's Borysbul Airport.
And it took off immediately.
A source in the Ukrainian government confirmed the transfer of the gold reserves of Ukraine to the United States was ordered by the acting Prime Minister.
Please.
They took all the gold!
Yeah.
Please.
To the United States, of course.
Of all places.
Yeah, that's where you want to take it.
Right.
Well, that Yatskaya is coming to the U.S., the Prime Minister.
Yeah?
Have you seen him now with his...
The skinny guy with the bald head and the little glasses?
Yeah.
I know.
He looks like anything.
What does he look like?
He looks like an accountant.
Yeah, thank you.
Exactly what I was going to say.
He looks like a CFO. Yeah, a CFO. Of a startup.
No, no.
I think of an older company.
Not a startup.
He wears a suit and tie.
A startup guy would never do that.
When they're going to the Valley, they will.
Not anymore.
You haven't been around.
I haven't seen a tie anywhere.
Okay.
The ties are out.
It's all over.
It's done.
Well.
Anyway, yeah, the guy...
I don't know where they get this guy.
We should do a little work on him.
We haven't done that.
Well, he was...
Actually, I think he was the finance minister.
Oh, okay.
Well, that makes sense.
Funny enough.
Yeah.
Yeah, but he's looking way too cocky.
You know what I mean?
He's walking around...
And whenever he sees...
When he saw the no-chin monster...
In Brussels.
Kiss, kiss, kiss.
Three kisses.
Yes, I'm from Ukraine.
Kiss, kiss, kiss.
We kiss you.
I kissed your chin off.
Sorry.
How did you know you kissed the chin?
How would you know you kissed chin?
My last clip is Andrea Mitchell's husband.
Now, Andrea Mitchell is part of the script, part of the game.
And her husband is Alan Greenspan, former central banker of the United States of America.
And here's his take from Bloomberg on Ukraine and Putin.
I'm pessimistic, if you want to put it that way.
I think what will happen eventually is, let's face it, Putin probably almost certainly thinks that one of the great disasters of the 20th century...
What?
Meme alert.
What was it?
I missed it.
We heard this on the last show.
I didn't notice it, but now I notice it.
It's a meme.
What was the meme?
That Putin thinks one of the world's great disasters is the breakup of the Soviet Union.
Ah.
New meme alert on the No Agenda Show.
Let's face it.
Putin probably almost certainly thinks that one of the great disasters...
of the 20th century was the demise of the Soviet Union and it's very obvious that he's trying to work its way back and maintain something similar to that sort of institution and I don't see that we have the capability of preventing it except if we can affect their financial system significantly that it creates major deterioration within Russia In which case,
there will be a response.
But only in that case, as far as I'm concerned.
Work me on the economics here for a second, John.
So we know the ruble is being rubble-ized.
Although, the chart looks really bad, but it's small.
It's never been great.
Okay, so what happens if you look at this gas euro recycling business?
Well, stop there.
Because I had a clip, we didn't play it last show, because I just didn't get around to it, but this one guy was asserting that, he just asserted that the Russians were doing an end run on the petrodollars in a number of places, in a number of ways, and you are the ones that first spotted this with the Libyan situation, where Gaddafi was trying to come up with the Afrodollars or some damn thing.
The gold dinar.
The gold dinar.
Yeah, the gold dinar.
Right, which was an interesting idea.
Anytime anyone pulls a stunt like this about our petrodollars, because we control the world's currency, they're standard, we're the ones that's dollars, and that's how we can be in such great debt in the rest of it, because we have this...
That's how we do it.
That's our system.
The way it works.
Right.
And when somebody screws with us, with that particular element, the one thing that we really own worldwide...
And the Russians have been doing that, and they do have this backdoor deal with Germany, but they were going to, according to this other report, I'm going to bring it back on the show for Thursday.
I'll dig it up.
The guy says that Russia was in the process of setting up shop with this system, with this new...
Didn't he want to...
It was like the gas OPEC or something?
It was some other thing, and he got beaten back on it.
I think this is one of these payback deals where we're going to teach him a lesson until he just backs off of this stupid...
Fake, you know, this little currency that he's developed for spying and selling his gas.
So, I mean, that is the land of unconfirmed.
Yes, we came, we saw, he died.
That's right.
That's what happened to Gaddafi.
And who else did we kill for that?
Well, wasn't Saddam Hussein talking about trading euros?
He was killed for, well, we didn't kill him.
We just invaded his country and we got him out of the hole and then someone else hung him.
We didn't do that.
We're not barbarians like that.
We just put it on YouTube.
Do you remember how cool that was?
That, to me, was the launch of YouTube, man, when that happened.
Was YouTube around?
Did we see that on YouTube?
Well, YouTube's been around, of course.
I don't know if that was on YouTube.
Yes, I'm sure it was.
No, but was that the launch?
I can't, I'm not so sure.
YouTube was already on its way by then.
But that was awesome.
And it's tussing them out.
It's probably, it was a double.
I'm never convinced that was really.
It doesn't matter.
I mean, it's all, it was great theater.
Loved it.
So we maybe engage in another one of these little things, and so we're going to stir up trouble until it backs off.
But kind of the problem, or maybe the benefit, and again, this is how I see it.
Well, let me go back to your objection the other day, and I'm going to backpedal a little bit for argument's sake.
Let's say the very important is Dow Chemical and what's the other guys who make plastic stuff with our gas?
DuPont.
And that's essentially manufacturing.
Can we just call it manufacturing?
These days everything is plastic.
Our gas is half the price of manufacturing gas in Germany, as an example, when they make the plastic for their BMWs.
Would it not be a double whammy if this gas Euro recycling business, if it all slows down because of whatever we do, and it just really hurts Russia, but it also hurts the big manufacturing giant in Europe, and then we can become the new manufacturing guys?
Is that possible?
Is that even in the realm of possibility?
Well, everything is in the realm of possibility.
I don't know that we would want to do that.
I think we just want to...
I think there's something kind of pure about just selling the raw material at a good price.
Right, right.
The gas, you mean?
The gas.
Yeah.
And maybe DuPont and Dow are just going to have to pay more and raise prices on the hapless Americans because we're always in the pain for everything anyway.
And they can move that stuff into Europe.
I don't know.
I keep forgetting that our government doesn't care about us either.
I keep forgetting that.
Yeah, you always have to remember that our government doesn't care at all about the American public.
We're just stupid slaves to them.
We're just dumb slaves to them, exactly.
Yeah.
Well, the one thing...
I think we can agree on there's not going to be any American-Russian war.
But I am seriously worried about someone lighting off some nuclear plant.
It's been done before in that region.
I'm not saying that was terrorism or anything, but it was pretty bad.
And it was a weapons plant.
It wasn't a power generation reactor.
Chernobyl.
And it was in the same country.
I'm very worried about this happening.
Could you imagine what that would do to the gas business?
Oh, yeah.
I mean, that would settle it forever.
Those guys shooting at both sides may be hired by T. Boone Pickens, for all you know.
To go up there and blow up...
I mean, that's what...
H. Ross Perot used to have his own army.
Oh, really?
Yeah, he used that little army of mercenaries to free some of his guys that were held for ransom in some country somewhere.
Sent his boys in and they brought them back.
Really?
That's kind of cool.
Yeah, no, I think a lot of these guys have private armies.
It's not talked about much because it's kind of, you know, and I think that's what Blackwater and those guys are really for.
They're not really there to work for the U.S. government.
No, no, they're there to stir up the crap and blow something up.
Well, it depends on who's hiring them, but they could be hired by T. Boone Pickens.
I mean, you and I, if we had any budget, we could hire Blackwater to go do stuff.
If something ever happens to you or I, the no-agenda army is going to show up.
Like, hey, we're looking for a curry and demora.
We have to remember that these guys work on consignment.
Not consignment, but they work on contract.
Right.
You hire them to do something.
I mean, first you go in and you have a meeting with them.
I'd like to do this, actually, just so you see exactly what the process is.
But you would expect you go and have a meeting with them.
You tell them what you want to have done.
It's like going to an advertising agency.
You ask them, you know, you need to get a higher profile.
You want to promote this new product and all the rest of it.
And then they tell you what they think.
And I would assume you do the same thing with Blackwater or any of these groups.
There's bunches of them.
There's not just Blackwater.
There's probably dozens of them.
And you go in there and you tell them what you want, and they come back with a plan and a fee.
It's going to cost you this much.
And the next thing you know, you've got your boys over there shooting people.
Now, let me just tie into this as we move forward.
On the 24th and 25th of March in The Hague, Den Haag.
In the Netherlands, Gitmo Lowlands, the Nuclear Security Summit will be held.
Everybody will be there, including Obama.
He actually will be staying on a military ship, I believe in the North Sea.
So he won't go to Sochi, but he goes to there.
Now again, the Nuclear Security Summit, which may not be about nuclear bombs per se, What's interesting is the entire Gitmo lowlands has been shut down.
There is not only a no-fly zone all over the entire country, but if you have a balloon on a string longer than three feet, a balloon, you will be arrested.
It's nuts.
Wow.
The cool news is there was a report here.
The Society Service...
Was interviewed.
Escort company, Society Service, says that they have, it's never been this busy before a summit.
Usually there's about six days before a summit, they get all their bookings.
Actually, no, between two and eight days, but they said, we've seen bookings weeks in advance, and they have all kinds of non-disclosure forms they have to sign.
So business is booming in advance of the new...
For the hookers.
For the hookers, for the escorts, yes.
For the high...
High end.
The high pay hookers.
The high end, yes.
So let me just throw this in before you continue this.
This, since they say it's never been so high, this makes it sound as though these guys are scheming something and they're getting as much as they can from the hookers before they know they may get killed.
Possibly.
I mean, if you're going on a suicide mission.
I'm going out with a bang.
I'm just suggesting the possibility.
Well, the society service says they've never seen bookings this far in advance.
It's not uncommon to have documents they have to sign, but really it's two to eight days in advance typically, and this is really a big deal.
I love the non-disclosures with the hookers.
That's great.
Yeah.
Yeah, it is great.
While we're on that, I think I caught something which we can also see this unfolded.
Something very weird happened here in the United States.
This had to do not so much with the actual act itself, which was this guy who was acquitted initially, well, acquitted because the law didn't adhere for it, of taking upskirt photos of women on the train.
And within three days, there was a law on the books which forbade this, I believe, in the state of Massachusetts.
And I was kind of wondering, besides, upskirts, it's been going on forever.
You know, there's entire websites devoted to upskirts.
Like, oh, all of a sudden, people are like, really?
They're using smartphones for upskirts?
Whoa!
So I had to figure out what was going on, and I think that from this report, which includes Oprah's girlfriend on CBS there with Charlie Rose, I think I know what's happening.
This morning, lawmakers in Massachusetts are looking for their own solution after the state's highest court caused outrage.
The justices ruled unanimously yesterday that a man accused of taking pictures underneath a woman's skirt on a commuter train did not, I repeat, not break the law.
The practice is known as upskirting.
CBS News legal analyst Ricky Kleeman is a Massachusetts trial attorney.
Good morning.
Good morning.
Okay, how is this not illegal?
Yeah.
Well, it's dreadful.
It's creepy.
It's something that none of us want to happen to ourselves or to others.
But if you look at the language of the law...
Now, listen very carefully what is happening here.
In Massachusetts, it's not illegal.
Why not?
Well, the why not is because the way the legislature had drafted this law says that a woman has to be nude.
She's talking about the peeping Tom law.
Or partially nude.
And that she has to be in a place with a reasonable expectation of privacy.
The law was about keeping times.
You're in your bedroom.
You're in your bathroom.
You're in the locker room at the gym.
That was who the law was designed to protect and to criminalize.
That's not what this law says about keeping up with the times.
Okay, so far, you know, we're sucked in.
It's got sex in there.
Everyone knows about upskirts.
Of course we want it to happen to someone else.
It's great.
It's hilarious.
It's really funny.
I bet chicks love watching, looking at upskirts, too.
Oh, look at this.
Oh, she has no underwear on.
Oh, look at the stupid underwear she's wearing.
But it's not about the upskirt at all.
It's about the process of and the reconfiguring of old laws, i.e.
the Constitution.
We're not dealing with technology.
Is it?
Go ahead.
Does that sound familiar?
We're not dealing with technology?
Does it ever frustrate you that the letter of the law does not have common sense?
Oh, common sense?
Is it starting to catch on?
This is a prelude to, well, we've updated laws for upskirts.
We should be able to update laws for right to bear arms.
And we're not talking about muskets anymore.
Essentially, upskirts, if you take it to the extreme, is free speech.
Don't make that argument yet.
I'm with you.
I just want you to hear how they hammer on this.
This is going to be used to change interpretation of laws already on the books.
Fantastic.
The best letter of this law actually once upon a time and long ago.
Once upon a time and long ago.
Land far, far away.
Land far, far away.
Like, you know, when George Washington was running around.
Hey, hold on a second.
Didn't we have film cameras that could do the same thing since, like, 1900?
Yeah.
I mean, I think they were first brownie, you know.
It's...
It did have common sense.
But I'm talking about for now.
Well, for now.
It does not.
It doesn't because, of course, cell phones are ubiquitous.
And, I mean, we know I'm someone who goes up to Boston, Massachusetts on a regular basis.
I'm not wearing this dress on the subway, on the MTA, until this law has changed.
So there will be a rush to the legislature to say, come on, come with the times, get it right.
Come with the times, get it right, land, land, far away, watch, you watch.
And of course this was changed in like, what, in four days?
They now have an upskirt law.
You'd think they'd have better things to do with their time.
Well, I think that this is just a red herring, John.
Well, you might be right.
But I also agree with you, it is totally free speech.
Yeah.
Ladies, you don't want the upskirt thing?
Be careful.
Eh?
Or wear pants.
Another tip from the No Agenda show.
Or wear an advertisement under there.
There you go.
I'm going to show myself old 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 Good idea, by the way.
No Agenda upskirt pants.
Yeah, yeah.
Noagendashow.com right there.
Guy takes the picture.
What's this?
It goes on the internet.
We should have like one of those little dangling Christmas trees, like in the cab, the air freshener that says no agenda show.
Yeah.
No, maybe not.
Evinny Kovalev.
$169 from New York.
And he says the Thursday show is fantastic.
There's some value for value.
It's the great Sois en Neuf.
Oh, because it's $169.
Le grand Sois en Neuf.
Merci!
Deshaun Gilbert, Chicago, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
Nice.
C Squared Productions, $123.33.
Craig Mazzella in Norwalk, Connecticut, 111, which he's got a...
Something for the club?
What has he got here?
Yeah, well, he has a birthday call out to his hot MILF wife, Jamie.
We got her on the list.
Okay, we got that on the list.
She surprised me a show or two ago with a donation.
I know she'll be thrilled to hear some birthday wishes on the show.
Oh, okay.
Give her a MILF. I'm happy to do that.
MILF? That's one mother I'd like to...
Oh, he wants an Oreos are more addictive than cocaine.
Yeah, you forget.
We already got that.
Kuang Lu.
We don't even have that clip.
Yeah, I do.
Well, then play it.
Of course I have that clip.
What are you talking about?
I am the clip man.
Oreos are just as addictive as cocaine.
There you go.
Kuang Lu, $100.04 from Santa Ana, California.
He says he wants me to go and twit more often.
Okay, I'll go on today then.
Oh, good idea.
Trent Smith, $100 in North Fremantle, Western Australia.
We have a birthday call out there.
And we have a couple 999ers, Mark Williams from Longmont, Colorado, and Trott Sprague, who actually mailed it in, and he's got a note, which was actually kind of long, but let's see what he got.
Sprague.
I've got a new technique for my notes.
I take a felt-tip pen and I write their name on it so I can grab their note without fumbling around like I've been doing in the past.
This show is getting slicker.
You mean you have a filing system?
Yeah.
Oh, nice.
My birthday?
Did we get a birthday on him?
No.
Okay, put him on the birthday list.
Sorry, I should have sent this to Eric, but I didn't.
Your system needs refining.
Well, you know, there's that.
My birthday, March 7th, present to myself as a subscription renewal to the best podcast in the universe or possibly the best NGO in the universe.
There you go.
By the way, you were talking about flexible spending accounts, FSA, a few shows back.
The FSA allows you to set aside pre-tax money from your paycheck to go into medical expenses.
For the Affordable Care Act, you could bank up to 5K a year.
Now it's 2.5.
After ACA, it's now only 2.5K. Thanks, Obama.
Before ACA, you could expense OTC, medical, aspirin, everything.
Bandages, you name it.
Now you have to have a script from the doctor to get anything.
That's right.
So you have to have a script to get some band-aids.
Progress?
I think not.
Thank you, Obamacare.
Who's going to the doctor to get a script, right?
So put him on the list.
Yep.
Christopher Gray and Grand Blanc.
69, dude!
Are they both from Grand Blanc, Michigan?
Grand Blanc, Michigan.
He comes in monthly.
Thomas Weah.
Weah.
Weah.
Thomas Weah.
Thomas Weah.
Thomas Weah in Nazarens in Norway.
6969.
David Helm, 6969.
And that closes it.
We got one, two, three, four.
Three.
Three.
So it's not enough for a closeout.
Nope.
Christopher Scott, Gilbert, Arizona, 6868.
Ah, another note.
And there it is, right there.
This is a long note, so I'm not going to recall it.
Thank you for your courage.
I found your show informational, and it goes on, for nearly a year, but I've yet to donate.
It's time to get off my ass and give some value for value where value belongs.
And he sent me a North Dakota State University bison hoodie, which I actually requested on the Twitch show, which shows them as a three-peat in the NCAA football tournament for Division I. So thank you very much for that.
I can wear it with pride because we have no winning teams around here that I can wear.
I know it doesn't mean anything to you.
That's Christopher Scott.
I'm sorry, Christopher Scott in Gilbert, Arizona.
Times are tough.
I can only afford 68.
So whose note did you just read?
David Helm.
Ah, okay.
I didn't mess that up, did I? Yeah, you did.
But that's okay.
I did.
David Helm.
David Helm is in Fargo.
He's in North Dakota, so he sent me the North Dakota thing.
David Clevenger in Sterling, Virginia, 6365.
He's got a birthday.
Sir John Martinez of Garlic Belch, which is Gilroy, California, exactly.
Now, people are doing the penny voting here.
You gotta vote.
This is a two.
He wants the clip show primer.
And, by the way, Ramsey Cain, who does NoAgendaCD.com, he immediately said, I'll do it.
Didn't he do the previous clip show?
Yeah, he's the clip show guy.
He's great.
He's fantastic.
He's much better at clip shows than we are.
Tom Eric St.
fell apart, because it's an Osborne.
Sturr?
I think so.
Okay.
And he voted $60.01.
Option one.
Option one, which was...
I forgot.
Sir Daniel Foster in Maynardsville, Tennessee, $60.
Robert Hills, Atlanta, Georgia, $60.
Graham Wolfe in Wichita, Kansas, $60.
John Haller in Missoula, Montana, $60.
Dennis, we have a special $60, by the way.
We're going to read some of these.
John Haller's got a birthday coming up.
Can I just, since it's kind of weird that not everyone has the newsletter, let me give you the options real quick.
Okay.
One penny, do a full show on some other day to replace the Sunday show.
Two pennies, solicit the audience for ideas for a fabulous clip show that can be used as a primer.
Okay.
And five pennies is Go Dark.
You don't have that in the newsletter.
Yeah, I do.
You're looking at the original script.
I added it.
Correct.
I am reading the script.
Yeah, you're not looking at the newsletter, actually.
All right.
Yeah, five is go dark.
Okay, dark.
I thought that option was important.
Dark.
Just to see how many people really would like to see us just go off the air.
We're going dark, people.
John Haller, I mentioned Missoula, Montana, $60.
Jason Daniels, these are all congratulatory notes from people who've heard the 600 show.
Jason Daniels in Dallas, Texas, $60.
Sir Jason Schrader in Greensboro, North Carolina, with a congratulatory note, $60.
Rory Buska.
Buska, Buska, in Miamisburg, Ohio, $60, and he's been a listener forever, and I thought he was a knight, whatever, maybe not.
Sir David Overbeck is, and he's in Brookfield, Wisconsin.
It says keep it up, $60.
And then we go to $55.55 from Matthew Dropko from Delaware.
And the five, it's hard to say whether this is normal donation or he wants us to go dark.
I thought Matthew was Sir Matthew.
It is Sir Matthew.
Make sure you add your titles on your donations, please.
Very hard for us to track that.
Yeah, Dravko's been around forever.
Richard Zula in Irwin, Pennsylvania.
Double nickels on the dime.
The one and only.
Anonymous from Derby, Derbyshire.
53-53.
And I'm assuming that means he wants option number three.
Michael Jed in North Lakes, Queensland.
51-50.
Rich Semel.
In Durham, North Carolina, he has a note he hand-wrote and sent in.
He says, thanks for your courage.
It's been a long time since I last donated.
I'm sorry for the lack of support on my end.
I feel I certainly received tremendous value from your show.
He likes the club action.
I like what Mark Heimerman, he had option number six for the Easter show.
Yeah.
This is very funny.
Let everyone vote with their wallet.
With a donation, they get to vote for one show number.
The show dollar which brings in the most dollars wins.
Huh.
This is not going to happen.
This is not going to work.
We don't want that.
Here's how you do it.
You can stuff the ballot by just donating $1.
I mean, it's not going to cost you anything to get 50 votes, and then we're going to have to play show one.
Yeah, it's no good.
Which is not entertaining by any means.
No offense to us.
TinyEmpire.com, $50.04 from Phoenix, Arizona.
Michael Matteloni in Chicago, 50, and these are all $50 donors.
David Post, Pete, David Pete in LLC. Aubrey, Texas.
Jan van der Laun in Assen.
Alright.
Jan van der Laan.
Jan van der Laan.
You don't have to mock me.
I'm not.
I'm trying to get the sound down.
Okay.
Repeat after me.
Jan van der Laan.
Jan van der Laan.
Assen.
Assen.
Drenthe.
Drenthe.
Very good.
Thank you.
Gary Wiley in Squim, Washington.
John Virtue in Newport Beach, California.
Brian Watson in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Brett Farrell in Oklahoma City.
And finally, Aichi Katagawa in San Francisco, the man who'd invented the Bitcoin.
We want to thank all these folks for helping us.
Hey, just for yucks, because I see him here, number 51 on the list is a monthly donor.
Yeah?
I just want you to mention the town he's from.
Number 51, the monthly donor.
Oh, Lütjebrook.
Lütjebrook.
Close?
Lütjebrook.
Lütjebrook.
Okay.
Every Dutch listener and producer right now is laughing, believe me.
Why, why?
It's hard to explain.
Is it a joke that Lücherbroek's not even a town?
It's a real town, Lücherbroek, but no one's ever really from there.
It's kind of like Des Moines.
Actually, a lot of people are from Des Moines, but it's Lücherbroek.
Thank you.
So the guy's got a sense of humor.
Someone's laughing, believe me.
Yeah, I'm sure.
Oh, these guys are a riot.
I want to thank everybody who helped us out on the show 598.
599's coming up on Thursday.
You can get your double producer's credit by donating $600 for 599.
You'll get 599 and 600.
Or you can wait.
Now, wait a minute.
You had something in the newsletter specifically about the 60s.
Yeah, and 60 means they're all congratulatory and we read some of the notes.
Yes.
I'm just saying you should mention it.
Not everyone has the newsletter.
People, sign up for the newsletter, please, so we don't have to do this all the time.
Yeah, we don't want to waste time talking about the newsletter.
Yeah, sign up.
There's a sign-up thing on my blog.
There's one on noagendashow.com.
Anyway, I want to thank everyone.
Go to Dvorak.org slash NA for further information.
All righty.
Borac.org slash N-A.
It's a birthday, birthday.
Woo-wee-wee-wee.
I'm going to change it.
It's our Sprague celebrated on the 7th.
We say happy birthday to him.
Sir Chris Abram turned 44 on March 8th.
Craig Mazzella says happy birthday to his hot milk wife, Jamie.
Mom, dad, and brother Trent Smith say happy birthday to Carl Drake turning 28th.
David Clevenger, Clevenger 63 on the 5th of March, which was my sister Willow's birthday as well.
Happy birthday to her.
And Sir Daniel Foster.
Happy birthday to his sister Rebecca Foster.
Celebrating today and John Haller turned 70 on the 12th.
Happy birthday from all your friends here at the best podcast in the universe.
It's your birthday, yeah!
And we do have one...
March 5th is what?
You blanked out.
Willow's birthday.
It's whose?
Willow.
My sister Willow.
Oh, hi Willow.
Yeah.
Who, by the way, her husband, Alessandro, he grew up with the new prime minister of Italy.
Oh.
From the same town.
Nice.
Yeah.
Can we get a tour of the parliament?
You know, that's not a bad idea.
But that's why I don't want to say everything she told me.
No.
Yeah.
But we got our eye on him.
Let's put it that way.
Unelected prime minister, I might add.
Let's put it this way.
He was kind of one of those kids, I think, who had a big key chain in high school.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
I know those guys.
Look at all the keys I've got on my key chain.
A lot of keys.
The keys on some sort of a spring-loaded...
If you snap it back all day long, like, yeah.
Maybe it was a hall monitor, I think.
I want to be careful, because I don't want to blow our chances of getting a tour of the Parliament, so I'm going to be very...
All right, I do want you to grab your blade there, John, if you could pull that out.
You got it?
Yeah, hang on.
Oh, very good.
Paul Cohen, step forward, my friend.
Wow.
It's been a couple of episodes.
We're very happy to...
Bring on another night.
Thank you very much for your courage and your support of the best podcast in the university in an amount of $1,000 or more.
We hereby pronounce the Sir Paul Knight of the Noah Jeter Roundtable.
Come on over for your bad science and perky breasts.
Your Cuban cigars and single malt scotch, your hookers and blow, your rent boys and chardonnay, your hot pants and booze, your wenchins and beer, Reuben S. Wuma and rosé, vodka and manila bong, hit some bourbon, or mutton and mead.
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And while you're there, everybody else can go to noagenonation.com and look up some of the fine products.
Eric, he's got a whole business going on there.
I haven't seen any money from Eric recently.
Yeah, you're not going to see it.
Wait a minute.
We're just promoting and he just takes it?
Maybe you should give us something.
Maybe he hasn't sold many bags.
I think you took half of them by accident.
You have like a bin of them.
Not anymore.
What happened to them?
Well, Mickey has a number that she's liking them.
She's got them everywhere.
In the car, in the pantry, in the closet.
It's a gorgeous bag.
It is a good bag.
Plus the 33 thing.
It's just pretty.
It's a nice logo.
And the rest she's giving away.
She's like, oh, should I give these guys some bags?
No.
I've been giving everybody a bag.
That was the original idea.
Yeah.
The original idea was...
Yeah, that's right.
That's right.
Second half of the show, I wanted to address something that has cropped up recently, and I think we should do it because I was involved with that podcasting thing in the very beginning.
You've invented the podcast.
You should have been tracked down by Leah, the investigative reporter.
You know that woman who busted this, you're talking about Bitcoin, right?
No, no, that's not what I'm going to do.
Oh, because I thought you were going to go there because you're talking about origins.
No, I was going to talk about another podcast, actually.
Oh, this has caught me off.
Okay.
Well, yes, and it won't catch you off guard.
The Patent Troll Defense Fund.
I'm getting a lot of emails about this.
Oh, yeah.
And I do need to talk about this because I think I'm uniquely qualified to talk about this.
I think so, too.
And no one else can talk about this the way I can talk about it.
This is right.
You're the pot father.
Correct.
So what has happened is there is a Fund Anything drive, which has been set up by Adam Carolla, who arguably has one of the most downloaded podcasts in the universe.
He's not the best podcast in the universe, but he's always number one on iTunes.
I've been on his show.
I don't think he likes me.
I don't know why.
I don't think he likes anybody.
That's possible.
And so they have a little video.
What's happening is people are emailing me and saying, hey, you on board with this?
And I have to send back, no, I'm not.
And I am tired of explaining why.
So I want to do that on the show with a little bit of explanation.
Because I don't like what is happening.
There's misnomers, there's misinformation going on here.
And first I will play...
The video that Adam Carolla has put out on his Fund Anything, a Donald Trump property, Fund Anything website, which I think they've already raised $100,000.
They're looking for a million dollars to give to lawyers, essentially, to fund a lawsuit.
Hi, I'm small business owner Adam Carolla.
By the way, that's very funny.
That's a good way to start.
I'm standing in my studio.
I built this studio.
Actually...
We all kind of built this studio because you guys supported me and my podcast and we started a nice small business with a handful of friendly employees who aim to please.
Unfortunately, they're guys called patent trolls.
What do they do?
Honestly, I still don't know.
They buy up patents and then they use them to get money out of businesses.
And in this case, a podcast.
A small podcast.
Well, normally people settle up with these guys because it's so expensive to fight these guys in court.
Well, guess what?
We're going to circle the wagons, band together, and come out throwing punches.
Here's my plan.
We all band together.
All the podcasts.
Because remember, if I go down, well, then your favorite podcast is going down next, and we're going to all fall like dominoes.
But if we all unify and stand and fight together, we can beat the trolls.
But we can't do it alone.
We need your support.
Go to fundanything.com forward slash patent troll and let's smash the trolls.
Alright.
Very nice with the patriotic music and everything.
Now I am the first guy who is against the man and wants to bring everything and everybody down.
But I do like information to be correct.
And it really bothers me because I know Adam Karolik, he can't be dumb.
He says he doesn't understand what's going on.
First of all, the Electronic Frontier Foundation also approached me about this, calling this lawsuit a patent troll lawsuit.
I'm sorry, it is not a patent troll lawsuit.
There's a podcast patent that was awarded to a company called Personal Audio, and they have not sold their patent to a third party.
They have not leased it out.
They are trying to protect their patent and get money for it.
Now, this does not mean I agree that they should have the so-called podcast patent, but the system works this way.
No one was up in arms about the one-click patent from Amazon.
In fact, everybody was all on board with it, and lots of companies paid for that to be able to do one-click.
It's a process patent.
It's crazy.
The patent system is out of control, but it is not a patent troll.
It is not.
What happened is they patented a process of distributing episodic content online in a playlist and automatic notification system.
Apple actually already paid them and continues to pay them a licensing fee.
They went to court over playlisting and Apple could not beat them.
Apple!
Okay?
As a part of that playlist patent, they also have this, I think it's called the 504, the 502 patent, and it's been awarded.
Now, there's ways to challenge the patent, but what is being sold to people and the money that is being raised, which I don't even think is necessary...
And I think that the Adam Carolla podcast Empire has already changed their website so they are no longer in breach of any of said patents.
I don't see episodic players anymore, which is essentially what it is.
Any company that has done that in the past received a letter, including, I believe, the Twit Network, Leo has talked about that, and the Discovery Network.
As well as Apple.
And Apple has already agreed to be paying a fee for the way that they present podcasts in episodic format.
Why have we never received any threatening letter?
Not because they don't want to go after us.
In fact, I think we'd be a perfect target because we can't afford any kind of legal help.
Not because we're not popular.
I think we're popular.
Let's face it, we are the best podcast in the universe.
But because we've never had a display on our webpage of episodic automatic notification playlist of our shows.
No, and when one show stops playing, if you do it on the website, it doesn't go to the next show.
It doesn't play to the next show.
Exactly.
Now, that's not by design.
It's because of laziness.
Laziness pays off.
We've got better things to do than worry about that sort of thing.
We are trying to get information on the show.
That's where our time is spent.
Now, but when you listen to...
Now, here's Adam Kroler with Dr.
Drew.
They're back together doing a show.
I get a little angry about this because lots of well-minded people are like, yeah, let's go get the patent trolls!
If you want to give your money to lawyers, and I don't think anything has to be fought here.
I think what they've done, they could just stop presenting it the way they want.
If the Electronic Frontier Foundation wants to go fight them over this patent, I'm all for that.
And there's a process for that, and it's an expensive process.
But I'm not going to promote or join up with anyone who says, if we don't do this, all podcasts and YouTube are going down.
That's what's being said here.
.com forward slash patent troll, trying to beat back these patent trolls.
Basically, it's like this.
There's two people doing work here.
Me and the guy who invented the patent.
If you think about it, all you've done is got in between the two of us and decided you're going to get rich.
And again, this is a lie.
There is no patent company.
There's a lawyer, but no patent troll in between.
Personal audio is trying to protect its patent.
So it's just a lie, I believe, a cheap marketing ploy.
And I don't like it.
I want the truth about what podcasting patents are or not.
Not some bullcrap story.
What if we could ever invent a law that would charge attorneys for whatever lost economic growth or economic productivity is incurred from their shitty, shitty interventions?
There's Dr.
Drew, moron.
You know what I'm saying?
Just put that kind of law in place.
I have countless hours tied up into fighting...
This litigation.
So what we're doing is we're standing and fighting and we're uniting the podcast community.
Okay.
I have not gotten any call from anybody from the podcast community.
Have you gotten any call?
Like, hello?
Hello, podcast community calling here?
No.
No, there's been no uniting of the podcast community.
I hate that, by the way.
It's like saying the gay community.
Please.
And I'm going to beat these guys.
And when I beat these guys, then we'll all beat these guys.
Because they go after one podcast and we beat them.
That'll be that.
We lose.
They go after the rest.
This is not true.
What he's making it sound like is like podcasting itself.
Making a show somehow is threatened by trolls.
It's not true.
That's how it goes.
And again, you want to be part of the good fight, you go to fundanything.com.
And by the way, their patent is...
Sorry.
Forward slash patent troll.
Just go to fundanything.
You'll see it there.
But their patent, it's not like they invented podcasting.
Well, actually, they patented a process which was awarded by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Yeah.
It is still unclear to me what patent they hold and how it pertains to us.
I think if you're going to solicit a million dollars from people, you might want to know what it's about.
That's ridiculous.
I don't know what it's about, but give me money.
Yeah, I'm really not liking this.
Yeah, it's something obscure.
It's like a sequencer.
No, it's not obscure.
It's like a playlist.
And you can read it in the document.
It's not that hard to understand.
Maybe it's more effective.
What if you were just to hire a brainiac to just invent an alternative?
Let's all switch over to that.
Here's a guy who understands how patents work, huh?
Geez.
Dr.
Drew, stick to giving people medication.
Would that be interesting?
And getting paid for it.
I'm sorry.
I think there's still go.
You had been using it.
Chris Maxipata may know more than me, but audio episodes or audio in an episodic order, kind of like a playlist.
Yes.
Thank you.
Now, that's like some guy who's the engineer.
He understands.
He understands.
Adam Carolla asking you for your money does not.
And that's how podcasts are released.
Why don't we get somebody else to invent a similar sequencer?
Dr.
Drew, wow!
You go to college with that brain?
Just use theirs.
Basically what they're saying is that...
Well, no, they're saying we have a patent on that technology, so you can't rip that off.
If you look at it in a wider standpoint, they're saying that iTunes is illegal.
Oh, yeah.
No, there's no...
They're not saying it's illegal.
They're saying that they need to pay a fee for their license, and iTunes has already done that for playlisting, and they will do it for podcasts as well.
To me, if we lose, everything on iTunes and everything on YouTube essentially is just going to have to go away.
Okay.
See, this is what I mean, John.
That's bullshit.
Yeah, it's bullshit.
It's bullshit.
Yeah, I just...
It needs to be said because everybody is all on board.
Save the podcast.
I haven't gotten a letter.
Well, you know, if the guy wants...
This is the way some people operate.
You might as well be listening to the guy who sells seeds.
You know, they're making a lot out of nothing and trying to scare the...
This is a scare tactic.
Oh, you're going to lose the greatest podcast ever.
Our show.
Yeah.
Yeah, I suppose you could...
And then you...
I don't know.
It just seems fishy.
I got one for you.
So this guy, there's a guy on MSNBC, and as much as I hate going over there, but Chris Hayes, who is the protege of Rachel Maddow.
I think you've never seen them in the same picture at the same time.
No, and he used to substitute host for her.
The difference is she's a fast talker.
He's a really fast talker.
And so I think people who are inclined to be left-wingers or libs, as the guys like to call them, which I don't like the term, if you talk fast, that means you're smart.
I'm not sure.
But he talks fast to pretend he's smart, and he just glosses stuff over.
Here he is talking where he mentions Common Core.
Oh, boy.
Discusses it in a generality.
He's got two people that he's talking to, the first two, these two guys, that are just generalizing about how great it would be if everything was a charter school and all this.
And there's this woman, and you'll hear the female voice in there going, hmm...
Every so often.
And she's a teacher.
And she has questions about Common Core being worth a crap.
And she doesn't really want to confront Chris because he doesn't know what he's talking about.
And he just glosses everything over.
It's a political deal.
But it's just fun to listen to this clip.
Kids are going to be assessed on what they've actually learned.
Now, David Coleman, who played a role in shaping those Common Core standards and is president of the college board, is the person actually working on both ends of this.
Yeah, so David, just so people are clear about the Common Core thing that's happening, right?
A substantive body of knowledge that American school children across the country should know is what the Common Core is, right?
Well, that's the idea, right?
I mean, a substantive body of knowledge.
And the SAT test, which has always been prayed as an aptitude test, your abilities as opposed to knowledge, is now being designed to mirror some kind of body of knowledge.
What do you think about that?
About the Common Core?
Well, the mirroring between the two.
You know, I think it's sort of a backdoor way of sort of having, you know, an external control mechanism over our schools.
I mean, if you align the SAT to Common Core, then you're going to force high schools to really adhere to the Common Core.
It's like backdoor curricular power, right?
If the SAT says you have to know this thing, it doesn't matter what your local school district or anyone else decides, you're going to have to teach it.
And it's very interesting timing as parents and teachers across the country are standing up to Common Core.
There's a fascinating trans-ideological kind of coalition building against the Common Core, which is kind of another thing to get into.
It's sort of a left-right thing that's happening, which is fascinating.
It's kind of what Grant Greenwell and Don Raff does.
First of all, you've got to be talking about Common Core, and whenever someone's almost going to interrupt you, talk a little bit louder.
He's horrible.
Yeah, hold on.
Where two plus three is approximately four in the Common Core.
I forgot to play the jingle, man.
Hey, I got a good Fukushima story here.
Can I just stay with Common Core for one sec?
Oh, sure.
I love Common Core.
I have heard that about you.
As I mentioned earlier in the podcast...
I watched the first episode of Chicagoland.
Yeah, I did too.
Yeah.
And I did not realize that this is all from a year ago.
I thought it was kind of like the Kardashians, where they'd be, you know, a couple weeks behind.
You know, not that bad.
Not like a year.
It's old.
And I immediately went and did the research.
I felt a little dumb that I hadn't figured this out earlier.
So this first episode was all about closing public schools, and instead of 55, he wound up closing 50.
And since that time...
Guess how many charter schools have been opened in Chicago?
I don't know, 50?
Yes!
Yes!
Exactly!
So the whole thing about, oh, you know, we need to consolidate, it was bull crap.
It was all together.
And there was one line, and I didn't clip it, there was one line where someone said, this whole thing about closing the public schools is just to open up new schools with rich white people's names on them.
Like, you know, Bill Gates School.
And there was another line in there, where I had to look it up, I couldn't believe my ears, where Rahm Emanuel says, you know, we have, how many Gates scholars do we have?
I'm like, Gates, like Rhodes scholars?
But it's Gates scholars, literally, Bill and the Gates scholarships.
The Gates scholars?
Gates Millennium Scholars, yeah!
Good one, Bill.
Yeah.
So I don't know what the point is of this other than it is really meant to polish Rahm Emanuel, make him look like some super guy.
But is he running for president?
What is the point?
Oh, he's probably going to run for state senator or something.
He's going to run for something big.
And Ms.
Mickey was watching with me, and I don't think she was around when we started the first conversation.
Well, she was around, but when we started the first conversations about Emanuel, About the finger.
And you and I know exactly what the finger's about, but in this first episode of Chicagoland, he's telling some seven-year-olds or eight-year-olds, hey, someone said, be careful, you shouldn't be doing that, and I wasn't careful, and then my finger, I lost my finger.
And Mickey looks at me and says, that wasn't a good story.
That sounds like a mob thing.
I'm like, yes, that's what they do.
They chop off your finger if you don't play nice.
And he could not tell the pure story about what happened to half of his finger being chopped off.
He did not have an actual story.
He didn't say, I was using a saw.
Yeah.
A finger.
Uh-huh.
Okay.
No, I guess you didn't like the whole thing at all.
About what, the show?
Yeah, Emanuel.
Emanuel.
No, I didn't like, you know, the show, I didn't like the show.
I found it to be a piece of propaganda, and I couldn't even watch the whole thing, so you got more out of it than I did.
I will continue to watch this, if only to see if Robert Redford put some chapstick on.
That's all you, yeah.
So this is an interesting, I got a couple interesting stories here.
This is what people do in their spare time because it's such a horrible situation.
It has to be corrected.
It's just, it's unbelievable to me that this hasn't, that this is even taking place.
Now this clip is the Google Doodle controversy, part one.
Oh man, I have not heard of this.
According to a report by American activist movement Spark, which works to improve women's representation in the media, Google Doodles, which are the drawings, animations, or sometimes quirky games that replace the Google logo to celebrate holidays, anniversaries, and the lives of historical figures, under-represent women and favor white men.
As this infographic illustrates that the 445 doodles published between 2010 and 2013, over 80% were honoring men, with just one in five commemorating a woman.
The document also shows us that non-white people are somewhat ignored and account for less than 10% of Google's online tributes.
The study comes with a petition urging the American firm to work to fix the imbalance in the choice of doodles.
Okay, if I understand properly...
Fix the imbalance in the choice of doodles.
The Google doodles are...
There's inequality in the doodles.
It's doodle inequality.
Yeah.
Really?
It must be stopped.
Someone has to stop the Google doodles.
So they do a follow-up, and then part two talks about a couple of people they're recommending, especially, you know, because they're waiting to get a couple of women in there, and this is the best they can come up with.
Ideas from Google users.
The team at Spark have posted a list of suggestions on their Tumblr blog.
It includes Josephine Baker, for example, and Indian-American astronaut Kalpana Chawla.
The organization says these are just some of the many women who, given their accomplishments, deserve to be recognized in a Google doodle.
Ha!
Now, wait a minute.
Josephine Baker, a jazz dancer.
So important to the history of civilization.
They need to have her.
How about Ma Baker?
That would be cool.
And then, yeah.
And then Chola is just one of many astronauts who just coincidentally is a woman.
What has she done that's so famous?
Just by getting the job?
She should be on a Google Doodle?
Are you kidding me?
Why not put Sandra Bullock on there?
Exactly.
All the actresses.
Yeah.
Vincent Lohan.
Let's put her on it.
Yeah.
Hey, now you're talking some sense.
Where's Judy Garland?
That's right.
Oh, I just got another rainbow thing.
All right.
Well, it's fun.
I thought that was the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
People obsessing over the idiocy of Google Doodles.
Ah, wow.
Okay, let's go to this one.
Now tell me what you find wrong with this report.
This is one of the anniversaries.
There's a big protest about the Fukushima.
You know, we've got to keep this in the news somehow since it can't seem...
I had actually a clip from a couple of shows ago where actually the fish that are being in the area aren't even getting that radioactive.
It's becoming a huge problem publicity-wise.
It's a problem.
The fish are not radioactive enough.
Yeah, and so now here's the Fukushima report on our local news network.
Mayuri anti-nuclear activists today marked the upcoming three-year anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami that led to that disastrous meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan.
Demonstrators said they were honoring the 16,000 people who died in the 2011 quake and tsunami and standing in solidarity with those forced from their homes because of radiation.
The March 11, 2001 tsunami damaged the Fukushima plant and led to a meltdown in three of the plant's six nuclear reactors.
Following the meltdown, 160,000 people were forced to flee their homes.
About 50,000 people may never be allowed to return.
This is very interesting.
They're returning now.
They're returning as we speak.
Well, here's the other thing.
I like the way they slip in this stuff.
Now, this could have been a misread.
Like the meltdown, meltdown, meltdown?
Well, besides meltdown, meltdown, meltdown, we know these aren't meltdowns.
Technically, they're incidents.
Yeah, there is no technical term called meltdown.
But they like to use the word meltdown.
But to slip in, out of the blue, and you didn't even notice it because you have to...
What I heard is the 11,000 people died.
16.
Tsunami.
And it's a tsunami.
So they slipped in the tsunami death along with this whole report about Fukushima.
That's how I heard it.
Yeah?
Well, how about this for an idea?
It's 1,600, not 16,000.
Wow.
Good catch.
Damn, I didn't know that.
See, even I would have believed it.
Yeah.
This is the problem we have.
So this was a level 5 event.
There's only been two level 5 events that I know of with reactors.
One is this one, Fukushima, and the other one was Chernobyl.
And I can't believe that John Kerry even goes to Kyiv.
Which is the official pronunciation of Kiev, if you're an elitist.
You know the global warming thing?
How come the same people that are all in with global warming and bitch about everyone else being science deniers are all denying, they're the deniers about nuclear power.
Why is it the same exact people?
Because the starfish will die.
I'm glad you brought that up.
Here is the United Nations Chief Warmest, Cristiana Figueres.
She's in charge of the All Things UN. She's really the spokeshole for climate change.
And she has a new meme for us as she talks about what is happening in the world.
There is no doubt that we're experiencing these weather events, which I call experiential evidence.
I love it.
Experiential evidence of climate change does raise the issue to the highest political levels.
And it does something else, which I think is actually, it's unfortunate that we have to have these weather events, but there is a silver lining, if you wish, because these weather events, what they remind us is that solving climate change, addressing climate change in a timely way, is not a partisan issue.
It's not like these weather events affect those who are on the left of the political scale or those who are on the right.
It doesn't matter where you are in politics.
It doesn't matter.
Nationally or internationally, you get the same impacts.
The longer we wait to have policy that positively affects the trajectory of emissions, the more of these events we're going to have.
Ah, more events.
Experiential evidence.
We're going to have more weather.
That's what she's saying.
Ladies and gentlemen, the weather report is more weather is on the way.
Yeah, and the only reason we're having more weather is because of climate change.
That's right.
And it's because we have too much CO2. So I didn't realize this.
I'm watching this show called Ecto Company.
And you can play the opening to the show and get an idea of what it is.
It's one of the kids' shows that plays on Saturday morning to brainwash the kids.
And this is what you end up hearing at the...
Coming up next on Ego Company...
A new superhero is the Green Caped Crusader, Mr.
Ego.
This right here is my backpack.
He's saving the planet one rat verse at a time.
Reusable backpack.
Reusable backpack.
My mission as Mr.
Eco is to turn everybody into eco heroes because if they're living sustainably and doing the things that I talk about in my rap songs, then they're all superheroes working to save the planet.
We catch up with the guy who's bringing his green message to kids with music.
And this group of young activists has it all covered.
I just became involved with this organization that was in my community called Kids Against Pollution.
I started a non-profit organization called Kids Versus Global Warming.
They're changing the world around them, one idea at a time.
Plus, plugging in!
We're running out of oil and we have to use alternate energy sources.
So I think it's really great to use electricity instead of gas.
We catch a ride with the founder of the Green Youth Movement to find out what's driving her mission.
Those stories and more coming up on Eco Company.
I'm getting a vasectomy.
I can't have any kids anymore.
This is no good.
By the way, in the chat room, nuclear waste, yes, that is 1970s technology, breeder reactors.
1950s.
Yeah, breeder reactors, thorium.
There's so many new technologies.
It's insane.
But no, let's not investigate that.
Let's just yell.
Let's just yell at everybody.
And don't worry.
Yes, exactly.
And don't worry.
Because once they light off another one of those things in Ukraine, you're going to love...
Enjoy your solar energy.
Enjoy it.
And your gas.
Your low-carbon gas.
So the kid that was listed there as the kid against global warming, kids against global warming, because, you know, it's so important that the kids don't call it this.
This is the clip of him further deeper into the show, and this is the Al Gore clip, and tell me you didn't know about this.
Okay.
Next up, meet Alec Lures, high school student and climate project presenter.
And we'll say this, he's one busy guy.
I've spent the last three years traveling around the country giving presentations about climate change to schools and different environmental events and really representing the youth when it comes to climate change.
Lures was just 15 when he signed up to be trained by the Climate Project and Vice President Al Gore.
But that's not even the start of it.
As an eighth grader, he founded Kids vs.
Global Warming to draw attention to climate change and things like sea level rise.
Anything we can do to lower our carbon footprint will really make a huge difference and living our lives in a way that we consider how all of our actions impact future generations and nature and everyone to come.
It's a message he plans to continue taking on the road.
All right, so this kid, who apparently is in high school but doesn't go to school, he just travels around giving speeches to other high school kids, was trained at the climate project when he was 15?
What is this, a brainwashing camp?
Well, apparently all of this is one big brainwashing exercise.
Well, there's that.
I didn't know that Al Gore ran a concentration camp at the climate project.
Propaganda.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure he does.
I was taken aback by that, personally.
If you want to learn more from some nuclear dudes, HiroshimaSyndrome.com.
You can also say Hiroshima, but HiroshimaSyndrome.com.
There's daily updates on Fukushima and some really good, deep, detailed background from scientists and You might learn something.
Gee, would it kill you to learn something?
Make your kid read this.
And give your kid a prize after they've read something.
Give them the big red fire engine or something.
Because they're being indoctrinated with very, very, very, very dangerous information.
Because it's not healthy, this.
This is just not healthy.
God, make it a waste!
That's another reason not to be in the chat room.
Well, I've got to keep my eye on it.
Yeah, I'm glad you do.
I did want to read a funny little list that the Chiners put out.
The State Council Information Office of the People's Republic of China published a report titled Human Rights Record of the United States in 2013.
And since Glenn Greenwald will be speaking at a Human Rights Now conference...
Yeah, from Skype.
Yeah, but he's speaking...
Of all people, Glenn Greenwald, don't laugh!
He should know that Amnesty International is run by the United States State Department, Mr.
Greenwald.
Why are you in bed with them?
Are you not against them?
Are you not trying to fight them?
So I find that weird.
So anyway, the Chinese, not to be outdone, have their own little propaganda arm.
But I thought we'd just run down this first little page of their view of the United States and the so-called world judge of human rights.
Here is what they have written down and summed up, the United States' record on human rights.
In 2013, do you got a pen?
John, you want to write this down?
I'm writing this down, Adam.
In 2013, 137 people died in 30 mass killings, which caused four or more deaths each in the United States.
Shooting rampage in the headquarters of Naval Seals Command Center in Washington, D.C., 12 people alone were left dead.
The U.S. engaged in a tapping program codenamed PRISM, exercising long-term and vast surveillance both at home and abroad.
The program is a blatant violation of international law and seriously infringes on human rights.
The use of solitary confinement is prevalent in the U.S. About 80,000 U.S. prisoners are in solitary confinement in the country.
Some have even been held in solitary confinement for over 40 years.
Yeah, that number may be low, too.
Sorry, Chinas.
You're a lowball on us.
The U.S. still faces grave employment situations with its unemployment rate remaining high.
Rates of unemployment for the lowest-income families have topped 21%.
The homeless population in the United States has been swelling, climbed to 16% from 2011 to 2013.
That may also be on the low end, actually.
There's a lowball on us everywhere.
There are a large amount of child laborers in the agricultural sector in the U.S. and their physical and mental health has been seriously harmed.
Is this true?
Well, this may be a bit of an exaggeration at some level because it's okay to have families.
If you like a family farm and the kids do some work, that's counted as child labor.
Okay, all right.
Frequent drone strikes by the United States and countries, including Pakistan and Yemen, have caused heavy civilian casualties.
The U.S. has carried out 376 drone strikes in Pakistan since 2004, causing deaths of up to 926 civilians.
Again, I think you'd be low-balling us, China.
And the U.S. remains a country which has not ratified or participated in a series of core UN conventions on human rights, such as the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
Man, we are nasty buggers!
So the next time someone says, hey, let's go invade that country because human rights, refer to this document.
I'm surprised they didn't go into the total number of prisoners and some of the prisoners were egregious.
Yeah, it's 30 pages.
I'm just giving you the highlight.
I'm just giving you the top line page there.
Top line only.
Well, we do good work around the world the way I see it.
And I think these kinds of reports just reflect negatively on the country.
In fact, let's take a look at Libya.
Listen to the Libya update so we know what we've accomplished.
Two and a half years after the fall of Muammar Gaddafi, Libya is sliding out of control.
That's what Western countries say they're afraid of.
On the margins of a conference on Libya in Rome, infighting between rival factions has put a dent in the country's energy exports.
And the ongoing absence of a stable political structure is making the situation worse.
Excellent.
Excellent work, everybody.
Rubble eyes.
Wait, someone, I think, hold on a second.
I think someone sent me a rubble eyes jingle.
Maybe I'm wrong.
So I've ran into this one story that I think is kind of interesting.
It's a little anti-Israeli, so I don't perk everyone's ears up.
But I think this was, you know, they make this out to be one thing.
It's obviously what's going on here.
It's a Nancy Kerrigan, Tonya Harding kind of a situation, which happened in the ice skating.
But listen, this is just beneath, this is one of the worst egregious situations Sickening things you can do if you're a competitive sports guy.
Some 3,800 people have signed this online petition urging FIFA, the international governing body of football, to suspend Israel from its competitions.
Campaigning against Israel's Football League membership has stepped up a notch following an incident at the end of January when Israeli soldiers reportedly shot two Palestinian football players, Johanna Sajjah, age 19, and Adam Halabiya, age 17, in the feet and legs.
What?
I'm sorry, I don't understand.
I don't quite understand what happened there.
These guys are the competitors, you know, another team, the Palestinian soccer team.
And they pulled the Kerrigan and they...
Some guys shot these guys in the legs and feet.
Oh, yeah.
And then they, oh, they're terrorists.
Yeah, right.
So then now everyone's up in arms about it because it's like, well, we didn't know the Israeli football team.
Oh, we didn't know.
Who knew?
Meanwhile, these guys can't play anymore, obviously, and it's a scandal.
I think it's ridiculous, and it's obvious it was done on purpose.
And it's like Nancy Kerrigan telling you Harding, you know, she bashed her knee.
Well, if you're going to do that...
That's my anti-Israelist thing.
All right, well.
It's the best I can do.
Then I'm going to play a clip from...
An Alabama state legislature sitting hearing thingy.
All these southern states, we're all crazy about the abortion.
We all want to ban the abortion.
Which I think is called reproductive rights.
I always find that to be hilarious.
Abortion is reproductive rights.
And so there was a bill that was introduced by, I think, a white woman.
And it's pertinent to the story.
And State Representative Alvin Holmes, Democrat, he was very clear...
About how abortion laws work and when white people do and don't want them.
And I found this to be the most outrageous, racist statement.
I don't know.
Tell me what you think.
I was kind of blown away by it.
If you ask the people in here now to raise their hand that those who are against abortion 99% of all of the white people in here gonna raise their hand that they are against abortion.
On the other hand, 99% Of the whites that are sitting in here now, if their daughter got pregnant by a black man, they're going to make their daughter have an abortion.
They ain't going to let her have the baby.
Do you want to hear more of this?
What is wrong with this guy?
There's no mulattos in all of the state?
No, no, no.
Listen, this is good.
Okay, let him go.
Now, I know you didn't listen.
You know, the truth sometimes hurts.
I know it's hard to say that.
99% of those of you sitting here now, if your daughter got pregnant by a black man, you're going to make her have an abortion.
You're not going to let her have the baby.
What planet is this guy from?
99.
99%.
Alabama.
Yeah.
Yeah, you ain't gonna have no little black baby.
She got two other white children, and then she gonna have a little black baby gonna be running around there in the living room or in the den with the rest of them.
They not gonna let that happen.
I love how he's framing this.
If you've got two little white babies, you're not going to have a black baby running around?
Vote this guy out.
You know that and I know that.
You will never admit it.
You know that and I know that.
And all this stuff about the abortion and this and that.
Oh, that's just a con game.
That's for whites and for blacks.
And I asked this lady, I said, I thought you, she said, her daughter's going to have an abortion.
I said, I thought you was against abortion.
She said, yeah, but...
My daughter got pregnant by this black man.
So he has an example, apparently.
Normally you give a name, but he has an example, and, oh, no, we've got to have an abortion because my daughter got pregnant by a black man.
I don't understand why this is not on MSNBC. Why are they not...
Only the No Agenda show would carry such a clip.
Now, it's politically incorrect to even have that guy talking.
Now, he does ask the white woman what she'd do.
It's another 40 minutes, 40 seconds.
He asked the white woman, and she has a great, she just is great with her comeback.
I said, you're not going to let her have their baby.
She said, oh, no.
Oh, no.
No.
She thought I was crazy.
If you had a daughter, she got pregnant by a black man, you'd let her have the baby.
I'm asking you.
Yes, sir.
Pardon me?
Speak up a little loud.
I can't hear you.
Yes, sir.
Then after the baby's born, what are you going to do with it?
Let it run around in my living room and enjoy it as my grandchild.
With the mother's little blonde.
What are you going to do with that black baby?
Let it run around the living room.
Throw a saddle on it.
Man!
Alvin Holmes, Democrat Montgomery, Alabama.
Yeah, I would call that guy a racist.
Yeah, vote that guy out.
Vote him.
No, of course not.
You can't play that.
It would be racist just to play it.
It would be racist to play it.
That's the problem.
That's Al Sharpton would be against it.
Yeah, exactly.
Rachel would be against it.
So they're not going to play it on MSNBC. And Fox, they don't have the guts to play it.
No.
And they're Democrats, like you said.
Yeah.
I got a couple of things about Women's Day, which was yesterday, by the way.
How did we miss it?
Well, it was yesterday.
I don't know why we missed it, but we did.
There's two stories here.
One's short.
I was amused by the first one, the Women's Day, and the free clip.
You can play that if you want.
Women around the world are marking International Women's Day today.
In the Philippines, thousands gather to form a giant female symbol.
The event may become a record for the largest human formation.
Women in the Bay Area held several marches and protests, including one by a Filipino group, which called for an end to labor trafficking and justice for victims of Typhoon Haiyan.
John, what an opportunity is missed here.
We could have a Google Doodle of a women thimble formation.
Yeah, it was the women's symbol, yeah.
Well, anyway, if you play the rest of the clip, it was followed immediately by this.
Hundreds of Bay Area girls today were able to pick out their perfect prom dress, free of charge.
The Princess Project is now in its 12th year.
Okay, so much for Women's Day.
Now, the other Women's Day story, which I thought was just like, what?
You had to see the visuals.
There's about 20 women, max, that decided to, and they were all, and I would like to reintroduce the term, battle axes, with code pink t-shirts.
They're all in their, you know, probably mid-50s, and they're a bunch of goofballs.
And so they've decided they're going to have international, celebrate International Women's Day by going to Egypt and then going to Gaza.
And they were just kicked out of the country unceremoniously, basically.
But you have to see these...
But play the clip and you can hear those idiots.
Women's rights are important every day of the year, but March 8th is International Women's Day in Egypt.
About 100 women activists, most of them from Europe and the United States, had hoped to enter the Gaza Strip through the Rafah border crossing to celebrate, but many of them were deported before they could even reach the Palestinian enclave.
Sonia Dridi and Shirley Sitbon report.
They'd hoped to spend Women's Day in Gaza, but Egyptian authorities still let them carry out their plan.
Dozens of pro-Palestinian women activists from Europe and the U.S. traveled to Cairo, hoping to reach the enclave from here.
But the Rafa border crossing remained closed for everyone.
When the women started protesting at the Cairo airport, many of them were forced to fly back to their countries.
Let me get this straight.
You're part of some clique and you want to go to celebrate International Women's Day by going to Gaza?
What kind of a question?
What is this?
Yeah, well, this is women who have nothing better to do.
Most of them are all code pink, by the way.
Oh, that's right.
I think the leader, the Code Pink leader, didn't she get detained and she was saying, where's my embassy?
My embassy, my state department not helping me.
What's her name?
Mina?
Yeah, I think you're right.
All right.
I just found it to be weird.
I love women.
I love women who are activists.
I love women who run things.
I love women who boss me around, quite frankly.
I love it when women are running things.
I really do.
This is disturbing.
This is no good.
Then they get kicked out.
Huh, what a shocker.
We need more doodles.
We need more doodles.
Alright, I think we should quit while we're ahead before women start to catch on that I'm misogynistic.
Yeah, well, we knew that.
Alrighty, everybody.
John and I will be tweeting from South by Southwest as we are roaming the streets and hunting down all the cool apps.
Yeah, if you see me, say hi.
That's right.
We'll be at the Gaga keynote.
Gaga's giving a keynote?
Wow.
Believe it or not, I've already got Miss Mickey in.
Yeah, you did.
Good for you, because does she qualify as a little monster?
All right.
I'm about to be squashed into a Google Doodle.
So, with that...
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And from northern Silicon Valley, where I have no more bottled water.
What a shame.
I'm John C. Dvorak.
We'll be back on Thursday right here on No Agenda.
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