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	I gotta take a dump!
	I don't have the permit!
	Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
	It's Thursday, March 13, 2014.
	Time for your Gitmo Nation media assassination episode 599.
	This is No Agenda.
	Ten things you need to know about great sex on this show.
	From FEMA Region 6 and Traverse Heights Hideout in Austin, Texas, in the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where I'm freshly back from Scylla, S-Y-S-W-A, whatever the hell it was called anyway, I'm John C. Dvorak.
	You didn't even do a good fake with me on Twitter, let alone that you messed up the opening about it.
	It was time consuming.
	I was having too much fun partying.
	Here I am tweeting with at the real Dvorak backstage at Coldplay.
	Do you know that people actually emailed me about that?
	What'd they say?
	Dude, that's so gay, man.
	You can't go to Coldplay.
	What's up with that?
	So you embarrassed yourself.
	I did.
	What's gay about Coldplay?
	Coldplay is not...
	Come on, Coldplay is not like...
	This is not a rock...
	It's Coldplay.
	I don't follow it.
	Let's put it this way.
	They're no Green Day.
	Oh.
	Oh, it's a band.
	Alright, there you go.
	I was going to complain about how I got really sick from people spitting in my face at South by Southwest until, you know, this morning.
	Dutch talkers?
	Yeah, you Dutch talkers.
	Oh.
	Until I heard this morning that, you know, some people died.
	They didn't die, at least.
	Yeah, you heard about that, right?
	No.
	Ah.
	So, this will be interesting.
	So, last night around 12, around midnight...
	Some guy tried to avoid a DUI checkpoint on Red River, Red River and Tenth, I believe, and he wound up driving the wrong way down 9th Street, plowing through 23 people.
	Wow.
	Hitting a moped, killing those two people, then slamming into a cab, finally getting out, trying to run away, and then the cops tased him and got him.
	Sounds like a war zone.
	The crazy thing was, this guy was in a Prius.
	Yeah, for some reason that makes the ultimate sense to me.
	Drunk driving in a Prius.
	There's a title for a novel for you guys.
	Yeah, so that's sad.
	I don't think anything like that's ever happened at a South By.
	Well, it's gotten out of control.
	Although my first thought was, man, if the guy was in a Prius, maybe his accelerator was stuck.
	That's, yeah.
	It's possible.
	Except for the drunk part.
	Yeah, I know.
	Every time I'm in a Prius, I'm always worried that this guy is going to drive out of control.
	The accelerator is going to stick, exactly.
	Yeah, so Ms.
	Mickey and I, we were at the Dutch house.
	Every year, South by Southwest, the Dutch delegation comes in from Houston, the Consul General.
	And this time, the Secretary of Economics something or other from D.C. was in.
	Now, these are the guys who I called when Miss Mickey was deported.
	They were actually quite helpful.
	So, of course, now I owe them.
	Yes.
	As payment, did you give them a couple of no-agenda CDs?
	CDs, bags, the whole thing.
	Cool.
	But check this out.
	I was informally...
	What would the word be?
	If someone is...
	I guess informally I was probed...
	No!
	I was probed if I would be interested in becoming the honorary consul to the Netherlands in Austin.
	Does that mean money?
	Well, funny you ask.
	What it means is, it's very specific.
	First of all, you get an expense account.
	So it's a zero-sum game.
	That's perfect.
	So travel and all this stuff.
	You're done!
	So you have to, on December 5th, you have to arrange the Sinterklaas thing.
	You mean with Black Freddy?
	Black Pete.
	Or rainbow color, Pete, whatever we'll do.
	That'll be a controversy, I'm sure.
	You have to, once every six to eight weeks, you gotta do like a dinner or something for the Dutch community within Austin.
	Yeah.
	Right?
	Yeah.
	And of course, if the king and the queen come to Texas, I have to entertain them.
	But here's the best.
	I get diplomatic license plates.
	I'd do it for that alone, man.
	Oh yeah, that's payment right there.
	Put that on my truck.
	Can you just imagine me with CD plates?
	How funny is that?
	Oh no, I'm thinking you just better be nice to them and get that gig.
	Well, it's an actual possibility.
	It could really happen.
	Well, you're a good representative.
	I said, Mickey's very worried.
	She's like, but do you hear the things that come out of your mouth?
	What comes out of your mouth?
	I'm always saying horrible things.
	Oh.
	By American standards, you're not.
	Okay.
	Anyway.
	So what day is Black Pete Day?
	December 5th.
	Let's take a look at the calendar.
	Oh, wow.
	Make sure there's no agenda day.
	Wow, Miss Mickey just texted me.
	She said one of the people who was killed is actually Dutch.
	Wow.
	Saturday, good.
	You're good to go.
	Oh, a Dutch guy?
	Oh, that's terrible.
	Well, it's horrible.
	Saturday is good.
	You're good to go.
	And Black Pete, you're good for the gig.
	Because it's not a Sunday?
	Is that what you're saying?
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	So, of course, we were hanging out at the Dutch house and everyone's shaking my hand and talking.
	People talk at these conferences.
	And by the way, back up a second.
	Mickey's concern with your grousing is what she's really concerned about.
	Yes.
	You complain about this and that.
	A lot of this stuff's aimed at Holland.
	Some of it.
	And, of course, you have a reputation for being a shit disturber when you were there.
	Yes, although it turns out I was right.
	Yes, that makes a difference.
	Front page news, I will tell you, about the guy, the pedo bear guy.
	I think, though, that you're generally well known enough.
	I think it's notoriety more than it is anything else for this sort of gig.
	They don't want some dud.
	No, no, that's the hope.
	Some guy no one's ever heard of.
	Hey, would you like to come over to Fritz's house for dinner?
	No, that's the hope.
	I don't even know who this guy is.
	No, that's the hope.
	I'm perfect for the gig because they know me in Holland.
	They know me in America.
	I mean, it could not be any better.
	I get a little pin, a little Dutch-American flag pin.
	I think most people, if they say, would you be cordially invited to the household of Adam Curry?
	Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
	Well, no, no.
	There will be no...
	No, I'm not going to have people over at the house.
	Oh, over to the Ritz-Carlton with Adam Curry.
	Exactly.
	Now you're talking.
	To the Ritz-Carlton.
	I think it's going to be perfect.
	I'll work on it.
	I'll let you know what happens.
	Honorary console.
	Probably with your expense account, which is, you know, one of those things that depends on how much they allow you or how they allow you.
	You're going to not be able to spend it generally.
	I mean, you can try.
	No, this is for travel.
	I have to go to the Netherlands, you know, travel to get my...
	You should probably bring someone.
	Yeah, like Mickey maybe?
	No.
	No.
	Oh, you mean my secretary?
	Me?
	Yeah, my secretary.
	Yeah, my secretary.
	My attache?
	Yeah, trip.
	It'd be a nice trip.
	Hey, everybody.
	I'm very sorry about the glitches in the Matrix.
	Wow.
	The thing's out of control.
	We got planes disappearing.
	We got soldiers without identifying marks in Crimera.
	You know, this thing's out of control.
	It's not functioning properly.
	So what's your latest on the plane?
	Because I got a couple of clips that are interesting.
	Well, the latest on the...
	Okay.
	So first of all, my initial take is pretty much still intact.
	I said there's zero evidence this thing has crashed.
	Yeah, it's never taken off, right?
	Well, I said it's possible, but I said there's zero evidence it's crashed.
	That for sure.
	Oh, yeah.
	There's no evidence it's crashed.
	Now, besides all...
	And what a distraction, annoying distraction this is.
	There are...
	We've got...
	At the Pentagon, I got some emails from some of our sysadmin friends who are contractors.
	The Pentagon tracks...
	Every ship, every aircraft, every submarine, every satellite, all commercial aircraft worldwide.
	We've got spy satellites that can see a pimple on the tip of your nose.
	So everything that is being shown, like these Chinese, like, oh, there's some wreckage 72 feet by 79 feet, which doesn't fit in any dimensions of this aircraft at all.
	You know, none of this makes any sense.
	It's all one huge distraction.
	Um...
	I have to say a couple things.
	One, transponders.
	Pilots turn off transponders all the time, certainly in general aviation.
	I used to do it when we would be flying helicopters and we want to go down.
	We were flying around the Schiphol airspace and there were all the sailboats and we'd go down with the chopper and we'd blow the sailboats along.
	But of course, you know, you're doing something off the book, so you turn off the transponder and you're down low enough so the radar doesn't catch you.
	So, these guys, someone turned off the transponder.
	I don't think this was any, you know, massive event where the structural issue or explosion, because we certainly would have seen something by now if not on the thermal prints from the spy satellites or sonar registration for sound.
	None of that.
	Malaysia, of course, is a weird place.
	They love the terrorists over there.
	They're not real fond of Americans, by the way.
	There's still kind of evidence of this being possibly an Airbus versus Boeing war, but I think when you look at the manifest, which I haven't heard many people talk about, there was one thing that struck me as odd.
	First of all, there was no x-ray of the cargo, which doesn't have to happen all the time.
	But they had a waiver for an additional 1,000 pounds of lithium batteries.
	You're only allowed to have a certain amount of lithium batteries on board for fire hazard.
	But they had a waiver for 1,000 pounds extra.
	And I'm thinking, maybe that 1,000 pounds of something extra wasn't batteries.
	And the consensus from people I'm talking to is the crew was in on this.
	They flipped off the transponder, went down below the radar, flew somewhere.
	I think the passengers are dead.
	I think that you just turn off the oxygen, everyone kind of dies off.
	And this plane landed somewhere.
	There's hundreds if not thousands of airstrips all around that area, military airstrips.
	And there was something that was on that plane that they wanted.
	That's the only logical conclusion I can come to.
	Everything else is bogative.
	Well, there's the crazy stuff that is interesting.
	And the only reason I bring that up, and I'm not into this kind of thing, although having read The Day After Roswell, I'll just let myself go for a minute.
	Are we going to do cloaking and alien stuff?
	No, I'm not going to do any of that.
	I'm just going to play this clip, which seems to be a piece of suppressed information.
	It was played on NHK, and it was done by a correspondent from Kuala Lumpur, who's talking to the military.
	And this is the suppressed report, and this is kind of interesting.
	Hold on one second.
	Civilian air traffic controllers lost contact with a jet.
	But government sources in Malaysia say military radar has identified a possible clue to what happened.
	An object was detected moving from east to west from the area where controllers lost contact with the aircraft.
	The object crossed the Malay Peninsula and continued for about 70 minutes before disappearing over the Straits of Malacca.
	The Malaysian government says it analyzed the data, but not everything adds up.
	The signal was weak for a passenger jet.
	The object was also traveling slower than a normal aircraft.
	And if the plane didn't make a U-turn, why wasn't it detected by civilian radar?
	Government officials have been unable to identify the flying object that was detected by the military radar.
	That leaves them with a little option but to continue searching.
	By boat and from the air, vast stretches of water from the South China Sea to the Straits of Malacca.
	All right, that's bullshit.
	Before you go on with that's bullshit.
	No, it is.
	Sorry, that's bullshit.
	Russia launches this ICBM for some unknown reason.
	This is still in my craw.
	It was a scheduled test, yes?
	Yeah, scheduled test.
	Sure.
	What schedule are we talking about?
	Hold on a second, John.
	Did you get a memo?
	Months ago?
	But what you're talking about is...
	On the flight tracking 24-7 radar website is all of a sudden this circle appears, then it turns into a plane.
	Trust me, this is bullshit.
	And also that the plane was turning left and right.
	These things are, this complete, these abnormalities happen all the time with this ADS-B type of tracking.
	This, this, no.
	I'm sorry.
	It's no.
	No.
	Just played it.
	It's from NHK, a reliable source.
	It's not a reliable source.
	NHK. It's a big news organization.
	Oh, please.
	I saw Bill Nye the science guy on CNN last night with a big black box talking about what it was.
	Big orange thing.
	Oh, this is the black box.
	No.
	This is complete bull crap.
	If it was blown out of the sky, there would be heat.
	This would have registered.
	It was blown out of the sky.
	Well, if it was an ICBM, like...
	No, no, no.
	The ICBM is different.
	The ICBM was launched for some other purpose, and this was the retaliatory strike.
	No, no, no.
	No.
	Because that would show up, John.
	There's thousands of satellite systems that track all this.
	No.
	No, no, no.
	And also this, the military radar tracked it, and they didn't say anything for three days.
	No.
	And then everyone's backtracking on all of that.
	No, no, no, no.
	The only, besides my theory, which is it never took off at all, which is possible, there is a theory out there that it was cloaked.
	Oh, please.
	That's the only other one, that's the only other theory that makes any sense, although I have no idea about the technology, but everything else...
	Because there is none.
	...crashing.
	There is zero evidence of a crash.
	You're not going to go about the aliens grabbing these guys as opposed to cloaking?
	No.
	Ugh.
	No.
	A military cloaking exercise?
	Yeah, I think that would be real.
	And why would they do it with this flight?
	If they're going to do it, they're going to be doing it around here somewhere.
	I haven't forbid that the cloaking technology get into the wrong hands.
	No, of course not.
	You want to do it in an obscure part of the world.
	Yeah, with American gear.
	With a bunch of Chiners who no one cares about.
	We have a whole bunch of free-scale guys right there from your neck of the woods on that plane.
	Yeah, well, oh well.
	Valuable assets to the alien forces.
	The bottom line is we know absolutely nothing.
	I still think the possibility of the flight crew being in on it and landing this thing somewhere and whatever was on board taking that off, that's not unthinkable.
	No, I would say that of all the crazy things you've said, that's actually very believable, especially since that flight crew's already been kind of outed as a bunch of kind of offbeat characters.
	Well, let me say something about that, just because they don't have the same rules as we do in our airspace.
	No, no, I agree.
	I've been on flight decks myself.
	Yeah, I've been on flight decks, and what you saw there was basically what all pilots want is to get laid.
	Yeah, okay.
	That's half the reason for becoming a pilot.
	You're going to have to have more evidence about something going on with these guys landing in the middle of nowhere.
	I think the plane could be down somewhere in the middle of nowhere on some little...
	Who's going to find it?
	Well, if this...
	When you land and put it in a hangar, you're not going to find it.
	You only need 3,500 feet to land this thing.
	And there's tons of...
	Seriously, there's probably 500 airstrips throughout that entire region that it could have landed.
	Now what is kind of interesting, as a side note to all of this, is the amount of articles and news, because of course everyone's out of things to say, that are cropping up about how old-fashioned the technology is, and we need to have all of these planes need to be connected, they should be streaming the black box information.
	Well, I think you're missing one of the little memes that cropped up in the thing, and I spotted it.
	And I'm going to put in the red book that this is going to start to show up over and over again.
	What, you mean the fact that they don't want pilots anymore?
	We have to get rid of pilots?
	The continuing meme?
	No.
	That's a good way.
	I should put that one down, too.
	Yeah, pilots suck.
	It should all be automated, and we should have someone at home base flying it like a drone.
	No, I think it will have more to do with centralized identification system for the New World Order.
	They have, you know, there was a big deal about these two missing passports, and there was report after report about, oh, it's pretty common.
	There's over one million people flying on stolen passports.
	And they went on and on about this.
	It's such an extreme, and I'm thinking about real ID and all this.
	You know, the United States, we've tried to push this, shove this down the throat of the American public.
	You know, federal ID. And I think that this has been in play and it's not going away.
	And they're going to come up with something, some universal thing.
	I'm watching this Unfold with the ID. All these stories about the ID. Oh, these guys.
	Iranians looking for some place to move to Germany or something like that.
	And then I'm watching Tom Hartman going on and on with some guy about carbon tax.
	Would you think the whole thing would be solved with carbon tax?
	You know, a universal worldwide carbon tax.
	What would that solve?
	Planes going down?
	I don't understand.
	No, no.
	I'm just thinking about that.
	You brought me back.
	No.
	Of course not.
	It brought me, maybe, it brought me back to this kind of worldview thinking where you want ID, everyone has a world ID, you know, something that everyone can get from the United Nations or whoever because the carbon tax thing always boils down to universal international carbon tax.
	Where does this money go?
	You know, it's funny you say that because I came across an outfit, let me see if I have their promo video here, Which I had not heard of.
	It's been set up by Richard Branson, which of course makes sense because he's in the aviation business.
	It's called the Carbon War Room.
	Have you heard of these guys?
	No.
	Carbon War Room started with an idea.
	This idea of how can we actually get profit-making...
	Seriously?
	You should go look at carbonwarroom.org or whatever the hell it is.
	...to change more profit and save the climate at the same time.
	The dominant narrative around climate change was that the only way to defeat the problem was to do and have less.
	If the only choice is to do and have less, then we're going to lose.
	Lose.
	So what's the other choice?
	Lose.
	The other choice was to decide that you could build a prosperous, low-carbon world.
	What we're all about.
	Is helping create good, viable business opportunities out of carbon emission mitigation.
	You've got to listen to the bull crap these people are spouting, who, by the way, are all paid consultants for this outfit.
	Carbon emissions mitigation?
	Is that what he said?
	Yeah, yeah.
	It works well for job creation, and it works well for the environment.
	So their whole idea is, I guess, they pressure businesses into building greener things, and that's basically, as you'll hear in a moment, going to create jobs!
	Carbon War Room is focused on a very powerful force.
	And that's business.
	You know, that's capitalism.
	That's the entrepreneurial spirit.
	You know, there's nothing wrong with a bunch of motivated people creating innovation to solve problems and making money while doing it.
	So what they all do is they all go to Branson's Necker Island, and they all have a meeting.
	And David Haas is in here.
	David Haas is the Council on Foreign Relations.
	And there's the Carbon War Room President, Jose Maria Figueres Olsen.
	Who's getting paid $150,000 in consulting.
	I pulled their Form 990.
	I don't know what their scam is, but you know it's coming down to a carbon tax on some global scale from the carbon war room.
	The carbon war room takes a sector approach.
	And we ask which sectors could be making money from reducing CO2, whether that be insulating our buildings to be more energy.
	Let me ask you, John, which sectors can make money from reducing CO2? Actually, the petroleum industry can with their sequestering scams.
	Yeah, or maybe the funeral business by taking carbon away from people.
	And if I see one more video that uses this kind of bogative Apple music, I'm going to throw up.
	Okay, so here's what we're looking at.
	We're looking at, because I would assume that this web page has the messages in plain sight.
	So we have five different things that they're focused on.
	Citizen?
	No, that's what I'm looking at.
	Those are operations.
	Shipping efficiency.
	Which means they want to gouge the shipping companies who are out there.
	Force them into new ships.
	Paying some extra little tax and then they put somewhere.
	Renewable jet fuels.
	I have no idea if you can even make those.
	Battery planes.
	Battery planes.
	Green capital.
	This is a winner.
	Green capital.
	Smart island economies.
	Oh, would that have anything to do with Necker Island by any chance?
	Might be.
	Mm-hmm.
	And then finally, another gouge, trucking efficiency.
	So there's some money.
	Somebody sat around saying, you know, how can we make some extra money?
	I said, well, I don't know.
	I got an idea.
	Let's listen to the Aruba and Carbon War Room bid to flip Caribbean Island off of fossil fuels.
	What is the island going to run on?
	Here, this is weird.
	Pete farts.
	The Carbonaro and the government of Aruba announced a partnership for 100% renewable energy.
	If successful, they will not die.
	Oh, they will create the first ever fossil fuel free economy.
	This isn't a 10-20% improvement.
	This is Aruba being potentially one of...
	Here's Peter Boyd.
	Who's this jabroni?
	This Peter Boyd guy.
	Peter Boyd?
	Yeah.
	With his Windsor knot.
	I have trouble trusting a guy with a Windsor knot.
	That's just a very standard tie knot.
	What difference does it make?
	What do you think?
	What, you're a fan of the four in hand?
	Yeah, exactly.
	Flip off fossil fuels entirely and show the world how to get that done.
	Okay.
	Anyway.
	Peter Boyd.
	Anyway, so this is the Carbon War Room.
	How did we even get here?
	Because I mentioned Thom Hartman, and slowly you turned, step by step, inch by inch.
	I'm sorry.
	I'm watching these guys.
	You know, the funny thing is, since I was, I would say, a little child, there has been a frontal attack on the petroleum business.
	Nobody ever lied.
	I think it really stems from a deep hatred that never really went away, even though he became a great philanthropist of Rockefeller.
	And there's just been this frontal attack, and whatever you can do to screw with them and try to get them to either, you know, you do it with the peak oil crap, you do it by blowing up a rig, or you do it by...
	Taxing him and taxing him and taxing him because there's so much throughput.
	I mean, you can really...
	They have a lot of leeway for being taxed to death.
	It's just astonishing to me.
	And it's just...
	Watching Thawm and this other guy go on and on about how we have to get rid of...
	We have to leave it in the ground.
	Leave it in the ground.
	Leave all the coal and oil in the ground.
	The carbon.
	So here's...
	They spent this carbon war room.
	I had to pull their 990 because that's really where you get all the...
	Oh, by the way, I should mention something?
	Mm-hmm.
	If you left all the petroleum in the ground, half of the stuff that you have...
	If you look around, just take a look at how much is paint, plastic, all these things.
	It's all petroleum.
	They spent $422,000 on research.
	The Research and Intelligence Group took that money, and they worked to identify opportunities that have cost-negative gigaton-scale carbon reduction potential.
	Whew!
	That's a bumper sticker right there.
	Gigaton scale carbon reduction potential over the next 10 years.
	The primary audience is the investment community, entrepreneurs, NGOs, and policy makers.
	Carbon War Room has identified 17 subsectors across 7 sectors.
	Each sector vector accounts for over 1 gigatons, or more than 2% of global CO2 emissions annually.
	These sectors encompass the full spectrum of challenges that must be met to implement a low-carbon economy.
	Wow.
	Here it is.
	Jose Maria Figueres Olson.
	He is an independent contractor, even though he's the CEO. He billed them $208,000, whoever them is.
	And there's all kinds of consulting things.
	This is one of my pet peeves, of course, is all these bogative NGOs.
	And finally, although I wish we could have gotten some credit, but of course we didn't do this one, someone pulled the $9.90 for Lady Gaga.
	And it's quite funny.
	Oh, that's a great idea.
	So her 990, I have it in front of me here.
	You'll love this.
	Okay, so the total income, which was presumed...
	It's never listed who on a 5013C Corp.
	Total income for the current year, $2.2 million.
	We're going to presume that came from her, that she put that in.
	Money goes to herself as a director, Stephanie Germanotta.
	Her mom, Cynthia.
	Her dad, Joseph...
	And then two other jabronis.
	I think one is the manager.
	And you know that her manager has, you know, it's all part of this 360 deal and they really run everything.
	But here's what's interesting.
	They spent, hold on a second, $115,000 on travel expenses, consulting fees, legal fees...
	Then there's some of the salaries.
	Then there is...
	They spent, looks like, $10,000 on the bus.
	I guess the tour bus is now written off as part of the non-profit.
	Yes, the bus traveled nationwide to empower youth by connecting them with community.
	Let's see what else they did.
	I'm sorry, that's $348,000 for the bus tour production.
	Strategic consulting for web and digital total fees, $300,000.
	Stage productions, $62,000.
	Social media, $50,000.
	And then coordination meetings, $47,800, $25,000.
	And they actually did hand out some money as a grant for $5,000.
	Oh, $5,000.
	Yeah.
	So, here it is.
	Grants and other assistance to governments and organizations.
	$5,000.
	And that actually, if you drill down into it, that was for making their site PayPal compatible with European PayPal.
	So they essentially have just written off all of this tax-free stuff On a non-profit, The Little Monster.
	Huh.
	And this is the person that your wife idolizes?
	No.
	Yeah, needless to say, after I showed her this, she went, I'm not going to go see Gaga now!
	Yeah, right.
	Okay.
	I like doing that 990 stuff.
	Everybody can do that, by the way.
	Yes, you should tell people how to do that so they can all just do it casually.
	Yeah, go to guidestar.com.
	I think it's.com.
	Hold on, let me check.
	Is it GuideStar?
	Oh, GuideStar.org.
	And you have to register in order to get all the 990s, and you can just search, and boop, stuff pops up.
	That's just like Lean In.
	I thought that was some huge organization, that Sheryl Sandberg thing that is now banning the word bossy.
	Oh, yeah, I have a bunch of clips on that.
	The whole organization, I think she's put $140,000 into it, which probably went to that stupid commercial with Bianchi.
	I have not heard a single woman say anything positive about this campaign.
	The Ban Bossy campaign.
	Yeah, you want to do that a bit, even get through this, because this is like, I think it's part of the never-ending, I think it's essentially, besides being just ludicrous, because when you think about it, and there's a bunch of little girls, there's a nightline, special nightline response, Cynthia McFadden.
	Cynthia McFadden decides to do a whole thing on this, because she's a huge worshipper.
	Should we step back, should I play the promo for a second, so everyone knows what we're talking about?
	Yes, play the promo.
	Alright, so this is, now you're going to see, they're not identified by name, but they are in the video.
	It's Beyonce Sheryl Sandberg, who's the Chief Operating Officer of Facebook.
	We have Jane Lynch, actress.
	We have Jennifer Gardner.
	Who else is in that, John?
	Well, I know the First Lady is not in it, but she's been promoting it heavily.
	And the whole idea is to ban the word bossy.
	This is Ban Bossy.
	Take one.
	Pushy.
	Stubborn.
	Stubborn.
	Pushy.
	Pushy.
	Stubborn.
	Stubborn.
	Bossy.
	When I was growing up, I was called bossy.
	I think the word bossy is just a squasher.
	Being labeled something matters.
	By middle school, girls are less interested in leadership than boys.
	And that's because they worry about being called bossy.
	We need to tell them it's okay to be ambitious.
	We need to help them lean in.
	We do.
	Let's just ban the word bossy.
	And encourage girls to lead.
	To be strong and be ambitious.
	Listen to your own voice.
	There are no limits.
	There to be you.
	You can change the world.
	Let's ban Bossy.
	Be brave.
	Be you.
	Ban Bossy.
	Join us to ban Bossy.
	Yeah, Condoleezza Rice is in there.
	I'm the boss.
	And there's...
	Encourage girls to lead.
	Take the pledge at BanBossy.com.
	And this is a joint venture between LeanIn.org, which is Sheryl Sandberg's non-profit...
	NGO. NGO, and the Girl Scouts of America.
	And so they have teamed up, and the whole idea...
	And if I understand correctly...
	We need to ban the word bossy because when you say to a young woman or a girl, you're bossy, that immediately shuts them up and they're afraid to become a leader.
	Ruins their lives, Adam.
	Yeah, it ruins their lives.
	Little boys are bossy too, but if you have a little three or four year old bossing everybody around, you call them bossy.
	I don't think this is a big deal.
	Well, first I'd like to give you the etymology of bossy because, interestingly enough, this is from a Dutch word.
	The Dutch word boss, B-A-A-S. And if you look at the actual synonyms, hold on a second, let me open this up.
	So Bas, as in Basrach, we have from early 19th century.
	A person in charge of a worker, or that's boss.
	Hold on, I want the adjective.
	Actually, an adjective, boss, if you're boss, then you can be excellent or outstanding.
	But boss is head, chief, director, president, principal, chair, manager.
	All of these really good words.
	But apparently, the minute you say someone's bossy, then what you are telling them is they should not be assertive.
	That's what I've understood from their website.
	And the women that I spoke to, let me start with the one closest to me, my wife, she says, yeah, I'm bossy.
	And if people hadn't called me bossy as a kid, then I would have never known how to test my limits and how to be more or less bossy to become a strong, leading woman.
	Well, there's the counter-argument.
	In fact, Sheryl Sandberg moans incessantly about being called bossy, and she's a billionaire.
	Yeah.
	So it did her more good than harm, it seems to me.
	Was she going to rule the world?
	Was she going to be Ming the Magnificent if no one called her bossy?
	Well, the same goes for Beyonce.
	The same goes for Condoleezza Rice.
	The same goes for Jennifer Gardner.
	The same goes for Jane Lynch.
	I don't understand.
	This is the never-ending equality meme where everybody has to be equal.
	This is also part of the anti-free speech subtext.
	Yeah, well.
	We've been going to ban the word.
	Do not use this word.
	Let's see if we can get people to stop using a word.
	But let's play these clips because they're very educational.
	All right.
	This is all from a special with Cynthia McFadden.
	So we'll start with one.
	Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg changed the conversation about women in the workplace.
	I love it when someone can change the conversation.
	Change the conversation.
	What conversation?
	She didn't change no conversation.
	You're sucking up to her because she's a billionaire.
	That's all.
	That's how it works in Hollywood land.
	With her best-selling book, Lean In, which came out exactly a year ago.
	I will say, I feel bad I have not read the book.
	And I'm going to read it now because I really need to get inside her head.
	You know what?
	Here's the problem with the book, I'm going to tell you.
	Have you read the book?
	I haven't read the whole thing.
	I've read pieces of it.
	You're going to be irked.
	It's an irksome product.
	And these things are, it's just, it's pretentious.
	It's a Silicon Valley style book with that kind of lame writing that is shallow and it's kind of interesting in some modern, very modern, up-to-date way.
	But, you know, 10 years from now, this is not going to be like Vance Packard or anybody like that.
	It's going to be, this is the forgotten piece of crap like all these other books that come out around here.
	She's launching a new public service campaign to ban the word bossy.
	Why?
	Because she says it's a big part of the reason so few women make it to leadership positions.
	And there is some research that backs her up.
	I think it's the only reason women make it to leadership positions.
	I am flabbergasted by this thinking.
	I know.
	I'm on board with your thinking on this.
	By the way, I grew up, and I think we've discussed this, what my mom always used to say.
	Life's not fair.
	I'd be like, that's not fair.
	Life's not fair.
	What a mom.
	Did you never hear that?
	Did you never get that going?
	My mom always, oh, poor baby.
	You get a prize just for competing.
	Put your helmet back on and go play outside.
	We sat down at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park to talk about the other B word.
	When I was growing up.
	Uh, bolo tie?
	Uh, bolero?
	I was called bossy.
	Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's COO and newly minted billionaire, has launched a campaign today to ban a surprisingly powerful word.
	Bossy.
	Bossy.
	And she's pulled together a group of celebrity friends to help her pull it off.
	Ban bossy.
	This is the other B word.
	We call girls bossy on the playground.
	We then call them too aggressive or other B words in the workplace.
	Bully or bitchy?
	Is bitch, is that the problem?
	Yeah, of course.
	Because that's what she's apparently called at work a lot.
	I think this is where this stems from.
	She must be terrible to work with.
	It's the only thing I can think of.
	And she just seems like it.
	She's just not...
	You know, she's just a...
	I don't know.
	She's one of those people that just can't stop talking.
	Let's try number two because the three and four of the short clips on this have got some very interesting little tricks propagandistically that you definitely have to listen to.
	What we know is that stereotypes are holding women back from leadership roles all over the world.
	No we don't.
	She argues those negative stereotypes get a big boost from the use of the word bossy.
	I've asked audiences all over the world, and this is what women face.
	They're bossy as little girls, and then they're aggressive, political, shrill, too ambitious as women.
	Can I just say?
	Are they talking about Hillary Clinton?
	Because I'm a little confused.
	They're talking about each other, Hillary Clinton?
	Yeah.
	It's like they're looking in the mirror.
	Yeah, but this is great.
	I love women who...
	Hello?
	Wait a minute.
	This is an example.
	You know, we did a show a couple...
	I don't understand.
	Not the last show, but the show before.
	I thought we were too much anti-women stuff in the show.
	And, of course, unfortunately, we got more donations, but that's beside...
	It works.
	Keep going.
	I don't want to get into an anti-woman rant, but these are two women that seem to be bitching, literally bitching about nothing, just to bitch.
	We must be missing something, John.
	There must be...
	I don't understand this.
	There must be some other reason that they're doing this.
	Well, for Cheryl is to sell more books so she can be, you know...
	Really?
	To what?
	To do what?
	It's just a bragging rights thing amongst her little peer group.
	Oh, I have a bestseller on the New York Times.
	What did you do?
	Do you really think that's it?
	Yeah.
	You know, why is Beyonce doing this?
	Why?
	Well, Sandberg is at the base as a saleswoman.
	Yeah, she'll get, she'll put out, yeah.
	Yeah, so let's finish this clip and then we'll get to a kicker.
	I was called bossy.
	Were you called bossy?
	I was called bossy when I was in the grade.
	Oh, we're called bossy!
	My teacher took my best friend Mindy aside and she said, you shouldn't be friends with Cheryl, she's bossy.
	And then she became a billionaire!
	I think they're trying to actually remove all competition.
	Well, that's an interesting idea.
	That's the only thing I think of.
	Some women are starting to make a move on her.
	Hey, this is no good.
	She's bossy.
	You know she's bossy.
	All right.
	Yeah, she's totally bossy.
	Okay, so here's the number three clip, which I think there's a very...
	To me, this is what got me to do this clipping at all.
	Research shows a direct link.
	A third of the girls who don't want to be leaders say it's because they fear being called bossy or being disliked by their peers.
	Well, then you're not a leader.
	Oh, you're missing the point of this clip.
	Well, don't say it.
	Let me listen to it again, then.
	Let me listen to this.
	Research shows a direct link.
	A third of the girls who don't want to be leaders say it's because they fear being called bossy or being disliked by their peers.
	Well, they don't want to be leaders.
	What am I missing?
	What am I missing?
	The whole premise, and they started with the first clip, about research is shown, research is shown, research is shown.
	And this, by the way, people out there who listen to this sort of thing, this is essentially jobs created or saved.
	And what they've done here, and then you couldn't pick it up, and I can see nobody picking it up, but what happened here was they say, it's because they're using the word bossy.
	Or...
	And the reason is, no, it's not because maybe one, you've got ten people that say, why don't you do this this way?
	Well, because I'm afraid of being called bossy.
	Number one.
	Number two, no one's going to like me.
	Number three, no one's going to like me.
	Number four, no one's going to like me.
	Number five, no one's going to like me.
	They went and asked a bunch of little girls, and that's what they all said.
	This is bull crap.
	The word bossy's got nothing to do with it.
	I love it when you get all in my face about it.
	Play the clip again.
	The three?
	You want to play the three again?
	Yeah, so you can hear what the scam is.
	I gotcha.
	Research shows a direct link.
	A third of the girls who don't want to be leaders say it's because they fear being called bossy or being disliked by their peers.
	You mean that's not research?
	That's not science?
	It could be research, but if it was mostly people not wanting to be liked, they'd slip the bossy thing to make it sound as though they were number one in the list.
	This is bogus.
	Nobody says, oh, I'm afraid of being called bossy.
	When did that ever happen?
	What research was that?
	Well, it's really beside the point at this point.
	But anyway, play four, where now it's just completely nuts.
	If you look at the world, women do 66% of the work in the world.
	Women produce 50% of the food.
	Women make 10% of the income.
	And women own 1% of the property.
	In every country in the world, women are 5% of the top company CEOs.
	We live in a world that is overwhelmingly run and owned by men.
	If you paid women as much as men, you would cut the poverty rate for this nation's children in half.
	So you really think you can change 77 cents on a dollar by banning Bossy?
	We think it all goes together.
	Oh, okay.
	I'm sorry.
	I thought this was about empowering women.
	This is about fucking men over.
	Ah!
	You noticed.
	It was hard.
	I caught that pretty quickly, didn't I? Wow, that has nothing to do with banning bossy.
	That has to do with banning men.
	Why don't you just say it, Cheryl?
	Killallmen.org.
	That's her next book.
	Ban men.
	Ban dudes.
	There it is.
	Ban dudes.
	Get rid of dudes.
	We have the partners on this thing.
	Girl Scouts of America, Lifetime, BBDO, AARP, Always.
	What is always?
	It looks like a...
	Always.
	What is always?
	It looks like a...
	I think it's a sexual club.
	It looks like a feminine hygiene product.
	They like to do it always.
	Oh, no.
	It's teen tampons.
	Yeah, it's feminine products.
	Okay.
	Babel.
	B-B-Y-O. What is B-B-Y-O? Oh, the Jewish teen leadership.
	Sandberg, of course.
	Being Girl, BlogHer, Common Sense Media, another fine NGO, Edmodo.
	What's Edmodo?
	Edmodo.
	What's Edmodo?
	I don't know.
	How do you spell it?
	Edmodo.
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	Yeah, here's Marsha Simmons.
	And she is...
	Oops.
	I think in public education, we need to offer ways to be relevant.
	Wow!
	Statement of the Decade!
	Get that off my screen.
	Free the Children, Getty Images, Girls Leadership Institute, kidsinthehouse.com.
	Is that like Kids in the Hall, only better?
	Expert Parenting Advice.
	Okay.
	What is Kids in the House?
	My God, this whole page is just NGO after NGO. It's just everyone sucking off the teat of Sandberg, apparently.
	Yeah, I'm sure she enjoys that.
	Kip, National Council of La Raza, Pantene, gotta have your shampoo in there, Teach for America, Upworthy, and Urban Sitter.
	Urban Sitter.
	Yeah, this is basically, it's not fair.
	Men run the world.
	It's not fair.
	I hope.
	Excuse me one second.
	I'm not truly a religious man, and I'm not mocking.
	What I'm about to say, I really mean.
	Dear God, please.
	I know I really have not been good talking to you, reaching out to you.
	Ever.
	Except whenever things are really crap, which has happened time to time in my life, and then I pray to you.
	I pray, dear God, please make Hillary Clinton president of the United States of America.
	Please.
	Please.
	First of all, we'll be guaranteed eight years of show material.
	And secondly, after those eight years, I'll be able to tell all these women, see...
	See what happened?
	Girls suck just as bad as men.
	Boys, whatever.
	Please.
	I thought you were going to make a prayer to God saying, smite this woman.
	No, I want to hear that one again.
	If you look at the world, women do 66% of the work in the world.
	Where is this coming from, 66%?
	And why is that 2 times 33?
	What are you trying to tell me, Sheryl Sandberg?
	What did she say?
	If you look at the data, is that what she said?
	I don't know what she's talking about.
	If you look at the world.
	If you look at the world.
	You look at the world.
	Let's get Google Maps for a second.
	So basically, this is bullcrap.
	Of course it's bullcrap, but I want to hear it.
	Women do 66% of the work in the world.
	Really?
	I don't know if that's true.
	I guess if she says it's true.
	Women produce 50% of the food.
	They produce 50% of the food.
	Women make 10% of the income.
	10% of the income.
	Women own 1% of the property.
	In every country in the world, women are 5% of the top company CEOs.
	We live in a world...
	Well, you know what you should do?
	You should tell more girls that they're bossy so that they can become bossy and become boss and start to run the show.
	You're doing it exactly the...
	I don't understand.
	I would like to see these stats backed up.
	I bet you all of them are refutable.
	All of them.
	And I don't see any of these stats on her website, on her bandbossy.com.
	You can go on these shows, if you're Sheryl Sandberg, and you can just blather off a bunch of stats without any references, by the way.
	You don't hear one reference.
	It's just, she said, I say so.
	And so, bossy that she is.
	And I'm sure that's all refutable.
	I doubt these stats.
	I think it's bullcrap.
	I'm upset that she doesn't have them on the website.
	That's where they should be.
	Now there's leadership tips.
	And then she says if you paid women the same amount as you paid men, it would eliminate 77% of the poverty or something at the end.
	And I'm thinking, pay them for what?
	There's a woman living in poverty in Oakland who is uneducated and she's raising her kids and she can't get a job and she's on welfare.
	The welfare check she gets is the same that a welfare check is given to a guy?
	I mean, no.
	I'm not buying this argument.
	No.
	This is a work for equal pay kind of thing, too, which is also a red herring.
	When it comes to girls and ambition, the pattern is clear.
	Girls are discouraged from leading.
	And now, I'm offended by that remark.
	I have built several companies with large, large employee base, six, seven hundred people, the majority of whom were women, and who led, were on the board.
	Of course, I was the boss because, you know, I started it.
	When a little boy asserts himself, he's called a leader.
	No, he's not.
	He's called bossy, too.
	Have you ever seen a little, like, five-year-old bossing people around?
	What do you call him?
	Dick.
	Get out of the way, kid.
	You're bossy.
	Yeah, shit.
	Little shit is what I call him.
	Yeah.
	Little turd.
	Bullcrap.
	Turd.
	Oh, my little six-year-old is telling me what to do.
	He's a great leader.
	He's a great leader.
	This is a lie.
	This woman is a fraud.
	Yet, when a little girl does the same, she risks being branded bossy.
	A precursor to words like aggressive, angry, and too ambitious.
	We should ban all these words.
	What kind of six-year-old is too ambitious?
	These are words that plague strong female leaders.
	What's going on in the backyard with a six-year-old?
	Hey, he's building a Ferrari from scratch!
	Calling girls bossy is one of the many things we do to discourage them from leading.
	We go out of our way to discourage the girls.
	You know what I do?
	I kick them in the shins to discourage them from leading.
	That's my trick.
	It's no wonder that by middle school, girls are less interested in leadership roles than boys, a trend that continues into adulthood.
	I just don't see it as...
	Well, that's because, you know, the women in general, because of the sociology of women...
	Essentially.
	Or more into making friends and doing social stuff and getting...
	So they're not on the right track, according to her.
	Sandberg must have been a friendless motor.
	Let me just say something.
	The number one reason why girls are not turning into leaders is because they're occupied with posting selfies on your fucking Facebook!
	That's the problem!
	Sandberg...
	There you have it.
	In a nutshell.
	Thank you.
	All right.
	Enough of this.
	Yes.
	Hey, kittens and courage and in the morning to you, John C. Dvorak.
	In the morning to you, Adam Curry.
	In the morning to all ships at sea.
	Boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water.
	And all the dames and knights out there.
	And to everyone in the chat room in the morning to you all and to our artist, Nick the Rat, thank you very much.
	Didn't we use a Nick Evergreen?
	The art was not good for the last episode.
	No, the art of last week's show, we will say this.
	I don't know what happened.
	By the way, there are some people that you're still making the type font too small.
	You've got to remember we reduced these things.
	Anyway, no, the art was terrible.
	And so we went to the well and found this simplistic piece.
	From Nick Durrett.
	And I don't even know why he did this piece, because it's not his style.
	But he did it.
	And it's just nothing.
	It's just a plane.
	We chose it because it was so funny.
	It was just a flag.
	It was funny as an ironic piece.
	It was a flag.
	It's a real flag, not a false flag.
	Noagendaartgenerator.com is where you can find all the submissions.
	We'd love to have something a little more artistic.
	Yeah, and we'd love to mention something while we're talking about this.
	I was looking at the note.
	In fact, let's go over there.
	Noagendaartgenerator.
	And I want to point something out to people.
	Especially when they actually have, they've got a good idea, but they're not quite, this is like if you were talking to your art director, you'd be discussing something like this.
	Now, I'm looking at, for example, the best of the 600 so far is the No Agenda 600 thing, which has got a nice look, like the Coca-Cola 600 is a takeoff of a NASCAR race, and it's not bad.
	But...
	You know, the branding of the show is what the branding of the show is.
	It's Adam, Crackpot, Curry, and Dvorak's The Buzzkill.
	That's what we stick with.
	You don't change these monikers to Loose Nut and Boogity.
	You just don't do that.
	I mean, it's like very pretentious.
	I mean, it's okay for us to call everyone different names, but you don't do that to us.
	No.
	No.
	And not with the art.
	So you've got this gorgeous piece of work, No Agenda 600, Racing to You from Gitmo Nation.
	Great.
	Then it says, Adam Loose Nut.
	Where did that come from?
	Where did that come from?
	I don't know.
	We never used it?
	No.
	So this piece, redo the piece Kevlar.
	Well, it's too late.
	I'm sure Kevlar is not listening live.
	Think about your branding rules as a style guide, people.
	Yeah, just, you know, don't do this kind of thing.
	Just reject it out of hand because of it.
	Anyway, now I'm not going to edit it.
	So let's thank a few people for being executive producers, associate executive producers for show 599.
	We're coming up on show 600.
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	I need some government getting out of my bathroom, Karma, so I can get my bathroom extension approved.
	Who knew adding a shower to your own bathroom requires special permits?
	My engineer is telling me that from the city's standpoint, I am a violator that needs to be punished for doing something in my own bathroom.
	Hey, slave, stop doing that, citizen.
	You cannot have a shower extension!
	Government overreach, anyone?
	This has been going on for a long time.
	This zoning and all of this.
	Well, it's California.
	What do you expect?
	If you live in an unincorporated area, this is not a problem.
	Yeah, but he's in California.
	Yeah, you should live in Berkeley.
	You've got karma.
	What, you can't even poop in your toilet without a permit?
	You can't poop without a permit.
	You have to have the poopment renewed about once every couple weeks.
	I gotta take a dump.
	I don't have the permit.
	Just do it.
	Just do it.
	They're monitoring the flushing.
	Open up, Mr.
	Dvorak.
	You know, in Berkeley, they have, they actually go through, they don't do this everywhere around Berkeley, but in Berkeley, they actually go through your trash to see if you put a bottle in the trash instead of the recycling.
	Oh, you put it in the recycle?
	Yeah, well, they learn that from the United Kingdom.
	Yeah, the UK does that.
	Yeah, they put little cameras into your bin.
	Anonymous in Amsterdam.
	300 bucks.
	Thanks for your hard work and for keeping my daily commute from Amsterdam to The Hague interesting.
	Ah, that must be a government official.
	That must be.
	What else would you do in The Hague unless he works at Miniature World?
	Madurodam.
	Sir Ryan Burgett in Seattle, Washington.
	I have a note, which I believe is the...
	Sir Bourbon and Bong Hits.
	Ah, Bong Hits and Bourbon.
	Yeah.
	Sir B&B wants to call himself.
	Okay.
	Following up on my email from the weekend of my $300 donation, I shall send another $300 on Thursday if you take me upon my proposition of a third producer credit for the combined total in honor of show 600.
	Well, since you're a knight, we'll do it.
	Thanks for consistently buzzing my...
	buzzing my crack?
	Thank you for consistently buzzing my crack.
	Keep helping the slaves to recognize truth.
	Oh, guardians of reality.
	Signed, sir, B&B. Alright, thank you.
	Give him a karma or something.
	I'd love to.
	For buzzing this crack or whatever.
	You've got karma.
	I don't know.
	St.
	Hubert, Quebec.
	Saint-Hubert.
	$250.
	Hi, John and Adam.
	It's been too long, way too long since my last donation, but I've decided to rectify the situation today on the eve of show 599.
	Could I please get a Clooney is a spy karma for myself and all No Agenda listeners fighting health issues?
	Keep up the incredible work you do.
	All right, absolutely.
	George Clooney.
	Is a spy.
	You've got karma.
	No.
	That, by the way, is a nice combo.
	That isn't bad.
	It works nicely.
	It's got a nice pace and flow.
	It does.
	Carlos Grabix in Mechanicsville, Virginia.
	And if you know what a mechanic is, you know what that means.
	$248.
	Thanks for the champagne suggestion from show 569.
	It does indeed go with everything.
	I think it was mentioned that champagne should be used as a dinner wine.
	Yes, that was for one of the Obat dinners, and you suggested I serve champagne.
	Yes.
	Always a winner, if you can get it at a reasonable price, and if it's real champagne.
	Looking for some general karma for my 48th birthday today, March 9th, hence the 248 donation, along with some science from Dr.
	Kiki.
	Oh, absolutely.
	Shut up already!
	Science!
	You've got karma.
	There you go.
	John Donovan.
	I got another.
	Oh, I did.
	Damn it.
	I had to look it up.
	Hold on a second while you stall.
	Okay.
	Ban Bossy.
	You could have done a better job of stalling than that.
	John Donovan.
	Okay, here we go.
	Here he is.
	Been fighting with PayPal.
	Multiple password changes earlier today, so emailing this in case it doesn't get through, which apparently he didn't.
	ITM Jensen, Sir JD. Please give a jobs, jobs, jobs, little girl, yay, karma.
	Shout out to all the producers, knights, and no agenda families out there.
	This is the third on my...
	In my show 600 progression, how many guys are doing this?
	Oh, he's got Sir J.D. up above.
	Yeah, it's the same.
	Oh, okay.
	It's Sir J.D. eyes.
	Yeah, Sir J.D. twice.
	Okay.
	Did we miss one somehow?
	No, it's up there.
	It says Sir J.D. Okay.
	Let me see what this one says.
	This is another note from him.
	People send a lot of email.
	Although I have to say that in general, I prefer if people use email properly...
	Which is with hashtags in the subject line.
	Because if you say, make the subject make sense, people don't understand that.
	If you say, put a hashtag, oh, okay.
	Here's what gets you not opened.
	Check this out!
	And then you just have a link.
	Video you must see!
	By the way, if there's no wordage with the link, it's usually spam.
	No, no, no.
	I almost have no spam, I have to say.
	Now I'm running my own mail server, yeah.
	All right, let's onward.
	All right, well, he needs a jobs, jobs, jobs, karma.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	Mythos, karma.
	Nice.
	Somebody's going to get jobs today.
	Oh, yeah.
	Ed Lee Boutoulier in Hesperia, California, $200.
	I finally got my tax return, another guy with his tax return, so here's some value for value.
	I was thinking about giving it to the Hillary for Emperor in 2016 campaign, but I just couldn't do it.
	Mwahaha, he said.
	Not really.
	You guys are so much more deserving.
	Thank you.
	And finally, the Baroness Von Stealth Mode, our friend from...
	Dame Francine, yeah.
	...says $200.
	Did she get her tax return finally?
	No.
	This is for a celebration of show 600.
	I've been listening to the show for so long that it no longer sounds wacky to me.
	It's all too real.
	Keep going.
	I love you both.
	I love you too.
	Of course, she also wears Google Glass.
	Yes, well, as you know, she's not perfect.
	So everybody, we want to thank everyone who's come in here for an executive producership or a producership, an associate executive producership for show 599.
	We do have 600 coming up on Sunday, and we look forward to a good day and a lot of fun.
	Go to Dvorak.org slash NA. We have some special features.
	That's going to be our big 600.
	What are you wearing for the big 600?
	Underwear.
	Oh.
	Lovely.
	Well, there you go, everybody.
	And while you're out, I want you to hop over to noagenonation.com.
	Check out the bags in the store and other things that are on sale there.
	And as John said, Sunday there will be another program, The Big 600.
	Dvorak.org.
	Of course, you still need to do some very important work, which is going out and propagating the formula.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Hey, citizen.
	Shut up, slave.
	Shut up, slave.
	So with all of this Flight 370 business going on, which...
	By the way, the news readers, the news models, really have no shame.
	And they're beside themselves with nothing to tell us.
	Yeah.
	And they just go on and on.
	Seriously, I wasn't able to get a clip of it yet, but Bill Nye the science guy with Pierce Moron sitting there with a big orange box that says, Flight Data Recorder.
	Really?
	That's not television anymore.
	I think I saw it this morning, so it was probably a rerun or something.
	Flight Data Recorder.
	That was quite disturbing, I have to say.
	So there is a lot of other stuff going on in the world.
	Would you like to reach into my flight data recorder, Pierce?
	Staying here locally in Austin, and I spent a lot of time again here to check out everything at South by Southwest.
	Yeah, we didn't really get to talk much about that, but okay.
	It's just a douchebag fest.
	Did you see the stuff people are posting?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Geez.
	Yeah.
	Some of those things I have to retweet.
	I retweet some of that.
	Like one guy tweeted, everybody looks like they're either going to barf or take their pants off.
	I thought that was a good one.
	That's retweetable.
	Yeah.
	Of course we had the rock star status!
	You know what I'm talking about, don't you?
	No.
	Snowden.
	I'm not kidding.
	That was what everybody was talking about.
	Snowden was like a rock star!
	Rock star status!
	You know, we both looked at that and looked over the...
	How boring can any one person be?
	Pretty boring.
	But also, I felt really jumping the shark.
	Big time.
	Okay, so Chris Segoian, I think is his name.
	He's from ACLU. So they basically had two handlers on stage.
	And these guys were jabronis.
	They were like, oh, no applause for me.
	Maybe you'll have some applause for our guest today.
	And then, you know, the whole green screen.
	Yeah, no, I heard that, too.
	Oh, please.
	Get somebody on there that at least knows how to introduce someone.
	And then the whole green screen with the Constitution in the background.
	Ugh, really?
	And starting off by saying, well, we're going through seven proxies.
	Hey, we all know he's in Russia.
	It's not like this is something I was going to ask about.
	Yeah, I was going to bring that up on the show.
	I'm glad you reminded me.
	What's this big secret?
	We have to have all these proxies.
	What was the point of seven proxies?
	You think that the CIA has no knowledge of where he is?
	All you have to do is follow the hot chick in the little black dress.
	They got his room bugged.
	Yeah.
	No, we used to do that.
	We used to make stuff up and say, oh, well, because of the satellite interference is why basically some sound engineer screwed something up.
	No, it was just a crappy connection.
	They were using a Google Hangout.
	A Google Hangout!
	The irony is not lost on any of us.
	And here's Chris Shegoigen.
	The ACLU lawyer, and he was on C-SPAN during the Washington Question Hour.
	How did you actually set up a Google Hangout with Edward Snowden yesterday?
	Well, we went to Google.com, Google Plus.
	It wasn't easy.
	Oh, John, it just wasn't easy.
	It was very, very complicated to set up this Google Hangout.
	As I said in my remarks at the event yesterday, the irony that we were using a Google product to communicate with Ed Snowden about spying was not lost on me.
	But the fact is that there aren't a lot of easy-to-use, secure communications tools.
	We really had to make a difficult choice between a tool that would Okay, I'm going to call big bullcrap on this.
	Like, big, big, big bullcrap?
	And first of all, we all know that Snowden is CIA. He never worked for the NSA. He was a contractor for Booz Allen.
	Right, and he still carries his CIA credentials.
	Yeah, with Booz Allen, which is owned by the Carlyle Group.
	Which is, you know, these guys are all, it's all the same.
	So he's CIA, and all the CIA guys use Google.
	We know that they use Gmail.
	Come on, that's what the, what's his name, who was our CIA guy, who was?
	Petraeus.
	Petraeus.
	They all use Gmail.
	So it's a company product.
	It's okay.
	But don't give me all this, oh...
	Seriously, there is no other product out there that's open source that can give you real quality video?
	Bull crap!
	We get emails at least two a week Try this out.
	Oh, here's the stuff that works on Linux.
	There's so many alternatives.
	There's a lot of alternatives.
	So this is just not true.
	It's a plug for Google.
	It's like native advertising.
	Thank you.
	And, well, let's play this second bit here.
	Consumers really need to re-evaluate the relationship with the companies to whom they're entrusting their most private information because Google really does know an awful lot about you.
	They know when you're sick before you go to the doctor.
	They know when you're unhappy in your relationship.
	You've got to listen to this.
	This is really good.
	This is what they're claiming Google knows about you.
	Google really does know an awful lot about you.
	They know when you're sick before you go to the doctor.
	Okay.
	They know when you're sick because, you know, Google apparently already knew I was sick before I even started the show this morning.
	They know when you're unhappy in your relationship.
	Why?
	Because I'm looking at porn?
	Before you tell your spouse.
	They know if you're having suicidal thoughts because you're typing those things into the search engine.
	So we really need to make sure that the companies that have this private data really have our best interests in mind.
	I've said this so many times.
	These guys are protecting Silicon Valley to a degree that is just vile.
	And Snowden's basic message was encryption, which is totally ludicrous.
	If you look at the real problem, and that's why this guy is kind of funny what he was talking about, the real problem is we entrust all of our stuff to these cloud-based companies who are not really in the business of search or email.
	They're in the business of selling you.
	That's their business.
	And by law, if the government comes along, just one of the many guys, but it could be a lawyer, people find it strange that I don't carry a cell phone anymore.
	I stopped carrying a cell phone, what is it now, John, six months?
	It's been a while.
	Five, six months.
	Like, really?
	You don't understand.
	I've been in court, and when you're in court, and all of a sudden, for business stuff, and the opposing lawyer pops up and says, well, here's where you were on this day, according to your cell phone records.
	That's what's scary.
	It's that anyone can subpoena this stuff and get it from any of these companies.
	So if you own it yourself, then a whole new set of rules applies.
	That's why we need to get off of all of these centralized systems.
	There's no reason for it.
	And no one is saying that, including Snowden.
	And I find this disturbing.
	Yes, encryption's important.
	Of course.
	Well, if Snowden is CIA still, which we believe to be true, he is not going to message outside the parameters of what he's allowed to say and what he should be promoting.
	And that's what he promotes.
	Exactly.
	More encryption.
	Yeah.
	And we know it's bullcrap.
	Encryption doesn't do anything.
	Well, it's certainly not at the end, at the end point.
	No.
	Now that yet another PowerPoint slide, one PowerPoint slide.
	You know, you've got to love his intercept, first look, media, Pierre, drive my car thing.
	You know, it's funny you mention that because I haven't looked at that for almost a week and a half.
	Well, I subscribed.
	They finally fixed the RSS feed.
	Oh, it actually works.
	Yeah.
	So I do get the article or the articles.
	The article.
	I get the article a week.
	And so they have one PowerPoint slide.
	And you know what, John?
	I got an idea.
	Well, let me tell you what it is first and then bookmark that I have an idea.
	They have this one PowerPoint slide, and the PowerPoint slide kind of says, or it's pictures, it's like a cartoon, and it says that the NSA has spoofed, made it look like you were connecting to a Facebook server, When you really weren't, and that way they put all kinds of malware on your PC. Now, first of all, we know that the intelligence community is inside Facebook.
	Mueller.
	Mueller.
	Robert Mueller.
	Go read the Time Magazine article.
	He's just popping his head around the corner.
	He probably has an office there.
	Hey, how you doing, Mark?
	I was just in the building anyway, just wanted to say hi.
	I was checking up on the fake server we're using.
	So, duh.
	Again, another reason not to use this stuff.
	So, your encryption's not going to help if they're sitting there taking screen grabs or whatever they're doing.
	The minute you decrypt, whoop, there it is.
	You can read everything.
	So, it's flawed.
	The whole idea is flawed.
	Better is, run your own mail server.
	Well, actually, it's not completely flawed if you can actually type.
	In encryption.
	So you have some sort of huge device that's encrypting every letter.
	And you push the button.
	You're going to type N. You push the button, you get a Q. Okay, Q. A-N-N. And you push the button and it gives you like an ampersand.
	You put that in.
	You could do that.
	Yeah, I could.
	So here's my idea.
	Seeing as that is a business model.
	You're good at PowerPoint.
	Let's just create some slides and say we got them from some whistleblower.
	But we'll make up something really outrageous.
	That's all I ever see.
	That's all I ever see.
	I only see PowerPoint slides.
	Yeah, and it would be slide 12.
	We'll have to make it something like slide 33.
	Oh yeah, and of course.
	And then the way you make it look official is you put at the bottom, you put in parentheses slash sig int no for and just put some of that stuff in there so it looks official.
	We can do this.
	You can do this.
	I think just use some of the templates.
	That's all they're doing.
	Yeah, no, they're not dreaming anything.
	And I just want to say, this is no proof of anything.
	Even though I'm sure it's true, it's no proof.
	It could just be a pitch.
	Who the hell knows what they're doing.
	Anyway, so the narrative, of course, is in on Snowden.
	It continues.
	MSNBC has gotten some kind of memo to hate Snowden.
	I mean, really, really hate him.
	Oh, really?
	Oh, yeah.
	Of course.
	I haven't picked this up.
	Ah, well, you are not watching Frank Sinatra's kid.
	Oh, you're right.
	I'm not watching Frank Sinatra.
	I'm sorry, the award-winning journalist.
	Yeah, this guy was on the air for three days.
	He wins a Cronkite Award, apparently a second.
	Now he's up for an honorary degree from two or three journalism schools.
	What is this?
	The guy's been on the air for a month, and he's like the famous guy.
	What are they grooming this guy for?
	MKUltra?
	Well, he actually has an MKUltra look.
	He has a look about him.
	Well, here he is on his show.
	I think what's-her-name was one of those people.
	Oh, Mia Farrow?
	Definitely.
	Totally.
	She's nuts.
	This is Ronan Farrow Daily, and he has on his show a little poll.
	The first up next, that brings us to our final update on today's Battle of the Day.
	Remember, we asked, is Edward Snowden a traitor or a hero?
	This is...
	Could this guy sound any more gay?
	This is Cronkite award-winning material in my book.
	Remember, we asked, is Edward Snowden a traitor or a hero?
	Black and white terms for a pretty gray question.
	The winner, to my surprise, RFD traitor with 61%.
	It's interesting that if you look at the numbers of this around the country, it skews very age-specific with people under the age of 31.
	In a majority vote saying that his actions were good for national security and people over 30 less certain of it.
	Thank you everyone who weighed in.
	A lot of passionate opinions on that.
	And this is a story on surveillance in this country that we will keep coming back to again and again.
	That wraps things up for this edition of Ronan Faraday.
	What kind of survey was this?
	Well, no, the people tweeted.
	It's not a survey.
	It's a bunch of tweets, tweeters.
	And they use that as their numbers?
	Yeah, at the beginning...
	There are a number of people who tweeted no.
	At the beginning of the show, he says, Snowden, traitor or hero?
	And then you tweet, and somehow...
	And I can't believe management has to slap him around over this.
	You can't say, wow, that's crazy.
	Young people think he's a hero, but since 66% thought he was a traitor, that means only old people watch the show.
	You don't give your age on Twitter.
	Well, that's what he said.
	Where'd the age come from?
	Are you supposed to put your age down?
	John, all of a sudden, you're not really going to take any of this seriously, are you?
	Well, I'm just asking a simple question.
	I don't have the answer.
	Okay.
	All right, so that's bull crap from the get-go.
	But the message is clear.
	Snowden, traitor.
	Now, I picked up another piece from MSNBC, and this was with some douche knuckle on some show, and wow!
	He said, quote, the NSA is setting fire to the future of the Internet, and then he called the people in the audience listening to his speech the firefighters.
	Yeah, that bugged me as well, that Snowden said all that.
	Damn, you're the firefighters.
	No, we're not.
	We just want to use our Foursquare.
	He said encryption in the future is key.
	Very well worth it to continue this debate of security versus safety.
	Back to you.
	And Sean Willans is an author, a historian, and contributor to The New Republic.
	Is The New Republic, is that a right-leaning or left-leaning publication?
	It's kind of funny because it's not really either one.
	It's an old throwback to not a Barry Goldwater type conservative, but something just kind of alien.
	It's a very strange world viewpoint they have.
	So he's been told to hate Snowden.
	And has written extensively on Edward Snowden.
	Thank you so much for being here, Sean.
	Great to be here.
	First of all, I want to get your overall reaction to the Snowden presentation today.
	Well, I had three reactions.
	Disbelief, double disbelief, and confirmation.
	What?
	Disbelief, double disbelief, and confirmation.
	Is that guy doing stand-up at the local pub?
	Is that supposed to be funny?
	Yeah, I guess.
	Double disbelief and confirmation.
	The disbelief was more or less what you began with.
	I mean, here was Edward Snowden in Moscow talking about how the American government could be imitated by evil governments elsewhere at the very moment that his protector, Vladimir Putin, is launching a cyberattack on Ukraine.
	I was unaware that there was some kind of cyber attack launched on Ukraine.
	Did you read about this?
	No.
	Putin!
	This guy is a liar.
	With a malware and so forth.
	With a malware and so forth.
	And so forth.
	With a malware.
	Not malware, but with a malware.
	With a malware and so forth.
	People wonder why we watch this stuff because laughter actually repairs all the tears in the matrix.
	That's why we have a comedy show.
	Putin is launching a cyber attack on Ukraine with a malware and so forth.
	With a malware and so forth.
	I just like to throw that out from time to time.
	Hey, watch out.
	I could have a malware and so forth.
	It just boggled my mind.
	It boggled my mind.
	It boggled his mind.
	Your mind must be boggleable.
	Nothing was going to be said, of course.
	Of course.
	But it ought to be asked.
	Were you surprised that no one in the audience...
	I mean, maybe the questions were preached for you.
	We just don't know.
	But were you surprised that no one brought up...
	This is a fast-talking chick.
	I don't know.
	Just listen to what she has to say.
	Sort of those questions and that irony about Russia.
	Yeah, I gather they were pre-screened.
	So, look, he is under the protection of the intelligence.
	Well, he thinks the whole thing was set up.
	He is under the protection of the intelligence service, the secret service of Russia.
	He has, you know, Vladimir Putin's lawyer is his lawyer.
	Now, what is this?
	What?
	He says Vladimir Putin's lawyer is his lawyer, so apparently the...
	It's another piece of unknown information.
	The ACLU is apparently working for the Russians now.
	Huh.
	Isn't that weird?
	Why would he say that?
	Why would he say Vladimir Putin?
	I'm watching a lot of these shows on, you know, less CNN, but these other MSNBC and Fox.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And a lot of these other, these kind of quasi-news operations.
	And they bring people on and they talk to their ass.
	And they just say stuff.
	RT has the same thing, same problem.
	So does democracy now.
	Yeah.
	They just say stuff as if it's true.
	And then, you know, it's like when the Thom guy, this is what triggered me, got me off the deep end at the beginning of the show, when the guy says, well, as climate change worsens, the guy offhandedly...
	Just throws it out there.
	Just says it.
	As climate change worsens.
	I'm thinking, since when did it start worsening?
	There was just a big article in The Economist showing that it's gone on pause.
	Yeah.
	How's that worsening?
	Anyway, it's just bothersome.
	Well, there's two sides to that.
	One is there is a large majority of all news media, all print, radio, television, internet, that is following a mandate.
	And people are like, that's conspiracy theory.
	Okay, fine.
	And the other side is people, they don't care.
	They're just throwing crap out there.
	There's no one's producing journalism.
	...service of Russia.
	He has, you know, Vladimir Putin's lawyer is his lawyer.
	He's not about to talk about that.
	If he were to talk about it, well, it would be interesting to see if the Russians let him talk about it, but it's all mirrors within mirrors, which is what a lot of the story is all about.
	It reminds me...
	Let me tell you what this reminds me of.
	Back in the early 90s, I'd go to Z100, the morning zoo, with Scott Shannon.
	And, you know, he would have people on who would do, like, entertainment stuff.
	We'd call him up.
	And in the entertainment world, people just make stuff up, like this.
	And it's unchallenged, like, oh, ho, ho, we all laugh about it.
	Ho, ho, ho, ring the bell, bang the drum.
	It's just...
	He's also mixing metaphors in some odd way, like mirrors within mirrors?
	What the hell is that supposed to mean?
	You know what?
	All he cares about is that he's on TV. He's having the time of his life.
	Maybe he'll get laid.
	That's pretty much it.
	Because you know he's not getting paid, that's for sure.
	And then, of course, we had the real fun stuff, which is also completely being mischaracterized for what it really is.
	Did you have a short clip of Fine Knuckle?
	I have something.
	I have three minutes.
	Oh, you got 128.
	I have a...
	This is within the...
	I'm sorry.
	It's within a context.
	Then let me play a small bit.
	Dianne Feinstein, Senator Feinstein.
	Well, actually, I think this is a good setup clip, so I think you should play mine first.
	Should I set it up, the clip, or does this clip set it up itself?
	I think the clip sets it up.
	The CIA and the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee blew up publicly today.
	California Democrat Dianne Feinstein accused the agency of improperly searching a computer network set up for senators to review classified material.
	It was part of a probe into interrogations of terror suspects.
	The CIA search.
	May well have violated the separation of powers principles embodied in the United States Constitution, including the Speech and Debate Clause.
	It may have undermined the constitutional framework essential to effective congressional oversight of intelligence activities or any other government function.
	The head of the CIA, John Brennan, later disputed any claim that the agency tried to obstruct the Senate investigation.
	He spoke at an event in Washington.
	We are not trying at all to prevent its release.
	As far as the allegations of CIA hacking into Senate computers, nothing could be further from the truth.
	We wouldn't do that.
	When the facts come out on this, I think a lot of people who are claiming that there has been this tremendous sort of spying and monitoring and hacking will be proved wrong.
	The issue has now been referred to the Justice Department to determine if there were any criminal wrongdoing.
	Yeah.
	So this is being played as saying that, oh, this is really about the Bush torture program.
	But of course it's not.
	What this is about is the NSA versus the CIA. And at least to me it was clearly very obvious.
	Whereas Feinstein, who has been all in on NSA spying on citizens...
	All of a sudden, she has an opportunity to lash out at the CIA, and the CIA are the ones that are trying to bring the whole NSA down a peg because those guys got all the money.
	I think that element's in play.
	I think that's big time in play.
	Now, I watched the whole Brennan event, which was mentioned here in this clip.
	Yeah, it was at the Council of Foreign Relations, I think, or one of those things.
	And Andrea Mitchell, who is a news model, she was interviewing him and narrating the event.
	Did she stop the event and break for a Justin Bieber breaking news?
	She should have.
	And so if there was any inappropriate actions that were taken related to that review, either by CIA or by the SSCI staff, I'll be the first one to say we need to get to the bottom of it.
	And if I did something wrong, I will go to the president and I will explain to him exactly what I did and what the findings were.
	And he is the one who can ask me to stay or to go.
	Okay, well, that's the words we need to hear.
	The president, and of course, if I were the president, I wouldn't fire the guy who can drone me.
	Hey, why don't you hang around?
	You're just fine, Mr.
	Brennan.
	I think there is a part of this that is out to get Brennan.
	I don't know what part, but I get the sense there is.
	And also, this is a convoluted story at the base.
	If you listen to the NewsHour report, he says, you know, we don't care about anyone preventing the release.
	He never mentions what it is.
	It's this huge 6,000-page report on torture.
	And then it turns out that...
	The CIA filed a complaint with the Justice Department against the committee, which doesn't get talked about hardly at all.
	No, no.
	Because what happened was, the way I understand, and you tell me what you understand, is that the CIA actually set up a special computer system owned by the CIA for the committee's use.
	And so they were monitoring it and apparently the committee was using this free computer and then stuff would start to disappear from it because the CIA was knowing everything that was going on and that's because it's their computer.
	Now what happened apparently is one of the staffers or a whistleblower from possibly the NSA got into the system and printed out some memos that weren't supposed to be seen.
	Or taken away from the secure area.
	And they were taken out of the secure area and handed over to Feinstein and the committee, and they blew up.
	Saying, wait a minute, we didn't know this.
	We're supposed to know everything.
	And meanwhile, they put this indictment out, and so then Feinstein countered with her indictment of interfering with the oversight committee, and this is now just a joke.
	And it's not clear where it's headed.
	You want to hear a joke.
	Brennan starts off this thing, this Council on Foreign Relations.
	Now, I remember us talking about this on the show.
	I was surprised he actually stood up there, admitted it, and made like it was hilarious.
	Now, just over a year ago, I had the privilege of placing my hand on the very first printed copy of the Constitution.
	A draft edited and annotated personally by George Washington himself that is one of the most treasured items held in the National Archives.
	With my hand on that document, Vice President Biden swore me in as the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
	I chose to take my oath on that precious piece of history as a clear affirmation of what the Constitution means to all of us at the agency.
	We have no higher duty than to uphold and defend the rule of law as we strive every day to protect our fellow citizens.
	Like so many things involving CIA, though, people read nefarious intentions into my decision to take my oath on an early draft of the Constitution that did not contain the Bill of Rights, our Constitution's first ten amendments.
	So at the risk of disappointing any conspiracy theorists who might be here today, let me assure all of you that I, along with my CIA colleagues, firmly believe in and honor not only the Constitution, but also the Bill of Rights as well as all subsequent amendments to our Constitution.
	Well, that's that then.
	We're done.
	Yeah.
	Oh, okay.
	He basically took the oath, but not on the first ten amendments, which include, I don't know, speech, freedom of press, right to bear arms, warrantless search.
	But he has the gall to stand there and say, hey, you conspiracy theorists who might be here.
	Trust me.
	I don't remember what I was talking about, but we probably did.
	I would have thought the following.
	The guy's religious and he couldn't put his hand on the Bible and swear the oath because he knows he's full of crap.
	He'd be hit by lightning.
	Immediately.
	Oh, yes.
	Now, I saw you had something on Abby Martin.
	Yeah, Abby Martin...
	Because I have a follow-up.
	I have a Liz Wall follow-up.
	Well, this is her going off on nuclear power.
	Oh, good or bad.
	In a very awkward way that I thought was...
	And it's just really kind of an evergreen piece.
	If it's about Liz Wall, it's nothing to do with it.
	Oh, okay.
	Well, should we hold on to this, or do you want to...
	No, I'm going to hold on to it.
	Okay, so we're not going to play it.
	Good.
	Then let me play this Liz Wall thing.
	Um...
	I dug back a little bit to some of her previous work as a news model.
	A news model of the future.
	Multiculti girl.
	She has the look.
	She does.
	Let us reminisce for one moment a callback to her answer to Neil Cavuto's questions.
	Would you go to MSNBC? Maybe.
	Would you go to CNN? Yes.
	Would you go to Fox?
	Yes.
	Oh my gosh.
	Well, we'll see what Offer said.
	It's all a promotional stunt anyways, isn't it?
	So she clearly said here she would go to CNN. And the reason why...
	Why did she leave RT again, John?
	Please refresh my memory.
	Because she can't put up with the...
	Barbaric Putin and the lies that the Russian government makes her say.
	I don't know.
	It's just some dumb reason.
	I'll tell you why.
	They weren't paying her crap, I'm sure.
	Here she is from 2012 interviewing Amber Lynn from CNN. Now, the documentary that we just saw a clip of never aired.
	It never aired on CNN International.
	Why not?
	Well, I still haven't been given an exact reason as to why it didn't air.
	I went and visited with the president of CNN International, Tony Maddox, twice on behalf of my dumbfounded crew, and we were never given an answer.
	And so I started investigating the situation, Liz, after several employees who'd been at the network for years approached me and said, you need to look into this.
	There's something going on.
	It's very strange they're not airing your documentary.
	I should mention this is the documentary about Bahrain that was not aired.
	And after some investigation, we found out that CNN International is actually making money from the Bahrain regime.
	They are a customer of Bahrain.
	Bahrain is paying CNN International to create content that shows Bahrain in a favorable light.
	And then also not only to create that content, Liz, to then air that content on CNN International.
	The military troops shot and killed unarmed protesters.
	I'm surprised.
	Do you think Liz forgot?
	Okay, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop.
	Is that the end of the clip?
	It goes on.
	That's Clip of the Day.
	Thank you so much.
	Let me just check one more time.
	Would you go to MSNBC? Uh, maybe.
	Would you go to CNN? Yes.
	Oh, okay.
	Yeah!
	Because, you know, CNN is...
	Beautiful.
	CNN is...
	Beautiful catch.
	CNN is obviously...
	It's like over the head, running toward the wall, slamming off the wall.
	Put the ball in your hand.
	And that is how we call out the Bossy Morons.
	I'm going to show my salute by donating to No Agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, on No Agenda.
	Yeah, my mistake.
	I see it here.
	Shall I just play it?
	No.
	I'm sorry.
	I have to set this up.
	I'm sorry.
	We're going to start this over again, and you're going to play that after this is done.
	I'm sorry.
	I slipped.
	I do a lot of work.
	I slipped.
	I'm sorry.
	I didn't do it on purpose.
	I'm just going to explain to the audience.
	I went to a lot of work.
	I was watching some of the professionals who know how to ask for money on PBS. Yes.
	And I realize that they're essentially asking for the people out there to donate to our show.
	And with some very, very, very slick editing, I put together this little pre-donation clip that will just show you...
	I mean, this is...
	I think they're talking about us.
	Now, hold on a second.
	This is PBS Public Broadcast System.
	This is the television guys who, even though they have commercials every 15 minutes...
	Real commercials.
	They still have to pitch for money from viewers like you.
	And you have produced some journalism here.
	So it's now a slick production for the No Agenda show.
	Every contribution will go straight to work for us.
	So even though you might be hard-pressed to put a dollar value on everything you get from the No Agenda show, please take a minute to give it a try.
	Just ask yourself how much it's worth to hear thoughtful discussion and analysis of news stories without the angry confrontations you find elsewhere.
	Think about the value of journalists who explore those issues in depth with solid reporting and valuable insights.
	A program like The No Agenda Show makes you a more informed citizen and helps you make important decisions in your life.
	That's why we think you'll agree that it's NoAgendaShow.com is worth your support.
	I'm crying.
	I'm going to show myself old by donating to No Agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Well, yeah, that'd be fun.
	Very good.
	By the way...
	I think somehow, I'm not sure how it works, but you get a clip of the day as well.
	Clip of the day.
	It's not a clip.
	It's produced.
	Slick, I might add.
	Slick.
	I'm starting to get a job using that on my reel.
	We want to thank a few people who helped us up on show 599.
	Able to Colorado, $146.01 from Broomfield, Colorado.
	You guys are always keeping me ahead of the news.
	So for my value for value, I'm throwing ahead of the curve with 14601.
	And it is 14601.
	Nice.
	Which is a gimmicky little way of doing it.
	We got that from somebody who came in for 14600, 146.00.
	Maxwell Thin, $111.11 from Seattle.
	I don't have a note from him.
	I'm sure he wants to bring some people up on the stage.
	Kevin Benson, $100.01.
	We're not doing the stage today, anyway.
	Kevin Benson, $101.01 from Yowie Bay, New South Wales.
	And that apparently is 33 in binary.
	Ooh.
	Ooh.
	Nice, huh?
	Nice.
	Huh.
	Okay.
	1-0-0-0-1.
	Yeah, we'll have to deal with that.
	Sir Stephen McGrath in Darien, Illinois, $100 even.
	Jay Kumar in Beverly, Massachusetts, $100.
	Kurt Kubal in Mound, Minnesota Nuts.
	With 999.
	And then also, Jared Wolfe in Netherland, which is where you can have those meetings with your buddies in the paddock.
	That's right.
	Texas.
	Netherland, Texas.
	Oh, I said, please give me and my wife some newlywed karma.
	Jared and Whitney Wolfe were honeymooning in Fredericksburg, Texas, and will be listening to the show on the long drive home.
	Oh, that's nice.
	Let me give him a little bit of honeymoon karma there.
	You've got karma.
	Sometimes we can do that.
	Okay.
	Sir Grebulon chimes in from Tel Aviv at 6970, and he does have something to say, which I have to mention.
	He says, I'm reading State of Fear, and I have to say it's a bad book.
	Not only it's boring, but it also feels propagandistic.
	Be sure that I don't buy into the global warming crap, but this book doesn't help.
	I don't recommend reading it.
	If you're a believer, it won't turn you, and you're not no point in boring yourself.
	Yeah, but the book is not meant to change anyone's mind.
	It's a novel.
	Yeah, it's fiction.
	Yeah.
	Well, he was looking for something else, and he's highly disappointed.
	Sir Andrew Gardner in Charlotte Hall.
	He's from Israel.
	He's an angry Jew, John.
	That's what happens.
	Angry Jew.
	Greffy Lund's always been angry.
	Yeah, he has.
	So let's go to our little theme song here.
	Oh, hey, hey, hey.
	69!
	69!
	Whoa.
	Also, only two today.
	Back down to two, which is our thematic number.
	Sir Andrew Gardner is in Charlotte Hall, Maryland.
	And he is matched up with James Deering in Conroe, Texas.
	And we do have a happy birthday coming up.
	And it says something here about Elliot Gardner.
	Do we have Elliot Gardner as a knight?
	Yes.
	Well, this is what's interesting.
	I sent you, I forwarded, you were copied on the email, I forwarded the email, I sent it again, and you just refused to answer.
	I did?
	Yes.
	So we'll just do the birthday part and we'll talk about the other part.
	Okay.
	Sir Andrew...
	I don't remember getting this mail.
	No, well, because...
	Sir, okay, I'm not going to worry about it.
	But anyway, he wants to wish...
	He wants to wish Elliot Gardner a happy birthday tomorrow, the 14th, which we will do.
	But he was...
	We need to discuss it anyway.
	Sir Andrew Lemonson-y.
	Hold on a second.
	He wanted to transfer credits for...
	You can't transfer your credits to someone else's knighthood.
	You can't do that, can you?
	We do it all the time.
	No, but I've already donated.
	Is he a double?
	Okay, we'll talk about it.
	We're going to have a meeting.
	Well, that's why I sent you the email twice.
	Well, I didn't see it.
	I don't know what, maybe this title, subject line, it was something I didn't want to look at.
	Listen, and I'll shut up.
	When you send me an email, I read it!
	Yeah?
	I send you an email.
	The subject's not good enough?
	No, I don't know why I didn't open it.
	You know, it probably came in at some weird hour.
	You have those strange Texas hours.
	I don't know.
	I'm sorry.
	I normally read your email.
	I'm sorry.
	I didn't realize that your emails, the way you consume emails based on time.
	It's a fact.
	So if I send it in the middle of the night, the chances are it won't get read?
	Probably, because I'll wake up in the morning with 400 emails backed up, and I just kind of glance at them, and I'm on my way to do the email that comes in in the morning.
	Wow.
	Like a lot of email.
	From who?
	You want me to go over the list?
	You want me to go over the list for the last hour, the 400, 500 names that are on here?
	It's no one from the No Agenda show because they always email me when they say, tell John he's wrong.
	Tell John there were 16,000 people dead in the tsunami.
	Did you get those emails?
	No.
	Well, you said that was wrong.
	It was 1,600.
	I must have received 100 emails.
	John's wrong!
	It's 16,000!
	The report was right!
	You didn't get a single one of those emails.
	No.
	So what are these 400 emails you're getting?
	Please join us at South by Southwest for our whiskey tasting.
	Wow.
	Okay, here's the ones I got from you that I haven't opened.
	There's three of them.
	They just came in.
	Just now?
	No, there's got to be more.
	No, well, I can read all the ones.
	Okay, break.
	Okay, here's one.
	Adam, here's one from March 12th.
	It says, RE Newsletter, please read ASAP. I did not open this, but now I'm going to open it.
	It says, some of them could bring a pretty penny.
	Okay.
	All right.
	I didn't need to open that.
	I don't know what it means.
	It was a response to your email, the joke about the newsletter.
	Oh, okay.
	Okay.
	Because you had...
	Okay, here's the other one that you sent that I didn't open.
	World's Owners, somebody else.
	Compensation Math...
	I don't have the email about...
	That's the one right there.
	What is...
	Compensation Mathematics slash Common Core?
	No.
	ITM NA599 Donation 34600?
	No.
	Intro.
	So you're telling me that you don't have an email.
	Well, this is a problem.
	I find this to be a serious problem if you're not getting my emails.
	I don't have any email that I haven't opened.
	And what was the title of it?
	I'm going to tell you right now.
	Um...
	I don't know.
	Do you have a sense box?
	Yes, I do.
	It was birthday request.
	No, that's not it.
	I'm sorry.
	No, that's not it.
	That's not it.
	That's not it.
	Hold on.
	That's not it.
	Here it is.
	A. Gardner.
	Hashtag donation note.
	Hashtag nighting.
	Hashtag birthday.
	Okay.
	Well, let me just look up in the search engine hashtag birthday and see if I got anything in here because it's not showing up on this list.
	Hashtag birthday.
	Okay.
	I forwarded it twice.
	No.
	No message is found with hashtag birthday.
	Don't put hashtags in the subject line.
	It probably gets pulled away as spam.
	Wow.
	No wonder you're not getting any email.
	Everybody's putting hashtags in.
	I recommend it.
	I recommend it.
	I'm looking in the spam.
	High spam box is not in here.
	What kind of setup are you running there?
	It went right to spam because it looks like a piece of spam.
	It's not spam.
	You're sending me spam.
	No wonder I'm not opening your mail.
	All right.
	Onward then.
	We'll figure it out.
	We'll figure it out, Sir Andrew.
	Don't worry about it.
	I'll look into the hashtag thing, but I believe that's what it is, which is great.
	Yeah, for you.
	Anthony Coangelo, back to work.
	$60.05.
	Congratulations on show 600.
	We got a lot of 60s.
	We had 60.09, 60.05.
	Robert Macbeth, 60.05.
	This means they want us to go dark.
	He's in Vancouver.
	Alan Covado III in Midlothian, Virginia, $60.05.
	It means he wants us to go dark on 420, which is Easter, which is the day you're taking off, and coincidentally is 420 day.
	Hello.
	You're going back on to stuff.
	That's right.
	I'm going back on to 420.
	Okay.
	Brian Doherty in Brooklyn, New York.
	And by the way, these people all say, I think you guys need to take a break.
	Well, that doesn't mean we can't do a clip show.
	Dame Monica Lansing in Drayton Valley, Alberta.
	She gave $60.04.
	So that's the fourth thing.
	I don't remember what it was.
	Paul Robertson, Upper Tract, West Virginia, $60.04.
	Michael Kowalczyk.
	Michael Kowalczyk in Bell Mead, New Jersey, $60.02.
	Israel Cazares in Houston, $60.02.
	Matthew Januszewski in Chicago, $60.02.
	The rest of these are $60 congratulatory donations.
	See if there's anything, read along there and see if there's anything we should mention.
	James Callahan in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
	Brandy Prunier in Phoenix, Arizona.
	There's a birthday there.
	Mark Montgomery in Mississauga, Ontario.
	Dave Carey in Clermont, Florida.
	Scott Fuller in Cumming, Georgia.
	Luke DiCarlo in Bay City, Michigan.
	And scroll down.
	Sir Timothy Chang, Knight and Mothership Pass holder here.
	Just want some karma for my girlfriend, Nuria.
	For being with me through thick and thin.
	But we do break for nights, so might as well do that one for a second.
	You've got karma.
	We try.
	He's in Somerville, Massachusetts.
	Massachusetts nuts, I'm sorry.
	Sebastian White in Castle Rock, Colorado, $60.
	And he already got some job karma and liked it.
	Sir Sander Hosberg in Zandam.
	So this is his third.
	He says he's now, I think he's a baron now.
	He's a baron.
	Yeah.
	Hey!
	Hey!
	Hey, Barron.
	Eric Makarowicz.
	Makarowicz.
	Makarowicz.
	Right.
	In Socorro, New Mexico.
	Second Mile Productions in Liberty, Maine.
	That's our friends who used to be in Ohio, where we stayed on the Hot Pockets tour, and they're now in Maine.
	You guys are the best, he says.
	Mikhail Garber in Issaquah, Washington, 60th.
	Eric Wells, 60, from Jefferson, Georgia.
	Next to him is Sean Reed in Bethlehem, Georgia, 60.
	Sir Brian Ferguson, Foothill Ranch, California.
	He's a baronet, actually.
	Daniel Hoffman, Urbana, Illinois, 60.
	We've got a lot of 60s here.
	Well, that's because of the celebration.
	Holly Springs, North Carolina.
	Tim Connor in Edmonton, Alberta.
	And finally, Patrick Began in Arlington, Massachusetts.
	And Kyle Media Group, K-I-L-E Media Group in Mount Airy.
	Maryland.
	Onward.
	Richard Gordon, 59, 94, in Greeley, Colorado.
	And he, Greeley, Greeley, what is this about Greeley?
	There's something about, there's a story about that place.
	Steven Schwartz in Schwerch, Schwerch, Schertz, Schertz, Texas.
	Is it Schertz?
	You're in Texas.
	I don't know.
	59, 92.
	I don't know.
	Anders Edqvist in Holgersten, Sweden, 56, 78.
	Sir Kevin Payne, Richmond, Virginia, 50-69.
	Shannon Adkins in Warren, Michigan, 50-50.
	50-50.
	You don't get enough of those.
	Barcelona Jazz, $50.01 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, UK. Walter Grant, a fourth in Moreno Valley, California.
	These are all $50 donors.
	Brandon Savoy, parts unknown.
	Mike Westerfield, parts unknown.
	Paul Vela in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, UK. Finally, Antonio McMullen, Jason Fortin, Geneva, Illinois.
	Sukhovi Alexander in Moscow.
	Say hi to Snowden, by the way.
	John Straig in San Antonio, Texas.
	Let's send a nice note.
	Kevin Hamilton in Chantilly, Virginia.
	And finally, Scott Soltis, who is a common contributor from Minneapolis, Minnesota Nuts.
	Wow.
	Nice list.
	Thank you all very much for the 600...
	Congratulations.
	Of course, those are the 60s and the 600s.
	Many, many thanks to our executive producers for today's show, our special producers, special executive producers, and our associate executive producers.
	And, of course, the big 600 is on Sunday.
	And we really appreciate everyone helping us out as we are really keeping the show going.
	Yes, we have to have these events every once in a while.
	And I'd just like to remind everybody how it works and why we do it.
	Every contribution will go straight to work for us.
	So even though you might be hard pressed to put a dollar value on everything you get from the No Agenda Show, please take a minute to give it a try.
	Just ask yourself how much it's worth to hear thoughtful discussion and analysis of news stories without the angry confrontations you find elsewhere.
	Think about the value of journalists who explore those issues in depth with solid reporting and valuable insights.
	Makes you a more informed citizen and helps you make important decisions in your life.
	That's why we think you'll agree that it's noagendashow.com is worth your support.
	There you go.
	And here's the karma for everybody who requested some.
	You've got karma.
	And help us out for Sunday's show.
	Dvorak.org slash N.A. Dan Wycheck celebrated two days ago, March 11th.
	Kartis Graubix, Jr., turns 48 today.
	And Sir Andrew Gardner says happy birthday to Elliot Gardner.
	He'll be celebrating tomorrow on the 14th.
	And Brandi Prunier says happy birthday to Dominic Massangelo, born on the 10th of March of this year.
	Happy birthday!
	Welcome, human resource, from your buddies here at the best podcast in the universe.
	And we congratulate Sir Sander Hoxbergen, who has now become a Baron of the No Agendas.
	And we do not have his protector info yet, but I presume he'll want to do something in the lowlands.
	Maybe he should take Groningen.
	They need some protecting up there from all the fracking, all the earthquakes.
	So what I can do is I can put you...
	I never thought I'd have to do this, but I'm going to do it.
	Put me on the whitelist.
	I'm going to put you on the whitelist, which has never been a problem before, but that's before you start using hashtags in the subject line.
	And so I will put you on the whitelist.
	I won't have to worry about the hashtags in the subject line anymore.
	So one character determines whether it goes to spam or not?
	Well, you said yourself it was hashtag this, hashtag that, hashtag this.
	It looks like a piece of spam.
	Apparently people are doing this.
	It's probably some new spam trick that some people use.
	I don't know.
	I have no idea.
	All I know is it disappeared.
	I don't know how spam...
	You know, I have enough trouble getting people to open our newsletter.
	Yeah, that's true.
	I got an email from someone today, you know, telling us with a picture of the...
	We ran this picture in December.
	Of course, I'm always scolding some of these people.
	You do the same thing.
	Sends me the picture that we ran in the newsletter and talked about in December of Obama chatting up the Danish woman with...
	Mrs.
	Obama giving him the state guy.
	Right, right, right.
	He sends me these pictures.
	Send us to Adam.
	It proves that there's an affair going on.
	Yeah.
	And I said, this is like water under the bridge.
	Thanks for listening.
	Yeah, and then I criticized him for not looking at the newsletter.
	Or listening for that.
	I think a lot of people don't listen to the show and then they send us stuff.
	You know, those guys with no agenda would like this.
	Yeah.
	No, no, it's worse than that.
	People have, what's that iPad app that turns everything into like a magazine?
	Flipboard.
	Oh, yeah, Flipboard.
	Yeah.
	And so they're like, wow, this is an interesting article.
	Let me send it.
	Click.
	That's the problem.
	But it's okay.
	I don't mind.
	Because I run my own mail server.
	I run it, so if things start to disappear or don't show up, then I can make them appear.
	I don't have to talk to some guy.
	I believe that you can't even receive email from AOL currently.
	Probably.
	Just letting you know.
	What makes you say that?
	Because I know your guy.
	And he's kind of aggressive.
	Yeah, that's what he does.
	Okay, so for some reason, here's what happens.
	For some reason, your email, if you send it to an AOL.com address, AOL automatically blocks that.
	So what he does is, yo, fuck him!
	I'll block him back!
	Which means you don't get any email from anyone in an AOL.com account.
	Do I want any email?
	Maybe not.
	It's not a problem for me.
	Let's talk about Ukraine for a moment.
	I do have some concerns.
	And amidst all of the very important news that Bill Nye, the science guy, is telling us about the black boxes and the Chinese satellite pictures.
	Amidst all of that, wow, I checked out some ABC World News tonight.
	Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow.
	They are really, really hyping it.
	You played that, I think, the Diane Sawyer stuff with all the sound effects.
	They keep doing this.
	This is really insane.
	And they brought back clips from the 50s, even.
	Signal means to stop whatever you are doing and get to the nearest safe place fast.
	That very real threat of nuclear war seems a long time ago.
	But watching developments this week, it was hard not to think about those bad old days of the Cold War.
	Russian troops on the march.
	The U.S. sending fighter jets to Eastern Europe.
	Vladimir Putin test-firing an intercontinental ballistic missile.
	That ICBM, though unarmed, an especially sharp reminder that America still remains on alert for nuclear war.
	Listen to all these great sound effects that they literally are showing.
	The ICBM, the jets, they're showing satellite dishes spinning.
	Nuclear boat!
	Mushroom clouds.
	I'm not kidding.
	They showed a mushroom cloud.
	450 of them.
	Nuclear-tipped missiles that could destroy the world.
	Still manned every hour of every day.
	You could drive by this remote site and have no idea there was a nuclear missile silo here.
	But essentially, the nuclear warhead is just 10 feet below me.
	They actually went out.
	Of the studio and did a remote ENG shoot in the desert to go talk to the nuclear tipped operators.
	The way she said that sounded kind of sexual, by the way.
	The tip.
	The tip is armed.
	Didn't you hear that?
	Yeah, no.
	I want to hear that again.
	Everything on television is sexually based.
	Losin planes of our country are scattered, 450 of them.
	Nuclear-tipped missiles that could destroy the world.
	I've got a nuclear-tipped missile in my pants for you, baby.
	All right, so, okay, so they're hyping up, and this works, by the way.
	People watch ABC and look at this and go, holy crap, nuclear war.
	I see a mushroom cloud.
	There's a nuclear-tipped missile.
	But they're also hyping, and this is dangerous, civil war in Ukraine, which there is really no discussion about, but they're just making it up.
	Now to that escalating war of words between President Obama and Vladimir Putin over Ukraine.
	This morning, Russia tightening its grip on the strategic region of Crimea, despite warnings from the White House.
	ABC's Alex Marquardt is in the middle of it all in Crimea, where in just days, a critical vote will determine if the country splits apart.
	This is so not true.
	The country's not going to split apart.
	Thanks for having me on tonight.
	Oops.
	Whoa, whoa, whoa.
	That was weird.
	Sorry.
	So they're literally making it up.
	Yeah, we could have the autonomous region of Crimea...
	And it's not like it's going to jump up and run over to Russia.
	But it's also there's not going to be a split the middle of the country.
	But that's what they want you to believe.
	Good morning, Alex.
	Good morning.
	Good morning, Martha.
	These forces are part of what is believed to be a growing Russian presence here.
	Believe.
	Believe, yeah, because they have no insignias.
	This morning, their control tightening by the minute.
	Of course, Russia is denying these troops are even theirs.
	On the move, large unmarked convoys of troops believed to be Russian this weekend crisscrossing the Crimean Peninsula.
	The Ukraine-Crimea border reportedly now littered with landmines planted by...
	Don't you love it?
	...Russian forces who for the past three days have blocked international military monitors from entering Crimea, even firing warning shots.
	In just 10 days, Russia has seized Crimea, border crossings, airports, government buildings, and military bases.
	Just a handful still in Ukrainian control, but surrounded.
	And diplomatic efforts are still going nowhere.
	Presidents Obama and Putin talking past each other on an hour-long phone call.
	The US criticizing next weekend's scheduled vote here to decide if Crimea should break off and join Russia.
	Crimea is Ukraine.
	We support territorial integrity.
	Now listen, now we're going to get man on the street.
	Of Ukraine.
	As Crimea prepares for next Sunday's referendum, this mostly Russian region is showing where its allegiances lie.
	So what kind of passport would you like to have?
	Russian.
	I hate Ukrainians.
	I hate Ukrainians.
	I hate you.
	So this is so, this is real propaganda.
	Wow, that was bad.
	Yeah, this is huge, huge, huge propaganda.
	Yeah, what is the point?
	Answer me that, Batman.
	Oh, okay.
	The point is, unfortunately, to further the neocon, the neoconservative agenda, and I went back and looked it all up, the Project for the New American Century, which, oh, by the way, the Republican hero Marco Rubio by the way, the Republican hero Marco Rubio is all in on.
	Thanks for having me on tonight, man.
	My argument is that we're actually on the verge of a new American century.
	So much of what's happening around the world is of such tremendous benefit.
	But there's some things we're going to have to do to get that right.
	It's within our reach.
	We're going to have to change our laws, and we're going to have to change our tax code, and we're going to have to change a number of regulations that we have so that we can encourage innovation, investment, and expanding access to markets.
	So that's his new American century, literally a neoconservative term and thinking.
	And then we had...
	Yeah, it's what broke the country when we went to Iraq.
	Iraq is all part of that scheme.
	Yes, and while we're at it, why don't we bring back the vampire, the zombie, Dick Cheney?
	Why did he even let this guy...
	Everyone hates him.
	He shoots his friends in the face.
	Please come back on...
	He was on Not Meet the Press, one of those Sunday shows.
	And he sits there and listen to the code that he threw out about...
	Now remember, at least I think we're kind of in agreement here, President Obama had no idea what was going on.
	He's not running this show.
	This is the State Department, this is John Kerry, this is Skull and Bones, this is Yale, this is literally the same people, Victoria Noodleman's husband and his brother.
	These are the project for the new American century people.
	These are the neoconservatives.
	They want to go back to the plan they had when Bush was still president, which means get the missiles back in Poland and start screwing with Putin again.
	But listen to the code that Cheney used.
	Tell me what our options are.
	Today?
	Well, I think I worry when we begin to address a crisis by the first thing we do is take options off the table.
	I don't think the administration should do that.
	Have they done that?
	In a sense, saying that no military.
	He seems to operate that way most of the time.
	There are military options that don't involve putting troops on the ground in Crimea.
	We could go back and reinstate the ballistic missile defense program that was taken out.
	Originally going to go in Poland, Czech Republic, Obama took it out to appease Putin.
	We could do training exercises.
	Did you catch it?
	Oh, what, training exercises?
	To appease Putin.
	Oh, to appease Putin, yeah.
	This is, of course, a code for saying he's like Chamberlain who appeased Hitler.
	Yeah, to use the word appease as a problem.
	Yeah, basically he's saying, oh, he's letting Hitler take over.
	I wrote a column just using these kind of hot terms.
	I believe it was in the 80s or something, and it was when Rambus was a player.
	They had developed a high-speed memory chip system that was based on computer networking protocols for the chip to communicate within itself and within other chips.
	It was advanced.
	Sounds sexy.
	And there were a bunch of lawsuits flying around, and I used the word, and this was a company run by Indians.
	And I used the word...
	Towel head?
	That would be a Sikh, by the way.
	Very few Indians have a towel on their head.
	Dot head?
	I used the word that they had to pay a fee, or they had to pay a tribute.
	I used the word tribute to Intel.
	And the CEO got on the phone and he went on and on about, we don't pay tribute to Intel.
	The term tribute itself had offended him so gravely because it was like some sort of an insult that was beyond me.
	I don't know what it was, but apparently it was some religious thing or you only pay tribute.
	I don't know.
	All I know is that the guy was very upset about, and maybe our one Indian listener will tell me why the word tribute is offensive, and apparently it is.
	Interesting.
	And I just thought it was the biggest kind of weirdness.
	But appease is another one of these hot terms, and it's used to sway the public.
	You're right.
	He used it for a reason.
	Oh, yes.
	If you look at the Book of Knowledge, appeasement...
	Neville Chamberlain, September 27, 1938.
	Refusal to accept Nazi demands to cede border areas to Germany.
	Appeasement in the political context is a diplomatic policy of making political or material concessions to an enemy power in order to avoid conflict.
	The term is most often applied to the foreign policy of British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain towards Nazi Germany between 1937 and 1939.
	And of course, famously, that didn't work.
	And then, you know, the whole bunch of Jews died.
	That's basically the message Cheney is sending.
	We're going to Poland, Czech Republic, Obama took it out to appease Putin.
	We could do training exercises.
	By the way, I like how he says, cry Maria.
	Poland.
	I got cry Maria.
	We can offer military assistance in terms of equipment, training, and so forth to the Ukrainians themselves.
	There's some activation of military forces, are there not?
	In terms of having forces come and make their appearance there.
	On our part?
	Yes.
	I'm not aware of any detail.
	NATO, I'm sure NATO will think about it.
	So now here is basically, this is a good one.
	He's now going to say our president is weak.
	I think there's no question, but he believes he is weak.
	He has seen this so-called reset policy that's led to giving up on the ballistic missile defenses, for example.
	We have created an image around the world, not just for the Russians, of weakness and indecisive.
	Not the Syrian situation, it's a classic.
	We've got all ready to do something, but a lot of the allies signed on at the last minute Obama backed off.
	This guy is unbelievable.
	He basically wants to kill people.
	This guy is the biggest a-hole in the universe.
	If I was near him, I would unplug his pacemaker.
	I'd just rip that thing out of his pocket.
	Die!
	This is really unbelievable.
	This guy's just sitting there, we've got to put the missiles back, put it back the way it was.
	He just wants war.
	He just wants war machinery for his war machine companies to go.
	We don't even need the war, although that would be just jolly if we could have that.
	But let's get ready for it at least.
	This guy, he needs to be stopped.
	Oh, here's his steps now.
	Why do they keep putting him on the air?
	Because he owns everybody.
	Somebody owns somebody.
	And here are his final steps.
	This is the agenda of what we're going to do.
	Let's stop right there.
	The guy, as far as I can tell, looking at all the evidence that's been laid out, is a war criminal.
	Yes!
	He should not be on television.
	No, they should not give him the time of day.
	He shouldn't even be alive.
	This guy is living on a battery.
	Yeah, that makes you wonder.
	He's living on a battery pack.
	For all of the...
	I remember when everyone hated this guy.
	Now they put him on television, ask him his opinion about what we should do.
	Senior statesman.
	Yes.
	Because, friends of the No Agenda show, these are the guys running this show.
	This play, this act, they are the ones running this show.
	Your president is running nothing.
	He sits with Yats in the big brown leather chairs going blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
	And he gets to receive the guy with the pencil pants.
	This is so, this is frightening.
	And all they have to do is start, you know, of course, ABC. What are they going to do?
	Oh, yeah, we'll start talking about the Civil War.
	Yeah.
	You watch.
	The missiles are going back in Poland.
	It's going to happen.
	And we're going to start this thing all over again.
	This was the first thing that Obama did.
	And it's just like, screw that guy.
	Screw that president.
	We're taking over.
	And they are.
	All right.
	Here's the plan.
	He's going to tell you in one minute.
	Here's what's going to happen.
	You do not believe we should allow him.
	What are we prepared to do to stop him?
	Well, that's the key question.
	And what's your answer?
	And my answer is reinstate the ballistic missile defense program in Poland.
	He cares a lot about that.
	Conduct joint military exercises with our NATO friends close to the Russian border.
	Yeah, these are all great ideas.
	Why don't you go up to the bully and kick sand in his face?
	Offer up equipment and training to the Ukrainian military.
	Yeah, equipment and training and consultants.
	Take steps that will guarantee and convey the notion, especially to our friends in Europe, that we keep our commitments.
	So far, that's in doubt.
	And I think it's much a matter of sending a strong signal.
	What do you mean?
	Yeah, we keep our commitments, but what's it got to do with Ukraine and Crimea?
	We have no commitments to them.
	No, he's talking about NATO commitments.
	What's this got to do with NATO? Is the NATO state under attack?
	No, no, no.
	I think what he's referring to is that we didn't go in and bomb Syria.
	That we didn't keep our commitment, the red line, all that?
	I think that's what he's referring to.
	Everybody was ready.
	That's what he said.
	Everybody was ready.
	We were all ready to go.
	Was Syria attacking NATO? I don't remember that part of the story.
	No.
	But NATO was going to go in and attack Syria.
	NATO is a defensive organization.
	It's designed to protect those nations in Western Europe.
	Hello!
	Do they go attack people now?
	What did NATO do with Libya?
	Was Libya attacking one of the states?
	No.
	One of the Western European states?
	No, but that's what NATO does.
	They go in and kill people.
	This doesn't make sense to me.
	NATO is supposed to be a protective organization.
	It protects.
	Yes, we protect citizens.
	We protect citizens who are...
	It's like the police coming over to your house out of the blue and just beating the crap out of you just because.
	But the U.S. will keep its commitments to our friends and allies.
	That's been in doubt for some time now because of the policies of the Obama administration.
	This becomes a crucial moment.
	So you think those nations, those Baltic nations...
	Why doesn't he just say it?
	This guy, I think, is a racist.
	Of all the people I always defend, I think this guy actually really hates Obama, mainly because he's black.
	Cheney?
	Of course.
	Mainly because he's black.
	I truly believe...
	He's from Wyoming.
	No offense to you, Ohio.
	No offense to Wyoming.
	This are the two people from Wyoming that listen to the show.
	Cheney is just...
	You can just...
	That guy is a dick.
	Oh!
	That's his name.
	We should be nervous as to whether NATO and their members of the NATO alliance will come to their defense.
	We have a treaty obligation under Article 5 of the NATO treaty to attack against one and attack against all.
	Who's being attacked?
	Nobody!
	He's a warmonger!
	We'll find, if you go to Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia today, that our friends there recognize they've got Russian minority populations inside, they were under the control of the old Soviet Union for decades, and now they're free and independent states, but they depend upon the United States for leadership and guaranteeing that.
	Leadership.
	That's what we're looking for.
	Leadership by pointing our nuclear-tipped missiles in your direction.
	Who needs this?
	I am so sick of these people.
	And people in Europe, you should be sick of it too.
	And you should be sick of the hijacking that has taken place in Ukraine.
	Do not buy into these lies.
	Now the president is like, oh yes, it was a constitutional coup.
	No one has recognized the Syrian interim government or the Libyan interim government or anybody.
	But these guys within three days, oh yeah, that's him.
	That's the government.
	We recognize him.
	Oh, it's good to go.
	Just...
	There's still an aspect of this that can't be overlooked in my opinion.
	Go.
	Which is that this is still part of the, they've got Snowden and we have to keep up the pressure.
	I think it's beyond irksome that Rush is just holding on to Snowden.
	Hmm.
	Maybe.
	Um...
	I think during the State of the Union, the President was talking about pre-K, pre-kindergarten, and we have to get kids...
	Yeah, I think those kids started early.
	I found this clip of Kathleen Sebelius.
	She is the slave master, I would say.
	Because what these schools, these kindergarten and pre-kindergarten is child garden.
	It's like, you know, you plant the kids in the soil and then you put bullcrap in the soil and then the kids soak it up and they become little bullcrap children.
	Here she is explaining why and how we need to deal with our children.
	Well, I would echo everything that Arnie just said about the need to make this a national movement.
	I think that there still needs to be a great understanding that what the president has put on the table is really a birth to five proposal.
	A birth to five proposal.
	So the minute you come out of your mom's uterus, here's the government.
	Recognizing that you can't start at four-year-olds.
	We really need to start at birth.
	So there will be an enhancement of home visiting, which we know...
	Home visiting!
	Hello!
	I'm from the government, here to check your newborn, make sure your kid is learning.
	It's an evidence-based strategy that helps parents from the outside.
	It helps the first and best teacher a child will ever have learn important skills.
	Learn important skills like pooping!
	And walking and sucking your thumb.
	To then early head start in childcare, where a lot of parents choose to have their children as they go to work and make sure that those are quality-based programs, but also with curriculum and social and emotional skills.
	Emotional skills and social skills.
	People.
	The government wants your children.
	They want to enslave your kids.
	They were living in Sparta?
	The minute it pops out of your uterus.
	Hey!
	Knock, knock.
	Home visit.
	Hi, I'm from the government here to check on your newborn.
	Yeah.
	We've got to take care of your newborn.
	Birth to five.
	So you can go to work.
	Don't be bossy.
	How come people aren't very upset about this sort of talk?
	Because only no agenda show plays this stuff.
	Where else are you going to get this kind of great stuff?
	Birth to five.
	Free kindergarten is bullcrap.
	Kindergarten is the pre- It's the pre.
	Yeah.
	There was, you know, and that was a recent invention.
	You used to go to the first grade.
	There was no grade zero.
	We're not living in the world of computers.
	Oh, zero, one, two, three.
	It was one.
	First grade.
	That's the first grade.
	That's when you start.
	Oh, wait a minute.
	Let's start a little earlier.
	Okay, we'll do a little thing for some of the kids that want to, you know, they like to mix it up, throw blocks.
	Let's start, do a kindergarten, and they can take naps there.
	Okay, we'll do that.
	Now pre-kindergarten.
	Yeah.
	And then this bull crap.
	Birth.
	But seriously, home visits.
	Yeah, home visits.
	I don't watch people showing up at my house.
	Yeah, they're coming.
	Yes, the president has put it on the table.
	You're required to have a home visit once every week.
	And you know what's going to happen?
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	Government jobs, by the way, for the people who can't get work.
	They're going to take your children away.
	Yeah.
	That's what this is about.
	Don't worry.
	Yeah, the government's much better.
	Now...
	Of course, if you don't do that, and there is some proof to this, if we don't start educating your children while you're at the work camp, they will grow up to be like Sheila Jackson Lee, who says stuff like this.
	I thank the chairman very much, and frankly, maybe I should offer a good thanks to the distinguished members of the majority.
	The Republicans, my chairman and others, for giving us an opportunity to have a deliberative constitutional discussion that reinforces the sanctity of this nation and how well it is that we have lasted some 400 years operating under a constitution that clearly defines...
	Let me see.
	How well it is?
	What is she talking about?
	400 years.
	400 years?
	Yeah, apparently.
	The woman is an idiot.
	Apparently, well, no, she did not.
	She wasn't on that birth to five program, so she was not educated properly.
	Apparently, she believes the Constitution has been in place for over 400 years.
	Well, I think a little math skills would be useful.
	Wow.
	So that would put it back in 1614, I guess.
	The pilgrims were digging out of a mud hut.
	Now, as you know, one of the things that I like to do as part of what we do is read legislation.
	I really get off on it.
	I love it.
	And one of the things that I spent a lot of time on was the Affordable Care Act.
	And you probably saw the president did this really unfunny video with Zach Falacanifinus.
	Yeah, everyone saw it.
	Well, not everyone saw it, but first of all, it was severely edited.
	If you go back and you watch it and you listen just to the audio, you can hear the edits.
	They put a lot of his gestures and stupid stuff.
	They did that later on, and of course, that's why you have a big black background, so you can basically split the screen.
	I really didn't think it was that funny.
	I didn't think it was funny at all.
	No.
	I was kind of like, whoa.
	Yeah, it was quite dumb.
	Here's a little bit of Spokes Hall Carney defending the interview, and then I want to read you a little passage, an article from the Affordable Care Act, and talk to you about what is really going on here while the mainstream media is fawning over how fantastic this is.
	My goodness, this is just so good!
	It's a last-ditch effort by the president.
	I've never heard that.
	What?
	That people were fawning all over this piece of crap.
	Oh, I didn't even...
	If you want it, I can grab these clips.
	I'll play them for you on Sunday.
	All the mainstream guys were all doing it.
	Oh, so funny!
	The youngins, the young people, they love this stuff, the young people.
	Those young people love those funny or die clips, don't they?
	Will fair on all those people.
	A lot of Americans are going to sign up.
	And that...
	A lot of young Americans are going to sign up.
	We saw that in earlier numbers as that the growth in enrollments is substantial in the 18 to 34 age category.
	And we expect that to continue.
	Bullshit!
	The president's interview with...
	I'm already laughing myself because it was so hilarious!
	Zach Galifianakis on Between Two Ferns was designed to reach Americans where they live.
	And, you know, they watched this show in...
	Hey, hey, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop.
	Back that up.
	He said...
	Did he say Between Two Ferns or Two Fines?
	Ferns, Ferns, Ferns.
	Did he say Ferns?
	I think so.
	We can listen again.
	With, uh...
	Zach Galifianakis on Between Two Ferns was designed to reach Americans where they live.
	They watch this show in huge numbers.
	I think the average video gets something like six million views.
	I'm convinced we're going to break that average.
	And, in fact, as I was walking out here, I think we were close to 3 million.
	And that's a good thing.
	More importantly...
	And that's a good thing.
	Oh, luckily the press is kind of buying into it.
	We have seen that the funny or die is, at least, again, as I was walking out here, was the number one referral to healthcare.gov, referral source.gov.
	Wow!
	Actually, that is so pathetic, if true.
	That it's the number one referral source.
	Of course it's pathetic.
	Late this morning.
	So that's a good thing.
	So we're engaged in an effort to reach every...
	What did you say?
	I think what it says is that gone are the days when your broadcasts or yours or yours can reach everybody that we need to reach.
	Yeah, that's really smart to say, Jay.
	You know...
	Tell the press that they're losers.
	Do you bring in Zach Galifianakis and all your problems are solved?
	That's a good quote.
	Do you bring in Zach Galifianakis and all your problems are solved?
	I didn't say that.
	We're involved in a multifaceted effort to reach communities out there of folks who can benefit from quality, affordable health insurance and avail themselves of the options that You'll find out.
	This guy's boring.
	Why don't you get your point?
	Okay, so here's my point.
	The reason why this is happening now is this is the last-ditch effort.
	There's two more days, I believe, until the open enrollment is over.
	And the only way the Affordable Care Act works is if there is enough young people, who apparently all watch Funny or Die, who then go and are referred to the Gov site and they go and sign up.
	And they get some insurance.
	Now, of course, we know they're nowhere near the numbers that they need to have.
	So there is Section 1342, the Risk Corridor Provision, which mandates any losses from the insurance company industry be covered up to 80% by taxpayers.
	This is a bailout of the insurance companies.
	What's going to happen is a big-ass check is going to be written.
	We have talked about this before on the show, the reinsurance clause.
	So the insurers are all reinsured by the government.
	That's your money.
	If there's a shortfall in sign-ups, millions and millions of people, which is billions of dollars, the government is going to write a big check, and the president will go...
	Look, I went on Funny or Die, and Michelle even went out there and tried to promote it, and Valerie Jarrett went out there to promote it.
	We did everything we could.
	We did everything we could.
	Sorry.
	There you go.
	It's a bailout.
	Good catch.
	It's a bailout.
	Can I ask you something?
	I think that's a good catch, but I have to ask you something.
	Have this ever made any sense to you about this open enrollment is over deadline?
	No, I have no idea what that means.
	Why don't you just have enrollment?
	Sign up.
	Sign up when you feel like it.
	Why is there a due date?
	Why is there open enrollment?
	When we were at Mevio, they had this.
	November came around every year and it says, oh, it's open enrollment.
	You can change your health care plan.
	Why can't you just change your health care plan when you feel like it?
	Why is there a short 30-day period where you can jockey around?
	Because, yeah.
	Why?
	I don't know.
	I'm sure it has something to do with you getting screwed.
	Absolutely.
	Absolutely.
	I just find it always, it's always annoying.
	Oh, you missed, oh, oh no, you missed the day, open enrollment's closed!
	Yeah, I know exactly what you mean.
	It's an artificial construct that's being used, it's being used to screw the public.
	Anyway, while we're on, you were talking about ABC, and I got these clips.
	This is a little different, a little off topic.
	Something that's going to annoy you to no end.
	You know, I had this thing I was trying to develop for the show that nobody was really warming up to and you didn't like.
	And in fact, I don't even think you like entertainment anyway.
	About Guess the Movie.
	You know, if you have a Guess the Movie, I actually now have a jingle.
	I was dropping Guess the Movie.
	What's the jingle?
	And now it's time for another episode of Guess That Movie.
	Genius, I tell you.
	Genius!
	Brother.
	Genius!
	Is that the thing going off the track?
	I guess so.
	Yeah, that's the film.
	I've got to guess the TV show.
	I don't have a jingle for that.
	Well, it's okay.
	You can say it was Guess the Movie.
	But this is the kind of crap that's on ABC. And I want to play...
	There's two parts to this.
	It is the worst written garbage...
	I think I've watched the show once before.
	And so I'm watching it just because everything is reruns this week.
	I don't know why.
	And I had the TV and I was looking for clips.
	And then when I turned off the recorder, it would flip over to the TV show.
	And then I caught this.
	And this is the piece of this.
	You can try to guess.
	You never will.
	ABC Drama 1.
	Sex symbol?
	Doting mom?
	Businesswoman?
	Chats winning?
	When we strip away our labels, strip away the ways in which we define ourselves, what's left?
	Who are we at the core?
	For Dallas, the answer was...
	A mousy brunette with a limb.
	Hello?
	Sorry, we don't have any spare change.
	Do ya?
	Honey, it's me.
	It's mommy.
	Oh my god, mommy, no.
	You look like a New Yorker cartoon.
	I'm supposed to guess something here?
	No, I'm not expecting you to guess.
	This is ridiculous.
	But this show, I'll tell you what the answer is.
	And then you can play the second clip, which you wonder, is there that much cocaine in Hollywood?
	This is a piece of crap show on ABC. Is that a rhetorical question?
	Yeah, it's a rhetorical question.
	Sub-Purgatory.
	Okay.
	It's about these women living in the suburbs or something, I don't know, and this annoying girl and her mom, an annoying girl talks with just a phoniest valley girl accent, and you end up with scenes like this.
	Mommy, no, you look so bad.
	I miss my old mommy.
	But your old mommy was only interested in pleasing men.
	Therefore, she was a monster, not a mommy.
	This is the new me.
	And my sweater may itch, my face may be patchy, my hair may be brittle, but at least I'm happy.
	You don't look happy.
	I'm miserable.
	But I guess that's just the press I pay for being myself.
	But you're not being yourself.
	Yourself goes to bed with a full face of makeup, then reapplies lip gloss in the middle of the night.
	Yourself got a splenectomy just to hit your goal weight.
	And sure, yourself cares about looks, but yourself also cares about other stuff.
	This is a show about my ex-wife.
	Hey, you know, I actually have to say I watched some really bad TV the other day.
	Yeah?
	Well, that's almost all TV. Well, Real Housewives of New York.
	Oh, I haven't yet to see that.
	I think I've seen clips.
	You have to watch at least one episode because there's this one Aviva.
	There's this one Housewives.
	And I don't know what her deal is, but she has a fake leg.
	She has a prosthetic leg.
	Yeah.
	And the humor ensues.
	I'm telling you.
	And they're doing a fashion show and she slips and her leg comes off.
	You can't get much lower.
	You just can't get much lower.
	That is borderline slapstick.
	Well, it's completely slapstick.
	It is slapstick.
	That was meant to fall.
	Speaking of which, Fox TV has brought back the television show Cosmos.
	Oh!
	I tried watching that piece of crap.
	It's produced by the guy who did the Star Trek Enterprise thing.
	They had to have a dream.
	The whole series was a dream sequence.
	That guy's the director.
	And then Seth MacFarlane's one of the producers.
	And they're just...
	I don't know.
	Maybe you liked it.
	I thought it was shallow, vapid, condescending, patronizing garbage.
	Well...
	I didn't see it.
	I did, however, catch Neil deGrasse Tyson, who is the host of Cosmos, who, I guess he's a scientist.
	Or maybe he's a guy who runs a telescope in New York.
	And he, if you want to know where the condescending crap comes from, it's from this guy.
	This interview on CNN, where he's promoting this show.
	We all know we live in a politically divided country where almost anything is fair game for snipers on both sides.
	But science?
	Shouldn't science be immune from politics?
	After all, it's called scientific fact for a reason.
	This is such a great, a great piece.
	Everything is about shut up.
	Scientific fact!
	It's called...
	And so here's...
	For a reason!
	In fact, we have a new meme.
	I should probably...
	We have a new jingle for the new meme.
	I should probably play it real quick so we can do it.
	Here we go.
	New meme works on the low-agenda show.
	All right, here we go.
	You will catch the meme.
	You can use the meme with different language, but the meme remains the same.
	And yet there are millions of climate deniers, evolution deniers, vaccine deniers out there.
	Last year in a speech on climate...
	Wait, wait, wait, hold on a second.
	A vaccine denier?
	There's no such thing as a vaccine.
	Is that what he taught?
	What does it mean, vaccine denier?
	Vaccine, you know what he means.
	We know what we're talking about.
	President Obama summed up the war on science this way.
	I don't have much.
	The war on science, John.
	Patience for anyone who denies that this challenge is real.
	We don't have time for a meeting of the Flat Earth Society.
	Shut up already!
	Science!
	Many Americans agree with him, but many other Americans see science as an attack.
	An attack on their values, or on their religion, or on what they believe to be true.
	Or the fact that we just don't believe in your particular science.
	Which brings me to my next guest.
	I am so excited he's here today.
	I'm so excited.
	He may just be the man who can end the war on science.
	Sit down.
	Martha, get me a beer.
	You have like two clips of the day.
	At least he's got a better chance than you or I have.
	He's Neil deGrasse Tyson, an astrophysicist and director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York.
	And tonight, Fox will be premiering his new series, Cosmos.
	Can you imagine a primetime network television show all about science?
	Imagine!
	Pretty amazing.
	Pretty amazing!
	Amazing!
	It's amazing!
	It's not just amazing.
	It's more than amazing.
	Five, four, three, two, one.
	The universe!
	Tyson, an astrophysicist and director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York.
	And tonight, Fox will be premiering his new series, Cosmos.
	Can you imagine a primetime network television show all about science?
	Pretty amazing.
	Neil, welcome to the program.
	Thanks for having me.
	I want to talk all about Cosmos in a moment, but I first want to ask you, do you think there is a war on science the way I'm describing?
	And if so, how do you think we can broker a peace?
	This is so great.
	He sent him the questions beforehand, obviously.
	I'm going to ask you about the war on science, and here's the question, and I'm going to ask it exactly this way.
	Our civilization, our civilization is built on the innovations of scientists and technologists and engineers.
	Here comes the meme, John.
	Who have shaped everything that we so take for granted today.
	So some of the science deniers or science haters, these are people who are telling that to you while they're on their mobile phone.
	They're saying, I don't like science.
	Oh, GPS just told us to go left.
	Yeah, okay.
	So...
	The meme is, you don't get to fly on an airplane and deny global warming.
	You don't get to use a cell phone and deny man-made global warming.
	Because, well, it's science!
	Science!
	Science!
	This is going to come back many, many times.
	I don't...
	So it's time for people to sort of sit back and reassess what role science has actually played in our lives and learn how to embrace that going forward because without it, we will just regress back into the cave.
	Wow, back to the cave without science.
	So let me get this straight.
	So one issue...
	There's one issue in all this.
	Let's face reality.
	There's one single issue, which is...
	And I want to point this out to people...
	Global warming, climate change, whatever you want to call it, is political.
	There's no coincidence that the Democrats are on one side and the Republicans are on the other.
	It's very political.
	How can this have anything to do with science when it's transparently political?
	So you're going to take this political football and you're going to extrapolate everything you do Based on your side of the argument.
	So if you're on the side that says this looks like a hoax or it's a bunch of bullshit or the data's not in or you're making it up as you go along or you're lying to the public or whatever, you're going to take those people and then...
	Surround them with other bullcrap that's got nothing to do with this one political issue and then condemn them?
	This is nonsense.
	John.
	It's madness.
	You don't get to cherry-pick science.
	Brace that going forward, because without it, we will just regress back into the cave.
	You don't talk about the spherical Earth with NASA in it and then say, oh, now let's give equal time to the flat-earthers.
	Plus, science is not there for you to cherry-pick.
	It's not there for you to cherry-pick.
	Science is science.
	It's not there to cherry-pick.
	The whole thing is about cherry-picking.
	That is science.
	I know.
	I said this once, and it's gotten a lot of...
	And who is the gatekeeper of truth and exactitude?
	Science.
	I don't know.
	Science.
	Science.
	97% of all scientists.
	97% of all scientists.
	The science is in!
	The science is in!
	Science!
	Science!
	You don't get the issue.
	It's people that hate the petroleum industry.
	They're the unscientific ones.
	Did you see...
	Down everybody who has anything.
	I have a question.
	No!
	Shut down!
	So get out of here, denier!
	A lot of internet play.
	It said the good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.
	Science is true.
	Science equal true whether or not you believe in it.
	That's the good thing about science.
	Science?
	Yeah.
	Science is true.
	All right?
	I guess you can- Science is true.
	Science is true.
	Shut up.
	Science is a process.
	You know, it's clear we should have started with the birth to five thing with you.
	You are not cherry-picking science.
	It's true whether you like it or not.
	It's true whether or not you believe in it.
	All right?
	I guess you can decide whether or not you believe in it, but that doesn't change the reality of an emergent- You don't have the litigation attorneys who sue over science constantly.
	...scientific truth.
	So, for example, one of the most stunning visuals is the cosmic calendar, where we take the 14, 13.8 billion year history of the universe.
	Which I'm sure is exactly the right number.
	Don't argue.
	It's fact.
	You don't get to cherry-pick the number.
	It's 13.8 billion.
	Somebody figured out it was 13.9.
	And lay it onto a football field-sized, year-at-a-glance calendar.
	And the value of that is, we all know what a calendar is.
	We know how far into the year June is, or July.
	We have a sense of that.
	So if I say the Big Bang was January 1st and today is December 31st, when was our galaxy formed?
	If today is January 31st, January 1st, wait.
	December 31st.
	Well, let's go back.
	Today is December 31st.
	I've got to get it right now.
	Or July.
	We have a sense of that.
	So if I say the Big Bang was January 1st and today is December 31st, when was our galaxy formed?
	When was our galaxy formed, John?
	There's an answer to this.
	Oh, let me think.
	Let's see.
	The galaxy was probably formed, I'm thinking, let's see, there's how many, 13 billion and probably the last, I would say the last couple billion.
	I would say the galaxy would, my guess, Alex, would be the galaxy was formed on November 15th.
	31st.
	When was our galaxy formed, the Milky Way?
	That was formed on March 15th.
	March 15th?
	Science!
	I got the 15th right.
	I didn't understand that at all.
	And then there was something going on in Congress that had an all-night climate change session.
	Yeah.
	And, gee, I forgot to watch, but I did catch Harry Reid.
	Despite overwhelming scientific evidence and overwhelming public opinion.
	Hey, stop doing that, because you can't hear what Harry Reid is saying.
	Despite overwhelming scientific evidence and overwhelming public opinion, climate change deniers still exist.
	There's lots of them.
	Yeah, they're in Congress.
	Half of them, they're all Republicans.
	Now listen to what he says next.
	They exist in this country.
	They exist, I'm sorry to say, in this Congress.
	Yes!
	Does that tell you something, Harry Reid?
	That chosen representatives have a different view of this?
	But I guess therefore they should be shot?
	Or burned at the stake?
	In the House and in the Senate.
	Crazy.
	So I'm very grateful.
	Senator Schatz, Senator Whitehouse, and the chairman of that very important Environment Committee, Senator Boxer.
	Senator Boxer.
	I have the same people.
	Oh, science, science, science, science.
	These same science nuts, and I'll put it that way, all in on man-made global warming, and they're all anti-nuke.
	All of them.
	They're all anti-nuke.
	No, no, we can't have that.
	It'll blow up.
	There's going to be contamination.
	We're all going to die.
	That seems very unscientific to me.
	It seems like they're flat earthers, those people.
	Yep.
	It seems as though they're like religious denialists.
	I mean, they're denying the obvious, which is this is the solution to their problem.
	They're denying actual science.
	Yeah.
	Nuclear science.
	No, it's too expensive and too dangerous.
	That's always the common retort.
	It's not.
	No, of course not.
	It's not too dangerous, not too expensive.
	But you know who's really to blame for this, don't you?
	Al Gore.
	No, come on.
	If you're Harry Reid, you know who's to blame.
	Obama.
	And many other senators who will join this climate change debate and presentation tonight for standing up against the deniers.
	Climate change is real.
	It's here.
	And it's going to suck your cock.
	It's time to stop acting like those who ignore this crisis.
	For example, the Oil Baron Koch brothers.
	There they are.
	Oh, here we go.
	From a valid point of view, they don't.
	I'm sorry.
	Another clip of the day.
	It was the Tourette's.
	I'm sorry.
	Astonishing.
	I'm sorry.
	Coke Brothers.
	I hear them being used as an excuse for everything.
	I want some Coke Brothers money.
	Coke Brothers don't care about us.
	They don't even know about the show.
	Nobody who is even connected to these people even listens.
	We have our own cadre of true listeners to the show that will support the show, and we thank them profusely, but apparently it doesn't trickle up to these mysterious, mythical Koch brothers.
	Well, we have the evil Kraut brothers.
	Yeah, we have the evil Kraut brothers.
	Which is kind of cool.
	We don't have Soros either.
	We could use some Soros money.
	We need some Soros money.
	We need some Bill Gates money.
	That'll be the day.
	Ha ha ha!
	All right.
	Yeah, I guess the only...
	What else?
	I got nothing else.
	I got one little thing.
	Okay, we got to go.
	We're way overdue here.
	Are we?
	Well, it's like...
	Five more minutes.
	Let me just do this thing.
	Because I found another...
	It's not a meme, but I think it's something we can use.
	Jenny Jardin was on the...
	Whatever her real name is.
	Was on the NewsHour.
	And they were all talking about how...
	The social medias and all this other crap is changing the way we interact.
	Nobody talks to each other anymore.
	And they made the point.
	And kids, they just text.
	They never talk on the phone.
	It's considered gauche.
	Although I see kids talking on the phone all the time.
	And they're texting too.
	But that's beside the point.
	So they asked her.
	I got two clips.
	But the one is the first one, which is Zenny.
	And the perfect answer.
	I think she has that.
	And I'll deconstruct it after she says it.
	I think she's got the perfect answer for everything.
	...sense of where we are in this same question, the evolution.
	Well, you know, it's interesting.
	What if some of these problems that we're talking about now are just design limitations?
	What if the technology that comes perhaps after we're gone allows us to communicate with more nuance and to drift in and out of that mindfulness and presence in the same kind of subtle and natural way that we all did before there were TV and phones?
	Okay.
	Alright.
	So, ask me anything and my answer is going to be, what if this problem we're discussing is just design limitations?
	Yes.
	That's the answer.
	That's the answer to everything.
	I know.
	I just want to try it out with you.
	Okay.
	What happens...
	Will it be a problem if Crimea secedes and wants to become a part of Russia?
	I think we can look at this problem differently.
	Why don't we look at it as if there was some political design limitations?
	The political system, maybe in the future when we're all dead, it will be a different system.
	Designed differently, yes.
	By the way, she can't catch a break.
	At first she gets the breast cancer, then her partner's arm gets amputated?
	Yeah, I know she's got a curse or something.
	That sucks.
	Yeah, I know.
	She's actually a pretty sweet person.
	She interviewed me once in L.A. She seemed very preoccupied, though.
	She seems to be thinking about stuff all the time.
	Yeah, but she is very sweet.
	Sorry, didn't mean to say that.
	She always got blasted when she was doing the boing boing all the time.
	They had to cut off the comments because people just gave her crap.
	Yeah.
	It's almost like she went, I'll show you Don't be mean to me now.
	You can't be mean to me!
	That sucks.
	She's a little bossy.
	Oh!
	Alright, that's good.
	Not the second one?
	Well, the second one, the guy comes up with a bunch of crap.
	He says, this guy's worse.
	For one thing, the giveaway, he's a big fat guy with a bald head and a bow tie.
	And he's an interviewer?
	He is being interviewed on the NewsHour.
	He's sitting next to Jenny.
	Okay, got it.
	Q? As we think about how far we've come in 25 years in the evolution of the technology and the evolution of our social lives built around it, as Catherine is suggesting, I think it's really important to recognize that all of these technologies, the web, is really a work in progress.
	It is changing so much, and I think that our goal ought to be to make sure that it's changing in response to human needs.
	I hereby dub thee Sir Douchebag.
	Congratulations.
	Wow.
	Okay.
	Nice.
	It's just getting worse.
	Yeah.
	Well, there's never been a...
	It is the best of times and the worst of times, my friends.
	Best of the web and the worst of the web.
	That's right.
	Best of native advertising and the worst of native advertising.
	And there's a difference between the web and the network.
	Network's not the web, but the web's not the network.
	The network is...
	The network can be the web, and the web can be the network, but the network cannot be both the web and the network without being the network.
	The network is the computer.
	All right.
	Hey, everybody!
	I'm sure we will have all kinds of things to talk about, like, I don't know, Lost Plains?
	Show 600?
	That's right!
	Sunday, Sunday, Sunday, Sunday!
	Show 600!
	It's a lot of shows.
	It's a lot of talk.
	A lot of analysis.
	And a lot of love.
	How do we do it?
	That is a question we shall answer on Sunday.
	Coming to you from FEMA Region 6 here in Austin, Texas in the morning, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where I've got a machine that makes racket.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.

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