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	They were smart.
	Adam Curry, John C. Devorak.
	It's Thursday, April 3rd, 2014.
	Time for your Get More Nation Media Assassination Episode 605.
	This is No Agenda.
	Calling for a ban on morning leaf blowing at Fever Region 6.
	Here at the Trappist Heights Highlight in Austin, Texas.
	In the morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where's Garbage Day, but nobody's blowing anything.
	I'm John C. Devorak.
	It's Crackpot and Buzzkill in the morning.
	Yeah, they're only blowing stuff around here, boy.
	Thank you.
	So you got a bunch of leaf-blowing guys?
	Yeah, and it's so unnecessary.
	Why do these things have to make so much noise?
	I know they should be muffled.
	And the guys, these blower guys, they're like the three babushkas I always like to refer to in the Kremlin, sweeping right down the middle, just moving dirt from side to side, not doing shit.
	One side to the other.
	Blow it over there.
	Sleep blower guys are just blowing.
	I don't see what to accomplish.
	Alright, are you ready?
	You're in trouble.
	I am?
	Yeah.
	Why?
	What happened to California?
	You ask for something?
	When you ask for something, you get it.
	Of course, you don't really get it.
	You always get it via me.
	Okay, what happened?
	Obama!
	But wait!
	Biden!
	Clinton!
	Hillary!
	You want more?
	Yeah, I see what else he's got.
	What was that?
	That was Kerry.
	Maybe that one's not good enough.
	Let me try again.
	Actually, good ones so far have been Obama and Clinton.
	The other ones, Biden's no good.
	Koch brothers!
	Come on, you gotta admit.
	No, Koch brothers is definitely a must, and I have a clip for it.
	Alright, hold on a second.
	Let me rack up the jingle and the clip.
	Hold on a second.
	Where's your clip?
	Okay, the clip is...
	This is Robert...
	I gotta set it up.
	I just can't run it.
	Yeah.
	This is Robert Kennedy Jr.
	And this clip, I have it right here.
	Robert Kennedy Jr., the greatest, warmest speech.
	He's pushing the global warming agenda.
	Beautiful.
	And he's dropping in every kind of meme he can.
	He's interspersing the tobacco industry.
	Oh, perfect.
	All right, let's roll it.
	Let's roll the clip, and then I got the jingle for later.
	Recently, the Koch brothers...
	We win right off the bat.
	Beautiful.
	According to the Brule report, put in more than $500 million over the past decade and a half to deceive the public about the impacts of global warming.
	They've created a network of think tanks in Washington, D.C., so-called free market think tanks.
	But they're not about free markets.
	They're about ensuring corporate profit-taking without interference, without regulatory interference.
	As we talked about last night, it's about ensuring.
	It's not about free markets.
	It's about socialism for the rich and capitalism, a very merciless, savage capitalism for the poor.
	Oh, man.
	And all of those think tanks are stocked with these phony scientists, We call them biostitutes, but they're not the scientists.
	Well, stop the presses!
	What did he call them?
	Biostitutes.
	Wow!
	Let me write that one down.
	I want to be one.
	That's good.
	Yeah, hi, my name's Adam Curry.
	Yeah, I used to work for MTV. What do you do today?
	I'm a biostitute.
	Oh, that's interesting.
	By the way, I want to mention...
	That the socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor is something that was said a lot of times by Gore Vidal in the 60s.
	And I remember because I always thought it was a catchy phrase.
	So this guy steals the phrase.
	Unbelievable.
	But he can't just steal it per se.
	He's got to embellish it.
	Oh, it's beautiful.
	He says socialism for the rich and capitalism for – wait, wait, not regular capitalism.
	The horrible, miserable, killing the soul capitalism.
	That turns out of the tobacco era.
	And you remember in 1998, I believe, when the seven CEOs of the seven tobacco companies came before Congress, Waxman's Committee, raised their right hand and swore under oath – No cancer.
	They did not believe that tobacco had any health impacts and that it was not addictive.
	And Exxon, you know, that's what the tobacco industry, which was killing one out of every four.
	He said Exxon in the middle of that sentence.
	Did he say Exxon?
	Really?
	Go back at the end, he says the tobacco Exxon, the tobacco industry.
	No, that can't be.
	We believe that tobacco had any health impacts and that it was not addictive.
	And Exxon, you know, that's what the tobacco industry, which...
	What?
	I don't think, maybe he meant something else.
	He wanted to transition to Exxon, but he drops Exxon in and then says tobacco industry, creating a link between the tobacco industry and the lying bastards who were up there in front of Congress.
	I need more of this.
	Be quiet.
	I need more.
	It was killing one out of every four of its customers.
	They used its product as directed.
	They were able to avoid regulation through that kind of deception for 60 years.
	Well, Exxon is the richest company in the history of the world, the biggest profits in the history of the world, and they have a lot higher stakes, and they have given $500 million to buy politicians and to deceive the public about the impacts of global warming, Tim.
	Fuel this whole denier movement, and it's worked.
	Now they say, now Exxon has stopped that campaign.
	They're secretly funding them, but publicly, Exxon is saying, we understand that global warming does exist, but we don't care.
	We are going to barbecue the planet, and we are going to burn all the oil that's on our book reserves, which is three times the amount of oil that this report says will destroy civilization.
	Amazing.
	Brother!
	Barbecue the planet!
	Destroy civilization.
	Stop!
	Stop, stop, stop!
	Wow.
	Well, that's over.
	Thanks for listening, everybody.
	We had a great show.
	Thanks for your support.
	It's always good to start with a bang.
	Oh, my goodness.
	And I thought I had some good Agenda 21 global warming IPCC clips.
	I'll just empty the bin now.
	Just throw it all out.
	You know what's funny is at the very end, if you can just catch the very end, this is on the Ed Schultz show, and Schultz says, oh, he makes a very subtle little thing at the end.
	Which is three times the amount of oil that this report says will destroy civilization.
	Amazing.
	Amazing.
	Really.
	Okay.
	All right.
	So we might as well get into this right now because, of course, this is what we do.
	This is what we analyze.
	These reports, man, have we always been taking a look at the IPCC. And, of course, our first interest came, was it around 2009, I believe?
	Yeah, probably.
	Yeah, people don't really talk about that anymore when, you know, we've had all these scientists' emails talking about phoning up the data.
	But now they've come, it's a new strategy.
	It's a new strategy, John.
	I don't know if you've really noticed.
	The strategy now is everyone, even the deniers, agree that it's real, but now they just don't really know if it's man-made.
	So this is the new kind of lexicon that has crept in.
	And I'll give you a couple examples.
	Here's the crazy crackoo guy, or cuckoo, or cuckoo, the scientist.
	Yeah, the white-haired guy.
	Right.
	Who is not a meteorologist, but he gets to, he's kind of like Bill Nye the science guy, the Asian version.
	But collectively, 100-year storms, 100-year floods, 100-year droughts, 100-year forest fires, I mean, something is very dangerously happening with the weather.
	And to those climate change deniers?
	What?
	Oh, what?
	What?
	A hundred year storms and a hundred year fires.
	It's the worst in a hundred years, John.
	Fact, shut up, you denier.
	But collectively, a hundred year storms, a hundred year floods, a hundred year droughts, a hundred year forest fires.
	You see, because there was a hundred years between Katrina and Sandy.
	Can't you count?
	The way he's presenting it, though, it makes it sound like there's a flood that's lasting.
	It's a movie.
	Yeah, it's a hundred years.
	It's very dangerously happening with the weather.
	And to those climate change deniers?
	Well, they realize that something is happening with the weather.
	They admit that now.
	Oh, we admit that now.
	However, they disagree about human activity.
	This is what it is.
	Who's the spokesman?
	Well, I'll be it.
	I'll be the spokesman.
	So, yes, I admit now, clearly climate change is happening.
	And what's interesting now is the report that came out.
	Talked about adaptation.
	Hold on, let me have the exact words here in the report.
	Of course, Firefox is not going to help me today.
	Okay, here we go.
	Adaptation.
	Why can't I find it now?
	Anyway, the first word of this report is about adaptation, and then somewhere there's mitigation is in there.
	And in order to keep these people going, in order to keep the whole climate change industry going, we need to come up with new reasons for research.
	So now, of course, you know, at a certain point, the science is in, it's all done, you know, so we don't need to research anymore that we're all going to, we're barbecuing the planet, thanks to the Koch brothers.
	Now we have to come up with, you know, like new research or something new.
	Let me see.
	Why don't we listen to Christopher Field.
	Now, he's the co-chair of the IPCC Working Group, too, who produced this report.
	Here he is talking on the BBC. It's also important, and it is a real difference in messaging from the IPCC, to put a lot more emphasis on the new science that says what we can accomplish with ambitious...
	I'm sorry.
	It's new science.
	I want to make sure you understood this new science.
	Investments in both mitigation and adaptation, where we think of adaptation as creative options for coping as effectively as possible with the climate changes that can't be avoided.
	And why has that change in messaging come?
	The IPCC is charged with assessing what's known and what's not known in the scientific literature about...
	You hear what he said?
	What's not known and what's not known.
	To play that again, I missed it.
	Hold on, I'll go back one more.
	Here we go.
	...options for coping as effectively as possible with climate changes that can't be avoided.
	And why has that change in messaging come?
	The IPCC is charged with assessing what's known and what's not known in the scientific literature about...
	That's a different clip, I'm sorry.
	Climate change, a woman working group 2 case, impacts adaptation and vulnerability.
	And in 2014, we have a much broader base of scientific understanding on what we can accomplish with adaptation and what we can't accomplish with adaptation.
	We're really reporting on where the science has come over the last dozen years or so.
	This is gobbledygook.
	Listen to this version.
	Climate change is really a challenge in managing risks.
	It's not that we're talking about identifying a particular thing that's going to happen in a particular place at a particular time.
	It's understanding how to be prepared in two critical ways.
	One critical way is in decreasing the amount of climate change that occurs, and the other is in finding a way to cope as effectively as we can.
	Now listen carefully.
	We need to find ways to cope effectively as we can.
	Okay, what does that mean?
	With the climate changes that can't be avoided.
	The main thing we learned from the report is that we don't really know enough about adaptation to go out with a big steamroller type approach and really deploy an effective system.
	We really are at the stage now where we should be thinking about being ambitious, but being ambitious in a creative way with baby steps that we learn from that allow us to do a better job the next time and a better job the time after that.
	This means more research, because we know the next time we have a report, and the next time we have a report, and the next time.
	This is scam!
	Oh, and by the way, the producers of An Inconvenient Truth are now looking at a sequel.
	Everyone's jumping on the bandwagon.
	This is now going to be about mitigation.
	Like, oh, well, you know, it's too bad.
	We can't really do anything about it, you know, but now we have to be prepared for it.
	And that'll cost you at least $100 billion in research.
	This is what was not reported in this report.
	In fact, it was removed from the...
	So you have the summary for, I think they call it policy makers or some bullshit, which basically means, hey, press, read this.
	The report is so complicated and convoluted.
	Just read the summary.
	And what they pulled out of the summary, which is in the report, is there's at least $100 billion needed to research how to adapt to global warming.
	$100 billion!
	Wow!
	We're in the wrong business!
	Yeah, no kidding.
	$100 billion.
	That's in the report, black and white.
	Yeah.
	The New York Times actually reported...
	Here we go.
	Let me see what the Times had a...
	And nobody sees this as a scam.
	No one cares.
	I'm reading from the New York Times.
	The $100 billion figure included in the 2,500 page main report was removed from a 48 page executive summary to be read by the world's top political leaders.
	It was among the most significant changes made as the summary underwent final review during an editing session of several days in Yokohama.
	The edit came after several rich countries, including the United States, raised questions about the language, according to several people who were in the room at the time, but did not wish to be identified because the negotiations were private.
	This is a bunch of scientists in secret meetings.
	Wow.
	The language is contentious because poor countries are expected to renew their demand for aid this September in New York at a summit meeting of world leaders.
	Yeah, they're not getting any of that.
	No, of course not.
	And the scientists are like, fuck those guys.
	We want the $100 billion.
	Don't give it to some brown people.
	This is for us.
	This is our money.
	We spend all this time writing these reports, and then we're going to have these sand bunnies take our money?
	I don't think so.
	This is a scam of the highest magnitude and everybody's in on it.
	People like Charlie Rose, they're so into it that he doesn't even realize what the fuck he's saying.
	Beyond leadership, which is an important and essential fact, what else has to happen to create the kind of urgency and fear That's a call to action.
	I mean, really?
	What do we need to do to scare people?
	That's what he's saying.
	Play that clip again.
	That's astonishing.
	That's literally what he's saying.
	Beyond leadership.
	That's exactly what he said.
	Which is an important and essential fact.
	What else has to happen to create the kind of urgency and fear that's a call to action?
	Let me give you an example.
	Here's Brian Williams on NBC. He doesn't ask the questions.
	He's a good soldier.
	He's got the memo.
	He's on board.
	On our broadcast tonight, dire warning.
	The prediction tonight that climate change could destabilize human society.
	The American city is under threat, along with food and water supplies.
	Good evening.
	The world has never been spoken to quite this way.
	We've never been warned like this before, all of us, about climate change, nor have so many countries agreed quite this much on the clear and present danger it represents.
	What?
	Here is the takeaway.
	Unless the world changes course quickly and dramatically, the fundamental systems that support human civilization are at risk.
	This is all coming from the UN, and the evidence is convincing enough, in part because so many nations have agreed with these findings, that it will hit home across this country, especially in those population areas where people may need to be on the move faster than they first thought.
	Shut up already!
	Science!
	There is no escape, people.
	You're all fucked!
	You're going to die!
	This is...
	And still, still the general population is going, Hey, have they found that plane yet?
	This is true.
	This has got to be the most frustrating, frustrating experience for these guys.
	They got the $100 billion within their grasp.
	Yes, it's so close, but we need to keep it away from the brownies.
	And it's like they got the money right there, and they just need to wait for the checks to come in.
	But the public is still yawning, oh, whatever.
	Is it going to rain tomorrow?
	That's because there's no evidence of any of this.
	There's a video that the IPCC put out.
	There was a hurricane a couple years ago.
	There's a video that the IPCC put out, which it made no sense really to clip it, but it's a highly produced...
	And it's got the main guy, Michael Oppenheimer.
	I think it's Michael Oppenheimer.
	No, maybe it's Christopher Field.
	One of the two co-chairs.
	And he's walking around looking at scientifics.
	He's got his hands in grain and it's all dry.
	And then he looks up and then clouds form and thunder and lightning.
	And then you see wind and you see people.
	The whole thing is like Al Gore set the standard with an inconvenient truth.
	And everyone's just all over this.
	Do you have that linked in the show notes?
	Yeah, of course.
	We're going to barbecue the earth.
	Let me see.
	So here's the main douche.
	Of course, he has all kinds of conflicts of interest.
	Pachari.
	Oh, that guy.
	I thought they rousted him.
	I thought he was over.
	No, he doesn't get to talk anymore.
	He only gets to do the big presentation up there on the dais.
	The one message that comes out very clearly is that the world has to adapt and the world has to mitigate.
	And the sooner we do that, the less the chances of some of the worst impacts of climate change being faced in different parts of the world.
	Yes, we're all going to die.
	Here's Christopher Field in that same BBC interview.
	And the BBC, they've got the memo.
	And the memo is, okay, everybody, even the deniers...
	Agree that the climate is changing.
	And this is a very smart move, by the way.
	About time.
	Because, of course, the climate is changing.
	But now it's only, well, is it man-made or not?
	But it's moved beyond that into the adaptation stage.
	But I think they lean too heavily on it.
	Because you'll hear that the guy's like, well, yeah, we're also saying we still got to try and stop the warming.
	But the BBC, just listen to how this question is framed and you'll hear that they're all in on this concept of everybody agrees now, but.
	Because what some people who are broadly defined as skeptics say is that actually the impact of your report should be that we look to spending more on adaptation and less on mitigation.
	In other words, not much we can do.
	We know we've got climate change.
	It's going to happen.
	It may or may not be as serious and as widespread as people are saying, but the thing to concentrate on is making sure we're ready for it.
	The BBC's got the message.
	And this guy should just be saying, yep, that's right.
	Yeah, but you notice the difference between the way he presented it, though, compared to Brian Williams.
	Well, there's that.
	I mean, the difference is like night and day.
	I know, but it's beautiful.
	There is an element of the report that capitalizes on opportunities for smart investments concerning adaptation.
	Wow.
	Do you hear what he just said?
	Where did that come from?
	Well, it's true.
	No, but where did that line come from?
	Was it the BBC guy?
	Yeah, no, no.
	This is the co-chair, Christopher Field.
	He's answering the BBC guy and he's saying, yeah, there's an opportunity to make some money here, boys.
	That's literally what he's saying.
	Very mildly coded message.
	Attention, attention.
	Venture capital investors, would you like to make 20% on your investment?
	Stand by and read our report.
	$100 billion coming your way.
	It's kind of a problem.
	From the way I see it.
	This guy?
	The venture capital community was burned by the clean revolution.
	It's almost taken Kleiner Perkins into the world.
	But now there's this $100 billion that's going to come out.
	They're going to try and get some of that.
	No, they say $100 billion needs to be spent.
	Yeah, but it's going to come from the government.
	I'm not sure that God is going to be allowed to throw this money into this pot.
	Are you kidding?
	Because of Solyndra and these other scams.
	No one cares.
	Did they find that plane yet?
	John, please.
	No, I know, but there's enough guys that bitch about this, and we're broke.
	We're in a depression.
	We can't afford to drop $100 billion on just...
	I mean, it's a good way.
	It's a welfare program for scientists.
	You have to write bogus reports, but...
	One of our producers sent me a copy of their electricity bill from California.
	You may have already seen this.
	You now have something called the climate credit on your bill.
	It happens in April and October and you're going to get it too.
	And you get a piece of money back.
	And the way this scam works is there is now a climate tax on businesses, of course the bad polluters in California.
	They give part of that money to you, and of course the rest is just a tax, and they're taxing.
	And you're going to get it somewhere on the back end because somewhere someone's going to have to pay for it.
	So it's kind of like a round robin, and obviously a portion sticks with the government.
	But there is a California climate tax now.
	And to trick you, you're getting a piece of that back on your bill.
	I'd like to know how much you got back, actually, if you can take a look at your bill one of these days.
	I didn't know I got a bill from the state.
	You get an electricity bill.
	It's not from the state.
	Oh, the electricity bill.
	I'll take a look.
	Who gets the California climate credit?
	Households will receive a credit in April and October each year, and small businesses will get the credit each month.
	Most Californians are eligible for the climate credit.
	Oh, sorry.
	You're probably not eligible.
	Believe me.
	The credit goes to households and small businesses located where privately owned utilities regulated by the Public Utilities Commission provide electricity distribution services.
	That includes customers of PG&E, SDG&E, Southern California Edison, Pacific Power, Liberties Utilities, and those who buy electricity generation in those areas from direct access providers and community choice aggregators such as Marine Clean Energy.
	The amount of the credit varies based on utility or electric service provider.
	How California is Tackling Climate Change.
	The Climate Credit is one of several programs California is implementing to fight climate change by limiting greenhouse gas pollution.
	California requires large industries like power plants to reduce the greenhouse gas pollution they emit and pay for their emissions.
	That's a carbon tax.
	The California Climate Credit is your share of the payments made by California's biggest industrial emitters.
	So it's a smart way to do it because you're thinking, hey!
	It's a bribe.
	Yeah.
	Coke Brothers!
	We're taking it from them.
	It's a bribe, exactly.
	All right, let's listen to a little more of this Christopher guy because he says some outrageous stuff in this interview.
	It may or may not be as serious and as widespread as people are saying, but the thing to concentrate on is making sure we're ready for it.
	There is an element of the report that capitalizes on opportunities for smart investments concerning adaptation, but an equally strong message is that the risks of severe and pervasive impacts goes up dramatically in a world that doesn't pay attention to continued emissions of high emissions.
	Basically, we can reduce risk dramatically if we think about decreasing emissions, if we aggressively decrease emissions, and if we combine that with adaptation.
	If there's a single message in the report that comes through more clearly than any other, it's that no matter what we do, we'll face Consequential impacts from climate change.
	We need to be able to manage those, and opportunities for managing them are much better if we face the world with some combination of adaptation and mitigation.
	Opportunities!
	There's lots of opportunities!
	You see, we used to be told, didn't we, that...
	It could cost, what, 5% more than that of world GDP, the kind of climate change that we might expect to have the middle and the end of the century.
	And actually that doesn't seem to come from this report, that actually it is an amount of money that is copable with.
	In the past, I think we tended to take a kind of a linear deterministic view of what the overall impacts of climate change might be, and there was a tendency to translate those into a single number.
	And now I think we have a much broader view of the kinds of factors that are influenced by climate, some of which are easy to put in monetary terms, some of which aren't, some of which are worth more in some value systems than others.
	What does that mean?
	Some that are worth more in some value systems than others?
	Oh, that's a good question.
	What does that mean?
	Well, anyway.
	So, I see us now taking a much more multi-viewpoint, multi-dimensional view of it.
	Oh, he's from Silicon Valley now.
	Multi-dimensional viewpoint.
	Really?
	Climate problem.
	Is he playing holodeck chess?
	Making it really hard to come up with single numbers, but really emphasizing how complicated and difficult the problem is.
	And you think that view is one that will capture people's imaginations, make them feel that they have a chance of coping with this in a manner that perhaps previous more alarmist findings didn't?
	Now this is interesting.
	Now he's going to give an analogy of what the IPCC really is about and who should be using their report.
	Well, let me say that the role of the IPCC is not to motivate action.
	You know, the IPCC is charged with providing a scientific balanced assessment of what's not known and what's not known about...
	There you go.
	What's not known and what's not known...
	Yeah, play that again.
	Yeah, hold on a second.
	That's the part where you said it.
	But that's just a mistake.
	Yeah, I know, but it's great.
	Scientific, balanced assessment of what's not known and what's not known about climate change science.
	I think lots of organizations that are doing climate communications are like bells.
	They're trying to ring as loud and as clear as possible.
	And remember, this is the organizations doing climate communications, John.
	Climate communicate.
	They're trying to ring the bell.
	That's not the IPCC. The IPCC is more like a bell tower.
	It's intended to allow people to climb up to a height where they can get a clear view of what the present looks like and what possible alternative futures look like.
	Yes.
	That's the tower we need to climb, ladies and gentlemen.
	Well...
	Yes.
	Good stuff.
	Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
	Well, then maybe it is time to thank you for your courage and say in the morning to you, John C. Dvorak.
	There's almost enough time to do that.
	I thought you'd have more stuff to talk about, Adam.
	I figured I'd just try and catch you off guard, John.
	But if you'd like me to play some more climate change clips while you open your spreadsheet, I'm happy to do that.
	Do you have more climate change clips?
	No, I'll just play the Charlie Rose one again because it's my favorite.
	Beyond leadership.
	Which is an important and essential fact.
	What else has to happen to create the kind of urgency and fear that's a call to action?
	Koch Brothers!
	There you go.
	Yeah.
	Well, in the morning to you, Adam.
	Hi.
	In the morning to all the ships at sea out there.
	Yes, in the morning to all of our citizens in the chat room, noogenestream.com.
	The feet on the ground, the subs in the water.
	Noogenestream.com.
	I wonder if we still have any subs in the water.
	Because we still have a few subs in the water.
	And I also need to say in the morning to our artists, thank you, Nick the Rat.
	For the album art for 604.
	And don't be discouraged if your art isn't chosen.
	I mean, there are people who have submitted for a long time.
	Oh, I want to bring my favorite story back to the fore.
	Would that be Martin J.J.? Martin J.J. So we had this situation with Martin J.J. who all of a sudden started doing these art pieces that we were picking one after another because it was a series.
	In fact, he had to actually go into semi-retirement because it was so out of control.
	I think he even submitted under a pseudonym at some point.
	He did.
	So, but I was thinking, wow, this guy was unbelievable.
	This guy comes out of the blue light.
	And then I was going back to look for some art for the newsletter, and I went way back to the original earliest postings that's on the art generator, which is not the earliest we've done.
	There used to be another art program that we used before the art generator.
	Wow, really?
	I don't remember that.
	Don't you remember?
	There was a different site, and we went there, and then the art generator came along and kind of just blew the other one out of the water.
	Kind of.
	Anyway, well, that's the story.
	Anyway, so I went way back to the beginning years ago, and there's old Martin J.J. failing, failing, failing.
	He's been submitting for years, apparently.
	But he stuck to it, and then he became one of the top five, if not the top two guys.
	This entire show is a performance.
	As John would say, post-modern performance art.
	And, you know, we have worked for many years, now going on our sixth, seventh year.
	Yeah, we're in our seventh year, perfecting our art.
	And we still, you know, learn and improve every day.
	But if you want to be a, you know, someone who creates art of a certain genre, original art, has a sarcastic, cynical undertone, yet funny, which is very hard to do.
	Keep at it.
	Exactly.
	It's a boot camp of sorts.
	Yeah, you get the hang of it eventually.
	Okay, here we go.
	We have a few people to thank.
	Quite a few, actually.
	A good group.
	One, two, three, four, I guess.
	One, two, three, four, five executive producers, including Gregory Worley.
	$605 of Evington.
	It's been a while since we had a club member, so he'll be the sole 605 club member.
	This has been a while for episode donations.
	Sometimes they do it, sometimes they don't.
	Love the show.
	Can I get a playlist of my favorites, which goes as follows.
	Trains good, planes bad, JC's mac and cheese, and then Karma.
	I see.
	I think there's an Atlas.
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh, gee, how did you miss that?
	All aboard.
	Trains good.
	Planes bad.
	Woo-hoo!
	You slaves can get used to mac and cheese.
	Mac and cheese.
	and cheese, cheddar, melted together.
	Mac and cheese, mac and cheese.
	Mac and cheese.
	Thank you, Gregory Worley.
	Not related to...
	Is he Sir Gregory?
	No, I guess...
	I don't think so.
	Is he related to the other Worley?
	Becky Worley?
	Becky Worley down the street?
	He's not her husband.
	No, he's in Virginia.
	Oh, the Virginians are back.
	That's how it works.
	Oh yeah, we've been meaning to...
	We've been meaning to say...
	We've been meaning to remind Virginians to donate to the show here.
	I mean, seriously, we are kind of working for you guys in a way.
	At some funny level.
	We try to expose NSA for you.
	You should be helping us out a bit.
	And by the way, Koch brothers...
	How about sending some of that five...
	Those guys are two cheap bastards.
	There's no way that they would give all this money away.
	How about sending some of that $500 billion our way?
	$500 billion.
	Really?
	Sir David Foley's back in the saddle with $562.33.
	He's the archduke of Silicon Valley in half of California.
	ITM Adam and Birthday Boy, after reading the newsletter, I just had to take advantage of all these great offers.
	I think anyone who got the last newsletter must have got the kick out of this.
	It was almost like the, what's the thing that you get at home, like the reader or something, but the parade magazine has all these coupons.
	Yeah, it's like a bunch of coupons.
	You stuff my box with coupons.
	But it was fascinating to see all of these donation levels that essentially the producers of this show have created over the years.
	Yeah, and there's only a few of them.
	I'm going to do another group of them on next Wednesday.
	Really?
	Oh, we'll do it again.
	Okay, cool.
	There's a few in there that are just amusing.
	Because what if somebody wanted to get in the 200, the Deuce Club?
	The Deuce Club, right.
	Of course, nobody took any of these offers, but I guess they got it reminded of me.
	Oh, well.
	Anyway, so here's $500 from the founding producer, executive producer, which is what that is.
	So he took advantage.
	$62 to celebrate John's birthday and $0.33 to keep the spooks at bay.
	Thanks for your courage in continuing to promote the best podcast in the universe.
	Thank you for producing.
	He sells 4K. What's his website?
	4kspecial.com?
	Yeah.
	He sells 4K TVs.
	So part of this is your birthday, which will be...
	Wikipedia has it listed as your 62nd birthday.
	Yes, on Saturday.
	That's this Saturday.
	Okay.
	All right.
	A newsletter comes out where I can congratulate myself.
	I'll call you on Saturday.
	You're going to call me what?
	Just call you and say happy birthday.
	Oh, that'd be nice.
	Sir Duane Melanson, the Duke of Mystery in Tigard, Oregon, which I drove past.
	I say it every time, of course.
	$500.
	ITM serves from the Duke of Mystery.
	I'm tardy in donating due to personal chaos, but I couldn't resist the pandas dancing.
	Much better than dogs or kittens.
	This was another test that we did.
	Somebody sent us a note.
	Well, let me finish his note.
	I've been enjoying dropping the Hillary Clinton is uniquely qualified line on people and it leaves everyone speechless.
	It really works well, doesn't it?
	I did it the other day.
	So I'm in Oakland to go to a meat market there that has these...
	Oh, is that what they're calling it these days?
	Yeah.
	So there's this cool little meat market, real specialists.
	And there's a little flea market out in front and there's these two black guys.
	And one of the old black guys, these old guys, like in his late 80s or something, he had a huge button.
	Huge!
	Giant button that said Hillary in 2016.
	I took his picture, by the way.
	Oh, you've got to post that.
	That's great.
	You should.
	Anyway, so these two black guys, they're both all in on Hillary.
	And I dropped the line.
	Right.
	I said, oh, yeah, well, she's the best.
	She says, nobody can beat her.
	And she's the best qualified to run the empire.
	Uniquely qualified.
	Well, I said best.
	Hillary!
	And then what did they say?
	They both nodded.
	Yeah, that's right.
	That's right she is.
	Alex Farrington in Santa Maria, California, 34567, which is actually one of my favorite donation numbers.
	ITM gentlemen, this should complete my knighthood.
	Do we have him down?
	Yep.
	I think so.
	I donated for the show 600 as well as 611 back in 2012.
	No longer a total chump.
	It's also my birthday today.
	Hey!
	Do we have him on that list?
	I think so.
	Let me double check.
	You can continue while I'm checking.
	Thank you for your courage and superb work, and beware of douchebags like Sherman Nilsen and boners like Sheldon of the Shire.
	Douchebag!
	Wait a minute.
	No, he's not on it, but I'm going to put him on right now.
	I don't need anything fancy, just Sir Alex.
	You got it.
	It's fine.
	Farrington's a great last name, by the way.
	I've always liked the name Farrington.
	It has all kinds of...
	It's just interesting.
	It beats Pugner.
	He's meeting Natuliev in Austin, Texas, right down the street from you.
	$333.33.
	And he has the comment, lunch money.
	Yeah, he is, of course, our Baron de Marriott Sheriff of Texas.
	I saw them last night at Miss Mickey.
	We had another little mini expo, the 5x7.
	Yeah?
	This is actually very interesting.
	Have you ever seen one of these 5x7 things?
	No.
	It's done by the Contemporary Museum in Austin here, and they ask a whole bunch of artists, many very famous and some just not so, and then really good ones, to make a 5x7 piece of art, 5 inches by 7 inches.
	And it's not signed or identified.
	And so people who are in the know can say, oh, that's a so-and-so, that's a so-and-so.
	And every single piece of art is $100, but the way it works is they blow an air horn somewhere around 8 o'clock, and the first one, you have to grab the number that's hanging underneath the piece of art.
	Oh, so you have to hang around that one art piece you want.
	Well, last year, that's what I thought.
	Like, oh, you just hang around.
	Like, oh, I'd like to get this piece.
	And there were, like, old ladies kicking me in the crotch to grab this number.
	And this year, I was like, fuck that.
	And I literally, because Mickey wanted one piece, and I stood there, and I cock-blocked people.
	I elbowed people.
	It was hilarious, but very uncomfortable.
	It's all for charity or whatever.
	It's like terrible.
	They shouldn't even allow this sort of thing.
	Well, what's kind of fun is that Mickey had two pieces and people were fighting over them.
	That I love watching.
	Yeah, that's cool.
	Anyway, so we saw Sir Gene last night.
	It was good to see him because it's been so busy.
	And I think lunch money means take me out to lunch.
	Oh.
	Yeah.
	Oh, I get it.
	It's like a gas euro, you know?
	Like you kind of get it, but not really.
	Yeah, okay.
	Well, let's go on.
	Craig Kuttner in Norwalk, Connecticut, 27718.
	Guess I'll be Sir Craig of Cable.
	I've been listening since before 2010, which marked my first of many random donations, but I stepped up.
	Your product is outstanding.
	Besides whatever producer credit I get, I want to make sure that $111 goes to Club 33 Disaster Relief Fund.
	I'm sure the Red Cross has promised you matching grants.
	Now, there's an idea.
	There's a story behind that.
	We need to do a benefit.
	We need to do a...
	I bet they'd call out Naughty Nancy to the stage, and I'd also like to contribute one $69.69 for now, and put one into the Swazilov Insurance Fund.
	There should be a crisis of confidence and an unfortunate gap of donations that may occur, and I... As much as I enjoy the donation segment, I've overstayed my welcome, yes, and would like a Don't Eat Me Hillary LGY Karma.
	Don't Eat Me Hillary Clinton!
	Yay!
	You've got karma.
	Hey, we should call Clooney and we should put together a telethon for the Club 33.
	We can get a bunch of celebrettis to join in.
	Yeah, Brian, then we just pocket the money and then go to Haiti and live it up in the Clinton Hotel.
	Now you're talking, John.
	Sir, whoever had $250 from Camp Lejeune in North Carolina.
	If he works at the camp, he's in the army.
	We don't know.
	Thank you.
	You've got a note, apparently, that you may or may not want to read.
	I do?
	Oh, okay.
	Let me...
	That's interesting.
	Okay, well, while you're looking at the note, we'll go back to it.
	I'll see if I can find the note.
	Eric's Harjo in Cardiff, UK, 22222.
	Thanks for the awesome show.
	I accept my apologies for not being able to help you out more, as I'm a poor factory worker in the UK. Ex-teacher from Latvia.
	I wanted to add a little bit to John's rant about young and hot-looking Latvians.
	I'll be 31 on the 3rd of April and I just simply can't buy alcohol because I look like I'm in my late teens.
	The same with my MILF wife.
	She's 31 in May.
	I just usually say thank you for the compliments and go and try my luck in another shop or go home and get my ID. Young-looking Latvian jeans.
	I can't even buy a nice cold refreshing beer after a long day at work.
	Okay, great for the Latvians.
	He's also got to redirect www2030.tips.
	He mentioned in a...
	I don't know.
	Did I get a letter from him that was printed out?
	He had some other commentary about the Latvians and the Ukrainians.
	It may have been someone else.
	I'll get to it eventually.
	Anyway, pronounce my name.
	Do it like the Scandinavian manner, so it would be...
	Attucks Hopsgill?
	Eric's Hario.
	Hario, yeah.
	Eric's Hario in Cardiff, and that's that.
	And he says, can I please get the FU Cancer Karma so it stays away from our third upcoming human resource?
	Yes.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	You've got karma.
	Absolutely.
	Which reminds me.
	John?
	Yes?
	And I will do the full list in a moment, but it's apropos to do it now.
	By presidential proclamation, and this is a new way of looking at it, a new term, it is officially National Cancer Control Month.
	That's a weird one.
	It's no longer Prevention Month or Cure Month, it's Control Month.
	More money and control.
	That's right.
	Control improves.
	Despite the strides, cancer remains the second leading cause of death in our country.
	We need to control cancer.
	That's new.
	It used to be, let's fight it, let's knock it out, let's get rid of it, let's cure it.
	But this is the pharmaceutical industry.
	We just need to control it.
	Yeah, that's their business.
	They do some of the best work in this country.
	I mean, they make money left hand over fist.
	They've done nothing for antibiotics.
	They're probably all going to die of some crazy disease that ravishes the whole world because these guys have been sitting on their hands making Cialis and things like that.
	I do have a message.
	None of us gets out of this alive.
	I've heard that.
	That's for sure.
	Anonymous Mr.
	Peabody in University of Arkansas.
	22222.
	He also came in with some accounting.
	I think he becomes a knight today, doesn't he?
	Yes, and he becomes a knight, and he has a note.
	Greetings and salutations, dear Lewis and Clark.
	Peabody here.
	Job karma works, but I look forward to one last time of John trying to say Nacotish.
	Every time it comes out, Nacogdocious, which is in Texas.
	Not Arkansas.
	It would be like Adam saying, hey John, you went to Palo Alto for college.
	Nevertheless, for my last, which is, I went to Berkeley.
	Palo Alto's where Stanford is, and so that would be very insulting.
	That's the connection he's making.
	It's insulting to call Nacotish, Nacogdocious.
	Nacogdocious, Nacogdocious, right, got it.
	Nevertheless, for my last $22, I decided to go to old school.
	No email, no PayPal, no bank.
	And I find the old school money.
	Notice the silver certificates.
	One for each of you.
	Oh, nice.
	Did you send that to the P.O. Box?
	Yeah.
	Wow.
	Yeah.
	When I get cash, I put a cash deposit in.
	Okay.
	But not with the silver certificates.
	No, I just keep that.
	Just stay out.
	Yeah.
	You have to fight over who gets the $5 and the $10.
	I guess there's silver certificate fives and tens.
	That's nice.
	I guess you can find that kind of stuff in Arkansas.
	Also, there's two silver dollars.
	They're Eisenhower dollars.
	Hope Adam can turn the last penny, as this puts me, at 999.99.
	Oh, well, of course we can drop that in.
	No problem.
	Please knight me as Sir...
	Mr.
	Peabody.
	And can I ask for a hey, citizen, squirrel, two to the head, pot calling the kettle.
	Keep up the good work and thank you for your courage.
	So, hey, citizen, squirrel, two to the head, okay.
	Hey, citizen.
	Hello, kettle?
	This is the pot calling.
	Hello.
	You've got karma.
	There you go.
	That was a tough one.
	Tough one.
	That wasn't easy.
	Mr.
	Peabody, I know where he's from, and I'm going to request from him a...
	Have the authorities dropped by?
	I'm going to request from him a zippered hoodie.
	Oh, God.
	Okay.
	We're back on that again.
	All right.
	Hey.
	That's your twitch stick.
	I... Well...
	Yeah.
	It is...
	And it works.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	And it makes you look so fashionable.
	Yeah, there's nothing more fashionable than a hoodie.
	From a university.
	College hoodies.
	From obscure schools.
	Martin Brown, $200 in New Mills High Peak Derbyshire, UK. I wonder what High Peak's doing.
	New Mills High Peak, I don't know.
	I need some karma, work karma.
	John and I, by the way, love the show, but hate what you've done making me wake up.
	Uh-oh.
	Yeah, it's a problem.
	My football team, Manchester City, has sold themselves for billions of pounds to the Arabs.
	Now we are top team winning stuff, but I cannot watch a game without now thinking, oh, how did he miss that shot?
	Oh, yes, it's all six.
	Yeah, exactly.
	You've ruined it for me.
	This is my side.
	Bought their way to the top, you bastards.
	All right, Martin.
	Love the show, Martin.
	And here's your jobs karma.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	You've got karma.
	That team, but okay.
	I'm an Arsenal fan.
	Alrighty.
	Just kidding.
	Manchester City is great.
	Anyway, that's our group here for today.
	I want to thank them for contributing to the show 605.
	606, by the way, which is a lucky number coming up next Sunday, which will also be the day after my birthday.
	Go to Dvorak.org slash NA and make sure to open and read the newsletter.
	There'll be another one coming out on Saturday.
	Well, it's actually the personal letter on Saturday.
	And a hearty, heartfelt thanks to our executive producers and associate executive producers for today.
	Brand new nights.
	Nighting coming up after our thank you segment for all the other producers who came in to support the show today.
	And these, of course, are actual credits.
	You can use them anywhere credits are accepted.
	That includes your LinkedIn account.
	And we will always vouch for these credits as producerships, unlike the phonies in Hollywood.
	Please support the next show by going to...
	And of course, we always need you all to go out and propagate our one and only formula.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Hey, citizen, sir.
	Shut up, slave.
	Shut up, Steve.
	Let me give you the rest of the list, John, of today's, actually for the month, the presidential proclamations.
	Now, of course, we knew this one was coming.
	These are proclamations, not orders.
	No, these are proclamations.
	Okay.
	So a lot of people will say, hey, you know, it's a fix-your-face month or whatever.
	No, no, no.
	If it's not a presidential proclamation, it does not count.
	Just because some trade association jumped in and said it doesn't work.
	But it is, of course, we had...
	By presidential proclamation, World Autism Awareness Day.
	Now, we knew this was coming.
	That was on April 1st.
	And we knew it was coming because the CDC came out with a report right on time.
	And autism speaks.
	The huge NGO was out there.
	And I have to say, I'm really sorry.
	I don't trust these guys.
	No.
	This is all about money.
	This is all about money for research.
	It's just like, at a certain point, we'll have World Autism Control Day, because we're never going to solve it, you see.
	It'll just be, oh, we need to be able to control it.
	With drugs.
	Yeah.
	I do not see this going well, although I'm sure there's lots of work that is being done.
	The president, in his proclamation, says, last year, I launched the Brain Research through the Advanced Innovative Neurotechnologies Initiative.
	Which is an acronym for BRAIN. Get it?
	A program that aims to revolutionize our understanding of the human mind by unlocking new knowledge of the brain.
	Unlocking.
	It's always unlocking something.
	Yeah, we can pave...
	As though it's locked.
	We can pave the way for myriad medical breakthroughs, including a greater appreciation for the science of autism.
	Science of autism.
	Science!
	What makes America exceptional are the bonds that hold together the most diverse nation on earth.
	Today, let us celebrate our differences, but also let us acknowledge our responsibilities to each other and move forward as one.
	What does that mean?
	Wow!
	So, whatever.
	Okay, these things are disturbing to me.
	Let's see what else we have on our list.
	Of course, today is Cesar Chavez Day.
	Which we celebrate, one of America's greatest champions for social justice.
	Nobody remembers him.
	We got Cesar Chavez Road here in Texas.
	It is also National Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month.
	And we also celebrate our presidential proclamation.
	National Financial Capability Month.
	What does that even mean?
	I need to read some of this to you.
	Thanks to the grit and determination of the American people, our nation has cleared away the rubble of the worst recession since the Great Depression.
	My God, the guy's a poet.
	As we continue to create jobs and grow our economy, families strive to rebuild their finances and shore up their futures.
	During National Financial Capability Month, we renew our drive to give all Americans the tools to navigate the financial world and gain the economic freedom to pursue their own measure of happiness.
	Oh, well.
	In today's economy, financial capability is essential for some of life's biggest transitions.
	Paying for college, buying a home, saving for retirement.
	What?
	Like 0.1% interest?
	Yeah, savings is going great.
	A solid understanding of the marketplace is easier to avoid scams, spot misleading information, and decipher complex paperwork.
	For free resources on managing money and making the best decisions for you, visit mymoney.gov and consumerfinance.gov or call 1-888-MY-MONEY. Call now while stocks last.
	Operators are standing by.
	That would probably help me understand how that Capital One bank charges me 23% interest on just buying something.
	And I pay on time, but there's a...
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	This purchase is eligible for interest.
	Huh?
	You mentioned that one.
	Yeah.
	Maybe I have the bill here.
	It's eligible.
	I like the way it's eligible.
	Take a floor by the cops.
	You know, I've just termed that you're eligible for a ticket.
	But only a portion of that is eligible.
	I think if you take money out of the ATM, which I didn't do, I'm only trying to build up credit foolishly enough.
	But seriously, there's like this portion of this month's bill eligible for 23% interest.
	I only use the card to purchase something.
	I'm paying the bill on time, but I automatically have a $2 fee in there as eligibility for interest.
	Get a different card.
	Those guys are scammers.
	No, but I thought that this is what our Native American Indian woman...
	What's in your wallet?
	Yeah, but a scam is what's in my wallet.
	Ha!
	A big scam.
	All right.
	That's terrible.
	You know, by the way, nobody else would ever discuss these charges.
	Because they advertised.
	No, because all of a sudden, we're sorry.
	We're not going to advertise anymore on your network.
	We're not going to be advertising it with your network anymore.
	Yes, we've looked at these two boneheads.
	Yeah, we've looked at your podcast.
	We've looked at your podcast network.
	And, yeah, we think we're going to probably spend our money elsewhere where people aren't so critical of us helping to build the American economy.
	You unpatriotic a-holes.
	Also, my presidential proclamation today, this is National Child Abuse Prevention Month.
	As mentioned previously, National Cancer Control Month.
	And, yeah, it is National Donate Life Month.
	Donate your life!
	What?
	Are we Mayans now?
	We have to, like, throw ourselves off the temple?
	Each day in quiet hospital rooms and busy offices, in familiar sanctuaries and family living rooms, people make the courageous decision to give the gift of life.
	After passing his first driving test, an elated teenager adds a life-saving symbol to his license.
	While struggling to comprehend their own loss, grieving parents choose to help another child live.
	During National Donate Life Month, we celebrate those who provide the vital organ, eye, and tissue donations.
	You could have these eyes.
	Good luck with that.
	Hey, good news, you got an eye.
	Bad news, it was Curry's eye.
	The right one.
	We bring new hope to the growing list of men, women, and children who still need a donation.
	Alright, go to organdonor.gov.
	Alright, so I am not doing this because I believe it makes you a target.
	Okay.
	Or organs.
	There's a lot of people that think that.
	Yeah, I think that way.
	Unless they stiffen the laws for, you know, people stealing organs.
	Or, you know, hey, the guys, or you're sitting there in the ambulance.
	Is he going to make it?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, well, really?
	What's in it for me?
	Yeah, exactly.
	Yeah, what's in your wallet?
	Well, let's check.
	Let's see if there's a...
	Oh, he's a life donor.
	Oh, there we go.
	Oh, boy.
	What can we do?
	That's terrible that you'd even have those kinds of thoughts.
	In this country, you landed the free home of the brave.
	Well, the Armageddon is so upon us, John.
	You and I track this.
	We know, of course, that in dire financial and economic times, the hookers get better looking and there's more of them.
	I think that's a fact.
	Everyone can see that for themselves.
	Just go to backpage.com.
	We know that depression food makes an entree.
	Mac and cheese has become a luxury worldwide.
	It truly is gourmet now.
	It's hilarious.
	And this report just proved it all to me.
	Well, a fledgling South Bend business got a devastating blow yesterday morning when employees arrived to find thousands of dollars of damage to the building.
	Even more astounding, it's believed to be the handiwork of a single 19-year-old student reportedly from Notre Dame.
	Megan Hickey has more on the suspect.
	Brian McCurran, who was arrested for burglary, vandalism, and underage drinking.
	And Megan, the destruction is something you really have to see to believe.
	Right, Terry.
	He allegedly used heavy objects like a cement flower pot and tools like a hammer to attempt to bust through every possible entrance.
	Then once inside, he wreaked havoc on the business itself.
	And the only reason police were able to make an arrest is because he passed out in the kitchen while snacking on a large amount of Hot Pockets.
	There you go.
	The end is near.
	Now, see, I'm going to have to do this.
	Hold on a second.
	Hi!
	We don't do it that often in many shows.
	We haven't had a lot of clips of the day, but that thing is just too priceless.
	Actually, if I played the rest of the report, you'd shit yourself.
	You want to hear more?
	There's a little more to it.
	I left it just in case.
	He pounded his way in through...
	The wall.
	Day Spa owner Sarah Rose Frazier can barely comprehend the damages.
	He walked all around the building and picked up about a 100 pound flower pot and threw it into the door where it has a stained glass window in the middle.
	And broke that, crawled through there, actually cut himself.
	After getting into the porch, McCurran appears to have used a hammer to bore through a wall.
	Once inside, lamps, mirrors, and bowls were smashed and thrown.
	He got his hands on a fire extinguisher, and that trail led police upstairs, where McCurran was found asleep.
	He went through half a box of Hot Pockets, ate through that while macaroni and cheese he was warming up in an antique-style oven.
	I mean, does it get any better?
	Hot Pockets and macaroni and cheese.
	So what we're dealing with here is a guy...
	It's a zombie apocalypse!
	And they live on hot pockets and mac and cheese.
	And he doesn't know any better than to eat Hot Pockets and mac and cheese.
	Food!
	Food!
	This is a pathetic story.
	Food!
	Now, what's pathetic is...
	Okay, you got me baffled.
	Zunzunio, the CIA, State Department, USAID, Cuban version of Twitter.
	Oh, you haven't heard about this?
	No, I'm completely on my call years.
	Oh my goodness.
	Okay, so the Associated Press, this is for once, it's not a...
	Let me bring up the link here.
	For once, it's not a Snowden revelation.
	But now it has come to light that the USAID created a social network called Zunzunio, which apparently means something like Twitter in Cuban slang.
	And they had it running with like 40,000 people tweeting or twittering on this network in Cuba.
	And the whole idea behind it was to create havoc and flash mobs and get people all riled up.
	Now this thing closed in 2012.
	Due to lack of funding.
	But this is a big story.
	Why would it be lack of funding?
	What does it cost to run a server in the background?
	Well, here's what I think.
	Why do that when you have the real Twitter?
	Who gives a crap?
	It's the same thing.
	You can use the real Twitter.
	And they started this in 2009.
	It was probably a hedge at the time.
	But you've got the real Twitter, which is also funded by the CIA, State Department.
	It's perfect!
	I love this.
	I thought that was a perfect story.
	And for once, it's not coming from Snowden, which is even better.
	Yes.
	Here is a...
	Apparently, the...
	The president of the Chinese honcho, the head of the Communist Party, you know, that guy was raised in the United, or not raised, but he lived in the United States for a while.
	He's been floating around Europe doing deals, and it's not reported much in the U.S. press.
	Who are we talking about here?
	Xi, whatever his name is.
	Oh, Xi?
	He was in France, wasn't he?
	No, well, actually, yes.
	He went to the Netherlands and spent most of his time there.
	The hookers.
	And then he, and he's doing deals, and there's a long report on CCTV on this, but I have the best, kind of the end of the report, which tells all the deals he did.
	He went there, then he went to France for a couple days, then he went to Germany, and he met with Merkel, and then he went to Belgium, where he met with Rumpoy, and the king, or whatever.
	The prince, yeah, the king, whatever, yeah.
	The king.
	But here's what came of it.
	It's kind of interesting.
	We must uphold open markets, speed up negotiations on investment agreements, actively explore the possibility of a free trade area, and strive to achieve the ambitious goal of bringing two-way trade to a trillion U.S. dollars by 2020.
	Politics aside, business was another focus on Xi's European tour.
	A number of business deals were signed, including an order for 70 planes worth over 10 billion euros with France's Airbus and a 1 billion euro deal for the German car company Daimler to expand its presence in China.
	And during his four-nation tour of Europe, President Xi Jinping signed a number of agreements covering a wide range of areas.
	And China's dairy industry is said to receive expertise from the Netherlands, the two countries having signed a deal allowing Dutch experts to help China increase its annual milk production to 40 billion kilograms.
	A food security system will be jointly built by Yili Group, one of China's largest dairy producers, and Wageningen University of the Netherlands.
	China and France signed agreements worth 18 billion euros, and this included the purchase of 70 Airbus planes from France.
	The two countries will also produce 1,000 civilian helicopters over 20 years.
	During Xi's visit in Germany, the car company Daimler signed deals with Beijing Automotive Industry Corporation.
	To expand the production capacity in Beijing and the two countries, central banks also inked an agreement, allowing RMB-dominated payments to be cleared and settled in Frankfurt.
	And during the visit in Brussels, China and EU agreed to accelerate the talks on free trade pact, increased value to trade and investment.
	You know, I know a little bit about the milk thing.
	The Netherlands, of course, is a dairy country, and I think we talked about on the show a while back, there was an actual shortage of milk for infants, because the milk factories at the time, I don't think they were owned by the Chinese.
	Now there's a huge ownership stake of the Chinese in the Dutch dairy industry.
	They had basically sold all of the infant milk to China.
	And of course the government was like, whoa, hold on a second, because they literally could not get milk for infants in the Netherlands, because they, you know, typical Dutch, they don't give a crap about their own people, they sell it to the Chiners.
	And they're buying up everything.
	Now the Chinese have decided to increase their own production at home.
	And the way they do business, it seems to me, with the irony of this whole story, is that they'll be exporting their milk into Hong Kong at some point in the future.
	And I would also expect them to be building these giant jets eventually.
	I mean, the Chinese are not going to just sit on their laurels and let Boeing and Airbus build all the passenger planes.
	That will take a while, but that's definitely going to happen.
	Do you think this has to do with anything at all with the TPP, which of course excludes China?
	Oh, absolutely.
	Well, that's interesting because I was...
	Wait, let me just mention a couple of things that were kind of in there you couldn't hear.
	One was they were going to do some currency...
	Do some deals and it's not going to be in U.S. dollars.
	International currencies work with the central banks of Germany.
	But there's also this discussion, and I want to play another clip in a minute, this discussion with the Chinese to create these free trade zones.
	This is a little underlying kind of subtext to a bunch of stuff going on.
	These free trade zones do exist around the world, and they allow people to move goods in and out without tariffs coming.
	It's a tariff-free zone.
	It becomes an attraction for international businesses.
	It's something of a scam, but it's...
	They're very popular.
	Well, it's a pass-through, right?
	Yeah, it's kind of a pass-through, but it becomes its own thing.
	It's a pass-through, but it's...
	Can you give me an example of one of these free-trade zones?
	I think Dubai is one of these places.
	Well, yeah, that would make sense.
	But the one that's interested me the most is what Russia...
	This is not being reported by anybody.
	But Medvedev, Medvedev, you know, the guy that used to be...
	Yeah, the Medvedev.
	The ex-president, now he's the prime minister.
	He switched his roles at Putin.
	There's two things.
	There's this clip about him.
	He wants to turn Crimea into a free trade zone, which is very interesting.
	But this report comes from RT. During this report, she pronounces his name a number of times.
	And tell me if you could make out how his name is supposed to be pronounced.
	I can't.
	We'll make Crimea a special economic zone with tax breaks for investors, as far as we understand, both Russian and foreign.
	This is what we heard from Russia's Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, who is in Crimea's capital, Simferopol, today.
	This region is not very attractive economically these days, and of course this move, this decision is expected to help boost the regional economy.
	Dmitry Medvedev has come here to discuss the economic development but broader the integration of this new region into Russia's political, social, economic, cultural life.
	Because today this is the main concern of not only Crimea's or Russian authorities but also local residents.
	Medvedev's visit is a very significant Second one, because the Prime Minister is the first Russian high-ranking official to visit this region after a historic referendum two weeks ago here that made this piece of land part of the Russian Federation.
	But we expect more visits like this one to come.
	I couldn't understand what she says.
	Anyway, there's free trade zones.
	I'm looking them up.
	They're all over the place, and many of them within a country like Egypt has like nine.
	They're little city states.
	That's, of course, because of the Suez Canal there.
	That's not listed.
	No, it is.
	The Suez Public Free Zone.
	Okay.
	Are you done with this?
	Because I want to hook into this on something.
	Well, no.
	Yeah, I am.
	But a lot of this seems to me to have something to do with the dollar, with the petrodollar.
	Yes.
	And this is weird.
	I'm actually going to tie this into Malaysian Flight MH370. Oh, bro.
	Okay.
	The show's all yours.
	If you think you can pull this off and it's the first half of the show, you know?
	Yeah.
	I think this is first half of the show.
	This is not second half.
	Because it actually has very little to do with what happened to the plane itself.
	Which is interesting because even we had a shooting here at Fort Hood, which is great for the president.
	He came out immediately, oh, we're so sorry about what's happening.
	And please don't talk about Obamacare.
	It's good we have a shooting.
	But it didn't take long.
	Of course, it's not a terror shooting.
	It's just a couple of guys who pissed at each other and started shooting up the place.
	We want to point out, by the way, that because people came in with a six-week, six-week?
	No, no.
	The six-week thing is May 1st.
	Yeah.
	This is not six weeks.
	Every murder and, you know, guy jumping off a bridge is not going to do with the six-week cycle and neither does this.
	And this is just people shooting each other up in a gun-free zone where no one could stop the guy.
	In Texas.
	Yeah.
	How about a gun-free zone on a military base in Texas?
	It doesn't get any crazier.
	Anyway, put it right back to the plane.
	And the reason why I asked you about the TPP, this is the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which is essentially an agreement for a free trade zone with a number of countries in Asia.
	And I believe that this...
	Maybe not what...
	So what happened to Flight 370, I don't know.
	All we actually know is we stopped receiving the ADS-B as it was traveling due north-northeast towards Beijing.
	And everything else after that is speculation, you know, bullcrap as far as...
	Just people making stuff up.
	The story has changed a million times.
	But the first story we got...
	Is that somehow, right after they said goodnight, they turned sharp left, actually, not just west, but west-southwest, towards the Strait of Malacca, and then continued all the way up that straight.
	Now, you might actually, if you're able to, as you're listening to this show, you might want to bring up a map of Malaysia.
	There are a number of strategic maritime passages in the world.
	Panama Canal, the Strait of Aden, the Suez Canal, and the Malacca Strait.
	The Malacca Strait, which goes right past Malaysia, down through Indonesia, that is the only connection, it is the most direct route for China to ship its stuff to Europe and to the west.
	It is, I think, 40% of all the world's shipping trade goes through there.
	And it's obviously strategically important.
	Now, the TPP has been in negotiation for a while, ever since the Obama administration came up with the pivot to Asia.
	And the one country that has been making problems about this, that has been a thorn in the eye of this agreement, is, yeah, Malaysia.
	Now, the minute this plane apparently had turned left, we had the, I think it's the 7th Fleet, steam right in there to save the day.
	We brought in the guided missile destroyer, the USS Kidd.
	We brought in another destroyer, the USS Pinckney.
	We have P-3 and P-8 anti-submarine planes flying overhead.
	And once they were positioned, oh no, it's Australia, Indian Ocean, Kazakhstan, anywhere but there.
	And if you look at, well actually I'll play a clip or two here, and this Malaysian thorn-in-the-eye stuff Really started just only a month ago, and it's about tobacco and some other financial things, and they're really blocking it.
	And you recall there was this other guy, what's his name?
	Now this is the trade route from usually Guangdong and the southern provinces that have all the shipping companies and Hong Kong to Europe.
	Yes.
	This has got nothing to do with the stuff they trade with us.
	Europe.
	But 40% of all shipping trade goes through here.
	Anwar Ibrahim is the opposition guy, the CIA shill who has all these bank accounts, you'll recall, but all the CIA millions of dollars.
	He's the opposition and they tried to throw him back into jail on these trumped up charges that he slept with his driver or his wife's driver.
	I think this guy is waiting in the wings, and the main thing that has to happen, and this is how we do it in America, we like to destabilize governments, we like to make them look like fools, we like to make them look like they're incompetent, and it seems to be working if you listen to the prostitutes reporting on it.
	It's not as open a society as we have here.
	There's also not a lot of experience handling a crash of this magnitude.
	Of course, this is unprecedented.
	Right.
	I mean, there is that, Arthur.
	Because, you know, they also had originally indicated it was the co-pilot who spoke, all right, good night.
	Now, not only are they changing the words, but also saying, well, it might not have been him.
	Right.
	They're doing a forensic investigation.
	But, again, why would that have happened?
	I mean, do you think this is really just because this is a society not used to a free press?
	Well, in Malaysia, the dissemination of information is controlled by the ruling party.
	This, by the way, is a CIA, a retired CIA guy who's giving us this gem of information.
	The authorities are just not used to having their words questioned.
	And I think that carried over into how this investigation was handled.
	But more importantly, bottom line here is, from the get-go, this was adjunct incompetence.
	Incompetence at every level.
	This is the meme that...
	Okay, I... I think you're absolutely correct on this.
	This has been going on since the plane first disappeared.
	They went right after these guys.
	They went after their competency, their secretiveness, and now it's got, yeah, this is a pre-rubbleizing.
	And we have a shill in the game.
	You've probably heard about this guy who apparently a black picture with XIF data showed up with a tweet that he said he had hid his iPhone in his ass.
	And he was now somewhere with a hood over his head, but he was able to tweet this picture.
	It doesn't get any crazier.
	The guy's name is Philip Wood.
	And so this is the story that is roaming around.
	know, literally, and serious...
	I've seen some serious reporting that he hid an iPhone in his anus.
	This is literally the words being used.
	If you can do that, right off the bat, you should be president of the world if you can fit that in your bud.
	But anyway, Philip Wood's partner, Sarah Bajic, B-A-J-C, She has been on every single news program.
	If you Google her and look at videos, she's been on everything.
	And this is the most recent, I won't play the whole thing unless you want to hear it, but this is the most recent moment that she was on television, on news, talking about, of course, the Malaysian government.
	Now listen to the cadence, listen to how she speaks.
	This woman, of course, should be distraught about the loss of her partner or the not knowing.
	She also has an IFB in which she keeps touching because, of course, someone's talking in her ear.
	Wow.
	Well, it's starting to feel like it's an intentional series of distractions, is what it feels like.
	You know, they spent a week looking in one place.
	Oops, that's the wrong place.
	And then they shifted to another because of evidence.
	And then that's the wrong place.
	So they shifted again.
	And at the end of this prior shift, the government was so certain that they had the right location that they made a pronouncement that the flight was down and everybody was dead.
	But now they've got new evidence.
	So apparently the old evidence wasn't correct.
	So they must have to withdraw that original statement because they can't be certain anymore.
	So now there's a new place.
	You know, it's just like a magician playing tricks on the audience.
	Is this how you talk when you're distraught, when your life partner has been missing for 28 days?
	No, this is where I heard this woman's an actress.
	That must be incredibly difficult for you emotionally.
	How's the BBC? It's frustrating.
	I think we are all being...
	You know, if Mickey was gone for 28 days, here's what I would not be going, you know, it's really frustrating.
	Unless I had hookers all over the place!
	Then you'd have a smile in your voice.
	Who talks like this?
	Hoodwinked at this point.
	Hoodwinked!
	And, you know, if they end up coming up with real wreckage of the plane, then I'll take my words back.
	Because it is possible that I'm just at a frustration point that I'm no longer being rational.
	You sound pretty damn rational, lady.
	Too irrational.
	It just seems ridiculous that a flight that size could have evaded all scrutiny in today's world.
	So let's just talk about the scrutiny briefly, because finally someone, and I have to give Candy Crowley credit, because I don't know how she gets away, but she gets to go off script all the time, and I do appreciate her for that.
	Here she is with Fineboggle, asking about satellite images.
	Because I wanted to ask you about these satellite pictures, because there's a lot of question when you see them.
	They're kind of fuzzy.
	You can't really tell.
	Here's one now.
	You know, you look down, you can see stuff in the ocean.
	I want to compare it to something else, which is a satellite picture of the bin Laden compound in Pakistan.
	You can see trucks.
	You can see housing.
	Now, I'm told a lot of this has to do with the angle of the satellite, that you get blurry the more out of angle the satellite is.
	But there are a lot of people who don't believe that the U.S. and others with sophisticated technology can't actually see better than the pictures we're seeing.
	Well, I think it depends on the satellite and the resolution that's provided by the satellite and how sophisticated the satellite is.
	Is this Feinstein?
	I'm not going to go into what we have or what we don't have.
	But I think what I just said suffices.
	The point is...
	Not suffices.
	Shut up.
	Yeah, exactly.
	The point is, everyone knows this is bull crap, these satellite images.
	So this is my conclusion.
	It is irrelevant what happened to the plane.
	The way this actress is talking, I actually don't think it was blown to bits.
	We need to obfuscate, and you know my view is that the Pentagon knows where every single craft is, whether it's a plane, a submarine, whatever, they know where it is.
	They need to obfuscate this for as long as possible, keep it going for as long as possible, and keep making the Malaysian government look like idiots.
	And they're doing themselves no favors, by the way.
	And now you're seeing the news reports, well, it's always been a corrupt government.
	So before you know it...
	We're going to see some kind of anger.
	Something's going to happen.
	But for sure, this is intended whether our own government had anything to do with the disappearance of the flight or not.
	They are using that to pressure the Malaysian government.
	And I think there's going to be riots and shit going on for them to sign up with the TPP. Let's, why is the question I have to ask, because this is China's little conduit that they use.
	Now, is it the screw with, I mean, the answer based on our show's thesis is it's the screw with the Chinese.
	We will have control over the Strait of Malacca.
	But how are we going to manage to do that?
	Well, the minute they're in the, okay, if you look at the TPP, Right?
	Yeah.
	The TPP is all about the free trade zone, and China's not a part of the TPP. So then we get to negotiate, the TPP or the TPP partners get to negotiate with anyone who wants to come to the Strait of Malacca.
	It's truly about control of the shipping lane, and we've got our destroyers in there right now just for extra measure.
	I can't find any logical flaw in this idea.
	And it makes sense because we've been doing this sort of thing to the Chinese every chance we get because they're so aggressive.
	And what they're doing, so what are they doing in return?
	They've got this crazy rail line to Europe, which works.
	It takes 18 days, but stuff is now arriving.
	They're shipping stuff by train.
	That's their hedge.
	Okay, well, that hedge is going to probably be what...
	I think it's more than a hedge.
	I think they're going to rely on that.
	Well, they will have to.
	But it's so easy to blow up a track.
	Yeah.
	Because what's going to happen is the train...
	Because that train has to go through a lot of places that are not friendly.
	But also, this list came out about which movies have been financed by the Department of Defense.
	And do you see that list?
	No.
	All the James Bond movies, you know, there's a lot of dumb, like the typical ones, you know, any war movie.
	They put some producer money in?
	Oh, yeah, big time.
	Okay.
	But the one that caught my eye was the Captain Phillips movie.
	The Tom Hanks, Captain Phillips piracy movie.
	Right.
	Then this is by design because piracy.
	Who goes out there and protects against the pirates in the TPP zone?
	We will.
	And, you know, it's just as easy to unleash some pirates on some China stuff.
	This is not beyond what we do, what our elites do, John.
	This is totally right up our alley.
	I like it.
	I'm liking it.
	We need to control this.
	So I'm saying...
	While everyone's looking for the plane, let's take a look at what's happening on the ground in Malaysia.
	We already have the riots whenever they do a new press conference.
	That's what you see continuously.
	People screaming, there's armed guards everywhere.
	I predict riots in the street, created on Twitter, of course, riots in the street in Malaysia calling for this government to step down, and then it's even possible that we'll have our guy, Anwar bin Ibrahim, Step up again and say, here I am, fellas.
	I'm ready to take over.
	And as it turns out, one of the pilots was a supporter of Anwar Ibrahim, just for good little measure there.
	Yeah, that's a good one.
	Just nice little good measure.
	He was alive today.
	He would have voted for me.
	Exactly.
	I'm going to have to take a look at this train again.
	There was just a news story I had in the show notes the other day where there was a...
	Chinese build stuff fast so they can get this train done probably within the next five years.
	No, it's already running.
	No, something arrived here.
	Chinese train goods arrival.
	Something arrived in Germany the other day.
	From the Chinese train?
	Yes.
	Freight train.
	Here it is.
	Some other lines because they haven't built the tracks all the way across.
	There's no way...
	Well, I do have...
	This is from August 2013, but that's not the one that we're talking about, probably.
	Let me just take a look on the book of knowledge here.
	It was a story that showed up just the other day.
	Here we go.
	Chinese president congratulates Duisburg Silk Road.
	This is Xi again.
	Xi was there when the train arrived.
	I'm opening up the link here.
	During his European tour, the Chinese President Xi Jinping took time to visit and celebrate the arrival of the Yuxinu train, which connects the cities of Chongqing, central China, and Duisburg, Germany.
	The new intermodal connection to Europe's largest inland harbor will just take 16 days to reach Chinese mainland, and has hoped that the new link will greatly strengthen economic ties between the two nations.
	There you go.
	So it arrived.
	16 days.
	Mm-hmm.
	Which is faster than a ship.
	What is the town that is...
	What is the port of exit from China?
	Chongqing.
	Oh, that town with a queue.
	Yeah.
	Chongqing, yeah.
	Yeah, that town.
	That's a huge, monstrous city.
	That's a huge town.
	I've always wanted to visit.
	It's like one of the biggest cities in the world.
	At the moment, the port of Duisburg is the only port in Europe that offers several transcontinental train connections to China.
	So that's why my clip talking about the free trade zone wants to make that border for the trade zone for China.
	Bingo.
	Bingo.
	Yeah.
	That makes sense.
	So that's how they're combating the TPP. But I think the TPP, it takes a while to start up a whole rail industry.
	And as you point out, having pirates on a ship is one thing, but having Al-Qaeda blow up your rail line is another thing.
	Which is another American invention, by the way.
	We're great at train robberies.
	So here's the Wikipedia entry as I... Ow!
	As I... It's a horrible name, the Yixinou Railway, Y-U-X-I-N-O-U. A freight rail route linking the southwestern Chinese city of Chongqing with Duisburg, Germany, passes through Alatua Pass into Kazakhstan, moves through Russia, Belarus, and Poland before arriving in Duisburg.
	The railway is part of a growing rail network connecting China and Europe along the new Silk Road, which we've been tracking.
	We've been tracking all of this stuff.
	All Candy Crowley can do is say, hey, these satellite images look fuzzy.
	Yeah.
	We're just a little podcast, ladies and gentlemen.
	So be on the lookout for that to happen.
	I think that the TPP thing is big.
	It's been the whole Obama administration's focus, the pivot to Asia, and it literally is up to Malaysia now, who are just there being annoying about it.
	They're being annoying.
	Let me see.
	Free Malaysia.
	I have a couple of stories in the show notes.
	You can go do some research.
	Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement negotiations are far from nearing completion due to the continuous existence of red lines in the negotiation process.
	Malaysian International Trade and Industry Minister Mustafa Mohammed, look for him to get two to the head, said the red lines, which are controversial and sensitive to several nations, including Malaysia, have to be addressed even before talking about concluding the agreement.
	Let me see.
	The formal deadline has been extended many times.
	A key stumbling block was said to be U.S.'s refusal to yield on the contentious investor-state dispute settlement clause of the agreement, which critics contend would open signatory states to legal action by private corporations if any law was deemed harmful to a firm's commercial interests.
	And then somewhere else there's a...
	I read about something about tobacco, which they were pissed off about.
	Interesting.
	It's running through Russia, and the Russian Railways Logistics sends first container trains from China to Europe.
	So Russia's in on this deal.
	Of course they are.
	Why do you think we're messing with our buddy there?
	Yeah, that's part of it, definitely.
	You know, this is macro stuff, man.
	This is...
	This is really, really macro.
	Someone else have me a new Putin.
	Hold on.
	Putin!
	Oh, that's Putin.
	That's no good.
	This is really, really macro stuff.
	It really, truly is connected.
	No, I would say that's probably correct.
	And what's also interesting is the Chinese and the Malaysian Chinese are a very interesting couple of ethnic groups.
	The Malaysian Chinese are considered to be the...
	The most ruthless as capitalists.
	Right.
	And they have always had bumped heads with both the Malaysian government and China itself.
	And the Malaysian government has always been trying to rouse them, to get them out.
	Because it's a mix, it's a multi-culti country and these Chinese guys just dominate everything.
	Right.
	But doesn't the U.S. also claim that Malaysia is full of terrorists?
	Indonesia more than Malaysia.
	But I think it probably comes up in the conversation.
	Interesting.
	I do know I went to Malaysia and I went on one of the Cobar Towers, the Twin Towers, which are gorgeous.
	And they were selling T-shirts...
	Where they also sell some of the absolute finest.
	And Malaysia has some of the finest DVD copies.
	And they have some of the absolute finest fake watches.
	I mean, these really are much better than anything I've ever seen.
	But they had these t-shirts that showed the towers that said, we still have our twin towers.
	Wow.
	Wow.
	I would shut up over that.
	It was so offensive.
	Hey, Bloomberg says about the Malaysia failing to manage crisis exposes leadership limit.
	Yeah.
	No, I think you're onto something here.
	This is a pre-rebelization.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	But the thing that I like is we have the guy, and this was one of our producers pointed this out immediately, said, hey, you know, on the very day this plane disappeared, or the day before, the guy who's been the main opposition, who had been let out of jail, they're trying to throw him back in jail again, Anwar bin Ibrahim, And we've seen his accounts.
	He's got millions of dollars in Israel and New York, Geneva.
	He would be the guy to step in, or at least a candidate to step in.
	So what happened to the plane, to me, at this point, even if it wasn't already, is completely irrelevant.
	But if you're talking about...
	You know, actual, you know, value, you know, to get rid of a plane, to close this deal?
	Pfft.
	Yeah.
	Nuke that thing, melt it into never-retrievable bits, and then have this shill woman walking around?
	Hmm.
	And she's bad.
	She's a bad actor.
	She's not even doing, she's not even trying.
	All right, well, I think that's, I think that's going to be the position.
	Hmm.
	My work is done here.
	Yeah, no, that was a good one.
	I give you a 10 for that.
	It becomes more obvious, and I think if we look at everything in these terms as it unfolds, we'll...
	We'll see what follows.
	I've got a couple of clips that are interesting.
	The Russian troops removed.
	They're pulling the Russian troops back, which is, of course, what they said they were going to do.
	So that's becoming a moot point.
	The Ukrainian-Crimean situation seems to be falling off to the wayside.
	Let's move on now.
	For weeks they've been gathering close to the Ukrainian border, stoking fears of a full-scale invasion.
	But now Russia has started pulling back some of the thousands of troops stationed just on its side of the frontier.
	The Defence Ministry in Moscow has confirmed it's ordered one battalion to withdraw.
	The entire force is believed to total as many as 40,000.
	Now their presence over recent weeks has added tensions as Moscow and the West argue over Crimea.
	This latest news comes as NATO representatives are getting together in Brussels to talk about how they might respond to the Ukraine crisis.
	We can get more on that meeting now from our Brussels correspondent Maeve McMahon.
	Hello there Maeve.
	Now can you tell us how this news from Russia might impact on the NATO meeting?
	Good morning, Canada.
	Well, indeed, this could have impact on today's meeting and change, of course, the tone of the meeting and, indeed, the outcome.
	But it's not likely to have a huge impact on the way that NATO has been dealing with the crisis up to now.
	And we could see NATO foreign ministers decide today to intensify the training of Ukrainian military officers and, of course, sending more troops to beef up NATO's presence on the Russian border.
	The thing is, what NATO... Yeah, they went on.
	Yeah, no, this is, NATO doesn't care what the Russians do.
	They're just going to do what they're going to do.
	Well, Kerry, I'm sorry.
	You know, it was saber-rattle to get the Russians to do something stupid.
	Well, Kerry said something interesting.
	He had a meeting, it was the US-EU Energy Council meeting.
	Which he did with...
	Man, she's wearing ponchos now.
	The no-chin monster.
	The high priestess of the executive leather order, Kathy Ashton.
	She's got a poncho on?
	This is not a good look.
	Ponchos.
	She and Carrie meet, and I rescind on my ever thinking that this was about exporting United States natural gas.
	This is what's really going on.
	No nation...
	It should use energy to stymie a people's aspirations.
	It should not be used as a weapon.
	It's in the interest of all of us to be able to have adequate energy supplies critical to our economies, critical to our security, critical to the prosperity of our people.
	So we are taking important steps today in order to make it far more difficult for people to deploy that tool.
	And we're working in lockstep to help Ukraine bring natural gas in from Poland and Hungary and develop a route through Slovakia.
	So here's the idea.
	They want to reverse the gas flow And bring in gas from the EU into Ukraine.
	So they're talking about, is it technically possible to reverse this pipeline?
	This is how nutty it is.
	But what's really happening, I think the original thing that we saw, is Chevron is in there fracking in Ukraine.
	Then we're just, we're cutting Russia out of, it's probably Russian gas because you go in, you go, you know, fracking is not just going straight down.
	It's going off to the side and going out and we're going way under the borders.
	We're going to be taking the Russian oil straight from Ukraine from our fracking installations and we're just cutting Russia off right there.
	That's what's happening.
	And now you still get to have, because of how the international markets work with commodities, you know, you can call it Texas gas if you want.
	It's just a swap.
	It's Texas gas that we're selling to Europe.
	Because we'll just swap it out for the gas that we're stealing from Russia through Ukraine.
	It's very obvious.
	We're turning the pipelines around.
	It's a big game and it's only about that.
	And I think, you know, when you look at what Putin's doing with Crimea, which you pointed out, you know, it's just a resetting, you know, the Dutch phrase...
	Yeah, they're moving the pieces around on the chessboard.
	They're literally, what they are accusing Putin of, they're all doing, is they are redrawing the lines on the map.
	This is a total reset of who gets what, who's with who, you know, with NATO, this bullcrap of the cooperation...
	Yeah, NATO just seems to be a bad actor in this whole thing.
	We also reaffirmed to Foreign Minister Dushitsya that just as Ukraine has stood in partnership for the past two decades, it's important that NATO stand in partnership now with Ukraine.
	And we endorsed a range of measures in order to do so.
	You want to hear those range of measures?
	I'll bet they're beauties.
	A reminder that the stability and security in NATO's neighborhood requires all...
	It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood.
	Beautiful day in NATO's neighborhood.
	The stability and security in NATO's neighborhood requires all of our constant vigilance.
	To that end today, I made clear that many members of the Alliance now need to step up defense spending.
	As we plan for NATO Summit in Wales this September, each of us must demonstrate by the decisions that we take and the budget commitments that we make that we are committed to each other.
	And by our shared security and our shared prosperity and our shared values, we will continue to maintain that strength.
	Crank it up, ladies and gentlemen.
	We got sales to do.
	John Kerry's wearing his brown shoes and is selling our weaponry.
	Good work.
	Yeah, well, somebody's got to do it.
	Good work.
	Basically told them to start buying our stuff.
	Yeah.
	I have to say, that's great.
	It's on sale 30% off because of the price of the euro.
	We got a bargain.
	We got a really good deal for you.
	It's breaking them.
	I mean, they keep that euro up that high.
	They're going to completely go broke.
	I have a clip about the rise in sales tax in Japan that kind of, on France 24, and they kind of said, well, you know, it went up, but geez, look what we're paying.
	Okay, Stephen, some news from Japan now.
	A key tax rise that's hitting.
	Yeah, in fact, the first time in 17 years that Japan's sales tax increases.
	It goes up today from 5% to 8% on almost all goods bought by consumers.
	It's the latest economic measure adopted by the Japanese government under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, aimed at dragging the world's third largest economy out of its deflationary spiral and sluggish economic growth.
	There are fears that could discourage consumer spending, something we're watching closely as time goes on.
	I'm wondering how that compares to sales tax here in France.
	It's an awful lot lower, but has been traditionally in Japan for a long time.
	Absolutely.
	Okay, well, how has that impacted on the market?
	Well, trading on the Nikkei is in negative territory as consumers get used to that new increased taxes.
	Down just two-tenths of a percent, but seeing some impact in Tokyo there.
	That's just...
	Wow.
	I don't know if these, you know, we're in a worldwide depression and the thing you don't want to do is jack up taxes.
	It seems to me.
	I don't know, 5%, 8%, whatever it is.
	I mean, in France it's 20%.
	I've always had the feeling that the Japanese, everyone looks at their economy and says, oh, it's crap.
	But I was at the feeling that they're doing some trickery somehow.
	I've always felt like they've got something going on that we don't understand.
	No, everybody understands everything.
	Everything is rigged.
	Speaking of which, I've started reading the new Flash Boys book.
	Oh yeah, the one with Michael Lewis.
	Yeah.
	And what's interesting, I had drinks the other night by my invitation.
	Wait, let's say this again.
	I had drinks.
	Drinks.
	You had you?
	Yes.
	Okay.
	I had three, which is over-served for me.
	You had three.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	You can two.
	I know, I know, I know.
	With a guy from New York who's moved here with his wife, and he's a banker.
	Actually, his original job was to go to Davo and all the big summits and everything and convince countries.
	He basically would raise money for South American countries.
	Kind of the precursor to the economic hitman.
	And he moved to Austin for a number of reasons, and now I think he deals with a regulator.
	So I was able to ask him a couple things about this SDR thing and what he thought about that, but he's not so sure it's going to happen that fast.
	But the things that he did tell me...
	The way he saw this Basel III and all these crazy things that are happening in international finance, he says, for one thing, the EU banks are completely screwed and the American banks are going to get only bigger.
	He says he predicts they'll be double the size they are in just a couple of years.
	Well, there's nothing to stop them.
	No.
	Not at all.
	Too big to fail didn't do anything, changed nothing.
	Now they're going to be twice as big to fail.
	Yep.
	He says that's the only...
	And so anyway, so...
	Which bank does he like the best?
	For a stock tip.
	I don't want to disclose too much because it wouldn't be okay.
	However, so he did speak specifically about this book.
	He says the book is bullshit.
	He said really it only tells you a little bit.
	Yeah, there's a speed and all that, but really what's going on according to him?
	The way the flash traders work is when they see something go up like a big, I don't know, Unilever or something like that, what they then do is they immediately start going to all the smaller stuff that has to follow naturally.
	And that's really where all the money is made.
	I mean, these much smaller cap stocks that will naturally follow the market movement of the really big ones.
	So that's where it's anticipating what smaller things you're going to buy or trade based upon the big moves that you made, which he finds completely legal, by the way.
	And I think I have to agree.
	Well, I think most of this stuff is legal.
	Yeah.
	But the book is pretty interesting about how they built this fiber and made it as straight as possible.
	They get a 13 millisecond connect between Chicago and New York.
	It's interesting.
	But according to him, it's kind of...
	Exaggerated.
	Not exaggerated, but it's like a comedy version.
	It's not really what's going on.
	There's a lesser important news.
	There is a public relations campaign going on, and I think it's interesting.
	I personally say it's a public relations campaign, but the mainstream media, of course, is having a lot of trouble picking up on this, although I did get a clip, and I just want to play it as a prelude.
	France 24, I just kind of thought of our show when they played this clip about this clown that's floating around the internet.
	The creepy clown story.
	A creepy clown has been spotted lurking around New York City, Staten Island, and web users have been wondering who is behind the mask.
	Questions were raised after these photos of a clown terrorizing motorist were posted to Instagram two weeks ago.
	Speculation has since been rife on social networks, but the clown was finally unmasked on Twitter a couple of days ago.
	And of course, it's all part of a marketing ploy orchestrated by production company Fuzz on the Lens, which specializes in horror movies.
	Woo!
	Well, that wasn't the only promotion running around.
	We had a native ad that went all the way to the White House.
	It looks like it might fit him better than me, though.
	All right, come on, let's get a good picture here.
	Oh, he wants to do a selfie.
	Yes, sir.
	Yes, sir.
	It's the big puppy selfie.
	The big puppy selfie, and you can bet it was trending.
	Over 33,000 retweets, and this was the end result.
	Look at those smiles there.
	A good day in Washington.
	Yeah, as it turns out, the guy just signed a deal with Samsung two days earlier.
	And he tweets it as, shot with my Samsung Galaxy Note 3.
	You know, I'm getting tired of the selfie meme.
	It's like you can't go on Twitter without seeing all these selfies.
	And it's like they do it on television.
	They do it on Jay Leno.
	Not Jay Leno, but the new guy.
	All these guys are doing these selfies.
	And they all have a certain distinctive look, which means it's shot with a cheap camera real close.
	And they're everywhere.
	And it's all because of Ellen...
	I believe that, I mean, selfies are not because of Ellen, because they've been going on forever, but this sudden popularity in the pop culture is extremely annoying.
	And what's the point of it?
	It is, okay, I'll tell you what the point is.
	For years, people have been inundated with celebrities, and these celebrities, of course, all look good, and they're in great situations.
	And the selfie movement, which has been going on ever since front-facing cameras on cell phones, and Twitter, quite honestly, is a part of that.
	Actually, before that, because the early phones didn't have the front-facing camera, but people still picked up the technique.
	They would shoot the selfie, look and see how it came out, shoot it again, shoot it again.
	And we have the selfie in the mirror.
	But it is a way for people to feel good about their sad, fucking, pathetic life.
	Because most people's lives are ugly and sad and pathetic.
	Right?
	Most, and even people who are really happy, have ugly, sad, pathetic moments.
	However, when you get to reshoot five times, because you'll see this, just watch, it's not one click, no, no, no.
	You shoot five, six, oh, my mouth wasn't right, oh, my butt didn't look right, oh, my eyes were closed, oh.
	And now you have the built-in filters.
	You see, so you've got, it is glossing over and making people feel good During this time of extreme duress and depression.
	And sharing that with people so they can get a like.
	John, it's what it is.
	It is drugs.
	It is drugs.
	It is brilliantly crafted.
	I don't think it was even necessary.
	No one really figured it out on Instagram.
	And of course, that's why Facebook, the like and the selfie, it's part of the same thing.
	And I see when people are more depressed...
	People I know, when they are sad or depressed, they post more happy fucking selfies.
	I'm so happy!
	Look at me!
	Beautiful!
	Look at my dinner!
	Look at my breakfast!
	Look at my dog!
	Look at my cat!
	Pandas!
	And it is because people are mad and angry and mainly sick because the mainstream media is giving them sickness and lies.
	And they're being poisoned.
	And they're being poisoned.
	Can you play your little theme there?
	I'll do that for a second.
	I'm going to show myself a little by donating to Noah Jess.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, oh no.
	The donation segment after that outburst.
	It's important because we don't need to do native advertising with selfies.
	Samsung needs more publicity.
	Yeah.
	Sir Geronimo's Anonymous in...
	The Netherlands.
	Wageningen. Wageningen.
	What?
	Wageningen.
	Wageningen. Wageningen. Wageningen.
	It's misspelled on the spreadsheet.
	Wageningen.
	Wageningen.
	He wants to thank you for the last time he donated.
	With my donation, I'd like to celebrate the 600 series, 60 bucks, and make it rain in the future shows.
	And he wants Miss Mickey to go on the stage.
	I don't know.
	That's up to her.
	I'm not going to force her.
	I'm not going to force her.
	What is going on, man?
	What are we doing with the club?
	Are we ever going to see the club again or is it just done now?
	No, no, no.
	We're going to put up a Quonset hut.
	All right.
	I'm downgrading.
	Okay.
	I can't talk about it in great detail because I now have a gag order.
	Over something that we, during a lawsuit that went back and forth.
	Is it like a national security letter?
	Just what can I tell you?
	I'm just doing what I do.
	Including putting paperwork here and there.
	Why do I do this?
	It just baffles me.
	Why do I do that?
	Ah, there it is.
	Okay, here we go.
	Sorry.
	Jamie Scott in Plano, Texas.
	$111.11.
	And I don't know if it's a girl Jamie or a guy Jamie.
	And there was not really a note.
	Just kind of a thanks for the show thing.
	Anonymous broke lesbian.
	We've heard from her before.
	And you have another note from the anonymous broke lesbian?
	Yeah, I probably should read it.
	Yeah.
	97% of all anonymous broke lesbian performing artists who have a crush on John agree.
	Science is in!
	That no agenda is the best podcast in the universe.
	And then she put a little smiley face at the bottom.
	That's it.
	Yes, that was it.
	That's a beautiful note.
	She's got something going on.
	The more anonymous, broke lesbians we can get listening to the show, the better.
	Absolutely, especially if there are good contributors with funny notes.
	Jason Daniels, 77-77, that's our number one.
	We had the list of sack of sevens.
	Oh, yeah, that's right.
	He came in with a sack of sevens, and that's the one guy.
	That's why I sent in the note that it was an unsuccessful thing.
	It's still unsuccessful, so I'm just making sure.
	And by the way, the reason we did the pandas, you know why, because we got a note from somebody who did some research claiming that pandas have some percentage better pull than puppies and kittens.
	And just to make sure, you didn't do one, but you did two pandas.
	Right, two pandas in an animated GIF. It's fact.
	Pandas rock.
	Pandas.
	Nicholas McFall in Herndon, Virginia, 7575.
	Hey, there's Virginia.
	Hello, Virginia.
	Ah, Virginia.
	This is a long-time boner, first-time donor from Virginia.
	There should be more of those.
	Tony G, we'll give him a dedouching Putin karma at the end.
	Well...
	Give him a dedouching.
	That kind of doesn't work that way.
	You've been dedouched.
	Putin!
	You've got karma.
	This is a letter we have to read.
	Before we play the jingle for the 69-69, this is from Tony G. Hail, Guardians of Reality.
	I'm pleased to announce that we have found the sex of my wife and I'm human resources in development.
	He has human resources.
	We are having two boys.
	I offered up the names John and Adam.
	But I was quickly vetoed.
	Why?
	I don't know why.
	Maybe she probably wants Cody and, you know...
	Sky.
	Sky, yeah.
	How about Vladimir and Barack?
	There you go.
	So let's hit the 69-69 thing.
	Well, now he says he wanted a pre-MILF and a Don't Eat Me Hillary, and I'll do that.
	MILF? That's one mother I'd like to.
	Don't eat me, Hillary Clinton!
	69!
	69, dudes!
	That's Tony G in Downers Grove, 69, 69.
	Karsten 1, Schwartz Nielsen.
	Karsten one.
	Karsten Ove, Schwartz Nielsen in Denmark.
	Jesper Holmberg in Washington State, Duval.
	Thomas Weah in Norway.
	I think it's We or We.
	Weah.
	Weah.
	John Geisner in South Elgin, Illinois.
	Mark Pugner in Schaumburg.
	We know who you are in Schaumburg.
	It's not Mark Pugner.
	Scott Checkeye, who sent a little note saying, here it is.
	Not much, but I have it since he sent mail it.
	And I'm going to keep trying 6969 until it works.
	What does that mean?
	Until he gets his swazzle enough.
	I guess so.
	Anyway, that concludes our group.
	Oh, whoop, whoop.
	Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
	What's going on?
	I don't know.
	It's stuck.
	69!
	69, dudes!
	There you go.
	Ian Ramsey, Glenn Buck, UK, 69-0-0.
	David Hassan, 66-66 in New York, Brooklyn, New York.
	Brooklyn.
	Chris Johnstone in Perth, Western Australia.
	Paul Webb in Twickenham, UK. Chris, he has a birthday shout-out, and it'll be his 33rd birthday on the 4th, and maybe say welcome to the world karma for his wife said the new human resource is due on April 11th.
	Well, get the kid out first, and then we'll welcome him to the world.
	Come on, Stacy.
	Pop it.
	Hot pizza, by the way, is what you want.
	Do you have a nice pizza?
	Oh, really?
	Wait a minute.
	Whoa, whoa, whoa.
	So what you're saying is, when the wife is sick and tired and saying, I want this kid out, you feed her a pizza and that induces labor?
	Yeah.
	Nice.
	It's an old wives tale, but it seems to have a lot of...
	Does it need pepperoni?
	Can it be gluten-free?
	I don't know if you'd want to have pepperoni pizza in any way.
	Sir Richard Garrett, Thunder Bay, 6262.
	Richard Terrario, Terrario, Terrio, Terrio, in Colorado Springs, 6262.
	So you...
	These are my hello birthdays.
	These are your hello birthdays, yes.
	And he says, happy birthday, John C. Best tech journalist in the universe.
	Um...
	Curiously, Paul Webb at 66 Books said, the sad-looking puppy on the newsletter can tell me to donate.
	That's how many newsletters ago was that?
	I don't know, two or three.
	Our Baron of Tokyo, Mark, the architect, 62.
	And he says, happy birthday.
	Les Smith, Tiburon, California, 62.
	Oliver...
	Carlos Maldonado, 62.
	He's in Garza Garcia, Mexico.
	Oh, he's in Mexico.
	Great.
	Daymonica Lansing, 62, from Drayton Valley, Alberta.
	These are all birthday call-outs.
	Kent O'Rourke, 62, Frostburg, Maryland.
	Richard Chow, in Fullerton, California, 62.
	Daniel Ronde, in Enshade.
	Enschede.
	No, you're putting the S in the wrong place.
	Enschede.
	Enschede.
	Yeah, pretty good.
	Robert Goschko in Sherwood Park, Alberta, where all the money is.
	Kenneth Ann, Karen Cross in Felton, Pennsylvania.
	Happy birthday.
	Those are our happy birthday, people.
	One more day of that.
	That would be great.
	Katherine...
	I'm sorry.
	Kristen...
	I don't know what my problem is today.
	Goodness, son.
	It's the age, man.
	It's the age.
	What?
	What?
	Yeah, that's all.
	Don't worry.
	It only gets worse.
	Goodness on in Selfoss, Iceland.
	Yay.
	From Iceland with an incredibly bad exchange rate.
	Aren't you using euros there?
	I guess not.
	No, no, no.
	They've got their kroner or something.
	I don't know anyone else in Iceland that's listening to this.
	They've opted out of the whole international finance system.
	They have their own money.
	They're completely autonomous.
	They kicked the bankers out.
	They saved the country.
	Yeah, of course.
	Give her some pay raise karma.
	I wasn't prepared.
	Hold on a second.
	Pay, raise, karma.
	Jobs.
	Jobs.
	That's all I got.
	Jobs and jobs.
	Let's vote for more.
	Better high, better paying jobs.
	Yay!
	You've got karma.
	And some more listeners in Iceland.
	Yeah.
	Jason Daniels in Dallas, Texas, double nickels on the diamond.
	And I wouldn't mind a picture.
	V-Lo.
	Yeah, all Icelanders are gorgeous.
	V-Lo in Eindhoven.
	It's V-V-V-Lo.
	V-V-V-Lo.
	Double nickels on the dime.
	Mr.
	Oil.
	He says, Mr.
	Oil will be out of commission.
	As I'm drugged up, I'm not legally allowed to make any key decisions.
	One of my questions is address them to get most slaves.
	We're void zero.
	He's drugged up and sending us double nickels on the dime.
	Yeah, okay.
	Good work.
	Sir Greg Brunsel, $50 in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
	And curiously, only one other $50 donor.
	Usually there's a bunch.
	James Butcher in Western Australia, $50.
	So thanks, everybody.
	I want to remind you to go to NoAgendaShow.com, NoAgendaNation.com.
	There's buttons there, but Dvorak.org slash NA is where your best bet is.
	And read the newsletters because there's some funny offers in there that are worth playing with.
	Also got a special karma request here from the shill from Chapel Hill, Adrian Cooper.
	Adam, on Sunday I had a terrible trail running accident where I slipped on a footbridge, broke both my tibia and fibula, dislocated my ankle and tore several ligaments.
	Another No Agenda producer, Keith Gibson, was there at the race.
	As he ran by me and the two guys carrying me, he yelled, In the morning, thank you for your courage!
	I know it is short notice, but I'm having surgery during today's show.
	Would love it if you could give me, I give out the super rare karma double shot to Keith for being a great guy.
	And to me for the surgery, thank you so much, Jill from Chapel Hill.
	So of course, karma for you and for everybody else who deserved it, including all of our donors.
	You've got karma.
	Which often comes in under the $50 level.
	Lots of people doing the 33 monthlies, the 12, 12s, 11, 11s, the fives, whatever you can spare.
	It really produces the show.
	It's our value for value model.
	Where do I have that?
	It's not factually correct, but here's what Tom Merritt said the other day.
	Value for value.
	You get value out of the show, give a little value back.
	That's all we ask.
	Thank you, Adam Curry, for inventing that phrase.
	I think that's unfair, but it's Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak, to be quite honest.
	But it's catching on.
	Thank you for your courage.
	No, you're for value.
	No, I would say that was your invention on the show.
	He could credit you.
	It doesn't bother me.
	Some other things would, but that doesn't.
	What would bother you?
	Oh, a lot of stuff.
	Forget about it.
	I don't want to know.
	Slash NAB. And Chris Canuso says happy birthday to his brother Jack in Los Angeles, turning 26 on April 5th.
	Chris Johnstone turns 33 tomorrow on the 4th.
	Alex Farrington, he is celebrating.
	He will become a knight in a moment.
	And on Saturday, we congratulate my friend John C. Dvorak, turning 62 years old.
	And we've got a couple people moving up to the level of night today, so we can grab our blades here.
	Hang on.
	Okay, go.
	Good work.
	Francis Guerra, step forward.
	Craig Kuttner and Alex Farrington.
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	Peabody, please.
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	And please go to noageneration.com slash rings, pick up your well-deserved ring, your sealing wax, and along with that, of course, also your certificate for your support of the program Best Podcast in the Universe in the amount of $1,000 or more.
	And we do look forward to hopefully some more nightings on Sunday when we'll do yet another show.
	Yes, we keep doing these shows.
	Yes, twice a week.
	Twice a week.
	Another Twitch shtick.
	You gotta stop it.
	I'm sorry.
	I'm really mad.
	As hell?
	And you're not gonna take it anymore?
	Well, yeah.
	You know, it's one thing...
	It's hard enough to only have really one browser in the world that is not, as far as we know, not spying on you.
	But to have the LGBTQQIAAP mafia...
	Now move people towards Google Chrome is an outrage.
	It is.
	I have a clip from, of all places, France 24.
	Oh, I was playing a clip, but I'll play your clip.
	We get a French...
	Yeah, no, I like the French in there.
	I'm sorry.
	Slip of the mouse.
	Let's finish up on a lovely note with an online dating website, OKCupid.
	By the way, biggest native advertising campaign I've ever seen in the world.
	Users might find a bit of an unusual message facing them when they log on.
	Yeah, this is the latest response to the appointment of a man called Brendan Ike to be chief executive of Mozilla, which is the company that makes the Firefox web browser.
	Now, this is over Ike's support of a law to outlaw gay marriage in California in 2008.
	From Monday, users of OkCupid, who access the site through Firefox, are getting this message that you can see on screen now.
	They're saying that because Ike opposes equal rights for gay couples, the company says that they would therefore prefer that their users...
	Don't use Mozilla software to access their site.
	They're not actually blocking them?
	No, no, you can click through the message.
	But because OkCupid gets around 3 billion page views every month, around 12% of those come from Firefox.
	It will affect quite a large proportion of OkCupid's users.
	And it's actually the latest backlash against Brendan Eich's appointment.
	Six board members of Mozilla have resigned after he was promoted to CEO. So a story I'm sure we'll hear much more about.
	I didn't actually know about the six board members that resigned.
	I didn't know that either, but let me stop right here and stop you from continuing with a misuse of the term native advertising.
	This was a public relations campaign, perhaps, but native advertising is specific to people who pay for an article to be run.
	Agreed.
	There's no payment involved in this.
	Agreed.
	I misrepresented the term.
	You're right.
	Right.
	I didn't know that the board guys quit either, and I don't see what the point of the whole thing was.
	I think this was ludicrous.
	Well, here's what I think.
	Who cares?
	Well, this is once again, and you're right, it is a public relations campaign.
	I've never heard of OKCupid before in my life, ever.
	Never heard of it.
	And as far as I know, this guy was a co-founder of the Mozilla Foundation.
	He's been around for a while.
	He's been around for a while.
	He's the guy who supposedly, I don't know this for an absolute fact, but he's the guy who invented JavaScript, which is plaguing the world.
	Right.
	Well, for that, I hate him.
	I do hate him for that.
	But this is, once again, the gay mafia being misused, or the gay mafia misusing the LGBTQIAAP community for commercial interest.
	And it is ludicrous.
	And people jumping on board with it.
	Go ahead.
	You should all use Google products.
	All go to Chrome.
	Use Safari.
	Please, do all of that.
	Really good.
	Who knows?
	Google may even be behind this.
	That would be something.
	No one says a word about Obama going to a country where they kill people for being gay, but let, oh, oh, oh, here's something I can do.
	I can delete Firefox from my computer!
	It's despicable.
	As a bi-curious, queer, and questioning male.
	Yeah, I just thought it was really...
	No, it's...
	It's terrible.
	And all these guys, all these self-righteous...
	Assholes.
	Assholes.
	I'll say it.
	Yeah, they're all over the place.
	Big boy can't use that because...
	He hates the gays just because it's who someone loves!
	No, it's not just who someone loves.
	That really pisses me off.
	I'm sick and tired of that too.
	If someone said, it's just because of who I love.
	No, it's not just who you love.
	Define love.
	Someone asked me that the other day.
	Someone asked you what?
	Define love.
	Define love?
	Somebody asked you, why would anyone ask you this?
	That's irrelevant.
	But what I'm saying is when the President of the United States can say, it's crazy to, or anyone can say, it's crazy to be able to fire someone just because of who they love.
	What does that mean?
	Define love for me.
	What is that?
	Or shut up.
	I got no problem with anything anybody does.
	But this misuse to promote a dating website?
	Yeah, and Chrome.
	Yeah, it's really, really, really...
	It can't go any lower, and people don't see it.
	They're all in on it.
	Yeah, I agree.
	And this gay thing, man, it's going to be used for everything.
	Everything.
	Everything.
	If something is against LGBTQIAAP, boom, you're good to go.
	They were smart.
	Wow!
	That little thing you just did marked the time.
	It was unbelievable.
	Really?
	I couldn't copy it.
	What we should be doing is we should find out a way to prove, and of course research dollars will be necessary, that climate change is killing LGBTQIAPs.
	It's killing the gays.
	If we can prove that, that's what people...
	Oh my God!
	We have to stop this climate change.
	It's killing the gays.
	Because I'm Somebody give me an appletini.
	Now, yeah, I can use an appletini myself.
	While we're on the topic of public relations, I have to say, I don't know who's behind this.
	I know it's not the Inuit Indians who have gone after Ellen DeGeneres in a very interesting little spat that's going on.
	And I'm totally on the side of the Indians with this.
	The Inuits say that part of their culture is to eat seal meat.
	And it's just like eating seal meat and eating beef or whatever.
	Of course, Ellen is, I believe, a vegetarian, so there's that agenda going on.
	She gave a bunch of money to the anti-seal fur, anti-seal eating Canadians.
	And so the Inuits came out with a bunch of propaganda that was obviously directed by some public relations agency because it was way too slick to be anything else.
	And I don't know if it's fur companies behind the...
	With the money, but somebody paid something, and it's a really interesting little piece here.
	Posing in seal skin furs and posting the photo to social networks, Canadian Inuit have been defending seal hunting through these selfies.
	In protesting host Ellen DeGeneres' decision to highlight an anti-seal hunting charity on Oscars night by donating the $1.5 million raised by that Oscars selfie, the most retweeted photo of all time, to an animal welfare group that campaigns against seal hunts.
	The seal-free movement began on Twitter when Aletia Anakuk-Barel posted a picture with a caption, I am an Inuit seal meat eater and my fur is ethical and humane.
	The filmmaker has also shared a letter sent to Ellen DeGeneres on Facebook.
	She explains that seal hunting is regulated nowadays and is important for Arctic peoples.
	Other Inuit campaigners have opted to post photos illustrating the reality of seal hunting and the cultural and financial benefits of what they see as an ethical and sustainable choice.
	Did I hear the seal fee?
	Is that what it is now?
	The seal fee?
	No, it's a seal fee.
	Selfie.
	No, but it's a seal fee.
	Yeah, it might as well be a seal fee.
	That's what they're saying.
	It's a selfie about seals.
	It's a seal fee.
	Yeah, a seal fee.
	What?
	Whatever the case is, I'm glad that they're standing up to this bullying that Ellen DeGeneres is doing.
	And the way I'm looking at it, I'm saying Ellen DeGeneres hates the native peoples.
	Absolutely.
	The native peoples have their rights.
	They were here before we ever showed up.
	I'm going to go with this.
	Yeah.
	We were in Europe and we come over here and rouse these people, kill most of them, poison them with bad blankets, and now we're telling them what they can eat.
	These people have their rights to the seal, seal meat and seal furs.
	They've been doing this way before we showed up.
	What gives her the right to be so anti-native peoples?
	What is wrong with her?
	Well, she knows a lot more about seafood than anybody.
	Oh, please.
	I'm sorry.
	I mean, I immediately got that joke, but I'm not going to...
	You glossed over it the first time.
	I don't want to honor it.
	No, I know.
	I want to play part two of this and just a little bit more.
	Trying to show it's not necessarily an atrocious and inhumane act, as Ellen DeGeneres claims on her website.
	17-year-old Inuk Kilak and Eric Strauss has produced a video in which she says Ellen DeGeneres is helping spread misinformation about a practice which is simply a means of survival in her part of the world, where seals provide food and clothes for families that can't necessarily afford to go to the stores.
	Thanks for leaving the whole stinger on the end there.
	Yeah, no, listen, Sealfie, I heard it right.
	Sealfie?
	So that's what they're calling it.
	Yeah, supporters of Seal Hunt say it with a hashtag Sealfie.
	Nice.
	Oh, you did hear it right then.
	Yeah.
	That's the one that was wrong.
	Sealfie photo sets off online backlash from Seal Hunt opponents.
	Well, this, of course, stems back to the days of fur, because they were clubbing baby seals for their fur and whatever.
	Yeah, that's what she's got in her brain.
	She still remembers, you know, clubbing the baby seal.
	I mean, hey, get over it.
	Yeah, this is...
	Celebrities make these mistakes all the time.
	But the way I understood the...
	Here's what I understood.
	She gave the million and a half dollars that she apparently made from doing the Samsung ad, which was what that selfie was.
	Samsung made her to use the Samsung camera.
	And then, of course, she...
	She got backlash.
	She got backlash because she then posted with the iPhone and everyone knew it was bullshit.
	And so in order not to look bad, because, let's face it, whenever celebrities are actually up front and say, hey, I made a million and a half dollars for taking that picture...
	And I'm sure that some people in the picture, like the poor girl who won the Oscar, what's her name?
	I don't know.
	Solaka Nuhani.
	You know, from the girl.
	She doesn't get any money.
	She's probably saying, hey, Ellen, where's my money?
	All I got is a stupid statue.
	And you got a million and a half bucks?
	No, no, no.
	This is not going to stand.
	So then she had, like, make good.
	This, by the way, I've had this happen so many times.
	But I took big companies to court and sued them.
	And in Holland, Europe, it's even worse.
	They stole my pictures, published them without permission, and made money off it.
	I sued them.
	And when I win, people say, well, we think that you should give that to charity.
	What is that?
	And so, yeah, it happens all the time.
	You have bills to pay, lady.
	Like Donald Trump.
	I'll sue you over that, but I'll give the money to charity.
	It always has to go to charity.
	Screw that.
	I'm a charity case with my Tourette's.
	So, she chooses, she messes it up.
	Then she, oh, what can I do?
	Oh, fuck, seals.
	Eh, yeah.
	Do that.
	Yeah, no, but your point is...
	Right, it was a mistake.
	Your point is well made, but sealfy, I like that.
	It's well made.
	Oh.
	Hey, this, um...
	Okay.
	I want to give you...
	What was it?
	Was it Walt Mossberg?
	Did they work for the Wall Street Journal?
	Yeah.
	And they left?
	Yeah, they left to start their own thing because they're business people at heart, I guess.
	I don't know what they're thinking.
	Is that working?
	Do you think...
	Does anything work?
	I doubt it.
	Who knows?
	So the Wall Street Journal has tech reporters.
	Oh my God.
	This is...
	The Wall Street Journal is an actual publication with like real money, right?
	Right.
	Yeah, well, it's part of the Rupert Murdoch empire, so they got plenty, even if they're losing money, they can have plenty of money.
	This is the state of technology journalism on the Wall Street Journal.
	And what you're going to hear is a guy explaining not only how Tor works and what it is, but also how the government is in cahoots with Tor.
	And I would just, this is a video they have on their website that goes along with their story, and it's two guys, and it's just baffling.
	Well, there's a browser that's become very popular called Tor, and it has some legitimate...
	What?
	Are you hooked already?
	Are you hooked on the Wall Street Journal?
	It starts off that way?
	Uh-huh, uh-huh.
	A browser called Tor.
	Yeah, let's listen to the whole thing.
	Well, there's a browser that's become very popular called Tor, and it has some legitimate uses, some illegitimate uses.
	And what it does is it masks the identity of a user's computer when he or she's visiting a website.
	So in a lot of cases it's become popular among criminals who are hacking, trading pirated material, and in a lot of cases that law enforcement is interested in child pornography.
	So we've seen a couple of cases now recently where...
	By the way, standard go-to, child pornography.
	The FBI, Homeland Security, and others have been able to basically lift up this, get around this sort of cloak of anonymity and manage to identify certain alleged criminals.
	They're usually doing that, though, not by finding some technical way through this software, but by exploiting mistakes that users make.
	And some of those mistakes are highly technical.
	But in a lot of ways, it's applying old-fashioned police work to a very new technology here.
	I think at the beginning, this browser was sort of a dead end for investigators.
	They would see that someone was using it, and they would say, you know, that's a black box.
	We can't figure out who's on the other end.
	That's exactly how it went down.
	That's exactly how it works.
	Yes, yes.
	And that would be the end of the investigation.
	Now, you know, they've spent time, including spent time talking to some of the people who work on Tor.
	It's a non-profit group that runs the source code.
	That runs the source code!
	And they've explained, they've learned that there are lots of vulnerabilities that they didn't know about because if someone is very, very careful, they can find, they can pretty much hide their identity through this thing.
	But if they're not, then they usually make a mistake.
	And there are cases where even very sophisticated users, very sophisticated hackers, have eventually slipped up.
	That is the state of technology reporting, ladies and gentlemen.
	Okay, stop the presses.
	No.
	I'm telling you, I'm not going to continue the show.
	It's going to be one of those rare opportunities where somebody actually gets two clips of the day in one show.
	I don't know what I'm not worthy, but I do want to thank my team.
	I want to thank my producers, my managers, everybody over at Warner.
	What's that guy?
	He's the technology reporter.
	I can't even talk about how dumb this is.
	It's outrageous!
	And it's in the Wall Street Journal.
	Now, the takeaways are interesting that the people at Tor, the non-profit group who's running the source code, which of course includes the known sex maniac, I.O. error, Jacob Applebaum, Who pretends like he's a part of the team, but he's really just a spokeshole for the outfit.
	They're basically helping the feds who funded them.
	It just baffles me that this is technology reporting we're getting.
	Then, you know, like BBC News, I'm just going to do a couple of tech things here because it's too funny.
	BBC News is very happy to report that Yahoo has encrypted their data centers, so everything that flows between their data centers is now encrypted.
	Who cares?
	What does that even prove?
	Yeah, that's part of...
	I think there's a quote probably from Marissa Meyer.
	Yeah.
	Our goal is to encrypt our entire platform for all users at all times by default.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Right.
	Well, encrypting between your data centers is meaningless.
	Then, of course, you can't encrypt everything because that would ruin your business model if you couldn't see what your users are doing because that's the way you roll.
	Now, the thing I want to warn everybody about which came out, and, of course, you got all this gratuitous...
	Blowjob, jerk-off press about the Amazon Fire.
	You've got me on this one because I saw a lot of this jerk-off stuff about Amazon Fire and I ignored all of it.
	Yeah, and whenever I find myself ignoring something, and it's hard to do, but I'll say...
	I have to look at this because...
	Yeah, you know, I need to be more like that.
	Yeah, I know there's going to be something.
	Yeah.
	And the thing that caught my eye was voice search!
	This thing, it's remote control, has a built-in microphone.
	Do not bring this into your house.
	I'm not kidding.
	Do not bring this into your house.
	Do not turn on the Google Now on your browser.
	Do not allow this in your house.
	Unless you stick a needle into that microphone and ruin it.
	Just wreck it.
	Just put a screwdriver in there and scrunch it around until the whole membrane is completely ruined.
	Do not bring this.
	This is a spy device.
	Yeah, I would actually, if it was me, and I told you that on my Wi-Fi network it says FBI surveillance van on one of the...
	Yeah, one of the Wi-Fi.
	Those are all over the country, by the way.
	I get people sending me screenshots all the time.
	Huh.
	Anyway, what you want to do, I think you could ruin the mic if you want to because that will be effective, but I would actually rather get a small tape recorder and play an endless loop of Disney's It's a Small World.
	That would really do the trick.
	And I remember saying this on Twit, I believe, years ago.
	And everyone laughed at me.
	I said, look, Google is listening.
	They're listening in.
	When Google Voice first came into the browser, you're giving it permission to use your microphone and you're getting ads based upon what they're hearing in your house.
	You hear a dog, you get dog food commercials.
	This is happening.
	Yeah, and the Kinect does the same thing.
	The Kinect is the worst.
	But this thing, it is a microphone.
	You can't turn it off.
	It's on all the time for your voice search.
	You have no control over it.
	Let's put it that way.
	And I'll bet you that voice search works great.
	Yeah.
	Just like speech to text.
	Another one of those things.
	When is that going to happen?
	When is that really going to work?
	It kind of works, but unfortunately, if it works 99% of the time, that's not very good, because if you take 99 characters and one of them is bad, that's like every other line, there's a typo that you have to fix.
	Well, what it works really well for, and I'll give this to the Google guys, in context, it works great.
	I mean, if you can set up your phone for Google Maps and you mention a destination, and it always comes back with ten choices, usually the one you want is the top, but the actual dictation, or how about transcription?
	The minute someone can take this podcast...
	And have it transcribed.
	I'll even take 90% accuracy.
	And have it transcribed into real text, then I'll believe we're there.
	It's just not going to happen.
	It's like Morse code.
	This is a great example.
	So I learned Morse code.
	I'm not great at it, but I'm okay.
	A human being beats the computer.
	It will beat out Watson.
	In fact, we should do this.
	We should tell IBM to do this test.
	A human ear will beat out any computer on transcoding Morse code that is sent over HF that fades in and out and shifts in frequency.
	There's almost no computer program that can do it.
	Even decent, really.
	But distant signals, it only can be done with the human ear.
	We're amazing machines that way.
	Well, that's why we can read from a book that was printed in the 1800s that has busted characters and all the rest.
	You can read no problem.
	You read every word.
	But you give that to an OCR program, forget it.
	Exactly.
	Were you able to take a look at that video I sent you about Common Core?
	Yes.
	Uh, no.
	Oh, shit.
	Is the Homeschooling Legal Defense Association has put together this 40-minute video about Common Core and the background and where it came from?
	Oh, it's in the show notes.
	It's really, really good.
	Watch it after the show.
	Yeah, it's really good.
	We're supposed to be discussing it.
	Well, that's why I sent it to you, and then, of course...
	Get around to it.
	It's too long.
	Well, yeah, it is.
	It's 39 minutes.
	I didn't want it to, you know.
	And of course, there's all, you know.
	The Ford Hood thing was going on.
	What can I do?
	And NCIS was on TV. Come on, this is crazy.
	But I will, there's a couple things that were in there that I'll set you up for, and other people, because people are going to go watch this now.
	And they have people who are part of the decision-making process who are now essentially kind of whistleblowers who are interviewed for this thing.
	The two lines I like the most.
	One is, the Gates, McGraw-Hill, and Pearson companies really just want to create an assembly line of workers.
	So that's the publishing houses and, of course, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
	And what is really beautiful in this documentary is to hear educators say, these are human beings, you know?
	We can't all go to college.
	We can't all become a programmer.
	Some people have to become nut jobs and musicians and artists and athletes.
	There's all kinds of variety.
	Can I interrupt you real quick?
	Because this is an adjunct to what you're saying.
	This is an email we got from James McConnell.
	I just finished listening to 603 and was dumbstruck by some wording in the conversation around next generation science standards.
	I'm a sysadmin type for whom you always have kind words, thanks, and has spent much of the previous day discussing software frameworks with some colleagues.
	Imagine my surprise when I get in the car.
	For the ride home and start hearing about all kinds of frameworks, the kind that supports Common Core.
	Then it dawned on me, these jackasses are quite literally trying to program children very much in the human as a computer sense.
	Anyway, he wants us to come around back to the subject.
	Believe me, this subject's not going away.
	Here's the point of this documentary.
	You don't have to watch it to understand where the basic flaw is in Common Core.
	Common Core claims it will make every student college and career ready.
	This is impossible.
	Because of the testing, you can't be both.
	If you're not going to go to college, then you're career ready.
	But if you're career ready, then your scores are too low, so therefore you couldn't be college ready.
	You cannot have both.
	The standards that are being set...
	It's like when you want to go to college, you take preparatory courses and you take your SAT and you get credits and you're ready for college.
	And then you're set to go in.
	If you want to make some kind of standards that prepare people both for college or for career, the only way to do it is to lower everything.
	It can only get lower.
	It makes no sense that we're all brilliant when we come out of it.
	It can be college ready or career ready, not both.
	Does that make any sense?
	Yeah, it makes plenty of sense.
	I mean, when I was a kid, which was a long time ago, they used to have college prep.
	And when you're in grammar school, say you're in the fifth grade, there was a bunch of kids that were put into college prep classes based on the fact that they seemed to be more bright than the rest of the group.
	And some of the real dumb kids were over in kind of the dummies class where they pushed them off into the direction where they're going to be working in a steel mill.
	And then, of course, now that became kind of a stereotype.
	You can't do that.
	That's...
	There was plenty of kids that were not in the college prep course that went to college because they had the ambition to do it, and they just did it themselves.
	But they did have these tracks, and they didn't expect everybody to be able to do everything.
	But that got thrown out with the bathwater because it was unfair.
	And it was bad for self-esteem if you were in the dummies track.
	So I was talking to this.
	The reason why my banker friend moved here is...
	I might have talked to you about this.
	So one of his kids...
	He seems like a nice kid to me.
	He's got tics and probably little deficits.
	Yeah, you told us the story.
	No, I told you this outside of the show.
	I told you this after the show.
	That's why you think I told you.
	Oh, see, this is why we should never talk.
	I know, I know.
	So I'm telling you now.
	And so one of the reasons why he's coming to Texas, he says, is because of New York.
	Now, remember, this is a rich guy because he's a banker and he's done well for himself.
	He's young, he's my age.
	And we had to move to Texas because in New York, it is crazy.
	If your kid is anything, when you're two, a kid is two, they detect something, immediately there's a whole slew of, for rich people get screwed the worst in New York.
	There's a whole slew of consultants and therapy.
	You have to go through the schools, make it mandatory, and then they have to go to crazy kids' school, and that's like $15,000 a semester.
	I had to leave.
	New York is out of control.
	They're making their kids into these...
	They'll have to be bankers.
	If they're not going to be a banker or something along those lines, then they're in the moron school.
	At an expense of $50,000 to $60,000 a year.
	And they detect this stuff early.
	And instead of letting the kid develop, who knows what happens?
	They might look at this kid and say, hey, you kids like me, that's pretty cool.
	He's probably going to be really fun.
	He'll be entertaining.
	He may not be college material, but he'll be a lot of fun.
	Well, if you get to explain what the kid's anomalies are, why you...
	He has Tourette's.
	Yeah, he has Tourette's.
	And so if you have Tourette's, I guess, in New York, you're, you know, and a kid.
	Yeah.
	Off to special school with you.
	But he's just a kid with Tourette's, which is no different than, I mean, there's no...
	Which comes and goes, you know.
	Functional difference in terms of potential for academic achievement.
	And you know what I love the most?
	And I get lots of emails from people on the show.
	We listen to the show, you know, when we talk.
	And of course, you know, there's some real issues with autism.
	There's some real medical stuff.
	But the way it's been set up...
	In fact, we had an email exchange, and you said it's just like the sex offenders, where now if you get caught peeing in the park, you're a sex offender, and no one ever protested this idiot classification.
	Now there you go.
	You can't live anywhere because you have to be a sex offender, registered, and yet you don't have to say exactly...
	No one will tell anyone exactly what your so-called sex offense was.
	So with this autism stuff...
	They're just expanding this to an nth degree.
	And all I can say is...
	It's marginalizing true autism.
	It's marginalizing true autism.
	And it's also robbing the universe of interesting people.
	Or trying to shoehorn them into something that fits the mold.
	And that's fundamentally wrong.
	It's just wrong.
	Well, this is one of the things that the few people who listen to the show fight against.
	We actually have a lot of listeners, but...
	Do we?
	I think so.
	I hope we have more than Ronan.
	Probably.
	Yeah, I'm sure we do.
	That guy's unwatchable.
	And the funny thing is that now even high IQs...
	I know lots of really smart kids.
	Yeah, a little nerdy.
	Nerdy.
	Maybe it's just nerdy.
	They're a little weird tick and a little nerdy, but they're really, really smart.
	Yeah, that's not autism.
	Yeah, we've got to drug those.
	We can't have them too smart for the slave system for Bill Gates and publishing houses in McGraw-Hill and Pearson.
	Your slave system.
	Thank you, Oklahoma, for voting that down.
	Bill Gates would have been shoved into one of these programs in today's world.
	He would never become Bill Gates.
	Did he even complete college?
	No, he dropped out when he was a freshman.
	Right.
	There's your example.
	His kids, by the way, are not following Common Core.
	They're some kind of private institution.
	They don't follow the Common Core state standards.
	Maybe that's why he's doing it.
	I don't know.
	He doesn't want competition.
	I still believe that.
	Hey, that kid looks really smart.
	Fuck him.
	Some drugs.
	I use the word so.
	I do have a movie quiz.
	Hold on a second, ladies and gentlemen.
	It's pretty obvious.
	Hold on.
	Where's the...
	I've got to get my jingle here.
	I was still in my whole thing.
	And now it's time for another episode of Guess That Movie.
	All right.
	Okay.
	I have to reset and get set.
	Okay.
	Yes, that movie...
	This is actually quite obvious when you hear it.
	It's the game show that Adam sucks at.
	I was using the wires of another person.
	It's astute.
	It's possible, but we have the ringer, the collar.
	Yes, and I gave the direction to the police's base on the robes of joyas.
	And... Selena Kyle...
	Here it says that they have been trying to catch her several times, according to reports.
	And it's good, but it's a matter of time for her.
	You have to send her to the police before she vends the pearls.
	No she'll do it.
	They liked it too.
	And they weren't what I was looking for.
	What I was looking for?
	I was looking for my eyes.
	There was a paintbrush with graffiti in the strongholds.
	Okay, I am guessing...
	You can call any time.
	I'd like to hear the whole thing so I can, you know, I can collect my thoughts.
	I'm going to guess the Spanish version of Robocop.
	Close!
	Ah!
	Dark Knight Rises.
	Ah, I should have known.
	Ah, damn.
	Well, I tried.
	And now it's time for another episode of Guess That Movie.
	Well, I tried.
	So Hollande is in nothing but trouble apparently in France.
	We don't do enough French news.
	And so he pulls the plug on his prime minister, which I guess I didn't realize, but this is the trick that they do in Europe.
	Yeah, I heard about this.
	They actually vote the prime minister, but the president comes along for the ride and they swap around.
	It's like Russia, basically.
	Well, the president's the one who calls the shots, and that's Hollande.
	And so he fired the old prime minister.
	And I got a pretty good clip that kind of explains it.
	And there's three of them.
	You have to be careful.
	Let me get you the right one.
	Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry.
	What are they?
	I have France prime minister, France original prime minister.
	Original?
	The original?
	All right, we'll play the original.
	It's a well-known strategy amongst French presidents.
	In times of crisis, blame the Prime Minister.
	François Mitterrand went through seven, his successor Jacques Chirac, four.
	But after a crushing weekend at the polls, some say the shake-up isn't enough to save François Hollande's government.
	The response to this electoral disaster is essentially political suicide because he's chosen Manuel Valls, who's a minority, an ultra-minority in the French socialist movement, and we'll soon see him a minority in the country.
	Accused of amateurism, Jean-Marc Guérot was seen as lacking the essential mix of energy and authority.
	Roland hopes subbing in the 51-year-old Manuel Valls with his blend of social toughness and economic liberalism will help to revitalize his government.
	But not everyone is convinced of Valls' capabilities.
	Manuel Vance has been a complete failure in managing the portfolio that he's been given in the past, and now he's supposed to leave the Interior Ministry.
	This massive failure to go and head up the government?
	It's really an odd choice.
	On the streets, news of his appointment was met with mixed reactions.
	He seems more believable.
	He stands by his convictions, and I think he believes in a more just France, which we need today.
	He embodies serious values, and anyway, there's hope.
	He seems a little aggressive to me, but anyway, we'll see.
	A little too aggressive for some ministers in Eros' former cabinets as well.
	The two Greens, Pascal Canfran and Cécile Duflo, already confirming they won't be any part of a Vels-led cabinet.
	Yeah, they really need a lesson in package production there at France 24.
	The two Greens.
	Yeah.
	But the package is shit.
	It's not a good...
	No, they could do some work.
	They, you know, they've got the person talking on top of another person.
	Yeah, it's not good.
	I have one clip I didn't even play that.
	It was pretty funny.
	It was about the Chinese dream.
	They were following the head of China around, and he was in Belgium saying that he wants to return to the Chinese dream.
	Really?
	And they explained it.
	Because, you know, we have the American dream.
	This is a Chinese dream.
	Really?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	And it's to create happiness in the public.
	So the public's happy.
	Oh, well, I'm all for that.
	We don't have that dream.
	I like that dream.
	Actually, that works for me.
	Yeah.
	I'm all for the Chinese dream.
	Happy people.
	You want to play more of this Holanda stuff?
	No, the other two are just...
	I couldn't figure out which of the three that was any good.
	I got the four.
	That's no good either.
	I think we've had a three-clip-of-the-day show.
	Yeah, it's amazing, outstanding, astonishing.
	We've uncovered the true mystery behind the disappeared plane.
	Okay, I do have a clip then.
	I'm like, let's quit while we're ahead, but no, are you going to bring us down?
	Yeah, I've got to bring in this idiot, our favorite idiot in the Senate, Kelly Ayotte.
	Oh, please.
	You're going to bring it down?
	You're going to bring down the show?
	You're going to bring down the show?
	I'm telling you.
	Okay, I can put it off.
	I can put it off until Sunday.
	I think we should put it off until Sunday.
	Alright, we'll do that.
	I think we should just quit while we're ahead.
	That's a good teaser.
	You get to hear Kelly Ayotte, who apparently is just a bonehead.
	At one time, we thought she was running for president, but she's too dumb.
	She is really dumb.
	Yeah.
	And she's part of the clique with McCain and that other guy.
	Hey, she's a renegade.
	Yeah.
	Alright, well, if you enjoyed the value we provided for you today, and quite honestly, a triple clip of the day show, wow!
	Unprecedented.
	And we can't hand them out to each other.
	I can only hand it out to John and vice versa.
	I can't give myself a clip of the day.
	And we're critical because we don't really even like each other.
	We certainly don't like each other's clips.
	Those are some hot clips, baby.
	Your clips are turning me on, bad man.
	Yes, I've solved all the world's mysteries in one podcast.
	Indeed, chat room.
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